[ Presentation providing an overview of the City of Beaumont’s traffic signal system, including operations, maintenance challenges, and ongoing improvements.]

VILLARREAL, CITY OF BEAUMONT PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR, PROVIDING AN OVERVIEW ON THE CITY OF BEAUMONT'S TRAFFIC SIGNAL SYSTEM, INCLUDING OPERATIONS, MAINTENANCE CHALLENGES AND ONGOING IMPROVEMENTS.

GOING ON HERE.

IS IT RIGHT? GOOD AFTERNOON. SO TODAY WE WILL BE DISCUSSING WE WERE ASKED TO GIVE A PRESENTATION WITH ABOUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS WITHIN A CERTAIN SECTION OF THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. AND WHAT WE HAVE FOUND IS THAT THESE ISSUES AND THIS ONE TARGETED AREA HAPPEN THROUGHOUT THE 172 SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS WITHIN THE CITY.

SO THIS PRESENTATION IS TO HELP US UNDERSTAND HOW OUR SIGNALS OPERATE, WHY CERTAIN ISSUES OCCUR, AND SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE ARE UNDERTAKING IN ORDER TO IMPROVE OUR SERVICE TO OUR CITIZENS. AND WITH ME IS MR. TERRY LAFLEUR, AND HE WILL BE ABLE TO ANSWER MORE TARGETED QUESTIONS AND CORRECT ME, BECAUSE I KNOW I'M GOING TO SAY SOMETHING INCORRECTLY. SO HERE WE GO. REALLY, WE ARE MANAGING AN INTERCONNECTED GRID. SO WE HAVE 172 SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, AND THEY'RE ALL CURRENTLY GREEN. SO THAT COULD BE A PROBLEM HERE ON THE SCREEN. SO THE REALITY IS THAT TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE NO LONGER STAND ALONE PIECES OF EQUIPMENT AT INTERSECTIONS. ANOTHER WAY TO THINK ABOUT TRAFFIC AND TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT IS BASICALLY LIKE THE FLOW OF WATER THROUGH A PIPING SYSTEM. YOU'RE LITERALLY CONTROLLING THE FLOW OF TRAFFIC. AND SO YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE OPTIMIZING THAT FLOW THROUGH OUT OUR ENTIRE ROADWAY SYSTEM. SO IF YOU HAVE AN ISSUE THAT POPS UP IN ONE LOCATION, IT CAN HAVE A RIPPLE EFFECT INTO OTHER AREAS OF THE CITY. AND SO SOMETIMES WHERE YOU SEE A PROBLEM, THAT PAIN POINT MAY NOT BE THE SOURCE OF THE PROBLEM. SO I WANT TO KIND OF MENTION THAT AND MAKE SURE THAT ASK YOU ALL TO KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE WORK THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE ANATOMY OF A MODERN TRAFFIC SIGNAL SYSTEM. AND SO IT STARTS WITH, YOU KNOW, THE INTERFACE. WHAT DOES THE DRIVER SEE? SO WE HAVE THESE ENERGY EFFICIENT LED SIGNAL HEADS. THAT IS WHAT IS GIVING THE THE DRIVER VISUAL

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INSTRUCTIONS OR THE PEDESTRIAN VISUAL INSTRUCTIONS WHETHER TO STOP OR GO. AND THERE'S CAMERAS TO DETECT WHETHER THE TRAFFIC IS THERE OR AN OLDER TECHNOLOGY IS THE INDUCTIVE LOOPS THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WIRE COILS THAT WERE BURIED IN THE PAVEMENT, AND THEN YOU HAVE THE ACTUAL BRAIN OF THE SYSTEM, WHICH IS THE CONTROLLER THAT LIVES IN THESE TRAFFIC CABINETS. AND I'LL TAKE A MOMENT TO PLUG OUR TRAFFIC CABINET ART PROGRAM. SO I THINK THERE ARE STILL TRAFFIC BOXES OUT THERE AVAILABLE FOR OUR ARTISTS, IF THEY WOULD LIKE TO DECORATE THOSE. SETTING THAT ASIDE, AND THEN THERE'S A CONFLICT MONITOR IN THERE, AND THAT IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT HAVING CONFLICTING GREENS THAT WOULD RESULT IN A CRASH. SO THEN THERE ARE DIFFERENT TYPES OF SIGNAL STRATEGIES. SO THE THE ONE THAT'S GOING TO DO THE LEAST AMOUNT OF PREDICTING OF THE TRAFFIC AND IT'S GOING TO BE THE LEAST RESPONSIVE TO LIVE DATA IS YOUR PRE-TIMED OR YOUR FIXED TIME SIGNAL. SO YOU WILL SIT, YOU KNOW, YOU WILL COLLECT THE DATA FOR THAT INTERSECTION, TAKE THE TRAFFIC COUNTS, TAKE THE ACCIDENT REPORT HISTORY FOR THAT INTERSECTION, AND YOU SET A TIMING SCHEDULE FOR THAT INTERSECTION. IF YOU WANT TO RESPOND TO A LITTLE MORE TO LIVE DATA, THEN YOU WOULD HAVE ACTUATORS. SO THAT'S THE DETECTOR LOOPS. THOSE ARE THE CAMERAS. SO YOU'RE MINIMIZING THE UNNECESSARY DELAYS ON THE MAIN ROAD. AND THAT IS GOOD FOR VARIABLE TRAFFIC PATTERNS. THEN YOU HAVE IF YOU WANT TO DO SOME MORE PREDICTING AND MORE RESPONSIVE RESPONSIVENESS TO LIVE DATA, THAT IS YOUR ADAPTIVE SIGNALING. AND THAT IS A, THAT'S TERMINOLOGY THAT WE HAVE THROWN AROUND QUITE A BIT, AND THAT IS USING THE CABINET INSTALLED HARDWARE, USING THE CAMERAS TO DETECT THE TRAFFIC CONDITIONS AND ADAPT TO THOSE TRAFFIC CONDITIONS. IT IS GOOD FOR YOUR HEAVILY CONGESTED CORRIDORS. THAT IS WHY WE RESERVE THESE FOR OUR MAIN ARTERIAL ROADS. SO I WANT YOU TO THINK ABOUT COLLEGE STREET, DOWLEN ROAD, MAJOR DRIVE. THESE ARE THE ROAD GLADYS. THESE ARE THE ONES THAT WE'RE TARGETING FOR OUR ADAPTIVE SIGNALING. AND THEN COORDINATED SYSTEMS. THESE ARE YOUR MAIN TRANSIT BOULEVARDS. WE DON'T HAVE AS MANY OF THESE. YOU'RE TRYING TO DO A CONTINUOUS GREEN. THE FLOW OF GREEN LIGHTS DOWN THE ROAD SO THAT YOU CAN GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B AS AS EASILY AS YOU CAN WITH THE LEAST AMOUNT OF DISRUPTION. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT YOUR PEDESTRIAN BEACONS THAT ARE SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO ACT. THEY STAY DARK UNTIL THEY'RE ACTUATED BY PEDESTRIAN USER. AND SO THESE ARE ALL DIFFERENT STRATEGIES THAT ARE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE TO US FOR OUR SIGNAL STRATEGIES. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO FALL BACK ON IS OUR YOU'LL HEAR US USE THE TERMS RECALL MODE. SO IF A SENSOR HAS FAILED, WHETHER DUE TO WEATHER, MAYBE THE CAMERA'S DIRTY, THERE'S A POWER OUTAGE, OR WE'VE HAD A HIGH WIND EVENT THAT HAS MOVED ONE OF THE CAMERAS AND IS NO LONGER DETECTING PROPERLY. THEN WE GO INTO A RECALL MODE. AND RECALL MODE IS NOT A NECESSARILY A BAD THING. YOU HAVE OUR MAXIMUM RECALL. THIS IS GOING BACK TO THE ACTUAL TIMING DESIGN THAT WE HAVE FOR THE SIGNALS. YOU HAVE YOUR MAXIMUM RECALL. SO YOU'RE TRYING TO MAXIMIZE THE GREEN CYCLE FOR TRAFFIC TO GO THROUGH. YOU HAVE MINIMUM RECALL, WHICH IS THAT 5 OR 6 SECOND BURST OF GREEN LIGHT TO JUST LET A COUPLE OF CARS THROUGH IF THEY'RE PAYING ATTENTION, IF THEY'RE NOT ON THEIR PHONE. THERE'S A LOT THERE'S A, THERE'S A LOT OF HUMAN FACTORS IN HERE TO BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION. YOU ALSO HAVE PEDESTRIAN RECALL, AND THAT WILL DISRUPT THE NORMAL RECALL CYCLE BECAUSE THERE'S A PEDESTRIAN THAT IS ACTIVATED IT.

AND THEN THE SOFT SOFT RECALL, WHICH IS A LIGHT, STAYS GREEN FOR THE MAIN ROAD UNTIL CROSS STREET TRAFFIC ARRIVES. AND THEN IT CHANGES BECAUSE IT HAS BEEN CALLED IN. SO WHAT ARE THE COMMON TRAFFIC SIGNAL DISRUPTERS STOP BAR MISS. SO IN OUR PAVEMENT MARKINGS WHERE WE HAVE SIGNALS, WE YOU'LL SEE A WHITE STRIPE ACROSS THE ROAD. THAT IS YOUR STOP BAR. AND THAT IS THE BASIS FOR WHERE YOU SHOULD STOP IN ORDER TO, TO ACTIVATE THE DETECTOR, WHETHER IT IS A GROUND LOOP, WHETHER IT IS A CAMERA, IT'S TELLING YOU, COME UP HERE, STOP UP HERE, JUST IN. SINCE I STARTED WORKING ON THIS PRESENTATION, DRIVING AROUND TOWN, THAT IS

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ONE OF THE MAIN THINGS. IF YOU STOP TOO FAR BACK, YOU. I SAW MANY VEHICLES THAT WERE STOPPING OVER TWO CAR LENGTHS BEHIND THE STOP BAR, THE CAMERA, OR THE DETECTORS, NEVER GOING TO SEE THEM. SO YOU'RE GOING TO SIT THERE AND WAIT UNTIL MAYBE SOMEBODY MAKING A LEFT TURN CUTS IT TIGHT, TRIGGERS THE DETECTOR, AND THEN THE TRAFFIC WILL CYCLE. THE OTHER STOP BAR MISS IS A PULL TOO FAR FORWARD AND THEY'RE TOO FAR FORWARD INTO THE INTERSECTION. AGAIN, NOT NOT TRIGGERING THE DETECTION FOR THAT SIGNAL. YOU HAVE SHADOWS. SOME OF THESE CAMERAS ARE IN NEIGHBORHOODS WITH A LOT OF TREES. WE'VE STRUGGLED WITH THAT. I'M THINKING OF SOME ON THOMAS ROAD WHERE WE STRUGGLE WITH SHADOWS, AND WE'VE ALSO STRUGGLED WITH WITH GLARE, ESPECIALLY AS WE GET CLOSER TO THE DAYLIGHT SAVINGS TIME TRANSITIONS.

THERE'S CERTAIN CAMERAS THAT COME TO MIND WHERE WE'LL START GETTING A FLURRY OF CALLS, AND IT IS BECAUSE AT SUNRISE OR AT SUNSET, THE SOLAR GLARE IS AFFECTING THE CAMERA. BEING ABLE TO DETECT THAT THERE IS TRAFFIC. THEN OF COURSE, LIKE I SAID OVER AND OVER AGAIN, THE CAMERA DETECTION ISSUES, THE DISTRACTED DRIVER GAP, THAT THAT IS AN IMPORTANT ONE. YOU KNOW, ONCE THAT LIGHT TURNS GREEN, IT'S EXPECTED. THERE'S A EXPECTED REACTION TIME TO TAKE YOUR FOOT OFF THE BRAKE, STEP ON THE GAS, GO FORWARD. IF THAT IS DISRUPTED BECAUSE OF A DRIVER BEING DISTRACTED, THEN THAT CAUSES A DELAY AND EATS INTO THAT GREEN TIME FOR THAT SIGNAL. OBSOLETE TIMING PLANS. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO COME UP AGAIN AS WE GO INTO THIS SPECIFIC INTERSECTIONS, TRAFFIC COUNTS AND TRAFFIC DATA THAT WAS COLLECTED PRIOR TO SEVERAL OF THESE I-10 TEXTS OR TEX DOT PROJECTS IN GENERAL, HAVE CAUSED OUR TIMING PLANS TO BECOME OBSOLETE. OF COURSE, POWER FAILURES AND ALSO OTHER PREEMPTION INCIDENTS. WHAT'S A PREEMPTION INCIDENT THAT COULD BE A AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE PASSING THROUGH? BECAUSE WE ALSO HAVE THESE SIGNALS, HAVE THE OPTICAL SYSTEM THAT IS GOING TO PRIORITIZE AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE THAT HAS ITS FLASHERS ON TO GIVE THEM THE GREEN. AND THEN IT'S GOING TO TAKE ANYWHERE FROM 3 TO 5 TRAFFIC CYCLES TO GET BACK ONTO ITS NORMAL ROUTINE. SO YOU HAVE YOUR EMERGENCY VEHICLES. YOU COULD HAVE AGAIN, THE PEDESTRIAN ACTUATIONS OR TRAINS.

SO ALL OF THOSE COULD PREEMPT WHAT IS PROGRAMED IN THAT SIGNAL AND CAUSE SOME DELAYS.

AND SO EVEN THOUGH THAT INCIDENT HAS GONE ON DOWN THE ROAD, YOU DON'T KNOW THAT BECAUSE THEY'VE MOVED ON AND YOU'RE ARRIVING 1 OR 2 CYCLES LATER. YOU DON'T SEE WHAT CAUSED THAT PREEMPTION. YOU JUST KNOW THAT YOU'RE CAUGHT IN TRAFFIC. WE HAVE EVEN HAD A A FLAG HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION HAS INSTALLED AN AMERICAN FLAG. IT LOOKS GREAT, BUT IT WAS AFFECTING OUR CAMERA. SO EVERY TIME IT WAS A WINDY DAY, IT WAS ACTUALLY IT WAS ACTIVATING THAT TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND IT DISRUPTING THE ACTUAL TRAFFIC PATTERN. SO NEW EQUIPMENT GOT INSTALLED. AND I THINK WE HAVE ADDRESSED THAT SIGNAL. I HOPE SO. SO WHAT ARE SOME OF OUR CHALLENGES? AGAIN, WE HAVE 172 INTERSECTIONS. AND I WANT TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO REALLY THANK OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT GROUP THAT IS 13 EMPLOYEES WITH THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, WHO ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THESE 172 INTERSECTIONS, IN ADDITION TO THE PAVEMENT MARKINGS AND OUR TRAFFIC SIGNS. AND THEY ARE DEALING WITH AGING INFRASTRUCTURE AND EQUIPMENT.

THESE MODERN COMPONENTS ARE EXPENSIVE. SO WE ARE ALWAYS LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, BUDGET CONSTRAINTS AND ALSO HAVING TO BALANCE OUR REACTIVE VERSUS PROACTIVE MAINTENANCE. SO THE MORE REACTIVE WE ARE, THE LESS PROACTIVE WE CAN BE MORE REACTIVE, WE ARE THE LESS STRATEGIC WE CAN BE IN TARGETING OUR UPKEEP OF THE SIGNALS. AND OF COURSE, WHY DO THESE TRAFFIC SIGNALS EVEN MATTER? WELL, WE'RE TRYING TO IMPROVE OUR ROADWAY SAFETY FOR THE PUBLIC, REDUCE THE CONGESTION AND TRAVEL TIME, SUPPORT ECONOMIC ACTIVITY.

BECAUSE IF WE WANT TO ATTRACT DRIVERS TO CERTAIN CORRIDORS, COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS, IT'S A HIGH TRAFFIC COUNT. WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE A SAFE AND NOT FRUSTRATING EXPERIENCE GETTING TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GO, AND OVERALL ENHANCING THE PUBLIC'S SATISFACTION. SO WHAT ARE WE DOING TO MAKE THIS BETTER? WE ARE CONTINUING TO WORK ON OUR SIGNAL TIMING

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EVALUATIONS. WE ARE LOOKING AT INTERSECTION SPECIFIC OPERATIONAL IMPROVEMENTS, WHICH I'LL GET IN TO A FEW OF THOSE IN JUST A MOMENT. AND WE ARE TRYING WE ARE WORKING TO INSTALL ADAPTIVE SIGNAL TECHNOLOGY ON OUR MAJOR CORRIDORS. AND THROUGH THAT, WE HAVE APPLIED FOR AND RECEIVED OR APPLIED AND BEEN AWARDED OR CONTINUING TO JUST APPLY FOR VARIOUS GRANTS THROUGH TEXDOT THROUGH FH TO INSTALL THIS ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE ON SEVERAL CORRIDORS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. SO FOURTH STREET IS ONE OF THOSE. GLADYS, THE NEW HIGHLAND PROJECT WILL HAVE THAT AS WELL. WE'RE WORKING THROUGH. AND THESE ARE ON VARIOUS STAGES OF AWARD OR IMPLEMENTATION. WE'VE ALSO DONE GLADYS FROM EDSON TO CENTRAL. GOT A LOT OF FEEDBACK.

CALDER FROM 14TH STREET TO MAIN, LUCAS DRIVE FROM EAST TEXAS FREEWAY TO BUCKNER ROAD AND WASHINGTON BOULEVARD FROM 11TH STREET TO MLK. AND SO WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDER CONSTRUCTION NOW WITH DOWLEN ROAD FROM HIGHWAY 90 ESSENTIALLY TO EASTEX FREEWAY. AND UPCOMING GRANTS WILL BE COLLEGE STREET FROM MAJOR DRIVE TO PINE STREET, 11TH STREET FROM DELAWARE TO FANNETT ROAD. MAJOR DRIVE FROM HIGHWAY 105 TO FINET ROAD AND MLK FROM I-10 TO US 69. SO THESE ARE ALL. WE EITHER ARE PENDING EXECUTION OR ARE COMPLETE OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

AND I KNOW WE'VE BROUGHT SOME OF THESE APPLICATIONS TO COUNCIL RECENTLY FOR ACCEPTANCE.

