San Angelo City Council 5-3-22

[0:00:00] our may 3rd 2022 city council meeting it is officially called to order at 8 30 a.m we will start with our chaplain prayer and pledges and today we're going to have gary and marcela jenkins lead us in both if you would all stand please morning mayor and members of the council and all of those that are here today will you join with me in a word of prayer father in heaven in the name of jesus we bow before you to say thank you for another day that you have made we thank you father for allowing us to see a new day filled with new mercies and grace father we pray also for not only our city council and for the business that will be conducted here your word says that the powers that be are ordained of you so father we thank you for ordaining this governmental body but we also pray for those outside of this city especially in the nation of ukraine the war continues there lives are being destroyed people are being killed needlessly and we ask you in jesus name lord to set principalities and powers into position to help stop the war in ukraine i pray father for everyone across our nation and all of those in governmental authority thank you for the members of our city council thank you for our mayor and those in city government and we pray that what is said and done here today will be done to your glory in jesus name we pray let everybody say for which it amen one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all

[0:02:02] honor the texas flag i pledge allegiance to thee to texas we have three proclamations today and i will ask all of those here today with saisd to please come forward welcome all of you we're glad you're here today san angelo independent school district educators and staff impact the future of san angelo daily through their care for and dedication and commitment to the children of our city their impact happens from the moment a child steps on a bus walks through the school door is fed a nourishing breakfast and throughout the day until the last bell and beyond educators and the entire sa isd team make a difference in each child's life and with nearly fourteen thousand students this is an incredible impact on our community today we acknowledge the special commitment our saisd educators and staff have on the well-being of our children they provide a relevant and inspiring education preparing future ready graduates these graduates may one day care for your loved ones as a nurse or doctor at a local hospital address cyber security threats that impact our community create beautiful artwork or music for others to enjoy or go on to teach the

[0:04:05] next generation of san angelos at saisd they often say our people make the difference and today we honor the san angelo difference makers those who inspire and prepare our students and support their hopes and dreams therefore i brenda gunter mayor of the city of san angelo texas on behalf of the city council and together with san angelo independent school district do hereby recognize may 6 2022 as sa isd difference maker day and thank all s a isd educators and staff for the dedicated service to our students and families and urge all citizens to acknowledge the occasion of this day well on behalf of mr parker our board president mr dindle our vice president dr detloff our superintendent and our other district leaders we would like to say thank you our children are our most prized possession they hold the key to our future some will have jobs that don't even exist today if it's the bus driver who first greets them and takes them to school safely the child nutrition worker who feeds them their meals for nourishment the office staff that greets them an instructional assistant classroom teacher interventionist principal assistant principal custodian the list goes on and on these difference makers guide support nurture and grow our future leaders and greatest investment each day that's why we say in san angelo isd our people make the difference once again thank you

[0:06:09] [Applause] good morning and thank you dr gomez and max parker bill dindle and our leadership team i just want to reiterate the value of partnerships in our city when we look across our city and county we just have incredible partnerships that have allowed us to thrive during the last really 30 month period so i think san angelo is successful due to those partnerships and due to that constant communication with city and government officials our elected officials there are certainly many uh political hot potatoes being tossed around and i think because our entire county our entire city our city council our chamber good fellow air force base our elected officials work closely in concert together with higher education too our city continues to thrive so i just think it's a blessing to be here in san angelo as you may remember earlier this year we had over 250 educators from across the state of texas embark on a journey and open the gates to san angelo and consistently their remarks were i can't believe you guys are in such close contact with all of your elected officials your city leaders and your community partners it's really remarkable and unbelievable so i think sometimes we're in that fish bowl and we don't step out and realize uh just the value of san angelo and all the partnerships we have so thank you for contributing to the success of our difference makers in san angelo and we know that public schools are still the cornerstone of our democracy thank you [Applause] i'm just going to add um we really truly appreciate our educators and all of our employees as dr gomez said from the beginning of the day the bus drivers to our coaches and staff that do the extracurriculars day in and day out and

[0:08:11] so we do invite the community to join with us for san angelo isd difference maker day this friday and just let them feel the love and let them know they're appreciated because they do touch the lives of children of san angelo every single day so thank you and i also want to say thank you city council because you all do the hard infrastructure work that really sets the tone for the future and it supports what these children will someday make a difference with as well so thank you [Applause] hmm [Applause] what a great way to start this city council meeting thank you everybody our next proclamation is motorcycle safety awareness month so i know we have some folks in the audience please come forward ponderosa's mimc

[0:10:19] as members of the region five texas council of clubs and independence in collaboration and support of the national safety council txdot and local motorcycle enthusiasts would like to remind all road users that the month of may marks a national recognition of motorcycle safety awareness month motorists are reminded of the frequency and higher seasonal return of motorcycle enthusiasts to texas roadways during this month due to their smaller size motorcycles may easily be overlooked in regular traffic flow motorists are encouraged to always be aware of motorcycles on all roadways when approaching intersections when performing lane changes as well as whenever motorists near or pass other vehicles including motorcycles motorcyclists are encouraged to operate their motorcycles in a defensive manner and within the rules of the road motorcyclists ask that as motors drive they take a few extra seconds to look twice for motorcycles both during motorcycle safety awareness month and throughout the year to promote overall safety therefore i brenda gunter mayor of the city of san angelo texas on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim may as motorcycle safety awareness month in san angelo texas and encourage everyone to share the road safely good morning thank you ladies and gentlemen of the city council madam mayor and everyone present today i'll be very brief my name is gypsy serena and i am a long time resident of san antonio texas i grew up here just wanted to throw out a couple of things to keep you aware and maybe pass along the way on average at least one motorcycle rider dies every day in a crash on our streets and highways husbands or wives someone's daughter son brother sister mother father grandfather grandmother

[0:12:20] uncle aunt 519 motorcycle riders died in motorcycle vehicle crashes in 2021. seven that's a seven percent increase over the previous year and even though motorcyclists compromised less than two percent of vehicles in texas they account for 12 percent of the fatalities in 2821. in 2021 the city of san angelo had a total of 41 motorcycle traffic crashes these crashes resulted in two motorcyclist deaths and six motorcyclists safe seriously injured however within the san angelo district there were total of 97 motorcycle traffic crashes which resulted in 11 motorcyclist deaths and 28 motorcyclists being seriously injured the look twice for motorcycle campaign is an effort to save lives in our roadways we can all be a part of that whether you ride in a cage as we call it or uncaged as a freedom rider we can all be part of that all the vehicles are due respect on our roadway so we ask that you ride safe and arrive alive end the streak in texas please we ask you to look twice any time you're on the roads believe me when i tell you my 95 year old father and my 91 year old mother will greatly appreciate it as well all the families all the children all the grandchildren of the people present here today we appreciate you looking twice thank you for your time [Applause] our last proclamation is for historic

