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          THANK YOU 
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FOR YOUR TIME TONIGHT. 
          THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME. 
          UM, EVERY SO 
          [(a) Receive a Presentation and Update on the Harris County Metropolitan Tr...]
OFTEN WE HAVE ELECTIONS, UH, IN THIS TOWN, IN THIS AREA AND, UH, FOR THE NEW PEOPLE ON THE COUNCIL, I JUST, I'M YOUR REPRESENTATIVE ON METRO. 
          AND I WANTED TO COME IN AND JUST GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF THE MULTI CITIES AS IT RELATES TO MISSOURI CITY. 
          AND, UM, BASICALLY, UM, MISSOURI CITY IT'S ON THIS POINT, SOME OF YOU COUNCIL PEOPLE WE'VE MET BEFORE THERE ARE GOING TO BE, UH, UH, THIS IS GOING TO BE OLD NEWS, BUT THERE'S GOING TO BE NEW THINGS FOR NEW PEOPLE. 
          SO KIND OF BEAR WITH ME, UH, IN 19, IN THE LATE SEVENTIES, AN AREA WIDE, UH, REFERENDUM PASSED THAT CREATED METRO. 
          THERE WERE FOUR 15 CITIES THAT ELECTED IN THAT, UH, THAT WERE SUPPORTIVE, TAXING THEMSELVES OF MOBILITY. 
          AND THEY IN THE REGION, MISSOURI CITY WAS ONE OF THEM. 
          THE BIGGEST ONE WAS HOUSTON, OF COURSE, AND THERE WERE 14 OTHER CITIES, UM, THAT ALSO VOTED TO SUPPORT METRO. 
          THE METRO BOARD IS REPRESENTED BY FIVE PEOPLE FROM HOUSTON, TWO FROM HARRIS COUNTY AND TWO FROM THE MULTI-ASSET CITIES. 
          THERE'S TWO FROM THE MULTI CITIES OR ME, BOB FRY, AND DON ELDER, WHO IS A FORMER MAYOR OF KT. 
          I WAS THE FORMER MAYOR OF WEST UNIVERSITY PLACE. 
          THE, UM, 14 MAYORS, OUR, OUR BOSS, WE HAVE, UH, THEY MEET ONCE A YEAR, SHOULD MEET ONCE A YEAR FOR AN ELECTION. 
          UH, AND THEY ELECT US TO BE THEIR REPRESENTATIVES TO THE BOARD. 
          WE SERVE TWO, TWO YEAR TERM, A TWO YEAR TERM. 
          WE ARE RENEWED, EVERY CAN BE RENEWED EVERY TWO YEARS. 
          WE WERE TERM LIMITED AT EIGHT YEARS. 
          UM, THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, UH, BY THAT SAME REFERENDUM, THE CREATED METRO ALSO STATED THAT THE BIGGEST CITY, UH, OF THE, OF THE REGION, UH, MELT AS CITIES WOULD BE THE CHAIRMAN, UH, OF THE OTHER, THE MULTI CITIES. 
          SO YOUR MAYOR IS THE CHAIRMAN OF THAT 14 CITIES, UH, AND, UH, WHO I REALLY CONSIDER MY BOSS, ALTHOUGH I GOT 14 BOSSES. 
          UM, I, I REALLY HAVE TO WORK CLOSELY WITH ROBIN. 
          SO, UM, THE, UH, BOARD WITH THE FIVE MEMBERS USED, UH, BECAUSE OF THE NUMBERS, THEY GET HAVE TO HAVE THEIR CHAIRMAN, THEY GET THE CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, AND WE JUST HAD A CHAIRMAN ELECTED THIS PAST THURSDAY, UH, AS A NEW CHAIRMAN, UH, ASSIGNED J RON MAHAJAN IS A CONSULTING ENGINEER AND, UH, IS TO BE VERY GOOD. 
          THE METRO FROM MY STANDPOINT HAS TWO, UH, OVERRIDING, UM, RESPONSIBILITIES. 
          THE FIRST IS TO KEEP YOU GUYS INFORMED THROUGH YOUR MAYOR OF WHAT'S GOING ON AT METRO. 
          THE SECOND FUNCTION IS BE SURE THAT AT THE BOARD LEVEL, METRO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON IN MISSOURI CITY AND WHAT YOUR ISSUES ARE. 
          THAT'S THE TWO THINGS THAT OVERRIDE EVERYTHING BEYOND THAT, MY PERSONAL FOCUS IS ON THE EFFICIENT AND COST EFFECTIVE, UM, MANAGEMENT OF METRO RIGHT NOW. 
          METRO IS VERY WELL MANAGED IN MY OPINION, THE CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER TOM LAMBERT HAD BEEN THE POLICE CHIEF OF METRO BEFORE HE BECAME THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OR THE CEO. 
          UH, AND I THINK HE'S DONE A WONDERFUL JOB PUTTING TOGETHER GOOD STAFF WHEN I WAS MAYOR AND I WAS DEALING WITH METRO. 
          I COULD NOT HAVE SAID THAT, BUT, UH, WITH LAMBERT, UH, THERE, UH, VERY COMFORTABLE, I, UH, KNOW THAT, UM, MISSOURI CITY WAS, UH, WAS VERY ONE OF THE BIGGEST CITIES. 
          IT MAY HAVE BEEN THE BIGGEST WHEN THE FIRST REFERENDUM WAS PASSED TO VOTE FOR IT. 
          I DO KNOW THAT THIS LAST TIME WE VOTED FOR CONTINUING THE, UH, MONEY THAT, UH, MISSOURI CITY GETS FROM THE, UH, METRO THAT, UH, HE WORE THE, BY FAR, THE BIGGEST BY FAR, YOU WERE 72, HE VOTED FOR AN OVER 73%. 
          I THINK THE NEXT BIGGEST WAS WEST U, WHICH IS ABOUT 71%. 
          SO YOU'VE BEEN VERY SUPPORTIVE. 
          UH, AND I'LL GO INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT. 
          WHEN, UM, METRO WAS CREATED, 25% OF THE SALES TAX WAS SET ASIDE FOR MOBILITY PROJECTS WHEN, 
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UM, AND THEY SET UP WITH ON METRO. 
          THEY HAD A GROUP THAT, UH, DESIGNED SPECS AND, UH, EXPENDED THE MONEY FOR THOSE PROJECTS LATER ON. 
          THEY, UM, DECIDED TO LET THE CITIES TAKE OVER THAT MOBILITY PART. 
          SO THEY, UH, WENT INTO NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE CITY AND MOST CITIES CAME UP WITH ABOUT HALF PERCENT OF THAT 1 CENT MOBILITY SALES TAX THAT HADN'T BEEN ENACTED BACK IN THE SEAT REFERENDUM. 
          SO RIGHT NOW WITH SALES TAX, YOU'RE BRINGING IN THIS PAST YEAR, YOU BROUGHT IN ABOUT 10 PLUS MILLION IN SALES TAX OF WHICH YOU GOT A, FOR THAT 1%, THIS MOBILITY, YOU GOT BACK A LITTLE OVER 5 MILLION ON TOP OF THAT, YOU GOT OVER $6 MILLION OF SERVICES FROM METRO WITHIN THE CITY. 
          AND SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THIS AGREEMENT ARE GOING BACK INTO THE EARLY PART OF THE AGREEMENTS, UH, YOU HAVE RECEIVED ALMOST $80 MILLION IN, UH, MOBILITY FUNDS FROM METRO. 
          UM, AND THAT KIND OF BRINGS YOU UP TO DATE ON WHAT'S GOING ON. 
          AND, UM, I AM ACTIVELY LOOKING AFTER EXTRA HERE, INTEREST IN STAYING IN TOUCH WITH ROBIN AT THE BOARD LEVEL. 
          UM, I HOPE THAT, UH, WE CAN, UH, KEEP YOU INFORMED IF YOU WOULD LIKE FOR ME TO SEND SOMEBODY OUT HERE FROM STAFF OR IF YOU'D LIKE TO COME DOWNTOWN, UM, FEEL FREE TO LET ME KNOW. 
          UM, BUT I'M ENJOYING WORKING WITH YOUR MAYOR AND ANY TIME ANY OF YOU HAVE ANYTHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW ABOUT METRO WORK THROUGH YOUR MAYOR, BUT I'LL BE HAPPY TO SEE WHAT I CAN DO FOR ROBIN. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I THANK YOU, BOB. 
          JUST STAY THERE FOR A FEW MINUTES. 
          UM, JUST WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT METRO. 
          THIS IS ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT WE'RE PLANNING ON HAVING MOVING FORWARD. 
          I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND NOT ONLY UNDERSTAND WHAT OUR POSITION IS, BUT OBVIOUSLY WITH THE W WITH, YOU KNOW, HALF A PENNY THAT'S GIVEN BACK TO YOU AND CONNIE ENGAGING IN THOSE CONVERSATIONS AS IT NEEDS TO BEFORE YOU GO. 
          I LIKE TO ASK THE CITY COUNCIL TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS. 
          I MEAN, YEAH, I HAD ONE QUESTION. 
          UH, YOU MENTIONED THAT, UH, MR. CITIES RECEIVED $80 MILLION WORTH OF SERVICES. 
          CAN YOU TELL ME HOW MUCH WE PAID IN, UH, FOR THAT 80 MILLION? NO, I CANNOT. 
          I I'LL FIND OUT FOR YOU THOUGH. 
          YES, BECAUSE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING MORE THAN OUR FAIR SHARE. 
          WELL, UH, I THINK YOU ARE AT A, I HAD SOME NUMBERS THAT WOULD, UH, HELP ME, UH, UNDERSTAND THAT AND, UH, I WOULD APPRECIATE IT. 
          I'LL DO IT. 
          OKAY. 
          LAST TIME, LAST TIME WE HAD A REALLY GOOD MEETING WITH YOU GUYS. 
          WE ACTUALLY DID A TOUR. 
          GOT A REALLY GOOD FEEL FOR HOW, UH, METRO WORKS OPERATES FROM THAT MEETING. 
          THERE WAS SOME ACTION ITEMS TAKEN FROM THERE TO INCLUDE SOME DATA. 
          THE COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY MENTIONED AND WHATNOT. 
          AND I'VE NOT SEEN THAT, UH, COME BACK FROM THAT LEADERSHIP TEAM YET. 
          SO I WOULD SAY IT WAS PROBABLY, UM, MAYBE FEBRUARY. 
          IT WAS SHORTLY AFTER THE MAYOR HAD BEEN ELECTED AND HE WANTED TO LEARN MORE ABOUT THE TRANSIT WHATNOT. 
          SO WE PUT TOGETHER A TOUR. 
          SO I DON'T KNOW IF OTHER MEMBERS REMEMBER, BUT I THINK HAS MADE ME FEBRUARY, MARCH. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, ALL RIGHT, I'LL GO BACK. 
          AND, UH, IF, UH, WHAT, WHAT CAME OF THAT? OKAY. 
          IT WAS A TOUR. 
          AND MAY YOU WERE PART OF THE TOUR? I DID NOT GO TO THE TOUR. 
          OKAY. 
          OKAY. 
          IT WAS MOST OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, AMERICA NOT ATTENDING, HAD ANOTHER MEETING, I BELIEVE, BUT AIR PRO WAS THERE, COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          I'LL GO BACK AND CHECK, UH, WHAT CAME OUT OF THAT MEETING? WHY, WHY, AND YOU SAY IT DID NOT GET BACK TO YOU, UH, 5% THE SAME. 
          YEAH. 
          I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING THAT YOU WERE A PART OF THAT MEETING WEEK. 
          YEAH, THOUGH WE ASK AND AGAIN, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE PUTTING OUT QUITE A HEAVY, UH, OUTLAY OF CASH TO METRO, AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE GETTING, YOU KNOW, UH, IN KIND, UH, SERVICES THAT, UH, THAT EQUAL THAT. 
          AND, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS, IF, YOU KNOW, AND IF, IF WE'RE NOT, THEN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE NEED TO SEE IF WE CAN ENTERTAIN, UH, WELL, YOU KNOW, BRINGING BACK A LITTLE BIT MORE OF, OF OUR MONEY THAT WE GIVE TO YOU BACK TO MISSOURI CITY TO USE FOR OUR, UH, OUR, UH, MOBILITY, UH, UH, PROJECTS, WHICH IS WHAT WE, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO USE IT FOR. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO, UH, WE'RE LOOKING FOR SOME, YOU KNOW, SOME ASSISTANCE, UH, IN OUR, UH, REVENUE STREAM. 
          SO ONE THINGS THAT I WANT TO LOOK AT IS, YOU KNOW, CAN METRO HELP US WITH THAT, UH, REVENUE STREAM? I HEAR YOU, I HEAR YOU. 
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OKAY, MARY, I JUST WANT TO SAY, UH, YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN A STAUNCH, UH, YOU KNOW, PERSON HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON WHAT WE GET FROM METRO AND OUR RELATIONSHIP WITH METRO, AS FAR AS, UH, YOU KNOW, SHARING MY THOUGHTS OF CONCERN. 
          UH, I WILL SAY TO YOU, BOB, THAT, YOU KNOW, I HEAR WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THE $80 MILLION NUMBER. 
          UM, BUT I DON'T WANT TO FEEL AS IF METRO FEELS AS IT'S DOING US A FAVOR BECAUSE OF THE $80 MILLION, BECAUSE OUR SALES TAX REVENUE IS CONSTANTLY INCREASING. 
          AND SO THERE'S NO, UM, I MEAN, WE'RE GIVING YOU 1 CENT, YOU'RE GIVING US A HALF A CENT BACK. 
          THAT'S RESTRICTED. 
          IT GOES TO MY MOBILITY PROJECTS, BUT THAT OTHER HALF A CENT METRO KEEPS AND WE HAVE TWO PARKING RIDES AND WE HAVE NOW A COMMUNITY CONNECTOR. 
          WE HAD TWO SERVICES, A FIXED ROUTE SERVICE AND A COMMUNITY CONNECT SERVICE, WHICH WAS ONLY PHASE ONE. 
          AND IT WAS STATED TO US AND PROMISED TO US THAT WE WOULD HAVE THREE PHASES THAT WOULD COVER THE ENTIRE CITY. 
          AFTER ONE YEAR, THEY CUT THE FIXED ROUTE SERVICE AND CONSOLIDATED IT ALL INTO ONE SERVICE. 
          AND NOW ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY'VE CHANGED IT AGAIN. 
          I DON'T EVEN THINK THAT WE WERE MADE KNOWN THAT IT'S NOW CALLED CURB TO CURB VERSUS COMMUNITY CONNECTOR HAS BEEN, UH, A VERY, VERY PISS, POOR JOB MARKETING FOR METRO, AS IT RELATES TO THE SERVICES. 
          MANY OF OUR CITIZENS STILL DON'T KNOW THAT THIS SERVICE IS BEING OFFERED AND I JUST FEEL LIKE MORE SHOULD BE DONE. 
          SO WHEN YOU SAY THAT METRO HAS DONE A LOT OR GIVEN A LOT TO MISSOURI CITY, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SINCE 1973, I WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'VE PUT INTO THIS AND WE'RE CONSTANTLY MORE AND MORE AND MORE TO METRO AS OUR SALES TAX REVENUE IS INCREASING. 
          SO I THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT IT. 
          AND I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, HOW WE CAN WORK COLLABORATIVELY TOGETHER TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE TRULY GETTING A RETURN ON OUR INVESTMENT BECAUSE THE CITIZENS DESERVE BETTER. 
          WOW. 
          YOU RAISED A GOOD POINT, UM, ABOUT THE PUBLIC RELATIONS PART OF IT, UH, IF, IF YOU'RE NOT GETTING THE RIGHT KIND OF COMMUNICATION, UM, I'LL, I'LL, I'LL LOOK INTO THAT PART OF IT. 
          UH, UH, GOING BACK A LITTLE BIT, UH, ALL I CAN TELL YOU THAT I KNOW FOR SURE IS 2021, AND YOU PUT IN FIVE LITTLE OVER 5 MILLION, FIVE POINT 17 MILLION OR SOMETHING YOU GOT BACK IN SERVICES OVER 6.2 MILLION, ALMOST 6.3 MILLION. 
