* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:02] ALL THE MEETING TO ORDER AT 7:24 PM OF THE REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING AND STATE THAT THE NOTICE WAS DULY POSTED. AND WE DO HAVE A QUORUM OF CITY COUNCIL ITEM. NUMBER TWO IS A PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. UH, WE'LL HAVE OUR PLANNING AND PLANNING MANAGER AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES. KAREN, THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE PUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. THANK YOU, KAREN. I DON'T REMEMBER THREE, OUR PRESENTATIONS AND RECOGNITIONS [(a) Presentation to Miriam Vasquez, who was awarded the "Bilingual Teacher...] [(b) Presentation to Cassandra Durst, who was awarded the "Teacher of the Y...] [(c) Presentation to Abdelhafid Maher, who was awarded the "English as a Se...] [(d) Presentation to Maria Rincon, who was awarded the "Teacher of the Year...] THREE, A PRESENTATION, UM, BY COUNCIL MEMBER, LEN KLAUSER. GOOD EVENING. UM, WOULD THE FOLLOWING BEEN ISD EDUCATORS, PLEASE COME FORWARD. MARIA WRINKLE WORLD LANGUAGE TEACHER OF THE YEAR AT QUAIL VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL. YEAH. LET'S GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE MY YEAR, SECONDARY ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER OF THE YEAR AT LAKE OLYMPIA, MIDDLE SCHOOL, SANDRA DURST, ELEMENTARY ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHER OF THE YEAR AT PALMER ELEMENTARY AND MIRIAM VASQUEZ BILINGUAL TEACHER OF THE YEAR AT RIDGE GATE ELEMENTARY. WHY ARE THESE DYNAMIC EDUCATORS STANDING IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY? EACH YEAR? THE SUBURBAN HOUSTON ASSOCIATION FOR BILINGUAL EDUCATION OR SHABBY, WHOSE MISSION IS TO PROMOTE EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND RECOGNITION FOR BILINGUAL AND ESL TEACHERS WITH A DEDICATION TO TEACHERS. SO THAT ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNERS, UH, NAMES OF TEACHERS OF THE YEAR IN VARIOUS SCHOOL DISTRICTS, FOUR OF THESE MULTILINGUAL PROGRAM HONOREES ARE NOT ONLY IN FORT BEND ISD, BUT THREE OF THEM ARE RIGHT HERE IN MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS I'M, MISSOURI CITY PROUD. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, WHAT TO LEAVE OUT OUR NEIGHBORING SCHOOLS, UH, HONOREE, MS. BOSC IS, UM, AS I'M ALL ABOUT INCLUSION AND ALL OF THESE TEACHERS ARE AS WELL. MS. MAYER, MS. RINKO, MS AND MS. VASQUEZ HAVE DEMONSTRATED EXCELLENCE IN THEIR CLASSROOMS AND DELIVER OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO THE EDUCATION OF BILINGUAL AND ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE STUDENTS EACH AND EVERY DAY. EACH ONE OF YOU WILL RECEIVE A PROCLAMATION. THESE LADIES WERE HONOR, UM, BY S H A B E AS THE BILINGUAL TEACHERS OF THE YEAR IN FORT BEND COUNTY. AND THIS IS SUCH AN HONOR. AND SO I WANTED TO RECOGNIZE THEM AS THE DAUGHTER AND GRANDDAUGHTER OF EDUCATORS. I UNDERSTAND HOW IMPORTANT YOUR PROFESSION IS, BUT GOING A LITTLE BIT FURTHER ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE. WOW, YOU GOT A LOT OF CHALLENGES, BUT YOU HAVE EXCELLED IN EACH ONE OF THOSE. SO EACH ONE OF YOU WILL GET A PROCLAMATION IN THAT PROCLAMATION WILL STAY. WHEREAS THROUGH OUR DEDICATED EFFORTS TO ENSURE OUR CHILDREN ACQUIRE THE KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS NEEDED TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN LIFE, TEACHERS ARE VITAL IN BUILDING THE FUTURE. I'M NOT GOING TO READ THE WHOLE THING, BUT I'M GOING TO SKIP TO THE END. NOW, THEREFORE I LYNN CLOUSER COUNCIL MEMBER OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS ACKNOWLEDGE ABDI HAFI, UH, MARIA RINKO, CASSANDRA DORIS, AND MIRIAM BASKETS AS ENGLISH AS SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHERS OF THE YEAR AT THEIR SCHOOLS AND ENCOURAGE ALL CITIZENS TO CONGRATULATE THEM AS ONE OF TEXAS FINEST EDUCATORS. Y'ALL, LET'S GIVE THEM ANOTHER ROUND OF APPLAUSE. AND IF YOU ALL HAVE FAMILY [00:05:01] MEMBERS THAT ARE HERE OR YOUR PRINCIPALS THAT ARE HERE, THEY CAN COME UP AND JOIN YOU FOR PICTURE. UM, THE PRINCIPAL OF, UH, PALMER ELEMENTARY, MS. CLAY, DO WE HAVE PRINCIPAL OVER HERE? OKAY. FAMILY MEMBERS. OKAY. AWESOME. OKAY. COMMUNICATION GOING TO TAKE A PICTURE. THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO. ALL RIGHT, MAYOR ELLICOTT HAS STEPPED AWAY FROM THE DESK AND WE'LL CONTINUE WITH OUR REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING. ITEM THREE. [(e) Presentation to Enoch Brown, who was awarded the "Campus Teacher of th...] WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION BY COUNCIL MEMBER OF RASHONDA EDWARDS. UM, THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE. I ALSO LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE AND RECOGNIZE A WONDERFUL EDUCATOR WHO HAS COMMITTED HIS LIFE TO SERVING THE YOUTH IN OUR COMMUNITY. PLEASE COME UP MR. BROWN, THE THIRD. ALL RIGHT. UM, I WOULD READ THE WORST OF THIS PROCLAMATION, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK FROM THE HEART. I'VE WATCHED THIS YOUNG MAN GROW UP TO BE AN EXTENDING EDUCATOR WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY, BEING A PRODUCT OF ALL THREE FORT BEND SCHOOLS, INCLUDING THE WONDERFUL THURGOOD MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL HERE. YES. AND TO ACTUALLY COME BACK AND SERVE WITHIN THE COMMUNITY THAT HE WAS BORN AND RAISED IN AS A NATIVE MISSOURI CITY PRESIDENT. THAT'S AN OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENT FOR ME AND FOR THE RESIDENTS THERE, HAVE YOU FELL ALSO, HE'S DEDICATED HIS LIFE TO BEING A TEACHER AT LAKE OLYMPIA MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHICH I WAS ACTUALLY ABLE TO GRADUATE FROM SOUTH. AGAIN, IT'S VERY PERSONAL TO ME AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT HE RECEIVES HIS FLOWERS WHILE HE'S STILL ABLE TO SMELL THEM. AND SO AGAIN, MR. BROWN HAS DEDICATED EIGHT YEARS OF HIS LIFE TO TEACHING AT LAKE OLYMPIA MIDDLE SCHOOL, WHERE HE ALSO MENTOR AND COACH THE KIDS TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY HAVE GREAT LIFE SKILLS LEADERSHIP, AND THEY'RE ABLE TO BE PRODUCTIVE MEMBERS OF SOCIETY. AND ALSO IN HIS FREE TIME, HE HAS DEDICATED HIS LIFE AGAIN TO MAKING SURE HE BRINGS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT TO TYPE ONE DIABETES. AND SO WITHIN THAT, THAT'S A WHOLE SKULL OF A WONDERFUL BRIGHT MAN WHO CONTINUES TO BE A GREAT ASSET TO OUR YOUTH, OUR COMMUNITY, AND MOST IMPORTANTLY, MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS. SO I JUST WANT TO GRANT YOU TO UNDER MY LEADERSHIP IS WONDERFUL PROCLAMATION AND GIVE YOU YOUR FLOWERS, LIKE I MENTIONED, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR YOUTH. THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN EDWARDS, UM, FOR THIS ESTEEM HONOR AND RECOGNITION. THANK YOU TO THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY. I THANK YOU. SO MY FAMILY, FRIENDS, MY COWORKERS AND COLLEAGUES FOR ALL COMING OUT, UM, TO HONOR ME AND, UM, DURING THIS VERY SPECIAL MOMENT IN TIME, UM, I'LL KEEP THIS REAL SHORT AND SIMPLE. I'VE, UH, A SIMPLE EDUCATION PHILOSOPHY THAT IS THAT THE LEGACY THAT YOU LEAVE FOR TOMORROW STARTS WITH A YOUTH THAT YOU'RE INSPIRED TODAY. UM, AND SO IN FOLLOWING, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A FAMILY PRACTICE OR A FAMILY TRADITION. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S THE 70 PLUS YEARS THAT MY PARENTS HAVE SPENT IN EDUCATION. I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS WATCHING MY SISTER DO THE SAME THING, UM, AND THE SAME WALKING LIFE AND, UM, IN EDUCATION. BUT GIVING BACK TO THE YOUTH OF TOMORROW IS WHAT'S GOING TO HELP US GROW. UM, AS ONE TOGETHER, UM, THE, THE AMAZING TEACHERS THAT I'VE HAD THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, K THROUGH 12, EVEN IN COLLEGE AND EVEN IN MY POST-GRADUATE YEARS, UM, HAVE ALL HELPED ME TO GET TO THIS VERY MOMENT AND POINT WHERE I AM TODAY. AND I HOPE TO CONTINUE TO SET [00:10:01] AND BLAZE A TRAIL FOR OTHER YOUNG MEN AND OTHER YOUNG LADIES WHO NOT ONLY LOOK JUST LIKE ME, BUT LOOK LIKE ALL OF YOU OUT THERE. UM, SO THAT, SO THAT THEY CAN COME BACK ONE DAY AND, UH, EMPOWER THEIR COMMUNITY AND ENLIGHTEN THEIR COMMUNITY IN SUCH, IN SUCH WAYS THAT I HAVE. I THANK YOU ALL. I THINK THE CITY, I THINK ALL PARTIES ON HAND FOR, UM, TAKING THIS MOMENT TO RECOGNIZE ME FOR ALL THE THINGS THAT I'VE DONE AND I CONTINUE TO PRAY AND HOPE THAT I'M ABLE TO MAKE MORE HISTORY EACH AND EVERY NIGHT. THANK YOU ALL. I WANT TO COME UP AND IT'S LIKE A LITTLE PRODUCT. I HAVE MY PRINCIPAL, MS. COURTNEY CLARK HERE AS WELL FEATURE DR. COURTNEY CLARK HERE AS WELL. SO IF MY FAMILY AND FRIENDS WOULD WANT TO COME UP AND DO A SMALL PHOTO OP WE CAN THANK YOU ALL AGAIN. YEAH, YEAH. IT'S A WOMAN EDWARDS. MR. BROWN TAUGHT MY SON AND YES. AND SO I JUST HAVE TO SAY IT, IF YOU DON'T MIND ME, CHIME IN, MY SON IS ON THE AUTISM SPECTRUM. AND, UM, MANY OF YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW. THAT'S A VERY INTERESTING, UM, DISABILITY TO TEACH IN. NOT TOO MANY, UM, TEACHERS EMBRACED HIM, BUT MR. BROWN DID, AND HE WAS ONE OF MARSHALL'S FAVORITE TEACHERS. SO I JUST WANTED TO CHIME IN AND SAY, THANK YOU. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON INTO OUR AGENDA. [(f) Presentation of a Recognition Certificate by the Texas Police Chiefs A...] THREE F HAS BEEN POOLED. WE'LL MOVE ON [4. PUBLIC COMMENTS] TO ITEM FOUR PUBLIC COMMENTS. BEFORE WE GO TO PUBLIC COMMENTS, I WANT TO WELCOME OUR NEW CITY SECRETARY CRYSTAL ROAN ON HER FIRST DAY. AS EVERYBODY GIVE HER A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. DID THE CITY RECEIVE ANY COMMENTS, PUBLIC COMMENTS? YES, WE HAVE. UM, THE FIRST, UM, IS, WELL BEFORE YOU CALL THEM UP, UH, AS, AS YOUR NAME IS CALLED, PLEASE STEP TO THE PODIUM, STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS BEFORE BEGINNING YOUR PRESENTATION AND OBSERVE A THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT. THE CITY SECRETARY WILL KEEP TRACK OF YOUR TIME AND ALERT YOU WHEN YOU HAVE REACHED YOUR TIME LIMIT FIRST PUBLIC COMMENT, TORY OWENS. YES. WOW, APPRECIATE THAT. THAT DON'T HAPPEN EVERYDAY. UM, MY NAME IS TORY LANEZ. I'M A RESONATE 3 3103 CONFEDERATE SOUTH, UM, DRIVE. AND RECENTLY NOW ON THE NEIGHBORING STREET CONFEDERATE SOUTH, THE CONFEDERATE DRIVE WAS CHANGED TO PROSPERITY. NOW I WANT TO JUST ACKNOWLEDGE THE COUNCIL MEMBER, THE MAYOR, OR COUNCIL, AND ALL THE PEOPLE WORKING BEHIND THE SCENES TO THE COMMUNITY TO MAKE CHANGE. AND I'M NOT DESPITE THOSE THAT MAKE THOUGH WE CAN WALK AND CHEW GUM AT THE SAME TIME WHILE WE GET ACKNOWLEDGED HISTORY. THAT WAS CORRECT. IT'S THE NOTCH HISTORY AND MAKE THINGS RIGHT. SO I'M GLAD TO REPORT THAT. I HAVE OBTAINED 70% OF MY STREAK, A BIT OF A STOUT DRIVE, UM, PETITION. UM, NEIGHBORS IS FINE. I'M GOING TO CURSE OTHER MEMBERS OF NON-KIN MY COMMUNITY VICKSBURG TO ALSO GET INTO, GET INVOLVED AND MAKE THE CHANGES THAT WE SEE HAVE TO MAKE THE HISTORY THAT WAS WRONG. MAKE IT RIGHT. I TURN IT BACK OVER TO MAYOR ELOQUENT. ANY OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS? WE DO HAVE OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS. MARSHALL WILSON WILLIS. GOOD AFTERNOON. MY NAME IS MARCIA WILLIS. I LIVE AT 33 0 6 CONFEDERATE COURT. AND, UM, THIS IS MY NEXT DOOR NEIGHBOR, UH, KATHLEEN. AND SHE IS ON CONFEDERATE COURT AND WE HAVE OTHERS NEIGHBORS FROM CONFEDERATE COURT. SO WHAT YOU'VE HEARD TONIGHT, UM, PRIOR TO ME WITH SOMEONE THAT WAS ON CONFEDERATE SOUTH, BECAUSE THE STREET IS ACTUALLY LIKE A, A YOU OKAY. AND THE, THE PORTION OF [00:15:01] THE STREET THAT HAS ALREADY CHANGED IS THE LONGER PART. SO WHO YOU HAVE PRESENTING TO YOU TONIGHT OR THE EITHER ENDS? RIGHT? SO, UM, OUR STREET AND WE HAVE COLLECTED 94% OF THE HOMEOWNERS HAVE AGREED TO CHANGE OUR NAME. UM, IT WAS LAST JUNE AND JULY. KATHLEEN BASICALLY WALKED TO EVERY HOUSE. UH, WE WOULD GET A NEIGHBOR AND SAID, OKAY, YOU KNOW, THIS NEIGHBOR. SO GO WITH US, YOU KNOW, AND THIS WAS THE TECHNIQUE THAT RHONDA AND HER HUSBAND BOTH DID. SO WE WERE JUST USING THE SAME TECHNIQUE. WASN'T WE DIDN'T INVENT ANYTHING NEW, BUT, UM, WE JUST WANTED TO COME. SO YOU CAN SEE MORE PEOPLE WHO HAVE A GREAT CONCERN ABOUT, UH, THE DEMEANING, UM, CHARACTERISTIC THAT THE STREET HAS HAD, HAS CAUSED FOR US. I'VE LIVED ON THAT STREET FOR 29 YEARS. AND EVERY TIME I HAVE TO TELL SOMEONE THAT MY ADDRESS HAS CONFEDERATE COURT, IT SENDS THIS EERIE FEELING THROUGH MY BODY. SO WE ARE COMING BACK. THIS IS A PREAMBLE TO WHEN WE, UH, REQUEST FOR AN ITEM ON YOUR AGENDA AND WE WILL BE PRESENTING THE NAME OF OUR PROPOSED STREET AS WELL, BECAUSE WE HAD A MEETING SATURDAY AND WE ALL AGREED UPON THE NAME. UH, WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH THE MAJORITY AND WE'LL PRESENT THAT AT WHATEVER TIME WE GET TIME ON YOUR AGENDA. THANK YOU. UM, CAROL MARTIN, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. UH, I'M KARA MARTIN. AND I LIVE IN COLONY CROSSING, WHICH IS ON THE OTHER SIDE OF 90. UH, AND I HAVE THREE CONCERNS TONIGHT, UM, HIGHWAY, UM, GESSNER FROM HIGHWAY 90 ALL THE WAY UP TO BELTWAY. EIGHT NEEDS TO BE RESTRIPE. UH, AND IT ALSO NEEDS TO HAVE THE REFLECTORS IN IT BECAUSE WHERE THE 18 WHEELERS ARE COMING OUT, ALL THOSE BUSINESS PARK, THAT WAS A SAFE TO HAVE THE LIGHT AT NIGHT. WHEN I'M COMING, YOU CAN'T SEE THE LINE WHERE YOU SUPPOSED TO BE IN THE LINE. AND AS I CROSSED OVER 90 INTO THE REAL, MISSOURI'S SITTING ON THIS SIDE BY FIFTH STREET, YOU CAN SEE THE BLACK, THE WHITE AND THE REFLECTOR. SO WHAT ALL THOSE BENNY KEITH AND PEOPLE COMING OUT THAT X NOW WE ARE HAVING A SAFE TO HAVE IT IN THE EVENING. WHEN IT GETS DARK, YOU CAN NOT SEE YOUR LANE. AND I DON'T KNOW IF THEY SITTING UP HOW THEY CAN'T SEE US OR NOT, BUT THAT'S A SAFETY HAZARD THAT WE'RE HAVING. AND WE HAD ALSO ASKED LAST YEAR OR MORE LIGHTING DOWN GESSNER BETWEEN 90 I'LL WAIT TO BELTWAY EIGHT TO THE MISSOURI CITY MARQUIS BECAUSE ALSO MAYBE A LIGHTING WOULD HELP THEM SEE MORE. I DON'T KNOW, BUT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STREET THAT A DARK AREA BETWEEN CRAVING GUESTS. AND I KNOW Y'ALL KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. AND THIRDLY, THE RAILROAD TRACKS AT GASSNER AND 90, WE HAVE NO YOU GOING TO GIVE WITH THE RAILROAD COMMISSION, THAT'S BEEN A PROBLEM OVER THE PAST YEAR. IT DOESN'T LIE. AND WE TIRED. I'M TIRED OF MY TIRES GETTING TORE UP. THEY DON'T HAVE THAT PROBLEM AND FUNDRAISING AND THE RAILROAD TRACK ON 90 NEITHER FATHER DOWN AT THE APART. BUT THIS PARTICULAR ONE, WE HAVE A LOT OF TRAFFIC, BUT THE RAILROAD NEEDS TO FIX THAT. AND IF YOU COULD TAKE CARE OF THOSE THREE THINGS, I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. SOMEONE FROM PUBLIC WORKS WITH THEM THAT DOES CONCLUDE, UH, PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA. WE DO HAVE ONE PUBLIC COMMENT FOR AGENDA ITEM 11 SIX WAS THAT RECEIVED BEFORE 7:00 AM, SEVEN MOON, BEFORE WE START THE MEETING. OKAY. WE CAN, WE HAVE THAT WHERE ALL THESE FORMS HAS TO BE RECEIVED PRIOR TO IT. THANK YOU. MA'AM ITEM NUMBER FIVE. THERE ARE NO STAFF OR FORKS. [6. CONSENT AGENDA] NUMBER SIX, OUR CONSENT AGENDA. IS THERE A MOTION? MOTION. SECOND. SUBMIT A MOTION BY EMORY SECOND BY COSTUMER. CLOUSER THESE ARE DISCUSSION HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. [00:20:01] I HAVE NUMBER SEVEN IS PUBLIC HEARING AND RELATED ACTIONS. SEVEN A [(a) Zoning Public Hearings and Ordinances] IS ZONING, PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCES AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF 0.82 ACRES OF LAND FROM LC TO LOCAL RETAIL DISTRICT TO PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT DESCRIBING SAID 0.82 ACRES OF LAND REGULATING AND RESTRICTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PROPERTY WITHIN SUCH PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AMENDING THE ZONING DISTRICT MAP OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, PROVIDING FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT. THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING THERE A SECOND? I DIDN'T HEAR WHO THAT WAS. IT'S AN EMOTIONAL BY CONSUMER CLAUSE OR SECOND BY CONSUMER RILEY. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED. SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. IS THERE A DISCUSSION? IS THERE ANY, ANY, UM, ANYONE SIGNED UP? OKAY. SO SEE, THEY DID NOT RECEIVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT REQUEST. SO IS THERE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING PUBLIC HEARING THERE A SECOND. IT'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. SECOND BY COSTUMER. CLOUSER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. IS THERE A MOTION ON THIS READING ON THE FIRST READING? IS THERE A SECOND? IT'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM MOROSE SECOND BY, I MEAN VOTING SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. I, IS THERE A DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. AND NUMBER EIGHT, OUR APPOINTMENTS. THERE ARE NO APPOINTMENTS ON THIS AGENDA. ITEM NUMBER NINE, OUR AUTHORIZATIONS ITEM [(a) Consider awarding a contract for engineering design services for Musta...] NUMBER NINE EIGHT, CONSIDER BOARDING A CONTRACT FOR ENGINEERING DESIGN SERVICES FOR MUSTANG BY SERVICE AREA UTILITIES COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION SYSTEMS. THERE'S BEEN A PRESENTATION BY TODD HOOVER. WHO'S OUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU PERTAINS TO THE UTILITIES CAPACITY NEEDS AND THE MUSTANG BY YOU SERVICE AREA DUE TO THE TREMENDOUS GROWTH, WHICH PRESENTS A SIGNIFICANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITY TO OUR CITY WITH THIS GROWTH COMES THE DEMAND OF WATER AND SANITARY, SEWER CAPACITY AND RELIABILITY TO MEET THIS DEMAND, NEW SANITARY, SEWER, GRAVITY PIPES, LIFT STATIONS AND WATER