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          TWO. WELCOME TO THE QUARTERLY EVENING MEETING OF THE CITY COUNCIL. TODAY'S DATE IS TUESDAY . APRIL 30TH 2024, AND I WILL RESTATE THAT WE ARE NOW HAVING EVENING MEETINGS EVERY FIFTH TUESDAY. WHENEVER THERE'S 1/5 TUESDAY IN THE MONTH THERE WILL BE AN EVENING MEETING AND WE WILL CERTAINLY GET THE WORD OUT. UH TODAY'S DATE IS TUESDAY. APRIL 30TH. TODAY'S INVOCATION WILL BE GIVEN BY PASTOR RODERICK BLEWITT OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS, NEW HORIZONS CHURCH AND EVERYONE IF YOU WOULD PLEASE SILENCE YOUR PHONE AND IF YOU SO CHOOSE, STAND AND REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. JUST. WE'RE PRAYING, NOT PLEDGE. LET US PRAY. FATHER. WE JUST THANK YOU TONIGHT. FOR THE OPPORTUNITY LOWER TO BE ALIVE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE PRIVILEGE OF PRAYER TONIGHT. FATHER IT IS NOT JUST IN ANY COUNTRY THAT WE CAN STAND IN THE PLACE OF PUBLIC GATHERING , LORD AND PRAY. AND WE THANK YOU TONIGHT FOR THAT LIBERTY. AND FATHER. WE LOOK TO YOU TONIGHT, LORD, YOUR WORD SAYS THAT YOU WOULD THAT WE WOULD PRAY FOR MEN EVERYWHERE FOR KINGS RULERS. THOSE ARE WHO ARE IN AUTHORITY OVER US, LORD THAT WE MAY BE ABLE TO LIVE PEACEABLY AMONGST OURSELVES AND FATHER TONIGHT AS WE COME, LORD, WE LIFT UP THIS BODY OF LEADERSHIP. 
          WE LIFT UP THIS CITY BEFORE YOU TODAY FATHER. THERE ARE MANY PROBLEMS AND PROBLEMS WITH PERPLEXITY THAT ONLY YOU HAVE THE ANSWER FOR GOD MAY BE YIELDED LEADERS FATHER GOD, WE ARE PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE LORD AS WE SPEAK THROUGH MICROPHONES AS HITLER SPOKE, WE CAN INFLUENCE THE MINDS AND HEARTS OF PEOPLE HELP US TO TAKE THE GRAVITY THAT COMES WITH THESE POSITIONS. LORD EVERYTHING THAT'S FACING OUR CITY. THE CRIME, OUR EDUCATION LORD, THE PEACE THAT WE NEED AMONGST RACES. FATHER WE'RE PRAYING NOW. GOD THAT AS WE GO FORTH THAT YOU WOULD JUST GIVE WISDOM AND DIRECTION TO THIS BODY. LORD GOD, YOU SAID LET THE MIND OF CHRIST BE IN US AND FATHER. WE HAVE TO GIVE YOU ROOM IN OUR CITY ROOM IN THIS CORRIDOR TODAY, AND I PRAY THAT ALL BE DONE WELL IN DECENCY AND IN ORDER, YOU SAID TWO HAVE TO WALK TOGETHER IN AGREEMENT AND FATHER WE'RE BELIEVING TODAY THAT THE BUSINESS TONIGHT AND THE BUSINESS IN THE FUTURE AND GOD THAT YOU WOULD JUST GIVE US THE MIND AS WE GO FORTH IN ALL THINGS, BLESSED BUSINESSES, OUR POLICE OFFICERS, THOSE THAT RESPOND IN EVERY WAY WE THANK YOU TONIGHT. IN JESUS NAME. 
          AMEN. SO. JUST. IT'S ROLL CALL, PLEASE. MAYOR, WEST MAYOR, PRO TIM TURNER. ABSENT COUNCIL MEMBER DUO COUNCIL MEMBER GETS COUNCIL MEMBER F SHAW, COUNCIL MEMBER SAMUEL AND COUNCIL MEMBER NEIL THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. TODAY WE HAVE THREE PROCLAMATIONS AND ONE PRESENTATION IN LIEU OF READING THE PROCLAMATIONS. WE WILL YIELD THE TIME TO ALLOW THEM TO COME UP AND SPEAK ABOUT THEIR ORGANIZATIONS. AND ARE THE EVENT THAT'S OCCURRING AS ALWAYS , YOU AND WHOEVER IS WITH YOU IS INVITED TO COME UP AND SHAKE HANDS WITH THE COUNCIL AND THEN WE'LL TAKE A PHOTOGRAPH. THE FIRST PROCLAMATION. WE ARE RECOGNIZING THE PEAR ORCHARD CEMETERY AS AN OFFICIAL HISTORIC LANDMARK. ACCEPTING WILL BE MRS JESSE DAVIS IN MISS KATE HAMBRIGHT. ARE THEY PRESENT? ALL RIGHT. PLEASE COME ON UP. GOOD. WE HAVE THE SAME. RIGHT? OH, RIGHT THERE, OK, YEAH, WE'LL GET A GROUP PICTURE. OK? THANK YOU. CAN DO. YEAH. 
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THIS LAST GUY HE USED TO WORK IN, UH, CO ENFORCEMENT CENTER. 
          YEAH, YEAH, YOU'RE GOOD. RIGHT, Y'ALL. WE'RE GONNA GET A GROUP PICTURE. LET'S SEE IF I CAN GET YOU GUYS TO SCOOT IN JUST A LITTLE BIT. THIS WAY. HERE WE ARE. ALL RIGHT. Y'ALL CAN LOOK RIGHT HERE. M 12 AND THREE EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. SAY SOMETHING I SUPPOSED TO SAY SOMETHING? NO. OK UH THEY SAID MY NAME ALREADY. JESSIE DAVIS. I WORK FOR THE, UH, BEN ROGERS. 
          VISITOR CENTER. UH, HERE IN BEAUMONT, UH, UNDER THE DIRECTOR , UH, DIRECTOR OF CATHY HUGHES IS MY BOSS. UM WOW. I'M JUST KIND OF OVERWHELMED WITH, UH, EVERYTHING I THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR WEST, UH, FOR THE PROCLAMATION AND THE COUNCIL. AND I ALSO WANNA THANK UH, KATE. 
          OK HAM RIGHT WITH THESE WITH THE JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION. UH, SHE WAS THE ONE THAT HELPED ME SPEARHEAD THIS AND TO GET THIS GOING A LITTLE BACKGROUND. UM I DO GENEALOGY. I LOVE GENEALOGY, AND I WAS LOOKING FOR MY GREAT GRANDFATHER AND HE'S SUPPOSED TO HAVE BEEN BURIED IN A PEAR ORCHARD CEMETERY. SO I WENT THERE TO FIND HIS BODY. AND, OF COURSE NOT HIS BODY BUT HIS, YOU KNOW HIS GRAVE SITE, AND, UH, OUR FAMILY WAS POOR SO HE DIDN'T HAVE A HEADSTONE. BUT THEY SAID HE WAS THERE. AND SO AS I WAS THERE, I WAS LOOKING AROUND IN THE CEMETERY AND I FOUND WORLD WAR ONE WORLD WAR TWO AND KOREAN VETERANS IN THAT IN THAT CEMETERY, AND IT OVERWHELMED ME WHEN I SAW IT, AND I CALLED THE, UH, JEFFERSON COUNTY HISTORICAL COMMISSION, WHICH I DID SIT ON THAT BOARD ONCE BEFORE, SO I KNEW ABOUT IT. AND THEY SAID WELL IS THE IS THE CEMETERY 50 YEARS OLD. I SAID, YEAH, I THINK SO. AND SO WE GOT THE PROCESS GOING AND GOT THE APPLICATION GOING AND KATE JUMPED ON BOARD WITH ME, AND IT TOOK ME A YEAR TO FINISH IT, BUT, UH, I GOT IT DONE. AND UM, WE ARE SO EXCITED FIRST. I WANNA ALSO THANK THE, UH, THE BLANCHETT AND THE HEBERT FAMILY BECAUSE THEY WERE THE PIONEERING FAMILY FOR THE PEAR ORCHARD. UH, AT THAT TIME IN THE LATE 18 HUNDREDS, THEY CAME IN AND SETTLED AND THEY, UM THANK GOD THEY WERE ABLE TO GET LAND. BECAUSE IT WAS VERY DIFFICULT FOR BLACK PEOPLE TO HAVE LAND AT THAT TIME AND TO BURY THEIR PEOPLE, AND SO I'M SO THANKFUL THAT WE HAVE OUR BLACK CEMETERIES HERE AND TO KEEP THEM , UH, MAKE THEM HISTORIC. AND UH SO THEY COULD BE PROTECTED BECAUSE I'M DOING A LOT OF RESEARCH RIGHT NOW, AND A LOT OF BLACK CEMETERIES ARE IN DANGER. 
          RIGHT NOW. THEY'RE IN DANGER. THEY'RE BEING OVERGROWN. THEY'RE NOT BEING TAKEN CARE OF. UH, THE CITY IS BUILDING ON. TOP OF GRAVES IN A LOT OF PLACES. I'M NOT SAYING IN OUR TOWN, BUT IN A LOT OF PLACES, THE RESEARCH I'VE DONE SO TO PUT A HISTORICAL MARKER ON A CEMETERY IS BIG BECAUSE IT PROTECTS THAT CEMETERY FROM BEING TAKEN OVER BY THE GOVERNMENT OR WHOEVER A PRIVATE ENTITY WHOEVER SO I'M I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR THE TEAM FOR ALL THE PEOPLE THAT FINANCIALLY GAVE US A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT GAVE IT WAS NOT. IT'S $950 FOR THE MARKER TO BE PURCHASED. AND UH, MISS NISBY, MISS DORIE NISBY WAS A PIONEER FOR ME WITH THAT GETTING THE MONEY THAT I NEED RALLYING THE PEOPLE AROUND ME TO GIVE ME THE MONEY. UH, ALL MY FRIENDS. MY MOTHER IS HERE. MY FATHER IS HERE. MY BROTHER IS HERE AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR THE PROCLAMATION. UH I HAVE ABOUT FOUR MORE CEMETERIES THAT I'M GOING TO BE WORKING ON. SO YOU'LL SEE ME AGAIN BECAUSE WE WANT TO PRESERVE THOSE BLACK CEMETERIES. AND ALSO, WE NEED HELP WITH, UH UH, KEEPING THEM CLEAN, KEEPING THEM BEING FROM BEING OVERGROWN AND SOME OF THE, UM, HEADSTONES ARE IN THE GROUND , SO IT'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE NEED DONE FOR OUR BLACK CEMETERIES. I WANT TO GIVE THANKS TO ALSO OUR COMMISSIONER, BE ALFRED THAT SEVERAL YEARS AGO THAT HE DID CLEAN OUT SOME CEMETERIES IN OUR CITY, SO I WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE HIM FOR THAT. SO, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PROCLAMATION. YEAH. OH, OK. WAS THIS. WE WANT ME TO SAY IF ANYONE WANTS TO MAKE A DONATION. TO ME. UM I I'M JUST KIND OF A GRASSROOTS KIND OF PERSON. I. I DON'T HAVE A NAME 
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OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. A 5013 C, BUT, UM, I'M WORKING. I AM WORKING WITH THE HISTORICAL COMMISSION. LIKE TO CHECK OUT. OK SHE SAID, MAKE THE CHECK OUT TO ME. JESSIE DAVIS. THANK THANK Y'ALL. NEXT WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING THE MONTH OF MAY AS OLDER AMERICANS 
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MONTH ACCEPTING, WE'LL BE CHANCEY KIMBALL STACY OLSEN IN COLIN MOORE. YOU GOT SOME SH OH, THERE'S ALL RIGHT, CHARLIE. TERRY, Y'ALL COME ON UP. HERE YOU GO. RIGHT? FOR YOU HERE. 
          RIGHT? ALL RIGHTY. Y'ALL LOOK RIGHT HERE IN 12 AND THREE ALL RIGHT. 
          YOU'RE GOOD. WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY. AND WE DID KNOW ABOUT IT. IT WAS WE WERE JUST MESSING WITH YOU. SO WE'RE CO CHAIRING A EVENT. UM, ON THURSDAY, THE SECOND OF MAY. 
          IT'S A HOT MIC, UM, FOR THE DELIVER THE DIFFERENCE AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS FUNDRAISER. UH, LUCKILY, WE'RE SOLD OUT AND THANKFUL TO GOD FOR THAT, UM, WE'VE BEEN DOING THIS EVENT FOR SEVERAL YEARS. THE MONEY THAT WE'RE RAISING FOR THE EVENT, DELIVER THE DIFFERENCE AT THE, UH SIM AT THE, UH, EVENT CENTER ON THURSDAY IS TO ALLOW US TO BE ABLE TO NOT HAVE A WAITING LIST FOR OUR MEALS ON WHEELS, RECIPIENTS AND HARD. JEFFERSON COUNTY, WHICH IS WHERE THE MEALS ON WHEELS IN THIS DISTRICT SERVES. SO UH, THANK YOU. SO MUCH FOR SUPPORTING US AND SUPPORTING SENIORS. UM WE'RE HONORING THIS YEAR, CINDY UH AND MICHAEL LINDSAY, UM, ON THURSDAY , SO IF YOU GUYS CAN COME OUT, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE ANYONE THAT YOU GOT A TICKET ALREADY, SINCE IT'S SOLD OUT, BUT I FIGURE MANY OF YOU WILL BE THERE. SO WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING ALL OF YOU THERE ON THURSDAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. THANK Y'ALL. AND NOW WE HAVE A PRO OF AN PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING APRIL AS MOTORCYCLE SAFETY AND AWARENESS MONTH YOU'RE RIGHT. I JUST, UH UH, MAKING SURE Y'ALL ARE PAYING ATTENTION. AND IT SAYS ACCEPTING WILL BE MRS ROBIN TROY. BUT IS SHE THERE YOU ARE, OK. I DIDN'T SEE YOU. BUT FOR IF Y'ALL WOULD COME ON UP AND SEE WHAT. OK? RIGHT? JUST A SECOND AND THEN YOU COME BACK TO YOUR. 
          YEAH. RIGHT FRONT AND CENTER. 
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ALRIGHTY, Y'ALL LET'S SEE. LET ME GET RIGHT HERE. ALL RIGHT, Y'ALL LOOK RIGHT HERE IN 123. 
          EXCELLENT. EXCELLENT. THANK YOU. I SEE. WELL SO WE WANT TO THANK YOU. AS AS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM COWBOY HARLEY DAVIDSON AND COWBOY POWER SPORTS. UM, WE APPRECIATE YOU ALLOWING US TO BRING, UM, THE AWARENESS THAT'S NEEDED FOR SAFETY FOR OUR MOTORCYCLISTS AS WELL AS EVERYBODY ELSE. AND WE ALL NEED TO BE SAFE ON THE ROADS. AND I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL KNOW THIS, BUT YOU GUYS HAVE TWO BIKERS ON THE COUNCIL. YOU WANT TO GUESS, FEL. WHO ELSE? IT'S A RACE. IT'S A RACE A RACE. AND THEN 1956 THE DOMINANT OH, MY, DO YOU WRITE A I JUST SAY WHAT KIND THAT'S ALL RIGHT. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. HD COWBOY POWER SPORT SELLS SELLS HONDAS. WE'RE GOOD WITH THAT, BUT I'M GOING TO LET OUR COWBOY HOG CHAPTER DIRECTOR JW SAY A FEW WORDS AND THANK YOU ALL. 
          THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING Y'ALL'S TIME TO RECOGNIZE MOTORCYCLE SAFETY AND HOW IMPORTANT IT IS. EVERY ONE OF US IN HERE KNOWS SOMEONE THAT OWNS A MOTORCYCLE. I WOULD THINK, UH, MAY IS SET ASIDE TO RECOGNIZE MOTORCYCLE SAFETY AWARENESS. LOOK TWICE, SAVE A LIFE. AND THE PRESIDENT OF THE, UH, 500 FOR LIFE. UH, IT'S A 501 C THREE ORGANIZATION. IT WAS STARTED BY VAN JORDAN AND MYSELF, ALONG WITH A FEW OTHERS BACK IN 22 AFTER A STRING OF MOTORCYCLISTS HAD GOT KILLED. YOU KNOW, IT'S AWFUL DISAPPOINTING THAT ONE OF US GETS KILLED IN THE OUT IS I JUST DIDN'T SEE THEM. WE TRY TO IMPRESS LOOK TWICE, SAVE A LIFE. STAY OFF THE CELL PHONES. WE'RE HUMAN. WE GOT FAMILIES. UH, KIDS , GRANDKIDS. WE GOT BUSINESSES. UH WE'RE ALL IN THE ENVIRONMENT. 
          UH THE 500 FOR LIFE WE HAD TO RIDE. THIS IS GONNA BE OUR THIRD ANNUAL THIS SATURDAY. I ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO COME ON OUT ON IT. JUST OPEN INVITATION. EACH ONE OF Y'ALL, UH, WE'RE GOING TO MAKE A RIDE, UH, STARTING AT 1030 FOR POWER. SPORTS T. UH UH. KICK STANDS UP AT 1030. WE'RE GONNA GO THROUGH BEAUMONT. UH, WITHIN THE LUMBERTON, BUNA MURRAYVILLE BACK TO V AND BACK OVER TO BEAUMONT. IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD RIDE. WE SHOULD BE BACK AT THE DEALERSHIP. UH BY 1230. WE'RE GOING TO ASK SEVERAL PEOPLE TO SPEAK, UH, HAVE PRAYER. UH GET TO KNOW THE PEOPLE IN THAT COMMUNITY RISING MOTORCYCLES, YOU KNOW, ALL FIT IN YOU ALL DO COME BE A PART OF OUR FAMILY. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU. FOLKS, I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. ESPECIALLY YOU FOLKS IN THE AUDIENCE, TOO. THESE THINGS. GREAT HILL. IT WILL NOT WORK. IF YOU PULL OUT IN FRONT OF US OR TURN IN FRONT OF US. THAT'S THAT'S FOR BUMPING YOUR HEAD. I ASK YOU THE MOTTO IS LOOK TWICE SAVE A LIFE. LET'S GO A LITTLE, JUST A LITTLE BIT DEEPER. IF YOU HOLD UP YOUR THUMB I CAN JUST ABOUT HIDE EACH ONE OF YOU BEHIND MY THUMB. THE FOLKS THAT HAVE THE CUTE LITTLE STUFF HANGING IN THEIR MIRROR. YOU HAD CARS, TRUCKS, 18 WHEELERS AND MOTORCYCLES BEHIND THAT. I WOULD ASK ONE THING. IF YOU SEE A MOTORCYCLE COMING IT'S LIKE I THINK I CAN BEAT HIM. II. I THINK I CAN MAKE IT ACROSS THERE. I'M IN A HURRY. WAIT THREE SECONDS. WHAT YOU'LL FIND IS 123. SO THAT'S ALL WE ASK. GIVE US THREE SECONDS. OUR LIVES ARE WORTH IT. WE GOT KIDS GRANDKIDS. AND OUR LIVES ARE RIDING ON IT. GOD BLESS Y'ALL. 
          AND NOW WE HAVE, UH, CITY OF BEAUMONT COMMUNICATIONS UPDATE. GOOD EVENING. WE'RE EXCITED TO 
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BE BACK WITH THE ANNOUNCEMENTS FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 30TH AND ARE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU ALL HERE WITH US TONIGHT. IF YOU'RE A BUSINESS OWNER OR A MEETING OR EVENT PLANNER, WE WANNA HEAR HOW 
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YOUR ORGANIZATION WOULD POTENTIALLY USE THE PROPOSED DOWNTOWN CONVENTION CENTER HOTEL . PLEASE SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON OUR SURVEY AT BEAUMONT TEXAS.GOV/GARFIELD DASH HOTEL DASH SURVEY. PARENTS SUMMER CAMP SIGNUPS ARE HERE JOIN BEAUMONT RECREATION FOR GAMES, CRAFTS, FIELD TRIPS, AND SO IN THE FUN THIS SUMMER, AGES FIVE THROUGH 12 ARE WELCOME WITH TWO SESSIONS OFFERED IN JUNE AND JULY. REGISTRATION IS STILL OPEN UNTIL FULL AND YOU CAN SIGN UP IN PERSON AT THE STERLING PRUITT ACTIVITY CENTER. REGISTRATION IS ALSO OPEN FOR BEAUMONT REX'S YOUTH SUMMER TRACK PROGRAM WITH PRACTICES MAY THROUGH AUGUST AT WESTBROOK HIGH SCHOOL, YOU CAN SIGN UP OR LEARN MORE ALSO AT THE STERLING PRUITT ACTIVITY CENTER THROUGH MAY 6TH. THE CITY OF BEAUMONT IN 409 SWIM, HAVE PARTNERED TO BRING THE CHILDREN OF OUR COMMUNITY, A NEW EXPERIENCE A SUMMER SWIM TEAM FOR AGES FIVE THROUGH 19. THIS IS NOT LESSONS BUT A COMPETITIVE TEAM WITH PRACTICES. MONDAY TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY AND THURSDAY EVENINGS AND SATURDAY MORNINGS AT S KEITH POOL YOU CAN REGISTER NOW THROUGH MAY 18TH FOR THE SEASON, WHICH RUNS MAY THROUGH JULY WITH A MANDATORY TRYOUT ON MAY 6. FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT RAYMOND FORD AT 409960 1979 OR COACH R FORD AT YAHOO.COM. IF YOU WANT TO GET A JUMP ON FALL REGISTRATION IS ALSO OPEN FOR BEAUMONT RECREATIONS YOUTH COED FLAG FOOTBALL LEAGUE SIGN UP BY JUNE 2ND FOR THE SEASON, WHICH RUNS SEPTEMBER 7TH THROUGH OCTOBER 19TH FOR BOYS AND GIRLS, AGES SEVEN THROUGH 14, VOLUNTEER COACHES AND REFS ARE ALSO NEEDED AND YOU CAN CONTACT THAT STERLING PRUITT CENTER FOR MORE INFORMATION OR REGISTER AT TEAM SIDELINE.COM/BELMONT. WE STILL NEED VOLUNTEERS TO JOIN US THIS SATURDAY FOR THE CITY'S BIANNUAL COMMUNITY. CLEAN UP PLEASE BRING YOUR FRIENDS AND FAMILY OUT FOR A DAY OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT. WE'LL MEET AT 8 A.M. AT SPRAT PARK TO KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL TOGETHER. AND SUMMER MOVIES IN THE PARK ARE BACK WITH BEAUMONT REC. THE SCHEDULE IS NOW OUT ON OUR WEBSITE, AND WE INVITE YOU TO PACK A BLANKET AND PICNIC AND JOIN US AT A PARK NEAR YOU THIS SUMMER, THE FIRST ONE BEING WUTHERING HEIGHTS ON MAY 17TH. 
