San Angelo City Council 3-2-21

[0:00:00] march 2nd 2021 city council meeting it is now called to order and as usual we will start out this morning with a chaplain prayer and pledges and gary marcela jenkins i believe will lead us in both and everyone here good morning let's pray our heavenly father we seek your help today come and let your wisdom fall upon us oh lord as we gather for this meeting give us clarity so that we can effectively tackle each part of today's gender reveal problem areas and show us that the best solutions that will apply point our eyes to every positive outcome since our last meeting and let these favorite results and developments encourage every heart in this room dear god help us apply your wisdom as we decide on certain matters and make plans now we want to offer prayer of gratitude for our honorable mayor city leaders and workers precious father in heaven in the name of jesus we thank you for how you delivered and kept the residents of san angelo safe during this recent storm we thank you father for the leadership of the city our mayor the city council members and especially the water utilities workers who worked in the cold hours of the night five degree temperature working hard to get water back to the citizens of this city even when they themselves had no water i pray god that you bless them for going above and beyond the call of duty to help the residents of this city and others

[0:02:01] we thank you father for the many volunteers that went door to door checking on the welfare of our citizens we thank you father for lord our even our mayor who went door to door to check on on residents we thank you father for the many employees of this city who took the time to do more than just their jobs but to show the love care and concern of their fellow citizens we ask you to bless them abundantly in jesus name amen and now we'll do the pledge please i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands one nation under god indivisible with liberty and justice for all honor the texas flag pledge allegiance to the texas one state under god one and indivisible good morning everyone and today we have three proclamations and the first one will be the proclamation of february 12 2021 as the naacp local chapter 75th anniversary and i know we have some people here who would like to come forward as we read this so please do so now that'll be just fine shirley be great

[0:04:09] the san angelo national association for the advancement of colored people or naacp was formed in 1946 by a community leader mr l a raven and a few dedicated black men and women throughout the years the naacp has helped deliver tremendous leadership from the black community serving as an integral voice for concerns about equality and justice leaders from this organization were involved in the planning committee to integrate public schools in san angelo in 1954 the first black person to serve as a city council representative and as of today the first black woman to serve as a council member the first black person to be elected to a county position as a county commissioner and several black men and women serving in volunteer positions on various boards and commissions the san angelo naacp has repeatedly guided minority residents to register to vote and vote in all elections serve as election workers and engage in get out the vote programs and activities in 2017 the local chapter hosted the naac regional conference and in 2019 served as the host chapter of the first ever naacp state conference in san angelo texas the local chapter has continued to fight for voting rights economic equality and educational opportunities and has worked to advance the social political and economic conditions of ethnic people of color our city has benefited from the naacp's unwavering dedication to the objective of securing equality of opportunity for all as this organization celebrates 75 years of service to the san angelo community we salute the officers and members who have worked to improve the lives of all residents of san angelo therefore i brenda gunter mayor of the city of san angelo hereby

[0:06:12] recognize and honor this organization for 75 years of service as freedom fighters to the san angelo community and ask that all of our citizens continue to work for the principles they have dedicated themselves to uphold thank you like to come forward and speak yes we will okay and go ahead and speak if you want shirley and then we'll do the picture okay okay can you all understand me with this mask all right i want to say thank you to the mayor and the council for this recognition today with me are some of the members this morning of the san angelo naacp and we all know in this room 75 years is a long time to do anything and to serve in this same community for 75 years fighting for criminal justice is quite quite a victory so we appreciate the city in recognizing us and we're honored to stand on the footsteps of mr la raven and other leaders that have come before us thank you [Applause] um our next proclamation will be for the

[0:08:20] proclamation of march 2021 as disability awareness month and i'm quite sure there will be people in the audience to accept this so please come forward wherever you're most comfortable come on the month of march 2021 has been designated as developmental disabilities awareness month in order to celebrate and recognize people with disabilities individuals with developmental disabilities their families friends and neighbors and co-workers encourage everyone to focus on the abilities of all people and this month texans can raise awareness about how classrooms workplaces houses of worship and communities are made stronger when they include people of all abilities we commit ourselves to promoting intellectual and developmental disabilities awareness creating more inclusiveness and cultivating opportunities for texans with disabilities now therefore in order to recognize the many contributions and challenges of citizens with developmental disabilities living in san angelo i brenda gunter mayor of the city of san angelo on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim the month of march 2021 as developmental disabilities awareness month and encourage all citizens to observe the month with appropriate programs and activities we encourage the citizens of tom greene county to observe this month by participating in activities that increase public awareness and developmental disabilities and take the time to get to know someone with a disability congratulations and please offer some words thank you mayor and thank you city council thank you especially lucy for being on our sponsoring agencies panel and we really appreciate mhmr appreciates our partnership with the

[0:10:22] city and everything that you do to support us we man what a year 2020 was with all the changes and then this one as well folks with intellectual disabilities had to adapt just like everyone else did and you know we talk about disabilities but it's really the ability of people and people with developmental disabilities people that we used to call our label as mentally they adapt and change just like everyone else so there's a lot of tenacity a lot of ability in people with disabilities i usually come and talk about this awesome basketball team we have we're not able to we didn't weren't able to play last year we're able to play this year because of the the pandemic but you know we'll be back next year and we'll be showing come in telling y'all what a great team they are and uh but anyway my thing is i just really appreciate our partnership with the city and for the support that y'all did for mhmr thank you so much [Applause] and our last proclamation or recognition is for mr john rangel is he here this morning and it's yes please come on forward bless you come on welcome today the city of san angelo

[0:12:30] is honoring one of our own john rangel building maintenance supervisor on february 28 2021 john will retire after 30 years of dedicated public service to the citizens of san angelo and our organization while building maintenance has been john's primary responsibility he has had several occasions to assist with emergency operations for our community including recovering from tornadoes hail storms flood events and hurricane related evacuations may 25th 1995 a hail storm damaged several city buildings vehicles and traffic signals john was there august 25 2005 and september 24 2005 the city prepares for evacuations from louisiana and texas coastal communities during hurricanes katrina and rita john was there march 2020 coveted 19 required staff to prepare for different workspaces to ensure the safety of staff and citizens john was there john recalls these significant may 21st 2020 tornadic winds hail and rain once again caused significant damage to city buildings and vehicles john was there john recalls these significant events as just another day in the life of a city employee he says working alongside his fellow co-workers from the many different departments has always been the culture at the city of san angelo and hopes it will continue to be so john will remain active in the san angelo community with his family friends and parishioners at saint joseph catholic church where he serves as a deacon the city of san angelo is grateful for john's dedication and service to his hometown therefore i brenda gunter mayor of the city of san angelo on behalf of city council