DISTRIBUTION PIPES MUST BE DESIGNED AND CONSTRUCTED. THIS ITEM IS THE START OF THOSE UTILITY DESIGN PHASE SERVICES. IT'S ESTIMATED THAT THE MUSTANG BY YOUR SERVICE AREA WILL REQUIRE OVER $30 MILLION IN NEEDED COLLECTION AND DISTRIBUTION PIPES, LIFT STATIONS TO SUPPORT THE PROJECTED GROWTH OVER THE NEXT 10 YEARS. THE INCLUDED SCOPE OF WORK IN YOUR PACKET IDENTIFIES THE ESTIMATED DESIGN PHASE SERVICES COSTS TO BE OVER $3 MILLION AND AN ESTIMATED COST FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THOSE INFRASTRUCTURES. OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS TO BE ABOUT $18 MILLION CITY STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE MOVE FORWARD WITH A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT OR A MOUNTAIN NOT TO EXCEED 1.5 MILLION TO QUICKLY GET THE DESIGN EFFORTS. MOVING. THIS AMOUNT WILL BE FUNDED BY THE 1.9 MILLION AND AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT ARPA FUNDS THAT WERE APPROVED BY COUNCIL. ON FEBRUARY THE SEVENTH CITY STAFF SOLICITED A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS ON DECEMBER 20TH, 2021, WE RECEIVED 15 RESPONSES. A STAFF EVALUATION COMMITTEE EVALUATED THE PACKETS AND WE SHORTLISTED THREE FIRMS BASED ON THEIR QUALIFICATIONS STAFF THEN PRESENTED THE RECOMMENDATION TO THE PLANNING DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE COUNCIL SUBCOMMITTEE ON FEBRUARY THE NINTH, 2022. ALL OF THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED IN YOUR PACKET. LASTLY, WITH THE RESIDUAL $400,000 IN FUNDS [00:25:01] LEFTOVER FROM THOSE FUNDS I'D MENTIONED EARLIER, THE STAFF WILL, MAY COME BACK TO COUNCIL TO ADDRESS ADDITIONAL PHASES OF UTILITY DESIGN PHASE SERVICES. SO I'LL GLADLY ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION BOOTED UP? IT'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM BONNIE SECOND BY COUNCILMAN CLOUSER. IS THERE A DISCUSSION THAT MIRRORS THEY DID? UH, THIS DID COME BEFORE OUR PDI COMMITTEE AND A WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT HERE, WE KNOW THAT DISCUSSION HAS BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PROTON BONY SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER. CLOUSER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. I HAVE NUMBER [(b) Consider authorizing the additional funding required to complete the o...] NINE B CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE ADDITIONAL FUNDING REQUIRED TO COMPLETE THE ORIGINAL PROJECT APPROVED FOR COUNCIL CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY UPGRADE. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY CEDRIC COLES, OUR CIO CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER. THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL I'M HERE TODAY SEEKING AUTHORIZATION FOR THE COUNCIL CHAMBER TECHNOLOGY PROJECT. UM, THIS WAS ORIGINALLY APPROVED MARCH, 2021. UM, STAFF WENT BACK AND LOOKED AT A NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR THE WHOLE ENTIRE PROJECT AND CAME UP WITH A DEFINED SCOPE WITH THAT. WE MET WITH A BIBLE WORD VENDOR WHIPPING, BUY THE EQUIPMENT AND GET IT SOURCED IN A TIMELY MANNER. UM, WITH THE QUOTE IT CAN UP TO APPROXIMATELY 160,000 TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT. UM, WE LOOKING AT ABOUT FOUR TO SIX MONTHS FOR COMPLETION ON A PROJECT. OKAY, THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION? I MOVE THAT WE GO WITH STAFF RECOMMENDATION. IT'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MOROSE SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM BONUS OR DISCUSSION. YES. I SAID YOU COULD YOU TALK ABOUT BUYBOARD AND UH, UH, SEE WE HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SAVINGS AS WE WERE INITIALLY LOOKING TO SPEND AND I SEE AS, UM, A HUNDRED AND A HUNDRED, SOME ODD THOUSAND DOLLARS. UH, CAN YOU SPEAK ABOUT BUYBOARD AND THAT PROCESS AND HOW WE WERE ABLE TO SAVE HOW MUCH MONEY? SO THE STATE USUALLY GO OUT AND, UM, UTILIZE VENDORS UNDER A STATE CONTRACT. AND WITH THAT WE SAY FUNDINGS AND UTILIZED OUR SAVINGS AS WELL. ABOUT HOW MUCH MONEY DID WE END UP SAVING ROUGHLY 140,000 AT THE END OF YOUR QUESTION. OKAY. IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION, DID I HEAR YOU SAY IT'S GOING TO BE FOR SIX MONTHS, CORRECT. BEFORE WE, UH, HAVE, UH, THE CHAMBERS RE-DONE EACH YES, SIR. IT'S STILL DUE TO THE CHIP SET, UM, IN DELAYED AND SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGY IN DELAYED BECAUSE OF THE CHIP SET. CEDRIC, WHAT IS THE STATUS ON THE SLAG? IT LAST SPRING PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY CAMERAS THAT WERE REMOVED ARM PRODUCTION OR CONSTRUCTION, I'M SORRY. AND ARE THOSE WIRES AND CABLES STILL IN THE WALLS OR JUST PROVIDE US WITH AN UPDATE ON THAT? SO WHAT WE GONNA DO? WE GONNA, WE STILL HAVE THE CAMERAS, SO WE GONNA UTILIZE NEW CABLING AND PLAY SOME INSIDE THE ORG, UM, INSIDE THE ACCOUNT, THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, AND ALSO WE'RE GONNA PUT ONE OUTSIDE THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS AS WELL. OKAY. ARE THOSE IP ADDRESSES THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THOSE? ARE THEY STILL ACTIVE? UH, WE OWN OUR IP ADDRESSES. SO WE GOT, YOU COULD CREATE IP ADDRESSES. WE ALL KNOW, JUST ASKING ABOUT THOSE SPECIFIC ONES THAT WERE UTILIZED FOR THAT PARTICULAR, UM, LAST STRING RD INACTIVE OR ARE THEY JUST I'M SWEATING AS WE SPEAK RIGHT NOW TO COMMUNICATE BACK OVER LIVE RECORDING. ALL RIGHT. I DO HAVE SOME MORE QUESTIONS. UM, DOES THE TECHNOLOGIST SOLUTIONS THAT YOU ARE RECOMMENDING CONNECT TO THE SWAGGER PRODUCTION? SO WE'RE GOING TO KEEP ON MOVING WITH THAT. OKAY. AND WILL THE VOTING SYSTEM BE IMPLEMENTED? HOW WOULD THAT LOOK? YES. MA'AM. YOU WILL HAVE A SCREEN IT'S ROUGHLY ABOUT A 15 INCH SCREEN WHERE YOU SIT THERE ON A DIET AND SELECT, UM, VOTE. YES OR NO. UM, IT WILL ALSO STREAM THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE ENTIRE DISPLAYS INSIDE OF THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS. AND WHAT'S THE FIRST ON THE CABLES, I GUESS, THE PRICING, UH, I THINK IT WAS ROUGHLY 17,000 TO WIRE, EVERYTHING, INCLUDING THE VOTING SYSTEM AND WHAT FUNDING WE'LL BE USING TO PAY FOR THIS, THAT THEY EXXON. SO HOW WOULD THE, CAN YOU WALK ME THROUGH HOW THE [00:30:01] CAMERAS WILL BE SET UP? UM, WILL IT BE LIKE THIS OR NO, THEY ACTUALLY WILL BE MOUNTED ON INTO THE WALL. UM, SINCERELY DISPLAY, UM, DIRECTION DIAS AND THE AUDIENCE INSIDE. AND ALSO WE ARE INCLUDING, UM, VIDEO CONFERENCING SOLUTIONS THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE BEFORE AND ALSO MICROPHONES. WE COULD HAVE TELECONFERENCING AS WELL, AND IT WOULD BE TYING BACK INTO THE SWAGGER SYSTEM AND TO OUR PRODUCTION SYSTEM. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? WE HAVE A MOTION BY CONSUMER MOROSE SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM LOANING, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SIR. ITEM NUMBER 10. OUR ORDINANCES [(a) Consider an ordinance providing for a processing fee for credit card p...] ITEM 10, A AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY, MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING CHAPTER 34, FINANCE AND TAXATION OF THE MISSOURI CITY CODE AUTHORIZING A REIMBURSEMENT DEE FOR THE PROCESSING OF FEES, FINES, COURT COSTS, OR OTHER CHARGES PAID BY CREDIT CARD, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL ON TO PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY. THANK YOU. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY ATLANTA PORTERS, OUR DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. UH, BEFORE I GO INTO STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION PROPOSAL, WANTED TO, UH, OUTLINE HOW THIS MEETS SOME OF THE AREAS OF YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN. UM, A PART OF YOUR STRATEGIC PLAN IS A STRATEGIC FOCUS AREA. THAT'S MAINTAINED A FINANCIALLY SOUND CITY GOVERNMENT. AND WITHIN THAT FOCUS AREA, YOU HAVE A PRIMARY OBJECTIVE OF BEING FINANCIALLY SOUND THROUGH SIR, VERSUS, AND IN THAT AREA, THERE ARE TWO ELEMENTS AND THIS ITEM ADDRESSES TWO OF THOSE ELEMENTS. THE FIRST BEING IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES TO CHANGE PROCESSES, TO BETTER PLACE CITIZENS AT THE CENTER AND THE SECOND BEING IDENTIFYING OPPORTUNITIES TO ENHANCE REVENUE GENERATION OR COLLECTIONS THAT ARE CONSISTENT WITH THE ORGANIZATIONAL VALUES. AND SO THIS ITEM IS PROPOSING A CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEE. UH, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF GOING LIVE WITH OUR CUSTOMER SELF SERVICE WHERE CUSTOMERS WILL BE ABLE TO PAY FOR OUR SOLID WASTE, UM, THEIR PAY, THEIR SOLID WASTE PAYMENTS ONLINE, BUT THAT WILL INCUR AN ADDITIONAL CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEE. AND SO WE'LL HAVE THE ABILITY FOR THEM TO PAY ONLINE INSTEAD OF COMING IN OR MAILING IT IN. UM, AND WE'LL ALSO BE ABLE TO GENERATE THE REVENUE TO BASICALLY PASS THROUGH THE FEE THAT