San Angelo City Council 6-19-18

[0:00:10] this morning we have the Reverend Bill Proctor who is the senior pastor at First Presbyterian Church to lead us in prayer good morning allow me to lead us in prayer let us pray good in holy God I thank you first for our mayor and members of council and for their willingness and desire to serve this community with creativity and wisdom and justice I thank you for the members of the city staff who are here this morning to do their jobs and ask your blessing upon them then I thank you for fellow residents of this community who are here this morning to present their issues and concerns bless them as well I pray and then Lord I ask that you would share with Santangelo some of the rains that you have so generously shared with so many other Texans this week that we might be refreshed by your love and your grace and your mercy once again amen and today we have J Lee Brenly who is entering the 5th grade at Fort Concho come on up here and she also Histadrut the hunger initiatives community garden which we will have a proclamation for the hunger initiative shortly honor the Texas flag I pledge allegiance to thee do I have anyone here from the Tom Green County hunger initiative line

[0:02:29] up here Mary the Texas hunger initiative is a collaborative effort both statewide and locally our goal is to end hunger in Texas through policy education research grassroots organizing and Community Development San Angelo is one of eight Texas cities selected to have a regional office with the dual purpose of promoting child nutrition programs through local outreach and coordination and of working toward the creation of hunger free communities coalition's in the communities within our 23 County region in Tom Green County more than one in four families with children had times during the last year when there was not enough money to buy food that is five thousand four hundred households in San Angelo the goal for the Tom Green County hunger initiative for 2018 is to feed more children during the summer when school is not in session in San Angelo over eight thousand six hundred students receive free or reduced meals when school is in session more than sixty percent of all students after summer school ends in June local churches ministries organizations businesses and numerous individuals have committed to provide meals in July and August at ten San Angelo neighborhood sites and one sided nearby Carlsbad therefore I Brenda Gunther mayor the city of San Angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby recognize and applaud the Tom Green County hunger initiative for their achievement and positive determination to make a difference in our community through the kids eat free summer meal program [Applause] thank you very much for giving us this

[0:04:40] award this proclamation today I just wanted to tell you that we are so excited to be having our ninth summer for kids eat free we have a connection with one of our council members Tommy Hebert wife Carol and I were the two that worked to get this kids eat freeze bread in 2010 and we had our first summer that summer so we are very excited that we have been able to serve over a hundred and sixty thousand meals to children in the time that we've had kids eat free going we'll have ten sites this summer and we have many churches and individuals and businesses that help us with this it would not be possible without the efforts of so many volunteers the church is a sponsor all of these sites pay for the food cook the food serve the food and the one thing that sets us apart from other sites is that we do offer activities for the children at each of the sites so that they can have fun as well as being fed after all this is summer and it should be fun so we like to do that as well but we really appreciate your time and we would love for you to pass the word to any children that you might be aware of that might need our help thank you so much as a reminder we will ask that all people please turn your cellphone's off at this point in time double-check them please and we will open up the beating for public comment issues or items that are not on the agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should

[0:06:43] speak from the podium begin by stating their name and limit remarks to less than three minutes council members may request that a discussed item be placed on a future agenda the council takes public comment on all regular agenda items during the discussion of those items is there any public comment today yes I'm John McCloy the retired Air Force lieutenant colonel and current commander of the VFW post 1815 on behalf of Don Marsh and myself we've been working on a proposal that would involve putting what we're terming a walk of honor which would you utilize part of the Riverwalk preferably in the downtown area to recognize people from San Angelo or that have moved into San Angelo that have achieved notable success and their field of endeavor and it could be in the military it could be in the arts music people like Fess Parker and whatever and we propose to have a committee of six or seven people that would submit names and then agree on people to be put on the walk we're looking at plaques similar to the roadside plaques that the highway department puts out there would be nice aluminum plaques roughly two feet off the ground and slanted so that people could walk along and read the names and what the people had achieved and the name should be familiar to most of the people because there would be people that have achieved some degree of success in their field and that's what we're going we're looking at doing and we're going to propose this and get hopefully grants to make that a success but we're looking at somewhere in the neighborhood of $40,000 to propose to do the first section which

[0:08:46] would be perhaps 20 names the plaques are about $1,500 apiece and we'd have a plaque at the start and at the end of the line they would say proclaim that this was a walk of honor of people that had been and are associated with Santangelo thank you thank you John any further public comment Bob solace Neighborhood Services we hosted our 8th annual code enforcement officer licensing renewal classes recently we had 24 attendees from as far code officers including from Midland Big Lake del real Sweetwater and of course our local code enforcement officers and we want to thank several people started with Councilwoman Billy DeWitt who gave us her opening remarks and provided some snacks in the morning appreciate that we had the judge J Daniel who spoke on the escalation miss Theresa James who spoke on legal aspects related to code enforcement we had Rebecca get up who spoke about ethics related to code enforcement we had Don so Larry we spoke about qualified immunity Shannon McMillan who gave us a stormwater presentation and door prizes and that we had to Diane beige from the visitor center who provided our welcome to San Angelo and a bag of goodies for everyone and we surely could have done it without them we wanted to thank them publicly for all they did appreciate it thank you very much further public comment no further public comment we will close the public comment section of the agenda and we will move into the consent agenda I'm gonna start with Tommy do you have anything you'd like to pull from the consent agenda no ma'am no ma'am language Billy I'm yes I have something

[0:10:53] I want to pull but if you could indulge me for just a moment mayor I just wanted to say thank you to you for the proclamation from the city for recognizing Juneteenth on Saturday and for leading the parade we just appreciate you so much for your presence and for your suggestions for making making it better next year and I want to thank Councilwoman Gonzales for being there participating and reading the proclamation for Juneteenth we appreciate you Lucy I know it's your district but you didn't have to do it and I do appreciate you for doing that and then a couple of other you know so many times we don't hear all of the positive and last week I had several instances where I had disgruntled constituents I'll put it like that and first of all the operations division Miss Vicky Porter I called her and she directed me she she seemed to know everything about everything and she directed me to who I should go to so I want to thank Hereford for her expertise in her assistance and she said oh you don't need to call them she said you know I'll take care of that for you and I said no let me do it and she gave me the gentleman's name Steven Connelly and understand right now Steven has a pretty big job I think he's covering two departments and he was so responsive so responsive that in all the instances where I needed assistance the very next day I was getting a call from my constituents and in their appreciation for how quickly we responded to what that situation was so Miss Vicky Porter and Steven Connelly and also Russell pale cuz Russell he just went to all the trouble to give me such an a long email outlining a response to my constituent that I called him in and I said Russell can I just forward them this email

[0:12:55] because it was concise it was very clear and it was recognized by the gentleman that had the issues with the roads on on College Hill so I just appreciate the work that our city group I appreciate it so much and I see Carl back there and I don't want to forget to thank Carl the park for Juneteenth looked great so thank you to you and your staff for that so I know there are many other people that have helped me over these last 11 months and I want all of you to know it's really appreciated so thank you and I would like to pull item F okay this point in time may I have a motion to approve the consent agenda with the exception of items E and F all in favor say aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 item e consider authorizing the city manager to reject all beds received for rfb FS - 1 2 - 1 8 body shop repair and I think here you wanted that one pulled questions that I just want clarified so that the citizens that are watching this will have a better understanding this will not affect any of the body work that you're in you're presently having is that correct Ryan no sir at the present moment our previous contract did lapse and so we're attempting to virtually renew that same process but in the interim between those time periods we're still quoting and repairing as needed yes sir and the - to individual body shops that that bid and basically had a good bid even though we didn't have three and that was what we what we wanted these two individual shops can rebid is that correct or how that process works yes sir as a matter of fact let me point out that this rejection or recommended rejection is no reflection on their

[0:15:00] ability to service us they've done a great job in the past for us and I'm confident that they'll do a great job in the future however the quantity is what's so concerning is that we have enough body work to spread around that if we if we restrict ourselves to just a number of body shops that will really be delaying our repairs which is impactful to our organization in our operations divisions thank you I just want the citizens to have a better understanding of why we're doing this knowing that we have the needs so with that move for approval on item E motion passes item F consider resolution suspending for 90 days the proposed effective date for the rate increase provided in the filling in the filing made around June 1st 2018 by Atmos energy for its mid tax division Theresa James you're on I think for this one do you have anything comment or Billy you want him I have questions and we heard about this first you know about three or four City Council meetings ago Teresa and it was my understanding that we're one of 50 cities that had a concern about the rate increase that atmos was proposing and that we were going to I'm not sure what our next steps were but it sounds like they got approval or authorization to go ahead with the rate increases so I'm just wondering if we know what those increases are going to be and whether or not you know this suspension is automatic or does it have to have approval from somewhere this particular item actually deals with a filing that was done I believe in June of this year it was very recent this is not the same filing as was addressed before so what we're doing today is we are saying that you have provided us this information saying you want to

