San Angelo City Council 7-15-25

[0:00:00] Morning everyone. It It's time to start the July 15th agenda. Uh we'll start that. We've got a call to order and we'd like to pull up Gary and Marcela Jenkins for our opening prayer and pledges. >> Good morning, mayor, members of the council, everyone here. We ask you to join with us as we pray for our community. Precious Father in heaven, in the name of Jesus, we bow before you to say thank you for this day. We thank you for all that you've done. And we ask you to endow our city council with wisdom and knowledge to be able to conduct the business of the city in a way that will glorify you. We thank you for our first responders, our firefighters and police officers and all of those that labor to keep us safe and to help us during times of emergencies such as the recent deadly flood that hit Texas. We pray for the people of St. Angelo that you will help them to recover now that we have the federal disaster declaration and where people can come and get help. We pray for the families in Kurville who have lost loved ones and those that are still missing. We pray God that you hear our prayer and we pray father in Jesus' name that you help us to be a better community through all of this because when St. Angelo was at its worst, the people of this city came together and demonstrated our best. So we we're so grateful for this community and we thank you for Tom Green County Judge Lane Carter, Congressman August Fluger, and all of those that were important to and helped us to get the declaration so that the people can get the help that they need

[0:02:03] in this city. So Father, bless each and everyone that's here. Have your will and your way. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. >> Amen. to the flag of the United States. Texas, one state, one and indivisible. With no proclamations or recognitions this morning, we'll move into public comment. Members of the public may raise issues or concerns not listed on the regular agenda during this time. To participate, please sign in with the city clerk prior to the beginning of the meeting. Speakers will be called in the order they signed in. When speaking, citizens must speak from the podium and will address all comments to the dis. Begin by stating your name and address or single member district number and limit your remarks to three minutes or less. Heather, do we have any public comment? >> Jamal Schumpert. >> Jamal. Um Jamal Shumpert, 2817 North Urban Street, St. Angelo, Texas. Um today, city council, I would like to talk to you guys about some relief efforts on the north side recreation center. Um the reason I'm a little upset about it is because I was looking into possibly leasing that building myself with some other investors. Uh until this happened, uh after this flood, I can't I can't I can't use those people money to try to fix that up knowing that you guys didn't even take care of it in the beginning. we were willing to put in the AC units needed for that place so that we could start an afterchool basketball program

[0:04:05] for these kids in the north side. I saw what Black Sher Heights was doing. I want to magnify that. So what I'm trying to tell you is when we talk about taking care of our assets, I think our assets need to be taken care of equally. Um putting all that concrete out there on Southwest by McDonald's could have been better used in many other areas. Uh, we had a boring company come in. I think we should have bored from that north side recreation detention area onto the other detention area where you have the big tower. I think it's an electric tower with radio signals coming out of it. I'm not sure. Um, it could have been some other alternative other than just sinking the North Side Recreation Center. Uh, and beyond that, uh, some of these people may not get the help they need. I'm I know that we have about $12 million in economic development and $12 million in the ballot side, both unassigned, that we could use towards helping these people just in case FEMA doesn't help or even the private donations come short. And then when it comes to economic development, uh I went to a meeting. I looked at what they were doing. 50 meetings in a year. That's about once a week. It seems like it's going to be a lot of getting together, hosting events, and partying over bringing jobs to St. Angelo. I honestly believe the best way to bring jobs to a town like this in an oasis is to have your people be the attraction. The Economic Development Corporation needs to be a skills factory in which we hire professionals to teach us skills for free. U no other town is doing that. That way when investors come look at your town, they're not looking for you to set up a aviation mechanic school so that you can support certain operations of their division. They'll be looking at your town as a whole like, "Hey, we got meatronic engineers here. We got civil engineers here. We got all types of

[0:06:07] people and skills from the intermediate and beginning level to the top. Uh I think we need to look at refocusing our efforts and maybe change from that traditional way of thinking. Thank you. >> Thank you Jamal >> Heather. Next >> uh one staff comment from Patrick Freric. >> Good morning Mayor and council. Just wanted to give each of y'all a quick update on what operations is doing um kind of in the aftermath of the flood. Uh right now uh wanted to address trash service. Trash service for the majority of town is back in its normal rotation. So picking up uh normal household trash in the brown bins, recycling in the green bins, and then bulk collection. That's all happening in the the bulk of town that in that wasn't necessarily directly affected by the floods. Um, in the most impacted area, we are going through and still collecting bag trash. We have some assistance from staff and firefighters um going through and picking up bag trash, trying to get that going. Uh, we have a contracted uh debris management company that's going to be coming in on the on the 21st, next Monday, and they're going to start picking up the bulk of the debris from the flood in the in the impacted areas. So everything in the inundation area is going to be start being collected on the 21st um by that company. We'll be moving through several sections of town and we'll get that messaging out um as we get it. Uh we're working with that company this week. They're going to be in town really giving us an assessment and a game plan on how they're going to move through. So we'll be hitting multiple areas at one time. So it's not just a a slow um method moving through. This is what this company does. It's all they do. So they're pros at it. So, we're completely confident that we'll move through this in the most expeditious way possible. Um, additionally, we've been getting a lot of calls about mosquitoes. Want to let everybody know that we are spraying for

[0:08:09] mosquitoes. We have all of our mosquito rigs out spraying um throughout the entire town, but in the most affected area where people are outside almost constantly all day, still moving and working out there. We're spraying that entire area as well as providing dunks in our in our standing water areas. these little rains aren't going to help. Um there's going to be continual mosquito problems coming in just because of those low lowlying areas. It's perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. So just know as a public we're aware of that. We're doing what we can with what we have um to to relief some of that. But anything that they can do in their backyards if they're dumping water bowls, keeping their grass mowed, stuff like that, that will help um with the mosquito problem holistically. So, just wanted to give that quick update to you guys and and uh say that we are on it and if you got any questions, please reach out to operations and we'll get you get y'all helped out. >> Patrick, a couple things. Uh number one, the most important probably that we all have gotten phone calls. Thank you for the mosquito update. All right, you must got a call from all of our wives and uh people, but the it's something that's been brought up. Number two, as we're removing trash, I'm getting calls from constituents. They are running out of room. All right? And I think I passed this on to to you and Shane both. Could could you maybe talk about how they're going to prioritize their pickup when we start next week. >> So there's obviously areas of town that were harder hit than than most. Um that lower section of Pullium that where we had the really swift water. Um that's going to be a primary area of of focus for those individuals. And then along 37th Street where all that water came through on the north side, that's going to be the most affected area on the north side. So we're going to try to focus on that street. get that street cleared. Um, and then up in Green Acres has a whole lot of uh of debris in in that place as well. Green Acres is a little bit better because they have a little more room to spread out in these more closely knit neighborhoods. I do understand that it is tight. Um, all we ask is do the best you can with what you have right now. Um, get it as close to