[0:14:32] do hereby recognize and applaud john rangel we want to thank john rangel for his achievement and positive determination to make a difference in our community thank you john would you come forward and offer some words i would like to thank all of previous city councils uh i started off as a uh lowest level employee at the airport i was making 990 a month things have changed things have changed but the one thing that has not changed is the dedication of the city councils past and current city staff management levels you take care of your people allison i am truly impressed with the way you took care of your personnel and the citizens of san angelo she is but one example of what city employees are dedicated to serve and i want to thank all of you ron lewis michael dain i'm gonna have to stop i'm crying you deserve a tear go ahead cry it's good for you rick rick wise

[0:16:38] thank you so much you have supported me and my beloved wife all those times i was out in the storms she was there taking care of my family and she she knew that serving people comes from the harden and she allowed me to do that thank you thank you and may almighty god bless each and every one of you now and [Applause] many pens it always has your card okay foreign

[0:19:06] there's john's walking away i just want to state that he's not just an outstanding employee just an outstanding individual we love you john we wish you the best in your next endeavors and thank you for all you did for the city of san angelo we will now move into the public comment section if some of you are city employees who are just walking out if you would just stay for a few minutes more i would appreciate it public comment issues or concerns not on the regular agenda may be raised by the public at this time citizens should speak from the podium address all comments to the dias begin by stating their name and address or single member district and limit their remarks to three minutes public comment will be three minutes unless extended by council or translation services proponent or opponent five minutes unless extended by council or translation services we ask that if you come forward that you offer your name and address or smd counsel has no obligation to respond to comments or questions from the public any response from a member of the city council to non-agenda comments is limited to a statement of specific factual information recitation of existing policy and directing staff to place a subject on a future agenda i'm going to start by offering some public comment this past week's weather and even today it is hard to believe the perfect storm that arctic blast was just two weeks ago and yet i know some of the stress anxiety frustration

[0:21:09] and anger still lingers to those of you citizens i want to thank each of you for your kindness and concern that you had for your fellow friends family neighbors and even strangers your efforts made a big difference in so many lives the week of february the 14th has made us all recalculate many aspects of our lives the combination of power water and empty grocery cells were as they say historic two weeks ago impacted us all and will probably have a prolonged effect on us for some time as many of you struggle to put your lives back together waiting for plumbing parts to get back on the shelves and plumbers to get to your house we know this has been a painful experience although it impacted all cities in texas and most all cities struggle with the same issues as we did in san angelo this is our home and this is where we live and this is where we choose to take advan and this is where we choose to raise our families i am sorry that there are a few of you who chose to take advantage of the situation and purchase more pvc than you could use and maybe you did not even have broken pipes and you chose to put it on craigslist to make a profit and yet there are those today who still don't have water in their homes because the pvc parts are not available and the shelves are not restocked i would ask that all people in the audience today who are city employees please stand i won

[0:23:17] i want to thank each of you for your efforts for all the time the energy the late nights the cold weather and the cold water in which you worked there were unbelievably harsh conditions and yet you put the citizens above you and continued to work as hard as you could to get everyone back into living a quality of life with water and power so thank you to each and every one of you for being who you are and for being a part of the staff of the city of san angelo let's give them another round of applause thank you and i want to put out a very special thank you for the johnson street church of christ who took the time to hand write notes to the staff at the city of san angelo and thank them for all that they did to get us back in the business of water in our homes so thank you very much two other things i'd like to talk about and that is throughout this event so many people commented on the sidewalks being built on knickerbocker and the bryant boulevards the city of san angelo has not spent a penny not a penny on those sidewalks that is a tex dot project the city has not taken any money from any fund that should be used for infrastructure issues whether they're street or water to build those sidewalks the last thing i want to comment on are the ambulances in the city of san angelo i was told last week that someone at one of the hospitals was told that the mayor said no fire and no ambulances of the city of san angelo could be used to transport patients that they had to call for an ambulance from outside the city of san

[0:25:21] angelo this is not true what we did approve and what we support as a council is additional resources and ambulances to be able to offer services to the citizens of san angelo because we found that the number of ambulances that we owned were not enough to take care of the number of transfers and the number of people who required ambulance services so we have not instructed our fire department not to transport patients whether they have coveted or any other reason we would not do that for the citizens of this city i also want to ask teresa to repeat the information tom green county was added to the list of cities of counties to be able to request financial support for all of the emergency damages that you might have experienced in your home or your business teresa would you repeat what that those that information is please yes anybody who has personal damages to their home that resulted from the storm such as broken pipes and those sorts of repairs that are needed um you can go to disaster assistance dot gov and there's an application form on that website that allows you to fill out an application to get assistance from fema you can also go to fema.gov and there's a lot of information about the storm including information about insurance texas resources and just a whole variety even some of those faqs and rumor control so i would encourage disasterassistance.gov or fema.gov is there a timeline a deadline for for applying there's none that's been stated yet that i've found so those are still open applications and people are still eligible to apply thank you do we have further public comment today shane kelton would you come forward it looks like you want to speak yes mayor shane kelton director of

[0:27:32] operations for the city of san angelo um with with the topic of the the winter storm that came through uh just kind of wanted to to kind of update council and the citizens kind of where we are from our streets perspective as everyone knows that snowy weather wet weather followed by cold freezing weather is probably the harshest condition we can apply to a roadway and so with that we did see quite a bit of road damage out there uh through this last storm and of course it's going to continue we're going to it's going to continue to pop up as we move on and we get into these spring months where we're going to see more rain we're going to see more um heating in the heating and thawing and contraction of the of the ground so we're going to see more and more damage as we move on through the spring but just to let everybody know that we have had staff out since the since it's kind of dried out and we uh we've supervisory staff from street bridge we've driven every street in town and we've we've started assessing the streets just to kind of let everybody know we've so far since the snow we've entered in an additional 307 work orders for street repairs uh of those uh 11 of those 307 we actually lost some entire blocks of streets um where we just had pavement start peeling up blocks at a time um and so we we have some significant we do have some significant issues out there working through that um kind of going through some of those other things looking at uh the quantities of materials it's going to take to to replace these and how we're going to go about those will be in the next week or two we'll be sitting down with with the city manager's office and working through some of these issues and some of the timelines that are going to be associated with them with this much with this much damage over this much we're you know we're kind of estimating right now looking at about eight to nine thousand square yards of actual area that's going to have to be patched or replaced and so that's quite a bit so it's going

