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TODAY IS MONDAY, OCTOBER 17TH, 2022.
WE WILL NOW CALL THE CITY COUNCIL REGULAR MEETING TO ORDER AT 7:00 PM STATE THAT WE
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HAVE A QUORUM OF COUNSEL.ITEM NUMBER TWO IS OUR PLEDGE.
WE'LL HAVE JO MATTHEW, OUR INTERIM CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER WILL LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE.
PLEASE JOIN ME FOR THE PLEDGE.
I PLEDGE TO ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG.
THE JUSTICE ITEM NUMBER THREE ARE PRESENTATION AND RECOGNITION.
THERE ARE NO PRESENTATION AND OR RECOGNITION ON, ON THIS AGENDA.
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NUMBER FOUR ARE PUBLIC COMMENTS.MADAM S DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? YES, MR. MAYOR, WE DO.
MS. LUCAS, AS YOU COME TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
MY ADDRESS IS 1 54 14 POOL VIEW STREET FUND AND PARK SUBDIVISION.
I AM ONE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS, SO I BRING YOU GREETINGS FOR THEM.
AND ACTUALLY WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY, I HAVE A LOT OF, UH, THE RESIDENT IN FUN AND PARK THAT FEELS THE SAME.
MY CONCERN IS THAT WE HAVE BEEN LOSING SO, SO, SO MANY POLICE OFFICERS, AND THAT IS STARTING TO BOTHER ME BECAUSE I'VE BEEN HERE 24 YEARS AND OVER HALF OF THOSE THAT WAS HERE WHEN I MOVED HERE, NO LONGER HERE, THEY HAVE LEFT THE CITY DUE TO A HIGHER INCOME.
AND WHICH REALLY, REALLY BOTHERS ME BECAUSE BAYTOWN IS NOT AS PROFITABLE AS WE ARE.
THE MEADOWS, PLACES LIKE THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO EVEN BEAR LA.
SO I AM ASKING AND THE MAYOR TO DO SOME KINDA SALARY STUDY ANALYSIS, COMPARE THESE SALARIES AND DON'T TELL OUR POLICE OFFICERS WE HAVE THAT WE CAN'T AFFORD IT.
BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, IT REALLY BOTHERS ME THAT WE ARE LOSING SO MANY POLICE OFFICERS BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO OTHER CITIES FOR HIGHER SALARIES, WHICH SHOULD NOT BE THE CASE WITH MISSOURI CITY.
WE'VE BEEN THRIVING AND THRIVING.
WE NEED THEM HERE FOR OUR SAFETY, FOR OUR PROTECTION.
YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO STAY IN THAT STATUS THAT WE HAVE.
HOW CAN WE, WHEN EVERY MONTH OR TWO WE'RE LOSING A POLICE OFFICER, I'M TIRED OF HEARING FROM, UH, POLICE OFFICERS SENDING ME GOODBYE EMAILS OR TEXTS THAT THEY'RE LEAVING.
YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE MY FAMILY IS GONE.
SO I'M ASKING, LIKE I SAID, COUNSEL, THE MAYOR, AND ANY OTHER STAFF TO PLEASE DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
YOU KNOW, UM, I'M ASSUMING YOU ALL ARE SAYING THAT YOU CAN'T AFFORD THE SALARY OR THE INCOME.
I DON'T BUY THAT BECAUSE LIKE I SAID, THERE'S TOO MANY LOCAL CITIES THAT'S NOT AS PROFITABLE AND THAT, THAT IS NOT THRIVING AS MUCH AS MISSOURI CITY.
AS YOU COME TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
I'M HERE TO DISCUSS THE PARK PROPOSAL.
THERE WAS A, WE'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS, OH, I'M SORRY.
CHERYL ORLOFF 1 1 8 0 2 SOUTH FERRY FUNDER PARK.
WE'VE HAD TWO MEETINGS WITH THE PARKS DEPARTMENT.
WE ASK FOR LIGHTING AROUND THE WALKWAY.
THERE IS NO LIGHTING ON THIS PROPOSAL.
WE ALSO ASK FOR PARK BENCHES AROUND THE WALKWAY.
I DO NOT SHOW ANY PARK BENCHES AROUND THE WALKWAY.
WE NEED THESE ITEMS TO BE ADDRESSED.
CAN YOU REPEAT THOSE ITEMS, MS. ORLA PART BENCHES AROUND THE WALKWAY.
NO SPLASH PAD LIGHTING AROUND THE WALKWAY.
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MS. SINGLETON, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.MY ADDRESS IS 38,007 PANORAMA DRIVE, 77 4 59 IS MY ZIP CODE.
AND I AM HERE TONIGHT IN SUPPORT OF THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION, RECEIVING FUNDING.
MY HUSBAND AND I PERCY, WHO'S ALSO IN THE AUDIENCE.
WE HAVE TWO CHILDREN, STEVEN AND CLAUDIA.
THEY ARE YEAR PART, AND EACH OF THEM RECEIVE SCHOLARSHIPS FROM JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION.
AND I HAVE A BRIEF STATEMENT HERE FOR MY DAUGHTER, WHICH I'D LIKE TO READ QUICKLY.
IT SAYS, THE MISSOURI CITY JUNE TEEN FOUNDATION CHANGED MY LIFE FOR THE BETTER.
THANKS TO THEIR FINANCIAL SUPPORT.
I WAS ABLE TO ENJOY MY COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, FOCUS ON MY EDUCATION WITHOUT STRESSING FOR AFFORDING FOOD, BOOKS, OR TRANSPORTATION.
I HAD COUNTLESS OPPORTUNITIES FOR LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT, WHICH I STILL USE TODAY.
SOME OF THE THINGS THAT THE SCHOLARSHIP ALLOWED ME TO DO WAS VOLUNTEER WITH HEAD START PROGRAMS TO IMPROVE THE LITERACY RATES OF LOW INCOME CHILDREN STUDYING ABROAD IN CENTRAL AMERICA, AND BEING NAMED THE UNDERGRADUATE STUDENT OF MY COLLEGE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI IN COLUMBIA, MISSOURI.
THIS COMMITTEE'S IMPACT GOES BEYOND ME.
AND THEIR EFFORTS HAVE CREATED A LASTING LEGACY IN ALL OF US AS CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY, THIS CITY AND THE STATE, AND HAS MADE OUR COUNTRY A BETTER PLACE.
IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT YOU ALLOW THIS FOUNDATION TO CONSIDER RECEIVING FUNDING.
MR. WATSON, UH, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE REST.
CAN, CAN WE, CAN YOU HEAR ME? YEAH.
I AM A RESIDENT OF 1800 FARM TO MARKET, 10 92 IN MISSOURI CITY, 77 4 5 9.
I KNOW MOST OF YOU I'VE WORKED WITH THE ON THE BOND COMMITTEE AND I'M MOVING MISSOURI CITY FORWARD.
SO LET US JUST TAKE A MOMENT AND SAY, MONDAY IS A DAY THE LORD HAS MADE.
LET US REJOICE AND BE GLAD THAT WE'RE ALL HERE TOGETHER.
I CAME WITH THE QUESTION BECAUSE I'VE MOVED INTO ANTHONY'S DISTRICT NOW, AND THERE I LIVE IN THE 1800.
IT'S CALLED QUAIL VALLEY APARTMENT COMPLEX.
AND IT HAS, MY QUESTION IS, SORRY, I SAY QUESTION PRESENTED, DO APARTMENT COMPLEXES WAS IN MISSOURI CITY AND THE ALLIED MUDS HAVE TO PROVIDE TRASH AND RECYCLING SERVICES IN COMPLIANCE WITH BOTH MISSOURI CITY ORDINANCES, FORT BEND COUNTY REGULATIONS, AND THE STATE OF TEXAS REGULATIONS.
JIM QUAIL VALLEY HAS A LEASE ADDENDUM THAT PROVIDES FOR BOTH STORM WATER DRAINAGE FEES, WHICH ARE $3 AND TRASH AND RECYCLING FEES, WHICH ARE A TOTAL OF $13.
BUT MY CONCERN IS IN THE BACK OF THE COMPLEX, A BUDDING THE AMERICAN LEGION PARK LAKE, WHICH WAS JUST RENOVATED.
THERE'S A RAVINE WITH A EASEMENT FOR CENTER POINT.
AND SINCE THERE'S NO RECYCLING IN THIS BUILDING, MATERIALS THAT NORMALLY WOULD BE IN RECYCLING AND BEING SOME CONTAINED PAIN, THAT OR CONTAINER OOZE OUT INTO THE RAVINE AND THEN TRICKLE ON DOWN TO THE LAKE.
WHAT I'M SCARED OF AS A PROJECT FINANCE GUY AND AN ENVIRONMENTAL PERSON IS THAT OVER TIME, THAT MATERIAL WILL CAUSE GREEN ALGAE AND OTHER THINGS TO GROW IN THE BEAUTIFUL AMERICAN LEGION LAKE POLLUTED.
THE HERONS WILL BE GONE, THE OTHER BIRDS WILL BE GONE, THE CRAWFISH WILL BE GONE.
SO I'VE ASKED THE COMPLEX, THE MANAGEMENT AND, AND, AND GALILEE MANAGEMENT JUST BLOWS ME OFF.
THEY HAVE NO, YOU KNOW, SO I SAID, I TOLD THEM I'M COMING TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT TO MAYBE SEND SOMEONE TO GET UP Y'ALL'S BUTTS ON THIS
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BECAUSE THE AREA'S BEING DEVELOPED ACROSS THE STREET, THE WET, THE, THE GREEN AREA ACROSS THE STREET, NOW IT'S BECOMING A LARGE HOUSING COMPLEX FROM LEXINGTON FIFTH.THE HOUSES ARE IN THE $450,000 AREA.
BUT ALL THAT USED TO BE WOODLANDS AND FARMLAND IS NOW GONNA BE CEMENTED OVER.
SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE MORE WATER AND STUFF RUSHING IN.
SO I JUST WANNA RAISE THIS AND AS AN EXAMPLE, BECAUSE I'M SURE THERE ARE OTHER APARTMENT COMPLEXES WITH MISSOURI CITY, SIENNA, THE ALLIED MUD, THAT HAVE THE SAME ISSUE.
SO PLEASE AND ENGAGE GFL OR WHOEVER TO, TO LOOK INTO THIS.
AND I WILL BE ON THE CASE JUST LIKE I'M ON THE CASE FOR GETTING A TRUE UP ON THE BOND.
IT'S IMPORTANT WE ONLY GET ONE ENVIRONMENT.
HELLO, I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION.
CAN YOU STATE YOUR, I'M SO SORRY.
LAURA LOPEZ, 47 22 BROWS POINT LANE, FRESNO, TEXAS 77 4 77 5 45.
AND UH, I'M HERE IN SUPPORT OF THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION.
UM, MY SON HAS BEEN A SCHOLARSHIP RECIPIENT FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS, AND, UH, WE DEFINITELY, AS A SINGLE MOTHER OF TWO, IT IS IMPERATIVE THAT WE CAN ACCESS ANY TYPE OF FUNDS THAT WE CAN SO THAT HE CAN CONTINUE HIS STUDIES.
HE'S DOING REALLY WELL AT PRAIRIE VIEW A AND M UNIVERSITY, AND WE WOULD DEFINITELY LOVE TO CONTINUE THAT.
AS YOU, UH, STEP TO THE PODIUM, PLEASE RECOGNIZE THE THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT AND STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD.
BRUCE SADOWSKI, 79 15 CHANCE DRIVE, HOUSTON 77,071.
WELL, HATS OFF TO YOU IN MISSOURI CITY.
AGAIN, A 5.2% TAX INCREASE NEXT YEAR FOR MOST OF THE RESIDENTS.
I THOUGHT THAT ITEM HAD TO BE BOATED ON UPON THE RESIDENTS.
IF A CITY WAS GONNA GET MORE THAN 3.5% REVENUE GROWTH FROM YEAR TO YEAR, APPARENTLY YOU DON'T RESPECT THE BOATERS.
MAYBE THAT SHOULD HAVE PUT UP FOR VOTE FOR THE TAX RATE FOR MISSOURI CITY.
THAT SENIOR EXEMPTION ISN'T GONNA DO MUCH GOOD THAT YOU PASSED.
YOU GIVE WITH ONE HAND AND TAKE WITH THE OTHER.
I'M TIRED OF YOUR WASTEFUL SPENDING IN THIS CITY SPENDING ON NONSENSE PROJECTS AND THE NEGLECT OF FOND MEADOW.
WE DO HAVE, UM, TWO PERSONS THAT HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK UNDER, UM, ITEM NINE E FOR THE JUNETEENTH SEPARATION.
THEY ARE PART OF THE ORGANIZATION.
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I'D LIKE TO MOVE ITEM NINE E TO THE, UM, NEXT ITEM PLEASE.AND YOU PUT A MOTION? YEAH, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO MOVE ITEM NINE E SECOND.
SO IT'S BEEN A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR, PLEASE VOTE.
MAYOR, THIS SAYS MOTION TO APPROVE.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT VOTING ON THAT AS A MOTION TO APPROVE, BUT JUST A MOTION TO MOVE THIS ITEM ABOVE.
I JUST WANT THAT TO BE CLEAR ON THE RECORD CUZ I'M JUST LOOKING AT MY SCREEN HERE.
UM, WE WOULD CONSIDER IT TO BE A MOTION TO APPROVE MOVING THE ITEM.
CAN YOU REPEAT THE, THE MOTION? I'M MAKING A MOTION TO MOVE THE ITEM FORWARD.
UH, 90 E FORWARD TO THIS CURRENT.
BUT IF I FIRST KNOW, INSTEAD OF, UM, YES.
I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT I AM IN FAVOR FOR IT.
THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN TO ZERO.
CAN WE JUST, WE JUST ASK THIS, CAN WE JUST MAKE SURE, CUZ WHEN WE HAVE LENGTHY CONVERSATIONS, I FEEL LIKE WHEN THIS GO TO SLEEP, THAT'S WHERE THE ISSUE IS.
SO HOW CAN WE, IT IT JOURNAL WAS JUST LOADING CAUSE IT WOULD BE SO WAS THE NEXT TIME.
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RIGHT.WE'LL GO AND TAKE 90 E CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE COMMUNITY EVENT PARTICIPATION AGREEMENT WITH THE MISSOURI CITY JUNE TEEN CELEBRATION FOUNDATION.
THIS AGREEMENT IS BEING PROPOSED FOR A FIVE YEAR TERM WITH THEIR 35,000 ANNUALLY SUPPORTED BY THE HOT FUNDS AND 15,000 ANNUALLY.
UM, FROM THE GENERAL FUND, WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY TYSON.
MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UH, WE BRING THIS TO YOU THIS EVENING.
UM, THE PREVIOUS CONTRACT WITH THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION EXPIRED IN 2022.
AND SO WE ARE LOOKING TO, UH, RENEW THIS PARTNERSHIP MOVING FORWARD.
IN 2003, THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION HOSTED THE FIRST MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH EVENT.
SINCE IT'S ONSET, THE FOUNDATION'S SET OUT TO CELEBRATE THE FREEDOM FOR ALL REPRESENTED BY JUNE TEENS BY PROVIDING RELEVANT COMMUNITY EVENTS AND ACTIVITIES, HIGHLIGHTING INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE MADE POSITIVE IMPACT IN THE LOCAL COMMUNITY AND GIVING BACK BY PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS TO EMERGING YOUNG LEADERS.
THESE EVENTS HAVE THE PURPOSE OF CREATING SOLUTIONS TO IDENTIFY NEEDS WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY BY CREATING EVENTS THAT SHOW AN APPRECIATION OF THE PARKS PROMOT PROMOTION OF THE ARTS FEATURE, RECREATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES AND SUPPORT OVERALL HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
THE M CJ CF IS IN STEP WITH SPECIFIC GUIDING PRINCIPLES RE OF RECENT MISSOURI CITY VISION AND STRATEGIC PLANS, SPECIFICALLY AS THEY RELATE TO POSITIVE MEDIA RECOGNITION, CELEBRATIONS OF DIVERSE CULTURAL TRADITIONS AND PRESERVATION OF MISSOURI CITY HISTORY, HISTORY, AND HERITAGE.
AS THESE EVENTS HAVE GROWN, THEY HAVE BECOME A GENERATIONAL TRADITION FOR MANY RESIDENTS.
AND AS SOME OF THESE YOUNGER GENERATIONS MOVE THROUGHOUT OUR REGION, THIS CAN BE A TIME TO EXPAND THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION BRAND AND WELCOME VISITORS TO AND BACK TO OUR CITY.
THE FOUNDATION HAS LAID OUT A PLAN TO MAKE WEEK'S LONGS EVENTS, UH, ONE THAT NOT ONLY BENEFIT OUR LOCAL CITIZENS, BUT ALSO ATTRACT VISITORS TO MISSOURI CITY FROM MULTI-DAY EVENTS.
WITH THIS, THE FOUNDATION HAS PROVIDED A FIVE YEAR VISION FOR THE EVENTS AS A WAY TO FURTHER DISPLAY THE MEETING OF JUNETEENTH AND HOW IT HAS IMPACTED OUR COMMUNITY.
THESE EVENTS, ALONG WITH THE IMPROVEMENTS MADE BEING MADE AT THE FREEDOM TREE PARK, PROVIDE A STRONG FOUNDATION FOR MISSOURI CITY TO LEAD THE WAY IN CELEBRATING THIS IMPORTANT DAY.
AT THIS TIME, I'M HAPPY TO ACCEPT THE QUESTIONS REGARDING THIS PROPOSAL, AND THERE'S ALSO REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE FOUNDATION HERE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
AND MAY I JUST, UH, RECOMMEND REALLY QUICKLY, UM, THE CITY IS STILL, UH, NEGOTIATING AND HAS APPROVED SOME VERY, VERY MINOR CHANGES.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE MOTION IS TO, UH, AUTHORIZE THE CONTRACT AS AMENDED JUST TO REFLECT THOSE FEW VERY, VERY MINOR CHANGES.
WHAT'S THE MINOR CHANGES? UH, IT'S BASICALLY JUST LANGUAGE, BASICALLY JUST A FEW CHANGES IN THE WORDING THAT WERE, UH, NEGOTIATED TODAY.
SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE MOTION IS AUTHORIZATION.
AND WAS THAT IN SET IN OUR PACKET AS OF FRIDAY? I'M SORRY? WERE THOSE CHANGES IN OUR PACKET AS OF FRIDAY? NO, THEY WEREN'T.
WHEN DID THOSE CHANGES HAPPEN? UH, THEY WERE NEGOTIATED TODAY.
CAN YOU PLEASE HIGHLIGHT THOSE? SURE.
UM, AND I PRINTED OUT THE, A GRIEVANCE OF THAT I COULD FEEL ANY QUESTIONS Y'ALL HAVE ABOUT IT? UH, THE ONLY CHANGES ARE, UM, THAT THE CITY CAN INSPECT THE, UH, FOUNDATION'S RECORD UPON WRITTEN REQUEST THAT UPON WRITTEN REQUEST WASN'T IN THERE BEFORE.
AND THAT, UM, ANY HOT FUNDS THAT ARE USED, UM, BASICALLY WE SHIFTED THE POSITION OF THE WORD ONLY TO CLARIFY THAT, UM, HOT FUNDS WOULD ONLY BE USED FOR EXPENDITURES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE UNDER STATE LAW.
AND, UM, AS FAR AS THE FINANCIAL REPORTING, UH, THE PHRASE TO THE EXTENT IT COULD BE REASONABLY MEASURED, WAS ADDED, UH, TO THE ESTIMATION OF THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF THE EVENT, JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, THE FOUNDATION IS ABLE TO, UM, REASONABLE, I GUESS, ACCURATELY REPORT TO THE BEST OF ITS ABILITY.
IS THAT A MOTION? MOTION? OH, COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY MADE THE MOTION.
THERE'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.
ANY QUESTIONS? YES, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS.
I ACTUALLY HAVE 'EM FOR THE, UM, THE FOUNDATION IF THE MEMBERS ARE HERE.
OH, ACTUALLY, WERE THERE PEOPLE SPEAKING TO THIS? I'M SORRY.
YOU SAID THERE WERE PEOPLE SPEAKING? WE DO, BUT THEY'RE BOTH INVOLVED WITH THE ORGANIZATION.
SO IS THIS BEING AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO SPEAK? IS THAT SORRY,
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OR JUST QUESTIONS? YEAH, I'M ASKING QUESTIONS.UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I NOTICED, UM, IN THE PREVIOUS YEARS WAS THAT THERE WERE OUTSIDE OF THE STATE VENDORS, AND, UH, BECAUSE WE ARE A LOCAL MUNICIPALITY THAT'S OFFERING A COMMUNITY EVENT, UM, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHAT ARE YOUR EFFORTS TO INCLUDE MORE SO MISSOURI CITY VENDORS, LOCAL BUSINESSES, UM, OR TRY TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, THE VENDORS THAT YOU GUYS USE MORE LOCAL VERSUS OUT OF STATE.
UH, TO THE COUNCIL, MY NAME IS CHARLES CALDWELL.
I AM, UM, DON SMITH'S STEPSON, AND I'M ALSO A BOARD MEMBER OF THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION.
AND, UH, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, MS. BAILEY, THE JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION HAS HISTORICALLY USED PRIMARILY LOCAL VENDORS AND LOCAL, UH, TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES.
AND I WOULD SAY ROUGHLY 90% OF OUR, UH, ATTENDEES ARE FROM THE AREA, UH, FROM MISSOURI CITY.
HOWEVER, NOW THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS MADE JUNETEENTH THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY AS OF LAST YEAR, WE WOULD LIKE TO EXPAND AND BRING MORE BUSINESS TO MISSOURI CITY.
UM, WE WOULD ALSO LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, AS TYSON MENTIONED, WE STARTED THIS IN 2003, SO WE'VE BEEN AHEAD OF THE CURVE IN TERMS OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, YOU KNOW, FINALLY CATCHING ON TO RECOGNIZE THE IMPORTANCE OF JUNETEENTH.
UM, AND AS YOU'VE HEARD FROM TWO PARENTS TONIGHT SINCE OUR INCEPTION, WE HAVE AWARDED ALMOST $200,000 IN SCHOLARSHIPS, UM, SINCE OUR ORGANIZATION HAS BEEN AROUND.
AND WE, WE WOULD LIKE TO CONTINUE AND TO INCREASE THAT AMOUNT.
SO IN ADDITION TO CONTINUING, UH, SUPPORTING MISSOURI CITY'S YOUTH AND, UH, BURGEONING COLLEGE STUDENTS, WE, UH, DO WANT TO BE ABLE TO EXPAND SO THAT WE CAN BRING MORE LOCAL BUSINESSES.
BUT WITH THE CROWDS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE, WE, WE ARE FAIRLY CERTAIN THAT ALL OF THE LOCAL BUSINESSES, UH, BENEFIT FROM THE INCREASED TRAFFIC BECAUSE THIS IS A WEEK LONG EVENT.
WE HAVE A GOLF TOURNAMENT, WE HAVE A CONCERT IN THE PARK ONE NIGHT, WE HAVE A MOVIE NIGHT FAMILY MOVE NIGHT.
EACH OF THOSE EVENTS BRINGS IN RESIDENTS, AND THOSE RESIDENTS THEN SPEND THEIR MONEY AT THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE NEAR, UH, WHERE THESE EVENTS TAKE PLACE IN ADDITION TO THE MONEY THAT MISSOURI CITY RECEIVES DIRECTLY THROUGH OUR GOLF TOURNAMENT, UM, WHICH WE PAY FOR.
SO, UM, HAVE I ANSWERED PART OF YOUR QUESTION OR YOU DID ANSWER IT.
UH, BUT MY, I GUESS ME MAKE MY, MY REQUEST, YOU KNOW, MORE, UH, CLARIFIED, UM, AS I WAS READING THROUGH THE, THE RECEIPTS, YOU KNOW, THINGS LIKE PRINTING, UM, BANNERS, THINGS, SIGNAGE, UM, MEDIA, THINGS OF THAT NATURE MM-HMM.
AND WE KEEP, YOU KNOW, AS MANY OF THOSE OPPORTUNITIES FOR THOSE BUSINESSES TO GROW THEIR, THEIR BUSINESS AND GET THAT PUBLICITY AS WELL.
UM, WHAT YOU CAN U UTILIZE IN THE CITY, THAT'S MY REQUEST, IS THAT YOU WOULD U USE MORE SO YOUR CITY VENDORS MM-HMM.
FROM THE FUNDS THAT WE'RE WE'RE PROVIDING TO YOU GUYS, UH, IF THE COUNCIL SO CHOOSES TO VOTE FOR IN FAVOR OF IT.
AND, AND JUST TO CLARIFY, UM, HISTORICALLY, WE'VE ALWAYS LOOKED TO LOCAL VENDORS.
THE ONLY TIME WE DIDN'T USE A LOCAL VENDOR IS IF THEY DIDN'T PROVIDE WHAT IT WAS WE NEEDED.
UM, AND OBVIOUSLY WITH THE DISRUPTION CAUSED BY COVID, UH, WE HAD TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE FAST MOVES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAD WHAT WE NEEDED.
SO IN THOSE INSTANCES, IN THE REPORT THAT YOU'VE LOOKED AT FOR THE YEAR, YOU'VE LOOKED AT, UH, WE PROBABLY DID HAVE TO GO ELSEWHERE TO FIND WHAT WE NEEDED, BUT HISTORICALLY, OVER 50% OF WHAT WE USE COMES DIRECTLY FROM MISSOURI CITY BUSINESSES.
AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION, CAN YOU, UM, STATE HOW MANY, UM, IN THE DOLLAR AMOUNT OF SCHOLARSHIP THAT YOU GUYS HAVE GIVEN IN YOUR, IS IT 20 OR 19 YEARS? 19 YEARS? YES.
UM, ARE YOU ASKING SPECIFIC SCHOLARSHIP AMOUNTS OR THE TOTAL AMOUNT? TOTAL AMOUNT.
OH, I DON'T HAVE THE EXACT NUMBER, BUT IT'S BETWEEN 195 AND $200,000.