[0:10:12] the curb as possible. Please keep it out of the street though because we do still have to have to maintain that thoroughfare for vehicles. Um, like I said, hopefully Monday we'll be coming through and we'll be removing all of that. We do plan on making two, maybe three cycles, but we want as much out on the street as possible and this or on the curb line as possible um for this first go around. So, please just just keep pushing it back and uh and use all the space that you can. We understand it's tight, but uh it it is what it is, unfortunately, and we'll get through it as fast as we can. getting people that that are calling and they're saying we don't understand. But the the point of it is we want to get as much of the mucking gut that's going on now to get all of their debris to the curb. A lot of that's going on. But everything starts Monday. So I would encourage all the citizens to have everything as much as you can have as far as you can go by Sunday evening at the latest because the crews start on Monday. >> Right. And the biggest thing that's going to help us out on that is if you can truly sort out your stuff as best you can. It doesn't have to be a definitive line in between items, but please keep your CND, your your construction debris, um your vegetation, your electronics, keep all that separated as best you can so that the the company that's collecting it has to be sorted in that manner for them to pick it up. Otherwise, they're going to bypass it. We've got to come back, sort it, and then they'll circle back around. So, if we're going to be doing this in the most expeditious manner, if we can have all of that sorted out, that'll relieve the stuff in front of your home the fastest. Okay, another question. Will they be working regular hours? >> Um, they'll be working seven I I don't know what time, but as long as they possibly can. I mean, they're here to work, so it's not going to they're not shutting down at 5:00. 5:00, I can tell you that. So, um, I think our noise ordinance lets them start at 7:00, so they'll be on the street by 7 and then we'll be working at least probably till dark with this company. >> Okay, cool. Patrick, thank you very much. >> Yes, sir. Thank you'all. >> Heather, any remaining public comment? I would like to make a couple statements.

[0:12:13] Um, first things first, I'd like to recognize Candy Pool and she has brought Emma Vasquez and Ethan Vasquez from Troop 42 and Troop 1. Ethan, Evan, would y'all stand up, please? Awesome. Thank y'all for coming to city council. I know this must have been a dream of y'alls for years to come here and we're glad you're here. Thanks for coming. Y'all need recognition. Thank y'all. With that, I'll just one final statement. Um the input from the local community and staff uh and volunteer groups has just been outstanding. I I can't go any further than that. I just want to say I would take this team versus anybody. Y'all have been exemplary. All right. Thank you. With that, we'll close public comment. We'll move into the consent agenda item. Uh does anybody have anything they want to pull? Start with you, Miss Mary? >> No, sir. >> Karen? >> Yes, sir. >> Patrick? Yes, sir. >> Harry, >> no sir. >> Joe, >> no. >> Heert. >> All right. With that, can I have a motion? >> Some move. >> Second. >> Is there any public comment on the consent agenda? >> All right. With that, consent uh all those in favor of passing the consent consent agenda, say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Consent agenda passes 70. With that, we'll move into the regular agenda. Comments regarding items on the regular agenda may be made by the public when each item is discussed as outlined above. To participate, please sign in with the city clerk prior to the beginning of the meeting. Speakers will be called in the order they signed in. Comments are limited to less than three minutes. Applicants, proponents, and appellants are exempt from the time limit above and instead must limit their remarks to less than 5 minutes. Item A, discuss and consider adoption of an ordinance authorizing the issue and sale of up to 41.6 million of City of St. San Angelo Texas general obligation bonds taxable series 2025 for the purpose of improving the city's coliseum located on the San Angelo fairgrounds as approved

[0:14:16] by the voters at the bond election held within the city on May 3rd 2025 levying an annual an annual advalorum tax and providing for the security for and payment of said bonds approving an official statement a bond purchase agreement and a paying agent registar agreement and enacting other provisions relating to the subject present Presentation made by Finance Director Tina Derski and Specialized Public Finance Inc. Management Director Vince Vial. Tina, you're on. >> Thank you. >> Is this Tina Derki, director of finance? Uh we did go out for sale on these bonds yesterday. It was a negotiated sale and um I have Vince Val from Specialized Public Finance here to kind of explain what that was and how that worked yesterday and what the results were. Um, unless you have any other questions for me first, I will have him come up and >> let's just >> give you the spiel. >> Bring all hence up. >> Morning, mayor, council members. For the record, my name is Vince Viel with Specialized Public Finance. We're the city's financial advisor. My associate, Paul Jason, is handing out some information related to the bond sale that we conducted yesterday. I want to walk the council through this. Thanks, sir. And hopefully answer any questions you may have about the transaction. As Tina stated, we were in the marketplace yesterday negotiating the transaction for the $41 million general obligation bonds with the underwriters Raymond James and Samco Capital Markets. Uh this is obviously going to be from the election that was approved by the voters for the coliseum improvements. Part of the process that we do on any kind of a bond issuance is we try to obtain a bond rating from uh nationally recognized rating agencies such as standard and pores and fitch rating services for the city for the issuer. In this case we did that uh S&P came back and confirmed the existing double A rating for the city of St. Angelo and

[0:16:20] Fitch also confirmed their double A+ rating for the city of St. Angelo. So that was part of the process that we went through on this negotiated sale. The interest rate that we were able to come to agreement with on the underwriters for the transaction is 5.418%. So that will be the effective interest rate on the taxable issue that we're looking at. If the council approves this ordinance authorizing the issuance this morning of the bonds, that will set us up for a closing on August 14th. That will be the date that the city receives the funds. Any questions so far? >> Vince, did you see any problems with the rate we got compared to the market? >> Not at all. I was very pleased with the interest rate that we got. Uh we were in the marketplace like I said yesterday and actually the 10-year Treasury was starting to move away from us a little bit. Uh but the underwriters stepped up and got under the bonds. So I was very happy to see the rate that we got. >> Cool. Thank you. Page two is a debt service schedule that illustrates the payments that city of St. Angelo will make on the general obligation bonds. Uh it is a 20-year term. Uh there is a 10-year call feature with what we also have earlier than that, a make whole call. So, we have flexibility if we want to pay this off early if the city so desires. On page three, you might find of interest. Uh these are the orders that came in from the marketplace to the underwriters. Uh you can see there that we had a lot of local participation from commercial banks and also something very unique down in the bottom on the yellow you'll see retail accounts in Texas. We had a lot of participation from local investors on this. That is somewhat uncommon to see local investors participate in uh municipal underwritings or bonds of this nature. So, I was real happy to see retail accounts locally step up and take down about $415,000 of this transaction. Uh, nationally, we had more than that, but you can look and