          SO FOR ONE YEAR, I CAN TELL YOU THAT YOU GOT MORE OUT THAN YOU PUT IN, OTHER THAN THAT. 
          AND ACCORDING TO OBVIOUSLY GOING BACK AND COMING UP WITH THE NUMBER ON, UH, 79, I GET YOUR POINT. 
          I'LL SEE WHAT I CAN DO ABOUT THAT. 
          AND TO A MAYOR. 
          I MEAN, EXCUSE ME, COUNCIL MEMBER, EMORY AND COUNCIL MEMBER MARULA SAYS POINT, WE'D LIKE TO SEE THAT ON PAPER. 
          WE'D LIKE TO SEE THOSE. 
          I MEAN, I HEAR YOU THROWING OUT THE $6 MILLION NUMBER, BUT WHAT ACTUALLY DID WE GET WHAT SERVICES EQUATE TO 6 MILLION PLUS DOLLARS? SO THESE ARE THE TYPES OF THINGS I KNOW I WOULD LIKE TO SEE, AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THEY WANT TO AS WELL. 
          GOTCHA. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I, I'M NOT SURE HOW FAR YOU CAN GO BACK, BUT I'D SURE LIKE TO SEE WHAT THE $80 MILLION, UH, AMOUNT THAT YOU SAY WE RECEIVED, UH, SOME DETAIL ON THAT. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU KNOW, IT CAN BE IN, YOU KNOW, IN, UH, BIG, UH, BIG TOPICS, BIG ITEMS, BUT, UH, SO AT LEAST WE CAN SEE WHERE THE, UH, THAT 80 MILLION, UH, THAT, UH, WE'RE SUPPOSEDLY, I SHOULDN'T SAY SUPPOSEDLY THAT WE'VE RECEIVED SERVICES. 
          WHAT DID THAT ENTAIL? GOTCHA. 
          I UNDERSTAND. 
          I, I'M NOT SURE I ANSWERED YOU ADEQUATELY, THEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING ELSE. 
          NO, NO. 
          I MEAN, UH, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE IT A POINT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU THREW OUT THE $80 MILLION OF WHAT'S BEEN GIVEN TO MISSOURI CITY, UH, AND WHATNOT, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THOSE SERVICES ENTAIL. 
          I KNOW WHAT I SEE. 
          I SEE THAT WE GOT TO PARK AND RIDE. 
          UM, AND ONE OF THEM IS IN THE PARKING LOT OF A KROGER WHERE THEY LEASED THE PARKING SPACES. 
          UH, I KNOW THAT THERE ARE PLANS OR CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HAVING A PARKING GARAGE BUILT IN OUR FORT BEAM, TOWN CENTER, THREE LOCATION, FUTURE OF HIGHWAY SIX AND THE TOLL. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE WHERE, I MEAN, WE'RE GETTING THE COMMUNITY CONNECTOR THAT GOT CONSOLIDATED INTO ONE SERVICE. 
          THERE'S ONLY ONE PHASE OF IT. 
          I DON'T KNOW WHAT METRO IS. 
          PLANS ARE TO, TO GIVE US, UH, WE TALKED ABOUT BUS, RAPID TRANSIT. 
          I SAW AN ARTICLE IN THE CHRONICLE TODAY WHERE IT SAID THAT RIDERSHIP ON THAT WAS LOW. 
          WE TALKED THAT THREE YEARS AGO, UH, WHEN THE GOVERNMENT RELATIONS PERSON CAME BEFORE US, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THE POTENTIAL OF MOVING THAT FORWARD IN MISSOURI CITY. 
          AND WE HAVEN'T HEARD ANYTHING ELSE 
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ABOUT THAT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, WITH THE, WITH THIS REPORT THAT JUST WENT OUT IN THE CHRONICLE. 
          I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF, IF METRO IS CONSIDERING BRINGING THAT TO MISSOURI CITY. 
          SO WE JUST NEED MORE INFORMATION. 
          WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE FUTURE OF METRO IS GOING TO BE WITH MISSOURI CITY AND CONSIDERING WHERE THE LARGEST CITY AMONGST THE MULTI CITIES, YOU KNOW, IT, IT'S NOT A SURPRISE OR SHOCK TO ANYONE THAT WE'RE GETTING MORE BECAUSE WE'RE GIVING MORE. 
          SO, I MEAN, IT JUST, IT, YOU KNOW, ALL THESE OTHER CITIES ARE SMALLER. 
          UMBEL, UH, KATIE, UH, IS, I MEAN, AS FAR AS WHAT THEY'RE GIVING IN VERSUS WHAT WE'RE GETTING. 
          OKAY. 
          I, I GET IT, I GET IT. 
          WE NEED BETTER COMMUNICATION AND YOU NEED BETTER COMMUNICATION ON WHAT YOU'RE GETTING VERSUS WHAT YOU'RE PUTTING IN. 
          YEAH. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          OKAY. 
          ANYONE ELSE HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I HAVE A QUESTION MAYOR. 
          UM, I WON'T BEAT THE DEAD HORSE. 
          MY COLLEAGUE DID A GREAT JOB WITH ARTICULATING OUR THOUGHTS, I BELIEVE AS A WHOLE, UM, FOR COUNSEL ON WHAT OUR CONCERNS IS, WHAT THE INPUT. 
          BUT I DO WANT TO KNOW, UM, HE SPOKE ABOUT MARKETING. 
          OUR MARKETING IS EXTREMELY POOR. 
          CAN YOU GIVE US AN UPDATE ON WHY THE COMMUTERS ARE NO LONGER CUSTOMIZED WITH THE WRAP THAT THE COMMUTER BUSES, WHY ARE THERE NO LONGER CUSTOMIZED WITH OUR CITY LOGO? AND THAT JUST PRETTY MUCH MOBILIZING EMPHASIZE THAT THIS IS A MISSOURI CITY CONNECTOR BEFORE IT WAS LIKE A LITTLE GREEN COLOR WRAPPED, ESPECIALLY FOR US, BUT I'LL FIND OUT PLEASE ALSO THAT WILL, I LIKE THAT IN WRITING AS WELL. 
          THANK YOU, UH, FOR MY INFORMATION OR ANY OF YOU NEW OR FOR A GOOD, HOW ABOUT YOU NOW? REMEMBER MONICA RILEY, I'M SORRY. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER, MONICA RILEY. 
          AND I, UH, IF I HELD YOUR HAND AT ALL, OR IS IT STUFF YOU DIDN'T KNOW OR TO, CAN I ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU'VE NO, YOU'VE PRETTY MUCH ANSWERED MY QUESTIONS AND MY COLLEAGUES WERE ABLE TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS AND COMMENTS AS WELL. 
          SO I LOOK FORWARD TO HEARING BACK FROM YOU THROUGH THAT, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU PROVIDE FROM THEM. 
          WELCOME ABOARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVEN'T MET YOU. 
          I CAME IN WITH, UH, WITH THE MAYOR, BUT, UM, I ECHO, UM, MAYOR PRO TIM'S COMMENTS. 
          I'D JUST LIKE TO KNOW, WHEN DO YOU THINK YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO GET THAT INFORMATION BACK TO US? I'LL GO, UM, TOMORROW MORNING I'LL CALL THEM AND TO GET THEM WORKING ON IT, AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT I'LL DO. 
          I'LL I'LL, UM, SEND AN EMAIL TO, UH, THE MAYOR. 
          UH, I'LL ASK HIM TO GIVE ME A TIMEFRAME AND THEN I'LL SEND THAT TO THE MAYOR AND AIKEN DISTRIBUTED. 
          THANKS. 
          SO YOU'RE NEW TO THEN. 
          HUH? WELCOME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL, WHAT YOU SAW WAS A CONSOLE WHERE THE, UH, EDWARD'S COMMENT ABOUT THE WRAPPING OF THE, OF THE, UH, THE BUSES, UH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF THE ONLY VISIBLE SIGNS THAT WE HAVE THAT MISSOURI CITY IS GETTING SOMETHING FROM METRO. 
          SO IF YOU WANT TO DO GOOD, GOOD MARKETING JOB, YOU NEED TO PUT MORE THINGS OUT THERE THAT, UH, REFLECT WHAT MISSOURI CITY RESIDENTS AND CITIZENS ARE GETTING FROM METRO. 
          SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT TO SELL WHAT YOUR SERVICES ARE TO MISSOURI CITY, HUH? UH, YEAH, HE WAS SAYING, GOT IT. 
          OKAY. 
          NICE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          WELL, I APPRECIATE THE TIME I WAS TALKING TO THE NEW, NEW GIRL, NEW PERSONS. 
          UH, SO, UM, I HOPE I KIND OF FILLED YOU IN A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THE REST OF YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, I'LL GO BACK AND WORK ON IT. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE. 
          I JUST WANT TO LET THE COUNCIL CITY COUNCIL KNOW THAT, UM, SINCE A MULTI CITIES, YOU KNOW, SOME MISSOURI CITY BEING AT THE TOP, I'M GOING TO GO AHEAD AND HAVE SOME DISCUSSIONS WITH THE METRO, ESPECIALLY WITH, UH, NOT JUST WITH THE BOARD, BUT ALSO WITH THE STAFF AS WELL. 
          AND I'M GOING TO SEE, UM, AS ANOTHER PERSON THAT IF I'M NOT AVAILABLE, IT'D BE THE MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          SO TO HAVE YOU BE CONNECTED WITH THAT ALSO TO GET SOME ANSWERS, TO GET SOME QUESTIONS, BECAUSE I THINK WHAT WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS THERE'S A BOARD, WE'VE GOT STAFF, SO THERE'S TWO DIFFERENT ENTITIES. 
          AND BOB IS REALLY THROUGH THE BOARD AND NOT THE LIST STAFF. 
          SO THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS THAT HE MAKE AN ANSWER AND SOME HE CANNOT. 
          AND SO IT'S A TWO ENTITY TYPE OF SETTING. 
          SO WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM. 
          AND PERHAPS MAYBE ONCE A MONTH, CHARLES, THAT WE CAN PUT THIS ITEM ON THE AGENDA SO WE CAN COME BACK AND GIVE REPORTS AS TO WHAT OUR FINDINGS ARE, IF WE HAVE IT, UM, IF WE DON'T HAVE SOMETHING TO REPORT ON, BUT I THINK THERE'S SEVERAL VALID THINGS THAT WAS BROUGHT UP TODAY. 
          SO I THINK THE CITY COUNCIL AS A TEAM NEEDS TO GET SOME ANSWERS TO. 
          SO IT'S EITHER MYSELF WILL BE PRESENTING OR ON 
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MY BEHALF, AND IT'D BE THE MAYOR PRO PRO TEMP, WHOEVER THAT IS. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU ALL ITEM TO BE, TO 
          [(b) Receive a Presentation on Traffic Operations.]
RECEIVE A PRESENTATION ON TRAFFIC OPERATIONS. 
          WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY SHASHA KUMAR DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, AS WE ARE HEADING BACK TO PRE PANDEMIC LEVEL COMMUTE AND TRAFFIC VOLUMES, I THINK WE'VE SEEN A NUMBER OF TRAFFIC CHALLENGES COME TO THE FOREFRONT OF CITY COUNCIL, AS WELL AS STAFF. 
          WE'RE HERE TO PROVIDE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF OUR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS, DISCUSS WITH YOU WHAT ISSUES AND CONCERNS WE'RE GETTING FROM THE CITIZENS ON A REGULAR BASIS, WHAT OUR RESPONSE HAS BEEN AND HOW WE HANDLE THESE ISSUES, NOT ONLY, UH, WHERE EVALUATING THESE CONSULTS THAT COME TO US ON A, ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS, BUT WE DO HAVE KEY PROJECTS AND INITIATIVES THAT ARE UNDERWAY. 
          OUR TEAM WILL PRESENT THAT TO YOU. 
          AND THE LAST ASPECT OF IT IS THE INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND MOBILITY MASTER PLAN UPDATES. 
          THESE ARE OUR KIND OF ROADMAPS FOR FUTURE MOBILITY AND TRAFFIC SAFETY ENACTMENT, AND . 
          AND WE HAVE OUR UPCOMING PUBLIC MEETING ON THIS. 
          WE'LL GIVE YOU A SYNOPSIS OF IT. 
          UH, JEREMY DAVIS, OUR ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER WILL GO THROUGH THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION. 
          I'M JOINED ALSO BY, UH, SERGEANT, UH, SANTOS, WHO IS THE ENFORCEMENT ARM THAT WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH, UH, ANYTIME RELATED TO TRAFFIC ISSUES AND CONCERNS THAT COME TO THE FOREFRONT. 
          IT'S A FAIRLY COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATIONS. 
          UH, I THINK WE HAVE ANSWERS TO MOST OF THE QUESTIONS THAT COME TO US AND FROM COUNCIL OR FROM CITIZENS, CITIZENS AS WELL. 
          I THINK IT'S AN EDUCATED PRESENTATION, BOTH FOR CITY COUNCIL, AS WELL AS CITIZENS. 
          I, UH, IF I MAY REQUEST STRONGLY THAT, UH, KINDLY LISTENED TO THE PRESENTATIONS, IT HAS MOST OF THE QUESTIONS AND THE ANSWERS. 
          AND AT THE END, MYSELF, JEREMY OR SERGEANT SANTOS WILL BE HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND JEREMY, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          SO AS THE ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER, TRAFFIC OPERATIONS FALLS UNDERNEATH MY PURVIEW. 
          SO I'M GONNA BE DOING A PRESENTATION. 
          IT'S NOT GOING TO BE BRIEF, BUT I'M BE DOING A PRESENTATION ABOUT TRAFFIC OPERATIONS IN THE CITY. 
          SO, UH, FIRSTLY, WHAT IS THE OBJECTIVE OF TRAFFIC OPERATIONS? SO, UH, WITH TRAFFIC OPERATIONS, WE MANAGE THE TRAFFIC OBVIOUSLY AND THE IMPROVED MOBILITY THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UH, FOR THE TRAVELERS THAT GO IN AND OUT OF OUR DIFFERENT BUSINESSES AND RESIDENCES. 
          UH, WE FOCUS ON SAFETY AND COMPLIANCE WITH MUT CD STANDARDS. 
          THAT ACRONYM STANDS FOR THE MANUAL OF UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. 
          UM, THAT'S BASICALLY WHERE WE GET A LOT OF OUR, UM, WELL, I GUESS I'LL TALK ABOUT A LITTLE BIT MORE LATER ON IN THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, ALSO IMPROVEMENTS TO ACCOMMODATE GROWTH. 
          UH, WE ALSO UTILIZE OUR TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER OR THE TMC. 
          UH, WE HAVE A LITTLE PICTURE OF IT RIGHT HERE. 
          UH, THAT'S BASICALLY WORD MONITOR THE TRAFFIC OPERATIONS AT THE MAJOR INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY, AND ALSO TO ADDRESS CONCERNS IN A SAFE AND EXPEDITIOUS MANNER AS WE RECEIVED THEM. 
          SO JUST A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY ON TRAFFIC OPERATIONS IN MISSOURI CITY, UH, IN 1998, THE CITY ONLY MAINTAINED FIVE, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNALS. 
          THEN AROUND 2000, OUR POPULATION INCREASED ABOVE 50,000 AT 50,000 AND ABOVE MARK THAT'S WHEN TEXTILE USUALLY HANDS OVER THE SIGNALS THAT THEY WERE MAINTAINING BACK TO THE CITIES. 
          SO AT THAT POINT IN 2001, WE, UH, WE WERE HANDED OVER 28 TRAFFIC SIGNALS. 
          THEN IN 2000 AND THE TMC OR THE TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT CENTER WAS CREATED, IT WAS IT'S USED TO REMOTELY MONITOR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS. 
          AS I SAID EARLIER, UH, IN 2022, THE CITY NOW MAINTAINED 63 SIGNALS AND WE HAVE A CURRENT POPULATION AROUND 75,000. 
          SO AT THE BOTTOM, I PUT A LITTLE GRAPHIC SHOWING THE INCREASE IN VOLUME OF ONE OF OUR MAJOR ROADS, FM 10 92, UH, IN 2011, UH, WE HAD OVER 34,000 PEOPLE TRAVELING BOTH WAYS ON THE ROADWAY. 