          YOU CAN ALSO SUPPORT EARTH DAY IN ANOTHER WAY. DID YOU KNOW WE HAVE A VOLUNTARY BEAUTIFICATION FUND THAT SUPPORTS INITIATIVES LIKE TREE PLANTING, PUB, PUBLIC ART AND THE CLEANUP EFFORTS. 
          CALL OUR WATER UTILITIES DEPARTMENT TO HAVE AN A VOLUNTARY, $2 ADDED TO YOUR MONTHLY UTILITY BILL. WE ALSO INVITE YOU TO CELEBRATE WORLD MIGRATION DAY AT THE TER TYRELL PARK NATURE CENTER. DID YOU KNOW BEAUMONT IS ON TWO OF THE FOUR MIGRATORY FLYWAYS IN THE US AND SEES MORE THAN 250 SPECIES ANNUALLY AND DURING MIGRATION THAT BALLOONS TO OVER 350. WOW YOU CAN LEARN ALL ABOUT OUR FEATHERED FRIENDS AND THE PHENOMENON OF MIGRATION AS PART OF THE FREE KIDS NATURES EXPLORER PROGRAM ON SATURDAY, MAY 11TH FROM 10 TO 1 CALL THE CENTER FOR MORE INFORMATION. AND YOU'VE SEEN HER AROUND AND HER PRESENCE HAS ALREADY BEEN FELT. 
          BUT WE WANT TO OFFICIALLY WELCOME MISS TRACY KICK TO THE CITY OF BEAUMONT IN HER NEW ROLE AS COMMUNICATIONS SENIOR PR MANAGER AND PIO, WHO WILL BE HANDLING OUR MEDIA RELATIONS AND HELPING US BETTER GET OUR INFORMATION OUT TO THE COMMUNITY . PLEASE SAY HI IF YOU SEE HER AROUND AND GIVE HER A WARM CITY WELCOME. AND WE WANNA THANK EVERYONE FOR JOINING US TONIGHT AND REMIND YOU THERE'S ALSO A BISD JOINT MEETING TOMORROW EVENING AT 6 P.M. AT THE EVENT CENTER, WHICH IS ALSO OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, SO WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE ALSO. THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. AND NOW, UH, FOR THOSE THAT ARE HERE FOR THE PROCLAMATIONS OR PRESENTATION, AND YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE NOW IS THE TIME TO DO SO. AND WE THANK YOU FOR COMING. 
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NOW'S THE TIME FOR ANY CITIZEN WHO WISHES TO SPEAK. YOU MAY MAKE PUBLIC COMMENTS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA OR REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS. ONE THROUGH NINE OR ANY OTHER TOPICS. ITEMS 10 AND 11 HAVE ALREADY BEEN HEARD IN PUBLIC HEARINGS AND THEREFORE CITIZENS CANNOT SPEAK ON THOSE ITEMS. THE CITY CLERK WILL CALL YOUR NAMES WHEN IT'S YOUR TIME TO SPEAK WHEN YOU APPROACH THE PODIUM, PLEASE SAY YOUR NAME, ADDRESS. CITY AND STATE. YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS. THE GREEN LIGHT WILL COME ON WHEN YOU APPROACH THE PODIUM AND THE RED LIGHT 
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WILL COME ON WHEN YOUR TIME IS UP. AND I DO LIKE TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT, UH, MYSELF OR THE COUNCIL CANNOT RESPOND. WHENEVER YOU'RE MAKING COMMENTS. AT THIS TIME, HOWEVER, SOMEBODY FROM THE CITY WILL GET WITH YOU. UH, IF YOU CAN WAIT AROUND JUST A MINUTE. AND WE WILL FOLLOW UP. 
          WITH YOU. YOU'RE READY. I AM NOW. RAYMOND FORD. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS RAYMOND FORD ADDRESS IS 4890 RAY STREET. BEAUMONT TEXAS 77708 IS MY, UH, ZIP CODE. I'M NOT GONNA BE HERE BEFORE YOU LONG. I JUST WANT TO COME TONIGHT TO THANK YOU ALL PERSONALLY. UH MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN MY SWIMMING LESSONS THAT I STARTED FIVE YEARS AGO. MY RESIDENCE I HAD TO COME WITH, UH BEFORE. I THINK THE PARKS COMMITTEE UH AND THEN YOU ALL VOTED ON IT AND PASSED IT AS WELL. LAST YEAR. UM, I HAD NO IDEA. 567 YEARS AGO THAT I'D BE WHERE I'M AT NOW. SO SWIMMING LESSONS HAS TURNED INTO AS YOU ALL SEEN, IT WAS ADVERTISED UP THERE AS TURNED INTO A SWIM TEAM . UH I HAVE TO THANK MR TURNER COUNCILMAN TURNER. PERSONALLY HE WAS THE FIRST ONE TO KIND OF JUMP ON BOARD AND GOT THE TRAIN ROLLING FOR ME, UM, CITY MANAGER WILLIAMS. COUNCILMAN DUO, UH, ATTORNEY CITY ATTORNEY REED. I'VE EVEN HAD SOME, UH, FACEBOOK SUPPORT FROM MR G AND I. I THINK THERE WAS ONE MORE, MR NEAL. I THANK YOU ALL. UH, THIS IS SOMETHING LIKE I SAID, I NEVER WOULD HAVE THOUGHT I'M JUST TRYING TO BRING SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO THE KIDS. I HAVE SEVEN OF MY OWN, UH, TWO ACTUALLY PARTICIPATING ON THIS TEAM. THE OUTPOURING FROM THE COMMUNITY HAS BEEN OVERWHELMING. I ALREADY HAVE 89 KIDS THAT HAVE TENDED TO BE SIGNED UP TO SHOW UP TO, UH TRIALS MONDAY. SO, UH, DEPENDING WHETHER THAT'S WOULD BE UH, LIKE I SAID, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU ALL AGAIN FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE ALICE KEITH PART TO BRING SOMETHING NOT SOMETHING THAT'S NEW, BECAUSE IT'S ALREADY A SWIM TEAM IN BEAUMONT. I WANNA MAKE SURE I SAY THAT. BUT SOMETHING ELSE ADDITIONAL TO THE COMMUNITY. THANK Y'ALL. THANK YOU, SIR. 
          ALBERT HARRISON. ALBERT HARRISON. 1240, THE ASHLEY BEAUMONT, TEXAS. CITY COUNCIL MEMBER. OK, SAID EMPLOYEES CONCERNED CITIZENS. I WISH TO ISSUE A CHALLENGE TO EACH CITY COUNCILOR. A DEBATE ON TRANSPARENCY. NO YOU CAN EAT CON . CONTACT ME. THE CITY SECTOR HAS MY NUMBER. CONTACT ME IF YOU WISH TO. HAD THAT PARTICULAR CHALLENGE. THE ISSUE I WISH TO BRING UP IS THAT I CANNOT UNDERSTAND AS TO WHY AND HOW. I'M GETTING A $20.02 CHARGE. 
          SEEING THAT. THE CITY. NEGLECTED OR DID NOT ISSUE THE CHARGE ON JUNE NOW MY CONCERN IS AND THIS GOES BACK TO TRANSPARENCY AGAIN. ARE YOU ALL TRYING TO CORRECT THAT $20.02 FROM INDIVIDUALS THAT DO NOT HAVE A WATER BILL OR DOES HAVE WATER ANYMORE? IT SEEMED TO ME THAT YOU ONLY ARE ABLE TO COLLECT IT FROM INDIVIDUALS THAT HAS A CURRENT WATER BILL. NOW I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING. AS TO HOW NUMBER ONE. IT SEEMS, IF HE YOU ALL ARE ABLE TO INCREASE SALARIES. BUT IT STILL YOU ABLE TO CHARGE THE LITTLE MAN. 29 2 CENTS CHOICE, SAYING YOU FORGOT THE CHARGE THAT THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. BEN JOHNSON. GOOD EVENING. UM I'M BEN JOHNSON , PRESIDENT OF THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE COWBOYS. UH, UH, NONPROFIT YOUTH ORGANIZATION. UM WE SUPPLY FOOTBALL, BASKETBALL AND CHEERLEADING TO THE INNER CITY KIDS USED TO SAY, UH, WE ALSO B, UH, PARTNER WITH BEER AND HOUSING THAT PAYS FOR OUR KIDS TO PLAY FOR FREE OF THEIR RECEIVING IF THE PARENTS ARE RECEIVING ANY BEAUMONT HOUSING FUNDING UM, I'M COMING JUST WITH CONCERNS OF, UH, SPROUT PARK FOOTBALL FIELD. I REACHED OUT TO PARKS I REACH OUT TO 
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RECREATIONS. I REACHED OUT, UM TO THE MAYOR ITSELF. UH, JUST FOR ANY UPDATES, UM TWO YEARS AGO ABOUT A YEAR AGO YEAR AND A HALF AGO, THEY RIPPED UP THE FIELD THAT WE PRACTICE ON THAT I HAVE OVER 100 AND 20 KIDS AT AT LEAST SIX MONTHS AFTER THE YEAR, UH UTILIZING, AND I'M I'M NOT HAVING ANY UPDATES ON HOW FAR THE PROGRESSION IS WITH THAT FEEL, UH, RIGHT NOW I'M A NONPROFIT ORGANIZATION. A LOT OF OUR FUNDING COMES FROM DONATIONS OR MY POCKETS ON MY BOARD MEMBERS POCKETS TO MAKE IT HAPPEN, AND WE'RE PAYING A LOT OF MONEY TO BE ISD JUST TO UTILIZE THEIR FIELDS TO PLAY FOOTBALL AND TO GIVE BACK INTO OUR COMMUNITY, UM SO I AM COMING . I KNOW YOU CANNOT ANSWER THE QUESTION NOW, BUT IT'S JUST A QUESTION OF HOW THAT FIELD IS GONNA BE UTILIZED. AND WHEN I TALK TO PARKS, THEY'RE SAYING THAT, UM AT FIRST, THERE WAS A FREE FIRST COME FIRST SERVE FEEL ONCE YOU PUT THE TURF DOWN, IT MIGHT CHANGE. BUT MY CONCERN IS YOU'RE GONNA PUSH OUT 100 AND 50 KIDS FROM THAT SAME COMMUNITY THAT'S BEEN UTILIZING IT FOR OVER TWO YEARS GOING ON. THREE YEARS NOW, UM SO THAT WAS MY CONCERNS ON IT RIGHT NOW ON THE GRASS IS GROWING BACK. THEY THEY DID THE DIRT WORK. THEY PUT ASPHALT DOWN AND HIS GRASS PATCHES GROWING BACK BECAUSE IT'S JUST NOT NO WORK BEING DONE TO THAT FIELD. SO NOW I'M IN A SITUATION OF WE'RE HAVING TO GO BACK OUT AND FIND A NEW FIELD THIS YEAR AND PAY MORE MONEY, ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR FIELDS. ADDITIONAL MONEY FOR INS, INSURANCE. UM JUST FOR THOSE KIDS TO PLAY. UH SO WE JUST LOOKING FOR SOME TYPE OF ANSWERS? UH, SO I CAME TODAY TO JUST TO VOICE MY CONCERNS ON IT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU, SIR. JEROME ALEXANDER. THAT HOW Y'ALL DOING? DR ALEXANDER 1118, A LONG STREET BY MY TEXAS 77701. I COME HERE TODAY. BASICALLY UH, SAME SAME SAME SITUATION WITH, UH, COACH BEAN. UH, IF Y'ALL REMEMBER WHEN CITY COUNCIL REMEMBER Y'ALL HELP US BUILD THE GOLDEN TRIANGLE COWBOYS, WHICH YALL DONATION AND WHEN Y'ALL WE CAME FIRST CAME TO ME. MOTON CAME WE WAS TALKING TO WE ASKED TO HER. WE NEED SOME HELP TO HELP US WITH THE FEEL WHERE WE WAS PRACTICING ON. SO SHE GOT SOME PEOPLE FROM THE DALLAS COWBOYS ORGANIZATION TO DONATE THE TURF DOWN HERE FOR US TO BE LAID ON THE FIELD, SO IT WENT THROUGH THE THIS, MR WILLIAMS HERE SUPPOSED THAT LADY TURF FOR LAST YEAR? Y'ALL GOT THE MONEY. 
          Y'ALL SAY Y'ALL HAD THE PROGRAM FOR IT TO BE LAID. OK WE DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT AIN'T BEING LAID BECAUSE YOU CAN'T SEE IT WITH THE WEATHER BECAUSE IT AIN'T EVEN RAIN LAST YEAR. AND WE TRY TO FIND OUT. YOU GONNA TRY TO TAKE THE FIELD FOR HIM. YOU TOOK THE SALVATION ON YOU. 
          LET THE MAN TAKE THE SALVATION ARMY FROM US WHERE THE KEY WOULD PRACTICE FROM THEM, WHICH WAS DONATED TO ME. A MUON HAD THAT FEAR DONATE TO US. AND THEN, UH, CAPTAIN HAGAN HAD COME. HE TOOK THE FIELD AND ABOUT A WEEK AGO, THEY LET HIM GROWN. PEOPLE USE THE FEAR BECAUSE THEY GAVE HIM MONEY. THE MONEY THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO PAY THEM FOR THE FEE. SO NOW YOU GOT US LIKE YOU SAY, TRYING TO GO HERE AND HERE AND WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY, SO WE HAVE TO ASK FOR DONATIONS TO GET THE MONEY FOR THE FIELD. AND THE KIDS NEED WE NEED SOMEWHERE TO PRACTICE. SO MR WILLIAM, WE TRY TO FIND OUT HOW LONG IT'S GONNA TAKE YOU AND YOUR TEAM TO FINISH THE FIELD FOR US TO PLAY ON. WE APPRECIATE YOU GIVE US A LIKE THANK YOU. WILLIAM JOHNSON. YOU CAN KEEP THAT. I'M GOOD. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. MISTER MAYOR COUNSEL WILLIAM JOHNSON, 1045. MADISON AVENUE, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. 
          MY COMPLAINT IS AGAINST, UH, CHASE CHASE BANK ON COLLEGE. I'M FEELING IN COLLEGE. IT SEEMS AS THOUGH I KEEP ON COMING UP WITH MISSIONS OUT OF MY MONEY. UM, A WHILE. BACK. UH, I WAS GETTING RIPPED OFF AT THE BANK FROM, UH, MY CREDIT CARD. A LOT OF PEOPLE WAS USING IT MORE THAN I THIS PAYS THE SECOND AND THE SIXTH. OF THIS YEAR. UH I WENT TO MY BANK LIKE I USUALLY DO WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE LAST FIVE OR SIX YEARS. FIRST OF THE MONTH. I GO THERE AND TRY TO DO MY BILLS. 
          I WENT THERE ON THE SECOND AND THE SIXTH AND FOUND OUT THAT MY BANK ACCOUNT WAS RIPPED WIDE OPEN WASN'T NOTHING THERE FOR ME TO PAY MY BILLS. I TALKED TO THE BANK PRESIDENT ABOUT IT. AS SHE TOLD ME I HAD TO GO TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I MEAN, UH, SHE REALLY GOT HUSTLE ABOUT IT. 
          WHEN I ASKED HER ABOUT I SHOULD BE ON FILM. IF IT HAPPENED, THEN SHE LET CALL HER, UM GO OVER. 
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BUT ANYWAY, I'M HERE TODAY BECAUSE I HAD A CHECK FOR, UH, 700. DOLLARS WAS TAKEN OUT OF MY ACCOUNT ON THE FIRST AND THE 25TH AND I HAD ANOTHER ONE TAKEN OUT OF MY ACCOUNT ON THE FIRST AND THE 30TH. I WENT TO MY BANK ABOUT IT AND SHE GAVE ME THE NUMBER TO GO TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I DID THAT, TOO. WENT TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND I GOT THIS NUMBER. I CALLED IT REPEATEDLY FROM, UH, THE SIX IN THE 2ND AND 6TH UP UNTIL THE THIRD AND THE SEVENTH. AND I WENT AND GOT ANOTHER NUMBER AND I START CALLING IT AND I STILL DIDN'T GET NO REPLY. UH COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, I CAME BEFORE YOU ALL IN ONE OF THE OFFICER AT THE DOOR STOPPED ME WHEN I WAS GOING OUT, AND, UH, HE MADE A CALL ACROSS TOWN AND I GOT A NUMBER. AND I GOT THIS FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. I GOT THIS FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT ON THE FOURTH AND THE FIRST I PUT IT BACK IN THE MAIL ON THE FOURTH AND THE THIRD. I HAVEN'T HEARD NOTHING FROM A BANK. I GOT MY BANK STATEMENT, AND THEY DID NOTHING ABOUT IT. SO I'M STILL RIGHT HERE TODAY. STILL SEEKING $1600 WAS TAKEN OUT OF MY ACCOUNT. I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO GO. BUT KEEP ON COMING UP HERE ASKING YOU ALL ABOUT IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. EDDIE ALLEN. GOOD AFTERNOON. CITY MANAGER, MAYOR, CITY COUNCILMAN OFFICIALS I WAS HERE LAST COUNCIL MEETING. EXPLAIN THAT I HAD SOMEONE THAT JUMPED MY 6 FT FENCE. I WENT AND , UH, BUILD OUT AN OPEN RECORDS ACT FOR AND STILL I HAVE NOT GOTTEN A NARRATIVE OF WHAT HAPPENED. AND WHEN THE POLICE OFFICER CAME, HE SPOKE TO SOMEONE ELSE. THAT WAS IN MY DRIVEWAY WITH THIS BIG TRUCK. DIDN'T SPEAK TO ME. I DID LET HIM KNOW I WAS THE 911 CALLER. AT THIS POINT. I KNOW WHEN YOU HAVE A CAR ACCIDENT. YOU GET A NARRATIVE? NOW I CALLED, UM I GOT A CALL FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT RECORDS. THEY STATED THAT THEY COULDN'T GIVE ME AN ACCOUNT, BUT THEY COULD SEND IT TO THE ATTORNEY GENERAL KEN PAXTON. AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT BECAUSE I HAVEN'T SEEN THE NARRATIVE, SO I DON'T KNOW HOW THE ATTORNEY GENERAL COULD MAKE WITHIN 6 TO 8 WEEKS. UH, AN ACCOUNT OF WHAT OCCURRED HERE IN BEAUMONT. SO TRANSPARENCY I KNOW MAYOR BEFORE YOU BECAME MAYOR. YOU SAID YOU WANTED TO SEE TRANSPARENCY. I'VE TALKED TO INTERNAL AFFAIRS HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM THEM. I CALLED, UH, CHIEF SINGLETARY LEFT A MESSAGE THIS HAPPENED MARCH 18TH. THAT'S TOO LONG. AND THE REASON I KNOW SOMEBODY JUMPED MY FENCE BECAUSE NEIGHBORS SAW HIM AND CALLED ME SO I SEE THAT THERE'S GATES OVER AT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THEY CARRY GUNS. THEY CARRY TASERS. THEY CARRY BILLY STICKS. 
          THEY HAVE ARMOR. MY ARMOR IS A 6 FT FENCE WITH A PADLOCK. SO WHERE'S THE PARODY? AND I HAVE AN AFFIDAVIT FOR TRESPASSING. SO THIS OFFICER DID NOT EVEN RECOGNIZE THAT. TRANSPARENCY. 
          THANK YOU THAT WE'RE GETTING A SIDEWALK AND I'M WONDERING WHEN THE COMMENCEMENT DATE WILL BEGIN OVER ON F ROAD. BUT TRANSPARENCY EVEN WITH THE WATER BILL, I GOT A NOTE THAT SAID THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. SO I'M GLAD MISS KINNOCK IS HERE SO SOMEBODY CAN BE ACCOUNTABLE WHEN SOMETHING IS SENT OUT TO CITIZENS CAUSE THE CITY OF BEAUMONT DOES NOT WRITE LETTERS. SOMEBODY AT THE CITY OF BEAUMONT DOES. SO I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO, BUT MR CITY MANAGER. MISS CITY ATTORNEY. I HAVEN'T HEARD FROM EITHER ONE OF YOU. AND I'D LIKE TO HAVE SOMEBODY TO TALK TO ME AND TELL ME WHAT'S GOING ON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. MAYOR. IS THERE A MOTION IN A 
          [CONSENT AGENDA]
SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA? THERE IS A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCILMAN TURNER UH, OUR MANAGER, UH, CITY 
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STAFF ITEM E. CAN SOMEONE KIND OF EXPLAIN YOU KNOW HOW IT CAME ABOUT? AND HOW DOES THIS PROCESS WORK? YOU. FROM POLICE SINCE THE POLICE ITEM. I CAN JUST TELL YOU THAT THE CITY DOES DUKE, UM CONSENT TOES, UM, FOR ACCIDENTS WRECKS WHENEVER THE CAR CAN'T BE DRIVEN OUT. THE UM THE INDIVIDUAL DOES HAVE THE OPTION TO CALL A PERSONAL TOW TRUCK COMPANY. BUT IF THEY DON'T HAVE ONE, WE HAVE A, UH, A LIST AND I'LL JUST LET HIM KIND OF STEP IN WHATEVER YOU WANT TO, BUT THIS IS JUST TO ENSURE THAT WE REGULATE THE FEES. UM SO THAT WE CAN PROTECT OUR CITIZENS AGAINST, UM, ASTRONOMICAL FOUNDING PIECE. BUT IS IT KIND OF LIKE REX IF IT'S ON THE FREEWAY, A REGULAR REX IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD LIKE THIS IS SPECIFICALLY FOR THE NO INSURANCE TO SO IF WE STOP SOMEONE, AND THEY DON'T HAVE FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY. THAT'S WHEN THIS CONTRACT COMES INTO EFFECT, SO IT WENT THROUGH THE PURCHASING PROCESS. IT WAS BID. 
          WE GOT THE BIDS BACK. THE BIDS WERE EVALUATED AND SCORED, AND THAT'S HOW WE CAME UP WITH THE, UH WITH THE WINNING PROPOSAL. OK, THANK YOU, A CITIZEN X, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE I CAN GET IT PROPERLY EXPLAINED BECAUSE I DIDN'T WANNA GIVE THEM INACCURATE INFORMATION, SO THANK YOU. YES, SIR. SO THIS IS, UH, PRETTY SURE THIS IS EXCLUSIVELY THE NON THE NO INSURANCE TOWING, SO OUR NO PREFERENCE TO IS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT CONTRACT. OK, THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN GOATS JUST TO FOLLOW UP ON THAT, SO SOMEBODY MAKES A TRAFFIC VIOLATION. THEY GET STOPPED. 
