San Angelo City Council 6-2-20

[0:00:00] good morning everyone and welcome to our regular City Council meeting on the 2nd of June 2020 it's hard to believe we're in June but here we are we have established that we have farm as every city council member is present today so with that we will move into our prayer for the morning and we have amen good morning a mayor and members of the City Council I'm happy to be here again with you and let's pray father in heaven in the name of Jesus we thank you for this day we thank you for this opportunity to come before your presence one more time to seek your face and your counsel your word says blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord and so father we bow before you in recognition of that and father right now our nation is going through a turmoil of protesting and violence in the wake of the death of George Floyd and father we ask you in Jesus's name Lord first surround that family and Lord heal our nation father deliver us from violence and from all manner of ungodliness I pray for the City Council here in San Angelo that you guide them and lead them to do and conduct the business of the city in a way that will glorify you and be a blessing to all of the residents and those who work in this city father we thank you for the leadership of the city we thank you for our department heads and we thank you for our city manager and our city attorney and the mayor and all of those that are in governmental leadership but father we ask you to help us in San Angelo to be a shining example to the rest of the

[0:02:04] nation in the world on how to handle crisis like this we ask you in Jesus's name touch each in every one of us to be a light into this dark world we asked this in Jesus's name and for your name's sake amen and amen god bless you man with that we will move into public comment and I have several comments that I would like to make this morning so I will start with the father as mayor I want to acknowledge and at the same time thank those who participated in the peaceful protest that was held on Sunday we cannot accept what happened to George - George Floyd and others before him as okay we must believe strongly in the First Amendment which allows for our freedom of speech but we must also believe in the law we must stand up to the wrongs that led to George Floyd's and others death their deaths are not okay we must be proactive as a city we must show unity solidarity in our approach to all citizens I believe Chief Frank Carter and his assistant pleat cheese and other officers are leading a force that would never allow for behavior unbecoming to a fellow citizen regardless of their race we must demonstrate not an occasional protest banana but in our day-to-day management we live in a city that will not accept that aggressive level of behavior towards anyone regardless of their race their sex or their age we cannot tolerate unreasonable force towards anyone

[0:04:05] we must respect every single person's price I want to make sure we never have a situation that leads to extremely property damage and persons being hurt in protests of persons unacceptable hate behavior that led to the death of a human being we must accept that even in our community racism exact exist but we also must use our individual voices to make sure that we speak up and speak out about unlikely behavior towards individuals and we may do this by getting to better know on a personal level each of our officers they have districts and they have areas and they have presence in our neighborhoods the closer our relationships are with our police force the more we can be assured that all persons have the same rights but also realizing we must be law-abiding citizens tonight at 7:00 p.m. we will be holding a prayer vigil at the police station we invite the community to join us as we unite to pray for our community and all communities who have been impacted by the death of George Floyd and others and her tolerated in other cities that have had to tolerate rights and loss of property and businesses as reaction to this unacceptable death let tonight just be the beginning of addressing in every aspect the fair treatment of every citizen we have to acknowledge racism exist in our community but we all must take personal responsibility and use our voices to ensure that all citizens feel they are treated fairly in this community thank you my next public comment is the following as it relates

[0:06:10] to our cable providers in this city over the past year I have received as well as many of our City Council members have received complaints about the service and quality we are receiving from our primary cable providers I want to make clear that the city does not pick or choose where the cable providers are in this city cable providers are private or publicly traded companies and choose to offer cable and other services to the citizens of this city the city only receives franchise fees for the use of the city's right of way that being said as a community we must have a cable provider that supports the needs of this community over the past few weeks as we have had to do more meetings on Internet and as our school students have needed to have access to cable the need for a reliable provider has become even more important we cannot have strong economic growth if we don't have reliable community neck tivity I'm asking for you the citizens to please send us letters about your quality or unreliability and lack of customer service please send those letters to the attention of Michael Dane at 72 West College Avenue San Angelo Texas 75903 we will collect all these letters and send them to our representatives as well as an FCC we the city of San Angelo and its citizens deserve better cable providers and I'm willing to fight hard to get quality reliability and better customer service the next thing I want to talk about is I know we've had several

