San Angelo City Council 1-23-18

[0:00:00] it's 8:30 3:00 in the morning welcome nice to have everybody back here in the audience today we'll start off with our usual prayer we have Cameron Strange here today to lead us in prayer if you'll come forward and he is the missions pastor at Pauline Baptist Church let's pray together father we are thankful God that you love us we're thankful for Jesus who gives us the privilege through his sacrifice to pray and I approach your throne with confidence Lord we just confess God that it's really easy for us to make our own plans and to ask your blessings on that I pray today father that we would we would be able to make plans and decisions father that's based on your will and your desire God it's our desire to honor you and to lift you up and we pray that that would be the case today I pray for all our leaders father the men and women here who make these decisions that we've entrusted as a city to come together father we pray that you would just grant them favor and blessing God we we pray that you'd give them wisdom not it's our hope that and we just as Paul instructed Timothy father we pray that in our conduct and in our speech and our love and our faith and purity father that we would show ourselves examples worthy of your name God as we as we just pray today father we just recognize your greatness and we recognize your love and we return that and love for you god we pray all this through Jesus amen we will now be led and pledged by Conley Carter would you like to come forward Conley like the United States of America and to

[0:02:20] the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all [Applause] we will now go into public comment issues or items that are not on the agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should speak from the podium begin by stating their name and limit remarks to less than three minutes council members may request that a discussed item be placed on a future agenda the council takes public comment on all regular agenda items during the discussion of those items may I also ask if your cell phone is not turned off at this point - please turn your cell phone off any public comment this morning with there not being any public comment we will move into the consent agenda Billy is there anything you'd like to pull off the consent agenda no Layne Tommy no ma'am Tom no ma'am Gary item G I now have a motion to approve the rest of the consent agenda Harry would you like to talk about item

[0:04:28] G please since Ryan's here I got a couple of questions on this one the background information on this particular truck from Lone Star truck group showed that the bid was 146 431 but the front of this on item G says 135 156 I guess and again you know I'm a numbers guy so I got to ask those questions yes sir the difference there is that we did not select all the options that are shown in the specification so we only opted for the base press bit of course at 131 706 plus the warrantees the three warranties that are listening to not to Allison Transmission move to approve is presented thank you very much good morning Sydney how are you today I think two maybe three questions one is if you if we go to where the information is on facility discounts which is one of the questions that we had last time and one of the issues would be who would oversee the any variations from the information as presented here the Civic events information and so I'm assuming that this line that says deviations from this policy must be reviewed and approved by the city's Civic events Advisory Board so we're going to use the city's Civic events advisory board that's a lot to say to approve any changes from what this document represents as well thank you and then let's see the other issue I think that we had and it's nice to get this document clean like this so

[0:06:32] we could really see the changes that were being asked to be made so thank you I know you weren't in charge of that last time so you didn't know what we didn't have and is do I have any other questions or comments from the rest of Council on the documents that's presented in our packet make a very quick comment yes sir by me I want to thank Sydney there were a couple of small items that needed to be corrected on this and over the weekend he took care of that so we had an updated document yesterday morning early so I appreciate that with that do I have a motion Oh Ari had a motion so in a second so all in favor of approving item o public comment all right with that is there any public comment on this item if not we'll take a vote all in favor of proving the changes please say aye any nays no thank you keep doing the great work okay we will now move into the regular agenda and the first item is item a consider awarding our F P in s - o 1 - 1 8 animal adoption services - concho Valley paws in the amount of $60,000 budgeted for purchase fiscal year 2018 with the option to extend for for additional one-year terms and authorizing the city manager or designee to execute any related documents Morgan you're on good morning mayor council thank y'all for your time this morning I wanted to touch on this process and and the successes we've had so far I didn't want to speak to that we we started this

[0:08:37] project last year because we wanted to assign our animal adoptions to a welfare organization to free up city staff to be able to focus on our core function which of course is preventing the spread of disease there this has really freed us out to be fully trained fully staffed and animal control we had the opportunity to be very well-versed in the law and build a very strong case about some high-profile cases you may have seen recently that is entirely due to the fact that we have been freed up to be able to work on those items because that animal adoptions can be a very time-consuming thing so it makes a lot of sense to continue this of course this welfare organizations core function is to match pets with responsible owners and we wanted to continue that through an RFP process so the current contract is with concho Valley pause it was a one-year agreement that expires February 28th there was not an option to renew so we had to go back out for a request for proposal which is what we did late last year so the proposal of course includes updated terms the scope of service is largely unchanged the the programming that we were looking for the services we were hoping to get provided are largely the same from last year to this year of course to match animals with customers provide adoption services to host adoption events off-site as well as at the shelter itself and when we launched this proposal we did post it online as we do with all of our purchasing items we also talked about it with the animal shelter Advisory Committee we also emailed a number of local vendors directly and certified mailed so that everyone would have that opportunity to respond as I mentioned the proposal includes updated terms and what I mean by that is the years of service in the agreement so the term is proposed up one year with four options to renew so this could be as much as a five year agreement the cost that's proposed at this time in the response that we received from Contra of La Paz that was the only response that we received its unchanged at sixty thousand dollars annually which of course is within the

[0:10:39] animal services budget so for that timeline of course we first took it to the animal shelter and fire crew to meet committee in December for them to review the request for proposal to make sure because they they make sure that we're compliant with state law so that would fall into things such as making sure that all of our animals are spayed neutered all of them are microchipped all of them have their rabies vaccinations make sure that we're housing the animals in accordance of the standards of care set forth by the state health code and they did agree that that was happening they Tonto valley paws has developed a full process of how that works and we have a great confidence in that process the very since there were no changes from the animal shelter advisory we did publish that request for a proposal on that Friday December 15th so that meant that responses were due January 5th or almost three weeks to be able to develop those responses the subcommittee met January 17th and of course the subcommittee was made up of myself Bob solace director of neighborhood and Family Services as well as Ryan Smith who's the chairman of the animal shelter Advisory Committee so he did have that representation then of course we're here today as at council consideration our goal for that timeline was to be in advance of this contract expiring February 28th the city would be in very difficult straits if we let this contract lapse just that we don't have the staff to support that any longer as I've mentioned we have filled our Animal Control positions we are focused on animal Disease Control in the shelter as well as outside the shelter it is a full-time job keeping animal control at the correct level many of you all have reached out to me for animal control issues that still need to be addressed and I agree we have a number of neighborhoods where animals are at large constantly we have a number of bite cases that are never reported to us and so we still need to continue to ramp up that service and make sure that we're providing us the level of excellence a standard of service that I would say is appropriate and to do that I very much agree with continuing and adoption services contract like the one before

