San Angelo City Council 11-7-17

[0:00:00] and we're gonna get this meeting started before we get to the prayer portion as a part of the prayer I'm gonna speak a few words in light of our tragedy that we had yesterday in our Police Department words failed to adequately express the shock and sadness we are suffering today over the loss of police sergeant Freddie Dietz we nearly lost sergeant deeds to horrific car crash a year and a half ago only to see him rebound heroically and return to the duty that he loved before slipping away from us yesterday it's important that sergeant Dietz family both his blood relatives and those in blue know he was loved as a genuinely kind soul he was admired as a devoted public servant and he was cherished as a friend and colleague those of you who are closest to him are and will be in our thoughts and prayers we hope some measure of comfort can be found in the faith that Freddie Dietz is in the care and comfort of a loving God and unfailingly who unfailingly gives mercy and grace so I'd like to give a moment of silence and then pastor Matt Walton would you join me up here for the prayer thank you for a prayer for us I invite you to pray with me according to your faith tradition our most gracious God we confess that today we are in desperate need of your mercy we are in need of your comfort we ask that the peace of your presence would be felt and would be experienced this morning for Freddie Dietz family that they would know your loving arms wrapped around them in the midst of the darkness of their grief may the light and the hope of your presence

[0:02:03] be known to them what do we ask the same for our police family for those who served this community alongside of Freddie we ask that you would give them comfort Lord that you would provide for them the words that they need to express their confusion and their hurt in the days ahead Lord we ask for healing in the hearts of those who grieve we ask for guidance through the storm of these dark days we ask especially that hope may direct our attention towards a future where you make all things new as well God we lift up a prayer for those who are in need of family today Lord we believe as Psalm 68 5 and 6 says you are a father to the fatherless a defender of widows you are God you God are in your holy dwelling and you set the lonely in families it is our desire here in this community to live as a reflection of your great love and faithfulness to the lonely and to the cast out around us and so today as we commit November 17th as National Adoption Day for San Angelo we recognize that you call us to make space in our lives for those whose lives are adrift you call us to bring clothes to create family for those who are far off may this day be marked by the wholeness of relationships bound together by the remaking of lives through life together by the bonds of love that are forged in faithfulness throughout the spectrum of life what do we pray these things in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit amen you may be seated today's pledge is by the twins own and

[0:04:06] take Crawford and their little brother Mason could I have them come up please who's Owen whose tape and we're gonna start off with the American flag [Applause] start the proclamations off with the National Adoption Day all children deserve a safe place to live and grow and each year mini Texas children find a forever home thanks to adoptive families in Tom Green County two hundred and eighty-one children are currently in foster care and 53 of these children are awaiting their forever home family to bring them home for the past 17 years during the month of November communities across the country have come together in observance of National Adoption Day to complete the adoptions of children and foster care and celebrate the families who choose to adopt this year the city of San Angelo will hold its ninth annual National Adoption Day in support of those adoptive families here in our own community and to thank them for opening their hearts to a child in need of

[0:06:09] loving and permanent home therefore I Layne Carter mayor pro-tem assented city of San Angelo Texas on behalf of the City Council I do hereby proclaim November 17th 2017 as National Adoption Day and call all citizens to remember on the month of November the children of families who have joined their families through the miracle of adoption to open their hearts and minds to the idea of opening of their homes and the to these children in need and congratulate the new families to be formed on November 17 2017 during Tom Green County's Adoption Day ceremony Ashley Ashley Crawford and family I didn't know I was gonna be speaking today but and we're just super excited to be a part of National Adoption Month as you can see adoption is something that is near and dear to our hearts we've learned through this journey that it's something that is not talked about enough in our communities on the state level or even on the federal level so for us our goal in life is to bring awareness to the foster care system and adoption in hopes that this month there are many children that find their forever homes so thank you guys wait have them all come up my name is my name is John Scottie I'm the adoption supervisor here in Tom Green County I just wanted to say a few words I wanted to say thank you to Teresa for helping us organize this and all her work in getting things done I know that I also want to say thank you to Ashley for your continued advocacy CPS is often the face of child protection but the truth is we

[0:08:15] do this in partnership with many people in our community I know that us all representatives from our local child placing agencies here this morning I saw some folks from children's Hope I also know that Casas is here in support today in Southland is is where were Southland Baptist churches where we're hosting National Adoption Day and their pastor was gracious enough to lead us in prayer this morning so thank you to all those folks I know that November marks our recruitment campaign is there room and you're in so if you ever if everyone will keep an eye out for our greeting card at the Christmas lights we'd appreciate it the truth of the matter is we're always looking more foster homes we we do not have enough in our community and if there's a calling that you find it that you're interested in becoming a foster home we're certainly happy to talk to about that but if your circumstances don't allow you to be a foster home there are certainly other ways to become involved I know that Casa is always looking for volunteers the child placing agencies here are always looking for folks to sponsor a child especially during this time of year for Christmas or there's even opportunities to open up your home to be a respite provider to give foster parents the opportunity to have a date night or something like that so these are our kids and the more that we involve our community and the more that we bring awareness to foster children the better outcomes we'll have for our children and and better off they will be thank you [Applause] Jennifer price

[0:10:51] 2017 marks the 50th anniversary of the st. Christopher's Hospice London which recognized as the first modern day hospice organization and the 35th anniversary of the Medicare hospice benefit in the United States the hospice and palliative care philosophy places the needs of the individual at the center of care allowing patients and family caregivers to focus on quality of life surrounded and supported by family and loved ones despite serious and life limiting illness hospice and palliative care offer those they serve the high quality of care delivered in an interdisciplinary team of skilled professionals and trained volunteers that includes physicians nurses social workers therapists counselors health aides spiritual care providers and more every year in essa pate estimated 1.6 million Americans living with life-limiting illness and their families receive care from the nation's hospice programs and communities throughout the United States hospice and palliative care providers encourage all people to learn more about options of care and to share their wishes with family loved ones and their health care professionals therefore I Layne Carter Mayor Pro Tem of the city of San Angelo Texas on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim November 2017 as national hospice and palliative care month and encourage citizens to increase and increase their understanding and awareness of care at the end of life and to observe this month with appropriate activities and programs [Applause] well if y'all haven't figured out yet

[0:13:10] Brenda's not here today so she is doing some hard work for us for the I 14 initiative in Louisiana so now we will be going into the public comment portion of our agenda issues are items that are not on the agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should speak from the podium begin by stating their name and limit remarks to less than three minutes council members may request that discussed item may be placed on future agenda the council takes public comment on regular agenda items during the discussion at those times anybody welcome morning morning my name is Alex Vega thank you for allowing me to be here today today I'm with Vega washer pitchin and our organization has been hosting washer pigeon tournaments for the past 14 years all across Texas and each year we always host two large tournaments throughout the year on one tournament is Daren Memorial Day weekend in Hearne Texas and our second largest tournament that we host is part of the san angelo river fest here in Angelo at our tournaments we've that we host here in San Angelo is the West Texas state championship washer pigeon tournaments and this tournament that we host here in San Angelo brings in several competitors from all across the state including out of state to be the state championship state champion washer pitchers and at each of our tournaments that we host for the past 14 years we always given a portion of our proceeds to a nonprofit organization here to be Boys and Girls Club scholarship funds or military families and this year as part of the fifth annual San Angelo River fest and the West Texas State washa pitch and tournament were given a portion of our proceeds to the adaptive League of San Angelo so we were fortunate to raise

[0:15:14] money at the tournament here this year and will be given a check to the adapted leave of course which is a challengers league that is supported here luckily so I'm just it's been a privilege to work with Carl and Brent over the past several years and to keep some of the money local here has been a humongous blessing for not only for organization but for San Angelo as well so she was here to present a check to the doctor to leave us in Angelo thank you so much mr. Vega anyone else I'll bring public comment to a close if no one else has any public comment to come forward and going into the consent agenda I'm gonna start with miss Billy would you like to pull any items or have anything to pull but I do have a comment and I'm gonna say that there is nothing more precious than to hear those children recite the Pledge of Allegiance it just gives you chill when they hear those little voices and I know they've left but thank you so much for coming to pull liked it pool item item D I have a motion to approve the rest a motion to approve all items with the exception of at and Adam D all in favor all post-roll and Pina Rowland has grown some since the last time we saw bob nieman city's economic development department

[0:17:17] as as you said Roland is is also on the I 14 trip today so I'll be filling in for him thank you it was a specific question I would like to know on the the budget of the five hundred and seventy eight thousand eighty eight dollars what all that entails how much staffing how much just go is that going towards Costa DC's work that you'll do that that number includes all of the economic development staff there are four of us Roland myself Nora Nevarez and Shannon Scott it also includes budget numbers for for example the attorney the City Attorney's Office finance both of those offices spend a lot of time on cosa DC matters some from the for the even the city manager's office for the time that that they have to spend on this and an increase from last year's budget I'm sorry an increase from last year's budget a slight increase yeah salaries salaries increase or new people have been added to I think there's a new position this past year I'm so of course an increase for that the numbers that are included in that contract for things like City Attorney's Office finance HR those kinds of things are based on an indirect cost plan which is a study that we conduct every year and the consultant meets with all of the city departments determines how much time is spent working for cosa DC and its allocated based on that any other questions from Council thank you and I will move to approve okay all in favor aye 6 is 0

[0:19:22] moving on to a regular agenda item a I would ask that we move item eat up to the front of the agenda this is an ordinance that chief Carter is proposing that will reinstate bilingual pay that was lost during the meet and confer negotiations and in an effort to allow him to spend time in his department today we'd ask that you approve that item on first reading without any kind of discussion or presentation and we'll bring it back to you on the regular agenda at the next meeting so that you can hear a full presentation and have a full discussion on it I will move item via consider ratifying coast I'm sorry he is first reading in public hearing of an ordinance amending chapter to administration and personnel article 2.0 a classified service section 2.0 8.01 7 bilingual Spanish certification pay by Frank Carter motion to approve all in favor opposed 0 also the group that was going to be presenting for item a are not here yet that we're presenting at the commissioners court this morning so as soon as they're here I'll make you aware go ahead and we'll skip a until the room group are here and then we will go to item B on the regular agenda consider ratifying Cosa DC's approval of a resolution for a project and the expenditure of promotional campaign to promote 2018 San Angelo business plan competition for the purpose of developing viable business plans that will create new ventures and expanded existing businesses enterprises and authorizing the board president to negotiate and execute and the amount up to and not to exceed $5,000 with McLaughlin advertising and I'm not mr. Pena I her my name is Shannon Scott and I'm the

