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THIS MEETING TO ORDER AT SEVEN OH SEVEN AND STATE THAT THE NOTICE OF THE REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING WAS DULY POSTED.THERE WILL NOW BE A ROLL CALL OF THE CITY COUNCIL.
AS I CALL YOUR NAME, PLEASE STAY HERE.
PRESENT MAYOR PRO TEM PRESTON PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS, COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER BONEY COUNCIL MEMBER MEROLA'S HERE.
THERE WILL NOW BE A ROLL CALL OF CITY STAFF AND MEETING PRESENTERS, CITY MANAGER, OTIS JONES, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, BILL ATKINSON, PRESENT ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER, GLEN MARTEL PRESENT CITY ATTORNEY
DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS A CITY ENGINEER SHASHA KUMAR, PRESIDENT PLANNING MANAGER, JENNIFER THOMAS GOMEZ, PRESENT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, OLDEST SPRIGS FIRE, CHIEF EUGENE CAMPBELL POLICE CHIEF MIKE BEARS IN VALLEY VIEW CONSULTING, SUSAN ANDERSON PRISON IMPACT STRATEGIC CONSULTING, SPURGEON ROBINSON.
IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHOSE NAME I DID NOT CALL? OKAY.
WE WILL NOW HAVE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE BY DIRECTOR OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY, CEDRIC COLE, PLEASE JOIN ME IN THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH WE STAND ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL.
THERE ARE NO PRESENTATIONS OR RECOGNITIONS.
[4. PUBLIC COMMENTS]
ALL OUR PUBLIC COMMENTS.THEY ARE SIGNED UP FOR A SEVEN 31, CORRECT.
OUR WRITTEN COMMENTS THAT COUNCIL'S NOW IN RECEIPT OF.
AND THEN WE HAVE ANOTHER PUBLIC COMMENT REQUEST FOR NINE B.
[5. STAFF REPORTS]
UH, STAFF REPORTS, UH, WE WILL HAVE NOW THE PRESENTATION OF THE CERTIFIED TAX ROLLS BY DIRECTOR OF FINANCIAL SERVICES, ELAINA, PORTIS, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.UH, WE ARE IN RECEIPT OF THE CERTIFIED TAX ROLL FROM THE FORT BANS CENTRAL APPRAISAL DISTRICT.
UH, WE RECEIVED AN ESTIMATE OF CERTIFIED VALUES FROM HARRIS COUNTY APPRAISAL DISTRICT BECAUSE HARRIS COUNTY IS A LARGE COUNTY WITH OVER A MILLION.
THEY HAVE ADDITIONAL TIME TO SUBMIT THEIR CERTIFIED, UM, AND HARRIS COUNTY.
ISN'T IT SMALL PORTION OF OUR, UM, ASSESSED EVALUATION.
SO WHEN WE DO OUR CALCULATIONS, UH, WE NORMALLY MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ESTIMATES THAT ARE PROVIDED, UH, THE TAX ROLL, INCLUDING, UH, THOSE PROPERTIES THAT ARE UNDER PROTEST AND PROPERTIES, NOT UNDER PROTEST, UM, IS CURRENTLY AT 7 BILLION, 644,883,354.
UH, THIS IS A TOTAL INCREASE FROM THE 2019 TAX YEAR CERTIFIED VALUES.
UH, THIS INCREASES 8% AND THE GENERAL FUND, WE SEE A 6%, UM, INCREASE IN TAXABLE VALUE.
WE SEE A 34% INCREASE, UH, AT THIS TIME I'LL REVIEW ALL OF THE INFORMATION FOR EACH COUNTY INDIVIDUALLY.
BUT BEFORE DOING THAT, I WANT TO MENTION THAT IN THE PROPERTY TAX CODE, IT STATES THAT THE CERTIFIED ROLE SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO CITY COUNCIL BY AUGUST 1ST.
AND THAT INFORMATION SHOULD INCLUDE THE BE ASSESSED, APPRAISED AND TAXABLE VALUES AND INCLUDED IN YOUR AGENDA PACKET.
YOU HAVE ALL OF THAT INFORMATION FROM BOTH OF THE APPRAISAL DISTRICTS, AS WELL AS SOME INFORMATION FROM THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR, WHICH IS FORT BEND COUNTY TAX OFFICE IN REGARDS TO OUR COLLECTION RATES.
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HAVE AN 8.5% INCREASE FROM THE LAST SUPPLEMENT.UH, DURING THE YEAR AFTER WE RECEIVE OUR CERTIFIED, THERE ARE ADJUSTMENTS THAT ARE MADE.
SO WE RECEIVE DIFFERENT SUPPLEMENTS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, CHANGING THE VALUES.
SO LOOKING AT THE LAST SUPPLEMENT WE RECEIVED AND COMPARING IT TO THE VALUES THAT WE RECEIVED WITH A CERTIFIED ROLLS, AGAIN, IT'S AN 8.5% INCREASE.
UM, ALTHOUGH THE CERTIFIED ROLE IS $500 MILLION LESS THAN THE PRELIMINARY, UM, DURING PRELIMINARY, UH, WE HAD 7.7 BILLION, UH, BUT NOW INCLUDING PROTESTS AND WENT DOWN TO 7.2 BILLION.
SO ALTHOUGH IT'S $500 MILLION LESS, IT IS $500 MILLION MORE THAN TAX YEAR 2019 OF WHICH APPROXIMATELY 230 MILLION, UM, IS ATTRIBUTABLE TO A NEW PROPERTY FOR HARRIS COUNTY.
UM, THE, UH, ESTIMATED CERTIFIED VALUE IS 11% INCREASE FROM THE LAST SUPPLEMENT OR THIS REPRESENTS $40 MILLION OF WHICH APPROXIMATELY 6.8 MILLION COMES FROM NEW PROPERTY, THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR.
UM, THEY ESTIMATED OUR ANTICIPATED COLLECTION RATE FOR THE CURRENT TAX YEAR, WHICH IS TAX FOR 2019, JUST FISCAL YEAR 2020.
UH, THAT RATE IS 100 POINT 16% AND THEY ALSO ARE REQUIRED TO GIVE US, UM, A FIGURE FOR THE EXCESS DEBT COLLECTIONS, WHICH MEANS THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT WE COLLECTED IN THE DEBT SERVICE FUND THAT WAS NOT ANTICIPATED OR THAT, UM, IS IN EXCESS OF THE DEBT PAYMENTS THAT WERE MADE.
AND NOW THIS AMOUNT, UH, FOR THE 2020 TAX YEAR CALCULATION, IT IS, UM, INCLUDED IN THE CALCULATION TO REDUCE THE AMOUNT THAT IS REQUIRED OF THE TAXPAYERS IN 2021 TO PAY FOR DEBT SERVICE.
SO IT PRETTY MUCH PAYS DOWN THE DEBT SERVICE RATE.
DURING OUR BUDGET WORK SESSIONS, WE HAD TALKED A LITTLE ABOUT PROPERTY TAX RATE AND BEING ABLE TO USE SOME OF THE FUND BALANCE TO BUY DOWN THE RATE.
AND THIS IS THE AMOUNT THAT IS INCLUDED IN THAT CALCULATION.
AGAIN, 925,759, LOOKING AT THE, UH, POLE ROLL, UH, THE 20, 20 TAXABLE VALUE OF NEW PROPERTY.
UM, I GAVE IT TO YOU, UH, INDIVIDUALLY FOR EACH COUNTY, BUT THE TOTAL AMOUNT IS APPROXIMATELY 236 MILLION.
AND THIS IS AN INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY 97% OVER LAST YEAR'S PROPERTY, NEW PROPERTY, WHICH WAS THAT 120 MILLION.
THE TOTAL, THE TOTAL TURF TACTICAL VALUE INCREASED BY APPROXIMATELY 208 MILLION OR 34%.
AND IT REPRESENTS AT 36% OF THE TOTAL TAXABLE VALUE INCREASE IN TAX YEAR AT 2020.
AGAIN, ALL OF THE ATTACHED DOCUMENT TO THE COUNCIL MEMO INCLUDES THIS INFORMATION.
UH, IT SHOWS THE, UH, CERTIFIED VALUES, THE ESTIMATED CERTIFIED FROM HARRIS COUNTY.
UM, WE ALSO HAVE, UH, UH, FORT BN EFFECTIVE TAX RATE REPORT, WHICH INCLUDES THE NEW PROPERTY VALUES AND THE LETTER FROM THE TAX ASSESSOR COLLECTOR THAT SHOWS THE EXCESS DEBT COLLECTIONS AND THE ANTICIPATED COLLECTION RATE.
UH, AS STATED EARLIER THIS EVENING, WE ARE WORKING ON FINALIZING THE TAX RATE CALCULATIONS.
UH, THE LEAD, THERE IS SOME INFORMATION THAT WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR, OR THE, UH, TAX OFFICE IS STILL WAITING FOR SOME HARRIS COUNTY TO BE ABLE TO FINALIZE IT.
UH, WE ARE USING, UH, CURRENTLY THE ESTIMATED, UH, THE NEW REVENUE FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE EFFECTIVE TAX RATE AND OUR CALCULATIONS.
AND THOSE WILL BE APPLIED AGAINST THE TAXABLE VALUES TO DETERMINE THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE THAT WE WILL HAVE IN THE GENERAL FUND AT SERVICE FUND AND IN OUR TERRORS FUNDS.
UH, THAT ENDS MY REPORT ON THE CERTIFIED TAX ROLLS.
I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ELENA? YES, ELENA, YOU, UH, HAD A NUMBER OF THEM, THE TAX REVENUE COMING FROM.
IS THERE ANY WAY OF KNOWING HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL REVENUE IS COMING FROM THE INCREASE IN ASSESSMENTS YOU WERE GOING IN A LITTLE, UH, YOU WANTED TO KNOW HOW MUCH OF THE VALUE OR HOW MUCH OF THE PROPERTY TAX REVENUE COMES FROM THE INCREASE IN ASSESSMENT.
YES, MA'AM DO YOU, SO THE INCREASE IN ASSESSED VALUE? YES, THAT IS, THAT IS, THAT IS A CALCULATION
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THAT WE CAN HAVE AVAILABLE FOR YOU.WE ARE GOING TO BE DISCUSSING THE PROPERTY TAX RATES ON AUGUST 17TH.
THAT'S WHEN WE HAVE YOU SCHEDULED TO ADOPT THE MAXIMUM, UH, PROPERTY TAX RATE.
SO AT THAT TIME WHEN WE CAN, UH, HAVE ALL OF THE DIFFERENT FIGURES AVAILABLE FOR YOU, INCLUDING THE AMOUNT OF REVENUE, UH, THAT THE ATTRIBUTABLE TO EXISTING PROPERTIES AND TO NEW PROPERTIES, THAT'D BE GREAT.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ELENA? OKAY.
I'M NOT HEARING ANY, WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE B REPORT ON CONDUCTING ANY INTERNAL CONTROLS AUDIT BY CITY MANAGER, OTIS JONES, UH, OTIS, MADAM MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL.
UH, I WANTED TO, UH, JUST TOUCH BASE WITH YOU.
AS YOU KNOW, I AM CURRENTLY ENGAGED WITH THE STAFF AND DOING A SWOT ANALYSIS OF ENTIRE ORGANIZATION.
MORE SPECIFICALLY AS IT RELATES TO THIS TOPIC IS LOOKING AT THE FINANCIAL STRENGTH THAT ORGANIZATION RISK ORGANIZATION, UH, AND ALSO TO THE OVERALL FINANCIAL SECURITY ORGANIZATION AS A PART OF THAT, UH, WE'VE EVALUATED SOME OF THE AUDITS THAT HAS BEEN ALREADY DONE BY THE CITY.
AND I NOTED IN EVALUATION OF DOING THAT, THAT THE PREVIOUS AUDIT DONE BY WEAVER DID NOT LOOK AT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNAL CONTROLS, UH, OUT OF TRANSPARENCY PURPOSES.
UH, THE CITY ATTORNEY ADVISED ME THAT I DID NOT NEED COUNCIL APPROVAL TO MOVE AHEAD AND TO DO A AUDIT, TO, UH, LOOK AT THE EFFECTIVENESS QUESTION.
UH, HOWEVER I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I ALERTED YOU THAT WE'RE WANT TO BE DOING THAT INTERNALLY FOR TRAINING PURPOSES.
UH, AND, UH, AS WRAP THAT UP, I WILL BE, UH, MAKING SURE I PROVIDE THAT TO YOU IF YOU, IF YOU, IF YOU WOULD LIKE, UH, BUT, UH, WE'RE GOING TO SPECIFICALLY JUST BE LOOKING TO SEE HOW EFFECTIVE OUR INTERNAL CONTROLS CURRENTLY ARE MAKING SURE THAT THEY NEED BEST PRACTICES, STANDARDS, WHATNOT.
AND, UH, IF I, UH, IF I SHOULD DETERMINE, UH, THROUGH THAT DISCUSSION THAT THE COST EXCEEDS MORE THAN $50,000, UH, THEN I WILL BE COMING BACK TO YOU, UH, FOR YOUR APPROVAL QUESTIONS, QUESTIONS FOR MR. JONES, CITY MANAGER, JOHN, THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS, FIRST AND FOREMOST.
I DO WANT TO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING THIS ITEM TO COUNCIL, AS OPPOSED TO JUST DOING IT ON YOUR OWN WITHOUT ALERTING US.
I DO APPRECIATE THAT, ALTHOUGH YOU DON'T HAVE TO, YOU DID THAT.
LIKE I SAID, I DO WANT TO STATE THAT.
I THINK ISN'T COMING FOR US TO SET YOU UP TO BE SUCCESSFUL AND NOT ALLOW YOU TO TAKE THIS POSITION AS OUR NEW CITY MANAGER.
AND, UM, JUST CONTINUE TO ROLL IN ON, BUT FOR YOU TO IDENTIFY IF WE DO HAVE ANY ISSUES THAT HAVE ALREADY I'M IN THE PAST OR NOT, BUT FOR YOU TO IDENTIFY THOSE SO WE CAN MOVE FORWARD.
CONSIDERING WE DID HAVE SOME ISSUES OF FINANCIAL ISSUES IN THE PAST, I THINK IT'S INCUMBENT OF US TO HAVE THIS AUDIT.
THEREFORE WE CAN IDENTIFY ANY ISSUES AND CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD, BUT CONSIDERING THAT YOU ARE A NEW CITY MANAGER, I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO SET YOU UP FOR SUCCESS AS OPPOSED TO FAILURE, MRS. COUNCILWOMAN STERLING.
I CONCUR WITH THE COUNCIL OF, UH, ANY POSITION THAT, UH, ANY LEADER COMING IN MILLIONS OF DOLLARS SHOULD DO AN INTERNAL A LOT.
IT'S A LEADER AND I'M HERE AGAIN, CONCUR WITH HER, NOT IF WE GOING TO BE SUCCESSFUL.
I THINK IT'S INCUMBENT UPON YOU TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, UH, MR. JONES, YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU WOULD BE MOVING FORWARD WITH A INTERNAL CONTROLS AUDIT.
CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN DETAIL AS TO WHAT THAT WOULD ENTAIL? IS THIS GOING TO BE SOMETHING WHERE YOU'RE SEEKING TO HIRE AN OUTSIDE FIRM TO DO THIS? AND YOU'VE MENTIONED THAT IF IT'S ANYTHING OVER $50,000, YOU WOULD BE COMING TO US.
SO CAN YOU KIND OF ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT MORE? CAUSE, UH, WHAT I HEARD WAS THAT YOU'RE PLANNING TO SPEND CITY RESOURCES, BUT I DIDN'T REALLY HEAR THE DETAILS BEHIND WHAT YOUR PLANS ARE WITH THIS.
SO THANKS A LOT COUNCIL MEMBER FOR GIVING ME AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS THAT.