          THEY DON'T HAVE INSURANCE. POLICE OFFICER DOESN'T SAY. WELL, YOU'LL GO IN DRIVE. YEAH YOU STOP HIM, AND THEY THEY GET THEIR CAR TOWED. IS THAT HOW THAT WORKS? NOT ALL THE TIME. IT CAN WORK THAT WAY. WE CAN. UH, THE ULCER HAS THE DISCRETION OF SEEING IF THEY CAN GET SOMEONE THAT THEY WANT TO COME TO IT, UH, THEY CAN GET IT OUT OF THE ROADWAY. IT ALL DEPENDS ON THE TIME CONSTRAINTS, THE TRAFFIC THE CONDITIONS AT THE TIME, BUT THE SHORT ANSWER IS WE CAN TO THE VEHICLE UNDER THIS CONTRACT IF THEY DON'T HAVE AND WHAT I'M TRYING TO GET IS THE MORAL OF THE STORY. JUST MAKE SURE YOU HAVE A LIABILITY INSURANCE. YES SIR. BECAUSE IF WE STOP THEM, AND THEN THEY GO AROUND THE CORNER AND THEY HAVE A WRECK, THEN THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM. 
          THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN D ALL ABLE TO CHECK AND SEE IF THEY HAVE INSURANCE IF THEY DON'T HAVE THEIR INSURANCE ID CARD. YES, SIR. YOU CAN LOOK IT UP. YES SIR . IT IT COMES BACK WITH THE REGISTRATION. WE RUN THE REGISTRATION OK IN IN MOST CASES. SOMETIMES IT WILL COME BACK AS UNCONFIRMED. BUT, UM IN MOST CASES, IT WILL COME BACK AS EITHER INSURANCE CONFIRMED OR NO INSURANCE. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. IF THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF PROVING THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING, I ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER ONE. 
          [REGULAR AGENDA]
THANK YOU. MAYOR COUNCIL CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE PHONE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO TO THE CONTRACT WITH GULF COAST AC RH COMPANY FOR THE STREET. 
          RESERVATION CITYWIDE PHASE ONE PROJECT AND THIS COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER ONE? MOVE TO APPROVE. THERE IS A MOTION IN THE SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER ONE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER ONE. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER TWO, PLEASE COUNCIL CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO FOR THE SECOND PHASE OF THE 2020 HS IP INTERCONNECT SIGNALS PROJECT CALLED THE AVENUE, EAST LUCAS DRIVE AND WASHINGTON BOULEVARD, AND IT COMES WITH A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER TWO? IS THERE A SECOND? THERE IS A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER TWO. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? YES COUNCILMAN TURNER THEN COUNCILMAN DUO. UH MR MANAGER THE INTERCHANGE PROJECT, CAN YOU KINDA I MEAN IN INTERCONNECT SIGNAL PROJECT. CAN SOMEONE KIND OF EXPLAIN IS THIS LIGHTS CONNECTING OR KNOW EXACTLY WHAT DOES IT CONSIST OF? YES, SIR. THIS IS WHAT WE CALL THE ADAPTIVE SIGNALING, UH, PROJECT. 
          WHAT WILL HAPPEN ONCE IT'S INSTALLED IS THAT THE SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS WILL COMMUNICATE WITH EACH OTHER ALONG THE INSTALLED CORRIDOR AND CAN ADJUST THE TIMING ON THOSE SIGNALS TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW BASED ON TRAFFIC CONDITIONS, SO IT HAS CAMERAS AT THE 
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INTERSECTION THAT LOOK CLOSE AT THE STOP BAR LIKE OUR CAMERAS HAVE IN THE PAST. THEY ALSO HAVE CAMERAS THAT LOOK FURTHER AWAY FROM THE INTERSECTION TO COUNT THE TRAFFIC THAT'S COMING SO IT CAN ASSESS HOW HEAVY THAT IS. AND MAKE ADJUSTMENTS. OK I APPRECIATE YOU, BOY BECAUSE I HAD CITIZENS ACT ABOUT THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC. YOU KNOW, CONSISTENTLY STOPPING WHEN THE LIGHT IS GREEN. CAN IT BE A SMOOTH FLOW? OF COURSE YOU CAN'T IDEALLY SAY YES, BUT THIS WOULD HELP ADDRESS THAT FLOW. CORRECT THE KEY THING, THOUGH, IS THEY NEED TO BE DRIVING THE SPEED LIMIT PROGRAMMED FOR CARS DRIVING THE SPEED LIMIT DOWN THE ROAD. SO IF YOU'RE SPEEDING, IT'S NOT GONNA BE EFFECTIVE AT AT KEEPING YOU FROM THOSE RED LIGHTS. SO OK, I'LL MAKE SURE I TELL PEOPLE SOME INCENTIVE TO GO GO THE POST AT SPEED, LOVE AND HAVE LIABILITY INSURANCE. HAVE LIABILITY INSURANCE. COUNCILMAN THEN COUNCILMAN GOETZ. BUT IS THIS GONNA BE DONE ON THE ON FOURTH STREET? ALSO YES, SIR. THIS IS PHASE TWO. FORESTRY WAS PART OF PHASE ONE. SO WE'VE BEEN PRETTY SUCCESSFUL IN APPLYING FOR FUNDING UNDER THIS HIGHWAY SAFETY IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. AND SO THIS IS THE SECOND BATCH OF MONEY, BUT 4TH 4TH IS ALREADY INSTALLED. NOW THAT THE PAVEMENT MARKINGS ARE DOWN, THE VENDOR WILL BE CONFIGURING. UH THOSE ARE PROGRAMMING THOSE INTERSECTIONS SO THAT THAT IT'S UP AND RUNNING. OK, THANK YOU. ISN'T COLLEGE STREET STREET SUPPOSED TO HAVE THIS ALREADY? IT DOES IT HAD THAT WAS OUR INITIAL INSTALL QUITE A FEW YEARS AGO. IT'S AN OLDER SYSTEM. UM WE HAVE HAD A FEW ISSUES WITH IT LATELY, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE PUT IT IN, WE DID DO A STUDY IT WAS HAD IMPROVED TRAFFIC FLOW 37% FROM BEGINNING TO AFTER INSTALL, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME SOME ISSUES WITH CAMERAS THAT HAVE POPPED UP THAT WE'VE HAD TO ADDRESS SO WE CAN BE LOOKING AT THAT AGAIN BECAUSE I CAN TELL YOU THAT'S THE MY PREFERRED ROUTE TO COME TO CITY HALL FROM MY HOUSE. AND FOR SOME REASON, THE LATER I AM THE MORE RED LIGHTS. I HIT OUR OWN. OUR BIG HANG UP ON THAT IS WE CAN'T USE THIS PROGRAM FOR WHERE THOSE SIGNALS ARE BECAUSE OF THIS IS FOR OFFICE SYSTEM. UM SO NOT A TEXT DOT ROAD. UNFORTUNATELY TO COLLEGE UNTIL YOU GET TO 10 AS A TEXTILE ROAD. OK WE'LL TALK TO TEXTILE, I GUESS. LASTLY BOY. 
          THANK YOU BECAUSE MY WIFE IS GUILTY TOO OF THE STOPS ON WASHINGTON. SO, I, I WILL EXPLAIN TO HER IF YOU'RE GOING TO SPEED LIMIT. YOU WON'T RUN INTO ALL THOSE RED LIGHTS. LET IT GO, BROTHER, ALL RIGHT. THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSIONS ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER. TWO, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING A ANY OPPOSED. THE MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE PLEASE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER THREE PLATE? CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A CONTRACT PROPERTY INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR VARIOUS CITY OWNED BUILDINGS AND ASSETS, AND THAT COMES WITH A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER THREE? SO MOVE FOR APPROVAL. SECOND. IT HAS BEEN MOVED AND SECONDED FOR APPROVAL FOR ITEM NUMBER THREE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCILMAN DUO SO I I'VE BEEN TOLD MORE THAN ONCE THAT THE CITY WAS SELF-INSURED. SO IT NO LONGER SELF INSURED. OR IS THIS SOMETHING DIFFERENT? SO COUNCIL VOTED TO GO INTO THE RISK POOL? AND SO, SO THIS IS RISK POOL, BUT I HAVE OUR RELIABILITY ADMINISTRATOR HERE, MARISSA HARRISON THAT SHE CAN FULLY ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. SO THIS IS PARTIALLY RISK PO, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT THAN WHAT YOU'RE THINKING. SO THIS IS FOR OUR BUILDINGS. UM THE THING THAT WAS DONE PREVIOUSLY WAS FOR OTHER LIONS OF LIABILITY. SO IS IT JUST FOR TRANSPARENCY? THE CITY HAS ALWAYS COVERED ADDITIONAL INSURANCE ON OUR BUILDINGS. AND SO THAT'S SEPARATE. SO WHEN WE IN ANY TIME LIKE WE MAY HAVE TO FILE A CLAIM , WHERE DOES THE DEDUCTIBLE COME FROM? WHERE DO WE PAY? WHAT FUND? DO WE PAY THAT OUT OF? UM, THAT'LL IT DEPENDS ON THE CLAIM. SO IF IT'S ONE FOR OUR BUILDINGS I'M HONESTLY NOT SURE. I THINK THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN PAID BY FINANCE. BUT IF IT IS OUT OF LIKE OUR LAW ENFORCEMENT LIABILITY OR OUR PROPERTY DAMAGE AS FAR AS US, UM, DAMAGING SOMEONE ELSE'S PROPERTY WITH OUR VEHICLES. THAT'S PAID OUT OF A BUDGET FROM THE CITY ATTORNEYS. WE HAVE WE HAVE A GENERAL LIABILITY FUND LINE ITEM, UM, AS A PART OF MY DEPARTMENT TO PAY THOSE CLAIMS. SO THE CLAIMS THAT Y'ALL SEE ALL THE TIME IN COUNCIL THAT COMES FROM US, BUT OUR LARGER PROPERTY CLAIMS FROM HURRICANE DAMAGE ARE USUALLY HANDLED BY FAN BY FINANCE. THOSE ARE LARGER CLAIMS. UM, IF YOU 
          [00:50:04]
RECALL, WE HAD DAMAGE TO OUR ROOF, UM, AT THE POLICE STATION, AND I BELIEVE AT THE ART MUSEUM. 
          THOSE WERE LARGER INSURANCE CLAIMS THAT WE EITHER HAVE THE OPTION TO PAY OUT OF POCKET STRAIGHT OUT OR FILE A CLAIM FOR IT, DEPENDING ON THE AMOUNT OF THE DEDUCTIBLE AND THOSE ARE USUALLY BIRTH TO COUNCILS AS WELL. BUT THERE IS A LINE ITEM FOR, UM REPAIRS AND EXPENSES. UM WHAT KIND OF CLAIMS DO WE SEND TO THE RISK POOL? SO EXPLAIN FOR THEM. WHAT WHAT? EXACTLY THAT IS SO RIGHT NOW, UM, WE RETAIN THE ABILITY TO SETTLE CLAIMS UNDER I BELIEVE $10,000. AND SO WE SETTLED THOSE CLAIMS IN HOUSE. UM THROUGH, UM THROUGH YOU AND THROUGH COUNSEL. ANYTHING IN EXCESS OF THAT, DEPENDING ON THE CUFFS OF IT, WE CAN EITHER FILE A CLAIM, OR, UM, DISCUSS IT WITH COUNSEL TO JUST PAY IT OUT OF POCKET. UM BUT TRADITIONALLY MOST OF THE STUFF THAT WE WOULD HAVE, UH, LITIGATED IN HOUSE. WE ARE NOW DOING IT THROUGH A TRADITIONAL INSURANCE COMPANY. 
          BEST WHEN WE VOTED ON TO GO THROUGH TML. AND SO TML IS ON HERE AS WELL BECAUSE THEY ALSO OFFER PROPERTY INSURANCE, SO WE WOULD HAVE ALL OUR LINES OF LIABILITY EXCEPT FOR WHEN IN HEALTH THROUGH THEM, UM AND THEN THEY'RE WORKING WITH A SEPARATE BROKER FOR OUR WIND AND HELL AND THEY, UH AND SO THEY'RE ALSO INCLUDED ON THIS MEMO. ALRIGHT THANK YOU. AND I MIGHT ADD. IF I MISSPEAK MY REST WILL LET ME KNOW. BUT THIS UH THIS SHOWS THAT WE'VE ACHIEVED ABOUT A $641,000 SAVINGS SAVINGS OF OUR PREMIUM FOR LAST YEAR FOR THE SAME INSURANCE COVERAGE ACTUALLY , FOR MORE COVERAGE. SO LAST YEAR, WE WERE ONLY ABLE TO OBTAIN $50 MILLION IN COVERAGE THIS YEAR. UH, THROUGH TML FOR EVERYTHING, EXCEPT FOR UM, FLOOD AND IT THERE'S A SPECIFIC BREAKDOWN. BUT FOR THE MOST PART, JUST KNOW THAT WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN UM, A LOT MORE. 
          UM SO WE'RE ARE IN TOTAL INSURED VALUE IS $334 MILLION, AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO OBTAIN PROPERTY COVERAGE FOR YOUR STANDARD FIRE HAZARDS THAT KIND OF THING FOR THAT TOTAL AMOUNT AND THEN FOR FLOOD TML ALSO INCLUDES $5 MILLION A FLOOD INSURANCE AND THEN THEY ALSO INCLUDE YOU KNOW, SEPARATE BREAKDOWNS THAT WE GENERALLY IN THE PAST HAVE PAID A LOT MORE FOR IN OUR DEDUCTIBLES UNDER THESE ARE LOWER AS WELL. THEY'RE COMPARABLE BUT LOWER THAN WHAT WE WERE. PREVIOUSLY. THANK YOU. OK IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS. ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER THREE. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR, PLEASE? YES MAYOR COUNSEL CONSIDER RESOLUTION APPROVING THE REPAIR OF A PUMP FOR LAWSON'S PUMP STATION, AND THIS COMES WITH A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESO RESOLUTION. THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER PLEASE. MOVE TO APPROVE. THERE A SECOND. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER FOUR. 
          PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED MISTER CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER FIVE. PLEASE CO CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT MAINTENANCE AND AUTHORIZED FINAL PAYMENT TO MK CONSTRUCT CONSTRUCTORS FOR THE JEFFERSON STREET INFRASTRUCTURE REPAIR PROJECT, AND THIS COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER FIVE? DON'T MOVE FOR APPROVAL. 
          IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND THERE IS A MOTION IN THE SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER FIVE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER FIVE. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED. MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER SIX, PLEASE. COUNSEL CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO AWARD A CONTRACT TO TRP CONSTRUCTION GROUP LLC OF HALTON CITY, TEXAS, FOR THE CITYWIDE PAVEMENT MARKINGS PHASE THREE PROJECT AND THIS COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER SIX? THANK YOU. THERE IS A MOTION IN 
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A SECOND. FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER SIX. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER SIX. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I ANY OPPOSED MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, PLEASE COUNCIL CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER ONE TO THE CONTRACT WITH GRANT MCKAY FOR THE DEMOLITION OF TWO STRUCTURES AT THE AT&T BUILDING. AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER SEVEN? MOVE TO APPROVE. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL FOR ITEM NUMBER SEVEN. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION COUNCILMAN D THEN COUNCILMAN GATZ, I NOTICE. YOU SEE FOR TWO STRUCTURES IS THIS LIKE SOME SIDE STRUCTURES. THAT'S NOT THE AT&T BUILDING OR WHAT IS IT? THIS. WE FOUND SOME ASBESTOS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE BUILDING AS THEY WERE TEARING UE CONCRETE SLAB. THERE WAS A MASTIC. JAMIE, I'M SORRY. CAN YOU TALK IN THE YOU COULD SO AS THEY WERE UNEARTHING IT. PULLING THE DIRT BACK. THERE'S A MAST ON THE SIDE. IN ITS ASPECT. A MASTIC. YES SIR. IT'S A WATERPROOFING MASTIC THAT THEY PUT ON THE CEMENT FOR THE BASEMENT. THE BASEMENT DOESN'T LEAK. COUNCILMAN GETS SO I HAVE A QUESTION WE WERE GIVEN. UH, A SHEET OF FIGURES IN WHICH, UH, IT'S TOLD HOW MUCH MONEY UH, IS LEFT TO PAY FOR SOME OF THESE PROJECTS THAT WE PREVIOUSLY PROVED BY MAIN STREET BEING ONE OF THEM, AND IT SAYS IN THE 24 BUDGET, $1.1 MILLION WAS BUDGETED, UH, THAT WE SPENT 220,007 48 TO DATE IN 24. AND THAT WOULD LEAVE 878,002 91 THAT IS STILL NEEDED, ACCORDING TO THAT, BUT THIS IS THAT TO FINISH THE DEMOLITION. YOU'RE ASKING FOR CHANGE ORDER TO MAKE THE TOTAL AMOUNT 774,000. THE NUMBERS DON'T SEEM TO BE ADDING UP. WHAT? WHAT AM I MISSING HERE? SIR I GAVE YOU THOSE NUMBERS. UM THAT IS IN CASE THERE'S ANY OTHER CHANGE ORDERS. ANYTHING ELSE THAT COMES UP? YOU KNOW, BETWEEN NOW AND THE TIME THAT WE MAKE THE FINAL PAYMENT OK, SO WE'VE ALLOCATED 1.1 FOR JUST THE DEMOLITION PORTION OF THE BUILDING. THAT'S WHAT WE THOUGHT THAT THOSE BIDS WOULD COME IN AT. FORTUNATELY THEY CAME IN LOWER THAN THAT. OK, ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. BY SAYING ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF PROVING ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, PLEASE. SIGNIFY BY SAYING, I ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. COUNCIL CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO AWARD A CONTRACT TO EAST TEX UTILITY CONSTRUCTION LLC OF BEAUMONT FOR THE UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD DITCH MAINTENANCE WASHINGTON BOULEVARD TO VIRGINIA STREET PROJECT, AND THIS COMES WITH A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER EIGHT? MOVE TO APPROVE. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCILMAN TURNER AND COUNCILMAN NEIL THEN COUNCILMAN DURIA. UH, FOR CLARITY. I UH UH, WE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE DITCHES OR THE RAILROAD? I'M THINKING IT'S 50 FT FROM THE RAIL. CAUSE IT WAS, UM, DISCUSSION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION. NOT THIS SPECIFIC, THIS PARTICULAR AREA, BUT IN THE NORTH END, UH, ON HILL IS 50 FT FROM THE RAIL, BUT WE WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ADDITIONAL BETWEEN THE STREET AND THE RAIL. IS THAT ACCURATE OR NO? I SAID I WOULD ASK. WELL, THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT THE RAIL HAS VARIES BY RAILWAY, SO I THINK THE WIDER I'M AWARE OF IN TOWN IS 100 FT. UM BUT A LOT OF THEM ARE 50 FT. SO IT JUST VARIES DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU'RE AT, AND THEY RESPONSIBLE FOR EVERYTHING WITHIN THAT RIGHT AWAY. NOW THAT BEING SAID IN AREAS WILL MOW, UM, DO THINGS OF 
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THAT NATURE. THE REASON YOU'RE SEEING THIS ITEM FOR, UM, THE DITCH THAT RUNS THAT RAIL IS, UNFORTUNATELY, IF YOU GO BACK IN TIME, THE WAY A LOT OF THE CITIES DRAINAGE WAS CONSTRUCTED AS THEY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE DITCHES THAT RAN DOWN THOSE RAILWAYS AND SO NEIGHBORHOODS, DITCHES EMPTY INTO THE DITCH THAT GOES DOWN THE RAILWAY RIGHT AWAY, AND UNFORTUNATELY, IN TODAY'S DAY AND TIME, THEY REALLY DON'T MAINTAIN THOSE THOSE DITCHES ON THE SIDES OF THEIR RAIL. THEY'RE NOT THAT WORRIED ABOUT THEM SO, BUT WE ARE BECAUSE THE DEPENDS ON IT FOR THE DRAINAGE THOSE, SO THAT'S WHY WE'VE WORKED WITH THE RAILROAD TO OBTAIN PERMITS AND PERMISSION TO GO IN AND IMPROVE THE DITCH ALONG THEIR RAIL SO THAT WE IMPROVE OUR DRAINAGE. 