UM, AND TYPICALLY IT, IT, IT RANGES FROM 7,000 A YEAR TO, IN 22 WE DID 12,000.
SO, UM, WE, AND WE'D LIKE TO EXPAND THAT.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW THERE ARE OTHER STUDENTS OUT THERE, OTHER, YOU KNOW, THAT NEED THE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO FURTHER THEIR
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EDUCATION.AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR PRIMARY GOAL.
WELL, THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTIONS.
UM, AND LET ME JUST SAY, I'M JUST VERY HAPPY THAT YOU GUYS HOST THIS EVENT EVERY YEAR, UM, IN DISTRICT A OF COURSE, AT HUNTERS GLENN PARK IN TEXAS PARKWAY.
WELL, THANK YOU, AND WE APPRECIATE YOU.
IF ANYBODY ELSE HAVE QUESTIONS, JUST GO TO THAT RTS.
MIKE, PUT IT IN THERE, THAT COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUD.
UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING HERE.
UM, CAN YOU PROVIDE DETAILED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FROM THE LAST FIVE YEARS TO COUNSEL? UM, I CAN, I DON'T HAVE A, A PRINTOUT THAT I CAN GIVE YOU.
BUT I CAN TELL YOU, UM, WHAT THE SCHOLARSHIPS AMOUNT WERE.
NO, I WANT OF ALL THE EXPENDITURES.
UM, AND YOU DON'T GO AHEAD, OF COURSE, YOU WEREN'T PREPARED TO DO THAT RIGHT THIS MOMENT, BUT IF I ASKED FOR THAT, WOULD YOU BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT FOR ALL OF COUNCIL? OH, ABSOLUTELY.
AND, AND BECAUSE A PORTION OF THE FUNDS COME FROM HOT TECHS WE'RE REQUIRED LEGALLY TO, TO GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION.
SO YES, WE, BECAUSE YOU ALL ARE NONPROFIT, CORRECT? YES, WE ARE.
UM, GO, TYSON ACTUALLY HAS, HAS THOSE INFORMA THAT INFORMATION, THOSE DOCUMENTS, AND HE CAN SHARE THOSE WITH ALL HIS COUNSEL, RIGHT? YOU HAVE THOSE WITH YOU.
I'VE, I'VE GOT A JUST ONE PRINTED PACKET OF THE RECEIPTS FROM 2022, 2021 AND 2020.
PRIOR TO THAT, UM, I WAS NOT IN THIS POSITION, SO I DON'T HAVE ACCESS TO THOSE FULL DOCUMENTS.
UM, I BELIEVE THE CITY PROBABLY HAS FURTHER DOCUMENTS SOMEWHERE, BUT I WAS NOT ABLE TO GET THOSE BEFORE TODAY'S MEETING.
YES, I WOULD LIKE, AND THIS, AND THIS IS ONLY FOR THE DOCU, THE EXPENSES THAT WERE TURNED INTO THE CITY FOR REIMBURSEMENT THROUGH HOT FUNDS.
AS FAR AS ANYTHING ELSE FOR THEIR FOUNDATION AS FAR AS THEIR OVERALL FINANCIALS, I DON'T HAVE THAT WITH ME.
JUST THIS IS WHAT WAS TURNED INTO THE CITY FOR REIMBURSEMENT.
UH, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT MAYBE YOU'D CONFIRM THAT, UH, ONCE THE, UH, UH, THE, UH, JUNETEENTH WAS, UH, UH, DETERMINED TO BE A, UH, A, UH, NATIONAL HOLIDAY THAT SOME OF OUR, UH, CITIES AROUND US HAVE KIND OF TAKEN UP THE, UH, THE MAN AND WANT TO, UH, HAVE JUNETEENTH, UH, CELEBRATIONS ALSO.
AND, UH, I GUESS, YOU KNOW, MISSOURI CITY HAS ALWAYS BEEN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FIRST ONE IN THE, UH, I, I THINK THE STARSHIP FOR, UH, THE CELEBRATION OF JUNETEENTH THANKS TO, YOU KNOW, UH, YOUR FATHER AND, AND ALL OF THE BOARD.
UH, SO I, IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT'S THE, UH, SOME OF THE FUNDS THAT WE WILL BE USING OR YOU'LL BE USING WILL MAKE SURE THAT, NOT MAKE SURE, BUT TRY TO, TO GUARANTEE THAT THE, UH, UH, OTHER CITIES DON'T PULL ATTENDANCE FROM MISSOURI CITY.
WE STILL WANT TO BE THE, UH, THE STARSHIP OF, OF JUNETEENTH IN, UH, FORT BEND COUNTY, AND MAYBE EVEN IN TEXAS.
SO, UH, IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, A MATTER OF, I THINK, NOT ONLY OF PRIDE, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S, UH, GOOD FOR OUR CITIZENS AND FOR OUR BUSINESSES.
UH, IT, UH, ALSO, I, I THINK, UH, UH, PROMOTES DIVERSITY BY HAVING, UH, A, UH, JUNETEENTH PROGRAM AND TO EXPAND THAT, UH, YOU, I CAN SAY THAT I'VE, YOU KNOW, BEEN TO A NUMBER OF THE JUNETEENTH, UH, PROGRAMS AND, UH, IT'S, UH, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN ONE THAT, UH, I THINK WAS WELL DONE IN, UH, UH, WAS A, UH, A PLUS FOR MISSOURI CITY.
SO, UH, I KNOW THAT, UH, FIRST OF ALL, GIVE MY REGARDS TO YOUR, YOUR FATHER.
TELL HIM HE'S DONE A, A JOB WELL DONE.
AND, UH, WE WANT TO CARRY THE, THE MANTLE AND YOU AND, UH, WHOEVER ELSE IS INVOLVED, CARRY THE MAN FORWARD AND CONTINUE TO MAKE MISSOURI CITY THE STARSHIP OF THE JUNETEENTH, UH, CELEBRATION.
UH, COUNCILMAN EMERY, WE, UH, YOU'RE ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.
UH, WE'D LIKE TO SAY WE'RE THE, WE'RE THE BIGGEST AND THE BEST JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
UH, MAYBE EVEN, YOU KNOW, THE UNITED STATES.
UM, AND WE CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, ARE PROUD TO BE A PART OF MISSOURI CITY AND TO HOLD IT IN MISSOURI CITY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE THINK THAT IT'S, IT'S, IT SHOWS THE TYPE OF CITY THAT WE ARE, THAT WE'RE A DIVERSE CITY, WE'RE A PROGRESSIVE CITY, AND WE BELIEVE IN INCLUSION, DIVERSITY, AND EDUCATION.
SO WE'D LIKE TO CONTINUE THAT TRADITION.
I JUST WANTED TO, FIRST OF ALL, THANK YOU ALL FOR, UH, ALL THAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THE PAST 20 YEARS OF BRINGING THIS OR STARTING THIS.
UH, DON SMITH STARTING THIS IN MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS.
YOU KNOW, YOU THINK ABOUT CITIES AND
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MANY OF THE CITIES THAT ACTUALLY HAVE EVENTS AND F FESTIVALS AND THINGS IN THEIR RESPECTIVE CITIES THAT PEOPLE TRAVEL TO OR LOOK FORWARD TO GOING TO ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.UH, IN NEW ORLEANS, THEY HAVE SOMETHING CALLED THE ESSENCE FESTIVAL, RIGHT.
AND PEOPLE TRAVEL OR PLAYING TO GO TO NEW ORLEANS FOR THAT PARTICULAR, UH, EVENT ON AN BASIS.
AND I CAN GO ON AND ON AND ON.
BUT EVEN HERE IN MISSOURI CITY, THERE, UH, WAS AN ANNUAL EVENT.
I KNOW EVENT ME AND, UH, MAYOR PRO, UH, ME AND COUNCIL MEMBER, UM, RULINGS WOULD ALWAYS ATTEND THE SNOW DROP, UH, FOUNDATION WOULD HAVE THEIR ANNUAL WALK.
AND SO WE'VE UTILIZED HOT FUNDS FOR EVENTS LIKE THAT.
AND OF COURSE, UH, WITH THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION, OUTSIDE OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS AND OTHER, THE OTHER, UH, EVENTS IN THE, IN THE CITY, UH, 70% OF THE FUNDS THAT YOU'RE REQUESTING FOR THE FIVE YEARS ARE COMING FROM HOT TAXES, WHICH CAN ONLY BE USED FOR A CERTAIN PURPOSE ANYWAY.
UH, THE OTHER 30%, 15,000, UH, ANNUALLY IS COMING FROM GENERAL FUND.
I THINK THAT IS A VERY, VERY MODEST INVESTMENT TO MAKE $15,000, 30% OF THE REQUEST, UH, COMING FROM OUR GENERAL FUND FOR SOMETHING THAT IS GOING TO PUT HEADS IN THE BEDS IN OUR HOTELS THAT ARE GONNA BRING ATTENTION TO MISSOURI CITY, ALLOW THOSE INDIVIDUALS TO SHOP AT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES AND VIEW OUR GREAT CITY, UH, IF WE WANNA BE KNOWN FOR SOMETHING.
AND IT'S ALWAYS SAID THAT WE'RE NOT KNOWN FOR ANYTHING.
WE'RE KNOWN FOR THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION AND THE GREAT WORK THAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE FOR 20 YEARS.
I, FOR ONE, CAN ATTEST THAT I'VE BEEN EVERY YEAR
BUT I WAS OUT THERE HANDING OUT PPE WITH YOU GUYS.
UH, SO YOU GUYS CONTINUE TO DO WHAT YOU DID, RAISE FUNDS FOR SCHOLARSHIPS, AND DO THE THINGS THAT ARE NECESSARY.
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, IT'S A MATTER OF PRIDE, NOT ONLY AS A CITY, A MISSOURI CITY RESIDENT, BUT ALSO AS AN AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN, UH, WHO UNDERSTANDS THE HISTORY, UH, OF, OF, OF WHAT IT MEANS TO BE A PERSON OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN THIS COUNTRY.
AND FOR US TO BE ABLE TO CONTINUE THIS PARTICULAR MONUMENTAL, UH, EFFORT I'M FULLY IN SUPPORT OF.
COUNCILMAN BONY AND, UH, MAYOR PRO BONY.
AND I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO NOTE THAT EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T HAVE AN EVENT, UH, IN 19 WHEN COVID HIT, WE STILL GAVE SCHOLARSHIPS.
SO, SO WE, WE WE'RE GONNA DO THE WORK NO MATTER WHAT.
THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT AND HAVING THIS PRESENTATION.
UM, FOR THE RECORD, I'M DEFINITELY IN FAVOR FOR THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVALS, I THINK IS ADMIRABLE THAT WE HAVE BEEN THE FIRST, UM, IN OUR SURROUNDING CITIES TO ACTUALLY PROVIDE THAT.
SO, JUST LIKE MAYOR PROTE MENTIONED, I UNDERSTAND THE SIGNIFICANCE IT IS FOR THE AFRICAN AMERICAN CULTURE.
SO, FOR THE RECORD, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I AM CLEAR ON THAT.
SO THE COVER MEMO PROVIDES THAT THE CITY HAS BEEN PROVIDING SCHOLARSHIPS SINCE 2003.
SO WITHIN THAT BEING SAID, DOES THE CITY FUND THOSE SCHOLARSHIPS, OR IS IT SOLELY FROM SPONSORSHIPS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN PROVIDED? AND, UM, YEAH, I'LL JUST WAIT FOR YOUR ANSWER.
YOU, YOU RAISE AN EXCELLENT POINT.
UM, TO, TO CLARIFY, PRIOR TO 2017, ALL WE RECEIVED, THE ONLY FUNDS WE RECEIVED FROM THE CITY WERE IN KIND FUNDS, SO WE DIDN'T RECEIVE CASH.
WE RECEIVED, I'M SO SORRY TO INTERRUPT.
UM, A RESIDENT STATED SHE CAN'T HEAR YOU IN THE BACK.
I WAS SAYING THAT I'M GLAD THAT YOU RAISED, UH, THAT YOU BROUGHT THAT POINT UP.
PRIOR TO 2017, WE ONLY RECEIVED INKIND FUNDS FROM THE CITY.
SO IT WASN'T DOLLARS THAT WE RECEIVED.
WE RECEIVED POLICE SUPPORT FOR THE PARADE.
WE RECEIVED, UH, POLICE SECURITY FOR THE, UH, FAMILY NIGHT AT THE PARK AND FOR THE CONCERT, UM, YOU KNOW, WE RECEIVED A STAGE IN LIGHTING, YOU KNOW, AUDIO, VISUAL EQUIPMENT, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
IT WASN'T UNTIL 2017 THAT WE ACTUALLY STARTED TO GET FUNDS FROM THE CITY, UH, ACTUAL CASH IN ADDITION TO, UH, IN KIND SERVICES THAT THE CITY HAS, UH, SO GRACIOUSLY PROVIDED US THROUGH THE YEARS.
SO, UM, NOW THAT WE'RE TRYING TO EXPAND JUNETEENTH AND IN STEP WITH THE NATIONAL HOLIDAY, AND AS COUNCILMAN EMORY INDICATED, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE STAY AT THE FOREFRONT OF THE JUNETEENTH CELEBRATIONS, AS MANY CITIES WILL NOW START DOING IT BECAUSE IT'S NOW A NATIONAL HOLIDAY.
SO, UM, PRIOR TO THAT, YOU KNOW, WE GOT RAISED MONEY FROM OUR SPONSORS AT AND T, WELLS FARGO, UH, PRIMEWAY BANK WAS ALSO ONE OF OUR, UH, BOARD MEMBERS.
HE, UH, HE'S HERE TONIGHT AS WELL.
SO NOW THAT WE HAVE CREATED A EVEN CLOSER PARTNERSHIP
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WITH THE CITY, OR I, I USE THAT WORD LOOSELY, MORE LIKE A SPONSORSHIP FROM THE CITY, WE ARE ABLE TO, UM, PROVIDE EVEN MORE SCHOLARSHIPS TO BR TO MAKE THE EVENT A BIGGER EVENT SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO, YOU KNOW, MAKE MISSOURI CITY'S JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE STARS OF TEXAS.UM, MY NEXT QUESTION IS, THANK YOU FOR THAT EXPLANATION.
UM, MOVING FORWARD, WOULD THE CITY BE FUNDING THE SCHOLARSHIPS, OR WILL THIS BE SOLELY ON YOU AND YOUR SPONSORS? UM, A PORTION OF THE GENERAL FUNDS WILL, MAY, MAY BE USED FOR SCHOLARSHIPS.
IT, IT DEPENDS ON, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY SPONSORSHIP, OTHER SPONSORS WE, WE GET, AND HOW MUCH THOSE OTHER SPONSORS DONATE, AND HOW MANY SCHOLARSHIP WE INTEND TO AWARD.
UM, WE CAN'T USE THE HOT TAX FUNDS FOR SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS BECAUSE THOSE ARE SPECIFICALLY EARMARKED FOR MARKETING THE EVENT AND BRINGING IN, UH, PEOPLE TO MISSOURI CITY, UH, TO SPEND, TO SPEND MONEY IN MISSOURI CITY.
SO WITHOUT USING THE HOT FUNDS, YOU WILL SPECIFICALLY USE AMOUNTS FROM THE GENERAL FUND, OR I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I, IS THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION, OR THE CITY IS GONNA BE SPONSORING THE, THE SCHOLARSHIPS MOVING FORWARD.
JUNETEENTH WILL CONTINUE TO, UH, PROVIDE THE SCHOLARSHIPS MOVING FORWARD, BUT IF WE NEED IT, SOME OF THE GENERAL FUNDS, YOU KNOW, TO ADD TO THE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, LIKE TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
UM, BUT AS I STATED, YOU KNOW, FOR THE MAJORITY OF, OF THE ORGANIZATION'S HISTORY, UH, THOSE FUNDS HAVE NOT COME FROM THE CITY, THE SCHOLARSHIP FUNDS, SO, OKAY.
YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL DO IT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE DEFINITELY WANT AND, AND CAN MAKE GOOD USE OF THE CITY'S FUNDS, BUT YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO DO WHAT WE DO, YOU KNOW, NO MATTER WHAT.
UM, AS FAR AS THE 2019 BREAKDOWN OF THE PANDEMIC THAT WE HAD, AND EVERYONE WAS GONNA CLOSE ME IN, I'M UNDER THE IMPRESSION WHERE I KNOW THAT FUNDING WAS STILL PROVIDED TO THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION, UM, DESPITE NOT HAVING THE FESTIVAL.
SO CAN YOU PROVIDE AN EXPLANATION ON HOW THE BREAKDOWN WAS, UM, PROVIDED ON USE OF THE FUNDING? UM, THE FUNDS WERE USED TO HAVE EVENTS, UH, AT THE PARK, UH, HANDING OUT PPE AS, UH, COUNCILMAN BON MAYOR PRO, TIM BONY JUST INDICATED.
UM, WE ALSO, UH, REFUNDED A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF THOSE FUNDS.
I CAN'T REMEMBER THE EXACT AMOUNT, BUT WE, THE, THE FUNDS THAT WE DIDN'T USE, WE DID REFUND TO THE CITY.
WHAT WAS THAT DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WAS RECEIVED? GOTCHA.
GO AHEAD, COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS.
UM, IN 2019, THE EVENTS DID NOT HAPPEN.
THERE WERE SOME PAYMENTS THAT WERE MADE, UH, FOR, UH, SOME ENTERTAINERS THAT WERE PLANNED TO PROVIDE ENTERTAINMENT THAT YEAR.
UM, THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION DID PROVIDE A REFUND BACK TO THE CITY.
UH, A REFUND BACK TO THE CITY IN THE AMOUNT OF $2,870 AND 15 CENTS.
HOLD ON PYTHON, LET ME TYPE THIS UP.
ADDITIONALLY, SOME OF THE FUNDS THAT WERE PAID IN THAT YEAR FOR ENTERTAINERS, THOSE ENTERTAINERS AGREED TO RE HOLD THEIR CONTRACTS OVER FOR 2021.
SO THOSE CONTRACTS WERE, UM, IDENTIFIED FOR THE 2021, AND THAT WAS INCORPORATED INTO THOSE FUNDS AS WELL.
WHAT WAS THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT WAS RECEIVED IN WHICH YEAR? 2019? IN, IN 2020, THE YEAR THAT WAS CANCELED.
UH, THERE WAS ORIGINALLY 14,200 PROVIDED WITH THAT AMOUNT, PROVIDED BACK THE 2,800.
TYSON, I THINK I'LL CONCLUDE MY QUESTIONS.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, ARE YOU DONE? NO, I'M NOT.
SO IF ANYONE CAN PROVIDE, WHAT ARE THE TOTAL FUNDS THAT THE CITY HAS PROVIDED IN, YOU KNOW, TOTALITY FROM 2003? DO WE HAVE THAT, THAT AMOUNT PROVIDED TODAY? UH, THE CITY DIDN'T GIVE US, THEY GAVE US IN KIND SERVICES IN 2000 AND OKAY.
FROM THOUSAND 17 TO THIS PORTION RIGHT HERE.
UM, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
UM, FROM TWO, 2017 TO 2022, UH, WE GAVE A TOTAL OF $119,450.
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ALRIGHTY.UH, GOING BACK TO THE COVID, I KNOW YOU SAY YOU PASSED OUT PANDEMIC SUPPLIES, OR PPE, PARDON ME MM-HMM.
WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WAS PROVIDED FOR THE COMMUNITY? I'M SURE THAT THERE WAS, UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY INFORMATION ON THAT? THAT WAS INFORMATION ON THAT.
UM, I DON'T HAVE THAT INFORMATION IN FRONT OF ME, BUT I CAN DEFINITELY PROVIDE YOU WITH THE INFORMATION.
UM, THIS MIGHT BE A QUESTION FOR INTERIM CITY MANAGER, CEDRIC OR WHOEVER'S ABLE TO ASK AND, UM, REFERENCE TO BASICALLY THE ECONOMIC BENEFIT THAT THE CITY HAS RECEIVED FOR GIVING THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY TO THE FOUNDATION.
I'LL MOVE TO MY NEXT QUESTION, EVEN THOUGH I FEEL LIKE THAT AMOUNT SHOULD HAVE BEEN PROVIDED PRIOR SINCE THIS HAS BEEN A HOT TOPIC FOR A WHILE, BUT I DIGRESS.
SO MY NEXT QUESTION IS, ARE WE PROVIDED WITH ANY TYPE OF ITEMIZED COST OVER THE EVENTS THAT HAVE BEEN PROVIDED OVER THE YEARS? ANY TYPE OF BREAKDOWN? I MEAN, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU JUST GIVE LIKE A BRIEFING, BUT AN ITEMIZED AMOUNT THAT WAS UTILIZED.
EVERY YEAR THAT WE RECEIVE FUNDS FROM THE CITY, WE PROVIDE THE CITY WITH AN ITEMIZED BREAKDOWN OF WHAT WE USE THOSE FUNDS FOR.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO RECEIVE THAT, CONSIDERING IT WASN'T IN MY PACKET, BUT AGAIN, I FELT LIKE THAT INFORMATION COULD HAVE BEEN PERTINENT TO THE DECISION THAT'S GONNA BE MADE TODAY.
SO THAT'S NOT YOUR FAULT, I'M JUST ASKING.
AS FAR AS THE IN KIND CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE CITY, DO WE HAVE A TOTAL COST OF THE STAFF ASSISTANCE? THAT'S FOR THE EVENTS AS FAR AS FIRE POLICE COMMUNICATIONS IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, AND WE DID A SURVEY OF THE, UM, CITY DIRECTORS FOR THOSE DEPARTMENTS THIS YEAR.
UH, WE WERE UNABLE TO GET DETAILED INFORMATION FROM THE COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT BECAUSE THAT WAS RIGHT WHEN THE COMMUNICATIONS DIRECTOR HAD LEFT.
UM, HOWEVER, BETWEEN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, THE PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT, THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, AND THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THE ESTIMATED IN KIND VALUE FOR 2022 WAS $13,310, $13,300, 13,310.
AND I'M SORRY, WHAT WAS THE TIMEFRAME THAT, THAT WAS FOR THE 2022 EVENTS.
SO CAN YOU PROVIDE FROM THE BEGINNING, SINCE IT WAS 2003 TO 17, YOU WAS IN, IN KIND, SO FROM 2003, WHAT IS THE TOTAL AS OPPOSED TO JUST THIS YEAR'S? THAT IS SOMETHING WE WOULD HAVE TO GET AND PROVIDE FOR YOU.
ONCE AGAIN, THIS IS A DOCUMENT THAT'S NOT BEEN PROVIDED.
FEEL LIKE STAFF SHOULD HAVE DONE THE DUE DUE DILIGENCE TO HAVE A OVERALL PERSPECTIVE.
SO WE AS A COUNCIL CAN MAKE THAT, UM, SUGGESTION OR BASICALLY THE BEST DECISION FOR THIS ITEM.
SO YOU WILL PROVIDE IT AT A LATER DATE, UH, TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY.
THAT'S GONNA TAKE, UH, SOME TIME TO GET ALL THOSE OLD, UH, RECORDS, BUT YES, SURE.
SO MY OVERALL STATEMENT IS LACK OF REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY WHEN IT COMES TO FUNDING THAT'S ALLOCATED TO THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION.
I AM PHYSICALLY RESPONSIBLE FOR THE TAXPAYERS, AND AS PART OF MY DUTY IS CALLED FOR TRANSPARENCY, IS THE FACT THAT TAXPAYERS MONEY ISN'T ALLOCATED AND SPENT PROPERLY.
DURING MY TENURE OF CITY COUNCIL, WE HAVE BEEN REQUESTING ITEMIZED REPORTS FOR JUNETEENTH.
AND ONE OF THE FULL DETAILS THAT HAS BEEN MISSING AND IT'S MISSING TONIGHT, UM, STILL HAVEN'T BEEN PROVIDED WITHIN MY KNOWLEDGE.
SO, UM, BASICALLY THIS IS LIKE WRITING A CHECK AND NOT KNOWING HOW THE EXPENSES ARE GONNA BE SPENT, AND IT WILL CONTINUE TO BE PAID OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
I WILL NOT VOTE OR SUPPORT ANYTHING THAT IS PERTAINING TO LACK OF TRANSPARENCY.
AND AS AN ELECTED OFFICIAL, A CITIZENS AT TAXPAYER OR ANY ADVOCATE FOR OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY, WE SHOULD ALL BE CONCERNED.
WE ARE SUPPOSED TO BE GOOD STEWARDS OF THE TAXPAYERS, BUT IT SEEMS AS IF WE'RE NOT BEING HELD ACCOUNTABLE, UM, WITH DOCUMENTATIONS THAT CAN BE PROVIDED TO THE RESIDENTS FOR REVIEW OR ANYTHING LIKE THIS.
SO FOR THIS EVENT THAT WE'RE UNABLE TO SHOW THE AMOUNT OF MONEY THAT HAS BEEN PROVIDED, AND WE DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MUCH IT'S GONNA BENEFIT THE RESIDENTS, IT'S VERY CONCERNING TO ME.
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MY COMMENTS AND QUESTIONS.UM, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, TYSON OR ONE OF THE MEMBERS, CAN YOU JUST KIND OF OVERVIEW WHAT THOSE, UH, FUNDS, WE KNOW THE 15%, EXCUSE ME, 15,000 IS TOWARDS, UM, SERVICES THROUGH THE SPONSORSHIP OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, THE OTHER 35,000.
UM, CAN YOU GIVE US A SYNOPSIS OF WHAT THOSE, THOSE HOT FUNDS ARE GONNA BE USED FOR? SO EITHER YOU OR ONE OF THE MEMBERS CAN ANSWER THAT.
SO I'LL, I'LL DO MY BEST AND I'LL PROBABLY PASS THIS OVER.
SO THE, THE HOT FUNDS CAN BE USED FOR ADVERTISING.
THEY CAN BE USED FOR ARTS PROMOTION, WHICH IS GENERALLY USED FOR THE ARTISTS, THE, THE SINGERS, UM, AND THE PROMOTION OF THOSE EVENTS.
