San Angelo City Council Strategic Planning Workshop 6-28-21

[0:00:00] morning everyone everyone can hear me i'm sure wow okay so we're going to call this meeting to order the 28th of june at 8 34 a.m and we will open up by saying that if anyone's here for public comment issues or concerns not on the regular agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should speak from the podium address all comments to the dais begin by stating their name and address or single member district number and limit their remarks to less than three minutes we are on and we're going to start with our overview of the planning workshop by daniel okay just a little bit of housekeeping to start off with we do have new equipment if you can tell if you'll push the button when you need to speak you'll see that your microphone will go green that means that your microphone is live if you press it again if it's red it means that it's on silence so again just want to make sure everybody understood that very quickly the overview of the this workshop my portion will be kind of brief basically what we'll be doing it will be starting off with tina discussing the financial update and she'll be going over the revenues and expenditures as we said as we said currently and also the american rescue plan we have some discussion needs to be had specific to that as far as monies will be receiving and how those monies may be distributed we'll move on to the capital improvement priorities tina if you'll notice she has put out for all of you all the capital improvement plan which has all the different projects listed on there so as we get toward the end mostly unfunded mostly actually yeah the majority of those are unfunded but again as we get toward the end of the uh the budget this workshop you can take a look at any of those items to see if there's anything that we may want to re-prioritize or include in the priorities or whatever um so we'll move on to item four uh we'll have staff discuss and give us all an update on this in the top three strategic priorities that we've had actually for the past four years i think this is

[0:02:02] something that city council has realized are very important projects for us and we want to make sure we continue those priorities but again we'll have a little bit further discussion about that here toward the end of this workshop and that's a portion right there item number five is establishing and confirming priorities for 2021 and 2022. moving on to the financial update portion of it really uh it's just really important for us to know that we do have challenges and opportunities before we we start our planning process we do this every year before our budget workshops to kind of form a basis for what it is that we should be planning for what we should be actually financing and investing in where the money should be spent so it's really again imperative that we look at this and and determine what exactly it is that we want to put our monies towards we do have limited resources so we do have different projects that compete against each other so we want to look at those projects that we can leverage uh as a prioritized for the greater benef federal community next item we as i mentioned a while ago the three top priorities that we've had for the past four years has been infrastructure which includes drainage streets and water uh wastewater we'll have some really good updates on that from from shane and allison here in just a little bit uh economic development uh you'll also notice public safety infrastructure and public safety are those items that have caught that do cost city money these are expenditure driven so there's a lot of money that's actually dedicated toward those areas and economic economic development has always been the area where we know that we want to concentrate our efforts to make sure that we can bring in those monies that will help pay for the infrastructure and public safety the goal for the past probably over a decade now has been to leave the property tax rate where it is right now and it's been at 0.776 now for over probably 13 years now so that's something that the city council in the past has always concentrated on hey let's focus on economic development let's build that economic base which will help pay for the for the expenditures that we have upcoming

[0:04:07] and that is just my quick overview of what what you can expect i'll have tina go ahead and come up right now and do her presentation on her section tina yes ma'am okay most of this financial information is pretty self-explanatory so i won't go into detail on what's on the slides but i will say that we did budget at a 98 collection rate for property tax just over 41 million dollars with almost 5 million of that going to debt service and the remainder going to maintenance and operations that represented a 3.9 percent increase in property tax revenue over the preceding year how much was new property versus existing property new improvements were up 58 million dollars and i don't know if we have the existing property number do you have that kimberly so that would be new property valuations we're up 58 million dollars and kimberly will look up the existing properties how much those valuations were up for that year i'll move on and we'll get that number for you mayor yeah do we have it broken out by commerci commercial industrial and residential i'm not in this presentation but we have looked at that recently and so we could get you that information definitely so this is just the chart representing that property tax revenue and the growth entailed there oops pardon me why is there such a big jump in 21 that moved from just under 35 million

[0:06:13] dollars to just over 36 million dollars so it represents a 1 million dollar increase which is that 3.9 percent that i showed you earlier i think it was about one and a quarter million that it was up last year okay sales tax revenue of course we've seen the annual average trending upward as of june we were over budget for revenue by 2.2 million dollars and we did allocate just over 400 000 of that for the jexa payment for the ancillary ancillary charges pardon me leaving an amount available of 1.8 million dollars year-to-date um with our projection at year end we're expecting about 21.3 million dollars with leaving an amount available of just over 2.5 million and we've gotten very far along on negotiating those ancillary expenses that were unforecasted and unplanned i have submitted a request to fema for assistance and they are still reviewing it and we've had some back and forth and i've made some explanations and waiting on a response from them at this point have we reviewed the contract with our company to make sure that as we go forward we're not going to end up with another one of these problems down the road um i have reviewed the contract and these are kind of unexpected charges that were due to the unique situation with the winter storm if we have another situation that comes up like that these charges are written into every energy product and contract that you receive so it would be possible to have these kind of charges again although now that we've had an event like this we kind of anticipate that there's at least a possibility whereas before we didn't okay again charges representing the growth and sales tax revenue showing just over 20 million dollars in fiscal year 20 compared with our projection of 21.3 million dollars for fiscal year 2021. and this chart represents the month over month increases just for a graphic

[0:08:16] picture of that growth and now we'll move on to general fund revenue and expenditures and where we are year to date with those you can see property taxes at 97 percent year-to-date that's what we would expect at this point in time throughout the year we receive most of those payments by the end of january and so by this point in the year we would expect to be pretty close to a hundred percent sales tax at 77 percent compared with um 67 percent of the year having been elapsed as of may 31st just to clarify what you're comparing that with alcohol and bingo tax is at 63 percent for revenue franchise tax at 59 percent and then charges for service and miscellaneous both at 66 percent okay and moving on to expenditures personnel at 66 percent um o m at 64 capital expenditures at 14 and transfers at 67 percent why is capital so low capital would usually in the general fund this line represents technology capital like computers things like that and so it just i guess just departments are not using those funds for the for that purpose this year so far so far yeah thank you what's the projection then because if you're only at 14 now are we going to wake up in three months and find it at 98 percent i mean there has got to be a plan there because that expenditure has been approved through the budget process and the the departments are authorized to use those funds by your end if they need to do so man i believe there's definitely mindfulness because we've been talking about this as well as far as expenditure the uh the covet situation will pass this year i think a lot of the directors from what i've been

[0:10:18] seeing have been more mindful as far as what they should be spending on right now what's most important to spend their money on and that's probably what you're seeing a lot of that out there as far as that reduction i just know if you're only at 14 and you're 75 through the year that if it hasn't been needed probably isn't going to be needed and it's certainly a place to save money unless there's something in there that is oh my gosh we got to do it and let's not just spend it because it's budgeted yeah correct appointments as well is that they're very conservative and they try to wait until the end of the year in case they have an emergency that's unplanned for um so that they have that money available for that emergency if it comes up what would be an example of that a computer crashing you know something like that that you wouldn't expect to happen all right any other questions on this slide okay moving on this is the general fun chart that shows the amount budgeted for property tax sales tax etc and again just pointing out that the amount that we budgeted or the revenue for property tax does not come up to the level of covering the cost of public safety which is what it's intended to do and so we have to depend on other revenue sources to to supplement that service and you'll see that property tax makes up almost 48 of our budget uh followed by sales tax at almost 24 of the revenue budget and then expenses by department public safety makes up 55 public works 13 public services at six percent and then other departmental services at 25 and a half percent and i think that's all i have as far as revenue and expenditures in our report on that so if you have any questions i'll be happy to try to answer those does anyone have a question and we're going to continue with the same standard that we use during regular meetings please ask to be acknowledged if you have a question or comment you'd

[0:12:20] like to make continue okay daniel i believe that takes us to our next agenda item yes ma'am it does so let's go ahead and move on then to um and again i already mentioned this we do have a list of capital improvement priorities we do have that up here at this point we'll get that to that a bit later on what i want to do then is move on to the top three strategic priorities and we'll kick this one off with the first item on there it's going to be drainage uh shane if you want to go and speak about that speak on this topic daniel i think the next slide that we're going to have come up will be the the arpa do you want to skip over that or do you know i tell you what no i'm sorry thank you for reminding me about that i thought it was gonna be part of the presentation anyway so let's go ahead and cover that first and we'll get to shane okay great so we wanted to talk a little bit about the american rescue plan act um most of you are aware that the city will receive 16.6 million dollars from that act we have already received half of that amount just over 8 million dollars we have not yet budgeted it because we waited for this discussion with council to see what your direction would be on budgeting and expending those funds the remaining 50 will be received in one year that's part of the act and part of the plan as it was presented um costs can be incurred by december 31st of 2024 but they must be expended by december 31 of 2026 and there are some limitations on the use uses of that funding and here are the ways that it can be spent for your review and then i think this kind of leads into a good discussion on capital expenditures and and into what shane and allison will present well i know that shane's up next but um i was in a mpo meeting a week ago thursday and one of the big issues that shane brought up is we've got an eight point i think eight million dollar drainage problem on college hills where

[0:14:24] there's no source of funding and as you all know college hills has been one of those streets that we know is high priority so i'm going to start off by saying i think we need to take the 8 million dollars and put it towards shane's college hills drainage problem because he can't get started on the rest of college hills until we take care of that drainage problem so i'm going to recommend that in this conversation we consider taking that eight million dollars and putting it towards what in my mind is one of the biggest priorities we have college hills and can't start it till we solve the drainage problems yes ma'am and drainage is one of the stipulated areas where you can use these funds for infrastructure any comments absolutely second yeah all right i i don't know that we yes would you go back a slide please and through all of the webinars and the training and the reading and research that i've done on the act they are encouraging infrastructure projects are also encouraging collaboration with other entities that have received funding such as the county and so that's another thing that we may consider as we move forward with planning to use the funds i really want to get started on college hills so and i think i don't know anyone on council right now who wouldn't say college hills is the number one priority so unless there's objections from that i suggest that we take a vote to support the how much is that shane dollar wise the actual cost of the project itself is right at eight million dollars i mean just a few pennies shy of eight million uh with by the time we put a ten percent contingency on there it's um right at 8.8 or just just under that and so but the actual project's 8 million we put a 10 contingency it'd be 8.8 million right and we're hoping we don't need the

[0:16:26] contingency but uh because we're doing quite a bit of homework working with our other utilities not just our utilities but all the franchise utilities as well too to try to ensure that we have most of those moved out of the way now of course there's always surprises there always can be surprises but again we feel pretty firm firm in that number right now so what i would recommend is that we at this point make a motion for approval of those demands yes we don't really need emotion since this i know i want to just go through it though and i don't mind if we have emotion because we can still take a motion in support of this even though it's a budget workshop so that you can move forward on it there's no action on this agenda so we would be in risk of violating the open meetings act if we actually take formal action so really just direction is what we're saying all right so let's put it on the next council meeting for firm vote on that so we can discuss it today but the other part of it is is i think that what we also want to do is in anticipation of the remaining funds being received to put that in the general fund for future consideration for projects that we may or may not know what the expenses are at this point in time because we do have until 2024 2026 to make decisions on that money but i want to obligate that money with support from council and we should make a vote on that in the july meeting yes ma'am i can bring that in the form of a budget amendment and typically when we receive notice that we'll receive grant funds we do go ahead and budget for the full amount and we account for that in our intergovernmental fund and so we can go and bring that budget budget amendment for the full amount and with that we will set up a project code for college hills and move that amount into the project and can we clarify one more time that 8 million 8.8 with contingency is just the drainage portion of college hills not the entire project can you say what the entire project is correct uh that is just that is just the drainage and that's just the drainage that's going to go from the loop to the arroyo itself we're still going to have

