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          [1. CALL TO ORDER]
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          IS MONDAY, DECEMBER 2ND, 2024. 
          WILL NOT CALL THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          REGULAR MEETING TO ORDER AT TIME IS 6:33 PM ITEM NUMBER TWO, A ROLL CALL. 
          WE DO HAVE A QUORUM OF COUNCIL. 
          ITEM NUMBER THREE IS OUR PLEDGE. 
          WELL, TODAY WE HAVE THE PLEASURE OF HAVING SOME SECOND GRADERS FROM AUSTIN PARKWAY HIGH SCHOOL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 
          THERE WILL BE LEADING US. 
          UH, THERE THEY ARE, THE BROWNIE SLASH DAISY TROOP, 1 5 7 0 1 8. 
          AND THEY HAVE THEIR PARENTS HERE AND I MET WITH THEM PRIOR TO THIS AND THEY HAD A LOT OF QUESTIONS FOR US ABOUT THANKSGIVING AND WHAT THEY WERE THANKFUL FOR. 
          SO WE'RE EXCITED TO HAVE YOU GUYS HERE. 
          ALRIGHT, LET'S STAND, LET'S EVERYONE STAND UP THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IS STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE STRAW. 
          GO AHEAD. 
          CAN WE GET THAT COUNCIL TO COME OUT THERE WITH THEM? LET'S TAKE A, ALRIGHT, I'M GONNA TAKE A COUPLE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY, WE HAVE 
          [4. PUBLIC COMMENTS]
ITEM NUMBER FOUR, PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          UH, CITY SECRETARY, DO WE HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENTS? YES, SIR. 
          MR. MAYOR, WE DO. 
          UM, BRUCE ROSKI HAS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ITEM 10 A, THE EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          MRS. ROSKI, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD AND PLEASE ADHERE TO THE THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT. 
          7 9 1 5 CHANCE DRIVE, HOUSTON, TEXAS. 
          REFERENCE TO THIS 10 E WITH MY COUNCIL MEMBER MONICA, PRIVATE EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          WHAT IS THE ISSUE AGAINST HER? I HAVE ISSUES AGAINST SOME OF YOU OTHER ON COUNCIL. 
          A PEARY INTEREST IS A FINANCIAL INTEREST IN SOMETHING, THE POTENTIAL TO BENEFIT FINANCIALLY FROM IT. 
          WHAT WAS WRONG WITH THE CHARTER'S ORIGINAL LANGUAGE, WHICH STRONGLY WARN COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY EMPLOYEES NOT TO HAVE ANY FORM OF FINANCIAL INTEREST IN COMPANIES DOING BUSINESS WITH THE CITY. 
          WHAT WILL BE THE FINANCIAL IMPACT OF PROPOSITION END ON CITY CONTRACTS GOING FORWARD? IN FACT, WHY DID THE CITY NOT INFORM TAXPAYERS OF THE FISCAL IMPACT OF EACH PROPOSED AMENDMENT PRESCRIBED BY LAW? WILL CONTRACTS BE INFLATED? SIR, YOU NEED TO SHUT UP RIGHT NOW. 
          IT'S MY THREE MINUTES. 
          THAT'S IT. 
          WILL CONTRACTS BE INFLATED TO BENEFIT INDIVIDUALS WITH FINANCIAL INTEREST, SIR? ALRIGHT. 
          EXCUSE. 
          THAT'S A THREAT. 
          MR. MAYOR, THAT DOES CONCLUDE PUBLIC COMMENTS. 
          I ITEM 
          [(a) Receive a Presentation and Hold a Discussion - Legislative Priorities ...]
NUMBER FIVE ARE STAFF REPORTS. 
          FIVE A, UH, FIVE A IS A STAFF REPORT. 
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I WILL GO AHEAD AND GET STUFF, YOUR HONOR. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
          THIS IS A STAFF REPORT ON THE 2025 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. 
          UH, YOU ALL WILL BE LOOKING AT YOUR PROPOSED RESOLUTION, UH, TO ADOPT YOUR LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM AT THE NEXT MEETING. 
          THE CITY'S CONSULTANT, KAREN ARD, WILL BE JOINING ME SHORTLY, UH, LAST YEAR, JUST TO GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW, APPROXIMATELY 8,344 BILLS WERE FILED. 
          AND I SEE, UH, KAREN IS HERE. 
          I WILL TURN THIS OVER TO HER AT THIS TIME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          E JOYCE MAYOR, UH, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, UH, MADAM CITY MANAGER. 
          UH, IT'S GOOD TO BE HERE WITH YOU THIS EVENING. 
          UM, I'M JOINED HERE THIS EVENING WITH ONE OF MY COLLEAGUES, SERGIO EVASO, WHO ALSO WORKS ON OUR LEGISLATIVE TEAM IN AUSTIN. 
          UH, TONIGHT WE'D JUST LIKE TO GIVE YOU A, A BRIEF PREVIEW AND OVERVIEW OF SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT, UM, WE THINK, UH, MIGHT, UH, BE BEFORE THE LEGISLATURE IN 2025. 
          WE'LL ALSO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, SOME OF THE INTERIM ISSUES THAT WE'VE BEEN WATCHING, UH, ON YOUR BEHALF DURING THIS LAST INTERIM SESSION. 
          AS YOU KNOW, DURING THE INTERIM SESSION, THE LEGISLATURE CAN BE QUITE BUSY WITH COMMITTEES AND INTERIM COMMITTEE HEARINGS. 
          UH, I'D LIKE TO FIRST START OFF WITH, LIKE I SAID, SERGIO CASOS IS JOINING ME HERE, BUT WE HAVE SEVERAL MEMBERS OF OUR TEAM WHO HELPED TO REPRESENT THE CITY IN AUSTIN, STARTING WITH OUR SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT, DEMETRIUS MCDANIEL, WHO HEADS NOT ONLY OUR TEXAS PRACTICE, BUT OUR FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE, UH, PRACTICE. 
          HE CO-CHAIRS THAT PRACTICE. 
          UH, ELIZABETH HADLEY, WHO IS A SHAREHOLDER IN OUR OFFICE. 
          AND HALEY CORNYN, WHO IS OUR, UH, GOVERNMENT RELATIONS OFFICER FOR THE AUSTIN OFFICE. 
          AND WITH THAT TEAM, WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME REVIEWING BILLS, ATTENDING COMMITTEE HEARINGS, UH, TALKING TO YOUR STAFF ABOUT DIFFERENT ISSUES THAT AFFECT THE CITY. 
          SO I'D LIKE TO START WITH SOME OF THE ISSUES FROM THE INTERIM THAT WE'VE BEEN MONITORING. 
          UH, THESE ARE NOT ALL OF THE ISSUES, BUT WE ARE SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE THINK ARE MOST IMPORTANT TO THE CITY THAT WERE PART OF LEGISLATIVE CHARGES, OR FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T FOLLOW THE LEGISLATURE THAT MUCH. 
          UH, DURING THE INTERIM PERIOD, WHICH IS A PERIOD BETWEEN THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND THE NEXT LEGISLATIVE SESSION, UH, THE LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR WHO HEADS THE TEXAS SENATE, UH, ISSUES HEARINGS FOR HIS MEMBERS OR CHARGES FOR HIS MEMBERS TO CONDUCT HEARINGS DURING THAT PERIOD. 
          AND THE SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE ALSO, UH, ISSUES CHARGES FOR HIS MEMBERS TO CONSIDER ISSUES. 
          SO IN THE SENATE, THERE WERE A COUPLE ISSUES THAT WE WERE FOLLOWING. 
          UH, THE SENATE FINANCE COMMITTEE HAD SEVERAL CHARGES, BUT OF MOST IMPORTANT, UH, TO YOU GUYS WAS TO, UM, UH, ONE CHARGE RELATING TO CONTINUING CUTTING PROPERTY TAXES. 
          AND, UH, AS YOU KNOW, UH, MOST CITIES, UH, THAT IS THE PRIMARY REVENUE SOURCE, UH, OF CITIES, IS THE PROPERTY TAX THAT YOU LEVY. 
          UH, THERE WERE SEVERAL INTERIM HEARINGS ON THAT ISSUE DURING THE, UH, LEGISLATIVE, UH, INTERIM, UH, IN THE SENATE FINANCE AND ALSO IN THE SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE. 
          THE SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, UH, SPECIFICALLY WAS GOING TO STUDY ISSUES RELATED TO SENATE BILL TWO. 
          SENATE BILL TWO IS THE BILL THAT GAVE US THE REVENUE CAP FROM THE 86 LEGISLATIVE SESSION BACK IN, UH, 2019. 
          AND SO THEY CONDUCTED SEVERAL HEARINGS, UH, ON THOSE ISSUES TO TRY TO DETERMINE HOW THE REVENUE CAP HAS WORKED. 
          UH, AS YOU MAY, UH, BE AWARE, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL JURISDICTIONS IN THE STATE, BOTH CITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS THAT ARE HAVING TAX RATE ELECTIONS UNDER SENATE BILL TWO THAT PASSED IN THE 86 SESSION. 
          UH, THERE ARE SOME PROVISIONS IN THERE TO ALLOW CITIES TO GO ABOVE THE 3.5% CAP. 
          UH, BUT THAT REQUIRES AN ELECTION. 
          SEVERAL CITIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS AROUND THE STATE HAVE CONDUCTED ELECTIONS, SOME SUCCESSFUL, SOME NOT SO SUCCESSFUL TO GO OVER THE REVENUE CAP. 
          AND SO THAT COMMITTEE WAS LOOKING AT THOSE ISSUES AND TRYING TO MAKE SOME DETERMINATION AS TO WHETHER THEY'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO ALLOW THOSE EXCEPTIONS UNDER THE BILL OR WHAT KIND OF POTENTIAL CHANGES THEY MAY MAKE TO THE REVENUE CAMP BILL. 
          THERE WERE ALSO IN THE SENATE GOVERNMENTAL, UH, LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE, UH, STUDYING THE IMPACTS OF, UH, SENATE BILL 2038, UH, SENATE BILL 2038 WAS A BILL FROM THIS LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN 2023. 
          AND IS A BILL THAT SERGIO AND I WORKED ON QUITE A BIT UNDER THAT PARTICULAR BILL. 
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IT WOULD ALLOW THE RESIDENTS OR THE VOTERS OF AN AREA IN A CITY'S ETJ TO PETITION THE CITY TO HAVE THEMSELVES RELEASED FROM THE CITY'S ETJ. 
          AND SO IN LOOKING AT THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, WE WERE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS AND THOSE AREAS THAT ARE PURSUANT TO STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS. 
          AND EVEN THOUGH SENATE BILL 2038 WAS THE BILL THAT PASSED, THERE WERE SEVERAL BILLS LIKE THAT. 
          THERE WERE AT LEAST FIVE. 
          UH, WE WERE ABLE TO WORK WITH SEVERAL OTHER CITIES THAT HAD STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS AND CITIES THAT HAVE INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS. 
          AND IN, IF YOU WILL SEE, IN SENATE BILL 2038, WE WERE ACTUALLY ABLE TO HAVE LANGUAGE INSERTED THAT SPECIFICALLY EXEMPTED CITIES THAT HAVE STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS AND INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS FROM THAT PARTICULAR LEGISLATION. 
          SO IF YOU'VE BEEN PROBABLY FOLLOWING IT IN THE NEWS, YOU KNOW THAT THERE ARE SEVERAL CITIES WHO AREAS HAVE PETITIONED OR HELD ELECTIONS TO REMOVE AREAS FROM THEIR ETJ AROUND THE STATE. 
          BUT IN YOUR PARTICULAR CASE, BECAUSE THE EXEMPTION IS THERE THAT WE WORKED ON, THE PEOPLE IN YOUR ETJ ARE NOT ELIGIBLE FOR THAT. 
          UH, NEXT IN THE SENATE, WE ALSO WERE, WERE MONITORING, UH, THE SENATE, UH, COMMITTEE ON WATER, AGRICULTURAL AND RURAL AFFAIRS. 
          AND SPECIFICALLY WE WERE MONITORING, UH, THAT COMMITTEE AND THE ISSUES THEY WERE STUDYING BASED UPON, THEY WERE LOOKING AT WATER SYSTEMS, SMALL, LARGE, BUT MUNICIPAL WATER SYSTEMS, MAYBE THAT'S WATER SEWER. 
          AND SPECIFICALLY LOOKING AT ISSUES RELATED TO, UH, SENATE BILL 28 AND SENATE BILL 28 WAS THE BILL FROM LAST SESSION THAT PROVIDED MORE FUNDING FOR UPGRADES TO WATER SYSTEMS. THERE'S SPECIFICALLY A PROVISION IN THAT BILL THAT ALLOWS FOR MORE FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE TO HELP WITH, UH, WATER SYSTEMS. AND SO JUST MONITORING THAT, UH, BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOUR ISSUES WITH, UH, WATER SEWER AND THOSE KIND OF ISSUES ARE IMPORTANT TO THE CITY. 
          AND THEN, UH, FINALLY, UH, IN THE SENATE, UH, WE WERE ALSO MONITORING ISSUES THAT CAME OUT OF THE SENATE STATE AFFAIRS COMMITTEE. 
          UH, ONE OF THE BIG ONES, UH, THERE WERE A COUPLE HEARINGS ON THIS RELATED TO MATTERS RELATED TO PUBLIC INFORMATION AND OPEN MEETINGS ACT. 
          UH, THOSE TWO PROVISIONS OF STATE LAW HAVE NOT CHANGED A WHOLE LOT OVER THE LAST, LET'S SAY, 10 YEARS. 
          UH, HOWEVER, THERE'S BEEN SOME, UH, I GUESS, UH, UH, INTEREST IN POTENTIALLY REQUIRING EVEN MORE TRANSPARENCY, MAYBE, UH, MORE ISSUES RELATED TO HOW QUICKLY YOU RESPOND TO PUBLIC INFORMATION REQUEST OR, OR ISSUES RELATED TO YOUR EXECUTIVE SESSIONS. 
          AND SO WE DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING OUT OF THERE. 
          THERE WERE MAYBE TWO HEARINGS THAT, UH, THAT COMMITTEE HELD ON THAT, THAT WE MONITORED. 
          UH, BUT THAT MAY BE SOMETHING THAT WILL COME UP DURING THIS PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 
          AND ALSO THE SENATE, UM, STATE AFFAIRS COMMISSION ALSO HAD A CHARGE THAT ASKED THEM TO STUDY ISSUES RELATED TO HOMELESSNESS. 
          AND AS YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY AROUND THE STATE IS TALKING ABOUT THAT HOMELESSNESS AS WELL AS HOUSING AFFORDABILITY ARE TWO ISSUES THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE JOINED TOGETHER. 
          UH, THERE WERE SEVERAL HEARINGS ON THAT PARTICULAR CHARGE IN THE SENATE RELATING TO THAT. 
          AND THERE WILL PROBABLY BE LEGISLATION THAT THAT ARISES OUT OF THAT PARTICULAR, UH, LEGISLATIVE, UH, CHARGE IN THE SENATE. 
          UH, TURNING TO THE HOUSE, THERE ARE, UH, AS, AS YOU KNOW, THE SENATE IS, IS, IS IS A LITTLE SMALLER THAN THE HOUSE. 
          THERE ARE, THERE ARE NUMEROUS MORE LEGISLATIVE CHARGES IN THE HOUSE THAT WE'VE BEEN MONITORING. 
          UH, FIRST, UM, A COUPLE OF 'EM IN THE HOUSE AGRICULTURE AND LAST, THAT COMMITTEE DEALT WITH SOME OF THE PREEMPTION BILLS FROM LAST SESSION. 
          AS YOU KNOW, THERE WERE SEVERAL OF THOSE ON ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF ISSUES. 
          BUT THERE'S ONE, THERE WERE TWO BILLS SPECIFICALLY RATE RELATED TO AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS. 
          AND SO WHEN, WHEN I TALKED TO THAT ABOUT WITH CITY CLIENTS, THEY'RE LIKE, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? WELL, THE WAY THAT THAT PARTICULAR TERM IS DEFINED IN THE LEGISLATION THAT PASSED DURING LAST YEAR'S SESSION, THAT APPLIES TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS THAT YOU WOULDN'T THINK IT WOULD. 