[0:17:02] increase commercial rates and reduce all the other rates and they provided us a packet of information us being the attorneys that these 50 cities have hired to represent all of us on these matters so they need time to review all this information related to these increases and decreases in the rates and they wanted to they asked for an effective date on these increases to be July 6th and that is not enough time for the attorneys to review the information so what this particular resolution does is it suspends the increase until we have time to review the information and make a decision on how we want to respond to it so there has not been an approved increase or decrease in the rates this is the beginning of a process thank you that's that's what I wondered because in reading it it looked like it had already been approved and that the residential rates were going to go up and the commercial rates were going to come down and I just wasn't real clear on that so thank you for that clarification these these happen periodically so we will see more of these as time goes on thank you with that mayor I move to approve item a second do I have any public comment at this point if not a motion to has been made in a second all in favor say aye aye second I mean that motion passes 7-0 all right okay we'll move into the regular agenda item a is a report from the Convention and Visitors Bureau the CBB and the Chamber of Commerce economic development council presentations will be made by Diana bass and Michael Looney Diane welcome Thank You mayor city council city staff and citizens I appreciate the opportunity to come here and visit with you today about what we're doing at the Convention and Visitors Bureau I always want to share our mission which is to seek to enhance the quality of life for the citizens of San Angelo through tourism marketing and promotion it just stopped okay and these are the goals that our

[0:19:12] board worked on during our strategic planning session and they were again approved by the chamber of commerce so to increase our occupancy to communicate the need for wayfinding and connectivity brand awareness expanding the tourism base through a broader understanding appreciation of the economic impact of tourism industry and to encourage tourism product development strategies to address future growth how do we do this we utilize our staff it's a small staff myself Suzanna Geary she is our leisure smart Sales Manager amy roberts is our association corporate sales manager linda birdell is our visitor center coordinator our asu intern and graphic designer she's actually just graduated will be leaving us mid-july which we're a little depressed about Victoria Nakamura but has done a fabulous job with our ad campaigns our part-time visitors that are employees and of course our visitors center volunteers so the January May results for the first five months of the year we have booked and or provided services to 35 conventions meeting sporting events weddings motorcoach tours the projected projected attendance of these activities was fifteen thousand five hundred thirty five and then projected room nights of sixty two hundred sixty so the total economic impact is over a million dollars so we're very proud of that fact and again the longer they stay the more they spend this is not just hotel tax dollars that are affected by this but also people going to restaurants purchasing items in our retail establishments eating or going to our attractions filling up at our gas stations utilizing our airports all of those things so the economic impact for tourism is a pure industry I've said it before it's the purest form of economic in economic development money in and it's brand-new money so we want more visitors to come because that does help our industry so how are we also doing this through our convention meeting in sports market so just these are just

[0:21:14] some of the examples of places we have either placed ads or staff has gone for trade shows so Texas runner and triathlete magazine because of the different types of triathlons and running sports that we had in our community sports events magazine again this highlights our sporting venues Texas sports facility guide the National Association of Sports Commission's which Susannah went to this is an appointment trade shows she gets to choose prior to going which which types of clients would actually fit with our product so it's not just a random piece it's something that we actually do strategy on American bus Association this is another activity Susana went to a BA is also done with the routine Texas and the governor's office so we went as a team contingency with team Texas the Texas torn meeting guide is another publication the 2018 meeting planner guide for Texas meet Texas yet another opportunity to market what we do and then Southwest Showcase is an activity that Amy and I both went to this was her first time to be in attendance at this trade show I've done it several times in my previous career and we got a number of qualified leads in fact we booked business off of those leads from Southwest ok so we're excited about that the Texas Association of Convention and Visitors bureaus Austin sales blitz this is an opportunity for CBeebies from across the state to work together and go to associations to express the the actual need for an association planner to work with a Convention and Visitors Bureau because we can help them anywhere from registration assistance to helping them with the room block to get better rates at the hotels and also to provide them goody bags VIP bags for their guests when they're here Amy volunteered for the Rosalind oil convention since we're an oil and gas community and we our area we felt strongly that that is something we needed to do we also both

[0:23:19] of the the staff do sales calls in our Metroplex cities based on the need and then monthly calls to Midland Amy as a member of desk and Eric and in fact she was just nominated as a newcomer of the Year by the the people who in charge in Midland so that's she's done a lot of work there the Texas State Travel Guide we've already received 150 leads and when I say leads these are people who have said they want information about our community and so we have email addresses and addresses that we send them information true West magazine this is a new program that we've participated in because we do embrace our western heritage and believe that it is important to us that has an also an online component which is important to what we do authentic Texas magazine is done by the Texas who store Commission and we are part of the Texas Sports Trail region and so they are a major player in this Texas town and City magazine you should have all on the diets received this magazine the April issue is their largest issue it's their tourism issue our industry writes articles for that magazine to help the city leadership and council members to understand the importance of our industry Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine this is yet another new program that we've decided to market because it is a niche market for us and we feel strongly that our parks our nature are good proponents for us see Texas first when people say print is dead this is an example of why print is not dead see Texas first is an insert done by the office of the governor and the Texas Travel Industry Association this goes into subscribers of newspapers and these are from all over the country we've received over as of today probably closer to I don't know twelve thousand leads from this and these are again emails these people now get our newsletter they have requested information shop across Texas calm is an online site and we have stories there

[0:25:24] that they have developed because we did bring them in and I toured them for a day around our community to show them what the different retail unique establishments we had to see and then tour Texas calm is an online component again going back in Living magazine we did not advertise in a San Angelo issue but we advertised in all the others Texas highways magazine where to retire magazine the events calendar Good Housekeeping Redbook Woman's Day travel host West Texas you can see all of these these are actually in my office right now if you have an interest other leisure tourism marketing I went to El Paso for the text I'd travel counselors travel fair this is an appointment based there we have a table I introduced 48 appointments to two to three each three minute appointments telling them about what there was new to see in st. Angelo and these are the travel information centers on the borders of the state so there were 12 of those in the state we also sponsored the craft beer experience this year and also the San Angelo Stock Show and Rodeo the new vine tent we had plastic cups with our logo on them and I can tell you that we did see increases every weekend in February because of that so people were going to our site so these are our social media places and website our discover San Jose Oh calm website has had over 127 thousand page views in five months and the good thing about that is and I added the session duration because that's important because when we started it was around two two and a half minutes now they're staying on for longer so they're finding information they're wanting to be there and they're going through a lot of pages Facebook more than 12,000 likes Twitter 674 followers Instagram back in April of last year we had 200 followers we're up to over a thousand Pinterest is new to us and we now are averaging around 642 viewers per month and then of course our

[0:27:26] YouTube page and I will say that we've now will be adding another four videos in the next few weeks for YouTube and while the YouTube numbers are not high those numbers on our Facebook page are very high I think I shared with you when we launched our video last November we had 87 thousand views and about 2700 shares for that video so it's it's pretty important so hotel occupancy comparison these are the numbers you guys want to see January through April of last year occupancy was 47.7% in the ad our average rate was 68 36 you see the increase from year over year 59 percent occupancy and $77 average daily rate those are good numbers yes a lot of that contributes to oil and gas but we we are excited about that number continuing to increase and we have seen those increase increases every month this year so community outreach is also important to us with our goals that to educate the people in our community what there is to see and do and what the importance of our industry is we also do this statewide so I a co-presenter Texas Historical Commission real places 2018 conference trying to help those historical attractions understand the importance of the travel industry and how they can capture more visitors I also serve on the TAC Beebe board of directors Texas travel industry Association we have the unity dinner councilman Carter mayor Gunter attended that and so appreciate that opportunity we continue to do good fellow tours monthly and bimonthly occasionally that when they ask for them to come a couple of times that month Texas friendly hospitality training we do this quarterly in fact to this afternoon and tomorrow morning they will be held at the Fairfield Inn and the San Angelo hotel Association we started quarterly meetings to that with them so we can understand the hotel issues national travel and tourism week we highlighted our industry by showcasing the 3,100

