San Angelo City Council 3-17-15

[0:00:00] It is 9:04 and time to call this meeting of the St. Angelo City Council to order. We will begin this morning with the prayer. Mr. Ed Lopez, would you please step forward? Ed with the River City Baptist Church. Please stand as you are able while Ed opens us in in prayer. Good morning. Let us pray. Heavenly Father, Lord, we come before you on this beautiful day, Lord, to thank you, Father, for the blessing of just being alive and to wake up to a cloudy sky, Father. And with those clouds above us, Father, we ask thee that Father, you grant us some rain for our land. And that, Father, may you send us that special blessing. May you be with our mayor, our council, our city manager, and our our city staff. May you give them wisdom from above to lead our city in what is best for all. And Father God, we place the agenda today in your hands. And may your will be done always. And Father God, we ask thee now may you continue to bless our great nation, our state, and especially our home, the city of St. Angelo. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Amen. Thank you, Ed. Miss Essence Edwards, would you please come forward and help me with the pledge? Good morning. Good morning. How are you? Let's get right here and we'll do the American first. You ready? I aliance 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 in Texas. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God one and indivisible. Thank you. and she did not miss one word on either

[0:02:05] one of those. Thank you so much, Essence. Uh, we do have some proclamations. I see Miss Herbert is here. Uh, come forward if you would please, Mary Herbert. This next one will be on the West Texas Hunger Summit. And do you want to come forward too, Miss Ton, or you just going to let her do it? Okay. Uh, this first one is the West Texas Hunger Summit. And I would like to read this. Good morning. Good morning. Uh the Texas Hunger Initiative is a collaborative effort both locally and statewide whose goal is to end hunger in Texas through policy, education, research, grassroots organizing, and community development. St. Angelo is one of 12 Texas cities selected as a selected as a regional office to recruit and train community partners who will provide more access points for eligible residents to apply for Texas benefits including the supplemental nutrition assistance program TNF and Medicaid. The kids eat free summer meal program was established to support the needs to relieve hunger during the summer months because more than one in four families with children in Tom Green County have times when there is not enough money to buy food. That's 5,400 households in the St. Angelo and coronary heart diseases alone cost the United States 100 billion dollars each year in health care services, medications, and lost productivity. The Tom Green County Hunger Initiative provides education on topics that affect the ability or the inability of residents to be food secure, including health and wellness, community organizing, hunger outreach, and overcoming hunger barriers. The Texas Hunger Initiative St. Angelo Regional Office along with co-sponsors the Laura W. Bush Institute for Women's Health and additional sponsors Sonora Bank, Shannon Medical Center, Region 15 Education Center, and HB have organized the West Texas Hunger Summit. Therefore, I Dwayne Morrison, the mayor of the city of St. Angelo, on behalf of the city council to hereby proclaim March 26, 20015 as the second annual West Texas Hunger Summit in St. Angelo, Texas, as a way of educating the citizens about the way we can work together to make our region food secure.

[0:04:09] Thank you. Thank you, Mary Herbert. And you have the microphone. Okay. Thank you. I just wanted to invite all of you to attend the West Texas Hunger Summit. It's our second annual. It will be at the Education Service Center on March March 26th from 9 to 4. And uh you can go to the our our Facebook page uh Texas Hunger Initiative San Angelo to register. We have a variety of topics that we think you'll be very interested in. Our keynote speaker is Dr. Baker Herrell who will be talking about the relationship between health and hunger. uh he will also give us an opportunity to sit around the tables and brainstorm for our own community on the things that we might want to uh do to change or whatever we we can think of ideas that would work in our community. Then we'll also have some breakout sessions in the afternoon. You'll have eight choices of topics and speakers to uh attend. Everything from dinner tonight with Texas Agra Life to food gleaning with the Baylor University. uh some two ladies from Baylor University is are coming to show how they utilize the food that's left over in the cafeterias so that they it can be repurposed and it won't go to waste. We have that. We have someone coming to talk about the SNAP uh program and a toz how to apply, who's eligible, what they can buy, what they can do with it, all of that kind of thing. Then we also have someone coming to talk about food insecurity and uh we just have several to choose from. I won't go out through through all of them, but we would love to have you attend. Uh once again, it's on March 26th and we are taking registrations right now. Thank you very much. Let's get a picture. What we going to get? Ryan right here. Thank you, buddy. Essence, come back up here. We've got to take a picture. We forgot and Brian didn't remind us to get us a picture.

[0:06:17] All right. The next one is National Works Zone Safety Awareness Week. Travis, come on up, sir. Let me tra Tracy. Tracy, goodness. Come on up. Let me Have you been called worse than that? Yes, sir. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Let me read this. Work zones and construction areas on and along state roadways can be lethal places. Last year of 146 people, 80% 87% of whom were motorists were killed in more than 19,000 work zone crashes along Texas highways. These figures marked increases of more than 20% in fatalities and a 12% rise in collisions from 213. The two top factors contributing to work zone crashes are our failure to control speed and driver in attention. because of the dangerousness of failing to carefully navigate a work zone. Traffic fines double when workers are present and can cost up to $2,000. With more than 2500 active work zones at any given time statewide, the potential for tragedy is always present. In an effort to remind drivers to slow down, pay attention, exercise extra caution when driving through work zones, the Texas Department of Transportation has issued a call to action which is called Drive Safe in work zones so we all get home. This campaign coincides with the National Work Zone Awareness Week from March 23 through March 27. During this time, Tex Dots message signs along state roadways will remind drivers to drive carefully through work zones. The city of St. Angelo commends the Texas Department of Transportation and particularly Text Dots St. Angelo district for reminding drivers of the need to use caution in work zones so that we all get home safely. Now therefore, I Dwayne Morrison, mayor of the city of St. Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the city council to hereby proclaim March 23 through March 27, 215 as work zone awareness week in San Angelo, Texas. You get to speak now, Tracy. So, thank you, Mayor Morrison. Thank you, council. Uh, on behalf of the text employees and then the contractors that

[0:08:20] we have working for us that work in work zones, I thank you for this proclamation. I just wanted to to recognize that national work zone awareness week is something that we do every uh spring in the beginning of the construction summer construction season. Just to remind drivers that the work zones are are particularly challenging. There's there's different hazards from any place else that you drive. Just asking everybody to be careful. Recognize that there are there are people out there standing next to those cones. Their work zones very uh very tricky, very dangerous. Just ask that you give them a little extra attention. And then also for yourselves, just be careful because as Mayor Morrison read, a lot of the fatalities that happen in a work zone are actually the motorists that uh that that have crashes. And unfortunately yesterday we had a grim reminder on our state highway 158 project and we actually had a motorist killed in a work zone. So just ask that next uh next week and then throughout the summer season that everybody would just remember to to drive with a special care and caution recognizing that there are extra challenges uh driving in a work zone. So thank you very much mayor. Thank you sir. Let's get a picture. Appreciate it. Thank you. And if you drove down North Bryant yesterday, you notice there's work going on there at that intersection where the high school kids cut come across. Appreciate that, buddy. Man, that has been that's been needed for some time. That will help delay safety along there. So, I thank you for that. Also, Tracy have one more proclamation. It's a national cancer registars week. Misty Sonnenberg, please step forward. Good morning. Morning. How you Kathy? It's good to meet you. Let me read this please and then I'll let you both make speeches. During the week of April 6, 10 through 10 of 2:15, cancer registars will be honored nationwide by observing national cancer registars week and statewide by

[0:10:22] observing Texas Cancer Registars Week. This annual observance honors all members and cancer registered professionals whose vision and core values are set in making a difference in the war on cancer. Cancer registars or health care professionals that participate in the war on cancer by being advocates for this nature nation's cancer patient population displayed through their ex expertise and diligence in cancer data collection. Cancer registars are the individuals that ensure the timely accurate and complete collection of quality cancer data. This data is fundamental to the nation's cancer prevention and treatment efforts. Cancer registars bridge the gap between cancer patients and the many researchers and health professionals who need access to quality cancer data in order to make a wide variety of public health decisions related to cancer research, diagnosis, and treatment. In acknowledgement of their vital role, te national and Texas Cancer Registers Week 215 will be celebrated April 6 through April 10 with the theme cancer registars the lighthouse in a storm of change. Now therefore I Dwayne Morrison the mayor of the city of St. Angelo, Texas on behalf of the city council do hereby proclaim the week of April 6th through April 10, 2015 as national cancer registars week in San Angelo, Texas for a successful observance of cancer registars week on all levels. Who gets to make a speech or but who's first? I mean um I think he pretty much said it all. Um the I'm the president of texture which is Texas Tumor Registars Association. And so I challenged everybody. We already get it recognized on a national level every year and a state level every year. So I made the challenge that everybody try to get it acknowledged on a city level or a county level, whichever the case may be. And so I thank you for recognizing us. And I think that's all I have to say. All right. You want your turn? Oh, cancer touches everyone. So yes, it does. So,

[0:12:25] well, I get a picture then, right? Oh, good. We can do that. Yes. Come right here. There you go. Thank y'all so much. [Applause] [Music] And now it is the time in our meeting when we call for ask for allow public comment. Let me read the read leave got to do with the legalities first and then I will I will ask for public comment from anyone in the audience who wants to speak. for anything pro or con, good or bad, that's not on the agenda. The council takes public comment on all items in the regular agenda. Public input on a regular agenda item will be taken at its appropriate discussion. Public input on an item not on the agenda or consent agenda may be identified and requested for consideration by the council at this time. The council may request an item to be placed on a future agenda or for a consent agenda item to be moved to the regular agenda for public comment. On public hearing items, public input will be received on each item immediately following the council discussion and prior to any action on the item. Each member of the public should make the remarks from the podium and begin by stating their name. Remarks by each citizen will be limited to three minutes unless we waved by a council member for all speaking on that matter. No individual will be allowed to speak more than once on any subject until every citizen wishing to comment has done so. The line starts at the front. come forward and let's have public comment like we made it again. We dodged another bullet. If there is no public comment, then I

[0:14:30] will take it to the council. I will ask council if there is any announcements that they would like to make, statements I need to make, and also if there are any items on the consent that you want pulled to the regular. I'll start with you, Elizabeth. Uh, as a comment, I just want to uh thank everyone for attending the neighborhood chat last night. We had about 40 individuals. And I see Tommy Darwin in the back. He is our meeting facilitator. Tommy, you want to wave? He's the one who uh keeps us on time, on track, and make sure that everyone behaves well. Uh we also had council candidates in the room. We had the city manager joining us as well as the police chief. So, uh I appreciate the attendance. I really appreciate the interest. It's a It's really a fun way to gain public um input on certain issues and I'll talk more about that when the item comes up on CIP. Okay. Thank you. You have any items on consent pull? Mr. Vard, um I don't have anything that I want to pull. I did want to uh note that uh the fire department's going to be starting the 2015 muscular distrophe MDA fill the boot campaign. And you know, I I'm always thankful and amazed at our our citizens and how generous they are and and I appreciate the fire department doing it for for that good cause. Thank you, Don. Miss Farmer, I don't have anything that I want to pull from the consent agenda. I do have a couple of announcements. Uh this coming March 31st and April 1st, I will be in love attending the Port Plains Energy Summit. And then also in April, April 20th through the 21st, we'll be attend 24th, we'll be attending the board meeting in Washington DC. And I look forward to giving a report on that. Also, on April 9th, I will be having a Let's Talk town hall meeting at 6 PM at the uh TLC church in the main auditorium and hope to be able to give some updates to folks about all of the

[0:16:32] construction and the streets and whatnot that are going on out in the southwest portion of town. Thank you. Thank you, John. I do not have anything. Mayor Marty, I have nothing. I don't suppose Rodney has anything either, has he? No, Rodney's He's pretty quiet today. He is. I don't think we'll have any dissension out of Mr. Fleming today. Now, Rodney is out of town for spring break and he told us last time that he would not be here today. All right. If there are no pull If there are no changes to the consent agenda, I will entertain a motion to accept. Move approval. Second. That was Marty and that was you, is it? Right. We have a motion to accept the consent agenda as presented. It has been seconded. Any council comment at all on this before we call for the vote? Do I have any public comment on the consent agenda before I call for the vote? If not, all in favor of approving the consent agenda as presented, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Put a 6 on that one, Mr. Brian. Uh, moving on to number seven, public hearing and comment, which is consideration to approve a resolution of general support for Maplewood Park Low income Housing Tax Credit, LIIHTC. Mr. I'm sorry, could I maybe after this one, but I had asked you yesterday, we could pull number 10 up to the front uh to the top. So, we can do it right after this if it's if we get the consent, you Does anybody have a problem with building number 10 next? After Bob. After Bob. Okay. All right. Down here. That's right. Where was I in my reading now, John? Am I going to have to start over again at the front? I'm going to pick up in somewhere where I was. You just read consideration. We will do number 10 next. Uh to construct affordable housing apartments in St. Angelo on the east side of West 33rd. Mr. Solace, you are on, sir. Mayor, Council, uh we have a second low-income housing tax credit project that is asking for um a resolution of support from council. The Maplewood Park project is a 72 unit mixed income apartment

[0:18:35] complex on the corner of West 33rd Street and Brian Boulevard on the north side of town. Uh we held a town hall meeting earlier in the month and did get some u citizen comments. Among those were the concern of increased crime and uh traffic in the area. We also received uh several phone calls. Um one caller uh was okay with the project as long as the city was uh was interested in placing a speed bump uh to slow down vehicles, which in her words currently speed up and down the street like NASCAR. Um so anyway, other than those comments, uh we do have Mr. Paul Holden here from Zimmerman the Properties to cover some key aspects of the project. Paul, good morning, sir. Good morning, Mr. Mayor, City Council. Thank you very much. My name is Paul Holden and uh I am with Zimmerman Properties and we are the ones proposing a uh new apartment community for you on West 33rd and uh Bryant Street. Um, very quickly, let me um here we go. Um, just very quickly about Zimmerman Properties. Uh, we've been in in business since 1968. Started as a property management company in Springfield, Missouri. And uh they did a number of things until 1988 when they decided to go into the apartment business and start building apartments using uh the federal program of of housing tax credits. And this company has uh in the second generation of ownership uh of the company. Now we have well in Texas we have uh 23 communities and I have been involved in all of those. Uh nationwide I think we have about 80 communities at the moment. So, it's a good company, big company. We have about 300 employees and um we came to the city of St. Angelo not knowing

[0:20:39] what to expect and we found a very warm welcome here. Uh your staff, everyone that we have talked to within the city and worked with has been absolutely wonderful um so far to work with. But what we're doing is that we have put in a um um a request for uh an application for credits and one of the scoring criteria is a resolution of support from the city and uh the um the credits are 6 to1 overs subscribed. So everything is going to be separated by one point and uh we think that this is going to be a very good property in St. Angelo. We look forward to it. I have the site plan on the screen right now. Uh you can see where the buildings are, how they're going to be laid out on the property. And uh we did listen to public comment. And would you back up to that one more time, please? Yes, of course. Uh-huh. This is uh our Okay. I've seen what I need. A clubhouse. And we've just the way the um uh the building's going to be laid out. We're planning on having one way in and one way out. Where is the property line on the east side? Are you right Are you right on the property line there? How much how much of a buffer will be between the backside and the next neighbor to the east of you? Well, right now it's uh 30 feet I believe it is, but we can adjust that. We can move it. And we're planning on putting a uh a screening barrier of some fencing of some type. Uh whether it be a 6ft cedar fence or whatever the neighborhood would like is what we're planning on building. Apologize for interrupting. No, it's not a problem at all. Listen, I appreciate it. Um, this is, uh, typically what our, uh, buildings look like. I know that these kind of black and white drawings don't show you a whole lot, but um, let me go to some of the photographs that I have. Uh, this is Stone Canyon, which is our property I built in Amarillo, and this is the typical architecture that we have. This property has been full with a waiting list ever since we, well, before we finished construction, uh, we put tot lots uh, for children. We have two tot