          THINGS LIKE HOME GARDENS, THINGS LIKE, UH, PEOPLE WHO, UH, UH, MAYBE, UH, RAISE CHICKENS, UH, AT THEIR HOMES. 
          THINGS THAT YOU MAY HAVE IN YOUR ORDINANCE RELATED TO HOW MANY OF THOSE DOMESTIC OR UNDOMESTICATED ANIMALS THAT PEOPLE, UH, CAN HAVE. 
          UH, THE LEGISLATURE HAS, UH, ENACTED SEVERAL BILLS THAT, UH, HAVE PREEMPTION LANGUAGE IN THEM. 
          AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'VE BEEN WATCHING THESE PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE HEARINGS ON THAT. 
          AND THERE MAY BE SOME MORE LEGISLATION TO INCREASE THOSE PREEMPTIONS RELATED TO AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS. 
          WE ALSO WERE MONITORING BILLS FROM THE HOUSE, HOMELAND SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. 
          UH, SPECIFICALLY, UH, THIS ISSUE HAS COME UP, AND YOUR POLICE DEPARTMENT MAY BE AWARE OF THIS. 
          THEY'RE LOOKING AT, UH, THE POLICE FORCES USE OF 
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WHAT THEY CALL NON-LETHAL DEVICES. 
          AND A LOT OF PEOPLE VIEW THOSE TYPES OF DEVICES LIKE THE BEING BAGS AND SOME OF THE OTHER NON-LETHAL AS REALLY IMPROVEMENTS IN POLICING. 
          UH, THE COMMITTEE WAS LOOKING AT SOME INCIDENTS WHERE THOSE MAY HAVE CAUSED SOME INJURIES WHEN USED. 
          AND SO WE'RE JUST MONITORING THAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, LAW ENFORCEMENT IS A BIG ISSUE IN MOST COMMUNITIES LIKE YOURS. 
          AND SO, UH, JUST MONITORING THAT, WE DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S GONNA BE ANY LEGISLATION FROM THAT. 
          BUT IT WAS AN INTERESTING HEARING TO WATCH. 
          AS YOU KNOW, THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO CAME UP AND REPORTED INJURIES FROM SOME OF THOSE NON-LETHAL, UH, DEVICES THAT ARE CURRENTLY BEING USED, WHICH A LOT OF PEOPLE BELIEVE ARE HELPING, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT, UH, BE MORE, UH, PRODUCTIVE AS THEY GO ABOUT CARRYING OUT THEIR DUTIES. 
          SO THAT'S OUT THERE. 
          UH, AND FINALLY, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM, FROM SOME OF YOUR CITY STAFF, UH, THE, THE HOUSE HOMELAND SECURITY AND PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE IS LOOKING AT COMMUNICATIONS AND SPECIFICALLY COMMUNICATION INTEROPERABILITY DURING, UH, DISASTERS, UH, SPECIFICALLY AS YOU KNOW, AND, AND, AND UNFORTUNATELY IN THIS AREA OF THE STATE, UH, THERE ARE REPORTS OF SOME OF THE, UH, DIFFICULTY IN DIFFERENT LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCIES, MAYBE BEING ABLE TO COMMUNICATE DURING SOME OF THE DISASTERS THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER THE LAST THREE TO FIVE YEARS. 
          AND SO LOOKING AT HOW THEY CAN MAYBE HELP, UH, FUND THOSE TYPE OF INTERA INTEROPERABILITY SYSTEMS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR DIFFERENT SYSTEMS, UH, THAT, UH, CITIES AND COUNTIES AND OTHER JURISDICTIONS THAT CAN TALK TO EACH OTHER DURING DISASTER SITUATIONS. 
          ONE OF THE BIG COMMITTEES THAT WE ALWAYS FOLLOW DURING THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION IS THE HOUSE LAND AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE. 
          AND THAT'S A COMMITTEE THAT DEALS WITH THINGS LIKE YOUR LAND USE AUTHORITY, YOUR ETJ AUTHORITY. 
          AND WE WERE CONTINUING TO MONITOR, UH, THEY WERE MONITORING A BILL THAT PASSED DURING THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION THAT TALKED ABOUT PAYMENT THAT GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES ARE REQUIRED TO MAKE, UH, WHEN YOU, UH, DOWN ZONE PEOPLE'S PROPERTY. 
          THE BILL CAME OUT OF A SPECIFIC COURT CASE UP IN THE DALLAS AREA, PROBABLY DIDN'T AFFECT ANYBODY BUT THAT PARTICULAR JURISDICTION. 
          BUT, UH, THE FACT THAT THAT COMMITTEE WAS MONITORING THAT LEGISLATION ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, PERKS UP OUR EARS BECAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW IF THEY WANNA MAKE THAT MORE WIDELY APPLICABLE. 
          BUT THAT WAS ONE OF THE BILLS THAT THEY WERE MONITORING. 
          AGAIN, THEY WERE ALSO MONITORING 2038, THE ETJ BILL. 
          AND WE DO THINK THAT THERE MAY BE MORE ETJ UH, LEGISLATION COMING THIS SESSION, BUT, UH, HOPEFULLY IT ALSO WILL NOT IMPACT YOU OR WE, WE WILL BE SUCCESSFUL IN MAYBE PROTECTING YOUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS. 
          AND THEN AGAIN, THE ISSUE OF HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND HOMELESSNESS WAS ALSO AN ISSUE THAT THE HOUSE LAND AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT COMMITTEE WAS LOOKING AT DURING THE INTERIM. 
          SO GENERALLY, UH, WITH ALL OF THOSE INTERIM STUDIES, MANY OF THOSE ISSUES ARE THEN TURNED INTO LEGISLATION. 
          AND SO ON NOVEMBER 14TH, UH, PRE-FILING FOR THE 2025, UH, LEGISLATIVE SESSION BEGAN, AND, UH, THE FIRST DAY OF PRE-FILING, I THINK THERE WERE CLOSE TO ALMOST 1500 BILLS THAT WERE FILED ON THAT FIRST DAY. 
          SO WE'VE BEEN VERY BUSY, UH, GETTING THROUGH THOSE, UH, TRYING TO DETERMINE, YOU KNOW, WHICH ONE OF THEM WE THINK MAY BE OF INTEREST TO THE CITY OR MAY IMPACT THE CITY EITHER IN A POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE WAY. 
          BUT BEFORE I JUST GO THROUGH THAT, UH, JUST TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, LIKE I SAID, SOME OF YOU MAY NOT BE INTERESTED, UH, THAT MAY NOT FOLLOW THE LEGISLATURE AS WELL. 
          UH, AS YOU KNOW, UNDER OUR TEXAS CONSTITUTION, OUR LEGISLATURE ONLY MEETS EVERY OTHER YEAR FOR 140 DAYS IN ODD NUMBER YEARS. 
          AND THAT'S SET OUT IN THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION. 
          THAT'S HOW WE DO BUSINESS FROM A LEGISLATIVE PERSPECTIVE HERE IN TEXAS. 
          AND UNDER THE CONSTITUTION, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, THERE'S ONLY ONE SPECIFIC PIECE OF LEGISLATION THAT MUST BE PASSED, AND THAT'S THE STATE'S BUDGET. 
          SO ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT I JUST TALKED ABOUT, OR JUST KIND OF ALL THE OTHER THINGS THAT RISE UP DURING THAT 140 DAYS, THERE ARE SOME PROVISIONS IN THE STATE CONSTITUTION THAT ALLOW FOR THE GOVERNOR TO CALL SPECIAL SESSIONS, UH, UNDER THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION. 
          THOSE CAN ONLY BE DONE IN 30 DAY INCREMENTS. 
          AND, UH, WE'VE HAD SEVERAL OF THOSE, NOT THIS, UH, OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. 
          UH, BUT GENERALLY THOSE ARE VERY UNUSUAL CIRCUMSTANCES. 
          UM, AS WE MOVE INTO, UH, THE LEGISLATIVE SESSION, I WANNA JUST PUT A COUPLE OF IMPORTANT DATES ON YOUR CALENDAR. 
          UH, THIS PARTICULAR LEGISLATIVE SESSION, WE'LL BEGIN ON JANUARY 14TH, UH, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, APPROACHING VERY QUICKLY FOR US, UH, UNDER THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION. 
          60 DAYS AFTER THAT, WHICH IS MARCH 14TH, WE'LL HAVE BILL FILING DEADLINE, WHICH MEANS UNLESS YOU CAN GET A SUPER MAJORITY IN EACH HOUSE, ALL BILLS HAVE TO BE FILED BY THAT TIME. 
          UH, AND SO THAT'S THE, THAT'S 
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THE BILL FILING DEADLINE. 
          AND THEN THE LAST DAY OF THE SESSION, THE 140 DAY IS GONNA BE JUNE 2ND OF NEXT YEAR. 
          SO IF YOU JUST WRITE THOSE DOWN DURING THOSE 140 DAYS, I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOME OF THE ISSUES THAT WE THINK OF, UH, ARE OF IMPORTANCE TO YOU THAT WE'VE SEEN COME THROUGH SO FAR, UH, RELATED TO, UH, THAT MAY PROBABLY COME UP DURING THE 2025 LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 
          THE FIRST ONE IS THIS, THIS BIG BILL THAT WE JUST, WE TALK ABOUT STATE PREEMPTION. 
          I TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS PREEMPTION, BUT LAST SESSION THERE WAS A BIG BILL, UH, HOUSE BILL, 2127. 
          A LOT OF PEOPLE REFER TO IT AS THE DEATH STAR BILL. 
          UH, IT WAS INTENDED TO CREATE A NEW FORM OF PREEMPTION OF CITY REGULATIONS IN THE STATE. 
          UH, UH, THAT BILL DID PASS, HOWEVER, UH, THE CITY OF HOUSTON, CITY OF SAN ANTONIO AND CITY OF EL PASO CHALLENGED IT. 
          ANYTIME IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, YOU CHALLENGE LEGISLATION, YOU HAVE TO FILE THAT LAWSUIT. 
          IN TRAVIS COUNTY, WHICH IS AUSTIN IS THE, IS THE HOME OF TRAVIS COUNTY. 
          AND A DISTRICT COURT JUDGE IN TRAVIS COUNTY RULED THAT HOUSE BILL 2127 WAS UNCONSTITUTIONAL. 
          AND THE THEORY BEHIND THAT, AS YOU KNOW, AS A HOME RULE CITY, UH, THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION CURRENTLY SAYS THAT A HOME RULE CITIES ARE AUTHORIZED TO DO ANYTHING THAT IS NOT SPECIFICALLY PROHIBITED BY STATE LAW. 
          AND THEN THE COURTS HAVE SAID THAT IF YOU'RE GOING TO PREEMPT A HOME RULE CITY, YOU MUST DO IT WITH UNMISTAKABLE CLARITY. 
          AND SO THAT WAS THE ISSUE IN THE CASE, CHALLENGING HOUSE BILL 2127 DID THAT BILL PROVIDE THE UNMISTAKABLE CLARITY THAT THE TEXAS SUPREME COURT SAYS IS NECESSARY TO PREEMPT HOME RULE CITIES. 
          BECAUSE UNDER THE BILL, THERE IS VERY, VERY BROAD LANGUAGE ABOUT WHAT TYPE OF AUTHORITY YOUR CITY WOULD BE PREEMPTED FROM ENGAGING IN REGULATIONS OVER, AND I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL OF IT, BUT THE BILL JUST BASICALLY HAD A LIST OF NUMEROUS STATUTES. 
          AND IT BASICALLY SAYS SOMETHING TO THE EFFECT THAT TO THE EXTENT THAT THE STATE HAS REGULATED, LET'S SAY, UNDER THE PROPERTY CODE, THE, UH, CITY IS PREEMPTED FROM REGULATING UNDER THE PROPERTY CODE. 
          AND SO THE ISSUE WAS, IS THAT UNMISTAKABLY CLEAR AS TO WHAT YOU CAN AND CANNOT REGULATE, UH, PROVIDE ANY REGULATIONS AS A HOME RULE CITY, UM, THAT, THAT, THAT THAT PARTICULAR, UM, DISTRICT COURT OPINION HAS NOT BEEN, UH, RESOLVED YET. 
          SO THE BILL IS ON HOLD, UH, BUT WE DO BELIEVE THAT THAT PREEMPTION WILL BE BACK. 
          AND WE HAVE SEEN SOME OF THOSE BILLS SO FAR, UH, IN THE PRE-FILING THAT STARTED ON NOVEMBER 14TH. 
          THE, WE THINK AS, AS SERGIO AND I WERE TALKING ON OUR WAY DOWN HERE TONIGHT, WE CALL IT DEATH STAR 2.0, THAT THAT TYPE OF PREEMPTION WILL BE BACK. 
          BUT, UH, WE, WE, WE, WE FEEL THAT IF IT GETS FILED, UH, WE, ALONG WITH OTHER CITIES IN THE STATE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, WANT TO TELL THE STORY OF HOW SOME OF CITIES REGULATE IN VERY POSITIVE WAYS, UH, THAT, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL TRY TO TELL YOUR STORY AGAIN ABOUT HOW THAT'S NOT MAYBE THE BEST WAY TO GO ABOUT PREEMPTION. 
          THAT IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC ISSUES RELATED TO THINGS THAT MAYBE CITIES AREN'T DOING WELL, MAYBE TO FOCUS ON THOSE. 
          AND NOT JUST A BROAD BASE PREEMPTION OF ALL CITIES AUTHORITY. 
          UH, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN, UH, SEVERAL BILLS RELATED TO, UH, THE USE OF PUBLIC MONEY TO HIRE HIRED ADVOCATES LIKE OURSELVES OR LOBBYISTS THERE. 
          IF THERE ARE FIVE BILLS, THERE ARE 10 BILLS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN FILED ON THAT. 
          AND THOSE TYPES OF BILLS HAVE BEEN FILED FOR THE LAST FIVE OR SIX LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS. 
          SO THEY'RE COMING BACK. 
          UH, SOME OF THEM ARE NOT AS EGREGIOUS BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO THEY PROHIBIT YOU FROM HIRING PEOPLE LIKE SERGIO AND I, BUT THEY ALSO PROHIBIT, UH, LOCAL GOVERNMENTS FROM JOINING ASSOCIATIONS LIKE TML AND TASB AND OTHER, UH, NONPROFIT ASSOCIATIONS OF CITIES AND COUNTIES AND SCHOOL DISTRICTS. 
          AND SO THERE ARE SEVERAL THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN PRE-FILED. 
          AND SO, UH, THOSE WILL BE OUT THERE AGAIN. 
          UH, ADDITIONALLY, UH, THERE'VE ALREADY BEEN, UH, SEVERAL BILLS ALSO FILED, UH, RELATED TO YOUR AUTHORITY OVER THINGS LIKE BUILDING CODES. 
          UH, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER THE SHOCK CLOCK BILL RELATED TO HOW QUICKLY YOU HAVE TO APPROVE PLATING. 
          UH, THERE'S A, A BILL BEEN FILED THAT THAT WOULD ALSO IMPOSE A SHOT C**K ON YOUR BUILDING, UH, BUILDING PERMIT REGULATIONS, HOW QUICKLY YOU WOULD HAVE TO APPROVE BUILDING PERMITS. 
          SO THOSE TYPES OF REGULATIONS ARE COMING BACK IN 2025. 
          UH, WE ALSO BELIEVE THAT, UH, THE, THE BILLS RELATED TO ETJ RELEASE WILL BE BACK, UH, LIKE 
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I SAID, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY FROM LAST SESSION, MAYBE THEY'LL HAVE A DIFFERENT FEEL TO 'EM OR DIFFERENT THINGS. 
          MAYBE THEY'LL TAKE AWAY THE VOTING REQUIREMENT AND JUST THE PETITION REQUIREMENT. 
          BUT THOSE WILL DEFINITELY BE BACK. 
          THERE'S ALREADY BEEN ONE THAT I SAW LAST WEEK. 
