Sep 19, 2022 City Council

WE HAVE SOME PRESENTATIONS AND, UM, RECOGNITIONS, UH, THREE A IS RECOGNITION OF BOBBY ANDERSON.

WE'LL GO FIRST ON THAT, UH, ITEM B WILL BE RECOGNITION OF, UH, SET UP HERE AND THEN FOLLOW THAT BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY.

SO THANK YOU FOR BEING HERE.

THE FIRST IS BOBBY ANDERSON.

IS SHE HERE? COME ON IN.

COME ON.

[(a) Recognition of Bobbie Anderson for her community service.]

LET ME JUST SAY SOMETHING ABOUT MS. ANDERSON.

SHE'S FROM MISSOURI CITY.

SHE'S A TEACHER AND MUCH MORE HER HUSBAND, HER SON AND HER DAUGHTER ARE ALSO TEACHERS.

BOBBY ANDERSON IS A PART OF THE ORGANIZATION CALLED COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES AND HAS DONE SOME WONDERS FOR A GROUP CALLED SHARED DREAMS FOR A SCHOOL IN MISSOURI CITY AND ALL AROUND FORT BEND COUNTY.

SHARED DREAMS IS A VOLUNTEER GROUP THAT COLLECTS AND GIVES AWAY ITEMS TO STUDENTS IN NEED, SUCH AS CLOTHING, SHOES, SUPPLIES, FOOD, AND OTHER ITEMS. SO DURING C BOBBY ANDERSON HAD ORGANIZED THAT GROUP AND STILL BE ABLE TO COLLECT FOOD AND SUPPLIES AND GET THEM TO STUDENTS ACROSS THE COUNTRY, ACROSS THE COUNTY.

THAT WAS, THAT WERE IN NEED.

SHE FOUND SUPPLIES AND WAS ASKING PLACES TO STORE THEM AS WELL AS S STRATER FORM PLATES TO THE KIDS IN NEED THAT HAD MEALS OVER THE TIME OF THE PANDEMIC.

IF A SCHOOL NURSE FROM IF A SCHOOL NURSE FROM ANY SCHOOL RECOGNIZES ANY STUDENT WITH WORN OUT SHOES OR CLOTHES, THEY CAN CONTACT BOBBY AND SHE WILL BRING THEM ALL THEY NEED.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE, THAT I WAS TOLD FROM YOU.

SO TODAY WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR YOU.

FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU FOR DOING THIS, UM, PROCLAMATION STATES.

WHEREAS MS. BOBBY ANDERSON, THE COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT LIAISON FOR OUR COLLABORATIVE COMMUNITIES IS A 20 YEAR EDUCATOR IN THE FORT BEN INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND WHEREAS MS. ANDERSON REVITALIZES SHARED DREAMS, A VOLUNTEER GROUP THAT COLLECTS AND DISTRIBUTE ITEMS TO STUDENTS IN NEED THROUGHOUT FORT BEND COUNTY.

AND WHEREAS DURING THE PANDEMIC SHARED DREAMS LED BY BOBBY ANDERSON COLLECTED AND DISTRIBUTED FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO STUDENTS CONFINED DURING LOCKDOWN.

AND WHEREAS SHARED DREAMS CONTINUES TO DELIVER NECESSITIES SUCH AS CLOTHING SHOES, TO ALL DISADVANTAGED CHILDREN, IDENTIFIED BY PEERS WITHIN THE FORT BEND, INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT.

AND NOW THEREFORE I MAYOR ROBIN ACAD ON BEHALF OF CITY COUNCIL, CITY OF MISSOURI CITY AND THE CITIZENS OF MISSOURI CITY.

DO HE DO HEREBY ACKNOWLEDGE BOBBY ANDERSON FOR HER OUTSTANDING STUDENT DEDICATION AND COMMUNITY SERVICE AND ENCOURAGE ALL CITIZENS TO CONGRATULATE MS. ANDERSON AS ONE OF THE TEXAS FINEST CITIZEN.

TO TAKE CARE OF EVERYONE.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY THAT IT HAS BEEN MY HONOR AND PRIVILEGE TO SERVE OUR STUDENTS FOR 20 YEARS.

I DUNNO I HAVE 20 YEARS LEFT, BUT, UM, I APPRECIATE THIS.

I APPRECIATE, UM, ONE OF OUR VOLUNTEERS NOMINATING ME FOR THIS AND, UM, THANK YOU ALL FOR WHAT YOU DO WHEN YOU SUPPORT OUR STUDENTS IN FORT BEND ISD, BECAUSE IT DOES TAKE A VILLAGE

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[(b) Recognition of Sena Pierre and the Society of Royals for their mentors...]

NEXT WE HAVE, IF I'M PRONOUNCING THE NAME WRONG, PLEASE FORGIVE ME SENT UP HERE.

SINNA HERE.

COME ON UP HERE.

SO THIS ONE IS VERY CLOSE TO ME, CLOSE TO MY HEART.

AS I GOT INTO OFFICE IN 20, UM, I GOT A CALENDAR INVITE THAT STATED THAT SOMEONE FROM SOCIETY OF ROYALS WANTS TO MEET YOU.

SO I WENT AROUND ASKING EVERYONE, WHAT IS SOCIETY OF ROYALS? UM, NO ONE COULD TELL ME WHAT IT WAS.

AND THEY SAID, WELL, YOU HAVE A MEETING COMING UP.

LET'S JUST GO AHEAD AND MEET.

AND I MET WITH, I MET WITH MS. PIERRE AND KIND OF LEARNED WHAT THIS WAS ABOUT.

SO THIS IS SO SHE FOUNDED SOCIETY OF ROYALS AND NOT FOR PROFIT ORGANIZATION THAT WAS FOUNDED IN 2013 AFTER THE SUICIDE IN OF HER, ONE OF HER FRIENDS MENTEE IN 20 2008, FOLLOWED BY SUICIDE OF ANOTHER CLOSE ACQUAINTANCE IN 2010 SOCIETY OF ROYALS HEALTH, YOUNG PEOPLE DEVELOP CONFIDENCE, OFFERS MENTORSHIP AND MUCH MORE.

THIS SOCIETY OF ROYALS HAS MADE A DIFFERENCE IN MANY LIVES IN FORT BEND COUNTY, AS WELL AS OUR SCHOOL DISTRICTS, I WAS ABLE TO PARTNER WITH HER AND MEET WITH HER AND ACTUALLY SEEING HOW THEY DO THIS.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO FOLLOW HER TO HIGH TOWER HIGH SCHOOL AND SEEING THE SCHOLARSHIPS TO PROMS AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT YOUR SOCIETY OF ROYALS HAVE DONE FOR THESE KIDS.

AND THIS IS A, YOU KNOW, I'M VERY SUPPORTIVE OF WHAT YOU DO, AND ESPECIALLY FIGHTING AGAINST BULLYING, DEPRESSION, AND SUICIDE.

SO THIS IS A HUGE THING.

SO WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION TREAT THERE, PROCLAMATION READS, WHEREAS WE HONOR ONE AMONG WHO EX IMPLIES AT THE DEFINITION OF SERVING THE TODAY'S YOUTH.

WHEREAS MS. SINAY PIER IS AN ENTREPRENEUR AND HUMANITARIAN FOUNDED THE NOT-FOR-PROFIT ORGANIZATION SOCIETY OF ROYAL IN 2013, AFTER EXPERIENCING THE LOSS OF TWO CLOSE INDIVIDUAL TO SUICIDE.

AND WHEREAS, UH, MS. PIER RECOGNIZED THE YOUTH OF TODAY AND ARE COMMITTING, COMMITTING TO THE SUICIDE AT UNPRECEDENTED RATES AND CHOSE TO DEDICATE HER LIFE, TO MAKING THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE ONE STUDENT AT A TIME.

WHEREAS THE SOCIETY OF ROYALS FOCUSES ON COUNTERING THE EFFECTS OF SELF HATE NEGLECT HEARTACHE, AND THE GENERAL GROWING PAINS OF DEVELOPMENT THAT SOCIETY BRINGS BY HAVING A PRIMARY FOCUS ON BUILDING THE INNER SELF ENDING SUICIDE, SUPPORTING, STOPPING BULLYING, SHOWING KINDNESS, AND GIVING.

NOW, THEREFORE I, ROBIN ETTE MAYOR OF MISSOURI CITY ON BEHALF OF CITY COUNCIL AND THE CITIZENS OF MISSOURI CITY DO HERE BY RECOGNIZES AND HONOR SINNA PIER FOR HER OUTSTANDING DEDICATIONS AND MENTORSHIP, UH, FOR AND OFF TODAY'S YOUTH.

CONGRATULATIONS.

SO THANK YOU FOR THE RECOGNITION.

THIS IS A TOTAL SURPRISE FOR ME.

CRYSTAL SAID, I'LL JUST BE COMING A TALK ABOUT SOCIETY OF ROYALS.

SO GETTING, UH, THIS AMAZING AWARD IS AN HONOR.

I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO WORK WITH MISS BOBBY AS WELL.

UM, SO YES, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT THIS IS, UH, SEPTEMBER, WHICH IS SUICIDE PREVENTION MONTH, AND WE GO AND BRING AWARENESS FOR YOUTH MENTAL HEALTH AND JUST SUICIDE AS A WHOLE, EVERY 25 SECONDS.

SOMEONE IS COMPLETING SUICIDE BACK IN 2014, IT WAS ONE AND EVERY 14 MINUTES.

SO JUST THINK ABOUT IT TODAY BEING 2022, UM, HOW SIGNIFICANTLY SIGNIFICANTLY, UM, THAT NUMBER HAS JUMPED.

SO IT'S OUR MISSION, OUR PURPOSE TO REALLY GET INTO THE COMMUNITY.

I AM A GRADUATE OF HIGH TOWER HIGH SCHOOL.

SO YES, WE ARE ALWAYS AT HIGH TOWER.

WE'RE AT WILLOW RIDGE, UH, THIRD GRADE MARSHALL, UM, A LOT OF THE MIDDLE SCHOOLS AND ELEMENTARIES IN THE AREA JUST TO HAVE THAT SUPPORT FOR OUR YOUTH.

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I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

LIFE CUSTOM, A VARIETY.

THANK YOU MAYOR.

WELL, GOOD EVENING, EVERYONE.

Y'ALL BE LIKE CHURCH.

I WANNA ASK, UH, THESE THREE AMAZING, UH, INDIVIDUALS TO COME FORWARD SO THAT I CAN GIVE THEM THEIR SPECIAL RECOGNITION.

EVENING.

[(c) Recognition of Mr. Shawn King, Ms. Jung "Jessie" Li, and Mr. Qia "Mich...]

UH, SEAN HUNG, MICHAEL, YOU AND JESSE LEE, WOULD YOU PLEASE COME FORWARD REALLY QUICKLY BACK OVER HERE, THESE THREE AMAZING INDIVIDUALS THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW? HOLD ON, LET ME PUT THIS DOWN SO Y'ALL CAN SEE THEIR FACES.

THEY REACHED OUT TO ME, UH, THEY'RE BUSINESS OWNERS IN THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, AND THEY WANTED TO DO SOMETHING IN THE COMMUNITY TO GIVE BACK.

AND SO THEY REACHED OUT TO ME THROUGH ANOTHER FRIEND, UM, WHO HELPED US ON SOME PPE, UH, LAST YEAR AND SAID, HEY, WE'VE GOT 17 PALLETS OF SANITIZER THAT WE WANT TO GET OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, INTO THE SCHOOLS, THE CHURCHES, THE BUSINESSES, AND WHATEVER YOU GUYS CAN DISTRIBUTE.

I REACHED OUT TO OUR PUBLIC DEPARTMENT, UH, DAVID, UM, AND OUR PD, UH, AND THEY WERE ABLE TO COORDINATE THIS HUMONGOUS EFFORT TO, UH, MOVE THINGS AROUND IN THE DIFFERENT BUILDINGS AND FACILITIES.

SO ONE THAT WE COULD HOUSE THESE PALLETS OF SANITIZER AND MR. YOU, UH, MICHAEL YOU OVER HERE, HE HELPED TO COORDINATE THE DELIVERY FROM DALLAS, TEXAS DOWN HERE TO MISSOURI CITY, WHERE THEY WERE ABLE TO HOUSE IT IN THEIR WAREHOUSE WHILE OUR MISSOURI CITY BUSINESS OWNER, SEAN AND JESSE WERE COORDINATING HOW WE'RE GONNA GET THIS OUT TO THE SCHOOLS.

AND SO, UM, I JUST WANNA PRESENT THIS AMAZING, OUTSTANDING DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT CERTIFICATE TO YOU, AND IT READS FOR YOUR OUTSTANDING DEDICATION AND COMMITMENT FOR YOUR FINANCIAL CONTRIBUTION COORDINATION, LOGISTICAL SUPPORT AND LABOR WERE KEY IN THE SUCCESS OF DISTRIBUTING OVER 10,000 BOTTLES OF HAND SANITIZER DURING OUR BACK TO SCHOOL EVENTS IN MISSOURI CITY, AS WELL AS TO THE SCHOOLS, STAFF, MUNICIPAL SCHOOL DISTRICT CHURCHES AND EVERYWHERE ELSE.

WE PUT THIS IN EVERY BACK TO SCHOOL EVENT THAT WAS HAPPENING RIGHT HERE IN MISSOURI CITY.

SO I JUST WANNA SAY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO MISSOURI CITY FOR BEING A PARTNER WITH ME, UH, YOUR MISSOURI CITY, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, AND FOR PARTNERING WITH THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY.

SO ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR AND MY COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE WANNA SAY, THANK YOU AND JOB WELL DONE.

YEAH, WE'RE, WE'RE THRILLED TO BE HERE TODAY AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY.

SO SEAN AND I, WE ARE NEW BUSINESS OWNERS IN MISSOURI CITY.

SO I THINK IT'S PART OF OUR, UM, UH, GOALS AND VALUES TO PROVIDE OUR SUPPORT TO THE COMMUNITY.

VENUE IN WHICH TO DISCUSS THE ORGANIZATION CHART OF THE MISSOURI CITY GOVERNMENT, SPECIFICALLY THE EMERGENCY SERVICES, UH, SPECIFICALLY, UH, THE, UH, LACK OF A, UH, CLEAR, UH, DISPATCH, UH, PROGRAM AND THE LACK OF A MENTAL HEALTH SERVICE IN PARALLEL WITH THE FIRE AND, UH, POLICE SERVICES.

AND WE APPRECIATE MICHAEL HERE EAST IN HIGH SCHOOL, BUT HE'S SO WILLINGLY TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AS WELL.

SO PLEASE GIVE A ACROSS TO MICHAEL YOUTH OF THE, OF MICHAEL, AS, AS A YOUNG PERSON, THIS GOES TO THE DEDICATION OF HIS PARENTS.

UH, MR. Y STAND UP REALLY QUICK.

HE'S A PROUD FATHER OF HIS SON, THIS YOUNG MAN COORDINATED THIS WHOLE EFFORT ON OUR BEHALF TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL THE PIECES WERE IN PLACE, THE TRUCKS, THE DELIVERIES, THE PALLETS, UH, THE FORKLIFTS, EVERYTHING.

SO THAT'S AN AMAZING, IT SPEAKS VOLUMES TO YOUR LEADERSHIP AS A HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT, UM, IN OUR COMMUNITY.

SO THANK YOU SO MUCH.

CONGRATULATIONS.

ALL THE, ALL RIGHT, HOLD IT UP.

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[4. PUBLIC COMMENTS]

ITEM NUMBER FOUR.

PUBLIC COMMENTS.

MADAME SECOND.

DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT? YES.

MR. MAYOR, WE DO.

GO AHEAD, MR. CHARLIE.

ADDOWAY MR. ADDOWAY, AS YOU STEP TO THE PODIUM, UM, PLEASE, UH, STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS BEFORE BEGINNING YOUR PRESENTATION.

AND PLEASE OBSERVE THE THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT CHARLIE ADDOWAY 36, 23 WEST CREEK CLUB DRIVE, MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, THAT I LIVE IN, UH, DISTRICT D.

I ATTENDED THE, UH, BUDGET MEETING LAST YEAR, AND I WAS A LITTLE SURPRISED TO HEAR ONE OF OUR COUNCIL MEMBERS SAY WE NEED A FUND.

SO WHEN I GO OUT IN THE CITY AND SEE PEOPLE WHO NEED MONEY, I CAN GIVE IT TO 'EM THAT THAT'S NOT Y'ALL'S PURPOSE GUYS.

NOW Y'ALL HAVE DONE THAT.

YOU'VE INCREASED OUR EMERGENCY FUND.

YOU'VE DOUBLED IT.

BASICALLY.

YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT 2007 TO 2014, WE HAD ABOUT A 32% RESERVE FUND IN SEVEN, AND IT FLUCTUATED AROUND 26% IN THAT AREA.

AND IN SEVEN YEARS, COUNCIL ASKED FOR 5 CENT TAX INCREASE.

WE GAVE IT TO 'EM AND MY TAXES WENT UP $2 IN SEVEN YEARS.

NOW, WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE THEN SINCE 15, TILL TODAY, A HUNDRED PERCENT INCREASE IN MY TAXES.

YOU HAVE A HUGE RESERVE FUND.

I'M ANXIOUS TO SEE TONIGHT, WHERE ARE YOU GONNA SPEND THAT MONEY? YOU'RE GONNA TAKE MONEY OUT OF AN EMERGENCY FUND.

LIKE YOU DID A FEW WEEKS AGO FOR A PARK THAT WASN'T AN EMERGENCY GUYS.

IT WASN'T IN THE BUDGET AND YOU FUNDED IT OUT OF EMERGENCY FUND.

CORRECT? SO YOU UNDERSTAND, I DON'T THINK YOU'RE RUNNING A CONSERVATIVE PHYSICAL POLICY.

NUMBER TWO.

I KNOW WE, I KNOW WE HADN'T HAD A GOOD CITY MANAGER IN MY OPINION, SINCE ED BRARD LEFT.

AND SO Y'ALL TAKEN ADVANTAGE OF THAT SITUATION.

AND I WANNA REMIND YOU OF SOMETHING.

AND YOU ASKED THE QUESTION THE NIGHT, DO WE HAVE TO FOLLOW THE CITY CHARTERS? AND OUR CITY ATTORNEY SAID, I CANNOT ADVISE YOU TO NOT FOLLOW IT.

AND YOU ASK HER WHY NOT? AND SHE SAID, IT'S THE LAW.

WELL, I'M GO A LITTLE FEATHERING THAT OUR CITY CHARTER IS THE CITY CONSTITUTION IS WHAT GOVERNS US.

YOU MADE AN OATH TO UPHOLD IT, AND WE EXPECT YOU TO REAL QUICK IN THE CITY CHARTER, IT DESCRIBES YOUR JOB VERSUS THE CITY MANAGER UNDER 3.08.

IT TALKS ABOUT PROHIBITIONS INTERFERENCE WITH ADMINISTRATION, EXCEPT FOR THE PURPOSE OF INVESTIGATIONS, WHICH ARE COVERED UNDER 3.17.

THE COUNCIL AND ITS MEMBERS SHALL DEAL WITH THE CITY OFFICER'S EMPLOYEES WHO ARE SUBJECT TO THE DIRECTION AND SUPERVISION OF THE CITY MANAGER, MICHELLE SOLELY THROUGH THE CITY MANAGER, MR. OUTWAY, THAT IS TIME ONE LAST LINE, AND NEITHER THE MAYOR AND OUR COUNCIL MEMBER MAY GIVE ORDERS PUBLICLY OR PRIVATELY TO ANY OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE.

YOU GUYS ARE WAY OUTTA LINE.

HE'S RUNNING THE CITY.

YOU HAVE OVERSIGHT.

THANKS.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

ROBERT BROWNIE, I'M ROBERT BROWNING, 41 8 BAYSHORE DRIVE, MISSOURI CITY.

I'M LOOKING FOR A

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UH, THERE ARE MANY DIFFERENT KINDS OF PROBLEMS, UH, WHICH, UH, CAN CAUSE A PERSON TO CALL 9 1 1.

SOMETIMES THESE, UH, MATTERS ARE, UH, NOT ROUTED TO THE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEST ABLE TO HANDLE THEM.

UH, SOMETIMES THE PEOPLE WHO ARE APPROPRIATELY HANDLE A MATTER, UH, DO NOT EXIST AS PART OF THE CITY GOVERNMENT.

IN PARTICULAR, WE HAVE READ IN THE PAST FEW YEARS ABOUT NUMEROUS SHOOTINGS BY THE POLICE OF MENTAL HEALTH PATIENTS OR PEOPLE WHO DON'T KNOW THEY ARE PATIENTS OR PEOPLE WHOSE FAMILIES DON'T KNOW THEY ARE PATIENTS.

UH, THEY CALL THE POLICE BECAUSE THEY ARE AFRAID OF THE BEHAVIOR OF THE PERSON INVOLVED.

AND SOMEHOW THE POLICE END UP SHOOTING THE PERSON THAT IS PREVENTABLE WITH THE APPROPRIATE ORGANIZATION.

AND I'D LIKE TO KNOW HOW TO BEGIN THE LONG PROCESS TO, UH, BRING THIS ABOUT, THANK YOU.

NEXT.

WE HAVE SIA BONY.

WOO, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS SIAH MONY, AND I HAVE BEEN A RESIDENT OF MOST CITY FOR 24 YEARS.

I TAKE PRIDE IN STAYING IN THE LOOP AND LEARNING ABOUT CITY GOVERNMENT.

I'VE WITNESSED THE GOOD, THE BAD AND THE UGLY.

LITERALLY.

I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR YOUNG ADULTS AND I DON'T MEAN ANY DISRESPECT, BUT 30 AND UNDER SHOULD KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR COMMUNITY.

I MEAN, WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION.

IF WE DON'T SEEK TO EDUCATE OUR YOUNG FOLKS, WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE.

I LOVE THE FACT THAT ME AND MY SIBLINGS TAKE THE TIME TO UNDERSTAND AND RESEARCH GOVERNMENT RELATED ISSUES, WHETHER LOCAL OR FEDERAL, WE GET INVOLVED IN DIALOGUE.

BECAUSE ONCE AGAIN, WE ARE THE NEXT GENERATION AND WE ARE CITIZENS THAT VOTE.

PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU'RE REGISTERED TO VOTE.

THE VOTER REGISTRATION DEADLINE FOR THE NOVEMBER 8TH ELECTION IS OCTOBER 11.

THAT LEADS ME TO SAY THIS.

I SOIA WILL SPEAK ON WHATEVER ISSUES I WANT TO.

I SIAH WILL BE INVOLVED.

AND I ENCOURAGE MY PEERS TO DO THE SAME ONE DAY.

WE WILL OCCUPY THESE SAME POSITIONS.

LET'S GET AHEAD OF THE GAME.

I SIRIA WILL ALWAYS COME WITH FACTS AND BE RESPECTFUL ABOUT IT.

I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE SAME AS REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY.

IT'S SO MUCH HE SAY, SHE SAY STUFF GOING AROUND IS THAT WOULD BE A LEADER, IS TRYING TO CREATE A DIVIDE IN MISSOURI CITY.

SHOUT OUT TO THE PEOPLE ON COUNCIL, THAT FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.

AND DON'T GET CAUGHT UP IN PETTY CRAP.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS A THANKLESS JOB.

I CHALLENGE YOU AS A COUNCIL TO GET TO ENCOURAGE OUR YOUNG PEOPLE, TO GET MORE INVOLVED IN CITY, GOVERNMENT.

WE WERE BORN AND RAISED HERE AND SOONER THAN LATER, WE WILL, WE WILL BE TAKING OVER.

I WILL END WITH THIS WHETHER YOU ARE AROUND IN BARBERSHOPS OR SPEAKING TO MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY ABOUT SOMEONE OR SOMETHING, MAKE SURE YOU SPEAK FACTS BECAUSE AT THE END OF THE DAY, YOU CAN NEVER WIN WHEN YOU PLAY DIRTY.

WE HAVE ANTHONY SAUCER.

HI.

UM, WE, UM, RECENTLY BECOME PICKLE BALL PLAYERS AND, UM, WE'VE HEARD FROM RESOURCES FOR MANY MONTHS NOW OUT OF OTHER STATE.

IN OTHER STATES, WE'VE PLAYED IN THAT THIS IS THE FASTEST GROWING SPORT IN THE COUNTRY.

AND I'M SURE YOU'VE HEARD THAT PROBABLY MANY TIMES WE HERE LOCALLY SUGAR LAND THERE'S PLACES THAT THEY'RE ADDING COURTS OR TRYING TO ADD COURTS.

UM, BUT FOR YEARS NOW, WE'VE HAD SUCH A LARGE NUMBER HERE PLAYING AT OUR LOCAL REC CENTER.

AND THE RECREATION CENTER HAS 12 TENNIS COURTS AND ONE

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PRACTICE COURT.

SO THEY STRIPED OFF ONE PRACTICE COURT AND, UH, WHICH HAS NO LIGHTS.

SO THAT'S THE ONLY COURT YOU CAN PLAY ON OUTSIDE ONLY WHEN IT'S CONVENIENT PROBLEM IS, IS THERE'S.

THERE'S NOT ENOUGH COURTS FOR PEOPLE TO PLAY THREE DAYS A WEEK.

THEY PLAY INDOORS IN THE GYM.

THEY HAVE THREE STRIPED COURTS AND ME STILL WORKING.

I CAN'T PLAY BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY THEY ONLY PLAY FROM EIGHT TILL TILL NOON.

UH, AND THE DAYS THAT I DO TAKE OFF TO GO PLAY, YOU'VE GOT 40 SOMETHING PEOPLE STANDING IN THERE WAITING TO PLAY ON THREE COURTS.

SO YOU GET TO PLAY ONCE EVERY 30, 40 MINUTES.

UM, SO ANYWAY, THE POINT IS, IS WE'VE HEARD THAT THEY THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO DO SOMETHING FOR SOME TIME AND STILL, UM, REALLY DON'T HAVE ANY RESULTS.

SO THE QUESTION IS WHEN CAN WE GET SOMETHING DONE ABOUT PUTTING SOME COURTS IN MISSOURI CITY? THERE ARE A COUPLE OTHER PARKS WE'VE SAID THAT WE HEARD, THEY WERE LOOKING AT TRYING TO, UH, LOOK AT FACILITIES.

WE'VE GOT GLEN LAKES PARK, WHICH IS, HAS A LOT OF PROPERTY, YOU KNOW, EIGHT FENCE END COURTS ON PICKLEBALL COURTS ARE NOT THAT LARGE TO BE ABLE TO PUT SOMEWHERE.

SO WHY CAN'T WE LOOK AT PUTTING SOME LITTLE SPOT THERE, UH, OR ACTUALLY MULTIPLE COURTS? I MEAN, THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE YOU CAN'T PUT FOUR OR EIGHT COURTS SOMEWHERE AND ACCOMMODATE EVERYBODY IN THE WHOLE CITY.

SO MULTIPLE LOCATIONS WOULD BE, UH, WOULD BE TO, IN MY OPINION, AND, AND EVERYBODY THAT WE PLAY WITH, UH, UH, UH, OF A BIG PLUS.

SO, SO THE REQUEST IS, IS MAKING AN EFFORT TO PUT SOME MONEY BEHIND THAT IN A BUDGET TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE COURTS FOR THE COMMUNITY.

CITY SECRETARY IS JASON MANGO HERE? OUR PARKS DIRECTOR, NO T WS INS.

WOULD YOU GET IN CONTACT WITH, UM, MR. ANTHONY? YES.

AND THEN THE FIR THE GENTLEMAN THAT SPOKE MR. BROWNING, UM, CAN WE HAVE, UH, CHIEF BEON, CHIEF BEON? WE DO HAVE THE HOPE FOR THREE PROGRAM, UM, THAT COMES OUT AND TRAINS THE OFFICERS.

SO CAN YOU LET HIM KNOW ABOUT THAT PROGRAM? THANK YOU, MS. KATHY SASSIER.

HI, I'M KATHY SASSIER.

I'VE BEEN A SPEAKER AT PLANT SALES.

SO I'VE SEEN SOME OF YOU CONTRIBUTE CONTRIBUTING MEMBER OF THE COUNTY.

AND I TOO HAVE A PICKLEBALL PLAYER, TOOK IT UP IN JULY.

I'VE REACHED OUT TO YOU ABOUT THE SPORT, AND WE HAVE HEARD THAT THERE ARE ADEQUATE PLACES TO CONVERT TO, UH, PICKLEBALL COURTS.

WE'VE HEARD OF, UH, GYMS LIKE LA FITNESS, UH, THAT HAVE CONVERTED THEIR BASKETBALL GYMS TO PICKLEBALL COURTS, BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A FAST GROWING SPORT.

THE FASTEST IN AMERICA, OVER 38% GROWTH EACH YEAR.

IT WAS, UH, ORIGINALLY AMONGST, UH, SENIORS.

IT'S HIGHLY SOCIAL, UH, SPORT AND EASY, FAST PACED.

UH, I MEAN, EASY TO, UH, LEARN, BUT NOW THE YOUNGER DEMOGRAPHICS HAVE REALLY GOTTEN INTO IT.

I PLAYED THIS MORNING AND THERE WERE A LOT OF YOUNG PEOPLE THERE TOO.

SO IT'S JUST AMAZING.

I JUST WANTED TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THAT.

WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE SPORT AND WANTING TO SEE WHAT, WHAT WE CAN BE DOING TO, UH, ACCOMMODATE THE GROWTH THAT'S, UH, EXPLODING.

AND WE WANNA SEE IT ACCOMMODATED IN MISSOURI CITY, NOT JUST IN SUGARLAND, THE OTHER AREAS THAT WE GO AND PLAY IN.

SO ANYWAY, I JUST APPRECIATE Y'ALL AND KNOW Y'ALL ARE GONNA BE LOOKING INTO HOW WE CAN BEST, BETTER REPRESENT THE SPORT HERE.

THANK YOU, MISS KAREN OVERTON.

MY NAME IS KAREN OVERTON.

I LIVE AT 8 31 DEATH ROW PLACE, AND I AM A PICKLE BALL PLAYER.

PICKLE BALL HAS PROVEN VERY POPULAR WITH SENIORS LIKE MYSELF.

I'VE HAD, I'VE PLAYED SOCCER, I'VE PLAYED TENNIS AND DUE TO INJURIES.

I COULD NOT PLAY IN THOSE SPORTS ANYMORE, BUT PICKLEBALL WAS INTRODUCED TO ME THROUGH THE TE UH, REC CENTER.

THEY START HAVING PICKLEBALL LESSONS AND I WENT, WOW, LET ME, LET ME TRY THAT.

AND NOW I'M JUST ADDICTED TO IT.

I PLAY THREE TO FOUR TIMES A WEEK WITH THE PERSONS WE'RE WE'RE TEAMMATES.

WE JUST PLAY WHEN WE CAN.

BUT THE CHALLENGE IS THAT AT THE REC AND TENNIS CENTER, WE ONLY HAVE ONE COURT TO PLAY OUTSIDE.

I'M AN OUTSIDE PLAYER.

I DON'T LIKE TO PLAY INDOORS.

AND

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THAT'S LUCKY COURT.

NUMBER 13, NOW COURT NUMBER 13 HAS NO LIGHTS COURT.

NUMBER 13 HAS A REALLY POOR SURFACE COURT.

NUMBER 13 WAS FORMALLY A TENNIS COURT.

NOW THEY'VE DRAWN LINES FOR BALL, BUT WE HAVE TO PUT THE PICKLE BALL NET IN THE PROPER SPACE TO MAKE IT A PICKLE BALL COURT, BECAUSE IT'S STILL A TENNIS COURT.

NOW I UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS A BUDGET RIGHT NOW.

THAT'S GOING TO BE APPROVED TONIGHT.

AND WE WOULD LIKE FOR YOU GUYS TO TAKE A LOOK, I THINK IT'S AGENDA THE AGENDA.

NUMBER 10 AND IT'S FUND 5 71, MISSOURI C REC AND LEISURE.

LGC.

WE ARE ASKING FOR US FOR COURT NUMBER 13, TO HAVE SOME LIGHTS, RESURFACING, AND HAVE THAT AS A DESIGNATED TENNIS, I MEAN PICKLE BALL COURT, INSTEAD OF A PICKLE BALL SLASH TENNIS COURT.

I WILL SAY THIS SUGARLAND IS PHENOMENAL WITH PICKLE BALL.

THEY HAVE DESIGNATED COURTS.

THEY HAVE A, UH, GENERAL, UH, COURT OUT BY SUGARLAND MIDDLE SCHOOL.

THEY HAVE TENNIS COURTS AND PICKLE BALL TOGETHER OFF OF, UH, SHEFIELD ROAD.

A LOT OF US GO THERE TO PLAY.

AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE SHOULD HAVE TO GO TO ANOTHER CITY TO PLAY A VERY POPULAR SPORT.

THE GROWTH OF PICKLE BALL IS OVER 33%.

THE GROWTH FACTOR OF PICKLE BALL IS LARGER THAN TENNIS.

SO I AM ASKING YOU GUYS TO DO YOUR MAGIC AND WORK FOR OUR COURT.

NUMBER 13 AS A DESIGNATED PICKLE BALL COURT.

UH, MY NAME IS JOSHUA BONY.

I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT IN MISSOURI CITY FOR 21 YEARS THROUGHOUT THIS TIME.

MY FAMILY IS SHOWN ME THE IMPORTANCE OF GETTING INVOLVED WITH WHAT HAPPENS IN THIS CITY WITH THAT I WOULD PERSONALLY LIKE TO THANK THOSE OF YOU THAT FIGHT FOR WHAT IS RIGHT, YOUR TIME, COMMITMENT, ENERGY, AND STRENGTH FOR THE PEOPLE OF THIS CITY WILL NOT GO, WILL NOT GO UNNOTICED.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THINGS TAKE TIME.

I UNDERSTAND THAT THINGS ARE CHANGING.

I UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS BECAUSE I'VE SEEN IT.

TEXAS PARKWAY IS CHANGING AND IT IS STILL THE UNDERGOING CHANGES, WHICH WILL IN THE LONG RUN, BRING MORE BUSINESSES TO THE CITY.

SOME MAY NOT LIKE THE CHANGES.

SOME MAY NOT LIKE YOU, BUT I'M HERE TODAY TO TELL YOU THAT FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE FIGHTING FOR THIS CITY, I APPRECIATE YOU.

I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SEE MORE BEAUTIFICATION AROUND THE CITY.

THE NEW ADDITIONS THAT I'VE SEEN HAVE BEEN WONDERFUL TO LOOK AT.

MOST OF YOU GOT ON COUNCIL BECAUSE YOU WANTED TO SEE, YOU WANTED TO BRING CHANGE.

I CHANGE, PLEASE CONTINUE TO FIGHT FOR TRUTH AND FOR WHAT IS RIGHT.

LET'S FOCUS ON THE FUTURE OF THIS CITY.

NOT THE PAST.

LASTLY, AS NEIGHBORS, WE SHOULD BE SURE TO GET THE FACTS ABOUT ISSUES AND PEOPLE SAYING SOMEONE DID SOMETHING AND THEY DID NOT IS WRONG AFTER ALL.

ONE OF THE 10 COMMANDMENTS IS THOU SHALL NOT BEAR FALSE WITNESS AGAINST THAT NEIGHBOR.

MABEL MINDY.

AGAIN FOR MAKING US THE RESIDENTS OF COLONY CROSSING.

MAYOR CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS.

MY NAME IS MABEL MINDY, AND I'M A RESIDENT OF COLIN CROSSING SUBDIVISION.

I'M JUST HERE TONIGHT TO SUPPORT AND SAY THANK YOU FOR, UH, WHAT I FULLY EXPECT TO BE AN AUTHORIZATION OF OUR REQUEST FOR A SIGN AT, ON SOUTH GUEST ON NER AT THE BELTWAY, SIMILAR TO THE ONES THAT ARE ALREADY SET UP THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY.

UH, AND TO OUR, MY NEIGHBORS WHO HAVE BEEN, UH, TALKING WITH YOU OVER THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS TO BRING THIS TO YOUR ATTENTION.

UM, WE, UH, I THINK I SPEAK FOR THE MAJORITY OF MY NEIGHBORS.

WHEN I SAY WE GUEST NOURISH, YOU KNOW, IS A MAJOR GATEWAY INTO MISSOURI CITY.

SO IT'S REALLY A SHAME THAT, UH, AND CERTAINLY IT WOULD BE A GROSS OVERSIGHT NOT TO INCLUDE US IN THAT, IN, IN PROVIDING THAT SORT OF SIGNAGE AS PEOPLE COME INTO MISSOURI CITY.

SO, UH, I WANNA SAY THANKS AGAIN AND THANK YOU

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FEEL LIKE WE ARE A PART OF MISSOURI CITY.

THANK YOU, CHERYL STERLING.

GOOD EVENING COUNCIL.

I'VE BEEN UP HERE SEVERAL TIME AND, UH, I WANT TO THANK THE OTHER HOMEOWNERS FOR YIELDING A TIME TO ME.

I'M CAROL MARTIN.

I LIVE IN COLONY CROSSING AND I'M ASKING COUNCIL TONIGHT UNDER ACTION ITEM NINE C TO APPROVE COLONY CROSSING THAT I WE'VE BEEN ASKING FOR OVER THE LAST 10 MONTHS, BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT.

UH, AND WE KNOW THERE'S FUNDS AVAILABLE, WHETHER YOU USE THE PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT PROJECT FUNDS OR HOWEVER YOU DO IT, BUT WE NEED THAT BECAUSE IT'S REALLY A QUALITY OF LIFE FOR US TO HAVE INFORMATION AND TO, UH, KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE CITY.

SO AGAIN, I TOLD YOU, WE HAVE OVER 397 IN THAT AREA.

WE WRITE OFF THE MAJOR INTERSECTION OF BELT AID IN GASNER AND WE ACTUALLY DO NEED THAT.

SO ON TONIGHT I ASKED A LOT OF MY NEIGHBORS TO COME OUT AND SUPPORT.

IT'S NOT JUST ME.

SO GUYS AT THIS TIME, IF I CAN JUST GET Y'ALL TO STAND AND LET THEM KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RESIDENTS COME, BUT WE HAVE ALMOST 400 HOMES AND MAYOR COUNCIL, PLEASE CONSIDER ACTION ITEM NINE C FOR APPROVAL FOR US TO GET OUR DIGITAL MARQUI SIGNED.

THANK YOU, SANDRA WILLIAMS. I THANK YOU.

SHEILA BUTLER AUDIO.

GIVE MY TIME BRUCE AND BROSKI BRUCE SADOWSKI 79, 1 15 CHANCE DRIVE HOUSTON, TEXAS 77 0 71.

IT'S GREAT.

YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A SIGN ENTERING ON GESNER.

I THINK IT'S ABOUT TIME THAT THAT HAPPENED, BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN IN FOND MEADOW THAT STILL HAVE TO CRAWL THROUGH A BAYOU TO GET TO A PARK? THAT ISSUE HASN'T BEEN RESOLVED LAST COUNCIL, MEANING I PRESENTED A PUPPET, A PUPPET THAT YOU PEOPLE ARE USING TO KEEP YOUR OWN IDEAS GOING IN MISSOURI CITY WITHOUT HAVING A CITY MANAGER.

DURING THAT LAST MEETING, THE AUDIO COULDN'T EVEN BE HEARD FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE MEETING ON THE PUBLIC COMMENTS SECTION.

SO WHY DON'T YOU PUT THE IT DIRECTOR BACK TO HIS JOB AND HIRE A CITY MANAGER? WHAT IS THE PROBLEM? DOESN'T ANYBODY WANNA WORK HERE? BECAUSE OF THE ACTIONS THAT THIS COUNCIL HAS TAKEN ON THE LAST COUPLE PEOPLE WHO SERVED IN THAT POST, WHAT IS IT? WHAT IS IT YOU'RE FINALLY GIVING SOME ATTENTION TO THE HARRIS COUNTY SECTION OF MISSOURI CITY, BUT YOU STILL NEGLECT FOND MEADOW.

WHY IS IT SO HARD TO A STINKING BRIDGE ACROSS A HARRIS COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL BAYOU? SO CHILDREN CAN PLAY AT A PLAYGROUND.

APPARENTLY NOBODY IN THIS COUNCIL SEEMS INTERESTED IN PROVIDING THAT MY TAXES IN MISSOURI CITY ARE SKY HIGH, BEING A SENIOR CITIZEN.

YOUR LAST LITTLE REDUCTION WILL PROBABLY WILL BE MEAN NO INCREASE FOR ME THIS YEAR.

IT'S NOT GONNA LOWER MY TAXES BECAUSE BY THE TIME YOU SET YOUR RATE IN THE HARRIS COUNTY APPRAISALS, IT'S NOT GONNA CHANGE.

IT'S NOT GONNA CHANGE UNTIL THIS COUNCIL FINALLY RECOGNIZES ALL PARTS OF MISSOURI CITY AND NOT JUST CERTAIN SECTIONS.

THANK YOU, JANAI BUSTON.

UH, MY NAME IS JANNE BUSTON.

UH, I LIVE AT 9 1 1 PINE MEADOW.

UH, WE'RE RIGHT OFF OF CRAVENS, UM, IN THE AREA WHERE THE INDUSTRIAL PARKS ARE BOOMING.

WE'RE THE ONE SINGLE RESIDENTIAL STREET LEFT BACK THERE.

UM, NOW WE'RE COVERED ON THREE SIDES BY, UM, INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS.

WE HAVE HAD ISSUES WITH OUR DRAINAGE.

UM, FOR THE PAST, SINCE I'VE MOVED THERE BACK IN 2016, WE'VE HAD ISSUES

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WITH OUR DRAINAGE.

UM, THE CITY HAS SENT OUT CONTRACTORS ON THREE SEPARATE OCCASIONS TO TRY TO ADDRESS THE SLOPE OF THE DITCHES.

HOWEVER, THERE WAS SOME ISSUES WITH QUALITY CONTROL, WHERE NOBODY CAME OUT AND CHECKED THE WORK AND WE CAN WALK OUTSIDE AND LOOK AT ONE SIDE OF OUR DITCH WAS LOWER THAN THE OTHER SIDE.

UM, AND THE SIDE THAT WAS HIGHER WAS THE SIDE THAT WAS GOING TOWARDS THE END OF THE STREETS, UH, DRAINAGE.

SO CURRENTLY WITH A LIGHT RAIN, THE LEFT SIDE OF MY DITCH IS FULL OF WATER.

I WOULD SAY AT LEAST TWO AND A HALF TO THREE FEET OF WATER TO THE POINT WHERE MY KIDS CAN'T PLAY IN THE FRONT YARD AFTER IT RAINS, BECAUSE I DON'T WANT THEM GOING IN THAT DITCH AND RISKING DROWNING.

THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DITCH IS COMPLETELY DRY.

UM, AND THEN NOT TO MENTION THE MOSQUITO PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE BECAUSE OF THAT.

UM, THERE ARE ONLY EIGHT HOMES ON OUR STREET CURRENTLY.

UM, SOMEONE DID PURCHASE A, A PROPERTY ACROSS THE STREET FROM MINE, SO THEY'RE GETTING READY TO BUILD.

UM, BUT WE'RE RUNNING OUTTA SPACE BACK THERE AND IT'LL BE LIMITED AMOUNTS OF HOMES, BUT I DO WANT TO ADDRESS THE DRAINAGE, UH, PROBLEMS JEREMY DAVIS, WHEN HE WAS HERE, WAS WORKING ON THAT.

BUT THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME MISCOMMUNICATION AS FAR AS WHAT HAS BEEN APPROVED IN THE BUDGET FOR THE, UH, PINE METAL DRAINAGE, UM, AND WHAT'S ACTUALLY GONNA HAPPEN.

SO I WAS TOLD THAT, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE GONNA COME OUT, REDO THE WHOLE DITCH SYSTEM, TRY TO PUT THINGS UNDERGROUND.

