San Angelo City Council 9-16-25

[0:00:00] Everyone, it's 8:30 on Tuesday, September the 16th. We'll go ahead and call this meeting to order. Um, first of all, we'd like to start it off with our morning prayer and pledges. And with that, we're going to bring up the great Gary Jenkins for the prayer. >> Morning, mayor and council members. >> Good morning, ladies and gentlemen. Will you pray with us as we begin this meeting? Father in heaven, in Jesus's name, we bow before you, the author and finisher of our faith to say thank you for this day. We thank you for this great city that we live in. We thank you, Lord, for our mayor, the Honorable Tom Thompson, and to all of the members of the city council, to all of those that are in positions of leadership in city and county and state government. We thank you, Father, for this opportunity to come before your presence and to pray over this executive body. We ask you now to also help us to remember the family of Charlie Kirk. And as our hearts go out to them and we ask you to comfort that family following the tragic assassination of this great conservative political activist. And we ask you, Lord, to touch America and deliver us from the violence and from the evil that is running rampant across this nation. We pray, Father, that you bless our city council as they take on the business of the city. And we ask you to bless each and everyone that's here today. That Lord, St. Angelo will continue to be a city where people can come live, prosper, and do business and give glory to you. This we pray in Jesus's name. Amen. And amen. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America to the republic for it

[0:02:07] stand. We have three proclamations this morning and I think this how we're going to do it. I'd like to call up the group that's going to accept the proclamation to come up here as I read it. So the first one I'm going to do is the Hispanic Heritage um month. So anybody involved with Hispanic Heritage Month, come on down. Come on, Manny. >> Making it. >> How are you? How are you all? >> Everybody in line? Got the tall guy right in the center. That's great. Perfect. That's how I would do it. That's how I do it. All right, y'all. Let's light this. Okay. Hispanic Heritage Month. The St. Angelo Hispanic Heritage Museum and Cultural Center recognized the invaluable contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to the history, culture, and achievements of the United States. Hispanic Heritage Month is observed nationwide from September 15th to October 15th. A time that encompasses the independence of anniversaries and several Latin American nations including Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Chile. The

[0:04:11] Hispanic community in San Angelo and throughout West Texas continues to be a vibrant, integral part of our region, enriching our city through leadership and in education, business, the arts, public service, and cultural traditions that reflect centuries of resilience, creativity, and strength. The San Angelo Hispanic Heritage Museum and Cultural Center is dedicated to preserving and sharing the stories, history, and legacy of the Hispanic and Latino community, ensuring that future generations understand and appreciate the vital role Hispanic Americans have played in shaping our shared identity. Through education, celebration, and reflection, Hispanic Heritage Month provides an opportunity for all members of our community to learn about and honor the diverse cultures, languages, and histories that unite us. Therefore, I, Tom Thompson, mayor of the city of St. Angela, Texas, on behalf of the city council, do proclaim September 15 through October 15, 2025 as Hispanic Heritage Month, and encourage all residents to join in recognizing, celebrating, and honoring the enduring contributions of Hispanic and Latino Americans to our community, our state, and our nation in recognition of their continuing efforts to promote peace and understanding throughout St. Angelo, Texas, and the surrounding area. Woohoo! [Applause] I'm going to need somebody to come say some words. So, who's up first? Manny. >> Oh, Manny brought a speech. >> Hey, thank you. You're >> good. You told me I had 45 minutes. So, here we go. Good morning, Mayor Thompson, members of the city council and friends. On behalf of the Stangel Hispanic Heritage Board, I want to thank you for this morning's uh proclamation and recognition. Uh we we are grateful for your leadership and for taking the time to honor the history, culture, and contributions of Hispanic families right here in St. Angelo. This proclamation is more than words. It represents the pride of generations, the stories of our parents and grandparents, and the commitment of so many who continue to serve and enrich our community. By recognizing this month, you remind us

[0:06:14] all that St. Angel's strength comes from its diversity and from the unity we build together. Thank you again, Mayor Thompson and Council, for starting this month off with a celebration with us supporting the work of persevering and sharing our heritage. Thank you. [Applause] >> Well, is there anybody else? >> All right, let's get a photo. >> Shorter people to the front. Just saying. Yes. All right. And would there be anybody here with meals for the elderly? Come on down. My little Where's yours? >> You just had the big >> T. Daniel down here. Coming. Coming on. >> Oh, got poster. Sweet.

[0:08:18] Worst picture I've ever taken. Let's put it on everything. >> It does. It does. >> All right, everybody ready? Let's go. Chase, shall we start? >> Okay. As long as I have your permission, I'll get going. All right. All right. The city of San Angelo proudly recognizes Meals for the Elder, a locallyowned, operated nonprofit organization that has served our community for over 50 years, delivering nutritious meals, wellness checks, and heartfelt connection to seniors and homebound neighbors. Mills for the Elderly is a committed member of the National Meals on Wheels America network while remaining an independent and community rooted entity dedicated to improving the lives of older adults in St. Angelo and surrounding areas. The organization's mission is made possible through the tireless efforts of volunteers, staff, donors, and community partners who champion the dignity, independence, and well-being of our senior neighbors. On September 16th and September 18th, 2025, Mills for the Elderly will host Community Champions Days, celebrating the contributions of 30 Community Champions, a diverse group of city leaders, journalists, artists, and community advocates who will help share the organization's mission and personally deliver meals to seniors and homebound individuals across the city. These community champions exemplify the spirit of service and solidarity, raising awareness, and inspiring others to support meals for the elderly through volunteerism, advocacy, and generosity. Therefore, I, Tom Thompson, mayor of the city of San Angela, Texas, on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim September 16th, 2025 and September 18th, 2025 as Meals for the Elderly Community Champions Days and encourage citizens to recognize the profound impact of this organization and its champions and to take part in building a more caring and connected community for our seniors. Go. Would somebody like to speak? Susanna, just saying. >> Okay, I guess it's me. So, thank you,

[0:10:20] mayor, city council, city manager, um, for recognizing our community champions. Um, we are honoring Laura Lee Lewis this year as well. She was an honorary champion, so I just wanted to mention that. Meals for the Elderly has been serving homebound seniors for more than 50 years with meals, compassion, and dignity. Um, our community champions helped to shine a light on the mission and the social media campaign has already reached nearly half a million views. So, I encourage everyone to please follow us on Facebook, follow our social media. Um, it's really been a phenomenal campaign and we're excited that there's been so much awareness for the needs of our homebound seniors. Um, today I also want to recognize Normal Lee Deetsz. It's her one-year anniversary for meals for the elderly. So, thank you, Norma. [Applause] and thank you for your support and this recognition. And we want to invite you all to please come attend our dueling pianos on October 16th and support our homebound neighbors. Thank you. >> If you'll give me just a second to sign this, we'll have a signed one right here. We'll take the photo with that. >> Riff, are you in the back? Chief Your presence has been requested at the front and there's not a fire in emergency. And while he did outshoot me at the West Texas rehab shoot, he was using illegal equipment and he had an unfair advantage. He and Judge Carter had an unfair advantage. We'll send you a copy.

