[2. Consider authorizing the City Manager to enter into an agreement with Preferred Facilities Group - USA to replace the hot and chill water pipes located between the Beaumont Public Library and the Police Department]

MA'AM COUNCIL CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ENTER INTO AN AGREEMENT WITH PREFER IT. FACILITIES GROUP USA TO REPLACE THE HOT AND CHILLED WATER PIPES LOCATED BETWEEN THE BEAUMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE HAD SOME ISSUES WITH THE CHILL HOT AND CHILLED WATER PIPES UNDER THERE. THEY THAT, UM, SERVES THE LIBRARY AND THE JULIE ROGERS THEATER. SO TODAY WE HAVE A BED AND THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF 7 72 3 56. AND WE HAVE KEITH FOLSOM HERE TO ADDRESS THEIR NAME. QUESTIONS COME, YOU MIGHT HAVE. THANK YOU. GOOD AFTERNOON . GOOD AFTERNOON, JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU BACKGROUND OF WHAT THIS IS ENTAILING. THE ORIGINAL DESIGN. OUR PLANTS THAT PD, WHICH WE GET OUR CHILL WATER AND HOT WATER WITH SUPPLIES, PD. MAIN LIBRARY AND JUST CHILL WATER TO JULIE ROGERS. HE DID IT ONE TIME SUPPLY HOT WATER, BUT I THINK SOMETHING HAPPENED ALONG THE WAY, AND THEY ABANDONED THAT LINE PROVIDED A BOILER AT THAT LOCATION. PROBABLY ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, WE DEVELOPED A BAD LEAK ON THE HOT WATER PIPING TO THE MAIN LIBRARY. NEVER SERVICE . WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHERE IT

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WAS LEAKING OUT. BUT WE'RE LOSING WATER AND WE COULDN'T KEEP UP. SO WE CUT THAT OFF AND BASED ON LIBRARY HAS BEEN WITHOUT HEAT. UH SO I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS. WE WENT OUT FOR BID. CANCEL THAT BID REGROUP WENT FOR ANOTHER BID. WE'VE HAD LITTLE INTEREST IN THE TWO TIMES WE TRIED TO BID IT. UM. AND IN THIS PROBABLY WITHIN THE LAST WEEK AND A HALF NOW DEVELOPED A LEAK ON MY CHILL WATER AT PD, WHICH WE'RE WORKING ON THAT CURRENTLY HOPEFULLY TO HAVE THAT REPAIRED TOMORROW SO I CAN GET CHILLED WATER BACK ON THE MAIN LIBRARY AND JULIE SO IT'S COMPOUNDING AND THIS THIS PROJECT WOULD BE TO REPLACE THE TUTORIAL WATER. AND THE TWO HOT WATER BETWEEN MAIN LIBRARY. AND PD, WHICH SHOULD GIVE US PROBABLY ANOTHER 50 YEARS OF LIFE OR MORE BY DOING THAT. IT DOESN'T ADDRESS THE LINE FROM MAIN LIBRARY TO JULIE. I'M NOT HAVING ANY PROBLEMS ON THAT SO FAR. BUT IF WE DON'T DO THIS PROJECT AND GET IT MOVING, AND WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA BE LOOKING AT SOME PORTABLE CHILLERS TO PROVIDE FOR THE JULIE AND THE MAIN LIBRARY. AND THAT'S STILL NOT. OUT OF THE WOODS JUST YET. AS LONG AS MY PREPARE GOES GOOD TOMORROW. THEN I'LL BE IN GOOD SHAPE. IF NOT THAT I'M GONNA BE LOOKING AT A PORTABLE CHILLER THE JULIE TO KEEP THEM GOING. AND NOW THOSE AREN'T CHEAP. DO COUNCIL MEMBER GETS YOU MENTIONED I BELIEVE THAT YOU ABANDON A LINE TO THE JULIE FOR THE HOT. IT WAS IT WAS. IT WAS DONE BEFORE I STEPPED INTO POSITION WHERE I'M AT BUT THEY APPARENTLY DEVELOPED A LEAK IN THERE, SO THEY JUST CUT IT OFF AND PUT A BOWLER AT THE JULIE TO TAKE CARE OF THEIR HOT WATER ISSUES OVER THERE, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IN COST WOULD BE TO PUT A BOILER OVER AT THE LIBRARY. BUT COULD YOU SPECULATE ON THAT A LITTLE BIT? WE ENTERTAINED THAT, BUT IT'S NOT GOING TO SOLVE MY PROBLEM BUT YOUR WATER NOW. OKAY I MEAN , IT'S I MEAN, I MEAN, I MADE A CRITICAL SITUATION HERE. IF WE DON'T PROCEED AHEAD, WE'RE GONNA END UP WITH SOME ISSUES, RIGHT? I MEAN, AND IT'S GOING TO IMPACT COLLEGE. WE'RE GONNA OPEN CUT COLLEGE WAS GONNA CUT COLLEGE OFF FOR A PERIOD OF TIME WHILE WE LAY THAT LINE. CAN YOU ESTIMATE HOW LONG I THINK THE CONTRACTOR HAS LIKE 90 WORKING DAYS ON HIS PROPOSAL. SO HOPEFULLY, MAYBE GO A LITTLE BIT BETTERMENT. THAT'S PROBABLY WORST CASE RIGHT NOW AND DEPENDING ON THE WEATHER WHEN WE RUN INTO BUT I'VE GOT A LOT OF OBSTACLES TO CROSS. DIFFICULT PROJECT. CANCER MEMBER TURNER.

ANOTHER. FROM A BUDGET STANDPOINT, WE HAD ROUGHLY $650,000 BUDGET IS PRECIOUS PROJECT, BUT IT CAME IN ROUGHLY 122,356 OVER THE BUDGET KIND OF SPEAK TO SOME OF THOSE REASONS.

WE'VE SEEN THE RISE TO SPECULATE AS FAR AS YOU KNOW THE DIFFICULTY OF THE PROJECT AND THEN YOU KNOW THE TIME FRAME WHERE WE BID IT ORIGINALLY TO WHERE WE'RE AT NOW THAT THE ORIGINAL TIME WE WERE TRYING TO BORE ACROSS IT. BUT I'VE GOT ONLY ABOUT A TWO FT WINDOW TO HIT FOUR PIPES. AND MEETING WITH BORING CONTRACTOR HE HAD HEARTBURN ON THAT. SO THAT'S WHERE I WENT. CHANGE METHODS AND WENT TO THE OPEN CUT METHODS WHERE WE CAN SEE WHAT WE'RE ENCOUNTERING AND WORK AROUND IT. ANY OTHER COMMENTS. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. SO YOU'VE HEARD THE READING AND THE EXPLANATION OF ITEM NUMBER TWO TO REPLACE THE HOT AND CHILLED WATER PIPES LOCATED BETWEEN THE BELMONT PUBLIC LIBRARY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. MAY I HAVE A MOTION PLEASE TO APPROVE? IS THERE A SECOND MOTION IN THE SECOND ON THE FLOOR? IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR FOR PROVING, HMM. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, ANY OPPOSED THE

[3. Consider amending Title I Chapter 20 Section 20,03.003 of the Code of Ordinances that would change the speed limit on Sarah Street]

MOTION CARRIES THEY HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER THREE, PLEASE. YES COUNCIL PROVEN PROVEN HEARTENING CEMENT ENTITLED ONE CHAPTER 20 SECTION 20.3 POINT 003 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES THAT WOULD CHANGE THE SPEED LIMIT ON SARAH ST. UH IT HAS BEEN OBSERVED IN ON THE WEST END OF SARAH STREET. THERE'S BEEN SOME SPEAKS DIFFERENT THAN THE REST OF SERVICE STREET SO WE'RE LOOKING AT MAKING AN ADJUSTMENT. CORRECT CONSISTENCY OF THE SPEED THROUGHOUT THE, UH,

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STREET. AND STAFF IS RECOMMENDING APPROVAL FOR MEN IN TITLE ONE CHAPTER 20 SECTION 20.3 POINT 003. THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER THREE. MAY I HAVE A MOTION? PLEASE PROOF. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? PROTEIN AREA. UM I JUST WANT TO THANK STAFF FOR NOT ONLY THIS PART, BUT THE RE STRIPING STARTED YESTERDAY HAVE A FEW PHONE CALLS. MOST OF THEM ARE IN SUPPORT OF IT. GOING DOWNSTAIRS STREET AND WHAT THEY'VE DONE SO FAR. LOOKS PRETTY NICE. THANKS FOR GETTING STARTED. YOU KNOW ABOUT HOW LONG THAT'S GONNA TAKE I DON'T I CAN GET YOU THE TIMELINE, BUT I DON'T OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. AS FAR AS THE SPEED LIMIT. THEY JUST HAVE TO CHANGE THE SIGNS. YES SIR. WE SHOULD HAVE IT DONE. PROBABLY THIS WEEK. I WOULD IMAGINE. HOPEFULLY THAT'LL HELP WITH THE SPEEDING ON SYRIA STREET, SARAH RACE WEIGHT. PROTECT HIM. I WAS MY GREAT GRANDMOTHER'S HOUSE ON SUNDAY. MHM AND OBVIOUSLY THEY WEREN'T EITHER ON FRIDAY OR SATURDAY BECAUSE I WAS CONFUSED . I LOOKED AT THE STREET AND I THOUGHT I'D SAY WOULD SOMETHING DIFFERENT? AND I THOUGHT, OH, BECAUSE THE MIC LANES WERE THERE BETWEEN YOU SAYING AND LOOSE STRAIGHT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO BOB NOW. SO THEY'RE MOVING. THEY MOVED PRETTY FAST. IT LOOKS SO DIFFERENT SO DIFFERENT AND REALLY? YOU JUST HAVE TO GET USED TO IT. YOU HAVE TO GET USED TO IT. ESPECIALLY IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH GOING DOWN THERE. ABSOLUTELY ANY OTHER DISCUSSION COUNCIL MEMBER TURNER COUNCILMAN DORIA, I THINK IT WOULD BE PRETTY GOOD TO KINDA SPEAK TO THE WHY. YOU KNOW, YOU FIRST STARTED THIS PROJECT. I KNOW. WE TALKED TO A COUPLE OF CITIZENS HAVE, YOU KNOW CALLED AND HAD CONCERNS. I THINK IT'S A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TO THE Y FOR SAFETY REASONS WE HAVE WE HAVE, UH, HAD A CHILD WAS RUN OVER ON SARAH ST DO THE SPEEDING WE HAD CARS RUN INTO PEOPLE'S HOUSES, FENCES, BUSHES, CARPORTS. DO THE SPEEDING ON SARAH STREET. AND POLICE WENT OUT THERE AND THEY WROTE A LOT OF TICKETS. BUT WE HAVE STOP SIGNS PUT UP AND PEOPLE PEOPLE RUN THEM. SO WE DID A YEAR LONG STUDY. TO SEE WHAT WE COULD DO TO SLOW FOLKS DOWN AND THIS IS WHAT THEY CAME UP WITH RE STRIPING FROM TWO LANES EACH WAY TO ONE NIGHT EACH WAY, WITH A TURN LANE IN THE MIDDLE AND TWO BICYCLE LANES. SAME THING THAT HAVE DONE I DIDN'T REALIZE I ROLLED DOWN, CALLED HER ONE DAY, AND THAT'S HOW CALDER IS ALL THE WAY FROM DOWNTOWN TO THE HIGHWAY. SAME THING WITH GLADYS VIRGINIA BUFORD STREET. AND UH, STAFF. BART TOLD ME THAT AFTERWARDS, ESPECIALLY GLAD IT'S NOT ONLY TO SLAP IT WAS SLOW PEOPLE DOWN, BUT THAT THE TRAFFIC KIND OF REDUCED ALSO SOME THAT'S THAT'S A GOOD THING, ESPECIALLY WITH THE SCHOOL RIGHT THERE ON THE STREET ON BLANCHETT , SO WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING NOT AND WE HAD TO PICK SOME PEOPLE.

I THOUGHT THEY MAYBE INCONVENIENCE, BUT IT'S NOT THAT MUCH TRAFFIC ON SYRIA. I DON'T THINK ANYBODY BE INCONVENIENCED. AND IF YOU HAD TO PICK BETWEEN SAFETY AND CONVENIENCE. THEN WE HAVE TO GO WITH SAFETY. AND SO WE HAD TO DO SOMETHING, AND I SAID THANK STAFF. IT WAS A YEAR LONG STUDY THAT WE DID OUT THERE TO CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA, AND IT'S JUST GOTTA STARTED YESTERDAY. PRO TIM. UM. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU PUT IN ON THAT. A LOT OF TIMES, PEOPLE THINK THAT WE JUST DECIDED TO GO OUT AND DO SOMETHING, AND WE DON'T, UH, THAT WAS A LOT OF LOT OF CONVERSATION FROM CITIZENS AND NOT ALL CITIZENS WAS HAPPY WITH THE DECISION. AND SO, UM.

OF COURSE, EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. IT'S ON A MAJORITY BASIS, AND SO THAT WAS DONE. AND NOT ONLY WAS THAT CHILD RUN OVER THAT CHILD WAS KILLED ON SARAH STREET. AND IT IS. IT'S LIKE SARAH STREET RACEWAY. AND SO HOPEFULLY THIS WILL SLOW THEM DOWN. AND IF NOT I'M SURE. WE HAVE A POLICE CAR THAT'S WAITING THE RIGHT MORE TICKETS. UNFORTUNATELY. SO IT'S FOR COUNCILMAN DURIO. BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK, WE EXPECT THE STRIPING TO BE FINISHED. THANK YOU. IT'S WELL ON THE WAY AND IT'S LOOKING GOOD THERE PRETTY QUICK. THANK YOU. SO IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE POSE. THE MOTION CARRIES

[4. Consider approving the City's Legislative Priorities for 2023-2024]

HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR PLACE. YES COUNCIL CONSIDERED RESOLUTION APPROVING THE CITY'S LEGISLATIVE SIZE PRIORITIES WAS ACTUALLY THE AGENDA. WE'VE UM FOR THE LAST

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FEW MONTHS, WHICH WE WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY OF ESTABLISHING AN AGENDA FOR THE CITY OF BEAUMONT WITHIN THE 88 TEXAS LEGISLATIVE SESSION. WE HAD A DISCUSSION. LAST MEETING IN WHICH SOME THINGS WERE TALKED ABOUT. STEP RIGHT FORWARD. SOME SOME PRIORITIES ARE THERE'S CITY COUNCIL ADDED THEIR PRIORITIES IN THAT DISCUSSION. AND BASICALLY WELL, THIS WILL BE THE SECOND ONE. WHAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU IS A DRAFT. LEGISLATIVE AGENDA FOR YOU TO SHAPE FOR UNIFORM AND FOR YOU TO IDENTIFY WHAT RANKED THOSE PRIORITIES. WHATEVER WE HAVE HERE TO THE DRAFT, SO WHATEVER YOU CHOOSE AS A COUNCIL GOING FORWARD WILL BE HOW THEY WILL BE RANKED GOING FORWARD. BUT ONCE IT'S DONE, YOU KNOW WE COULD USE IT AS A TOOL WHEN WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS. EXCUSE ME TALKS WITHOUT WORD LEGISLATORS OR EVEN THE PUBLIC. THERE ARE NO WHERE THE CITY STANDS. THAT'S A GROUP CUSTODY VOTED ON BY THE ENTIRE COUNCIL. SO THIS IS HERE. WHAT YOUR CONSIDERATION OF APPROVAL OF AND FORMATION OF RESOLUTION AND HAD THE AGENDA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR. YEAH, I HAVE A MOTION, PLEASE. MOVED TO APPROVE. IS THERE A 2ND 2ND? THERE'S A MOTION IN THE SECOND ON THE FLOOR. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCIL MEMBER. SAMUEL AND COUNCILMAN RETURN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH MR WILLIAMS . THIS DOCUMENT ON OF THIS LIST OF PRIORITIES ARE MHM. WILL THERE BE? SOMETHING THAT WE DO WHEN WE GO TO AUSTIN ON ON THE HILL DAY. YES COUNCIL MEMBER SAMMY, THAT'S A BIG KIND OF LIKE A LIVING DOCUMENT THAT WELL. THAT WILL LIST YOUR AGENDA. THINGS YOU SEE IS IMPORTANT TO THE CITY. BEAUMONT GOING TO AUSTIN? YOU KNOW, WE'LL VISIT THE DIFFERENT LEGISLATORS SHARE THAT DOCUMENT WITH THEM HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM. SO, YES, IT WILL. TRAVEL TO AUSTIN, OKAY AND POSSIBILITY. WIRED TO WASHINGTON IN THE CONGRESS OF CITIES WHEN WE'RE TRYING TO MOVED TOGETHER. ASSISTANCE YES, IT GOES STATE, FEDERAL, UM LOCAL COUNTY. YOU KNOW, THE.

STAKEHOLDERS THAT WE WANT DEAL WITH AND GOVERNMENT AND OUR ACTIONS. OKAY I HAVE TO REVIEWING OUR PRIORITIES FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR. I WAS PLEASED TO SEE MOST EVERYTHING IN THERE. HOWEVER I DID BELIEVE IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE ARE. PRIORITIES THAT THIS COUNCIL WOULD SAY WE ARE SUPPORTING, AND THESE ARE THINGS THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN OUR CITY. AND I DID HAVE A CONCERN WHEN WE TALK ABOUT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. I WAS A BIT PERPLEXED WITH PRIORITY NUMBER TWO. AND I'M ASSUMING. THESE PRIORITIES ARE LISTED AS OUR PRIORITIES OF NUMBER ONE. THAT'S THE TOP CONCERN FROM MM. OUR CITY, RIGHT? YES THE WAY THAT IS CONSTRUCTED. YES. YOU CAN JUST YOU CAN PUT A DOCUMENT WITHOUT LISTING. PUTTING A NUMBER ON THEM. IF YOU WANT TO JUST SAY THESE ARE THINGS THAT ARE IMPORTANT TO US. BUT THE WAY THAT IS CAREFULLY CONSTRUCTED CONSTRUCTED, IT SAYS, THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT ARE MOST IMPORTANT AND THIS ORDER AND YOU HAVE THE ABILITY. I MEAN, YOU'RE HERE TODAY AS A COUNCIL, YOU HAVE THE POWER. TO SAY WE WANT THEM IN THIS ORDER, AND THAT'S THE WAY TO GO. OKAY WELL, I'LL JUST CUT THROUGH THE CHASE. I DO HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THE PERCEPTION. THAT WILL BE GIVEN IN ONE OF THE ITEMS HERE, UH, UNDER THE FIRST OBJECTIVE UNDER THE PRIORITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IN DEALING WITH THE RELOCATION OF THIS BATTLESHIP TO BEAUMONT. IT WAS NOT MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THAT HAS BEEN GIVEN AS A PRIORITY. OF THIS COUNCIL. UM BECAUSE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE MY POSITION. IT IS NOTED AND UNDERSTOOD. UM, I BELIEVE THAT. MY BELIEF FROM WHAT I'VE SEEN THUS FAR, UH, THAT THE BATTLESHIP IS NOT CONDUCIVE TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING

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TO DO. IN THAT AREA IN MAYBE FOR SOME BUT THAT'S NOT A CONSENSUS . THAT IS NOT SOMETHING I WANT TO SAY. WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS. I AM NOT TRYING TO GET THE BATTLESHIP BEAUMONT, TEXAS. BECAUSE IT TAKES DEREGULATION. YEAH I AM. I CORRECT THAT THIS CHANNEL WAY WOULD BE REGULATED IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. THERE WOULD BE SOME THINGS WE WOULD HAVE TO GET A APPROVED BY THE PORT AUTHORITY. AND BEING PRODUCED AND THAT ALSO HAD. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT SHOULD THAT BE A NECESSITY TO HAVE THAT CHANNEL DEREGULATED THAT WOULD PUT ALL RESPONSIBILITY. BACK ON THE CITY OF BEAUMONT TO RESTORE SUCH AS HOW MUCH WAS THIS PROJECT TO RESTORE THE BANK? YEAH. UH I DON'T KNOW THAT NUMBER. OKAY BUT ANYONE WHO CAN ANSWER THAT, BUT JUST UNDER $17 MILLION WAS THE SUCCESSFUL BID TO RESTORE THE BANK. OKAY? ISN'T IF THAT WAS DEREGULATED. THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO DO THAT. NO THE BANKS OF THE RIVER FRONT BANK STABILIZATION WAS FEMA MONEY. UH TO RESTORE RIVERFRONT PARK AFTER HARVEY SO THAT HAD NOTHING THAT WOULD HAVE NOTHING TO DO WITH THE AUTHORIZATION OF A PORTION OF THE SHIPPING CHANNEL. WHAT I THINK YOU'RE PROBABLY REFERRING TO IS THE POTENTIAL THAT IF WE D AUTHORIZED PART OF THE SHIPPING CHANNEL THAT WE MIGHT BE ON THE HOOK FOR FUTURE DREDGING OF THAT CHANNEL, NOT ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE BANK. OKAY SO THAT WOULD BE THE DREDGING OF THE CHANNEL AND THAT FULL RESPONSIBILITY WOULD BE ON US. POTENTIALLY YES AND WHAT. IS APPROXIMATE COSTS OF THE DREDGING. DOES WHAT HAS IT BEEN NEVER DREDGED BEFORE AS A CITY, SO I DON'T HAVE THOSE COSTS AT HIM. THE PORCH HAS DREDGED AND THE SABINE NATURE'S NAVIGATION DISTRICT HAS DREDGED , BUT WE'VE NEVER WE'VE NEVER DRIVE, OKAY? WELL IF THAT BECOMES OUR RESPONSIBILITY, I THINK THAT WOULD BE IMPORTANT TO KNOW. AND ONE OF THE OTHER CONCERNS I HAVE ABOUT THAT. TO HAVE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITY. THAT TENDS TO MAKE ME BELIEVE THAT THAT IS THE DESIRE OF THE COUNCIL. AND I'VE NEVER HAD. THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THE DESIRE OF THE COUNCIL WAS TO ACTIVELY GO AND GET THE BATTLESHIP TO BRING IT IN. BECAUSE IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING WE WERE DOING THE FURTHER LOOKING AT THE COST OF THAT TO SEE WHAT THAT COST MIGHT BE. BUT I DON'T WANT IT TO COME ACROSS THAT I AM IN SUPPORT OF GETTING THE BATTLESHIP. IN IN THE AIR AND THE CHANNEL HERE. AND AGAIN MINE IS BASED ON I'VE HAD TOO MANY. BOATS THAT ENJOY THE WATER. RIVERFRONT. THOSE TYPE OF THINGS AND HAVING EVENTS THEY WOULD LIKE TO BRING THEIR BOATS. TO THE PARK OR WHATEVER THE AMPHITHEATER. THAT WOULD BE A DRAW. AND IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING. THAT WE CANNOT MOVE THAT BATTLESHIP. IF IT WERE TO BE HERE, IT COULD NOT BE MOVED CLOSER TO THE BRIDGE. AND IT COULD NOT BE MOVED FURTHER DOWN THE RIVER SO IT WOULD HAVE TO BE IN THAT AREA RIGHT BY THE 555 BILLION. ELIZABETH STREET, AND THAT WOULD TAKE UP ALL OF THE SCENERY AND ALL THE BANK WHEREVER IT'S MORE. AND THAT HAS BEEN MY CONCERN ALL ALONG, AND I DON'T DON'T BELIEVE THAT WOULD BE CONDUCIVE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF THAT AREA. AS A DRAW TO THE DOWNTOWN AREA ALONE. AND BECAUSE OF THE SIZE OF THE PROJECT THE SIZE OF THE SHIP. THAT'S NOT GONNA ALLOW ANY OTHER AESTHETICS. OTHER THAN THE SHIP ITSELF, SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S UNDERSTOOD THAT THAT'S NOT MY POSITION. I AM NOT SUPPORTING TRYING TO GET THE BATTLESHIP TO COME TO BONA COUNCIL MEMBER GETS . SO MY UNDERSTANDING AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, TINA, OUR COUNCIL HAS ALREADY PASSED A RESOLUTION. SUPPORTING THE FACT THAT WE WANT AS A COUNCIL. THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS TO COME TO BEAUMONT IS SURE RIGHT. WHERE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THAT? I THINK WE DID A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT. UM, IN ORDER TO GO WITH THE MISSION SUPPORT AUTHORITY. I

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DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS ACTUALLY APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL. I THINK IT WAS SPECIFIC TO GET TO LET THE PORT NO, THAT WE WERE IN CONSIDERATION SO THAT THEY WOULD CONSIDER THE DEREGULATION. AND THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS IS 586 FT. LONG PROPOSED LOCATION IS NOT BEHIND. THE CART SIDE OF THE 555 MAIN STREET. IT IS FURTHER NORTH BEHIND EDISON PLAZA. THERE IS. NO DOUBT THAT HAVING A NATIONALS REGISTERED HISTORICAL MONUMENT, WHICH IS THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS WOULD ABSOLUTELY BRING PEOPLE INTO DOWNTOWN, WHICH IS PART OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO PURSUE IS OUR NUMBER ONE PRIORITY QUALIFIED HOTEL PROGRAM. NOW I'M NOT SAYING THAT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO COME STAY IN A HOTEL. WHEN THEY DO COME IN. WATCH THE BATTLESHIP , BUT I CAN GUARANTEE YOU ONE THING SHOULD WE BE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO HAVE A BATTLESHIP HERE PEOPLE THAT ARE STAYING IN THE HOTEL, FOR OTHER REASONS ARE ALMOST CERTAINLY GOING TO GO WANTED TOUR THAT BATTLESHIP TEXAS, YOU DON'T JUST TURN YOUR BACK ON AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET SOMETHING OF THIS MAGNITUDE.

