San Angelo City Council 2-5-19

[0:00:02] welcome to our City Council meeting on February the 5th and we will start off this morning with our chaplain prayer and so if we could please come forward and to the esteemed members of the City Council our city manager our madam clerk and honorable department heads and guests good morning and thank you for this opportunity to do the prayer let's pray father Lord you are the creator of the heavens and the earth we pause in the business of our lives to recognize and reflect upon the power you have entrusted to us may we have the wisdom to use that power and our influence to build up the whole human family and especially the citizens and guests of this great city may city San Angelo be recognized by those within and without as a city that values neighborhoods neighborly people cherish education and wisdom promotes justice and compassion encourage business and rewards hard work supports the Arts and rewards our artists celebrates together as a wonderfully diverse family models politics that adds values to the lives of all bless now this council meeting as council members deal with details and visions and may all those of goodwill join together in advancing the promise and the purpose of our people amen Thank You Marcela that was wonderful we will now do our pledges and today we

[0:02:06] have the Central High School cheer team members Junior junior Carley Wallace and seniors Maddie Garnett Shaylee Stewart and acacia Wylie would you please come forward and hopefully I pronounced your name somewhat close to what you're used to hearing so you might correct me and get it right go ahead and okay okay shyly good all right so let's turn we will now do the one proclamation that we have today and it is recognition of Senegal Central High School cheerleaders being named national champions so we have a lot of cheerleaders in the audience would you like to come forward girls and guys and guy come on around this way too so you can I'm back here for anybody who wants to come back here okay we congratulate the San Angeles Central High School

[0:04:09] cheerleaders for earning the title of national champions at the national cheer Association's annual competition held on Saturday January the 26th 2019 in Dallas Texas Central High School's cheer team competed against 23 other teams in their division in order to win this much sought-after national championship this is the Bobcats fourth overall title and their first title in this division in addition to being named national champions overall they were also named national champions in cheer and runner-up in the fight song categories this year's 28 member cheer team is coached by Matt sq and Amanda chambers this is Matt 16th year and Amanda's second year coaching this group of outstanding young people therefore I Brenda Gunther mayor of the city of San Angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby recognize and applaud the Central High School cheerleaders for their achievement and positive determination to make a difference in our community thank you do we have someone who would like to speak is Matt here or Amanda this group of girls worked really hard this year and never gave up even though it was kind of a rough start to the year they were determined worked hard and pushed each other from the beginning and I couldn't be more thankful for that is the Mandy here yeah just reflect what Matt said this year's started off like a

[0:06:18] little rough but everyone had determination and the girls always came together as a team at the end of the day so I was really neat to see and it was a well-deserved win for them we're gonna have a picture taken so Matt congratulations [Laughter] Congrats certainly races for them yeah all right we will now move into public

[0:08:27] comment issues or items that are not on the regular agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should speak from the podium begin by stating their name and limit remarks to less than three minutes council members may request that 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 I want to start off by making an announcement that City Council city staff and the railroad museum have a final contract it has been signed and the railroad museum has officially are officially under contract with the city of San Angelo to continue to run the railroad museum a lot of people keep asking about it and want to know what's happened with that well we've got a railroad museum back in action and a formal contract so thank you everybody who worked hard to put that together we will any public comment today with no public comment we will move into the consent agenda and I'm going to start by pulling items e F and G Billy do you have any that you would like to pull there I'd like to pull item C and item J laine all right do I have a motion to accept the consent agenda with the exception of items C e F G and J is there a second motion is made by Tom seconded by Billy any public comment Thank You mayor I'm Steve Hampton I was

[0:10:35] hoping that you would pull II also I did any other public comment with no public comment we will take a vote on approving the consent agenda with the exception of item C e F G and J all in favor with none opposed consent agenda approved we will start by discussing items C consider approving one a master agreement with Kilis almond architects and authorizing the city manager to execute all related documents to restore the masonry at City Hall and to task order one in the amount of $85,000 to research investigate document and establish the causation and required masonry and waterproofing requirements for the repair and waterproofing of the exterior City Hall walls hi Ron how are you today one man Thank You counsel yes ma'am Ron I was just hoping for the benefit of the citizens that are observing this if you could just share with us briefly what happened how it was discovered and the potential impact if we don't do something about this the when the project was renovated building back in 2010 11 12 there was some construction that requires her removal of some of the stone because it was showing to being separating from the how it was attached to the wall and some water infiltration at the time there was limited funds and there was not the desire I guess to spend the money additional beyond the scope of the project to expand the scope of the project to do that so since then we've had the building renovated and we may have had some infiltration we do we knew we had some roof leaks before and some infiltration through the stone we just didn't know the extent and when you tighten up your building with really better windows and the new roof

[0:12:38] then we saw as isolate to the walls and they at the time kill us and his staff did documentation with our construction guys of where there are some separations and that's cracks in the mortar joints to be simple like the wall behind you if it cracks and the rain hits it it's going to go through and when it goes through it's going to come out somewhere well it's not waterproofed on those existing clay tile block so it comes into the building instead of going out of the building like it's supposed to and the potential impact if we don't allow more as the freeze and thaw cycles occur when your water gets into the mortar joints and it gets wet it expands when it freezes it'll expand more and there's it shrinks it'll crack and then those stones can separate and move more and the attachment methods are wire instead of a more substantial steel and there's no waterproofing behind there so over time you're going to have more movement you're going to take out more water and that could lead to what water gets in the building and causes it can be mold and we had that before I came here years ago in the early 2000s in the basement where it infiltrated and got in there and so that's the first step and then you start worrying about stone coming detached from the wall if the wire behind it that gets wet and rust and when it fails the stone is going to come down the research I mean we know what the issues are what the problems are the $85,000 to do the research and everything that's important that is research in this case is it's not like a typical let's go look at it and see what the problem is it's we have to set a scaffold up around the building in a portion of it we have to take the stone off the wall to see what the problems are where we do see cracks and so there's a there's a lot of costs involved with labor that's not just looking at it and then the consultant Kilis will look at it he has a team of engineers that work with them on the building originally that know how to design the attachment methods and the Weeping methods to let the water out and

[0:14:42] the waterproofing method so it's going to be set up some scaffold take some stone down see what we've got design a method to both waterproof reattach the stone and regrow out it in and then move to the next section and we don't notice the sections are all going dealt with the same way because they may not have been done the same way originally we did do research of the original documents to the building what they found in taking some of the stone that was failing then the joints was it wasn't attached the way it was designed to originally and that was in 28 so 19 yeah not to say that methods as designed and constructed aren't always changed in the field but for various reasons but it's time to look at it and let's keep it from we don't want to wind up seeing a piece of block on the ground one day and we don't want to have more water infiltration like we do now for health reasons for anything else and it was just this was discovered if I'm not mistaken at the time we were redoing the building then it was but no one wanted to spend the money then so just come back to bite us because there wasn't you know it's one of those things it doesn't go away it could just get worse and more expensive and the good thing is the methodology is sound that because we have small sections of the building that we can take apart at one time you I'd like to you know put the whole building wrapped up with scaffolding like we do in our state and federal capitols but we're not going to fund it like that so small pieces all right thanks Ron I appreciate that I don't know if there any more questions but I move to approve item C there's a motion and a second any public comment on item C no public comment on item C we'll take a vote all in favor of approving item C say aye aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 we'll move on to item e consider ratifying cos'è DC's approval of updates to the business retention and