[0:29:31] employees who work in the industry and then we also had our tourism luncheon I've done presentations to why PSA and sunrise rotary locally and then we've done outreach to the San Angelo Restaurant Association because we know that they go hand in hand with what we do as well as working for Goodfellow appreciation day so upcoming efforts that we have the seat we're seeking the Texas music friendly designation from the Texas Music Office we got the film friendly designation and we have been receiving leads from them and so now we're going to seek out the music friendly designation we are looking to them and talking to the music office about hosting a workshop here so that we can even help even with regionals to help bring other people in who might want to seek this we're participating in programs with the office of the governor and travel and tourism division starting in September developing regional cooperative and marketing marketing to showcase West Texas to travel counselors in the governor's office we've been working with Lubbock Big Spring Odessa Midland to say hey we exist to there's something between El Paso and the Big Ben and Austin that you are talking about so we want you to start talking about us we're also going to be seeking the top ten western town designation from true west we had a steering committee which included councilman Thompson to talk about what that what that needs to look like this was something we we received last year an invitation to do it but it was so late that we said we want to do it right so that we do have the opportunity to win this and then of course we're scheduling a FEM tour for into film independent filmmakers in the fall I met with someone who actually works on her website but her husband and she work also with the Austin Music Festival so we're trying to reach out to independent filmmakers to have them come for familiarization tour to showcase what they could do to film we're hosting bloggers and families in July I also will add that I have another travel writer who just reached out to me last week and is coming next weekend with her two boys because she wants to show what there are what there is to see and do

[0:31:34] for children here in San Angelo we are continuing develop the leisure tour and then familiarization tours for desk and Derick that's another one that's coming up continue to develop tour itineraries Suzanne has done a fabulous job in seeing what there is not only in San Angelo but in the surrounding communities too to help with tour operators when they are coming in looking further promotion of our niche markets and then of course I want to always share the accountability of the CV be who we report to our executive committee the advisory board the chamber finance committee the chamber Executive Committee and the Chamber Board of Directors so we do this on a monthly basis so they see what is happening with us and how we're spending our hotel tax dollars and you showed a million dollar impact this year do you have a comparison to last year's numbers I do not okay that was prior to me arriving so I would have to see if I can find that information for you though I also want to say thank you for going after the Western and the West concept here and financial I think that's a huge big opportunity and I'm thrilled to see you focusing on it and making that part of your direction thank you and have you reached the 5% you said you have a goal of 5% I don't know that we can sustain that every year I mean once we're at hopefully 80% that will be a difficult thing to say hey let's hit 85 but we at least tried this year to to push it harder than we have in the past and put a number behind it well I think with your well thought out strategy and I think it is well thought out and I think it's broad in concept which is really good so I think with that you will be able to good job thank you appreciate it do I have any other comments from Council or yeah Mary just briefly first of all last a couple weeks ago you did the the presentation with with the chamber at their luncheon probably one of the best I've ever seen by the way

[0:33:36] thank you for that it was very informative you had the same question where 5% gold you're already at 10% so one share of that goal was high enough or you know it's kind of hard because that will always be a goal for us yes ma'am we'll look at what that needs to be and you mentioned the see Texas first ten thousand nine hundred and nine seventy nine leads that's incredible how do you how do you determine it came from that side you have a specific email address that if they and then they can choose the cities they want information from and so they send that to us an email list well that's that's a great number so thank you I also want to just say I think you're working with the country reporter yes we are and that was great to see in the news because I know that's well followed they were here actually for a story for the latest scoop and I'm I know Bob from past experience Bob and Kelly both they had worked with me when I was at the Texas Travel Industry Association and so I'd stop by and we had a good hour-long conversation about how we can work with them it's great to have him here thank you before she goes I'd like to say just a real quick comment about the Texas country reporter I was on a convention of Visitors Bureau about five or six years ago and made the recommendation that we went that way unfortunately the CBB decided to go in a different direction so I'm pleased to see that we're back in that particular venue it's something my wife and I watch every weekend and of course now that we're there it was already on the advertisement we were mentioned three times during that 30-minute period of four for that particular program and I don't know how you get any better coverage than you do with that that particular group reaches a lot of people in Texas well the good thing about it is it's now national so they are on our rfd-tv I think and so that has increased

[0:35:41] their their viewership as well it's a good use of the money thank you thanks Michael Unni you're up next good morning everybody morning Michael unni san angelo chamber of commerce the vp of economic development going to do the this is the first and second quarter look back mission of the Chamber of Commerce economic development division for those who are not familiar chamber of Economic Development divisions partners with and is contracted by the city of San Angelo Development Corporation to conduct marketing activities and to recruit employers attract new jobs and increase capital investment in the San Angelo area objectives we utilize the San Angelo regional Manufacturers Alliance which I'll talk about in a little bit here in second as a recruitment platform this has really become kind of the new platform for the economic development division of the chamber we target industries that are most compatible with San Angelo with guidance from these Sarma members and these are your manufacturers your fabricators and your energy service companies these companies are the types of companies that we want to attract more of that we want to take care of that are here and these are the companies that are what they call primary employers are not necessarily retailers these are companies that actually create the jobs where they're creating a service or a product in San Angelo and then exporting those products out of the region's sometimes even out of the country we use this also as a Brep platform so Sarma's use as a business retention and expansion platform where we reach out to existing energy service companies fabricators and manufacturers to gauge how they're doing what risks are they seeing what opportunities do they need our up with and what kinds of programs can we we we assist with that will make their ability to grow and be sustained even better summer members actually help us to recruit companies which should be no really big surprise because we've with this organization we've built trust

[0:37:43] relationships with these companies over time and you'd be amazed at how many leads are generated actionable leads are generated by relationships with these existing companies that we have already here in San Angelo and I'll talk about that in just a second and then we conduct San Angelo prospect tours and site visits which many of you have seen us doing around town and and we also connect prospects with our other economic development partners which is really important it's not just the Chamber of Commerce it's all of our economic development partners so that's the city of San Angelo Development Corporation SAISD very important partner Howard College West Texas training center Angelo State University contra valley workforce downtown San Angelo ink and the SBDC Small Business Development Center and we do this and we also market not just to energy service companies which is kind of the trend obviously in this region and in the Permian Basin but we also market to many other industries as well where we have symbiotic relationships already with the industries that we've got namely for example is our medical device manufacturing sector that's here in San Angelo and that also serves to attract other similar type companies economic impacts this is why we're here we're here to recruit companies to San Angelo and we're doing a good job of it we're very very thankful very blessed with the opportunities that have been put forth to us and we and our partners have we think done a really good job of capturing several these companies I'm going to give you a couple of examples us well services this is an oilfield services coming it's actually based out of Houston but all of the work that they do almost all of it much of it is done in the per in the Marcellus play which is up in Pennsylvania they transferred 40 employees hired six locally they leased property on Arden Road an 18,000 square foot facility which used to be habited by select energy services and it had been off the market had been vacant for over two years really good looking facility great to see that back in

[0:39:45] service the direct annual salaries as four million three hundred and seventy thousand dollars a year direct annual economic input through our through the the software that we use gave us a number of thirteen million almost fourteen million direct economic output per year and again when they give you these these estimates these are very conservative numbers and the reason we run them in a conservative manner is because we don't know all of the different aspects of the financials yield of the company we don't ask them you know give us a full inventory list of all of the equipment that you're manufacturing or using on-site so we give it a pretty good estimate and these are annual impacts these aren't three-year horizons or ten year horizons which are kind of far out to to look at net tax benefit to say an angel over ten years is two million one hundred sixty two thousand dollars again that's conservative and the key partners I like to mention our key partners that we're working with on different projects SAISD and Sarma members were two of the real standouts can Concha Bali workforce helped very much in helping us conveyed to this prospect just that we do have the workforce that's available and we do have the support mechanisms in place for training which is really important to them and of course the county was very helpful as well I'd like to add on us wealth services because when they came to us and we started interviewing them to see what we could do to help them and to encourage them to choose San Angelo instead of some of the other cities that they were looking at one of the things that we picked up on is that they were transferring people from Pennsylvania and that's okay we're happy to have newcomers about half of those transfers were bringing their families interestingly enough this particular company many of the operations guys that are out in the field are from the island of Samoa and almost all of them have very large families two to three sometimes one family had five children so we figured out pretty quickly that