          THEN ALMOST 10 YEARS LATER, WE'RE LOOKING AT A 40 OVER 41,000 PEOPLE TRAVELING. 
          THAT'S AN INCREASE IN VOLUME OF 21% AND A LITTLE LESS THAN 10 YEARS. 
          SO, UH, ON THE TRAFFIC OPERATIONS TEAM. 
          UH, SO WE HAVE A TEAM OF SEVEN INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE DEDICATED SOLELY TO TRAFFIC OPERATIONS IN OUR TRAFFIC DIVISION. 
          UH, THIS INCLUDES OUR SIGN SHOP, WHICH ALSO DOES STRIPING OR MANAGES THE STRIPING, UH, FOR THE CITY. 
          UH, WE JUST RECENTLY, UH, HIRED ON A TRAFFIC ENGINEER. 
          UH, HER NAME IS AMINA PATIO RIGHT HERE. 
          UH, SHE'S MORE OF THE TECHNICAL SIDE OF IT. 
          UM, SHE HELPS US OUT WITH OUR ENGINEERING BASED DECISIONS WHEN IT COMES TO TRAFFIC OPERATIONS. 
          WE ALSO HAVE THE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS THAT ARE MANAGED BY OUR TRAFFIC OPERATIONS 
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MANAGER, JASON BILA. 
          UNFORTUNATELY, HE WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE IT HERE THIS EVENING BECAUSE HE HAD SOME, UH, UH, DUTIES IN THE FIELD THAT HE NEEDED TO ATTEND TO. 
          ALSO ON TOP OF US HAVING A STAFF, WE ALSO UTILIZE, UH, MULTIPLE ON-CALL CONTRACTORS, UH, THREE OF THE MAJOR ONES. 
          WE USE A CANDLELIGHT CRAY COMM AND PARADIGM AS OUR MAIN, UH, ON-CALL CONTRACTORS TO HELP OUR TEAM OUT. 
          SO, UM, WE ALSO WANTED TO USE THIS TIME TO ADDRESS SOME FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS. 
          UM, THESE ARE SOME KEY CITIZEN'S CONCERNS, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO TRAFFIC. 
          SO, UH, WHEN IT COMES TO SPEEDING, UH, THERE'S A BIG QUESTION ON WHY CAN'T WE ADD A STOP SIGN IN ORDER TO CONTROL THE SPEED? WELL, THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION THAT'S EFFLUENT F HWA DICTATES THAT STOP SIGNS CAN NOT BE USED, UH, TO CONTROL SPEED. 
          AND THAT'S CITED IN THE MUT CD. 
          THAT'S THE MANUAL OF UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. 
          ANOTHER QUESTION IS WHY DON'T WE ADD SPEED BUMPS TO HELP CONTROL SPEEDING? WELL, UH, THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT GO INTO THAT. 
          SO IT WILL IMPEDE EMERGENCY VEHICLE RESPONSE. 
          UH, YOU HAVE A VEHICLE THAT A LARGE VEHICLE THAT HAS A SLOWDOWN TO ABOUT FIVE MILES AN HOUR TO GO OVER THE HUMP AND THEN HAS TO SPEED BACK UP. 
          IT ALSO, IT CAN CAUSE EXCESSIVE WEAR AND TEAR ON VEHICLES, UH, NOISE ISSUES FROM THE, UH, GOING OVER THE HUMPS AND ALSO IN OUR DESIGN STANDARDS AND ALSO IN NEIGHBORING JURISDICTIONS. 
          UH, WE DO NOT ALLOW SPEED BUMPS FOR THOSE SAME REASONS. 
          AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE CURRENTLY LOOKING AT EVALUATING SOME OTHER, UH, TRAFFIC CALMING MEASURES, WHICH I'LL DISCUSS LATER ON IN THE PRESENTATION, BUT WHEN IT COMES TO OUR EVALUATION AND RESPONSE, UH, FOR INCIDENTS OR FOR, UH, NEEDS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED FROM THE, UH, CITIZENS, UH, WE TAKE ALL THESE ISSUES VERY SERIOUSLY. 
          UH, WE HAVE TO, UH, EVALUATE THE CONCERNS AND WE HAVE TO UTILIZE THE PROPER CODES AND REGULATIONS. 
          UH, FOR EXAMPLE, I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE THAT , UH, OUR CITY'S STANDARDS THAT ARE ADOPTED BY ORDINANCE IN OUR DESIGN MANUAL, AND WE ALSO NEED TO FOLLOW A METHODICAL APPROACH. 
          SO WE DO IMPLEMENT TRAFFIC STUDIES. 
          UH, WE OBTAIN ACCIDENT REPORTS BY WORKING WITH PD, UM, AND, UH, WE ALSO UTILIZE, UH, SPEED STUDIES AS WELL IN ORDER TO SEE IF WHAT THE ACTUAL SPEEDING ISSUE IS. 
          SO, UM, WHEN IT COMES ANOTHER QUESTION THAT WE GET IS, YOU KNOW, WHY HAVEN'T WE ALREADY IMPLEMENTED THE REQUEST? UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S BEEN A LITTLE WHILE, UM, WHAT, WHAT'S THE ISSUE? SO, UH, ALL OF THE THINGS THAT I JUST MENTIONED, IT TAKES TIME AND RESOURCES FOR US TO GET OUR, YOU KNOW, FIGURE OUT WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAVE TO UTILIZE SOME OF THOSE ON-CALL CONTRACTUAL SERVICES THAT I MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          UH, WE ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING. 
          UM, AND WE BASE THAT OFF OF THE DATA AND THE STUDIES THAT WE TAKE. 
          SO IT COULD BE WHERE, YOU KNOW, WE, WE MIGHT WANT TO IMPLEMENT SOMETHING, BUT IT COULD NEGATIVELY IMPACT SOMETHING ELSE AND WE COULD END UP WITH A BIGGER ISSUE. 
          SO THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO MAKE SURE WE'RE TAKING OUR TIME AND MAKING SURE THAT WE BASE OUR DECISIONS OFF OF THE DATA. 
          UH, OTHERWISE WE COULD BE, YOU KNOW, UH, EXPOSING THE CITY TO POTENTIAL LIABILITY. 
          SO I'M GOING TO GO OVER LIST OF OUR KEY INITIATIVES THAT WE HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, ONE OF THEM IS IMPLEMENTING A VICKSBURG STUDY RECOMMENDATIONS. 
          SO WE'VE BEEN GETTING A LOT OF, UH, UH, CONCERNS ON VICKSBURG ABOUT, UM, THERE'S A, WE HAVE A CROSSWALK ON VICKSBURG AND, UH, ALSO SOME SPEEDING RELATED ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION BY THE RESIDENTS. 
          UM, AND ALONG WITH THAT AUDRA DRIVE, WHICH IS, UH, I GUESS THE INTERSECTION ROAD ON VICKSBURG ALSO HAS BEEN HAVING SOME SPEEDING RELATED CONCERNS. 
          WE ALSO HAVE OUR HIGHWAY SIX, EXCUSE ME, SIGNAL TIMING IMPROVEMENTS. 
          UM, WE ARE ALSO ADDRESSING THE EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE. 
          CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC CONCERNS, WHERE WE GET TRUCKS AND OTHER VEHICLES THAT ARE CUTTING THROUGH THE RESIDENTIAL PORTION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 
          UH, WE ARE ALSO LOOKING AT ADDING NEW SIGNALS OR ROUNDABOUTS IN FOUR LOCATIONS AT LAKE OLYMPIA PARKWAY. 
          UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT SCANLAN ROAD AT STAFFORDSHIRE, UH, FOR SOME SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS AND ALSO CRAVENS ROAD AT  AT THE RAILROAD CROSSING IS ANOTHER UPCOMING STUDY WE HAVE. 
          SO FIRST I'LL DISCUSS A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE VICKSBURG CORRIDOR STUDY. 
          SO WE HAD ONE OF OUR CONSULTANTS PERFORM A TRAFFIC STUDY STARTING AT LAKE OLYMPIA PARKWAY AT VICKSBURG ALL THE WAY DOWN TO LAKE SHORE HARBOR BOULEVARD OF THE EXPERT. 
          SO IN THIS STUDY, UM, WE DID A TRAFFIC SIGNAL WARRANT ANALYSIS AND ULTRA MULTI-WAY STOP WARRING ANALYSIS FOR EACH OF THE INTERSECTIONS SHOWN, UH, RIGHT HERE IN THE SLIDES. 
          SO FROM THAT, UH, ANALYSIS 
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THAT WE PERFORMED, UH, WE GOT SOME KEY RECOMMENDATIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT MOVING FORWARD WITH RIGHT NOW, UH, ON THE NEXT PAGE, I'M GOING TO HAVE SOME PICTURES OF WHAT THESE ARE, BUT, UH, THAT INCLUDES NARROWING LANE WITH A RECTANGULAR, RAPID FLASHING BEACONS DYNAMIC FEEDBACK SIGNS, AND ALSO INSTALLING ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE AND IMPROVING THE SIDEWALK RAMP FOR THE CROSSWALK. 
          ALSO, UH, I MENTIONED THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, ALDRIDGE DRIVE. 
          UH, THIS IS A LOCATION WHERE WE'RE GOING TO TEST OUT, UH, USING, UTILIZING SPEED CUSHIONS. 
          UH, THEY'RE DIFFERENT FROM SPEED BUMPS. 
          THEY'RE NOT THE SAME. 
          UH, THEY ACTUALLY, IF YOU CAN SEE IT ON THIS, UH, PICTURE AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PRESENTATION, IT ALLOWS FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO STRADDLE, UH, THOSE, UH, CUSHIONS. 
          SO THEY DON'T GET IMPEDED BY THE CHANGE IN ELEVATION. 
          AND SO HERE'S SOME PICTURES SHOWING WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT BEFORE ON THE LEFT, YOU HAVE THE DYNAMIC SPEED FEEDBACK SIGN, AND BASICALLY YOU'VE SEEN THESE IN OTHER APPLICATIONS. 
          IT SHOWS PEOPLE HOW FAST THEY'RE GOING. 
          UM, THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE RECTANGULAR, RAPID FLASHING BEACON. 
          THIS IS A LOCATION OFF OF PINE HOLLOW NEAR THE PARK. 
          UH, THAT SHOWS WHERE WE HAVE, UH, JUST A, A RECTANGULAR SIGN THAT HAS FLASHING LIGHTS TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT SOMEONE INTENDS TO CROSS THE STREET. 
          AND ALSO WE'RE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING LANE NARROWING AS WELL ON VICKSBURG, UH, WHERE WE'VE BEEN HAVING THE ISSUES WITH THE SPEEDING. 
          AND SO THIS IS AN EXAMPLE FROM ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORING JURISDICTIONS OF, UH, HOW THAT CAN BE IMPLEMENTED. 
          SO, AS I WAS SAYING BEFORE, WE DO PARTNER WITH PD FREQUENTLY. 
          UH, SO THIS IS, UH, A SPEED STUDY THAT WAS PERFORMED ON ALDRIDGE DRIVE. 
          UH, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS A, A LITTLE, UH, ARMADILLO, UM, IT'S BASICALLY JUST, UH, YOU STICK IT ONTO A POLE OR A SIGN AND IT TAKES, UH, SPEED DATA FROM THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. 
          UH, SO THIS STUDY WAS TAKEN OVER THE COURSE OF 10 DAYS. 
          UM, AND FROM THIS STUDY, UH, WE WERE ABLE TO SEE THAT 85% OF THE PEOPLE THAT WERE DRIVING ON THIS ROAD, WE'RE AT ABOUT 29 MILES PER AN HOUR. 
          THE REASON FOR, UH, US DOING THIS STUDY IS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE EIGHT IN THE ENGINEERING SIDE OF THINGS. 
          WE UTILIZE THE 85TH PERCENTILE STUDY TO HELP US DETERMINE, UH, WHAT A GOOD SPEED LIMIT IS. 
          SO IF WE LOOK AT 85% OF THE PEOPLE TRAVELING AT A CERTAIN RATE, THEN WE BASICALLY ROUNDED TO THE NEXT, UH, ZERO OR FIVE NUMBER. 
          AND THAT'S HOW WE CAN CREATE A GOOD, UH, UH, SPEED LIMIT. 
          AND I ALSO WANTED TO INTRODUCE, UH, SERGEANT SANTOS. 
          OH, IF YOU WANT TO SAY A COUPLE OF WORDS ABOUT THIS MAYOR COUNCIL, I JUST WANTED TO REITERATE WHAT A PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR AND, UH, JEREMY, UH, HAVE MENTIONED IN THIS LIGHT AND IN THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, OBVIOUSLY THE CITY IS GOING THROUGH SOME GROWING PAINS AND, UH, WE'RE WORKING COLLECTIVELY TO TRY TO, UH, ADDRESS ALL OF THEM, UH, AS BEST AS WE CAN. 
          UH, THERE IS OBVIOUSLY A BIG GROWING CONCERN WITH ACCIDENTS, UM, POST PANDEMIC, UH, WE'RE SEEING A LOT OF, UH, RESOURCES AND, UH, A LOT OF TIME SPENT ON THOSE KINDS OF CONCERNS OR THOSE KINDS OF ISSUES RAISED THROUGHOUT THE CITY. 
          UH, I KNOW THE PUBLIC WORKS, UH, HAS DIFFERENT, UM, PROJECTS THAT THEY'RE WORKING ON AND WE'RE WORKING WITH THEM COLLECTIVELY TO TRY TO, UH, DO WHAT'S BEST IN THE BEST INTEREST FOR, UH, NOT JUST FOR THE CITY AS A WHOLE, BUT ALSO FOR THE, FOR THE CITIZENS AND RESIDENTS. 
          SO THE NEXT INITIATIVE THAT WE HAVE GOING ON AS OUR HIGHWAY SIX SIGNAL RETIRING STUDY, UM, SO WITH THIS STUDY, WE BASICALLY LOOKED AT HIGHWAY SIX FROM COLONIAL LAKE STRIVE ALL THE WAY DOWN TO CREEK MONT. 
          UM, AND WE STUDIED 16 SIGNALIZED INTERSECTIONS, AND THE GOAL IS TO IMPROVE THE TRAVEL TIMES ALONG HIGHWAY SIX. 
          SO THIS IS TO, UH, I GUESS, GIVE SOME NUMBERS TO THIS, UH, HIGHWAY SIX SIGNAL TIMING THAT I WAS DISCUSSING. 
          SO, UH, I'LL START OFF WITH JUST SHOWING SOME OF THE DATA COLLECTION WORK THAT'S, UH, THAT HAS BEEN TAKING PLACE. 
          SO IF YOU LOOK TOWARDS THE COLONIAL LAKES, THAT'S THE, UH, THE LEFT PORTION OF THE SLIDE. 
          YOU'LL SEE THAT IN 2011, UH, AT, AROUND THIS LOCATION WHERE WE WERE EXPERIENCING ABOUT 26,000 VEHICLES PER DAY, THAT'S GOING BOTH DIRECTIONS AS OF 2021 WHEN THE DATA WAS TAKEN. 
          AND WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT OVER 50,000 VEHICLES PER DAY AT THAT LOCATION. 
          AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER LOCATION THAT'S RIGHT BEFORE YOU GET TO, UH, UH, THE FM 10 92 SIGNAL, UH, BACK IN 2011, WE WERE LOOKING AT OVER 49,000. 
          NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT OVER 60,000 
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IN 2021. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE, UH, COUNTS THAT WE TOOK ALL THE WAY DOWN TO A CREEK MONT DRIVE. 
          SO I ALSO HAVE THE, UH, AVERAGE TRAVEL TIMES THAT WERE ACTUALLY, UH, TAKEN OUT IN THE FIELD. 
          AND THIS IS FROM A, IF YOU'RE HEADED FROM CREEK TO LAKE COLONY AND THEN LAKE COLONY TO CREEK MINE AND VICE VERSA. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE THE PROJECTED TRAVEL TIMES, WHICH IS GOING TO BE WHEN WE IMPLEMENT THIS STUDY. 
          AND I'M GOING TO GET MORE INTO, I'M GONNA GET MORE INTO WHAT THESE NUMBERS MEAN IN A LITTLE BIT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THIS IS A VIDEO THAT SHOWS IT'S A MODELED. 