WHICH WOULD BE A TREMENDOUS DRAW TO GET PEOPLE DOWNTOWN. AND WE'RE A LONG WAY FROM GETTING IT . YOU KNOW THERE. THERE ARE HURDLES TO BE CROSSED. BUT THE CONCERN ABOUT THE DREDGING THAT WAS BROUGHT UP WE DO NOT HAVE DEEP PART OF VESSELS. GOING NORTH AT THE KCS BRIDGE. ANY LONGER. IT'S JUST NOT HAPPENING . AND THAT IS WHY THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS CURRENTLY DOES NOT BOTHER DREDGING THE NATURE'S RIVER. NORTH OF THE K. C S BRIDGE. BECAUSE THERE'S NO NEED TO. WE HAVE OCCASIONAL BARGES THAT GO OVER TO BO MAC AND MAYBE SOME OTHER LOCATIONS, BUT YOU DON'T HAVE DEEP VESSEL. DEEP DRAFT VESSELS GOING NORTH OF THE BRIDGE, SO THE NEED TO DO ANY TYPE OF DREDGING. YES SUCH A REMOTE POSSIBILITY. ONLY IF IT WAS TO BECOME SILTED IN THROUGH SOME CATASTROPHIC EVENT LIKE HARVEY, WOULD YOU LIKELY NEED TO HAVE DREDGING? BUT WELL, AS YOU KNOW, COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL WHEN YOU HAVE A CATASTROPHIC EVENT LIKE HARVEY THAT BRINGS WITH IT, BIMA. AND FEMA IS TASKED WITH HELPING TO RESTORE THINGS TO THE WAY THEY WERE BEFORE LIKE THEY'RE DOING FOR RIVERFRONT PARK. SO EVEN WITH THE AUTHORIZATION OF THE CHANNEL AND WE LET THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS BE RELEASED OF THEIR RESPONSIBILITIES TO DREDGE WHICH THEY'RE NOT DOING NOW. IF SOMETHING WERE TO OCCUR THAT NECESSITATED DREDGING. THEN. YOU WOULD LIKELY HAVE FEMA COMING IN TO TAKE CARE OF THAT RESPONSIBILITY, EVEN AT THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS AND PAYMENT CAN DIRECT ARMY CORE OF ENGINEERS TO GO DREDGE TO PUT IT BACK LIKE IT WAS SO. ALL I'M SAYING IS, WE'VE GOT SO MUCH GOOD STUFF IN THIS REPORT. WE HAVE NEVER DONE ANYTHING LIKE THIS BEFORE WE'VE HAD GOLDEN TRIANGLE DAYS. YEAH AND INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBERS WOULD GO TO AUSTIN AND YOU KNOW, IT WOULD BE LIKE HERDING CATS BECAUSE EVERYBODY HAD THEIR OWN AGENDA. THANK YOU, MR WILLIAMS FOR SUGGESTING THAT WE ALL GET TOGETHER AND FORMULATE. A UNIFIED LEGISLATIVE. AGENDA AND I UNDERSTAND COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL AND I THINK EVERYBODY KNOWS YOUR POSITION ON THIS. YOU'VE MADE IT. QUITE CLEAR. BUT I THINK THE CONSENSUS OF COUNCIL IS THAT IT WOULD BE A GOOD THING TO HAVE THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS HERE AND THAT'S WHY WE SIGNED THE RESOLUTION AND PASSED IT THE WAY WE DID, AND, UH I HOPE IT COMES TO FRUITION. THAT'S WHERE I'M AT. COUNCIL MEMBER TURNER UH , MR MANAGER, CAN YOU PLEASE KINDA SPEAK TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE RESILIENCE PRIORITY NUMBER FIVE AND PRIORITY NUMBER LIVING THE WATER AND WATER. WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE. BECAUSE SOMEONE COULD STAFF KIND OF SPEAK TO THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THOSE TWO WHAT WERE THOSE NUMBERS COUNCIL MEMBERS FIVE AND NUMBER 11. IF I BRING CHRIS, YOU CAN OFFER MINE BUT YOU CAN GO START.

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IS IT? IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THEY COULD BE CONSOLIDATED? YOU RECOMMEND THAT THEY STAY SEPARATE.

I CANNOT, AND I APPRECIATE THAT . I WANTED TO GET YOUR OPINION ON IT. AND LASTLY, I DO. TAKE THE POSITION THAT, UH, WITH WATER AND WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE BEING ONE OF THE MOST PRESSING THINGS THAT WE DISCUSSED IN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. I DON'T THINK IT IS WISE IF WE'RE LOOKING AT THE RANKING THINGS AS A PRIORITY THAT IS RANKED LAST, AND THAT'S NUMBER 11. I THINK THAT DEFINITELY SHOULD BE ONE OF THE TOP THREE PRIORITIES FOR THE CITY OF BEAUMONT WITH THE CURRENT STATE THAT WE HAVE DEALING WITH SOME PERSONAL PROBLEMS IN BEAUMONT. I THINK IT'S WISE THAT WE ACTUALLY CATER OUR AGENDA TO WHAT WE'RE REALLY IMPRESSING AND DEALING WITH IN THE CITY OF BOMA, AND I THINK FOR THAT TO BE NUMBER 11 AND THIS BEING ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS IN BEAUMONT I DON'T THINK IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE OUR PRIORITIES TOGETHER AND STRAIGHT. I WOULD MUCH RATHER SEE AND GET SOME SUPPORT FROM THE COUNCIL. IF WE CAN GET THAT MOVED UP TO THE TOP THREE PARTY FIRST INTO BEING, YOU KNOW THE LAST PRIORITY. WELL THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WAS GONNA SAY THE NUMBER 11 WATER, WASTEWATER AND FLOODING TO BE NUMBER 11. WE HAD MAJOR FLOODING IN THIS CITY. I'M STILL LIVING IT DOWN. SO PERSONALLY. UM. I JUST BELIEVE THAT IT NEEDS TO BE MOVED UP AS ONE OF OUR TOP THREE PRIORITIES ALSO. UM BUT GETTING BACK TO, UM COUNCIL MEMBER. SAMUEL AND COUNCIL MEMBER GETS MHM ON THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS. WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS, BUT THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS HAS NOT BEEN ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES. AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE HAVE NOT TALKED ABOUT THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS. FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. AND TO PUT IT. AS AN OBJECTIVE. AS OUR NUMBER TWO PRIORITY. RIGHT NOW. THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE DISCUSSED. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE LAST TIME WE SPOKE ABOUT IT IS WE WERE WAITING FOR THE SABINE AREA. UM TO COME BACK WITH A REPORT. IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, AND IF I'M WRONG PLACE SOMEONE PLEASE CORRECT ME, BUT WE WERE WE WERE WAITING FOR A REPORT TO COME BACK. RIGHT WITH THE LAST RESOLUTION. AH! AUTHORIZED US TO SEND A LETTER ON BEHALF OF THE CITY TO THE COURT OF BEAUMONT, ASKING FOR THEIR SUPPORT AND DE AUTHORIZING THE PORTION OF THE FEDERAL CHANNEL THAT NEEDED TO BE DE AUTHORIZED SO THAT WE COULD PLACE THE SHIP, UH, IN THE RIVER, AND WE'RE WAITING ON THE PORCH OF BEAUMONT RESPONSE TO THAT LETTER IT IT HAS BEEN SENT TO THE SPORT. BUT WE HAVEN'T GOT A RESPONSE. SO TO MAKE IT A NUMBER TO A PARIAH, UH, PRIORITY AND OBJECTIVE AND WE'RE STILL WAITING BECAUSE OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT MORE THAN LIKELY. THAT WOULD PROBABLY NOT GET APPROVED. AND, UM. WE'VE WE'VE BEEN WAITING ON THAT THAT INFORMATION FOR A WHILE. I CHECKED WITH CHRIS FISHER AT THE PORTS, AND HE TOLD ME A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO THAT RESPONSE WAS COMING. I HAVEN'T GOTTEN IT YET, BUT I CAN'T SPECULATE AS TO WHAT THE RESPONSES WELL, WE LEAVE FOR AUSTIN. UM MOST OF US ARE LIVING

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FOR AUSTIN SUNDAY. FOR GOLDEN TRIANGLE BASE AND IF WE'RE GOING TO PRESENT THIS IMPORTANT TO BE A NUMBER TWO PRIORITY. UM. THAT'S NOT A GOOD LOOK AND THE COUNCIL HAS A WHOLE I'M GONNA CALL ON YOU. HOLD ON THE COUNSELORS A WHOLE WE HAVE NOT MADE THAT A PRIORITY AND WHEN WE'VE HAD FLOODING IN OUR CITY AND TO SAY THAT NUMBER 11 IS FLOODING. AND WATER AND WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE. I MEAN, YOU PUT IT ON THERE. BUT IF ANYTHING IS GOING TO BE THE LAST PRIORITY. I WOULD THINK, UM . SOMETHING THAT WE DON'T HAVE A RULING NON AND THE RULING IS NOT IN OUR CONTROL. IT SHOULD NOT BE FLOODING WATER WASTEWATER. UM AGAIN. ANYTHING THAT HAS TO DO WITH WATER IN OUR CITY. AND WHEN IT COMES TO UM CITIZENS NOT BEING ABLE TO FLUSH THEIR TOILETS. THAT HAS TO BE A HIGHER PRIORITY FOR ME. COUNCIL MEMBER GETS AND THEN MAYOR PRO TEM DORIA. AND THEN I'M SENDING YOU WANT TO SAY SOMETHING? I AM NOT OPPOSED TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BEING A NUMBER TWO. PRIORITY RIGHT? THAT'S NOT MY ISSUE, BUT I JUST DON'T BELIEVE THAT AS THE BULLET POINTS UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, I DISAGREE WITH THE BATTLESHIP BEING A PART OF THAT NUMBER TWO OBJECTED. THAT'S THAT'S ALL. LET'S GET TO WHAT I WANTED TO SAY THE PRIORITY NUMBER TWO IS NOT THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS COMING TO BOMA. WHY I SAID IT IS. IT IS. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. CORRECT ONE OF THE SUBCATEGORIES UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS THE BATTLESHIP AND IF YOU GO LOOK AT THE RESOLUTION THAT WE PASSED. AS I COUNSEL. IT ACTUALLY HAS LANGUAGE IN THERE THAT SAYS WE SUPPORT BRINGING THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS TO BEAUMONT. THAT'S THAT'S IN THE RESOLUTION. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN GO BACK AND READ IT, SO WHETHER IT'S IN THE RESOLUTION OR NOT. YEAH LIKE I SAID, I'M ONE OF THOSE HUMAN BEINGS IF THAT GOT TO IF IT CAME TO COUNCIL, THEN I MADE A MISTAKE. WELL, I DON'T THINK YOU SUPPORTED IT ALL BUT ALL I'M SAYING REGARDLESS OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING HAS TRANSPIRED. I'M TELLING YOU, I DO NOT SUPPORT THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS BEING PROFESSED TO BE A PRIORITY FROM ME AS A COUNCIL MEMBER WITH THE CONSENSUS OF THIS COUNCIL BECAUSE I DID NOT GET THE FEELING THE ENTIRE COUNCIL THERE WAS A CONSENSUS THAT WE WANTED THE BATTLESHIP AS A PRIORITY. THAT'S ALL I'M SAYING. PRIORITY FOURTH, BUT THAT'S MY POSITION PRIORITY. HIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. EXACTLY ONE OF THE SUB CATEGORIES UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. YES THE DESIRE AS EXPRESSED BY THE MAJORITY OF COUNCIL TO BRING THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS TO BOMA, AND I'M SORRY IF YOU DIDN'T READ THE RESOLUTION, BUT THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS. SO THERE IS NO DOUBT THAT BRINGING THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS TO BEAUMONT WOULD PROMOTE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN BEAUMONT THERE, I MEAN, THERE HAVE BEEN STUDIES DONE BY ACCOUNTING FIRMS THAT SHOW HOW MUCH ECONOMIC IMPACT WOULD BE GENERATED BY BRINGING THAT SHIP HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER GETS SO THAT WE DON'T GO INTO THE REHEARSAL OF WHAT HAS BEEN DEFINED. WE ARE AWARE THAT. THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. PORTION OF IT IS THERE BUT AS A COUNCIL AS A WHOLE AND FOR IT TO BE THE TOP. SUBJECT MATTER AS AN OBJECTIVE OF OUR NUMBER TWO PRIORITY. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. I DON'T THINK THAT WAS AT THE BOTTOM OF THAT CATEGORY OF PRIORITY NUMBER TWO. IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME, BUT I JUST THINK WE HAVE MORE PRESENT ISSUES. AND WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. IT'S NOT A PRIORITY. BUT THERE'S SOME SERIOUS SERIOUS WATER ISSUES, BUT BUT YOU TALKED ABOUT WATER ISSUES, AND YOU TALKED ABOUT SEWAGE ISSUES MAYOR IN THE SAME BREATH AND THOSE THOSE ARE DIFFERENT THINGS THEY ARE AND SO DIFFERENT. NUMBER FIVE AND NUMBER 11 SO WE'VE GOT WATER AND WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE. WHICH IS ABSOLUTELY A PRIORITY OF ALL OF US ON COUNCIL. BUT WHAT MY QUESTION WOULD BE IS. TO WHAT

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EXTENT DOES THE STATE TRADITIONALLY PROVIDE MUNICIPALITIES SUPPORT FURTHER INDIVIDUAL WASTE AND WATER INFRASTRUCTURE? MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT. THAT IS GENERALLY STUFF THAT IS FUNDING FROM YOUR ENTERPRISE FUND. AND IF WE HAVE BEEN MISSING OUT ON OPPORTUNITIES TO GO TO THE STATE OF TEXAS TO GET THEM TO HELP US WITH THAT INFRASTRUCTURE I'D LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT IT, UH, DANCING. THIS THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THAT WE HAVE PURSUED BEFORE . SO THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD THAT WILL ISSUE ESSENTIALLY, UM, LOWER AND TODD . YOU MAY WANT TO JUMP IN HERE, BUT THERE ARE THEY WILL ISSUE LOWER INTEREST BONDS FOR I KNOW WE APPROACHED THEM SEVERAL YEARS AGO ABOUT AN ADDITIONAL WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS. SO BETWEEN THAT AND AGAIN OVERLAP WITH RESILIENCY. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE FUNDING COMING DOWN THROUGH MAYBE THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE. MAYBE THROUGH TDM. SO THERE THERE. THERE ARE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OUT THERE. SO YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD AND HELPING YOU WITH BONDS, BUT STILL, THAT IS BONDS THAT'S GOING TO BE ISSUED BY THE CITY AND YOU'RE BASICALLY YOU KNOW, THERE'LL BE BORROWING MONEY, MAYBE AT A MORE PREFERRED, RIGHT , BUT YOU'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT GRANTS WERE NOT TALKING ABOUT ANYTHING LIKE THAT YOU'RE STILL BASICALLY GOING TO HAVE TO FUND YOUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE IS A MUNICIPALITY. IS THAT CORRECT OR NOT CORRECT. WELL, THE MAJORITY OF THE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY WOULD FALL ON THE CITY. BUT THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES AT THE STATE LEVEL. I THINK WE OUGHT TO PURSUE EVERYTHING WE CAN. AND YOU KNOW, I JUST AH, YOU KNOW WHEN WE TALK ABOUT PRIORITY NUMBER 11 BEING WATER AND WASTEWATER INFRASTRUCTURE I THINK WE HAVE TO RECOGNIZE. THAT WE AS A CITY ARE GOING TO HAVE TO FUND THE LION'S SHARE OF THAT. AND, UM, BUT I AM CERTAINLY IN FAVOR OF GOING AFTER ANYTHING THAT WE CAN. I JUST DON'T THINK THAT THERE IS A WHOLE LOT OUT THERE THAT IS AVAILABLE FOR US TO BE THE BENEFICIARY OF. MR MR WILLIAMS, DO YOU? I MEAN, WHAT OPPORTUNITIES ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT THE STATE CAN HELP US WITH.

WELL, WATER WASTEWATER. CERTAINLY. AN ISSUE. IN BEAUMONT . YOU'VE HEARD ME SPEAK IN PUBLIC AND PROBABLY SPOKE AT THAT WAS OUR BIGGEST PROBLEM. QUITE FRANKLY, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE THINGS OUT THERE THAT THERE ARE GRANTS OUT THERE. SOMETIMES THERE IS SOMETIMES PROFESSIONAL. ASSISTANCE WITH ENGINEERING OR JUST PEOPLE COMING TO DO ASSESSMENTS THAT TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD THAT SETS RULES AND THINGS THAT CAN MAKE RULINGS ARE PUT RULES THAT MAYBE HELP YOU OUT AND WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE, SO THERE'S A DIFFERENT WAY. THERE ARE DIFFERENT WAYS TO GET TO THAT POINT. AND WHERE ARE YOU TRYING TO GO WITH THE WATER? AND WITH WATER. I GUESS. UM. FROM WHAT I'M HEARING. I'M HEARING THAT THE WATER WASTEWATER PROBABLY NEEDS TO BE IN THE TOP THREE. EVERYBODY'S OUT OF CONSENSUS. WE STILL GOOD ON THE QUALIFIED HOTEL IN ONE THAT'S THE WAY WE'RE PROPOSING SOME LEGISLATION THAT AFFECTS THAT.

OKAY YES. TO IS ECONOMICAL DEVELOPMENT. STILL IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO BE THREE WILL HAVE TO WORK THROUGH THIS SHIELD BATTLESHIP. SO I THINK IT'S STILL IMPORTANT. I THINK IT'S STILL IMPORTANT ENOUGH. I THINK I THINK ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS FOR THE COMMUNITY AND CITIZENS.

WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PRIORITIES, WE MAKE SURE WE'RE MAKING PRIORITIES THAT ACTUALLY AFFECT THAT CITY. THERE AT THE TOP, YOU KNOW, IN A PERFECT WORLD, I LIKE TO DO SOME OF THESE BIG GREAT THINGS, BUT I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE FIRST OR ATTEMPT TO GO EVERY GO AFTER EVERY TYPE OF RESOURCE WE CAN TO TAKE CARE OF OUR PEOPLE AND KIND OF WHAT YOU STATED THE MAIN NUMBER ONE PROBLEM THEN I CITY IS WASTEWATER AND SOME OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE. WHAT ARE WATER SO I THINK WE'RE GONNA HAVE A LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. IF THAT'S THE MAIN PROBLEM IS MOST IMPORTANT TO MAKE IT ONE OF THE TOP PRIORITIES. PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH. THEIR ADDRESS IS A LOT OF THINGS SUCH AS HOMELESSNESS, ETCETERA. STILL FOUR? YES. YES, OKAY. JUST ONE CLARIFICATION. THOSE ARE TWO DIFFERENT SEPARATE. CAN WE CAN WE COMBINE THEM? PROBABLY. WHAT'S THAT? PUBLIC HEALTH IS THREE AND PUBLIC SAFETY IS FOR

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PUBLIC SAFETY AND PUBLIC HEALTH TO GROUP THEM BASED ON THE LEGISLATIVE BILLS THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THEM. AND SO A LOT OF THE PUBLIC SAFETY BILLS ARE SEPARATE, AND APART FROM THE MENTAL HEALTH OR POLITICAL, SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT THEY'RE SEPARATE RIGHT BECAUSE WE'LL BE TARGETING DIFFERENT COMMISSIONS AND DIFFERENT CHAIRMAN AND DIFFERENT THINGS, SO I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT THEY STAY SEPARATE. IF YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE PURPOSE FOR THAT.

SO HEALTH IS FOR SAFETY. FIVE. PROVIDES VERSA. YES. OKAY. HEALTH SAFETY. SEE, THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT RESILIENCY. RESILIENCE IS REALLY KIND OF PUTTING THINGS IN PLACE TO MAKE SURE YOUR FUTURE IS TAKING CARE OF. YOU KNOW, IT'S THINGS THAT MAKE SURE ENVIRONMENTS. OKAY JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE OR THE RIGHT RESOURCES. THAT'S GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR KIDS ARE GONNA HAVE A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, WORK AND PLAY. SO IT'S A RESILIENCY THAT IMPORTANT ENOUGH TO BE STAY SIX. A LOT OF OUR RESILIENCY NEEDS OR BEING CONCERNED WITH THE FEMA GRANTS THAT WE GOT AFTER HARVEY IS MY UNDERSTANDING, AND WE'RE YEAH, RESILIENCY TO ME ALSO MEANS KIND OF A BELT AND SUSPENDERS APPROACH. YOU KNOW, ONE THING GETS KNOCKED OUT. YOU HAVE THE ABILITY TO GO. FORWARD WITH SOMETHING ELSE. SO WE HAVE A YOU KNOW, NEW WATER PUMPING PLANT THAT'S BEING BUILT. YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW SPECIFICALLY WHAT OTHER THINGS WE HAVE IN MIND FOR RESILIENCY PURPOSES, BUT, UM YOU KNOW SPECIFIC PROJECTS, BUT I'M NOT SURE THAT NEEDS TO BE AS HIGH AS IT IS RIGHT NOW. GIVEN THAT WE HAVE ALREADY RECEIVED SO MUCH FEMA MONEY. THAT WANTED LOWER THE BRAZILIAN SO, BASICALLY AS WE STAND RIGHT NOW, THE DIRECTION WE'RE GOING, IT'S JUST BEING BUMPED DOWN THE NUMBER SIX CORRECT. YES. OKAY, I'M I'M FINE WITH THAT. OKAY? THEN TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY. SEVEN. YEAH. TRANSPORTATION AND . FOR SEVEN YEAH, IT WOULD DROP TO SEVEN. PUSHING EVERYTHING. WATER WASTEWATER. THEN REVENUE.

AND SHOULD HAVE MANAGER I HEARD YOU EARLIER. I THINK WHAT WE'RE COMMUNICATING TO THE CITIZENS ALSO IS THAT UM ALL THESE PRIORITIES ARE IMPORTANT TO US. WE'RE JUST LISTENING AMOUNT IS HERE'S ONE HERE, TOO. HERE'S THREE. IT'S NOT NECESSARILY IN THE RANK OF IMPORTANCE, BUT ALSO AGREE WITH EVERYONE ELSE AND THE FACT THAT PERCEPTION IS IMPORTANT. AND SO I AGREE WITH THE MOVES ARE MAKING. BUT YET I STILL THINK WE NEED TO LET THE CITIZENS KNOW THAT ALL 11 OF THESE PRIORITIES ARE IMPORTANT TO US. ABSOLUTELY IT'S JUST WE'RE JUST LISTENING THEM OUT.

WE'RE NOT TRYING TO RANK THEM. UH WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE IT CLEAR . I MEAN, I LIKE ON THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS, UH, ALWAYS THOUGHT THAT THE CONSENSUS OF THE COUNCIL WAS LET'S MOVE FORWARD AS ONE STEP AT A TIME. DIDN'T WE ALLOCATE $20,000. TO DO A STUDY AT ONE POINT AND WE'RE JUST GOING ONE STEP AT A TIME TO SEE THE POSSIBILITY OF BRINGING THE SHIP HERE, BUT WE'RE ALSO COMMUNICATING THE STATE THAT WE'D LIKE TO SOME OF YOUR SUPPORT. LIKE FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS TO HELP US WITH THIS. I ALWAYS THOUGHT THE COUNCIL UNDERSTOOD THAT WE CAN'T AFFORD THIS. WE'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT RIGHT. BUT YET WHERE YOU HAVE TO COMMUNICATE TO THE STATE OF TEXAS WERE INTERESTED, BUT YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO MAKE A COMMITMENT TO US AND PARTNER WITH US TO GET THIS DONE. THAT'S WHY I ASSUMED YOU PUT THAT IN THERE. IT WAS JUST A STATEMENT THAT WE'RE INTERESTED IN DOING THIS AS WE GO ONE STEP AT A TIME AND JUMP THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT HOOPS. AS FAR AS THE SPONSORSHIP TEXAS DEAL GOALS IT SAID THE RESOLUTION WAS TO APPROACH OH! REPORT. AND THE SABINE NATURE'S PILOTS ASSOCIATION. AND BECAUSE IF WE BRING THAT SHIP HERE, WE WOULD HAVE TO RE DREDGE THE FEDERAL CHANNEL. IF WE BREATHE.