[0:41:48] education and integrate into the school system was very important and we were right as we were working with them we were put in touch with the wife of the Operations Director who we found out was actually really in charge of the entire program as you might guess and she very quickly asked for information on the schools we had dr. Carl Detlef contact her did it on a Friday night at about 9:20 at night and then we subsequently have now designated a an officer at SAISD a guy named Eric Jackson who's become a friend of ours who is actually now our liaison to the school for corporations it was very successful and it was really interesting because Diane just talked about social media as I friended Krystal we were talking and chatting about Santangelo and why she should she should encourage her company her husband's company to consider us and we saw her conversation about the schools happening with the other mothers of this of the children of the operations guys and it was really really special to see how social media had such an immediate impact by 11:30 at night we'd been contacted by the company saying we've made our decision and that was really really powerful and we really love to share that story so again SAISD is so important because we've got great facilities we've got workforce training but think about it when you get orders to transfer someone the first thing you look up are the schools and what are what are my children gonna be experiencing is it going to be some little cliquish West Texas City no not at all and what SAISD told the u.s. well services team is we integrate so many children from from the Goodfellow Air Force Base programs and so many thousands of kids cycle in and out that this is easy for us and your children be very happy and very confident very comfortable with our school system and it worked SMC global this is a fairly recent recruit this is an international chemicals manufacturer we were in touch with them about six months ago and the first order of business was they wanted to have a

[0:43:51] warehouse to ship their chemicals out into the Permian they use these Isaiah anti-friction anti-corrosion chemical that they manufacture they bring in the raw materials from all over the globe China and they mix it and then they and then they ship it it over the period of time when we were working with them it was really wonderful to see because they became so enamored with Santangelo they decided they wanted to actually do two facilities they would do actual mixing and distribution they ended up taking placing two facilities instead of just the one total of about thirty-eight thousand square feet two facilities that had been vacant for a long time they inhabited them they've done a tremendous job of getting them up to up to code they've gotten them really looking much much more much more beautiful much more fruit street appeal and the best thing is they're employing local Santangelo ins direct economic output five million dollars net tax benefit to San Angelo over ten years about a million six again key partners Costa DC mayor Gunnar go-to mayor's office San Angelo Association our sorry Sarma members that's C be workforce and the city permitting office and I wanted to throw out a comment the city permitting office was outstanding with this project it was a very fast-moving project once they made the decision that they wanted to be in San Angelo it was on I mean there was no waiting one of their operations directors actually moved from South Carolina to San Angelo over a weekend and it was on the city permitting office did an awesome job we met with all of the we actually held our own development review committee meeting our DRC in pieces we went to each individual office and asked them what do we need to do here are the properties and they came through and did a great job for us so I wanted to make sure that that was noted here's some other recruitment prospects I'm gonna give you a couple updates project package is a large metal fabrication company seeking land for new construction approximately about a

[0:45:52] hundred thousand square foot facility that would employ is successful approximately a hundred and forty employees we've done multiple Santangelo tours and we have traveled to Houston along with the mayor's office to interview them and continue working on the project project stocks is a steel auto parts manufacturer they've toured San Angelo three times I would like to also add that this company is is owned by a gentleman who is originally from Mexico he has a facility in El Paso he's a much larger facility in our city and we did call upon SBDC and Tony very al who is a Chamber Board member was very helpful in actually translating for us because there were a lot of technical terms and industrial terms that we did not know and Tony jumped in and helped us to interpret and understand exactly what it was that this company is looking for and they are also right now looking for a site project West is a national oil field components fabricator they've toured San Angelo key partners again convention Visitors Bureau very helpful in letting the heads of this company understand the culture of San Angelo and what there is to do here they were very confident in our in our industrial park and in the facilities that we have steve Huestis who's a local real estate broker was very very instrumental in this they have been working with him on a couple of different properties in the mayor's office as well project Canada and project along these are two energy service companies providers that are solar panel companies that have towards San Angelo several times respectively we're working with both of them they're going to be actually in the county but very close to the city limits they're not going to be really large job creators but they are going to invest millions of dollars of infrastructure into the area project home care they've toured San Angelo several times this was the company that I came to you and November with the

[0:47:55] request for a letter of support acknowledging the need for a skilled nursing facility another skilled nursing facility in San Angelo they are in the process now a site selection we were told it would be a forty-eight thousand square foot facility actually that's been increased to 72,000 B via ten to eleven million dollar facility we are collaborating with Howard College and one of the things that we really think helped encourage this transaction to go on to the next stage and we're very confident it's going to be successful is that Howard College met with the two owners of the company and they're also they're not just merchants developers they don't just build and move on they build and they operate and Howard College is going to be working with them on providing nurses for the skilled nursing facility from their LVN to RN program and they actually have tuition reimbursement programs that they've done in other cities they have eight other locations throughout the United States and it's very very successful project long run as a houston-based energy services company this was a direct lead from a Sarma member as was project roll which is a coiled steel company from Chicago that we are still speaking with and we are exploring a micro mill facility and if if you have any questions about any of these I'll be happy to answer them after the after the presentation but I'm going to move on Sarma st. angelo regional Manufacturers Alliance this is the brochure that you have in front of you this is a project that we started and kicked off officially in August of last year and this has been a very very powerful program we're really really proud of it this is the trade association this is the manufacturers association for San Angelo it's run through the chamber we currently have a hundred and ten member companies we host monthly meetings and quarterly socials we do have a website Sarma dot us we conduct regular company visits each month we go out and visit with approximately 10 to 12 companies to go visit them to see how they're doing

[0:49:58] to see what what what market opportunities they are seeing and what we can do to help them this is producing steady lead generation these are qualified leads so what we're effectively done is we've built this army of enthusiasts about San Angelo and these are companies that are here whether this is the headquarters of their of their companies or whether they're just a division of a much larger company in San Angelo they work with us very very closely to help us to not just support the existing industrial base that's here in San Angelo but to encourage other companies to come in and it's working there's there's really no better advocate for st. Angelo's industrial base and for the quality of life that we have here and for the support that we have for our local manufacturers and energy service companies then of manufacturers and energy service companies and it works very very effectively so what we do is we're fostering business-to-business collaboration we're also getting local industry involved with higher education with Howard college with Angelo State University's engineering department we're promoting networking between these regional manufacturers as well I recall there was a city council member years ago who said we really should encourage more business to business collaboration on the industrial level and that is what this is doing so when we have our annual our monthly Sarma meetings and our quarterly socials it's amazing how many companies come together and say you know we've known of your company for years but we never really linked up with you we really never got to understand what it is you do and how we can work together and now we're seeing examples of company to company collaboration Sarma accomplishments as I said the program has been very very impactful last year we won this or actually in January should say we won the spirit of San Angelo Award for innovation we host we've had socials at West Texas industrial engines and the David Al Hirschfeld Department of engineering and today we're actually having a social at the Trimble Bayshore Insurance office we host our socials at different plants and factories

[0:52:00] throughout town we want to want to showcase these Sarma members operations and so we don't just host them at the chamber we host them of course at the different plants and and operational factories Sarma members are working directly with Seabee workforce for training with the ACT program you've heard a lot about that in recent months the ACT workforce program we found this to be a very very good tool there's a lot of interest in it mike buck and randy lecompt have been great supporters of this program and we've seen a lot of a lot of buy-in from our local manufacturers who are actually using the program where they're doing the evaluation and understanding how they can better create a better company for themselves but also hire better people that are more suited for the positions that they've got so the Sarma is doing its part with the ACT program in other news we've hosted listening sessions with Senator Charles Harry this was something that several Sarma members are very concerned about some state regulations that were impacting their business so Senator Charles Perry came in and listened to the requests from about ten Sarma members we discussed the state of manufacturing we reviewed epa TCEQ regulations the texas manufacturers assistance program and tariffs we also discussed workforce needs transportation and recent Permian Basin activity industry outreach in April along with Wendland tank manufacturing company we exhibited a booth at the West Texas Alliance of energy producers this was their annual Expo in Wichita Falls we we created dozens of new industry links with companies that were now in touch with that we followed up with that some of them have actually traveled to San Angelo to come and visit to see the facilities and understand how they can use San Angelo as a launch pad into the Permian Basin on ongoing initiatives we do have monthly technical advisory