          UH, IF YOU CAN SEE IT, IT MIGHT BE A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO SEE, BUT THIS SHOWS THE EXISTING TIMING BETWEEN FM 10 92 IN GLEN LAKES ON HIGHWAY SIX. 
          UH, IF YOU CAN NOTICE THERE'S A LACK OF PLATOON PATTERN OR, UH, SORRY, IT TWO MOVEMENT, UH, BASICALLY A PLATOON IS WHEN YOU SIMPLY HAVE A GROUP OF VEHICLES THAT MOVE TOGETHER AND OOPS, WELL, THIS IS, UH, BASICALLY THE PROPOSED TIMING, UH, THAT WE PLAN ON IMPLEMENTING TO SHOW OUR, UH, WE SHOWED IT THROUGH A MODELED RESULT. 
          SO NOW YOU CAN SORT OF SEE, I KNOW IT'S A LITTLE DIFFICULT TO SEE, BUT, UH, THIS NEW SINGLE TIME, IT WILL ALLOW FOR BETTER PLATOON MOVEMENT AND ALLOW FOR US TO BETTER MANAGE, UH, THE VEHICLE PROGRESSION THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR AND MANAGING VEHICLES THROUGH, UH, I'LL JUST DO THAT. 
          SO WE GET THE SOUND OFF, UH, MANAGING VEHICLES THROUGH PLATOON MOVEMENT IS A MORE EFFICIENT WAY TO MANAGE TRAFFIC. 
          SO WE'RE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING THE NEW TIMING STUDY, UH, THIS STARTING THIS SPRING, UH, BASED OFF OF THE RESULTS OF THIS STUDY, UH, WE PLAN TO REDUCE TRAVEL TIME BY AN AVERAGE OF 42 SECONDS GOING EASTBOUND AND 39 SECONDS WESTBOUND. 
          I KNOW THOSE NUMBERS DON'T SOUND LIKE A LOT, BUT WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT OVER 60,000 VEHICLES THAT ARE SAVING THAT TIME, UH, IT STARTS TO ADD UP, UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, IMPROVING THE PROGRESSION AND PLATOON MOVEMENT THROUGHOUT THE CORRIDOR. 
          UH, THIS IS ONLY A SHORT-TERM MEASURE. 
          UH, THE LONG-TERM APPROACH IS GOING TO BE TO ADD ADDITIONAL CAPACITY. 
          AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE ARE WORKING WITH TEXT ON TECHSTOP WITH RIGHT NOW. 
          UH, WE SUBMITTED THIS REQUEST TO TEXTILE BASED ON A CALL FOR PROJECTS THAT THEY RECENTLY ISSUED, RIGHT? AND OUR NEXT INITIATIVE IS THE EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE. 
          SO EAST HAMPTON IS WHERE WE WERE GETTING A LOT OF CONCERNS OF CUT-THROUGH TRAFFIC. 
          UM, W WE WANTED TO ADDRESS THE TRUCK TRAFFIC MAINLY THAT'S BEEN CUTTING THROUGH THESE RESIDENTIAL SECTIONS. 
          UM, SOME OF THE INTERIM MEASURES INCLUDE ADDING ADDITIONAL SIGNAGE ALONG THE FONDREN AND, UH, WHICH WE HAVE ALREADY DONE. 
          WE INSTALLED SOME, NO TRUCK TURNING SIGNS ON FONDO ROAD. 
          WE WORKED WITH CITY OF HOUSTON IN ORDER TO MAKE SURE WE COULD PLACE IT ON THERE RIGHT AWAY. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAVE A STUDY GOING ON RIGHT NOW, UH, FOR POTENTIAL LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS AND TO SEE WHAT THE EFFECTS OF THOSE ARE, WHICH IS A POTENTIALLY FULLY CLOSING OFF ACCESS OFF OF KATHY AND EAST HAMPTON, UH, TO THE MORE INDUSTRIAL SIDE OF THE AREA. 
          AND THE REASON FOR THIS IS WE WANT TO MAKE SURE, LIKE I SAID BEFORE, THAT WE'RE NOT NEGATIVELY IMPACTING US SOMETHING ELSE THAT WE DON'T MIGHT NOT BE READILY AWARE OF. 
          SO NEXT, UM, THESE ARE GONNA BE THE FOUR LOCATIONS ALONG LAKE COLUMBIA PARKWAY. 
          I MENTIONED EARLIER. 
          UH, SO WE HAVE FOUR INTERSECTIONS ON LAKE OLYMPIA PARKWAY THAT CURRENTLY WARRANT A SIGNAL BASED OFF OF, UH, A WARRANT ANALYSIS THAT WERE PERFORMED. 
          SO THREE OF THOSE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS AT CROW VALLEY, PENINSULAS DRIVE AND MISTY HALA DRIVE, THAT'S GOING, IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE FUNDED BY OUR 2021 BOND PROGRAM. 
          UM, AND THEN THE LAST ONE, THE FOUR B THE ONE AT THE FORT BEN TOLL ROAD, THAT ONE WE'RE CURRENTLY MOVING FORWARD WITH IN THIS YEAR CIP, UH, WE'RE ACTUALLY MOVING FORWARD WITH THE DESIGN PORTION OF THIS PROJECT. 
          AND, UH, VERY SHORTLY, UH, EACH INTERSECTION AS A PART OF THIS WILL ALSO BE EVALUATED TO SEE IF A ROUNDABOUT IS FEASIBLE TO, UH, ROUNDABOUTS ARE ALSO A, AN EXCELLENT WAY TO CONTROL TRAFFIC. 
          IT JUST DEPENDS ON HOW MUCH RIGHT-OF-WAY YOU HAVE AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. 
          THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT WE NEED TO CHECK FIRST NEXT. 
          UM, WE HAVE SCANLON ROAD AT STAFFORDSHIRE. 
          UH, WE HAD A PRETTY BAD ACCIDENT THERE A WHILE BACK. 
          AND, UH, WE WENT TO WORK ON TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO TO REMEDY THE SITUATION AS BEST WE CAN. 
          SO THIS, UH, THIS WAS A LITTLE TRICKY BECAUSE IT ALSO, WE ALSO SHARE THE INTERSECTION WITH STAFFORD. 
          SO A PART OF THE IMPROVEMENTS WE NEEDED TO DO WERE ACTUALLY ON CITY OF STAFFORD SIDE. 
          UH, SO AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, WE HAD A DRIVER THAT FAILED TO STOP, AND THEN THEY RAN INTO THE RESIDENTIAL YARD AT THE CORNER. 
          SO WE'RE CURRENTLY IMPLEMENTING THESE ENHANCED SAFETY MEASURES THAT YOU CAN SEE ALONG HERE. 
          YOU 
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CAN ACTUALLY DRIVE OUT THERE RIGHT NOW AND SEE THAT THE MAJORITY OF THESE HAVE ALREADY BEEN IMPLEMENTED. 
          UH, WE'RE JUST WAITING ON ONE LAST PORTION ON THE STAFFORD SIDE OF, UH, INCREASING THE SIZE OF THE MEDIA KNOWS SO WE CAN ADD AN OR SIGNAGE ON IT NEXT. 
          UH, WE HAVE CRAVEN'S ROAD AT  AT THE RAILROAD CROSSING. 
          THIS IS A VERY DANGEROUS INTERSECTION. 
          UH, THE MAIN ISSUE IS YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE THIS 18 WHEELER THAT PARKED ON THE TRACKS. 
          UH, WE HAVE A, THERE'S A STOP BAR THAT BASICALLY WHEN YOU HAVE AN EXTRA LONG VEHICLE, THE BACK END OF THE TRAILER ENDS UP ON THE TRACKS. 
          SO WE'VE BEEN COORDINATING A POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS WITH TEXTILE AND UPR. 
          UM, CAUSE THIS IS ANOTHER TRICKY ONE THAT WE'VE GOT MULTIPLE, UH, RIGHT OF WAYS THAT WE NEED TO WORK THROUGH IN ORDER TO IMPLEMENT ANYTHING OVER HERE. 
          UH, SO TEXTILE AND UPR, THEY RECOMMEND THE CLOSURE OF CRAVENS ROAD AT THIS INTERSECTION. 
          UM, BUT WE NEED TO PERFORM A STUDY TO DETERMINE WHAT THE LONGTERM EFFECTS OF CLOSING CRAVENS ROAD ARE. 
          IF THE TRUCKS DON'T GO THIS WAY, THEY HAVE TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. 
          AND THEY MIGHT END UP GOING TO SOUTH GESSNER, WHICH IS ALREADY A PRETTY CONGESTED INTERSECTION. 
          SO WE WANT TO PERFORM THE STUDY TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S THE RIGHT CHOICE. 
          AND IF, IF IT, IF IT IS THEN WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MITIGATE ANY POTENTIAL ISSUES THAT COULD ARISE NEXT? I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT OUR ITSN, WHICH STANDS FOR INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM AND MOBILITY MASTER PLAN UPDATES. 
          THIS WAS FUNDED THROUGH OUR FISCAL YEAR 2022 CIP. 
          OUR CONSULTANT FOR THIS IS KIMBERLY HORN. 
          SO INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM OR ITS, IT'S BASICALLY A ROADMAP FOR TRAFFIC SAFETY ENHANCEMENTS, UH, UTILIZING TECHNOLOGY. 
          UH, THE MOBILITY PORTION OF THIS IS, UH, FOCUSED ON MULTIMODAL, UH, OUR, UM, MULTIMODAL MOBILITY NETWORK, WHICH DOESN'T JUST INCLUDE, UH, PEOPLE WHO ARE DRIVING, BUT ALSO PEOPLE WHO CHOOSE TO WALK OR BIKE, UH, DIFFERENT, UH, FORMS OF MOBILITY. 
          UH, THE LAST MAJOR UPDATES WERE PERFORMED AROUND 2011. 
          SO IT'S, UH, WE'RE DUE FOR ANOTHER UPDATE AND, UH, THIS IS GOING TO BE ESSENTIAL FOR, UH, FOR US TO ACCOMMODATE GROWTH THROUGH OUR ULTIMATE BUILD-OUT AS A CITY. 
          SO A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE MOBILITY MASTER PLAN UPDATE. 
          SO AS SHAWSHEE MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, WE HAVE A PUBLIC MEETING SCHEDULED FOR THE 10TH OF THIS WEEK. 
          UH, THIS IS GOING TO BE HELD AT THE COMMUNITY CENTER RIGHT HERE, STARTING AT 6:00 PM. 
          AND SO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE VISIONING THE CITY'S TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE WERE LOOKING FOR MORE CONNECTIVITY. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE DECIDE TO WALK OR TAKE A BIKE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE GAPS AND WHERE PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT FOR DESTINATIONS, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPE OF FACILITIES WE NEED TO IMPLEMENT TO MAKE THINGS EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO MOVE AROUND THE CITY. 
          UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT COMPONENTS OF, UH, MOBILITY, SUCH AS DIFFERENT AMENITIES THAT PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO GET TO THE PARKING, TO GET TO THOSE AMENITIES. 
          UH, LIKE I SAID, BIKING AND ALSO ADA FOR WHEN PEOPLE WANT TO WALK. 
          UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT DEVELOPING SOME BETTER MOBILITY STRATEGIES. 
          I, I USE THAT TERM MULTIMODAL, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MORE THAN JUST VEHICLES. 
          LIKE I SAID, BIKES, PEDESTRIANS TRANSIT, EVEN FREIGHT. 
          SO THIS IS BASICALLY GOING TO GIVE US SOME RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AN ACTION PLAN SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND IMPLEMENTING NEW PROJECTS. 
          UH, THAT'LL IMPROVE MOBILITY FOR OUR CITIZENS. 
          AND NEXT I'LL TALK ABOUT THE ITSC MASTER PLAN UPDATE, WHICH IS THE SECOND PART OF THIS. 
          SO THIS IS REALLY THE MORE, THE TECHNICAL PORTION OF TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT. 
          WE'VE GOT SOFTWARE COMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, THINGS THAT THE GENERAL PUBLIC TYPICALLY DOESN'T SEE AS MUCH. 
          SO, UM, THE STEPS TO THIS PROCESS IS WE'RE COMPILING OUR EXISTING TRAFFIC AND ITS INFRASTRUCTURE DATA. 
          UH, WE'VE GOT, YOU KNOW, MULTIPLE TOWERS THAT PROVIDE COMMUNICATIONS. 
          UH, WE ALSO HAVE OUR EXISTING SOFTWARE THAT WE UTILIZE TO HELP US RUN THE TMC. 
          UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT ASSESSING THE, UH, ADVANCED MOBILITY AND ITS ELEMENTS. 
          SO IF THAT INCLUDES OUR UPGRADING, OUR TRAFFIC SIGNAL CONTROLLERS, LOOKING AT ADAPTIVE SIGNALS, WHICH IS SOMETHING WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT WITH THE BOND PROGRAM, UH, THIS WILL HELP GIVE US SOME BETTER RECOMMENDATIONS ON HOW TO IMPLEMENT THOSE. 
          AND IT'LL CREATE A, IT'LL GIVE US THE IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR OUR CIP PROGRAM. 
          AND, UH, LASTLY, I WANTED TO GIVE YOU A SCHEDULE ON THIS, UH, ON THIS ITSP AND MOBILITY MASTER PLAN. 
          SO WE'VE ALREADY FINISHED FOR THE MOST PART, OUR DATA COLLECTION RIGHT NOW, WE'RE AT THE PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT PORTION AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GETTING FEEDBACK FROM 
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CITIZENS. 
          WE HAVE A WEBSITE THAT WE HAVE ONLINE AND I COULD SHARE THAT INFORMATION AS WELL. 
          AND THEN AFTER PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT, WE'LL MOVE TO ANALYSIS, THEN WE'LL GET OUR STRATEGIES AND RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THEN WE'LL MOVE TO THE FINAL REPORT THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT COMPLETING BY THE END OF THE YEAR AND THEN 2023. 
          AND ON WE'RE LOOKING AT IMPLEMENTING ALL OF THOSE RECOMMENDATIONS AND THAT'S THE END OF MY PRESENTATION. 
          THANK YOU, JEREMY. 
          THAT WAS A GREAT PRESENTATION. 
          UM, I LIKE TO ASK THIS TIME, IS COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, JEREMY? I DO IT. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          I'M NOT SURE HOW MUCH TIME WE WANT TO TAKE, BUT MAYBE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WILL BE ANSWERED WHEN YOU HAVE YOUR, UH, YOUR MEETINGS. 
          UH, FIRST OF ALL, ON THE, UH, CRAVENS ROAD GOING TO DO A STUDY AND WE'VE BEEN LOOKING AT THIS FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS AND IT CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM SAFETY PROBLEM. 
          UH, DO WE HAVE ANY KIND OF A TIMING ON WHEN WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO, UH, DO SOMETHING WITH THAT ONE WAY OR THE OTHER? WE ARE IN COUNCIL? UH, THIS IS A VERY CRITICAL JUNCTION. 
          WE WERE LOOKING AT ALTERNATIVE SOLUTIONS. 
          WE WORKED WITH TECHSTARS AND UNION PACIFIC. 
          THOSE ENTITIES ARE VERY STERN IN THE SENSE THAT THIS IS A SAFETY CONCERN AND THEY DO NOT WANT TO DO ANY INTERIM MEASURES. 
          THEY'RE LOOKING FOR A FULL FLEDGED CLOSURE. 
          OBVIOUSLY WE BUILT CITY PARK DRIVE, WHICH IS AN ALTERNATE ROUTE, BUT AS JEREMY ALLUDED TO, WE JUST CAN GO AND CROSS CRAVENS BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO BE TRANSPORTING THAT LOAD AND TRAFFIC INTO ANOTHER CORRIDOR. 
          SO, UH, AGAIN, THIS IS NOT SOMETHING FUNDED. 
          I'VE HAD THIS CONVERSATION WITH THE CITY MANAGER. 
          WE WANT TO START THE STUDY. 
          PROBABLY IT'S GONNA TAKE US, UH, BETWEEN 60 TO 90 DAYS TO COMPLETE IT. 
          AND THEN WE'LL FOLLOW UP WITH WHAT THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE STUDY ARE. 