[0:18:22] see what financial institutions stepped up and bought some of these bonds from the underwriters, and that really helped our sale quite a bit. On page four is the timeline for the transaction. We've already been through the majority of these steps toward the bottom of the timeline. Obviously, July 15th, we're considering the ordinance authorizing the issuance of the GEO bonds. And again, if that's approved by the council, that will set us up for a closing on August 14th. Page five is a graph that illustrates the 10-year Treasury. Uh this is what taxable municipal bonds are priced off of. We follow the 10-year Treasury on this. Uh, so you can see where rates have been going back to 1962. So overall, we're in a pretty low interest rate environment for this type of a transaction. Page six is suggested agenda language. Uh, if the council so desires to proceed with this and mayor, council members, I am happy to try to answer any questions y'all may have about this. So, first I'll ask open this up for anybody on the council have any questions as you look at the process of how we've moved through this events. Do you see anywhere that we might have missed something or left something out? Basically, I want to say what questions have we not asked that we should have as your professional in this industry and we're just trying to make sure that we represent our citizens and constituents appropriately. I think every I was dotted tea was crossed on this transaction. We had the election to approve the general obligation bonds. It was approved by the voters. So we conducted that election process. The city did that. Uh we looked at trying to issue these tax exempt versus taxable. Well, the nature of the coliseum business is going to lend it to be a taxable transaction. So we did not want to get the city in trouble with the feds as far as claiming tax exemption when it

[0:20:24] would be a taxable issue. there might be matters arise from there. Uh we looked at trying to get local participation with banks. We went down that road with the commercial banks. Uh we we basically crossed that bridge, got their interest rates. We compared that to the open marketplace. We found a lower interest rate in the open marketplace but still were able to have local participation on the bond issue itself that thereby we secured the lower rate for the city. Uh I think everything has been done on this in my opinion. uh that could be in the best interest of the city. >> So, prior to sending you back out and getting your bid, you we had a discussion of whether you should just do one bid or open it up to give you flexibility, >> right? >> Would you say leaving it open to flexibility worked in favor of St. Angelo? >> In this case, I believe it did. Uh again, I want to go over there's two types of sale methods. There's a competitive bid where we just throw the bond issue out in the marketplace and underwriters bid the interest rate. It's a very transparent above table process. The other type of mechanism where you can sell bonds is the negotiated sale. This is the route that we chose. Uh one of the primary reasons is that we wanted to have local participation on this which we got. Also this is a taxable municipal issue. That's a very unique issue. Typically municipals are done in the tax exempt arena. So this was done on a taxable basis. So it's a little off from your typical type of municipal bond. So that lent itself more to a negotiated type transaction. Uh all in all, I'm very happy with the rate that we got on this. I'm very happy with the ratings that we received from S&P and Fitch and I think this turned out to be a good transaction for the city. >> Yes, we hope we made the right steps going down this progress. I we we banked a lot of a lot of our future on it. And with that, um as things go forward, I'll look for a motion. So move. >> Do we need to read this that you suggested as language? Vince >> as present. As presented. Okay, Tom. That's all you need. >> Okay. >> So I have a first from Harry. >> Second.

[0:22:25] >> And a second from Tommy Heert. >> Any public comment? >> With no public comment, we'll move for a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? With no nays. Motion passes 70. Thank you, Vince. >> Thank you all very much. Now we'll move to item B. Consider authorizing, excuse me, a resolution establishing the coliseum and renovation project as an economic development program under chapter 380 of the Texas local government code and authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute a chapter 380 agreement with the stock show and rodeo association setting out the development obligations under the program. Presentation by interim city attorney Brandon Dyson. >> Thank you, mayor. Uh, so directly related to the last item, this will establish the call sim renovation project as a program under chapter 380 of the local government code. Uh what that does is allow us to work with the stock show and rodeo who will uh have an exclusive lease of the coliseum which as you know right now they lease it during those event periods but otherwise the city operates maintains it uh does all the event hosting but that will change under this arrangement. Um some of the major terms of the chapter 380 agreement will be looking at again the exclusive long-term lease to the stock show. Uh it will of course include rent to the city based on ticket sales and uh their day-to-day operation. They'll take that over and then share in maintenance of the facility. There was also a proposed capital investment uh to improve the fairgrounds and coliseum area over a certain period of time. And then of course they prepared and uh

[0:24:28] paid for the designs of the renovation. So they'll work handinhand with the city in overseeing the construction of that. And then as you know the bond issuance was only for a certain amount. So any cost overruns above that amount, SAS would be responsible for that under this agreement. And I think that's all I have on it unless you have any questions. >> Cool. Let's open it up for question. Council >> Brandon, when when you talk about the event side of it that the stock show they're going to manage that, does the city can we still do could we still initiate events or anything in addition to what they have on their schedule? >> So, that can definitely be negotiated and I've actually already started working on a provision for that. Um we'll probably need some input from uh our city manager and other directors uh how many events we want to reserve, but yeah, that could absolutely be done. >> And do you think that but with that arrangement that we will see an increased use or they're going to do more events than what say we typically do? >> I I believe so. uh with the renovations that are being made, including the increased seating capacity, I I think that's the whole idea is that they'll be able to host other events other than stock show and rodeo events. >> And I might add to that, it's similar to what we've done with the auditorium. So, the municipal auditorium used to the city ran that um we contract now with the performing arts coalition who run it. The city no longer does that. The thought process with that one, as with this one, is that they are more professionals in that field as far as bringing in events and marketing. The city really focuses on just having the venue there. We don't have people out there that are marketing it. So, that's what the stock show is proposing to bring to the to the table with that as well. And with that one, the city did put some provisions in the agreement

[0:26:31] where, you know, to try and ensure one that local people still had the ability to use the building, that kind of stuff. Thank you. >> Any further questions on this side? Harry, Joe, Tommy. All with all that said, can I get a motion? >> Motion to approve the resolution. >> I have a first from Tommy and I think a second from Harry. Any public comment? >> With that said, we'll take a vote on item B. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? That motion passes. Item B 70. We'll move into item C. discussion and possible direction of the issuance of 2025 tax notes to provide for a taxiway improvements at the airport. Presentation made by finance director Tina Derski, director of finance. This proposed short-term tax note is um going to be using the fund balance in the debt service fund and it will be issued for $1,62,000 and it is to fund the taxi way at the airport. Um, in addition to the $1,ion62,000, there will be a pull from the airport's fund balance of $300,000 for a total of $1.3 million on this project. These this part of the project, which Justin will present later um on the agenda, is not able to be funded by FAA funds is my understanding. And so that's why we're using this short-term note to get the project completed and um ready to go build hangers out there. So >> cool. Thank you, T. Any questions from council? >> One. >> Tommy, >> how does this impact, if it does at all, um, capacity for other short-term debt issues, or does it impact it? >> This does not impact capacity or the property tax rate because we are pulling it out of the existing fund balance in the debt service fund. >> All right. Thanks. >> With that, could I get a motion? >> Motion. >> Who was that from? >> First from Karen. Second.