[0:12:46] get your notes. You're welcome. >> Can I have someone here that represents the Peace Ambassadors of West Texas? Awesome. You're welcome. anywhere you want. The Peace Ambassadors of West Texas concentrate on spreading peaceful relations throughout the community, the Concho Valley, through their mission of promoting peace through understanding, education, and building relationships. On September 16th, 2025, we recognize both the peace ambassadors and the promotion of peace on this 44th annual International Day of Peace. The peace theme of this year's International Day of Peace being act now for a peaceful word world. Therefore, I Tom Thompson, mayor of the city of St. Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim September 21st, 2025 as peace ambassadors of West Texas Day of Peace in recognition of their continuing efforts to promote peace and understanding throughout the San Angelo, Texas and the surrounding area. Awesome. Who's going to say some words? >> Valerie will let you do that. >> Thank you. Thank you, Mayor Thompson, and uh city council members for affirming this proclamation and passing it, which uh affirms the significance of peace uh not only everywhere but uh in our community. Um Peace Ambassadors of West Texas since 1904 has been fulfilling a mission of promoting peace through understanding, education, and building relationships. We try to achieve these goals through uh

[0:14:49] missions such as uh peace vigils every month on various topics which overall uh hopefully are relevant to many sectors of the community. We also uh cook breakfast for navigation day every month uh thereby serving the uh homeless and very lowincome people in our community. We are in the process of developing a peaceuilders academy for children and youth that will be coming soon. And uh in addition to our regular activities, we try to recognize significant days of peace throughout the year such as Junth Nelson Mandela Day and this international day of peace. And the celebration for that will be this Sunday afternoon at Civic League Park. Uh deeply grateful to all of our members uh and supporters and to Mary Tus for writing this proclamation and proposing it to the council. Again, grateful to Mayor Thompson, to you, and to the council for passing this significant resolution. [Laughter] Good. Turn on the microphone. Now we'll move

[0:17:12] into public comment. Members of the public may raise issues or concerns not listed on the regular agenda during this time. To participate, please sign in with the city clerk prior to the beginning of the meeting. Speakers will be called in order they signed in. When speaking, citizens must speak from the podium. Address all comments to the dis. Begin by stating your name and address or single member district number and limit the remarks to three minutes or less. Heather, do we have any public comment? >> Yes, sir. Um Michelle Genevies. >> Thank you so much. >> You're quite welcome. >> And thank you, mayor, and members of council. I'm the public information officer for the Small Business Administration's Office of Disaster Recovery and Resilience. I am in town for the next two weeks or so um reaching out to the survivors of the flooding that happened back in July. We are here to provide alternate funding to help the survivors recover and get back to re pre- disaster condition. Our program can provide loans to help these survivors again repair or replace any of their damaged items, their homes. We also provide working capital for businesses and normally our capital access side of SBA does not help out nonprofits, business um landlords, tenants, but on our disaster side we do. We open it up to everybody so that we can help everybody so that businesses don't close. >> So, will you repeat that of who's eligible? >> Eligible it um persons are anybody that owns a home that was affected by that disaster. Anybody that was renting a home, that tenant is eligible for a disaster loan. a business including nonprofits which include homeowners

[0:19:16] associations and churches. We provide them the ability to repair or replace their damaged property and also we provide working capital for those businesses that have been affected. And additionally, we also have contiguous counties. So that your neighboring businesses, maybe they were doing businesses here in San Angelo and those businesses shut down. Well, it's going to affect another business when they've lost their contract or services. So that's why we reach out to everybody. If you know somebody that's been affected, we have a center opened up at 69 North I can't say it. I'm sorry. I'm from New York. >> Shadorn. >> Chadburn. >> Close enough. We have >> Okay. Thank you. Yep. We have a center there with people that can walk people through the system. But it's as easy as going to our website at sba.gov gov to get this information and apply for it simply by adding your state, your county, and the date of the disaster. So again, if you know anybody that um needs assistance, please refer them over to us. I have some um some fact sheets that show more details about our um program and I'll drop them off over here. But thank you so much for your time, >> Michelle. We thank you very much. If you'll lose leave that with Heather, our clerk. And number two, I'm sure our public information department is all over this, hidden back behind the one-way mirror, and they will get this posted on our page. For anybody that's watching, they will be able to pull this up on our website in less than five hours. No pressure. >> Thank you so much, Mayor Thompson. I appreciate your time. >> Hey, Michelle, what's the interest rate on that? >> Oh, our um home loans are at 2.813%. And businesses are at 4%. So, we don't want to, you know, do too much damage to the local banks. But again, these loans

[0:21:20] come direct from the Federal Reserve. So, they're going to get a Treasury check. They don't have to deal with other people. We have call centers that are open late to answer all of those questions. >> Deal. Just glad that the credit if they the credit score doesn't have any bearing on on what they do. Thank you very much for that. We do look at credit, but I always cons as a former loan officer with the Small Business Administration, I've been there since 1998. I always called ourselves lenient lenders because we look at the whole story. What was the reason for that bad credit? So again, we're very lenient lenders. We help people. We also have refinancing and relocation. Maybe somebody wants to move into a safer location. >> Thank you, Michelle. have that ability. >> Thank you, >> Heather. Any more public comment? >> And Anna Bartage. >> Anna, >> good morning. Uh, Anna Bartage, single member, District 1. Um, good morning, mayor, council, city manager. Uh, I just wanted to I I don't know if y'all are aware last week, uh, I looked at our tap water and it was yellow. Um, I filled my porcelain sink just to make sure and sure enough it was a nice pale yellow. Just wondering what that was that colored our tap water. That color, is it safe? And then I read about uh dumping into uh the Koncho River highly treated sewage. And so what does highly treated mean? Because a lot of times I think I understand but I'm old enough to know I need to get definitions of things. So uh those are my comments. Thank you. >> Cool. Thank you Anna. With that I will say if you will catch Shane Kelton, can we bring him up here now? Let's throw