UH, THE PLAN RIGHT NOW IS TO EVALUATE JUST THE, ALL OF THE INTERNAL CONTROLS THAT WE HAVE ALL OF THEM AS IT RELATES TO PURCHASING, AS IT RELATES TO, YOU KNOW, UH, OUR CASH HANDLING ACCOUNTS, UH, AND ALSO TO, UH, JUST THE OVERALL POLICIES THAT THE CITY COUNCIL HAVE AND DO A CONTRAST WITH WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE WITH HOW EFFECTIVE THEY BAN AND WHETHER OR NOT,
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UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S ANY LESSONS TO BE LEARNED INTERNALLY.AND AGAIN, I'M DOING THIS FOR TRAINING PURPOSES.
I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE JUST DOING THINGS AND OPERATING IN A WAY THAT MEETS INDUSTRY STANDARDS.
UH, AND, UH, I BELIEVE I CAN GET THAT DONE FOR LESS THAN 50,000, UH, IN, UH, MY DISCUSSIONS WITH THE SENIOR ATTORNEY.
SHE FELT THAT IF, UH, IF I WERE ABLE TO DO THAT, THAT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I NEEDED TO GET APPROVAL OF, BUT I WANTED JUST TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU ALL WERE AWARE THAT I WAS DOING IT, UH, AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO, YOU KNOW, ONCE I, ONCE I DO GET IT DONE, WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IS GO OUT AND DO A VIRTUS MAN, UH, GET THREE, UH, OR MORE BIDS AND THEN, UH, AND THEN, UH, BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD FROM THERE.
BUT, UH, I'LL BE HAPPY TO SHARE DATA AT WHATEVER LEVEL THE COUNCIL WANTS ONCE IT'S SHARED.
UH, BUT, UH, YEAH, THAT IS THE PLAN.
AND, UH, UH, I'M WILLING TO, UH, ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS OTHER THAN THAT.
I HAVE A FOLLOWUP QUESTION, THE COUNSELOR AND BONY AGAIN, YOU MENTIONED THAT IN THE PREVIOUS AUDITS THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO REVIEW, THAT THEY DID NOT ENCOMPASS THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE SEEKING TO LOOK AT RELATIVE TO AN INTERNAL AUDIT.
CAN YOU SPEAK A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THAT BECAUSE I'M JUST TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE MOST RECENT AUDIT, UH, FROM WEAVER TIDWELL'S DID NOT ENCOMPASS THAT YOU'RE, UH, BELIEVING THAT NEEDS TO, TO THE REASON THAT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL LIKE NEEDS TO BE DONE.
SO, UH, I DON'T, I KNOW WE PUT IT IN THE DROPBOX, BUT YOU'LL SEE IF YOU REVIEW THE AUDIT LETTER THAT WAS RECEIVED FROM WHEREVER WE'VE RETAINED.
WELL, UH, THEY KNOW THAT, UH, WHILE THEY DID A, A SAMPLE, UH, REVIEW, UH, THAT WAS PROVIDED TO THEM, UH, BY STAFF THAT THEY DID NOT LOOK AT THE EFFECTIVENESS OF THE CITY'S INTERNAL CONTROLS.
UH, THEY JUST LOOKED AT, UH, FOR MORE TRANSACTIONAL PURPOSES STANDPOINT, WHETHER OR NOT WE HAD IN FACT HAD SOME DEFICIENCIES, UH, THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY DID FIND SOME DEFICIENCIES, I WOULD SAY.
AND, UH, I, I WANT TO KNOW TOO THAT THE CITY STAFF HAS TAKEN SOME ACTIONS TO ADDRESS THOSE DEFICIENCIES.
UH, BUT WHAT I WANTED TO DO IS TO GET OUTSIDE OF JUST THE INTERNAL STAFF IS TO HAVE A, A THIRD PARTY COME IN AND LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT WE'VE NOW PUT IN PLACE TO ADDRESS THOSE DEFICIENCIES, BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, UH, OVERALL, UH, FROM NOT ONLY CASH HANDLING, UH, PURCHASING, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, ALL OF THE PIECES AND KEEPING SEPARATE SEGREGATION OF DUTIES, UH, THAT WE'VE DONE, UH, TO, UH, ENSURE THAT, YOU KNOW, OUR, YOU KNOW, THE, OF THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES ARE, ARE MEETING THE BEST PRACTICES, STANDARDS OF THE INDUSTRY.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT MY HOPE AND MY GOAL IS.
AND ACCOMPLISHING WITH THIS AUDIT.
MY LAST QUESTION IS BECAUSE YOU SAID THIS IS FOR INTERNAL TRAINING PURPOSES ONLY IS THAT SAFE TO ASSUME THAT WE SHOULD NOT TAKE THE AUDIT THAT YOUR BRAIN OR THAT YOU'RE GOING TO BE PERFORMING, UH, TO YOU SERVE WHAT WE ARE IN SIDWELL HAS DONE FROM A PERFORMANCE STANDPOINT, OR ARE YOU BRINGING THAT TO US FOR OUR REVIEW AND RECOMMENDATIONS OR FEEDBACK AS WELL? SO IF I WERE TO FIND ITEMS WITHIN HERE THAT THAT RAISES QUESTIONS, I WILL BE BRINGING IT TO YOU AS A, AS A BODY.
I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S CALLED FOR, I WOULD HAVE A FIDUCIARY RESPONSIBILITY TO DO THAT.
UH, HOWEVER, UH, UM, RIGHT NOW, UH, WHAT I INTEND TO DO IS TO LOOK AT, UH, YOU KNOW, WHAT, WHAT OUR INTERNAL CONTROLS ARE AND HOW EFFECTIVE WE ARE IN IMPLEMENTING THEM, UH, AND, AND GO ACROSS THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM OF THE ORGANIZATION AND IN EVALUATING THAT, AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, HAVING A THIRD PARTY, UH, TO, UH, OPINE ON THAT IN A WAY THAT GIVES ME, UH, SOME DIRECTION AND ALSO TO GIVE STAFF SOME DIRECTION ABOUT WHERE WE ARE AND WHERE WE SHOULD BE IN TERMS OF INDUSTRY STANDARDS.
AND IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT I FIND IN THERE THAT I THINK IS IMPORTANT FOR, UH, FOR, FOR COUNSEL TO BE AWARE OF, I'M GOING TO IMMEDIATELY BRING THAT TO NOT WITHSTANDING THAT IF COUNCIL WANTS TO SEE A COPY OF IT, WHEN IT'S DONE, I'M HAPPY TO SHARE THAT TOO.
BUT, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM THE SPIRIT BY WHICH I APPROACHED THIS, THAT'S, THAT'S WHERE, I'M WHERE I'M THINKING ABOUT ANY OTHER QUESTIONS.
UH, YOU TOUCHED ON A LITTLE BIT, BUT, YOU KNOW, THERE WERE SOME, UH, RECOMMENDATIONS MADE BY THE PREVIOUS AUDIT FIRM AS TO SOME DEFICIENCIES, THEY FOUND, THEY FOUND LIKE TWO OF THEM.
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UH, AS I RECALL, THEY PUT TOGETHER THE RECOMMENDATION AS TO HOW TO, UH, TO STRENGTHEN THOSE INTERNAL CONTROLS SO THAT THOSE EFFICIENCIES WOULDN'T APPEAR IN FUTURE, UH, AUDITS.SO, UH, I, I THINK, UH, THERE'S ALSO SOME OTHER, UH, INDEPENDENT AUDITS THAT WERE DONE ON, UH, VARIOUS, UH, ELEMENTS OF OUR FINANCIAL RECORDS.
SO, UM, I'M SURE THAT, UH, YOU'LL BE LOOKING AT THAT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T DUPLICATE, UH, SOME OF THE, UH, THE, UH, EFFORTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN ACCOMPLISHED.
UH, I DO HAVE, AND I HAVE BEEN REVIEWING WITH STAFF, I SHOULD SAY, UH, NOT ONLY A RECENT ONE ALSO TOO.
I THINK YOU HAD A ANALYSIS THAT WAS PREPARED WITH REGARDS TO, UH, IMPACT FEES.
ANTILLES, UH, THERE, THERE WAS SOME DEFICIENCIES, AS I NOTED EARLIER THERE DEALT WITH, UH, SOME OF THE CAPITAL ASSETS.
AND THEN ALSO TO SOME MISSTATEMENTS, I BELIEVE THE STAFF HAS TAKEN ACTION TO TRY TO ADDRESS THOSE.
BUT WHAT I WANT TO DO IS SORT OF PEEL THE ONION BACK JUST TO MAKE SURE WE COMPARE WHAT INDUSTRY AND BEST PRACTICES, AND THEN, UH, EVALUATE, YOU KNOW, ONE, YOU KNOW, WHAT, YOU KNOW, HOW DO OUR INTERNAL CONTROLS STACK UP WITH INDUSTRY TO, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, ARE, ARE THERE ANYTHING THERE THAT, THAT, THAT WE NEED TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT AGAIN, THREE, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE, YOU KNOW, DEVELOP A PLAN AND MOVE FORWARD, UH, OR MAKE ANY ADJUSTMENTS IF, IF WE NEED TO MAKE ANY ADJUSTMENTS AT ALL, BUT I'M GONNA MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE, WE DO THAT.
AND, UH, WE DO THAT FOR LESS THAN 50, IF I, YOU KNOW, IF, IF WE SHOULD DETERMINE, UH, WHEN I SAY IF, I MEAN, WHEN I SAY WE, I MEAN, THE STAFF WE'VE DETERMINED, WE'VE GOTTA DO MORE THAN THAT.
AND IT'S GOING TO COST US MORE THAN $50,000.
AND I'M GOING TO FLIP BACK AND COME BACK TO YOU ALL FOR, OKAY, UH, THIS IS COUNSELING.
SO GOING FORWARD WHEN WE HIRE A TIDWELL OH, WEAVER AND SAID, WELL, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN ADD TO THE AUDIT WHERE THEY CAN ACTUALLY ALSO DO A TEST OF THE EFFECTIVENESS OF INTERNAL CONTROLS, OR WE WILL ALWAYS HAVE TO DO SORT OF AD HOC TYPE INVESTIGATIONS? NO, ACTUALLY IT WAS SOMETHING THAT COULD HAVE BEEN ADDED.
UH, TYPICALLY IT IS TYPICALLY YOU HAVE A, WHEN YOU HAVE AN EXTERNAL CONTROLS WITH YOU, YOU, YOU WILL ALSO TOUCH YOUR BACK IN THIS, BUT HERE THEY, FOR WHATEVER REASON THEY DID.
SO I WANT TO GO BACK AND THAT'S, BUT SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION IS YES, IN THE FUTURE, WHEN WE GET READY TO DO A FUTURE AUDITS, I'M GOING TO BE RECOMMENDING TO YOU GUYS THAT WE, WE, WE DO, UH, WE DO A TEST AS WELL, AND, UH, SENIOR MANAGER JONES, WILL YOU BE GOING BACK TO REVERTED WELL, TO SEE IF THEY COULD WORK WITH US SINCE THEY DID THE LAST ONE, I WOULD MAYBE GO SMOOTHER, FASTER THAN WOULD YOU WORK WITH THEM, OR ARE YOU GOING TO BRING IN ONE OF YOUR OWN EXPERTS? TYPICALLY WHEN YOU DO THIS, YOU WANT TO TRY TO, YOU KNOW, GET, GET SOME FOLKS WHO HAVEN'T TOUCHED IT OR SEEN IT BEFORE.
SO YOU GET A GOOD, UH, PERSPECTIVE REVIEW.
AND WHAT THEY'LL DO IS THEY'LL FOLLOW UP WITH LEVER TIP WELL AND ASK ANY QUESTIONS THEY HAVE AS PART OF THE EVALUATION.
UH, WHAT, WHAT THE PLAN IS, IS I'M GOING TO JUST, UH, HAVE, UH, UH, ELENA AND, AND THE STAFF GO OUT AND JUST DO AN ART, YOU KNOW, IN A VIRTUS MAN, UH, GUESS GET SOME, SOME FOLKS WHO CAN GIVE US AN OBJECTIVE VIEW AND OPINION, AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, TURN SOMETHING AROUND FAIRLY QUICKLY SO THAT WE CAN REALLY DO A GOOD ANALYSIS OF WHERE WE ARE, UH, IN TERMS OF, UH, INDUSTRY STANDARDS AND WHATNOT.
ANYONE ELSE? MAYOR FORD, IF I MAY, THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER PRESTON JUST WOULD LIKE TO ADD AS LAURA'S COUNCIL MEMBER USUALLY AM IN COMMUNICATION WITH RESIDENTS FROM THEIR RESPECTIVE DISTRICTS.
AND I HAVE GOTTEN FEEDBACK FROM SEVERAL RESIDENTS THAT ARE FAVORABLE TO THIS MEASURE.
AND SO I JUST WANTED TO STATE THAT FOR THE RECORD.
[6. CONSENT AGENDA]
WILL MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA.IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? I MAKE A MOTION COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? OKAY.
MAYOR PRO TEM PRESTON COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS MADE THE MOTION.
COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING MADE THE SECOND
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COUNCIL MEMBER BONEY.[7. PUBLIC HEARINGS AND RELATED ACTIONS]
EIGHT.THERE ARE NO ZONING AND PUBLIC HEARINGS AND ORDINANCES, SEVEN PUBLIC HEARINGS AND RELATED SEVEN B ONE ORDINANCE.
MA'AM AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS MENDING CHAPTER 82 SUBDIVISIONS OF THE MISSOURI CITY CODE, ADDING REGULATIONS REGARDING NAMING NEW STREETS, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING A PENALTY AND PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY.
CAN EVERYONE HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU.
SO I DO WANT TO, UM, JUST MAKE CLEAR THAT THIS PROPOSED ORDINANCE THAT PERTAINS TO THE NAMING OF NEW STREET AND WOULD NOT IMPACT EXISTING STREET NAMES.
UM, THAT WOULD BE A CHAPTER 16 THAT YOU ALL JUST CONSIDERED AN UNDER THE CONSENT MENTIONED.
SO THIS ORDINANCE WAS PROPOSED ORDINANCE CAME OUT OF, UH, COUNCIL, STATE OF CONCERN, UM, AND PUBLIC CONCERNS REGARDING, UH, SUBDIVISION AND STREET NAMES THROUGHOUT THE CITY AND COMMUNITY THAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER HISTORICALLY OFFENSIVE.
UM, ORCS, THE NAMES MIGHT BE CONSIDERED HISTORICALLY OFFENSIVE TO CERTAIN GROUPS.
UM, ONE OF THE PRIMARY AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN HAS BEEN DISCUSSED, UM, IN THIS AREA IS A VICKSBURG SUBDIVISION.
AND, UH, SOME OF THE REFERENCES THAT ARE POINTED TO ARE THE STREET NAMES THAT ARE NAMED, UM, IN REGARDS TO VARIOUS ASPECTS AND INDIVIDUALS RELATED TO THE CONFEDERATE ARMY.
SO I WANTED TO JUST START OFF BY GIVING EVERYONE A QUICK OVERVIEW OF HOW NEW STREETS ARE NAMED NEW SUBDIVISIONS AND STREETS ARE NAMED IN THE CITY.
THIS IS LARGELY PART OF THE PLANNING, A SUBDIVISION PROCESS AND A SUBDIVISION NAMES, AND THE STREET NAMES WITHIN THEM, UM, ARE USUALLY PROPOSED BY A DEVELOPER OR A BUILDER OR THEIR APPLICANT, WHICH COULD BE AN ENGINEERING FIRM, UM, A SERVING FIRM, UH, THAT SUBMITS AN APPLICATION TO SUBDIVIDE PROPERTY.
SO PRESENTLY, UH, THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE MANY REGULATIONS, UH, THAT PERTAIN TO THE NAMING OF NEW STREETS.
