San Angelo City Council 5-15-18

[0:00:00] 32 a.m. if you would check your cell phones and make sure they are turned off I would appreciate it we will start the meeting today with a prayer is Cameron strange here in the audience ok Michael if you'll come forward and lead us in prayer we to appreciate it hi good morning everybody I'm Michael Looney I'm the VP of Economic Development for the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce of not given a public invocation before so this is my first time so if it all bow our heads together Lord we come to you humbly and ask your blessings on this council and on all the people gathered here today so that we might do your will and make sound decisions and work together for the betterment of our city we thank you so much for the rains last night and we thank you all for our good health and for putting us in this position to work for the greatest city in Texas amen is Chloe grinder in the audience please Chloe is an eighth grade at Lee middle school and she is the daughter of Maj Tim grinder Grider and we are glad to have them both here today Texas lag our first proclamation is

[0:02:28] going to be for the Salvation Army so would all of you who are here for the Salvation Army please come forward morning love for God in a desire to help others is the motivation behind the men and women of the Salvation Army on a daily basis the Salvation Army in San Angelo Texas provides much more than spiritual counseling and basic human necessities to the needy and hurting the Salvation Army serves as a symbol of compassion and actively participates in the provision of services to thousands of men women and children in San Angelo the Salvation Army has provided programs and services to the concho Valley for over 117 years without regard to race creed color gender or age therefore I Brenda Gunther mayor the city of San Angelo Texas on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim the week of May 14th through May 18 2018 as National Salvation Army week and witness wear of I here have here unto set my hand and have caused the official seal the city of San Angelo to be affixed this 15th day of May 2018 first of all thank you this is our National Salvation Army week in here in San Angelo for the concho Valley area we're going to be doing events every day throughout the week clean from our shelter as well as our disaster services and make sure folks are aware what's

[0:04:32] going on here year round this also serves as my last function I've been transferred and so I'm leaving San Angelo and this is my daughter's last event she just made the high school cheerleading team and didn't we get transferred so I've been excommunicated as her father right now but but nonetheless we are proud to be here in San Angelo today to celebrate this with you the City Council the mayor and everyone else who is here to just celebrate what goes on year-round at the Salvation Army said thank you for your support as well too [Applause] is Rick dill in the audience yes I see him come on up Bob good to see you again she did a longtime member of the Fort Concho Calvary Rik deal last month won the Hesse championship cup at the 2018 regional Calvary competition which was held at Fort Concho Rick's score was tops among the 10 finalists in the three-day event which drew riders from military installations in Kansas Colorado and California the riders competed in combat horsemanship military horsemanship jumping saber and pistol Rick has ridden with the Fort Concho Calvary since 1991

[0:06:37] although he and fellow Fort Concho rider Ron Perry have won many awards in regional and national competitions over the past eight years Rick was nonetheless surprised at claiming the championship cup the HESI cup is named after longtime Fort Concho museum board member and preservationist Barbour Hesse dill gave most of the credit for his victory to his horse chance therefore I Brenda Gunter mayor the city of San Angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby recognize and applaud Rick deal for his achievement and positive determination to make a difference in our community congratulations Rick if you don't believe in miracles this is wood I just want to thank the city for their support and more specifically the fort and bob newhart he does a fantastic job and I would encourage each and every one of you not seeing this competition come out there next year cuz you're not gonna say to any place else except maybe the Nationals and that's an Oklahoma so this is a whole lot closer so thank you very much [Applause] we are now going to have the proclamation of police week and peace officers so if who would like to come forward for that in 1962 President John F Kennedy signed a proclamation which designated

[0:08:47] May 15th as Peace Officers Memorial Day and the week in which it falls as Police week and this week is dedicated to pay tribute to those officers who have died in the line of duty and the San Angelo Police Department will have a number of planned events to honor those who have made the ultimate sacrifice and the members of the law enforcement agencies of San Angelo and Tom Green County unceasingly provide vital public services and play an essential role in safeguarding the rights and freedoms of the citizens of San Angelo and Tom Green County and it is important that all citizens know and understand the problems duties and responsibilities of their law enforcement agencies and that members of our law enforcement agencies recognize their duty to serve the people by safeguarding life and property by protecting them against violence and disorder and by protecting the innocent against deception and the weak against oppression or intimidation and now therefore I Brenda Gunter mayor the city of San Angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim May 13 through May 19 2018 as Police week and call upon all citizens and organizations of San Angelo to observe this memorial occasion with appropriate ceremonies in which all of our people may join in commemorating law enforcement officers past and present who by their faithful and loyal devotion to these to their responsibilities have rendered a dedicated service to their communities I further call upon all citizens of San Angelo to observe May 15 2008 eeen as Peace Officers Memorial Day in honor of those Peace Officers who through their courageous deeds have lost their lives or have become disabled in the performance of duty [Applause]

[0:11:15] we will now open up the meeting for public comment issues or items that are not on the agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should speak from the podium by stating their name and limit remarks to less than three minutes council members may request that a discussed item be placed on a future agenda the council takes public comment on all regular agenda items during the discussion of those items do we have anybody in the audience today who would like to make public comment with no public comment we will move into the consent agenda does anyone in council on council wish to pull anything from the consent agenda Tommy no ma'am with that do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda to approve all in favor nine opposed passes seven zero we will now move into the regular agenda the first on the agenda today is employee wellness program update the presentation will be made by San Angelo Community Medical Center officials good morning good morning my name is Janet Charlesworth and I'm from San Angelo muni Medical Center and I'm here to present the wellness report for the city of San Angelo employees the wellness program that we implement with the employees consists of several components this includes a health risk assessment annual biometric screenings and not mentioned on here also we do annual lab screenings which includes a complete lipid profile and a diabetes screen flu shots are wild points program which is an incentive program for