[0:28:33] >> Second from Mary. >> Any public comment? >> With no public comment, we'll take a vote. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Item C passes 70. With that, we'll move on to item D. Consider resolution approving the 2026 through 2030 capital invest capital improvement plan for the city of St. Angelo. Tina Derski. >> Okay. So, capital improvement plan. We've sent this out to y'all. You've seen it. You're familiar with it. Um, this is just kind of checking a box to make sure that we get it approved according in accordance with the charter. Um, and it would have been on consent, but Brandon made me put it on regular agenda, so had to get that. >> Is it really the day to push it, Brandon? Of all people to push it today. Is it really the day? >> That's good. That shows initiative and conviction. >> Go Brandon. >> He's not afraid of me, apparently. >> That's all I have unless you'all have any questions on that. >> So, maybe Daniel, I'm going to flip this one. you'd call a little bit of an autohood. Could you explain the importance of the capital improvement plan and and why we have that? Granted, there's lots of things on there, but things can't maybe discuss how they move forward. >> Absolutely. I know that as we move forward and we're looking at projects that we want to fund, we just had a workshop, the strategic planning workshop, and we kind of get a feel for coun what council wants. Actually, you tell us what you want. And on our end, as we move forward and uh look at projects for this coming year, you'll see projects perhaps that that actually come out of the out of the I mean the um the plan, the CIP itself. >> So, we can't present to you all anything that's outside of the CIP. So, the CIP plan is very important to us. A lot of people think that if it's on the CIP, it's going to be funded. Actually, what's in the C CIP is hundreds of millions of dollars as far as the different projects. So, we want to be very specific. We want to make sure that if we're going to fund something, it's on there, but it's something also that has been prioritized by city council members. So, again, this is a tool back in 2007, the city council uh there was a decision made and went into the charter that every year this would be presented to the city council as well. And this is exactly what we're doing this point just

[0:30:35] to make sure that that that we get that done. >> Well, it's I think people a clear way to understand this is this is our menu and if it's not on the menu and if it's not in our in our pantry, we can't pick from of it to to move forward with it. A lot of people look at a CIP plan and think, well, what do we do this? And it's been on there a long time. Well, >> so is the wastewater plan. There's there's hundreds of millions of dollars that are on this plan. Unfortunately, we're restricted by revenue and with that is how they've moved forward. CIP are very important, but I think people need to understand that it's a it's a menu for us to move forward. It's placed on here. We'll go with that. So, after all those Okay, Harry, >> just a real quick comments. So, reminder to the citizens, there are a couple of items that have that were on the CIP plan for a number of years that were funded by private money. Splashbs is one of them, the restroom over at MLK Park. So, the way we move forward with some of these projects that have been on a CIP plan for a number of years may be that private public partnership. So, I just want to remind people out there that sometimes we'll be able to do things, but maybe it's an investment with the business and the citizens outside of the tax revenue. >> And I I definitely want to add to that as well. We're constantly looking for grants to apply for and if a grant actually pops up that that uh and there may be a match from the city, but on our on our part, we want to leverage all the monies we possibly can. So, if that grants available, you may see one of these projects actually move up. It may not actually be an item that you'll prioritize for this coming year, but if those monies are available, uh, we'll bring it to you and let you know, hey, we'd like to apply for this. We really feel we can leverage this and we can get this project finally completed. >> I think those are great comments. Any further comments? With that, I'll look for a motion. >> I'm move approval. >> First from Tommy, second from >> Harry. >> Missed it. Second from Harry. Any public comment?

[0:32:39] With none, I'll go for a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? 70. >> Thank you. >> All right. Now, we'll move to item E. Consider approving a lease agreement renewal with US Customs and Border Protection for the Air and Marine Operations hanger and approving tips agreement number 230142 with CC3 Construction in the amount of $996,223.60 60 cents per hanger shell improvements funded by the lease agreement and authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute all related documents presentation made by airport director Justin Fletcher. >> Mayor Thompson, I'm going to recuse myself from >> with that. We're going to recuse single member district 2 Joe. >> Justin, you're on. Good morning, Mayor Council. Uh bringing before you this morning a lease renewal between the US Customs Border Protection and the airport. Uh, this lease renewal has a lot of moving parts, so I'll walk you through those. Uh, US Customs has been operating month-to-month on a lease agreement for the past several years. Uh, the city's been maintaining our obligation, maintaining the facility, and US Customs has been paying uh, their lease revenue. The facility we're discussing is 8092 Hangar Road. Uh, you can kind of see Nickerbacher uh, there on the north of the north side of the hangar. This is a significant facility out of the airport. It's a significant size, 96,631 ft of hanger and office space and 220,000 ft of ramp space and park vehicle parking space. This is a substantial facility for the airport and it's located in district one uh Mr. Tommy Heers District. So, this lease is going to be executed under two different documents. The first one is a standstill agreement and that's going to bring both parties under a formal agreement since agreement since we've been operating monthtomonth for so long. Under the standstill agreement, we're going to have 180 days to carry out shell improvements in the hangar. We have four significant improvements we have to do. Uh we have to install a new fire alarm, a modern fire alarm. The the existing one is antiquated. Uh we also have to install a fire suppression

[0:34:41] system that's compliant with NFPA fire codes. Uh we have to identify all of the hanger electrical circuits. It's an it's an aged hanger, so a lot of those electrical circuits aren't even identified. So we don't know what breakers we're flipping when we're in there working. >> I'm sorry. How old is that hanger? >> I think it goes back to the 60s, 60s,7s. >> So, it's my age. Easy easy there. It's not an old hanger. It's mid >> infrastructure wise. Uh we also have to repair uh an underground conduit that was crushed. Uh so that communication line is currently draped across the pavement there at the airport. Uh we worked with CC3 Construction. They gave us a quote of $996,223 to make the shell improvements to get that work conducted. Uh so over 180 days we install the fire suppression. Uh once the city has accepted, once the government, US customs has accepted, we will then execute the onair airport lease agreement. That's a 10-year lease agreement with two 5-year terms. Uh so 20 years total. And uh this kind of walks you through their their lease rate, how their lease rates will increase over the two agreements. And uh finally, once the on airport agreement is reached, it'll be an annual revenue of $368,000 to the airport annually. Can I answer any questions? So, the city will front the cost of the fire suppression. I should have addressed that. The city will front the cost of the fire suppression and then the airport will then reimburse the city over the course of the lease agreement of the $996,000. >> Question about council. >> Just just a comment. This has been a long time coming. So, >> yes, sir. >> Yeah. Thank Thanks for your continued work and bringing it forward, Justin. Appreciate you. Thanks. >> Yes, sir. >> Any questions on this side? >> So, Jess, I've got I got a couple of questions here. Number one, should something should we hit something that creates a little hiccup or headwind? Can you extend the 180 days? >> Yes. So, >> protection of both parties? >> Yes, sir. Talking to lease agreement, leasing with the government, they will be very supportive of us as long as we're operating above board. We're doing