UH, THERE ARE FEW THAT ARE OUT OF THE ADAPTIVE CLADDING MANUAL, UM, AND ESSENTIALLY ESTABLISHING THAT WHEN SOMEONE SUBMITS A SUBDIVISION PLAT OF A NEW SUBDIVISION, THEY HAVE TO IDENTIFY THE NAME FOR IT.
UM, AND THEN ACCOMPANY THAT THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE A LIST OF PROPOSED STREET NAMES FOR RIGHT OF WAY THAT'S BEING DEDICATED VIA THAT SUBDIVISION CLASS.
THE OTHER REGULATION THAT THE CITY CURRENTLY HAS IN PLACE IS OUT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE DESIGN MANUAL, AND THOSE REGULATIONS JUST PERTAIN TO THE NUMBER OF CHARACTERS.
SO THE COUNT, THE TOTAL MAXIMUM NUMBER OF LETTERS AND SPACES THAT CAN BE CONTAINED WITHIN A STREET NAME SO THAT IT CAN BE MANUFACTURED FOR STREET SIGNS, UM, AND WITH, YOU KNOW, WITHIN A MEASURABLE AREA.
UH, SO THAT THAT'S FINE TO BE POSTED.
SO WHAT WE TYPICALLY SEE, AND IT'S NOT JUST UNIQUE TO MISSOURI CITY, BUT COMMUNITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY, UM, TYPICALLY WHEN A DEVELOPER OR A BUILDER, UH, SUBDIVIDES A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, A NEW SUBDIVISION, UM, NEW RESIDENTIAL AREA, UM, WHEN THEY PLOT THAT OUT, USUALLY THEY SET A SCENE AND, YOU KNOW, THE THEME, YOU KNOW, COULD BE AIMED AT THE MARKET, YOU KNOW, SELLING, YOU KNOW, THE LOT, UM, YOU KNOW, CREATING SOME KIND OF, UM, YOU KNOW, ABI HER ARMS FOR THE FUTURE SALE OF THAT PROPERTY.
UM, SO WITH THAT THEME, USUALLY THE STREET NAMES FOLLOW.
SO YOU HAD THE SUBDIVISION AS A BROAD THEME, UM, OF, OF, OF THE AREA.
AND THEN YOU HAVE, UH, THE SPECIFIC STREETS WITHIN THERE THAT FOLLOWED THAT THEME.
SO FOR THE VICKSBURG, UH, SUBDIVISION, UM, THAT'S ON A LONG VICKSBURG BOULEVARD.
I THINK WE'RE ALL VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG.
UM, SO YOU HAVE THE SECTIONS OF VICKSBURG, PRIMARILY THE VILLAGE OF SILO AND THE VILLAGE OF CUMBERLAND THAT YOU CAN SEE ON THE MAP, UM, OUTLINED IN GREEN AND, UM, IN PURPLE, UM, THOSE
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CONCEIVABLY REPRESENT, UM, BOTH ASPECTS OF THE UNION ARMY, AS WELL AS THE CONFEDERATE ARMY ASSOCIATED WITH THE BATTLE OF VICKSBURG.AND THERE'S THE THIRD SECTION OF VICKSBURG THAT CAME A FEW YEARS LATER, UH, SEDONA CREEK THAT HAS ITS OWN, UH, THING ASSOCIATED WITH IT.
AND SO THIS JUST KIND OF GOES THROUGH WHAT THOSE THEMES ARE FOR EACH OF THOSE SECTIONS OF VICKSBURG, UH, WITH FIDELITY CREEK AND THEIR STREETS AND THE STREETS WITHIN SEDONA CREEK, PRIMARILY FOLLOWING A DIFFERENT AREA OF PLACES, UH, LOCATED IN ARIZONA IN THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
THESE ARE A FEW OF THE STREET NAMES THAT ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE THEMES, THE THEMES WITHIN EACH OF THOSE VILLAGES.
AND SO THIS IS FOR, UM, THE VILLAGE OF SILO, WHICH LOOKS AS IF IT REPRESENTS MORE OF THE UNION ARMY.
SO THERE ARE STREETS THAT ARE MADE, UM, FOR VARIOUS ASPECTS OF THE UNION ARMY.
NEXT FIVE, THE VILLAGE OF CUMBERLAND HAS THE MORE CONTROVERSIAL STREET NAMES, UM, WHERE YOU HAVE MORE OF THE CONFEDERATE ARMY REFERENCES.
AND THEN SEDONA CREEK, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, YOU HAVE, UM, VARIOUS PLACES, UM, AND LOCATIONS WITHIN THE STATE OF ARIZONA THAT ARE REFLECTED BY THOSE STREET NAMES.
SO YOU'VE, UH, THE LAST COUPLE OF MEETINGS YOU'VE DISCUSSED, UM, REGULATIONS RELATING TO THE NAMING OF RENAMING OF EXISTING CITY PROPERTY AND PROGRAMS, UM, AND EXISTING STREETS, UM, ARE PART OF THAT WHEN A STAFF, WELL, WHEN COUNCIL BROUGHT THIS UP LAST FALL, THIS ISSUE OF, UM, NEW STREET NAMES STAFF HAVE, UH, PROVIDED THAT THESE REGULATIONS COULD BE APPLIED, UM, FORMALLY ADOPTED AND APPLY TO THE NAMING PROCESS OF NEW STREET NAMES.
UM, AND SO THESE WERE KIND OF, UM, THESE WERE THE EXISTING CRITERIA THAT WE'VE CONSIDERED AS WE BRING THESE RECOMMENDED CHANGES TO YOU.
SO THE ORDINANCE THAT YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU, UM, WOULD PROPOSE AMENDMENT TO THE CITY SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE, THAT'S CHAPTER 82 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, AND I'M GOING TO SUMMARIZE, UM, WHAT THIS PROPOSED ORDINANCE, UH, WOULD PROVIDE FOR.
UM, AND THEN IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS OR IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS AS I'M GOING THROUGH THIS, PLEASE JUST, YOU KNOW, UM, SUBDIVISION NAMES, ISSUES, UH, THAT HAS BEEN, UH, IN THE PUBLIC CONVERSATION FOR A WHILE AS WELL.
UM, THE POSITION ON THAT IS GENERALLY SUBDIVISIONS ARE CONSIDERED AS PRIVATE PROPERTY.
SO THE NAMING OF SUBDIVISIONS, UH, IT'S BEEN RECOMMENDED AGAINST MAKING REGULATIONS ON THAT OTHER THAN WHAT IS CURRENTLY IN PLACE AND ALLOWING A DEVELOPER BUILDERS, APPLICANTS, UH, TO SUBMIT NAMES.
UM, YOU DO HAVE THE PUBLIC, UM, INFLUENCE AS YOU SEE RECENTLY WITH THE SIENNA SIENNA BRANDING OF BEING A PLANTATION, GOING TO, UH, UH, SIENNA.
UM, AND THAT WAS MORE FROM THE PUBLIC OUTCRY, WORKING WITH THE DEVELOPER, UM, WORKING WITH, UM, UM, THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION TO MAKE THAT CHANGE.
SO THESE RECOMMENDED REGULATIONS WOULD NOT ESTABLISH, UM, UH, CITY REGULATIONS.
UH, WE WOULD STILL LEAVE THAT TO, UH, PRIVATE ENTITIES TO MAKE THAT DETERMINATION ON THE STREET NAMES SIDE, THE AMENDMENTS TO THE CITY SUBDIVISION WOULD INCLUDE, UM, CONTINUING THE EXISTING STANDARDS THAT I SUMMARIZED BEFORE, UH, THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE, THOSE WOULD REMAIN, UM, AND THEN ADDING SOME GENERAL STANDARDS AS WELL.
AND SOME ARE KIND OF HOUSEKEEPING, UM, JUST, UH, TO ALLOW FOR A MORE THOROUGH REVIEW OF PROPOSED NAMES, UM, INCORPORATED IN THE REVIEW THAT'S DONE TODAY.
UM, IT IS LOOKED AT DUPLICATE NAMES ARE LOOKED AT, UM, AT THE COUNTY LEVEL, UM, AS WELL AS THE CITY TO ENSURE THAT PROPOSED NAMES, UH, DON'T DUPLICATE OR ARE SIMILAR, UH, TO OTHER NAMES WITHIN CLOSE PROXIMITY.
UH, SO THESE REGULATIONS WOULD JUST FORMALIZE THAT, UH, WITHIN THE CITIES.
UH, SO, UM, THESE REGULATIONS ALSO PROVIDE A BASIS FOR THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION TO BE ABLE TO DISAPPROVE A STREET NAME, IF THEY DO NOT CORRESPOND TO THE CITY NAMING PROGRAM GUIDELINES IN A LATER SLIDE, WE'LL KIND OF, UM, SUMMARIZE SOME OF WHAT THOSE GUIDELINES WOULD INCLUDE.
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THE TWO AREAS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TO ADDRESS, UH, THE CONTROVERSIAL ISSUE, UM, WOULD BE REGULATIONS THAT WOULD LIMIT OR REDUCE THE NUMBER OF STREETS THAT ARE NAMED AFTER PROPER NAMES.SO THAT WOULD INCLUDE, UM, A PERSON, AN EVENT, A PLACE, UM, BUT PUTTING A QUALIFIER ON THERE THAT IF SOMEONE PROPOSES A STREET NAME, UM, THAT IS A PROPER NAME, UH, THAT THEY HAVE TO PROVIDE, UM, OFFICIALLY VALIDATION, UH, THAT, THAT PERSON, THAT EVENT, UM, THAT PLACE HAS CONTRIBUTED POSITIVELY AND HAD A SIGNIFICANT POSITIVE IMPACT ON THE CITY, ON THE COMMUNITY OR OVERALL HUMANITY.
AND THEN ALSO, UH, CONSIDERING RETIRING AS CERTAIN NAMES.
UM, I KNOW THAT EVERYONE AND THAT IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE CITY THAT'S LIVED IN THE CITY.
UM, FOR A WHILE, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE CERTAIN WORDS THAT ARE USED QUITE A BIT, UM, AND IT JUST REFLECTS, YOU KNOW, THE TIME, UH, THAT, UH, SOME OF THOSE NAMES WERE INCORPORATED.
UM, BUT THIS REGULATION WOULD KIND OF RETIRE, UM, SOME OF THOSE OVERUSED NAMES SO THAT WE DON'T KEEP HAVING THAT, UH, REDUNDANCY.
UM, ANOTHER PART OF THE REGULATIONS WOULD ADD THAT IF A PRIVATE STREET, UM, IS BEING PROPOSED, THAT THAT DESIGNATION, UH, BE INCLUDED IN THE STREET NAME.
UM, AND THEN ALSO, YOU KNOW, THAT PROPOSED NAMES CANNOT CONTAIN THIS TYPE OF GRAPHIC, UH, CHARACTER.
SO, AS I'VE MENTIONED BEFORE, UM, THE REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE CITY NAMING A PROGRAM GUIDELINES WOULD ESSENTIALLY GIVE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
AND FOR THOSE WHO AREN'T AWARE, UM, THE CITY SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE, THE PLANNING PROCESS, UM, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION IS THE AUTHORITY ON MAKING, UM, OR TAKING ACTION, UM, ON SUBDIVISION PLATS IN THE CITY.
SO, SO LONG AS, UH, THE STREET NAMING NEW STREET NAMING PROCESS, AS PART OF THAT FIGHTING PROCESS, THEN THAT DETERMINATION WILL BE MADE BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DURING THE FIGHTING PROCESS.
UM, SO THOSE, UH, SITTING NAMING PROGRAM GUIDELINES WOULD ESSENTIALLY, UH, GIVE SOME PARAMETERS FOR THE PERMISSION TO CONSIDER THAT THEY CAN DISAPPROVE A PROPOSED STREET NAME, UM, FOR ANY OF THESE REASONS.
SO I'M AN APPLICANT PROPOSING A NEW STREET NAME, IT SHOULDN'T ADVOCATE, YOU KNOW, A POLITICAL PARTY OR PARTICULAR RELIGION.
UM, IT SHOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, IT SHOULD BE APPROPRIATE, UM, FOR A PUBLIC OF YOU.
IT SHOULDN'T PROMOTE ILLEGAL ACTIVITY OR GLORIFIED, UH, VIOLENT ACT.
UM, IT SHOULD NOT DEMEAN INTIMIDATE OR, UH, MALICIOUSLY PORTRAY A CERTAIN GROUPS.
AND ULTIMATELY IT SHOULDN'T BE A MAIN THAT BRINGS THIS REPUTE UPON THE CITY.
SO A LITTLE BIT MORE ON THE PROPER NAMES.
UM, IT'S, UH, KIND OF, AS I SUMMARIZED BEFORE, UH, TRYING TO GET AT, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF THE NAMES THAT ARE CONTROVERSIAL, UH, THAT WE TALKED ABOUT DEALING WITH THE CONFEDERATE, UM, UM, ASPECTS ARE NAMES FOR SPECIFIC PEOPLE.
UM, SO IN TRYING TO ADDRESS SOME OF THOSE ISSUES OF THIS WOULD ESSENTIALLY, AS OPPOSED TO AN APPLICANT JUST SUBMITTING THE STREET NAMES, UM, THEY WOULD PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DETAIL, UM, AS TO THAT STREET NAME.
SO THEY WOULDN'T JUST SUBMIT THE NAME.
UM, THEY WOULD HAVE TO PROVIDE BACKGROUND ON THE IMPACT, UM, THAT THIS, THIS PERSON, THIS EVENT, THIS ACTIVITY, UM, HAS HAD ON THE CITY OR THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN ANOTHER ASPECT OF, OF THIS IS IT BRINGS IT INTO PUBLIC REVIEW.
UM, SO THE PLANNING PROCESS, UM, ALL OF THAT IS IN THE PUBLIC SPHERE.
SO WHEN A DEVELOPER, WHEN AN APPLICANT PROPOSES A STREET AND IT'S PUBLICLY AVAILABLE, IT'S, YOU KNOW, REFERENCED ON THE, THE, UH, SUBDIVISION PLAT.
UM, BUT IT'S NOT REALLY DISCUSSED, IT'S KIND OF IN THE BACKGROUND.
SO UNLESS, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING FOR, UM, YOU KNOW, IT MAY NOT BE SOMETHING THAT DRAWS YOUR ATTENTION.
SO BY ADOPTING THESE REGULATIONS, UM, PROVIDING THE APPLICANTS, BRING THIS ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, UM, IT'LL ESSENTIALLY PUT, UM, PULL THAT INTO A PUBLIC REVIEW AND, UH, THE BASIS FOR THAT APPROVAL OR DISAPPROVAL, UM, WOULD BE, WOULD BE MORE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.
UM, OVERUSE NAME, THE THRESH HOPE THAT'S BEING PROPOSED WITH THIS REGULATION IS ESSENTIALLY TO RETIRE THOSE WORDS THAT ARE USED IN STREET NAMES MORE THAN 20 TIMES, UM, THAT THE COMMISSION WOULD HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO DISAPPROVE IF IT CONTAINS
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ANY OF THOSE WORDS.AND SO THIS IS JUST A SAMPLE OF SOME OF THE COMMON NAMES THAT ARE USED, UM, IN THE CITY, ETC.
UM, PLANTATION HAS BEEN, UM, ONE OF THOSE CONTROVERSIAL WORDS, UM, IT'S BEEN USED IN AT LEAST 21, UH, STREET NAMES, UH, THROUGHOUT THE CITY.
THE WORD GREEN, UM, HAS BEEN USED AT LEAST 34 TIMES.
UM, AND THEN THE WORD QUAIL HAS BEEN USED AT LEAST 44 TIMES.
UM, SO THAT JUST KINDA GIVES YOU AN IDEA.
UM, AS PART OF THESE REGULATIONS, WE WOULD, UM, CREATE A LIST OF STREET NAMES THAT MEET THAT THRESHOLD AND ABOVE, AND ESSENTIALLY THAT WOULD BE MADE, UM, AS AN APPENDIX TO THE PLANNING MANUAL, UH, SO THAT APPLICANTS OR, UM, BUILDERS, UM, DEVELOPERS, UH, WOULD HAVE THAT INFORMATION AND THEN THEY CAN, UM, ADJUST THEIR PROPOSED STREET NAMES.