UM, THEY CAN ALSO BE USED FOR SOME CERTAIN TRANSPORTATION AND THINGS LIKE THAT, THAT SPECIFICALLY BRING TOURISTS TO MISSOURI CITY.
SO THOSE ARE, UH, ITEMS THAT ARE IDENTIFIED THAT WE GET RECEIPTS FOR.
WE CLARIFY THAT THOSE DO QUALIFY BEFORE ANYTHING IS REIMBURSED ON THAT.
AS FAR AS THE $15,000, UH, I'M GONNA LET THEM SPEAK TO THAT, BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN PROVISIONS WITHIN THE CONTRACT THAT THE CITY GETS SOME ACCESS TO THE EVENTS.
THEY GET GOLF TEAMS IN THE GOLF TOURNAMENT, THEY GET TABLES AT THE GALA.
UM, THERE'S, UM, ACCESS TO THE VIP V IP EVENTS FOR CITY COUNCIL AND SO ON AND SO FORTH, SIMILAR TO MANY OTHER, UM, SPONSORSHIP AGREEMENTS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE WITH ANY OTHER TYPE OF EVENT.
YOU MAKE A SPONSORSHIP, YOU GET CERTAIN BENEFITS FOR DOING SO, BUT I'M GONNA LET THEM SPEAK TO THAT FURTHER.
I JUST THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE COMMUNITY UNDERSTANDS, UH, WHERE THESE FUNDS ARE COMING FROM, WHAT THESE FUNDS CAN BE USED FOR, UM, AND HOW THEY'RE GONNA BE ALLOCATED OUT.
AND I JUST WANNA REMIND THE PUBLIC THAT THIS IS A REIMBURSEMENT, UH, TOWARDS THIS PARTICULAR ORGANIZATION.
SO PROOF OF RECEIPTS, UM, AND ITEMIZATION IS REQUIRED IN ORDER FOR US TO, UH, PARTICIPATE WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROGRAM.
BUT YES, CHARLES, CAN YOU JUST, UH, YOU HAVE THE PUBLIC AND THE COUNCIL SOME INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE GONNA BE USING THESE FUNDS FOR? ABSOLUTELY.
AND, AND BEFORE I DO THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT, UM, AS, UH, MS. UH, COUNCILMAN EDWARDS POINTED OUT, UM, WE RECEIVED, AND I THINK TYSON, SORRY, I'M TO INTERRUPT YOU.
I'M JUST GETTING, UH, LITTLE SIGNALS FROM RESIDENTS THAT THEY CAN'T HEAR YOU.
IS THAT BETTER?
NO, THE, UH, THE, UH, EXPENSES, IT WAS LIKE A 13,000 IN THE OH, THE IN KIND, YEAH.
SO IN, UH, 22, AS HE INDICATED, WE RECEIVED, UH, 13,000 IN IN KIND FUNDS FROM MISSOURI CITY.
HOWEVER, WE'D LIKE TO, I'D LIKE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYONE IS AWARE THAT THE GOLF TOURNAMENT GENERATED OR GENERATES ANNUALLY AROUND $7,500 DIRECTLY TO MISSOURI CITY, PAID TO MISSOURI CITY FOR THE USE OF THAT FACILITY.
AND THE GALA, WHICH IS ALSO HELD AT THE, UH, QUAIL VALLEY CITY CENTER, GENERATES $9,000 OF INCOME TO MISSOURI CITY.
SO ANNUALLY, JUST WITH THOSE TWO EVENTS, WE'RE GIVING BACK $16,500 TO MISSOURI CITY, WHICH IN, IN SOME INSTANCES, IN SOME YEARS, IS MORE THAN MISSOURI CITY GAVE US.
SO I THINK THAT THAT'S DEFINITELY A VALUE FOR THE MONEY THAT MISSOURI CITY FUNDS, THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION.
WHENEVER WE CAN GIVE YOU BACK MORE THAN YOU GAVE US, THAT'S A WIN.
CAN YOU REPEAT, UM, THE AMOUNT THAT'S REQUIRED, I'M SORRY, THAT'S RECEIVED FROM THE GALA AVERAGE ABOUT $9,000 ANNUALLY.
AND THE GOLF TOURNAMENT, AVERAGE ANNUAL RETURN TO THE CITY 7,500.
I GUESS WE HAVE NEXT IS MA WELL, HOLD ON.
MR. CHARLES DIDN'T ANSWER MY QUESTION.
LET'S, LET'S, IT'S, IT'S A LOT GOING ON TONIGHT.
UM, AND WE JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE CLARIFICATION THAT WE NEED, UM, AS WELL AS THE PUBLIC KNOW MM-HMM.
SO IF YOU COULD JUST, UM, GIVE ME A BRIEF SUMMARY OF THE ADDITIONAL 35,000 OUT OF THE 50,000 THAT YOU'RE REQUESTING FOR MM-HMM.
SO CAN YOU JUST SHARE WITH US REALLY BRIEFLY, UH, WHAT ARE SOME OF THOSE PARTICULAR FUNDS GONNA BE USED FOR? FOR THE JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION, WE'LL USE THE PORTION
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OF THE HOT TAX FUNDS TO ADVERTISE THE, UH, CELEBRATION THE EVENT THROUGH ALL THE SOCIAL MEDIA SITES.UH, WE'LL DO RADIO SPOTS, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE, UH, CERTAINLY WE'LL BE CONTACTING PREVIOUS ATTENDEES, PREVIOUS PARTICIPANTS, PREVIOUS SPONSORS, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.
AND, UH, WE HAVE SOME PARTNERSHIPS WITH HOTELS SO THAT, THAT WE CAN EVEN ADVERTISE AT THEIR, UH, LOCATIONS SO THAT WE CAN MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THOSE HOT TECH FUNDS ARE RECEIVING SOME BENEFIT AND THE FUNDS ARE GONNA BE USED TOWARDS ENTERTAINMENT AS WELL.
AND THEN, UH, CLARIFY ONE THING.
THE, UH, 1000, EXCUSE ME, 100,019, UM, AND $450 THAT WERE RECEIVED FROM HOT FUNDS FROM 2017 TO 2022, UH, WERE ALL OF THOSE HOT FUNDS OR WAS THAT OTHER DONATIONS FROM THE, UH, THE CITY? DO YOU KNOW, THAT'S PROBABLY A QUESTION FOR TYSON 2000 IN FROM 2017 TO CURRENT, UM, ALL THAT 117, 100 19,004 $50, WAS THAT ALL FROM HOT FUNDS? 2017 THROUGH 2021 WAS HOT FUNDS, 2022 CAME OUTTA GENERAL FUND, UM, BECAUSE OF A, A JUST A SITUATION AT THE END OF LAST YEAR.
UM, BUT THE PROPOSAL NOW WAS TO PUT THIS BACK INTO HOT FUNDS BECAUSE THAT'S WHERE IT NEEDS TO BE TO GET THE TOURISTS HERE.
AND I DON'T HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS.
I JUST WANNA SAY, YOU KNOW, UM, ON BEHALF OF MYSELF AS A RESIDENT, I'VE LIVED HERE MY ENTIRE LIFE FOR 47 YEARS AND THE 20 YEARS, OR ALMOST 20 YEARS THAT YOU GUYS HAVE OFFERED THIS, YOU KNOW, I'VE KNOWN, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER DON SMITH FOR MANY, MANY YEARS.
UM, AND I'VE SEEN THE BENEFITS OF THIS.
MY KIDS GREW UP GOING TO THE PARADES AND PARTICIPATING, AND SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, THAT I DO SUPPORT THE EFFORTS AND WHAT YOU GUYS HAVE DONE OVER THE YEARS.
UM, AND JUST FROM A PERSONAL NOTE, YOU KNOW, JUST KNOW THAT YOUR FATHER HAS BEEN DEFINITELY IN MY PRAYERS, YOUR FAMILY'S IN MY PRAYERS EVEN TO THIS DAY.
AND I JUST WANNA CONTINUE TO ENCOURAGE Y'ALL TO PUT FORTH, YOU KNOW, A WONDERFUL EVENT AS WE GO INTO THE 20 23 23 YEAR.
AND WE APPRECIATE YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR THOUGHTS COUNCILS.
UM, SO THERE ARE A LOT OF QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PAST AND TONIGHT IT'S ABOUT VOTING FOR THE FUTURE, RIGHT? YES.
IT'S ABOUT VOTING FOR THE AGREEMENT THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE THAT OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENTS LOOKED AT, YOU GUYS LOOKED AT.
AND I WANT TO GO OVER A COUPLE SECTIONS THAT I WANT THE PUBLIC TO BE AWARE OF.
THERE'S A LOT OF CHECKS AND BALANCES HERE FOR BOTH PARTIES.
SECTION THREE, OBLIGATIONS OF THE ENTITY, WHICH IS YOU GUYS USE THE FUNDS AND ACCORDANCE WITH THE AGREEMENT.
B, PROVIDE WRITTEN DOCUMENTATION INCLUDING INVOICES, RECEIPTS, AND COPIES, ISSUED CHECKS FOR ALL, AND ANY EXPENDITURES FOR WHICH REIMBURSEMENTS ARE BEING REQUESTED.
THERE'S A LOT OF CHECKS AND BALANCES HERE.
THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT THINGS HERE FOR BOTH ENTITIES TO BE, UH, SUCCESSFUL AND TO BE COMPLIANT.
SO I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE HAVE PROBLEMS GOING FORWARD AND I DON'T FEEL LIKE WE HAD PROBLEMS IN THE PAST TO BE, TO GO ON THE RECORD.
THERE'S ALSO ONE OTHER ITEM, SECTION NINE, IF THE CITY DETERMINES THAT THE ENTITY'S SUBJECT FALSE OR MISLEADING DOCUMENTATION, THE SUBMISSION OF SUCH DOCUMENTATION SHALL BE CONSIDERED A DEFAULT OF THIS AGREEMENT.
A ANOTHER GREAT CLAUSE TO PRO TO PROTECT US.
SO I WANT TO MAKE THAT PUBLIC.
I WANT EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT WE ALL HAVE DONE OUR DUE DILIGENCE TO PROTECT BOTH OF US SO THAT WE ARE SUCCESSFUL SO WE CAN HELP KIDS WITH SCHOLARSHIPS.
SO WE CONTINUE TO BE THE BEST IN THIS BUSINESS.
COMMENT, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A CLARIFICATION OF COUNCIL MAYOR, THE GENERAL FUNDS ARE, ARE EARMARKED IN THE AGREEMENT FOR THE PUTTING ON OF THE EVENT ITSELF.
THEY CANNOT BE USED FOR SCHOLARSHIP PURPOSES, ONLY FOR, FOR PURPOSES THAT IT DEMONSTRATE A USEFUL PUBLIC PURPOSE, WHICH THE EVENTS ARE DETERMINED TO BE IN THE COM IN THE UH, RIGHT.
THERE'S TWO SEPARATE WAYS, RIGHT? YEAH.
SO JUST A CLARIFICATION CUZ THERE WAS SOME, UH, DISCUSSION EARLIER ABOUT HOW MUCH OF THE SCHOLARSHIPS WERE BEING PAID OUT OF GENERAL FUNDS.
UM, MY QUESTION WAS, UM, MAYBE THIS IS FOR TYSON, UM, AND YOU CAN COME BACK LATER.
UM, TYSON'S, I, HERE WE ARE REFERENCING THE HOTELS AND HOW MANY HEADS ARE IN THE BED, UM, OVER THE YEARS AND HOW IT ACTUALLY CONTRIBUTES TO OUR ECONOMY.
SO DO YOU HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM, I CAN MISS A SNIP
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AS FAR AS A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE HOTELS OR JUST ANYBODY IN GENERAL, THE HOTEL TO SPEAK ABOUT THE REFERENCES THAT YOU ARE MAKING THAT WE'VE HAD HEADS IN A BED, THE JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL HAVE CONTRIBUTE TO THAT? NO MA'AM, I DID NOT.I DID NOT ASK ANYBODY TO ATTEND THIS MEETING ON THAT BEHALF.
DO YOU HAVE ANY DOCUMENTATION YOURSELF? YES, WE HAVE DOCUMENTATION.
I DID NOT PROVIDE THAT TONIGHT.
THAT WAS GONNA COME UP, UM, AS FAR AS HOW MANY ROOMS WERE BEING BOOKED, BUT THAT CAN BE PROVIDED AS WELL.
SO OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, COULD YOU, COULD YOU GIVE ME THE AMOUNT THAT'S GONNA BE GIVEN OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND? OUT OF THE GENERAL FUND, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT, I BELIEVE $75,000.
TESTING MY MATH, UM, IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY.
$45,000, 15 TIMES FIVE IS, OH, EXCUSE ME, $75,000.
UM, SO BASICALLY $75,000 THAT'S GONNA COME FROM OUR GENERAL FUND IS, IT'S ANOTHER PROBLEM FOR ME.
AND AGAIN, I DO ENJOY JUNETEENTH.
UH, WE ALSO CELEBRATE AS WELL, BUT IT'S REALLY CONCERNING TO ME THAT $75,000 WILL BE GIVEN TO THE FOUNDATION AND WE'RE STILL IGNORING THE FACT THAT OUR STAFF NEED TO BE COMPENSATED.
UM, A RESIDENT SPOKE ABOUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, WE DIDN'T GIVE A GREAT TAX BREAK TO THE RESIDENTS.
AND SO, YOU KNOW, NO PROBLEM WITH THE FOUNDATION.
I FEEL LIKE LEADERSHIP, MY COLLEAGUES HAVEN'T DONE THEIR DUE DILIGENCE TO ACTUALLY ADDRESS THE NEEDS OF OUR HOME FIRST.
AND I KNOW IT WAS STATED PREVIOUSLY BEFORE I SPOKE, THAT WE CAN'T, WE HAVE TO MOVE FORWARD AND WE ARE NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE PAST.
BUT FOR ME, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE PAST AND THE FUTURE, ESPECIALLY SINCE WE DON'T HAVE DOCUMENTATION TO PRETTY MUCH PROVE OR GIVE US INSIGHT ON ANY OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I ASK PERSONALLY.
UH, MAY I APPROACH SOMEBODY? YEAH.
UM, I WASN'T GONNA SAY ANYTHING FURTHER BECAUSE I'M READY TO VOTE ON THIS ITEM, BUT, YOU KNOW, TO BE CALLED OUT BY ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES AS NOT BEING CONCERNED ABOUT OUR STAFF AND NOT DOING OUR DUE DILIGENCE.
I COME PREPARED TO EVERY MEETING.
I DO MY RESEARCH FOR EVERY MEETING AND I CONCUR WITH COUNCIL MEMBER MORALES IN THAT I READ THE AGREEMENT AND I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT'S IN THE AGREEMENT THAT PROTECTS THE CITY AND WHATNOT.
NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT $15,000 A YEAR TO SUPPORT THIS EFFORT.
AND I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU GUYS, BUT I'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS BECAUSE I'VE BEEN A PART OF, AND A PART OF THOSE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS.
IT WAS MENTIONED BY MY COLLEAGUE COUNCILWOMAN EDWARDS, THAT A RESIDENT CAME AND SPOKE ABOUT POLICE AND FIRE.
WELL IF EVERYBODY'S BEEN PAYING ATTENTION TO THOSE BUDGET DISCUSSIONS, YOU KNOW, THAT WE GAVE POLICE AND FIRE A SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT RAISE AND STAFF A 3% RAISE.
AND WE'VE ALSO INDICATED THAT WE'RE ALREADY DOING A SALARY STUDY THAT'S GOING TO BE BACK BY THE END OF DECEMBER.
SO WE'VE DONE EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER THROUGH THIS BUDGET AND ALSO GOING FORWARD TO ADDRESS OUR STAFF ISSUE, INCLUDING POLICE AND FIRE.
I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT'S BEING INJECTED INTO THIS CONVERSATION CUZ WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE JUNETEENTH MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION FOUNDATION.
BUT TO SAY OR TO ACCUSE ME OF NOT DOING MY DUE DILIGENCE IS A FALSITY BECAUSE I COME PREPARED TO EVERY MEETING AND I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT I'M VOTING ON TODAY WITH CONFIDENCE THAT $15,000 IS A VERY MODEST INVESTMENT FROM THE GENERAL FUND IN ORDER TO FUND THIS PARTICULAR ENDEAVOR.
BECAUSE I BELIEVE IN PROTECTING AND PRESERVING OUR HERITAGE, OUR LEGACY, AND OUR HISTORY, AND TO HAVE THIS EVENT IN MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS THAT HAS BEEN A STAR WORTH IN THIS COMMUNITY.
UH, SOMETHING THAT PEOPLE LOOK FORWARD TO COMING TO NOT ONLY AS RESIDENTS IN MISSOURI CITY, BUT OUTSIDE OF MISSOURI, MISSOURI CITY.
I THINK ALL OF US SHOULD SUPPORT AND CONTINUE TO SUPPORT GOING FORWARD, NOT OF WHAT HAPPENED IN THE PAST.
AND $15,000 A YEAR IS NOT GONNA FUND A NEW POLICE OFFICER OR A FIREFIGHTER.
SO IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AN INVESTMENT INTO OUR STAFF AND INTO OUR CITY, ESPECIALLY INTO OUR POLICE AND FIRE, OUR PUBLIC SAFETY, WE NEED TO TALK MORE MODEST INVESTMENTS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE FACT THAT IT WILL REQUIRE EITHER AN INCREASE IN OUR TAXES OR US TO CUT SOMETHING ELSE IN OUR CITY.
WE TALKED ABOUT THIS EX CONTINUOUSLY FROM FEBRUARY UP UNTIL THE VOTING TIME OF OUR BUDGET.
WE DID OUR VERY, VERY BEST TO TRY TO TAKE CARE OF OUR CITIZENS AND, UH, OUR STAFF.
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I'M VERY, VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT THE MAJORITY OF THIS COUNCIL HAS DONE TO HELP MO MOVE MISSOURI CITY FORWARD.UM, JUST TO GIVE A POINT OF CLARIFICATION, SINCE, UM, MY COLLEAGUE, MAYOR PROTE SPOKE ABOUT IT, TRUE $75,000 WON'T HELP OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND IT'S BEEN BASICALLY PROVIDED THAT THE 7% WAS GIVEN TO THE POLICE.
UM, I'M STAYING ON TOPIC, BUT I DO WANNA, UM, REFUTE HIS CLAIM THAT THE 7% WAS GIVEN TO THE POLICE AND BOTH OF OUR CHIEF WITH FIRE AND PD STATED THAT THAT WON'T HELP ANYTHING.
YES, WE'RE DOING A, A STUDY, A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY ABOUT COMPENSATION THAT WON'T BE DONE TO NEXT YEAR, BUT WE CONTINUE TO LOSE OFFICERS.
WE LOST THREE LAST WEEK, SO THAT MEANS WE'RE ROUGHLY AT 14, UM, 11 THE WEEK BEFORE.
SO IF I ASKED FOR CEDRIC TO PROVIDE US SOME DOCUMENTATION, AND I'M SURE HE'S WORKING ON IT, BUT THAT'S THE REALITY.
AND EVEN THOUGH 7 74 70 $5,000 WON'T HELP, IT WOULD GREATLY GIVE A A LITTLE CUSHION TO START THE CONVERSATION.
SO, ALTHOUGH, LIKE I SAID, IT'S NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION, IT'S JUST THE FACT THAT WE HAVE OTHER ISSUES THAT ARE PERTINENT AND ALTHOUGH IT WON'T PRETTY MUCH FIX THE WHOLE ENTIRE SITUATION, BUT IT WILL SHOW THAT WE ARE WORKING TOWARDS MAKING SURE OUR STAFF AND THOSE WHO ACTUALLY MAKE THE CITY RUN AND MAKE OUR CITY EFFECTIVE AND SUCCESSFUL AS WE ARE.
SO WE CAN'T NEGLECT THE STAFF WITHOUT TAKING CARE OF THEM AND EXPECT FOR OUR I FOUNDATIONS AND OUR COMMUNITY TO BE SUB SUCCESSFUL.
SO JUST WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR.
WELL I PUT IN THE QUEUE FROM MY COMMENT.
I LIKE TO READ SOMETHING THAT MY COLLEAGUE RECENTLY WROTE ON A FACEBOOK PAGE, WHICH SAYS, I ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS TO ATTEND THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON MONDAY AT 7:00 PM ARRIVE EARLY TO SIGN UP FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS TO VOICE YOUR CONCERNS REGARDING THIS BACKDOOR DEAL.
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHY MY POINT OF ORDER IS THIS IN REGARDS LEADERSHIP POINT OF ORDER.
IS THIS IN RE MY QUESTION TO MY COLLEAGUE IS, IS THIS YOU EXPLAIN TO EVERYONE THAT'S LISTENING HERE.
WHAT IS THE BACKDOOR DEAL? SO WITH MY POINT OF ORDER, THIS HAS REFERENCE TO, WE'RE GONNA REFER TO A FACEBOOK POST MM-HMM.
CAUSE YOU WROTE IT, IT'S YOUR NAME ON IT AND, AND YOU, YOU WROTE A BACKDOOR DEAL.
YOU HAVE A LOT OF THINGS ON YOUR FACEBOOK THAT WANNA ADDRESS.
I LIKE FOR YOU TO EXPLAIN TO THE AUDIENCE AGAIN FOR THE ORDER BE ALLOWED TO ABOUT BACK DOOR DEAL.
CAN I GET AN ATTORNEY TO STEP IN? I SPOKE ABOUT POINT OF ORDER FOR US TO STAY ON TOPIC, NOT REFERENCE A FACEBOOK POST.
MA'AM, I'M IN THE QUEUE TO TO, OKAY.
TO THE EXTENT THAT THE SUBJECT MATTER OF WHAT THE MAYOR IS READING IS GERMANE TO THE ISSUE THAT'S BEING DISCUSSED HERE, WHICH IS ITEM NUMBER NINE E THAN IT IS APPROPRIATE, I WOULD PREFER US TO BE CONSISTENT ANY TIME WE BRING UP OTHER THINGS THAT ARE VEERING OFF THE TOPIC THAN IT'S FOR NO ORDER IN REFERENCE TO ME.
BUT AS FAR AS MY COLLEAGUES, THEY GET TO RUN WILD AND SPEAK ABOUT FACEBOOK REFERENCES.
MAYOR, IF I COULD YEAH, GO AHEAD.
YOU KNOW, I FIND IT INTERESTING THAT MY COLLEAGUE WOULD SAY THAT WE NEED TO STAY ON TOPIC AND NOT VEER OFF TOPIC.
WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MISSOURI CITY.
JUNETEENTH CELEBRATES FROM FOUNDATION AND IT VEERED INTO A CONVERSATION ABOUT STAFF AND POLICE AND FIRE AND $75,000 OVER FIVE YEAR PERIOD, WHICH IS $15,000 A YEAR, NOT $75,000 IN ONE YEAR.
WE WEREN'T TALKING ABOUT BUDGET OR POLICE OR FIRE OR ANYTHING.
WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THE MISSOURI CITY JUNET CELEBRATION FOUNDATION.
AND SO I THINK IT'S EXTREMELY APPROPRIATE FOR US TO DISCUSS ANYTHING AS THE CITY ATTORNEY JUST STATED, JERMAINE, TO THE ACTUAL CONVERSATION AT HAND, I'M ALL IN FAVOR OF GETTING BACK TO THE TOPIC OF THE MISSOURI CITY JUNET CELEBRATION FOUNDATION AND STAYING THERE AND NOT TRYING TO POLITICIZE AND MAKE SOMETHING ABOUT SOMETHING THAT WE'VE ALREADY ADDRESSED AS A COUNCIL AT THE LAST SEVERAL MEETINGS THROUGH OUR BUDGET, WHICH IS GIVING A A A SEVEN, UH, AND A HALF, NOT 7%, SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT INCREASE TO OUR POLICE AND FIRE.
AND, UM, A 3% RAISE OVERALL AND SEEKING TO DO MORE ONCE WE GET THE SALARY STUDY BACK.
SO I REALLY WISH THAT WE COULD
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GET BACK TO TALKING ABOUT THAT.AND I JUST WANNA LASTLY SAY I WANT TO THANK THE, THE, THE MEMBERS OF FIRE WHO APPROACHED ME, UH, AT THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE, UH, CONFERENCE, WHO ACTUALLY THANKED ME AND THANKED THE COUNCIL FOR WHAT WE'VE DONE FOR THEM.
AND SO I CAN'T SPEAK FOR EVERYBODY, BUT I DO KNOW THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL, UH, MEMBERS OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY WHO ARE GREAT, GRATEFUL FOR THIS COUNCIL TAKING THE STEPS AND A NECESSARY INITIATIVE TO DO WHAT WAS RIGHT TO HELP INCREASE THEIR SALARIES AND PUT THEM IN A BETTER POSITION.
UM, COUNCIL MEMBER, WHICH YOU, UH, MENTIONED THAT, UH, THE CHIEF OF POLICE AND CHIEF OF, UH, FIRE CHIEF, UM, STATED, UH, MADE A STATEMENT, CHIEF PARTITA, UM, DID YOU HEAR THAT STATEMENT? OKAY.
WAS THAT, WAS THAT TRUE IN ITS ENTIRETY ON THE SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT? NO, I THINK THE, THE STATEMENT I MADE, I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT IT, BUT I THINK THAT I SAID THAT IT WOULD HELP, IT WAS FOR OUR SENIOR STAFF, THE SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT.
SO I, I WAS VERY THANKFUL FOR THAT.
UM, I THINK WE WERE ON A SEPARATE DISCUSSION ABOUT THE 10,000 AND THE 6,000 SI DOLLAR SIGNING BONUS.
THAT, BUT I DON'T RECALL SAYING IT WOULD NOT HELP.
I JUST, AND, UM, CHIEF BE SAID, I JUST, THE QUOTE, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL ARE BEING QUOTED CORRECTLY.
COUNCIL, COUNCIL MCS REALLY QUICKLY.
MAYOR, DO WE HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR OUR GUEST OR CAN THEY HAVE A SEAT? CAUSE THEY'RE STILL STANDING HERE.
THEY CAN, YOU CAN SIT, SIT UNTIL YOU CALL
I'M NOT SURE WHAT QUOTES YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT OTHER THAN I KNOW SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT'S NOT GONNA HELP ME RECRUIT ANYBODY.