[0:54:03] committee meetings with the Sarma we host the socials as I just mentioned we host monthly economic development advisory board and economic development advising meetings we conduct industry advocacy meetings legislative TCEQ text dot city permitting and planning and we're planning regional manufacturing days and a Sarma Expo that's coming up ongoing initiatives continued we are working on creating an agricultural version of Sarma we've dubbed of dit dubbed it the pharma we're not exactly sure what it's going to be called but it's going to be it's going to use the same model as the San Angelo Manufacturers Alliance and we are also finding that this is a very successful formula for the recruitment of new companies to our area and we also have produced the first of four industry and Santangelo industrial sector recruitment videos and I think we have one queued up to play here in a second but this is the first of four and these are about three minute long videos that we use to promote industry in San Angelo and I don't see it queuing up I'm not sure if we're alive or not but that's what it looks like when you see it in action we don't need to play it you know what's great is I noticed on the tax report for the month of June that manufacturing went up from 4.3 percent in 2017 up to six point three percent and so it's good to see the impact of that we are starting we're and we're really feeling that also just anecdotally through the comments that that we hear from the different Sarma members and really realize we're seeing that they're needing more employees more training and bigger facilities the good news is is these empty buildings are going to be occupied it won't add that much more to our property tax levels but it's good to have them full and with their success they're expanding so hopefully that will have some positive impact on property tax in fact one of the companies that we recently recruited

[0:56:08] SMC Global has already informed us that they think they've probably already outgrown their existing space and need to find more of it to construct so these are good problems to have they're great challenges we're finding that more industry continues to get more attracted to Santangelo we think that the Sarma program is a really powerful formula for doing that and at the next presentation will queue up the video so that you can see it but I really appreciate your time and really appreciate the support that you all give the Chamber of Commerce we're out there every day supporting the end of the our local industry and recruiting companies and I've met with several of you individually and a councilman Hebert Mayer gunner and Lucy Gonzalez Councilwoman Gonzales of an instrumental in helping us to secure these companies and so we thank you very much for all that you do for us I thank you for doing the Pharma thing because I don't want us to be singularly focused on one industry only because that industry tends to have a lot of highs and lows and we need to have a better balance in our overall economy so I think we need to continue to focus on other issues but we're thankful for the incredible impact that Sarma has had thank you very much yes way to comment and thank you so much for keeping me updated in my district and taking the time to go show me where the building was and what it was all about thank you very much oh you're welcome you're very welcome thank you all very much Michael appreciate it we will now move on to item B public hearing and first reading of an ordinance amending chapter 4 the Code of Ordinances establishing article 4.1 one vacant buildings and amending Appendix A article 2.0 building and construction related fees creating a vacant and or boarded building certificate fee and Chief Brian done no it looks like it's John James instead both of us but I'll be handling the presentation and the chief is here if there are questions specific to his part of them in the process I'm gonna go through some of

[0:58:12] this pretty quickly but feel free to stop me if you have questions I want to just first start and talk about the vacant property task force back in 2014 the city established a vacant property task force that included folks from Planning Fire Marshal basically all of the departments that have any sort of role as well as outside entities like downtown San Angelo and that group put together a series of recommendations and so I'm gonna just quickly go through those they establish their identified some incentive policies these are all the task force recommendations of things that the city could do to help address a concern about vacant buildings particularly in the downtown but really throughout the community so things like tax abatements and those sorts of things also what we could do with education and help market buildings that may be vacant one of the elements that they looked at was ordinance updates and that's where we are today is the vacant building registration program one of the things I think we need to be clear on as we start this presentation is vacant is as you know there's an issue of vacant and there's an issue of vacant and dangerous sometimes vacant buildings are very well-kept but they're not occupied but they're not dangerous and they don't deteriorate the overall look of San Angelo although we'd like to have them full but I want to make sure we don't vacant and dangerous are two separate issues right and this this ordinance actually deals with with the vacant buildings and helps ensure that they don't become dangerous buildings we do as noted here we do have a bit dangerous Building Code one of the groups recommendations was to look at that dangerous Building Code and for possible updates for it as well we used to have a nuisance abatement team where multiple departments would look at a particular building or a particular block and try to address concerns in that area one thing that we want to look at bringing back to you is property maintenance code one of the things that we learned throughout this process of the vacant building ordinance was that

[1:00:15] there are some things that the group wanted to to have happen and originally we thought maybe this vacant building ordinance could do that in terms of ensuring properties are adequately maintained you'll see when I get into the ordinance that there are some elements of that but some of the things that we think might be helpful would require a property maintenance code but that's that's a topic for another day but that is something that the task force recommended then they also talked about some aesthetic things one of which is a landscaping ordinance the others may be helping to reinstitute the keep San Angelo beautiful program so now to the ordinance itself that we're here to talk about today why bate vacant building ordinance basically vacant buildings are potential sites for for problems basically illegal activity increased risk of fire other Health and Safety kinds of concerns they also can reduce property values of businesses around them so in the downtown for example we don't want to see a business come in and make a huge investment into a building downtown only to have the building next door falling apart and and detracting from everybody around it another issue we sometimes have is just locating who's the owner who's responsible for a building so this registration program will help us identify that as well so basically what it does in a nutshell is require the registration of vacant buildings both to identify them and who the owners are and also charge a fee to help recuperate our costs for managing this program so what's in the ordinance it defines what vacant is that would be any building that's basically not been occupied for 90 days only one registration is required even if it's multiple buildings or if there are multiple street addresses or just one registration would be required not one for each individual building so are there exceptions yes definitely if the

[1:02:21] building is under construction if the building has an active building permit if it's actively being marketed although you'll note that once it's been marketed for more than 12 months they would still have to register so if a bake if a building becomes vacant they basically get instead of 90 days they get a full year but if at the end of the year they're still they can't they would have to register they're also exempted if there's extreme weather or fire damage again for one year and this also exempts all one and two family dwellings so single family homes would not be impacted by this ordinance I'm not gonna read through all of these this is just a list of what the application requires but again part of the idea is finding out who is responsible for the property if something were to happen on the property as well as identifying their Tom lawn for correcting any code violations that may exist on the property they as part of the registration they will get a vacant buildings certificate which is valid for the calendar year if there's a change of ownership the new owner would then have to reapply and a certificate of occupancy on the building would basically make the vacant building certificate go away because now it's an occupied building they require is there a fee are we asking them to pay a fee for registration yes and that's the slide we've got it's it's not a it's not a high fee but it's there is a fee involved although subsequent years it's a lower fee actually the ordinance does authorize the city particularly the fire marshal's office to inspect properties again the issues with vacant properties is not being adequately secured possible fire risk and those sorts of things the ordinance does require security of the building so doors have to be locked windows have to either be you know an actual window there or board it up this

[1:04:24] will work hand in hand with our boarded buildings ordinance this doesn't address that particular ordinance but there's already an ordinance that addresses those kinds of issues it also looks at accumulations of combustible inflammable materials one of the problems we have with some of the vacant buildings particularly in the downtown is they're being used for storage of significant amounts of of things that could be combustible or flammable and again in a context like the downtown where buildings are literally adjacent to each other that can be particularly problematic electrical equipment and wiring must be properly maintained can that's a risk of fire that we want to ensure that all electrical wiring is is maintained up to code and all the fire protection features including sprinkler systems if they have them this wouldn't require vacant building to put in a sprinkler system but if they have it it has to be maintained in good working order there is a requirement for general liability and property insurance as well insuring that if anything does happen that those properties if they impact surrounding properties would have appropriate insurance they also must install a key box for fire department access to the building if necessary so here are the fees it's basically based on the size of a building you can see here one hundred and fifty two hundred or four very large buildings it would be two hundred plus fifty per additional five hundred square feet but not to exceed 750 so the initial registration fee would be somewhere between 150 and 750 for most buildings at least in the downtown for example it would be on that lower end you know because those buildings aren't terribly large in general accessory structures individual accessory buildings storage buildings would also have to be registered at $50 each and it's not on the slide here but this is

[1:06:28] for the initial registration for subsequent years the fee would be half of what the initial fee is so if if initially you paid 200 when you renewed the following year it would be $100 that's a quick overview I'd be happy to answer any questions if you have questions from Council Billy Laine Lucie Harry just real quick comment first of all say thank you I know this has been a long time coming downtown Association the fire marshal's office and planning department it's something I've been working on since I've been in for two years since I've been here number of the buildings in district 3 are historic buildings there are older buildings and some of those buildings have not been kept up so in some cases they are at risk sometimes we got vagrants living in these particular buildings and they ultimately cause some additional damage so I think this is step in the right direction hopefully this will help us get these buildings back on the market back on the tax rolls at what they're supposed to be and I applaud you for what what you've been doing thank you okay here Tommy yes ma'am this might be a little far afield the question but I've had a couple of situations where people have wanting wanted to do something to their property only to find out that unbeknownst to them some things were not done that should have been done planting replanting that sort of thing with the proper sign offs were not obtained and then it causes them problems is that that might be the wrong question to ask if this happened does does this include making them aware if we know that they're gonna be doing something to the