[0:23:23] Shane up here on the grill right quick and talk about the tap water and the lake inversion from Lake Ivy. >> I know you're really complimenting me on your way up here, Shane. >> Well, but I mean it's it's something we've all seen and it's we've all talked about and discussed it. >> Yeah. No, we we um we did actually have two events uh over the last um three weeks or so where we did see um we had some event at Lake Ivy uh which is our main source of water for the city. And so uh whether it was an inversion or something something's going on in the lake where we actually did we caught a really dirty slug of water coming into the water treatment plant. Um and um and it did cause due to the magnesium content in the water actually did. It's one of those things we can't treat color. Um, and so treat for color in our plant and so since it's an a traditional surface water plant, we don't have any membranes or RO or anything any of those other processes. So we really can't treat for color and so we did get like I said high magnesium u we did see a spike in magnesium come into the plant along with higher organics and so that did cause the first discoloration. Uh we did see a second event that following after we got pretty much had everything cleared out from the first event. Um and then we saw a second event come in the following weekend where we where we didn't see a really dirty slug of water, but we did see another spike in magnesium. And of course, magnesium will turn the water a lot yellowish brownish kind of color, which is what everybody was seeing um in the in the distribution system when they turned on the tab. The water was the water was safe to drink uh safe to consume it. uh we met all all safety standards uh as regards we didn't we didn't go over any uh MCL's and so again it was while it was discolored and and um not um not appealing to the eyesight it was when we consider what we what we believe water should look like coming out of a tap it didn't look like

[0:25:26] that but again it was safe uh to consume to touch to bathe in all of those things >> so the best way to cure this is flush this through the system and pull it all the way through >> that's it that's it And we did we we had crews out immediately once once we knew it hit the system. We were trying to get that that uh that slug of colored water out of our distribution system. We sent crews uh everywhere that we were receiving color complaints. We would send crews out and we would start flushing uh flushing the distribution system to try to move that that water that colored water through through our system faster and quicker. >> Cool. Thank you, Shane. I appreciate it. >> Heather, do we have any more public comment? >> Mayor, if I if I actually may. Uh, and council members, I want to introduce our new uh, animal services manager. Amanda, if you'll come up here real quick. Uh, her name is Amanda Wed. Uh, she comes to us with 25 years of experience in animal care and 16 years of experience in animal services. And we're bringing her in from Frisco, Texas. And we're very happy, very honored to have her here on our staff. >> Welcome home, Amanda. We'll welcome you here first. Uh can you give us a brief maybe a little bit bio and history of absolutely what you had before you got here. >> So I have been in animal care since I was n 15 years old. I started in veterinary through high school and then when I moved to College Station I found animal services and found a love for it. I have been in animal services for 16 years. Um, I am a state and nationally certified animal services officer and a state and nationally certified cruelty officer and in cruelty investigator through TACA uh, the Texas Animal Control Association as well as NAKa, the National Animal Control Association. I have done extensive studies on shelter protocols as well as uh worked in several shelters doing high adoption protocols for um shelters that don't have as many uh rescue options and things of that nature available to them as well as being a field training officer for the officers. Uh my big stance is public safety as well as

[0:27:30] making sure that we have community engagement, community education for responsible pet ownership, overpopulation, and uh proper care. >> Thank you for that. We're glad and welcome on board. And when was your first day? >> Yesterday. >> Awesome. Welcome to day number two. Quite a day for you. >> Absolutely. I'm excited. >> All right, Amanda. Thank you. >> Thank you. I will throw in one more piece of public comment. I know Heather gives me the look. Joe, is Lake View 3 and 0? >> They are. >> Okay. Just saying. >> Lake View is 3 and 0. All right. With that, we'll move into the consent agenda and I will move down the dis asking anyone if they have any items to pull. Mary, have you got anything you want to pull? >> No, sir. >> Karen, >> no sir. >> Patrick, >> no sir. >> I have nothing to pull. Harry, >> nothing. >> Joe, >> no sir. Mr. Heert >> with no items to pull al >> I have them first from Karen second. >> Second from Joe. >> Do we have any public comment on the consent agenda? With that we'll take a vote. All in favor approving consent agenda items A through E say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> None opposed. Consent agenda passes 70. Now we'll move into the regular agenda. Comments regarding items on the regular agenda may be made by the public when each item is discussed as outlined above. To participate, please sign in with city clerk to prior to the beginning of the meeting. Speakers will be called in the order they are signed in. Comments are limited to less than 3 minutes. Applicants, proponents, and appellants are exempt from the time limit above and instead must limit their remarks to less than 5 minutes. We will move into item A. Consider awarding AS02-25 to the Control Valley Pause for Animal Rescue Services in the amount of 162,000 and authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute all necessary documents or in the alternative reject such proposal consider implementing

[0:29:32] in-house programming for such services. Presentation by Neighborhood Family and Services Angela Bloss interim assistant director. >> It's all yours, Angela. >> Thank you. Uh, good morning, Council, Mayor, and Daniel. I'm Angela Bloss, the assistant director, interim assistant director of neighborhood and family services. So, we're coming to you all today with um we need some direction. So, our, as you're aware, our contract with Control Valley Pause ends 9:30 of this year. And so, we're just looking for some direction from y'all. >> Actually, with that, if I may, mayor. >> Absolutely. >> We did get a submission from Pause. We did send out a a um the the bids for the different animal rescue groups and did get a submission for PAUSE. We were grateful for that. I do want to state that um I am as a city we're very grateful for the many years of partnership that we've had with PAUSE and the vital role uh they have played in supporting the animal shelter. Their commitment has helped countless animals find loving homes and the city extends sincere appreciation uh for their service uh their service to our community. So, thank you so much to Paul for that. But I do with that want to say that uh a recent review of of shelter operations to to also include a recommendation was to actually do uh this service in-house and uh we are looking forward to actually moving forward with the in-house service. So basically our shelter staff would be providing all animal services in house. Uh the we pray and our hopefulness is that uh we have the full participation of all the animal rescue groups uh moving forward uh to pull animals from our shelter and assist with the adoption process. Uh again uh my recommendation is to reject the bid and move forward with an in-house shelter operation on this. So, I have some questions here. Um, we've been in this relationship for five

[0:31:35] years, end of a five-year contract that we started in 2020. Um, my first concern is do we have the capability with staff and resources because Paul's provided some volunteers, some some I assets and manpower that we didn't have to provide. And when you weighed that out against the money initially, it was by far in our favor to keep things with pause just by what resources they provided. Now, with the fact that we've hired a new director at the animal shelter, I need to know where that sits and I would hope council has those same concerns to weigh this out before we come to a consensus. >> Uh it's a good question, mayor. Uh basically on our end, we have been working toward this and in making sure that we're prepared uh to move forward. uh as far as having an individual in house. Uh this is going to be a person really that'll be handling the adoption portion of it. So we are prepared to do that. There's other other details that we're working through. I was being really careful. I had my plans everything some of the things laid out that I would love to do moving forward. But out of respect for our new shelter manager coming in, we'll be working very closely. It started yesterday actually. We had several a couple of meetings and uh we'll be working out the ironing out the details of u of what we'll be doing as far as transitioning but we're we feel confident that the transition uh can be easily managed by our staff. There may be some bumps in the road along the way initially but uh we will move forward and do this. We've done it in the past so I'm confident we can do it again. >> Okay. So you're you're confident that we have the staff and the capability, the resources to handle this even through the transition of the remodel? >> Even through the transition of the remodel, all that's been considered as well. So uh on our end, uh we want to make sure that we do uh as stated a while ago, actually when Amanda came up here, our first priority of course is public health and safety. That'll always be public health and safety for us. But we also know that animal welfare is a a key point and also a one of our missions there with the city and animal shelter.