          UM, ADDITIONALLY, YOU KNOW, WE THOUGHT THAT ONCE, YOU KNOW, CITY'S UH, AUTHORITY TO ANNEX UNILATERALLY WAS TAKEN AWAY, BUT THERE, THERE, THERE ARE SEVERAL, THERE ARE A COUPLE BILLS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW THAT DEAL WITH ANNEXATION. 
          I DON'T THINK THEY'RE GONNA IMPACT YOU BECAUSE YOU DO HAVE YOUR STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS, BUT WE DO MONITOR THOSE CLOSELY JUST TO MAKE SURE THEY DON'T INFRINGE UPON THOSE, UH, STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP AGREEMENTS. 
          SO, WITH THAT, UH, I THINK, LIKE I SAID, WE JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A HIGH LEVEL VIEW OF WHAT'S OUT THERE, KIND OF WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING DURING THE INTERIM. 
          AND WE ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE ABOUT THOSE AND OTHER ISSUES THAT, UH, YOU'RE INTERESTED IN RELATED TO WHAT WE EXPECT GOING INTO 2025. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE HAVE A COUPLE OF PEOPLE THAT SIGNED UP, SO RECOGNIZING COUNCILMAN RAMONI. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, KAREN, FOR THE PRESENTATION. 
          UH, I JUST HAD A QUESTION FOR YOU AND OR E JOYCE AS IT RELATES TO A FEW OF THE PRIORITIES THAT I KNOW ARE IMPORTANT TO, UH, US HERE. 
          AND, UH, ONE IN PARTICULAR THAT, UM, WAS PASSED IN THE HOUSE, UH, AND, AND NEVER EVEN MADE IT TO THE SENATE FLOOR SURROUNDING THE GROUP HOMES. 
          UH, THE CONTINUATION OF, UH, SOME OF THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM SB 500 MM-HMM. 
          . 
          UM, I WAS TOLD THAT, UM, IT DIDN'T GO ONTO THE HOUSE FLOOR FOR POLITICAL REASONS, UH, I MEAN TO THE SENATE FLOOR, EXCUSE ME, FOR POLITICAL REASONS, UM, BY THE PERSON THAT ACTUALLY REPRESENTS US. 
          BUT ANYWAY, UM, I WANTED TO FIND OUT IF WE SHOULD TAKE THE APPROACH OF TRYING TO GO THROUGH THE SENATE, UH, TO REVISIT THAT BILL AGAIN, UH, FIRST VERSUS GOING TO THE HOUSE AND GOING THROUGH THAT PROCESS, SEEING THAT IT STALLED LAST AND DIDN'T EVEN GET A HEARING. 
          WELL, LET ME JUST SAY THAT, BILL, WE, WE WERE ABLE TO PUT PIECES OF THAT LEGISLATION ONTO A SENATE BILL THAT WAS IN THE HOUSE. 
          SO WE DID, PART OF IT WAS ADOPTED LAST SESSION. 
          THERE WERE SOME PARTS OF IT THAT WEREN'T ADOPTED, AND IT WAS, YOU KNOW, I DON'T, I DON'T WANNA SAY IT WAS POLITICS. 
          I THINK WE GOT CAUGHT IN THE, UM, IN THE CRUNCH AT THE END OF THE SESSION. 
          THAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES. 
          AND IT JUST WASN'T YOUR BILL. 
          SO IT'S, I DON'T THINK IT WAS ANYTHING PERSONAL. 
          THERE WERE LOTS OF PEOPLE WHO GOT CAUGHT IN THAT CRUNCH WITH THERE'S A CERTAIN DATE, AND, YOU KNOW, THEY JUST WERE, THEY HAD DETERMINED THAT THEY WERE NOT GONNA HEAR ANY OTHER BILLS THAT HADN'T BEEN HEARD. 
          SO THE, SO PART OF IT HAS BEEN ADOPTED. 
          WE PUT IT ON A, A, A BILL THAT WAS A SENATE BILL IN THE HOUSE. 
          UH, AND SO PARTS OF IT WERE ADOPTED, THE PART THAT WASN'T ADOPTED. 
          WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH E JOYCE DURING THE INTERIM, AND WE HAVE ALREADY FILED IT, UH, WITH THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL. 
          LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL IS THE, UH, AGENCY OF THE LEGISLATURE THAT DRAFTS ALL BILLS AND BILLS HAVE TO GO THROUGH THEM TO BE DRAFTED. 
          SO IT'S ALL, IT'S CURRENTLY IN LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL BEING DRAFTED RIGHT NOW. 
          WE'VE TALKED TO THE HOUSE SPONSOR EJO, AND, AND WE, WE, I SAY WE, SERGIO AND I HAVE TALKED TO THE SENATE SPONSOR, BUT WE NEED TO SET UP A MEETING WITH E JOYCE ALSO TO TALK WITH THE, WITH THE LEGISLATIVE DIRECTOR FOR WHO WOULD BE YOUR SENATOR. 
          BUT WE'VE ALREADY TALKED TO THEM. 
          UH, WE HAD TO WORK THROUGH SOME ISSUES WITH HARRIS COUNTY. 
          THAT WAS PART OF THE DELAY ALSO BECAUSE HARRIS COUNTY HAD PASSED A BILL, UH, PREVIOUSLY THAT WE HAD TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY WERE NOT OPPOSED TO IT. 
          UH, AND THEN THERE'S ALSO SOME ISSUES WITH MAKING SURE THAT IT DOES NOT CONFLICT WITH ANYTHING RELATED TO OTHER TYPES OF HOMES LIKE ASSISTED LIVING HOMES. 
          SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S A DELICATE BALANCE, BUT WE'VE ALREADY HAVE IT AT ALLEGED COUNSEL. 
          WE'RE GONNA TALK TO THE, WE'VE ALREADY TALKED TO THE CHIEF STAFF. 
          WE NEED TO SET UP A MEETING FOR E GEORGES TO TALK TO THE CHIEF OF STAFF AND THE SENATE. 
          AND SO WE'RE GONNA FILE IT ON BOTH SIDES OF THE HOUSE THIS YEAR. 
          RIGHT. 
          I MEAN, BOTH SIDES, WHEN I SAY HOUSE, THE HOUSE AND THE SENATE, THE, THE LAST THING I WAS GONNA ASK IS, UH, YOU KNOW, SEEING THAT A LOT OF THE LEGISLATION THAT WE USUALLY HAVE FILED THROUGH THE HOUSE GOES THROUGH STATE REPRESENTATIVE RENTALS, UH, IN DISTRICT 27, HIS CHIEF OF STAFF IS, IS RETIRING. 
          SO IS THAT GOING TO POSE ANY ISSUES YOU THINK, UH, GOING INTO THIS LEGISLATIVE SESSION, WORKING THESE BILLS THROUGH, UH, AND WORKING ALONG WITH YOU? YOU KNOW, LOSING LONG-TERM, YOU KNOW, MEMBERS, STAFF MEMBERS IS ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ALWAYS SOME ADJUSTMENT. 
          UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DO, THAT HAPPENS ALL THE TIME. 
          THERE WERE SEVERAL MEMBERS WHO DIDN'T GET REELECTED, AND WE LOST SOME GOOD STAFFERS, BUT I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE AN IMPEDIMENT. 
          WE, I THINK WE KNOW WHO HIS NEW CHIEF OF STAFF IS GONNA BE. 
          I THINK HE WAS IN HIS OFFICE LAST SESSION, THAT PERSON. 
          UH, BUT 
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I THINK WE, WE WORK WELL WITH WHOEVER THE, THE MEMBER HAS IN THEIR OFFICE TO, TO MOVE THE LEGISLATION. 
          SO WE, WE HATE TO SEE, YOU KNOW, LONG-TERM STAFFER RETIRE, BUT THAT JUST HAPPENS, YOU KNOW, QUITE A BIT. 
          BUT I, I DON'T THINK IT'S GONNA BE AN IMPEDIMENT TO GETTING THE BILL ADOPTED. 
          I THINK THE IMPEDIMENT IS JUST THE PROCESS. 
          YEAH. 
          THE THINGS THAT ARE BEYOND OUR CONTROL. 
          BUT, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVE GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH AND KNOW HOW TO BUILD GOOD RELATIONSHIPS WITH NEW PEOPLE, BUT I DON'T THINK THAT'S GONNA BE, IT SHOULDN'T BE AN IMPEDIMENT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          AND THANK YOU, KAREN, FOR THE REPORT. 
          I REALLY DO APPRECIATE IT. 
          UH, 1500 BILLS BEING PRE-FILED ON NOVEMBER THE 14TH. 
          I ESPECIALLY WANNA THANK YOU AND YOUR STAFF FOR READING AS MANY OF THOSE AS YOU POSSIBLY COULD, AND TO HELP US SHAPE THIS PRIORITIES LIST WITH REGARDS TO THE PRIORITIES LIST. 
          DID, WAS THIS DEVELOPED MORE SO AROUND, UH, THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY'S NEEDS? OR DID SOME OF THESE MORE SO COME FROM OUT OF THE 1500 BILLS THAT WERE, I DIDN'T WORK ON THAT. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          SO THIS IS, THIS IS CITY DRIVEN. 
          UH, THIS LIST HAS COME FROM ITEMS THAT WE HAVE LOOKED AT IN PAST SESSIONS, ISSUES THAT MISSOURI CITY HAS HAD IN PAST SESSIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          ADDITIONALLY, THINGS THAT COME UP IN THE INTERIM THAT IMPACT THE CITY AND ITS RESIDENTS ARE ALSO REVIEWED. 
          AND THAT'S WHERE THIS PRIORITIES LIST CAME FROM. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , THIS IS JUST KIND OF A RECOMMENDATION. 
          YOU ALL, UH, HAVE THE ABILITY TO REMOVE, ADD THINGS TO THIS LIST, BUT, UH, JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE DO TAKE FROM THE LIST THAT YOU ALL ADOPT VIA RESOLUTION. 
          UH, WE USE THAT AS THE PROGRAM AND AS BILLS COME UP, AS ISSUES COME UP, IF THEY TIE BACK TO THIS LIST, THAT IS WHAT WE USE AS A GUIDEPOST WHEN WE HAVE LITERALLY 12 HOURS TO WRITE A LETTER OR, UH, YOU KNOW, USUALLY IT'S TWO HOURS. 
          TWO HOURS. 
          YEAH. 
          WOW. 
          BUT THIS IS WHAT WE USE TO DETERMINE WHAT YOU, YOUR PRIORITIES ARE. 
          SO THIS IS, UH, JUST A DISCUSSION. 
          THIS IS JUST A REPORT. 
          OKAY. 
          IF YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO ADD THINGS TO IT OR TAKE THINGS OFF, YOU ALL CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          I, I JUST WANNA BE VERY CLEAR, WE DON'T SET YOUR AGENDA. 
          WHAT WE DO IS WE TRY TO CARRY FORTH YOUR AGENDA TO THE LEGISLATURE, BUT I DIDN'T, YEAH, I DIDN'T, WE DIDN'T WORK ON THAT. 
          OH, NO, THAT'S PERFECT. 
          THAT, THAT'S PERFECT. 
          I, AS YOU WERE SPEAKING OF SOME OF THE ITEMS, I KEPT TRYING TO TIE THEM BACK OKAY. 
          TO THIS LIST TO SEE WHERE THEY REALLY, YOU KNOW, WHERE THEY FELL IN LINE. 
          SO, NO, THAT'S PERFECT. 
          AND I GUESS MY SECOND QUESTION, AND MY LAST QUESTION WILL BE MORE SO FOR EJO AS WELL. 
          WHEN WILL WE GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR BACK, BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND ABOUT THE JANUARY 13TH FILING DEADLINE IN THE MARCH 14TH. 
          SO I'VE PLACED THE ITEM, UH, THE RESOLUTION TO ADOPT YOUR PROGRAM ON THE JANUARY 1ST MEETING IN JANUARY THE SIXTH. 
          SO THE JANUARY 6TH AGENDA. 
          MM-HMM, . 
          SO THAT ITEM IS ON THE JANUARY 6TH AGENDA. 
          HOWEVER, YOU ALL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AT THIS POINT. 
          IF YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT'S NOT THERE, PLEASE LET ME KNOW. 
          EVEN ON JANUARY 6TH, WE'LL HAVE THE RESOLUTION, BUT YOU ALL CAN AMEND IT FROM THE FLOOR. 
          IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL IS NOT INCLUDED, IT SHOULD BE INCLUDED. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          THANK YOU. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, KAREN E. JOYCE, UM, FOR THE PRESENTATION, UM, I HAD A QUESTION FOR EJO. 
          FIRST. 
          ARE WE GONNA GET A LIST OF WHAT WE'RE SUBMITTING, UM, TO THEM FOR, FOR LEGISLATION OPTIONS, UH, BEFORE THE SIXTH? LIKE, ARE WE GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE A LIST OF WHAT YOU'RE ALREADY WORKING ON SO THAT WE CAN KNOW WHAT WE CAN ADD THE LEAD? SO THE ONLY THING THAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED SO FAR IS BASED ON THE EXISTING PROGRAM, WHICH WAS THE GROUP HOMES. 
          MM-HMM. 
          . 
          SO THAT'S THE ONLY THING THAT'S SUBMITTED. 
          IF YOU ALL HAVE A SPECIFIC FOR SPECIFIC BILLS, UH, THEN YOU ALL WOULD BE ABLE TO, I MEAN, THIS IS, IF YOU HAVE SOME NOW, YOU ALL CAN KIND OF TALK ABOUT THAT NOW OR ON JANUARY 6TH, WE CAN DISCUSS THAT AS WELL. 
          AND THEY CAN BE ADDED. 
          BUT I WILL, I WOULDN'T FILE OR ASK THAT SOMETHING, AND KAREN WOULDN'T FILE ANYTHING THAT'S NOT TIED BACK TO A DOCUMENT THAT'S BEEN APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL. 
          YEAH. 
          AND I, I UNDERSTAND THAT. 
          I JUST WAS KIND OF WONDERING, ARE WE GONNA GET A LIST OR SOMETHING THAT WE CAN LOOK OVER TO SAY, OKAY, THIS IS ALREADY ON THAT PARTICULAR PRIORITY LIST, OR DO I NEED TO ADD THIS OR WHATNOT? UM, MY OTHER QUESTION IS SPECIFIC TO THE AGRICULTURAL BILLS, UM, KAREN, YOU MADE MENTION OF UN DOMESTIC, UM, ANIMALS, WHATEVER THEY'RE WORKING ON OR WHATEVER'S BEEN SUBMITTED, IS THAT GOING TO IMPACT MUNICIPALITIES AS IT RELATES TO BEING ALLOWED TO HAVE UN DOMESTIC ANIMALS? UM, ARE THEY GONNA BE INCLUDED AS PETS? I'M NOT SURE HOW IT'S WRITTEN. 
          SO THE MOST, BECAUSE MY CONCERN, YEAH. 
          MY CONCERN IS HOW EXTENSIVE IS THAT? BECAUSE WE DO HAVE SOME RURAL AREAS, YOU KNOW, HERE, BUT MOST OF OUR SUBURBAN 
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AREA, AND I DO KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE SOME CHICKENS AND HENS IN THE NON-RURAL AREA, UH, IN PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS. 
          AND SO MY CONCERN IS, UH, DO YOU HAVE ANY DETAILS OF HOW THAT'S WRITTEN AND HOW WE CAN STILL REGULATE THAT? OKAY. 
          I, I WILL SEND THE BILLS, THE BILLS THAT PASSED LAST SESSION, I WILL GET THEM TO YOU, JOYCE. 
          THERE WERE THREE OR FOUR OF 'EM. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT SPECIFICALLY DEALT WITH AGRICULTURAL OPERATIONS. 
          AND THEN THERE WAS WHAT I CALL THE DEATH STAR BILL, TWENTY ONE, TWENTY SEVEN. 
          SO I'LL GET THE SPECIFIC ONES. 
          SO, OKAY. 
          AND I'M TALKING OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, SO SHE WILL CHECK ME ON THIS. 
          THERE WAS ONE SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE ANIMALS AND TALKED ABOUT CHICKENS, RABBITS, I CAN'T REMEMBER THE OTHER ANIMALS, BUT IT TALKED ABOUT SPECIFIC TYPES OF ANIMALS. 