          UH, IS IT POSSIBLE THAT THE REAL WORLD WOULD EVEN GIVE FUNDING TOWARDS DISTANCES ACTUALLY THEIR PROPERTY NO. DO WE NEED TO MEET WITH THEM AGAIN? IF YOU CAN, IF YOU CAN MAKE THAT HAPPEN, GOD BLESS YOU. I WOULD. THAT WOULD BE GREAT, BUT GENERALLY WE'RE PAYING THEM FOR THE PERMITS TO BE ABLE TO GO IN THERE AND DO THE WORK. UM NOW I WOULD LIKE, IN LONG TERM TO TRY TO GET OUR DRAINAGE OFF OF THE DITCHES THAT RUN DOWN THOSE RAILS, BUT THAT'S GONNA BE A LONG TERM. UH, PROJECT THAT INVOLVES A LOT OF MONEY TO REVERSE GRADE THE DRAINAGE TO DIRECTION. ALL RIGHT , MR WILLIAMS. I KNOW THEY'LL COME BEFORE US TO DISCUSS SOMETHING SOON. I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT SHOULD BE BROUGHT TO THE FOREFRONT ON WE'RE TALKING ABOUT EXCHANGES IN THE FUTURE. WE WILL BE GLAD TO TALK WITH THEM ABOUT. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN NEIL THANK YOU, MAYOR. BART I'M ASSUMING OUR ENGINEER'S ESTIMATE WAS JUST A GUESS. IS THAT CORRECT? WELL, IT. IT WAS A IT WAS AN EDUCATED GUESS THE PROBLEM IS NO ONE WANTS TO REALLY WORK INSIDE THE RAILROAD RIGHT RIGHT AWAY. SO THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SEEING HERE FROM OUR UNDERSTANDING IS THAT YOU? WE'RE PAYING A PREMIUM FOR THEM TO PUT UP WITH THE PAIN OF OPERATING INSIDE THAT RIGHT AWAY. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN DUO SO BAR SO YOU'RE TELLING ME WE'RE PAYING THE RAILROAD FOR US TO GO IN AND CUT THEIR DITCHES? YES, SIR. YOU KNOW, UH, BECAUSE I HAD IN IN THAT AREA IN THAT SPOT. THERE'S AAA MAN THAT LIVES THERE, AND HE'S BEEN TRYING TO GET THE RAILROAD TO CUT IT. FOR YEARS, AND THEY JUST REFUSED TO AND THEY BASICALLY SAID WE DON'T HAVE TO Y'ALL DON'T WE DON'T FOLLOW YOUR ORDINANCES, AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO ADDRESS OR OR WORK OUT SOME CAUSE THIS THE LADY TOLD IN HER EXCUSE WAS SHE HAD 32,000 MILES OF TRACK AND A MAN LIKE I'M JUST WORRIED ABOUT 100 FT BEHIND MY HOUSE. BUT SHE SAID, IF WE GET A CHANCE WE MIGHT CUT IT. AND THAT'S JUST NOT BEING A GOOD NEIGHBOR. RIGHT, UH, HOPEFULLY, BECAUSE, UM, SINCE I'VE BEEN ON CONSOLE I'VE HAD SOME BAD INSTANCES WITH THE RAILROADS, THE DIFFERENT RAILROADS LIKE HOW LONG IT TOOK TO GET THE RED LIGHT STARTED BACK AT A WASHINGTON AND, UH, 11TH STREET. YOU KNOW, THAT WAS ANOTHER RAILROAD DEAL IN IN THEIR DEFENSE, THE FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION CHANGED THE RULES ON SIGNALS DURING THE TIME OF WASHINGTON. AND SO THEY THE RAILROAD DIDN'T REALLY HAVE A CHOICE. IT WAS A FEDERAL REGULATION THAT HUNG US UP ON THAT ONE. BUT BUT YES, THERE THE RAIL WE HAVE DIFFERING LEVELS OF SUCCESS, DEPENDING UPON THE SPECIFIC RAILROAD, BUT THEY ARE THEY ARE DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH, AND THEY'RE MAINLY WORRIED ABOUT THEIR RAIL, THE STABILITY OF THE BED UNDER THE RAILS IF THERE'S DRAINAGE THAT GOES UNDER THEIR RAIL SYSTEM, THEY'RE WORRIED ABOUT KEEPING THAT RIGHT. BUT THE LITTLE SWELL DITCHES THAT RUN ALONGSIDE THE RAILS. THEY'RE JUST REALLY NOT WORRIED ABOUT. SO UNION PACIFIC IS NOT PARTICIPATE IN OR CONTRIBUTING IN ANY WAY ON THIS PROJECT. NO, SIR. OK? JUST MR WILLIAMS JUST MAKES ME A LITTLE UNCOMFORTABLE, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE GO THROUGH BUDGETARY RESTRAINTS, AND WE'RE CUTTING THINGS OUT OF THE BUDGET, AND WE'RE SPENDING THIS KIND OF MONEY ON SOMETHING. TO ACCOMMODATE OUR SYSTEM, OUR CITIZENS THAT YOU KNOW, PARTICULARLY REALLY NOT OUR RESPONSIBILITY. YEAH WELL, BART MAKES A GOOD POINT. RAILROAD CAN BE VERY DIFFICULT. THEY HAVE CERTAIN RIGHTS THAT MANY OTHER ENTITIES DON'T, UH AND IT IT CD DON'T PRECLUDE THEIR RIGHTS. UH, TYPICALLY SO, UH, YOU KNOW YOU YOU GET SOMEONE THERE THAT THAT'S WILLING TO WORK WITH YOU. 
          YOU MIGHT CAN GET SOME THINGS DONE DEPENDING ON WHO'S IN WORKING IN YOUR REGION, ET CETERA. BUT UH, TYPICALLY, THEY'RE VERY DIFFICULT TO WORK WITH AND GET SOME THINGS DONE. 
          AND UH, IT'S MORE OF A SERVICE THAT WE'RE OFFERING TO OUR CITIZENS. BY PAYING FOR IT. WE'D 
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RATHER HAVE OUR CITIZENS HAVE THEIR AREA MODE AND UH, THE RAILROADS SAY WE'RE NOT GONNA DO IT. NOTHING HAPPENS. COUNCILMAN GETS I'M A IMAGINING THAT THE RAILROADS DON'T HAVE THEIR OWN EQUIPMENT TO GO OUT AND CUT DITCHES. THAT'S NOT TYPICALLY WHAT THEY DO. THEY WOULD HAVE TO CONTRACT THIS OUT. BUT HIS ANYBODY FROM THE CITY APPROACHED HIM TO SEE IF THEY'D BE WILLING TO HELP KICK IN FOR ANYTHING LIKE THIS, OR WE JUST KNOW FROM EXPERIENCE THAT THAT'S GOING TO BE A HARD NO. AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN TRIED. WE STARTED THERE. UH WHEN THE CITIZEN WAS COMPLAINING ABOUT HER DRAINAGE, AND WE REALIZED IT WENT THROUGH THIS DITCH, AND WE HAD TO MOP IT OUT AND MAKE SOME IMPROVEMENTS TO CORRECT THE PROBLEM THAT WAS GOING ON. WE STARTED WITH ASKING THEM TO, YOU KNOW, MAINTAIN THAT DITCH MOP IT OUT, BUT BUT NO, THEY'RE THEY'RE REALLY NOT WORRIED ABOUT THOSE. THOSE DITCHES THAT GO PARALLEL TO THE RAIL. IT DOESN'T REALLY IMPACT THEM UNTIL IT GOT TO SUCH A POINT THAT IT WOULD ERODE. THE RAIL BED ITSELF. THEN THEY WOULD BE WORRIED ABOUT IT. NOW WE HAVE, UM IN THE RECENT PAST BEEN ABLE TO WORK WITH BNS FA LITTLE BIT AFTER A LOT OF EFFORTS, AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTED BY, UH, PROVIDING THE FLAGGING THAT'S REQUIRED FOR SOME OF OUR PROJECTS AND THAT CAN ADD UP THAT'S LIKE $1000 A DAY FOR FLAGGING ON THE RAIL. UM BUT AS FAR AS UNION PACIFIC GOES, WE REALLY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GET ANY ANY PARTICIPATION. THEY THEY DON'T WANT TO TRAIL BEHIND. BEING A F. THEY I MEAN, THEY DON'T CARE. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION. ALL IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. 
          SIGNIFY BY SAYING, AYE. ANY OPPOSED. MOTION IS CARRIED. CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER NINE, PLEASE. COUNSEL CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PUBLICATION OF A NOTICE OF INTENTION TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 12 MILLION, AND THIS COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER NINE? MOVE TO APPROVE. THEIR SECOND. SECOND THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER NINE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? KURIA. YEAH, I WAS. 
          MR WILLIAMS OR ONE OF Y'ALL, IF YOU CAN EXPLAIN EXACTLY WHAT DOES A CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION BOERS AND WHAT? WE'RE GONNA BE SPENDING THIS MONEY ON? IF WE GET IT? WHAT PRICE ARE WE'RE PLANNING TO DO. UH, FOR THE GENERAL PUBLIC. YES SIR. SO CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION ARE ISSUED FOR BASICALLY INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS. UM, STREETS AND DRAINAGE, AND SO, UM , I HAD SUBMITTED A ITEM THERE AT YOUR STATION. UH WHICH IS THE CASH THAT WE NEED TO COMPLETE THE 2024 C IP PROJECTS THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE C IP. UM WE'RE JUST GONNA BE UNABLE TO FINISH THOSE UNLESS WE HAVE A INFUSION OF CASH, WHICH WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION TO OBTAIN SO YOU CAN SEE WE STILL HAD SOME, UH 555 MAIN HAS TO BE PAID FOR AND WE ARE STILL WORKING ON OUR STREET REHAB PROJECTS, BRIDGE REPAIRS, SIDEWALK REPAIRS. THE MAJOR DRIVE IT NORTHWAY, UH, NORTHWEST PARKWAY. TRAFFIC SIGNAL THE CITYWIDE, DITCHING THE STORM, WATER PIPE INSPECTIONS AND POINT REPAIR AND THE WEST LUCAS DRIVE STORM SEWER REHAB, SO UM ALL OF THOSE TOGETHER. YOU KNOW, WE TOOK THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF THE BUDGET. UH, WHAT WE SPENT TO DATE THE CASH THAT WE STILL HAVE ON HAND AND THE DIFFERENCE? BASICALLY, THE CASH NEEDED IS 12 MILLION. OK, IS THIS GONNA MAKE IT'S JUST AFFECT PEOPLE'S TAXES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT WILL TO A MINOR DEGREE. I HAVE A DUSTY TRAILER HERE. WHO'S OUR FINANCIAL ANALYST AND OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR, AND, UH, HE CAN SPEAK TO SOME OF THIS AND GO ON WITH THE TIMELINE, UM, ALSO HAVE THEIR ISSUANCE. GOOD GOOD EVENING, DUSTY, TRAILER MANAGING DIRECTOR WITH R BC CAPITAL MARKETS. WE HAVE THE HONOR AND PRIVILEGE OF SERVING THE CITY OF BEAUMONT AS FINANCIAL ADVISOR. 
          SPECIFICALLY YOUR YOUR QUESTION MR DE RIO ON THE $12 MILLION CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION. WE ESTIMATE THAT THE ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE PAYMENTS ON THESE WILL BE APPROXIMATELY $885,000 PER YEAR. UM IF THE CITY'S TAX RATE WERE NOT TO IF THE CITY'S TAX BASE WERE NOT TO GROW AT ALL, THAT WOULD AMOUNT TO MAYBE ONE CENT ON THE INS TAX RATE, OR A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN ONE CENT ON THE IN S TAX RATE. BUT WE DO ANTICIPATE, UH, THAT THE CITY'S ADVO TAX BASE TO GROW SO WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE IT HAVING TO REQUIRE THAT MUCH. OF A TAX RATE INCREASE IN TERMS OF TIMING. UH, 
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THE ITEM BEFORE YOU TONIGHT STARTS THE PROCESS FOR ISSUING. YOU'RE NOT ACTUALLY APPROVING THE ACTUAL ISSUANCE OF DEBT TONIGHT. YOU'RE JUST STARTING THE CLOCK. UH, TOWARDS PUBLICATION OF THE NOTICE THAT PUBLICATION MUST BE PUBLISHED FOR A PERIOD OF AT LEAST 45 DAYS . SO IT IS OUR ANTICIPATION TO BE BACK BEFORE COUNCIL TO SEEK YOUR AUTHORIZATION TO ACTUALLY APPROVE THE SALE OF THE COOS ON JUNE 18TH. SO WHAT WE WILL DO ONCE COUNCIL APPROVES. THIS NOTICE IS WE WILL START THE PROCESS OF CREATING, UH, PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENTS WORKING CLOSELY WITH YOUR STAFF TO PUT TOGETHER ALL OF THE NECESSARY DATA, UH, CONDUCTING CONFERENCE CALLS WITH THE RATING AGENCIES AND THEN BEING PREPARED TO MOVE INTO THE MARKET SHORTLY AFTER COUNCIL APPROVAL ON JUNE THE 18TH OK? COUNCILMAN TURNER AND TO SPEAK TO SOME OF THAT TAX RATE. ARE WE TALKING PROPERTY TAX AND SALES TAX THAT WE'RE HOPING WE'RE SUCCESSFUL WITH? THE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION ARE NOT SALES TAX IS NOT PART OF THE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION. 
          WE'RE TALKING ABOUT GROWTH IN TAX BASE THOSE TYPES OF THINGS ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. 
          THANK YOU. YES, SIR. ALL IN FAVOR OF PROVING ITEM NUMBER NINE. PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER 10, PLEASE. COUNCIL CONSIDER A REQUEST REQUEST FOR A REZONING FROM R MH RESIDENTIAL, MULTIPLE FAMILY HIGH DENSITY DISTRICT TO PD PORT DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT FOR BLOCKS SURROUNDED BY BEAUFORT. PORT LAMAR HERRING, STEWART AND LEPER STREETS, INCLUDING LOTS APPROXIMATELY 160 FT. SOUTH OF LAMAR STREET, SOUTHERN RIGHT OF WAY, BOUNDARY LINE. AND AT A JOINT PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON APRIL 1520 24. THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED 50 TO APPROVE THE REQUEST, AND THAT'S WITH AN APPROVAL A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE ORDINANCE. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER 10? SO MOVE. CERTAINLY THERE IS A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER 10. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? MAYOR I'M SO SORRY. 
          I DIDN'T GET THE MOTION IN THE SECOND. MOVE. I THANK YOU. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON ITEM NUMBER 10? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING, UH ITEM NUMBER 10, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE, ANY OPPOSED THE MOTION IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER. MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER 11? COUNCIL CONSIDER A REQUEST FOR A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT TO ALLOW TWO DUPLEXES WITHIN THE RCRH RESIDENTIAL CONSERVATION REVITALIZATION HISTORIC DISTRICT FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2490 LIBERTY AVENUE AND AT THE JOINT PUBLIC HEARING HELD ON APRIL 15TH 2024, THE PLANNING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED 502 APPROVE WITH THE FOLLOWING CONDITIONS. ONE CONSTRUCTION PLANS MUST MEET ALL REQUIREMENTS ABOUT WATER UTILITIES FOR WATER AND SENATORS. SEWER SERVICES, INCLUDING ANY REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITYS, BACKFLOW PRETREAT AND OUR PROGRAM. AND TWO CONSTRUCTION PLANS SHALL COMPLY WITH ALL APPLICABLE FIRE AND BUILDING CODE REQUIREMENTS. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER 11 SO MOVE TO APPROVE. THERE A SECOND FOR APPROVAL. THERE'S THERE IS A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR ITEM NUMBER 11. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? GETS WAS THERE ANY, UH, COMPLIANCE OR PUSH BACK FROM ANY OF THE CITIZENS OF THE HISTORICAL DISTRICT WITH REGARD TO THIS AT THE PLANNING AND SELLING MEETING? I WILL DEFER TO OUR NEW DIRECTOR OF PLANNING AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT IN DEMI INGMAN. YES SO THERE WERE A COUPLE UM, THEY EXPRESSED CONCERNS ABOUT DENSITY INCREASES TO THAT LOT. AND ALSO, UM, PRIVACY. UH, IT WILL BE TWO STORIES. UM, SO YOU KNOW, BEING ABLE TO SEE INTO A BACKYARD? UM I BELIEVE THAT CORNELL PRICE. 
          UH, THE APPLICANT HE DID EXPRESS THAT HE WOULD PUT OR ERECT AN 8 FT FENCE. UM SO THAT TO IN HOPES TO REMEDY THAT, UM, BUT THAT THAT WAS MOSTLY THE CONCERNS WAS ANY CONCERN EXPRESSED ABOUT REDUCTION OF PROPERTY VALUES OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. I'M SORRY. YES, THERE WAS, UM, IT WAS 
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ACTUALLY AN TO PROPERTY VALUES DUE TO THE INCREASE IN DENSITY. IT WAS GOING TO INCREASE THEIR PROPERTY VALUE. THAT'S WHAT THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT. YES, SIR. BECAUSE OF THE STATE OF THE CURRENT PROPERTY VERSUS HAVING NEW CONSTRUCTION, RIGHT? OK? ANY OTHER DISCUSSION. YES. ARE THEY GONNA DO THIS? UH, SINCE IT'S IN A HISTORIC DISTRICT IN CERTAIN RULES THAT THEY HAVE TO GO BY AS FAR AS WHEN HE BUILDS IT. YES SIR. UM HE DID APPEAR BEFORE THE HISTORIC LANDMARK COMMISSION. HE RECEIVED APPROVAL ON THE, UM ON THE FACADE OR THE PROPOSAL. UM AND THEN THEY ALSO RECEIVED A VARIANCE, UM, TO THE REAR YARD SETBACK AS WELL FROM THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT. OK? ALL RIGHT. IF THERE'S NO OTHER QUESTIONS, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING, I, I ANY OPPOSED? IS CARRIED MR CITY MANAGER, WILL YOU PLEASE TAKE US INTO THE WORK SESSION? YES. 
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MAYOR COUNCIL TO DISCUSS TRAFFIC CALMING AND A PROPOSED PROPOSED RESIDENTIAL TRAFFIC COMMON PROGRAM AND MR BARTOW WILL COME AND MAKE A PRESENTATION. EVENING COUNCIL. SO WE'RE GONNA RUN THROUGH A PROPOSED TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM THIS EVENING. LIKE UH, BRANDON BEL AIR ARE TRAFFIC ENGINEER WILL ALSO HAND OUT A, UH A MANUAL, A PROPOSED MANUAL FOR THIS THAT GOES ALONG WITH THE PRESENTATION. I'LL GIVE HIM JUST A SECOND. WE PASS IT DOWN. SO TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAMS ARE USED BY CITIES TO REDUCE SPEEDING AND ENHANCE SAFETY FOR ALL ROAD USE. AND DURING THIS PRESENTATION, WE'LL WALK THROUGH KEY COMPONENTS OF OUR PROPOSED PROGRAM, INCLUDING IDENTIFYING EXISTING ISSUES RECOMMENDING SPECIFIC TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES OUTLINING THE STEP BY STEP PROCESS AND DETAILING THE CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR THE FAIR EVALUATION OF REQUESTED STREETS. THE TOP BACKUP ONE. THANK YOU. ONE OF THE TOP COMPLAINTS RECEIVED FROM CITIZENS IS SPEEDING. AS I'M SURE Y'ALL ARE WELL AWARE. CURRENTLY PUBLIC STAT WORK STAFF WILL SET UP TEMPORARY TRAFFIC COUNTERS TO GATHER SPEED TRAFFIC VOLUME DATA AS PART OF A TRAFFIC STUDY. AND THEN WE SHARE THAT DATA WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT'S TRAFFIC UNIT SO THEY CAN EFFECTIVELY TARGET ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS. SO INSTEAD OF JUST GOING OUT TO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND ENFORCING FOR A FEW HOURS, WE CAN ACTUALLY GIVE THEM TARGETED. THAT SAYS THAT PRIMARY SPEEDING IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS BETWEEN FOUR AND FIVE IN THE EVENING AND 8 39 30 IN THE MORNING SO THEY CAN BE EFFECTIVE AND UNFORTUNATELY, POLICE ENFORCEMENT ALONE HAS LIMITATIONS IN ADDRESSING SPEEDING ISSUES IN THE LONG TERM , WHICH IS WHY WE'RE LOOKING AT SOME MORE PERMANENT MEASURES. SO A TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAM'S PURPOSE IS TO INSTALL TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES WHERE NECESSARY TO SLOW THE SPEED OF TRAFFIC. THIS PROPOSED TRAFFIC CALMING PROGRAMS. GOAL IS TO EFFECTIVELY EVALUATE WHERE THOSE TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES ARE NEEDED. AND TO PIN DOWN EXACTLY WHAT WOULD BE APPROPRIATE TO REDUCE SPEEDING IN THAT AREA. FOR THE FIRST TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX, UM, IS CALLED A FEEDBACK SIGN, WHICH HELPS BOOST AWARENESS OF SPEEDING AND ENCOURAGE SAFER DRIVING BY DISPLAYING HOW FAST THE VEHICLE IS GOING ALONG WITH MESSAGES LIKE SLOW DOWN AND TOO FAST IF YOU'RE EXCEEDING THE SPEED LIMIT, THESE SIGNS ARE OUR INITIAL TOOL TO COMBAT SPEEDING PROBLEMS DUE TO A BALANCE OF EFFECTIVENESS AND COST EFFICIENCY. OUR PLAN IS TO TEMPORARILY ALL THESE SIGNS ON EACH REQUESTED STREET FOR A TWO MONTH PERIOD. WE COLLECT TRAFFIC DATA BEFORE, DURING AND AFTER THE SIGN INSTALLATION TO MONITOR THEIR EFFECTIVENESS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. THE FEEDBACK SIGNS WILL ALSO BE AVAILABLE AS PART OF PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS, WHICH WE'LL DISCUSS A LITTLE FURTHER. THE APPROXIMATE COST PER SIGN IS $4000. MOST STREETS WILL NEED TWO SIGNS ONE GOING IN EACH DIRECTION. AND WE ACTUALLY, UM, HAVE PUT AS PART OF A PILOT PROGRAM THAT WAS FUNDED IN THIS YEAR'S BUDGET. WE BOUGHT TWO SIGNS AND WE INSTALLED THEM ON PEYTON DRIVE ON MARCH 21ST. AND THEN WE PULLED THE DATA AGAIN ON 
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APRIL 16TH TO EVALUATE IN THAT FIRST MONTH. HOW HOW EFFECTIVE IS THAT? THAT SIGN. SO BEFORE WE PUT THE SIGN IN PLACE THE 85TH PERCENTILE SPEED OR THE SPEED AT WHICH 85% OF THE TRAFFIC DRIVING DOWN THAT ROAD WAS 37 MILES AN HOUR. A DURING. WHILE THAT SIGN HAS BEEN IN PLACE THIS MONTH, IT'S 35 MILES AN HOUR, SO WE'VE REDUCED IT BY TWO. THE AVERAGE SPEED BEFORE ON PEYTON WAS 32 MILES AN HOUR AND NOW WITH THE SIGN IN PLACE, IT'S 27 MILES AN HOUR. AND THE PERCENT OF TRAFFIC THAT'S SPEEDING DOWN PEYTON BEFORE WE PUT THE SIGN IN PLACE WAS 63% OF THE OVERALL TRAFFIC DOWN PAYTON. AND WHILE THAT SIGN'S BEEN IN PLACE, 22% OF THE TRAFFIC IS SPEEDING SO AT LEAST IN THE FIRST INITIAL MONTH, WE'RE SEEING A GOOD RESPONSE TO THE SIGN BEING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. NOW WE'RE GONNA LEAVE THAT SIGN ON PEYTON FOR ANOTHER TWO MONTHS. WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO WITH THE IS WE WANTED TO SEE NUMBER ONE IS THE SIGN OF AN EFFECTIVE DEVICE TO SLOW TRAFFIC IN A NEIGHBORHOOD BUT TWO IS THERE A FALL OFF PERIOD AFTER THE SIGNS INSTALLED FOR A PERIOD OF TIME. IS THERE SOME POINT AFTER WHICH THEY START IGNORING THE SIGN? AND THEN YOU SPEEDING STARTS GOING BACK UP, SO WE'LL BE LOOKING AT THAT OVER THE NEXT 60 DAYS TO SEE WHAT IMPACT UH, THE TIME HAS TO THE TRAFFIC SPEED ALONG, PEYTON, BUT INITIAL RESULTS WERE ENCOURAGING. OUR NEXT, UH, TOOL IN THE TOOLBOX IS SPEED CUSHIONS . WHAT USED TO BE REFERRED TO COMMONLY AS, UH, SPEED BUMPS. SO IF THE FEEDBACK SIGNS PROVE INEFFECTIVE AND REDUCING SPEEDING ISSUES, LONG TERM SPEED CUSHIONS WOULD BE THE PREFERRED INITIAL OPTION FOR A PERMANENT TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE. THE SPEED CUSHIONS ARE A MODERN SOLUTION TO ADDRESS FEEDING WITH FEWER DRAWBACKS, COMPARED TO AN OLD FASHIONED SPEED BUMP THE THEIR LARGE RUBBER MOUNDS, WHICH WILL GRADUALLY GO UP AND DOWN, WHICH IS KINDER TO THE CAR, SMOOTHER RIDE BUT STILL EFFECTIVE IN REDUCING SPEEDS. UNLIKE TRADITIONAL SPEED BUMPS, THEY'RE LESS LIKELY TO CAUSE ANY VEHICLE DAMAGE AND THE WAY SIZED AND PLACED ON THE ROAD. THEY DO NOT RESPONSE. THE COSTS DO GO UP AS WE GO ALONG HERE, SO IT'S $1700 PER SPEED CUSHION, EVEN IN A SMALL, RELATIVELY SMALL SECTION OF STREET ABOUT 300 FT. YOU'RE GONNA NEED A SET OF TWO OR THREE OF THOSE INSTALLED TO BE EFFECTIVE. SO TO GIVE YOU KIND OF AN IDEA OF WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, IF WE DID SPEED HUMPS ON, UM PAY AND IT WOULD BE WE. WE ESTIMATE IT WOULD BE $23,000 TO INSTALL THEM ALONG PAYTON AND BE EFFECTIVE. UH, ANOTHER ROAD WE LOOKED AT WAS THOMAS ROAD, IT WOULD COST 54,000 BUYER ESTIMATE TO PUT THEM IN A LONG, THOMAS. SO OBVIOUSLY, THE FEEDBACK SIGNS ARE MUCH LOWER COST THAN WHEN YOU GET INTO PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS. CAN I ASK A QUESTION ON THAT? SO YOU JUST MENTIONED PEYTON AND THOMAS ROAD ? WHAT IF A NEIGHBORHOOD WANTED TO PAY FOR IT THEMSELVES? COULD IS THERE A MECHANISM IN PLACE THAT THEY COULD DO THAT? WE THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. AND, UM, IF YOU LOOK AT THE PROGRAM. THE VERY LAST. SHE IS AN FA Q SHEET, AND THE VERY LAST QUESTION ON THE SHEET IS, CAN YOU PURCHASE YOUR OWN FEEDBACK SIGNS? BUT OF COURSE THAT COULD GO ALONG TO POTENTIALLY SPEED HUMPS. AS LONG AS WE AGREE THEY'RE SAFE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, AND OUR THOUGHTS ON IT WERE THAT COULD BE A POTENTIAL SOLUTION WITH Y'ALL'S APPROVAL THAT A CITIZEN GROUP COULD COME UP WITH THE FUNDING. DONATE THAT FUNDING TO THE CITY FOR THE INSTALLATIONS OF THOSE CITIZENS HAVE DONATED OTHER ITEMS TO THE CITY IN THE PAST, PARK BENCHES, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE AND IT WOULD KIND OF FOLLOW ALONG THAT SAME GUIDELINES. AND MY THOUGHT IS IF IT MEETS THE CRITERIA, THEN SOMEBODY ELSE IS WILLING TO PAY FOR IT. THEN WHY WOULD WE SAY NO? COUNCILMAN DUO WHY DOES. WELL AS YOU GET WIDER, IT GETS MORE COMPLICATED TO BE ABLE TO EFFECTIVELY ADDRESS THAT. SO UM WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT SOME OTHER SOLUTIONS SUCH AS ROAD DIETS FOR THE LARGER ROADS. PLUS AS YOU GET INTO LARGER ROADS, YOU GET 
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INTO THE LARGER VOLUMES OF TRAFFIC, WHICH TYPICALLY GETS YOU INTO MORE OF A ARTERIAL ROAD WHERE YOU REALLY CAN'T PUT SPEED HUMPS ALONG THE MAJOR ROADS THAT ARE TRYING TO DRIVE TRAFFIC. DO YOU HAVE, UH, RO DI IN THIS PRESENTATION? UH, WE DO NOT. BECAUSE WE'RE EVALUATING THOSE IN HOUSE AND THEN IMPLEMENTING. UM UM, ALONG THE WAY, SO WE DIDN'T PUT THEM AS PART OF THE REQUEST. AS YOU KNOW, I'VE RECEIVED A LOT OF CALLS ABOUT THE ROAD, DIED ON FOURTH STREET. 