SO THEN WHAT IS THE BEST WAY? HOW CAN WE SPEED UP OUR RESPONSES WHEN WE HEAR OF A COMPLAINT? I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE OUR CITIZENS TO PLEASE REPORT THE ISSUES TO 311. FIRST, IT GOES FROM THE CITIZEN TO 311 TO THE TECHNICIAN. SO THERE IS NO THERE'S NO DELAY AS IT GOES TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER, THROUGH THE EXECUTIVE OFFICE, TO THE DIRECTOR, TO THE DIVISION MANAGER, TO THE TECHNICIAN, BY ALL MEANS. I DON'T WANT TO DISCOURAGE THEM FROM REACHING OUT TO COUNCIL, IF THAT IS YOUR WISH. HOWEVER, I SEE YOU, MR. CRENSHAW. AT THE END OF THE DAY, TO HAVE THE TECHNICIAN TO GET THE WORK ORDER OUT THERE AND HAVE THE THE TECHNICIAN BE CONTACTED AND REACH OUT BECAUSE. BECAUSE THERE IS A HOT SPOT HAPPENING IN ONE PARTICULAR PART OF TOWN DOES NOT MEAN THERE'S NOT ANOTHER URGENT ISSUE HAPPENING IN ANOTHER PART OF TOWN. AGAIN, 172 SIGNALS THAT WE ARE FACING SOME COMMON ISSUES WITH THE CALL OUTS THAT WE RECEIVE FROM OUR CITIZENS. WE DON'T GET ENOUGH INFORMATION. A CALLER CAN CALL IN SAYING THAT THE LIGHT IS NOT WORKING, OR THAT THE LIGHT IS NOT CHANGING. WE GO OUT, WE INVESTIGATE THE INTERSECTION, AND WITHOUT KNOWING WHAT THE SPECIFICS ARE, IT DOES MAKE IT DIFFICULT TO FIND THE PROBLEM. AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THE POWER FAILURE ISSUE, GOING BACK TO THE STOP BAR ISSUE, THOSE ARE ALL THINGS THAT ARE DRIVER RESPONSIVE, THAT ARE CAUSING THE INTERSECTION TO NOT FUNCTION PROPERLY. ANOTHER TYPICAL CALL IS THAT ONLY 2 OR 3 LIGHTS. ONLY 2 OR 3 CARS ARE GOING THROUGH, AND WE FOUND MOST OCCASIONS THAT THE FIRST CAR WILL MAKE WILL WAIT A FEW SECONDS INTO THAT GREEN CYCLE GREEN PHASE TO MAKE SURE NOBODY ELSE IS GOING TO RUN THAT, RUN THAT LIGHT BEFORE THEY ADVANCE. THAT EATS INTO THAT GREEN TIMING FOR THAT, THAT CAR TO GO FORWARD, THEN DETERMINING WHICH DIRECTION NEEDS TO HAVE PRIORITY IS A CONTINUING PROCESS. BECAUSE WE ARE WE ARE ALWAYS HAVING TO EVALUATE THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE RUN INTO IS WITH THE CONSTRUCTION THAT HAPPENS AROUND TOWN, NOT JUST THE STATE'S CONSTRUCTION, BUT ALSO THE CITY'S IS, LIKE I SAID, ABOUT THE FLOW OF WATER. PEOPLE ARE GOING TO FIND ANOTHER WAY, AND BY THEM DOING SO, IT IS CONSTANTLY MODIFYING THE PATTERNS THAT WE SEE OF TRAFFIC. AND SO WE ARE THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ALWAYS A LITTLE BIT BEHIND TRYING TO CATCH UP WITH WHAT THOSE CHANGES ARE. LET'S SEE. YEAH. SO I MENTIONED ABOUT THE SHADOW EFFECT. THAT'S ONE OF THE UNUSUAL THINGS, THE STOP BAR AND THEN THE RAILROAD PREEMPTIONS. AND SO THEN OUR HOT SPOT AREAS. SO WE WERE ASKED TO SPEAK ON FOUR PARTICULAR INTERSECTIONS, THE FIRST ONE BEING FOURTH STREET, AVENUE ROAD. SO THE FANETTE ROAD NORTHEAST BOUND HAS A LEFT TURN LANE, BUT IT DOES NOT HAVE

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A DEDICATED LEFT TURN PHASE FOR THE SIGNAL. AND SO WE ARE EVALUATING ADDING A PROTECTED LEFT TURN PHASE. HATE TO THROW THIS ONE OUT THERE, BUT IT IS ALSO AN IDEAL CANDIDATE FOR A TRAFFIC CIRCLE. THIS INTERSECTION HAS SIX LEGS TO IT AND THAT'S QUITE A BIT WHAT HAS HAPPENED WITH THE I-10 TRAFFIC, BUT ALSO DURING THE CONSTRUCTION ON WASHINGTON BOULEVARD, THE PUBLIC FOUND THAT LITTLE PIECE OF ROAD AS A CUT THROUGH FROM WASHINGTON ONTO FINET ROAD. AND SO SINCE THAT HAS TAKEN PLACE, THAT TRAFFIC COUNT COMING OFF OF WASHINGTON INTO THAT INTERSECTION HAS INCREASED DRAMATICALLY. SO IT IS ONE THAT WE ARE EVALUATING FOR PROTECTED LEFT TURN PHASE. THE NEXT INTERSECTION. WE WERE CONTACTED AS FOURTH STREET AT SARAH STREET. THE REQUEST IS FOR THE GREEN LIGHT TO REST ON SARAH INSTEAD OF FOURTH STREET. FOURTH STREET HOLDS THE HIGHER TRAFFIC VOLUME AND ESPECIALLY DOES SO WITH THE I-10 PROJECT. CARS ARE BAILING OFF FOURTH STREET. THEY'RE BAILING OFF AT FINET ROAD. THEY'RE JUST TRYING TO GET AWAY FROM THE I-10 TRAFFIC. SO THEY'RE COMING ONTO THE CITY STREETS. AND SO WE STILL THE REALITY IS FOURTH STREET, SINCE IT HOLDS THE HIGHER TRAFFIC VOLUME, THE GREEN LIGHT IS GOING TO REST ON. SARAH, THERE WAS AN ISSUE WITH THE CAMERA ON SARAH STREET, AND IT WAS NOT DETECTING DRIVERS ON SARAH STREET, ESPECIALLY AT NIGHT. THAT CAMERA HAS BEEN REPLACED. COME ON UP HERE, TERRY, I DON'T MIND. THAT'S A QUESTION. WE WANT TO WAIT TILL THE END. MY. OKAY, I KNOW I ALREADY GOT NOTES. ALRIGHT.

PAGE FOUR. YES. SO OUR NEXT INTERSECTION WAS 11TH STREET AT FINET AND SARAH. IT'S AN AWKWARD CURVE GEOMETRY WHERE FINET ROAD IS STRAIGHT BUT 11TH INTO. SARAH MAKES THAT CURVE.

WE ARE REEVALUATING THE DEDICATED FOUR WAY LEFT TURN PHASE. SO CURRENTLY ONLY FINET ROAD RIGHT NOW HAS A DEDICATED LEFT TURN PHASE. BUT 11TH SARAH DO NOT. AND SO WE ARE GOING TO HAVE TO REEVALUATE THAT BECAUSE THAT'S BASED OFF THE OUTDATED PRE I-10 TRAFFIC STUDIES. NOW WITH THE INCREASE IN TRAFFIC AVOIDING I-10, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO REEVALUATE THAT AND SEE IF WE CAN ADD A LEFT, A DEDICATED LEFT TURN ON 11TH AND SARAH STREET. AND THEN THE NEXT ONE IS 11TH STREET AT WASHINGTON. THE RAILROAD PREEMPTION DOES IMPACT THAT TIMING. AND ALSO WE HAVE A LOT OF COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE LOUVERED SIGNALS ON 11TH STREET.

BUT THE REALITY IS THAT THESE DELAYS ARE STRICTLY MANDATED BY THE FEDERAL RAILROAD AUTHORITY FOR THE TRACK PREEMPTION REQUIREMENTS. AND SO. AND WE CAN DIG INTO MORE DETAIL ON THOSE INTERSECTIONS. BUT CAN I ADD CAN I ADD SOMETHING TO THE FOURTH AND CAN YOU GO BACK? I'M ON THE TRACK. THERE WE GO FORTH. AND SARAH, THE OTHER SITUATION WAS BEAUMONT UNITED CHANGED THEIR. OH, YEAH. SCHOOL AT THE END OF SCHOOL, EXITING THE SCHOOL. SO IT CAUSED A LOT MORE TRAFFIC ON SARAH IN THE EVENINGS. FOURTH STREET FROM CALDER TO SARAH HAS ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE. IT'S NOT TURNED ON YET. WE'RE CURRENTLY WORKING TO GET THAT TURNED ON, AND THAT SHOULD TAKE CARE OF A LOT OF THE ISSUES THERE AT FOURTH AND SARAH, WITH THAT INCREASED TRAFFIC. THANK YOU. AND I KNOW I'LL GET COUNCILMAN THEN COUNCILMAN TURNER. AND THEN IF ANYBODY ELSE HAS ANY QUESTIONS. SO ON THE ONE FOURTH AND SARAH, THEY WERE SAYING THAT THE CONSTITUENT SAID THAT IT STAYS GREEN A LOT LONGER ON FOURTH STREET THAN IT DOES ON SARAH.

AND I KNOW HE LIVES RIGHT THERE ON THE CORNER. I'M PRETTY SURE HE SITS ON HIS PORCH IN TIMES.

SO THAT THAT WAS THE THAT WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THAT ONE, SHE SAID. THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, AND HE JUST SAID, EVEN WITH ALL THE TRAFFIC COMING OUT OF THE BACK OF. BU, SO THERE IS TRAFFIC GOING DOWN SARAH STREET TOWARDS FOURTH. SO I MEAN, IT'S YOU SAID, HOW DID YOU SAY THAT REQUEST TO REST ON GREEN ON SARAH. THAT WAS THAT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THEY PREFERRED AFTER AFTER SCHOOL LET OUT AFTER THE SCHOOL HOURS ENDED AND THE TRAFFIC COMING OUT OF BU HAS PASSED THAT IN THE EVENINGS THAT THE THE GREEN, THE RESTING GREEN LIGHT THEN TRANSITIONED TO SARAH INSTEAD OF FOURTH STREET. WHEN THEY TOLD ME WAS THAT IT STAYS.

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BASICALLY THEY JUST SAID IT STAYS GREEN ON FOURTH STREET A LOT LONGER THAN IT DOES ON SARAH. IT'S PROGRAMED TO STAY GREEN ON ON FOURTH AND THEN IT'S TRAFFIC COMES UP ON SARAH.

IT CHANGES THE LIGHT. ONCE THE ADAPTIVE IS TURNED ON, IT'LL LOOK AT ALL FOUR DIRECTIONS AND CHANGE THE LIGHT ACCORDINGLY TO LET THE MOST TRAFFIC THROUGH. OKAY. ON THE ONE THAT FOURNETTE AND 11TH ABOUT THE LEFT TURN SIGNALS. I THINK YOU ADDRESSED THAT BECAUSE I GOT A LOT OF COMPLAINTS OF THAT. THEY HAVE A LOT OF ACCIDENTS THERE BECAUSE OF THE IT WAS WHAT IS IT ONLY ONE LEFT TURN SIGNAL. YEAH. THE LEFT TURN SIGNAL IS ON FINET ROAD AND THERE'S NOT A DEDICATED LEFT TURN ON 11TH AND SARAH. AND SO WE REACHED OUT TO AN ENGINEERING FIRM TO TAKE A QUICK LOOK AT THESE AND EVALUATE THE CRASHES THAT WERE OUT THERE. AND THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS IS TO REVIEW AND GET UPDATED DATA. NOW THAT WE ARE DEALING WITH THE REALITY OF THE TRAFFIC, TRYING TO AVOID THE I-10 CONSTRUCTION AND REVIEW THAT TIMING, AND ALSO LOOK AT MAYBE, IF WE CAN, WHAT THAT PHASING NEEDS TO LOOK LIKE, BUT ALSO TOO TARGETED ENFORCEMENT FOR SPEED AND SIGNAL COMPLIANCE. AND ALSO ON FINET TERRELL PARK ROAD AND CHERYL PARK ROAD ON ONE SIDE AND WALDEN ON THE OTHER SIDE. PEOPLE CONSTANTLY RUN THAT LIGHT BECAUSE IT STAYS RED FOR SO LONG, THE TURN SIGNAL WON'T COME ON. I MEAN, I DRIVE THROUGH THERE EVERY DAY.

I MEAN, I DON'T RUN IT, BUT I SEE PEOPLE RUNNING IT. I SEE PEOPLE RUNNING BECAUSE THEY AND I'VE GOTTEN CALLS ABOUT THAT BECAUSE IT JUST TAKES TOO LONG. THEY DON'T THEY DON'T WANT TO WAIT. RIGHT. I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL WAS ABLE TO CHECK THAT ONE. AND 23RD OF WASHINGTON, SAME THING. THEY'RE COMING OFF OF 23RD ONTO WASHINGTON. SO IT STAYS THAT LIGHT ON 23RD STAYS RED. WELL, FOLKS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD, THEY THEY RUN THAT LIGHT BECAUSE JUST THEY SIT THERE FOREVER, WHICH I THINK YOU TOLD ME YOU WENT TIMED ONCE, BUT I STILL GET CALLS ABOUT IT. THAT WAS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO. OH, I TIMED WALDEN AT 124. OKAY. OH, I'M TALKING ABOUT 23RD AND YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 23RD AND WASHINGTON. MOST OF THE TIME THAT'S RELATED TO A CAMERA GOING OUT, AND WE SEND A TECHNICIAN OUT IMMEDIATELY. I KNOW THAT PARTICULAR INTERSECTION. WE'VE CHANGED THE CAMERA OUT. I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG AGO IT WAS. THE OTHER COMPLAINT WAS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 23RD COMING OUT OF THAT PRIVATE BUSINESS. THEY WANTED A RED LIGHT THERE. YEAH. SO THAT'S BEEN A LOT OF WELL 23RD AND 23RD AT 23RD IN WASHINGTON. THERE'S THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF REQUESTS BECAUSE THEY THE THE ONES COMING FROM THE SOUTH THAT IS ACTUALLY A PRIVATE DRIVEWAY, NOT A, NOT A CITY STREET. AND THEY ARE WANTING A DEDICATED LEFT TURN OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAY BY SCOOTERS. AND SO PART OF THE PROBLEM THAT WAS HAPPENING AT WASHINGTON AT 23RD IS WHEN TEX-DOT HAD I. WASHINGTON CLOSED TO ONE LANE EASTBOUND HERE RECENTLY THAT WAS BACKING UP THAT TRAFFIC AND I THINK WAS ALSO MESSING WITH THAT PREEMPTION THERE AND WAS CAUSING IT TO BE VERY DIFFICULT TO FOR ANYBODY TO GET A LEFT TURN OUT OF THERE BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC WAS STACKED SO DEEP, BECAUSE ALL THAT WAS GETTING FUNNELED DOWN INTO ONE LANE. SINCE THEN, THE ROAD IS NOW BACK OPEN TO TWO LANES EASTBOUND. AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE THE CALL VOLUME HAS REDUCED SINCE THEN, BUT IT IS ONE THAT CONTINUES TO COME UP. OKAY. I THINK THAT'S ALL THAT I HAVE RIGHT NOW, BUT I WILL SEND AN EMAIL IF I NEED TO GET IN TOUCH WITH Y'ALL. BUT THANK YOU FOR FOR THIS PRESENTATION AND FOR, FOR BEING SO RESPONSIVE, I APPRECIATE IT. I WILL I JUST TELL THE CONSTITUENTS TO CALL YOU. THEY DO. I DON'T MIND AT ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN TURNER. WELL, COUNCILMAN, I SEE A LOT OF THIS WORK IS IN THAT ORCHARD AREA.

YOU HAPPEN TO SEND ME THE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION YOUR SPOT? ONE DAY THEY BEAT ME UP KIND OF HARD ABOUT SOME OF THESE INTERSECTIONS, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE IT'S BEING ADDRESSED. BUT ONE THING THAT'S AN IMMEDIATE CONCERN TO ME IS THESE IDEAL TRAFFIC CIRCLE CANDIDATES, YOU KNOW, IN THE AREA, THERE'S A LOT OF OUR OLDER RESIDENTS. AND WHEN WE START TALKING ABOUT TAKING AWAY LIGHTS AND THEY OPERATE, WE'RE IT WAS ONE OF THOSE. WHEN WE SAT DOWN WITH THE CONSULTANT ENGINEER AND THEY DO WORK ACROSS A BROADER AREA OF TEXAS BECAUSE OF THE COMPLEXITY OF THAT INTERSECTION ON A MAP, IT LOOKS GOOD. AS AN IDEAL

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CANDIDATE. THAT'S NOT WHERE I WOULD RECOMMEND DROPPING THE FIRST ONE IN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. AND AS I EXPLAINED TO THEM, THERE WOULD BE A. THERE NEEDS TO BE A WHOLE. WE'RE. I DON'T WANT TO SAY WE'RE MILES AWAY, BUT WE'RE. WE'RE A LONG WAY FROM DROPPING A TRAFFIC CIRCLE ANYWHERE. YEAH. WE STILL GET BEAT UP ABOUT THE ONE LANE ON SIXTH STREET AND FOURTH STREET, SO I CAN ONLY IMAGINE THE RESPONSE TO THAT CIRCLE IN THAT PARTICULAR COMMUNITY. I JUST SAW THE MUSHROOM CLOUD FROM FROM THAT END OF PEAR ORCHARD, JUST EVEN THINKING ABOUT IT. BUT YEAH. YEAH. AND MY SECOND THING IS THE DOUBLE LIGHT BY THE RAIL ON WASHINGTON AND THE LIVING STREET. YES, SIR. IN THEORY, I'M NOT UNDERSTANDING. WE HAVE MULTIPLE RAILS THROUGHOUT THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. WHY IS THIS ONE PARTICULAR AREA TARGETED THAT WAY? LIKE I, I LITERALLY EVERYWHERE I GO, I WAS STOPPED AT H-E-B THE OTHER DAY ABOUT THE DOUBLE LIGHT AT THE RAIL ON 11TH STREET IN WASHINGTON. I KIND OF WELL, THERE'S A, THERE'S ONE THERE'S ONLY ONE ANSWER BECAUSE THE FEDERAL RAILROAD ADMINISTRATION SAID SO.

SO MY QUESTION IS, HOW DO RESIDENTS AND ELECTED OFFICIALS CAN WE EITHER. I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN SET UP A MEETING WITH THE FEDERAL RAILROAD, OR CAN WE GET THEIR CONTACT INFORMATION WHERE THEY CAN HEAR HOW WE FEEL ABOUT THAT? SO YOU COULD. THAT'S TIME YOU'LL NEVER GET BACK. THE REASON THAT WAS PUT UP IS THAT THEY DID A SURVEY STUDY THAT SAID THAT PEOPLE WERE LITERALLY STOPPING. THAT'S THEIR ONE OF THEIR HIGHEST FATALITY RATES IN PARTICULARLY AT NIGHT. BUT PEOPLE WERE STOPPING OVER THE TRACK OR PEOPLE WOULD TRY TO BEAT THE LIGHT TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE, TO MAKE THE LIGHT ON THE OTHER SIDE BEFORE GETTING THE TRAIN TRACKS. SO THAT ONE IS PROBABLY IN PLACE MORE FOR THEIR PROTECTION THAN ANYTHING. IT PROBABLY IS A LIGHT THAT PEOPLE RUN A LOT. I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY THAT, BUT THE REALITY IS, IS THAT IT'S A LIGHT THAT THEY RUN. SO NOW WHEN THEY RUN THAT LIGHT, THE THE RAILROAD GETS TO SAY, YOU DISREGARDED A RED LIGHT WHEN THEY GO TO SUE THEM FOR WRONGFUL DEATH, FOR BEING HIT BY A TRAIN. SO DEFINITELY YOU CAN HAVE THAT MEETING DEFINITELY BE TIME THAT YOU WOULDN'T GET BACK. I DON'T SEE THAT THAT LIGHT BEING REMOVED FROM A LIABILITY STANDPOINT.

WELL, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT AND I APPRECIATE YOU, MADAM ATTORNEY. BUT FOR ME, I STILL RATHER MY CONSTITUENTS BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THEM DIRECTLY VERSUS IT COMING TO ME. SO IF WE CAN GET SOME CONTACT INFORMATION FOR THEM, I WILL SHARE IT ON MY SOCIAL MEDIA PAGE AND EVEN GET IT THE CORE. COUNCILMAN HILLIARD SO MY QUESTION IS ON. SO WE'VE GOT COLLEGE AND AND MAJOR ARE 90 AND MAJOR FELON AND MAJOR WHERE WE'RE, WE'RE DOING OUR AMAZING QUIET ZONE CONSTRUCTION. DO WE ADJUST THE LIGHTS FOR THAT? BECAUSE IT, IT MAKES QUITE A LONG ONE LINE OF CARS. DO WE ADJUST THE LIGHTS WHEN WE HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT GOING ON? TRY TO RELIEVE SOME OF THAT PRESSURE? NOT NORMALLY. WE WOULD NEED TO DO TRAFFIC STUDIES AND FIND OUT WHAT IS THE IDEAL TIMING NEEDED. SO CURRENTLY WE WOULD NOT GO OUT JUST BECAUSE OF NOW THAT PARTICULAR AREA, BECAUSE OF THE INCREASE IN THOSE APARTMENTS AND SOME COMMERCIAL BUSINESSES GOING IN, TRAFFIC HAS INCREASED. SO WE ARE. I KNOW THAT'S ONE OF. WELL, AND ALSO TO THE THE TRAFFIC THAT IS ON I-10 THAT IS TRYING TO GET TO EAST TEXAS FREEWAY IS BAILING OFF AT MAJOR TO TO GET AWAY FROM THE I-10 CONSTRUCTION. SO THIS. THE OTHER. EVEN THOUGH WE WE HAVE HAD TRAFFIC INCREASES FROM THE COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT THAT IS IN THAT AREA. A LARGE CONTRIBUTOR OF THE INCREASE IS THE TRAFFIC TRYING TO AVOID THE I-10 CONSTRUCTION. AND IT'S KIND OF HARD TO OVERSTATE THE IMPACT THAT THAT IS HAVING ON OVERWHELMING OUR OUR SYSTEM.