[0:22:43] lots uh on these and uh an entry marker. And this is typically what our p two-story properties will look like. We do have our own management company. We have our own construction company. We have our own development company. And so and our group I've never I've been with them 13 years. I've never seen them sell a property. And so it's a it's a long-term company. Second generation of ownership is there now. the third generation is uh being groomed uh to take those next positions and so it's in the Zimmerman family for a long time it looks like and I'm very proud to be a part of their company. Um at this point can I answer any questions? I I think we have something that you're very much going to going to like in the city of St. Angelo. Well, I did make the presentation that you made last week and I thought you I thought you covered it very well. Uh there were a couple of questions that our citizens had. I thought you answered them very well. Thank you. Uh and although that sometimes we don't want these things in our neighborhood, I think this is something that is this is good for the neighborhood. I think this is and I don't like this writing low income because this is not low income. This is moderate income. It is moderate. That's kind of a misnomer. But uh these are very nice apartments. We take care of our teachers and our policemen and yes, nurses. We will have uh nurses. We we we're going to have elderly also. We really do. First thing that when our company comes in is our managers are told to go talk to the senior community. If you can fill all of it up with seniors, let's do that. Then let's talk to school teachers. Then let's talk to police officers. Let's talk to sheriff's department. Um there's a whole group that they're going to go through. So there it is a bit of a misnomer with it says lowincome housing and this was started by Congress in 1986. Where they come up with this I don't know but um it serves a a a different clientele and this is the only housing program that I

[0:24:46] have ever seen that has been very very successful and continues to be. Uh we'll take start with Charlotte. Who else wants to comment from council? Done. I'm just glad you're supportive of these projects. I don't remember those words coming out of your mouth on the last one. So, I did vote I voted against the resolution last time because I don't think I ought to be voting for anything for someone from Dallas or Amarella or Chicago that I'm not giving to my own builders. That that frustrates me that we don't give to our own people what we give to outsiders. And I voted against it for that reason. Mhm. And I'm not going to let this fail, but I might vote against you again today for the exact same reason. So, Charlotte, I also attended the town hall meeting last week, and I want to tell you, Mr. Holden, I was very impressed with your presentation. I was impressed with your facts, the fact that you literally answered all the questions that were presented to you. Uh whether they were three questions or four questions, you answered all of them at one time. and uh you know your material, you know your industry and that was impressive in your answers and how you came across. Um I voted against the last one the resolution and my reasons were the stability and of the ground area for that and also I believe that one should build at least comparable to the construction in the area the residential or better and uh your layout and your construction materials showed that you were going to do that. your programs that you're going to have on the property uh showed that you care about the community and I certainly am in favor of the project. I do want to answer a question as to how the tax credit uh got started and it was an intent upon the federal government to improve blighted areas in the US to encourage developers and builders to build in blighted areas to improve and refurbish uh neighborhoods. And that's how it got started. Yes, that's probably you

[0:26:48] weren't asked that question that last week, but that really is uh some truth of the matter. and I uh I'm enthused about the project. I do plan on supporting the project. Um and wish you luck. Thank you very much. Thank you, John. Mr. Holder, I too supported the last project over there and and surely it hit hit it right on the head. Blighted areas. I've got a blighted area right here past the bridge that you're more than welcome to go and look at. There was a proposed apartment complex being built there one time and it fell through the cracks. But my question is even on the last one that we approved, excuse me, how strict are you on the applicants that come to you? I mean, do you do a background check? What all do you do? Yes, we do have quite a process that they go through and it doesn't matter who walks in the door, they have the same process that they have to go through every time they fill out the application. Um they go through background checks, they go through checks for uh financial background history, they go through uh rental history checks, they'll go through um criminal background uh checks. They go through quite a number of other things. Um and they have to be approved through that process according to, you know, the federal standards that are set uh for going through that process. Yes, sir. So, we're we're very strict on it because we're going to own this property for a long time and it has to be run just like any other commercial endeavor that you have income, you have expenses, and if you don't have the leasability, you're not going to have that income. So, we want to make sure that property stays uh nicely done, nicely kept, so we can continue to lease it year after year after year. Good. I'm a big proponent of of affordable housing and Lord knows we know it. we need it around here for more affordable housing and and throughout the city, not just certain segments of the population, but everywhere. So, I'm uh I'm in supportive of your idea. I

[0:28:51] love the the quality of work you guys produce, and if if you maintain it, that's even better. We we're going to maintain it. Trust me. If uh and when it's built, if you see anything that you don't like, I'll give you my cell phone number. You call me and it's going to be fixed that afternoon. Okay, sounds good. Thank you. Yes, sir. Marty, did you have anything to add, sir? No, I would just like to add and and I'd got a question for Bob. I I' just like for you to reiterate it. It's this the the units will be um as far as who what income will be in each particular. Uh this one is a little bit unique is is actually has about 10% of mixed income units which is basically open to the market. It can be anybody uh including moderate income. Uh the terminology that they use in low-inccome hous is low income which is 60% of median. Uh so we'll have most of them will be filled out from from that level down but we do have some mixed income uh uh market rate units there as well. Okay. So it's a mixture of of it is all different. And I kind to be honest with you, I would I would uh support any mixed income um uh apartment complexes. They're much more um viable, I think. Uh I think they're much more uh attractive to the to the public. So, I agree. Uh and and from the public from the from the town hall meeting we had uh it it appeared to me that the the primary concerns were concerns that they had that that are actually going on right now anyway. Uh speed being a problem coming down 33rd. They do move fast. Yes. in in the intersection there at at North Bryant. Uh and and what what I guess you'd consider mischievous uh children they thought as far as breaking windows and stuff, but all that's going on now. So, u you know, um I I think we need to have the chief do

[0:30:59] do some work over there possibly. So, well, this is your area, Marty. Do you want to move? Can I ask a question first? Yes, ma'am. Please. Um, you made a statement about the um about the I guess the advantage to outside builders versus inside builders on this request. There's no request for a deferral of any development fees. This is simply a letter of support from the city. That's correct. Okay. Just making sure. I I I think the the the I I understand the program. I think the the the the problem that that with the program is just it's giving um an unfair advantage to to yes to the owner of the complex as far as renting the units uh that that our that that u our our local builders don't have. But if they wanted to get into the program, they could get into the program. And these are federal funds. If they don't come to St. and Angela will go to Midland Odessa. They don't go there, they'll go somewhere else. They don't come to Texas, they'll go to a different state. So, we locally don't really have a choice in that. We don't control that. So, we certainly want to support them. So, and I would like to make one comment. I I really commend the people that spoke uh the constituents of of SMD2. Uh they were u civil. They Thank you. Yes. That's that's a good word. you know, uh, and we'll leave it at that. We we won't we won't talk about SMD one since Mr. Fleming's not here. So, they were they're very civil. They were not demeaning. The questions that they asked were very viable and we all have concerns about traffic in our neighborhood and our values. And uh, that's a good point, Marty. I appreciate that. I I'd like to hear comment before I make sure. Very well. Anyone else care to speak before I open it up to public comment? I had one more question. Yes, John. Mr. Holder. Uh Marty mentioned uh the apartment rental, you know, the the

[0:33:03] pricing. Are you at liberty to at least give us a a low and and a high range? Well, I this is all based on the county's median income, and I don't have those numbers with me, but you know, we're going to have some that are I think we have two units that are relatively low uh rents, and we're going to try our very best to put seniors into those uh units. And then it will go up to just a slightly higher level, which seniors again, and maybe some uh some uh families. But then we'll have a mix of the 60% incomes and then the market rate which will whatever the market will bear on 10% of those. So it'll be eight units. But I I don't have those rental rates with me. Every time I make a comment on here's what the rates are going to be. My management company comes back and says Paul no the incomes went up the rents went up. Now you've misstated. So So it's probably not fair to ask you for a ballpark amount. So I I just don't have the information with me. U I can get that to you, Mr. Silvas. But the other qu uh Mr. Mayor, I wanted to answer your question about uh outsiders coming in and the local contractors not having the opportunity. We're a construction management company. We hire all local uh contra subcontractors. Uh we don't have subcontractors that uh follow us or that uh are are people. So everything will be subcontracted. All the lumber, all the concrete, all the everything will be local. I'm glad to hear that because we've had projects before where the area codes on the vehicles around our projects were not 325 and I would like to see 325 area codes on the vehicles that work on our projects. You will see and maybe even a you know might stand a a Midland or because we have our bedroom communities Abene Midland and Odessa. So we might have a few of those but I'd like to see primarily 325s. I think right now we'd have a better chance of finding somebody with a 325 than we would a Midland address. They're so busy out there. You can't get Well, they were they were busy in oil. Try you have a comment. Ma'am, yes. It has to do with the rents and the

[0:35:08] medium average area income, which I believe is $51,250 or something in that range. Is it Bob? And I I I want the public to understand this project is not a low income like you just stated. There's low, medium to moderate. And I want to caution council when we say uh yes, policemen and firemen and what would would be able to fit into this project. But the statement was made at the previous that our police and fire, you know, whatnot would be able to live there. And that's just not so because they are low income. and council needs to be very careful when we do a comparison because our starting salary for our police is over okay the low income but if they have three children then they would if they have three children but they're not an abundance of threebedroom units in that so it's it's the size of the units with the income and the size of the family exactly two dogs and three two dogs and three kids but we we will have some market rate units so we hope that the officers do live there we to it. Yes, ma'am. Done. I just move for approval. Second. We do have a motion to approve this. We do have a second. I'll now open it up for public comment. Did he want to include the 325 in that motion or No, you want to put 325 in that motion? I I think he's got I think that is understood. Sir, do I have public comment? Did we answer your question, sir? Yes, you did. Thank you. Come on, Jim. Are you satisfied with the answer you got? Yes. Thank you. Yes, my name is Jim Turner. I'm retired military for those of you who may not remember that. And that is one of the demographics, one of the group of people that's most likely, especially your junior enlisted to be eligible for housing here. And we don't want to forget that because that also impacts the likelihood of good fellow expanding

[0:37:11] and so on. The availability of housing for the junior enlisted especially is critical and this is the type of h this is one type of housing that benefits goodfellow as much as it does the rest of the community and we don't want to forget that. Thank you. Good point Jim. Any other comment? I would ask that maybe you try and route this traffic maybe to go east, take them down to Lake Drive or take them to Chadurn instead of everybody trying to get out on Bryant. Just a suggestion, but that's that's logistics. That's something we can work out. Any more comment before we take a vote on this? It has been approved. It has the motion has been made that we approve it as presented. It has been seconded. No further public comment. Any other comment from council calling for the vote? All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Go ahead and put a 6 on it. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it. All right, let's take up number 10. I just saw Susan Morris walk in and I want to make a statement because she's been in charge of these downtown murals. We now have lights or are going to have lights on our murals and this is something that no one else in the country has. and she also had us on uh Bob Phillips Country Reporter last Saturday where he highlighted St. Angelo and our downtown historic murals. Susan, thank you very much, ma'am. Let's move on to number 10, which is consideration of authorizing the city manager to execute a contract with downtown St. Angelo, Inc. in substantially the attached form for a 5-year term to fund services to be performed by DSA as a lead entity in the provision of services promoted promoting and supporting redevelopment and revitalization of St. Angelo's historic main street and downtown development district through partnership promotion design and stimulation of investment. Mr. Howard, you are on, sir. Thank you. Uh good morning, mayor, members of city council. As been stated, this is the

[0:39:14] establishment of a new five-year contract um for with between the city and downtown St. Angelo, Inc. I'd like to mention right off the bat is that um this is a new type of contract. The previous contract, 5-year contract was more of an administrative services contract focused on support for administration and salaries. However, the new proposed contract is more of a performance-based contract, and you'll see that as I go through the presentation. So, just a little bit about Downtown St. Angelo, Inc., and they'll be following me to share a little bit more about some of their accomplishments and the like, but it was established back in 2004 as a nonprofit focused on downtown revitalization. They are a member of the Main Street program and is recognized by the National Trust for Historic Preservation in terms of what their focus and their efforts are in terms of uh the Main Street program. And so, uh, just a little bit of, uh, by way of background, um, the the pre, prior to the contract that was consummated back in 2009, the city provided $50,000 to, uh, to downtown San Angela, Inc. for administrative support. In 2009, that number increased to $75,000. We were using general fund dollars at some point during that period of time. the shift in funds uh came uh was no longer general fund dollars and we were using uh co DC funds that have some sales tax. Um back in the late summer of last year uh as we were all aware that the contract was uh getting ready to expire the uh downtown San Angelo Inc. did approach KOSA DC about increasing that amount from 75,000 to 100,000 for administrative support services. At that point, we began as staff to discuss the issue related to

[0:41:18] the need to shift the focus to more of an administr more of a performance-based contract rather than one that's focused primarily on administrative support. Um, additionally, uh, we met with you all, um, in an executive session to talk about the source of funds. Um, as I stated, the funds were, uh, halfs and sales tax. We believe that for different reasons that the other funding sources should be considered as we support continue to support the efforts of downtown San Angelo, Inc., Again, just more about downtown San Angelo, Inc., they've uh uh been focused on downtown preservation and have been very successful in some of the work that they've been doing. They've collaborated quite frankly uh with a number of partners to include the city to really look at revitalizing and establishing or increasing the tax base in the urban core of the city. So, uh that's not to be understated. So, just a little bit about the contract. It uh it contains the scope of services, which is essentially um those things that will be required of Downtown St. Angelo, Inc. within the contract. Um it contains 11 of those sort of performance measures. It talks about auditing of the funds and activities uh and the like and um makes reference to the idea of um termination um of the contract for for specific reasons outlined in the contract. Um what what was determined at the executive session as you all recall is that we would blend the uh would be a blend of uh sources to include hotel occupancy sacks and the general fund. So um subsequent to our uh executive session um there was some discussion about uh the funding uh over the course of the

[0:43:21] five years being decreased over time. um from 75,000 which is the the current amount being uh support provided to downtown San Angelo Inc. obviously in to include also the performance measures to decrease over the period of 5 years to 15,000. However, in meeting subsequent meetings with downtown San Angelo Inc. uh subsequent proposal was provided to us by them which suggests that the funding should remain at $75,000 uh over the course of the next five years. So uh the option would be that it we would um consider either proposal one, proposal two or some alternate proposal that you may decide elect to develop. Um so again the uh just a little bit about some of the scope some of the services or performance measures that we're going to be asking for a work plan a quarterly report which they currently are have been have been doing uh looking at targeting business marketing and attraction. Uh and let me just say this as we go along is that we've most of these things are uh things that they've already been doing. So this is not necessarily a stretch in terms of new new a new focus because again their focus is on downtown revitalization and the four four points within the main street program. So again focusing on marketing retent business retention and the like. Um, also working with partner agencies to promote downtown and to encourage historic preservation and revitalization as with it with which is consistent with their mission. So the proposed action today is to uh authorize the contract. Again, we have the point of um the of discussion is probably focused around the amount of funding that you provide you would

[0:45:23] provide each year for the next five years. However, I know that downtown San Angelo, Inc. is also here and would like to provide some comments as well to add to Patrick's. He touched on the performance measures and and we did have a discussion with downtown St. Angelo and went over those. Um there were some that staff had they had came to this list that Patrick has now that I think both groups are are very comfortable with. That's correct. We came to consensus on there were originally 18. As we met we we we sort of whittle that down to basically 10 10 performance measures and so again the point of discussion is probably focused on the funding specifically. Thank you Patrick. Brenda Dale do you have a We are. No. Okay. Just my mouth. Okay, that's good enough. It's usually good enough. Good morning, ma'am. Good morning. Maybe it's not good enough. Good morning, council and the mayor. Downtown St. Angelo, Inc. is asking for your continued support of $75,000 a year for the next 5 years. In 2015, we will celebrate a decade of downtown revitalization. The success of the redevelopment is due to the efforts of many, including the city of St. Angelo, particularly the planning department, the past and current city council members, the many mayors in Kosa DC, but most importantly to the entrepreneurial spirit of those people who saw the opportunity and had a vision for investing into downtown St. Angelo. Today, Downtown St. Angelo, Inc. is asking for your continued financial support of the organization. Much progress has been made. If we look back to 2005 when we became a main street city, you will remember that only three businesses were open after the hour