[0:16:47] expansion program plan incentives policy guidelines and marketing plan Shannon you're on good morning Shannon Scott business retention and expansion coordinator with the city and I'd be happy to answer any questions in regards to this item tell us what the updates are so essentially what we did is the last time that these program plans and guidelines were updated we're about five years ago so we figured new year new person coming in to take over the program it was time to really sit down and redo these policies because they were outdated so we sat down and we actually combined the program plan the policy and the guidelines into one document because several of those documents were very redundant it was a lot of repetitive information so in order to kind of streamline that and make it easier to understand we consolidated those documents into one easy to read up-to-date document so what we also did when we go out and we speak to these companies and we're you know doing research into these projects we kind of get a feel for what they're wanting as far as their company and incentives are concerned so with that said a lot of the demand comes from a capital investment incentive so we actually added that to our to our policy to include that as a potential incentive that they can receive we rewarded the job creation incentive we actually eliminated there were several specific life safety incentives that were very specific and instead of having those as specific items we just lump those into the capital investment incentive so again it would be not so stringent but a little bit more flexible when it comes to you capital investment incentives we also updated our tax abatement and rebate schedule again that was very complicated it was over a 10-year period it was just very very convoluted and hard to understand so we truncated that and put it into a four year four year period and did a sliding scale from a hundred percent down to seventy percent so one hundred percent for year one ninety-four year two eighty for year three and 70 for year four so again a lot easier to understand and read again we I'm here

[0:18:52] for the tax abatement goes away yes ma'am so it only lasts for the four years and after that it's complete we also updated I'm sorry I'm sorry so they have to put their capital investment in first before they start to receive these benefits we have to see some proof of that absolutely so they have to again when we meet and we sit down and generate an agreement they have to give us a capital investment amount and they do have to meet that before we pay anything out so they do meet that and they have to show proof of payment that that has been met before we expend any funds to that company on the job creation if one was to say okay so you're gonna create more jobs as there is there's a baseline from which that is determined meaning if you go from one to two you can do that or is there how do we determine the job creation so typically there is some sort of retention aspect to that again cosa dici does not fund new enterprises so there has to be some sort of established jobs already in place so when we construct the agreement we typically will start with the baseline and again that depends on what they already have in place so it could be for employees and they could say we would create up to 64 or something like that so we start with their retention number and then go to an up to number for the job creation and is there a timeline on which those jobs must be put in place like the abatement which is a four year plan what is the job creation plan typically it's three years so they have three years to create those jobs so again we had a lot of specific workforce training business training and things like that that again we're very outdated as you know those project programs tend to update each year so we just updated those to be more reflective of what we have currently going on as far as training and things like that our marketing plan was extremely outdated we were using marketing techniques that were very kind of old-school that weren't working so we

[0:20:55] updated that as well as that done and how is that new what's the new so some of the programs that we have been using in the past were things like newspaper ads radio ads television ads and we weren't getting a lot of response from those as far as people calling coming in the office and inquiring about the program so what we've done and what we've seen what the chamber has done that's seen a lot of success with their Sarma program is actually going out speaking to these companies and getting testimonials so that's a new avenue that we're going to pursue as far as actually getting out meeting with the businesses showcasing their job and then having them explain to us the success that they've had through our bret program as far as highlights is up on updates that's really all we did again I think the main goal was just to consolidate the documents so that it was easier to read less paper more streamlined and up to date what's your goal for this year in terms of your business retention expansion program so again we've already got two contracts in the works we have met with or have meetings with three companies in the next week or so so we're really progressing quickly again I would personally like to have I mean I think we had maybe one Brep contract last year so we're already ahead of where we were last year which is great but again to get out get the testimonials get the marketing plan working networking with these folks building relationships and things of that nature what's your goal for a number of companies you want to contact per month or or annually we don't really have a set goal I have a I mean a personal goal I would like to get out or call or network with maybe five to ten companies a month which we have been doing in conjunction with the chamber we've been getting out and networking with those folks and visiting them so we're I think we're on the right path as far as building those relationships do I have further questions or comments from Council no further comments or

[0:23:00] questions from Council I'm moved to approve item E is there any public comment Steve Hampton these policies seem to be quite readable to me and I don't see a need for change especially the policy in this cent this is a half cent sales tax funded by the goodwill of the citizens of this city and so we're trying to help people within our community already and then you want to keep increasing the tax abatements that is that is not good these should decrease on a 25% increment instead of a 10% bleeding to a 100% on the first year seventy-five seconds 50 and 25 used to be 5050 I believe and they they've increased it even more so this is on it's not right in my thinking that the also the appraisal district are we asking appraisal district what this is going to cost us we need to get there's some other people that we need to ask about the long-term goals are seem to be competitive with local business instead of helpful to increasing the you know if we already have one and we're trying to get in another to cut down hard to increase competition that is not always helpful to the community and so I would ask especially on this Steve when you say competition what are you talking about when you say well their long term goals if you look over that I think need to be re-written I don't I don't agree with

[0:25:05] half of them and I don't have them before me I apologize so if we have if we have a funeral home in town and we bring in another funeral home it's not going to be necessarily helpful especially if the rates are already low you know this could be any other current product I happened to be in that line so this needs to be rethought I think thank you thank you any further public comment there it's a good Shannen correct me if I'm wrong but business retention and expansion has to do with businesses which already exist in this location this program doesn't bring businesses to town so much as it assists existing businesses yes correct you are correct so the the question about bringing in competing businesses from out of town is not relevant to this program is that correct exactly so we we focus on taking care of existing businesses that are already located here go ahead and repeat again what brap stands for it stands for business retention and expansion program so it's not about new businesses coming into town correct growing the ones who are already paying taxes that's right and on the abatement when you go from year one to year four so it's 100 to 70 and then it drops off to zero that's correct so what is the 70% so what we'll do when we structure an agreement and again we don't do a whole lot of abatements or rebates just again because most companies would rather have a capital investment incentive or job creation as opposed to the to the abatement or the rebate but what we'll do is we'll see the baseline of what their property is appraised at and then that increment of increase once they do say the capital investment they expand their building or purchase more equipment that increment