[0:18:29] issues with flooding at the arroyo itself right we do and of course i can get into this as we move on further into my presentation a little bit when we start talking about drainage and the master drainage plan that we're have going on right now but the total college hills project right now is is going to be kind of that ballpark 24 25 million kind of for the total project plus this 8 million no this this will include that clarify yes this will include that you mean okay correct and it is the next their affair on the list correct and uh with with this uh we're we already we're of course we've been in design the design phase of college hills for going on almost a year now and so we're with this we're going to be at 90 95 design we believe we'll have with this funding source right here we believe that we'll be ready to go to bid on college hills in august very good okay thank you with that shane go ahead into your presentation we got that taken care of i hope that wasn't your first line i hope i didn't ruin your presentation we can still talk about other parts of the drainage thank you tina okay with the just to kind of give you a brief update and we'll make this really quick uh just to kind of go through but uh uh progress for in our in the drainage when we talk about drainage mitigation throughout the city uh the avenue p detention pond project um trying to alleviate and mitigate the the flooding on avenue p we're at about 90 percent uh 85 90 right now they're the groundwater issues over there slowing them down causing some issues but they're actually constructing the actual dam portion of it right now and the concrete and all of that but again still looking at a fall completion date on that project so

[0:20:32] we should be complete hopefully by this fall with that project as well east angelo draw at bell street this was addressed the low water crossing there at east angelo draw and bell street was addressed with the reconstruction of bell street so we have taken great strides on the east angelo draw issue even though there are still quite a few issues along that area but that one has been addressed tracy rios crossing at south concho park drive again mitigating the flooding the backing up of water in the flooding of that area has been completed that was an in-house project as well as the east angelo draw at coke street that was an in-house project again there's still some overtopping and some flooding issues but a lot of that has been we've opened up the waterways or opened up the the drainage underneath the street and so a lot of that's been done and that was an in-house project as well too so would you say with the actions taken so far that it and trace rios and east angelo draw street it resolves 90 percent of the flooding issues or what would you say the trace rios one um again we haven't seen that really large event that we had two or three years ago where we where we really did see a lot of flooding in that neighborhood we haven't seen an event of that magnitude yet but we have we have quadrupled the volume that can actually leave trace rios into the river and so we we believe that we're going to take a lot of that pressure that they've been seeing in the trace riots edition off of them uh with this project east angelo draw we believe we've opened up enough of the street that hopefully the from an emergency vehicle is kind of like the foster road issue that we have out there that we raised we raised the road up we've opened up some some drainage underneath the street and that we believe that hopefully from a from a public safety aspect that we we've addressed those concerns there's still some long-term issues in that whole east angelo draw area that we need to uh that we still need to continue to work with but again as we talk about the master drainage plan those are going to be some

[0:22:34] of the things that come up in the master drainage plan as we as we continue to work our way through that as well harry has a question for you shane i really have a comment and that is avenue p and east asian draw five years ago were the greatest need from drainage in the community and we've addressed that we're going to move on to college hills and a few other we do want to say that the constituents in three and four really appreciate the work that we've done on these four items here uh east jaw tres rios and avenue p because now they can see that these things are working now we may not be a hundred percent but we are so close to to taking care of some of the things that's been going on for 50 or 60 years certainly appreciate the help getting to that spot and i know lucy does too well i want to make sure everyone understands we will never be at 100 because we go from 16 inches of rain in three days to half of an inch of rain and so the dynamics with that but if we've corrected the majority of those issues through normal drainage then i think we've done a great job yes ma'am and that's the whole thing when we talk about when we talk about drainage you know we're just we're we're trying to mitigate it i don't know again we're never going to completely do away with it but again if we can if we can make it manageable uh then that's that's our goal at this point is try to make things manageable so thanks harry um and it looking at upcom the upcoming projects that we're working on right now uh the completion of the new master drainage plan and of course the college hills drainage that we discussed earlier and some of those issues that we're dealing with there talking about the updated master drainage plan we hope to be back in july with an update to council kind of to get you all to kind of present it to to council and to get y'alls feedback on it uh make sure that there's not something that that we as staff have missed or we have are there something in the prioritization how we've prior you know the the scale in which we prioritize

[0:24:37] things to make sure that everything that uh that we've we've put forth y'all are in concurrence with and then we will get that we will get that buttoned up and finalized and hopefully have a plan uh a new uh new plan for the city uh we have as you know that the city has grown a lot in the last 20 years 21 years now since our last drainage plan that was there and so as we've gone through and looked at it we you know we have identified new areas of concern all across town um not just in any one where you've seen some growth i mean but actually new all across the entire city as well and and so some of the priorities have changed looking across when we start looking at life safety and a lot of those other measures that we've been looking at and of course volumes of water that we're now seeing in certain areas that we weren't seeing 20 years ago just due to due to normal growth when we start looking at the at the funding on those we're looking at uh you know in the 2000 plan we were only able to address three of those in the original plan in the top 25 projects in that 2020 plan uh the estimated cost to mitigate those was 35 million we're just looking at our top seven projects so far as we're working through this plan that's kind of what the the solutions that have been presented those far right now in 2021 just for the top seven projects is about 39.7 and those are drainage issues only not street reconstruction with the drainage that is strictly drainage only that's uh and whether that's um we're looking at channelization whether we're looking at detention retention ponds those type things uh to for the mitigation efforts those are where we're seeing the uh that's that's where these dollars are going to not not necessarily streaks there may be some street work involved in some of those uh where we're looking at um either expanding the width or maybe looking at

[0:26:41] there is one project one really large project within those that top seven right there uh that actually does put drainage culverts underneath the roadway and so that one is a that is a really high dollar number but right now with what we just had a discussion on and will vote in the next meeting you would reduce that 35 million and that 39.7 million by the 8 million correct yes ma'am that will be one one of those projects is uh listed in the top seven of the 2021 projects so but again we're again we're and again those are only the top seven we're going to try to bring a top ten list to the city uh within the new plan and they were still working on the last three at this moment and so we didn't have that we had to do the top five let's do it maybe we should just do the just limit the top five yes ma'am well and again we're gonna and we're gonna bring them to and we actually have identified up to 35 uh 35 major problem areas throughout the city um now not all of those are going to have solutions identified just due to some of the nature of of them we're going to have some estimates on them but not actually identified construction documents basically or preliminary construction documents harry i guess i have a question you show 50 57 from the 2000 plan with all of the construction that we've been doing in the last five 10 years we're making sure that these neighborhoods and these commercial buildings are putting together their own drainage issues so they don't impact city any greater is that correct correct with uh when we created the actual one of our in the stormwater plan that we created uh with the ordinances and all the things that we created back in 2010 uh in in our new development processes that that was addressed at that point within those ordinances then did any new construction

[0:28:43] any new uh when a developer plants new land when we're getting ready to construct new areas is that they make sure that they contain any additional drainage that they have created by their development and so if they that way they are not running off any more water than what normally would uh run off in a natural in its natural state so if we magically had enough money to take care of these other 54 drainage issues the city should not have any future drainage issues is that a fair statement he does not want to answer that yeah it's it's one of those that's a that's a really it's a really broad statement yeah but it would definitely it would definitely help there i mean i don't know that we're because you know when we talk about these and i would have to have one of the engineers here to talk to the design level i can't remember if it's a i think it's a hundred year the storm event that they have but if we have a thousand years something like that there's always going to be the chance that we're going to have flooding and that it's not ever going to be again 100 solved but as we move forward if we did have all of our areas identified addressed then again during most rain events the issues would go away or well or be highly manageable i don't know of any city that has a hundred percent i mean that's i mean yeah and they would they would become manageable at that point the the ability i think citizens understand citizens understand that you're never going to be able to fix everything but if they have recurring issues with three and five inch reigns that's the ones that they want to see see some help on and i think that's where i'm coming from if we can we could solve these 54 then future ones shouldn't be created by by construction of new commercial buildings or residential areas is is that correct

[0:30:46] that's it i mean they should be addressed moving forward the majority of those issues should be addressed in new developments moving forward correct very good thank you continue going on the streets just brief history you know back in 2015 we did have the fugro study completed which kind of outlined our basis moving forward for not only uh not only for our annual maintenance but also for our our rehab rehabilitation process in which council at that time authorized the 80 million dollars over 10 years for us to start looking at their rehabilitation reconstruction process throughout town we are 20 currently 2021 is the third year uh out of uh out of our find five bond or third out of the five bond issues uh over that ten year period and so uh working our way through those very well of course college hills southwest all these being one of those that are going through this process now for our annual maintenance budget we normally apply about 3.5 million for sealcoating and preservation and we save about 500 000 back for crack sealing pothole repair and small small in-house reconstruction or construction projects that we have in house alleys those type things is what we utilize those funds for just kind of go through where we are kind of in our current standing with it with our rehabilitation reconstruction projects our completed projects are mlk the stretch of southland thereby the sams and the the walmart college hills to valley view and west control avenue those have all been completed we have active projects right now of bell street which we're currently about 85 to 90 percent complete there we actually have it actually concrete's all the way down all the way from the river all the way through on the west side of bell so now we're working from harris back

[0:32:48] down to the river on the east side and once that is complete along with the sidewalk installation there that project will wrap up and that will be complete um i don't know if you've been down it or not but it is it's it's actually pleasant to drive down now people people talk about it all the time in terms of how great a new street is yeah it's it's it's it's it's it's actually pleasurable to drive down bell street now so i have a uh i've been that our main shop and facilities are over there off of bell street and saint anne i drive down it quite often and it's you know i'm i've even noticed how nice it is so uh going on to southwest boulevard southwest we are at a probably about 70 percent completion there we have all of the mill and overlay portion of that project completed uh they're working on some sidewalk and some issues down there around the railroad track railroad crossing uh close close to the school we are they're starting the uh the reconstruction of southland and the southwest um intersection there and then they are underway with the uh utility work right there in the at the draw itself right by there by the mcdonald's they're doing the utility work as we said i would assume that was one of the big drainage issues that is one of our drainage issues uh and so we're going to now again that's part of the entire arroyo drainage system issue that we're going to again you'll see some more of those issues along that entire corridor brought up in the master drainage plan but again that one specific flooding area that one dangerous area right there at the mcdonald's is being addressed we are we're going to put two large concrete box culverts in there to help with the flow right through there we are probably going to still see some issues in that area but we are going to raise the street a couple of feet so hopefully those will be very limited in the issues we'll probably still see our biggest choke point is going to be loop 306 where the water goes under loop 306 so we will still have a choke point