[0:08:13] citizens who have commented on perhaps the need to reduce the number of employees at City Hall and I want to make sure that all citizens understand the following we are not looking to make huge cuts and just start eliminating people from the city staff but what we will be doing is looking at those who retire perhaps not refilling their position not putting as well as not feeling current job openings Governor Adam last week announced to all of his agencies that they must reduce their areas by 5 percent and that means that we all have to take a look at our budgets and I know that today our city manager Daniel Valenzuela has aggressively looked at all the areas where we can reduce cost expenses as well as the number of employees as long as not addressing those employee issues hurts our services provided to our citizens so we're not looking to fire people unless their performance would lead to that but we are looking to be as cost efficiency efficient as we possibly can as we know that our citizens deserve great services but they also need to know that we do not want to have to raise our property tax rate that would not be wise on our parts of what we do have to do is to take a look at every possible potential savings that we can make but we are not looking to do a random start to fire people this is not our approach as well that that's at this last meeting that we had the city has been in the black every year that is our goal to make sure that we do provide efficient so thank you for that as well but we will be in the black even this year I can tell you this right

[0:10:17] now that my stamina so we're all working on ensuring that those expenditures aren't coming back to manage treatments are asked when we have the drop in revenues will be doing the same next year to make sure that we do budget in a very biscuity responsible manner to make sure those expenditures are N or below police thank you for ready to come in but we do want to make sure that we do respond to it and we want to make sure that we do keep providing services that we provide and that those are some purposes really don't drop off I can tell you right now that with a hiring freeze at this point we do anticipate that fun of you jobs well actually going for this all next year and will be actually timing and looking at how next year actually does revenue wise to determine if some of those positions actually pepper right now thank you for that clip there we are we do do it very responsibly sure our students think that we will be in the bike into this fiscal year at next week's four years well thank you my last public comment today is about our open 19 situation code 19 is still in this community the number of cases continues to rise and in fact we've had more positive cases over the past few days then we have experienced earlier over the past two days we've announced ten new cases so code 19 has not gone away we are experiencing more community spread which creates the numbers rising with 10 new cases of the past few days we must remember to continue to practice social responsibility social distancing and social discipline we need to wear masks we must wash our hands frequently congregating is not acceptable and I worry as of yesterday we've opened up many of our parks camping areas and I

[0:12:23] don't want to find that because of that relaxing that we end up with congregating and continually growing number of : 19 cases it truly is up to each of us to take personal responsibility for our behavior for our actions and for our commitment to ensure the health and safety of all of the citizens in this city thank you we will now move into the consent agenda may I ask each city council member if there's anything from the consent agenda that you would like to the regular agenda yes ma'am get my slides up here for you okay so we're talking about the hotel tax budget and I am asking for action as far as approving a drop so that we can bring

[0:14:26] that back with our final budget in September so what we're proposing here is for our two largest partner Civic events and CVB we're kind of proposing their format in the same way and so the Civic events fund they're projecting a savings and the current year that they could cut expenditures of about fifty five thousand dollars so it asked that they could carry that over into next year and use that savings offset expenses in FY 2021 decrease the amount of hotel tax that we would need to transfer to them so they are proposing to cut revenue next year by one hundred and eighty three thousand dollars four hundred thousand of that would be from projected decreases to their revenues other than hotel tax which includes their venue revenues interest leases those types of things that is a 20% reduction to their regular other revenue budget and then addition we would propose an eighty-two thousand dollar decrease from hotel tax revenue so to show you what that looks like on paper this is what you see every year on our budget workshops again that decreased Hotel tax eighty-two thousand dollars and decreasing the facility used to be which as you recall is very strict a restricted revenue source of $18,000 and then a decrease in other revenues of $82,000 or a total decrease to their revenue budget of 183 thousand dollars and then showing that projected views of savings of $55,000 they haven't available amount available for their expenditure budget of 128 thousand dollars so they cut their personnel budget by almost $11,000 and then operations and maintenance by ninety nine thousand dollars for a total cut to their expenditure budget of one hundred and nine thousand dollars and then of course again that restricted revenue source the decrease of eighteen and a half with that we have any questions on that side we'll move on to the next

[0:16:30] which is the CVP the Convention and Visitor's Bureau they are projecting savings from the current year of two hundred thousand dollars again we would ask that they be able to carry that over and use it offset expenses in 2021 and they are cutting their revenue next year by two hundred forty six thousand almost two hundred forty-seven thousand dollars and just show you that on our table again the cut to hotel tax of two hundred forty seven thousand dollars they used to projected savings of two hundred thousand dollars with a total decrease in their expenditure budget of almost forty seven thousand dollars for mixture so this slide you saw last time again it's just a projection of what we're expecting for the current year which is a fifty percent year-over-year reduction for the remaining months of the year I will say it's for May that we actually did better than that we we had a 43% decrease from the previous year for me and I will point out that May was our biggest month uh she of hotel tax and so that's you know I think we're being conservative and how we're projecting this in that we actually came in a little better than what we had projected so with that we would have a nine and a half percent decrease for the current year over the previous year and then again for next year we're projecting that thirty eight percent year-over-year election for October through March twenty five percent if both through September for a total decrease of 20% in total revenue of just over 1.8 million dollars this is how our Halfin has been distributed for FY 2020 and for F by 2021 you'll notice that there is a new partner down here at the bottom oops pardon me and that is by request and I believe that request was made last year to Daniel during the budget process but we were too far along in the budget process last year to consider it and so

