San Angelo City Council 8-18-15

[0:00:00] Good morning. It is 9 o'clock and it's time to get a meeting started. We will start with prayer this morning. I will ask Abel Fernandez, a deacon of the St. Joseph Catholic Church to come forward and lead us in prayer. If you are able, please stand. Good morning, sir. Graciously Father, we thank you and praise you and we bless you and glorify your most holy name for your goodness, for your kindness, for your mercy, and for your love. And we pray heavenly father that you may lead and guide the city council members and all that is about to happen today in all the activities or uh plans whatever they may have that you may lead them with your holy spirit in all things that are to be said and done. And we thank you and praise you and bless you for the children that we see here before you. For you have said, "Let the children come to me and you continue to bless them always." We pray that you may continue to bless the city council and all their activities that they plan every time that they meet for the common good of the city of St. Angelo. Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil. Amen. Graciously Father, we ask you blessings upon all those who are here present. Bless them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit. Amen. Thank you, sir. Appreciate you. And now, Miss Aubriella Breo, if you would come forward and let me assist you with the pledge of allegiance. Are you ready?

[0:02:04] Let's get right here. We'll do the American first. You ready to go? Okay, let's go. I pledge algiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Let's do the Texas. You ready? Honor the Texas flag. I pledge allegiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you so very let's get a picture right here. Thank you so much. That was good. And that's the prettiest one that's ever helped me with the pledge. I believe that was Arella Breville. She's the granddaughter of Angie Point in our operations department. Thank y'all so very much. We have some proclamations now. And this first one I am very, very proud to be able to read. And Scott Ferris, get ready because I'm going to need you, buddy. On February the 5th, 2015, a group of St. Angelo firefighters saved a life without ever strapping on a helmet, handling a hose, or encountering a single flame. Instead, the firefighters brought a man back to life through an impressive combination of medical skill, rapid responsiveness, and professional commitment. Ray Minik, the air traffic manager at St. Angelo Regional Airport, suffered a heart attack while on work that morning. Fortunately, a coworker one floor above heard him fall, found him unconscious, and rushed to summon firefighters in neighboring fire station number eight. The paramedics found Minik unconscious six flights up. Lauren Edwards administered chest compressions until Cody Braden connect him to an AED. The third defilibration jump started Minik's heart beating once more. Firefighters then gingerely carried Minik strapped to a backboard down the

[0:04:07] narrow stairwell, reassessing his condition on each landing. Miraculously, Minnik seemed to be his whole self within days and has since fully recovered. Though he could not be here today, saying he wanted to be more than anything, he sends his deepest appreciation and respect for the men of St. Angelo Fire Department, who ensured his family still has a husband and a father. Therefore, I, Dwayne Morrison, mayor of the city of St. Angel on behalf of the city council do hereby recognize and applaud Lieutenant Kyle Green, Cody Braden, Lauren Edwards, Shane Matthews, Lieutenant Corey Sanders, Blake Foster, Darren Hasty, Robert Turney, Chad Graves, and Matthew Saltman for their service and positive determination to make a difference in our community. [Applause] Scott, come up and hand some video. Oh, wait just a minute, Scott. We have a video first. I got out of order here. Ray Min had flatlined. No pulse, no respiration. Ray Min was a dead man. Today, Minn calls himself Blessed Upright, a living testament to the training, proficiency, and rapid response of the St. Angelo Fire Department. In my eyes, it was a miracle having the extra manpower um was huge. The 58-year-old air traffic manager had just fetched a cup of coffee from the breakroom at the St. Angelo Regional Airport tower on February 5th when he went into full cardiac arrest. A co-orker one flight up heard him collapse and rush to help. Had Minx fallen a few flights further down, or had he been in the tower alone, he wouldn't have been found until it was too late. That day, all I remember is getting to work and starting up the stairs. Then next thing I knew, it was 2 days later, I was in the hospital. Realizing Min was in mortal danger. His colleague rushed back into the tower,

[0:06:10] sounded an alarm, and left an open mic, knowing firefighters in neighboring station 8 would quickly respond to the emergency tones. Cody Braden and Lauren Edwards were at the end of their shift, but among the first paramedics to respond. After rushing up six flights of stairs while loaded down with gear, firefighters pulled mics from the narrow stairwell into the breakroom. Edwards administered chest compressions while Braden readied the automatic electrical defibrillator or AED, not until the third defibrillation was mic shock back to life. As he began drawing breath again, SAFD personnel immediately turned their attention to getting an unconscious 220 lb man down a cramped stairwell while strapped to a backboard. The extra manpower from having two shifts of firefighters at the scene proved invaluable as the patient was gingerly lowered down six flights of stairs. His condition reassessed on each landing. After an eternity that Edwards estimated at 10 minutes, Min was loaded into an ambulance and sped to a hospital. A few days later, Braden visited and was amazed by what he saw. He was already talking like you and me again, it was it was amazing. Um, looked just like his normal self. So, to go from uh complete cardiac arrest to uh back talking and uh being like you and me here, it was just it was something amazing to see. I've only seen it, you know, once or twice out of my 18 years here. So, it was uh really impressive. Today, Min is rehabilitating, slowly testing his heart. I'm pretty fortunate a that I got to work when I did cuz usually I'm the first one and only one there most of the times, but Pat beat me to work so he heard me fall. So, I was lucky in that sense. And then being there in the airport where you have firefighters and EMTs, they got there pretty quick. The men of Station 8 are still marveling at the miracle of bringing Minox back to life. For Edwards, the experience was doubly personal. He knows Minox well from his time at the airport. And I can relate to it because um the guys uh same thing happened to my

[0:08:21] mom and the guys got her back too and she's with us today because they did the same thing we did. the firefighting is what you kind of get that adrenaline rush on. But then you uh make runs like this and uh see help people out in a a way such as this and it's just I mean words can't describe it. It's uh you know really unreal. I think most of us signed up for this job to help people and I know that's one of the main reasons I wanted to do it and that's pretty good day for SATV. I'm Anthony Wilson. Very good. [Applause] And since he's not here, I'm going to present this to you. Thank you, ma'am. And you, sir, Scott, come up and do some and we want to get Don't run off. We want some pictures before you get away. And you can step here if you want. You're more welcome to step here with us. Man, wait. O, Ray, uh, he's worked with us for years. He's an air traffic controller out at the airport and he's done, uh, such a great job with us out at the airport and he's friend, he's family and this was it was a very touching moment as you can see for our guys. Uh, I want to welcome uh, Miss Beauty and and Deo Ray's wife and son. Ray's out traveling the world, visiting grandb babies and stuff. So, he's doing good. Uh what we have today is we have a citation award or a unit citation for each one of the guys that was on that run and we also have a plaque that they're going to hang up for each one of those units that was in their station. That way we can we can start a new VAD at the fire department for recognition stuff. All right, if you guys would line up on the wall over here and as I call your name, you you can you can come around. Uh we're going to have Kyle Green first. Uh, driver Lauren Edwards, driver Cody Braden, McShane Matthews

[0:10:26] can't be with us today. Uh, Lieutenant Corey Sanders, driver Robert Turney, uh, driver Darren Hasty is not with us also today. Firefighter Michael Foster, we have driver Matthew Sauman was on Medic 7 and firefighter Chad Greavves. And the guy that's not here today, that's the true hero. And every one of these guys will tell you the true hero in this story was Pat Aen. And he could not be with us today. But had he not made that call, this wouldn't have happened. Okay. Station 8A, front and center, please. Kyle Green, Lauren Edwards, Cody Braden, McShane Matthews. Kyle Green's retired uh recently, so he came back to enjoy this. We thank you guys. Thank you sir. This is [Applause] your station 8C we have Corey Sanders. Robert Turney is not with us today. Darren Hasty is not with us today. And Michael Fosters. Uh, station 8C. [Applause] All right. Next, we have uh driver Matthew Sauman and Chad Griezwell on Medic 7, the medic crew that took Mr. Min in. Yes, sir. just to read what it says on these unit

[0:12:30] [Applause] citations. The unit citation says for the efforts and teamworks on February the 5th of 2015 and saving a life of an individual whom had succumbed to a heart attack and was clinically dead. The individual was located on the fourth floor landing at Matthyssefield control tower in a very tight stairwell. The collaboration efforts of the firefighters and paramedics of station 8A, station 8C, and medic 7C resulted in the individual being revived, moved to an ambulance, transported to a hospital, and after several days in intensive care, he was released from the hospital, resumeuming full and normal lifestyle. I want to thank you guys again. [Applause] Where you right there? Come here. That's all right. They follow that beauty. Beauty. Proud of our St. Angelo firefighters. Thank you [Applause] gentlemen. We now have another proclamation. This is for Mark Clifton. Come forward. Mark Clifton. Mark Clifton both celebrated and ended 20 years of faithful service to the city of St. Angelo. Good morning.

