Council meeting 2025-02-18

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0:01I'll be famous are we're ready okay um

0:06at this at this time we now officially

0:09call our meeting to order we have a

0:10forum and we were open with um a

0:15invocation and a pledge I have a prayer

0:18in me today I dear Father in heaven we

0:22thank you we thank you for this

0:23opportunity to come together and to be

0:26able to address the needs but to address

0:28the business of our city we ask that you

0:30keep us focused that you give us wisdom

0:32knowledge and then most of all an

0:34understanding and Lord we just pray for

0:36those that are struggling in our city

0:38those that are ask us for help in need

0:41and Lord we know that you supply all

0:43things and God we just trust you that

0:45everything is going to work for the good

0:47of us because we love you and we're

0:49living according to your will and we

0:50give you the praise and the glory in

0:52Jesus name amen amen

0:57amen to the flag of un States of America

1:01and to the Republic for it stands one

1:05nation God indivisible liy and justice

1:09for

1:12[Music]

1:13all once again thank you so much all

1:16those that came ladies that the sisters

1:20that came in spite of the Wayne we

1:22appreciate you coming and all of you

1:24that are here uh with that being said we

1:26have uh uh we do recognize every

1:29everybody else that's on it we go to our

1:32comments uh from the audience and we

1:34have one presentation one speaker

1:37Scott will be coming and sharing with us

1:40all of three

1:43minutes you let me get

1:46little here and I'll

1:49start mayor council members and uh

1:53audience it's good to see all of you I

1:55hear and I stand before you uh with a

1:58extreme concern in my heart

2:01um I have a tremendous disappointment

2:03and a few council members again that now

2:06stand in the way of a great opportunity

2:08for the citizens of our community this

2:11incredible Community to be a part

2:14planning that leads to

2:16progress yes asking our

2:19citizens your constituents to come to a

2:23meeting that is designed for their

2:26Council District that has City

2:29department heads and dialogue with each

2:32other about

2:33caring and things that they really would

2:36like to see and their particular

2:39precepts we've had the first one it was

2:41a tremendous success but now it is my

2:46understanding that my pre too and then I

2:49believe there's another prip that is not

2:52having their particular meeting and I

2:55just stand before you and go why is that

2:58because

3:00it slows the progress down of the 123

3:05being able to ask folks about their

3:08ideas to share at least and be

3:11informative to them I feel that that's a

3:14pulse of our PRS our

3:18constituents negatively thats you things

3:22that negatively Hal us anymore and this

3:25could be construed in that way that

3:29there is

3:30a feeling that they that they don't need

3:33to be a part and that's to me it's

3:36disappointing so what I ask is is

3:40that when you have a major issue or when

3:43we have the opportunity to share with

3:46our

3:48constituents that's extremely important

3:51it is my understanding that y'all have

3:52not done that very often in the past and

3:56I think that it's a great Progressive

3:58State because when you plan together you

4:01have the opportunity of saying Teamwork

4:04Makes a dream work so now it is us it is

4:09up to us to be able to see those

4:12particular meetings to come to fruition

4:15and us to have a greater understanding

4:17of those who elect

4:20us what are their needs and how we as

4:25Representatives can fulfill those needs

4:28in those particular precepts and we're

4:30going to see some unique different

4:32perspectives but at the same time it

4:35will allow you to come up with a plan

4:38that we can do together to make this

4:41community a

4:43tremendous

4:45strong and healthy Community for us to

4:48raise our children and future

4:50generations to be a part of thank you

4:53very much mayor I appreciate your the

4:55opportunity for this to talk thank

4:57you uh that was the only one from the um

5:01that we had from the audience but I'd

5:04just like to take a moment uh I don't

5:06know we mentioned it last time the uh

5:08United Methodist AR Army uh that they're

5:11going to be in the city uh there are

5:13some flyers they're both English and

5:15Spanish if you know of an elderly person

5:17or someone that's in need of uh repairs

5:22and they've been through our community

5:24before I know some of you are familiar

5:26with them and if you know if you would

5:27like to pass them to your church but

5:29they will will be working basically in

5:31the city they won't be going outside of

5:33the city limits and so I'll just leave

5:35those here I think I carried them back

5:37home last time I put them back but if

5:39you need any extra just let us know if

5:41you know somebody that might need that

5:43service and they basically do ramps and

5:46those kind of things but they don't get

5:48on the roof I think I mentioned that

5:50last time and so with that being said

5:52does anyone else have a come in uh yes

5:55mayor uh my understanding is is uh it

5:57says in all your uh uh and y'all you're

6:00getting you get an understanding so um I

6:04would like for um I know that I had

6:07asked um Mr angenstein to do a town hall

6:10meeting so from the town hall meeting

6:13the round table uh

6:16evolved so it's not a specific way or a

6:22spe specific

6:24um order am I correct that um council

6:29members have to address the round table

6:32am I correct so in other words if you

6:34would be so kind to explain how you you

6:37are organizing the uh Roundtable so the

6:41people can get an understanding of how

6:43that actually works so uh I don't think

6:46that's been explained I will um as part

6:48of my city manager's update we have and

6:51I'll include that that way it's not in

6:53response thank you so

6:55much okay

6:58um so at this time um if there are no

7:01other comments from the council we'll go

7:03to uh the minutes regular session

7:07February 3rd 2025 special session

7:09February 10 10th 2025 uh approve of

7:14minut minutes you've had them in your

7:17possession I make a motion to approve

7:19the minut I second okay it's been moved

7:21in second all in

7:23favor there's a there's a a question on

7:26the on the minutes um I know one one

7:30area um number for on page

7:34seven where it says as a result the city

7:36was required to retain an outside legal

7:40counsel for this matter uh we were not

7:42required we were given the option to

7:45retain a outside legal

7:50representation I I don't think you uh

7:52yes ma'am okay right here where right

7:55here where it says Mr [name]