[0:34:53] there we'll still see water back up but we shouldn't over top the street near as bad so we should be in a lot better shape there let me back up to the completed projects on the 2017 southland by sams that is very heavily trafficked and so i'm not sure what the game plan is when we attack it again but i know that it's already been hugely impacted by all that it has and the right turn lane right there next to the stripes convenience store uh has is just yeah we do have some groundwater issues in that area which i think helped contribute to some of that but the heavy turning movements and the heavy traffic loading right there it has taken a toll already on that reconstructed uh probably look as we kind of move into some of the other work in that area we'll probably go back and have to go back in with a concrete uh mat in that area to hopefully firm that at least that one that one drive lane uh firm it up and get it to where it like it's gonna hold up over time so yes harry i mean tommy go ahead are you telling me i know we've got some issues too beyond sam's really on that little bridge there that that is in the i don't know the drainage channel there that look the sea the street is thinking um i think you all had it marked at one point it looks like now may have stabilized but does that part of something that you are going to address in the future there there are some longer term plans not necessarily within our re our current rehabilitation reconstruction program there are some longer term plans that we have where we would like to actually go in there and actually widen southland on through just past the school to actually widen that area and actually reconstruct that portion as well but again that's out past our 10-year time frame it's not as high anywhere on high on that priority list

[0:36:56] right now harry did you have a comment no okay keep going okay no problem and then again that should all of that we're anticipating to have completed that whole section from the loop all the way back to twin mountain drive hopefully all of that will be 100 by the time school starts back up in late august september so hoping to get that wrapped up here pretty quick on that and then the last portion of the southwest boulevard will be that area from where the cavenders is there all the way through to in front of tractor supply where there's a drain there that will all be completely reconstructed full depth reconstruction through there and then of course active projects chadburn downtown coming along very quickly with that project as well a couple of small we have well it's not small we do have one franchise utility that has had some issues with one of their structures right there at the corner of tuigen and chadburn and still working with them to try to get that addressed as soon as we can have they found the equipment that they need for that they my they're still a corporate trying to figure out exactly all the details and the funding and all of that to get that to get that finalized and fixed but we do have a i think we have a conference call with one of their folks later on uh this week to hopefully help spur them along or if there's anything we can do to assist so we can get that if we can get that poured we can actually get chadman opened uh we're starting to to come down to the final we're getting all the sidewalks completed working on the you know working on some of the decorative things now along the roadway getting the signalized um the signal lights back installed back up and going and so if we could just get that complete we could have that whole that whole corridor up and running and and ready to go because that franchise thing has held up this project by weeks yes in terms of opening up that stream yes ma'am it has as far as getting it opened up and getting everything getting the flow and

[0:38:58] the traffic flow back in downtown it sure has but again going to trying to work through that and get that pushed along and then so hopefully again wrapping up the the contractor visit with the contractor we're hoping to have that finalized by october so we can have the final walk throughs with txdot and get all that finalized hopefully again mid to late fall early winter at the latest so get that completely and that includes the street lights that that includes street lighting and everything yes ma'am that includes the whole thing uh upcoming uh north chadburn from 7th street to 43rd which is going to be again rehabilitation milan overlay in with full depth reconstruction in certain areas uh of course college hills again with with the assistance for the drainage funding that that were the council is going to allow us to have we're going to be able to again let that forbid in august we believe well design is just about complete just waiting on the funding on that one we have howard street which has just begun its design phase as well as edmund glenn and 29th which will go all the way from 67 all the way back around to chadburn street as well a really large stretch of road that way we're going to that we're going to be able to get to tackle there and then of course real concept drive uh we're at 100 design on it hope to have that ready to go to bid um actually this month in or in july um as as well as the 7th to 43rd we hope to actually have out on the streets ready for bid this month as well too so the in the real console drive is going to be uh an fdr process which is a little different process for us we're hoping that basically you know we pretty much have good curb and gutter along that area we just have lost the roadway and the road base itself and so we're hoping with this new process that we can actually see some increased

[0:40:59] efficiencies and savings by going through this process and try to get some of these full depth rehabilitative processes you know a little a little more cost effective and maybe make our dollars move a little further down the road there have been lots of positive comments on the southwest boulevard process and the treatment that was put down and the group that had that contract how courteous and supportive they were for the neighborhoods and so a lot of positives on that project yep and you know and we we look at those o m's and that's the ha-5 process that we're that we're putting down and those are the areas where they were placing um the ha5 where we can it's it's not again every street in town is not going to be a viable candidate for the ha5 process but where we can we we really like that product and the company that we're working with and construction on applying that product very professional they have they have their their system down uh very well and so they're great to work with and they do have great customer service so they've been they have been a pleasure to work with uh just moving on we're looking uh again going back to college hills what we have budgeted you told us just a second ago it's about a 24 to 25 million dollar project what type of reconstruction are we looking at concrete asphalt what is budgeted currently what is budgeted well what we're the the where we're at right now we're probably going to have two we're probably going to look at two two bids a base bid and then an alternative the base bid is going to be a fairly robust uh kind of stuff with bell street yeah it's going to be right now our base bid is going to be a fairly robust asphalt where we're actually putting down um concrete not concrete two different types of asphalt we're looking at um a lower layer and then an upper layer

[0:43:02] on two different types of asphalt there but we are going to look at also and also probably look at an alternative bit of rcc roller compacted concrete as well too in the cip the reconstruction of college hills from loot 306 to avenue in you have a total price of 21 331 783 the difference in price there is is that from the outdated pricing up to date of what today's pricings are correct correct so we've increased about three million yeah our and unfortunately but every time that we we send a project out for bid the numbers just keep coming back higher and higher and higher and actually um and we believe that in the company that we're using to design college hills has utilized our latest bids uh for their pricing structure on that so um again this we just keep going up and i think they've been added i believe they've even added some uh escalators to that to that as well to our bid pricing as well so the 21 million that's more is that the 2019 2020 number or yeah that's going to be probably incorporating incorporating elements out of not only our bell street bid but also out of the um the southwest bid as well too okay here yes harry shane uh we when we made a decision five years ago six years ago however long ago it was uh on bell street to go from 18 to 22 million for concrete that's probably one of the best decisions i was ever involved in i'm wondering if when we look at some of these major streets in the city if we we should look at both asphalt and concrete cost ultimately college hills and it is one of the worst streets in town right now college hills gets a lot of traffic the same thing is happening i mean we go

[0:45:07] to talk about north north chadburn that gets a lot of traffic we should look to see if there's benefits to looking at that increased cost now because in the long run long after i'm gone long after many people sitting up here are not in this positions anywhere those streets are still going to be there if we can use concrete i would suggest that we look at both the cost of asphalt and concrete for these major streets i'm not talking about residential areas but i'm talking about the major streets avenue inn for example you're going to do that next year the year after that gets a lot of traffic every day so let's just consider let's look at both of them yes sir that's what that's that's what we're doing with the rcc the roller compacted concrete it's it's not the traditional uh concrete with the with the rebar and the in the concrete it's not it's not a traditional mat but it is a it is a again it's a concrete product that has a longer a longer shelf life than our traditional asphalt product just to make sure because that's a key point go ahead tom so shane just come back you and i've had this one but just so the people that are watching canada i think the most important thing right now we know north chavern's gonna be fixed it's not if you know we know it's going it's going to be a win so we need to work around what events are going to happen up there which would be a february april make sure we don't and i think you've alluded to that in there but going back like 29th street coming all the way from 67 back around to 87. there are parts of that road there just fine i mean could go more years and there's parts of it near our intersections that are tough and i will side with airy on this and agree i don't know if you can blend those construction projects to where you can get away with a specific type of surface base material for one then when you get to the intersections or within three to four hundred feet of those intersections change those to a concrete i'd certainly i don't know if

[0:47:09] we have to do concrete on all of it but i get the point and on bell street it does because of the traffic but on 29th and certain things of chadburn those major intersections it would i think we'd be well served for 20 30 years ago concrete but there's other parts that can give out just fine on what we have but anyway we've had that discussion yes sir yeah we and we do we again going back if you look at the southwest project southwest and southland is all going back in concrete um and so we are blending those we are blending the asphalt into the concrete so and we do we and we try to do that as we do especially on those heavily traveled streets and those intersections we definitely want to go back with concrete that's that's where the majority of our issues start are in the intersections and then start pushing their ways on down the streets well and i looked at that on the on 29th street i mean you could literally go in there and make six little picks out of there and fix six spots and leave something else should the budget or things get there we need that but anyway we're good thank you in other words we want to be creative yep get the roads done get the streets done but be creative in the process yes ma'am we we look at every option we can to try to stretch our stretch our dollars as far as we can so uh because again dollars are hard to come by and we realize that well and i think the point that we all understand today is that in 2015 or 2016 when the 80 million dollars was discussed that that 80 million dollars does not go as far as anticipated back in 2015 or 2016 and so we want to make sure that as we do the projects we give them as long of a life as possible even though it might not fit into that 80 million we'll need to address how we come up with additional funds because things aren't the same price they were in 2015 or 16 or 17. or 18 or 19 or 20. yes ma'am and the construction industry has definitely seen inflation rates that that have outpaced the majority of the rest of uh

[0:49:12] of the processes out there so uh but just kind of looking at our current funding situation and mayor you bring up a good point you know kind of thinking of of some other things out there i know our council has been steadfast and not not trying to raise our property tax rates uh for a long long time now and so as we're looking we're you know we're in we're in our third of five allocations through our rehabilitation process um you know we've we're we're getting to the point in our o m budget that we're going to start need to see some increases there and we still have and of course drainage we don't have any allocated funding for drainage uh within within our standard operating budgets and so as we're looking moving forward on on things that we can look at to see what we can do to that's out there one we don't want to raise property taxes because it has so many other issues with it when you start doing that so what else is out there what else can we do to help find funding uh to to move our progress to move our street you know our streets and our drainage and all the things along to because the need is still out there i mean we're going to address our top arterials and collectors but we still have tons and tons and tons of street work to do out there so one of the one of the big questions we have out there is what are we going to do what some of the other cities are doing and we'll go into this next next slide here and again don't necessarily need any direction or anything from you all today but things we want to throw out there for you all to start thinking about for ways alternative ways that we can raise funding uh to to work on our to keep using and working on our streets and also maybe for some drainage as well too but other other cities abilene colleen college station there and there's many many more throughout the state that have instituted street use fees which is basically a lot of them are basically it's it's based on trip generation uh you know a house a a typical house will generate so many

