San Angelo City Council 7-7-15

[0:00:00] It is 9:05. Doing pretty good this morning. Only five minutes late getting our meeting started. We're glad you're here this morning for this meeting of the St. Angelo City Council. We will begin with the prayer. I will ask Kenan Clark. He is the pastor of the Celebration Church to come forward and to lead us in prayer. Stand as you are able. Come forward, buddy. Just bow your heads and pray with me. Heavenly Father, I just thank you so much for who you are and who that enables us to be and become. Father, I just pray that over the next couple moments that this this meeting, this time, this allotted space would uh transcend beyond just, you know, kicking around ideas and and fun stuff like that and committees, Lord. But I pray that we would catch the vision of heaven for our community. That we'd see you high and lifted up, Father. that we would be just like in Matthew 5, that city on a hill. Though we may be in the flattest place on earth right now, but Father, I pray that we would be a spiritual city set on a hill. That we would be a beacon of hope to our region and all the cor uh the surrounding communities. Father, I pray that people would find love and affection here. Father, we pray for wisdom as we begin to make decisions that are going to affect our community. Lord, I just pray that you would lead us and guide us. That you never lead us just to leave us, but that you're with us for the long haul. I pray you I pray that you just uh you'd show us your love. You'd show us your grace. You'd show us your mercy. Help us to see Jesus for we know once we see Jesus, we can never ever be the same. In Jesus name I pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, buddy. And Isabella Frederick was supposed to be here this morning to lead our pledge. She's not here, but I see a tall kid in the back. I'm going to bring him up. Come on up, tall kid, and help us with this. Bob Bluth Thought to help us with our pledge. Good morning. Would you join me, please, in the pledge? I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the

[0:02:02] republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. And for Texas, honor the Texas flag. I pledge algiance to thee, Texas. One state under God, one and indivisible. Thank you, Bob. Good job. Good job. And usually after we do this at the fort, they shoot the cannon, but there's no cannon this morning. All right. We have some recognitions here and the first one will be for our Texas Police Game winners. Rick Tinsley, come forward here. I'm gonna let you do this one. Okay. Thank you, sir. Good morning, sir. And here's you some certificates. And there's the microphone, Rick. All right. Thank you. I'm Officer Rick Tinsley with St. Angelo PD. And we're proud to be hosting the Texas Police Games 2016 here in St. Angelo. Um, the Texas Police Games are about 42 years old. We'll be hosting the 42nd Games and we're expecting about a thousand competitors and about 5,000 visitors to come to our town um June 12th through the 18th. The Texas Police Games are an Olympic style games and it's open to law enforcement throughout the state of Texas and and in addition to that, active duty military and firefighters at some events are allowed to to participate. Also, some events are open to uh civilian spouses and family members of um law enforcement. So, this year we traveled with a committee of about 15 down to Brownsville where the games are. excuse me, where the games were. Thank you. Um, and to watch the games and get a better idea of what we needed to do. And we also sent some of our coordinators also competed in their specific events. And today we're going

[0:04:03] to recognize three of our competitors. Um, we're going to start with Blanca Del Roza. And, uh, I guess I should read the certificate. Read the certificate. Okay. It says certificate of recognition. Blanca, come on up. Thank you. Look at all that metal she's bringing with her. It says, "Certificate of recognition. The city council of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds Belanka Delarosa for winning gold in the 5K and 10K in this year's Texas Police Games along with her dedication to embody the very best of what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo." And it's signed by our mayor, Dwayne Morrison. [Applause] Would you stay up and we'll get a group picture of everybody. Okay. Certificate of red. Excuse me. Certificate of recognition. This is for Sergeant Rusty H. Hearnden. If you'll come on up, Serge. The city council of the of the city of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds Sergeant Rusty H. Hearnden for winning bronze in the tactical pistol team in this year's Texas Police Games along with his dedication to embody the very best of what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo. Again, is signed by our [Applause] mayor. And last is Sergeant Rick Oen. Certificate of recognition. The City Council of the City of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds Sergeant Rick Ogan for winning a gold medal in the mountain bike competition in this year's Texas Police Games along with his dedication to embody the very best of

[0:06:06] what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo. Again, signed by our mayor, Dwayne Morrison. [Applause] Thank you. Appreciate In addition to um these folks, they're going to be the ones coordinating their events that they participated in. But in addition to that, we have a committee of folks that are overseeing this whole thing. And I'd like Susanna Gary and S uh Steve Quatty to stand up in the back there and be recognized. also together we've been working about 12 13 months now to get these games here. We had a it was a competitive bid and it was a very um we we met a lot of opposition as we were trying to get these games because usually these games are held in Austin, Houston, Nassau Bay and places like that, bigger cities that have seemingly more to offer. And so we had to bring those folks here, the committee that makes the decision, we had to bring them here and show them that we have a lot to offer here in St. Angelo. And uh you folks are awful instrumental in making that happen as well as everyone here. So we all should be applauded for what for bringing these games here. And we're looking for your support. As the games get closer, we're going to need volunteers to help. Um certainly we could use some funding if anybody had some extra money laying around they wanted to send our way. Um, we have a taxfree way to do that. So, if y'all would be interested, we're certainly looking forward to that. Thank you again, sir, for letting me come up. Let's get a group photo up here. Brian, here. One more.

[0:08:28] Charlotte. And this next one is a recognition that Charlotte Farmer has has brought about. I would like for her to come down and read this and take care of it. Come down, Miss Farmer. Thank you. Thursday. My pleasure. Great pleasure. Uh Thursday morning, June 25th, I received a phone call early in the morning and 10:00 is early to me. Uh but uh I'm accustomed to getting phone calls from constituents and they're usually complaints or gripes or to check into something. This one was quite different. The gentleman who called uh said that his parents, his parent-in-laws, 90-year-old parents, had had a fire the night before and he wanted to commend our fire department and our police department for the outstanding service, response, and professionalism. Um he couldn't say enough good. Matter of fact, he said if the two gentlemen from the police department and Ross Coleman and the EMS uh attendants ran for president, the their entire family would vote for them. This was very special to them because they feel like that St. Angelo is theirs. They're homegrown. These elderly folks uh were the once the owners of the old Shook Tire down on Concho Street and have been here for a long time. and this was the first time that they had been so impressed by the response and the professionalism that they had. He stated that the EMS guys did not leave his in-laws side. They stayed behind them continuing to check their vitals and Mr. Coleman came up to them often and kept them posted as to the progress of the fire and what was going on. Not only that and the service and their quick response, but the next morning, Mr. Coleman called his in-laws to make sure that they were doing okay and if there was anything else that the city could do for them in light of uh events. You know, it it's just not often enough that we tell our fire and our police, our first responders, thank you. Thank you for a

[0:10:31] job well done. And if I may to read the certificate, the city council of St. Angelo hereby recognize and applauds Fire Marshal Ross Coleman for his professional and efficient response to a fire event along with his dedication to embody the very best of what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo. And this is also signed by our mayor and thanks from the entire city council, Dwayne Morrison. Thank you, Rosil. [Applause] I know. Also, officers Lewis, Andy, Cobb, Knob, Co. I'll get it. Co. I love to be corrected. That's cop whatever works. City council and the city of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds officer Andy Cobb for his professional and efficient response to a fire event along with his dedication to embody the very best of what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo. Behalf of the city council and Mayor Morrison, we thank you very much. [Applause] probably should read the script that they hand me, but I will do that in a minute. Officer Matthew Hawthorne. The city council of the city of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds Officer Matthew Hawthorne for his professional and efficient response to a fire event along with his dedication to embody the very best of what it means to represent St. Angelo. On behalf of the city council and Dwayne Morrison, our mayor, we congratulate you and thank you very much. I love getting these phone

[0:12:35] calls. Doug Taylor. City Council of the City of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds Doug Taylor for his professional and efficient response to a fire event along with his dedication to embody the very best of what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo. On behalf of the city council and our mayor, we thank you very much. camera shot today and I would like to read the script that was provided. It makes better sense than I do. But on June 24th, there was a fire at a home on Vista Deloya. The uh son-in-law of the couple called me because I at one time was was the representative in that district. But fire marshal Russ Coleman was complimented for his kindness and professionalism during the entire event. Not only did emergency services revi arrive within seconds of the call, but their acts of kindness and professionalism were absolutely outstanding. The EMS text never left their side, continuing to monitor their health, but also kept them informed of each stage of work and the status of the situation. The citizen told me that officer Cobb, Hawthorne, and EMS crew members, Taylor or Grieve, uh, if any of them ran for president, that they would vote for him. Finally, the citizen did state that Mr. Coleman had already called that morning to check on everyone and to make sure that they were all okay. He also stated that he didn't know where the city found Mr. Coleman or who trained these firemen and these officers, but we needed to duplicate these in individuals for our city because we the citizens are very lucky to have such individuals that work for the city of St. Angelo. Chad Graves. The city council. The city of St. Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds Chad Graves for his professional and efficient response to a fire event along with his dedication to

[0:14:38] embody the very best of what it means to represent the city of St. Angelo. On behalf of the council and our mayor, Dwayne Morrison, congratulations and thank you. Thank you. [Applause] say to you. Thank you very much. Thank you. It's always a good day when you can recognize and honor our police and our EMTs and our fire department because we certainly do have the best in the world. Do have another recognition here. Uh let's see. Brian Brian Groves. For the third straight year, the city of St. Angelo's public information officer has earned a statewide award. this time for the best special or one-time program at the annual conference of the Texas Association of Municipal Information Officers. The city won a second place award of excellence in the category for cities with less than 100,000 population for its coverage of Fort Koncho's historical reenactors marching and Governor Greg Abbott's inauguration parade. Multimedia coordinator Brian Groshot reported and produced the piece which featured Fort Cono manager Bob Booth Bob Bluthart. Education coordinator Christopher Morgan and animal program coordinator Paul Cook. There were 41 entries in the category. During the state conference film festival one of St. Angelo's humorous city and 60 segments was featured. An episode that Graves shot of public information officer Anthony Wilson posing in sunken Gardens Park sculpture garden. Mr. Grove's expertise, talent, and passion for telling

[0:16:40] compelling visual stories has become known and admired among public information professionals across the state. Melting his gifts with the can't miss narrative for Fort Cono troops marching down Congress Avenue yielded the equivalent of television gold. Therefore, I, Dwayne Morris, mayor of the great city of St. Angelo, Texas. On behalf of the city council, do we hereby recognize and applaud Brian Groves and the Fort Concho Living History Program for the dedication and positive determination to make a difference in our community. Ryan, you get to make speech, [Applause] Ryan. Well, thank you for the recognition. Um it was just an honor to be with these guys and to follow them and see everything they do and uh it is very involved and um uh they said they don't want to talk but I think they need to talk about the experience because they got invited to the governor's parade and that's an an incredible honor. So somebody man I I hate talking to people um when we set this up we heard about this we said well that's going to be pretty neat. Uh, we didn't know how to get Brian involved. So, but then I got an idea. Why don't we do like the military does so we got him in uniform and had him embedded in our ranks and it kind of I don't know if you ever saw the photo. We have a photograph of him in a forc uniform with all his modern camera gear. It's a rather anacronistic photograph but it worked. I mean uh he did a great job. He was u we were so focused on doing what we had to do that we really didn't notice he was there half the time which I guess is the point. Yeah. Uh yeah. Uh but he did a great job. I I've saw the video. Actually, my father who lives in Florida saw it. My brother who lives up in New York saw it. I have a friend of mine who lives in Scotland. He saw it. And it's it's really great job. They applaud what he did, what we did. So, thanks, man. Good job. [Applause] Granted, Brian had good material to work with, but he made it a memorable experience. And years from now, when