I HAVE, UH, ROUGHLY 15 OPENINGS RIGHT NOW.
I THINK I ONLY HAVE THREE CERTIFIED OFFICERS SCHEDULED TO TEST SO THAT THE SEVEN AND A HALF PERCENT'S NOT GONNA PUT ME ANYWHERE CLOSE TO THE STARTING SALARY.
ALL OF OUR NEIGHBORS ARE, WELL, IN THE SEVENTIES, WE'RE STILL AT 55.
UH, A LOT OF OUR LOWER PAYING NEIGHBORS ARE IN THE SIXTIES STARTING OUT, SO THAT'S, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE QUOTE WAS.
I DON'T REMEMBER THIS, SO, OKAY.
THIS IS GOING WAY OFF A TOPIC.
SO WAY OFF QUESTIONS ARE BEING ASKED THAT'S GONNA SUPPORT WHAT I SPOKE ABOUT AS A COUNCIL MEMBER.
THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN WE CAN'T DISCUSS IT ANY FURTHER.
THAT'S VERY, THE MAYOR WAS DISCUSSED, WHAT THE MAYOR WAS DISCUSSING, COUNCIL MEMBER WAS SOMETHING POSTED ABOUT ATTENDING THE MEETING IN REFERENCE TO THAT PARTICULAR AGENDA ITEM.
AND COUNCIL MEMBER CLOUDER ASKED FOR A QUESTION AND SHE ASSISTED FOR THE CHIEFS TO COME UP AND VERIFY.
WAS THAT INFORMATION CORRECT? SO, I MEAN, AGAIN, BECAUSE YOU QUOTED THEM AND I WANTED TO MAKE SURE IF YOU'RE GONNA QUOTE SOMEBODY IN THE ROOM, THAT IT, YOU'RE QUOTING THEM CORRECTLY.
SO THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S, THAT'S FOOTAGE IS ON ONLINE AS A LIVE.
SO ONCE AGAIN, IT'S NOT A, THIS I'D LIKE TO FINISH.
COUNCIL MEMBER, DO YOU HAVE ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? 90 E? YES.
UM, WHEN WE'RE SPEAKING ABOUT, UM, WHEN WE ARE, YOU BROUGHT UP COUNCILWOMAN EDWARDS POST, AND I HAVE TO SAY THAT ANY OF US, WE HAVE A PLATFORM, WE HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY WHEN WE USE OUR PLATFORMS, AND WE CAN MAKE THAT AS AN, AS HAVING OUR AUDIENCE.
AND IF WE'RE GONNA MAKE STATEMENTS ON OUR PLATFORM, WHATEVER THAT IS, WHETHER WE'RE IN COUNCIL MEETING, UH, AND HAVE A MIC IN OUR, IN OUR FACE, OR IF WE'RE ON SOCIAL MEDIA, WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT WHAT CLAIMS THAT WE MAKE.
AND SO WHAT I, WHAT BOTHERED ME ABOUT THIS IS THIS IS WHY WE NEEDED, WHY WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP.
UM, AND ALSO, COUNCILWOMAN EDWARD STATED THAT WE WOULD AUTHORIZE FUNDS FOR THE JUNETEENTH EVENT.
THIS HAS NEVER BEEN PUT OUT TO BID AND IS GIVEN, BEEN GIVEN TO THE SAME ENTITY EVERY FIVE YEARS SINCE 2003, WHICH WAS FOUNDED BY A FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER.
NOW, WHAT I DO WANNA SAY, SINCE COUNCIL MEMBER DON SMITH IS NOT HERE, IT WAS FOUNDED BY A FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER.
UM, AND I APPLAUD OUR FORMER COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAVE EITHER DECIDED TO STEP DOWN BY THEMSELVES OR WHO HAVE BEEN VOTED OUT, WHO STILL MAINTAIN A PRESENCE IN OUR CITY AND, AND, AND REMAIN INVOLVED.
SO I WANNA SAY THAT EVERYTHING THAT THE JUNETEENTH, UM, CELEBRATION, EVERYTHING THAT THEY DO BENEFITS THE RESIDENTS.
EVERYTHING FROM THE SCHOLARSHIPS TO THE EVENTS, THE FIVE EVENTS FOR THE WEEKEND THAT, THAT WE, THAT THEY PUT OUT.
AND I DON'T THINK THAT WE'VE HAD, WE WOULD HAVE SPONSORS SUCH AS CENTER POINT ENERGY, MICHAEL ROSE,
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CPA, PRIMEWAY, FEDERAL CREDIT UNION, NIAGARA BOTTLING, UPS, HEB ROOMS TO GO FOUNDATION.THESE ARE SOME PRETTY HEAVY HITTERS THAT SUPPORT THIS.
SO I JUST WANNA SAY IN CLOSING THAT IT MUST BE ELECTION SEASON BECAUSE THE CLASSIC MAGICIAN ACT IS CREATING AN ILLUSION, THE ILLUSION THAT SOMETHING'S NOT THERE.
YOU'RE FIRST I'M SEEING ON MY SCREEN.
I SEE MEMBER BONY ON THE, ON A LOT OF THE QUEUE.
SINCE THE POST WAS REFERENCED, I WILL SPEAK ABOUT THE $50,000, UM, THAT'S GONNA BE PROVIDED OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
AND THE BID, TRUE ENOUGH, A BID IS NOT REQUIRED, BUT I THINK IT IS A COURTEOUS, UM, ACT THAT'S GONNA BE PROVIDED FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND OTHER BUSINESS OWNERS.
THIS BID, I MEAN, THIS, UM, AMOUNT OF MONEY HAS BEEN GIVEN TO THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION AND OTHER ENTITIES HAVE ASKED ABOUT RECEIVING, UM, THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A JUNETEENTH FACILITY, OR I'M SORRY, FESTIVAL.
SO THE FACT THAT WE HAVE GIVEN THE FOUNDATION, THE FOUNDATION OF THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION, THIS AMOUNT OF MONEY EACH YEAR IS NOT, IT'S NOT FAIR.
IT'S NOT FAIR FOR OTHER, UM, NON-PROFITS TO ACTUALLY HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.
AND SO, ALTHOUGH IT IS, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE I SAID, THAT IS NOT REQUIRED, I THINK AS STEWARDS OF THE COMMUNITY AND FOR THE RESIDENTS, IT IS A GREAT WAY FOR US TO SHOW THAT WE AREN'T BEING BIASED AND WE AREN'T, YOU KNOW, SHOWING FAVORITISM TO EX OFFICIALS.
GOD, YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY.
YEAH, I'M READING THIS DOCUMENT.
IT SAYS IT'S POSSIBLE YOU CAN GET IN A FEW.
SO PRETTY MUCH THAT'S MY COMMENT ON THAT.
AND ALSO IT'S FREEDOM OF SPEECH AS FAR AS, UM, FACEBOOK GOES IN REFERENCE TO COUNCIL MEMBER CLAUSER, IT IS ELECTED OFFICIAL, I'M SORRY, IT IS ELECTION SEASON, SO HENCE WISE BEING PUSHED REALLY FAST.
SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THAT UP.
IT WAS A STATEMENT, IT WASN'T A QUESTION.
SO THE QUESTION THAT I HAD ASKED EARLIER WAS THAT ONE OF COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS, YOU WROTE, THIS IS A BACKDOOR DEAL.
BEFORE I'VE WROTE ON THIS STUFF, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THE BACKDOOR DEAL IS.
AND I JUST, YOU HAD WROTE THIS HAS NEVER CAPITALIZED, BEEN PUT OUT THERE FOR BID AND IS GIVEN TO THE SAME ENTITY.
YOU JUST, I JUST HEARD YOU SAY THAT WE DON'T NEED TO GO OUT THERE FOR BID.
SO, ARE YOU, MY SECOND QUESTION IS, ARE YOU STANDING CORRECTED ON THAT STATEMENT, SIR? I JUST MENTIONED THERE THAT IT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT, BUT IT WILL BE ACTUALLY A COURTESY FOR OUR LOCAL NONPROFITS AND OUR LOCAL ENTERTAINMENT.
ANYTHING THAT WE HAVE IN THE, THE COMMUNITY THAT WANNA BE A PART OF IT, IT'S LOCKED IN.
A LOT OF INDIVIDUALS HAVE ASKED COUNCILWOMAN, HOW DO I ACTUALLY GET A PART AND GET THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A FESTIVAL OR JUNETEENTH FESTIVAL? AND THEY DON'T HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY.
SO THAT BRINGS, YOU KNOW, I HOPE THAT BRINGS CLARIFICATION TO YOUR QUESTION.
AND MY, MY FIRST QUESTION WAS, BEFORE I VOTE ON IT, IF ANY MEMBER OF THE COLLEAGUES ON THIS COUNCIL SAYS THERE'S SOME FUNNY BUSINESS AND A BACKDOOR DEAL, I LIKE TO CLARIFY THAT.
SO, I LIKE FOR YOU TO LET ME KNOW THAT YOU WROTE, THIS IS A BACKDOOR DEAL, SO PLEASE EXPLAIN THAT SO I CAN VOTE WITH PROPERLY.
SIR, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE PROPER WITH YOUR KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION THAT YOU RECEIVED IN A PACKET.
WHATEVER I SAID IN A FACEBOOK POST, IT'S INTERPRETED TO WHATEVER I FEEL, OR THE, THE RE THE READERS OR THE AUDIENCE.
SO IF YOU, AND I KNOW, YOU KNOW, THAT'S YOUR PERSPECTIVE.
SO I THINK YOU SHOULD INTERPRET IT, HOW YOU INTERPRET IT.
I WANT TO JUST TAKE THIS OPPORTUNITY TO THANK YOU.
THANK THE FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER DON SMITH FOR EVEN BEFORE IT HAS BEEN RECOGNIZED AS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY TO BE ABLE TO DO THIS JUNETEENTH, UH, CELEBRATION IN THIS COMMUNITY.
I HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE WITH HIM FROM 2009 TILL 2015, UH, WHERE HIM COMING BACK ON IN, IN 11, UH, SO FOR A FEW YEARS.
AND I'VE SEEN HIS PASSION TOWARDS THIS CELEBRATION.
I'VE SEEN WHAT HE'S DONE, AND I'VE BEEN ABLE TO PARTAKE IN THIS CELEBRATION LAST YEAR, UH, BUT NOT THIS YEAR BECAUSE DUE TO MY MOM'S, UH, DEBT, I HAD TO BE OUT OF THE COUNTRY.
BUT I JUST WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT, UH, $15,000 PER YEAR AND WITH MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBER MARRUS, TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE LEGALITIES THAT'S PUT IN PLACE, UH, AND TO ALL THE
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CHECKS AND BALANCES THAT WE HAVE, I CONGRATULATE YOU.I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH COUNCIL MEMBER SMITH, ALONG WITH THE ENTIRE, UM, UM, COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THE COMMITTEE MM-HMM.
AND WITH THAT, I END MY COMMENT.
YOU AND I WOULD LIKE TO WAIT, WE HAVE SOME MORE PEOPLE IN LINE.
I KNOW THERE'S TWO MORE PEOPLE TO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON THIS.
MINE WAS JUST REAL BRIEF, UH, JUST TO POINT OUT, THERE IS A RESOLUTION AND A POLICY, UH, THAT THE CITY HAS ADOPTED, AND THAT IS THE COMMUNITY EVENT PARTICIPATION POLICY.
SO IF OTHER ENTITIES WANNA DO SOMETHING SIMILAR, WE HAVE A SYSTEM IN PLACE FOR THAT.
JUST WANT TO CLEAR UP THAT TECHNICALITY I HAVE NEXT COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY.
AND WHEN WE LOOK AT, UH, THE USE OF HOT, UH, HOT TAX FUNDS, UH, THERE IS AN ACCOUNTING FOR ALL OF THOSE USES OF THOSE DOLLARS AND THAT THEY ARE USED IN ACCORDANCE WITH STATE PROVISIONS.
IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS CORRECT.
AS FAR AS THE, UH, USE OF THE, UH, UH, THE, UH, THE GENERAL FUND, THERE'S STILL AN ACCOUNTING THAT MUST BE DONE FOR HOW THOSE DOLLARS ARE USED AND, UH, UH, AND REIMBURSED BACK TO THE, UH, TO THE ENTITY ONCE THE, UH, DOCUMENTATION IS PROVIDED.
SO I I, I'M HAVING DIFFICULTY IN TRYING TO DETERMINE WHERE THE HOLE IS AS FAR AS, UH, OUR ACCOUNTABILITY AND, UH, THE, UH, THE USE OF, OF, UH, MISSOURI CITY DOLLARS FOR THE, UH, FOR THE PURPOSE, UH, THAT WE'RE HERE TONIGHT.
AND THAT'S TO, UH, UH, ASSIST THE JUNE TEEN PROGRAM TO GO FORWARD.
WE'LL GO AHEAD WITH THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE THINKING, I DUNNO HOW IT GOT REMOVED OUT.
SO BASICALLY, UM, THE REFERENCE TO THE POST OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, MY WHOLE CONCERN IS THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY, THE LACK OF DOCUMENTATION THAT HAS BEEN REQUESTED IN THE PACKET.
I'M SORRY, THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE PACKET PRIOR.
SO IT'S NOT MY INTENTIONS TO MAKE ANY TYPE OF POST THAT'S GONNA BE MISCONSTRUED.
MY ISSUE IS THE LACK OF TRANSPARENCY AND THE AMOUNT OF THE FUNDING THAT WE ARE PROVIDING AND THE DOCUMENTATIONS THAT HAS NOT BEEN PROVIDED TO SUPPORT MY QUESTIONS.
AND BRIEFLY, UM, WE'RE COUNSEL, THAT WAS A, WAS THAT A QUESTION I LIKE CALLED THE QUESTION? CALL THE QUESTION, MAYOR, WE VOTE.
WAIT, THERE WAS TWO PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
UH, I BE, I THINK BOTH, UM, ARE PRESENT SPEAKING.
UH, ONE WAS MR. CALDWELL AND THE OTHER ONE WAS, UH, MICHAEL GREEN.
SO WHO IS, AND I BELIEVE MR. GREEN IS WITH THE FOUNDATION.
WHO WAS THE OTHER AS WELL? UM, MR. CALDWELL, WHO'S HE SPEAKING NOW? GO AHEAD.
UH, VERY BRIEFLY AND IN CLOSING, UH, COUNCILWOMAN EDWARDS, UM, TO ALLEVIATE YOUR CONCERNS ABOUT THE $15,000 A YEAR FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WHICH WOULD BE $75,000, IF, UH, WE STAY TRUE TO FORM HIM THE MISSOURI CITY JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION, YOU GIVE US 75,000 OVER THE FIVE YEAR PERIOD BASED ON OUR TRACK RECORD, WE'LL GIVE THE CITY BACK IN CASH $82,000.
SO YOU'LL GET A BENEFIT BY GIVING US THAT MONEY TO SUPPORT OUR ORGANIZATION.
ABOUT 75, CUZ THAT'S THE GENERAL FUND, BUT LET'S BE CLEAR, IT'S 50,000 INCLUDING THE TAX ATTACK, UM, HOT TECH AS WELL AS, YEAH.
SO I DON'T WANNA GET THAT MISCONSTRUED.
EVERYONE'S JUST THINKING $75,000 OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
IT IS A COLLABORATIVE EFFORT AND A COLLABORATIVE AMOUNT.
SO I DON'T WANNA, YOU KNOW, JUST HONE IN ON A 75,000.
IT IS A COMBINED AMOUNT OF 50 50,000 OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
SO JUST WANNA, AND AS COUNCILMAN EMORY'S INDICATED WITH THE HIGH TECH FUNDS, YOU DON'T GIVE US THAT MONEY UP FRONT.
WE HAVE TO SUBMIT AN INVOICE AND THEN WE GET REIMBURSED.
ONLY IF THE CITY COUNCIL DETERMINES THAT WE USE THE FUNDS PROPERLY.
THANK YOU MISSOURI CITY FOR YOUR SUPPORT.
AND WE, DO YOU HAVE THAT, THAT WAS YOUR STATEMENT? YEAH.
SO WE HAVE MOTION BY COUNCILMAN VARIETY.
UH, SECOND BY MAYOR PROTO, I MEAN, MAYOR PROTON BONNY.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, PLEASE VOTE OR AGAINST BOB.
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THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE.[(a) Receive a Presentation from Metro.]
ITEM NUMBER FIVE.OUR STAFF REPORTS FIVE A, RECEIVE A PRESENTATION FROM METRO.
I HAVE FIVE C FOR STAFF REPORTS.
UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL BACK IN SUMMER.
UH, THE, UH, REPRESENTATIVES FROM METRO WERE HERE TO GIVE A PRESENTATION ON THE SERVICE THEY OFFERED TO MISSOURI CITY.
I KNOW THE COUNCIL HAD A NUMBER OF QUESTIONS.
THE METRO TEAM IS BACK HERE TO ADDRESS SPECIFICALLY THOSE QUESTIONS.
THEY DID THE HANDOUT, A PACKET.
I WANT TO INTRODUCE THE TEAM FROM METRO HERE, THE FORMER MAYOR, MR. BOB FRY, WHO SITS ON THE MULTI-CITY METRO BOARD, MR. TOM LAMBERT, WHO'S THE CEO OF METRO.
AND, UH, MR. EDWARDO, EDUARDO MARANDO, WHO'S THE VP OF METRO.
WITH THAT, I WILL, UH, LET MR. TOM LAMBERT MAKE THE PRESENTATION.
UH, MR. MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, THANKS FOR HAVING US BACK.
WE WANTED TO COME BACK AND REALLY MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE RESPONSIVE TO THE COUNCIL MEMBER'S QUESTIONS AND WANTED TO MAKE SURE.
AND I THINK WE HAVE A PRESENTATION THAT'S IN YOUR PACKAGE.
I WANNA THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR WORKING WITH US, AND WE APPRECIATE THAT AS WELL.
I THINK, UH, WE WANTED TO COME BACK AGAIN.
AND THE WAY I'M GONNA GO THROUGH THIS, MR. MAYOR AND I WILL MOVE IT AS QUICKLY AS YOU'D LIKE ME TO.
I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME, IS REALLY KIND OF IDENTIFYING WHAT THE QUESTIONS WERE IN MAKING SURE WE WERE GIVEN THE COUNSEL THE APPROPRIATE FEEDBACK, UH, FROM OUR REVIEW OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
THE FIRST ONE WAS, UH, WHEN WE BEGAN THE TWO SERVICES IN MISSOURI CITY, UH, DID WE CONTINUE THOSE SERVICES? DID WE CONSOLIDATE THOSE SERVICES OR DID WE ELIMINATE THOSE SERVICES? UH, THE FACT IS WE ACTUALLY CONSOLIDATED THE SERVICES.
THE FIRST PHASE ACTUALLY BEGAN, UH, WITH MISSOURI CITY FLEX, UH, WHERE WE HAD AN ANCHOR POINT AT THE MISSOURI CITY FIND PARKING AND RIDE, AND ALSO AT THE WALMART.
WE THEN LOOKED AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO EXPAND THAT SERVICE TO ADD ANOTHER, UH, WHAT WE CALLED A DEVIATED FIX ROUTE TO GET MORE SERVICE TO THE CITIZENS IN MISSOURI CITY.
WE TRACKED THAT RIDERSHIP AND BEGAN TO SEE WE DID NOT HAVE A LOT OF RIDERSHIP ON THE SECOND ROUTE, UH, THAT WE EXPANDED.
AND WE FELT THAT BASED UPON THE FEEDBACK OF LOOKING AT, UH, THOSE SERVICES, WE COULD DO A BETTER JOB TO ACTUALLY EXPAND THE AMOUNT OF SERVICE TO THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY.
WHEN WE CONSOLIDATED THE SERVICES, YOU'LL SEE ON WEDNESDAY, MAY THE 15TH, WE, UH, BRIEFED OUR BOARD OF DIRECT MAY 15TH, 2019.
SO I'M GOING BACK A FEW YEARS.
WE BRIEFED OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS ON THE LACK OF RIDERSHIP ON THE PHASE TWO, THE DEVIATED ROUTE THAT WE STARTED.
WE THEN LOOKED TO PROPOSE TO CONSOLIDATE THE 360 3 AND THE 360 4 ROUTES TO CREATE THIS COMMUNITY CONNECTOR ZONE.
WE HELD A PUBLIC HEARING IN MISSOURI CITY ON JANUARY THE 28TH OF 2020, UH, TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW THAT WE WERE GOING TO BE CONSOLIDATING THESE ROUTES.
AND WITH THAT PUBLIC HEARING AND FEEDBACK FROM THE PUBLIC, UH, WE ACTUALLY MOVED TO CONSOLIDATE THOSE SERVICES ON SUNDAY, FEBRUARY THE 23RD OF 2020.
UH, YOU'LL SEE THE TWO ROUTES.
THE FIRST ONE WITH THE PURPLE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE, PHASE ONE ZONE WAS THE FIRST ROUTE WE STARTED.
PHASE TWO WAS THE FLEX DEVIATED ROUTE WE EXPANDED TO, AND THEN THE CONSOLIDATED ZONE COVERS BOTH OF THOSE ZONES, BUT IN A MUCH MORE, UM, COVERAGE AREA TO GET MORE RIDERSHIP IN THOSE AREAS.
UH, WE ALSO HAD PRESENTED TO THE COUNCIL, AND I WANTED TO SHOW THIS, IF YOU TAKE THE GREEN BARS BELOW, THAT WAS THE SECOND PHASE THAT WE CREATED.
AND YOU'LL SEE WE DID NOT GET A LOT OF RIDERSHIP FROM THERE.
BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THE BLUE LINE, THAT'S REALLY BEEN THE ROUTE WE STARTED IN PHASE ONE.
AND THEN WE'VE CONTINUED TO CONTINUE TO CONSOLIDATE THOSE ROUTES.
AND THE LATEST IN SEPTEMBER, WE ARE ACTUALLY SEEING 300 RIDERS A DAY ON THAT CONSOLIDATED SERVICE.
SO WE'RE SEEING GOOD RIDERSHIP THERE.
WE WERE ALSO ASKED THAT WE HAD BEGUN BY WRAPPING, UH, THE CURVE TO CURVE VEHICLES WITH MISSOURI CITY BRANDING.
UH, LAST TIME I WAS HERE MENTIONED THAT WE WERE TRYING TO DO A BETTER JOB OF FLEET MANAGEMENT AND DOING A BROADER BRANDING OF THOSE CURB TO CURVE VEHICLES.
UH, BUT WE ARE VERY OPEN, UH, TO LOOKING AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO USE MAGNETIZED SERVICES TO BRAND THAT TO MISSOURI CITY WITH THAT BRANDING.
AND WE WILL WORK WITH THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CITY TO DO THAT.
UH, I MENTIONED THAT, UH, THERE WAS A SURVEY OF OUR WRITERS, ABOUT 84% OF OUR CUSTOMERS, AND WE DO CUSTOMER SATISFACTION SURVEYS EVERY YEAR.
UH, ABOUT 84% OF THE SERVICES WITHIN THOSE WITHIN MISSOURI CITY, USING THE CURB TO CURVE SERVICES, UH, HAVE BEEN VERY SATISFIED WITH THAT SERVICE.
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WAS A QUESTION THAT WE HAD DISCONTINUED, UH, PICKING UP CUSTOMERS AT CITY CENTER.WE'VE ACTUALLY CONTINUED TO DO THAT AT THAT LOCATION.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I CLARIFIED THAT AS WELL.
UH, MISSOURI CITY SAID THAT RYAN, THE FIXED ROUTE WAS ASKED, ARE YOU DOING TO COMMUNICATE MARKET? THE SERVICE? I ALWAYS RECOGNIZED WE CAN DO BETTER.
BUT I DID GO BACK TO THE METRO STAFF AND REALLY LOOKED AT WHAT OUR ME MARKETING EFFORTS WERE BACK WHEN WE LAUNCHED THIS SERVICE.
AND WHAT I FOUND IS WE HAD WORKED WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AT THAT TIME FOR THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY TO CREATE A LAUNCH OF IT, COORDINATE OTHER MARKETING AREAS.
WE CONCLUDED COLLABORATIONS ON NEWSLETTERS TO HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS.
WE DID A LOT OF PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT TO APARTMENT COMPLEXES, SENIOR CITIZEN COMPLEXES, HEALTH CLINICS, COMMUNITY CENTERS, CHURCHES, UH, RETAIL STORES, VISITOR CENTERS.
WE REALLY TRIED TO WORK WITH THE STAFF TO PUSH THIS INFORMATION OUT.
UH, WE WANTED TO CONTINUE TO DO THAT THROUGH THE HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE.
AND I'LL JUST SAY WE DID A LOT OF THINGS BACK THEN TO LOCK THE SERVICE.
BUT WE CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER, BETTER.
AND WE'RE COMMITTED TO DOING BETTER.
UH, YOU ASKED, UH, BUS RAPID TRANSIT WAS BEING CONSIDERED FOR MISSOURI CITY.
UH, THE CITIZENS MISSOURI CITY WANTED RAIL.
THAT WAS THE REASON THEY JOINED, UH, THE METRO SERVICE AREA.
IT DOESN'T IMPAIR RAIL'S GONNA HAPPEN.
WHAT ABOUT THE STATUS OF BUS RAPID TRANSIT IN MISSOURI CITY? WE DO HAVE PLANS ON THE METRO NEXT PLAN APPROVED BY THE VOTERS IN NOVEMBER, 2019 WITH ALMOST 70% OF THE VOTE THAT WE WOULD DO A BUS RAPID TRANSIT FROM, UH, MISSOURI CITY, UH, ALL THE WAY OUT TO THE WEST LITTLE YORK PARKING LOT.
WE ALSO HAVE AN EXTENSION OF A LINE THAT WE HAVE NOT DEFINED WHAT THIS SERVICE WILL BE COMING FROM FAN AND SOUTH INTO MISSOURI CITY.
SO THERE'S SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO LOOK AT THAT SERVICE AS WELL.