[0:27:09] of the increase is what we would rebate excuse me or abate them on based on that percentage year so say it's year three and their price appraisal has gone up $2,000 then we would abate 70% of that so even as it decreases you're really not going to see a whole lot of increase from the original value say from the time after the improvements are made does that make sense so it's you kind of do the improvements it and that's where your big increased stands it doesn't really keep going up substantially over the four years thank you do I have any further public comment or questions with none we'll take a vote all in favor of approving item Issei I will move on to item F which is consider ratifying bylaws for the animal shelter Advisory Committee and Morgan you're on Thank You mayor council once before you today is that you'll recall back in September October you all approved an overarching ordinance revising how all the boards and commissions just bringing greater uniformity to what's going on and talk a little louder yes ma'am I apologize so each one of the requirements of that ordinance was that each of those boards and committees must bring their bylaws to you for re ratification and so we brought them into the uniform format and that's what's before you today animal shelter Advisory Committee is simply the first one that's before you you'll see a kind of a litany of these coming towards you as each of the committee's work through reviewing their bylaws bringing them in line with the ordinance and then ultimately approving them and bringing them to the council for ratification so what's before you for the animal shelter Advisory Committee there are no substantive changes the items that are left here in the Advisory Committee bylaws are largely in part largely intact how it what they used to have in

[0:29:12] their bylaws it's just streamlined much of what we're in the prior bylaws are now spoken to in the overarching ordinance that that y'all had approved and so this is simply the the smaller items that the committee chooses to enforce on themselves those would be what so for example one of the items is related to the nokia initiative that they are taking strides and in supporting shelter operations and programs that ensure that we reach that no kill rate in the future another item is that what would that be a no-kill Freight is standard elitist defined as a 90% live release rate and so you would seek programs such as a robust transfer program Robo spay/neuter release feral cat program additional adoptions just a number a healthy foster program so a number of items to bring forward to make sure that eventually we get to a point where at a 90 percent live release rate what are we at now for the months of December in January we were at a 65% live release rate which is very healthy it's very healthy growth from where we came from it was 65 to 90 achievable in the near future because it's one thing to set a goal it's another to be able to have in place strategies it is something that will require additional funding it's something that's dependent upon soliciting donations and possibly increases to our tax budget which I understand that we're funded by tax dollars but through a partnership with concho Valley pause for donations as well as stream lighting items on our budget we have made we've already accelerated towards this goal much faster than I anticipated so I think getting from where we were to 65% we've done that work getting to 90% I think will be harder so to say near future I think we're more than five years out from a no-kill initiative I'm 65 to 90 yes ma'am I think it will take greater than five years to achieve that one

[0:31:16] other item that's required in the bylaws is that each committee member must visit or volunteer at the shelter monthly that's to ensure that they're well versed in the operations out there so as they're making decisions policy decisions setting those programs that they're aware of how they will be carried out and what their availability is and then the bylaws state that we meet monthly unless no business is to be discovered there's no items to discuss for their January meeting they already set the 2019 calendar to meet quarterly four times in a year and we'll call special meetings as needed which is also provided for in the bylaws state law and city ordinance actually requires the committee to meet three times annually so meeting those minimum require mints meeting more frequently as as needed and those are the main items that the committee has chosen to as I mentioned enforce on themselves having their own bylaws as requirements for that committee okay do I have questions from Council for Morgan with no questions we will open it up for emotion do I have a motion to approve item yes move is there a second second with a motion and a second will now open this up for public comment is there any public comment on item F no public comment on item F we'll take a vote all in favor say aye thank you move on to item G it's a John yeah if you'll come forward its second reading and adoption of a lot of amendments changing zoning and my question sort of applies to all of them do I need to read all of

[0:33:22] these yes okay well they're kind of all the same so second reading and adoption of an ordinance for CP 1:8 - oh no let me ask this question and then see if I still need to read the whole thing the question is the following is it in the ordinance or is it required when we asked for rezoning that a notice is placed on the property so that anybody in the neighborhood or their surrounding neighborhood or the next-door neighbor understands that a zoning change has been requested that is not required by our ordinance however we we have traditionally done that in practice recently we lost the signs don't always come back to us and so we've changed our practice instead of using the heavy metal like real estate you know for sale signs we've gone to a more cheaper disposable type sign we still reuse those all that to say is that we've recently changed the way we do those and only recently received a shipment of those signs so in the last few months that has not always been done so even though and when I ask it it is in the ordinance it is in our policy or it's just something that we might do it is not in it is not a requirement of the ordinance and we need the entire I'm gonna start reading okay hold on everybody second reading an adoption of one an ordinance for cp1 809 at amendment to the city of San Angelo Comprehensive Plan changing certain lands from the neighborhood center future land use to the neighborhood future land use being point nine seven acres of land located at 2900 229 20 Houston Street and to an ordinance for

[0:35:27] z18 - 24 a rezoning from the neighborhood commercial sea Enzoani district to the single-family RS - Juan zone e district being point for 8 acres of land located at 29 2029 1629 12 Houston Street 3 and ordinance for PD 1 805 a rezoning from the general commercial heavy commercial CG ch zoning district 2 a planned development PD zoning district to allow for uses permitted within the general commercial CG zoning district and a shared signed plan for off-site signage being nine point nine three acres of land located at 4206 College Hills Boulevard and 3121 and 3131 Sunset Drive and for an ordinance for z18 - 2 five a rezoning from the low-rise multi-family residential rm1 zoning district to the neighborhood commercial C and zoning district being point nine one five acres of land Lok at 5205 South Bryant Boulevard and five an ordinance for z18 - - seven a rezoning from the general commercial heavy commercial cgc eight zoning district and single-family residential arias one zoning district to the low-rise multifamily residential RM one zoning district being one point one eight acres of land located at 36 oh eight north Chadbourne street if we could keep the questions very specific to these items maybe asking about how it was impacted on a certain case or well the question is and the statement is for each and every one of these was there a public sign put in place that reflected the rezoning request I don't know for positive on each of these I think the answer is on these cases no son was put out simply because we had we did not have any signs in our possession until

[0:37:32] we got this new shipment of signs which I believe we now have so we moving forward we will be posting these on the sides I did find this section of the ordinance it says in the section where we require mailed notice to the surrounding property owners below that it says posted notice of required public hearings is encouraged by the city signs will be provided by the city but the applicant is what the ordinance says is the applicant is responsible for placing the signs on the side traditionally we have done that for them taking those signs out realize that it's his responsibility or her responsibility to place that zoning sign on the property probably not again we have done that staff has taken those signs out rather than placing the obligation on the applicant we simply go out and place those signs on the side again that's our normal practice but with with no signs available in the recent months we have not been placing those signs while those weren't required to be placed and we didn't maybe in this case we did still do the entire mail out - how large of an area surrounding yes we mailed out to the required 200 feet all property owners within 200 feet of the subject property were notified as well as the published notice in the newspaper we've always done those things anyway you've always mailed to the 200 feet we've always put it in the pit and the paper and we used to always tell the applicant that there would be a sign posted on that property to make people aware of what's going on when they drive by but we haven't done that third part recently that's correct question so our policy would be going forward we will be doing that again yes that's our plan is to place those on the side again sometimes those get taken they fall down the wind blows them so we guarantee that they're always in place but yes that's our practice I just want to make sure we have a solid practice consistent same