OKAY. AND THEN CAN I ADD, CAN I ADD SOMETHING MAJOR DRIVE ALSO HAS ADAPTIVE SOFTWARE THAT'S GOING TO BE INSTALLED AND SO DOES COLLEGE. OKAY. AND THEY BOTH END AT COLLEGE AND MAJOR.

SO WE BELIEVE THAT WILL MAKE A HUGE DIFFERENCE ONCE THAT IS FULLY INSTALLED AND RUNNING.

WHEN WILL THAT WHEN WILL WE HAVE THAT FULLY INSTALLED IN THAT TIME FRAME? YEAH. DON'T WE CAN LOOK AT THE PROJECTION TO SEE WHEN WE THINK THAT THAT COULD HAPPEN. YEP. SO AND ANOTHER ONE, ONE MORE THING. AND IT MAY NOT APPLY TO THIS, BUT LIKE NEW LIGHTS THERE AT THE PARKWAY INTERSECTION AND MAJOR DRIVE. I KNOW THAT THEY'VE POURED THE CEMENT. ARE THEY IS THE PLAN STILL FOR TEX DOT TO PUT A LIGHT UP THERE? YEAH, WE APPLIED FOR THAT TO BE ABLE TO INSTALL THAT SIGNAL AND JANUARY. AND SO THE FOUNDATIONS FOR THOSE SIGNALS WAS

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CONSTRUCTED WHEN NORTHWEST PARKWAY WAS CONSTRUCTED. WHILE THE SIGNAL WAS NEVER PUT IN BACK THEN. BEATS ME. THAT'S WHEN THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE IT. HERE WE ARE. WE APPLIED IN JANUARY, LATE LAST LAST WEEK WE GOT BACK THE MARKUPS TO OUR CONSTRUCTION PLANS, SO WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF REVIEWING THEIR COMMENTS. WE'LL MAKE THE REVISIONS, RESUBMIT IT BACK.

BUT WHAT I'VE EXPLAINED TO TXDOT IS THAT IN OUR CURRENT CIP, WE'RE SCHEDULED FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR TO INSTALL THOSE IMPROVEMENTS. SO I'M TRYING TO PUSH THEM TO APPROVE OUR APPLICATION SO THAT WE CAN GET STARTED ON THAT CONSTRUCTION, BECAUSE IDEALLY, WE WOULD HAVE THIS COMPLETED BEFORE THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND COUNCILMAN DARIO WOULD LIKE ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY. AND THEN COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW. SO ALSO, I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL LOOKED AT IT THOUGH, BUT SINCE THEY'RE DOING THIS I-10 TRAFFIC, I-10 CONSTRUCTION IN THE EVENING TIME, RIGHT AT CARDINAL INFO.NET, I MEAN, THE TRAFFIC IS STACKED ALL THE WAY BACK TO 11TH STREET, RIGHT? THERE IT IS. YES. AND THAT'S THAT'S BEEN THAT WAS PART OF. SO ONE OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT WE HAD, THIS CONSULTANT ENGINEER IS THE ACTING TRAFFIC OPERATIONS ENGINEER FOR OUR BEAUMONT DISTRICT. AND THAT WAS SOMETHING THAT I. SINCE THEY'RE NEWER TO THE PROJECT, EXPLAINED TO THEM THAT WHEN WE WERE FIRST NOTIFIED OF THE I-10 PROJECT, OUR VERY FIRST REQUEST WAS FOR THEM TO INCLUDE ADAPTIVE SIGNALING ON THAT CORRIDOR FROM I-10. AT 11TH STREET, ALL THE WAY DOWN 11TH STREET TO FINET ROAD, BECAUSE WE KNEW THAT TRAFFIC. EVERY TIME THEY CLOSE I-10, THAT'S WHERE TRAFFIC IS TRYING IS GETTING OFF. AND TO IMPROVE THE FLOW THROUGH THE CITY. AND THAT WAS DENIED. SO WE, WE REALLY WOULD. WE REALLY DO NEED 11TH STREET TO BE ADAPTIVE ALL THE WAY THROUGH THERE. BUT WHAT WE'RE SEEING AND ESPECIALLY LIKE THAT TIME THAT HERE RECENTLY WHERE I-10 WAS CLOSED IN BOTH DIRECTIONS AND YOU HAD THAT MULTITUDE OF WRECKS. AND IF YOU WENT TO THE GOOGLE STREET MAP, THE WHOLE THING WAS RED BECAUSE IT JUST COLLAPSED OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM AS WELL. AND IT WAS JUST BUMPER TO BUMPER TRAFFIC THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE CITY. BUT THE TRAFFIC IMPACTS TO OUR CITY STREETS IS SIGNIFICANT. I KNOW YOU SAID YOU HAD THE ADAPTIVE LIGHT LIGHTS. THAT'S WHAT YOU HAVE ON FOURTH STREET. THE WHOLE LENGTH OF FOURTH IT IS INSTALLED. WE ARE STILL REFINING THAT TO GET IT UP AND RUNNING. SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE STILL ON RECALL TIMING. I WAS I WAS ON FROM WENT FROM QUARTER AND FOURTH ALL THE WAY TO FINISHING FOURTH LAST NIGHT AND CAUGHT A GREEN LIGHT ALL THE WAY DOWN. THAT'S THAT BUTTON YOU HAVE IN YOUR CAR. GLAD TO HEAR IT. COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW. THANK YOU. MOLLY, ARE THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS ON MLK ADAPTIVE? NO. NOT YET. OKAY.

JUST I WOULD SAY THE YEAR I'VE BEEN ON COUNCIL, PROBABLY THE MOST FREQUENT COMPLAINTS THAT I GET ABOUT TRAFFIC SIGNALS SEEMS TO COME FROM MLK, EITHER MORNING OR MAINLY AFTERNOON TRAFFIC. AND I BELIEVE THAT'S ACTUALLY A ROUTE YOU TRAVEL. YES. AND YOU'VE MADE THAT COMMENT BEFORE. WHEN. AND THAT'S, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY WE'RE SITTING ON MLK WAITING ON THE LIGHT TO CHANGE FROM FRANKLIN OR ONE OF THESE INTERSECTING STREETS. AND THERE HASN'T BEEN ONE CAR AND WE'VE JUST BEEN SITTING HERE. WHAT, WHAT WHAT DO Y'ALL DO THIS AND WHY DON'T THE LIGHTS FLOW BETTER? AND DO WE HAVE A TIME FRAME ON WHEN WE MIGHT DO ADAPTIVE TRAFFIC SIGNALS FOR MLK? CONSIDERING THAT'S SUCH A POPULAR ROUTE FOR PEOPLE AT 5:00. SO THAT IS OUR WE'RE WAITING FOR THE EXECUTION OF THE AGREEMENT WITH TEXDOT. IT'S JUST SHY OF $850,000 TO INSTALL THE ADAPTIVE SIGNALING ON MLK. BUT THAT IS A FUTURE. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S AN FY 27 OR AN FY 28 SIP, BUT I CAN CONFIRM THAT FOR YOU. IS THAT 850 OUR MONEY OR TECH STOCKS MONEY, TECH STOCKS MONEY? OKAY, SO WE BASICALLY NEED TECH STOCK TO APPROVE THE 850 FOR US TO SWITCH TO ADAPTIVE SIGNALS. YEAH. WE'RE YES, WE'RE PENDING THE EXECUTION OF THAT AGREEMENT. OKAY. AND SO WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING WE CAN ON OUR END.

WE'RE JUST WAITING ON TECH STOCK TO APPROVE IT. WE'VE SUBMITTED IT AND WE'RE WE'RE WAITING FOR IT. AND AND IF POSSIBLE, LET'S JUST SAY THEY APPROVED IT TOMORROW. THIS

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WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WOULD HAPPEN THE SOONEST WOULD BE IN 2027. WE WOULD HAVE TO LOOK AT THE DETAILS AND HOW QUICKLY WE CAN PROCURE AND MAKE IT. IF ADDITIONAL STUDIES WOULD NEED TO BE WOULD NEED TO TAKE PLACE IN ORDER TO, BECAUSE THERE IS REFINEMENT THAT GOES. WE DON'T JUST IT'S NOT A PLUG AND PLAY SYSTEM TO DO THAT REFINEMENT, BUT I CAN GET THAT TIMELINE FOR YOU. OKAY. AND THIS WOULD BE FROM CARDINAL DRIVE TO I-10. IS THAT THE CORRECT? CORRECT.

CORRECT. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL, NORMALLY WE ASK YOU TO FOLLOW UP, BUT I I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, I'M GOING TO FOLLOW UP WITH TXDOT ON THAT POINT AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT GETTING THAT APPROVED AND DOING THAT. BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, I TRY TO FOCUS ON THE ISSUES THAT GENERATE THE THE MOST COMPLAINTS. TO ME, THAT SEEMS TO BE AN AREA AND IT SOUNDS LIKE WE'RE MAKING SOME GREAT IMPROVEMENTS ON MAJOR IN COLLEGE AND SOME OF THESE OTHER FREQUENTLY TRAVELED ROADS. A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, WE ALL MET AT TECH DOT AND HAD A GREAT MEETING ABOUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE THE SITUATION AT RFD. AND IT LOOKS LIKE TXDOT IS SORT OF TAKING MORE OF THE APPROACH, THAT THERE'S NOTHING WE CAN DO IMMEDIATELY ABOUT RFD. SO WE WANT TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO AREAS THAT WE CAN MAKE IMMEDIATE CHANGES TO THAT WOULD MAKE RFD LESS OF A CUT THROUGH FOR PEOPLE TRYING TO GO FROM 105 TO TO THE FREEWAY. SO, OH, ARE YOU GOING TO ADDRESS THAT IN YOUR PRESENTATION LATER? I KNEW THIS WAS GOING TO COME UP.

OH, OKAY. GREAT. AND SO LAST WEEK I SPOKE WITH TEX DOT AND ACTUALLY I WAS ABLE TO SPEAK TO THE VENDOR THAT SELLS THE SIGNALS. AND YEAH, THEY SAID THAT THE HARDWARE THAT WE HAVE AT 69 AND OR 96 AND THE IN 105 IS EXTREMELY OUTDATED. THAT'S CORRECT. AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE ARE GETTING A NEW PIECE OF EQUIPMENT THAT TEX DOT IS GOING TO PAY FOR. THAT IS OUR UNDERSTANDING. THAT WAS WHAT THEY WERE GOING TO RECOMMEND. SO WHAT WE. SO WHAT I HAVE ON OUR SCREEN IS THIS IS HIGHWAY 105 FOR MAJOR DRIVE TO EASTEX FREEWAY. AND WHAT I WANTED TO POINT OUT IS ALL OF THIS AREA THAT HAS DEVELOPED RECENTLY. SO YOU'VE GOT THESE SUBDIVISIONS THAT HAVE BUILT OUT ON A LONG RFD ROAD. YOU CAN SEE THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THERE, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S NO REAL GOOD WAY TO CONNECT THE ROADS. AND ON THAT, CONNECT TO RFD ROAD TO ANY OTHER ROAD, GRIFFIN ROAD, PERHAPS THAT COULD GET YOU UP AND OVER TO THE CHIN ROAD OVERPASS. AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DISCOVERED THROUGH THE PROCESS OF STUDYING ALL OF HIGHWAY 105 IS THAT WHEN THE EAST TEX CONSTRUCTION TOOK PLACE TO ENHANCE THE FEEDER ROADS AND MAIN LANES OF EASTEX FREEWAY FROM BASICALLY HIGHWAY 105 NORTH, TRAFFIC STARTED FINDING AN ALTERNATE ROUTE. LIKE I SAID, THEY'RE GOING TO FIND ANOTHER WAY. AND WHAT THEY FOUND IS RFD ROAD IS THIS BEAUTIFUL LITTLE CUT THROUGH HERE. WELL, I CAN SEE MY POINTER. SORRY. BEAUTIFUL CUT THROUGH TO GET FROM HIGHWAY 105 TO THE EASTEX FREEWAY. AND ANOTHER PAIN POINT WAS THE INTERSECTION OF HIGHWAY 105 AT US 69. AND JUST LIKE THIS, GOOGLE IMAGE SHOWS ALL OF THIS BEING UNDER CONSTRUCTION. SO WHAT DO PEOPLE DO? WE TRY TO AVOID THE CONSTRUCTION AND THE DELAYS IT CAUSES. AND ONE OF THE PLANS THAT THEY FOUND IS THAT HIGHWAY 105 EASTBOUND, THE OUTSIDE LANE IS A IS A RIGHT TURN ONLY. SO IT'S A DEDICATED RIGHT TURN TO GET YOU ONTO THE EAST TEX FEEDER ROAD. INSTEAD, IT SHOULD BE ABLE TO DO BOTH.

BOTH LANES SHOULD BE ABLE TO GO THROUGH, PLUS HAVE A RIGHT TURN ABILITY. AND SO TEX DOT HAS OFFERED TO ELIMINATE THAT LITTLE BITTY ISLAND THAT WOULD THAT IMPEDES YOU RIGHT NOW FROM BEING ABLE TO GO STRAIGHT TO GET OVER ONTO CONCORD. BUT IN ORDER TO DO THAT, THEY FOUND THAT OUR TRAFFIC SIGNAL, THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL EQUIPMENT FOR THOSE IS, LET'S JUST SAY, OUTDATED AND NOT ABLE TO HANDLE THIS NEW PHASING. SO ONCE BOTH OF THOSE LANES BECOME EASTBOUND, ALL THE WAY THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION THAT OPENS UP THAT TRAFFIC LOAD OF THE TRAFFIC TRYING TO GO EAST, THAT CAN THEN MORE EASILY GO NORTH OR CONTINUE EAST. AND SO THAT'S WHERE TEX-DOT IS ASSISTING US WITH THE REMOVAL OF THAT ISLAND AND UPDATING THE EQUIPMENT IN

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THOSE TRAFFIC SIGNALS. AND I THINK MODIFICATIONS TO THE STRIPING AND, AND THE STRIPING TO MAKE THE FLOW THROUGH THIS INTERSECTION LESS OF A PAIN POINT AND ENCOURAGE TRAFFIC TO USE THIS INTERSECTION AS OPPOSED TO WINDING THEIR WAY BACK THROUGH RFD ROAD. GREAT.

AND ANYWAY, IT LOOKS LIKE FROM THAT MEETING, WE'VE GOT SOME, SOME GREAT IDEAS AND A PLAN.

YES. SO I GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR STAFF PAYING ATTENTION TO THAT AND DOING WHAT WE CAN IN THE SHORT TERM TO TRY TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE ISSUES FOR RFD, EVEN THOUGH, YOU KNOW, LONG TERM, MAYBE WE COULD DO A TRAFFIC SIGNAL, BUT IT'S JUST IT'S NOT GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE SHORT TERM. CORRECT. THERE'S ALSO GOING TO BE A PROJECT WHERE TEX DOT PLANS TO RESTRIPE HIGHWAY 105 AND REDUCE THE LANES FROM 12 FOOT TO 11 FOOT, WHICH AT THAT IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE MUCH, BUT TRAVELING AT THOSE SPEEDS, IT DOES HAVE A TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURE BECAUSE IT IS, IT'S MORE CONFINING AND TENDS TO CAUSE DRIVERS TO SLOW DOWN A LITTLE BIT. AND THAT IS IMPORTANT TO BEING ABLE TO SAFELY NAVIGATE THIS PART OF TOWN. SOMETHING I WANTED TO POINT OUT. SO THIS WAS A SCREENSHOT FROM THE GOOGLE STREET MAP AT 1230 THIS AFTERNOON. AND YOU'RE SEEING WHERE MAJOR AT HIGHWAY 105 IS STILL A, A CONGESTION AREA. AND WHAT ENDS UP HAPPENING BECAUSE OF THE INEFFICIENCIES AT MAJOR AT HIGHWAY 105, THAT TRAFFIC WILL BACK UP ALL THE WAY UP TO RFD ROAD FURTHER MAKING A BAD PROBLEM WORSE. AND SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SAYING. THE PAIN POINT IS AT RFD ROAD, THE PROBLEM BEING AT MAJOR AT 105. SO THEY ARE ALSO LOOKING AT IMPROVING THE STRIPING THERE BECAUSE THE STRIPING IS IS JUST WORN OFF. AND THEY ARE ALSO REEVALUATING THE SIGNAL TIMING AS WELL BECAUSE OF THE INFLUENCE OF THE TRAFFIC FROM AVOIDING I-10 TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO TO IMPROVE THE FLOW THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION, TO SEE WHAT IT CAN DO TO PROVIDE SOME RELIEF TO RFD ROAD. GREAT. AND THEN THE LAST COMMENT THAT I WOULD MAKE WOULD BE, WHEN PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT ISSUES WITH TRAFFIC SIGNALS AND WE ARE DOING THESE UPGRADES WITH THE ADAPTIVE SIGNALS, I THINK MAYBE IT WOULD REALLY BE OF BENEFIT TO OUR CITIZENS. IF YOUR DEPARTMENT GOT WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT. AND MAYBE WE DO START DOING LIKE A SHORT VIDEO SHOWING THE ADAPTIVE INTERSECTIONS THAT NOW HAVE ADAPTIVE SIGNALS AND HOW IT'S IMPROVED AND HOW THINGS ARE GETTING BETTER. BECAUSE I KNOW YOU, YOU SAID AT ONE POINT DURING YOUR PRESENTATION, OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE WHEN PEOPLE COME TO BEAUMONT, THEY, YOU KNOW, WANT TO HAVE A PLEASANT EXPERIENCE WITH TRAFFIC. AND UNFORTUNATELY, THAT'S JUST NOT THE REALITY THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH TODAY. BEAUMONT IS SORT OF PERCEIVED AS A AS A, AS A NIGHTMARE ON TRAFFIC. AND, AND I KNOW THAT THAT'S IN NO WAY AM I POINTING FINGERS AND SAYING, WHO'S AT FAULT FOR THAT? BUT IT'S JUST KIND OF THE REALITY OF WHAT WE'VE GOT. AND SO AS WE DO MAKE GAINS AND AS WE DO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS, I WOULD BECAUSE TRAFFIC IS SUCH A, A, A SIGNIFICANT ISSUE THAT PEOPLE ARE TALKING ABOUT. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE YOUR DEPARTMENT IN THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, MAYBE HAVE MORE SYNERGY THERE IN TRYING TO CELEBRATE SOME OF OUR OUR IMPROVEMENTS AND WINS, EVEN IF THEY'RE EVEN IF THEY'RE MINOR, TO SHOW PEOPLE THAT WE'RE DOING THAT, THAT THAT'S A LOT OF WHAT I'VE BEEN DOING. AND IT IS VERY WELL RECEIVED BY, BY, BY THE CITIZENS AND BY TAXPAYERS. SO I THINK THAT IT WOULD HELP YOUR DEPARTMENT WITH COMMUNICATION IF WE WERE TO DO THAT. WELL, SOMETHING THAT CAN I WANT SOMETHING TO UNDERSCORE THE IMPACT OF THE HIGHWAY CONSTRUCTION ON THE CITY OF BEAUMONT IS THE INCREASE IN VEHICLE CRASHES SINCE THE BEGINNING OF THE I-10 PROJECT. SO WE HAVE HAD ROUGHLY ABOUT A ALMOST A 40 OVER A 40% INCREASE IN OUR CRASHES. THIS IS AND THAT'S IN CRASHES ON INTERSTATE TEN IN BEAUMONT, WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF BEAUMONT, JUST WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS, NOT JUST LIMITED TO OUR FREEWAYS. THAT'S WITHIN THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. WE'RE DOING A 40% INCREASE. YES. AND SO WITH THE FREEWAYS. YEAH. SO WE. THERE WITH THAT, WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE DISRUPTION TO THE TRAFFIC PATTERNS, THE CHANGES, WORK ZONE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS, WHICH THERE'S GOING TO BE A, THE NATIONAL WORK ZONE SAFETY IS, IS DOING A, AN AWARENESS PUSH