MY NEIGHBORS, WHEN THEY CALLED WAS TOLD SOMETHING DIFFERENT, LIKE, NO, WE'RE JUST GONNA LOOK AT THE ACTUAL COVERTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO WE JUST WANT CLARIFICATION AND MAKE SURE THAT THE MONEY THAT'S BUDGETED FOR THE DRAINAGE ON PINE MEADOW, UM, IS GONNA BE USED APPROPRIATELY.

UM, AND THEN THE OTHER THING I JUST WANTED TO ADDRESS WITH THE BUSINESS PARKS BEING BUILT, UM, THERE WAS A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, DISCUSSIONS BEFORE THE ORIGINAL BUSINESS PARK WAS APPROVED, UM, BEHIND OUR HOME THAT WAS BACK IN 2017.

UM, AND I BELIEVE THERE WAS AN AGREEMENT THAT THERE WERE GONNA BE A 30 FOOT BUFFER BETWEEN OUR PROPERTY LINE AND THE BUSINESS.

UM, HOWEVER NOW WITH THE 18 WHEELERS AND HOW THEY PARK THEM, THEY BACKED THEM IN.

SO THE BACK OF THE TRAILERS ARE OVERHANGING INTO THE GRASS PORTION.

IF I WALK OUTSIDE MY GARAGE, I MEAN OUT MY BACKYARD, I CAN REACH OVER THE FENCE AND ALMOST TOUCH THE 18 WHEELERS THAT ARE BACK THERE.

IT'S NOT A SITE FOR THAT WE LIKE TO SEE.

AND SOME OF THOSE TRAILERS ARE LEFT OPEN.

WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S BACK THERE.

SO THAT'S JUST SOMETHING ELSE I WANTED TO ADDRESS.

CAN YOU, UM, MAKE SURE YOU CONTACT HER AND FOLLOW UP ON THAT? YEAH, LET'S GO WITH THE PUB.

LET'S CONTINUE WITH THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.

SO SHATI, IF YOU WANT TO TALK TO THE RESIDENT, PLEASE, MR. MAYOR, THAT CONCLUDES THE PUBLIC COMMENTS SECTION OF THE MEETING.

CEDRIC ON THE, UH, PICKLE BALL, MAYBE IT LIKE WHEN, WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT TENNIS COURTS, BACK IN THE DAY WE PUT A COMMITTEE TOGETHER, WE KIND OF PUT OUR THOUGHTS TOGETHER AND THEN EVENTUALLY HAD A PRODUCT WHEN THERE WAS FUNDING.

SO I TRUST JASON WITH ALL OUR, YOU KNOW, POWER, BUT MAYBE THAT'S AN OPTION.

ITEM NUMBER FIVE, OUR CONSENT AGENDA.

THERE ARE NO CONSENT AGENDA ON THIS SIDE, ON THIS MEETING.

ITEM NUMBERS.

I MEAN STAFF REPORTS, THERE ARE NO STAFF REPORTS ON

[6. CONSENT AGENDA]

THIS AGENDA.

ITEM NUMBER SIX IS CONSENT AGENDA.

I LIKE FOR, UM, ITEM SIX, A THROUGH SIX F I'M SORRY, SIX H MAKE A MOTION TO OPEN UP FOR DISCUSSION.

CAN YOU MAKE THE MOTION? THE MOTIONS NEED THE ALL RIGHT.

MIKE MAYOR, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE.

I'M SORRY FOR ITEM SIX, A THROUGH SIX H.

MAYOR? UM, CAN WE PLEASE RESTATE, UM, THAT MOTION, UM, SEEMS WE'RE HAVING TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES RIGHT NOW.

CAN YOU PUT IT ON THERE? UH, RIGHT THERE, THAT LITTLE KEY ON YOUR, DID YOU, IS THAT IN THERE? IF I'S NOTHING POPPING UP, AM I NOT SEEING IT OR ARE Y'ALL SEEING IT, MR.

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AND SO WE'LL JUST MOVE ON, UM, AS, AS WE USED TO IN THE PAST.

SO I, I'M GONNA LET YOU REPEAT YOUR MOTION.

UM, MAYOR MY MOTION WAS FOR US TO HAVE A ROLL CALL VOTE FOR ALL OF THE ITEMS FROM SIX A THROUGH SIX H.

IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND? OKAY.

SPEND A MOTION IN A SECOND.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, JUST PUSHING.

I DOES THIS WORK NOW.

CAN WE DO THAT? YES, SIR.

IT'S NOT WORKING.

IT'S NOT WORKING NAME.

YOU WANNA JUST DO A ROLL CALL MAYOR.

WE'RE READY FOR THE VOTE.

WE'LL START FROM MOTION.

WE HAVE A MOTION SUPPOSED TO ROLL AGAIN.

JUST PUT, OKAY.

CAN YOU SECOND IT CLOSER? THERE WE GO.

SO IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

LET'S JUST VOTE YOU TO VOTE ALREADY.

DO NO, IT'S THE VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY, UM, SEVEN TO ZERO MEMBER RILEY, UH, VOTED A MEMBER, EDWARDS, VOTED A MEMBER.

MARRUS VOTED A VOTED A MAYOR, ALI CAT VOTED A MAYOR.

UM, PROT BON VOTED A CLOUDER, UH, MEMBER CLOUDER VOTED A AND MEMBER EMORY VOTED A DEAN.

UNANIM THIS VOTE SEVEN TO ZERO.

JUST ASKING.

DO WE NEED TO SAY THAT? HAVE YOU SAY THAT EVERY TIME OR IT'S JUST FOR, UM, SO IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT, UM, A REQUEST FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THESE ITEMS AND SINCE THEY, THE MOTION WAS MADE FOR ALL OF THE ITEMS, THE VOTE WILL COUNT FOR ALL OF THEM.

THAT WASN'T MY, MY, MY REQUEST, MY REQUEST WAS FOR A, THROUGH H TO BE A ROLL COUNT, VOTE, KELLY, GO, PLEASE OPINE.

AND I, I YOU'RE ABLE TO, UM, TAKE THE ITEMS AND THE CONSENT AGENDA OFF AND VOTE FOR EACH ONE INDIVIDUALLY.

WAS THAT OR LESS WHAT YOU WERE TRYING TO DO? THAT'S BASICALLY, I JUST DIDN'T WANNA MAKE A, A MOTION TO VOTE FOR ALL OF THEM.

SO I WANTED TO MAKE THE MOTION TO DO A ROLL CALL, VOTE FOR A THROUGH H AND THEN THE OTHER ONES.

SO IF I NEED TO SAY IT OVER, I CAN DO THAT, BUT I DEFINITELY DID NOT WANNA VOTE FOR EVERYTHING ALTOGETHER.

SO THE MOTION WAS TO TAKE EACH ITEM OFF THE CONSENT AGENDA INDIVIDUALLY, CORRECT.

SO THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING, RIGHT? SO THERE WOULDN'T BE A NEED FOR A ROLL CALL VOTE.

IT WOULD JUST BE INDIVIDUAL VOTES FOR EACH CONSENT AGENDA ITEM.

[(a) Consider approving the minutes of the special City Council meeting of ...]

UNDERSTAND.

ITEM SIX, B CONSIDERATION IMPOSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO ACCEPT ON BEHALF OF THE CITY, UH, PERMANENT, THIS EASTMAN FROM FORT BEND COUNTY MUNICIPAL DISTRICT, NUMBER 48 FOR THE MUST MUSTANG BAYOU WASTE WATER TREATMENT PLAN.

SO ITEM SIX, A CONSIDER APPROVING THE MINUTES OF THE SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON AUGUST 24TH, 2022 AND THE REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 6TH, 2022.

IS THERE A MOTION? CAN THERE'S BEEN A MOTION? THAT'S LOCKED IN SECOND IT, OKAY.

I KNOW THE DISCUSSIONS, ALL THOSE IN, GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE MEMBER RILEY VOTED, FOUR MEMBER EDWARDS VOTED AGAINST MEMBER.

MARRUS VOTED FOUR MEMBER, MAYOR, ELLI HAT VOTED, FOUR MEMBER, UM, MAYOR PRO TABONE VOTED FOR, UH, MEMBER CLOUDER VOTED, UH, FOR MEMBER EMORY VOTED FOR, OKAY.

[(b) Consideration and Possible Action - To authorize the Mayor to accept o...]

I'LL FAIL.

IS THERE A MOTION? THERE'S BEEN A, IS THIS THE, IS THIS THE MOTION FOR THIS ONE? CAUSE IT WAS ALREADY IN THERE BEFORE WE STARTED.

YEAH, THIS IS NO.

SO I GUESS IT'S MOVING SLOW, BUT OH, THIS MAY I APPROACH HIM.

THAT'S YOUR MOTION COUNCIL MEMBER.

MERLES THAT'S YOUR MO SECOND.

WELL THAT SHOULD BE FOR SIX B.

IT SHOULD BE FOR SIX B I, YEAH.

OH, I SAID SIX B ALL.

MR. MAYOR, WE HAVE A MOTION IN A SECOND.

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UM, IS IT NOW TIME TO CALL FOR VOTES? YES.

I GUESS WE'RE GOING FASTER THAN YOU ALL ARE I SEEN ON THE SCREEN? THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE, UH, MEMBER RILEY VOTED FOR MEMBER VOTED AGAINST MEMBER MARS VOTED FOR MAYOR AL HAT VOTED FOR METRO TAMPON.

VOTED FOR MEMBER CLOUDER VOTED FOR MEMBER EMORY VOTED FOR.

ITEM SIX D CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.

THANK

[(c) Consideration and Possible Action - Second and final reading - An ordi...]

YOU.

ITEM SIX C IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS APPROVING THE FOURTH UPDATED AND RESTATED SERVICE AND ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR CITY OF MISSOURI CITY PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT.

NUMBER TWO, I SEE THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE SCREEN.

WE'LL VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE MEMBER RILEY VOTED FOR MEMBER EDWARDS, VOTED AGAINST MEMBER MARRUS VOTED FOR MAYOR ACA VOTED FOR ME.

MAYOR PROTE, BON VOTED FOR MEMBER CLOUDS VOTED FOR AND MEMBER EMORY VOTED FOR OKAY.

[(d) Consideration and Possible Action - Second and final reading - An ordi...]

SECOND AND FINAL READING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS APPROVING THE SECOND UPDATED AND RESTATED SERVICE AND ASSESSMENT PLAN FOR CITY OF MISSOURI CITY PUBLIC IMPROVEMENT, DISTRICT NUMBER FOUR.

IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE MEMBER RILEY VOTED FOR MEMBER EDWARDS, VOTED AGAINST MEMBER MARUS VOTED FOR MAYOR ACA VOTED FOUR MEMBER, UM, MAYOR PRO TABONE VOTED FOUR MEMBER CLOUDS VOTED FOR MEMBER EMERY VOTED FOR OKAY.

[(e) Consideration and Possible Action - Third of four readings - An ordina...]

SIX E CONSIDERATE.

WAIT REALLY QUICKLY.

CAN, CAN WE ASK THAT EVERYBODY WAIT UNTIL YOU'RE DONE READING BEFORE THEY MAKE THE MOTION? YES.

SIX E CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.

THIRD OF FOUR READINGS IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING THE TERM OF THE FRANCHISE.

GRANTED TO GFL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, USA INCORPORATED SUCCESS OR AN INTEREST TO WASTE CORPORATION OF TEXAS LP, A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF, OF WCA WASTE CORPORATION FOR THE RIGHT AND PRIVILEGE TO USE THE PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY TO CONDUCT A SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLING COLLECTION SERVICE BUSINESS FOR RESIDENTIAL CUSTOMERS.

THEN THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, PROVIDING FOR APPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY.

I'M CALLING FOR A MOTION ONE SECOND.

OKAY, SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND, GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE MEMBER RILEY VOTED FOR MEMBER EDWARDS, VOTED AGAINST, UM, MEMBER MARS VOTED FOR MAYOR ALICA VOTED FOR MAYOR PRO TABONE VOTED FOR MEMBER CLOUDER VOTED FOR AND MEMBER EMORY VOTED FOR

[(f) Consideration and Possible Action - Third of four readings - An ordina...]

ITEM SIX F CONSIDERATION IMPOSSIBLE ACTION.

THIRD OF FOUR READING IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING THE TERM OF THE FRANCHISE.

GRANTED A GFL ENVIRONMENTAL SERVICES, USA SUCCESSOR, AND INTEREST TO WASTE CORPORATION OF TEXAS LP, A WHOLLY OWNED SUBSIDIARY OF WCA WASTE CORPORATION WITH RIGHT AND PRIVILEGE TO USE THE PUBLIC RIGHTS OF WAY TO CONDUCT A SOLID WASTE COLLECTION SERVICE BUSINESS FOR COMMERCIAL CUSTOMERS WITHIN THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, PROVIDING FOR APPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY IN PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY.

MOTION CALL FOUR THAT A SECOND.

IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE MEMBER RILEY VOTED FOR, UH, MEMBER EDWARDS VOTES AGAINST MEMBER MERU IS VOTES FOUR.

MAYOR ACAP VOTES FOUR, UH, MAYOR PRO TABONE VOTES FOUR MEMBER CLOUDER VOTES FOR MEMBER EMORY VOTES FOR OKAY.

SIX G CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTIONS.

[(g) Consideration and Possible Action - Second and final reading - Conside...]

SECOND AND FINAL READING IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING THE CIVIL SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, PROVIDING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS RELATED TO THE STRENGTH OF FORCE OF CERTAIN FIRE DEPARTMENT AND POLICE DEPARTMENT PERSONNEL AND SENIOR, UH, AND SENIORITY PAY PROVIDING FOR APPEAL, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED THERE TOO.

CALLING FOR MOTION.

IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

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VOTE.

CAN I CHANGE ONE CITY ATTORNEY PLACE UPON I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS THE QUESTION? OPTIONS TO TRAIN THAT I'M IN THE FIRST STEP.

OH, UM, I THINK THAT'D BE AN IT QUESTION, UH, WITH THE NEW SYSTEM A VOTE.

OKAY, WELL I NEED A CORNER OR SOMETHING, CAUSE IT SEEMS LIKE IT'S BEING POINTED, BUT IT'S NOT, THERE'S NO WAY TO RESOLVE THIS.

WE CAN'T, CAN WE REDO THE VOTE? TECHNICALLY YOU CAN'T REDO A VOTE WITHOUT HAVING, UH, SOMEONE WHO VOTED FOR THE, THE MAJORITY SIDE TO MAKE A MOTION.

SO THERE WOULD HAVE TO BE A SUSPENSION OF THE RULES, SOMEBODY ON THE MAJORITY SIDE, BUT THEN HAVE TO CALL TO REDO THE VOTE.

YOU HAVE A STYLIST.

DO YOU HAVE A STYLIST? WELL, HOW DO WE RECTIFY HER VOTE? BECAUSE SHE'S VOTING OBVIOUSLY OPPOSITE IN WHAT THE SYSTEM IS RECORDING.

SO HOW CAN WE MAKE SURE THAT IT'S RECORDED BASED ON WHAT SHE WANTS? THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER THAT NEEDS, I MEAN, DO WE NOT FACTOR THIS WHEN WE WERE DEALING WITH THIS TECHNOLOGY? MAYBE UH, DO A, I THINK YOU WERE GONNA, THIS IS A ROLL CALL.

SO MAYBE TRY TO ROLL AROUND VERSUS USING THE, COULD YOU CLEAR THE VOTE? CAN YOU CLEAR THE VOTE? OH, SO WE CAN CLEAR THE VOTE.

SO, UM, I THINK THERE WAS QUESTION TO WHAT USA DID BEFORE ABOUT THERE NEEDED TO BE A MOTION FROM THE, UM, PREVAILING SIDE, UH, TO REQUEST FOR THE RULES TO BE SUSPENDED.

SO THERE CAN BE A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES UNDER CHAPTER TWO OF THE MISSOURI CITY CODE.

AND IF THAT VOTE PREVAILS, YOU NEED FIVE VOTES FOR THAT.

THEN THERE CAN BE A MOTION TO REDO THE VOTE OR RECONSIDER WHEN WE, WHEN WE ORDER ORDERED YEAH.

ORDERED THE MACHINES OF TECHNOLOGY, DID Y'ALL FIND OUT THERE WAS A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM THAT COULD CHANGE IN THE EVENT BECAUSE TONIGHT IS THE FIRST TIME THAT WE'RE ALL USING THIS AND WE DON'T, THESE ARE CRITICAL DECISIONS THAT WE'RE MAKING.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS SOME TYPE OF WAY THAT YOU GUYS CAN FIX THIS WHEN SOMEONE PUSHES, PUSHES THE WRONG THING.

SO, UM, BEFORE THE VOTE RECORDED, ANY COUNCIL MEMBER CHANGE IT CAUSE THE VOTE REPORTED.

I DON'T THINK THE SYSTEM HAD CAUGHT UP YET.

I SAID SOMETIMES I HAVE TO PRESS IT TWICE.

AND THAT'S WHERE CONFUSING CONSIDERING WE DIDN'T EVEN HAVE TRAINING OR HOW TO USE MR. MAYOR.

I THINK IF WE CAN PLEASE ASK IF THERE IS, UM, SOMEONE FROM THE PREVAILING SIDE THAT WOULD LIKE TO SUSPEND THE RULES, UM, AND THEN, UM, WE COULD THEN DO THE RE VOTE.

SO FIRST OF ALL, ANYONE WANTS TO SUSPEND THE RULES AND PUT ANOTHER MOTION.

I'LL MAKE THE MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULE.

UM, WHAT ELSE I NEED TO SAY AFTER THAT? IS THAT IT FOR THIS PARTICULAR VOTING ITEM? YES.

UH, SECOND CLEAR IT UP.

SO DID YOU CLEAR IT OUT? CLEAR IT? SO THE SECRETARY, SO IS THAT DOCUMENTED? YES.

MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY.

SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS.

AND SO AT THIS POINT, WE'LL NEED A VOTE.

SO THIS IS, ARE WE DOING A ROLL CALL VOTE OR ARE WE PUSHING THIS BUTTON? WE'LL DO THE SAME AS PUSHING THE BUTTON AND THEN WE WILL CLEAR IT OUT OF HERE.

UM, BECAUSE WE ARE IN THE UNDERSTANDING THAT IT IS FOR THE MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES.

WILL THAT JUST FOR MY OWN CLARITY, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THE MOTION WHEN YOU'RE VOTING TO SUSPEND THE RULES HAS TO BE FROM THE BAIL PARTY BECAUSE THE SECOND AS WELL, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE.

SO THE MOTION, THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER HAS TO BE FROM A MEMBER OF THE PREVAILING PARTY.

THE MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES CAN BE FROM ANY MEMBER AT SECTION TWO DASH 82 OF THE CITY'S CODE.

UH, IT JUST PROVIDES THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE TWO THIRDS OF THE BODY TO AUTHORIZE THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

ONCE THAT WAS A LOT BEING SAID, I JUST WANTED SURE.

IF THAT MOTION PASSES, THEN YOU GO ON TO THE MOTION TO RECONSIDER AT WHICH POINT THAT MOTION DOES HAVE TO BE FROM A MEMBER OF THE PREVAILING PARTY.

WE'LL MAKE NOTE, MR. MAYOR.

SO ON THE SCREEN HERE, WHAT IT SHOWS, SO THAT'S GOTTA BE MOVED, RIGHT? CUZ THERE'S A NEW MOTION ON THE TABLE, RIGHT.

I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE THE ABILITY TO PUT IN MOTIONS THAT ARE ACTUALLY MADE OR IF IT'S JUST THE AGENDA THAT PREPOPULATES, OH,

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WE HAVE, WE'VE MADE NOTE IN OUR NOTES.

THAT THIS IS, THIS ITEM IS ACTUALLY, THAT'S FINE.

WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT ONE.

I MEAN, SO FOR THIS ONE COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY MADE THE MOTION.

COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS GOT THE SECOND.

YES SIR.

SO, OKAY.

SO WHEN WE CALL FOR VOTES, WHAT ARE WE DOING? I, I CALL FOR VOTES.

WE WILL GO AHEAD AND RECORD THE VOTES AS WE HAVE BEFORE.

UM, AND THEN WE'LL CLEAR THE VOTES AND THEN THEY'LL YOU ALL WILL BE ABLE TO VOTE FOR THIS ITEM AGAIN.

CALL THE VOTES DIGITALLY.

YES, PLEASE.

I'M CALLING FOR THE VOTE.

SO PLEASE PUT IT IN.

THIS IS VOTING TO SUSPEND THE RULES, CORRECT? THAT'S NOT STILL BEING DONE ON THIS, CORRECT? THAT'S CORRECT.

THIS IS THE, THIS IS THE MOTION TO SUSPEND.

NO, IT'S UP THERE ON THE SCREEN.

THIS IS 5G.

THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES IS A MANUAL VOTE.

IS, IS THAT A MANUAL? IT HAS TO BE BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT.

5G IS STATING THAT I MADE A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS AND COUNCIL MEMBER.

SECOND IT MR. MAYOR, DO YOU WANT US TO DO A ROLL CALL BY JUST DO A ROLL CALL ON THIS ONE PLEASE? UM, MEMBER RILEY.

UM, MAYOR PART TIM? YES.

UH, MEMBER CLOUDER YES.

MEMBER EMORY.

THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN TO ZERO TO SUSPEND THE RULES.

NOW I NEED A MOTION FOR SIX G.

SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION ENTERED.

AND IS THERE A SECOND? YES.

UH, THIS WOULD BE A MOTION TO RECONSIDER THE, UM, THE VOTE THAT WAS TAKEN PRIOR TO THE SUSPENSION OF THE RULES.

THIS GIVES COUNSEL THE ABILITY TO REVOTE ON THIS ITEM NOW.

SO WE'RE, REVOTING ON SIX ON SIX, SIX G G.

BUT THERE NEEDS TO BE A MOTION IN A MOTION AND A SECOND TO DO SO FROM THE PREVAILING SIDE, THERE, THERE IS RIGHT HERE.

MY, MY SECOND STAND.

I MEAN, ISN'T THAT THE MOTION? YES.

H CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.

THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY ITEM SIX

[(h) Consideration and Possible Action - Authorize the Interim City Manager...]

AUTHORIZES THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH BURNS PUMP SERVICES INCORPORATED FOR FUEL PUMP, UPGRADE TO AT CITY FACILITIES IN THE, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED OVER $185,301 IS THEIR MOTION.

I SEE.

THERE'S A MOTION.

THERE'S A SECOND.

ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE AMERICAN.

UH, THIS WAS FOR FIRE STATION FOUR, RIGHT? YES.

UM, MR. MAYOR, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, UM, I WILL DO THE ROLL CALL ON THIS ITEM.

UM, MEMBER RILEY VOTED FOR MEMBER ED WAS VOTED AGAINST MEMBER MARS, VOTED FOR MAYOR ACA VOTED FOR, UH, MAYOR PROTE, BONY VOTED FOR MEMBER, UH, CLOUDER VOTED FOR AND MEMBER EMERY VOTED .

SEVEN IS PUBLIC HEARING AND RELATED ACTIONS, SEVEN, A ZONING PUBLIC HEARING AND ORDINANCES, UH, SEVEN A ONE A PUBLIC HEARING RECEIVE COMMENTS FOR AGAINST A REQUEST TO ZONE, APPROXIMATELY 6.853 ACRES OF LAND FROM LC THREE RETAIL DISTRICT TO PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT TO INCLUDE LC THREE RETAIL AND WAREHOUSE STORAGE USES.

[(a) Zoning Public Hearings and Ordinances]

[(1) Public Hearing - To receive comments for or against a request to zone ...]

AND TO THE EXTENT SUCH ZONING DEVIATES FROM THE FUTURE LAND USE AND CHARACTER MAP OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO PROVIDE FOR AN AMENDMENT THERE FROM THE SITE IS LOCATED NORTH AND EAST OF ROTHWELL STREET, SOUTH AND EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF FIFTH STREET AND INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD AND WEST OF THE LEXINGTON PLACE, RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION.

SO I'LL NOW OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING FOR ITEM NUMBER FOUR, NUMBER A ONE SEVEN, A ONE MADAM SECRETARY.

DO WE HAVE ANY NO, MR. MAYOR, WE DO NOT FOR THIS ITEM.

UM, IS, WAS THERE A MOTION IN A SECOND TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? NO, NO MAYOR DISCLOSES THE PUBLIC HEARING.

SO THERE NO PUBLIC HEARING.

WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND CLOSE PUBLIC HEARINGS.

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UM, IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF 6.85 ACRES OF LAND FROM LC THREE RETAIL DISTRICT TO PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT NUMBER ONE 18 DESCRIBING SAID 6.85 ACRES OF LAND REGULATING AND RESTRICTING THE DEVELOPMENT USE OF PROPERTY WITHIN SUCH PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AMENDING THE ZONING DISTRICT MAP OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, PROVIDING FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PROVIDING FOR APPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.

[(2) Consideration and Possible Action - First of Two Readings - An ordinan...]

IS A PRESENTATION.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? OKAY.

OKAY, PERFECT.

SO WE RECEIVE AN APPLICATION TO ZONE AND APPROXIMATE 6.85 TRACT OF LAND.

UM, THIS CURRENTLY HAS A ZONING OF LC THREE RETAIL DISTRICT AND THE ZONING APPLICATION IS FOR A PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT TO ALLOW FOR LC THREE RETAIL AND TO INCLUDE, UM, STORAGE WAREHOUSE USES.

SO THE SITE IS LOCATED SOUTH AND EAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF FIFTH STREET AND INDEPENDENCE BOULEVARD.

UM, THE SITE PLAN DOES PROPOSE, UM, ABOUT SEVEN BUILDINGS WITH TENANT LEASE SPACES AND ONE BUILDING TELLO FOR STORAGE WAREHOUSE USES THE, THERE IS NO ADDITIONAL CHANGE TO THE SITE PLAN OUTSIDE OF THE STORE STORAGE WAREHOUSE.

UM, SO THERE WILL BE NO DEVIATIONS REQUESTED WITH THE PD.

SO IT'LL JUST FOLLOW THE BASE ZONING OF LC THREE DISTRICT.

UM, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DID PROVIDE A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE ZONING CHANGE.

DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT.

IS THERE A MOTION? GO AHEAD AND PUT IN THE MOTION IF THERE'S A MOTION, IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY.

THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND.

IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION OR QUESTIONS? YES.

MEMBER RILEY.

HOW MANY, UH, STORAGE UNITS, UM, OR WAREHOUSE UNITS, IS THIS GONNA BE? SO IT'S JUST GONNA BE ONE BUILDING OF STORAGE WAREHOUSES ON THE SITE PLAN.

IT SHOULD HAVE THE SQUARE FEET OF THE BUILDING.

I DON'T HAVE IT IN FRONT OF ME.

AND THIS IS THREE STORIES HIGH.

SO LC THREE DOES ALLOW TO, WELL, IT DOESN'T HAVE A HEIGHT LIMIT, BUT I BELIEVE IT IS A THREE STORY BUILDING.

AND HOW CLOSE IS THIS TO THE SUBDIVISION LEXINGTON PLACE? UM, I GET THE, OKAY, SO THERE'S A DITCH RIGHT BETWEEN, UM, THE SOUTH OF THE PROPERTY TO LEXTON PLACE.

SO IT'S NOT GONNA BE RIGHT UP AGAINST THE SUBDIVISION AND WHAT'S BEHIND IT.

WHERE, WHERE WALK ROTHWELL IS WHAT'S BEHIND IT.

WHAT ARE THOSE, UM, BLOCKS ARE THOSE HOMES? SO THERE'S A MIX OF DIFFERENT ZONINGS ON THAT STREET.

THERE'S A MIX OF, UM, SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL, BUT ALSO LD THREE RETAIL.

UM, THERE'S ABOUT THREE OR FOUR LOCKS THAT WERE ORIGINALLY RESIDENTIAL AND THEY, UM, ARE NOW LC THREE.

ARE THERE ANY HOMES THAT ARE WITHIN THE 200 FEET? YES.

WERE THEY NOTIFIED? YES.

DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY THERE WERE, I BELIEVE THERE WAS ABOUT 27 NOTICES THAT WERE SENT OUT FOR THE ZONING CASE.

WERE THERE ANY RESPONSES FROM THEM? NO.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS THERE? ALICA.

IS THE APPLICANT HERE? I BELIEVE SO.

ARYN TURNER WITH COLO INCORPORATED.

I'M HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AS IT RELATES TO, UH, THE PUBLIC.

I JUST HAVE A QUESTION.

MR. TURNER, UH, WHERE IS SHOWS ON THE SCREEN SUBJECT SITE? WHAT IS THAT EMPTY SPOT NEXT TO IT? TO THE, TO THE WALL? TO MY LEFT.

SO YOUR LEFT? YES.

TO, TO MY LEFT STREET.

THAT'S A VACANT TRACK RIGHT THERE.

THAT IS A VACANT TRACK.

SO IN THE OPEN, THE VACANT LAND, UH, DOES THE SAME DEVELOPER ON THAT SAME EMPTY SPACE THAT LAND? NO.

AND I DO RECALL, I THINK A WHILE BACK THERE WAS SOME MODIFICATION TO THE, UM, UH, TO THE CORNER, UH, WHERE IT TOUCHES, I WOULD ASSUME ROCKWELL STREET.

SO WHEN THEY PULL UP THE ZONING MAP, ALL OF THAT IS STILL ZONED LC THREE.

I HAVE NO FURTHER QUESTION MEMBER RILEY, MR. TURNER.

I DIDN'T WANT YOU TO GET TOO FAR AWAY.

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UM, AND ARE THEY TRYING TO BUILD ALL OF THAT, THAT, UM, WHAT WE SAW ON THE, THE DRAWINGS, THE PLATING, UM, IS ALL THAT GOING THIS ONE SITE IN ONE PHASE OR IS IT MULTIPLE PHASES? YES, MA'AM, IT'LL BE ONE RESERVE AND IT'LL ALL BE DEVELOPED AT ONE TIME.

AND WHAT TYPE OF, UM, WOULD THERE BEING THE HOMES BACK BEHIND THERE WHERE, WHERE THOSE LITTLE BLOCKS ARE, ARE THEY PLANNING ON BUILDING ANY TYPE OF LIKE SOUND BARRIER, A WALL OR SOMETHING, SO WE CAN AVOID ANY, ANY NOISE WITH THESE, UH, RESIDENTS OVER THERE.

SO THE ZONING ORDINANCE REQUIRES THAT.

AND I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA GO AND TURN THAT BACK OVER TO PLANNING THAT THEY CAN APPROPRIATELY ANSWER THAT.

OH, OKAY.

TO ANSWER QUESTION TO SOME DEGREE, BUT I WON'T THEM TO, I'D RATHER HEAR IT FROM THE, FROM THERE.

SO YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION IS TO THE EAST, UM, WHERE IT'S NEXT TO THE DITCH.

SO YEAH, SO THE, OUR TRANSITIONAL BUFFER YARDS, WE DO HAVE A LANDSCAPING REQUIREMENT OF AT LEAST 20 FEET WHEN IT'S UP AGAINST, UM, DIFFERENT USES.

SO WHEN YOU HAVE LC THREE WITH A DIFFERENT USE, YOU HAVE AT LEAST 20 FEET, UM, BUFFER.

SO WITH THE LANDSCAPING BUFFERS, DEPENDING ON THE TYPE OF USE, IT CAN BE, UM, CANOPY TREES, OR IT CAN BE A MASONRY WALL.

SO WHEN A NON RESIDENTIAL USE IS NEXT TO A DISTRICT OR NEXT TO A, UM, LIKE A DITCH WHERE A MASON WALL WOULD BE REQUIRED OR TYPICALLY, BUT WHEN IT'S NEXT TO A DITCH, IT'S ACTUALLY REDUCED.

SO, UM, DEPENDING ON HOW OFFSET IT IS FROM A RESIDENTIAL AREA, SO IT COULD BE LESS THAN A 20 FEET, UM, BECAUSE OF THE DITCH.

BUT WITH THE, I WILL SAY WITH THE PD, YOU CAN ACTUALLY PUT IN SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS, UM, FOR THE DEVELOPER AND THE PD WOULD, UM, THEY WOULD HAVE TO FOLLOW THAT FOR THE PD.

SO AS OF NOW, THERE'S NOTHING, UM, TO PROTECT THOSE, THOSE SINGLE FAMILY HOMES FROM ANY NOISE RIGHT NOW, NOT AS FAR AS A MASONRY WALL, THE LANDSCAPING BUFFER WOULD, UM, OFFSET IT 20 FEET AND WOULD PROVIDE, UM, TREES AND SHRUBS AS A SOUND BARRIER.

UM, BUT THERE'S NO, TECHNICALLY THERE'S NOT A MASONRY WALL REQUIRED RIGHT THERE.

BUT YOU CAN, AS PART OF THE MOTION, YOU CAN REQUEST TO HAVE IT BE REQUIRED AND IT CAN BE IN THE ZONING.

UM, SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

I DON'T SEE ANYBODY IN THE QUEUE, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

SO MAYOR, CAN I MODIFY OR REQUEST THAT COUNCIL MEMBER CLAUSE AMEND HER MOTION TO ADD THAT BUFFER FOR THOSE RESIDENTS IS THAT, UH, THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND ON THE TABLE.

SO, UM, ANYBODY COULD ACTUALLY MAKE AN AMENDING MOTION TO CHANGE, UH, THE ORDINANCE TO INCLUDE THAT.

SO DO I NEED TO MAKE THAT NOW? MM-HMM OR SURE.

YOU CAN MAKE THAT NOW.

YOU, YOU CAN MAKE THAT NOW AND GET A SECOND AND THEN WE CAN MOVE.

I LIKE TO, UM, MAKE AN AMENDING MOTION TO ADD THAT, UH, BUFFER YOU SAY MASONRY MASON WALL.

UH, MASONRY, UH, BUFFER WALL FOR THOSE RESIDENTS OVER THERE.

SOMEBODY CUE IN THE SECOND.

DO WE HAVE A SECOND? A SECOND.

DO WE HAVE TO CLEAR THIS OUT FIRST TO WE CAN'T THIS IS A SECOND.

CAUSE THIS IS SECOND.

SO IT'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER.

RILEY IS OUR SECOND, SECOND.

WE'LL GO AHEAD AND VOTE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.

OR DO WE GO NOW TO, YOU CAN VOTE NOW? YES.

OH NO.

WE HAVE TO VOTE.

YOU CAN VOTE USING THIS QUEUE HERE AND THEN WE'LL VOTE AGAIN, UM, TO, TO ADOPT THE, UM, THE ORDINANCE WITH THE AMENDMENT.

SO IT'S BE, IT'D BE TWO VOTES.

ONE WOULD BE THE AMENDING MOTION ONE REMAIN.

SO WE VOTE ON THIS THING, RIGHT? YES.

AND HOW, THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT SAYS IS THAT REGARDLESS OF WHAT THE SCREEN SAYS.

BECAUSE THIS IS NEW TECHNOLOGY AND WE'RE SURE WE ARE TRYING TO WORK OUT THE BOOK, SO YES.

BUT THIS IS GONNA RECORD OUR VOTES FOR THIS, NOT THE AMENDED MOTION.

SO WE CAN'T VOTE ON THIS MACHINE BECAUSE THIS IS WHAT'S ON THE, ON THE SCREEN AND IT'S, WHAT'S ON HERE.

SEVEN, A TWO, AND WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE VOTE.

I MADE A MOTION NOT FOR THAT.

I MADE A MOTION FOR THE AMENDMENT.

AND THE, THE ACTUAL VOTE WILL BE FOR YOUR AMENDMENT TO ADD THE MASON MASONARY WALL.

UH, WE WILL LEAVE IT UNDER HERE.

LIKE I SAID, THIS IS NEW SOFTWARE THAT WE'RE STILL TRYING TO WORK OUR

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WAY THROUGH.

UM, AND SO I WILL MAKE SURE IN MY CAPTION THAT I CAPTURE IT THE WAY THAT IT IS STATED AS THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO INCLUDE THE MISSIONARY WALL CITY SECRETARY, UM, CRYSTAL, I DON'T AGREE WITH THAT BECAUSE THIS SYSTEM TECHNOLOGY IS GONNA RECORD THIS.

AND AS WE DID THE LAST MOTION, THAT THERE WAS SOME CONFUSION BECAUSE OF THE, UM, TECHNOLOGY ISSUE, I BELIEVE WE NEED TO TAKE A ROLL CALL VOTE THE SAME WAY THAT YOU DID LAST TIME, THAT WAY IT'S IN THE SYSTEM.

AND THEN AS WE PROCEED TO THIS 7 82, WE CAN VOTE ON THIS TECHNOLOGY.

I DON'T THINK WE NEED A VOTE OR JUST, UH, VERBAL.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, SAY AYE.

ALL, ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTION.

SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO.

THANK YOU MAYOR.

NOW WE'RE GOING TO, YEAH.

SO NOW, UM, NOW THAT THE AMENDMENT'S BEEN PASSED, UM, YOU'LL CAN VOTE ON THE MAIN MOTION SUBJECT TO ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION.

SO THE MAIN MOTION AS AMENDED.

SO THERE WE GO.

THERE WE GO.

RIGHT, EVERYBODY, RIGHT? YES.

AND SO I'LL SAY IT AGAIN THAT THIS MOTION WILL BE CAPTURED WITH THE AMENDMENT INCLUDED AND THAT'S WHAT YOU ALL ARE VOTING FOR NOW.

LET'S VOTE.

NOW 7 82 PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS FOR OR AGAINST A REQUEST BY, UM, THOMAS AND LA SHIRE SAILOR FOR A U SPECIFIC USE PERMIT TO ALLOW FOR THE LOCATION OF A PLACE OF ASSEMBLING EVENT CENTER.

OKAY,

[(3) Public Hearing - To receive comments for or against a request by a req...]

AND TO THE EXTENT SUCH ZONING DEVIATES, THE FUTURE LAND USE AND CHARACTER MAP, AND OF THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO PROVIDE FOR AN AMENDMENT THEY'RE FROM THE, THE SITE IS IN APPROXIMATE 6,900 SQUARE FEET.

LEASE SPACE LOCATED WITHIN THE CO VALLEY LA LAQUINTA SHOPPING CENTER AT 26 0 1 CUTRIGHT ROAD.

THE SHOPPING CENTER IS LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CUTRIGHT ROAD IN CYPRESS POINT DRIVE.

OKAY, SO IT OPENING UP FOR PUBLIC HEARING.

MR. MAYOR, THERE ARE NO COMMENTS FOR THIS ITEM.

THIS IS, UM, 7 84 IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS GRANTING A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT AUTHORIZING THE USE OF A 6,900 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY ON AN APPROXIMATE 6.90 ACRE TRACT OF LAND AS A SPECIFIC USE PLACE OF ASSEMBLY DEPICTING, UH, SAID 6,900 SQUARE FOOT FACILITY PROVIDING LIMITATIONS, RESTRICTIONS AND CONDITIONS ON SUCH SPECIFIC USE AMENDING THE ZONING DISTRICT MAP MAP OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, PROVIDING FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PROVIDING A REPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY, PROVIDING SEVERABILITY AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.

GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

YOU NEED TO MAKE A MOTION OPEN.

NO, UH,

[(4) Consideration and Possible Action - First of Two Readings - An ordinan...]

OKAY, GO AHEAD.

OKAY, PERFECT.

SO THIS IS AN APPLICATION FOR SPECIFIC USE PERMIT.

TELL OUT FOR A PLACE OF ASSEMBLY.

UM, THIS IS 6,900 SQUARE FEET.

UM, LEASING SPACE.

THAT'S LOCATED IN THE QUELL VALLEY SHOPPING CENTER AT 26 0 1 CARRA ROAD.

UM, IT'S LOCATED ON THE SOUTHWEST CORNER OF CARRA ROAD AND CYPRESS POINT DRIVE.

SO THE ACA HAS INDICATED THAT THE APPROVAL OF THE SEP WOULD ALLOW FOR AN EVENT CENTER, UM, WITHIN THE SHOPPING CENTER.

SO THE TYPES OF EVENTS THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO PUT ON WOULD BE BIRTHDAY PARTIES, BABY SHOWERS, AND BUSINESS MEETINGS.

THE APPLICANT ANTICIPATES THAT THE PEAK HOURS OFF OPERATION WILL BE THURSDAY TO SUNDAYS, BETWEEN 5:00 PM TO 2:00 AM WITHIN ESTIMATED CAPACITY OF ABOUT 250 PEOPLE.

UM, THE SEP WILL FOLLOW THE REGULATIONS OF THE BASE ZONING, WHICH IS THE L C TWO RETAIL DISTRICT AND THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION PROVIDED A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE ZONING CHANGE.

WISE? NO, I DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO PROVIDE SPECIFICALLY, BUT I DON'T THINK IT WOULD BE, I THINK IT WOULD BE IN ADDITION TO THE GOLF CLUB, UM, BECAUSE IN THAT AREA, I MEAN, IT ONLY ALLOWS FOR ABOUT 250 PEOPLE AT MAX CAPACITY.

IS THERE A MOTION KEY IN THE MOTION? IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY, SO MOTION IN A SECOND OR KEYED IN, IS THERE A DISCUSSION, IF YES, I HAVE A QUESTION, COUPLE QUESTIONS.

UM, THANK YOU FIRST FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

MM-HMM UM, DOES THIS PROPOSED CENTER HAVE ANY CONFLICT OR COMPETITIVE ISSUES WITH OUR CURRENT I'M SORRY, CURRENT RECREATIONAL CENTER THAT WE ACTUALLY LEASE OUT FOR OUR EVENTS OR OUR GOLF CLUB AND GOLF, YOU KNOW, I'M TRYING TO SAY GOLF CENTER.

HAVE WE EVEN SEEN THAT THAT WAS GONNA BE A PROBLEM WITH THE COMPETITIVENESS DATA

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UM, AND THEIR EVENTS ARE PROPOSED TO ONLY TAKE PLACE ON THE WEEKENDS.

SO I THINK IT WOULD BE IN ADDITION TO THE GOLF CLUB, WHEN THE GOLF CLUB ISN'T ABLE TO BE USED OR WHEN SPACES IN THE REC CENTER ARE UNABLE TO BE USED AS WELL.

ALSO, HAVE WE REACHED OUT TO THE SURROUNDING HOAS TO SEE IF THEY HAVE ANY FEEDBACK, CONCERN IN THIS PROPOSAL? YES.

SO DURING OUR NOTICING, WE DID NOTICE TO ALL THE RESIDENTS WITHIN ABOUT 250 FEET, AS WELL AS HOAS AND WE HAVE NOT RECEIVED ANY NEGATIVE RESPONSES BACK.

UM, WHAT TYPE OF COMMERCIAL REVENUE WOULD BE PROPOSED WITH THIS EVENT CENTER? I'M NOT SURE IF THE APPLICANT IS HERE, IF THEY COULD COME INTO THAT QUESTION.

NOT SURE THE APPLICANT IS HERE.

UM, I GUESS NOT, NO, THEY'RE NOT HERE.

SO, UM, JUST TO KIND OF GO BACK A LITTLE BIT, AS FAR AS THE HOA FEEDBACK, CAN YOU GIVE ME MORE DETAILS OF WHAT THAT CONSISTED OF? YEAH.

SO DURING OUR NOTICING PERIOD, BEFORE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, WE NOTICED ABOUT 15 DAYS, 15 DAYS PRIOR TO THE FIRST PUBLIC HEARING, WHICH IS AT THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.

AND SO THAT NOTICE IS SENT OUT BY MAIL AND WE ALSO POST A NOTICE IN THE NEWSPAPER.

UM, SO THEY DID RECEIVE A MAILED COPY FOR ABOUT THE PROPOSED ZONING CHANGED AND WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY PROTEST LETTERS.

SO MY QUESTION IS WHAT WAS THE FEEDBACK? WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY FEEDBACK.