[0:39:35] practice every time to make sure everybody is aware yes thank you with that I would entertain a motion and well let me ask are there any other questions from anyone on council on item G okay with no further questions then I would entertain a motion to approve item G inclusive of one two three four and five all at once and first a motion in a second so is there any public comment with no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye opposed zero we'll move in to item J which is consider authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute an agreement and any related documents with a Southern drag boat Association s DBA for the annual drag boat races at Lake now's worthy Carl yes we've been approached by the southern drag Boat Association to continue the boat races at Lincoln as worthy the drag boat races they would host it in the past the Chamber's helped host the event with Lucas Oil last couple of years we had an agreement at the Lucas Oil they last fall tolls they were no longer doing bow races and so we were approached by the southern drag Boat Association and they would like to continue the event this agreement is for just one year when your term for one event and they would have to pay us a flat fee of $8,000 for the use of the parks for the weekend do you have a question in the past the Lucas Boat Show has been successful for Angelo bringing in revenue and that's the same thing we expect with this group yes basically it's the same event it's just a matter of who's hosting it and the southern track boat Association has been part of the event I think since the very beginning integral to the event so

[0:41:38] there's really no change have a history of successes yes with boat shows there is one difference that since Lucas all isn't in it now there won't be the national television that is one difference and I have one question because it's been brought to my attention several occasions and that is is that we make sure in negotiating this that we work with the lake as worthy homeowners to ensure that you have input from them as it regards in many different issues from what I understand and they feel like they haven't in the past been brought into the conversation about those races so they were just like an opportunity to have a voice so if we could make sure in this negotiation that they're included in that negotiation and understand what we're doing and they perhaps could give us some good insight in terms of what they think might work better and Lucy you have a question yeah I'm Carl and that's a flat $8,000 fee they were just okay do I have further questions from Council on item J and public comment it's cold in here comfortable I'm in disagreement take your jacket put yours on my outerwear yeah Steve Hampton on this this drag race this is gonna cost us $8,000 is that the way I read it no they're gonna pay us eight bells they're gonna pay us okay and how many heads and bets do we expect to get out

[0:43:40] of this girl we'll have to answer that I don't have the figure for that we have some historic information from somewhere when the Chamber's run it before but I also don't know I think it's important we find out Bruce do you have any comment on that okay let's make sure we research that because that is an important part of what we do and we know this event has been positive and well received and many people want us to continue to do it so it's not about knowing the information before we decide to do it we're gonna do it but we should know what kind of impact it has okay with that said do I have a motion we've had public comment any further public comment no further public comment we'll take a vote all in favor any opposed well coach you Meyer thank you I need it some days are more difficult okay with that we will close the consent agenda and we will move into the regular agenda items and we will start with item a the update and discussion on water supply morning mayor council today I have a different story to tell versus the last time I was standing up here giving a water supply update and it's really good news I'm sure many of you are aware here we have the current reservoir levels these are genuine

[0:45:44] yes January thirtieth volume so some of these are different from what they are today but for the most part we're at 52% at Ivy 63% at Twin Buttes and those are the two reservoirs that I'm going to kind of highlight today because they did receive the most runoff in the last fall so last time I came to council we were in this area I was presenting at 25 months of water supply in the September 2018 now we're up here above the 400,000 acre feet mark and this is taking the capacities of both Twin Buttes Nazareth E Fisher and IV into consideration so you can see that last fall we took a drastic increase in our reservoir levels IV specifically it's kind of hard to see and that that mark I made is a little low too but we're close to the 300,000 acre feet an IV and so you can see it drastically increasing or back to where we were prior to 2010 and seeing some of those levels for Twin Buttes a little bit better on the mark at that time but we're sitting just slightly above the hundred thousand acre foot mark and you can see we weren't in those capacities until the early or the late so how does that affect our month supply of water I want to reiterate basically how the month supply come into effect in that it is a worst-case scenario calculations assuming no inflow the Ivey projections are provided by the Colorado River Municipal Water District we do take into consideration the chicory but only at the minimum production of 1.5 million gallons per day and then we also use evaporation calculations we use the five-year average which is 67 inches for

[0:47:48] the past five years but I like to know what the 2011 evaporation rate was which was 84 inches so on really hot and dry years that 67 inches can King bury two and go up so as of February first we were sitting at 66 months of water supply I don't think since my time here at the city we've been anywhere close to this amount of water supply CRM WD last fall after the recent rains they projected Ivey to July of 2021 and they recently redid their operations model in January and they took that number out to February of 2022 and so that's 37 months of remaining on Ivy and they to also do a worst-case scenario assuming no inflow but even today we are seeing inflow into all these reservoirs or specifically Ivy and Twin Buttes they are still continually gaining we are seeing those stream flows still increasing or staying steady for the most part Fisher really didn't catch that much water and the recent rains but we would have two months of water supply there and then switching to the Twin Buttes now's where they in Hickory system we would have 27 months of available water supply when it came time to use those sources that still issues in the 1.5 from Hickory yes ma'am but in a very important part of this calculation is how much we use per day we we monitor this and for the past five or four years prior to 2018 we were using anywhere from 11 to 12 million gallons per day and of course we see spikes of 20 to 18 million gallons in the summertime but then in the winter those drop down to 9 and 10 million gallons but on average throughout the year around 11 and a half to 12 million gallons per day 2018 is a little different story

[0:49:49] we we spiked up to 12 point 7 million gallons per day on average and so this is something that we're going to be looking into we do know that San Angelo is expanding we have new businesses we have more people coming into San Angelo and that's another thing that you know we account for in terms of water supply is that population projection and those type of things so if you were to and you probably don't have this information so don't be embarrassed for me asking the question but I asked the question anyway so if you took a look at the population in 2014 versus the population in 2018 what would be the average per person usage because that helps to explain some growth if you look at increased population right and you're right I don't have those numbers in front of me but the other thing that we are going to look at is connection counts and those type of things because as new homes new businesses those are individual reg know meters that are getting installed on our system and so we can at least see how that trend is occurring if we're seeing more meter counts and those type of things we do know that some of this increases due to population growth and expansion you could go back to 2014 and look at the total number of water meters compared to 2018 the total number water meters and you would know yes ma'am and we can also train some of our higher users like Goodfellow and those type of things to see as they bring more people on base how how they're increase alone is affecting these numbers as well and does the 2018 number is that inclusive of the broken water lines and large amount of water that is lost during those big breaks like the one that happened this past all of these numbers would take main breaks into consideration another thing that we do is we do a water loss calculation through the Texas Water Development Board each year we are seeing that that number since 2014 has gone down so we're losing less water through those type of breaks but some of