[0:18:44] we're all sitting in our rocking chairs talking about the good old days, we will have Brian's video to tell us exactly the way it was. The most gratifying part of the whole event was as we were walk marching up Congress Avenue. Thousands of people on the sidelines and on the streets were shouting, "Yay, St. Angelo, go Fort Koncho. Great St. Angelo." We got a lot of friends around this state and it was just a joy and a privilege to be a part of this experience. And Brian, thank you very much for your work here. Here. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. And we have one more proclamation. Betty testing, come forward, please, ma'am, as I read this. Your turn, sir. Got both of you here this morning. Good morning. The Texas Hunger Initiative is a collaborative effort both statewide and locally and our goal is to end hunger in Texas through policy, education, research, grassroots organ organizing, and community development. St. Angelo is one of 12 Texas cities selected to have regional office with the dual purpose of recruiting, training, and supporting community partners in providing additional access points for people to apply for Texas benefits and of implementing local outreach and coordination for the No Kid Hungry campaign. In Tom Green County, more than one in four families with children had times during the last year when there was not enough money to buy food. That is 5,400 households in the city of St. Angelo. The goal for the Tom Green County Hunger Initiative is for 215 is to feed more children during the summer when school is not in session. In St. Angelo, over 8,600 students receive free or reduced lunch meals. When school is in session, more than 60% of our students after summer school ends in

[0:20:47] June. local churches, ministries, organizations, businesses, and numerous individuals have committed to provide meals in July and August at 10 St. Angelo neighborhood sites, plus one site in Carlsbad, one site in Grape Creek, and the two recreation center day camps. Therefore, I, Dwayne Morrison, mayor of the great city of St. Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the city council, hereby proclaim July 215 is Kids Eat Summer Meal Initiative Month in St. Angel will earn all citizens to support the initiative's goal for 215, feed the children, our city's future leaders. Good. Thank you, man. Okay. Well, I'm the child hunger outreach specialist here in St. Angelo and the region and we're affiliated with Baylor University and I have the opportunity to do childhood outreach and all regards hunger and uh our kids eat free program. This is our sixth summer and we're real excited. It kicked off yesterday and I have some little green flyers back there on the table. So, take it, share it with uh folks in your businesses and agencies and uh our program has fed over 122,000 children in the last five summers. So, we continue to strive to reach out to our neighborhoods of greatest need and uh continue to feed those children and families. You like to talk? No. [Applause] Thank you all very much. I appreciate you. It is now the part of our meeting when we allow for and ask for public comment. At this time, I will read the legalities. And if there is anyone in the audience that wishes to approach the council for any reason with

[0:22:49] any request or any complaint or any reason you want to, this is your opportunity to approach the council and talk. 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 the discussion of those items. Well, this is your opportunity. If we do have anyone that wishes to approach the council, we would ask that you come forward to the microphone at this time and let's hear what you have to say. Come ahead, sir. Hello. Well, unfortunately, start with your name so we got you on tape. Oh, I'm sorry. My name is Stan McDonald. Yeah, thanks Dan. U unfortunately because of what this lady said, I'm one of the people who come up here to complain. We take those as well. Um, I want to bring two issues up to the uh, city council today that I just recently became aware of and it's uh, I want to I want to talk about a few weeks ago and also I called my city uh, my council representative Miss Gonzalez and I spoke to you also over the phone, Mr. Mayor, and I appreciate y'all's uh, uh, inviting me down. A few weeks ago, I got my water bill and uh, I don't know that I'm much different than anybody else. So, I just kind of crack it open and I look and I see, oh, okay, I owe that. And I go, pay it. This time I cracked it open and I look and I go, $256. What? And uh so I immediately went to the to the water department and sat down and uh discussed this. And and what I found out was that uh I've been charge being charged late fees. And the late fees are not

[0:24:51] necessarily because I paid late, but is because I carried a balance on the water bill. the document that is mailed out by the city, it doesn't say anything on that document that if you carry a balance that you are still charged $25 for a late fee. You could pay on time, carry a balance, but you are still being charged $25 for a late fee. And this came as a surprise to me. Um, I don't think that that's right. I think if you're going to be charged a late fee for carrying a balance, it should say that on the bill, and that's not what it says on the bill. The other thing that I want to bring up is is the late fee itself. My water bill on any given month pretty much basically stays about the same, which is about 62 $63. Of course, it's water, trash, sewer, everything. $25 is 41% of my bill that's charged to me as a late fee. That seems exorbitantly high to me. I mean, I can't think of any other business that would be allowed to charge 41% on a bill as a late fee. I I just I think it's high. I would like to know what the $25 is for. Is it a punitive fee? Are we being punished for paying late? Are we being uh punished for carrying a balance? Is it a number that everybody came up with that said, you know, one of the things that Mr. uh Morrison and the lady at the water department told me was that one of the reasons that our late fees are so high is because so many people in St. and Angelo skip out and don't pay their

[0:26:53] water bill. That's a good argument except for one thing. Are only people who are paying late or carrying a balance. Are they the only ones that are subsidizing the water department for people who skip out on their water bill? I think it's kind of high. And uh so that's that's what I wanted to come up here and say. I think that on your water bill, it should be stated that if you carry a balance, you're going to be charged a fee. While I was waiting to talk to the lady at the water department, another person came in with the same issue, and they didn't know that they were being charged $25 for carrying a balance. And I just think, you know, it just ain't right. And I'd like for the city council to put it on their agenda. And I would also like the the city council to put on their agenda to talk about this late fee. I don't know I don't own a business so I don't know if does $25 as a late fee is that just residential or is it also for businesses. So if a restaurant which I am sure uses much more water than I do are they charge $25 the same as me excuse me for using more water. I just think and there can be a fairness issue here and and I do think that the late fee is pretty high. So, thank you very much. Thank you, Mr. McDonald. Uh, we dealt with this, what was it, John, a year ago that we talked and then two or three years ago we we we dealt with it and uh I've always thought $25 was punitive. I'd like to have a 5% something like that and that's what we've tried to do in I would like to put this on the agenda next meeting for discussion and let's talk about this because I think he has a very valuable point further public comment no one

[0:28:59] else all right then I will move then to the council uh we'll start with you Miss Grind staff if there is anything on the agenda that you would like to pull from consent to the regular or if you have any comments or statements, this is the time. Uh, I don't have anything to pull from the agenda, but I would like to say how proud I am of our community for the events of this past week and I cry very easily, so I'll try to keep it together. But we all went through something very difficult. And um I want to say how proud I am for the police department, city administration, and our community for the respect and sympathy they showed the Kennedy family. And I hope that our city doesn't have to go through that ever again, nor any other family of anybody in our um service. With that, I'll save my comments for the end of the meeting and future agenda items. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. Lucy, I also wanted to thank the people of St. Angelo for coming together at the time when um we were going through such a really hard time, the family, the um losing our police officer. But I at the same time, I was so proud of how everything came together, the the way we honored Sergeant Kennedy, it was amazing. Um, my neighbor that lives in in Colorado, she commented to me that she it was something to see all those ribbons all over town. She said, "Y'all did an extraordinary uh thing for him." And I said, "It it's it's so amazing when we can all just come together and put our differences aside and and honor um Sergeant Kennedy." Again, thank you, St. Angelo citizens for for doing that and I am so proud to be a citizen of this great city. Thank you. Did you have anything you wanted to pull, ma'am? Were you all right? Can you see him? Everything's fine. Okay, Miss Charlotte, I also echo the same comment uh to thank

[0:31:03] all of St. Angelo citizens for their reactions and their show of respect. But, you know, especially in my district, the number of blue ribbons that were out there and the people who stopped by uh as they were walking in my neighborhood to say how grateful they really are for our first responders. And it's sad that we don't ever mention it often enough to say thank you. Uh again, I I too am extremely proud of our city staff and the performance and the organizing of a service during a very very difficult time. And I might add that I don't think we have a written policy. But I would like to ask the city manager to have something in writing for the future. So that uh it is just a procedure that is in our handbook. and this was an excellent example of what our staff can do and I want to thank them and again condolences to the Kennedy family. My uh item on the agenda that I would like to talk about is 5B B is in boy and that's all Johnny. Well, I'll start by I'll echo everything the the ladies said. you know, we were all touched and uh we were all impacted by the event and uh too send my blessings out to the Corby family. One thing I did want to mention, there was a gentleman, friend of mine, former St. Angelo that was in town over the weekend and wanted to he commented about the Houston heart, you know, the weeds, you know, just how horrible they look. He he was saddened to come back to his hometown and see that. And I realized that he's is a statemaintained piece of right away and it is, you know, it's it's out of our hands, but I told him that, you know, I would put that bug in Tracy Kane's ear again and tell them how, you know, and and it's it's like

[0:33:05] that all over the state. I was in Plano over the weekend and there's weeds up and down I 20, I just everywhere. So, yeah, we're blessed with the rains and with the rains come weeds and and mosquitoes. So, uh I did I know there is some confusion on I I am going to ask for a couple items be uh pulled from the consent item L uh a little bit more explanation how that is going to work out. I think there's confusion and then also item N just a brief explanation of what it all entails. So, u bill N is in N as in Nancy. Yes. on the uh conducting the the pilot test. Those two items I I will ask to briefly talk about. Mr. Marty, nothing. Mr. Fleming. No, I'm good with everything. Okay. Mayor, I'd like to make a comment also. Um I do want to thank uh Chief Bosquez for his leadership uh through all the um we went through the last week and a half. Uh it was a very trying time. the directors, the staff um as far as organizing this deal. It had to happen very quickly and uh I just love the way that everybody be came together as a family. Uh we often talk about the city family, but this past uh week and a half, I really truly saw what a city family could do. uh when the love is there and the support is there and everybody came together. Uh and I'm just so appreciative of uh everything that the staff did do and and making sure that this was a a memorable event uh for everyone involved um especially for the family. On the podium, you'll notice uh five roses um and the blue ribbon representing of course u Corby and the five uh roses representing his loved ones, Emily, Caitlyn, Jackie, Richard, and of course his wife Georganna. We asked uh for the city for their prayers uh for this family uh and the city family as well moving forward for Corby's brothers and sisters in law enforcement that are going through so much at this point as well. Please pray for for all of them.