[0:47:27] 5:00. Those were Blaine's Pub, Fuentes Restaurant, and Miss Hadtie's Restaurant. Today, we are proud to say that 17 businesses are open after the hour of 5:00. That does not include the many retail stores that also have opened. In 2005, we had five businesses that were in the retail business. Those businesses still exist today, and they have created the foundation for which many other retail businesses have opened. And yet, with all of that progress, we still have many vacant buildings. I think at last count, we saw there are 70 buildings. So, we know that our work is not done. In fact, you could say that the work is just begun. We believe with your support that continued work will produce the same kinds of results that today we are talking about. Since 2005, $88 million has been reinvested into the downtown area. Of that $88 million, 49 million of that has come from the private sector. Those are big numbers and those are numbers I believe that without the support of city council and in terms of creating a main street city those results would not have happened. And we say that because if you go back to the year 2004 those results did not exist. We've been a great marketing arm to help promote and give a vision to the opportunities that exist in downtown. And we've had many people who've looked at other successes in other parts of the country and said, "We want to be a part of that." We know that when empty buildings have new life, property values in downtown go up and the city benefits. We know that when businesses are successful, the city also becomes more successful because the tax revenues increase. We know that when property values go up, more money pours into the tears fund. And we are proud to say that downtown St. Angelo, Inc. provided the initial funding to create the tier zone. So, not

[0:49:30] only has a tier zone put more money back into the infrastructure and other areas in downtown, it has also provided the funding to help improve the northern tiers district as well. The current success of the revitalization of historic downtown has helped in the recruiting efforts of ASU, the hiring efforts of Shannon and community hospitals, the positive experience of our good fellow personnel and tourism has started to come back as hotel rooms have become more available and more affordable. We ask that you continue to support us and challenge us and ask us the hard questions. We believe with your questions, your support, and your challenges, we can continue to make the revitalization of downtown St. Angelo, Inc. even something that that we can be more proud of, that the citizens can be more proud of. I know many people said to me in 2005, Brenda, there's no way Downtown St. Angelo, Inc. will ever come back alive. It's dead. It'll stay dead. We're proud to say it's not dead. It's come alive. We ask that you allow us the opportunity to work hard for the people of St. Angelo and make our historic district an area of great pride for everyone. Thank you. Thank you, Brenda. Questions? Council, mayor, no question, but for the sake of uh the conversation, I'd like to go ahead and make a motion that we approve proposal two and see if there's support on the council for that. I'll second that. Thank you. And I will also add that for every dollar that the city gives to downtown, Inc., they have been able to mate or exceed that amount. So it's it's not just the city. Y'all are doing your job as well. And I I worked at Sears before it was the Ed Keys building back in the 70s. I remember St. Angelo was vibrant with wards and pennies in the banks. And in 2004 before y'all started the only thing we had heard after dark was usually gunfire and you changed all that and I appreciate

[0:51:33] it. You know I want to add that uh and I I'll admit that I've been the one uh pushing and cutting budgets and don't want any double dipping. You know you get money from the chamber, you get money from us, money's here, money's there and uh want to be very cautious on the spending. But after reviewing the projects that downtown St. Angelo has done, um I'm inclined to agree that uh proposal number two should be done because the achievements have been short of amazing. Thank you. And I think my whole purpose was to get the chamber and downtown St. Angelo and uh the downtown development group to get everybody talking all of the economic development ideas to share and to work together and I have seen that start happening and I commend you all that you have done staff has done and the downtown group for what they're doing because there's breath alive and wellness flowing in our downtown again. Thank you. And thank you, Don. Um, Brenda, are y'all in agreement with the services and performance measures that's been set out here? Yes, we sat down with city staff and uh Rick Wise organized a meeting with us and we reviewed every item line by line and we came to consensus in the conversation. So, we're very happy with the way the contract is written and we believe strongly it's a contract in combination of working with the city staff that we can achieve those results with um great um end results. Good. Thank you. Yes, ma'am. I think that sometimes we can get lost in the weeds on a lot of things that we do. But looking at your uh production, your per your performance, your success, if we compare the investment that we make in this to the other entities, I I

[0:53:36] think that you should have five years of a stable income. And I think that uh we this the city or the citizens will realize that as the mayor said um in a in a pretty high multiplier. So um I think that you're doing a very good job. I'll I'll um just reiterate what Councilwoman Farmer said is that there is an expectation that you as an econ economic development driver continue to work with your partners uh whether it's with Kosa DC or the chamber uh to really sort of maximize the investment that we make in each of those entities and and be um be good friends to one another. But I'm I'm very excited over what you've been doing. I'm very excited on the the things that you've told me about that are not for public um information yet and I can't imagine pulling funding or reducing funding at a point when you are just now realizing a lot of work that's been put into this project. So, uh good luck in the future. Thank you, John. Brenda, the downtown area is right smack in the middle of SMD3, which is my district, and I'm proud of what's happening. I've seen the old photos of St. Angelo back in the 40s or whatever years they were. And I I was amazed at the how the cars were just lined up. I mean, correct, from corner to corner. And that's where we are today, you know, and I think you guys have taken the lead in that. And I'm proud to be a partner with you guys because I know I remember growing up here in the downtown area. I was 10, 11, 12 years old and we'd walk up and down the streets and just empty building after empty building. It was almost like a ghost town at one time, but now in looking back I know that a lot of it has, you know, you didn't do it all, but you were the you kind of lit the fuse to the whole thing and I'm proud of where we're at, where we're going. I know some of the stuff that's still coming our way. So, it's exciting. So, I'm in support of you guys. Uh, are you

[0:55:40] perfect? No. But I think you're doing a very, very good job. Thank you, Marty. U as as far as the motion goes or is funding coming also as from proposal two. I I don't think it's necessary for the sake of the proposal that we identify which funding source it is. I think that's uh we can deal with that in the Well, it says 50/50 hotel in general. I'm fine with the hotel in the general and if we need to modify that as a council as time goes on we can do that. I don't think she cares. No, you don't care where it come. You don't care who rides. We just like the support. Thank you very much. Green back. Is it green back? Yes, it is. And again, we say we're we are here to help make our downtown a better community. So, the hard questions, the challenges that are thrown out to us, we welcome. It makes us a better organization um and keeps us focused and make sure that we're all on the same page at the same time. So, we welcome any involvement, any question, any challenge. Mayor, may I? Yes. And Brenda, and you heard some of the concerns at the very beginning of this conversation, so you know what we're looking for, what we want from you guys. So, run with it. I mean, we've given you uh support here. I I I assume, but you know, you you know where it all came from and we know where all the empty buildings still exist. Yes. I just don't want it to go back like it was in 2003. From 1979 when downtown died when we moved to the mall from 1979 to 2003. I don't want it to go back to that. It's great particularly at night when you see that we really do have a parking problem. And I will tell you in 2005 we did not have a parking problem at the hour. It's happening during the daytime hours as well. It is. We are revitalizing. Charlotte, I want to point out that I too was very hesitant in the beginning in 2005 because having the liquor sales and and what we have downtown and I remember the council uh Mr. Mayor, if you'll remember, and Johnny will remember, we stressed we

[0:57:44] wanted our community to be family oriented and if it got out of hand, we were going to have problems. And I have to commend the DSA for staying on top of thank you that control and keeping it even with liquor sales that they have kept the family environment downtown. Appreciate that. Thank you. Well, I will support the 75. I will not support the the hundred that you initially asked for. I don't I would not support that, but I will support staying with 75. Any public comment on this before we take a vote? Line up. right behind Brenda if you have public comment on this. Come up, Miss Morris. Mayor, while she's coming up, the the motion would help staff if the motion would say what the funding source is. It once that way we can you can change it later, but initially it would help us expedite you. Yeah, I'll the emotion the motion to say $75,000 per year for five years with u an equal split between the city's hotel motel occupancy tax and general fund. Will you amend your second? Yes. I forgot I said. Yes. Miss Morris, you have the floor. Ma'am, I just wanted to clarif to state that I've been involved with downtown St. Angelo since it organized. I was on the original board for six years and I was probably the primary one that brought Main Street and the Texas Historic Commission to St. Angelo because I had worked with them for many years in Louisiana and I saw what wonderful things the Main Street program did with downtowns that were in serious trouble and I'm delighted to see what all we have accomplished here. It's amazing to watch and to see all the business. And I had a very interesting development just last week. I got a call from one of our

[0:59:48] beautifully restored hotels that's now open and they wanted to talk about a mural. So I went out to talk to them. And this is in the downtown area. And when I found out where they wanted to put it and what they wanted, I thought you'd all be delighted to know. The owner is from California. He has fallen in love with St. Angelo and he loves the downtown and he wants these murals to duplicate what downtown St. Angelo looked like in the years past when all of the buildings were full of business and other streets were all lined with cars like you were talking about a few minutes ago. So those murals will go on that building. And this is coming from a man who lives in California and has his interest is not only in restoring this wonderful hotel, but in preserving the history on the their building. So I'm delighted to see that the council is supporting downtown St. Angelo and Main Street and we want to keep it going. Thank you very much. And you might add he's paying for this mural. Yes. That's even That's even better. That's even better. We don't slow you down. You'll have a mural on every building in town. Oh, no. I don't think we're going to go to that extent, Mr. Mayor. But we are trying to keep the history alive. I appreciate it very much. Miss Morris, let me put this bug in your ear. Time and time again, I get the comment, you know, and we love your m murals. you do an amazing outstanding job. But as representative of SMD3 or the city as a whole, a lot of my constituents are Hispanic and they are so much wanting some Hispanic themed mural out there somewhere. Well, you know what? I have

[1:01:51] been asked frequently of late what the next mural is going to be. And a week ago, I didn't know this one we're talking about was going to happen. But what I have said is when somebody has the building and the historic subject and the money, we will get another mural. We understand that. So that's where we are. I need your business card. I've been raising money for 13 years now this month. I'm getting too old and too tired to keep doing that. So, this solution that was brought to me last week answered all of those requirements. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Appreciate it. Any other further comment on this? Any other council comment on this? No. Then I'm going to call for the vote. All in favor of proposal number two which is 75,000 per year for the next five years half hotel occipotass half half general fund to support and to continue the support for the work that has been done in downtown St. Angelo, please say I. I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Put a 60 on that one. And it is 10:07. I'm going to call a 15-minute break. It is 10:34. I call this meeting back to order and we will go back and pick up item number eight. This is consideration of approving closure of city offices for employee participation in the neighborhood revitalization blitz cleanup project in the Fort Con neighborhood on 5 February 24 215 excluding offices of essential personnel who directly provide public health safety services. Mr. Solace, you are on sir. Uh yes sir. We are we're here once again to request permission to let the

[1:03:54] city employees participate in the annual neighborhood blitz. Um it is set for April the 24th. It will require the city to close non-critical uh uh services for the day. Uh this is our seventh event and uh this year we are targeting uh the area between Main Street and Bell around Harris and those neighboring uh uh streets. We call it the Ford Council target neighborhood area. Uh besides painting, uh city employees will help clean up alleyways, streets, undertake special projects, and facilitate uh uh on facilities maintained by the city. And we're asking council to uh approve. I'm all for this. Anyone want to make a move? Move to approve. Second. Got Johnny said move to approve. Marty said second. I think this is a good deal, Bob. It's a it's been it's been very very successful for our city and the in the neighborhoods that we have worked. Council comment Don the the only thing and I brought this up last year in your screening process. Can we keep rental property from being included in this? So that it's just helping the the people that are are going to be there without trying to help landlords somewhat or at least this is the the the landlord portion of this actually supports a program we've had to uh increase the rental afford the affordable rental housing stock. So we've had in the past done that uh especially areas where and again we we make them it still benefits low moderate income families because they are the tenants and by by we have an agreement with those landlords to make sure they do in fact uh rent to those low moderate income families. So um I and I have no problem with that whatsoever. But the ones that you hit in there that are are basically um charging an excessive amount perhaps uh I don't I don't think we need to help them. Well, we we make them uh part of

[1:05:58] that agreement is to maintain the uh the cap on rents so they cannot exceed an a certain amount. So we that's part of the deal. They have to keep it at affordable housing rates. Okay. And you're screening? We absolutely we do screen. They sign and we check and we uh uh we make them pay us back if they don't. Okay, good deal. That's an excellent point. Don, are you satisfied? Yes, sir. Any further comment, council? Do I have public comment on this before we call for a vote? It has been moved that we allow. I'm sorry. Come forward, Miss Casper. I'm sorry I didn't see you, ma'am. Mary Casper, you know, I had to speak on this. I have some questions. Uh, number one, I assume the city employees are still going to be paid. Yes, ma'am. And what is the participation rate? What is it, Bob? Uh, we normally have, uh, a little over 300 employees. We don't include the the police, uh, fire, those kind of folks. a lot of admin uh street and bridge those kind of things. Uh so yes it's about uh third about 50% actually 40% it's actually a third a third yeah and what happens with the other third or twothirds that do not participate if they choose not to they have to it's actually a mandatory uh for those um who are those divisions we identify uh to participate um if they're not they are at their work doing work uh their normal duties. Okay? Because that's not, you know, very well stated in there at all. And I could very well see people saying, "Oh, let me have a day of hookie." You know, we're all continually high school students at heart, you know, no matter what age we are. How much does it cost the city? It cost us the pay. I It doesn't cost us

[1:08:04] anymore. That's exactly right. That's uh they're getting paid. uh their their um their mission for the day changes. Uh but it is it is a work day. Uh the cost is uh we do have some uh some grant funds that are used for for some of this for some of the projects. Um we get the paint donated from uh Habitat from Humanity. Uh we get volunteers. Uh and um so really directly from the city that's nothing from the general funds. Okay. I would just suggest that in the future you spell that out a little bit more correctly more completely so that there is no uh misunderstanding because there are pe new people moving in and and you know you think okay you know let's let's where is this coming from because if you're being if you're volunteering and not being paid that's not volunteering so that's how many years have we done this seven years yes I realize that however well breeze machine and um he makes sure that if you're not in your office, you've got an a tool in your hand and you're in the neighborhood. Yeah. But you know, I'm just saying that there's a lot of people that are not familiar with this. So, you know, let's let's make it a little bit more transparent. Thank you. Good point, ma'am. Thank you. I have Miss Casper. I just want to let you know that on that note, I had a discussion last week with the city manager with reference to this particular item. And I made a suggestion to him then uh that possibly we could look at snow day, you know, when we don't open the offices or we close early or late that that be this that this be called, you know, it's a snow day. They still get paid, but they're making up, you know, for that day. Okay. Thank you, Mr. Valenzo. Mayor, I do want to point out as far as the Texas Municipal League uh last year actually uh recognized the city of St. Angelo and the spirit uh the TML excellence awards recognize the city of St. Angelo uh for the community spirit award uh specifically uh because of this

[1:10:08] program. So, we were highlighted at TML uh and other cities really the reason they give these awards is because other cities look at what they can do to with within their communities to make their communities better. And that's something that we've received calls about as far as implementing in other communities as well. So again, it is a highly regarded program and I'm proud of the work that the staff has done. And next time I can certainly do a more of a elaborate presentation next time, maybe every every other year I can do that just kind of let the citizens know what we're doing. Make yourself a note. Well, do well. I was just going to to also say that in the past you've had people from Goodfellow out there helping us. you've had uh the uh uh athletes from ASU and and different groups outside of just strictly city employees. Also, it's actually a two-day event. This is I was focusing on the sit on the employees, but it's really a two-day event. The first day, the Friday is for the city employees. Saturday, we do have volunteers from the uh church groups that belong to WTOS. We have the ASU football team. We've had good fellow folks uh participate. So, yeah, it's community volunteers on a Saturday. So, uh, it's a pretty big event. It's been massive and it's been successful and we can we can measure the success. We can and the last year that we've had and mayor, I want to add that even, you know, being a part of it. I've seen the morale of the of the uh city employees. I mean, you even go up. They enjoy doing that. They enjoy getting outdoors and painting. And we get about 50/50. Uh, those guys from Street and Bridge, they do that for a living for them. It's just another day. uh you know the lawyers and you know the folks in that admin for example do enjoy it because they get to go out there and meet those other employees who normally wouldn't work with. I have a quick story on that. Last year I was painting alongside uh other staff members and I was wearing my cap and a staff member was talking to another one said I thought the city manager is supposed to be out here. Where is he? What does he think he is? And I was out there with a roller actually you know. So when I took my cap off and looked over there, they started laughing and the guy just kind of backed