[0:51:53] those depending on how the inputs into the data are but we are seeing a lower number in terms of gallons loss through main breaks and that's I have real if you don't have any other questions I'll be happy to answer it do I have questions from Council or comments from anyone this way or that way good news no we helped the rates a lot of people saying that the rates are getting pretty high so with that potentially impact well I think that we have to be cognizant of the rainfall and you know depends on how easier you can see in 2016 our usage actually you drop down from the prior years not as quite as far down as 2014 but it did compared to 2015 so we can't look at rates based on one single year we have to look at that on the basically yes on a longer span than that because we're going to go through times of drought we're gonna go through times of heavier rainfall we would need a few years to see the data to see yes we also have to be mindful that we have a lot of infrastructure improvements that we need and that's the important part because the break structure was created to help pay for the infrastructure that we know exists and down the road we know we have to make that investments so that was always based off of not rainfall or water supply but infrastructure needs I guess made me take the words right in my mouth that's our future need and that's what we're counting for at this point any time we make an adjustment to lower that amount that will affect that infrastructure the replacement in the future so we had to be very mindful of that those main breaks that the mayor was talking about earlier we want to do as much pipe replacement as we can so that we can minimize those losses Marin I do want to point out that from 2014 to 2018 and we've had of 12.3% to increase as far as consumption of water which maybe is right in line with actually the growth that we are

[0:53:54] experiencing our community so it'd be interesting to pull it and you can update us later yes ma'am any further comments from Council thank you it's good news we don't always get this kind of good news okay so we'll move on to item B which is consider ratifying Co CDC's resolution authorizing the use of sales and use tax funds in an amount not to exceed three hundred thousand one hundred forty seven to provide an economic development incentive to principal led LLC and Shannon you're on again good morning Shannon Scott business retention and expansion coordinator for the city as mayor Gunther stated this is essentially ratifying a resolution that the cosa d see a board approved a couple weeks ago at their board meeting in regards to principal LED LLC so we'll start by giving a little background on the company and what they do so they manufacture LED lighting fixtures currently they are purchasing components from China and Southeast Asia and the project that we're going to be discussing today will actually move that component manufacturing back to San Angelo at their facility have you told Donald Trump that move to approve so currently principal LED has some what's in there anticipating anticipating hung up 264 additional employees within the next three years with an average salary of $35,000 due to the nature of this business or anticipating expanding their current facility and with that they're looking at putting in a capital investment of 2.4 million dollars in conjunction with that expansion and the equipment that they'll need to purchase for this manufacturing component so the breakdown the of incentives that we are proposing today is a hundred thousand dollars again once that capital investment of the 2.4 million dollars is met and as mr. Witte asked earlier that does have to be we do have to have the proof that that has

[0:55:57] been made in order to release that payment of the $100,000 you ought to be able to see a 2.4 million dollar investment yes ma'am yeah we're off $2,500 per job per full-time equivalent up to 264 FTEs and then up to 40,000 147 for property tax rebates for a value not to exceed five million dollars so the total of all the incentives that we're proposing today is 300 thousand one hundred and forty-seven dollars with that said I'd be happy to answer any questions Brian Benson one of the co-owners of principal idea is here as well so I'm sure he'd be happy to answer any questions as well you want to explain the up to $40 147 for property tax rebates for values not to exceed five million yes so again what we did according to our new scale that we we are using in our policy as we sat down and we anticipated what that increase in value would be due to the 2.4 million in capital investment in equipment so we assigned a value for each of those percentages for the four years and estimated that would be the absolute max that they could receive but again it can't go over the five million dollar appraised value do I have questions from Council and I think y'all always do an economic impact study on that can you discuss that with with us when what the results of that economic impact study were for this project yes so we're actually using a more of an updated system than what we used to do for economic impact analysis and I did print it off so I may just kind of touch on some of the some of the details on what this analysis represents so again as mr. Hebert stated before we engage in any type of project we have an economic impact analysis tool where we run all of the numbers we put in the capital investment we put in the job creation numbers and the salaries because we have to know that we're going to get some kind of return on our investment so we're not just throwing money out to the

[0:57:58] wind in this particular case I'll just give you examples of some of the data that it gives back to us in order to justify essentially our expense to these companies so as we've stated they're going to harm up to 64 jobs but that will actually create indirect jobs as well so we're looking at they call a spin-off job 44-point to spin-off jobs for example they have people anticipating coming in to help with construction things like that obviously you're hiring new employees so they anticipate you might be buying a home obviously going out in the community and spending sales tax dollars on groceries and shopping and things like that so I'll just kind of come through here and pick out some information so again they do it over a 10-year period so for example they're expecting sales tax dollars around 35,000 workers to go out and spend about 90,000 for a total of about 125,000 they give us an estimate on the property taxes again they anticipate some of these folks might be buying homes and things like that so property tax increase of about thirty four thousand you have a sum of the total of all of those I do yes ma'am here in this report here you want to tell the audience some of the total oh the sim I'm sorry of the which particular one well the economic impact Tommy asked about the total economic impact and so if you add up all those pages of things that you've just listed what is that total economic impact this particular new report does not break it down like it used to well yes I can I can get those back to you if you'd like it is it does it give you a payback number the number of years

[1:00:01] in which it does and this particular one is around eight years okay and we try to stay under ten years that program should give you a total it does so Gai injuries director of economic development one of the things that the model does that's important to us as it gives us a return on investment percentage which i think is important in this particular case it's about a 14 percent return on our investment over this period of time which I think a lot of right I think a lot of people would like to see that type of return so we go through a considerable amount of doing this analysis and figuring out what this is what we're entering into as a partnership in these types of agreements with the with those companies not everybody takes advantage of the business retention and expansion programs but the ones that typically do our fast-growing companies like principal LED and whatever an opportunity arises we want to be able to respond to that opportunity so in effect that we're both economic developers and we're opportunist in their particular case they have a window of opportunity that they need to meet and so in that case they've asked for us to partner with them and in doing that partnership we've made absolutely sure that there's going to be a return back to San Angelo for the investment and assistance we're providing would you like to come forward in real quick Tommy I did find that number so the total economic impact for the next ten years is eight point two seven five eight million two hundred seventy five thousand seven hundred sixty dollars hi my name's Brian Vincent I'm one of the owners of principal LED

[1:02:08] just just one comment you know if if we had chose to make a big deal to negotiate with the city you would have known I love San Angelo we we we really appreciate the money but you know I want it to be a good return for San Angelo as well so our goal and this was not to come in and see how much money we could extract from the city to been a that us you know we think this is good for San Angelo in terms of future jobs I mean if you kind of look at our growth rate seven years ago we had seven employees so I think we're on the right track repeat that I think seven years ago we had seven employees so yeah and it is hard to project some of this stuff was if you look at the dollar amount I believe when we did our first incentive package I think it was $5,000 per FTE and we understand that this is kind of an add-on incentive so but we needed some of this a little bit of help to really get this built a little in addition to our building so we could free up manufacturing space so we we worked with the city they were really great in terms of helping us get our permits quickly and so you know I think we're ready to move forward with that that project a lot of the equipment we bought is robotic kind of equipment so you know in in some of these other countries the jobs that you know they may have five people doing the same job we can do with one here but you know the pay rates are you know order of magnitude different so they don't really look at labor as a major cost consideration whereas here in the US we do so we're making a big investment in in some automation equipment some robotic equipment semiconductor processing equipment we've had to make modifications to the building in order to support kind of a clean type environment and that type of manufacture