[0:35:08] And again, we want to thank the community for all your love and support. Uh this is something to behold. I just uh couldn't imagine um things going as well as it did as far as the support that was there. And I just uh I'm just so blessed to be a part of this community. Thank you, mayor. And I'll echo every bit of that. I'm I am very very proud of St. Angelo, Texas. I'm glad the way our community came together with Corby Kennedy. It was it was very impressive. But there's something else that our city did this last week that I also want to make mention and that was the pops concert on July the 3rd. We had the St. Angelo Community Band that started this. These are just volunteers. These are these are tremendous people in the in the band. And then the St. Angelo Symphony. There's none better in the world. And they are people in St. Angelo. And of course Ken Landon and the fireworks display that he put on this last 3rd of July was absolutely spectacular. If you didn't see the pops concert, you missed a great night. Great night of music, great fireworks, a very patriotic birthday for our country. Very, very proud of the city of St. Angelo. Miss Farmer, I also wanted to again thank Brian and Anthony. Uh the uh funeral, just a recap, is being aired on channel 17. if you didn't have the opportunity. It's it's just a short recap of of the service and it's done again very much professionalism and with a lot of dignity. The other thing is a reminder I will be attending ports to plain uh quarterly board meeting in Lamar, Colorado this next week I believe it is. Um but if you can remind me out there Mr. opin um is it this meeting or the one in October that we're going to get the 15 minutes? It's the one in October. One in October. I wanted to put that out that that we have been told that we will have 15 minutes to showcase the city of St. Angelo. So to tell everybody up in North Dakota and Canada and whatnot about St. Angelo, if we've got something on hand

[0:37:11] or if we don't have, let's get something worked up because I don't think I can talk for 15 minutes and uh I don't know about Roland. I'll pull that off. Thank you. All right. We do have the consent agenda with the exception of three items. I need a motion to approve the consent with the exception. This will be items A through items O with the exception of item B, item L and item N. Motion to approve. Marty, I have a motion. Do I have a second? Second. All right. Have Elizabeth on that. Do I have any further council discussion on the consent before we vote? Do I have public comment before we vote? All in favor of the consent agenda being accepted with the exception of B LNN, please say I. I. Any opposed? Nay. Put a 70 on that one. Mr. Brian, item B, Mr. Riley, you ready? 5B. Item 5B on the consent is consider awarding be a W615 to Patriot Automation and Controls of St. Angelo, Texas. Mike Berth Electric, St. Angelo, Texas, and Bunyard Hastry Electric. kinderated St. Angelo, Texas in the amount not to exceed $100,000 per year for three years budgeted in FY15, FY16, and FY17 for industrial electrical work on the water utilities facility. Miss Farmer, my only concern is the three-year contract. you know, our terms are two years and with a three-year, you know, you're catching somebody to renew a contract or to go out for bids that half of the council will be either reelected or not reelected. And I I don't understand why we try to tie up something for three years. Well, and I don't know if Julie wants to talk to this from the purchasing perspective, but from our perspective in operations, it just makes it a lot easier that we're not going through that process every year. We we've got somebody that we're calling on. We have a lot of industrial a lot of new industrial electrical equipment, and some of it's quite a ways from here. So,

[0:39:14] that way we can rely on somebody for that period of time that knows where our equipment is, is familiar with our equipment, and we're not redoing that every year. Well, wouldn't four years be better then? It would that way it it's familiar with council members. You don't catch it's just it quirk of mine and I wanted to mention it. So that's that's the only thing at this point. We've um received the bids from everyone and they've all agreed to lock in for the three-year term. At this point um we wouldn't be able to negotiate that because this is a bid and not a proposal. I have a question. Can you explain um this mentions I guess three different entities in the award. How does that work? So the way we wrote the bid was to have a primary for each of the um sections, the industrial and also the instrumentation and controls. So we have a primary for each and then also a secondary. Okay. And that's spelled out in the other information in the background. Yeah. So in the event that one of those can't respond, then we go to the secondary. Okay. But that doesn't mean that each one is guaranteed up to a h 100,000. That's the that's the combined amount. That's correct. Right. Move to approve. Second. Motion to approve as written. And I do have a second. Further council discussion. Do I have discussion from the public? All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. today. Put a 70 on that one. Mr. Brian, number L is consider approval and ratification of the city of St. Angelo Development Corporation COD DC approval of the first amendment to the economic development performance agreement by and between the city of St. Angelo Development Corporation and Medav LLC. Mr. Pion or let's start with Johnny. Johnny, you the one asked for this, sir. Roland, just give us an explanation how how this is working out. What's going to expire? What what you're going to renew? What just the the big

[0:41:17] picture? Uh just to just to clarify um we have we had two agreements with MetHab. One was for leasing the CBC CVCED building at 2009 West Bogard and that was done with CBCED. And then we have a separate economic development agreement that allowed for lease provisions in the event that they moved into a building, leased a building. Uh and we wanted to clarify that it's an opportune time as as you may be aware back in uh December, late December, early January um that building burnt and we had to relocate them into the West Texas Training Center. Um because we have the commitment under the CBCD agreement to um provide the space. Uh we relocated them to West Texas Training Center and um are paying for the lease there. It's a six-month lease, but in my discussions with MetHab, uh we just felt that it was an opportune time to go ahead and start talking and clearing up these agreements. Um to restore the building that burned, uh it was going to be just not cost-effective. We have a we had a very big gap between what insurance uh uh covered to restore it and what we would have to add um to completely bring it back to to code. So what we did is uh the co coast of DC board decided to sell the the building. I talked to MedHab and basically said look since we're getting such a good rate at West Texas training center why don't you take over the lease. Uh the economic development agreement remains intact in the event that you want to move into uh a building in the future or if you're going to build a new building. Uh however that economic development agreement does allow for some form of incentive in the event they want to lease a building in the future. That's all this does. documents that we have an agreement with them that they will take over the the lease at the end of August and they'll be responsible for paying for that lease at the West Texas Training Center. Question. Um I'm not going to vote in favor of

[0:43:21] this and I I'll tell you why. I've asked for um an explanation as to um clarification in the contract if legal could tell us where it says economic development performance agreement and seems like that I read somewhere in that contract that their production would be here in St. Angelo. That's the reason that we agreed to award funds. Now, I know that no funds have been advanced. No monies have been given, and that's great and that's good, but I would like to have an explanation because I know that they're doing production in another city and have moved production to another city. And to me, that breaks the agreement. Uh, and I don't feel like we should be holding uh pledged funds for someone who has broke the agreement. In my opinion, that's the reason I wanted a legal opinion is to has the agreement already been broken because they're doing production in another city. I I can help clarify, but if you want a legal opinion, did you did you want to say anything on that? I I let me I can provide some insight. Well, yeah. At this moment, I don't think I can give you a legal opinion, uh, you know, without taking a look again at the contract. But, as I recall, the contract just provides for certain incentives if they do certain acts. If they don't do those acts, then they don't get the incentives. So, I'm not sure that it it is actually a breach. I'd have to take a look at the contract. I would like the contract reviewed uh where it specifically talks about production and originally that production was to be in St. Angelo and it's not. So I I I don't feel like we should hold and commit this money and that's just my objection to it. Just for u just to provide some additional insight because I know some of the council members and you um and are unfamiliar to the um to the agreement. There were two agreements and

[0:45:23] that's what makes it confusing. The it it it appears that under the CBCD we wanted to incubate the company. So there were some performance measures under that agreement and they've adhered to those performance measures. Basically it's just reporting the number of jobs created the gross salary wages um and gross sales. Uh they have several patents uh today that they have been working on. So they continue to do uh a lot of pilot uh testing. Uh they are producing um uh prototypes. Uh they are working on the development of of and marketing of those products. They are utilizing a lot of ASU students. In fact uh ASU students help to develop the software and the apps for for the different applications. They have about 10 to 12 employees but they have yet to ask for any incentives. So at any given moment between now and January 1 of 2019, they can exercise the the um any one of those incentives. So they can exercise under the economic development agreement to seek those incentives and that's basically what we're waiting on. Um I'm hopeful that that'll happen soon. Yes, they are producing uh manufacturing. A lot of the prototype a lot of the souls are currently occurring somewhere else, but we have a commitment from them under the economic de development agreement that they'll move that production to St. Angelo, Texas, and they'll assemble. They'll also have a call center here and we're waiting on that. So, if it doesn't happen this year, 10 years from now, are we still going to be holding that slot of money for something that might happen? the the economic development agreement only goes to January 1 of 20 2019. So they have up up until then to exercise those provisions. M is this something that action is required today? Because I I would be more comfortable talking about uh contract performance in executive session which I think is is uh more appropriate than here if we really

[0:47:27] think there's an issue. And and in all fairness to Medhab, um I think we all need to see the contract before we say anything that potentially could be inappropriate. If I can have two weeks, I would prefer to have two weeks on this. The um given the conversation that's already taken place. Sure. And so, um it's at the pleasure of the council. I think at this point, we're only asking for the ratification of the lease amendment. And that's, you know, if we have an issue with regard to uh contract performance, we can discuss that at another meeting in my opinion. Or we can uh our city clerk just advised me that we could discuss this. We could move this into executive session today, which would be my preference. For what what I understand though, all you're asking for with this is that we amend the lease so that they have to pay for their own lease and we discontin because they made us all sorts of promises in January of 212 and they've not fulfilled one of them yet. Let's be careful of it. We have been paying we have been paying their lease since January of 212. And now this amendment says that we will no longer pay it as of uh September 1. Is that what this says? That's correct. And that's all this says because I agree with Charlotte and Elizabeth. I'd like to look at this performance. I'd like to look at it very very closely. Can I make a motion that we move this into the executive session? I don't see that this needs to move into executive. All this does is on the lease. I just see that we discuss it in executive session which but you guys want to you guys want to discuss performance in executive. It's all her issue is tied to performance. this issue is just now tied to performance. I don't have all of the facts in order to make a decision on that based on on this and I'm okay with a lease. If it means us not having to pay for that lease anymore, I'm okay with it. But whatever is the pleasure of the the majority of the council let it's not going to hurt us by moving this to executive to talk about this and hear

[0:49:29] everything out. I will second her. Make a motion. Then if I if I excuse me if I if I might uh just comment on this. The um agenda item is the first first amendment to the economic development performance agreement. So it's not an amendment to the lease. It is an amendment to the performance agreement. If you move it into executive session, the only discussion that could take place could be uh regarding any questions you might have on the on the uh legal issues. Okay. Uh the benefits or detriments of the contract cannot be discussed in executive session. That would have to be in public session. So the exemption or the exception justifying executive session closed to the public would be just to consult with council regarding the contract and the status of the contract which we can do. Yeah. Do have a motion to move it to executive. Rodney second it. Any further council discussion on this public discussion? All in favor of moving this to executive and then we will come back at the end of the meeting and give a conclusion and a vote. All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Let's move it. Uh, let's see. Number n. Johnny. Consider ratifying the city of St. Angelo Development Corporation's approval of the allocation of 1,200,000 for cost to be incurred and conducting a pilot test for design of direct potable reuse of reclaimed water. Yes, sir. Bill, I don't know if I was dreaming or what, but I thought that 1.2 2 million. Is that set in stone or did that price go down? That's actually just an estimated cost for doing the pilot study which would Okay. And I've been asked just just give us a brief brief summary of what the conducting this pilot test means. Sure. Uh what you're doing is actually uh creating a smallcale version of what the

[0:51:33] ultimate facilities would be to treat the water. So there would be engineering costs, there would be uh equipment either purchase or leased costs, there's monitoring costs as you as you you know treat treat the water and and test it. So it's it's just basically going through the same process you would have uh ultimately but then there's a lot of reports that have to be generated and reports to the state and and those kind of things. So that's that's the whole process that would go take place. That's all I needed just for public viewing. Thank you. Are you going to move to approve? I will move to approve. Second. Did you have something, Rodney? Second. Okay. Do I have a motion? Do I have a second? Any further comment? Council public comment. Uh the motion is to approve the 1.2 as presented. All in favor, please say I. Oppos? Nay. Put a 70 on that one. It is 9:57. Let's take about a 15minute break. 13. Let's get this meeting called back to order. Uh I have had a request uh item number D on the regular agenda and this is Kevin Collins that has asked for this. It's a zone change and we also had another tragedy in our city last week. That was our golf pro at Bentwood, Mr. Robbie Loving lost his life in a drowning accident. The funeral is today and Kevin is trying to get out of town so that he can make the funeral. I would ask if the council would allow I would like to bring item 6D to the front and let's deal with this one. So Kevin can get on the road, please. Do I have any problem with the count? Everybody in favor of No problem. Okay. Let's bring number D of the regular agenda to the front. This is the first public hearing for public comments for and against annexation into the city of certain properties located south of loop 306 and east of Nicerbacha Road and described as approximately 5.850 acres of land out of the Casper Berber survey 177. Abstract number 52 and the Heinrich Zerbach survey 17A. Abstract number 4210, city of St. Angelo, Tom Green County, Texas, and