7:56explained to that the city had 20 days

7:59to respond to the lawsuit after it was

8:02filed and the Texas the tml would not

8:06provide legal coverage of for breach of

8:09contract lawsuits as a result the city

8:12was required we were not required we

8:15were given the option to retain outside

8:18legal representation required and option

8:21is totally different they didn't require

8:23us um so the courts will um tml does not

8:27require they offer as coverage um

8:30representation for defense um in that

8:33case that they did not um offer any

8:35coverage for us the courts would require

8:38us to

8:39retain Council in order to respond to a

8:42lawsuit so if there is a concern about

8:45the the result uh I feel like it would

8:48probably be a requirement you know if

8:50we're going to if we're going to abide

8:52by the court uh deadlines of a 20-day

8:54response for attorney well it was

8:56suggested because the the the uh um the

9:00legal attorney suggested and and asked

9:03for uh permission through Miss Casper if

9:07she would give us options to receive um

9:11oh you propos you saying that we don't

9:13have to have legal counsel no no no no

9:15I'm saying it was the wording but I'm

9:17saying the wording is it said it was

9:19required that's up to council if y'all

9:21would like um in your motion to accept

9:23these minutes if y'all want to change if

9:25y'all feel like well I mean it was

9:26stated in that's what we were given was

9:28an option not requirement the well I'm

9:31saying it said that I say an attorney

9:33what it was what what it's saying here

9:35the minute say that I explained this

9:38process um and in me explaining that

9:40process I feel like that was pretty

9:43accurate um is that the courts require

9:47retaining of counsel in order for you to

9:50I'm not an attorney and I wouldn't other

9:51if we did not retain counsel we would

9:54not have but option and requir is two

9:56different things requirement I mean I

9:58know that but it's a requirement I mean

10:01we will have to but they give us an

10:03option to not retire or re uh because

10:08when we were well I can't either we're

10:11going to have an attorney that's for the

10:14minutes we were given an option cuz if

10:16you if someone to go back and read it

10:18they would say we were required that

10:19means you say they though who are you

10:21saying they gave us an option tml or no

10:24courts um Daniel mention

10:27it but he doesn't he's not he doesn't

10:30overed no but he he he makes suggestion

10:33right but when it comes to

10:35requirements he suggest we're required I

10:38know but the 20-day requirement is a a

10:40response required by The District Court

10:43when a when a petition for a law suit is

10:45submitted or a citation is issued you

10:47have 20 days to issue your response and

10:51if we fail to issue that response we

10:54would have um been in in bad we would

10:57have fallen back and we would have had a

11:00a problem with the courts if we did not

11:02meet that deadline so I see it as a

11:04requirement that you have to retain

11:06counsel in order to

11:09respond uh to the to the lawsuit it

11:12requires an attorney so at if you if you

11:16but we were given an option though to

11:18retain or not nobody gave us an option

11:20it wasn't I mean it wasn't anybody's

11:22give we had discuss he discussed it but

11:24he could the courts required not not Mr

11:27Daniel or not tml or not even me the

11:30court it's the it's a pro it's a lawsuit

11:33process so but and that being said I

11:36don't believe it changes any of the

11:38intent so if you feel like and and

11:40Council agrees that we should adopt

11:44these minutes as written with the

11:45exception to change requirement

11:49to the city

11:53was any I don't know we got an Atty

11:56right he passed right but this is is the

11:59minute this is the minutes to document

12:01what actually happened all right I'll

12:02make a motion that we accept

12:06the minutes and you can strike that

12:09sentence and

12:11strike

12:13uh as a result the city was required to

12:15retain requirement to an option we got

12:19one so we got an attorney so it don't

12:21matter so you would like to amend your

12:23moot motion to that order yes okay thank

12:26you

12:29okay any any other

12:32discussion I second okay second it's

12:34been moved in second all in favor motion

12:37carries okay that brings us to item

12:39number two a fire department monthly

12:42activity and status report for January

12:452025

12:47Chief

12:50May for month of January we had a total

12:53of 27

12:54calls U sorry we had a total of 37 calls

12:5927 of those being City and 10 of those

13:03in our respon that we covered with

13:06count there was no structure fires in

13:08the city and I hope to maintain that get

13:11in the next couple days hope

13:14everybody does everything

13:17right not suppos to be using and Stu

13:20like that there's a f

13:27breakdown thank you

13:31okay any

13:33comments good I did want to make a okay

13:36a mention here bring the council's

13:39attention as it as the first of the year

13:41rolls around by by requirements U by the

13:45bylaws of the fire department and

13:48requirements of maintaining membership

13:51with the uh volunteer me uh retirement

13:54program um you're required to to in

13:59order to be a volunteer of the fire

14:00department to to maintain a certain

14:03status of calls you can't say you're a

14:05volunteer and never show up right so I

14:07think it's

14:0825% and uh 25% of the calls you should

14:11have made those calls showed up at least

14:1325% of the time

14:16and that's reflected in the drop in

14:19volunteers right now with total

14:21volunteers and paid staff he's at 15

14:23MERS it is okay that's with all the paid

14:27staff and volunteers he total of 15

14:30total people on the fire

14:32department always been that way right

14:35it's not been that bad at the first of

14:39at the first of the a certain percentage

14:42correct but it it usually hasn't

14:44impacted you to where you're falling

14:45down to 15

14:47people so that okay means we're we need

14:50to encourage volunteers we're slim okay

14:53any got any Grand ideas how to attct

14:55people get with me and I'll be more than

14:57happy to purs that uh we tried several

15:00things in the past it's just like I said

15:02it's not just us it's Nationwide for as

15:04volunteerism across the so what what is

15:07the age 18 18 yes ma'am 18 and a

15:13driver's license and a clean record and

15:17um we will put you to work and train you

15:21and if you want to pursue a career in

15:23fire we got grants and stuff that we can

15:25get you where you can get certified as

15:27fire fire fire

15:29that maybe we need to make another

15:30appeal to the

15:32school as probably our strong this year

15:35and I'm hoping toit him up again at the

15:37end of the year

15:39too well do we have any homeschoolers or

15:42are any of those I I don't know what the

15:44population I know one while we had a a

15:47moderate population I need I know

15:49there's a couple here in town I need to

15:51go visit like I said I hit the schools

15:53up at the beginning of the year yeah

15:55probably with the schools would be and

15:57then I'm going try to hit it up like in

15:59the high school I hit the junior high

16:01first of year and to hit the high school

16:03up toward well one thing that the

16:05schools do have they have a safety

16:06director now maybe that's one of the

16:09people you can contact to dialogue with

16:12I don't

16:13know okay thank you so much I appreciate

16:16it thank you Jud at this time let's

16:19bring us to item number three Police

16:22Department Manpower and criminal

16:24incident report for January 2025 and

16:27presentation of annual racial profiling

16:29report good evening mayor council City

16:32administrator the police department

16:34mower criminal activity report for

16:36January of 2025 have a total of 16

16:39officers work

16:422584 Manpower hours responded to 382

16:46calls for service investigated 16

16:49traffic accidents made 57

16:53arrests uh stop

16:56396 uh Motor Vehicles completed 64

17:00reports and responded to 30 alarm call

17:0226 of those were F wow You'll see a

17:05breakdown I'll entertain question you

17:07may have on our criminal incident

17:12report just for

17:15conversation did

17:17the while the DPS officers were visiting

17:20us in Mass a couple of weeks ago did it

17:23impact anything in terms of so it did

17:27create a lot of phone calls from

17:29received a lot of phone calls

17:30questioning what was going on while they

17:32were here most of those phone calls were

17:34directed to the DPS Sergeant uh but we

17:37appreciate them being in town they were

17:39highly visible um and their goal is um

17:43the traffic enforcement and creating an

17:47atmosphere where people abide by the

17:49wall so I know that they worked here for

17:52a week solid uh they were very visible

17:54here in the city and not just in the

17:56city outside the city on the state US

17:59Highways too um but as far as creating

18:02any issues there was no issues but there

18:04there were a lot of questions because it

18:05was so sudden and I really I'm always

18:08amazed If people really don't understand

18:10the difference between the department

18:12that y'all are not one big family they

18:15so some people kind of categorize law

18:17enforcement all together but there are a

18:19lot of people that are able to

18:21differentiate the to so it didn't create

18:23a huge problem for us I think it was a

18:25positive deal

18:27overall okay well we're good that that

18:30work

18:32well I want to

18:34mention and I bring this up to uh going

18:38forward to keep this in mind we've

18:40talked before about um black party

18:44ordinances and the issues that uh these

18:47black parties sometimes because there's

18:50nothing that that allows us to control

18:52them um just over the weekend we had an

18:54incident where some gentleman went into

18:57one of these parties this known

18:59to have a lot of people um they went in

19:02with guns and ski masks and they robbed

19:05everybody at that party made way a

19:08little over

19:10$8,000 this was at a residence or no

19:13this was this was at a location that we

19:15frequently have block parties it's just

19:17really a piece of property uh that

19:19people come together up and and and hang

19:21out on I'm not saying that a city

19:24ordinance would have completely

19:25prevented that the time of morning and

19:29when this incident occurred um if we

19:32have an

19:33ordin um that that party wouldn't have

19:36been open or that incident wouldn't have

19:38been going on so um I would like to work

19:41with each one of y'all we can talk about

19:42an ordinance um come up with a good

19:45ordinance for the city where it's not

19:46too um too restrictive but it's fair to

19:50everybody um so we can get that in place

19:52going forward so in the coming weeks and

19:54months I'll be reaching out to each of

19:56you to uh to discuss orance on on

20:00something relating to block until nobody

20:03was actually

20:04heard so there were some injuries

20:07nothing serious um there were some

20:09weapons

20:10discharged um and like I said the

20:14suspects made away with over

20:15$8,000 in in cash they weren't

20:18apprehended yet sir were they

20:20apprehended they they are not they have

20:23not been apprehended yet uh our

20:25investigators are currently working

20:27active investigation on

20:30well we're glad that nobody got

20:32seriously hurt or

20:34anything cuz what when you do have a

20:37party a lot of the people are not your

20:39locals they are not people from the

20:42community and our this now it's very

20:45hard to there are certain ordinances

20:48that allow us to that we can act on but

20:52there very little when it comes to a

20:54party or a block party for instance a

20:56lot of cities hadan place to uh to

21:00restrict that do you know why there so

21:02much money

21:04there I will comment on that at this

21:07time okay yes we do know why okay but

21:10that's part so somebody else knew that

21:13too yeah okay I'm trying to remember was

21:16it in the city I yes in the city I'm

21:20trying to remember you know we talked

21:21about that at one time had a

21:24discuss is there a per do they have to

21:26have a permit for a block party

21:29we that was one of the things we talked

21:30about was U that ordinance ended up not

21:34passing um but that was one of the

21:36things in that ordinance to to require

21:38if they wanted to have a block party

21:40that they would come to City Hall get a

21:42permit that way we have a contact person

21:44we know who's responsible um and they

21:47have a certain number of of people that

21:49that can attend um we we've seen at

21:52times where we've had um up to 500

21:56people at a single block party um and

21:59that's like the mayor said earlier a lot

22:02of times people from out of town so um

22:06like I said that's something I'll work

22:07on and I will bring y all that we can

22:09all you know agree on and everybody's

22:12okay with and then we can bring back

22:14bring that back before the I've got some

22:16ideas on that okay well that sounds like

22:20a plan to put it on a future agenda when

22:23you get us some information kind of

22:25together what need to be discussed we

22:27can bring it in as an item

22:29if there's no other questions I'll move

22:30on to our

22:32annual report each of you know this is

22:35required by the state each year for us

22:38to present this report um so this is our

22:432024 annual racial profiling report I'll

22:47start out on the top we'll go down by

22:49race

22:51africanamerican total of

22:54898 Asian Pacific Islander total of 80

22:59white total of

23:022216 Hispanic

23:06641 in Native America

23:1013 overall total

23:143,848 below that you'll see a breakdown

23:17of of different U topics and I won't go

23:20through all those a lot of those are

23:22redundant uh if you look at location of

23:24the stop um you have City street 7 60

23:29stops were made on city streets US