[0:29:34] to take our staff quite a bit of time and of course this is our busy season you know in the street and bridge department trying to prepare for our seal coat and so normally doing the crack ceiling and the vegetation removal those type things we kind of had to put that to the side for a little bit and start really trying to address some of these issues what would 9 000 square feet square yards where yards cost um looking at depending on whether we use a hot mix asphalt we use a cold lay product we're looking anywhere from 85 to 120 per ton probably uh somewhere in that oh gosh we're probably looking at a thousand to 1200 tons of material looking at that as it currently sits of course we realize that some of these over time some of these holes are going to continue to expand and get larger over time and then we're probably looking at another uh four to five thousand yards of actual road base that when we actually cut those uh cut the potholes out and cut those areas out and and we're replacing the road base underneath where the uh where all the damage occurred uh probably another you know uh four to five thousand yards of base is kind of the rough estimates right now and so um and base is running us about um i believe eight to ten dollars a yard depending on if we go get it or it's delivered to us so um so that adds up to about how much um just material wise we're probably gonna be in the uh 170 to 200 000 range for material um and then of course there's labor labor on top of that and then as we look uh as to how long it's going to take us with our existing staff to try to tackle some of these things we may be looking at needing to contract some of these repairs out especially some of these

[0:31:36] larger repairs where we're talking blocks block long repairs at a time and so again be working with the city manager's office to kind of go through some of those scenarios and and see what the best best way to tackle some of this some of these issues are um and try to get get these roads back into shape as soon as we can again because the longer we leave them the longer those holes are out there the more people are driving through them just the bigger and the worse they're going to get and the more extensive the repairs are going to take and so we want to address these as soon as we can no people will start talking about potholes so as it relates to potholes do we have a number specifically that people should call to report the potholes or are you waiting to just make your first efforts at repairing these streets before you ask people to start calling in the pothole issues right now we again we have just had we've had our supervisory staff again driving every street in san angelo over the past uh seven seven to eight days and so we're we realize that there's a lot of potholes out there and again those have all been the ones that we have seen have all been recorded we we have gps coordinates we have uh actual pictures of them so those have been put into our database and so we know where those are we realize that there's going to be more pop-up but as we're as we're working the streets as we're as we're methodically working through the system we're going to try to tackle all of those as we can so right now instead of being inundated with 5 million phone calls i would rather just wait for the phone calls and let let me start let my crew start actually addressing and tackling these potholes and then we will as we move further in through the progress if new potholes start showing up in in the areas where we've already addressed than those at that point in time we would like for people to make sure that they call it call call those in because again as we're methodically moving through this it may take us a while before we see a street that we've already addressed before we see it again and so at that point in time that's when we would want people to start making

[0:33:38] those phone calls after we address address the initial uh brunt of all these with that we've also just to kind of let everybody kind of or be aware of as as not only as we're talking about the street damage from the storm itself we also had um in the in the month of february we had 67 water main breaks most of these have been since the since the winter storm and so each one of those water breaks also requires one of my crews my trench repair crew to go back and actually fill that back in and and repair and replace the area that has been disrupted from that from the break and if y'all have seen some of those around town some of those can be rather large we have some of these 12 when we had some of these 12 and 8 inch lines break it takes quite a bit of area for those guys to actually dig around that to make sure that they have a work a safe workspace to get in that hole to repair that pipe and so we'll also be tackling those as well too so but again we're unfortunately we are very aware of the situation and but again we are we have a plan we're putting together a plan right now to address it we already do have crews that are just starting to drive streets and fill potholes right now so but we're on it and just wanted to just wanted to bring council and the public up to speed on on where we are and and what we've seen thank you shane very much yeah yes bill i have a question shane as we look at repairing and replacing equipment on the water main breaks are we doing anything to try to prevent so many breaks should we have another one a storm like this i mean are we burying the lines deeper or using different equipment well no not necessarily we're um a lot of the brakes that we're seeing or that we saw were i mean there were a few on some pvc lines a lot of these are in the older

[0:35:40] on older lines that we have throughout town most of them are adequately buried deep enough what we see and that causes the majority of the breaks is when we the ground actually starts freezing we actually start shifting when you go from you know 70 degrees the week before to five and zero degrees of that week and we stay below freezing for a week we actually start the ground start shifting we do actually there were quite a quite a few where we actually had valve stems start leaking things like that where there is a more direct access to the cold at the valve stems but again most of our lines are already buried at you know deep enough adequately enough to to not be in the free zone of the ground but again it's mostly due to the shifting of the ground that causes the majority of our leaks and how deep are they buried uh in some of the older parts of town uh were that are really old and we have we have water lines that are probably shallow as is 18 to 20 inches most of the time we try to bury everything below that 24 to 48 in some areas it's even deeper depending on the terrain and the size of the line and when you say below the free zone what is that what is it most of the time in west texas that's nothing uh but i know but now that we've had something but now that we've had something most of the time if we bury things 12 inches or below we normally feel safe in in texas that that's below any area that would freeze and so when you're other than maybe some sprinkler lines things like that that are buried you know in that 8 to 12 inch range most of the time when you bury water lines anything below below 12 inches is sufficient to to handle most freezes in texas thank you mayor i just want to emphasize i know shane just mentioned 200 000 for materials but you have to understand that this is outside of the norm so you have staff will be working overtime we have to outsource as well so we're