YES, THEY SAID, WE WOULD HAVE TO RE DREAD THE FEDERAL CHANNEL. AND THAT'S THAT'S NOT TRUE REFRESH. AND IF WE RE DREDGE THE FEDERAL CHANNEL, THEN THAT WOULD MAKE US RESPONSIBLE FOR NEXT TIME A STORM OR SOMETHING COMES THROUGH. THAT'S WHAT THAT'S WHAT WE WERE TOLD. THAT WOULD PUT THE RESPONSIBILITY ON THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. AND THAT AND THEY JUST SAID WE THEY JUST SAID WE WOULD HAVE TO REDIRECT IT TO SET THE SHIP OVER THERE. FEDERAL CHALLENGE. YOU DON'T JUST SAY THAT NO. SORRY WE HAVE A DEAD, MICK. SO OKAY, UM WHERE WE POSITION THE SHIP. TENTATIVELY PER PLAN WOULD REQUIRE VERY MINIMAL TO NO DREDGING, DEPENDING ON EXACTLY WHERE WE PUT IT NEXT TO THE SHORE. WHAT WE'RE ASKING FOR IS THE AUTHORIZATION OF PART OF THE

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CHANNEL SO THAT THAT GETS THE CORPS OF ENGINEERS OUT OF THE WAY BECAUSE THEY WERE CLOSE TO A FEDERAL CHANNEL. THEY'RE NOT GONNA PROVE IT. AND THE AUTHORIZATION. WHAT DOES THAT MAKE US RESPONSIBLE FOR? AUTHORIZED THE CHANNEL WERE POTENTIALLY ON THE HOOK FOR DREDGING THE PORTION THAT'S BEEN THE AUTHORIZED HIM FUTURE, BUT WE'RE NOT HAVING TO DREDGE ANYTHING TO GET THE SHIFT IN RIGHT AND WHERE WE YOU SAID. WE SENT A LETTER TO THE REPORTER BEAUMONT AND IT WASN'T SOMETHING WITH THE SABINE NATURE'S WIEN NATURE'S NAVIGATION NAVIGATION DISTRICT AUTHORITY THAT'S RESPONSIBLE FOR THE NAVIGATION. WE WOULD ALL HAVE TO BE IN AGREEMENT. THEY'RE THEY'RE LOOKING TO THE POOR TO SUPPORT IF THE PORTS SUPPORTED AND WE MOVE FORWARD, THEN WE WOULD ASK. SABINE MAJORS NAVIGATION DISTRICT ACTUALLY ASKED FOR THE AUTHORIZATION. SO JUST TO CLARIFY THE RESOLUTION THAT WAS APPROVED WAS TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER SAD TO SEND THAT LETTER. AND YEAH, AND IN THAT LETTER, IT DOES SAY THAT CITY COUNCIL IS INTERESTED. THE PURPOSE FOR THE LETTER IS THAT THE COUNCIL IS INTERESTED IN SHOWING SUPPORT. SO FUNDS HAVEN'T BEEN ALLOCATED COUNCIL DIDN'T APPROVE TO VOTE TO APPROVE TO GET THE BATTLESHIP. NOTHING LIKE THAT. BUT THE RESOLUTION OF THE SOLE PURPOSE OF THE RESOLUTION WAS JUST TOP AUTHORIZED THAT KIND OF CONVERSATION TO MOVE FORWARD, RIGHT? EXACTLY. MAN AND I DID NOT BRING THAT UP TO, UH, THE LATEST PROCESS OR EVEN INTERRUPT THE PROCESS OF PUTTING TOGETHER OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES. THE ONLY THING I'M SAYING, I DON'T WANT TO ATTACH A PIGGYBACK SOMETHING THAT I AM NOT IN SUPPORT OF AS A COUNCIL, SAYING WE ARE SUPPORTING AT THIS POINT. EVERYTHING I MEAN, AND I DON'T THINK WE CAN IT'S IMPROPER FOR US TO GIVE A FALSE PERCEPTION. IF THESE NUMBERING THE PRIORITIES IF WE ARE NUMBERING PRIORITIES, I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE NUMBERED ACCORDING TO OUR POWER. PRIORITIES. BUT EITHER WE NUMBER OR WE DON'T WE SAY THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT WE'RE WANTING TO DO. THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT'S IMPORTANT TO THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. THESE ARE THE THINGS WE WANT YOUR HELP IN GETTING DONE. THESE ARE THE THINGS WE WANT TO ATTACH TO, UH WHAT CERTAIN BILLS TO, UH, ADDRESS THAT'S ONE THING, BUT IF WE'RE GOING TO GIVE NUMBERS, LET'S GIVE PRIORITIES AND ALL I'M SAYING IS I SUPPORT THE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES THAT WE PUT TOGETHER. I SUPPORT RANKING THOSE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES. BUT I DO NOT WANT TO A ATTACH SOMETHING THAT I AM NOT CONSIDERING AS A PRIORITY AS A PART OF ONE OF OUR LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES, THAT'S ALL AND I DON'T WANT TO GO BACK AND FORTH AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DEAL WITH LATER. UNLESS IT'S SOMETHING THAT THIS COUNCIL WANTS TO SAY IS ONE OF OUR PRIORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

PRO PROJECT IF THAT'S WHAT THIS COUNCIL SAYS, I'M JUST ONE IN THE MINORITY, AND THAT'S FINE.

BUT I AM NOT GOING TO SAY I SUPPORT AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. PRIORITY. IF THE BATTLESHIP IS BEING TAUGHT IT AS BEING ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES BECAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M SAYING. SO I'M NOT GONNA AND I'M DONE. I'M NOT GOING BACK AND FORTH. GOOD, BUT I CERTAINLY HAVEN'T RIGHT, I THINK RESPOND, BUT YOU KNOW, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS A PRIORITY, AND CERTAINLY THERE'S OBJECTIVES UNDER ECONOMICALLY LIKE HECK, WE'D LIKE TO GET AN AMAZON DISTRIBUTION CENTER HERE . YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE AN OBJECTIVE UNDER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. WE'D LIKE TO DO A LOT OF THINGS UNDER UNDER WANTED TO ASK, NEVER BEEN UP THERE TO THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE DAYS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. WE PRIORITIZE US OUR OBJECTIVES. WHEN THEY RE PRIORITIZING. WELL THIS DOES IT. STAY LIKE THIS. THIS IS JUST A DOCUMENT THAT THEY IDENTIFY WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU. NOT NOW , REMEMBER WHEN YOU GET UP THERE, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN PRIORITIES. AND JUST BECAUSE IS YOUR TOP PRIORITY. IT DOESN'T MAKE IT FEARS, BUT THEY SEE THAT YOU HAVE INTEREST OR YOU HAVE SUPPORT. NUMBER 10 MIGHT BE THEIR PRIORITY AND THEY'RE GOING TO REACH BACK AND SAY, OH, MONTH SUPPORTS PUBLIC HEALTH. LET'S GO GET SOMEBODY FROM BEAUMONT, THE MAYOR TESTIFYING FOR MY BILL, YOU KNOW, SO IT'S WHILE WE'RE RANKING THEM DON'T GET CAUGHT UP ON THE NUMBERS BECAUSE THERE'S SO MANY ISSUES UP THERE THAT THEY'RE ALL OVER THE PLACE. AND

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THIS IS THIS IS JUST OUR DOCUMENT. MAKING THIS TELLING THEM WHAT INTERESTS US. DO WHAT THEY WANT WITH THIS DOCUMENT, RIGHT? RIGHT. THEY CAN DO THAT. AND THEN THEY WILL. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA USE IT TO THEIR BEST INTERESTS. WHOEVER UP THERE UP THERE, WHOEVER WHETHER IT'S OUR REPRESENTATIVES OR SOME OTHER REPRESENTATIVE, WE'LL SEE WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO US. ONE MOMENT. UM SAYING YOU'RE DONE. COUNCIL MEMBER TURN. YEAH THE GOOD THING AND THE BENEFIT OF THAT IS JUST KIND OF THE REALITY TO YOU KNOW, LET'S PUTTING TOGETHER A PARK BUDGET. WE MIGHT HAVE SOMETHING WE WANT TO DO. THAT MIGHT NOT MAKE IT THIS YEAR, BUT WE CAN ALWAYS ADD IT TO THE FOLLOWING BUDGET. THE FOLLOWING YOU GO AFTER THE NEXT YEAR. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE OBJECTIVES IF WE'RE KEEPING UP WITH SOME OF THE LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES RIGHT NOW, A LOT OF OBJECTIVES LINE UP WITH SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY BEING DISCUSSED OUT THERE AT THE TEXAS STATE LEVEL, AND IT'S ALSO A GOOD OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE YOU GOT TO HAVE THOSE RELATIONSHIPS. YOU KNOW, WE GOT SPEAKER TO HOUSE WE GOT OUR STATE. REP.

CHRISTIAN MANUAL. IT'S REAL GOOD TO KIND OF TALK WITH THOSE GUYS AND KEEP ABREAST STUFF OR SOME ODD PRIORITIES, SOMETHING THAT'S REALLY BEING DISCUSSED AT THE HOUSE AND HOW STRONG AND LIKELY IT IS TO SEE SOME OF THOSE THINGS GET PUSHED THROUGH. SO I THINK THE GOOD THING ABOUT IT IS A LOT OF HOURS LINED UP WITH THE COUNTY. SO THERE'S EVEN MORE WEIGHT COMING FROM JEFFERSON COUNTY. SO I THINK WE KINDA IN A GOOD PLACE RIGHT NOW. AS FAR AS GET THINGS DONE. BUT THE REALITY IS JUST LIKE YOU MIGHT. WE ALL GOT DIFFERENT PRIORITIES, SO YEAH, WE'LL PROBABLY GET UP THERE AND SEE THEY MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN MAYBE THREE OUT OF 10. BUT I THINK YOU AND I BOTH KNOW WE'RE GONNA FIGHT FOR ALL THE LIVING OF THEM SO WELL AND ALSO YOU HAVE YOUR TEXAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE. PRESIDENT, WHICH. DAVID MAYOR, DAVID, UH, ELDRIDGE, ULTRA RICH. IT'S FROM BRIDGE CITY, AND SO HE'S GOING TO PLAY A BIG PART IN THAT ALSO BECAUSE HE GOES BEFORE THEM TO TESTIFY. PLEASE TURN YOUR CELLPHONE OFF. YES GOOD POINT MAN. THEY HAVE THEIR LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. THEIR AGENDA. ALSO LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AND YOU KNOW YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS TURNED INVENTION. A LEARNING. YOU KNOW , WE HAVE A TREND PERSON THAT'S OVER. THE TRANSPORTATION COMMITTEE REPRESENTS US IN THE SENATE. SO ANYTHING WE PUT ON HERE FOR TRANSPORTATION. SENATOR NICKLES IS GOING TO LOOK FOR BEAUMONT TO COME IN ON LIKE WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO YOU ON THIS TOPIC BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO DO NOTHING TO HURT MY CONSTITUENTS, SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE BE REPRESENTING THESE THINGS. THAT'S NOT ALWAYS THE RANK AND SOMETIMES IT'S THE FACT THAT YOU FEEL THIS WAY ABOUT IT AND WE CAN WORK TOGETHER. YEP. OKAY, SO . WHERE ARE WE NOW? IF YOU HAVE EMOTION IN A SECOND ON THE FLOOR FOR AUTUMN NUMBER FOUR JUST FINISHED. OKAY SO ALL DISCUSSION IS COMPLETED JUST SINCE WE'RE INTO THIS INTROSPECTION. WE GET TO THE REST OF THESE NUMBERS. IF YOU DON'T MIND, MAYOR, SURE. UH, I THINK WE STOPPED THERE. EIGHT WITH REVENUE. THE REST OF THEM OKAY WITH YOU KNOW THAT AND INSTEAD OF GOING TAKING THEM ONE BY ONE, I THINK IT JUST KIND OF SHIFTED EACH ONE OF THEM DOWN ONCE WE PRIORITIZE 12 AND. THREE YEAH, ELEVEN'S ALL THE WAY UP TO TWO RIGHT? AND THEN IT SHIFT EVERYTHING ELSE. BACKGROUND THAT'S THE CASE NOW AND THERE WAS A COME IN AND I KNOW COUNCILOR SAMUEL HAS ITS FEELING. WHAT IT MATTER IF THAT THE WORDING WERE DIFFERENT, AND HOW WE HAD IT WORDED WITH THAT AND THEN DROP IT. SOME DOWNLOAD SOME BULLET POINTS ON LOWER ON THE LIST. AS IT STATES. CITY OF BEAUMONT SUPPORTS LEGISLATION THAT FUNDS THE FULL RESTORATION OF THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS AND RELOCATION TO DOWNTOWN BEAUMONT NATURE'S RIVER. WHAT THAT'S PRETTY PLAIN TO ME. COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL THAT WAS BECAUSE WE SAID BACK WHEN WE WERE DISCUSSING THIS IN EARNEST THAT WE WOULD. IF WE'RE GOING TO GET THE BATTLESHIP TEXAS HERE. WE WOULD RATHER NOT SPEND LOCAL TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO DO IT. IT'S THE SHIP IS OWNED BY THE STATE OF TEXAS. WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE LEGISLATION PASSED TO ALLOW THE SHIP INFRASTRUCTURE, THE MOORING TO BE PAID FOR BY THE STATE OF TEXAS, AND THAT'S WHAT THAT MEANS. YEAH. COUNCIL MEMBER GETS I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING. I'M SIMPLY SAYING I AM NOT

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SUPPORTING THE RELOCATION OF THE BATTLESHIP AT THIS TIME TO BEAUMONT, TEXAS, AND I AM SO WE DIFFER, OKAY? AND WE'RE GONNA AGREE. TO BE DIFFERENT. OKAY WE ARE SIMPLY ASKING IF THIS COUNCIL WANTS TO SAY THEY SUPPORT THE THIS OBJECTIVE AS IT'S WRITTEN. THAT'S FINE. I WILL VOTE. THE WAY THAT I FEEL I NEED TO VOTE. BUT IF THERE'S IF THAT'S OKAY, BUT I PREFER THAT AT LEAST THAT BULLET POINT BE REMOVED FROM THIS. OBJECTIVES STRONGLY. IT SHOULD STAY. SO I MEAN, YOU KNOW, OKAY. MAYOR ME THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR FOR IT, AND I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY BEFORE YOUR VOTE ON IT THAT THERE HAVE BEEN AMENDMENTS MADE. AND SO IF YOU'RE GONNA MOVE FORWARD FOR THEN COUNCILMAN GETS HOW TO LEAVE. YOU MADE THE MOTION TO CLARIFY FURTHER WORKERS. YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOTION THAT YOU ACCEPT THE LEGISLATIVE AGENDA AS AMENDED.

OKAY AT THE TIME, BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF MAKE SURE THAT GOT OUT BEFORE WE GOT TOO FAR AHEAD OF OURSELVES. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR GUEST, WOULD YOU? WOULD YOU SUPPORT THE AMENDMENT OF MOVING THIS BULLET POINT DOWN TO THE BOTTOM JUST IN THE SPIRIT OF CORPORATION WITH COUNCIL COUNCILMAN SAMUEL? YES IT'S MAKING A STATEMENT IS PERCEPTION BUT MAKING A STATEMENT THAT WE SO FAR HAVE SHOWN INTEREST AND I DID CONFIRM WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY. WE DID ALLOCATE $20,000 TO DO A STUDY ON THE BIRTH. AND WE HAVE TAKEN THE POSITION AS WE'VE GONE ALONG ONE STEP AT A TIME, AND THIS IS JUST ONE MORE STEP IN THE STATE OF TEXAS STEPS UP AND SAYS, HEY, WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR MILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF BIRTHING THIS THING I CAN'T IMAGINE THIS COUNCIL WOULD TURN THAT DOWN. WELL WE'RE DOING IS MAKING IT KNOWN THAT WE'RE INTERESTED, BUT WE'RE NOT VOTING ON IT TODAY, SO WOULD YOU AMEND IT TO MOVE THE BULLET POINT DOWN TO MAKE A STATEMENT TO THEM THAT WE WERE JUST THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS BUT IT'S NOT THE PRIORITY ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. OF COURSE, OKAY? THANK YOU. OKAY MR . WILLIAMS CAN YOU ARE YOU FINISHED? FINISHED MAYOR, I THINK BASICALLY, WE ALWAYS OR WE'RE MOVING 11 UP TO TWO AND THE REST OF GOING ON. THIS IS WRITTEN. THANK YOU. SO MR GETS. WHAT'S THE MATTER? GET WILL YOU PLEASE AMEND YOUR MERCHANT? YES I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE PREVIOUS TO TALK ABOUT THE ORDER AND PRIORITIES AS DISCUSSED HERE TODAY. THANK YOU. MAY I HAVE A SECOND? SECOND. ABSOLUTELY GOT IT, TURNER. HE'S QUICKER THAN ME. SO YOUNGER. OKAY? WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR. ALL IN FAVOR. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. YOU HAVE THE

[5. Consider approving the recommendations for the Parks Capital Improvement Plan, set forth in Fiscal Year 2023]

READING OF ITEM NUMBER FIVE, PLEASE. THANK YOU. MAYOR COUNCIL CONSIDERED RESOLUTION APPROVING THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PARKS CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN SET FORTH AND FISCAL YEAR 20. 23 DURING THE BUDGET DURING THE PREPARATION OF BUDGET THIS YEAR, DISCUSSION BEGAN WITH COUNCILOR IMPORTANT POSSIBLE PROP PARK PROJECTS THAT WASN'T ABLE TO BE COMPLETED BY THE APPROVAL OF THE BUDGET, SO THAT DISCUSSION HAS CONTINUED, UH WITH COUNCIL SO WE'LL BRING IN THAT. BACK TO YOU WITH A LIST OF POSSIBLE PROJECTS FOR YOU, TOO. CONSIDER FOR APPROVAL AGAIN THIS YEAR CONSIDERATION BUT WE'RE GIVING YOU MORE INFORMATION ON THE DIETS BEFORE YOU. YOU HAVE A LIST OF PROJECTS. PROJECTS THAT WERE. RECOMMENDED BY ADMINISTRATION PROJECTS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED BY THE PARKS ADVISORY BOARD AND ALSO YOU HAVE SOME DOLLAR. FIGURES NUMBERS THERE FOR YOU TO HELP YOU MAKE YOUR DECISION SO WE'RE BRINGING THAT BEFORE YOU, UH, WE HOPE THAT TO GET A DECISION BECAUSE WE NEED TO START WORKING ON THESE PROJECTS AND THEN PREPARING FOR THE NEXT BUDGET YEAR FOR A LIST OF PROJECTS THAT WOULDN'T KNOW WHICH ONES WE NEED TO WORK WITH CAMERA OVER FOR NEXT YEAR AND STARTED MAKING PREPARATIONS. SO WE'RE ASKING COUNCIL TO CONSIDER ARE APPROVING THE LIST OF CAPITAL PROGRAM PROJECTS FOR THE PARKS.

SO YOU'VE HEARD THE READING. ITEM NUMBER FIVE. MAY I HAVE A MOTION? PLEASE MOVE TO APPROVE THE RECOMMENDED LIST BY THE ADMINISTRATION FOR THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS OF THESE PARK PROJECTS. CERTAINLY. THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE FLOOR. IN THE DISCUSSION. YES, MA'AM. HMM. COUNCIL MEMBER, TURNER THEN COUNCIL MEMBER FELL SHORT GETS HIS HAND UP FIRST,

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ALL YIELD TO HIM. I'M SORRY I DIDN'T BUT HOW? WELL I'M SORRY, AND HE WAS WAVING A FLOWER, I GUESS, BUT I'LL TAKE IT. GO AHEAD TURN. TURN IT JUST A FEW, FIRST AND FOREMOST. THANKS, DAPH. UH JIMMY, KENNETH. THANK YOU GUYS FOR WORKING TOGETHER TO KIND OF GET THIS THING GOING.

WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR QUITE SOME TIME. AND I JUST WANNA LET YOU KNOW I APPRECIATE Y'ALL ALL WORKING TOGETHER THROUGH ALL THE UPS AND DOWNS TO GET TO THIS POINT. AH, MY NEXT QUESTION IS. I SEE MAGNOLIA PART CONVERT RESURFACE TENNIS COURTS , TWO BASKETBALL COURTS, BUT WE HAVE EXISTING COURT THERE. THERE'S ALREADY ESTABLISHED. ARE WE GOING TO IS THAT COURT GOING TO BE REVERTED? ALWAYS SAYING WE'RE JUST GOING TO THE TENNIS COURTS ARE DO WE HAVE A CHOICE OUT OF EITHER OR OKAY. I'M GOING TO DEFER THIS STAFF ON THAT RECOMMENDATION. HELLO EVERYBODY . UM THAT WASN'T REALLY PROPOSED TO US. WE IF YOU REMEMBER THE EXISTING COURT WAS THE ONE THAT COUNCILMAN GETS PROPOSED POTENTIALLY PUTTING SOME LOWER GOALS ON, UM WHEN WE MET LAST TIME, IT WAS THE FIRST TIME IT WAS EVER BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION TO CONVERT THE TENNIS COURTS BASKETBALL COURTS, WHICH WE SUPPORTED WHOLEHEARTEDLY, SO RIGHT NOW. THERE'S NO PLAN TO DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT WITH THE CURRENT COURT. OKAY I JUST HAVE A QUESTION, I THINK. SOME OF US ARE FAMILIAR WITH MAGNOLIA PART THAT CURRENT COURT IS BASICALLY THE CORNER LOT, WHICH IS PRIMARY LIKE PRIME REAL ESTATE. AND I THINK IF WE'RE GONNA DO A COURT, IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO DO. THE COURT THAT'S ON THE CORNER VERSUS THE TENNIS COURT. THAT'S KIND OF IT'S KIND OF RIGHT BEHIND THE RECREATIONAL CENTER. I KNOW COUNSEL, MS ENEMY THIS YEAR AWARD. THAT'S YOUR AREA. SO I KIND OF WANT TO GET YOUR OPINION ON THE DIFFERENTIAL OF THE COURT SAYING WHAT YOU THOUGHT I KIND OF THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD TO DO THE COURT THE ONE THAT'S MORE VISIBLE, BUT I KIND OF WANT YOUR OPINION ON THAT. OKAY, WELL, MIKE AND MY QUESTION WAS, IT SAYS, UH, FOLLOWING IMPROVEMENTS WILL BE MADE. AND IT SAYS CENTRAL OR MAGNOLIA PART RESURFACED THE TENNIS COURTS.

TWO BASKETBALL COURTS THAT TELLS ME THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT RESURFACING. WHAT WHICHEVER ONE.

IT IS TOO AS OPPOSED TO BEING TENNIS COURTS THAT WOULD BE CONVERTED TO BASKETBALL COURT.

THERE COULD BE A LITTLE COMBINATION OF WHAT YOU'RE SEEING THERE. THE DOCUMENT. I HAVE JUST SAYS MAGNOLIA PARK FOR THE COMFORT CONVERSION. WE HAD TALKED ABOUT DOING SOMETHING.