[0:53:36] being out of a certain 54.872 acre track described as recorded in instrument number 2011500372. Miss Gara. Thank you, sir. Good morning, Mayor, City Council. Rebecca Gara, planning manager. The item before you today is for an annexation. We're calling it the Bentwood annexation. You have seen this previously when you accepted the petition to annex. It is a little over 5 acres. It is located south of Loop 306 and east of Nicerbacha Road. It is of course in the ETJ and if annexed will like I apologize will likely be included into single member district number one, Councilwoman Lemmings district. Future land use of this site is neighborhood and the zoning since is in the it is in the ETJ has no zoning but is likely to be given a ranch and estate zoning district if annexed. The approved annexation plan deems it as intermediate and is well within that time period. Here's the major plan and the utilities map. If annexed, this property uh is likely to be built as a stormwater management area or roads for single family residential detached development. Notifications were sent out within a 200t radius. We have received no responses in favor or against. So the action requested there is none. Um, so this is the first public comment hearing, the first of two that is required by state law. Um, the second one is scheduled for July the 21st. That one too does not have any action that is required. Um, this concludes my presentation. I'm available for any questions you may have. Thank you. This is a public comment time. If you have a public comment for or against this annexation, this is your opportunity to have your say. Do I have any public comment? Anything on the council? Then we have fulfilled our obligations. Yes sir, you have. So the next second public comment hearing will be on July the 21st. It will be publicized and it will be notified. Drive carefully,

[0:55:38] Kevin. Thank you very much. Number A is discussion regarding watering times and schedules. This is a requested by council member Fleming. Presentation by water utilities director Bill Riley. You want to start us off, Rodney? Th this came before me and that actually over the past year and a half or so I I keep having a lot of residents in my district come to me and talk about um anything that we can do to save water and be on the leading edge. And a couple of the suggestions that we've had are leading edge suggestions and um and I don't mind being a leader in in West Texas on what we should do with water and how we should save water. I'll hear your presentation then I'll bring up a couple things after your presentation. Well, actually, Mr. Fleming, I don't Okay. have a presentation. I'll be willing to or are you ready to discuss the ordinance or any other issues? The main thing that we have right now is we have during the summertime, we have watering right now. That's twice a week and that runs from what what are the time frames on that? Uh, April 1st, October, I believe. No, not well to as far as date times is what I was Oh. Um, what one of the things that's brought up to me over and over again is that one-third of all water that we use in our res that's residential water is used on our lawns. In the summer months, it's it's actually a good bit more than one-third of the water that we use on on our lawns. And most people water two to three times more than what they actually should water. I I talked to uh a couple of different experts here in town and you know most of the experts agree that we should only be watering in even in the summer months in the hottest months. We should be training our yards and we've heard this over and over again. John Begno was one of the ones that was telling us this should train your yard to only have to water it once a week but you water it heavily once a week. It will actually cut down on the amount of water that we're using for the twice a week. Cuz right now, most people, not most, but a lot of people are watering twice a week, but they're watering very heavily heavily twice a week. It's

[0:57:41] making the root system not go near as deep as what it should go and make the yard not be near as hardy as it should be, especially out here in West Texas. This area that we live in is not conducent to lawns at all. I mean, we I would love it if most of us didn't have very big lawns, but unfortunately, there are a lot of people that have big lawns throughout the city. What I would what I would like to happen and what I've what's been brought forward to me is to change the watering in the summer months to once a week during the times of April to October and then in the in the winter time I think we do uh twice every two weeks in the winter time. Well, right now it's still right it's still once a week. Okay. and to move that back in the winter months. Also, I think that uh if we could do some kind of gradual way of uh phasing this in, we could get people to train their yards and we could save water. Most of our residents right now, this this is one of those things where we got rain this year. We've had more rain than we've had than I can ever remember in the in the spring and summer months right now. And everybody just forgets we're not in a drought. U we've got unlimited sources of water. We're good forever. That is certainly not true. We live in the desert and we will go through a drought again and and the next time we not we might not be saved by God like we were last May. We were saved at the very last minute last last year on that weekend and it may not happen again this next time. So, we've got to plan for the future and I know that us as a council are doing that on a lot of the reuse. I've had a lot of people commenting to me on the reuse plan that we're looking at and a couple of the sources of water that we're looking at right now. But again, one of the best things that you can do is conserve water. Conserve what you have and learn and teach our kids on how to conserve water and and be good stewards of what we do have. So, um, what I guess what I would like to bring forward is to change the watering, uh, to pull it back a little bit in the summer months. I'd also wouldn't mind doing, uh, I talked

[0:59:44] to the best times to water your lawn right now is between 6:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. in the morning. That's the best time that you can water your lawn. And we I'd like to do some education things. It would be a good thing for Brian and Anthony to do on education of on watering lawns and maybe talk to John Begno on how we can best use the water that we do have out there. But um I would like to put forward that we that we change the watering times during the summer months. I move that we we change the watering times. Mr. Mr. Fleming, before we do that, would you object to u the guys doing a a a graph showing us now at the times that we're doing and the particular times how much actual gallons and savings that there would be just a a graph. I mean, I know that y'all can do it because you've done it before to how much we're currently using at the current rates at the times and uh to change it in those months. If you could give us a comparison, are we saving a million gallons a month or 200,000 gallons a month to give us some idea of what we're actually trying to Sure, we can do that. But if I can speak to Mr. Fleming's comments and and just kind of let you know what where we're at, what we're doing. Uh several members of the water advisory board have actually raised the same issue and and so they they intend to take this up and talk about that as well. Uh your ordinance currently uh determines the watering times based on the months of supply that's left and we're we're looking at that because uh it doesn't it's actually changed. We brought the hickory on. Uh you don't have a finite amount, you know, of supply anymore. So we need to we need to tailor the ordinance to what our actual supply is. Uh, and so that means that the triggering points might be something different than just months of supply. It might there's some Well, we had talked about that before and we even did a minor change on it last year at some point on there. And I I wouldn't mind waiting and hearing I would actually I'd like to have the water advisory board

[1:01:46] here during this discussion uh before we even take more action. I I have no problem with that. But uh you said we do have a finite we don't even with the hickory we don't have a finite amount of water. We have a very limited amount of water even with the hickory. Absolutely. But my point is that you don't it's not we don't have a you know 20 month supply. Yeah. And it so it doesn't exactly fit the ordinance and we need to make the ordinance fit and I think the ordinance should be changed a good bit on that where we're trying to save even if you have I think what do we have 40 now around that roughly 40 months. Most people don't even know that number. They just think that we're full and we've got an unlimited supply. But you know 40 months to me still sounds very scary. It does. uh uh when you're living in a town of 100,000 people and we're a hub for this region of Texas, uh 40 months doesn't sound like a lot, especially with as much rain as we have received this last 6 months. So my my deal is I'm trying to be a good steward. I'm trying to do what I think is right for my kids, my grandkids, and our future. And so anything we can do to save water and stretch out the water that we have, uh I'm all in favor of. Elizabeth. Uh, I I like the fact that you mentioned the water advisory board. I think that's very important and that's part of the reason that we kind of rejuvenated that that board was to get more public input and to um bounce ideas off of them, let them vet things before it comes to council. I was also um on a call with Bill and Daniel and others uh about the do we call it the water efficiency group. I never get the name right. I water efficiency. Water efficiency. And even though there are several members of that group that are now on the water advisory board, I think we have a water advisory board that is now not just focused on simply acquiring rights for the future, but also h with a stronger conservation ethic. So, I would like to see them mobilized before we try to take action here. And I think that's what

[1:03:49] you're proposing as well. So, no, I I'm definitely in favor of that. I don't want to do something that's just a knee-jerk reaction on this thing. I want to do the right thing. But I also I don't want to be and I I I had a couple people talk to me yesterday on this that they they say, "Well, just go with what everybody else is doing." Not everybody else lives in St. Angelo, Texas in in West Texas in the desert. And so I doing what Austin's doing, doing what Dallas is doing, that's not what I think is best for St. Angelo. I want to do what St. Angelo should be doing. I hope our water advisory board will come up with those things and decide, you know, we need to do what's best for us to save water and make sure that we're doing the right thing with the water that we we do have. I I think we I think we all have a lot of trust in their ability. Um they were selected based on very specific criteria, expertise, and so I would like to see what they say. I I think we're going to be talking about water for years and so this you know it'll we'll we'll keep doing this but um I I think that definitely to again engage them and uh get a lot of feedback from the public and public education is most important through this process not just simply a council action that then people don't understand how it connects to supply future supply and what we're what we're doing out there. Shauna Mr. Riley, uh, in reference to the amount available, the number of months that we have available, at believe it was last council meeting, I had heard you to say and I got three different emails from people that you had stated that we had 48 months water supply remaining. And that was uh before the rains in June uh or the rains in June. And before that in May, we only had 24 months. And the question to me was how did we go from 24 months to 48 months when it is stated by all the different water sources that we had received very little less than substantial runoff into our water supplies. And my only assumption could

[1:05:51] be that the hickory being brought online was maybe being factored into that. You may not be able to explain it today, but when you bring this back to us, could you please explain that difference from 24 months to 48 months all of a sudden? I I certainly will, Miss Foreman. I don't recall the 24 months because since I've been here in the six months, it hasn't been below 30 and we picked up uh we did pick up enough water in the different sources there. That's a little problematic to me just what we're talking about. It doesn't necessarily take in enough, I think, of evaporation. And so, we're we're taking stronger look at those numbers to make sure that they uh they they reflect what we actually would have available. Uh and so that's part of this this process that we're going through now. Okay, Marty. Well, I I think public education is is the key and and I I believe our citizens will will they always do what's what's the right thing and and if we educate them uh whether we have one or two two times water in a a week, if we if we educate them to to water, you know, water deep and and get the roots growing deep, You know, some people have big enough areas that they may they may need two times a week uh to water to get everything watered so that they're not watering inefficiently. Uh so I I think more so how many times it education's the key and and and we need to do what what uh what we can to make sure the public's educated and ask them to do it right and they usually they usually do the right thing. So I I I think that's the key. Well, clearly this community has one of the lowest uh water use per capita in the state. Uh nothing will get you that way clo, you know, more so than having 12 months supply of water left. So I think the the objective and the goal is to maintain that and I think that continuing that discussion that because

[1:07:53] it has been raining, we haven't collected a lot of water in the reservoir. So we just need to continue the discussion. And I driving in this morning, I saw two sprinklers on just in my neighborhood while it was misting. And I mean, that's that's an education thing to teach these people that that's that's a priority to go off and go out there and shut your sprinklers down or put a rain uh monitor on there so when it does rain, they don't turn on. And you know, nothing drives me more crazy than seeing somebody water their lawn while it's raining. It's just ridiculous. And uh people just don't realize how how little and how important our water is uh out here and everywhere statewide. I mean the the state of Texas, we're we're approaching what California is getting at right now. And water is vital. So we need to we need to actions speak louder than words on this though. See, every time we talk about these things, nothing happens. And that's why I really want this to be brought forward in the next several meetings with the water advisory board and let's talk about it seriously. Okay. Daniel, I do want to point out also that as far as Ivy is our primary water source at this point, but it's not just for the city of St. Angelo. I mean, we have other communities, Abene, Odessa, Mill, others that are also getting the water from the Ivy. You know, I'm proposing that if in fact we start looking at this, this is exactly what we're doing is that we also coordinate with our sister communities to make sure that perhaps we can come up with something that'll work across the board. Um, it's it's it's great, yes, that St. and Angela conserves that water, but uh we definitely would love to be able to see that commitment from their sister community as well. Those that are getting that their water also their primary water sources that Ivy as well. I would love I would love to have that discussion with them because we should all be on the same watering uh and I'm not sure what their watering times and and frequency are there. I agree. That would have to be a coordinated effort, but I think definitely that's something that if in fact we look at a measure that's a conservation measure on our part, I think we think it's going to work really well. uh we can of course include the other community and see um how they like to participate in that and hopefully we can get their their support