[0:14:40] preservation month so dale would you please come forward and monica the month of may is nationally recognized as historic preservation month the national trust for historic preservation established the theme people saving places for this year's campaign national and local preservation groups state historical societies and business and civic organizations across across the country come together to celebrate historic preservation month to demonstrate all the social and economic benefits of historic preservation downtown san angelo inc has made it their mission to promote the preservation of our past the very past that shows our city's sense of brilliance and creativity downtown san angelo consists of 51 properties containing historical attributes and significant architectural design these structures are connections to our past reminding us of our great city's ingenuity and progression towards our future this month is of great importance as we thank our local historic preservation groups and the passionate individuals who have saved and protected our city's notable history therefore i brenda gunter mayor of the city of san angelo texas on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim may 2022 as national historic preservation month in san angelo texas and call upon citizens to support the continued efforts of preservation in our community thank you mayor thank you council the beginning of historic preservation movement began with a focus on individual monuments it has since then evolved from a focus on monuments to archaeology to neighborhoods historic preservation is a fundamental tool for strengthening communities

[0:16:44] it is also proven to be an effective tool for sustainable sustainable buildings historic buildings downtown revitalization heritage tourism and contributions to historic sites trails and corridors that lead to outdoor activity the national historic preservation act specifically noted that the historical and cultural foundations of the nation should be preserved as a living part of community life and development in order to give a sense of orientation to the american people and further that the preservation of this irreplaceable heritage is in the public interest so that its vital legacy of cultural educational aesthetic inspirational economic and energy benefits will be maintained and enriched for future generations of americans historic preservation also most importantly is an important tool for economic development downtown san angelo inc is proud to celebrate historic preservation month and is also proud of the people who helped save our places and our history here within our city today as you all may know is the san angelo area foundation's largest online giving day we hope that you do consider making a contribution to downtown san angelo to help us continue our mission of downtown revitalization economic vitality and historic preservation thank you check it check out our website there's uh quite a bit of information dedicated to preservation month this month so take a look at that and thank both the mayor and city council for and city staff for all the help they they provide us in keeping our mission alive thank you [Applause] foreign

[0:19:28] at this point we will move into our 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 dias begin by stating their name and address or single member district number and limit their remarks to less than three minutes do we have anyone in the audience today who would like to offer public comment if so please come forward and state your smd area if you have one i'm diane good morning i'm diane baze i'm the vice president of the san angelo destination marketing organization and discover san angelo i live at 3544 blackbuck trail in buffalo heights neighborhood this week is national travel and tourism week and i wanted to make sure everyone knew that this is our 39th year in celebrating this austere holiday for our industry we on tuesdays wear red all across the united states this is a program brought to us by the u.s travel association so it's where red tuesday two of my staff are here jasmine and jonna so we are are celebrating that day today just to let you know the impact of the travel and tourism industry in san angelo 222.5 million dollars is spent by visitors in 2021 on total direct travel spending 74 million in industry earnings and 3 200 jobs so if you think about the the largest employer in our city and you think of all of those industry businesses getting together we represent a large number of jobs in san angelo and the taxes those visitors pay are almost 24 million in local and state sales taxes so visitor spending saves each san angelo household 643 dollars per year in taxes in 2021 which

[0:21:32] is about a week's worth of income for a number of people so if you think about that could you go a week without getting paid most of us could not 51 of retail sales tax 51 percent of retail sales tax is paid by by out-of-town visitors into san angelo it's a great impact in our community so it's also small business week majority of the businesses made up in the tourism and travel industry in san angelo are small businesses so we encourage you to be a tourist in your own town go out see what there is to see and do go to discoverstangelo.com and find out that information and then become great ambassadors to our community so the visitor has a great experience once they're here because it all starts with a visit so next tuesday at noon at the stables at fort concho i will be speaking about the future of travel at our chamber luncheon i hope you will enjoy that in that time and come and fellowship with us as we talk about the importance of the future of travel thank you well diane let me just make a comment well if 51 of the sales tax dollars are from visitors then what we need to do is encourage the citizens who live in san angelo to spend local because the reality is the largest percent of our sales tax dollars should come from our local citizens not from outside people but we're glad they are here and that means that our citizens are spending their tax dollars in other cities which support other cities we need to continue to emphasize spin local shop local and then let the tourists be the cream of the crop thank you [Applause] any further public comment today seeing none we will now move into the consent agenda i will ask city council members if there's any item that they would like

[0:23:35] pulled from the consent agenda starting with larry i'd like to pull item c please with that let's go ahead and have a motion for approval of the consent agenda by harry second by lucy any public comment on the agenda the consent agenda items seeing none will take a vote all in favor say aye the motion passes 6-0 carl if you'd like to come forward and talk about this rand sculptor civic league park yes we're asking for authorization to quick orientation civic league park the sculpture is located here it's called the rand sculpture and we're asking for authorization to remove the sculpture i do want to go through this it's called the rand sculpture the artist is john ramondi it's classified as a geometric abstraction sculpture it was dedicated to john's brother randy hence the name ran the piece was created in 1979 with the help of central high school shop class it was a school district project and funded with some grant funds constructed by the students with the design assistance of the of the artist the material is a quartet steel it's designed to rust and give that appearance of a rusty look and the condition of the sculpture is deteriorating rapidly a picture of it in 1979 with the shop class and even our al torres is shown there in that picture i'm not sure exactly which student that is but he's there it's al in the audience today okay so we won't know which one he is there's a color picture of it 1979 with

[0:25:39] the artist here's how it looks recently with the this large lower spire has collapsed it's pictured here without the spire there it is when it fell last august we've removed it and it's at the shop just a few pictures showing the deterioration a lot of the supports are failing you can see the excessive lack loss of integrity and that's again that's how it looks today i've been here 22 years when i first got here within a few years let me back up a little bit i noticed that the irrigation was spraying onto the sculpture and i knew that would accelerate the deterioration so i had it redone to back off the irrigation and to put drip irrigation around the base of it for some limited plantings let me see if it'll show we did add some some plantings but it just continued to deteriorate and um it's gonna it would take a big effort to try to get it repaired re-established the way it is supposed to be um we took this out into the art commission last fall they recommended removal we spoke with the artist they don't they're not wanting the sculpture back we asked them if they'd like it back he said he didn't want it back he did want the plaque that's located at the base somewhere out there and that's reflected in the resolution we're asking for you to consider

[0:27:43] so there are a lot of products out there that can be applied to steel to keep the rust from deteriorating have we been doing that because one of the problems is when you take this out of the park what do you have to replace it there that is some sort of sculpture or art of some sort because it adds a dimension to the park and the question mark is did we apply any rust treatment products to this sculptor along the way to help preserve it no it's corten steel it's not you're supposed to leave it that way so it's supposed to deteriorate it's supposed to rust and the waves designed it trapped trapped and caught a lot of water that did accelerate the rust if it didn't have so many places where the the water could catch i think it's just part of the design that it caught a lot of water that accelerated the resting but as far as i know there's nothing to apply to it to to slow up the the resting and we have nothing to re replace it with this council might refer to the public commission that's sort of their charge i was just looking at that picture of those kids in 1979 out there by that and it reminded me of legacy projects i've seen at other schools uh the pride that those kids take so many years later there's probably kids still in town all grown up now that go buy that and say that that was a part of me i was involved in it i would just love to see some kind of a legacy project go back in there if they recreate what's there or they establish something different i think it's a wonderful opportunity for saisd to pick this one up and run with it i wonder carl tommy would you like to speak i guess