[1:08:30] building and some of these things need to be taken care of before they can get an ultimate you know certificate of occupancy of completion whatever this ordinance doesn't really address anything of that sort although we do have a process we have a consultation that we'll meet with someone even before they purchase a building they can come to us and many people do this they can come to us and say what do I need to know about this particular property and we'll you know will talk about the zoning we'll talk about Building Code issues that that we may know of in some cases we can even have a building inspector go walk through the building with them to say here are some things you need to pay attention to if there are platting issues all of those things we can identify ahead of time either before they purchase it or once they've purchased it to know what they're getting into so I think I think we do a good job of answering those questions one of the problems we have is people don't always come and ask us those questions and so they learn of a problem when we do you know when they're far down the road in a project so we strongly encourage anyone who's looking at opening a business or developing a project to come to us early on and ask those questions how are we I think from the beginning I have a concern about how we're gonna get and asking someone to register to pay a fee that their building is vacant how are we even going to begin the process of getting people to come to you to pay a fee to register the building as a vacant building well in the downtown for example downtown San Angelo has done a good job of identifying those vacant buildings for us and so I think that would be the first step is the buildings we are already aware of we would start to go to them send out notices or just go in person to say hey there's this new ordinance you need to register and from there we would just expand it out as we learn of buildings that are vacant we would continue to to move down that path

[1:10:35] and so they'll be paying a fee every year yes again the first fee is a little bit higher than it's half the fee for subsequent years but again that's to help cover the cost of particularly the fire marshal's office that will be doing inspections of these properties periodically to ensure that they're complying as well as just the process of registering anyway all the paperwork and that sort of thing okay so year two it would go down to a structure 2,500 square feet to $75 then what happens in year 3 it was it would be 75 each of each subsequent year as long as it remains vacant part of the idea here at least from the task force recommendation was that in fact their recommendation was to have much higher fees they wanted the fee to be somewhat punitive and in order to encourage vacant buildings to go into productive use one of the problems that was a concern of the task force is we know there are some owners they've had offers on their buildings they're just sitting on them there are people that would love to buy the building and put something in there but the owners are just holding on to the building for whatever reason and so part of the idea was if we if we make this super high fee that would encourage them to to do something with the building but as you know our fees can only be charged based on recovering the cost that we actually expand to do the program and so that's that's why these numbers are the values that they are um I still go back to the question of vacant well-kept vacant and dangerous because I would think that vacant well-kept would have different penalties than vacant and dangerous because we've looked summed them all into one great big pot and said you're all equal and they're not all equal some buildings are empty well-kept

[1:12:38] don't have a negative impact some of them have a huge negative impact and they're not paying any higher fee than those that are well maintained we you have a separate dangerous building process that's already in place so if a building is vacant but not dangerous they just will go through this process if they're vacant and also dangerous they'll not only have to get this go through this process they'll have to go through the dangerous building process which has its own fees and application and stricter monitoring by you know various folks like the fire marshal's office so it will be a higher okay thank you Harry you had a question or comment I just want to make clarification the mayor indicated that in subsequent years it's half the fee for last we go through that that is until that particular building changes ownership then it goes back to an original fee for that first year for that new owner is that correct that's correct okay I just want to make sure I understood that yeah it's Tom John if I was to purchase a building from Harry Inlet say was vacant and I purchased it in for commercial development at that point I'm I'm gonna have to assume a vacant status correct I think so now if you purchase it and you're ready to move on a development once you start if you would go in and apply for building permits and all of that then that's one of the exceptions so then you would have additional time that you wouldn't actually have to to register as long as you're doing work on the building or have an active building permit or one of those exceptions that was listed another one I have is I'm trying to think the best way to ask this question um we say vacant do we mean fakin to I mean of storage or vacant of people or I can have a building and depending upon our definition of vacant I could put things in it in it not be because I in my district I think I've got lots of houses

[1:14:40] and houses on two acre plots that have a building or a back structure back there that is probably vacant that would probably fall under some of the if we have a new code enforcement person that would probably look at and go you've got a nice 3-bedroom 2bath you've got your property over here that's less than 50% of the size but by the way you do have a vacant structure you heritage when you purchased this property again now single family homes are exempted from this but yes our definition of vacant is that it has not been lawfully occupied or has not had water and electric service so I think that one on electric service is part of the issue to that question but I think if if it's a building and intended for retail for example but it's just being used to store a bunch of stuff that would still qualify as vacant because occupied just drive a near this morning and I'll ramble off you're on a tangent I'll try not to take too much time I see a lot of buildings that probably need to come down I mean in my neighborhood and we get down north Chad burn their buildings there that I don't know why they haven't taken about is it easier to sell a block without a building on it is it easier to sell a building I mean you can literally see it crack down the center of it and you're thinking well because of this one the shape of this one I don't want to we didn't look for something here so I'm all in favor of this Harry I commend you for bringing it forward I do think we'll see some headaches with it going forward but I think it's something needs to happen further questions with no further questions is this one wheat this don't we don't take any motion on it I don't believe it's just the first hearing and first reading of an ordinance or do you need it it does so do I have a motion to accept the information on this ordinance as presented move to approve as presented a second second any public

[1:16:46] comment good morning lolli McClellan they just said a comment about this it sounds like to me from the things that mr. James is mentioning as far as wanting to monitor through this ordinance that there are already ordinances on the books that would address those issues for vacant or non vacant buildings so that's one question I have do we have these ordinances that were just not enforcing on particular properties another I think the answer to that question John do you want to address it because I think we have a dangerous building ordinance but we don't have a vacant building ordinance so it and that's exactly right now we can deal with it if it if it gets so bad that it becomes dangerous but if it's simply vacant we don't have any ordinances or tools in place to address them should such an ordinance be put in place what additional staff are we looking at to actually enforce that and monitor those things do you want to answer that I think at this point we believe that this can be done with the existing staff I know and as we discuss this through the process with the fire marshal's office there was some discussion of depending on how you know how far out we go and how many if they're like 10 times as many vacant buildings as we thought that might result in in some future requests but at this point there's no this is not tied to any request for additional staffing or anything thank you do I have further public comment going back to John a building that is for sale can you clarify on that for me one more time yes if it's let's say it it had a business in it and then the business went away and now the property is vacant and for sale rather than the 90 days they would

[1:18:48] have a full year to mark it and try to sell that building before they would have to register all in favor of passing the ortant vacant building ordinates say aye any opposed motion passes 70 item see public hearing in first reading of an ordinance for case su1 801 a special used to allow for the placement of a manufactured home on a 2.5 acre property zoned ranch an estate located at 5 3 3 3 South gas plant Road and John you're on thank you this is property you can see the location here on the map on gas plant Road this is a property that had an existing manufactured home and in fact it had a mobile home got a permit to replace it with a manufactured home that never happened so now they've come back again to replace that existing with a manufactured home it is industrialize owned you can see or I'm the future land uses industrial but their zoning is ranch in a state as you may recall in the last year - we brought you an ordinance that addressed manufactured homes and one of those elements was replacement of an existing manufactured home and the requirements basically are that must comply with all of these things but the big one is here it must have a value equal to or greater than the taxable median value of the single-family homes within 500 feet so basically if the manufactured home you're bringing in is valued at the average or higher of the homes around it then that is a factor that can allow a manufactured home in an area that would not otherwise allow them but again it's only to replace one that was already there it's a vacant lot or a single-family home lot you couldn't

[1:20:52] replace that and bring in a manufactured home this is only for replacement of an existing this is the information provided by the the applicant on all of the properties around it and you can see of those properties the median value is 53,000 dollars this property with the manufactured home would have a value of 90,000 is what their appraisal was we did send out notices around did not receive any responses but you can see the the yellow are the other single-family dwellings within the area your the properties that were notified again no opposition to the request staff did recommend approval as did the Planning Commission any questions I mean it's in your district you want to do you have any questions or comment I have I know I went out there and looked I think this would be a good move have any other questions or comments from Council members so do I have a motion I'd move approval this all in favor say public comment please with no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say hi any opposed motion passes 7 0 item D first public hearing and consideration of an ordinance amending chapter 10 traffic control article 10 point o3 operation of Motor Vehicles section 10.0 3.03 v lake nasser worthy and Twin Buttes by amending the speed limit on a portion of camper Road around Spring Creek marina from 12 20 miles per hour to 10 and Carl you're on early this year the manager of the Spring Creek Marina they've been running a successful operation out there approached the city with a formal request for us to consider reducing the speed limit around the marina from 20