[0:36:44] our due diligence to progress forward with the project. They'll work with us on the 180 days. >> All right. Second question. If there's something in there that one party or the other finds is, I would say, unfair or over the period of the lease, we look at it and say, you know what, that has been an exceptional cost or benefit and it's it's a little bit unfair. When you go back and renew this lease, can you address those options at the renewal point? >> We could negotiate we could work with our with our legal and negotiate those terms, >> right? because I mean you never know what's going to come up and from sitting in on a couple airport and your airport board has done a wonderful job of helping you work through this and providing feedback but should there be some things that pop up we aren't aware of and maybe changes with things that we're going to do because of the future tax wave we're going to talk about here in a little bit I just want to make sure there's a little bit of a step back there that we can go and maybe renegotiate or retalk if it's for the benefit of both parties. >> Yes sir. >> Cool. With that I have no further questions. Anybody else? With that, I'll look for a motion. >> So move. >> First by Harry. >> Second by Mary Coffee. Heather, any public comment? With that, I'll look to take a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries. 60. Thank you, Fletcher. >> Somebody Let me run Joe. They're eating pizza. >> Joe, good catch. All right, we'll go ahead and move forward in item F. Consider awarding AP01-25 construction southhanger access taxi lane at the San Angelo Regional Airport to HOR construction in the amount of 44.458585.17

[0:38:46] 458585.17 FAA AIP number 3-48--0191-051-2025 utilizing 300,000 of airport fund balance and authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute all related documents presentation made by airport director Justin Fletcher. Welcome back. >> Yes, sir. So, another project that's been in the work for a while. Uh we've >> So how long's a while? >> 2020. Five years. This project has been bid and rebid six times. This has been our six uh six formal rebid process on this project. A lot of ups and downs with this project. Um so a little background. This is one of the one of the common requests we get at the airport is can I build a hanger? Uh do you have any tea hanger availability? And the construction of this taxiway is really going to help us start to address those concerns by our airport users. Uh, this project, like I said, it it's had a bid and rebid. There's been a lot of a lot of conversation regarding the spec, the FA spec of the asphalt being too stringent, too strict. So, we we took this back to the FAA. The FAA issued us a mod, a modification, which allows us to pay uh text.phalt mix. So, that's a benefit to local contractors, and I think that really helped us uh get bids in on this goound. Uh, we worked with Construction. They came in as the low bid of $4.4 $4 million for the project. Um, as Tina mentioned earlier, this project was bid out in three schedules. The first schedule was the base taxiway width of 35 ft. That's what the FA will fund. That's the minimum design standard for a group two aircraft, which is corporate jet and lower. So, the schedule two was the additional 75 ft pavement width and that portion has to be funded locally. It's not eligible for federal funds. So that's why we approached the city seeking additional support for this initiative to get to get the taxiway constructed. U the additional 75 foot width pavement does provide some benefits. Uh it keeps it keeps our

[0:40:49] pavement width over to our taxiway object free area which is our TOA which keeps wing tips and engines over pavement. That's a huge benefit. There's a huge margin of safety there. Additionally, it expands our project limits. So now we're going to go through in one project. We're going to address all the drainage. We're going to address all the site work. So when we're finished, when we've accepted the project, we'll have shovel ready green space parcels ready for development. So it's definitely a benefit to have the additional 75 foot hang uh 75 foot pavement width. So during the bid, construction, they commit, they came in with a load bid of $4.4 million, and we're going to fund this project through AIP51, which is going to be eligible for FA funding. We're going to utilize 300,000 of airport funds from our fund balance. And the city has committed $11 million for the local match. And I'll show you this this illustration. Everything in red is eligible for uh funding through the FA for federal funding and everything in blue uh is what is going to be funded locally. And you can see we do have room for hangers. There's total 16 box hangers and two rows of tea hangers. So if this is built out, we could essentially accommodate 32 aircraft. at a minimum 32 aircraft dependent on their size and the capacities of the hanger. So this is a significant benefit uh for the airport. Can I answer any questions? So number one, we've we've spent a long time getting here to this point. Um, we've all got a passion to see the airport grow, but I think it's important to realize even with these hangers, there's four n 400 byunds, 490 by 90s, 460 x60s plus the adjacent T hangers. Um, there are projects that come up for discussion all the time. I mean, military is looking at, you know, looking for refurbation, places to refurb separate types of aircraft. So that might take something from another side of the airport and be able to move those here. Um during the initial storm

[0:42:54] recovery on July 4th, uh we met with the Texas DPS. How many how many I was fix to say aircraft do they have here? >> I know we've got the one operating right now. >> One and they have potentially four that they would like to bring. Discussions with Mike Boyd a couple weeks ago. There's some other military operations that should we do this, we would become a candidate to bring in a lot more economic impact. And then it's it's more than just a hanger rental. And I think people need to understand the the picture of this is longer than just concrete. But having this in place allows us to bring in aircraft that insurance wouldn't cover if they were not covered. you know, specifically taxing over uh I was fixed to say a covered area allows you to take all your drainage and also if I'm correct me if I'm wrong, is HR construction using local subs on all this? A lot of this >> I know they are using some local subs. Yes. >> Okay. So, that's important to us. We'd like to see those dollars spent here and if you can work with them as a project development to pursue as much of that local as they can, we would appreciate that, Fletcher. >> Yes, sir. >> With that, I'll open it up for any questions. >> Justin, what is the I and I know they they aren't all the same rate, but the typical rate rental fee for a for that hanger. >> So, we would start with a land lease. I think it depends on the development philosophy that the city chooses to pursue. So, a lot of the times these third party developers, they'll come and approach us and we have the land. That's our asset. We have the land that's available for for lease. So, we would we would offer them a land lease. Well, that current land lease rate is 12 cents a square foot. And these hangers are typically 10,000 square feet, the 100 by 100s. So I think the argument could be made with the investment the city's making, with the investment the airport's making, we need a more competitive land lease rate. So I think we need to have that conversation with our airport advisory board, bring that back to council for review because of the investment. We want to make sure that the airport's being competitive. We're being fair and reasonable to our users, but we're also making the airport more sustainable long term,

[0:44:57] >> right? I get your question answered, Mary. >> Yes, sir. >> Sorry, I'm just staring at you. >> Ex walk through how a hanger would be built and what financial entities who participates. >> So, these could be any thirdparty developers. They could these could be an FBO. These could be a private owner. They would approach us. We would just request a letter of intent. They would tell us what size aircraft, what size hanger they're interested in building. Uh we would work with our consultants. We want to make sure that the design is going to be compatible with what we have down there on our south taxi lane. Um and then the airport would work with the design and um construction company to come in and construct the facility, making sure they have access to the airport. We have to work with the FAA on airspace analysis. There's 7460s that have to be done for for airspace approval. Uh all our buildings have to be approved by the FA before they can be constructed. So there's definitely a timeline we have to follow and a list of things that have to be uh looked at before they can even break around. >> Do you have a list of people that might be interested? >> We have a weight list of 12 for the actual box hangers and we have a weight list of 29 individuals for tea hangers. So we've got a significant roster of individuals that are interested in hanger space out at the airport. >> Awesome. Any other questions by councel? With that, I'll look for a motion. >> So move second. >> First by Tommy, second by Harry. >> Any public comment? With that, we'll look for a vote. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Item F passes. 70. >> Fletcher, it's been kind of like your birthday today now, hasn't it? Thank you. Appreciate it. We're We're going to put the heat on now. Okay. Now you've got it. You thought you had the heat. It's coming now. All right. We'll move to item G. Consider authorizing staff to develop and issue a request for