[1:12:10] off of that comment. But it is it is a lot of fun to be He's no longer with us. I've had city employees ask me, uh, what department do you work in? Is that right? Yeah. You know, it's in fact, Miss Farmer worked on the first one. Very first one, Reagan. And And did you say that lawyers are qualified to use a paintbrush? Oh, actually they can. Oh, Dan never even looked up. For sure. They do tend to fall off the ladders. My Don't let them Don't let him on the ladder. That was planners. Yeah. Do I have any further comment on this before we take the vote? Brian, is he breathing? Just ignore that. You were really in your happy place, weren't you? We've been talking about you the last 5 minutes. Do you know that? He's a workaholic. Yeah. Motion has been made to accept this as presented. It has been seconded. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 60 on that one, please. Number nine, update and presentation on new residential garbage collection and recycling services. Presentation by Republic Services LTD. Get us started, Mr. Kelton, please. All right, council. We're uh here today just the new contract with Republic Services moving forward. Uh we're going to, you know, services are going to change up. We're implementing recycling program and Republic's just here today to kind of give you all an update on where we are, how it's going, uh and kind of what the processes are going to be going forward. So, uh, with that, I'm going to turn it over to Robert Surles with Republic and let them let them go. Robert, welcome, Robert. Thank you, Mayor. Um, members of council, we're happy to be

[1:14:11] here to make this presentation. I just want to let you guys know that uh I don't know if you realize it or not, but we're going to be the first West Texas city that does curbside single stream recycling. And that's something to be proud of. And, uh, so we're going to be the leaders in that. And so I kind of like uh mentioning that to you guys. As we transition from the current uh rear load service to the automated U recycling and trash service, we're going to be using carts. And we've introduced those before and um so each home there's going to be 30,000 there's there are 30,000 homes here in St. Angelo. They're going to get a green cart for the recycling and they're going to get a tan colored cart for the trash. And we're just going to ask that people bag, please bag your trash uh waste in the tan cart. But the recycle cart does does not need to be bagged. So you can just have them in there. We just ask that everything be clean, dry, and empty that goes in the recycle cart. And um we we do have uh other services that with the new contract that come along with the carted system and that is um the bulk pickup and uh that that's that started in in August when the contract started. So we'll get into more detail on that a little bit later. Um so the the residents are real curious as to when they're going to be getting delivery of the carts. So, uh, you've probably noticed at the, uh, Sears parking lot at the mall that we have 20 to 30,000, uh, carts there already that are being assembled. And the company that's doing the assembly, uh, for that is also going to be in charge of doing the delivery to each home. And, uh, with that, there's going to be uh, door hangers, information attached to each cart that kind of shows how the system's going to work. Um, we we do estimate our best estimate for for a go live date because we're going to when we hit the switch

[1:16:13] and everybody's got their carts, we're going to start doing this. So, we've already got trucks that are coming in. We've got the carts that are coming in. But Recycling, our partner that's going to be doing the processing here in St. Angelo, is uh is getting their permit uh they just got their permit approved this month and it looks like uh just a little bit of administration is left and uh they've got the building ordered. So our best estimate right now is uh mid July for uh starting the carded service. So um looks like the delivery for the cards will be uh in the area of uh uh late May, early June. And that'll give people plenty of time to uh kick the tires and kind of check out the carts and see how maneuverable they are and such. We just ask that please do not use the carts until the go go go live date is announced. So, we'll keep with the current service until it is uh known when we're going to go live, but we do estimate that to be uh mid July. So, I mentioned the quarterly bulk pickup. Um there's a five cubic yard limit and a lot of people can't really get their mind around what that looks like. So, we'll show what that looks like a little later. uh partners also, not only Buts is our partner in this endeavor, but safe recycling with Lloyd uh heading that up and she has for many years. We're still needing Lloyd at the safe recycling center. As a matter of fact, we'll be recognizing that facility and what she does on their 25th anniversary next week and we're looking forward to that. Uh we're going to have uh that recognition uh with the chamber event um on uh Tuesday, I believe. We also have a free disposal that's going to carry on at the St. Angelo landfill. For people that don't want to wait for their bulk pickup, uh quarterly bulk pickup, uh you can go to the landfill for free. You just have to show your photo ID, your driver's license. It's going to match your water bill with

[1:18:15] the address and to show that you, you know, that you live where you live and you get your free disposal at the landfill. The thing that's going to be different is that the people that do go to the landfill, the residents will not have to dodge our trucks at the working face. So, it's going to be safer. We're going to have a convenience center that's going to be near the entrance. That'll be very handy. There's going to be a Republic employee there kind of directing traffic, showing them, you know, which um bay goes, what item goes in what bay. And and uh so we'll show we'll show you what that looks like a little later in the presentation as well. This is a a state-of-the-art uh automated residential front load collection truck. Um if you look on the forks on the front, there's a work bucket there. And that's what we um and on the side of it, that yellow um looking yellow colored item is the mechanical arm. And it'll reach out, grab the cart, and and empty the contents in the bucket. So, it's going to be the same truck. We'll use six of these trucks for the uh trash collection and about four to five for the recycle collection depending on participation. We hope the part participation is is very high. So the driver that what's unique about this setup is the driver can see exactly what's being emptied into the work bucket in front instead of not having really a good idea when it's just dumped into the hopper behind him. So he can see and tag those residents that are making maybe making mistakes on what's recyclable and he can leave them a tag on their cart saying, you know, you put a garden hose in here and those aren't recyclable. That's not a recyclable item. So we can educate the public as we are collecting. Uh the driver can do that. So I mentioned the tan carts and the green carts. So, some big homes like uh that or homes that have big yards and and they don't want to mulch, you know, recycling is going to encourage mulching and it's uh and that's a good thing. But some people that want to have the grass clippings uh bagged, they're going to

[1:20:19] probably they may need more than one uh trash cart because it's tra it's cart contents only. If you put it outside the cart, the driver's not obligated to take it. So, we if you need an extra cart, you just call city uh utility uh water bill department and you can you can get another cart for five bucks a month. So, that's uh that's a pretty good deal. And and if you need more than if you need a third one, you can get a third one, Marty. I mean, thank you. So, uh but the recycle carts, you can uh you can get an extra recycle cart uh for for like a buck 28. So those are those are really inexpensive because we're want to encourage recycling. So the location of the carts is is is important. Um so 85% of St. Angelo has their garages in the front and then the areas in in Southland and southwest part of town um have the rear entry garages. Now, we can we can pick up the carts in the southwest part of town in the alleys. No problem. So, um and you can even use your little cutout areas. You may have to modify them a little bit to allow yourself to maneuver the cart into the little cutout areas and by the fence, but most people will just put them either in their garage uh or next to their garage where it's a little handier to to utilize. We just asked that the, you know, during collection day by 7:00 a.m. you have your card at the curb. Uh, what I do, I'm in one of the piloted areas, I just put it out the evening before and that's okay, too. So, you can just put it at the curb the evening before. That way, you don't have to worry about it the next morning. Um, and if you if you're in the southwest part of town, then then, you know, within 2T, just have it right off your driveway. Make sure you don't back into it. um that it's out of the way, but uh uh you have to have it out of the cutout areas in your fence for us to collect uh collect the carts on collection day.

[1:22:21] Keep them away from the from the uh from the mailboxes. Keep them away from parked cars, please. Uh anything that's that's nearby. And keep them about 3 ft apart so that there's plenty of room for the driver to to grab uh one cart or the other. So, you're going to be putting both carts out on the same day. Um and and if like Johnny if your collection day is Monday Thursday let's say uh what we're trying to do and with David Harwell our our operation managers uh working to get the routes done your day is going to be either Monday or Thursday. I mean so we're going to make sure that people whatever they're accustomed to that that their trash pickup day their collection day is going to be one of their current days. Um, so you put both carts out on the same day and uh, one truck will come by and pick up the trash 8 or 9 o'clock in the morning and then later on just make sure you don't remove both of them because there's going to be a separate truck coming by to pick up the other one. So, these carts are big and uh, you can see that uh, those could be bags of uh, uh, grass clippings. It could be trash, but they hold quite a bit. a half a yard of trash. So, you're getting basically uh a full yard of service on your collection day, which is about what you're getting now. So, it's uh with with twice a week. So, it's this is this is something that recycling is really encouraged because if if you have the bulky items like cardboard boxes and you have um um other items like milk jugs, they're going to take up a lot of room and you may not be able to get everything in just one trash container. So you're kind of encouraged to use both containers and and u on the trash container itself. Um we encourage bagging. That's the key word is just please bag everything that goes in the trash container. Robert, what is what is the um Yeah. What is the size of the blue container that I have

[1:24:24] right now? It's the same size. It's 96 gallons. It's a half a yard. So these aren't bigger. I misunderstood what you said. Okay. So, um, the all-in-one recycling, um, simply means that you can co-mingle all your paper, plastic, cardboard, and cans into one container. Again, you don't have to bag, uh, the recyclables. The only thing that needs to be bagged on in the recycling container would be if if you want to recycle shredded paper, but recycling wants to make sure that we use they're encouraging us to use the clear plastic bags where they can see what's in it. So, we're going to try to uh get the word out that to use clear plastic bags for the shredded paper. Again, uh remember clean, empty, and dry is is is kind of the motto for the the recycling. What I like about this illustration is this is exactly what's going to be immolded on your on the lid of your recycle container. So, it's going to be like going to a restaurant at Denny's. They've got pictures so you can see exactly what goes in the recycle cart. It's got itemized, but it's got a picture as well. And it's going to be right there. And it and it's it's just part of the lid. So, you have a quick reference as to what goes in there. And again, you don't have to uh to bag the stuff that goes in the recycle cart. This simply shows that uh you just put it all in there in in the recycle cart. It's um it's all coingled. Now, this this one here uh shows you what people some people think you can recycle this stuff and you can if you take it to Lloyd at the safe drop off center for the most part. She takes about anything. Um but you cannot curbside. This this kind of messes up kind of gums up the works uh with the uh sorting and the conveyor belts. You can't have anything that's long like Christmas lights. Um, garden hoses kind of wreak havoc uh with the with recycling uh where where it gets

[1:26:27] separated source separated at the recycle uh facility at butts. So, no styrofoam, no HB bags, please, no coat hangers uh in there and no glass. Uh glass is an item that sometimes we've taken them at other locations and typically that's when you have the fully automated uh uh system, but we're going to be doing manual sorting here in St. Angelo, at least for the short term. With that, I'll uh leave this slide up there. This these are some frequently asked questions. Um, one that's on there that kind that's kind of sticking out to me is, "So, Johnny, you've got Monday's your collection day and we have Labor Day coming up. So, when can you expect your trash to be picked up and your recyclable cart recycle cart to be picked up?" It would be the next day, Tuesday. So, which which everybody gets bumped a day. So, the people on Friday would get Saturday pickup. So, you're going to get everything picked up that week. So, it's uh it's going to be something that that uh is going to be, you know, we'll get the word out for that as well towards Real Clear as well. So, we talked about uh the cart placement um and some of these others. So, if you guys have any questions, I've got my GM Ray Roth is here and we'd be happy to answer any questions that you or staff may have. Robert, did you show us the convenience center? You're going to show us a picture of the convenience center uh as you go out there to the landfill. There you go. Yeah, that's uh the convenience centers is you can see the bays over on the right uh picture. So you we'll be you know putting there'll be trash in one, there might be metal in another. There could be um brush in another one. So if you look on the picture on the left, that's what's beneath. It's the rolloff construction dumpsters. And so when they get full, then the driver um he'll go ahead and and take it to the right area, whether it's the working face to dispose of the

[1:28:30] trash uh or to take it to uh to get ground up if it's brush. And and and one thing that uh you can also know is that after we grind the brush, we leave it there uh and we mulch it. And so that's a free product for for the public. So after they drop off uh whatever they drop off if they want to grab a yard or two of mulch it's free and they can take it. Questions start with you Marty. All right Johnny Robert I'm curious what what are you going to do with the folks at Bentwood? Aren't they under the pilot now? They all have the blue containers or you going to switch those out? Yeah, they're they're getting switched out uh like everybody else. So we can use the blue ones in the county cuz that's that's our republic color and so we have a place for them. No problem. So the even the ones I think most of us have are blue. So we'll get a new one. Yes. A green and we'll come and pick up the blue one. Okay. Charlotte, I've just had several phone calls in my district, the southwest portion of town where the alley entrances and Okay. for some reason they were under the impression that they had to roll their trash to the front and I told them no. It was not my understanding that their alley pickup would still be. And you answered the question. I just wanted to mention it if they're watching on the TV that um the alley pickups are still just like it is now. Yes. The only thing is they can't leave it in the cutout area. They have to kind of put it by their driveway. And um so it's it's going to be just as convenient basically as what they got process. Let me let me speak to uh I left a couple of slides out. Now safe they'll take the glass you know so uh they'll take the batteries they'll take you know uh batteries any size up to car batteries as long as they're rechargeable. Uh they'll take motor oil they'll take filters. They'll take the appliances as well. I mean we we'll take

[1:30:32] the appliances at the curb on on the quarterly bulk pickup day. But uh it's uh they'll take all kinds of things that uh the people if if people want to take the time to take it to them. So but the big event at SAFE is going to be the bianual electronics um events that we're going to have. So, on Earth Day next month, we're going to have an event where we partner with SAFE and uh we we uh have encourage people and we'll get the word out to bring all your electronics that you just have in a closet somewhere that you're no longer utilizing them because you have the latest and greatest. So, you'll have an outlet and you can see on this list, I mean, they'll take TVs, they'll take um keyboards, anything that's electronic. Now, Anthony Wilson is one that we're happy to have in our uh corner to help us with the town hall meetings. Um so, we've got uh we want to make sure that we have town hall meetings in each of your districts. So, Liz, we already have you booked um for May 28th, 6 p.m. That's a Thursday. We hope you're there so it'll encourage people to come. I've told Mr. Wilson that I would be there. Very good. And so as we as we get the other ones, this kind of shows some locations that uh we're we're going to look to uh to set meetings up at to kind of go through this and and answer any questions one-on-one with the public. So that'll that'll be good. And we've already done a a couple of uh shows with Denise Bloomquist over at Foster Communications and um we did just one just yesterday, as a matter of fact. So we're we're on the radio as well. uh with with Anony's help, we'll we'll uh we'll and with the Standard Times help, we're going to also um get the word out on the recycling, the educational piece through big, you know, halfpage ads, quarter page ads, direct mail. I left some samples uh with Brian on on an example of a a mailer that

[1:32:37] we're going to be sending out, but there'll be uh other ones as well. So, we'll we'll uh be doing PSAs on on radio and television and newsprint like I mentioned before. And Anthony even said that he would uh get on the social media, Facebook and Twitter. Uh we're going to get our general manager and and Anthony to do a to one-on-one interview uh on the government city government channel and he'll ask some questions of of Rey and then we'll answer questions kind of like what we're doing here. Um and it'll be on the government channel as well. So, and he'll set up some some uh some meetings uh with the local uh Fox affiliate, the local uh uh KAN and and and uh KLST as well. So, we're uh we're looking forward to just doing a blitz on any piece of media that's out there that we can, you know, try to educate the public on the new service, including uh um and we've already done it with the water bill inserts. So, we're trying to anything that you guys come up with and recommend, we would listen to as well. Don, did you have comments on this or questions? No, sir. Miss Elizabeth. Uh, comments. Um, Robert, as you know, when I was running for council only a year ago, this was a pretty hot topic. And, um, unfortunately for you, I heard a lot of, uh, negative feedback over the proposed changes in the trash service. And um I think that makes me um somewhat a receiver of of continued criticism because I didn't vote for it. Um I have I keep getting uh comments about why is this taking so long. Um we we kind of all went through this process and we were told I thought that recycling was going to start in March and then it was April and now I see it's go live in July right and the contract itself I believe commenced in was it August July July