[0:37:42] actually looking at probably doubling that up as well so it's not as easy as just saying it's a two hundred thousand dollar cost of sale material i would suspect it'd be between three to four hundred thousand if not more than that so i just wanna make sure that that you all understand that because this is something they will have to work out and find the monies to make that happen so okay well i wanna make sure that if possible that at the next city council meeting we try to put together a better estimate so that we can start adjusting budgets and looking for the money to fund this because it won't be in the traditional budget cycle that we would have budgeted these expenses it's going to be outside the typical budget statistics so we would like to have some what of an estimate on what this total cost is going to be and we know it's an estimate but we need to put numbers to it so we can better start looking for the funds to take care of these infrastructure catastrophic weather issues thank you yes please would any of this qualify for federal assistance shane do you think not not that i'm aware of but we will definitely be looking uh to see what we can find out there mayor yes please um i'd like to add one thing brian groves reminded me that he has created a winter storm page on our website so if people go to cosa tx dot us backslash winter storm there's a lot of information there about local resources including our emergency repair program a list of licensed plumbers as well as some of the fema information that we've already discussed today all right thank you tina thank you mayor tina dierski director of finance along these same lines i just wanted to announce to the public that we are beginning the process for our annual capital improvement plan for 2021 and the cicip online survey will run from march 4th to march 24th we'll have a link on the city's capital improvement plan webpage and of course we'll be pushing that out through all of our social media pages as well

[0:39:48] is there any further public comment i see yes please good morning city council members my name is christandra holden i am a resident of the pauline area it's wonderful to finally meet y'all face to face my family including my husband my two-year-old my 12 year old were directly affected by the chemicals found in the city water on february 8th sunday february 7th we noticed the water had a bad taste and odor sunday night the odor became stronger monday morning after turning on the shower the air seemed thick and it was hard to breathe we all had headaches and gastrointestinal issues for days www.emergency.cdc.gov states people who breathe in high levels of benzene may develop the following signs and symptoms within minutes to several hours drowsiness dizziness rapid or irregular heartbeat headaches tremors confusion unconsciousness and even death my family experienced 75 of these symptoms also found on the same website eating foods or drinking beverages containing high levels of benzene can cause the following symptoms within minutes to several hours vomiting irritation of the stomach dizziness sleepiness convulsions rapid or irregular heartbeat and even death my family experienced approximately 40 of these symptoms the epa has set a goal of zero parts per billion of benzene and drinking water and the maximum permissible level parts per billion is five because benzene can cause leukemia the emergency planning and community right to know act of 1986 requires industries and facilities to submit an annual inventory of chemicals by march 1st of each year it also requires this information be submitted to

[0:41:49] scrc lepc local fire department and must be made available to the public with that being said we must rely upon and entrust in you our city council members to find the responsible parties hold them accountable provide detailed information to the public on how this occurred and how it will be prevented in the future in order to keep our community and its children safe thank you for your time today thank you for your comments hi my name is kathy brown i reside at 3518 west beauregard um i just i'm not used to this i've never been here but it's a great system i'm here and i'm looking at y'all and i'm realizing boy my gifting is not government but it is y'alls and we're so grateful for y'all we're grateful that we live in this city and how y'all handled everything i look around and i'm just overwhelmed with gratefulness and i just want to say thank you from the city of san angelo for all of your hard work you all have been amazing and so i just i'm very filled with gratitude today as i was talking about your giftings um it's not my gifting but i do have a gifting that god has given me and it's an intercessor i'm an intercessor and as the intercessor um part of my calling is to hear the lord's voice and to act upon those things um i have a group that spends a lot of time in prayer and um one of the things that's come up a few times now you know for me to get ready early and to come here and and talk to you all about this had to be really heavy on my heart so i just want you to know it's out of deep concern and and i i respect y'all and your understanding of things but what the

[0:43:51] lord has really put on my heart is that we've been having these carnivals out at the mall and it as an intercessor i have felt such a darkness from there such a darkness and and we have one of our friends she actually became involved with a satanist that was involved in these carnivals and she was talking about how often this happens there's a lot of satanism a lot of child sex trafficking that goes on and i think about how it came in in the middle of this covet and i'm thinking everything's shut down but this thing is out here at the mall and people are going to it and it was just very upsetting but i i very much from the lord just felt like it was darkness so we walked around and prayed a lot for that but now there's another one coming we've already had two and after both of those our spikes in covid went up and we were like very aware that that happened and knew that that was a big source of that just these people coming from out of town bringing in stuff and all of a sudden everything went up but we felt like there was just a really darkness on there and so we see another one coming and the lord's given me that same check in my spirit like this is not good here comes another one and so i just want to make you all aware you know i trust y'all and i know y'all will do the right thing and i just feel like you know if if you're not in my position as a watchman on the wall as an intercessor you know maybe you need someone like me to come say hey there is a check in my spirit about this thing going on here and maybe we need to have more security or really check into these people that are bringing these carnivals from out of town coming into our community and knowing that there's you know child sex trafficking that's just so abundant right now and and this witchcraft that brings that they bring with them it's just very

[0:45:52] concerning so you know i trust y'all and we pray for you all all the time all this that's been going on in our city we pray for y'all and we are so grateful that we have people that are righteous doing the right thing for our city so we say thank you thank you thank you thank you and my name is juanita brown i reside at 4845 bermuda drive and i live in the southland area so there is um through traffic and people that come through again the safety of the city of san angelo is very important to me i'm just now getting placed into some areas where i can learn more about how to help our city at the grassroots level and so i'm really excited about that so i really appreciate mayor and the council members for just hearing us and being available for us i love meeting each one of y'all and as um a spokesman for god i just am a servant and just here to pray we pray for um all issues all governmental and we've been given a privilege and honor and it's just i'm very humbled to stand here before you and appreciate everything that's done i think that's angelo is one of the cities that has had so many excellent things happen because of the people that god has put here um so we it's been called the city of angels and it's and we know it's a refuge city so many people do come and um businesses so we pray for all of that so we appreciate you hearing us out i know it increases some of the traffic in the southland area of different people that not i can't control who goes there but just the safety safety of our family safety of our children um is very important so that is something that we carry in our heart and we're here available y'all ever need anything we're easy to get a hold of um to pray for any and we have already been praying for all of the things so thank you for the privilege thank you very much do we have further public comment today with none we will move into our consent

[0:47:58] agenda at this point i will ask council members if they have items that they would like to pull from the consent agenda i usually start with billy nothing to pull mayor lane lucy no ma'am harry tom i want to pull l l and tommy all right then may i have a motion for approval of all consent agenda with the exception of item l may i have that motion some movement some move by billy seconded by lucy any public comment concerning agenda items of the consent agenda with none we will take a vote all in favor of approving the consent agenda with the exception of item l please say yes yes any opposed with none opposed the consent agenda is passed seven to zero with the exception of item l item l is consider authorizing the city manager to negotiate and execute all related documents for temporary monitoring well in the city's right of way and i think kevin pate you're here to talk to this about this item my name is kevin pate i'm a city engineer interim for city of san angelo uh monitoring wells is basically just a casing that'll be six to ten feet in the ground and it'll be either flush or just a few inches above surface and this is where they'll monitor groundwater for possible fuel leaks coming from the gas station that's across the street on your map as you see so kevin let me ask my question as i'm looking through this in the background information the position on the map for the two whales i don't know if brian can put that up is actually not on the property of the store it's actually on the property of randall motors so i called randall motors george last night and said has anybody