          AND SO MAYBE CHICKENS THAT SAID YOU COULDN'T HAVE A REGULATION THAT ALLOWED LESS THAN, I WANNA SAY 20 CHICKENS. 
          I'M, I'M MAKING THIS UP, SO, OKAY, GOOD. 
          BUT, BUT IT, THERE'S A NUMBER IN THERE AND HOW MANY RABBITS. 
          AND, AND THEN LIKE I SAID, BUT THE, THE DEFINITION, WHEN YOU LOOK IN THE TEXAS AGRICULTURE CODE, THE DEFINITION OF WHAT IS AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION IS PRETTY BROAD. 
          SO CAN YOU, THOSE BILLS TALK ABOUT THE LIMITATIONS ON REGULATING THE OPERATIONS, EXCEPT FOR THAT ONE BILL THAT WAS TALKING ABOUT THE TYPES OF ANIMALS. 
          SO IF IT SAYS THAT YOU'RE LIMITED IN YOUR REGULATION OF AGRICULTURE OPERATIONS, AND THEN YOU GO TO THE DEFINITION OF WHAT THAT IS, THERE ARE SOME PRETTY SPECIFIC LIMITATIONS ON WHAT YOU CAN DO BASED UPON THAT DEFINITION OF WHAT'S DEFINED AS. 
          AND, AND, AND SO THAT'S WHY I SAID IT GOES TO THINGS LIKE GROWING CROPS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. 
          AND THEN THERE'S ANOTHER ONE THAT DEALS WITH WHAT PEOPLE CALL COTTAGE FOODS. 
          LIKE IF PEOPLE MAKE CERTAIN TYPES OF THINGS AT THEIR HOME. 
          I KNOW THIS IS, THIS IS A REALLY OFF EXAMPLE, BUT THERE WERE, I, I'LL CALL 'EM FREE RANGE CHICKEN. 
          SOME PEOPLE DO THAT OPERATION OUTTA THEIR HOUSE, AND SOME CITIES WERE TRYING TO REGULATE THAT BECAUSE OF THE SMELLS. 
          AND AS A NUISANCE. 
          WELL, IF THAT'S PART OF AN AGRICULTURAL OPERATION, THAT MAY BE LIMITED IN WHAT YOU CAN DO. 
          AND THAT, THAT'S WHAT MY CONCERN IS. 
          SO YES. 
          UM, WHENEVER YOU CAN SEND THOSE TO, I'LL GET THEM TO HER TOMORROW. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'LL WORK. 
          AND THOSE PAST LAST SESSION, SO THEY'RE ALREADY THE LAW. 
          OH, THEY ALREADY PASSED. 
          YES. 
          THOSE, THOSE PA I WAS TALKING ABOUT THE BILLS THAT PASSED LAST SESSION. 
          YEAH. 
          OKAY. 
          SO, AND JUST IF I MAY, UH, JUST A QUICK POINT ON THAT TOO. 
          WE'VE ALREADY SEEN PEOPLE COME IN AND ARGUE THAT CERTAIN, UH, USES FALL WITHIN THAT. 
          YEAH, VERY BROAD. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, DEFINITION LEGISLATION, WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THAT WAS MY CONCERN, IF THEY'VE ALREADY PASSED, YOU KNOW, HOW THIS WOULD IMPACT US AND OUR REGULATIONS AND, AND OUR CODES AND STUFF LIKE, AND THEN OF COURSE, THE CONCERN OF COMPLAINTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BECAUSE I'VE ALWAYS KNOWN IT TO BE IN SUBDIVISIONS BECAUSE WE HAVE DEED DEED RESTRICTIONS, AND YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, YOUR CODE ENFORCEMENT. 
          AND SO I'VE SEEN A GROWING POPULATION OF CHICKENS, UH, PER SE, UH, IN PEOPLE'S BACKYARDS. 
          NOW, IF THEY WERE SHARING THE EGGS, I PROBABLY WOULDN'T SEE , BUT, UH, BUT NO, BUT SERIOUSLY, IF YOU COULD, UH, SHARE THOSE WITH E JOYCE, SO I CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THOSE. 
          YES, YES, MA'AM. 
          I'LL DO THAT. 
          YOU'VE ALREADY ADDRESSED THE GROUP HOMES. 
          AND THEN MY LAST ONE WAS, UM, THE BILL 2127. 
          YOU CALLED IT DEATH STAR . 
          THAT'S A STAR WARS KIND OF TERM. 
          NOT STAR, I'M SORRY. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          UH, THAT'S A, NOT STAR WARS, THAT'S A, UM, I'M OLD. 
          THAT'S A, UM, YOU HAD IT RIGHT. 
          YEAH. 
          THAT'S, THAT'S, YEAH. 
          STAR WARS TERM. 
          AND YOU'RE GONNA SEND THAT ONE TO E JOYCE THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE ONE THAT, WELL, YEAH. 
          I MEAN, I THINK MOST CITY ATTORNEYS ARE VERY, VERY AWARE OF 2027. 
          OKAY. 
          THEY HAD THE TEXAS CITY ATTORNEYS ASSOCIATION WAS VERY INVOLVED IN ALL THE CITY ATTORNEYS. 
          AND E JOYS. 
          E JOYS IS THE PERSON I GENERALLY COMMUNICATE WITH DURING THE SESSION, BECAUSE AS SHE MENTIONED, SOMETIMES ON SOME OF THESE BILLS, WE NEED LIKE IMMEDIATE TURNAROUND TO GO TELL A MEMBER OR GO TALK TO SOMEBODY ABOUT WHAT IS YOUR POSITION ON IT. 
          AND SOMETIMES WE NEED A, A LETTER OR SOMETHING REALLY, REALLY QUICKLY. 
          AND SO SHE'S OUR SINGLE POINT OF CONTACT IN THE CITY. 
          AND, YOU KNOW, SHE MAY CALL SOMEBODY HERE, I'M NOT REALLY SURE, BUT SHE TURNS THINGS AROUND VERY FAST DURING THOSE TIMES WHEN WE WOULD NEED IT. 
          AND SO CITY OF THE ATTORNEYS HAVE BEEN VERY, VERY, VERY INVOLVED. 
          AND, AND AS WE WERE, UH, SERGIO AND I WERE WORKING ON THIS BILL, THERE WERE ALL KINDS OF INTEREST ON THAT BILL BECAUSE IT IMPACTED SO MANY TYPES OF REGULATIONS. 
          UM, UH, AND YEAH, THAT'S WHERE THE TERM COMES FROM. 
          OKAY. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THEN MY LAST QUESTION IS THE MAY ELECTIONS. 
          CAN YOU ELABORATE ON, ON THIS, IT SAYS STATE PRIORITIES. 
          YES. 
          HOW DOES THIS IMPACT US? 
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SO, UM, BACK IN, I BELIEVE IT WAS 2016 OR 2017, THE CITY, UH, VOTED. 
          THE CITY COUNCIL AT THE TIME VOTED TO MOVE ELECTIONS TO NOVEMBER. 
          THEY USED, WELL, THE VOTERS DID THE, NO, IT WAS THE CITY COUNCIL. 
          THERE WAS ACTUALLY LEGISLATION BACK THEN. 
          OH, OKAY. 
          THAT ALLOWED THE CITY COUNCIL TO MAKE THAT DECISION. 
          CITY COUNCIL MADE THAT DECISION. 
          IT WAS LATER RATIFIED BY THE VOTERS OUT OF, BECAUSE THEY HAD TO, UH, IN, IN ESSENCE, BUT WHAT THE STATE LAW DOESN'T INCLUDE IS AN ALLOWANCE TO ALLOW CITIES TO DECIDE WHETHER THEY WANT TO GO BACK TO MAY ELECTIONS. 
          AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE'VE HAD, UM, SOME CHALLENGES, UH, AS IT RELATES TO SOME OF OUR NOVEMBER ELECTIONS. 
          AND SO THE THOUGHT WAS THAT BY PERHAPS GO, YOU KNOW, IF THAT OPTION IS AVAILABLE BY GOING BACK TO MAY, THE CITY MAY GET, UM, MAY HAVE AN IMPROVEMENT IN TERMS OF ELECTION SERVICES. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHTY. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          RECOGNIZE COUNCILOR . 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, JUST SOME OF THE ONES THAT ARE, ARE HERE. 
          UM, I, I'VE BEEN COMMUNICATING WITH EJO SINCE THE LAST SESSION. 
          UH, AND, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, SOME THINGS THAT HAVE COME UP THAT I FELT IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO, TO PURSUE. 
          UH, REMEMBER WE HAD THE SITUATION WHERE THERE WAS THIS PROPOSED, UM, UH, COUNTY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICT, UH, THAT WAS, UH, BEING CONSIDERED, UM, FOR, FOR MISSOURI CITY. 
          AND I THINK THAT THE, THEY PULLED THE TRIGGER AND, AND PULLED BACK ON THAT. 
          BUT IF THEY WOULD'VE MOVED FORWARD WITH IT, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CAME WITH THAT WAS, UH, THE INABILITY FOR US TO COLLECT SALES TAX REVENUE, UH, ON THAT. 
          AND SO, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UH, WE'RE SEEKING TO, TO, TO TRY TO DO IS, IS ENSURE THAT WE ARE ABLE TO RECEIVE THE SALES TAX, UH, ON ANY OF THE ANNEXED AREAS THAT ARE PART OF THOSE DISTRICTS IF THEY'RE IN OUR, OUR ETJ. 
          UM, AND THEN ALSO, UM, ANOTHER THING ON THE JURISDICTIONAL AUTHORITY, UH, WAS TO, UH, ACTUALLY REQUIRE, UH, CITY CONSENT FOR THE CREATION OF ANY GOVERNMENT ENTITIES WITHIN OUR CITY. 
          AND, AND ETJ. 
          UH, WE RUN INTO A LOT OF THAT AS WELL OVER THE LAST, UH, THREE YEARS. 
          AND THE LAST THING WAS, AS A RESULT OF BERYL, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED IN MY DISTRICT WAS CENTERED AROUND ONE OF OUR SENIOR LIVING FAC, WELL, A COUPLE OF OUR SENIOR LIVING FACILITIES OFF OF TEXAS PARKWAY, UH, GALA AND JUBILEE, WHERE, UM, WE HAD SENIORS IN THERE, SOME OF THEM WHEELCHAIR BOUND WHO WERE UNABLE TO COME DOWNSTAIRS. 
          THEY WERE ON THE THIRD FLOOR, AND THEY WERE IN ELECTRIC WHEELCHAIRS, AND THEY HAD NO, UH, ABILITY TO DO SO 'CAUSE THE ELEVATORS WERE INOPERABLE, UH, BECAUSE THEY HAD NO GENERATORS, ET CETERA. 
          RIGHT NOW, I THINK THE ONLY REQUIREMENT IS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE, UH, GENERATORS AT ASSISTED LIVING FACILITIES. 
          BUT I FEEL LIKE, UM, I FELT LIKE IT WAS IMPORTANT FOR US TO ENSURE THAT WE REQUIRED GENERATING GENERATORS AT CERTAIN FACILITIES, LIKE THE SENIOR, UH, LIVING FACILITIES, TO SEE IF THERE'S A WAY WE COULD EITHER ADD TO CURRENT LEGISLATION OR, UH, CREATE NEW, UH, LEGISLATION. 
          SO THOSE ARE A FEW OF THE THINGS THAT I KNOW. 
          UM, I, I REACHED OUT TO E OYS, UH, TO SEE IF WE COULD HAVE AS A PRIORITY AND HOPEFULLY, UM, YOU, YOU AGREE, UH, ALONG WITH THE GROUP HOME SITUATION AND, AND A FEW OTHER THINGS. 
          BUT, AND THE RAILROAD CROSSINGS, OF COURSE, WITH THE, UM, THAT WAS ANOTHER THING, UH, RELATIVE TO US TRYING TO GET FEDERAL FUNDING POTENTIALLY, OR STATE COUNTYWIDE FUNDING FOR THE DEATHS THAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED ON, UH, NINE, UH, HIGHWAY 90, UH, PARTICULARLY, UM, UH, CRAVENS AND, AND, UH, UH, GESNER. 
          SO, UH, ANYWAY, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I FELT, UM, WERE IMPORTANT FOR US TO, TO, TO LOOK INTO AND SEE IF WE CAN GAIN SOME TRACTION. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCILMAN. 
          HEY, KAREN, WELCOME BACK. 
          THANK YOU. 
          HAS THERE BEEN ANY DISCUSSION ABOUT ADUS AUXILIARY DWELLING UNITS, THE TINY HOMES? OH, YES. 
          UM, I'M TRYING TO, UH, THERE ARE, THERE ARE SEVERAL BILLS RIGHT NOW THAT WILL FILED, MAYBE NOT THE FIRST WEEK, BUT MAYBE THE SECOND WEEK OR IN THE, WHAT, THE THIRD, THIRD, FOURTH WEEK OF BILL FILING. 
          UH, SPECIFICALLY, THERE'S ONE SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO ADUS ACCESSORY DWELLING UNITS. 
          THERE ARE TWO THAT WE'RE REALLY MONITORING RIGHT NOW RELATING TO DENSITY. 
          AND I'M JUST GONNA GIVE YOU A LITTLE STORY. 
          I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE READ IN THE NEWSPAPER, BUT THE CITY OF AUSTIN HAS DONE THIS REALLY BIG THING CALLED THE HOME INITIATIVE, WHERE THEY'VE REDUCED LOT SIZES, REDUCED REQUIRED PARKING REQUIREMENTS IN SINGLE FAMILY ZONED AREAS OF THE CITY, AND THEN ALLOWED MORE THAN ONE 
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DWELLING UNIT ON A SINGLE FAMILY LOT. 
          YEP. 
          SO IN THIS, IN THIS ISSUE RELATED TO HOUSING AFFORDABILITY AND, UH, MAYBE HOMELESSNESS AND ALL OF THOSE ISSUES KIND OF COALESCING TOGETHER, ESPECIALLY AFFORDABILITY, UH, THE ISSUE OF REFORMING, UM, REFORMING ZONING REGULATIONS AND SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS HAS BEEN POINTED TO AS ONE OF THE REASONS BY OTHER PARTIES, AS ONE OF THE REASONS THAT THERE'S AN AFFORDABLE, ONE OF THE REASONS THERE'S AN AFFORDABILITY CRISIS. 
          AND SO THERE ARE, THERE ARE TWO REALLY BIG BILLS, AND THERE ARE A COUPLE SMALL BILLS THAT ARE DEALING SPECIFICALLY WITH A DS AND DENSITY, AND THE ONE THAT'S DEALING WITH A ADUS AND DENSITY TOGETHER. 
          THEN THERE'S ONE THAT DEALS JUST WITH DENSITY. 
          AND THEN THERE'S A COUPLE OTHERS THAT JUST DEAL WITH SOME OF THOSE ANCILLARY ISSUES. 
          UH, THOSE TWO BIG ONES ARE REAL COMPREHENSIVE. 
          THEY TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU CAN'T DO. 
          YOU KNOW, IT TALKS ABOUT YOU CAN'T HAVE A LOT SIZE MORE THAN 2,500 SQUARE FEET. 
          IT SAYS YOU, YOU MUST ALLOW MORE THAN ONE SINGLE FAMILY UNIT ON ONE SINGLE FAMILY STRUCTURE ON A SINGLE FAMILY LOT. 
          BOTH OF THOSE DO THAT. 
          THE ONE THAT HAS DENSITY AND A DU SPECIFICALLY TALKS ABOUT WHAT AN A DU CAN BE, WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN'T DO. 
          AND SO THAT'S GONNA GET SOME TRACTION. 
          YEAH. 
          UH, BECAUSE, UM, I DON'T THINK I REALLY WENT INTO THAT, UM, INTERIM CHARGE, BUT ONE OF THE CHARGES THAT TALKS ABOUT AFFORDABILITY, TALKS ABOUT THE ISSUES RELATED TO ZONING AND SUBDIVISION REGULATION. 
          AND IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF, UM, WHAT THEY CALL CORPORATE OWNERSHIP OF HOMES. 
          RIGHT. 