[1:04:13] so and we're also working with the the workforce training center some of these jobs are are more skilled kind of and they'll need special training so I think in the long term what it does is it not only brings some jobs back to the US in particular to San Angelo but when you get this level of manufacturing and sort of integrated into what you're doing it sort of cements are are our roots sort of here which I think you know for me I I want to see more companies come to San Angelo in fact after we're meeting after this I think I'm meeting with Shannon and we're gonna try and do some testimonials to see if we can help you know attract other businesses and encourage you know local businesses to to grow as well so there's any other questions I'd be happy to answer thank you very much okay thank you any public comment you Hampton it was mentioned that they have had a they have received money from cosa DC already no mention we didn't I didn't hear it in the presentation what what was the amount they're apparently they've already see four years of tax abatement and and they've been here seven years why do we need to get more tax abatement thank you anybody like to answer that so currently principal LED does have a another contract out again these are not in conjunction with each other so they are two separate contracts for two separate projects we'll just go over the brief requirements of that agreement they were required to do a

[1:06:15] capital investment of 2.75 million which they have far exceeded they were required to retain fifty one jobs and create 50 new additional jobs at the end of year seventeen they've created thirty-eight full-time equivalents again have made in excess of the capital investment of 2.75 million and we've paid roughly under four hundred fifty thousand and incentives to them this far and that does not include a property tax rebate or bateman this particular one we're mentioning here would be for this particular contract thank you if I could make clear that Shannon is working on this new agreement it's additional value on top of the value they've already created so when she talks about abating value in this contract that's a that's value that the company is creating above what they've already created and and so we're not giving anything back that we helped incentivize before this is new growth on top of old growth and so very exciting and big thanks to principal LED for the success that they've brought to st. Angelo thank you any further public comment no further public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye any opposed motion passes 7-0 will move into item C consider ratifying Cosa DC's resolution authorizing the use of cells and use tax funds in an amount not to exceed $20,000 to provide an economic development incentive to Cardiff interest engineering okay good morning again this project as well is very similar to the last project in that it will be ratifying a resolution that the cosa DC Board passed a couple weeks ago at their board meeting will give a little background on what the company does and then go into details as far as the incentives and those things so our turf

[1:08:18] interests currently provides civil engineering and project management services for residential and commercial land developers and municipalities in Central and West Texas they currently have three employees and anticipate hiring up to four more within the next three years with an average salary of thirty four thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars they also anticipate a capital investment of two hundred thousand for the purchase of a new building for their operations so the incentives that we're proposing for this project include sixteen thousand dollars once their capital investment of $200,000 is made as well as a thousand dollars per full-time equivalent up to the four FTEs for a total of twenty thousand dollars I'd be happy to answer any questions I know Darren Fentress and Erica Carter are here as well with the company to help answer questions as well I have questions from Council no questions from Council do I have move to approve public comment please morning Erica Carter was Carter of interest engineering and I really just want to say thank you to Costa DC with the Brep program they're helping us live our dream and hopefully create more jobs and maybe one day come back and be as big as principal yeah okay don't say hopefully soon we will be creative well we're not gonna be hopeful we're gonna make it happen absolutely so thank you Thank You mayor Thank You counsel counsel Darren Fentress I just want to echo what my partner said very thankful to be in San Angelo we raise our families here we're thankful for the help that Costa DC and-and-and you all give us we're growing growing pretty quick this time last year we had two employees and now

[1:10:22] we have five so we're moving moving forward and thank you thank you doing any further public comment no further public comment we will take a vote all in favor say aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 item D consider ratifying Costa DC's resolution authorizing the use of cells and use tax funds in an amount not to exceed 49,000 for professional marketing and consulting services relating to an assessment of industrial transportation facilities and industry needs and identification of markets essential to the promotion of new industrial development opportunities as authorized under Chapter 505 of the Texas local government code for type B Development Corporation and authorizing the Board President to enter into a personal services marketing a consultant contract for such purposes with Roger Horton DBA che transportation consulting services morning bob nieman with the city's economic development department as counsel as I'm sure aware and especially if you've heard some of John Barrios presentation transportation is becoming a significant consideration for San Angelo there's a lot happening potentially happening anyway with the potential for I 14 the potential for I 27 the opening of the rail bridge in Presidio which may just incredibly open new markets to us and so staff felt like it was time to maybe start looking at what we need to do to prepare for for what could be happening this is a master contract with individual task orders the total contract is not to exceed forty nine thousand dollars and it's for consulting services but sort of a feasibility study and a marketing study if you will to see

[1:12:27] what what demands may be out there already that we're not fulfilling and what demands but we may see in the future and also identifying potential transportation needs and in the event that there are certain facilities that we need we may need an operator for those facilities so we've we are recommending that we hire say transportation to do this preliminary study I have questions from Council my planes trains and automobiles exactly it the Train part okay so with no questions from Council move to approve is presented with that do I have any public comment no public comment we will take a vote all in favor say aye no nays motion passes 7 0 item ii consider a resolution adopting a uniform tax abatement policy Bob thank you again now this item [Music] is a requirement by the state and for in order for us to have a tax abatement policy and this is abatement not rebate so this is something that is done through the appraisal district if if we wish to abate taxes on any kind of a project and this would include things even like the tiers the projects if we're gonna have a tax abatement policy if we're gonna have a tax abatement program we have to have a tax abatement policy and we need to renew that every two years so this was last adopted in November of 15 2016 by state lots on the effective for two years and it's required to maintain our eligibility to participate in tax abatement programs pursuant to chapter 312 of the Texas tax

[1:14:32] code and all all abatements are always at City Council discretion so this doesn't open the door to anything that you all are not going to see again on an individual basis what is the percent of tax abatements to total appraised value of property on an annual basis I'm not sure I understand the question we if you were to total all the tax abatements that are in effect if you will for 2018 or you could go 2018 because sorry past year what percentage would that be to the total appraised value of total property as of right now we have known tax abatements in place zero you just you're just making sure the tool is in the toolbox that's correct we have a project right and this affects the next item as well okay that's an important thing to say it's a policy right now we have zero we have the we have we have the ability the policy gives us the ability to participate we do that on an individual project basis I have further questions or comments from Council do I have motion for approval of item e with a motion in a second we are open for public comment on item e policy is going to stand as it was in the consent agenda is it going to be those are those numbers that ones were talking about for this policy what are they those percentages would be handled on an individual project basis typically they will be brought by normally by economic