[0:51:18] trips per day uh certain different businesses generate so many trips per day and you base a fee based on trip generations to those businesses or those households and whether that's you know one or two dollars a month or up to you know whatever it is but that's how they kind of base those and and you can kind of see what these other cities based on based on this this style of street use fee are generating uh for their o m budgets every year and again and it's a fee based it's not a it's not it's not tied to property taxes or anything else it's strictly a fee uh and so it's one of those things that you can again it's you you know from year to year it can it can go up it can go down it can do it you can manage it the way the city needs to manage it at that point uh and again drainage based fees uh one of the things that we look at right now you know we're coming up with the master drainage plan of course we had one sitting on the shelf for 20 years and and only were able to tackle three projects just you know scraping scraping dollars out of nowhere but when we start looking at drainage mitigation as a whole things that we can do in the in the texas legislature has also put started putting more emphasis on this we have the federal government starting to put more emphasis on this and even the texas water development board has a lot of grants out there right now to help with drainage mitigation their matching grant funds and so again we still don't have any funding source to actually match these grants that that are possibly out there and available so something to look at would be to just all right so let's stop with that a minute okay so you're saying there are lots of grants out there there there there have been and we've actually looked at we've actually looked at some um out there through the texas water development board and things like that they're matching grants and of course it depends on how your project rates amongst everybody else in the state of texas but again um there there are starting within the last

[0:53:20] well actually the last two years is when we really started seeing an influx of of monies coming from state and federal sources for grant funding to start addressing drainage mitigation issues well i think we should be applying for all of those because if it's an issue of coming up with matching funds we should find the funds because that's a small investment compared to the what the grant dollars are going to be and we shouldn't miss any of those opportunities because as you say here we don't have a drainage fund we don't have a structure to pay for drainage so if there are grants let's get applied for we will figure out our matching portion but to miss out on that would be a major mistake yes ma'am no and we did we we actually there was a there were some funds last year that came available through the texas water development board and uh we put our name in the hat of course where our projects unfortunately were not ranked high enough within the state to actually make the application but again we you know but those are the things that we're starting to throw our hat you know throw our name in the hat for and try to do and there's and they keep coming out more and more all the time and as our master drainage plan is finalized that will also help add weight to our ability to go out and and get these grant grant funds for this and again the biggest problem we've had is called houston texas because almost all of the drainage grants have gone towards taking care of the flooding issues in houston texas so we're up against a big monster because everyone i've looked at ends up going to houston yes ma'am the end and they do they they they generate a large portion of where those grant funds go to so but again these are just ideas for you to thank you all is counsel to think about for alternative alternative uh funding sources again these are fees and so again they can be adjusted as necessary as council sees fit or done away with or however however you all wanted to build a program but again there are programs out there like this

[0:55:23] and again we just wanted to throw this out there at y'all just again just trying to generate some ideas try to generate some thought on possible ways that we can that we can find additional dollars to to work work through these ongoing issues that we're going to see and have in the upcoming years and speaking to the abilene mayor i know that they have been very pleased with their street use fee i'm not sure how it's structured but they did that first and now they're going to go out for a big bond so ours is sort of the reverse we've already done the bonding and and then we're looking at what else we might do but a lot of cities are going out this fall season for bonding projects which were already in the process of doing so we're ahead of the other cities in terms of commitment to our street project but we know it doesn't cover all the needs that we have and i think as a community that the citizens have been very vocal about making sure we really address street issues as a huge priority so we need to continue to talk and be creative about how we might approach it beyond the 80 million dollar bond issue merit and i do want to point out as well that shane talked about the three and a half to four million dollars that we allocate per year that's a pay as you go for the uh just for to to seal code our streets to make sure that we keep them maintained a lot of these cities are behind the current mall actually they're actually using some of these monies to cover the maintenance portion of it so we actually are in a pretty good place on the maintenance part of it though so but i agree yeah i talked to a lot of mayors and and it's true we're ahead of most of the cities go ahead tommy what specifically or is is that at the design of the the city's respective council what can those street use fees be used for the majority of them are being used for either one the the maintenance portion

[0:57:25] of it when we're actually talking about a chipset or sealcoat but several of them are actually using them to go back in and use them for you know light rehabilitation work some milling overlay work those type things um and again we have been me and my staff have been talking along with daniel disomic as well too about maybe taking on some more of these type processes in-house as well too from our standpoint looking through those and we've been running the numbers on a lot of these processes to try to see what what our costs will be versus you know bidding some of these out on some of these smaller on some of these smaller maintenance issues where you can do some smaller mill and overlay work things like that in-house again we want to be very careful about what we do and how we do it but again um a little putting the financials together to see what's feasible and what's not feasible and so how do we dig into this a little deeper and when do we dig into this a little deeper because we are going through a budget session so we're going to need to make some decisions about what we do approach and i know that most of the council is very solid on not raising property tax and so we know that that's not going to be an option for conversation but we also need to look at the options available for increased street work yes i know that we do have a budget workshop coming up in july i believe it's kind of some of the other funds not just the general fund or enterprise funds but some other issues i think maybe at that one that staff could be prepared to bring back a lot more in-depth uh look at what these other cities are doing and really have some really good examples and talk through a lot of these more in-depth details about this process and this and and how you how you could go about applying this to the city and we could bring that back at one of those workshops if that suits council yes tommy shayne are you going to talk to us at some point i know this is this is

[0:59:27] veering off topic a little bit but it's on streets nonetheless could street use fee be used for construction brand new construction of a street and i know that i know the city typically does not do that but larry and i share a street that i think we ought to seriously have a conversation about the city looking at constructing a portion there's pent up development opportunities um that i think we're talking about generating more taxes that the developments would help generate but we we got to talk about getting the street through um so is that something that a street use fee could be used for would be construction of a new street if the council wanted to do that tommy there's also another option and it's some of the things that other cities do for example they put in the new street and then as development happens then we charge that development with the cost of that street work because typically they would have been expected to spend that that money and so i was wondering maybe if we could partner with some of the developers to incent them to go ahead with the development so that's kind of where i was headed with that but is that something that you're going to talk about at some point we will in in i believe i know exactly which streets you're talking about tommy and that's something we were the staff has been looking at probably planning on bringing back to council for for y'all's consideration in the future as well too uh again i have been working with uh tina and as as well as teresa on uh looking at looking into all the legalities of all the different uh funding aspects for that type of a project as well as street use fees and whatever thing can okay what these funds can be used or not used for and so again i know from a maintenance mmo standpoint the street use fees are are good now

[1:01:29] brand new construction i think we'd have to look into that uh based on the parameters of the of the actual fee itself but again we have been looking i believe at the same area that you're talking about and uh we we do have a plan to bring something to some city council and then we'll see something in the near future yes okay yes what i think we want to make sure we do is make sure the citizens understand that we're taking care of their streets existing streets as a priority and because we've had obviously issues with that so i think we have to look at it as two two-pronged one how do we ensure the citiz to the citizens that we are taking care of existing problems as a priority and then how do we on the second prong create a funding avenue strategy for those kinds of projects but i know that the citizens are going to want a strong explanation on how you're going to get my street done or my street's done yep uh um uh i understand that completely yes ma'am every now and then yes sir lucy you're on uh yeah i was just gonna say when y'all are talking about this i'm thinking okay so are we talking about all the money in the city so this is where i think there'll be a problem if you're taking all the money from my district and taking it and using it for district one i mean that's what i'm saying how would you go about doing that well when we start looking at the street use fee it would be applied all over and it'd be applied based on priority basis not necessarily when we start looking at it again we we we go back to the fugro study where we prioritized our roadways and we start looking at one you know we you know and of course we started with our major our arterials our minor arterials and our collectors uh those are the ones that see the most traffic every day that have the most problems the the

[1:03:32] biggest issues and so let's get those cleaned up you know those are our number one priority and we start looking at this we start looking at maintenance activities uh o m activities where the street use fee would be utilized for um you know again it's going to be on a priority based we're going to go find the worst streets no matter whose district it's in okay but we're not talking residential then we're just talking about it yes we're talking resident we're talking uh you know arterials all the way down to down to residential streets in front of houses uh so no we're not we're not planning on you know taking all the money and just going and putting it on one or two streets here there we're talking you'd have a study yes it would be more of a maintenance uh it would be more of a maintenance type activity or rebuilt you know a minor rehabilitative uh effort uh on some of our especially our residential streets where we don't where we typically don't need full reconstructions we do we could get away with a milling an overlay process uh on those streets uh to where we do have uh where we've started losing or we started uh seeing uh pavement separation from asphalt where we have severe alligator cracking those type things we could go in there mill proof roll and do an overlay on it and buy that street another 10 or 15 years easily with it within that program so well it goes back to the conversation that many people will try to have with us which we can't do and they go well we pay more property taxes than you pay so i should be the bigger priority well we can't it goes into one pot and then you prioritize what that pot pays for we can't get into the but i paid and i deserve yes yes all prior ties basically need based based off uh you know you know when it comes to to to streets and things like that we'll you know we look at the you know the pavement condition scores and uh we we look at the and how severe what the severity of those then we look at you know we look at the average daily traffic on that roadway we look at any life safety issues

[1:05:34] and then we make those prioritizations based on those uh those criteria as to what streets that we address next america yes danielle and the goal is also to um to save when you maintain some of the streets you actually save them you let them go because you're priority in other areas you let those go so what we're going to end up with later on is having to reconstruct those streets instead of just a simple main maintenance or steel coat now you're looking at 10 or 15 times the cost of having just maintained that street so that's why these programs maintenance programs are so important to us as well but uh yeah the mill and overlay that's something that again we'll continue talking as far as the in-house part of it i think that's going to be a wonderful idea but again uh yeah the maintenance part of it just has to happen any further comments from council larry would you like to speak a couple questions essentially it's a road tax right yeah it's a fee that's going to cost citizens uh dollars um and it's yeah it's it's all terminology but again it's uh but again it's a fee based on um and again a fee i mean yes it costs citizens but it's not a tax and it's not a property tax where it's set in stone for a whole year as a fee it's done my guess is theresa this would be more of a resolution based uh fee or an ordinance based fee where you know it could be changed or altered uh at the will of council and not based on uh standards set in state law it is a use fee there's a there's a legal distinction between what a tax and what a fee is and this is definitely apparently this has been in uh existence up in abilene for some time i don't know how long it's probably about two and a half years all right and uh the mayor said that the citizen is pleased with it but i'm kind of curious how it's been responded to by the citizens of abilene whether whether there's complaints concerning this

[1:07:37] use fee or whether it's been accepted well within the community you know you look at two things if you want street work done you have a couple options and one is borrow the money and you can only borrow up to a certain level you know we have to be creative in terms of figuring out how to resolve the issues that exist and so the conversation is how do you want to resolve the issue we need to do street work we need to it's a number one the citizens have said that's our number one priority get the streets done so it's our job to figure creatively how we get it done we are not in the business i don't think of wanting to raise property taxes so you get down to one other option and further i believe that the citizens uh have it have accepted it and and have i think they're seeing you know the the fruits of their of their dollars uh up there on that program as well too so um and i believe and i can correct me if i'm wrong i believe that that actually this feat that fee was actually done by um a referendum as well so i believe that the voters went out and and passed it you know actually passed the referendum to uh to have the fee placed there in abilene as well don't think that that was the case for all the rest of the cities in the state but i do know that abilene did have a referendum well i know that abilene is going to this fall season go out for a big bond election on top of it so it didn't solve the problem a couple final questions uh how is this going to be collected what what is this a property to include in the property tax didn't know this would be on the utility billing statement okay and is there anything based on tonnage or is it simply trips again that would be for us to work uh as we bring as we bring these options to you to look at in the in a future meeting uh i don't necessarily know it would be