[0:12:41] you so that's what I've prepared today I didn't want to speak a little bit took about two concho Valley pauses practice they are here of course if there's any questions for the respondent but for their adoption process it's a very involved process meaning that you come to their shelter you come to one of the adoption events you meet an animal that you like you go through a very rigorous application process check references or check landlords are checked to make sure that you are able to have this animal pause schedules the spay neuter surgery we microchip the animal before it leaves the premises so we have an intake of all of that the family is actually considered a foster for paws meaning they don't don't actually own the pet until that spay neuter surgery is complete it is approximately 30 plus days out to get these veterinary appointments because the veterinarians are so backed up with their own service so we do send an email reminder out a week before the surgeries date so that folks know hey remember we told you about this surgery date it's very important that you make your date there is on occasion that someone misses their appointment so we reach out to them at that point pause does and says hey remember this is a very important thing you've got to get your animal in for the spay neuter surgery if someone misses the vet's call pause immediately and says hey so-and-so was supposed to be here by 8:30 they're not here that does happen occasionally we do reschedule it and Riaan ffice eyes that with the families in the in the very rare event that a family fails to comply there's been an excess of a thousand adoption since this contract took place March 1st in the very rare event that a family fails to comply they fail to make their appointment they fail to return calls they fail to do whatever it takes in paws adoption contract it states that that animal reverts back to paws you have to comply with local ordinance you have to comply what's going on as an adopter and there's been about four instances where paws has gone to the family's home and says this is our animal mount now you have to give it back and they do without incident we take those animals back in custody again four out of a thousand adoptions have escalated to that level one did escalate a little further an animal control actually sees the animal with our additional authority under the city and

[0:14:44] so very rare occurrence of that happening but we do take those animals back in custody and it needs even time we have less than a dozen or so animals that are waiting on their spay neuter surgery simply because they were recently adopted and they're just waiting on that surgery date and so that that does happen we also do a reconciliation on on my part meaning that pause is talking to me about those that are outstanding and and and needing their second visit or follow-up appointment we also do a billing reconciliation because of course adopters pay me the city a for that adoption fee we pay for their rabies vaccination through the veterinarians we provide the microchipping service so that's a cost to my department and we pay for the spayed neuter surgery so as I'm getting those Billings in from the veterinarians I'm reconciling it with paws list of out stating pets needing to be spayed neutered so we have a great confidence in the Contra belly paws agreement as a whole it's a daily seamless interaction of the tasks needed at the shelter needed with adoption services and we lean on each other both very heavily and I think that it's a terrific option for the council to consider this time ask for clarification it says the current contract with concho Valley pause expires February 28th 2017 my apologies is 28th so it's 2018 so we need that correction in there yes thank you and then I know that I have received a lot of emails from individuals who believe that the too many pets are being left out or sent out for adoption without the neuter spray and that there is a large volume of cancellations with the veterinarians on those quote foster slash adoption adopted available for adoption pets can you give us any statistics in terms of what the amount of cancellations have occurred with veterinarians the the number of cancellations and reschedules with veterinarians are are a pretty rare

[0:16:47] occurrence it's an occasional item I may defer to pause about how many of those are happening a week the veterinarians may also see there is the unfortunate circumstance that I get a tremendous number of puppies through my facility and in the event that they become ill and don't survive their illness for example with parvo virus we take every effort that they don't contract in our facility but there is an incubation period where they may have it and we don't know it and adopt it out to a family and so in the event that that animal passes away which unfortunately is is pretty frequent those spay neuter appointments are canceled as well and so as far as the the number it's an occasional occurrence it's not a regular occurrence okay so in fact then you would say that there says the city shelter reported a live release rate of 49 percent from 2016 to 2017 as would that be a number that would be correct that sounds about right and that's a good point that you know in our most dire times at the animal shelter the live release rate was anywhere from 10 to 20 percent it was a difficult time meaning that if you did come in to adopt an animal it stayed at the shelter until its spay neuter surgery date which meant that animal welfare groups came in to affirm myself speaking for myself in a prior life when I would come in to pull animals for a foster care for my animal welfare group I would walk the general population and half the facility would already be adopted it would be very limited and what's still left there available for adoption there are folks there taking up our live inventory so to speak is taking up valuable space there waiting for their spay neuter date while other folks are having to be considered for euthanasia and so in that timeframe we were experiencing a live release rate of 10 to 20 percent you saw that in fiscal year 17 I believe where the numbers you're quoting there was a tremendous increase in our live release rate for the month of December 2017 I just permitted presented to the animal shelter Advisory Committee that our live release rate was 70% that's almost two years into the no kill initiative and so what that means to me is this process is working if there were a tremendous number of animals being released to the

[0:18:49] public unaltered I would see that in litters of puppies I would see an increase in my number of intake and I'm not seeing that but I also have this tremendous trust in this this process that we've developed where there's a reconciliation we know who still outstanding for their surgery and who's not so we've got to keep rotating this live inventory quickly out of the shelter to further the no-kill initiative that if it's the intent of the council to consider continue this program I can't keep the animals on the premises until their surgery date because it is so far out and there's no way to move up working with the vets to move up the actual neuter sprayed appointment I will say that we're not afraid to beg for those those appointments we do have a constant communication with the veterinarians that we work with to say this one's in urgent need we've got to move it up or how can we just have some staining appointments with you it's a constant communication to see how those surgery dates as soon as possible but that's still what we're left with is a month out for surgeries quite often so right now you would say the standard for releasing an animal unneutered to someone and their appointment with a vet is 30 days with a 30-day window most most often yes and we don't have the ability to set a standard appointment with these vets so that whenever we release an animal we automatically already have a date I think we filled a hole right right and we do that to some extent for example in August we had a tremendously successful adoption event with the clear the shelter adoption event we had a record number of adoptions in August it was double our normal amount we had three hundred and ninety nine adoptions in the month of August alone and we did have some surgery dates already lined up but the problem arises with a female spy versus a male neuter is a quite different procedure for a veterinarian to undertake a large dog versus a small cat you know they need to know those things for their scheduling it's

[0:20:51] difficult to just block out time and dedicate it to the shelter because then going into September October adoptions may have slowed down a little bit and if they're still holding those surgery dates for us they're losing money at that point so it's a it's a tenuous balance and we plan ahead to them much of the to the most that we can those number of adoptions how would that relate to the same time period the year before in fiscal year 2016 adoptions were about 1600 in fiscal year 17 they approached 1700 they almost certainly would have been more except for the distemper outbreak in April and May that really diminished our capability of adopting out healthy pets I have been told that Waco Texas has a live release rate of about 93 percent if you compare it to us have we looked at what other cities policies procedures and their rate a release rate in terms of spray neuter etc I haven't looked at Waco specifically but I have compared to other cities we're always looking to do better and better and do more and more I think the the biggest the biggest hindrance and our no-kill initiative was we decided to take this on almost two years ago our budget has remained entirely flat understandably so from that from the council for the SteelStacks that we were facing at the time our facility is completely unchanged and our staffing it is unchanged we we don't have more staff and so when you look at facilities like Waco I do know that they have for example outdoor kennel runs so they can hold some animals for longer that's not something that me and my staff are comfortable with with our extreme heat of summer and in the cold winter days that we've had is that better for the animal you could argue it either way and so there's a tremendous investment in the no-kill initiative and whether that comes from private dollars or public dollars it can happen in a variety of ways but it's a continued investment in spay neuter which I do not have we do