[0:47:00] qualifications RFQ for the reinvisioning of the Contro River Parks and Santa Fe Park to seek professional services to create landscape plans that incorporate the Concho River Legacy Trail Sculpture installations. Presentation made by parks and recck director Carl White. Yes, this is a revisit of an item we brought to council on May 6. We're bringing it back for a couple of main reasons. One, there's new council members. Want to make sure everybody's on board with the direction that we're taking. Um, and that's the second reason. We want to make sure everybody's on board. So on May 6, council adopted a resolution that authorized the private fundraising for a project called the Concho River Legacy Trail. So when you hear that, that's what this project is. It's basically a very ambitious uh sculpture project uh the value of which could approach $30 million and includes up to 110 120 sculptures in maybe a dozen or 15 separate vignettes that tell a story about um the area prehistory and settlement history up to a certain point maybe in the 1920s. Uh it doesn't include sculptures of any individuals, Indian individual um St. Angeloans. It's really just telling a story. The group has already started working on um what those vignettes could be as part of the story and have already started reaching out to to uh sculptors uh to see if they're interested in in doing some of the work. Uh part of that resolution that was passed at the May 6 meeting was to direct staff uh to work on uh putting out a request for at that time request for proposals to hire a firm to work with us to incorporate those sculptures into the river parks. Um because of state procurement law, we really are looking for a request for qualifications because we want to hire a landscape

[0:49:02] architecture firm. So the bottom line is we're seeking approval of the scope of this RFQ request for qualifications before we issue it. And just looking at the entire scope at this map, we've separated things into zones. zone A over here. It's almost entirely Santa Fe Park from the north northern tip across from the Central High School all the way around the river and into Randolph Street. Here is the YMCA. Zone A also includes this piece over here, part of property we call Park Heights. It's it's just below the the scout buildings and that area um primarily again Santa Fe Park is the main area for the sculpture for the setting of the vignettes of the sculpture project. Uh, so it includes placement on those properties and on Santa Fe Park property and you I'll go into the different zones, but you see the different zones from zone B at Civic League Park where the water collection is, zone C down here, which is Sunken Garden Park where the sculpture garden is, the visitor center is here, and then zone D wraps around all the way to basically across from the convention. center where the the memorials are lo to be located, the World War II memorial. Closer look at zone B again where the Waterly collection is. This is our unofficial botanical gardens and there has been talk about making an official botanical garden at this location. Don't know what that could be. We want to talk about what what the possibilities are. But a key thing we want to point out is the possible integration with um Santa Fe Park and crossing over and connecting to that and and might it actually

[0:51:07] include development into Santa Fe Park as part of an official botanical garden zone C. We already have plans for development of this property to improve it in terms of accessibility and parking, lighting, setting of the sculptures, but how do we better integrate that this this park with the visitor center and with Santa Fe Park? We want that to be part of this master plan. And then zone D, which is the big one, already has a lot of development on its own. Um, of course, I mean with the river stage here, it has its own plans, but how do we better integrate and connect that uh through this entire zone, river park zone, um, Bartwood Park with the lady and blue sculptures, firefighters memorial city park. We have different gardens all along the way into our memorials. So the scope of this um request for qualifications is in including all those park properties focusing on where the sculpture collection will be and then all those river parks. How do we connect everything together looking forward 20 years? What do we want to see developed in those park properties? And of course we got to be cautious not to overdevelop park properties. You don't want to develop them too much. But a very key part of this process uh with the request for qualifications is the community engagement. We've got to make sure everybody's on board. We've already had some discussions with the Santa Fe Park Commission about what to do with Santa Fe Park and this will help continue that process. Uh does Santa Fe Park stay a golf course? Does it uh as we incorporate this sculpture collection? uh do we have a sixhole par three golf course on the north side and then uh make the rest of it a park? Do we how do we incorporate the botanical gardens? If we do, we need to have those discussions.

[0:53:09] Um we also need to include the Sanorita Homeowners Association, the Parks Recreation Advisory Board, the Public Art Commission, uh San Angel Museum of Fine Arts, the school district, downtown St. Angelo, the area foundations, city leaders, and more. So the final thing is we want conceptual plans for all of this area. Uh we want incorporating the sculpture project and then we also want landscape plans. We have to have landscape plans to incorporate the sculpture vignettes on the park properties. How do you connect to it? What what site work is needed? Any topographical work? Uh what lighting might there be? irrigation for the the areas around it. We got to make sure it looks nice. We can't just put the sculptures on the ground. Um and then just a general maintenance plan. That's it. We're looking for approval to move forward with the solicitation request for qualifications. We bring that back. Um hopefully in a few months we'll bring back a planning a funding plan for that. We'll have a discussion with the development corporations. Some of their funds could be used to help pay for this as well as any um departmental expense budget savings of from the year. But we'll bring that when we bring back the request to award it, we'll bring back uh the funding possibilities. >> So to be clear here, Carl, you're just looking for approval to go out with an RFQ. >> Yes, sir. And normally we don't have to do that, but because the council changed and we want to make the above, >> it's a very wise move with all the people you have listed on there to at least go out and reach out to all those people in an advisory capacity to seek input. That's a very wise move on our part. This is not any changes that are immediate or pending. But this is a good f first step for a master plan because this is going to carry on for years. I mean, it's not only going to obligate this council, it will obligate probably

[0:55:12] several councils past us as far as things that are going to come in they're going to have to look at and review as these things are placed. Um, with that, I'll open it up for any questions from council. Tommy or Harry, just a real quick comment. Since the majority of this particular area happens to be in district three, I'm going to say this is something >> that the mayor just said this will be on for generations. Once we complete everything down there, this will bring people in from all over the world. So, I'm going to make a motion that we move forward with this. I I'm going to hold I will give that to you, but I'm gonna hold it for right now and see if there's any further questions first before we start with the motions. Tommy, >> timeline. Carl, and and I know you can't be um real predictive of of a timeline, but in general, you said a couple of months to to go through the RFQ process. And then once they get started, what kind of timeline would you foresee? >> Generally up to a year. I mean, definitely something I want to get finished before I retire. But yes, it'll take two or three months before we bring back something to council to consider awarding. And then once we get the contract for that and get it implemented, it's going to take about a year >> and it'll probably be more like three months before we bring it back. By the time we send it out to all the groups, give them a few weeks to return it, get a group together to review those, that that isn't going to happen quickly. Rick, do you have a summary or some things you'd like to say about how you see this thing moving forward? >> No, I it's just I think Carl's covered it well. And as as the the thing that really hits home on this one is you had a group that came to you last time for those who might have not seen it um who presented this is sort of a grassroots Angelo movement. They weren't asking for city money to build these sculptures and tell this story. That's a $30 million