[1:09:55] as well. As a matter of fact, I attended a meeting last week in big week in big spring with the mayors from Snider and uh representing from Abalene and Midland and Odessa uh John Grant who's up the Colorado River which is our Ivy and that is one of the things we spoke about and it was it was called by the Schneider mayor. He wanted everyone in our communities to get together since we all pull off of ivory. And that's one of the things that he was talking about and that's one of the decisions we made is that we would have these regional meetings so that all the cities could get together. There was one point made by John Grant and I didn't write it down. I failed it. But if I am not mistaken, he said we were losing more water to evaporation out of ivy than all of the cities use. Is is am I right on that bill or did I misunderstand? It's probably pretty close. But if I understood him correctly, and that's what he was saying when we talked about the conservation, he said, and he's moving water from pool to pool to keep it in deeper pools to to lessen the amount of evaporation. But if I'm not mistaken, he said we are losing more water per year to evaporation than what we are actually sending to these to the cities. So uh anyhow, that has Daniel Rodney that has already been broached. We talked about it last week and this is something we plan on on continuing because this is a this is a West Texas problem. It's not a San Angela problem. So, and there does have to be a balance between the use it or lose it to evaporation and how much we conserve. You know, how much is actually being saved by doing that, you know, and I about 20% where other reservoirs in the state filled up that one little circle right here in our part of the state, we've not received the the rain. We're still at about 20% on Ivy. And of course, Spence caught a little, EJ Thomas caught a bunch, but we are still in a drought in St. Angelo and in our area. And Daniel, how we fund our water infrastructure? That would be the other component in Yes, ma'am. That is correct. That's a good point. So, you're going to bring it back to us after you do some water development board and with some suggestions and we

[1:11:56] can talk about this a little further. Yes, sir. That all right, Rodney? Yes. Thank you. Thank you very much, Bill. He was already walking away. He was already walking He was trying to leave, wasn't he? Item number B on the regular agenda is consider consider authorizing the city manager or his designate to submit a letter of intent to Frasier Limited for the purpose of refurbishing two ambulances. And you are on, sir. Thanks, sir. Chief Dunn not available to be here this morning. So, you get me. All right. But I'm here for consideration of authorizing the city manager to execute all documents related to a letter of intent to refurbish two ambulances. The city has purchased two ambulances per year since 2002. In the past, we have waited until the new fiscal year before approaching council. Due to policy changes within the refurbishing company, they now require a letter of intent in order to secure a bill date. We are asking for a le letter of intent stating that we're going to send two ambulances to be refurbished. This will allow us to be on the build schedule as early as February. The money is budget budgeted every year through vehicle capital and the amount this year is estimated at 210,000. The money is not paid until the bill date. We just need a letter of intent stating that we're sending two ambulances. And this is a budgeted item. Is this correct? Yes. Yes. Move to approve as presenting. Second. Do I have a motion to approve as as presented? Do I have a second? Council discussion on this item, public. Yes, sir. No. Have we ever done this before? Yeah, we do it every year. Not a letter of intent. Yeah, but the money is the same every year. Correct. Correct. Well, we refurbish them every year. Or can you even take it down? Yeah. Put it in. Spell that. Now, we do have a motion to approve. Do I have public comment on this item? All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Thank you very much, sir. Did you get that, Brian? All right. Item number C is a

[1:14:00] presentation update by one energy renewables on the potential solar project in the city of St. Angelo. We will have a presentation by Jen Bradford who is the director the project development. Mayor, we're hearing that uh actually there's a presentation in executive session and they would like to do this presentation afterwards. Okay. Okay. So we are moving item number six. We will take care of this as we will item number L after our executive. Okay. Item E. Oh, we building up an executive session today, aren't we? Yes, sir. We are. Item number E is public hearing and consider approval of the 215 through 219 5-year consolidated plan for use of CDBG and home funds and authorizing the city manager to execute the required certifications and the related documents. Robert Solace, you are on, sir. Well, if I can find the uh the uh presentation here somewhere. There it is. Thank you. Good morning. Thank you, sir. Uh the city's uh five-year consolidated plan is a roadmap for the uh annex for the allocation and expenditure of CDBG and home grant funds over the next five program years. As um part of the plan, we assessed the needs of low-income residents, uh identified services and resources available throughout the city, and we created a plan to meet those needs. Um here's a sample of the key areas uh that the plan covers. It includes housing needs, barriers to affordable housing, and a homeless and special needs assessment, just to name a few. Uh we began the process um with public meetings and interviews with key

[1:16:06] stakeholders. We also conducted a community community needs survey uh collaborating with Angel State University uh to obtain additional input from across the city. Uh this is a list of resources we used uh to put the plan together. It includes the 2013 American Community Survey estimates, the 2010 census data, and it includes the annual homeless count that's conducted by the homeless coalition. And lastly, um, based on citizen input, uh, we came up with these goals and objectives for the next five years. Uh, we plan on rehabilitating at least 125 homes. Uh, provide down payments, uh, closing costs for 65 firsttime home buyers. Is that a year? That's for the next five years. So, you would divide that by five. So, they would be that that's what you get every year. Uh we want to leverage volunteers to work on at least 150 homes during the blitz. Uh we want to demolish five deteriorated homes. Uh have co- compliance inspect over 20,000 properties in the low-income areas, provide gap financing for 30 home buyers, and assist 150 special needs clients with rental payments. And we're asking council to approve the plan. Who wants to start? Elizabeth. Just so that everybody understands, you'll use this then when you receive CDBG home funds in determining how we're going to use those in the future. Correct. That is correct. In fact, the next item is the annual action plan and we're going to get deliberations from you all to provide us guidance on how we're going to spend the money this year starting October the 1st on the halfsent sales tax that's also used for housing. Do we use this as kind of a a a comparison and how we should be using those funds? How does that tie together?

[1:18:10] Well, I know it's not required by law. It's not a federal requirement, but how do we use that from a local policy perspective? Well, we leverage those funds and it it ties into the plan itself. So, when we're not just not just that, but other resources as well, low-inccome housing tax credits, we try to leverage all those resources available to us and that helps provide the plan. uh it guides us towards the plan and this is the plan. So it is the plan that guides the the the expenditure of those funds as well. That is correct. Okay. I mean basically we want we identify the needs. So everything we get should go towards uh satisfying the plan. Thank you. Charlie Bob, tell me, please tell me if you if you can at your opinion, should we have something in our objective that addresses the desperate impact? You know, as of about a couple of weeks ago, the Texas legislature and all of the um uproar over desperate impact where the legislators have the right to veto a project in their district which goes against the points awarded to a developer. Should we even try to incorporate that desperate impact act in our objectives or just leave it for where the points may fall? I think at this point we would just uh let it fall where it where it may. Um I'm not I don't think we're ready to incorporate that. Um at one point when it be when legislation comes out and things are are forced upon us or deres uses a different different direction at that point we can we can include into the into the uh plan. Okay. So I think probably not this time. Okay. Further discussion council. You need a motion? I do. Motion move to approve. Second. Have a second. Public discussion on this item. Motion has been made. We pro approve as presented. Has been seconded. All in favor, please say

[1:20:11] I. I. I. Nay. Put a 70 on that one, my friend. Number F is a public hearing for citizen input on requested projects to be considered for grant 215 community development block grants CDBG and home investment partnerships HME grant funds from the US Department of Housing and Urban Development and allocation of funds. Robert Silus. Okay, this is the uh second part. Um this is the first year's annual action plan that will put the resources in the areas uh in the 5-year plan that we just approved. Uh unfortunately, we took a another cut in federal funds. Uh 26,000 in CDBG and 20,000 in home grant funds. Uh that line is steadily going down. Uh has been for the last six, seven years and we don't see any relief anytime soon unfortunately. Uh these are the proposals for CDBG for 2015. Uh we're asking 142,000 for administration. Uh 126,000 for program uh delivery. 149,000 for uh e or rehab projects. Uh 95,000 for emergency repairs. Uh 10,000 for helping hands through Galilee CDC. Uh we have to pay 149,000 for the uh section 108 loan for producers park and then co- compliance 38,000. What what is code compliance that 38,000? Uh we pay for one co- compliance person to stay in the uh target areas to help us keep keep those neighborhoods clean, safe. Salary then? Yes, those salary. You benefit the salaries. Yes, sir. Okay. Thank you. And lastly, here's a recommendation for the allocation of home funds. Uh asking 25,000 for home administration. Uh 99,000 for first-time home buyers assistance. Uh 46,000 for tenant based rental assistance for

[1:22:16] special needs. And then 83,000 to our CHOT who happens to be GI CDC. And a reminder that uh we do have to provide funds to the CHOTO as part of the home grant uh rules and regulations. And uh we're asking at this time uh council doesn't if council doesn't have any any changes uh we'll develop the final action plan and we'll come back next next uh next meeting to get it approved. So all we're doing now is taking input from from council. Council, do you have input? Start with you. Rod, do you have anything you want to add? No, this this is a good program. I'm I'm very familiar with this program. I've had clients use it over the last 10 years, I think. And um this is it's sad that we are getting less and less money every year and it's it's deteriorating every year, but I think that uh Bob will be able to do a lot of good with what he does have. I know he's doing a good job now. So I I move to approve as presented. It's just a public hearing, so you don't need anything today, do you? No. Marty, you have anything you want to answer? No. John, I too echo what Rody says. The only question I have, where are we on the producers part of it? We have uh another eight 15 years. He's guessing. That's a whole lot of that $149,000. Yeah. 15 years for the $149,000 a year to pay for that. Section loan loans are tough on the CDBG program, but produc general funds to retire that early, couldn't we? We sure could. So that come from Michael, did you have anything? I just didn't want anybody confused over that. Lucy, do you have any input? No, sir. Miss Elizabeth, do you have anything? I've said enough. Thank you, Mayor. Public comment has been Are there any public comments in this public comment section? If not, we have satisfied the law. Yes, sir. You did. Bring us back. I'll be back next next uh meeting. Thank you, buddy. Thank you.