[1:09:40] based on tonnage because that would be hard to that would be hard for us to bill uh as you know i drive a one-time pickup you know my neighbor next door drives a a little car and so it would be hard to know you know who to build what at each residence for for that for on a month-to-month basis and people changing cars things like that so most of it is trip generation based i've not seen anything based on weight unless they're actually more of a toll road type situation where you actually are basing in on numbers of act but on the number of axles versus the actual number of times that you pass through so but again it would everybody that we've seen so far has been mostly based on a trip generation schedule um through their all the re and i can't remember i have to look it up i think there's 15 or 18 cities throughout the state of texas that have a similar fee and most of most all if not all are trip generation based now everybody has their own nuances for their own community um but again it's it's it's trip based the other issue with that and we should talk through that just again on a general basis is residential versus commercial yes and we will i mean there's there's there is actually a national um there's actually a national guide for trip generation uh through um i can't remember if it's federal highway federal highway if federal highway administration but there is actually a trip generation guide that they have established for all whether it's residential and it's i think it's even breaks down residential based on even square footage of residential uh uh the residential size and then it also goes into different classifications of commercial what how many was there yeah there's over 200 different trip

[1:11:43] trip generators classifications within within their guidelines so it gets quite detailed um and again i believe most communities have paired that well down to 50 or 60 identified 50 or 60 trip generators based on their businesses within their community and we'll we'll bring a lot more detailed guidelines when we come back for everybody to look at and we'll bring you know we'll pick out several businesses different kinds of businesses uh throughout town uh that and so people can kind of see what that would look like for each business based on what these trip generators would do and based on how how how y'all want to assign those dollars for each trip generation but we'll bring we'll bring that for you all to look at is council in support of looking at some alternative funding issues versus it just traditional go out and borrow the money okay so yeah we can come back in a workshop that shane was talking about we do have a budget workshop we call the other budget workshop and we can come back with a proposal or some ideas that we can bounce off city council members see what y'all think and kind of get some guidance on that as well okay i i do want to say though mayor that um if you look at the work that's been done to this point not just the pay as you go the sealcoat program the reconstruction program there's a lot that this council this administration administration has worked on to really get some of the streets back in order one of the and it's not just city of san angelo but a lot of cities across the state of texas and in the united states actually when a crisis occurs and finances go down one of the first things they cut money from is from the infrastructure program they say hey we're not going to spend money on that well that just worsens the situation as the as the years go by it just grows and grows and we're we're right now at the point that uh the magnitude of streets that have to be done falls on on this council in this administration and we just had to come up with a a solution a plan that really works out and really address it and move forward with it well i think it's

[1:13:45] important to understand that the need for money and the need for work on our streets will never end that's right it will be it's just going to be one of the largest budgetary concerns and issues that we have on an ongoing basis because even once you get it done i mean you think how many miles of streets do we have in this city do you not know that no no i i i do know that um and again and of course and i hate doing everything on lane models because everybody has a different additional definition of lane miles but uh you know we have about um 11.5 million square yards of uh paved roadways in the city so um again it takes a lot of money yeah that's it it's you know roughly 1200 lane miles so it again depends on your definition of lane mile but again we're um but again no we have uh the work will never be done but the need for money will always exist correct uh you know we're looking at you know some of the first we're looking at uh mlk drive and some of those that uh we we did three and four years ago well you know when we start looking at when we start looking at maintenance you know we're we're not far away from needing uh starting to need to go back and and actually put a seal coat on it so i mean it's it's one of those things that you build it and it's nice but if we don't if we don't maintain it it won't it won't stay nice and so uh and even though we think it's brand new uh but we're we're not too far off and we're gonna need a seal coat on it so i would hope that's one of those things too that we build into this program that we are ever mindful we've gotten behind the eight ball now we're having those of us sitting here now having to deal with that so that's not blaming anybody it just happened it's reality it is reality but now we're behind the eight ball we got to catch up but let's don't let it fall on us that we got further behind the eight ball because we didn't address it

[1:15:46] so whatever we need to do to address it let's we need the citizens to know it's our top priority and we're going to continue to look at avenues to take care of the work that's needed bottom line and this in this council this administration has not cut back on on the infrastructure project we've continued to push forward and make sure that we maintain a certain level uh i mean we're dedicating about 11 to 12 million dollars per year now just to address streets you know and again a lot of that is ketchup work from back in the past but that's okay uh but we know that's gonna be done still has to get done you know so we need to have an answer for that okay shane continue or are you done that that wraps up my presentation i'm going to pass the juan to allison here and let her talk about water and wastewater okay allison you're on good morning mayor council um i'm going to give a brief update on where your microphone's not on deer [Music] i'll pull it closer okay okay can you hear me now okay i need a booster seat as of april 1st we're sitting at 62 months of water supply which is some really high numbers compared to where i've reported to y'all previously i know that i brought to this council drought level one even on the verge of rat level two before so i'm really happy to report 62 months of water supply the reason for april first we're not doing this every single month is crmwd does provide those updates only to us for lake ivy in january and in july so i did kind of a mid point between those two but i will do the next update in july when we receive crm wd's lake iv number but we have received some beneficial rain during that time so i hope to keep this number steady as we move into the summer months but we're also moving into the summer months where we start seeing our water plant usage start ticking up so i just want to show this graph in terms of where we are in our annual production rates so this average that you see for each year is

[1:17:50] from january through december so the summer peaks to the winter lows we are seeing that daily usage level gradually increased for san angelo but we are seeing development and those type of things so we do expect our usage to go up and a lot of new residential so you've got a combination of both correct so 73 of our water use is residential based uh 12 commercial 11 percent institutional and the remaining 4 percent industrial so heavy residential base which with heavy red residential sorry you do see that irrigation or those peak demands in the summer i believe in 2020 we were at 22 million gallons per day um or that's 2019 and we're roughly 20 million gallons a day of um uh peak summer usage uh for those two summers and mainly that number again 2019 we saw 22 million gallons a day being pushed out of our water plant was the high number in 2020 it was 20 million gallons so we did it was lower but all of that is very dependent upon rainfall the watering schedule that you know when people typically water their yard and also the summer temps so all of that kind of but we're roughly in the low 20s for peak summer usage and mainly off irrigation use um so i'm just going to hit through the big water supply projects one of them is the ford ranch in the hickory groundwater project so the ranch is sold we sold it in six different parcels um and retaining all hickory groundwater rights so the next project that we have already secured funding for through texas water development board is to expand that groundwater project by drilling five additional wells adding booster pump uh station capacity as well as treatment capacity currently we can pump and treat 8

[1:19:52] million gallons after this project will be able to pump our full allocation which is the 12 million gallons another important part of this project as we expand it is it are it is addressing some very old infrastructure at the water plant which is our clear wells so both our surface water and our groundwater get blended in what we call the clear wells that's the last chlorination process before it's pumped and treated or pumped and sent out to the distribution system that will be upgrading that clear well we have one currently it make it would create two clear wells so that we can take one down for maintenance and still have one operational so we are making that initial improvement to the water treatment facility with this project those plans have been designed and they are sitting at tcq and texas water development board once we receive their approval hopefully within the next month or so we will start bidding out that project for the drilling and the treatment system capacity what time frame will that it will it take to drill the wells and do the work on the treatment i think we're looking at two years by the time we drill wells and do the treatment system upgrades some of that can occur simultaneously but the drilling of the wells will be the first start in that process okay this is just a look at our overview of the ranch so all the blue dots that you see are existing wells the five red dots are the new proposed wells that will be drilled as a part of this project we have permits to be able to drill three additional locations in the green locations but what we're able to pump and treat the 20 wells that we are proposed after this project will be able to um get us to our full allocation no those but we did when we did sell the ranch we did retain ownership of those locations so in the event ever necessary

[1:21:55] to go drill those three additional sites we have access and we have the ability to do so the next big water supply project that we're working on is the concho river water project this project does discharge highly treated wastewater into the concho river it allows it to flow down its natural pipeline of the concho river for about seven and a half river miles to the red star where it would be taken out of the river and piped back to the yellow star on the map you see which it would be an advanced water treatment system this is an indirect reuse project that the city did take action on in 2017 to pursue both of the permits that we have to apply for with the state of texas have been submitted we do know that that is a lengthy process to we're applying for a discharge and a bed and banks prod or permit and both of those have been submitted but they're in the tcq hopper so we'll continue to work through that regulatory process and the time frame you think will be a couple years three years we do anticipate a couple years for the regulatory process to get those permits because there's a lot of notice requirements a lot of environmental review and all of those type of things that will be accounted for so yes a couple years for that and how this all stacks up together the blue that you see on this graph is our allocation from the hickory so roughly twelve thousand acre feet the red is what we can safely rely upon from our surface water sources so that's like ivy twin buttes like nasworthy in the concho river as we all are aware drought has plagued our reservoirs extremely so twin buttes lake nasworthy oc fisher all of them have a firm yield of zero so that means we can rely upon nothing from those reservoirs in the drought of record so

[1:23:58] mainly that red portion of the graph that you see is the reliable portion from lake ivy the green is the concho river it does have a we have not seen the concho river dry luckily so it does have some reliable safe yield and then you stack that orange piece which is the concho river water supply to the graph and to our portfolio and you see that we go from 2020 to 2070 in terms of meeting our demands for our city the population growth that you see in the dashed and solid line the dashed line is a high demand population growth and then the the steady black line is a population growth that we see more historically through san angelo so that you can see we can make it several decades with this water portfolio package that we're trying to build for the city and so what we're looking at that orange part is this concho river project which again we from a regulatory approval process will be at least two years in between and that's just to get it approved so the time frame on that orange the most the first time you think it'll be effective in terms of this graph is in the year 2030 um i don't ha just because we did this by decades i don't have exactly when it would be implemented between 2020 and 2030 but yes the plan or the projections are to bring it online prior to 2030. we can start working on the design upgrades for the wastewater treatment plant to get it up upgraded to the standards of a discharge permit or to a discharge quality wastewater it already needs those improvements like we've discussed before and so we can start that design project so as soon as those permits are acquired we can go out for construction and begin that process okay questions comments from any of council at this point harry just one quick question uh with our

[1:26:00] four car uh ford stocks and holdings that will exchange with midland oh thank you i was trying to get to the spot trying to get to the spot on the graph where we were constant on ohiv water and i was trying to get good enough and keep moving on yes so uh the last uh slide i do have in terms of water supply is our west texas water partnership water and our collaboration with those other two cities abilene and midland this is over and above that we've always discussed that the partnership water is for that long term outside of what we are doing ourselves with the concho river project that multi-generation if not century based water supply project which is the fort stockton holdings water so last may we did sign that contract with fort stockton holdings and san angelo did contract for the 5 000 acre feet all of that as you all are aware is split between the three cities based off need and i'll be happy to answer any other questions would you go back to the last slide when we start taking a look at high demand versus low demand or current trend what growth per year is the trend based off i would have to go back to texas water development board but they did that study based off the regional water planning process so it is specific to our region it doesn't encounter or account for the same population growth you would see in the houston or the coastal bend area so it is specific to our region f water planning but i don't remember what percent growth i believe the low percent is somewhere in the two and a half to three percent but you can kind of see that those lines during 2020 and 2030 are a little steeper than 2030 and beyond and i just don't remember what that uh initial decades population growth was