[0:21:23] economic development specialist for the city as mr. Carter stated this dynamism reference to approving an expenditure not to exceed five thousand dollars for a promotional campaign that will promote and create interest and applying for the 2018 business plan competition I just wanted to give a little bit of background the business plan competition is an opportunity for entrepreneurs to develop viable business plans that will create new ventures or expand existing businesses in San Angelo the competition consists of a three phase business plan with cash and in-kind prizes donated by local businesses a judging panel will be assembled from a pool of successful entrepreneurs business leaders financial professionals and other economic development supporters in San Angelo the competition coordinators Arco city scene the ASU Small Business Development Center and the ASU Business College of Business this agreement will be with Michael McLaughlin advertising who we've used for the past two years the official kickoff for the 2018 competition will be announced November 15th at the monthly Cosa DC board meeting I do have Dave Erickson here with the ASU Small Business Development Center if there are any further questions he and I would both be happy to answer those council I guess comm have chin in the last couple of years this has been very very successful I think in conversation with Dave sometime in the last four or five months he's indicated that these people have gone on to have a very successful business then when are these competition yes thank you counsel and my name is Dave Erickson director of the Small Business Development Center and also with us today is one of our judges of the judging panel Jamie Rainey is here as well and we is such a successful win-win-win for all involved especially as small business owners who who be our contestants in the competition where do

[0:23:27] they win or not they have tremendous value in the process and many of them unsure and we know he'll go to expand their businesses or start their businesses so we're very thankful for support of the community the city and of course the partnership that we have as coordinators the Cosa DC the business Factory ASU College of Business and and of course us there's a Small Business Development Center the student component is very integral and very important in in the process gives the College of Business students some real experiences kind of the laboratory for business so to speak and they get a lot of value out of that so we appreciate them being able to come in and work under the SBDC advisors and helping these folks with the business plan I did want to just add one thing about the the in-kind prizes that's a tremendous benefit to those who win and depending on their business depends on what in-kind prize they access but for the five thousand dollars that that Steve MacLaughlin charges many more thousands of dollars are provided through in-kind prizes that he helps solicit that he gets for especially in the media and so there's a real value added to that as well so answer the question alright y'all way beyond that public comment if no public comment and I will call for the vote all in favor all right all opposed thank you all I don't see consider ratifying Cosa DC's approval of a resolution authorizing the use of cells and use tax funds and some not to exceed

[0:25:30] a hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars in support of establishing a construction trades program at Howard College to be partially funded under the Texas Workforce Commission high demand Skills Development grant thank you so recently there has been a recognition from Howard College the Texas Workforce Commission and the San Angelo Home Builders Association that we have a critical need for a training cover program that covers the construction trades there's a major shortage in this area due to the aging workforce and low replacement numbers locally to date we've had half a million dollars that has been raised by private funding the Home Builders Association of San Angelo local businesses and the Health Foundation currently custody seam Howard college and the concho Valley Workforce Development Board are in the process of applying for a high demand skills development grant similar to that that was received for the LVN 2rm program with Howard College this funding will provide matching funds required in the amount of a little under one hundred and sixty eight thousand dollars from cosa DC and we'll La Costa DC to move forward with an agreement with Howard College these funds will also be used for the construction of the need facilities to house the program at Howard College that would be completed in three phases phase one will introduce train and promote the general skills to complete to complete a house in phases two and three will kick off in 2018 in 2019 those will add welding and craftsman building components one hundred thousand has also been raised by the concho Valley Workforce Development Board which will be included with this match with cosa DC these combined funds are critical from Costa DC in the concho Valley Workforce Development Board to finalize the funds needed to buy equipment our instructors and launched the program at Howard College I do have Jamie Rainey also here from Howard College she would like to come up and help answer any questions and I would be happy to answer any questions as well thank you it's

[0:27:33] real quick Jamie you and I have talked before the the meeting started about this need and how it's been exponentially impacted by the Hurricanes down in South Texas Southeast Texas and how a lot of people that were working in the San Angelo area now have gone down there to work so I applaud everybody involved in this this is going to be a very very successful endeavor and I certainly appreciate Howard College having it on their particular campus thank you so much it's been a great partnership with the Home Builders Association with the Texas Builders Association Mike bigger staff is the chairman of our committee that was the exploration committee at Howard college to see what would it take to create Construction Trades at Howard College he has been an amazing person also in as their lead fundraiser he has solicited funds too for materials for supplies for for labor so all of this building is coming together with out any debt caused for Howard College which is amazing and we're so grateful for that we're we're grateful that you're considering this request today because our funding is it comes really in three ways it really comes with student tuition of fees which comes after a program is already built it comes with contact our funding from the state which really comes away after this program starts we have a funding year every other year so it starts the 1st of March and it goes through the end of February the following year and that time period whatever contact hours that we received here in that time period that actually sets this funding for the next two years so we'll actually start a new funding year this coming March we hope this program is up Ronni by the middle of March and that will start that getting those contact

[0:29:37] hours in those classroom hours into the funding stream it'll be the following year so anytime we start a brand new program we're looking for those two funds but we look for grant monies and donations upfront to help us start a program so that's why these dollars are critical and we really appreciate your consideration and we're excited because we think there's a huge opportunity to add even more dual credit students to the program as well as adult learners so we're really looking forward to the program thank you thank you Jamie and I would just like to say to cosa DC and to the administration at Howard College for the tremendous work you do in our area I was saying to somebody this morning that San Angelo is the greatest place on earth to live and this kind of effort and vision in making educational opportunities you know for San Angelo ins I think it's fantastic so thank you thank you thank you canned you know with those comments I would make a motion that we approve this item and I'm very excited with being in construction and seeing how hard it is to find good trades been out there right now and I think I remember from Steven McLoughlin saying that the the median at the average age on a job site was 54 years old I guess the older man line I think it's older I do think it's older than that yeah I just this is gonna be a tremendous help so getting our students now is this dual credit with central and Lakeview actually we have dual credit right now with central and there is a Construction Trades a program on our campus but it's full so there's no more space so this will allow us to get students from the surrounding schools and even you know our adjacent small town schools it'll allow those students to be able to take this program so it opens up a whole new venue for them and we're within driving distance so that's

[0:31:41] perfect so it it will allow us to take additional credit students for right now we're full okay very good motion by Billy in a second by Harry any public comment and I will call for the vote all in favor say aye aye all opposed 6 to 0 thank you very much Jake y'all we have the Roman Group here so I'm just get back to item a regular agenda consider a resolution acknowledging the immediate need of an additional skilled nursing facility nursing home to be constructed in Tom Green County Texas presentation by representatives of the Roman Group this morning very good how are you thank you sorry about being late we were over at the county doing the same thing I want to again acknowledge him this morning I want to thank Michael Looney for getting all this set up you guys and for you guys being accommodating to us and getting us on the agenda and move us around so I get your name for the record oh I'm sorry Jeff Rhoades difference I'm Jeff Rhodes with the Roman group but thank you Jeff for getting us here for the purposes of expediting everything I will go through this relatively quick share some information about what we're trying to do and and then you guys can ask questions obviously it's interesting that we came in on the tail end of that presentation you guys have been focused on working with students and younger your younger population we're on the other end of that so it but it's it's impressive I've been impressed with the city the county being here this is my second trip out here won't be my last ready to bring my wife out here you got an incredible City she'll spend some money here you guys appreciate that anyway if we can go under to use this I

[0:33:46] can move it through again I'm Jeff Rhodes with the Roma group and I'm gonna explain a little bit about what I do I'm a consultant I work with nursing home providers builders the equity partners I work with nationwide entities local regional entities I work with a lot of people to build new nursing facilities I also buy and sell in acquisitions and mergers and things like that in in the nursing home industry so I work as a consultant my business partner and I've been doing this for a combined a little over twenty five years in the last three to five years we have secured roughly 10,000 nursing home beds in five different states resulting in the building of I think around at this point about 80 nursing homes so we've done this a lot I've worked with a lot of people and I've worked with a lot of providers so I kind of wanted to state that so you guys know where I'm coming from I'm gonna skip that what I do want to do is I want to introduce Ray watt and Steve Robinson these are the owners of our W senior housing development these are the very unique situation for what we're going to do here in San Angelo these are the builders or the the construction contracting entity they are the owners the operators they're a one-stop shop okay that's pretty unique in the industry in Tennessee to to do the full gamut of everything these guys are licensed in how many states I think five different states combined to operate nursing homes these guys are incredibly experienced I don't know how many buildings they've been a part of constructing in Texas alone several with different entities so this is not their first dog and pony show either they've been down this road what's great about these guys is they have a facility right

[0:35:48] down the road in Camden and so they're local guys they understand the culture they understand the needs I understand what's going on in the in the business and in the regulatory environment but mostly what senior citizens need and expect in long-term care today you know with over 40 years of experience it makes a big difference they care about what they do they care about the patients you know this it's not a it's not a number in a bed it's a it's a person that they're caring for and that's a big deal as far as why Tom Green County wanted to be maybe make some clarity about this you guys know your county you know your city you know the growth trends you know what's going on but we look for some key points when we're looking at an opportunity to develop such a specific business to service a very specific clientele and demographic within within a community this is your growth trend there obviously if it was the other way we probably wouldn't be talking see here there's another look at it compared to the state and the United States there's the city of st. Angelo from 2000 to 2015 something significant you know your your city is growing there are areas of the state that are growing faster obviously we don't really look at the growth rate we want to be in a community that's not going the other direction but these guys are looking for emerging markets markets that are we feel are going to be coming on strong and from everything that I've been told from your economic development from the Chamber of Commerce you guys have some really good things going their way and it's impressive to look at we want to be a part of that landscape obviously okay and health care is a huge component of that because of the quality of life that it offers so here the probably the biggest I think the Knicks