[1:34:44] July August August 1st August 1st right so it we're looking at one month shy of a here implementing something. So, you know that there was some public distrust in this process, right or wrong, and not necessarily because of anything you did or anyone in this room did, but there just was. And so, I would say that I'm disappointed that it's taken 11 months to implement this or uh at least my constituents and those outside of the district have conveyed the same thing. It's it just seems like it's more of the same. It's not what we've been told. And so, um, I hope for your sake that July is your is your go live date. Well, and just know that I'm going to sit here and say every time there's a missed deadline, I'm going to say something of the like because I can tell you that's the input I'm getting. Well, I can certainly understand that and and uh it's something that you know there's there were a lot of moving parts on trying to get this thing going and uh I mean we've when you put in truck orders for 12 brand new trucks um that takes some some time and the carts uh we had we had you know storm events. We've had the planning commission recently approving um the permit for butts to to basically double their size. So they had to jump through a lot more hoops than than we thought u originally. So the planning commission just this month approved their permit. And uh so there's there's just been some things that that uh that were kind of out of our control somewhat. We could have probably done some some things maybe a little sooner, but uh it's it's something that we're going to uh July it's going to happen. So, well, you know that um the public or the citizen really doesn't care about how long it took to get a

[1:36:46] truck. They know what they're paying and they're they've been told about an enhanced service that they're supposed to be receiving. And so, um, I just caution you that to me, you've missed a deadline. You've missed a pretty critical deadline. And as long as I sit here, I'm sure that I'm going to get the same calls if it happens again. No, that's why we're here and that's why we're going to do the town hall meetings is to to let people know, you know, that we're on track and there could be information change from one town hall meeting to the next to, you know, as as it comes in. But but it's as of now that's why we're presenting today is that we have a firm uh we have a permit that butts can have to to modify their facility by you know I mean it's just a major undertaking that they're they're going through right now and so it involved uh engineering it involved a lot more than we didn't I you know when we were trying to get this contract done but when you get the contract and you put a price to it and you get paid you're supposed to perform, right? And and we are performing. We're pretty much doing take all service. They're basically getting a cleanup every week with the service that we're doing right now. So, the recycling I you know, that's something that that that we're ready for now. And uh if we could have been ready for it earlier, we would have done it earlier. So, thank you. Thank you. And I really don't want you putting that recycling in our landfill. That was the important thing about this. We had 14 years on our landfill and now it's down to what about 12 with all of the We do not want you to put recycling in our landfill to pick up earlier. We want you to do it. I want you to do it right. So that's why we all need to get on this glass thing though. The glass thing is still a critical piece. Charlotte, when I mentioned the phone calls I'd been getting, uh, they were all happy. They're anxious. They want the trash cans. uh they've seen them there at the mall and they're very anxious to get

[1:38:49] started and and the recycling. Uh but I've I've not received any complaints as Miss Grimestaff has. Um the just understanding how it's going to work and the town halls I am having a town hall meeting on April 9th, but it's already packed with a lot of development. I don't think we've got enough time, but I would like to schedule with you as soon as possible for my district for a town hall meeting. Absolutely. and uh be happy to do that and then answer the people's questions. Just let them know. Um appreciate the problems that you've incurred. We knew going in with changes and starting a recycling that there were going to be some hiccups and some hiccups getting started and it's um it's a process. It's a process. Thank you very much. Further comments from council. If there are any public comments, we'll take them at this time. If not, is that your presentation, Robert? That's it. So, the town hall meetings will be next and uh we look forward to those and continue your your education. I think that's the most important thing. This is brand new to every one of us and we knew there was going to be some problems. Uh keep your education going, please, sir, and so the people will know what's going on. Thank you, mayor. We'll do. Thank you, Robert. Have any public comment? I'll take comments. Someone wants to make one. Come to the front. Identify yourself. You've got three minutes, sir. I'm Fred Preston with Butts Recycling, and I thought maybe I'd address just a little bit of Elizabeth's answers. Um, we've been working in partnership with the city as well as Republic on this whole recycle thing. This is a big event. It is a first time ever out in West Texas. So, it's something you don't want to just jump into. So, on Republic's behalf, we've been diligent on this since October trying to put these plans together to

[1:40:52] make this work. It has been in effect and diligent in August one would have made me happier. just if you want to look at the calendar, but on our part as far as putting this thing together and making this thing work for the city of St. Angelo, this is something we want to put together right that once we get this going that it will continue to go and work properly for everybody. So on the glass in the big uh recycling center Metroplex, that's not an issue there because everything's automated. You don't have a lot of hands on it and stuff like that. Plus they got these bigger areas and stuff to work with and machinery that takes care of that. We had to pull that out. We can't have that in a hand sort system. That's why we want to help support safe on this continue glass. That's important for me. Good fellow does a lot of that with us. So we like to support and continue the glass part. The other thing is to plastic bags get into these systems. If everybody has to open a plastic bag in recycling, it defeats the purpose. We're trying to keep the cost down in this for the city on everything that we're doing with this. So, it's important that with the education that Republicans can be doing us, we're going to help them in that on uh on what works and what doesn't work on this plan. And we're going to change things up if we need to as we go. But we're here to support the city on this first and make this thing work. But we just got through a major hurdle that we ran into. He's talking about in our permit process. There was an issue with our street, West 11 Street. If you ever seen our facility, that's been there since 1954 or whatever. Uh we've been there since 94. Never had a problem with it, but it's not paved. So, we had to get a variance to pass that because Butts Recycling can't afford to pave a street to put this project in. We've passed that hurdle and now we're we've ordered our building and we're in the process of completing the rest of it. So, we're ready to go. They received a variance so they don't have to have a paved street.

[1:42:54] Is that true? Yeah, we got a variance from planning commission. Interesting. Any questions? Questions? I I just have a comment with recycle. Um, I was watching a a documentary on TV here back about recycled material, and it sure would be nice if Roland, are you out there if you could maybe entertain or find someone who wants to purchase recycled materials and make they're making railroad ties now out of the the plastics, the paper, the wood products. It's just compressing into a railroad tie. and there's a big demand for them out there. So, I'd love to see us try to bring a business to use our recycled material and make a product that is for sale. Most of our products that we collect go directly to the people that make those things. Thank you very much. And I appreciate the fact that the Republic is working with a local San Angelo business and the amount of money that Buts is putting into this. It's a it's a tremendous amount of money to keep this keep as much local as we can. Uh any other further comment before we move on on this? Thank you very much, Robert, for the for the report. It has been asked that we move number 15 forward. There's a lot of people here that are here for the the colaria. In fact, probably half of our audience. I know that Miss Fluger is also here for the wellness. I would like to move 15 up. Uh 14 is also important. How I need the planning items before lunch because of my own schedule. This is spring break. Can we stay in order? I would like to pull a colarium up since there are since there

[1:44:57] are many people here. That's just me. So what do you what do you want to do, Marty? you want to pull it up or stay where we where we are? I I don't I don't have a problem pulling it up because I don't think it'll take long. But but I think we with the understanding that we don't take lunch until we we get uh Miss Grind Staff's stuff done because she was nice enough to reschedu her spring break. I'm satisfied with that. Charlotte, Don, that's fine. You all right with that, Elizabeth? Yes, sir. Thank Let's move uh let's move 15 up that is a columbarium. This is consideration of approving a construction services contract with Midex of Texas Inc. insubstantially the attached farm to construct the colaria colaria for in an earnment CM114 and related site work at the historic Fairmont Cemetery in an amount not to exceed 370,477 and authorizing the city manager or his designate to execute said contract. Uh I don't see David Nap who is going to take this one. Well, we moved it up on him so I don't think he's here. So, let me pull it up. Yes, Johnny left. I bet he's glad we moved it up. Um, and all I request is if you do do that, if you know you're going to do it, if you give us a forewarning, we'll contact them and let them know to be here. Usually, they watch online. In short, I'll take the hit on that one. He's running wherever he is. short on this item. This is a contract that council asked us to proceed. You've designated funds in the past for this project. So, David um of course has been working with Midex to Is your microphone on? Yes, it is. Has been working with this item as far as uh bringing it forward to council. Uh

[1:47:01] so today um you're considerating considering the contract itself. Uh you see the dollar amount. Um we discussed with you the fact that the project came in over uh the initial budget. So staff work through that item with Midex and identified uh some areas to cut. At the end of the day, uh what is being proposed is uh that you look at uh adding some additional funds to cover that expense. There are two items you'll notice there. One that Friends of Fairmont is bringing to the table a total of an additional $36,470 uh to the project and they're asking the city uh to bring an additional $18,7 to the project. What that will specifically cover from the city standpoint is um some niches. If you do the math on that, uh you see in your background report that it equates to quite a bit of revenue that comes in through the sale of those niches. So, it is a a good uh economic approach as far as the return you will get on those dollars. So, we're recommending to move forward and to approve that. And it it is an investment. It's an investment in our cemetery. And with that said, I didn't cover that, but one of the challenges that the the board at Fairmont has been given is to extend the life of the cemetery. And while, you know, we've reclaimed lots and we've resold, this particular aspect is not something we've done in the past. So, it really gives us the advantage to extend uh an income source for the future. Yes, ma'am. I'm it's all I mean we it's always difficult when a project comes in over budget but we keep seeing that in this uh bidding environment but I'm very pleased that the board is willing to put in as much of their own funding as they are and so in in light of that the the portion that they're asking of the city is roughly 50% of their own contribution. So, uh, because of that

[1:49:03] and because of the the importance of this project, as you say, to the future life of the cemetery, which is it's such an asset in our community, um, I would make a motion to approve. Uh, second as presented. Do have a Elizabeth has moved to approve it as presented. We do have a second by Charlotte. Uh, any other comments from council on this, Don? I I would just like to uh to thank the uh the board out there. I mean, they do yman's work. It's all volunteer and and I mean, I think that uh that they're to really be commended for for coming up with this and getting it going. And I' I'd like to say I I think it's great what they do and and and a person would be crazy up here to vote against it right now because they'd have to get out that door. And those ladies have talked to me before and I'll say amen to that as well. Mayor, I will point out that from a revenue stream, Tina and Morgan looked at that. There are some options that we can do as far as the general fund reserve or other possibilities. And if you want to give them the flexibility to handle that, we'll be bringing back a budget amendment to you for um the contribution from fans of Fairmount for $36,000. And together with this motion, we'll also include in that $18,000 from general fund fund balance uh to to satisfy the the project. I think this is wonderful and I thank I thank y'all as well. You have done a very proud of what you've done with Fairmont Cemetery. Uh public comment then I'm going to call for the vote. It has been the motion has been made that we approve this as presented. It has been seconded. All of those in favor please say I. I. Any oppose? Nay. Put a 5 on that one. Thank you. All right. We will let us now go back and we'll pick up our starting with number 11. Second public hearing consideration of

[1:51:05] adopting an ordinance of city of St. Angelo, Texas. Amending the code of ordinances of city of St. Angelo Chapter 12, exhibit A, zoning ordinance by number one amending chap article 3 use regulation section 310 use table industrial use categories adding a use designated as frack sand propent transloading warehouse operation permitted only in heavy manufacturing zoning district. Number two, amending article three use regulation section 316 industrial use categories by redesating subp parts A through F as subp parts B through G respectively adopting a new subp part A frack sand propent transloading and warehousing operations providing characteristics accessory uses and exceptions. Number three, amending article 4 specific use standards by redesating standards number 410 through 426 as sections 411 through 427 respectively. Adopting new section 410 incitle entitled frackan propent transloading warehousing operations establishing general and operational standards. Number four, amending article 8 definitions section 804 to find terms to create definitions for foculent frack propent related waste materials. Frack sand propent transloadings and warehousing operations operator and propent providing a severability clause and providing an effective date. Why do you do that to me? I I think they did that on purpose is what I and my old thick North Angelo tongue and having to come come up wrap it around those words. Miss Gary, you have the floor, ma'am. Good afternoon, Mr. Mayor, City Council. Rebecca Gar, planning manager. Um, the reason this was moved to second reading was because of the changes that were made on the first reading. And so we thought to air on the side of caution, we'll go ahead and put it as a public hearing. But everything that you've seen before you that's been included as the backup were the changes that were made at the last meeting where the conditional use for all intents and purposes was removed. It's still going to be an allowed use only in the heavy manufacturing district. And so instead

[1:53:08] of going through the whole slide, um you've read it perfectly. Um it's the use category will be frack propent translating and warehousing operations. We've created use regulations, characteristics, accessory uses and exceptions um in general and operations standards and those six definitions which you read so eloquently to begin with. So um I'm going to ahead and end the presentation there and if you have any specific questions I'll be more than happy to answer them. Elizabeth, you were the one that asked that conditional use be removed and we voted that way. Do you want Are you Are you happy with this one? Um she's flipping rather quickly. I'm I'm happy. Let me ask you, and the reason I brought it up, is this the item that speaks to paved paved truck routes? Yes, it does. Okay. So, I'm going to have a problem with that if we just discussed the trash trucks at the recycling center not having to be paved. And I know one's an onsite and one's a rideway, but I see an inconsistency here in our care about uh pavement and and vehicles. So, one what you saw previously was a variance that was requested by the applicant to not pave a ride ofway and that variance goes before the planning commission. Um it anything that happens there is subject to appeal by any agrieved party. So, it can come here. So, anyone to this point can still agree that and come to the city council to um have that matter redised. In this case, because it's located within the zoning ordinance, that variance, if a variance is ever requested for that, will go before the zoning board of adjustment. The only appeal is not city council. So, they would have to go to a court. I understand and and I appreciate what you've done and I I think it was very smart of you to put it on the regular agenda for second reading because there was substantial change. Um I'm just and I'm very ready to approve something today. I'm just feeling as if now there's a double standard on this issue. Does anyone else have any input?

[1:55:15] I don't have a problem with it as it is written. the the only thing that I I feel I hate that they they started the precedence of you know letting the street go. Um you know I think we'll or the previous councils have worked hard and and getting our streets paved and for us to let one slide like that I don't like it a little bit. Um but that's uh that's kind of water under the bridge in my opinion only maybe. I I don't have any real heartburn with this because they knew ahead of time that they would have to and that's pretty much been acceptable to them. I'll accept a motion. Motion to approve. Second. Motion has been made. We accept it as presented. It has been seconded. Do I have further council comment? Public comment. Come on, Turner. Yes, my name is still Jim Turner and one of the things that I hope you remember as you go forward that this is really a temporary solution that needs a long-term solution and review of a lot of the zoning and use codes that you have so we don't have problems coming up like we recently had with practice. Sam, because this is not by any means the only possible way we can have this type of problem coming up again. We need to take and review the zoning regulations and get really smart about it. If we don't, we're going to see this again as industry and technology and other things happen that are going to bring up this same type of issue again and again and I don't want the zoning board to have to take and do what they

[1:57:17] had to do last time. Thank you. Thank you, Jim. Further public comment. I will call for the vote. Motion has been made. that we accept it as presented. It has been seconded. All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Nay. Put a one, two, three, four to one on that one, please. Brian, uh, did you need to step out for a minute? Charlotte, Dan, is it all right? We have no quorum. No quorum. Started with a quorum. We lose a quorum. We have to maintain a quorum. I will speak very slowly. Just wait. Just wait. We have to wait till she gets back. Anybody? All right. They tell me for legal purposes that we have to halt the meeting at 11:28 and reconvene the meeting at 11:32. So, the meeting has now been reconvened. We will move on to item number 12 which is the first public hearing and consideration of introduction of an ordinance amending chapter 12 exhibit exhibit A zoning ordinance of the code of ordinances city of St. Angelo Z1438 Fred partllo an ordinance amending chapter 12 exhibit A of the code of ordinances city of St. Angelo, Texas, which said exhibit A of chapter 12 adopt zoning regulations, use districts and a zoning map in accordance with a comprehensive plan by changing the zoning and classification of the following property to wit generally located on the northeast corner of Old Ballinger Highway and Cumington Road and specifically described as approximately 175 acres out of 501.327 acres of land out of the J. Poland survey 3, abstract number 5130, J. Pointet survey 1113, abstract 4873, and J. A. Eggerston survey 2, abstract number 4894, and described in exhibit A and attached to correction special warranty deed from Doris Schwarzblock to Michael J.Block, block trustee of