SO YOU SENT IT OUT, BUT YOU HAVEN'T HEARD BACK? NO.

SO MY RECOMMENDATION IS THAT WE DON'T MOVE FORWARD UNTIL WE GET THEIR FEEDBACKS.

CAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, IF WE DID SEND IT OUT TO HEAR BACK FROM THEM AS OPPOSED TO PROCEEDING AND NOT GIVING THEM A CHANCE TO VOICE THEIR OPINION.

UH, THE ACTUAL HOA BOARDS IN PRESIDENTS? YES.

CAN WE FOLLOW THE QUEUE TO THE SECRETARY? THERE'S BEEN PEOPLE IN THE QUEUE IT'S FOLLOW.

YEAH, I'M ACTUALLY NOT.

I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.

SHOOT.

YEAH, THAT'S JUST, UM, SO CONSIDERING THERE ARE TWO OTHER SIMILAR PLACES ON TEXAS PARKWAY THAT ACTUALLY HOST EVENTS, ONE IN THE CARTRIGHT, UM, SHOPPING CENTER AND ONE IN THE TEXAS PARKWAY, MOVIE THEATER SHOPPING CENTER.

SO WITH ANOTHER ONE BEING PLACED IN, IS THIS A LONG TERM OR SHORT TERM AND HOW CAN IT HELP WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IF WE HAVE AN OVERSATURATED AMOUNT OF THESE TYPE OF, UM, FACILITIES BEING BROUGHT IN? SURE.

SO WITH THE, WHAT THE SEP WHAT'S PROPOSED IS THAT THIS, UM, THE S SEP WOULD ONLY BE ALLOWED FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS AT WHICH THEN IT COULD BE RE EVALUATED IF WE WANT TO, UM, RENEW THE SPECIFIC USE PERMIT TO CONTINUE TO ALLOW FOR A PLACE OF ASSEMBLY.

SO THAT'S CURRENTLY WHAT THE TIMELINE IS PROPOSED IN THE ORDINANCE.

THANK YOU, MEMBER RILEY.

SO WITH THE, UM, THIS U P UM, I READ WHERE THEY'RE LOOKING TO BE OPEN FROM THURSDAYS, THE SUNDAYS 5:00 PM TO 2:00 AM.

HOW DOES THAT IMPACT THE SURROUNDING BUSINESSES HAVE Y'ALL REACHED OUT TO THOSE BUSINESSES THAT ARE GONNA BE IN CONJUNCTION, UM, OR ADJACENT TO THOSE, THAT LOCATION TO MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT'S ALSO COMING AND DO THEY, DID THEY HAVE ANY FEEDBACK? YEAH.

SO WHEN WE DID SEND OUT NOTICE, UM, AGAIN, WE NEVER, WE HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY FEEDBACK FROM THE ADJACENT LOTS, BUT WHEN I SPOKE TO THE BUSINESS OWNER, UM, SHE DID TELL ME THAT SHE REACHED OUT TO THE SURROUNDING BUSINESSES, ESPECIALLY THE ONES IN THAT SHOPPING CENTER AND THAT THEY WERE ACTUALLY IN FAVOR OF HAVING THAT BECAUSE IT WOULD KIND OF COMPLIMENT IT.

UM, AND THAT SAME SHOPPING CENTER, WE HAVE ACCESS KITCHEN AS WELL.

SO WITH THEM, IT'S KIND OF HAVING, UM, YOU KNOW, THE EVENT AND THEN HAVING A RESTAURANT RIGHT THERE TO ALSO BE ABLE TO ACCOMMODATE THAT.

UM, AND THAT WAS ALSO TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT CONSIDERING THE PARKING, BECAUSE IT IS A SHOPPING CENTER AND THEIR SHARED PARKING.

UM, SO THEY DID HAVE TO BE NOTIFIED THAT THERE WAS THIS TYPE OF EVENT COMING INTO THAT, INTO THAT SPACE.

SO HAVE YOU GUYS, YOUR DEPARTMENT REACHED OUT TO THOSE BUSINESSES, NOT WHAT YOU HEARD THE, UM, THE OWNERS DID, HAVE YOU, YOUR DEPARTMENT REACHED OUT THE BUSINESS OUTSIDE OF, UM, THE REQUIRED NOTICING? NO.

SO, UM, CAN WE MAKE THAT A PART OF, CAN YOU, CAN YOU PLEASE REACH OUT TO THOSE BUSINESSES AND MAKE SURE THAT THAT FEEDBACK, UM, IS VALID, THAT IS A WELCOMING BUSINESS BEFORE WE PROCEED.

I'M NOT COMFORTABLE MAKING THAT TYPE OF DECISION UNLESS WE HAVE SOME VALID INFORMATION.

MY SECOND, UM, ISSUE IS I WANTED TO PIGGYBACK OFF COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS STATEMENT.

SHE SPECIFICALLY AT A, HAD YOU REACHED OUT TO THE HOAS, I KNOW THAT THERE'S A 200 FEET, UM, REQUIREMENT THAT YOU MENTIONED THAT Y'ALL REACHED OUT AND THERE WAS NO FEEDBACK, BUT DID YOU REACH OUT TO THE ADJOINING HOA, UH, MEMBERS OF THAT COMMUNITY LIKE MEADOW CREEK QUA VALLEY,

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SO ANY HOA THAT WAS WITHIN NOT 250 FEET WAS MAILED A NOTICE IF THEY WEREN'T IN 200 FEET, THEY WERE MAILED A NOTICE IF THEY WERE WITHIN THE 250 FEET.

SO, UM, DURING, WHEN YOU REDO OUR MAPPING AND I SEE WHO'S WITHIN NOT 250 FEET, IF I SEE A SPECIFIC HOA WITHIN NOT 200 FEET, THEN I MAIL THEM SPECIFICALLY A NOTICE.

HOA.

SO MAYBE I'M NOT ANSWERING THE, ASKING YOU THE QUESTION CORRECTLY.

MM-HMM LET ME CLARIFY IT FOR YOU.

DID YOU SPECIFICALLY REACH OUT TO THE HOAS THAT WERE IN THE AREA REGARDLESS IF THEY WERE WITHIN THE 200 FEET, DID YOU REACH OUT TO COMMUNITIES LIKE MEADOW CREEK, HOA BOARD, QUELL VALLEY, NORTH HOA BOARD, QUELL VALLEY, EAST HOA BOARD AND IN THE OTHER SURROUNDING AREAS? NO.

THE CLOSEST ONE WAS MEADOW CREEK THAT WAS WITHIN THE 200 F 250 FEET.

UM, THE OTHER ONES WERE NOT PART OF IT.

I DON'T BELIEVE, I BELIEVE THE ONLY ONE THAT I RECALL IS THE MEADOW CREEK HLA.

AND THEY HAD NO FEEDBACK.

WOULD YOU, WOULD YOU MIND FORWARDING THAT INFORMATION, UM, YOUR EFFORTS OF WHAT YOU SENT OUT TO THE COUNCIL? SO WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THAT.

FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO SAY I'M EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT THIS BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY.

UH, WE EXPRESS AS A CITY THAT WE'RE OPEN TO BUSINESS.

WE'RE NOT IN THE BUSINESS OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE, WE'RE GOVERNMENT ENTITY TO TRY TO SEND A MESSAGE TO ANY BUSINESS IN THIS COMMUNITY THAT THEY'RE NOT WELCOME WITH THIS CITY, UH, TO DO BUSINESS AND TO TRY TO MAKE A LIVING FOR THEMSELVES.

I THINK'S A WRONG MESSAGE.

UM, I THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR ALL OF THE EFFORTS THAT YOU ALL DID TO DO WHAT IS CUSTOMARY WHEN IT COMES TO REACHING OUT TO THE COMMUNITY.

UH, BUT WE DON'T HAVE AN OBLIGATION TO ASK THE OPINION OF OTHER BUSINESSES.

UH, WE ARE IN THE BUSINESS OF PRIVATE ENTERPRISE.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE ENCOURAGE, UH, IN WHICH WHAT WE SHOULD, SHOULD ENCOURAGE, UH, ANY GOVERNMENT ENTITY THAT'S GOVERNMENT OVERREACH, TO TRY TO STIFLE ANYBODY'S ABILITY TO USE THEIR OWN RESOURCES AND FUNDS TO TRY TO ADVANCE THEMSELVES, UH, FROM A BUSINESS STANDPOINT.

UH, AND I THINK THAT WE SEND THE WRONG MESSAGE.

IF WE DON'T SUPPORT THE EFFORTS OF BUSINESSES, THERE WAS ANOTHER BUSINESS THAT WAS JUST OPENED OVER THERE, WHICH I FREQUENTED SEVERAL TIMES NOW, UH, THAT THEY SELL THE GELATO AND ICE CREAM AND STUFF.

AND IT'S A GREAT, GREAT BUSINESS, AND WE DON'T NEED TO PENALIZE BUSINESSES LIKE THAT OR ANY OTHER BUSINESSES.

I JUST ATTENDED ANOTHER EVENT WHERE THEY OPENED UP A COLLEGE UNIVERSITY IN THE SAME STRIP CENTER.

AND SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE SEND A MESSAGE THAT WE ARE NOT PICKING AND WINNERS AND LOSERS IN MISSOURI CITY, UH, THAT WE SUPPORT BUSINESS.

UH, AND THAT'S GOING TO HELP OUR OVERALL TAX BASE TO LORD OF OVERALL PROPERTY TAX BURDEN ON ALL OF OUR CITIES, CITIZENS.

SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE GET THESE TYPES OF SALES TAX REVENUE GENERATING BUSINESSES IN MISSOURI CITY, AND I'M FULLY IN SUPPORT OF THIS MEMBER.

CLOUDER YES.

UM, I AM FULLY IN SUPPORT OF THIS BUSINESS.

I GET PHONE CALLS ALL OF THE TIME FROM RESIDENTS ASKING, WHERE CAN I HOST AN EVENT? WHERE CAN I HAVE AN EVENT? AND I THINK THIS JUST ADDS TO, UM, UH, JUST MISSOURI CITY BEING AN ATTRACTIVE LOCATION FOR PEOPLE TO KEEP THEIR DOLLARS HERE, HAVE THEIR EVENTS HERE, UM, HAVE THEIR CELEBRATIONS HERE.

UH, SECONDLY, THIS WAS, UH, FORWARDED, UM, UH, WITH A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION FOR MY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.

SO THIS WAS VETTED OUT BY OUR P AND Z COMMITTEE.

AND, UM, I, I HAVE MY TRUST IN THEM.

UM, SECONDLY, MY, MY ONLY QUESTION IS THAT, UM, WITH THE EVENTS OCCURRING FROM FIVE TO 2:00 AM, YOU KNOW, IF THERE IS ANY FEEDBACK I CAN UNDERSTAND, THERE MAY BE SOME FEEDBACK, YOU KNOW, ABOUT MAYBE PEOPLE HANGING OUT LATE MM-HMM WILL, THEY WILL, WILL, UM, THESE EVENTS BE REQUIRED TO HAVE POLICE PRESENCE.

SO I WANNA MAKE SURE THAT IF THIS, IF THIS BUSINESS IS COMES TO THE CITY AND THEY HAVE EVENTS CONSISTENTLY AT 2:00 AM, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE RESIDENTS FEEL SAFE, UM, UH, THAT THERE'S NO LOITERING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

I'M ACTUALLY GLAD YOU BROUGHT THAT UP BECAUSE, UM, THAT WAS A POINT THAT THE APPLICANT HAD BROUGHT UP WITH US DURING OUR MEETINGS AND OUR CONVERSATIONS THAT THEY WILL HAVE SECURITY ON SITE FOR ANY OF THEIR EVENTS, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE GOING LATE NIGHT.

UM, IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT'S WRITTEN IN THE S U, UM, BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT SHE WANTED.

SHE, SHE MADE US KNOWN.

THE WORDING WOULD LOOK LIKE, BUT SOME ASSURANCES IN THIS S U SURE.

IS THAT SOMETHING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE SOME ASSURANCES THERE UM, SO IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE CAN ENFORCE TO, IF I, I CAN UNDERSTAND HER WANTING THAT, BUT IS THAT SOMETHING THAT'S ENFORCEABLE FOR MAYBE EVENTS THAT ARE GOING ON UNTIL 2:00 AM OR, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW WHAT

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I THINK THAT WOULD BE A QUESTION FOR OUR LEGAL TEAM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WILL BE ABLE TO BE WRITTEN INTO THE SPECIFIC USE PERMIT.

UH, I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS YOUR SPECIFIC QUESTION? SO WITH EVENTS GOING UNTIL 2:00 AM MM-HMM , ARE THERE ANY, UM, ASSURANCES THAT, THAT WE CAN PUT IN THERE IN, IN THE U TO, SO THE, THE OWNERS SAY THAT THEY'RE IN SUPPORT OF HAVING AN OFFICER, SO THEY COULD SAY THAT TODAY, AND THEN TOMORROW IT WOULD BE A DIFFERENT STORY, OR, YOU KNOW, IT, SOMETHING THAT'S ENFORCEABLE, SOMETHING THAT'S CONSISTENT TO ASSURE THE NEIGHBORS IN THE SURROUNDING, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE SAFETY.

UM, LAW ENFORCEMENT, I DON'T BELIEVE, WOULD GENERALLY BE INCLUDED IN, WITHIN THE PURVIEW OF ZONING MM-HMM .

UM, SO YOU COULD MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE ORDINANCE TO THAT EFFECT, BUT WE'D HAVE TO RESEARCH THE FEASIBILITY OF THAT AND GET BACK TO YOU.

EVEN A SECURITY OFFICER.

I I'M NOT SAYING IT HAS TO BE, YOU KNOW, A POLICE OFFICER.

I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE I'M SORRY.

I DIDN'T MEAN TO THAT'S CUT YOU OFF.

THAT'S OKAY.

THAT'S ALRIGHT.

I THINK THAT WOULD FALL ALONG THE SAME LINES, CAUSE IT'S NOT RELATED SPECIFICALLY TO THE, THE USE MM-HMM AND OTHER, UM, KIND OF BUILDING REQUIREMENTS OF THE MM-HMM OF THE USE OF THE, THE, THE PROPERTY.

SO AGAIN, I GUESS MY QUESTION IS, IS, IS THERE A WAY TO ENFORCE THAT FOR THOSE EVENTS THAT ARE IN THE LATTER PART OF THE NIGHT MORNING THROUGH ZONING? I'M NOT SURE I KNOW WITH ZONING, YOU COULD PROBABLY DICTATE THE, UM, THE TIMEFRAME OF WHICH SHE CAN ALLOW, UM, HOW LATE THINGS GO.

BUT AS FAR AS REQUIRING, UM, SOME SORT OF SECURITY ENFORCEMENT, I DON'T BELIEVE THROUGH THE ZONING CODE, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO PUT THAT IN THE SPECIFIC USE PERMIT.

OR ENFORCE IT.

WELL, I JUST WANTED TO BE STATED THAT, UM, I AM DEFINITELY FOR THIS, BUT THE EVENTS THAT ARE GOING ON THE LATER EVENTS, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE AND YOU SAID THE BUSINESS OWNER IS, UM, AGREEABLE TO HAVE SECURITY MM-HMM I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT, THAT THEY AGREE UPON THAT.

AND THEY'RE CONSISTENT WITH THAT.

I'D UH, LIKE TO MAKE COMMENT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT.

WE HAVE PEOPLE IN THE QUEUE.

I'M SORRY.

COUNCIL MEMBER, IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK MEMBER MORES.

SO TO, TO CONTINUE ON WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER SAID, MAYBE THERE'S A TRIGGER POINT ON IF IT'S MORE THAN A HUNDRED, IT REQUIRES ONE.

IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, 150 AT ACROSS TWO, PERHAPS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS SOME SUGGESTIONS ON HOW TO HANDLE LARGE CROWDS.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDS ARE IN BONING, TOUCHED ON MANY THINGS, BUT I WANTED JUST TO ADD THAT THIS IS A LONG PROCESS FOR SOMEBODY TO APPLY FOR AN U.

YOU HAVE A LOT OF STEPS THAT YOU HAVE TO GO THROUGH TO INCLUDE COMING INTO A P AND Z MEETING TO INCLUDE PUBLIC HEARINGS IN THOSE P AND Z MEETINGS.

SO THIS DIDN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT.

SO THE APPLICANT DID THEIR DUE DILIGENCE.

THE STAFF DID THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, AND WE CAME BACK WITH NO FEEDBACK.

I, I APPLAUD COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER FOR STATING SECURITY.

UM, THAT'S IMPORTANT.

SO I'D LIKE TO SEE US DO SOMETHING IN THE ORDINANCE AND RATHER IN THE U TO PROTECT EVERYONE, NOT JUST THE NEIGHBORS.

UH, JUST FOR REPORT AND CLARITY.

UM, MY INITIAL COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS WERE NOT TO BASH THE APPLICANT OR STATE AS IF I DID NOT WANT TO SUPPORT THE SMALL BUSINESS.

I JUST THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE AS LEADERS IN THE COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS YOUR DEPARTMENT, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT.

AND IT'S NO WAY THAT WE CAN PRETTY MUCH GOVERN THE AMOUNT OF TIME OR THE TIME THAT THEY REMAIN OPEN.

WE CANNOT TELL THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN THE PLANNING THAT WE HAVE TO HAVE THEM THERE.

I MEAN, IT'S NO WAY FOR US TO GOVERN THAT.

SO THAT TIME SLOT IS QUESTIONABLE FOR ME AS WELL AS WILL THAT BE SERVING ALCOHOL.

THAT IS WHEN AN OFFICER IS OBLIGATED TO BE ON, ON DUTY AND IT HAS TO BE PRETTY MUCH FUNDED BY THEM.

SO ALL THESE QUESTIONS HAVE NOT BEEN ANSWERED.

AND SO THAT'S WHY I HAVE MORE CONCERNS AND I AM POSING THESE QUESTIONS.

SO JUST WANNA BE ON THE RECORD THAT I AM PRO SMALL BUSINESS.

I AM PRO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BUT AS A LEADER, IF WE'RE NOT POSING QUESTIONS AND ASKING FOR AN ENGAGING CONVERSATION, WHY ARE WE HERE? S WERE YOU, UM, ASKING FOR, UM, THE POLICE CHIEF TO RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTION, IF HE HAS ANY FEEDBACK ON THAT THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

CONSIDERING COUNCIL MEMBER EVERS ALSO STATED SOMETHING SIMILAR.

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I THINK THAT'LL HELP.

WOULD YOU MIND RESTATING YOUR QUESTION? COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER WAS STATING THAT, UH, SHE LIKED TO SEE SOME SECURITY ON SITE IN THE EVENT.

THERE'S LARGE EVENTS AT THIS FUNCTION.

I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT.

SO I THOUGHT WE WOULD ASK THE CHIEF IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE AWARE OF THAT REQUIRES OR TRIGGERS SOMETHING TO MAKE A BUSINESS OWNER, HIRE SECURITY, TO MAKE A BUSINESS OWNER HIRE SECURITY, THAT THERE'S NOTHING THAT I'M AWARE OF.

IT IS CERTAINLY A GOOD IDEA THAT YOU HAVE SOME TYPE OF SECURITY, BUT THERE'S NOTHING IN THE ORDINANCES THAT I'M AWARE OF THAT WOULD REQUIRE PRIVATE PERSON TO REQUIRE ANY TYPE OF SECURITY.

THANK YOU, CHIEF.

AND LET ME CLARIFY MY QUESTION.

WAIT, LET'S, LET'S JUST GO WITH THE CUE PLEASE.

I'M SORRY, JUST IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK, JUST GO AHEAD AND GO BACK FROM REMEMBER RILEY.

UM, JUST TO, TO, TO ADD TO THE CONVERSATION, UM, IT, WASN'T SORRY.

I DON'T SEE MEMBER RILEY.

I SEE EMERY I REM AND CLOSET.

I REMOVED HER WHEN SHE BEGAN SPEAKING, WHO I REMOVED MEMBER RILEY WHEN SHE BEGAN SPEAKING.

TO, UM, TO ASK TO, TO, UM, ADD VALUE TO THIS CONVERSATION.

UM, THE REASON WE WERE ASKING THESE QUESTIONS, I KNOW PERSONALLY, I DID SPEAK WITH MEMBERS OF THE COMMUNITY, UM, IN QUAIL VALLEY AND METAL CREEK AND THEIR BIGGEST CONCERN WAS THEY DON'T FEEL LIKE THEY WERE REACHED OUT TO, TO ADD CONVERSATIONS, TO GIVE THEIR FEEDBACK, UM, TO ABOUT THIS PARTICULAR U.

AND THE REASON THEY'RE CONCERNED IS THE NOISE AND THE SECURITY.

UH, SO TO COUNCIL MEMBER, YOU KNOW, CLAUSE AND COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS POINT AND COUNCIL MEMBER MERU IS WHAT WE ARE HERE TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT TRYING TO MICROMANAGE, BUT WE DO WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT CROSSING OVER ANY LINES, BUT WE'RE ALSO NOT, YOU KNOW, MISSING ANYTHING.

THE BIGGEST CONCERN THAT HAS BEEN PRESENTED TO ME IS SECURITY, AS IT RELATES TO, DEPENDING ON WHAT, WHAT TYPE OF EVENTS OVER THAT WE CAN'T GOVERN, WHAT TYPE OF EVENTS THIS BUSINESS OWNER IS GOING TO HOST, BUT THE CONCERN IS THE NOISE.

AND FOR ME, MY CONCERN IS HOW OFTEN THE OFFICERS WILL BE PULLED AWAY FROM EMERGENCY SITUATIONS OR NON-EMERGENCY SITUATIONS TO GO AND ADDRESS THE NOISE WITH THESE TYPE OF EVENT CENTERS.

YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY'RE GREAT, YOU KNOW, WOULD BE WONDERFUL TO HAVE ONE CLOSER, YOU KNOW, IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, THAT WOULD ADD VALUE.

AND OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, TO OURSELVES, BUT HOW, FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, WHERE THIS LOCATION IS, AND IT'S SO CLOSE TO OTHER NEIGHBOR NEIGHBORHOODS, HOW MUCH NOISE, UM, IS THERE ANY TYPE OF BUFFER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, OR HOW IT'S GONNA IMPACT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT SINCE YOU CAN'T REALLY GOVERN OFFICERS BEING ON POST OVER THERE, DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'RE GONNA HAVE TO HAVE SECURITY WHEN THEY'RE HAVING THESE BIG EVENTS OR ANSWER A LOT OF NOISE CONTROL CALLS OR WHAT, UH, THE ONLY THING I CAN DRAW ON IS OUR EXPERIENCE IN THE BUSINESS THAT WAS IN THE 1500 BLOCK OF KEN FORCE THAT CREATED QUITE A BIT OF PROBLEMS FOR US, WHERE PEOPLE WERE USING A FACILITY THAT THEY HADN'T GOTTEN PERMITS FOR FOR AN EVENT CENTER.

AND WE WERE ABLE TO MAKE THAT BUSINESS COMPLY WITH THEIR PERMITTING REQUIREMENTS.

THUS, THEY STOPPED HAVING UNAUTHORIZED EVENTS.

IF THIS ONE IS AUTHORIZED TO HAVE THE EVENTS, IT'S GONNA BE THE SAME SITUATION, ALTHOUGH THIS MIGHT BE LAWFULLY PERMITTED, IT'S STILL RIGHT NEXT TO A RESIDENTIAL AREA.

SO UNLESS THEY MAKE EXTREME EFFORTS TO KEEP THEIR DOORS CLOSED, WHEN THE MUSIC'S GOING OR HAVE THE MUSIC, UH, CHANNELED OUT, MAYBE BUFFERING INSIDE NOISE, BUFFERING INSIDE WHEN THE DOORS ARE OPEN, THAT'S GENERALLY WHAT CAUSES THE PROBLEMS WHEN PEOPLE HAVE EGRESS IN AND OUT OF THE, UH, BUSINESSES WHEN THE NOISE ESCAPES INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO IT IS A PROBLEM FOR US WHEN A VENUE IS THIS CLOSE TO A RESIDENTIAL AREA, BUT THERE'S, I'M SURE THERE'S WAYS TO MITIGATE IT, BUT THAT'S GONNA BE A CONSTRUCTION ISSUE MORE THAN A, A LEGAL ISSUE.

AND MY OTHER QUESTION IS FORTOR STORY IS WITH THIS PARTICULAR, UM, VENUE THAT THEY'RE PUTTING OVER THERE, SO CLOSE TO THE RESIDENTIAL AREA, UM, WILL THEY BE ALLOWED TO HAVE OUTDOOR NIGHTTIME EVENTS WHERE MUSIC IS PLAYING, UM, LOTS OF TRAFFIC CARS MOVING AROUND AND THINGS LIKE THAT? NO.

SO THE, THE SPECIFIC USE PERMIT WOULD ONLY ALLOW FOR EVENTS WITHIN THE ACTUAL LEASE SPACE ITSELF.

UM, SO THEY WOULDN'T BE ABLE TO HAVE LIKE AN OUTDOOR EVENT.

IF THEY WERE INTERESTED IN HAVING AN OUTDOOR EVENT, THEN THEY WOULD HAVE TO, UM, COME AND HA GET A SPECIAL EVENT PERMIT WITH US.

AND THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO REVIEW, UM, OUR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WHETHER OR NOT TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE THAT PERMIT TO THEM.

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AND ALSO, I DO WANNA CLARIFY, UM, I BELIEVE OUR LEGAL TEAM HAS BEEN LOOKING INTO THE SECURITY ISSUE, UM, AND YOU CAN AMEND THE SEP TO REQUIRE SECURE.

UH, I I'D LIKE TO ALSO STATE THAT I'M IN FAVOR OF, UH, THIS, UH, BUSINESS COMING IN OR, UH, PLACE ASSEMBLY WITH THE U UH, THE, UH, BUSINESSES IN THE TEXAS PARKWAY CARTRIGHT CORRIDOR.

YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO BRING BUSINESSES INTO THAT CORRIDOR.

UH, AND I THINK THIS IS A, UH, AN EXAMPLE OF ONE, UH, THAT, UH, HELPS US, UH, BRING SMALL BUSINESSES INTO, UH, INTO THAT AREA.

UH, SECONDLY, THE, UH, OWNER OF THE, UH, THE BUSINESS CENTER HAS SPENT QUITE A FEW, UH, UH, OF HIS DO OF HIS DOLLARS TO MAKE IMPROVEMENTS TO THE, UH, THE, UH, UH, THE BUSINESS CENTER.

UH, AND, UH, WHEN HE'S LOOKING FOR IS, UH, TO BE ABLE TO, UH, MAKE EVEN MORE IMPROVEMENTS, UH, BY HAVING ADDITIONAL BUSINESSES THAT ARE, UH, IN THE, UM, UH, IN THE AREA.

UH, SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT I THINK, UH, IF, UH, BY APPROVING THIS, IT'S A WAY OF SHOWING THAT BUSINESS OWNER THAT WE RECOGNIZE, UH, HIS EFFORTS AND HIS WILLINGNESS TO, UH, UH, SPEND, UH, DOLLARS TO IMPROVE THE, UH, UH, THE BUSINESS CENTER AND TO, UH, TRY TO SOLICIT BUSINESSES INTO, INTO THAT, UH, INTO THAT AREA.

THANKS SNACKS MEMBER EDWARDS.

FOR, FOR YOUR PATIENTS.

I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN KIND OF AN INTENSE TOPIC, SO I THANK YOU FOR BEING PATIENT AND CALM WITH US.

UM, MY FIRST QUESTION IS WHAT IS THE TIME PERIOD THAT A E HAVE DO THEY HAVE TO RENEW IT? CAN YOU JUST EDUCATE THE PUBLIC AND MYSELF ON THAT? SO WHAT THE SPECIFIC USE PERMIT, YOU CAN PRETTY MUCH PUT ANY TIME LIMIT ON IT.

THERE ARE SOME SEPS OUT THERE THAT I HAVE NONE, AND THERE ARE SOME SEPS THAT HAVE SEVERAL YEARS FOR THIS ONE, SPECIFICALLY, THE DRAFT ORDINANCE HAS IT FOR FIVE YEARS AT WHICH POINT, THEN WE WOULD HAVE TO REEVALUATE IF WE WOULD LIKE TO RENEW IT.

AND THEN, UM, MY NEXT COMMENT, ISN'T TOWARDS YOU.

I JUST WANNA PROVIDE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE.

I KNOW MY COLLEAGUES HAVE STATED THAT, UM, THE P Z HAS MADE A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION, BUT WITHIN MY EXPERIENCE AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, THE P Z MAKES POSITIVE RECOMMENDATIONS THAT AREN'T BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.

SO I DON'T WANT THE COMMUNITY TO HEAR THAT A P Z MADE A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION AS IF IT MEANS THAT IT'S GOLDEN, BECAUSE IT'S NOT.

SO THIS ISN'T TO YOU STORY, I'M JUST MAKING MY POINT THAT JUST BECAUSE A P AND Z MAKES A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION, WE STILL HAVE TO DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE MM-HMM MEMBER CLOUDER.

AND SO THIS FACILITY IS GONNA BE OPEN TO TWO.

UM, I JUST WANTED TO CLARIFY, AND I FORGOT WHAT THE CLARIFICATION WAS.

I WAS ON THE TOP OF MY MIND.

UM, BUT, UM, BUT ANYWAY, THE NOT, SO MY, MY QUESTION, AS FAR AS, UM, THE OFFICER, I, I WOULD JUST REQUEST THAT ANY EVENTS FROM NINE UNTIL TWO, UM, WOULD REQUIRE AN OFFICER.

AND I MEAN, I'M OKAY WITH THAT BEING, YOU KNOW, AMENDED, BUT I THINK THE LATER HOURS, THAT WAY THE OFFICER CAN KEEP THE NOISE DOWN AND, UM, ACTIVITIES, UM, PRETTY CLEAN.

AND MY SECOND, UM, COMMENT IS, IS THERE, IS IT POSSIBLE FOR SOMEONE FROM THE P AND Z COMMITTEE TO COME UP IF WE HAVE ANYBODY HERE FROM P AND Z TO TALK THROUGH, UM, MAYBE IDEAS OR THOUGHTS WHEN THIS WAS PRESENTED? I REMEMBER THIS, UH, WAS, UH, IN THE P AND Z.

DO YOU REMEMBER THE, UH, THE VOTE COUNT? IT WASN'T A MAJORITY.

WAS IT, OH, OKAY.

SEVEN ONE.

I WAS THE ONE.

AND THE REASON WHY I WAS THE ONE, FIRST OF ALL, UH, I BELIEVE IN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, I BELIEVE IN BRINGING BUSINESSES IN MY CONCERN WAS THAT THE CITIZENS DIDN'T HAVE A VOICE.

AND I'M IM REALLY STRONG ABOUT THE CITIZENS HAVING A VOICE.

THIS IS GONNA BE A FACILITY THAT YOU HAVE TO REALLY GIVE IT PARAMETERS BEFORE APPROVING IT.

YOU, YOU, I DON'T THINK IT'S WISE TO APPROVE IT.

AND THEN GO BACK AND ASK, WE DO HAVE A NOISE ORDINANCE IN THE CITY AND IT'S 11 O'CLOCK.

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SO MY CONCERN, FIRST OF ALL, WAS LACK OF INPUT FROM THE CITIZENS.

AND NUMBER TWO WAS THE NOISE LEVEL, UH, AN EVENT, UH, YOU DON'T KNOW AN EVENT CENTER, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT TYPE OF EVENT WILL BE IN THE ADVANCE CENTER.

AND SO I'M JUST WOULD BE, I WAS MORE CAUTIOUS OF PUTTING SOME PARAMETERS AROUND IT, UH, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO PLAY CATCH UP WHEN THESE, UH, PROBLEMS DO COME UP.

I, I JUST REMEMBER READING IN THE PAPER ABOUT HOUSTON AND THEY HAD SOME, SOME EVENT CENTERS AND CLUBS THAT WERE OPEN AND CITIZENS AFTER THEY OPENED WERE VERY, UH, UPSET ABOUT THE NOISE LEVEL.

UH, AND THEN AS A RESULT, THEY ENDED UP HAVING TO GO BACK AND SAY THAT THE CENTIMETER NOISE LEVEL HAD TO BE A CERTAIN LEVEL AND WHAT HAVE, WELL, THEY DID THAT BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T DO IT.

THEY WEREN'T PROACTIVE BEFORE.

AND SO I JUST CAUTIOUS THE, UH, I WILL TELL COUNCIL MEMBERS, YOU KNOW, LET'S LOOK AT IT BEFORE, RATHER THAN TRYING TO MASSAGE IT AFTERWARDS.

THANK YOU FOR THAT FEEDBACK.

VERY VALUABLE.

UM, COMMISSIONER OVERTON.

UM, SO MY QUESTION TO YOU, MAYOR WOULD BE, UM, OR LEGAL CAN ANSWER THIS.

IS IT POSSIBLE, UM, HEARING HEARING THAT I, I, I WOULD LIKE TO APPROVE THIS, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO GET IT RIGHT.

UM, AND WE ARE SHAKING OUT DIFFERENT THINGS RIGHT NOW.

SO I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, TAKE THIS BACK, GET EVERYTHING RIGHT BEFORE WE ACTUALLY VOTE IN SOMETHING THAT WE ARE ALL A LITTLE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH, UM, BEFORE WE APPROVE OR BEFORE I MAKE MY DECISION TO APPROVE MAYOR ALICA.

SO MY QUESTION BACK TO IS REALLY TO EJO WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE TABLE.

WE HAVE A SECOND RIGHT NOW QUESTION I HAVE IS REFERRING TO, DO WE HAVE A NOISE ORDINANCE IN THIS CITY? WHAT IS THAT? CAN YOU STOP TALKING TO HIM? JUST ANSWER, PLEASE.

IT'S A REASONABLE PERSON STANDARD.

SO THE NOISE, OR REALLY, DEPENDING ON THE DISTRICT, WE ACTUALLY HAVE A SPECIFIC DECIBEL REQUIREMENT FOR INDUSTRIAL AREAS.

HOWEVER, UNDER CHAPTER 30 OF THE CITY'S CODE, WE DO HAVE A NOISE ORDINANCE.

AND THE STANDARD FOR THAT IS THE REASONABLE PERSON STANDARD.

SO THAT MEANS IF YOU HAVE A NEIGHBORHOOD IN A NEIGHBORHOOD, A NEIGHBOR IS PLAYING THEIR MUSIC OR BACKYARD PARTY, OR WHAT HAVE YOU, AND IS REALLY LOUD, IS THAT CONSIDERED WITHIN THAT ORGANS.

SO IF A REASONABLE PERSON WOULD FIND THAT MUSIC, UH, OFFENSIVE, THEN YES, THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT COULD BE CONSIDERED.

NO, I MEAN, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THE LANGUAGE OF THE MUSIC.

I'M TALKING ABOUT THE I'M TALKING ABOUT THE NOISE LEVEL.

SO, SO IF THE NOISE, IF, SO, IF YOU HAVE A NEIGHBOR WHO'S HAVING A PARTY, MM-HMM, PAST 11 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT.

SO THAT IS CONSIDERED TO BE A PROBLEM.

IF A REASONABLE PERSON WOULD PERCEIVE THAT NOISE LEVEL SURE.

AS OFFENSIVE, THEN YES, THAT CAN BE.

AND WHO DO THEY CALL? YOU SAID, WHO WOULD THEY CALL? WHO WOULD THEY CALL? UM, SOMETIMES PEOPLE CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT, DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF DAY.

SOME MIGHT ALSO CALL CODE ENFORCEMENT.

I WOULD IMAGINE AS WELL.

BUT, UM, EITHER ONE OF THOSE FOLKS COULD REPORT, DO OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT DEPARTMENT WORK.

WHAT ARE THEIR HOURS, ANYBODY? SEE, I CAN SAY THAT, OH, THEY DON'T WORK EIGHT TO FIVE.

THEY DON'T WORK IN THE EVENING, BUT THAT'S WHY I SAID DEPENDING ON THE TIME OF DAY.

IT JUST DEPENDS.

DEPENDS ON WHO, SO TYPICALLY MOST TYPICALLY THEY WOULD CALL LAW ENFORCEMENT, CORRECT? IF IT'S IN THE EVENING.

IF IT'S IN THE EVENING.

AND WHEN THEY COME DOWN, I MEAN, WHEN THEY COME OUT TO THIS PROPERTY OR, OR NOISE LEVEL OR WHATEVER, I, UH, THE THING THAT THEY FOLLOW IS THE ORDINANCE THAT WE HAVE.

THAT'S WHAT ALLOWS THEM TO TALK TO THAT POTENTIAL OR PARTICULAR HOMEOWNER OR WHAT HAVE YOU, AND TO TELL 'EM THAT BRING YOU, BRING YOUR BOOMBOX DOWN BECAUSE IT'S PASS ALONE.

O'CLOCK WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE IN THE CITY, CORRECT? I WOULD IMAGINE, YES.

SO IF THAT'S THE CASE, DOES THIS IMP IMPLIES TO SIMILAR? I MEAN, DOES THAT NOISE ORDINANCE APPLIES TO THIS? CERTAINLY.

SO IF THIS PARTICULAR BUSINESS IS HAVING A LOUD MUSIC PASSED 11 O'CLOCK, AS WE STATED IN THE ORDINANCE, WHETHER IT'S A NEIGHBORHOOD INSIDE THE NEIGHBORHOOD PARTY, OR EVEN IN A BUSINESS ESTABLISHMENT, OR SOMEONE'S A PARTY AT AN EVENT, UH, THEY WOULD DO THE SAME THING.

SO THEY WOULD FOLLOW THE ORDINANCE THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE TODAY.

CORRECT? RIGHT.

A HOMEOWNER, WHO'S HAVING A PRIVATE PARTY AT THEIR HOUSE, RIGHT.

SO NOW TALKING ABOUT

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THEY CAN HAVE A SECURITY IF THEY WANT TO.

IS THERE ANYTHING PROHIBITING FROM THEM HAVING THEIR OWN SECURITY AT THEIR OWN PARTY AT THEIR BACKYARD? NO.

SO WHAT, WHAT THAT ALSO MEANS THAT CAN, CAN WE AS A CITY, RIGHT.

CITY COUNCIL WITHIN OUR LEGALITY AND ORDINANCES, DO WE HAVE SOMETHING WHERE WE ARE ENFORCING THEM SAYING THAT IF YOU HAVE, I'M JUST USING AN EXAMPLE, 50 PLUS PEOPLE, AND YOU'RE HAVING A PARTY IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE A SECURITY.

NOT THAT I KNOW OF, NOT THAT YOU KNOW OF, NOT THAT I KNOW OF.

SO IN REFERENCE TO SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS HERE TODAY, RIGHT.

I'M JUST ASKING, BECAUSE I ALSO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I HAVE BOTH THE RIGHT WAY.

CAN WE REQUIRE THIS PARTICULAR BUSINESS OR, OR ANY OTHER BUSINESS OR A HOMEOWNER IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO HAVE SECURITY WHEN THEY HAVE X AMOUNT OF PEOPLE.

SO UNDER OUR SPECIAL EVENT, PERMIT, SECTION AND ZONING, WE DO HAVE A SECURITY REQUIREMENT, BUT AS I MENTIONED, LEGAL WOULD PREFER TO DO ADDITIONAL RESEARCH ON THE MATTER TO ENSURE THAT ZONING IS THE PROPER, UM, METHOD BY WHICH THAT SORT OF REQUIREMENT WOULD BE APPLIED.

UM, AND THAT'S WHY I THINK SOMEONE MENTIONED THAT YOU ALL COULD MAKE THE AMENDMENT, WE COULD RESEARCH IT, BRING IT BACK AND LET YOU KNOW ONE WAY OR THE OTHER AT THE NEXT MEETING.

SO DOES THE U ESPECIALLY USE PERMIT, DOES THAT ALLOW THE, THE CITY COUNCIL OR, OR TO NOW THE, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES TO PUT THAT CLAUSE IN THERE FOR THEM TO HAVE SECURITY? THAT'S WHAT I'M ASKING.

AS I MENTIONED, WE WOULD WANNA RESEARCH THAT FURTHER TO COME UP WITH A MORE DEFINITIVE ANSWER.

AT THIS POINT, YOU COULD ADD THE AMENDMENT JUST TO HAVE IT IN THERE, BUT WE WOULD WANT TO RESEARCH IT TO COME TO COME BACK TO YOU WITH ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

AND FACTOR IN EVERYTHING.

SO EVEN IF THEY HAVE THAT, EVEN IF YOU RESEARCH IT AND DEFINES THAT WE CAN PUT IT INTO U MM-HMM , BUT EVEN THEN IF THE NOISE LEVEL SURE GOES HIGHER OR TO THE COMMUNITY STANDARD OR TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD STANDARD PASS 11 O'CLOCK, IT WOULD STILL BE ENFORCED UNDER THE CITY'S CURRENT NOISE ORDINANCE.

YES, IT WOULD.

SO WHATEVER WE HAVE TODAY, IT WOULD, IT WOULD STOP.

IT WOULD ALLOW OUR OFFICERS OR WHOEVER IT IS THAT THEY CALL.

I'M SURE THEY PROBABLY CALL POLICE OFFICERS OR NINE ONE, ONE, OR WHAT HAVE YOU.

UM, THEY WOULD BE, THEY, THEY WOULD GO IN THERE JUST LIKE THEY WOULD GO INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD AND TELL SOMEONE THAT THEIR MUSIC IS LOUD.

THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO DO THIS WI WITHIN THAT ORDINANCE.

THAT ENDS MY QUESTIONS MEMBER RILEY.

I REALLY JUST HAVE A STATEMENT.

UM, THIS, THIS U SEEMS TO BE VERY COMPLICATED.

THERE SEEMS TO BE SOME VARIABLES WE HAVE IN FACTORED, UH, FOR THIS THE NOISE.

UM, WE'RE TRYING TO DO REVISE AN ORDINANCE, UM, TO HAVE SECURITY ON SITE FOR DIFFERENT EVENTS.

AND MY IT'S A, JUST A TWOFOLD AND I WANNA BE VERY CLEAR.

I AM FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH ON CARTRIGHT IN TEXAS PARKWAY.

UH, THAT'S THE HEART OF THE COMMUNITY THAT I GREW UP IN.

AND SO I WANNA BE VERY CLEAR THAT I WANT THE RIGHT TYPE OF ECONOMIC GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT IN OUR ENTIRE CITY.

AND THIS COMES, THIS COMES ACROSS IS WE'RE TRYING TO MICROMANAGE THIS BUSINESS AND ENFORCING CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE HAVEN'T ENFORCED ON OTHERS, UM, IN THIS COMMUNITY TO, TO HAVE A NOISE ORDINANCE, BUT YET WE'RE ALLOWING THIS BUSINESS TO HAVE EVENTS UP TO TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING THAT SITS RIGHT BEHIND A RESIDENTIAL AREA.

AND, AND LET ME REMIND THE COMMUNITY AND OUR CO MY COLLEAGUES THAT, THAT COMMUNITY, THAT IT BUTTS UP TO IS AN AGING SENIOR CITIZEN POPULATION, WHICH COULD POSSIBLY CAUSE QUITE A FEW CALLS OUT TO OUR POLICE OFFICERS IF THEY ARE HAVING MULTIPLE EVENTS LATE INTO THE WEE HOURS OF THE NIGHT.

AND SINCE WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE, UM, I THINK IT WAS MENTIONED EARLIER THAT IT'S 11:00 PM FOR OUR NORTH ORDINANCE, BUT YET WE ARE ALLOWING, UM, A BUSINESS TO REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL, UM, A SPECIFIC USE PERMIT TO GO UP INTO 2:00 AM.

WE HAVEN'T FACTORED IN THE, THE POLICE TO SECURITY FOR THOSE EVENTS, BUT THEN IT ALSO, WE HAVE TO, THAT MEANS OUR OFFICERS GONNA HAVE TO GO IN THERE AND DO HEAD COUNT.