[0:13:16] employees to engage in healthy lifestyles are monthly wellness challenges and programs to keep employees motivated Center prizes for those that win the challenges discounted health club memberships for all city employees and we also have an employee wellness committee that consists of 12 employees from different departments and we meet on a monthly basis to make sure that our wellness program is meeting the needs of the employees these are the improvements we found when we did the annual wellness screenings last fall and this is improvements from year 2016 to 2017 you can see we had some substantial impressive numbers here 56% of the employees improved the wellness score from the previous year which is phenomenal 33% reported increase in physical activity levels you had 32% eating more fruits and vegetables 21% of employees reported that they're coping better with stress we had a nineteen point nine percent reduction in hypertension and the employees 18 percent reported getting more sleep we had 25 employees lose 20 plus pounds and 12 employees reported they quit smoking this is fantastic these are programs that we implemented throughout the year we implemented 19 wellness challenges and programs in 2017 and the next three slides are going to be the top risk factors for city employees health risk factors and these are the programs that we implemented to help reduce those risk factors the first one being in 2016 forty-one point forty-one percent of city employees had hypertension we brought that number down to nineteen point seven in 2017 we did beat down blood pressure challenge we also delivered blood pressure cuffs to all the city departments so that they could

[0:15:19] monitor their own blood pressure and increase awareness if they did have a blood pressure issue so these are these are cuffs that are in all the departments where they can manually take their own blood pressure excess weight we do have an overweight and obesity issue but this is not just with city employees this is nationwide it tends to be the number one health risk so these numbers aren't anything that are above what national averages show but it is something that we continually work on with city employees we did a couple weight loss challenges and these are team weight loss challenges where departments compete against departments the first one we did at the beginning of 2017 we had a harder participants at law they lost over 700 pounds which is fantastic we did another one in the fall or employees lost over 500 pounds we had 20 employees go through a naturally slim weight loss program and then we did a maintain don't gain holiday challenge during the Thanksgiving Christmas holiday we have also we try to focus on good nutrition we have 41 percent of employees that have nutritional risk factors so we did some challenges that focused on those and then we did a sleep challenge because 53.4% of employees report inadequate sleep so we did a challenge that focused on that the last two we always are trying to promote fitness with employees so we did several fitness challenges typically after each challenge the winners of those when a Fitbit or an exercise bike and so we did several challenges focusing on that we also do heavy focus on diabetes so we do a Lunch and Learn we give free diabetes diabetic meters and strips to employees that have elevated a1c levels and we marry Salomon who also also shares the

[0:17:26] wellness coordinator role with myself as a certified diabetes educator and she and I work with the employees and we also serve on the local diabetes coalition this slide shows the health risk scores of the city employees so all the employees engage and participate in a health risk assessment it's a see question questionnaires asked about their lifestyle and it also gives them ranking on their lipid profile and their biometric screenings that we do so here we show that you have 18 percent that scored excellent 61 percent are doing well twenty-one percent need improving and thank goodness we had nobody in the high-risk category we've been doing this wellness program for the last six years and back in 2011 your total wellness score was 67 and we improved that and brought it up to 69 and 2017 we're just fantastic these are employees that had improvements in their biometrics and this is your biometrics I'm talking about blood pressure pulse weight and waist measurement and these are employees that improve these levels by at least 10 percent so you look at some lipid values here that showed phenomenal improvement in your city employees these are fantastic results we are our biggest improvement we noticed with the city employees especially with improvement in blood pressure this slide shows that health risk and financial impact so we look at how many risk factors an employee has and how much that can impact the city financially as far as medical costs and so when they talk about health risk factors are talking about obesity high blood pressure metabolic syndrome high cholesterol and and so and diabetes

[0:19:32] is in there too so when you look at how many risk factors people have we made tremendous strides since 20 2011 you had nine point one percent that had no risks in 2011 we've improved improved that to 14 and a half and 2017 and you show all the way down you show improvement comparing 2011 to 2017 these are fantastic results risk factors health risks for city employees and the list also shows what the national norm is this slide also shows the improvement made since 2011 since a wellness program was implemented and you show improvements in every single category this is very good I'm proud of those employees that have really put the efforts into making this happen these are your on the health risk assessment and ask the question what are your what are your top health interests what are you interested and we ask that question because we want to know where we should focus our wellness efforts we want to do programs where employees are interested in focus and want to improve in so this slide shows and thank goodness these top five correlate with the top five risks that we really want to focus on that show up in our health risk assessment the questionnaire also asks a question what are your lifestyle changes that you desire to improve and these are the top five lifestyle changes desired by employees that they want to improve and work on and now therefore we focus our wellness programs and challenges on these areas this is a question on the questionnaire of the health risk assessment to ask them what is your perception of the city of San angela rating a healthy workplace when we first arrived in 27th in 2011 we kind of had some employees kicking and

[0:21:36] screaming because we were implementing a wellness program and we're drawing blood and taking their blood pressure and poking them in their arm and and doing needle sticks and flu shots and all that and so weren't quite sure what this was all about and so you can see since 2011 they've really wrap their mind around the wellness program I think a lot of employees can say they have enjoyed it it has helped them improve make lifestyle positive lifestyle choices it's brought awareness and education to their health healthy lifestyles and health risks and so this is a fantastic slide I'm back in 2011 you had 12.9% of employees felt that the reception was poor but you now have we've never lowered that to four point six you also have a lot more employees that are ranking the program excellent back in January of 2018 American Heart Association came up with new blood pressure guidelines and these are the new guidelines that were presented and so if we were to take 2017 wellness screenings and run those numbers now with the new guidelines instead of nineteen point seven percent of employees have an elevated high blood elevated blood pressure or hypertension you would now have sixty six point two percent of employees with these new guidelines so we will continue to do heavy focus on blood pressure another reason we do a lot of focus on weight loss programs because typically if we can get 10% of their weight off you will you can really lower their blood pressure so we will continue to efforts in those areas as well part of our wellness program as we do a hwhile program it's called working on wellness we started this program back in 2014 to