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IN THE NEXT WEEK OR TWO. THESE ARE ALL FACTORS IN OUR DRIVER SAFETY. SO, YOU KNOW, 2021, YOU KNOW, WE HAD JUST OVER 3000 TRAFFIC CRASHES WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS OF BEAUMONT 2025. WE WERE OVER 4400 CRASHES. SO THAT THAT IS AN IMPORTANT INCREASE. SO LIKE I SAID, WE ARE WE ARE IN A BIT OF A REACTIVE PHASE BECAUSE THE TRAFFIC THAT NORMALLY WOULD BE ON I-10 ONTO EASTEX FREEWAY IS NOW TRYING TO FIND OTHER WAYS TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B. AND, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THESE ROADS MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE BEEN SET UP TO CARRY THESE ADDITIONAL VEHICLE COUNTS. SO WE ARE STILL, YOU KNOW, WE'RE REACTING, WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING THAT WE CAN, AND WE ARE CONTINUING TO LOOK AT ENGAGING EXPERTS IN THIS AREA TO SEE WHAT WE CAN DO. WE LEAN INCREDIBLY HEAVILY ON TERRY AND HIS TEAM TO ADDRESS A LOT OF THESE ISSUES. I THINK IT'S IT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE THAT'S 13 PEOPLE THAT ARE HANDLING THIS WORK THAT IS HELPING KEEP OUR CITY SAFE. AND THIS PARTNERSHIPS WITH TXDOT ARE CRITICAL. AND THANK YOU TO COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW FOR HELPING US WITH THAT. BUT IT IS IT IS A JOINT EFFORT. AND SO WE ARE ENLISTING ALL THE ALL THE HELP THAT WE CAN TO MAKE THE ROADS AS SAFE AS POSSIBLE. AND MY LAST COMMENT, MAYOR MOLLY, IF YOU HAD ONE THING TO ASK THIS COUNCIL THAT YOU KNOW, WE COULD DO FOR YOU IN THE NEXT 3 TO 4 MONTHS TO TO HELP YOUR DEPARTMENT, OTHER THAN JUST, YES, WE NEED MORE MONEY. IS THERE AN ADDITIONAL POSITION? IS THERE AN ADDITIONAL AND I HATE TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT ABOUT THIS, BUT I'M JUST WONDERING, IS THERE A IS THERE AN ITEM THAT ISN'T CURRENTLY THAT YOU'VE REQUESTED THAT THAT THAT WE COULD COME IN THAT YOU'VE NOW SEEN NEED SHIFT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF WE'VE HAD A LOT OF SHIFTS IN, IN OUR NEEDS. WE ARE WE ARE EVALUATING WHAT OUR GRANT, WHAT GRANT FUNDING IS COMING, WHAT THE TIMING IS OF THAT FUNDING. WHAT WHAT EXPERTISE DO WE NEED TO ENGAGE? SO IT'S IT'S STILL A WORK IN PROGRESS. SO UNFORTUNATELY, I DON'T HAVE A SPECIFIC REQUEST THAT YOU COULD USE A CONSULTANT. WELL, WE ARE WE ARE EVALUATING THOSE AND WE HAVE PUT TOGETHER A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS THAT WE WILL BE PUBLISHING SOON TO ENGAGE A POOL OF TRAFFIC CONSULTANTS. WE'VE MADE CONTACT WITH A FEW FIRMS THAT HAVE REALLY PROVIDED SOME VALUABLE INSIGHT. AND SO I WANT TO CONTINUE THOSE CONVERSATIONS. OKAY, GREAT. YEAH, I WAS VERY ANTI CONSULTANT BEFORE I, I GOT ELECTED TO THIS POSITION. AND AFTER SORT OF GETTING TO BE MORE FAMILIAR WITH THE INNER WORKINGS OF TEXTILE, I FIGURED OUT HOW EFFICIENT AND EFFECTIVE THE CONSULTANTS ARE WITH, WITH TEXDOT. AND SOMETIMES IT'S KIND OF THE ONLY WAY YOU GET THINGS DONE AROUND THERE. AND SO THEY UNDERSTAND, THEY UNDERSTAND THAT WORLD AND THE, THE NUANCE THAT IS INVOLVED IN NAVIGATING THROUGH THAT, BUT ALSO TO A LOT OF THESE FIRMS HAVE SINCE THEY HAVE A BROADER SCOPE, THEY HAVE MORE EXPERIENCE, THEY ARE ABLE TO BRING TO US BEST PRACTICES THAT MAYBE WE HAVE NOT CONSIDERED IN THE PAST. AND SO I WOULD I WOULD LIKE TO BE ABLE TO REJECT IDEAS JUST BECAUSE THEY AREN'T A GOOD FIT TRAFFIC CIRCLE LOOKING AT YOU OR DO YOU KNOW, OR THINGS THAT WE HAVEN'T CONSIDERED YET. AND SO DEFINITELY OPEN TO EXPLORING THOSE IDEAS. THANK YOU MOLLY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? COUNCILMAN DORIA? TWO THINGS.

ONE, I JUST GOT A TEXT ASKING HOW ABOUT MORE BLINKING LEFT TURN SIGNALS AT MORE INTERSECTIONS. WOULD THAT HELP? WELL, WE'VE SEEN THOSE. THEY HAD A BLINKING. IF THE IF THE IF THE TRAFFIC STUDY, IF THE DATA SUPPORTS IT, THE TRAFFIC FLOW SUPPORTS IT, THEN THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN CONSIDER. SO THESE AREAS THAT ARE BEING IMPACTED WITH THE HIGHER TRAFFIC COUNTS DEFINITELY WILL EVALUATE THEM. IT DOES BECOME A. IT JUST TAKES A LITTLE TIME AND SOMEBODY TO SIT DOWN AND PUT PENCIL TO PAPER. AND I'VE NOTICED YOU SAID TRAFFIC CIRCLE A FEW TIMES. WHAT'S THE HISTORY WITH THAT? NOT GREAT. WE. THAT IS SOMETHING THAT BECOMES MORE OF A. YOU GOT TO HAVE THAT EXPERIENCE WITH IT. WE DON'T. THERE'S THE. SOME. THERE WERE IDEAS TO INSTALL ONE AT THE INTERSECTION OF CHIN AND EASTEX AND TEXTILE ENDED UP SCRAPPING THAT IDEA. THERE WAS IDEAS TO, YOU KNOW, 11TH STREET AT COLLEGE USED TO BE A TRAFFIC CIRCLE. AND I THINK THERE ARE A VARIETY OF MEMORIES OF, OF HOW EFFECTIVE THAT WAS, YOU KNOW,

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GOOD, BAD AND DIFFERENT. BUT IT, IT IS SOMETHING THAT WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER TO BE DROPPED OUT IN A, A SMALLER INTERSECTION WITH LESS RISK TO OUR PUBLIC THAT DOES NOT KNOW WHO DOESN'T HAVE EXPERIENCE IN NAVIGATING THEM AND THEN HAVE THAT BROADER CONVERSATION. THEY WORK EFFECTIVELY IN OTHER PARTS OF TEXAS. THEY DO. THEY ARE KNOWN TO REDUCE CRASHES, BUT THE TRAFFIC, THE TRAVELING PUBLIC NEEDS TO KNOW HOW TO SAFELY NAVIGATE IT. YEAH, I MEAN, I WAS I WAS JUST ON IN MISSOURI CITY THIS PAST WEEKEND. THEY WERE GREAT. YES. AND SO THE REASON WHY I JUST I'LL THROW UP AT FOURTH STREET, THIS IS BY NO MEANS WE ARE NOT EXPLORING PUTTING IT IN THERE. I JUST THREW THAT OUT THERE REGRETTING IT NOW. SO FOURTH STREET GOES NORTH AND SOUTH FAYETTE ROAD COMES FROM THE NORTHEAST TO SOUTHWEST. YOU HAVE EUCLID AND THEN YOU HAVE FINET ROW COMING OFF WITH TWO LEGS. SO YOU HAVE ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX LANES OF TRAFFIC. AND SO IT MAKES FOR A COMPLICATED INTERSECTION. AND SO WHEN I MENTIONED THAT THAT SMALL PIECE OF ROAD BETWEEN FOURTH STREET AND WASHINGTON BOULEVARD, WHEN ALL THE CONSTRUCTION WAS HAPPENING FOR WASHINGTON AND THEN AGAIN FOR FOURTH STREET, AND NOW WITH I-10, ESPECIALLY OUR HEAVY TRUCK TRAFFIC HAS COME TO UNDERSTAND THAT THEY CAN MAKE THAT LITTLE TURN RIGHT THERE ON FINET ROAD. AVOID THE 11TH AT FOURTH STREET SIGNAL AND JUST SHOOT DOWN THAT ROAD TO GET TO CARDINAL DRIVE AND THEN GET TO WHERE THEY WANT TO GO. AND SO THAT WAS NOT A FACTOR WHEN AS HEAVY OF A FACTOR WHEN WE DID THE TRAFFIC COUNTS, WHEN WE DESIGNED FOURTH STREET. BUT NOW THAT THE REALITY HAS CHANGED, WE'RE GOING TO REEVALUATE IT. I'M GOOD. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU. IN OUR LAST

[ Presentation on the Beaumont Library & Children’s Museum Feasibility Study. ]

PRESENTATION, BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO PUBLIC COMMENTS WILL BE ABOUT THE BEAUMONT LIBRARY AND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FEASIBILITY STUDY PRESENTED BY MICHELLE LANDISVILLE AND AIMEE SIBLEY WITH KOMATSU ARCHITECTURE. AND MILES WILL DO AN INTRODUCTION. YEAH, I'LL JUST DO A BRIEF INTRODUCTION, GIVE CONTEXT TO KIND OF BRING YOU GUYS UP TO SPEED, WHY THEY'RE DOING A PRESENTATION TODAY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. THIS IS MY LAST TIME STANDING HERE SEEING YOU TO MY LEFT. SO IT'S PRETTY COOL. BUT TODAY, KOMATSU IS THE CONSULTING GROUP THAT WE'LL BE DOING A PRESENTATION ON THE FEASIBILITY STUDY. WE WORKED BOTH WITH THE BEAUMONT LIBRARY AND THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. THIS WAS AN AGREEMENT THAT WE CAME TO IS THE CURRENT TRACK WAS SPLIT 5050. SO I DID WANT TO GIVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR AMANDA TO COME UP AND SPEAK BEFORE KOMATSU DOES THE PRESENTATION ON THE FEASIBILITY STUDY, AND JUST GIVE YOU GUYS CONTEXT ON WHAT WE GOT TO THIS POINT. THAT WAS A SURPRISE. HE DIDN'T WARN ME OF THAT ONE. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. I'M VERY HAPPY TO BE WORKING WITH MR. EDDIE AND MILES. IT HAS BEEN A VERY EDUCATIONAL TIME FRAME TO BE ABLE TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DOWNTOWN LIBRARY BUILDING AND THE PROGRAMS, AND THE POSSIBILITY OF HOW THE PROGRAMS COULD BE INTEGRATED TO CREATE A SUCCESSFUL VENTURE FOR OUR CITIZENS HERE IN BEAUMONT, TEXAS. I KNOW THAT THERE'S A LOT TO BE ABLE TO SHARE AND A LOT TO LEARN, BUT ALSO A LOT TO THINK ABOUT FOR THE FUTURE OF HOW THIS COULD IMPACT DOWNTOWN BEAUMONT, BEAUMONT CITIZENS AND SERVICES THAT CAN BE PROVIDED TO OUR PEOPLE AS A GREAT QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCEMENT AND ACCESS TO DIFFERENT THINGS THAT THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE HAD ACCESS TO BEFORE. THANK YOU AMANDA. THANKS. SO WE WORK REALLY LONG WITH THE WITH BOTH ENTITIES, VERY LONG TIME. WE WORK WITH BOTH OF THEIR BOARDS. WE PRESENTED TO THEM AND WE JUST LOOKED AT ONE SITE THAT WAS THE STARTING PROCESS REALLY WAS JUST LOOK AT THE SITE THAT YOU SEE ON THE SCREEN AND SEE IF THE IDEA OF BOTH ENTITIES BEING IN ONE SPACE WAS FEASIBLE. AND SO THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. AND TO GIVE YOU GUYS CONTEXT. SO WE'LL BRING UP AMY AND MICHELLE FROM TO DO THE PRESENTATION. WE ADVANCE THE SLIDES UP HERE. YOU DO IT. OKAY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND ADVANCE TO THE FIRST. ONE. SO WE'RE JUST GOING TO BRIEFLY WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH REAL QUICK. AND THEN I'LL LET MICHELLE KIND OF GET INTO THE DETAILS OF WHAT WE DISCUSSED. BUT WE WERE HIRED BY THE CITY OF BEAUMONT TO INVESTIGATE THE FEASIBILITY. SO WE'RE NOT WE DIDN'T CREATE A DESIGN. THIS IS LITERALLY A FEASIBILITY STUDY TO SEE IF IF IT WORKED TO COMBINE THE TWO

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FUNCTIONS INTO THE EXISTING LIBRARY, BUILDING. THE EXISTING LIBRARY BUILDING HAS SOME ISSUES THAT NEED TO BE UPDATED IF WE PROCEED GOING ON WITH THIS. AND SO WE HAVE INCORPORATED THOSE. WE'VE ALSO DEVELOPED A COST ESTIMATE AS A RESULT OF OUR STUDY THAT WE'LL SHOW YOU HERE IN A FEW MINUTES. BUT IF YOU DON'T MIND GOING TO THE NEXT ONE AGAIN. SO AGAIN, THIS EXISTING BUILDING, OUR GOAL WAS TO GET THE TWO ENTITIES IN THE SAME BUILDING.

IN BOTH CASES, BOTH ENTITIES ARE MAKING SOME COMPROMISES OF THINGS TO GET IN. WE HAD WE INVESTIGATED WITH THE NEXT ONE THERE. WE DID QUESTIONNAIRES. WE DID LIKE SOME SPACE TYPICALS THAT WE DEVELOPED FOR TYPICAL OFFICE SIZES AND EXHIBIT SIZES. WE HAD LIKE DISCUSSION TOPICS THAT WE WENT THROUGH WITH BOTH AGENCIES. WE HAD NUMEROUS MEETINGS WITH THE BOTH AGENCIES.

WE DEVELOPED BASICALLY AROUND 14 ITERATIONS OF THE PLANS OF IDEAS THAT WE COULD DO. WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SHOW YOU TODAY IS THE MOST PREFERRED OPTION OF ALL OF THAT. AND THEN WE ALSO CREATED LIKE A VISUAL FROM THE DISCUSSIONS THAT WE HAD. THESE ARE VISUAL PROGRAMING DOCUMENTS THAT KIND OF SHOW OF THE, THE KIND OF THE BASE THINGS THAT EVERYBODY NEEDED TO BE TO MAKE THIS BUILDING WORK. SO JUST KNOW THAT THIS, THIS IS NOT WHAT EVERYBODY WANTED. THEY WOULD LIKE TO HAVE MORE IN THE BUILDING, BUT WE HAD TO KIND OF LIMIT IT WHAT TO WHAT WE COULD FIT WITHIN THIS EXISTING BUILDING. SO I'LL LET YOU. I MEAN, WE THE BUILDING, I DON'T KNOW HOW FAMILIAR EVERYBODY IS. I KNOW IT'S RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET HERE, BUT YOU COME IN ON A STREET LEVEL, THEN YOU GO UP TO ONE LEVEL AND THEN YOU GO DOWN TO THE NEXT LEVEL. SO I'LL LET YOU KIND OF GO THROUGH THE REQUIREMENTS. SO AFTER MANY MEETINGS, THE TEAM WAS ABLE TO MAKE SOME CONCESSIONS. SO EACH TEAM CONCEDED CERTAIN AREAS AND CERTAIN SPACE REQUIREMENTS. AND THEN THEY CONCEDED WHICH AREAS THEY COULD SHARE. SO FOR INSTANCE, SHARED RESTROOMS, SHARED BREAK ROOMS FOR STAFF AND THINGS LIKE SHARED CLASSROOMS. AND SO AS YOU ENTER THE ENTRY LEVEL. SO THAT'S THE BOTTOM PLAN ON THIS SLIDE. THAT MAIN AREA WOULD GO TO THE LIBRARY. AND AGAIN, THESE ARE VERY SCHEMATIC. THESE ARE NOT ACTUAL DESIGN DOCUMENTS. THIS IS JUST LOOKING AT SPACE REQUIREMENTS AND WHERE THEY COULD FIT WHAT THEY COULD AGREE ON. SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THE BLUE AREA WOULD BE THE LIBRARY'S SITTING AREA OR SHELVING AREA. AT THE CENTER WE HAVE CIRCULATION AND TICKETING FOR THE LIBRARY AS WELL AS THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. AS YOU GO UP THE STAIRS TO PLAN NORTH, THE LIGHT YELLOW YOU SEE LIBRARY, YOUTH AND CHILDREN'S AREA, AND THEN THERE'S A SHARED SITTING AREA AT THE CENTER. YOU WOULD GO PLAN SOUTH AND GO INTO THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, AND THE DARKER YELLOW PORTION IS EXHIBIT SPACE. AND AT THE CENTER PORTION OF IT ALL, YOU SEE STAFF, WORK AREAS, PRIVATE OFFICES, AS WELL AS STORAGE AND WORKSHOP AREAS FOR THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. AND WITH THAT CENTER AREA ABOVE, IT WOULD BE A MEZZANINE. SO THAT WOULD BE DELEGATED TO THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM FOR EXHIBIT SPACE. IT WOULD BE OPEN AND IT WOULD POTENTIALLY BE HUNG FROM THE STRUCTURE ABOVE. AND THEN IN THE BASEMENT SLASH LOWER LEVEL OF THE BUILDING, WE HAVE THE CENTER PORTION BEING ALLOTTED TO THE LIBRARY. SO IT COULD BE SITTING OR BOOKSHELVES AREA. WE HAVE PUBLIC RESTROOMS AT THE CENTER AREA AS WELL AS FAMILY TOILETS. WE'VE GOT A CALM ROOM FOR CHILDREN THAT ARE OVERSTIMULATED THAT COULD BE USED BY BOTH THE LIBRARY AND THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. AND THEN WE HAVE THE LIGHTER GREEN AREAS WOULD BE SHARED CLASSROOM FLEX AREAS FOR THE TWO ENTITIES TO SHARE. AND THEN WE HAVE LITERARY LITERACY STUDY AND CONFERENCE ROOMS IN THE SMALLER GREEN CIRCLES OR BUBBLES THAT YOU SEE PLAN EAST. WE HAVE A WORK AREA FOR THE LIBRARY STAFF, AS WELL AS PRIVATE OFFICES THAT SPOKE OFF OF THAT WORK AREA.

AND THEN TECH SERVICES IS WHERE THEY REPAIR BOOKS FOR THE ENTIRE LIBRARY SYSTEM THAT REMAINS. IT DOES GET SMALLER SLIGHTLY FOR A RELOCATED ELECTRICAL CLOSET. THE HVAC CLOSET IS AT THE NORTHEAST CORNER THAT WILL REMAIN UNCHANGED, ALTHOUGH ELECTRICAL WOOD WILL NEED TO BE SIGNIFICANTLY UPDATED IN THE BUILDING. AND THEN THERE ARE TWO STORAGE CLOSETS THAT THE LIBRARY WOULD UTILIZE FOR THEIR VARIOUS FUNCTIONS ONE TO THE NORTHWEST AND THEN ONE TO THE SOUTHEAST, AND THEN A SHARED BREAK ROOM IS THAT PINK SKINNY BUBBLE TO THE PLAN SOUTHEAST. SO THE EXISTING LIBRARY SQUARE FOOTAGE IS NOT QUITE 30,000FT■!.

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AND THEN IF WE LOOK AT THE VARIOUS PORTIONS THAT ARE DELEGATED TO EACH AREA, WE'VE GOT THE LIBRARY TO RECEIVE AROUND 11,600FT■!S. THE MUSEUM WOULD RECEIVE AROUND 12,100FT■!, AND THEN THEY WOULD SHARE A TOTAL OF 90 200FT■!S WITH THE ADDED NEW MEZZANINE. THE WHOLE TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THE BUILDING WOULD BE AROUND 30,000FT■!S, 33 33,000FT■!S. EXE ME. AND THEN WE WORKED WITH THE COST ESTIMATOR. WE HAVE SOME HIGH LEVEL BULLET POINTS FROM THAT. JUST SAYING THAT THEY USED STANDARDIZED. MATERIALS AND THINGS LIKE THAT TO, TO COME UP WITH THIS ESTIMATE. THE BUILDING NEEDS SIGNIFICANT UPDATES TO BRING IT UP TO CODE.