IF WE'RE PUTTING A NUMBER OF PEOPLE PER OFFICERS, OUR OFFICERS DON'T HAVE TIME TO DO THAT.

THEY'RE ALREADY SHORTHANDED AS IT IS.

SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, FOR ME PERSONALLY, I DON'T SUPPORT THIS, YOU KNOW, PARTICULAR, UH, PERMIT BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T FLUSHED THIS OUT.

AND, YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ONE VOTE AGAINST, AND SIX, SEVEN OTHERS THAT WERE IN FAVOR OF THIS WITH PLAN AND ZONING.

BUT I DON'T THINK ALL THE FACTORS WERE CONSIDERED NOISE LOCATION, AS WELL AS WHAT TYPE OF PERMIT THIS IS GOING TO ALLOW INTO OUR COMMUNITY.

AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO OUR DUE DILIGENCE

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THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO TALK TO THE COMMUNITY, THE COMMUNITY OF INTEREST.

THAT'S WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK BECAUSE MAKING MONEY IN THIS CITY IS NOT EVERYTHING.

IF WE DON'T HAVE RESIDENTS THAT ARE GONNA STAY HERE AND LIVE, BECAUSE THEY'RE TIRED OF SOME OF THE THINGS THAT, THE DECISIONS THAT WE'VE MADE.

REMEMBER, EMORY, I JUST WANTED CLARIFICATION.

DID I HEAR EARLIER THAT, UH, THE U COULD IN FACT HAVE A, UH, ELEMENT, UH, WHICH WOULD, UH, REQUIRE SECURITY? YES.

YOU CAN AMEND THE U TO REQUIRE, UM, SECURITY FOR THE EVENTS.

THAT'D BE PRIVATE SECURITY.

I'M ASSUMING IT WOULD BE, IT'S JUST LOOSELY REQUIRED AS SECURITY.

UH, THE OTHER THING I WOULD WOULD MENTION IS THE LOCATION OF THIS, UH, FACILITY, UH, ON THE NORTH SIDE, THERE'S A, UH, UH, A, UH, SOUND WALL BETWEEN TART, RIGHT.

AND THE, UH, UH, THE RESIDENCE ON THE BACK SIDE, YOU'VE GOT THE FULL, UH, WIDTH OF THE, UH, THE FACILITY AS A SOUND BARRIER ON THE, UH, UH, EAST SIDE.

UH, NO, EXCUSE ME.

THE WEST SIDE, UH, THERE'S THERE'S BUSINESSES THERE.

SO WHILE I APPRECIATE, UH, CONS RILEY, UH, UH, BEING CONCERNED, YOU KNOW, I TOO AM CONCERNED, BUT I THINK THERE'S SOME, UH, SOME, UH, ITEMS THAT, UH, THAT WE NEED TO TAKE INTO CONSIDERATION.

WE START TALKING ABOUT, UH, UH, THE, UH, THE SOUND AND THE, THE DON THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TMB BON.

I'D LIKE TO AMEND MY ORIGINAL MOTION TO INCLUDE THE, CONSIDERING THE, UH, POTENTIAL OF THE SPECIFIC USE PERMIT, ALLOWING FOR SECURITY BETWEEN HOURS OF 9:00 PM AND, UH, MID, UH, AND 2:00 AM, UH, TO AMEND MY MOTION TO INCLUDE THAT, UM, BASED OFF OF THE RESEARCH THAT OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, UH, SHALL CONDUCT TO DETERMINE IF THAT'S ALLOWABLE, UH, BUT, UH, AFTER HEARING ALL OF THE THINGS, AND EVEN THE MAYOR SPEAKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT WE ALREADY HAVE A NOISE ORDINANCE IN PLACE THAT IT'S APPLICABLE TO EVERYONE, UH, AND THE FACT THAT THE BUSINESS OWNER THEMSELVES HAS INDICATED THAT THEY WILL BE, UH, HIRING SECURITY, UH, EVEN WITHOUT THIS REQUIREMENT THROUGH THE U I'M VERY, VERY, UH, CONFIDENT, UH, EVEN, YOU KNOW, OF COURSE, I, I, I HEARD THE DISSENTING, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, INDIVIDUAL ON P AND Z, BUT IT'S STILL WITH SEVEN ONE.

UH, AND I KNOW THAT, UH, THEY ALSO LIKE, UH, COUNCILMAN MARU HAS INDICATED, UH, WENT THROUGH VARIOUS PUBLIC HEARINGS.

UH, THEY INDICATED ALSO THROUGH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES THAT THEY REACHED OUT TO THE COMMUNITY, GOT NO RESPONSES BACK, AND THERE'S NOT BEEN, UH, ANYONE THAT HAS COME BEFORE COUNCIL OR NO GROUND SWELL OF, UH, DISDAIN FOR THIS PARTICULAR BUSINESS BEING IN MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS.

SO WITH THAT, THAT'S MY AMENDED MOTION.

UM, UH, I ASKED MY COLLEAGUE, UH, COUNCILWOMAN MCCLOUDS, IF SHE'D LIKE TO SECOND THAT, UH, CONTINUE, OR IF NOT SOMEONE ELSE SECOND.

YOU, OKAY.

SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PROT BONING, RIGHT? SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER.

CLOUDER YES, SIR.

I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ON THE QUEUE, SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND VOTE.

THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO TWO.

IT'S A PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE COMMENTS FOR, OR AGAINST, AGAINST A REQUEST TO ZONE AND APPROXIMATELY 38 ACRES OF LAND FROM OUR ONE SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL TO R FOUR, UH, PATIO CLUSTER RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT.

NEXT ITEM WE HAVE IS

[(5) Public Hearing - To receive comments for or against a request to zone ...]

AND TO THE EXTENT SUCH ZONING DEVIATES FROM THE FUTURE LAND USE AND CHARACTER MAP AND COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO PROVIDE FOR AN AMENDMENT THERE FROM THE SITE IS LOCATED ON WATTS PLANTATION ROAD, NORTH OF MANS OF SILVER BRIDGE SUBDIVISION, SOUTH OF FORT BEN PARKWAY, EAST OF SIENNA PARKWAY AND WEST OF NIGHT ROAD A PRESENTATION.

DO YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION MAN? PUBLIC HEARING? OH YEAH.

WE DO HAVE ONE PERSON SIGN TO SPEAK IF YOU'D RE WISH TO RECOGNIZE THEM.

YES, GO AHEAD.

IT'S NOT IN HERE, MR. TURINI, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS, AND PLEASE RECOGNIZE THE THREE MINUTES TIME LIMIT.

UM, WENDY TURINI,

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UH, WENDY AT 50 19 SOUTHAMPTON ROAD.

UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR TIME THIS EVENING.

AND IT'S A LITTLE BIT LATE.

I'D LIKE TO BRIEFLY TALK WITH YOU ABOUT THIS PROPOSED REZONING OF THE R ONE SINGLE FAMILY TO THE R FOUR.

UM, BASED ON THE APPLICATION, IT'S TRULY UNCLEAR WHAT THE TRUE BENEFIT AND ENHANCEMENT TO THE COMMUNITY AND THE RESIDENTS FOR THIS PROPOSED REZONING.

THERE ARE SOME, THERE ARE SOME CONCERNS AS WELL VERSUS TRAFFIC.

UM, WHAT IS THE TRUE TRAFFIC IMPACT ON WATTS PLANTATION? THE APPLICATION DIDN'T CONTAIN ANY OF THOSE DETAILS OF THAT ANALYSIS.

IT APPEARS TO BE UNAVAILABLE.

UM, THERE'S A TON OF DEVELOPMENT HAPPENING PLANNED AND PERMITTED IN THAT AREA.

UM, APARTMENT COMPLEXES ARE GOING UP ON WHAT, THERE'S THE PHASE THREE OF FORT BEND TOWN CENTER THAT IS INCLUDING MORE APARTMENTS AT THAT LOCATION.

UM, SIENNA PARKWAY HAS ALREADY GOT TONS OF TRAFFIC AT PEAK TIMES.

UM, I THINK KNIGHTS ROAD IS BEING WIDENED TO ACCOUNT FOR MORE TRAFFIC.

UM, BUT THERE'S NOTHING RIGHT, UM, ON WATTS PLANTATION.

SO I REALLY WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE CONSIDERING THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, UM, TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S INCLUDING THE APPROVED DEVELOPMENTS IN THAT AREA BEFORE ALLOWING MORE CHANGE, PERHAPS THEY'RE CONSIDERED, BUT, UM, BUT SOME OF THOSE APPROVALS FOR THOSE DEVELOPMENTS ARE VERY RECENT.

SO WITHOUT SEEING THE RESULTS OF THAT ANALYSIS, UM, ONE WOULD CON WOULD ASSUME THAT THOSE WERE NOT CONSIDERED.

UM, SECOND IS WHAT IS THE TRUE ENHANCEMENT TO THE COMMUNITY ON WATTS PLANTATION? UH, IN THE RECENT ZONING COMMITTEE NOTES, THE DEVIL ARE NOTED THAT THE SQUARE FOOTAGE OF THOSE HOMES ARE GONNA BE 2,500 TO 4,000 SQUARE FOOT.

FOR THOSE PROPOSED PATIO HOMES.

THAT'S A SIZE OF A HOME, UM, TYPICAL FOR A SINGLE FAMILY HOME BEING BUILT IN THE SURROUNDING AREAS.

HOWEVER, THE LOT SIZE FOR THAT SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR THE PROPOSED PATIO HOMES WOULD BE EXTREMELY COMPACT, REDUCING A LOT OF THE NATURAL ELEMENTS OF THE ENVIRONMENT IN THAT AREA, WHICH THAT PROVIDES A LOT OF PRIVACY VALUE AND PEACEFULNESS TO THAT AREA.

SO INCLUDING THAT CHANGE TO THE ZONING REALLY CHANGES THE CHARACTER, UM, OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND DEVELOPMENTS IN THAT AREA.

THIS IS REALLY FRUSTRATING.

UM, AS THE AREA ZONED FOR SINGLE FAMILY HOMES, WE HAVE SEEN PREVIOUS REZONING, UM, REQUEST FOR TOWN HOMES NOW, PATIO HOMES.

HOWEVER, WE'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING ABOUT THE R ONE ZONING FOR SINGLE FAMILY.

OBVIOUSLY THE CITY SEES VALUE THERE BECAUSE IT IS ZONED FOR FAMILY SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

HOWEVER, THERE THERE'S NO PLANS THAT HAVE BEEN, UM, ESTABLISHED TO EVEN COMPARE THAT THIS IS AN ENHANCEMENT.

SO I'LL LEAVE YOU TODAY TO TRULY CONSIDER WHAT THAT BENEFIT AND ENHANCEMENT OF THAT COMMUNITY REALLY IS.

UM, BEFORE REZONING.

UM, ULTIMATELY I THINK THE REZONING OF THIS IS JUST GONNA CAUSE MORE TRAFFIC AND PROPOSE IMPACT TO PROPERTY VALUE FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE RESIDENTS.

OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS CHANGING THE ZONING CLASSIFICATION OF 37.8 ACRES OF LAND FROM R ONE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT TO R FOUR PATIO CLUSTER.

NO MORE.

NO, THERE, NO THAT CONCLUDES THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING.

GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY

[(6) Consideration and Possible Action - First of Two Readings - An ordinan...]

RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT DEPICTING SAID TRACKS OF LAND AFFECTED THEREBY AMENDING THE ZONING DISTRICT MAP OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY, PROVIDING PREFERABILITY AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.

YOU HAVE A PRESENTATION? YES.

SO WE RECEIVING APPLICATION TO ZONE APPROXIMATELY 38 ACRES FROM OUR ONE SINGLE FAMILY, RESIDENTIAL TO OUR FOUR PATIO CLUSTER.

RESIDENTIAL.

THE SUBJECT SIDE IS LOCATED ON WATTS ION ROAD, NORTH OF THE MANAGER, CIVIL BRIDGE SUBDIVISION IN SOUTH OF THE FORT BEND PARKWAY.

THE SITE PLAN PROPOSES A SUBDIVISION OF 120 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES.

THE APPLICANT HAS SUBMITTED A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS, WHICH IS CURRENTLY BEING REVIEWED BY OUR STAFF.

THIS IS A ZONING MAP AMENDMENT, SO THERE ARE NO DEVIATIONS THAT ARE REQUESTED.

SO THE REGULATIONS FROM THE R FOUR ZONING WILL APPLY FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION PROVIDED A POSITIVE RECOMMENDATION FOR THE ZONING CHANGE.

DO Y'ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY.

SO THE SECOND, DO YOU HAVE PEOPLE IN QUEUES? YES.

UM, MAYOR ALCA? NO.

I SEE SOMEBODY ELSE FOR ME.

MEMBER OF MORALES.

I SEE.

I SEE CLOUD.

I DON'T SEE, WE SAW SORRY TO OPEN THIS UP FOR DISCUSSION OR NO.

THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING.

I DIDN'T, I'M SORRY.

I DIDN'T SEE MEMBER CLOUDER ON THE LIST.

THAT'S OKAY.

MEMBER CLOUDER MOTION.

DON'T DON'T WE NEED A, NO, WE NEED A MOTION.

WE NEED A MOTION TO DISCUSS THIS FIRST.

WE CAN DISCUSS IT OR CAN HAVE A MOTION AS WELL.

IS THERE A MOTION MOTION? MAKE A MOTION TO PROVE, PROVE.

OKAY, SO

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A SECOND.

SO CAN I GRAB SO THE TRAFFIC IMPACT, UM, STUDY, WHEN WILL THAT BE COMPLETE? I WILL LET SHOCK YOU ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

CAUSE THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.

THAT'S, THAT'S A VERY BUSY AREA.

THAT'S POINT.

WHAT DO YOU, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I'M GONNA TOUCH A LITTLE BIT ON THE TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.

THIS WAS, UH, ROUTED TO MY DEPARTMENT, MY TRAFFIC TEAM TO REVIEW ROUGHLY ABOUT TWO WEEKS AGO, WE'RE REVIEWING THIS, THIS IS A SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT AND THERE ARE ALSO SOME MOVING PARTS.

UH, AS YOU'VE HEARD, NIGHT ROAD IS BEING EXPANDED AND THERE IS KIND OF GOING TO BE CONNECTIVITY TO WHAT'S PLANTATION, OPEN PHASE THREES UNDER DEVELOPMENT.

SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE BASED ON CURRENT TRAFFIC, AS WELL AS FUTURE PROJECTED TRAFFIC, THERE IS NO NEGATIVE IMPACT OR NEGATIVE IMPACT ON LEVEL OF SERVICE.

THAT'S NUMBER ONE, NUMBER TWO, UH, MORE ON THE POSITIVE SIDE IS WHAT'S PLANTATION IS BEING EXPANDED.

THERE IS A COUNTY MOBILITY PROJECT TO TAKE THE CURRENT TOOL LANE AND CONFIGURE IT INTO MORE LIKE A THREE LANE ROADWAY WITH THE MIDDLE TURN LANE.

THAT'S POSITIVELY GOING TO HELP THIS DEVELOPMENT.

SO MY TEAM IS LOOKING AT IT.

UH, WE HAVE NOT, UH, APPROVED IT.

AND BY ANY POINT WE DO HAVE SOME QUESTIONS AND, UH, THIS IS OUR TYPICAL REVIEW PROCESS WHERE WE REVIEW IT AND GIVE THE COMMENTS TO THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY AND THEY WILL ADDRESS IT.

AND MY TEAM WILL MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS NO NEGATIVE IMPACT ON THE LEVEL OF SERVICE.

ANY TIMEFRAME? UH, PROBABLY UNTIL THE NEXT TWO TO THREE WEEKS, WE'LL GET THAT FEEDBACK TO THE DEVELOPMENT.

THANK YOU, MEMBER MORALES.

UH, PROBABLY A, A QUESTION FOR LANCE SINCE YOU'RE INVOLVED IN THIS.

SO AS YOU COME FORWARD, I, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT IT IS ZONE R ONE.

SO UNLESS SOMETHING REALLY DRASTIC CHANGES, IT WILL EVENTUALLY BE RESIDENTIAL.

BUT MY QUESTION TO YOU NCE IS THAT, UM, THE PROPOSAL STATED THAT IT WAS THREE 17 AND WE'RE TAKING IT DOWN TO 120, IS THAT CORRECT? IT SAYS, UH, ORIGINAL APPLICATION WAS CONSIDERED BY THE COMMISSION IN NOVEMBER, 2021, WHICH WAS PROPOSED 317 RESIDENTIAL LOTS AND BOTH ARE TASKED, BLAH, BLAH.

THE REVISED APPLICATION PROPOSES 120 SINGLE FAMILY PATIO HOME, LOTS THAT ACCURATE.

SO WHAT DOES THAT DO TO TRAFFIC AND PARKING? DOES THAT REDUCE IT BY THAT RATIO? SO, UM, IN THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC, UH, I'M GOING TO ADDRESS YOUR QUESTION RIGHT THERE.

UM, A TRAFFIC STUDY HAS BEEN DONE.

A TRAFFIC STUDY WAS DONE WHEN IT WAS AT THE 300 MARK.

THE REALITY IS YOU CANNOT PUT AND IT CANNOT SAY, UH, FIT 300 LOTS.

AND SO, UH, THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOWN TO THE NUMBER OF LOTS THAT WE'RE AT NOW, UH, ROUGHLY 120, UH, THE IMPACT DID NOT SHOW ANY IMPROVEMENTS BEING REQUIRED ON WATTS PLANTATION ROAD.

UH, THAT TRAFFIC REPORT TI HAS BEEN SUBMITTED AND IS BEING REVIEWED BY STAFF.

AS SAHI HAD MENTIONED EARLIER, UH, THERE'S A MOVING PART WITH REGARDS TO WATTS PLANTATION ROAD.

AND THE DEVELOPER IS ACTUALLY GOING TO WORK WITH, UH, FORT BAY COUNTY AND THE CITY TO ASSIST THEM NOT ONLY IN DEDICATING THE ADDITIONAL ROAD RIGHT AWAY, BUT THEY'RE GONNA ALSO PROVIDE, UH, ACCESS FOR DRAINAGE FOR THE WIDEN THAT'S BEEN OCCUR, WHETHER YOU APPROVE THIS OR NOT, WATTS PLANTATION ROAD IS GONNA HAVE SOME MODIFICATIONS TO IT, AND IT'S GOING TO REQUIRE SOME, UH, ADDITIONAL, UH, DRAINAGE CAPACITY FOR IT.

AND SO, UH, THE T UH, WITH THE DEVELOPMENT, EVEN IF BEING REDUCED WILL NOT REQUIRE ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE ROADMAP.

AND IN YOUR PROFESSION, TIAS TYPICALLY ARE DONE AT THIS TIMEFRAME OR LATER IN THE, SO WITH THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT, UH, WE ADVISE THE DEVELOPER TO DO THE TIA EARLY.

UH, OVER THE YEARS, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN GOOD TO BE OUT IN FRONT OF IT.

SO IF THERE ALSO MODIFICATIONS THAT NEED TO BE MADE WITHIN THE ROAD RIGHT AWAY, THAT THEY CAN BE ADDRESSED EARLY ON DURING THIS STAGE.

AND AT THIS TIME THERE'S NO REQUIRED.

THAT'S THE POINT I WANTED TO MAKE MARY IS THAT AFTER READING THE PACKET, IT DOES APPEAR THAT THE DEVELOPERS AND WHATNOT ARE VERY FOCUSED ON GETTING AHEAD OF THIS AND UNDERSTANDING TRAFFIC BEFORE THEY BUILD AND, AND, AND WHAT THE TRUE IMPACT IS.

SO THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING THAT QUESTION.

MEMBER EMORY.

THEY WITHDREW BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE DOLLARS IN THEIR, UH, BUDGET.

UH, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR SAHI, UH, AT ONE POINT IN TIME, UH, I THINK, UH, THE COUNTY WAS GONNA DO SOME WORK ON, UH, WATTS PLANTATION AND

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SO HAS THAT CHANGED? AND WHAT'S THE SCOPE OF THE, OF THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE ON WATTS PLANTATION.

DOES THAT GO ALL THE WAY FROM, UH, SIENNA PARKWAY ALL THE WAY TO, WHAT WOULD THAT BE? NINTH ROAD BACK THERE? YES, SIR.

THE, I IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE PLANNED ARE GOING ALL THE WAY FROM SIENNA PARKWAY TO NI ROAD, AS YOU ARE AWARE, THE ROAD IS IN REED OF, UH, RESURFACING OR REPAIR, BUT THERE IS THIS PROJECT TO REBUILD THAT ROAD.

SO WHAT WE HAVE DONE IS, UH, DO SOME TEMPORARY, UH, REPAIRS, UM, COUNTY HAS NO PLANS TO DO ANYTHING FOR THE ROAD.

AT THIS POINT, THERE IS A MOBILITY PROJECT.

UH, IT'S A FORT BEND COUNTY MOBILITY PROJECT, WHERE CITY IS A FUNDING PARTNER TO WIDEN AND RESURFACE WATTS PLANTATION.

AND THAT'S CURRENTLY IN DESIGN PHASE AND WE'RE HOPING SOMETIME, UH, NEXT YEAR IT CAN GO INTO CONSTRUCTION.

SO THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT TO WATTS PLANT TO THE ROADWAY WOULD JUST BE AT THE, UH, THE, UH, ENTRANCE AND THE EXIT FOR THIS, UH, PARTICULAR, UH, DEVELOPMENT OR CURRENTLY IT'S ONE LANE EACH DIRECTION, RIGHT? THE PROPOSAL IS TO ADD ANOTHER LANE, WHICH IS KIND OF THE MIDDLE LANE OR TURN LANE THAT WILL PROVIDE ADDITIONAL CAPACITY.

PLUS ANYTIME THERE'S A TURNING MOVEMENT WILL HAVE TWO TRAFFIC GOING AND THE MIDDLE LANE WILL GIVE YOU THE BUFFER TO STACK THE, AND DO THE TURN.

SO IT'LL PROVIDE CAPACITY TO DO BATCH PLANTATION.

AGAIN, THAT MIDDLE LANE THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, HOW, HOW FAR WOULD THAT EXTEND? UH, THE, THE PLAN IS TO TAKE IT ALL AWAY FROM SIENNA TO NITRO AND, AND WHO'S GONNA PAY FOR THAT.

UH, THE CITY IS A FUNDING PARTNER.

UH, PART OF OUR MOBILITY BOND PROCEEDS THE 2020 MOTOR RESPOND THAT WAS CROSSED.

PART OF THE FUNDING IS GOING TOWARDS THE PROJECT AND THE COUNTY'S PAYING FOR THAT PROJECT AS WELL.

IT SAYS CITY COUNTY PROJECT AT THIS POINT.

AND NOW YOU SAY YOU'RE DOING THE TIA ON THE TIAS, COME IN.

OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A VERY SENSITIVE, UH, UH, PIECE AND IT'S A BIG DEVELOPMENT.

SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT ALL QUESTIONS AND CONCERNS ARE ADDRESS IS TO BE EDITED.

I CAN TELL YOU AT THIS POINT, WE DO HAVE SOME CONCERNS, UH, BUT WE'LL BE PASSING IT ON TO THE, AND, UH, LAWRENCE, IF I COULD ASK YOU A QUESTION, SIR, I SAID, LAWRENCE, I MEANT LAWRENCE, EXCUSE ME, ANSWER TO WHATEVER YOU SAY.

UH, AS I UNDERSTAND THE, UH, CHARACTER OF THIS PROPERTY RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF IT IS A CEMETERY.

SO THERE'S A VACANT TRACK.

UH, IT'S A NINE ACRE VACANT TRACK, THIS KIND OF U SHAPES AROUND IT.

THERE'S A NINE ACRE VACANT TRACK.

AND IN THE BACK, UH, WE HAVE SOME, SOME CLIENTS BACK THERE, IT'S A CEMETERY.

UH, IT'S A ONE ACRE CEMETERY.

THAT'S NOT PART OF THIS DEVELOPMENT, UH, TOTALLY SEPARATED AND SEGREGATED.

UH, AND THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ACCESS EASEMENT.

THAT'S A REPORTED EASEMENT, UH, FOR THE FAMILY MEMBERS ON THE SITE OR WHOMEVER TO GET ACCESS BACK THERE.

SO THERE'D BE A ROADWAY GOING BACK.

IT'S THEY HAVE AN ACCESS EASEMENT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH OUR PARTICULAR TRACK.

IT'S ALL PART OF THAT NINE ACRE DEVELOPMENT.

THAT'S PART OF THE U-SHAPE AREA RIGHT THERE, THE, THE INFIELD AREA, THE U, WELL, IT, IT, THIS PROJECT WOULD GO THROUGH.

WHAT, UH, WHAT OBSTACLE WOULD THAT, UH, UH, UH, PROVIDE OR NOT PROVIDE? WHAT OBSTACLE WOULD IT PRESENT, UH, TO THAT, UH, THAT ACCESS TO THAT CEMETERY? NOT AT ALL, NONE THAT THAT'S A TOTALLY SEPARATE TRACK.

THEY HAVE TOTALLY SEPARATE ACCESS.

UH, THERE'S NO INTERMINGLING, UH, OF ANY KIND WITH THAT CEMETERY IN THAT NINE ACRE TRACK IN THIS PARTICULAR DEVELOPMENT, NINE ACRE TRACK IS GLOVE WAS CARVED OUT.

IT'S, IT'S JUST ALWAYS BEEN A SEGREGATED, SEPARATED TRACK, UH, FROM THIS DEVELOPMENT.

UH ARYN IF YOU COULD HANG AROUND FOR ONE MORE SECOND YOU'RE POPULAR TONIGHT.

CAN YOU, UH, CUZ UH, THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY.

CUZ THAT WAS MY QUESTION AS WELL.

UM, BUT MY ADDITIONAL QUESTION IS WHAT TYPE OF BUFFER, UM, IS BETWEEN THAT LAND? UH, WITH THOSE LITTLE WHAT'S NOT ON THE SCREEN, THERE'S LIKE 1, 2, 3, 4 THROUGH NINE HOMES ON THAT CORNER PART WHERE THE CEMETERY IS BEING, UH, EXISTING.

AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE THERE'S LIKE NINE I GUESS, HOMES THAT ARE BEING PUT THERE.

AM I READING THIS CORRECTLY?

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THE NEXT SLIDE.

SO THE CEMETERIES IN THE BACK RIGHT THERE.

AND SO IT'S AGAIN, IT'S TOTALLY SEPARATED, UH, FROM THIS PROJECT AREA RIGHT HERE.

SO ARE THOSE, ARE THOSE NINE HOMES RIGHT HERE? CAUSE I'M I'M YES.

MA'AM, I'M ASSUMING THEY ARE.

YES MA'AM.

SO WHAT TYPE OF BUFFER FROM THAT BACK, I GUESS, UM, BACKYARD TO THE CEMETERY, WHAT TYPE OF SPACES IN BETWEEN THERE DO YOU KNOW? SO, UM, UM, GET, SO JUST LIKE IN ANY RESIDENTIAL NEIGHBORHOOD, THE SUBDIVISION WILL HAVE A PERIMETER FENCE THAT WOULD GO AROUND, UH, THEIR PARTICULAR PROPERTY AND THEN FROM, UM, AND AGAIN, THAT'S JUST THE EASEMENT AREA.

THERE'S ABOUT A, I'M GONNA SAY MAYBE ROUGHLY 20 FOOT GAP BETWEEN WHERE THE BOUNDARY LINE OF THE SUBDIVISION AND THE EASEMENT AREA, UH, OF THE CEMETERY.

AND DO YOU KNOW OFFHAND, IF THE CEMETERY, THE OPENING ACCESS, IS THERE ONLY ONE ACCESS? CAUSE I'VE ONLY BEEN OVER THERE LIKE ONCE OR TWICE.

IS THERE ONLY ONE ACCESS TO WHERE, WHERE THAT ROAD IS RIGHT THERE FOR THE CEMETERY? THE CEMETERY? YEAH.

THEY ONLY HAVE ONE ACCESS, I MEAN, BUT AGAIN, THAT CEMETERY IS PART OF THAT NINE ACRE TRACK MM-HMM AND SO, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THEY WOULD DEAL WITH INTERNALLY ON THAT NINE ACRE TRACK.

AS FAR AS THAT CEMETERY'S CONCERNED SO THIS DEVELOPER DOESN'T OWN THAT PARTICULAR TRACK? NO, HE DOES NOT OWN THAT.

NO, MA'AM OKAY.

DO YOU HAVE, HAVE Y'ALL CONVERSATIONS AND THIS JUST OFF THE RECORD, IF THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD ANYTHING, I KNOW THAT WAS KINDA LIKE RECORD THAT'S.

ALRIGHT.

DON'T HEAR THE ANSWER AND THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC.

I'M NOT IN THE COURTHOUSE.

ON CAMERA, BUT IS THERE, DO YOU KNOW IF THERE'S ANY, UH, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT FOR THAT PARTICULAR TRACK? UH, TO THE BEST OF MY KNOWLEDGE, UH, THERE IS NO DEVELOPMENT, UH, THAT I KNOW OF.

UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE RESIDENTS THAT LIVE RIGHT THERE IN THAT CEMETERY ARE KIND OF QUITE SATISFIED WITH THE WAY IT IS AND IT'S GONNA ALWAYS, PROBABLY BE THAT WAY.

AND THEY, YOU DIDN'T GET ANY FEEDBACK FROM THEM, CORRECT? NONE AT ALL? NONE.

NOT, NOT IN MY SLEEP EITHER.

ALRIGHTY, THANK YOU.

YES MA'AM REMEMBER CLOUDER NO, I WAS, I SEE IT.

I'M I'M NEXT ON CUE.

OKAY, GOOD.

AND THEN FOLLOW ME IS BONY.

IS THAT WHAT EVERYBODY SEES? HE CAN BONY.

YEAH, THAT'S FINE.

ARE YOU SEEING SOMETHING DIFFERENT? YEP.

SHE'S GOT THREE IN THERE.

IS THAT BEING REFRESHED ON TIME? ALL RIGHT.

SO IF YOU DON'T MIND, I MEAN, FOR EVERYBODY ELSE SEEING IS ME AND THEN BONY, THEN LET ME GO.

ALL RIGHT, JOSH, COME ON.

PROBLEM IS THAT THE ROADWAY AND THE ROADWAY TODAY DOESN'T EVEN HAVE A MEDIAN.

I GOT SEVERAL QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

UM, YOUR ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, UH, TODD HOER UHHUH WAS ON AN HOA MEETING WITH MYSELF AND I BELIEVE, UM, SOMEBODY ELSE FROM THE CITY FOR ONE OF THOSE NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND WHAT'S THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU GOTTEN BACK FROM THE NEIGHBORS? TODD BRIEFLY BRIEF ME A LITTLE BIT ABOUT IT, BUT I KNOW THAT HE'S YOURS.

SO HOW WILL LET HIM SPEAK ABOUT IT? YES, PLEASE.

I'M SORRY.

I DIDN'T SEE YOU, TODD, YOU MOVE SEAT.

COULD YOU RE-ASK THE QUESTION? YES.

UH, WE WERE ON A HOA MEETING TALKING ABOUT THIS DEVELOPMENT IN THERE.

I KNOW THAT THERE WAS A NEIGHBORHOOD OVER THERE, UH, THAT, THAT YOU AND I WERE SIMULTANEOUSLY ON.

AND WHAT WAS THE FEEDBACK THAT YOU GATHERED FROM THEM? YES.

UH, THANK YOU.

UH, THAT HOA MEETING THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT WAS INITIALLY, UH, FOR LIGHTING IN THE, UH, ESTATES OF OVERAGE AREA.

AND THEN THEY KIND OF DEVIATED FROM THAT MEETING AND THEY WERE TALK ASKING ABOUT WHEN WATTS PLANTATION WAS GONNA BE EXTENDED OR WIDENED AND WHAT POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT WAS GONNA BE PUT IN.

UM, AND ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THEY HAD, WELL, IS THERE GONNA BE ANY MULTI-FAMILY, UH, THAT'S GONNA BE POTENTIALLY BUILT THERE.

AND THE EXCHANGE OF DISCUSSION WAS THAT IF THAT WAS TO OCCUR, THEN A, UM, A TIA, A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS WOULD NEED TO BE DONE.

AND SO IT WAS ALONG THOSE LINES OF DISCUSSION.

AND THERE'S A REASON WHY I ASKED BECAUSE YOU WERE THERE AND SHAHI YOU WEREN'T THERE.

UM, I HEARD SOMETHING SIMILAR TO WHAT HE HEARD.

THE NEIGHBORS WERE REALLY UPSET WITH THE, UH, WITH WHAT'S COMING THERE MORE SO THEY KNEW THAT THIS AREA WOULD BE DEVELOPED SOMEDAY, BUT THE

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YOU CAN GET A, YOU CAN GO HEAD ON WITH SOMEBODY.

THAT'S HOW NARROW THAT ROADWAY IS.

UH, AND WE TALKED ABOUT FROM NIGHT ROAD MOVING, YOU KNOW, THAT EXPANSION OF THE, OF THE WATTS PLANTATION FROM THERE TO HIGHWAY SIX IS GONNA BE WIDER.

AND IT'S OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, IT'S A NEW DEVELOPMENT.

IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT I HEARD YOU SAY THAT YOU, YOU DID SAY A COUPLE TIMES, YOU SAID IT'S A COUNTY PROJECT.

THEN YOU SAID, CITY'S DOING SOME MOBILITY MONEY.

I'VE HAD THE PRIVILEGE TO SPEAK WITH COUNTY COMMISSIONER PRECINCT TWO IN THAT.

AND HE SAID HE DOES NOT HAVE ANY MONEY FOR THIS ROADWAY, ANY TYPE OF WORK IN THERE UNTIL, UH, 20, 25 OR, OR EVEN FURTHER ONWARDS.

IS THAT TRUE? ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? I CAN TELL YOU THAT THE CURRENTLY THE PROJECT IS UNDER DESIGN.

IT IS IDENTIFIED IN THE 2020 MOBILITY BOND PROGRAM.

UH, THE CITY HAS BUDGETED OUR SHARE OF FUNDING MATCH, UH, IN THE 2021 NOVEMBER BOND ELECTION THAT WAS PASSED.

NOW I'M NOT PRIVY TO WHAT YOU HEARD FROM THE MAYOR, BUT THIS PROJECT IS IN THE FORT BEND COUNTY MOBILITY BAR.

SO IS, IS THAT ROAD WHERE FORT BEND COUNTY OWNS IT OR WE OWN, UH, I, I BELIEVE THIS IS A CITY STREET, AT LEAST FOR THE MOST PART, IT IS A CITY STREET.

IT COULD BE THAT IT MAY CRISSCROSS FOR PIN COUNTY.

I'M NOT SURE ABOUT IT.

UH, BUT UH, THERE IS A MOBILITY BOND PROGRAM FOR WATTS PLANTATION EXPANSION.

SO YOU SAID 20, 20 BOND.

ARE WE, I DO NOT KNOW THE TIMELINE MAYOR.

EXACTLY.

NO, NO, NO.

THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M ASKING.

2020 BOND ARE WE, IF, IF THAT MIDDLE LANE THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT OR SOMEBODY TALKED ABOUT HERE EARLIER, IS THAT GONNA BE FUNDED AND PAID FOR BY CITIZENS OF MISSOURI CITY THROUGH THE BOND, ANY MOBILITY BOND PROGRAM, FORT BEND MOBILITY BOND PROGRAM, THE CITY HAS A FUNDING MATCH.

SO THERE IS A CITY CONTRIBUTION IN IT.

SO WHO DO WE, WHO, WHO ARE WE MATCHING WITH FORT BEND COUNTY? OKAY.

SO I WOULD ADVISE THAT YOU TO CHECK THAT WITH PORT BEND COUNTY AND IF, AND I'M SPEAKING ON CAMERA, JUST LIKE COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, RILEY SAID, UM, I WAS TOLD THAT THERE'S NO MONEY TO, IN THAT FROM COUNTIES NOT SUPPORTING ANY DOLLAR TO IT, TO THIS PROJECT TILL THEY DON'T EVEN HAVE IT ANYTHING UP, EVEN UP UNTIL 2025.

WITH THAT BEING SAID, I DON'T SEE THIS AREA GETTING EVEN A HUNDRED AND SOME UNITS.

AND I KNOW THE INITIAL PLAN WAS 300 AND SOME, UH, 17 OR SOME UNITS WITH THAT TYPE OF ROADWAY, BECAUSE I BELIEVE BACK IN 2021, UH, CITI HAD DONE SOME PATCHWORK BECAUSE THE ROADWAY WAS SO NARROW, THE CARS WERE GONNA GO OFF THAT CURVE.

UM, IT DOESN'T HOLD THE TRAFFIC THAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, THAT'S COMING OFF OF ONTO THIS ROADWAY.

SO WHILE THE CONCERN IS, AND I UNDERSTAND THAT WE DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH RIGHT AWAY TO, TO WIDEN TO A FOUR LANE IN THIS ROAD AND I GET THE MEETING ASPECT WITH WORK, BUT WITHOUT GETTING THAT IN PLACE, I DO NOT SEE HOW WE WOULD SUBSTANTIALLY THIS ROADWAY WOULD HOLD ABOUT A HUNDRED AND SOME UNITS OF ADDITIONAL CARS.

GIVEN THE FACT THAT TIMES TWO, TWO PEOPLE HAVE A CAR IN GETTING ON THIS ROADWAY AND, AND GOING BACK, IT IS A DANGEROUS ROADWAY.

UM, THAT'S ONE NUMBER TWO DURING 2017 HARVEY.

ONE OF THE THINGS THAT THE RESIDENTS, THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT TALKED ABOUT WAS THE WATER.

THERE IS NO DRAINAGE ON THE, THAT SIDE OF THE WATTS PLANTATION, WHICH MEANS, UH, BETWEEN WATTS PLANTATION AND FOUR CONTROL ROAD, BECAUSE THIS PROPERTY'S IN THE BACK OF THIS IS FOUR CONTROL ROAD CONTINUATION.

SO WITHOUT HAVING PROPER DRAINAGE IN THAT AREA, I THINK ADDING THIS, IT WOULD CAUSE EVEN BIGGER ISSUES.

SO I SEE TWO COMPONENTS.

ONE IS A ROADWAY.

TWO IS A DRAINAGE, UH, TO PUT A FACILITY OR EVEN A HUNDRED AND WHATEVER THAT NUMBER WAS A HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN, ONE TWENTY ONE TWENTY INTO THIS UNIT WITHOUT GETTING A PROPER, UH, DRAINAGE AND WITHOUT GETTING PROPER ROADWAY FOR TRAFFIC, UH, TRAFFIC.

AND, AND I, MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT THAT IT IS NOT OWNED BY A HUNDRED PERCENT OWNED BY CITY, WHICH MEANS IT'S THAT IT'S A PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, AS WELL AS FORT BEND COUNTY.

AND IT IS, IT WAS CLEARED TO ME AND I'M PUTTING IT ON CAMERA.

ANYBODY CAN WATCH THIS, THAT THEY DON'T HAVE THE MONEY.

THEY'RE NOT GONNA COM YOU KNOW, CONVINCE MONEY INTO THIS.

SO MY VOTE WILL BE NO FOR THIS.

I WILL NOT SUPPORT THIS WITHOUT HAVING PROPER ROADWAYS FOR PEOPLE TO GO THROUGH, INSTEAD

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OF PUTTING THIS, AND I HAVEN'T SEEN OR HEARD ANYTHING ABOUT DRAINAGE, HOW WOULD WE CONTROL DRAINAGE IN THIS ASPECT OF THIS AREA? BECAUSE TO COUNCILMAN RILEY'S POINT, THERE ARE SEVERAL HOMES IN HERE, NOT THE NEW ONES THAT'S SHOWING ON THIS MAP BEHIND ME.

I'M TALKING ABOUT, THERE ARE HOMES THAT ARE GOING UP TO A NIGHT ROAD ON WATTS PLANTATION.

THAT'S BEEN THERE FOR A, A LONG TIME.

ONE OF THEIR BIGGEST CONCERN WAS, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA, THIS, THIS IS, IF YOU DO THIS, YOU'RE GONNA FLOOD US OUT COMPLETELY.

SO I HAVEN'T SEEN THAT EITHER.

SO I LIKE TO HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS, MAYBE AT SOME POINT, BUT TODAY MY VOTE IS NO.

SO I'M JUST WANTING TO LET MY COLLEAGUES KNOW.

AND THAT'S WHY I ASKED YOU THESE QUESTIONS.

WAS THERE ANY, DO YOU HAVE ANYTHING FROM COUNTY THAT SHOWS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO GIVE US OR MEET US OR MATCH TO YOUR WORD ARE GOING TO BE PROVIDING FOR THIS ROADWAY? I'LL ADDRESS THIS QUESTION BRIEFLY, MAYOR, I DO KNOW THAT THIS PROJECT IS ON THE MOBILITY BAR.

I'VE BEEN ATTENDED AT LEAST TWO OR THREE MEETINGS ON IT.

THERE IS A PRELIMINARY ENGINEERING REPORT THAT HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR THIS PROJECT.

YES, THERE ARE TWO MAJOR CONSTRAINTS AS IT RELATES TO THIS PROPERTY.

ONE IS TRAFFIC, OBVIOUSLY WITH, OR WITHOUT THE ROAD ROADWAY EXPANSION.

WE'LL SEE IF THE TIAS CAN ACCOMMODATE THE, THIS DEVELOPMENT.

OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE NOT DONE THAT WITH YOU YET.

I CAN'T ANSWER THAT.

WE DO HAVE CONCERNS ON THE TI THE SECOND PIECE, THIS PROPERTY IN THE JOINING PROPERTY AREA IS IN THE FLOOD.

PLAIN.

A LOT OF THIS TRACK IS ENCUMBERED BY FLOOD PLAIN.

AND AS YOU MAY SEE ON THE SCREEN, THERE IS A DRAINAGE CHANNEL THAT RUNS THROUGH THE MIDDLE OF THE PROPERTY.

SO THIS IS, THERE IS A VERY BIG DRAINAGE CONCERN CONSTRAINT TO DEVELOP THIS PROPERTY AS WELL.

BUT THIS IS A ZONING CASE.

UH, AND, UH, AS SPECIFIC USE PERMIT CASE AT THIS POINT, WE DON'T HAVE THOSE ANSWERS.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR.

SO MY LAST QUESTION BEFORE NEXT PERSON GOES UP.

SO IF THE TIA STUDY, RIGHT, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, COME BACK AND SAYING THAT ACCORDING TO THEM, THAT THIS IS FEASIBLE, OR, OR THIS ROADWAY IS FINE TO HANDLE THIS MUCH TRAFFIC, UM, HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE GO BACK TO THE, UH, NUMBER OF CARS GETTING ON THIS ROADWAY WITH HOW TIGHT THIS ROADWAY IS AND THE IMPACT OF THAT ROAD? CUZ THERE IS A PART OF THAT ROADWAY IS IN, IN IT'S ABOUT TO FALL APART WHEN, WHEN IT RAINS, CUZ YOU GOT WATER THAT'S IN THAT DITCH, RIGHT? THERE'S A DITCH ON BOTH SIDE, IT COLLECTS WATER OR THERE'S A SECTION THAT SITS IN WATER.

IT DOESN'T DRAIN AS FAST AS OTHERS DO.

SO DO YOU HAVE ANY PLAN TO SPEND CITY MONEY TO FIX THAT AREA WHERE IT'S GOING TO BE, UH, WHERE IT IS ALREADY AN ISSUE TODAY? WE CURRENTLY, WE DO HAVE FUNDING TO DO THE ROUTINE REPAIRS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE FUNDING TO FIX THIS SECTION OF THE ROADWAY, POSSIBLY ON A ROADWAY, SUCH AS THIS WE'LL LOOK FOR COUNTY PARTNERSHIP.

IN THIS CASE, WE DID NOT PURSUE THAT OUT BECAUSE WE WERE TOLD THAT THIS IS A PROJECT FOR TOTAL RECONSTRUCTION.