[0:14:34] Thanks, sir. With his retirement on July 31st, 215, Mr. Clifton joined the city on July 24, 1995 as a heavy equipment operator at St. Angelo Regional Airport, a post he held for 10 years. In August 205, he transferred to the traffic operations division, where he served as a traffic control maintenance worker and a traffic signs and marking supervisor. As a maintenance worker, his duties included making, repairing, and replacing street signs, installing pavement buttons and reflectors, painting pavement markers, conducting traffic counts, and installing and maintaining signal equipment. As a supervisor, he led work crews that conducted much of that work. Traffic operations superintendent Ryan Ward lamented his division in losing Mr. Clifton, a great team member who was knowledgeable, dedicated, good humored, and focused on citizen needs. Perhaps Mr. Clinton's most notable work trait is his unwavering willingness to help his colleagues and lead by example is the statement that Mr. Ward said. Therefore, I, Dwayne Morrison, mayor of the great city of St. Angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby recognize and applaud Mark Clifton for his service, dedication, and positive determination to make a difference in our community. Thank you, sir. Um, I would like to just say a few quick things about Mark. I've been over there uh in the traffic operations group for about a about a year now. And um in the short time that I was there, he was such a great asset, not just to the city, but to the department. And he was really one of those one of those type of people that, you know, whatever you ask, he was always out there doing it. He was a leader. Uh somebody that we'll greatly miss. And I just wanted to to thank him for his for his time with the city. Thank [Applause] you. Let's get a picture. Thank y'all. Thank you. Paty Kelner, come forward, please. And you're going back to

[0:16:38] Washington State. It's on fire. Not my area. Okay. For more than 19 years, Paty Kelner has as its ex as its executive director been the driving force between Habitat for Humanity of St. Angelo during that span. The nonprofit agency has built 75 homes for the working poor, making them firsttime homeowners and has rehabilitated another 12 homes. Additionally, Habitat and its volunteers have painted more than 500 homes through its Brush with Kindness program, which has partnered with the city of St. Angelo during its annual neighborhood blitzes. Born and educated in Pennsylvania, at the age of 18, Paty committed herself to help the working poor find suitable housing. 25 years later, she began her work with Habitat. Her service to the community has hasn't been relegated only to responsibilities with Habitat for Humanity. Among Patsy's volume of civic involvement is active participation in leadership in St. Paul Presbyterian Church, the retired senior volunteer program disc, the NAACP, the St. Angelo Museum of Fine Arts, St. Angelo State School, the Nature Center, Girl Scouts, and the American Heart Association. She even played Mother Earth for the St. Angelo Friends of the Environment Assemblies for 21 years. Paty will soon move to the great Northwest to win seminary and begin a new career in children's ministry. It goes without saying that Paty will be missed. It is fitting and necessary that we say thank you and Godspeed to her. The city of St. Angelo commends Paty Kellner for her selfish contributions to the community, particularly her tireless efforts to help hardworking families realizing the American dream of home ownership. Therefore, I Dwayne Morrison, the mayor of the great city of St. Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim th Tuesday, Tuesday, August 18, 2:15, as Paty Kelner Day. Thank you. [Applause] Now, now you got Now you got to make speech. Okay. Come on. Well, I have to tell you, it's been my

[0:18:40] absolute pleasure to be here in St. Angelo. I moved here in 1992 to be here two years. So, after 23 years of living in this wonderful community and working with so many wonderful people, I have to tell you, I'm going to take the ideas and things that I found in St. Angelo wherever I go. This community has 220 service agencies that survive or thrive in this community. That's because of networking. They com they compete wonderfully but they network together to get the job done. This is a very unique situation we have here in St. Angelo and for that I was very grateful to be a part of it. I have to tell you though, Habitat's in great hands. We've been in a three-year succession planning and Judy Sykes will be your new executive director here. She's a former board president for Habitat. She's worked with other Habitats in other parts of the country. You're in great hands. Continue to support Habitat and its program here. It's an awesome program. And um I that's why I said I have had great experience. I look forward to being back with my family for a change and doing whatever and continuing the next next um area of my life. Thank you so much. Thank you. [Applause] Thanks so much. John Castello, Cindy Castello Hogane, are you here? Come forward, please. Good morning. Good to have you here this morning. Good morning, man. Since 2007, Fat Boss's Pub has been located at 114th South Chadurn in historic downtown St. Angelo. At its beginning, the bar is the only one of its kind on Chadurn Street. But John Costello took a risk at maintaining a nightlife business in an area that rarely saw the presence of people after the shops and boutiques closed. Over the past eight years, its business has consistently experienced growth, and their success has helped inspire others

[0:20:42] to open various establishments downtown. Therefore, I, D. Wayne Morrison, mayor of the city of St. Angelo, on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim August 27, 215 as the fat boss's 8-year anniversary. Johnny, you want to come up here with me and get a picture? Sure. Johnny is the councilman that asked for this. Like for Johnny to be here with us. And there's your And you get to make speech now. I'd like to thank everybody. I'd like to thank everybody on behalf of our employees, our future employees, our past employees that have helped us get where we're at. I've always believed in anything that I do in life that you're not where you're at without God and the people around you. And downtown is really when I first came in there, I shouldn't say that, yeah, it was a risk, but I knew that the way this community was, I grew up here that everywhere I when I was tired of going to Dallas, Austin, everywhere, and everybody thriving. I said, why not go downtown? And I don't have nothing against the loop. I mean, I have I'm own another business that I have plenty of friends that own business on the loop, but I take pride in my downtown. I went to Edison Junior High, walked by that building a hundred times and I said, "Why not bring it back to downtown?" Whether it's restaurants, bars, shopping, we have to have pride in we're in this town. That's the way I was raised. And I believe it wasn't really a chance. It was just a gift that God gave us. And we continue to try to make it the best for our patrons and the people downtown. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. But well, we're going to break for a little while. We've got a little different procedure today. We have a special meeting. It will be upstairs on the second floor. Then we are going to have a meeting with the uh water

[0:22:44] advisory board and go over some of the reports that we've had on a water study that we have that we have declared or issued whatever. Anyway, we're going to get the results of a water story of our water survey. So, we will at this time, what time is it, Brian? Mayor, can we do the consent agenda because I think there are people in the audience that are here for consent. Can we do that first before we break? It's up to the council. This thing This thing is on for 9:15. It's the way it's on the agenda. I would consent. You fine with consent? John, is anybody going to pull anything off? I was There may be I was You all right? Y'all are all right with going to consent. Okay, we will do the consent. That is fine. We have a consensus of the council. Are we going to hold public comment when we come back to start the to reconvene the meeting or do you want to do that before consent? I guess let's just go ahead and stay in order and then when we get through with public comment and get through with consent then we will move to the water. Good. Uh sorry Mike, you're going to have to wait a little longer, buddy. Okay, let's go to public comment. Let me read the legalities. Issues or items that are not on the agenda may be raised by the public at this time. Citizens should speak from the podium begin by stating their name and limit remarks to less than 5 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 discussion of those items. This is the time that we allow for public comment. And all you need to do is walk to the front, state your name, and you've got five minutes. Whether it be pro or whether it be con, we take public comment at this time. So, if there is anyone that would like to address the council, if there are any issues that you want to speak about that are not on the agenda, then I would ask you to form a line at the front. come forward at this time. Yes, sir. State your name and you got five, buddy. Oh, my name is Bill Wear. I'm a resident

[0:24:49] of Single Member District 4. And I want to talk a little trash today. Okay. Uh several months ago, I believe it was February or March, a representative from a public service was here and gave a presentation. During the question and answer, a lady asked if her trash would be picked up in the alley as it was being done at that time. and he made the statement, "If your trash is picked up in the alley now, it will be picked up in the alley in the future." Then come to the end of June, my new trash receptacles are delivered and they're in front of the house. I got out the little tag that was on the receptacle and it talked about nothing but curbside re uh pickup. So I called Republic Service and asked them, got a very unsatisfactory answer. called the city and didn't get much of an answer at all except to contact Republic. These trash receptacles, I don't view them as a beauty mark on our city. And after just a few short weeks, they don't smell too good. I put my trash in the trash bags and seal them up as best I can, but still the smell is there. But the first week that they were picking up the new receptacles, I went out to watch this fancy new truck that was going to pick

[0:26:51] it up. Lo and behold, it's the same truck that picked up my trash. the last time only they've added a lift to the back. There were two employees who rode on the back of the truck. They got off, rolled the receptacles over this lift, picked it up, dumped it, they put them back at the curb, everything was fine. And I thought, well, that's just a temporary measure. Well, the next week there's a brand new truck, but it's still not the one that Republic Service talked about using, but and that was their excuse for not using the alleys that this new truck picked them up from the side, took it up over the top of the truck to dump. Well, this new truck that came down my street had a large container on the front down pretty much at ground level. The driver drove the truck up to the trash receptacles. The arms came out, picked it up. It never got more than 5t off the ground. This truck too was very similar to the ones that they've been picking up my trash for years with. And I don't see the necessity of having these trash cans out front when they're using the same width truck to go down. They could go down the alleys just as easy as they did before. And I would like to thank the council for allowing me to express my displeasure. Thank you, sir. Thank you. Any other public comment at this time? We'll go then to the council. And if you have anything you want to pull off the

[0:28:52] consent, this is the time. If you have any statements you need to make, I'll start with you, Elizabeth. Uh, mayor, I don't have anything to pull off the agenda, but like Mr. You're aware I've had a lot of calls in the last two weeks about trash service. Can we I don't think we can really talk about this. I mean, if you want to put it on the agenda, but I can bring it up in public comment. And uh one thing that came up was um an issue about commercial service and we've I've had a few constituents call and ask Republic about commercial recycling service and they were told that that is not a service that they're providing. I believe it's in the contract. and Shane Kelton and I have spoken about it and I think he and Ricky Dixon and Daniel are going to be meeting with Republic to get that straight because there was again some some public education that was done that uh for whatever reason has not yet been implemented and I'm sure that Republic will make that right with the community because that would be about a month's worth of commercial recycling that we're not benefiting of toward the total recycling tonnage that we're going to need. Anything else? No, sir. Lucy. No, sir. Mich, I don't have anything to pull from the agenda. I do have one comment that I would like to make. I uh serve also on a capacity on the Contra Valley of Governments Board, Transit Board, and I've had the pleasure of working with Judge Amos as the rest of us has. Uh he's been there since the inception of COG and he just recently retired. and he has been a pleasure to work with, a go-getter, and for the community. And I would like to throw out there that possibly we could look at uh the transit depot, that area, the buildings is maybe giving it a name of the Judge Amos U Center is a possibility. But, uh, I also wanted to mention with doing that, it I believe we're a little past due on reassigning council members to various boards and need to bring that up to get