IT HAS A LOT OF SITE WORK THAT WOULD NEED TO BE DONE TO ADD THINGS LIKE EGRESS, AND ALSO JUST TO REPAIR THE EXISTING SITE, THE ROOF WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED. THE ELECTRICAL HVAC SYSTEM NEED TO BE REPLACED. THEY'RE ALL QUITE OLD. THEY'RE ALL END OF LIFE. YEP. AND THE BUILDING WAS BUILT AROUND 1972. SO IT COMES IN AROUND 16 MILLION IS THE ESTIMATE THAT WE GOT TO REPAIR AND DO THE UPGRADES AND THEN DO THE NEW BUILD, WHICH DOES NOT INCLUDE ALL OF THE SMALL DESIGN FEATURES THAT THE MUSEUM WOULD ALSO PUT IN. AND THEN WE DO HAVE A FINISHED NARRATIVE INCLUDED IN THERE. THIS IS NOT GOLD PLATED. THESE ARE PRETTY TYPICAL FOR THINGS LIKE MUSEUMS AND LIBRARIES. SO WE HAVE THAT INCLUDED IN THIS PRESENTATION AND IN THE FEASIBILITY REPORT HAS THIS AS WELL, JUST WITH TYPICAL MATERIALITY AND CONSTRUCTION TYPES FOR THIS TYPE OF OCCUPANCY. AND THEN SO TO REITERATE SOME OF THE BIG TICKET ITEMS THAT ARE DRIVING THE COST OF THIS TOTAL ROOF REPLACEMENT MECHANICAL SYSTEM WOULD NEED TO BE REPLACED. THE BATHROOMS AND PLUMBING ALL NEED TO BE REPLACED AND REDONE EVEN TO MEET CODE. AND THEN ALSO THOSE ARE QUITE OLD. AND THEN ELEVATOR THE ELEVATOR. IT WOULD NEED TO HAVE A THIRD STOP FOR THE MEZZANINE AND THEN THE SITE WORK. THERE IS A LOT OF WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. WE'VE SHOWN TWO IMAGES THAT IS EVERYWHERE AROUND THE BUILDING, THE SEPARATION THAT IS GOING ON, AND THEN THE BASEMENT LEAKS. SO EVERY TIME THERE'S HEAVY RAINS OR ESPECIALLY IN A HURRICANE, THE BUILDING HAS SIGNIFICANT LEAKAGE. SO THAT ALL NEEDS TO BE MITIGATED. SO THIS COST NOT ONLY COMBINES THE TWO ENTITIES, IT ALSO BRINGS THE BUILDING UP TO CURRENT DAY STANDARDS. RIGHT. ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILMAN, DO YOU HAVE ANYONE CONSULTED OR SPOKEN WITH MEMBERS OF OUR LIBRARY COMMITTEE ON THIS? YES, WE WE HAD EXTENSIVE INTERVIEWS WITH BOTH DIRECTORS AND THEIR STAFF, AND THEN WE MADE PRESENTATIONS AND GOT FEEDBACK FROM BOTH THEIR BOARDS AS WELL. SO THEY WERE BOTH OKAY WITH THIS? YES. I MEAN, LIKE I SAID, I DON'T THINK EITHER ENTITY GOT EXACTLY WHAT THEY WANTED INITIALLY GOING INTO THIS, BUT AS A COMPROMISE, GETTING THE BUILDING IN THERE, I THINK WE BASICALLY MET ALL THEIR NEEDS.

I THINK IT'S GOING TO CHANGE THE LIBRARY'S APPROACH TO THEIR SERVICES IN THIS BUILDING, BUT I THINK THE COMBINATION, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS WE PUT THE CHILDREN'S LIBRARY UP NEXT TO THE KIND OF THE EXITING OF THE MUSEUM, BECAUSE THERE'S SOME SYNERGY THERE WITH KIDS GOING THROUGH THE MUSEUM AND THEN EXITING INTO THE LIBRARY. SO IT POSSIBLY COULD BRING SOME MORE PATRONAGE INTO THE LIBRARY AS WELL. WHAT'S WHAT'S WRONG WITH THE CURRENT CHILDREN'S MUSEUM? THE LOCATION, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THEY'RE BASICALLY LOST THEIR LEASE. WE LOST OUR LEASE. THEY NEED TO FIND A NEW HOME AND THEY WOULD LIKE MORE SPACE. AMANDA CAN PROBABLY SPEAK TO.

THE CURRENT CHOSEN MUSEUM IS LOCATED IN THE BEAUMONT CIVIC CENTER. AND SO THEY ARE GROWING AND OUTGROWING. THEY DO LEASE THAT THAT PROPERTY FROM THE CITY THROUGH A LEASE. THERE WERE TALKS ABOUT EXPANDING AND RENOVATING THE CIVIC CENTER. AND SO THAT WOULD OBVIOUSLY BE A DISRUPTION TO THEIR ORGANIZATION. OKAY. COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS, COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW, COUNCILMAN, DO YOU HAVE ANY IDEA THE IMPACT IT WOULD HAVE ON FOOT TRAFFIC AS FAR AS INCREASE? WE DIDN'T DO ANY ACTUAL STUDIES ON THAT BECAUSE OUR FEASIBILITY BASICALLY WAS JUST TO SEE IF THE TWO ENTITIES WOULD FIT. BUT OUR THINKING IS THAT, YES, IT PROBABLY WOULD INCREASE. OBVIOUSLY, THE MUSEUM HAS PRETTY GOOD ATTENDANCE IN THAT. THE LIBRARY IS FOCUSING MORE ON SERVICING THE WHOLE DISTRICT OR THE WHOLE SYSTEM, I SHOULD SAY, EVEN THOUGH THEY HAVE QUITE A NICE AREA IN THE LIBRARY, THE UPPER LEVEL, THEY HAVE ALL THEIR CHILDREN'S AREAS AND THEIR IN THEIR COLLECTIONS AND STUFF. IT'S QUITE NICE SPACE, BUT I THINK THE SYNERGY

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BETWEEN THE TWO MIGHT HELP BRING MORE, MORE PATRONS. I COULDN'T GIVE YOU A COUNT ON THAT, BUT I THINK IT WOULD HELP THE ACCOUNT. COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW, MAYBE I MISSED IT. IS THERE A COST ESTIMATE TOO? YES. THIS IS THIS IS JUST THE SUMMARY SECTION OF IT. BUT IN THE REPORT THAT WE PROVIDED, THERE'S DETAIL. YEAH. AND THEN ON THE BASEMENT, THIS ISN'T THE FIRST TIME WE'VE HEARD ABOUT CITY BUILDINGS DOWNTOWN WITH BASEMENTS, WITH PROBLEMS. THE CURRENT BASEMENT IS NOT BEING UTILIZED. IT IS BEING UTILIZED BY THE LIBRARY. YES. AND THEN WHAT? WHAT DO THEY THEY'VE GOT STORAGE IN THERE. THEY'VE GOT SOME STAFF AREAS IN THERE.

THEY'VE GOT THEIR TECHNICAL AREA WHERE THEY REPAIR BOOKS. SO THEY AND THEY HAVE SOME OFFICES WHERE THEY'RE DOING SOME LITERACY TRAINING. AND DOES IT HAVE SEEPAGE AND LEAKS LIKE WE'RE HAVING WITH THE OTHER BUILDINGS? BECAUSE WE DECIDED TO DO BASEMENTS RIGHT NEXT TO A RIVER? YES. AND I THINK, I THINK THE AGAIN, THE BUILDING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL ARE AT LIFE END. SO I THINK THAT'S WHY WE'RE SAYING WE'RE SUGGESTING AND WE HAVE IN CHRIST IN THERE TO JUST REPLACE ALL THE BUILDING SYSTEMS. OKAY. DID YOU LOOK AT A COST OF WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO GET THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INTO THE BEAUMONT LIBRARY? WE DID NOT ADDRESS ANY KIND OF WITHOUT SPENDING 16 MILLION, LIKE MAYBE JUST A TEMPORARY SOLUTION, WE WOULD HAVE TO UPDATE THE BUILDING BECAUSE THE BUILDING, AS IT IS NOW DOES NOT HAVE ENOUGH EXITING. SO THAT'S PART OF THE COST OF THIS. IF YOU LOOK AT THE EXISTING, IF WE CLICK BACK TO THE EXISTING FLOOR PLANS, I CAN SHOW YOU THERE'S THERE'S ENTRANCES ON THE, ON THE MAIN LEVEL, THAT ENTRY. AND THEN THERE'S ONLY ONE EXIT OUT OF THE BASEMENT.

THERE'S NO EXITS ON THE, ON THE EAST END OF THE BUILDING. SO IN 1972, WHEN THIS WAS BUILT, IT MET CODE. IN TODAY'S WORLD, IT DOES NOT MEET CODE. SO ANY MOVING A BUNCH OF CHILDREN INTO THIS BUILDING WITHOUT HAVING PROPER EXITS WOULD NOT BE SOMETHING I WOULD RECOMMEND.

AND YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T EVEN BE ABLE TO HAVE THE CITY OFFICIALS ALLOW IT. YEAH. RIGHT.

OKAY. AND SO BASICALLY Y'ALL'S POSITION IS, IS THAT THIS IS NOT POSSIBLE UNLESS WE SPENT THE 16 MILLION. I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE WITH THE COST. YES, BUT NOT WITHOUT THE 16 MILLION.

OKAY. AND AGAIN, THIS IS A THIS IS AN ESTIMATE BASED ON ON SCHEMATIC DRAWINGS. SO ONCE THE DESIGN TAKES PLACE THAT COST MAY FLUCTUATE. BUT THIS IS BASED I MEAN WE DO THIS ALL THE TIME. IT'S A BASIC COST FOR OUR ESTIMATOR IS A PROFESSIONAL. THAT'S WHAT HE DOES FOR A LIVING. HE ESTIMATES THINGS. WE GAVE HIM A LIST OF HERE'S WHAT WE THINK THE LEVEL OF FINISH WILL BE IN THE BUILDING. WE DIDN'T GOLD PLATE ANYTHING, BUT WE DID MAKE IT DURABLE AND ACOUSTICALLY SOUND AND THAT SORT OF THING. SO YES, IT'S I THINK IT'S A, I MEAN, BASED ON WE DO A LOT OF LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS AND THESE COSTS SEEM IN LINE WITH WHAT WE'RE SEEING.

AND IS THIS THE ONLY BUILDING THAT YOU LOOKED AT? THAT WAS ALL THAT WAS IN OUR SCOPE. SO THE FEASIBILITY STUDY WAS LIMITED SPECIFICALLY TO THE BEAUMONT LIBRARY THAT WAS REQUESTED IN THE CITY DID NOT EXTEND TO OTHER ADDITIONAL BUILDINGS, BECAUSE THAT WAS NOT SOMETHING THAT WAS PROPOSED BY COUNCIL. ALL RIGHT. COUNCILMAN TURNER, WITH THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM BE LOSING SQUARE FOOTAGE, OR IS IT ADDITIONAL SQUARE FOOTAGE BASED UPON WHAT THEY CURRENTLY HAVE? WHAT DID THEY HAVE IN THE CIVIC CENTER? MY AS MEMORY SERVES, IT IS AROUND 9000 TO 10,000FT■!S. SO THEY ARE GAINING. IF WE GO BACK. YEAH, THEY'RE GAINING ABOUT 3000FT■!S NET, I THINK. YEAH. THEY GOT LIKE 9200. AND THEY'LL HAVE THEY'LL HAVE. I'M SORRY, I'M READING THE WRONG ONE. THAT'S ON THE EXISTING ON THEIR EXISTING SPACE. I WANT TO SAY IT'S IT'S 92 OR 90 300FT■!S. AND IN THE NEW FACILITY THEY'LL HAVE LIKE 12. SO THEY'RE GAINING SQUARE FOOTAGE. AND BUT THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE THEY'LL ALSO BE USING SHARED CLASSROOMS. SO THEY'RE ACTUALLY GAINING A LOT MORE THAN 12,000. 12,000 IS DEDICATED JUST TO THE MUSEUM BECAUSE IN THEIR IN THEIR TOTAL SQUARE FOOTAGE NOW THEY HAVE CLASSROOMS, THEY HAVE TOILET ROOMS, THEY HAVE OFFICES AND SORT OF THAT SORT OF THING. SO NOW MOST OF THAT, THE OFFICES ARE STILL GOING TO BE THEIRS. AND WE'RE SHOWING THOSE UNDERNEATH THAT NEW MEZZANINE THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT. BUT ALL THE CLASSROOMS AND STUFF LIKE THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF THEIR NUMBER NOW. SO THEY ARE GAINING SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR SURE. YEAH. AND I'M MORE THAN CONFIDENT WE CAN CALL IT WORKSHOP THIS AND GET SOME NUMBERS THAT COULD BE MORE FEASIBLE, SOMETHING THAT COULD BE MORE SUSTAINABLE FOR THE COUNCIL. I'M MORE THAN CONFIDENT WE CAN LOOK AT ADDITIONAL OPTIONS. MY MY SECOND CONCERN WAS ORIGINALLY THIS CAME ABOUT WHEN IT WAS DISCUSSION OF THE HOTEL CONVENTION CENTER. WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE ELECTION. SO THIS WAS ONE OF THE RESULTS OF THAT JUST KIND OF PROACTIVELY SEEING HOW WE WOULD GO ABOUT IT IF IT CAME ABOUT. NO, THAT'S ACTUALLY NOT 100% ACCURATE. THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM HAS BEEN

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LOOKING TO THEY'VE OUTGROWN THEIR SPACE. SO THAT WAS ONLY THE ELECTION THAT THAT WAS LIKE A CATALYST FOR US FOR SOME FOR COUNCIL TO ACT. BUT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM HAS BEEN ACTIVELY LOOKING FOR A BIGGER SPACE FOR A LONG TIME, PROBABLY PROBABLY TWO YEARS, BECAUSE I KNOW AT ONE POINT WE DISCUSSED TERRA PARK TOO. SO I KNOW IT HAS BEEN IN NEGOTIATIONS. BUT AGAIN, MULTI FACTORS GOING INTO THE DECISION. MY LAST THING IS I HATE TO RAIN ON THE PARADE OF A GOOD DAY, BUT I JUST I ME ME AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, I HAVE SERIOUS CONCERNS WITH SOME OF OUR FACILITIES BEING OUT OF CODE. AND WE GIVE SOME OF THESE ENTITIES AND BUILDINGS ISSUES WHEN IT COMES TO CODE ENFORCEMENT RUNNING A BUSINESS, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WHETHER IT BE A RESTAURANT, WHETHER IT BE AN INDUSTRY, ME PERSONALLY, I'M NOT OKAY WITH THAT. SO THE BUILDING IS NOT DEFICIENT. IF YOU DO A PROJECT. AND LET ME JUMP IN, OUR DIRECTOR EAMON JUMP IN ANY POINT. BUT WHEN YOU RENOVATE, DO RENOVATIONS OR AUGMENTATIONS TO A BUILDING, EVEN WITHIN THE CITY, YOU'RE REQUIRED TO BRING IT UP TO THE CURRENT EXISTING CODE. SO AT THE TIME THE BUILDING WAS BUILT, IT'S FINE AND IT'S STABLE. IF WE IF WE WENT AROUND TO ALL OF THESE HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND SAID, HEY, BY THE WAY, IT'S 2016 AND I KNOW THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT IN THE 1930S, BUT WE NEED YOU TO GO AHEAD AND UPDATE IT. YOU'D HAVE A LOT OF PROBLEMS. SO THE BUILDINGS ARE FUNDAMENTALLY SOUND. IT'S WHEN YOU START DOING RENOVATIONS TO THE BUILDING, IS THAT YOU'RE REQUIRED TO BRING THE BUILDING UP TO CODE. SO KIND OF GRANDFATHERED IN, BUT I JUST WANT TO BE MINDFUL OF THAT WORD PLAY OUT OF CODE. THAT CAN BE A BIG CONCERN TO PEOPLE WATCHING, SPECIFICALLY PEOPLE IN THE BUSINESS SECTOR WHO HAVE TO OPEN THEIR BUSINESSES. YEAH. AND AGAIN, LIKE YOU SAID, THIS BUILDING WAS BUILT TO CODE.

IT'S JUST IN TODAY'S WORLD, IF WE GO IN AND MAKE THESE CHANGES, WE WOULD HAVE TO BRING IT UP TO CURRENT CODE, WHICH CURRENTLY EXISTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY. YES, YES, I KNOW THAT. COUNCILMAN HILLIARD AND COUNCILWOMAN SHERWOOD. GO AHEAD. OKAY. MY QUESTION WAS MORE ABOUT IT BEING SPECIFICALLY GEARED TOWARDS THE LIBRARY. IN THE TWO YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR A PLACE THAT THE MUSEUM HAS OUTGROWN, DID WE CONSIDER OTHER SITES BEFORE WE HONED IN ON THIS? I HEARD HIM MENTION TARA PARK, BUT IS THERE A LIST OF OTHER LOCATIONS THAT WERE NOT PART OF THIS PROCESS? SO THE SCOPE WAS LIMITED TO THE LIBRARY ORIGINALLY FOR TWO, FOR TWO REASONS. ONE IS, AS WAS MENTIONED, THERE WAS A CONCERN FROM THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM THAT THEY WERE AGAIN NEEDING ADDITIONAL SPACE. AND THE OTHER THING IS MENTIONED IS THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE LONG TERM FUTURE AT THE CIVIC CENTER, GIVEN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WERE GOING ON AND BEING DISCUSSED A YEAR AGO. SO SPECIFICALLY, IT WAS WHETHER OR NOT THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THE MAIN LIBRARY COULD COEXIST AT THAT BUILDING. AND THAT WAS THE SCOPE THAT WAS GIVEN TO THIS CONSULTANT, AND THAT'S WHAT THEY LOOKED AT. NOW, HAVING SAID THAT, THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM IS A SEPARATE NONPROFIT. IT IS NOT OF THE CITY. AND SO WE HAVE IN THE PAST HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH THEM ABOUT SOME OTHER BUILDINGS IN THE CITY, AND ANY OF THAT WOULD BE ON THE TABLE, ESPECIALLY IF IT'S A CITY PROPERTY. BUT HAVING SAID THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE THEY LOOKED AT OTHER BUILDINGS? I DON'T KNOW, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY ASK AMANDA AND AND I CAN ADD IF AMANDA'S LEFT THAT WITH THE PRIOR COUNCIL, THEY HAD, THEY CONTRIBUTED TO THIS CONSULTATION, I BELIEVE TO THE TUNE OF $50,000 FOR THIS, THESE CONSULTANTS TO COME IN. AND THAT WAS WHERE THEY WERE LOOKING FOR. AND I KNOW THAT THEY HAD MUCH CONVERSATIONS ABOUT OTHER BUILDINGS. LET ME LET ME ADD A LITTLE MORE TO IT MYSELF. AND AMANDA, WE'VE TALKED WITH CHRIS ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THIS OBVIOUSLY IS A HIGH TICKET ITEM, 16 MILLION. WE KNEW THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO REEVALUATE HOW WE GO ABOUT THIS MOVING FORWARD. SO WE'VE DISCUSSED THE IDEA OF WHAT THAT COULD LOOK LIKE, WHETHER THAT'S ANOTHER SPACE, WHETHER THAT'S A GROUND UP, WHETHER THIS IS A PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP. WE'RE NOT AT THAT STAGE TODAY, SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO DIVULGE ANY INFORMATION TO GIVE THAT UP. BUT WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUALLY MEETING. THIS IS NOT THE END OF IT. THIS IS JUST THE END OF THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT WAS PRESENTED TO THE CONSULTANT. SO THEY WERE GIVEN A SPECIFIC ASSIGNMENT AROUND THIS PARTICULAR FACILITY. SO THEY WANTED TO PROVIDE UPDATE ON THAT. MOVING FORWARD. WE CAN LOOK AT WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE, MAYBE ANOTHER SPACE OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE. WE STILL ARE MEETING INTERNALLY TO DECIDE WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. SO WE DON'T WANT TO BRING THAT INFORMATION TODAY. BUT JUST SO YOU KIND OF HAVE A CONCEPT, WE'RE NOT STOP WORKING. BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU CONTEXT ON TODAY'S PRESENTATION, AND I DO WANT TO REMIND OUR COUNCIL JUST THAT IT'S 3:00 AND WE'VE GOT A