          AND SO ALL OF THOSE ARE KIND OF GETTING MIXED IN TOGETHER, BUT THERE ARE, THERE, THERE ARE ABOUT FOUR BILLS, BUT TWO VERY SPECIFIC ONES THAT WE'RE TRACKING RIGHT NOW THAT TALK ABOUT EDS. 
          YEAH. 
          SO IN FARMER'S BRANCH, UM, THEY'RE STRUGGLING. 
          THERE'S HOMES BEING BUILT ON PROPERTIES. 
          SO IN ESSENCE, YOU HAVE DOUBLE OCCUPANCY ON A SINGLE LOT, DOUBLE THE CARS DOUBLE THOSE REQUIREMENT OF SERVICES, AND IT'S A BIG DEAL. 
          SO THEY'RE, THEY'RE ACTUALLY TRYING TO STOP ADUS BECAUSE OF THE IMPACT IT MAKES ON THE COMMUNITY. 
          SO I JUST CURIOUS, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE THERE'S A LOT OF OPPOSITION. 
          IT JUST SOUNDS LIKE YOU'RE SHAPING POLICY TO ALLOW A LITTLE BIT OF IT. 
          IS THAT KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? WELL, YOU KNOW, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE BILLS ARE FILED, YOU KNOW, THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF BACK AND FORTH, BUT AS THEY STAND RIGHT NOW, THEY SEEM TO LIMIT WHAT YOU CAN DO. 
          RIGHT. 
          THEY MAKE IT TOUGHER. 
          SO THAT'S KIND OF HOW THEY START OUT. 
          AND THEN AS WE START TO TALK TO PEOPLE, WORK WITH OTHER CITIES AROUND THE STATE, YOU KNOW, THAT STARTS SHAPING UP TO WHAT IT WILL BE. 
          AND SO WE WILL TALK TO E JOYCE AND THE CITY MANAGER ABOUT WHAT IS IT THAT THE CITY, MISSOURI CITY WANTS TO SEE? SO, UM, BUT THEY'RE OUT THERE, YOU KNOW, AND THE FACT THAT THEY FILE THEM EARLY MEANS THAT THEY'RE GONNA GET SOME TRACTION. 
          AND WITH WHAT I SAID, THEY'RE TIED TO THIS AFFORDABILITY, THIS ISSUE OF AFFORDABILITY AND, UH, ESPECIALLY THE MINIMUM LOT SIZE ISSUE AND THE PARKING ISSUE ARE, HAVE BEEN REALLY TIED TO CONTRIBUTING TO AFFORDABILITY ISSUES. 
          YEAH. 
          AND THEN THERE WAS A FIRE, UM, ACCESS TO THE HOME, FIRE ACCESS, THAT KIND OF STUFF CAME UP WHEN I MET WITH THE MAYOR THERE. 
          SO SOMETHING WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT. 
          SO IN ESSENCE, I CAN BUILD A SMALL SHED IN THE BACKYARD, RENT IT TO COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY, AND I'M GOOD UNDER AN A DU POLICY. 
          AND EVERYONE COULD DO THAT. 
          WELL, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL JUST WANNA DIG IN A LITTLE DEEPER ABOUT SPECIFICALLY WHAT YOU GUYS MAYBE LIKE OR DON'T LIKE. 
          AND, UH, BUT, BUT, BUT THOSE BILLS ARE OUT THERE ALREADY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          MM-HMM. 
          , YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY. 
          YEAH. 
          THE, UH, TAX APPRAISAL PROCESS THAT WE SHOW HERE, IS THIS, UH, SOMETHING THAT WAS, UH, PUT FORWARD BY THE CITY? OR IS THIS SOMETHING THAT, UH, THERE'S AN APPETITE AT THE STATE LEVEL TO, UH, LOOK AT, UH, SOME TYPE OF, UH, I GUESS, UH, A REVIEW OF THAT, THAT PROCESS TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY OPPORTUNITIES TO, UH, REDUCE OR ELIMINATE SOME OF THE, UH, THE ISSUES THAT ARE INVOLVED? THAT WAS ACTUALLY PROPOSED BY STAFF. 
          UH, WE'VE HAD SEVERAL RESIDENTS APPROACH THE CITY OVER THE, THE YEAR, UH, UH, IN BETWEEN, UH, NOW AND THE LAST SESSION THAT HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE PROCESS, UM, THAT DIDN'T SEEM TO UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS. 
          SO THAT WAS ADDED TO THE LIST, UH, WITH THE HOPE THAT THE STATE CAN MAYBE CHANGE THE LAWS TO MAKE IT MORE TRANSPARENT, UH, FOR RESIDENTS SO THAT THEY CAN UNDERSTAND THAT PROCESS BETTER. 
          SO THAT WAS MORE OF A, A STAFF, UH, . 
          AND LET, LET JUST SAY OH, OH, YEAH. 
          UH, I, I'M, I'M, I'M TRYING TO COUNT MY HEAD HOW MANY APPRAISAL BILLS I'VE SEEN OVER THE LAST FOUR WEEKS. 
          IF THERE ARE 20, THERE ARE 30. 
          OKAY. 
          AND MOST OF THEM, MANY OF 
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THEM, I THINK THERE ARE FOUR OR FIVE THAT WILL RE REDUCE THE RESIDENTIAL APPRAISAL CAP FROM 10% TO 5%. 
          AND THEN WE'LL IMPOSE A COMMERCIAL. 
          'CAUSE CURRENTLY, YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOT AN APPRAISAL CAP ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY. 
          THERE'S SEVERAL THAT WILL IMPOSE A APPRAISAL CAP OF 10% ON COMMERCIAL PROPERTY. 
          AND THEN THERE'S SEVERAL THAT TALK ABOUT THE PROCESS, UH, THE PROCESS FROM, UH, CURRENTLY AND THEY DID SOME OF THIS LAST SESSION. 
          WHO SITS ON THE BOARD? HOW THE BOARD RULES, WHEN THE BOARD RULES, WHEN THE BOARD SENDS YOU NOTICES FOR PURPOSES OF IMPOSING YOUR TAX RATE? THERE ARE A LOT OF BILLS OUT THERE RIGHT NOW RELATED TO APPRAISALS. 
          A LOT. 
          SO, SO THERE'S AN APPETITE SOMEWHERE. 
          WHETHER OR NOT THEY'LL GO ANYWHERE, I JUST DON'T KNOW. 
          BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF 'EM OUT THERE RIGHT NOW THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN FILED. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU, KAREN. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          I JUST HAVE A QUESTION FOR, UH, EJO. 
          IJO. 
          THERE WAS A SLIDE PRESENTATION THAT WAS ON HERE AND IT WAS NOT PLAYED. 
          SO THE PUBLIC, SEE IT IS STUCK WITH THIS IMAGE THAT'S UP HERE. 
          YES. 
          UH, THERE IS A ATION . 
          THANK YOU. 
          SO THIS AGAIN, IS JUST THE LIST OF THE RECOMMENDED PRIORITIES FOR YOU ALL. 
          THE NEXT SLIDE SIMPLY GOES THROUGH THE GENERAL, UH, AREAS OF SUPPORT THAT THE CITY, UH, USUALLY HAS WHEN IT COMES TO LEGISLATION PRESERVATION OF LOCAL CONTROL. 
          AS YOU'VE HEARD KAREN MENTION, THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF BILLS THAT HAVE BEEN FILED THAT WOULD LIMIT YOUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE SUPERIOR SERVICES TO OUR RESIDENTS. 
          AND SO PRESERVATION OF LOCAL CONTROL IS ONE OF THOSE, UH, AREAS THAT WE GENERALLY INCLUDE IN OUR PROGRAM. 
          SO THAT ANY BILL THAT COMES THROUGH THAT DOES NOT PRESERVE LOCAL CONTROL AS STAFF, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO WRITE THOSE LETTERS, UM, ASK A STAFF PERSON MAYBE TO GO PROVIDE COMMENTS. 
          UM, SO THAT IS USUALLY THE NUMBER ONE ITEM. 
          ADDITIONAL AREAS INCLUDE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, PROTECTING YOUR ZONING AUTHORITY. 
          THAT ALSO LENDS ITSELF TO PRESERVING LOCAL CONTROL. 
          YOU KNOW, RESIDENTS MOVE TO MISSOURI CITY AND AREAS LIKE THIS FOR A REASON. 
          AND PART OF THAT IS YOUR ABILITY TO ASSIST IN SHAPING, UH, THE USES THAT ARE IN THEIR AREA. 
          SO PRE PRESERVING ZONING RIGHTS, UH, INVESTING IN FLOOD MITIGATION. 
          UH, AND WE'VE TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS, BUT REQUIRING, UH, MAINTENANCE AND BACKUP FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE, UM, AS WELL AS PROVIDING MUNICIPAL CONSENT FOR ANY ACTIVITY THAT HAPPENS IN YOUR EXTRA TERRITORIAL JURISDICTION. 
          AREAS OF OPPOSITION, OF COURSE, INCLUDE UNFUNDED MANDATES. 
          IF THE STATE IS GOING TO REQUIRE SOMETHING THAT THE STATE ISN'T PAYING FOR, THAT IS, THAT GOES TO THE CITY'S BOTTOM LINE. 
          AGAIN, THAT GOES TO YOUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE CITY'S RESIDENTS. 
          UM, WE WOULD GENERALLY OPPOSE ANYTHING THAT LIMITS THE CITY'S AUTHORITY WITHIN THE ETJ, ANYTHING THAT LIMITS THE CITY'S AUTHORITY TO, AGAIN, TO SUSTAIN, UH, ITS LAND USE, CHARACTER AND ZONING. 
          UH, WE WOULD ALSO OPPOSE OR RECOMMEND OPPOSING ANYTHING THAT ERODES THE CITY'S AUTHORITY OVER MUNICIPAL PROPERTY, AS WELL AS ANYTHING THAT, UM, ESSENTIALLY MAKES THE CITY MORE SU SUSCEPTIBLE TO, UH, LAWSUITS AND, UH, THAT TYPE OF LIABILITY. 
          AND JUST A REVIEW OF OTHER CITY'S PROGRAMS. AS KAREN HAS MENTIONED, SUPER PREEMPTION. 
          THAT IS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF OTHER CITIES TALK ABOUT IN THEIR PROGRAMS. A LOT OF THEM HAVE MENTIONED ZONING AUTHORITY AND PRESERVING CITY ZONING AUTHORITIES. 
          UM, THERE'S A LOT OF CONCERN ABOUT REQUIRING CITIES TO ALLOW THOSE TINY LOTS AND THOSE TINY HOUSES, UH, AND BUILDING MATERIALS. 
          WE KNOW THAT THAT HAS HAD AN IMPACT IN OUR AREA AS WELL. 
          UH, AS WELL AS, UH, THERE HAS ACTUALLY BEEN DISCUSSION ABOUT ELIMINATING THE ETJ IN ITS ENTIRETY, SO THERE WOULD BE NO OPPORTUNITY FOR EXPANSION. 
          AND THE LAST SLIDE IS NEXT STEPS. 
          UH, THIS IS THE DISCUSSION MEETING THE STAFF REPORT YOU ALL, UH, WILL BE PRESENTED WITH THE LEGISLATIVE PROGRAM, UH, BY RESOLUTION ON JANUARY 6TH, AND THE SESSION BEGINS ON JANUARY 14TH. 
          UH, IF THERE ARE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, UH, PLEASE LET ME KNOW AND THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR, UH, TIME AND ATTENTION. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          AJO, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UM, ON ONE OF THE SLIDES, ON THE GENERAL SUPPORT ITEMS, WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT MAINTENANCE AND BACKUP FOR CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE YES. 
          FOR THE PROVISION OF ELECTRICITY, WATER, AND WASTEWATER. 
          YES. 
          SO CAN 
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YOU WALK ME THROUGH WHAT THAT IS? YES, SIR. 
          UH, WE JUST EXPERIENCED HURRICANE BARREL AND DURING THAT TIME THERE WERE CERTAIN, UH, ELECTRICAL AND, UH, WATER AND WASTEWATER FACILITIES, NOT NECESSARILY CITY OWNED. 
          UH, YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN A CITY THAT HAS A LOT OF OTHER DISTRICTS THAT PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES. 
          UH, THIS RECOMMENDATION FOR GENERAL SUPPORT WOULD SUPPORT, UH, LEGISLATION THAT REQUIRES THOSE FACILITIES TO MAINTAIN BACKUP GENERATORS AND THAT TYPE OF EQUIPMENT THAT COULD, UM, ALLOW THE CITY AND ALLOW RESIDENTS TO CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICES IF THERE'S AN EMERGENCY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          UH, GENERAL OPPOSITION, UH, ITEMS. YES SIR. 
          WHERE DID THEY COME FROM? THIS IS, UH, THESE ITEMS ARE GENERALLY INCLUDED IN OUR, UH, PACKAGES, IN OUR PROGRAMS IN PREVIOUS YEARS. 
          I ALSO REVIEW OTHER CITIES PROGRAMS JUST TO KIND OF SEE WHAT THE GENERAL THEMES ARE THAT OTHER CITIES ARE LOOKING AT. 
          UH, IN ADDITION TO THAT, JUST BASED ON EXPERIENCE STAFF AND THE ISSUES THAT COME UP, I, UH, DEVELOP THIS LIST. 
          SO UNDER THE GENERAL OPPOSITION ITEMS, YES, FORT BEND COUNTY HAS 18 CITIES. 
          SO ARE WE IN LINE WITH THE OTHER 18 CITIES WHEN IT COMES TO THESE OPPOSITION ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE LISTED? SO I HAVE NOT REVIEWED THE PROGRAMS OF ALL 18 CITIES. 
          I DID REVIEW CITY OF SUGAR LANDS, UM, BUT I HAVEN'T LOOKED AT SOME OF THE SMALLER, UH, CITIES. 
          IF THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE COUNCIL WANTS, I CAN CERTAINLY PREPARE THAT FOR THE, UH, THE ACTUAL ADOPTION. 
          SURE. 
          PART OF THE REASON I THINK WHY I ASKED THAT IS, YOU KNOW, I, I'VE BEEN TO TWO ONE FOR SCHOOLING, UH, WITH THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION. 
          THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, SCHOOLS, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO CITIES, THERE IS A FORT BEND MAYOR AND COUNCIL ASSOCIATION. 
          THERE'S THINGS THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON THAT PROCESS. 
          SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE EITHER IN ALIGN WITH THEM OR WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING CAN BE ALIGNED WITH THE REST OF THE CITIES. 
          AND I GET THAT NOT ALL CITIES ARE GONNA BE THE SAME AS WHEN IT COMES TO ZONING MM-HMM. 
           OR WHEN IT COMES TO ANY OF THAT. 
          BUT IT HAS TO BE SOMEWHAT LINED. 
          SO, ABSOLUTELY. 
          AND I HAVE TALKED TO, UM, I'M A MEMBER OF THE HOUSTON AREA MUNICIPAL GROUP AND I, UH, ATTORNEYS GROUP. 
          AND SO I HAVE TALKED TO THAT GROUP, THE, UH, CITY ATTORNEYS IN THE AREA ABOUT THE DIFFERENT, UH, NOT THE OPPOSITION LIST PER SE, BUT JUST THE GENERAL THEMES THAT THEY ARE SEEING IN THEIR AREAS. 
          BUT, UM, IF THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL, A REQUEST TO MAYBE LOOK A LITTLE DEEPER IN FORT BEND COUNTY TO ENSURE THAT THERE'S NOTHING ON OUR OPPOSITION LIST THAT CONFLICTS WITH ANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS, I CAN CERTAINLY DO THAT. 
          YEAH. 
          SO I WOULD SAY AS HOUSTON IS ITS OWN ANIMAL, THEY HAVE THEIR OWN ISSUES, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US PART OF THAT FORT BEND COUNTY, UM, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S SUGARLAND, MISSOURI CITY, ROSENBERG, RICHMOND, AND SOME OF THOSE AREAS AND SEEING WHERE WE'RE GOING WITH THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          BECAUSE IF YOU CAN'T REALLY COMPARE APPLE TO APPLEWOOD CITY OF MISSOURI CITY IN HOUSTON, I THINK IT CAN BE, YOU KNOW, ALONGSIDE OF WHAT'S IN FORT BEND COUNTY. 