THE PRIVATE STREETS, UM, IT'S, IT'S, THIS IS PROBABLY SELF EVIDENT, BUT JUST TO GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF THIS STUFF IS NATION.
UM, THE COUNCIL HAS HAD SOME RECENT CONVERSATION ABOUT, UM, PRIVATE STREETS.
UH, THIS IS, UH, A PRIVATE STREET THAT'S ACTUALLY RIGHT OFF OF CNM RANCH ROAD AND CONNECTS TO HIGHWAY SIX.
UH, AND IF YOU WERE OUT ON THE STREET TODAY, LOOKING AT THE STREET SIGNS, YOU WOULDN'T KNOW THAT IT'S A PRIVATE STREET, IT LOOKS JUST LIKE ANY OTHER, YOU KNOW, STREET WITHIN THE CITY, PUBLIC OR PRIVATE.
UM, SO THIS REGULATION WOULD ESSENTIALLY PROVIDE DESIGNATION, UM, ON THAT STREET SIGN, UH, SO THAT THE PUBLIC KNOWS, UM, THAT THIS IS PRIVATE PROPERTY OR, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE ACCESS TO IT, BUT IT'S, IT'S, UM, PRIVATE RIGHT OF WAY, NOT MAINTAINED BY A PUBLIC ENTITY.
SO PART OF THE REGULATIONS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED, UM, AS I MENTIONED, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, UM, IF THE AUTHORITY AND THE CITY, UH, FOR ACTING ON SUBDIVISION PLAT, UH, SO THE INITIAL APPROVAL DISAPPROVAL OF A PROPOSED STREET NAME, UM, WOULD STAY WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
UM, BUT THESE REGULATIONS WOULD ALLOW FOR AN APPLICANT, UH, TO APPEAL A DISAPPROVAL BY THE COMMISSION, UH, THAT APPEAL WOULD COME TO CITY COUNCIL, UM, AND A PUBLIC HEARING WOULD BE PART OF THAT PROCESS.
AND THEN THE CITY COUNCIL WOULD HAVE THE FINAL DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO APPROVE OR DENY THAT APPEAL.
SO THAT GIVES THE APPLICANT AN OPTION TO CONTINUE TO SAVE THEIR CASE.
UM, IF A NAME IS, UH, DISAPPROVED, UM, AND ALSO AGAIN, BRINGS THAT INTO THE PUBLIC CONVERSATION AS TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT SPECIFIC STREET NAME IS AND WHETHER IT'S APPROPRIATE FOR THE COMMUNITY, JENNIFER FOR, IS THERE AN OPTION FOR PUTTING IN A NOTICING COMPONENT TO THIS, TO NOTICE ANY OF A BUDDING NEIGHBORHOODS OF THESE STREET NAMES, IF THEY, THAT YEAH, WE DON'T HAVE THAT IN THE REGULATION, BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY ADD A COMPONENT TO THAT.
CAN WE PUT A COMPONENT IN THERE, UM, WHERE WE NOTICE A BUDDING NEIGHBORHOODS? UM, I KNOW IF THEY'RE BUILDING A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD THAT THE 250 PETE 250 FEET BUFFER MAY NOT GO FAR ENOUGH.
UM, YEAH, SO I, THAT'S WHY I'M SAYING A BUDDY.
WE CAN, UM, WORK ON, UM, ADDING THAT TO THE LANGUAGE OF THE ORDINANCE AND THEN WORK WITH OUR COMMUNICATIONS DEPARTMENT AS WELL.
UH, WHEN THESE CLASSES ARE PROPOSED, UH, TO GET THAT, THAT INFORMATION OUT.
OKAY, JENNIFER, THIS WAS COUNCILMAN EMORY.
CAN YOU MOVE IT ON THE, UH, UH, USE OF THE, UH, UH, I GUESS OFTEN USE NAMES LIKE GREEN, ARE, ARE YOU INDICATING, OR, I MEAN, DOES THIS, UH, UH, ORDINANCE, UH, RETIRE THAT NAME SO THAT IT CAN'T BE USED AGAIN ARE WHAT, WHAT'S THE PROCESS THAT, UH, THAT'LL BE IN PLACE IF SOMEONE WANTS TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, ANOTHER SUBDIVISION SOMEWHERE AND THEY WANT TO USE THE TERMS, ARE THEY USING THAT? SO, SO THE, THE ATTEMPTS WITH THIS REGULATION, IT WOULD RETIRE IT.
SO MOVING FORWARD, IT WOULDN'T AFFECT ANYTHING THAT'S CURRENT THAT CURRENTLY INCLUDES THOSE WORDS, BUT MOVING FORWARD, THEY, THE PLANNING IS ONLY COMMISSION WOULD BE ABLE TO DISAPPROVE, UM, THE USE OF THE NAME FOR THE STREET NAME.
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IMPACT THE NAMING OF A SUBDIVISION, BUT INDIVIDUAL STREETS WITHIN THAT SUBDIVISION, IF THEY HAD ANY OF THOSE WORDS, THEN THOSE, THOSE STREET NAMES COULD BE DISAPPROVED.THE QUALIFIER WITH THAT WOULD BE THIS APPEAL PROCESS IS THAT IF IT IS DISAPPROVED BASED ON THAT STANDARD OR, UM, YOU KNOW, WELL, BASED ON THAT QUALIFIER, THEN THEY CAN APPEAL THAT DISAPPROVAL TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
AND AGAIN, THE REASON YOU DON'T WANT TO REPEAT OF THESE NAMES, I UNDERSTAND PLANTATION, BUT GREEN AND QUAIL, WHAT'S THE LOGIC THERE AS TO WHY YOU WOULD NOT ALLOW A DEVELOPER OR A BUILDER TO USE ONE OF THOSE TERMS IN THEIR STREET, NAMING CONVENTION? WELL, SOME OF IT, I THINK, UM, WOULD BE FOR LOOKING AT NAMES FOR SIMILAR, YOU KNOW, AND MAKING SURE THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THAT CONFLICT IN PLACE.
UM, SO THAT, YOU KNOW, CLEARLY WHERE THIS LOCATION IS.
UM, SO WHETHER IT'S FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES PURPOSES OR, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR DELIVERY PURPOSES THAT YOU DON'T, YOU KNOW, CONFUSE, YOU KNOW, THOSE DIFFERENT PROCESSES.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S DROP IN REALLY QUICKLY.
IT'S PRIMARILY FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES TO ENSURE THAT THERE AREN'T CONFUSING STREET NAMES SO THAT OUR FIRST RESPONDERS KNOW EXACTLY WHERE THEY ARE TO REPORT TO.
I THINK, I BELIEVE THAT MIGHT BE THE LAST LIE.
I THINK THERE'S ONE MORE SLIDE, UM, THAT, CAN, CAN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE? OH, BACK ONE MORE.
SO I JUST WANTED TO TOUCH ON, UM, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
WE HAD THIS DISCUSSION ABOUT A PROPOSED REGULATIONS IN MAY, UM, AND THEN BROUGHT THESE PROPOSED REGULATIONS FOR, UH, THEIR INPUT IN JULY.
AND, UM, THEY DID EXPRESS SOME CONCERN.
UH, THEY UNDERSTAND, UM, WHAT, UM, THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT THE SITUATION IS, WHAT THE CLIMATE IS.
UM, AND THEY, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY, UM, AGREED THE CONCEPT, UM, WAS THE, UM, I THINK SOME OF THEIR, UH, CHALLENGE, UM, THEIR CHALLENGES WOULD BE ON MAKING THAT CALL, MAKING THAT DETERMINATION ON WHETHER TO APPROVE OR DISAPPROVE, UM, A PROPOSED STREET MAINE, UM, AND ALSO THE TIME INVOLVED.
UM, SO AS YOU'RE FULLY AWARE OF THE TIME CONSTRAINTS THAT WE HAVE, UH, WITH THE PLANNING PROCESS, UH, THE NUMBER OF DAYS THAT WE HAVE TO GET IT REVIEWED AND ACTED ON.
UM, SO TO DO THIS KIND OF REVIEW, UM, TO VET THE INFORMATION, UH, SUBMITTED, THEY HAD EXPRESSED SOME CONCERNS WITH THAT.
UM, SO ONE OF THE, UH, WHAT'S INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET, OUR ATTEMPT, UM, AT HOW WE MIGHT STRUCTURE, UM, APPLICANTS, UM, SUBMITTING THEIR PROPOSED STREET NAMES, UM, FOR REVIEW, AND THEN HOW WE WOULD KIND OF STRUCTURE THE REVIEW ON THE STAFF SIDE, UM, OF THE INFORMATION THAT APPLICANTS SUBMITTED.
AND IT COULD BE WHERE RIGHT NOW, A STREET MAIN, UM, BECAUSE OF THE REGULATIONS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE, UM, THEY'RE PROPOSED BY A DEVELOPER AT THE TIME OF A PRELIMINARY PLAT.
UM, AND THEN ALSO AT THE TIME OF THE FINAL CLASS, UM, BASED ON THE, UM, INFORMATION THAT NEEDS TO BE REVIEWED WITH THIS PROCESS, UH, WE MAY PUSH THAT UP IN THE PROCESS.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S AT THE CONCEPT PLAN STAGE, OR AT THE PRELIMINARY PLAT STAGE, UM, HAVING THEM SUBMIT, UH, THE STREET NAMES FOR REVIEW.
UM, SO I CAN GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS, UM, AT THAT TIME.
UM, SO THE, UH, DRAFT CHECKLIST, THE DRAFT REVIEW, UM, ARE INCLUDED IN YOUR PACKET, UM, JUST SO THAT YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THOSE REVIEWS WOULD BE STRUCTURED FROM THE APPLICANT SIDE, AS WELL AS FROM STAFF IN JENNIFER, JUST COUNCILMAN HENRY AGAIN, UH, IS, WAS THERE SOME REGULATIONS THAT WERE PLACED ON THE PLANNING PROCESS BY STATE LEGISLATURE THAT YOU HAD SO MANY DAYS IN WHICH TO TURN AROUND, UH, WAS THAT IN THE PLANNING PROCESS? SO THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE THE LAST CHANGES THAT WE MADE, UM, TO THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE.
UM, AND IT WAS BASED ON, UH, THE LAST LEGISLATIVE SESSION WHERE, UH, THEY, THEY SAID THAT 30 DAY CLOCK, UM, THE 30 DAY CLOCK HAD ALREADY APPLIED TO FINAL CLASS IN THE CITY.
AND BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE PLATS KIND OF WENT THROUGH THAT SAME TIMEFRAME,
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BUT IN ORDER TO, UM, RESPOND TO SOME OF THOSE CHANGES, WE'VE RESTRUCTURED THAT PLATTING SUBMITTAL PROCESS.SO, UM, ESSENTIALLY FROM APPLICATION SUBMITTAL, UH, TO PNC ACTION, ALL OF THAT OCCURS WITHIN A 30 DAY TIMEFRAME.
MY, AND MY QUESTION IS, IS REALLY BY PUTTING THIS NEW REQUIREMENT ON THE PLANNING PROCESS, WILL WE HAVE MANY PROBLEMS OF ADHERING TO THOSE NEW STANDARDS? UM, I THINK IF WE WORK WITH, UM, DEVELOPERS BUILDER ON THE INFORMATION THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR, UM, AND THEN ALSO, UH, DETERMINE AT WHAT STAGE IN THAT PROCESS WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE INFORMATION TO BE SUBMITTED.
UM, IT'S GOING TO BE A LEARNING CURVE.
UM, BUT IT'S JUST ONE THAT WE ALL, YOU KNOW, WE CAN ADJUST OUR PROCESS TO, BECAUSE MY UNDERSTANDING IS IF YOU DON'T MEET THOSE TIME STANDARDS THAT, UH, WHATEVER THE PLAN IS THAT WAS PRESENTED IS AUTOMATICALLY APPROVED.
IS THAT, IS THAT RIGHT GENERALLY CORRECT? YES.
SO IT'S INCUMBENT THAT WE, UH, UH, HAVE A, UH, A PROCESS AND PROCEDURES THAT ALLOW US TO, UH, TO STAY WITHIN THOSE TIMING STANDARDS.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON THE PRESENTATION.
UM, THE NATION IS TO APPROVE, UM, AND, UH, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
UM, THEY DO THE NEGATIVE RECOMMENDATION, UM, BUT AGAIN, THE CHECKLIST AND THE REVIEW, UM, OUR, UM, OUR ATTEMPT TO TRY TO EASE SOME OF THOSE CONCERNS THAT THE COMMISSION, UM, EXPRESS.
UM, SO IF THERE'S ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS BACK THEN I CAN RESPOND TO THOSE.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR JENNIFER? I NEED A MOTION TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HEARING.
THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS, MAKING A MOTION TO OPEN UP THE PUBLIC HERE.
IS THERE A SECOND? THIS COSMIN EMORY MAKE A SECOND.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR FURTHER DISCUSSION? WELL, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT I, UM, SEVERAL MONTHS AGO.
AND JUST BEFORE I SAY THAT, UH, DOUG, DID WE HAVE ANY OTHER RESIDENTS ON, UH, WHO SIGNED UP OR DID THEY JUST PROVIDE SOMETHING IN WRITING? I THINK THAT THEY PROVIDED SOMETHING IN WRITING MA'AM OKAY.
SO JUST FYI, THERE ARE FOUR PUBLIC COMMENTS THAT ARE IN WRITING.
UH, MARIA, WILL THESE BE AVAILABLE OFFLINE FOR, FOR PEOPLE TO READ OR IS IT JUST, WILL IT, WILL IT BE A PART OF THE AGENDA, UM, MINUTES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE THOSE COMMENTS FROM THE PUBLIC.
THEY CAN SUBMIT A REQUEST TO ME AND I CAN PROVIDE THOSE COMMENTS TO THEM.
SO WOULD IT BE TO HAVE SOMEONE READ THOSE COMMENTS OUT LOUD? YEAH.
MARIA, CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND READ THOSE COMMENTS PLEASE? YES, MA'AM GIVE ME ONE SECOND PLEASE.
UM, THE CITY RECEIVED FOUR REQUESTS.
THE FIRST ONE WAS FROM DAVID BALL.
HIS ADDRESS IS 27 OH SEVEN VERMILION DRIVE IN MISSOURI CITY.
HIS COMMENTS ARE, I HAVE LIVED IN THE VICKSBURG SUBDIVISION FOR 23 YEARS.
AND AS A MISSOURI CITY RESIDENT, I OPPOSE ANY MEANS OR METHODS FOR CHANGING THE NAMES OF CERTAIN STREETS.
NOT ONLY IN MY SUBDIVISION, BUT ALL OVER THE CITY HAS COUNSELED CONSIDER THE COST OF THIS.
THERE MUST BE A HUNDRED OR SO STREET NAMES AND, AND MANY ENTRY MONUMENT SIGNS THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE CHANGED.
WE HAVE ALREADY LOST OVER $200,000 TO PAY OFF THE FORMER CITY MANAGER'S CONTRACT, AND IT IS A IT'S AND IT IS, AND IT IS UNDERSTOOD THAT WE'VE LOST OVER 300,000 IN REVENUE FROM CANCELLED, GULF SCULPT TOURNAMENTS AND BALLROOM RENTALS AT THE CITY CENTER.
WHAT CITY SERVICES WILL BE CUT TO PAY FOR THESE SHORTCOMINGS, MUCH LESS ADDITIONAL SIGN CHANGES.
WHAT INTERRUPTIONS WILL HAPPEN TO POSTAL AND PACKAGE DELIVERIES, AS WELL AS GPS EMERGENCY OPERATIONS.