IT'S CENTRAL OR MAGNOLIA, SIMILAR TO WHAT WE DID AT ROGERS LAST YEAR. SO THAT WAS THE INITIAL PROPOSAL THAT YOU GUYS WERE GONNA CHOOSE WHICH ONE YOU WANTED, AND THEN COUNCILMAN GETS BROUGHT UP TAKING THE TENNIS COURTS THAT REALLY AREN'T UTILIZED VERY MUCH AT THE CENTER AND CONVERTING THOSE TWO. WE CAN PUT TWO BASKETBALL COURTS, SO IT WAS IT WAS SOMETHING WE DON'T HAVE. SO WE THOUGHT IT WAS A REALLY GREAT OBVIOUSLY, IT'S NOT. IT'S KIND OF LIKE JIMMY. WE CAN GET MORE BANG FOR OUR BOOK IF WE DID. THE TENNIS COURT. YOU'RE SAYING VERSUS THE I FEEL LIKE WE PROBABLY COULD. AND LIKE WE JUST SAID, IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE HAVE. I DO AGREE WITH YOU THAT IT WOULD BE A LOT BETTER TO SEE THEM CORNER. UM I DON'T THINK WE CAN SCOOP THAT UP FRONT. I DON'T THINK HE WOULD WANT US TO DO THAT. THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT ALSO, THOUGH, JIMMY AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, UH, THERE IS A COVERED AREA. THAT YOU COULD SIT UNDER AND WATCH BASKETBALL BEING PLAYED OUT THERE WHERE THE TENNIS COURTS ARE NOW, UH SO THAT THAT ALREADY EXISTS. THERE IS A LITTLE PAVILION THERE. THERE'S ALSO A SMALLER COVERED AREA OVER BY THE OTHER BASKETBALL COURT KIND OF ADJACENT TO THE PLAYGROUND. RIGHT, OKAY. YOU KIND OF GOT KIND OF GOT WRONG. OF MY QUESTION. THESE SAY DIFFERENT THINGS. YES I THINK WHICH AND I DON'T HAVE THE ONE IN FRONT OF THE ONE IN YOUR RIGHT HAND. I DON'T HAVE THE ONE WE'RE VOTING ON. YES. SO JUST CLARIFICATION SO. I THINK THE CENTRAL IS A CARRYOVER. WE HAD ORIGINALLY BROUGHT THIS TO COUNCIL BACK IN NOVEMBER. AND I THINK THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL. I THINK AT THE TIME IT WAS CENTRAL OR MAGNOLIA , BUT I THINK WHERE WE'RE AT NOW IS MAGNOLIA. OKAY BUT THAT'S NOT WHAT MY PACKET DOCUMENT SAYS THE PACKAGE, DOCUMENT SAYS, OR TO BE UP TO THE COUNCIL. I UNDERSTAND, BUT. WE GO BY. THIS IS WHAT THE MOTION NORMALLY IS BASED ON. WE HAVE AN ATTACHMENT. BUT THIS IS

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THE DOCUMENT WILL BE VOTING ON. THEY ARE NOT SEEING THE SAME THING. I JUST WANTED TO BE CLEAR. BEFORE IT COMES TO A VOTE ON WHAT IS BEING PROPOSED. SO IT'S TELLING ME WHAT'S BEING PROPOSED IS MAGNOLIA OR CENTRAL . YEAH AND THAT'S ALL I WAS TRYING TO DO. I'M NOT TRYING TO MUDDY THE WATERS. I WANT TO UNDERSTAND. MAYBE I'M THE SLOW ONE TODAY, BUT I WANT TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WE'RE VOTING ON . I KNOW THE ATTACHMENT IN THE ONE WITH THE FEES ON IT IS MAGNOLIA. SO I KNOW MY DOCUMENT DOESN'T SHOW ANYTHING WITH CENTRAL, POTENTIALLY BASKETBALL COURT. I DON'T KNOW IF SOMETHING I DON'T KNOW IF WHAT YOU HAVE SHOWS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. AND THE REASON I SAY THAT BASKETBALL COURT. IN CENTRAL PARK IS DIFFERENT FROM BASKETBALL COURT AND MAGNOLIA PARK BECAUSE OF THE USAGE, OR SHOULD I FLIPPED THAT? TENNIS COURTS. RESURFACING. IN MAGNOLIA WOULD BE DIFFERENT FROM TENNIS COURTS IN CENTRAL THERE'S MORE USES FOR TENNIS COURTS IN CENTRAL PARK. WELL, WE ALREADY RESURFACED THE TENNIS COURT AT CENTRAL PARK LAST YEAR. WELL I'M REFERRING TO THE DOCUMENT THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO US. I ASKED FOR CLEAR VACATION. OKAY SO IT'S CLEAR THAT THIS DOCUMENT WILL NEED TO BE AMENDED. WE'RE NOT TALKING ABOUT OR WE'RE TALKING ABOUT CENTRAL PARK. IS THAT CORRECT? A MAGNETIC PART. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL JUST FOR THE RECORD. I DON'T KNOW WHERE CENTRAL PARK EVER CAME INTO WITH THE IDEA OF IT BEING CONVERTED TO BASKETBALL COURTS THAT TENNIS COURT FACILITY THERE AS UH, MR NEIL JUST SAID IS A RESURFACED. IT LOOKS GREAT. IT'S BEING USED. I DON'T KNOW WHERE THAT CAME FROM. UH AM I CORRECT? THAT'S WHAT IT SAID. THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS INTERESTING. PROBABLY SHOULDN'T BE SAYING THAT IT WAS IT WAS FOR JUST THE BASKETBALL COURT. THAT WAS THE THERE'S. THERE'S SOME CUTE CONFUSION, OBVIOUSLY, SOMEWHERE IN THE TRANSLATION OF WHAT WAS POSTED, BUT THAT WAS THE INITIAL DISCUSSION WAS, LET'S DO EITHER CENTRAL OR MAGNOLIA RESEARCH. SOME LIKE WE DID THAT, LIKE WE DID. GLADYS RODGERS AND RODGERS GOT YOU AND A HALF AGO OR WHENEVER IT WAS, AND THEN IT WAS PROPOSED. LET'S DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. WHICH IS WHAT WE'RE NOW TALKING ABOUT AT MAGNOLIA.

YES OKAY, JAMIE, SO NOT NOW. I'M FOLLOWING YOU. BASICALLY THE COURTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS THE COURT THAT WE DID SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT ROGERS APART. BUT IT WAS TWO OPTIONS ON THAT.

WE CAN DO THE RECON. REDO THE COURT AT ALICE KEITH, NOT ALICE KEITH IMAGINATION STATION. OR THE MAGNOLIA PARK COURT. INITIALLY THAT WAS WHAT WE WERE PROPOSING. AND THIS WAS IN THIS PACKAGE RIGHT HERE. YEAH WHAT I'M SEEING IS THE ONE THAT WE CONVERT THE TENNIS COURTS 22 BASKETBALL COURTS, WHICH IS WHAT COUNCILMAN GETS PROPOSED THAT OUR LAST MEETING UP HERE AT MAGNOLIA. RIGHT? COUNCIL MEMBER QUESTION. GO AHEAD RIGHT COUNCIL MEMBER PHIL SHOW. UH JIMMY.

FIRST OF ALL I HAS BEEN SAID THANK YOU FOR ALL THIS, AND I SUPPORT THIS 100% JUST A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS. THE COM BEST COM BEST PARK. PLAYGROUND INSTALLATION. HOW MUCH DOES THAT PART GET USED? I MEAN, I DON'T HAVE NUMBERS FOR YOU, BUT IT DOES GET USED. IT'S A PRETTY GOOD NEIGHBORHOOD, ESPECIALLY THAT THAT NEIGHBORHOODS KIND OF BEING REVITALIZED. LOT OF KIDS OUT THERE. WHERE IS IT? COM BEST IT'S DELAWARE AND EAST TEXAS. DELAWARE. THAT'S THE PARK BY HOME DEPOT. CORRECT YES, KIND OF BY HOME DEPOT OFF THE FREEWAY. YEAH. IT HAS ABOUT TWO PARKING SPOTS. THERE IS LIKE A NEIGHBORHOOD PART. YEAH PEOPLE IS ACCESSIBLE TO THE FREEWAY.

YEAH, IT'S YEAH, IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF A NEIGHBORHOOD KIND OF FAMILIAR WITH THAT PARK AND THE REASON I'M ASKING THESE QUESTIONS, BECAUSE $1.4 MILLION IS REALLY NOT THAT MUCH MONEY.

AND SO YOU WANT TO BE CAREFUL WITH HOW YOU ALLOCATE THAT, AND THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING, BUT IN THE BABES IN HARRIS PARK, I KNOW THAT'S A LOT OF SOCCER. I MEAN, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE THAT'S HEAVILY USED IS. IS THERE A NEED FOR PLAYGROUND INSTALLATION? AND IS THAT A REQUEST COMING TO US FROM THE CITIZENS? THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME TO ME AND SAID LOOK, WE'RE OUT HERE PLAYING SOCCER ALL THE TIME. WHAT CAN WE DO SOMETHING WITH OUR KIDS? OKAY? AND ALL THE ATHLETIC COMPLEX REPLACED NINE SCOREBOARDS. I'M ASSUMING THIS THESE CIGAR SCOREBOARDS CANNOT BE REFURBISHED, RESTORED AGAIN. I'M ASKING JUST BECAUSE I FEEL

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LIKE WE HAVE SO LITTLE MONEY HERE IT GOES SO QUICKLY. THAT'S CORRECT. WE CAN WE CAN THEY BE REWORKED OR YOU FEEL LIKE THEY'RE THEY REACHED THE END OF THEIR LIFE. WE PRETTY MUCH HAVE REWORKED HIM AS MUCH OKAY WITH NEW MOTHERBOARDS OR WHATEVER ELECTRONICS NEED TO BE DONE.

WE'RE TRYING TO UPGRADE THEM. OKAY, LITTLE BIT MORE. MODERN LIKE YOUR TV? YEAH EVENTUALLY RUNS ITS COURSE IT AWAY. OKAY. THANK YOU, MARY. I CAN'T REMEMBER GETS AND THEN THEIR PROTEIN DURIAN QUESTIONS. SO ON THE. REQUESTS THE TERRORIST SIEVING JIMMY TO PUT PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT AT THE. BABE DAVID'S AGAINST THE HAIRIEST PARK WHERE SOCCER IS BEING PLAYED. NOBODY IN MY RECOLLECTION HAS COME BEFORE COUNCIL TO ASK THAT NO ONE HAS COME BEFORE PARKS AND RECREATION BOWS REPORT TO ASK THAT SO THEY MIGHT BE ASKING YOU, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD THAT BEFORE. THIS DOCUMENT WAS PREPARED. THERE IS A PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. OVER IT OUT A REPORT RIGHT ACROSS THE HIGHWAY, UH FROM THE SOCCER FIELDS. AND I NEVER SEEN ANYBODY PLAYING ON THAT. COULD THAT BE RELOCATED IN PUT IN AH ZAHARIAS, PART SURE IT'S A POSSIBILITY. UM YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT SOMETHING WE TYPICALLY DO. BUT I'M SURE IT'S A POSSIBILITY. WELL, I'M ASKING THAT BECAUSE AGAIN. I'VE NEVER BEEN APPROACHED BY ANYBODY WANTING TO HAVE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. IT'S THE HAIRIEST PARK. IT'S A SOCCER PART. AND THE REALITY IS THERE IS A LOT OF TRANSIT TRAFFIC AS IT GOES BY THERE. THERE THERE IS A LOT OF I MEAN, THE SALVATION ARMY IS RIGHT ADJACENT TO IT. UM I DON'T KNOW THAT IF I'M OUT THERE PLAYING SOCCER. UH AND I HAVE PLAYED SOCCER ON THOSE FIELDS BEFORE. AND, UH I DON'T KNOW IF I'D FEEL REAL REAL COMFORTABLE WITH SAYING KIDS GOING OFF TO PLAY ON THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT JUST IT'S SOMETHING TO BE THINKING ABOUT OVER THERE THAT WE PROPOSED IS PRETTY OPEN. NO IT'S NOT RIGHT NEAR THE RESTROOMS, WHICH IS WHERE YOUR TRANSIENT ISSUES TEND TO ARISE. SO IT SEEMED LIKE A REALLY GOOD LOCATION AND THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE SPOKEN WITH. WORK. SUPER EXCITED ABOUT WHAT? WHERE IS THAT LOCATION? IT WOULD BE KIND OF ON THE NORTHERN SIDE NORTH SIDE OF THE PARK. UM, TRYING TO NAME REMEMBER THE NAME OF THE STREET THAT GOES IN BETWEEN THE OLD FOOTBALL STADIUM IN THE VSD BUILDING. WHATEVER THAT SMALL STREET IS CALLED KIND OF WHERE YOU WOULD IF YOU WERE TO TAKE THAT STREET AND DRIVE IT ALL THE WAY INTO THE PARK. IT WOULD BE BEHIND THAT SOCCER FIELD THERE.

OR THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS. IN THAT VICINITY WHERE WE JUST KIND OF MAKING THIS AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE PLAYING SOCCER TO PARK THEIR KIDS RIGHT OVER THERE ABOUT CBS APARTMENTS. COTTONWOOD COTTONWOOD RIGHT OVER THERE, BUT THAT'S THAT'S QUITE A DISTANCE. BUT WHAT THAT WOULD THAT WOULD PROVIDE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR IF A WIFE IS GOING WITH THEIR HUSBANDS IS PLAYING SOCCER OR FAMILIES GOING OUT TO BE OUT THERE FOR A DAY PLAYING SOCCER. THAT ALLOWS THE WIFE OR THE CHILDREN TO GO TO THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT RATHER THAN HAVING TO JUST KEEP THE CHILDREN HELD HOSTAGE RIGHT THERE WATCHING SOCCER SOMETIMES THEY DON'T KIDS NOT QUITE AS INTERESTED IN SOMETHING AND WATCHING IF THEY'RE NOT PARTICIPATING, BUT IT PROVIDES SOMETHING FOR THE KIDS TO DO WHEN THEY ARE OUT THERE WITH PARENTS HAVE BEEN HELD HOSTAGE WATCHING KIDS PLAY SPORTS A LOT MYSELF, BUT I UNDERSTAND PLAYGROUND WHERE YOU WERE MAYBE SO WHAT? YOU WANT TO GO GET ON THE SWING SET A SET ONE NEEDS TO SEE THAT, BUT I LOVE YOU. I WOULD SAY I'D LIKE TO SWING BUT THEN I WOULDN'T DON'T THINK THAT WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE REMARKS. BUT BUT BUT CAN IT CAN IT? TO BE HONEST , IT IS SOME DISCREPANCIES IN PRICING. TO THE PACKET DESTINED OUR AGENDA AND THIS PAPER WE GOT RIGHT HERE. I THINK WE NEED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHICH PAPER WE NEED TO BE LOOKING AT IN REFERENCE TO THE FUNDING PRIOR TO MAKING THESE DECISIONS BECAUSE SOME OF THE PRICING IS A LITTLE DIFFERENT. GOOD ONE, THE ONE THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE LIKE SOME OF THE PORTS. SOME OF THE PORK YOU HAD. THE BUDGET IS DIFFERENT. SOME OF THE PARK EQUIPMENT IS A LITTLE CHEAPER ON THIS PAPER AND HIGHER ON THIS PAPER. SO WHICH ONE ARE WE LOOKING AT? ATTACHMENT THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU THE BASICALLY THE BIGGER ONE IS THE BIGGER ONE. THAT'S THE ONE YOU SHOULD LOOK AT. THE OTHER ONE IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING IS TODAY'S DATE ON IT. YEAH BUT THAT'S NOT IN THE PACKAGE. BUT THAT'S THAT. THAT THERE'S ANOTHER COINCIDENCE, BUT NOT BUT SEE. MY BIGGER QUESTION WAS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE BASKETBALL QUESTION ON THIS ONE.

THE WAY YOU SAY WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT NOW IT'S CLEAR. IT'S SAM MAGNOLIA APART, SO CLARIFY

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THE BACK IN NOVEMBER, WHEN WE BROUGHT THIS TO YOUR ORIGINALLY IT WAS THAT THE AGENDA ITEM WAS CENTRAL OR MAGNOLIA PARK. I THINK SINCE THEN WE'VE DECIDED IT NEEDS TO BE MAGNOLIA PARK.

OKAY THE CORRECTION WAS NOT MADE THE AGENDA ITEM, BUT THAT'S THAT'S WHERE IT COMES FROM. THAT SHOULD BE REFLECTED IN THE BIGGER SPREADSHEET. OKAY, THANK YOU. AND THAT WAS THE QUESTION.

I WANT IT FOR CLARITY, YOU KNOW, WITH COUNSELING AND SAMUEL BEING IN THAT WARD DO YOU THINK IT WOULD BE BETTER TO RESURFACE THE COURT THAT'S ALREADY OUT THERE OR THAT TENNIS COURT? WELL. IT'S TELLING ME NOW, IF I'M FOLLOWING THIS IS DEALING WITH RESURFACING THE BASKETBALL COURT. AT MAGNOLIA PARK. NO TENNIS COURTS CONVERTING CONVERTING. YEAH THE BASKETBALL COURT TENNIS COURT BASKETBALL. HMM YEAH, I UNDERSTAND THAT. BUT. THIS GIVES ME PRICING. I UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS COST BUDGETARY COSTS. THIS DEALS WITH WHAT WE'RE DOING . HMM THAT'S WHY I SAW A DISCREPANCY AND I WANTED TO MAKE MAKE SURE I WAS FOLLOWING IT CORRECTLY, SO I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH RESURFACING THE TENNIS COURT AT MAGNOLIA PARK. TO BASKETBALL BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT'S UTILIZE MOST AT MAGNOLIA PARK. SO. THAT'S ALL I WAS TRYING TO. THAT'S THE WHOLE POINT OF MY QUESTION WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE NOT MAKING A DECISION. UH ABOUT CENTRAL PARK AND MAGNOLIA PART OKAY, MAKING A DECISION ABOUT MAGNOLIA PART THAT'S WHAT THE QUESTION WAS.

BUT I DO HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. WHEN YEAH, I'M ALMOST DONE. OKAY. OKAY JAMIE. SO NOW NOW WE'RE CLEARING THAT WE'RE PAST THE MAGNOLIA. PART ONE. MY NEXT ONE WAS WE HAVE THIS TURF MACHINE THAT WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING. COULD THAT BE MULTI PURPOSELY USED COULD BE USED AT THE BASEBALL FIELDS TO IS IT JUST FOR THE FOOTBALL FIELD? OKAY I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD THAT IT DOES A LACROSSE FIELD, A SOCCER FIELD FOOTBALL FIELD AND A BASEBALL FIELD ALL AT THE SAME PLACE. OKAY GOOD DEAL. IMPRESSIVE PIECE OF EQUIPMENT. HMM. THAT'S PRETTY MUCH MY THE LAST THING THAT I'M SEEING RIGHT NOW. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ALL GOT A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHAT WE'RE ADDRESSING AND WHAT WE'RE DOING AND HOW IT'S GONNA LOOK, I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO BE CONFUSED THAT TO THE FACT I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO KNOW IT IS ANOTHER BASKETBALL COURT AT MAGNOLIA. THAT WON'T BE DONE, WHICH IS THE COURT THAT'S ALREADY EXISTING. IT'S ON THE CORNER. BY THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, SO WE'RE KIND OF CLEAR ON THAT. I JUST WANT EVERYBODY TO BE CLEAR. IT'S A DIFFERENCE IN THOSE TWO. YES, SIR. YEAH. PUSH THE KITCHEN. NEXT TIME PROTEIN DIARRHEA. I HEAR YOU SAYING. IF THEY COMPLETE DETERRABLE PARK EQUESTRIAN TRAILS. AND DO THE MAGNOLIA PARK POOL MAINTENANCE.

YOU KNOW, ALL THAT DOESN'T MATTER BECAUSE ALL THESE OTHER PROJECTS BECOME UNFUNDED. GREG THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS IN HERE. HE SAID. IF THEY DO THAT, SO LIKE MY SPOT PARK SHELTER, MAGNOLIA CAR PARK BASKETBALL CODES ROGERS PARK DOG PARK. BABES HARRY'S PLAYGROUND. YEAH WE WANT THOSE QUESTIONING TRAILS AND FIX THE POOL. YOU CAN'T HAVE THIS OTHER STUFF. SO JUST ONE CLARIFICATION ON THAT WE MET ON THIS YESTERDAY AND SO ORIGINALLY BACK WHEN WE CAME TO COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER, QUESTION TRAIL WAS NOT ON THE LIST OF RECOMMENDED RECOMMENDED PROJECTS COUNCIL ASKED US TO GO BACK TO THE PARKS AND REC COMMITTEE, THE PARKS AND RECREATION COMMITTEE. ADDED THE EQUESTRIAN TRAIL AS A PRIORITY. AND SO WE BARTON, HIS GROUP WERE ABLE TO GET AN ESTIMATE OF 369,340. FOR A TURNKEY BASICALLY , TO HIRE SOMEBODY TO DO THE QUESTION TRAIL SO IF WE WERE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH HIRING SOMEBODY TO DO THE EQUESTRIAN TRAIL THAT WAS GOING TO KNOCK OUT SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS. WE MET ON THIS YESTERDAY AND DISCUSSED IT, AND WE FEEL LIKE BETWEEN THE MYLAN'S FOURTH STREET AND BETWEEN USING CITY FORCE. FORCED LABOR. WE CAN BASICALLY DO THIS IN HOUSE. AND SO, BASICALLY THAT 3 69 3 40 WOULD NOT IMPACT THE BOTTOM LINE. IT WOULDN'T KICK OFF SOME OF THESE OTHER PROJECTS SO GOING BACK TO LAST WEEK. IT WAS AN ISSUE THAT NOW IT IS NOT. WHAT ABOUT THE MAGNOLIA, PROBABLY POOL MAINTENANCE. SO THE UPDATE ON THE MAGNOLIA PARK POOL AGAIN. BE PARKS AND REC ADVISORY COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED THAT WE

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LOOK INTO THAT KEITH OLSEN IS WORKING WITH A GROUP OUT OF HOUSTON TO GIVE US A FIRM ESTIMATE ON WHAT THAT'S GOING TO COST. I THINK WE AGREE WE NEED TO DO IT, BUT WE DIDN'T WANT TO WAIT. I THINK IT MAY TAKE UP TO A MONTH TO GET THOSE ESTIMATES SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO WAIT. WE WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS RECOMMENDATION BECAUSE I THINK WE NEED TO DO IT ANYWAY. HAVE ANY EFFECT ON THOSE OTHER PROJECTS. NO SO CORRECT? NO SO WE'RE PULLING IT OUT.

WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT IT SEPARATELY, SO IT SHOULD ALLOW ALL THESE TO GO FORWARD IF APPROVED TODAY. COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL YES. UH JUST CURIOUS. UM WITH THE WITH THE RECENT CONTRIBUTION MAGNIFICENT CONTRIBUTION FROM EXXON MOBIL FOR THE CHARLTON PARLOR PARK.

UH, THESE REPLACED THE REPLACEMENT OF PLAYGROUND CRYPT EQUIPMENT IS THAT GONNA BE DONE IS AS PRESENTED HERE. IS THAT OUT OF OUR GENERAL FUNDS, OR IS THAT A PART OF THE FUNDS THAT WERE GRANTED BY. I'LL ADDRESS THAT PENCE. REMEMBER THIS IS THE MONEY FROM OUR GENERAL FUND.

THESE DOLLARS ARE STRICTLY ON DOLLARS. THIS IS NOT INCLUDE THE DONATION BY EXXON. I'M RELUCTANT TO COLD MINGLE FUNDS. HMM THAT TOOK GRANT. IT NEEDS TO TAKE CARE OF WHAT? IT'S GONNA TAKE CARE AND WE NEED TO LET OUR JUMP FUN. TAKE CARE OF THAT. SO WE'RE GONNA DO THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT WITH OUR DOLLARS AND BECAUSE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAD SON WANTS TO DO IS NOT THEY WANT TO DO OTHER THINGS, TOO. SO THAT DOLLAR THAT MONEY SEPARATE SO THAT LEADS ME TO THE SECOND QUESTION THAT I HAVE SO THE MONEY THAT EXXON MOBIL WILL BE USED EXPLICITLY. FOR THE CHARLTON PILOT PARK. IS THAT CORRECT? YES. GREAT. YOU'RE NOT GONNA SHARE? NOPE. NO CANADA. I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT YOU KNOW JUST LONG AS THAT CHARTON PILOT COMMUNITY IS A BREAST AND UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE. I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TODAY. ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. WHAT'S GOING ON? I KNOW WE SEE SOME REPRESENTATION FROM THE TRIAL TO POWER NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CROWD. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT FUNDING WAS ALLOCATED SIMILAR WITH COUNCILMAN ASSEMBLY SAID. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO AND MAKE SURE IT'S ADDRESSED IN THAT CHARLESTON POLLOCK AREA IN THAT PART, HAD THAT DISCUSSION YESTERDAY AS A STAFF. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT AND I HAD MY INSTRUCTIONS. TWO STAFF WAS. LET'S KEEP THAT POST DOLLARS SEPARATE. YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT WAS A SEPARATE DONATION, AND WE ALREADY HAD THE MONEY. AND SO WE WANT THAT LOST TO GO. WE CAN DO MORE WITH THAT PARTICULAR PARK AND USE THE MONEY THAT WAS INTENDED. WELL AND THIS WAS ALREADY ALLOCATED BECAUSE OF THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT THAT HAD BEEN IDENTIFIED AS DAMAGED ANYWAY. WE WERE ALREADY PLANNING TO DO THIS JUST NEEDED TO VOTE, RIGHT. WE JUST NEEDED TO VOTE SO WE DO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THOSE DOLLARS THAT WAS CONTRIBUTED BY EXXONMOBIL WERE TOTALLY SEPARATE AND DIRECTLY APPLIED TO CHILD IN PUBLIC PARK, WHERE IT WAS INTENDED FOR BUT NOW MY QUESTION ALRIGHT. THERE IS $60,000 FOR GENERAL MAINTENANCE. CAN YOU EXPLAIN GENERAL MAINTENANCE BECAUSE OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT. ALREADY MAINTAIN. ALL OF THE PARK SO CAN YOU EXPLAIN WHAT THE 60,000 FROM MAINTENANCE IS FOR? SOME SOMEONE . THIS WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT WE WHEN WE ALL MET ABOUT THIS, MR FOLSOM AND OTHER DEPARTMENT HEADS. UM WE JUST FELT LIKE IT NEEDED TO BE DONE. JUST IN CASE THERE COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COMES UP. WHEN YOU'RE TEARING SOMETHING OUT. THERE COULD BE SOMETHING THAT COMES UP WHEN YOU'RE DOING AN INSTALL TO WHERE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THERE'S ENOUGH KIND OF LEE WEIGHTS WHERE WE CAN DO SOME OF THE MAINTENANCE THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. CONTINGENCY. YES, SIR.