[0:37:53] hit right here about 2020 you're 65 and over demographic is gonna make up 17% of your community when you look at that on a scale of the state of Texas is 13% percentage-wise you have a very large population of 65 and older obviously significant for our business you actually have one of the largest concentration of senior citizens in the state of Texas and what comes you know there are certain expectations of the baby boomer generation these are people that have traveled they've you know gone places they've lived a lifestyle that they appreciate things in life and they expect more out of their health care there was a time when nursing homes were very sterile they were built on the backside of neighborhoods and communities because people were more embarrassed of them they were very institutional that is changing you guys have eight nursing homes and I think the next slide may talk about this yeah you have eight facilities in this community nursing homes and we're not talking about assisted living and independently but we're talking about specific skilled nursing facilities these facilities have 685 certified beds in them and the current occupancy and the trending occupancy is about 81% now I get asked about 81% well what's the 19% is empty you know why is there a need and I'll explain that there's a lot of ways to explain that but I'll explain it this way we've talked to providers within the community there are waiting lists at some of the nursing homes and the reason this is is a lot of these nursing homes have double occupancy rooms we have two beds in a room but people don't like for their loved one to share a room so they'll pay a little bit more they'll do what it takes to have not have to share a room well that bed is still licensed but it's unoccupied the extra bed that's where a lot of occupancy descriptions he happens also a lot of nursing homes and I don't know that that's happened here but but a lot of nursing homes in Texas will utilize rooms that have dual occupancy beds they'll convert over to storage

[0:39:57] they will convert them to office space but the beds are still licensed okay and that's that's just an ongoing kind of saga in the state of Texas so when you have eighty-one percent occupancy you're full alright we deem a community pretty doggone full and then when you do anecdotal calling and looking you realize there's waiting lists in the past two years the bed occupancy demand has increased four percent that's in two years that's significant so if that trend continues which we would expect it to and all projections are saying it will by 2020 which is you know less than four years down the road you're gonna have eighty five percent occupied 85% occupancy is the threshold to be considered a high occupancy County in the state of Texas that's significant well what we try to do is we try to get ahead of that curve okay if you wait to your fool then you're out of space it take four years to get a nursing home built because of the regulatory and everything that it takes so if you have to get ahead of the curve and the state understands that so this is a lot of mumbo-jumbo this basically tells what we have to do we had to submit a health needs study to the state and then the second thing we have to do is we have to get what's called substantial community support it's very ambiguous in the rules that's why we kind of meetings like this okay we need support from the local community and really what that support is is saying we recognize that there's a need for a new nursing home okay so we've already gone through these steps we're here today asking for your support I'm going to go through some of these these are some examples of facilities that I've been a part of constructing this goes to show you kind of the landscape of today of the way nursing homes are going I've not been in any of the facilities in your local community I know you've got a couple of very nice facilities one of the big things we're not here to knock any other facility that's already here I like to

[0:42:00] make that known the quality of care being offered in your community is actually good you don't have a lot of regulatory issues nothing nothing nothing off the radar that's this abnormal but what we're gonna bring is gonna be incredibly nice I mean it's gonna be you know something that's gonna have a home-like feel to it and and so these are just some of the examples of things that you can look at this building will probably house around 100 residents it depends on what we get approved for approximately 48 thousand square foot building I'm usually looking at around seven acres of land for a footprint total development estimate around 10 million that's land and all and again these are obviously estimates at this point you know a lot of things go in those factors this is an example of a typical built building being built in the state of Texas I know I've been involved in about four different floor plans this is the most common this is called a k plan I know there are at least two or three buildings in your community that are built somewhat like this very common throughout the country really benefits to your community to me the biggest benefit when you bring in a nursing home it's a very quiet business the loudest thing that happens in a given week is a Cisco truck dropping off food it's not a lot of traffic volume you know it's it's a quiet business employs anywhere from 100 to 120 full-time equivalency jobs I think I've got a few details on grades yeah about 850 anywhere from 850 an hour to 58 dollars an hour depend on level of skill many pay grades in between there and what's interesting I know you guys have an LVN RM program local we're talking with those guys a lot of people interested in this project the need is the biggest component for us you know we don't come into a community as a

[0:44:01] consultant I don't consult my clients into an area where it's not needed and then my clients you know they're not gonna look at an area where a nursing home isn't needed so the need is the threshold of need is what we're really looking at and we've basically determined that there is an immediate need okay outside of that I mean there's a lot of things I could talk about but do you guys have any questions at to spend y'all looking at employing more LVN or are in employees these are the providers I'm not a provider so okay would y'all like to come up and and speak just a real quick comment for Jeff says he's still standing up here as somebody that's closer to that stage in life than some of these other people that are sitting up here a lot closer I certainly appreciate the fact is that the need is out there and and so I'll certainly support it what is the I'm just curious what is the need for a resolution what what does that do for you all for the city the state requires that we show that a community supports the fact that there is a need of a nursing home did I say that clearly in other words you're not necessarily supporting us as a as a business you're supporting the idea that there is a there's a need for a nursing home the state just wants to make sure you don't you're not you guys don't want us here I mean if you guys don't want us here then the state wants to say okay we can't build a nursing home there so it's incumbent upon us to show you that number one there's a need number two we're not gonna come in here and neglect people and cause problems and neglect your community so that's what this is about the resolution is just simply telling the state hey we support a nursing home project is that something that occurs every time a nursing home is built they

[0:46:04] come to because this is this is a first for me they come to us seeking a resolution before they build a nurse I mean just just as a matter of course since I've been sitting up here not necessarily a nursing home but when you're looking at at tax credits for affordable housing that we've approved since I've been on this council the the support needs to come from this particular group of people okay and that's a similar that's a similar process different situation but a similar process mr. Rhodes you mentioned that you had been meeting with different groups in the community have you met with any of the current nursing home groups no we have spoken with or we've had conversations with some of the assisted living facilities we usually we don't go to the existing nursing homes because we're competition okay so they would probably not be supportive of you coming in to San Angelo possibly or they have they always have an opportunity with the state to make comments about our application whole process Lucy how to question I have a question you said we have eight nursing homes when was the last one billed are you I'm not 100% sure I know it's been within the last ten years I do know that believe it might be the one out by Benwood senior care yeah well I've been worked in health care I've definitely be supportive and know that there is a need so I will support this I'm supporting for Harry I just need some support on this side any public coming go ahead and call for the vote all in it anymore

[0:48:15] all in favor for approving this resolution say aye aye any opposed that's a six to zero well we'll get it we'll get it to you as quick as possible item D consider ratifying cosa d C's approval of a resolution in the amount of 1 million five hundred thousand authorizing the use of cells and use tax funds for the expansion of the training mission of Goodfellow Air Force Base and authorizing the board president to negotiate and execute an MoU with Tom Green County and Goodfellow Air Force Base on behalf of the corporation and such other legal documents necessary for the project mr. Stephen thank you bob nieman again from economic development this is a project that the the coast of DC board approved on August 23rd and they've approved up to 1.5 million dollars for an expansion project a Goodfella air force base under what is called the defense economic adjustment assistance grant the program we did one of these last year and I believe Costa DC's contribution was about seven hundred and forty or seven hundred sixty thousand dollars and we wound up with about a two point two million dollar grant that expanded some foreign student training facilities this particular resolution is for local matching funds and it's a it's a requirement under the grant that we have a about a 25 percent local match Tom Green County will be the fiscal agent on on this so there will be an MoU Memorandum of Understanding between Costa DC the county and good fell Air Force Base and that again is something

[0:50:17] that's that's required by the the grant rules that that it be administered by the county and it's for an expansion of good fellows intelligence training they'll be and it's for the highly classified intelligence training about in the renovation be approximately twenty four thousand square feet and two existing facilities for as I said a highly classified classroom space for instructors and a psychologist I know personally but that's another story and increased dining seating for about 150 people total cost of the project is eight point eight million dollars and it's it will increase the potential for new military missions at Goodfellow results in additional active duty and civilian jobs obviously it's a positive impact on the local economy as all the good fellow is and it's project that is authorized under Section 501 point 104 of the local government code governing the use of half cent sales tax specifically for expanded missions of existing bases and for the prevention of potential closure of existing military installations Mike Boyd from the chamber is also here just to speak if you'd like to ask him any questions he's a lot more familiar with the program than I am Boyd I guess Mike one of the questions that 4.55 millions was asking from the state that will be approved on November the 17th we've got two million dollars worth of federal funding the main and a half is very important we talked about emissions coming they're coming the additional thing that we found out in Washington last week is that I call it the cyber training slash security training this for DHS homeland security Border Patrol and in some of our local

[0:52:21] state agencies looks like we're going to be the first regional site there's only one site in the US and that's in Virginia and we've asked to have that first regional site here and we got verbal approval on that we need these classrooms there's classified secret and that will bring people here for a week at a time throughout the entire year so I ask for your support and approving the one-point-five the recommending and pretty but questions just real quick Mike do we have any kind of estimation at what the economic impact to San Angelo and the surrounding area is going to be with with these missions coming I do not Bob may have that I know from full-time personnel on the three missions that we're working on now we're talking about probably 27 full-time personnel one group of students would be 75 another group of students would be a hundred and twenty-five and if we get the third one that's coming from Bill Air Force Base in Florida be about a hundred and ten and those were evolved so I'd say over every class that comes in so it should push us to about 14,000 students a year so nearly a thousand increase per year I'll give you numbers but I don't know about daughters Harry I can't necessarily give you dollars either but according to the grant application direct jobs will be nine new jobs created those will be teaching jobs but what it will do is it'll it'll increase the number of students and workers trained by about a hundred and fifty average daily two hundred and seventy annually the number of jobs retained would be five thousand nine daily with 19 thousand four hundred and nine indirect jobs on an annual basis just as a numbers guy I thought maybe that that number may be out there would be interesting for the citizens to know that for an investment of 1.5 million dollars of their tax money we're going to get this type of return back on it so if that number is available some place at some time in the future certainly