THERE ARE TOO MANY QUESTIONS AND NOT ENOUGH ANSWERS FOR THIS KNEE JERK REACTION THAT HAS GRIPPED OUR COUNTRY.
AND THOSE WHO IGNORE THEIR HISTORY ARE FAILED TO REPEAT IT.
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THE FREEDOM OAK AND MOVE ON.THE SECOND REQUEST IS FROM BO GUILBEAU.
HIS ADDRESS IS 32 22 CONFEDERATE DRIVE.
HIS COMMENTS ARE I'M CO RENAMING MY STREET, WHICH IS CURRENTLY CONFEDERATE DRIVE.
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT FEELS LIKE FOR THE PAST 24 YEARS TO WRITE THIS DOWN ON PAPER OR TO SEE IT ON YOUR DRIVER'S LICENSE, IT'S SICKENING AND INSENSITIVE TO ALL RACES.
NOW, THE THIRD REQUEST IS FROM MARSHA WILLIS.
SHE LIVES AT 33 OH SIX CONFEDERATE COURT.
HER COMMENTS ARE MY HUSBAND AND I ARE FOR THE ORDINANCE THAT WOULD CHANGE HOW NEW STREETS IN THE CITY ARE NAMED.
WE DO NOT SUPPORT THE RACIST NAMES THROUGHOUT OUR SUBDIVISION.
AND THE FINAL REQUEST IS FROM WANDA TAYLOR.
SHE'S AT 32 18 CONFEDERATE DRIVE.
HER COMMENTS ARE, I WOULD LIKE TO EXPRESS MY SUPPORT IN FAVOR OF CHANGING THE NAMES OF THE SUBDIVISIONS AND STREET NAMES WITH OFFENSIVE RACIALLY INSENSITIVE STREET NAMES AND SIGNS.
IT IS TIME TO MAKE THIS CHANGE THAT WILL REPRESENT THE DIVERSITY AND INCLUSIVENESS THIS COMMUNITY DESIRES.
AGAIN, THE TIME IS NOW THAT CONCLUDES THE COMMENTS MAYOR.
ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER ADDRESS.
I DO WANT TO THANK MS. GOLDMAN'S FOR TAKING THE TIME TO PRESENT THIS DETAILED PRESENTATIONS TO COUNCIL, AS WELL AS THE RESIDENTS.
I KNOW THAT THE NARRATIVE WAS PUSHED AT COUNCIL WAS TRYING TO CHANGE ALL THE STREET NAMES AND, UM, A LOT OF INFORMATION PROVIDED TO COUNTS ME TO THE PUBLIC ABOUT HOW WE WERE PLANNING TO CHANGE THIS ORDINANCE.
I DO APPRECIATE YOU PROVIDING DETAILED INFORMATION TO EDUCATE THE RESIDENTS ABOUT THIS ORDINANCE AND, UM, JUST PROVIDE MORE BACKGROUND INFORMATION.
IS THERE ANY FEEDBACK FOR THE RESIDENTS THAT ARE TUNING IN AS TO COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE AS TO WHY, UM, MEMBERS OF THE P AND Z VOTED THIS DOWN? UM, NOT SPECIFIC, UM, FEEDBACK OTHER THAN JUST WHAT I EXPRESSED, UM, IN THE PRESENTATION, UM, ONLY BECAUSE CAUSE PMPS WERE KIND OF FRAMED THAT OVERALL THEY UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR IT.
UM, THEIR ISSUES WERE MORE IN HOW IT WOULD BE PROCESSED.
UM, AND SO, UM, WHAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TRYING TO DO AT A STAFF LEVEL IS TO GIVE PNB, UM, KIND OF, YOU KNOW, THE INFORMATION THAT THEY WOULD NEED, UM, TO BE ABLE TO MAKE, YOU KNOW, TAKE ACTION.
UM, WHEN THAT TIME
UH, FIRST OF ALL, I, I AM DEFINITELY A SUPPORTIVE OF ENSURING THAT ANY FUTURE NAMES, UH, THAT COME BEFORE, UH, TO THE CITY, UH, DON'T HAVE ANY OF THE OFFENSIVE NAMES, UH, THAT MANY PEOPLE FIND, UH, INCLUDING MYSELF TO BE, UM, OFFENSIVE.
UH, THIS, THIS OF COURSE IS AN ISSUE THAT IS BEEN TALKED ABOUT IN MY DISTRICT FOR SEVERAL YEARS.
UH, EVEN PRIOR TO ME BECOMING A MEMBER OF COUNCIL, UH, I WANT TO THANK MY COLLEAGUES FOR UNANIMOUSLY VOTING LAST COUNCIL MEETING, UH, ON AN ORDINANCE THAT GIVES MANY OF THOSE INDIVIDUALS WHO PROVIDED COMMENTS, THE ABILITY TO ACTUALLY SUBMIT A PETITION, UH, BY US REDUCING THE SIGNATURE THRESHOLD TO CHANGE THE EXISTING STREET NAMES.
I THINK THAT MANY PEOPLE MAY HAVE BEEN CONFUSED, UH, BECAUSE OF THE WAY IT MAY HAVE BEEN, UH, COMMUNICATED, UH, FROM THE CITY THAT THIS WAS POSSIBLY GOING TO CHANGE THE NAMES OF THE EXISTING STREETS VERSUS, UH, ANY FUTURE STREETS.
BUT I'M GLAD THAT THAT WAS CLEARED UP TODAY BY STAFF.
AND, UM, I'M JUST WANTING TO ENCOURAGE ANY AND ALL OF OUR RESIDENTS, PARTICULARLY THOSE IMPACTED BY, UH, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ISSUE AT HAND TO THAT, THE POWER TRULY RESTS WITH THEM, UH, THAT THEY NOW HAVE AN EVEN GREATER OPPORTUNITY BY THE THRESHOLD BEING LOWERED FROM 90% TO 70%, UH, THAT THEY CAN PUT FORTH THE PETITION, UH, WITH INDIVIDUALS ON THEIR STREET, UH, TO BRING THAT TO COUNCIL FOR CONSIDERATION AT 70%, UH, SIGNATURE THRESHOLD.
SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO GET WITH YOUR, UH, YOUR, YOUR, UH, FELLOW RESIDENTS, YOUR NEIGHBORS, UH, YOU KNOW, WITH THE HOA AND, UH, LET THEM KNOW YOUR CONCERNS AND, AND WAYS IN WHICH YOU ALL CAN BRING THAT ISSUE BEFORE US FOR CONSIDERATION, IF YOU SO CHOOSE
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ANYONE ELSE.SO I WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT, UH, PERSONALLY FOR ME, UM, I AM A NATIVE OF MISSOURI CITY, UM, AND IT'S APPALLING THAT WE HAVE STREETS AND NEIGHBORHOODS IN MISSOURI CITY WITH NAMES THAT REPRESENT AN HONOR PEOPLE, PLACES AND EVENTS THAT WERE NOTORIOUS FOR MURDERING RAPING BEATING, HANGING ENSLAVING, AND MANY OTHER DREADFUL ATROCITIES TO AFRICAN AMERICANS.
THE ORDINANCE, THE ORDINANCE AS MENTIONED, UH, IN PROPOSING THAT WE WILL NO LONGER ALLOW FOR SUCH NAMES TO BE UTILIZED, UH, FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT WITHIN MISSOURI CITY CITY LIMITS.
I E BEDFORD FOREST TYPES OF NAMES COULD NOT BE UTILIZED.
UH, BEDFORD FOREST IS JUST ONE OF THE MANY STREETS IN MISSOURI CITY THAT HAVE A HISTORICALLY AND RACIALLY OFFENSIVE NAME.
HE WAS A PROMINENT CONFEDERATE ARMY GENERAL.
AND FOR THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW WHAT THE CONFEDERATE REESE CONFEDERACY WAS, UH, THEY HAD A POLITICAL IDEOLOGY IDEOLOGY BASED IN PRO SLAVERY AND WHITE SUPREMACY.
THAT FOR, FOR US WAS THE FIRST GRAND WIZARD OF THE TWO CLUBS PLAN.
BUT THOSE WHO DON'T KNOW WHO THE KKK IS, THEY ARE A WHITE SUPREMACY HATE GROUP WHOSE PRIMARY TARGETS ARE AFRICAN AMERICANS.
AND THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR MANY LAWLESS AND VIOLENT PROCEEDINGS, SUCH AS HANGINGS AND BEATINGS OF AFRICAN-AMERICANS.
NONETHELESS, ONE OF HIS MANY ACCOMPLISHMENTS WAS A MASSACRE OVER 300 BLACK SOLDIERS COUPLED WITH HIS ROLE IN LEADING THE CLAN.
POST-WAR HOWEVER, AS IT RELATES TO THIS ITEM, I WANT TO SPEAK ON A CONVERSATION THAT HAS BEEN GENERATED THROUGH AND WITH THE FORMER MAYOR OF MISSOURI CITY ON HIS, HIS OWN PERSONAL FACEBOOK FORUM KNOWN AS TAKE OUR CITY BACK AND HOW HE AND MANY OTHERS ARE DISGUSTED AND AGAINST THE SO-CALLED RENAMING OF STREETS THAT WE ARE REFERRING TO TODAY.
SECOND, IT IS MY HOPE THAT YOU, YOUR CHILDREN, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL NEVER, EVER HAVE TO SEE NAMES OF PEOPLE IN PLACES THAT ARE BEING HONORED IN YOUR LIFE TIME THAT HAVE RAPED OUR WIVES AND DAUGHTERS THAT HAVE KILLED YOUR SON, SONS, AND BROTHERS.
THEY HAVE PUBLICLY HUNG YOUR FAMILY MEMBERS FROM TREES FOR ENTERTAINMENT.
FINALLY, I GUESS THIS IS WHAT WAS MEANT BY TAKE OUR CITY BACK TO WHERE WE MISLEAD AND BELIEVING THAT RENAMING A RACIALLY AND HISTORICALLY OFFENSIVE STREET WILL BANKRUPT THE CITY AND PASSION FOR AN ENTIRE RACE OF PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD EXPERIENCED THIS CRUEL AND PAINFUL HISTORY OF AMERICA.
WITH THAT STATE, I'VE ASKED THE CITY MANAGER TO COMPILE A LIST OF ALL HISTORICALLY AND RACIALLY OFFENSIVE STREET NAMES AND COMMUNITIES, AND WHAT THAT COSTS WOULD BE FOR, IF ANYONE WANTED TO CHANGE THEIR STREET, WE WILL ADVISE RESIDENTS OF THIS PROCESS AND HOW TO CHANGE THOSE NAMES IN THE FUTURE.
CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, IF THERE ARE NO OTHER PUBLIC COMMENTS, UH, WE WILL NOW VOTE TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING, OR WE HAVE TO VOTE FIRST, MAYBE DO A VOTE TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING.
SO LET ME GO AHEAD AND DO A ROLL CALL VOTE.
UM, THE RESIDENT WHO SPOKE OVER NINE FEET WOULD NOW SHE DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR SEVEN A B ONE, BUT SHE WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT IF PERMITTED BY COUNCIL TO SPEAK OVER 71 AS WELL.
MISS CELIA, ARE YOU ON THE LINE? CAN YOU HEAR ME? I'M SORRY.
EVERYBODY CAN HEAR ME REAL QUICK.
I MEAN, EVERY LAST ONE OF YOU HAD, WHO SAID THEY FULLY SUPPORT IT.
I FULLY SUPPORT THE RENAMING OF ANY STREET, ANY SUBDIVISION THAT REFLECTS THE PAST DEMONIC SLAVE CULTURE.
I JUST REALIZED IN THIS SPLIT SECOND, EVEN MY OWN SUBDIVISION.
AND SO THEREFORE I SUPPORTED, AND I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE GOING TO DO.
AS FAR AS FINDING OUT HOW MUCH IT WILL COST, HOW DIFFICULT OR SIMPLE, WHAT CAN BE DONE, WHY? BECAUSE WE MUST START DOING WHAT WE CAN RIGHT HERE.
AND WE MUST START NOW WHY WE HAVE THIS PLATFORM AND THIS OPPORTUNITY.
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SO THANK YOU FOR THIS.THIS HAS BEEN A WONDERFUL AWAKENING TO WHAT WE CAN DO RIGHT HERE, LOCALLY IN OUR OWN NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND EVEN IF WE DON'T LIVE IN A NEIGHBORHOOD WITH SUCH HORRIBLE NAME, WE KNOW SOMEONE WHO PROBABLY DOES.
AND EVEN IF WE DON'T, LET'S CHANGE OUR CITY.
MAY I APPROACH HIM PRESTON? YES.
I BELIEVE YOU MADE THE MOTION CORRECT? TO OPEN UP JEFF MAN COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY MADE THE SECOND.
NOW, IF THERE ARE NO FURTHER COMMENTS, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING.
IS THERE A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING? REMEMBER PRESTON MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HERE.
IS THERE A SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER? EDWARD, SECOND THAT MOTION.
VOTE, MAY APPROACH AND PRESTON.
COUNCIL MEMBER ERRANDS MADE THE SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE WITH THE AMENDMENT OF NOTICING A BUDDING NEIGHBORHOODS? SO MOVED BY MARILLA OKAY.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND THEN A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER.
BONNIE, ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? YEAH.
CAN WE GET A DEFINITION OF A BUDDING? SO THEN, YOU KNOW, WE KNOW EXACTLY ANY, ANY NEIGHBORHOODS THAT WOULD BE ADJACENT TO THAT DEVELOPMENT.
UM, SO IF, CAUSE WITH THE 200 FOOT BUFFER, UM, THAT WOULDN'T TYPICALLY CATCH ANYTHING BECAUSE IF IT'S A NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, THERE'S PROBABLY GOING TO BE MORE, UM, LAND THERE, THEN THE 200 FEET.
UH, SO I WOULD ASK PLANNING TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING.
JENNIFER, ARE YOU STILL THERE? YES, I'M HERE, MAN.
I WAS GONNA ASK YOU THAT TYPICALLY, UM, ANY, ANY NEIGHBORHOOD SUBDIVISION THAT HAS LIKE A COMMON LINE WITH THE PROPOSED AREA.
SO IT WOULDN'T BE JUST THAT SECTION WITHIN THE SUBDIVISION, BUT IF YOU THINK OF LIKE THE PARK VILLAGE SUBDIVISION, WE WOULD PROBABLY DO LIKE LAKE OLYMPIA, OLYMPIA STATE.
UM, AND THEN I THINK IT'S CALLED VALLEY THUNDERBIRD NORTH, UM, THAT'S TO THE NORTH.
SO ANY, ANY SUBDIVISION AROUND THE PERIMETER OF THAT GENERAL AREA IS WHAT WE WOULD LOOK AT.
AND IF WE CAN DO THE 200 FOOT BUFFER WITH THAT COMMON EDGE, THAT SHOULD BE PLENTY.
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE WE GET A GOOD DEFINITION AS WE MOVE FORWARD ON THIS.
COUNCIL MEMBER RUELAS AND COUNCIL MEMBER.
UM, THERE ARE NO APPOINTMENTS ON THIS AGENDA.
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I'M THE CURRENT SOLUTION CHEMICAL SOLUTION WE HAVE IN PLACE RIGHT NOW, UM, IS REACHING THE END OF LEAF AND WE HAVE, WE WILL NEED TO REPLACE IT AND UPGRADED THE SECURITY CAMERA AND VIDEO SYSTEM IS VERY BENEFICIAL FOR THE FLEET OPERATIONS.
UM, IT HELPS YOU TURN A CRIME ALSO.
UM, IT CREATES A SAFE PLACE FOR EMPLOYEES.
UM, THE SECURITY CAMERAS AT ENTRY POINTS AND EXIT OF THE BUILDING AND IN THE PARKING LOT CREATES A SAFE WORKPLACE.