          RIGHT. 
          SURE. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          LAST QUESTION I HAVE IS JANUARY 6TH, 2025. 
          ADOPTED 2025 LEGISLATIVE AGENDA BY RESOLUTION. 
          SO WILL YOU BE PRESENTING THAT TO US ON, ON JANUARY 6TH? YES, SIR. 
          SO ALL THE MEMBERS OF COUNCIL HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEND IN REQUEST OR, OR SEND IN SOME THINGS THAT THEY'RE, UH, WORKING TOWARDS THAT PROCESS? YES. 
          SO THIS IS THE STAFF REPORT. 
          THIS IS, UH, YOU ALL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY AT THIS POINT TO PROVIDE ANY ADDITIONAL ITEMS THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ADDED TO THE PROPOSED LEGISLATIVE AGENDA. 
          UH, THE PROPOSED AGENDA WAS PROVIDED, UH, BEFOREHAND. 
          IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT IS NOT INCLUDED THAT YOU ALL THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LET'S SAY SOMETHING HAPPENS DURING THE, THE HOLIDAYS, UH, ON JANUARY 6TH. 
          IF A DESIRE TO CHANGE WHAT IS BEFORE YOU, YOU ALL HAVE THE ABILITY AT THAT TIME TO MAKE A MOTION TO AMEND THE PROPOSED DOCUMENT TO INCLUDE ANYTHING YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ADDED. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          YES, SIR. 
          KAREN, I HAVE ONE QUESTION FOR YOU. 
          UH, WHEN YOU'RE, UM, OBVIOUSLY YOU'RE COVERING MISSOURI CITY AND I'M SURE YOU HAVE OTHER CITIES THAT YOU COVER. 
          YES, SIR. 
          HOW MANY IN FORT BEND COUNTY THAT YOU OVERSEE OR YOU COVER ON AS A LOBBYIST IN INJUNCTION WITH JERSEY CITY? WE DON'T REPRESENT ANY MORE CITIES. 
          YOU DON'T REPRESENT ANYBODY ELSE? NOT IN FORT BEND COUNTY. 
          WE, WE'VE ALWAYS WORKED THOUGH WITH THE CITIES THAT HAVE INDIVIDUAL LOBBYISTS AND, AND THOSE ARE VERY, UH, OUTSIDE CONSULTANTS. 
          SUGARLAND ALWAYS DOES, I THINK FOR THE FIRST TIME. 
          UM, RICHMOND IS RICHMOND HERE IN 
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FORT BEND COUNTY. 
          I THINK THEY DID FOR THE FIRST TIME, BUT MANY OF THEM JUST GO THROUGH TML AND WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH TML. 
          OKAY. 
          ALRIGHT. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I DON'T THINK, AND THERE'S NOBODY ELSE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          OKAY. 
          ALL YES. 
          BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE AGENDA, I'D LIKE TO MOVE ITEM 10 UP. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, ALL RIGHT. 
          IS THAT YOUR MOTION? YES. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, CAN YOU PUT THE MOTION, IS THERE A SECOND? SO THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MORALES. 
          UH, SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON THE QUEUE, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          OKAY. 
          ITEM 10 
          [10. CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION]
IS A CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION. 
          THE TIME IS 7:34 PM AND THE CITY COUNCIL WILL NOW GO INTO A CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO SECTION 5 5 1 0.074 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE. 
          THE TIME IS 9:06 PM NOW THE CITY 
          [11. RECONVENE]
COUNCIL IS BACK INTO REGULAR MEETING. 
          OKAY, WE'RE BACK TO, UM, 
          [(b) City Manager Report - Provide an overview of Consent Agenda items and ...]
ITEM FIVE B. 
          UH, CITY MANAGER'S REPORT. 
          UH, CITY MANAGER ANGEL JONES. 
          GOOD EVENING MAYOR. 
          COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOOD EVENING. 
          THERE ARE 10 ITEMS ON THE CONSENT AGENDA TONIGHT, AND I WILL BE PROVIDING A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF NINE OF THE ITEMS. AND I HAVE, ADDITIONALLY, I HAVE TWO, UH, PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENTS STARTING WITH ITEM B. 
          UM, THIS ITEM WOULD ALLOW FOR THE ACCEPTANCE, ACCEPTANCE OF A WATERLINE EASEMENT DONATED TO THE CITY AS A GIFT BY THE PROPERTY OWNER. 
          STORAGE CHOICE. 
          ITEM C WOULD AUTHORIZE THE MAYOR TO EXECUTE A PURCHASE AND SALE AGREEMENT WITH MEMORIAL HERMAN HEALTH SYSTEM FOR THE PURCHASE OF ABOUT 6.5 ACRES FOR THE MUSTANG BAYOU WATER PLANT EXPANSION PROJECT, WE'RE ABOUT $565,000. 
          THIS AMOUNT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE APPRAISED VALUE. 
          ITEM D WOULD PROVIDE AUTHORIZATION FOR MOU WITH THE GULF COAST WATER AUTHORITY TO ALLOW FOR COST-EFFECTIVE LOCAL DISPOSAL OF DREDGE MATERIALS, WHICH COULD SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCE THE PROJECT COST. 
          ITEM E. 
          UM, THIS ACTION WOULD PROVIDE THE AUTHORIZATION TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH GREENBERG. 
          WHICH OF THIS LAST PART, I'LL JUST SAY GT FOR LEGISLATIVE CONSULTING SERVICES? ITEM F IS RELATED TO THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT, UH, TO THE ORDINANCE THAT GOVERNS THE FREQUENCY OF CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. 
          ADOPTION OF THE ORDINANCE WOULD ALLOW CITY COUNCIL TO DESIGNATE THE TWO DAYS ON WHICH THE CITY COUNCIL WILL NOT HOLD A MEETING, UH, BY MOTION. 
          AND ITEM G PROVIDING ITEM F IS APPROVED. 
          THIS ITEM WOULD ALLOW FOR THE AUTHORIZATION TO COUNCIL THE 12 16 20 24 CITY COUNCIL MEETING. 
          ITEM H UM, THIS IS THE SECOND AND FINAL READING FOR THE ADOPTION OF A TRAFFIC CALMING POLICY. 
          AND THEN ITEM I IS THE SECOND AND FINAL READING TO AMEND THE CIVIL SERVICE IMPLEMENTATION ORDINANCE, RATIFYING CERTAIN AMENDMENTS RELATED TO THE STRENGTH OF FORCE AND ASSIGNMENT PAY WHEN APPLICABLE TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          AND THEN ITEM J, UH, THIS ITEM WOULD PROVIDE THE AUTHORIZATION TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH GREENSCAPE SIX LLC FOR THE LA QUINTA GOLF COURSE RENOVATION AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENT PROJECT IN THE AMOUNT OF $5,629,669 AND 80 CENTS. 
          YOU WILL NOTE THAT THIS AMOUNT IS FOR THE BASE PROJECT. 
          ONLY STAFF WILL REQUEST APPROVAL OF THE CART PATHS ONCE THE FUNDING HAS BEEN FINALIZED. 
          AND THE ANNOUNCEMENTS I HAVE, THIS IS TO THE PUBLIC. 
          YOU'RE ALL INVITED. 
          JOIN US ON WEDNESDAY, 
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DECEMBER 4TH FOR A SPECIAL PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT EVENT AS PART OF OUR POLICE CHIEF RECRUITMENT PROCESS. 
          THE LOCATION IS ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL FROM SIX 30 TO 8:00 PM THIS IS YOUR OPPORTUNITY TO MEET THE CANDIDATES AND HEAR THEIR VISION FOR PUBLIC SAFETY IN OUR COMMUNITY. 
          WE LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR PARTICIPATION AND HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE IN THIS IMPORTANT PROCESS. 
          THE LAST ANNOUNCEMENT IS JOIN US FOR ANNUAL FEST PARADE ON SATURDAY DECEMBER 7TH. 
          THIS YEAR FEATURES AN EXCITING NEW PARADE ROUTE, SO PLAN TO ARRIVE EARLY TO SECURE YOUR SPOT. 
          THIS PARADE, THE PARADE START TIME IS 9:00 AM AND WE'LL BEGIN AT THE QUAIL VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. 
          DON'T MISS THE DEBUT OF THE CITY'S TROLLEY AND ALL THE FESTIVE FUN. 
          WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU THERE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THAT CONCLUDES MY REPORT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UH, RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER NEY. 
          UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          UM, SO I, I I THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UH, PRESENTATION. 
          MM-HMM, . 
          UM, I DO UNDERSTAND PROP E HAD PASSED, UH, AND WHY WE'RE, UH, DOING, UH, SIX F UH, AS IT RELATES TO THAT. 
          HOWEVER, UM, WHO DETERMINES WHICH DAYS WITHIN THE MONTH ARE CANCELED? I KNOW THE COUNCIL WILL VOTE ON IT, BUT WHO, I MEAN, THIS IS AN ORDINANCE THAT WE'RE BEING ASKED TO VOTE ON, BUT WHO MADE THE DETERMINATION? WHO MAKES THE DETERMINATION AS TO WHAT DAYS OUT OF THE TWO MONTHS, UH, THAT, THAT, UH, THAT, THAT ARE CONSIDERED? 'CAUSE THIS JUST KIND OF CAME OUTTA NOWHERE. 
          SO I JUST WANTED TO KIND OF WILL BE CITY COUNCIL BY MOTION. 
          WHO MAKES THE, WHO'S MADE, WHO MADE THIS SUGGESTION THAT DECEMBER THE 16TH. 
          OH, THE DATE THAT WE WOULD CANCEL? WELL, WHEN, RIGHT AFTER THE ORDERS, WHEN WE WERE HAVING, UM, UH, PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS ABOUT GOING TO, UM, TWO, USING TWO MONTHS WHERE WE ONLY HAD ONE DAY, IT WAS SUGGESTED AT THAT TIME, DECEMBER AND JULY WERE THE TWO MONTHS THAT WERE SUGGESTED. 
          SO BECAUSE OF THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S WHY YOU SEE THAT AS A PROPOSED. 
          SO COME 2025, YOU'RE SAYING THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE ONE DAY OFF IN JULY AND ONE DAY OFF IN DECEMBER, YOU WOULD DO SO BY MOTION? I'M JUST SAYING. 
          WELL, THE PRELIMINARY CONVERSATION WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS CHARTER CHANGE WAS DECEMBER AND JULY. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT THAT'S STILL UP TO COUNSEL TO DETERMINE WHAT THOSE DAYS WILL BE. 
          THEY COULD BE MARCH AND NOVEMBER. 
          WHEN WILL WE HAVE THOSE DISCUSSIONS? I GUESS PRIOR TO YOU WOULD HAVE, WHEN YOU WANT TO, UM, CANCEL A MEETING IN THE FOLLOWING MONTH, OR I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH TIME YOU WOULD HAVE TO ALLOW. 
          I'LL GIVE IT TO THE CITY ATTORNEY TO TAKE UP THOSE SPECIFICS, BUT IT WOULD BE PRIOR TO THE MEETING, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL CAN DISCUSS AT THE RETREAT. 
          MAYBE GIVE ABOUT FIVE TO 10 MINUTES TO DISCUSS WHAT DAYS YOU WANT FOR THAT COMING YEAR. 
          I THINK, I THINK THAT THERE IS A RETREAT PLANNED IN FEBRUARY OR MARCH. 
          UH, BUT THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT YOU ALL COULD DISCUSS AND GIVE STAFF DIRECTION ON. 
          THE ONLY REASON THIS DATE WAS SELECTED, AS THE MANAGER MENTIONED, WHEN YOU ALL TALKED ABOUT IT, Y'ALL TALKED ABOUT JULY AND DECEMBER. 
          UH, BUT IF THIS DATE IS NOT A DESIRED DAY TO CANCEL A MEETING, YOU ALL CAN REMOVE IT AND DON'T HAVE TO VOTE ON THAT AS WELL. 
          YES. 
          OKAY. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCILMAN, UH, QUESTION ON ITEM C FOR THE MEMORIAL HERMANN. 
          SO IS THAT THE TRACK SASHI THAT HAD THE REALLY DIFFERENT, LIKE HARD ACCESS THAT WE WERE TALKING ABOUT? GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, MAD AND COUNSELING? YES. 
          THE ANSWER IS YES. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THAT WAS CLEARED. 
          EVERYONE AGREED. 
          FINALLY, YES. 
          IF YOU RECALL, WE CLOSED ON THE 1.5 ACRES WITH THE TOLL ROAD. 
          THIS IS THE REMAINING PROPERTY TO THE SOUTH. 
          WITH THAT, WE WILL HAVE THE CONTIGUOUS PROPERTY ADJACENT TO OUR WATER PLANT. 
          YES. 
          AWESOME. 
          THANK YOU, SIR. 
          RECOGNIZING, MAY I APPROACH I'M KLAUSER? YES. 
          UM, I HAVE TWO. 
          UM, AND AS IT RELATES TO, UH, ITEM J, UH, THE LA QUINTA GOLF COURSE, I KNOW WE HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE HERE. 
          WAS THERE ANYTHING THAT NEEDED TO BE EXPLAINED OR ANYTHING THAT'S COME UP THAT THE REPRESENTATIVE WHO DESIGNED THE COURSE, UH, NEEDED TO TALK TO? GOOD EVENING MAYOR PROAM? UM, WE DO NOT, WE DID PUT A PRESENTATION IN YOUR PACKAGE. 
          THERE WAS ENOUGH PUBLIC MEETINGS AND PUBLIC INPUT PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH. 
          UH, THIS IS FAIRLY, UH, UNIQUE JOB, SO TO SPEAK, GOLF COURSE RENOVATION AND DRAINAGE. 
          BUT WE DO HAVE JEFF BLOOM, UH, WHO IS THE ARCHITECT FOR THE ORIGINAL EL DORADO COURSE, AND HE'S THE ARCHITECT ON THIS COURSE AS WELL, AS WELL AS THE, THE QUALIFIED CONTRACTOR THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING AWARD. 
          THEY'RE HERE, UH, 
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UM, WE GOT SOME VERY GOOD BITS. 
          ALL THE MAJOR PLAYERS CONTRACTOR BID THIS JOB, AND WE'RE HAPPY TO AWARD THIS ONE BECAUSE THE TIME IS OF, AS ESSENCE, WE WANNA START CONSTRUCTION EARLY JANUARY TO FINISH THE JOB IN JUNE SO WE CAN GET TO THE GRASSING SEASON, WHICH WILL EN ENABLE US TO OPEN THE GOLF COURSE, UH, TO THE NEXT PLAYING SEASON, PEAK SEASON, END OF DECEMBER, OR MAYBE EARLY JANUARY OF NEXT YEAR. 
          UH, BUT I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE ARE, AS THE CITY MANAGER ALLUDED TO. 
          WE'LL COME BACK AND, UH, UH, PUT THE COURT PATH AT THE NEXT AVAILABLE COUNCIL MEETING FOR CONSIDERATION AS WELL. 
          BUT OTHER THAN THAT, WE HAVE NOTHING ELSE TO SAY, AND WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. 
          EITHER ME OR THE GOLF COURSE ARCHITECT OR THE TEAM CAN ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          I JUST, I, I KNOW WE HAD REPRESENTATIVES, SO I DIDN'T KNOW IF THERE WAS ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU. 
          AND SO MY, MY LAST QUESTION IS, UH, AS IT RELATES TO YOUR COMMENT ABOUT THE, UM, UH, CANDIDATES FOR POLICE CHIEF, WILL THAT BE RECORDED? WILL IT BE, UH, STREAMED LIVE THAT EVENING? UM, NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE. 
          UM, BUT WE HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT RECORDING THAT, UM, BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE IN ELKINS HIGH SCHOOL. 
          WE DIDN'T KNOW THE SETUP, SO WE JUST WANT AS MANY PEOPLE TO COME AS POSSIBLE. 
          OKAY. 
          BUT IT WILL NOT BE RECORDED. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'S ALL I HAVE. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          UM, THANK YOU, CITY MANAGER. 