WHAT'S CONTINGENCY, BUT TO YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST GOT HERE EARLY MONTH, WE HAD AN ISSUE WITH THE PARK MAINTENANCE. YOU KNOW SOME OF OUR EQUIPMENT BEING BELOW PAR. SO I TAKE SOME OF THE BLAME FOR THIS BECAUSE WE HAD SOME REALLY SERIOUS ISSUES WITH SOME OF OUR PARK EQUIPMENT NEEDING TO BE MAINTAINED. SO I THINK THAT SOME OF THESE DOLLARS CAN BE CAN HELP TO GET THAT EQUIPMENT TO WHERE IT SHOULD BE, AND MAKE IT SAFE FOR KIDS TO PLAY OWNS. YOU KNOW SOME CONTINGENCY, BUT THERE ARE SOME SOME MAINTENANCE ISSUES THAT STILL EXIST. MANUEL. BUT THE ONE POINT THE 1.4. TO ENHANCE PARK. EXCUSE ME. YEAH. UM. THERE'S NO WAY WE CAN TAKE THAT 60,000 AND

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USE IT. PARK EQUIPMENT YOU CAN YOU CAN. BECAUSE THERE'S 26,000 LEFT OVER OUT OF THE BUDGET. I'M LOOKING AT. 3 1,000,074, AND WE HAVE 1.4. 61.5646. SO WE HAVE TWENTIES 26,400 LEFT OVER. PLUS IF WE TAKE THIS $60,000 UM I'VE ALWAYS STATED. THAT UM, I'VE NEVER BEEN AGAINST THE DOG PARK IN ROGERS PARK. I JUST FELT LIKE RATHER THAN DOING ONE DOG PARK. WE COULD DO TO DOG PARKS. AND MIKE, YOU'RE GONNA GET YOUR DOG PARK THIS TOWN. UM YEAH, RIGHT FOR EUROPE. FOR YOUR AREA, SO WE'RE ALMOST AT UM. IT WOULD GIVE US 86,400. WHERE I THINK WE COULD PROBABLY GET ANOTHER DOG PARK SOMEWHERE ELSE IN THE CITY RATHER THAN TAKING THAT 60,000 AND USING IT ON MAINTENANCE, WHICH 26,400 LEFT OVER. WOULD GIVE US 86,400. ALMOST TO THE POINT OF BEING ABLE TO AFFORD ANOTHER DOG PART SO IF WE COULD SQUEEZE ANOTHER DOG PARK IN. YEAH, WE'RE A LITTLE SHORT. SURE WE CAN. WE CAN WORK ON THAT, TOO. WE'LL PROBABLY SKIN IT GET . I KNOW I DON'T WANT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. BUT YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT KENNEDY CUPS. A LOT OF THIS RESPONSIBILITY IS YOURS TOO NOW. CAN I ASK JIMMY ONE QUESTION BEFORE KENDALL COMES UP, JIMMY ON THE IMAGINATION STATION. WE'RE GONNA TEAR COMPLETELY DOWN AND REPLACE IT WITH NEW STUFF TO BE WOODEN OR NOT. OKAY, IT'S GONNA BE THE DIFFERENCE. OKAY? OKAY? AND ABOUT HOW LONG YOU'VE GOT A TIMELINE ON THAT DEAL. WITH ALL OF THESE WERE KIND OF AT THE MERCY OF THE CONTRACTOR, UM, TEARING IT DOWN. WE'LL BE DOING THAT IN HOUSE. SO JUST, HOWEVER QUICKLY WE CAN GET IT DONE. BUT AS FAR AS GETTING THE INSTALL, YOU'VE GOTTA ORDER IT. YOU'VE GOT TO DESIGN IT. YOU'VE GOT TO ORDER IT. THERE'S A LOT OF APPROVALS THAT TAKE PLACE AND THEN SHIPPING AS WE KNOW. IT'S NOT FUN RIGHT NOW. SO WHEN WE DO THE TEAR DOWN ONCE THE NEW EQUIPMENT IS ON THE WAY OR YOU'RE GOING TO DO THAT NOW, AND I'M ASKING THAT THE SEAT WOULD HAVE PARKED BE OPEN WIDE BEING REPLACED. NO WELL, THE IT WOULD BE ALL CLOSED OFF AROUND THE PLAYGROUND AREA. BUT WILL THEY STILL BE ABLE TO LIKE THE WALKING TRACK AND STUFF LIKE THAT? IT DEPENDS ON HOW INVASIVE THAT THAT STUFF IS. WE'RE NOT GOING TO COMMIT TO THAT. THANK YOU, MADAM ATTORNEY. OKAY? I THINK WITH SOME OF THE FUNDS, UH , WE COULD USE TO UPGRADE THE PARK BENCHES. PICNIC TABLES AND THINGS LIKE THAT. WE CAN ALSO UPGRADE BY, UH, ADDING MORE TREES, SHRUBS TO THE AREA, EVEN SOME, UH, COLOR IF WE WOULD LIKE. BUT MOST OF THE PARK'S A LOT OF THE EXISTING THINGS THAT ARE AROUND THE PARKS NEED TO UPGRADE AS WELL. SO IT'S NOT JUST THE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT.

SO WE COULD USE THOSE FUNDS FOR THAT. THAT'S WHAT I WOULD SUGGEST, OR EVEN NOW. YOU CAN EVEN ADD EXTRA SWING SETS. INSIDE OF THE PARKING. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO IN HOUSE PURCHASE AND PUT IT IN OURSELVES AND PROBABLY COST AROUND FOUR OR $5000. AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE FOUR SWINGS OUT THERE. THAT WOULD ACTUALLY BE SOMETHING NICE FOR BABES OF HARRIS. I THINK INSTEAD OF A FULL FLEDGED PARK MYSELF QUICK QUESTION ON THAT. UM SO THANK YOU FOR SAYING THAT. YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GO TO ACADEMY, YOU CAN LOOK AT THEIR TOP OF THE LINE PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT. I KNOW IT'S NOT REALLY COMMERCIAL RESIDENTIAL, BUT THEIR TOP LINE PROGRAM BECAUSE I $3500 AND IT HAS SWINGS AND A SLIDE THAT CLIMBING TOWER THE WHOLE SHEBANG THERE. UH, IS SOMETHING LIKE THAT. COULD THAT BE CONSIDERED AT COMBAT PARK AS OPPOSED TO $50,000 PER NEW PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, OR COULD YOU JUST PUT IN SOME SWINGS AND A SLIDE OF A THE COMMERCIAL NATURE. IT COMBATS PARK AND SORT OF AND SLIDE. WE CAN DO A LITTLE, UH, SOMETHING FOR LIKE A COMMERCIAL SWINGING SLIDE. HOW MUCH DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT COST? UH, SPEAKING WITH MILTON PARK SUPERINTENDENT, UH, IT'S AROUND 4 TO $5000. AND WE CAN ACTUALLY

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PUT THAT ON OURSELVES. SO THAT KIND OF GETS BACK TO THE QUESTION THAT COUNCILMAN TURNER AND I WAS WAS ASKING YOU AT COM BEST PARK. IT'S A LITTLE BITTY NEIGHBORHOOD PARK WITH LIKE TWO OR THREE PARKING SPACES. WOULD IT BE ACCEPTABLE. TO JUST PUT IN SOME SWINGS AND A SLIDE THERE FOR THAT LITTLE NEIGHBORHOOD IS A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK, AS OPPOSED TO I DON'T KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA SPEND $50,000 ON OVER THERE. I THINK IT'LL BE A NICE UPGRADE. SO WHATEVER COUNCIL WANTS TO DO IT, BUT WE'LL DO. BUT I THINK THAT WOULD BE A NICE UPGRADE FOR IT. ANOTHER THING.

WE'D LIKE TO LOOK AT TWO IN PARKS. UH YOU KNOW, I JUST GOT OVER THERE SO STILL GOING THROUGH ALL OF THE INS AND OUTS OF THE WAY IT RUNS AND THE ISSUES THAT WE HAVE AND THERE'S NOT MANY ISSUES IN THE PARKS. YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE EQUIPMENT IS JUST COMING TO A TIME THAT IT'S AGING OUT. SO WE'RE GONNA UPGRADE, UH AND PUT IN A COUPLE OF NEW PARKS. BUT WHAT I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO DOING IS ACTUALLY LIKE ANY OF THE COMPONENTS THAT WE CAN SAY PAINT OURSELVES IN HOUSE. WE'RE GOING TO PAINT THEM AND THAT'LL MAKE A NICE UPGRADE. ALREADY DID. ONE ROCK WALL CAME OUT BEAUTIFUL AND SO BY DOING THAT, I THINK WE CAN SAVE A LOT OF MONEY. AND STILL UPGRADE OUR PARKS WHERE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO SPEND THE MONEY RIGHT NOW, BUT WE'RE ABLE TO FIX THEM UP THAT GETS TO THE NOTION OF MAINTENANCE THAT THE CITY MANAGER WAS TALKING ABOUT. YOU KNOW, IF YOU IF YOU MAINTAIN SOMETHING, JUST LIKE YOUR OWN HOUSE, IF YOU DON'T PAINT YOUR HOUSE, YOU'RE GOING TO START GETTING RIDING WOULD AND YOU'RE GOING TO GET LEAKS AND YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW DETERIORATES. BUT IF YOU MAINTAIN IT IT CAN LAST FOR A REALLY LONG TIME. AND THAT'S WE'RE GOING TO DO WHEN WE PUT ON THOSE NEW PARKS. MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE ON TOP OF THE MAINTENANCE AND WE'LL GET THE FULL LIFESPAN OUT OF HIM. SO, MR RIG IT. YOU'RE SAYING INSTEAD OF SPENDING THE $50,000 AT COMPASS. WE COULD PROBABLY DO 25,000 AND STILL HAVE. NICE SWING SETS AND NICE UPGRADE 25,000 TO DO A LOT FOR THE PARK. IF YOU WANT TO ALLOCATE MONEY SOMEWHERE ELSE, I STILL THINK PUTTING IN THAT THE NEW SWING SET OR THE WHATEVER WE CAN GET FOR 25,000. IT'S GONNA BE A GREAT UPGRADE. GOT A NEW PARK, BUT IT'S A GREAT UPGRADE BECAUSE YOU'RE SAYING $5000 FOR SWINGS AND A SLIDE. NOT NECESSARILY SLIDE. JUST A SWING SET THIS WIND SET. SO IF YOU CAN DO A SWING SET FOR 5000 IF WE DID, TOO, THAT'S ONLY 10,000 WERE LOOKING AT AND THEN YOU COULD PROBABLY DO A JUNGLE GYM OR SOMETHING ELSE OF THINGS WE CAN LOOK INTO AND WORK AROUND IT. I CAN MAKE SOME MONEY STRETCH. I PROMISE YOU. THERE YOU GO. WE NEEDED TO STRETCH BECAUSE WE GOT A LOT TO DO. SO I MEAN, AND THE SOLE PURPOSE OF BEING THERE. IT'S BECAUSE IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK. YES MA'AM, AND TO THE TO THE PUBLIC AND TO THE AUDIENCE. THERE'S A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK. AND A PUBLIC PARK. BECAUSE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTS NORMALLY DON'T HAVE ALL OF THE AMENITIES CORRECT COMMUNITY PARK. BUT THAT WOULD GIVE TWO, POSSIBLY THREE DIFFERENT. UPSET. MHM. YEAH. UPGRADES. AND THEN IT WOULD FREE UP SOME MONEY. TO DO SOMETHING ELSE. BECAUSE I'M AT 86,400 YOU GIVE ME ANOTHER $25,000 100. I MADE 100 AND $11,000 YOU NOW AND, UM. I MEAN , THAT'S ANOTHER $111,000 THAT CAN BE STRETCHED OUT SOMEWHERE.

DEFINITELY. WE NEED TO AMEND THIS MOTION IF WE'RE GONNA DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT, AND TAKE MONEY AWAY FROM SOME OF THE PROPOSED PROJECTS, AND YEAH, MOTION AT THE ORDINANCE ISN'T ALLOTTING ANY FUNDS. IT'S JUST A LOT OF PROJECTS TO BE DONE. AND I THINK THAT THE PRINT OUT WAS THE KIND OF SHOW YOU HOW THAT THE MONEY'S UM OTHER QUOTES THAT HAVE BEEN RECEIVED, BUT THE RESOLUTION IS JUST TO ALLOW FOR THE THINGS LISTED THE CENTRAL PARK PARK THE COMBAT PART THE GOLF COURSE SPARK PARK. WE'VE AMENDED IT TO NOW REMOVE CENTRAL PARK AND ONLY BE MAGNOLIA PARK BECAUSE THAT WAS DISCUSSED, UM, TURF. THE BABY'S HERE IS THE ATHLETIC COMPLEX. THE DOG PORK AND THEN THE GENERAL MAINTENANCE . SO IF THEY'RE ADDING ITEMS, IF YOU'RE ADDING SOMETHING ELSE.

YOU HAVE TO BE CAUTIOUS THAT SOME OF IT WASN'T POSTED IN THE MEMO. UM SO WE CAN OBVIOUSLY APPROVE IT. AND THEN IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO SUB COME BACK WITH, WE CAN AMEND THE

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ITEM LATER AFTER IT'S BEEN PROPERLY POSTED QUESTION. SO, SO, BASICALLY, WE CAN ACTUALLY.

APPROVE IT, BUT SIMILAR TO WHAT THE MAYOR SAYING KIND OF REDUCED THE PRICE STAFF CAN CHOOSE THAT WE CAN APPROVE THE CORRECT YOU'RE APPROVING. TODAY IS THE PROJECTS AT THESE PARTICULAR PARKS. AND SO I'M JUST GONNA USE COMCAST PARTS SINCE I WAS A LOT OF CONVERSATION THERE, AND IT SAYS PLAYGROUND INSTALLATION COUNCIL HASN'T COMMITTED TO WHAT TYPE OF PLAYGROUND INSTALLATION . THERE'S NO FUNDS COMMITTED. YOU HAVEN'T APPROVED THE DESIGN. FOR YOUR JUST SAYING YOU WANT TO SEE SOMETHING THERE, SO WHETHER YOU WANT TO SEE A SWING SET OR FULL OUT BLOWOUT THING THAT'S YET TO BE DETERMINED. SAME THING WITH BABES OF HARRIS. YOU HAVEN'T YOU'RE JUST SAYING YOU WANT TO SEE SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN THAT AREA, AND OBVIOUSLY, STAFF HAVE THE ABILITY TO COME BACK WITH SOME MODIFICATIONS IF NECESSARY, OKAY, I UNDERSTAND. AND I JUST WANNA I AM IN AGREEMENT WITH THE MAYOR THAT WE CAN APPROVING AND SKILL BACK AND SOME OF THOSE AREAS AND GET MORE BANG FOR OUR BOOK. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND. IN THE PAST THE CITY'S OPERATED WITH $130,000 BUDGET AND NOW WE'RE AT 1.46 MILLION, SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET THE MOST OUT OF THAT THAT WE CAN VERSUS WHAT WE HAVE DONE. YOU KNOW, CONTINUES IN THE PAST AND ONE MORE, ONE MORE QUESTION TO KENNETH WILLIAMS. WHAT'S YOUR EXPERIENCE IS BECAUSE I KNOW PRIOR TO PUSHING FOR PORK BUDGET INCREASE I WAS I WAS ASKING YOU LIKE, HOW DID Y'ALL NORMALLY DO THINGS? AND HOW HAVE YOU SEEN THINGS DONE? THE OTHER CITIES LIKE YOU KNOW? HOW DID WE GET PARKED? HOW DID YOU GET PARK IMPROVEMENTS? HOW DID YOU ALLOCATE BUDGETS? HOW DID YOU DO BIG THINGS? BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE'RE DOING THINGS AND IT'S IMPROVEMENTS. BUT IT'S SMALL IMPROVEMENTS. HOW DO WE GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE DO BIG MAJOR IMPROVEMENTS? AND THAT'S A GOOD POINT THAT SOMETHING IT'S SOMETIME COUNCIL IS GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE SOME DECISIONS TO DO BIGGER PROJECTS TO GET A BIGGER BANG FOR YOUR BUCK. TO DO MAJOR THINGS. YOU KNOW, YOU MIGHT WANT TO WHATEVER IT MAY BE, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CREATE NEW PARKS. UH THAT'S GONNA COST A LOT OF MONEY. SO AT SOME POINT, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO LOOK AT UH, IF YOU'RE WILLING TO ISSUE MORE DEBT ISSUE MONEY ISSUE A BOND. TO FUND MULTIPLE LARGE PROJECTS. THERE'S MORE THAN JUST THE SMALL PROJECTS. SO, BASICALLY, YOU CAN EITHER DO THAT TO, UH ONE COUNCIL CAN APPROVE A BOND OR CEO TO GO OUT TO DO THAT. OR YOU CAN TAKE IT TO THE BOULDERS CAN COME UP WITH THE SLATE OF PROJECTS THAT YOU IDENTIFY. MOST OF THE TIME THAT PROJECTS THAT IDENTIFIED FROM PLANS THAT WE PUT TOGETHER LIKE THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT DOWNTOWN PLAN AND ALL THOSE BECOME. A LIST OF PROJECTS THAT YOU CHOOSE FROM TO PUT ON A BALLOT OR SOMETHING. ALRIGHT, WELL, HOW DO YOU CHOOSE TO FUND IT? I'VE SEEN THAT IN BOTH MONTHS FUTURE. IF YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS, WITH LARGE PROJECTS GOING FORWARD TO DO THAT. AND AGAIN THAT THIS IS YOU KNOW, WHILE IT'S 1.4 MILLION IS KIND OF A SMALL LET'S THE PROJECTS TO GET DONE THIS YEAR. YOU KNOW WHAT WE CAN'T GET DONE WITH PUTTING NEXT YEAR'S BUDGET, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WELL, UNTIL WE GET THE LIST COMPLETED, SO DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU HAVE TO GET THEM ALL DONE RIGHT NOW. GET THE ONES YOU WANT. DONE. THE ONE YOU'RE IDENTIFYING IMPORTANT. AND THEN WE START BUDGET PROCESS. THESE BECOME A PART OF THAT PROCESS, BUT ALSO WE'LL HAVE A DISCUSSION. WE CAN HAVE A DISCUSSION ABOUT. BONDS AND PARK BONDS AND WHAT THAT MEANS DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, TOO. WHAT UM , COUNCIL MEMBER GETS ONE IF YOU JUST ALLOW ME TO MAKE THIS COMMENT. WE HAVE A LIST OF PARKS. AND PROJECTS. UM. THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH. AND THERE'S SOME PARKS THAT UM. ARE NOT EVEN LISTED ON THIS LIST. SO WE REALLY HAVE WE'VE GONE FROM 132,000, WHICH WAS WE'RE SPENDING UM. SAY ON THE GOLF COURSE DRAINAGE STUDY 125,000 THAT WOULD HAVE TAKEN THE ENTIRE BUDGET THAT WE HAD PREVIOUSLY.

TO NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT 1.4 MILLION AND WE'RE ABLE TO TOUCH ABOUT 15 DIFFERENT. UM, PROJECTS . AND SO THAT'S THAT'S THAT'S A BIG JUMP FROM WHAT WE'VE HAD AND WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST.

COUNCIL MEMBER GETS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH JUST KIND OF FOLLOWING WHAT? UH, MR WILLIAMS WAS SAYING. WE ARE LOOKING AT A DRAINAGE STUDY FOR THE GOLF COURSE IT TEAR APART. BUT TO

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ACTUALLY REDO THE GOLF COURSE. ONCE WE GET THAT DRAINAGE STUDY, AND IT TELLS US WHAT WE NEED TO DO. YOU'RE LOOKING AT A MUCH BIGGER NUMBER, SO THAT'S THE KIND OF THINGS UH, DUE TO IT TO MAKE THAT A REALLY QUALITY GOLF COURSE WOULD BE SOMETHING OUT. THINK WE WOULD ALL LOVE TO SEE.

AND I'VE SAID FOR MANY YEARS THAT TEAR APART. REALLY COULD BE. ARE. VERSION OF MEMORIAL PARK AND HOUSTON AND WE NEED TO YOU KNOW, THINK ABOUT THAT AND A LOT OF DEAD TREES OUT THERE THAT NEED TO BE TAKEN DOWN AND REPLANTED. KAYAK LAUNCH. UH SO THAT WE COULD USE HILDEBRANDT BAYOU AND HAVE THAT PADDLING TRAIL OPENED UP A LOT OF THINGS OUT THERE. ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING TO SAVE MONEY ON SOME OF THESE PROJECTS, AND I THINK THAT'S GREAT. THERE IS ONE UNFUNDED THING THAT I GOT TO KEEP COMING BACK TO. THAT'S THE MAGNOLIA PART MAINTENANCE AND EQUIPMENT. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE SAVE SOME MONEY. TO PAY FOR THAT, BECAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT REALLY NEEDS TO BE DONE OUT THERE. BECAUSE THAT POOL IS RUDE, REALLY, REALLY USE. YEAH AND KENNEDY AND KENNEDY. I KNOW YOU KNEW THAT THIS SITUATION IS ALSO A SLIDE OUT THERE. MAGNOLIA PARK. THAT'S I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S STILL UP AT THE POOL, BUT IT'S BEEN OUT OF SERVICE. QUITE SOME FEW YEARS, AND I THINK WE NEED TO EITHER IT NEEDS TO BE REMOVED. THEY NEED TO BE REPAIRED. BUT WE CAN'T JUST KEEP IT OUT THERE AND THOSE KIDS ARE LOOKING AT AND THEY CAN'T UTILIZE IT, SO WE NEEDED TO KIND OF MAKE A DECISION. AND DO ONE OR THE OTHER WITH IT. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE KIDS BE ABLE TO USE IT. ALL RIGHT, REMEMBER, I THANK YOU PUT MONEY IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET TO DO THAT WORK 120,000 OR SO THERE'S MONEY ALLOCATED. WE JUST NEED TO GET IT DONE. IF THAT'S WHAT YOU CHOOSE TO DO WITH THE MONEY, OR YOU CAN MOVE IT TO DO THE POOL. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE IT'S DONE. THOSE KIDS, THAT'S ALL THE TIME. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE ALL ON THE SAME PAGE. WE APPRECIATE YOU. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS? SO, UM. HAVE EMOTION AND SECOND ON THE FLOOR AND DISCUSSION ALL IN FAVOR.

PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION CARRIES HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER

[6. Consider supporting Abiding Grace, a proposed Housing Tax Credit (HTC) project located northeast quadrant of Cardinal Drive and Fannett Road, acknowledging that the proposed project is located in a census tract having more than twenty (20) percent Housing Tax Credit units per total households, acknowledging that Beaumont has more than twice the state average of units per capita supported by Tax Credits and offering expressed support for the project and a commitment of funding in the form of a fee waiver not to exceed $500]

SIX, PLEASE. THANK YOU, MAYOR. COUNT UH, I'M SORRY. CONSIDER SUPPORTING ABIDING GRACE. APRIL POLLS HOUSING TAX CREDIT HTC PROJECT LOCATED NORTHEAST QUADRANT. OF COURSE NOT DRIVIN FAN IT ROAD, ACKNOWLEDGING THAT THE PROPOSED PROJECT IT'S OKAY DID IT IN A CENSUS TRACT HAVING MORE THAN 20% HOUSING TAX CREDIT UNITS, BUT TOTAL HOUSEHOLDS ACKNOWLEDGING THAT BEAUMONT HAS MORE THAN TWICE THE STATE AVERAGE OF UNITS PER CAPITA SUPPORT ABOUT TAX CREDITS AND OFTEN EXPRESSED SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT AND THE COMMITMENT OF FUNDING IN THE FORM OF A FEE WAIVER NOT TO EXCEED $500. COUNCIL HER PRESENTATIONS ON LAST MEETING THE THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT ALONG WITH THE NEXT ONE THAT'S COMING UP. AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR RECOMMENDATION.

APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE READING. SO YOU'VE HEARD THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER SIX ABIDING GRACE ME? I HAVE EMOTION . PLEASE APPROVE SECOND. YOU'RE GONNA SECOND HAVE EMOTION AND THE SECOND ON THE FLOOR. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE POSE. THE MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. MAY HAVE THE READING

[7. Consider supporting Trinity Crossing, a proposed Housing Tax Credit (HTC) project located at 1125 North 11th Street, acknowledging that Beaumont has more than twice the state average of units per capita supported by Tax Credits, and offering expressed support for the project and a commitment of funding in the form of a fee waiver not to exceed $500]

OF ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, PLEASE. YES MA'AM COUNCIL CONSIDERED RESOLUTION SUPPORTING TRINITY CROSSING A PROPOSED HOUSING TAX CREDIT PROJECT, LOCATED AT 11 25 NORTH 11TH STREET, ACKNOWLEDGING DIPLOMA HAS MORE THAN TWICE THE STATE AVERAGE OF UNITS PER CAPITA, SUPPORTED BY TAX CREDITS AND OFFER AN EXPRESS SUPPORT FOR THE PROJECT AND ANY COMMITMENT OF FUNDING IN THE FORM OF A FEE WAIVER NOT TO EXCEED $500. AGAIN THIS IS, UH, THE SECOND OF THE TWO TAX CREDIT PROPOSALS YOU HERE LAST WEEK AND THEY'RE SEEKING APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION. THANK YOU. YOU'VE HEARD THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER SEVEN. MAY I HAVE A ITEM NUMBER SEVEN TRINITY CROSSING HOUSING TAX CREDIT. PROPOSAL MAY I HAVE EMOTION? PLEASE MOVE TO APPROVE. HAVE EMOTION AND THE SECOND ON THE FLOOR. ANY DISCUSSION. ALL IN FAVOR. I'M SORRY. COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL. THANK YOU, MA'AM . I JUST LIKE TO POSE TO STAFF AGAIN. MY CONCERN, AND MY QUESTION IS, UM, BY, UM THIS IS

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THE SECOND TIME ABIDING GRACE HAS COME BECAUSE LAST TIME THEY WERE KNOCKED OFF. I GUESS THEY DIDN'T GET THE SUFFICIENT POINTS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT OR TO BE CHOSEN AND MY CORRECT ABOUT THAT. I THINK HE SAID LAST MEETING THAT THEY HAD A PROPOSAL THAT CAME IN THAT RECEIVED MORE IMPORTANT FOR THEM AT THE LAST MINUTE THEY DIDN'T ACCOUNT FOR, UM AT THE STATE LEVEL THAT THEY DIDN'T GO THROUGH THE LOCAL LEVEL PROCESS THAT THEY APPLIED AT THE STATE LEVEL AND THEY CAME IN WITH MORE POINTS AWARDED TO THEM AT THE STATE LEVEL. RIGHT? SO THIS IS A SECOND TIME COMING WELL, THE PREVIOUS VOTE THEY HAD BEEN BACK BECAUSE THE COMPETITION IN OTHER AREAS OF THE STATE KNOCK THEM OUT. CORRECT. OKAY AND I'M SORRY THAT JUST PASSED A BILL. OH OKAY. SO MY QUESTION IS, ARE WE CERTAIN THAT THIS WOMB BY, UH, SUPPORTING GIVING SUPPORT TO BOTH WILL NOT INHIBIT THE OTHER. SO THEY. REAL QUICK. I'LL JUST LET YOU KNOW THAT THAT THC A POSTS APPLICATIONS AT SEVERAL STAGES OF THE PROCESS, AND THOSE AT THOSE CAN CHANGE. AND I THINK WE HEARD TESTIMONY LAST WEEK THAT SOMEBODY CAME IN THE LAST MINUTE OR SOMEBODY DROPPED OUT AT THE LAST MINUTE. SO THE LAST TIME WE LOOKED IN TERMS OF WHO WAS A APPLYING IN REGION FIVE URBAN DISTRICT, WHICH IS OURS WAS BEAUMONT CROSSING, HERITAGE WEST ABIDING GRACE AND A PIONEER CROSSING ON US TO 87. NOW WE WERE INFORMED BY I TEXT AND HERITAGE WEST WAS PULLED UM, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT PIONEER CROSSING TO 87 THAT MAY HAVE BEEN THE ONE THAT WAS DISCUSSED LAST WEEK. BUT THAT'S THAT'S ALL WE KNOW IS WHAT THC A TELLS US. SO THERE'S A SCORING. A LOCAL SCORING, AND THEN THERE'S A STATE SCORING AND SO THE LOCAL SCORING IF COUNCIL PROVIDES A RESOLUTION FOR BOTH WILL GIVE THEM BOTH EQUAL POINTS OF 17. AND SO THEN THEY'RE AGAINST SCORED AT THE STATE LEVEL BASED ON SEPARATE CRITERIA, INCLUDING WHETHER OR NOT THEY GOT THE SUPPORT AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION. MAYOR PRO TEM DURIAN FOUND OUT MISTAKEN. I THINK AT THE LAST MEETING THAT ABIDING GRACE ASKED FOR OUR EXCLUSIVE SUPPORT. SO I BELIEVE THAT ABIDING GRACE EXPERTS SUPPORT AND TRINITY WAS ASKING THAT THEY BOTH BE SUPPORTED.

MARY. I'M SORRY, MR MR TRINITY HAS HIS HAND ON YOU COME TO THE HOW DO YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS ADAM PORT AND I DO REPRESENT THIS PROJECT SPECIFICALLY THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. AND THE REASON WE COME TO ASK FOR SUPPORT FOR BOTH PROJECTS. AS WE KNOW IS THEY GO THROUGH THAT TBH PROCESS PROCESS APPLICATIONS CAN GET KICKED OUT FOR ANY NUMBER OF REASONS. IT CAN BE A SIMPLE THING THAT'S MISSED ON THE APPLICATION. IT CAN BE A DEVELOPER ITSELF IS DISQUALIFIED AND SO BY LENDING SUPPORT TO BOTH PROJECTS, YOU GIVE GREATER INSURANCE THAT THAT YOU GUYS WILL RECEIVE A PROJECT IN YOUR CITY. IF YOU EXCLUDE IF YOU CHOOSE TO EXCLUDE EXCLUSIVELY SUPPORT ONE PROJECT, AND THAT'S WITHIN YOUR RIGHT TO DO. AND THAT PROJECT FOR SOMEHOW MAY HAVE A MISTAKE AND ITS APPLICATION OR THAT DEVELOPER PASS SOME OTHER ISSUE. THEN YOU LOSE OUT ON THE CHANCE TO GET A PROJECT IN BEAUMONT. SO I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE THAT THAT THAT'S WHY WE'RE ASKING FOR SUPPORT BOTH PROJECTS AS IT DOES GREATER YOUR CHANCES TO GET A PROJECT IN THE CITY ABOUT MONT. COUNCIL MEMBER PHIL SHAWARYN COUNCIL MEMBERS SAMMY SUPPORTING BOTH PROJECTS AGAIN DOES ONE JEOPARDIZED THE OTHER. THERE WILL ONLY BE ONE PROJECT SUPPORTED. PROBABLY THE ALLOCATION OF FUNDS, TDH SAY GETS A BUCKET OF CREDIT AND IT'S YOU KNOW, HE MENTIONED URBAN FIVE. THEY GET A SET AMOUNT OF CREDIT AND THE ALLOCATED TO URBAN FIVE PROBABLY ONLY ALLOCATE ONE PROJECT GOING TO GET FUNDED. BUT IF YOU SUPPORT ONE BUT SUPPORTING BOTH OF THEM DOESN'T GIVE ANY DISADVANTAGES KIND OF JUST SAYING YOU EQUALLY SUPPORT BOTH OF THEM. THERE ARE OTHER SCORING METRICS AT TDH TODAY WILL GO THROUGH AND THEY'LL PICK THE PROJECT BASED ON THOSE METRICS. BUT THAT MAKES SENSE. COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL MINE IS NOT A QUESTION TO HIM. MINE IS A STATEMENT OF MY POSITION. UM THIS IS THE SECOND TIME WILL THESE TWO ARE TOTALLY DIFFERENT . 11 IS FROM BEAUMONT. THE OTHER IS NOT A BEAUMONT. IT'S NOT FROM BEAUMONT. AND SECONDLY, UH. ONE HAS BEEN THROUGH THE PROCESS

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BEFORE AND BECAUSE OF THE WAY THAT THE SCORING HIS WHATEVER THAT MAY HAVE BEEN, UH, BY SUPPORTING TWO. YES WE MAY BE ABLE TO GIVE MORE. VALIDITY TO LEAST ONE BEING AWARDED TO THIS DISTRICT. MAYBE NOT. BUT. I KNOW ONE THAT IS SHOWN AND HAS PROVEN COMMITMENT TO THE AREA. BECAUSE THERE HAVE BEEN OTHER PROJECTS THAT HAVE COME THROUGH AND BEEN SUCCESSFUL, AND THEY'VE ALSO FAILED TO GET THE, UH, THE PROJECT BEFORE, BUT THAT DID NOT STOP THEM. SO I UNDERSTAND YOU WANTING BOTH TO BE AWARDED AND THERE'S NOTHING TO SAY. THAT BIOS DOING BOTH GIVEN EVERYTHING EQUAL, IT COULD COME OUT. TO EITHER ONE OF YOU. BUT I JUST WANTED TO BE KNOWN THAT I'VE SEEN WHAT. THIS HAPPENED IN THE PAST. AND BASED ON THAT I'LL MAKE A DECISION. THANK YOU.

COUNCILOR. BURMA GETS MAYOR PRO TEM DURING AFTER THAT. I THINK THAT, UH, THE TRINITY HOUSING DEVELOPMENT HAS ALSO DONE SOMETHING HERE LOCALLY AS WELL, UH, OVER BEHIND ONE CITY CHURCH.

IS THAT CORRECT? WE JUST COMPLETED BEAUMONT TRAILS. IT'S IN THE PROCESS OF LEASING UP. UH CURRENTLY, OKAY. AND THAT IS I UNDERSTAND. IT IS A VERY NICE PROJECT AND ANOTHER THING THAT I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP IN MIND. THIS PROJECT THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT DOING FOR TRINITY CROSSING. AH IS ON THE SIDE OF THE OLD CASTLE MOTEL. WHICH THE CITY DEMOLISHED AND THEN HAD TO PUT A DEMOLITION LEAN ON, AND THEY HAVE GUARANTEED US THAT SHOULD THEY BE SELECTED. THEY WILL PAY THAT OFF AND I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THAT MONEY. UH, IF THAT OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF , SO AH, YEAH. MY POSITION IS WE SHOULD WE SHOULD SUPPORT BOTH OF THEM. AND UH, THEN LET THE STATE DECIDE WHATEVER CRITERIA THEY HAVE TO YOU KNOW? APPLAUSE. THANK YOU, MAYOR, PROTEIN. I JUST WANT TO SAY ABIDING GRACE HAVE DONE A LOT OF WORK OVER THERE AND WARD FOUR. PILARCZYK NEIGHBORHOOD. AND IT'S BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL. AND I DON'T THINK THEY SHOULD BE PENALIZED.

BECAUSE OF ON. BECAUSE OF COUNCIL. UH MOTEL, NOT PAYING, UH, THEIR LIEN OR WHATEVER. ALSO THOUGH, ALSO WANT TO SAY, UM, DO THE CAN YOU EXPLAIN THE DEAL? Y'ALL REALLY Y'ALL DON'T OWN THE PROPERTY RIGHT NOW, DO YOU? CORRECT WE HAVE A PURCHASE AND A PURCHASE OPTION TO PURCHASE THE CONTRACT. SHOULD WE BE AWARDED THE TAX CREDITS AND THEN THAT'S HOW THE WHOLE LIEN GETS PAID OFF IN THAT PROCESS, SO WE DO NOT CURRENTLY OWN IT. THAT'S CORRECT. THAT'S ALL WELL, AND IF I COULD JUST MAKE ONE OTHER COMMENT, IF I'M IF I'M NOT OUT OF PLACE, I THINK YOU KNOW WE AGAIN I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SUPPORT BOTH OF THEM. IT INCREASES THE CHANCES THAT YOU GUYS FOR SURE GET FUNDED. I DO THINK BOTH PROJECTS ARE GREAT PROJECTS. IT WOULD BE GREAT TO SEE BOTH OF THEM FUNDED. I THINK WE'D BE WILLING TO COMMIT. UM IF WE GET A RESOLUTION OF SUPPORT, AND WE'RE FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO WIN THAT TBH SAY FUNDING THAT WE WOULD NOT COME BACK TO THE CITY OF BEAUMONT NEXT YEAR FOR A RESOLUTION ON ANY OTHER PROJECT. WE WOULD KIND OF SIT OUT A YEAR.

AND THAT WOULD HOPEFULLY ENABLE WHAT OTHER PRODUCTS WHAT WHATEVER PROJECT DIDN'T GET FUNDED THIS YEAR, MAYBE TO GET FUNDED NEXT YEAR. BOTH OF THEM GET FUNDED, SINCE WE DO BELIEVE THEY ARE BOTH GOOD PROJECTS IN BOTH DEVELOPERS ARE GOOD DEVELOPERS. COUNCIL MEMBER TURNER THE PROJECT THAT Y'ALL RECENTLY DID. Y'ALL DID THAT ONE WITHOUT FUNDING THAT THE PROJECT GOT RECENTLY DID BEHIND ONE CITY CHURCH. RECEIVED TAX CREDITS FROM TH TH AS WELL. OKAY, THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS. COMMENTS ONE OF THE ON THESE TYPES OF PROJECTS YOU SAY TAX CREDITS. HOW MANY DOLLARS OVER TALKING I THINK I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT NUMBER. I THINK THERE'S AROUND EIGHT OR 900,000 ALLOCATED TO THIS REGION, AND THAT'S A YEARLY CREDIT FOR 10 YEARS, SO IT'S AN INJECTION OF CLOSE TO $10 MILLION OF EQUITY THAT COMES IN THROUGH, UM, THE TAX CREDIT PROGRAM. SO IT'S A PRETTY BIG INVESTMENT, UM, IN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT FOR EITHER PROJECT. COUNCILMAN, I THINK OUR REGION IS ALLOCATED 1,006,555. SO I'LL BE HERE. FOR 10 YEARS $10 MILLION OF CREDIT, AND THEY THE EQUITY THAT COMES IN IS ANYWHERE BETWEEN 85 TO 90 CENTS FOR THOSE CREDITS, SO IT'S AN EIGHT OR 8.5 TO $9 MILLION INVESTMENT FROM A TAX EQUITY PERSPECTIVE. ANY OTHER COMMENTS. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE. THANK YOU, SIR. I'M SO SORRY. THANK YOU.

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ALL IN FAVOR. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING, AYE, AYE. OPPOSE NO. THE MOTION FAILS, GET A HALF TAIL.

YEAH. NAME. OKAY. THE MOTION TAIL. THANK YOU. THIS CITY MANAGER, WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE US INTO THE FIRST WORK SESSION? THANK YOU. MAYOR URINE DISCUSSED WATER AND SEWER REVENUE FUND

[Review and discuss Water and Sewer Revenue Fund Balance and Operations]

BALANCE AND OPERATIONS. UH OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER. IT'S GOING TO GIVE A PRESENTATION TO YOU ON SOME THINGS WITHOUT FUN BALANCE AND SOME POSSIBLE WAYS TO AH, INCREASED REVENUES FOR THE CITY. UM ONE OF THE THINGS I WANT TO DO IS BE CREATIVE AND FIND SUCH WAYS AND TODD WENT OUT AND EVALUATING LOOKED AT SOMETHING. SO I THINK HE HAS WORKED WELL, THANKS TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT. MAYBE GET SOME CONSIDERATION FOR HIM SOME OF THE THINGS RIGHT. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL FURY MEMBER DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS. LAST YEAR, WE HAD LENGTHY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, UM, FUND BALANCE REQUIREMENTS OF THE WATER UTILITY IS FINE. REVENUES AND THE OPERATIONS OF THAT FUN. AND UM NO COUNCIL DID APPROVE A RATE INCREASE. BUT WE DID TELL COUNCIL AT THE TIME. EVEN THOUGH WE DID A RATE INCREASE. WE HAVE MORE WORK TO DO, AND THAT'S FUN.

TO BASICALLY STRENGTHEN THAT THE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY OF THAT FUN , YOU KNOW, UM OUT OF OUR OWN WISHES. AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, SOME KEY METRICS THAT BOND RATING AGENCIES USED TO EVALUATE LIKE WHEN WE JUST ISSUED ARE $25 MILLION. SO JUST TO RECAP. SOME OF THAT THAT WE DISCUSSED IN THAT WORK SESSION IS CURRENTLY THE WATER AND SUPER FUN. HAS A 15% MINIMUM FUND BALANCE REQUIREMENT, AND THAT'S 15% OF ITS ANNUAL EXPENDITURES. AND WE TOLD YOU AT THE TIME THAT WE WOULD LIKE TO WORK TOWARDS INCREASING THAT MINIMUM FUND BALANCE FROM 15% TO 25. AND THAT WOULD PROBABLY TAKE A PROCESS OF TWO YEARS. AND AGAIN, WE THOUGHT IT WAS NECESSARY TO INCREASE THAT MINIMUM FUND BALANCE. UM YOU KNOW TO ME THE KEY METRICS THAT BOND RATING AGENCIES USED TO ANALYZE, YOU KNOW OUR RATINGS AND JUST TO ENSURE THE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY OF THAT FUN. AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY ON THE FUND BALANCE IN THAT FUN AND FISCAL YEAR, 19 WE HAD A 31% FUND BALANCE. AND THEN IN FISCAL YEAR 20. WE HAD A 33% FUND BALANCE. AND THEN IN FISCAL YEAR 21 FELL DOWN TO 24% FUND BALANCE , AND WHAT CAUSED THAT DROP WAS WE HAD OVER $1.8 MILLION THAT WERE CAPTURED IN A SPECIAL REVENUE FUND THAT RELATED TO TROPICAL STORM IMELDA EXPENSES THAT WE WERE HOPING WE WOULD GET APPROVAL FROM FEMA AND THEY WOULD REIMBURSE US THOSE EXPENSES. THEY DENIED ALL OF THE FEMA REQUEST FOR THE ENTIRE STATE. SO THE WATER FUND HAD TO MAKE AN IMMEDIATE TRANSFER OF $1.8 MILLION INTO THAT SPECIAL REVENUE FINE TO COVER THOSE TROPICAL STORM IMELDA EXPENSES. AND THEN YOU KNOW, AND THEN SINCE THEN WE'VE BEEN HIT WITH COVID AND INFLATION. UM YOU KNOW, THROUGHOUT ALL OF OUR FUNDS CURRENTLY CURRENTLY WE'RE AT ABOUT WHERE ESTIMATING TO END THIS YEAR AT APPROXIMATELY 20% FUND BALANCE. SO, UM YOU GOTTA GO NEXT SLIDE. SO SOME STEPS THAT WE CAN TAKE IMMEDIATELY TO IMPROVE THE FUND BALANCE. AND YOU KNOW THE REVENUES AND THE FINANCIAL INTEGRITY OF THE FUN. IS WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT'S IN PROCESS ALREADY. THIS IS JUST ONE IDEA. YOU KNOW UNTIL RECENTLY, EVERYONE WHO MADE A WATER UTILITY PAYMENT ONLINE WITH A CREDIT CARD OR DEBIT CARD , YOU KNOW, THERE'S A THERE'S A MERCHANT FEE ASSOCIATED WITH THESE ONLINE TRANSACTIONS, AND THAT THAT MERCHANT FEE IS PASSED TO THE CITY CURRENTLY THERE'S NOT INDUSTRY STANDARD INDUSTRY STANDARD IS TO HAVE THESE CONVENIENT FEES PAID FOR BY THE CONSUMER. SO WE DO HAVE A PLATFORM OUT THERE RIGHT NOW THAT IT IS LIVE. IT'S A SOFT LIVE. WE'RE GONNA GO HARD ON IT ON MARCH 15TH, BECAUSE THAT'S THAT'S WHEN WE'RE GONNA SHUT DOWN OUR CURRENT PLATFORM. UM AND YOU CAN SEE THE BEES TO USE THIS NEW PLATFORM ON THE SCREEN ABOVE. BUT THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CONFUSION ON WHO'S GOING TO PAY A FEE AND WHO'S NOT GOING TO PAY A FEE, SO I JUST WANTED TO TRY AND CLEAR UP THAT CONFUSION IF

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YOU WERE PAYING YOUR WATER BILL ONLINE SAY TWO MONTHS AGO AND YOU WANT TO CONTINUE PAYING YOUR WATER BILL ONLINE WITH A CREDIT CARD. YOU WILL NOW RECEIVE A FEE . YOU KNOW, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THAT SCHEDULE, AS YOU SEE. BUT IF YOU'RE PAYING YOUR WATER BILL BY ANY OTHER METHOD YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE A FEE. YOU'RE ONLY PAYING A FEE WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE WEBSITE. AND, UM, INITIATE YOUR PAYMENT THROUGH OUR WEBSITE. WHICH IS IT? I BELIEVE I SAID BEAUMONT DOT FIRST BILLING .COM AND SO WE'VE SENT OUT, YOU KNOW, PRESS RELEASES, I THINK TODAY WE SENT OUT A FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. PRESS RELEASE ALSO, TO HOPEFULLY TRY TO CLEAR UP SOME OF THAT CONFUSION. UM I HAVE OTHER POINTS, BUT AT ANY TIME IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, YEAH, GO AHEAD.

SO MANY OF MY CONSTITUENTS WERE LOSING THEIR MINDS BECAUSE THEY HAD ALREADY SET UP THROUGH THEIR BANK AND AUTOMATIC, UH, DRAFT OUT OF THEIR BANK AS AS I HAVE, YOU KNOW, SO, UH, THAT WAY. I KNOW THAT MY BILL IS GOING TO BE PAID TIMELY BECAUSE YOU GUYS ARE GONNA JUST TAKE IT RIGHT OUT OF MY BANK ACCOUNT AND I'VE GOT MONEY IN MY BANK ACCOUNT. MY WATER BILL IS GOING TO BE PAID RIGHT? SO UH, THAT'S NOT GOING TO INCUR A FEE IF YOU DO IT THAT WAY, RIGHT? NO, SIR. OKAY JUST WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR FOR EVERYBODY. YOU CAN DO THAT WAY. YOU CAN ALSO, UH, ELEMENT, MELANIA CHECK. THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY FEED THAT WAY YOU CAN COME TO WONDER PAY WITH EITHER CHECK OR CASH. THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY FEE THAT WAY. CORRECT THAT THERE ARE ALTERNATIVES TO AVOID INCURRING THE FEE, RIGHT? WE ALSO HAVE A DROPBOX OUTSIDE OF CITY HALL. PEOPLE CAN DROP OFF THE PAYMENT. UM LIKE YOU SAID, YOU CAN DO AN AUTO DRAFT THROUGH THE CITY WHERE WE DRAFT YOUR ACCOUNT. NO FEE. YOU CAN ALSO DO IT THROUGH YOUR OWN BANK . IT'S UP TO YOUR BANK IF THEY CHARGE YOU A FEE. BUT THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO PAY A FEE. FOR THIS NEW PLATFORM IS IF THEY GO TO THAT WEBSITE AND INITIATED P A FEE THROUGH THAT WEB OR PAYMENT. THROUGH THAT PLATFORM. THOSE ARE THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING TO INCUR FEE GOT IT. OKAY COUNCIL MEMBER . TURN THE SECOND QUESTION FOR ME IS TODD. I KNOW, WE SAID IT'S NOT STANDARD. AT WHAT POINT DO WE REALIZED THAT WE NEEDED TO MAKE THIS CHANGE BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T OPERATING STANDARD WITH THE FEET WITH US EATING IT AND NOT THE CITIZEN. BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THIS PROCESS HAVE ALREADY WE'RE PROBABLY CLOSE TO OUR THIRD YEAR OF TRYING TO IMPLEMENT THIS. WE STARTED IMPLEMENTING THIS PRIOR TO COVID. AND THEN WHEN COVID HIT A LOT OF COMPANIES, YOU KNOW THEY WERE WORKING FROM HOME INSTALLED THE ENTIRE PROCESS, SO IT WAS PROBABLY 2.5 OR THREE YEARS AGO, AND WE WERE TRYING TO MOVE TO THIS PLATFORM, BUT IT'S JUST STALLED. MAINLY DUE TO COVID AND , UM THE REASON YOU KNOW THE RESPONSE TEAM FROM FROM FIRST FEELING. AND, UM, YOU KNOW, S STATED IN THE SLIDE. IT SHOULD SAVE THE CITY AT LEAST $300,000 A YEAR JUST IN THE WATER UTILITIES FUND. THE PLAN IS TO GO CITYWIDE WITH THIS, SO WE'LL GO TO MUNICIPAL COURT WITH IT EVENTUALLY WILL GO TO THE LANDFILL WITH IT. EVENTUALLY EVERYTHING WILL GO TO THIS PLATFORM EVENTUALLY, IF PEOPLE WANT TO PAY ONLINE. SO IT'S GOING TO SAVE THE CITY. A LOT OF MONEY. WE'RE JUST STARTING IN THE WATER CUSTOMER SERVICE. VERY, A FIRST. OTHER STEPS WE CAN TAKE. UM CURRENTLY WE HAVE A CONTRACT WITH THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM AND THEY RECEIVE A 20% DISCOUNT ON SEWER SERVICES. WE WERE ABLE TO LOCATE A CONTRACT LAST SIGNED AND 2008, AND IT RENEWS ITSELF EVERY YEAR. THE PROBLEM IS THAT THE CONTRACT DOES NOT MENTION A 20% DISCOUNT . UM TO MY KNOWLEDGE THAT 20% DISCOUNT HAS BEEN OFFERED. PROBABLY AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN HERE 17 18 YEARS. MY SON. I HATE TO MAKE ASSUMPTIONS. BUT MY ASSUMPTION IS THAT WAS PROBABLY SOME TYPE OF INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO BUILD THAT PRISON SYSTEM OUT HERE WITH WE ALL GAINED FROM ECONOMICALLY. BUT UM I DID REACH OUT TO THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM AND ASKED HIM IF THEY HAD A CONTRACT OR SOME TYPE OF DOCUMENT ON RECORD THAT VERIFIES THAT THEY SHOULD BE RECEIVING THE 20% DISCOUNT. THEY COULD NOT VERIFY SUCH DISCOUNT. AND SO I THINK ALL IT WOULD TAKE TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS AND COLLECT A NIGHT OR $225,000 A YEAR IS GIVEN PROPER NOTICE WHETHER IT'S 30 TO 90 DAYS AND SAY, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO START CHARGING YOU THE FULL RATE. NOW WE DO OFFER THEM A DISCOUNT BECAUSE THEY'RE OUT OF CITY LIMITS. THE CONTRACT DOES SAY WE'LL CHARGE THEM AND IN CITY LIMIT RATE SO WE DO GIVE THEM THAT BREAK ALREADY. BUT THAT'S AN OPTION.