[1:24:18] All right, let's move on now to item G, which is discussion regarding the fiscal year 215 216 budget preparation. Miss Chewen, you are on, ma'am. Good morning. You know, we talked last meeting about the calendar and so I'll I'll skip ahead here. You know, we've got some important dates coming up. We spent much of June and with staff budget reviews and we're continuing those meetings to uh to refine uh the document we're bringing before you today and we'll continue into late July. We will have um a big deadline coming up which I'll talk about shortly. But here we are July 7th talking about the major funds and so of course those include general fund which I I'll actually if you don't mind we'll save for last. Uh there are a lot of moving parts there. I want to make sure we had plenty of time there. but then the other funds, any operating funds over uh a million dollars. And so we'll we also of course in your background we stated that uh we're building this process around the uh the five priorities that were reaffirmed by the council in this year's strategic planning session. And so of course we're mindful of the progress we're making on water supply, uh streets, um salaries, the improved development process, and uh the police station. And so uh where we have already made progress on those, we'll make note of those. uh today and we'll continue to uh strive towards achieving those items. The first fund before you for discussion is related to the state office building fund. Uh rent is proposed at $1.2 million, slightly down uh from the previous year. There's always uh the rates vary slightly there. So, um not much going on there in the way of changes in rents. still uh very healthy with uh occupancy expenditures of course balanced at the 1.1,220,000 uh you'll just see a few changes there in personnel and operations to uh balance to that slightly reduced revenue. Uh, one thing as I'm moving through each

[1:26:22] of these funds, you know, all funds are pending, uh, salary increase discussions. And so, uh, we have a lot of moving parts related to that, but what's before you today does not include, um, a salary increase, although we do anticipate having those discussions with you probably next meeting. In the airport fund, you'll see that revenues, leases, and concessions are proposed at an increase of $121,000 to yield uh proposed revenue of $1,400,000. That's related to a if, if I could say, a back to normal year. If you recall, fiscal year 15, they had quite a few facilities uh vacant, and so they had to cut expenses to balance. Fiscal year 16 is getting into a a healthier uh position. So, proposed revenues at $1.5 million. expenses also exactly balance uh personnel. Last year when uh revenues uh fell uh we reduced one position from the uh uh funding and so that's reinstating that position and uh balancing that budget at the $1.5 million. The expense that the operating expense that's up $91,000 that's largely due to electricity. Of course, there's uh a lot going on with that facility uh renovation and so the electricity charges are uh quite high as we're working through uh completing that. So that's the large uh change you see there. And then in storm water fund, moving on to storm water fund, uh revenue is proposed slightly up at $2,620,000. This is not a result of a fee increase. This is simply an increase in collection and customers. And so expenses also balance at the $2,700,000. You'll see uh personnel up a little bit uh due to the reorg and operations up a little bit. About half of that is charged by uh caused by I apologize for the vehicle maintenance and about half of that is caused by the increase in a UCR contract. The water fund, you'll see that water sales are proposed flat. Uh we're continuing the conversations

[1:28:24] through the implementation of the water rate study. and any discussions going along with that. And so if there is an opportunity to uh correct the water fund budget for any changes implemented from that, we'll get that in in time for the budget ordinance to be adopted uh with those new rates and charges if any. Um however, if that water rate study discussions, if they do postpone past uh the budget adoption timeline of August, September, we'll certainly implement that in a budget amendment. So, in short, we're kind of in a holding pattern until we know uh what's going to happen with with all of that. And of course, this is a council priority as it relates to water supply. And again, I think a lot of information will be implemented in the budget once we know more what's going on with with that study. In water expenditures, of course, the budget balance is at $23,331,000. you'll see that personnel increased uh $29,000, but there's a corresponding decrease in operations. That's largely due to the um Hickory water supply crew that was implemented that the council adopted um additional full-time uh positions and they were added uh they were in the budget. They just needed to be moved to payroll. So, that's uh in the original proposed budget for 16 in the wastewater fund. I think there will also be some impact from the rate study for wastewater as well. So, this one as well, we're in a a holding pattern. Revenue is proposed flat pending uh new information. And in wastewater expenditures, of course, they balance uh at $9,718,000. Uh personnel is up slightly, and that's primarily due to the implementation of the incentive pay uh for eligible folks. And then in operations, there was a correction to the franchise fee budget. And so, that's been corrected in the um operations and included there. The next fund is related to the civic events fund. Of course, a lot of uncertainty. Oh, my apologies. In the wastewater fund, we also have a reduction of $100,000 in the wastewater pilot that's been directed by council. And so, that's already built into this

[1:30:27] budget since we have uh clear uh direction on where we're going with that. So, that's already included in the civic events fund. Revenue and hotel occupancy tax of course is uncertain. We believe that we're seeing the uh the end of the the boom that we've been experiencing. And so we've proposed the budget at $2,300,000. So that's a $200,000 decrease. Uh we are working closely with the Convention and Visitors Bureau with their metrics and their um data that's coming forth so that we can um uh be on top of this. So we've proposed it down. we may propose it down even further, but we're we're we're keeping a close eye on that and we'll certainly report back to you as we have that information. Um, on the other side of revenue, you'll see other revenue has increased by almost $100,000 and that's largely due to uh the venues. The venues are performing well. um we have huge occupancy stuff going big stuff going on every weekend and so you'll see that that growth in revenue is occurring in that way in the expenditures for the civic events fund um personnel up slightly I believe that's changes in um benefits and uh turnover the operations are up about $61,000 that's largely due to the downtown Stangelo contract being implemented the $37,000 increase there and uh other expenses in operations to reinvest that venue income in operations. Are you talking about a hotel motel? I mean in the sense of downtown the downtown organization the downtown national incorporated contract um was approved earlier this year uh half from general fund and half from hotel occupancy tax. And so that's implementing half of that um in the civic events fund from hotel occupancy tax. Yes, ma'am. And then I do have I'm sorry, but one correction under Morgan. Does this include the CVB contract in the operations line? Yes, it does. That includes all transfers out to the Convention and Visitors Bureau, um St. Angelo Cultural Affairs Council and

[1:32:29] downtown St. Angelo. And they're included here flat with no increases. Okay. Thank you. In the capital line for 67,500. My apologies. That should actually simply be $30,000 for a total expenditures of $2,396,000. So, a total revenue over expenditures of $550,000. Uh just a a a correction that we had to make there. And that's for uh a new stage that's needed, reinvesting that that venue income in the general fund. As as I spoke, there's a lot of moving parts in the general fund. And of course, this is where we spend a lot of time uh through the budget process. And so I have um before you today the the revenues that are proposed under taxes uh they're proposed at $48,634,000. That's about a $1.2 million increase. Um that's almost entirely due to a a proposed increase in sales tax. We do anticipate that sales tax would increase by $1.2 million. We do have some uncertainty there. We've had some some months where we're down month over month and some months when we're up. The $1.2 2 million is actually where we think we'll finish fiscal year 15. Uh when we adopted the budget for fiscical year 15 sales tax, uh we were very conservative and uh it were exceeding that even with this uncertainty that that's going on. And so uh we had I believe taxes for them for sales transacted in February. So the month of April was down about 5% compared to April 2014. The month of May was up almost 6% compared to May 2014. And then the month of June was down less than a percent. So it's the the bouncing ball effect. We're watching it very closely, but even if we just finished flat for the rest of this year, it would be $1.2 million more than our current budget. So we did think that it was appropriate to go ahead and add that to the 16 budget. Have you have we tracked what happens with hotel motel occupancy versus sales tax? Is there can you see any relationship in the movement of those

[1:34:30] two? there there is some relationship in that as it relates to um for example when you have big events for example the rodeo February 2015 was a um was a hard month for hotel occupancy tax and for sales tax um February 20 we received it of course in April for sales transacted in February February 2014 sales volume was high it was at what we would identify now as the peak of the market and so now that hotel occupancy mergency taxes down and sales taxes down a little bit. We are seeing some of that. Um February stood out certainly uh because we do always expect that to be a high month because of the the tourism related to rodeo for sales and hot. I I know there's there's no exact science in this based on a lot of optimism what's going on in the community. It's just interesting to me that you are concerned about hotel motel occupancy tax, but you're being slightly more optimistic about um sales tax. And there are there are some different variables. It is a slightly different industry. So, for example, in hotel occupancy tax, not only is tax revenue down, but occupancy is down 20 and 30%. And so that's why I mean we're quite confident that that that's going to continue that the that the hotel occupancy tax um boom is going to re revert to a normal curve. You know, we've had an extraordinary growth in sales tax. We see that statewide and nationwide that consumer confidence is still high. And so we're watching that closely for for those kind of reports to support that since the tourism and the out of town is a part of sales tax, but there's a lot of other contributions to that as well. Sure. Charlotte in does your budget numbers include there being another reduction in occupancy as six more hotels come online by the end of this year. It's a hard year to in in it's a hard year to work with. Yeah. In a word, yes. We're we're trying we you know not only

[1:36:32] have we proposed a reduction in revenue but we've also managed those expenses that uh to keep for example our partners at the convention and visitors bureau and ourselves at civic events to be at a level to operate at a normal level. So we do expect that there will be an impact with these new hotels coming online that not only is occupancy down but as competition increases rates will be down. And so, um, the $200,000 decrease that we've proposed, um, did take into account that, but, again, we're watching it very closely in case a further reduction needs to be considered. Um, to speak to that specifically, the civic events fund is proposed at a revenue over expenditures of $550,000. There's that small correction there. So, we could reduce revenue another $550,000 and still balance to expenses. And so that's the re the uncertainty in the revenue is as as good as my crystal ball versus your crystal ball. It's very difficult but we made we were intentional in managing those expenses so that they didn't grow abnormally with the extraordinary growth. If we shoot low then we're happy with anything over correct. Yes ma'am. Conservative. So again with the taxes uh the only moving part there really is sales tax. We are still waiting on uh certified values related to property tax. And so, as I mentioned earlier when we were looking at the calendar, that July 25th date is key uh for us to be able to bring you final proposed revenues for general fund by that first meeting in August. And so, we've been working closely with the uh appraisal district uh on Saturday, July 4th, we got final details from them on what the estimates at this time would be. And so, that was of course after print of the publication. We do if if if estimates can be implemented in the budget, that would be a $700,000 marginal revenue. And so that's about a $2.4% increase over fiscal year 15's original budget. And so we do see that there's going to be some capacity there in property tax. And we do anticipate that that would be our our primary source to rely on for uh implementing the council priorities and and other

[1:38:36] items. So, we do see that there's going to be additional growth there in taxes, and we will bring that information to you as soon as we can we can develop it. Um, I'm sorry, let me make sure I've got everything. Oh, the other revenue that's proposed is an increase of almost $250,000. That's largely due to implementing the results of the fee review. And so, uh, a lot of moving parts there. That's an increase, though. Yes. That's huge. Yeah, I mean I think code compliance alone was half of that. Tried to get more in expenditures. Uh you'll see that personnel is proposed that about a $900,000 increase. A lot of that's related to implementing the uh meeting confer contract. Of course, that contract had already been negotiated and we knew going into fiscal year 16 preparation what the cost of that would be. So it's almost a $700,000 of that $900,000 increase. The other of it is related to different reorganizations that have occurred. Um the just to make clear, you've included the raises necessary for to to fund the meet and confer contract. Okay. But not others. Correct. Okay. Thank you. In operations, you'll see that uh operating expenses and capital are down almost $3 million. That's largely related to carryovers. We're preparing we're comparing the fiscical year 15 current budget to the fiscical year 16 proposed budget. And so really nobody's original budget has been decreased by millions of dollars to to make this balance. The um for example street maintenance, one of the council priorities that's funded uh flat. That's about a $4.1 million investment for that crew and those expenses. And so that is uh proposed flat for fiscal year 16. And I believe last year we talked about that that put us on an 8-year maintenance cycle. And so we're still holding the line on that. The Thank you. Yes, sir. The uh revenues over expenditures for the

[1:40:38] general fund are uh $481,000. And so that together with any marginal revenue from property tax will be available to reinvest in other council priorities um and any other items that that that may come up that may be needed for consideration. For example, we're hearing very early on uh we're in the very early development of uh a potential need for an increase in the contribution to health insurance. We do anticipate that there will be um a contribution needed there. We do not have amounts to bring you on that yet. We also one thing u one item of note last year for fiscal year 15 we reduced uh pay as you go capital by $1.5 million to be able to reinvest that in street maintenance and meet that council priority immediately. uh we did not intend for that to be a permanent solution. We hoped that in future years with through revenue growth. We would be able to replenish that pay as you go capital and get that to a level so we can continue to to fund capital projects. And so that is not included in the budget at this time. We did not have the capacity to to add uh any amount related to that. And so we do anticipate that for for next meeting, for example, we're going to continue uh discussions of the major funds and start really putting sharpening our pencil on to what extent can we fund each of the council priorities and each of the other items that that need to be considered at this time. That's all I have. Thank you, Morgan. That's all we need to do on that. It's just uh it's just discussion. Just discussion for our information. Thank you very much. Stay where you are. H is the first public hearing and consider adopting an ordinance amending permits and inspection fees. So, we've been through this process for fee review. We've had um um lots of discussion as it relates uh spec to all fees, but specifically to uh the permits and inspections fees. And so, we are on track for implementing those. Uh the fees proposed, these are as uh directed by the council uh in the June meeting.