          ITEM NUMBER SIX. 
          [6. CONSENT AGENDA]
IS THERE A MOTION? THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER LES, SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON THE QUEUE, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ITEM NUMBER SEVEN, 
          [(a) Consideration and Possible Action - Elect a Mayor Pro Tem.]
OUR APPOINTMENTS, UH, SEVEN A IS A CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION TO ELECT A MAYOR PRO TEM CRYSTAL ROME. 
          THIS ITEM, UM, IS FOR THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL TO SELECT A MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          UM, SINCE THE CHARTER AMENDMENT WAS PASSED, UM, IT STATES THAT THE, UM, MAYOR PRO TEM WILL BE ELECTED BETWEEN NOVEMBER 15TH AND DECEMBER 31ST OF EACH CALENDAR YEAR, WHICH IS SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT FROM THE PREVIOUS, UM, CHARTER, WHICH STATED THAT IT WOULD BE DONE AT THE SECOND MEETING IN DECEMBER. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          CRYSTAL. 
          UM, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER CL MAYOR. 
          PROTON KLAUSER? YES. 
          I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO NOMINATE SONYA BROWN MARSHALL AS MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM KLAUSER IS THEIR SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THERE'S BEEN A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY. 
          UM, NOW WE'RE, UH, WE'RE GONNA GO DOWN THE QUEUE. 
          COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY? YES. 
          UM, I JUST WANTED TO, UM, REQUEST THAT I HAD SPOKEN WITH MAYOR PRO TEM KLAUSER, ASKING FOR YOUR SUPPORT, UH, SEEING AS HOW I HAVE MORE SENIORITY, UM, YOU KNOW, ON COUNCIL, UH, MAYOR PRO, EXCUSE ME. 
          UH, SONYA BROWN MAUSER WAS ELECTED A YEAR AFTER I WAS, AND I HAVE SERVED, UH, THIS CITY WELL, AND I HAVE COMMITTED TO ATTENDING ALL OF THE MEETINGS EXCEPT FOR, UM, MY HEALTH CRISIS AS WELL AS, UH, VARIOUS EVENTS AND BEING VERY SUPPORTIVE ACROSS THIS CITY. 
          AND IT WOULD BE, UM, VERY, UM, INTERESTING TO, TO LEARN WHY I WAS NOT SELECTED, UM, OR WHY YOUR MOTION WAS NOT FOR THE PERSON WHO WAS, UM, BASED ON SENIORITY. 
          EVERYBODY HERE ON COUNCIL HAS SERVED AS MAYOR PRO TIMM, UNDER ROBIN, UH, MAYOR ROBIN ELCAT, UH, SINCE THEY'VE BEEN HERE. 
          AND, UM, IT JUST SEEMS TO BE VERY UNFAIR TO SELECT, UM, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE WHO HAS DONE A GREAT JOB AS WELL. 
          BUT TECHNICALLY, THE WAY THAT THE FLOW HAS HAPPENED WOULD BE HER TURN FOR NEXT YEAR. 
          AND SINCE I WAS JUST REELECTED BY THE MAJORITY VOTE OF THE VOTERS, UM, NO ONE IN THIS SEAT OF DISTRICT A HAS SERVED AS MAYOR PRO TEM SINCE BEFORE 2018. 
          UM, AND I AM SERVING IN MY SECOND TERM, AND I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE BEEN SELECTED AS THE, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM AND HAVE THE SUPPORT OF MY COLLEAGUES, UH, FOR THIS, FOR THIS NEXT YEAR. 
          OKAY. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER BONNEY. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR. 
          I JUST WANTED TO SAY, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, I, I, I AGREE WITH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN RILEY IN THAT, YOU KNOW, UH, COUNCILWOMAN BROWN MARSHALL HAS SERVED IN HER ROLE IN A, UH, IN A GREAT WAY. 
          UM, BUT AS FAR AS OUR PROCESSES HAVE BEEN CONCERNED, AND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THE INDIVIDUALS THAT HAVE SERVED ON HERE, UH, RECOGNIZE, YOU KNOW, 
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NO, NO ONE HAS SERVED IN THE ROLE OF, UH, MAYOR PRO TEM IN THEIR FIRST TERM. 
          UH, AS A COUNCIL PERSON, I KNOW I'VE CONSTANTLY ASKED MY COLLEAGUES TO LOOK AT OUR PROCESSES AS TO HOW WE DETERMINE WHO THE MAYOR PRO TEM IS GOING TO BE. 
          AND FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, WHAT IT HAS BEEN HAS BEEN BASED OFF OF YEARS OF SER SERVICE, UH, TENURE AND OR THE LAST TIME THAT, UH, THERE WAS, UH, SOMEONE SERVING IN THAT ROLE, THE LONGEST TERM OF SERVICE. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, LIKE, UH, UH, COUNCILWOMAN RILEY, UH, I LAST SERVED, UH, A LITTLE OVER, UH, THREE YEARS AGO, UH, AS WELL, UH, AND PRIOR TO SONYA BROWN, UH, COUNCILWOMAN BROWN MARSHALL BEING ELECTED IN 2022. 
          UH, AND SO WHILE I HAVE NO, UH, ISSUE WITH HER SERVICE TO THE, OUR GREAT CITY, I JUST THINK THAT IT REALLY SPEAKS TO WHY WE'RE DEVIATING FROM HOW WE DECIDED THE MAYOR PRO TEM IN THE PAST VERSUS, YOU KNOW, WHY WE'RE CURRENTLY MAKING A, A, A DECISION TO, UM, ELECT SOMEONE WHO'S NOT, UH, FULLY F UH, SERVED. 
          UH, ONE FULL TERM, UH, AS A COUNCIL PERSON IN THE CITY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER BRA MARSHALL. 
          THANK YOU SO MUCH. 
          UM, MAYOR PRO TEM KLAUSER FOR THE NOMINATION. 
          I TOO HAVE SINCE ASKED HOW DOES THE APPOINTMENTS WORK? I SAT HERE, YOU KNOW, THESE TWO YEARS AND KIND OF UNDERSTAND THAT IT A GENTLEMAN'S HANDSHAKE, IF YOU WILL, WITH THE WAY THE APPOINTMENTS HAVE WORKED FOR YEARS. 
          UM, YOU KNOW, AT THIS POINT, I, I, I CAN'T ANSWER AS TO, UH, WHAT HAS PROMPTED THAT, BUT I DID WANT TO WANT TO SAY THAT I AM WILLING AND I'M CAPABLE OF SERVING IN THE ROLE. 
          I DON'T, UH, YOU KNOW, LOOK FORWARD TO MAYBE ONE DAY ESTABLISHING SOME CRITERIA AS TO HOW WE GET THERE, AND, UM, JUST LOOK FORWARD TO DOING THAT. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          RECOGNIZING MAY APPROACH MCLA. 
          YES. 
          SO, UM, YOU ASKED A, A QUESTION, UM, I'D RATHER TALK WITH YOU ABOUT THAT PERSONALLY, BECAUSE WHEN YOU REACHED OUT TO ME, I DIDN'T GIVE YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE, SO I WANNA MAKE THAT CLEAR. 
          I DIDN'T GIVE YOU AN AFFIRMATIVE OF WHETHER I WAS OR NOT. 
          SO, UM, WE CAN TALK ABOUT WHY I MADE THIS MOTION, UM, OFFLINE. 
          OKAY. 
          SO THERE'S, SEE NO ONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE. 
          THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR APPROACH HIM, KLAUSER. 
          I PUT MYSELF BACK IN THE QUEUE. 
          OKAY. 
          COUNCILOR ARIA, AND I, I, I DO WANNA CLARIFY. 
          I NEVER STATED THAT YOU HAD AGREED OR DISAGREED. 
          I JUST SAID, I REACHED OUT TO YOU TO ASK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          UM, AS THE NEXT MAYOR PRO TEM, I HAVE SERVED THIS CITY VERY WELL, BEEN MADE, HAVE BEEN, MADE MYSELF VERY ACCESSIBLE, UM, TO VARIOUS COMMITTEES. 
          UM, THE COUNCIL COMMITTEES, ATTENDING OTHER EVENTS AND MEETINGS WITH OTHER COMMITTEES, AND NOT TO MENTION THE COUNTLESS AMOUNT OF HOURS THAT I COMMIT TO SUPPORTING, UM, VARIOUS EVENTS THROUGH THE CITY AND IN THE COMMUNITY ACROSS THIS, UH, CITY. 
          I'M IN MY SECOND TERM, AND I FEEL AND BELIEVE AS LONG AS, AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, OTHERS HAVE ASKED, AM I GOING TO BE, UM, IN A POSITION IN THE NEXT TERM TO BE ABLE TO SERVE? AND I SAID, BASED ON THE WAY THE ROTATION HAS TAKEN PLACE, IT LOOKS THAT THAT SHOULD BE THE PROPER ORDER AND TO DEVIATE FROM THAT PROPER ORDER FOR WHATEVER REASON. 
          UM, IT DOESN'T, IT'S NOT FAIR. 
          UM, WHATEVER YOUR REASONINGS ARE, AND I'M HAPPY TO HEAR THOSE OFFLINE, BUT I STILL WOULD ASK THAT YOU CHANGE YOUR MOTION AND BE FAIR ABOUT THIS PROCESS. 
          THE FACT THAT I HAVE SERVED DILIGENTLY, UM, THIS CITY VERY WELL AND HAVE WORKED WELL WITH EVERYBODY ON THIS COUNCIL, UM, AND HAVE, HAVE NOT TO MY KNOWLEDGE, HAD ANY ISSUES WITH ANY OF YOU. 
          AND SO IT JUST, IT DOESN'T SEEM CORRECT, THE PROPER ORDER, AND NO DISRESPECT TO COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL, I'M SURE SHE WOULD SERVE WELL AS WELL. 
          UM, BUT IT IS TECHNICALLY MY TURN. 
          AND I RECALL HOW IT WAS SUCH AN EGREGIOUS PROCESS IN 2018 WHEN THE, UH, PREVIOUS MAYOR AND COUNCIL HAD SELECTED SOMEONE TO SERVE AS THE MAYOR PRO 10 FOR A SECOND TIME AND SKIPPED OVER COUNCIL MEMBER ANTHONY MARLES. 
          I WAS IN THE AUDIENCE WHEN THAT HAPPENED PRIOR TO ME BEING ON COUNCIL, AND I REMEMBER HOW UPSET HE WAS BECAUSE IT WAS TECHNICALLY HIS TURN. 
          AND IN 2019 WHEN THE CHAIN, THE HAND OF, UH, IT CHANGED OVER, AND THEN AGAIN IN 
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2021, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BONY WAS, UM, ELECTED TO BE THE MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          THE SAME NIGHT THAT I WAS, UM, SWORN IN, IN 21. 
          UH, PRIOR TO THAT, WITH THIS NEW MAYOR AND COUNCIL, UM, IN 20 20, 20 TO 21 IS WHEN, UM, ANTHONY MARULA COUNCIL MEMBER WAS ABLE TO SERVE AS MAYOR PRO TEM. 
          IT PASSED ON TO COUNCIL MEMBER JEFF BONY, AND IN 22, IT PASSED ON TO, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER FLOYD EMERY. 
          AND IN 23 IT PASSED ON TO YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER MAYOR PRO TEM LYNN KLAUSER. 
          AND IN 24, I WAS EXPECTING TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THIS NEXT YEAR, UM, IN THAT POSITION. 
          AND IT IS VERY UNFAIR TO NOT BE SELECTED FOR THAT. 
          UM, AND IF YOU DID HAVE AN ISSUE WHEN I REACHED OUT, IT WOULD'VE BEEN, UM, UH, APPRECIATED IF YOU HAD TO LET ME KNOW AT THAT PARTICULAR TIME THAT YOU WOULD NOT CONSIDER, UH, MAKING THAT MOTION AND, OR ANY, ANYBODY FOR THAT MATTER, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHO'S GONNA MAKE THE MOTION, AND I'M NOT GONNA CREATE A WALKING QUORUM. 
          SO I DID REACH OUT TO YOU AND ASK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 
          YOU DID NOT REPLY. 
          AND SO, AS A RESULT, UM, HERE WE ARE. 
          AND I DO BELIEVE THAT IT'S VERY UNFAIR. 
          AND, UM, AND I'M GONNA ASK THAT YOU, YOU CHANGE YOUR MOTION AND TO GIVE ME THE FAIR OPPORTUNITY TO SERVE THIS NEXT, YOU KNOW, 12 MONTHS AS MAYOR PRO TIM, I HEAR EVERYTHING YOU SAID, AND, UM, YOU DO WORK VERY HARD. 
          I THINK ALL OF US WORK VERY HARD. 
          WE ALL GO TO LOTS OF EVENTS. 
          AND SO, UM, BUT AGAIN, WHEN YOU CALLED ME THAT WAS ASSUMING THAT I WAS AVAILABLE TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU WANTED TO TALK ABOUT RIGHT THEN, AND I, AND I WAS NOT, UM, UH, AGAIN, I HAVE, THIS IS, THIS IS MY VOTE. 
          OKAY? THIS IS, THIS IS MY VOTE. 
          SO IF YOU CHOOSE, YOU KNOW, I, I UNDERSTAND YOUR FEELINGS. 
          HOWEVER, MY, MY MOTION STILL STANDS. 
          OKAY? SO SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON THE QUEUE, THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY MAYOR PROTON KLAUSER, UH, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY, SEEING NO ONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES FIVE TO ONE. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          ITEM NUMBER EIGHT 
          [(a) Consideration and Possible Action - First and Final Reading - An ordin...]
ARE ORDINANCES EIGHT A, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AMENDING THE GENERAL BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR, BEGINNING OCTOBER 1ST, 2023, AND ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2024, TRANSFERRING VARIOUS APPROPRIATIONS AMONG ACCOUNTS, APPROPRIATING SUPPLEMENTAL REVENUE TO VARIOUS FUND ACCOUNTS, AUTHORIZING THE APPROPRIATE CITY OFFICIALS TO TAKE STEPS NECESSARY TO ACCOMPLISH SUCH TRANSFERS, MAKING CERTAIN FINDINGS AND CONTAINING CERTAIN PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT. 
          THANK YOU. 
          WE HAVE A, UH, BERTHA ALEXANDER, CHIEF BUDGET AND PERFORMANCE OFFICER. 
          OKAY, COULD GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          THIS IS THE FINAL AMENDMENT FOR FFY 2024, AND THE MAJORITY OF THE TRANSACTIONS ARE MOVING RESOURCES AMONG DEPARTMENTS OR WHAT WE CALL CLEANUP FOR THE GENERAL FUND. 
          WE'RE TRANSFERRING A TOTAL OF APPROXIMATELY 2.9 MILLION FROM NON-DEPARTMENTAL TO THE OPERATING DEPARTMENTS. 
          THE TRANSFER CONSISTS OF 1.9 MILLION TO COVER THE FY 24 SALARY INCREASE, AND ONE TIME LONGEVITY PAY. 
          AND THE ASSOCIATED BENEFITS 903,000 TO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT TO COVER SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR HIGHER CLASSIFICATION, PAY, CERTIFICATION PAY, AND BONUSES FOR RECRUITMENT OF FIREFIGHTERS AND FUNDING TO COVER THE 30% INCREASE IN HEALTH INSURANCE PREMIUMS AND WORKERS' COMPENSATION. 
          NORMALLY, THESE ITEMS WOULD BE COVERED FROM SALARY SAVINGS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT. 
          HOWEVER, WITH MINIMUM TO NO VACANCIES WITHIN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THERE WERE NO SAVINGS. 
          SO WE'RE USING CITYWIDE SAVINGS TO COVER THOSE ITEMS. THE NET IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE IS ZERO. 
          WE ANTICIPATE RECEIVING A REIMBURSEMENT OF APPROXIMATELY 116,000 THAT WILL OFFSET SOME OF THE COSTS 
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FOR THE FIRE DEPARTMENT. 
          UM, IN PARTICULAR COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH HURRICANES BARREL AND HELENE, THE CITY HAS A MEMBER OF THE TEXAS TASK FORCE WHO WAS DEPLOYED TO ASSIST WITH THE DESTRUCTION FROM HURRICANE ALENE. 