[1:28:03] because i think everyone's comments would be the fine that based if you drive around town and look at all the new development that is happening that it would be a percentage that although you'd be at a higher level a higher growth than we have experienced over the past decade and so the the solid line is what we've typically seen and that's why we would also want to plan for the dash line which is that higher so if in the next few years we do a we do see a much higher percentage rate of growth we're still allowing ourselves within that buffer to still meet these water demands and plan appropriately for that larger increase but that's one of the reasons why we did look at the west texas water partnership because if you take a look at that graph and go the dotted line will tell you that we're going to need more water yes it exceeds the trend line yes either way you look at this graph either in 2050 or 2070 one of those decades you are going to need based off the growth between now and that time you are going to need additional water that's what we need to make sure everyone understands is because some people might say we have all the water we need what are we doing but if you take a look at this graph that says we don't have all the water that we need for the future and so we had to continue to look at alternative water supplies to take care of the high demand issue and i think the other important part to note is that the red portion of this graph that you see is iv we have not seen ivy go functionally dry but we've seen it at 14 so we've seen it at a very low reservoir so we may not have seen the drought of record in the past so we could be coming up on a new drought of record where ivy could go away so we always have to make sure that we have

[1:30:04] diversified water supplies so that we can in the event ivy weren't reliable um based off history we would have something to supplement that red graph with the reason the groundwater is important versus surface water correct and also just to re-emphasize the fact we might have water rights at several sources but those sources are not available to us because the water is so low that we can't use it so even though we might say we have x amount of on paper we have 125 but we don't have it in reality and we can rely upon six repeat that again because everyone needs to understand that on paper we have 125 000 acre feet of water rights what texas water development board in the region f water planting say we can safely rely upon is 6 100. that's important information i do want to point out that in 2017 our citizens our kids our grandkids will be looking back at what this council is doing and saying thank you thank you all for thinking that much ahead so and i repeat again repeat those numbers how much do we have available versus how much is usable 125 000 acre feet of paper rights usable 6100 of surface rights just our service that doesn't account for the hickory yes den michael also these growth trends uh may change based on the recent experience associated with texas being seen as a favorable place to live and do business that's the reason i was asking about the trend line so that was the water supply update and i'm going to briefly go over the wastewater and really what i want to highlight is our lake nasworthy sewer project so it is the largest outside of the street program it is our largest project that we are working on the design for um to increase the sewer capacity at the lake nasworthy and the

[1:32:08] airport area you all are aware of this project and we brought it back to council in april of 2021 as far as the alignment goes so we are continuing with that they are about to they've done a preliminary archaeological survey of that stretch of the the river and those locations the next step is they have to do these backhoe tests where they do have to dig trenches see the different soil layers and as a part of the archaeological and historical design review from the state of texas after that we can pursue the final design and get that project going it is a project estimate at 32 million dollars and the last slide i have is just the preliminary alignment that y'all were presented with it's very zoomed out as far as trying to cover the full project but this is the project that we are working on intensely with the sewer side of our operation this is obviously a big council project that is supported aggressively and so we know that a lot of growth can't happen until this project or it slows down the growth until this project is completed so update us in terms of what we think the current timeline is sorry let me get a piece of paper uh we received from our consultants pending everything is um i guess acceptable by the historical and archaeological reviews and those design commission state of texas approvals we could start seeing the final design um starting in august or september or the fall of this year those preparation of those construction documents would go through the end of the year and you could see construction possibly july august time frame of 2022 and it is a several year project so

[1:34:14] construction wise so looking at possibly 2023 or the first part of 2024. so when we talk about the design work and the beginning construction there would be no opportunity to use any of it until the entire construction project is done or or something is going to come online if you will prior to final construction because most of our i guess capacity needs are at the airport which is the basically the end of the line we couldn't see those facilities be able to upgrade to a larger capacity because they need the full service or the full installation of the line now there will be possibly some lift stations one near like sunrises in those areas as the line is brought to those areas we can take those lift stations offline and be able to serve those areas but really the capacity needs is at the lake nasuri or across the lake area and so the full project does have to be installed to be able to utilize or to be able to see that additional capacity be available so we can't reverse that and get the airport on first and then go down no just asking we can build the lift station but it would have no pipeline to dump into just to be clear no but i'm i'm with brenda i mean if if we are in the process and we're having i mean there's people that are going to take one to two to three years to build what they want to build at the airport i see no reason to hold them up one or two or three years i mean the only thing that would be at risk here would be success on our end and i would think with a 32 million investment we could go to somebody and say we know that by this date we will be able to plug in a hotel we would be able to plug in restaurants we would be able to plug in other things where people

[1:36:16] could put their basic infill there so we don't put them one to two years behind the start yes because they have construction documents and funding documents that they too need to work on but to say no to them today when we know the future will take care of it would be wrong to hold them up but i don't know we would just love to let that thing yeah we open the valve to be able to flush it daniel go ahead as well just it would just be the pressure allison to get it done on time that's that's it we hate to put that weight on your shoulders i was gonna say build a brand new hotel and then have it wait i don't know yeah it's all very much a timing issue um but i do understand where you're coming from there is a time to construct this there is a time to construct the improvements or those additional facilities out at the lake and the airport area but we would just have to work through the timing and make sure that we don't put the cart before the horse also because interest rates are low at this point in time so a lot of people are looking to develop based off a low interest rate so in three to four years interest rates could make a significant difference in the cost of construction so we just need to make sure we're working with people and they understand a timeline we don't want to miss an opportunity nope no pressure i said no pressure [Laughter] thank you alice thank you thank you do we want to take a break yes let's take a 10 minute break you were just to be correct all right thank you everyone and we will

[1:38:21] now move into economic development the first ones development services and that's i'm going to take the first one then i'll hand it off to a guy in a little bit i'm going to go quickly through these you've seen these before but you may recall six or eight years ago the department established goals to reduce review times get better information to citizens provide good customer service and helping make sure there's nothing up we're unhooked down here okay still um okay is it on okay good um so anyway we established goals to basically improve the development review process and then give some a little bit information of what we did uh created a single point of contact where all developers will come to one place to get their answers we had pre-application review meetings i'll talk about those more in a minute and one of the things we did was to control controls to ensure consistency so that we're applying the rules fairly and evenly to everyone and inspections as well and we standardized a lot of our processes created checklists and handouts both to help staff process but also to help applicants know what it is that they need to be submitting and as you know we've implemented some new perm review software uh plan review software as well as some case management tracking that's helped us make some of the improvements that i'll talk about in

[1:40:23] just a second we have fully rolled out the plan review software for commercial projects last year we processed 213 commercial projects through that online or digital plan review software as well as 239 plats site plans and design reviews we've recently started just in the past year reviewing residential plans as well we've been doing commercial years commercial plans for two or three years now and now we're doing all residential plan review through that online software as well we are rolling out something that you guys authorized for us last year an online application system and a payment system so that now not only can they submit the digital documents that we review through our process but they can submit those online and actually make their payment online as well and then finally we're implementing a text-based system for inspection requests so that a contractor out in the field can just text us i'm ready for my inspection uh it'll be scheduled they'll get a text message back with when that's scheduled and then once the inspector has completed his inspection that will send a result back to the contractor yes you passed or no please contact us you know for more information so we hope that will help simplify that process and i know we sometimes we get so many phone calls a day scheduling inspections that people sometimes can't get through when it's busy uh just because those people are already on the phone with somebody else scheduling and so this will we think help us just so that they can text it into us and not actually have to call in so we do our pre-development meetings we call them consultations and development review committees we started those a few years ago and you can see we've really been pushing those because we've found that people who go through a pre-development meeting have fewer issues throughout the development process because they get in at the beginning and we are able to answer their questions and so when they actually come in to submit

[1:42:24] you know they they know what they need to submit and it makes the process much smoother you can see from 2017 to 2020 we've increased the number of those uh significantly and i think that's helped reduce some of the time frames as well which would seem to make sense on larger projects but on the smaller projects it seems like because there's a fee attached right is there a fee attached to it oh no for the pre-development meeting no those are at no charge to the customer but those seem to work good for big projects it's the smaller individual projects that don't that very often create the issues and are not really the right vehicle for the smaller projects because i think the key thing for me is it's great to be as standardized as possible so all things apply to all things equally the problem is it doesn't allow for the flexibility that is needed and necessary it shouldn't it should be quite obvious if someone's front door is now what would have been traditionally the back door in the back doors traditionally not the front door and yet we have very little flexibility in reviewing those items and create too much tension because of the lack of flexibility and re-looking at it relative to what the project is not what we want it to be or not what is traditional and we do have some flexibility built into the process but to the extent there's not uh in many cases that would take changes to the ordinance to clean that up but we do the way the philosophy under our current ordinances is generally that staff shouldn't be making those decisions and so those decisions are pushed off to citizen boards like the planning commission or the zoning board of adjustment so we aren't re-looking at the future trends of what's happening in construction building to bring back to council before it becomes such a major issue yeah in fact towards the end of the

[1:44:27] presentation i'll get to some things we're doing to help address some of those concerns actually and i'm gonna i'll go quickly on this one because i think the next slide is more important but the average review time uh from for these are for commercial plan reviews has gone from 13 days back in 2016 to about 10 days in 2020 and the number under that the five days that's for a resubmission if if they needed to uh if they got comments back from us and they had to resubmit with some new information then that follow-up review averages about five days uh and so those are going much quicker than they have in the past but one of the things rather than average what we've started looking at is how many of the projects are submitted are completed within our recommended time frame which is three weeks and so you can see from 2016 we did about a little over half of the projects that came in we reviewed within our goal of three weeks last year we reviewed 92 percent of our projects within that three week period and by contrast the reviews that took over six weeks those were always pretty low but this past year we didn't have a single commercial plan review uh that took over six weeks is that because we didn't have a commercial plan submitted no actually just asking we we did see it and you'll see in some of the numbers in a minute our residential construction went way up in the past year commercial was down slightly but not as much as we expected we still had quite a few commercial projects come in last year we also do customer surveys to every customer that comes in to developers contractors we send out surveys and last year 100 of the respondents said that staff was professional and responsive that was up from 90 in 2016. we also track how long it takes a customer when they walk in the door to see someone 80 percent of our customers were assisted immediately 15 within 5 minutes so that's 95 percent of our customers when they walk in the door if they have to wait it's usually less than five minutes but when you say a hundred percent of respondents said that