[1:16:38] development staff and again it's project dependent on the number of jobs created capital investment but it's on an individual project basis we don't have a specific percentage that we would abate but to Steve's point just as we're doing today they I have the payment request would come forward on regular agenda on consent agenda and if they were on consent we can always pull them open for discussions so just like we did today in the earlier one it's on the regular agenda that's correct and they would also be part of a basically what's called a 312 agreement between the city and whoever the recipient is so that agreement would also have to be approved by City Council and that's not done usually on consent and the 312 is up for negotiation in Austin right now as part of the legislative session so that is an ongoing debate and conversation as we speak that's right any further Steve Hampton follow-up question then if if these are decided individually then they should be valued they should go through I've heard it said at the appraisal district that they never know anything about these and they and the city doesn't have any idea how much it's going to cost them sometimes so do they they should work through the appraisal district when when they're coming to a total on whether whether to or whether or not to I think we need to look at this as not a cost as an investment and

[1:18:42] because they're they as we make these changes like this the investment that the individual businesses are making increases the total tax that we get back short term yes we're giving them a rebate but long term we are we are in in synthesizing these people to invest more money that's important part are you getting that mr. Hampton that if when a business creates additional value we're talking about abating or rebaiting part of that additional new value not the old value does that make sense so in the case of a funeral home which adds on a parking garage and they receive some sort of a an incentive which includes a rebate for 50% of that new value what councilman Thomas just said was they've added there's a net gain even though we've rebated a piece of that new value yes and I understand that but what what you're doing is you're saying you you you we're going to add on $10 but we're going to give you back five and short period of time period of time yes and that number keeps growing we used to be in the 75 50 25 now it's in 90s 80s and 70s so and the the person who has to make up the difference is the citizen who has to take it on it you have to get your money somewhere so you don't well the question mark in this case is would you rather have zero I don't think that's I don't think that's the result the effect I don't think if we do nothing we don't get anything they're gonna naturally grow I think there's some natural growth on its own it's an assumption on your part so is yours well again I think on

[1:20:47] our part our assumption leads toward that creation of values in the future we know for a fact that'll do that what you're saying is your assumption doesn't give us a fact that in the future they will grow by us incentivizing we know they are going to grow and we know that values gonna be there in the future okay agreement or the public comment and like I said this item 312 is a big topic in Austin right now in terms of if I could make one clarification to this is an attacks abatement program this is actually handled and calculated by the appraisal district it's good we have to work with them on this one because they are the ones who obeyed the taxes and it's coming right out of the property tax it's not a half cent sales tax on so they do know the number there can be uncertainty for example when a business plans to add a hundred dollars in additional value but they are able to accomplish that addition they're able to execute the project for less money than that then they've been efficient with their building monies and so they don't receive quite as big a rebate or an incentive theoretically because they actually built the improvements cheaper than they initially plan to do which is a good thing for them that can introduce uncertainty but it's not bad uncertainty do I have further public comment no further public comment will do you know where you gonna make a comment sorry all of this information on our annual audit and our gaffer so just wanted to point that out so if we you you would have a percentage to the total yes man we have a total in her and archived forever here you know what that number is Tina for 2018 it's it's

[1:22:54] minimal it was less than three hundred thousand I believed for a total of eight minutes rebates last year so three hundred thousand off of a five billion dollar tax base okay any further public comment but no further public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye any opposed motion passes 7 0 item F first hearing of an ordinance ordaining the city's participation in the Texas Enterprise Zone program pursuant to the Texas Enterprise Zone act chapter 2 303 Texas government code providing tax incentives designated in the liaison for communication with interested parties and nominating Ethicon Inc to the office of the governor economic development and tourism EDT through the Economic Development Bank as an enterprise project presentation made by Snee Minh that's kind of complicated do you want me to read it again we don't write we want you to explain it was generated and you explain thank you we were approached actually last week by a consultant for Ethicon they periodically will apply for an enterprise zone designation that's a designation that has to be done by the community in this case the city they were last designated in August of 2012 and by state law that's only effective for five years so it expired in 2017 and I'll explain in a minute what that really means if it's approved by the governor governor's office the company becomes eligible for sir sales and use tax rebates from the state okay this gets paid out of the state's portion of the sales and use tax has no effect on the city as far as our tax sales tax receipts they're on a sliding

[1:24:59] scale based on an amount of capital investment in a number of jobs created or retained up to a maximum of $7,500 per job and a maximum of three point seven five million and that requires the creation of 500 jobs hundred new jobs 500 new jobs correct I did some research on Ethicon according to their consultant right now they're paying the state about twenty thousand dollars per month in sales tax and they pay directly to the state we we don't see that it's a direct payment from them I get a percentage of it back we do yes we get our normal percentage back right they also pay about their their estimated they pay about that same amount to their vendors so it's sales tax they're paying based on their sales and then sales tax that they're paying based on what they purchase so that and that amount is about another $20,000 per month we get our percentage of that as well you get a percentage of that as well that's correct so literally no impact on the city of course Ethicon has been here for a long long time they've recently created about an additional hundred jobs out there with no no request for any kind of assistance from the city as a part of that usually if they're going to do a big project they will be able to come and talk to us and the last time was again in and I believe 2012 and the total they had two phases to that project the total I believe was maybe the first was about 12 million and the second was about 18 million the two phases and as a result of those investments we can assume that those hundred jobs were created over time remember if I have another site I don't

[1:27:09] we will be bringing this item back for a second reading on the 19th and at that time the planet manager from Ethicon and also one of their a member of their consultant team will be here to answer specific questions that will also be a public hearing as I say they came to us last week there are some very stringent requirements on public notifications and what-have-you so in order to meet all of those we had to actually schedule a second public hearing even though it would be a to normally be two readings anyway for changing the ordinance we've had this Enterprise Zone before so we have had this for five years so legitimately it was over in August 2017 so the question would be if why is this 2019 and it's just not coming back instead of having come brought back to us in 2018 right this is this is when they were applying for that state participation in that state program that's what stimulated the action is right I think what the consultant does is they look at the number of applicants that they're anticipate that the the government governor can only approve so many per quarter and they saw March 1st all of a sudden and apparently was going to be a light quarter so they said okay this is the time we want to apply they won't apply if they don't think there's a chances they're going to get it if there's a lot of competition or whatever and so they benefit how they benefit by the the abatement or rebate of that half cent sales tax and it's based on a sliding scale it's from from the state not from the local the transfer date mint comes from the state not local that's correct we get our full hundred percent of the