[0:23:40] encourage employees to participate in the wellness program and to give them incentive for doing it we also reward the employees that have healthy lifestyles that that do well that have great lab results that have normal blood pressure normal lipids they get rewarded so they earn points by by participating and having normal ranges in their biometrics and labs so they get an extra vacation day if they get 400 points they get two extra vacation days if they get 700 points this slide shows how those points are earned so if they achieve normal biometric and lipid values they get points for each value if they participate in a 12-week walking program they get points for that losing five to ten percent of their weight earn some points if they participate any activities sponsored races such 5k 10k triathlons marathons all of those earn them points if they go to the gym 12 times per month they get our points for that and if they do their preventative wellness screenings such as mammograms colonoscopies pap smears they get points for doing those they also get points for doing online D rope sessions dear Oaks is your EAP program and they have online women webinars on many health-related topics so if they participate in those that get points if they participate in our wellness challenges walk with a dog self-defense programs lunch and learns if they do community service such as donate blood or do an hour of volunteer work they get points for that and those that serve on our wellness committee also earn points since we implemented the program in 2014 these are the wellness days that were granted and I'm pleased to see that every year we have more and more employees earning those points and getting those free days off or participating in the wellness and having normal healthy behaviors healthy

[0:25:44] lifestyle behaviors this is this slide shows a wellness challenge participation and like I mentioned before we do 19 challenges a year and this shows how many employees participated in our challenges and programs this is phenomenal improvement in engagement in our program and our whole purpose is just to try and create a culture of wellness and the more people that you can get to get involved and do the programs that we're doing the healthier these employees will be these are some wellness incentives that we give the employees when they participate in our programs do the challenges lose the way and these incentives are provided by Aetna patner gives us a wellness fund to purchase incentive prizes and also San Angel Community Medical Center provides us funding to help purchase some of these as well top top prizes that most people like to get are your Fitbit your bicycles health memberships and of course they love movie tickets I just want to thank you for giving us the opportunity to implement a Wellness Program with your employees and try to create a culture of wellness they are for a phenomenal group to work with Mary Solomon I have truly sincerely enjoyed working with them and getting to know your employees and we thank you for giving us the opportunity employed your efforts for supporting the program have any questions or comments concerning the presentation thank you very much thank you the next item on the agenda is the first reading and public hearing the ordinance is approving one case cp1 803 an amendment to the comprehensive plan changing the future land use designation from industrial to commercial being five acres located at 1619 Roosevelt Street and to case seven

[0:27:49] one eight eight a rezoning from the single-family residential RS - one zone E district to the general commercial CG zone e district being five acres located at 1619 Roosevelt Street John you're on thank you john james director planning and development services as you mentioned this is near the corner of Bell Street and Roosevelt this is the subject property currently zoned rs1 the request is for commercial zoning our understanding is that this will is being planned for a an indoor baseball training facility the recommendations is for approval from staff and unanimously from the Planning Commission you have to answer any questions do I have any questions or comments from Council do I have a motion make efficient is there any public comment concerning this presentation with no public comment I'll take a vote all in favor aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 the public hearing and first reading of an ordinance for case z18 oh nine for a rezoning from the general commercial heavy commercial CG ch zoning district to the single-family residential rs1 zoning district being 3.0 3 acres located at 401 405 and 409 West 34th Street John thank you as you said this is rezoning from commercial to single-family and this actually shows better I think on the next slide you can see this entire area is planned for neighborhood in our comprehensive plan but at some point in the past and this was wasn't uncommon years ago to take a strip that that the city thought might become commercial and just zona zona strip from this street a hundred feet back or 200 feet back and

[0:29:56] so that's what happened here and it cut through you can see these residential Lots so right now these three Lots are effectively residential there have been homes on them in the past two of them you can see still have homes on them and so this rezoning would take those back to residential zoning this currently vacant lot here they've come in to construct a home on the property and given the commercial zoning that's that wouldn't be allowed that's what prompted this and so the applicant is actually requesting rezoning of those two properties that that they own that would leave this little triangular sliver that we have added into the zoning to clean that up for that property as well as come with a recommendation from staff for approval and again unanimously from the Planning Commission no opposition from the surrounding properties happy to answer any questions have any questions or comments from Council with none do I have a motion motion to approve a second do I have any public comment regarding this zoning change with no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye host motion passes is considered proving a funding plan for the North Kanto river bank stabilization project and directing staff to coordinate related matters on the first section phase two of the project Johnson dam to the railroad crossing including authorizing staff to negotiate an agreement with the upper Colorado River authority to apply for grants obtain permits and oversee the implementation of the project and to enter an agreement with Kenny Frank architects under I do IDIQ PU R - o 3-1 for to finalize design for the work of the first section of phase 2 as identified in the funding plan Carl morning I'd like to talk about continually the work to protect the

[0:31:58] banks of the Colorado River continuing on the work that was done and finished in 2013 we do seek your direction regarding this matter and approval of funding associated funding plan so first just briefly I want to show you what has been done to protect the river banks what then what has yet to be done to protect riverbanks on our properties through the city look a little bit at the conditions that exist now and the proposed work where you want to do and then briefly discuss the funding plan so what has been done to date that finished in 2013 is this section basically from Johnson dam to first Street by the high school good portion of this section had been done associated with celebration bridge the construction of that dredging and bank stabilization so much of the work that we did was along this stretch as you know just a quick example of what we did those images taken before and after Bank stabilization as you can see we had serious erosion along the banks and we've come back and protected those with riprap and stacked stone in some locations in some sections we sloped the banks at about a 30-degree angle to prevent erosion when we talked about the house that sales tax associate half cent sales tax projects associated with River worked we separated those in the past by three phases the first phase is the one we the one we completed in 2013 phase two I'll talk about here in a second but phase three was basically from first Street to the end of Kirby Park in the north a good portion of this section of this River has been stabilized already with stone walls back in the 1970s and as you can see a good portion of the river is pretty much creek like in some sections although it does get stormwater running through it that section also has a good portion