[0:18:34] we thought it was important to bring it up for consideration and the current or the next year budget so with that this is how our hotel occupancy tax looks for the current year compared with what we're projecting for next year we would still have a shortage next year of 114 thousand dollars and again if we were to consider this Manjula Museum of Fine Arts an additional 50 thousand that would of course be an additional $50,000 to that one hundred sixty four thousand dollars so what does that do to our fund balance for FY 2008 can so that we are going to have to make those transfers out of the fund regardless of where hotel tax ends up and so we are projecting currently a decrease in fund balance of almost three hundred eighty thousand dollars and again as I said for next year there even though we cut expenditures everywhere we possibly could we're still projecting out of a little bit of a shortfall of just over a hundred thousand dollars again that does leave balance in a place where it needs to be our goal is $469,000 in fun balance for the 75 days worth of operating expenditures and leaves us 651 thousand which still leaves of some cushion I think it's important to point out that the reason we have a fund balance built up is for a rainy day period like this and so that we have something there to draw on in the case that we need to and with that mayor I just have some options for addressing the shortfall and I'm open to any questions or discussion do I have any questions counsel Harry Thomas single-member district 3 I I think I have I have a question here where a shortfall for fiscal year 20 and projected shortfall for fiscal year 21 I'm just wondering whether or not this is the time to take

[0:20:36] on a new partner for hot tax I think the museum does a great job don't get me wrong and I believe they probably bring people in and put hits and bids but I mean as we're looking at shortfalls here I'm just wondering whether this is the appropriate time to do this this is lane Carter district 5 I'm going to agree with Harry as much as I love the the the museum and Howard Taylor and everything that they do I think this is the wrong time to take on a partner to where we're going to be spending more with a shortfall at this point maybe that maybe if we look at I know they offered it last year to become a partner but maybe we just see what we look like at the end of the year maybe included or do a budget amendment for the end of this year also Tina do we have any projections on if we stay this course what our hot funds will go through another six months with lower rates I think she presented earlier Tina do you want to go back and really review those numbers as you have a projection for the balance of year 420 budget and you also had a projection for the 2021 budget so okay I'm sorry I was thinking that was up to date we projected conservatively for the balance of the fiscal year 29th has performed better than we expected and I think one of the light perspectives one of the greatest things that we can do is to create a reason for people to come to San Angelo may stay in the hotels because if we don't get aggressive about promoting some of our assets hotel rooms would stay empty so the whole idea

[0:22:41] behind the proposals from museum as they bring in the largest amount of out-of-towners to this city whether it's for the on player air event which brings tremendous amount of people here from other states whether it's the ceramic exhibition in contest tremendous amount of out-of-town people come for it so in my perspective what we want to do is to fund those organizations who have the most positive ability to impact hotel rooms because if we do nothing we can be assured that the hotel rooms will remain empty pipe cracks money increases and grows when people stay in our hotels so for me it's about looking at those areas where we know that there's a positive package on occupancy and making sure that they have the revenue to promote and to bring into this city people who will spend money and how we increase sales tax revenue and high tax money and I believe strongly that the museum does that if you've had a negative impact on our fund balance and we were showing some negativity to our objectives five day fund balance and I would say it would not be reasonable to consider it but I think it is reasonable to consider it because we need reasons for people to come to the city of San Angelo and stay in our hotels I'll definitely agree that it's reasonable to consider it another question I have is what was the funding level that they received from sac I think it would be appropriate to let Howard speak at this point I'm the Sakic grants are very specific in terms of funding a particular program so it's

[0:24:47] program funding but Howard unique please allow Howard to speak good morning can you hear me we can't I you say you can hear me yes okay I don't know if you can see me or not but that's okay if you can't see me believe me well you know I want to you know say that I initially came to this idea reluctantly I don't know why but I've been urged for many years by board members members of City Council community leaders to make this appeal and there's I think a good rationale behind it and I think Harry when I heard your comment for example and I know you know that me as a man or a terrific supporter but when you said probably bring people to the community I think one of the challenges the way were funded currently is our story just does not get out there it's hidden you don't really get the data the information and so to some extent we have felt that we would really like to be able to present before city council exactly what we do and how we impact the community because I think it's important to know that because when you look at the hot phones the purpose behind them is the economic well-being of our community when that law was created yes it was essentially about heads and beds the more people that came to a community where they spent the hotels benefited and the city itself benefited overall both the businesses and city government through taxes received and so forth and so that is at the core of what hot funding is about and over the years yes we've gotten good support sometimes very very disappointed and couldn't even understand why our funding was at the level it was last year I think we had about 30 I can't recall I know it was