          I GUESS WHAT I'M JUST LOOKING FOR IS THAT WE CAN BRING THIS TO FINALIZATION, THAT WE CAN MAKE A DECISION THAT WE ARE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO CLOSE IT. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, THEN THE, YOU KNOW, THE ISSUE HAS BEEN NOT BEEN ADDRESSED. 
          SO THAT'S WHAT I'M LOOKING AT FOR PAUL IS A COUNCIL MEMBER TO HAVE THAT STUDY COMPLETED. 
          AND WE'LL BEGIN THE BUDGET WORK SESSION AT THAT POINT TO COME WITH A RECOMMENDATION TO YOU AS TO WHAT WE CAN DO AND WHAT KIND OF, UH, IMPLEMENTATION TOOLS THAT WE HAVE AS PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS. 
          RIGHT. 
          THANKS. 
          WHY ARE WE PAYING FOR THE BUTTON FOR THE SURVEY? WHY WON'T THEY PAY FOR IT? IT IS, UH, IT IS FAIRLY COMPLICATED IN THE SENSE THAT CRAVENS WAS BUILT TO SUPPORT THE, UH, THE DEVELOPMENT THAT'S OUT THERE, THE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT, UH, THERE IS, UH, AGREEMENTS THAT THE CITY PUT IN PLACE TO SERVE THOSE DEVELOPMENTS AND THE WE'RE COMING TO THE END OF IT. 
          SO PRIMARILY, UH, CRAVENS WAS BUILT AT THE CITY'S REQUEST AND THESE TWO ENTITIES ARE WILLING TO WORK WITH US, BE KIND OF A FUNDING PARTNER. 
          UH, BUT I THINK THE CITY HAS TO TAKE THE LEAD IN THIS INITIATIVE BECAUSE IT IS OUR TRAFFIC THAT'S COMING OUT OF CRAVENS, THAT'S BEING IMPACTED. 
          AND UNFORTUNATELY WE'VE HAD ONE FATALITY THERE. 
          IT IS TIME THAT WE DO SOMETHING. 
          I RECALL THE CHRONOLOGY, BUT IN MY OPINION, STOCK WAS THE ONE THAT EXPANDED 90. 
          SO THAT KIND OF MEANS THAT WE INHERITED THIS PROBLEM. 
          SO WE SHOULDN'T BE FOOTING ALL THE BILL. 
          EVERY ENTITY IS INVOLVED IN THAT TEXTILE, THE CITY AND THE RAIL. 
          UH, WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS WITH UPS, UPS WILLING TO BE A FUNDING PARTNER IN THIS, BUT SO FAR, UH, WE'VE HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH TECHSTARS. 
          THEY'VE NOT COMMITTED TO ANY FUNDING AT THIS POINT, BUT WE'LL CONTINUE TO PURSUE THAT. 
          UM, I KNOW YOU JUST SAID THAT TEXTILE HASN'T GAVE ANY TYPE OF AMOUNT, BUT HOW MUCH DO YOU ESTIMATE THE COST THAT'S GOING TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH ALL OF THESE INITIATIVES. 
          WE DON'T KNOW, FRANKLY, COUNCIL MEMBER, AND THAT'S WHY WE WANT TO DO A STUDY AND SEE WHAT ALTERNATIVES WE HAVE. 
          WE JUST CAN'T GO AHEAD AND CLOSE CRAVENS. 
          WE GOT TO SEE HOW THAT TRAFFIC WILL BE IMPACTED. 
          WHAT AMOUNT OF THE TRAFFIC WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO OTHER ROADWAY. 
          WHAT WOULD BE THE IMPACT ON CITY PARK DRIVE? UH, I WISH I COULD HAVE AN ANSWER, BUT I REALLY DON'T HAVE AN ANSWER FOR THAT WHEN YOU EXPECT AN ANSWER. 
          UH, OUR GOAL IS 60 TO 90 DAYS, 60 TO 90 DAYS AFTER WE START TO STUDY. 
          OKAY. 
          QUESTION ON, UH, ON THE ROUNDABOUT, ON LAKE OLYMPIA. 
          IF WE USE A ROUNDABOUT AND ELIMINATE THE SIGNAL, CAN WE USE THAT SIGNAL SOMEWHERE ELSE? SO THE ROUNDABOUT IS GOING TO BE SUBSTANTIALLY CHEAPER THAN INSTALLING A SIGNAL, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO MAINTAIN IT THE SAME WAY THAT WE MAINTAIN SIGNALS. 
          SO, UM, I DON'T KNOW, SINCE IT'S BOND FUNDED MONEY, I DON'T KNOW IF WE CAN SIMPLY MOVE IT TO ANOTHER PROJECT THAT SOME WE'D HAVE TO WORK WITH FINANCE TO SEE WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE. 
          YES, IT'D BE, TO ME, IT'D BE GREAT IF WE COULD, I'M SURE THERE'S OTHER LOCATIONS THAT MIGHT WARRANT A SIGNAL AND IF WE SHIFT, THAT'D BE GREAT. 
          LET ME QUICKLY ADDRESS THAT. 
          YES, WE CAN. 
          UH, BUT, UM, WE ARE, UM, UM, RIGHT AWAY CONSTRAINT FOR THE ROUNDABOUT, 
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BUT WE WILL PURSUE THAT AND SEE IF WE CAN, BUT ANY SAVINGS WE CAN POTENTIALLY USE IT FOR ANOTHER SIGNAL OR MOBILITY PROJECT I SHOULD. 
          DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE ON ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT JEREMY PRESENTED? UM, I KNOW YOU SPECIFIED ABOUT THE CRAVINGS, BUT DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE FOR ALL OF THE ONES THAT GERMANY JUST RECENTLY PRESENTED? WE ARE IMPLEMENTING ALL THE PROJECTS MINUS THE CRAVENS ROAD STUDY, BASED ON SOME OF THEM ARE FUNDED THROUGH CIP. 
          SOME OF THEM ARE FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM AND THE MINOR IMPROVEMENTS, THE SIGNAGE AND STRIPING OF BEING FUNDED THROUGH OUR OPERATIONAL BUDGET. 
          ONE STUDY THAT'S CURRENTLY NOT FUNDED IS THE CRAVENS ROAD STUDY, AND WE WANTED TO BRING IT TO THE, UH, TO YOUR ATTENTION. 
          AND, UH, I THINK IN THE COMING WEEKS OR MONTHS, WE'LL BE COMING TO THE COUNCIL ABOUT, UH, AUTHORIZING THIS STUDY AND HOW WE CAN POTENTIALLY FUND THAT, UM, WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE ON SEEING HOW WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH THE STUDY. 
          THAT'S ACTUALLY JUST SO I'M CLEAR THE ONLY WAY FOR YOU TO GIVE US LIKE A, A BALLPARK ESTIMATE AS FAR THE STUDY TO BE COMPLETED, OR YOU GUYS COULD HAVE PROVIDED AN ESTIMATE PRIOR TO THIS. 
          YEAH. 
          SOME MEMBER ARE ASKING THE DOLLAR AMOUNT, IT'S GOING TO COST FOR THE STUDY OF THE DURATION, THE PROJECTS THAT, THAT JEREMY PRESENTED WELL, WE'RE IMPLEMENTING ALL OF THOSE MINUS THE CRAVENS ROAD STUDY. 
          ALL THOSE PROJECTS ARE CURRENTLY FUNDED AND ARE BEING IMPLEMENTED. 
          OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER COMMENTS? MY QUESTION ISN'T AM I NOT BEING CLEAR OR AM I MISSING SOMETHING? I'M SORRY. 
          MA'AM I DID NOT HEAR YOU, BUT IF YOU CAN TYPICALLY ASK AND OTHER THAN THE PROJECTS THAT REQUIRE FOR THE SURVEY TO BE IMPLEMENTED, TO GET AN AMOUNT, THE PROJECTS THAT JEREMY PRESENTED TO US, DO YOU HAVE A BALLPARK ESTIMATE ON HOW MUCH THEY WILL COST? WELL, I'M JUST GOING TO DO SOME QUICK MATH IN MY HEAD. 
          UH, SO YEAH, SO ROUGHLY ABOUT TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, UH, THE MAJORITY OF THOSE GOING TO THE, UH, SIGNAL SLASH ROUNDABOUT RELATED PROJECTS. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, JEREMY WANTS YOU TO DO SOME MORE MATHEMATICAL, UM, COMPONENTS. 
          COULD YOU GIVE US LIKE A PRETTY CONCISE REPORT? I JUST WOULD LIKE FOR IN THE FUTURE, IF YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE PROJECTS FOR US TO HAVE THE DOLLAR AMOUNT AND NOT BE SURPRISED WHEN THE MONEY NEEDS TO BE ALLOCATED. 
          YES, WE CAN DEFINITELY DO THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          UM, ONE LAST QUESTION ON TRAFFIC CALMING DEVICE OR NOT THE DEVICE, BUT I ASSUME IT'S A RAISED PORTION. 
          UH, THAT'S ON THE ROADWAY RAISED, SORRY, CAN YOU REPEAT THE QUESTION? THE TRAFFIC CALMING PROCESSES WE'RE GOING TO USE TO, UH, I GUESS TRY TO GET AROUND SOME OF THE QUESTIONS ABOUT WHY WE CAN'T HAVE SPEED BUMPS. 
          MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT IT'S, IT'S STRUCTURED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT'LL STILL BE, UH, UH, IT'S WAS STILL ALLOW THE, UH, EMERGENCY VEHICLES. 
          UH, THE TYPICAL, UH, THINKING IS IF THERE IS A SPEEDING WAY, COULD WE PUT A SPEED BUMP, OBVIOUSLY THAT SLOWS DOWN THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE. 
          WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO COME UP WITH AS OTHER DEVICES, WHICH ARE USED ACROSS THE JURISDICTIONS. 
          ONE IS WHAT WE CALL A SPEED CUSHION. 
          AND YOU SAW IN THAT PICTURE WHERE IT GIVES THE ABILITY FOR THE FIRE TRUCK TO MANUAL WORK AND NOT COME TO A COMPLETE STALL OR SLOW DOWN THE SPEED, BUT TO NAVIGATE THE OTHER OPTION THAT HAS BEEN TRIED BY OUR NEIGHBORING JURISDICTION IS JUST LANE NARROWING. 
          YOU NARROW THE LANE THAT CREATES THE SLOWDOWN EFFECT, JUST LIKE THAT. 
          THERE ARE MANY OTHER DEVICES THAT WE'RE USING, OR WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE USING SPEED BUMPS TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVE THAT WE WANT TO. 
          I WAS REFERRING TO WHATEVER THE DISPLAY WAS THAT WE HAD THAT WAS, UH, UH, GOING TO BE USED OR NOT USED, BUT I GUESS, ATTEMPT TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT IT WAS A GOOD ALTERNATIVE CONSIDERING THAT HAS ONE OF THE ALTERNATIVES RIGHT THERE. 
          OKAY. 
          TRAFFIC CALMING ON ELDRIDGE DRIVE. 
          TALK TO ME ABOUT THAT. 
          SO THIS IS THE EXAMPLE OF THE SPEED CUSHION THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT EARLIER. 
          SO AS YOU CAN SEE, IT'S MUCH LOWER PROFILE. 
          IT HAS A MUCH LOWER PROFILE THAN A STANDARD SPEED BUMP, AND IT'S MORE WIDER AND SPREAD OUT, BUT THERE'S STILL ENOUGH ROOM FOR TIRES OF A LARGE VEHICLE, SUCH AS AN EMERGENCY VEHICLE TO STILL STRADDLE THAT AND THEN GET AROUND IT WITHOUT HAVING TO SLOW DOWN. 
          BUT IT'S WIDE ENOUGH TO WHERE THE SMALLER VEHICLES AND CARS STILL HAVE TO, UM, ADDRESS IT AS WHEN THEY GET TO THE SPEED CUSHION. 
          OKAY. 
          AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT USING THIS ARE CONSIDERING USING IT ON AN ALDRIDGE. 
          YES. 
          WE CONCERN USING IT 
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ON ANY OTHER OF OUR ROADWAYS. 
          WE, WE WANT TO USE THIS FIRST AND, UH, AND WE WANT TO CREATE SOME STANDARDS AROUND IT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE UTILIZING IT IN THE RIGHT MANNER. 
          SO THIS IS JUST GOING TO BE OUR INITIAL, UH, FIRST TEST ON THIS. 
          WELL, YOUR WEB, YOUR WEDDING, THE APPETITE OF THOSE PEOPLE WHO KEEP ASKING FAR SPEED BUMPS. 
          OKAY. 
          SO WE HAVE, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WILL WORK, YOU KNOW, THEN IT'S AN ALTERNATIVE TO, YOU KNOW, THE STANDARDS, SPEED BUMPS. 
          SO, UH, I THINK, UH, LIKE I SAY, YOU'VE WHETTED THE APPETITE PROBABLY FOR A NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT SO, UH, HOPEFULLY WE'LL WE'LL KNOW WHAT THE, UH, THE OUTCOME OF THAT IS AND WHETHER OR NOT IT'S REALLY A WORKABLE, UH, SOLUTION. 
          SO THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I HAVE LIKE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS AND A COUPLE OF FEW COMMENTS. 
          THE QUESTION I HAVE IS ONE OF THE SLIDES THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT, THE FH CWA NEEDS THE APPROVAL FOR US TO GET A STOP SIGN. 
          YOU WALK ME THROUGH THAT. 
          SO I MENTIONED FH TWA, THE FEDERAL HIGHWAY ADMINISTRATION, UH, THEY HAVE THE, UH, MUT CD MANUAL, WHICH IS THE MANUAL OF UNIFORM TRAFFIC CONTROL DEVICES. 
          AND WITHIN IT, IT STATES WELL DICTATES THAT WE CAN NOT USE STOP SIGNS TO CONTROL SPEED. 
          THAT'S NOT THE INTENT OF THE STOP SIGN, THAT IT'S NOT A PROPER FOR IT. 
          I GET THAT. 
          BUT IF THERE'S A STOP SIGN ISSUE, WHEN ON AN INTERSECTION, ARE YOU GOING BACK TO FH TWA AND ASKING THEM, NOPE. 
          AND THEN COUNSEL, THE FSW THAT GIVES US THE CRITERIA. 
          WE GOT TO COLLECT THE DATA. 
          IT HAS TO MEET CERTAIN CRITERIA FOR US TO PREDICT STOP SIGNAL. 
          WE DON'T HAVE TO GO TO FSW, BUT WE HAVE TO ADHERE TO THEIR STANDARDS WHEN WE'RE PUTTING A STOP SIGN. 
          THEN THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD WAS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A MULTIPLE STUFF OF THINGS IN HERE THAT HAS TO DO WITH BOND CIP AND ALL THAT, INSTEAD OF JAMMING IT ALL INTO ONE, I LIKE TO SEE AN INDIVIDUAL BASED BY A BASE BEFORE, BECAUSE I WOULD ASSUME THAT YOU'RE BRINGING THESE TO COUNCIL, RIGHT? YEAH. 
          AND OUR INTENT HERE WAS TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF TRAFFIC OPERATIONS TODAY. 
          OBVIOUSLY A LOT OF THESE ARE, SOME OF THEM ARE CIP FUNDED IN THE CURRENT YEAR. 
          SOME ARE IN OUR OPERATING BUDGET. 
          AND OBVIOUSLY THOSE SIGNALS AND ROUNDABOUTS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ARE APPRISED IN THE BOND PROGRAM WILL BE COMING IN THE COMING MONTHS TO AUTHORIZE THE, DESIGNED, TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THESE. 
          AGAIN, THE INTENT WAS HERE TO PROVIDE AN OVERVIEW OF TRAFFIC OPERATIONS AND THE ISSUES AND CHALLENGES THAT WE FACE AS A GROWING CITY, SO THAT YOU, AS A COUNCIL AND CITIZENS ARE WELL-INFORMED ABOUT HOW TRAFFIC OPERATIONS WORKS AND WHAT ARE WE DOING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS WE HAVE. 
          SASHA. 
          I THINK THE OBJECTIVE OF WHAT YOU DID HERE WORKED IS, IS LESSON LEARNED EDUCATION, BUT I'M JUST MAKING A POINT AT SOME POINT IN TIME, THESE ITEMS WILL COME BEFORE COUNCIL. 
          CORRECT. 