[1:59:19] Wilbert BB block family trust filed for record on 10527 as an instrument number 640460 an official public records for real property OPRRP in Tom Green County, Texas a request for approval of his own change from ranch and estates R& to heavy manufacturing MH providing for severability and providing a penalty. Miss Gara, good morning. The next case is Z1438 reszoning in the name of Fred Partllo. It is for 175 acres located on the northwest corner of Old Ballinger Highway in US Highway 277. It is in single member district number four in the Pauland neighborhood. Future land use of this site is industrial and you'll remember this site from the annexation which we recently did which was a larger piece but this is a small snippet on that immediate north yes northwest corner. The zoning as you stated previously is ranch in estate and the proposed zoning is heavy manufacturing which is consistent with the future lane use designation of industrial staff is recommending approval to the heavy manu heavy manufacturing district for the following reasons before you and in your staff reports as I stated previously. It is consistent with the future land use designation of industrial. It's also consistent with some of the uses that are out there including but not limited to the landfill. Eight notifications were sent out within a 200t radius. One notification was received in response in favor. That uh response is located in your staff reports and I also have a copy in my file. On March the 9th, the planning commission unanimously recommended approval for resoning to the heavy manufacturing zoning district. And so the action requested today is to approve case Z1438 for resoning from the ranch and estate district to the heavy manufacturing district and adopt the ordinance on first reading. This concludes staff's presentation. We're available for any questions you may have. Thank you. We all we've been we've been through down we've been through this many many times in the last couple of months and this is uh my opinion an excellent thing. Uh anyone want to any comments? Anybody want to move to approve? Don, this is your area. I move

[2:01:21] to approve. Second. Okay. I do have a motion to approve as presented. I do have a second. Why keeps trying to talk? I I just have one qu I have a question. Uh two questions actually. One h how many acres did we annex earlier? Uh originally we a we annexed 500 the whole the whole thing. I I thought 500 175 acres that be your pardon. So it's the same it's the same acreage. I'm having a I'm having a small Yes, it is. This is 175 acres. 500 acres was the original larger piece. But we only annexed 175. No, no, no. We a we annexed this corner piece. The 500 acres was the part of the development was the part of the developers agreement which is what we did the original notification for. We annexed 175 acres in but it's part of a larger 500 acre piece which reached all the way to model modal modal. So in short we are annexing what they have requested. There is a larger tract that's under the development agreement. It's just they're not proposing to develop that at this point. So they haven't requested that we do. It stays under the same agreement. It stays under the same agreement, but it's still subject if they change anything, they are subject to the same annexation development agreement. Okay. So the 175 acres is what was annexed in, but the 500 acres which was the original piece up to modal is still subject to that developers agreement. That has not gone away. Okay. All right. That answered, sir? Yeah, that that's good. Yeah, I'm good. Any further comment, council? Do I have public comment on this item? I'm going to call for the vote and the motion has been made that we accept it as presented. It has been seconded. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose. Nay. Put a 5 on that one, please, sir. Uh, number 13, first public hearing and consideration of introducing an ordinance amending appendix A, fee schedule, article 82000, building and construction related fees

[2:03:24] of the city of St. Angelo code of ordinances related to outside consultant plan check service fees. Mr. Torres, you are on sir. Good morning, mayor, council members. Um, my name is Al Torres. I'm the building official for the city of St. Angelo. And as you said, I'm here to propose that we adopt or change the fee schedule to allow for us to charge fees for to cover the city's cost on third party plan reviews. Uh I think most of you are pretty familiar with the process of of plan review. So I'm just going to real quickly go over some of these slides. Uh as you know, plans are submitted originally for review from us from our uh division for compliance with the building codes. We send those review comments out to the applicant. Uh the applicant then responds and resubmits if necessary to ensure compliance and then we issue a building permit. Uh currently right now on commercial uh plan reviews we have been facing a 6 to 8 week review time. Uh we're working on getting that down but that's what we've been facing recently. Secondary reviews when they resubmit uh we typically add another week to look at those resubmitted comments. we don't put them back at the front of the queue, but it does take a little bit of time to look at those and make sure they they've complied. Uh our goal right now is to reduce that review time, our review time to 15 business days maximum. Uh actually even less, but we're we're working on that 15 days first. Um the some of the reasons for those is of course over the past six months in particular, we've got undergone a string of staff changes. Uh we've had uh staff members turned over and and created new positions and brought new people in. and we're trying to train new uh new staff members. Uh in addition to that, the volume of commercial work has has exponentially increased over the last three years. We we're doing quite a bit more commercial work than we've we've done in all the time that I've been here anyway. And then we've identified uh

[2:05:27] things in the development process that we've decided we can do better and we're working on that. we one of our positions that we've created uh her job specifically is to improve the development process and we so we are implementing and we've already changed some of the things that we're doing to make that review faster um and we are looking at even more changes coming up u some of the solutions to those issues again as of this month in fact as of today we should be fully staffed on on plan reviews we're making a final offer uh this afternoon so we should be fully staffed finally It takes a little time to train these people. Um, we've also, as I mentioned, taken steps to implement to improve the development process itself. Uh, we're going to do electronic plan review. Uh, mobile field devices are being imp implemented. All that's being done as we speak. Uh, we've taken we've made changes in how plans are submitted and how uh, basically we're taking a hard look at how everything is done to try to improve our process and make it faster and more efficient. Now, in the meantime, uh we've we've had a lot of people from the development community that want to know, you know, what what can we do to alleviate this problem? Uh immediately, one item that we've looked at is outside consultant plan reviews. There are businesses out there that exist that they provide construction document reviews for municipalities. We there are five that I'm aware of. We have been looking working closely with a couple of them. Um ICC Plan Review Services and Bureau Veritoss are the two companies we've been mostly looking at. The cost of those reviews are paid directly to the consultant. City of San Angel does not pay for those reviews. So it's this isn't an issue of us contracting with these companies to do reviews for us. They are doing the reviews um as a third-party service. They these parties typically guar guarantee their turnaround time in 15 days, which is 3 weeks. Um so for larger projects this would give a a developer an option to rather than wait for us to get to his project uh they can send it directly to

[2:07:30] these companies and get their review done in in 3 weeks maximum. Uh their turnaround time for subsequent reviews typically is 5 days guaranteed. the an important dis note to make one of the you know we've vetted this through the development task force and and through the development community and some of the questions that they've had that we're we're addressing is one of the biggest questions is if a company in Dallas or a company in Illinois or you know does a plan review for us are they doing this to standards that are not right for St. Angelo. So the answer is no. They are doing they're doing their plan reviews to our standards. The first thing they do is they visit with me to find out what our adopted codes are, what our local ordinances, what our local amendments, you know, that we've we've made here. So they do the reviews tailored to what our requirement requirements are here. In addition, once they once they do their um their plan review, they are essentially sending their comments to us, but we have the final say here in St. Angelo. Uh the fire marshall and myself, we are the local authority having jurisdiction and so we have the final say on any permits that are issued. Uh so say they send a comment um you know that has something to do with with the sprinklering the building. if we have a local amendment or we in in our opinion they've met the intent of the code uh even if the comment exists on their review service we have the final say on whether that applies to the project here or not. So you know to to put those developers at ease uh it's still going to be our say here on how we do business here in St. Angelo and then of course we will issue the permit once all items have been addressed to our satisfaction. Not not to the reviewer satisfaction but to our satisfaction. Now plan review fees through these consultants is very similar to what we charge for a plan review. They're typically they're higher when you go through ICC or plan or bureau of veritas. Uh the big difference is that our permit fee includes the cost of

[2:09:34] inspections, administrative cost to uh you know get those inspections recorded and and do all the overhead that's required to get that permit administered. The plan review fee that's paid to the third party plan review services is strictly for the plan review. So we need to figure out some way to recoup our cost uh so we're not doing inspections for free when somebody chooses to go through these third party services. So we did a study or I did a study uh typical number of inspections for different kinds of jobs. U you know what it takes to the average amount of time inspectors spend at each inspection, what are their salaries, what's it costing us to put, you know, to do these inspections. And what I what we found is that the cost of inspections runs up to 15% of the typical plan review fee. So what we coming for you today is to request that we modify the fee schedule to allow us to charge 15% of that plan review fee, the third party plan review fee. U and we'll work with these companies. I've I've discussed each of them how how we're going to do that, how we're going to set up that policy. And basically any re fees that they charge, they they route everything through us. We're not we're not the ones charging it, but they're going to route everything through us. So we're aware of any fees that are being charged. 15% of those fees will be paid as a permit fee to the city of St. Angelo to cover cost of inspections and administration. I might add to Al's presentation, one of the things that u he he mentioned about the the time the six to eight weeks, but the staff there gets total credit for and and you for implementing some new positions and funding, but for instance, in the residential side of it right now, as of last week, we are back to a 24-hour turnaround. So, you're seeing that trend changing here. We're trying to address the commercial and while we intend to get the commercial review back into a reasonable time frame, this simply adds another safety net to what we have to offer. And if we're behind, it gives someone an option. If for some reason we have a major turnover of staff, it gives us yet another safety net to fall upon within this commercial

[2:11:37] component. We also visited with the homebuilders yesterday. um they primarily are focused on residential but they also had reviewed this and and are okay with what uh the representatives that we met with yesterday with what's being proposed. So this is in fact just another option they can you if they want it if they want to speed up the process if they want to pay 15% more then they can go to the outside and speed it up. That is that is correct. We we are hoping that very soon we're going to be back to the 3-we turnaround time ourselves anyway. So why would anybody pay to go somewhere else when they can you know get it through us? But we want it as an option for the development community so that if we find ourselves in this position again that gives somebody a chance to and I'm confident that we will get our own department back into back into the to the to a to a the good turnaround. We're well in our way. Yes. And then we don't need these guys and it'll just be something else that we have as a tool. Correct. Appreciate you. Al Charlotte, I have a question with reference to when you issue a permit to a general contractor. Yes, ma'am. And the work is being done, you do the inspections and then the general contractor calls for the final inspection and they're told, "No, you can't call for the inspection. It has to be a plumber or an electrician." Why is that? Uh really it's because we have a lot of general contractors that are calling in for inspections and we show up at the job site and the plumber will say, "Well, I'm not ready." Because because the general contractor, he's pushing the overall time frame for the project and he's trying to get everybody out there in a hurry. Uh so we as a policy, we require the and that's just for subcontractor work. The subcontractor, these are licensed trades that are licensed through the state of Texas. They are responsible for the work that they are doing. So we request that they call in inspections for their own for their own work. Does that make sense?

[2:13:39] General contractor of record that's on the builder's materials mechanics lean and is doing the work and directing the subcontractors. You're telling me that you don't allow him to call for the final permit? It just seems unreasonable. No, ma'am. The the general contractor does call for the final inspection. uh the each of the subcontractors has their own permit, right? So, we cannot we don't allow him to call for his final inspection until the other subcontractors have completed their work and gotten their finals. Okay, I understand. Once they've gotten their finals, then the general general contractor says, "Okay, all my subcontractor's work is complete. We're ready for a final inspection." And then we come but the general contractor does that and we come out and do their final inspection. After the meeting, I'll discuss one up on 40th Street with you. Okay. Sure. Okay. Do I have further comment from council D? I have several. The the people that you're going to sub out with, what what are their certifications? They're they're all ICC certified and we have a list. We we created we're creating a policy basically that on how we're going to handle each of these. U are they also certified in NFPA because of the uh electric code? Uh no, because NFPA uh basically that's all done through the ICC now. That's there ICC doesn't even have electrical code. They've adopted the the um NEC. So that includes NEC certifications. Yes, that's correct. Okay. So So those people will be done. All right. What what about specialized permits? Uh they will probably still have to go through like fire sprinklers and things like that. Yeah, they'd still have to go through the through the fire marshall's office. Okay. So, you're just talking about basically general general construction. They have a very specific list of of firearms, sprinkler systems, all those things. Yeah. They'll they'll do the fire fire code, but they don't and ICC for instance does fire sprinkler um reviews if you request them, but

[2:15:44] that's a separate review. Okay. So, would they be be available for that if if they wanted to do everything? Yes, that's something that would be available. Uh I think Ross Coleman probably want his people to, you know, keep still keep um overview of those, but it would be available. Okay. Well, what if there's a conflict out in the field, uh you still have final say over that? Yes. Any any comments that are made, uh we still, you know, Ross and I are still the local authority having jurisdiction. So, we still have the final say over anything anything done here. Okay. I as a a contractor, I send this out. I pay my 15%. Uh the the plan gets uh approved by your office. I bring it back. There's supposed to be a door over there per the the plan. Your field inspector says, "No, it's supposed to be 30 ft down that wall." How's that handled? Uh the same way we handle it now. I mean, we we go back and look at the code and if it's something that that was missed in the initial inspection, it's still, you know, you can't get away from doing something that's required by the code simply because it was missed in review. Uh, of course, we'd have to show you that that's that's the requirement. Okay. Are you wondering about liability of the third party reviewer in that situation? Well, uh, yes. Well, but we still we still do the final, like I said, the liability is still we're doing the final review and saying yes, these comments apply or no, these comments do not apply. So, well, and also along with that more a conflict as far as as a contractor, I've already got that framed out. It's costing me $5,000 and now you want me to move it 30 ft down the road. Right. And that was one of my concerns too was uh when we first looked at this or when the subject was first brought up was what happens if we don't agree with whoever's doing the review. But in this case, like I said, the the reviewers are basically it's it's almost like the the adopted codes that we have, you know, their recommendations. They're saying this is what we see as items that are not complying with the code. And then

[2:17:48] it's up to Ross and I to determine whether we agree with that or not. And for the most part, they're pretty thorough. I mean, we, you know, I've looked at some of these reviews and they're they're very very detailed, very thorough. So, for the most part, everything they do is is right out of the book. But again, sometimes there's things that are done locally that that you know, we will that was my next question. Local amendments, correct? Yeah, that's they they'll have they have those. Yes, they have those. the the first step they'll do is and again anybody that we work with ICC bureau of veritas already uh they will visit with me first and ask us what our local amendments are we provide them with copies of all that what codes do we have adopted you know what other u even down to what what are our some of our philosophies and how we look at these and they try to do everything as we would do it here well you have one of your reviewers review their review well review We may do that as a um quality control kind of thing, but we'll definitely review their comments. You know, it means there's we're not going to go through the whole plan and do another review subsequent to theirs. Although, like I said, we might do that as quality control, but we will always look at the comments that they submit to make sure that we're comfortable with those comments so that we don't have problems down the road in the field. Okay. Move for approval as presented. Second. Do have a motion to approve as presented. I do have a second. Do I have further comment from council? Do we have public comment on this item? We'll call for the vote. All in favor, please say I. I. I oppose. Nay. Put a 50 on that one, please. Brian. 11:53. Y'all want to take up 14? You want a break? 14. 14. Who? 14. Okay. 14. Update on participation and status of employee wellness program. Presentation by Cheryl Luger, business development marketing director, SACMC. Janet Charlessworth and Mary Solomon, wellness coordinators, SACMC. Welcome. Just a quick introduction. I'm Veronica

[2:19:52] Sanchez, HR manager. Um, unfortunately, Lisa couldn't be here today to do the intro. So, um, as you all know, St. Angelo Community Medical Center was contracted for management of our wellness program. So, we've got Cheryl Fluger here today, uh, Mary Solomon and Janet Charlessworth who are going to provide you with the update of that program. Come on up here. Welcome, Miss Flugger. Thank you, Mayor and Council. We're glad to be here for the fourth annual wellness screening update. Uh we have interesting news. Can you hear me there? Better. Uh interesting today. So, we're going to give you a little bit different type of report um today. Uh just a high level kind of update that we found from this report. Uh you had 99.6 participation this year, which is excellent. you've had that going for a couple of years and those are the employed uh people that are under city insurance. Um one thing that did jump out this year which was an interesting fact um your the blood pressure score jumped pretty far out on on the chart for us today. So we're going back and reviewing uh those statistics. We're going to resscreen some people and whatever. That's an interesting deal because you know gen generally uh one in three people don't even know that they have high blood pressure and that's falling true with this with this particular group too. Um we do think that some during the screenings that we might have had some allergies going on and also people maybe not taking blood pressure medicine the day of the screening. So we are reverifying and rechecking all of that. But that's something for us to look at. Then the other thing that uh really really jumped out at uh what we were seeing was that the well program the wellness at work program wow program is working. It's really working. So we're going to try to um concentrate on that today. Highlights for all employees just for you all to get a good con um a good look at that. Um the risk factors uh when you have a lot of risk factors that's where your risk for the employees um excuse me should I do I should be