[0:54:24] would be nice to know I believe we do have an economic impact analysis on on the project I just didn't bring it with me but we can't get that information to you move to approve which presented I'd like to say we all know how vital Goodfellow is to San Angelo and how vital their operations are in our world today especially in light of what's going on in our Pacific so highly supportive of this let's get some more training in there and keep Goodfellow on the map as one of the high dogs you have a motion in a second any public comment if none then I'll call for the vote all in favor say aye thank you thank you Adam F update on recent activity in the animal shelter division services division assistant director neighborhood and Family Services morgan chigga Witten Lord I have some stats and updates here before y'all excuse me for what's been going on in the Animal Services Division lately I've had the opportunity to have tours with a couple of y'all coming out to the facility and I know that there's a lot of dialogue going on behind the scenes so I wanted that opportunity and I'm grateful for that opportunity to come and kind of speak to that as a group as well as for the public to have this feedback for what's going on at the shelter so I wanted to start with kind of where we are right so our fiscal year 17 figures of how we ended the year what our volume looked like what kind of things we were working through first of all as we continue to state and fight the line on this there were zero adoptable pets euthanized that of course is our first full year in the no-kill initiative we adopted it in partial year of fiscal year SEC 16 so for fiscal year

[0:56:27] 17 was the first full year that we were in that no-kill initiative whereby we would only consider euthanizing if a pet was injured ill aggressive or mural sorry all I did want to mean to mention that that you know maintaining that no kill initiative is a daily battle it is something that we invest in every minute of every day it is something that is thank you find allergies so I appreciate that you know an initiative of this magnitude often is correspondent with a tremendous investment or additional staffing or whatever it may be but at the city of San Angelo of course we're doing it on a shoestring budget we're doing it for whatever we can we thought we could do it within the current budget and we have been so it's important to state that we are in this no-kill initiative we are maintaining that but as opportunities come up to talk about adding funds or adding people this is something that to maintain for any amount of time would require some kind of investment I would want to make sure and note that our facility our staffing our budget has stayed the same while we added this additional component so moving on we also had 277 citizens you think using our microchip clinic I think that's kind of an unsung hero of our programs out there meaning that you know microchip became law in 2014 ish if you live inside the city limits you have to microchip your pet we have I think the best deal in town for $13 for the life of your pet we will microchip anytime Monday through Friday 10:00 to 6:00 it is an easy easy thing so when I look at that we had 277 people using the microchip clinic 114 of those were just at the clear the shelter event in August so it's a very seldom used program that we have we think that is a terrific program if you go to your veterinarian or someone else it may cost more you may have an annual fee you may be turned off from your service because you didn't pay the annual fee so the microchip clinic you were amping up participation and that is really important for us as we try to reunite

[0:58:30] pets where they're going we also for fiscal year 17 ended the year with a 49% really live release rate and that's huge when we took on this initiative we were approaching at maybe a 20% live release rate we were hoping that by this time we would be releasing live 30 to 35% of our intake and we exceeded that goal almost 50% of the animals that came into our facility left alive either they went back to their owners they were adopted and they were transported out to other facilities like us and so I really want to brag on that that you know forty-nine percent is is huge in our first full year of a no-kill initiative Morgan did that lend itself to our zero euthanization rate for 2016 and 2017 that we were able to release almost 50 percent live yes ma'am and I have some break down here to talk about you know how many of those were given back to their owner Owner redemption is huge you know every animal that's in my facility came from somewhere okay whether it was a cat that you had that that bred and had kittens then I have the kittens or if it's a dog that you had for a while it got out you didn't find it whatever so every pet in my home and my facility came from somewhere and so to the extent we can try to match that animal back to you is the number one best thing for your pet we want to promote responsible pet ownership we want to get compliant with all the city ordinances and state regulations but at the end of the day I cannot adopt out all these animals so being able to to have the no-kill initiative we've got to increase our owner redemptions because adoptions can increase some but it's a finite market right how many people are in the market for an adoption in the market for a shelter pet and so the no kill initiative and the forty nine percent live release rate of court absolutely do go hand-in-hand organ has the adoption rates increased it has so to speak to that a little bit

[1:00:34] we had 4,800 new arrivals in our facility in fiscal year 17 I just want to point out that six years ago when I started volunteering at the shelter this figure regularly approached about ten thousand a year and so we've had a huge decrease in our pets coming into the facility and that's from a multiple to think multitude of things for example we really crack down in the last year or so that we are a function of the city of San Angelo we are funded by the tax dollars for the city of San Angelo so we only respond to calls for service inside the city limits we only accept pets within Tong Greene County so that's a big change from the way things used to be done that's somewhat we encourage folks outside of our jurisdiction to seek out those resources that they have in their area we also of course in 2015 passed the law regarding feral cats so we're not out picking up feral cats that was thousands of animals a year that were coming in the facility that are no longer and then when it comes to owners surrender as folks are coming in the front door and saying I can't keep my pet anymore when we charge a nominal fee for doing that and we counsel them and encourage them to find resources you know what what seems to be the problem we have a terrific partnership with concho Valley paws which I'll also touch base on in a minute and it's not uncommon that we refer the citizens to controversies they may get that pet spayed neutered you know I can't keep the pet because it gets out all the time well it's an unaltered male would you be interested in neutering him we want to help you with that or we have one case where paws bought electric fence for a person because the dog was a climber was going to get out and whatever it may be so we try to mitigate those things as they come in I readily admit that we could do better at that but to the extent that we can try to match a solution with those owner surrenders and keep them in their home we try to do that as well and of course the biggest so the biggest part of where animals are going is in adoptions we had almost 1700 option adoptions in fiscal year 17 so this was

[1:02:39] our first year in the new kill initiative but it's a partial year of our partnership with Contra valley pause I think in our first year of the contract with concho Valley pause we'll see that our adoptions have increased from prior years when we were doing it on our own the adoptions increased from 16 to 17 by about a hundred so not a tremendous increase but again we only had the concho Valley pause agreement effective March 1st and so that was a partial of our fiscal year 17 and then you'll see only 400 of those animals were redeemed by their owner some of this of course is wildlife and livestock but unfortunately we did have 2,400 animals that were euthanized whether they were feral injured sick or aggressive I did touch on the community cat ordinance a moment ago so I want to point out that when we're euthanizing a feral animal it's because you know in the ordinance it states that if a community cat caregiver has ear notched or tattooed or spayed and neutered microchipped they're they're feral cat we will return it to the organization of record for them to place back in its colony so these are cats that are not that these are cats feral cats that are not ear notched are not microchipped are not tattooed in any way so at the end of fiscal year 17 we were left with 292 lives in the shelter that is when we get to about 300 animals I start to get nervous the state does not say you can only have 400 animals in your facility you can only have this many animals they don't give you a finite number what they do say is as log as long as you can meet the prescribed Earthcare that is how many animals you can keep in the facility so I know with my staffing with the size of my facility when we start to get to about 300 animals we need a hustle we need we need to get moving we need to reach out to folks for adoptions for transports to different facilities whatever it may be today we ended yesterday with 313 lives in the facility so we've been on the phone we have been calling in favors we have been doing everything there's going

[1:04:41] to be an emergency adoption event today and tomorrow that paws through together we're also scheduling a transport for next week to some of the receiving agencies and so hopefully between that we can move 50 or so animals it's not uncommon that we're able to do that so that is where we are kind of macro view for fiscal year 17 adduced I have some additional data on on the euthanasias you know we look closely at these numbers because you know we're credibly 4800 animals come in 2400 were euthanized and so we try to look at you know what is that where is that coming from well almost 100 of those were wildlife and so that's in the event that we show up on the scene and Wildlife is injured beyond any kind of rehabilitation or any of the species that are at high risk for rabies and the officers have discretion to go ahead and euthanize those because to protect the public health but you'll see that the vast majority of the euthanasias are cats and furthermore on that 900 of them were feral cats so of the 1600 cats we euthanize last year the vast majority of the more feral and unfortunately cats in communal living do get sick and so the remainder of those cats that were euthanized were due to illness so of the 2,400 animals that were euthanize just another way to break that down a thousand of them were because they were sick sick injured or failure to thrive and by failure to thrive I mean too young to be weaned from their mother with no mother in place to take them on and so we do occasionally have that where a citizen brings in a litter of kittens that were born under their porch their one-day-old they come into my facility I don't have a way to match them with a nursing mother I don't have a way to bottle feed them and keep them health and so unfortunately we do have to consider being humane and euthanizing them in those situations and then a very small amount of related to owner requested euthanasia so this would be if your family pet perhaps is ill or aggressive or elderly and you can't

[1:06:47] afford to have it euthanized through your veterinarian you can come and do that through our facility as well okay so with that that is our fiscal year 17 performance to kind of let us know you know where we are what are the different moving parts related to that I didn't want to talk about staffing in particular because that's one of the things that has taken a big investment of my time new on the job we have 13 authorized full-time positions that's including myself we also have 6 authorized part-time positions since I came on board on June 22nd we've had 7 new hires we have two new hires scheduled for later in November and so we had a tremendous amount of vacancies that had been left vacant for quite some time so for example we're fully staffed on animal control officers for the first time and I think three years I think that that's huge to speak to some of the issues that y'all were hearing earlier this year we want to make sure that our folks are fully staffed we want to make sure that we have an appropriate on-call schedule so we're not driving these staff you know into the ground with everything that they every time they turn around they have another call-out we want them sworn in we want them certified we want them dually trained all of those things so I'm authorized for animal control officers and I'll talk about that again and in just a moment related to that certification and training but for the new hires getting the animal control officers in particular newly hired was my top priority and beyond that we had several vacancies that had been vacant for quite some time we also have had some turnover some of those seven are jobs that I have hired and they've resigned and I've hired again and so it's just the nature of the job that folks will come they will think that the job is one thing they discover that it's it's very difficult and then they move on and it's just a constant recruitment effort and we find that you know we're prepared for that but it's it's important to note and keep on top of getting those drops filled we're those four officers on the streets