23:32Highway

23:34155 State highways

23:382,784 County Road three and private

23:43property are other

23:47146 wow I'm going to move move down to

23:52uh the very bottom on the left hand side

23:55race known prior to stop um that's a

23:59question that comes up

24:01sometimes you'll see under the box yes

24:04we had

24:06728 and under no

24:113,120 um just for informational purposes

24:15there something that we train the

24:16officers to do and make them understand

24:18that it's okay if see know the race

24:21prior to the stop um was so much going

24:24on in the world a lot of people think a

24:26lot of officers think that I can't know

24:27that perfectly legal because there are

24:30certain times and certain situations

24:32where you're going to see that driver

24:35you're going to see that they don't have

24:36their seat belt on you're going to know

24:37their race and it's okay to check that

24:39box um obviously if that number was

24:43reversed that might be an area of

24:45concern but that's that's not a concern

24:48that we have at this time and one other

24:51place I want to call your attention to

24:52is use of force resulting in bodily

24:54injury um there's a number one there

24:57that was the suspect um suspect was

25:00found in possession of 3 kilos of

25:02methampetamine and when the officers

25:04attempted to place him under arrest he

25:06fled and fought the officer uh during

25:09that scuffle they did have to take him

25:11to the ground he started complaining of

25:14sorness and so they took him to the

25:16emergency room to have him checked out

25:18he was medically cleared he was okay he

25:20was not harmed but because he made that

25:22claim that's why you see that number

25:24there and for future purposes that

25:27number could also include officers that

25:29were injured on those traffic stops okay

25:33that's a good any question you may

25:36have there a seem like it's a better

25:40explained breakdown than it's been in

25:42the past it's it's I like break I like

25:46to break down it's a lot easier to

25:48follow it was kind of lumped up last

25:49time but just you can see where you are

25:51thank you so much anybody else have any

25:53comments I want I just want I want to

25:56visit with you all next week um um or

25:58this week sometime so we can kind of

26:00look at like the city streets kind of

26:02see look at that and give more of

26:05explanation of you know where the actual

26:09stops or things like that are being the

26:11nature of them and what where they're

26:13being done one thing we try to do is we

26:15encourage the officers to move

26:17throughout the town not spend too much

26:19time in one location um and that uh a

26:23lot of times like you see the uh the

26:25state highway number is so high because

26:28the loop is the state highway so there's

26:30a lot of time they spend on that's what

26:32it is the state highway yes I'll be glad

26:34to meet with

26:35you thank you okay any other comment I'm

26:40sorry thank you bu thank you so much

26:46appreciate okay uh that bring us to item

26:50number four update from the city

26:52administrat on City construction

26:54projects new business projects and

26:56alamore shelter mayor and counsel um

27:00every once in a while like to bring

27:02everybody into the loop I do speak with

27:04everybody off and on individually and

27:07but in order to speak on these projects

27:10um where everybody gets the same

27:12information I think it's good to talk

27:14about some of the the things going on in

27:15the city um and I've I've U highlighted

27:21a few of them here so in following up

27:23with our South Fifth and Bell Street

27:25project that we approved um at our last

27:28meeting

27:29to to uh redo the uh storm drains and

27:32curbing on those materials are ordered

27:35in construction uh will begin as soon as

27:37every all the materials are in um South

27:417th Street from

27:43buoy um up to

27:47golad from the Methodist Church down to

27:49uh the flly shop there all those water

27:52lines have been completed great um those

27:54have all been installed what they're

27:56wanting to do as they're moving forward

27:58once they get a good block of some good

28:00weather construction weather um they're

28:04want they're going to do multiple

28:05streets on the construction re

28:08restabilization and and Paving of those

28:10streets so right now they're working

28:12through and kind of getting ahead of

28:14themselves on some waterline projects um

28:17South 7th is complete uh South 10th

28:20Street is it has a couple

28:24last uh projects on Valves and some

28:27hydrant connect and stuff but South 10th

28:29Street is complete they're working on

28:32gry Street currently they're beginning

28:34the process of pulling pulling all the

28:36water lines installing valves and

28:38getting South Grey Street uh completed

28:41then they'll um move across Houston and

28:45do North Grace that'll be the next uh

28:48water line continu continuation of

28:52construction

28:53um we have a a new round of cdbg funding

28:59that has been opened up and we have

29:01until uh April I believe it's April 1st

29:05to um put in our pre-application it's a

29:09basically a saying that we're interested

29:11in applying so it's a preapp they do a

29:13first round of scoring and once you're

29:16scored and allowed to apply then you can

29:18go through the process of actually

29:19applying for the cdbg project our last

29:22cdbg project was uh

29:25MLK the the P the portion of MLK that we

29:28did the first round before we followed

29:30up with our sib

29:32construction um so that was that was our

29:35last round of cdbg funding so it can do

29:37anything from streets to water lines

29:40good to sewer sewer projects um in the

29:43past we've done a couple cdbg projects

29:45for sewer line

29:47replacement um we're under a current

29:49sanitary sewer overflow initiative

29:52plan um and within that plan we

29:57committed to doing

29:58several uh sewer line

30:01projects um to address II so to to

30:05address infiltration and inflow whenever

30:08it rains our Wastewater plants are

30:12filled up with storm water so it means a

30:14lot of the water that we're treating is

30:16not sewer it's it's a it's storm it's

30:20storm water and we're having more and

30:23more problems that you know in my I know

30:26that the the one that we see the most

30:28the biggest problems that we see the

30:29most are the streets we see Street

30:31problems that really need a lot of

30:33attention but waste water needs a

30:36continued a a continued uh you know

30:39focus on um we have several more

30:42projects where we know we have some old

30:45clay tile pipes and some of them are big

30:48Interceptor lines that we know that just

30:50needs to be replaced um we're taking in

30:52lots and lots of water through those uh

30:55lots of old manholes we have one that

30:57we're fixing the replace on South gry

30:59Street um right where we're doing some

31:02of the street construction uh the

31:04manhole is basically collapsing on us so

31:07we're going to do that you know out of

31:09our own Pockets replacing those manholes

31:11but there's just all those manholes now

31:13we have an SSO guy that are inspecting

31:16all those manholes they're entering them

31:18into our GIS system taking pictures of

31:20them recording them so we're getting

31:23lots and lots of good data of all of our

31:25priorities out in the field that need to

31:27be addressed

31:28but anytime we get opportunities for

31:31funding um those are some of the things

31:33that we can apply for however next month

31:36we'll bring it back to you I'll get some

31:38input from Council on some of the items

31:40that y'all want me to apply for and it's

31:43in a pre-application if we do get scored

31:46we will have a public hearing and go

31:48through the full process but um sewer

31:52lines water lines streets sidewalk

31:55projects those are all things that we

31:57can apply

31:59for

32:02East are you done uh not yet I can I can

32:06stop take a question um yeah I uh with

32:09with CBG project and I think you and I

32:13had some discussion this week about uh

32:16MLK so I was asking about the Grant on

32:19MLK what um why is why I mean do we

32:24apply for partial grants or do we apply

32:27for full Grant

32:28and I remember you said something to the

32:30fact that you apply for the maximum so

32:34but MLK runs from the loop 304 all the

32:38way down to what golad West golad West

32:41yes West golad so did we get a grant to

32:45do the do MLK meaning from the loop to

32:49West Goliad

32:51or got to explain that cuz I'm I'm

32:54getting questions about that because so

32:56like I broke it down in the email email

32:58um in my response was we applied for the

33:01maximum however um last year's maximum

33:04was 500,000 they increase it to 750

33:08500,000 when it goes into Street

33:10construction is pretty limited you MLK

33:14is a little over a mile I believe if

33:16last time we checked it was right at 7

33:19or 8,000 ft so it's about a mile and a

33:21half of Street

33:24500,000 um only got us that so we have

33:27applied for the maximum but there was no

33:29remaining grant funds left and

33:32so uh we had a qualif uh the sib the

33:36state infrastructure bank that was a was

33:38a bond it was a loan that we

33:40borrowed that money was MLK was

33:44qualified from the loop up to Bell

33:46Street the smaller portion that used to

33:49be called Commerce

33:50Street from it Bell to West

33:54golad um in the state's system system

33:58does not show did not show the rest of M

34:00as a qualified Street and so that's why

34:03I sent that map that it shows that

34:05there's only from Bell to the loop that

34:07is uh qualified for sib funding so we

34:10used bond funds uh borrowed money to

34:13finish out MLK up to the amount that the

34:17project allowed the money to go into

34:19okay if we're to to to do the rest of M

34:22which it it needs it as well um we're

34:24going to have to use other sources sib

34:26will not fund money or if y'all want

34:29like I said we do have 750,000 that we

34:31can apply for we can do the other the

34:34the remainder of MLK out of the next

34:37round of cdbg funding to complete the

34:40full length of uh

34:43MLK um but maximum but it's not that we

34:46applied for part of the street we

34:47applied for the maximum amount of the

34:49ground and it only it only cover mean

34:52it's going to pay for the entire street

34:53right and so uh we went shopping with a

34:57known dollar amount and it only LA and

35:00it only addressed a portion of MLK out

35:03of the grant funds so we used borrowed

35:05funds to complete MLK up to uh Bell

35:08Street and so if we want to do the rest

35:11of it it'll have to be out of a new

35:13source of funding okay so what about

35:17cedar cedar how how we going to address

35:20Cedar it we have to be new sources of

35:22funding uh we did we did preliminary

35:24engineering we applied for it out of our

35:27sib

35:28project um but once again the SIV

35:30project we only borrowed $6

35:32million and so Council

35:35decided they picked and prioritized

35:38which

35:39streets are the worst or the most

35:42traveled and that's how the you know

35:44that's why MLK was selected over Cedar

35:48and so um you know there were several of

35:51them that were not able to be done

35:53within that within the SIV Project

35:55funding so if we want to do the rest of

35:57this the streets that we did the

35:58preliminary engineering on we would have

36:00to go and borrow more through the SIV

36:03program um or another source of funding

36:07but at Clark

36:09Sano there were uh Cedar there were

36:12several streets that were

36:14not that were left off the project

36:16because we ran out of of funding okay uh

36:20stat so um

36:23Sycamore we did not apply Sycamore was

36:26not applied for in the sib

36:28project it is a qualified street though

36:30so those are all streets we can apply

36:32for those all have to be paid paid back

36:34though they're not grants okay we have

36:36to borrow money against our tax rate you

36:39know just to add one of thing the

36:41council had the option of picking the

36:44street it wasn't that [name] got to pick

36:45the street everybody was giv the list

36:48and they went through and decided which

36:50streets they actually wanted to what

36:52percentage it wasn't just a it was based

36:54on I get I don't know the strongest

36:57Council what but it was based on

36:59distributed on what the council

37:00themselves we tried to distribute across

37:02the city to where each Precinct had some

37:04project percentage of the

37:06pro um and then we have uh so we we've

37:11just got approved for a categor

37:13categorical environmental exclusion

37:15through Texas water development board

37:18and essentially there's another whole

37:20process that we got approved to exclude

37:23having to go through we did not we do

37:24not have to go through that process of

37:26an environment a full environmental

37:29design and review for East Houston and

37:31East goad when we're doing the water

37:33lines because we're using current water

37:36lines we're replacing existing Disturbed

37:39grounds we're not putting in new water

37:41lines or disturbing new grounds um and

37:45so after a lengthy process that's the

37:49the main reason that well that's the

37:51only reason that we've been waiting up

37:53until now so this week we got approval

37:55for um exclusion of the environmental

37:58process because they verified that we're

38:00only using existing uh Disturbed ground

38:05you know as our work area um so we're

38:08going we published that in the newspaper

38:10we're required to publish that in the

38:11newspaper that TW Texas water

38:13development board um excluded us from

38:15that requirement and they're finalizing

38:19engineering and we'll probably U we hope

38:21to be going to bid in the next 3 to four

38:23months probably sooner that's the worst

38:25case scenario but um Houston and East

38:28goad for new water lines um will be

38:30going out to bid in the next few months