WE WERE ASKED, UH, HOW MUCH MONEY IS SPENT ON SERVICES IN MISSOURI CITIES GENERAL MOBILITY FUNDING.
UH, THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION IN YOUR PACKAGE.
UH, AND I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO MAKE SURE OUR CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER WORKS WITH THE CITY FINANCE STAFF, THAT THERE ARE MORE QUESTIONS ON THIS.
BUT SINCE 1994, THE SALES TAX REVENUE FOR MISSOURI CITY, ACCORDING TO THE STATE CONTROLLER, UH, COLLECTED, WAS ABOUT $139 MILLION.
SINCE 2020, 50% OF THE MONEY COLLECTED IN MISSOURI CITY'S BEEN REBATED BACK TO THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY.
AGAIN, THIS IS A VERY, UM, UH, ACTIVE, UH, PRESENTATION HERE.
BUT AGAIN, MORE THAN WILLING TO HAVE OUR STAFF WORK WITH YOUR FINANCE TEAM TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THIS.
AND YOU'LL ALSO SEE THAT PRIOR TO 1994, UH, METRO HAS RELAYED APPROXIMATELY 80 MILLION TO MISSOURI CITY.
AGAIN, A LOT MORE DETAIL HERE.
UH, IN RESPONSE TO SOME OF THE QUESTIONS WE WERE ASKED, ADDITION TO THE 80 MILLION, UH, WE DO PROVIDE PARK AND RIDE METRO LIFT THE CURB TO CURB SERVICE IN MISSOURI CITY.
AND THEN WE HAVE A BROADER TRANSPORTATION NETWORK THAT ANYONE IN THE REGION CAN USE, WHETHER IT'S HOV HOT LANES, WHETHER IT'S RAIL DOWNTOWN, WHETHER IT'S PARK AND RIDE SERVICES, WHETHER IT'S OTHER FIXED ROUTE SERVICES THAT REALLY SUPPORT THE ENTIRE REGION.
UH, AGAIN, WE SHOW WHAT OUR COST IN 2021 WERE, BE VERY OPEN AND TRANSPARENT TO, AGAIN, HAVE OUR FINANCE PEOPLE WALK THROUGH ALL THIS WITH YOUR FINANCE TEAM.
UH, WE THEN LOOKED AT, UH, CAN YOU USE GENERAL ABILITY PROGRAMS FOR MOBILITY? THE ANSWER IS YES, YOU CAN.
THAT'S WHAT THOSE FUNDS ARE FOR.
UH, AND THEN AGAIN, WE CONTINUE TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN THE REGION.
SO WITH, THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT, UH, HUNTINGTON PICKUP LOCATION.
I, WE, WE MADE AN ERROR WHEN WE LAUNCHED THE CURB TO CURB SKIRT SCHEDULING APP THAT TOOK THAT OFF THE ZONE.
SO THERE'S A PICKUP AT THAT LOCATION THAT WAS IMMEDIATE CORRECTED AS WELL.
UH, DO WE LOOK AT OTHER POSSIBILITIES TO EXPAND SERVICE? THE ANSWER IS YES, WE DO, BUT NOT TODAY.
I'D BE THE FIRST TO ADMIT WE'RE HAVING CHALLENGES WITH HIRING OPERATORS.
WE'RE HAVING CHALLENGES TO HIRING MECHANICS.
AS WE BEGIN TO SEE THAT WORKFORCE DEVELOPED AND WE'RE NOT UNIQUE TO US, UH, WE'LL LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO CONTINUE TO EXPAND SERVICE WHERE THAT EXPANSION MAKES SENSE IN SERVING THE COMMUNITY.
UH, THE PARK AND RIGHT AT KROGER, THAT LEASE DID EXPIRE IN 2014.
I WANT TO THANK OUR PARTNERS AT NEW QUEST, KROGER AND POPEYE'S.
WE'VE CONTINUE TO RUN SERVICE THERE.
WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO SO, UH, AS WE'RE LOOKING TO NEGOTIATE TO BUILD, UM, A PAR A PARK AND RIDE IN THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING WE'RE LOOKING AT TODAY.
UH, AGAIN, WE CAN ALWAYS DO BETTER TO BRAND THE SERVICE.
AND I WILL SAY OUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM IS WORKING WITH YOUR COMMUNICATIONS TEAM NOW TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN BUILD A BETTER JOB OF BRANDING, UH, WHERE THOSE STOPS ARE.
UH, HOW WE MAKE SURE PEOPLE KNOW WHERE THOSE SERVICES ARE, THE EASE OF ACCESSING IT, WHETHER IT'S BY THE PHONE, BY MOBILE APP, UH, SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE.
UH, WE'LL CONTINUE TO WORK TO MAKE ANY IMPROVEMENTS WE CAN MAKE THERE.
UH, THESE MAPS JUST SHOWED THE PHASE ONE RIDERSHIP.
WE GOT A LOT MORE RIDERSHIP THAN THE EXPANDED PHASE TWO.
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THAT'S WHY WE CONSOLIDATED THEM.UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE MANY WAYS WHERE PEOPLE CAN ACCESS THIS SERVICE.
AS I MENTIONED, THEY CAN WALK UP TO ANCHOR POINTS, WHICH ARE AT THE MISSOURI CITY PARK AND LOT ON FINDRA OR WALMART ON HIGHWAY SIX.
OR THEY CAN GO ONLINE, MAKE A RESERVATION.
THEY CAN DO IT THE DAY OF THE DAY BEFORE, OR THEY CAN DO A SUBSCRIPTION SERVICE.
UH, DID WE PICK UP MORE LOCATIONS WHEN WE EXPANDED THE PHASE TWO? THE ANSWER IS YES.
WE PICKED UP THE MISSOURI CITY STATE HIGHWAY SIX PARK AND RIDE, UH, HOENS.
WE DO A LOT FOR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, UH, WORKING THROUGH HOUSTON TRANS STAR, THE PARTNER WITH THE CITY, THE COUNTY, ALL OF THE CITIES IN THE REGION, UH, HARRIS COUNTY, HOMELAND SECURITY, EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT.
WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THEM.
SO WHETHER IT'S A HURRICANE, AN ICE STORM, A WINDSTORM, WE TRY TO WORK TO MAKE SURE WE'RE SUPPORTING THE REGION.
I'M VERY PROUD OF THAT SERVICE.
UH, WOULD VEHICLES REMOVE MAGNET? WE'RE READY TO DO MAGNETS ON VEHICLES.
MISSOURI CITY RESIDENTS, CAN WE SHARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA? I THINK WE'VE COMMUNICATED, UH, ALL OF OUR SERVICE TYPES TO MISSOURI CS COMMUNICATIONS TEAM.
ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO TO HELP THEM PUSH THAT INFORMATION OUT, ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO HELP PUSH THAT INFORMATION OUT, WE'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO DO SO.
UH, WE HAVE 10 CURB TO CURB VEHICLES COMMITTED TO THIS SERVICE.
THE QUESTION WAS, HAVE WE REDUCED THE VEHICLES OR EXPANDED IT? WE STARTED WITH SIX.
WE'RE UP TO 10 OF THOSE VEHICLES.
EIGHT ARE WHAT WE CALL MINIVANS.
THEY CAN ACCOMMODATE ONE PERSON IN A WHEELCHAIR FOR FOUR AMBULATORY PASSENGERS.
AND THEN WE HAVE TWO, UH, CURB TO CURB LOW FLOOR VEHICLES THAT CAN CARRY UP TO 12 AMBULATORY PASSENGERS AND TWO PEOPLE IN WHEELCHAIR.
SO WE'VE ACTUALLY EXPANDED THE NUMBER OF VEHICLES, UH, DISABLED RIDERS, UH, THAT ARE METRO LIFT CERTIFIED ON THE CURB TO CURB CAN RIDE FOR FREE.
IF THEY GO OUTSIDE THIS AREA, THEY HAVE TO PAY $2 AND 50 CENTS.
BUT IF THEY'RE, UH, IN METRO, IF CERTIFIED AND THEY RIDE THE LOCAL FIXED ROUTE SERVICE, OR THEY RIDE LOCAL RAIL, THEY CAN RIDE IT FOR FREE.
UH, SO WE THINK WE HAVE A GOOD PROGRAM.
WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT, UH, ASSISTING DURING A PANDEMIC.
I JUST, I ALWAYS SAY THIS, I HAVE GREAT PRIDE IN THE METRO STAFF THAT CONTINUE TO PROVIDE TRANSIT SERVICE TO THIS REGION DURING THE PANDEMIC, IN THE HEAT OF THE PANDEMIC, OVER A HUNDRED THOUSAND RIDES A DAY.
METRO CONTINUED OFFER ON THE FIXED ROUTE ON RAIL.
OUR METRO LIFTS STAFF MADE SURE WE GOT DISABLED CUSTOMERS TO DOCTOR'S APPOINTMENT, UH, HEARD DISCUSSION EARLIER.
WE ACTUALLY DELIVERED PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT.
WE DELIVERED FOOD, WE DELIVERED WATER.
WE HAD TO ADAPT OUR SERVICES TO MEET THE NEEDS OF THIS COMMUNITY.
AND I'M VERY PROUD OF THE STAFF OF WHAT THEY DID WITH THAT.
CAN WE DO BETTER TO POUR BACK IN THE COMMUNITY? WE'RE OPEN TO WORK WITH THE COMMUNITY.
I KNOW THAT WE RUN THE JULY 4TH FESTIVAL HERE IN MISSOURI CITY.
I KNOW WE DO THE SNOW FEST EVERY YEAR.
IF THERE ARE MORE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO WORK WITH THE CITY, WE WANT TO DO SO.
UM, THERE ARE, SOMETIMES I'M LIMITED TO BE ABLE TO DO THINGS.
BUT WHERE WE CAN, WE WANT TO BE A PART OF THE COMMUNITY.
WE WANT TO BE SUPPORTIVE OF THE COMMUNITY, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING EVERYTHING THAT ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUALS.
WHETHER IT'S THOSE THAT RIDE TODAY OR THOSE THAT ARE GONNA RIDE IN THE FUTURE, HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO USE TRANSIT TO GET TO WHERE THEY NEED TO GO.
AND WE WANT TO BE VERY SUPPORTIVE OF THAT, UH, FEEDBACK.
UH, WE, WE HAVE AN UBER LESS TYPE SERVICE NOW THAT YOU CAN RATE THE SERVICE.
OUR CURRENT RATING IS ABOUT 4.64 OUTTA FIVE.
SO I'M VERY CONFIDENT WE'RE GIVING A GOOD SERVICE ON CURB TO SERVE CURB.
CAN WE DO MORE TO DO ROLLOUT CEREMONIES WORKING WITH, UH, YOUR TEAM HERE AT MISSOURI CITY? THE SIMPLE ANSWER IS YES, AND WE WOULD LOOK FORWARD TO DOING SO.
SO, MR. MAYOR, I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY, UH, WE WORK WITH HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS.
ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO BE BETTER RESPONSIVE WITH HOW WE CAN WORK BETTER WITH THE COMMUNITY AND YOUR LEADERSHIP, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE DOING SO.
SO WITH THAT, MR. MAYOR, I'M PREPARED TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THE COUNCIL MAY HAVE.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS? GREAT.
CAN WE PUT ON THE, AH, I SEE MAYOR PROTON BONY.
UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, FOR BEING HERE AND FOR THIS, UH, PRESENTATION.
THIS IS WHAT WE'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR.
UH, I JUST HAD A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS.
FIRST OF ALL, MS. CHRISTINE JONES OVER TO HUNTINGTON, WILL GREATLY APPRECIATE YOU.
SHE WAS THE 83 OLD SENIOR, UH, AS WELL AS THE OTHER SENIORS OVER THERE WHO WERE USED TO GETTING THAT SERVICE.
AND IT JUST COMPLETELY WAS ELIMINATED.
SO THANK YOU FOR HEARING THAT CONCERN.
FIRST, GOING TO THE MARKETING PIECE, UH, YOU KNOW, NUMBER FIVE, YOU SAID METRO STAFF HAS BEEN INSTRUCTED TO CONTINUE TO ENGAGE WITH THE CITY AND OTHER STAKEHOLDERS ON MARKETING EFFORTS.
UH, WHO EXACTLY, UH, OR HAVE YOU STARTED TALKING TO STAFF ABOUT THOSE INSTRUCTIONS GIVEN TO METRO STAFF? AND IF SO, WHO, BECAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE ON OUR
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END THAT WE'RE, UH, FOLLOWING UP WITH THEM AND MAKING SURE THAT THERE THE CONNECTABILITY IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.TARA CRANE WITH THE COMMUNICATIONS TEAM.
I WILL HAVE TO REVISIT THAT THEN
AFTER THE LAST MEETING, I MET WITH OUR STAFF AND INTRODUCED THEM TO TARA.
AFTER THAT INTRODUCTION Y'ALL PROVIDED TO ME.
SO YEAH, SHE, SO IF YOU COULD JUST GET WITH OUR INNER CITY MANAGER AND MAKE SURE THAT, UH, THAT COMMUNICATION IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING.
CAUSE I DON'T WANT YOU ALL TO LEAVE HERE TODAY THINKING THAT SHE'S THE PERSON AND IF SHE'S NOT RESPONSIVE, YOU KNOW WHY? I'LL MAKE SURE I TAKE CARE OF THAT.
AND THE OTHER, THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD IS RELATIVE TO THE, THE, THE BUS RAPID TRANSIT, UH, AS YOU KNOW, WE'VE BEEN DESPERATELY WAITING ON RAIL.
ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASONS THAT OUR CITIZENS IN THE SEVENTIES VOTED TO TRY TO GET INTO METRO TO TRY TO EXPAND MOBILITY HERE.
UH, AND SO WHILE I'M GRATEFUL FOR THE SERVICES THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY BEING OFFERED, B R T WOULD BE AN EXTREMELY ADDED BENEFIT TO US.
IT SAYS HERE THAT, THAT YOU GUYS HAVE OUTLINED POSSIBLE TRANSIT PROJECTS THROUGH THE YEAR 2040.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU ALL COVER MORE THAN MISSOURI CITY, PRIMARILY HOUSTON.
SO I DON'T WANT US TO BE ON THE TAIL END OF THE 2040.
UH, I WANTED TO KNOW EXACTLY WHERE WE ARE AND THE STRONG POSSIBILITY THAT WE'LL ACTUALLY SEE THE, UM, WEST, WEST LITTLE YORK PARKING RIDE TO MISSOURI CITY, OR A FAN IN SOUTH PARKING RIDE TO MISSOURI CITY.
LET ME, I'LL GET BACK WITH YOU ON TIMING.
I WILL SHOW YOU THE TWO PROJECTS WE'RE WORKING ON NOW IS UNIVERSITY CORRIDOR PROJECT.
WE'RE ACTUALLY IN PROJECT DEVELOPMENT SEEKING, UH, APPROVAL FROM THE FEDERAL TRANSIT ADMINISTRATION TO GET FUNDING FOR THAT PROJECT.
IT BASICALLY CONNECTS SOUTHWEST HOUSTON AT THE WEST CHASE DISTRICT ALL THE WAY UP, UH, TO THE NORTHEAST SIDE OF THE REGION AT TIDWELL.
THAT'S KIND OF IN THE PIPELINE RIGHT NOW, INNER KATY CONNECTING, UH, WHERE OUR NORTHWEST TRANSIT CENTER IS TODAY TO, THERE'S ONE GAP TO CONNECT DOWNTOWN FROM NORTHWEST.
THAT'S A, AN ACTIVE PROJECT WE'RE WORKING ON.
UH, WE DO HAVE SOME THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UH, PHASING IN THE GEER PROJECT, BUT I DON'T HAVE A TIMELINE FOR THAT.
BUT MORE THAN HAPPY TO COME BACK AND WORK WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND STAFF OF HOW WE'LL MOVE THAT ALONG.
YEAH, I REALLY WOULD LIKE FOR TO KNOW WHERE WE ARE IN THOSE DISCUSSIONS, BECAUSE IT'S ONE THING TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, IT'S COMMON OR IT'S BEING PLANNED WITH WHERE WE ARE IN THAT PLAN IS IMPORTANT TO ME, AND I'M SURE OUR RESIDENTS UNDERSTAND.
THE OTHER QUESTION THAT I HAVE IS, AND THIS IS PROBABLY GONNA REQUIRE YOU TO GET WITH, AS YOU MENTIONED, OUR FINANCE DIRECTOR AND TEAM, BUT YOU BREAK DOWN OR PROVIDE US WITH A $6.8 MILLION, UH, FOR THE COST OF PROVIDING THE ONE 70 MISSOURI CITY STATE HIGHWAY SIX PARK AND RIDE, THE 360 3 MISSOURI CITY COMMUNITY CONNECTOR, CITY COMMUNITY CONNECTOR, AND THE PARA TRANSIT SERVICE OPERATED FOR MISSOURI CITY.
THIS BREAKDOWN, HOW WAS THIS CALCULATED AND AND WAS IT SPECIFICALLY JUST FOR MISSOURI CITY? AND IF SO, HOW DO YOU, HOW'D YOU COME OR BACK INTO THESE NUMBERS FOR THESE THREE SERVICES? MAYOR PRO TIM, IF YOU'LL LET ME ALL HAVE OUR FINANCE PEOPLE WORK WITH THE FINANCE PEOPLE AND THEY CAN REALLY GET DOWN INTO THE NUTS AND BOLTS OF THAT.
UH, THE LAST THING I HAVE IS RELATIVE TO, UM, WHAT YOU INDICATED ABOUT THE, THE OTHER PHASES AND WHETHER THE OTHER PARTS OF MISSOURI CITY WOULD BE INCLUDED, UH, FOR FUTURE.
AND IT SAYS THAT THERE ARE NO PLANS TO INCLUDE THE OTHER PARTS OF MISSOURI CITY BASED OFF OF THE RIDERSHIP IN THE CURRENT PHASE.
UM, HOW ARE WE GETTING, OR ARE WE GETTING FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY IN OTHER PARTS THAT ARE NOT CURRENTLY BEING COVERED TO DETERMINE WHETHER THEY ACTUALLY NEED THE EXPANDED SERVICE? AND IF, I MEAN, HOW CAN WE GET THAT FEEDBACK FROM THEM? I THINK WE PROBABLY ALREADY HAVE A DISCUSSION WITH THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY, UH, BECAUSE WE'VE NOT GOT FEEDBACK.
BUT I WOULD ALSO SAY, AND I WANNA BE VERY, VERY UPFRONT, WE'RE CHALLENGED WITH WORKFORCE ISSUES TODAY.
UH, WE HAVE A CHALLENGE, UH, WITH HIRING BUS OPERATORS.
WE HAVE A HIRE CHALLENGE WITH, UH, FINDING SERVICE DRIVERS OPERATE THESE VEHICLES.
SO AS WE WORK OUR WAY THROUGH IT, AND WE'RE DOING A LOT OF THINGS ON HIRING BONUSES, RETENTION, A LOT OF DIFFERENT STRATEGIES TO LOOK AT THAT.
AS WE BEGIN TO SEE OUR WORKFORCE GROW, THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITY, EXPAND SERVICE.
BUT IT'S NEVER TOO EARLY, IN MY VIEW, TO BEGIN TO HAVE A COMMUNITY DIALOGUE IF THERE ARE NEEDS THAT ARE NOT BEING MET.
WE SHOULD GO AHEAD AND IDENTIFY THOSE NOW AND SEE WHAT OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE, ENROLLING THEM OUT.
SO, AGAIN, LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND STAFF.
I'M MORE THAN HAPPY TO BRING OUR COMMUNITY OUTREACH TEAM OUT TO VISIT TO SEE WHAT OUR OPPORTUNITIES ARE TO WORK TOGETHER OF WHAT THE RIGHT TIMING MAY BE FOR THAT.
YEAH, I, I'D REALLY, UH, LIKE THAT SOONER THAN LATER.
FIRST OF ALL, I'D LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR, UH, PROVIDING THE, UH, COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS INFORMATION.
YOU KNOW, THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN IMPORTANT TO, UH, A NUMBER OF US.
UH, THERE'S A LOT OF DETAIL THERE.
SO, YOU KNOW, UM, I'D LIKE THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO THROUGH IT.
AND YOU WORK WITH OUR FINANCIAL PEOPLE.
UH, CAUSE YOU KNOW, AS WE'VE SAID IN THE PAST, UH, OUR, UH, OUR CITIZENS ALWAYS LOOK FOR, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WHAT WE'RE PAYING OUT IN, YOU KNOW,
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OUR HALF OF OUR SALES TAX OR WHATEVER PORTION THAT IS.YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE WE GETTING IN RETURN? SO I, I THINK, YOU KNOW, THIS IS GONNA GONNA HELP US ANSWERS SOME OF THOSE QUESTIONS.
UH, THE OTHER THING IS, IS THAT A, AS YOU LOOK FOR RIDERSHIP, ARE, ARE YOU PUTTING, UH, CATEGORIES OF THE TYPES OF, OF WRITERS? UH, MY POINT IS, IS THAT THERE'S AREAS WHERE YOU HAVE THE, UH, UH, THE SENIOR CENTERS, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, UH, UH, THOSE TYPES OF, OF, UM, OF OPERATIONS OR, OR, UH, RESIDENTS IN THOSE TYPES OF, UH, OF, UH, UH, BUILDINGS OR, OR, SO THE DEMAND FROM THAT TYPE OF, OF INDIVIDUALS HAS GOTTA BE DIFFERENT THAN THE DEMANDS THAT COMING FROM PEOPLE WHO ARE WORKING AND ARE LOOKING FOR THE RIDERSHIP TO GO TO, UH, YOU KNOW, TO THEIR OFFICE AND, YOU KNOW, TO THEIR, THEIR WORKPLACE.
WHERE, LIKE I SAY, THE, SOME OF THE, UH, UH, OTHER, UH, INDIVIDUALS ARE LOOKING FOR, WHAT CAN I GET TO TAKE ME TO WALMART? OR WHAT CAN I GET TO TAKE ME TO CHURCH? SO I THINK YOU GOT A DIFFERENT TYPE OF DEMAND AND YOU KNOW, OF RIDERSHIP BASED ON, YOU KNOW, JUST IF YOU LOOK AT THE, UH, UH, LIKE I SAY, THE TYPE OF, UH, INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE LOOKING FOR, UH, THE, UH, THE SERVICES.
SO DO YOU LOOK AT THAT TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT THAT CAN, UH, DRIVE YOU OR LEAD YOU TO WHETHER OR NOT WHAT TYPE OF SERVICE AND WHAT COVERED AREAS YOU MIGHT, UH, UH, CONSIDER? I, I THINK EVERYTHING WE LOOK AT HAS TO HAVE A LENS OF EQUITY.
EVERYTHING WE LOOK AT HAS TO HAVE AT IAN'S LENS OF ACCESS, UH, TRANSIT ACCESSES PEOPLE TO JOBS, IT ACCESSES PEOPLE TO HEALTHCARE.
IT ACCESSES PEOPLE TO CONNECT WITH FAMILY.
SO WE TRY TO LOOK AT EVERY OPPORTUNITY TO SEE HOW EQUITY PLAYS IN WHAT WE'RE DOING.
AND THEN WHAT'S THE BEST MODE OF SERVING THAT SERVICE.
YOU KNOW, HISTORICALLY USED TO BE A 40 FOOT BUS WAS THE WAY YOU SOLVED ALL TRANSIT ISSUES.
UH, THE CURB TO CURB SERVER, UH, SMALLER VEHICLES, WE THINK THERE MAY BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES.
BUT ALL OF THOSE THINGS WE FACTOR INTO, UM, THE TYPE OF SERVICE WE'RE TRYING TO DEVELOP TO MAKE SURE WE'RE MEETING A COMMUNITY NEED.
SO WE, WE TRY TO LOOK AT ALL OF THAT.
WELL, HOPEFULLY YOU CAN USE THAT TO, AS, AS YOU LOOK AT MISSOURI CITY IN WHOLE, YOU KNOW, WHAT TYPE OF SERVICE CAN YOU PROVIDE TO SOME OF THOSE LOCATIONS THAT YOU KNOW THAT AT THIS POINT IN TIME DON'T HAVE THAT SERVICE, SERVICE COUNCILMAN, WE, WE LOOK FORWARD TO DOING SO.
UM, MY FIRST QUESTION IS, WHAT ARE UPDATES WERE ACTUALLY, UM, PROVIDED TO THE FONDER LOCATION THAT WILL BENEFIT OUR RESIDENTS TO THE FONDER LOCATION? YES, PROBABLY NO UPGRADES TO DATE.
I THINK AS WE BEGIN TO COME OUT OF THE PANDEMIC, YOU'LL SEE US DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
THE CURB TO CURB TYPE SERVICE IS A DIFFERENT TYPE OF SERVICE MODEL.
THERE REALLY SERVES A LOCAL COMMUNITY.
I MENTIONED EARLIER WE ARE LOOKING AT A, UH, A PARK AND RIDE IN MISSOURI CITY.
WE'RE ACTUALLY ONGOING NEGOTIATIONS NOW.
THEY HAVE NOT CONCLUDED, UH, TO GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP A PARK AND RIDE THAT WILL SERVE RESIDENTS IN MISSOURI CITY.
GOING TO THE TEXAS MEDICAL CENTER.
WE KNOW THAT'S A NEED FOR JOBS AND PEOPLE THAT SERVE THAT AREA.
UH, THE B R T WE'RE LOOKING AT TO CONNECT MISSOURI CITY DOWN GESNER TO WEST LITTLE YORK, SOMETHING WE'LL LOOK AT.
BUT FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THAT EXISTING FACILITY, UH, WE WILL PROBABLY TAKE A LOOK AT THAT FACILITY TO SEE IF THERE'S A BETTER WAY OF SERVING THAT SITE.
ONE OF THE THINGS WE'RE LOOKING AT NOW, AND IT'S A WORK IN PROGRESS, IS HOW DO YOU GET HOUSING CONNECTED TO TRANSIT? SO YOU'LL SEE US BEGIN TALKING ABOUT TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT.