[0:29:46] um i wonder carl if there's if if we could reprise that in some way if there's other material that could be obtained that in fact could and i like larry's suggestion too to see if some of those folks in that picture might want to be involved but to try to recreate that to the extent possible the look of that out of a different product or a different material that might give the same look now maybe the rust is what sets it apart and gives it the look they intended so that would be another issue entirely but you know um maybe if we couldn't if and if that's not possible maybe if we could find something else to go there um it would it will be blank without it erie if we decide that we're going to replace it or take a different type of material as tommy said to try to duplicate it cost of a metal today is outrageous i had we'd have to figure out what that cost would be and where that money would come from if it was going to come from the city at part of the budget or if we get public partners uh to come i mean private partnerships to come and help us i don't disagree with what's been said but my concern really is is we've got a lot of people in that area and with the condition of it i don't want to see another piece fall off and somebody accidentally get hurt so is there risk of something you know falling off and hurting somebody we've removed the biggest risk yeah there you go but it it's continued to fall apart i don't know that any of the spires will fall but it's not in good condition well i think what we need you know i hate to have legacy projects

[0:31:49] go to waste we tear them down move them away and nothing replaces it and there you go we need to have a game plan here we need to have a game plan to replace some sort of art sculpture back in that park and we don't expect the city to pay for it i think that we ought to create some sort of fundraising effort there's a lot of scrap metal that i'm sure is available that's not so expensive to buy and see if we can't get an artist to do something with it we need art in our parks we need art and i hate to see this thing come down disappear just it doesn't make sense to me we've got to have a game plan for this not just tear it down and throw it away would you like us to take it to the public art commission and allow them to look at it i mean typically the city most all of the art we have is is been donated through some entity and and we now with our new sculptures a lot of the bronzes and so forth have a maintenance program that's established this of course is different and a lot of it like carl said is designed and how it's if it's trapping water and rusting then you know those are those are flaws in the design but if you want us to we can take to the public art commission and allow them to start working on a on a plan of how they might what they would envision there and who they might want to partner with as far as engaging them we can talk to saisd and see if they're interested in inheritance we also have people like howard college who teach welding classes you know and i think we have to take a look at all of the potential people who could be a part of this and make it a community project inclusive of scrap metal being donated from people artists looking at that and designing something and then having the welding classes if you will put together what has been designed we'll take it and see if there's an art group who's interested in taking the lead on that and and go from there in the meantime i will say the integrity of the structure as you saw from the pictures is very

[0:33:51] deteriorated so i guess at this point we can move forward on trying to see if there's a group that will take the lead on the design and a and a plan for what they'd like to see there but as far as today's question then do you want us to let it stand or do you want us to go ahead and remove it i don't want to see it come down i don't want a public obviously a public risk factor to it so i mean i don't know if al tours can take a look at it and say if we do the following two things it'll be fine stabilize it until we have a game plan that would be my suggestion and see if we can't stabilize it for until there's something to replace it with and there might not be but then you can report back to us on that well then we'll look and see if there's a way to weld something to it where it's not as visible that will stabilize it temporarily and if not we'll come back to you and say that's just not possible and we'll take action at that you wanted to add something couple of comments the public art commission is already recommended to take it down is that correct correct okay second item is is if we're going to keep it in where the structure the way it is until we find something to replace it i would suggest that we have a structural engineer take a look at it because first thing i i and i said this before i don't want somebody to get hurt in there if a piece of that thing falls off and we as a council did not take the opportunity to remove it because we knew the conditions so those two items i mean i don't disagree with the mayor that we should need to replace it with something but in the same token i don't want to see it stay there for a long period of time without us moving forward because i think there's a possibility that we could have some additional uh pieces come off of that let's have a structural engineer look at it see if we can stabilize it and then develop a game plan for it and if you drive by that park you

[0:35:53] realize you've seen that sculpture there that piece of art for a long long time and i don't want to just see it taken down and disappear and then leave a big hole there we need to have a plan and that plan should obviously include stability stabilization and taking away risk if there's a risk attached to it we'll also have that group when they look at it i know there has been some some design work that has been looked at for the overall layout of that park and what it might be in the future so that might give an opportunity if we replace whether you place it in exactly the same location or it shifts one way or another based on what the future layout of the park might be so okay we'll do that okay thank you so do we need to take action on something if we don't have a motion to approve the resolution then um we need a demo a motion to deny that item for future consideration do we have to say that because we're going to have a plan so i make a motion to deny their request to tear it down at this point is there a second second by lucy all in favor say aye aye yeah so passes five zero i mean five one is that a yes or no harry that that is an a okay so five one all right we will now move into our regular agenda our regular agenda comments regarding items on the regular agenda may be made by the public when each item is discussed as outlined above applicants proponents and appellants are exempt from the time limit above and instead must limit their remarks to less than five minutes we will start with item a consider accepting the city's fiscal year 2021 annual comprehensive financial report and single audit gala are you here kayla the first and tina the first

[0:38:06] question i have is last year we had delivered to us on the friday before the city council meeting a copy of this plan so we had an opportunity to review it and create some questions attached to the review i don't think i've received anything mayor tina dierski director of finance are you referring to the actual financial report we had one last year that was delivered to us it was uh presented in the background agenda information which i believe posted last wednesday but do we have did we get a final published report that is the final publisher we're not going to get a printed copy if you'd like a printed copy we can absolutely send you one thank you good morning mayor and city council thank you once again on behalf of armstrong bacchus and company for engaging us to perform the audit for city of san angelo and the single audit we have powerpoint today just to kind of go through the highlights of what is in the report that was attached to the background information the purpose of an audit is to express opinions on the city's financial statements in accordance with u.s gaap generally accepted accounting principles those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance that your financial statements are not materially misstated which means we don't come in and look at all the transactions we look at areas of high risk we look at areas that are very material to the financial statements and so some items may not even be considered by us just because they're so small in nature in the report the city is composed of your primary government which is all of the funds of the city of san angelo and it also includes one discreetly presented component unit which is the city of san angelo development corporation that is included in the report not all funds are presented on the face

[0:40:09] of the financials towards the beginning that is based on how material they are and so the general fund of course being the major fund of your government is always presented at the front we always present capital improvement fund because of the materiality of those transactions and the debt service fund water and sewer as well because there's so many transactions that go through there the new major fund this year and we'll talk more about this in a little bit when i talk about the single audit was your inter-governmental fund which holds all of the grant funding revenues and expenditures that come through the city of san angelo you had an incredible grant year and so it caused that fund to become major this year and is presented towards the beginning of the reports say that again you had such an incredible great year you had so many federal expenditures and awards that were received that the materiality caused that fund to become major and now it's at the beginning of the report all other funds of the city are aggregated and put into aggregate columns in your report and then the details of those are presented towards the back of the report and combining schedules that's why it's hard to review all of this online there's a lot too it's 149 page report yeah it's too hard to do online our opinions so based on our audit our opinions of the financial statements are that everything was presented fairly in all material respects so it was a clean opinion some of the significant events for 2021 you sold the four branch and those proceeds have subsequently been used to pay off the debt in 2022. um you had a refunding debt which saved you 2.9 million dollars so that was a positive and then one of the biggest what's a refunding debt a refunding debt is where you borrow an additional debt to pay off another debt and you borrow at a lower interest rate so you end up saving money