[0:50:00] even communicated with you this and he had not heard from anybody so this comes as a total surprise that this is being looked at and so i just want to make sure this is somebody's personal property all right it's a fence i don't know where i know there's an easement there but i don't know exactly where these monitor whales are going to put on his property it looks like they're right on the fence line so before i suggest that we go forward with this i just want to make sure somebody's in contact with randall motors about what potentially may happen the site that's going to be required and how long it'll be right there now we do understand that this is a non-resident slot and that's probably why it was chosen to do so with the pst rating on the tank drain off but anyway i just think there's a little bit more process that i'd love to see go up forward and communicate with randall motors and if these monitor whales do come up positive it is my understanding they actually move out and extend a little further as you monitor in a pattern out so i have no problem with proving it but i want to make sure daniel that somebody's in communication with randall motors before this thing goes further i will reach out to randall motors uh the wells will not be placed on private property if uh without council's approval or or the owner's approval okay we would have to get permission from a private property owner to do that so i will reach out to randall motors though and make sure that they're comfortable when we're talking about right-of-way we're not talking about right but if you look on the map there's a street there and they seem like it's right on okay we'll make sure i've just got a concern there so with that information kevin thank you very much i move for approval thank you tom do i have a second second by lane any public comment i just want to make sure we always contact the public if it's a close to your piece of property and someone's going to come out there and dig and city vehicles are going to show up we need to make sure people are informed and understand what what is happening why it's happening and what the end result that is expected communication is everything all right with that we'll take a vote all in favor say aye aye with none opposed motion passes 7-0 that concludes our consent

[0:52:05] agenda we will move into the regular agenda comments regarding items on the regular agenda may be made by the public when each item is discussed as outlined above applicants proponents and appellants are exempt from the same time limit above and must limit their remarks to less than five minutes we will start with item a which is consider a resolution a public hearing to proving a substantial admit sorry gotta read it approving a substantial amendment to the 2020 annual action plan for use of cares act 2 cb dg cv grant funds and authorizing the city manager to execute all related documents applications required certificates and annual funding agreement for the addition additional allocation the 582 1116 of cdbg cv funding bob euron good morning council we received a little over 582 thousand of additional cdbg cares act funding for projects that help citizens recover from the economic impact of coven that is in addition to the first round of covet recovery funds which we allocated for a rent mortgage assistance program and of which we have over 16 000 remaining and it's in addition to the recent allocation from the state for 197 000 of rental assistance and eviction diversion called t-rep uh to help expand these new funds as quickly as possible we issued a notice of funding to local nonprofits and we received the two requests one from mhmr for supportive housing for special needs clients in the amount of 95 080. so describe what that is supportive housing that's going to be rent assistance

[0:54:07] counseling and other supportive services for special needs mhmr clients um we have uh contraval community action agency asking for utility assistance in amount of 250 000 and we also recommend allocating uh 120 000 for additional rental mortgage assistance for my department and 116 000 for admin and program delivery we do have representatives from the both non-profits here to answer your questions and we're asking council to approve the allocation plan when you talk about admin 116 000 so that 116 000 goes to who goes to the city it is part of we had to hire an individual to help us run the program because we don't normally do rental assistance and also for uh delivering things like uh conducting lead-based paint inspections uh those kind of things okay all right so you have people here to speak we do uh we have um uh craig rowe from mhmr he can explain what he's asking for and then we have mark bethel from contravary action agency greg you want coming up yes much easier to talk yes um mhmr is requesting uh funding to enhance our current supported housing program with rental assistance we have a number of people about 90 folks that are on a waiting list for assistance with housing a lot of folks just cannot afford their rent the cost and uh what this will do is assist us be able to assist them with making that extra payment or being able to

[0:56:09] continue on until they can receive perhaps hud funded housing we will have a part-time case manager dedicated to doing uh managing these court these cases as well as outreach activities and counseling the individuals on available resources and assistance to help with managing finances paying bills and various sources like that are there questions greg are we talking about clients and mhm our clients specifically correct yes people with mental illness or substance use disorders okay thank you yes billy um my question is assisting these folks with the cares fund i certainly understand that but what happens when that's gone i mean how have they been paying their rent up to this point we currently have some funding through the city for tenant-based rental assistance and we would work in that program and then mhmr also has some funding through the state through health and human services commission and we work through that program if if needed just kind of depends then we work with mark and his organization uh whenever we run out of funding and that often occurs is it tip go ahead billy i'm sorry i'm sorry go ahead so um are some of the clients able to work so they're able to you know take care of some of their expenses and they just need a little help or maybe they lost their job is that yes ma'am it could be a number of things this is specifically for coronavirus impact and we have seen with mhmr a number of folks that have gone into crisis or because of loss of job when there was the the bust basically in the oil field we responded to a lot a great increase in crisis calls and response

[0:58:11] so we would be assisting folks that maybe have lost their job or just not able to work as much as they were and they're trying to catch up on things but our goal would be to get them stabilized in regular housing affordable housing and access to hud which sometimes does take a little while to get but it's kind of a bridge is what we're hoping for y'all do great work and i certainly appreciate all the work that that you do to help you know people that need that because of mental illness or some crisis that they've had in their life so just want to say thank you for the work you do i appreciate it and i appreciate your answering my question thank you ma'am do i have any further questions or comments for greg okay thank you greg good morning i'm mark bethune the director of the contra valley community action agency so basically what this funding will do for us is allow us to to bridge the gap from where our federal funding the maximum income in uh limit ends and the income limit for uh csbd yeah i get all these acronyms mixed up but you know what i'm talking about so for example right now we're able to assist a family of four with an income limit of around 34 000 and this funding will allow us to reach up and help those families at around 52 000 and we know that many people have been impacted this year in ways that are subtle for example whenever we have kids at home or we're having a work remote where our utility bills are impacted so this will allow us to help some of those individuals that normally wouldn't seek our assistance it'd be water gas electricity we have questions from sarah eckle she