ALSO, UH, WITH THE UPGRADE SOLUTION PROVIDED BETTER COVERAGE,
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UM, THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT PROCEEDING WITH AND GIVE A BETTER RESOLUTION AND ENSURE VIDEO, VIDEO QUALITY.UM, THE DATA CENTER COMPUTE BEHIND IT WILL ALSO HELP BENEFIT PROCESSING THIS DATA AND INFORMATION AND THE NEW LEASE THAT WE HAVE NEGOTIATED SO FAR WITH SAY $887 FROM WHAT WE'RE PAYING NOW AND ALSO WHO THEY DID SOME NEGOTIATED $1 BUYOUT, UM, BECAUSE SOME OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE WILL BE LEASING, UH, WE HAVE A LONGER SHELF LIFE.
UM, WHAT DID I LEAVE? ANY QUESTIONS? NO.
IS THERE A MOTION SO WE CAN OPEN UP FOR DISCUSSION.
REMEMBER I WOULD MAKE A MOTION TO OPEN UP FOR THIS PERSON.
IS THERE A SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER? WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR CEDRIC? OKAY.
MAY I PUT YOU IN PRESTON MATE? THE SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING? YES.
BE CONSIDERED AUTHORIZING THE USE OF CARE'S ACT FUNDS ON THE SUBMITTED PROJECT LIST.
WE HAVE CHIEF CAMPBELL AND SPURGEON ROBINSON PRESENTING.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, JEAN CAMPBELL HERE.
AND I'M MR. ATKINSON, MIKE DRUNK IN.
UM, AND SO ALSO ON THE CALL IS, UH, TAMIKA JUS AT OUR EMERGENCY MANAGER TONIGHT, WE'RE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER, UH, FOR CONSIDERATION TO CARE IS ACTUALLY FUNDS, UH, THAT WERE FUNDED THROUGH, UH, FORT BEND COUNTY, UH, REFERENCED THE $134 MILLION THAT, UH, THEY RECEIVED, UH, FROM THE NATIONAL, UH, CARES ACT THAT BEGAN BACK IN MARCH TO DATE.
UH, THE CITY HAS ALLOCATED 300, $3,763,760, UH, THAT WE COULD SEEK FOR REIMBURSEMENTS FROM FORT BEND COUNTY.
THE CITY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO MAKE EXPENDITURES UPFRONT.
BEFORE WE SEE WHEN THESE FUNDS TONIGHT, WHAT WE'RE ASKING YOU TO CONSIDER IS GIVEN THE TWO MATRIX THAT WE HAVE PROVIDED FOR THE COUNSEL'S REVIEW.
THE ONE THAT GIVES US FOUR DIFFERENT LEVELS OF GROUPS TO CONSIDER AS WELL AS AN ITEMIZED LIST THAT BREAKS DOWN EACH ONE OF THOSE CATEGORIES, UH, TO GIVE US DIRECTION ON WHICH ONE OF THOSE ITEMS THEY WOULD CONSIDER MOVING FORWARD.
IN ADDITION TO THAT, UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH, UH, DIRECTOR WALKER'S, UH, DEPARTMENT ON DEVELOPING THE OUTREACH STRATEGY.
UH, THERE WERE A LIST OF QUESTIONS AND DEFINITIONS THAT WE WORKED WITH DIFFERENT DEPARTMENT DIRECTORS ON TO COME BACK, GIVEN YOUR DIRECTION IN LIGHT THAT WILL ALLOW US TO, TO, UH, DEVELOP TIMELINES WITH OUTREACH PLAN AND TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, WITH THAT PORTION OF YOUR DIRECTION.
UM, I'M TURNING IT OVER TO SPURGEON ROBINSON.
WHO'S GONNA GIVE YOU THE DIFFERENCE OF FEMA PM.
WE'RE GONNA REVIEW THAT AGAIN.
FEMA, PA PUBLIC'S ASSISTANCE, AS WELL AS KARA ADAC FUNDING.
UH, THE SPREADSHEET SHOWS, UH, WHICH IS THE RECOMMENDATIONS AFTER REVIEWING IT WITH THE IMPACT GROUP, WHICH ITEMS WE THINK WE SHOULD MOVE FORWARD ON CARE'S ACT GIVEN THE TURNAROUND, THERE IS MORE QUICKER OR LESS THAN THREE WEEKS OR LESS, UH, IS THE, IS A GUIDELINE THAT WE CAN GET THAT MONEY BACK FOR THE CITY.
FEMA PA COULD TAKE A LONGER VERSION.
OH, THANKS TO THE THIRD COUNCIL MEMBERS AS WELL.
UM, IS THERE NO SLIDE, I'M SORRY, CHIEF WITH THIS, OR JUST A, THIS IS ONLY SLIDE THAT WE HAVE.
THIS IS THE ONLY SIDE WE HAVE BECAUSE WE, WE DID IT BEFORE SPURGEON AND THEY HAVE THE SPREADSHEET.
DO YOU HAVE THE SPREADSHEET THAT WE WENT OVER THE LAST TIME SPURGEON? UH, I DON'T, I HAVE IT.
I'LL PULL IT UP HERE AS WE'RE GOING THROUGH IT.
UH, PRIMARILY THE, THE CARES ACT FUNDING HAS BEEN DESIGNED DIRECTLY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE TO THE DISPARITIES THAT ARE RESPONDING TO THE COVID-19 HEALTH, PUBLIC HEALTH EMERGENCY.
SO THINGS THAT WE FEEL THAT ARE THE SABER FIELD THAT IS IMPORTANT TO ADDRESS THE RESPONSE AND RECOVERY, UH, FROM COVID-19 OR THINGS THAT THE CARES ACT IS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED FOR.
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UH, AND IT'S A VERY NUMBER OF ACTIVITIES THAT COULD BE DONE.UH, LIKE I SAID, WE WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THEM AGAIN.
I THINK MOST OF YOU ARE PRETTY MUCH AWARE THAT HOPEFULLY YOU ARE AT THIS POINT IN TIME.
AND OF COURSE, WITH THE FEMA, UM, ADDITIONAL FUNDING, UH, FEMALE ALLOWS US TO DO THINGS SPECIFICALLY RELATED TO, UH, UH, REIMBURSEMENT FOR WORKFORCE AND LABOR HOURS.
THEY'RE ACTUALLY ATTRIBUTED TO RESPONDING TO THIS EMERGENCY PANDEMIC.
WELL, UH, IT REQUIRES A MATCH, BUT, UH, SOME OF THE GUIDANCE HAS COMING OUT FROM THE CARES ACT, ALLOWS, UH, THE CARES X FUNDING TO ACTUALLY BE USED AS PART OF THAT MATCH.
AND SO WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT WAYS IN WHICH TO MAXIMIZE THE CITIES OF THE FUNDS THAT THE CITY HAS, AND WE'RE LOOKING AT WHERE THE CARES ACT MAKES MORE RELEVANT SENSE, UH, AND THOSE THINGS THAT ARE NOT COVERED BY THE CARE ZACK AND MORE ATTRIBUTE TO THINGS SUCH AS FEMA FUND FUNDING, SUCH AS, UM, UM, LABOR, UH, ADDITIONAL LABOR COSTS OR EXPENDITURES RELATED TO PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR FACILITIES OR OTHER, UM, ACTIVITIES.
WE WANT TO USE THE FEMA FUNDING FOR THAT.
SO IT'S REALLY A DELINEATION OF, HEY, WHAT'S BEST FOR CARES.
AND WHAT'S BEST TO GO WITH FEMA KNOWING THE FUNDING SOURCES THAT ARE AVAILABLE BOTH TO THE CITY, UH, TO DO SUCH A AND THAT SPREADSHEET YOU HAVE IS AN OUTLINE OF THOSE ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN RECOMMENDED FOR EITHER FEMA FUNDING OR THE CARES THAT, UM, FUNDING DIRECTLY.
SO, UH, WITH THAT CHIEF CAMPBELL, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE YOU WANT ME TO, UM, UH, RESPOND TO, THAT'S WHY I'M TURNING BACK OVER TO YOU.
AND I BELIEVE COUNCIL MEMBERS, WHAT WE HAVE IS ITEM LEVEL ONE ARE REALLY FOR PP EXPENSES AND THOSE ITEMS RELATED RIGHT TO REIMBURSEMENTS OR ITEMS THAT ARE COVERING EMERGENCY RESPONSE ARE PEOPLE THAT, WHO WE ARE, UM, HOUSING, THOSE ITEMS. SO THOSE ARE ALL YOUR PRIORITY.
TWO ITEMS ARE SAFETY ITEMS RELATED TO EQUIPMENT, AS WELL AS TESTING AND MAKING OUT OF FACILITIES SAFER FOR USE OF INTERCOM'S PLEXIGLASS GLASS AND SO FORTH, UH, PAYING FOR QUARANTINE, UH, STAFF AND, AND TESTING FOR STAFF.
UH, PRIORITY THREE WAS THE THREE ITEMS THAT WE TALKED ABOUT, SMALL BUSINESS ASSISTANCE, UH, RENTAL AND UTILITY ASSISTANCE, AS WELL AS PPS, UM, FOR, UH, OUR RESIDENTS, SENIOR CITIZENS, PARTICULARLY THOSE, UH, WHO ARE CHALLENGED AND CAN'T GET OUT TO GET SOME OF THE PP DRIVES I THEN FOR PRIORITY FOR, FOR OTHER EXPENSES RELATED TO PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO WORK ON THAT PROGRAM UP ABOVE AS WELL AS TELEWORK, MEANING YOSSI AND HALF SMITH'S, UH, EQUIPMENT TO SANITIZE FACILITIES, UM, UPDATING THE COOP PLAN, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY CONTINUITY OF OPERATIONS PLAN, AS WELL AS, UH, EMPLOYEE HEALTH AND WELLNESS.
UM, THOSE WERE THE ITEMS, UM, MR. ATKINSON OR, OR MR. JONES IS YOU HAVE ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE ANYTHING YOU WANT TO DISCUSS WITH CLARIFY CHIEF, UH, THIS BILL ATKINSON AND ALL THE OTHER THING I WAS GONNA REMIND.
AND I KNOW THAT, UH, MR. ROBINSON HAD, UH, TOUCHED ON THIS LAST TIME WHEN YOU DID AS WELL, TOO, UH, AND BRIEFLY DID SPURGEON, BUT IF WE COULD, UH, TALK ABOUT THE, UH, MAXIMIZING OUR, UH, OUR FUNDING BY UTILIZING THE DONATIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO GET AS CREDITS FOR.
AND I THINK IT WAS FOR THE SAME, THE PA PROGRAM.
AND WE DO HAVE SOME THAT WOULD GO FOR THAT.
UH, WE'RE TRYING TO CONTINUE TO MAXIMIZE THOSE DOLLARS AND WE STILL WOULD HAVE FUNDING LEFT OVER ONCE WE MADE THESE EXPENDITURES, IF YOU APPROVED THEM, UH, TO DO OTHER THINGS, UH, WITH THESE DOLL, WITH THOSE DOLLARS.
SO, UH, HOW MUCH IN CREDIT WOULD WE HAVE IF Y'ALL COULD TO REMIND US OF THAT, PLEASE? SURE.
TAMIKA, COULD YOU SPEAK TO THAT? CAUSE TAMIKA WAS WORKING ON THAT, SO SHE SHOULD HAVE THE NUMBER, UM, SHAMEEKA, CAN YOU CHIME IN ON THAT PLEASE? FOR THE DONATED AMOUNT CURRENTLY FEMA FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE? OKAY.
FEMA CURRENTLY COVERS 70, WELL REIMBURSED 75% OF EXPENSES THAT WE BENT FOR COVERT RELATED ACTIVITIES, BUT DONATED ITEMS WILL COUNT TOWARDS THAT 25%.
SO AT THIS TIME WE HAVE HAD ABOUT 15,000 MASKS DONATED TO THE CITY WE HAVE HAD, I DON'T HAVE THE ORANGE, THE SPREADSHEET IN FRONT OF ME, BUT YOU'VE HAD PROBABLY ABOUT 35 40, UM, VOLUNTEERS COME WORK FOR THE CITY FOR AT LEAST
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FIVE HOURS.EACH ALL OF THAT FEMA WILL GIVE US A DOLLAR AMOUNT FOR THAT.
WE'LL TAKE AWAY FROM THAT 20%.
IN ADDITION TO OTHER THAN THAT, WE'RE STILL CALCULATING.
OUR GOAL IS WHATEVER WE SUBMIT TO FEMA PA WE WILL COVER A MAJORITY OF OUR COST THERE, THE 25% COST SHARE THROUGHOUT DONATION AND OUR VOLUNTEER THAT VOLUNTEERS THAT HAVE HELPED US AT THE PPE DRIVE AND OTHER SERVICES.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS OR CLARIFICATION? I'M NOT HEARING ANY, WE DO HAVE A RESIDENT WHO HAS SIGNED UP.
I JUST TRIED TO MAKE SURE THAT I WAS DOING IT WHEN I WAS SUPPOSED TO DO IT.
UM, YOU KNOW, BASICALLY AFTER TALKING TO THE ENTIRE SUBDIVISION, WE WOULD LIKE TO KNOW OUT OF THAT $134 MILLION FOR FORT BEND COUNTY, WHICH WE GET 3 MILLION, 763,000, SOME ODD DOLLARS WITH THE POPULATION BEING APPROXIMATELY 78,000.
UM, HOW DO WE GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING AS THE CITIZENS OF THE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR THE $3,776,000? AND HOW DO WE GET A BETTER UNDERSTANDING? UM, ON WHEN I SAY WHO'S MANAGING THE MONEY, WHAT, WHAT GROUP PERHAPS, MAYBE MANAGING THE MONEY, UM, HOW IS IT BEING GOVERNED, MANAGED DISPERSE WHEN WE GET TO THAT POINT, WHAT'S THE TIMEFRAME.
UM, ARE THERE TEAMS THAT ARE BEING ASSEMBLED? UM, WE JUST WANT TO GET MORE OF A COMPLETE KNOWLEDGE OF, CAUSE WE HEAR THE NEWS, WE HEAR THIS 3 MILLION, SEVEN 63 OR 134 MILLION, WHICHEVER ONE WE GO, WOW.
AND THEN, AND THEN EACH FAMILY FIGURES OUT WHAT THAT MEANS TO THEM PERSONALLY.
SO I'M JUST TAKING THE TIME RIGHT NOW TO ASK AS BEST THAT I CAN, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE AS A RESIDENT, HOW CAN YOU BETTER EQUIPPED US WITH THE KNOWLEDGE SO THAT IT'S NOT JUST BIG FIGURES THROWN OUT THERE AND WE JUST FIGURE, WELL, IT'S FLOATING AROUND SOMEWHERE.
WE KNOW YOU'RE DOING THE WORK, BUT HOW DO WE GET BETTER KNOWLEDGE OF HOW THE WORK HAS TO BE DONE? WHAT'S THE TIMEFRAME OF THE WORK THAT'S BEEN DOING THEN DONE IF THERE'S ANY BEEN DONE SO FAR, YOU KNOW WHAT I'M SAYING? I'M JUST ASKING, WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON WITH $3,763,000.
CAN YOU, CAN YOU GO AHEAD AND RESPOND AND WITH THAT, IS IT POSSIBLE? I KNOW WE CAN'T GET IT UP TOMORROW, BUT FOR YOU GUYS TO WORK WITH COMMUNICATIONS SO WE CAN PUT THAT INFORMATION ON OUR WEBSITE.
SO RESIDENTS ARE ABLE TO GO AND ACTUALLY SEE THAT INFORMATION AND WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING, WHAT IS BEING SPENT FOR US.
SO WE CAN PUT UP SOME TYPE OF LITTLE, UM, VISUAL FOR THEM AS WE MOVE FORWARD.
BUT IF YOU CAN GO AHEAD AND, AND GILL, ZELDA AND EXPLANATION, PLEASE.
AND I'M GOING TO ASK MR. ROBINSON TO SPEAK TO SEVERAL OF THESE ITEMS BECAUSE HE CAN JUST FLOW RIGHT THROUGH IT.