ARE THERE SOME OPPORTUNITIES TO DO HOUSING RETAIL WHERE YOU GET RIDERSHIP THAT'S BUILT IN? AND SO THE BOARD IS EMBARKING UPON A THOUGHT PROCESS THAT WE'VE JUST STARTED TO SEE IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY OF WORKING WITH COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS, PRIVATE DEVELOPERS, INDIVIDUALS THAT MIGHT HAVE A DESIRE TO WORK WITH US TO LOOK AT THE OPPORTUNITY TO DEVELOP HOUSING AND HOW IT MIGHT FIT WITH TRANSIT.
SO WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT ALL OF OUR EXISTING PARKING RIGHTS, ALL OF OUR EXISTING TRANSIT CENTERS, UH, TO SEE IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO DO MORE FOR THE FUTURE.
AND SO I WILL SAY THAT THAT WILL BE ONE OF THE SITES WE'LL BE LOOKING AT.
WHAT'S YOUR, UM, YOUR TIMELINE EXPECTED FOR THAT TO BE COMPLETED? OH, I DON'T HAVE A TIMELINE FOR YOU RIGHT NOW.
WE HAVE JUST RELEASED A REQUEST FOR INDUSTRY INPUT THAT WE COMMUNICATED TO PRIVATE DEVELOPERS.
WE COMMUNICATED TO, UH, HOUSING ORGANIZATIONS.
UH, WE WANTED TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK TO SEE IF THERE WAS INTEREST FROM THE PRIVATE DEVELOPMENT
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COMMUNITY, FROM THE HOUSING COMMUNITY THAT WOULD HELP US SHAPE WHAT WE ARE TO DO TO UPGRADE OUR BOARD POLICIES ON TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT AND A JOINT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT.CUZ WE HAVE EXISTING BOARD POLICIES.
UH, WE GOT EIGHT RESPONSES FROM THE PRIVATE SECTOR THAT HAD INTEREST.
WE'RE NOW WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THAT.
I EXPECT BY NOVEMBER WE'LL BE GOING BACK AND I'VE GOT A BOARD MEMBER OF THE ROOM.
SO I HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL WHAT I'M SAYING.
UH, WE'LL BE COMING BACK TO THE BOARD PROBABLY IN NOVEMBER, UH, TO REQUEST THEIR CONSIDERATION TO UPDATE OUR TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT POLICIES AND OUR JOINT OR ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT POLICIES.
I SUSPECT WITH THEIR CONCURRENCE, WE'LL THEN GO OUT ON THE MARKET TO PROBABLY TAKE A COUPLE OF OUR SITES BECAUSE WE'RE GETTING SOME INTEREST.
FOLKS MAY WANNA WORK WITH US ON THAT, GET OUT TO SEE WHAT THAT INTEREST MAY THEN EVOLVE INTO.
BUT I WOULDN'T SEE THAT BEING, UH, COMPLETE INTEL PROBABLY MID PART OF NEXT YEAR AT THE EARLIEST.
UM, DID I HEAR YOU CORRECT THAT YOU SAID THAT WE HAVE, YOU HAVE LOW STAFFING AND IT'S GONNA BASICALLY, DO YOU HAVE LOW STAFFING? I THOUGHT YOU SAID THAT EARLIER.
CONSIDERING YOU ARE A PARTNER WITH US AS WELL AND WE'RE TRYING TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, HEALTHY RELATIONSHIPS, ARE YOU CONSIDERING DOING SOME TYPE OF JOB FAIR HERE AT THE CITY THAT WE CAN ACTUALLY ALLOW OUR RESIDENTS TO, UM, BE EMPLOYED BY? I WOULD DO THAT ON A HEARTBEAT.
LET ME KNOW WHEN YOU WANT US TO COME OUT.
I WOULD LIKE THE STAFF TO GET WITH YOU IMMEDIATELY.
COUNCIL COUNCILWOMAN MERLES, UM, ABOUT A YEAR AGO, RESIDENTS VOICED THEIR CONCERNS AND WOULD LIKE TO ASK IF THERE'S BETTER AVAILABILITY TO GET ACCESS TO THE ME CENTER FROM 10 92 AND SIX.
SO KIND OF THAT OTHER PART OF MISSOURI CITY.
SO AS YOU'RE DOING YOUR SURVEYS, MAYBE WE COULD PULL THAT AREA.
CUZ THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WANNA GO MED CENTER, THEY DON'T WANNA DRIVE ALL THE WAY DOWN SIX.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
MY, UM, MY COMMENT IS MORE OF A SUGGESTION.
I KNOW YOU THAT METRO PROVIDES SHUTTLE SERVICES FOR OUR 4TH OF JULY FESTIVAL AND OUR SNOW FEST.
AND SINCE WE JUST APPROVED OUR, UH, JUNETEENTH, I WOULD LIKE TO SUGGEST THAT WE LOOK AT, UH, PROVIDING SHUTTLE SERVICE BECAUSE WE ARE LOOKING TO MAKE THAT BIGGER AND BETTER.
I'LL WORK WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND CR OUR OPPORTUNITIES THERE AS WELL.
WELL THANK YOU SO MUCH MR. MAYOR.
LOOK FORWARD TO VISITING DOWN THE, DOWN THE ROAD.
COMES ON VARIETY REALLY QUICKLY.
UM, YOU SPOKE EARLIER ABOUT, UH, SIGNAGE.
I KNOW THAT WAS MENTIONED IN ONE OF THE PREVIOUS, UH, MEETINGS ABOUT WHAT ARE Y'ALL ARE GONNA DO ABOUT SCIENCE.
UH, IS THAT A, IS THERE A REASON FOR THE MAGNET? THERE WAS A REQUEST.
WE HAD ORIGINALLY BRANDED THE VEHICLES TO HAVE THE MISSOURI CITY BRANDING.
AND I ACCEPT FULL RESPONSIBILITY FOR IT.
WE MANAGED, BRANDED THEM ALL THE SAME, BUT THERE'S A WAY WE CAN IDENTIFY THEM WITH A MAGNET SIGN, MAGNETIC SIGN THAT WOULD BRAND THEM AS MISSOURI CITY.
SO IF I'VE GOT A DIFFERENT VEHICLE, I JUST BASICALLY HAVE TO PUT THE MAGNETIC SIGNS ON.
EMORY AX WAS THE ONE THAT MADE THAT SUGGESTION.
UH, THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN DO.
BUT I DIDN'T WANT TO GET AHEAD OF COUNCIL UNTIL WE CAME BACK AND SAID WE'RE WILLING TO DO IT.
SO I I'M GONNA BE WORKING WITH THE CITY MANAGER, SAY THAT'S SOMETHING WE CAN BRAND DO.
AND ARE YOU GONNA BE PRESENTING HIM WITH, UM, DESIGN? CAUSE IT WOULD BE NICE.
NO, I'M GONNA TELL HIM WHAT HE NEED.
NO, I'M JUST, YES, NO, WE WANT, WHATEVER WE DO, WE WANT BRAND WITH THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY.
IF YOU SEE THE, I THINK WE'VE GOT SOME BIGGER PI LINES, ALTHOUGH I THINK THERE'S MORE WE NEED TO DO MM-HMM.
WE WANNA MAKE SURE THE CITY COMMUNICATIONS TEAM AND THE CITY MANAGER SIGN OFF ON WHAT WE'RE DOING.
IT'S YOUR CITY AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE BEING OPEN AND RESPONSIVE THERE AS WELL.
YEAH, I THINK THAT'S JUST, THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT BECAUSE WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT RESIDENTS KNOW THAT THIS IS A COLLABORATION, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CURB TO CURB THAT IT'S NOT JUST METRO, BUT IT'S ALSO THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY THAT'S ALSO, UM, IN CONJUNCTION WITH YOU GUYS PROVIDING THIS SERVICE.
CAUSE I BELIEVE, UM, IT WAS COUNCIL MEMBER ED WAS ALONG WITH COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY, THAT WERE REALLY, YOU KNOW, TALKING AND PRESENT ABOUT THAT SIGNAGE, UM, AND THAT BRANDING AS WELL.
[(b) Presentation of conceptual design for undeveloped parkland at East Ham...]
FIVE B PRESENTATION OF THE CONCEPTUAL DESIGN FOR UNWED PARKLAND AT EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE AND KATHY AVENUE.ME COUNCIL, IT'S, UH, GOOD EVENING.
UH, I WANTED TO JUST GIVE YOU A BRIEF UPDATE ON THE PUBLIC OUTREACH PROCESS THAT WE HAD FOR THE NEWLY ACQUIRED PARKLAND IN FR PARK ON EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE AND, AND SOUTH KATHY.
UM, AS YOU KNOW, THIS WAS RECENTLY PURCHASED WITH, UH, ARPA FUNDS.
UH, WE, WE, UM, PURCHASED THE PROPERTY AND, UM, STARTED DOING SOME PUBLIC INPUT WITH OUR RESIDENTS SPECIFICALLY
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IN THAT AREA TO FIND OUT WHAT THEY MIGHT WANT IN THE, IN, IN A PARK UP THERE.SO, UM, BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S ANOTHER ITEM REGARDING THE STREET CLOSURES ON TODAY'S, UH, AGENDA, I THOUGHT IT WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO JUST KIND OF UPDATE YOU ON WHERE, WHERE WE'RE AT ON THAT.
SO, A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND.
UM, WE, WE, UM, DID THESE MEETINGS IN THE FAWN MEADOW AND FOND PARK, UM, NEIGHBORHOODS.
WE MET AT THEIR, UM, ASSOCIATION, HOA CLUBHOUSES.
WE WANTED TO MAKE, MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE ACCESSIBLE AND THAT WE, UH, UH, HAD THE, UM, WE GOT THE, THE BEST INFORMATION THAT, THAT WE COULD.
SO, UH, AS WE, UH, HAD THESE PROCESSES, UH, THESE WERE THE, THE TOP, UM, AMENITIES THAT PEOPLE WERE ASKING FOR IN, IN THE PARK OR IN A PARK UP THERE.
UH, MULTI-USE TRAILS CAME OUT, UH, HANDEDLY ON TOP AS, UH, TRAILS TYPICALLY DO IN, IN CITIZEN AND RESIDENT SURVEYS.
UM, OUTDOOR EXERCISE EQUIPMENTS, UH, PAVILION RESTROOMS, PLAYGROUND EQUIPMENT, SPLASH PAD, UH, OPEN OR EVENT LAWN, UH, LARGE PAVILION SHADE STRUCTURE, UM, BASEBALL BACKSTOP, SMALL PAVILIONS, UH, AND THEN, UH, A DOG PARK AND PUBLIC ART, UM, WERE WHAT ROUNDED OUT THE, THE TOP VOTE GETTERS FROM THE FOUR DIFFERENT MEETINGS.
SO WITH THAT, WE, UH, UM, WORKED WITH OUR, UH, CONSULTANT AND THEY, THEY CAME UP WITH A CONCEPTUAL PLAN.
NOW, THIS IS, AGAIN, A CONCEPT.
UM, THIS ACTUALLY ISN'T EVEN A CONCEPT THAT WE PAID FOR.
IT WASN'T PART OF THE SCOPE OF, OF THE CONTRACT WITH OUR CONSULTANT, BUT THEY WANTED TO, THEY WANTED TO, TO PUT SOMETHING ON PAPER.
THEY SAID, WELL, LET, LET US SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
AND THEY SKETCHED SOME THINGS OUT AND, AND, UM, AND GAVE IT, GAVE IT TO US TO, TO PRESENT.
SO THIS IS, UM, UH, WHAT, WHAT A PARK THERE COULD LOOK LIKE, UH, WHERE YOU KIND OF HAVE A MAIN HUB ON THAT SOUTHEAST CORNER, UM, WITH A SPLASH PAD, KIND OF A, UM, AN ARTIFICIAL TURF LAWN THAT CAN BE FOR, UH, RUNNING AROUND OR STRETCHING OR EXERCISE OR WHATEVER.
UM, A LARGE PAVILION THERE IN THE CENTER OF THE, UM, PARK.
UM, WE'RE THINKING THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE BIG ENOUGH.
YOU COULD HAVE, YOU KNOW, A, UH, A FAMILY REUNION THERE.
UH, THE RESTROOMS WOULD BE LOCATED THERE.
MAYBE A SMALL STAGE, UH, SOMETHING WHERE YOU COULD, YOU KNOW, A CHURCH COULD RENT IT OUT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT FOR, UM, FOR AN EVENT.
UM, A MAJOR, YOU KNOW, UH, OPEN SPACE, SOME PARKING, UH, YOU SEE THE, THE PATHWAY THAT GOES AROUND THE PARK.
WE HAVE BENCHES AND EXERCISE EQUIPMENT, UH, PICNIC TABLES.
UH, SOME OF THESE, UH, SMALLER, UH, SYMBOLS ON, THERE ARE SHADE STRUCTURES.
THEY COULD BE SMALL PAVILIONS, THEY COULD BE FABRIC LIKE THE SAIL SHADES.
UM, AND THEN THAT DARKER GREEN AREA, THAT WOULD BE OUR, UM, OUR REQUIRED DRAINAGE AREA, OUR, UH, DETENTION.
AND WE WOULD HAVE THAT DESIGNED AS A BIO SWELL.
SO WE'D HAVE LOTS OF DIFFERENT NATIVE PLANTS, UH, UM, THAT WOULD ATTRACT, UH, POTENTIALLY POLLINATORS AND, UH, BUTTERFLIES, HUMMINGBIRDS, THAT KIND OF THING.
SO, UM, WANTED TO JUST BRING THIS UP TO YOU AS, AS, UM, UH, WHERE WE'RE AT ON THIS PROJECT.
NOW, A AS A REMINDER, WE DON'T, WE DON'T HAVE ANY MONEY BUDGETED TO, UH, DO CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS OR DESIGN DOCUMENTS OR, OR CONSTRUCTION ON THIS.
UM, THE GOOD NEWS IS THOUGH, THE MISSOURI CITY PARKS FOUNDATION DID VOTE AT THEIR LAST MEETING TO, UH, MAKE THIS THEIR NEXT PRIORITY PROJECT.
UM, AND AS A MATTER OF FACT, I WAS JUST DELIVERED A CHECK FOR $2,500 TODAY, UM, AT MY OFFICE FROM, UH, NIAGARA, UM, BOTTLING FOR, TO GO TOWARDS THIS PROJECT.
SO, UM, THE FIRST MONEY HAS, HAS STARTED COMING IN.
UM, AND, UH, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED ABOUT THE SUPPORT THAT, THAT, UH, WE THINK THAT THIS WILL WILL GET.
AND, UH, THE TYPES OF AMENITIES THAT THIS WOULD, UM, BRING.
NOW, THIS IS, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, A FULL PARK, UH, UM, BUILD.
AND SO THERE'S SOME VERY LOOSE COSTS, UH, NOT, I MEAN, WE KNOW WHAT COSTS AND BUILDING SUPPLIES AND STUFF WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW.
SO, UH, I WOULD SAY THESE ARE PROBABLY PADDED PRETTY GOOD.
UM, BUT THE TOTAL CONSTRUCTION COSTS OF, UH, 3.3 MILLION, A 20% CONTINGENCY, UM, AND THEN A 15% ESTIMATED DESIGN FEE.
SO ABOUT A FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLAR, UM, PROJECT, UH, WHICH IS PRETTY CLOSE, UM, TO A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN WHAT WE'RE DOING AT FREEDOM TREE PARK.
UM, FREEDOM TREE PARK DOESN'T HAVE LIKE THE SPLASH PAD AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO, UM, THAT'S A LITTLE BIT OF A, A COMPARISON.
UH, SO WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
UH, YOU HAVE ABOUT, UH, UH, THIS, THIS PROJECT, THE PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH AND, UM, WHAT, WHAT WE MIGHT CONSIDER DOING FOR NEXT STEPS.
YES, JASON, THANK YOU FOR THAT.
UM, ONE OF OUR, ONE OF THE RESIDENTS FROM THAT AREA, UM, STOOD UP IN PUBLIC COMMENTS AND ASKED ABOUT, UH, PARK BENCHES.
SO I JUST WANTED TO JUST HAVE YOU ADDRESS THE, HER THREE CONCERNS.
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THE WALKING TRAIL, IS THAT GONNA OF COURSE, BE IMPLEMENTED? ABSO ABSOLUTELY.I MEAN THE, THIS IS A CONCEPT.
THIS IS WHAT A PARK COULD LOOK LIKE, RIGHT? YEAH.
I MEAN, IT'S NOT, LIKE I SAID, WE DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T PAY FOR THIS CONCEPT.
WE WOULD MAKE SOME CHANGES TO, TO THE DESIGN THEY GAVE US, BUT DIDN'T FEEL LIKE WE COULD ASK 'EM TO SINCE WE DIDN'T PAY FOR IT IN THE FIRST PLACE.
I MEAN, I'M GONNA SAY WE DO LIKE THE DESIGN, BUT, UM, YEAH.
AND IF YOU, THE COST ESTIMATE, IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR PACKET, THERE'S, THERE'S A LINE ITEM FOR BENCHES.
UH, SO WE WOULD HAVE, WE WOULD HAVE BENCHES, WE WOULD HAVE LIGHTING.
UM, ALL OF THAT WOULD BE INCLUDED IN THIS, IN THIS, UH, PART.
AND THEN THE LAST THING IS, UM, THE, SHE BROUGHT UP THE SPLASH PAD.
NOW I KNOW THERE IS ONE RESIDENT FROM THAT AREA WHO CONSTANTLY TALKS ABOUT SPLASH PADS NOT BEING IN THAT AREA, BUT BEING IN ANOTHER DISTRICT IN, IN, UM, MISSOURI CITY.
SO HOW, WHAT WAS THE DECISION TO, BECAUSE I SEE A HIGH NUMBER, UM, OF RESIDENTS.
THAT'S WHY, I MEAN, WE, WE BASICALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT THAT, WE, WE PUT EVERYTHING ON THIS LIST THAT'S ABOVE DOG PARK AND PUBLIC ART.
UM, NOW, NOW AGAIN, IF, IF, IF, IF IT DOESN'T MAKE THE CUT, IT DOESN'T MAKE THE CUT.
BUT WE, WE WANTED TO SHOW WHAT, WHAT THE RESIDENTS VOTED FOR.
NOW WE RECOGNIZE, I MEAN, SOME PEOPLE WANTED BASKETBALL, SOME PEOPLE DIDN'T WANT BASKETBALL.
SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, SO WE KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PUT EVERYTHING IN AN NAIC ACRE PARK.
UM, AND SO, SO THAT'S WHY WE DID THIS PROCESS WAS TO GET THE, THE PUBLIC INPUT.
BUT, UM, SPLASH PAD WAS, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAD 23, 23, UM, PEOPLE THAT SAID, WE WANT A SPLASH PAD IN THIS AREA.
AND, UM, AND, YOU KNOW, 37 WAS OUR HIGHEST.
SO I, I WOULD CONSIDER THAT A SIGNIFICANT, UH, NUMBER OF, OF RESPONDENTS THAT WANT, WANT THE SPLASH PAD.
THANK YOU FOR SHOWING THOSE NUMBERS.
UH, SO JASON, UM, FOR THE PAVILIONS, DO YOU, DO YOU RECALL, CAUSE I COULDN'T KEEP UP WITH ALL THE NUMBERS AND THE ALPHABETS ON THERE.
UM, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT MULTIPLE PAVILIONS AT THIS PARTICULAR SITE, UHHUH,
WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT, COULD YOU, UM, SHARE WITH, WITH, WITH EVERYBODY WHERE THOSE ARE? AND THEN HOW MANY ARE WE LOOKING AT? BECAUSE THAT'S A VERY LARGE, UM, YEAH, SO, UM, I WISH I, I WISH I HAD A, A ABILITY TO SHOW A LASER, BUT IF YOU LOOK AT THAT MAIN, UH, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT RECTANGULAR STRUCTURE MM-HMM.
THAT'LL BE OUR LARGE GROUP PAVILION.
UM, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FAMILY REUNION, THE, THE, THE CHURCH RENTALS, THAT KIND OF STUFF.
AND THEN IF YOU LOOK AT THE, UM, RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE HUB, THERE'S THAT GREEN, THAT GREEN THAT WOULD BE LIKE AN ARTIFICIAL TURF LAWN.
UM, YOU KNOW, FOR, FOR KIDS TO RUN AROUND ON MAYBE DO YOGA CLASSES AND STRETCHING.
AND, UM, SO RIGHT ABOVE THAT, THERE'S A CIRCLE THAT COULD BE, THAT'S, THAT'S A PAVILION OR IT COULD BE A SHADE STRUCTURE.
IT COULD BE, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THEN RIGHT BELOW IT, THERE'S TWO, ONE ON EACH SIDE.
SO ONE ON THE SPLASH PAD SIDE AND ONE ON THE PLAYGROUND SIDE.
THAT WOULD ALSO BE, UM, UH, PAVILION OR, OR SHADE OR SOME, SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT.
AND AGAIN, WE WOULDN'T FINALIZE THAT UNTIL WE MM-HMM.
BUT, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT THE CONSULTANT PUT IN BASED ON THE, BASED ON THE INPUT.
SO A HUGE ONE, UM, A LARGE ONE AND TWO SMALLER ONES.
AND AGAIN, THE BIG ONE WOULD DEFINITELY BE A PAVILION, BUT THE OTHER ONES COULD BE A VER COULD BE A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT THINGS.
AND THE RESTROOMS. UM, WHEN, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT DOING RESTROOMS, I KNOW ONE OF THE THINGS WE WANTED TO DO WAS MAKE SURE THAT, UM, THEY WERE OUTSIDE OF THE NORM, SOMETHING THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, SUITING TO THE, WHAT THE RESIDENTS WERE LOOKING FOR AS FAR AS DESIGN.
SO CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT AS WELL? YEAH, TOTALLY.
DIDN'T GET INTO THAT, THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL.
UM, JUST THE FACT THAT THERE WOULD BE RESTROOMS AND THE LOCATION OF IT.
UM, AS WE, YOU KNOW, AS WE, YOU KNOW, I WANTED TO SHOW THIS TO Y'ALL FIRST, AND THEN WE'LL TAKE IT TO THE RESIDENCE AND SAY, HEY, WHAT, WHAT DO YOU THINK? YOU KNOW, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE CAN MAKE, UH, MORE DETAILS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST KIND OF A PLACEHOLDER FOR RESTROOMS AND WE WOULD GET INTO MORE DETAIL AS WE MOVE FORWARD, UM, DOING THE, THE, THE MORE DETAILED DESIGN.
AND I JUST WANNA, UH, SAY THANK YOU TO, UH, YOU AND YOUR DEPARTMENT, UM, AND PUBLIC WORKS.
UH, THEY WERE AT EVERY SINGLE MEETING.
UM, EVEN THOUGH THESE NUMBERS, UM, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I WANNA JUST LET Y'ALL KNOW THAT THE NUMBERS ON THIS SCREEN DO NOT REPRESENT THE ENTIRE MAJORITY OF THOSE COMMUNITIES.
THOSE ARE JUST THE PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT, UM, TO GIVE THEIR INPUT AND SHARE THEIR THOUGHTS.
AND SO THIS CONCEPTUAL, YOU KNOW, AMATEUR, UM, TYPE PRESENTATION IS NOT AMATEUR, BUT AS FAR AS LIKE A PRE JUST KIND OF LIKE A PRE RENDERING, UM, IS BEING PRESENTED JUST TO LET YOU KNOW WHAT'S BEING REQUESTED.
SO I DON'T WANT THE RESIDENTS THINKING THAT THIS IS WHAT IT IS AND THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING WITH.
YOU KNOW, THIS IS JUST, I THINK WHEN WE GET CLOSER TO THE TIME, IT'S A, IT'S A CONCEPT.
IT COULD LOOK VERY MUCH LI VERY SIMILAR TO THIS.
I MEAN, IF THAT'S, IF, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE SAY, HEY, THIS IS A REALLY COOL DESIGN AND WE LIKE IT, LET'S MOVE FORWARD WITH IT.
UM, I, I, I COULD SEE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, PROFESSIONALLY, PROFESSIONALLY SPEAKING IT, UM, IT IS, IT IS A GOOD DESIGN.
THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS IN THERE THAT I WOULD, I WOULD CHANGE, BUT NOTHING
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THAT WOULD AFFECT THE OVERALL FLOW OF THE PARK.UM, BUT THAT'S JUST LIKE, AGAIN, IT'S, IT'S A CONCEPT FOR SURE.
AND SO WHEN WE MOVE FORWARD DOWN THE LINE, WHENEVER THAT IS, UM, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE GONNA ENGAGE THE COMMUNITY AGAIN SURE.
TO MAKE SURE THAT WHAT WE HAVE SAID, CAUSE THIS COULD TAKE A COUPLE YEARS OR IT COULD TAKE FIVE YEARS, WE JUST DON'T KNOW.
UM, CUZ OBVIOUSLY THIS IS GOING TO BE A VERY LARGE, EXPENSIVE PROJECT.
UM, AND SO I DO LIKE THE FACT THAT YOU'RE SHARING WITH COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY THAT, YOU KNOW, FUNDRAISING, UM, OPPORTUNITIES ARE THERE AND THAT YOU GUYS ARE ALSO SEEKING, UH, TO GAIN EFFORTS TO, UM, YOU KNOW, GO TOWARDS THIS PROJECT BECAUSE IT'S BEEN MANY, MANY YEARS THAT SUBDIVISION, UM, OVER THEREON MEADOW AND FONDANT PARK, UM, HAVE WANTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS.
SO I'M VERY PLEASED THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, WHILE I WAS ON COUNCIL, THIS COUNCIL AND MAYOR WAS ABLE TO, UH, JOIN TOGETHER TO BE ABLE TO BRING THAT THIS INTO FRUITION AND PURCHASE THAT LAMB.
THE LAST THING I WANNA, UM, ASK YOU IS YOU CLARIFY, UM, AND GO OVER THE ROAD.
CLOSURE ARE, YOU ARE, IF YOU'RE NOT, IT'S NEXT.
THAT'S, UH, THAT'S THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
I THINK SAS'S GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT.
UM, BUT IT, IT WAS, IT WAS, UH, TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT WHEN WE DESIGNED THE PARK AND, UH, I'LL, I'LL SAVE THAT FOR, FOR THE EXPERTS ON THAT.