[0:30:56] reassignments to the various committees. And that's all, John. Mayor, I don't have anything other than I I didn't want to pull item E. And unless my two colleagues to my left are going to pull anything else, I'd like to Okay. So, I was going to make a You're pulling E. I'm pulling E and and and I'm glad Bob Solless is here. I've had a couple of phone calls, a couple of phone calls that want just clarification on how that program works and I just thought maybe he could give us a brief explanation of how how it would be implemented. So that's all I needed on on that that item. Marty, I'd like to pull item J Rodney. Uh, nothing at this time. Okay. I will entertain a motion then to approve. Move to approve the consent agenda with the exception of item E and item J. All right. Do I have a second? Second. Do I have a motion from Charlotte? I have a second from Marty. Do I have any public comment on this consent agenda before we vote? Do I have any other council consideration? All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose? Nay. Put a 70 on it. All right. We have taken care of the public comment. We have taken care of the consent agenda. At this time, I will call a recess of this meeting. We will go upstairs on the second floor. We will hold a special joint meeting with the water advisory board. I suspect this is going to take an hour. Am I right, boss? About an hour. About an hour. Were we going to finish the consent? I mean, public us pulling those items. I thought we just take it all together when we come back. Is that all right? Just take Sorry, Shel. Do y'all Does the council want to take these two consent agenda items now? Go ahead and knock these two off. Yeah, they're easy. Mine is quick. Okay, we'll go ahead and take them. Then I voted again. Item E is consider adopting a resolution

[0:32:58] ratifying the agreement between the city of St. Angelo and Atmas Energy for the execution of a lowinccome weatherization program for St. Angelo citizens who are atmost customers and authorizing the city manager or his designate to execute related documents. Mr. Solace, what is what are your questions, Mr. Just give us a brief explanation on how this program works for the viewing public? Sure. It's a it's a program for any ADMIS client that shows a need for either weatherization uh or assistance with water heaters and those kind of things. Uh but they do have to be a a admiss uh active uh client and customer. We don't have we don't vet uh again it's for need. It's not necessarily income driven. And Bob, can you give us a number? Anybody can call if they have they can call 655824 and we'll be happy to help them any way we can. That's all I needed. Thank you so much. You want to make move to approve? I'll move to approve that. Somebody want a second? Second. Charlotte got a second. Further discussion council, you want to talk, Shelly? All in favor, please say I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 70 on that one. J. Consideration of amending PD0215 Equatorure NG911 voice logging recording to DSS Corp Cooperation Southfield, Minnesota in the amount of $129,340 by adding authorization to prepay four additional years of support and maintenance at a discounted rate of 63,600. That is 15,900 times four years. Total cost of $192,940. and authorizing the city manager to execute the contract in substantially the attached form. Mr. Fond is here. Morty uh PD the 0215 we we approved that back in meeting before last I believe. Yes

[0:35:03] sir. What what exactly was that? That is the exact same thing is the only thing that we we neglected to add the four years of maintenance uh and support um at a reduced cost. So, I wanted to come back and be able to take advantage of that. That'll save the city around 101,000 by taking advantage of prepaying the support and maintenance for the additional four years. Okay. All right. Are you coming back again next meeting, Jeff? Gosh, I hope not. Say no. That was the only problem I had. It seems like we've we've dealt with this several times and each one of them cost us money. I know. Oh, I don't like that part. The total to for the communications after you add 192940, what was the amount? The total amount is 192 whatever that number was to add to the plus 6 million. 6.2 million. 6.2 million. Typically, the recording system is has been historically been bought as part of the radio system. Um, and it is part of that system. It was not included in that 6.2 2 million. But I guess in essence, it would add to that 6.2. If you come back again, I'm going to vote against you. Anybody want to move to approve? He needs maintenance. So, let's go ahead and approve it. I'll make a motion to approve. Anybody want to second it? Second. Do I have a second from Rodney? Any further council discussion, public comment on this item? All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose? Nay. Nay. Okay. Let's have the nays and let's have the eyes. It does pass by 52 vote. I am now. Are you sure? Are you sure? I am now going and I'm going to do it quickly before I'm overridden. I'm going to call us into a special joint meeting with the water advisory board. It will take about

[0:37:06] an hour. It will take place on the second floor. This is not a closed meeting. Everyone is invited. It will take about an hour. And what time you have, Brian? 9:37. 9:37. We're going to be back. We'll try and be back within an hour. So, this meeting has been formally closed and we will reconvene after the water meeting. Okay. 11:10 and we are opening this meeting back up. Uh regular agenda six item six we will have item A. Item A under numeral six which is discussion and direction regarding appendix A of the fee schedule section A8.007 water billing charges related to late charges on delinquent utility bills. I asked for this and uh you have a presentation, Bill. Uh mayor, I just have uh some slides that kind of show what the ordinance, excuse me, the court of ordinance that uh authorizes the late fee uh after 28 days of $25. If you would like to go ahead and set it up then and then I will tell you what I would like for it to be and uh we'll make a decision one way or another. Okay, sir. Well, uh sir, where's Liz? Elizabeth, we're missing that. She's sleeping upstairs. We do have a quorum, but we could wait on Elizabeth. It's a late item. So, we had that one right after she was in the she Very hot weather we're having. Where?

[0:39:34] Well, I need some rain at my place. My okra is shoulder high. But um it needs some rain. The meteorologist tell me. What did the meteorologist tell me? El Nino 60% hold that. Did you see that? 60% tomorrow and Thursday. 60% what? Rain. Rain tomorrow. That means 40% chance that it's not going to What what is the Indian definition of a vet vegetarian? with our where we'll be lo there's bill. Let's go in that side third side meeting room. Okay. Well, let's go ahead. We've we've got several of them that have to leave and let's let's get this meeting on. Let's get it going. Go ahead, please. Thank you, mayor. The our current ordinance requires that for any utility bill that is not paid within 28 days that there will be a late charge of $25 added to that account. And and that that is uh the current uh ordinance. And what I wanted to show you here is that in 2013 14 or last fiscal year uh that generated about $1.4 million. Uh we budget annually 1.5 and it it historically has uh amounted to approximately that amount. Uh our year to date is it currently at

[0:41:37] about $1.3 million. So my only um concern here or issue here that I want to point out is that if you did change that as has there's a couple ideas that have been floated is a 5% of the balance or or 10%. That this is the the amount that you would uh uh based on our current uh delinquency is what you would uh the revenue that would be generated from that. And as we just got through talking uh upstairs about our our rates uh that that this is considered as part of our our revenue. And so that amount of revenue that would not receive would have to be made up in so there would be a little bit additional added to the numbers that we were just recently talking about to make that up. My problem with this and we've dealt with this before. If you've got a customer that uses the minimum amount and they have a bill of $50 and they're a day late on their bill and we hit them with a $25 penalty, their bill is $75. If you've got someone whose bill is $200 and they're a day late, you hit them with a $25 penalty. So, their bill is $225. This is very, very punitive and it is also a very it's very expensive. It's a very hurtful bill. And if you want to look at usery rates, it is way, way, way out of line. I don't have a problem with the penalty, and I think there ought to be a penalty for when people are late with their bills. I do not like a $25 payment because that hurts the very people that's having to struggle in the first place. Normally, if they had the money, they would pay it on the due date. So, all we're doing is just adding, adding, and adding to people that are already struggling. What I would like to see is a 10%. Put 10%. That way if that $50 bill is late, it cost him $55. There's still a penalty. But that guy that's spending 200 or 300, then he has to pay according to the percentage. I I don't like a punitive. I don't think a punitive charge is fair

[0:43:39] and I think this is punitive and I would like for it to be a a percentage instead of a dollar amount. That's that's where I'm leaving and we'll have council discussion. Start with Charlotte. And well, I don't understand why the city should be any different than any other business out there or mortgage uh company that charges a late fee. I know the in in a the rental industry, the maximum allowed by law is $25 and $5 per day for up to 15 days if you're late. Now, that's the maximum allowed. The owner can set those lower if they like uh or they can put them in the number of days but they cannot exceed 15 days. Your credit cards uh that you if you don't pay the balance you know in full each month that you know charge is considerable and the whole purpose is to pay on time. I know that when we went to the $25 fee, the monthly amount, and I had asked Michael if he could check it. I don't know that if Mary checked it, but it seemed like it was just over 8,000 customers a month were late late for whatever reason. It's 25. And I I know from collecting rents, collecting monies, if a person has got that 25, it seem you know even an insufficient check is what 25 or 35 in some places at the bank and then the institution charges an additional 25 or 35 which is the going rate. So why would the city want to be any more lax on a precious source that people have to have is water? Any other comments on this? I I don't know that I would say that the

[0:45:43] percentage approach is a bad one because I think there are other utilities that use it. But from a collection standpoint, I don't want anyone else in town subsidizing the person not paying their bill for whatever reason and that late fee, then that would be reduced. So, as long as we can collect the same amount of money so that we're not impacting the total revenue, I think that's fine. I think it's best just to leave it as it is because I I don't Is that a motion? No, ma'am. But it could be. But I don't know how you would try to calculate a percentage and still have the same collection. I mean, I'm sure you could do it, but in the end, I I think she's right. When this is the most, you know, such a valuable commodity, I don't think that the rest of the community should be subsidizing those that seem to be unwilling to pay the late fee. Rodney, I'm totally in agreement with Liz and Charlotte on this. I don't see the general public who goes out of their way to pay their bill on time each month having to kick in money for someone that's not paying their bill on time each month. I I don't I prefer to just leave it as it is at this time. What are you feeling, Smarty? Well, I since we just saw the new rate study, I I'd really think that the time to address it is when we get into the rate study. uh if if we're going to uh change it the way it is, we we're gonna have to make up over half a million dollars. So, we're not doing that. And there's a half a million. Johnny, my question, Bill, is I think you mentioned it was after now are are is the late fee after 28 or 29 days or is it one day or what is it? It after 28 days uh delinquency. In other words, if after the 28th day, then that $25 fee is added to the bill. So, so if you pay on