[0:34:02] where we have property a good portion of this property and along the river here that we could build a trail and connect it to Kirby Park sometime in the future but that is in the future these two is what we'd like to concentrate on now this section below Johnson Dam working east to Belle Street and as possible working back up the South Contra River towards the dam some quick images showing aerial views and ground views of some of the serious portions where we have problems with erosion as you can see that we've closed off sections of the river trail because of the erosion conditions as you saw before with the other section and some serious erosion across from the Red Lion Inn and all of this these images are basically from concho Avenue where it crosses the river to about the Convention Center so we don't have a big pot of money for a house that sales tax to do some of the continued work that we'd like to do in this section so we're we're trying to figure out how we can gather enough revenue to start addressing it so the existing proposed funding plan is to bring in revenue of five hundred thousand two hundred fifty thousand from a TCEQ grant 125 thousand from sales tax surplus 125 thousand from stormwater fund and you see the expenditure plan on the right I would note that the TCEQ grant has basically two pots of money associated with this kind of work for grants there's a

[0:36:04] smaller pot and there's a larger pot to be applicable so we could apply for the larger pot of money we have to have a watershed plan done for the city and the user area is intending to do that this next year we don't currently have it so we can't apply for the larger pot we can't apply for the smaller pot and that's why you see here we're going to apply with them working with the upper Colorado River Authority and Chuck Brown is here if you have any questions associated with that apply for our $250,000 grant with them normally their grants are 60 with a 40% match from the city which means our match could be lower than I show here but what I wanted to do is gather enough money to create a project for 500,000 based on our experience before so we get least address a good beginning chunk of the bank stabilization are those larger grants how much are they usually it could be upwards towards a couple of a million dollars what we may be able to do that in in the future of council is interested in trying to progress with this then we could look at those larger grants you have that covered in a minute so it's that size so what we're asking for council dues endorse this funding plan authorize this us to work with you sorry apply for the grant and oversee the implementation of the project which would require agreement of some sort that we bring back to Council for consideration and authorized staff to work with Kenny Frankie architects to finalize the design through IDIQ and then direct staff to work towards a plan as a Rick was mentioning in looking forward what other sections we could address to stabilize the banks and what what could fund that my first question is based off of that $500,000 how much are we able to do in terms of territory because I would assume to mean $500,000 doesn't cover a very big area based off of what we saw in terms of a great need for stabilization and then my

[0:38:08] second question is does the Kenny Frank people are they landscape architect's they are an art landscape architects but they do have experience or they they're the ones they were the design firm that we worked with on the past River project so they have direct experience with stabilizing things and they know who to hire other civil engineering firm just to to make sure their plans are engineering sound as far as how much this could cover we're gonna start below Johnson Dam it will go as far as the fiber 2,000 take us I'm not real confident we could get to the railroad trestle that's over here by the Convention Center but I'm hoping that we can at least address that section from Johnson Dam up to that section that's behind the funeral home I know when we did the tour there's some real big issues I mean I'm somewhat concerned about what we saw and concerned that $500,000 isn't going to get us very far and based off of what we saw if we don't have a plan in place within the next 12 months we're gonna have some serious problems I would add to the mayor's I agree and that is one of the reasons you know this this particular time that's all the grant money we can apply for we could certainly put together a larger project but hoping to like you said look toward the future and get the watershed plan in place and then apply for other grants to leverage those whether it's stormwater dollars or whatever to go with it the other thing the mayor brought out which is very true and and that's why I hesitate to say how far we'll get is there there are some large trees that you saw along that area some of the trees are in the river and fallen over and there there's no way to save those typically what's happened in the past on our banks civilization is they they sloped it off so that they could put that riprap on where those big trees are if we slope it off you're gonna lose those trees if we want to retain those trees only way to do that is like we did on some of the other projects you can kind of see those retaining walls that

[0:40:10] are built out around the trees so they have to go in and build those which as the mayor alluded to cost more money so it limits how far you can get but some of those trees are very large very nice and probably worth that extra effort we must save as many trees as possible and I want to also comment that of course the river is one of the greatest assets that we have here in San Angelo we've got to be very protective of it it's a jewel and we need to make sure we have some priorities relative to protecting this and get a game plan together to save all this truck what time frame will it take us to get this report that's required good morning thank you mayor typical watershed protection plan take two to three years this one that we're going to apply for is going to be smaller just be the urbanized San Angelo area which is more in line with what tcq would like about 40,000 acres do the north and south concho rivers I would think we could have that done within a couple of years the way the tcq works is they get about five million dollars per year from EPA for for non point source for pollution projects approved watershed protection plans are in that four million dollar pot and non approved plans are in the 1 million dollar pot so really we're only getting to two potential grant funding for that 1 million so there's a lot more people looking for that if we get it great if we don't we're gonna follow right behind with that watershed protection plan and being that bigger pot to wear in the future years we are able to hopefully do bigger projects to finish the river at a quicker pace I know 500 thousands not much but it's gonna help like like record stated there's there's some really serious issues along the river right now with some of the undercut some of the trees and stuff like that and that hasn't happened overnight that's been over a period of years as the