OBVIOUSLY YOU DON'T WANT TO SPEND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS WHEN YOU WANT TO COME BACK AND TI IT BACK AND BUILD IT AND REPA THIS ONE.

SO AT THIS POINT WE DO NOT HAVE FUNDING TO FIX THIS ROAD.

SO I'M SORRY I MAY APPROACH HIM.

SO IF WE DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO FUND IT, THEN ARE YOU SAYING THAT THIS ROADWAY WILL HOLD THE TRAFFIC OR NO, I'M NOT.

I'M I'M SORRY.

I'M NOT.

I WANNA GIVE YOU A GENERIC THING.

ANY DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SCALES WILL CREATE TRAFFIC.

THERE WILL BE A DRAINAGE IMPACT.

WE, MY DEPARTMENT AND CITY ENGINEERS, OFFICER REVIEW, HUNDREDS OF TIS AND DIAS IN MY LAST FIVE YEARS WILL MAKE SURE THAT A DEVELOPMENT OF THIS MAGNITUDE IN A SENSITIVE AREA CAN THE EXISTING ROADWAY NETWORK.

IF THERE IS EXISTING, IF THERE IS PROPOSED CAN SUSTAIN THE TRAFFIC, THAT'S GONNA COME.

IF IT IS NOT, WE'RE NOT GONNA APPROVE THE TIA.

THAT MEANS THEY CAN SUBMIT A SITE PLAN.

WE'LL ALSO LOOK AT THE DRAINAGE.

IS THERE ENOUGH DRAINAGE MITIGATION TO MAKE SURE THAT IT DOES NOT NEGATIVELY IMPACT IT JUST IN COMMUNITY, WE CANNOT APPROVE A IMPACT ANALYSIS.

THEY CANNOT SUBMIT SINGLE PLAN AND THE DEVELOPMENT CANNOT MOVE FORWARD.

SO THAT IS THE PROCESS WE DO DAY IN AND OUT.

AND THIS IS NOT THE FIRST RODEO FOR US.

WE'VE DONE HUNDREDS OF THESE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, LANCE, AS YOU'RE GETTING UP.

UH, MY FIRST QUESTION IS A SIMPLE QUESTION IS, UH, COULD YOU DESCRIBE, UH, WHAT PATIO CLUSTER RESIDENTIAL IS? ARE THESE, WHAT TYPES OF UH, DEVELOPMENT, WHAT KIND OF DEVELOPMENT IS THIS? SO, UH, WITH PATIO CLUSTER HOMES, UH, THOSE ARE HOMES AS THE STANDARD AND, AND I ALMOST KIND OF WANT THEM TO CAUSE, YOU KNOW, WELL THAT'S FINE.

I MEAN THAT'S FINE.

I'D LIKE FOR HER TO GO ON AND CAUSE SHE WAS, SHE WAS MY NEXT, SHE WAS MY NEXT GOAL.

ANYWAY, I KNOW WHAT I KNOW THE ANSWER.

WE'RE STANDING CLOSE.

ALL STORY.

TO ALLOW FOR MORE DENSITY.

SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION FOR PATIO CLUSTERS, THEY'RE ACTUALLY JUST SINGLE FAMILY OF RESIDENCES, BUT THE SETBACKS ARE MUCH SMALLER

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SO THEY'RE STILL SINGLE FAMILY IS JUST MORE DENSE.

UM, SO FOR EXAMPLE, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS SO THEY CAN HAVE UP TO ZERO TO 10 FOOT SETBACK ON THE FRONT AND ON THE REAR, THEY WOULD HAVE ABOUT 20, UM, MINIMUM, LOTS ARE 2,800 SQUARE FEET.

UM, MINIMUM LOT WIDTH IS 40 FEET.

SO IT WAS JUST ALLOWS MORE DENSE SINGLE FAMILY.

SO THESE ARE SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES AS WELL.

SO IT'S CURRENTLY ZONED R ONE.

LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION.

IF IN FACT THIS DEVELOPER WANTED TO DEVELOP SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCES R ONE RIGHT NOW, WOULD THEY HAVE TO GO, UH, COME BEFORE COUNCIL AND GO TO P AND Z.

THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO COME TO COUNCIL FOR THE USE.

THEY WOULD HAVE TO GO TO PLANNING AND ZONING TO GET AN APPROVED PLAT, UM, THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED.

AND DURING THE PLOTTING PHASE IS WHEN WE DO REQUIRE THINGS LIKE DRAINAGE AND TIAS.

UM, IF OUR ENGINEERING TEAM HAS REQUESTED IT.

SO AT THAT POINT, YES, BUT IT WOULDN'T HAVE TO COME BEFORE COUNCIL.

NO, THEY WOULD NOT HAVE TO COME.

SO IF THIS INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPER WANTED TO MOVE FORWARD WITH R ONE RIGHT NOW AND BUILD HOWEVER MANY HOMES WOULD FIT ON THIS 38 ACRES, THEY COULD DO THAT RIGHT NOW, ASSUMING THAT P AND Z AND DEVELOPMENT SERVICES WOULD REQUIRE TIA AND UH, THE DRAINAGE.

SO I GUESS WHAT I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND IS WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS BETWEEN TO ME, IT SEEMS LIKE A NO BRAINER TO ME.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA BE, IT CAN BE RIGHT NOW, RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.

AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MOVING TO AN R FOUR, WHICH IS ANOTHER FORM OF SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENT.

SO OUTSIDE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT RELATIVE TO DRAINAGE OR, UH, THE TIA, I DON'T SEE HOW THIS IS ANY DIFFERENT THAN WHAT IT'S CURRENTLY ZONED AT.

SO, YOU KNOW, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE PROBLEMATIC AS TO WHY REZONING THIS WOULD BE ANY DIFFERENT THAN R ONE, THEY COULD DO THAT NOW.

AND THE SAME THING WOULD BE APPLICABLE.

THE DRAINAGE WOULD BE A CONCERN OR QUESTION AS WELL AS THE, UM, THE TIA, CORRECT? CORRECT.

YOU SAID KEY AND THEN THE INTEREST OF PUBLIC, THE KEYWORD YOU SAID WAS DRAINAGE AND, AND, UM, ACCESS.

UH, THE DEVELOPER IS WORKING IN THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC.

UH, HE IS WORKING WITH BOTH THE CITY AND THE COUNTY, UH, WITH REGARDS TO DEDICATING ADDITIONAL AND OTHER THINGS THEY'RE DOING THEY'RE DEDICATING ADDITIONAL ROAD RIGHT OF WAY.

UH, AND RIGHT NOW IT'S A 60 FOOT ROAD RIGHT OF WAY.

AND ON THE DEVELOPER SIDE, HE'S ACTUALLY DEDICATING AN ADDITIONAL 20 FEET OF ADDITIONAL ROAD RIGHT.

OF WAY TO HELP WITH ANY ROAD RIGHT OF WAY WIDENING THAT HAS TO OCCUR AS PART OF THAT COUNTY PROJECT.

UH, AND AGAIN, WITH REGARDS TO DRAINAGE, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING FOR THE INTEREST OF THE PUBLIC IS WORKING WITH THEM TO HELP THEM WHEN THEY DO DECIDE TO DO WATTS PLANTATION ROAD WIDENING, UH, THEY NEEDED SOME LAND FOR DETENTION EXPANSION FOR THE ROADWAY PROJECT, NOT ANYTHING TO DEAL WITH OURS.

UH, BUT IN, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR SITE, IF YOU NOTICE THAT THERE'S A TON OF DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS AND DETENTION AND EVERYTHING ELSE THAT'S REQUIRED RIGHT THERE.

SO, UH, THE DEVELOPER IS SENSITIVE ABOUT THIS AREA, UH, AND IS TRYING TO WORK WITH ALL PARTIES, BE IT THE CITY AND THE COUNTY WITH REGARDS TO WATTS PLANTATION ROAD, WE'VE ACTUALLY MET WITH BOTH PARTIES, UH, AND WORK STILL WORKING WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TRY TO HELP ACCOMMODATE WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO, TO ACHIEVE FOR THE BEST OF THE CITY.

THEIR FINANCIAL MODEL WORKS, BUT THE BIG REDUCTION THAT I MADE 'EM GO DOWN, THEY'RE NOT TOO HAPPY WITH ME NOW OF, YOU KNOW, MAKING THEM, MAKING THEM PUT IN ALL THIS DETENTION.

NCE.

IS IT DEVELOPED? IS I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IS THE DEVELOPER OPEN TO REDUCING THE NUMBER OF PLOTS TO HELP OFFSET SOME OF THE CONCERNS OF TRAFFIC? SO THAT KNOW, WAIT, I, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR HIM.

I CAN TELL YOU THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE IS A BIG CONCERN AND I'VE EXPECT EXPRESSED THAT TO HIM WHOLEHEARTEDLY.

RIGHT? UH, NOW THE THING ABOUT THIS IS, AND I KNOW YOU ASKED ME ABOUT ACCESS, BUT I, I WANTED TO, I KIND JUST WENT THERE AS WELL BECAUSE THE TWO GO HAND IN HAND, UM, WITH REGARDS TO, UH, IS HE WILLING TO DROP NUMBERS DOWN? I THINK JUST THE LAYOUT AS WE GET INTO CONSTRUCTION, THAT'S GONNA DICTATE IT.

UH, I, I CAN'T, CAN'T BE ANYMORE.

IT, IT MAY, IT MAY GET DROP JUST BECAUSE OF DESIGN.

UH, BUT I CAN'T ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

UH, I WOULD SAY THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE COMFORTABLE AND

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THAT'S A LOT OF DETENTION AND, AND THEY'RE DESIGNING IT IN ACCORDANCE WITH ATLAS 14, WHICH IS A NEW DRAINAGE REQUIREMENTS.

UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE NOT GOTTEN TO FINAL DETAIL, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA TAKE UP THAT MUCH SPACE AND THAT'S A LOT OF SPACE.

I HAVE A QUESTION FOR THE STAFF.

WERE WE GIVEN NOTICES TO THE NEARBY RESIDENTS? YES, WE WERE.

WE GAVE NOTICE TO, UM, RESIDENTS WITHIN 250 FEET.

AND WHAT WAS THEIR FEEDBACK? SO WE RECEIVED THREE PROTEST LETTERS, UM, UP UNTIL THIS MEETING TIME AND IT WAS THE SAME FEEDBACK THAT, UM, Y'ALL HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT CONCERNS OF TRAFFIC AND WITH DRAINAGE AND TWO, I DIDN'T HEAR THE LAST WORD.

SORRY.

UH, IT WAS CONCERNS ABOUT TRAFFIC MOSTLY, BUT ALSO DRAINAGE WITHIN THE PROTEST LETTERS.

THANK YOU, MEMBER EDWARDS.

SO SINCE WE'RE DISCUSSING SINGLE VERSUS MULTI-FAMILY HOME, HAVE WE DID ANY RESEARCH OR SURVEYS OR ANYTHING THAT'S GONNA IMPACT OUR SCHOOL SYSTEMS AS WELL AS OUR UTILITIES? I DON'T BELIEVE SO FOR THE SCHOOLS.

NO, WE HAVE NOT DONE ANY NEW RESEARCH AS FAR AS HOW IT'LL IMPACTS SCHOOLS.

UM, AS FAR AS UTILITIES, I CAN ASK TODD TO TALK ABOUT THE UTILITIES SIDE, HE'S OUR, UM, UTILITIES MANAGER.

SO HE WOULD KNOW MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THAT.

SO DO YOU HAVE A PLAN TO KIND OF GET SOME FEEDBACK FROM OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT AND FIGURE THAT OUT BEFORE WE JUST MAKE THIS DECISION? SO DURING THE ZONING PROCESS, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, I DON'T BELIEVE IS NOTIFIED, BUT THEY ARE NOTIFIED DURING THE PLATTING PROCESS.

SO WHEN THEY SUBMIT A PRELIMINARY POT, THEY ARE REQUIRED TO NOTICE, UM, FOR BEN ISSD.

UM, AND DURING THAT PROCESS IS ONE THAT WE'LL GET FEEDBACK FROM THEM ON, UM, IF THEY APPROVE OF THE PLOT OR NOT.

I'M A LITTLE TOOTH.

DID YOU WANT TALK? OF COURSE.

SO REGARDING THE UTILITIES, UH, WE WILL NEED ONE, UH, LIFT STATION ON WATTS PLANTATION TO TAKE CARE OF THE SANITARY SEWER.

UH, THE WATER LINE IS ALREADY ON THE ROAD.

SO THE WATER, UM, ISN'T THE CONCERN AT THIS TIME FOR MAJORITY OF WATTS PLANTATION, IT'S THE SANITARY SEWER.

SO THEY'LL NEED TO BE, UH, GRAVITY COLLECTION LINES, A LIFT STATION, AND THEN A FORCE MAIN TO FORCE MAIN THE SANITARY SEWER, UM, OVER, TOWARD, UH, THE WAY AT, UH, HIGHWAY SIX.

A MULTI-FAMILY IT'S FAIR TO SAY THAT ACCOMMODATE.

AND, UM, I'M NOT SURE.

ARE YOU COMING BACK UP? YES.

AND ALSO JUST REAL QUICK TO GO BACK TO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT, UM, NOTICING THE SCHOOLS.

UM, JENNIFER JUST MENTIONED TO ME THAT EVERY YEAR WE DO MEET WITH THE DEMOGRAPHER FOR, FOR BEN ID AND TELL THEM ABOUT ANY DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE OVER THE YEAR AND ALSO UPCOMING DEVELOPMENTS.

AND SO THEY WORK WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO ACCOUNT FOR THAT.

THANK YOU, MEMBER EMORY, UH, AND WATER COMPLEX.

SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE, WE'RE LOOKING GOOD.

UM, FOR THE SANITARY SEWER, FOR THE ABILITY TO TREAT IT'S NOW THE COLLECTION SYSTEM FOR SANITARY SEWER THAT WE'RE WORKING ON.

UM, AND LATER TODAY, ONE OF THE PROJECTS IS WATER RELATED.

THE SAME ENGINEERING, UH, FIRM IS WORKING ON, UM, THE ALIGNMENTS FOR THE SANITARY SEWER.

AND THIS ONE WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED, UH, THE NEED, UH, CONCEPTUALLY NOT ALL OF THE FLOW YET, BECAUSE OBVIOUSLY WE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GONNA GO INTO EVERY PARCEL OF LAND.

BUT, UH, WHEN WE DID THE IMPACT ASSESSMENT AND LAND USE, UH, ABOUT FOUR MONTHS AGO, FOUR OR FIVE MONTHS AGO, UH, WE DID ACCOUNT FOR WATTS PLANTATION AND THE NEED FOR THE SANITARY SEWER LINES OR A COMPLEX.

WE KIND OF BASE IT ON ACREAGE AND WHAT MIGHT GO THERE.

SO WE GIVE IT AN ESTIMATED, UH, GALLONS PER MINUTE, PER ACRE FOR POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT.

WE DON'T REALLY GO ON THE FAR EXTREME OF ANY MULTI-FAMILY OR VERY LARGE COMPLEXES.

WE KIND OF TAKE THE AVERAGE BETWEEN A SINGLE FAMILY HOME AND

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WE COULD DESIGN IT TO ACCOMMODATE THIS DEVELOPMENT.

EXCUSE ME, WE COULD, YES.

OH, NO.

IT WOULD GO TO THE MUSTANG BAYOU WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.

UM, WHEN I SAY WE COULD DESIGN IT, THAT MEANS WE WOULD JUST, UM, REQUIRE A LITTLE LARGER PUMP, LOW, LARGER DES UH, DIAMETER PIPE.

SO IT'S JUST A SLIGHT UP UPGRADE DEPENDING ON IF THEY, FOR INSTANCE, ENTIRE WATTS PLANTATION, UM, WENT ALL MULTI-FAMILY.

IT WOULD REQUIRE A LITTLE LARGER DESIGN THAN WE CURRENTLY HAVE PROJECTED.

THANK YOU, MEMBER.

CLOUDER WHAT ARE, WHAT'S THE PRICE POINT ON THESE HOMES GONNA BE YOU MIGHT AS WELL JUST STAY UP HERE.

STAYING CLOSE, STAYING CLOSE.

UH, THE PRICE POINT THAT I'VE BEEN TOLD IS BETWEEN, UH, 400 AND $650,000.

IT'S NOT CHEAP TO BUILD.

AND THESE ARE AGAIN SINGLE FAMILY.

THEY'RE NOT REALLY UNITS.

THEY'RE SINGLE FAMILIES.

THAT'S THE NEW DAY STARTER HOME.

HUH? YEAH.

YES MA'AM SO THERE'S NOBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE.

NO, SIR.

ALL RIGHT, SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND.

THE MOTION FAILS ONE TO SIX.

ITEM MAYOR.

MY MOTION IS TO MOVE ITEM NINE C UP SO THAT RESIDENTS CAN GO HOME EARLY.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION MOVE NINE.

CF.

I KNOW WE HAVE RESIDENTS HERE TO HEAR ON THAT ITEM.

I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO DO THAT ON THIS.

WAIT,

[(c) Consideration and Possible Action - To authorize the Interim City Mana...]

IS THAT IS, UH, SO CAN WE DO THAT MANUALLY? NINE C IS NOW UP ON THE SCREEN.

UM, I THINK, UM, AS A PRESIDING OFFICER, MR. MARY, YOU ARE ABLE TO MOVE THE ITEM UP IN THE AGENDA.

BUT I SEE THE, I THOUGHT IT WAS YOUR MOTION.

WASN'T IT? CUZ I SEE CLOUD.

NO, THAT WAS FROM THE LAST WHO CLEARS THIS? IT'S CLEAR IT UP HERE.

WE'RE READY.

SO NOW THAT'S YOUR MOTION? YES, SIR.

NO, YOU'RE YOU'RE MOVE IT UP THAT NOT FOR THIS.

SECOND WHO'S SECOND I'LL SECOND.

SO YOU GOT A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER MUR SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER TO MOVE UP ITEM NINE C ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THAT MOTION.

MOTION CARRIES NINE C CONSIDERATION IMPOSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM.

SOMEBODY WHO'S READING THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A, UH, PROFESSIONAL SERVICES CONTRACT WITH TBG PARTNERS IN THE AMOUNT OF SIX, 9,000 TOWARDS THE DESIGN AND PREPARATION PAGE FOUR OF 7 88 OF BID DOCUMENT FOR THREE NEW DIGITAL READER SIGNS TO BE LOCATED WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF DISTRICT A HAVE A PRESENTATION BY CHAS KUMAR.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL AGAIN.

UH, THIS WAS AN ITEM THAT WAS REQUESTED BY SOME MEMBERS ON THE COUNCIL AND THE RESIDENTS THAT YOU'VE HEARD TO BRING IT IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL FOR ACTION.

JUST TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE QUICK BACKGROUND BACK IN AROUND 2017, THERE WAS TWO AND A HALF MILLION ALLOCATED FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS, THE LANDSCAPING ON TEXAS PARKWAY.

CARTRIGHT YOU SEE THE READER SCIENCE AS WELL, UH, AS, UH, UH, OKAY, SORRY.

DISTRICT A I'VE HEARD THREE LOCATIONS.

UH, WE HAVE COMPLETED MOST PHASES OF THIS PROJECTS, INCLUDING THE READER SCIENCE THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY CITY COUNCIL.

THERE ARE FOUR LOCATIONS.

THEY WERE INSTALLED INDEPENDENCE AT TOTAL CREEK AT TEXAS PARKWAY.

THERE'S ONE ON INDEPENDENCE AT 10 92, 1 AT CARTRIGHT AND 10 92.

AND THERE WAS A SIGN ANNOUNCEMENT MADE AT 10 92 AND HIGHWAY SIX.

UH, WHAT WE HAVE BEEN TOLD IS THAT IS LACK OF THESE MONUMENTAL READER OR DIGITAL SCIENCE WITHIN

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UH, THE RECENT ONE THAT YOU HEARD IS ON NER COMING FROM BELTWAY, BUT IN THE PAST, UH, TO US AND THE COUNCIL, UH, THE CONS THE REQUEST HAS COME AT, UH, ENTRANCE TO PARK AND TO FUND MEADOW.

THE GOOD THING ABOUT THIS BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT IS PUBLIC WORKS AND PARTS WERE ABLE TO PARTNER WITH TECHSTAR THAT RESULTED IN APPROXIMATELY HALF A MILLION DOLLARS WORTH OF SAVINGS.

ONE OF THESE SIGNS COST YOU ANYWHERE, UH, CLOSE TO 300,000 TO INSTALL.

UH, AND WE CURRENTLY HAVE, I BELIEVE FUNDING CLOSE TO INSTALLING ABOUT TWO SITES.

AND AGAIN, FOR STAFF OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, WE HAD HAD THREE REQUESTS.

SO WHAT WE'RE COMING IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY IS WE DO HAVE THE FUNDING TO DESIGN THESE THREE LOCATIONS OR DIGITAL SITES.

WE WANT TO GO AHEAD AND DESIGN IT, AND THEN WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL IN ROUGHLY ABOUT THREE MONTHS TO AWARD THE CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT.

AT THAT POINT WILL PRESENT YOU A REFINED COST OF WHAT, WHAT THIS IS GONNA COST.

WE BELIEVE THE AVAILABLE BUDGET CAN FUND TWO SITES.

UH, POTENTIALLY IF THE THIRD ONE, THEN THERE IS NEED FOR FUNDING OR FUNDING ADJUSTMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE DONE WILL BRING YOU OPTIONS AT THIS TIME.

SO THE ACTION ITEM FOR YOU TODAY IS, IS THE SAME CONSULTANT WHO DESIGN AND INSTALL THE, UH, THE READER OR THE MARQUE SCIENCE THAT'S CURRENTLY OUT THERE TO DESIGN THESE THREE SIGNS.

UH, THERE IS SOME QUESTIONS AND INQUIRIES OF WHY DO WE NEED TO DESIGN THESE SIGNS? WHY CAN'T WE JUST TAKE THE ORIGINAL DESIGN AND MAKE THE SCIENCE SAME SCIENCE? I'LL GIVE YOU A QUICK EXAMPLE.

IT'S NOT A TYPICAL 65 INCH TV WHERE WE CAN TAKE FROM ONE LOCATION TO PLACE IT.

UH, WE HAVE TO PUT THIS, UH, WE HAVE TO PREAU THESE BIG MONITORS, DIGITAL MONITORS.

THERE IS A MONUMENT THAT NEEDS TO BE BUILT.

WE NEED, THERE IS A FOUNDATION THAT GOES BELOW.

WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THERE IS NO UTILITY CONFLICTS.

WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE IS CENTER POINT POWER TO POWER, THESE, UH, DIGITAL MARKET SIGNS.

SO THERE IS A LITTLE ASPECT OF DESIGN IN WALKS, SO IT REQUIRES CUSTOM DESIGN.

OUR GOAL IS TO EXPEDITE THIS SHOULD COUNCIL AUTHORIZE IT TODAY WILL BE BACK IN ROUGHLY THREE MONTHS WITH THE REFINED COST FOR WHAT IT TAKES FOR THREE SIGNS.

AT THIS POINT, THE COUNCIL CAN MAKE A DECISION, WHETHER TO GO WITH ONE, TWO OR THREE WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

IS THERE A MOTION? WE DO HAVE A MEMBER SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, UH, MEMBER EDWARDS.

I'M LOOKING AT, WE HAVE A MOTION MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY, RIGHT? SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER.

CLOUDER RIGHT.

I'M ONLY SEEING IT ON THE QUEUE.

MY NAME HOW'S THAT I, I, I DO SEE MEMBER MEMBER EDWARDS IN THE QUEUE FIRST.

I SEE YOU.

I DON'T HAVE IT.

THERE'S A DELAY BETWEEN THE TWO.

THAT'S FINE.

MM-HMM OKAY, GO AHEAD.

COUNCIL RECORDS.

NO, NO, GO AHEAD.

YOU MADE A STATEMENT THAT, UM, THIS WAS REQUESTED BY COUNCIL.

CAN YOU DISCLOSE, UM, WHICH MEMBERS REQUESTED IT? UH, TO MY RECOLLECTION, I KNOW COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY ASKED FOR THIS ITEM AT THE LAST COUNCIL MEETING, AND I'VE BEEN IN SOME HOA MEETINGS WHERE RESIDENTS HAVE ALSO BROUGHT THIS QUESTION ABOUT LACK OF READER SCIENCE IN DISTRICT EIGHT.

SO THAT'S THAT'S TO MY RECOLLECTION.

THANK YOU ALSO, UM, I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A TOPIC OF DISCUSSION FOR YEARS, UM, WAY BEFORE I BECAME ON COUNCIL.

SO CAN YOU GIVE SOME HISTORICAL, UM, INSIGHT ON WHY THESE, UM, MONUMENTS OR L E D DEVICES WERE NOT PLACED WHEN EVERYONE ELSE HAD THEIRS AROUND THE CITY OR THE DIFFERENT LOCATIONS? UH, I CAME INTO THE CITY BACK IN 2017 WHEN THIS, THIS DISCUSSION WAS ONGOING, THE, THE, THE THOUGHT PROCESS THEN WAS TO INSTALL THESE KEY ENTRY POINTS INTO THE CITY.

AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT THESE ENTRY POINTS WERE LACKING THESE SIGNS.

AND ALSO TO MY RECOLLECTION, THERE IS ONE, UH, LARGE DIGITAL BOARD OR SIGN ON NER.

AND, UH, THE IDEA WAS THAT THERE WAS A SIGN ON GESNER THAT WOULD SUFFICE, UH, THAT IS WHAT I CAN RECALL.

AND, UH, AGAIN, THE DECISION WAS MADE BY THEN COUNCIL AT STAFF'S RECOMMENDATIONS TO PLACE A PIECE LOCATIONS.

AND THEN ALSO, I KNOW YOU SAID WE WERE GETTING FUNDED FROM TECH DOC, CORRECT? YES.

MA'AM THE PORTION, UH, WHAT HAPPENED WAS THE LANDSCAPING THAT YOU CURRENTLY SEE SEE ON THE MEDIAN ON TEXAS PARKWAY AND CARTRIGHT, THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ORIGINALLY FUNDED BY CITY DOLLARS.

MM-HMM UH, BUT PARKS AND PUBLIC WORKS WERE MADE AWARE OF A FUNDING OPPORTUNITY FROM TECH START.

SO WE TOOK THE MONEY FROM TECH START AND, UH, WE HAD TO PAY FOR THE DESIGN AND THEY PAID FOR THE LANDSCAPING THAT RESULTED IN SAVING SOME DOLLARS THAT YOU SEE, WHICH WE CAN POTENTIALLY USE ON THESE SIGNS TODAY.

FROM THE ORIGINAL TWO AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS WAS FROM A PREVIOUS BOND PROGRAM, OR THAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR THE BEAUTIFICATION PROJECT.

THANK YOU, SASHI.

UM, MY LAST QUESTION IS, I KNOW YOU STATED THAT IT'S, UM, KINDA WE'RE SPLITTING THE BILL HERE, BUT WHERE ARE OUR FUNDINGS COMING FROM? I'M SORRY.

MA'AM WHERE'S OUR PORTION OF THE FUNDINGS THAT WE'RE CONTRIBUTING COMING

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AND AS I STATED, ROUGHLY 575,000 OF THE DOLLARS IS CURRENTLY UNCOMMITTED FOR ANY PROJECTS.

SO IF YOU WERE TO AUTHORIZE THIS DESIGN, THAT LEAVES US ROUGHLY WITH HALF A MILLION DOLLARS THAT CAN POTENTIALLY FUND TO READER OR MARKET SITES.

THANK YOU, MAYOR ALICA? YES.

I JUST HAVE A ON THE SCREEN.

DID YOU, DOES IT SHOW WHERE THE THREE WHERE I'M SORRY, MARY, WHAT DID YOU SAY ADVANCE? NO.

WHERE THE PROPOSED, LIKE THE THREE WOULD BE, UH, GO BACK TO THE NEXT, UH, THE NEXT ONE PLEASE.

UH, THIS IS THE LOCATION.

UM, YOU SEE ONE ON THE FAR WEST SIDE IS ON NER RIGHT OFF OF WHEN YOU'RE COMING FROM, UH, BELTWAY EIGHT, THE OTHER TOOL, UH, OR ONE IS AT THE ENTRANCE TO FONT MEADOW.

THE OTHER ONE IS AT THE ENTRANCE TO FONT AND PARK.

NEXT SLIDE, PLEASE.

I THINK WE CAN ZOOM IN ON THE LOCATIONS.

SO THIS IS THE FIRST LOCATION ON GASNER CLOSE TO BELTWAY EIGHT, AND AGAIN, ME AND MY TEAM DID A VISIT AND WE COULD EYEBALL AND WE COULD FIND OR FIND A PLACE WHERE THIS CAN GO AGAIN.

WE GOTTA REFINE THESE THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS.

NEXT SLIDE PLEASE.

OR I CAN DO THAT HERE.

UH, THE NEXT ONE IS ON FONDANT AT THE ENTRANCE TO FARM MEADOW.

THAT'S THE SECOND LOCATION.

AND THE THIRD ONE IS ON GREGORY, UH, RIGHT AT THE ENTRANCE TO THE, UH, TER PARK SUBDIVISION COMING OFF OF TER.

MONTHS IF HE'S ON GROUND.

IS THERE WAY YOU COGNIZE THAT? UH, WE WILL TRY.

I KNOW THE LAST TIME WE DID THIS, UH, THE MAYOR WAS ON MY BACK AS TO WHY THE CENTRAL POINT HAD NOT ENERGIZED THE OTHER DIGITAL MARQUE SCIENCE.

UH, THE CENTER POINT POWER CONNECTION IS THE TYPICAL DELAY OR GETTING THEIR PERMIT IS THE TYPICAL DELAY.

UH, BUT, UH, WE WILL, UH, TRY TO EXPEDITE IT, BUT THAT'S OUR TYPICAL PROCESS IN ORDER TO THREE MONTHS TO COMPLETE THE DESIGN, ANOTHER FOUR TO SIX MONTHS TO HAVE IT CONSTRUCTED.

SO I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT CLEAR THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA SEE IT OVERNIGHT.

THE SIGN BEING BUILT.

IT'S GONNA TAKE US AT LEAST ABOUT SIX MONTHS BEFORE WE SEE YOU CAN SEE IT ON THE GROUND.

WELL, YEAH.

AND IT'S ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, EXPEDITED.

THANK YOU, MEMBER RILEY.

I JUST HAVE A COMMENT.

I JUST WANNA THANK YOU SASHI, UM, FOR WORKING ON THIS PROJECT, MAKING IT A PRIORITY.

UM, BECAUSE WHEN I JOINED COUNCIL, UH, THIS IS ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS I DID HEAR ABOUT.

AND SO I REALLY WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU TO YOU AND YOUR DEPARTMENT FOR WORKING SO DILIGENTLY AND LISTENING TO THE RESIDENTS AND TO ALSO THANK THE RESIDENTS FOR BRINGING THIS TO MY ATTENTION SO THAT, UM, I COULD WORK ON THIS PROJECT AND, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY MY COLLEAGUES WILL AGREE THAT THIS IS A PRIORITY AND WE CAN, UH, GET THIS DONE.

SO SINCE YOU BROUGHT UP MY NAME, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, SORRY ABOUT NO, NO, THAT'S OKAY.

UH, WHEN ALL THESE OTHER MARQUES WERE BEING PUT IN, UM, AND ALSO MY COLLEAGUES KNOW THIS TOO, THAT IT'S BEEN OVER TWO AND A HALF MONTHS THAT I'VE NOT SEEN ANYBODY OUT THERE.

I'VE SEEN HALF A BRICK UP THERE.

AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS ASKING CHAI.

WHERE ARE THEY? AND OF COURSE IT WAS AN ISSUE WITH CENTRAL POINT OF CON GETTING THAT POWER TO THAT AREA, BECAUSE MY POINT WITH YOU WAS ONCE THE CONTRACT'S BEEN GIVEN, IT SHOULD BE, IT SHOULD BE DONE IN 30 DAYS OR SO.

AND, AND, AND THEN I WANT YOU TO CLARIFY, CUZ YOU ONLY SAID ONE PIECE, BUT THE FACT WAS IT WAS HALF DONE AND IT WAS LEFT THERE OVER A MONTH AND A HALF TO TWO MONTHS IS WHEN I STARTED ASKING YOU WHAT IS GOING ON.

AND, AND THAT'S WHEN YOU INDICATED IT WAS NOT AN ISSUE WITH CITI OR THE CONTRACTOR WAS THE ISSUE WITH GETTING POWERED TO THAT SITE.

MM-HMM THANK YOU, MAYOR.

I, I STAND CORRECTED.

AND THE THIRD ONE IS COMING OFF OF FOND ENTRANCE TO GREGORY BOULEVARD.

THERE WERE TWO ISSUES.

ONE WAS THE CENTER POINT POWER.

THE SECOND WAS WE HAD SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES AND SOME OF THE SCREENS WERE NOT AVAILABLE.

SO THAT CAUSED THE DELAY BY ABOUT A MONTH AND A HALF OR TWO.

THAT'S GREAT.

THANK YOU, MEMBER EDWARDS.

I HAVE TWO MORE QUESTIONS.

UM, WHERE WOULD THIS SIGN GO IN PROXIMITY TO THE MONUMENT THAT WE HAVE ONCE SHE CROSS OVER THE RAILROADS AND THE ENTRANCE TO MISSOURI CITY, WHERE WOULD THAT, UM, WHAT WAS THAT DIRECTION OR PLACEMENT THAT THE SIGN WILL BE NOW? UH, AGAIN, THESE ARE GOING AT THESE THREE LOCATIONS, MAN.

I DON'T KNOW IF I CAN PUT THE POINTER ON THE SCREEN.

IT'S COMING OFF OF BELTWAY RIGHT AT THE GASNER ENTRANCE.

THAT'S LOCATION.

NUMBER ONE, LOCATION.

NUMBER TWO IS COMING OFF OF FONDANT ENTRANCE TO FOND ME BOULEVARD.

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THESE ARE THE ENTRY POINTS TO THE CITY.

THIS IS WHERE WE ARE PROPOSING.

UM, I THINK THAT'S GREAT, BUT I ALSO WANNA KIND OF MAYBE PROPOSE TO YOU SINCE THE COMMUNITY DID HAVE A HUGE INPUT AND TO HAVE IN THIS, I THINK MAYBE YOU SHOULD MEET WITH THEM OR SPEAK WITH WHOEVER'S HERE.

MAYBE, UM, ALLOW COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY TO BE THE LIAISON.

I'M SORRY THAT I AM DELEGATING YOU, BUT I DO THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE GET INPUT FROM THEM SINCE THEY HAVE BEEN FEELING LIKE AS IF THEY'VE BEEN NEGLECTED, I WOULD HATE FOR US TO JUST SLAM A, A SIGN AND IF THEY'RE STILL NOT SATISFIED.

SO I JUST THINK BEFORE WE MAKE THESE DECISIONS, IF YOU CAN JUST GET WITH, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY, MAYBE SHE CAN SPEAK ON THEIR BEHALF, KIND OF GET SOME GAUGING ON SOME LOCATIONS AND SEE IF THEY CAN COINCIDE WHAT YOU'RE PROPOSING AND TO, TO YOUR POINT, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, WE'VE CHOSEN THESE LOCATIONS AGAIN, BASED ON THE INPUT WE HAVE RECEIVED, UH, FROM THE CITIZENS, OBVIOUSLY WE'LL WORK WITH THE HOA AND THE CONCERN COUNCIL MEMBER TO FINE TUNE THE LOCATION BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD AND GET THIS PROJECT.

THAT'S ALL MY HAPPY WE'RE WE'RE ALL RIGHT.

WELL GREAT.

THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME KNOW.

UM, I DIGRESS NO MORE TRANSFER YOU COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY MM-HMM THANK YOU.

SHAHI THANK YOU, MEMBER CLOUDER.

SAHI DON'T GO ANYWHERE.

THE EXISTING SIGNS, THAT DIGITAL READERS THAT WE HAVE UHHUH, HAVE THERE BEEN ANY DAMAGE TO ANY OF THEM? NOT THAT I'M AWARE OF COUNCIL MEMBER.

I DO KNOW THAT THERE WAS ONE AREA.

IF, IF I, MY MEMORY SERVES ME WELL, THERE WAS A DAMAGE TO A BRICK OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT IN GENERAL, THEY'RE WORKING FINE.

AND UH, I RUN ACROSS THOSE SIGNS ON A DAILY BASIS AND SEE THEM WORKING FINE.

AND LET'S SAY THAT THERE IS DAMAGE TO THEM.

WHAT IS, UM, WHAT'S IN OUR CONTRACT TO REPLACE OR, UM, REPAIR IN GENERAL, ANY CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT THERE'S A ONE YEAR WARRANTY, BUT IF IT'S A KIND OF A RELATED TO AN ACCIDENT AUTO ACCIDENT, OR SOMEBODY CRASHES INTO ONE OF THESE SIGNS, THEN I THINK WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE INSURANCE PROCESS AND WHATNOT.

SO THERE'S NOBODY ELSE ON THE QUEUE.

SO WE'LL GO AHEAD AND VOTE MEMO MORALES.

WE'RE GOING BACK TO NOW PUBLIC HEARINGS AND RELATED ACTION.

SEVEN, FIVE.

WE DID SIX, RIGHT? SO ON SEVEN, WAS IT SEVEN? SO B GOT SCRATCHED.

SO IT'S B3 OR THREE, MR. MAYOR, I THINK HAVING GOTTEN THROUGH ALL THE ZONING ITEMS. I THINK WE'RE ON SEVEN

[(3) Public Hearing - A public hearing on the approval and adoption of the ...]

BK NOW.

SEVEN WHAT? SEVEN B3.

B3.

THAT'S THE CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.

FIRST OF TWO READINGS, CORRECT? UM, IT'S THE PUBLIC HEARING? UM, I, I CAN READ THE CAPTURE.

CAN YOU PUBLIC HEARING ON THE APPROVAL AND ADOPTION OF THE BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR? BEGINNING, OCTOBER 1ST, 2022 AND ENDING ON SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2023 FISCAL YEAR 2023.

MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.

I DO HAVE A PRESENTATION.

I'M NOT SURE IF THIS CLICK OR MOVES IT.

OH, IT DOES.

SO TONIGHT, UM, AS MENTIONED, UH, WE'RE HERE TO ADOPT THE MAY I I'M SORRY.

FIRST I WANNA THANK COUNCIL AND MAYOR, UM, FOR ALLOWING ME TO PRESENT THE, UM, FY 23 BUDGET, UM, WITH THIS, I WANT TO THANK THE LEADERSHIP TEAM FOR WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, AS WELL AS MS. PORTIS AND MS. ALEXANDER AND HER TEAM DID A WONDERFUL JOB, OUTSTANDING JOB OF GETTING DOCUMENTS TOGETHER THROUGHOUT THIS BUDGET PROCESS.

WE HAD COUNCIL VISION AND MISSION AS A TARGET.

UM, WITH THIS, WE KEPT SEVERAL COUNCIL PRIORITIES AND DIRECTIONS FOCUS.

WE HAD TO FINAL HAD TO FINALIZE THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

I WANNA HIGHLIGHT SOME OF THE MAJOR INITIATIVES THAT WE, UH, KEPT IN LINE WITH THE COUNCIL PRIORITIES.

ONE OF 'EM IS HIRING IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET 27 FTS TO BETTER SERVE AND GIVE SERVICE TO

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THE, TO THE ENTIRE CITY.

ALSO, WE TALKED ABOUT MORALE.

I HEAR THAT A LOT FROM COUNCIL AND, UH, WE LOOKED AT, UM, GIVING ADJUSTMENT TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

UM, THREE STEPS ALSO GIVING TWO NON-CIVIL EMPLOYEES 3% RAISE IN A ONE TIME, UM, 3% AS WELL.

ALSO WITH THAT, WE ARE GONNA DO A COMPREHENSIVE, UM, SALARY STUDY SO WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT EVERYBODY'S ALIGNED, UM, GOING FORWARD IN ORGANIZATION COMPETITIVE WITH EVERYBODY ELSE AND OTHER AGENCIES.

ALSO, WE LOOKED AT PUBLIC SAFETY AND WE, UM, INCREASED THE HEADCOUNT THERE, UM, ADDED FOUR OFFICERS AND ALSO FIRE FIREFIGHTERS.

UM, ALSO WE ARE LOOKING TO INCREASE AND LOOK AT THE ONE STOP ONE STOP SHOP SOLUTION.

SO WE CAN GO AHEAD AND MAKE SURE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES IS BEING A LOT MORE EFFECTIVE AND A LOT MORE EFFICIENT.

AND ALSO WITH THAT, ALL IN SAID WE REDUCE TAXES BY 0.5% AND WHAT THAT WOULD LIKE TO HAVE, UM, MS. CORTIS QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE BUDGET.

ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

THE EXPENDITURES EXCEED REVENUE BY APPROXIMATELY 5.9 MILLION.

SO WE HAVE BEEN BEFORE YOU ALL, UH, MULTIPLE TIMES THIS YEAR, UH, AS FAR AS WHAT WE'RE CONSIDERED TO BE THE ROAD TO BUDGET ADOPTION, UH, THIS BEGAN IN APRIL FOR CITY COUNCIL.

YOU HAD YOUR RETREAT ON MAY 16TH.

WE HAD JOHN HAWING WITH TXP PROVIDE THE STATE OF THE ECONOMY AS WELL AS SALES TAX PROJECTIONS ON JULY 19TH AND 20TH.

WE HELD BUDGET WORKSHOPS WHERE YOU HEARD, UM, INFORMATION ABOUT THE BASE BUDGET AND ALL OF THE SUPPLEMENTAL REQUESTS THAT WERE RECEIVED FROM THE DEPARTMENTS ON AUGUST 24TH.

WE HAD PRESENTATIONS ON THE PROPOSED BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023, AND WE ALSO HAD A FOLLOW UP PRESENTATION ON SEPTEMBER 6TH, WHERE WE REVIEWED SOME OF THE ITEMS THAT WERE MENTIONED BY COUNCIL.

TONIGHT, WE HAVE THE PUBLIC HEARING, AND AGAIN, WE HAVE THE AGENDA ITEM TO ADOPT THE BUDGET, THE STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS.

UH, WE HAVE CREATE A CRATE PLACE, A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, MAINTAIN A FINANCIALLY SOUND CITY GOVERNMENT GROW BUSINESS INVESTMENTS IN MISSOURI CITY DEVELOP A HIGH PERFORMANCE CITY TEAM AND HAVE HIGH QUALITY DEVELOPMENT THROUGHOUT BUILD OUT.

AND WE BELIEVE THAT, UH, THE BUDGET THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, UM, ADDRESSES ALL OF THESE STRATEGIC FO FOCUS AREAS, AND AS MENTIONED BY INTERIM CITY MANAGER, COLE, UH, THIS BUDGET DOES INCLUDE AN INCREASE OF 27 FTE.

UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE 401.

THIS WOULD BRING US TO 428.

OUR LARGEST DEPARTMENTS ARE THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WITH THIS BUDGET.

IT WOULD BE 144.2 POSITIONS, UM, FOLLOWED BY FIRE WITH 97.

SO A LARGE AMOUNT OF OUR STAFFING IS WITHIN THE PUBLIC SAFETY AREA.

WHERE'S THE BUDGET IS MADE UP OF MULTIPLE FUND TYPES, GENERAL FUND, SPECIAL REVENUE FUND CAPITAL PROJECT FUND DEBT SERVICE FUND.

UM, SOME ENTERPRISE FUNDS, UH, ALL TOGETHER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2023.

THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES, UH, TOTAL REVENUES AND TRANSFERS IN OF APPROXIMATELY 193.5 MILLION FOR EXPENDITURES AND TRANSFERS OUT.

THE TOTAL IS 199 MILLION, $316,434.