[0:42:12] over time so your savings over time is almost three million dollars and the most significant change to this year's audit is that you had an increase to net position or a net income to your city of 46 million dollars this is unusual but a few things um contributed to that one you received a lot of funding for the coronavirus relief and the american rescue plan act funds and that you haven't had in the past you had the proceeds from the solo the ford ranch and then your other post-employment benefit plan expenses decreased significantly this year so all of that led to your substantial net income for the year on the citywide financial statements which includes all funds of the city your total assets were 736 million total liabilities 473 million your total net position or your equity right at 260 million and then again you had a 46 million dollar increase to your net position very good year for the city here's just a chart the top is a bar graph to show over the last three years the bottom line being the current year your change in that position and then the total net position so the very bottom line on this chart shows that because you had such a healthy change in that position this year you're told on that position increased significantly in addition to the financial statements we also have to perform a single audit and anytime you receive over 750 000 in federal funds you have to have a single audit where we go in and audit the internal control and compliance over the major programs that are received we issue a separate report it's not part of the 149-page document it's separate and um we do a lot of test work we have to go in and there's a formula for which programs you test we pick those we test

[0:44:14] the internal control of the compliance and then we report all of that to the federal and audit clearing house this year your total grant expenditures were 14 million dollars and to put that in perspective from prior years a significant jump you've always raised right about the four to six million dollar level and this year you had so many additional grant funds received that it threw you up to 14 million dollars very good year for the city and that is all i have to have any questions we have questions from council what about the pension fund the pension fund is still showing a significant liability as are most governments so six years ago you weren't required to report that liability on the on your financial statements and then the gatsby came out and then required it and most governments were caught being underfunded well the the good news is you're not building that liability it is decreasing over time but it is still a liability to the city and so the plan with the financials that you present today there's no risk that the city will default on the pension liability as we go forward i don't see a risk of that as long as you'll continue funding the current required amounts going forward when you say the city had a very good year knowing that there will not be federal grants available this year as there has been last year do you see any issues with the game plan here the thing about the federal funds is that for every dollar you receive you have to spend so it doesn't increase profit it just so happened that some of the revenue came in this year and it's going to be spent subsequent years but the fact that you don't get grant funds doesn't significantly impact you every year because for every dollar received you have to spend it for its intended purpose are there any challenges and issues that

[0:46:16] you would uh put out there that we need to be aware of that we should be concerned about or that we should re-look at no man we didn't see any concerns okay other questions yes ma'am there were a number of findings and they seemed to be relatively small i i wondered if you were comfortable with the fixes on those particular problems we were so there are three levels of findings that we can report there's material weakness which is the most significant talk about that uh you didn't have any this year and so material weakness is where we find something that is an internal control deficiency that if it hadn't been caught could have created a material misstatement to the financial statement you've had some in the past you didn't have money this year which was very good the next level down is significant deficiency it's enough to be concerned about but may not create a material misstatement you also did not have any of those the lowest level are just internal control deficiencies i don't feel like we wouldn't be i don't feel like we'd be doing our job if we didn't come up with some recommendations to do things better and so um we did report a few of those they're not material we've discussed them in great detail with audit committee and with staff who do a great job by the way and we're comfortable that they're on the right track what was the number one issue the number one issue inventory inventory controls were as tidy as they had been in the past but they're actively working with the city's internal auditor finance staff and they're working with them the inventory folks to get that corrected any other questions or comments from city council do we accept this do we need a motion to accept this okay so moved by harry to accept the city the city's fiscal year 2021 annual comprehensive financial report do i have a second

[0:48:18] a second by tom tommy hebert any public comment seeing none we will take a vote all those in favor say aye aye motion passes six zero thank you gayla we'll move on to item b san angelo chamber of commerce economic development 2021 report and michael looney you're on all right good morning council good morning mayor staff uh appreciate the opportunity to present this morning uh i'm michael looney i'm the vice president of economic development for the san angelo chamber of commerce and we're going to do a quick look at our 2021 year-end report um the the four basic tenets of the economic development department are economic reinforcement legislative policy workforce development cooperation and innovation cooperation and innovation that's probably one of the most important ones that we work on and that is to provide business to business network opportunities to promote manufacturing energy technology and agricultural sectors to the community to strengthen entrepreneurial liberty wealth building opportunities and to secure resources that are needed by these businesses we work very closely with tom green county we work very closely with the city of san angelo development corporation who is really our our main partner overview the five basic pillars uh of our of our mission is prospect generation that is finding prospects to bring new companies into san angelo industrial companies and those are your core business providers those are your core companies that provide what they call primary jobs as opposed to retail industry recruitment rail business recruitment obviously the the rail port is a big part of what we've accomplished uh in the past couple of years which is a a real anchor for our economy and for our growth with industry and also for uh translating

[0:50:21] shipping and logistics side of side of the economy economic gardening the san angelo regional manufacturers alliance is a program that we created in 2017 as a means of bringing together our regional industrial leaders so that we can understand better what the barriers to success are including workforce supply chain and access to markets and that has been a very popular program and a very successful program and it's based on the philosophy of economic gardening economic gardening is the basic practice of taking care of our own industrial companies first uh creating relationships with those companies that helps us to figure out uh what other companies that they might work with on a from a from a partnership program would do well in san angelo so really effectively like i've said before the mayor's heard this many times we've we have an organization with over 100 manufacturers fabricators and energy service companies we we work with them regularly and we've effectively deputized those companies to help us understand uh what what uh industrial enterprises they have relationships with so that we can bring them together prop possibly bring them to san angelo and that's been very helpful and then industrial career promotion and training boy this is a big one uh it is probably the biggest barrier that every city in texas right now has and that is uh workforce that is trained workforce to to to fulfill these different important positions at these different uh primary job manufacturers but all that said our 2021 impact was six closed deals 129 employer created jobs and total value out of 79 million uh 232 000. so all things considered uh coming out of a pretty ugly kovitz situation that really put a damper on a lot of the supply chains and and uh and orders for materials uh we felt like that was uh that was a a good recovery year for for economic

[0:52:24] development explain that 79 million yeah that is uh what that is mayor is that is um the total value of of of the six transactions um we'll talk about what those six transactions are i'm gonna i'm gonna get to that in just a second in fact i can jump ahead and these are uh four transactions double j lamb techmetric tri-core steel manufacturing and korea midland power company the 79 is the the total economic yield that's job creation that salaries that's capital investment over a 36-month period we don't use a really long horizon where some economic software's that we do use project a ten-year horizon of what the economic yield is to the community we think that's a little bit ambitious um i don't know if that answered your question or not go back to that screen we'll keep on going and then we'll okay okay sorry i'm going to interrupt you sure no problem uh prospect generation just to inform uh city council of in 2021 we have at 15 active prospects nine of them are on hold uh 18 went inactive uh meaning they either stayed where they were or moved to a different city and seven complete um request for information this is through several site selectors that we work with gsli state of texas and day one experts we receive 47 requests for information rfis the criteria met was five which we responded to uh probably the biggest challenges that we have are when we receive these rfis from these site selectors uh they have uh needs for existing buildings that are on the ground and ready to go usually in that 150 to 250 000 square foot range sometimes a lot lot larger and then employees several many of these companies have needs for five six seven hundred employees so we try to find that sweet spot where we know san angelo can meet those criteria effectively and quickly and then the last one is in the middle