[0:42:12] rivers changed there's no longer a natural flowing river it's it's a different more of a alike so if we don't get it this year we can certainly get it in years to come as we continue to make improvements to the river now this watershed plan is that something we pay for and if so what's the that's something that you CRA will do we'll look at a separate funding grant to do that it's it's it's very similar as far as its funding the you CRE will do the 40 percent it won't be any cost to the city TC you will take 60% that plan you know from from the time we time we do all the design work and everything until the finished until tcq and EPA approves it would probably be a couple years like I say there's no fast plan to get it done that's about as quick as we can get it down we can only spin the wheels as fast as TC Q and EPA can go does counsel have further questions or comments for Chuck yes Harry thank you well since this particular section that we're talking about is in my area I'm really really concerned with certain parts of this that we get it done as quickly as we can because the erosion is now causing some of those sidewalks to to be an issue so that's going to end up costing the city more dollars plus we put some of those walkers and runners at risk in those particular areas because of that erosion so I'm certainly ready to move forward on this bill I think you had a question or comment I do my comment first of all I was just amazed when we went on the tour and saw how much you Roshan has taken place and we hadn't addressed this before but Chuck my comment our question for you is could you define watershed protection just a little bit more for me so I understand better what yeah you know in a nutshell

[0:44:16] a watershed protection plan is nine elements which includes education outreach it includes a total project cost what we do is we go in and we look at at several different factors you know you CRE just completed a Brady Creek watershed protection plan which is pretty significant it's over five hundred thousand acres because you're talking about the entire Brady Creek watershed you look at agriculture you look at urban you look at industrial any anything in potential effects that that watershed or the water quality can have in that area since this is going to be urbanized San Angelo it's gonna be a little bit smaller it's gonna be a little bit easier to address because we don't have a wide variety of issues but basically it's a nine point plan we ride it we send it to TCEQ they look at it they say well we want you to do this this this we they send it back it's kind of a back and forth EPA will have the final approval after tcq approves it then it once it does come into effect it is as an approved plan then it's a eligible for a whole much larger pot of money for grant funding I believe there's 20 around 20 watershed protection plans done in the state which is fairly minut compared to the size of Texas and all the watersheds in Texas we've currently got the third largest one done in Texas with the Brady Creek plan we have we currently have watersheds right we have watersheds do we yes every every area the Twin Buttes watershed is the middle and South concho rivers that's a watershed the North Contra rivers OC fissure it's a watershed so yes watersheds are not necessarily County but areas they're geographic areas where a basin of water drains to thank you let me ask a question because you know in two years we're gonna lose a lot more of that Bank and I'm quite

[0:46:19] concerned so if we apply for this grant let's say tomorrow next year the same time period can we apply for another one of those smaller grants because you're talking about two years which I'm very concerned about the the grant the request for proposals come out June 1st of every year and they're due by the end of the typically the the state's fiscal year which is August 31st one of the grants rewarded they come out every year if you get one of those grants that's typically a three year project so you can get funding any any one year but the project's typically are three years because you have a pre and then a main and then a post writing and making sure that the data is is good and and they're what they're looking for is is stormwater and surface water loading because they want to make sure sediments not going in the river nutrients are going or whatever it may be whatever you say we're going to reduce the pollutant loadings obviously this one is going to be sediment and with sediment comes some pollutants there too and will they take into consideration hell I mean how terrible our banks are right now I mean does that make any difference in terms of getting it because I think if they took the tour and saw these pictures of how bad some of it is that they would want to make us a huge priority does that count we've got a couple things going for us we've done some successful projects with bank stabilization before we've also been a part of their success stories in these fundings that said understand that we've got about eight hundred thousand dollars we're competing against the whole state for so that's a pretty small pot of money compared to potential future projects but we're gonna we're gonna give it a go you ride on the success you know the the old banks the ones you see on that picture that look all great or equally as bad and so kudos to the city for addressing those in the past but we do have the success rate that the chuck is talking about with them do I have further questions from Council

[0:48:21] Billy have a question for Carl the 25,000 and permitting fees who do we pay that $25,000 to most of it is associated with basically assessing what the impact of the improvements are on the flood plain Maps so we have to hire engineer to look at the designs make an assessment conditionally what that effect may be and then once the improvements are done then they the engineer assesses what actually impact those the work has on the floodplain and it may or may not affect the flood the federal flood plain Maps that's what most of its associated with that's reported to who who do you report that to it's not the city FEMA the architectural fees they're based off of a percentage of the project essentially yes but this is based on hit kenny Frankie architect's assessment of what that cost my being so it's 8% yes but essentially yes but that they gave us feedback as to what that cost might be and so that's why we use in that figure one thing I will note in this particular first project and some of you who looked at it understand that while we would start at Johnson Dam and move east there are some hotspots along that way that have to be addressed in this first phase just to at least initially stabilize them so we will look at that in this first phase so as the mayor talked about you know you may not get as far as you think you may get because you you have to go address things like that just to stop the erosion temporarily while we we get there or if like Mike Mo mentioned if there's a large tree that we specifically want to save is there a way to go ahead and build that retainer and secure it on the banks to where you can get that taken care of Council yes tom go back to your funding slide here Carl funding and I don't know who to actually ask this to but does the

[0:50:28] progression of this project actually hinge on getting this grant like if we don't get this grant are we to stop currently there are no dollars allocated to do this so in looking at it and tried to bring something forward this grant was an opportunity to bring that forward and the condition if if we don't get the grant then you still could allocate surplus sales tax and you could still allocate stormwater but those are the only funding sources that we have currently identified so you could move forward it's just that not as big a pace unless we get other funding sources we want to so gathering what I hear on council I think our goal is let's drag our feet on this thing let's go so be specific on what you're asking us for if we get the grant let's say we progress and we don't get the grant can it come back later and reimburses for funds that we spend no okay well well the the grant announcement be made the request for the proposals are gonna start June 1st and be due the end of July so we would assume by the end of the state's fiscal year the end of August 1st of September timeframe we would know if we were awarded or not what I would suggest based on what councilman Thompson is saying is that if this is a priority for council then as Mike and Tina look at the budgets coming up then we try to build in funds to those budgets reoccurring each year so you start putting that in there you can decide at that point if we don't get grants if you want to move forward with spending those dollars or if those dollars are there and we know those are there we can go ahead and try and leverage those for additional grant dollars wherever they come up but they could work that into the budget if it's a priority in thank you Rick my my emphasis here is we're gonna have to spend these dollars Center later and by far these dollars are cheaper now than they will be three four seven years down the road so I didn't know but we what I gathered from the mayor's we don't want to hold anything up based on that grant so that was all