          AND YOU EXPLAIN TO THE FOLKS WHAT EXACTLY ROLE DIET IS? SO A ROAD DIET IS A REDUCTION OF THE LANES OF TRAVEL ALONG A ROAD TYPICALLY DONE TO A FOUR LANE ROAD OR FOUR TRAVEL LANES ON A ROAD. YOU REDUCE IT DOWN TO TWO TRAVEL LANES. AS YOU SEE ON SARAH AND FOURTH STREET, WE WENT FROM FOUR TRAVEL LANES TO TWO TRAVEL LANES WITH A CONTINUOUS TURN LANE PLUS BIKE LANES. AND SO THE GOAL THERE IS TO SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN. YOU PUT IT IN PLACE. WHEN YOU'RE SEEING EXCESSIVE WRECKS, EXCESSIVE SPEEDING, UH, BENEFITS IN ADDITION TO JUST SLOWING TRAFFIC DOWN IS THAT IF YOU DID NOT HAVE A CENTER TURN LANE PREVIOUS A LOT OF THE TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS ALONG THAT ROAD ARE GONNA BE TRAFFIC, STOPPING IN A LANE OF TRAVEL TO TURN. WE DON'T HAVE THAT ONCE YOU RESTRIKE THE ROAD AND YOU HAVE A CONTINUOUS TURN LANE, THE TRAFFIC THAT NEEDS TO TURN LEFT AS A SAFE PLACE TO GO TO OUTSIDE THE LANE OF TRAVEL. AND SO THAT'S A LARGE PART OF YOUR REDUCTION IN IN WRECKS ALONG THAT ROAD. UH, CAN YOU ALSO EXPLAIN THE TYPE OF RESEARCH AND TESTING THAT'S THAT'S DONE BEFORE YOU DECIDE TO DO A ROLL DIET. WE GO THROUGH A TRAFFIC STUDY. WE GATHER INFORMATION AND WITH REGARDS TO VOLUME OF TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD SPEED OF TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD. WE LOOK AT THE CRASH HISTORY OVER THE PREVIOUS NUMBERS OF YEARS, AND THEN WE CHURN THAT DATA AND WE LOOK TO MAKE SURE THERE NOT TOO MUCH TRAFFIC ON THE ROAD WHERE YOU WOULD BE BACKING TRAFFIC UP AND WHETHER IT'S APPROPRIATE OR NOT IN THERE AND WE ARE EVALUATING THE AFTER ON ALL OF THESE ROADS AS WELL. WE DID AN INITIAL SIX MONTH FOLLOW UP ON THE FIRST TWO ROADS, WHICH WERE BEAUFORD AND GLADYS AND WE DID SEE A POSITIVE REDUCTION IN THE SPEED ALONG THOSE ROADS, AND WE'RE RIGHT AT ABOUT A YEAR AND WE'LL BE LOOKING AT COMPARING A YEAR WITH THE DIET VERSUS THE YEAR BEFORE WITHOUT THE ROAD, DIED AND SEE IF IT IMPACTED. UH, TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AS WELL. IT DID THAT ON CALDER STREET AS WELL, DIDN'T THEY? CALLED THEIR PRE DATED ME IN TERMS OF PUTTING IT IN, BUT CALDER WENT FROM 22 LANES, MUCH LIKE FORTH WITH STRIPED PREVIOUSLY WITH NO CENTER TURN LANE AND WE PUT MEDIANS IN IN THAT CASE, UH, WITH, UH, TWO TRAVEL LANES AND BIKE LANES ALL THE WAY DOWN CALDER AND CALDER, CALDER DRIVES AND ICE. I MEAN, SO AND PLUS, WE GOT DRAINAGE DOWN CALDER WHEN WE PUT THAT IN THANK YOU, BART. 
          THIS IS A GOOD SPOT, TOO. TO JUST TAKE A MINUTE. I'M GONNA INTRODUCE BRANDON BEL AIR, A TRAFFIC ENGINEER, AND I'M GONNA GET HIM TO SHOW YOU THE TWO DEVICES THAT WE TYPICALLY USE TO GATHER THAT DATA WHEN WE TALK ABOUT TRAFFIC STUDIES. ALRIGHT, THIS IS THE RADAR CALENDAR. WE SET THIS UP ALONG LONG STREETS. UH, MID BLOCK. UH, IT GETS ATTACHED TO A UTILITY POLE. KIND OF OPEN THE AIR, AND IT FACES THE TRAFFIC AND EMITS A RADAR. AND THEN IT'S ABLE TO COUNT THE VEHICLES AS THEY GO PAST IT. IT CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONCOMING AND OUTGOING. IT CAN TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN SMALL, MEDIUM AND LARGE VEHICLES , SO MOTORCYCLES, TRUCKS, BUSES AND THEN AFTER ABOUT TWO WEEKS. I DOWNLOAD THE DATA AND IT CAN IT CAN SPIT OUT HOUR BY HOUR, DAY BY DAY. UH, DATA FOR HOW MUCH HOW MANY VEHICLES THE VOLUME AVERAGE SPEEDS. QUITE A BIT OF INFORMATION. THIS IS A CAMERA. WE PLACE AT THE CORNER OF INTERSECTIONS. WAY UP IN THE AIR, AND IT CAN RECORD A BUSY INTERSECTION FOR TWO DAYS. WE USE THESE MAINLY FOR SIGNALS. 
          UH, FOR TIMING, AND IF SOMEONE REQUESTS A SIGNAL, ALTHOUGH THIS UP THERE AND THEN GET THE FOOTAGE BACK AND COUNT IT, HOW MANY CARS ARE TURNING LEFT RIGHT PEDESTRIANS THAT KIND OF THING. 
          SO THAT GIVES YOU SOMEWHAT OF AN IDEA OF WHAT YOU MIGHT SEE IN THE FIELD AS OPPOSED TO THE OLD STYLE. UH, TUBES THAT TEXTILE WILL LAY OUT SO CAN I ALSO THOSE THE SIGNS THAT GIVE YOU THE SPEED? SOMETIMES THEY THEY ARE OFTEN EQUIPPED WITH, UH, THEY'RE ABLE TO GATHER THAT DATA, TOO. 
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THEY'RE ABLE TO GATHER SPEED BUT NOT SPEEDS. SOME TYPES OF VEHICLES. TIME OF DAY. UH, SOME OF THEM EVEN IN WHAT WERE CALLED WEATHER CONDITIONS THERE WHEN THINGS ARE HAPPENING, SO YOU GET AAA LOT OF INFORMATION FROM THOSE DEVICES AND THE SAME MANAGER'S ENTIRELY CORRECT. 
          THOSE SIGNS DO GATHER DATA. SO, UH, WE WOULD USE THOSE DEVICES PRIOR TO INSTALLING THE SIGN. 
          BECAUSE THERE WE DON'T WANNA TO ANYBODY TO KNOW THE SIGNS COMING SO WE CAN GET THE BEHAVIOR OF THE TRAFFIC BEFORE THE SIGNS INSTALLED. BUT ONCE THE SIGNS IN PLACE IT'S GATHERING THAT SAME TRAFFIC DATA SO THAT WE GET WITH THOSE DEVICES, AND SO WE GET THAT INFORMATION AND ARE ABLE TO EVALUATE WHAT'S GOING ON. SO CAN CAN THESE CAMERAS BE INTEGRATED WITH THE NEW? UH REAL TIME CRIME LAB CAMERAS THAT THE POLICE HAVE . CAN THEY BE A PART OF THAT SYSTEM? THE ONE DEVICE IS JUST RADAR. NO TALKING ABOUT THE CAMERA. IT'S SHORT TERM AND DURATION, SO WE REALLY IT'S NOT FOR PERMANENT USE, BUT I BELIEVE THEY ARE LOOKING AT POSSIBLY TYING INTO THE TRAFFIC. UH, CAMERAS THAT ARE AT THE INTERSECTIONS AND MAKE USE OF THOSE WHICH ARE PERMANENT INSTALLATIONS. OK MAY I ASK YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SPEED CUSHIONS? BECAUSE HAVING HAD A CONVERSATION. I WANT TO GET CLARITY AND JUST I KNOW IN IN PAST THE SPEED BUMPS OR HUMPS, UH, OFTENTIMES THEY WOULD BE ON THE ROAD FOR A LONG PERMANENTLY, THEY'D BE PUT THERE. BUT THIS AM I UNDERSTANDING THAT THESE WOULD BE PUT THERE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME TO CALM TRAFFIC, OR WOULD THEY BE PERMANENT? THEY WOULD BE PERMANENT AS WELL. THEY'RE BOLTED INTO THE ROADWAY SURFACE. 
          THE ONLY DIFFERENCE IS YOUR OLD STYLE SPEED. BUMPS WERE TYPICALLY ASPHALT SHAPED ON THE ROAD AND ARE MADE OF RUBBER AND THEY'RE INSTALLED ON THE ROAD. UM SOME EXAMPLES WOULD BE THE H EBS HAD PUT THESE IN PLACE IN FRONT OF THEIR STORES. AND IF YOU GO TO OUR FLEET FACILITY ON LUG AND ROAD, WE'VE INSTALLED THEM, UM THERE AS WELL. WHEN WE PUT THE NEW CONCRETE IN COUNCILMAN, GO THE OLD STALL ASPHALT SPEED BUMPS. WHY WOULDN'T WE STILL BE ABLE TO USE THOSE? BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO ME THOSE WOULD BE LESS EXPENSIVE THAN THE CUSHIONS AND IF YOU MADE THEM IN SUCH A WAY, WHERE THE EMERGENCY VEHICLES WOULD STILL BE ABLE TO GET THROUGH, IN OTHER WORDS, NOT HAVE THE ASPHALT ALL THE WAY ACROSS THE STREET. WOULDN'T THEY BE SIMILAR? YEAH THE ARGUMENT ALWAYS HAD GIVEN TO ME ABOUT THE ASPHALT STYLE SPEED BUMPS IS THAT IT WOULD IMPEDE EMERGENCY VEHICLES. IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT IF YOU PUT THEM IN SUCH A FASHION THAT AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THAT DIAGRAM THAT IS UP THERE WITH THE FIRE TRUCK. WOULD THAT BE THE SAME THING? I THINK YOU'RE GONNA SEE THAT WITH THE ASPHALT. YOU'RE GONNA GET, UH, DEGRADATION OF THAT ASPHALT OVER TIME, AND THEN IT IT'LL BE A ROUGH, ROUGHER BUMP. THEY HIT IT AT 90 MILES AN HOUR. BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO THAT ONCE YOU GET POSSIBLE VEHICLE DAMAGE. 
          I MEAN, THIS IS REALLY THE MODERN SOLUTION, UH, TO BE ABLE TO SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN, BUT BUT NOT HURT THE CARS IN ANY WAY. YES EVEN WITH POSSIBLE LEGAL DAMAGE IF SOMEONE'S SPEEDY THE CITY HOW CAN WE EVEN BE HELD LIABLE IF THEY'RE THE ONES SPEEDING IN THE WRONG CHARADE? CAN YOU KINDA SPEAK TODAY BECAUSE I KNOW PEOPLE HAVE CALLED ME WITH, SO THEY HIT POTHOLES. AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN, I. I SUPPORT IT, BUT SO THIS IS A TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE SIMILAR TO ANY OTHER TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE. SO IF SOMEONE'S SPEEDING AND THEY HIT A STOP SIGN ARE WE RESPONSIBLE IF SOMEONE'S SPEEDING AND THEY RUN INTO A POLE OR RESPONSIBLE, THE POST IS SPEED LIMIT IS PRIMA FACIE NOTICE AND EVIDENCE TO SLOW DOWN , SO ADDING AN ADDITIONAL, UM, TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE TO A STREET IS NOT THE SAME AS A, UM INDENTATION OR DEFECT OR WHATEVER. UM THEY WANNA IDENTIFY IT AS NOT TO SAY THAT A POTHOLE IS A DEFECT IN THE ROAD, SO SLOW DOWN PLAINTIFFS ATTORNEYS OUT THERE. THAT'S NOT WHAT I SAID, UM, SO ANY MODIFICATION THAT YOU PUT INTO THE ROADWAY IS AN ADDITIONAL TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE DOES NOT, IN PART ANY ADDITIONAL LIABILITY ON THE CITY. UM ROAD USERS AND DRIVERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR FOLLOWING TRAFFIC LAWS. THAT'S JUST AN EXTENSION OF THAT. THINK THERE'S IMPORTANT. SPEAK TO THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN COUNCILMAN. AND SO WITH THAT FURTHER CLARIFICATION I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW. WHAT THE COST WOULD BE TO PUT AN ASPHALT SPEED. BUMP OUT THERE, AS OPPOSED TO I MEAN, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO SLOW OUR TRAFFIC DOWN. I HAD A UH, OCCASION THIS PAST 
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WEEKEND WHERE A LADY WAS DRIVING DOWN FEET ON WAY TOO FAST LOST CONTROL OF HER FANS. UH, HER CAR WENT THROUGH MY NEIGHBOR'S FENCE . LUCKY LUCKILY, SHE DIDN'T GET HURT BECAUSE SHE HAD HIT THE BRICK COLUMN OR THE POLE. SHE PROBABLY WOULD HAVE NOT WALKED AWAY FROM THAT. BUT YOU KNOW, COMPLETELY DESTROYED THE FENCE, AND THE CAR ENDED UP IN MY NEIGHBOR'S BACKYARD. SO I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT KIND OF COSTS COMPARISON WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THERE. I CAN LOOK AT IT AND SEE IF THEY CAN BE IF ANYBODY'S PUT THEM IN IN A FASHION LIKE THIS, I WILL STATE THAT ASPHALT IS NOW UP TO NORTH OF $210 A TON, SO IT'S GONE UP QUITE QUITE A BIT, UH, JUST FOR REFERENCE. A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. IT WAS $85 A TON. SO WE'RE NOT TALKING INEXPENSIVE, UM, ON ASPHALT ANYMORE. COUNCILMAN DUO. UM MISERY SAW ON A, UH IF A CAR HITS UH, ROAD BUMP OR SPEED BUMP THAT WE IN INSTALLED. AND UH, LOSE CONTROL AND SOMEBODY DIES. WE MAY NOT FEEL WE'D BE HAVING A LIABILITY. BUT THERE'S STILL PROBABLY GONNA SUE THE CITY. SO JUST THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I COUNCILMAN. UM SAMUEL ASKED ME SO LET ME EXPLAIN SOMETHING TO YOU. IF SOMEONE'S DRIVING DOWN THE ROAD, AND THE POSTED SPEED LIMIT IS 30 MPH. THAT'S WHAT WE THAT'S WHAT THEY TYPICALLY ARE IN NEIGHBORHOODS. RIGHT THAT'S THE PRIMA FACIE PRIMA FACIE BEATS LIKE 30 MPH IN A NEIGHBORHOOD. YOU GO OVER THAT SPEED BUMP 30 MPH. DO YOUR SPEED AS YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO GO OVER THAT SPEED BUMP TO MAYBE 2025 AND YOU SPIN OUT OF CONTROL AND YOU WRECK YOUR VEHICLE AND DIE. 
          I PROMISE YOU THERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS GOING ON IN THAT CAR. SO IN ORDER FOR THE CITY TO BE LIABLE BECAUSE WE TALK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME. UM, LIABILITY VERSUS BEING NAMED IN THE SUIT. 
          I CAN'T PROTECT YOU FROM BEING SUITED. SOMEBODY CAN SUE YOU BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE YOUR PINK TIE TODAY AND WE WILL FILE A CASE TO DISMISS IT. HEY, MAN, NOT EVERYBODY IS A FAN OF PINK. 
          I PREFER RED MYSELF, BUT WE CAN WE CAN. WE CAN SUIT YOU. MY WIFE LIKES IT. AND I SAID, AND I AND I, AND I HOPE SHE'S ON. I HOPE SHE'S ON THE JURY. UM, FOR THAT CASE, BUT BUT THE BUT WHAT? I'M TRYING THE POINT I'M TRYING TO MAKE IS THAT IT DOESN'T STOP THEM FROM FILING THE LAWSUIT. IT DOESN'T STOP THEM FROM FILING THE CLAIM. WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN I TELL YOU ABOUT ALL THE TIME IS THAT THE LIABILITY IS BASED AROUND IN OUR PROTECTIONS AND DEFENSES THAT WE HAVE FOR THE CITY. AND SO THIS TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICE DOES NOT, UM, IMPART ADDITIONAL LIABILITY TO THE CITY. NOW THERE MIGHT BE SOME OTHER ISSUES AS IT RELATES TO HOW THIS AFFECTS OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT VEHICLES WHERE WE PLACE THESE ITEMS AND HOW THEY'RE STRATEGICALLY PLACED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. I THINK THAT'S A DIFFERENT CONVERSATION AND A DIFFERENT DISCUSSION. BUT AS IT RELATES TO OUR LIABILITY, IT'S NOT GONNA THERE'S NOTHING YOU CAN DO TO STOP PEOPLE FROM SUING YOU PEOPLE FILE FRIVOLOUS LAWSUITS ALL THE TIME AND PEOPLE FILE CLAIMS ALL THE TIME. SO AS IT IF YOU'RE ASKING ME, IS IT GONNA INCREASE THE AMOUNT OF CLAIMS THAT WE RECEIVE IN THE CITY? POTENTIALLY UM AND THERE'S NOT GONNA BE ANY WAY TO KNOW THAT SOMEBODY WENT OVER IT GOING 30 MPH IF THEY WENT OVER IT GOING 45 MPH IN IT TO THE BOTTOM OF THEIR CAR. THERE'S A THERE'S NO WAY TO DETERMINE THAT. BUT THE REALITY IS, IS THAT IF THEY GOT INTO A WRECK ON A STREET AND THEY WERE GOING IN THE POST OF SPEED LIMIT WAS 45 JUST IN THE ARTILLERY RING AND THEY'RE GOING 65. THEY COULDN'T SAY THAT THE CITY SHOULD HAVE LOWERED THEIR SPEED LIMIT OR RAISED THE SPEED LIMIT TO AVOID THE ACCIDENT. THEY CAN SUE FOR IT, BUT THAT'S IT'S NOT A VIABLE CLAIM. BILLS EVERY TIME. OK, AND I'M ASSUMING , TOO. THERE'S GOTTA BE QUITE A BIT OF CASE LAW ON THIS BECAUSE THERE'S SEVERAL CITIES. I MEAN, I LIVED IN HOUSTON IN THE EIGHTIES, AND THEY HAD SPEED BUMPS THEN OR SPEED UP. THE CASE OF THE CITY RELIES ON TO, UM DEFEND AND DENY POTHOLE CLAIMS IS FROM THE 18 HUNDREDS. IT WAS A WAGON WHEEL CASE. A WOODEN WAGON WHEEL CASE, AND IT IS STILL GOOD CASE LAW. IT IS A FUN FACT. THANK YOU. WE'LL MOVE ON FROM SPEED CUSHIONS. IF YOU CAN. 