[1:00:17] is our housing and development director and uh she would be helping me oversee the funds we already have the infrastructure in place there's no need for another application it will just be part of what we're already doing okay questions comments thank you mark yes thank you all right with that yes please lucy uh i want to ask bob on this hundred and sixteen thousand four hundred dollars for the program and administration can you repeat that again what you're gonna do that or who it's going to be allocated to i think the big issue everyone's looking at is the percentage of the total that's going to the admin a piece of this and so the question mark is day in and day out do we have staff that can help assist that's already on the payroll versus taking 116 000 out of the program for additional staff yeah we can uh the thing is this is uh to ensure we have enough funding to cover some of those things if we don't use that uh we can easily move it back into the program and we've done that in the past with cdbg funds i think our challenge is that looks too high looks like too much money too big a percentage to the total and we would like that number to be used conservatively so that the funds can go back in to one of these other programs yes this is uh this is the allocated amount that the grant allows so uh they asked 20 is typically the cdbg admin cap that's what we used uh to kind of earmark those funds um we like to kind of make sure that we have all those admin and program delivery things met before we move funds in there that's what i would ask council to consider questions any further questions from council at this point then do i have a motion for approval of item a

[1:02:19] so moved by tommy do i have a second second by tom any public comment no public comment we'll take a vote all in favor say aye with none opposed the motion passes 7-0 we will move into item b which is the first reading and public hearing of an ordinance approving ems compliance and fire compliance assignment pay and we have our fire chief brian dunn here to discuss it with us morning mayor council i'm here this morning to ask you to approve an ems compliance and fire assignment pay and the reason we're here is because with the fire department being civil service 143 it has to be done through ordinance to be placed in the ordinance so what we have going on there's two different two different areas as of january 1 2021 the state of texas and texas commission on fire protection has stopped writing curriculum for courses the only curriculum they will write is basic fire suppression so any other certifications which we possess or need to do in have to be done by us or we would have to pay someone else to do them so the other certifications which we do and train on is aircraft rescue firefighting patto incident safety officer fire instructor fire investigator inspector officer 1234 wildland firefighting plans examiner hazardous materials incident commander and hazardous materials technician so we have individuals throughout the department and many of them carry at least some of these certifications when our recruits come out of rookie school they have basic fire suppression aircraft rescue firefighting and paddle so the reason some of these are also important the aircraft rescue firefighting you have to be certified in that to work at the airport to be able to maintain our commercial aviation out there these people have to be certified and this is not a basic fire suppression it is an uh extra certification they have to carry

[1:04:21] of course the fire inspectors and several other things that that you have to be certified in to do those jobs so uh one of the things that i would add in this deal this person that uh would oversee compliance with tcfp oversee compliance with the state firefighter and fire marshals association develop and write certification course run our basic fire academy run fire academy for high school and adults when implemented uh liaison with texas commission on fire protection teex state firefighter fire marsh association in goodfell air force base and coordinate and lead our area school that is on the fire side the ems side and and i've had a few conversations with the city manager's office and a couple other departments starting this year uh howard college is going to move from training the paramedic program as they have in the past since we helped them develop that back in 2008 or whenever it was uh they've been training on our schedule which is eight to five monday through friday to get everyone done within a year they are going to move to a two to two and a half year program which is normal for a paramedic program the issue for us with that is i can't hire someone and have them sit in there for three years before i can use them it would be extremely expensive so legal is working on the moa with howard right now we are going to operate our paramedic program and we will run ours under their umbrella so we will still continue to run an eight to five program to get our people out in a timely and efficient manner and this person would be oversight taking care of all those compliance issues for us in that arena okay so do i have uh questions for brian do i have um yes tom it still keeps our city paramedics under that year-long schedule right yes we don't go to two years we're no we are doing ours we will run it with our personnel we have the instructors and stuff we have to run because here's another deal where the state abdicated their

[1:06:23] responsibilities back in 2007 they quit doing the paramedic testing and gave it to the national registry in that in turn they required that this everyone that sets for the national registry test go through an accredited paramedic program so in doing that that forced us to use howard college to uh certify our paramedics so we can run under their program we'll just do it on our time frame will that also entail any additional um work with goodfell air force base because i know you jointly do we do a ton of training with them we do all our aircraft stuff out there the paramedic side won't if they have people that want to come do training or sometimes we they join us for some of our certification classes i mean we have a very good relationship with goodfellas so we're always communicating back and forth and do i have a motion for approval as presented tommy's moved lane has seconded any public comment on this item no public comment then we will take a vote all in favor say aye aye when unopposed motion passes 7-0 we will move into item c which is the mlk parks restroom discussion good morning again mayor and council i am shirley spears with the san angelo naacp and we are here to present information to the council to help us get restrooms at martin luther king park located in north angelo on martin luther king drive so we're asking for funding and construction of restroom facilities at the martin luther king jr park and recommending anything related to it that we discussed today the park was renovated in 2003 in 2004 with cdbg funds

[1:08:27] totaling the amount that's shown there of about 139 000 existing restrooms on septic and in poor condition so they couldn't bring those restrooms up to code there was a lack of funds and general standards at that time for what they considered neighborhood parks but i will explain to you in just a little bit how we were able to confirm with the parks and recreation department that martin luther king park in fact is a community park which makes it eligible for additional things the portable restrooms were installed at that time and they're still in place as though it's a construction of some sort going on there and adding the restrooms was put in the budget but it was never actually completed so here is an example of what the site looks like it's a beautiful park i think most of you have been to the martin luther king park at one time or another and it's a nice community park but the restroom creates a major obstacle for the community and the city to be able to use it i'm going the wrong way let me go back the other way so here's the current view of what the restrooms i'm sorry brian i need some help on that okay here is an example of what the restrooms currently look like these are just simple porta-potties that you see normally on a construction site there are two of them there they're not marked by gender so you just go into this enclosed area that has these this wooded fenced area and it has these two portable potties here is an example of what the new restrooms could look like we had worked with the parks and recreation department in 2019 to give us some idea of what a replacement restroom would look like these are similar to what restrooms are in some of the other parks in the city of san angelo and you see it provides for protection