[0:47:47] the 28th day, 28th day, you're fine. On the 29th day, you pay that late fee. Okay. And and I, mayor, I see it both ways. I see with those folks that struggle. I don't think we need to be subsidizing any any user. But according to these figures, even the the year to date, it's 1.2 million. Is that divided by $25? Is is that what we're looking at? That's correct. We have over 4,000 delinquent accounts a month. My goodness. 4,000, not 8,000. Well, it it has dropped after that. The I don't think the $25 was intended to be punitive. I think it was intended to be an incentive for people to pay and it did have some um positive effect. It did. Lissy, you're the last one. Well, after hearing what we had just discussed and knowing that we're going to need this money, I'm with leaving it the way it is. Well, I understand you speaking from a budget standpoint and from a budget standpoint, this makes sense. I'm trying to look at it from a personal standpoint, from a people standpoint. I mean, the people, it belongs to to the citizens of this city. They're the ones that pay for all of this. and uh I felt it was punitive, but I'm obviously the only one that feels it is. So, we're going to call this one at a halt. Mayor, I think the idea of a number of months ago, it's been brought up before of maybe even uh charging a 10% fee to the to the bill. Did that not work? Was that not enough? Is that It's on L. It's not enough. Okay. I'm sorry. I walked to the back to get a and Okay, there. Possibly, if I may, Mr. Mayor. Possibly is. uh Mr. Self stated, you know, we're going to be have making some decisions here and in the plan and to look at it and it's very possible that we could put a minimum that there will be a $25 late fee as it is and possibly be looking at a minimum of the bills that are below $50. Then that would reduce to a percentage. I don't know

[0:49:50] that we can do that, but it could be researched in the time frame that we're going to come back and look at the water rate structure as a a possible alternative. I'd make a motion to that effect that for the mo for the moment we leave it as it is and let it be examined during the the Well, we don't need to make a mo motion and we don't want but just so mayor just so the public understands that even though we we feel for those folks that maybe are struggling but this is this is a 28 day window. I mean we're not just throwing late fees out there at everybody that comes to us. This is I mean they've got almost a month to come up with you know a payment. So we're not by no means do we want it to be punitive but we're just what do we do? I mean we're we're struggling with water as it is. Got to pay for the service. Exactly. So I'm whipped. I'm whipped. Let's move on. Item number B is discussion and possible direction related to the new water connection process. Uh Rodney, you brought this one up. Bill, keep your seat there, buddy. Rodney, I just asked them to see if they could streamline this. We've had some problems and I've had had them address to me on as far as how um and this was primarily from military people moving to this area from out of state and having to have water connected on the weekends and they and what was being what they were being told is they have to be here in person. and they have to present a social security card which most utility I don't know if most but I know of other utility companies in other cities do not require that but I I would like to make it as easy as possible especially especially for our military folks that are coming in from I had one coming from Alaska and one coming from Hawaii and it was just a big deal for them. I I agree with Mr. Flynn. It's it's a problem when you've got retirees, people's parents that are moving here that are retiring from South Carolina or even Indiana and they cannot get the

[0:51:53] we're going to arrive on the weekend. They try to get their utilities, you know, their gas and their water. They can get it set up by providing a driver's license or military ID or social security over the phone. But in the city of St. Angelo, you have to appear in f person between 8 and 12 or 1 to 5 Monday through Friday and provide two forms of identification. It's almost like saying we don't want you to move here. If I may just speak to this for a minute and then we can can um see what we might need can do to to streamline the the process. We are required um by a federal law called the red flags rule that's uh for identity theft purposes. it's administered under the Federal Trade Commission to have people bring in in person those um pieces of identification. Uh so we have to do that. We're certainly not the only other the only utility that does that. In fact, every other utility is required to do the same thing. There are instances where we have um military for example where we they call they can't come in or people that are out of town uh and we take the information over the phone but we have to require them to come in within a certain amount of time once they are here uh to bring us that information. We have to have that information on file. Okay. So that we have to verify it. So we have no choice in doing that. Is our staff trained though? I don't think they're trained on that. Both of those people that I'm talking about, both those people that I'm talking about, neither one got their water on that weekend because they were saying that and they were they they didn't get it. Well, one of those Mr. Fleming that you had uh talked to, uh I actually went and listened to the recording and and we explained that very clearly in my opinion to that individual is send us the information. We provided an email address for them. We provided a fax number for them to send it. And we told them, if you send the information, we will set up the account. We'll turn

[0:53:55] the water on, but as soon as you're back in the United States, you, you know, you need to come into the office to do that. If you, if we know that you're here and you don't come in, then we'll have to I mean, we have to, we have to cut, we have to force them to come bring that information. But they were to given every opportunity to submit that information. We spend a lot of time with our individuals. They understand that and they work with everybody to try to lessen that uh burden as much as possible but it is a requirement and we have to see that information. Now there are some software programs that are um available others use that other uh uh utility companies use that uh but you pay for that based on the number of calls that you get and that uh estimate is about 22 to $30,000 a year for us to utilize that service. But that would be the only way for us to avoid or change the process that we currently have of having somebody come come in. And again, we checked with every other utility just to make sure that we weren't missing something under this rule. And then every utility that we've talked to uh has that requirement that you come in to set up that service. Could we raise the raise a fee on that have them pay for that as part charge that fee back to the customer for doing that? I would think that we probably could. It's like a convenience fee. I mean, for the convenience after hour weekend. Absolutely. But I don't see a problem over the phone if you turn it on, but you let them know that you got 10 days of service 10 days after you get here or we're going to turn it off. And we we do do that. But it it makes it much easier for those that are out of state, out of town. I mean, I know I had a a summer home over at Granberry. I did everything over the phone. Everything over the phone. But once I and it was connected, we got there. But once in town and Monday morning came, I had to be in their office to provide that actual verification. Right. Looks to me like training and communication would

[0:55:57] probably have solved the problem Rodney's talking about there. I wouldn't mind talking about this program more often and especially if we could do a convenience fee where again we're not subsidizing someone to have to have a convenience of doing on the weekend. I'm not trying to make this a burden on everybody else. I'm just trying to make it easy on them, but a convenience fee I wonder how many of those people we would get a year though in order to That would be my question. I don't know that it could work itself out on $22,000 or even 30. It's our Saturday usage. I mean, our Saturday people calling after hours. I guess I I know there are some uh Councilman, I'm just I don't know the exact number of the after hours calls. I do know we do have them people wanting to set up services. This this program doesn't solve that uh because it's not an after hours uh process. I mean, you still we still have to have somebody uh involved. Okay. Okay. Thank you. Anybody else want to comment on this one before we move on? There's no after hours version, I don't guess. I guess public comment on this before we move on. Rodney, you as whipped as I am. Let's move on to item C. That's a second hearing and consider adopting an ordinance replacing article 1104 solid waste of the code and ordinances in its entirety. And I believe we did the first reading on this last meeting, did we not, Shane? Correct. Correct. And this again this second second hearing and uh did y'all want me to go through the presentation again? Don't do it again. No, it's a matter of just putting the trash cans up after you put them out. Yes, sir. That that's it. We're I mean it's just uh you know the the changes for the citizens is just making sure the time in and time out you know they can put them out the evening before u you know or you know but they need to the by noon the day after collections have them

[0:57:59] back up off the curb and and back on their lots. Yes. What happens if they don't? we will try to work with uh you know it's people at this point we're going to have to call in because we're we're busy still trying to go through the transition and all that stuff and so but if there are issues and citizens have an issue they can call my office get a hold of me or Jeremy uh who's our solid waste administrator and we will go out to the to the residents we'll visit with the residents and let them know if we continue to have um people that just are repeat offenders and and and aren't doing it then then we do have the penalty provisions in there where we can give them a citation and and send them to talk to the judge. So I would really hope that you didn't go out and start citing people. No sir, we we we do not want to. We wor no we we and that's that is not our intention and we don't want to do that. We want to we want to educate and communicate is is what our full intentions are. But this does give us some it's some teeth for the viewing public. What is your office number? Uh, my office number is 657-4206. Thank you. And your sale? Uh, you have it, mayor. I promise you. I don't. Someone want to move to approve this? I have a question. I I just wanted you to repeat the hours that you or when you wanted them out and when you wanted them roll back in. Tell me that. We we want you can place the carts out the evening before your collection day or by 7:00 a.m. the morning of your collection day and then they need to be back up off the curb uh up onto your property uh hopefully somewhere you know within reason by your you know your house or your garage or somewhere like that uh by noon the next day. Next day. Okay. Okay. Elizabeth. Um I everyone is aware that this is a new service, but in uh one of my neighborhoods, it's taking until after 6:00 p.m. for pickup. And um I was standing by a can the other

[1:00:04] last Friday and one of the Republic customer service people drove by and I asked him what their goal was by which time of the day to have the all of the cans emptied. And at first he told me 6 pm because I think at that day he was just trying to finish up by 6 pm. But generally speaking, what have you talked to Republic about? What is their goal in a neighborhood to have the both cans emptied and their their equipment be off the streets? I I believe they're supposed to be off the streets by 6 p.m. because they have to we have to coordinate 5 p.m. or 6 p.m. because we have to coordinate um their their pickup with the closing of the landfill. So that way they can collect their last whatever their last homes are for that day and then they can deliver what they've collected to the landfill or from a recycling standpoint to butt recycling. It concerns me that we would have cans out the night before for a 6 p.m. pickup. I mean I think this is something that we'll all fine-tune. we and we can and again that's just a it's a con it's a convenience for people that way if you know they're for whatever reason they're getting up or they want to sleep late or whatever if you want to take them out the night before you can take them out the night before just as long as they're there by 7:00 a.m. so when they start collection um that they're out and two as we progress and we move on um as Republic gets better with their routes as the citizens get better with you know with placement because we are still having uh some issues with people still putting their cans you know side by side together uh they're not you know maybe not and so the truck drivers are having to get out and move the cans you know still so you know we're slowing down but as as as time progresses and everybody gets better with the routes and we get better with um and and citizens get better with you know placement correct placement of them. I think we're going to be very consistent on times as we move forward. So people will again once