IF UH, IF I GET THE CONSENSUS THAT COUNCIL WANTS TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS, IT WOULDN'T TAKE ANY FURTHER ACTION ON YOUR PART. SHERRY CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT I THINK WE COULD JUST

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MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS BY NOTIFYING THE STATE PRISON SYSTEM WITHOUT COUNCIL ACTION AND MOVE FORWARD. THAT'S CORRECT IF YOU MANAGERIAL DECISION, BUT I THINK IT'S JUST A NOTICE TO COUNSEL. TO GET YOUR BUYING ON IT. WE'RE GOOD. THE ONLY THING I'M JUST GOING TO THROW THIS OUT THERE, UM YOU KNOW, IT'S A 20% DISCOUNT. IT'S $225,000 A YEAR. THAT'S ABOUT $18,000 IN MINE. UM I DON'T KNOW WHAT KIND OF PUSH BACK THEY WOULD GIVE AFTER WE GIVE THEM NOTICE. UM, BUT I JUST WANTED TO PUT THAT OUT THERE IF YOU ARE READY TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO. YOU NEED A CONSENSUS. YES MA'AM, I WHEN YOU SAY THEY CAN WE BE A LITTLE BIT MORE SPECIFIC. CAN YOU BE MORE SPECIFIC, LIKE PRISON SYSTEM? OKAY SO WHOEVER MAKES YOU KNOW DECISIONS ON THEIR END. YOU KNOW, EVERYONE HAS A BUDGET. WE HAVE A BUDGET SO HOW HAS THIS GOING ON? HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW. IT'S A I'VE ONLY BEEN IN THIS POSITION FOR SIX YEARS. I KNOW FOR SURE. UM, WE'VE BEEN OFFERING THIS DISCOUNT AS LONG AS I'VE BEEN CFO, BUT I TALKED TO THE NET IN WATER CUSTOMER SERVICE. SHE'S BEEN HERE A LOT LONGER THAN ME, AND I THINK, SHE SAID. IT'S BEEN HERE SINCE SHE'S BEEN HERE ALSO. ABOUT, YOU KNOW, 20 YEARS. FOR THE LAST TIME I LOOKED I'M NOT SURE THAT THE PLASTIC THEM BUT. TEXAS STATE FUND BALANCES PRETTY HEALTHY.

YEAH REAL BIG, RAINY DAY FINE. ABSOLUTELY. SO UH, NO ONE IS SAYING OTHERWISE. THAT OKAY.

WE'LL PLAN TO MOVE PLAN TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT THEN. THE NEXT ONE IS WE DO HAVE AN ORDINANCE ON OUR BOOKS WHERE IT SAYS APARTMENTS AND MOBILE HOME PARKS WITH FOUR MORE UNITS ARE CHARGED THE MONTHLY MINIMUM FEE FOR WATER AND SEWER FOR 75% OF THEIR UNITS. SO I THINK THAT CAME ABOUT A WHILE BACK FROM A PRIOR WATER UTILITIES DIRECTOR AND THE CONCERN WAS, WELL HEY, ALL OF OUR APARTMENTS AREN'T FULL. YOU KNOW WE HAVE VACANCIES. SO WHY ARE WE PAYING THE MINIMUM CHARGE FOR VACANCIES? BUT WE DID DO A SURVEY OF 10 CITIES THAT ARE COMPARABLE TO OUR SIZE. WE GOT RESPONSES FROM EIGHT OF THEM. AND THEY WERE AROUND ROCK SUGAR LAND. BRIAN WICHITA FALLS, ABILENE, MESQUITE, PLANO AND WACO. NONE OF THEM OFFER THIS TYPE OF DISCOUNT. SO IF WE WERE TO REMOVE THAT, BASICALLY, UM IF WE WERE TO REMOVE THAT ORDINANCE AND CHARGED 100% OF THE UNITS FOR THE MONTHLY MINIMUM. THEY'RE PAYING FOR ALL THEIR WATER. SO WE'RE NOT GIVING WATER AWAY FREE, BUT BUT WE'RE NOT. WE ARE MISSING OUT ON THE MONTHLY MINIMUM CHARGE FOR YOU KNOW 1/4 OF THEIR UNITS, SO IF WE DID AWAY WITH THAT THAT WOULD GENERATE ANOTHER $775,000 OF REVENUE PER YEAR. AND SO IF YOU WERE TO SAY, WHAT KIND OF IMPACT IS THIS GOING TO HAVE ON SAYING APARTMENT COMPLEX, I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. SO IF YOU HAVE AN APARTMENT COMPLEX THAT HAS 100 UNITS. THAT MEANS CURRENTLY, 25 OF THOSE UNITS ARE NOT PAYING THEM PAYING A MONTHLY MINIMUM CHARGE, AND THAT CHARGE WOULD COME OUT TO $15.49 A MONTH. SO IF YOU MULTIPLY THAT BY THE 25 UNITS THAT AREN'T PAYING THEIR MONTHLY MINIMUM, THAT'S ABOUT $387 A MONTH SO. THAT'S THAT'S A NICE SIZE APARTMENT COMPLEX. SO IF IT'S GOT 100 UNITS TAKING AWAY THIS ORDINANCE WOULD INCREASE THEIR WATER BILL BY ABOUT $387 A MONTH. AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT IF WE DO GET CONSENSUS FROM COUNCIL WILL OBVIOUSLY HAVE TO BRING THIS BACK IN AN AGENDA. MEMO AND HAVE YOU VOTE ON IT? ANYONE OBJECT? TIDED WHAT IS THIS USED AS SOME FORM OF INCENTIVES TO GET PEOPLE TO BUILD OUT HERE. I MEAN, TO YOUR KNOWLEDGE IS JUST SOMETHING THAT WAS WORKED OUT PRIOR TO THEM PUTTING IT UP AND BUILDING IT. I DON'T THINK THIS WAS AN ECONOMIC INCENTIVE FOR THEM TO BUILD BECAUSE UM, I THINK THIS WAS IMPLEMENTED, UM, UNDER A PRIOR WATER UTILITIES DIRECTOR THAT'S BEEN HERE DURING MY TENURE. AND LIKE I SAID, I THINK I THINK HIS CONCERN WAS WHEN I WAS LISTENING TO THESE. I GUESS APARTMENT OWNERS, THEY'RE LIKE, HEY, I DON'T I'M NOT RUNNING 100% VACANCY. BUT I THINK THAT'S DIFFERENT TODAY. IF YOU LOOK AROUND, UM YOU KNOW, WITH THE HOUSING PROJECTS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE WERE JUST REQUESTED TODAY. I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LIVING IN APARTMENTS NOW, AND I'M NOT BUYING HOMES AND WE THINK THE OCCUPANCY RATE IN THOSE APARTMENT COMPLEXES AND MOBILE PARKS IS A LOT MORE THAN 75% ARE PROBABLY A LOT. PLEASURE TO 100% SO AND LIKE I SAID, THESE ARE THESE OTHER EIGHT CITIES THAT WE SURVEYED. NONE OF

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THEM OFFER THIS THIS DISCOUNT EITHER. SO, TODD, DO YOU THINK IT'S JUST SOMETHING THAT'S JUST BEEN ON THE BOOKS AND WAS OVERLOOKED AND NO. ONE I MEAN, IT WAS JUST I DON'T THINK IT'S BEEN A TERRIBLY LONG TIME. UM, LIKE I SAID, THERE WAS A POWER WATER UTILITIES DIRECTOR THAT'S BEEN HERE DURING MY 10 YEARS NO LONGER HERE NOW, BUT I THINK HE'S THE ONE WHO IMPLEMENTED THIS. SO IT'S PROBABLY 10 TO 15 YEARS OLD. MAYBE. OKAY, SO NO ONE'S REJECTING TO ANY OF IT, OKAY? THE NEXT ONE. THIS IS ANOTHER ORDINANCE, WE WOULD NEED TO BRING BACK THE COUNCIL AND HAVE YOU TAKE A VOTE ON BUT THERE'S WE HAVE ANOTHER ORDINANCE THAT SAYS ANNUALLY THE WATER UTILITIES DIRECTORS SHOULD BASICALLY LOOK AT OUR WATER AND SEWER TAP FEES AND MAKE SURE THEY COVER OUR COST. PLUS 10% OVERHEAD, AND THAT'S AN ORDINANCE. SO, UM MIKE WILL PROBABLY COME UP HERE AND TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THIS, BUT HE'S THE ONE WHO DISCOVERED THIS, AND HE LOOKED AT DATA FROM LAST YEAR. AND IF WE WERE TO BASICALLY UPDATE OUR WATER AND SEWER TAP FEES. TO COVER OUR COSTS, PLUS 10% OVERHEAD, IT WOULD PROBABLY GENERATE ANOTHER $330,000 A YEAR, BUT SOME OF THESE INCREASES THAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO WOULD BE, I THINK PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. SO, MIKE DID YOU WANT TO ADD ON TO THIS? GOOD AFTERNOON. WHEN WE WERE LOOKING THROUGH THIS REVENUE. WE FOUND THIS IN THE ORDINANCE. THAT IS TAP RIGHT SHOULD BE UPSET INCREASE ANNUALLY. AH FOR THE SIMPLE FACT OF INFLATION, THINGS OF THAT NATURE. UM THERE. GOING TO BE A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE MAINLY IN THE SEWER TAP RIGHT NOW, OUR CURRENT PRICE FOR A SEWER TAP IT'S $300. THAT'S WHAT WE CHARGE A PERSON THAT COMES THROUGH THE BUILDING CODE SAYS.

I WOULD LIKE TO BUILD A HOUSE. I NEED TO SORT OUT. OUR COSTS. $300. UM, THAT DOESN'T EVEN COVER HALF THE MATERIAL THAT WE USE ON THE SEWER TYPE. LOOKING AT THE MATERIAL COST, PLUS THE LABOR COST. AH IT'S SOMEWHERE AROUND $1819.60. AND THAT'S WHAT THE 10% INCREASE AS WELL OR OVERHEAD CHARGE. SO YOU'RE LOOKING AT STORE TAP GOING FROM $300 1820 DOLLARS. AH WE ARE THE LAST TIME WE RAISED THAT RIGHT? NOT SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE AS FAR AS IN THE POSITION AS DIRECTOR OF WOULD HAVE WE HAVEN'T RAISED IT BEFORE THE END OF THE LAST ORDINANCE TO VERIFY, BUT IT'S BEEN A WHILE SO RIGHT? AND HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN HERE? THREE YEARS. IN THE IN DIRECTOR POSITION ABOUT 2.5 GOING ON THREE YEARS. MIKE TO MAKE SURE I'M FOLLOWING YOU CORRECTLY CORRECTLY. YOU SAID WHAT YOU WANT TO RAISE IT FROM $300 TO $1819.66. OR $1820. YEAH THAT'S ROUGHLY $1500 CORRECT. HOW HOW DO YOU THINK THE FEEDBACK FROM YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE WHO UTILIZE THIS SERVICE. HOW DO YOU THINK WHAT? TELL ME WHAT? WHAT'S YOUR OPINION ON THE FEEDBACK ON THAT? THAT'S A PRETTY BIG JUMP. IT'S A GOOD JOB. I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, THE THING IS, OUR PRICES ARE JUST OR WAY UNDER MARKET. OTHER AREAS AND I DON'T HAVE THE DATE IN FRONT OF MILLICENT BROUGHT IT. UH YOU KNOW, I DID CALL CHECK AROUND WITH OTHER, UM CITIES, COMPARABLE, EVEN CITIES AROUND US AND YOU KNOW THAT PRICES COMPARABLE. IT'S STILL A LITTLE CHEAP TO WHAT SOME OF THE OTHER PLACES UM, CITY OF NEVERLAND. I DON'T REMEMBER THE COST. RIGHT RIGHT OFF HAND, BUT THEY WOULD COME IN AND DEPENDING ON IF IT'S UNDER CONCRETE IF IT'S IN THE STREETS ALONGSIDE SHORT SIDE, I MEAN, THEY HAD SO MANY DIFFERENT COSTS. BUT YET I MEAN, IT COULD GO ANYWHERE FROM $1500 TO $5000, YOU KNOW, SO I SAID, HAVING IT THIS WAY, AND THIS IS KIND OF GOING WITH THE ORDINANCE SAYS. YOU KNOW COST PLUS 10. MIKE. THIS IS ON NEW CONSTRUCTION RESIDENTIAL ONLY RESIDENTIAL YES. QUESTION UH, THIS IS FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY. THERE'S A PROHIBITION AGAINST.

THE CITY, UH, GIVING MONEY TO YOU KNOW, GRATUITOUSLY. UH, TO CITIZENS THAT. YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T JUST GIVE SERVICES AND MONEY AWAY. UH, HOW WOULD IT IMPACT US TOO? BE ABLE TO BASICALLY BE GIVING $1500 AWAY EVERY TIME SOMEBODY WANTS TO SEWER CAP IF WE'RE NOT GOVERN

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OUR CALLS, SO AND I WANT TO CORRECT MYSELF EARLIER BECAUSE THE FEES ARE LISTED IN THE ORDINANCE. THERE'S NO WAY TO DETERMINE WHEN THE LAST TIME WE DID UPDATE, BUT BART NOW CONFERRED, AND WE BOTH AGREE THAT IT'S BEEN QUITE A WHILE NOW . BUT SO WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT IF IT'S NOT ADJUSTED AND IMPROVED UPON THE CITY TO KIND OF BE FINANCIALLY PRUDENT AND ADJUSTING IT, SO RIGHT NOW IT'S NOT CONSTITUTED AS A GIFT BECAUSE WE'RE NOT CONSCIOUSLY GIVING IT AWAY. BUT NOW THAT THE COUNCIL IS AWARE THEN YOU HAVE A FIDUCIARY DUTY TO ADJUST. UH, HOW. I AGREE WITH WHAT MR HARRIS'S SAM, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THAT DATA THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. THIS SHOWS OTHER CITIES THAT ARE CHARGING IN THAT SAME REALM. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU. AND I DON'T I DON'T WANT TO COMPLICATE THIS. I GET IT $300 IS THAT'S RIDICULOUS. I JUST WONDER IF WE CAN'T DO THIS IN INCREMENTS 3 TO 6 TO 9 TO 12 UNTIL WE GET CAUGHT UP. BECAUSE IT'S JUST TO GO FROM 3 TO 18. IT'S JUST THAT'S A LITTLE STRONG , BUT I JUST WONDER IF WE CAN'T FAZE US IN OVERTIME. YOUR SPIRIT . UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT'S NOT THE WAY THE ORDINANCES IS WRITTEN, SO YOU WOULD ACTUALLY HAVE TO GO IN THERE AND A GESTURE ORDINANCE INTO GO BACK TO COUNCILMAN GETS ITS POINT. WE ALREADY KNOW WHAT THE COST IS. SO YOU WOULD THEN BE CONSCIOUSLY GIVING A DISCOUNT ON THIS SERVICE OR GIVING GET JUST TOO. I MEAN, JUST KIND OF GO BY WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN FEBRUARY OF 2022. WE LOST $15,000. AT WAR DEPARTMENT PUTTING IN SEWER SERVICES. UM IN MARCH OF 2022. WE LOST $24,000. PUTTING IN WATER SERVICES.

ANOTHER 15,000 IN APRIL. SO I MEAN EVERY MONTH. WE TAKE A LOSS ON SERVICES AND WATER SERVICES.

IT'S LIKE THAT IT'S NOT JUST LIMITED TO THE SEWER SERVICES. WATER SERVICES. UH, BUT ONE INCH WATER SERVICE RIGHT NOW, PRICE IS $540. FOR THE FOR THE TAP SERVICE LINE METER. THE NEW PRICE WOULD BE LOOKING AT $1570. AND LIKE I SAID, ALL THESE ALL THESE PRICES ARE BASED ON THE COST OF THE RICH PART OF MATERIAL THAT WE USE. AND WE FIGURED ON THE LABOR THAT IT TAKES AND WE WENT THROUGH OUR WORK ORDERS AND WE TOOK AVERAGE ON OUR WORK ORDERS ON LABOR COSTS. THEN, PLUS THE 10. CANCEL AND RETURN. ER YEAH, YEAH. MIKE UH, I AGREE. IF POSSIBLE. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME OF THOSE COMPARISONS SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDING MAKING DECISIONS ON FACTUAL DATA . I APPRECIATE THAT. AND JUST TO JUST, YOU KNOW. TRUE. HAD. TO IF WE DON'T WANT TO WAIT, RAISE THE RATES ARE, YOU KNOW GET COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HERE. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH VOTE AND CHANGE THE ORDINANCE BECAUSE, LIKE I SAID, THIS IS SURE, I SAID THIS IS WHAT THE ORDINANCE SAYS. SO THIS KIND OF WHAT WE NEED TO STICK BY. AND LIKE I SAID, IF WE DON'T WANT TO GO THIS ROUTE, THEN WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO COME THROUGH AND CHANGE ORDINANCE. SO THIS IS ONE OF THOSE ITEMS WHERE IT DOESN'T REALLY REQUIRE COUNCIL ACTION BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY BEEN ORDAINED ABOUT ORDINANCE. THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS LIKE, JUST SO YOU KNOW, SO COUNCIL IS NOT. IS THINKING GOING TO HAVE A LOT OF HEART BORN ABOUT IT, THEN COUNSEL WOULD NEED TO NOTIFY STAFF THAT THEY WANT TO EITHER REPEAL OR JUST THAT EXISTING ORDINANCE BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY ON THE BOOKS. LIKE THIS, JUST IT'S A ONE TIME FEE PAID BY ONE TIME CONTRACTOR. AH BUILDER HOMEBUILDER HOMEOWNER, SOMEONE BUYS THE PROPERTY AND WHAT'S THE BUILDING A HOUSE? THIS IS THE ONE TIME FEE FOR THE TAP. SURE THERE'S GONNA BE PASSED ON TO THE HOMEOWNER. I GET IT. YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO. WE NEED TO COVER OUR CALLS. THAT'S JUST GOOD BUSINESS AND I GET THAT AND SO I UNDERSTAND. I JUST HATE IT. BUT I APPRECIATE YOU COMING UP HERE, AND I APPRECIATE YOU GIVING OUT YOUR CELL PHONE NUMBER SO ALL THESE PEOPLE CAN CALL YOU. YEAH INSTEAD OF US, BUT. WELL BUT IF YOU'RE BUILDING A HOUSE AND IN THE SCHEME OF THINGS IF YOU'RE BUILDING A TO $300,000 HOUSE LIFTING $100. AND, UH, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, YOU WANT TO SAVE EVERY YOU WANT TO SAVE EVERY PENNY, BUT WHEN WE HAVEN'T DONE IT, AND I CAN'T SAY THIS ABSOLUTE, BUT I GUARANTEE WITH THE BUILDER WILL PASS THE COST ONTO OKAY. THEY WILL. NO PASS IT ON WITHOUT HESITATION EXACTLY SO QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, MIKE. GOT THE NEXT LIFE. ALL

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RIGHT, SO JUST THOSE FOUR ITEMS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ALREADY THAT WOULD GENERATE ANOTHER $1.6 MILLION A YEAR. WHICH IS EQUIVALENT TO 3% OF OUR BUDGET OF REVENUE FOR THE YEAR. BUT WE DO GOT SOME OTHER IDEAS SO. THROUGH MY TALKING POINTS HERE. OKAY, STEPS THAT WE CAN TAKE.

TOURS, WHICH WILL IMPROVE THE EFFICIENCY IN OPERATIONS AND FINANCIAL STRENGTH OF THE FUN GOING FORWARD. WE, UM, MET A COMPANY AT TML AND SAN ANTONIO THIS PAST YEAR AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING TO THEM AND WHAT THEY DO IS THEY CAN CONDUCT A WATER AND SEWER BILLING ON IT. IN ORDER TO MAXIMIZE BILLABLE REVENUE. SO THIS AUDIT WOULD SEARCH FOR LOST REVENUE DUE TO LIKE FAULTY METERS BILLING ERRORS INTRUSION INTO THE SEWER SYSTEM. AND LOOKING AT THEIR CONTRACT THAT THEY SENT US. UM THERE WOULDN'T BE A FEE UNLESS THEY RECOVER REVENUE. AND THEN SECOND, SO IT'S A CONTINGENCY BASIS TYPE DEAL AND THIS IS ONLY ONE COMPANY WE'VE LOOKED AT. WE'LL LOOK AT OTHERS, BUT THEIR STRUCTURE IS AND THEY AND THEY'VE DONE THIS AUDIT ON THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. I THINK IT WAS BACK IN 2008 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT A LONG TIME AGO, BUT THEY HAVE DONE THAT HERE BEFORE, BUT THEIR CURRENT CONTRACT THEIR CONTINGENCY IS 50% OF THE REVENUE THAT THEY RECOVER. THEY WOULD WANT THAT FOR FOUR YEARS. AND THEN AFTER THAT, YOU KNOW ALL THE SAVINGS WOULD BE KEPT FOR THE CITY 100. ALRIGHT SO NOW I NEED TO ASK YOU SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS. AUTOMATED BILLING SERVICE THAT WE WENT TO WITH JOHNSON CONTROLS. SEVERAL YEARS AGO, WE WERE TOLD WE WERE LOSING MONEY BECAUSE THERE WAS LEAKS GOING ON OUR SYSTEM THAT WE WEREN'T DETECTING THAT IF WE AND I'M LOOKING AT YOUR NEXT POINT TO THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO. IT WOULD BE SO SENSITIVE THAT YOU COULD DETECT WHEN YOU WOULD FLUSH YOUR TOILET IS WHAT WE WERE TOLD WHEN THEIR REPRESENTATIVE CAME UP HERE, AND SINCE THAT TIME, I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GO ONLINE TO SEE IF I HAVE A WATER LAKE. UH I FEEL LIKE THAT SYSTEM WAS MADE WITH A LOT OF PROMISES THAT HAVEN'T BEEN FULFILLED. AND I'D LIKE YOU TO ADDRESS THAT, BECAUSE YEAH, WE SPENT $15 MILLION TO AUTOMATE ALL OF OUR, UH, METERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE WHERE WE'RE ANY BETTER OFF, ESPECIALLY IF YOU THINK THAT WE STILL GOT THESE WATER LEAKS SITTER NOT BEING DETECTED. YES SO DID YOU WANT TO JUMP TO THAT ONE BEFORE WE FINISHED FINISHED, BUT OKAY, GO AHEAD. EITHER WAY, YOU WANT TO DO IT, BUT, UM I DON'T KNOW.