          SORRY. WE'VE BEEN ON THAT ONE A WHILE. SO THE FIRST THE FIRST TWO TOOLS IN THE TOOLBOX THAT WE TALKED ABOUT WHERE THE FEEDBACK SIGNS IN THE IN THE SPEED CUSHIONS AND THOSE WERE LOWER BARS OF ENTRY LESS COST TO PUT IN, ESPECIALLY THE FEEDBACK SIGNS. THE NEXT THREE OPTIONS THAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT REDUCING SPEEDING, UH, ARE GOING TO REQUIRE CONSTRUCTION SO YOUR COSTS ARE GONNA GO UP AND IT WILL DEPEND ON THE LENGTH OF THE ROAD. UH, BUT WE WANTED TO ADDRESS THESE AS WELL. SO, UH, BASICALLY THREE OPTIONS WILL REDUCE SPEEDING BY VARYING WIDE 
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AND STRAIGHT TRAVEL PATHS IN SOME MANNER, SO PRIMARILY ACCOMPLISHED BY NARROWING THE TRIBE TRAVEL LANES BECAUSE DRIVERS TEND TO NATURALLY SLOW DOWN WHEN THEY'RE IN NARROWER LANES THAN IF YOU HAVE A WIDE OPEN, UH, VERY WIDE LANE. THE IDEAL IMPLEMENTATION OF THESE METHODS WOULD REQUIRE RECONSTRUCTION OF PORTIONS OF THE ROADWAY, WHICH INCLUDES ENGINEERING PLANS AND BIDDING OUT THE CONSTRUCTION AS A MAJOR PROJECT. SO, UH, WHAT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER WAS CALLED OR CALDER WOULD BE A GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT. UM THEREFORE THESE OPTIONS WILL BE CONSIDERED IF THE FEEDBACK SIGNS AND THE SPEED CUSHIONS ARE DEEMED INEFFECTIVE OR NOT SUITABLE FOR A SPECIFIC STREET. UM YOU CAN USE THESE TYPES OF METHODS AND, UH COLLECTORS AND POTENTIAL EVEN ARTERIALS TO SOME DEGREE WHERE YOU CAN'T USE THE SPEED. 
          EXCURSIONS. THE FIRST OF THE OPTIONS, WHICH WE HAVE ON THE PAGE NOW IS CALLED A CHICANE. SO THESE ARE SMALL SECTIONS OF CURB AND LANDSCAPING STRATEGICALLY PLACED ALONG THE EDGE OF A STREET TO, UH NARROW AND SHIFT THE TRAVEL PATH AT DISRUPTS AND OVER OTHERWISE STRAIGHT PATH AND PROMPTS DRIVERS TO SLOW DOWN A LOT OF TIMES. THESE ARE PAIRED WITH MEDIANS AS WE SEE IN ONE OF THE PICTURES TO PREVENT DRIVERS FROM JUST SIMPLY CUTTING AROUND AND PASSING AROUND THE OBJECT. 
          UM MULTIPLE SETS ARE USUALLY NEEDED ALONG A STREET AND SOMETIMES MEDIANS ARE NEEDED AS WELL. AND THE COSTS ARE VARY GREATLY, DEPENDING UPON THE STREET AND THE LENGTH AND HOW MUCH CONSTRUCTION IS NECESSARY. SO TO ANSWER COUNCILMAN DEL'S QUESTION BEFORE HE EVEN ASK IT, UM, THIS WILL BE CONSIDERED A DESIGN FEATURE, AND THERE IS STANDARD AND WELL STANDING CASE LAW THAT SAYS THAT CITIES ARE IN MUNICIPALITIES ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR, UM REX OR ACCIDENTS THAT RELATE. ON A DESIGN FUNCTION FOR INDIVIDUAL WOULD HAVE TO PROVE THAT THE DESIGN FUNCTION WAS INHERENTLY DANGEROUS OR DEFECTIVE. IN ORDER TO DO THAT. I. I WOULDN'T GO ASK A QUESTION. THE NEXT, UH, OPTION IS OUR MEDIANS, WHICH WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IN COMBINATION WITH THE CHICANES. BUT RAY MEDIANS ARE, UH, A BENEFIT, SUCH AS ON CALDER. IT WILL SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN, UH, THEY SERVE AS A VERTICAL OBSTRUCTION. UH, POSITION ALONG THE CENTER LINE ENCOURAGES SLOWER SPEEDS. YOU CAN ALSO CONTRIBUTE TO THE AESTHETIC APPEAL AGAIN LIKE WE DID ON CAL DURING CERTAIN SECTIONS. YOU CAN LANDSCAPING AND YOU CAN PUT PLANTER BOXES ON ON THE, UH, THE MEDIANS IF YOU WISH, AND THEN THESE MEDIANS ALSO CAN SERVE AS PEDESTRIAN REFUGE AREAS, SO IF SOMEONE'S CROSSING THE STREET, IT GIVES THEM A PLACE TO STAND. IF THEY CAN'T GET ALL THE WAY ACROSS A SAFE PLACE THAT THEY'RE OUT OF TRAFFIC, UM SO IT PROMOTES SAFER INTERACTION BETWEEN CARS AND PEDESTRIANS. IN THE LAST ONE OR CURB EXTENSIONS. CURB EXTENSIONS . UH, EXTEND THE CORNERS OF AN INTERSECTION OUT INTO THE STREET , WHICH AGAIN CAUSES THE TRAVEL LANES TO BECOME NARROWER, UH, BY REDUCING THE DISTANCE FROM ONE SIDE OF THE STREET TO THE OTHER. 
          THIS DOES HELP. UM MINIMIZE PEDESTRIAN EXPOSURE. THERE'S LESS STREET THAT THEY HAVE TO CROSS. IT ALSO GIVES MORE VISIBILITY TO PEDESTRIANS BECAUSE THEY'RE KIND OF STANDING OUT ALMOST IN THE ROAD IN THAT EXTEND SECTION A CURB YOU SEE SOME OF THESE FEATURES IN DOWNTOWN INTERSECTIONS, UH, NATURES AND WALL WOULD BE AN EXAMPLE. SOME OF THIS WAS DONE WHEN WE DID THE INTERSECTIONS AND THE BRICK SIDEWALKS DOWNTOWN AND, UM, HAVE THOSE KIND OF BULBOUS EXTENSIONS AT THE INTERSECTION. IT WAS PAIRED IN OUR DOWNTOWN AREA. A LOT OF TIMES WITH STREET PARKING. SO YOU'D HAVE THAT EXTENSION AND THEN YOU'D HAVE STREET PARKING DOWN BEHIND IT, UM, TO THE NEXT INTERSECTION. AND THIS AGAIN WOULD WOULD INVOLVE CONSTRUCTION AND ONE PROBLEM WITH THIS IS YOU DO HAVE TO PAY ATTENTION TO DRAINAGE AND UTILITIES. IF DRAINAGE IS GOING ON THE SURFACE ALONG THE CURB AND YOU EXTEND THE CURB OUT. YOU HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT IMPEDING DRAINAGE AND CAUSE FLOODING IN THE AREA. JUST CURIOUS THAT, UH, I MEAN, THESE ARE ALL VERY, UH, INTERESTING AND APPEAR TO BE EFFECTIVE METHODS. I'M ASSUMING THERE'S SOME ANALYTICS THAT IS DONE AS WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW, FOR EXAMPLE, ON WHICH IS MOST EFFECTIVE, AND I UNDERSTAND IT DOES DEPEND ON THE TYPE OF ROAD THAT IT IS, AND IT MAY EVEN, UH, THE TERRAIN THAT'S THAT THE ROADS BUILT ON, BUT, UH, IN TERMS OF COMPARABLE CITIES. IS 
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THERE DATA LIKE THAT AVAILABLE IN TERMS? UH, BECAUSE CLEARLY THE SIGNS WITH THAT ARE ABLE TO READ OR THE LEAST EXPENSIVE, BUT YOU WANT TO HAVE THE BEST EFFECT. WELL. THE SIGN OF THE LEAST. LEAST EXPENSIVE. HOWEVER WHEN YOU GO OUT AND YOU LOOK AT RESEARCH, THERE'S ALSO THE MOST THE WIDEST DISPARITY IN STUDIES ON HOW EFFECTIVE THEY ARE. YOU CAN FIND STUDIES THAT SHOW THEY'RE GREAT, AND YOU CAN FIND OTHER STUDIES THAT SHOW THAT THE EFFECT IS SHORT TERM AND DURATION DOESN'T LAST THAT LONG. THAT'S PRIMARILY WHY WE WANTED TO PILOT IT IN BEAUMONT AND SEE WHAT THE IMPACT IS HERE WITH THOSE FIRST TWO SIGNS WE PUT IN ANYTHING PERMANENT. PUT ON THE ROAD TO IMPEDE TRAFFIC IN SOME MANNER EITHER MAKE THEM GO OVER A CUSHION. OR UH, TAKE A TURN OR A CURVE OR YOU NARROW THE ROAD THEN THEN THAT'LL SLOW IT DOWN, BUT IT'S JUST GONNA DEPEND ON THE GEOGRAPHIC. AREA THAT ROAD DO WE HAVE RIGHT AWAY? DO WE HAVE THE MONEY TO DO FULL ON CONSTRUCTION? AND WE PRESENTED IT IN THIS, UH, PRESENTATION? BASICALLY IN THE ORDER. WE'D LIKE TO CONSIDER IT AS SOMEBODY'S ASKING OR COMPLAINING ABOUT SPEEDING IN AN AREA. IF WE FIND IT'S VALID, WE WANT TO START AT THE LOW END AND THEN GO UP. UM, IN ORDER TO ADDRESS, UH, YES, COUNCILMAN. WELL, I. I LIKE THE PRESENTATION. UH, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS HAVE COME COME TO MIND AS A ONE. AND WHEN I, UH, SPOKE WITH OUR ATTORNEY, UH, THERE'S BEEN A CHA I THINK THERE'S BEEN A CHANGE IN POSSIBLE PERCEPTION AND PHILOSOPHY THAT'S TRANSCENDING THROUGH THE YEARS BECAUSE INITIALLY WE, UH I WAS TOLD, AND IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WERE ISSUES WITH, UH, HAVING SPEED BUMPS BECAUSE OF LIABILITY TO THE CITY. UH FOR NOT ONLY, UH, REPAIRS TO INDIVIDUALS OR REPAIRS IN THE EVENT OF ACCIDENTS, BUT ALSO, UM BECAUSE OF, UM UH, PERCEIVED LITIGATION. UH, I UNDERSTAND THAT THAT AND I DO I HAVE SEEN EVEN THROUGHOUT THE TIME. I ALWAYS ASKED. HOW IS IT? HOUSTON CAN HAVE SPEED BUMPS IN THEIR STREETS, AND WE COULD SO THAT'S ONE. BUT I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S MORE, UH, THAT I SEE. UM BECOMING AN ISSUE. THIS WE ARE BEGINNING TO, UH, GET INTO SOME SUBJECTIVITY. IS GONNA BE SUBJECT TO WHAT SOMEONE THINKS WE SHOULD DO IN THEIR PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD TO SLOW TRAFFIC. UH I'VE GOTTEN A LOT OF CONCERNS, UH, EXPRESSED BY US MOVING, UH, FROM FOUR LANES DOWN TO TWO LANES AND PUTTING, UM, UH, BIKE PATHS ON ONE SIDE OR SOME OR UM, MIDDLE LANE. AND DAD HAS CAUSED SOME PEOPLE TO HAVE CONCERNS BECAUSE THEY SAID, WELL , WHY ARE THEY DOING THAT? AND SOME OF THAT, AS I UNDERSTOOD, WAS TO SLOW TRAFFIC DOWN ALSO, YES. SO IF WE'RE HAVING THOSE TYPE OF CONCERNS NOW. WE WILL HAVE THEM AGAIN. THEN IT COMES TO THE SUBJECTIVITY AS TO WHAT TYPE OF CALMING. ARE WE GOING TO HAVE IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS ACROSS THE CITY. HOW WILL THAT DECISION BE MADE? WHO WILL MAKE THAT DECISION? UH BECAUSE IF YOU PUT A CURVES OR UH, WHAT DO YOU CALL THAT WHEN THE OK? YEAH THEY BECAME SHEKHEY IN IN THE MIDDLE. THEN YOU GOTTA HAVE SOME CURVES IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET. AND IN SOME NEIGHBORHOODS. SOME FOLKS I'M GONNA HIT HIM. AND UH, JUST BECAUSE THEY SUE. IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THEY'LL WIN. BUT THOSE ARE ISSUES THAT'S GONNA COME BACK TO EACH ONE OF US ON COUNCIL AS TO WHY THEY DOING THIS AND NORTH END OR IN THE SOUTH END AND NOT DOING IT EVERYWHERE ELSE. OR WHY IS IT THEY GET THESE PRE CURVES IN ONE? SO THESE ARE ALL ISSUES THAT COME ALONG WITH IT? I BELIEVE, UH, WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT SLOWING DOWN TRAFFIC, AND I THINK IT CAN BE AESTHETICALLY PLEASING WITH THIS TYPE OF PROJECT ACROSS THE CITY, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE GONNA BE SOME ISSUES. THAT'S GONNA COME, UH ABOUT IT BECAUSE PEOPLE DON'T DON'T LIKE CHANGE. YEAH. COUNCILMAN TURNER. THEN 
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COUNCILMAN GETS, UH ONE THING THAT I'M ECSTATIC ABOUT TODAY IN 2021. WHEN I WAS ON THE COUNCIL. 
          I REMEMBER. I THINK I WAS BLACK WALKING WITH COUNCILMAN SAMUEL THE NORTH END AND ADA STREET CAME ABOUT AND WE DISCUSSED TRAFFIC CALM. WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY AND WE WERE TOLD, YOU KNOW, I WAS. WE WERE TOLD AT THE TIME THAT BASICALLY WHAT HE STATED EARLIER. AND YOU KNOW TO SAY WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS FOR YEARS. I CAN IMAGINE HOW MANY YEARS IT WAS PRIOR TO ME BEING ON THE COUNCIL TO SEE TODAY. WE BROUGHT IT TO A CITY MANAGER AND STAFF AND TEAM TO SEE WHAT WE WERE TOLD WASN'T POSSIBLE. IS POSSIBLE IS YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR TODAY. I REMEMBER A STUDENT COMING UP HERE AND TOWARDS THE END OF 2021 IN REFERENCE TO THOMAS ROAD. AND HIS FATHER EVEN SAID I WOULD FINANCE THIS FOR THE ENTIRE STREET. SO I REMEMBER ALL THESE THINGS THAT HAVE CAME ABOUT AND TO SEE US PUSH FOR THIS AND CONTINUE TO BE CONSISTENT IN TO SEE SOMETHING THAT WE'LL START IN A 2021 SINCE I WAS HERE, AND I CAN ONLY IMAGINE WHAT WAS DISCUSSED PRIOR TO ME BEING HERE. IT'S JUST A REALLY A BREATH OF FRESH AIR. MR WILLIAMS. I REALLY WANT TO SAY THANK YOU LIKE THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CITIZENS HAVE ASKED FOR. AND I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE MAY NOT BE SUBS TO CHANGE AND MAY NOT WANT CHANGE. BUT THIS IS A CHANGE. WE NEED IN ORDER TO PROTECT AND TAKE CARE OF OUR COMMUNITY, ESPECIALLY THE NEIGHBORHOODS. I GET. ARTERIO STREETS ARE DIFFERENT. COME TO MIND. UH, WE GET A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE SENIOR CITIZEN. FACILITY ON LUCAS BY THE RAILROAD TRACKS IF WE I UNDERSTAND THAT SO TER STREET BUT IF WE CAN'T GET THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WITH THIS TRAFFIC COMING POLICY, MAYBE A REAL RED LIGHT, NOT THE FLASHING RED LIGHT. I DON'T KNOW THE PAST FROM IT, BUT THAT HAS BEEN AN ISSUE AND WE HAD SOME OF THE SENIORS COME UP HERE AND SPEAK ABOUT IT. YOU KNOW, SEVERAL TIMES, SO JUST TO SEE THIS KIND OF FRUITION IS LIKE A BREATH OF FRESH AIR BECAUSE I WAS TOLD IT COULDN'T BE DONE. AND I'M SEEING IT CAN BE DONE. I JUST WANNA THANK YOU GUYS, ALL RIGHT? COUNCILMAN GATES. WE HADN'T FINISHED THE WHOLE PRESENTATION. BUT IF WE WOULD, THEN WE WOULD SAY THAT THERE'S NOT REALLY SUBJECTIVITY, BUT THERE IS A VERY OBJECTIVE AND METHODICAL WAY THAT YOUR DEPARTMENT PART WOULD GO ABOUT DETERMINING HOW THESE TYPES OF TRAFFIC CALMING, UH, DEVICES WOULD BE IMPLEMENTED AND YOU, YOU KNOW, IT'S NOT JUST SUBJECTIVE. THERE'S A LITANY OF THINGS THAT YOU HAVE TO DO. MORE IMPORTANTLY, YOU'RE LOOKING AT DOING THINGS AS I UNDERSTAND IT FROM, UH, WHAT SHE PRESENTED TODAY, PRIMARILY IN RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOODS, AND, YOU KNOW, I DON'T CARE. PEOPLE GET UPSET ABOUT THAT. THEY DON'T LIKE THAT , BECAUSE ALL IT TAKES IS FOR ONE CHILD TO GET KILLED. YOU KNOW, THEY'RE NOT GONNA LIKE THAT VERY MUCH, EITHER. PEOPLE NEED TO SLOW THE HECK DOWN, AND, UH LIKE COUNCILMAN TURNER WANNA COMPLIMENT YOU WITH BRINGING THIS FORWARD TO US TO, UH, LOOK AT SOME TOOLBOX OPTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE, AND I ENCOURAGE YOU TO, UH, PROCEED WITH, UH, DUE HASTE AND FIGURING OUT YOU KNOW, AS I UNDERSTAND IT. THE PETITIONS ARE THE WAY THAT THESE THINGS ARE INITIATED AND THEY HAVE TO HAVE CITIZEN INPUT. UH, TO HAVE YOU START EVALUATING. 