[0:33:40] So yes, on our end, I wouldn't be sitting here uh making a recommendation unless I didn't feel like we could actually transition and do this job ourselves. >> So how would we handle adoptions, Angela? How would we handle adoptions? >> I'm going to be honest with you. I don't have a plan at this moment. We were kind of waiting for direction from y'all, but I once we get that direction, we're willing to sit down. I know um Amanda's very excited and more than capable of coming up with a plan. So, we would come up with a plan within our current budget at the moment would but as I told Daniel, it would have to be flexible with us to move and to pivot when we need to make changes and then if we needed extra funding, >> we will transition a staff member. I mean, I want to make sure that that's understood as well. >> We will be transitioning a staff member to handle specifically the adoption itself. Though, it's not like we don't have a plan whatsoever. I mean, at at this point, there's been a lot of discussion, a lot of as far as planning, uh, as far as what the transition is going to look like. >> Do we have it set up right now? No, we don't have it set up right now, but >> So, what are some of our options? I mean, I I think it's very important we at least have some options before we move in this without with just a blank slate, >> of course. >> So, what are options that we have here, Dan? >> Options, again, as I mentioned a while ago, is uh use one of our current staff members. We actually have a part-timer at this point that can step in that uh will be doing the adoption. We have been speaking to other individuals, one in particular that that has knowledge and experience uh in in volunteerism and bringing volunteers in and even uh the uh the other animal rescue groups. Uh I've met with the other animal rescue groups and the discussion has been that we need a full participation from everyone to pull animals from our shelter. It won't be specifically just one uh animal rescue group that'll be doing this, but the we have several animal rescue groups in our community. Um several of them served on the task force and uh there was a lot of discussion also as far as what we would require from everyone. Everyone has to work together on this. Uh again, we're going to be managing what we have going

[0:35:41] on within our shelter to make sure that we don't have the numbers that overpop populate our shelter and we don't have the ability to really function. We want to make sure that we maintain that with an open intake. But in our end, uh there's going to be a lot of leg work, a lot of uh meetings, a lot to do with having folks that have a similar mission to get the animals adopted out that we want to step in and assist with this whole process as well. So my question here is how do we create fairness amongst what we put up for adoption? >> So is every going is everybody going to be able to work adoptions? I mean to me I see that as a benefit having five groups or six or seven or 10 >> but how do you be fair on who gets the pretty puppies and who gets the ugly ones? >> We would love to be with >> I know I know that sounds rude but I mean that's always been a question. And you'll get that on email was they get first choice and then what's left over is something that's not as desirable. I my my biggest concern >> about this is how do you determine who's going to work randomly and work what adoptions? >> I mean the only fair way to be first come first serve. So having that uh outcome specialist would be the primary contact and then whoever contacted them first. In my opinion that would be the only fair way. It would I think if anything it does need to become a first come first serve. Um it can be just one group that actually gets to pull the animals but really a first come first serve which encourages everyone to participate in this. No one wants to feel like there is a disadvantage. Uh everybody wants to feel like you know we do have a fair opportunity to select the animals that we are really interested in adopting out. I would love to have all the animals adopted out and that they could find a home, but it does kind of turn into a first come, first serve basically. >> Well, and I get first come, first serve where I'll go with that. What I know is when you do first come, first serve from rodeo tickets, sometimes people can dominate first. All right? They can put the power and the resources to be up

[0:37:44] there. You have to be able to work in a fair and consistent pattern to provide everybody time. Now, that doesn't allow somebody to be lazy and say, "Well, it's my turn in the rotation. I didn't get up there, but I still get choice." But there there's going to have to be some on-site management here to maintain fairness and consistency. But I do see a benefit and working with all the groups. >> Absolutely. And my commitment, of course, to the city council and everyone is I'm going to be directly involved uh with the animal shelter um who I've already started establishing especially how we're going to meet. Uh it's going to be a lot of teamwork, a lot of reviews, a lot of changes based on uh what went right and what went wrong, how we're implementing our strategy, our plan, and do follow-ups on that to tweak and make changes if necessary. But again, you'll have my commitment and complete involvement in animal shelter. >> Okay, with that, I'd like to open up with the dice and work from Mary across and we'll ask some questions. I have one question with the the resources as far as uh hiring additional people and I know Daniel you were talking about converting you know some part-times into you know the task force and I I just wanted to clarify I think sometimes there can be confusion and frankly I would get confused just with the terminology you know we have the advisory committee but then we also had that task force that was spec specific specific for really dissecting this whole deal and the task force recommended hiring essentially doubling our our staff. So they were recommending four uh >> ASOS. >> Yes, four ASOS is and so Amanda is one of those. >> Do are we going to do those three additional in this year or no? What is the time frame? You know the goal is of course we converted we do have a staff member now that's is a converted ASO and we also have budgeted to hire an additional ASO this year. Now the plan is for next year as we start budgeting that we budget for the additional two to

[0:39:48] get us to that four ASOS that we're talking about. And Amanda is not I mean she is uh she is a senior uh ASO. She really has wonderful experience but she's actually the shelter manager. She'll be running operations there. >> Yeah. >> Okay. Yeah. That >> did >> just kind of staying on on target there. >> Yeah. And I'm sure other questions will come up as we kind of work through this. >> And I will say we do have one new one that we're still training and one that is still fairly new. So that'll give us time to train get those fully trained before we add on new ones. >> Going in the right direction. Thank you, Angela. >> Of course. >> Karen, I'm good. >> Are you sure? >> Yes, sir. >> Patrick, >> good morning. Um, so this is uh it's interesting timing getting the new director at the same time. So, I realize she's just now coming into it, but has she had experience with both? Has she had experience with um city rand shelters adoptions? Do you know? >> Um I I believe so. Yes. But we'll let her answer. >> Yeah. >> We're going to throw you in the fire day two. >> Oh, this one's got a >> She does. But during my tenure in Lewisville, we actually had a older shelter that was not updated or anything of that nature. Um, I was an animal services officer. However, I ran pet portal, I ran the adoptions, I coordinated with the rescues. So, I do have extensive knowledge of that. um with college with Frisco, we did not have a shelter, but I did work heavily with the adoption and foster coordinators at the Colin County Animal Shelter where we did contract with. And so I've actually got a lot of contacts to help us transition into this to where we make sure that we are doing everything proper. >> Do you think we're I mean we're already in the end of the lease. Do you think this is something that we could effectively get done in time to um save as basically save as many pets and get them adopted as possible? >> I absolutely do. Um through