[1:10:30] and it certainly has a better look for a public park than what is currently there with temporary portable potties this also is a diagram of that same restroom style here's another example of one where it has a little bit more of a overhead and coverage on the facility either of those would be acceptable in terms of what we have today and another diagram of that particular restroom this is the inside of what the restrooms would look like so it's a lot better than just having the temporary portable potties that we have at the park today and would allow for our urinals and regular toilets in either of those styles there were some considerations in 2019 and i'm sure that this has gone up because it's been a lot of things that have happened since 2019. so these are just estimates that were given at that time it was between 196 000 to 262 000 in 2019 so the maintenance on installing those restrooms on a yearly basis was between 10 and 12 thousand dollars a year and i'm sure that parks and rec and other city employees can help us bring these numbers up to date but this is what the estimate was two years ago when we first started working on this there are some considerations that certainly we have to have the funding source at that time in 2019 was undetermined i believe that's still the case we don't know where the funds would come from we have worked with our city council person to make sure that in that particular district a single member district that we can try to allocate some funds to get this done there was a suggestion of using sales tax revenue to get that done and then also talk of perhaps going after any local grants that the city may be eligible for i'm not going to go through all of the

[1:12:34] part classifications but i do want to focus on two and that is the community park i'll start with that was that's important for us to know and then neighborhood park when we first started this process it was told that martin luther king park was a neighborhood park and the purpose of a neighborhood park is listed there is for outdoor recreation and the development meaning areas that are included is very limited and it only covers up to about half a mile it had always been considered a neighborhood park by a lot of people just because it was in the middle of a neighborhood we then got clarification from parks and rec that it in fact is a community park which addresses a broader range of recreational needs and it also includes restroom facilities this particular type of park covers up to two miles and it's 20 to 50 acres generally speaking for a community park so we have determined that martin luther king park in fact is a community park with clarification from parks and rec again i'm not going to go through all of the different classifications of the park but those are the two that i wanted to bring up the points of interest and community points of interest are listed here i'm not going to go through all of those either but the visitors for this park are from all over the city this is another piece of information that was confirmed in 2019 from the parks and rec department we have annual community events that take place there namely juneteenth which is very limited now and we don't know what's going to happen in 2021 for juneteenth but i do know that i've had a lot of complaints and several members of the naacp have had several complaints because when you go to enjoy a wonderful celebration such as juneteenth then you have to leave the park to go to a public restroom because of portable potties is not what any of the families or individuals can safely and comfortably use blackshear high school normally has a

[1:14:37] reunion every other year they have stopped having events there because it's just too troublesome because of the restroom we have a lot of families in that direct neighborhood but they don't have anywhere to change the diapers if they were to bring their children to the park temporary portable restrooms have been in place for 20 years we think this is just totally unacceptable and that the city does need to help us to identify where additional funds can be this community deserves to be treated fairly and to have a temporary construction uh look at the martin luther king park for 20 years is just unacceptable we presented this two years ago to the council we included and invited many members and community members to participate in the cip in 2019 and it has not been added to the budget we've had several attempts to work with councilwoman gonzalez in single member district four and it's just showing how we have made attempts and have contacted her and have talked to her in the last two years in june of 2020 meaning just last year these are the other activities that we did with councilwoman gonzalez to try to figure out what we could do to work uh within her direction to help us get this issue resolved so that now in 2021 we have started a citywide petition to prepare to present to you which we are prepared to present i have confirmed that we did not need to bring the petitions to the council today because we did have the item on the agenda and we did have a council person a single member district um for ms gonzalez that assisted us in getting this item on the agenda to date we have over 550 signatures and all of these signatures are from local citizens so we know that there is an interest i want to give credit to carl white from 2019 who had a lot to do with this presentation and the

[1:16:41] information pretty much remains the same we did add some additional information to it and we also included some photos uh for it so we would like for the the mayor and the council to give great consideration for replacing the restrooms at martin luther king park just as quickly as possible the community refuses to wait another 20 years to have this done and so we're asking for support to move this forward thank you very much i'll entertain a question do i have questions for a comment i want to shirley you for your presentation and i want you to know that i am very much concerned for these restrooms have been for the last six years but like you say you know things happen and things take priority over others but we will continue to explore any avenue to see if we can come up with some type of resources to fund this project i don't know how long it will take but i can honestly tell you that we'll get on it and we'll try to do something as your council member i will do the best i can and in return i'm sure that the rest of us up here will do the same mayor i'd like to make a comment just a point of clarification you keep saying neighborhood and community um park uh it's always been my understanding at this point city council has never upgraded to a community park from a neighborhood park you mentioned march of 2019 it is still my understanding it is still the neighborhood park and i just wanted to make sure that i've made that clear because you presented it as a a community park but it actually in actuality is still a neighborhood park well my understanding city manager valenzuela from carl white director of parks and recreation that it is a community park so that is the information that we're going with i'm not trying to imply that it was upgraded but that for years that it was presumed that it was a neighborhood park when in fact it was a community park and that was what he

[1:18:42] confirmed with us in 2019 when we went to the parks and recreation advisory board okay i'll have to get some clarification program because right now really i still and my books are still in neighborhood park and i just want to make sure that we're very clear on that again nothing's gone before the city council for an upgrade on that jet so but again uh that is something that i know that you heard tina earlier talk about cip process that's the process of course we do follow after we get the results back from the community's participation then we do have a meeting with city council to take a look at priorities for the future i know the cip especially this year is going to be especially troubling especially that we're looking at our sales tax revenues and other revenues that quite frankly with the coveted issue that had developed this past year we're seeing the revenues that will actually be dropping off so we have to be really careful how we actually forecast for that cip but we definitely will be having discussion about that here in the very near future and i'd like to also just reiterate that we did participate in that process uh in good faith in 2019 and nothing happened so we're hoping that we plan to participate again this year and we recognize that with covet that's a priority just for everything but we're just asking for some consideration i don't know if any of the cheers money can be used to help us with this or any other money that may be available perhaps any additional partnerships that the city could establish with other organizations to help us raise this money and and i don't want to make light of covet 19 please don't think i'm doing that but i think 20 years is long enough to have temporary restrooms at a public park in the city of san angelo and that is what the constituents are saying also in that district so we're just asking that you please prioritize the replacement for these restrooms after 20 years of not having any okay thank you shirley thank you with that we i have a question yes if if this discussion is going to go on we definitely need some updated construction costs dude that's from 2019 to 2021 it's going to be drastically different