[0:22:54] rely heavily on paws for that I do occasionally get donations but to have a steady revenue stream that's invested in spay neuter is the way that you get a live release right when I look at other facilities like us that are achieving a 90 percent live release rate they do have a veterinarian on staff they do have a medical ward they do have vet techs on staff that are daily assessing these animals and keeping them as healthy as possible unfortunately we have animals that are contracting communicable diseases that I have to be forced to consider euthanizing for the rest of the health of the general population these are diseases that you could probably treat if it was your own pet but I don't have the capability for calling them out from the herd so to speak and preventing the rest of the population from getting those illness and so that would be the next step in house would be to have somewhere to isolate animals that have very treatable diseases treat them and then place them up for adoption after the fact that would be a tremendous investment in our facility as well as staffing to be able to implement something like that but that is what I see at other cities who do have that 90% live release rate know at one point we had a vet on duty at the shelter is that something that you feel worked well didn't work well or why did we change that policy I do think that the veterinarian on staff is is key for something like this I think that we had planned on funding you know there's there's two rules of thought that go with a no-kill initiative one you've reduced adoption fees so that you can move pets out very quickly but the funding for the veterinarian was based on you know right now I collect eighty five dollars for the adoption of a dog for example sixty five of that is to pay for the spay/neuter so if we were instead keeping those funds that can fund our own veterinarian right well when you reduce adoption fees I don't have this five dollars and so the funding wasn't there to rehire the veterinarian when he gave us notice I wasn't involved in that process when when that job role turned over but from a finance perspective that's what I was aware of was that we plan to fund it with adoption fees but you reduce adoption fees so you can move

[0:24:58] animals out very quickly you know we had these two warring factions going on do we move the animals out quickly or do we try to make a dollar the most important thing is to get those animals in homes as soon as possible my last question and then I'll let somebody else speak is do you we don't open up the kennels to the public like many other shelters do for people to actually come back and take a look at the animals is there a reason we choose to continue with that policy there's other shelters sure and that's a really good question we started it because for the health and wellness of our animals we were seeing a tremendous spread of disease from one animal to the next that if we had an animal with a slight illness it was passed along to everybody as a family goes through and touches this dog to this dog to this dog I had my doubts about if that was something we needed to continue I will say this when folks come in to adopt from us I get no complaints about well why don't you check out our pets at this kiosk right here online instead of looking at them in the back I get no complaints I do not have any adopters that say I'm leaving because I can't see the pets where they are on a daily basis folks say oh that's what a great idea let me continue that process in addition to that as part of the no-kill initiative is my facility is set up where you have the general population with a hundred and twenty kennels I also have a number of quarantine rooms for those of y'all that have been able to come and have a tour and see my facility I have a quarantine room just for animal health I have a quarantine room for wildlife water house wildlife on the premises any more of a number of quarantine rooms probably half a dozen quarantine rooms what we're winding up doing when those rooms is we're keeping adoptable pets in there as part of the no-kill initiative if I have a very healthy adoptable Chihuahua but I don't have room in general pop for her I'm gonna find a place for her so even if you could go back and walk the general population you still wouldn't see all our adoptable pets so being able to view them in one place online is really the way that you're going to see the animal you're going to ultimately fall in love with having having the access to the back doesn't provide better viewing of the animals in my opinion certainly many animal

[0:27:01] shelters do allow that so how do they manage that a variety of ways for example the city of Abilene their shelter is wide open you can walk the roads you can walk their quarantine rooms you can walk everything but they have a tremendous rate of illness and a not an alive release rate I wouldn't strive for so it works it works in a variety of ways I like animal a and I've looked on the photos and I like animal hey do you then bring animal a to the lobby for me to see this pet one on one correct we have a socialization room and so you would meet that pet at that time for example if even if you have another dog and you want to make sure the two dogs get along you can do that in the socialization room you can bring your whole family up and you may say well I looked at animal a online I thought he was smaller let me look at an animal be now and in and the paws staff and volunteers which I do want to point out this contract states that they're going to provide X number of staff they easily provide double that but due to private funding but so they have a full staff of folks to be able to say how's it going with animal aide you have any questions about her no problem I'll bring out animal be we'll swap it out for you you just wait here in the socialization room will be glad to bring that animal for you where do you put the wild animals we don't bring it wild animals in the facility we house primarily cats dogs and livestock so any wild animals we reach out to the game warden we reach out to a wildlife rehabilitator who's permitted through the state or we relocate them in the field we recently had a wildlife standard operating procedure go to the animal shelter Advisory Committee because we were getting a lot of input from the state about how to do that correctly and so I think the best thing for a raccoon for example is not to bring them in my facility they're a wild animal they deserve to be in their wildlife Natural Area if they're too sick or injured to do that we contact a wildlife rehabilitator in the event that they can't be rehabilitated or at something beyond that individuals needs we do have

[0:29:03] to consider euthanasia at that point keeping a sicker injured wildlife and my facility is not the best thing for the animal in our opinion Thank You Morgan Lane I think you wanted some questions or answers part of it and all my questions were not all of them but portion of my questions were answered through your presentations before we vote on this I know we I've heard the concerns of the spay and neuter rates on adoptions also partial that was answered along with concerns about the open shelter I'd like to explore that maybe have certain days to where they it is open to where the general public can go back there and view it all at once and the kennels you know I we're down to crunch time Alex with the expiration of this contract and we only had one agency to respond to the RFP have we thought about exploring a working relationship between all agencies for a volunteer program that way they would rotate I know I've discussed this in the past before that way 60,000 dollars of the taxpayer money isn't going to an agency to to adopt out the bait the strays that are into the shelter that could potentially help pay for the vet service I'm not sure what that number is what we were paying in the past to have a vet on hand along with to vet techs that way we can kind of work towards that facility that the Mayor was talking about but have we have we discussed that has the board discussed that I guess the first the first question I'll speak to is is the cost the sixty thousand dollar contract fee decock contra value pause is less than what the cost to to fund a veterinarian was to have a veterinarian and to vet techs I think would exceed $200,000 pretty quickly thank you