[1:46:30] staff is professional responsive that's based off a number of people who responded one would assume that those who didn't respond weren't so happy yeah now we do get feedback from folks who weren't happy uh in this case you know they i think the the point i want to make here is that they even if they're not happy with our answers they believe we're treating them professionally uh and so again not everybody who walks out our doors are happy with the answers they get but our goal is to be professional and give them answers uh in a professional way and be responsive to their questions um again similarly 100 of the customers uh it's the first time we've gotten 100 were satisfied with the customer service response uh from the city staff again like you said that doesn't necessarily mean they were happy with the answer uh and just a couple of comments that were written in from our folks who went through the process and found our system helpful to them we are as you alluded to earlier we look at ordinance amendments we're doing them a piece at a time and so for example you recently saw us bring to you parking standards mobile home standards and a temporary fix of the sign regulations we've got on our schedule to get a permanent fix of those sign regulations you may remember that's based on some recent court cases that's in process and will be coming to you hopefully by the end of the year we've also at your direction a couple of years ago we're updating the bicycle plan you all adopted an ordinance change regarding bicycle lanes but that was not implemented until we get that bike plan updated and so we're coordinating with the mpo to do that we've also been working with our development community on an ordinance that would affect street widths as well as requiring sidewalks in new development i'll mention the street width specifically as you heard from shane and you talked a lot this morning about street costs and construction one of the things one of the reasons our

[1:48:31] streets are expensive is that they're much wider we require wider new streets than almost any city uh of our peer cities and why do we do that well because it's also expensive to the city when we have to redo them because they're wider than the costs are greater than other cities so it doesn't seem to be working in the correct way well and that's why we're bringing this ordinance to reduce the street widths now i'll tell you the historically the reason the streets were made wide is that at some point 20 or 30 years ago it was decided we don't want to require sidewalks and new developments so we'll make the streets wider to accommodate walkers in the street and so what we're looking at is is going back to the way virtually every city in the state does it narrower streets but then having sidewalks on the street uh as that safe place for for people to walk and so there'll be a trade-off there with the narrower streets will save developers a significant amount of money but then it'll cost them some on the sidewalk side as well but like you said it will over time as these new streets are built uh it will save long term the city money you know going from a 40-foot street to say a 32-foot street will make a significant difference both on initial construction as well as as we look at resurfacing and all of those things how does that address older parts of town for example like lake view where curb and gutter doesn't exist where street widths are significantly not 32 or 40 and the ability to widen them is pretty limited based off of decades of those things not being in existence that's a good question in fact this this draft ordinance would uh create a what we call a minimum street width so right now we basically have one standard street with and if you come in for any new development that's the street with you have to meet what this would do is have a lower minimum street width so in areas that are already developed as long as they meet that minimum they can redevelop without having to widen the street what's the average

[1:50:33] street with in lake view now based off of the old historic lakeview streets it varies i mean 26 feet we have we actually have as part of this we've created a map of the city with the street widths color coded so we know what you know what streets because what we wanted to do was make sure that minimum met things like fire code but also accommodated the street widths that are out there and so a lot of those streets are 24 or 26 feet and so that's kind of the ballpark that we're looking at as that minimum so we would use 26 feet as a minimum in that lake view area or 24 depending on how it's currently constructed we would live with current construction because in some cases grass is overgrown where the pavement has rotted or washed away due to flooding or water flow and so they've even become more narrow than they were before well and that's something we're going to look at in these standards because in some cases what we've had on recent developments where we've had right now it's a variance process that has to go to the planning commission and they actually have to approve the narrower street under this new ordinance that it would be basically automatic if you meet that minimum but then an issue we still need to look at is that curbing and what we've required in a couple of cases is ribbon curbing or just a flat curb and if you put the flat curb in it helps maintain that pavement edge so that the asphalt doesn't wear away so that's one of the standards that we're looking at for the new ordinance so even if a developer doesn't have to widen the street they may have to put in a you know a one foot wide strip of curb concrete just to help maintain that pavement edge are there other areas in town that would be similar to the lake view area that we need to make sure were flexible on that as well yes the ordinance would apply city-wide so any substandard street would be eligible for that minimum street width and we do have other areas in town that have those same narrower

[1:52:35] streets because that's how they were historically built so these are the ordinance things that were either done or in process i just wanted to briefly talk about some of the things we're looking at and i won't read through each of these but a number of them are based on concerns we've seen for example looking at building setbacks the most common case we get for the zoning board of adjustment is asking for a difference in building setbacks from what the ordinance requires and so we want to look at that and see where historically in certain neighborhoods how close to the street have homes been built because we don't want every development in that neighborhood to have to come in for a street i'm sorry setback variance we can change the ordinance just to make that just like with the street minimum we could have a minimum setback so that they could be a little closer to the street than maybe what we require for new homes could you go back to that previous slide for one minute and this just came across it says a high court to hear speech battle over austin billboard rule so it says the u.s supreme court said monday that it would hear a first amendment challenge to an austin city ordinance firing certain types of digital billboards fyi that's one reason why we you know put that temporary fix on our sign regulations because that is a very active area of litigation right now and there's been a number of cases from the supreme court that have invalidated portions of our sign ordinance and so we're just we've modified it so that we don't have to deal with that but austin tends to lead the way in texas on those kinds of issues they're very aggressive on signs and so i hadn't seen that yet but that's good to know that that's going forward go ahead so again we're looking piecemeal at different sections of our ordinance things that we see come up over and over from from the development community we want to look at cleaning up those pieces of the ordinance to address some of the concerns that we've heard another example is the beauregard sherwood corridor overlay there's that

[1:54:37] stretch of beauregard and sherwood where all of the buildings are built up to the street sort of like downtown buildings and so redevelopment of those are very difficult they have parking issues they always have setback issues so we're looking at a corridor overlay basically to apply different rules for that corridor to help encourage and spur redevelopment of those buildings without having to jump through so many hoops to get those variances and and changes to the rules make that simpler another one of the thoroughfare plan amendment the interest the proposed interstate corridor is currently not on our thoroughfare plan um and so the fear is if if somebody comes in with development within that corridor they could basically block um the ability to get that that corridor through uh and there are a couple of parts of town where it's it's very critical there's a narrow path where that's the only place that roadway can go so getting that on our official map would would be beneficial i'm surprised we haven't done that already since the porsta plains corridor has been a 25-year project so we're kind of behind the eight ball on that if 25 years later we still haven't designated it well the part of the issue there is it's it's been fairly recently that an actual corridor has been identified uh there there were multiple optional corridors before and so we've basically been waiting on that uh so that we could nail it down something that we could actually put on a map so i wanted to go into the development over the past couple years just to give an overview in 2019 we had 279 new single-family homes permitted in 2020 that almost tripled to 726 homes uh we're we're still high for 2021 we've got 207 already if you projected that out to the end of the year that would be around 500 so they're slowing down based off of commodity costs yeah and we have heard lumber for example is coming down uh not to where it was but those prices are coming down and but the good news is we're still way over our normal uh for home building even with those high prices

[1:56:40] and we've seen more subdivisions over the past year at least since i've been here so single family lots will soon be available in the literally hundreds of lots and then for multi-family housing multi-family housing we didn't see much at all for uh probably decades really uh until the last eight or ten years uh and we've seen that blow up especially in 2020 237 multi-family housing units 50 of those were in duplexes but 187 were in apartments we have apartment units apartment units yes uh and that's one complex uh that's either one or two complexes that 187 yeah and the same with the 70 back in 2019 we've consistently seen one or two a year for the past few years 2021 we haven't seen any part of that may be there's a number under construction right now and so the market's probably waiting to see how those do before they you don't want to over saturate on multi-family that's that's kind of overview of development process and new development but here are my challenges and issues i'd like us to look at number one we're hearing more and more issues as it relates to neighborhoods fearing commercials coming way back into the neighborhood and i want to know what were what kind of what ordinance exists or does not exist to help protect our neighborhoods too many people are concerned about commercial development weaving its way back into a neighborhood if we do or don't have anything that applies to that are there other cities that do have that particularly in some of the historic districts to preserve that historic quality and the same thing in our historic downtown area we need to make sure we're protecting that historic downtown if you look at all the cities around us all of a sudden they're all looking at

[1:58:42] development of their downtown areas they realize that's a key economic development strategy and important to their city and so we need to make sure that we're on top of that and that we're pushing aggressively because we don't need shannon hospital to take over our historic downtown area and all of a sudden not have a historic downtown we need to be very protective of that and i don't see anything in place right now that is protective and then the other issue is landscape um you know i've several people that i know have done developments and we demand that they plant trees even though if it's in october and it's 110 degrees out and it's been 110 for 10 days and yet we want to plant trees and there's no irrigation available so we're forcing issues because we won't give them a co until they get their landscape planted and it's not realistic to do that and at the same point in time demanding that we plant trees when there's no intent to put irrigation to those trees so we demand that they get planted but they could die tomorrow and there's you know a dead tree there for a decade so we just need to be you know we're out here a desert sort of landscape and we need to make sure that our landscape ordinance is relevant to the climate the rainfall that we get and the development standards we expect i continue to refer to flexibility versus standardization we need more flexibility built into how we approach things and those are my comments john thank you appreciate your thank you very much yes tom john looking back on your permits and planning and trips and visits things like how much of that is staff related i mean i remember talking with rick when i

[2:00:44] first came in four years ago it was i don't have enough people and so i mean is that an issue now do you have holes in your department that you're trying to fill and you just can't and if we feel those it would be better i think you have a turnover issue one and the second issue is we're starting to get a lot more computer driven so the requirement for staff compared to five years ago has changed yeah i would say we're not hurting for staff it's not a critical issue um in one area that we have asked for one additional staff is inspections uh there's i would say there's not a need for that it's only if we want to make the inspections go go faster um so i wouldn't call it a problem more people could could help in a couple of areas but i wouldn't call it a it's a non-issue now it's not generated by lack of personnel well when you say it's not do you mean the occasional calls i get in the best thing we've ever done is start coaching them to do a consult all right look if you don't go in there and spend 10 minutes with them it's your own fault it's free it's easy to do and it will save you five trips and people i've had that have done that come back said you know what it did it'd save me five trips and and it's much the smaller person that didn't know the questions to ask one of the issues tom that they have corrected is that the phone system did not roll over so someone might have been calling and they might have left a voicemail but no one knows it so the new phone system rolls over right so how does that new phone system work compared to what it did we do not yet have a new phone system i know that it's looking into that i don't know the status but yeah we've not gotten the new phone system because that was one of the things people would say the phone rang and it rang and it rang in a ring and no one picked it up well no one knew it was ringing because of the way the phone system is set up and so i know it happened several times a couple months ago now versus four years ago are minimal and you just hope those things aren't

[2:02:46] staff issues or things that might be able to solve if we opened up and pursued that offer and apparently they're not so we're all good and to answer that a little bit more it just depends which area you're talking about whether it's inspections and permits whether it's planning you know those are all you know when you're dealing with ordinance revisions and so forth those the planning staff in in john's case he does have a lot of turnover in that department we don't have people beating down our doors to fill those positions that are highly qualified so that is an issue we just had three vacancies or we had two and we're going to have another one yeah three total that's just this year i mean so that's your turnover in that department it's not easy now as far as the inspections because they've been current and being encouraging the online and covet actually helped us push that direction and so they have become efficient in that charlie i think during the budget process has talked about an additional position to make sure we don't start falling back on how quickly we're able to get those because of the the big increase so it just depends what your area and once again if you want lots of revisions to the zoning ordinance they do them as they have time but once again he's three staff short we're trying to get those on they're untrained and trying to bring zoning changes so that's where when we talk about this revision to the overall comprehensive zoning ordinance and and doing it you know getting someone to to do that it's a contracting it out that's something that of course i've been talking to council about for years help avoid some of these problems right thank you very much thank you guys guys well good morning mayor and council to give you an update on the san diego city of san angelo development corporation we are a type b economic development organization which means that we can do not only