          SO THEN YOU WOULD HAVE WHAT WE SPENDING, UH, HOW MUCH THE DOLLAR AMOUNT WOULD BE EQUATES TO. 
          SO EACH OF THESE THINGS, WHETHER IT'S A CIP OR WHETHER IT'S A BOND, WHAT HAVE YOU THEY'LL COME BEFORE CONSOLE, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT. 
          IT'LL COME BEFORE THIS BODY FOR AUTHORIZATION. 
          SO YOU JUST, THIS WAS JUST THE OVERALL OPERATIONS OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT'S GOING ON, OR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT YOU SEE FROM DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEMBERS ASKING THINGS, BECAUSE RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR IT. 
          SO YOU JUST KIND OF BUNDLED ALL OF THIS INTO A TRAFFIC OPERATION, KIND OF, UM, I WOULD SAY EDUCATION PROCESS, RIGHT? OKAY. 
          SO THE ONLY THING I HAVE LEFT IS SIMILAR COMMENT TO WHAT CASA MEMBER MURALS HAD TALKED ABOUT. 
          YOU KNOW, WE HAVE, WHAT I'VE HEARD IN THE PAST IS IT'S EITHER TXDOT IT'S HARRIS COUNTY IS FOR BRIN COUNTY. 
          IT'S EVERYBODY ELSE EXCEPT FOR MISSOURI CITY. 
          SO WE HAVE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT WE WORK IN DEAL WITH TO GET, TO MOVE A NEEDLE. 
          I FELT THAT WITH BEING HERE FOR ABOUT 14 MONTHS TO GET ANYTHING MOVING IN HERE, IT'S ALL OF THESE OTHER AGENCIES AND OTHER REGULATIONS HEAVY. 
          I MEAN, IT TOOK LITERALLY FOR YOU AND CITY MANAGER TO SIT DOWN WITH TECHSTAR TO RESTRIPE THE TEXAS PARK, WHICH THEY, WHICH THEY MAINTAIN. 
          SO MY COMMENT IS NOT A QUESTION. 
          MY COMMENT IS WE GOT TO TELL THESE AGENCIES BECAUSE WE ARE A CITY OF MISSOURI CITY AND TXDOT IS JUST NOT IN MISSOURI CITY. 
          THEY'RE ALL OVER THE, UH, OF THE, OF THE STATE, BUT WE HAVE TO MAKE IT A PRIORITY AS TO IF THINGS THAT THEY'RE MAINTAINING IT, THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE DOING, FOR EXAMPLE, ON, I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THE RAILROAD AND THEN THE PEOPLE THAT ARE GOING OVER THE RAILROAD COMPLAINING, AND I GET THIS GOVERNMENT, THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENT ASSOCIATIONS AND ORGANIZATIONS THAT 
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ARE THERE, BUT I LIKE TO SEE THINGS MOVING FORWARD WITH CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, WHETHER WHOEVER THAT MAY BE. 
          AND IF YOU, IF THAT MEANS, IF, IF WE NEEDED TO GO SPEAK TO THEM AS A CITY COUNCIL, WE'RE WILLING TO DO SO TO GET THINGS DONE HERE. 
          SO THIS WILL, WE HAVE THINGS THAT ARE MOVING. 
          YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WHEN WE RESIDENTS ARE ASKING FOR THINGS, IT TAKES 90 DAYS OR 120 DAYS BEFORE SOMETHING COMES OUT OF IT. 
          SO I THINK YOU GUYS DO A GREAT JOB WORKING WITH THEM. 
          THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE WITH TEXTILE ON TEXAS PARKWAY, AT LEAST GETTING THEM TO TAKE THE OWNERSHIP AND DOING THIS. 
          AS YOU, AS I SAW IN THIS PRESENTATION, THERE WERE SO MANY AGENCIES AFTER AGENCIES THAT WE WOULD SOMEHOW TOUCH WITH TOUCH BASE WITH. 
          SO AS STAFF, AND WHEN YOU ARE FACED WITH THE SITUATION WHERE YOU GETTING A PUSHBACK, I MEAN, AT LEAST THERE'S BOARDS AND OTHER PEOPLE THAT WE CAN CONVENE AND TALK TO. 
          SO THIS WAY WE CAN AT LEAST HELP Y'ALL TO MOVE THE NEEDLE FORWARD. 
          THAT WAS A COMMENT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I SHOULD HAVE A QUESTION. 
          UM, Y'ALL SELECTED, ALDRIGE DRIVE AS ONE OF THE LOCATIONS FOR THOSE SOFT SPEED BUMPS. 
          UM, HOW WAS THAT LOCATION SELECTED VERSUS ANOTHER ONE THAT'S HAD SIMILAR COMPLAINTS. 
          SO SPECIFICALLY FOR ALDRIDGE, UH, WE GOT NOT ONLY JUST A NUMBER OF CONCERNS, BUT WE ALSO HAD A CRASH DATA AS WELL. 
          UH, WE ACTUALLY JUST RECENTLY HAD AN ACCIDENT WHERE SOMEONE DROVE INTO, UH, ONE OF OUR RESIDENTS YARDS, UH, WHICH CAUSED A LOT OF CONCERN IN THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO WE IMMEDIATELY GOT TO WORK, TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT OUR OPTIONS ARE SINCE WE CAN'T ACTUALLY IMPLEMENT SPEED BUMPS, UH, AS I STATED EARLIER, SO WE HAD TO GET MORE INVENTIVE. 
          AND SO WITH THAT, UM, IF OTHER RESIDENTS AND OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE CONCERNS, ARE Y'ALL GOING TO BE ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THAT SAME PROCESS FOR THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS? NO, OUR INTENT ISN'T TO GO STRAIGHT TO, UH, THE LAST THING, OUR INTENT IS TO GO THROUGH MULTIPLE DIFFERENT LEVELS. 
          FIRST INCREASING SIGNAGE, IMPROVING STRIPING. 
          THAT'S WHAT WE DID ON STAFFORDSHIRE AT SCANLAN. 
          WASN'T IMPROVED THE SIGNAGE AND STRIPING, AND IT HASN'T BEEN OUT THERE FOR TOO LONG, BUT WE'RE EXPECTING IT TO WORK WELL. 
          AND THEN THERE'S OTHER, AFTER WE, YOU KNOW, GET TO ONE POINT THAT WE LOOK AT ANOTHER OPTION, WE LOOK AT ANOTHER OPTION AND THEN SOME OF THOSE OPTIONS ARE, UH, BASICALLY OUR FINAL EFFORT, LIKE WHAT WE THINK WE CAN WORK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU ALL. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ITEM 
          [(c) Discuss the 2021-2031 Parks, Recreation, and Open Space Master Plan]
TWO C IS DISCUSSED THE 2021 TO 2031 PARKS AND RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN. 
          WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY TW ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION. 
          ALL RIGHT, GOOD EVENING. 
          MAYOR AND COUNCIL, AS THE MAYOR MENTIONED, UH, TONIGHT, I'M BRINGING FORWARD TO A BRIEF PRESENTATION TRYING TO SUMMARIZE ABOUT A 250 PAGE DOCUMENT, WHICH WE CALL OUR 2021 TO 2031 ARCS RECREATION AND OPEN SPACE MASTER PLAN. 
          UH, MY SLIDES OR MY PRESENTATION IS GOING TO BE ABOUT 12 SLIDES. 
          LET'S SING IT UP. 
          OH, I JUST NEED IT MY BAD. 
          OKAY. 
          SO SOME BACKGROUND FIRST, THE PREVIOUS PARK MASTER PLAN WAS APPROVED IN 2015. 
          A NEW PLAN WAS DEVELOPED BY MHS PLANNING AND DESIGN. 
          WE HAVE MR. HUNTER RUSH, WHO IS A SENIOR PLANNER, AS WELL AS PARTNER WITH MHS HERE TONIGHT AS WELL. 
          UM, THIS CURRENT PLAN AGAIN IS DATED FOR 10 YEARS. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH A STANDARD FOR MASTER PLANNING IN A 10 YEAR CYCLE. 
          UH, BUT IT SHOULD BE REVIEWED IN APPROXIMATELY FIVE YEARS. 
          UH, PUBLIC INPUT WAS ACHIEVED USING FOCUS GROUPS AND SURVEYS, POPULATION PROJECTIONS AND NATIONAL STANDARDS WERE USED TO EXAMINE NOT ONLY THE CURRENT LEVELS, BUT ALSO FUTURE NEEDS. 
          UH, THIS PLAN IS DESIGNED TO BE A FLEXIBLE AND LIVING DOCUMENT. 
          AND I CAN'T STRESS THAT ENOUGH. 
          IT'S IT'S NOT A, HEY, WE CHECK THIS BOX FIRST AND THEN GO TO THE NEXT ONE. 
          UH, WE VERY MUCH WANT TO HAVE, UH, A GUIDELINE TO FRAMEWORK A DIRECTION TO GO, BUT ALSO MAINTAIN FLEXIBILITY BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHEN NEW FUNDING MIGHT COME AVAILABLE, NEW OPPORTUNITIES BECOME MORE OF A PRIORITY. 
          SO THAT'S THE KIND OF FLEXIBILITY WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, BECAUSE IT WILL CHANGE OVER TIME. 
          AND WHILE IT SERVES AS A GUIDE FOR PARK PLANNING, UH, AS WELL AS PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AND FINALLY BOTH THE PARKS BOARD AND THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED POSITIVE RECOMMENDATIONS OF THIS PLAN FOR CITY COUNCIL. 
          SO MOVING FORWARD, A BASIC AGENDA FOR THIS PRESENTATION IS GOING TO FOCUS ON AMENITY PRIORITIES, IMPLEMENTATION RECOMMENDATIONS, AND THEN NEXT STEPS, 
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BY THE WAY, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS FOR ABOUT A YEAR. 
          SO WE'RE GETTING VERY CLOSE TO THE, TO THE END OF THIS. 
          UM, SO WE'RE GONNA START HERE WITH PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION. 
          YOU'LL SEE A RANGE, A RANGE OF YEARS AT THE TOP. 
          THIS ONE SAYS 2022 TO 2025. 
          THOSE ARE MORE SHORT TERM GOALS. 
          SO THERE'LL BE A FEW PROJECTS IN THERE. 
          AND THEN WE'LL CHANGE THAT SCHEDULE TWO YEARS, MOVING OUT FROM 2 25 FIRST RICH VIEW PARK, WHICH WAS APPROVED ON THE NOVEMBER, 2021 BOND. 
          UH, THERE'S A NUMBER OF PROJECTS. 
          THERE WERE, WE'RE LOOKING AT YOU, UM, INCLUDING IN THAT PROJECT. 
          THE APPROXIMATE ESTIMATE COST OF THAT WAS $800,000. 
          I'LL MAKE ONE NOTE, UH, THE LAST BULLET, UH, INSTALL, UPDATED PARK ENTRY SIGN, UH, IN 2018, WE DEVELOPED A WITH TBG PARTNERS, WE DEVELOPED A PARK, A NEW PARK IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM. 
          UH, SO WE'RE PUTTING NEW SIGNAGE OUT THERE. 
          THIS IS CONTINUING WITH THAT. 
          UM, AND THAT IS IN PROGRESS BICENTENNIAL PARK ALSO ON THE BOND ISSUE, APPROXIMATELY $500,000. 
          THERE ARE SEVERAL ITEMS IN THERE, MOSTLY, UH, REPLACING OR IMPROVING CURRENT AMENITIES, NOT COMPLETE WIPE THE SLATE, CLEAN RENOVATION, BUT A REFRESH PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION AGAIN FOR 2022 THROUGH 2025, OUR LARGEST PROJECT RIGHT NOW, UH, STAMOS SPORTS PARK. 
          IT'S ALSO APPROVED ON THE 2021 BOND. 
          AND THIS WOULD BE A WHITE, THE SLATE CLEAN, IMPROVED THE SITE DRAINAGE, AND THEN MAKE THIS TRULY INTO A MULTI-PURPOSE PARK OR IT WOULDN'T BE JUST BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL. 
          IT ALSO COULD SERVE OTHER SPORTS SUCH AS SOCCER CRICKET, AND IT HAS OTHER AMENITIES ONSITE AS WELL. 
          UH, PROPOSING A, OF COURSE, A PLAYGROUND PICNIC PAVILION, UH, OUTDOOR PICKLEBALL COURTS, BASKETBALL COURTS, POSSIBLY A PUMP TRACK BATTING CAGES AND WALKING TRAILS THROUGHOUT. 
          NOW THIS, UM, THESE, THESE THREE HERE, UH, IT SAYS DEVELOP YOU IN D I . 
          I KNOW THAT'S CONFUSING. 
          WE'RE GOING TO CHANGE THAT. 
          THAT WAS OUR CURRENT CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM FOR UNDEVELOPED PARKLAND. 
          SO INSTEAD OF CALLING IT BY ITS COMMON NAME, LIKE A ECKERSON ROAD, PARKLAND, HEROINE TRACT, OR THINGS LIKE THAT, WE CHOSE TO DO SOMETHING THAT WAS MORE SYSTEMATIC AND WE'RE STILL WORKING ON THAT. 
          BUT THE POINT BEING IS THAT PARK, WHICH WAS AT THE PARK'S EDGE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY, WHICH COUNCIL RECENTLY RENAMED TROXELL PARK, UH, THAT IS IN OUR, UH, OUR SHORT TERM GOALS. 
          IT'S ACTUALLY BUDGETED THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. 
          WE ESTIMATE THAT, UH, FOUR, $650,000. 
          YOU'VE SEEN THOSE DESIGNED AT OUR LAST COUNCIL MEETING. 
          UM, ALSO FREEDOM TREE PARK ALSO IN THE NOVEMBER BOND, ESTIMATED THREE AND A HALF MILLION. 
          AND THAT'S PRIMARILY DEVELOPING THE UNDEVELOPED PORTION, THE 4.99 ACRES OFF OF MISTY HOLLOW. 
          AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM THERE, DON'T MISS THAT. 
          UH, ONE OF OUR GOALS IS TO ACQUIRE A MINIMUM OF FIVE ACRES OF PARK PARKLAND IN ZONE LAND FOR FUTURE PARKLAND. 
          WE'RE HOPING THAT WE'RE PROGRESSING TOWARDS THAT GOAL AS WELL. 
          NOW WE'RE MOVING A LITTLE FARTHER OUT 2025 TO 29 HUNTER'S TRAIL PARK, ROUGHLY $150,000. 
          BUT SINCE THIS A, A, UH, A FLEXIBLE DOCUMENT, THERE'S A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT ONCE IN A WHILE WE GET FUNDING FOR, AND WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO CHECK THOSE OFF THE LIST A LITTLE BIT SOONER THAN WE EXPECTED. 
          HERE'S AN EXAMPLE, A HUNTER'S TRAIL PARK. 
          WE REPLACED BOTH THE LITTLE TIKES, TWO TO FIVE PLAYGROUND, AS WELL AS THE FIVE TO 12, UH, THE, IN THE PAST, UH, PAST YEAR AND A HALF. 
          AND WE ALSO HAVE SOME OTHER WORK THAT WE HOPE TO DO THERE IN THE FUTURE. 
          AND THERE'S ANOTHER PARKLAND THAT IT SAYS IT'S REVOLUTION WAITS. 
          IT'S OFF OF, UM, INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD AS I BELIEVE, ARMSTRONG ELEMENTARY. 
          UH, IT'S ABOUT 1.5 ACRES AT THE TIP OF THAT PROPERTY THAT'S BEING DEVELOPED. 
          NOW IT'S BEHIND A WALGREEN'S I BELIEVE BEFORE IT INTERSECTS INTO FM 10 92 MCNAUGHTON PARK ESTIMATED AT $350,000. 
          UH, THE FIRST ITEM, THE MULTI GOLF COURSE IS COMPLETE. 
          WE WILL BE HAVING A GRAND OPENING FOR THAT THIS SATURDAY FROM ONE TO FOUR AT MCNAUGHTON BARKS. 
          SO IF YOU HAVE TIME COME OUT, WE'LL HAVE SOME FESTIVITIES AND ALSO HAVE A LOT OF OTHER EVENTS REVOLVING AROUND, UH, THE ACTIVITIES OF THIS COURSE ALSO DEVELOPING, UH, ARCHAIC BRIDGE, WHICH IS IN ZONE 11TH OFF OF THOMPSON FERRY. 