[0:31:07] and to speak to your to your next question I think we did have a very healthy system of rotating volunteers from multi agencies in and out I think that it had mixed results we had a lot of success with it but we also saw a way to very much streamline it the efficiencies gained by allowing me and my staff to focus on animal control are that I can hand over to animal adoption services and walk away from it it's just on an as-needed basis that the Contra belly paws staff bring something to my attention or vice versa I bring something to their attention if we have an injured animal in the field and we need to seek emergency medical I have one point person to go to for that I need one agency managing my inventory so to speak where they know this is an animal we've already invested in this animal slated for transport in 48 hours we want to make sure that that animal goes there it's been through a long process to get approved for that and so we do have it wide open we have about nine different agencies that are working with concho Valley paws to pull four animals from us we've had in excess of 400 animals pulled and transferred to other rescues in this time frame of this contract and that's the only way to to further this no-kill initiative I can only have a finite number of adoptions that can happen in any given year here and so to be able to have one point person that knows my whole inventory knows the history on them knows who's been medicated who's slated for that just different thing who already has an adoption on him and then we're not subordinate Lee with those folks to be able to say I have a subcontract with Texas cattle dog rescue they come in and look at this cattle dog absolutely I think it's a really good fit for y'all we'll go ahead and do that transfer at this time that is the only way that it allows me and my staff to not manage this contract as a full-time job to be able to manage animal control as a full-time job that's something I feel pretty strongly about that that's working right very well for the tax dollars as the rate of pulling from the shelter from other agencies increased decreased state stable after the contract has been signed a year ago it's increased tremendously because of the number of animals that were able to transport to facilities who

[0:33:10] were us ten years ago they went no-kill to ten years ago they've made a tremendous investment in spay neuter in their community they need the adoptable pet inventory the repositories in town there's there's about nine different agencies pulling out from under the paws umbrella and pauses developed those are green has direct contracts with those folks and works those are those arrangements regularly so if I approach pause and say I've got to move some dogs I don't have enough space or intake his way up they say great let me work on something I've got some contacts already lined up and they do and we have a call to arms so to speak for anybody to come forth and do that I say this is a system that's really working what is our kill rate for the month of December our live release rate was 70% sort kill rate so to speak would be right at 30% and for November the month before that it was 69% so I think that for fiscal year 18 you all will see a tremendous increase in our life released rate of course no kill is defined as a 90% or better live release rate and to be able to get as far as we've gotten again and I'm not I'm not beating the council over the head with this by any means I very much understand the financial situation but just to say that with no increase to our budget with the facility as is which admittedly needs a tremendous amount of improvements and with our staffing as is to be able to get to a 70% live release rate in December is a tremendous thing to be able to brag on for y'all to report back to your citizens most animal shelters kill rate it really runs the gamut it's difficult to say on average because there are a number of very forward-thinking communities who have said I want to invest in our animal shelter this is an important issue for our community make it happen do whatever it takes to get to 90 percent there's also a number of facilities that you'll see us particularly in your smaller communities that say I'm holding the animals for a three-day straight hold and if nobody claims them unfortunately we'll euthanize at that time if you visited for example the animal shelter in in

[0:35:13] sterling city it's a very small facility and and they simply exist to be a lost-and-found service so it really runs the gamut um actually nationally it's 60% kill rate so the 40% really a live relief raid nationally Texas is pretty close to that as well so we're pretty word below a nation and is in Asia so yes Lane you know I'll agree that something needs to be done within this year and since we already had one just one agency respond to the RFP something we're gonna have to you know bridge that gap somehow for the adoptions I will kind of urge staff to look at a collaboration between all nine agencies to get that volunteer rotating schedule maybe set up a subcommittee between those with the head from each one that you can go to as your as your go-to guy to just go to limit how many people you're responding to that way we can free up that $60,000 per year I know that doesn't cover the 200,000 but that would go towards it maybe we can look at how much what we can do to bridge that later on but that's a start so that's what I would probably say that we need to look forward to doing in the future I don't know if everybody's in agreeance or not but that's how I feel area I think he'd like to say something thank you I was not gonna weigh in on this because I spend some time out there with Morgan and the animal shelter and have gone through all the improvements that we've made since July of last year but I will have to say this that $60,000 probably is is well spent so that we can concentrate on getting more officers on the street and getting these pets back into the end of the shelter and making sure that we comply with with the

[0:37:16] ordinances so that we get these pets spayed neutered microchipped and all the shots and get them adopted out now one of the things we talk about is train to train to reach a no-kill or 90% adoptable out is that you've got to remember that we're picking up a lot of rabid animals in this community too that have to be put down I'm talking about foxes and skunks and and all kinds of things that that citizens are trapping and then taking to the shelter that counts as kill we're not talking about typical adoptable pets so when we start talking about animals and it's very very animals and kids are two of those things that are very very passionate people want to work around those things so we want to make sure that that citizens understand that we are better today than we were a year ago we're better today than we were 90 days ago and we are going to get better in 2018 but I think we really need to make sure that unless we have an open-ended budget that Oregon can hire more people out there then we've got to have some help I'm certainly disappointed as Lena said there was only one agency that that bid on this I spent plenty of time a year ago with some of these agencies because they felt like they didn't have that opportunity well they had an opportunity this time I mean I don't understand why they didn't bid but they had that opportunity and quite honestly I'd like to make sure that we have as many pets adopted out regardless of where they're Santangelo or some other community that we transport these animals to but we want to get to that

[0:39:18] particular spot so there's $60,000 I think is well-spent thank you let me ask a question he brought up an a statistic that said that raccoons and foxes and those people are in the kill statistics I would assume our kill statistics are about adoptable animals statistics not all animals no ma'am it's the use of any any time we make a use of the pentobarbital we have to report that as a euthanasia and it does report on our monthly reports and you give us a number to separate those because obviously you have the statistics because you know what went down just dogs and cats if you will versus wild animals plus dogs and cats because I think that's a number that we really want to think about and know about and then the other thing that I would like to see us do is that the problem with an animal shelter is lack of public responsibility towards animals pets etc and I think we need to make sure that we go on a big public information campaign Anthony Wilson wherever you are because really the reason we have an animal shelter and the reason we have the problem is lack of public personal responsibility towards pets and that creates the problem that we have so we need to be more aggressive about public awareness the public because you exist because of the problem of the public not doing their job and their responsibilities so we don't want to keep putting more pressure on you we've got to make people more responsible and aware just like we do on conservation and other issues this needs to become a very big point that we work on and try to put some guilt out there towards animals and taking care of our animals Lane did you have something else I'll

[0:41:20] agree with Harry that the 60,000 is very well spent it's just how it's being spent if there's any other methods that we can explore to free our staff and go out for animal control like I said we're down on crunch time the contract is going to expire we're gonna have to vote on something now to bridge that and within this next year but it's something for us to look on for the future do I have further questions yes please time working what's our capacity its 300 and I mean four that's how many can you know it's a fluid number it's not defined by the state as a specific limit but when you get to 290 pets on the premises I get very nervous and that that that depends very greatly on you know if they were all large breed dogs it's much less than that it's probably a hundred how often do we get close to that number throughout the year at least seven months of the year we're approaching that absolutely it's regular and and at that point you make calls say hey I've got an overload and you make calls to people to come in and we literally ship you know van loads and large loads of dogs out for people to take it to maintain you know our no-kill initiative I think you're doing a wonderful job okay it's a $60,000 well spent it's a matter of also the assets that are coming I've gotten tons of emails and lots of questions from other people with concerns but we have an animal control facility that you know for our population it will never fit anyone's persons concerns my questions how many hours do you spend out there a week every time I go by you're out there so don't tell me how many hours I do I supervise animal services as well as WIC I do a lot to support wig but it's about I'm officing at the shelter doing that supportive wig I'm physically at the WIC office maybe two hours a week but I'm