AND, UM, FOR THE GENERAL FUND, THIS IS INTENTIONAL.

THIS IS, UM, US SPENDING SOME OF OUR FUND BALANCE ON ONE TIME EXPENDITURES.

AND FOR OTHER FUNDS IT'S SPENDING FUND BALANCE SUCH AS BOND PROCEEDS AND OTHER, UH, FUND BALANCE THAT'S BEEN COLLECTED TO PAY FOR FUTURE PROJECTS, ENDING FUND BALANCE CITYWIDE, WHICH INCLUDES RETAINED EARNINGS FOR OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS, WHICH INCLUDE UTILITIES IS, UH, APPROXIMATELY 146 MILLION.

AGAIN, THAT'S NOT ALL CASH.

SOME OF IT IS, UH, OUR ASSETS.

I'M SORRY.

DID I OKAY FOR THE GENERAL FUND, THE PROPOSED BUDGET, TOTAL REVENUE AND TRANSFERS IN IS $67,670,662 TOTAL EXPENDITURES AND TRANSFERS OUT.

WE HAVE $72,648,897.

AGAIN, THIS, UH, THE EXPENDITURES EXCEED REVENUE.

AND THIS IS INTENTIONAL IN ORDER TO USE SOME OF THE FUND BALANCE, ACCORDING TO OUR FUND BALANCE POLICY, WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO USE IT FOR ONE TIME EXPENDITURES ESTIMATED ENDING FUND BALANCE WOULD BE APPROXIMATELY $27.4 MILLION.

LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION IN REGARDS TO OUR ESTIMATED FUND BALANCE FOR THIS CURRENT FISCAL YEAR FISCAL 2022, WE ANTICIPATE THAT OUR FUND BALANCE WOULD BE 32.4 MILLION.

WE DO HAVE A REQUIREMENT OF 30%, WHICH WOULD BE 19 POINT ALMOST 19.5 MILLION, WHICH

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LEFT APPROXIMATELY 13 MILLION FOR ONE TIME EXPENDITURES.

WE DID RECEIVE A TOTAL OF 21 MILLION, A LITTLE OVER 21 MILLION IN REQUESTS FROM DEPARTMENTS FOR, UH, SUPPLEMENTAL BUDGET REQUESTS.

A TOTAL AMOUNT FUNDED WAS ALMOST 12 MILLION AT $11,956,539.

AND THIS INCLUDED RECURRING, AND ONE TIME EXPENDITURES, UH, RECURRING A 5.4 AND ONE TIME OF 6.5 WITHIN OUR BUDGET ADOPTION ORDINANCE.

WE ALSO HAVE SERVICE AGREEMENTS.

UH, WE HAVE THE COUNCIL APPROVED THOSE ONGOING SERVICE AGREEMENTS WHERE WE HAVE COMMITMENTS FOR DIFFERENT SOFTWARE PACKAGES.

UM, THE SAVE STAFF AND COUNCIL TIME, THE TOTAL AMOUNT FOR NEXT FISCAL YEAR, FISCAL YEAR 2023 THAT'S WITHIN THE ORDINANCE IS $2,150,727.

AND IT INCLUDES A WHOLE HOST OF, UM, IT, UH, SUPPORT, UM, FOR SOFTWARE AND HARDWARE, AS YOU'LL SEE ON THE FOLLOWING SCREENS, JUST GONNA SCROLL THROUGH, WON'T READ THEM, BUT WE RELY A LOT ON TECHNOLOGY.

AGAIN, THE TOTAL AMOUNT IS $2,150,727.

AND WITH THAT, WE'RE AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE IN REGARDS TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET.

THANK YOU, ELENA.

WE'RE.

UH, DO WE HAVE ANY, UH, OPEN HEARING? THERE ARE NO, THERE ARE NO COMMENTS, NO COMMENTS.

ALL RIGHT, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING.

IS THERE A MOTION FOR A SECOND, BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND? UM, WE'LL GO TO ANY, ANYBODY ON THE QUEUE FOR QUESTIONS, COMMENTS AT THIS MOMENT.

HI ELENA.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

MY QUESTION IS ACTUALLY DIRECTED TO CHIEF TDA AND CHIEF ESON.

I KNOW THAT WE JUST, WELL, YOU JUST STATED THAT YOU HAVE PROVIDED THEM ACCOMMODATIONS TO, UM, THEIR SALARIES AND DIFFERENT THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT I JUST WANNA SEE IF THAT PRETTY MUCH TAKE CARE OF THEIR COMPENSATION AND STAFFING NEEDS ABOUT 7.5% INCREASE AS WELL AS THE STEP PROGRAM AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UH, ABSOLUTELY NOT.

CAN YOU SPEAK OCEAN TO MIC? WE'RE STILL SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW EVERYBODY IN THIS ENTIRE REGION.

UH, ONCE WE DO THE SALARY SURVEY, I THINK THAT WILL FLESH THAT OUT BETTER, BUT, UH, JUST OUR PRELIMINARY SEARCHES THAT WE'VE DONE, WE KNOW THAT WE'RE SIGNIFICANTLY BELOW EVERYBODY ELSE.

AND HOW IS YOUR STAFFING AT THIS POINT? UH, I'M 10 SHORT NOW I EXPECT I'VE LOSE ONE THIS WEEK AND I'LL EXPECT TO LOSE THREE MORE BEFORE THE, UH, NEXT COUPLE WEEKS.

THANK YOU, CHIEF.

AND IF I CAN, UM, JUST INTERJECT REALLY QUICK JUST TO READ THE ORDINANCE CAPTION.

UM, SO CONSIDER THIS A, UH, FIRST AND FINAL READING OF THE ORDINANCE IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS APPROVING AND ADOPTING THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS GENERAL BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING, OCTOBER 1ST, 2022, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2023, MAKING PRO APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE CITY FOR SUCH FISCAL YEAR AS REFLECTED IN SET BUDGET, ADOPTING A PROJECTION FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, UH, SPENDING BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2022 AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027, MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS AND CONTAINING CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL, UH, KIND OF MIRROR THE SAME SENTIMENT.

I, I APPRECIATE IT.

THANK THE COUNCIL AND MAYOR, UH, FOR THE THREE STEPS OF TAKING CARE OF OUR SENIOR FIREFIGHTERS, I THINK THAT'S GONNA HELP, UH, FIX IT TEMPORARILY.

UM, I, WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO THE, THE COMPENSATION STUDY TO SEE WHERE WE FALL WITH WITH THE OTHER AGENCIES THAT ARE COMPARABLE TO US.

UH, BUT THE INTERIM FIX WAS, WAS MUCH APPRECIATED.

WE'RE LOOKING FORWARD TO IT.

SO THE THREE STEPS ARE VERY HELPFUL.

UM, JUST AN UPDATE CURRENTLY, WE STILL HAVE 12 VACANCIES THAT, UH, WE'RE ATTEMPTING TO FILL.

UM, YOU SAID THAT YOU'RE GRATEFUL.

I GET THAT, BUT HOW HAS IT, HOW WILL IT HELP YOU AT THIS MOMENT? SO THE SIGNING BONUS WILL HELP.

UH, RIGHT NOW IT DOES, UH, THE THREE STEPS DO HELP OUR FIREFIGHTERS MOVE UP THE THREE STEPS CLOSER TO THAT LINE THAT WE ARE BEHIND WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

UH, BUT WE WOULD NEED TO, I'M HOPING THAT THE COMPENSATION STUDY WILL, WILL DEFINE MORE CLEARLY HELP, HOW MUCH FURTHER, UM, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO LOOK AT, OR COUNSELOR MAY NEED TO LOOK AT TO, TO GET THEM CLOSER, TO BE COMPETITIVE WITH OTHER CITIES.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR RESPONSE.

YES, MA'AM MEMBER EMERY.

UH, FTES THAT, UH, WE'RE INCREASING WHILE I'M SCROLLING? I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT IN THE SUPPLEMENTAL REQUEST THAT WERE APPROVED, WE DO HAVE AN ADDITIONAL PICKLEBALL COURT.

SCOTT, COULD YOU GO BACK TO THE SLIDE WITH THE, UH, NUMBER OF,

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I KNOW, UM, THE PICKLEBALL COURT, I KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME, UM, RESIDENTS THAT ASKED ABOUT THAT.

UM, EARLIER DURING PUBLIC COMMENTS, THERE WE GO, I GUESS, UH, THE QUESTION THAT I HAVE AND, YOU KNOW, UH, YOU CAN HELP ME, OR, UM, MAYBE THE, UH, THE, THE CHIEFS, UH, BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE IN, UH, GENERAL GOVERNMENT, WHAT I, I GUESS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS TELL ME HOW, UH, IN, IN THE, UH, THE CITIZENS, UH, HOW, UH, THE, UH, ADDITIONS TO THESE DIFFERENT, UH, DIVISIONS, UH, WILL HELP US BE MORE EFFICIENT, UH, WE'LL PROVIDE BETTER SERVICE.

SO I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN RESPOND TO ALEENA OR THE CITY MATTERS CITY MATTERS.

UM, IN GENERAL GOVERNMENT, WE HAVE AN ADDITION OF TWO, WHICH WOULD BE A CIP P ADMINISTRATOR AND A PARKS PROJECT, UM, MANAGER.

UM, SO THAT WILL HELP WITH SOME OF THE, UH, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, UM, AND, UH, OUR 85 MILLION BOND AUTHORIZATION.

SO TO MOVE THOSE PROJECTS FORWARD AND HAVE, UH, DEDICATED TEAM FOR THOSE AREAS WITHIN FINANCIAL SERVICES, WE HAVE ANOTHER ACCOUNT'S PAYABLE CLERK.

WE HAVE NOT HAD ONE.

UM, WE'VE ONLY HAD ONE FOR I'M ASSUMING FOREVER.

UM, AND OUR VOLUME, AS FAR AS THE NUMBER OF ACCOUNTS PAYABLE, UM, CHECKS THAT HAVE BEEN PROCESSED JUST WITH THE GROWTH OF CITY, UH, THE CITY REQUIRES ANOTHER PERSON, UM, AND POLICE, WE HAVE FOUR POLICE OFFICERS THAT IS A PART OF A BEAT OR A DISTRICT AND CHIEF, CAN YOU RESPOND TO THAT, SIR? THE, THE FOUR ADDITIONAL THAT, UH, IS IN THE BUDGET, UH, HOW ARE THOSE, UH, BE USED? IT'LL HAVE TO HELP SUPPLEMENT THE, UH, BEATS WE ALREADY HAVE.

THAT'S NOT NEARLY ENOUGH TO, TO HANDLE THE ENTIRE NEW BEAT.

UH, WE NEED AN ENTIRE NEW BEAT ON THE SOUTHERN END OF OUR CITY BECAUSE OF ALL THE GROWTH.

UH, CURRENTLY THAT DISTRICT NOW GOES FROM CARTWRIGHT ROAD ALL THE WAY TO THE SOUTHERN END OF THE CITY, WHICH IS NEW POINT OF STATES.

UH, IF I'M LUCKY, I HAVE TWO OFFICERS IN THERE AT ANY GIVEN TIME, UH, IN THAT ENTIRE AREA.

SO, UH, IF THEY GET A CALL OUT OF THAT OR THEY GET AN ARREST THERE'S HOURS ON END, THERE'S NO ONE PATROLLING THAT ENTIRE AREA.

SO FOUR WON'T DO IT.

WE DON'T GET OUR SALARIES UP.

I WON'T FILL THOSE FOUR CAUSE THAT'S FOUR, IN ADDITION TO THE 10, I ALREADY HAVE MAKE IT.

SO, SO THE FOUR WILL HELP YOU FILL OUT YOUR COMPLIMENT AND HELP ME FILL OUT IT.

WON'T WHAT I HAVE NOW.

IT WON'T YEAH.

FILL OUT BE COMPLETELY, BUT, UH, MAYBE IT'LL, UH, STOP SOME OF THE BLEEDING.

COULD I GET THE SAME FROM THE FIRE CHIEF? SO SOME OF THE POSITIONS THAT WE REQUESTED THAT ARE, ARE BEING, UM, PROPOSED IN THE BUDGET, OURS WERE SPECIFIC TO PROGRAMS. SO WE HAVE TWO POSITIONS.

ONE WAS A SPECIALIST, LIEUTENANT INSPECTOR, AND ONE IS A CLERK FOR, AND BOTH OF THOSE ARE DEDICATED TO IMPROVING THE EFFICIENCIES AND THE ONESTOP SHOP.

SO FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, THOSE TWO POSITIONS ARE GONNA HELP WITH THAT.

TWO OTHER POSITIONS WE'RE REQUESTED THAT ARE IN THE BUDGET FOR, UH, A FIREFIGHTER AND A SPECIALIST FOR THE SQUAD PROGRAM TO ENHANCE OUR SQUAD PROGRAM.

SO THAT ALLOWS US TO INCREASE THE ADDITION OF RUNNING THAT AN ADDITIONAL SQUAD, AT LEAST ONE THIRD OF THE TIME, THIS COMING YEAR, UH, TO REDUCE THE WEAR AND TEAR ON OUR HEAVY APPARATUS, LIKE FIRE TRUCKS AND LOT TRUCKS.

UM, AND IN THE LAST POSITION, THE FIFTH POSITION IS ANOTHER CIVILIAN POSITION THAT WAS SPECIFIC TO A PROGRAM TO SUPPORT EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AND MIKA JIT AND HER WORK.

SO THAT PERSON WILL HELP WITH EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT LOGISTICS AS WELL AS FIRE DEPARTMENT LOGISTICS, THE REMAINDER OF THE YEAR.

SO THOSE ARE THE HIGH POSITIONS.

YEAH, I GUESS WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR IS, UH, AND MAYBE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IT.

UH, PUBLIC WORKS, SIX NEW PEOPLE.

STREETS DIVISION OR DEPARTMENT.

UH, THE SIX POSITIONS THAT ARE DEDICATED TO PUBLIC WORKS, FOUR WILL BE IN THE

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THERE WILL BE A CREW LEADER AND THREE, UH, STREET TECHNICIANS.

BASICALLY WE HAVE A NEW CREW AND THE PURPOSE OF THIS IS, UH, SOME REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME IN FROM CITIZENS AND CITY COUNCIL WHERE US DOING TEMPORARY STREET REPAIRS VERSUS DOING PERMANENT REPAIRS.

WE ALSO HAVE THE EQUIPMENT TO DO THE PERMANENT REPAIRS.

SO THIS WILL ENABLE US TO MORE, UH, BUILD A CREW TO TACKLE, UH, STREET REPAIRS HERE.

IT ALSO GIVES US THE FLEXIBILITY TO DO MORE, UH, STREET SWEEPING WITH THIS CREW.

UH, THERE'S ANOTHER, UH, POSITION GOING INTO OUR, UH, BUILDING, UH, UH, SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

AND I ALSO UNDERSTAND THERE IS A C IP ADMINISTRATOR, I DON'T KNOW, UH, THAT IS GONNA OVERALL HELP, UH, DELIVER THE, UH, THE BOND CIP P PROJECTS THAT WAS AUTHORIZED BY ORDERS.

UH, PARKS AND REC.

I THINK YOU HAVE SOMETHING THERE.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, THE EIGHT, UH, EIGHT POSITIONS WE HAVE FOR PARKS AND RECREATION.

UH, SEVEN OF THOSE ARE IN THE PARKS AND THE FORESTRY DIVISIONS.

AND ONE OF THOSE IS IN THE RECREATION DIVISION.

SO THAT ACCOUNTS FOR ONE, THREE PERSON CREW, THEIR PRIMARY FOCUS WILL BE ON SPORTS AND ATHLETIC FIELDS, MAINTENANCE THAT WE QUITE HONESTLY AREN'T ABLE TO KEEP UP WITH.

THEY'LL ALSO HELP OUT WITH OTHER PARKS, UH, DUTIES AS WELL.

UH, SECOND THREE PERSON CREW WHOSE PRIMARY FOCUS WILL BE ON MEDIAN CARE AND MAINTENANCE.

IT'LL ALSO INCLUDE IN A FULL-TIME IRRIGATION IN LANDSCAPE TECHNICIAN AND A RECREATION COORDINATOR.

THAT'LL HELP WITH THE FRONT DESK DUTIES AT THE OK.

LET ME JUST MAKE A COMMENT.

UH, THE REASON I ASKED FOR NO, YOU'RE FINE.

UH, THE REASON I ASKED FOR THAT IS THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, AS, UH, THE MAYOR SAYS, IT'S UNPRECEDENTED THAT WE'VE GOT 27 NEW FTE, AND I'M SURE THAT, UH, THERE'S CITIZENS OUT THERE THAT ARE SAYING, OKAY, YOU KNOW, THOSE 27 COST DOLLARS, WHAT ARE THEY GONNA BRING TO THE CITY AS ADDITIONAL SERVICES, UH, THAT, UH, THEY CAN SEE? SO HOPEFULLY WITH, UH, THE DISCUSSION THAT, UH, WE WENT THROUGH HERE BRIEFLY, UH, THAT GIVES THEM A LITTLE, UH, INSIGHT AS TO WHY WE NEED THE 27 AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO USE THEM.

SO, UH, I THINK I, I'M HOPING THAT, UH, OUR CITIZENS WILL RECOGNIZE THAT, UH, THESE ARE POSITIONS THAT ARE NEEDED FOR OUR EXPANSION, UH, AND J AND, YOU KNOW, THE ADDITIONAL ACTIVITY THAT WE HAVE IN ALL OF OUR, ALL OF OUR DIVISIONS OR DEPARTMENTS.

SO THANK YOU, MEMBER RILEY, REALLY JUST A STATEMENT.

UH, BUT BEFORE I MAKE MY STATEMENT, UM, MEMBER PROTON, BON, I HAVE TO STEP AWAY FROM THE DIAS.

COULD YOU REPEAT WHAT YOUR, YOUR EMOTION WAS? IS IT JUST TO APPROVE THIS? YES.

TO APPROVE THE BUDGET? OKAY.

UM, MY STATEMENT IS, UM, I WOULD LOVE IF WE COULD AMEND THAT, UM, MOTION TO STATE CONTINGENT ON SALARY STUDY, IF THAT'S NECESSARY.

I THINK I BROUGHT THIS UP BEFORE, UM, THE RAISES FOR, UH, THE STAFF MEMBERS.

I KNOW WE'RE DOING A, UH, SALARY SURVEY FOR THE, ALL THE STAFF MEMBERS, UM, AS IT RELATES TO CIVIL SERVICE AND ALL THE DEPARTMENTS, UH, BEING UNDERSTAFFED IN OUR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS IS CRI CRITICAL TO PUBLIC SAFETY.

I DO BELIEVE THAT IN ONE INSTANCE, UM, WE'VE ADDRESSED RECRUITMENT, BUT I DO AGREE WITH THE OFFICERS AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT WHEN WE STATE THAT WE HAVE NOT ADDRESSED RETENTION.

UM, AND SO AS WE MOVE FORWARD, I JUST REALLY WANT, UM, US AS COUNCIL TO TAKE IN CONSIDERATION THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE PEOPLE HERE TO PROTECT OUR CITY AND SERVE OUR CITY, UM, AND SERVICE OUR CITY FROM ALL DEPARTMENTS, WE REALLY CANNOT USE THAT TITLE AS THE SHOW ME CITY.

SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO GETTING THE, THE SALARY SURVEY BACK, AND I HOPE THAT WE'RE GONNA TAKE ACTION AGGRESSIVE ACTION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE GET OUR, UM, STAFF MEMBERS ACROSS THE BOARD ON PAR THAT'S INTO MY STATEMENT.

I KNOW I'M NOT REMEMBER, OH, SORRY.

I KNOW I'M IN THE QUEUE LAST, BUT SHE HAD ASKED ME A QUESTION, IS IT OKAY, MARY, IF I, I MAY RESPOND TO THAT.

GET BACK INTO WHEN C THAT DECEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY, DECEMBER, JANUARY.

CONSIDERING THAT, UH, THE BUDGET FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR END SEPTEMBER THE 30TH AND OUR NEXT COUNCIL MEETING IS NOT UNTIL OCTOBER THE THIRD.

THERE'S NO WAY THAT WE COULD POSTPONE THE APPROVAL OF THIS BUDGET CONTENDED ON A SALARY STUDY, WHICH WE WON'T

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SO I WOULD NOT BE MAKING AN AMENDMENT TO THE MOTION BASED OFF OF THAT BEING THE CASE.

WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T DO THAT.

WE HAVE TO APPROVE THE BUDGET TODAY.

THANK YOU, MEMBER CLOUDER.

UM, I JUST, I WANNA REITERATE, UM, TO OUR RESIDENTS AND TO OUR POLICE OFFICERS, TO OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT THAT, UM, I THINK WE ARE ALL IN AGREEMENT.

I DON'T, I DON'T THINK, I DON'T THINK ANY OF US OR ME OR MY COLLEAGUES FEEL LIKE WE DON'T WANT TO COMPENSATE YOU.

UM, I KNOW, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT TO, I JUST WANNA SAY THAT WE BELIEVE IN THE WORK THAT YOU DO AND WE'RE TRYING TO DO WHAT WE CAN TO MAKE SURE YOU ALL, WE HEAR, WE HEAR YOU, WE HEAR, WE HEAR YOUR CRIES, WE HEAR WHAT YOU WANT, AND WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

UM, MY FIRST QUESTION WAS JUST ANSWERED ABOUT THE COMPENSATION STUDY, BUT IF, UH, AND I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS AN ELENA QUESTION OR IF THIS IS AN INTERIM CITY MANAGER QUESTION, BUT, UM, WHEN WE APPROVE THE BUDGET, IF IT'S APPROVED TODAY, WALK US THROUGH THE NEXT STEPS AFTER, UM, WE APPROVE THE BUDGET, THE INCREASE IS GIVEN, AND WE GET A SALARY SURVEY AND LET'S SAY THAT WE NEED TO MAKE AN INCREASE.

AND WE SEE THAT WE NEED TO MAKE AN INCREASE.

CAN YOU WALK US THROUGH THOSE STEPS AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE? OKAY.

THE BUDGET AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW INCLUDES $2 MILLION TO ADDRESS, UM, SALARIES OF THAT WE'VE COMMITTED, UH, APPROXIMATELY $700,000 FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AT THIS POINT.

UM, SO ONCE THE SALARY STUDY IS COMPLETE, UM, WE'LL LOOK AT WHAT THE RECOMMENDATION IS, UH, FROM THE CONSULTANT AND RUN ANY CALCULATIONS NECESSARY FOR, UH, APPLICABLE BENEFITS TO SEE IF THAT THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT WE HAVE AVAILABLE, UM, IS SUFFICIENT TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THAT.

UM, AND SO EITHER IT'S GOING BE SUFFICIENT OR IT'S NOT.

UM, AND WE, IF IT IS, UM, THE DESIRE OF THE CITY MANAGER AT THAT TIME TO GIVE ADDITIONAL RAISES, WE WOULD NEED TO COME TO COUNCIL FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING.

UM, IT'S HOPEFUL THAT AT THAT TIME THAT WE ALSO HAVE, UH, ADDITIONAL REVENUE SOMEWHERE TO BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THAT.

OTHERWISE, UM, CERTAIN DECISIONS WILL HAVE TO BE MADE AS FAR AS, UM, WHAT WE'RE ABLE TO AFFORD.

DID I ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? YES.

FIRST OF ALL, CAN Y'ALL HEAR ME, FIRST OF ALL, I WANT TO TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK OUR INTERIM CITY MANAGER, THE LEADERSHIP TEAM, AND ALL OF THE DIRECTORS WHO ARE HERE TODAY AND WHO IS NOT HERE.

UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK.

UM, THIS ESPECIALLY BUDGET AND SALARIES IS NOT AN EASY CONVERSATION TO HAVE, UM, FOR ANY BOARD.

IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER WHETHER CITY COUNCIL OR ANYWHERE TO HAVE THESE DISCUSSION, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS TIME.

BUT I WANT TO THANK THIS TEAM BECAUSE FOR PUTTING A, UH, IN MY OPINION, AN EXCELLENT BUDGET TOGETHER.

UM, AND I KNOW IT TOOK A LOT OF WORK.

UM, EVEN THOUGH CEDRIC, YOU'RE NOT THE CITY MANAGER, YOU JUST KIND OF IN THIS SPOT, BUT YOU'VE DONE A FANTASTIC JOB OF LEADING ALL OF YOUR DEPARTMENT THROUGH MAKING THIS HAPPEN.

BUT I ALSO WANT TO ADD TO ALL OTHER DIRECTORS WHO ARE IN HERE.

UM, OBVIOUSLY THERE'S BEEN BUDGET SESSIONS AND BUDGET DURING THESE DISCUSSIONS A LOT CAME ABOUT PUBLIC SAFETY.

SO THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE AS A BOARD OR AS A COUNCIL, I SHOULD SAY, UH, WE IGNORED EVERY OTHER DEPARTMENT.

WE'RE JUST ONLY LOOKING AT PUBLIC SAFETY, BUT PUBLIC SAFETY TOUCHES A KEY IMPORTANT ELEMENT IN OUR CITY WITHOUT A DOUBT.

UM, IT IS, IT IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS.

UH, ONE OF THOSE DEPARTMENTS, FIRE AND POLICE THAT YOU KNOW, THAT EVERY CITIZEN, UH, HAS A CONCERN WITH, BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THE PARKS AND COURTS AND ALL THESE OTHER DEPARTMENTS, UH, PUBLIC WORKS.

WE'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T, WE'RE NOT LISTENING TO YOU.

WE'RE NOT HEARING YOU PUBLIC ELENA.

IF I'M GONNA MAKE SOME COMMENTS, I WANT YOU TO TELL ME IF THAT'S ACCURATE OR NOT.

UP TO 10,000 HIRING IN SENATOR BONUS TO ATTRACT NEW POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS WERE GIVEN THIS YEAR.

UP TO SEVEN AND HALF PERCENT TO RETAIN POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS.

SALARY INCREASES

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SALARY INCREASES TO RECRUIT AND RETAIN, RETAIN PUBLIC SAFETY DISPATCHERS.

5.1 MILLION NEWLY CONSTRUCTED FIRE STATION SIX, WHICH IS BUILT OUT RIGHT.

THAT'S PART OF THE FIRE SAFE.

I MEAN, PUBLIC SAFETY, CORRECT? YES.

THESE ARE TAX DOLLARS TAXPAYERS MONEY I'M TALKING ABOUT.

SO I JUST WANT YOU TO CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

14 NEW FIRE PERSONNEL, INCLUDING 12 FIREFIGHTERS, TWO FIRE STATIONS, SIX, UM, AND THE FISCAL YEAR 2022 BUDGET.

IS THAT CORRECT? YES.

SO THAT'S 12 IN THE 22 BUDGET IN THE, IN THE 22 BUDGET.

MM-HMM OKAY.

TWO NEW MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS IN THE 22 BUDGET, CORRECT OR WRONG.

THAT IS, THAT IS CORRECT.

FIVE NEW FIRE NEL IN THE UPCOMING 23 BUDGET.

FOUR NEW POLICE OFFICERS IN THE 23 BUDGET.

AND WE HAVE, WE HAD 19 NEWLY CREATED FULL-TIME POSITIONS IN THE 2022 BUDGET.

THE ONE THAT WE'RE IN NOW, I WILL NEED TO VERIFY.

THAT'S INCLUDING EVERYBODY.

17 PLUS THE BUDGET AMENDMENT OF TWO.

I JUST WANNA MAKE I'M COMING TO A POINT 27 NEWLY CREATED FULL-TIME POSITIONS IN THE 23 BUDGET.

SO A LOT OF THIS, AND I WANT YOU TO TELL ME, WHAT IS THE TOTAL BUDGET, UH, OUT OF, LET'S SAY A HUNDRED PERCENT.

IT IS.

WHAT IS THE PERCENTAGE THAT GOES TO PUBLIC SAFETY IN THE CITY? 60? I HEARD 60, I HEARD 65.

IF YOU WERE TO DO A GRAPH, IF YOU WERE TO DO A GRAPH, HOW MUCH WOULD GO TO THE OUT OF THE EXPENSES? WHAT WILL BE THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT GOES TO PUBLIC SAFETY? IT'S CLOSE TO 60% CLOSES, CLOSE TO 60%.

SO, SO THE, EVERYTHING THAT I'VE JUST REPEATED TO YOU AS WHAT I'VE MADE NOTES IS ACCURATE, RIGHT? YES, SIR.

NOW I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS.

I JUST HAVE A STATEMENT, UH, TO MAKE, SO I WANT TO THANK THIS ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL HERE FOR THE LAST YEAR'S FY 22 BUDGET AND FOR 23 BUDGET FOR WORKING EXTREMELY HARD TO ADD AND TO THE THINGS THAT WE JUST, THAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT ADDING INTO THESE BUDGET.

SO THIS HAS BEEN A GREAT REWARD.

I ENJOYED THIS OPPORTUNITY TO INCREASE LAST YEAR AND INCREASED THIS YEAR.

AND I KNOW EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THIS BOARD UP HERE, IT'S A DIFFICULT SITUATION TO MAKE.

UH, IT'S NOT EASY, IT'S HARD, BUT WE GOT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE TAKE CARE OF OUR ENTIRE TEAM HERE.

UH, CUZ YOU GUYS LOOK UP TO US TO MOVE THIS FORWARD.

AND LAST THING FOR INTERIM CITY MANAGER IS A QUESTION.

THIS COM CONVERSATION STUDY THAT WE HAVE THAT IF THIS BUDGET GETS APPROVED TODAY, TONIGHT, WHEN WILL YOU INITIATE THAT OCTOBER 1ST? HOW LONG IT IS ACTUALLY STARTED RIGHT NOW.

WE GOT THE F F ME RFQQ OUT THERE OR P OUT THERE RIGHT NOW.

SO ONCE THAT'S DECIDED OCTOBER 1ST, THE AGENCY WILL BE IN HERE.

HOW LONG WOULD IT IS? ARE YOU WORKING WITH THE HR DIRECTOR ON THIS? YES, SIR.

IS THE HR DIRECTOR HERE? YES, SIR.

CAN YOU COME UP, SIR? I JUST HAVE ONE QUICK QUESTION.

NO, PUT YOU ON THE SPOT.

WE, IT JUST BECAUSE OUR PUBLIC DON'T KNOW THIS.

HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE A STUDY OF THIS MAGNITUDE OF A COMPENSATION? UH, IF HE'S SAYING HE STARTED ON NOW OR, OR OCTOBER 1ST, HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO GET IT DONE? IT'LL TAKE APPROXIMATELY ABOUT 90 TO 120 DAYS.

90 TO 120 DAYS TO GET IT DONE.

UH, WITH THE SALARY SURVEY.

NOW WHEN YOU COMPARE CITIES, ARE YOU, DO YOU HAVE ANY, UH, UH, COMPATIBLE CITIES THAT YOU GIVE TO? BECAUSE SOMETIMES IT'S BEEN KNOWN IN THE PAST, EVEN I THINK, I BELIEVE IT WAS LAST YEAR OR THE YEAR BEFORE THAT WE'RE NOT REALLY COMPARING THESE STUDIES TO OUR OWN, UH, SIMILAR, UH, CITIES.

WE'RE JUST TAKING CITIES IN, IN SIZE OF WHETHER IT'S POPULATION OR, OR WHAT HAVE YOU.

AND THEY'RE NOT REALLY A TRUE COMPATIBLE.

UH, AN EXAMPLE OF, OF, OF THESE STUDIES IS THAT, HOW DO YOU GO ABOUT DOING THAT? THAT WILL BE DETERMINED BY THE CITY ITSELF, THE, THE, UM, INTERIM DIRECTOR, I MEAN THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER, MYSELF FINANCIAL SERVICES, THERE WILL BE A TEAM THAT WILL ASSESS THOSE CITIES THAT WILL BE SURVEYED,

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SO IF IT COMES BACK IN 120 DAYS AND THEN TO GOING BACK TO COUNCIL BERGER'S QUESTION, AND IF IT IS, UM, LOW OR IF IT IS, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN AREAS ARE LOW AND CERTAIN ARE AREN'T, HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE TO MAKE THAT CHANGE TO WHETHER TO, I KNOW, I UNDERSTAND ELENA GOES TO A BUDGET AMENDMENT, RIGHT? HOW DO YOU, HOW DO YOU MAKE THAT SWITCH AS LONG AS THE FUNDING, UM, IS THERE, LIKE I MENTIONED, THERE'S $2 MILLION.

THAT'S ALREADY THERE.

IT WON'T REQUIRE A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

IF THERE IS A, WHEN YOU SAID LOW, WERE YOU SAYING THE FUNDING I'M TALKING ABOUT? LET'S SAY IF SOMEONE, I MEAN COMPATIBLE TO WE'RE LOW IN PAY THAN ANOTHER, OUR SISTER CITIES IN GENERAL, IT SHOULD NOT REQUIRE A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

IT, THE FUND SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT, BUT IF FOR SOME REASON IT'S NOT, THEN IT WOULD COME BACK TO COUNCIL.

UM, AND THAT PROCESS TAKES WHAT ABOUT TWO, THREE WEEKS TO BE ABLE TO GET THAT, UH, AMOUNT APPROVED.

AND HOW SOON DOES SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO, FOR, FOR Y'ALL TO MAKE THAT CHANGE SO THAT PEOPLE ARE BEING, YOU KNOW, COMING BACK TO WHERE THEY SHOULD BE MARTIN, OR HOW LONG WOULD IT TAKE FOR, IF YOU FIND OUT THAT THERE CERTAIN DEPARTMENTS ARE LOW IN THERE.

SO HOW, HOW, WHAT, WHAT KIND OF TRANSITION ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? HOW LONG DOES IT TAKE TO IMPLEMENT? THAT IS WHAT I'M ASKING ONCE WE GET THE APPROVAL.

UM, AND THAT WILL BE, UH, THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, ALONG WITH FINANCIAL SERVICES, ALONG WITH OUR DEPARTMENT.

UM, THE LENGTH OF TIME.

UM, I'M TALKING ABOUT LENGTH OF TIME WHEN THE STUDY COMES BACK AND YOU KNOW, WHAT AREAS OR WHAT DEPARTMENT ARE LOW, WHAT IS THE AVERAGE DON'T GIMME THE EXACT TIME.

WHAT IS IT THREE MONTHS TO IMPLEMENT? IS IT ONE MONTH? IS IT TWO WEEKS? IS IT FIVE WEEKS? I WOULD LOOK AT, UH, THREE WEEK PROCESS TO FIGURE OUT WHAT DEPARTMENTS OR WHAT POSITIONS ARE MISALIGNED, MAKE A DETERMINATION BASED UPON THOSE FINDINGS FROM THE STUDY AND THEN GET WHAT THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE TO, UM, DETERMINE, UH, WHICH, UH, THOSE POSITIONS WILL BE, UM, UH, ADJUSTED TO THE, UM, MARKET VALUE, UH, OF THOSE PARTICULAR POSITIONS.

FROM THIS, FROM THE STUDY.

AND THEN THE, THE VERY LAST THING IS, SO ONCE THIS IS ALL SET AND DONE, SO YOU CAN IMPLEMENT THOSE NEW SALARY CHANGES TO OTHERS THAT ARE NEEDED.

CORRECT? CORRECT.

NOW, IF SOME DEPARTMENT COMES BACK OUT AND I'M ASKING FOR THIS GENERAL PUBLIC, CUZ THEY HAVE ASKED THIS QUESTION, WHAT IF YOU HAVE A DEPARTMENT TODAY THAT'S HIGH IN SALARY, WHICH MEANS, YOU KNOW, COMPATIBLE LET'S, I'M JUST THROWING A NUMBER 60,000 IS WHERE THEY SHOULD BE.

AND YOU GOT THE DEPARTMENT THAT'S AT 70,000.

SO DO YOU TAKE AWAY THE MONEY OR YOU KEEP IT WHERE IT'S WE KEEP THEM EXACTLY WHERE THEY'RE AT.

SO ONLY THE ONES THAT ARE MISALIGN.

THAT GETS MOVED UP INTO THAT THING.

AND IS THIS STUDY INCLUDES EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT AND POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY, THIS COMPREHENSIVE STUDY, IT WILL BE A VERY COMPREHENSIVE STUDY, WHICH WILL INCLUDE, UM, AND WE PUT THIS OUT FOR BID ALL OF THE POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE WITH THE CITY.

DOES THIS ALSO INCLUDE LEADERSHIP TEAM? I'M TALKING ABOUT PEOPLE WHO ARE MANAGERS AND DIRECTORS AND THAT LEVEL.

SO IT DOES INCLUDE THAT AS WELL.

IT INCLUDES ALL OTHER POSITIONS THAT WE HAVE AT THE CITY.

THANK YOU SO MUCH MEMBER MARLES AND MOST OF MY QUESTIONS WERE ANSWERED.

UM, SO I'LL JUST SAY THAT WE DON'T HAVE JUST A PD AND A FIRE DEPARTMENT ISSUE.

WE HAVE A CITY ISSUE, RIGHT.

UM, IF YOU GO ON OUR JOB BOARD RIGHT NOW, THERE'S 21 JOB OPENINGS.

UM, THE PRESIDENT OF THE POA OR THE VP, THEIR A POA STATED RETENTION AND RECRUITMENT.

AND I AGREE CITYWIDE.

SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THIS UPCOMING MARKET STUDY.

I THINK I WOULD ASK THAT WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO EXPEDITE IT.

SO WE GET IT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS AND PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THEY STAND.

AND I'LL JUST SAY THAT I'VE CRUNCHED NUMBERS.

I'VE MET WITH OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS TO CRUNCH NUMBERS.

I HAVEN'T HEARD ANY OTHER PEOPLE OFFER UP ANY OTHER IDEAS, BUT THIS WAS A REALLY TIGHT BUDGET.

AND I WISH I COULD CUT A CHECK TOMORROW FOR MORE MONEY FOR EVERYBODY.

BUT I WOULD JUST SAY THAT HELP IS ON THE WAY AND TO DO THE BEST YOU CAN TO HOLD ON.

CAUSE WE APPRECIATE YOU.

AND UM, THAT'S, THOSE ARE MY COMMENTS MEMBER EDWARDS.

BUDGET OR NOT, THAT I BELIEVE IS JUST UNFORTUNATE THAT WE CAN'T EVEN HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION PRIOR TO THIS DEADLINE THAT WAS BEEN PROPOSED.

I JUST WANNA STATE IN MY CO CLOSING COMMENTS BEFORE WE APPROVE THIS

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AND THAT BASICALLY POLITICS HAVE TAKEN PRESIDENT OVER COMPENSATION FOR STAFF, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY AS WELL AS OPERATION.

AND IT TIES THE HANDS OF THE RESIDENTS AS WELL AS OUR PUBLIC SAFETY AND ELECTED OFFICIALS CONTINUE TO EXIST ACT AS IF WE CAN'T EVEN MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE THE QUALITY ACROSS THE, THE CITY.

AND SO I KNOW THE ARGUMENT CONTINUES TO SAY IT'S A CITYWIDE.

UM, UH, I GUESS A, UM, YEAH, CITYWIDE STAFF ISSUE WITH COMPENSATION, BUT THE PROBLEM REMAINS THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC SAFETY, HOW CAN WE OPERATE AS A CITY? HOW CAN WE ASSURE THAT ANYONE IS SAFE? SO, AND I, I JUST THINK THE COMPENSATION STUDY IS GREAT, BUT IT'S TAKEN WAY TOO LONG.

WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR YEARS AND FOR US TO BE THE LOWEST PAID AGENCY IN FORT BEND COUNTY IS EMBARRASSING.

I CAN CLOSE MARK ON MEMOR RILEY.

UM, I JUST WANT TO HAVE SOME CLARIFICATION ON, I ACCESS OUR LAST MEETING AND THIS MAY NOT BE A QUESTION FOR YOU, BUT MAYBE P CEDRIC, UM, OUR TWO APPOINTED, UH, CHIEFS, CHIEF OF FIRE AND CHIEF OF POLICE, WHERE DOES IT FALL WITH THEIR RAISES SINCE THEY ARE APPOINTED POSITIONS VERSUS BEING STAFF, WHEN DO GET THEIR RAISES OCTOBER 1ST? AND WHAT, WHAT WOULD THAT BE? 3%.

THAT'S 3% BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE SOCIAL SERVICE.

AND MY OKAY.

I'LL YIELD CUZ I CAN'T, I CAN'T FIND MY OTHER QUESTION.

MARI PRO 10 BONNIE.

POSITIONS FOR COMMUNICATIONS, WHICH TOOK THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT FROM NINE TO 11.

UH, THANK YOU.

I JUST WAS JUST HIGHLIGHTING AS I WAS JUST GOING THROUGH AND LISTENING TO THE COMMENTS AND JUST GOING BACK THROUGH THE BUDGET, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO ACCOMPLISH BY, UM, ASSUMING THAT MY COLLEAGUES AND I APPROVE THIS, THIS BUDGET, ALL THAT IS ENCOMPASSING OF THIS BUDGET.

UH, WE'RE ABLE TO INCORPORATE A ACROSS THE BOARD TWO AND A HALF PERCENT HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR ALL RESIDENTS INCREASED DIS DISABLED AND 65 AND OLDER HOMESTEAD EXEMPTIONS.

THAT'S A PART OF THIS BUDGET ADDING 27 NEW FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES, WHICH INCLUDES POLICE AND FIRE.

THAT'S A PART OF THIS BUDGET, BONUSES AND SALARY INCREASES A TAX RATE DECREASE, WHICH LOWERS THE TAX RATE BY 0 CENTS.

ASSUMING THAT WE ADOPT THE PROPOSED TAX RATE THAT I SUGGESTED OF 0.5 7 3 7 5 0, IT FUNDS FLEET IT EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT PROGRAMS. IT FUNDS THE SALARY AND COMPENSATION STUDY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT.

IT PROVIDES FOR 4.6 MILLION OF ONE TIME EXPENDITURES.

THERE ARE FUNDS THAT ARE STILL GONNA BE DEDICATED TO THE TEXAS PARKWAY CARTRIGHT CORRIDOR PROGRAMS AND EFFORTS.

IT ADDRESSES AGING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR STREETS, FOR SIDEWALKS, PARKS, AND FACILITIES.

IT ALSO ENCOMPASSES THE CIVIL SERVICE FUNDING FOR OUR POLICE AND FIRE PENSION CONTRIBUTIONS, AND MUCH MORE.

I BELIEVE THAT WE THROUGH ALL OF OUR DUE DILIGENCE AS WAS STATED FROM APRIL UNTIL NOW, AND BECAUSE THE CHARTER STATES THAT WE HAVE TO, WE OPERATE ON A BUDGET, UH, OR SHOULD I SAY A FISCAL YEAR THAT STARTS OCTOBER THE FIRST AND END SEPTEMBER THE 30TH.

WE HAVE NO FURTHER TIME TO WAIT AND DELAY.

WE'VE HAD MONTHS AS WAS STATED FROM APRIL TO NOW TO EXPRESS OURSELVES, TO BRING POINTS, DIFFERING OPINIONS, UH, AND EVEN BRING SOME STATISTICS AND INFORMATION TO THE TABLE THAT WOULD OFFSET WHAT STAFF HAS DILIGENTLY WORKED ON.

SO, UH, I'M VERY, VERY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO PASS THIS BUDGET, KNOWING THAT WE HAVEN'T SOLVED ALL OF THE ISSUES THAT OUR, OUR GREAT CITY, UH, NEEDS.

THERE'S A LOT OF NEEDS AND ONLY SO MUCH MONEY THAT WE HAVE TO WORK WITH.

IT'S NOT MONOPOLY MONEY.

THIS IS REAL MONEY.

THIS IS OUR TAXPAYER'S MONEY.

SO WE CAN'T JUST PULL MONEY OUT OF THE AIR OR IT DOESN'T FALL OUT OF THE SKY.

WE HAVE TO MAKE SOUND PRUDENT FINANCIAL DECISIONS, AND THAT'S WHY WE WERE ELECTED.