          UH, THERE'S ESTIMATED $3 MILLION IN CURRENTLY WE'RE WORKING WITH A LOCAL BIKE CLUBS TO CUT SOME TRAILS AND POSSIBLY START UTILIZING THAT PROPERTY, UH, FOR BIKE TRAILS. 
          NOW FARTHER OUT 2030 TO 31, UH, HERE'S ONE OF OUR, UH, LARGER TRACKS OF UNDEVELOPED PARKLAND, UH, IN ZONE EIGHT. 
          UH, WE CALL IT THE HEROIN TRACK. 
          AND THIS DESIGN IS FROM TBG IS FROM 2018. 
          UM, IT'S A CONCEPTUAL DESIGN. 
          WE HAVEN'T GONE 
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THROUGH ANY KIND OF COMMUNITY OUTREACH OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, BUT IT WOULD FOCUS ON OUTDOOR AND EDUCATION-BASED, UH, PARK THEMES. 
          UH, SOME AMENITIES COULD INCLUDE OUTDOOR CLASSROOM, TREEHOUSE PODS AND ANY KIND OF COOL THINGS. 
          SO WE CAN KIND OF IMAGINE THROUGH THAT DESIGN PROCESS, BUT WE EXPECT THAT ONE TO BE FARTHER OUT, HOPEFULLY, AND POSSIBLY IN A FUTURE BOND COMMUNITY PARK, THERE'S ROUGHLY $2 MILLION WORTH OF IMPROVEMENTS TO DO OUT THERE. 
          NOW WE'VE DONE A LOT OF THINGS IN COMMUNITY PARK IN RECENT YEARS, BUT THERE'S STILL WORK THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE. 
          AND AS INFRASTRUCTURE AGES, WE TAKE ANOTHER LOOK AT THINGS AND SEE IF THEY ARE AT OR PAST THEIR USEFUL LIFE. 
          UM, BUT THERE'S A COUPLE OF BULLETS AT THE BOTTOM THERE THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING. 
          THERE'S PEDANT WOOD, PEDESTRIAN BRIDGES ON THE DISC GOLF COURSE. 
          WE JUST EXPANDED THAT, UH, AND FROM 10 TO FULL 18 HOLES. 
          SO WE ARE, I BELIEVE WE'VE REPLACED FOUR, THE FIVE OF THOSE. 
          SO IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN OUT THERE, THEY WERE IN PRETTY ROUGH CONDITION. 
          UH, ALSO WHENEVER WE HAVE PICNIC TABLES AND BENCHES, UH, WE'RE REPLACING A LOT OF THOSE, ESPECIALLY AT THAT PARK. 
          THERE WAS SOME IN SOME ROUGH CONDITIONS, UH, QUILT GREEN WEST PARK, ABOUT A MILLION AND A HALF. 
          THERE'S A NUMBER OF ITEMS ON THERE. 
          UM, IN PROGRESS IS THE THIRD BULLET ITEM, UH, THE FIVE TO 12 YEAR OLD PLAYGROUND. 
          UH, WE HAVE THAT BUDGET THIS YEAR AND WE HAVE, UH, SELECTED, UM, A PLAYGROUND SYSTEM THAT WE'VE CHOSEN. 
          AND WE'LL BE BRINGING THAT TO YOU ON THE CONSENT AGENDA AT THE REGULAR MEETING TONIGHT, AND THEN AT THE BOTTOM OF THEIR OWN PARK, A ROUGHLY $75,000. 
          WE'D LOVE TO ADD A TRAIL LOOP IN THAT PARK AS WELL AS POSSIBLE EXERCISE STATIONS IN THE FUTURE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION THAT'S RELATIVE TO TRAILS AND CONNECTIVITY. 
          UM, HERE'S OUR FOUR PRIMARY LINEAR TRAILS. 
          AND BY LINEAR, I MEAN, THEY'RE STANDALONE, THEY'RE NOT A LOOP WITHIN A PARK, SO YOU'VE GOT FIRST CALL ON THE TRAIL. 
          THERE'S A NUMBER OF ITEMS THERE. 
          UM, THE GCWR TRAIL, WHICH GOES FROM INDEPENDENCE DOWN TO THE REC AND TENANT CENTER, AND THEN HEADS WEST OVER TO ROWAN PARK, AS WELL AS ORCHARD CREEK TRAIL, WHICH IS ALSO HOME TO THE EDIBLE ARBOR TRAIL. 
          AND THEN HUNTERS, GLEN JOGGING TRAIL, OUR LONGEST STRETCH OF TRAIL. 
          FINALLY HERE, NEXT STEPS. 
          UH, JUST A REMINDER, UH, IT HAS BEEN APPROVED WITH A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION BY THE PARKS BOARD AND PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION, OUR FINAL PLAN PRESENTATION, UH, IT WAS PLANNED FOR TONIGHT. 
          UH, WE'LL ALSO BE HAVING FIRST OF TWO ORDINANCE READINGS IN THE REGULAR MEETING. 
          AND THEN IF THAT MOVES FORWARD, WE'LL HAVE OUR SECOND ONE, HOPEFULLY SOON, PROBABLY THE MARCH 21ST AT THAT POINT, THE PLAN WOULD BE OFFICIALLY QUOTE UNQUOTE, ADOPTED IN THE EYES OF THE TEXAS PARKS AND WILDLIFE DEPARTMENT, WHICH MAKES US ELIGIBLE FOR STATE GRANTS. 
          AND THEN WE'D START APPLYING FOR GRANT FUNDING AND START IMPLEMENTING THE PLAN THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. 
          YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS I'M AVAILABLE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SO THANK YOU, TW, UM, DOES ANY, UH, COUNCIL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS TW I HAVE A QUESTION. 
          WHERE ARE WE IN REFERENCE TO FORT BEND COUNTY MAKING A CONTRIBUTION TO THE STAY PARK? I BELIEVE OUR DEPARTMENT DIRECTOR JASON HAS BEEN IN COMMUNICATION WITH THEM. 
          UH, I BELIEVE THERE'S BEEN SOME DISCUSSIONS POSSIBLY WITH SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS TOO. 
          I DON'T HAVE AN UPDATE FOR YOU AT THIS POINT. 
          I JUST KNOW THAT THERE'S SOME CONVERSATIONS THAT ARE CONTINUING AND WHEREAS THE DIRECTOR TODAY, UH, THE DIRECTOR IS IN MICHIGAN TONIGHT. 
          HE SENDS HIS REGRETS. 
          HE COULDN'T MAKE IT. 
          HE IS SPEAKING HE'S KEYNOTE SPEAKER AT A CON OR CONFERENCE. 
          I JUST REMEMBER CLOUDS WHERE I ACTUALLY REACHED OUT TO THE JUDGE, UH, LAST WEEK WITH TWO ITEMS. ONE OF THOSE BEING THAT COMMITMENT. 
          YEAH. 
          IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION, UM, FOR QUAIL GREEN WEST, UH, THAT PARK, IT WAS MENTIONED IN YOUR PRESENTATION ABOUT A DOG PARK. 
          IS THAT THE CONSIDERATION, IS THAT FROM THE COMMUNITY'S REQUEST OR WHAT DID Y'ALL GET THAT ONSET FROM? UM, YES, NO. 
          SO THE COMMUNITY, AS A WHOLE HAS SAID, HEY, WE'D LOVE TO HAVE A DOG PARK. 
          AND WHICH IS, UM, FOR THOSE THAT DON'T, IT'S A FENCED IN OFF-LEASH AREA FOR DOGS. 
          TYPICALLY THEY'VE GOT A SMALL, SMALLER DOG AREA AS WELL AS LARGE. 
          SO WE KNOW AS A PARK SYSTEM IN THE CITY AS A WHOLE, IT'S A NEED. 
          UM, WE PUT IT AT THAT PARK BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE POTENTIAL SITES WE'VE LOCATED THAT HAS OF SPACE. 
          AND AS WE MOVE THROUGH, AS WE GET CLOSER TO GETTING FUNDING FOR MORE PROJECTS, WE'LL TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT EXACTLY WHAT WE WENT TO DO. 
          THEIR COMMUNITY WILL DEFINITELY HAVE SOME INPUT, WHETHER THEY DO OR DON'T WANT THAT, THAT AT THAT SITE MERELY A RECOMMENDATION AT THIS POINT, THAT THE REQUEST FOR THAT LOCATION DID COME FROM THE COMMUNITY. 
          AND WHAT I'VE HEARD THAT THE REQUEST FOR A DOG PARK IN OUR SYSTEM, OUR PARK SYSTEM AS A WHOLE AND THE CITY AS A WHOLE, YES, AS FAR AS THAT LOCATION, WE HAVEN'T GOTTEN DOWN TO THAT FINITE DETAIL. 
          THAT'S JUST A SITE THAT, UH, THAT STAFF HAS IDENTIFIED IS WE ONLY HAVE SO MANY SITES THAT HAVE FLAT OPEN SPACE WHERE IT MIGHT BE PLAUSIBLE. 
          AND THAT WAS ONE THAT WE THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THIS MIGHT BE A GOOD, GOOD PLACE FOR IT, BUT AGAIN, IT'S PURELY CONCEPTUAL AT THIS POINT. 
          TW I HAVE A QUESTION 
          [01:15:01]
WHEN YOU, YOU PUT SOME OF THESE DATES ON SOME OF THESE PROJECTS AND WITHIN THE SLIDES, RIGHT. 
          HA HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? IT'S A GREAT QUESTION. 
          IT'S SOME OF IT'S, SOME OF IT'S SOMEWHAT SUBJECTIVE. 
          UM, OBVIOUSLY IF YOU, IF WE, IF WE HAVE A FEEL A GOOD FEELING OR KNOW THAT WE HAVE FUNDING CURRENTLY OR COMING SOON, THAT WE EXPECT SUCH AS THE BOND PROJECTS, THAT'S WHY WE PUT THOSE EARLIER IN THE, IN THE EARLIER IMPLEMENTATION IMPLEMENTATION SCHEDULE. 
          UM, SOME OF THE OTHERS WE DECIDED, OKAY, IF WE'VE GOT THESE PROJECTS PRIORITY, NOW WE'RE GOING TO MOVE THE OTHERS DOWN THE ROAD. 
          UM, AND THEN THE ONES THAT ARE FAR THIS OUT SOMETIMES IT'S OKAY, WE'VE ALREADY DONE THINGS IN SOME OF THESE PARKS AND THERE'S JUST A PRIORITIZATION WE TRIED TO DO INTERNALLY. 
          OKAY. 
          SO DOES SOMETHING LIKE THIS GO THROUGH THE PARKS, PARKS BOARD? IT DOES. 
          WE'VE BEEN, WE PRESENTED THIS TO THE PARKS BOARD TWICE. 
          UM, AND THEY'VE HAD INPUT IN THE FORM OF FOCUS GROUPS AS WELL. 
          SO, UM, IT'S SEEN A LOT OF REITERATIONS THROUGH THE LAST 12 TO 14 MONTHS. 
          OKAY. 
          AND I HAVE ONE MORE. 
          SO I'VE SEEN NUMBERS NEXT TO THESE, UH, ESPECIALLY THE ONE THAT IS THE SAME OLD PARK. 
          IT SAYS IT'S FROM THE 20, 21 BOND AND IT'S ABOUT 15 MILLION, RIGHT? CORRECT. 
          UH, ALL THAT 15 MILLION IS THROUGH TO THE PARKS AND MISSOURI CITY, NOTHING FROM FORT BEND COUNTY, THE 15 MILLION NUMBER COMES FROM THE PROJECTED PROBABLE COSTS. 
          UM, THE BOND WAS ONLY FOR 10 MILLION OF THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          SO IF WE DON'T GET THE, THE ADDITIONAL 5 MILLION SECURED FROM ANY OTHER PARTY, UM, WE WILL HAVE TO SCALE THIS BACK OR DO IT IN PHASES, WHICH IN PHASES MEANS, OKAY, IF WE GET $2 MILLION TO WORK WITH, WE BUILD IT OUT TO 10 MILLION MARK AND THEN HAVE PHASE TWO, BE THE ADDITIONAL 5 MILLION. 
          THE PROBLEM WITH THAT IS JUST ESCALATING COSTS. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND THIS IS NOT TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT. 
          SO WHY WOULD YOU SHARE A SLIDE WITH ME? SHOWS ME 15 MILLION WHEN YOU ONLY GOT 10 MILLION, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS CURRENT PLAN IS FOR. 
          WE WANTED TO SHOW YOU THAT THIS IS OUR DREAM AND THIS WAS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. 
          SO IF I WERE TO GO OUT THERE AND TELL SOMEBODY THAT, OH, WITHIN 22 TO 25, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE PROJECT IMPLEMENTATION WITH $15 MILLION IN STANWELL PARK, BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING I SAW THAT YOU PRESENTED. 
          SO MAYOR, THAT'S ALSO CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WENT THROUGH THE BOND COMMITTEE. 
          AND IT WAS ALWAYS HIGHLIGHTED AS SUCH THAT WE'RE WAITING ON A, THERE WAS A VERBAL COMMITMENT FROM THE COUNTY. 
          SO IT'S BEEN DISCLOSED IN THE PAST. 
          I SEE YOUR POINT THOUGH. 
          IT PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE BEEN DISCLOSED ON THIS, BUT YEAH. 
          I MEAN, IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SOMETHING SHOULD HAVE SAID 10 MILLION IN CONGESTION WITH THE 5 MILLION FROM OTHER ENTITIES. 
          IT DOESN'T EVEN HAVE TO SAY THAT WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. 
          EXCELLENT. 
          THAT'S MY MISTAKE. 
          IT HAS BEEN ON, I'M NOT SEEING IT AS A MISTAKE. 
          I'M NOT SAYING IT THAT YOU MAKE A MISTAKE. 
          BUT WHEN I, WHEN I SEE SOMETHING, I PRESENT THIS OUT, UM, I'M SAYING WHAT I SAW AND WITHOUT HAVING A CLARITY, IT WOULD, I'D BE TELLING SOMEBODY, OH YEAH, IT'S GOING TO BE $15 MILLION. 
          AND NOT KNOWING THAT YOU KNOW, WHERE THE 5 MILLION IS. 
          RIGHT. 
          SO THE REST OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU HAVE LAID OUT THERE ALSO ARE THOSE NUMBERS, RIGHT? YES, THEY ARE. 
          THERE'S NOBODY ELSE WE'RE WAITING ON TO GET SOMETHING THIS TIME. 
          OF COURSE, IF WE COULD ALWAYS FIND A PARTNERS LOOKING TO SHARE IN THE PROJECT, OUR EARS OPEN. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I HAVE A QUESTION, DW. 
          UH, OH, YOU HAD A QUESTION. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          I THOUGHT YOU WERE JUST SAYING THANK YOU. 
          NO, NO, NO. 
          OKAY. 
          I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS. 
          I WANT TO KNOW. 
          UM, THE CONCEPTUAL PLANS THAT YOU JUST PROVIDED TO US, IS THERE ANY WAY OTHER THAN THE DARK PARK THAT COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY, UH, SPOKE ABOUT, IS THERE A WAY THAT YOU CAN GET FEEDBACK AND RESPONSES FROM THE COMMUNITY AS A WHOLE PRIOR TO MOVING FORWARD COMPLETELY? YES. 
          THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE PLANNING AND DESIGN PROCESS. 
          NUMBER OF THESE PROJECTS JUST HAVEN'T KICKED OFF BEYOND THE, HEY, HERE'S THE CONCEPT. 
          AND WE, WE GOT SOME CONCEPTUAL ESTIMATES OF THINGS THAT WE KNOW THAT EITHER NEED TO BE DONE OR THAT WE'RE HOPING TO BE DONE BY NO, I MEAN, THINGS THAT ARE PAST THEIR USEFUL LIFE OR WE'RE ON OUR NEEDS ASSESSMENT, OR I'M PREVIOUS CITIZEN SURVEYS OR ON PREVIOUS OR CURRENT MASTER PLAN. 
          SO WE PUT THAT TOGETHER AT THIS POINT AND SAY, OKAY, HERE'S OUR FIRST STEP. 