[1:02:08] again know that you know normally my the guy gets here at 3:00 to pick up trash and the recycling gets here at 4:00 or or whatever. I think I think we're going to get to that consistency here before long. I hope so. Thank you, Shaunet. I'm gonna be the bad person here. Okay. I work. I leave eight o'clock. I come home at say at noon, my lunch hour, and I put both my cans out, my pickup Friday, Monday, whatever it is. But only the garbage, the recycle is not picked up and it stays out there sometimes past noon the next day because it didn't get picked up that evening. Is are you telling me that's going to get better that those two cans are going to be picked up relatively close to one another? Yes. So that people going home for lunch can move their cans back in and they don't have to worry about the one still standing out there. Yes, ma'am. I don't I don't know if they'll ever get, you know, be able to hit within simultaneously or with maybe even within the same hour or whatever, but um because you know a lot of people on the recycling side of it, we have a lot of people that aren't recycling um you know currently. And then two, we have people that, you know, their recycling fills up so much slower that one week they put it out and the next two weeks they don't. And so, and so those it's going to kind of fluctuate a little bit on time, but it should never be the next day. And so we are going to Next request is is something that I would like to see and I'm going to ask you if you think it would help, it would work or satisfy uh some people out there. I was going to ask in uh new items on the agenda that um we possibly form a committee that you work with a person or resident from each district to work with you about what they have visioned or see as a problem or possibly some adjustments that can be made with routes. And I'll give you an example. Can's left out on the the Bryant going south. Um even left out just a few hours.

[1:04:11] That's a hazard as fast as in my opinion as fast as traffic is through there. I don't know. You know, possibly there's some suggestions that could be done. Cans that are left out on sunset. You know, you weave around, try to get around a can. If you're traveling down sunset, you veer over into the next lane. That's a hazard problem. Uh I I think we should look at um the same on some other really, you know, busy streets that can left out for a whole day till people get home from work is is a problem. Yes, ma'am. So would you consider maybe putting or asking for some volunteers to look at things and maybe a few suggestions that we can make some alterations that would help? Sure. And and as we move along there we're going to continue to learn and continue to get better because we've seen some of those same issues. Uh there are ways that we are we are uh there's things that we can do to address those issues right now currently uh as far as placement and and working with the citizens. It's just one of those things that uh getting time to get out and do the do the education and and the communicating with them. Um it's it's kind of been a mad rush here all at once and and we're still getting several phone calls a day, you know, to work through and and working with people and we're going out Jeremy Jeremy's been great. He's awesome. He goes out, visits with homeowners and people one-on-one individually at their homes. if uh he can't if he can't come up with a solution, he calls me and then I'll go out there and we'll work and we'll get Republic out there. And we've we've had some very interesting situations and issues within the city. Well, I wouldn't ever would have dreamed existed and so we are going out and finding solutions. What came up with this is I part of my district on Mercedes up there at uh Glenna. Mhm. But Glenna Edmund 29th trying to dodge trash cans all day or a day and a half. It it's a problem and uh I assured them that we would look at it and see safety concerns. So is it if it's all right with the rest of you that

[1:06:15] we we do this get Shane to work it out because there are some areas. Yes, ma'am. We will we will we will start pushing on that. And Shane and I have talked about this as well that we know that uh there's going to be some tweaking as we go along even with this ordinance as it passes. We know that we probably in the near future we'll be coming back for some amendments to make sure that we've addressed as the this program goes along any changes that need to be made to make it easier for our citizens. That's exactly what we want to do. So, I think that's a good idea. You know, as far as having those volunteers that we can get that information from, uh we can definitely make that happen. I'm very interested in making sure that we have a limited window for these cans being out in the public because even though they're they're kind of cute, uh they're not cute for very long. But my problem is in enforcing that, if we don't get pickup until after 6 PM on our day, it's really hard to tell people that they need to get that can back in because their cans have been sitting out again for almost 24 hours. So, I would hope that as we become more efficient in the pickup that our expectations will become much greater in the the amount of time that they're out, the customer has the can out and the time Republic can get it picked up. For those people that don't know, there is a chemical out there product. It looks like little rocks. It's called shock rock. I don't know if anybody's heard about it, but I know in um rental properties and stuff we treat, we would treat the dumpsters. It's a canister like a big shaker you put in the dumpster and it eliminates the odors. And I use the shock rock in my garbage, my Republic cans to eliminate the odors. So they're odiferous. It's called shock rock. I I think House of Chemicals sells it. Shock Rock. Move to approve as presented. Second. Do I have a motion to approve? Do I have a second? Do I have any further council discussion? Public discussion. All in favor, please say I. Oppose? Nay. Put a 70 on it. Item D is consider declaring 210.46 46 acres

[1:08:20] of land out of the AB&M survey number three abstract number 27 the JC Hillbell survey 760 abstract number 360 surplus property and disposing of said surplus property under published RFB number RE315 for the highest seal bid being $653,310 submitted by Charles Wesley McKesca Cindy good morning um the item before you today is to declare approximately 210.46 46 acres surplus to the city and authorize the sale of the property under RFB RE315 for the highest sale bid of $653 $653,310 and that bid was submitted by Charles Wesley McKisca. The city purchased the property in April of 2004. The property along with the right to divert 284 acre feet of water from Dove Creek were acquired for $600,000. In addition to the $600,000 sale price, um the seller was allowed to lease the property for a dollar a year for four years. That lease ended April 15, 2008. And since that time, the properties remained vacant and not generating revenue for the city. Thus the reason staff recommends sale of this property. Um in February of 2015, the city acquired an appraisal of the property and that appraisal came in at $573,000. We did price um place the property out for bid. Um part of that bid process was that the city is only selling the property. We're retaining all the water rights to the Dove Creek. Um the seller will be allowed to use the wells um water from the wells for livestock and domestic purposes only. I'd make a motion to approve question. Charlotte, why did the city buy this in 2004? Water rights. Water rights. I

[1:10:22] believe it was for the water rights creek. And we are retaining all of those water rights. Okay. We are allowing them well water for their livestock and their household usage, but we are forbidding them from pulling water out of the river. Yes, sir. The city will retain those water rights to Dub Creek. We are allowing the purchaser to use the wellwater for domestic and livestock purposes only. There is a perpetual restriction placed on that property when we sell it that they cannot sell any of the wellwater, nor can they remove the wellwater from the premises. So any well water pulled from that property stays on the property. And how will we enforce this exactly? It's going to be a restriction on the property. So it would have to be something the city um and the attorney could probably address that more clearly, but it would be something the city would have to to police and enforce. And what would a how would we enforce it if they begin to pumping water out of the river or if they begin to selling wellwater? I mean it's right of capture. What what do we go back and evict them from the property after they pay? How do we enforce this? You know, that situation comes up often and typically it's one of those situations where you work with the property owner, explain what the responsibilities are and what they can and can't do. If that doesn't work, um you can take some court action to enjoin them from doing that and then ultimately it is a TCQ permit. Um you can report them to the TCQ for violating the permit. So I know you'll know if they do it. their ne their neighbors will know. People tell their neighbors will know. We get this all the time. I just know that we bought this property with the explicit purpose of retaining the water rights for our city and our citizens and now we're selling the property, but we're retaining the rights. I know we are retaining the rights on paper. But there's a lot of difference in retaining the rights on paper and retaining rights. I mean, that's what I'm asking. There's no way to enforce this. We can go out and ask them not to do it. We can

[1:12:25] take it back. Can we find them? And I think Ricky has invested has gone out and viewed the property and had did not find any pumps or anything in the in the Dove Creek now where indicated someone was pumping water from Dove Creek and Ricky could speak to that, but the purchaser is well aware of the city's re um reservation and the fact that the property is being sold strictly for u domestic and livestock use from the wells that they have no right to Dove That is and TCQ enforces that and that's who would who would assign a fine to it if they were found. And believe me, Ricky knows this. Um, people get reported to TCQ all the time for using somebody's always turning us in. Yes. So, I don't think it's any different. And when they sell property nowadays, I mean, majority of the big properties I sell on like Dove Creek on water bodies of water, the the original people keep the rights to those nowadays because the that's almost worth more than what the land is worth. Property owner rights has rights to water on the property or in the river for domestic and livestock. We that's domestic livestock. He can't put in a dairy farm and have hundreds of that's a commercial heads of cattle or livestock or you know that are that would affect the quality of the water is what I'm trying to say. Ricky, I think the question the mayor is asking is there a surefire way that we'll know if somebody's using it for any other means? I mean is other than somebody going out there? In the state of Texas we have right of capture. If that water's under your property, it's yours. And so we're saying yes, you have the right of capture the state law gives you. But yet we're telling you you can't use it. You can't sell it. You can only have I mean we've got two different that's that's two different things. It's butdding heads here. Well, there was additional water rights with that property from the original property owner. That was 284 acre feet of ability to defer water from Dove Creek. That's not normal property rights issues. So

[1:14:31] this diversion we're keeping. The only way to check it to find out for sure is if somebody goes out there. You're right. And mayor, I can see what you're saying about enforcement of There's no way to enforce it. We're just hope here's the rules. Here it is on paper. Please obey unless we keep a little piece of property and put a tool shed and put Ricky's office out there. No, there's no way. Done. There's no way to enforce it. Ricky, what role does the water master play in that type of event where we suspect someone's pumping out of the river? they go check. So there isn't there is a mechanism in place to TCQ water master checks all diversions and your neighbor will report you because you're stealing his water. Well, it belongs you know 280 something belong to the city of St. Angelo our citizens. That's the ones I'm concerned about. I'm not going to support it but there may be six others that will I do have a motion that we accept it. Did I have a second? You second it play. It's on the floor. So, we'll know. Any further comment from council? Do I have public comment on this item? Call for the vote. The vote is that we accept the 653,310 for 210.46 acres with restrictions against no pull out of the river, livestock, and domestic use only, and no sale wellwater. Correct. Got to be used on the property. They they will only use the the water for domestic and livestock. That's the wellwater. They're not able to pull from the river period at all. Right. They they only have rights to the groundwater, which is the wellwater for domestic and livestock purposes. They don't have rights to the And we're selling it just because we want to sell it. Is there a purpose for the money? Is there something we're going to do with it or we just putting it in the I go back in the water fund. Um, and it was y'all's decision to sell it, so that's why we're selling it. Calling for the vote. All in favor, please say I. I.