[2:04:49] recruitment of industrial businesses but we can also do quality of life projects our overall mission in is not just recruiting businesses to this community buying businesses to come here but to create a place where people want to work and do business it's all about planes trains and automobiles you may have heard that somewhere before first of all within our trains we do have a san angelo rail port that's under development at this time 183 acres that's a concept drawing of it right there we do have the rail on site on july the 7th that rail will begin to be installed eventually sorry i'm fat fingering this thing eventually there will be 11 turnouts such as this it shows one of the turnouts that's already been prepared for the turnout with the rail laying along there they'll begin to install that soon we are part of the south orient rail line just as a reminder it goes from presidio texas to san angelo junction which is close to coleman or coleman texas where it connects with the bnsf rail line and then we also connect that presidio with the whole mexican rail network so there'll be a lot of potential growth not only for local commodities and businesses but also for imports and exports in new mexico is there a new date for the opening of that uh bridge it will be they're anticipating sometime in the fall now there are issues with getting the border protection in place at that but that's moving forward the other item in regard there's a lot of activity and our next frontier is the san angelo regional airport a lot of things going on there in terms of expansion of hangar space

[2:06:52] both internally new prospects the asu aviation school uh other things like that so plenty of opportunities that are in early stages that we'll be uh continue to look at i know the um where they had anticipated five people from the new asu program for this fall season they have 25 and growing that are enrolled so tremendous opportunities out there not only for aviation the border patrol is occupying the old m-com hanger and lots of other things going on well so with the second airline anticipate growth within the airport that's just an overview of the comprehensive plan for the airport and presents us with opportunities to develop various regions both inside and outside of the airport again we do now have two airlines servicing san angelo regional airport american american has six flights a day now so that's going extremely well united provides two so you can either fly out of here and go to dfw or houston international to connect anywhere in the world jeremy likes to say a lot of times you can build a milo roadway or you can build a mile of runway to get wherever you need to go in this world uh we haven't done some airport improvements there's about 14 acres across it has been cleared we're building a monument on this this is the concept drawing for that monument and this is actually as of last week where that monument says they're doing a lot of the rock work and that sort of thing as well so just part of what we do for open space improvements a lot of things have happened in i-27 porsche planes the most progress has

[2:08:55] been made in 25 years on this pro process the legislation has established the steering committee which our mayor will be a part of that effort continued effort we just had a board meeting on friday in lubbock and things continue especially for texas to move along extremely well in that regard also as part of that effort there's a relief route study that's going on now so that we'll be able to connect the 67 and 87 which will be become part of that porsche to plains corridor is that are is the reliever routes a firm plan at this point or is that is that diagram just symbolic of what we need to do not the actual reliever route it's not the actual reliever route at this point uh as i understand it that has not been uh finally determined at this point in time but those are some of the options of the study we also have i-14 project that's called the gulf state strategic highway runs from fort benning georgia out to actually odessa where it connects 20 and eventually we'll go to fort bliss texas is sometimes referred to as forts the forts there has been a little progress in getting this designated at the national level uh but with all the infrastructure issues going on now and in uh discussions about that we're not exactly sure where that stands at this point in time well it has already been designated as a future interstate but there's been no monies assigned to it that's correct and they added two new states that's correct in our business industrial park i just wanted to point out that we've had sales in that the past year about

[2:10:58] 29.49 acres that continues to progress this is an overall plan it is an aep quality site which means that it's shovel ready to go for new businesses moving in the roadways are in utilities and one of the important things that happened is that we have put in in our phase 2.1 infrastructure we put in 19 acres of drainage so that any new uh business moving into that park will not have to have a detention pond it's all central drainage and again it's 19 acres and probably the largest detention pond i've ever seen in my life this is just an aerial view of the park right now a lot of what you're going to see in the future i believe will relate to distribution and transportation allen transport bought a significant tract frito lay has a distribution center that's been completed and ready to occupy in our phases we've been working on 2.2 we've just opened up 118 eight additional acres for development uh what we're working on now would be uh clearing a lot of that mesquite off of there to make it more sellable this is a picture of the main detention pond uh one of the things that we're doing to keep from erosion is putting in topsoil and seeding those drainage areas right now also there has a traffic circle in it and we've just installed the concrete uh in the teardrops leading into that circle as i said we will be doing tree and brush clearing that's all in mesquite right now we have new signage that will go into the business park one of the things i want to mention that we've worked on and completed that we're proud of is monumentation to welcome

[2:13:03] people to san angelo and so this is the working cowboy and the enhancements that have been made to that monument that just basically set by itself and now is a marker to welcome people to san angelo a sense of place and this is a 200 percent monument down by a pinky's liquor store in the u-haul uh the sheep with the two lambs we are about food fuel and fiber a lot of our efforts will also include agriculture in that and getting those products to market so just wanted to point that out agriculture is 800 million a year has annual economic yield of 800 million dollars a year so we really need to concentrate on that area as well one of the best things that we've done for them would be to in our rail port provide a method of them to cut their transportation costs by as much as 40 i did want to welcome i also forgot to mention that michael looney is with us today in support he's they're our main chamber partner and are responsible for the recruitment of businesses so thank you michael for for coming today and that's it i'll be glad to entertain any questions you might have lucy yes i just want to say michael thank you so much for all your hard work out in the industrial park i know that in the five years it is amazing it doesn't even look the same so thank you so much for your hard work thank you any other questions or comments all right next next up we have public safety uh we'll start off with the police department we have david here for that presentation good morning good morning good morning

[2:15:20] this is a short uh just three or four slides uh this this slide depicts our current staffing levels the june 2021. so we have 180 authorized sworn uh 166 currently employed 11 cadets starting the police academy july 12th we do have a civil service exam scheduled august 20th and currently 32 civilian employees okay these are our calls for service pretty consistent it's looking like we'll meet 2020's number again top call for service still domestic violence current dispatching staffing levels we have 15 dispatchers as of july 1st 6 in training six fully trained do i get back to that how do i get out of here yeah yeah he's back there sorry let's go to go to the next one yeah and these are this is the current uh crime stats year to date we're showing a 13 decrease so congratulations yeah yes ma'am thank you and that's the that's all there is to that good luck on and

[2:17:22] my can you hear me yeah there you go so thank you big important thing is a reduction in crime you know if you read social media and or the newspaper you would never think that the actual crime rate has gone down because that's the stories that always hit the paper so one assumes that it's up and so it's really good to see that you based off your policing strategy that the crime rate is going down so good job yes ma'am thank you it's uh social media has has made life good in some ways and bad in some ways and there's just a lot more awareness when something happens so people people take you know they they go by the rumors they see on social media they think they get their information and their news there so it affects us also looks like you have a great strategy thank you very much mayor i do want to mention that uh chief carter apologizes for not being here today he had planned to be here last week of course we moved the deal so he did have prior commitment for today so he couldn't beat her today so well you did good thank you thank you up next uh morning mayor council good morning did you see what he did while going john to increase this not the green one make sure he instructs you the ribbon there you go now the green one won that's all i pushed it and it jumped i'm gonna go through too hard obviously yeah maybe grip's too good uh i'm gonna go through the major projects that we have completed during this time that council has done for

[2:19:23] public safety so one of the first one was station four it was completed in the fall of 2019 it replaced the fire station that was on avenue l that was really outdated and at the current time we couldn't even buy a fire truck that would fit in it the new station holds a staff fire truck and an ambulance to cover that southeast portion of the city and county um staffing for the six front line ambulance we hired these personnel in december of 2016 to staff a six front line ambulance personnel completed training started running that six front line ambulance they come out of their training right before station four was open so this is the personnel that went to staff that ambulance at station four because prior to that there was not an ambulance at that station safer staffing hired these personnel in february 2019 to get us to the proper levels of staffing on ladder one and the battalion wagon that stay for safer funding which stands for staffing and fire for emergency response um the grant runs out in february of 22 and it was a de-escalating grant that paid a portion of that so the city after february of 2022 will be fully responsible for all those costs in the fall of last year we completed the fire station alerting system which had been in the works for several years there this is what tones the equipment out tells us where to go um it replaced the z-strong system that was probably about 30 years old so this station was this system was completed in the fall last year and is working working very well um 2019 placed engine two and engine four these are usually done through cash flows and the capital capital uh events so we usually replace two uh trucks within every three year period so we continually work on that

[2:21:27] uh equipment we got from cares funding last year during that deal we got auto load stretchers for enamels lucas cpr devices and ekg monitors and those devices are on every ambulance at this point in time that was a lot of dollars worth of that grant that's probably nearly a million dollars worth of equipment on all our ambulances and that is the projects that we have done over the last few years that you all have made public safety a priority thank you do i have questions or comments from council thank you brian all right so i don't think there's any question in terms of confirming our priorities i believe that council has consistently said the same priorities and we continually to support the budgeting process for those priorities so i don't think that there's anything as it relates to changing those yes harry just a quick comment we know we keep we need to go ahead and work on infrastructure things but we also know that we need to look at quality of life projects to continue to attract businesses here and one of those things i'd like to see done is i'd like to see the strategic planning from parks and rec for putting restrooms in these parks we cannot continue to have these porta potties there we've got we've got to work on that so i'd like to see us dedicate some money every year every other year to start that process and prioritize them however the parks and recs want to do it but i think we need we need to do that go forward i think we have a lot of quality of life issues that's something that we can put on the table i'm not sure everyone supports that and there's other quality of life issues that other council members have as well so we can put it out there it does not mean it has the support so just fyi all right

[2:23:28] we're going to follow up on administrative issues are there any mayor one thing that i this is for my benefit since i have been on the council the last four years i have never had a full presentation i don't think this council has had a full presentation on our overall compensation plan any problems that it has any weaknesses that it has anything the council needs to address i would like to hear from brian an overall presentation on our on our compensation plan what things he might need from us what things he might suggest to us to make our hiring process better easier more competitive so you know i would say brian in my for my taste i would just give you the floor and let you talk to us what you need to tell us about our compensation plan if you got recommendations make those if you got you know changes that need to make just bring those to the forefront just so i'll understand the overall compensation plan where you're trying to go what you need to do thank you other issues all right with that did you oh what did you come on we just wanted to remind everybody that the two regular meetings in july the first one being on july 8th that's a thursday just want to remind everyone thursday july 8th and then also the meeting on july 20th is a regular meeting but it will be held here in the east mezzanine as opposed to the convention center at yes yes why is that there was a scheduling conflict with civic events okay some sort of conference or something that's going on all right without me i have a motion for adjournment

[2:25:33] all in favor none opposed motion passes seven zero

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