38:32probably early late late spring early

38:35summer um after that that's one we we

38:39got to get the water line done for the

38:41state the state I met with the state um

38:44and I have that here but so I'll go

38:45ahead and touch on that the state we met

38:47with them a couple weeks ago they're

38:49moving up uh their plans are to move up

38:51South four Street um and get that done

38:54they're doing current construction

38:55projects on 287 and and on um uh south

38:5919 so they're going to continue that

39:03inside the loop and there will either

39:05continue up to Bell Street or up to the

39:08square depending on the amount of change

39:10order and funding they're going to go

39:13ahead and do that since we replaced that

39:14water line uh down south four Street

39:17that's all been replaced with all brand

39:19new water lines that we did a couple

39:21years

39:22ago then the rest of them um is going

39:25into their next fund that they're

39:26putting in their in their next funding

39:28year which will be roughly 2026 and 2027

39:32that'll give us all of 2025 to do the

39:34waterline

39:36construction and hopefully get both of

39:38those highways done to allow that to be

39:43rebuilt um we met today with Engineers

39:46Wastewater Plant and water wells that's

39:48moving forward we did some we're they're

39:50trying to finish the preliminary

39:51engineering so they're uh they're doing

39:53site uh reviews of our Wastewater plants

39:57um as well as a lot of our Pro

39:59problematic areas of sewer line uh sewer

40:02Mains areas that we know that we're

40:04taking in a lot of water where the lines

40:06are collapsing or separating and we're

40:09bringing in storm water we're going to

40:11prioritize a lot of their Wastewater

40:12funding for those areas so we're we're

40:15trying to identify that first with some

40:17uh some smoke testing and uh we'll begin

40:20that process pretty quick

40:23um I also wanted to touch on

40:27I actually spoke with a council member

40:29the other day that was not had not been

40:31out on our South Loop and so I wanted to

40:35just bring this up to

40:37council um this is the state of

40:40construction as of today so it's a

40:42gloomy it's a gloomy cloudy day but um

40:45we have a really big building being

40:47built in the industrial park they um

40:50they expect this building to be

40:51completed in um kind of the May time

40:54frame and we'll be starting job fairs in

40:58in hiring process um in the spring um

41:03we're looking forward to that we did um

41:05as it relates to this we are also moving

41:07forward with the ftz application we've

41:09gotten letter of concurrences from all

41:11of our local uh taxing entities and

41:14submitted that and uh so we look forward

41:17to when Nancy Goes to Washington in a

41:20couple weeks for us to have

41:24a a good result on that um um we also

41:29this is the provalis building we've done

41:31some we've done a lot of landscaping and

41:34cleaning up of the building um there's

41:36still a few things that we want to touch

41:38on and kind of clean up a little bit

41:40more um the inside of the building well

41:44this is the outside again we have a

41:45generator the generator has been

41:46installed and it's connected to the

41:48building we're we're live on

41:50that

41:52um the inside of the building they're

41:54filling this up they've they've gotten

41:56big coolers to put right over here by

41:59the for people's lunches and whatnot so

42:01we have a

42:03cafeteria um that set up they begin

42:05setting all the rooms up they have all

42:07their data pulled uh all their

42:09workstations new new uh desks and uh

42:14computer

42:16monitors here's another room right now

42:20right now we're set up for the goal is

42:23for 60 people um for phase one phase one

42:27construction has been completed uh we

42:29finished that um that we agree to and

42:32now um I got an email from them today

42:35saying that they're moving forward to

42:37into the we they're wanting to meet to

42:39uh next week to schedule job fairs and

42:43and to put together a program to begin

42:45uh doing some heavy advertising and

42:48trying to bring in some Crews they

42:50they've got several contracts that are

42:51designated for the Crockett

42:53location um and so they're ready to move

42:55forward they're excited and and we're

42:57really really

43:00excited

43:03um any questions on the Texas capital

43:07provalis um the last couple of things

43:11that I wanted to talk about um I wanted

43:13to bring notice to council

43:17today um in a more formal way but then I

43:20want y'all to begin thinking and

43:22preparing for discussions soon um when

43:25it as it relates to our um swimming pool

43:30we did get notice from the Texas uh

43:32Parks and Wildlife the grant that we had

43:34submitted for a swimming pool to to to

43:38uh combine with our match was denied um

43:42well it wasn't deny we right we did not

43:45rank high enough uh out of 60 I believe

43:47it was 68 applications we came in at 32

43:50and they only had enough funding for 22

43:54so we fell out of the funding bracket so

43:57we have options that we need to discuss

43:59so I need to know what from Council how

44:01to move forward with the swimming pool

44:05project

44:07con con bring it in bring the project in

44:10make it smaller project borrow more

44:13money or do another project or you know

44:16spend the money elsewhere council's

44:18going to have to just make some

44:19decisions on and I'm going to try to

44:20present y all as many options valid

44:23options that we can uh move forward with

44:26um

44:28the uh animal shelter I also wanted to

44:30touch on that um we we finalized we

44:34we're we're trying to finalize in the

44:35next day or two the job description for

44:38the shelter attendant or shelter

44:40technician um so we can bring somebody

44:42in and begin getting that person trained

44:45and helping us in the initial

44:48implementation of our animal shelter and

44:49getting that um running of we have we've

44:54been meeting with our with a

44:56veterinarian that is is willing to

44:57assist us um she has um provided us more

45:01insight and and we've been able to work

45:03together to come to better agreement on

45:05what our our relationship or partnership

45:07with her will be um she has affirmed

45:11that she's not wanting to come in and

45:13compete with other veterinarians she's

45:14not wanting to uh set up and necessarily

45:17use our Clinic as a private practice uh

45:20to where we're you know we we want to be

45:22able to support all of our local

45:25veterinarians without spending tax

45:27dollars um inappropriately or

45:30competitively to help somebody with a

45:32competitive Advantage she's very very

45:34helpful um and is is wanting to assist

45:37us on this project and so I'll be able

45:39to bring Council some some options as it

45:43comes to our partnership agreement with

45:45her um but we do want to post that

45:47position within the next uh few days uh

45:49for a for a shelter attendant to help us

45:52get this ball moving forward because

45:54right now we don't really have somebody

45:55in that position so we're trying to take

45:57care of it on our own and it's been hard

46:00with all the other projects going on

46:02would it be would it be available would

46:04she be available to come I mean to meet

46:07with Council to yes that'll be part of

46:09it yes' okay perfect for sure um the

46:12last two items uh Community Round Table

46:15uh we've been doing uh we started the

46:16community round table and so um the goal

46:19from Council that that we've been

46:22requested by Council this

46:24is um this is a push

46:28from the city that we've been wanting to

46:30support it's it's difficult sometimes in

46:33a council meeting for us to have candid

46:35discussions and to answer when people

46:39speak for three minutes we're not

46:41allowed to respond Community round table

46:43gives an open Forum to where we do not

46:45have um a quorum of council there we

46:48have a council member representing his

46:51his or her Precinct and then we have all

46:53the city leaders that may or may not

46:54have the questions but can get the

46:56questions answered right and so that's

46:58that was our goal and it to be spurred

47:00and and supported by that council member

47:02so a lot of it's going to be at that

47:04council members uh at that Council

47:07member's

47:08um speed or you know at that Council

47:11member's Direction you know discretion

47:13as discretion as hey this is when I'm

47:16available this is what I can or can't do

47:18hey I would like to have it at this

47:19church or I would like to have it or I

47:21talked to a friend of mine that has a

47:23venue we're going to do it over here so

47:25we want it to be led and supported by

47:28the host Precinct uh council member and

47:32so and that being said our goal was

47:35between now and through May to do all

47:38five precincts and use that as a big as

47:41a big

47:43tool approaching our our budget

47:45workshops and go getting into our budget

47:47workshops in May and June we have a lot

47:50of information that we' received from

47:51our Precinct um up until then so we did

47:55not want to delay at least having one

47:58every month we wanted to have one at

48:00least every month that way we did not

48:01push it off and finish up some in June

48:04July and so um at this time there there

48:07was some scheduling conflicts and so

48:11that's why we moved on to Precinct 4

48:12currently we do hope that um each

48:16council member will be able to work with

48:18us and provide dates and um and let us

48:22know when they when they can uh be

48:25available thank you and so we'll use

48:27that moving forward oh I just said in

48:30this I think it's when it was broken

48:33down like that it's going to be so much

48:35more effective Town meetings are

48:37wonderful but basically it's a

48:40collaboration of it's just a group of

48:42people but you're really not getting

48:44what they want to hear specifically to

48:47the area you know you go to a lot of

48:49meetings and you hear a lot but you

48:51really want to know what are you going

48:52to do for me what have you done for me

48:54lately like that but uh and so I I think

48:57the first one kind of gave us a frame of

49:00what it could be what people really

49:01cared about even to the point of what

49:05can we do spe specifically for our to

49:08get our streets fixed Maybe by another

49:10source and it was some sources

49:12introduced that I I wasn't aware of and

49:15I'm sure they weren't so the one thing

49:17about it and we do appreciate uh council

49:21person woman we said woman person we all

49:24good but when she brought up up a

49:27community I mean a a town meeting it it

49:30sounded really good at the time but

49:33getting everybody a good representation

49:36of the town is a it's really hard CU

49:40you're going to get pretty much the same

49:42cross section of the people that kind of

49:44come to the council so I think it's just

49:47so important that somebody actually can

49:50stand up and hear what's happening in

49:52their area with the person that's like I

49:56said the council does have the power to

49:57make the recommendation even when we

49:59talked about the streets just in they

50:02decide which ones they kind of want and

50:06why they want and which ones are so they

50:08know more about the areas so I think

50:10that's it's a real strong thing and and

50:13like I said I did see it we saw saw it

50:16the first one went very well and as we

50:18grow and learn and we'll be able to put

50:21them on a stronger Tim table so that

50:23it's not conflicting with anything you

50:26know as always going to be a conflict

50:28but to the best of our abilities we'll

50:31be able to hear what every Precinct

50:34heads and what their priorities are and

50:37I think that's awesome especially as you

50:39prepare to go into the budget no shock

50:42no surprise everybody pretty much know

50:45where we are thank you thank you well I

50:48just want to thank [name] for make making

50:50it come to fruition because that's

50:53pretty much you know what I was looking

50:55at in and he made it um happen so thank

51:00for that thank

51:02you was that that's it all right thank

51:06we thank you for the update uh it's

51:07always good to have a update so we can

51:09worry about what we need to do

51:11next so we know that things are being

51:14done okay at this time it bring us to

51:16item five discussion regard regarding

51:19Solid Waste

51:21agreement mayor and

51:23Council so we have a um

51:27what I what I hope to result out of the

51:29out of this um agenda item is for

51:32Council

51:33to um we've given you some time to go

51:36through our uh franchise agreement with

51:39Pineywoods

51:40sanitation um and at the end of this I

51:43would like some direction from Council

51:45on whether um this is an agreement that

51:48y'all want to review and and pinpoint

51:51and highlight some areas of focus that

51:53we need to adjust in our contract to in

51:56order to move forward into a renewal

51:58process or if y'all feel like it's time

52:00to go out and go go out for bid and so I

52:04need direction from Council um before I

52:08start the bidding process I need Council

52:10to tell me so um or if they feel like

52:13we're getting a good service that might

52:16need

52:17some some little tweaks or some

52:19massaging on that we

52:21can uh move forward with our current

52:24provider um then obviously

52:27um there's some benefits in that as well

52:29and so I wanted to touch on just just a

52:31few of those um we also have

52:33representatives from Piney Woods um

52:37sanitation here that can answer

52:38questions talk to us and maybe they have

52:41some more things that they want to add

52:44um so just to recap quickly in in 2016

52:50when I came when I came on we were

52:53dealing with we had just recently

52:55underwent a into contract with Waste

52:58Connections they were bought out I

52:59believe from

53:01Progressive and then so we worked with