          THAT'S THE FIRST STEP. YOU MIGHT WANT TO ELABORATE THAT. YES, SIR. THAT THERE'S NO OTHER IMMEDIATE QUESTIONS BECAUSE I Y'ALL MAY HAVE INPUT ON THIS AS WELL. SO THE FIRST STEP IS SIMPLY FOR THE CITIZEN TO REQUEST US TO LOOK AT SPEEDING IN THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD AND THAT THEY DESIRE SOME TYPE OF TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE. SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THAT ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE SO THEY CAN GO THROUGH THE ONLINE PERMITTING PORTAL. IF IT'S A CITIZEN THAT'S UNCOMFORTABLE WITH THAT. WE CAN HELP THEM THROUGH THAT PROCESS, BUT BUT THE FIRST STEP IS JUST TO ASK, UM, ABOUT THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD. THE SECOND STEP IS WE WILL REVIEW THAT REQUESTED STREET AND WE'LL LOOK AT SOME INITIAL CRITERIA. WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE STREET IS OWNED BY THE CITY. IT'S NOT A PRIVATE STREET. UM IT NEEDS TO BE A RESIDENTIAL OR COLLECTOR, NOT AN ARTERIAL ROAD, AND IT NEEDS TO BE A THROUGH STREET. SO NOT A DEAD END STREET. UM AND THERE SO IF IT'S ELIGIBLE UNDER THE CRITERIA, THEN WE WOULD GO ON TO STEP THREE. IF IT'S INELIGIBLE. WE TOLD THEM THAT STREETS NOT NOT ELIGIBLE UNDER THIS PROGRAM. SO STEP THREE WOULD BE US ASKING THE CITIZEN TO SUBMIT AN INITIAL PETITION FORM. WHAT THIS IS ASKING THEM TO DO IS GET FIVE PEOPLE ALONG THEIR STREET TO AGREE THAT THEY WANT A TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE TO 
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BE PUT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD TO SHOW THAT THERE IS SOME SUPPORT IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD FOR THIS NOW, AT THE SAME TIME THAT THEY START THIS PROCESS, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND PUT THEM ON A ROTATION LIST TO INSTALL THOSE FEEDBACK SIGNS. THAT WE PUT ON PEYTON. WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING IS THAT IN THIS BUDGET, UPCOMING BUDGET. WE'RE GONNA ASK TO FUND 10 SIGNS, UH, TO BE AVAILABLE FOR US TO ROTATE. UM AROUND THE CITY. THE PLAN WOULD BE TO PUT THEM IN FOR A TWO MONTH PERIOD AND ROTATE THEM AND SO THAT WOULD ALLOW EACH SET OF TWO SIGNS TO BE IN SIX LOCATIONS THROUGH THE YEAR. SO IF WE HAVE AN INITIAL INVENTORY OF 10 SIGNS WE CAN GET THROUGH 30 STREETS WITH A SIGN ROTATION DURING THE HERE AND THAT'LL START. THEY'LL BE PUT ON THE ROTATION LIST AS THEY'RE WORKING ON THAT INITIAL PETITION FOR THE FIVE ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS THAT SUPPORT IT. AND THEN WE'LL PERFORM A FULL SPEED STUDY ON THE STREET. WE'LL DO THAT BEFORE WE PUT ANYTHING IN PLACE, AND THEN WE'LL PUT THE FEEDBACK SIGN IN, AND THEN WE'LL FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENS WITH THE SIGN INSTALLED, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK AGAIN WITH THE SIGN UNINSTALLED AFTER THE TWO MONTH PERIOD AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS TO THE TRAFFIC, UM LOOKING AT THIS. WE'RE LOOKING FOR THE TRAFFIC VOLUME AND SPEED DATA TO MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA TO MAKE THEM ELIGIBLE FOR PERMANENT TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES. WE NEED THE TRAFFIC VOLUME TO BE 400 TO 3000 VEHICLES A DAY. AND WE NEED THE 85TH PERCENTILE SPEED TO BE GREATER THAN 33 MILES AN HOUR. IN OTHER WORDS, WE'RE LOOKING THAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE SPEEDING ON THE STREET. UM SO AT LEAST 33 FOR THAT 85TH PERCENTILE. IF IT'S INELIGIBLE FOR PERMANENT MEASURES, BECAUSE IT DOESN'T MEET THOSE THOSE CRITERIA, WE CAN KEEP IT ON THAT ROTATION LIST THAT HAS THE FEEDBACK SIGN PUT IN FOR A TWO MONTH PERIOD AND ROTATE IT BACK AROUND LATER SO WE CAN KEEP THAT GOING. IF IT'S ELIGIBLE, THE RESIDENTS PREFER THE PERMANENT DEVICES, THEN WE COULD IF WE SEE THAT THE FEEDBACK SIGNS ARE EFFECTIVE, RECOMMEND THAT THE FEEDBACK SIGNS BE MADE PERMANENT ON THAT PARTICULAR ROAD. THAT'S THE LOWEST COST OF ENTRY. IF THEY'RE EFFECTIVE IF THE FEEDBACK SIGNS ARE EFFECTIVE, BUT THE SPEEDING INCREASES, UM OR WHY I LET ME BACK UP A BIT IF THEY IF THE SPEEDING DOESN'T INCREASE WHEN WE REMOVE THE SIGN, AND WE CAN SIMPLY ROTATE IT IN ON THAT ROAD AND NOT PUT THEM IN PERMANENTLY AND IT ADDRESSES IT WILL STOP THERE. IF THE SPEEDING GOES UP. WHEN WE TAKE THE SIGN BACK OUT, THEN WE'LL LOOK TO PUT THE SIGNS IN PERMANENTLY. IF THE SIGNS BECOME INEFFECTIVE AFTER SOME PERIOD OF TIME, THEN WE'LL MOVE ON TO SPEED CUSHIONS. IF WE'RE LOOKING TO PUT THE SPEED CUSHIONS IN, SINCE THERE ARE MORE PERMANENT INSTALLATION, OR IF WE'RE LOOKING AT ANY OF THOSE METHODS THAT REQUIRE CONSTRUCTION, WE'RE GONNA ASK A FINAL PETITION BE GATHERED FROM THE RESIDENTS ALONG THAT ROAD, AND WE'RE LOOKING FOR 70% OF THE RESIDENTS TO BE IN FAVOR OF THE TRAFFIC, CALMING DEVICE AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. THERE IS BUY IN FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD SO THAT WE DON'T DO SOMETHING THAT COSTS MONEY AND THEN AN UPRISING THAT THEY WANT IT RIPPED BACK OUT. UM AND I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL SAW THE NEWS IN HOUSTON. THEY PUT MEDIANS IN ON THE PREVIOUS MAYOR ALONG HOUSTON AVENUE, AND NOW THE NEW MAYOR'S COME IN. THEY'RE RIPPING THOSE MEDIANS OUT IN RESPONSE TO, UH, SOME BUSINESSES THAT ARE ALONG THAT STREET THAT DID NOT WANT THEM. AND SO WE DON'T WANT A BACK AND FORTH PROCESS WE WON'T BUY IN. WE WANT THE COMMUNITY TO AGREE. THIS IS A GOOD THING AND SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT MOVING FORWARD. AND THIS PETITION WAS 70% OF THE RESIDENTS. IN THE CASE OF THE FEEDBACK SIGNS. WE WON'T NEED THAT EXTENT OF A PETITION TO BE GATHERED AS LONG AS WE HAVE RES. THE INITIAL RESIDENCE AGREE TO PUT THE SIGNS IN THEIR YARD. UM IF WE HAVE THAT, THEN WE DON'T NEED ANYTHING FURTHER. NOW I STATE THAT BECAUSE WE PUT PAINT AND DRIVE. WE HAD 100% OF THE RESIDENTS SIGN THAT THEY WANTED SOMETHING DONE TO THE TO THE SPEED ALONG THAT ROAD WHEN WE WENT TO PUT THE TEMPORARY SIGNS IN IN THIS PILOT PROGRAM, THE FIRST YARD THAT WE ASKED, THEY SAID, WELL, THIS IS GREAT, BUT WE DON'T WANT IT IN OUR ER. SO CAN YOU PUT IT SOMEWHERE ELSE? LUCKILY THEIR NEIGHBOR TOOK IT. BUT EVEN IF THEY AGREE SOMETHING NEEDS TO BE DONE. THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEAN THAT THEY WANT TO SIGN IN THEIR YARD. OR THEY 
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WANT THE SPEED CUSHION IN FRONT OF THEIR UM, SO THOSE ARE ALL FACTORS AS YOU LOOK AT THE DETAILS OF AN INSTALLATION. SO ONCE ONCE WE GET THE FINAL POSITION WITH 70% OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAN CITY STAFF WILL RECOMMEND A SOLUTION BASED ON THE CHARACTERISTICS OF THE STREET AND THE SPEED STUDY THAT'S BEEN CONDUCTED AND WE'LL TAKE INTO ACCOUNT RESIDENT FEEDBACK. UM, DURING THAT PLANNING DESIGN PROCESS. AND THEN ONCE A FINAL DESIGN IS AGREED UPON BETWEEN CITY STAFF AND THE RESIDENTS WILL HAVE A COST ESTIMATE FOR THAT PARTICULAR INSTALLATION, AND THEN WE'RE GONNA CALCULATE A SAFETY SCORE AND I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL THE DETAILS OF THAT. BUT IT IS IN THE LARGER MANUAL THAT WE HANDED OUT TO Y'ALL. SO WE'LL TAKE A LOT OF FACTORS INTO CONSIDERATION. WE LOOK AT TRAFFIC VOLUME 85TH PERCENTILE SPEED CRASH HISTORY ARE THERE SIDEWALKS ALONG? ROAD OR NOT FOR PEDESTRIANS ARE THERE PEDESTRIAN GENERATORS IN THAT AREA SUCH AS SCHOOLS, BUS STOPS, CHURCHES THAT WOULD HAVE MORE WALKING TRAFFIC AND ALL THAT PUT TOGETHER WE GENERATE A SAFETY SCORE. AND THAT'S THE STAGGERING UH, THE PRIORITY OF PUTTING IN A TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE ON THAT PARTICULAR STREET AND THEN OUR PROPOSED PLAN IS THAT AS WE'RE DOING THESE AS THEY COME IN DURING THE YEAR, WE STACK THEM AND THEN WHEN WE COME OF THE BUDGET PROCESS LIKE WE ARE THIS YEAR WILL BRING THEM TO COUNCIL AND WE'LL ASK FOR FUNDING FOR THOSE SPECIFIC PROJECTS FOR THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR. THE ONLY HANG UP ON THAT PROPOSAL WOULD BE THIS NEXT FISCAL YEAR IF Y'ALL WERE INTERESTED IN FUNDING. 
          TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICES IN NEIGHBORHOODS AND FISCAL YEAR 25. THEN WE WOULD NEED TO HAVE A SET SOME OF FUNDING THAT WE WOULD USE UNTIL IT RUN OUT IN THAT FIRST YEAR, BUT SUBSEQUENT YEARS WE'D GATHER UP STACK RANK PROJECTS. WE'D COME DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS AND ASK FOR CONSIDERATION FOR FUNDING FOR THOSE AND THAT IS THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. BUT I'LL BE GLAD TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. AND UH I WILL WOULD LIKE TO THANK OUR TRAFFIC ENGINEER BRANDON BEL AIR WHO'S PUT MOST OF THE EFFORT INTO PUTTING THIS TOGETHER AND ALSO OUR COMMUNICATIONS. UH DIVISION. UH, FOR HELPING US MAKE IT LOOK PRETTY BECAUSE WE'RE NOT REALLY GOOD AT THAT. 
          AND ENGINEERING, SO THEY THEY CLEANED IT UP FOR US. FOR ONE LAST QUESTION. MY BAD, UH, COUNCILMAN ONE LAST QUESTION BEFORE YOU WALK OFF WHAT HAPPENS IN THE EFFORTS THAT WE SAY, UH, AREA THAT'S A SCHOOL ZONE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL AND WE DO THE STUDY AND 100% OF THE NEIGHBORS WANT IT? BUT IT DOESN'T MEET THE CRITERIA BASED UPON OUR STUDY BECAUSE THE COUNCIL STILL HAD THE AUTHORITY TO PUT PUT IT THERE. THE MAJORITY OF THE NEIGHBORS AND CITIZENS WANT IT. AS LONG AS IT DOESN'T NEGATIVELY IMPACT SAFETY THEN YEAH, THAT WOULD BE IN Y'ALL'S PURVIEW. OK I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THANK YOU. CAUTION GONNA SPEAK TO YOU? I WOULD CAUTION AGAINST THAT THE PARAMETERS THAT ARE PUT IN PLACE ARE INTENDED TO DO SO TO, UM ESTABLISH ESSENTIALLY A DEFENSE FOR HOW AND WHY WE DO THINGS. THE REASON WHY IT'S SUBJECTIVE IN THE STUDY SO THAT IT PROVIDES DATA AND SUPPORT TO DO SOMETHING , UM, TO COUNCILMAN GETS HIS POINT. I UNDERSTAND THAT, YOU KNOW, UM, THE SAFETY OF OUR CHILDREN AND THE UTMOST IMPORTANCE AND WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO SAY WE WANT TO WAIT TO SOMETHING BAD TO HAPPEN, BUT ABSENT ANY EVIDENCE THAT IT'S REQUIRED OR NEEDED SO TO SPEAK THAT IT IT IT FILLS EVERY ONE OF OUR OBJECTIVE TESTS. UM YOU WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO REALLY SUPPORT THE IDEA THAT THAT WHY IT'S THERE, THEN IT BECOMES MORE SUBJECTIVE THAN OBJECTIVE. TO COUNCILMAN SAMUEL'S POINT, HOWEVER, IF YOU HAD A TRAGIC INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED IN IN THAT THAT INTERSECTION, UM SOMETIME AFTER SOME TIME BEFORE WITHOUT THE STUDY, IT COULD BE MORE TO DO THAT, UM BUT JUST DOING SOMETHING UNILATERALLY BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS AND I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA WOULDN'T BE IN THE BEST INTEREST. YOU LOSE YOUR SUBJECTIVITY. AND I'M GONNA JUST I KNOW THERE'S ALWAYS A QUESTION ABOUT, UM WHAT HAPPENS IN ONE WORD VERSUS ANOTHER. BUT UM, JUST JUST USING REGINA HOWE. UM SEVERAL KIDS WALKED TO THAT SCHOOL. IT'S PRETTY BUSY TOP OF CLASS, BUT SEVERAL KIDS WALK TO THE SCHOOL AS OPPOSED TO, UM IN SOME OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE KIDS DON'T WALK TO SCHOOL, AND SO MAYBE A TRAFFIC STUDY THERE WOULD SAY, BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED NUMBER OF PEDESTRIANS BECAUSE OF THE INCREASED NUMBER OF CHILDREN WALKING, IT'S A NEEDED EFFECT, AS OPPOSED TO ANOTHER SCHOOL THAT DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME, UM WALKING, OR, UM, CHILDREN RIDING THEIR BIKES TO SCHOOL, SO WE GIVE IT TO THAT PARTICULAR SCHOOL IN THAT PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD, OBVIOUSLY, BY RAISE SOME RED BACKS AND OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE EVERYONE 
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WOULD WANT IT, BUT IT'S NOT SUPPORTED BY THE CRITERIA THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE AND SO TO MAINTAIN OBJECTIVITY TO MAINTAIN , UM, A CLEAR STANDARD OF PROCESSES. I WOULD URGE THE COUNCIL NOT TO DO THINGS UNILATERALLY, JUST BASED ON THE MEETING THE PETITION REQUIREMENT BECAUSE IT'S REALLY THE TRAFFIC STUDY THAT GIVES THE COUNCIL THE MOST INSULATION AND SUPPORT I KNOW IT'S COMING. THAT'S WHY I WANT TO ASK IN EVENTS. I WILL SAY, TOO, IF IT DOESN'T MEET OUR CRITERIA, BASICALLY BUT THE DATA SAYS THERE'S NOT SPEEDING ISSUE AND THERE'S NOT A SAFETY ISSUE IN IN THAT AREA AND TO THE CITY ATTORNEY'S POINT REX ALONE WHETHER THEY ARE PEDESTRIAN, AUTO OR JUST AUTO, REX REX ALONE CAN CAN CAUSE YOU TO PUT IN SAFETY MEASURES. UH, EVEN BEFORE YOU SEE THE SPEED. AND THERE'S MANUAL ON UNIFORM TRAFFIC CODES TO THE GIVES CRITERIA THAT ALLOWS YOU TO PUT IN CERTAIN TRAFFIC. SAFETY DEVICES. AND IF YOU DON'T FOLLOW THAT SOMETIME AND IT ACTUALLY, BEFORE WE PUT IN THE STOP SIGN. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO GO OUT AND DO THESE STUDY SOME TYPE OF SCIENTIFIC STUDY BECAUSE YOU COULD. SOMETIMES YOU CREATE DANGEROUS SITUATIONS ABOUT DOING SUCH AND THEN YOU CREATE SOMETHING AND SOMEONE GET HURT. THEN YOU'RE MORE SUSCEPTIBLE OR IF SOMETHING HAPPENED, SO, UH, THAT'S WHY IT'S GOOD TO HAVE THAT OBJECTIVE DATA IN THOSE TRAFFIC. SITUATIONS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT. AND WE'RE WE'VE BEEN SPEAKING TO SPEEDING, BUT THIS IS MORE THAN JUST SPEEDING. THIS IS A TRAFFIC ANALYSIS THAT LOOKS AT OVERALL TRAFFIC SAFETY. YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT PEDESTRIAN PEOPLE, TOO. YOU KNOW THAT THEY ARE WALKING ON THE STREET AND CROSSING STREETS AND THESE TRAFFIC COMMON DEVICES PROTECT THEM TOO. YOU KNOW IT, SOMEBODY MIGHT RUN A STOP SIGN AND NOT BE SPEEDING. SO THERE IS A LOT OF, UH, SITUATION THAT THIS PROTECTION THIS THIS IS NOTHING NEW. IT'S BEEN OUT THERE FOR YEARS, DECADES AND DECADES. THESE TRAFFIC COMING DEVICES FOR US, UH, TRAFFIC, SAFETY AND STUFF AND WITH THE ST STUDIES WITH THE SCIENTIFIC STUDIES, UH, YOU KNOW, AND IT'S YOU KNOW, MOST OF US DO CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC. IT'S FOR THIS GOOD FOR STREETS LIKE THOMAS, WHERE PEOPLE ARE TRYING TO AVOID LUCAS AND THEY WANNA CUT THROUGH BETWEEN DELAWARE AND GLADYS OR WHATEVER THAT IS, AND THINGS LIKE THAT, SO IT'S CONDUCIVE FOR THOSE TYPE OF SITUATIONS, AND IT CAN ALSO DECREASE THOSE TRAFFIC VOLUMES ON THOSE STREETS. THEY'RE NOT MADE FOR THOSE VOLUMES. YOU KNOW AGAIN. IT'S NOT ALWAYS SPEEDERS. IT'S JUST IT IT IT'S A WAY TO CONTROL TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC DEVICES AND IT'S A REALLY GOOD TOOL FOR A CITY. MAYOR THANKS. UH I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S UNDERSTOOD. I'M NOT PULLING OUT A MATCHBOX TRYING TO STRIKE NO MATCH. BUT, UM I'VE BEEN DOING THIS A LONG TIME. AND I JUST KNOW THAT THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS THAT'S GONNA COME UP WHEN YOU BRING ABOUT CHANGE, BUT I TOO WANNA THANK YOU, BARRY. THANKS FOR, UH, THE PRESENTATION. THANK YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE IN ATTEMPTING TO MAKE BEAUMONT A SAFER PLACE. A BETTER PLACE TO LIVE. THANK YOU, MR MANAGER FOR BRINGING THAT FORTH. UH SO I WASN'T TAKING ANY POSITION. I WOULD SIMPLY MAKING AN OBSERVATION. AND UM, THAT'S FOR, UH, THOSE WHO DON'T LIKE IT. THAT'S FINE. UH, BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE TO DO. AND YOU CAN MAKE A GOOD POINT. YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES THERE ARE EQUITY ISSUES THAT ARISE IN THESE TYPE OF SITUATIONS. IT'S JUST NATURAL FOR IT TO HAPPEN BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE HAVE MORE RESOURCES THAN OTHERS TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THESE SPEED HUMPS, UH OR WHATEVER IT MAY BE, SO IT'S JUST NATURALLY HAPPENS, AND THAT'S WHY IT'S GOOD TO HAVE A GOOD SOUND. UH UH, POLICY PROGRAM TO BACK YOU UP AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. WELCOME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CAN I MAKE ONE QUICK COMMENT, UM WE HAVE ALREADY BEGUN TO IMPLEMENT SOME OF THIS IN OUR DISCUSSION WITH DEVELOPERS IN THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS, SO WHILE IT DOESN'T HELP OUR EXISTING STREETS FOR OUR NEW STREETS, WHICH ARE THE COST OF THOSE ARE BORNE BY THE DEVELOPER WE'RE ALREADY IMPLEMENTING SOME OF THESE, UH, SOME OF THESE, UM, REQUESTS IN IN THE DESIGN OF NEW STREETS. AS PREFERABLE. ANY OTHER ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? POINT WE'RE GONNA MOVE TO COUNCIL MEMBER COMMENTS 
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AND I'LL START WITH COUNCILMAN NEIL NO COMMENT. COUNCILMAN SAMUEL NO COMMENT. MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN TURNER. I WILL, UH UH UH, A FEW COMMENTS ABOUT QUESTIONS THAT WERE ACTUALLY 
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BROUGHT UP. AND SOME OF THE PUBLIC COMMENTS ABOUT YOU KNOW THE ADDITIONAL WATER CHARGE, YOU KNOW? HOW DID IT COME ABOUT, UH, WHO'S ACCOUNTABLE FOR IT? HOW WAS THE LETTER SENT OUT BECAUSE I'VE GOT A LOT OF EMAILS AND PHONE CALLS. ABOUT THAT AS WELL. OK, WE'LL GIVE YOU A REPORT ON THAT NEXT COUNCIL MEETING. OK THANK YOU. AND THE NEXT ONE IS, UH, I THINK WITH THE SPROUT PORK FOOTBALL FIELD SITUATION. I DON'T KNOW IF WE NEED TO DO A WORK SESSION ON IT. I KINDA WANNA COMPLIMENT COUNCIL MEN DUO FOR STEPPING UP AND ADDRESSING IT, BUT I KNOW WHAT WE'RE UP AGAINST, AND WE NEED A KIND OF SEE WHAT WE WANNA DO. AS A COUNCIL WE CAN GET ON THE SAME PAGE AND BE TRANSPARENT AS THE COMMUNITY IS REQUESTING ALL WHAT'S GOING ON WITH IT. AND WHAT'S THE PLAN? MOVING FORWARD WITH IT? I KINDA WOULD YIELD TO YOU ON HOW YOU WANNA BEST ADDRESS IT. MR MANAGER. OK COUNCILMAN TURNER BEFORE YOU MOVE ON. I THINK WE DID PROVIDE AN UPDATE TO COUNCIL ON THE SPOT PARK ISSUE SO JUST FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE AND THOSE WHO ARE WATCHING, UM, THE TURK WAS DELIVERED. THE TURF WAS VANDALIZED BY BEING SET ON FIRE. UM AND CITY STAFF IS WORKING IT. IT WAS DONATED. SO YOU KNOW YOU CAN'T GO BACK AND SAY, HEY, CAN YOU GIVE US MORE DONATIONS, AND SO THE STAFF IS WORKING TO FIND A COMPARABLE SOLUTION? UM TO THAT AREA, SO THE REASON WHY THERE WAS WORK DONE AND IT WASN'T PUT DOWN. 