[1:08:51] at all times or is there do they cycle how many do you have out at once I have four animal control officers in an animal control supervisor okay two of the animal control officers worked their normal shift from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. to work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. then one animal control officer is on call for a week at a time for emergencies right now my newest hire with animal control is still riding along with the supervisor so I still have four active trucks rolling out on a daily basis just one of them is riding double with with his supervisor until we can get him fully trained I'm sorry does that answer your question okay so to speak to the training and certification in particular related related to animal services officers so these folks are required by state law to meet a minimum standard of training we had all four of our Animal Services officers and myself as well certified in October so we went through a state approved course it was a two-day course with an option for one day of continuing education and so getting so basically what I'm saying is none of our Animal Services officers were certified when I took this position today all of them are all of them have passed the course it's a rigorous training program it is a graded test it is very legal involved and and we do have that certification in place now for all of our folks there's also a required continuing education component related to state law it says you have to have so many hours over a certain time period so we have had continuing education for those officers shelter workers supervisors and you'll see that I don't talk about shelter workers as much when it comes to training in certifications because the state doesn't mandate that but I do we need to be trained in proper cleaning procedures proper animal care procedures and so for those folks that are working in house on the premises we have invested in some continuing education for them and we're going to continue doing that as well

[1:10:53] as we have safe practices we did have on the schedule for all of our animal control officers to be euthanasia certified in October but the the instructor was had a medical issue come up and so that's been rescheduled for later this month and that's important so that if you're on call you respond to a scene there's an injured wildlife or whatever it may be you can be humane quickly and don't have to call for backup we are constantly scrambling for who's in the house that's euthanasia certified you know I don't want to widely spread this because we do need to have control over who's euthanasia certified there are folks that it's appropriate for them to be certified in this role and we are working to get that in place okay I also wanted to touch on the public-private partnership that we have with contra la Paz of course this went before the council last year as an important item to free us up to focus on our core function just to kind of remind us what Matt went out in that contract was that they host a high volume adoption program they transport dogs to other communities so there are seven facilities in the Midwest that were us ten years ago they went no-kill they had a massive investment in spay neuter and today they need the inventory they're like do you all have any cute adoptable puppies and I say yes how many do you want and we try to get those out and so it's a matter of fund raising for contra valley paws because some of those agencies require like a veterinaries of intern Ariens health certificate and then it's a matter of volunteers of who can take those dogs and drive them I am on vacation later this week and I was actually scheduled to drive one of the transports to Nebraska and unfortunately they had an issue with some hurricane Harvey dogs that came in and so we're kind of on pause with that but it's not uncommon that we call them and say I have 313 animals in the facility can you help us out and they say yes we're just in a unique circumstance this week because of their situation as well they also lead our Lost and Found efforts so for example if an animal control officers out in the field and they pick up a stray dog or a stray animal whatever it may be

[1:12:54] they scan it for microchip they ask any neighbors they try to relocate it to back to its owner out in the field and that has mixed results but there's also the local local loss and found website help me at home calm which I know some of y'all have used successfully and so with we see an animal right now everyone on my staff that has an email address gets an email when a lost pet is post I don't help me get home I just needed as many eyes as possible on these animals and so I might say well this is a gray and white dog it looks like every other grand white dog we have in my facility but my one of my employees and I say oh no I know this dog it was it was that named this it's from this area I know this is the dog so at that point we contact paws and say hey look up through y'all's website see if we can match this out in her back and so that is increasing our owner redemptions as we're making those contacts they also provide medical support for sick or injured pets so we had a dog that was running loose in a neighborhood we got a call from a citizen we went out and secured her nice sweet dog but she had several lacerations several puncture wounds on her leg we identified it as something and it was easily treatable but not something that would really heal just being in my facility we contacted concho Valley paws they reached out to some donors and we got that dog directly into veterinary care didn't even come in my facility because that's the preference right does prevent any infection or sort of disease or anything like that and so she's doing really well with her injuries and that happens you know several times a month to get those kind of animals their care they also run our on-site volunteer program and so you know we were finding that when we have volunteers we ask them if they want to clean and some folks say sure but most folks say I'd like to socialize with pets I'd like to interview adopters I'd like to make phone calls I'd like to lost-and-found whatever it may be and so so many of what the volunteers are wanting to do pairs quite well with what paws is doing and so when we when we made this contract with paws and it came

[1:14:55] with certain staffing levels really it's way above and beyond that because we have dedicated volunteers that are there daily we have dedicated volunteers that are there certain times of the month whatever it may be and so that is a function that they provide as well in addition to foster homes so you know cultivating these kind of public-private partnerships having some kind of long-term commitment to a public-private partnership such as this is a really terrific use of taxpayer dollars as I'm limited and we're limited in our budget and we task more and more things to an adoption agency such as this to to take on and take away so we can focus on our core function I also wanted to touch on our Animal Services Advisory Committee we had excuse me of course several resignations come up and we've been able to place for appointments and or reappointments back on the board and so that was a key because one of the things i was tasked with when iris got this job was to have a complete overhaul of all our standard operating procedures and so by law the ASAC is the group that you you know vet those through and so i write them up I take him to animal shelter Advisory Committee they weigh in on you know what's appropriate what's not appropriate and so having enough folks on there so that we can convene a meeting so that we can have a quorum so that we can have some really valuable dialogue was really important so being able to have those four appointments and reappointments we do still have one vacancy that we're working on but that was huge to be able to have that that pool of knowledge to lean on as well we did have a training session in October that Teresa hosted to kind of have an overview for the committee members to say you know this is what state law charges you to do this is what state law charges the shelter to do this is where we match you know y'all's expertise and your passion with our tasks and what we're working on I have kind of a miscellaneous slide here just related to research there's been a lot of just reading of the laws reading of the

[1:17:00] ordinances reaching out to those folks that are experts in the field I've had almost bi-weekly meetings with judge Gilbert and Debra Womack the municipal prosecutor just to talk about what's happening in animal control what are we were card by state law and when I went through the basic animal control certification course in October I was in the class with folks that had been in the job about as long as I had but they weren't we have a very busy facility we have a very busy division and so even though I had only they're about the same amount of time as other guys in my class I had seen cruelty cases I had seen rabies head tests there are things that that unfortunately we have to do as a facility because we're busy community we're a community that loves its pets we're community that has a pet overpopulation epidemic and so we've kind of had to learn some of this by fire meaning I call the judge and say I've got this situation what do I do and he goes okay let's talk about it and we go through step by step you know this is required because a penal code this is required because of state health code this is required because of local ordinance there's just a myriad of things that that all goes through and we didn't have a good working knowledge of that because of all of our turnover and animal control I've also met with the police chief about our relations with them you know when we get a call out after hours it's because police has called us there's an aggressive dog on the scene I'm arresting somebody and they have a dog with them or whatever it may be and so we met with the police chief as well to talk about how do we do this better wildlife is a big thing they see an injured deer we go out there what do we do and so we're kind of we're kind of limited they're kind of limited and we're just trying to meet the gap of the common things that we come across I'm also in regular contact with the state veterinarian and he is a tremendous resource he's been in the field over three decades he's the one that actually does our annual inspection he knows our facility better than I did when I first came on and so I'm in regular contact emails phone calls and in-person meetings with him as well okay so kind of talk about some procedural updates I

[1:19:05] mentioned already that they helped me get home notifications go out to all of my staff that's been hugely beneficial one of the other things that we've changed is that we're really at this point we're only sighting for the most egregious violation so if animal control is called out to a scene and we have a dog that's running loose and one there at large that's against the law too they don't have their microchip three they're not spayed neutered four they don't have a current rabies my goal is compliance I want you to spay neuter your pet I want you to microchip your pet we tried a couple of situations where we actually microchipping in the field that was too cumbersome for for all the things that are on the demand for animal control but we encourage folks please come into the facility a microchip is $13 it's a very easy thing to do please come in and do that so if we were to respond to a scene like that like we do a dozen times a day we would write a citation for the dog being at large that is the most egregious violation it's a public safety issue that your dog is running at large your dog may charge people your dog may cause a traffic accident that is our most concern our very close second most concern is that your pets not current on its rabies vaccinations at the end of the day we exist to prevent the spread of disease from animals to people I am the local rabies control authority you've got to be current on your rabies that is not a city ordinance that is not an option that is a state law required thing so we're gonna follow up with you in ten days and we're gonna say hey did you get your rabies vaccination hey did you get your spay neuter surgery scheduled whatever it may be and so at that point you may be subject to additional citations if we've given you that verbal warning and then followed up but that's we just want to work with folks the amount of money that you would be paying to the Municipal Court I'd love for you to just spend that on your spay neuter so that's that's one of the biggest changes we've done out in the field okay on procedural updates there are a number of things that we discovered we didn't have a good written format for how we were doing it this individual would do it this way this individual would do it that way both good things but let's come together and

[1:21:08] just have some standardization of it all so for example one of the procedural updates that's been before the animal shelter advisory committee is related to bite cases judge Gilbert said to me several times we've got to talk about bio cases you learn to invite cases right and I said well I think we are maybe we're just not communicating that and so we had a bite case happen and I said all right I've got one what do you want to do and so we went through it and so he was saying you've got to do this this this for example we have to have sworn statements we have to have photos of the dog we have to have photos of the victim so we were doing a lot of that we just weren't necessarily communicating that to Judge Gilbert because it does escalate to his level in the event that there were medical bills or veterinary bills or any kind of restitution that can be awarded to the victim the biggest chain that's happened change that's happened with that is that we've expanded it to handle all animal bites including animal on animal so that's not required that by state code so when I talk to my veterinarian he doesn have anything to say about that it's local ordinance it's something the council has put in place that if my dog bites your cat that dog should still be quarantined that dog should that person should still be cited and that's something that had kind of slipped through the cracks because quite honestly it is confusing in the ordinance one of the things that judge Gilbert and Deborah and I are working through is quite frankly a complete overhaul of the ordinance it's mainly to clean up language to clarify and to give our folks the tools they need to do their job the ordinance has been piecemealed over time to the extent that you read this section and it says this and you read this section it does not say that and so admittedly this was a difficult part to understand but it is in the ordinance that we are required to investigate those the next few items we did have a procedure to have a procedural update going to the ASAC related to cruelty cases most commonly in San Angelo that's going to be unreasonable abandonment and so we're working through those we also have an item going before the ASAC next week related to Hale or handling wildlife there was a lot of we learned a lot about wildlife in our basic