[0:41:50] conversations with Daniel, with Angela, I believe that we've got an action plan in place to get the layout within the next week or so and have it ready to implement within two weeks. >> Thank you, >> Patrick. Mary Thomas, >> very quickly, uh, we have fulfilled a number of the requests from the task force and I think we need to we need to move on down the road and and and uh let the animal shelter do what they need to do. Uh, what we were doing before wasn't working. We had too many dogs on the road. I think we're I think this this is going to help us. Uh and as Daniel said, maybe a few bumps in the road. Uh but for some of us that have been up here, especially Mr. Heert and I for nine years, eight years, whatever the case may be, >> we have gone through many, many renditions of trying to get uh animal services on the right thing. And every time somebody says, "Okay, so I I'm in favor of letting the animal services organization take this and run with it. And if they have to come back to us to tweak it a little bit, I'm good with it." >> Mr. S, >> uh, I wasn't on council when the task force presented, but I was in the audience. And I think this goes along with what the task force um wanted us to do as well as you got to start somewhere. So I think it's a step in the right direction. It still gives the other uh adoptions ability to work with them. So I think it's a good thing. >> Couple of questions. Um Daniel, you mentioned um public health and safety in your remarks.

[0:43:54] >> Um that has been my I I think what I have said consistently throughout the process. Whatever we do, however we do it, my main two main concerns with animal services are public health and safety. Can you put a little bit more meat on those bones, Daniel, with respect to the the the aspect of addressing public health and safety? >> Yes, sir. Uh public health and safety, of course, recent or this past year, you know, we we did move toward an open intake. Uh previously, we would uh somebody could pick up a stray animal, take it out to the shelter, and if it was the shelter was full, uh they were told to take it back. and there was that animal was probably likely closed at its home anyway about a block or two away. Um that for me was a dangerous proposition uh to tell someone to take an animal back and and leave it loose, drop it off and leave it loose. We're not doing that any longer. We're making absolutely sure that we're keeping our shelter intake open. Um, you know, I I hate the the idea, the thought of of euthanizing animals, but I know that that's something that is an inevitability that we'll end up having to do. We know that in order to really truly address the u having fewer animals out there uh in in the community uh at large is we really have to make sure that we're developing and hopefully working very closely with animal rescue groups really working uh on a really solid uh spayneuter program that really addresses uh ensuring that the the animals out there aren't populating and aren't running loose, you know. So that's going to be a key part of what we're working toward as well. The conversation of course meetings that we had yesterday uh and other works that we've been doing. We want to make sure that uh we're addressing it that way. So that's a great question. We want to make sure again the public health and safety is key and number one for us and that's what we're going to be working toward. >> You mentioned also just then um spay and

[0:45:58] neuter. I'm going to look to Amanda and and Angela. Have y'all already begun discussing a a much more robust spay and neuter initiative um on a on a go forward basis? >> We are looking at several different avenues um and different ideas to boost the um compliance of spay and neuter as well as how to properly make sure that every animal that is exiting the shelter through adoption, transfer, rehab is going with it being spayed and neutered. And I I think you also you mentioned the word compliance. I think that's going to be we we have to demand compliance um through through whatever means um legal means that we have. So I hope that's part of y'all's discussion too to gain gain seeming seemingly from what the what we heard from the task force we may not ha have had as much compliance as maybe what we should have. So I hope that's a part of it too. Tommy, and I can I'm sorry, I didn't mean to interrupt you, Tommy. Uh I know that Amanda is reviewing the recommendations made by the task force as well as far as some of the ordinance changes. Uh as a matter of fact, she has some thoughts and ideas on that as well, but uh that is going to be key as well. I failed to mention that a while ago when you started looking at public health and safety is making sure that we're truly enforcing our ordinances that are already in place anyway and also making the changes necessary to make them stronger. So that's something another area that we'll be keen on in making sure that we have that in place. you took my next question out of my mouth. So, thank thank you. Thank you for what you just said. Two two questions for clarification just for me. How many current today as we as we have this conversation? How many ASOs do we have? >> I'm going to refer to her because I'm still learning. >> Sure. >> Um, with Carlos, it would be one, two, three, four, five, six. >> Yes, six. >> Okay, that that that's fair. I just I just didn't know the number. Okay. So 6 and Daniel for you I thought we

[0:48:02] authorized in the budget this year two additional ASOS this year. Is that not >> Yes. So we're going from four to six actually. So that's the number that So next year we'll be up to eight and that's the number that was >> that that's where the where the additional Okay. Thank you. I I didn't I didn't uh get that mayor. That's all the questions I've got. >> So I have a question. When you look at the key obligations that we shared between us and pause, >> pause also took the basically the compliance um fee schedules, forms, certifications. There's a lot of liability in the adoption process that they carried on their shoulders. Does that just fall on us? It it's going to have to. I mean, I don't know how we do that moving forward, but in the latigious society we have today, quite often we have to worry about liability. >> Absolutely. >> And it's sometimes it's to the city's benefit to place that on somebody else's shoulders and let them have that. But so Brandon, will we carry this carry the same standard policies? >> Yeah, absolutely. But I mean, even with the current pause arrangement, I mean, they're our agent. So we're while they may indemnify us in the contract that doesn't necessarily mean you know we wouldn't get involved in litigation due to their actions. So um I mean to answer your questions yes we are taking on more but at the same time we kind of also have that with the current arrangement. Okay, cool. With that, any additional questions? >> Daniel, >> Patrick, >> Daniel, uh, this went out to all the rescues to basically bid on this proposal. Correct. >> We advertised it and I met with Jeffrey to make sure that it was went out to our purchasing manager to make sure it went out to all the animal rescue groups. Yes. >> Thank you. >> Yes, sir. As a followup to our city manager's comment about the RFP,

[0:50:04] I am aware that organizations were unfamiliar with the fact that that posted publicly. >> So, can you can you give a little public direction on how we might proceed going forward? How would they know um to and where would they go to find the post? How would they properly respond? Our procedure really with any proposal that goes out is we typically have a list of of names as far as contractors, businesses we've done business with in the past. And uh for us, we don't just advertise it. We actually also send an invitation to different groups. And I think that's probably the best way to do it is because folks that are um maybe not so much like with animal shelter, but when you look at others that bid on projects that the city puts out, they're very well aware that we'll be advertising. They're looking at the advertisement, but we also send out invitations to to the the the folks that we have on our list. So, we want to make sure that we get as many bids as possible in in all different areas within the city. But, uh those are the two of the main ways that we do that is advertisement and invitation as well. So interested parties should be scanning for posts on a regular basis and can you confirm that local entities other than pause received an invitation? >> Sure. I mean I have to go visit with each one of them uh individually. Uh I know that I had a meeting with a a group of folks that had mentioned they didn't get theirs and I did tell them actually they they did go out. So on my end even then I was saying hey no no no actually we even have it we do have it on our site. we have it to where people can actually pull that information. But again, after I had that meeting with ladies, I went and met with Jeffrey and say, "Hey, I just want to confirm, I want to make sure that we sent out those invitations to all the different groups." And he had confirmed that. So, >> thank you for that. And I I would like to confirm as a member of the council that I stand ready to support Amanda as a volunteer in any way that she finds she can put me to work. And I know there