[0:26:50] down a bit from previous year but the other thing is when you look across the state and in other communities in other states where they have similar funding almost always the museums and major conserving institutions are separate and either get funding directly through their communities or some other agency last year I was a keynote speaker in Midland at the annual event of the cultural affairs council there when the museum was notably absent and I asked about that and they said well that is because they received their funding through the city directly and it's at a much higher level and there's a rationale behind that and I just want to give you a couple of key points of data first of all the hot funding is the reason for the money that's distributed and the first thing is how many heads and beds well museum can't put a precise you know exact number but it's close to 4,000 heads in beds annual no one comes close to that and imagine if that were a convention of 400 people that's like 10 conventions a year we spend over $25,000 a year I have a whole stack of publications here that are national that we get out across America and that is a very significant driver of bringing people to our community this evening at 6:30 we will be doing a national program it will be on YouTube kale St is all being distributed thousands of people across America will be watching that as we announce the very famous artists over 30 Ivan that will be coming to San Angelo this fall so that kind of thing is ongoing another thing is people come to a community whether they come directly for an activity in the arts or they're just passing through the community they're here on business it's the availability of programming well the museum has 4,000 hours of programs that we do a year we are essentially open 7 days a week even

[0:28:52] though our galleries are only open 6 days a week even on the day the Monday that we're closed we invariably have activities going on here and so people who come to this community they have a great variety of choices they can come during the day and we have numerous activities in the evening that go on so they have multiple multiple opportunities that and this is not to be unfair to the other organizations but it's simply not available 4000 hours is almost ten times the number of hours of all the other programming that occurs in the arts and that's significant and so that's a part of our case only a small part of our case of why we think this is important there's another aspect too called community service and although that's not the primary driver of the hot funding it has a great deal to do with how it impacts the community overall how we attract businesses people who want to live here and stay here and I want to make a point right at the very beginning our organization is the most culturally diverse we are very very engaged with this community we are the only arts organization community-based arts organization that's ever had an african-american board president that has had very strong representation from all the communities three Hispanic board presidents you just simply don't find that elsewhere and you find that also in our staffing and in our volunteers and in our exhibitions we continuously do exhibitions that engage the community including minority communities and so that's a very fundamental thing and then the other thing is no other organization can even touch us in this regard and that is that we have almost a hundred different community groups that meet at the museum annually free without cost and that is even included City Council on occasion the National Spelling Bee multiple things that go on Goodfellow events done without charge and so when I kind of kept this off my and and I do have to mention to our education program is unparalleled in America it's the only

[0:30:56] program of its kind that's received a National Museum Service Award in a ceremony at the White House not a perfunctory ceremony we were there for a half a day and it was a major celebration and these are things that are not recognized we don't have our opportunity to come before City Council and really make this case and also we welcome open dialogue and criticism and input about how we engage the community and in this time of challenge the kind of things that are occurring the community is so fundamental to this museum and the final thing I'll say is that in the end the choices you make really have to be about making a better community a better world but also economics is at the core of it and we do spend this enormous amount of money on marketing we are an ambassador to our community by the way we have a major exhibition no other museum in the world has ever had this at the European ambassadors official residence in Washington DC representing San Angelo Texas unparalleled and we hear continuously from people around the country and around the world about that we hire people we have seven full-time and seven full-time equivalents that's 14 people working at the museum on a daily basis Plus over 40 part-time people at the museum and finally I want to say our budget is substantial it's over 1 million seven hundred thousand this year and where does that money come from well I'll tell you what it doesn't come from most of the people in this community and I'll tell you why it does not because we know the data the per capita income in this community sauce everything that we do is free we are very committed to that so we have to work non-stop all through this period I've been working literally seven days a week and into the evening generating funding and resources from around the country coming into this community and being spent here and none of this story has ever gotten out in the way that it should and so