53:04Waste

53:05Connections without bringing in without

53:08talking too much about that what we

53:10experienced during that process this was

53:13a big Corporation a big company uh

53:17probably worldwide we know that it's

53:19throughout the US whenever we asked for

53:22certain accommodations or certain

53:24specific things they were un able to

53:27accommodate um we asked in order to go

53:30into a renewal process with them we

53:33really want smaller trucks you are

53:35tearing up our streets our streets are

53:37getting destroyed by these massive

53:39trucks that come in with one driver from

53:42out of town they're they bring the truck

53:45in service the that entire area and then

53:49leave town with that same

53:51truck um we need smaller trucks with

53:54smaller loads and what I really liked

53:57about the rear loading process is not

54:00only that it provides more jobs but it

54:02also provides a truck that only goes

54:05down that road once it's not required to

54:08go down three-point turned around and

54:10come back down the same street twice in

54:13one day that's twice the load on our

54:16street they're hugging the curbs they're

54:18riding right up against our the edges of

54:20our road where our road is the most

54:22vulnerable and softer it's that's the

54:25weakest point of the road is up against

54:26that curb and if you drive around town

54:29that you see

54:30curbs like the waves of the

54:32sea that did not help that was one of

54:35the biggest contributors to that process

54:37they're stopping in the same locations

54:39every time picking up that same can

54:41within the same probably two

54:44feet that truck stopped every time that

54:47came there at the same place so you have

54:48big ruts digging in a request like that

54:51even at a request we know that it might

54:53cost us more but let's it wasn't

54:57that wasn't feasible so that's why we

54:58went out for bid and we got a better

55:01price with our current

55:03provider um what we currently have now

55:07we went into an agreement um our

55:09Economic Development also entered into

55:11an agreement where Pineywoods was

55:14willing to agree to bring jobs local

55:17instead of being serviced out of

55:18Huntington they have a big office in

55:20Huntington MH um instead of servicing it

55:24out of Huntington they wanted to create

55:25a local Hub here and service other

55:27communities from Crockett so they agreed

55:29to bringing in 12 jobs if we would build

55:32them a an office building so it was

55:34almost it was the our our agreement with

55:37them was we would provide the office

55:39building but yet it's still on our

55:41property it's our you know if if they

55:43leave it's still our our facility to

55:45continue using for other service and

55:47other

55:48contracts um currently they're at um the

55:52last time I spoke to them they were at

55:5322 employees instead of 12 um of local

55:56employees that they service quite a few

55:58other contracts with um if we do go out

56:03for bid we do stand a risk

56:06of losing what we have primarily because

56:11if we go out for bid this is going to go

56:13through their corporate office um the

56:15bid requests are going to go to their

56:16corporate office where they use an

56:18entire different pricing

56:20Matrix and uh we may end up in a

56:23situation where we're not able to Main

56:26maintain our current

56:27contract

56:29um I'm not aware they we had two other

56:32bids when we went out for bid last time

56:34and both of those companies were

56:37purchased by live o so they're all the

56:39same company currently so if we do go

56:42out for bid there is a there's a couple

56:45options that

56:46I would like to eliminate one is that I

56:49want to go out for bid for a company

56:51that is willing to address the specific

56:54needs that we have and and not give us a

56:56one cut a size fits all and then

56:59secondly that it's not a new standup

57:01company that looks at a contract and say

57:03well you know hey I can throw a company

57:05together I can begin a garbage pickup

57:09service and it be we be their new

57:12training grounds that we and so those

57:15are my concerns moving forward with a

57:17couple with with with bidding this out

57:20is that we we're able to maintain a a

57:22solid reputable um Service uh for for

57:25garbage

57:27the the economic development contract

57:30that's that expires this year so they're

57:32they're not under that Economic

57:34Development performance agreement um

57:36they have me fulfilled it and superseded

57:39it they've also brought in a mechanic

57:42shop um and they've moved a lot of their

57:45light

57:45mechanics work here locally instead of

57:49keeping that in Huntington as well so

57:50they're leasing another building from us

57:53um on top of their current contract to

57:55provide mechanicing uh servicing work

57:58there um that being said we have until

58:02May

58:05um we have May the 5th is our deadline

58:09to provide them notice that we do not

58:12wish to renew that we're going out for

58:14bid um so if we're going to start the

58:16bidding process we need to start that

58:18pretty quick so we can have an answer

58:20before May the 5th um that way they know

58:25whether they need a Wrap Up up their

58:27services and another company is going to

58:29require quite a bit of time to develop

58:32to develop their services to buy the

58:34vehicles and and the carts and and move

58:36everything in so that being said you've

58:40had the contract um that we currently

58:43have with Pineywoods are there items

58:45that you would like to go over um when

58:48we have Representatives here uh with

58:50Pineywoods we also have their local site

58:53manager here um Mr uh Terry um and Mr

58:59Sunny hubard he's the municipal manager

59:02with Piney Woods and live o and so this

59:06is a t time to talk to them about if you

59:08do have concerns or things that we want

59:10to develop into a new into our renewal

59:14process this would be the time that we

59:16could do that um so you say by May um

59:20when I was reading the contract it said

59:21something about we need to issue them

59:24notice within 18 days yeah so may is the

59:28180 day de deadline deadline cuz the

59:30contract is

59:31November U November the 1st and so 180

59:35days prior to that would be May 5th okay

59:37concluding okay

59:39oober

59:41may things that you brought

59:44okay first off Tim Terry is our manager

59:47here now y'all know JD JD had a

59:50replacement and he's out for a month or

59:52two till his knee heels up over the

59:56complete operations of

59:58it we have 2016 and 22 people we're like

1:00:02everybody else like the fire department

1:00:04getting people to come in is difficult

1:00:07sometimes so it kind of goes up and down

1:00:09uh what we have done as a company is

1:00:13we've spent over

1:00:15$100,000 on these carts that were

1:00:18brought into the city we spent over A4

1:00:21million dollars on containers that we

1:00:24brought into the city we have over a

1:00:27million dollars worth of trucks here and

1:00:30we spent

1:00:31$380,000 on the transfer station so you

1:00:35see this is not a small project and I

1:00:38would rather y'all I mean the city can

1:00:41do what it wants to but you don't need

1:00:43to go to bed yours cheap now is what

1:00:45you're ever going to get the people that

1:00:47would actually come in and take our

1:00:49contract would buy have to buy what I

1:00:51told you we spent on new materials and

1:00:55y'all seen the pricing has done on

1:00:57everything so uh you know to get as

1:01:00cheap RO as what you have right now I

1:01:02don't think it's going to be possible

1:01:04simply because we're using equipment

1:01:07appreciating we're not having to buy a

1:01:09lot of new equipment and the uh in the

1:01:12contract it says we can give you up to

1:01:1410 30 yard containers for clean up well

1:01:18through talk and conversation we'll go

1:01:21to the transport station really to put

1:01:23four five or six containers somewhere to

1:01:26dump in you're going to have a mess

1:01:27you're going to have to have Logistics

1:01:29to where will handle that many

1:01:31containers when this transfer station is

1:01:33perfect just have them go H you don't

1:01:36have to have any containers nothing gets

1:01:38out nothing blows it all stays in

1:01:40container in the G

1:01:43station the containers that he's talking

1:01:45about uh what we've primarily been using

1:01:48those on are um either code enforcement

1:01:51or cleanup projects of abandoned homes

1:01:53that are collapsed and falling down

1:01:56different uh different projects like

1:01:58that um they'll bring in several

1:02:00containers we we use our bulldozer and

1:02:02skid steers and clean that property up

1:02:05but on our clean up the city clean up so

1:02:07the people clean up house they just come

1:02:09to the transport station there's no real

1:02:12reason to set these containers in where

1:02:14you have to man them because y'all know

1:02:16as well as I do if you have a place to

1:02:18put trash and nobody's watching you know

1:02:20what's going to happen we know where it

1:02:22goes transfer station alleviates that

1:02:24situation one other thing that we do uh

1:02:28forever house that we pick up here y'all

1:02:31get about $1.50 a month on it for every

1:02:35house that's a franchise Fe forever

1:02:38container that we have through

1:02:40commercial areas you get a uh a dollar

1:02:45for every $100 that they spend I mean I

1:02:49mean every $10 y'all get 10% on our

1:02:52commercial so if we do $20,000 a month

1:02:55month y'all get 10% of that on all of

1:02:58our rolloff stuff of the big

1:03:00construction containers whenever it's

1:03:03set out depending on the size 20 30 or

1:03:0640 you'll get anywhere between 40 and

1:03:09$75 per load franchise Fe so see y'all

1:03:13make a lot of money off of us

1:03:15also and the fact that we pay taxes on

1:03:18all of our properties you know every can

1:03:20sits out every container that sits out

1:03:22every truck that runs we pay personal

1:03:24property tax on so you know it this

1:03:27thing works both directions we are

1:03:30wanting to keep this business we don't

1:03:32want to get rid of it we had 15 more

1:03:35years left on a contract for our

1:03:36transfer station what the transfer

1:03:39station allows us to do as a business is

1:03:43we can take our trucks and one of the

1:03:46situations we ran into when we made the

1:03:48B and believe me I like these guys

1:03:51they're garbage people U they're just as

1:03:54good as the weage were but I can tell a

1:03:56lot of people y'all never met Mr Weber

1:03:59and you never met the guy that owns the

1:04:01company now you just see us but

1:04:06um we we want to keep this y'all are

1:04:09very important to us Tim and his MCH do

1:04:12as much as they can for the community we

1:04:14try to be involved every way that we

1:04:16possibly can and uh although that a

1:04:19bigger company owns us we still are a

1:04:22small company and we're here and we also

1:04:25picked up the county we have the county

1:04:27contract so we run everything out of

1:04:30here and you know it's just there's no

1:04:34real reason to bid it out because we're

1:04:35getting you everything that you need

1:04:37we're paying you a lot of money and

1:04:39paying a lot of taxes and all the people

1:04:41that

1:04:45work okay what I oh I'm sorry what what

1:04:49can we do about people trying to get a

1:04:52hold of y'all and and you can't get a

1:04:54hold of you we are going to put in a

1:04:57phone one number that is nothing except

1:05:00for the city of Crockett and when we get

1:05:03it in place I'll give you all the

1:05:05information y' y'all divide up y'all can

1:05:07put it out however you want to but there

1:05:09will be one person that answers this pH

1:05:11if she has to BU to the power room and

1:05:13go eat lunch somebody else will take it

1:05:15but it will be specifically for the C

1:05:17okay what can we put in there if that

1:05:20don't happen there's re we do have that

1:05:24um we currently have well we currently

1:05:27have it and they can't do it no I'm

1:05:28saying we have if if their contract

1:05:31requires certain things we have

1:05:33Provisions for everything from misc

1:05:35collections um even to the uh item that

1:05:38you had mentioned a few days ago of of

1:05:40collection prior to 6:00 in the morning

1:05:424:30 in the morning um that's been

1:05:44addressed but like I say if that

1:05:47continues to happen it's a that there's

1:05:50a fine in here that we can assess them

1:05:53okay you know so there there are some

1:05:56ways for to us to ensure that that does

1:05:58happen well we need to put that in there

1:06:00it's yes and I just I don't think we

1:06:02have invoked it well you know one thing

1:06:04that I think backing up from the very

1:06:06beginning that we really have to

1:06:08consider when we talked about economic

1:06:10growth for our community we talked about

1:06:12bringing in a a company this is a

1:06:15company that came into our community

1:06:17they met our guidelines they they

1:06:19provided they took not their people but

1:06:22our people so they B jobs through our

1:06:25City they bought close connection and

1:06:28they have done a lot of things y'all

1:06:30know where my real spill I was so

1:06:32impressed that they would take your junk

1:06:34off your porch and it's a if it's a

1:06:36senior person with a couch they would

1:06:38pick it up and put it in a dumpster for

1:06:40you those are personalized services that

1:06:43they made us people and they here and I

1:06:46like you said we have called and they

1:06:49used to have a designated person there

1:06:50that you could call and so I know that's

1:06:53something that we can work out but

1:06:54economic

1:06:56what has been brought to the city that's

1:06:58what we're doing we're trying to find

1:07:00company they have a station here that

1:07:03they build and they are preserving our

1:07:05roads so we didn't have them before they

1:07:08had trenches I walk in the morning