THE CITY PAYS FOR CREDIT CARDS. UH, THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE CHAPTER 1 32. IT GIVES THE CITY THE ABILITY TO ACCEPT CREDIT CARD PAYMENTS. WE DO CURRENTLY ACCEPT CARD PAYMENTS. THERE'S ANOTHER SECTION OF THE CODE THAT AUTHORIZES US TO SET A PROCESSING FEE, UH, TO BE ABLE TO RECOUP OUR COSTS IN REGARDS TO CREDIT CARD PROCESSING. UM, THE LOSS WILL STATES THAT THE FEE MAY NOT EXCEED 5% OF THE CHARGE THAT'S BEING PAID. AND IN THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE, WE HAVE THE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEE AT 3%. UH, WE CURRENTLY PAY INTERCHANGE FEES OF 3.2%. SO IT'S NOT A 100% COST RECOVERY, A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ON OUR CREDIT CARD FEES. 2018. OUR BUDGET WAS APPROXIMATELY 36,000 WITH EXPENSES OF 30,000 AND THAT HAS GROWN, UH, IN 2021. OUR BUDGET WAS 63,500 AND WE ACTUALLY SPENT 117,000. SO WE HAD TO USE SAVINGS AND OTHER AREAS TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THE CREDIT CARD FEES. UM, AT ONE TIME WE IN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT SUBMITTED, UM, A SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR CREDIT CARDS. BUT AT THAT TIME WE DISCUSSED LET'S IMPLEMENT ATTEMPT TO IMPLEMENT A CREDIT CARD FEE SO THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC IS NOT PAYING FOR CREDIT CARDS. SO JUST A LITTLE BIT, AS FAR AS FISCAL YEAR 2021, THE TOTAL AMOUNT OF CREDIT CARDS THAT WERE PROCESSED, THE VOLUME WAS 3.7 MILLION. UH, BUT FOR AN EXAMPLE, WE HAD ONE TRANSACTION THAT WAS 54,300, THAT WAS IN PERMITS WHERE THE CITY PAID $1,466 IN FEES JUST FOR THIS ONE, UH, DEVELOPER, UH, YOU MAY BE WONDERING WHAT ARE OTHER CITIES DOING, UH, STAFF WITHIN OUR TREASURY DIVISION. UH, THEY, THEY CALLED OTHER CITIES TO FIND OUT HOW MUCH THEY'RE CHARGING IF THEY ARE CHARGING. UH, AND AS FAR AS THE RATES, THE HIGHEST RATE THAT'S BEING CHARGED IS 3%. AND THAT IS WITH THE CITY OF ARCOLA BEASLEY FULL SURE. ROSENBERG, UH, DOES DECREASE FROM THERE. AND THAT IS BASED ON WHAT THE CITIES HAVE AUTHORIZED, UM, IN THOSE AREAS. AND THEN THERE ARE SOME CITIES THAT DON'T, UH, UM, CHARGE A FEE AT ALL. SO JUST IN SUMMARY, THE PROPOSED ORDINANCE WILL SET THE CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEE AT 3%. THIS IS ESTIMATED TO SAVE THE CITY APPROXIMATELY $60,000 PER YEAR. THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT WE DO HAVE BUDGETED WILL CONTINUE TO BE USED TO PAY FOR CREDIT CARD FEES, THE AMOUNT THAT EXCEEDS 3% PLUS THE COST OF EQUIPMENT AND OTHER ASSOCIATION FEES THAT WE'RE REQUIRED [00:35:01] TO PAY. I MEAN, IF WE DO NOT HAVE A NEW FEE, WE WOULD REQUIRE AN ADDITIONAL APPROPRIATION OF 60, APPROXIMATELY $60,000 PER YEAR TO COVER THE RISING COSTS, UM, INCLUDING THE FUTURE COST ASSOCIATED WITH THE ABILITY TO PROFIT MORE ONLINE TRANSACTIONS THAT IN MY PRESENTATION, I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION, MOTION TO APPROVE, SPEND A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY, IS THERE A DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. LANA ITEM 10, [(b) Consider an ordinance amending Chapter 30, Environment, of the Missour...] B CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING CHAPTER 30 ENVIRONMENT OF THE MISSOURI CITY CODE AMENDING REGULATIONS REGARDING DISCHARGES TO THE MUNICIPAL SEPARATE STORM. THEY WERE SYSTEM PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY AND TO PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY SHASHI KUMAR, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THIS WILL BE VERY SHARP. WHAT YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU IS AN ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 30 OF THE CITY SCHOOL OF ORDINANCES, WHICH PERTAINS TO REGULATING MUNICIPAL STORMWATER DISCHARGES. THESE ARE MINOR AMENDMENTS. THERE'S A PACKET IN FRONT OF YOU SHOWING WHAT THOSE AMENDMENTS ARE. AND THEY'RE VERY MINOR IN NATURE WITH THAT. I RECOMMEND ADOPTING THIS ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 30 OF THE CITY SQUAT OF ORDINANCES. THAT'S IT? YES, SIR. YES. I WANT TO KEEP IT SHORT AND SWEET. I, YOU SHOCKED ME CAUSE I LOOKED DOWN. UM, NO, I'M JUST KIDDING. UM, ALTHOUGH, I MEAN, I MOVE THAT. WE AMEND THE MOTION. I MOVE THAT WE AMEND THE, UH, CHAPTER 30 OF OUR ORDINANCE. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, IS THERE A DISCUSSION? ALRIGHT, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. SHALL I HAVE NUMBER IS THERE AND SEE [(c) Consider an ordinance establishing procedures for the consideration of...] AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING CRITERIA AND PROCEDURES FOR THE CONSIDERATION OF CERTAIN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WITHIN MISSOURI CITY. ALL RIGHT. WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY AUBREY KNOWS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. GOOD EVENING. A FEW WEEKS AGO, I BROUGHT AN ITEM BEFORE COUNCIL EXPLAINING THE EXPANSION TO THE BOUNDARIES OF THE TEXAS PARKWAY CARTWRIGHT ROAD CORRIDOR. PREVIOUSLY, THE BOUNDARIES WERE ON TEXAS PARKWAY FROM US 98 TO CARTWRIGHT ROAD AND ON CARTWRIGHT ROAD FROM TEXAS PARKWAY TO DULLES AVENUE. THE MAYOR WITH THE RECOMMENDATION OF THE TEXAS PARKWAY CARTWRIGHT ROAD ADVISORY COMMITTEE AGREED TO EXPAND THE BOUNDARIES TO TEXT PARKWAY WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS AND CARTWRIGHT ROAD WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS AS WELL. THIS ITEM WOULD ALLOW THE BOUNDARIES OF THE FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THAT WE ADOPTED LATE LAST YEAR TO BE EXPANDED AS WELL. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION SUNDAY BEFORE ACTING ON THIS MOTION? THIS DOES FALL UNDER YOUR RULES AND REQUIRES A FIVE VOTES TO TAKE THE ITEM UP BECAUSE THE 90 DAY TIMEFRAME HAS EXPIRED. SO YOU DO NEED A MOTION. I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES, TO CONSIDER THIS WITHIN 90 DAYS AND TO RECONSIDER THE ITEM TO RECONSIDER THE ITEM WITHIN A 90 DAY PERIOD. IS THERE YOUR SECOND? AND SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM BONING SECOND BY COUNCILOR CLOSERS OR DISCUSSION. YES, I RAN LAST TIME WE SPOKE, I ASKED ABOUT THE CANVASING OF THE CORRIDOR. HOW DID THAT GO OUT? GO FOR YOU? IT WENT WELL. WE, UM, HAD A MIXER THAT WAS COMING UP. AND SO AS WE WERE CANVASSING FOR THE MIXER ALONG THE CORRIDOR, WE ALSO HANDED OUT FLYERS FOR THE FACADE PROGRAM. I THINK THAT EXPANDING THE CORRIDOR WILL FOR THE FACADE PROGRAM WILL BE VERY HELPFUL AS WELL. ANY FEEDBACK FROM, UM, THE PROPERTY OWNERS OR DID YOU JUST SPEAK WITH THE TENANTS? WE WERE PRIMARILY JUST SPEAKING WITH TENANTS, BUT THEY WERE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT AND SAID THAT THEY WOULD RELAY THE INFORMATION ON TO THE PROPERTY OWNERS. AND SO WE THOUGHT THAT WAS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY THAT WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF. SO DO YOU HAVE ANY NEW, I WAS JUST ASKING HIM BECAUSE WE CAN TALK ABOUT THAT ON THE AGENDA ITEM IN QUESTION, BUT WE CAN'T REALLY HAVE DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM BECAUSE WE HAVE TO TAKE IT BACK UP. SO CAN WE MAKE THAT VOTE FIRST AND THEN COME BACK TO THAT AGENDA ITEM. I'M NOT APPLICABLE TO FOLLOW UP ON [00:40:01] MY PREVIOUS QUESTIONS. NO, YES YOU WILL. I'M SAYING ON THE ACTUAL AGENDA ITEM, WE HAVE TO ACTUALLY SUSPEND THE RULES TO BE ABLE TO CONSIDER THIS ITEM FOR DISCUSSION. SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM, BONEY, AND SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER. CLOUSER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. SO NOW, UM, NOW, NOW WE CAN MAKE THE MOTION TO, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE AND SECOND. ALL RIGHT. THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PROTON, BOEING SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY SER DISCUSSION. YES, I'M VERY, I JUST WANTED TO KNOW WHAT BUSINESSES DID YOU CANVAS. I CAN JUST GET A VISUAL ON MY HEAD AND KIND OF FOLLOW UP WITH THAT. SURE. IT WAS PRIMARILY AN ALL ALONG TEXAS PARKWAY. WE WENT RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET AND WE'RE FLOORED. DELICIOUS IS WE WENT ALONG GRAND PARK. WE ALSO WENT TO THE SHOPPING CENTER WHERE, UM, THERE'S A HAIR SALON. UM, THERE'S OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, BUT IT'S RIGHT ADJACENT ON THE OTHER SIDE OF DAIRY QUEEN ON TEXAS PARKWAY. AND, BUT WE WENT ALL THE WAY DOWN THE CORRIDOR. WE HOPPED OVER TO, UH, HEART, RIGHT. AND STARTED WALKING DOWN THAT SIDE AS WELL FOR FOOD AROMA IS AND WALKED DOWN TO HER. ALEX'S KITCHEN IS LOCATED AS WELL. AND SO YOU'RE GETTING FEEDBACK FROM ALL OF THE PROPERTY OWNERS. HAS ANYONE LEFT OUT OR IS NOT WILLING TO PARTICIPATE? NOT THAT I KNOW OF THAT I, I'M NOT SURE OF ANYONE THAT IN PARTICULAR THAT HAS BEEN LEFT OUT OF THE PROGRAM. OKAY. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM BONEY SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. THERE ARE NO OTHER DISCUSSIONS WE'RE READY TO VOTE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ITEM 11, [(a) Consider a resolution declaring the City’s intention to reimburse cert...] THE RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS DECLARED THE CITY'S INTENTION TO REIMBURSE THE COST OF CERTAIN EXPENDITURES FROM THE PROCEEDS OF GENERAL OBLIGATIONS TO BE ISSUED FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS AND ANY ITEMS RELATED THERE TO, OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION MOTION APPROVED? IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND MOTION BY CONSUMER EMORY SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUSER IS WHERE YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION. I DO NOT HAVE A PHONE PRESENTATION, BUT I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, RIGHT? IS THERE A DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. HEARING NONE. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. 11 [(b) Consider a resolution authorizing the execution of an agreement betwee...] B UH, RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL AT THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AUTHORIZING THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE AND THE CITY SECRETARY TO A TEST, AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, AND M H L U S A HOLDINGS LLC, PERTAINING TO CERTAIN IMPROVEMENTS TO AN APPROXIMATELY 6.44 ACRE TRACT OF LAND LOCATED IN THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS PURSUANT TO THE TEXAS PARKWAY COURTRIGHT ROAD FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM. IS THERE A MOTION IT'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM BONING SECOND BY A CONSOLE OR CLOUDS, OR IS THERE A DISCUSSION? I WOULD LIKE OUR ARE ALREADY GO AHEAD. OKAY. THIS IS THE FIRST APPLICATION TO MAKE IT THROUGH THE ENTIRE PROCESS. AND IT'S QUAIL VALLEY PLAZA, WHICH IS LOCATED AT CARTWRIGHT ROAD AND SOCCER'S POINT DRIVE THE FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM IS FOR TEXAS PARKWAY AND CARTWRIGHT ROAD, AND IT WAS ADOPTED LATE LAST YEAR. THE COUNCIL HAS AGREED TO REIMBURSE ELIGIBLE FACADE AND RESIDENTS FOR UP TO 75% OF THEIR COSTS WITH A MAXIMUM REIMBURSEMENT OF $200,000. THE APPLICATION WAS FIRST REVIEWED BY AN INTERNAL REVIEW COMMITTEE, WHICH CONSISTED OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT. WE REVIEWED FACADE PROJECT SELECTED AND THE ADHERENCE TO THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN STANDARDS AND AVAILABLE FUNDS OF THE ELIGIBLE FACADE IMPROVEMENTS. THOSE THAT ARE HIGHLIGHTED HERE ARE THOSE THAT WERE SELECTED. HERE'S THE COST BREAKDOWN OF WHAT IS BEING DONE THROUGH THE APPLICATION THAT DEVELOPER HAS FUTURE PLANS TO DEMOLISH THE BUILDING ON THE NORTH [00:45:01] EASTERN CORNER. SO ALL OF THE FACADE IMPROVEMENTS RELATE TO THE PRIMARY BUILDING AND TWO BAKERY DONUTS AS WELL AS, UM, THE PARKING FOR THE ENTIRE SHOPPING CENTER. SO AT FIRST 90,000 RELATES TO PAINTING AND REPAIRS TO THE WALLS FOR THE PRIMARY BUILDING AND BAKERY DONUTS ALONG WITH MONUMENT SIGNAGE IN SIGNAGE, THE SIGNAGE FOR BAKERY DONUTS AS WELL. THERE'S ALSO A LARGE DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR REPAVING AND RE STRIPING OF THE PARKING LOT AND NEW EXTERIOR LIGHTING FOR THE MAIN BUILDING AND BAKERY DONUTS. THE TOTAL COST IS $586,300. AND THE MAXIMUM CONTRIBUTION HERE WE'LL REACH THAT $200,000 THRESHOLD FOR THE CITY. HERE'S SOME VISUALS, UH, OUTLINING WHAT SOME OF THE REPAIRS WILL BE AS A REMINDER, THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM, SO THEY WILL HAVE TO DO THE WORK AND SUBMIT THEIR RECEIPTS BEFORE BEING REIMBURSED. AND THEY'LL HAVE 18 MONTHS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT AND SUBMIT THE RECEIPTS BEFORE BEING REIMBURSED. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. UH, THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAY APPROACH AND BONING SECOND BY CONSUMER CLOUDS. THERE IS A DISCUSSION. CAN YOU TELL ME AGAIN, WHAT I SAID WAS GOING TO BE DEMOLISHED THE BUILDING ON THE NORTH EASTERN CORNER. ULTIMATELY THEY HAVE PLANS TO DEMOLISH THAT BUILDING AND DEMOLITION IS NOT, UM, AN ELIGIBLE IMPROVEMENT PREVENTION PROGRAM. SO WHATEVER PLANS THEY HAVE FOR THAT BUILDING, THEY'RE GOING TO HANDLE PRIVATELY. MAY I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO THANK ALL OF THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE A PART OF THE TEXAS PARKWAY CAUGHT RIGHT CORRIDOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE. UH, THEY'VE BEEN WORKING EXTREMELY HARD OVER THE LAST EIGHT MONTHS, AND THIS IS ONE OF THE PROGRAMS THAT CAME OUT OF THAT. UM, HARD WORK, UM, THIS RESTAURANT RECRUITMENT PROGRAM AND, UH, BEAUTIFICATION EFFORT. THAT'S GOING TO BE FORTHCOMING AND I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL RYAN AND JENNIFER ON YOUR TEAM FOR HELPING PULL THIS TOGETHER AND EXECUTE THIS PROGRAM. SO SWIFTLY, UH, AND IT'S SO EXCITING TO NOT ONLY SEE THIS APPLICATION COME FORTH, BUT TO SEE US CONSIDERING IT TONIGHT IN LESS THAN A YEAR'S TIME. I REMEMBER A COUPLE OF YEARS BACK WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT BUDGET AND WE WERE TRYING TO CREATE A SMALL BUSINESS LOAN PROGRAM AND IT WASN'T GOING TO REACH THE CORRIDOR IMMEDIATELY, BUT THIS RIGHT NOW WE SEE, UM, BECAUSE IT WAS BUDGETED IN THE 22 YEAR IS NOW REACHING THE PEOPLE AND THE BUSINESSES AND THE CORRIDOR ITSELF. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. UH, AND AGAIN, KUDOS TO THE TEAM OF THE SEVEN RESIDENTS AND, AND A FORMER COUNCIL WOMAN. UM, CHERYL STERLING WAS PART OF THAT COMMITTEE AND, AND OF COURSE, UH, YOU KNOW, MAYOR HAS BEEN ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN ATTENDING SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS AND PROVIDING FEEDBACK AND SONYA BROWN, MARSHALL ON OUR PLAN AND HIS OWN. AND SO I JUST THINK HAS BEEN A GREAT TEAM EFFORT, AND IT'S JUST GOOD TO SEE THIS TYPE OF THING COME TO FRUITION. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM. I SHOULD ADD THAT THIS WAS APPROVED BY BOTH THE ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE I CONCUR WITH UH YEAH, I'VE DONE AN EXCELLENT JOB IN MAKING SURE THAT THIS PROCESS HAS MOVED QUITE IN MY OPINION, SWIFTLY IN COMPARISON TO SOME OF THE OTHER PROJECTS IN THE PAST. AND, UH, YOU SANTA, THIS IS THE FIRST, UH, PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN APPROVED FOR THE FACADE REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM. AND CAN YOU, FOR THOSE THAT ARE JUST TUNING IN, CAN YOU, UM, JUST REMIND OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR COMMUNITY STAKEHOLDERS THAT THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM, HOW MUCH THEY'RE GETTING REIMBURSED AND HOW LONG THAT THE PROCESS IS? YES, THIS IS FOR COMMERCIAL PROPERTIES LOCATED ON TEXAS PARKWAY OR CARTWRIGHT ROAD THAT WERE BUILT PRIOR TO THE YEAR 2000. AND IT IS FOR ELIGIBLE FACADE IMPROVEMENTS, LIKE PAINTING THE EXTERIOR, DOING WORK ON SIGNAGE, EXTERIOR, LIGHTING, PARKING, LOT RESURFACING, THOSE TYPES OF IMPROVEMENTS WHERE THE CITY WILL REIMBURSE YOU FOR UP TO 75% OF THE COST. BUT THE MAXIMUM REIMBURSEMENT IS $200,000. THE APPLICANT WILL NEED TO APPLY WITH THE CITY BEFORE DOING THE WORK AND GET IT APPROVED. AND THEN IT IS A REIMBURSEMENT. SO YOU DO THE WORK, WE MAKE SURE YOU'VE DONE THE WORK AND WE REIMBURSED YOU FOR THE WORK THAT YOU'VE DONE AND THEY HAVE TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT WITHIN 12 MONTHS, 18 MONTHS, 18 MONTHS. OKAY. THANK YOU. AND AT THAT POINT THEY'LL BE INSPECTED AND GONE THROUGH THE WHOLE DEAL. UH, WHAT WE DO FOR ANY BUILD-OUT CORRECT? YES. [00:50:01] WELL, I ALSO WANT TO ECHO WHAT MAYOR PROTON BONY HAD TALKED ABOUT. I MEAN, WE STARTED THIS COMMITTEE AND THEN WITHIN EIGHT MONTHS, THE RESIDENT HAS BEEN WORKING EXTREMELY HARD AND ALSO KUDOS TO A FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, CHERYL STERLING AND NOW COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY WAS ON THERE. UM, THAT SHOWS THE PROGRESS. THOSE RESIDENTS DO SHOW UP AT EVERY SINGLE MEETING. UM, AND SOMETIMES, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SEE THE AFTERMATH LIKE YOU DO WITH OTHER COMMITTEES, UM, BECAUSE SMALL BUSINESS COMMITTEE AND ALL THAT, IT HAPPENS RIGHT AWAY. BUT THIS HAS BEEN A CONTINUUM PROCESS OF WHAT THE CORRIDOR CAN DO. AND I WANT TO TAKE THIS TIME TO THANK YOU, AUBREY AND JENNIFER AND TIM, UH, FOR YOUR HARD WORK AND STAYING ON TOP OF THIS, UM, THAT NORTHWEST CORNER BUILDING THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT. I MEAN, IT'S BEEN AN EYESORE IN THIS CITY FOR AS LONG AS I CAN REMEMBER, AND I'LL FINALLY LEARNING THAT IT'S COMING DOWN AND IS COMING THROUGH THE PROCESS OF THIS TEXAS PARKWAY, CARTWRIGHT CORRIDOR COMMITTEE AND THEIR WORK, UM, CAN BE ANY SWEETER. THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN EMOTION BY MAYOR PRO TEM BONING SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER. CLOUSER ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION. PLEASE SAY, AYE, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU. ITEM [(c) Consider a resolution finding a public necessity in acquiring certain ...] 