[0:57:17] potential investment of private funds, not from the city of Senate, I mean from not from this group. And so this is sort of their ask is to um you know help move this project along and make it cohesive for the future and how it all ties together. This is the basis that we need to do on the groundwork on our end while they work on funding the rest of it. >> Awesome. Thank you, Rick. >> One one question. Thank you. Um, Carl, I know you said that you'd be bringing back your funding uh request or or sources. Do you have an estimate? I'm not trying to hold you to it, but what um you know, it's like when we redo something or get into something, no matter how glorious a project it is, it it always runs over budget or it does with me. Uh do you have like a percentage or ratio of public and private? I mean public being the city money and then the private donors. Uh do you have kind of a basic I don't know how to say that just a like a percentage. Is it going to be half and half or 100 100% but what what's going to be the city's monetary investment with this? Well, it initially would be with the the master plan. So, in but in terms of incorporating the sculptures into the parks, that's going to be part of that project. It's not city funds. So, at this point, it really is only city funds for the master plan. >> And maybe >> what what direction it gives it could provide. One of the things we've got to do is redevelop the playground at >> Kids Kingdom is a playground at Santa Fe Park. But that's one thing that we need to move forward with uh here in the near future, but the master plan could give direction on some future projects, but in and of itself is isn't a new uh expense. There is an expense for the master plan. >> Yeah. So at this time the only thing this this particular project for the

[0:59:20] master plan would be totally funded by the city. The construction that was proposed at a prior meeting for all these sculptures would be totally constructed by outside sources is what they were proposing. >> Right. And that when >> that part is just the incor the site work, any electrical work, any walkways, um electrical, irrigation, that part is incorporating those sculptures into the landscape. That's private funding. >> And as you go along, I suspect because y'all said this is going to be this isn't something that's going to happen overnight. The buildout of these will be many, many years. So you may see uh places where they come and say, "We're doing landscaping. It's in a park. The city has a system. Council, are you willing to help put in the irrigation system around it where our parks crew step in and do that?" I think you'll see that kind of stuff as it comes along. Um but they weren't asking for major dollars upfront on something. >> Win-win. Thank you. >> Good. Patrick, >> is any of the So, I know the >> I've seen the sculpture plan and that was all privately funded. Is any of that because you kind of alluded to it. Is any of that based on us doing this? Like if we don't do this, they're going to say, "No, we're not going to do that now or are they going forward regardless?" >> No, they're raising the funds to to do the sculptures and incorporate them into the landscape. But we have to come up with the plans at how to integrate that into our parks. And one of our major uh suggestions with this is that you've seen a lot of that start kind of already. You we have a group that wants to do the World War II memorial over here. You've got the lady in blue. You've got the the sheep. You've got various things. And and as this project is trying to tell that overall story of the development of St. Angelo in our history, we don't want that to happen haphazardly thrown all over the place because then it just doesn't work. And as Harry alluded to, I think this is going to be once it's done, a $30 million in bronzes is going

[1:01:22] to be a pretty big draw for St. Angelo. So, we want it done right. And that's our reasoning for this. We had a a group that met oh this winter uh to do some visioning of this whole area, just a local group, and it was kind of neat to see all the ideas. So, our thought is to uh bring that information that that group put together and sort of give it, you know, to this group as a jump start. And you'll see some other areas that we may come to you later that don't revolve consultant. But you know this area is kind of your corey area that revolves around a lot of cultural things those type of things. As you move to the sports complex group saw it as more of an area that is more sportsoriented. So you may have more kayak launches you know those kind of things that are and so you develop the river in different different categories of what's unique in those areas. And this is kind of that first step. And just right quick to touch on the importance of this project. Some of the names of the sculptures they're getting are phenomenal. I don't want to get too excited about this, but one is >> It looks like you're getting excited. >> I'm getting excited. >> Making a call up here. >> One of the sculptures is the one who did the World War I that's just right next to the White House and I saw it just a couple of weeks ago and it's amazing. >> I hope to see it. >> We hope you do, too. Patrick, did you get your question answered? >> At this point, I believe I have a first from Harry Thomas. Can I get a second? >> Second. >> Second from Karen Hessie Smith. >> Any public comment, Heather? >> With no public comment, we'll take a vote on item G. All those in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Item passes 70. Congratulations, Carl. It's a big step. We'll move to item H, first reading and public hearing for ordinance 41 CP25-01, a request to amend the comprehensive plan from neighborhood to commercial in the Alasker edition block 38, lot six. And item two, you want to do both these together, Aaron? >> Yes, sir, please. And item two, Z2518, a request to reszone from single family

[1:03:24] residential zoning district to the general commercial zoning district located at 21 East 21st Street being the Alasker edition block 38, lots 4 through 6. Aaron, you're on. >> Thank you, mayor, city council, uh, director of planning development services, Aaron Venoy, uh, this morning to look at this property here just off of Chadburn and 21st Street. Most of y'all know uh right here the uh popular restaurant uh Western Sky, they have some properties that they own back here that they would like to look at some future development. Um so this is48 acres. It's request to reszone from the single family residential to the general commercial. It is in district 4, Mr. Patrick Healey, and it's in the Reagan neighborhood. So you can see here on this map, there's one property there that has a structure on it. they are proposing to remove that structure or modify that structure uh to make it more usable. Currently, right now, they have kind of a a parking area. They're going to continue to utilize that area as a parking area um with uh future development hopefully um coming in the next few years. So, you can see how the lots are laid out based on the plat uh from many many years ago. Again, this lot right here um originally was residential and then these lots over time um the residences have been removed over times and now has been acquired with uh some commercial uh entities that are going forward. You can see our notification map that was sent out. Um we did have one in opposition. Uh they were just opposed to um mostly the com the overall parking situation. their goal as Western skies to actually help improve that uh over time. Uh and so as a land use that was not really in opposition to the land use itself. Uh it is compatible with the surrounding land uses and will support continued growth of a locally established business. It will allow the restaurant to offer more parking and will remove or modify the dangerous uh building that's

[1:05:26] there on the dangerous building list. and it will meet the general development pattern along the Chadron corridor. We know that on the Chadron corridor, those businesses, some of them are constricted by space. Um, some of them are continuing to develop and continue to grow. And we believe this is a a minor, what we would call a minor encroachment into the neighborhood. There are still protections for these residences through here where they'll be over time they'll be placing a fence there uh that will kind of help provide a separation between the commercial and the residential. It's also going to general commercial which allows only up to 20% outdoor storage as opposed to a heavy commercial which is unlimited outdoor storage. This being a restaurant business, they don't have a lot of outdoor storage. It's mostly parking and trying to get enough parking spaces so it's safer that uh when people are trying to enter on Chadburn, enter off of 21st onto Chadburn that they have a a good circulation pattern through there. So, with that, city staff is recommending approval of this zone change um from the neighborhood uh to general commercial uh from Let me read that again. So, let me go back here real quickly cuz I'm not sure these slides got all corrected. So, the comprehensive plan stops right there. This is where it talks about this being neighborhood and this being commercial. So, this lot right here is changing the comprehensive plan, the underlying comprehensive plan from a neighborhood to a commercial. And then all three lots are being reszoned to general commercial. So, I just want to make sure that that's clear to to city council as well as to the public out there. So, when we make our recommendation here and we're talking about a comprehensive plan update uh to reszone from the neighborhood to the general commercial, it's on that one single lot, which I believe is lot number six, and then reszone the single family residential um for the property located at or