          ONCE WE ACTUALLY DECIDE THAT THIS IS A PROJECT WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AND GET THAT AND HAVE THAT FUNDING BUDGETED AND ALLOCATED THAT'S WHEN WE START THE PROCESS OF HIRING SOMEONE, YOU KNOW, A DESIGN FIRM, FOR EXAMPLE, AND SAY, HERE ARE OUR IDEAS. 
          NOW LET'S HAVE SOME FOCUS GROUPS, COMMUNITY SURVEYS, DIFFERENT PUBLIC OUTREACH. 
          A LOT OF TIMES YOU HAVE A DESIGN CHARETTE THAT MIGHT BE IN A ROOM LIKE THIS, WHERE PEOPLE COME IN AND WHEN WE SAY HERE'S OUR, YOU KNOW, THERE'S POSTER BOARDS AND THEY GIVE THEIR DESIGN INPUT AT THAT TIME FOR THAT, 
          [01:20:01]
WE'RE JUST TRYING TO ALIGN WITH SURVEYS AND FEEDBACK. 
          OKAY. 
          I WILL ADVISE THAT YOU, UM, WORK WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT, OF COURSE, BUT JUST HEAVY ON THE MARKETING. 
          I, LIKE I SPOKE ABOUT IT LAST MEETING, UM, WHEN WE'RE MAKING THESE DECISIONS ABOUT THE PARKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT THE COMMUNITY IS GOING TO UTILIZE AND ULTIMATELY FINANCE, I BELIEVE THAT THEY SHOULD BE HEAVILY INVOLVED AND HAVE SOME TYPE OF INPUT. 
          YES MA'AM. 
          AND THEN I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. 
          WHAT ARE SOME OF THE PROJECTS OR IN THE MASTER PLAN THAT ARE DIFFERENT, THAT WAS PREVIOUS FROM THE PREVIOUS MASTER PLAN. 
          SO ANYTHING NEW THAT YOU CAN EMPHASIZE ON THAT WE ADDED ON? I'LL BE HONEST. 
          I DON'T HAVE THAT AT THE TOP OF MY HEAD. 
          UM, I CAN TELL YOU A COUPLE OF THE CARRY-OVERS SUCH AS STEMO AND THE HEROIN TRACK. 
          CAUSE THEY WERE TWO OF OUR LARGER PROJECTS THAT JUST DIDN'T HAVE THE FUNDING PRIOR, BUT SOME EXAMPLES MIGHT BE, UM, WE KNOW LIKE RIDGEVIEW PARK, IT'S THE OLDEST PARK IN OUR SYSTEM. 
          SO THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT JUST NEED TO BE REPLACED BECAUSE THEY'RE KIND OF WORN OUT AND IT'S TIME TO REPLACE THEM BICENTENNIAL. 
          WE'VE DONE A FEW THINGS HERE AND THERE OVER THE YEARS, BUT WE COULD IMPROVE. 
          SO THOSE THINGS WHERE AS, AS WE'VE PROGRESSED FROM THE 2015 PLAN, WE'VE STARTED TO SEE SOME NEW THINGS POP UP. 
          SO THERE'S JUST A COUPLE IDEAS AND THERE ALWAYS BE NEW THINGS THAT COME UP ALONG LIKE A COMMUNITY PARK BECAUSE IT'S SO HEAVILY USED. 
          IT'S PROBABLY OUR MOST HEAVILY USED ONE OR ALONG THE TRAILS AS WELL. 
          AND YOU DO ME A FAVOR AND COMPARE AND CONTRAST THE OLD PLAN TO WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING NOW. 
          SO I CAN KIND OF HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING AND SEND IT OVER WHENEVER YOU GET A CHANCE. 
          I KNOW YOU JUST MENTIONED THE TROUBLE, BUT OKAY. 
          I WAS JUST TRYING TO THINK. 
          I'M NOT SURE HOW TO DO THAT. 
          UM, I HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THEM FOR A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE THE 2015 PLAN DID HAVE A NUMBER OF PROPOSED PROJECTS. 
          A LOT OF THEM WERE DONE. 
          SOME OF THEM DIDN'T COME TO FRUITION, SO THERE'S SIMILARITIES THERE. 
          ONE OF THE DIFFERENCES. 
          OKAY. 
          I THINK I KNOW. 
          HOW DOES THE SYNCHRONY ANSWER TO THAT TOO? IS, UH, WE WENT INTO REALLY, UM, FOCUS A LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE, TO INCLUDE IN THIS PLAN LEVELS OF SERVICE. 
          SO THERE'S PARKS LEVELS OF SERVICES. 
          LIKE HOW MANY PARKS DO WE HAVE FOR A HUNDRED DWELLING UNITS OR PER THOUSAND PEOPLE, AND DO THOSE COMPARISONS WITH OTHER CITIES, UH, AROUND US. 
          UM, AND THAT COULD INCLUDE NOT ONLY CITY-OWNED PROPERTY, BUT ALSO HOS IN ANY OF THE PROPERTY THAT WE DON'T, IT'S STILL SERVING THE CITIZENS OF MISSOURI CITY. 
          SO THAT INFORMATION IS THERE IN THERE. 
          WE DID THE SAME THING FOR FACILITIES. 
          UH, WE ALSO INCLUDED MAINTENANCE LEVELS OF SERVICE. 
          SO WE REALLY WANTED TO DOCUMENT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE AVERAGE PERSON OFF THE STREET CAN CLICK ON OUR WEBSITE, SEE THIS DOCUMENT OPENED UP AND SAY, I CAN, I KIND OF UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT WITHOUT KNOWING ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT LEVELS OF SERVICES OR MAINTENANCE LEVELS ARE. 
          WE WENT TO BE A LIVING DOCUMENT THAT NOT JUST INTERNALLY WE READ, BUT YOU, ANYONE FROM THE COMMUNITY CAN READ TO AND UNDERSTAND, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO GET AT. 
          NOW, THERE ARE SOME COMPLEX, MORE COMPLEX THINGS IN THERE TOO. 
          UH, SUCH AS THE 10 MINUTE WALK CAMPAIGN, THAT'S A NEW INITIATIVE AND THE LAST FIVE TO MAYBE SEVEN YEARS, UH, THROUGH THE NATIONAL RECREATION AND PARKS ASSOCIATION. 
          AND IT'S JUST THE WHOLE IDEA THAT EVERYONE DESERVES TO BE CLOSE TO A PARK. 
          AND THEY HOPE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE X NUMBER OF PERCENTAGE OF YOUR POPULATION OR WITHIN ROUGHLY A 10 MINUTE WALK. 
          SO THAT'S GOING TO BE DIFFERENT. 
          LIKE WHEN I LIVED IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND THERE'S A LOT MORE HILLS AND STUFF LIKE THAT, THAT COULD BE A MILE, BUT HERE ON FLAT LAND, THAT COULD BE A HALF MILE. 
          SO THERE'S, IT DEPENDS ON THE GEOGRAPHY AND THE LOCATION YOU ARE. 
          BUT WE INCLUDED THAT IN HERE AS WELL AS A CONSIDERATION AT YOUR FEEDBACK AND THE PRESENTATION, BUT I'M MORE OF A TANGIBLE PERSON. 
          SO IF YOU CAN PROVIDE THAT IN A DETAILED CONCEPT, I CAN APPRECIATE THAT WHENEVER YOU GET A CHANCE, IF IT'S OKAY, MAY I FOLLOW UP WITH YOU AFTERWARDS? AND WE CAN CONNECT AND FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT I WOULD LIKE IT IN WRITING SO I CAN REFER BACK TO, OKAY. 
          ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? YEAH. 
          UM, RELATIVE TO THE, UH, PARK ZONE ONE FUTURE PARK, UM, ASSUMING THAT WHEN THAT EVER GETS DONE AND ACQUIRED, UH, DO WE, UH, PROVIDE AN ESTIMATE OF WHAT THE COST OF THAT PARK WOULD BE AS PART OF THIS, UH, PARKS MASTER PLAN AFTER A DESIGN HAS BEEN, UH, PRESENTED, OR WE HAVEN'T GOT TO THAT POINT YET. 
          I KNOW WHERE YOU'RE, WHERE YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT LIKE HOW MUCH IT WOULD COST TO DEVELOP THAT INTO PARKLAND. 
          RIGHT. 
          UH, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING ABOUT THAT YET. 
          AND THE MAIN REASON IS IT'S JUST NOT QUITE AT THAT POINT YET. 
          UM, ONCE WE RECEIVE THAT PROPERTY, I, IT WOULD BE, IT'D BE PROBABLY A BEST PRACTICE FOR US TO REACH OUT TO A DESIGN FIRM AND GET WHAT WE CALL A FEASIBILITY STUDY AND JUST START THROWING SOME IDEAS OUT THERE THAT ARE BASED ON THE SURVEYS AND THE MASTER PLAN, EVEN THOUGH WE HAVEN'T DONE ANY SITE SPECIFIC OR, OR NEIGHBORHOOD SPECIFIC PUBLIC OUTREACH YET, BUT THAT WILL GET US STARTED WITH TALKING ABOUT, HEY, THIS IS KIND OF A CONCEPTUAL IDEA OF WHAT WE THINK THIS SPACE WILL BE. 
          I JUST DON'T HAVE A NUMBER FOR YOU AT THIS TIME. 
          AND AFTER THAT, THEN OF COURSE, WE'LL DIAL THAT DOWN INTO COMMUNITY OUTREACH AND 
          [01:25:01]
FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT THE COMMUNITY WANTS, BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO IDENTIFY FUNDING AS WELL. 
          MY LAST QUESTION IS ABOUT, UH, MUD 26, ACQUIRED THE LAND TO DO A PARK RIGHT THERE AT COURT ROAD BEHIND WHAT COOK COURT ROAD IN COLUMBIA BLUE. 
          AND WE JUST VOTED AS A COUNCIL TO REZONE THAT, TO ALLOW THEM TO MOVE FORWARD. 
          MY QUESTION IS, WHERE DOES THIS FALL IN THE PARKS MASTER PLAN, IF AT ALL, OR IS IT JUST CITY OWNED PARKS THAT ARE INCLUDED IN THE PARKS MASTER PLAN? UM, IT PRIMARILY FOCUSES, FOCUSES ONLY ON CITY OWNED PARKS OR PARKLAND. 
          AND I DIFFERENTIATE THAT BY PARKLAND. 
          IT'S JUST UNDEVELOPED PARKS ARE ACTUALLY DEVELOPED. 
          WE DO HAVE SOME DATA IN THERE SAYING HOA PARKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT IT ONLY INCLUDES DEVELOPED ONES. 
          SO WE'RE REALLY WHERE IT INVOLVES MAYBE THE COUNTY, LIKE 80 HOLLOW PARK OR THE HOA PARKS. 
          THERE'S RURAL. 
          AND WE TALK ABOUT LEVELS OF SERVICE AND WE'RE LIKE, OKAY, HOW MANY ACRES DO WE REALLY HAVE AS A CITY WITH EVERY ENTITY THAT'S SERVING THEM? AND WHAT ARE THOSE RATIOS AND HOW THEY CAN, HOW CAN THEY COMPARE IT TO NATIONAL STANDARDS AND BENCHMARKS? YEAH, THE REASON I WAS ASKING US, CAUSE YOU KNOW, THE MEETING THAT WE ATTENDED, UH, THEY HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS AND WERE, WAS CURIOUS ABOUT THE MAINTENANCE OF THAT PARK. 
          AND SO IT WOULD BE A SHAME TO HAVE THAT PARK DEVELOPED AND THEN IT GOT TO GO BY THE WAYSIDE AND DON'T GET THE, IT DOESN'T GET THE ATTENTION THAT IT DESERVES. 
          SO I WAS JUST CURIOUS AS TO HOW YOU GUYS WOULD BE WORKING COLLABORATIVELY WITH THEM. 
          WELL, WE'RE HERE FOR INFORMATION, BUT THEN SINCE THAT'S A MUD PARK THAT WILL BE FUNDED BY THEM AND MAINTAINED BY THEM. 
          IT WILL NOT BE A CITY ASSET. 
          RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU TOO. 
          ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GO 
          [3. CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION]
AHEAD AND RECESS. 
          IT'S 7:01 PM. 
          AND WE'LL COME BACK TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. 
          AFTER THE REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING, THE TIME IS 11:45 PM. 
          [4. RECONVENE]
THAT'S IT? A COUNCIL WILL RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION. 
          SO WE HAVE A CONSIDERED GRANTING CONSENT TO HIRE A DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, UH, CHARLES JACKSON, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UM, UNDER THE SIDE OF, UH, UNDER THE SIDE OF THE DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, ASKING FOR COUNCIL'S CONSENT TO HIRE MS. PAUL, RYAN AS THE DEPUTY CITY. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE MORE, IS THERE A MOTION? I MAKE A MOTION TO HIRE PAUL POLO. 
          RYAN IS OUR DEPUTY CITY MANAGER. 
          IS THERE A SECOND AND EMOTION BY CONSTANT NUMBER OF KLAUSER? SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER. 
          RILEY IS, UH, IS THERE COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? SAME. 
          OKAY. 
          IF THERE'S NO FURTHER DISCUSSION THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION PLEASE SAY NO. 
          NO. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THE MOTION 6 0 6 1 IT'S 11, 11 45 GUYS GAVE HIM. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE, UM, SO THAT'D BE 6, 2, 1 NEXT ITEM. 
          WOULD IT BE CONSIDERED GRANTING CONSENT TO HIRE A CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER, UM, MAYOR AND COUNCIL UNDER THIS ITEM ASKING FOR COUNCIL'S CONSENT TO HIRE MR. DAVID JORDAN AS THE CHIEF OPERATIONS OFFICER FOR THIS. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE A MOTION? I MAKE A MOTION. 
          WE HIRED DAVID. 
          OKAY. 
          THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. 
          UM, SO THERE SECOND, SECOND MOTION BY COUNCIL. 
          AND MARATHI SECOND BY CONSOLE MEMORIALS. 
          UH, IS THERE A DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE. 
          THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. 
          SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO. 
          OKAY. 
          NOW IS THERE CONSIDER GRANTING CONSENT TO HIRE A COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR? WE HAVE, UH, CEDRIC CALLS, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER, OR YOU SKIPPED ITEM C. 
          WELL, WE'LL SEE THE CONTRACT. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          HOLD ON ONE SECOND SETTER. 
          SO IS THERE A MOTION TO GRANT THE CITY ATTORNEY? THE, UH, THE CONTRACT I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO SOLIDIFY A CONTRACT FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY. 
          [01:30:04]
NOT THE CITY MANAGER. 
          IT SHOULD BE THE MAYOR. 
          OH, OTHERWISE THE MAYOR. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          I THOUGHT YOU SAID, OH, I CAN'T HIRE HER. 
          IT HAS TO BE YOU GUYS. 
          OTHERWISE THE MAYOR. 
          OKAY. 
          SOLIDIFIED CONTRACT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY IS THEIR SECOND. 
          SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. 
          HEARING NONE. 
          THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE SAY, AYE, THOSE OPPOSED THE MOTION. 
          SAY NO. 
          WATCHING CARRIES SIX ONE. 
          NOW CONSIDER GRANTING A CONSENT TO HIRE A COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR PRESENTATION BY CEDRIC. 
          CALL THE CITY. 
          SEE IT CIO IT'S TO THE THIRD LONG OF AN EIGHT. 
          I'M SORRY. 
          MAYOR COUNCIL. 
          I'M HERE SEEKING CONSENT FOR TERROR POWER DRILL. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE A MOTION? I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE CONSIDER GRANTED CONSENT. 
          WELL, I MAKE A MOTION. 
          IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND? OKAY. 
          MOTION BY COUNCILMAN MINERALS. 
          SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER, EMORY. 
          UH, IS THERE A DISCUSSION OR COMMENTS HEARING? NONE. 
          THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION SAY, AYE. 
          THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION. 
          SAY NO, NO MOTION CARRIES SIX ONE. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE ANY OTHER FURTHER BUSINESS OR DISCUSSION? OKAY. 
          HEARING NONE. 
          WE'RE GOING TO GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN. 
          THE MEETING AT THE TIME IS 1150. 
          I'LL FORGET THE COFFEE.
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