[0:52:31] my comment well I would ask that the finance department look at all areas of the budget and find where we might find some other money because if you take a look at the big picture this is a huge priority that River is a major asset we can't keep losing it so I would even recommend that the finance department look at all areas of the budget and find funds to get a strong plan put together whatever that means and only Daniel and his finance people and Michael can and do that so I'm not you know asking you to do the impossible but I do say look wherever you can this is a huge yeah Daniel we can we can do that basically what we need is that direction because we do have a lot of competing projects but a kid as you mentioned a while ago this one's a major one for us as far as the river so absolutely we'll get together and see where we can those monies Lane would you like to make it come yet number slides yeah so so I can get my understanding correct for the grand picture we are applying for a $250,000 TCEQ grant this year get everything in the works we can reapply for it again and get another 250 next year and this time period the the watershed plan is going in and then we can apply for that bigger pot of money so it's just a bunch of money that we can start applying for get it rolling in that's correct okay but that's our intent if you so direct us alright so do I have a motion from Council and and I think we need to be guided just a little bit in terms of what we need the motion to be because obviously we're talking about the presentation as presented and approving you to apply for the TCE grant but we're also saying to you look for other resources to help supplement this plan so could you guys give me direction in terms of what council should make a motion on I think the motion only has to be related to this but direction from

[0:54:34] councils or finance staff to look forward has already been yeah that's already part of it and I'll include that in the minutes Billy would you like to make a motion oh she hasn't made the motion yet - as proposed to Council is making a motion to approve the funding request as presented and to look for future opportunities for funds to make this a priority is there a second and I think Harry seconded so do I have public comment with no public comment we will take a vote all in favor say aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 item II consider a resolution awarding RF BES - 0 4 - 1 8 2018 annual sealcoat project - ronald our Wagner & Company LP and authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute a services agreement in the amount of 4 million eighty four thousand nine hundred ninety five point one two so we're going to have Russell pal make this presentation all right good morning everybody just to let y'all know we engineering services put out a bid for seal code and included a base bid and 11 alternates to that project and it was about a little over two million square yards over all of what we put out for bid the base bid included what's in our master plan for seal coding all recipients and Angelo the alternates included our 2013 seal code project that had a failure in it and we had recently collected a settlement on those areas and then the

[0:56:38] other alternates included other projects that we're identified as problem areas or just needed a seal coat applied to it so based on costs and the bids that we received we actually received three bids on on the sealcoat project this year we're bringing to you today approximately one one and a half million square yards to be completed at the cost of 1.4 million dollars and that comes out to about 2.2 dollars and 66 cents per square yard now kind of dive into more details here in a second just to look at what we did last year we did a little over 1 million square yards in 2017 and this year again we're looking at one and a half million square yards which is a 43% increase from last year and then the big kicker is looking at the cost per square yard here that increase from two dollars and 30 cents per square yard to two dollars and 66 cents this year which is about a 15 percent increase which really hindered what we were able to do overall you know we just weren't anticipating that price jump but that really came large part due to the cost of oil or the rising cost of oil our base bid section one is primarily in miss Gonzalez's area so Paul an area it's kind of hard to see here and I apologize for that but this is highway 67 this is the Pauline subdivision Belle streets over here on the west side section two of the base bid wise and mr. Hebert mr. Thomas's districts there again I apologize this is kind of hard to see but there's a lot of streets that we're doing here but

[0:58:39] we're kind of in the the Houston elementary school which is I believe right here in this area u.s. highway 87 comes through here and this is the red Arroyo meandering through here our base bid section 3 is again in mr. Tomasson Miss Gonzalez's area just to kind of give you some reference Bel Air Elementary is in this area here here's Bell Street and the contrail River you know the coast that are here in beltzman Bell Street Bridge our Bell Street dam is here at alternate a1 as part of the 2013 sealcoat project that had the failures in it again it's a mister Thomas's district it's kind of in the Lakeview area east no I'm sorry that's a misprint that's east concho but anyway here's the concho river control rivers here for concho elementary schools down tell in this area at alternate three use in mr. carter miss to adduce a alternates does that mean what's an alternate does it mean we don't have the money right now or if we have the money we'll do it these are all projects or these are all areas that we're going to be doing that alternates are you know so we had our base bid that was and part of our master plan that's you know that's what we're gonna actually you know that's what we need to do per year so these alternates were alternates that weren't included in the base bid in our master plan so these were extra areas that we found funds for to be able to do but like I said you know the bids came in a little bit higher than what we had anticipated so we had to you know the alternates are just ones that we can more or less pick and choose from so all of these alternates are not in that now

[1:00:43] all of these alternates that I'm showing you right now are the ones that we are going to be doing in our part of the 4.1 million dollar they are in that four million dollar package that's great okay so this at alternate three is act Appa this is actually Oxford Drive going from you know Sherwood weighs here art and roads over here and Johnson's is right here alternate before is just some parking lots the parking lots over by the lone wolf bridge we have a couple parking lots over here that we need to maintain and just keep in sound condition alternate v6 is this is foster Road and with the drainage problems and things that this of that nature we're going to look at that's a priority over streets no it was just some small projects that we could fit in there again is another parking lot within our stormwater sorry this really didn't show up very well on our maps but um you know at our yard where the stormwater folks our stormwater Operations Division is they currently have a dirt parking lot and to minimize runoff and things of that nature were looking at using a sill coat or minimize erosion from coming from their side and then give them what solid surface to work on all right there again just to reiterate you know we're that what I just showed you is what we're proposing to award to Ronald Wagner Ronald Wagner has worked with us for the last several years and they've done a very good job working for us when we feel like you know moving forward with this project is the most economical way and the most get the most bang for