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LOT MORE BUSINESS. AND WE HADN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA YET. SO WE CAN CONTINUE ON IT. BUT IT IS GOING TO PUT US HERE FOR A WHILE. SO. COUNCILMAN HILLIARD, DID YOU HAVE THEY'RE CLEARLY GOING TO BE COMING BACK TO US WITH ADDITIONAL. WELL, I YOU KNOW, HAVE WE WE THOUGHT ABOUT WHAT THE COST THE CITY IS GOING TO BE TO REMODEL THE EXISTING ROOMS AT THE CIVIC CENTER AND WHAT KIND OF COSTS THERE WILL BE WHEN WE, IF WE LEASE THOSE OR RENT THOSE TO SEE IF THERE'S AN OFFSET, BECAUSE I'M ASSUMING WE'RE GOING TO PLAN TO TAKE THOSE ROOMS BACK OVER, CLEAN THEM UP AND THEN RENT THEM IS WHAT WE USED TO DO. IT WILL ALSO GIVE THE THE CIVIC CENTER MORE BATHROOMS THAT OTHERWISE WERE TAKEN BY THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM. SO I WOULD LOVE TO SEE A COST, YOU KNOW, BASED ON LEASE AND BASED ON PROJECTED REVENUE FROM RENTAL OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE USED TO GET, WHAT PROJECTED MAY BE, SEE IF WE CAN SEE SOME OFFSETS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN SPEND 16 MILLION AND STILL MAKE MONEY DOING IT AND REINTRODUCE KIDS TO, TO READING, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT IT WAS A BIG DEAL FOR US TO GO TO THE BOOKSTORE AND PLAY AND READ. AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S A CHANCE TO REINTRODUCE KIDS TO, TO BOOKS RATHER THAN, YOU KNOW, COLD TABLETS. SO THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM, LIKE MANY OF THE OTHER MUSEUMS IN THE CITY, WAS LOCATED IN A CITY BUILDING AND PAID A NOMINAL FEE FOR THEIR LEASE. SO THAT IS NOT A PROFIT GENERATING BUSINESS FOR THE CITY, THE ART MUSEUM, THE MUSEUM ALSO, BUT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN THE OTHER MUSEUMS. WE ACTUALLY PAY MONEY, THE OTHER ONES DON'T, AND DEFINITELY SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT. BUT IT'S NOT IT'S NOT A MARKET RATE LEASE. RIGHT? THAT IS TRUE. THAT'S IT. THANK YOU. AND FOR THOSE THAT ARE HERE FOR THE PRESENTATIONS AND YOU'D LIKE TO LEAVE, CERTAINLY NOW'S THE TIME TO DO SO. I'D LIKE TO ALSO SAY THAT AT THE CLOSE OF THE WORK SESSION. SO WE WILL BE COMING BACK DOWN AFTER EXECUTIVE SESSION. WE WILL BREAK FOR WE WILL RECESS INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AFTER THE WORK SESSION AS SEEN ON THE AGENDA. CONSIDER MATTERS RELATED TO TO DISCUSS OR DELIBERATE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 551.087 OF THE GOVERNMENT CODE, TO WHICH SPECIFICALLY NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE RELATED TO 3633 STREET, JAMES BOULEVARD, PROPERTY NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE RELATED TO 3479 STREET ON JAMES BOULEVARD. PROPERTY NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE RELATED TO 3475 STREET, JAMES BOULEVARD, PROPERTY AND NEIGHBORHOOD EMPOWERMENT ZONE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE RELATED TO 3250 FANNIN STREET BEHAVIORAL HEALTH FACILITY REDEVELOPMENT AND EXPANSION, AND CHAPTER 380 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT WITH BEAUMONT. 194, LLC. AND NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE INTO PUBLIC COMMENT ON THOSE. IF I'M I'M NOT I MAY BE MISTAKEN, BUT ISN'T THAT SUPPOSED TO BE SAINT JAMES BOULEVARD? NOT JAMES. IT MAY IT MAY. IT'S NOT WRITTEN THAT WAY RIGHT NOW ON MY. MAYOR. IT IS SUPPOSED TO BE SAINT JAMES. ALL RIGHT. THAT WAS SAINT JAMES. SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THE ERROR. THANK YOU. AND NOW

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WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN PUBLIC COMMENTS AND. ADORING SB 4520 CORLEY STREET, BEAUMONT, TEXAS.

AND I DO WANT TO REMIND PEOPLE THAT WHEN YOU COME TO THE MIX, YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND COUNCIL WILL NOT BE ABLE TO RESPOND. FROM THE DAIS TO YOUR COMMENTS AT THIS TIME, WE WILL FOLLOW UP WITH YOU. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS DORA ANISB. I 4520 CARTER STREET IN BEAUMONT. AND TODAY I'M REPRESENTING THE LIBRARY COMMISSION FOR THE CITY OF BEAUMONT, OF WHICH I AM THE CHAIR APPOINTED BY. YOU WOULD LIKE TO ANSWER THE QUESTION THAT. MR. DANIEL MENTIONED. ASK ABOUT THE SURVEY. THE FEASIBILITY OF THE JOINT USE OF THE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AND THE LIBRARY. HIS QUESTION WAS, WAS SOMEONE ON THE COMMITTEE? QUESTIONED OR INTERVIEWED ABOUT THIS? MY ANSWER IS NO. NO ONE TALKED TO ME ABOUT IT. FROM THE FEASIBILITY STUDY I HAVE, I'M

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IN CONSTANT TOUCH WITH THE LIBRARY'S STAFF, BUT NO ONE FROM THIS FEASIBILITY UNIT TALKED TO ANYONE ON THE COMMISSION. I DO WANT TO THANK THE. THE COMMISSION. I MEAN THE COUNCIL FOR YOUR INTEREST AND YOUR PARTICIPATION IN LOOKING INTO THE FEASIBILITY OF THIS JOINT OPERATION. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO THE CONCLUSION. AND I KNOW THAT YOU WILL LOOK FOR THE BEST INTERESTS OF ALL THE PEOPLE IN BEAUMONT, AND WE ARE ALL CONCERNED ABOUT THE SITUATION IN DOWNTOWN BEAUMONT, WHERE SOME OF THESE VACANT BUILDINGS COULD BE RENOVATED FOR NEW USE. SO I DON'T KNOW IF ANYONE HAS LOOKED AT THAT CONSIDERATION OR NOT, BUT WE ARE VERY, VERY PLEASED AND VERY HONORED TO HAVE THE OUTSTANDING LIBRARY SYSTEM THAT BEAUMONT HAS AND MANY, MANY OTHER CITIES WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THIS LIBRARY SYSTEM THAT WE ARE PLEASED TO HAVE. AND I WOULD PLEAD WITH THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER THE LIBRARY SERVICES. WE WOULD LIKE TO GO FORWARD, INCREASE, IMPROVE, BUT NOT REDUCE. WE WOULD NOT WANT TO REDUCE ANY OF OUR SERVICES TO ACCOMMODATE OTHER SERVICES. BUT IF ANYONE IN THIS FEASIBILITY COMMITTEE WOULD LIKE TO TALK TO SOMEONE ON THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE, I WOULD BE HAPPY TO TALK TO THEM.

AND THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR CONSIDERING THE USE OF THE FACILITIES AND THE SERVICES OF ALL OF THE CITIZENS OF BEAUMONT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. TIME THAT PERFECTLY. KEVIN CHANCE 932 WEST LUCAS, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. I SAT TOO LONG. OH, MAYOR. COUNCILMAN, APPRECIATE Y'ALL GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TODAY, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO SPEAK ABOUT WHAT WE CAME FOR INITIALLY. AND THAT WAS ABATEMENTS TAX ABATEMENTS BECAUSE I THINK Y'ALL HAVE MOVED THAT DECISION TO YOUR NEXT MEETING, AM I CORRECT? OKAY. BUT I DID HAVE ONE OTHER THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT. AND THAT WAS MARIA GOMEZ. SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE FAMILIAR WITH MARIA GOMEZ. SHE IS A 25 YEAR EMPLOYEE WITH CATHERINE AND COMPANY OR WAS UNTIL NOVEMBER.

SHE WAS PICKED UP BY ICE REPORTING TO HER ANNUAL REPORTING REQUIREMENT IN HOUSTON. AND WITHOUT ANY DUE PROCESS, ALL HER PAPERWORK WAS COMPLETE. ALL EVERYTHING WAS FINE. AND IT WAS NOT JUST HER. SHE WAS NOT SINGLED OUT. SHE WAS PICKED UP, ALONG WITH MANY OTHERS WHO HAD SHOWN UP TO DO WHAT THEY HAD BEEN DOING FOR YEARS, AND THAT IS WHAT THEY WERE ASKED TO DO BY CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT. NO DUE PROCESS. WHICH IS A CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT FOR ANYBODY THAT LIVES IN THE UNITED STATES. AND I DO WANT TO COMMEND COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW. HE ACTUALLY POSTED ABOUT THIS SITUATION ABOUT A MONTH AFTER SHE HAD PICKED UP ON HIS SOCIAL MEDIA ACCOUNT. AND I REALLY JUST WANTED TO REMIND EVERYBODY THAT SHE IS STILL BEING HELD OVER, TO MY UNDERSTANDING, A FACILITY OVER IN THE CONROE AREA, AND WE CAN CALL OUR ACCOUNTS. WELL, I'M NOT GOING TO CALL YOU. WE CAN CALL OUR CONGRESSMAN. WE CAN CALL OUR SENATORS. WE CAN CALL ANYBODY THAT YOU THINK HAS SWAY OVER THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. FIVE KARLSBORG IS ONE OF THE GREAT WAYS THAT YOU CAN DO THAT. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THIS IS NOT A POLITICAL STATEMENT. THIS IS A CONSTITUTIONAL STATEMENT. IT'S OUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT THAT WE HAVE DUE PROCESS. COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW, HE'S AN ATTORNEY. HE CAN SPEAK OF DUE PROCESS MUCH BETTER THAN I COULD, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT EVERYONE THAT EXISTS, LIVES IN

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THE UNITED STATES, HAS A RIGHT TO. AND I GOT 25 SECONDS LEFT. SO I WOULD ASK THAT ANYONE HERE.

COUNCIL MAYOR, ANYONE HERE WOULD REACH OUT TO YOUR CONGRESSMAN AND ASK THAT THEY DO SOMETHING TO MAKE SURE THAT MARIA IS RETURNED BACK TO HER FAMILY. MOTHER OF THREE DAUGHTERS. YES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. DEAN TUCKER, 2550 LONG AVENUE, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. PLEASURE TO BE HERE. DEAN TUCKER, 2550 LONG AVENUE, BEAUMONT. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. LIKE I SAID, SUPER HAPPY TO BE HERE AND SPEAK. THIS WAS A CRAZY, AMAZING SATURDAY. BLEW MY FREAKING MIND. GOD KNOWS HE MAY NOT HAVE HEARD ABOUT THIS, BUT PROBABLY MOST OF YOU HAD. AND THIS HAS NOT HAPPENED IN 100 YEARS IN THIS COUNTRY. AND IT'S GOING TO MAKE A PROFOUND DIFFERENCE IN THE IN THE FUTURE OF THIS COUNTRY. THIS PAST SATURDAY WAS AN HISTORIC DAY IN THIS COUNTRY WHEN PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ACCELERATING ACCESS TO PSYCHEDELIC DRUG THERAPIES. HIS MAIN FOCUS RIGHT NOW IS TO SUPPORT THE VETERANS WHO HAVE NOW BEEN STRUGGLING, WHO HAVE BEEN, WHO ARE NOW STRUGGLING WITH DEPRESSION, ADDICTION TO OPIOIDS AND PTSD, AS WELL AS SUICIDE TENDENCIES THAT SEVERAL OF THESE PSYCHEDELIC MEDICINES HAVE BEEN CONSIDERED BREAKTHROUGH THERAPIES FOR MANY VETERANS THAT HAVE BEEN FORCED TO GO OUT OF THE THIS COUNTRY, TO GO TO OTHER COUNTRIES, TO BE ABLE TO FREELY USE THESE POWERFUL HEALING SUBSTANCES IN THERAPEUTIC SETTINGS. THE MAIN PSYCHEDELICS THAT TRUMP IS MOSTLY PROMOTING RIGHT NOW IS THE THERAPEUTIC USE OF IBOGAINE, PSILOCYBIN, AND MDMA, ALL AMAZINGLY POWERFUL AND HEALING. THIS IS A DRASTIC CHANGE FROM THE POLICIES OF THE LAST 56 YEARS, WHICH THE LAST THE LAST POLICIES OF THE LAST 56 YEARS WAS TO SUPPRESS ANY RESEARCH ON THESE REMARKABLE MEDICINES AND TO ARREST PEOPLE POSSESSING OR USING ANY OF THESE HEALING AGENTS. AS A NATION, WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE A CLOSE LOOK AT THESE LAWS THAT MAKE A CRIME OUT OF HEALING. WASN'T IT JESUS WHO CLEARLY TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO HEAL THE SICK AMONG YOU? I SAY, LET'S SEIZE THIS MOMENT IN TIME AND STAND UP FOR OUR NATURAL RIGHT TO SUPPORT HEALING AND WELLNESS IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS IS ALREADY A MULTI-BILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY. GOVERNOR ABBOTT, I SAID 50 BILLION WAS THAT IT WAS 50. I MADE A MISTAKE, 50 MILLION. GOVERNOR ABBOTT HAS DEDICATED TO IBOGAINE PLANT FROM AFRICA THAT HAS EXTRAORDINARY HEALING PROPERTIES. AND THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS COMMITTED $50 MILLION TO PEOPLE, THAT THERE MUST BE SOME WAY WE CAN LEARN HOW TO RESEARCH THIS IN THIS CITY. THIS IS A GREAT SOUND. IT'S A MULTIBILLION DOLLAR INDUSTRY THAT CAN HELP THIS CITY. AMAZING. THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. I'M DOCTOR JUDITH CORBETT, 2550 LONG BEAUMONT, TEXAS. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK WITH YOU TODAY. I FIRST MOVED TO BEAUMONT FROM LOUISIANA IN 1950 WHEN I WAS TEN YEARS OLD. I'M NOW MARRIED TO DEAN TUCKER, WHO JUST SPOKE TO YOU, AND WE'VE BEEN MARRIED FOR 32 YEARS. I WAS THE FIRST FEMALE DENTIST IN TEXAS, HAVING GRADUATED IN 1967 AND HAD A VERY SUCCESSFUL PRACTICE IN BEAUMONT FOR AROUND 38 YEARS. FROM THE TIME DEAN AND I GOT MARRIED, WE BOTH HAD A MUTUAL INTEREST IN STUDYING VARIOUS HEALING TECHNIQUES SUCH AS MEDITATION, YOGA, PRAYER, PROPER NUTRITION, AND HEALTHY DIETS. WE WERE BOTH DELIGHTED WHEN PRESIDENT TRUMP HAS THIS PAST SATURDAY SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ACCELERATING ACCESS TO PSYCHEDELIC DRUG THERAPIES CERTAINLY SUPPORT MY HUSBAND'S PASSION IN BRINGING AND HELPING TO IMPLEMENT THESE PROFOUND HEALING TECHNIQUES TO THIS AREA. WE BOTH AGREE THAT THIS COULD GO A LONG WAY TOWARD

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MAKING THIS COMMUNITY MORE PROSPEROUS, HEALTHIER, AND SAFER. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING AND CONSIDERING THE SIGNIFICANT ISSUE. THANK YOU MA'AM. TONI RENFRO, 6110 BANKSTON LANE, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. OH. WELL, I FEEL LIKE A 1965. WHERE THEY HOLD THE TIME. HOLD ON. OKAY.

GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. MY NAME IS TONY RENFRO, AND I AM HERE AND I'M I AM HONORED TO SPEAK TODAY NOT ONLY ON MY OWN BEHALF, BUT ALSO AS A REPRESENTATIVE OF SOUTHEAST TEXAS MINORITY ALLIANCE, AS WE RECOGNIZE THE OUTSTANDING SERVICE OF MR. KENNETH WILLIAMS SERVING AS CITY COUNCIL CITY MANAGER OF BEAUMONT IS NOT A SMALL RESPONSIBILITY. IT REQUIRES VISION, DISCIPLINE AND ABILITY TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. EVEN IN CHALLENGING TIMES, MR. WILLIAMS HAS EXEMPLIFIED ALL THESE QUALITIES AND MORE. HIS LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN DEFINED BY CONSISTENCY, ACCOUNTABILITY AND A DEEP COMMITMENT TO MOVING OUR CITY FORWARD. UNDER HIS GUIDANCE, BEAUMONT HAS NAVIGATED GROWTH, CHANGE AND CHALLENGE WITH STRENGTH AND RESILIENCE. HE HAS NOT ONLY FOCUSED ON OPERATIONAL EXCELLENCE, BUT ALSO ON BUILDING A STRONGER CONNECTION BETWEEN CITY LEADERSHIP AND THE DIVERSE COMMUNITIES WE SERVE.

THAT MATTERS BECAUSE REPRESENTATION, INCLUSION AND ENGAGEMENT MATTERS. AND HIS WORK REFLECTED THAT. UNDERSTANDING WHAT MAKES GREAT LEADERSHIP STANDS OUT IS NOT JUST WHAT GETS DONE, BUT HOW IT GETS DONE. MR. WILLIAMS LED THAT WITH INTEGRITY, PROFESSIONALISM AND WITH RESPECT FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY. THOSE ARE QUALITIES THAT LEAVE A LASTING IMPACT FAR BEYOND ANY SINGLE PROJECT OR POLICY. AS HE RETIRES, WE RECOGNIZE NOT JUST A CAREER, BUT A LEGACY, ONE OF SERVICE, DEDICATION AND MEANINGFUL PROGRESS. ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AND THE SOUTHEAST TEXAS MINORITY ALLIANCE, WE THANK YOU, MR. WILLIAMS, FOR YOUR YEARS OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE. BEAUMONT IS A BETTER PLACE BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP, AND YOUR IMPACT WILL CONTINUE TO BE FELT FOR GENERATIONS TO COME. AND WITH THAT CLOSING. GREAT LEADERS DON'T JUST MANAGE CITIES, THEY SHAPE THE FUTURES.

AND BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP, BEAUMONT FUTURE IS STRONGER THAN EVER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SIR. HELLO. SHAWN PROCTOR, 4680 CAR DRIVE FROM MY TEXAS. GOOD AFTERNOON, COUNCIL MAYOR.

EVERYONE ON THE STAFF AGAIN. MY NAME IS LASHAWN PROCTOR, 4689. CAR DRIVE HERE IN THE CITY.