[1:23:12] certification course and we learned that again each officer was kind of doing their own thing and I think that there's some opportunity for that but I think it needs to be under some pretty strict guidelines and so we wanted to talk about you know if it's rabies high risk for carrying rabies we want to handle it one way if it's low or no-risk we want to handle it another way and I want to equip my officers to make those judgment calls in the field but we need a pretty rigorous written statement about what all that is and so we've worked through that as well we have a more robust SOP related to wildlife at this time compared to what we've had in the past so as we continue to work through we're we're gonna have a constant review for the committee for our procedures as we continue to work through these items we are gonna have ever-present staffing revisions and whether that means when someone separates we fill the job that they were in or we fill it with a part-timer or we were your or whatever it is there's just always going to be this opportunity for how we're gonna fill those staffing levels the updated Code of Ordinances I hope to have that before the ASAC in January so that I can have that before the council in February ish for its first reading so we can have a really useful document and also upcoming maybe some opportunities for expanded public/private partnership I did want to note that the current agreement we have with concho Valley pause was a one-year agreement so it's a February 28th and so the request for proposal is going before my board later this month we hope to have those responses in by December so that we can bring it to y'all for approval in January a full 30 days before the agreement is actually out and then facility improvements I haven't talked much about this but our building was built in 1999 it has had virtually no improvements we are not using it as originally it's a design I'll admit to you right now I have a quarantine room called wildlife and put wildlife in there I find a solution for wildlife out in the field I sometimes have overflow adoptable pets in there right now I have 19 dogs in my wildlife room they're little dogs but still that's not a deal that's not what I would like that room to be used for and because of the

[1:25:15] no-kill initiative there are days that were busting at the seams like where can we put these cats where can we put these dogs let's have some solutions that that maybe we wouldn't think of before but we've got to do it and so that's kind of a constant thing we have an ebb and flow of oh we're kind of late Monday last week we had 230 lives in the facility and it felt easy we were like okay this is about what we can handle right by Friday morning before we even opened we had 299 so and then it was a busy day and so Friday we were swamped Friday we were hustling we were busy one family brought in 25 animals 25 dogs from one family they approached a their mother who was going into a skilled nursing facility she couldn't take her pets with her and they had a hoarding situation that they were unaware of and so that's when folks like me step in and we assist we try to match those dogs with adoptable homes if they're adoptable and we try to just taken and help that family out they were very grateful for our care but where do we put these dogs so that that's a constant thing that we're working through as we're limited by our facility and that's all I really have for y'all [Laughter] but you know I think it's an optimistic time for for animal services I'm getting a lot of good feedback for key things that we're taking on we're hungry for that feedback for additional things that we continue reviewing and and we're doing it y'all I mean we're the the feedback that we get if there's something that we need to take a note and make a change we're looking at it are we allowed to legally are we capable of it with our resources and it to the extent that we're not we're you know communicating with that with our chain of command so I appreciate y'all's time Morgan you know very well working in that particular position that people are very passionate about their pets I will have to say I've had less phone calls from people from citizens about pets in the last four months that I did in the first

[1:27:17] 12 months that I was on council so I do appreciate what you're doing and I appreciate the work that that you that you're doing with with the people around you too so thank you organ it sounds like you have a pretty solid relationship with Contra valley paws are there other rescue groups in San Angelo that you're working with as well yes ma'am so concho Valley paws is our main point of contact for adoptions it's important to us to have one point of contact so that we can walk away from it and so that it's an organized effort for example if concho Valley paws has a pet that they're medicating because they're about to send on a transport had a very treatable illness then they need to know that that's going to be theirs to transport because they've invested funds in it and so their lead on it and they're who I work with but they do work with other rescues in town mostly purebred rescues so Texas Cattle Dog Rescue has a foothold here and there regularly pulling from us diamond dachshund rescue is often pulling from us we have a dog slated to go to Great Pyrenees rescue and so it is more often the pure breed rescues but they do have a function in place for other groups to come in and pull because we are wide open for that I just have to say Wow very thorough and very detailed love it and I know I don't know if you caught yourself intentionally and I know it tells me where your hearts at but when you were talking about your facility you said home you had so many in your home and that just tells me exactly what your intentions are what where's your heart at and how well of the job you have been doing so Thank You Morgan thank you I do I called the house we're gonna follow I went didn't in the walkthrough with its outstanding what you do there's no doubt in my mind in flike Harry said when I stepped in it was just as a transition was going Daniel made a great job with putting you into place I mean we have the person to drive and steer that ship that needs to be there one thing we talked about and I encourage you to bring this to council

[1:29:19] later is the need for improvements to your building and maybe an additional building out there and we'll go talk to Roland about some acreage up there because you need a wellness showroom a wellness showing him does great for you know placing pets and animals and we all care about that so let's put that one it's not something new but let's not leave that one on the backburner too long yes I think one of the biggest successes we've had with an investment in my facility is later on your agenda related to budget carryover so we were tremendously under budget last year because of these salary vacancies and to the extent we can start matching that to the facility you know I don't I know better than a lot of people the limitations y'all face during budget cycle and so to the extent I can find my own solutions you know that can add up to tens of thousands of dollars and so that'll help and we're going to keep plugging away on that as well sir very good presentation thank you thank you the council a break Thank You Morgan thank you for that update item G first reading and public hearing of an ordinance amending chapter 12 Planning and Development Exhibit C the land development and subdivision ordinance chapter 1 general provision subsection for variances and chapter 5 procedural requirements for processing subdivisions section 3 stage and stages of development review 2 inconsistencies in the code city attorney Theresa James this is one of those cleanup ordinances as we've been working through some of the planning ordinances we realized that there was this term simple majority included in some of the ordinances we've always interpreted it to be just majority however when you research the term simple majority there are a number of ways it is used and can be interpreted that could cost conflicts in the future so all this does is delete the term simple so we have a majority and supermajority in our development code and removes all of that ambiguity any public comment need a majority on that or no public comment then I'll call

[1:31:26] for the vote all in favor say aye aye all opposed that's the six zero Thank You Teresa item H first reading and public hearing of an ordinance amending chapter 12 Planning and Development article 12.04 for signs to require council approval of certain signs that extend into the public right-of-way a presentation by Planning and Development Services John James thank you again john james director of planning and development services this is kind of a clean up ordinance as well I just have the definition here of projecting signing in case we need to talk more about that but it's basically a sign that attaches typically vertically out from from a building their current regulation says that all projecting signs larger than 16 square feet requires City Council approval we think the intent of that was for areas like the downtown where you might have a marquee sign or projecting sign that actually extends out into the public right-of-way but the way the ordinance is worded it requires your approval for any projecting sign and so we think that a projecting Sun that's completely on private property on a building that may be 20 or 30 feet back from the property line they should be able to have a projecting sign just like any other sign on their property without having to come to the City Council again we think that was the intent of this ordinance when it was written it just didn't include that particular language so this would simply change this requirement that says City Council approval is only required when a projecting sign does extend across the property line into the public right-of-way that's pretty much it in a nutshell just a very monitor change I'd be happy to answer any questions motion in a second any public comment and then I'll call for the vote all in favor say aye aye all opposed

[1:33:28] six-zero thank you John item I first reading in public hearing of an ordinance amending appendix a article a 8.000 utility related fees a eight point zero zero eight water sewage sewer and trash deposits by amending the deposits presentation by Allison Strube Burnie Mayor Pro Tem Council mr. Valenzuela so this ordinance in front of you is one of four ordinances that was taken to the water advisory board on October 16th this is an ordinance that was adopted in 2005 and has not been updated since and so we're trying to make sure that all of our fees and deposits the right structure outside of the regular billing system are also being updated as they should here the current deposits that are being charged they are broken down by meter size as well as residential and commercial I do want to add that while some of these in this section are very large dollar amounts those are also very few and far between of those size service connections 82% of our meter sorry of our meter sizes are in that five-eighths inch category so the bulk of our accounts that are being set up are in the five-eighths inch category so I want to talk about one reason why we want to increase the deposit as it states in your background we send about 1,500 accounts approximately four hundred and seventy thousand dollars annually into collections and with a good deposit system we hope to minimize the amount that we're sending to collections it'll take a while for that to go into place once if these increases are updated but we hope that it does have an impact in our collections one thing I do want to make

[1:35:33] sure that it's mentioned that this will not affect our current customers are we have approximately 35,000 customers currently and this does not affect them this would affect new customers coming in to set up services and with the ordinance change we've set that date to be January 1 and so that's when those rates would go into effect I'm going to get into how we arrived at these proposed deposits but most notably I think the one that we really want to look at and I'll go into detail is the residential deposit in the five eighths inch category we're proposing a hundred dollar deposit it is currently $35 okay so real quick we've what we've done is we've come up with an average one-month bill for water sewer trash and stormwater and what that bill would look like so what we'd like to do is to increase the deposit amount to at least cover an average one-month bill of usage so you've got the water base fee the sewer base fee the trash fee an average stormwater bill and we're basing the consumption on approximately 4,000 gallons reminder this is for the residential side of the deposits so those come together at 96 dollars and 47 cents and so we've rounded that up to a hundred dollars so you can see going through all the different meter sizes how we've arrived at these calculations are there any questions before I go on Allanson I just want to ask you not enough this is the right time to ask her on but when you're gonna be assessing this fee are you gonna take anything into consideration like say for instance the customer comes in he's got good credit he doesn't need I mean you feel like it was it we currently do not have a system

[1:37:35] in place where we can check people's credit history that would be something we'd have to either become a part of by a it's a software package and we'd have to buy that to be able to check people's credit what we do have is if they were an existing customer say they lived in San Angelo for a little while and they moved off for some reason then they came back we can look at those people there the history that they have within our utility if they were a good paying customer then we would most likely not require this deposit or that that amount of the deposit so we do look at their history in terms of what's in our system but we do not have a way to currently check people's credit history say if they say if they were from Sweetwater you would not be able to check their history no ma'am - one thing that I do want to say is that we keep this deposit for four years if they have a good payment history during those four years it is credited back to their account or if they close their account within that time it's applied to their last bill and if there is if the deposit is more than their last billed and they receive a check for that difference and so that's how we do that so I got a question Alison for the hundred dollar deposit is there a certain amount of time that needs to lapse if they're looking like they're a good paying customer and that they're not going to be you know skipping out well that $100 be applied sooner than their last bill that they the four year mark please mark yes four years and also customers say they're moving from San Antonio over and they're moving in and they've had good history there is there a way to check that to where they wouldn't have to be paying 100 all we don't have the means in place to check that type of that's a different utility cut Alison before you get off just real quick in our do we have the