[0:32:58] has been a kind of false equivalency we strongly support all the arts organizations in this community and I don't like to talk about this at a personal level but with the recent Saint angel gives I made 21 gifts to different organizations personally my own board did the same thing supporting other organizations so we're not against anybody in fact I think the arts that we have in this community are extraordinary but we do need to have something that is more appropriate in the way of if we get that's important for the museum or frankly we suffer for the life of that funding and this is not the hugest part of our budget but it really makes a significant difference and so I appreciate this opportunity have tons of down and all kinds of support material and show you the awards we received the marketing that we do and show you where our money comes from and how it impacts the community and so I do thank you for considering this and giving us this opportunity thank you do I have any comments from Council with none are we meeting in motion today to set the draft budget enum yes ma'am with that we would be bringing this back to you one final time when we adopt the annual budget okay do I have a motion there may I clarify whether we are going to include the Museum of Fine Arts in that budget or not the motion okay thank you and we can just keep in mind this is all just drafted so it can come back if it looks like we're trending lower we can amend it close to the budget time absolutely we'll be watching it very closely linked ami Hebert single-member district 1 I'll

[0:35:05] make a motion to approve the draft budget to include the $50,000 for us Museum of Fine Arts Thank You Tommy do I have a second yes Lucy is setting that motion we will take your vote all in favor of approving the draft budget for the loot occupancy tax for our fiscal budget 2021 say aye is there okay Tommy yay Tom Thompson nothing yay Harry yay Lucy okay Billy you're a lame gay and bring the Gunther a gay so the draft budget is passed 7-0 including the $50,000 for Museum of Fine Arts oh sorry I need to back up one minute I did not offer I did not read the one public comment that we got so let me do that now my apologies for that sorry my name is Steve Mohini and I come here as a taxpayer to see you San Angelo I would like to take a second to thank the City Council's where a city staff we award during this time of Eden ominous Argentine job decisions will have to be made still to be able to provide the best services possible charts innocently thank you for that I am specifically commenting today on the agenda item 6a regarding the proposed hot budget was the forecasted revenue feet down is justly your unfortunately threats will have to be made the proposed budget does in fact show cuts for a second act CBP and civic events again I know the tough times report tough decisions to be made so my main question is if we're requiring some organizations to cut as well as your own internal department and maintains an operate but use that pain taxpayer utilize why are you then adding expenses on the other side for example you're cutting civic events hi thanks for by roughly 80 mm and then turning

[0:37:08] around offering fifty thousand to another organization I am in no way saying any organization isn't worthy received quad funds I just don't understand the rationale behind that you saw some and then avoiding others in times like this they would make more financial sense $50,000 to spare to give that $50,000 back to the area's you're petting and look at according to the organization's better times also in times like this I don't understand the rationale behind singling out our organization that already received hot funding for second the main content several years ago was to allocate funds a second let them be the gatekeeper those funds and allocate other smaller groups this takes the burden off city staff and council to monitor several entities and not open a can of forms they have a great application process that determines the recipients of items required by the tax day again I'm in no way questioning enticed I'm impression the added expenses and times like this I do thank you for your time and appreciate the work you guys we've been into this year's budget process thanks again Steve Mohave thank you Steve for that that comment and the time it took to put this together and send it to us it's greatly appreciated with that we will move on to item B which is consider resolution resolution allowing the fire department to accept donations for the purchase of aerial apparatus and equipment which again is the fire truck was a ladder that we discussed in the last City Council meeting and gave the authorities of the city for Brian dime to proceed with the purchasing of that fire truck with ladder so with that do we have the resolution is there resolution so what we are doing is the following and I have Mr John cross on available for us today as well and let me just read the following YoungStar beef and it's 760

[0:39:14] employees managers and cleanup crew are pleased to be able to assist in the purpose of the new ladder fire John Ferguson Angela frydek bargaining which in turn helps all the first responders to protect our city by keeping the vehicle purchase funds from being depleted we are thankful for all our first responders as well as all the nurses doctors who put their lives on the line every day God has blessed Lone Star and its employees with no exposure in this crazy time and the ability to run at full capacity which keeps all our employees fully employed and lets us continued to supply the nation with beef in a very critical time San Angelo has been blessed with very low exposure and that blessing has protected 99.9 percent of our community may we all be thankful for what we have and what we have received Starfy so John May would you like to say a few words please well I think I think that's probably what I had to say we've been blessed in one bless city knowing that their tax revenues will be say difficult over the next period and again it's it's you know a thankfulness to all of our first responders so that you know they they all have the available equipment that they need to take care of our community and take care of her our company out here take care of our employees but take care of everybody and so we're just we're just pretty thankful and just when to pass it along morning mayor council fire chief Bryan done on behalf of the San Angelo Fire Department and the city of San Angelo I'd certainly like to thank Lone Star beef and their employees for the substantial donation that they made to