AND I'M HAPPY TO VOTE IN FAVOR OF THIS BUDGET.

THANK YOU, MAYOR MEMBER MORALES.

THERE WAS SOME INFORMATION SAYS EARLIER.

I JUST WANT TO POINT OUT SOMETHING IN AUGUST OF 2020, A BUDGET WAS PRESENTED TO COUNCIL WHEN A NEW INCOMING CITY MANAGER CAME IN AND IT WAS A, IT WAS A, UH, AMENDED.

AND IN THAT AMENDMENT, THERE WAS $400,000 ADDED TO THE BUDGET.

A HUNDRED THOUSAND OF IT WAS FOR A SIX SIGMA POSITION, TWO FULL-TIME

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WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT PD, FIRE OR ANYBODY, BUT WE STACKED THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT THAT WAS THE PRIORITY BACK OF THE PAST.

AND OBVIOUSLY IT DIDN'T GET DISCUSSED.

SO WHAT I'LL SAY IS THIS, WE ALSO HAD FOUR, FOUR SIGNAL TECHNICIANS AND SASHI STILL ASKING FOR PEOPLE AND WE NEVER REALLY HELPED SASHI.

SO THROUGHOUT THE YEARS, AS MOST OF US HAVE SERVED HERE, I'VE NOT SEEN OR HEARD ANYBODY PROVIDE A WALK TO ADDING 10 MORE COPS OR FIVE MORE OFFICERS OR GIVING MORE MONEY.

I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING FROM ANYBODY.

SO IF WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT IT'S TIME TO INVEST, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE YOUR SOLUTIONS, BRING IT TO THE TABLE AND SHOW US HOW WE'RE GONNA GET TO A BALANCED BUDGET WITHOUT RAISING TAXES TO ADD ANOTHER OFFICER OR PAY THEM MORE MEMBER EDWARDS.

UM, I KNOW JUST A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH WITH PUBLIC SAFETY AND I, I KNOW MAYOR SPOKE ABOUT SOME INITIATIVES THAT WERE BROUGHT IN.

HE MENTIONED THE TWO, UM, MOTORCYCLES THAT WE JUST RECEIVED, THE FOUR ADDITIONAL OFFICERS, THE 7% INCREASE, THE $10,000 SIGN ON BONUS.

BUT AGAIN, THOSE ARE JUST SMALL FIXES FOR, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT'S, THAT'S A DIRE NEED.

THE MOTORCYCLE IS PROBABLY WON'T EVEN BE ABLE TO CONTINUE TO, TO DO WHATEVER THEIR DUTIES ARE ON THE MOTORCYCLE, CUZ WE CAN'T EVEN CONTINUE TO KEEP OFFICERS.

THEY MIGHT HAVE TO GO BACK ON PATROL.

SO THAT REALLY SCRATCHES IT OFF AS A BENEFIT.

THE 7% INCREASE WHEN WE'RE THE LOWEST.

I MEAN THAT REALLY WILL JUST SCRATCH THE SURFACE OF THE COMPENSATION THAT THE OFFICERS ARE ACTUALLY DUE.

UM, THE $10, $10,000 SIGN ON BONUS.

LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE, IT'S A ONE TIME DEAL.

AND SO AFTER THAT IS OVER, OFFICERS ARE STILL GONNA BE UNDERPAID.

SO THESE LITTLE TALKING POINTS, I THINK THEY SOUND GOOD IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE HISTORY, IF YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW YOU KNOW, BELOW THE MARKET, WE ARE.

SO JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE BEING REALISTIC WHEN WE ARE SPEAKING ON THIS TALKING POINTS, BUT I DIGRESS MAYOR ALL CAT.

I WANT TO GO BACK TO WE SHOW, UH, RILEY, UH, COUNCILWOMAN RILEY.

YES, SHE WAS UP.

SHE WAS AHEAD OF ME.

SOMEONE WHO LOOKED UP REMEMBER RILEY, SORRY.

IF YOU HIT IT TWO TIMES, IT'LL TAKE YOU OUT OF THE CUBE.

OH, OKAY.

THIS TECHNOLOGY TONIGHT.

OH MY GOSH.

UM, I REMEMBER WHAT MY, MY POINT WAS.

UM, IT WAS IN REGARDS TO THE, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO WAS SIT DOWN, UM, WITH COUNCIL MARS.

UM, AND THANK YOU BY THE WAY, FOR HELPING ME WITH THAT, BEING A NEW COUNCIL MEMBER AND BEING THRUST INTO QUITE A FEW ISSUES OVER THIS LAST, UH, NINE MONTHS HAS BEEN A LEARNED EXPERIENCE AND I'VE MET WITH THE OFFICERS, TALKED TO SOME FIRE DEPARTMENT, UM, PEOPLE AND TALKING AND LEARNING.

AND I HEAR WHAT EVERYBODY IS SAYING.

AND I CAN HONESTLY TELL YOU, THIS WAS ONE OF THE SCARIEST THINGS THAT I'VE HAD TO MAKE A DECISION ABOUT WAS HAVING TO CONSIDER APPROVING SOMETHING THAT I REALLY DIDN'T THINK WE HAD PRESSED IN DEEP ENOUGH.

UM, DID NOT REALLY KNOW.

UM, SOME OF, SOME OF THE LOGISTICS ON THIS PARTICULAR BUDGET HAD TO LEARN REALLY QUICKLY.

AND MY POINT IS WITH THIS, SOMEONE WAS SOMEONE MENTIONED, WE HAVE TWO MOTORCYCLE OFFICERS.

TEARS BECAUSE I WANTED TO BE ABLE TO FIGHT FOR ALL OF THE STAFF MEMBERS AND GIVE EVERYBODY WHAT THEY WANTED AND TO JUST LOOK AT THE NUMBERS AND HOW THEY DIDN'T MATCH UP.

AND IT WAS ALSO MENTIONED, WE HAVE TWO ADDITIONAL OFFICERS THAT WERE BEING PROVIDED THROUGH A GRANT AND THE CITY MANAGER APPROVED, UH, ENTRANCE MANAGER APPROVED FOR FOUR ADDITIONAL OFFICERS, WHICH TECHNICALLY THAT GIVES US EIGHT OF THE 15 THAT UH, CHIEF BEIN WAS REQUESTING FOR.

BUT IN ALL ACTUALITY, IF WE HAVEN'T FILLED THE OTHER POSITIONS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE THE BUDGET, WE, OR WE BASED ON THE BUDGET, WE DON'T HAVE THE FUNDING TO KEEP OFFICERS AND BRING ON MORE OFFICERS.

AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE LOOKED AT, THE CR WE CRUSHED THE NUMBERS AND I WAS DESPERATE TO FIND MONEY BASED ON MY LITTLE BIT OF KNOWLEDGE ON THIS.

AND WITHOUT GOING TO THE TAXPAYERS TO ASK THEM TO RAISE, UM, OUR TAX VALUE, IT WAS GOING TO BE HARD PRESSED TO ADD ON MORE, UM, IN THAT ONE DEPARTMENT, JUST THAT ONE DEPARTMENT VERSUS ALL THE DEPARTMENTS.

AND I CAN HONESTLY SAY, AND COUNCIL MEMBER CONTESTED THIS.

I ALMOST, I CAME TO

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IT WAS REALLY DISAPPOINTING.

AND WHEN I SEE ALL THESE DEPARTMENTS WHO ARE LACKING PEOPLE IN THEIR DEPARTMENT, BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE LEAVING, NOT JUST FROM YOUR STAFF LEVEL, BUT FROM EVEN EXECUTIVE LEVELS, THEY'RE LEAVING.

AND I DON'T KNOW WHERE THE SPENDING HAS GONE IF WE'VE DONE WASTEFUL, UM, APPROVALS ON SPENDINGS OR WHAT, BUT I WILL SAY THIS AS WE MOVE INTO THIS NEXT YEAR AND ME BEING A PART OF THIS PROCESS, IT IS GOING TO BE IMPERATIVE THAT WE PAY ATTENTION TO WHERE WE PUT MONIES AND MAKE SURE THAT OUR STAFF IS WELL TAKEN CARE OF WELL COMPENSATED.

AND IF FOR SOME UNFORTUNATE REASON, WE HAVE TO GO TO THE VOTERS TO RAISE THEIR TAXES.

THAT'S GONNA BE EVEN MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE DID JUST DO ALL OF THESE, UM, UM, EXEMPTIONS.

AND THAT'S REALLY JUST GONNA AVOID EVERYTHING OUT.

AT SOME POINT WE'VE GOTTA GET ON RIGHT ON TRACK WHERE THIS CITY REALLY IS MOVING FORWARD.

AND OUR STAFF IS REALLY HAPPY WITH THE PLACE THAT THEY'RE WORKING.

THAT CONCLUDES MY STATEMENT.

YES, MA'AM, I'LL END WITH THIS.

YOU KNOW, I'VE SERVED ON THIS CITY COUNCIL FROM 2009 TO 2015 IN DISTRICT C FOR SOME OF YOU WHO ARE NEW HERE TODAY, UH, IN THE STAFF WISE AS WELL.

WE USED TO HAND OUT SALARIES EVERY TWO YEARS, IF NOT THREE YEARS, SOME OF YOU THAT'S BEEN HERE THAT PRO WOULD PROBABLY KNOW THIS.

AND I BELIEVE THE LAST ONE WAS IN 2017, THAT WAS GIVEN A RACE.

AND THEN BETWEEN 2019 AND 2020, IT WAS GIVEN 1%, ONE TIME.

AND THEN LAST YEAR IN 20 20, 21, THIS CITY COUNCIL GAVE THREE AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASED TO ALL EMPLOYEES ACROSS THE SYSTEM, ELENA, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THREE AND A HALF PERCENT.

AND THEN ALSO ONE TIME, 2% OR TWO AND A HALF PERCENT CORRECT OVER IN DECEMBER TIME.

NOW IN THE 23 BUDGET, EVERY STAFF IN HERE IS ALSO GETTING A TWO AND A HALF PERCENT, CORRECT ELENA TWO AND A HALF OR THREE IT'S 3%, 3%.

AND IN ADDITION TO THAT, THE PUBLIC SAFETY SECTOR IS GETTING SOMEWHERE CLOSE TO SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT.

SO I LOOK AT BACK THE TWO YEARS AND YOU LOOK AT WHAT PEOPLE GOT LAST YEAR.

SO, AND I DON'T BLAME ANYBODY IN THE PAST.

IT IS WHAT IT WAS TIMES CHANGED.

THINGS ARE TAKING PLACE, BUT IN THE, IN THE 2023, IT'S COMING UP AND 22 AND 21, IF YOU GO BACK AND LOOK AT AS A STAFF, IF YOU'VE BEEN HERE THAT LONG, YOU GO BACK AND LOOK, LAST YEAR, YOU HAVE GOTTEN THREE AND A HALF PERCENT FOR ALL PLUS ANOTHER 2%, ONE TIME.

AND THEN THIS YEAR, A 3% ON OCTOBER 1ST, CORRECT CEDRIC.

AND THAT ALSO INCLUDING, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY PUBLIC SAFETY, I MEAN, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY BECAUSE OF THE, UH, STEPS, YOU KNOW, UH, THEY'RE GOING THROUGH A DIFFERENT PROCESS.

THAT'S WHY THEY'RE AT A 7.5%.

SO WHEN WE GO BACK AND LOOK AT 2018 BACKWARDS CITY DID GIVE RACE UNDER OTHER CITY COUNCIL THAT WAS IN PLACE AT THAT TIME, BUT IT WAS ALWAYS DONE THROUGH COMPREHENSIVE STUDY AND IT WOULD CAME BACK TO COMPARABLE OTHER CITIES.

AND WE HAVE GIVEN IT, WHICH HAS BEEN TWO, TWO YEARS OR EVERY TWO YEARS.

AND, AND THEY WOULD GET IT IN THE THIRD YEAR.

SO THE CITY HAS MADE, UH, DRASTIC CHANGES TO WHAT'S BEING DONE HERE.

SO WHILE WE TALK ABOUT POLITICS, THIS IS NOT POLITICS.

THIS IS REALLY TAKING CARE OF LIVES OF OUR PEOPLE, TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE NEEDED TO DO WITHOUT, AND ALSO BEING ADHERED TO THE CITIZENS OF MISSOURI CITY WITHOUT RAISING THEIR TAX AND MAKING SURE THAT WE, WE, WE ARE DOING EVERYTHING WE CAN TO MANAGE OUR CITY PROCESS.

AND, AND IT'S NOT EASY.

UH, SOME MAY LIKE IT AND SOME MAY NOT LIKE IT.

AND, AND, YOU KNOW, GIVING ADDITIONAL, I'VE NEVER HEARD OF GIVING $10,000 BONUSES IN THE PAST, ANYTIME, YOU KNOW, FOR WHETHER IT'S PUBLIC SAFETY OR FOR ANYBODY ELSE.

SO TIME CHANGED, ESSENCE CHANGED THE WORKFORCE CHANGED.

SO WE'RE ADAPTING TO IT AS WE CAN.

AND I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT TO THE CITIZENS IS THE COMPREHENSIVE STUDY THAT IF YOU CAN GET THAT DONE, I HEARD MERU SAY, AS SOON AS YOU CAN RUSH IT OR WHATEVER IT IS THAT WE CAN GET IT DONE.

SO WE HAVE SOME VALID POINTS BEHIND IT TO, TO GIVE

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THOSE THAT $2 MILLION, RATHER THAN JUST SAYING THAT WE'RE JUST TAKING IT OUT OF THE RESERVE AND JUST, JUST SPENDING IT SO HEALTHY FUND BALANCE ON THE RESERVE, ELENA, KUDOS TO YOU.

CUZ I KNOW WHEN I'VE SERVED HERE BEFORE IT WAS AROUND 19% AND THE GOAL WAS TO GET IT UP TO 21% AND TODAY YOU'RE SOMEWHERE AROUND 40 SOME PERCENT AND DON'T QUOTE ME ON IT.

SO I THINK FINANCIALLY CITY'S DOING GREAT, BUT I THINK IT'S A, IT IS THIS PROBLEM.

DIDN'T START, YOU KNOW, LAST NIGHT, THIS, THIS TOOK A WHILE TO GET US TO HERE, BUT I WANT EVERY SINGLE, I KEEP REPEATING EVERY SINGLE DEPARTMENT IN HERE TO KNOW THAT THAT WE ARE WORKING THROUGH AS A BOARD.

I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S SITTING HERE IS AGAINST ANY DEPARTMENT OR AGAINST VOTING FOR AN INCREASE, BUT WE HAVE TO, WE REPORT TO THE CITIZENS OF THIS CITY.

WE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE MANAGE THEIR MONEY PROPERLY AS WELL.

AND WE ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO THEM AND THEY WILL ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.

SO WE NEEDED TO MAKE SURE, BUT, BUT WE UNDERSTAND WE'RE IN FRONT OF YOU EVERY DAY.

UH, WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF YOU.

WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE WORKING.

WE HEAR YOU LOUDER THAN AND CLEAR, BUT IT'S A BALANCING ACT.

AND I THINK, AND I WANT TO THANK EVERY SINGLE MEMBER UP HERE FOR DOING WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND MOVING THE CITY FORWARD TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE ADDRESSING THE NEEDS THAT WE, THAT YOU ALL ARE GIVING US TO.

SO THANK YOU ALL FOR, AND THAT IS MY FINAL COMMENT.

I'D LIKE TO REALLY QUICK, UM, CORRECT.

ONE STATEMENT THAT I MADE PUBLIC SAFETY, GENERAL FUND SPECIFICALLY POLICE AND FIRE ONLY IS 37% OF THE BUDGET.

CAN YOU REPEAT THAT? POLICE AND FIRE WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND IS 37% OF THE BUDGET.

WHAT ABOUT EXPENSE? THAT IS THE EXPENSE.

ALL ANYBODY ELSE CUED? SURE.

THERE'S NO, I PRESS IT TWICE.

I DON'T EVEN HAVE AN OPTION TO .

SO, UM, I JUST WANNA PROVIDE A POINT OF CLARITY.

I KNOW THE MARRIAGE JUST SPOKE ABOUT, HE HASN'T, WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO GIVE RAISES OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, BUT I JUST WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE WE WERE IN A PANDEMIC.

UM, ALTHOUGH OUR SALES PRICES BELOW THE WHOLE WORLD WAS PRETTY MUCH SHUT DOWN AND I DO BELIEVE WHEN WE DID VOTE FOR A 2% RAISE, IT WASN'T PROVIDED UNTIL TEEN CAME.

SO IT WAS NEGLECTED.

I MEAN, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG.

THE 2% RAISE WASN'T GIVEN TO THE, THE STAFF UNTIL, UM, TEEN CAME AND WE VOTED FOR IT WHILE INTERIM, UM, CITY MANAGER BILL WAS IN, IN OFFICE.

SO JUST WANNA PROVIDE THAT POINT OF CLARITY.

WE JUST LIKE, LIKE I SAID, JUST GOT OUT OF A PANDEMIC AND SO, UM, WE DID NOT PROVIDE RAZORS, SO JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT'S CLEAR AND CONCISE AND REPORTED.

SO ANYBODY ELSE ON THE QUEUE THAT Q STILL SHOWS TWO PEOPLE ON HERE? RIGHT? I'M SEEING IT.

I DON'T KNOW IF FATHERS ARE SEEING IT.

I AM.

SO ASSUMING THAT THERE'S NOBODY ON YOUR END.

THERE'S NO ONE ON MY END MAYOR.

WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MAYOR, PROTON BONING, AND I SEE SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER MORALES.

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CAN WE VOTE ON THIS THING? DOES IT WORK? YES.

I'M NOT EVEN, I'M NOT EVEN I'M FROZEN.

I'M FROZEN.

WELL WHILE EXCUSE ME, WHILE WE'RE HAVING TECHNICAL ISSUES.

LET ME JUST REMIND THE COUNCIL THAT, UH, SINCE THIS, UM, BUDGET ADOPTION REQUIRES RAISING MORE REVENUE FROM PROPERTY TAXES THAN IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR THAN, UM, AFTER YOU ALL VOTE ON THE ORDINANCE THAN A SEPARATE RECORD VOTE, UH, TO RATIFY THE PROPERTY TAX INCREASE IN THE BUDGET IS REQUIRED.

SO, UH, THAT'LL BE A ROLL CALL VOTE.

UM, SO YOU'LL HAVE TO GO DOWN THE LINE, BUT THAT'S UM, LIKE I SAID, A RATIFICATION OF THE PROPERTY TAX INCREASE THAT'S IN THE BUDGET.

UNDERSTOOD.

CAN WE VOTE? NO, NO.

I THINK WHEN WE'RE TALKING, IF YOU, I THINK IT FREEZES ONCE SLEEP CLEAR THAT, SO THERE'S A MOTION BY CLOUDS NOW.

NO, WE HAVE TO BACK THAT OUT CAUSE I WAS TRYING TO PUSH.

THE MOTION PASSES SEVEN TO ZERO.

THAT WAS THE MOTION, RIGHT? IT ITEM 12.

YOU VOTE? YES.

MA'AM

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THANK YOU ALL.

THANK Y'ALL FOR YOUR HARD WORK.

SO THERE'S AN ADOPTION OF BUDGET THAT WILL REQUIRE, UH, RAISING MORE REVENUES FROM THE PROPERTY TAXES THAN IN THE PREVIOUS YEAR REQUIRES A SEPARATE RECORD, VOTE TO RATIFY THE PROPERTY TAX INCREASE REFLECTIVE IN THE BUDGET, CORRECT? YES.

SO THIS NEEDS A MOTION.

IT'S A MOTION TO RATIFY THE PROPERTY TAX INCREASE.

CAN WE CLEAR THIS MOTION? THAT'S ALREADY ON HERE? OKAY.

THERE A SECOND SHOWING I'M BACK IN THE QUEUE.

SO DID YOU, WAS THAT YOUR EMOTION, SIR? IT IS SOMEBODY SUPPOSED TO BE EYEING THIS THING ALL THE TIME, LIKE LOOKING AT THIS ALL THE TIME, BECAUSE IT'S JUST NOT, IT'S ALL OVER THE PLACE IN THE QUEUE.

SO WAIT, SO DO I GET IT? I MEAN, JUST SO FOR YOUR RECORD, IT SHOWS EMORY MADE THE MOTION, UH, BONY SECONDED.

IS THAT WHAT YOU HAVE RECORD? I DO SEE THAT ON THE SCREEN.

ANY DISCUSSIONS? ALL RIGHT.

LET'S VOTE.

WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING IS A PUBLIC HEARING ON AN ORDINANCE ON THE FIRST AND FINAL READING, ADOPTING AN AD VALOR TAX RATE FOR THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS UPON ALL TAXABLE PROPERTY WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF THE CITY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING IN SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2023, AND DIRECTING THE ASSESSMENT AND COLLECTION THEREOF.

[(5) Public Hearing - An ordinance on first and final reading adopting an a...]

SO NOW CALL FOR PUBLIC HEARING.

IS THERE ANY OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING? YES, SIR.

THERE ARE NO COMMENTS.

WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.

UM, CITY ATTORNEY.

THIS IS ITEM, UH, SEVEN BK IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS PROVIDING FOR THE ASSESSMENT LEVY IN COLLECTION OF AD VALOR TAXES FOR THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS FOR THE TAX HERE 2020, UH, TWO AND FOR EACH YEAR THEREAFTER UNTIL OTHERWISE PROVIDED PROVIDING THE DATE ON WHICH SUCH TAXES SHALL BE DUE AND TIMELY PAID AND AUTHORIZING AN ADDITIONAL PENALTY FOR THE COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT ENVELOPE TAXES IN LIEU OF RECOVERING ATTORNEY'S FEES.

SORRY.

I, MY, MY COMPUTER'S FREEZING UP NOW, BUT LET ME, UH, SO

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UM, SO EJO, SO THIS ITEM REQUIRES THREE VOTES.

SO IS THERE A MOTION? IS THERE A EMOTION ALREADY IN HERE? CAN WE CLEAR FIRST? I ONLY SEE CLOUD OR SECOND ON HERE.

I'M OVER THERE.

LOOK AT MR. MAYOR IN, IN ORDER TO, UM, KIND OF BRING US BACK IN ORDER.

IS IT POSSIBLE THAT WE CAN FINISH OUT THE REST OF THE MEETING, UM, USING THE METHODS THAT WE USE PRIOR TO, UM, THE ELECTRONIC SYSTEM THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE NOW? YES.

THANK YOU, SIR.

SO WE'LL WRITE IT DOWN.

SO THERE'S BEEN, SO WHO MADE THE MOTION ON THIS NAME? OKAY, SO MAYOR PROTON, BON MADE THE MOTION WHO MADE THE SECOND, ER, AND, UM, CAN I GET, UM, CAN I RECOMMEND THAT, UM, THE MOTION BE CLARIFIED BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, THIS IS, UH, ADOPTION OF THE TAX RATE DOES REQUIRE THREE VOTES.

UM, ONE ON THE MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS COMPONENT.

UM, THE NEXT ON THE, I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE RATE OF 0.43 CENT FOR THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS COMPONENT OF THE TAX RATE AS PRESENTED BY CITY STAFF.

IS THAT YOUR STILL YOUR SECOND, SECOND? OKAY.

IS THERE A DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS SAY, AYE, AND THIS IS, THIS IS GONNA REQUIRE A ROLL CALL VOTE.

SO, UM, I GUESS SINCE THE CITY SECRETARY GENERALLY CONDUCTS THAT WE CAN JUST GO DOWN THE LINE AND GET EVERYBODY'S AFFIRMATIVE VOTE VERBALLY OR WHATEVER IT IS NOT AFFIRMATIVE, BUT A VERBAL VOTE MEMBER.

WHO YOU HAVE? SECOND MEMBER RILEY.

I LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO PROVE THE RATE OF 1 4, 7, 6, 9 CENTS WITH A DEBT COMPONENT OF THE TAX RATE AS PRESENTED BY CITY STAFF.

SECOND, SECOND,

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SO, ALRIGHT.

IS THERE A DISCUSSION? OKAY.

HEARING NONE.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS.

OH, WE'LL CONDUCT ANOTHER ROLL CALL.

VOTE FOR THIS ONE AS, AS WELL AS STATED BY THE STATE LAW MEMBER.

RILEY.

MEMBER EDWARDS MEMBER MORALES.

MAYORCA YES.

MEMBER, RIGHT? THANK YOU, MEMBER CLOUDER.

MEMBER EMORY.

I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO ADOPT THE ORDINANCE, PROVIDING A TOTAL TAX RATE OF 0.57 CENTS PER $100 VALUATION AS PRESENTED BY CITY STAFF.

IS THERE A MOTION? SECOND MOTION PROOF.

SORRY.

I JUST MADE THE MOTION.

THAT WAS THE MEMBER BON THE MEMBER 10.

I JUST READ IT.

OH, I THINK I HEARD RILEY SAID SECOND.

SO LET'S GO MOTION SECOND.

ALL ROLL CALL MEMBER RILEY.

MU CARRIE IS SEVEN TO ZERO.

ITEM NUMBER EIGHT.

OUR APPOINTMENTS.

THERE ARE NO APPOINTMENTS ON THIS AGENDA.

NUMBER EIGHT ARE AUTHORIZATIONS ITEM A A CONSIDER AN POSSIBLE ACTION TO REJECT BIDS FOR THE SIENNA PARKWAY, INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENT AND MOBILITY PROJECTS DUE TO COST ESCALATION IN ACCORDANCE WITH SECTION 2 50, 2 OF THE TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE SHOT SHEET.

[(a) Consideration and Possible Action - To reject bids for the Sienna Park...]

COME ON.

YOU SAID EIGHT.

A IS I BELIEVE IS NINE A I MEANT NINE A SORRY.

YES, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

UM, AGAIN, THIS IS ONE OF THE MOBILITY PROJECTS STARTING FROM HIGHWAY SIX, ALL THE WAY TO MCKEE.

THERE WAS A PROJECT TO ADD CAPACITY AT THE INTERSECTIONS, LITERALLY ADD ONE LANE, EACH DIRECTIONS.

UNFORTUNATELY, THAT PROJECT HAS NOT MOVED FORWARD.

IT'S A MUCH NEEDING PROJECT.

WE ARE IN A VERY TIGHT CONSTRUCTION MARKET.

WHEN WE BID THIS PROJECT, WE BID HALF THE PROJECT OF THE FIRST PHASE OF THE PROJECT.

THE ENGINEERS ESTIMATE WAS A LITTLE OVER TWO AND A HALF MILLION.

AND THE BIDS CAME IN AT 4.8 MILLION.

WELL, WELL ABOVE THE ENGINEERS ESTIMATE, UH, OBVIOUSLY, UH, WE DID SOME RESEARCH OF WHAT WENT TO HAPPEN.

WE HAD SOME DEBRIEFING WITH THE CONTRACTORS AND THIS WAS ONLY ONE BID WE GOT FOR THIS PROJECT.

UH, THIS WAS A TIME WHEN WE BID WAS THE GAS PRICE WAS GOING 10 CENTS EVERY DAY.

IT WAS FOUR PLUS DOLLARS MATERIALS WERE IN SHORT SUPPLY DUE TO THE SPECULATIVE CONDITIONS IN THE MARKET.

UH, A LOT OF CONTRACTORS PUT, PUT IN, WE WERE TOLD SOME FLUFF FACTORS.

SO WE'RE GOING BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD, UH, TO DO SOME WHAT WE CALL VALUE ENGINEERING AND REBATE THE PROJECT.

HOPEFULLY WE'LL GET IT DONE WITHIN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS AND REBID IT.

UH, BUT THE ITEM I ACTION ITEM FOR YOU IS TO REJECT A BID THE LOAN BID THAT WE GOT FROM ONE CONTRACT.

IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVE TO A SECOND.

SECOND.

ANY DISCUSSION? YEAH.

UH, ACTUALLY DID HAVE WE DONE ANY WORK ON THE, UH, THE, UH, PARKWAY INTERSECTIONS? WE HAVE NOT, NOT DONE ANYTHING ON THE CNA PARKWAY AT ALL.

UH, BUT THE IDEA NOW IS TO CAR OUT SOME ROADWAY PROJECTS AND NOT DELAY THE SIGNAL PROJECTS, SO TO SPEAK WHERE WE HAVE SOME HIGH COSTS AND MATERIAL SUPPLIES ISSUES, JUST TO DO THE ROADWAY COMPONENT NOW THAT THE PURE CONCRETE KIND OF TUR WORK AND THEN COME BACK AND DO THE SIGNAL WORK.

SO WE'RE REPACKAGING THAT TO BE BID.

AND, UH, WE HOPE TO HIT THE MARKET WITHIN THE NEXT THREE MONTHS.

I THOUGHT, I, I THOUGHT THERE WERE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT, THAT ALREADY THEY MAKE NOT FROM, UH, CITY FORT BEND COUNTY, THE ER IS DOING SOME IMPROVEMENTS.

THERE ARE NO OTHER DISCUSSIONS.

WE'LL GO AHEAD AND VOTE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION.

NOW THIS IS WORKING, WE'RE BACK TO THIS.

IF WE CAN, IF WE CAN FINISH THE REST OF THE MEETING IN THIS, IN THE PREVIOUS PROCESS, THAT WOULD BE GREAT.

UM, SASHI, I JUST WANNA KNOW MAYBE I MISSED IT IN THE PACKET OR DURING YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT WHO, UM, WHO ARE WE DOING THE BIDDING WITH OR HOW, HOW IS THAT BEING CONDUCTED? ANY PROJECT WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PUBLIC ADVERTISE AND BIDDING PROCESS.

WE DO ELECTRONIC BIDDINGS.

THAT IS A STATE ELECTRONIC BIDDING WEBSITE.

UH, OUR TEAM DOES THE JOB OF REACHING OUT TO THE CONTRACTOR COMMUNITY AND TELLING THEM THAT THE PROJECTS HAVE COME IN.

IT IS JUST A VERY TIGHT MARKET DURING APRIL, MAY, JUNE THAT, UH, NOT MANY PEOPLE WERE BIDDING THE PROJECT BECAUSE THE PRICES WERE FLUCTUATING ALMOST ON A DAILY BASIS.

OF WHEN WE NEED TO BID THIS PROJECT.

AND, UM, HOW DID WE DECIDE TO DO THIS PROJECT NOW? WHAT'S THE PRIORITY LEVEL? UH, THIS IS A PROJECT THAT'S IN THE MOBILITY BOND PROGRAM.

THE, THE COUNTY, UH, FUNDS ROUGHLY 50% AND, UH, THERE SHOULD BE OTHER FUNDING MATCH.

UH, AND THERE IS, UH, THERE IS AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT AND THERE IS SPECIFIC TIMELINE

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SO WE FOLLOW THE PATH THAT'S LAID OUT IN THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT THAT THE COUNCIL HAS APPROVED FOR THIS PROJECT.

ANYBODY ELSE? THAT CONCLUDES.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS, SAY, AYE.

B NINE, NINE B, RIGHT? YES, SIR.

ALL THOSE ARE OPPOSED.

THE MOTION SAY NO, NO.

BY ONE IT'S IN FACTOR ONE BY ONE, RIGHT? OKAY.

NINE

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CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE IN INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO WAIT, AM I READING THE SAME? NO.

TO REJECT ALL BIDS FOR PARKS AND MAINTENANCE FACILITY PROJECT.

AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE SECTION 2 50, 2 OF THE TEXAS LOCAL GOVERNMENT.

MOST ENTITIES ARE EXPERIENCING.

MAYOR AND COUNCIL AGAIN, A SIMILAR ACTION.

THIS IS THE FACILITIES PROJECT RIGHT ACROSS, WHICH IS THE PARKS MAINTENANCE FACILITY THAT WE BID.

AGAIN, WE DID IT IN MAY.

OUR BUDGET WAS ABOUT 4.8 BILLION.

THE, UH, THE LOWEST BID, WE HAD SEVEN BID, WHAT? 7.1.

AND AGAIN, WE'RE, THIS IS NOT JUST MISSOURI CITY EXPERIENCING THIS.

AND OUR RECOMMENDATION FROM OUR CONSULTANT AND ARCHITECT IS TO WAIT PERIOD OUT BECAUSE THERE IS A LOT OF FLUCTUATION IN THE MARKET, UH, DO SOME VALUE ENGINEERING AND SEE WHAT MARKET, WHAT ARE THE PRICE SENSITIVE ITEMS KIND OF TAKE THEM OUT AND REBID IT MORE IN THAT PROCESS.

WE HOPE TO REBID IT, UH, ABOUT HOPEFULLY BY THE END OF THIS YEAR.

AND THE ACTION ITEM FOR YOU IS TO REJECT THIS BID.

UH, OBVIOUSLY THERE WERE SEVEN BIDS THAT WERE RECEIVED ON THIS PROJECT.

STAFF RECOMMENDATION IS TO, UH, REJECT ALL BIDS THAT WERE SUBMITTED FOR THIS PROJECT.

SO MOVED.

SECOND, BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND, IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION MAXIMUM? I'M SORRY.

MA'AM I DID NOT UNDERSTAND YOUR QUESTION.

BASICALLY.

HYPOTHETICALLY, WHATEVER THE IS APPROVED, WHAT WILL THE MAINTEN RECOVERY, WHAT WILL BE WELL, UH, PRETTY MUCH IT'S THE REPLACEMENT OF THE EXISTING BUILDING PARKS MAINTENANCE FACILITY.

THERE IS ALSO A FACILITY STAFF FROM WITHIN PUBLIC WORKS THAT LIVE THERE.

NOW WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO REPLACE THE EXACT BUILDING, BUT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR FUTURE GROWTH AND EXPANSION OF THE CITY.

SO IT'S GONNA BE A BIGGER FOOTPRINT OF THE BUILDING.

UH, ONE OTHER PIECE OF THIS IS IT'S GETTING SOME TOURIST MONEY.

SO, UH, THE, THE ARCHITECTURE AND THE FRONT VIEW OF THE BUILDING IS DESIGNED IN SUCH A WAY THAT IT COMPLIMENTS THE IMPROVEMENTS BEING DONE ON TEXAS PARKWAY.

SO THAT'S KIND OF ARE THE THREE HIGHLIGHTS OF WHAT THE PARKS MAINTENANCE BUILDING IS GONNA DO IN THE MEANTIME, WHAT THAT LAST COUNCIL.

COUNCIL MEMBER I IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED WITH MY TEAM WERE DOING REGULAR PEST CONTROL.

THE RODENT ISSUE THAT YOU BOUGHT UP IS UNDER CONTROL.

I HAVE BEEN, UH, ADVISED BY MY BUILDING SERVICES STAFF, THAT IT IS UNDER CONTROL.

AS, AS EARLY AS LAST WEEK, WE DID DO, UH, PEST CONTROL SERVICES AT THAT BUILDING.

UH, IT IS A, IT IS A RECURRING THING.

WE ARE DOING A REGULAR PEST CONTROL AND, AND WE ARE MONITORING THE SITUATION SO TO SPEAK.

THERE ARE NO OTHER QUESTIONS.

THERE'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

WE'LL GO OUT AND VOTE.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS, SAY, AYE.

ALL THOSE WILL OPPOS SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO.

SO WE'RE NOT VOTING ON THIS AGAIN.

UH, NINE D CONSIDERATION IMPOSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH BA CONSTRUCTION IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 80,000 FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF ESTATES OF SILVER, RICH, UH, COVERT CROSSING, SHA YES, MA IN COUNCIL.

NINE C WE ALREADY DID,

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THIS IS A COHORT WHICH IS NOTHING BUT A DRAINAGE PIPE THAT EXISTS IN A STATES OF SILVER RIDGE.

AND IT SERVES TWO PURPOSES THAT PROVIDES DRAINAGE.

THE OTHER, IT DOES FACILITATE FILLING THE WATER IN THE LAKES THERE, WHICH ALSO HELPS IN, UH, UH, FIRE, UH, PROTECTION SERVICES.

UH, THIS CULVERT, UH, HAS, UH, THIS IS THE LOCATION OF, UH, WHERE THAT IS.

WE ARE LOCATED WITHIN THE STATES OF SILVER RIDGE.

UH, WE WERE BROUGHT, MADE AWARE THAT, UH, THIS CALT AS COLLAPSED OR IS IN THE PROCESS OF COLLAPSING.

AND THERE HAS BEEN SOME PAYMENT THAT HAS BEEN DAMAGED THAT HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY FIXED, THAT YOU CAN SEE THERE, THE GRAY AREA ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THOSE PICTURE.

UH, SO, UH, THIS REPAIR IS KIND OF EMERGENCY NATURE.

WE SECURED A CONTRACTOR ON BY BOARD, UH, THAT IS GOING TO REPAIR THIS SKULL.

AS YOU CAN SEE IN ONE OF THOSE PICTURES, THERE IS A BLOCKAGE WE DON'T, WE THINK THERE IS SOMETHING THAT HAS PENETRATED THE

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PIPE AND CAUSING BLOCKAGE FOR DRAINAGE AND IMPEDING THE FLOW OF WATER.

SO THIS, UH, REPAIR IS EMERGENCY NATURE.

AGAIN, THERE'S A BUYBOARD, UH, CONTRACTOR THAT THE PUBLIC WORKS, UH, CONTACTED AND SECURED A CODE.

IT WOULD COST 80,000 TO, UH, REPLACE THIS COHORT WITH THAT.

WE SEEK YOUR AUTHORIZATION TO AUTHORIZE THIS CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT.

IS THERE A MOTION, MOTION TO PROVE? IS THERE A SECOND, SECOND, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE A QUESTION SHA WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT, WAS IT SENT OUT FOR BA WE DID TYPICALLY TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, WE DID NOT ISSUE A BIT, THE REASON BEING THAT IT IS EMERGENCY NATURE, AND WE HAD TO GET THIS FIXED BECAUSE IT'S IMPEDING DRAINAGE AND POTENTIALLY PREVENTING FIRE SERVICES AS WELL, BECAUSE THERE IS WATER THAT'S BEING IMPEDED, BUT WE DID CHOOSE A CONTRACTOR ON THE BY BOARD THAT IS ALLOWED PER THE PROCUREMENT POLICIES.

AND THIS IS A CONTRACTOR THAT IS ON THE PROCUREMENT BY BOARD.

AND WE WENT THROUGH THE PROCUREMENT PROCESS THAT'S NECESSARY TO PROCURE THIS BIT.

AND WHAT, WHAT IS THE PROCESS WHEN YOU, I KNOW YOU MENTIONED IF IT'S AN EMERGENCY, YOU, YOU WENT THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR, UM, SYSTEM, BUT WHO AUTHORIZED Y'ALL TO FOREGO? THE PROCESS IS, WELL, UH, ANYTIME I BRING ANY ITEMS IN FRONT OF CITY COUNCIL, WE GOTTA FOLLOW THE PROCESS THAT IS BEING LOOKED OUT BY OUR PURCHASING DEPARTMENT, OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT, AND WE FOLLOW THE PROCESS BEFORE AN ITEM IS PRESENTED TO YOU.

SO WE FOLLOWED THE PROCESS THAT'S REQUIRED, AND I WILL SEE IF CITY SALES CITY ATTORNEY'S OFFICE WANTS TO CHIME IN AND ADD A COMMENT ON THIS ONE.

THE, UM, AS SHAHI SAID, THE, THE BY BOARD IS A, UH, PURCHASING COOPERATIVE THAT, UM, IS ALLOWABLE UNDER STATE LAW, UM, FOR PROCUREMENT UNDER OVER $50,000 IN LIEU OF THE, UH, THE COMPETITIVE, UH, SEAL BIDDING PROCESS.

SO THE PROPER PROCUREMENT CHANNELS WERE FOLLOWED.

ADDITIONALLY, UM, THIS ITEM MIGHT HAVE FALLEN UNDER A, UH, EXCEPTION TO COMPETITIVE BIDDING AS, SINCE IT IS, UM, A PUBLIC SAFETY ISSUE THAT, UH, CAME UP ON AN EMERGENCY BASIS.

THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR.

WHAT WAS THE BASIS OF FOREGOING, THE NORMAL NORMAL ROUTE? IT HAD TO MEET SOME TYPE OF A SAFETY CRITERIA.

MA'AM JUST, UH, YEAH, PROBABLY I DID NOT EMPHASIZE THIS IS REPAIR'S EMERGENCY NATURE, CORRECT.

SPEND A MOTION IN A SECOND.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS, SAY, AYE.

ALL THOSE OPPOSED TO THE MOTIONS SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO.

ITEM THAT I STILL NINE, RIGHT.

NINE F NINE

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E YES.

NINE E UH, CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH WHAT IS IT PER DIEM TRAFFIC SYSTEM INCORPORATED IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $487,445 FOR THE PURCHASE OF 32 TRAFFIC SIGNAL CABINETS.

SHA, COME ON AGAIN, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

THIS IS MY LAST ITEM IN FRONT OF YOU, UNLESS YOU CALL ME.

SO YOU MUST BE TIRED OF HEARING FROM ME, BUT I'LL BE QUICK.

UH, THIS IS, UH, TO, UH, PUT THE ICING ON THE CAKE.

THIS IS THE BOND PROGRAM AT WORK.

UH, THIS WAS A PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED IN THE 2021 ORDERS, BOND REFERENDUM AND, UH, TRAFFIC SIGNAL CABINETS.

THESE ARE THE BOXES NEXT TO THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

WE HAVE ABOUT 65.

NOW THIS BOXES HOLD ALL THE HARDWARE AND LITERALLY THE COMPUTER THAT CONTROLS ALL THE SIGNALS.

UH, USUALLY THERE'S CHANGED EVERY 10 TO 15 YEARS.

UH, THESE HAVE BEEN MUCH NEEDED TO BE CHANGED.

WE'RE DOING IT IN TWO PHASES.

THE FIRST PHASE IS 32 CABINETS.

UH, THE LOCATIONS ARE SHOWN ON THE MAP HERE, UH, JUST TO SHOW THE, THE ONE ON THE LEFT IS THE EXISTING, UH, SIGNAL CABINET.

YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A BUNCH OF WIRES, UH, SPLICING REQUIRED.

UH, THE ONE YOU LOOK ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS A WELL DESIGNED, UH, SIGNAL CABINET.

UH, YOU CAN PLUG IN, UH, TECHNOLOGY HAS CHANGED.

UH, ALSO THE BOXES IS VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE FOUND OUT THAT YOU NEED SOME FANS AND COOLING EQUIPMENT THERE.

WE HAD ONE OF THESE SIGNAL, UH, CABINET BOXES FRIED DURING THIS HOT SUMMER, RIGHT ON TOWNSHIP AND 10 92.

SO IT IS A MUCH NEEDED PROJECT, AGAIN, FUNDED THROUGH THE BOND PROGRAM.

AND THE FIRST INSTALLMENT OF 32 SIGNAL CABINETS IS GONNA BE REPLACED.

AND THE CONTRACT AMOUNT IS IN FRONT OF YOU, UH, WITH THIS, UH, UH, UM, UH, WE ARE SEEKING, UH, TO IZE A CONTRACT WITH PARADIGM TO REPLACE THESE 32 SIGNAL CABINET BOXES.

UH, THE OTHER, THE REST WILL BE COMING, UH, UH, PROBABLY IN THE NEXT FISCAL YEAR TO REPLACE THE OTHERS THAT I'LL TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.

MOVE, SECOND'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

IS THERE A MOTION? SO

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ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? YES, SASHA, I HAVE A QUESTION.

UM, I HAVE BEEN SEEING SOME REALLY PRETTY, UM, BOXES THAT ARE DECORATED IN, UM, SUGAR LAND.

SO IS IT POSSIBLE FOR US TO GET OUR ARTS COMMISSION TO PAINT MURALS ON THE OUTSIDE OF THESE BOXES? GREAT QUESTION, COUNCIL MEMBER.

MAY I CORRECT YOU ON THAT ONE? YES.

WE STARTED THAT AND SUGARLAND FOLLOWED US.

AH, AND, UH, TO NOTED.