[1:22:55] miles per hour to 10 miles per hour the primary reason for this is for safety we took this request to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board and they recommended approval of reducing the speed limit from 20 miles per hour to 10 in that section and staff also recommends approval looking out far out to show where this is located this is out like Nazareth II at Spring Creek Marina Park notice the horseshoe and this is where the bow races are I mean this is the section of the road that is requested to be have this speed limit reduced there's Spring Creek Marina also the boat ramp that was constructed there it doesn't show on this aerial image that has also increased traffic out there the tule prince's steamboat is located there and that has also increased traffic out there this is on a bend of the road so because of the activity that's out there the bend of the road we see the need for reducing the speed limit Tommy again it's in your district is this do you have any comment on the only comment if no if none of the council has has been out there on a holiday weekend you ought to go sometime it is packed out there and I'm assuming this is really what the what the need is when there are lots of people there maybe throughout the week I need to but on holidays it is packed out there you know since since we have the sign off it says in our in our report you know Parks and Recreation operations engineering services and the the like police folks have agreed that this is a good thing to so I'm in full agreement mayor okay do I have any other comments or questions from Council have y'all got a problem [Laughter]

[1:25:06] please have to issue speeding tickets from 20 you know going 20 miles an hour or has there been accidents with any pedestrians any bicyclist I have not heard of accidents Broadway is here the mayor an operator this marina he may know of some but we we talked to this but the police they didn't notice that they didn't report that there had been a lot of accidents or injuries but with the congestion with so many people out there it just seems yeah and that's what I'm trying to say that it is packed like that they're probably already going ten miles an hour I just believe that going to 20 is kind of too slow and make her eat you know sometimes people get a little crazy but I just think we're the when there is something going on out there everybody's already going ten miles an hour and so that would be my recommendation that I would leave it alone but that's what I'm saying Lucy be surprised and there are a lot of children in that particular area I mean that's why I said better accidents if there were a lot of there even were any even in the straight straight stretch we have people going across to the the docks from the marina that's also concerned any other questions comments now is a time to ask a question any other further we brought this forward because this particular stretch on the weekends in all the days there's stories of vehicles are towing I'm going in Reverse we've had a lot of close calls out there the public lot comes to us inside and says hey can't you slow him down can't you slow him down they're going 20 you know that is a speed limit there's a lot of close calls out there and we put

[1:27:10] slowdown signs out there which have been run over as well it's it's very tight right here and there's a lot of traffic that goes up and down that road very very and to access the water from here clear already here the whole band you have to cross the road on foot you have to cross the road and the weekends it's a low level kids that are shorter than most pickups set out there and you know in front of our store you can you can hear the brakes being applied people you know you know and watch out slow down you know we we have talked to the police they've been out there they're going 20 it's just that crowded you know there's not that much room not much room for air I personally don't think it's a matter of if it's going to happen I think it's it's win because no necessary here nails on your boat dog everybody's everybody's going backwards everybody everybody is just a reverse right there there's not enough parking for most of boats right there so they park on the side of the road the roads we get really really narrow and the kids walking between all them vehicles you know chances of being mister it's pretty high thank you do have a motion from Council I move approval may I have a second public comment there before you vote I'd like to point out that the other thing that this ordinance does is we looked at it since we were already modifying this section and we removed all of the provisions that related to Twin Buttes since we do not have any authority to regulate out there so if you look at the ordinance document itself you'll notice a lot of strikeouts and that's the purpose of those okay thank you for that comment no other further public comment then we'll take a vote all in favor say aye hi any opposed motion passes six one can cars actually go only 10 miles per hour okay item II public hearing and first

[1:29:22] reading of an ordinance granting to atmos Energy Corporation a Texas and Virginia corporation of franchisee to construct maintain and operate pipelines and equipment in the city of San Angelo Tom Green County Texas for the transportation delivery sale and distribution of gas in out of and through said city for all purposes Russell you're on good morning everyone give you a quick overview what I'm going to be going over it's kind of the reason for this ordinance and some key points are financial impacts from this and then staffs recommendation it's pretty straightforward you know this is just an agreement with Atmos energy that we're renewing the car agreement that we have with them has expired but we've been working on this agreement for quite some time now we finally have something to bring forward to Council that we both agreed on just our key points on this agreement are we're extending this agreement for another 20 years you know and it outlines maintenance requirements on both parts both parties for Atmos and the city should doing those activity operations if the city or atmos damages either parties align either party will repair those repair those mains at at no cost to the individual that causes it that's been our standard practice since we've had this agreement or the with the previous agreement and we're just moving forward with that same standard practice some of the other details regarding maintenance activities if Atmos digs up their main in our city right-of-way or in our right away they are required to repair that that patch or that cut had city standards and specifications also during our main our capital improvement projects the city is required to notify

[1:31:26] Atmos energy as well as any other franchise utility you know if there's going to be any type of conflicts or things of that nature to coordinate with them the relocation of those utilities at that time and we've been doing that with our Bell Street and okay you know just our different projects that we've been working on already but we're going to continue those efforts another provision that we've included in this agreement is if you know Atmos it's a service request from a customer and that Street has been rehabbed you know or been replaced within the last two years we're going to it's a requirement of atmos to Bor that that's service line or that main replacement instead of actually cutting our street we're not going to allow them to do that within that first two years of that street being rehabbed another item that we changed was the franchise fee we're increasing that fee from 4% to 5% of Abbas's gross revenues per year and just that'll we're anticipating that to look like it's approximately $200,000 per year from that'll go towards the general fund with that our recommendation is to approve this ordinance and it's up to public comment yes so these are the pipelines these aren't quote gas meters that someone's trying to move from the back of the buildings to the front of a building in the downtown area any infrastructure that the Hammes gas has within public right-of-way so if it's a meter or if it's a service line or their manes yes it includes all of that encompasses all of that my question is does that mean that it they will be they would be allowed to move the meters from

[1:33:28] the back of a building all to the front of the buildings because that's a really ugly I site and we don't want those things coming forward to the front of the buildings that's more of a standard practice of atmos you know that we don't necessarily dictate where their meters or we didn't dictate you whether where that goes in this agreement if it goes in the front or in the back you don't want to be in the front in the downtown area okay well I mean a lot of places in the downtown area don't have an alley don't have the mean exist in the back of the building today that's where they're at right great so they that would mean they obviously had an alley or some way to put it there that's great we don't want those move to the front of the buildings in the downtown area recently they're taken with that I mean as far as a comment the mayor is making at this point we do have as far as the franchise fee agreement that allows for basically the lease over right away but looking at the agreement as it's written at this point does that protect this from having a situation such as that happening in the future I was just looking at the agreement itself and I don't see any specific language that addresses that condition it does have language in here that talks about if we require them to make changes that we may have to cost share or pay for some of those changes but again as Russell said a lot of that discussion about where they're actually placing those facilities comes about as they're doing the construction but there is nothing that I've seen here that prohibits them from moving those to the front of the building we need to have some provision to keep those from being in the front of buildings in the downtown area well I mean we can take it back to them I mean we'd have to go back to them with this agreement to revise that I would assume that there's there would have to be a big reason for them to want to move them today from the back to the front I mean and that's usually a big there's a lot more costs involved for them to do that because they typically are having to reroute service lines and things of that

[1:35:32] nature so typically they put them back where they were if they were in the front of the building they put them back in the front they were in the rear that you typically put them in the rear well it's come up several times in the downtown area about the people that those are get trying to get moved to the front of the buildings and we cannot have them in the front of the buildings I have to agree with the mayor on this one and I have to say very much so we're spending a lot of money and effort to try to make sure that we've got other utilities that are out of sight out of mind as we improve the downtown area we certainly can't have gas meters sitting in front of a building when we're trained to train to make it go back to historic type look so we've got to do whatever we got to do in that in that case if that means making some changes to this particular thing before we were vote on it that I have to agree with the mayor we've got to do that we've got to find some type of way that that that we were protected in the property owners are protected that is on this one or for the son another ordinance whatever the case may be that's what's got to be done okay I mean I know there are some provisions that they can do to hide those meters you know they can put planners you know things of that nature you know that's something that we could look at as well building owners should not have to spend extra money to hide it no not for the building owner for amis to put it on there we need to relook at that ordinance we need to have a net further conversation on this so just just so I'm clear we want to look at it for just the downtown area or historic areas or all across town well from from me specifically it's a downtown area I've not heard in other from other areas whether that's an issue or not but for downtown it definitely is now I don't know that I am reading in here is that they shall they maintain construct and operate and replace pipes