[0:54:29] is acreage and sometimes there are companies that have huge acreage needs so we kind of look at it in two ways you look at it what are the transactions that we can capture and handle and and and accommodate in san angelo and then what are those that are kind of the mega deals that that are looking nationally most of the prospects that we get uh are looking in texas specifically or in in the southwest region which gives us a a a better chance of of capturing those companies as opposed to a company that's doing a national search probably 80 percent of the companies that we receive rfis from when we communicate with them they're they're basically shopping uh they're gonna they're probably gonna stay where they are but they're doing their due diligence and looking around at other communities uh as they should um but in some cases uh we are we are fortunate enough to uh get an audience with them have a site visit to san angelo and uh and get them um going forward here to industry recruitment i wanted to highlight a couple of points um what you'll notice here is that the the the spectrum the variety of different types of companies uh it tells a lot about san angelo as a a comp a city that has the ability to accommodate a lot of different types of industries so double j lamb uh this is one that we worked on in 2020 and that pro that project was they purchased the old rancher's lamb facility which which uh uh councilman hebert uh toured uh not too long ago that property was in really bad state of of of repair and we were very fortunate to build a relationship a very fast deal with double j lamb of texas which at the time was called mountain states rosen of greeley colorado they've hired so far 85 people they've invested about 10 million into the facility uh it is clean it is fully operational and it was a really big success for san angelo and what it also has done is it's helped to elevate our once historic lamb industry as well and that was really why the rancher's

[0:56:33] lamb facility was built in the first place in the 90s was to try to find a way to uh create that symbiosis between uh the the lamb ranchers and and a way to process them as opposed to sending them to another state uh there are only three lamb lamb processing facilities in the u.s and we have one of those three and so we're very pleased with that transaction uh i would also like to salute um theresa james the legal department and um in the real estate department who worked really closely with us and with double j's attorney on getting that transaction done as as fast as it was it was about a 30 day turnaround which is which is pretty pretty impressive they're very pleased with san angelo and with the workforce that they've been able to to hire tech metrics is the local market providing enough lambs for them no it's not um and part of it was because of their presence it it raised the land prices and so um that's not the reason but it's one of the reasons we've been told but they're actually bringing most of their lambs in from the western range and it's probably because they have relationships with 249 different ranchers up in the western range from when they were in greeley and so they continue that relationship of note they run exactly along the ports to planes corridor which runs almost directly from greeley colorado to san angelo texas and so we wanted to highlight that so good job on the ports to planes corridor work uh techmetric this is a small company based out of houston uh they've hired about 20 people in san angelo they are a software company that makes software for the automotive repair industry a very innovative company they secured a lease space downtown and they've been hiring work from home and different professionals from the area and uh they've they've been doing very well and so we've enjoyed their employees were they employees of another company yes they were yeah they sure were um that were it was time for them to move on and so

[0:58:35] they found a place to land at techmetric and what's great about it is that it's a satellite office for a houston-based software company very innovative company high growth company and they've they've kept people here they've kept professionals here that are in that industry so so we think that's a that's a good win growth in terms of employees oh boy last time we talked to them they're looking at probably 40 people um now i'm not sure that they're going to hit that uh this year but um they they've they started off with 12 when we helped find that real estate forum downtown which you you helped with as well thank you um and they're already over 20 and their salaries are very strong i'll leave it at that um tri-core steel manufacturing this is a company that we recruited from uh from uh from eden actually a small steel company but has a wonderful future and they're doing really well it's 12 people again 12. they're a steel fabrication company that makes impact barriers for the department of transportation all over the united states and they're wonderful family-owned company they pay good good wages to their to their people they've got a real esprit de corps when you go visit their facility on pulliam you can just kind of sense the pride you can feel the pride and they've got big plans to grow and then finally midland korea midland power company as i said earlier we do work with the county because part of our funding comes from the county and so we're able to reach into the county and work on projects that may not be able to land in the city limits usually due to land size and facilities um korea midland power company is a is a is an interesting uh development it is a foreign direct investment this is a korean company it's basically the aep if you will of korea and they built a 164 million dollar solar power plant on ratliff road which is under construction right now so it's not a big job creator it's just it's two to full-time jobs but it it has a strong

[1:00:39] yield to tom greene county and to the community uh because of its tax base and we don't work with very many solar power plants so we have one on the ground duke energy on 2288 and of course the new one korea midland power company also known as comipo on ratliff road but um we've seen tom greene county has kind of become the darling of a lot of renewables companies especially in the solar arena uh because the uh the uh uh the land is available and the land and the property owners are very interested in these in these kinds of transactions that can give them a a monthly paycheck for up to 30 years we like them because they provide a good revenue stream to the county without needing a lot of people and so uh any company that can provide 164 million dollar cap investment but no people that's okay were we did we make sure when we worked with them on highway 277 south that they are fully aware of the porsche plains corridor and the need to expand and widen 277 and they they they are quite aware of that and uh and and certainly uh what's really nice about working with these companies is that they are absolute professionals there's no questions they work on these projects we worked with them for three years on this project and so they really do their homework it's excellent engineering and they're really great community partners too they get a tax abatement from the county ah they sure did yes you know what it was uh it was uh uh tax abatement for years one through ten and then years eleven through thirty are at full levy but during one through ten uh kamipo is paying a pilot a payment in lieu of taxes which is not quite but almost about close to 50 percent of what the normal tax yield would be the tax bill would be it's close to that and that's just how they like to structure it so they do a full abatement for years one through ten but they have a payment in lieu of taxes called a pilot program and that is sufficient for uh for their

[1:02:43] tax for their savings so that they can invest that kind of money into the project okay business recruitment we're talking rail business recruitment this is part of the planes trains and automobiles so uh one of the projects that the chamber has worked on with costa dc and with our consultant roger horton of shade transportation who many of you know has been the development of the san angelo rail port and this is a project that is under construction uh currently they have eleven thousand feet of track on the ground out of a total of 18 000 the project is ahead of schedule we have one confirmed tenant that has already run a train last sunday their first train on to the port and eight active prospects and so uh the uh really this is this is going to be a crown jewel for san angelo and it's already starting to have that impact of where we're getting calls and and and interest from companies that probably wouldn't have had a real strong reason to be in the san angelo area but with the access to this rail port it's now changing their minds and so now we're really becoming and this is the point this is the strategic objective is to become a a regional international uh logistics and transportation hub for this part of texas and uh i want to make sure we point out it's one of the best examples of a private public partnership between cosa dc and shea transfer it is perfect and shea transportation which is the consultant we also worked very closely with texas pacifico as you would as you would you would guess and south plains la mesa railroad um when we looked at this project and we started talking about it probably almost five years ago the concept of doing this and it was a way to get coil steel into san angelo and it just blossomed into much more than that our relationship with shad weissner who owns south plains la mesa railroad has