[1:42:41] And so these 13 items for you, for example, the the residential permit, the commercial permit, etc. Those are the 13 fees as discussed at the last meeting. This is simply the first public hearing of the ordinance to uh put that into place. Move to approve as presented. Second. Do have a motion to approve as presented. Any council discussion further on this public comment on this item? All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Nay. Put a 61 on that one, Brian. Okay. Next is I. First public hearing. An introduction of an ordinance amending the And this is a typo. Let's correct this. This is a 2014 2015 budget for grants and new projects. Thank you, mayor. I have before you several items. Um some some housekeeping items that we need to correct. Uh the first I'll go through these. I'm in the additional information in the background. Um the first item for consideration is utility billing statements. Uh we're in need of funding that at the level of the the minimum amount of the contract plus the increases in postage that have occurred. And so um that's a revenue neutral to the general fund of $22,000 in uh transferring from water fund for administering that and $22,000 in expense uh for the contract to uh prepare those statements for us. The next item is municipal court public information request. that's related to a change in our accounting process that we've we've always been collecting this fee in this way, but now we're able to reinvest it in municipal court expenses so they can cover their expenses for these items that come through. So, $1,568 there. The next item, as we discussed earlier, is related to implementing the downtown St. Angelo contract as it was approved by council March 17th that there's $37,500 we're going to increase hotel occupancy tax revenue by to fund the total expense of $75,000. Half general fund, half hotel occupancy tax. Uh the remainder of that coming from general fund fund balance.

[1:44:46] Are we paying the same amount that we agreed to last year? Yes, sir. The rest is coming from the hotel. In the past, last year and in previous years, the downtown St. financial contract was funded with the type B sales tax and so it was uh budgeted in the development corporation and then in the March discussions with council it was decided that we would fund half of it with hotel occupancy tax and half of it with general fund dollars right can we see a breakdown the next meeting on that I'd like to see what are we spending all that money on $75,000 from the downtown Stangelo group that's our contribution to I think they're I think they make a regular report to council as part of that contract. Okay. That's good. Brian, do do you recall when the next report is due? The last one was last month, wasn't it? When Brenda and Dale were down here. So, we got a couple more months. It's a couple more months before they make another report on downtown activity. We're good. Y'all y'all talk to us if if that's not soon enough and you want to revisit. No, I'm good on that. I mean, it's just a lot of money that on on that. I'm glad we're not paying more than what we agreed. Uh, and that's proposed flat as well for the fiscal year 16. Uh, the next item is environmental health programming. That revenue is uh exceeding budget and so they need that to reinvest in in programming. And so that's $9,24 to increase the revenue for those health inspections. This is not a result of the increased fees. it's a result of increased volume and so we uh want to be able to reinvest that in the uh programming for those folks to support that service. The next item is related to TEI incentive for the south fund $277,000 to utilize that fund balance as approved by the TEI board uh December 17th. And same thing in the north fund that we have $714,000 in fund balance that they've approved to access or recommended for approval to access for incentives and uh implementation of

[1:46:49] their incentive program. Morgan, can you go back a minute on the TEI funds? Is that the is that what Say that again. Is that what's in the is that the balance? That's the balance of previous year's revenue and excessive expenditures. So, it's all fallen to fund balance and we need that accessed in the budget so that the incentives policy can be implemented. So, the TIE board is recommending to council that all available funds be placed in this year's budget. Yes, ma'am. Morgan, on the environmental the in you said increase volume, does it more businesses coming online or what's more volume? Yes. In a word? Yes. I guess that's a good It's not an increase in the fee. It's an increase in the number of customers paying these services. One last question on the tiers. Do is that normal that we would spend all the money that's in there? The the funds are restricted and can only be used in accordance with the the tiers. And so it's it really could go either way. Do we leave it in fund balance until we need it? And and they've identified that they do need it. And so it's um for restricted funds, we have to be able to track them in that way and spend them and as allowed by law. and and so it's not unusual that we would access all of it and have it available in that way. You know, ordinarily you build a fund balance so that you have it when there's inclement economic activity. So for example, the general fund, we want to have a healthy fund balance so that if a sales talk if if if we have a year where sales tax doesn't perform well, then we can rely on that. For the tears fund, they don't have that kind of activity. You don't have a fund balance to rely on in poor economic climate. You have a fund balance until you're ready to do a big project. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. The next item there is related to the hotel occupancy tax audit as approved by the council June 2nd that we would access $40,000 of that surplus hotel occupancy tax receipts this year to do that uh audit. And then the other item as approved earlier this morning that the wastewater reuse piloting will have $1.2 million in the development

[1:48:51] corporation type B sales tax contribution to our asset and performing that piloting for 1.2 million in expense. So revenue neutral to the uh water capital fund. And that's all I have for you. The total budget before budget amendment before you is 2,339,632. Do you need any action on this or is this just a report? I do need a motion, please. Okay. Need some help on this one. Motion to approve. Second. Okay. I'll take Elizabeth's motion. I think I heard you say second first, John. We'll take yours. Any further discussion from council? public comment on this item all in. I'm sorry. I just wanted to clarify on the downtown St. Angelo. They uh did give their report on May 5th and it is bianual now. So they did both all the way from October to March at that time. So it'll it'll be in November most likely. Unless you want an additional report, Rodney, at which time we can. No, because they'll waste more money. Okay. Thank you. Do have a motion to approve as presented. I do have a second. Do I have public comment on this? Do I have any further council comment? All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Thank you, Morgan. Thank you. And now, I suppose we are ready for our close session. And this will be a marathon session. Let me read them. Executive session under the revision of Governor Code, Title 5, Open Government Ethics, Subtitle A, Open Government, Chapter 551, Open Meetings, Subchapter D, exceptions to requirement that meetings be open under the following sections. Number one, section 5510711A to consult with an attorney when the governmental body seeks the advice of its attorney about pending or contemplated litigation regarding martyr for Hurstfield Energy Systems LLC TA L. Number two, section 551072 to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real property pertaining to the Spur parking garage. Number three, section 551072 to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease, or value of real

[1:50:54] property pertaining to the office building located at 301 West Bogard Avenue. Number four, section 551087 to discuss an offer of financial or other incini to a company or companies with whom the city of St. Angelo is conducting economic development negotiations and which the city of St. Angelo seeks to have locate stay or expand in St. Angelo, one energy, renewables. And number five, section 5510712, consult with the attorney on a matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas disciplinary rules of professional conduct of the state bar of Texas clearly confixs with this item. And this is of course consent item number 5L. It is 11:13. I'm guessing we're going to have to take an hour just to deal with these and then So I'm going to say I'm guessing I'm guessing Hold on. The other two items were one one renewable one renewable energies was already on there. So it's already Yeah, it's already there. It's already there. I'm guessing an hour and a half to an hour and 45 minutes. What do you think, boss? She Hour to an hour and a half. An hour to an hour and a half. So it's 11:15. So we're looking at 12:15 to 12:45. As quickly as we can get through this executive will be back. I'm leaning toward 12:45. It is 11:13. this. We are now into executive. It is 12:36. I'm calling the meeting back to order at this time. And let's see where we are on the agenda. We are to consent agenda number L. This is consider approval and ratification of the city of St. Angelo Development Corporation's approval of the first amendment to the economic development performance agreement by and between the city of St. Angelo Development Corporation and Medhab LLC. Mr. Pena, just give us a tell us exactly what this agreement is. This this agreement uh simply uh

[1:52:59] clarifies the the current uh lease incentive agreement. Currently we have an economic development agreement that states that um they were entitled to this is Medap Corporation entitled to being at 2009 West Bogard. They are no longer at that facility. They are at the West Section Training Center. Uh that lease expires August 31st and they are to renew their own lease beginning August 31st or September 1st of this year. So this amendment then says that the coast of DC will no longer be responsible for the for the lease on the building that Medhab would be responsible for this themselves. That is correct. It takes us off of it. That's correct. Very well. Do I have a move to approve? Do I have a move? Motion to approve. Do I have a second? Second. Do we have a second? Elizabeth second. Good deal. We got a motion. We have a second. Is there any further council council discussion here? Do I have public comment? All in favor of this, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Nay. Put a 61 on it, please. And we are now ready. And this was in our executive and we will have a presentation update by one energy renewables on the potential solar project in the city of St. Angelo. uh Roland Pena as close to DC and then the presentation will be by Jim Bradford who is the director in the project development out of Seattle, Washington. Mr. Pñena, let me let me just provide a a quick uh update on this on this project. Back in August of 2014, we brought a lease agreement back uh to the city council uh for execution of uh leasing 80 acres of city land north of the industrial park. Uh subsequent to that, we came back uh last month and we brought an amendment to that seeking an additional 63 acres. We're very excited about this project. It is a um solar park project. And uh with that, Jen

[1:55:03] Bradford, the director of project development, wanted to come in provide an update and an introduction to her company and the project itself. With that, I'll turn it over to Jen. Hello and thank you for having me and having us. My name is Jennifer Bradford. I'm the director of development with One Energy Renewables and I'm here to introduce our company and the project that we hope to bring to San Angelo. Uh first a little bit about us. We are a team of energy developers. We're based out of Seattle, Washington. And what we do is we we secure an advanced projects, renewable energy projects of various sizes and turn them over to uh owner operators and people who will use the energy. And we uh take a project from the point of acquiring a land, getting an interconnection agreement, uh getting a power purchase agreement, all the details that need to take place to get a project up and running. and we help to arrange relationships between the entities that will ultimately manage the facility and those who will purchase the power. Most most of the projects that we develop are in that middle range. So they're in that kind of four to 50 megawatt range. So we don't do so much rooftop silver and we don't do the big mega projects, but we like to do projects in that middle size that are well suited to serving local loads and and feeding off of distribution grids. Uh for reference, one megawatt of energy uh in the solar world takes about seven acres of land and it can a one megawatt can feed about roughly 300 to 400 homes depending on the area that you're looking at and the energy use of that area. We are also looking in addition to Texas which is of big interest to us right now. We look in markets out east,

[1:57:05] Maryland, New York and and the Northwest. There hasn't been a lot of activity in Texas lately and we're very interested interested in bringing more solar energy to Texas. So in terms of the development process, there are many different components that are necessary to bring a project online. What we do is we we start by gaining site control and we've been working with the city on that. We found a good site. We take a project through its interconnection studies and and we've just received a study back from AE. Um they've been working on that for several months. So we have we have an idea of the upgrades required and how we're going to interconnect the project. Uh and then remaining items. These can happen sometimes in any order, but we pursue contracts, a power purchase contract, uh get land use and site control permits and and then talk to um owner operators for the facility. So we're working out all these details right now. Uh these are some of the other markets we're involved in. The Mosquite project is the project we call um this this project we're hoping to develop in San Angelo. It's near the city's business industrial park uh and US67. The project would be about 10 megawws and so the footprint would be about 80 acres and with the surrounding site facilities that might take 120 130 so acres of land. We think it's a great location for solar not just for the solar resource but the fact that it has good interconnection potential. It's a flat site and it's located away from major residences. So while solar is generally a low impact use, this wouldn't have any any question of impact since it's not near residential uses. We've uh walked the site with our surveyor so far and we've had some discussions with a Texas North. Uh we're also we have co been coordinating with