          WE WILL BE REIMBURSED FOR OVERTIME AND SALARIES AND BENEFITS FOR THAT MEMBER. 
          ALSO, THE REIMBURSEMENT INCLUDES A PARAMEDIC GRANT. 
          WE'RE USING 450,000 OF THE ASSIGNED FUND BALANCE FOR FACILITIES AND MAINTENANCE TO INCREASE THE FLEET REPAIRS BUDGET BY 258,800 TO COVER COST INCURRED, INCREASE IN BUILDING MATERIALS AND SUPPLIES BY 75,000 FOR HVAC REPAIRS, AND AN INCREASE IN OVERTIME BY 116,200 TO COVER OVERTIME AND ASSOCIATED BENEFITS. 
          THE NET IMPACT TO FUND BALANCE IS A DECREASE OF $450,000. 
          WE'RE INCREASING MUNICIPAL COURTS BUDGET FOR CREDIT CARD PROCESSING FEES BY 25,000 TO EQUAL THE ACTUAL COST. 
          AND WE'RE DECREASING CONTRACTUAL SERVICES IN NON-DEPARTMENTAL BY 25,000 TO COVER THE TRANSFER TO MUNICIPAL COURT. 
          THESE FEES ARE PARTIALLY OFFSET BY REVENUE. 
          THE NET IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE IS ZERO. 
          WE'RE INCREASING THE BUDGET FOR JUDGES PAY BY $15,120 TO ACCOUNT FOR THE HOURLY RATE INCREASE FROM LAST JULY. 
          AND TO COVER THE ADDITIONAL HOURS WORKED. 
          WE'RE DECREASING THE SALARY ADJUSTMENT ACCOUNT IN NON-DEPARTMENTAL BY 15,100. 
          THE NET IMPACT ON THE GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE IS ZERO. 
          SO OVERALL, THE NET IMPACT TO THE GENERAL FUND FUND BALANCE IS A DECREASE OF 450,000 FUND FIVE 19. 
          THE 2024 CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION, WE ORIGINALLY BUDGETED TO ISSUE 21.1 MILLION IN CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATIONS TO FUND SEVERAL UTILITY PROJECTS. 
          HOWEVER, TS TWO MADE A CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS FUNDING SOME OF THE PROJECTS, WHICH RESULTED IN THE CITY REDUCING THE BOND ISSUANCE TO 7.7 MILLION. 
          THEREFORE, WE ARE REDUCING THE REVENUE BUDGET BY 13.5 MILLION, AND THE EXPENSE BUDGET BY 13.5 MILLION TO EQUAL THE ACTUAL AMOUNT OF THE ISSUANCE. 
          THE OVERALL NET IMPACT TO THE 2024 CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION FUND BALANCE IS ZERO FUND 5 42 SURFACE WATER CONSTRUCTION. 
          WE'RE REDUCING THE INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS EXPENSE BUDGET BY 7.7 MILLION, AS SOME OF THE PROJECTS ORIGINALLY BUDGETED TO THIS FUND WILL BE PAID FROM THE CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION PROCEEDS, WHICH ARE BUDGETED IN FUND FIVE 19. 
          THE OVERALL NET IMPACT TO THE SURFACE WATER CONSTRUCTION FUND BALANCE IS AN INCREASE OF 7.7 MILLION FUND FIVE 80 SOLID WASTE. 
          WE'RE INCREASING SOLID WASTE SERVICES EXPENSE BUDGET BY $75,402 TO PAY THE SEPTEMBER, 2024 INVOICE RECEIVED FROM GFL. 
          THE OVERALL NET IMPACT TO THE SOLID WASTE FUND BALANCE IS A DECREASE OF $75,402. 
          THIS CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION ON THE FINAL 2024 BUDGET AMENDMENT. 
          OKAY, I SEE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BONY. 
          IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY. 
          UH, COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL. 
          THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO. 
          I JUST HAD ONE QUICK QUESTION IN REGARDS TO THE SOLID WASTE CONTRACT, THE INCREASE OF 75,000, DID WE NOT ALREADY HAVE THAT PROJECTED INTO THE BUDGET? BECAUSE YOU SAID THAT YOU WANTED TO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENT BECAUSE WE RECEIVED AN INVOICE, BUT IT SEEMS LIKE WE WOULD'VE HAD THAT ALREADY. 
          WE'RE, YEAH, WE'RE SHORT. 
          75,000. 
          THE IMPORT, THE INVOICE RECEIVED, I BELIEVE IT'S ABOUT 365,000. 
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SO WE JUST NEED AN ADDITIONAL 75, UM, THOUSAND DOLLARS IN ORDER TO FULLY PAY THE INVOICE. 
          AND ARE, AND WAS THAT GONNA BE A, A OH, IT'S A KNIT IMPACT OF ZERO. 
          OKAY. 
          THAT'LL BE FINE. 
          THANK YOU VERY MUCH. 
          MM-HMM, . 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          SEEING NOBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE. 
          UM, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          ITEM EIGHT 
          [(b) Consideration and Possible Action - First and Final Reading - An ordin...]
B, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS REGARDING THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY'S MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM BENEFITS, ADOPTING UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS AND TRANSFER UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS, AND AN ANNUITY INCREASE, ALSO REFERRED TO AS A COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT FOR RETIREES AND THEIR BENEFICIARIES, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY, AND DECLARING AN EMERGENCY. 
          GOOD EVENING, MAYOR PROAM AND COUNCIL. 
          UH, THIS ITEM IS RELATED TO THE RETIREMENT BENEFIT OFFERED TO OUR EMPLOYEES AND OUR RETIREES. 
          SPECIFICALLY, UM, RELATED TO THE FUNDING OF UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS AND COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENTS. 
          UH, SINCE 2012, THE CITY HAS, UH, PARTICIPATED, UM, BY, UM, BY ELECTING TO USE THE AD HOC STRUCTURE FOR THESE, UH, THESE INCREASES, UM, FOR UPDATED SERVICE CREDITS AND COST OF LIVING, UH, WHICH REQUIRES A, UH, ANNUAL, UH, VOTE AND ORDINANCE, UM, FOR IT TO TAKE EFFECT. 
          UH, LAST YEAR WE, UM, HAD A REQUIRED, UH, PERCENTAGE OR A RATE OF 11.5%. 
          WE, WE PAID IT AT 12% SO THAT WE COULD REDUCE SOME OF OUR UNFUNDED LIABILITY. 
          UH, THIS YEAR OUR, UH, REQUIRED RATE WOULD BE, UH, 12.85%. 
          AND WE ARE PROPOSING THAT WE, UM, FUND THAT AT 13% AGAIN, TO HELP, UH, REDUCE SOME OF OUR UNFUNDED LIABILITY. 
          OKAY. 
          IS THERE A MOTION? SECOND. 
          I SEE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY, A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY RESOLUTIONS 
          [(a) Consideration and Possible Action - A resolution confirming the City M...]
NINE A, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, CONFIRMING THE CITY MANAGER'S APPOINTMENT TO THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION PROVIDING FOR REPEAL AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          HOW Y'ALL DOING? SO, UM, TODAY, UM, I'M HAPPY TO STATE THAT WE HAVE FOUND A GREAT CANDIDATE TO SERVE AS CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSIONER FOR THE CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. 
          AND PETER, UM, CRONK IS ACTUALLY HERE TODAY AS WELL. 
          IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK WITH HIM. 
          YEAH, BRING HIM ON UP. 
          OKAY. 
          HELLO, MR. CROOKSHANK. 
          HI, HOW ARE YOU? HELLO. 
          GOOD, GOOD. 
          WELL, THANK YOU. 
          UM, YOU WANNA TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOU? UM, SURE. 
          I'VE LIVED HERE SINCE ABOUT 1982 KIDS THAT WENT THROUGH THE SCHOOL SYSTEM HERE. 
          UH, I WAS IN THE HOSPITALITY BUSINESS FOR 44 YEARS, RETIRED ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO. 
          UM, WENT THROUGH THE CITIZENS UNIVERSITY LAST YEAR AND GOT INTERESTED IN FINDING OUT WAYS THAT I COULD MAYBE HELP THE CITY AND MY EXPERIENCE MIGHT BE HELPFUL AND LED ME TO THIS AWESOME COUNSEL. 
          ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING? WELCOME ABOARD. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANKS. 
          YES. 
          THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE. 
          THANK YOU. 
          AND THANK YOU, SHAUNA. 
          YOU'RE WELCOME. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          GO TO NINE B. 
          OH, SORRY. 
          YES, THERE IS A VOTE. 
          YES. 
          . 
          I SEE A MOTION BY . 
          NOT YET, MR. COOKS SHANK . 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          I SEE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BROWN MARSHALL. 
          A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY, I'LL CALL FOR THE VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          CONGRATULATIONS, MR. KS SHANK, AND THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          [(b) Consideration and Possible Action - A resolution casting votes for the...]
NINE B, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL, OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, CASTING ITS VOTES FOR THE ELECTION OF MEMBERS OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS, OR THE FORT BEND CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT. 
          WERE STAGGERED TERMS COMMENCING ON JANUARY 1ST, 2025, 
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AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED THERETO. 
          THIS ITEM IS TO, UM, TO, UM, I'M SORRY. 
          THIS ITEM IS TO ELECT FIVE, UH, MEMBERS TO THE FORT BEND COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT. 
          UM, AS PREVIOUSLY YOU ALL NOMINATED, UH, MEMBERS TO SERVE ON THIS BOARD, AND THIS WOULD BE TO, UM, SUBMIT YOUR BALLOT FOR THE FIVE CANDIDATES. 
          UH, THE CANDIDATES ARE AS FOLLOWS, PAMELA GASKIN, DAVID JAMES, JIM KAI, MICHAEL ZEL, AND PAUL STAMUS. 
          UM, AS YOU WILL NOTICE, JIM RICE IS NOT ON THE, UH, BALLOT. 
          HE HAS DECIDED TO NO LONGER SERVE ON THE FORT BEND CAD. 
          AND SO IN HIS PLACE, DAVID JAMES WAS SELECTED, UM, TO BE ON THE ROSTER. 
          I DID MAKE SEVERAL PHONE CALLS AND, UH, EMAILS TO FORT BEN CAD TO, UM, ATTEMPT TO GET, UH, REPRESENTATIVES TO COME HERE. 
          UM, AS YOU REQUESTED PREVIOUSLY, UM, THOSE CALL, THOSE EMAILS WENT UNANSWERED. 
          UM, AS OF LATE, I DID, UM, CONTACT THE APPRAISER, UM, AND THAT EMAIL WENT UNANSWERED AS WELL. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER BONY, UH, YEAH, I'M MAKING A MOTION, UH, MAYOR, BUT I'M, MY MOTION IS TO, UH, ALLOCATE ALL 110 VOTES TO THE ONLY PERSON THAT I KNOW, UH, PAM GASKIN. 
          I KNOW WE'VE HAD THIS DISCUSSION, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR EFFORTS, UH, CRYSTAL TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW WE CAN FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THESE PEOPLE OTHER THAN THIS BRIEF RESUME. 
          BUT, UM, WE'VE, WE'VE, UH, SELECTED HER BEFORE. 
          I KNOW SHE'S A MISSOURI CITY RESIDENT, SO THAT'S MY MOTION. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, MAY I, UH, PRO HIM? IS THAT STILL YOUR, UH, SECOND? YES, THAT IS YOUR SECOND. 
          OKAY. 
          UH, RECOGNIZING COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY, I WAS JUST, UH, WONDERING WHO IS THE REPLACEMENT FOR JIM RICE? UH, DAVID JAMES. 
          DAVID. 
          JAMES. 
          JAMES. 
          YES, SIR. 
          OKAY, THANK YOU. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BONY, SECONDED BY MAYOR LAUER. 
          UM, SEEING NO ONE ELSE IN THE QUEUE, LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES SIX TO ONE. 
          OKAY. 
          ITEM NINE 
          [(c) Consideration and Possible Action - A resolution approving the submiss...]
C. 
          NO, NO, NO. 
          UH, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS APPROVING THE SUBMISSION OF AN ASSISTANCE TO FIREFIGHTERS GRANT APPLICATION TO THE UNITED STATES FEDERAL EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT AGENCY AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED THERE TO, ALL RIGHT, WE HAVE EMELIA RAYS DIVISION FIRE CHIEF. 
          YES, SIR. 
          UH, GOOD EVENING. 
          AND COUNSEL. 
          GOOD EVENING. 
          UH, JUST LOOKING FOR Y'ALL'S APPROVAL TO APPLY FOR, UH, 2024 A FG GRANTS. 
          UH, SECOND ROUND, UH, OPENED UP. 
          WE WERE SUCCESSFUL THE, ABOUT SIX MONTHS AGO IN OBTAINING ONE. 
          SO JUST LOOKING Y'ALL'S PERMISSION. 
          UH, OUR GOAL WITH THIS IS TO SEND EVERY MEMBER OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT THROUGH, UH, ACTIVE ATTACK INTEGRATED COURSE RESPONSE. 
          UH, WE HAVE, UH, I WOULD SAY ABOUT 15% HAVE GONE THROUGH THE COURSE. 
          UH, THIS WILL PAY FOR THE OVERTIME AND BE BEING ABLE TO HOST THE PROGRAM HERE, UH, WITH THE, IN THE CITY. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER BONY, SECONDED BY MAYOR LAUER. 
          SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON THE QUEUE. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          GOOD. 
          MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THANK YOU. 
          ITEM NINE 
          [(d) Consideration and Possible Action - A resolution authorizing the execu...]
D, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION OF A SETTLEMENT RELEASE FORM FOR THE RESOLUTION OF CERTAIN CLAIMS AGAINST PHARMACEUTICAL PROVIDERS AND PRODUCERS RELATING TO THE USE OF OPIOIDS IN THE STATE, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND CONTAINING FINDINGS RELATED RELATING THERETO. 
          A GOOD EVENING AGAIN, UH, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF COUNCIL. 
          THIS IS ANOTHER, UH, REQUEST FROM THE STATE FOR THE CITY TO PARTICIPATE IN A SETTLEMENT FOR, UM, WITH, UH, KROGER ACTUALLY FOR THE SALE OF OPIOIDS. 
          UH, IF THE CITY SIGNS ON TO THIS PARTICULAR SETTLEMENT, UH, THE CITY WILL GAIN ABOUT $15,000, WHICH CAN BE USED FOR THE PURCHASE OF NARCAN AND ADDITIONAL TRAINING FOR OUR FIRST RESPONDERS. 
          OKAY. 
          THANK YOU. 
          THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY CONST MEMBER RAMONI, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MORE, UH, SEEING NO ONE ELSE ON THE QUEUE. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          OKAY. 
          ITEM 
          [(e) Consideration and Possible Action - A resolution identifying certain o...]
NINE E, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS, IDENTIFYING CERTAIN OFFICIALS WITH AUTHORITY TO OPEN AND MAINTAIN AN ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS WITH WELLS 
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FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT. 
          OKAY. 
          JASON MANGUM, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER. 
          THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. 
          WITH THE, UH, PASSAGE OF CHARTER PROPOSITION M LAST MONTH. 
          UH, WE NEED TO MAKE SOME UPDATES ON OUR AUTHORIZED SIGNERS ON OUR, UH, BANK ACCOUNTS. 
          UH, THIS WILL REFLECT THE CHANGES IN THAT PROPOSITION. 
          REMOVING, UH, THE MAYOR AND ADDING, UH, UH, FINANCE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR. 
          ALL RIGHT. 
          THERE'S BEEN A MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER EMERY, SECONDED BY COUNCIL MEMBER RILEY. 
          SEEING, NO, NO, NO ONE ELSE ON THE QUEUE. 
          LET'S GO AHEAD AND VOTE. 
          THE MOTION CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. 
          ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 
          WE HAVE NO CLOSED EXECUTIVE SESSION AND NO FURTHER BUSINESS TIME IS 9:45 PM AND THE MEETING IS ADJOURNED. 
          THANK YOU ALL.
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