11, C RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS FINDING AND DETERMINING PUBLIC NECESSITY FOR THE ACQUISITION OF THESE SIMPLE INTEREST IN CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS KNOWN AS THE EAST HAMPTON PARK PROJECT AND THE EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE ROAD PROJECT AUTHORIZING SUCH ACQUISITION BY DONATION PURCHASE OR EMINENT DOMAIN, A FEW SIMPLE INTEREST, AND THEN TO ONE TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND NEEDED FOR THE PROJECT AUTHORIZING AND DIRECTING THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE A FINAL OFFER TO THE OWNER OF SUCH INTEREST AUTHORIZING PAYMENT OF THE COST OF SUCH PURCHASE OR EMINENT DOMAIN PROCEEDING AS APPLICABLE AND ASSOCIATED COSTS FOR APPRAISAL FEES, TITLE POLICIES, AND SERVICES, RECORDING FEES, COURT COSTS, AND EXPERT WITNESS FEES IN CONNECTION WITH THE ACQUISITION OF THE SIMPLE TITLE IN AND TO SUCH TRACTOR PARCEL OF LAND SITUATED IN THE JAMES B. MURPHY SURVEY, ABSTRACT NUMBER 5 81 IN HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS, THAT TRACTOR PARCEL OF LAND BEING LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF EASTHAMPTON CIRCLE AND CATHY AVENUE, A BUDDING ENERGY SENT TO THE NORTH LINE OF EASTHAMPTON CIRCLE AND THE WEST LINE OF CA KATHY AVENUE IN MISSOURI CITY AND MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS RELATED THERE TOO. IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED SECOND. SO IN A MOTION, MY COSTUMER RILEY, SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER KLAUSER, JASON, IS THERE A PRESENTATION OR I SEE THAT SHE DID. I THOUGHT SHE WAS DONE. UH, THIS WAS, UH, UH, THIS PARCEL CAME UP AS A POTENTIAL PARKLAND ACQUISITION WHEN WE'RE GOING THROUGH A MASTER PLANNING PROCESS, UH, OVER THE PAST YEAR, UM, WE FOUND THAT THERE WAS, UH, A LACK OF PARKLAND AND IN THIS AREA OF MISSOURI CITY, UM, APPROXIMATELY 4,500 RESIDENTS IN LESS THAN AN ACRE OF PARKLAND. UH, SO, UH, WE FEEL THIS IS, UH, A NEED AND RECOMMEND THAT WE PURSUE THE ACQUISITION OF THIS PROPERTY. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE A DISCUSSION AND CAN YOU REMIND, UM, THOSE THAT ARE PRESENT AND THOSE THAT ARE TUNING IN, UH, WHERE EXACTLY THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY IS THAT THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY IS, UH, NORTH OF, UH, HIGHWAY 90 AND USED TO SEND SOME PARKWAY ON THE INTERSECTION OF, UH, HAMPTON AND CATHY 8.8 0.34 ACRES. UM, AND THIS LAND WILL BE USED FOR PARKLAND AS WELL AS A, UM, UH, ADJACENT ROAD PROJECT. IN WHAT SUBDIVISIONS WOULD IT BE? UH, CLOSEST TO, UM, HONOR PARK. OKAY, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT THIS, UH, PROPERTY IS ALREADY ZONED CF, AND SO, UH, THIS IS THE PROPER USE OF THAT, UH, THAT PARTICULAR LAND. IT WOULDN'T HAVE TO BE RESOLVED. ALRIGHT. UH, THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY SECOND BY COUNCILMAN KLAUSER. THERE ARE NO OTHER DISCUSSION. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE. AYE. ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. THANK YOU, JASON. ITEM NUMBER [12. CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS] 12, OUR CITY COUNCIL COMMENTS. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND START WITH COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. IF WE CAN KEEP THE COMMENTS SOMEWHAT AS WE DO WITH CITIZENS, THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. WE CAN KEEP IT SOMEWHERE [00:55:01] AROUND THREE THEM THREE MINUTES OF POSSIBLE COUNCIL MEMBER. YES, ONE OF THE FIRST OFF SAY WELCOME TO MS. CRYSTAL ROME, UH, HER FIRST DAY ON THE JOB HERE, CITY COUNCIL. UH, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, CRYSTAL FOR JOINING US IN MISSOURI CITY IN THE CITY OF MISSOURI, THE SHOW ME CITY ONE, REMIND ALL OF OUR VOTERS TO GET OUT THERE AND VOTE EARLY. VOTING IS STILL GOING ON FROM TOMORROW TO FRIDAY. THE LAST DAY OF EARLY VOTE FROM 7:00 AM TO 7:00 PM. MISSOURI CITY IS ONE OF THE POLLING SITES AND ELECTION DAY IS ON TUESDAY, MARCH 1ST. AND FOR THOSE THAT LIVE IN DISTRICT A JUST WANT TO REMIND THOSE THAT ARE LISTENING. THAT DISTRICT EIGHT IS SPLIT BETWEEN HARRIS COUNTY AND FORT BEND COUNTY. IF YOU LIVE IN HARRIS COUNTY, YOU DO NEED TO GO TO A HARRIS COUNTY VOTING SITE AND VOTE. AND THOSE THAT LIVE ON THE FORT BEND SIDE OF DISTRICT A WILL NEED TO VOTE IN FORT BEND COUNTY. UM, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I ATTENDED THE TEXAS PARKWAY CORRIDOR ADVISORY MEETING. UH, WE WILL MAKE ABLE TO MAKE A LOT OF GOOD PROGRESS. UM, I WAS FORTUNATE AND BLESSED TO JOINED THE FREEDOM WALK IN COMMUNITY PARK, WHICH WAS THE INAUGURAL, UH, FREEDOM WALK. AND THAT WAS A VERY EMOTIONAL AND TOUCHING, UH, EMOTIONAL SITUATION FOR ME PERSONALLY, UH, JUST BECAUSE OF WHAT TOOK PLACE, UH, IN THIS COMMUNITY MANY, MANY YEARS AGO AND THE LIVES THAT WERE AFFECTED. SO, UM, THAT WAS, I IGNORE, IGNORE INAUGURAL EVENTS. I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO US DOING THIS ANNUALLY, ATTENDED THE THUNDER BOARD, UH, THUNDERBIRD NORTH HOA MEETING HAD A CHANCE TO MEET THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE. THE SUGAR LAND, 95 MEMORIAL EXHIBIT A, WHICH WAS ALSO, UM, VERY NEAR AND DEAR TO MY HEART SINCE I WAS A PART OF THAT MOVEMENT FROM INCEPTION AND THEY HONORED REGIONAL MOORE, WHO WAS THE LEAD PERSON THAT LED THAT CHARGE TO GET THOSE, UH, BODIES, UH, HONORED, WANT TO SAY A GREAT JOB TO ACHIEVE BEARS IN, IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH THE FLOP CAMERAS. UH, WE'RE SEEING SOME IMPROVEMENTS IN REDUCTION OF CRIME. I WANT TO PERSONALLY WISH MY DAUGHTER, CHERYL, WHO WHO'S MY NUMBER FOURTH CHILD. SHE BRANCHED OUT AND CREATED HER OWN RADIO SHOW, UH, AS A STUDENT OF U OF H GO KOOKS. AND I'M VERY PROUD OF HER. SO WANTED TO GIVE HER A SHOUT OUT THERE, UH, SENDING CONDOLENCES, UH, TO, UM, STAFFORD MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT BOARD PRESIDENT, WHO WAS A FRIEND OF MISSOURI CITY WHO LOST HIS FATHER. SO PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP THAT FAMILY IN YOUR PRAYERS SUPPORT PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER CALDWELL. UM, LASTLY, I JUST WANT TO SAY IN MY FIRST 60 DAYS OF SERVING ON COUNCIL HAS BEEN A JOY. IT ALSO HAS BEEN SOME GROWING PAINS, BUT I APPRECIATE, UM, ALL OF THE SUPPORT FROM THE COMMUNITY AND EVERYONE THAT HAS EMBRACED ME. AND SO AS WE CONTINUE ON BLACK HISTORY MONTH, I WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYONE TO PLEASE BE MINDFUL OF HOW WE TREAT ONE ANOTHER. AND TO REMEMBER THAT HOW THIS MONTH CELEBRATES THE LEGACY AND THE HISTORY AND EXCELLENCE OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN COMMUNITY. THANK YOU, COUNCIL AND MAYOR INS MY REPORT EDWARDS. THANK YOU. UM, LAST WEEK I WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THURGOOD MARSHALL'S PTO MEETING TO SPEAK WITH THE RESIDENTS AND THE FACULTY AND STUDENTS ABOUT MY UPCOMING POETRY CONTEST, WHICH IS GOING TO BE CONCLUDING ON WEDNESDAY. SO IF YOU KNOW ANY YOUTH THAT WOULD LIKE TO PARTICIPATE, I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO EXPRESS THEIR VISION AND CONCERNS ABOUT THE TEXAS PARKWAY CORRIDOR. OFTENTIMES WE MAKE THOSE DECISIONS WITHOUT HAVING INPUT, AND I BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE OUR NEXT GENERATION OF LEADERS AND IT'D BE GREAT TO HAVE THEIR INPUT. ALSO, I'D BE WANT TO WELCOME CRYSTAL, UM, TO THE TEAM AND THANK YOU FOR CHOOSING US. AND I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU IN THE FUTURE. UM, IN ADDITION, I JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE ALL OF THE TEACHERS THAT WERE, UM, ACKNOWLEDGED TODAY FOR THEIR EFFORTS AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO OUR YOUTH, A SPECIAL THANKS TO INA BROWN AND CONGRATULATING HIM WHO IS A NATIVE RESIDENT LIKE I SPOKE EARLIER. AND IT'S JUST WONDERFUL TO SEE, UM, PEOPLE THAT ARE HOME GROWN AND ACTUALLY GETTING BROUGHT UP TO BE AN EFFECTIVE MEMBER OF OUR COMMUNITY. SO THAT'S WONDERFUL AND I'M GLAD WE WERE ABLE TO CELEBRATE HIM. UM, ALSO I WOULD LIKE TO TELL MY MOM HAPPY BIRTHDAY. SHE IS A PILLAR OF THE COMMUNITY AND SHE EMPHASIZES HERSELF ON INCREASING VOTER PARTICIPATION, FEEDING AND ENCOURAGING THOUSANDS OF RESIDENTS DAILY WITH HER SMALL BUSINESS KNOWN AS THE GREATEST BARBECUE. AND SHE'S OFTEN IS, UM, SOUGHT OUT FOR COMMUNITY ADVISORY AND DIFFERENT THINGS OF THAT. SO I JUST WANT TO THANK HER PUBLICLY FOR HER DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT TO OUR COMMUNITY. UM, I HAD MY FIRST MEETING WITH THE SITA COMMITTEE, AND SO I JUST WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO JENNIFER AND HER TEAM FOR LAYING OUT THE RED