[2:21:56] doing that sorry okay um the risk factors with the employees that you know you jump from one to maybe over five risk factors that's where your health of your employees come in um that they really see a difference and it's also where your health care cost can go maybe five times the amount when you have a lot of risk factors. So the people that had five or more risk factors, that's been a group that we've had from 123, 120 employees, 110 last year. That jumped down to or went down to 82 employees. So that from two years ago, that's a 33% decrease. That is excellent. It's huge because it made such an impact with the individual employees and then it also makes an impact with your financial impact. um the for the smokers in the organization, we also decreased that um by 15% in the past year. Now, we did hire 10 new smokers, so that would even be further down. So, that's something to look at in the future, but that also has such an impact on your um on your health. And then the improved wellness score overall that 45% of your employees overall did improve their health wellness score and that's compared to 42% last year. Wrong way. Um I want to I want to go back to what we were saying about the people that have participated in the challenges versus the general population. We had 58 people that actually recorded scores and actually participated in these challenges that we're going to do. And though even though that seems like a small group, we can see stark differences between what was actually happening with the larger group of employees. So we chose this year to concentrate on those and show you what could be done with those. Wellness score overall is 67 for your general employees. If you participated in the challenges and those 58 people, their overall wellness score was 77. And that's a huge improvement. um the people that did improve on their score, 61% of the of the WOW people

[2:23:59] compared to 45% of those who didn't. Then you go to the obese category and you've got 43% of the non-WOW people that are in the obese compare u category compared to just half 21% of the WOW people. And you would look at the the people in those two different groups. All the people in the WOW group are very similar in challenges of health. um starting with obesity, starting with high blood pressure, whatever. They have the same challenges that the the uh regular employees have. So, you're not starting with the pristine group. You're starting with people that do have health challenges. Um then you look at nutrition, same thing. It's about double um the wow people are doing much better with their nutrition. Uh blood pressure again was something that we were really concerned about. And where you're looking at prehypertensive people, uh, with the WOW employees, you've got 56% compared to 37% of your general population. But then when you get in trouble, it's the hypertension. It's the people that are already diagnosed with blood blood pressure problems. And that's only 7% of the WOW people compared to 37%. Same thing with fitness. You can look at uh those going all the ways all the way down. Age and and ethnicity did not play a part. Those were all very comparable in all the groups. Gender on the people that um did not participate, it's 81% of the men did not participate. So there are women participate as a whole a lot more. So it's interesting just to look at participation and real health improvement. So what is WOW? Um just to kind of remind you, you know that we're doing uh you start with the the screenings that we do every September, October. We screen over 700 employees. It takes about two months to screen those. We do that with a um a annual questionnaire that they take, but then you also have biometric data that takes blood pressure. It takes a blood panel and you're able to see their actual scores. So, if people participate in WOW,

[2:26:03] they're doing challenges. They're set up that you all voted on last year to do point systems. And with that point system, they're able to um earn a day or two off of and that's working very well. This is a voluntary system at this moment and it's it's working well. So um I'm going to turn this over to Janet Charlessworth and Mary Solomon. And Janet is our fitness expert. Mary is our dietician and our clinical expert. And the two of those together are taking some excellent care of the employees in the city along with um a wonderful committee that's been formed from the city. We want to give kudos to department heads or department representatives that have come together to give ideas to for the w for the wow committee. They are implementing and then they're carrying back information and communication back about this program. So kudos to you all. I'll come back to that in a minute, but I'm going to let them tell you a little bit more about the program. Good afternoon. We're Mary and I are excited to talk to you about the WOW program. It was a program that we introduced last April as Cheryl said and it was where they could earn points to get a free day off. If they earned 400 points, they got one day off and if they earned 700, they got two days off. And how they earned points was participating in challenges, um doing a walking program, whether it was their own personal walking program or going to a health fitness center. Um they also got points for doing preventive screenings such as going to the dentist or getting their eye do going to their eye doctor checks, pat smears, mamograms. And then they got also got points for having normal um uh waist measurements or normal blood pressure readings, normal cholesterol. So um we were excited to introduce this program because it was an incentive for people to engage in healthier behaviors and it really did work. Um we uh in the middle of the year

[2:28:09] we decided also to amp up our program and to get more buy in with our WOW program. In fact our program actually didn't have a name. We were city wellness and what one of the things we thought we needed was branding. Our program needed branding. So we came up with the word wow which is working on wellness. and rebranded the program and created a wellness committee that consists of several KOSA employees from many departments. And we created the committee to get buy in and to empower KOSA employees who are excited about workplace wellness to help communicate our programs and get them get their employees and the rest of employees involved much more than we have had in the past. and we really did get um a lot more involvement. But these wellness champions have created motivation with the workplace wellness program um and they have really helped communicate all of our challenges and the fun activities that we're doing to try and get more employees engaging in healthy behaviors. One person who's not on here who has helped us tremendously is Anthony Wilson. He's been instrumental in communicating all of our challenges, sending out flyers, getting emails out to the employees um to better communicate our programs that we're doing. Um, one of the things too I wanted to talk about real quick is there's a u a a company called WCOA and it's Wellness Council of America and they're the most respected resource for workplace wellness and our hospital became members of WCOA this past year and for the past 20 years WCOA has dedicated its efforts to promote um uh the efforts of America's healthiest companies and part of what they have done is they established seven benchmarks to um

[2:30:13] developing a resultsoriented workplace wellness program. One of those benchmarks is creating well a wellness committee among your organization. So that is what we did and also what WCOA does is they provide they are the ones who designate companies as well workplaces and it is our goal this year to apply with WCOA to become a designated well workplace and eventually apply to become a well city. So one of the things we had to establish was developing a wellness committee so that we can apply for that designation as a well workplace and that committee has worked very well and we want to commend them for their efforts. We meet on a monthly basis and they bring many ideas to us. One of the most recent ones was they wanted healthier vending options in the vending machines. So, we took the idea to Daniel who was very supportive and we've been working with Carlo the vending um to get healthier vending options in our vending machines. The other thing too that they um brought to us is they wanted healthier options at the new employee orientations. Um Mary and I would go we go to all the employee orientations and we talk to them new employees about wellness and right before our our talk that we give they have a donut break. So we stopped the doughnut break and so it's the little things that matter to the employees but they all add up to big things. So now we are serving they uh the city is serving healthier options at the new employee orientations which we are proud of. But we would like to commend the committee because they've done tremendous work and the supervisors have been so supportive in letting the committee members come and and and spend

[2:32:18] an hour of their day once a month to talk about workplace wellness and how we can elevate it to the next level and get more employees engaged and involved. And our chairperson on the committee is Morgan Chegwigan and she wanted to do a little presentation about um the success of the program. Just really briefly y'all, I don't have a formal presentation, but I just wanted to speak to uh from the um from the chair the champions uh uh standpoint that we're just so grateful for the council's continued support of the the program. uh we achieved a 7% penetration in the figures that that Cheryl was showing earlier. Uh 7% penetration of all city employees that were uh uh employed at the time uh in last year in our partial year. And so we hope to achieve in excess of 10% penetration this year. You saw that we have terrific support from fire and police and street and bridge. And so uh we just want to uh to thank y'all for that. We have tremendous support uh from our wellness coordinators Janet and Mary. they are really uh doing the the yman's job on this and all of the work on it and we're proud of the sponsorship and the the relationship we have with community hospital because uh we don't know what we're doing. Janet and Mary just tell us uh how to how to get stuff started and and we get the word out and it's it's really uh been huge for the morale when you saw the 77 people up there that are participating. They have a uh they're becoming our champions too and so you may see, you know, seven or eight people on our committee, but it's growing leaps and bounds and and we're just grateful for y'all's support of that. One of the we just met last week, our committee did and one of the things they brought to us was they wanted anyone that participated in the WOW program to get earn points for a day off. They would get a t-shirt, a WOW t-shirt and get to wear that on Fridays. And we think that will help get the word out also because everybody's going to want to earn a WOW t-shirt and wear that on Fridays. So, we're looking forward to implementing that. Um, the next slide is going to show you the programs we did in 2014. And I'm just going to highlight on some of the most successful ones. The

[2:34:21] first one, everybody, New Year's resolution, we usually get a lot of people join our weight loss challenges. So, um, we had a, uh, a was called get lean in 2014. It was a weight loss challenge that we kicked off in January. We had, uh, 73 Costa people, 13 teams. They formulated teams and they compete against each other. They lost a total of 330 lbs. Um, and then we kicked off another challenge in the fall before the holidays hit and we we had um 67 people participate, 13 teams. They lost 512 lbs. Our top winner in that challenge was a fireman who lost 39.7 lb. Um, our third place winner in that challenge was a police officer lost 24 and a half pounds. And then we did another challenge called maintain don't gain and it was it started in December and it went through the middle of January um and encouraged people not to gain weight over the holidays. Um we had uh uh on that one we had 42 people um and 18 of the participant particip participants or 43% actually lost weight over the maintain don't gain challenge and then all of the winners in our challenges um or win a one-year health club membership. So it's a big in incentive for them to do it. And it's not just the the top winner gets the uh one-year membership. It's the whole entire team. So the team that does the best. They all every single member gets a one-year health club membership. And so um it's it's quite a positive thing and employees love it and they seem to love winning the memberships. In 2015, we are amping up our programs even more. We're adding seven more programs to the to the mix. Um we just finished our jumpstart your heart

[2:36:25] challenge and we had 44% of the people that did it had never done a challenge before. This was their first time participating in our WOW program. So we know that the word is getting out and that people new people are coming on board because they're hearing their coworker. Why aren't they here today? Well, they just earned their wow day and just got their day off. So, everybody wants to get on board and do the challenges. We are in the middle of our way to go challenge and this was the first challenge that we've done where we allowed them to um invite a family member to participate. It's uh they formulate two member teams so they could get their spouse or a family member to join them on this weight loss challenge. and they were very excited that it just wasn't limited to KOA employees that they could their family members could also participate. And we're getting ready to kick off in for National Nutrition Month, which is just now uh yesterday we kicked off our Get Your Plate in Shape Challenge. It's a 28-day challenge. And um we found that through the wellness committee that they like both um usually our weight loss challenges are about 8 weeks long, but they also like to do quick little short one month challenges. So that's what this one is that we're doing. And then April 1st, um, in honor of National Walking Day, um, we put the word out, uh, and we have seven KOSA employees who have volunteered to lead walks on National Walking Day. And we will kick off our first walk at 6:00 a.m. at the ballpark on Bell Street. And there uh, these are employees have just volunteered their time to do this, to get people out walking that day. and we're proud that Daniel is going to lead a noon walk on that day from city hall. So, we appreciate his support and we're going to end the day at the KOA at 6:00 p.m. where all the employees are invited to bring their family members, their

[2:38:29] pets, their kids for a final walk at 6:00 p.m. on that day. So, we've got some great um programs planned for 2015. We're very excited about that. And I think Mary wants to say a few words also. Well, the only thing with this chart I was going to show y'all that you do see some peaks in it, but this does show where the participation this is basically our portal, our wellness portal. And you'll see those peaks in I believe it's 2013. And that's because during those peaks, that's when we were having our screening. So employees were going online to fill in their health risk assessment questionnaire. Um, and once again in 2014, you see a really big peak. But what what I want y'all to take note of is the um later in the year as as you see we're going down to 79 uh hits and 50 hits and and 19 hits. This report was run u on March 6th and we had already 19 hits in March. So more and more employees are visiting the website and they're documenting their activities. So that's just what this this chart is representing. And then as far as our overview, we are trying our hardest to track these high-risk employees. A lot of them have hypertension. Uh but they also have metabolic syndrome, which may be just a weight issue. Um they may have diabetes or uh elevated cholesterol. We have also identified some with some gentlemen with elevated PSAs. We've been able to get those into primary care physicians if they've never been tracked before. And we're also being able to see some good results with lowering of A1C's for their diabetes. Um, and once again, we are working on the blood pressure this year. So, we are going to be doing some rescreenings when we go out to different departments to educate them on their how to how to track their wellness points. One thing I forgot to mention too with our WOW program, in an effort to try to communicate, um, over the next few

[2:40:33] months, Mary and I and the members of the wellness committee are going out and doing site visits. So, at all of the department meetings, we are going to be visiting with them about the WOW program, how they can get involved, and how they can start earning free days off because it's much easier than they really realize. Um we we uh are really just wanted to let you know how successful the WOW program has been. Um we we had successful completion of 13 challenges in 2014. We're going to be doing 19 more in 2015. Um our online usage has increased as Mary re suggested and our wellness committee has been highly successful. Um, we also have been one of the three municipalities that has been asked to speak at the statewide um, Texas Health Resource Conference in April in Austin, Texas. And we will be one of the three municipalities presenting our WOW program. So, it is getting um buzz around the state level and we are going to be excited to share with other municipalities about the things that we've done and the programs that we've done that have been successful where they may want to duplicate our success. Um, and as mentioned earlier, we are excited to be partnering with WCOA so that we can uh take all the great things that we've done with our WOW program and apply for a well workplace designation and then in hopes after that we receive that designation, we will be looking to apply for well city designation. So, we are very excited about that. Um, oh, and Cheryl, she wanted to wrap this up. Um, and then we wanted to also share a a cute little video with you at the end. Okay, this will this will be quick um with our uh

[2:42:38] recommendations. All of this is to show you that there really is a difference if people participate in their in their wellness and their health. And you all have made wonderful, wonderful strides to make this a city thing. And I think you can see from city um activities that are happen happening with other businesses in town and also with other activities in town, you really have made a precedence. Four years ago, this was not a popular option. And so I think y'all made a really really nice um inroad for our city to be become healthier. Some of the considerations that we would like to plant the idea and have you consider maybe for 2016 would be to watch the voluntary participation. We expect that to go up by 10% um at least this next time. Maybe it'll double. We we hope that it very much will. Um in in addition to that, there can be other programs that we've seen around the nation that you have an incentive on a positive side with premium incentives if you watch maybe four pillars of health and that being a BMI, being non-smokers, being compliance with medication, um annual visits to the doctor. So you can have um you can have and preventative screenings um you can have things that come off of your insurance in a very um positive way with the premium incentive for each of those things. So that's something to consider for 2016 um just to ramp up the program a little bit more. I think the the uh intent of this program all along was to watch people's health get better and to have an effect on on the insurance. So, um that's our our um program for today. If y'all have any questions, that'd be great. And we have a 60-second video. You have any questions? Questions? No, I'm just glad we're doing it because I know that when I've kind of been on a weight loss program, it was a lot easier doing it with people that I worked with because every you're kind of on the same schedule. It was a lot harder when I got home and had cooking and laundry and all those other duties. So, it it makes

[2:44:40] perfect sense to me. I'm I'm glad we've got those participating and hope we get more. Well, I I'm I'm very proud of the fact that you really approach us in such an innovative way to really inspire the staff to get into good health. I think that's something that uh again when you start looking at the WOW program that that really has had a pretty good impact and I thank you'all also for coming in with your ideas and of course uh just working together. Thank you for everything you do for us. I'm sure Daniel can also make sure that the council lunches are more healthy than they generally are. So, I'll I'll look forward to that. Your presence here is probably encouraged that we could put that on the agenda. Okay. Well, we do thank you for y'all are really uh making a difference in St. Angelo with setting a setting the bar and that's very important. Thank you. One of the things when we go out to the site visits and meet with the departments to talk to them about the WOW program, we put together a little cute video to share with them when we go to the department meetings. We find that if this stuff isn't fun, people aren't going to do it. And so with the help of Anthony Wilson, um he put together a little video for us that we can show when we go out to the site visits and meet with the departments to explain to them about the WOW program. And you may ask us why was it important to implement a WOW program? We found that before people were just going through the motions. They were showing up for their annual screenings and they were doing those. But then we would we would hear from them or see them again till the next annual screening. And by implementing the WOW program, it has given them them the incentive to focus on their health on a regular basis. go into the online port portal and log the healthy behaviors that they are doing and it just brings focus and more motivation to the program and people have really had fun with doing it and so we wanted to share this little video with you that we will be sharing with employees. [Music] Come here, Janet. I finished my workout