1:07:10you'll slide off the curb where they

1:07:11were digging those holes in the Just

1:07:14Between the road uh just from walking

1:07:16you couldn't walk on the edge because of

1:07:18that and so the the and then when you go

1:07:21out 5:30 Walker you see people you greet

1:07:25them and you know who they are and

1:07:27you're comfortable that they're in your

1:07:28yard and walking and doing and can they

1:07:31help and they pick up stuff I know

1:07:33people leave stuff that's not supposed

1:07:35to be on the side of the street those

1:07:38guys will just pick it up if it's not in

1:07:40that that that we're supposed to be in

1:07:44the can and they do a good job so what

1:07:46I'm saying is if it's something that we

1:07:49can work out we're getting personal

1:07:51service and personal service wasn't what

1:07:54we were getting in the in the beginning

1:07:56so we have a company not only have they

1:07:59moved here but they build an additional

1:08:02part and that's a permanent part pretty

1:08:04much and then the building that the

1:08:07crcket work with and that's what we're

1:08:09doing with their bit men and working

1:08:10together as a group that's nothing more

1:08:13but they quet still owns the building

1:08:16after they leave so it's been a

1:08:18partnership and it seemed like to start

1:08:21from scratch when we have a building and

1:08:24that's what we are we've been trying to

1:08:25get here that we ought to be able to

1:08:27work out of The Kinks because things are

1:08:30not going to be cheap if you go back to

1:08:31bid nothing you can't even by the same

1:08:33thing that the same price last week I I

1:08:36know anything that you buy now is

1:08:39additional within the last year so if we

1:08:42can work out the fine details and like I

1:08:45said they're there for us with the roll

1:08:47offs they they've given us comple a lot

1:08:49of complimentary things and most of all

1:08:51they have hired our people people that

1:08:54live in this this community people that

1:08:56spend money in this community so there

1:08:58might be some things that we do need to

1:09:00work out the details but I am confident

1:09:04in knowing how things change that we

1:09:06probably won't get the of the deal that

1:09:09we have now I guess you want to use that

1:09:11terminology but we probably won't get

1:09:13all of the accommodations that we have

1:09:15at this point cuz we know where you live

1:09:17we'll call

1:09:19him we hunt him down no so is the so

1:09:22basically overall is the only issue that

1:09:24we're having having with um with your

1:09:27company is just uh getting in touch with

1:09:30with them or so to to clarify that

1:09:33before Sunny says something um the city

1:09:37administrates this contract the city the

1:09:41the city hall or the water office when

1:09:44you call and you want an additional

1:09:46pickup or you want to order a new can or

1:09:49a new service or hey I I didn't get my

1:09:51trash picked up today you call City Hall

1:09:54and we will answer you

1:09:55so we're the um primary point of contact

1:09:58okay and we know how to get a hold of

1:10:00pony Woods the problem and like Mr [name]

1:10:02was saying that there the one service

1:10:05that we do not manage or administrate is

1:10:08the rolloff service we do not collect

1:10:10funds for roll off and pass it on to

1:10:12them we do that with the residential and

1:10:14the and the Commercial Services because

1:10:16we're already in a billing mode every

1:10:18business and every residence gets a

1:10:20water bill from us so that's an easy way

1:10:22for us to administrate that process the

1:10:24roll office has one they're oneoff here

1:10:27projects and so they take care of the

1:10:30orders of the rolloffs and they build

1:10:33that person directly for rolloff

1:10:35services so we're left out of that Loop

1:10:37of communication and that's one of the

1:10:39biggest concerns of communication is

1:10:43ordering rolloffs hey I've been trying

1:10:45to get it picked up for a few days right

1:10:48now the those the the the phone system

1:10:50when you call that number it will roll

1:10:52over to potentially anywhere within

1:10:54their system all their phones ring at

1:10:57the same time so anywhere somebody from

1:10:58ssby could pick it up or you know bman

1:11:01or Tyler could pick it up and so there's

1:11:03just lots of

1:11:05little things that fall through the

1:11:06cracks on that communication um secondly

1:11:10the county does not have the city so the

1:11:14county they're direct customers of pony

1:11:17Woods if you live outside the city

1:11:18limits you get build directly by by um

1:11:21Pineywoods that has also been a

1:11:23communication problem and I think

1:11:24there's a a lot of overlap of complaints

1:11:27when people say I've been calling for 2

1:11:30days well did you call the city no I

1:11:32don't even live in the city well that's

1:11:33a county you're you're a direct customer

1:11:36call us if you're in the city and we'll

1:11:38fix we'll we'll make sure that

1:11:39Pineywoods shows up and if not we have

1:11:41ways to make sure that they follow

1:11:44through with it by by our contract so I

1:11:46think that's a big one is having a

1:11:49dedicated phone Ser phone

1:11:51line to someone here local and if they

1:11:54don't pick up where we can drive out

1:11:55there and and look at them in their face

1:11:58and ask them to help us on certain

1:12:00things you know having a dedicated phone

1:12:02line is going to be a big

1:12:03one the problem

1:12:06also same they can

1:12:08get that's a big that's a big problem

1:12:11for us that's a big problem for us too

1:12:13it's part of our business and and how's

1:12:16the deal on the is it

1:12:19still they have the right to go up 3%

1:12:21every year CPI so but all the contracts

1:12:26that when when we went out for bid um

1:12:28five years ago all the contracts

1:12:31um had a requirement for a CPI or

1:12:35automatic cap and so this

1:12:38one this one it was 5% and we negotiated

1:12:42them down

1:12:44to 3% was it three or three and a half

1:12:473% 3% so so 3% is the cap right even if

1:12:52the CPI is higher

1:12:57but they should come with okay deals

1:13:02went up this has went up that's why we

1:13:04got to do it if nothing's gone nothing's

1:13:07changed you know like the one year they

1:13:10didn't go up on us and the next year

1:13:12they went up on a

1:13:146% I didn't like

1:13:17that at

1:13:19all I mean you you skipped us a year

1:13:22when we first started out okay whatever

1:13:25everything's good everything we're not

1:13:26going to go up on y'all then the next

1:13:28year you went up on a 6% instead of

1:13:33three I I don't think you should be able

1:13:36to do

1:13:38that if you skip a year that's just it I

1:13:42mean

1:13:44so I that that's been a bird for a while

1:13:48on

1:13:49me okay so well you know details that

1:13:54what you can if we can either decide

1:13:56that we would do a

1:13:58yearly deal or if we skip it we won't do

1:14:02it that year we just pick back up where

1:14:04we are and those are things that can be

1:14:06worked out in the

1:14:08contract yeah I think yeah I and I

1:14:11understand what you were saying

1:14:13yeah so what I would propose at this

1:14:16time while we're going over it that we

1:14:18might just pick a pick a day go through

1:14:22the contract step by step and just

1:14:25revisit anything that we have because it

1:14:28is a business it's a business that's in

1:14:30our city we want to retain them but we

1:14:33want to retain them without without any

1:14:35conflict and so because we can go

1:14:38through the contract step by step and

1:14:41just have a workshop on it and that way

1:14:44we can iron now because it might be

1:14:45something that someone else might

1:14:47haven't had a chance but you'll be able

1:14:49to do it but like I said the heart of

1:14:51this business to me is that they're

1:14:53taking care of our people

1:14:55and that it is an economic development

1:14:58because the money they make we're going

1:14:59to get it back through in our and it's

1:15:02the dollars are being spent here rather

1:15:04than people that are coming out our

1:15:06streets are being better preserved

1:15:08because we have lighter trucks uh the

1:15:11equipment that they can work on is being

1:15:13worked on because they have the facility

1:15:15here and the supplies and things are

1:15:17basically here so when you look at that

1:15:20you're looking at who benefits we just

1:15:23need to work out to fine details

1:15:26and like I said I'm very comfortable

1:15:27with the personal service we just need

1:15:30the detail service taken care of so I

1:15:33would propose or recommend that we pick

1:15:36a date to revisit to sit down and after

1:15:38we've had a look and have our

1:15:40recommendations together and go them

1:15:43individually I don't know if that's

1:15:45something I I would prefer to do that

1:15:47cuz I did I did read through the

1:15:49contract and I did have some some

1:15:51questions in general but uh it's not I

1:15:54mean something that

1:15:55like say you need to fine tune and there

1:15:57nothing major or anything like that I

1:16:00just think it's something that we can

1:16:01work

1:16:02toward there nothing yeah there nothing

1:16:05yeah so we're in agreement that things

1:16:06we need to work out we can work out

1:16:08things that's what you want to hear we

1:16:10work out to find details and I don't and

1:16:12we have enough in that timeline we don't

1:16:14want to go out to bids because we do

1:16:16know it's going to be a change and then

1:16:18we're going to be there going to be some

1:16:20little hidden things that we won't see

1:16:22until after we start doing the service

1:16:25but we do know what you are where you

1:16:27are we do know the service we do know

1:16:29your personnel and we're appreciative of

1:16:32it so what we'll do is based on make a

1:16:35recommendation and then we'll set a

1:16:37designated time that works for everybody

1:16:40but what I will do in the meantime is

1:16:41I'll make arrangements for the telephone

1:16:43because okay they've got a guy in the

1:16:46corporate office that buys telephones

1:16:47for the whole company so we it'll take a

1:16:50week to get it and we'll have a phone

1:16:52number local number and uh

1:16:56y

1:16:58it Mr I think Tim Tim is U gave me his

1:17:03number before and I was able to reach

1:17:05him

1:17:06so that's what I want to tell y yes sir

1:17:11YN got personal work so call it don't

1:17:16matter yes sir he he was available we

1:17:18use it quite

1:17:19often well that's great that we're

1:17:22personalized say we even know we're

1:17:23going to knock on your no

1:17:25got my number also that's what they do

1:17:27at you around here but we appreciate it

1:17:29so with that being said we are we do

1:17:32appreciate the service that has gone

1:17:34forth and the impact that has had on our

1:17:37city good well that's great and so at

1:17:41this

1:17:43war yeah I would just ask Council that

1:17:46um y'all give us dire y'all in a motion

1:17:49give us direction to move forward with

1:17:51negotiations of the contract and set a

1:17:54set a date to to return for a uh

1:17:58discussion uh Slash Workshop or

1:18:01something okay to go over it just set it

1:18:04up so that we don't run into any kind of

1:18:06problems with the amount show up and

1:18:10that's the main thing is um that it be

1:18:12more of a workshop scenario and that we

1:18:15also I need to know that we're moving

1:18:18forward in this direction yeah to make

1:18:20sure that I don't have to miss any

1:18:22timelines on the bidding process if

1:18:23we're going in this direction so if

1:18:25y'all tell us that I think we can move

1:18:27forward with this one but move forward

1:18:29with negotiations of a contract contract

1:18:32okay so we're going to focus on this we

1:18:33won't be looking at the bid Parts as

1:18:35we're looking at um f tuning negotiating

1:18:39the contract that we have I don't think

1:18:42if there's going to be a whole lot of

1:18:43difference in this this is actually a

1:18:44pretty decent contract okay especially

1:18:47the 3% because this is we've got one

1:18:51other contract that limits it to about

1:18:53that much everything CPI and over the

1:18:56last three three years four years CPI

1:18:58has been at 9 6 and A2 6.8 4.8 so you

1:19:04see it's always been above that 3 you

1:19:07know it in your business watching prices

1:19:09of oil go up and down that's why I shop

1:19:13around

1:19:15so okay so with that being said uh can

1:19:18we get a

1:19:21motion you say you want to consider a

1:19:23workshop oh okay just yes ma'am request

1:19:26uh if you if you can just request that

1:19:29we begin negotiations for a con for an

1:19:32agreement renewal and set a

1:19:35workshop

1:19:36um that we're not going out for bid okay

1:19:40I make a motion that that uh Council

1:19:43consider not going out for me um and

1:19:47consider uh negotiating negotiation and

1:19:52um pre-plan for Workshop

1:19:55um to um revise the contract with

1:20:00exclusive franchise agreement um with

1:20:03the um solid waste disposal in solid

1:20:06waste um live o is that who o yes okay

1:20:12it's a motion on the table we had a

1:20:14second a second okay we've been moved in

1:20:17second all in favor motion carry thank

1:20:20you so

1:20:22much okay we'll give you a we'll set a

1:20:25date that's agreeable to you have any

1:20:27more questions if you have some

1:20:29questions give me a call yes sir I will

1:20:32I appreciate anything I can Tim yes JD

1:20:35he gets back just don't make fun of

1:20:40you thank you much appreciate it we'll

1:20:44see you guys later mayor I see you again

1:20:47thank you have a blessing reason that I

1:20:49need to stay because I live an hour and

1:20:50a half from here all right we appreciate

1:20:55you appreciate it thank you okay all

1:20:57right move us to item two consider an

1:20:59approve of resolution of the city

1:21:01council of the city of Crockett Texas

1:21:02authorizing the submission of the Grant

1:21:04[segment omitted]