CARPET FOR ME, MAKING SURE THAT I UNDERSTOOD EVERYTHING THAT WAS BEING BROUGHT TO ME AND THAT I WAS ABREAST TO ANY FUTURE CONCERNS. SO I LOOK FORWARD TO SERVING ON THAT COMMITTEE AND I THANK YOU. UM, LAST BUT NOT LEAST, UM, KNOWLEDGE FIRST ACADEMY IS HOSTING THEIR FIRST CHESS CLUB MEETING. [01:00:01] UM, MARCH 5TH, IT'S A FREE EVENT AND IT WILL BE HELD EACH AND EVERY SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. SO IF YOU KNOW ANY YOUTH THAT ARE INTERESTED IN JOINING A CHESS CLUB, PLEASE HAVE THEM REACH OUT TO KNOWLEDGE FIRST. AND THEY WILL ACTUALLY BE HOSTING THE EVENT FROM 10 TO ONE O'CLOCK EACH AND EVERY SATURDAY. I DID SAY THAT I WAS FINISHED, BUT I'M ACTUALLY HAVE A COUPLE MORE POINTS. UM, I DO WANT TO ACKNOWLEDGE, UM, FORMER MAYOR FOR YOLANDA FOR, FOR HER CONTRIBUTIONS TO MISSOURI CITY. FOR OVER 10 YEARS, THAT DEDICATION, WE CANNOT CELEBRATE BACK HISTORY WITHOUT ACKNOWLEDGING THE FIRST AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMAN WHO'S ACTUALLY SERVED IN THE MAYOR POSITION. AND SO I'LL ALSO WANT TO GIVE HER HER FLOWERS AND ACKNOWLEDGE HER FOR HER WONDERFUL EFFORTS IN MOVING THE CITY FORWARD. UM, ALSO THE LADIES AND GENTS OF THE HEART DISEASE AWARENESS IS HAVING A WALK-A-THON ON THIS SATURDAY. I BELIEVE I AM LOCATED AT HUNTER'S GLEN PARK, 1340 INDEPENDENCE. SO IF YOU WANT TO STOP BY WHERE YOU'RE RED AND SHOW THAT, UM, IT'S NECESSARY TO BRING AWARENESS TO HEART DISEASE, WHICH IS THE ONE OF THE NUMBER ONE KILLER, ISN'T THE SILENT KILLER AT THAT. AND SO THAT WAS MY NOTLEY'S. THIS IS MY LAST ONE. FOR REAL THIS TIME, I WAS ABLE TO COORDINATE A HUGE DONATION WITH THE BROTHERS OF JUDAH MASON LODGE, NUMBER 28, AND A VARIETY OF CLOTHES, HYGIENE PRODUCTS. AND WE WERE ABLE TO DISTRIBUTE THAT TO FORT BEND PROMISE OR THE FAMILY PROMISE. SO, UM, IT WAS A BUSY TWO WEEKS AND I WAS JUST ABLE TO CONTINUE TO STILL SERVE AND REPRESENT THE COMMUNITY THE BEST OF MY ABILITY. THANK YOU GUYS. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MURALS. SURE. THANK YOU EVER BEEN SOME WONDERFUL BLACK HISTORY EVENTS THROUGHOUT THE MONTH. WE START OFF WITH ART ARTISTS DANCE. WE HAD THE FREEDOM TREE WALK WHERE WE HAD A KEYNOTE SPEAKER, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM BONY DID AN OUTSTANDING JOB, REALLY SUMMARIZING WHAT THAT PIECE OF LAND AND WHAT THAT HISTORY MEANS TO THE COMMUNITY AND TO, TO THE WHOLE ENTIRE COUNTRY. SO I'VE ENJOYED THOSE EVENTS AND I'VE ASKED THE COMMUNITY TO CONTINUE TO PARTICIPATE IN THOSE EVENTS. ON SATURDAY, I PARTICIPATED AT THE LANDMARK A FACILITY WHERE THERE WAS ARTS AND DANCE, AND I WANT TO THANK TROY AND CHARITY CARTER FOR ALL THEY'RE DOING TO PROMOTE BLACK HISTORY MONTH. UM, AND THEN LASTLY, I WANT TO THANK, UM, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, THE TDC COMMITTEE. I FORGET WHAT YOU CALL IT. JEFF READ THAT, BUT THE TEXAS, IT HAS LOW NAME. UM, THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT GROWTH AND ACTIVITY GOING ON IN THIS CITY TO INCLUDE TEXAS PARKWAY AND CARTWRIGHT. THE COMMUNITIES INVOLVED ARE B TEAMS IS AUBREY'S TEAM IS INVOLVED AND WE'RE DOING SOME GREAT CREATIVE THINGS LIKE A PATIO PROGRAM, LIKE THE RESTAURANT, UM, RECRUITMENT PROGRAM, THE FACADE PROGRAM IS SO MUCH MORE, AND THIS IS BECAUSE OF US LISTENING TO OUR COMMUNITY, BUT OUR COMMUNITY BE INVOLVED WITH US. SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYBODY FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND MOVING THE CITY FORWARD. AND THAT'S MY THANK YOU. YES, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. UM, UM, I WANT TO CONGRATULATE CRYSTAL, UM, AND WELCOME YOU OFFICIALLY TO THE SHOW ME CITY AND WE HAVE THROWN YOU IN AND, AND, UH, YOU'RE GOING TO BE A GREAT ASSET TO US. UM, I ATTENDED THE SECOND, UM, MISSOURI CITY COFFEE WITH LEADERSHIP MET WITH MANY MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY AND LOTS OF BUSINESS COMMUNITY MEMBERS WERE THERE. UM, WE ALSO HAD SOME OF OUR, UH, AFRICAN-AMERICAN ARTISTS THERE AS WELL. UM, AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THE NEXT ONE. ALSO, WE HAD OUR SMALL BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING, AND I HAVE TO JUST SAY THAT THIS TEAM LED BY, UH, AUBREY NETTLES IS SO MOTIVATED AND HOW PROUD I AM OF THEM. THEY SHOW UP, THEY STAY ENGAGED, UM, THEY'RE READY TO ALWAYS, UM, PITCH THEIR IDEAS AND MAKE THINGS HAPPEN. AND SO I'M, I'M JUST SO EXCITED FOR THAT COMMITTEE AND ALSO OUR SMALL BUSINESS COMMUNITY THAT REACHED THE BENEFITS OF ALL OF THE FRUITS OF THEIR LABOR. SO THANK YOU, AUDREY, FEBRUARY 12TH, I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRESENT A PROCLAMATION, UM, TO MS. LAUREN ANDERSON AT THE FORT BEN DANCE ACADEMY. SHE HOSTS A DANCE CAMP EACH YEAR. AND SO I PRESENTED A PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF MISSOURI CITY TO HER. SHE'S THE FIRST PRINCIPAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN BALLET DANCER TO JOIN, UM, THE HOUSTON BALLET. AND SO IT WAS JUST, SHE WAS VERY SHOCKED BY THIS PROCLAMATION. IT WAS AN HONOR TO PRESENT THAT TO HER AFTERWARDS, I JOINED MY COLLEAGUES FOR THE, UH, FREEDOM WALK, UM, WHERE MAYOR PRO TEM BONY GAVE A VERY, VERY MOVING KEY SPEECH. AND SO, UM, IT WAS VERY TOUCHING. AND SO, UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT. UH, WHEREVER IN BONEY, UM, FIRE STATION TOUR, I WANT TO THANK YOU PARTITA. UM, WE ATTENDED, UM, AND TOURED GOT A SNEAK PEEK OF THE WONDERFUL FIRE STATION SIX THAT, UM, IS IN PARKS EDGE. AND WHAT I'M MOST EXCITED ABOUT IS NOT ONLY THE STATE OF THE ART BUILDING, BUT THE TECHNOLOGY, [01:05:01] THE NEW TECHNOLOGY THAT WE'LL BE ABLE TO UTILIZE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT TOUR. UM, HAD OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, MEETING AND WE DISCUSSED MANY UPCOMING PROJECTS, UM, FOR MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS. AND I'M JUST REALLY EXCITED ABOUT WHERE WE'RE AND WHERE WE'RE HEADED. ALSO ATTENDED THE SUGAR SUGARLAND 95, UM, PRIVATE EVENT AND ALSO PET SUPPLIES PLUS GRAND OPENING. UM, THEY ARE A FAMILY OWNED BUSINESS, UM, RIGHT ON HIGHWAY SIX. AND WHAT'S REALLY INTERESTING IS THAT YOU CAN TAKE YOUR PET IN AND ACTUALLY GIVE YOUR PET A WASH FOR YOURSELF. SO THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT MAYOR. UH, IF YOU'VE BEEN DOWN 10 92, YOU NOTICE THAT THEY'RE PUTTING IN THE NEW MEDIANS, UH, SATURDAY OR FRIDAY. WE, UH, I DID A DRIVE THROUGH WITH SHASHI AND JEREMY TO LOOK AT THE, UH, PROGRESS THEY WERE MAKING AND WHERE THERE MIGHT BE AREAS WHERE, UH, WE WERE LOOKING FOR SOME, UH, UH, WORK AROUND BY TECH STOCKS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS AND OUR BUSINESSES HAVE A GOOD ACCESS IN AND OUT OF THEIR, UH, UH, THEIR ESTABLISHMENT. SO, UH, I THINK IT'S GOING WELL. UH, WE'RE WAITING FOR, I GUESS, FOR TEXTILE TO TELL US WHETHER OR NOT THEY'RE GOING TO ACCEPT THOSE, UH, WORK AROUNDS THAT WE, UH, WE FOUND, BUT, UH, I'M CONFIDENT THAT, UH, JEREMY AND SASHA WOULD BE ABLE TO HAVE BEEN SOME, UH, SOME ARMS AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THOSE, UH, WORK AROUND SIN, UH, BLACK HISTORY MONTH. I ALSO, UH, UH, HAD THE HONOR OF AWARD WALKING FROM, UH, UH, COMMUNITY PARK TO FREEDOM TREE, UH, AND, UH, GOT A STIRRING, UH, UH, MESSAGE FROM OUR MAYOR PRO TEM. THE, HE WAS CALLED THESE, UH, KEYNOTE SPEAKER BY, UH, AL GREEN. AND I DIDN'T GET AL GREEN TO CALL YOU A KEYNOTE SPEAKER, YOU KNOW, THAT YOU'VE DONE SOMETHING. SO, UH, IT WAS, UH, IT WAS REALLY A GREAT STEERING, UH, PRESENTATION AND, UH, THAT, UH, UH, UM, MAYOR PRO TEM BONY, UH, PROVIDED, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT, UH, THE RIBBON CUTTING FOR THE MISSOURI CITY BUSINESS THAT'S SUPPLY PLUS, UM, AUBREY, THE MAYOR, LYNN AND MYSELF, PROVIDING A TRY A PROCLAMATION AND ALSO, UH, A RIBBON FARM. SO, UH, IF YOU'VE GOT A PET, I GUARANTEE YOU THEY'VE GOT SOMETHING FOR EVERY PET THAT YOU CAN THINK OF. UH, I THINK AUBREY'S ALREADY BOUGHT HALF OF THE STORE OUT, SO, UM, IT'S A WELL-STOCKED AND, UH, IT'S, IT'S, UH, A GREAT BUSINESS FROM MISSOURI CITY. ALSO THE, UH, OUR STATION SIX STORE, UH, BUY CHEAPER TITA, UH, AGAIN, ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF A MISSOURI CITY MOVING FIRST AND MOVING FORWARD. AND, UH, ALSO THAT, UH, HOW SERIOUS WE ARE ABOUT, UH, THE SAFETY OF OUR RESIDENTS AND BUSINESSES, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THAT STATION THERE NOW, AND THAT REALLY HELPS US COVER A MUCH LARGER AREA, UH, WITH, UH, SOME REDUCED, UH, UH, RESPONSE TIME. SO, UH, AND WE HAD COFFEE WITH THE LEADERSHIP. THAT'S ALWAYS A GREAT EVENT. UM, YOU GET TO MEET A NUMBER OF, UH, PEOPLE THAT, UH, HAVE, UH, BUSINESSES WITHIN MISSOURI CITY, OR MAYBE THINKING ABOUT PUTTING BUSINESSES IN MISSOURI CITY. AND THIS IS A GREAT WAY TO, UH, NETWORK AND, UH, UH, SHOW, UH, UH, INDIVIDUALS, BUSINESSES, UH, JUST WHAT MISSOURI CITY IS ALL ABOUT. SO WITH THAT MAYOR, THAT'S MY, UH, COMMENTS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR, UM, YOU