I WOULD SAY THIS, THAT ONCE THE GUIDANCE WAS GIVEN OUT FROM, UM, THE STATE, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND IT CAME DOWN THROUGH FORT BEND COUNTY, UH, AND I WAS ASSIGNED TO WORK AS A LIAISON WITH FORT BEND COUNTY.
UM, THE CITY WAS PROACTIVE TO ALREADY HAVE A CONTRACT IN PLACE TO, UH, GET SOME, UM, UH, COUNSELING GUIDANCE FROM THE IMPACT GROUP.
AND SO WE WERE LOOKING TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS COME DOWN.
AND SO WE'VE HAD GUIDANCE FROM THE, FROM THE ONSET, FROM THE IMPACT GROUP.
UH, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY THAT SPURGEON, IF YOU CAN LAY OUT THE TIMELINES FOR NUMBER ONE, WHEN IT FIRST CAME DOWN, WHEN THE PROGRAM WERE IN, AND I BELIEVE PART OF THAT'S IN OUR AGENDA COVER MEMO, AS WELL AS WHERE THE MONEY IS NOW, HOW IT'S BEING AUDITED FROM THE COUNTY, WHAT ARE THE, SOME OF THE GUIDELINES AS IT RELATES TO CARE FUNDS AND FEMA, PA, HOW THAT'S TO BE USED USING GOVERN AND TO THIS DAY, UM, MAYOR, JUST TO SHARE WITH YOU THE MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC AND THE COUNCIL, WE HAVE NOT SPENT ANY MONEY FROM THE CARES ACT, GO TO 3.7 MILLION.
WHAT WE'VE BEEN DOING IS USING THE CITY FUNDS TO ADDRESS PPE NEEDS AND OTHER THINGS, UM, OR EITHER WE'VE BEEN GETTING DONATIONS FOR THOSE ITEMS. SO WE HAVEN'T SPENT ANY OF THAT MONEY.
SO I'LL TRY TO SUMMARIZE AND ANSWER THE QUESTION OR THE CONSTITUENT THERE.
UM, THE CHARISMATIC FUNDING, AS YOU KNOW, FORT BEND COUNTY RECEIVED AN ALLOCATION OF $134 MILLION THAT THEY ARE ALSO HAVE DISTRIBUTED TO THE LOCAL MUNICIPALITIES, UH, WITHIN, UH, THE COUNTY.
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UM, WAS THERE A CITY AS ONE THAT RECEIVED THE $3 MILLION ALLOCATION OF FUNDING, BUT THEM TO ADDRESS ANY NEEDS SPECIFIC TO THE, UH, THEY ARE DEFINED BY THE CARE ZACK AND OUR RELATIONSHIP TO, UH, ADDRESSING ANY HEALTH FOR PUBLIC HEALTH INITIATIVES RESOLVING AROUND, UM, COVID-19 RESPONSE AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS ABILITY FOR THE, THE CITY ITSELF TO, UH, PROVIDE WITH CITIZENS.ANYTHING IT FEELS AS NECESSARY, UH, IN THE, UH, NOT ONLY TO PREVENTION, EDUCATION AWARENESS, THE ACTUAL, UM, UTILIZATION TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS IS AND HAVE SUCH THINGS SUCH AS PPE, UH, FACILITIES OR SANITIZE OR DISINFECTED BY APPROPRIATE MEASURES, UH, HEALTHCARE RESOURCES HAVE PROVIDED PUBLIC SAFETY RESOURCES, ALL SYSTEMS PROGRAMS THAT YOU'VE DEFINED AND SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAMS AS WELL.
UH, AS CHIEF CAMPBELL WAS MENTIONED AREAS, A LIST OF, UH, ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE BEEN APPROVED BY OUR REVIEWED, I SHOULD SAY BY CITY COUNCIL, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE APPROVED ON THE SPEAK HERE, BUT THESE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN DEFINED AND WITH, UH, TARGETED DOLLAR AMOUNTS OF HOW MUCH YOU, WHAT RE WHAT THE RESOURCES INTENDED FOR, UH, WITH THESE FONDANTS, THE SPECIFIC ALLOCATION, THEY WILL USE THESE, UM, FUNDS FOR THESE PROTECTIVE MEASURES FOR A RESPONSE TO THE COVID-19 EPIDEMIC.
AND LIKE, SO THERE'S A LIST OF THEM THAT WE WENT THROUGH EARLIER, UM, THAT WON'T NECESSARILY GO THROUGH THAT, UNLESS THERE'S SOMETHING MORE DETAILED THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO.
BUT I THINK POSTING THOSE THINGS, AS MARY SAID, UM, WOULD BE PROBABLY A GOOD THING SO THAT THE CITY AND THE COMMUNITY CAN REACT AND RESPOND TO THESE THINGS, TO SEE HOW THESE, UH, THIS ALLOCATION OF FUNDS COULD BE.
SO EVERYTHING FROM PROVIDING, YOU KNOW, MASS, THE PPE TO PROVIDING, UM, ASSISTANT ASSISTANT SEAT WITH NURSING HOMES AND THE DISTRICT DISTRIBUTION OF PPE, ALL THESE THINGS HAVE BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR IN ALABAMA, SO THAT I UNDERSTAND WHAT'S THE CITY'S ALLOCATION WOULD BE USED FOR IN PARTICULAR AND HOW THESE FUNDS WILL BE DISTRIBUTED TIMELINE FOR THESE DISTRIBUTIONS NEEDS TO BE BEFORE DECEMBER 30TH, 2020.
SO AT THIS POINT IN TIME, THE TARGET IS TO MAKE SURE THESE FUNDS ARE ACCOUNTED FOR AND EXPENDED BY THAT TIMEFRAME.
SO THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT TIMEFRAME.
I THINK THAT YOU MAY BE LOOKING AT, OR INTERESTED IN THE, UM, RANGE OF ACTIVITIES THAT ARE ELIGIBLE, UH, PROBABLY A MORE RELEVANT BE PRESENTED IN A DOCUMENT THAT YOU CAN VIEW AND SEE WHAT THE APPROPRIATE DOLLAR FIGURES ARE ASSOCIATED WITH.
THERE ARE FUNDS THAT WERE EXPENDED TO, UM, MEET THAT NEED AND THEN ANY OTHER, UH, ITEMS I THINK THAT WOULD BE RELEVANT.
ALL OF THESE FUNDS INTENDED TO BE SPENT.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS TOO, I CAN, I DO.
I THINK THAT'S GREAT THAT YOU GAVE A TIMELINE OF DECEMBER 20.
UM, ALSO, UM, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF CITIZENS ARE CONTACTING THE GOVERNOR KP GEORGE'S OFFICE.
HE'S ALSO OFFERING APPLICATIONS THROUGH THAT OFFICE.
SHOULD THEY NOT BE GOING THROUGH THAT OFFICE AND GOING DIRECTLY THROUGH MISSOURI CITY? THAT'S ONE QUESTION.
AND THEN MY FINAL QUESTION IS CAN MISSOURI CITY PROVIDE ITS OWN STIMULUS PACKAGE INDEPENDENTLY FROM WE ALREADY KNOW OUR GOVERNMENT? ALRIGHT.
UH, SO, UH, BUT WITH THESE, WITH THESE BUTTONS OF THE HUNDRED, WITH THESE FUNDS OF THE 3,000,007 63, KEN MISSOURI CITY PROVIDE OR VOTE ON HAVING A STIMULUS PACKAGE FOR ITS MISSOURI CITY RESIDENTS, AS WELL AS, UM, MY OTHER QUESTION ABOUT THE KP GEORGE, UM, OFFICE, YOU KNOW, NOT BEING EVEN IN CONSIDERATION AND SAID, SHOULD EVERYTHING BE DIRECTLY DIRECT IT TO MISSOURI CITY? SO I'LL ANSWER THAT QUESTION IN TWO PARTS.
SO, AND SO I'M CLEAR WHEN YOU SAY STIMULUS PROGRAM, ARE YOU REFERRING TO SPECIFICALLY LIKE RENTAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS, A SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM? THE SONG DEFINITELY NOT BECAUSE THE SMALL BUSINESS PROGRAM IS STRICTLY FOR SMALL BUSINESS OWNERS, JUST LIKE THE STEMINIST PACKAGE IS FOR EVERYONE MAJORITY WISE.
SO I THINK IT NEEDS TO BE A BROADER MAJORITY PERSPECTIVE AS WELL.
VERSUS IF YOU DON'T OWN A BUSINESS, THEN YOU'RE NOT INCLUDED.
IF YOU DON'T MAKE THIS, OR IF YOU DO MAKE THIS, YOU ARE OR NOT INCLUDED.
I'M SAYING KEN MISSOURI CITY CONSIDER, UM, PROVIDING A STIMULUS PACKAGE FOR HIS RESIDENTS OF MISSOURI CITY BASED ON THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE AND THE POPULATION NUMBER, BECAUSE, UM, WE ALREADY SEE WHAT'S HAPPENING WITH THAT AND WHAT DIFFERENCE IT IS MAKING AS WELL BECAUSE OF THE DOLLAR AMOUNT
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OF THE STIMULUS PACKAGE THAT CAME THROUGH FOUR TO FIVE MONTHS AGO, FIVE MONTHS OR WHATEVER.SO I'M SAYING, CAN THAT BE A QUESTION YOU MAY NOT BE ABLE TO ANSWER RIGHT THIS MOMENT, BUT IT IS DEFINITELY A VERY BIG QUESTION.
WHY ARE WE WAITING ON THAT STIMULUS? MAYBE WE NEED TO HAVE OUR INDIVIDUAL STIMULUS PACKAGE IF WE ARE AWARDED MONEY AS WE ARE.
AND THEN, UM, AND THEN YOU ALREADY HAVE MY, MY, MY OTHER QUESTION REGARDING NOT CONTACTING THE GOVERNOR'S OFFICE AND GOING DIRECTLY THROUGH MISSOURI CITY.
AND IF SO, WHAT OFFICE WOULD THAT BE? SO PEOPLE AREN'T CALLING ALL OVER THE PLACE, WRONG, WRONG OFFICES, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, HOW CAN SOMEONE GET INVOLVED IN THE IMPACT GROUPS AND TRY TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE, BE MORE AWARE ALL OF THE ABOVE.
I'LL, I'LL ANSWER SOME OF THESE.
AND I'LL DEFER TO THE MAYOR, TO THE COUNCIL ON SOME OF THE DECISIONS AROUND SEAMLESS PACKAGE.
WHAT I WILL TELL YOU THIS, THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT HAS PUT TOGETHER A SIMMONS PACKAGE.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT COUNTIES AND CITIES, UM, OR CALIFORNIA CANNOT DO IS WHAT WE CALL IT, DUPLICATE THOSE BENEFITS.
SO AS THE FEDERAL OR STATE GOVERNMENT AND LOCAL GOVERNMENTS ARE PROVIDING STIMULUS PACKAGE, THESE ARE FUNDS THAT THEY WILL DIRECTLY DISTRIBUTE AND THEY WILL, UM, DEFINE THE RULES ON, BUT WE CAN ASK YOU FOR THE CAKE, THOSE SAME BENEFITS.
SO THAT'S WHY YOU DON'T SEE IF I'M UNDERSTANDING YOUR QUESTION CORRECTLY AROUND MAYBE HAVING A, UH, UH, A STIMULUS CHECK TO PROVIDE IT TO ITS CITIZENS.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT WOULD LEAD, AND THEN WE CAN NOT DUPLICATE THAT.
SO YOU CAN'T SUPPORT IT EITHER.
THEN I UNDERSTAND THE DUPLICATING.
IS THERE ANY WAY THAT CAN BE SUPPORTED VERSUS DUPLICATE? SO, AND WHAT'S THE, I'LL GET BACK TO YOU.
I HAVEN'T HAD THE QUESTION NECESSARILY POSED TO ME, SO I WOULD HAVE TO, I DON'T WANT TO JUST PROVIDE A RESPONSE.
SO MAYBE I'LL RATHER THE WORD SUPPORT VERSUS DUPLICATE.
SO YES, I RESPECT THAT AS FAR AS NOT BEING ABLE TO ENTER THAT RIGHT AWAY, BUT DEFINITELY SUPPORT VERSUS DUPLICATE CORRECT SPURGEON.
THIS IS MAYOR FORD AND JUST REALLY QUICKLY, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, THE FUNDS THAT ARE COMING FROM FOR BEING COUNTY WEREN'T, THEY DESIGNATED FOR CERTAIN THINGS BY THE COUNTY THAT WE COULD UTILIZE THEM OR CORRECT.
AND SO THOSE ACTS, THOSE METAPHORS, THOSE ACTIVITIES HAVE BEEN DEFINED, AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT THE COMMITTEE HAS RECOMMENDED TO THE COUNCIL AND TO ACTUALLY BE USED FOR.
AND SO THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE HAVE ACTUALLY IDENTIFIED.
SO THAT'S REALLY, THAT WAS A REALLY GOOD COMMENT.
HOW DO WE, OR DO WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE IMPACT GROUPS OR DO WE GO THROUGH WHAT DEPARTMENT TO GO TO, TO GET EVEN SAY, OKAY, WELL TO DATE IS THIS, SO, UM, WE'RE IN AUGUST NOW, SHOULD WE COMMUNICATE, SAY THE MIDDLE OF AUGUST OR THE END OF AUGUST, YOU KNOW, HYPOTHETICALLY LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT DOES ONE DO NOW? BECAUSE WE CAN'T JUST LOOK AT THE NEWS.
IT'S JUST NOT REALLY GIVING US ANYTHING WELL, IN REFERENCE TO OUR FUNDS AND JUST TO STAY ON TOP AND WHAT THEY CAN BE USED FOR.
I WILL HAVE STAFF REACH OUT TO YOU SO THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN HAVE A DIRECT CONTACT WITH THEM AND YOU CAN GET THAT INFORMATION.
BUT AS WELL AS, LIKE I SAID, I, WE WILL ABSOLUTELY PUT THAT INFORMATION ON ALL OUR, OUR OUTLETS SO THAT YOU CAN SEE WHERE IT'S GOING, WHAT IT'S BEING DESIGNATED TO.
DOES THAT, DOES THAT KIND OF ADDRESS? YES.
IT ADDRESSES, IT ADDRESSES, AND IT HELPS.
IT REALLY HELPS, YOU KNOW, IT DOES BIGGER THAN ADDRESS BECAUSE HELPING IS BETTER THAN EVEN ADDRESSING, BECAUSE THAT WAY, THEN WE CAN SAY JUST LIKE IF WE WERE IN OUR OWN HOME OR OUR OWN BUSINESS, I KNOW THAT I BOUGHT XYZ AMOUNT OF SUPPLIES.
I KNOW THAT, I MEAN, 3 MILLION, $763,000 IS A LOT OF MONEY AND OUT OF 134 MILLION.
SO WE'RE WONDERING EVEN WHY WE ONLY GOT 3 MILLION, 763,000, BUT THAT'S NOT REALLY A CONVERSATION FOR NOW BECAUSE WE KNOW THAT FORT BEND COUNTY, WHAT ARE THEY DOING WITH THE REST OF THAT MONEY? AND WHY DID THEY KEEP INVITING PEOPLE TO MAKE APPLICATIONS FOR WHETHER IT BE MORTGAGE ASSISTANCE OR RENTAL ASSISTANCE OR YOUR TENANTS, RENTAL ASSISTANCE, ET CETERA, ET CETERA, ET CETERA.
SOME PEOPLE IN THE COMMUNITY JUST NEED EVEN HELP WITH MINOR THINGS.
WHAT SOME PEOPLE WOULD CONSIDER MINOR.
AND SOME PEOPLE WOULD CONSIDER MAJOR IS EVEN THE EXPENSES OF GROCERIES THAT ARE TRIPLING, TRIPLING, TRIPLING.