1:21:07reader acquisition finalization to the

1:21:10office of the governor of Criminal

1:21:12Justice division they said criminal

1:21:14justice here come the pope

1:21:16P mayor

1:21:19council this is our the Final Phase of

1:21:22our project with LIC readers for the

1:21:25city uh we've been working on this a

1:21:28little over three years

1:21:29now uh we received the first one and

1:21:32then we just recently received the

1:21:34funding for the next three uh with four

1:21:38more we'll be able to cover the entire

1:21:40city every road coming into the city

1:21:42[segment omitted]

1:21:45ones that we're getting are uh quick

1:21:47deploy they're backed up with solar

1:21:50power um so they're a lot lot more uh

1:21:55energy efficient and easier to put out

1:21:57cost effective so uh this is a grant the

1:22:02last round of Grant is closed we

1:22:04finalized all those they reopen we just

1:22:06submitted this grant um right at 20

1:22:11actually I think $20,000 to be exact for

1:22:14four additional and it's 100% Grant so

1:22:17the city won we don't have to match it

1:22:20and that's what this resolution is for

1:22:23[segment omitted]

1:22:25or block these are Vigilant Solutions

1:22:29through

1:22:30Motorola they have a little larger um

1:22:33following so to speak um

1:22:38so the numbers seem to be a lot higher

1:22:40with these all across the United States

1:22:43[segment omitted]

1:22:46reason why their prices have come down a

1:22:49little bit uh because they now have some

1:22:51competition uh but we went with this

1:22:53company because they use commercial data

1:22:56also so it opens up the possibility of a

1:22:59lot more so do we have two now or So

1:23:03currently working we have one we have

1:23:05three on the way so that' be four total

1:23:08cuz there's two on that team one for

1:23:09love lady and

1:23:11then one of them one of them's not ours

1:23:14one of not one a one of a

1:23:17text one of them is a text Dot okay uh

1:23:21all right so the one in love lady is not

1:23:22working right we've got one and we have

1:23:25three on the way that we just closed out

1:23:28which one is ours the one with the St

1:23:31the one in love lady ours is the bigger

1:23:34one closer to love lady just on

1:23:36the side of the love lady City okay yeah

1:23:40it's not working what's that it's not

1:23:42working it is as it today the it wasn't

1:23:45working today the display doesn't always

1:23:48work okay when the battery starts

1:23:49getting low it'll cut that off it goes

1:23:52into a okay

1:23:56and you're getting good good results too

1:23:58good results from them yeah okay uh I

1:24:03don't know the exact number I should

1:24:05have had that

1:24:06tonight the stolen vehicles so if you

1:24:09don't know about license plers what they

1:24:14do computer and

1:24:17ifle for the stolen human trafficking

1:24:21child sex trafficking terrorist

1:24:23organizations Nar related or even if

1:24:26that vehicle tagged to have a wanted

1:24:28person inside it automatically alerts

1:24:30the officers so they can go set up and

1:24:32weit on that vehicle so um it also

1:24:36allows us to at any particular time look

1:24:38at our traffic count to see how many

1:24:40cars have come in towards

1:24:42Crocket use that like during events and

1:24:45stuff like that if that one set up on

1:24:47the south side that does it read coming

1:24:51okay it reads in the opposite direction

1:24:53okay it catches North and okay good okay

1:24:56and that's what the new ones will do too

1:24:58they'll catch both both Direction I

1:25:01think it's a great

1:25:03tool I mean you used to didn't know what

1:25:05direction of travel if you drive on the

1:25:07road Bey beyond the

1:25:11actual you want to

1:25:15testify AC country been huge help on

1:25:19Investigation that's you can trace

1:25:21people it's amazing to do with the SE we

1:25:24get that will free up uh the mobile and

1:25:27we'll be able to move it around the city

1:25:29in different areas where we're having

1:25:31issues or maybe higher theft something

1:25:34like that we can move it around that out

1:25:37have what you were ask about earlier

1:25:40only uh on the resolution um I think I

1:25:43just kind of read over it and everything

1:25:45just kind of get an understanding of it

1:25:47um but there's a um section that I would

1:25:50like to add something to your your um

1:25:53resolution so we can't add to these

1:25:55resolutions these are uh these are

1:25:59dictated by Homeland Security uh that's

1:26:01so that's where this come from the

1:26:03specific requirements um I'm not sure

1:26:06what you would like to add I mean I can

1:26:08ask them uh but these These are provided

1:26:10to us uh from the governor's office as

1:26:13to what has to be on this resolution

1:26:15okay only thing I think uh what I was

1:26:17asking to add possibly is where it says

1:26:19the authorized official is given the

1:26:21power to apply for accept reject

1:26:25alter or terminate the Grant on behalf

1:26:29of the applicant agency and I was

1:26:32looking at up on approval of

1:26:35counsel so is that is that sufficient or

1:26:38not I'm no that might be something that

1:26:40would be added but uh essentially

1:26:44um this Grant and all the documentation

1:26:48the filings um I'm responsible for since

1:26:51I'm filing it through the city but as an

1:26:53employ of the city I have to have the

1:26:55approval of the council to submit this

1:26:57grant uh so um basically what that's

1:27:01saying is that at any point um I can say

1:27:05no we're not going to get this grant

1:27:06it's going to cost us more money or this

1:27:09isn't going to work um or when they

1:27:11notify me uh Chief [name] your Grant has

1:27:14been approved at the local level do you

1:27:16wish to continue that gives me the

1:27:18authority to say yes we want to continue

1:27:21um and basically what this resolution is

1:27:24for for me to bring the information

1:27:25before y'all so y'all know exactly what

1:27:28it's going to cost and what we're doing

1:27:30so that there's no surprise and flavor

1:27:33so that's that's why that's wording okay

1:27:36cuz when I was looking at it it said

1:27:37alter and when it said alter that kind

1:27:40of C stuck out to me CU I was at the

1:27:41point to where if you make any changes

1:27:43and we're not aware of the changes that

1:27:46you made I mean um good point for

1:27:49instance the last round of grants that

1:27:52we just got reapplied for four um we

1:27:54didn't get awarded the full amount okay

1:27:57uh so I had to work and my assistant

1:28:00chief and the captain he back there too

1:28:02we had to work with the company and

1:28:04alter that proposal we had to alter that

1:28:06quote because the original one said four

1:28:09we didn't have enough money so we had to

1:28:11work with them and get them to Crunch

1:28:13the numbers and we were able to get

1:28:14three instead of four with the amount

1:28:17the state awarded it so I think when it

1:28:18talks about alter that's what it's

1:28:20talking about if they come back and say

1:28:23hey this price went up you know

1:28:26$1,000 then I have to work with them and

1:28:29say no we can't do that we need to back

1:28:31it down so with that being said you

1:28:33still bring it back to council and

1:28:35advise us of the changes that you made

1:28:38uh typically I would not um if it's

1:28:40something that um we're not if we didn't

1:28:44receive the grant funds for it uh my

1:28:47response to them would be either we need

1:28:50to go down in quantity or we need to

1:28:53make these work through your company

1:28:55because this is what's been approved for

1:28:58the grant this is what my city council

1:29:00has approved if you can't do that then

1:29:02we we'll go somewhere else maybe a

1:29:05little um input on that also if if

1:29:08there's a requirement for additional

1:29:09funds like he can't commit the city to

1:29:12to spending money that has not been

1:29:13approved so if if they come back and say

1:29:17hey you only you know if you're going to

1:29:18have to buy the fourth one if you really

1:29:20want it he couldn't make that kind of a

1:29:22decision he's not going to be able to

1:29:24commit the city to any funds that's not

1:29:26approved and right now he's telling you

1:29:28it's going to be now it's going to be

1:29:29zero so as long as he stays under

1:29:32zero exactly we won't have to come back

1:29:35the last one they come back I think we

1:29:36applied for

1:29:3846,000 and they come back and said hey

1:29:40you know we can only give you

1:29:4322750 um so we had had to take some off

1:29:47we had to take some equipment off we had

1:29:49to make those numbers work so it fell on

1:29:52us because that that Mone from the state

1:29:54it's not from the city so we had to make

1:29:57it work where it fell that number okay

1:29:59yeah I I was just looking over and

1:30:01reading it because there's a lot of

1:30:03times there's a play on words so I was

1:30:05want to make sure that I was good with

1:30:07it okay you have any other comments

1:30:11questions okay can we get a

1:30:17motion I make a motion that we accept

1:30:19the uh

1:30:21resolution um number r

1:30:252D2 to allow um Chief [name] to apply a

1:30:31submit for the Grant application uh for

1:30:34[segment omitted]