[1:02:45] our buck on our sealcoating program and we recommend recommend moving forward with this contract was the increase obviously fuel prices continue to go up so there's no way to buy futures in the sealcoat material to help protect prices if we did that we would have to store the material and and the shelf life of it you know as that would become an issue as well as just having the physical locations to store that material I mean we are talking about you know hundreds of thousands of gallons of so I mean it's do the companies that we work with buy futures since they're the ones who do the pricing and they're the ones who have the materials so none of the city of San Angelo but the contractors themselves not that I'm aware of they typically just whenever they get awarded a contract and they order the material as a as the contract comes available mayor if I could that's a good question we will look into the availability of that that future the key is you're not buying the product you're buying an option to purchase at a future day so you don't have to store the product so we will look into that that that's a good way to hitch done Mike glad you say that I did initially look Mira it's a great quote it's a great question you know but at this point as far as the industry I haven't found it yet I mean it's not out there but I suspect it's - it's a specific product not necessarily a commodity so it's probably a long shot from that perspective but it's a good idea let's try it and see what happens because we need more more versus less done so again when does this get started it's largely dependent upon the availability of the contractor like every year but we're looking at August

[1:04:48] timeframe are the first of August is when he's kind of got his religion what is his contract saying we awarded it to him what's the contract contract says once he starts construction has 90 days and we typically want it done before the end of August so that's we don't put a start date on the contract no ma'am our well we put a start date based on the Notice to Proceed so we had to proceed on the contract he has 90 days from that notice to proceed to get the project done I believe that's correct I said Teresa do you remember the time frame will name all right typically what we put on there it's based on a Notice to Proceed you know we need this you know one we need to get the contract awarded you know we need to get the contract signed we need to make sure all submittals as far as materials that he's going to be using means and methods you know we're gonna be looking at those things and then once we get all that approved then we issue a Notice to Proceed and and then he has typically has 90 days from that period you have to get the contract completed okay did you have a comment go back to the foster road I'm looking at Tommy now yes I know I've called Shane a couple times for to fill the potholes on that wasn't worried about chick-fil-a racing but you render it or to run in your truck I'm pretty sure we're gonna hear some backlash if we this is the this is going into Butler is that correct that's crazy so this wouldn't actually be completed until we do any kind of improvements to to foster road there so you know what you know one way we're two million that we're looking at that those improvements or the improvements of just trying to do a temporary solution to help mitigate the drainage problems that we have here where the water that the low water crossing we already have a plan for the low water crossing right we do have a plan for it it's just getting at him we're gonna have that done very soon like soon right and this would be

[1:06:52] the kind of the final surface of that solution are we going to be putting materials on top that's gonna be costing that we could put towards the actual project and save us in the long run we we don't have a large permit or we don't have the funds for a large the actual permanent solution so this is in an effort to address the temporary needs well but what we have is a low water crossing fix and it's and we've got the final documents that we need for that so the low water crossing will be fixed now it won't change the issue as it relates to dr. Engels issue we don't have that but we do have the low water crossing fix almost done which would entail ripping up part of the road and that's great this would be that this would be a more a larger project than the actual sylco project so if we could hold off on actually still coating it in putting we may have to do that I don't know it just we need to make sure we're doing the Craig thing but you know this was an opportunity that included this with this project and get this done and that's what we have here I'd like I'd like to number later on you don't I don't know you can't really calculate it right now but the square yardage of foster Road times two point six six right see how much that we got it cost to me later yeah I've got it on another spreadsheet somewhere else on but I mean Tommy would you rather see yes those funds goes Tom it's your area would you please speak we made a mistake would you like to speak first it's your area no I'm with I'm glad you said that because that's where I was headed to know if if possible sure I'd actually have the dollars so right here in front of me it's so we're actually with this

[1:08:56] the way we bid this project cuz we're actually doing it what we call a to course with this proposed solution on top of the base because it would just be going directly on top of raw base material so that comes out to about fifty five thousand dollars just for the sealcoating of this section of road it's not much okay Tom yes Harry if we approve this today and we get started on this and y'all go September timeframe ahead of time I'd like for you or Shane to kind of lay out those streets and which blocks they are for people like Lucy and I that have a lot of area that you're going to cover because we have to visit with some of these these residents beforehand sure we have we actually have all the all the maps online and I know that Anthony's going to be helping me to better publicize that we do have it currently you know with our purchasing portion of our website you know what everybody bid on those maps are actually out there available right now but Anthony and I are working on a little bit better way to publicize that and I can get you hard copy as well alright so the item oh yes Tom only one no single member district two streets or in the span you know funny here twenty-five percent over its another billion and I got some people up there like some streets done you know it's funny that's you asset you know I actually looked into that so next year on our 2019 base bid that we'll be presenting next year about ninety percent of it is going to be in single-member district too and then I went a little bit further to the year 2020 and will also be a large majority of that will be in single-member district to you as well well thank you for that I need people here that but Shane Kelton's also done a good job of coaching me on a lot of those streets