[1:39:44] ability in our history of those on collectibles those that or they're going out that we know that they are a certain range of time that they typically are on our system in other words a we've got those on collectibles one of the things we're trying to do is propose that we make this this rate such that if somebody decides to leave is to is to their advantage to go ahead and and and try to resolve the situation without just leaving $35 is dropping a bucket with somebody but $100 makes a difference to someone so this is kind of the background the reasoning behind us moving this direction is that correct I think I understand your question but I don't know that putting $100 because it would ultimately whether it's $35 or $100 it would go towards their final bill one way to look at that is though if their final bill would be less with this proposal and so they may be more apt to pay that final bill if it is the difference of sixty-five dollars more maybe they don't have the funds a lot of people that were sending to collections are not paying their bill so we have two final close close their service and final out them and move them into collections because they are not a good paying customer and so this would be more money for the utility less into collections so it would benefit the customer in that a lesser dollar figure is going to the collection agency I guess my question even though it was robbery in the long run what this does is it it it makes the rest of the citizens whole they're not supporting water utilities with either sales tax or property tax because now what you've got is you you guys are

[1:41:46] moving and me and do what you need to do to add to what Harry said as well this is not an effort to generate revenue this is to mitigate losses that are having to go to collections at this point are the losses maybe maybe a question the losses are coming because people are not paying their last bill is that where the the the huge amount is generated so this is attempting and as you said this isn't going to be in an immediate effect it's gonna take a while yes so we set up approximately 6,000 accounts annually there's no way to say those 6,000 are going to funnel out their bill that first year so it's going to take some time so that we get all those customers established with this new deposit before we probably see that change in the amount going to collections yes Alison are these people gonna have to cook I mean like they come up with the deposit right there and then are they gonna be able to pay it out or how's that gonna work like do they have to come up and say here's my other dollars now I want your service or can they pay $50 every month I mean no at the time of setting up the service they it is required for the full amount and also how much is the software to find out the credit there I'm not sure what that how much that would come because I wouldn't want to have to pay $100 deposit if I had good credit I mean it's like they'll Electric you know whenever they look at your credit and then if you don't have good credit then they charge you so much money so I'm just saying that that's something that we can look into in addition to these is look at what that software package cost and what kind of training you have to have for that to look at people's credit history installation we are we would be on solid ground to have that software to check someone's credit histories that is that an accurate statement we could so can we do that you know I would have to look at it in more detail typically whenever you're checking somebody's credit there

[1:43:48] are requirements on the confidentiality of that and the uses that you can use it for but setting up a utility count I don't know off the top of my head of any reason why it would be prohibited for that purpose there are any circumstances to where we can work with people if they can't like Lucy said come up with $100 right then and there can they pay it out over the course of the first two months since $50 is a little bit better than 100 right up front I'll ask our customer service manager I wasn't prepped I guess answer that question how she does handle those cases $35 is probably a lot easier to come up with in that first month then $100 but I can talk to her and see what kind of what we can do to change that mistreating so we can do it by the second Ellison would you give me that figure again how much we have gone to collections it's approximately 1500 customers a year a year and that amount totaling an on average four hundred and seventy thousand dollars annually going to collections and you're so close to half a million dollars so you're saying that most of this are all of its due to people skipping out on their final bill not paying their final bill yes there it is for the most part those that are not paying their final bill and that is when they go to the collections agency okay but also people who aren't paying gets shut off so it becomes their final bill yes so it's a little of little of both if you don't pay for a long enough period of time you get shut off and those last bills become your last bills she may move on somewhere else to get water under somebody else's name so he who ends up paying for that 400 almost $500,000 me the taxpayer it's a decrease in revenue that the utility is not receiving I don't know how that rest of the rate payers the rest the rest of the right payments are paying for that the

[1:45:51] other 35,000 cups we do my mind yeah because we do projections on our budget and when those budgets come out short guess what we started looking at our rate fees as well and having to make adjustments in the future just to make sure make up for those losses so again it is the other rate payers is enough and that's not we want to make sure that those that receive the service we've already we've already registered a revenue because we do about crudo basis we want to make sure we collect on that revenue so again we don't want to pass it on to anyone else it's something I think for us to think about you know when we look at $65 increase in our deposit versus all of our citizens having to chip in to pay almost half a million dollars for people that you know don't honor their obligations I don't know that's something that I think we need to seriously consider before the second reading of this go through the rest of the slides real fast so basically the same philosophy with the commercial sizes but we have used a different usage for the 5/8 inch at 10,000 gallon monthly usage an inch and inch and a half at 25,000 gallons and a 2-inch meter using approximately 50,000 gallons same thing with commercial meter sizes and all these very large meters using approximately 50,000 gallons monthly Oh Andy excuse me you know earlier I was focusing on the five eighths inch meter but when we look at our commercial commercial customers do we have a lot of them that end up not honoring their obligation to pay their bills I will be bringing that data to us when we talk about the late fees or I do have it's not a correlation and what's in

[1:47:53] collections but 5% of our late paying customers are commercial so it's a very most of our if we say that the late paying customers that ultimately go into collections if we're using that data it's about 5% so so does that 5% justify us raising their deposits as much as we have well this is approximately one month worth of usage I think this for some of our larger industries and I want to remind that these the 4 6 and 8 inch categories are since I've been here we've not put in a 4 or 6 inch for any new commercial entity so this type of deposit hasn't been required at this since I've been here so and it it is $900 but they are going to be paying if we consider how much their monthly bill would be $900 isn't out of the ballpark for that customers usage and that what their monthly bill would look like I think we got to remember that even though this is a low percentage that any one of these that has to go to collections this amount covers approximately one month of their of their bill the other thing is is for those good paying customers in four years that money can be applied back to their to their monthly bill or it could be given back to them in return the deposit so I really think that this just makes a good business sense I think I think it's going to be tough for some of the some of the small business people maybe but they're not going to be in this categories of 3 4 6 8 inch lines they're going to be back down in that 3/8 inch line or 1 inch line most of them so it's it's not going to be these

[1:49:56] these large people like this so once again here's this side-by-side comparison of the current versus the proposed so you can see what those increases look like so we recommend increasing deposits to lower collections reduce loss of collected revenue and help ensure total amounts owed to the utility are collected once again this was taken to the water advisory board I know that Mike Boyd he was here okay he left for a second they approved this unanimously on October 16th and so I'll be happy to answer any other questions that you all may have regarding this a couple of the industries that would be using that 8-inch line what are we looking at what type of business currently I believe our only eight inch connection is Goodfellow Air Force Base so it would be something of that magnitude so morning Mike Boyd sorry had to step out for ribbon groundbreaking we vetted this fairly significantly we had most of the members of the board water advisory board there when I look at it from a finance perspective and I look at overall as a City perspective and worry on revenue a lot of a lot of people don't pay that final bill when you look at the breakout of how many days it's gone past 2:30 all the way up to a year we can read several million dollars worth of revenue on our books where people have not paid and I think this is an opportunity when I talk to a couple of other cities I hate to say it's a deterrence but it is in a way to make sure that people pay for the service that's provided and so we only looked at the deposits and you'll see in the future meeting we'll talk about some other ways to enhance revenue it's not in order to it's in there to cover cost of the city that y'all incur and that

[1:51:59] y'all are fiscally responsible for the bad news is we haven't done it in a long time and we should be doing it periodically but I think it's a charge for the water advisory board like the council to at least cover your cost and try and collect whatever revenue sources that are owed to you and so that's the primary reason that the water advisory board made the recommendation unanimously to bring the City Council to ask for your approval move to approve its presented I second the motion any public comment if not then I will call for the vote all in favor say aye any opposed s is six to zero I'm Jay consider a resolution adopting a design manual for the installation and construction real quick before we go Bill Riley is tomorrow your last day I witnessin I'm so sorry I'm already saying goodbye but your service is earlier I was trying to get rid a month ahead of time item J consider a resolution adopting a design manual for the installation and construction of network nodes and node support poles in the public right away presentation by city engineer Russell Pell all right thank you good morning everyone morning alright congratulations on your 20 under 40 and thank you very much I appreciate that just to give everybody kind of a brief overview of what we'll be talking about today is just the you know the design manual for like Elaine said for the wireless communication facilities and

[1:54:03] what will be included with our design manual is an actual permit application and the requirements and the simpler the supplemental requirements needed for that application not only for existing poles but for new poles placement within the right-of-way in those restrictions as well as additional requirements including signage and height requirements the permit application is pretty generic it's you know just asked for the owner or the the network providers information and the contractors information the job site you know where they're going to be working the type of work they're going to be doing and then not only will the engineering department be reviewing application but will also be coordinating our review with our planning department just to make sure that you know if we're placing anything in commercial residential or historic areas that the Planning Department is included with that review as well going into some of the supplemental information attaching to existing polls in within the right-of-way you know we have a stipulation in there that not more than five network nodes can complete can be placed on any poll within the right-of-way and just to remind everybody what a network node is it's just the radio transceivers antennas and any backup power supplies we also are requiring that structural analysis be performed on each of the existing poles to make sure that not only that the pole can handle the additional load of the antennas and there is there just the network nodes that any wind loads that are anticipated for the area that it you know doesn't fall over with with these new attachments will also be requiring that the provider do an analysis on the you know the radio frequencies that they are