[1:16:35] Nay. Nay. Put a 52 on that one. Let's move on now to number E. Item E, first public hearing. Consider introducing an ordinance amending chapter 10 traffic control article 1003 operation of motor vehicles division 4 specific street regulations section 1003.091-way streets and alleys by adding a new subport 44 to subsection B which would include South Harrison Street north to south between Sherwood way and Colorado Avenue providing for severability and providing an effective date. Mr. Pale, how are you? Fine, thank you sir. Good morning, council and mayor. Um, yes, we are proposing to change Harrison Street to a one-way street. Currently, or the section that we're looking at is between Boergard and Colorado Avenue. This is uh currently a two-way street and is near the the you know the big intersection of uh Board and Sherwood Way where this big split is. Um so there's a lot of activity in this area. This is more in response to uh Walmart moving in to the north. uh Walmart did a traffic analysis on this on this existing intersection and based it on their proposed impact for the Walmart in the in the new area. So um or it's in response to that. So basically what we're trying to do is eliminate the number of traffic movements in this area to make this uh intersection much more safe with the new Walmart coming in that area. Uh, basically we're going to be taking it from two-way to one way in the in to the south as the arrow shows here in yellow. Um, all the improvements made to to make this happen will be incurred by the developer um and will be in uh installed according

[1:18:39] to city standards and specifications. Um, previously Carl Bednars had been working with Walmart on this and he had spoken with the owners in the area and they were both in support at the time for changing this to one way. Um, and two, just to kind of give you an example, this intersection will should, you know, when Walmart comes in, it'll make basically make it a fiveway intersection much m much like the intersection of College Hills and Avenue in where we recently changed that, you know, that smaller leg to oneway as well to just eliminate the traffic hazards with a fiveway intersection. It's two blocks. It's just this is just one block. One block. One block. One block between Colorado and Bull Garden. And that's my presentation. This is in your area, isn't it? And I I would be very happy to make a motion to approve. I think it will definitely decrease conflict points at that. So, I think we need to move forward. Correct. Second. Do I have a second from Rodney? Yeah. Well, when we did this at HB, I thought it was a bad idea, but obviously it's working well. So, yeah. I guess this will work well too, you think? Yes, sir. Okay. It works really well. I My office is like 4 ounces down from the last one we did, and that was a big deal. It's really Yeah, I was I was opposed to that, but I was wrong. Sometimes they're Can you say that one more time? I thought I was wrong, but I was mistaken. I have a question, John. If I'm traveling west right at that intersection right in front of the new the new Walmart, why is there a a stoplight there that it never and I'm talking about the one that heads to show way? It never It's always green. So why is it even there? No, it's not always green. It's not. No, it I have never seen it red. No, it I'm going west. I'm

[1:20:42] going west. More predominantly green. Correct. But it is mainly because of the amount of traffic going in that direction to continue that flow. And there's fewer movements right there right now as it is. You know, once they bring in the the Walmart, the main entrance is going to be right at that intersection. So, you know, I've never seen it. You're lucky. And that that'll change. It changes. Well, that light on 29th by the other Walmart, that thing only changes six times a week, but it's not. [Laughter] Do have a motion to accept this as presented. Do I have any public comment on this before we move on? All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Put a 70 on that one, please. Brian and mayor, I think it's important, Russell. They had spoken to the uh adjacent property owners. So, they they were in agreement. I I I see that it will work. I think it will I think it would be for better traffic controls. And we love that Walmart is paying for it. That's the way it's supposed to. That's the best part, right? Item F is second public hearing in consideration of a service plan and adopting an ordinance annexing to St. Angelo city limits of certain properties 5.850acre track located south of Loop 306 and east of Nekerbacha Road. Miss Gary, you are on. Ma'am, give me one second. Unless my files decide to fall. There we are. So, good afternoon, Mayor. Rebecca Gara, planning planning manager, rest of council. I appreciate it. So, this is the fifth of five public hearings for the Bentwood annexation as required per the Texas Local Government Code. This is the second public hearing for the reading of the ordinance. So, with this um if this is approved, then the property will be annexed, brought into the city, and we'll have a zoning designation of ranch and estate. So, that being said, let's go through the legalities. It's about 5.8 acres. It's located south of Loop 306 east of of Nickerbucker Road. It is in the ETJ but if annex will likely be put into single member district number one. Future lane use of the site is

[1:22:44] neighborhood and you can anticipate the future development of the site to be single family detached storm water retent storm water management or ride ofway. As I said um it does not it is in the ETJ so it has no zoning but if brought into the city will be ranch and estate. This is the approved annexation plan. It is deemed as intermediate and is well within that time period. This is a copy of the major thorougher plan. All of these maps are located also in your staff reports. This is a copy of the utilities map. Notifications were sent out. As of today, we have no responses for or against. So, the action requested is to approve on second reading the ordinance for the Bentwood annexation with the associated service plan. This concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions you may have. Is this just a public hearing? Do you need You need a vote to approve these. This is second reading. Move to approve as presented. Take Rodney's motion. I will accept second from Charlotte. Is there any We also need a second public hearing on this matter. So, we need a public hearing as well as a vote. So, this is the second public hearing and I will call for public comment and the motion has been made to accept it. It has been seconded. Council discussion further. Do I have public comment? This is a public hearing. This is your opportunity for or against. There is no public hearing or no public comment in regards to the public hearing. Motion has been made. I will call for the vote. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 70 on that one, buddy. Item number G is first public hearing and consideration of introducing an ordinance amending chapter 12 exhibit A, zoning ordinance of the code of ordinances, city of St. Angelo Z150, Colin R. Henry. An ordinance amending chapter 12, exhibit A of the code of ordinances, city of St. Angelo, Texas by changing the zoning and classification of the property identified as 517 and 519 West 19th and an unadd address track located approximately 315 west of the intersection of North Bright Boulevard in West 19th from single

[1:24:46] family residential RS1 to neighborhood commercial CN. Do you want to take G and H together or one at a time? Rebecca, Mr. Mr. Mayor, city council, if I may ask your indulgence, if you would read the second caption for the special use. That way, I can do both presentations and you can make one motion repeated by the second for both items. All right, let's move on then to H, which is the first public hearing and consider or introducing of an ordinance amending chapter 12 exhibit A zoning ordinance for the con code of ordinances city of St. Angelo SU15-01 Colin R. Henry. An ordinance amending chapter 12 exhibit A of the code of ordinances city of St. Angelo, Texas, by changing the zoning and classification of the property identified as 517 and 519 West 19th Street and an unadressed track located approximately 315 ft west of the intersection of North Bryant Boulevard and West 19th Street for approval of a special use to allow for an auto and boat dealer. Thank you, sir. I appreciate it. So, the first item is a resoning. It's 1505. It's about 6.65 acres. It is located on the southeast corner of the intersection of Hudson Street and West 19th Street. It is in single member district number four. Um and it is located in the Black Shear neighborhood. It's outlined in those red um lines before you. You can see that adjacent to this site is an existing boat and auto dealer. So, this is an expansion of an existing boat and auto dealer whose adjacent site in 2007 received a resoning to neighborhood commercial in much the same way that this project is doing today and received a special use in order to allow for the sales of auto and boat to be done on this site. So, this is pretty much an extension of an existing use and a um extension, if you will, of a resoning and a special use that was done in 2007. So just to give you a little bit of background, the future lane use of the site is transitional. So what does that mean? That is adjacent to the site there is single family detached residential.

[1:26:48] And so typically what the comprehensive plan does is in these areas that are transitional between single family detached or residential and heavier commercial, they create this future land use designation to allow for less intense development to occur between these two uses. So this future land use site is transitional and so what the property owner is requesting is a reszoning to neighborhood commercial which is not as intense as general commercial but um is a little bit more intense than office warehouse or office. So the recommendation of staff is a reszoning from the RS1 that is the residential single family residential zoning district to neighborhood commercial district and the rationale which is before you it's also in your staff report is that it's cons it's it's consistent with the future land use designation of transitional and it's consistent with um past approvals in 2007 for this site a portion of this site um some also some change conditions uh the future lane use change from medium high density to transition positional and this resoning would be consistent with that change. 15 notifications were sent out within the 200 foot radius. One response was received in favor. A copy of that response has been provided in your staff reports. So the action requested is to approve a resoning from the RS1 zoning district to the neighborhood commercial district. Let me move on quickly to the special use and then I will go back to this slide and then the next slide in order for you to make your motion and your decision. So the special use 1501 is for the same piece of property. This is much a repeat. This is the site concept plan that was associated with um the special use. As you can see the part highlighted in yellow is the building that they are proposing to do um for basically some very minor detailing of these of of these vehicles whether they be the boats or the cars. Um there are conditions of approval that are associated with this which um for the most part about 80% of these conditions if not 90 are a complete repeat of what was imposed in