AGAIN, I JUST CAME FOR MR. WILLIAMS TO BASICALLY SAY THANK YOU, MR. WILLIAMS, FOR ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR ME AND SOME OF THE COMPANIES THAT I HAVE. ONE THING THAT I SAY ABOUT ABOUT MR. WILLIAMS IN MEETING HIM, AND I THINK AJ, BECAUSE AJ INTRODUCED ME TO MR. WILLIAMS WHEN HE FIRST CAME, AND THE COUNCIL THAT WAS HERE PRIOR TO EVEN GIVING HIM AN OPPORTUNITY, BECAUSE ONE THING I DO UNDERSTAND IS BEING FROM THE OUTSIDE, BEING COMING TO BEAUMONT, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, MAKING A CHANGE FOR YOURSELF AND YOUR FAMILY, COMING HERE NOT KNOWING WHAT YOU WAS GOING TO BE FACED WITH, BUT COMING IN AND THEN JUST TAKING A HAND IN HELPING US TO MAKE THIS CITY BETTER. SO ONE THING THAT I SAY TO YOU IS THANK YOU. BECAUSE AGAIN, YOU UNDERSTAND SOME OF THE CHALLENGES THAT I HAD, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? COMING INTO THE CITY AND JUST HAVING AN OPEN DOOR, JUST HAVING SOMEONE TO SIT DOWN AND LISTEN, JUST HAVING TO HAVE SOMEONE TO SIT DOWN AND SAY, HEY, THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT BECAUSE PRIOR, I DID NOT HAVE THAT. AND THAT'S JUST ME SPEAKING. AND A LOT OF TIMES I THINK OTHER PEOPLE MAY NOT HAVE HAD THAT EITHER. BUT I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU BECAUSE IT MEANT A LOT. IT MEANT A LOT TO ME TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR SOMEONE THAT'S JUST GOING TO LISTEN. YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY THAT SOMEONE IS GOING TO DO THINGS TO HAVE IT TO BE AN EVEN PLAYING FIELD. BECAUSE EVEN FOR

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ME, A LOT OF TIMES IN THINGS THAT I WAS DOING CITY CONTRACTS AND SOME OF YOU ALL KNOW THE THINGS THAT I HAD AND THE CHALLENGES THAT I HAD AND JUST HOW IT WENT TO JUST TRY TO DO BUSINESS WITH THE CITY. AND I FELT THAT I WAS ALWAYS NOT GIVEN A FAIR SHAKE. BUT I DO SAY TO YOU, WHEN THAT HAPPENED AND YOU OPENED THE DOOR AND YOU DID SOME THINGS TOO, JUST LET ME HAVE A SEAT AT THE TABLE TO BE ABLE TO JUST HAVE MY VOICE HEARD, TO HAVE MY CONCERNS HEARD, AND TO PUT THINGS INTO PLACE. TO SAY THAT IF SOMETHING WENT WRONG WITH THE CONTRACT OR SOMETHING WENT WRONG, THEN WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO JUST PUT THAT OUT THERE AND BE HEARD AND HAVE A CHANCE TO RECTIFY WHATEVER IT WAS. AGAIN, PRIOR TO YOU, I DID NOT HAVE THAT. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY TO YOU, I THINK YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB FOR THIS CITY. I KNOW FOR ME, SPEAKING ALONG FOR ME AND MYSELF AND THE PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE IN ME, YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB FOR US. AND AGAIN, NOT TO TAKE ANYTHING AWAY FROM ANYONE COMING BEHIND YOU, BUT AGAIN, SOMETIMES WHEN STANDARDS ARE SET AND ANYTHING THAT WE DO, WE JUST HOPE. ME, I JUST HOPE EVEN MR. BOONE AND I NOT, I DON'T I KNOW MR. BOONE, BUT NOT HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY SIT DOWN, BUT I JUST SAY THAT I JUST PRAY THAT WE HAVE AN OPEN DOOR PROCESS, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? AND THE THINGS THAT WE'VE DONE. AND I JUST WANT TO SAY, I CAN'T SAY IT ENOUGH.

THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR ME. THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR MY FAMILY. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? OUTSIDE OF THEM, NOT EVEN KNOWING THAT IT WAS DONE, BUT JUST TO HELP.

THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO US. AND AGAIN, I JUST THINK AS A CITY MANAGER, YOU'VE DONE A GREAT JOB. I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR RETIREMENT, BE ABLE TO DO THE THINGS THAT YOU WANT TO DO, ABLE TO DO, TAKE YOUR WIFE ON VACATIONS AND WHATEVER IT IS THAT YOU ALL ARE GOING TO DO.

BUT THANK YOU FOR COMING TO BEAUMONT, AND THANK YOU FOR HELPING US WITH THIS CITY. MAY GOD BLESS YOU. THANK YOU. TERRY ROY 1050 ASHLEY BEAUMONT, TEXAS. SO. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR, COUNCIL. MR. CITY MANAGER, MADAM CLERK, MADAM ATTORNEY, FIRST OFF, I WANT TO THANK CONGRATULATE MR. BOONE ON BECOMING BEAUMONT'S NEW CITY MANAGER. I KNOW THAT YOU'LL DO GREAT. AND FOR MR. WILLIAMS, IT'S NOT MANY WORDS I CAN SAY ABOUT YOU, BUT YOU'VE DONE THINGS FOR BEAUMONT THAT I HAVEN'T SEEN DONE IN A LONG TIME AND JUST THREE YEARS. AND I'M THE TYPE OF PERSON I DON'T. I DON'T LOOK AT THE BIG THINGS THAT PEOPLE DO. I LOOK AT THE SMALL THINGS THAT'S BEEN DONE, LIKE THE PIPE BURSTING OVER ON GRAND STREET AND PINE. THOSE THINGS MATTER TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. AND I'M ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE BECAUSE I LIVE IN THAT AREA, AND IT'S NOT ENOUGH THANK YOUS THAT CAN GO OUT TO YOU TODAY. BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I APPRECIATE YOU. EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR ME, ALL THE EMAILS YOU'VE ANSWERED WHEN YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO ANSWER THEM. I APPRECIATE IT, AND I'M SURE IT'S BEEN A LOT OF THEM, BUT I DO IT BECAUSE I LOVE THE CITY, AND I KNOW YOU DO WHAT YOU DO BECAUSE YOU LOVE THE CITY. AND ALSO THERE ARE SOME HOUSES THAT'S GOING TO COME UP ON SAINT JAMES, AND THAT'S MY OLD NEIGHBORHOOD IN THE CITY. I'M HOPING THAT ALL THAT GOES SMOOTH FOR MR. DIAMANTIS AND HIS AND HIS PARTNER, MR. WILLIAMS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE EVER DONE.

ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. LARRY GAUTHIER, P.O. BOX 20042, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, STAFF, WHAT HAVE YOU. I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY. VERY LITTLE.

FIRST OF ALL, LET ME SAY A GREAT PRESENTATION BY THE TRAFFIC WORK THAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING. LET'S ME KNOW THAT I HAVE OTHER PEOPLE THAT'S LOOKING OUT WHEN I'M DRIVING.

ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT CAME UP WAS ABOUT THE CIRCLE. WELL, I'M AGAINST IT. GREEN ZONE, COLLEGE STREET, IF YOU'RE COMING OUT OF WALGREEN'S, HEADED EAST AND SOMEONE COMES AROUND THAT CIRCLE ON COLLEGE STREET EAST, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SOMEONE THAT'S SIX AND A HALF A WRECK, AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING THEIR VEHICLE IN YOUR DOOR VERY QUICKLY. I'VE HAD TO MAKE SEVERAL RIGHT TURNS JUST TO GET AWAY FROM THE TRAFFIC THAT WAS ABOUT TO RUN INTO ME. AS FAR AS TRAFFIC, IF THEY GET OFF AT 4:00 PM, THEY CANNOT GET HOME AT 2 P.M. SLOW DOWN. PEOPLE DRIVE TOO FAST. I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. AND THE OTHER LITTLE SUBJECTS I SPOKE WITH IN THE PAST WAS DIRTY ELECTRICITY AND ABUSE. ABUSE. IF IT IS NOT SOLVED THEN IT IS STILL THERE CENTURIES LATER. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AND Y'ALL HAVE A BLESSED DAY. THANK YOU SIR. AARON AARON

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REYNOLDS JUNIOR, 6945 SOLITA DRIVE, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. TO OUR MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL, CITY STAFF.

I WANT TO EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE. MR. KENNETH WILLIAMS, FOR THE YEARS OF SERVICE THAT YOU RENDERED HERE IN BEAUMONT. THEY ARE NOT ENOUGH WORDS TO EXPRESS OR TO VOICE THE APPRECIATION THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU. THANK YOU FOR BEING ACCESSIBLE. THANK YOU FOR BEING TRANSPARENT. NOW, TO SOME IN BEAUMONT. LOOK AT YOU AS A EMPLOYEE OF THE CITY. WE LOOK AT YOU AS FAMILY. THANK YOU. WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AGAIN SOON. THANK YOU. I THINK IT'S TREVON OR TREVIN GRIFFIN 3215. YASMINE BEAUMONT, TEXAS. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS RENE GRIFFIN AND I'M CURRENTLY THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR AT B I S D TRANSPORTATION DEPARTMENT. AND WITH TRANSPORTATION, WE TRANSPORT NEARLY ONE AND A HALF OF THE STUDENTS TO AND FROM SCHOOL EACH DAY. LOWERING OR ELIMINATING BUS FARES IS A SIMPLE WAY TO SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS AND OUR FAMILIES. AFFORDABLE PUBLIC TRANSIT HELPS ENSURE STUDENTS TO HAVE AN ALTERNATIVE MODE OF TRANSPORTATION TO AND FROM SCHOOL SAFELY AND CONSISTENTLY, REDUCING OR ELIMINATING FARES WOULD HELP. ONE OF OUR BIGGEST OBSTACLES, WHICH IS ATTENDANCE.

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONSIDER REDUCING OR ELIMINATING FARES FOR STUDENTS AS AN INVESTMENT IN BEAUMONT'S FUTURE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. AND DAVID MOORE, 5990, LONGWOOD. LONGWOOD.

BEAUMONT, TEXAS. MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL STAFF AND TO THE CITY MANAGER. I COME BEFORE YOU TODAY SIMPLY TO SAY, MR. MANAGER, YOU CAME HERE, I WELCOME YOU HERE AND WAS GLAD THAT YOU WERE HERE. IN MY TENURE HERE IN THIS CITY. I SERVED WITH FIVE DIFFERENT CITY MANAGERS. THEY ALL BROUGHT VARIOUS SKILLS AND CERTAIN STRENGTHS TO THE TABLE. AND YOU YOURSELF, JUST LIKE THAT, YOU BROUGHT CERTAIN SKILLS TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO THE PRESENT STAFF. THE ONE THING I WANT TO SAY TO YOU THAT I HAVE TIME TO SAY AND COUNCIL, I APOLOGIZE FOR DAYS LIKE TODAY. I KNOW HOW IT IS TO BE HERE, AND YOU STILL GOT A LONG WAYS TO GO. BUT WHAT I REALLY WANT TO SAY, MR. MANAGER, YOU DID A FEW THINGS THAT I PAID CLOSE ATTENTION TO BEFORE YOU EVEN TOOK THE SEAT. I WITNESSED YOU AT A FORMER MAYOR'S SERVICE. I THOUGHT THAT WAS HUGE. AND EVEN IN THIS LAST WEEK, I'VE NOTICED YOU BE IN THE COMMUNITY TO CELEBRATE THE TWO BASKETBALL TEAMS THAT WENT TO THE STATE PLAYOFFS. I THOUGHT THAT WAS HUGE. A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT MANY PEOPLE DO. AND THE BEST THING I CAN SAY ABOUT YOUR TENURE HERE, SIR, YOU'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS DONE. YOU'VE BEEN SENSITIVE TO THE DEMOGRAPHICS OF THIS COMMUNITY. YOU TRY TO LET YOUR STAFF REFLECT MORE THAT YOU WORKED IN TERMS OF MAKING THINGS BETTER, TRAINING AND DEVELOPING. MR. BOONE, I LOOK FORWARD TO YOU. I'VE SEEN YOU OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, JUST AS I'VE SEEN THE MANAGER. BUT SEEING YOU BEING ENGAGED IN OUR COMMUNITY REALLY MAKES A HUGE DIFFERENCE, BECAUSE YOU GAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY A SENSE OF FEELING THAT CITY HALL IS NOT THE IVORY TOWER.

CITY HALL IS THE PEOPLE'S HALL. AND WITH THAT, THEY FELT COMFORTABLE TALKING WITH YOU, HAVING EXCHANGES WITH YOU AND WATCHING THINGS GROW AND GET BETTER. I APOLOGIZE THAT WE COULDN'T TAKE THAT VISION A LITTLE BIT FURTHER. WE CAME UP A LITTLE BIT SHORT, AND THOSE WHO HAVE THE WHIMS OF UTILIZING THE SOCIAL MEDIA AND YOUR WORDS, ALL OF YOU ARE AMBASSADORS OUT THERE FOR THIS CITY. AND WHAT YOU SAY AND WHAT YOU DO IS HOW WE ARE PERCEIVED OUTSIDE OF THE CITY LIMITS. I HOPE IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSITIVE. I HOPE THINGS WILL CONTINUE TO BE POSITIVE FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY. YOU'RE MUCH TOO YOUNG TO STOP, SIR. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING OTHER THINGS FROM YOU. BUT I ALSO WOULD SIMPLY LIKE TO SAY THANK YOU FOR BRINGING CIVILITY BACK INTO OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU FOR ENGAGING PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY. AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, THANK YOU FOR SHOWING PEOPLE IT CAN BE DONE. A VERY SPECIAL WAY.

THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU SIR. VERNON DARDEN, 16436 WESTBURY ROAD, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. THAT

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LADY BACK THERE WAS MISS NESBY, AND THAT'S ONE OF MY HEROES. HER HUSBAND WAS MY HERO, MR. CLEVELAND NESBY. THE GENTLEMAN JUST SPOKE. WAS A PREVIOUS MAYOR. DAVID MOORE. HE SPOKE ABOUT THE THINGS THAT MATTER. AND AS HE SPOKE ABOUT THOSE THINGS, HE ADDRESSED WHAT WAS DONE IN THIS CITY UNDER KENNETH WILLIAMS. I TRULY HOPE EVERYONE HEARD WHAT HE SAID. JUNE, SOON TO BE CITY MANAGER CHRIS BOONE AND THE WHOLE STAFF. IT'S IMPORTANT. SO VERY, VERY IMPORTANT THAT THE THINGS HE SAID ARE CONTINUED CIVILITY, CAMARADERIE, COLLABORATION AND GROWTH. EVERYONE IS LOOKING FOR THAT TO CONTINUE. WE HAVE A GOOD CITY MANAGER COMING UP, A VERY GOOD ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER AND A VERY, VERY GOOD CITY COUNCIL. BUT THE COLLABORATION AND THE COOPERATION AND THE TRANSPARENCY THAT WAS USHERED IN WITH THIS NEW CITY MANAGER AND MAYOR AND COUNCIL, IT SHOULD CONTINUE. SHEREE HAS DONE A GREAT JOB. WILL YOU CONTINUE TO DO A GOOD JOB? COREY? LADONNA, MIKE, ROY, A.J.

SOON BE LEAVING. JOY AND CHRIS. EVERYONE'S EYES IS GOING TO BE LOOKING AT YOU. YOU'RE ON THE STAGE EVERY DAY. YOU'RE ON THE STAGE. EVERYONE IS LOOKING. THANK YOU FOR TAKING THE JOB, MR. KENNETH WILLIAMS FOR COMING AND FOR DOING WHAT YOU DID. YOU WILL BE MISSED. BUT LIKE DAVID SAID, YOU'RE TOO YOUNG TO STOP NOW. GET YOUR GOLF GAME BETTER. AND I'LL SEE YOU ON THE STROKES.

THANK YOU SIR. THANK YOU. CARLTON SHARP, 5150 PLANT ROAD, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL STAFF. MR. WILLIAMS, TODAY IS MORE THAN JUST A LONG MEETING. BUT IT'S A MOMENT, A MOMENT TO PAUSE, TO REFLECT AND TO PERSONALLY SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO A MAN WHO HAS POURED HIMSELF INTO OUR CITY TO MOVE IT FORWARD. MR. WILLIAMS, WHAT MAKES TODAY SPECIAL IS NOT JUST WHAT YOU'VE DONE, BUT HOW YOU'VE DONE IT. YOU DIDN'T JUST MANAGE, YOU LED WITH PURPOSE. YOU LED WITH CONSISTENCY. YOU LED WITH THE BELIEF THAT THE CITY DESERVED MORE THAN JUST MAINTENANCE. IT DESERVES MOMENTUM. I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO WATCH YOUR LEADERSHIP, AND ONE THING IS CLEAR YOU ARE VERY INTENTIONAL. THE FIVE YEAR STRATEGIC PLAN WASN'T JUST A DOCUMENT. IT BECAME A ROADMAP. IT SENT A MESSAGE THAT WE WOULD NO LONGER JUST DRIFT, BUT MOVE FORWARD WITH DIRECTION. YOU CHALLENGED US TO THINK BEYOND TODAY, TO STOP REACTING AND START PREPARING. BUT WHAT MADE IT WORK EVEN MORE IS BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T OPERATE IN ISOLATION. YOU COLLABORATED, YOU LISTENED TO THE COUNCIL, YOU UNDERSTOOD THEIR PRIORITIES, AND YOU ALIGN THOSE PRIORITIES INTO ONE UNIFIED VISION FOR THE CITY.

THAT TAKES HUMILITY, THAT TAKES PATIENCE, AND THAT TAKES REAL LEADERSHIP. THE COMMUNITY INVESTMENT PLAN SHOWS SOMETHING DEEPER. IT SHOWS YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT BEYOND EVERY PROJECT OR PEOPLE, FAMILIES, NEIGHBORHOODS, FUTURES, YOU MADE IT CLEAR THAT INVESTING IN THIS CITY MEANS INVESTING IN THE PEOPLE. AND THE REAL TIME CRIME CENTER REFLECTS THE ABILITY TO SEE BEYOND. YOU DIDN'T WANT. YOU DIDN'T WAIT FOR CHALLENGES TO OVERTAKE US. YOU POSITIONED THIS CITY TO RESPOND SMARTER, FASTER, AND SAFER. BUT BEYOND THE PLANS AND THE PROGRESS, WHAT STANDS OUT MOST IS YOUR STEADY HAND. AND BECAUSE OF YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOU ARE LEAVING THE NEXT ADMINISTRATION TO MR. BOONE WITH SOMETHING INVALUABLE. A CLEAR PLAN, A STRONG FOUNDATION, AND A CITY THAT IS PREPARED FOR WHAT'S AHEAD. YOU DIDN'T JUST MANAGE

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THIS CITY, YOU HELPED SHIFT ITS MINDSET TO THINK AHEAD, TO PLAN AND TO BUILD WITH PURPOSE. SO TODAY WE SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU TO YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP. THANK YOU FOR YOUR VISION.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR WILLINGNESS TO LISTEN, TO COLLABORATE AND TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER. AND MOST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR LEAVING THIS CITY BETTER THAN YOU FOUND IT. WHAT WE HONOR YOU TODAY, NOT JUST FOR YOUR SERVICE, BUT FOR YOUR IMPACT. ENJOY THE NEXT CHAPTER OF YOUR LIFE. YOU'VE EARNED IT. GOD BLESS YOU AND GOD BLESS THIS BEAUTIFUL CITY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU SIR. SHAWN VICKERY, SAMUEL 245. CALDERWOOD, BEAUMONT, TEXAS. GOOD AFTERNOON EVERYONE. COUNCIL IN PARTICULAR, MAYOR, MADAM, CITY ATTORNEY AND OUR SITTING SOON TO BE RETIRED CITY MANAGER. I COME HERE FOR NO OTHER REASON BUT TO TELL YOU. THANK YOU. I BELIEVE IT SAYS A LOT WHEN SOMEONE CHOOSES TO GO TO A COMMUNITY THAT THEY WERE NOT FROM TO MAKE IT BETTER.