[1:56:06] proposing that they're not interfering with you know City public safety radio systems traffic signal lighting systems or any other you know communication components that the city might have one thing we'll be looking at is handicapped accessibility requirements making sure that we don't have any jut outs that you know are in conflict with handicapped accessibility issues or along sidewalks and you know or any other areas that might be an issue we'll also be looking at the color of the network nodes we're asking that they color them to camouflage or the mirror the the pole that they're fixing to so that way they don't stand out and you know just another hi sore in the public right-of-way electric meters you know each of these network nodes are we going to require power we'd ask that they either you know place you know that they don't place a new structure in the right of way just for their meter so we're requiring that they have fixed them to the pole that they're going to fix to as well installation of new poles they you know basically have a lot of the same requirements as the existing pole but I'm just gonna kind of briefly go over you know the differences you know one of the main things we want them to to make sure is that you know that they provide what material type they're going to be installing the poles are you know is it going to be a wood pole metal pole fiberglass things of that nature one thing that we want them to look at is you know with within that area that they're going to propose the new poles you know as are they're primarily wooden poles in that area or they're metal poles and if there's you know we want them to match in denier so that they blend in again and you know if there's mixed use you know we want them to defer to a metal pole one thing we'll also be looking at is you know or making

[1:58:09] sure that they look at is you know utility is the existing utilities that are in that area not not just above ground but underground you know we're gonna make them you know locate water main sewer mains gas mains you know so that they're not going in and putting in all you know and drilling right through the middle of one of our water mains also you know that the placement of that pole you know needs to be within you know we're asking that they place it you know typically on the edge of the right-of-way line but in scenarios where that can't happen you know we don't want them to be any closer within 24 inches of the back of curb and the main reason for that stipulation to is when we're doing our street and provement projects that you know when we go and rip up the street or the curb and gutter that we're not also in conflict with that new pole some more supplemental information that requires not only takes existing but also proposed poles is you know we're looking at is this in a park in a historic area and basically we're not going to allow that without City Council approval and this all this not only applies to our existing parks and historic districts but any future parks and historic districts that the city may adopt we'll also be looking at residential areas you know if it's going to be in a residential area we're gonna ask that they place the pole or the existing pole that be in the alley that way it's not in front of somebody's home you know it's in that alley with you know primarily in San Angelo if we have any utility lines it's going to be in the alley so we want to just maintain that as well as we want the network provider to look at and you know as they're bringing in more and more of these you know it's not just gonna be you know AT&T or Sprint you know it's more of these providers come into the area we want them to look at you know what what other network facilities are in that area before they put that there we don't want to have you know an abundance of nodes and one block

[2:00:13] basically and so what the stipulation here of having another you know 300 feet between wireless communication facilities is just you know just trying to keep it's sparse and you know not having a whole bunch of these in one one area some additional requirements that we've put in our design manual our signage you know what we want some very minimal signage on the pole indicating the name of the provider their address and emergency contact information should we need to contact them if case somebody hits the pole and knocks it over to the right-of-way or if we you know just keep that communication open one thing to that we don't want to have those we don't have too much signage such that they're advertising and things of that nature just like anything else like a garage sale you know we don't typically allow signage on or that type of signage in the right-of-way one thing we added to was no additional overhead electric lines you know like I said before most of these are going to be requiring electrical power and you know we don't want to add more overhead electric lines in our right-of-way so if we can prevent that by you know requiring them to put it underground and and run it to their new polled and it just keeps everything clean and you know just gives it a much neater appearance finally height requirements the local government code chapter 284 puts the general stipulation on the hythe requirements basically stipulating a maximum of 55 feet above ground but each pole cannot be greater than 10 feet of the existing poles that are in the area so if there's a 30-foot pole in the area or that's kind of average of the area the new wireless communication sorry the wires and the new wireless communication

[2:02:16] facility can only be 10 foot higher than that so it'd be it would limit it to 40 feet any question reason yes is the reason that we need to adopt a resolution is that because we don't have a city ordinance that would cover the things that you've just laid out here well so what we are anywhere we when I brought to you last meeting was an ordinance that stipulated basically the the fees and and that they could place you know these types of facilities in the right-of-way and then that ordinance also referred to a design manual to give more stipulation as to you know how that has has to happen and how it's going we're going to approve it so you're correct we do not have a mean we as of today we now have a in ordinance the second reading was a part of consent to that and so this is just a piggyback onto that ordinance you know our you know just to reinforce that ordinance so and maybe Theresa can explain that better than I can but just in general terms you know this this is just giving us more flexibility and more you know be able to to be able to we control those ethics basically make sure able to control the aesthetics thank you and who's developing the design manual who's developing it well staff yes and the legal staff we work together to put this together you know in you know we just didn't come up with this you know really knew it thank you so city of Arlington was a good example that we used city of Lubbock also has this place already as well as city of Houston you know and

[2:04:19] those were the types of examples that we followed to to implement ours to make it more curtail to the city of San Angelo and you know it's thank you I move approval the resolution any public comment I am Chris gyro I'm just wondering there are several residential areas that have no alleyways in San Angelo so you're effectively telling them that they cannot place nodes to service these areas because you had it in there stipulated had to be in an alleyway there are some areas I mean and then you know it's not like one of these has to be placed on every block and basically what these are doing is it they're in my limited knowledge of what these actually do is they they take you know we have a macro tower you know you see the large cellphone towers across town and what these do is they just basically is a repeater just to increase that coverage areas it's a booster more or less and you know so what they typically look at you know or you know in discussions with these wireless communication facilities or network providers is that you know they're just trying to increase those high traffic areas and one you know we have been looking at these already and you know our higher traffic areas are you know more towards us you know as far as data usage or more towards our center of town you know and they've been looking at you know downtown you know in more of our industrial type areas so far well you know there are other ways you know - you know it's not their first rodeo you know

[2:06:23] they know how to make these work more efficiently and you know there's not an alley in that area you know we feel like it's it's still something you know there's some other viable options out there in the right-of-way Russell didn't didn't you tell us that it could be behind the curb but it had to be 24 inches like in a curb Craig's in a commercial area yes industrial there heaven anyway if it could be placed 24 inches behind the curb someplace or mine did I miss something well also keep in mind that these nose will be going in other areas that do have alleyways that be they'll be when within the vicinity of areas that don't have alleyways so the boosters will assist in those areas I'm sure as well so but I know that what you're talking about was more the commercial right with Craig those were more commercial areas would be behind the curb or okay industrial areas any other public comment and I'll call for the vote okay all in favor aye any opposed that's a six to zero also before you leave congratulations on twenty under forty selection all right thank you very much appreciate it first public hearing and introduction to be a pretty tough presentation Tina's brought a help she's got her backups and sorry first public hearing an introduction of an ordinance amending the 2017 to 2018 budget for number one grants and capital projects and number two staffing levels presentation by finance director team thirsty good morning Mayor Pro Tem City Council mr. Valenzuela I have for you today a budget amendment first off we are budgeting revenue in the amount of four

[2:08:25] hundred and fifteen thousand dollars that revenue does come from the Medicaid supplement program that chief done applies for it's not a guaranteed revenue source but when we do receive it we try to use it to help out the fire department so we're going to budget four hundred fifteen thousand dollars in revenue and the expense will be related to the peak hours ambulance that chief done is implemented a VPN for their software and their vehicles fire station number four and also the Fire Training Center we're also budgeting both revenue and expense for police SWAT grant of twenty six thousand five hundred dollars and then we have our carryover process which we do every year after year and where departments have projects that are either in progress or that are anticipated so they request a carryover funds that were unused last year into the new year to use for those projects I know that twelve million dollars looks like a very large figure but ten point seven million of that is for related to water infrastructure projects for the Bell Street project another million of it is for a fire truck and our remaining $300,000 is for various other projects such as City Hall grounds and the animal shelter that we mentioned earlier so that's all I have on the budget amendment do you have any questions okay moving let me move on to part two or how do we do that Brian all I wanted to take two different okay the second part is just the reallocation of the FTE to remove that third assistant police chief and just to convert it to a regular police officer position and that's how I have a motion I moved to approve you public comment you know all that support for nothing Hey no come and I'll call for the vote

[2:10:32] all in favor say aye aye all opposed six to zero Thank You Tina puts us in a closed session and under executive session under the provision of government code title five open government ethics subtitle a open government chapter five five one Open Meetings subchapter D exceptions to the requirement that meetings to be under open under the following sections section a section five five one point zero seven one one a consult with the attorney with the when the governmental body seeks the advice of its attorney about pinning or contemplating the litigation regarding number 1 2013 seal coding program contract number two Templin Templeton construction corporated number three also incorporated versus city of San Angelo Carrillo engineers item B section five five one point zero seven four one to deliberate the annual evaluation of the city manager item C Section five five one point zero seven two to deliberate the purchase exchange lease or value of real property related to the Avenue P drainage project and we're estimating about an hour and a half but if we get done early we don't want to set that in stone if it might be an hour to an hour and a half so we didn't want to give an exact time because it's kind of approximate do we have anybody here waiting on the appointments I don't believe so okay in forty three we're going into closed session following up on administrative issues section a consider items discussed an executive session if needed and there are some needed let's start with Harry concerning the twenty thirteen sealcoating project we authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute a full release and settlement agreement with Brandon paving for the settlement of all claims related

[2:12:34] to the EOS yes Oh three thirteen sealcoating contract in an amount paid to the city of no less than $400,000 ocean all in favor aye any opposed zero and on the Billy alright in conjunction to Al say incorporated versus the city of San Angelo first I'd like to make a motion to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute a change order to W you - 0 8 - 1 3 well Phil expense expansion package number one - al say incorporated for the total payments not to exceed $100,000 over the awarded bit amount second all in favor aye any opposed 6 to 0 alright in conjunction with same I'll say in vs. city of San Angelo I'd like to make a motion to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute settlement agreements for the settlement of all claims related to I'll say incorporated in an amount not to exceed the amended contract price second all in favor aye he opposed six zero and back to Harry yes in a matter of acquiring property for the Avenue P project make a motion to authorize the city manager to negotiate and execute the purchase of 1805 and 1807 Jalloh Texas in conjunction with the Avenue P drainage project for an amount not to exceed $600,000 all in favor opposed six zero on to consider approving the following board

[2:14:39] nominations Planning Commission Joseph on Oh SMD six first full term ending January 2020 and the tiers board Tony hunter SMD five - an unexpired term ending july 2019 move all in favor aye any opposed six to zero and on to any announcements and considerations of future agenda items I'll start with mr. Tommy this time I'm good I'm good nothing we have a motion to adjourn motion to adjourn all in favor

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