[0:43:24] working 40 plus hours well I'm not gonna I don't want to be perceived as complaining but for all of them all of my hours are at the shelter I mean anytime I go out there and try by it you're there I think you're doing a wonderful job with the assets you have we talked about some things that be great for the future I'm things we probably need to discuss with Roland as far as development fills a facility that might be a show facility that we could just keep that it's a matter of animal health it's a matter of disease control and all of those things combined I think you're doing an outstanding job we put this bid out we got one person that came in and met the bid with that ax thank you very much for your time thank you you have a list Morgan of those people who are willing to take a van of 30 animals up to Michigan or wherever yes I could provide you all with a list well I don't need it I just want to make sure that you have an ongoing list of obviously one volunteer we have a tremendous support from some very passionate folks who will drop everything on a dime to drive dan about Nebraska at four o'clock in the morning that's it's a tremendous and I make one statement to contra valley pause hey we got to do something and then they put into motion a tremendous appointment of resources that that's something that the city could never duplicate it's not the kind of support that we could ever garner or be able to build it's got to be a 501 C 3 to a 501 C 3 that I see that those relationships are very valuable so we want to also put a call out there for more volunteers with vans that can help us take animals we have the van we just need the time so we just need more volunteers who can come load up a van and take animals where there's some adoptable openings and keep that going because that's the other thing that I think you need tremendous amount of support on and again we're asking the public to help partner with us and you to ensure that we can reduce the kill rate by getting these animals to

[0:45:27] locations where adoptions are viable right yes sir Morgan a few minutes ago the mayor made a point that those gross animal figures included animals which might not be adoptable do you have an idea for for example maybe in December what that would look like if you what those statistics would look like if you only included adoptable animals if I had to guess our live release right at that point would have been in excess of 90% I know at least 200 of the euthanasias that we did in December were feral cats that did not belong to a colony which of course is what we check before we euthanize and that alone much less the wildlife would we would identify those pets as not adoptable unable to return back to a colony or a caregiver and so if you excluded those alone we would be there and that's what I want to make sure that we're looking at and digging into the numbers to make sure that the communication we have makes people better understand what we're doing just as you just explained it it helps better paint a better picture of what's going on out there and I think the public needs to know that and it's an important statistic so please keep those numbers going because that's what we want to talk about yes sir one quick question we haven't really gone down this path Morgan it seems pretty obvious to me based on a couple of things you said the facility needs some help that takes money not today because you may not know if you do you can you can you can state but I would like to see kind of a let's just say a low medium and high some things that we maybe the council could do to help you at the facility in terms of upgrades there may be a very minimal thing that would have an exponential or maybe almost exponential impact on the way it operates for the benefit of the citizens and then maybe a middle ground and the

[0:47:31] gold plates I just you know that any I don't need that in the next week two weeks whatever just you know next sixty days something like that just to give us because obviously we're closer to budget than we were the last meeting so just to give us an idea of what we might be looking at to help you help you do your job better help the public better help the health and safety of the animals better so when you have some time sir just to speak to that point is I couldn't intelligently provide you those figures and so we were able to capture some budgetary savings from last year to hire an engineer that is well versed in these issues to be able to come and tell me the things you're asking for and so we have already had our first visit with that individual and hope to hear back from them soon on what can be phased in what's a big deal what's not a big deal those items thank you do we have any further questions from Council for Morgan if not do I have a motion move to as presented and there's a second second yes thank you do I have public comment at this point in time if I do please come forward to the microphone state your name and your association if there is one and you're on good morning mayor Council Jenny Wilson with concho Valley pause and I just wanted to take the opportunity to let you know how much pause is enjoyed being a part of this tremendous movement in our community as we move towards a no-kill San Angelo it's been something that many of us in the community have dreamed about and wish for for a very long time and to see it start to come into fruition is very encouraging I've been in rescue for nine years and I started rescue when the kill rate in this community was 82% we were challenging Houston wit for one of the highest kill rates in the state of Texas so when I say we started at the very bottom we started at the very bottom I'd like to commend the incredible work that

[0:49:35] Morgan has done and also commend my staff and our volunteers applause because I think that we have done a good job for you in this past year for the $60,000 your investment in this partnership provides for two full-time employees to be at the shelter at all times paws is literally matching that we have at least four people at the shelter throughout the week we do all of the weekend events and the adoptions I believe are very successful by far and large by very special successful overall however there is the occasion when we book out an appointment has been brought to your attention when we booked out an appointment for an adopted pet a month out that owner may forget about that appointment we do our best to remind them there is a second appointment booked if they are not in compliance so we start action on redeeming that animal back into our program for adoption again so we out of the 1,300 adoptions we've done in our calendar year I think we have four outstanding that we're working on so I think the numbers speak to them you know for themselves is how successful this has been we've also been able to as Morgan mentioned purchase a very large transport van and that is what we use to transport these animals from San Angelo to areas in the Midwest all of their rescues that we work with in the Midwest we have physically visited their location to ensure that they are reputable rescues most of them have better'n Ariens on staff so we were able to send in the neighborhood of 400 last year animals to them and this year we're hoping to send about a thousand in that direction or more the transports are driven by our volunteers and we raise money to cover the vetting that those animals required to travel across state lines so it's a constant it's it's a constant flowing evolving program and we're very very proud of that because there is a finite number of adoptions that we can do in this community so getting them out of here and getting them spayed and

[0:51:37] neutered is our priority having said that it is within our strategic plan this year to hire our own veterinarian and if we were able to achieve that which we actually start the interview process this afternoon we hope to come to the city again and say hey we've got a veterinarian how can we utilize this person to further our joint mission which is to reduce this population through spay and neuter so I just kind of wanted to bring you up to date with some of the things that we have and again offer my appreciation to you for all that you do and your support of what we've done this year and I'm always available if there's any questions I've reached out to some of you throughout the year last year just to kind of establish that communications please call me if there's ever any questions or you have concerns because we want to be proactive we want to be successful in this venture thank you very much thank you any further public comment come on wait wait wait to get to the microphone dear from last summer and she was taken to the shelter in minimal medical condition she was a scam and she was euthanized she was not scanned and then they made some excuse about that the address was wrong or whatever you know they didn't call the volunteer fire department I'm very Creek descent selected to address because they would have found her whatever stuff like that but what I would like to see is utilization accountability maybe a program where they could take a picture and a note of every dog that thank you or whatever and I god bless us all as a person has to review all those but I would like that some accountability and I know when they adopted a dog since and uh they said she was fixed she's not fixed you know and that's okay with me because I know how to take care of my dog but I'm here to promote euthanization accountability a photo and a half you know I Drive a 18-wheeler and I got