SOME PEOPLE FROM THIS PLACE CHOOSE TO GO OTHER PLACES AND NEVER COME HOME TO MAKE IT BETTER. YOU DID THAT AND YOU CAME INTO IT IN A SITUATION WHERE YOU MAY HAVE NOT HAD THE BEST CIRCUMSTANCES, MAY NOT HAVE HAD THE BEST RESOURCES OR SUPPORT SYSTEM, AND YOU UNDERSTOOD THAT AND YOU MADE THAT DECISION NONETHELESS TO PUSH THIS CITY FORWARD, TO ENSURE THAT WE CONTINUE TO GROW IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY. I APPRECIATE YOU FOR THAT. OUT OF EVERYTHING, WHAT I HOPE PART OF YOUR LEGACY THAT REMAINS ONCE YOU LEAVE THIS CHAMBER IS DISPLAYED IN EVERYONE THAT WANTS TO BE A PART OF MAKING THIS CITY BETTER. YOU HAVE LED WITH INTEGRITY. YOU HAVE LED CONSISTENT, AND YOU HAVE LED IN A WAY THAT HAS MADE IT CLEAR TO EVERYONE THAT YOUR EFFORTS EVERY DAY, YOUR INTENTIONS, EVERY MOMENT IS BIGGER THAN YOU OR ANY POSITION YOU MAY HOLD BECAUSE IT'S ABOUT THE BETTERMENT OF THIS CITY. SO I SAY TO YOU, I HOPE YOU LEAD WITH INTEGRITY WHEN IT'S DIFFICULT TO STAND IN AN ISOLATED MANNER AND DO WHAT YOUR OTHER PEOPLE THAT KIND OF DIRECT WHAT YOU OF WHAT THEY MAY WANT YOU TO DO, STAND STRONG AND DO WHAT IS RIGHT. I ASK THAT YOU BE CONSISTENT IN HOW YOU HANDLE AND TREAT EVERYONE AND EVERY MATTER THAT COME BEFORE YOU, AND I IMPLORE YOU TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOUR JOB, YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOU. IT'S NOT ABOUT YOUR POSITION. IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT FOLLOW YOU OR SUPPORT YOU. IT'S ABOUT THE BETTERMENT OF THIS CITY. AND IF YOU DO THAT, I DO BELIEVE WHEN THAT DAY COMES FOR YOU TO TAKE A STEP BACK, THERE WILL BE OTHERS UP HERE SPEAKING OF YOU THE SAME WAY, BECAUSE OF THE LEGACY, BECAUSE OF THE BENCHMARK THAT YOU HAVE SET, WE ARE BETTER FOR IT. AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND COMMITMENT TO THIS CITY. THANK YOU. AUDWIN SAMUEL 3715.

BEAUMONT, TEXAS. MAYOR, COUNCIL, ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF. WHAT CAN I SAY? SEAN? THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE. I KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. I KNOW WHAT YOU'VE GONE THROUGH. YOU CAME HERE OUT OF RETIREMENT. NOW YOU HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY YOUR FAMILY AGAIN. ALL I SAY IS THANK YOU. AND MAY GOD CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU. THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL I HAVE, MAYOR. ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR THOSE PUBLIC COMMENTS. AND THOSE WERE MANY HEARTFELT COMMENTS FOR OUR CITY

[CONSENT AGENDA]

MANAGER. IS THERE A MOTION IN A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA? SECOND, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS? COUNCILMAN TURNER? YES, MAYOR. FOR ITEM C WITH THE CHARTER COMMITTEE. I KNOW ON THE FIRST ATTEMPT IT WAS TWO APPOINTMENTS BY EACH COUNCIL. CAN STAFF KIND OF JUSTIFY EXPLAIN WHY IT WAS IT WAS NOT. IT WAS ONE. AND THAT'S IT. I ATTACHED THE RESOLUTION THAT SHOWS THE APPOINTMENT, THE CREATION OF THE CHARTER COMMITTEE RESOLUTION. IT SHOWS ONE APPOINTMENT PER COUNCIL. OKAY. SO THE FIRST TIME WE DID ONE. YES, SIR. HOW MANY MEMBERS

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DID WE HAVE? THE FIRST TIME YOU ACTUALLY HAD 11. THE 12TH MEMBER, IF YOU IF YOU DON'T COUNT THE 12TH MEMBER WAS OUR CONSULTANT, BUT THE CITY MANAGER, MYSELF AND THE CONSULTANT WERE NOT VOTING MEMBERS. OKAY. SO BASICALLY THIS TIME, WHAT IS IT? 11 BASICALLY KIND OF SIMILAR TO WHAT WE HAD. IT'S THE SAME BECAUSE YOU ALREADY HAVE A CHARTER COMMITTEE ESTABLISHMENT ALREADY. IT'S THE SAME. WE DIDN'T CHANGE ANYTHING. OKAY, WELL, THAT'S ON ME THEN I APPRECIATE IT. YES, SIR. ANY OTHER COUNCILMAN? DO YOU? SO I GUESS IT'S. ITEM D AS FAR AS THE SEEKING MONEY TO CONVERT THE TENNIS COURT INTO PICKLEBALL COURTS. I MEAN, IS THAT THE ONLY PARK IN BEAUMONT THAT HAS PICKLEBALL COURTS? SPORTS COMPLEX HAS PICKLEBALL COURTS. AND WHERE I'M GOING WITH THIS, I MEAN, I'M I MEAN, SINCE THAT'S SUCH A POPULAR GAME NOW AND IT'S PICKING UP ALL OVER THE COUNTRY, MAYBE WE CAN PUT SOME PICKLEBALL COURTS, LIKE WE MIGHT HAVE SOME PARKS THAT THEY'RE NOT USING TENNIS COURTS AT ALL. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE DON'T GO PLAY THERE. SO MAYBE WE CAN CONVERT THOSE TO PICKLEBALL COURTS AND GIVE PEOPLE SOME PEOPLE SAID THEY'RE NOT GOING TO LIKE IT. WELL, YOU GOT I THINK IT'S OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO TO TRY IT. AND IN OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY AND LET PEOPLE SEE IF THEY LIKE IT, THEY MAY LIKE IT, THEY MAY WANT SOMETHING DIFFERENT TO DO.

LIKE I SAID, I'VE SEEN BEFORE, EVERYBODY CAN'T BE A STAR BASKETBALL PLAYER. BUT FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, ANYBODY CAN PLAY PICKLEBALL. SO COUNCILMAN AND I WILL CHALLENGE ANYBODY AND DOUBLES. I JUST I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO LOOK INTO THAT, YOU KNOW, OPENING IT UP, SPREAD IT AROUND THE CITY AND DON'T JUST TAKE FOR GRANTED THAT PEOPLE IN CERTAIN NEIGHBORHOODS AREN'T GOING TO LIKE IT BECAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THEY MAY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING THE CONSENT AGENDA, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I. ANY

[1. Council consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept maintenance and authorize final payment to Pardalis Enterprises Inc., of Houston, Texas for the Cattail Marsh Wetland 72-Inch Outfall Pipe Coating Project.]

OPPOSED? THE MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY MANAGER, WOULD YOU TAKE US INTO THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER ONE? THANK YOU MAYOR. THANKS FOR ALL THE KIND WORDS THAT WERE SPOKEN.

APPRECIATE IT. COUNCIL, CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT MAINTENANCE AND AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT TO PARA PARADISE ENTERPRISES, INC. OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, FOR THE CATTAIL MARSH WETLAND. 72 INCH OUTFALL PIPE COATING PROJECT, AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. MOVE TO APPROVE. SECOND, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER ONE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I, I ANY OPPOSED? THE MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY

[2. Consider a resolution authorizing a payment for property insurance coverage for various city owned buildings and assets.]

MANAGER, MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER TWO. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING A PAYMENT FOR PROPERTY INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR VARIOUS CITY OWNED BUILDINGS AND ASSETS, AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF OPTION ONE TO APPROVE.

SECOND, THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? AND REMEMBER THAT WAS PRESENTED EARLIER. ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER TWO, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING I. I OPPOSED MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY MANAGER, MAY

[3. Council consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept maintenance and authorize final payment to Tanksco, Inc., of Fort Worth, Texas for the South Elevated Storage Tank Rehabilitation Project.]

WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER THREE. COUNCIL. CONSIDER A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT MAINTENANCE AND AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT TO TANKS CO INC OF FORT WORTH, TEXAS FOR THE SOUTH ELEVATED STORAGE TANK REHABILITATION PROJECT, AND IT COMES WITH RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. MOVE TO APPROVE. SECOND, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER THREE. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM THREE, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED?

[4. Council consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept maintenance and authorize final payment to Vortex Services, LLC, of Houston, Texas for the Washington Boulevard 16-inch Water Line Replacement project.]

THE MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY MANAGER, MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR? COUNCIL, CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT MAINTENANCE AND AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT TO VORTEX SERVICES, LLC OF HOUSTON, TEXAS, FOR THE WASHINGTON BOULEVARD 16 INCH WATER LINE REPLACEMENT PROJECT. AND IT COMES WITH RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. THERE, A MOTION AND SECOND MOVE TO APPROVE. SECOND, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER FOUR. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION. ALL

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THOSE. IN FAVOR, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY

[5. Council to consider a resolution declaring an intent of the City to reimburse itself from proceeds of bonds expected to be issued for certain expenditures incurred prior to the issuance of certain debt]

MANAGER, MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER FIVE, COUNCIL TO CONSIDER A RESOLUTION DECLARING AN INTENT OF THE CITY TO REIMBURSE ITSELF FROM PROCEEDS OF BONDS EXPECTED TO BE ISSUED FOR CERTAIN EXPENDITURES INCURRED PRIOR TO THE ISSUANCE OF CERTAIN DEBT.

AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER FIVE? MOVE TO APPROVE? IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND? THERE IS A MOTION AND A 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. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? I. YOU'RE OPPOSED? OKAY, SO THAT WOULD BE SIX ONE. ALL RIGHT. AND MOTION CARRIES.

[6. Council consider a resolution authorizing the City Manager to accept maintenance and authorize final payment to Greenscapes Six for the Howell Street and Sue Lane Pavement Restoration Project.]

MR. CITY MANAGER, WOULD YOU PLEASE TAKE US INTO THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER SIX? COUNCIL, CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT MAINTENANCE AND AUTHORIZE FINAL PAYMENT TO GREEN SCAPES. SIX FOR THE HIGH STREET AND SOUTH LANE PAVEMENT RESTORATION PROJECT. AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER SIX? MOVE. MAKE A MOTION MOVE TO APPROVE. SECOND, THERE IS A MOTION AND 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. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE

[7. Council to consider an ordinance denying Texas Gas Service Company's proposed rates.]

MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY MANAGER, MAY WE HAVE THE READING OF ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, COUNCIL TO CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE DENYING TEXAS GAS SERVICE COMPANIES PROPOSED RATES, AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE ORDINANCE. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER SEVEN TO DENY, APPROVE OR DENY? YOU WOULD BE APPROVING THE ORDINANCE AS A DENIAL, AS A DENIAL, A SECOND. THAT'S IT. ALL RIGHT. THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF THE DENIAL. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE MOTION IS CARRIED. CITY MANAGER, WOULD YOU TAKE US INTO THE PUBLIC HEARING, PLEASE? COUNCIL

[ Council to conduct a Public Hearing to receive comments to temporarily waive transit fares for students.]

TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS TO TEMPORARILY WAIVE TRANSIT FARES FOR STUDENTS AND THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN. WE HAVE SOMEBODY DOING ANY PRESENTATION OR ARE WE JUST GOING TO GO AHEAD AND. THE NEXT ITEM IS GOING TO BE FOR WAIVING OR TEMPORARILY WAIVING FEES FOR STUDENTS TO ACCESS TRANSIT ALL SUMMER LONG, BASICALLY UNLOCKING OPPORTUNITIES FOR JOB, JOB TRANSPORTATION OR EVENTS RECREATIONALLY THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER. SO I AM VERY MUCH SO IN FAVOR OF THIS. AND THIS IS A CONTINUATION OF THE COUNCIL'S INTENTIONS LAST YEAR. SO WE'D LIKE TO KEEP THAT MOMENTUM GOING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD. AND IF WE DON'T HAVE ANYBODY ELSE I'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND WE CAN MOVE INTO THE IS THAT OKAY? MOVING TO THE REGULAR AGENDA ITEM, MAY WE HAVE THAT READING SO THAT THEN WE CAN DISCUSS IT AS A COUNCIL BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING TO VOTE ON IT. MAY WE HAVE THE READING

[8. Council consider a Resolution authorizing Zip to temporarily waive transit fares for students from May 28, 2026, to August 12, 2026.]

OF ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. MAYOR. COUNCIL, CONSIDER RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING ZIP TO TEMPORARILY WAIVE TRANSIT FARES FOR STUDENTS FROM MAY 28TH, 2026 TO AUGUST 12TH, 2026. AND IT COMES WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION. IS THERE A MOTION FOR ITEM NUMBER EIGHT? MAKE A MOTION WE APPROVE. SECOND, THERE IS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR APPROVAL OF ITEM NUMBER EIGHT. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? COUNCILMAN TURNER, THEN COUNCILWOMAN SHERWOOD AND THEN COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW. JUST A POINT OF CLARITY. I KNOW IT SAYS K THROUGH 12, BUT WE'RE ONLY DOING GRADES NINE THROUGH 12. CORRECT? IT WOULD BE K THROUGH 12. HOWEVER, THE THIS IS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, RIGHT. SO THERE'S NO ATTENDANCE THAT WOULD BE ON ON THERE OR GUARDIANS. SO ANYONE THAT IS UNDER A NINTH GRADE OR OUT OF HIGH SCHOOL, I HIGHLY ENCOURAGE THEM TO HAVE A GUARDIAN OR A PARENT WITH THEM ACCOMPANYING

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ANYONE THAT'S IN HIGH SCHOOL. PLEASE DO PRESENT YOUR STUDENT ID SO THAT YOU CAN THEN BOARD THE THE TRANSIT FOR FREE. ALL RIGHT, COUNCILWOMAN, MY, MY, MY FOLLOW UP. I JUST WANT TO ACTUALLY SAY THANK YOU TO STAFF. WHAT HAPPENED LAST YEAR? YOU HAD COACHES FROM THE CITY, FROM THESE HIGH SCHOOLS COME TO US BECAUSE STUDENTS COULDN'T MAKE IT TO EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEIR PARENTS WERE WORKING AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANYONE THERE, NOR DID THEY HAVE TRANSPORTATION. SO IN AN EFFORT TO GIVE KIDS AN OUTLET TO GET TO SOMETHING POSITIVE, I APPRECIATE STAFF LOOKING INTO THIS. IT IS ONLY TEMPORARILY FOR THE SUMMERTIME. ALSO, IT GIVES STUDENTS THE OPPORTUNITY WHO MAY WHO MAY WANT TO WORK AND ASSIST THEIR FAMILIES. OR MAYBE ONE STUDENT CAME AND SAID THEY WANT TO EARN MONEY TO GET SCHOOL CLOTHES FOR THE SCHOOL YEAR. IT GIVES THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET TO AND FROM WORK. SO I DO APPRECIATE STAFF LOOKING INTO THIS AND SEEING IF IT CAN BE FEASIBLE AND IT IS A TEMPORARY THING, BUT I THINK IT'S A POSITIVE THING FOR THE CITY OF BEAUMONT. THANK YOU.

COUNCILMAN. COUNCILWOMAN, IN AN EFFORT TO FULLY SUPPORT THIS, I'D LIKE TO SEE MAYBE IF COUNCIL WOULD CONSIDER MAKING THIS PERMANENT FOR YOUNG PEOPLE THAT NEED HELP, THAT THEY CAN GET BACK AND FORTH TO WORK THAT MAY BE NEED HELP THAT ARE OF AGE TO BE TRANSPORTED TO AND FROM WORK OR ACTIVITIES. I KNOW THAT IT'S TEMPORARY, BUT I'D LIKE TO SUPPORT COUNCILMAN TURNER AND OUR YOUNG PEOPLE THAT ARE TRYING TO DO SOMETHING POSITIVE. IF IN THE EVENT THAT COUNCIL WOULD ENTERTAIN THAT. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN CRENSHAW. THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO BRING UP. I KNOW WE DID THIS LAST SUMMER. WE'RE DOING IT THIS SUMMER. IS THERE A LEGAL REASON WHY WE'RE COMING BACK EVERY YEAR TO REAUTHORIZE THIS? OR WHY CAN'T WE JUST MAKE IT PERMANENT MOVING FORWARD THAT STUDENTS DURING THE SUMMER DON'T HAVE TO PAY FARES? THE REASON IT'S COMING BACK IS BECAUSE IT DOES GIVE SPECIFIC DATES. MAY 28TH, 2026 TO AUGUST 12TH. AND THAT'S FOR THE ISD SUMMER SESSION. BUT IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WANT TO DO, I CAN RUN NUMBERS AND PRESENT IT TO YOU GUYS. YEAH. IF WE INSTEAD OF HAVING A SPECIFIC DATES, WE COULD JUST SAY THAT DURING THE SUMMER SESSION FOR B I, S D WE WOULD NEED. SO IN ORDER FOR THAT TO HAPPEN, YOU WOULD HAVE TO HAVE A SEPARATE PUBLIC HEARING TO JUST WAIVE FEES GENERALLY. AND SO I THINK WHAT DIRECTOR IS SAYING IS THAT SHE WOULD BRING YOU BACK WITH THE COST ESTIMATES TO PROVIDE A PRESENTATION TO COUNCIL WITH THOSE NUMBERS, AND THEN YOU'D HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING ON THAT ISSUE. THE PUBLIC HEARING TODAY WAS FOR THE WAIVER OF FEES DURING THE SUMMER MONTHS. ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT. THERE'S NO OTHER DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF APPROVING ITEM NUMBER EIGHT, PLEASE SIGNIFY BY SAYING AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? THE

[ Council to review and discuss a request from Beautify Beaumont, Inc. and Mike Getz for the donation of landscaping materials and signage at the public median near Phelan Boulevard and Dowlen Road and naming the improvements in honor of Allison Nathan Getz. ]

MOTION IS CARRIED. MR. CITY MANAGER, WOULD YOU TAKE US INTO THE WORK SESSION COUNCIL TO REVIEW AND DISCUSS A REQUEST FROM BEAUTIFY BEAUMONT INC AND MIKE GETZ FOR THE DONATION OF LANDSCAPING MATERIALS AND SIGNAGE AT THE PUBLIC MEETING NEAR BOULEVARD AND DOWLING ROAD.

AND NAME OF THE IMPROVEMENTS IN HONOR OF ALICE AND NATHAN GETZ. AND I DO KNOW THAT WE HAVE LORI LESTER HERE WITH BEAUTIFY BEAUMONT THAT MIGHT BE ABLE TO GIVE AN OVERVIEW AND HELP ANSWER ANY OF THE COUNCIL'S QUESTIONS. MAYOR, IF I COULD, MISS LESTER, BEFORE YOU START, MISS LESTER IS GOING TO PRESENT WHAT THEIR PROPOSAL IS. BUT I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY. THE POINT OF TODAY'S WORK SESSION IS TO GIVE STAFF SOME INDICATION, NOT WHETHER OR NOT TO APPROVE THE REQUEST TODAY, BUT TO INDICATE WHETHER OR NOT, WELL, WHAT WOULD BE THE NEXT STEP IN THIS PROCESS, WHICH IS OUTLINED BY CHAPTER 4.02 14 RATHER .07, WHICH IS THE PARK FACILITY STRUCTURE AND FEATURE NAMING POLICY. AND IN THAT POLICY, IT ASKS THE QUESTION OF COUNCIL, DO YOU WANT THE REQUEST TO GO TO AN AD HOC COMMITTEE TO REVIEW, OR DO YOU WANT THE REQUEST TO SIMPLY STAY WITH THE CITY COUNCIL? SO AGAIN, WE'RE GOING TO HEAR FROM MRS. LESTER TODAY ABOUT WHAT THE PROPOSAL IS. BUT THE THE THE THE REQUEST BEFORE COUNCIL IS, IS WHAT THE NEXT STEP IN THE PROCESS WILL BE. THANK YOU. I'M LORI LESTER AND I AM CURRENTLY PRESIDENT OF BEAUTIFY BEAUMONT AND BEAUTIFY BEAUMONT. STARTED IN THE 1980S AS THE NONPROFIT ARM FOR BEAUMONT BEAUMONT BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION, WHICH, AS YOU ALL MAY RECALL, WAS PART OF THE KEEP TEXAS BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION. AND TO AND THEN A PART OF THE KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL COMMISSION. AND THE NONPROFIT ARM WAS SET UP BECAUSE THE CITY IN THEIR CITY OF BEAUMONT COMMISSION WANTED TO DO LANDSCAPING PROJECTS, BUT THERE WAS NO MONEY. SO THEY CREATED THE NONPROFIT ARM BEAUTIFY BEAUMONT, AND CITIZENS WOULD DONATE MONEY FOR THE