[1:04:45] been just truly spectacular um south plains la mesa railroad has a port in slayton texas that's similar to the one that's being built here they also have a port in uh pueblo colorado and uh mr weisner has invested a lot of his own money um into this project all of his own money really um i mean it's it's it's it's fully funded as a private operation but the key is to keep it a democratically run and open port so that we all of our companies that want to have service for rail can take advantage of it and as i've said before in some cases where a private developer builds a rail port if you will for a community they're really doing a build to suit for one or two special commodities if those commodities dry up they will close the port we saw that happen south of san antonio this is a different situation and so so shad wisener has been a gem to work with and a true partner to san angelo and we owe him a lot and we hope he does extremely well and we think he will san angelo regional manufacturers alliance as i mentioned before uh that is really the the platform of our business retention and expansion economic gardening efforts uh two that i wanted to mention smc global it seems like every year when i give my presentation smc global is on it and it's because they're kind of the company that continues to give back to san angelo uh they are now on their fourth expansion uh they bought land uh last year on dan hanks behind a current facility the one that we've been to on on old crostoval road and they continue to just do so well they've got 20 people on on staff right now they continue to hire they pay very good salaries there has not had to be a whole lot of public investment public private investment from coastal dc at all they're putting their own private money into their developments and they currently have four facilities in san angelo one of which is the old rg berry building which is 85 000 square foot warehouse on

[1:06:48] on on loop 306 which had sat vacant for a long time so it's just been a real uh real joy to work with this company and see them investing in san angelo their emotional engagement their interest in the community and we were told by sean carter a few weeks ago who is their comptroller from kershaw south carolina he said that the smc hydrolyzation facility is going to be their united states standard and it is going to be the uh the most high-tech facility that they have in their united states um arsenal what's your expected growth in terms of employees uh they're probably going to get up to about 40. they're they're heading that direction uh and it's really going to going to be reliant also on scientists and uh chemists and drivers um and and of note one thing that was brought to light when we were meeting with sean a couple of weeks ago is that they have a very robust hiring program at asu with especially the chemistry students and the engineering students and um they were they're very excited about that relationship and we we use that a lot i mean we sell asu especially engineering chemistry uh mechanical engineering physical engineering a lot and that is very impressive with the companies that we speak to because a lot of them really want to know that you've got that education-based pipeline supply of talent uh air motor windmill company um well here's another one it was an expansion that they uh they committed to we worked very closely with them last year in fact nick ulman uh general manager of air motor is here with us today and uh that uh was was done rather quickly because they acquired their biggest competitor nationally uh and so air motor windmill uh i guess you could say kind of doubled in size within a several month period and so we've enjoyed that relationship i don't remember how many employees they have nick you might speak to that 23 employees thank you nick

[1:08:50] and uh and continuing to grow and thrive okay uh industrial career promotion and training as i said before so important for us to be involved and have a have a stake a controlling stake in understanding and and implementing ways that we can train young people uh or retrain people who are going from one career to another sme prime this is a project that was uh kicked off about three years ago by mike berry and for those who don't know mike berry is he works with me now we're partners at the chamber i hired him in october and he came to us from ethicon where he was for 10 years as their director of training and before that he is an air force academy graduate who was in the u.s air force as an intelligence officer for 10 years before that it's amazing that such a young person can accomplish so much in such a quick period of time but sme prime was really his idea and that is a program that is designed to introduce high school students to practice certification and theory in the engineering sector and that program was supported the seed program we're only the second high school in texas to have an sme prime program uh that was that was promoted by co-cdc which contributed 150 000 to that program ethicon principal led and then the chamber of commerce chipped in and this project is now in in the formation stages and we expect that it will become fully activated by the later part or early part of next year and will begin putting out trainings to students at the high school level the difference between what you expect next year and what's going on right now so it's been two years in the and building the program what does that two years mean in terms of building yeah it took a while to get the program stood up um with getting the equipment uh and getting the understandings uh understanding from howard college and saisd as to what their role is in in administering the

[1:10:55] program and so that took about about two years to do so what is that program i mean are we teach what are we teaching mike great thank you i'm gonna have mike barry come speak about it because he knows more about it than anybody hi mike berry uh so real quick about sme prime it's a from start to finish it's a three year program okay so year one was 2021 and primarily what takes place in year one but a lot of the money goes to is deciding on doing market research within the local area what the employers want the donor employer specifically but all primary industrial manufacturing employers what came back from that is the uh curriculum that is going to be built with the rest of the money and what you see up there is that is industrial maintenance and mechatronics and robotics so that's the curriculum that was decided upon based off the needs of the local area the needs of those two donor companies from there they start buying equipment so last year was the first piece of equipment they did a precision measuring piece of equipment what involved in that is not just buying the equipment but then certifying the instructor on how to use and then actually instruct so they can certify their students in addition to they start building out and fleshing out what that curriculum looks like from a freshman all the way to senior right and so a little bit of a look ahead as to where we are already within the first quarter 22 that curriculum is now done they have purchased three more pieces of equipment some of that robotic is being set up later this week so as we talk next year about that we'll look at where a bigger chunk of that money was spent which is on more equipment certifying more instructors to be able to teach that equipment to be able to certify their students the ultimate idea here is that when students identify that they want to be part of this track in the cte programs at san angelo isd whether

[1:12:57] lakeview or central they will come out not only with college credit they will likely come out with an industry-based certification right out of high school so they can go straight into the workforce and start making money building a living for themselves or they will also be able to go feed right into asu's engineering program for their mechanical engineering and civil engineering the idea is back to michael's previous statement regarding economic guarding this is how we continue to grow on grow our own and incentivize our local students and families that schools are good here you're going to stay here and you can enter the job market right out of school because there are companies like ethicon principality and so many other that have a job ready for you right out of high school sounds fabulous i'm glad that you brought it to the table and you're overseeing it because i think it's a great win for san angelo and the business community so i'm very proud and excited about that program thank you stay up here know i tell you what um that concludes our our our formal remarks if there's any other questions you have we're happy to answer them uh i wanted to say for just a second what a privilege it has been to work with mike barry uh he is intelligent he is articulate and he uh loves the uh the manufacturing sector cause that's where we sort of borrowed him from and uh it has just been a pleasure to work with mike uh it has brought a whole new spirit of innovation to our office we still very much enjoy working with co-cdc and with all of our other economic development partners and like i've said before are you taking note of this so that when your review is done that he repeats all these things that he's saying right now yeah thank you all right well that's that concludes our our presentation if you have any other questions we're more than happy to answer them yes larry you were referring back to double j you said indicated that most of the lands being processed are from other areas my question is is there an