[0:52:06] are others seated up here that feel the same way. So, welcome. >> And I feel the same way. You can put Karen to work as all you want. >> Exactly how I feel. >> I don't know. >> I've told everybody I'm ready to hit the ground running. >> All right. Okay. We've had a lot of discussion on this. We got a lot to cover today. Any more questions before I ask for a motion? >> We all good. Somebody got a motion? >> I'll make a motion that we follow the city manager's uh recommendation that uh we move this uh to to an in-house programming for animal services. >> Second. And Tommy just clarify that is rejecting the the bid from pause also. >> That is correct. >> You want me to say that? >> Yeah. >> Rephrase. >> Okay. All right. >> Just so we're clear. Um, I make a motion that we reject uh the um bid from pause for 162,000 and that we implement the in-house programming for animal services uh per our city manager's recommendation. >> That first from second Tommy I have a second from Harry Thomas. >> Heather, do we have any public comment? Yes, sir. Jaton Geese. Hi, Jaton Gizy, District 5. Uh, I had a lot to say. Thank y'all for your recommendations. Um, I just do want to beg that y'all will cut the find do what you can to cut the supply and find money for a voucher program for the public. uh you know I work volunteer with a couple of rescues and we are seeing those numbers increase. We have people coming and uh getting vouchers multiple vouchers. Our policy is one per household per month. Uh many times we go off that we find somebody that's trying

[0:54:08] to take care of a cat colony that they never did. They didn't sign up to do that. Um, but we're our numbers are at high as high as they can go just about and we are going to there's a chance we're going to start turning people away. So, the demand is there. People are trying to, you know, take in animals and get them fixed and help with the community. Uh, they just and it's not the best job to do it for free. I'm not asking that they, you know, lower their prices, but we have to help them uh get some of those people compliant uh when they're there. you know, showing up in in violation, do something to help them or hopefully they'll come and do it on their own. That's all. I just want to make sure that y'all are trying to look for funds for a Spain voucher program to help the people. >> Thank you. >> Thank you, Jaton. Heather, >> another public comment. >> Yes, Heather Hegwood. Okay. and Sharon Hoffman. >> Sharon. So, did Heather passed? >> She passed. >> All right. >> Good morning. Sharon Hoffman with Crittershack. I live in Wall. Um, I was going to say thank you for your recommendations. I wholeheartedly agree with what you're saying. I think in house services worked in the past and I think that's an excellent way to move forward. I would encourage you to do what Jaton said and please find some money for spayneuter for vouchers. That's the one way out of this overpopulation issue and it's very important and any money that you spend now will save you money in the long run. Uh we and I believe Cassie's I can speak for them. We got no nothing in the mail for any kind of RFP and I didn't know to look on this website until it was too late. So we did not receive anything but thank you for your recommendation. Heather there anymore? >> All right. With that said, before we go

[0:56:11] to a vote, I just want to say regardless of the outcome here, since I've been on here since 2017, I've seen outstanding commitment and obligations, not only through public comment, but through the service of PAUSE all the way across the board from everybody here. Your care and passion towards taking care of the pets of St. Angelo. While we have been lagging, we have done a lot of changes and we have working through handicaps and handcuffs financially. We have put a lot of money into our animal shelter. And with that, I think we're going to see progress. But I want to point out that there are a lot of assets we're providing now that we did not provide the previous seven, eight years. So with that, we'll go ahead and move forward. We'll take a vote. All those in favor of the motion on the floor say I. >> I. I. Any opposed? Motion passes 70. >> Thank you. >> With that, we're going to move into item B. Consider an appeal by the public works executive director and planning and development services director of plannings commission August. Hold a minute. hearing on August 18th, 2025, approval of two variances associated with the LCG Guyire section one final plat and sidewalk waiver appeal. With that, we're going to make a motion to extend the appeal for 30 days. Is that how you like it word, Brandon? >> Uh yes, sir. So, my understanding the applicant is actually asked to extend it for 30 days. I think uh Aaron is in favor of that. So, yes, motion to extend. >> All right. So Aaron will just give us a little description and why we're doing the extension. >> Yes. Thank you, mayor. Aaron Venoy, director of uh planning development services. Uh we are asking to table this item until October the 21st so that we can work with the applicant to get um some performance agreement items worked

[0:58:13] out so that we can bring forward a united uh presentation to you guys of what the long-term impacts of of this project would be. Um both sides want to work together. Um and so we want to make sure that we're bringing together something that is viable for the city council to approve for this community. >> Cool. With that, I'll look for a motion. >> I'll make the motion. >> I got extend for 30. >> I got first from Tommy Heert. I have a second Karen Hessie Smith. Any public comment, Heather? Anybody sign up? Rocky, do you want to make public comment? Rocky Templan. >> Morning, Rocket Templan, single member, District 6. Uh, I think that'd be a great idea to postpone this for 30 days so they could run some numbers and try to figure out where we stand going forward. Thank you. >> All right. Thank you for the words of wisdom, Rocky. Is there any more public comment? >> No. >> With that spoken, we'll look to take a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Motion carries 70. We'll move on to item C. Consider modification of an approved tax increment reinvestment zone incentive funding a north tiers project located at 216 West 5th totaling $44,63.14 to add paving and safety features on site for gymnasium. Excuse me. This will vary the tier policy to allow for prior to the letter to proceed construction items to be included in the funding request. Aaron, you're on. >> Thank you, mayor, city council. Mr. Valenuela, Erin Venoy, director of planning development services. Uh you saw this item about 6 to 8 weeks ago uh for a a TIE approval. It's coming forward with a modification and as the mayor just read, it's really to change our policy for this project only, not our ongoing policies, but this project

[1:00:17] only to allow uh a reimbursement for items that have already been constructed before we had an agreement in place. Um, I'll go through the case real quickly. Again, you can see the this are the original slides where the original amount was uh the 75,000. Now, we've actually got real cost of what it cost them to put in. And so, that's the $44,000 that's in in front of you. Uh, currently, the facility is here. They have done their paving in this area. We have worked through an agreement about paving back there that did not require it because there were some concerns of doing some improvements back there may change the value of that property for the actual property owner who these folks are just having agreement with. And so we they did some um improvements to stabilize the the base and things like that. So this is in district 3, Mr. Harry Thomas uh downtown neighborhood and uh the site uh improvements uh still say the sames and the ADA items. So this project has been a challenge for them. They're out of town uh folks that are trying to bring a a business here. They're working with things. Um they're that should be first contractor did uh work without uh permits uh which kind of complicated the project. Kind of put them behind. they were they had some good faith in what was going on and then they found out that not everything was as it should have been and so that's been challenging. Um but also with the analysis they are repurposing a warehouse building and introducing a different business model this area which really is helping the area start to think about redevelopment over time. Um, as we all know, uh, every time you have a delay, development costs continue to rise, uh, for not just our community, but all community, but business owners, and they are trying to urgently meet some deadlines so they can keep their business and operations going here. Um, tiers funds, while restricted um, in area use and availability, tend to be challenging for projects that have urgency because we do have that you can't get started until everything gets done. And so, we're looking at that as a