KNOW, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY THE 12TH WAS A VERY, VERY, UH, MOVING DAY, UH, IN OUR CITY. UH, I'M MOST EXCITED THAT I WAS ABLE TO JOIN MY COLLEAGUES AND PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT WALKS OF LIFE, DIFFERENT RACES, DIFFERENT AGE GROUPS, WALKING FROM COMMUNITY PARK TO FREEDOM PARK, UH, FREEDOM TREE PARK, AND, UH, JUST DOING IT IN A, IN A, IN A SPIRIT OF UNITY AND, UM, IN LOVE, UH, THERE'S SO MUCH THAT SEEKS TO TRY TO DIVIDE US IN THIS CITY. AND FOR THAT MOMENT, YOU KNOW, FOR US ALL WALKING TOGETHER IN UNITY FOR A COMMON PURPOSE AND GOOD, YOU KNOW, IT JUST FELT RIGHT AND IT FELT GOOD. AND THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE MISSOURI CITY REPRESENTS AND WHO WE ARE AS, AS A COLLECTIVE. UH, NOT JUST MAYBE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE LOUDEST VOICES THAT WE HEAR, UH, DON'T REPRESENT, [01:10:01] YOU KNOW, THE INDIVIDUALS THAT REPRESENT THIS GREAT CITY. SO THANK YOU. UM, AGAIN, MAYOR, UH, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP AND PULLING TOGETHER THIS BLACK HISTORY MONTH CELEBRATION, NOT JUST DAY CELEBRATION, UH, TO ALLOW US TO PARTICIPATE IN, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE OTHER ACTIVITIES TO FORTH THAT ARE FORTHCOMING, BUT, UH, THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT GREAT MONTH TO CELEBRATE OUR HISTORY. UH, BECAUSE AS I SAY ALL THE TIME, AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY OF BLACK HISTORY IS AMERICAN HISTORY. AND WE SHOULD NEVER FORGET THAT ALSO ON THAT DAY, PRIOR TO THAT WALL, THAT DIGNITARIES FOR FREEDOM WALK, UM, AL GREEN CONGRESSMAN AL GREEN JOINED US. BUT BEFORE THAT, WE HAD A MEETING, UM, MAYOR, UH, ALLOCATE, UH, COUNCIL ON CLOUDS OR MYSELF WITH CONGRESSMAN GREEN WHO WANTED TO VISIT WITH, UM, THE INDIVIDUALS WHO HELPED SPEARHEAD THE CHANGE FROM CONFEDERATE DRIVE TO PROSPERITY DRIVE. AND NOT ONLY DID HE WANT TO MEET THEM, BUT HE WANTED TO CONVENE A MEETING WITH OTHER STAKEHOLDERS IN THAT AREA. AND HE MADE A PERSONAL PROMISE, UH, THAT ANYONE WHO WANTED TO MAKE A CHANGE FROM THOSE OFFENSIVE AND DEMEANING STREET NAMES TO A NEW NAME, HE WOULD PERSONALLY PAY OUT OF HIS OWN POCKET, THE COST TO COVER THAT, YOU KNOW, TO, TO BRING ABOUT THAT CHANGE. UH, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS HUGE BECAUSE THERE WAS QUITE A FEW STREETS IN THERE THAT NEED TO COME DOWN AND CHANGE. BUT, UM, FOR HIM TO COMMIT OUT OF HIS PERSONAL PROCEEDS TO DO THAT. AND AS YOU'VE HEARD TODAY DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS, TWO OF THOSE STREETS AFTER THAT MEETING UNFETTERED SOUTH AND CONFEDERATE, UH, COURT, UH, THEY GOT, UH, 80 AND 90% OF THE PEOPLE OVER 80 AND 90% OF THE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE. SO, UM, THIS HAS BEEN A GOOD MONTH. THAT WAS A GOOD DAY. UM, MOVING ON COFFEE, WE LEADERSHIP, I ATTENDED THAT ALWAYS GOOD. LET'S KEEP THAT GOING. WE HAD OUR PDI COMMITTEE MEETING, UH, TEXAS PARKWAY, CARTWRIGHT CORRIDOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE MEETING. AND OUR CDAC MEETING BETWEEN THIS TIME AND OUR LAST MEETING, I WANT TO REMIND OR NOT REMIND, BUT LET EVERYONE KNOW. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT OUR COMMITTEE DECIDED UPON IS ON MARCH 31ST, WE WERE GOING TO HAVE A TOWN HALL MEETING, UH, AS A COMMITTEE, THE TEXAS PARKWAY CARD, RIGHT CORRIDOR ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO NOT ONLY INTRODUCE THE COMMITTEE TO THE, TO THE PUBLIC, UH, TO SEE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE BEHIND THE SCENES HAS BEEN WORKING SO HARD, BUT ALSO TO, UM, ROLL OUT AND LET EVERYBODY KNOW ALL OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT WE'VE, THAT WE'VE BEEN DOING AND THE THINGS THAT ARE FORTHCOMING. AND I KNOW THAT PEOPLE WILL BE EXCITED. SO AGAIN, THAT'S MARCH 31ST, UH, 6:00 PM, RIGHT ON. THANK YOU. UH, LAST FEW THINGS BY OUR STATION SIX TOUR WENT WELL. THANK YOU, CHIEF PARTITA AND TEAM. UM, I ATTENDED FORT BEND COUNTY JUDGES, UH, KP GEORGE'S, UH, MUSICAL CELEBRATION, DIVERSITY AND SONG, UH, EVENT, UH, I'M RICHMOND, UH, ON BEHALF OF CITY, MISSOURI CITY. UM, AND THAT WAS A WELL ATTENDED EVENT. AND, UM, IT WAS WONDERFUL JUST TO HEAR, UH, SOME OF THE GREAT MUSIC AND HISTORY BEHIND IT. UH, ALSO ATTENDED THE SUGAR LAND, 95 EXHIBIT OPENING AND PROGRAM WITH, UH, COUNCIL, WOMAN CLOUSER AND COUNCIL, WOMAN RILEY, AND, UH, CITY MANAGER, UH, CHARLES JACKSON. AND THEN OF COURSE OUR NEW CIO, CEDRIC COLE. UM, WE HAD OUR, I MODERATED A FORT BEND COUNTY CANDIDATE FORUM. THAT WAS INTERESTING, UH, AT THE LANDMARK COMMUNITY CENTER. UM, THAT WAS GREAT. I ATTENDED CHLOE JOINER'S BOOK GIVEAWAY, UH, ON YESTERDAY. THAT WAS GREAT. AND I JUST WANT TO THANK AGAIN, MY COLLEAGUES, UH, THE PARKS BOARD AND THE PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR, UH, CHOOSING TO NAME THIS NEW PARK AND PARKS EDGE AFTER RANDY TRUCKS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR ME. SOME OF THE SAME, UM, EVENTS THAT I'VE ATTENDED AS WELL, BUT THERE'S, UM, A FEW THAT I LIKE TO TALK ABOUT IS, UM, WANT TO THANK PARKS DEPARTMENT FOR ARRANGING THE FREEDOM PARK WALK. NOW WE HAD ONE OF THE THINGS STAFF WERE COMING OUT THERE AND I DID SEE OUR DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, UH, AND ALONG WITH OTHERS THAT WAS THERE FOR THE WALK. SO, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER WE'RE OUT IN THE COMMUNITY, WHEN WE SEE STAFF LEVEL, YOU KNOW, THAT'S REPRESENTING THE CITY, IT'S ALWAYS A GREAT THING TO, TO SEE THAT AND TO BE PART OF THAT MAYOR'S YOUTH COMMISSION MET AT HHC. SO I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK, UM, AJC AND THAT LEADERSHIP FOR ALLOWING THEM TO BE THERE AND KIND OF SEE THEIR PROGRAM. YOU KNOW, THEY SPEND A LOT OF TIME. THEY HAD, UM, STAFF THAT WAS THERE IN BOATS, UH, FIGURING OUT, YOU KNOW, GIVING THESE OPPORTUNITIES FOR KIDS TO SEE SOME OF THE PROGRAMS THAT H H H C HOST [01:15:01] MYSELF, UH, CONSTANT MEMBER CLOUSER, UH, MAYOR PROTON, BONEY, AS WELL AS CHARLES JACKSON WERE THERE. UM, AND THEY WERE GIVING OUT SHIRTS TO OUR KIDS. UM, SO IT WAS A GREAT PARTNERSHIP AND ALL, WE HAVE MANY PARTNERS, BUT H H H C HAS BEEN A GREAT PARTNER TO CITY OF MISSOURI CITY. UM, I DID HAVE A CHANCE TO MEET WITH, UH, HOUSTON HUMANE SOCIETY. YEAH. HERE AND AT THE CITY HALL. THEY'RE GOING TO BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH MYSELF AND, UH, SHASHI KUMAR HAD THAT OPPORTUNITY TO MEET WITH THEM. AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE WORKING CLOSELY WITH THAT DEPARTMENT AND TRYING TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, THAT WE NEEDED TO WORK FORWARD. AND IT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THEM. I DID GET AN, UH, OPPORTUNITY TO ALSO TO BE AT SHERLYN 95, TO GIVE A PROCLAMATION ON BEHALF OF THE CITY AND FOR THEIR FOUR YEAR ANNIVERSARY. UH, WE WILL HAVE A COUPLE OF UPCOMING EVENTS. UH, OUR CLOSING OUT OF OUR BLACK HISTORY MONTH WILL BE THIS COMING SATURDAY. IT'LL BE STARTS AROUND 4:00 PM, HOPEFULLY TILL ABOUT 8:00 PM. UM, AS IF YOU GO OUT OF THIS HALL, YOU'LL SEE THE BIG, THE LARGE PAINTING THAT'S BEEN PAINTED BY MR. FREEMAN. AND WE WILL FAIL THAT AT THE CITY HALL ON SATURDAY. AND THERE WILL BE PROGRAMS THROUGH HERE. I'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR YOU TO COME OUT AND PURCHASE THESE, UM, LOCAL ARTISTS, UM, YOU KNOW, THEIR DRAWINGS AND THEIR PAINTINGS. UH, SO THERE WILL BE SOME OPPORTUNITY HERE, AS WELL AS AT CLOSE, I DO WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK TWO AREAS. UM, ONE, CONGRATULATIONS TO JASON, DANIELLE, YOUR ENTIRE TEAM OF PARKS FOR WINNING A STATE LEVEL RECOGNITION. UM, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME CELEBRATION THAT'S COMING UP, BUT I MEAN, THAT WAS DEFINITELY, UH, MCT X PROUD MOMENT. UM, AND YOU KNOW, WE HEAR THAT IF YOU'RE NEW TO MISSOURI CITY, IF YOU HEAR MISSOURI CITY, YOU HEAR PARKS. I MEAN, IT IS A FACT, UH, WE HAVE ABOUT 21 PARKS, HOPEFULLY 22 NOW MAYOR PRO TEM WITH TRUCKS APART. UH, WE DO TAKE VERY PRIDE IN THAT, IN THAT, IN, IN OUR PARKS. SO WE THANK YOU. LASTLY, WANT TO CONGRATULATE AND WELCOME CRYSTAL LOAN TO THE TEAM TO SIT IN SECRETARY'S OFFICE WHILE WE WELCOME YOU. I ALSO WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK VICKY, UM, FOR HER HARD WORK, UH, FOR THE PAST, UH, I WOULD SAY AROUND THANKSGIVING IS WHEN THAT, UH, OPPORTUNITY CAME OPEN AND WITH LIMITED RESOURCES AS STAFF, UM, AND SHE PULLED IT THROUGH AND AN ELECTION. UH, WE HAD AN ELECTION DURING THAT NOVEMBER, SO THE DATA'S AND ALL OF THAT, UH, WILL PULL THROUGH. SO A LOT OF TIMES WE DON'T GIVE KUDOS TO OUR STAFF, BUT VICKI, I CAN'T SEE YOU, BUT THANK YOU. THAT ENDS MY REPORT. I HAVE NUMBER 13 ARE CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE, UH, ITEM NUMBER 14. IS THERE ANY FURTHER BUSINESS HEARING? NONE. THIS MEETING IS ADJOURNED. TIME IS 8:42 PM. THANK YOU ALL. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.