[1:15:01] increased interest or a rejuvenation of lamb growing here oh there is it's just as we we asked the question of jay hassebrook who's the owner of double j and he said just getting them born getting enough of them birthing birthing made so so that's uh that's that's it it is having a revitalization effect and it will continue to do so but the but the the feedstock needed for the facility was so great that it just overwhelms what they could produce regionally so but they're going to get there karen do you have any questions or comments lucy tommy not only thank you so much for all your hard work harry i can't say this enough but the partnership the strength of the partnership between kosa dc and the chamber economic is is so great that i see a bright future in bringing additional businesses here and strengthening the ones that we've got so thank you appreciate it god you and your crew mike thank you tommy yes ma'am a couple of things um i did have the opportunity uh thanks to michael to tour double j um i want to give a shout out to a local san angelo person that was involved in that from the real estate standpoint out of amarillo a guy named guy i know him as tommy he goes by tom now but tom horton lee lee horton's younger brother tom had a a part of that getting helping them come to san angelo which is kudos to tom because he lives in amarillo and there is a lot of land production in and around north texas but he had enough soft spot in his heart for san angelo texas that he helped us get um the old slam thank you ranchers lamb facility filled with double j number one number

[1:17:05] two smc global they are true community partners michael mentioned that a couple of times there was an issue that came up a couple of years ago at one of their facilities that just happened to be in my district and i had some folks call about it michael and i talked about it michael talked to the smc global folks about it and we were able to work through that they didn't have to back off of their project they worked with michael and were able to do that project at just one of their other facilities they had enough concern that of the concerns that were raised by the community that they said yes we we hear that and we're not going to force that we're going to we're going to continue to do that so um thanks to smc global michael for you for working with them to help them be able to accomplish what they needed to but at a different location thanks thank you all very much we will now move on to item c on the regular agenda discussion and consideration of the following items related to the property casualty fund one discussion on the impact of the recent claims history and the related increase in the premium contribution to the texas municipal league intergovernmental risk pool and two first public hearing and introduction of an ordinance amending the budget for fiscal year october 1 2021 and ending september 30th 2022 for one time transfer of 480 thousand dollars from the workers compensation fund to the property casualty fund and i think we have charles hagen here today thank you you're on good morning mayor council city managers uh yeah so we had a little bit of a tough time with the 320 account this year we had a lot of events that helped deplete the fund balance and so staff's recommending for a transfer of funds for 480 000 from the workers comp fund which is the other fund that we manage okay i haven't worked this one before so

[1:19:15] there we go so some of the items that have impacted the uh the fund was the re-rating of the premium contribution from texas municipal league intergovernmental risk pool that's our excess insurance carrier uh it was a result of an annual increase of 137 thousand dollars this is primarily due to catastrophic events because that's usually when we go to them we have a very high deductible so we don't go to them unless we absolutely need to what was that event that would have been back in 2020 the hail event it was started back then and it's carried forward throughout the years in 2020 we had three storms so we paid three deductibles um actually four deductibles because one was an auto deductible one was a property deductible then in 2021 we hit the freeze and we hit another deductible so through those past few years they've kind of taken away from us and then you add in the current and prior year automobile accidents that are both in internal and external uh you know we could when somebody hits a traffic signal light you know we will cover that however the amount of damage that can be done to one of those obviously is very expensive so there we have 137 500 and then we have law enforcement liability which we currently have worked through a settlement with one but we haven't yet to pay it so we need that money to pay that settlement when it does come we expect that to come real estate are you saying that there were accidents when our people were at fault and so we're paying or is it can you just describe that yes ma'am it's both uh if a department has an accident and we're at fault we we actually internally bill them a deductible of a thousand dollars but then the risk fund covers the remainder of it and then if the other side if we're not at fault hopefully the other party has insurance or enough insurance to cover the damage but it doesn't always work out that way so then we end up taking a hit when they don't have enough insurance or insurance to cover the costs and then we have the line for law

[1:21:17] enforcement liabilities now this budget amendment it's not intended to add these numbers all together to equal out this is just a what we need to remain solvent going forward you want to talk about you say the law enforcement liability three hundred thousand the miller stract and shaparo shapiro what was that so those are the three law enforcement lawsuits that are in place that we currently are tracking miller has come to a settlement but we need the money to make that payment we have yet to add they have not asked for the money just yet so we we're hoping that by the time we get this approved and through we'll have the money funded to take care of that payment i can add to that go ahead teresa miller we do have a negotiated settlement that is working its way through the court system because there's a juvenile involved strike is not really moving right now but there is potential liability there japarro the court did dismiss that case so we won't have any future liability unless they file an appeal which is not anticipated okay thank you so with that the to approve a related budget amendment for a one-time transfer fund of the worker from the workers compensation fund from 330 to 320 or 480 000 and the budget amendment will be presented as a separate agenda item sorry okay so okay so we're you're asking us to approve i guess uh item c uh regular agenda item two is that correct the first part is just the discussion on the impact yes sir does that wipe out the bud i mean does that take away all the money in that fund we were originally planning on sorry brian kendrick director of human resources risk management we were originally intending to bring the budget amendment as a separate item because we thought there might be more so i apologize for that typo in there this is just

[1:23:20] in a few seconds tina will get up and she'll show you the budget amendment uh it is actually part of this item but we'll go and continue on um charles is going to go over kind of the fix that we have for future years so that we don't get in this situation again we've tried to think of this for more of a you know running running a business doing this more like state farm or geico would than we've done it uh previously so he's going to speak to that now so this is not very specific to this but obviously when you're starting to take a look at these kinds of budget amendments it's a lot of money what are we doing in terms of working on terms of training to ensure we don't have these kinds of big dollar problems um are you referring there's not a lot we can do about the weather yeah well the weather you can't accidents you can yeah so i think that's what he's getting ready to talk about right so we we do go over defensive driving we have that program internally that we handle with all uh all departments where somebody's driving a vehicle so as far as our activity we do train to try to offset that then you know there's there's additional training at the department level for the police that i'm i think i believe chief fincher is here that he could speak to so yes we do train our our own folks of course like tommy mentioned the weather we can't we can't control we can't and we understand that the texas municipal league uh we haven't had an increase from them in how many years it's been six years since they re-rated us and i will say that um you know kind of a shout out to the finance department tina and ryan uh helped charles and i as we met with tml and we we actually bought that the original thing was close to two hundred thousand dollar increase and so we we we reduced that by a good sixty thousand by kind of modifying what we taking a look at what are what is it

[1:25:23] that we are covering should that be self-insured and then looking at the deductible levels for various items as well so we we did buy that down quite a bit before we got came to us and now he'll speak to how we're going to fix this in the upcoming year the fixer we'll jump right on over to the fix non-catastrophic and auto property costs that are completely self-insured will be divided by covered assets and charged up proportionately so they'll look at each department how much they have per asset and then they'll will bill again against that asset tml irp specific premiums such as errors and emissions will be combined with deductible cost projections and charged out by covered department so within the policies that we have with tmlrp there are some policies that are very specific to departments such as the law enforcement liability or the airport liability errors and emissions will cover a broader range so that will also be spread out across the board the tmrp general catastrophic premium such as auto property flood will be divided by the covered again by the covered assets and charged up proportionately in an administrative cost for keeping the risk management fund or risk the risk department operating will also be uh included in that and this would be the budget amendment that's proposed by uh staff and produced by finance for the questions from any of council members tommy um this is more of a random question do you have a consulting actuary that reviews these sort of things that they say you are funding at appropriate levels based on what we perceive risk and so forth which is what actuaries assess is the risk so is that something have we run this through our consulting actuary do we have a consulting actuary