          IT'S BECAUSE IT THE ITEM. THE TURF THAT WAS SCHEDULED TO BE INSTALLED WAS VANDALIZED. AND SO WE'VE JUST HAD A, UM HARD TIME TRYING TO REPLACE THAT SO AS IT RELATES TO THE SECOND ISSUE ON HOW IT'S GOING TO BE USED. I THINK THAT WE CAN, UM WE CAN WORKSHOPS AT OUR TABLE AT FOR LATER DISCUSSION WITH THE PRIMARY FOCUS RIGHT NOW IS TRYING TO REPLACE SOMETHING THAT WAS LOST. UNDERSTOOD THAT'S WHY I KNOW WE NEED TO WORKSHOP AND FIGURE OUT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO WITH THE EXCESS AND FIGURE OUT A PLAN GOING FORWARD. BECAUSE I KNOW WE ALL KNOW WHAT TOOK PLACE . BUT WE'RE GONNA MAKE SURE THE COMMUNITY IS FULLY AWARE OF THE STATUS OF IT AND WHAT ACTUALLY TOOK PLACE. ABSOLUTELY AND WE WANT TO BE TRANSPARENT IN THAT, YOU KNOW, AS WE BEGAN TO START ON THE PROJECT, WE REALIZED SOME THINGS WITH THE LOSS OF IT. UH, SO, UH, WE HAD A CONVERSATION WITH FIRST WITH CONVERS. UH, CON CONGRESSMAN. WOW COUNCIL MEMBER CURIO BECAUSE IT'S HIS WARD FIRST AND KIND TO FILL SOME THINGS OUT. AND THEN AFTER THAT WE WERE GOING TO PROCEED WITH THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AND WE'LL PUT IT ON THE AGENDA AND HAVE A DISCUSSION. UH, WITH THE ENTIRE COUNCIL ON HOW WE WANT TO PROCEED OR RESOLVE THAT ISSUE. IN THE LAST TWO. MR JOHNSON AND MRS ALLEN. I GOT EMAILS THAT YOU KNOW THAT THAT WAS KIND OF TAKEN CARE OF. I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY ELSE RECEIVED IT, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE FOLLOW UP. AND SO AGAIN, I CAN'T REALLY SPEAK TO THE CONVERSATION SHE HAD WITH THE UM MEMBER AT THE, UH, RECORDS DEPARTMENT. UM I WAS AN ADVISOR. WE WERE DOING AN A G LETTER ON THAT. SO CAN'T REALLY COMMENT ON THAT PART, HOWEVER, AS RELATES TO HER, UM, INVESTIGATION HOW IT WAS HANDLED . WHEN POLICE OFFICERS ARRIVED ON SCENE THERE WAS A COMPANY MARKED VEHICLE IN AN EMPLOYEE, UM, THAT IDENTIFIED HIMSELF AS BEING THE INDIVIDUAL WHO HAD, UM, HOPPED HER FENCE TO RETRIEVE COMPANY PROPERTY. I CAN SAY I DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH THE METHOD THAT HE USED, BUT THE OFFICER WAS ABLE TO DETERMINE THAT HE HAD A VALID UM LEAST FOR EQUIPMENT THAT WAS ON THE PROPERTY AND A NOTICE OF RETRIEVAL. UM SO HE DID DO IT, DO IT THAT WAY. THE OFFICER CHOSE TO CLOSE THE INVESTIGATION . POLICE RESISTANCE. COULD HE HAVE WRITTEN A REPORT? MAYBE TO THAT EXTENT, BUT THAT'S NOT ALWAYS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THERE'S AN INCIDENT THAT CAN BE CLOSED. UM IF THEY INVESTIGATE THE INCIDENT AND DETERMINE THAT THERE'S NO CRIME THAT'S BEEN COMMITTED. UM THEY CLOSE THE REPORT THE PROPERTY THAT WAS RETRIEVED, UM, WAS COMPANY PROPERTY. UM I DON'T BELIEVE THAT. IS ALLEN REPORTING ANYTHING ELSE STOLEN FROM HER BACKYARD AND SO THERE WAS NO FURTHER INCIDENT THAT NEEDED TO BE REPORTED. ON THEIR INITIAL REPORT THAT SHE WAS GIVEN DIDN'T HAVE A NARRATIVE SO REQUESTING A NARRATIVE. UM WE REQUIRE AN ALL PREST TO SUPPLEMENT HIS SUPPORT. 
          UM THAT WAS DISCUSSED WITH BOTH HIS, UH, TWO SUPERVISING OFFICERS, WHO ALSO DETERMINED THAT THAT WAS UNNECESSARY AS WELL AS ONE OF THE ASSISTANT CHIEFS. UNDERSTOOD I JUST FEEL LIKE I DO TRULY APPRECIATE PUBLIC SAFETY. BUT WHEN YOU HAVE CITIZENS COMING TO THE DA IS ASKING ABOUT A WEEKLY I JUST THINK WE NEED TO KIND OF OPEN UP LIKE YOU SAID WITH TRANSPARENCY AND JUST LET THEM KNOW IT HAS BEEN HANDLED AND WHAT HAS TOOK PLACE AND THIS IS THE RESULT. SO I BELIEVE THAT, UM, ASSISTANT CHIEF DID, UH, REACH OUT. ONE OF OUR ASSISTANT CHIEFS DID REACH OUT TO MISS ALLEN. I DON'T BELIEVE IT WAS RESOLVED IN THE WAY THAT SHE WANT WANTED IT TO BE RESOLVED. AND THAT'S UNFORTUNATE. HOWEVER THERE WAS NO UM MISDOING OR WRONGDOING ON THE PART OF OUR UM, THEY, UH, REPORTS ISSUED ALL THE TIME THAT DON'T HAVE FULL NARRATIVES 
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BECAUSE IT'S NOT NECESSARY. UM OBVIOUSLY, IN THE CASE OF AN, UH, A CITATION FOR AN ACCIDENT REPORT. THERE'S A SUM THAT THAT'S REQUIRED BOTH FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES BECAUSE AN ACCIDENT OR AN ACTUAL THING OCCURRED IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION. THE INDIVIDUAL DID HAVE ALL THE PROPER DOCUMENTATION. I BELIEVE, UM, THE EMPLOYEE WAS THERE. HIS SUPERVISOR ARRIVED ON SCENE. BOTH OF THEM PROVIDED, UM, EXTENSIVE DOCUMENTATION. UM AS IT RELATES TO THEIR RETRIEVAL OF PROPERTY, NO DIFFERENT THAN ANY OTHER, UM RETRIEVAL THAT WOULD HAVE OCCURRED IF YOU HAD A MONITORING DEVICE AT YOUR HOUSE THAT YOU WERE LEASING AND THAT NEEDED TO BE RETRIEVED FOR LACK OF PAYMENT. UM AND SO THEY CHOSE TO DO IT THAT WAY. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WHAT THE ISSUE THAT TOOK PLACE IS THAT THEY HAD DOCUMENTATION THAT THEY HAD PROPERTY ON, UH, LEASE EQUIPMENT ON HER PROPERTY THAT THEY NEEDED TO RETRIEVE, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY TOOK ACTION TO DO. UM AGAIN DON'T AGREE WITH THE METHOD IN WHICH HE CHOSE TO DO IT IN TERMS OF, UH, JUMPING HER FENCE, BUT, UM, ACCORDING TO THE OFFICER, THERE WAS NO DAMAGE DONE OR REPORTED DAMAGE DONE TO EITHER THE FENCE OR THE PROPERTY WHERE THE ITEM WAS RETRIEVED, SO THERE WAS NO ADDITIONAL NEED TO FURTHER A REPORT. UNDERSTOOD I JUST WANNA ADDRESS IT BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT'S BEEN CONSISTENT AND I APPRECIATE THE TRANSPARENCY AND IT BEING ACTUALLY ADDRESSED. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN TURNER COUNCILMAN GETS FIRST THING I WANNA WISH MY SON A HAPPY BIRTHDAY. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. BAD NEWS IS THERE'S A LOT OF BAD THINGS HAPPENING ON OUR COLLEGE CAMPUSES RIGHT NOW. UM, THERE'S UM A LOT OF ANTI SEMITISM. GOING ON IN THIS COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. ANTI-SEMITISM IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT TERM MEANS MEANS, UH, HATRED UP TO HIS AND WHEN YOU HAVE YOUNG PEOPLE INSTEAD OF ATTENDING CLASSES TAKING OVER UNIVERSITY BUILDINGS , UH, HOLDING SIGNS SAYING HITLER WAS RIGHT DEATH TO THE JEWS. THAT'S VIRULENT ANTI SEMITISM. UH, THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES THIS WEEK IS TAKING UP THE ANTI SEMITISM AWARENESS ACT. IT'S A BIPARTISAN ACT. UH, BOTH REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS SUPPORT THIS. UH, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT ACT PASSED. UM, I HAVE STRONG FEELINGS ABOUT THIS. MY BROTHER HAS LIVED IN ISRAEL FOR 45 YEARS HE PASSED AWAY LAST YEAR. HE'S BURIED IN ISRAEL. I HAVE A NEPHEW THAT, UH, MIGRATED TO ISRAEL TO SERVE IN THE ISRAELI DEFENSE. COURSES HE STILL LIVES THERE. SO, UM, YOU KNOW, JUST TO BE, UM PERSECUTED. UM FOR THE RELIGION YOU CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IS, UH, JUST AS BAD AS BEING PERSECUTED FOR THE COLOR OF YOUR SKIN. UH IT'S WRONG. IT'S NOT WHO WE ARE, AND WE NEED TO DO BETTER AND WE NEED TO CALL IT OUT WHEN WE SEE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN GOETZ. COUNCILMAN D. THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANT TO SAY, UM, 409 DAY, UH, INTER PARK THIS WEEKEND WAS HAVING A FEW AREAS, BUT IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. UH, I WENT OUT THERE. UM, SATURDAY HAD A GREAT TIME. I MEAN, IT WAS, UH IT WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED, AND IT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS. ALSO UH, SELF AND CONS. SAMUEL UM, PLAYED IN 100 BLACK MEN GOLF TOURNAMENT THIS WEEKEND AND COUNCILMAN SAM. I HAVE TO GIVE IT TO HIM. AWESOME. 
          HE REALLY WAS. HE WAS VERY IMPRESSIVE. I HAD TO GIVE HIM GIVE HIM HIS PROPS. ALSO I WANT TO EXTEND MY, UH CONDOLENCES TO THE FAMILY OF MR BOBBY FRANK. HE WAS THE CROSSING GUARD, UH, THAT WOULD CROSS THE STUDENTS AT MARSHALL MIDDLE SCHOOL. UM HE PASSED RECENTLY AND HE WAS ONE THAT'S ALWAYS OUT THERE WAVING AT EVERYBODY. ALSO TO MY FAMILY. UM MY COUSIN ERIC GAUTHIER PASSED. HE WAS AN AUTO BODY TEACHER AT THE TAYLOR CAREER CENTER, AND HE JUST RECENTLY PASSED UNEXPECTEDLY, ALSO. SO MY CONDOLENCES TO, UH TO MY FAMILY AS WELL. THANK YOU AND YOUR STAFF. THAT WAS AN AWESOME PRESENTATION. UH BECAUSE OF THE STUFF YOU'VE DONE ON FOURTH STREET AND SARAH STREET AND MADE ME ASK ALL THOSE QUESTIONS KIND OF HOPING THAT THE FOLKS THAT WAS WATCHING COULD GET THE ANSWERS THAT THEY WERE LOOKING FOR, AND ALSO ON THE SPOT PARK TURF. DELIVER SOME OLD RAGGEDY TURF THAT WAS TO BE USED AS CUSHIONING. IT WAS PUT DOWN, BUT THE GOOD TURF THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO ON TOP. IT WAS PUT DOWN AND IT WAS SET ON FIRE A WEEK LATER. SO RIGHT NOW, WE'RE, UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT INVESTIGATED THAT AND WE'RE WE'RE GONNA PLAN IT. WE'RE GONNA SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. THAT'S IT, AND THAT'S ALL I GOT. MADAM. CITY ATTORNEY. WELL, FIRST OF ALL, THERE IS SOME AMAZING EVENTS THAT OCCURRED THIS WEEKEND. SO ANYONE THAT SAYS THAT THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO IN BEAUMONT OBVIOUSLY DIDN'T CHECK SOCIAL MEDIA, SO THANK YOU TO ALL OF OUR STAFF AND ALL THIS, UH, INDIVIDUALS WHO DO GREAT WORK IN OUR CITY TO PUT ON AMAZING EVENTS AND CONGRATULATIONS TO DEMI. I HAVE MORE GIRLS ON THE 
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DATE, SO THAT MAKES ME EXCITED, SO LOOKING FORWARD TO IT. YES, SIR. I DID WANT TO GIVE YOU ALL AN UPDATE ON, UH, DRAINAGE. WE HAD A REALLY HEAVY RAIN EARLY MONDAY MORNING. UH, RAIN GAUGES SHOWED WE GOT FOUR INCHES AND JUST PROBABLY AN HOUR AND A HALF, TWO HOURS. AS A RESULT, UH, WE HAD SOME FLOODING DOWN MLK IN PARTICULAR WITH SOME CARS THAT GOT IN THAT FLOODING THE PUMP STATIONS THAT WERE AFFECTED WERE THE ROYAL PUMP STATION AND THEN EAST LAVACA AND VIRGINIA BY LAMAR, UM, OF THOSE. THE ROYAL PUMP STATION IS THE ONE THAT WE JUST PUT ONE PERMANENT PUMP BACK IN. DESPITE ONLY HAVING ONE OF FOUR PERMANENT PUMPS. WE DO HAVE THREE ADDITIONAL TEMPORARY PUMPS IN THERE WHILE WE'RE WORKING ON REPAIRING THE REST OF THE PERMANENT PUMPS. UM IT WAS JUST OVERLOADED. IT NEVER WENT DOWN. IT WAS PUMPING THE WHOLE TIME, BUT IT COULD NOT KEEP UP. UH, WE DO NOT HAVE PUMPS MISSING, OR, UH, ANYTHING ON THOSE LAMAR STATIONS. THEY JUST GOT OVERLOADED. THE ONE CLOSEST TO CARDINAL WASN'T AS BAD THOUGH IT WAS FLOODED AND HAD SOME CARS IN IT, BUT THE OTHER ONE AT, UH, LAVACA LOST POWER. UNFORTUNATELY FOR A BIT, WHICH MADE IT EVEN WORSE. UH ONCE THE RAIN STOPPED, PROBABLY BY 930. IT WAS ALL CLEARED OUT. BUT, UM YOU GET THAT MUCH RAIN IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. UNFORTUNATELY THOSE LOW LYING AREAS THAT DEPEND ON LIFT STATIONS JUST CANNOT KEEP UP EVEN IF WE HAVE POWER ON THEM, SO THAT'S THAT'S WHAT WENT ON, UH EARLY MONDAY. JUST REAL QUICKLY WANTED TO, UH, WELCOME TRACY KINNICK TO OUR TEAM. I ALSO WANTED TO CONGRATULATE DEM INGMAN ON HER APPOINTMENT TO, UH UH, DIRECTOR OF PLANNING, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT AND THEN ALSO OUR APPOINTMENT OF, UH, FREDDIE WILLARD AS A NEW EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF, UH, CBB. JUST AN UPDATE, MAYOR AND COUNCIL THIS MORNING SOME OF THE STAFF WILL INCLUDING THE MAYOR, CITY MANAGER, MR BOONE, UH, MR BAROVIC AND MYSELF. WE UH, WENT TO THE COUNTY COMMISSIONER'S COURT WE MET WITH, UH, THE JUDGE AND THE COUNTY COMMISSIONERS, UH, TO FOLLOW UP ON OUR DISCUSSION OF THEIR PARTICIPATION IN OUR TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE. WE HAD A VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETING WITH THEM THIS MORNING. THEY DID TELL US THAT JULY. THEY WILL LET US KNOW, UH, WHETHER THEY WILL PARTICIPATE IN THE IN THE TOURS, BUT, UH, FROM THE DISCUSSION. I THINK WE CAN ALL AGREE. THEY UH AND BASED ON THE RESPONSES THAT WE GAVE THEM, THERE WERE A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS THEY ASKED THIS MORNING. UH WE'RE HOPEFUL THAT THEY WILL BE PARTICIPATING IN IN OUR TOURS. AND IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWING THAT, UM MEETING THIS MORNING. I'VE REACHED OUT TO DD SIX AND LET THEM KNOW THAT WE HAD THE MEETING, UH, WITH THE COMMISSIONERS, AND THEY WILL BE FOLLOWING UP WITH THE CITY AS WELL ON ON, UH, WHETHER OR NOT THEY WILL BE PARTICIPATING. THANK YOU, SIR. NO COMMENT. I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU GUYS. 
          THANKS UH, TO THE CITY MANAGER AND ASSISTANT CITY MANAGERS AND OTHERS THAT ARE IN MY CORNER, UM , TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO LEAD IN THIS ROLE. I'M EXTREMELY EXCITED TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND READY TO GET TO WORK. AWESOME. THANK YOU. WANT TO WELCOME TRACY. UM CONGRATULATE FREDDIE, UM, WHO IS OUR NEW C PB DIRECTOR AND WELCOME DEMI TO THE TABLE WITH CHERYL AND I, AND I ALSO WANNA THANK TAM AND HIS STAFF FOR THE HURRICANE PREPAREDNESS THAT WE HAVE THIS MORNING. YOU GUYS DID A GREAT JOB, SO I JUST WANNA THANK YOU. THANK YOU, UH, JUST A REMINDER. 
          THE JOINT MEETING TO TOMORROW NIGHT AT THE EVENT CENTER AT 700 CROCKETT AT 6 P.M. IT'S 6 P.M. 
          SO EVERYBODY, UH OH, TO BE THERE . UH, LIKEWISE I LIKE TO WELCOME AGAIN. TRACY UH, DEMI AND IN THEIR POSITIONS. AND UH, WHO AM I MISSING? FREDDIE AND FREDDIE AND, UH, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT SOME THINGS. WHAT I, UH, DEPARTMENT PLANNING DEPARTMENT WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, SO WE HAVE WE HOPE TO HAVE AN EXCITING ANNOUNCEMENT THIS WEEK ON THAT, TOO, AND SOME THINGS WE'RE DOING , AND HE CAN WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND HOUSE, UH, WITH OUR DEPARTMENT, SO THAT'S GREAT. 
          UH A TWO COMMEND THE WEEKEND. IT WAS A GREAT WEEKEND. UH I, UH WE WENT BY THE FLY IN AT THE 
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AIRPORT. THEY REALLY ENJOYED THAT GOT TO MEET SOME REALLY GOOD PEOPLE AND INTERACT WITH GOOD PEOPLE AND SEE SOME INTERESTING AIRPLANES ETCETERA OUT THERE, TAYLOR. UH AND THEN WENT TO 409 DAY WAS WAS A GREAT EVENT. WE ENJOYED IT OUT THERE. SO AGAIN. THAT'S YOU'RE RIGHT. 
          THERE'S PLENTY TO DO. THERE WAS PLENTY TO DO IN BEAUMONT THIS WEEKEND. AND THEN, UH, SUNDAY WAS THE CRAWFISH FESTIVAL, SO THERE WAS A LOT TO DO. UM JUST A AAA. GOOD NOTE. YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT GRANTS AS WE WERE LOOKING OVER OUR C IP AND STARTING TO PUT IT TOGETHER FOR THIS YEAR OUT OF THE IDENTIFIED PROJECTS IN THE C IP 25% OF THEM ARE GRANT FUNDED WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW WHAT WAS THE TOTAL 200 MILLION IN PROJECTS FOR IN 19 MILLION, SO 1/4 OF THOSE PROJECTS WE'VE IDENTIFIED GRANT FUNDING FOR AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO LOOK FOR GRANT FUNDING, UH, FOR PROJECTS, AND THAT DOESN'T COUNT ON THE OTHER. SIDE THINGS. THESE ARE INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS, SO JUST THOUGHT I'D SHARE THAT WITH COUNCIL. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN DURIA. I BELIEVE YOU HAD SOMETHING ELSE. SORRY ABOUT THAT MIRROR. UH MISS TONY PRAYED. I SHE LIVES IN MY WARD AND HER AND HER NEIGHBORS ARE VERY HAPPY WITH, UH, A CITY OF BEAUMONT EMPLOYEE. HE UH, WORKS FOR SANITATION, AND HE PICKS UP HE PICKS UP THEIR TRASH AND HE'S AND THEY THEY WANT TO BE HERE AND THEY WROTE HIM A CERTIFICATE AND I TOLD HIM I WOULD READ IT AND CERTIFICATE OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION. THIS CERTIFIES THAT GEORGE BROWN IS A WATER THIS CERTIFICATE OF SPECIAL RECOGNITION FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING SERVICE. TIRELESS EFFORT. THIS IS TO ACKNOWLEDGE OUR APPRECIATION AND GRATITUDE SIGN THE PEAR ORCHARD SARAH STREET COMMUNITY. SO UH, THAT'S A GREAT THING. YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME HARD WORK, BUT I'M GLAD THAT PEOPLE, UH, RECOGNIZE AND REALLY APPRECIATE THEIR EMPLOYEES OUR EMPLOY WHAT THE CITY'S EMPLOYEES SO ALL RIGHT NOW, COUNCILMAN TURNER, I'M WE'RE GONNA GET START OVER, MR RAYMOND FORD, MAN. I JUST WANNA REALLY THANK YOU. UH, THE CON THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE CITY OF BEAUMONT WITH THE SWIM TEAM. YOU'RE VERY APPRECIATED. THANK YOU FOR THE HARD WORK, DEDICATION AND CONSISTENCY. I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING VERY GOOD FOR OUR CITY AND WE FLOOD OFTEN, SO I THINK THESE KIDS NEED TO LEARN AS MUCH AS THEY CAN ABOUT BEING IN THE WATER. LOOK WELL. WITH THAT'S THAT'S TRUE. WELL I. I WANNA THANK OUR CITY MANAGER AND STAFF AND CERTAINLY EXCITED FOR THE PROMOTIONS IS ALSO THE NEW HIRE. AND UH, THE EXCITING THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING AND THE PRESENTATION TODAY, I THINK IN THE EDUCATION THAT WE CONTINUE TO SHARE WITH THE RESIDENTS ON WHY THINGS HAPPEN LIKE THEY DO WHEN SOMETIMES THEY FEEL LIKE THERE'S NOT A PROCESS WHEN IN FACT, UH YOU'VE GONE TO GREAT EXTENT AND I KNOW THAT THE CITY CONTINUES TO TRY. PROCESSES THAT ARE FAIR AND EQUITABLE ACROSS THE CITY. AND UH, I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT. AND OUR CITY FACEBOOK PAGE AS WELL AS OUR WEB PAGES. INCREDIBLE AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ALL THIS. AND FOR PEOPLE THAT SOMETIMES SAY, MAN, I HATE TO MISS THAT. YOU REALLY DON'T HAVE TO MISS ANY OF IT AND BECAUSE IT IS POSTED IN THE GRAPHICS ALWAYS, UH, ARE VERY ENGAGING, TOO. SO I'M I'M GRATEFUL FOR THAT. THE CLEAN UP DAY THAT IS THIS SATURDAY THAT WAS POSTED. I'M BRINGING THAT UP. I'M PARTICIPATING. THAT I'M EXCITED ABOUT THAT. I'M ALSO THROWING OUT THE FIRST PITCH AT THE LAMAR GAME THAT EVENING. SO IF I HAVE TROUBLE WITH DISTANCE, I'M I'M SURE IT'S BECAUSE I HAVE BEEN LI. YOU KNOW, GETTING A LOT OF GARBAGE, SO I DO WANNA LAY THAT GROUNDWORK. UH, RIGHT NOW, UH, JUST TO BE CLEAR, AND, UH, EXCITED ABOUT THE MEET JOINT MEETING WITH BISD FOR TOMORROW AND CERTAINLY THINK, UH, JUNE FOR THE TERRORIST PRESENTATION COMMISSIONER. COURT I THINK IT WAS WELL RECEIVED. AND I'M EXCITED THAT, UH, THE DIFFERENT ENTITIES ARE WORKING WELL TOGETHER AND THEY EXPRESSED THEIR EXCITEMENT, TOO, THAT THE CITY IS TAKING SUCH STEPS AND DECISIONS HAD NOT BEEN MADE YET, BUT IT CERTAINLY APPEARS TO BE THAT WE'RE ALL WORKING IN T
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