[0:41:17] the purchases piece of aerial apparatus equipment this piece of equipment is an integral part of stuff for us to protect the citizens of San Angelo so with that I would recommend accepting that donation what I would like to also offer when we know the approximate arrival date of this new track we would like to organize an event at the firestation one of them was accepting this truck and do Abby if you will ribbon-cutting accepting the new trucks of Louisville intend to do an event where citizens and other people may attend the event and thank you for this incredible donation I look forward to the arrival of the truck Billy I think you wanted to say some words please I would um I just wanted to say mayor during this incredibly difficult time in a lot of different areas from mr. cross to see a need within the city of San Angelo and then to work to meet that need because God has blessed his company his employees I think is incredible and I know he's not looking for a lot of recognition or special alkaloids but I do want to extend my personal thanks again to him I spoke with him last week but I just want to say to you mr. cross thank you so much for giving back we we heard mr. Taylor say earlier about San Angelo gives and certainly with all this going on we had more bigger donations than we did last year for San Angelo gives but this instance of mr. cross recognizing that we were going to have some budget shortfalls and him and his

[0:43:22] employees reaching out to the city of San Angelo to ensure that we have good sound as new as we can equipment to protect all of the citizens of San Angelo I just think it's worth mentioning and I say thanks on behalf of myself and and the members of district 6 in which mr. cross Liz and Lone Star beef employees who probably live all over the city we thank you and we thank God that we have citizens in San Angelo who see a need and reach out to meet that need Thank You mayor Thank You Billy with that do I need a motion to accept the resolution as presented and/or this is lame Carter I'll make a motion and also want to say Thank You mr. cross for everything that you do for our community as an employer and assistant and just the heart that you have to be able to do this I appreciate that and I know the citizens appreciate it also Billy DeWitt single member district six seconding the motion I've read it already so I'm a little either behind or ahead on my we need the public comment so my apologies for the input so with that we will take the all in favor receiving the credible donation from mr. John cross star P and the resolution allowing us to do that all in favor opposed motion passes 7 0 it thank you again mr. cross we will be back in touch with you public event to acknowledge you your company and your incredible so thank you god bless you mr. cross we appreciation but have a good night all right we will move into item C which

[0:45:28] is second reading of an ordinance amending the budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1 2019 and ending September 30 of 2020 for grants and capital items of t.nagar on yes ma'am I'm sorry I'm having a little trouble finding my signs Kimberly is going to share the slides for me because for some reason they're not showing up on my screen here mayor this is the second reading as you said of the budget amendment that we brought to you for the last meeting the reason that it is on regular rather than consent as it usually would be because we had a couple of slight changes the first amendment is for the health department to receive Harris funding the amount of just over two hundred and fifty thousand dollars and that has not changed that remains the same is someone moving the slides forward there we go so again this is receiving care is funding for the Health Department and the amount of $250,000 that amount has not changed from the last meeting the next slide is for the bond issue for straight improvements in the amount of seventeen point seven million dollars that has also not changed the next slide is for the lateness or the improvements the amounts here remain the same as at the last meeting however I do want to point out that we have made the decision to account for the lake nasser the

[0:47:30] improvements portion of the six million dollars in a separate fund on its own so that we can be more transparent and readily seeing what monies are coming out of that that allocation and the other change of course is that and on the previous budget amendment we had a request for $250,000 to borrow from next year's budget for the fire truck but as you know we no longer need that so it has been removed from the amendment okay don't have questions from Council on Tina's presentation for these budget amendments for grants of capital items okay with none I will ask for a motion to approve the second reading amending the budget for fiscal year beginning October 1 2019 and September 30 2020 I have that motion Harry Thomas rapist I'll make a motion Gary Thomas made a motion second from Billie single-member district thank you no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye we will now move into item D consider awarding paid back o 1-20 middle of park improvements future best of San Angelo Texas at the amount of $570,000 budgeted for purchase at fiscal year 2020 and authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute all related documents contingent an approval of funding sources so how are you here you're on these morning Baird good morning council members and mr. Valenzuela let me set up my screen here all right can everybody to hear me as