[2:47:05] and according to my calculations, I've earned 57 extra seconds of vacation time this year. Just 937 more workout hours to go and I get a full 2 days off. Wow, I'm so proud of you, Anthony. But it really doesn't have to be that hard to earn WOW points. Simply just doing your health risk assessment, getting your teeth cleaned, uh having your annual flu shot, and walking 60 minutes a week quickly earned you WOW points. In no time, you could earn a day off just by getting 400 W points. It doesn't take that long. So, I know I go to sawwellness.com to do that, but what for what about my colleagues who don't have a computer? Oh, well, we simply we have this handy dandy log form. They can log all of their activities on here and it adds up quite quickly and they can just turn this into the wellness coordinators, Mary and myself. Sawwellness.com smooth. So anyway, our point being to the employees, it doesn't have to be that hard to earn these day days off. We want to encourage them to participate in the program and get credit for the efforts that they're putting forth. We thank you for your time. Any other questions? Can we get a video of the mayor doing that? That's my Yeah, please let me do that. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Thank you. Well, that ought to take us to lunchtime and executive. Let me read the executive executive number E. Executive session under the revision of government code title 5 open government ethics subtitle A open government chapter 551 open meeting subchapter D exceptions to

[2:49:09] requirement that meetings be open under the following sections. section 551072 to deliberate the purchase, exchange, lease or value of real property regarding number A, potential sites for a police department administration building. Number B, real property located in the St. Angelo Regional Airport. And number C, the Avenue P storm water drainage project. It is 123. I'm taking us into executive. Yes, sir. Committee has been called back to order. We will now continue in our agenda with number 16, which is a public hearing and consideration of adopting a resolution authorizing the adoption of the 215 through 20120 capital improvement plan for the city of St. Angelo. Miss Check Whitten, you are on, ma'am. Hello. Um, just to give you a brief of of course what's brought us to today. We talked uh last meeting about uh the CIP process, but what's before you today is adoption of the resolution. And of course, this is um not necessar this is not allocating funds to the projects, but just endorsing that the plan um is compliant and uh is a tool needed for upcoming budget discussions. As promised, we did have um some additional online submissions. Uh as I stated, we're leaving that online forum uh open live uh throughout the fiscal year. And so we did have seven more as of background deadline, but we've had about six more since then. Uh mostly in support of animal shelter improvements. So we're continuing to gather those. That'll be good information as we um have future discussions about um budget adoption and allocation of funds. And so we're keeping a log of that and and and we'll continue to do so. Uh, and with that, what I have is a list of each of the projects, but um, barring any specific questions, I mean, I'm available for that, but I think a better use of our time might be, um, if you all have any questions at this time. Questions? Can Can you put a check green check mark in in front of the first one? I I will do my best. Okay, that's all I

[2:51:14] ask. And with that, that's um the resolution is before you. It includes um all the projects as discussed um last time. And then I think we added a couple projects as a result of the uh public forums. We had folks bring up some uh valid things that we should consider. uh they weren't included originally because of funding, but um we this certainly should be pure and independent of of funding and simply a um a planning tool of of what we know is on the horizon for our big needs. And the restrooms at the parks are are in there. They're in a high priority. Yes, sir. Okay, good. How well would those attend attended? I think there was what three or four at the lake view one. the Lake View, we had five citizens and uh the one here downtown where five uh one individual attended both. So, a total of nine individuals attended. Um not all spoke, but part of that was because of weather, wasn't it? Uh the the one at at Lincoln was um I stay um but we're also seeing that um you know we're a Facebook town and people are online and and people are busy and if they have a five minute way to let us know what they're thinking they're taking advantage of that. So although we had poor attendance um at the public meetings um we had over a hundred submissions online and that's um I mean way more than we've ever experienced in the past. So we'll continue to grow that and and leave that open as a a tool. Elizabeth Morgan, last night at my neighborhood meeting, uh, we took up the issue and and looked at the what the council had worked on in the in the planning session and citizens had a chance to add to that, but generally speaking, we just kind of ranked what the council had had addressed. And by far, there was more support uh for the police administration building than anything. I don't know if that would

[2:53:17] surprise you. Um, Foster Communication Coliseum expansion and remodel was number two. Uh, the third item was restroom facilities in our neighborhood parks. And, uh, the is that the fourth item, fourth most popular item was downtown streetscape master plan. And then, um, kind of I guess the outlier for the fifth most supported project was a new nature center. We kind of went through the same process that that staff put us through with here are here's a myriad of projects. What what do you want to keep in play? And then with that, we ranked the high we took the highest six and there was clearly a distinction between the top five and that sixth uh project. So anyway, it was good to see that there was some consistency. The only the only peculiar one again was the idea of a new nature center which may be more relevant in the future if the lake master planning effort has a higher and better use for that and we did move that out to future years in in in anticipation of that. But yeah, that's what we're seeing again and again in the online submissions is that we're um there's a consensus out there for supporting these projects. But we'll add this to the file as well. And some of those people acted as if they hadn't seen any other opportunity for input. And I know that's hard and I I don't have the answer at all. I think Facebook is probably a good venue or on the city's website. It's all the same. But, you know, wherever people are, maybe we go to them in the future. You know, it's sometimes you can do it at the mall, have a a day at the mall, like a kiosk, and you get all sorts of engagement. So, um, I'm I'm glad we're on Facebook because I, as you say, that's where everybody is. I would agree with you that I'm bragging that we've had 100 submissions online, but more we've ever had in a population of, you know, 90,000 plus, that's not um,

[2:55:20] a lot of market penetration. So, it's good, but we we recognize that our work is not done. Morgan. Yes, sir. Mayor, go ahead. No, I just wanted to first of all, Elizabeth, even on No, Elizabeth, nobody mentioned none of the folks mentioned streets in the conversation. I'm surprised. I mean, our streets are Well, we we kind of prefaced it with the idea that there are other funding sources being discussed. So, these are the these are sort of the unfunded gen competing for general fund projects. I think if we ask them about streets, streets are going to be a high priority. Okay. Water's going to be a high priority, but we we talk about that all the time. Morgan, I my request was go back some a couple of slides and show the capital improvement plan. You went a little too fast. We've got I've got every single project listed. I didn't um go through each of those um specifically, but we certainly can. But I just I just want the folks that'll be watching this on TV to notice what they are. So it just went a little bit too fast for me. So I would imagine it'd be kind of fast for them. So yes, sir. I appreciate that. Any further comments on this? Somebody want to move to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Do we have a motion to approve as presented? Do we have a second? Public input on this. Further council input, Johnny. All in favor, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Put a 60 on it. Thank you, Morgan. Thank you. Number 17, discussion and possible action related to the police department memorial sculpture. A presentation andor update on the proposed design fundraising efforts and current fund balance. B. Authorization to ex execute professional services agreement with Raul R. Ruis for creation, sculpting, and completion of the sculpture. and substantially the attached farm for an amount not to exceed $100,000. Assistant Chief Jeff Fant, you have the floor, sir. All right. I'm going to make this

[2:57:23] short, sweet, and to the point. Um, this is uh kind of an update from what we did um in I think August 20th, 2013. We basically came through council and presented the uh the idea of the uh police memorial sculpture. Um we Chief Bosquez has been working with um Ro Ruiz um to design a a mockup I guess basically of what the sculpture would be and and they had selected him as as the original artist or sculptor that would be able to do this project. Um to date they've been raising money. There was a certain amount of money um that has been carried over from year to year to year to year for this project. the um um police officers association has been gathering money. They've been getting donations and they're going to pull this money to to build this uh this sculpture. So basically to this to date we have just over $55,000 available to start the project. Um from my understanding it will take approximately one year from the date that we agree to start this for him to be ready to install or or to to complete the project from this point uh forward. Um, so basically what we're here to do today is uh we wanted to give you an update that how much money is available. We wanted to go ahead and ask if we could uh um execute the agreement with the an official agreement, the contract with with the artist and and um also to ask for authorization to begin the project and let him go ahead and do some of the the initial stages up to the point that we've got funds available. And then through that time, the chief said he would is is going to continue the fundraising efforts. And obviously, we wouldn't be able to complete install it, put it on the property or whatever. And um until we have those funds available, he believes that he can have that within a year. As we get through the project and we get exposure, uh we believe that, you know, that we'll be able to raise additional funds throughout the year to to maintain the uh to finish the project. And Raul is comfortable with that approach. I believe he is. And are

[2:59:27] you building this so you can move it? It better be. Yes, sir. I would I would I would hope that maybe we might even want to delay the install of instead of having to move it, you know, depending on what happens, you know. Hopefully, we'll we'll hope we hope we'll have a reason to move it. Of course. Mayor, mayor, if I may, I I was in conversation. I'm Charlotte, were you first? Go ahead. As I recall, the uh funding amount that was approved was 25,000, and that was before my time. But I'm gonna have to ask Michael to um refresh my memory as to how that 25,000 has carried over year to year to year to year to year and not been converted back to the general fund. Uh refresh my memory as to how that was established or somebody the monies were restricted and so they were carried over for that restricted purpose. Restricted purpose. And where did the monies come from? the original, pardon me, the 25,000. Are you telling me you know or you don't know? Council allocated $35,000 in 2004. Council allocation in a previous year. Previous year. Okay. U that's just wanted to bring up to date on that. And it is movable. It was 35,000 Charlotte. That's what they're Yes, that's what they're Okay. Further questions? No. My my comment was I did visit with U had lunch with Rusty H. Hearnden and Ro Ree and I think the the crux of all this was we have funding in place to at least get the project off and running because it's going to take three phases. phase one. I think he's got the mockup and he would, you know, uh, move it over to phase two where they get it bronzed or whatever. He does, takes it to the refiner, to the, uh, what do you call those places? The foundry. The foundry. It takes a considerable amount of time to be able to get it to the foundry and then smooth it all up. I'm not an artist. And I think And I think like you're saying that one month, one year

[3:01:29] would be around that. Is it National Police Week of next year that they want to That would be great if we could have help. I think that was the idea that it would take at least that long to get it the finished product right in uh right before that special event that's going to happen here in St. Angelo. Anyway, are you in favor, John? I am very much make I move to approve. Wait, wait, wait. No, I got a deal, too. Okay, done. Um, there could be an issue with issuing a PO for less than the contract amount. So we may need to look at options for how we for how we either construct the contract or um we could also alternatively budget for both the revenue donation and the expense but that would be you know incumbent upon the project manager to monitor that they don't expand beyond the revenue. So can you fix that? Can you fix that? Yes, we'll work with two fans. Okay, Don. Okay, I'm totally confused about $35,000. Michael, what are you talking about? Are you holding part of their monies or what what was that all about? That goes way back to when uh city manager Tom was here. There was an agenda item that came forward to move. I I think the original amount came from uh contribution funds that were unrestricted or not dedicated to a particular purpose. uh and they got uh we were looking for a funding source for uh an amount of money and we identified that and I think council directed that that be dedicated for that purpose. Okay. So he's he only has to raise 65,000 then there's 55 now there's,600 in that account, right? And then I guess he must have additional money, right? The uh the police officers association has an additional 15,000 or 14,000 and some change there. Adding those two together makes a total available to start of just over 55,000. Okay. So, where does the 35,000 is that their

[3:03:32] money or is that city money? It's city money. Okay. But it's restricted for this purpose. It's a part of the 55 is what you're asking. Yeah. The 35 is part of the 55. That's correct. Okay. Okay. That's correct. All right. That's all I That's correct. I'm sorry. I was unclear on that. Yeah. The figures weren't adding up until heard I wish we had $85,000 left. See, that's Yeah. Okay. 90. Anybody else? Any other questions? John, I move to approve this item as presented with Tina making the adjustments that she needs to make. Does that make sense? Okay. Somebody going to second. Second. Second. Any further comment? Public comment. Motion has been made and seconded that we approve this so that they can begin the begin the process. All in favor please say I. I oppose. Nay put a 60 on that one. Please. And we have now moved to number 18. Thank you Jeff. Consideration of public action on matters discussed in executive close session if needed. And there were two of them. Two items. Uh Dan, what was our first one? from the airport. Okay, I'm going to just send the first one was uh potential The first one was potential sites for a police department administration building. Dan, would you give me the correct legal ease on this so that Yes. Let me open up my email message. Just just one moment. I just sent that out. Where's my email on here? I got to find I sent it to my I didn't send it to myself, though. I sent it to you. It will be technology man. I haven't gotten it yet. I'd have probably just written it on my big cheap. The the first motion uh relates to the uh airport property that was discussed in executive session. Is that the one

[3:05:36] we're going to do first? We're doing police station. Okay, we'll do police station first. Discussed in executive session. Uh, a motion to authorize and direct the city manager to address a letter of intent to First Financial Bank NA at St. Angelo for the proposed purchase of certain real property and commercial building located at 301 West Board Avenue and 338 West Tuig Avenue and to negotiate a real estate purchase agreement subject to conditions precedent for purchase of the property for a price not to exceed 1,585 $5,649. I'd be happy to make that motion. I will accept that motion and I'll accept your second. Where's the money coming from? Where's the money coming from, Tina? The money for the initial purchase will be budgeted in a budget amendment that we will bring to council. Uh if the scope of the project expands, it could uh alter how we fund the project. Okay. Do have a motion on the floor and a second that we purchase the first financial bank building for a possible location of the police department, which is one of our top priorities. It it it's a motion only for the letter of intent and authorization to negotiate a contract on condition. And that contract will be brought back to council. Okay. Okay. So motion. All right. I'm not gonna say another word. All uh public comment on this item. Further comment from council. All in favor, please say I. I. Oppose.

[3:07:39] Nay. Put a 60 on that one. Now, let me go back and read the other one. Uh, real property located at St. Angelo Regional Airport. Mr. Dan, please give me one on that. I'm gonna read it for him. Okay. Motion to direct staff to propose and publish an RFP, RFB, for a month-to-month lease of a hanger and certain real property located at 8534 Hangar Road, St. Angelo Regional Airport, Matthysse Field. Does that cover a bid? Yeah. Rid move to approve. Uh Marty got me. You want a second? Okay. I do have an approve motion to approve by by Marty. I do have a second by Charlotte. Do I have any further discussion on this? Public input on this. All in favor of the motion, please say I. I oppose. Nay. Drop a 60 on that one. And the third item, which was Avenue P storm water drainage project. There is no action to be taken at this time. That was merely for discussion and for information. Moving on. Number 19. Consideration of approving various board nominations by council and designated council members. A development cooperation Richard Crisp SMD5 to1 to a first fullyear term February 2017. B airport advisory board Robert Frank SMD5 to an unexpired term October 217. Construction board Roger Julian SMD2 to a second full term February 2017. Casey Daring, SMD3, to a second full term February 2007. Christopher Guo, SMD4, to a second full term February 217. Tanner Coster, mayor to a first full term February 2017. May I have a motion? Second. Second. Do we have a motion? Charlotte, I do have a second from Marty. Any council discussion on this? Any public comment on this? All in favor, please say I. I

[3:09:45] oppose. Nay. Drop a 6o on that one. Announcements and consideration of future agenda items. Start with you, Elizabeth. Nothing right now, Mayor. Thank you. Thank you, ma'am. Don, nothing at this time. Miss Farmer. Yes. Uh, back in October of last year, I believe it was October, we approved a new boat dock out of the lake. And with the boat races coming, I just would like an update or a status. Friday packet is fine. um as to where we are on getting that completed, started and completed. And I've already beat Shane up on the trash from the top of the loop to the west all the way to Southwest Boulevard is needs serious attention. That's it. Johnny? No, sir. Marty, no. How about Rodney? Does he have anything? He's still quiet. Okay. Amazing. I have nothing either. So I will now ask for some help for number 21 which is adjournment. Second. All in favor say I. I. 149. And we are through. Mr. Brian.

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