[0:53:41] people to drop for me when I have some break they take a picture and send me a picture and I know what it is okay just stay focused if you would on and I think that pause is a good thing I don't think that uh whenever paws Gini backed out of the committee meeting last week last year and sat in the audience and wasn't allowed without her to convene the quorum convened because there was a bunch of people there she sent an audience and that the meeting wasn't allowed all those people were there to be heard and then all of a sudden two months later she's back on the board that's the only thing but you know the Highlander I don't even understand how that happened because you got fifty people outside and a board but it's not allowed to convene you know and I think she's got a good heart I love her but when you play games with the system that's not right thank you very much further public comment any more comments from the public if there's no further comments from the public then we will take a vote on the contract as presented awarding pause the contract for 2018 as presented one more question from Morgan before we go our processes and procedures have changed since the euthanasia of mystique ravenously yes sir do I have a motion motion in a second we had public comment we're doing the vote now sorry all in favor of accepting the contract as presented police say aye aye any opposed motion passes item B update on CIP Street improvement projects in preparation for the next round of bond funding and Russell morning everyone all right so I'm here

[0:55:50] to give an update on our capital improvement Street rehab projects and before we before I do that I just want to give everybody kind of a background of how we got to this point in this time in 2016 or January 2016 we developed a 10-year plan to rehabilitate our major arterial and collector streets throughout San Angelo and and how we came up with that was through a detailed study that we had done on all of the city streets that was completed in November of 2015 and through that study we prioritized the streets based on or gave every Street kind of a baseline rating and part of that study we did a you know came up with estimating construction costs for each of the streets to rehabilitate those as well as came up with what we needed to the funding source and the dollars that we needed to do that and how that would be accomplished so we came up with a 10-year plan where every two years we would come to Council for you know SiC 16 million dollar bond fund to focus on those specific streets that we came up with and to you know part of that plan too was you know we came up with kind of our bigger streets that we really needed to focus on and then we kind of you know put in smaller streets too so like our Bell Street you know it's a really big project and our some of our other streets but I'll get into that here in a second so our year one plan included MLK from loop 306 to 29th Street Bell Street you know which is a big street from old Ballinger highway to rio concho college Hills Boulevard from loop 306 to Valley View basically on the outside of the loop Chadbourne street from 67 or the loop to Avenue L which is kind of through our downtown area and Southland

[0:57:56] Boulevard from Sherwood way to that Walmart shree intersection I'm sure most of you all have seen the construction going on there you know em okay what an Bell Street were primarily put in there because or at least and well K was put in there because of a grant that we had associated with that project and we could better utilize those funds you know Bell Street was a bigger project and it you know it was gonna eat up a lot of that 16 initial 16 million dollars College Hills it was more of a smaller project and you know we found that that was going to be our funds were gonna be better utilized by putting you know getting in a smaller project in there and get you know reaching that 16 million dollar threshold and to just give everybody an update as to where we're at with those projects MLK it's approximately 90% completed you know the street is completed but we still have some things like the the sidewalks and traffic signals that we still need to update on that Bell Street we're scheduled to open bids later this month we had originally scheduled to have it open earlier this month but based on some questions that came up from contractors through the bidding process we needed to address those and make some corrections to the plans and needed to add some more time to get in so that they could still have time to review that and get accurate estimates in for that College Hills it's scheduled again next month the actual construction of that southland Boulevard is before you know we did that in conjunction with the Sherwood Way project that takes that head and it's about 95% complete basically all they're lacking on that or you know like striping and some-odd then things like that Chadbourne street through the downtown area is temporarily on hold due to we had a pretty large scope change on that you know we had originally looked at just doing a street

[0:59:58] rehabilitation project on that but we found some grant dollars where we could also improve the pedestrian elements through that area you know make it much more pedestrian friendly and so we're looking at that and working on that kind of reading revamping on that specific project our year 3 plan is which is what we're coming up for and that you know gonna be moving forward what on is going to include noir Chadbourne from from the loop to 43rd Street which will basically complete out the Chadbourne project or the Chadbourne Street being it getting it rehabilitated Glenna and 29th Street from loop 306 and North Bryant it's another very long stretch Sunset Drive from College Hills to foster Road Southwest Boulevard from Rock Brook to twin mountain and Johnson Street from Sherwood way to have a new end and just to update you where we're at on each of those north Chadbourne were approximately 30% complete with the design on that the Glenna and 29th Street project were actually considering the use of the Benedetti machine the repayment machine that we recently purchased and using that to rehabilitate that Street Sunset Drive where about 20 percent complete but we're designing that in-house and you know have a little more control of that and saving some money on on that as well Southwest Boulevard that's actually been broken up into two phases one phase one is from rock broken drive to twin mountain drive kind of the southern portion of Southwest and that design is about 95 percent complete we just have some audience to tie up you know pretty much in the next month or two we'll be able to but that project I'll Ferb in Phase two would be from Rockbrook - all the way you know the rest of it that you know

[1:02:02] extends through the middle of town through loop 306 that portion of that design is about 80% complete Johnson Street there again it's from Sherwood way to Avenue in the design on that is about 20 20 percent complete as well and we're doing that design in-house and if you happen to be driving on Johnson Street yesterday we did actually we were doing some geotechnical investigation on that Street and had some portions of it blocked off throughout the day and so we're moving moving right along on that project looking forward to our next phasing is would be year five the Street Center included in that and that phasing your crystal road from paint rock road to south Chadbourn we're looking at College Hills or the remainder of college hills from luke 306 to Avenue in and that'll be kind of like another Bell Street project you know it'll be very big and take a lot of time and a lot of our bond fund dollars year five is what year that would basically be 20 20 20 all right and then Howard Street from Greenwood Street to pick a Street and Washington Street from towing to Chadbourne currently we're we actually are we've started the process and into you know designing those streets we've really just hit on College Hills Boulevard thus far just because of the size of it and how long it'll take to get that design and get that completed but we'll be looking at bringing that design or bring we're actually looking at working with the consultant on that project just because of the size and the complexity of that project but some of the things that we'll be looking at you know are you know the drainage utilities and actual street improvement you know we're gonna be looking at and we'll go into more detail on the next

[1:04:04] meeting but but I'm looking forward to that project as well all right with that do you all have any questions yes I have a question in the year three Southwest I believe yes Southwest Boulevard is on there I think in year three but in the meantime when there are potholes and things like that do we do routine pothole filling exactly yes and that's you know that's a good point we do you know we still need to maintain these just like you know just like anything you know you keep maintaining until you actually rehab it you know kind of same thing with you know College Hills Boulevard you know I mean it's you know on this on the South portion it's still in pretty good condition and but we do want to maintain that and that's why we did throw that into this funding cycle as well you know just so that it can be maintained and then while we're working on the northern portion of College Hills you know it you know it'll still be maintained in good shape while we do go forward another question I was unable to be here last Thursday at the CIP town-hall meeting I was at a training but did we do any change in the priority update based on that town-hall meeting no I mean we've pretty much kept everything prioritized the way the way we had it initially lined out in our in our in our cycle or our plan and you know but that is the nice thing about this this plan is that it is fluid you know if there are issues that come up or if we do feel like we need to adjust that we can we can do that at any point Russell would you tell tell everyone what the process is if there is a big pothole what they need to do to have addressed okay they're more than welcome