[1:28:51] 2007 when the special use was approved by this council. Our recommendation is to approve the special use for an auto and boat dealer subject to those 13 conditions of approval. Again the proposed use the special use is consistent with what was approved in 2007. We believe it to also be consistent with this transitional use. Um there will be little or no retail traffic anticipated for this property. As I said, the building that they're proposing to do will be for detailing of these auto for these automobiles and for these boats. 15 notifications were sent out within a 200 foot radius. And again, we received one response in favor. The action requested is to approve the special use to allow for an auto and boat dealer in the neighborhood commercial zoning district should the resoning be approved. This concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions you may have. Thank you. Lucy, I'm going to ask you to uh make the motion in a little bit, but first let's Charlotte has a question. Okay. Okay. This is right next door to the business the auto wrangler and then the stripe stores in front of because I remember in 2007 um when this business went in the auto wrangler. Is this the same owner that's wanting to do the boat and whatnot? The same owner. Okay. my problem and I someone correct me if I'm wrong but the way I remember it we approved the zoning and stuff because he assured us it was retail business only and that's what would cut down because of the narrow residential streets around we requested the fencing and whatnot and um didn't have enough turnin for retail business and he assured us that it was wholesale only. He now does retail and it he advertises retail. So, how does that work when it was approved wholesale only because of traffic issues just go out the window? We don't have the same concerns that we did then in the neighborhood commercial zoning district as well as in the

[1:30:53] CGCH zoning district which he has facing on Bryant. All of those uses are permitted uses today. Um we cannot do um exclusionary zoning. So, we can't limit one type within this straight zoning, what I call straight zoning designation on this property. So, if a use is permitted in our use table under that particular zoning category, he has the ability to do that. And that is a permitted use without a special use attached to it. But you're asking us to change the corner piece which is zoned RS1 in this case. So, the corner piece now he's expanding his business is what you're saying. So in this particular use while right now he is proposing to do detailing for the site you are correct he will be able to do if he intends to sell it off he could do retail but the level of commercial which would be allowed should you wish to approve this resoning would be limited to neighborhood commercial heavy commercial would be allowed none of those uses would be allowed and since the future land use is transitional neighborhood commercial is the we believe the most appropriate zoning designation which would be consist consistent with the future lane use of transitional. But let me just tell you my concern. 19th Street. Yes, ma'am. Uh the amount of traffic, the size of the street, not being able to accommodate, you know, heavy uh trailers for boats and traffic, you know, pulling in and out. Where is that traffic going to ingress and eress from on that piece of property? The applicant is proposing to do some internal um some internal movement, but because this is a separately platted lot, he has the right to request curb cuts coming in from 19th Street should he wish to do so. Um and that will be ultimately approved by a different department. So, he has the ability to do so. right now he's he's only proposing to do um internal movement but again I can't control today not asking for a curb cut he has the right to ask for it even has the right to ask for it off

[1:32:55] Hudson those are different types of studies that are done in the future for it but even if this property weren't reszoned he could still ask for those curb cuts to come in but they would be limited to the residential he's allowed today well let me ask Mr. Fleming, in his opinion, is is it suitable for the city to ask him to make some improvements to the streets there at 19th where he's going to be having these trailers? And you can't do that. No, I don't think so. And he he's only on his con conceptual drawing, he's only asked for one curb cut or he his plan is for one curb cut over there on that one side on 19th Street, which uh I I believe that that uh stripes on that 19th Street has at least two or three curb cuts on that side right there. This is directly behind the stripes. I drove this weekend. So yes, I drove by there also. Yeah. And I did in fairness, he is putting up events around it, but I would be remiss not to tell you that in the future, should he sell it, that fence could come down and they could in theory ask for another curb cut to come off of 19th. But doesn't there have to be a fence between the exist the neighboring residential? There is no adjacent residential. It's only across the street. The street. What What is behind him on Hudson Street? Street. The right of way. The ride of way. Yes, ma'am. Hudson in 19. So according to the special use, should this particular special use wish to continue, that is he sells it off and they want to continue an auto boat dealer, the fence has to stay up because if you approve the special use, that special use requires that fence to be up. Should he wish for a less intense use, which is not associated with the special use, he could in theory bring that fence down and ask for a curb cut. So the special use is the only way to get the fence. Exactly. Well, I think Rebecca, I don't know if you would agree, but I wouldn't say that a boat dealership is neighborhood commercial use because I'm not really sure how much interest the neighborhood is going to have in a boat dealership. To me, neighborhood commercial is something that actually serves the neighborhood, the adjacent

[1:34:58] neighborhood. So, I agree that this is transitional. I also agree this is one of those areas probably all along Bryant that if we when we can prioritize some resoning work that this needs to be done to protect a neighborhood that we've helped revitalize as well as help grow some investment in you know commercial business. I I don't I don't think a boat dealership is neighborhood commercial, but I would probably support it in order to have the fence and protect the adjacent neighborhood. Staff would agree with you, which is why we didn't recommend general commercial. We felt that was too intense for the site and it wouldn't allow us to put conditions approval to a to protect the very neighborhoods you're talking about. So we thought that this was the best bet given the transitional and given the special use could attach the very same conditions which this council put in 2007. All in motion to approve with Lucy and Marty has second. All in favor? No. Any other public comment? Any other comment from the council? No. Public. Have you had I see no opposition. I've had no opposition. Have you had any opposition, Lucy? No, sir. I've not heard a word of opposition. And this is the first reading. So if there is opposition, there'll be a second reading. But I have heard absolutely no opposition to this. Looks to me like it's good for the area. I do have a motion to approve as presented in a second. Do I have public comment on this? Calling for the vote. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppos? Nay. Nay. Put a 61 on that one, please. And that. Okay, this is G and H with the special the special use. Was that your motion, Lucy? Both of them G and H. Appropriate to have two separate. Okay. So, this we have approved G. You would will you make a motion to approve A, which is a special use? I'll second. And you'll second that, Marty? Yes, sir. Comments public. So, here's the action requested for the zoning CN from RS1. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Nay. Put a 61 on that one as well.

[1:37:01] Public comment on that one. I asked for public comment on the second one. You did. Public? Okay. I thought it asked for it. You did. You did. You're confusing me. Sil item eyes. First public hearing and consider introducing an ordinance amending chapter 8 offices and nuisances chapter 8 section 81 0005. Noise is prohibited the city code of ordinances. This is mine and this How long is this one going to take? Cuz it's 1210. We do have to be out of here by 12:25 because there's a conference call at 12:30. Correct. I will be brief. Yes, there is a conference call at 12:30. Go. Um, this is the ordinance amendment we discussed at the last meeting creating the exception for school activities. It'll apply um from the hours of 6:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. for any school or university sponsored activities that take place on school, university, or city- owned property. Perfect. Got it. Move to approve. Second. I have a motion to approve. I do the first reading. So, we do need a public hearing on this. We will have public hearing. Do I have any further council comment on this item? Do I have public comment on this item? has the motion has been made that we accept it as presented. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 70 on that one. Item number who was the second on that? Marty. Was it Marty or Johnny? I I second. Johnny. Item number J is discussion and consideration of matters related to the fiscal year 215 216 operated budget, including number one, first public hearing of a proposed property tax levy for the city of St. Angelo for the 215 tax year. Number two is an ordinance of the city of St. Angelo approving and adopting the budget for the fiscal year beginning October 1- 215 and ending September 3216, authorizing employee compensation schedules, providing for the general appropriation of funds, reserving under the city council the authority to transfer appropriations budgeted, ratifying transfers of appropriations occurring in the 215 216 fiscal year, and amending that budget ordinances accordingly, providing for labs of all unencumbered and unobligated funds for the prior fiscal year and for carryover

[1:39:04] of all approp appropriations of encumbered, obligated, or restricted funds. Reserving under the city council the power only as permitted by law to amend and make changes in the budget for municipal purposes. Providing authority for the city manager or his designate to make certain adjustments from time to time in or between budgeted allocations, authorizing the city manager or his designate to apply for certain grants and execute any related documents, and providing for the filing of the budget. This budget will raise more property taxes than last year's budget by 2,865,04 9.7% increase. And of that amount, 653257 is tax revenue to be raised from new property added to the tax role this year. And number three, to conduct a separate record vote to ratify the property tax increase reflected in the budget and place the adoption of this tax rate on the agenda for the September 1, 215 regular meeting of the city council as an action item. Morgan Chewen move to approve. I would recommend we take them one by one. There are separate public hearings required and record votes required for each. Which one do you want to start with then Charlotte? I do I have a there's actually not action required for that. Simply public hearing. Okay. Number A. I number one. You got a there. Sorry. Yeah. One first public hearing. So we need a first public hearing that there is a prop. So I need to call for public comment on the public hearing. Is there any public comment on the public hearing section of the budget proposal? None. We have satisfied that obligation. This next one, we would request action for introduction and public hearing of the ordinance, the budget ordinance. This is item number two under J. Is that what your motion is for? Do I have a second under this? Whatever you want to call it. Second. Do I have a motion to approve as presented? Do have a second. I've got a question. Yes, ma'am. Can you uh and I left LA or the last

[1:41:08] meeting, but can you explain how we're handling the salary number? We have budgeted an amount for salaries and we are still working with human resources staff to develop what what exact parameters I believe clear direction was given by the council last meeting that uh an amount should be given for meets and move the ranges by that amount and then an additional amount for anybody who exceeds their expectations this year. So to address merit and to also address the council goal of moving the ranges. So the exact percentages of what those values will be worth is we're still working through that, but the value of that amount is included in the budget for each fund. Is that amount uh adequate to keep uh on track to stay within the pay ranges so that we're not falling behind? Yes, we we'll have to review. When we look at human resources and and working with Lisa and Marley, uh our goal is to make sure that the impact uh that we make to that is to make sure that we move forward as much as we possibly can on that on that range. I know we had fallen behind and our goal is to get to 95% within 3 to four years. Uh and that's what we're going to be working toward. We do want to make sure that we address the uh the meets and exceeds portion of it, but you also want to make sure that we move forward as much as we possibly can. And that's what we're looking at right now. What strategy will we use moving forward uh using the monies that will be allocated and yet move us as much as we possibly can toward that 95%. I'm I'm not so interested in what we can. I'm interested in if we're staying within uh the ranges. In other words, do we really need 500,000 more to do that or is that number adequate to stay within the ranges and still provide um we're moving in that direction? We're moving in that direction. It's but when we move and we fall behind it, we really never get there. If we were with inflation, the the challenge associated with keeping up if if we allocated