[0:49:40] the mayor said this is to award a bid for a new ramp and amenities over at Middle Country Park and this is a list of basically what we're doing we have an existing boat ramp there this about 30 feet wide we would be doubling it with new 60-foot wide a new ramp with new expanded parking would replace the existing restaurants with new restrooms and include showers which is an amenity for the campers as well and we're gonna have a new lift station and approximately 1,600 feet of a new sewer line the existing bathroom is on a septic system but we're gonna run a new sewer line over to FD Road which is the closest location and this will include a new boat dock this is the where the milk contra park is located for anybody's not familiar with it and this is a site plan of the amenity as you can see the new boat ramp down here there is an existing boat dock on one side we're gonna add another one on the other including handicap parking and parking for products with their boat dogs waiting for them to circle around and back in this is the new bathroom here and you parking for the bathroom as well access is accessible around from the ramps up to the bathroom the total project budget is 1 million in $24,000 we have received a grant from Texas Parks and Wildlife and of one sixty six thousand five hundred dollars so we are additional funding that we are needing is three hundred fifty eight thousand dollars we have two options we option one is to use three hundred fifty eight thousand from the lake nads where the funds allocated to Lake improvements we met with the homeowners association to get their buy-in and make sure they're

[0:51:42] okay with us using those funds as you know those part of those funds were earmarked for lake improvements including boat ramps so we feel like this falls within the scope of those what those funds are supposed to be used for anyway our option to is to use two hundred twenty-eight thousand dollars from the lake newsworthy funds and $130,000 from fund 103 balance so basically either either one of those situations would get us to where we need to be it's all that I have if you have any questions I'd be glad to Angela my project came over three hundred thousand dollars higher than originally expected so can you talk to us about why we thought we could get a project for the six hundred thousand dollar range and it's over a million dollar project yes ma'am that a couple reasons that I can think of number one is that the estimate was an older estimate this project has been ongoing since 2012 and I think the last time that estimate was updated was in was two years ago Carl could probably speak a little more of that that was that was done by staff so that's part of it the other part is just the market today as you know you know you're always talking about the shortage of trades and so all the contractors right now prices are going up they're all busy right now so part of it is just the market as well well when I'm talking to a lot of people in the business what they're saying right now is Labor's chamber commodities are cheaper because of what's happening in the oilfield economy so most people that I talk about building do now because prices are better than they'd been from both and also more available labor today than there was before with

[0:53:46] the oil industry I was going strong some a little confused by that the market would reflect higher commodities I understand numbers much cheaper than it was 60 days ago etc so on the other hand I very much support doing this project would be silly not as a party this approach to what these projects might be positive he has been I agree 10% and the the cost of doing work cost of construction you're right I've heard the same thing here recently because of the law and everything some of that's starting to drop but I'm talking about over the last two years the price is kind of quite a bit now from they were two years ago and the other part like you said it's just the estimate itself it was older and I think the estimate itself was just just missed it to an extent but like you said we we don't want to lose this project we have half a million dollars almost half a million dollars in grant money that we don't make this happen that's gonna hurt our chances for future grants but we definitely want to make this one happen and then use that money to leverage future grants what is what else Oh Tommy you want to comment please yes please Thank You mayor I think some things I'm hearing I don't want to contradict you or a leader one but I'm not sure we have seen the drop yet in prices that we likely will see so I'm not sure we've had that significant decrease in the costs for things related to construction that we likely might see in the next 180

[0:55:52] days or so so I'm not sure that that's entirely accurate also this is something I think we need to consider seriously both mayor you alluded to mr. Torres alluded to that we don't want to hurt our chances for future funding specifically from boat docks with Texas Parks and Wildlife by not you know accepting this grant that they're making available to us so having said that mayor I would make the motion that we accept option 2 for additional funding turned 28,000 from waiting as worthy funds and 130,000 from my fund balance yes may I just ask the question what's the 103 back unbalance Karl are you on that that's so I can speak to that okay Tina the fund 103 is where we track all of our integral intergovernmental funds which are all grant related they balance bills up in there we almost always try to use it for leveraging new grants from a mayor if I can something else yes the $30,000 from fun 103 that budget amendment is already in the process but it requires two readings this grant however has a deadline on it so we want to get this project started as soon as we can so what we would like to do is go ahead and award a three hundred fifty eight thousand for the lake that's where they fund and then as soon as that fund balance goes through its second reading we'll replace that hundred thirty thousand dollars are you good with that yes ma'am that that's and that sounds fine just to get the project moving know that that sounds fine as long as the you know we keep the Leitner's where these

[0:57:55] funds as large as possible for other other projects okay so Tom has made a motion to two things one ultimately will be option two but what we will be doing is using option one for immediate use having the funds and then we will replenish the $130,000 from the fund balance as Max second reading happens but we want to move forward and improve the 3:58 so that we can accept this grant as well as start the project moving forward so that would be the motion and then I would need a second second second by Lucy with no public comment will take your vote so all in favor of this motion please say aye there are none of hose so that motion would pass 7-0 all right we'll move into item e first public hearing an introduction of an ordinance amending the budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1 2019 and ending September 30 of 2024 capital projects and donations and teenager on for this one as well okay Thank You mayor the first budget amendment on this round is for that middle contra boat ramp that you just approved in the amount of $130,000 from funds 103 fund balance the second amendment is for one hundred nine thousand dollars from TCEQ for summer repairs that are being made at the state office building so they are reimbursing for those expenses third is the revenue and expense for the West Texas Water partnership that $318,000 gets us through the end of the calendar year and of course as you know it will be reimbursed by the Development