[1:10:59] were used to be just caliche streets and we just put it they're not eligible for sale codes so I thank you appreciate that comment there you know 2019 is just months away okay so it says consider a resolution awarding so do we need a motion to accept this presentation if so may I have a motion so move and a second any public comment please with no public comment let's take a vote all in favor of awarding the forum wait can we look at the foster road if we award this can we you know can you come back to us before this is actually done to see if we can apply that later on and not actually sealcoat foster road I know we needed oh wait a minute I already have a motion to accept the bid and I have a second so we either deny it I might sway my vote go ahead Lane based on the based on our construction for the in basically its temporary fix it's not the permanent phase two of this project which would be a permanent arterial that goes through that in that area but when we go in there and we construct this temporary fix down there in the bottom I have got to resurface that road with something and the only thing I'm going to have to resurface that road with is going to be this sylco product there's nothing else I can fix the temporary fix we're looking at roughly another 50 to 70,000 somewhere in there for the materials for this of course we're doing trying to do this all in-house and not contract this temporary fix out so I've on top of that so we're looking maybe oh we're you know maybe there's a hundred thousand again that's we're still about a million short of being able well actually be more than that if we actually built it out to a complete arterial complete arterial is probably going to be I'm guessing look it covers one point two and four build it out to its complete arterial to build

[1:13:06] it out to its complete arterial form which we would like to see if we're going to actually go in there and do major reconstruction we're actually going to build not a bridge but for some larger higher capacity culverts underneath that roadway and at some future day we're probably closer than that two to three million dollar range versus the one point two million dollar range that Reese Albert gave us a quote on basically to do a temporary fix like this will help definitely help with drainage it will definitely help with drainage k it's not going to be you know it's not going to be a hundred percent fix for the drainage there still will be times when we have very large very heavy events that road will water will probably still overtop the road but we are going to carry the majority of that water that they're seeing right now and the majority of the rain events under the road with a temporary fix but with this temporary fix I do have to have something to to coat after I get through with the construction of this temporary fix I have to have something to coat that road with so we have a motion in a second with no public comment to approve the four million plus dollars all in favor any opposed motion passes 7-0 F update on sales tax revenue performance Tina good morning mayor City Council mr. Valenzuela LM Tina deerskin the Director of Finance and I'm here with good news today our sales tax is up this month ten point four or five percent for the month of May campaign compared to the same month and last year our collections were one hundred and about 125 thousand dollars over our original budget for sales tax for that and we are over budget year to date for revenue of just over 1 million dollars I'm if we project the flats at the end of the year we would be over budget for revenue by about a million 48 thousand dollars certainly the increases are coming down from the highs that we saw yes ma'am this does represent our 12th month in a

[1:15:08] row that we've seen increases and so I do believe we're probably going to start leveling out after that one your cycle cycles through so agreed and then of course we have your graph that shows by industry where sales tax has happened by how much highest month of the fiscal year though any month so far this year so I have any question questions that are meant from Council Thank You Tina yes ma'am thank you item G consider three appointments to the San Angelo Performing Arts Coalition say packed facility maintenance Improvement Fund and Brian you're going to make that presentation yes as part of the First Amendment to the CPAC agreement it's now time to create that board they're going to determine how the $2 collected per ticket should be spent the board should be made up of three council appointees and three say PAC board officers and they'll be making annual reports to the City Council staff recommends the appointment of single-member district three council person Harry Thomas Mayor Brenda Gunter and city manager designee Rick wise okay with that may I have a motion to accept staffs recommendation for the seneschal Performing Arts Coalition board a second all in favor say aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 we will now go into closed session the executive session and the provision of government code title 5 open government ethics subtitle a open government chapter 5 5 1 open meetings subchapter D exceptions to requirement that meetings be open under the following section do I read those a section five five 1.07 to deliberations about real property and Angelo Heights Leon Heights and miles

[1:17:12] addition and B section five five 1.07 one to consult with attorney when the governmental bodies sixty advise of its attorney on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas to settle disciplinarian rules of professional conduct of the State Bar of Texas clearly conflicts with this chapter regarding creation of a non-profit board and we will probably be out for thirty minutes back to order there is no amount announcements to be made following the executives the closed session so we will fall start with item a follow-up an administrative issues a s consider items discussed an executive session as I just said there were no actions taken and be considered approving various board nominations public art Commission Ryan I'm sure I'm gonna mess up this last name okay SMD two art teacher to first term ending April twenty twenty do I have a motion for that move a second any public comment if there's no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye nine opposed all right announcements in consideration of future agenda items are there any from Council I'm from Council then I ask for a motion mayor I just I just wanted to mention as the results of the elect the local election that we found out yesterday I just wanted to make a note in in public announcement that local elections matter no matter which side you fell on that issue it was a to vote difference if one person would have voted change their vote it would have been a tied election that is something unlike anything we've seen before but I think it's the direction that that our nation as a whole is going and so we're starting to see that in in local elections as well so I just wanted to make a point that local elections matter and even though we don't have one this year that gives us the perfect

[1:19:15] perfect illustration to drive vote next year less than 10 percent voted that's person it was a 11 percent total when they got everything counted but it was only 7% of the population so but as 11 percent of registered voters again illustrates how few make the determination of how many you know thank you for that we adjourned mayor in a second oh wait a minute mayor and councilmembers my name is Kimberly Holley I'm the budget coordinator and as part of the follow-up and administrative items I just wanted to discuss the opportunity of hosting some budget workshops for our fiscal year 19 preparation the past year for preparation of fiscal year 18 our current fiscal year we hold it we held two workshops in August we did it the off weeks of council meetings in the first meeting we discussed those Enterprise funds and on the second meeting we discussed the general fund I'm pushing the general fund back to the second meeting allows our department to get the property tax valuations and a little bit more check them double-check them run the numbers so I just wanted to discuss that opportunity with y'all if that's something you would be interested in again doing this year do you give us those dates that you're talking about as options yes I'm sorry we have council meetings on the 7th and the 21st so we recommend having budget workshops on August 14th in August 28th is anyone on council have a problem with those two dates there was no one's opposing those two dates so for right now we'll put down the 14th and the 28th as budget workshop dates thank you so much okay and there was a second and there's a vote all in

[1:21:23] favor any opposed the meeting is officially adjourned at 10:30 a.m.

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