[1:06:08] to contact the engineering depart and our number is six five seven four two zero one they can also contact our operations department as well their operations is actually over Street and bridge or stream bridge department that does the actual you know maintenance and upkeep of the streets and I don't have their number Andy but Shane their number is six five seven four two zero six so Lane do you have a Southwest Boulevard from Rock Brook and that's not addressing that uphill slope right there by McDonald's where we have a lot of drainage issues when we have a big storm coming through are we looking at that great so we are we are looking at that so what we did with the actual design of Southwest was we included not you know not just this this phasing from rock book to twin mountains we went ahead and included the entire stretch of twin mountain our sorry the entire stretch of Southwest and and so we're already designing that we'll have it ready to go once that funding or once it comes into the plan we'll be able to address it at that point you know kind of back to Billie's question about the plan you know we can you know if we need to reprioritize that street with another street we can come back to that and we'll be ready to go you brought up the benedetti machine a minute ago can you give us an update on how well that's working and any issues with it and is it moving forward and to defer that question the shame that's actually under his purview and he's let me ask another question of russell and then you can answer it we keep we talked about work that is being done in-house versus outside and engineering firms as consultants are we going to continue to

[1:08:12] pursue doing more in-house because the expense of using outside engineering firms is very expensive and the value and doing in houses dramatic so I know that's always an issue of staffing an ability of workload but are we doing more in-house now than we would have been doing a year ago or is there a plan to make sure we continue to look at bringing more in-house to reduce the overall cost of engineering as well we do want to make sure that we look at services to kind of balance out and oh yeah brought this up a few months but actually when you first came in yeah Russell well we do want to make sure that we do is we do address it through the through the budget process and actually show how there could be an offset on actually doing the engineering in-house of course we'd have to go through the whole process of hiring more engineers but that is something that we're ready and prepared to discuss doing our early phases of our budget process to make sure that we include that in there as well I think that's a good idea I think the more we can do in-house the more money we can save by doing that and the quality of work you produce and you're right on site for people ask questions or call in so I think it's a very big productive strategy Thank You Shane did you have some information for us on the benedetti machine we've you like got it in got trained and we utilized it we have unfortunately we've had some significant staff shortages in the last 90 to 120 days which has really slowed us down on our progress with a bene Benedetti machine and and moving forward as fast as we would like to and of course as we went through these last cold spells we actually have to have the temperatures at the right levels before we can actually utilize the machine but as we as we're moving forward we are diligently working on our staffing trying to get them back we're going to actually ask the manufacturer of the machine to come back down and and help us train as we're training our new staff

[1:10:14] that we that we're bringing in and getting hired so as we moving into these spring months and we start getting to whether to warm up we really expect a strong strong push with a benedetti machine as we're moving forward so we believe that we are going to be able to make some make some headway and and see some significant improvements in our roads so again had had a small setback that we really weren't expecting when we had when we purchased it last summer but as we're moving forward we believe that we're gonna be able to make some really nice drives moving forward and some of our streets and hopefully the glint of the twenty-ninth as we talked about that when looking at looking at that one really believe that there's some other large major collector streets in town that we can instead of doing a traditional milling overlay that this machine will work on it and save us significant dollars as we move forward Thank You Shane Council do I have further questions or comments you would like to meet somebody probably raise their hand and I didn't see it so Russell when yelled when the plan was initially done everybody up here could ask a question in itself well obviously live in different areas of town so we get different questions about different areas of town so the area of town I live in I get tons of questions on Southwest and College Hills so two questions pretty much the same question it appears that the section he alluded to the College Hills to the southern portion there that y'all getting ready to do is there a reason we didn't consider that northern section sooner than we are it was in the five-year plan but you know there's some pretty rough stuff on there here and and to it you know that you know all of our streets continued to deteriorate based on you know from the original time we came up with a baseline of you know the condition of all of our streets so you know kind of there again you know 16 million dollars only gets us so far and a lot of our considerations

[1:12:18] were based on dollar amounts and you know estimated construction costs so what we tried to do was put those bigger projects in each of those phases and then slip in some of those smaller projects and that's more or less exactly what happened with you know College Hills or the northern part of College Hills from Luke 306 to Avenue in was that you know it just you know we had you know Bell Street obviously we have Southwest we have in all of our streets are in a very bad condition and you know so it's just how it fell through is at that point in time you know based on the condition in 2015 where we put College Hills in the rotation so asking for I was asking for the proverbial friend Lucy long-awaited ok great that road is so if you get frustrated around sitting go right down relocating it's really a nice street but also everywhere we go or where I read it's always bail Street people are really concerned about that Street not being or not even getting started I'm fixing it so the sooner we can get to doing that maybe the people will understand that we are actually doing something about it it's Bell Street gonna happen actually let's make sure that we make that on the 30th so if you want to join me at City Hall you're welcome of course I've heard about this since before I was ever elected to this position but I remind citizens that we're gonna get started on them by the summer what I'm probably gonna hear before the end of the year is how long you gonna do this how long is it going to take to this video yet so I always remind people that it's a three year project and I can guarantee you

[1:14:21] I'll field a lot of phone calls you will too Lucy a lot of phone calls why can't we get it done quicker than that did you have I'm getting very sensitive to seeing people's things so I don't want to offend anybody go go throw this thing up here and I want to take a chance to as Shane a couple questions here right quick when it comes to the pendente machine you have to have a pretty much of a trained crew to operate that correct I mean they're specialized correct how hard is it to keep that correct it's been it's been real hard here lately especially when we we're starting cities old sand sand fracking company or the sand hauler companies coming in they're really taking a lot of my staff so and as soon as I get a get a new truck driver trained they they can get a job for about twenty thousand dollars a year more than what we pay for so and so it's a it's been tough to keep staff and so we're we're constantly moving through and of course the the training is it's it's pretty substantial on that piece of machinery so it's been it's been tough so if that thing can save us money what I say is maybe y'all come back to us or come to Council and Rick and Michael look at this is developing a crew that is specialized with that it maintain them and we have to compensate them appropriately for the job they're doing this so that you can retain them because I feel the problem you have retaining employees and I see it in our roads and I feel it in my truck every time I Drive down them so you may want to take that to staff and look about developing a specialized crew and Tom wants to be trained now do I have any have I ignored anybody has everybody had an opportunity to speak and add to this conversation okay then do I have a motion presentation so you're off the hot seat yes items C consider resolution directing publication of notice of