[1:43:10] across the board, this amount would probably be about right. If we create a large spread between meats and exceeds, the way you do that is raise exceeds a little bit, lower meats a little bit. You move the ranges for the amount you move for the amount you grant for meats. And so that is less than an acrosstheboard raise would be. And that is ground that you don't capture as you're trying to keep up with other cities. And so I think our plan is to bring some options to council so that you can judge for yourself whether the value of differentiating between meets and exceeds versus an acrosstheboard uh raise. So across the board would be uh more appropriate to get us quickly to that goal of 95% that we said 5% 5.5% across the board that would move us more quickly to that 95% um in the 3 to four year range. Um the issue with this with the alleviating and you start looking at meets and exceeds and how we break that down makes it just a little bit more complicated. What we need to do is take a look at it and say okay these are the options that we're exploring. This option A will move us a little bit closer, more quickly to u meeting the 95 percentile. Option B will not, but it will give more to those that exceed and so forth. You know, we just need to make look at all those options. Again, Liz, when you look at it, if we were to say we're going to do a 5.5% across the board the way we we've done previous years, that would have gotten us closer to that 95% a little bit quicker. And what would that number be? This number is that's that's 5.5. the equivalent to 5.5% across the board. I I just want to make sure I understand that I don't want to do anything that does not keep us on track to hit 95%. Because with inflation, the 95% is going to continue to move away from us. Yes. If we're not closing that gap, that's our concern as well. Absolutely. And that's why when uh

[1:45:12] we come up with a plan that would um as the council has directed us to take take a look at how we would uh reward those that are at the exceeds level, we want to make sure that we come up with a plan that still does that but gets us uh further along in on meeting that goal as well to 95%. I'll trust your numbers. We may not be able to pull it off as far as when we do the comparison, you may decide, well, 5.5% across the board would be a better way to do it because with the options that you're presenting to us, it's it's going to take us a little bit longer to get there, you know, but we'll present that to you and see what y'all think. Okay. Thank you. Further council discussion, public comment, motion has been made. We accept as presented. All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. That is a 70 vote. Now, let's slip over to number three. Number three, the separate record vote to ratify the property tax 77.9. The tax rate is staying the same same at 77.6 cents per $100 valuation. However, since revenue is increasing, we it best practices would be to ratify that there is a property tax revenue increase. Can you change that slide, Charlotte? Hey, I have a second. Change that. Second. Do we have a motion? I do have a second. Council comment. Public comment. All in favor, please say I. I. Put a 70 on that one. Uh Brian, what's our time look like? 12:20. We need our call comes in at 12:25. At 12:30. 12:30. 12:30. Time to go up to the bathroom. Yeah, I guess it's time. Let's Let's take off. Let me read the executive close session. Executive session under the provision of government code title five open government's ethics subtitle A open government chapter 551 open meetings. Subchapter D exceptions to requirement that meetings be open under the following sections. section 5510711A to consult with attorney when

[1:47:16] the governmental body seeks the advice of its attorney about pending or contemplated litigation regarding Martifer Hersfield Energy Systems LLC TA L 1220. We are now in executive session. Started 103. Item K, first public hearing. consider introducing an ordinance amending the 214 215 budget for new projects and grants. Miss Jay Whitten. Good afternoon. I have uh some routine items. This will be our last amendment to the fiscical year 15 uh budget ordinance. I'll hit these items quickly and certainly grab me if you uh need me to stop. The first item there is related to the charter election. We're going to have expenses this fiscal year 15 related to the November election. And so this is to take general fund fund balance to fund $30,000 for the charter election scheduled for November. The next item there is as approved earlier today the public safety communications audio recording system. A $40,000 reimbursement is going to occur or is scheduled to occur from the Contra Valley Council of Governments and the remaining $192,940 as approved earlier today. That balance will come from general fund fund balance. Facilities maintenance and repairs. We're scheduling sales tax to exceed budget. And so we're anticipating that $600,000 in revenue could be increased and still leave the the majority of that that surplus intact, the remainder of that surplus intact. So expenses of $718,620. that that difference of $118,000 is coming from different bond funds, fund balances just uh as eligible by the bond covenants for different facilities maintenance items, roofs, repairs, uh weather repairs, ACS. The next item there is related to the WIC grant. Uh they received a mid-year allocation from the Department of State Health Services of $36,122 to continue programming, and that's a time-sensitive item. They've got to get that money spent uh within

[1:49:19] their program year. The next item there is related to an ATM grant uh for additional utility assistance, $28,000 in revenue and expense directly to programming. The next item there is utilizing the equipment replacement fund fund balance $117,000 in change for equipment replacement and acquisition and that is due to surplus um auction proceeds in prior years. That that's added up a little bit. We want to capture that and reinvest it in the program. The last item there is related to the dog park as discussed July 21st that there's $68,000 in citizen donations and pledges and there's $12,000 to be scheduled from the type B sales tax. So for a total budget amendment of $1,22,000 I need some help. Move approval. Second. Marty Charlotte, any discussion on this? I don't want any public funds going into the dog park. I didn't either, but that battle's already been fought and we lost. If I vote another way, I want you to understand. Okay. Public comment. Would you rather me break that one out? Okay. I I move approval. I'll amend it. I I move approval for all items with the exception of the dog park. Can I do that with all ex except for the $12,000 of sales tax for the dog park? Would it be immutable to budget the 68,000 of citizen pledges and donations? Sure. Instead of the 80. Sure. So you're and we already approve motion would be as presented with the exception that this 80,000 be changed to 68,000 and not include the Kosa DC money. But we already approved the KOA to simplify things. I I move we approve all the amendment amendments to the budget with the exception of the dog park and we'll let the dog park stand on its own

[1:51:21] to to to the amendment. I know it. We've approved it, but how about your second, Charlotte? Is it still good? I didn't uh You need me? Yes. Motion has been made. It has been seconded. Public public comment on this. We're voting on everything but the dog park. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 60 on. Okay. Marty, do I move to approve the dog park again? Second. Do I have a motion to approve dog park? Do we have a second? Any council comment? My comment on this is we've already approved this and I don't think I should even have to be making this. We're talking about moving the money that we've already approved. Exactly. And and Kosa DC has approved the funds. So it's not coming money is coming from the general fund. And I voted against the first time, but we were outvoted and it was voted that we approve it. I have no authority to change it now. Public comment. All in favor of accepting the motion is made, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Nay. Put a 5-1 on that one. All righty. Let's move on now to L, which is consideration of awarding proposal WU415 for the 215 water treatment plant improvements project to Red River Construction Company of Wy, Texas in the amount of 2,685,250. authorizing staff to negotiate a contract and authorizing the city manager or city manager's designate to execute said contract and any related documents. Mr. Riley, this is a project to replace some piping and valves at the water treatment plant that are in bad need of repair. Uh the project will have a substantially positive impact on the water that we're losing through that plant. So that means it will be better when we get ready to reuse it. It will be. Okay. There'll be more of it. I'd make a motion to approve. Okay. I don't have anybody going to second it. Second. I'll second it. I'll take I'll take Rodney's. I got it first. Motion to approve

[1:53:24] awarding the bid for water. And this these are budgeted items that we They are. Yes, sir. So, it's just part of our maintenance and keeping our plant up and running. That's correct. Uh public comment. Further council comment. All in favor, please say I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 60 on that one, please, sir. Number M is consider adopting the following resolution. A resolution of the city council of the city of St. Angelo, Texas, ordering a special election to be held in said city on the 3rd day of November 215 for the purpose of submitting to the qualified voters of the city of St. Angelo, Texas, the adoption or rejection of certain propositions, each providing for amendment to the home rule charter of the city of St. Angelo, making provision for the conduct of that election and other provisions incident and related to the purpose of this resolution and providing an effective date. And I suppose that Spanish says the same thing I just said in English. Will you please read that in Spanish? I can tell you it says something. Okay. And let's get number two as well. You want both of them. Number two is a resolution authorizing city manager to execute an interlocal agreement for joint election providing for holding of a joint election to administered by the Tom Green County election administration. Brian, did you have anything you needed to add? Uh the only reason this was not on uh consent as it normally would be is because we were waiting for the uh commissioner's court to to finalize the polling locations. They have done that. They are as stated in the resolution. So there's no changes to make. Okay. Need some help. Move to approve as presented. I'll take second it. I'll just take Charlotte's since they both moved at the same time. All righty. That's number M. That we accept the special election in November. All in favor? Public comment. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 60 on that one. N is consider disbanding the charter review committee from further responsibilities related to the 215 charter election. And this obviously is just housekeeping because

[1:55:25] we no longer need them. That's exactly right. Somebody help me. Move to approve. Charlotte, I'll just give you the second, Lucy. Thank you. Comment, public comment. I'd like to make a comment. Uh I just want to thank all of the charter review committee for uh all the hours that they donated to this process. It was it was an excellent uh review. I think they did a really good job. They spent a lot of time with it, didn't they? Yes, they did. All in favor, please say I. Oppose? Nay. Put a 60 on that one. Uh number eight, followup consideration and possible action on matters discussed in executive close session if needed. Is there anything boss? Nothing there. Nothing to report from executive. B is announcements and consideration of future agenda items. Start with you, Miss Grind. Staff. None. Mayor Lucy. None. Sir Charlotte, I just want to announce uh to the folks that called me about the weeds and trash from Manchester. It has been turned in. It is on the lists. Staff's getting to it as quickly as possible. that's mowing uh in that area. So, uh I want to let the person know because I've lost his phone number that it's being taken care of. Marty, none. Rodney? None. Let's have a motion. Move to adjourn. All in favor say I. I. What's the time, Brian? 11:12. All right, we're through. Believe we're out of here. Has a good 12 minutes.

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