UH, SO, UH, AGAIN, ONCE WE INSTALL THE NEW BOXES, UH, WE WILL GET THE NEW RENTING.

I THINK THERE IS A PROCESS WHERE, UH, WE SOLICIT, UH, APPLICATIONS AND THE PICTURES THAT WE WANT.

WE RUN IT THROUGH THE ART COMMISSION AND BRING IT IN FRONT OF COUNCIL.

SO IT'S BEEN VERY POPULAR, I BELIEVE IN SOLAR CITY STARTED AND OUR LABORING JURISDICTIONS ARE FOLLOWING THE TREND.

SO WE'LL BE HAPPY TO BRING THAT BACK.

THEY HAVE SOME REALLY PRETTY ONES THAT HAVE BEEN CALLING MY ATTENTION.

SO YES.

AND SASHI.

THE ONE AT, UH, CART RIDE IN 10 92 WAS DONE BY THE WIDE SCHOOL.

SO LET'S MAKE SURE WE EITHER RESTORE IT OR GIVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO REDO IT.

WHAT BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, THE MOTIONS SAY, AYE, ALL AYE.

ALL THOSE OPPOSED.

SAY NO MOTION CARRIES SEVEN ZERO.

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NINE F CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH CALDWELL COUNTRY CHEVROLET FOR THE PURCHASE OF FLEET VEHICLES IN AN AMOUNT OF $341,000.

TODD HOOVER.

AGAIN, WHAT DO YOU EVENING THIS PARTICULAR ITEM IS, UM, THE REQUEST TO GO FROM FORD TO CHEVROLET.

UM, BACK IN JANUARY, 2022, UH, THE FORD DEALERSHIP HAD NOTIFIED US THAT THEY COULDN'T PROVIDE THE VEHICLES AT THE QUOTED RATE OR WITHIN A REASONABLE DELIVERY TIME FRAME.

SO WE HAD A PO CUT AT THE TIME, BUT, UH, THEY WEREN'T ABLE TO SATISFY THAT.

SO WE LOOKED BACK AT THE BUYBOARD TO SEE WHO COULD ACCOMMODATE OUR REQUEST.

UM, AND THIS IS FOR EIGHT, UH, CHEVROLET TAHOE POLICE PACKAGE, UH, VEHICLES AT A COST OF $42,575 PER UNIT, UH, PLUS A $400, UM, UH, CONTRACT CHARGE, WHICH GIVES US TO $341,000.

WE ALREADY HAVE THE FUNDS FOR IT.

UH, WE ARE GONNA DISSOLVE THAT PO UM, IF THE COUNCIL, UH, SO ALLOWS US AND THEN REDO THE PO FOR THE CHEVROLET DEALERSHIP AND WE'VE GOT THE, UH, FLEET AND FACILITIES, SUPERINTENDENT MIKE TUBS HERE, AS WELL AS, UH, THE CHIEF OF POLICE.

DO YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.

IS THERE A MOTION? SECOND, IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.

ARE THERE ANY DISCUSSIONS OR QUESTIONS? WHAT WAS THE COST SAVINGS? IF ANY, UM, USING CHEVROLET VERSUS FOUR, MIKE CAN ANSWER THOSE SPECIFICS.

ACTUALLY THE COST SAVINGS IS ABOUT APPROXIMATELY EIGHT, 800 TO A THOUSAND DOLLARS PER VEHICLE.

AND PLUS ON TOP OF THAT, IT'S, IT'S, UH, IT'S CHEAPER TO, TO OUTFIT THE TAHOES THAN IT IS THE, THE CURRENT, UH, FORDS PRODUCT THAT WE USE.

UH, WE PRESENTLY, UH, LIKE, UM, MR. HOOVER SAID, WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE GETTING A, TO THESE, THESE UNITS AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS EMBEDDED IN NEED OF THESE THINGS.

WE'VE RECENTLY HAD, UH, ABOUT THREE TOTAL LOSSES IN THE LAST NINE, 10 MONTHS.

SO WE NEED TO REPLACE THOSE AS SOON AS WE CAN.

AND ARE THESE VEHICLES ARE IN STOCK NOW? YES.

YEAH, I'VE BEEN, I'VE BEEN, UH, MORE THAN A HANDSHAKE OF PROMISE FROM THE CHEVY, UH, UH, CALDWELL CHEVROLET AND WE SHOULD RECEIVE THESE BY THE END OF THE CALENDAR YEAR.

A MOTION IN A SECOND.

THERE ARE NO OTHER DISCUSSIONS, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS SAY, AYE.

NINE G CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH WHAT IS THAT CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC, IN, IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $235,605 FOR THE A ZERO ONE HIGHWAY SIX WEST WATERLINE EXTENSION

ALL THOSE ARE OPPOSED TO THE MOTIONS.

THEY KNOW MOTION CARRIES SIX ONE ITEM

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PROJECT.

TAHU SIR.

UM, VERY EXCITED ABOUT THIS PROJECT.

THIS WILL START THE KICKOFF TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS WE'RE MAKING ARE ACTUALLY THE, THE NEW LINES.

UH, THIS IS THE WATERLINE OF 1,185 LINEAR FEET OF 12 INCH DIAMETER WATERLINE.

UH, DO WE HAVE A, THE MAP? OH, THANK YOU.

THERE YOU GO.

SO THE, UM, THE MAP YOU SEE HERE, UH, JUST TO THE NORTH IS VICKSBURG, UH, BOULEVARD.

THIS IS HIGHWAY SIX AND, UH, THE DIDN'T HAVE THE LITTLE, I'M SORRY, THE, IT DIDN'T SHOW UP WITH THE LOW LINE SEGMENT ON IT, BUT THE, THE BUILDING STRUCTURE YOU SEE TO THE LEFT ON HIGHWAY SIX IS WHERE THE WATER LINE STOPS AND THE WATER LINE WILL GO ABOUT HALFWAY DOWN HIGHWAY SIX TO THE EAST, AND IT WILL SERVE, UM, UH, THE DINER DEVELOPMENT, WHICH ACTUALLY MR. STEIN IS PRESENT WITH US HERE TODAY.

AND, UM, THIS WILL NOT ONLY SERVE, UH, HIS DEVELOPMENT, BUT ALSO WE WILL, THE NEXT PROJECT WILL CONTINUE THAT LINE ON TO FIRESTONE AND CONNECT THAT, AND IT WILL NOT ONLY SERVE DINE DEVELOPMENT, BUT ALSO, UH, WE'RE LOOKING AT A COUPLE OTHER, UH, TWO DEVELOPMENTS AT OAKWOOD FOREST ESTATES, UH, RIGHT IN THE FRONTAGE.

SO THIS WOULD HELP, UH, SPUR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN OUR MUSTANG, BAYOU SERVICE AREA.

BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ALL THANK YOU.

IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVE SECOND THERE A SECOND.

SECOND.

THERE'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND.

ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? I JUST HAVE A COMMENT.

UH, TODD, SO WHEN YOU SAY THIS GOES DOWN TO, IS THAT THAT NEW, UH, WHAT'S THAT GENTLEMAN PLACE? YEAH, THE, THE BOUNCE PLACE.

UH, SO DOES THAT WATER LINE GOES DOWN? TRAMA FRESNO AND HIGHWAY SIX.

IT, IT GOES DOWN, UH, THIS IS NOT TRAMO FRESNO.

THIS IS HIGHWAY SIX.

NO, NO, I KNOW, BUT DOES IT GO TO THAT INTERSECTION WHERE THAT IS? OKAY.

SO THE CURRENT, UM, WATER LINE IS ON THE NORTH SIDE OF HIGHWAY SIX THAT GOES DOWN TOWARD, UH, THE TOLLWAY AND THEN GOES SOUTH AND SERVES THE KROGER LIFT STATION AND THAT KROGER LIFT STATION, WHICH IS FORT BEND TOWN CENTER ONE, OKAY.

HAS WATER, BUT THERE'S A, UH, LAPSE IN THE WATER CONNECTION BETWEEN WHERE REALLY, UH, FORT BEND COUNTY, MUD, 40 EIGHTS, A BOUNDARY ENDS AND WHERE THE, UH, FIRESTONE IS.

SO THERE'S NO LINE SEGMENT THAT CONNECT IT.

SO THAT'S WHAT THIS PROJECT IS.

IT'S GOING TO BRING THE WATERLINE HALFWAY, ROUGHLY HALFWAY DOWN AND THEN PROVIDE SERVICE FOR THREE PENDING DEVELOPMENTS.

SO IT'LL BE PULLING FROM FIRESTONE ALL THE WAY, GOING, GOING UP AND, AND GETTING TO THAT, UH, ACRE ACRE HOMES.

IS THAT WHERE PARTLY WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA DO IT'S, IT'S A TWO PART PROJECT.

THE FIRST PART WILL BRING THE WATERLINE FROM THE WEST TOWARD THE EAST, AND THEN WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER PROJECT THAT WILL BRING TOWARD YOU THAT WILL FINISH THE CONNECTION.

BUT RIGHT NOW THE URGE, THIS IS A EXTREMELY TIME SENSITIVE NEED THAT, UH, THE DEVELOPER HAS.

SO WE WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND JUST TAKE CARE OF THE NEED RATHER THAN THE ENTIRE, UH, FUTURE DEVELOPMENT, BUT THE NEXT DEVELOPMENT IS RIGHT BEHIND HIM.

UH, WHICH, OKAY.

TODD, DOES THE WATER WATER, UM, WHICHEVER YOU BOARD, YOU JUST MENTIONED, DO THEY HAVE, HAVE ANY RESPONSIBILITY IN THIS? I, I BELIEVE YOU WERE ASKING ABOUT THE NEIGHBORING MUD DISTRICT MUD, I'M SORRY.

IT'S, IT'S ALMOST MIDNIGHT.

COUNCIL MEMBER RALEIGH, WHAT WE ACTUALLY SPOKE WITH THEM AND WE GRANTED PERMISSION TO CONNECT TO THEIR LINE WHERE IT ENDED UP UNTIL THIS POINT THEY'VE BEEN CONNECTING TO OUR LINES.

AND SO THIS IS, UH, HAS BEEN QUITE A LONG TIME SINCE WE BUILT NEW WATER.

AND SANITARY SEWER LINES IN THE MUSTANG VALUE SERVICE AREA.

SO NOW WE'RE TAPPING ONTO THEIR WATER LINE AND THEN CONNECTING IT TO ANOTHER PORTION OF OUR LINE.

SO WHICH HELPS OBVIOUSLY THE, UH, FORT BEND TOWN CENTER ONE, WHICH IS THERO LIFT STATION.

ONCE WE COMPLETE THIS, THEY'LL ACTUALLY SEE AN IMPROVEMENT TO THEIR WATER SYSTEM WITH THE PRESSURE AND FLOW.

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UH, THE DEVELOPER? YES, ABSOLUTELY.

MR. BRAD DIER STAYING IS IN THE AUDIENCE IN THE BACK.

HE ABSOLUTELY.

AND, UH, ALSO THE, UH, DESIGN ENGINEER, ARC ENGINEERS IS WATCHING AT HIS HOUSE.

HE WOULD BE HERE.

UM, HE HAD A INJURY, SO HE'S USUALLY ALWAYS HERE, BUT HE'S BEEN TEXTING ME THE WHOLE TIME.

THE MAYOR STEPPED AWAY FROM THEDA.

UH, AND WE'RE ON ITEM SIX.

I MEAN, UH, EXCUSE ME, NINE G UH, IT'S BEEN MOVED I PROPERLY SECOND AND ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

AND HE OPPOSED, SAME SIGN.

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TO ITEM NINE.

I CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE CONTRACT FOR LEGISLATIVE CONSULTING SERVICES.

EJO YOUNG.

UH, MAYOR PRO 10 AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, UH, BACK IN AUGUST OF 2022, THE CITY SOLICITED PROPOSALS FOR ITS LEGISLATIVE CONSULTING, UH, SERVICES.

THE CITY RECEIVED THREE, UH, PROPOSALS, TWO OF WHICH WERE RECEIVED AFTER THE CITY'S DEADLINE.

THE REMAINING PROPOSAL WAS BY GREENBERG TRA, WHICH WAS THE CITY'S PREVIOUS LEGISLATIVE CONSULTING, UH, SERVICES FIRM.

THAT FIRM HAS WORKED EFFECTIVELY WITH THE CITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE ON PASSING AT LEAST THREE MAJOR PIECES OF LEGISLATION IN THE LAST FEW LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS.

THE PROPOSED TEAM THAT IS SET TO WORK WITH THE CITY HAS OVER 50 YEARS OF EXPERIENCE AT VARIOUS LEVELS OF GOVERNMENT.

THIS CONTRACT IS SET FOR $8,000 A MONTH, UH, WITH A TOTAL YEARLY AMOUNT OF $96,000.

THOSE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE IN THE, UH, FISCAL YEAR 22, AS WELL AS THE 23 BUDGET.

I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

IS THERE A MOTION, MOTION IMPROVED IT'S BEEN MOVED IM PROPERLY SECONDED? ANY DISCUSSION, ANY QUESTIONS? YES.

WHAT, WHAT IS THE COST OF THEIR SERVICES? IT'S $8,000 A MONTH, $96,000 A YEAR.

THAT INCLUDES ASSISTANCE WITH ATTENDING LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS, KEEPING THE CITY INFORMED ABOUT LEGISLATIVE ITEMS THAT OCCUR IN AUSTIN AND IN WASHINGTON, UH, AS WELL AS ASSISTING THE CITY WITH PREPARING TESTIMONY AND WHENEVER THE CITY HAS TO, UM, GO TO AUSTIN OR DC TO PROVIDE ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, THEY ASSIST WITH THAT AS WELL.

THERE'S A FULL LIST OF, UM, WHAT THEIR SERVICES, UH, ENTAIL AS WELL IN YOUR PACKET.

SO THE 8,000 PLUS DOLLARS THAT YOU MENTIONED, THIS IS RE IF WE USE THEM OR NOT PER MONTH, WE PAY THIS REGARDLESS IF THEY DO ANYTHING OR NOT.

IT'S A, IT'S A FLAT FEE PER MONTH.

YES MA'AM ANY OTHER FURTHER QUESTIONS OR DISCUSSION HEARING? NONE.

ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

ITEM 10, A IN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING THE GENERAL BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING, OCTOBER 1ST, 2021, ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2022, TRANSFERRING VARIOUS APPROPRIATIONS AMONG ACCOUNTS APPROPRIATING SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE TO VARIOUS FUND ACCOUNTS, AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO TAKE STEPS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH SUCH TRANSFERS, MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS AND CONTAINING CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.

ANY OPPOSED? SAME SIGN.

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ELENA.

I'LL TRY TO BE BRIEF WITH THIS ONE.

UM, WITHIN YOUR PACKETS, YOU DO HAVE THE BUDGET AMENDMENT, UH, THERE'S EXHIBIT A, THAT HAS THE DETAILS.

WE DID REVIEW THIS WITH THE FINANCE AND SERVICES COMMITTEE, UH, THIS EVENING PRIOR TO THE OTHER COUNCIL MEETINGS, UM, THE AMENDMENTS INCLUDE A REIMBURSEMENT TO THE GENERAL FUND FOR PERSONNEL COSTS THAT WERE REIMBURSED BY PUBLIC SAFETY GRANTS.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE AN INCREASE, UH, FOR FUEL COSTS.

UH, WE HAVE SOME, UH, APPROPRIATIONS FOR A RIFLE BUYBACK PROGRAM.

UH, WE ALSO RECEIVE 1.1 MILLION FROM FORT BEND COUNTY FOR MOBILITY PROJECT.

SO WE HAVE THE REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES RELATED TO THOSE FUNDS.

WE HAVE, UH, WATER IMPACT FEE APPROPRIATION FOR AN ITEM THAT YOU JUST APPROVED RELATED TO THE HIGHWAY SIX WATER LINE EXTENSION PROJECT.

UM, AND WE ALSO HAVE, UM, REVENUE AND EXPENDITURES FOR SOLID WASTE, UM, FOR THE SOLID WASTE, WHICH IS BASICALLY A PASS THROUGH WHATEVER.

UM, WE ARE, WE RECEIVE IN, UH, REVENUE SWITZER'S NET ZERO, AND WE ALSO HAVE THE CHANGES FOR THE LGC, WHICH WAS REVIEWED, UH, WITH THE BOARD THIS EVENING.

I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

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UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR MOTION? NO.

IS THERE SECOND? IS THAT COUNCILMAN RILEY? YES.

ANY DISCUSSION QUESTIONS? YES.

SECOND BY COUNCIL.

MAYBE EVENT BEFORE, UM, OUR MEETINGS AND WE VOTED UPON FAVOR.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION QUESTIONS? ALL HEARING? NONE.

ALL IN FAVOR, SAY AYE.

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ANY OPPOSED? SAME SIGN.

MOVING ON TO RESOLUTIONS.

THERE ARE NO RESOLUTIONS ON THIS AGENDA.

ITEM,

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WE'LL START WITH YOU.

COUNCIL MEMOR RILEY, PLEASE LIMIT YOUR COMMENTS TO THREE MINUTES IF YOU CAN.

SHEL STERLING, HAPPY BIRTHDAY.

MARIAL TIM.

UM, ON THIS PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, UM, I'VE HAD THE PLEASURE OF PARTICIPATING IN OUR CITY AND VARIOUS, UH, EVENTS.

THE TEXAS PARKWAY COMMUNITY MEETING WENT VERY WELL.

I FACILITATED BY OUR MARIAL TIM, WHO IS ACTUALLY THE CHAIR OF THAT COMMITTEE.

I'M HONORED TO SERVE ON THERE WITH THE OTHER COMMUNITY, ME MEMBERS.

UM, THANK YOU, EVERYBODY THAT SHOWED UP AND, UH, SUPPORTED OUR EFFORTS.

IT WAS A GREAT TURNOUT AND I BELIEVE THE RESIDENTS WERE VERY PLEASED WITH WHAT'S COMING TO TEXAS PARKWAY.

UM, ALSO DANNY WYNN WAS ONE OF THE DEVELOPERS THAT SHOWED UP AND PARTICIPATING IN CONVERSATION AND DIALOGUE WITH THE RESIDENTS.

UH, THE GRAND OPENING FOR ELITE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS IS RIGHT THERE ON CARTRIGHT.

UM, SO HOPEFULLY YOU GUYS CAN, UM, SHIFT PEOPLE OVER THERE AND ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT EDUCATIONAL PROGRAM.

THEY ALSO HAVE A RESALE SHOP, UH, WITH NEW ITEMS FROM TARGET AND OTHER LOCAL STORES THAT THEY PICK UP.

SO IT'S A REALLY NICE, UH, LOCATION TO SHOP WHILE YOUR KIDS GO LEARN.

THE THURGOOD MARSH OR ATHLETIC BOOSTER IS, UH, WHICH I'M A PART OF, THEY ARE GONNA BE SELLING PROGRAM BOOKS.

IF YOU WANT TO ADVERTISE YOUR BUSINESS, OR, UM, US AS COUNCIL MEMBERS WANNA PUT AN AD IN THERE, THEY'RE HELPING THEY'RE USING THAT TO RAISE MONEY FOR THEIR ATHLETIC FUND.

AND FOR SOME OF THE PROJECTS THEY HAVE COMING UP, THE COFFEE WITH LEADERSHIP, UH, WAS A PACKED ROOM.

SO THANK YOU GUYS.

UH, THE LEADERSHIP TEAM IN, UH, CITY COUNCIL AND, UM, OUR INTERIM CITY MANAGER FOR FACILITATING THAT BACK AGAIN, THE RESIDENTS REALLY LIKED IT.

I ATTENDED THE TOUCH A TRUCK EVENT AT CHICK-FIL-A, UH, WITH OUR PD, UM, IN OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, IT WAS A WONDERFUL TURNOUT.

KIDS HAD A GREAT TIME.

I ENJOYED SITTING IN THE SQUAT, UH, TRUCK IN THE BACK WHERE THEY HAD THE BEST SEATING BACK THERE.

UH, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR LUNCHEON, I HAD THE PLEASURE OF PARTICIPATING WITH ALSO ATTENDED THE, UH, SUPER SENIOR STAFFORD, UH, BREAKFAST ALONG WITH MY COLLEAGUE COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS.

UH, WE WERE THERE TO GREET A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS FROM MISSOURI CITY, PARTICIPATE WITH THAT AND ATTEND IT.

SO THAT WAS REALLY NICE.

THE KIDS, UH, COOK THE BREAKFAST FROM THE CULINARY DEPARTMENT AND IT'S A WONDERFUL EVENT.

ALSO HAD THE PLEASURE OF ATTENDING THE AMERICAN, UH, AFRICAN AMERICAN ELECTED OFFICIALS, UH, BREAKFAST, UH, HOSTED BY, UH, MAYOR SYLVESTER TURNER AND RODNEY ELLIS.

UH, THE COMMISSIONER OUT THERE, IT WAS A WONDERFUL EVENT TO PARTICIPATE ALSO WITH STATE REP, RON REYNOLDS, GLAD TO SEE MY COLLEAGUE MAYOR PRO TIMONE WAS IN ATTENDANCE AS WELL.

UM, THERE'S A NEW PROGRAM OUT HERE IN MISSOURI CITY ON TEXAS PARKWAY AT THE CHRISTIAN BIBLE FELLOWSHIP CHURCH.

IT'S CALLED RAVE THE READING, UH, WITH, UH, FOR ISD TRUSTEE, DAVID HAMILTON KICKED THAT OFF ON THIS SATURDAY.

IF YOU HAVE LITTLE ONES, KIDS, PLEASE BRING THEM OUT THERE TO PARTICIPATE WITH READING PROJECTS, UM, UH, PUZZLES AND ALL SORTS OF THINGS.

LASTLY, I WANT TO SAY, UM, HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO, UM, MY DAD CELEBRATING HIS BIRTHDAY ON THE 15TH OF SEPTEMBER, DR.

SHE CELEBRATED HER BIRTHDAY ON THE 16TH ON THE 18TH, UH, STATE REPRESENTATIVE.

RON REYNOLDS CELEBRATED HIS BIRTHDAY.

AND I DO BELIEVE THAT COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER CELEBRATED A BIRTHDAY.

SHE'S A VIRGO AS WELL.

SO HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EVERYONE.

AND AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER ON YOUR AWARD BEING THE TOP 30 INFLUENTIAL WOMEN WOMEN.

SO THAT CONCLUDES MAR ANNOUNCEMENTS.

KAMO EDWARDS.

AT OUR PUBLIC SAFETY HEADQUARTERS.

UM, I JUST WANT TO SAY A SPECIAL THANKS TO OUR PUBLIC SAFETY TEAM.

I KNOW THIS HAS BEEN A CRAZY DEBATE, UM, BUT I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT I'LL CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE, UM, FOR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS, INCLUDING OUR FIRE AND POLICE TO RECEIVE A COMPETITIVE COMPENSATION SALARY AND OTHER BENEFITS.

I'LL ALSO CONTINUE TO ADVOCATE FOR ALL OTHER EMPLOYEES TO BE COMPENSATED AND TREATED FAIRLY AND NOT JUST RUSHING AT THE END OF THE BUDGET YEAR, BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR SERVICE AS A WHOLE.

SO AS YOU KNOW, UM, SEPTEMBER 11TH ANNIVERSARY JUST PASSED AND IT WAS AN HONOR TO VISIT AT HONOR TO VISIT OUR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICERS

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SO THAT WAS A GREAT DAY TO JUST HANG OUT AND, UM, SPEAK TO THEM IN THIS MORNING AND REMEMBRANCE, BUT TO ALSO LET THEM KNOW THAT WE APPRECIATE THEIR SERVICE AND SACRIFICES AS WELL.

AND I JUST WANT TO HAVE A POINT OF ORDER AND CLARITY.

THE MAR THE MARKS THAT WERE MADE BY THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT IN THE PAST WERE UNFORTUNATE.

THEY WERE TASTELESS AND UNTRUE.

AND SO I WANT STAND BY ODDLY AND JUST LET THOSE COMMENTS GO BY.

I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE TRUTH IS ALWAYS STATED AND THAT WON'T BE TAKEN UPON ON MY WATCH.

THAT CONCLUDES MY COMICS.

COUNCIL MERLES, UH, THERE'S A TEXTILE RECYCLED EVENT ON SATURDAY, APRIL, EXCUSE ME, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER, UM, EIGHTH, UM, MISSOURI CITY GREENS, HOSTING IT, GO TO THE WEBSITE, CHECK IT OUT, BRING ALL YOUR OLD CLOTHES, YOUR NEW CLOTHES CLOSE THAT DON'T FIT CLEAN OUT YOUR CLOSETS AND JOIN THE FUN.

OH, MAY I PRO YEAH.

UH, I THINK THAT, UH, COUNCILWOMAN RILEY, UH, MENTIONED QUITE A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I ALSO ATTENDED, BUT, UH, I WANTED TO START OFF BY, UH, APOLOGIZING TO OUR MANY, TO OUR RESIDENTS ABOUT THE, UH, UNPRECEDENTED HIGH GRASS ACROSS THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY.

UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE RAIN EVENTS, LIKE THE ONES WE HAD, UH, YOU KNOW, SEVERAL WEEKS AGO, UH, IT COULD, UH, CAUSE, UH, A DELAY IN THE MOWING ACROSS, UH, THE CITY IN OUR PARKS, IN OUR, OUR MEDIAS.

I WANT TO THANK JASON AND HIS TEAM FOR, UH, RESPONDING TO, UH, THE REQUEST TO TRY TO MAKE THIS A HIGH PRIORITY.

I KNOW THAT, UH, THEM, AS WELL AS THE CONTRACTOR YELLOWSTONE WAY BEHIND, AND THEY REDIRECTED INTERNAL STAFF AND THE CONTRACTOR TO FOCUS ON ALL THE HIGHER VISIBIL VISIBILITY AREAS FIRST.

AND THEN THEY HAD ABOUT FIVE GUYS WORKING AT HUNTER, UH, GLEN ON TWO DAYS, WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY, AND WENT BACK OUT THERE TO TRY TO KNOCK DOWN THOSE AREAS AND THEN GO BACK AND CUT.

'EM, YOU KNOW, IT'S KIND OF HARD TO CUT WHEN YOU JUST EXPERIENCE MAJOR RAINS.

IT TAKES A FEW DAYS FOR, FOR IT TO, TO DRY UP, BUT, UH, IT'S MY ENCOURAGEMENT AND HOPE THAT OUR STAFF, UH, WILL WORK TOGETHER WITH THE CONTRACTOR TO, TO PREPARE FOR THOSE TYPES OF SITUATIONS AND EVENTS SO THAT, UH, WE GET OUT IN FRONT OF THOSE THINGS AND COMMUNICATE TO OUR STAFF AND CITIZENS THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US.

WE SEE THESE THINGS AND ARE GOING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THEM.

ALSO, UH, THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF CHATTER OUT THERE ABOUT THE SUBDIVISION BEHIND CVS, UH, AND THERE'S NOT NO SECTION EIGHT HOUSES OR ANYTHING LIKE PEOPLE TRYING TO PEDAL OUT THERE.

UH, THESE ARE HIGH QUALITY HOMES IT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT IN OUR TEXAS PARKWAY TOWN HOME MEETINGS, AS WELL AS AMONGST STAFF AND, UH, US AS COUNCIL MEMBERS.

SO, UH, THESE ARE OUR HOMES THAT WILL BE BUILT BY TAYLOR MORRISON AND, UH, WILL NOT BE SECTION EIGHT HOUSES OR, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

BUT IT IS SOMETHING THAT, UH, I JUST WANT TO, I GUESS, REVISIT WITH MY COLLEAGUES AND HOPEFULLY IN A FUTURE AGENDA, WE COULD TALK ABOUT, UH, LOOKING AT OUR ZONING, UH, ORDINANCES TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE SEE WHERE WE ARE ON REMAINING PARCELS OF LANE.

THAT'S NOT DEVELOPED.

THANK YOU, SUMMER CLOUD.

AND THE INTEREST OF TRYING TO GET EVERYBODY ONE STEP CLOSER TO HOME.

UM, JUST WANNA MENTION THAT THE SMALL BUSINESS ADVISORY COMMITTEE MET ON, UH, LAST TUESDAY AND WE WERE PLANNING FOR THE NEW YEAR.

WE HAVE A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS.

WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED A LOT IN THE FIRST YEAR AND WE PLANNED A LOT FOR THE NEXT YEAR.

SO I WANNA THANK TIMOTHY AND JENNIFER FOR ALL OF THEIR HARD WORK THAT THEY WERE PUTTING INTO, UM, THE COMMITTEE AND SUPPORTING THE COMMITTEE.

AND LASTLY, I WANT TO THANK OUR, UH, FINANCE TEAM.

UM, Y'ALL HAD WHOLE EXERCISE AND , Y'ALL DESERVE A BREAK.

SO I WANT TO THANK YOU ALL.

UH, AND ALSO OUR INTERIM CITY MANAGER FOR ALL OF YOUR HELP AND HARD WORK THAT YOU PUT INTO THE BUDGET.

AND I KNOW OFTENTIMES, UH, MY COLLEAGUES AND I MAY NOT ALWAYS SEE EYE TO EYE, BUT WE DO WANT THINGS FOR SURE IS THAT WE ALL WORK VERY HARD AND WE ARE VERY PASSIONATE.

AND SO I WANNA THANK ALL OF MY COLLEAGUES FOR, UH, ALL OF THEIR INPUT, UM, IN MAKING THIS BUDGET, UH, MOVING IT FORWARD TO BE APPROVED.

AND THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS.

THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER AMORY.

SOME OF OUR CITIZENS IN NEED OR POLICE OFFICERS IN NEED.

UH, I, I ATTENDED THE OCTOBERFEST, UH, OVER AT, UH, CITY CENTER, UH, IF, UH, YOU LIKED THAT TYPE OF FOOD AND IT WAS GREAT.

UH, ALSO ATTENDED THE, UH, MISSOURI CITY POLICE OFFICERS, UH, UH, ANNUAL, UH, FUNDRAISING GOLF TOURNAMENT AT, UH, QUAIL VALLEY ALSO, UH, THEY HAD A GREAT TURNOUT, UH, AND I BELIEVE THEY MADE, I'M NOT SURE EXACTLY HOW MUCH, BUT, UH, IT'S, IT'S USUALLY REALLY SUCCESSFUL.

SO, UH, KUDOS TO THEM FOR PULLING IN TOGETHER AND, UH, BEING WILLING TO, UH, UH, DISTRIBUTE SOME OF THOSE DOLLARS TO, UH, OUR, UH,

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SO, UH, THAT, UH, THE EXTENT OF MY, UH, REMARKS.

I CAN TELL YOU THEY WERE EXCELLENT.

I HAVE A FEW, UM, BUT WE, TWO WEEKS AGO, ALMOST TWO WEEKS AGO, UM, I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND SHARPS MIND ACADEMY, UH, ON THEIR SAFETY TIPS.

SO I WANT TO THANK OUR, UH, POLICE OFFICERS, OUR FIRE, UH, FOR COMING OUT AND TEACHING THESE LITTLE ONES, HOW TO DO THE SAFETY, UH, TIPS.

SO THEY REALLY ENJOYED IT.

SO SHARPS MINE ACADEMY, UH, THANK YOU TO, UH, THEY WANT TO THANK OUR POLICE AND OUR FIRE.

AND I TOLD THEM, I'LL MAKE SURE I'LL SAVED TODAY.

UM, TEXAS PARKWAY CARTRIGHT CORRIDOR COMMUNITY MEETING.

WE HAD A GREAT COMMUNITY MEETING IN OUR, UH, COMMUNITY CENTER, UH, WAS VERY WELL ATTENDED, UH, THANKS TO MAYOR PROTON CONS FROM MARE AND OTHERS FOR COMING.

UH, THERE WAS, UH, SOME GOOD HEALTHY DISCUSSIONS.

UM, EVERYONE ON THE COMMITTEE GOT TO PRESENT, BUT I WANT TO THANK, UH, ALL THE DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS THAT WAS THERE, UM, AND ANSWERING QUESTIONS AND, AND SHAHI, AND, AND I'M, I KNOW I'M GONNA MISS SOMEBODY, JASON AND JASON, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, PARKS AND, AND ESPECIALLY JENNIFER AND TIM UNDERWOOD, THEY HAVE DONE A GREAT JOB IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ESPECIALLY WITH TEXAS PARKWAY.

SO THEY'VE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB.

I, I DON'T THINK MYSELF, UM, MAYOR PRO TIM AND COUNCIL CAN'T THANK THEM ENOUGH FOR THEIR INVOLVEMENT AND CONTINUE TO RUN THOSE MEETINGS.

I ALSO GOT THE CHANCE TO, UM, ATTEND THE MCPO, UH, POA GOLF TOURNAMENT THAT THEY HAD OUT THERE IN THE QUAD VALLEY GOLF COURSE.

UM, I, I WAS ABLE TO SEE A COUPLE OF COUNCIL MEMBERS THERE, UH, ELITE UNIVERSITY IN DISTRICT B UH, DISTRICT D I'M SORRY.

IT'S ON THE CUSP OF B YES.

GET THAT RIGHT.

UM, UH, IN THE, IN THE SAME PARKING LOT AS THE, UM, ALEX'S KITCHEN, UM, THERE'S MYSELF COMES FROM MARIA.

RILEY COMES FROM MORE EDWARDS, UH, MAYOR PROTON, BONNEY.

UM, I THINK THAT WAS IT.

WE WERE ALL THERE AND, AND IT'S, IT'S A WONDERFUL PLACE IF YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO VISIT.

AND SHE SAID, THIS WAS HER DREAM TO HAVE THAT LOCATION AND BE IN THAT LOCATION.

SO IT'S DEFINITELY WORTH, UH, TOURING ALSO.

UM, I DID REPRESENT THE CITY TO ATTEND, UH, WAS INVITED TO ATTEND WITH CONGRESSMAN AL GREEN AND CONGRESS.

I MEAN, AND, UH, STATE REPRESENTATIVE RON REYNOLDS FOR THE PAKISTAN, UH, FLOOD RELIEF EFFORTS, UH, TO RAISE MONEY FOR ALL THOSE ABOUT CLOSE TO 11 MILLION PEOPLE, IS WHAT I UNDERSTOOD THAT DON'T HAVE HOMES AND, AND, UH, DON'T HAVE CLOTHES CUZ ALL THE CUZ OF ALL THE WATER AND THE FLOOD.

UM, SO WE CONTINUE TO KEEP THEM IN OUR PRAYERS WHEELER AVENUE, BAPTIST CHURCH, 10TH YEAR ANNUAL GULF, UH, WAS AT QUAD VALLEY.

SO I DID REPRESENT THE CITY AND BEEN OUT THERE.

I DON'T GOLF, BUT I HAD A GREAT TIME OUT THERE WITH OTHER COMMUNITY LEADERS.

UM, AND THIS WAS THEIR FIRST TIME, FIRST TIME COMING TO KOWA VALLEY VERSUS THEY WERE, I THINK ALL NINE OF 'EM WERE DONE IN, UH, SWEETWATER COUNTRY CLUB.

SO THIS WAS THEIR FIRST AND THEY DID TELL TYSON THEY, THEY WILL BE BACK FOR MORE.

SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THAT.

AND OF COURSE, COFFEE WITH LEADERSHIP.

WE HAVEN'T HAD IT FOR ABOUT OVER THE SUMMER.

I DON'T THINK WE EVER PUT OUT THERE EXACTLY THE REASON, BUT I DO KNOW THERE'S COUNCIL MEMBERS WERE OUT.

I KNOW STAFF DIRECTORS WAS ON VACATION AND BACK, BACK AND FORTH, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE I DID HEAR COUNCIL RILEY TALKING ABOUT IT WAS PACKED HOUSE.

I THINK MOVING FORWARD, YOU KNOW, NOT CANCELING ANYTHING, WE STILL NEED TO RUN IT, UH, BECAUSE IT SEEMS TO BE A, A GREAT AMOUNT OF PEOPLE THAT ARE COMING IN, UH, WANTING THAT, UH, COFFEE.

SO WANT TO THANK CRYSTAL PERCHE, UM, COUNCIL LIAISON FOR ALL HER HARD WORK FINDS THE, UH, THE PERSON WHO'S GONNA DO THE COFFEE AND TAKES CARE OF EVERYTHING WE AS COUNCIL JUST SHOWS UP AND THAT'S IT, BUT SHE DOES A GREAT JOB WITH IT.

SO I WANT TO THANK HER FOR THAT.

UM, ALSO, UH, THERE WAS A GREAT GROWN UP SPELLING BEE BY THE FORT BEND LITERACY, UH, UH, COMMITTEE IN, IN FORT BEND IN WHICH I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND AND IT WAS IN QUAD VALLEY.

UM, SO WE DIDN'T HAVE A TEAM IN MISSOURI CITY, BUT I KNOW A CITY OF ROSE, UH, CITY OF RICHMOND HAD IT AND, AND THEY GOT SECOND PLACE.

UH, SO IT WAS, I DIDN'T REALIZE HOW COMPETITIVE IT IS.

UM, BUT IT WAS FUN WATCHING, UM, OLDER ADULTS COMPETE AND

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SO, UM, THEY WERE GRATEFUL TO OUR CITY AND TYSON AND THAT WHOLE TEAM FOR HOSTING CO VALLEY GOLF COURSE, UM, THE, THE ROOM UPSTAIRS, UH, FOR ALLOWING THEM TO DO THAT.

LASTLY, UM, A SHELTER FOR, UH, CANCER FAMILIES, UH, IT'S CALLED GOLD STRO WAS INVITED TO, UH, FOR ME TO GIVE 'EM A RECOGNITION.

THIS IS THEIR FIFTH ONE THAT'S BEING CALLED IN SIENNA.

UH, A SHELTER FOR CANCER FAMILY IS WHAT THEY DO IS IF YOU HAVE A CHILD THAT HAVE CANCER, UH, IN THE, AND YOU'RE IN THE COMMUNITY, THEY FIND A WAY TO, UM, GET YOU SHELTER AND, AND KIND OF GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

IT'S ALMOST LIKE WHETHER YOU CALL IT THERAPY OR, OR SOME TYPE OF HELP, UH, THEY'VE DONE THAT PROCESS.

THIS IS A FIFTH YEAR THEY RAISE MONEY.

SO I WAS ABLE TO GIVE, UM, A RECOGNITION ON BEHALF AND THEN LASTLY, UM, OCTOBER FEST.

UM, SO I WAS ABLE TO JOIN, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER MOR AS WELL AS I THINK I SAW A COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY OUT THERE.

UM, I DIDN'T SEE HIM AFTER FIVE MINUTES, SO I DON'T KNOW WHERE HE WENT.

UM, BUT IT WAS A GREAT EVENT.

UH, THE DOG RACE WAS AWESOME.

UH, BUT PARKS DEPARTMENT, UM, THE WHAT'S HIS NAME, JOSH JOSHUA.

UH, HE DOES A MAGNIFICENT JOB AND THE ENTIRE TEAM RAN THAT RACE.

UH, JUST, I MEAN, RAN THE WHOLE EVENT.

IT WAS JUST AMAZING.

AND I BELIEVE THIS WAS FOURTH OR FIFTH, I'M NOT SURE.

UM, BUT IT WAS A GREAT SUCCESS.

I GOT TO SEE A LOT OF RESIDENTS OUT THERE, UH, AND THEY DIDN'T, THEY, SOME OF THEM SAID, WELL, YOU KNOW, IT'S NICE TO HAVE THESE TYPE OF EVENTS, EVEN THOUGH IT'S ON A GOLF COURSE THAT WE GET TO COME, EVEN THOUGH WE DON'T PLAY GOLF, WE GET TO HAVE OTHER EVENTS UP THERE.

SO THOSE WERE MY ACTIVITIES, UM, FOR THE TWO WEEKS.

SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR THEIR CONTINUOUS HELP WITH, UM, ESPECIALLY AT THE QUAD VALLEY GOLF COURSE.

I'VE BEEN THERE SEVERAL TIMES.

I'VE SEEN HOW HARD THE STAFF OVER THERE WORKED, UM, TRYING TO PUT ALL THESE EVENTS TOGETHER, SO KUDOS TO THAT ENTIRE TEAM AS WELL.

THAT ENDS MY COMMENTS.

MAYOR, CAN I ADD ONE THING? YES.

MA'AM UM, JUST WANNA REMIND EVERYBODY.

WE HAVE OCTOBER 4TH NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, UM, PLEASE ENCOURAGE YOUR MISSOURI CITY HOAS AND NEIGHBORS TO SIGN UP FOR A PARTY THROUGH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

UM, AND HOPEFULLY COUNCIL HAS SIGNED UP TO PARTICIPATE TO MOVE AROUND THE CITY AND GET AN OPPORTUNITY.

UM, I BELIEVE WE'RE MEETING UP HERE.

NO WE'RE MEETING AT THE HEADQUARTERS OF PD TO GET, ASSIGN AN OFFICER UNLESS YOU GUYS, YOU KNOW, WANT DIBS ON, ON SOMEBODY.

SO JUST WANTED TO REMIND EVERYBODY OCTOBER 4TH IS NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.

UM, SO LET'S ALL GET, GET OUT THERE AND PARTICIPATE.

PLEASE JOIN ELI.

I THINK SOMEBODY'S GOING WITH YOU, RIGHT? NO, I'M JUST KIDDING.

NUMBER 13 CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION.

UH, ITEM NUMBER 14, WE HAVE CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION 13.

DID I MISS ONE 13 ITEM 13? MY GLASSES ARE COMING.

SO, UM, ITEM

[13. CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION]

THE TIME IS 11:48 PM AND THE CITY COUNCIL WILL NOW GO INTO A CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUE INTERSECTION, UH, 5 51 0.07.

ONE OF THE TEXAS GO COURT AND

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THE CITY COUNCIL WILL NOW REME INTO OPEN SESSION COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS.

DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS? SURE.

UM, I JUST WANNA LET THE RESIDENTS KNOW THAT I HAVE SUCCESSFULLY, UM, COMPLETED THE FIRST INVESTIGATION OF OUR ETHICS COMMISSION.

I HAD THREE, UM, I GUESS, ALLEGATIONS ON ME, FALSE RESIDENCY, UM, FALSIFYING MY FINANCE REPORTS AS WELL AS MY VOTER REGISTRATION.

SO, UM, AGAIN, THIS IS THE FIRST INVESTIGATION THAT WAS BROUGHT UPON THE ETHICS COMMISSION.

IT WAS ANONYMOUS, BUT STAFF CHOSE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH A LENGTHY INVESTIGATION, WHICH COST, UM, A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY FOR THE TAXPAYERS.

AND SO I JUST WANT TO REMIND THE TAXPAYERS AND THE RESIDENTS THAT WE HAVE TO BE ACCOUNTABLE FOR OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS, AS WELL AS THE STAFF.

THIS INVESTIGATION COULD HAVE BEEN COMPLETED IN MAYBE FIVE MINUTES, BUT INSTEAD IT TOOK ROUGHLY TWO WEEKS.

SO, UM, I'M VERY EXCITED THAT THE ETHICS COMMISSION DID THEIR DUE DILIGENCE, BUT I'M VERY DISAPPOINTED THAT TAXPAYERS MONEY WAS WASTED ON SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN RESOLVED IN FOUR SECONDS OR MAYBE FIVE MINUTES.

SO I'M HAPPY THAT THE, UM, NEGATIVE RHETORIC ABOUT MY RESIDENCY AND BEING QUESTIONED ABOUT ME BEING ABLE TO SERVE BEHIND THIS DIAS IS ABLE TO BE DEBUNKED IT'S, UM, PRETTY

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MUCH DEAD IN MY OPINION HAS BEEN DEAD SINCE IT'S BEEN BROUGHT UP, BUT JUST HAPPY THAT I WAS ABLE TO, I WON'T SAY HAVE DUE PROCESS, CUZ THAT WASN'T THE CASE, BUT ACTUALLY JUST HAVE THIS WHOLE INVESTIGATION BEHIND ME.