[0:59:57] Corporation to the water capital fund and finally budgeting for that revenue and expense associated with the donation that was made earlier in the meeting this amount will be accounted for in our restriction funfun six to one and it will only be allowed to be used for the purchase of the fire truck all right do I have questions for Tina from any council member with none do I have a motion to approve this ordinance amending the budget Harry Thomas single-member district 3 I moved to approve the budget as presented Lainhart in a second motion passes Sports Complex to be used to incentivize sports tournaments for the complex grant you're on all right Thank You venire good morning good morning Dana good morning City Council thank you for the opportunity to speak so there are some funds available for sports tournaments that were to be used by Recreation the reason that we have not been able to use those funds is every time that we would try to plan out a tournament with some incentive packages that were this the funds were going to be used for another term would pop up somewhere else and a lot of teams would disagree to that so we would look through some of Arts people the teams that were going to here so we did not use we have not used any of the money that's in that account as of yet we're requesting to use these funds as a direct payment to bringing sports tournaments held by other organizations the reason we're here today okay so an organization such as the one that we're talking about today

[1:02:00] which is you Triple A saying they go to different cities and hold different tournaments they've been here numerous of times they go to many other cities as well so when they do that they normally request from the city certain amount of funds depending on how many teams they break in and we have a breakdown of how that would work with us which I'll be happy to talk about but in that like for the February tournament of this year we provide the city of st. Angelo provided them $8,000 to bring that tournament here and that had 122 teams registered but 117 teams actually showed up to play that we can't so that's what we're asking for is to be able to provide them money to bring a turn here which is what they always request it's a common practice to bring in tournaments such as that and we're hoping that it would be a large tournament they're looking at coming here in July 11th or 12th and that's what we're discussing with them I don't currently they did move the on their web page they did move it to San Angelo for July 11th and 12th and as of right before the meeting we checked it out and there are already 30 teams registered for that and they just changed its to San Angelo on Sunday so we're requesting to be able to use those these funds in the in the complex account to pay them directly to bring in this tournament and then we're also requesting to be able to make any any money that we make from that tournament to us which normally we we do a partnership with Utrillo say when they bring in use baseball terms because they are so large so what we were able to put into our account from the February tournament was twelve thousand four hundred ninety three dollars that's what the city of st. Angela brought in and the seem to be paid them eight thousand dollars to come here and then of course the economic impact was 673 thousand dollars for the tournament with a dreary and 717 teams so it would be a great thing and we're just asking to be able to use that money and then keep what we do make off of that tournament for future tournaments as well okay do I have comments or questions from Council I certainly support being

[1:04:05] able to bring utilize the Texas banks Sports Complex for tournaments you need people in hotel rooms we need money spent in this community and I would think spending money to break it into this city would be a positive may I not take questions Tommy go ahead man I was just going to make a motion to approve the budgeted funds to be used as incentives for the sports tournaments for the complex and was that public comment approved 7-0 with that that concludes our regular agenda for this City Council meeting again I want to apologize to everyone for my reading public comments perhaps at the wrong time frame but I know that every one of the City Council members had copies of those public comments prior to this meeting so it was not that they didn't have it to review think through and decide what to do so with that we are going to move into our closed session the executive session of the provision of government title five a government chapter five five one open meeting such after the acceptance a requirement that meeting we have the following sections a five five 1.07 one consultation with attorney regarding a afford range and to the West Texas what a partnership with that we will move into executive session and I think you all have the information on this so with that we are coming out of closed session and we are going to Tom Thompson is to give us information on an item discussed during closed session yeah I need to make a motion to authorize city manager the city manager

[1:06:09] to negotiate and execute all documents necessary to allow for the sale of 324 acres the Ford Ranch marketed as the Ford ranch farm for no less than 450,000 second second by Lane Carter with no opposing motion passes zero is the only announcement to be made out of executive session so we will now move on to announcements and consideration of future agenda items are there any with none we will I will ask for a motion for adjournment may fire nominate for district 1 move we adjourn second I wouldn't oppose we are adjourned with a 7-0 thank you all so much Thanks

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