1:30:37motion on the floor second it's been

1:30:40moved in second all in favor motion

1:30:44carries okay that brings us to item

1:30:46number

1:30:47seven consider and approve a proposal

1:30:50for the city of Crockett and the

1:30:52Crockett Area Chamber Of mer to host the

1:30:54freedom of a quet Independence Day

1:30:57fireworks show and cover any funding

1:31:01shortfall not met by donations if

1:31:04necessary mayor and Council

1:31:07um due to this being a little bit of a

1:31:10moving Target and we're shooting for a

1:31:12project in July um I wanted to bring it

1:31:15to you so we could begin working hard on

1:31:19it's kind of the egg or the chicken

1:31:21process because we can't go out and

1:31:22bring in a lot of fun funding and

1:31:24donations for a project that Council has

1:31:26not approved or is not going to back up

1:31:28and and say that we're good on having so

1:31:32that being said we feel we've done this

1:31:34two years now this will be our third

1:31:36year uh the first year we had a budget

1:31:38of 25,000 and we are we were able to

1:31:41raise about

1:31:4327,000 we had a little bit of funding

1:31:45left over going into last year U we had

1:31:49some aspirations to make it just a

1:31:50little bit bigger and better than the

1:31:52previous year um and we fell just

1:31:55slightly short so we were about $3,000

1:31:58$3,000 under um in raising the necessary

1:32:02donations so we wanted to bring that

1:32:04number back down to 25,000 the first

1:32:07year was 25 then we went increased it to

1:32:0930,000 so we wanted to bring the budget

1:32:11down to about 25,000 we do have a lot of

1:32:15uh committed people that have have said

1:32:18that their business will donate the

1:32:19funds to we have an idea of what we're

1:32:21going to get but I cannot guarantee you

1:32:23that every one of those checks will cash

1:32:25and or you know everybody's going to be

1:32:27um able to support it um but I do feel

1:32:30pretty confident um as recently as

1:32:33possible that 25,000 is probably a safe

1:32:37um doable budget um a lot of the other

1:32:39things that we do outside of that to

1:32:41make that project happen does not cost

1:32:43us any additional funds um a lot of this

1:32:46money also goes back

1:32:48into um advertising for those businesses

1:32:51the businesses that uh don't towards

1:32:54this project we're able to put some

1:32:56banners up and do some newspaper ads and

1:32:58radio ads of all the businesses that

1:33:01support um our fire our freedom over

1:33:04Crockett fireworks show this uh this

1:33:07past year I also had or this current

1:33:09year I had someone um someone else that

1:33:11is that actually is

1:33:13local um they're out of

1:33:16Elkart and well fairly local and they

1:33:20said that they're interested in

1:33:21submitting a bid as well

1:33:24um I did ask them to submit a bid based

1:33:27on 25,000 so essentially you can ask for

1:33:30anything and the cost what I've learned

1:33:32to find come to find out a 3-in mortar

1:33:36shell to a 4 in 5 in 6 in it's not just

1:33:39an small incremental change it's three

1:33:43to four times as so a 5 in is

1:33:46considerably more than a 4 in not just a

1:33:48little bit more so if you so if you go

1:33:51out and ask them say hey put me a

1:33:53proposal together

1:33:55they may put a bunch of two you know 3

1:33:56in or 4 in and less of the other so we

1:34:00asked them to maximize our budget the

1:34:03proposal for 25 based on a $25,000 bid

1:34:06so y'all can kind of see an Apples to

1:34:07Apples comparison of kind of how big of

1:34:10a show this would be last year we went

1:34:12up to 8 in 8 Ines were visible from

1:34:16further off like you could see them

1:34:17across town on the other side of the

1:34:19loop you can see them but you the bulk

1:34:22of the people that were there to enjoy

1:34:23them

1:34:24couldn't really tell the difference

1:34:25because they shoot straight up in the

1:34:26air and they go if it's here or here you

1:34:30don't see the difference um and so we

1:34:33were able to get bigger bang for buck by

1:34:35dropping it down to 6 in um that's what

1:34:38we did the first year and we had really

1:34:39a really good showing um and lots of you

1:34:43know good feedback on it so this is what

1:34:47both of these quotes are based off of

1:34:48are um a bulk of 6in shells 5 in shells

1:34:524 in 3 in down to 2 and 1/2 in shells

1:34:56um the other quote the second page is

1:34:59the quote from the the pr Technic group

1:35:02that did has done it the pro previous

1:35:04two years both of these groups I

1:35:07feel um good about obviously one of them

1:35:10we have history with pyro shows of Texas

1:35:15um the other one is a local group like I

1:35:18say so I asked them for some references

1:35:20I called some other cities that they've

1:35:22done it for school districts they do

1:35:23great graduation ceremonies and U or you

1:35:26know graduation uh firework shows as

1:35:29well as for some other cities and so I

1:35:31got good feedback

1:35:33from those cities um in

1:35:37school so

1:35:40um the the other difference is the first

1:35:44one Wilson family pyot Technics they're

1:35:47available to shoot on the day of July

1:35:494th that Friday the other group

1:35:54is only available their Fridays are

1:35:56fully booked they do about 20 to 30

1:35:58shows a you know it every day so they

1:36:02didn't have any extra Crews to put

1:36:04together a Friday show that's the number

1:36:07one available you know date that or date

1:36:10that people request so they didn't have

1:36:11any availabilities then so they can do

1:36:14that Saturday if we wanted to move it to

1:36:16a

1:36:17Saturday

1:36:19um and so that's kind of another

1:36:24compar or you know difference between

1:36:25the two contracts one uh the first one

1:36:29will Wilson family uh pyot teist can do

1:36:33it on the Friday or a Saturday the other

1:36:36group can only do it on a

1:36:38Saturday that being said I I truthfully

1:36:42feel good about both of these entities

1:36:45and that's why I'm bring you know I have

1:36:46to I want y'all's input on it um um

1:36:50doing it with a company that we've done

1:36:52it with before there's a reasonable

1:36:54amount of you know comfort in that that

1:36:58they're not g to let us down or they

1:36:59don't have all the necessary equipment

1:37:01or they show up and they have some

1:37:03technical difficulties and they don't

1:37:04fire them all and there's things that

1:37:07happen all the time in firework shows so

1:37:08it's always good to have somebody that

1:37:10is really good at it so that being said

1:37:12I know pyro shows Wilson company been in

1:37:14business uh for quite a few years

1:37:16they've actually they began they've shot

1:37:19for several of these bigger groups the

1:37:21Pyro shows um there's a gulf coast show

1:37:23uh pirate uh pyot Technics so they've

1:37:26fired off for them and but have recently

1:37:30just in the last three or four years

1:37:31open up their own

1:37:33company and so it would be better to do

1:37:36it on the forth me I like that um and

1:37:43but that being said that would be my

1:37:45biggest concern is going with a new

1:37:46provider and and cuz getting back on the

1:37:50list with the old one is also going to

1:37:53be tough it was hard to get in their

1:37:54queue as a as a them as being our vendor

1:38:00so moving to a new company I wanted to

1:38:02be sure it was a good company to present

1:38:04to y'all and I feel like this is a good

1:38:06company to present to them and I spoke

1:38:07to the other cities as well you you

1:38:09spoke to the cities they've done them

1:38:10for yes sir and it was okay yes

1:38:13sir because they're local and they're

1:38:17and they so if you look at the breakdown

1:38:19of the shells

1:38:21um the

1:38:24the breakdown of the shells is

1:38:261,00 this did not get transferred over

1:38:29but that the shell quantity and like I

1:38:31say this is not any different than

1:38:33previous years but the Pyro

1:38:36shows um for that amount of money in

1:38:39that in their shell breakdown they

1:38:41provided a few more six Ines than the

1:38:43other company but overall they've only

1:38:45they're providing about six

1:38:47600 uh shells and and the other compan

1:38:50is providing 1,00 shells for that

1:38:54same uh value and I think a lot of it is

1:38:56because of they're not transporting

1:38:59these from this other company I believe

1:39:01transports them from Austin so they have

1:39:03to get Tech Stop permitting

1:39:05and lots of cost in bringing that and

1:39:07they stay overnight at the hotel and we

1:39:10and then they pay for a police officer

1:39:11to sit out and watch it this other group

1:39:13being local can bring them right in and

1:39:16set up that day without having to pay

1:39:17overnight security well I mean that

1:39:21hesitation kind of didn't do I mean we

1:39:24had a lot of bang but that little

1:39:25hesitation didn't nobody really get the

1:39:27full

1:39:30value my only we thought we thought the

1:39:32party was over my my only question about

1:39:35the whole thing is the fact that they

1:39:38could do it Friday or Saturday and we

1:39:40know that July the 4th is the big

1:39:43fireworks yeah and and and they they've

1:39:46got both dates uh open that that's my

1:39:50only concern about it well it

1:39:54they they've got both dates open but

1:39:56they have more

1:39:57people they're doing more shows than

1:40:00just ours yeah Wilson mhm yeah oh yeah

1:40:03they got they got several people that go

1:40:06and do this show what you you and I talk

1:40:09about same with Wilson and elart so so

1:40:11and and Wilson um a big reason they're

1:40:14they're trying to expand and do more of

1:40:17these shows so like I say they're fairly

1:40:19new they're not uh they haven't been out

1:40:22for

1:40:24so what

1:40:25are ma'am what are some of their

1:40:27references uh the city of Maha I called

1:40:31um I call the city of Maha and actually

1:40:32I spoke to the fire chief who was

1:40:35involved with them and if anybody's not

1:40:37going to care for the fireworks group is

1:40:40going to be the fire chief and he said

1:40:42they were very professional set up

1:40:44everything went off you know any of our

1:40:47concerns they addressed them um I also

1:40:49spoke to the uh city of uh or the school

1:40:52district um they they did the elart

1:40:55graduation ceremony for El the Elkart

1:41:00ISD and then spoke to a couple of the

1:41:02other big pyro shows that they uh

1:41:04contract

1:41:05for

1:41:07um that sounds like that the people had

1:41:10own that Culver company up there too

1:41:13possibly I thought so but they're not

1:41:15they're not he said

1:41:18possibly long distance okay or you know

1:41:21somewhere back down the road but um

1:41:23they're not directly related to

1:41:26Wilson but that's what I would have

1:41:27assumed as

1:41:29well so those are only two references

1:41:31you you spoke with on their behalf or no

1:41:34four of them the other two I can't

1:41:36remember one was GF G Gulf Coast out of

1:41:39Houston bont area um pyot Technics that

1:41:43they contract for and the other one was

1:41:45North Texas

1:41:46pyros out of Dallas area that they

1:41:50contract with and so all those good you

1:41:54know

1:41:55uh they they come highly recommended

1:41:58from other people who have used them you

1:42:06know that's fine with me okay what do

1:42:10can we get a recommendation or I'll make

1:42:13a motion we go with Wilson out of I

1:42:17second okay it's been moved in second

1:42:19all in favor Wilson we will okay with

1:42:23that being

1:42:26said uh that brings us

1:42:30to our final item is that it yes

1:42:35ma'am and it's in an executive session

1:42:38at this

1:42:40time we

1:42:42will

1:42:46drone y'all may stay take your shoes off

1:42:50S as

1:42:53got to tell

1:42:54[Music]

1:42:59you that's oh

1:43:03cool okay Mr

1:43:06St let me ask

1:43:36well they just a business card yeah I

1:43:38got the numbers on the back

1:43:40okay oh Mr Tim yeah he's real he's

1:43:46real I got his little his number yeah

1:44:11always

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2:11:13tired okay back in session

2:11:21from the exe uh deliberation regarding

2:11:24Economic Development negotiation with a

2:11:25business

2:11:27Prospect what your

2:11:36pleasure let's see all

2:11:39right I'll make a motion we

2:11:43uh have enter into a uh beginning

2:11:47application beginning an application for

2:11:51uh um tax abatement for the New Prospect

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2:12:06motion thank

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2:12:16you have a good night

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