[1:37:33] mains laterals and other equipment as to comply with the ordinance rules and regulations of the city that are not in conflict with this ordinance and then also there's provisions here related to the location of all mains pipes laterals and other equipment shall be fixed under the supervision of the city or as an authorized representative if there's a conflict between the location and proposed facilities and location of existing facilities or other users of the public right away that can otherwise be resolved the city or an authorized agent of the city shall resolve the conflict in determine the location of respective facilities within the public's right away so there are some provisions in here that we can adopt rules and also that if there is a conflict that Russell has some discretion to help resolve those issues so you feel Teresa confident that should there be an attempt to move those to the front of the building that we have the ability to stop that I feel confident that this language gives us some authority to do that but in my experience working with public utilities in general it's often a fight at any point that that happens if they are doing something that they believe is in their best interest particularly their best financial interest but this does give us the ability to pass rules as well as Russell the authority to determine the final location so you begin that would happen during the process of them wanting to move facilities yes there is protections in here for us okay that's what I need to know okay sorry I didn't have a direct answer for this BC we got her here that's right she's good okay so with that do I have any further questions or comments from Council okay do I have a motion to approve is presented second do I have public comment good morning morning Allie brunette with a mass energy and I just gonna let you guys know I think some of the issues that we've had in the downtown area it's because we had old

[1:39:36] curb meters so if they're in the front of the building it's because those curb meters are obsolete okay so we will not be able to maintain them going forward okay so we will have to move those to the front of the building now the customer can choose not to have gas service if we're able to do it in the back if there's mains you know we're certainly happy to accommodate when we can and so it's not like we want to just put every meter on the front in the downtown area and I know we've looked at certain streets and we've had meetings about del was actually at some of the meetings that we've had about these and so and the opportunities that we can then unless there's some big financial reason and it would have to be large then we'll try to accommodate as best we can you know what you like to partner with the city and work alongside you guys as well as we can so you're saying if it's currently in the back of the building you're not looking to move it forward you're right where we placing pop throughout the whole city and so where those mains are unless there's some reason we can't put it back then yes we'll look at putting it back where it is okay thank you any other questions for me Thank You Shelly for the public comment there's no further public comment we will take a vote all in favor say aye aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 item F 2nd reading an adoption of a ordinance amending article 2.0 7 boards committees and commissions Theresa James you're on and this is in enacting term limits right I was asked

[1:41:40] to put this back on the regular agenda this is proposing the term limits on this particular board and so I guess I just have the question does anybody have any questions or concerns or comments to make well we should just note that originally the and first president it was two years two terms and we've asked to has that change to two terms three years okay and so that's what item F would be would be voting on having three to three year terms for Cosa DC so to do that we would need a motion for somebody to make the motion to change the two year two terms to the three year two terms is that what you want okay yes I mean I we're talking a little bit earlier this is kind of one of those boards that goes along with City Council hand-in-hand why not making it to match our term for that wave some board members would be a B along with some of the main goals that the city of San Angelo is going through and to have some knowledge of some existing contracts that are going on I wouldn't eat also say just from having served two different times on the Development Corporation it doesn't happen often but there can be a time when you do need your institutional knowledge on there sometimes a an economic development project is a long time developing and then a long time coming to fruition and then there are other things that happen after that I think it's important to have that historical knowledge you know two three two-year terms is okay but in my opinion I think it would be better if we had either two four-year terms or four two four-year terms or for two-year

[1:43:45] terms just for the eight years that and then it couldn't mirror what what the council has now under our nose I think most of our boards there's only one other board that has the four-year terms and so traditionally most of the boards are to three-year terms and so for me it's sticking with what the majority of all our boards are and I think there's no reason to make a change on this one compared to the rest of the boards and I also think that it also allows City Council members to have an opportunity to put their own nominee on the board and I think that's very important because too often we have the same people we live with people that we don't have nominated and so I think this makes sure that council members have an opportunity to influence a board just for clarification I'm sorry Brenda just for clarification from the City Clerk's department remind us how many how many boards and commissions that we've got people on and what those terms are as we go through because I have I'm a little confused listening to what I hear council say is is because my memory may not be as good as some people but three years is not to standard on a lot of these for instance the airport advisory board has four-year terms and we do have many that have two-year terms the animal services Advisory Committee those are two-year terms as well as currently cosa DC civic events advisory board three-year terms three-year terms for Civil Service Commission two years for construction Board of Adjustment and appeals two year for design and historic review commission three-year terms for Fort Concho I guess my point really is

[1:45:55] this we're making a change here I would like to get consistent of all our boards and commissions of engine age so that we we've got everybody understands that there whatever that number is we want to get two year terms so many but we need to get to term limits and specific terms on every board in commission so whatever decision that we make today I would like to see that as a standard as we go forward and make all those particular changes I'm gonna make a motion to have the cosa DC term be to three-year terms and that's the motion do I have a second IV public comment no public comment we'll take a vote on amending the Cosa DC term limits two to three-year terms all in favor any opposed motion passes 7 0 number G is the update on sales tax performance by Tina good morning mayor council mr. Valenzuela Tina dear Ski director of Finance I have a quick update for you on sales tax revenue sales tax revenue is up again in the month of June compared with the month of June for last year by four point eight two percent our collections for this month were about $100,000 over our original budget for June and the year-to-date were over budget for our sales tax revenue by just over 1.1 million dollars and here's your chart that shows your sales tax by industry retail is up and General Services is up those are probably biggest ones but as you mentioned earlier your manufacturing is up as well so that's good to see miscellaneous because that's one of the biggest increases I did not because it's got a big increase we ought to know I'm sorry I don't have the answer for you right this minute I did write down what was in general services and professional services but I didn't catch that one so sorry about

[1:47:58] that that answer for you next month because it's growing you know I think what it when the miscellaneous is actually decreased it looks like by quite a bit miscellaneous yeah is June I'm sorry it's the other way it's June is way down so what is miscellaneous because it has a huge impact on us yes it could be a reallocation too sometimes they have some of our some of the businesses misclassified into miscellaneous and then we contact them and let them know hey this should really be in this general class or in food or retail or what-have-you and so there are corrections that are made for that as well so it could be due to something like that so but I will check on that and I'll let you know next month what we would primarily say is is that the oil and gas industry based off of these numbers has had a very positive impact on our tax revenue but the overall general business climate is is steady but not great we remain optimistic I think the numbers will keep us cautious cautiously because we're gonna come up against some big increases in July August and September increase this month of being 4.8% you know it's certainly declined a little bit each month and so maybe we're starting to level out where we're going to see those increases steadily decreasing a little bit and just even out back to where we were before we started seeing the increases and I do wanna points I do want to point out so I'm sorry I do want to point out as well that four point 82% we've been actually in double digits last month it was lower than that and moving forward as we look at our tax revenues we want to make sure that we're conservative as we start budget and I think right now I keep hearing now how much are we over yeah we're over 1.1 million dollars at this point but moving forward we want to make sure that we're conservative in our estimates so we want to end up like we did the previous year we're short two million dollars so again we'll remain cautiously optimistic but we'll make sure that as we move forward and

[1:50:00] budget that we take that into account that these numbers are actually leveling off also because compared to the cities that that we compare ourselves to we are significantly less than everybody else by by at least half and in many of them so we need to be very cautious we're gonna come up against some double-digit increases that we had and I think they'll be tough to beat so questions from Council good news it's still positive and item 7 follow-up an administrative issues consider approving the following board nomination the Zoning Board of adjustments Gary Courtis by the mayor to a regular position to an unexpired term from his alternative turnit of an alternative position and it will end January 2020 all in favor yeah all in favor no an opposed passes 7 0 item B announcements in consideration of future agenda items yes yes just to announce that our next meeting a reminder will be held July 17th so there won't be anything for the first Tuesday of the month and then in August we'll go back to our regular meetings 1st and 3rd and Tuesday's but additionally we'll have our budget workshops on the off Tuesdays we should discuss whether we want those off Tuesdays the time period that we will be doing those I think sometimes we've had an evening session so we need to talk about we don't have to do that today we can do it in July I guess but talk about whether we want all four meetings to be at 8:30 in the morning or whether we need to have an evening meeting all right with that may I have a we adjourn a second any opposed to journey if not 7-0 we're

[1:52:06] adjourned

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