UM, I WANTED TO ASK FOR MORE CLARITY FOR THE ROUGHLY $4 MILLION.
WELL, I'M NOT GONNA QUOTE THE $4 MILLION, BUT THE CONTRACTOR FEE THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE FOR THE DESIGN.
UM, I WAS ASKING BASICALLY, ARE WE ABLE TO STREAMLINE THAT PROCESS TO BASICALLY HAVE MORE INCOME AND FUNDS SPENT FOR THAT PARK SPECIFICALLY? YOU KNOW, I, I COULDN'T AGREE MORE.
THAT'S THE PART THAT I HATE PAYING THE MOST.
BUT THAT'S A VERY TYPICAL COST, UH, FOR ENGINEERING.
CUZ THESE, THESE PLANS HAVE TO BE DESIGNED AND, UH, ENGINEERED AND, UH, WE WOULD SEE TYPICALLY BETWEEN, UH, 10 AND 20%, UM, ON, ON A PROJECT.
UH, ALMOST EVERY PROJECT WE BRING TO YOU HAS, UH, DESIGN, UH, FEES ABOUT THAT.
AND, UM, SO, SO THEY, THEY KIND OF SPLIT THE MIDDLE AND SAY 15%.
UH, BUT WE DO OUT FORBID FOR THAT MM-HMM.
BUT, UM, UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE, ONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE GOTTA DO.
IS IT FARFETCHED, SINCE WE HAVE SUCH GREAT STAFF, UM, AWARD WINNING STAFF TO ACTUALLY HAVE SOME TYPE OF DEVELOPMENT CONCEPT THAT THEY CAN PRETTY MUCH BRAINSTORM AND IF WE HAVE ANY OTHER CONCERNS THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, VENTURE OUT INTO A CON CONTRACTOR.
SO IS THAT POSSIBLE? UH, I DIDN'T, I DON'T THINK I UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION.
WHAT, SO BASICALLY INSTEAD OF ALLOWING THE DESIGN STAFF THAT WE'RE CONTRACTING OUT, ARE WE ABLE TO UTILIZE SOME INTERNAL, UM, STAFF TO BASICALLY MITIGATE THOSE CHARGES? AND IF WE NEED, YOU KNOW, AN ADDITIONAL AMOUNT OF PROFESSIONAL INSIGHT WE CAN VENTURE OUT TO THE CONTRACTOR? YEAH.
SO TYPICALLY IS WHAT, UM, HAPPENS IS WE, WE HIRE AN ENGINEERING FIRM TO DO, UH, ALL OF THE ENGINEERING.
SO THEY HAVE ELECTRICAL ENGINEERS ON STAFF, THEY HAVE, UM, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS ON STAFF, THEY HAVE CIVIL ENGINEERS ON, LIKE, CUZ ALL OF THOSE, ALL OF THOSE PLANS NEED TO BE ENGINEERED.
OTHERWISE, UM, THE CONTRACTOR CAN'T BUILD IT, RIGHT? IT HAS TO, I MEAN, IT IS, IT IS VERY, VERY SPECIFIC.
SO WHAT WE PROVIDE INPUT ON IS THE USABILITY, THE MAINTAINABILITY, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
BUT WHEN IT COMES TO ENGINEERING AND, AND MAYBE SASHI WANTS TO, HE'S THE ENGINEER IN THE ROOM.
UM, BUT, UH, IN THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, WE, WE HAVE ZERO ENGINEERS.
UM, SO, UM, IT'S, IT'S TYPICALLY SOMETHING THAT, THAT WE, WE JUST GOTTA DO.
JUST A QUESTION TRYING TO SAVE MY NO, THAT'S A, THAT'S, THAT'S A, A GREAT QUESTION.
THAT THAT WOULD BE AWESOME TO HAVE THAT KIND OF STAFF TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
COUNCIL OVER RILEY, I JUST HAVE A, A, A STATEMENT.
UM, WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT, UM, IF YOU CAN JUST MAKE A NOTATION, UH, AS FAR AS THE TRAIL OR WHATEVER YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA DO, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU POLL THE COMMUNITY TO SEE IF THEY WOULD PREFER A GRAVEL TRAIL, A PAVEMENT TRAIL OR WHATEVER.
UH, JUST SO THAT WE CAN HAVE, YOU KNOW, VALID FEEDBACK FROM THE COMMUNITY SO THAT WE'RE NOT RUNNING INTO LIKE, OH, WE DIDN'T WANT THIS, OR WE WOULD PREFER TO HAVE THIS.
SO, UH, WE, WE'D BE HAPPY TOO.
AND, AND HALF THE PEOPLE WILL SAY PAVEMENT AND HALF PEOPLE WILL SAY GRAVEL.
SO, WELL, WHOEVER THAT ONE EXTRA PERSON IS, WE'RE GONNA GO WITH THE MAJORITY.
NEXT, AND I HAVE ONE MORE QUESTION.
UM, I'M NOT SURE OF THE ACTUAL, UM, TERM OF IT, BUT IT'S LIKE A TURF, WHAT PEOPLE UTILIZE TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU HAVE A, A GREAT TRACK OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THAT IS CONSIDERED? UM, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT LIKE AN ALL-WEATHER TRACK? I DON'T KNOW, LIKE THEY PUT AT THE SCHOOLS AROUND THAT? YES.
THAT'S AN ALL-WEATHER TRACK AND THAT'S A MATERIAL YOU COULD DEFINITELY USE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, UM, I, I'M JUST DOING A LITTLE RESEARCH RIGHT NOW.
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THE LARGEST TIRE RECYCLER IN THE WORLD IS HERE IN HOUSTON.UM, THEY'RE CALLED GIN AND THEY JUST STARTED A PARK AMENITY DIVISION.
AND, UM, I, I WAS THE, THEIR REP IS ONE OF OUR OLD PLAYGROUND REPS, SO I KNOW 'EM PRETTY WELL.
AND, UM, THEY HAVE ALL KINDS OF PRODUCTS, TRAIL PRODUCTS THAT MIGHT HAVE THE DURABILITY OF CONCRETE YEAH.
AND THE FLEXIBILITY OF GRAVEL.
UM, AND WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA LOOK AT TO SOME OF THAT.
UM, HE SAID, HE TOLD ME THAT THE, THE COST IS ABOUT THE SAME PRICE AS CONCRETE.
UM, SO IT MIGHT BE A WIN-WIN ON STUFF LIKE THAT.
SO WE ARE, WE ARE LOOKING AT THOSE ALTERNATIVES.
WE WANT TO BE THOSE, THOSE EARLY ADOPTERS.
WE WANT MISSOURI CITY TO BE ON THE LEADING EDGE OF TRENDS.
AND SO WE WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THAT STUFF, AND I'M ACTUALLY, UM, JUST, JUST WORKING WITH HIM TO, TO SCHEDULE A TOUR OF THE FACILITY, SO OH, GREAT.
BECAUSE WITH THE INSIDE THAT WE RECEIVE FROM, UM, THE RESIDENTS FILE HUNTERS GLAM PART HUNDREDS.
SOME OF 'EM WERE SAYING THAT THE CONCRETE IS TOO HARD ON THEIR KNEES.
AND THEN THE OTHERS WERE SAYING THAT THE, YOU KNOW, WATER IS STANDING WHEN IT RAINS AND THEIR SHOES ARE GETTING MUDDY.
SO I THOUGHT OF THAT CONCEPT AND I THINK IT'LL BE REALLY GREAT FOR US TO HAVE THAT AS OPPOSED TO THE OTHER TWO OPTIONS.
IT'S BRAND, BRAND, BRAND NEW CONCEPT AND A GREAT IDEA AND SOMETHING THAT WE'LL, ALL RIGHTY, THANK YOU FOR BEING AHEAD OF THE GAME.
[(c) Presentation and discussion - regarding the vacation, closure, and aba...]
FIVE C, PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION REGARDING THE VACATION CLOSURE AND ABATEMENT OF CERTAIN SEGMENTS OF EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE AND KATHY AVENUE RIGHT AWAY.SHAHI, GOOD EVENING MAN AND COUNCIL AGAIN.
UH, MY PART OF THE PRESENTATION IS MORE, UH, WITH, UH, WITH REGARDS TO POTENTIAL CLOSURE OF EAST HAMPTON AND KATIE, UH, UH, KATHY.
AND IT'S A GOODS SEGUE TO JASON'S, UH, PRESENTATION.
UH, UH, WE HAVE COME TO YOU BEFORE, UH, WHEN WE STARTED THE POTENTIAL ACQUISITION FOR THE PROPERTY.
AS TO THE REASON WHY WE'RE DOING THIS STUDY, UH, WE HAVE CUT THROUGH, UH, TRAFFIC ON EAST HAMPTON.
THAT'S THE MOST, UH, UH, PRESSING NEED.
UH, WE DO HAVE TRUCK TRAFFICS COMING IN WITH A NARROW ROAD, UH, WITH THE PARKING THAT YOU SEE ON THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT.
AND THAT IS PROMPTED, UH, UH, UH, POTENTIAL SAFETY ISSUE AND PROMPTED THE, UH, THE CLOSURE THAT'S REQUIRED.
UH, AGAIN, THE, THE, WITH THE ACQUISITION OF THE PARKS PROPERTY WHERE IT'S POSSIBLE NOW TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.
AND, UH, AS YOU'RE AWARE, WE DID A, A SMALL TRAFFIC STUDY TO GET SOME COUNTS TO SEE IF THERE IS AN ISSUE THERE.
UH, AND AGAIN, UH, WHAT YOU SEE THERE IS THE, THE GREEN PICTURE THERE, OR THE GREEN PARCEL IS WHERE THE PARKS PROPERTY WAS ACQUIRED, GIVE OR TAKE, ABOUT EIGHT ACRES.
UH, THE, THE ONE TO THE WEST OF THAT PARK PROPERTY IS EAST HAMPTON, AND THAT'S WHERE WE HAVE THE MAJORITY OF THE CONCERNS OF CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC.
UH, WE DO HAVE KATHY VENUE ON THE NORTH.
UH, THERE IS SOME, UH, TRUCK CUT THROUGH TRAFFIC, BUT NOT AS MUCH AS EAST HAMPTON.
THE OTHER ACCESS POINT, UH, FOR THIS, UH, POTENTIAL, UH, PROPERTY, THE PARTS PROPERTY AS WELL AS THE, UH, THE RESIDENCE HERE IS ON THE EAST SIDE, WHICH IS ON THE FOND RUN.
AND THAT INTERSECTION OF FOND RUN AND 90 IS OUTSIDE THE CITY LIMITS.
NOW, A POTENTIALLY WHERE ALL THIS TRAFFIC IS COMING IS FROM THE WAREHOUSE THAT'S CALLED OUT THERE.
UH, AND, UH, THAT IS ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT WAS LOOKED IN THE TRAFFIC STUDY.
UH, OBVIOUSLY THIS CONCEPT, UH, WAS CAME ABOUT, UH, RIGHT BEFORE JASON STARTED HIS, UH, DESIGN SHARET FOR THE PARK.
SO WE JUST, UH, SAT DOWN WITH THE, THE TRAFFIC TEAM AND DISCUSSED WHAT POTENTIAL OPTIONS CAN WE DO.
WE DID BRAINSTORM WITH OUR, UH, PUBLIC SAFETY FOLKS TO SEE WHAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR.
SO IF WE WERE TO POTENTIALLY CLOSE THESE ROADS WE'RE NOT COMPROMISING ON PUBLIC SAFETY, WHICH IS EMERGENCY RESPONSE.
SO THE OPTIONS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT IS, UH, UH, GOING EAST ON EAST HAMPTON CIRCLE LIMIT THE, UH, PROVIDE AN ACCESS ONLY FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES AND NOT ACCESS FOR OTHER VEHICLES.
AND THE SAME CONCEPT FOR KATHY.
UH, NOW WE DID PAUSE ON THIS WAITING FOR THIS DESIGN SHARE TO CONTINUE, WHICH WAS JASON'S PRESENTATION AND COME UP WITH THIS PARK CONCEPT.
SO WE DIDN'T WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH KNOWING THAT WE HAVE A PARKS PROJECT.
WE DON'T WANT TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT'S NOT GONNA COMPLEMENT THE PARKS PROJECT.
SO WE WAITED FOR THIS, UH, THIS PARKS CONCEPT IS NOW THERE, AND NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT POTENTIAL OPTIONS.
UH, I DON'T THINK, UH, THAT CUT HERE ON THIS PRESENTATION, BUT WE'RE NOW LOOKING AT POTENTIALLY HOW DO WE CONNECT EMERGENCY VEHICLES TO EAST HAMPTON.
IT COULD BE FROM THE PARKING LOT OR IT COULD BE FROM THAT, UH, RED LINE ACCESS, DOTTED LINE ACCESS THAT YOU SEE FROM EAST HAMPTON TO ON THE WEST SIDE TO EAST HAMPTON.
SO WE'LL BUILD UPON THIS ONE AND, UH, SEE HOW WE CAN CONNECT, PROVIDE CONNECTIVITY FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, BUT AT THE SAME TIME LIMITING TRUCK TRAFFIC AND OTHER TRAFFIC.
SO WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP? OBVIOUSLY THIS WAS JUST A
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CONCEPT, A RENDERING.UH, NOW THAT WE KNOW HOW A POTENTIAL PARK DESIGN WOULD LOOK LIKE, WE'LL STILL WORK WITH ALL THE STAKEHOLDERS, WHICH IS POLICE, FIRE PARKS, UH, AND AT ANY OTHER POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS THERE.
UH, THE NEXT STEP IS, UH, WE'LL BE BRINGING, UH, ORDINANCE THERE IS A FRUSTRATING AT A SECOND RATING LIMITING TRUCK TRAFFIC.
WE HAVE TO CLOSE EAST HAMPTON.
UH, AGAIN, WE DID NOT HAVE FUNDING TO MOVE FORWARD.
OBVIOUSLY THERE IS NOT A FUNDING FOR THE PARKS PROJECT, BUT THERE IS FUNDING TO IMPLEMENT THE ROAD CLOSURE.
UH, AND AGAIN, THAT'S FUNDED IN THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM FOR 23.
AS SOON AS THOSE FUNDING BECOME AVAILABLE THROUGH THE BOND SALES, WE'LL BE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE ROAD CLOSURE PART OF THE PROJECT.
WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.
ANYONE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, SHAHI.
[6. CONSENT AGENDA]
SIX IS CONSENT AGENDA SIX, AWE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
WE ARE, I SEE IT HERE, RIGHT? IS THAT THAT'S, THAT'S RIGHT.
SO COUNCIL NUMBER EMERY, THEY WENT IN AND ALREADY PUSHED TODAY.
THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN TO ZERO.
ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, OUR PUBLIC HEARING.
THERE ARE NO PUBLIC HEARINGS ON THIS AGENDA.
I HAVE NUMBER EIGHT, I MEAN SEVEN B, OUR PUB, WELL, SEVEN B WOULD NOT BE THERE BECAUSE OF THERE'S NO ITEMS. NUMBER EIGHT, OUR APPOINTMENTS.
THERE ARE NO APPOINTMENTS ON THIS AGENDA EITHER.
[(a) Consideration and Possible Action - Authorizing the Interim City Manag...]
NINE, A NINE AUTHORIZATIONS, NINE A CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION AUTHORIZING THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH VAST CONSTRUCTION COMPANY FOR THE CONSTRUCTION AND INSTALLATION OF A PARK MONUMENT SIGNAGE AT GAEL PARK AND QUAL GREEN WEST PARK IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $68,783 AND 80 CENTS.UH, JASON FAST CONSTRUCTION HAS, UH, DONE THE PREVIOUS, UH, 14 SITES, UH, THAT WE'VE DONE IN, UH, MISSOURI CITY.
UH, WE CONTINUE TO GET POSITIVE FEEDBACK ON THE DESIGN.
AND, UH, THIS YEAR IN THE BUDGET WE HAVE BUDGETED FOR, UH, TWO, TWO MORE SIGNS.
UM, WE HAVE DECIDED TO DO GAMEL PARK AND QUAL GREEN WEST PARK UP HERE, UM, QU GREEN WEST, JUST RIGHT, UH, WEST UP HERE, AND THEN GAMBLE PARK UP IN FOND ROOM PARK.
UM, THEIR PRICES HAVE, HAVE REMAINED CONSTANT EVEN WITH THE INFLATION.
AND SO WE'RE RECOMMENDING, UH, UM, AUTHOR AUTHORIZING A CONTRACTED AMOUNT OF $68,783.
WE'LL GO AHEAD AND THERE HAS BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTION, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.
THE MOTION CARRIES SEVEN TO ZERO.
[(b) Consideration and Possible Action - Authorize the Interim City Manager...]
NINE B TO CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.AUTHORIZE AN INTERIM TO ANY TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH MCKENNA CONTRACTING TO REPLACE THE BASKETBALL COURT AT COMMUNITY PARK IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $75,555.
JASON, CURRENTLY, WE HAVE TWO BASKETBALL COURTS AT COMMUNITY PARK.
THEY'RE, UH, SMALLER THAN A REGULATION SIZE BASKETBALL COURT.
UM, AND THIS YEAR'S BUDGET, WE PROPOSED, UH, REMOVING THOSE COURTS WHICH ARE, UH, CONSTRUCTED OF ASPHALT.
THE ASPHALT HAS DETERIORATED AND, UH, TO THE POINT WHERE WE DON'T FEEL THAT, UH, WE FEEL THAT SAFETY, UH, IS, IS AN ISSUE.
AND SO WE MADE THAT A PRIORITY IN OUR, UH, 2023 BUDGET, UH, REQUESTS, UH, TO REMOVE THE TWO SMALLER COURTS AND TO INSTALL A FULL SIZE, UM, BASKETBALL COURT, UH, 50 BY 90, UM, WITH, UH, MCKENNA CONTRACTING, WHO IS, UH, A BY BOARD CONTRACTOR WHO, UH, IS A, A COURT SPECIALIST IN, IN THE HOUSTON AREA.
IS THERE A SECOND? ANY QUESTIONS? HEARING NONE.
REMEMBER EMORY IS IN THE QUEUE, MAN.
NO, JASON, MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT A COVERED FACILITY? NOPE, IT IS.
UH, IS IT AN OPEN FACILITY? YEP.
WE HAVE TWO COVERED FACILITIES.
WE HAVE ONE AT, UH, KROGERING WEST AND ONE AT HUNTERS GLEN, BUT THIS ONE IS OPEN, OPEN AIR.
I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE, SO LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE.
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UH, MEMOR RALEIGH IS OUT.[(c) Consideration and Possible Action - Authorize the Interim City Manager...]
NINE C.CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.
AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT WITH HDL COMPANIES FOR SALES AND USE TAX COMPLIANCES SERVICES, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, AND SALES TAX REPORTING.
WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY ATLANTA PORTERS.
ON FEBRUARY 3RD, 2021, A THREE YEAR AGREEMENT WITH HDL COMPANIES WAS EXECUTED.
THEIR CONTRACT INCLUDES THREE DIFFERENT, UH, SERVICES.
ONE IS, UH, ACCESS TO A SALES TAX SOFTWARE.
YOU ALL GET A SALES TAX REPORT EVERY MONTH, AND WE'RE ABLE TO DIG DOWN INTO THE DIFFERENT INDUSTRIES AND, UM, SEE ALL OF THE, UH, CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION FROM THE STATE COMPTROLLER U UTILIZING THIS SOFTWARE.
THEY ALSO PROVIDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INFORMATION, UM, RETAIL MARKET ANALYTICS ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.
UM, FOR THOSE TWO ITEMS, WE PAY $10,000 PER YEAR.
SO IT WAS A THREE YEAR CONTRACT, $30,000, BUT ALSO AS PART AS THEIR, UH, AS PART OF THEIR SERVICES, THEY ALSO DO SALES TAX COMPLIANCE WHERE THEY ENSURE THAT ALL BUSINESSES WITHIN THE CITY ARE APPROPRIATELY PAYING SALES TAX.
AND IF THEY FIND THAT THERE IS A BUSINESS THAT WAS PAYING SALES TAX AND IT WAS NOT COMING TO THE CITY, UM, THEY ARE ABLE TO GET A COMMISSION OF 30%.
UM, WE HAVE HAD THIS TYPE OF SERVICE FOR, I BELIEVE, OVER FIVE YEARS.
THE AMOUNT OF, UM, COMMISSION THAT WE HAVE PAID HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT LIMITED, WHERE WE DID NOT ANTICIPATE THE CONTRACT GOING OVER 5,000, BUT THIS PAST QUARTER, THEY DID FIND SOME BIG BUSINESSES THAT, UM, WERE NOT PAYING SALES TAX TO THE CITY.
THEY ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO RECOVER, UH, A LITTLE OVER $200,000.
AND SO THE AMOUNT OF, UH, COMMISSION ON THAT EXCEEDS, UM, STAFF'S AUTHORITY WHEN IT COMES TO CONTRACTING.
AND SO, UM, WE ARE REQUESTING AN AMENDMENT TO THE CONTRACT TO ENABLE US TO BE ABLE TO, UM, RECEIVE, CONTINUE TO RECEIVE THESE SERVICES AND PAY THE AMOUNT OF FUNDS THAT ARE DUE THEM, UM, WHICH INCLUDES THE 30% COMMISSION.
ANY DISCUSSION? NOT SEEING ANYBODY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.
SO WE DO HAVE, UH, CONTRACTUAL SERVICES THAT ARE WITHIN THE FINANCIAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT BUDGET.
AND SO IF YOU SEE THE, UH, BUDGET REQUEST, WE DO HAVE 10,000 OF A $28,000, UH, BUDGET BEING REQUESTED.
THE AMOUNT THAT WE ARE THAT IS DUE IS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
AND NO, WE DID NOT ANTICIPATE THEM FINDING, UH, SUCH A LARGE BUSINESS.
BUT, UM, WE WILL HAVE A BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT'S GONNA COME AS FAR AS OUR CLEANUP AND, UM, OUR SALES TAX REVENUE, UH, WILL INCREASE AS WELL AS THIS EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT.
SO YOU DID SAY AMENDMENT WAS COMING ON FOR THE, FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022? YES.
THERE'S A, A CLEANUP AMENDMENT THAT WE TYPICALLY DO IN, UH, NOVEMBER.
SO IT'S GONNA BE THEN OVER NOVEMBER, DECEMBER FOR FISCAL YEAR 2022.
SO IS THERE ANY REASON, UM, WHY ANY OF YOUR STAFF MEMBERS CAN'T CONDUCT THIS TYPE OF SERVICE? WE DON'T HAVE THE RESOURCES TO DO THAT, AND WE'RE NOT, UM, THAT'S, THAT'S, YEAH.
IT'S MORE EFFICIENT TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO ACTUALLY IS QUALIFIED THAN HAS THE RESOURCES TO DO THAT.
NOT SEEING ANYBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE.
THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO ONE.
[(d) Consideration and Possible Action - Authorize the Interim City Manager...]
CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION.AUTHORIZE THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE AN AMENDMENT TO THE AGREEMENT WITH WAZE CORPORATION OF TEXAS, LP, D B A GFL ENVIRONMENTAL AND DELAWARE LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, THE CITY'S RESIDENTIAL AND COMMERCIAL SOLID WASTE AND RECYCLABLE
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MATERIAL COLLECTION SERVICES CONTRACTOR, JAMES MAYOR COUNCIL.THIS ITEM IS THE FINAL ELEMENT IN THE, UH, EXTENSION OF THE CITY SOLID WASTE FRANCHISE WITH GFL INTO 2025.
UM, IF YOU'LL RECALL ON THE THIRD, YOU ALL ADOPTED THE, UM, ORDINANCE AMENDMENT ON FINAL READING, UM, WHICH PRETTY MUCH DID THE SAME THING.
UH, THIS, UM, FRANCHISE AGREEMENT, UM, AMENDMENT TRACKS WITH THAT, AS WELL AS MAKES A FEW OTHER MINOR CHANGES, SUCH AS ALLOWS FOR THE RECYCLING OF GLASS, UH, CHANGES A FEW MINOR DETAILS ABOUT THE APPEARANCE AND OWNERSHIP OF THE, UH, RECEPTACLES, AS WELL AS, UH, CORRECT THE, UH, START OF THE FISCAL YEAR DATE TO REFLECT, UH, OCTOBER INSTEAD OF JULY.
IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.
I DO HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU, JAMES.
WHY DO WE VOTE ON THIS THING? THREE DIFFERENT TIMES THE SAME ITEM.
SO THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THIS PARTICULAR ITEM IS ON THE AGENDA WITH RESPECT TO THE CONTRACT ITSELF.
UH, THE OTHER ITEM, WELL, WE DID HAVE THE, UH, THE CHANGE IN THE RATES, WHICH WAS, UH, I BELIEVE PUBLIC HEARING ITEMS. UH, THE ONLY OTHER ITEM WAS THE ACTUAL FRANCHISE ORDINANCE AMENDMENT, WHICH THE, UH, I BELIEVE THE CITY CHARTER, UH, MANDATES IS A THREE READING ORDINANCE.
SO THAT'S WHY IT CAME UP THE LAST FEW MEETINGS.
AND THE GLASS WAS JUST ADDED IN, UH, I'M SORRY, THE GLASS.
YOU SAID THE RECYCLING ITEMS, UH, GLASS, YES.
WAS, IT WAS EXCLUDED BEFORE, AND NOW IT'S INCLUDED IN THE LIST OF, UH, PROGRAM RECYCLABLE MATERIALS.
I DON'T SEE ANYBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE.
IT'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.
THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO ONE.
90, WE TOOK, WE DID THAT ALREADY.
[(a) Consideration and Possible Action - First of Two Readings - An ordinan...]
OUR ORDINANCES AND CENTEN, A 10 A IS AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING THE CREDITING OF UPDATED, UH, OF UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS IN THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR CERTAIN CITY OF MISSOURI, CITY, CITY, MISSOURI CITY, CITY EMPLOYEES WHO HAVE MEMBERSHIP AND SUCH SYSTEM PROVIDING FOR INCREASED, UH, ANNUITIES FOR CERTAIN CITY OF CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, RETIREES AND BENEFICIARIES OF DECEASED RETIREES PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING, UH, AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND PROVIDING FOR SALEABILITY.ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? NOBODY SEEING NOBODY IN THE QUEUE.
THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO ONE.
[(b) Consideration and Possible Action - Second and Final Reading - An ordi...]
NUMBER 10, B 10 B IS AN 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, UH, DESCRIBING, SAID 6.85 ACRES OF LAND REGULATING AND RESTRICTING THE DEVELOPMENT AND USE OF PROPERTY WITH SUCH WITHIN SUCH PD PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT AMENDING THE ZONING DISTRICT MAP FOR THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, PROVIDING FOR AN AMENDMENT TO THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.WE HAVE A PRESENTATION BY JIM EDWARDS.
THIS IS THE SECOND READING OF THE ORDINANCE FOR IN THE INDEPENDENCE BUSINESS PARK CLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT.
THE APPLICATION IS PROPOSING TO ZONE 6.85 ACRES TRACK OF LAND FROM LC THREE RETAIL DISTRICT TO PD, UM, PLAN DEVELOPMENT DISTRICT, UH, TO INCLUDE LC THREE, RETAIL AND STORAGE WAREHOUSE.
WAREHOUSE USES PER THE MOTION.
UM, THAT WAS PASSED DURING THE FIRST READING OF THE ORDINANCE ON SEPTEMBER 19TH.
THE ORDINANCE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REQUIRE A MASONRY WALL ALONG THE DEVELOPMENT WHERE IT ABUTS RESIDENTIAL, UM, NEIGHBORHOOD.
HERE WE SEE WHERE THE PROPERTY IS, UM, IN REFERENCE TO THE RESIDENTIAL, UM, PROPERTIES.
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AND HERE WE SEE IN GREEN THE, UM, WHERE THE MASONRY WALL WILL BE PLACED, WHATEVERTHANK, IS THERE A MOTION? I'M CALLING FOR MOTION.
THERE'S BEEN A MOTION IN A SECOND.
UH, ANY QUESTIONS? DON'T SEE ANYBODY ON THE QUEUE.
THIS IS SECOND READING, RIGHT? THAT IS THE, YES.
THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE.
ITEM NUMBER 11, OUR RESOLUTIONS.
THERE ARE NO RESOLUTIONS ON THIS AGENDA.
[12. CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS]
NUMBER 12 ARE COUNCIL COMMENTS WAS STARTED WITH COUNCIL MEMBER VARIETY.I APOLOGIZE YOU, I WAS TRYING TO FIND MY NOTES.
UM, I'M GOING TO, UM, SHARE A FEW THINGS.
UM, I JUST WANNA SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.
THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL.
UM, I WANT TO THANK, UM, THE OFFICER THAT TRAVELED AROUND THE CITY WITH ME.
WE WENT TO EIGHT LOCATIONS SUCCESSFULLY AND WAS ABLE TO ENGAGE WITH THE COMMUNITY.
UM, HAD A HOST OF EVENTS AND MEETINGS AND ALL OF THAT STUFF.
UH, ATTENDED MY FIRST TEXAS MUNICIPAL LEAVE CONFERENCE WHERE I LEARNED QUITE A BIT.
I'M HAPPY TO HAVE, UM, PARTICIPATED WITH THE, UH, BREAKFAST THAT TOOK PLACE AT LANDMARK COMMUNITY CENTER, WHERE I GAVE OUT 20 GIFT CARDS THAT WERE DONATED BY KELLY'S KITCHEN AND STAFFORD GOODWILL PIERRE'S EVENT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS.
GLAD TO SEE ALL OF THE, UH, BUSINESS OWNERS THAT WERE OUT THERE, AND, UM, HOW IT WAS WELL SUPPORTED AS WELL.
AND I JUST WANNA REMIND EVERYBODY THAT ATTENDED, SO DON'T FORGET TO LEVEL UP, PIVOT AND SOAR THE, UM, EVENT.
DEISHA, HAPPY DWA MAYOR AND I WERE ABLE TO GO OUT AND PRESENT A PROCLAMATION TO THE ORGANIZATION ON BEHALF OF ASHISH ARAL.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HOSTING THAT HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MISS GEORGIA LAWSON.
SOME OF THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL AND MAYOR WE'RE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE WITH HER 95TH BIRTHDAY PARTY ON THIS PAST SATURDAY.
SO THANK YOU GUYS THAT ALL THAT WERE ABLE TO GO OUT THERE AND SUPPORT HER AND CELEBRATE HER.
UM, I WANNA REMIND EVERYBODY THAT TOMORROW WE'RE GONNA BE DOING OUR CITY MANAGER MEETING GREET FOR THE FINALIST.
SO PLEASE COME OUT TO THE QUILL VALLEY CENTER AND PARTICIPATE WITH THAT FROM FOUR TO SIX.
AND THEN WITH, UM, OUR UPCOMING MARSHALL AND WILLOW RIDGE, UH, COMPETITION GAME THIS THURSDAY.
SO I HOPE THAT PEOPLE WILL GO OUT THERE AND SUPPORT THAT.
DON'T FORGET THIS SATURDAY, WE DO HAVE OUR BUFFALO RUN PARK, THE HALLOWEEN EVENT, THAT'S GONNA BE ON THE TRAIL FROM FOUR TO SIX, SO WE HOPE THAT EVERYBODY WILL COME OUT.
AND THEN, OF COURSE, ON OCTOBER 30TH AND HUNTERS GLEN PARK, WE'RE GONNA HAVE OUR HUGE BLOCK PARTY HOSTED BY THE DUB WAY FOUNDATION.
THAT IS GONNA BE FROM 4:00 PM TO 9:00 PM.
REACH OUT TO HIM IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE A BOOTH.
UH, MY LAST TWO THOUGHTS ARE SENDING OUT MY THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS TO FORMER COUNCIL MEMBER DON SMITH, UM, DEALING WITH HIS HEALTH, AND SO THAT I DO HOPE THAT THE FAMILY WOULD BE ENCOURAGED, UH, BY EVERYTHING THAT THEY'RE GOING THROUGH AND TURN THEIR FAITH TO GOD.
UM, DON'T FORGET THAT THIS IS BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH.
SO I DO HOPE THAT EVERYBODY WOULD GET OUT THERE AND BRING MORE AWARENESS.
MY MOTHER AND MY GRANDMOTHER AND MY AUNTIE ARE BOTH, ARE ALL THREE BREAST CANCER SURVIVORS AS WELL.
SO I'M A HUGE SUPPORTER OF THAT.
BUT I WANTED TO SHARE WITH, UM, THE COMMUNITY AND MY COLLEAGUES.
UM, THERE WAS A LOT THAT TOOK PLACE TODAY, AND THERE'S BEEN A LOT GOING ON IN THIS CITY.
ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LEARNED WHEN I WENT TO THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL BELIEVE, AND WHATEVER I LEARNED, I'M VERY TRUE TO TRYING TO APPLY THAT BECAUSE I JUST THINK WHEN WE LEARN INFORMATION, IT HELPS US, UH, TO BE BETTER IF WE APPLY IT.
AND ONE OF THE SPEAKERS SAID THIS, UM, AND I QUOTE, IN A TIME OF UNCERTAINTY, SHARPEN UP YOUR TOOL.
LEAD WITH PERSPECTIVE, LOOK BEYOND THE TURMOIL, AND SEE THE HOPE.
SPEAK WITH CLARITY AND CONSISTENCY AND MODEL HOPE.
HOPE IS POWERFUL AND IT WILL TRANSFORM.
PEOPLE NEED TO SEE AND NEED TO
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HAVE HOPE.I JUST HOPE THAT US AS COUNCIL MEMBERS AND LEADERS IN THIS COMMUNITY AND STAFF, WILL LOOK BEYOND OUR PERSONAL THING, WHAT WE HAVE GOING ON.
AND REMEMBER, WE'RE HERE TO PROVIDE HOPE TO OUR COMMUNITY AND TO MODEL THAT HOPE.
AND THAT'S ONE THING I JUST REALLY WANT TO ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO, TO, TO TRY TO ATTEMPT, IS TO MODEL HOPE AND TO LEAD WITH HOPE THAT OUR COMMUNITY CAN PUT MORE FAITH AND TRUST IN US.
UM, ON THIS WEEKEND, I WAS ABLE TO ATTEND, UM, BIRTHDAY CELEBRATION FOR BISHOP GLOVER, WHO'S THE OVERSEER OF GRACELAND COMMUNITY CHURCH.
EVERYONE WAS ABLE TO FELLOWSHIP, AND SO I WANT TO PUBLICLY TELL HIM HAPPY BIRTHDAY.
ALSO, THIS WEEKEND, MAYOR FORD AND I WERE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN A SMALL BUSINESS COLLECTIVE, UM, I'M SORRY, COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT WITH CELESTE CAKES.
SO IT WAS A WONDERFUL POP-UP SHOP.
WE WERE ABLE TO SUPPORT LOCAL BUSINESSES, AND I WAS ABLE TO, UM, EDUCATE LOCAL VOTERS ON THE IMPORTANCE OF VOTING AND LOCAL ELECTIONS.
ALSO, INSIGHT ON HOW OUR LOCAL MUNICIPALITY IS CONSTRUCTED.
SO IT'S REALLY GREAT TO HAVE THAT INSIGHT AND ALSO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH LOCAL RESIDENTS.
UM, JUST FOR CLARITY REASONS, I WILL LIKE TO SAY THAT I AM AND ALWAYS HAVE BEEN FULLY SUPPORTIVE OF THE FREEDOM, ALL EVENTS THAT ARE SUPPORTED BY THE EMANCIPATION OF OUR COMMUNITY THAT WE'VE HAD IN SLAVERY AND UNDER DESERVED PRIVILEGES.
ME AND MY FAMILY AND CONSTITUENTS AND FRIENDS HAVE ATTENDED AND PARTICIPATED IN JUNETEENTH EVENTS AROUND MISSOURI CITY AND BEYOND.
UM, SO CONTINUED, SO EXCITED TO CONTINUE TO DO SO.
MY OVERRIDING CONCERNS WAS THE AGENDA ITEM AND THE LACK OF REPORTING AND ACCOUNTABILITY WHEN ISSUES CAME UP.
AND ALSO IN THE TERMS OF VOTING, I'M SORRY, FUNDING BEING ALLOTTED FOR THE JUNETEENTH FOUNDATION.
I AM PHYSICALLY RESPONSIBLE TO THE TAXPAYERS.
AND PART OF MY DUTIES IS TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE TRANSPARENT IN HOW BUDGET DOLLARS ARE BEING ALLOCATED IN SPENDING.
DURING MY TENURED AS A COUNCIL MEMBER, WE HAVE REQUESTED ITEMIZED REPORTS FROM JUNETEENTH AND HOW THEY WERE BEING FUNDED.
ONCE WE GET THOSE FULL DETAILS, AND IF I WERE TO BE PROVIDED THAT PRIOR TO THIS MEETING, UM, I THINK MY VOTE WOULD HAVE PROBABLY CHANGED.
UM, SINCE THEY HAVE NOT, I WILL CONTINUE TO STAND WHERE I AM.
AND IF YOU HAVE A REPORT THAT YOU HAVE THAT WILL ACTUALLY PROVIDE MORE INSIGHT, PLEASE SEND IT TO ME.
UM, WITHIN THAT BEING SAID, I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT I LOVE MY GREAT CITY, AND IT'S SUCH A PRIVILEGE TO SERVE A PLACE THAT I GREW UP, GREW UP IN, AND I CONTINUE TO LIVE IN.
AND SO IT'S A PRIVILEGE TO VISIT WITH RESIDENTS ACROSS THE COMMUNITY FOR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, THANK YOU TO EVERYONE, AND INCLUDING THE STAFF WHO WORKED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE SAFE AND HAD A GREAT EVENT.
AND THANK YOU TO OUR FIRST CLASS POLICE OFFICERS AND FIREFIGHTERS ON THE PUBLIC SAFETY AND CRIME PREVENTION THAT WAS PROVIDED.
WE ALL INCLUDED OUR WORKING TOGETHER, AND EVEN THOUGH STAFF WERE NOT AWARE AND ABLE TO PROVIDE COVERAGE THAT I WAS ACTUALLY IN ATTENDANCE, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT NO CITY EMPLOYEE OR STAFF WAS ABLE TO PROVIDE THOSE PICTURES FOR ME AND THAT WERE TAKEN.
SO I WANNA LET RESIDENTS KNOW THAT I DID PARTICIPATE, AND THE LACK OF COVERAGE THAT HAS BEEN COMMUNICATED IS DULY NOTED FOR FUTURE RES COUNCILWOMAN MERLES.
UM, ON SUNDAY, THE MAYOR AND I ATTENDED ST.
JOHN'S MISSIONARY CHURCH CELEBRATION.
THEY CELEBRATED THEIR 153RD YEAR.
JOHN'S MISSIONARY CHURCH IS ALSO THE 1,601, UH, HISTORICAL MARKER HERE IN MISSOURI CITY.
THERE'S A LOT OF HISTORY BEHIND THE CHURCH.
BUT I WANT TO CONGRATULATE THE PARISHIONERS OF THAT CHURCH, THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND CONTINUE TO FIGHT, ESPECIALLY REVEREND PASTOR, UM, A REVEREND PASTOR REVEREND, UM, UH, RIVERS, RIVERS.
UM, ALSO JUST WANNA RECOGNIZE SASHA'S GONNA BE, UH, ON OCTOBER 25TH, SASHA'S GONNA BE SPEAKING IN FRONT OF THE CHAMBER.
UM, HE'LL BE, UH, HIGHLIGHTING AN INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATE FROM MISSOURI CITY.
MAY I APPROACH ON BOEING? YEAH, I TOO, UH, WAS EXCITED ABOUT NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.
I HAD TO ATTEND AND SPEAK AT ANOTHER EVENT PRIOR TO THAT.
BUT I GOT BACK TO MISSOURI CITY, UH, FOR THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AS QUICKLY AS I COULD, AND HOOKED UP WITH OFFICER KNUCKLES.
AND HE AND I HIT ABOUT SIX SPOTS, MAN.
AND, UH, ALWAYS ENJOYED CONNECTING WITH THE RESIDENTS.
UH, EVERYBODY SEEMINGLY IS ALWAYS EXCITED TO, TO GET OUT OF THE
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HOUSE AND CONNECT WITH ONE ANOTHER, THEIR NEIGHBORS, SOME OF THEM KNOWING EACH OTHER ALREADY, AND SOME OF THEM, UH, HAVING MET FOR THE FIRST TIME.UH, AND I JUST WANNA THANK ALL OF OUR PUBLIC SAFETY OFFICIALS AND STAFF THAT, UH, ALSO CONNECTED WITH THE, THE RESIDENTS DURING NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.
I ALSO ATTENDED THE TEXAN MUNICIPAL LEAGUE ANNUAL CONFERENCE, UH, AND ALSO HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO REPRESENT MISSOURI CITY AS A MODERATOR OF A DISCUSSION ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.
UH, I WANNA THANK STAFF THAT CAME BY AND, UH, AND, UH, YOU KNOW, SAT THERE AND GAVE ME SOME, UH, SOME SUPPORT.
YOU KNOW, AS THAT, THAT DISCUSSION WENT FORTH.
UH, I ATTENDED THE THIRD GOOD MARSHALL HOMECOMING PARADE, UH, ALWAYS.
NEXT YEAR, UH, COUNCIL'S ON CLOUDER AND, UH, MAYOR, WE'RE GONNA, UH, BE WITH THE, WITH THE MUSIC.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME MUSIC ON OUR, UH, ON OUR RIDE, MAN, SO WE CAN, UH, HAVE A HUGE PARTY.
UH, I ALSO WAS ABLE TO ATTEND AND GIVE A PROCLAMATION TO THE HOUSTON MISSOURI CITY DOMINO CLUB AT THEIR ANNUAL ALL WHITE REGGAE AFFAIR.
UH, YEAH, I GOT DOWN A LITTLE BIT
I ALSO ATTENDED THE THIRD ANNUAL SUCCESS AND BUSINESS EVENT ON THANK GOODWILL PIERRE AND HIS TEAM FOR, UH, A WONDERFUL EVENT.
UH, I WAS FORTUNATE TO RECEIVE A COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AWARD FROM THE K DAVIDSON COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION FOR MY WORK IN THE COMMUNITY CENTERED AROUND CRIMINAL JUSTICE, UH, REFORM AND ISSUES.
ALSO, I, I RECEIVED THE COMMUNITY ADVOCATE AWARD FOR MY WORK ON YESTERDAY, HIGHLIGHTING AND ADDRESS WHERE I HIGHLIGHTED AND ADDRESSED THE ISSUES OF MENTAL HEALTH, UM, YOU KNOW, IN OUR, IN OUR COUNTRY AND IN OUR COMMUNITY FROM THE LIFE MANAGEMENT, UH, ORGANIZATION THAT THEY'RE BLACK AND WHITE GALA ON YESTERDAY.
SO I WANT TO THANK THOSE TWO ORGANIZATIONS FOR ALL THAT THEY DO IN THE COMMUNITY, BUT ALSO FOR TAKING TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE ME FOR, UH, THE WORK THAT I DO IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND THAT CONCLUDES MY COMMENTS.
I WANNA CONGRATULATE OUR MAYOR PRO TIM FOR, UH, HIS AWARDS.
UM, I ALSO ATTENDED NATIONAL NIGHT OUT, AND I WANT TO THANK, UM, OUR OFFICERS, COX AND SANTOS, FOR TOURING ME AROUND.
UM, I GOT, UM, EVEN A BIGGER PERSPECTIVE OF WHAT OUR OFFICERS DO.
AND SO I JUST WANT TO THANK THEM FOR, UH, COMING WITH ME AND US GOING TO THE VARIOUS NEIGHBORHOODS.
UM, I HAD, I HAD THE, UH, HONOR OF GIVING OPENING REMARKS THIS MORNING AT THE WILLOW RIDGE, UM, WALL OF HONOR GOLF TOURNAMENT AT QUELL VALLEY GOLF COURSE ON BEHALF OF, UH, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.
UM, I ALSO ATTENDED THE THIRD ANNUAL SUCCESS IN BUSINESS WORKSHOP, AND AL GREEN WAS THERE.
HE PRESENTED, UM, MISSOURI CITY WITH A PROCLAMATION.
SO CITY SECRETARY, UH, CRYSTAL, I'M GONNA HAVE TO HAVE THIS PASS TO YOU SO YOU CAN PUT THIS ON OUR RECORDS.
UM, I ALSO PRESENTED A PROCLAMATION TO THE OWNER OF A DNI JAMES CLOTHING STORE FOR THE GRAND OPENING AND RIBBON CUTTING OF HER BUSINESS ON FRIDAY, UM, ATTENDED THE MARSHALL HIGH SCHOOL PARADE, UH, AND THE CELEBRATION OF THE, UH, 94 YEAR OLD, 95 YEAR OLD RESIDENT, UH, MS. DAWSON ON SATURDAY, UH, ON SATURDAY EVENING, I ATTENDED, UH, THE, I HAVE A VOICE GALA AT THE GEORGE RANCH, WHICH IS BENEFITING GIGI'S PLAYHOUSE FOR CHILDREN WITH DOWN SYNDROME.
UM, I ALSO HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO, UM, SPONSOR THE QUA VALLEY GARDEN CLUB'S 50TH LUNCHEON, 50TH ANNIVERSARY, UH, LAST WEEK, AND ATTENDED THAT ALONG WITH, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY AND THE MAYOR.
AND LASTLY, I ATTENDED THE HOA MEETING, UM, FOR A PONDERING PART THAT CONCLUDES MY ANNOUNCEMENT.
I ALSO IS, UH, MAYOR, OR, UH, MAYOR CLOUDER.
I'VE, I'VE ELEVATED YOU ALREADY.
BUT, UH, I ALSO ATTENDED THE, UH, 50TH, UH, ANNIVERSARY OF THE QUAIL VALLEY GARDEN CLUB.
IT'S ONE OF THE OLDEST, UH, UH, CLUBS IN, UH, IN QUAIL VALLEY.
UH, THEY, UH, YOU KNOW, REALLY PRIDE THEMSELVES IN THE BEAUTIFICATION OF QUAIL VALLEY.
AND, UH, THEY, UH, THEY HAD A, UH, FULL HOUSE AND, UH, THE, UH, TABLE SETTINGS WITH THE FLOWERS, AND THAT WAS OUTSTANDING.
SO, UH, AGAIN, KUDOS TO, UH, TO THEM.
I ALSO ATTENDED NATIONAL NIGHT OUT.
UH, AGAIN, IT'S GREAT TO SEE, UH, OUR, UH, UH, RESIDENTS GET TOGETHER WITH THEIR NEIGHBORS, UH, TO SHARE STORIES, TO SHARE, UH, SHARE FOOD, AND, UH, JUST TO FIND, UH, WHAT'S COMMON, UH, AMONG ALL OF THEM AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT THEIR, UH, UH, THEIR THOUGHTS ARE AS FAR AS, UH, HOW THEY HANDLE THE, UH, ACTIVITIES WITHIN, UH, THEIR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND FINALLY, JUST A, UH, UH, A, UH, COMMENT THAT, UH, NOT A COMMENT, BUT, UH, THE TRUNK
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AND TREAT, UH, FESTIVITY AT, UH, BY QUAIL VALLEY PROUD, UH, WILL BE, UH, SATURDAY FROM FOUR TO SIX AT COMMUNITY PARK.SO, UH, IT'S, UH, SOMETHING THAT'S ALWAYS, UH, WELL ATTENDED.
AND, UH, SO, UH, IF, IF YOU'RE AROUND, UH, COMMUNITY PARK AROUND FOUR TO SIX, STOP BY AND SEE, UH, ALL OF THE, UH, UNIQUE TRUNK, UH, DECORATIONS THAT ARE, THAT ARE MADE.
SO, UH, WITH THAT, THAT'S MY, UH, MY REPORT.
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13, THIS IS CLOSE EXECUTIVE SESSION.CITY COUNCIL NOW MAY GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION REGARDING THE ITEM ON THE AGENDA.
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TO, UM, AUTHORIZE, UH, INCREASE, UH, 3%, UM, AS THE OTHER, UM, STAFF MEMBERS HAVE RECEIVED, UH, FOR OUR CITY ATTORNEY, EJO IAMU AND OUR CITY SECRETARY, UH, CRYSTAL ROME, MAKE THAT FOR RECORD.ANY DISCUSSIONS SECOND? NO, SIR.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR OF THE MOTIONS THAT I ENOUGH FOR DISCUSSION? GO AHEAD.
SO, UM, I THINK IT'S GREAT THAT WE REWARD OUR STAFFS WITH INCREASES, BUT AS FAR AS OUR, UM, APPOINTED OFFICIALS, I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF THAT.
THAT, UM, 3% INCREASE SIMPLY BECAUSE, UM, ONE INDIVIDUAL, OUR CITY SECRETARY HAS ONLY BEEN HERE ROUGHLY SEVEN, SIX TO SEVEN MONTHS.
A PERFORMANCE REVIEW HAS NOT BEEN DONE.
AND WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO PRETTY MUCH, UM, I GUESS, REVIEW HER PERFORMANCE, UM, EJO EITHER SHE HASN'T HAD A PERFORMANCE REVIEW, SO THEREFORE I DON'T FEEL COMFORTABLE IN PROVIDING RAISES WHEN WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO DISCUSS, UM, THEIR PROS AND CONS OF THEIR, UM, POSITION.
BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, AS FAR AS THE CITY SECRETARY IS CONCERNED, UM, SHE HASN'T BEEN HERE OVER A YEAR FOR US TO PROVIDE AN INCREASE.
UM, I THINK THAT IS PRETTY MUCH, UM, UNFAIR AND WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH SOME TYPE OF POLICY AND PROCEDURES THAT WILL GIVE US SOME TYPE OF CLARIFICATION AS OPPOSED TO JUST PROVIDING INCREASES WHEN WE FEEL IT'S NECESSARY.
I SEE COUNCIL MORE CLOUDS ARE IN THE QUEUE.
SO, UM, THE EMPLOYEES THAT ARE GETTING A RAISE ACROSS THE BOARD OR RECEIVE A, A RAISE ACROSS THE BOARD HAVE BEEN HERE.
AND PLEASE, UH, CONFIRM WITH ME, MARTIN, ALL EMPLOYEES RECEIVED A RAISE IF THEY WERE EMPLOYED AS OF WHAT DATE? GOOD EVENING OR GOOD MORNING COUNSEL.
DID ANY OF THOSE EMPLOYEES HAVE, DID, WAS IT A REQUIREMENT FOR ALL OF THOSE EMPLOYEES TO HAVE A PERFORMANCE REVIEW BEFORE RECEIVING THIS RAISE? NO.
SO MY, UH, MY VOTE WILL BE IN FAVOR OF GIVING, UM, THESE TWO EMPLOYEES A 3% RAISE, UM, TO BE IN LINE WITH ALL OF THE OTHER EMPLOYEES THAT RECEIVE A 3% RAISE WHO HAVE NOT HAD A, UM, REVIEW.
THESE TWO INDIVIDUALS THAT SHOULD NOT BE PENALIZED BECAUSE WE AS A COUNCIL DID NOT GIVE THEM A REVIEW REGARDLESS IF THEY HAVE BEEN IN PLACE FOR LESS THAN A YEAR.
SO, UM, NOT THEIR FAULT, BUT THEY WORK JUST AS HARD AS EVERYBODY ELSE.
AND THAT THIS IS LEARNING AND KEY LEARNING FOR ME AND MY COLLEAGUES, THAT WE NEED TO GET SOMETHING IN PLACE, KEEP THAT IN PLACE SO THAT, UM, OUR CITY APPOINTED OFFICIALS ARE EVALUATED AND THEY CAN, UH, BE COMPENSATED,
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UM, AS WELL.SEEING NOBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE ARE, WE'LL, GO AHEAD AND VOTE ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
WE'LL ALL THOSE AGAINST, THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO TWO.
WITH NO OTHER FURTHER BUSINESS.
WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND ADJOURN THIS MEETING.