[1:29:13] tax we get our full we get our full percentage right this is a state program it's a state incentive through the government's office and it's called the Enterprise Zone program do I have questions comments from Council who is presenting do I have a second I have a second do I have any public comment while and McClellan D&I dude I just have a question I'm not clear if there's no changing the menu back to the city no impact there then why does the city have to join this program what are they there there must be some sort of rules or regulations as he has it here t to join this program as a part of the state's program the company or the enterprise zone project has to be nominated by this by the community it has to we have to show that there is community part of the project answer your question Lillian hmm unusual but yes okay no further public comment all in favor say aye with nine opposed motion passes seven zero we will move on to item G public hearing the first reading of a budget ordinance to update the number of authorized firefighters ere Council basically what you have before you is a housekeeping item to reconcile the eight positions that were added in the fall with the safer grant so before you in the ordinance it will change our authorized total classification

[1:31:15] positions from 171 to 179 and in the specific classification of firefighter from 82 to 90 we previously approved that yes back in late September October I believe right this is just this ordinance just brings that into alignment with what happened in October any questions or comments from Council with none may I have a motion over prevalence presenting public comment no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor aye nine opposed motion passes seven zero all right okay item H is consider accepting judge Alan Gilbert's letter of resignation as appointed presiding judge of the city of San Angelo Municipal Court to be effective February 28 2019 and Bryan would you like to come forward and make this presentation and judge Gilbert would you like to come forward as well please mayor council all right so around the turn of the year we had heard some information that gave us some

[1:33:18] mixed feelings we were sad for ourselves but we're happy for judge Gilbert that he's able to make the transition into retirement and kind of go from doing things that he's required to do to do things that he really loves to do which I know he loved doing the Municipal Court as well but anyway per our Charter we have to go through the ceremonial acceptance of that resignation letter so that's really what we're here to do I think we can do that by consensus I don't think he's gonna give us an option we're gonna be all over this we're gonna find this one a motion not to approve [Laughter] this is a special agenda item so it is recognition of Judge Gilbert's 44 years of service to the city of San Angelo you're here as well so the city of San Angelo is losing a long time and dedicated public servant who has consistently displayed hard work diligence and contribution to the community On February 28 2019 the Honorable Judge Alan Gilbert will retire as municipal court judge for the city of San Angelo after 44 years of public service in 1974 at the age of 21 you don't have to calculate judge Gilbert began his public career when he ran for and won a spot on the Financial City Commission today known as the City Council as a lifelong resident of Lakeview he knew firsthand the issues his community faced and recognized the need for equal representation in city government once elected judge Gilbert was instrumental in the creation of the single-member districts ATSA nancial benefits from today nearing the end of his term he was encouraged by several city commissioners to sitter career as municipal court judge perhaps his most lasting legacy since

[1:35:23] his appointment has been his work to set the juveniles who have appeared before him on a productive path throughout his distinguished career judge Gilbert made changing the lives of young people a priority juveniles who passed through his courts have the opportunity to work in the community garden which over the past thirty years has provided fresh vegetables to the local food bank and soup kitchen with judge Gilbert's vision these young people have learned valuable life lessons while better in San Angelo his heart for helping people is evident in his innovative ideas for developing work programs as a way for offenders to repay their debt to society while learning responsibility and while serving the community the city of San Angelo is grateful for judge Gilbert's dedication and service to his hometown therefore I Brenda Gunter mayor the city of San Angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby recognize and applaud the Honorable Judge Alan Gilbert for his achievement and positive determination to make a difference in our community we also have a presentation for the judge before I make this presentation I just wanted to make a note I actually met judge Gilbert almost nine years ago which is three years prior to my arrival here in San Angelo when I was in Eagle Pass we were really shouldn't to improve our Municipal Court at the time and we figured why not model one of the best municipal courts around and that's the court here in San Angelo so I already knew from the very GetGo before arriving in San Angelo the quality of individual that we had in that position often people say that when I leave I just want to leave this place a little bit better than what I found it I'll tell you right now judge Gilbert has let this place light years ahead of where he found it we were so blessed and to have him in

[1:37:26] this position I could set him a dear friend and I wish him the absolute best what that said we do have a plaque for the Honorable Judge Gilbert 1975 and up started 1973 to 2019 and again this is just a flag that's flown over the city of San Angelo and this really signifies what the judge has meant to us for so many years his outstanding work in their community I was keeping juveniles in mind helping to transform lives through his counseling and his caring attitude judge we wish you the absolute best thank you all very much I sincerely appreciate flaggin in the words that were spoken but it's been my great opportunity and because of the mayor the City Council you and mayors and City Council and city managers past that we've had this opportunity to work with the city of San Angelo as the judge the people standing in the back of the room many of the employees from the court there's nothing that any of us ever do by herself and it takes the whole office and everyone to get all of this done and I appreciate everything and every opportunity and I was a 22 year old kid that's all there is to it I was 21 when I got elected to the City Council in 22 and I was appointed and but for some reason some people saw something and gave me an opportunity and I think that's what we have to do through the world is give back that opportunity and give people the chances and regardless of who they are where they come from has give them that opportunity and that's what we've

[1:39:28] tried to make sure that the Municipal Court is operated on in the last 40 years and I feel sure it'll be operating on those standards in the future I want to thank all of you in the back that we've had the opportunity to work with mayor's City Council all the city employees and I want to thank my family for putting up with the two o'clock morning call outs and the three o'clock morning call outs and and the times we couldn't go places and we had to take two cars because I was on call to go to a movie or go to a show and and to my children for all they had to put up with the growing up with their dad being a judge and all of my family and the support that I've been given from my mom to my life to my children to my in-laws to my cousin's all of them have always been super supportive when other people wasn't really appreciative of some of my actions they've always been there to be supportive of everything and I sincerely appreciate it's been a wonderful wonderful opportunity that the good Lord has blessed me with to have all of you to be able to work with and the citizens of San Angelo thank you for giving me this opportunity and hope that we've just done some things that have made the city of San Angelo a little bit better place to offer thank you very much have a photographer do we need to formally act upon the acceptance of the resignation letter or no okay [Laughter] okay so what we want to do is we're

[1:41:32] going to take a break so we're going to take a break and so at this point we are through with the regular agenda we're going to take a 30-minute break of which we will be doing a reception and the City Council will go into the closed session and so I'll go ahead and read the closed session executive session or the provision of Government Code title five open government ethics subtitle a open government chapter five five one open meeting subchapter D exceptions to requirement that meetings be open under the following sections a section five five 1.07 for a one to deliberate the appointment employment evaluation reassignment duties discipline or dismissal the public officer employee regarding board Commission appointments so at this moment we are on break okay the council meeting will be called back to order at 11:08 and there are no announcements from executive session so we will now go to consider proving various board nominations they are as following construction Board of Adjustment and appeals linden butler SMD 6-2 a second term ending February 2021 the Development Corporation dr. David Cummings SMD 5-2 a second term ending February 2021 Fort Concho MS museum board Brandon Allen SMD one - a second term ending January 2021 Parks and Recreation Advisory Board Allison Watkins Park Commission representative do I have a motion for approval of the above board nominations any public comment with no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor of the nominations say aye with nine opposed passes seven zero we adjourn announcements with the only announcement is meeting adjourned and with that all in favor we're done thank you everyone for attending

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