[1:02:19] committee to see what can be appropriate for that. But again, this case here is to modify the policy to allow those improvements that have taken place. Again, you can see their site plan. While they do have parking back there, it is not paved because they did not want to improve that pol that uh pavement back there, which we agreed to as city staff. They do have it as improved parking. Uh so we're very excited about that. They do have the paving and the marking. They did do some safety railing uh along there. Uh so they've done a very good job of what they've done. Um they they have been very urgently trying to move this forward. Uh the applicants are here today. I don't think they were able to make it all the way from Odessa in time to sign up to speak, but they are here in the audience today. Um but staff does recommend the approval of moving forward with the policy amendment for this project only and awarding the $44,63.14 to the property owners at 216. Um previously the city council did approve the 75,000 in private incentives. We will still get the the contract done. Uh our staff has got that contract ready to be routed through. Uh and we will move forward as quickly as we can to move that forward if that's uh council's desire. With that, I'll take any questions. >> Aaron, I just want to commend you for doing a good job. I realize that the the process and the timing, people not understanding when they can proceed and move forward with the approval versus some things that are signed, but I think planning did a wonderful job of making a common sense decision of, hey, everything was done here in good faith. While this is a one time and one time only, it sure helps everybody out, moves everything forward, and I I appreciate what you've done with that. With that, I'll open it up for any questions for council. very >> so you know I don't want to penalize anybody for not following the rules but how do we get in front of this is not the first time this has ever happened since I got on council when when people look at tears >> it's in the contract is that correct >> it is and I I will say this first is my direct responsibility to make sure that

[1:04:24] applicants know the steps of the process so when they come to apply that they need to know what those steps are and that they need to understand that they shouldn't get started with certain things. That's our current policies today. So, that's my responsibility to make sure that those staff uh not just our staff, but the actual application applicants know that. Um I would say in in this case, I would say I probably didn't communicate that well enough to them to make sure they knew that. They had a couple of different uh parties that were helping them with the applications. um we thought it was communicated and it may not have been communicated as clearly enough. At the same time, this project has been going on for some time and they're trying to get it moving forward. And so I I realize that's that's something. So I take that on as my responsibility to make sure that our applicants are informed completely about what the rules are. >> Well, it's not the first time since I've been on council that I had to have a conversation with the owners of a property because they started before So, I understand that and I'll reiterate what mayor said. Appreciate the staff working to get this done. It's it's something that needs to be done improvement for that particular piece of property. I just want to get ahead of the curve on >> future stuff. >> Yes, sir. Recommendation that we approve the staff recommendation. >> Thank you. and we are working in through our committee to redo the policies to make them more simplified and to make sure that that is an area that's highlighted forward for applicants to know that. So, thank you. >> Here, we've I've got a motion on the floor from Harry, but Patrick has a question. >> Yes, real quick. Um, on this, I think, correct me if I'm wrong, they had I mean, it was kind of approved verbally what they were doing, etc. before the work was actually done, right? It just hadn't been through all the the legal process of it. >> Correct. There's there's a process that you have to get a letter to proceed before you can actually start doing the work. They did get approval through city council for the project and the funding.

[1:06:26] Um they had a contractor waiting and and it got started. Um I mean they they were again urgency trying to get the project moving forward. >> Right. So I think this is a little different and like like it's been mentioned. I mean it was all in good faith. This is a little different I think than somebody just going and doing it and then kind of retroactively. and I'm part of the committee on the tiers and that's something that um we're trying to look for. Everybody wants business to run a little faster in St. Angelo. So, one of the ways is if we can get things approved a little faster and then shows of good faith and things like that. So, I think this is uh almost a test case in how we're going the right direction. Um and hopefully can can make it smoother for businesses going forward. >> Patrick, do you want to second? >> I second. Have a first from Harry and a second. Any more questions? Any public comment? Awesome. With that, we'll take a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? With that, item C passes 70. Item D, first reading, and public hearing of RO25-03, a request to abandon the alleyway that goes through the middle of the lot and portion the rideway along Vec Street at 528 VEC Street. Presentation by Aaron Venoy. Thank you, uh, mayor, city council. Um, Aaron Venoy, director of planning, development services. This is a little cleanup for a property owner, uh, that lives here on 528 VEC Street. His structure is there. You can see that he has actually some structures right there. That's an alleyway that was platted many, many years ago. Has never been used, does not have city utilities. Uh, and so this project came forward to our planning commission. This is in district 3, Mr. Harry Thomas, just on the edge of the Pauland neighborhood. It is RS1 single uh family zoning. It is vision with transitional and that is mainly because there's a railroad that kind of comes through here or the railroad comes through there and it is a request of abandonment of some rideway uh so the property owner can absorb that rideway into their property. The area is about 1300 uh square feet of

[1:08:30] a platted alleyway and about 13 or 1400 square ft of the ride ofway in the front of the property. You can see right here uh at the front of the property, there's a whole lot of area that um we have as rideway that we as the city do not need. There's no utilities in that area. And so for them to have a little bit larger front yard, they're going to basically scoot that line to the south. Um no portion of the abandonment has been improved or used for access. There are no city services within the area of the request and the abandonment does not appear to affect any of the traffic patterns in the area. With that, um staff recommends approval with the three conditions. Um planning commission did recommend approval for this project as well. Um there are just simple things that they actually heard the plat yesterday and able to move this project forward. My phone's vibrating. Excuse me. So with that, I will be happy to answer any questions. >> Council, any questions? I have no questions, but I'll make a motion to approve as presented. >> With no questions, I have a first from Harry Thomas. I have a second from Karen Hessie Smith. Any public comment? >> All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? With that item carry 70. >> We'll move into item E. First reading and public hearing of RO25-02 request to abandon alleyway north of the intersection of East 47th Street and Crockett Street and abandon the dedication portion of Bonum Street between 48th and 47th. Aaron, you're on again. >> Thank you. >> Your phone's off. >> Yes, sir. >> I know it's the first time you've been here. >> It is. >> You and Michael Dang, was your phone ringing a while ago? We talked calling you out. This is another abandonment of an alleyway and an actual street. Uh you can see here this is 47th running along here. This is Crockett going north and south here. You can see that our street 47th Street kind of does uh run across uh some of their private property. And