[1:27:27] we use an actuary to look at our funds and check our phone balances and give us direction as to where the fund balances need but that's pretty much what they do they just look at the numbers and give us direction where we need to set established fund balances at like 70 and 90 percent any further questions from council with none then we will i will have have a motion for approval on do we need emotion on this or wait till tina does yeah let's go ahead and have tina present and then we'll do a motion together okay so mayor the requested budget amendment is for 480 000 out of the workers comp fund balance you asked earlier whether the fund balance in that fund was adequate to cover this amount and yes it is i won't say that it's overly um i wouldn't say that there's two yeah overly flush but there is enough to cover it there's over 2.4 million dollars in that fund balance and with this plan going forward of fixing the property casualty fund we will ensure that that fund is adequately um contributed to as well based on current claim trends if claims continue to grow then it will be it will continue to be a problem so your questions about playing good defense are are appropriate and you know we'd like some rain um without that without the damage and if i may the uh some of the things that we're doing with property casualty now uh we worked with tina and her staff as well three years ago on workers comp and we've we've made adjustments that that have made that one a little more healthy uh then and healthy enough to handle this situation and so hopefully the changes that we're making now to property casualty will have that same effect and we won't have to have this discussion we don't like hard-earned income revenue for the city to go

[1:29:31] towards these kinds of issues it's kind of heartbreaking so with that what i need a motion to approve the budget amendment some move by karen seconded by tommy any public comment with none we will vote all in favor of this budget amendment of 480 000 say aye aye motion approved five six to zero item d first reading a public hearing of an ordinance re-adopting chapter eight offenses and nuances article 8.07 minors division 2 curfew of the code of ordinances of the city of san angelo and we have chief transief tracy venture here today thank you welcome assistant chief fincher san angelo police department what i have is a presentation for review and discussion on an ordinance of a juvenile curfew as y'all know the ordinance was originally adopted in 1996 as a preventative tool the microphone a little closer tracy thank you as a preventative tool for juvenile delinquency and crime it's been very effective over the years and with that i've opened for discussion questions would you would you uh talk to us about what the language and that is so yes ma'am the curfew starts it it goes during the weekdays the curfew any juvenile under the age of 17 has to be either in the company of a parent or home after 11 pm to 6 a.m and then on the weekends it runs from 1201 or midnight to 6 a.m the next morning as well and that's that's pretty much the hours there are a lot of exceptions in there with a parent a school event a guardian stuff like that that allows

[1:31:35] them not to get in trouble you know i love love the ordinance i i think it has great intentions how do you patrol it and manage it the the officers work in the street encounter people throughout the night for various things whether it's a call for service such as an alarm at a local school saturday night where some juveniles that broke in and done some damage and were arrested or just walking down the street and appear to be very young it varies that's a tough challenge yes ma'am excuse me questions for chief fincher larry one of the purposes i assume is to reduce crime rate is there any way you can quantify the reduction in a petty crime whatever else based upon this this ordinance that that would be difficult i i can tell you the crime rate did fall this year as compared to last year but as far as juveniles we do keep juvenile statistics very accurately and i can i can tell you the number of juvenile arrests in curfew hours but as as far as to quantify that how it relates to the crime decrease or increase that would be difficult yes sir i was also curious it's alluded to that there's a juvenile curfew processing office i wondered where this was the processing office is in the juvenile office and the desk duty officer of the police department it it serves when this first started it was a it was man 24 7 or during curfew hours um it's only man now by a police officer during the work day um if it has to be opened up and activated an officer who is assigned will be manning that office

[1:33:39] until we can find a guardian for that are there plans to have a specific office and a new police building if it's it's already part of it because it's cid and juvenile is there as well but we'll have to do that when the when a new police facility takes place yes sir are there questions for chief venture tommy i was on the council in 96 when we adopted this yes i am that old um and if my memory is clear chief fincher one of the main reasons then as i assume still today is really to help you all help address any juveniles on the street that have no reason to be on the street and when before we had this you all didn't have a tool really to deal with that so that was one of the main reasons 30 almost 30 years ago that this was implemented so as far as i know it has been reauthorized every time it has been presented mayor i would make a motion to reauthorize it again motion by tommy is second by harry any public comment i would say the following i know that when school lets out this thing jumps like crazy and i i know the difference it makes when we have the ability to arrest these people who do a lot of negative graffiti work in in some of our cherished areas so thank you for doing that um with any public comment other than my comment then we'll take a vote all in favor say aye aye motion carries 6-0 we'll move on to item e first reading and public hearing of an ordinance amendment amending chapter 2

[1:35:41] administration and personnel article 2.07 boards committees and commissions regarding one section 2.07.001 organization procedure clarifying the conflict of interest provision and to section 2.07.061 creation members clarifying the recent changes to dividing the river corridor into three areas julia yes thank you and the first item was a conflict of interest provision that was adopted in 2020 and and what we didn't realize is that we were saying that any member of an organization that accepted funding from the city could not serve on our costa dc board so we're just wanting to make that more restrictive and pull that up to a board member level that way we're not um disqualifying most individuals in the city from serving on cosa dc and then for the second board and so the river corridor was split into three different districts and the river corridor downtown district and then the cultural district areas but the provision that we currently have in our code only states river corridor so essentially we cut by a third if you will um the type of people that are able to serve on the dhrc and so we're wanting to open that up again to all the people that previously were able to serve on the board makes sense any questions for julia of approval mayor tommy mood for approval second by lucy any public comment seeing none we'll take a vote all in favor say aye motion passes 6-0 we will now move into our closed session the executive session under the provision of government code title v open government ethics subtitle a open government chapter 551 open meetings sub-chapter d exceptions to requirement that meetings be open under the following sections a section 551.072

[1:37:45] deliberations about real property regarding 316.879 acres the sarah r robertson s-0178-8474 we will now move into closed session meeting is being called back to order at 10 55 a.m there are no announcements to be made following the closed session so we will in fact move on to item eight on the agenda follow-up and administrative issues which was to consider any items in executive session which there are none so then we will consider approving various board nominations the public housing authority choice wilcox to a sixth term monette molinaire and becky fraser both to a fourth term all ending april 2024 and i asked julia um because when you say a sixth term and a fourth term it would mean that there aren't term limits for these positions and there aren't term limits in these positions because they're governed by a higher authority yes they're governed by the public housing authority and they are not included in our boards and commissions under the code of ordinances so with that may i have a motion for approval of the public housing authority choice wilcock monette mulliner and becky fraser please lucy made a motion second second by larry any public comment considering these individuals seeing none we'll take a vote all in favor say aye aye motion passes six zero are there any announcements in consideration for future agenda items hearing none may i have a motion for uh adjournment please so moved second second by lucy all in favor say aye aye that passes 6-0 as well this may third city council meeting is an adjournment thank you very much

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