[1:59:09] Roland the economic development team and the and the city planners about the remaining steps to get the projects into into construction. and and I'll say the city and and Roland and his team have been so helpful and just a pleasure to work with. So, we have a few elements to work through, but if all goes well, we hope to start construction by mid 2016, if not earlier. We see this as a project that could be uh up and running for 20 years with a power purchase agreement. and um it would be a great interesting project to the city and could bring additional benefits like construction jobs. So, we hope to keep moving forward and I'm happy to answer any other questions you may have about the project. That's very interesting. Is this the first one in the state of Texas? No, it is not. There's some very big solar projects uh uh a little bit further um west of here and some in into planning, but um I think it will be the first in this area certainly. Wonderful. Council, do we have questions? John, was it Jennifer? Yes. So, uh a project like this then you feed into what grid? Our the city's grid. The how does it work? It's it's the grid that's owned by A and ultimately uh it has an impact on on URKD and the whole transmission system for Texas. So, um like most projects of this this type and of this size, we do interconnection studies with them. We work with them to make sure that it's not a a constraint on the grid or any upgrades that are required. We know what those are and we are responsible for some of those upgrades. So you said that one megawatt will will will service about 300 homes or so roughly. That will depend on the geographic area you're talking about. In some regions where it's hot, people use their air conditioners more, but that's kind of a general benchmark for what a megawatt can serve. So this this project would I'm looking at the output 19,700 megawws

[2:01:12] uh megawatt hours per year. That's a a different way of expressing the same unit of energy, but yes. So then we all get free electricity. producing that much. Uh uh the the power still gets sold through a contract but it doesn't get sold at the household level. Just checking. Yeah. Who generally do you see though as the purchaser of the power? It could be we have sold power to um institutions like universities or private companies. Ultimately, it we will work either with a utility or a retail electric provider who they're the ones that deliver or provide energy to homeowners. So, we're not delivering it directly to homeowners, but we work through them. Yeah. Just what you're putting into the grid versus what someone else is pulling out. Correct. There's no there's no proximity issue here. It's just a it's like brokering the That's correct. So have has on the on the front end of this and I understand your developers that's very it is very interesting. Is there any conversation yet? You're not to the point of selling this? We are having conversations but we haven't found an ultimate buyer and that is what your organization will do? That's correct. And what is the federal what is the federal incentive right now for these projects? Is there still something in existence? Yes, there's a federal incentive called the investment tax credit, the federal ITC that expires at the end of 2016. So projects that want to benefit from that federal tax credit must be online and commercially operational by the end of 2016. And that's why we'd like to start by mid 2016 at the latest. That should give us enough time to get the project up and running. Construction should not take more than a few months for a project of this size, but we just want to be certain. I have one more. Yes, sir. Jennifer, you mentioned Urkott and in the grid in the

[2:03:14] same conversation. So, in your study for this project, what have you found out as far as is there a grid complete that that taps us into East Texas or where are we as far as grid goes? Um, or is that an AP question? It may be a question for AE the coordination between AE and UROT. So I can tell you we we did our uh what's called the interconnection study with AE also asked us to uh do a a short study to make sure there wasn't an impact of our project on the broader transmission system that's owned and operated and managed by Urkott. So, we did that study as well and they didn't find an impact because I had heard one time that there was a gap or that the the grid wasn't complete yet or we could produce more like wind energy here than than actually anyone could benefit from. That was interesting. We would hear that five five years ago or so. Yeah. I don't we don't know how the infrastructure has changed though. Okay. Further questions from council? Do we have any public comment on this? Thank you, Jennifer. That was a very nice presentation. I'm very excited about this. Thank you very much. Keep working with the Roland. Let's get something done here. Thank you very much. All right. In the executive session, there is nothing to talk about on section one about Martifer Hurstfield. There is nothing to talk about on the Spur parking garage. Uh there is nothing to talk about on the 301 West Borard Avenue. And we just heard the presentation from One Energy Renewables and we took a vote on the No, we didn't. No, we didn't. Yes, we did. No, we didn't. On the Roland's the uh Medhab. We took a vote. We didn't take a vote. We can't take a vote. You can't take a vote. Can't take a vote. We did here. Oh, yes, we did. That's what I say. We already We already dealt with this when we came back into

[2:05:16] open session. We dealt with this. No, we didn't. I'm with you. We can't. That's illegal. But we did talk about it in open session and we did take a vote here and had a 6-1 vote on it. You just made it sound like we took a vote behind. Yeah. Sound like you said we took a vote up there. We did not take a vote. Y'all are confusing me. Get us all. So anyway, executives been taking Get us all orange suits real quick. Okay. So that's consideration possible action on executive number B under eight is consider approving various board nominations. Ford Control Museum board Sarah Hal SMD2 for the first term ending January 218. I need a motion to approve. Move approval. Second. Do I have a motion to approve? A second. Do I have council discussion? Do I have public comment? All in favor of Sarah How? Please say I. I oppose. Nay. Announcements and consider future agenda items. I'll start with you, Miss Grimestaff. I have several things, Mayor. I don't I don't think I'm unique. I've been receiving a lot of uh letters and communications about our future trash service that commences this month. I think a lot of them are not even from my district. So, I would imagine we're u receiving the same calls, the same contacts. Um, I think that we just need to ask that Shane uh work closely with Republic because I think there's a lot of elderly citizens that are very concerned about the weight of the the new trash receptacle and how it moves. And I think there's still some confusion about location. And again, I think all of this uh it it there's an aesthetic issue which we know um and how we're going to enforce those receptacles being left along the street, but I think the issue of weight and maneuverability is also extremely concerning. So, uh that's kind of a consistent message that I keep getting and again I'm I'm pretty certain everyone else is getting the same. So, if you could work with Rey and see what we need to do for citizens that are truly concerned about their their

[2:07:20] strength in moving this thing, we need to I think get ahead of that before the the date of July 20th. Is that right? Also, I had a neighborhood chat several weeks ago or it seems like that. And um we had about uh 45 citizens in attendance and our subject was code compliance and animal services. And coming uh off the heels of the animal services board the week prior, I will say that everybody um was very respectful of each other. Um it was a very emotional topic as uh animals in our community can be. I personally would like to see that the city consider and I say consider this. I'm not saying that we need to pass anything in particular, but I think we really need to investigate a spayneuter ordinance and uh look at what other communities are doing in that realm because I see this as an issue that we can never afford, never truly get ahead of. And um it just seems unfortunate that the outcome is uh destroying animals. Um, I know that we have reduced a great number of those. Uh, our statistics are are definitely down in what we're what we're killing, but again, I think there has to be some, you know, really more of a a solution on the front end of the problem rather than the back end. And so, I would hope that we could spend some time maybe this fall on that. And um, other than that, I don't have anything. Miss Lucy. No, sir. Miss Farmer. Well, I have quite a few things and of course there we brush around town in the various rideways and the mowing and yes, we have been behind because of the rain and short-handed and we have more rain today. So, not complaining of the rain, but citizens, please be aware that uh we are aware and we're working on catching up as fast as we can. Also, I would like to have a report uh when Rick gets back settled in on the half cent sales tax

[2:09:23] project, a graph as to the status and where we are on each commitment and completion date of what's outstanding out there that we used to get in years past if you'll recall. Michael Charlotte, are you are you thinking about the items listed on the ballot? each item that we have a commitment out there on funds uh committed where we are what's funded what's left remaining to fund and a project completion date. Okay. Thank you. The I also would like a data report from the West Texas weather modification for our area. Uh, and also I would like an update as to where we are on the failed street project of recently as to when we think we might be getting to those in the southwest portion of town. Our uh resurfacing that failed as to when we can be looking at getting something done about those streets. I've received quite a few phone calls now that the weather's warming up. Also, I'd like an update with from Tex DOT on their plans and the improvements in the southwest portion of town and particularly Sherwood Way that we met in the fourth floor meeting room and talked about back in February and March of this year to see where we're at. Um then on an update on the non halfsent sales tax projects such as any pool improvements, recreation, parks improvements that is slated where we are and uh just a quick note from Carl would be great. like an update on the Lake Nazworthy parks and recreation area improvements, boat ramps, where we are, what we're waiting on, what we can expect, especially on the boat ramp that u was approved come some time ago that's still not done. I would also like to invite the civic events board to meet with us uh next council meeting at lunch to visit with them and we already have

[2:11:26] we already have a group assigned for that. So great. And the other is to echo on the same as trash that Elizabeth that I do believe there's a lot of confusion out there especially amongst our elderly who are still uncertain as where their trash is being picked up in the back or in the front. And even though their trash cans were delivered in the back by their driveways when they call they're told they have to be in the front. So, I am meeting personally with some people in my district tomorrow evening in their homes uh to discuss trash uh trying to do what I can to explain some misunderstandings out there. There there seems to be quite a bit of confusion and a quite a bit of irritability at never getting anything but a recording uh answering service at Republic. Um, I don't ever get that. I've tried and I get through, but that's the calls that I'm I'm receiving. And before I wrap it up, I want to make one comment on a personal note. I had uh 19 uh out of town family members in town for the 4th of July. And oh, gee, thanks St. Angelo. We did such a wonderful job entertaining. They all want to come back next year. Uh but I do want to say that uh in taking all of the children down to Kid Kids Kingdom and down to the River Stage area on Sunday, um I was so impressed with how clean, neat, well manicured everything was in light of the pops and the Fourth of July. Uh Carl is to be commended their staff because it was just beautiful. And um I just think it's outstanding for the amount of people that was in that area over the weekend. And I want to thank our recreation group and our street group for every attention to detail on some of our tourist spots because it was outstanding. Johnny, the only one thing I have and

[2:13:31] I'm glad Shane's out there. I want to reiterate the intersection of PullM and Maine. It's a it's a terrible accident waiting to happen. So, the idea of the protected left turn signal, I want to just put that bug in your ear again. I don't know where it's at, but it it is it's getting pretty bad. That that's that's just the one I wanted to throw out there. Marty, nothing. Rodney, nothing at this time. Okay. Well, I have a couple here. Uh, first of all, we've already talked about one. and I would like to have a discussion possible action about this uh $25 late fee on the water bill. I'd like to have that on. Number two, I would like to have a discussion with the TEI board to realize just exactly what is council responsibility on these expenditures to tears what TI is able to do. So, I'd like to have something on here to give us clarification what the TEI can do and what the council needs to do and what our responsibility. And number three, this is Monnique Ching's last day in St. Angelo. Oh, and I would like to tell you, ma'am, you have been a breath of fresh air. I have appreciated you. You have you have really been good. You've been good for St. Angelo. I wish you the very best. I understand you going back to Hong Kong for a month and then going to Boston. That is in northeast Texas, I think. Right up around the Texana area if I'm not mistaken. Close to Dallas. And you will be going to to grad school up there or going to school. So, you have really been fine. I I've enjoyed knowing you. You've done an excellent job. She was the employee of the year last year at Standard Times for those that didn't know. But, uh, congratulations and we we enjoyed we we enjoyed you. Yes. And if there is nothing else that I will enter I'm sorry. I just wanted to clarify. Yeah. This coming meeting, we're going to have a meeting with Kosa DC at lunch. In August, we're going to be meeting with uh the ZBA. So, I'll get the civic events board and tiers coming

[2:15:36] up the next se. Mayor, as far as a tears board, do you want to meet with the tears board? No, I'd rather we discuss as far as by I just want to know what the bylaws are with TIE, what what the TEI board is able to do, what their responsibilities, what the responsibility is of the city council because we're ultimately responsible for every expenditure. I just like to I just like to talk to tears and have an update so that we know exactly where we are. We've done this with coast of DC. Let's do it with tears so that we know where we are. And if there's nothing further, I will entertain the very last motion. Second. All in favor say I. This meeting's over.

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