[1:10:33] so this is the first step to try to uh resolve some of that. The property owner here owns both of those lots. They want to make that into one lot to build a single family house. The property owner here owns those two lots as well as these first lots there. And so they're going to make that into one lot and one lot there. So this abandonment does help both of those property owners. Um this is in the Lake View area, District 2, Mr. Joe Self. It is RS1 um zoning. The vision is neighborhood and it is again the request to remove the alleyway and the street from being a public rideway into their properties being private. So it is quite a large area. Um 26,000 ft. So that's a lot of area between the alleyway and the roadway. It is unimproved and does not have any utility services uh in those areas and currently does not affect the traffic patterns or anything like that because you can see 48th Street here is unimproved as well. And as you go a few more blocks to the north, then you finally get to Lake View Heroes Drive. So this is an area of infill. Um and so this is one step for them to kind of infill those areas to the south. We've got a process that's going to help the properties to the north as well. This abandonment uh did go to planning commission with their recommended approval. Staff does recommend approval and the same three conditions that we have on all of our rightway abandonments. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Joe, anybody have any questions? >> I got a first from Joseph, a second from Harry Thomas. Any public comment, Heather? >> None. >> With none, we'll take a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? >> Item E passes. 70 F. First reading and public hearing of Z25-20, a request to reszone from the single family residential zoning district to low-rise multif family residential zoning district for the properties located at 611 North Jackson and 610 North Van

[1:12:36] Burren. Aaron, you're on. >> Thank you again, Mayor. This is a reasonzoning uh for two small lots uh one at 610 North Van Burn and one at 611 um North Jackson. You can see them right here on our maps right AC right on the access road as well. Um and you can see that this area was cut across when Houston Hart came through here. It did modify a number of those lots. You can even see the one behind them that's just a sliver back there. So this is again very small lots. It's a request to reszone from RS1 to RM1, which allows a housing structure type that would actually fit on the lot and allows the right setbacks for that housing structure type. This is in district 4, Mr. Patrick Healey, and it is in the central neighborhood and the vision plan is neighborhood for this area. So, you can see the vision plan there is neighborhood. So, this area is continue to be neighborhood. Again, on the right side, you can see that it is RS1 zoning. There is one spot that's got some RS2 zoning. These are the um plans that they plan to do. This is the one on Van Beern. Obviously, it's a zero lot line house that the zero lot line will be here along the ride ofway. This is texttop ride ofway, but it is a very large ride ofway that they have. And you can see with that curve and angle there onto Van Beern, there was a concern with staff at first of all, all right, well, how are you going to access it? Well, their proposal is to actually access it through the alleyway here. Uh, which makes a lot more sense um for access instead of trying to access off of that curve right there. It does meet the minimum setbacks for front yard as well as backyard as well as this sideyard on this side with the zone change. Same thing with the uh lot behind. It's slightly larger. You can see they have slightly more um front yard there. The ride ofway kind of tapers here towards the front, but again, a zero lot line house where they have access off the back. Their sideyards uh slightly bigger just because they're able to move it over. This house sizes are very

[1:14:39] comparable to the other houses in the area. Um they're looking at around 1,200 to,300 ft². Uh so something that could still be very affordable with the small lot size. These lots have been unimproved for for many decades and this actually puts a viable structure that starts making these what we would call producible lots uh in our in our infill uh projects through our community. We did send out notices. We did have some opposition. There were two oppositions. One that came in before um the the the slides were made and then one that came in after. Uh the comments were and even at the comments at planning commission were that they really didn't want additional rent houses and they really wanted something that was more what they would consider single family. Well, this is a RM1 is a single family structure type that they're looking at um that couldn't really do small multif family there. There's just not enough room, but it does make those two lots viable. >> Did somebody explain that to the planning commission so they understood that when they left? >> Yes. Okay. So, uh, staff went through the rationale. Again, it meets the development pattern of the area. Uh, it is compatible and a zone change is a much more preferable thing than a a variance to the zoning ordinance. And so, this really actually solves that problem. So, staff does recommend approval from the reszone from R uh from the RS1 single family residential to the low-rise multif family residential at 610 North Van Beern and 611 North Jackson. Planning Commission did recommend approval with this with a 50-0 vote in their August meeting. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. >> I'll start off Aaron. My question is with this location, does it fall into any of the overlays, the cultural district or I know that runs down across central and goes I don't know how far >> it does not reach this area. the design districts does not I believe it is in the open structure overlay which is the carport overlay as we commonly call it >> but that would be the only overlay that it may be a part of >> I I would make sure the developer is certainly aware of that as it moves

[1:16:42] forward with that I'll tee this off to you Patrick this one's in your district >> uh I don't have too much to say on it I mean it utilizes properties that haven't been used so that's always a good thing for the city and hopefully provides some affordable housing for families so it's a win-win in my my book. I'm motion to approve. >> Second. >> I have a first from Patrick and a second from Tommy Heert. Any public comment, Heather? >> With none, we'll look for a vote. All in favor say I. >> Any opposed? >> Item passes 70. With that, we'll move into close session. Executive session under the provision of government code five, open government ethics, subtitle A, open government, chapter 551, open meetings, subchapter D, exceptions to requirements to that meetings be open under the following sections. A, section 551072, deliberations about real property regarding 70 East 43. Section B 551087 business prospect negotiations regarding one project falcon project Phoenix project hyperspace project gateway project looking glass. Item C, section 551071, consultation with attorney regarding possible action authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute documents necessary to allow incumbrance of Skylines leaseold estate interest in the lease of city airport property commonly known as 8926 Hangar Road, San Angelo, Texas. With that, we're going to move into close session with agenda item 8, followup and administrative issues. A consider items discussed in executive session if needed. We need to get a statement. Mr. Heert, >> I will make a motion to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute documents necessary to allow incumbrance of Skylines leasehold estate interest in the lease of city airport property, commonly known as 8926 Hangar Road, St. Angelo, Texas. >> I need a second.

[1:18:44] >> A second by Joe Self. With no public comment, all those in favor say I. I >> item A for that passes 6. Item B considering approving various board nominations design and historic re review commission Luke Bra SMD1 to a second term ending September 2027. Also Fort Koncho Museum Board Donald Barnhart mayor to a third term and Tracy Simpson mayor to a second term both ending January 2027. on the public art commission. Gail Steelwell, mayor, to a first full term ending April of 2027 and tax increment reinvestment zone Trey Holmes SMD3 to a second term ending July 2027. Can I have a motion? >> Motion. I >> have a first from Karen. >> Second. >> And I got a second from Joe and Mary. >> We'll say that. All in favor say I. >> I. Any opposed? with no opposed. B for appointments passes 6. Announcements and considerations of future agenda items. Does anybody have anything they want to cover? >> Move we adjourn. >> Got a first. >> A second from Joe Cell. All those in favor say I. I. >> Nice job.

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