I DIDN'T KNOW HOW FAR I WANTED TO ADD SOMETHING INTO THE AUDIT BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE WE'VE DONE THIS TYPE OF AUDIT ON THE TELECOM SIDE, AND WE'VE DONE IT ON THE I T NETWORKING SIDE. THE COMPANY WON'T GET ANY MONEY UNLESS THEY FIND SAVINGS AND, UH . I MEAN, YOU HAD MENTIONED BRINGING IN JOHNSON AND JOHNSON. WE REPLACED ALL THE METERS. THAT'S BEEN EIGHT PLUS YEARS AGO . SO ALL OF THOSE METERS IN THE FIELD ARE OVER EIGHT YEARS OLD AND WATER METERS SLOW DOWN OVER TIME, SO IT'S QUITE LIKELY THAT WE HAVE METERS THAT AREN'T RECORDING AS MUCH REVENUE AS THEY SHOULD BE RECORDING SO THIS COMPANY WILL GO THROUGH. NOT ONLY LOOK FOR BUILDING ISSUES WITHIN THE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM WILL TAKE ALL THAT DATA DOWN TO THROUGH IT ALL LOOK FOR ANY ERRORS IN THERE, BUT THEY'LL ALSO GO OUT IN THE FIELD, AND THEY'LL DO SPOT CHECKS OF METERS COMMERCIAL METERS RESIDENTIAL METERS IN THE FIELD AND ASSESS WHETHER THEY'RE ACCURATE OR NOT, AS THOUGH ALSO FOR ANY WE HAVE A FEW CONTRACTS WITH OUTSIDE CITIES WHERE WE TAKE THEIR SEWER IN CONTRACT ID RATE THEY'LL PUT FLOW METERS IN AND LOOK AND SEE WHETHER THE FLOW FROM THOSE ENTITIES MATCHES WHAT THE CONTRACTOR RATE IS OR IF IT'S IF THEY'RE BASICALLY PAYING FOR LESS THAN THEY SHOULD BE PAYING FOR WHAT THEY'RE SENDING INTO OUR SYSTEM. SO THIS IS THIS WORKED OUT TO BE A REALLY GOOD DEAL ON THE ON THE TELECOM SIDE. WE GOT SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS AND GOT THAT DOWN. SO UM, LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING WHAT THEIR RESULTS ARE ON THE WATER. WATER SYSTEM. YEAH AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY WILL FIND ON THE METER SIDE AS FAR AS ACCURACY. BUT WE FINISHED. I THINK THE INSTALLATION OF THOSE 40,000 PLUS METERS WITH THAT AUTOMATIC METER RATING SYSTEM IN 2015, AND FOR THE NEXT SEVEN YEARS WHEN WE WERE PAYING ON THAT CONTRACT

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THAT WAS PART OF THEIR OBLIGATION WAS TO COME IN AND DO A RANDOM SAMPLE. FOR ME TO ACCURACY EACH OF THE SEVEN YEARS AND THEY DIDN'T FIND ANY DISCREPANCIES ON ANY OF THOSE METERS FOR THOSE SEVEN YEARS WITH ALL THAT EXPIRED IN 2021, SO WE'VE HAD TWO YEARS SINCE THEN, SO THEY MIGHT FIND SOME FAULTY MEDIA READINGS TODAY, I WOULD SAY THE PROBABILITY OF THAT'S PROBABLY PRETTY LOW SINCE IT'S ONLY BEEN 22 YEARS SINCE WE'VE BEEN AUDITED BY THE COMPANY THAT INSTALLED THOSE YOU KNOW, 40,000 PLUS METERS. SO CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM NOT BEING USED TO MAXIMUM CAPACITY NOW. YES OR SO. SO PART OF THAT, UM, $15 MILLION THAT YOU SAID INCLUDED THESE 10,700 SENSORS THAT ARE PLACED THROUGHOUT THE JUST JUST THE DISTRIBUTION LINES THROUGHOUT THE CITY. AND IN THEIR IN THEIR ANALYSIS IN THE BEGINNING, THEY SAID, IF YOU USE YOUR LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM OVER THE SEVEN YEARS IT'S GOING TO SAVE THE CITY $1.7 MILLION IN LOST REVENUE. THIS IS THEIR ENGINEERS THAT CAME UP WITH THESE NUMBERS.

I'M JUST REPEATING THEM FOR YOU. SO WE HAVE THE LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM IN THE GROUND. WE'VE HAD TURNOVER OBVIOUSLY IN THE WATER DEPARTMENT, EVEN ALL THE WAY UP TO THE DIRT DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR LEVEL. SO A LONG STORY SHORT EVEN THOUGH THE SYSTEM HAS BEEN IN THE GROUND SINCE 2015. I DON'T THINK IT WAS EVER FULLY UTILIZED BECAUSE NO ONE WAS PROPERLY TRAINED ON IT. NO MIKE HAS GOTTEN IN TOUCH WITH THE COMPANY. THAT, UM, HAS INSTALLED THOSE THOSE SENSORS INTO THE GROUND, AND I THINK HE'S GOT AN UPDATE. HE CAN GIVE YOU ON THAT LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM AND HIS PLANS GOING FORWARD TO UTILIZE IT. YEAH THAT'S GREAT TO LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM HAS A TWO PART TO IT ONCE DEPARTMENT LEAK DETECTION THAT LOCATED THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN THE METER BOXES AND SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. AND THERE'S ALSO A MOBILE LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM THAT CREWS CAN GO OUT AND SET UP AND ACTUALLY TRY TO DETECT LATENT DO MORE PINPOINTING OF THE LEAGUE LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE THE PERMANENT ONE THAT'S OUT IN THE FIELD. IT GIVES YOU AN AREA IN BETWEEN THIS METER THIS METER AH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PICKING UP SOMETHING. AND THEN YOU GO BACK OUT WITH THIS MOBILE DEVICE ENABLE PINPOINT TO LEAD MORE AND JUST LIKE TODD SAID THAT ONCE THE YOU KNOW? ONCE THEY PUT IT IN PLACE, THEY TRAINED X AMOUNT OF PEOPLE. THESE PEOPLE HAVE LONG BEEN GONE AND ACTUALLY GOT TO THE POINT WHERE NO ONE NO ONE IN THE WATER. UTILITIES KNEW HOW TO RUN. LOOK AT THE SYSTEM. TO KNOW WHERE TO LOOK AT WHERE TO LOOK WHAT THEY EVEN LOOK FOR. WE TALKED ABOUT THIS. LIKE I SAID, BACK IN DECEMBER, I REACHED OUT TO JOHNSON CONTROL. THEY HOOKED ME UP WITH I TRON GUY NAMED ERIC THEN HAD TWO MEETINGS WITH HIM TO DISCUSS THE LEAK DETECTION SYSTEM. UM HONESTLY, VERY SIMPLE . I MEAN, IT'S REALLY SIMPLE TO READ AND SIMPLE TO OPERATE SO RATHER THAN US HAVING ACTUAL PAYING I TRON TO COME IN TO DO TRAINING SESSIONS WITH OUR PEOPLE. I HAVE HEARD WHAT HAD SEVERAL PHONE CONVERSATIONS AND SOME TEAMS MEETING WITH THEM TO DISCUSS HOW THE LEAGUE SYSTEM WORKS. AND THEN I'M GOING TO PASS THAT INFORMATION ON TO OUR PEOPLE FROM THERE. ONE OF. I'M GUESSING THIS ONLY THE TEXT LEAKS ON THE CITY SIDE. CORRECT IF YOU'RE THE LEAK IS ON THE CUSTOMER SIDE THAT'S NOT GONNA UNDERSTANDING THAT IT ONLY DETECTS IT ON THE WATER MAIN ITSELF. AND IT GOES OFF OF VIBRATION. LIKE SAID, UM. WE DO HAVE A NUMBER OF THE CENTERS THAT ARE OUT OF SERVICE. SO WE WILL BE GOING THROUGH AND REPLACING THE CENTURIES. TO, UH WHAT SAID YOU'D BE ABLE TO UTILIZE THIS? MORE AM I JUST REMEMBERING WRONG WHEN JOHNSON CONTROLS WAS HERE BEFORE WHERE THEY MADE REPRESENTATIONS THAT CUSTOMERS WOULD BE ABLE TO DETERMINE IF THEY HAD A PROBLEM WITHIN THEIR OWN. SERVICE LINE.

THEY ARE YOU SAYING THEY'VE NEVER MADE THAT REPRESENTATION THAT AM I REMEMBERING THAT INCORRECTLY? ON THIS SO THE PRIOR WATER UTILITIES DIRECTOR PRIOR TO MARK I MEAN, MIKE AND THE PRIORITY CFO TO ME. THEY'RE THE ONES WHO BASICALLY ROLLED OUT THIS PROGRAM, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT. WATER CUSTOMER CAN GO ONLINE AND LOOK AT THEIR USAGE. BUT IT'S ONLY A MONTH TO MONTH. WE HAVE THE ABILITY ADD IN OUR OFFICES HERE TO LOOK HOUR BY HOUR. SO THE SYSTEM DOES GIVE THE CUSTOMER THE ABILITY TO SEE IF THEY HAVE A LEAK. BUT UNFORTUNATELY IS

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MONTH TO MONTH THEY WOULD HAVE TO CALL WATER CUSTOMER SERVICE. IF THEY ASSUME THEY HAVE A LEAK AND MAYBE GET A DAY BY DAY OR EVEN AN HOUR BY HOUR ANALYSIS TO SEE YOU KNOW WHEN THEIR WATER IS LEAVING. THEY'RE THE PIPES. SO UM, SO IF THE TECHNOLOGY EXISTS FOR US TO BE ABLE TO KNOW THAT INFORMATION HERE AT CITY HALL, WHAT WOULD IT TAKE FOR? CUSTOMERS TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT INFORMATION WHEN THEY EARN THEIR HOME ON COMPUTER. WHAT WHAT TYPE OF UPGRADE OF SOFTWARE WOULD THAT BE? THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE UP TO THE, UM THE FIRM THAT INSTALLED. THE SYSTEM TO SEE IF THAT'S SOME TYPE OF ACCESS. WE COULD ISSUE TO THE WATER CUSTOMER, BECAUSE I KNOW THEY HAVE TO DO IT ONLINE. WE'RE DOING IT. I GUESS I'M NOT A TECHNOLOGY COMES OUT TO BE BEHIND YOU. THE PORTIONS PORTION FOR THE CITIZENS TO LOG IN AND LOOK AT THE LEAK DETECTION WAS A SEPARATE PORTAL THAT WE DID NOT PAY FOR. THAT WAS HOW MANY YEARS DID WE SAY? EIGHT YEARS WE WOULD HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE VENDOR AND SEE WHAT THEIR OPTIONS ARE NOW. OKAY SO I DID REMEMBER CORRECTLY, THAT TECHNOLOGY DOES EXIST. THAT WAS PART OF THE SALES PITCH. WE JUST DID NOT PAY FOR IT. CORRECT THAT IS THE ANSWER. I'M GETTING. CONVERSATION. THAT WAS 20,000.

WE ALREADY HAVE ONE MIC DOWN. CAN YOU BE CAREFUL? HE'S SUPPOSED TO BE CONSERVATIVE MIKE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF COST WAS A FACTOR. I WASN'T PART OF THAT. THAT TEAM, BUT, UM I KNOW THIS. OUR REPORTS IN HOUSE ALSO TELL US IF THERE IS A REGULAR USE. SO IN OTHER WORDS, IF THEY HAVE A LEAGUE AND THE USES A LOT HIGHER THAN NORMAL, THE SYSTEM GENERATES REPORTS AND SAYS, HEY , CUSTOMER, ABC HAS NOW HAS EXCESSIVE WATER USE. DO WE? DO WE THEN CALL THE CUSTOMER AND SAY, HEY, YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK AND SEE IF YOUR WATER ME. WATER TAP IS ON THE LOOKOUT FOR THEM. YEAH THAT IS PROTOCOL IS PROTOCOL. I'D HAVE TO VERIFY TO MAKE SURE THEY'RE STILL DOING THAT. BUT I KNOW THE SYSTEM DOES TELL YOU IF THERE'S A NO READING. YOU KNOW THERE'S NO WATER BEING USED AND IT TELLS YOU YOU CAN SET THE PARAMETERS FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND. YOU CAN SET THE PARAMETERS TO SAY HEY, IF IT'S 10% MORE THAN WHAT THEY USUALLY USE. GIVE ME GIVE ME AN ALARM. 20% I'M NOT REALLY STRONG THAT PART BUT I KNOW THE SYSTEM CAN GENERATE A REPORT SAYING YOU MIGHT WANT TO CHECK OUT THESE ACCOUNTS. PLEASE CHECK ON THAT BECAUSE I KNOW I HAVE RENTAL PROPERTY THAT I HAD AN INCIDENT . WHERE YEAH, THE TOILET WAS JUST RUNNING, RUNNING RUNNING VERY LARGE, STRONG. VERY LARGE WATER. BILL. NEVER GOT A PHONE CALL. SO PLEASE, PLEASE DO THAT.

QUESTION ONE OF THE THINGS I WAS GOING TO SAY ABOUT THE LINK DETECTION SYSTEM THAT WE ARE LOOKING TO HAVE STAFF TRAINED ON IT, PROBABLY WITHIN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS AND LIKE SAID, START CHANGING THESE CENTERS OUT WHERE WE CAN UTILIZE IT. SO ALSO ON THE LEAK DETECTION HERE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, I WAS GONNA SAY UNLESS IT'S LEAKING THROUGH A TOILET. YOU KNOW, MAJORITY OF THE TIME A CITIZEN SEES WATER IN THEIR YARD. THEY CALL US 311, AND WE GOT USUALLY GO OUT AND CHECK MARKS A WE CAN MAKE DETERMINATION. OKAY THE LEAK ON THE CITIZEN, YOU KNOW? ARE YOU GETTING BILLED FOR IT OR RELATIVE? THE CITY OFFERS EVEN A LEAK AT ALL. YOU KNOW, SO BUT I'M JUST THINKING OF HOW MUCH EASIER WOULD IT BE? IF THE FIRST THING THAT THE CITY THE CITIZEN DOES IS, UH, YOU KNOW, LOOK ONLINE AND SAY, OH, I'VE GOT I'VE GOT THE METER'S RUNNING AFTER I'VE GOT A BIG PROBLEM HERE, EXCEPT FOR THE CASE, WHERE , LIKE I SAID, IT'S LEAKING THROUGH THE TOILET, THEN YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO TAKE. AND EVEN ON THOSE SYSTEMS SAY IF I WAS OVER SYSTEM SYSTEM I WAS ON THE BEAUTY IF IT IF I WAS HAVING A LINK AT MY HOUSE NOW WOULD GIVE ME A SEND ME AN EMAIL OR TEXT TO ME SITTING HERE AND TELL ME I WAS HAVING SOME WATER RUNNING ABNORMAL WATER. DID YOU MAKE THAT HAPPEN? WE HAVE TO LOOK AT THE SOFTWARE. THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING TO ACT. UH CAN WE FIGURE OUT SOMETHING ALONG THE LINES OF THE MAGNITUDE THAT BECAUSE I YOU KNOW, EVEN THAT WOULD AVOID THE WHOLE LEEK ADJUSTMENT AND SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH. CURRENTLY WITH THE CITY, YOU KNOW, SO I THINK THAT'S A PROACTIVE WAY. WE CAN NOTIFY THE CITIZEN BEFORE THAT BILL GETS OUTRAGEOUS AND WE CAN AVOID THAT WE'VE BEEN DEALING WITH LATELY. TAKE A LOOK AND SEE WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN FOREST. SO IF IT'S AVAILABLE FOR SOFTWARE TO DO THAT, BUT IT IT REALLY HELPFUL AND YOU KNOW, PEOPLE LOOK AT IT, AND THEY SAY, WELL, YOU RAN YOUR SPRINKLER AT THIS TIME EVERY DAY . YEAH THEY GIVE YOU ONE INTO IT MAKES IT EASY TO RESOLVE ISSUES. HMM. AND WE HAVE ONE FINAL IDEAS, SO THIS WILL BE THE

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SEVENTH AND I WILL SAY OUT OF THE SEVEN IDEAS. ALL OF THESE IDEAS WERE DISCUSSED WITH OUR RATING AGENCIES PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF THAT LAST BOND. AND THIS IS THE ONE THAT THEY FELT WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT. UM BUT WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO DO IS WE WOULD LIKE TO DO A WATER AND SEWER RATES STUDY. WHICH WOULD ACCOMPLISH THOSE FOLLOWING BULLET POINTS. SO THE FIRST ONE BEING WE WANT TO PROPOSE WHAT WE WANT TO GET. PROPOSALS FROM A FIRM THAT ANALYZES OUR RATES TO GIVE US BASICALLY A FIVE YEAR RATE SCHEDULE THAT SUPPORTS A FIVE YEAR CAPITAL PLAN AN OPERATIONAL PLAN. SO YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT'S GOING TO BE PRETTY EXTENSIVE. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO BE FORECASTING HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE GOING TO SPEND OPERATIONALLY AND, UM, YOU KNOW , WITH CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS WISE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, AND THEN THIS FIRM WE'RE LOOKING AT THREE OF THEM ALREADY. YOU KNOW THEY WOULD TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND PROPOSE A RATE SCHEDULE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. YOU KNOW TO SUGGEST RATE INCREASES, SO RATHER THAN DOING IT YEAR BY YEAR, WHICH THE WAY WE'VE BEEN DOING IT, WE KNOW IN ADVANCE. YOU KNOW WHAT OUR RATE INCREASES SHOULD BE FROM ONE YEAR TO ANOTHER. THE NEXT ONE. UM WE HAVE DIFFERENT RATES FOR WATER SERVICES VERSUS SEWER SERVICES. AND I DON'T KNOW THE LAST TIME THAT THESE RATES HAVE BEEN ANALYZED IN THIS CAPACITY EACH YEAR. WE JUST COME TO COUNCIL AND SAY, HEY, WE NEED 3% RATE INCREASE 4% WHATEVER THE RATE INCREASES, AND WE JUST APPLY THAT PERCENTAGE TO THE WATER PLAID TO THE SEWER, APPLIED TO ALL THE DIFFERENT METER SIZES AND GO ABOUT, BUT IT WOULD BE NICE TO KNOW OR HAVE INFORMATION THAT SUBSTANTIATE WHAT'S OUR COST FOR WATER? WHAT'S OUR COST PURSUER AND HAVE RATES THAT MATCH IT. BECAUSE NOT EVERYONE HAS WATER. SOME PEOPLE JUST UM WELL, NOT EVERYONE HAS SUE OR SOME PEOPLE JUST HAVE WATER. SOME PEOPLE HAVE IRRIGATION SYSTEM SO THE COST SHOULD MATCH THE FEES. THE NEXT ONE IS TO BASICALLY DETERMINE APPROPRIATE RATES FOR VARIOUS METERS SIZES SO AGAIN IN THE ORDINANCE WE HAVE, I DON'T KNOW. PROBABLY 8 TO 10. DIFFERENT METER SIZES FROM FIVE EIGHTS INCH UP TO WHATEVER, MAYBE FOUR INCHES, BUT WE HAVE DIFFERENT RATES FOR EACH METER SIZE. SO AGAIN, IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE A FIRM COME IN AND ANALYZE IT AND JUSTIFY A RATE FOR EACH METER SIZE. SAME THING WITH, UM, RATES FOR INSIDE CITY LIMITS VERSUS OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS RIGHT NOW ARE OUTSIDE CITY LIMITS IS JUST 150% OF OUR INSIDE CITY LIMITS. IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE SOME KIND OF, YOU KNOW, LOGICAL CONNECTION BETWEEN THE TWO SO THEY WOULD LOOK AT THAT ALSO. ANOTHER THING THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT, UM MAYBE NOT NECESSARILY IN OUR AREA OF TEXAS, BUT IN YOU KNOW, CENTRAL NORTH TEXAS WATER CONSERVATION, YOU KNOW HOW MUCH DO WE CHARGE PER 1000 GALLONS OF WATER? AND IS IT THE MORE THEY USE? THE MORE WE CHARGE OR IS IT JUST DEPENDS ON WHAT YOUR GOAL IS SO WE WOULD LIKE THEM TO COME IN AND LOOK AT HOW MUCH WE'RE CHARGING PER 1000 GALLONS. YOU KNOW, OUR TOP WATER USERS ARE REFINERIES. THEIR HOSPITALS. UM I DON'T THINK THEY HAVE WATER CONSERVATION AND IN MIND NECESSARILY, SO IT WOULD BE NICE TO HAVE A FIRM COME IN AND LOOK AT IT AND TRY TO OPTIMIZE. YOU KNOW WHAT RATES WE CHARGE PER 1000 GALLONS. YOU KNOW, KNOWING WE WANT TO KEEP THE FIRST FEW 1000 GALLONS AS LOW AS POSSIBLE . YOU KNOW, FOR OUR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS WHO CAN'T AFFORD A RATE INCREASE, BUT ANYWAY, THEY WOULD COME THROUGH AND, YOU KNOW, ANALYZE THAT FOR US. ALSO.

AND THEN FINALLY, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS IS YOU KNOW, MOST OF THESE FEES ARE COVERED IN CHAPTER 22 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES. THERE'S A LOT OF ANCILLARY CHARGES, YOU KNOW, DISCONNECT THE SHUT OFF. HE'S RECONNECT THESE HAVE HIM LOOK AT THE ENTIRE CHAPTER. 22 LOOK AT ALL OF OUR FEES, YOU KNOW FOR WATER AND SEWER AND, YOU KNOW, MAKE SURE THEY'RE WHERE THEY NEED TO BE. AND UM JUNE. DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO ADD ON THAT ONE? I KNOW YOU KIND OF LOOK AT SOME OF THESE COMPANIES. BUT AGAIN, WE'RE LOOKING AT THREE COMPANIES RIGHT NOW WE'VE GOT PROPOSALS IN SO STAFF IS GOING TO MEET, ANALYZE THEM AND YOU KNOW, PROBABLY COME TO COUNCIL. IN THE FUTURE AND RECOMMEND THAT THIS GOES THROUGH AND THAT. I THINK THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION, AND I HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS. TODD THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. AND, UM THAT'S SOME SIGNIFICANT SAVINGS THAT COULD BE BROUGHT BACK IN TERRIBLE BUDGET. ABSOLUTELY. ANY COMMENTS IN A QUESTIONS. CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU. CAN YOU TAKE US INTO THE NEXT WORK SESSION, PLEASE? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MAYOR REVIEW AND DISCUSS THE PLACEMENT OF A MIRROR ON THE

[Review and discuss the placement of a mural on the Main Street-side of the Julie Rogers Theatre as well as the wall of the Lakeside Center that overlooks Beautiful Mountain Skatepark]

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MAIN STREET SIDE OF THE JULIE ROGERS STAY THERE, AS WELL AS THE WALL OF THE LEXUS SENATOR.

DOPE LOOKS BEAUTIFUL MOUNTAINS SKATEBOARD. REMEMBER MARTIN. COUNCIL AND MR WILLIAMS. I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT FUN AND HAPPINESS AND A FREE EVENT. CALLED CALLED MURAL FEST WILL BE THE SECOND ANNUAL WE TAKING PLACE MARCH TWO THROUGH FIVE RIGHT DOWNTOWN AT THE JEFFERSON THEATER AND AT THE ART MUSEUM, BOTH INDOORS AND OUTDOORS. BACKWARD. YEAH THIS THIS IS THE GROUNDS THEY'RE GOING TO BE COMING IN ON MARCH 2ND, THE MURALIST. THEY'LL BE HERE THROUGH THE FIFTH. THE THEY'RE GONNA BE 16 MURALISTS THAT ARE COMING IN FROM OUT OF TOWN. ALSO WE HAVE 16 LOCAL ARTISTS AND EVERYONE WILL BE ABLE TO PAINT BOTH BOTH THE LOCALS AND THE MURALIST FROM OUT OF TOWN FRIDAY AFTERNOON. BSD IS GONNA LET THEIR CLASSES OUT EARLY SO THEY CAN COME DOWN HERE SO THE KIDS CAN PAINT SO BASICALLY, EVERYONE CAN PAINT THE BEST THING ABOUT THIS EVENT IS IT IS IT 100% FREE EVENT? THERE'S NO CHARGE FOR ANYTHING. AND THIS IS A IF YOU TURN ONE MORE. THIS IS THE MURALIST WOULD WANT TO PAINT ON THE, UH, RIGHT BY THE SKATE PARK. YOU CAN SEE IT'S FOR A YOUNGER CROWD. THE AVERAGE SKATER IS FROM LIKE 9 TO 12 YEARS OLD. THOSE ARE SUPERHEROES ON THE LEFT, AND YOU CAN JUST SEE THAT'S A BOTO ESCAPE BORDER ON THE RIGHT, SO I JUST WANTED TO JUST WANTED TO SHOW YOU. WHAT WERE YOU KNOW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT FOR THAT, FOR THAT PARTICULAR BUILDING IT WILL BE FACING RIGHT AT THE SKATE PARK. AND THEN THE NEXT SLIDE. WE'RE GOING TO HOLD OFF UNTIL 2024. THIS IS THE BACKSIDE OF THE JULIE ROGERS BUILDING. IT WAS GONNA BE THREE DIFFERENT PANELS. THIS IS GOING TO BE THE FIRST PANEL, BUT I UNDERSTAND THAT REGINA ROGERS IS NOT CRAZY ABOUT THIS, SO THAT'S ONE REASON WHY WE WANT TO HOLD OFF UNTIL NEXT YEAR. SO ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS I CAN ANSWER? ALSO, RESTAURANT WEEK IS GOING TO START, UH, MARCH 2ND, AND IT WILL RUN THROUGH THE 12TH. SO BASICALLY, IT'LL BE TOO LARGE EVENTS RUNNING AT THE SAME TIME OVER OVER A 10 DAY PERIOD FOR MURAL FEST CANCER MEMBER SAMUEL. YES UH. THE FIRST THING I THOUGHT ABOUT WAS WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT THE JULIE ROGERS HISTORICAL SIGNIFICANCE, RIGHT AND THE CHARACTER THE BUILDING ITSELF THAT KIND OF CONCERNED ME . WELL THAT'S ORIGINALLY THERE WAS A PLAN FOR AN OUTDOOR TYPE.