[1:07:28] properties at 21 East 21st Street, which is lots 4 through six in the Alasker edition. Planning Commission did hear this uh at their June meeting and did have a recommended uh approval vote of 6. With that, I'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Aaron, I think the first step here is we've I I've spoken to the property owner and and for years we've asked it. We've all joked around and kitted when they were going to clean up the rest of I think this is a great first step to make this much more compatible with, you know, number one the use of the facility and number two the neighborhood. I think getting rid of this uh as a unsightly building cleans that whole thing up a lot and I'm I'm glad to see this finally come forward. I know it's been discussed for several years and I think we're to the point that everybody's with that. With that, I'll open that up to any questions. Any questions? >> Uh no, I don't have any questions on it. I I'm kind of with Tom. I've that that uh old house is a complete eyesore and they've done a great job of making Western Sky look a lot better and my understanding is her plans is to get rid of that just as soon as she's able to. Um so I'm I'm all for it. U I've talked to her. I did not get a chance to talk to the I wanted to find out the opposition but then we had a a little flood come around and got a little busy and didn't get a chance to go talk to them. But um I I I think it'll just it'll help the neighborhood, it'll help the restaurant, it'll help the business, it'll help all the people coming. uh to that side of town trying to eat there, have better parking, um and get rid of the rocks and gravel. Uh and her plans, from what I've talked to her, her plans are uh to eventually just make that a nice pave uh parking spot to to help out that area. So, I'm all for it. >> Would you like to make that a motion? >> I move to approve. >> I got a first from Patrick. Looking for a sec. Second from I think it was Karen. >> Karen Hessie Smith. Any public comment? >> With no public comment, we'll look for a vote. All those in favor say I. I. >> Any opposed. Items H1 and two carry 70. With that, we'll move into item I. First reading and public hearing of an

[1:09:32] ordinance to amend PD0502, a request to amend a plan development by updating the concept site plan to include renovations and expansions located at 50 East 43rd Street. Presentation made by Aaron Venoy. >> Thank you, Mayor, City Council. Again, director of planning development services, um, Aaron Venoy. Uh this is for the fairgrounds and coliseum. This is just the major site plan or the concept plan amendment to the original PD. It does not change any of the language within the original PD that allows all the uses. So there's not a real land use change here, but our ordinance says a major concept plan or site plan change does need to come through planning commission and city council. So this is just a PD amendment on this 91 acres almost 92 acres up here. It is in district 2, Mr. Joe's self and it is in the Lakewood uh Lake View neighborhood. So you can see the the future land use and zoning maps. Again, it's campus and institutional which also includes the school uh district and the areas there. But this area just happens to have a planned development. You see the um stadium down here also has the same planned development. This is not changing anything for that as that's actually owned by the school district at this time. Uh we're only change modifying the 91 acres here for the concept plan. Here's the concept plan. Kind of an an insert. You can see the original uh if you kind of see these points right here, here's the original uh structure right there. And so they're expanding that, almost doubling it, um making some major improvements as we heard today through the the election and and everything that for the bonds. This is the actual legalizing of allowing the land use there, which uh the PD did in 2005. And this is just saying all right we believe in this concept plan is appropriate to move forward as an amendment. Um the expansion of the coliseum is classified as a major sign site plan amendment. The proposed expansion does not impact the land use in any significant way only has more indoor seating and accommodations for exhibitors, entertainers and contestants within the coliseum. The scale of the

[1:11:35] project compared to the land dedicated is minimal and would continue to house a significant heritage and cultural significance for the fairgrounds and the community. With that rationale, the city staff does recommend approval of this major site plan amendment to PD0502 and the planning commission also heard this at their June meeting and recommend approval with say 60 vote 6 vote as well. That I'll be happy to answer any questions. >> Erin, I think it's a great once again we'll say it's a great step moving forward with the coliseum renovation. Um, it's uh, and I want to say had that renovation been completed years ago, a lot of things that have happened as far as recovery and disaster over what we've done would have opened this facility up uh, for for that use to some degree. Anyway, with that said, I'll open it up for any questions. >> Joe, do you have any questions or a statement? I >> I don't I actually saw this before planning commission before I was off that. So >> So you've seen it twice. Now you're bragging okay with that. So why don't you make it a motion for the good old SMDJ >> move to approve. >> Okay. I've got a first from Joseph and a second from Patrick Keeling. Heather, any public comment? >> With no public comment, we'll take a vote. All those in favor say I. >> Any opposed? Motion carries 70. With that, we're going to move into item seven, uh, close session, executive session under the provision of government code, title five, open government ethics, subtitle A, open government, chapter 551, open meetings. Chapter D, exceptions to requirements that meetings be open under the following sections. Item A will be section 551.074, personal matters to deliberate the appointment of the city attorney. With that, we'll go into close session for I would say probably 30 minutes and we'll be back. Right, it's 10:15. We're going to continue with item 8, followup and administrative issues. We'll go to item A, consider items discussed in executive session. We'll flip that one over to you, Daniel Valenuela. >> Uh, first of all, I'd like to thank Brandon Dyson. He's been doing the job of the interim city attorney for the

[1:13:39] past six months, actually over six months at this point. Um, I know that the progression I've seen has been great and uh, Brandon's been doing a great job and at this point it is my honor to announce my appointment as our next city attorney and that's Mr. Brandon Dyson. Congratulations. >> Speech. Speech. >> Speech. >> Well, uh, I'm humbled and appreciative of uh, Mr. Valenuela's uh trusted me and the council's trust in me. Um it's been a pleasure serving this community and I look forward to continuing that for a long time. So, thank you. >> Well, so it wasn't given to you, you earned it. Be appreciative of that and we're appreciative of you. Thank you very much, Brian. >> Thank you, mayor. >> Oh, so just to qualify, we don't vote up there. All right. Anyway, it was a good one. It was a good one. Um, Heather, do we have anything under item B? Various board nominations or anything we need to hit? >> Just one for the park commission, James Robinson. >> James Robinson at large to an unexpired term ending January 2027. >> Move for approval on item eight, item B. All in favor? >> Oh, excuse me. I've got a first from Tommy. I've got a second from Karen. >> No. Is there any public comment on James? >> None. >> With that, we'll take a vote for him for item B. All in favor say I. >> I. >> Any opposed? Now we'll move to item C is announcements and considerations for future agenda items. Anybody have anything they want to cover? With that, silence is cold and we'll look for a motion to adjourn the meeting. Move to adjourn by Tommy, second by Harry Thomas. Thank y'all.

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