[1:16:27] intention to issue combination tax and revenue certificates of obligation to provide funds for Street improvement projects and resolving other matters relating to the subject and Tina you're on good morning mayor council mr. Valenzuela I'm Tina jerski director of Finance and we're going to talk now about funding the next round of street improvement projects our proposal today includes issuing not to exceed sixteen point seven million dollars in certificates of obligation to fund the street reconstruction and improvements they'll be amortized over a twenty year period and I want to emphasize that these of these bonds would not increase the tax rate it is achievable with it our existing debt service rate allocation and then we would be coming back to you on March 6 to delegate the pricing officer and we would go out for bids on the rates on March 8 so if you have any questions I'll be happy to answer them the when you say issues new certificates will not increase the interest and sinking property tax rate what do you mean sinking property tax rate the the part of our tax rate that's allocated for debt service seven point three six cents of our seventy seven point six cents of the tax rate so on the spreadsheets that you did for us on this 2018 certificates if you pull up page one and those numbers are up there are they on a slide no ma'am okay so if we take a look at it it says okay so you talked me through this spreadsheet so it says that on the far right on the far I just take

[1:18:32] one line and and start with line eight eight four million nine two seven three nine three four five seven okay and talk me through each line in terms of what that represents that is our taxable value of our price properties for the city and that's what is multiplied times the tax rate to yield our property tax revenue so you're saying to fund this sixteen point five million dollars four point nine of our taxable property tax rate and the taxes on that would be what funds this yes okay nine point three six percent that's allocated for debt service okay so and you go across and it says estimated existing and proposed tax supported D / S debt service I'm assuming D / as me so that's four million eight nine seven seven six one and then you have a $400,000 reduction that is a use of our existing fund balance and our debt service fund so we have about I think it's 1.3 million dollars in available in our fund balance right now and we will use 400,000 of that to front-load the debt to decrease our future obligation so the interest that we would be paying on this 16 point five million dollars over the life of the 20 years would be what I'm at an estimated rate of 3.48% the total interest we would pay would be six point eight million dollars it's at the bottom of that column that says interest so that is this six point eight yes ma'am as I said we'll be going out we go out for bids on that interest rate will do that on March 8 and see who comes back with the lowest interest for that okay and somebody before I move forward with another question does anybody have a question before I continue I just like to move to Peru to move to approve this as presented is

[1:20:40] there any public comment with no public comment we will take a vote all in favor much into my presentation here thank you very much alright d first public hearing an introduction of an ordinance amending the 2017-18 budget for grants donations and capital projects okay so this is a budget amendment that we bring to you and we need council approval for the amendment first we have the settlement for the 2013 sealcoat contract that's from operations they are receiving the settlement amount of $400,000 and we'll budget that two additional sealcoat projects in this current year next we have some revenue from the cell towers that council approved a while back they have received to date $4,500 only to budget that revenue so that they can purchase some new computers for staff next we have rifle resistant body armor grant for the police department and they would like to budget the amount that they have been awarded and of course in a correlating expenditure for those for that body armor next we have property and casualty insurance legal settlement council did approve that legal settlement in executive session on December 12th and so that will be a drawdown of fund balance to make that payment next we have the Kirby Park grain capture project that is a grant I think is a donation actually pardon me that was received for the rain capture project at Kirby Park so they will budget the revenue of $25,000 in our designated revenue fund and a corresponding expenditure next is the adaptive recreation league donation from I'm I believe his name is Alex Vega he's the washer pitching gentleman that comes for our River fest and he didn't donated that amount for the adaptive

[1:22:43] recreation league and finally we have two amendments for cosa DC we will be budgeting revenue when we budgeted revenue for cosa DC initially their sales tax revenue did not correlate to what the city city budgeted on our side so we're going to increase that budget especially now that we're seeing numbers greater than that we feel very comfortable that that's a conservative amount so we'll increase their revenue to match what the city budgeted at the beginning of the year and also we'll budget West Texas water partnership they'll be an increase there too to correspond to what the water department budgeted on their side and they had some an increase in that service and so we're budgeting for that as well I want to talk through those Muncie college side yes it's a huge difference between revenue and expense you want to talk through that and give us a lot of details yes so the first Co CDC atom there is ballot so there's not a whole lot of fluctuation with that one and the second one is on the economic development side two million of that is for Phase two at the industrial park that will be a drawdown of fund balance another one point five million dollars is for a project at Goodfellow that it will also be a drawdown of fund balance and the other items are pretty minimal but that makes up 3.5 million dollars without 3.6 okay thank you do I have questions for Tina from counsel any public comment there's no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor aye any opposed public hearing an introduction of an ordinance amending the 2017 an 18 budget for grants donations and we just did that once to combine right all right so item e update on sales tax revenue sales taxes twelve point four five percent in

[1:24:45] January compared with the same month last year our collections for January one hundred and forty five thousand dollars over our budget for January we're currently over budget for revenue for the year by four hundred twenty nine almost four hundred and thirty thousand dollars I would hesitate to call this a trend yet I'm sure you've seen in our sister cities such as Midland they've been up in the digital double digits in the last several months I'm in the 30s and 40s even and this year they're up about 8% and so like I said it just has to take the college of trend yet we'll just be happy that we're seeing these numbers for now so I would agree with you I was very concerned to see the dramatic difference in Midland and Abilene sales tax particularly Midland because they had been running 30 to 40 percent increases and they're down to less than nine or eight point something so we don't know if those increases were directly related to the summer storm and the dollars attached to that or whether it is an issue relative to the oil and gas industry and the pickup in that industry so I caution us to be conservative not to assume that we're going to continue to have double-digit increases and to continue to be aware that other cities aren't continue with the same trend thank you you're welcome thank you I forgot your chart that you requested this is for December and we have a little bit of a time-lapse and trying to get this information from the state so this is December's number just wanted to show you the difference between last year and this year and where we're seeing the increases so you can see that retail probably increased by the most for this December of 2017 thank you for taking the time and effort to put that together ma'am your gives you a much greater picture thank you okay with that we have follow up an administrative issues so we will may consider approving the following board

[1:26:47] nomination planning Commissioner Conley Brooks - an unexpired term ending January 2020 any announcements or consideration for future agenda items if not do I have oh yes very sorry just want to remind citizens that we will have a town hall meeting on February the 5th this is a date change because of a conflict on next Monday February 5th at st. Mary's at 6:00 p.m. update on the Avenue P drainage issues again 'harry it's supposed to be at st. Mary's Church okay all right anything else from Council Merrill I'll make a motion to adjourn but first this this day has just been off balance the whole time something's happened over here on the right side of the room Brian and Teresa I don't know if I can continue like this or not so they switched places on us and I mean starting off the year like this is just it threw me off balance - you dare we put on the spot who made it was that Tracy was that your request or Brian was at your request neither one of ours it's a request of our public information officer [Laughter] mayor I move we adjourn all in favor aye meeting adjourned

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