[1:20:46] if council once typically in the as we go through the cip process as they've mentioned if those are uh priority areas that you want to focus on then you know we can request from the vendors to get additional updated costs for those i think we definitely need those because everybody knows construction costs one thing is getting the vendor but then the labor part is sort of unpredictable so that's a best guess but yes that can be done at council direction and then also with a with a city property like this is there is there any avenues that need to happen if fundraisers want to occur to help supply money for this well i think number one we've got to look at all the resources lane and the number one thing is grants because most grants require participation and so i think there will be an effort to look at grant opportunities there are organizations in san angelo that have been very supportive of projects so for me that's the number one thing is taking a look at grants but with that we certainly have to have new costs but we also need to continue as daniel said making sure we understand the conversation of neighborhood versus community better define that because if we're changing one park from neighborhood to community do we need to be changing other parks and neighborhood to community i'm not sure what the number one criteria is it moves one from one area to the next but i think council needs to better understand that um and so carl will be asking you to educate city city council and the mayor on your conversation with shirley on upgrading it from neighborhood to community and is that an implication that applies to other parks as well but there are organizations that we'll be making phone calls too and ask what their areas that we might be able to look at in addition to

[1:22:47] looking at the cip in total and making sure that we understand all the high priority projects that need to be funded but we will certainly pursue these grants typically on the grants you know getting a grant you know a state grant or something like that for a restroom is going to be tough um you know there may be some local entities that may help with that more whether that be the health foundation or whatever and as the mayor stated you know if you're going to look at this and i know you're going to review in the cip process you're exactly correct there i can use whatever glenn moore park as as an example very heavily used park same scenario with port-au-potties so those are considerations you all will have to consider and and building it is one thing maintaining it is another i know staff continually says we're supportive of those things but if we're going to build it we need to have the money to maintain it properly that means the staff to go in and clean it and all of those things so we want to consider all those aspects but you're right and we'll look for those and provide information as we can all right and i just want to also mayor uh just reiterate again just for the sake of my presentation i'm not saying upgrade and no disrespect to the city manager but we were never told that it was an upgrade we were simply told that i see that mr white is here this morning maybe he can expound on that but we were never told it was an upgrade we were simply told that it was in fact a community park and so if i we have misunderstood something we apologize uh but i keep hearing the term upgrade and that is not what we were told is that we were trying to upgrade it we were never told it was an upgrade request well i think yeah i just think the use the word upgrade is being used because if you go from port-a-potty to a permanent facility that would be an upgrade in the facility and i it might not be the right adjective might not be the right now but certainly if you go from a porta potty to something more permanent there's a change

[1:24:48] well there was a reason that the porta potties were placed there to begin with and and i think that carl can can provide more information on that so if that's the concept that because a porta potty was there because there was a restroom there before and when they put the porta potties in almost 20 years ago they covered uh the restrooms up where the restrooms had been and put in the temporary portable parties so it had had a restroom before which also is indicative that in fact it was a community park and not a neighborhood park thank you for that clarification thank you very much thank you shirley all right with that we will move into our closed session the executive session on the provision of government code title 505 open government ethics subtitle a open government chapter 551 open meeting sub chapter d exceptions to requirement that meetings be open under the following sections a 551.071 consultation with attorney regarding one contract for judicial services at municipal court to rodolfo navarrete versus city of san angelo and through water contamination issue and then b 551.072 deliberations about real property regarding block 18 san angelo edition block one click edition and lot 9 d section 9 a the red arroya hills edition so at this point we will move into closed session to call this meeting back to order at 11 35 a.m the first item is follow-up on administrative issues so consider items discussed in closed session and we have no items relative to decisions made but i would like to have allison's truby come forward and make some uh comments for the public

[1:26:52] thank you mayor and council i want to provide an update to the pauline contamination issue sorry let me get this situated there's a few items that i want to make sure that we cover and that we've seen citizens asking and so that we get those questions addressed i want to start by stating this was not a source water issue and i know that i've said that before but what i want to explain is that this wasn't a contamination that's originated from a lake or our hickory ground water supply or from our water treatment plant and that was distributed out city-wide this was a backflow event and what a lot of people say they don't understand the backflow event or what that could mean and what that means is water from a customer side so beyond the meter was pushed into the city's water supply side this was an isolated area to the i'm a call it the paulin area i know that we have different names such as the northern industrial area the paulin area but this northeast quadrant of the city was the affected area we did do sampling in other parts of the city and found no residual of these chemicals other than this particular area we are continuing those investigations or those inspections of those facilities in that entire area we did have the folks here from mcallen doing those csi's or customer service inspections prior to the storm and now we have four more inspectors here that arrived yesterday monday and that are helping to inspect the additional facilities in that area we are turning every stone looking at every commercial industrial business in that area to make sure that we either can identify a source we can loc determine deficiencies and where those areas or those industries can be improved so that we don't have this issue

[1:28:55] again i want to further reiterate and things that we are doing for the protection of this system so we have talked about parts of our water system being valved off so we do currently have it valved off to where the water entering into the northern industrial area that is currently zoned white for a do not drink it the water in that area cannot move or migrate into what we call the paul land area which is where the residents near the school near the paul and baptist church those type of residents the water does not circulate between those two distinctive areas so we do still have that valved off we are currently taking weekly samples of the area both in the northern industrial area and the paulin area and i know that we need to get those sample results updated online and we will work diligently to get that so that people can see those sample results um and just want to we will have these csis that are here for the rest of the week and that we have um we've you know we have a list of businesses that we are working through and um turning every stone and doing those inspections so that we can work towards locating the source of this contamination thank you allison all right we'll move into item b is consider approval of various board nominations the construction board of adjustment and appeals john rogers smd three to a second term brooks werner smd five to third term lyndon butler smd six to a third term scott allison mayor to first full term all ending february 2023 roger julian mayer to a second term and david jacoba mayor to the third term both ending february 2022 the economic development corporation max cuello smd-3 to a second term erica lara

[1:30:58] smd-4 to a second term garland freeze smd six to a second term all ending february 2023 the fort concho museum board roger banks the mayor to third term and donald barnhart mayor to first term both ending january 2023 may i have a motion to approve all of the board nominations as read the move so moved by harry second by lane no public comment all in favor say aye motion passes 7-0 next item is announcements and consideration of future agenda items are there any with none we'll move on to adjournment may i have a motion emotion was made by tommy seconded by tom all in favor say aye the meeting has now been adjourned at 11 40. you

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