AND I JUST, I MEAN, I'M SINCERELY SPEAKING FROM MY HEART WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THESE DOLLARS, IT'S BECAUSE WE
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ARE CITIZENS LIVING HERE AND WE ARE NOT MILLIONAIRES.WE ARE HARDWORKING PEOPLE WHO PAY OUR TAXES AND WE JUST WANT TO HAVE SOME HELP, SOME ASSISTANCE, WHATEVER IS THE CORRECT TERM TO USE.
AND AT LEAST TO KNOW HOW THE MONEY IS BEING APPLIED AND WHEN IT'S GOING TO BE APPLIED.
AND IF YOU NEED OUR HELP, WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU BECAUSE WE REALIZE THAT MAYBE IT'S A LOT OF THINGS TO BE DONE.
AND THERE'S ONLY SO MUCH WHATEVER THE GROUP NUMBER IS.
IF IT'S FIVE OR 10 PEOPLE WE DON'T KNOW.
AND SO NOW WE'RE, WE'RE TRYING TO BE PROACTIVE, JUST LIKE CHANGING SOME OF THE STREET NAMES VERSUS SITTING AROUND, JUST WAITING FOR SOMEONE TO DO IT IN ANOTHER CITY OR STATE.
WE LIVE IN MISSOURI CITY AND THAT'S WHERE WE'RE GOING TO BE.
AND SO THEREFORE WE MIGHT AS WELL GET PROACTIVE WHEN PEOPLE START THROWING NUMBERS OUT ON THE NEWS ABOUT THIS MILLION DOLLARS AND THAT MILLION DOLLARS.
IT'S LIKE, OKAY, WAIT A MINUTE.
WHERE IS ALL THIS MONEY? WELL FOR, UH, FOR BEING COUNTY, THE QUESTION YOU ASKED IN REFERENCE TO HOW, HOW THEY DETERMINED THAT IT WAS BASED ON OUR POPULATION.
SO THAT WAS THE, HOW THEY, THERE WAS A FORMULA PUT TOGETHER BY THE COUNTY.
SO THAT'S HOW THEY DIVVIED OUT THE MONEY.
UM, AND THEN THERE WERE CATEGORIES, LIKE I MENTIONED, JUST A SECOND AGO THAT THE MONEY COULD BE SPENT IN FOR REEM, FROM PAYING FOR ITEMS, PPE, THAT TYPE OF THING.
BUT I'LL DEFINITELY HAVE MR. JONES.
OH, THIS ARE YOU STILL, THERE ARE SITTING OUR CITY MANAGER.
IF YOU CAN REACH OUT TO DELTA AND GET HER IN CONTACT WITH THE APPROPRIATE STAFF AND THEN ZELDA ALSO GIVE US A COUPLE OF DAYS AND WE WILL GET THAT INFORMATION ONLINE SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING AND WHEN IT GOES OUT AND ALL OF THAT.
AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.
DID YOU HAVE ANY MORE, ANYTHING ELSE FOR ZELDA? UH, NO.
I THINK WE ANSWERED ALL THE QUESTIONS.
I THINK WE CAN ANSWER AT THIS POINT.
THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION, MAYOR.
THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER PRESTON.
I JUST WANT TO SINCERELY COMMEND AND THANK ZELDA FOR HER, HER PASSION.
UM, I HIGHLY RESPECT, UM, HER WILLINGNESS TO SEEK THIS INFORMATION.
I MEAN, I COMMEND YOU, PLEASE DO NOT HESITATE TO REACH OUT, UM, TO MYSELF AS WELL.
UM, AND IF I CAN BE OF ANY SERVICE IN HELPING YOU GET THAT INFORMATION, WE HAVE A GREAT STAFF THAT WILL WORK HARD.
UM, BUT DON'T HESITATE TO SEND ME AN EMAIL AS WELL.
AND I WILL BE SURE TO FOLLOW UP BECAUSE THIS COUNCIL MEMBER PRESTON PRESTON, I WROTE IT DOWN.
WELL, EVERYBODY HAVE A WONDERFUL EVENING AND STAY SAFE.
I BELIEVE WE STILL HAVE TO DO A VOTE.
IS THAT CORRECT, MARIA? YES MA'AM.
I THINK THERE WAS A MOTION AND A SECOND FOR THAT ITEM IS, DO YOU HAVE THE MOTION IN A SECOND OR DO I NEED TO DO IT AGAIN? NO, I'M SORRY.
IS THERE A MOTION? THEREFORE, THIS IS COUNCIL MEMBER PRESTON MOVED TO ADOPT.
IS THERE A SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER? EDWARD, SECOND, THAT MOTION.
AND NOW I WILL DO A ROLL CALL.
MAYOR PRO TEM PRESTON MADE THE MOTION.
COUNCIL MEMBER EDWARDS MADE THE SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING.
AND JUST ONE SECOND, I'M TRYING TO GET BACK TO THE AGENDA.
[10. ORDINANCES]
ORDINANCES.MA'AM AND ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS PROVIDING FOR A GENERAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020, WHERE THE PURPOSE OF ELECTING A MAYOR AND TO AT-LARGE COUNCIL MEMBERS PROVIDING FOR A SPECIAL ELECTION TO BE HELD ON NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020, WITH THE PURPOSE OF SUBMITTING TO THE QUALIFIED, QUALIFIED VOTERS OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, A PROPOSITION PROVIDING FOR OR AGAINST THE ADOPTION OF THE FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS, CIVIL SERVICE LAW PROVIDING FOR JOINT ELECTIONS ON
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NOVEMBER 3RD, 2020 WITH OTHER ENTITIES CONTRACTING WITH FORT BEND COUNTY AND HARRIS COUNTY, RESPECTIVELY FOR SUCH JOINT ELECTIONS, PROVIDING FOR ELECTION PRECINCTS AND POLLING PLACES, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL, PROVIDING FOR SEVERABILITY AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE ORDINANCE COUNCIL MEMBER PRESTON MOVED TO ADOPT THEIR SECOND COUNSEL, MR. OKAY.
WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR YOU, JOYCE? OKAY.
VOTE, VOTE THEIR COATS AND PRESTON MADE THE MOTION.
COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING MADE THE SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER BONEY.
[11. RESOLUTIONS]
EIGHT, 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 FARGO BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT.THIS ITEM IS, AND THAT DATE TO THE RESOLUTION WITH WELLS FARGO BANK FOR DEPOSITORY ACCOUNT, WE ARE LOOKING TO ADD THE NEW CITY MANAGER, ELDEST JONES, AS AN AUTHORIZED REPRESENTATIVE TO MAINTAIN THE CITY'S GENERAL DISPERSE CURRENT ACCOUNT.
IS THERE A MOTION TO APPROVE? IS THERE A SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER? EDWARD SECTOR, THE MOTION TO HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS? MAY I APPROACH HIM? PRESTON? YES.
COUNCIL MEMBER ED WAS MADE THE SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING.
COUNCIL MEMBER RULE IS MADE THE MOTION COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY.
B A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS IDENTIFYING CERTAIN CITY OFFICIALS WITH AUTHORITY TO OPEN AND MAINTAIN AN ACCOUNT OR ACCOUNTS WITH THAT BANK FOR THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY INSURANCE TRUST FUND, PROVIDING FOR REPEAL AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO SUBJECTS.
I DIDN'T KNOW YOU WERE GOING TO PRESENT, SO I DON'T REALLY HAVE ANYTHING TO PRESENT.
THIS IS ADDITION OUT OF JOHN'S AGAIN, ALSO THE NEW CITY MANAGER TO THIS ACCOUNT, WHICH IS FOR OUR BENEFIT PAYMENTS.
IS THERE A MOTION, COUNCILMAN EMORY, IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND, ANTHONY, YOU HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND.
ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR ELENA? I'LL DO A ROLL CALL.
AND COUNCIL MEMBER WILL LISTEN, CALCIUM AND MAMMARY MAKE THE MOTION.
AND THE SECOND, AND THIS IS MAYOR FORD.
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MISSOURI CITY, TEXAS RATIFYING THE PLACEMENT OF RETIRED CANINE OFFICER SAM MOON WITH A NONPROFIT ANIMAL WELFARE ORGANIZATION AND CONTAINING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATED THERE TOO CHIEF THERE ISN'T.
MAYOR COUNCIL, AS YOU KNOW, SAMMU IS PROVIDED OUTSTANDING SERVICE TO OUR CITIZENS FOR ALMOST FOUR YEARS NOW.
AND HE'S REACHED THE POINT IN HIS CAREER WHERE HE NEEDS TO RETIRE AND GET TO LIVE OUT HIS PUPPY YEARS AND HAPPINESS.
SO, UH, THIS WILL RATIFY THE AUTHOR.
THIS WOULD AUTHORIZE YOU ALL TO ALLOW US TO PLACE, UH SANDHU WITH A MISSION K NINE RESCUE IT'S A CANINE GROUP THAT SOCIALIZES, THIS APPREHENSION DOGS LIKE SAMUI.
SO THEY CAN EITHER BE ADOPTED BY THEIR ANDLER OR ADOPTED BY ANOTHER FAMILY LIVE OUT THERE REST OF YEARS AND HAPPINESS.
IS THERE A MOTION YOU MAKE AN EMOTION TO APPROVE? IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY.
I HAVE A MOTION TO SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBERS, STERLING.
UM, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR CHIEF BEARS? ALRIGHTY.
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COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING MADE THE SECOND COUNCIL MEMBER BONEY COUNCIL MEMBER RULE IS MAKE A MOTION COUNCIL MEMBER EMORY.[12. CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS]
CITY COUNCIL ANNOUNCEMENTS, MAY APPROACH AND PRESTON, NOTHING.I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR AWESOME LEADERSHIP AND FOR YOU MAKING THE NECESSARY CHANGES AND DECISIONS TO MOVE OUR CITY FORWARD.
SO I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR THAT.
SECONDLY, I WANT TO WELCOME OUR NEW CITY MANAGER PUBLICLY OUT IS JONES.
AND I'M I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU.
UM, ALSO I WANT TO THANK OUR CITY STAFF AND EVERYONE THAT, UM, HAS BEEN WORKING REALLY HARD TO KEEP OUR CITY MOVING AND OPERATING ON.
WE ALSO WANT TO, UM, THANK COUNCIL MEMBERS, STERLING FOR HAVING THE ON HER ZOOM MEETING TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE TO DISTRICT A.
IT WAS A REALLY GREAT TURNOUT, VERY INFORMATIVE, VERY PRODUCTIVE.
SO I DO WANT TO THANK YOU GUYS FOR THAT.
AND I JUST WANT TO REMIND OUR RESIDENTS TO STAY SAFE, CONTINUE TO SOCIAL DISTANCE WHERE OUR MASS, UM, AND JUST CONTINUE TO BE PRAYED OF DURING THESE, UM, UNPREDICTABLE TIME.
SO THANK YOU AGAIN, COUNCIL MEMBER STERLING.
UH, AND ALSO COUNCIL MEMBERS AT LARGE, UH, PRESTON AND EDWARDS, JOIN ME IN THE CITY STAFF AND ALSO THE CONSTITUENTS OF DISTRICT AID FOR THEIR SUPPORTED PARTICIPATION, UH, FOR OUR FIRST VIRTUAL DISTRICT AID MEETING.
SO THANK YOU GUYS SO VERY MUCH, UH, SECONDLY, UH, HAVING, UH, THANK YOU ONCE AGAIN, MAYOR FOR JOINING ME WITH THE, A VIRTUAL CAREER FAIR THAT WE WILL BE HAVING NEXT WEEK ON AUGUST 11TH FROM TEN TWO.
UH, THIS IS FOR THE MISSOURI CITY AND WE'RE PARTNERING ALSO WITH A PORT VAN AS WELL.
SO PLEASE, UH, THOSE WHO ARE UNEMPLOYED OR LOOKING TO SEEK EMPLOYMENT, PLEASE GO TO OUR MISSOURI CITY WEBSITE, THE CALENDAR, AS WELL AS THE DIGITAL NEWSLETTER OR THE MISSOURI CITY YOUTUBE FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.
AND ALSO MAY I ALSO LIKE TO WISH ALL OF MY MUSLIM COMMUNITY, A BELATED HAPPY.
THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER BONNIE.
SO I WAS EXTREMELY EXCITED TO SUPPORT AND BE A PART OF THE SUMMER FOOD DRIVE TO BENEFIT THE SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER.
UH, THIS WONDERFUL ENDEAVOR WAS HOSTED BY TWO OF THE RESIDENTS IN MY DISTRICT DISTRICT BE MRS. STEPHANIE MOORE BURNSIDE AND MRS. LYNN CLOUDS ARE IN THE VICKSBURG SUBDIVISION.
DESPITE THE WEATHER PEOPLE CAME OUT, WERE ABLE TO DRIVE THROUGH DONATE WITHOUT LEAVING THEIR CARS PRIMARILY BECAUSE OF SOME OUTSTANDING AND DEDICATED TEAM VOLUNTEERS WHO WERE ON HAND TO COLLECT FROM THE ITEMS FROM THEM.
IF YOU ALL DO NOT KNOW SECOND MILE MISSION CENTER DISTRIBUTES FOOD ACROSS FORT BEND COUNTY TO HELP LOCAL COMMUNITY MEMBERS AND RESIDENTS AS THEY FACE UNEMPLOYMENT, TEMPORARY JOB LOSS, REDUCED HOURS AND VARIOUS HEALTH CHALLENGES.
UM, MY COLLEAGUE OF COURSE, UM, ANTHONY RUELAS WAS ALSO IN ATTENDANCE AND WAS PRESENT HELPING TO DISSEMINATE, UH, GROCERIES AS WELL AS COLLECT THEM AND GIVE THEM OUT.
UH, SO I ALSO WANT TO THANK ALL OF THE MISSOURI CITY RESIDENTS WHO STOPPED BY AND DROPPED OFF THEIR VARIOUS NONPERISHABLE ITEMS. THEY DEFINITELY WILL MAKE AN IMPACT AND A DIFFERENCE.
ALRIGHTY, COUNCIL MEMBER ROLLIES.
SO I LIKE TO CONGRATULATE MS. LEE.
SHE'S THE OWNER OF CLAIM SYDNEY.
SHE WAS RECENTLY RECOGNIZED IN A GLOBAL FEDERATION CONTEST.
SHE CAME IN AND 11TH PLACE, CONGRATULATIONS TO HER AND ALSO GETTING THE RECOGNITION THAT WE AND MISSOURI CITY NEED WHERE HER, UH, HER COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT WAS RECOGNIZED AT A GLOBAL LEVEL.
COUNCIL MEMBER, EMORY ON, UH, THE WEEK OF AUGUST THE EIGHTH.
IT'S, UH, BEEN RECOGNIZED AS THE, UH, NATIONAL FARMER'S MARKET WEEK.
AND YEAH, WE'RE PROVIDING A PROCLAMATION TO, UH, THE, UH, OWNERS AND OPERATORS OF, UM, MISSOURI CITY, UH, FARMER'S MARKET.
UM, THEY ARE, THEY BEING TOM SHEEN AND GEORGE, UH, JOHNSON ARE APOLOGIZE FOR NOT CONTACTING, UH, BOTH THE MAYOR AND, UH, UH, COUNCIL INDIVIDUALLY, BUT WANTS TO EXTEND AN INVITATION TO EVERYONE, UH, TO JOIN, UH, HER AND GEORGE AT THE, UH, THE FARMER'S MARKET.
IT'S GOING TO BE HELD ON AUGUST THE EIGHTH AT 11:00 AM.
AND WE HOPE THAT ONLY MIGHT BE ABLE TO WORK WITH COMMUNICATIONS AND SEE IF THEY CAN COME OUT AND RECORD, UH, THE, UM, A PROCLAMATION THAT WE'RE PROVIDING PRESENTING TO, UH, THE, UH, FARMER'S MARKET FROM MISSOURI CITY.
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YOU.WELL, I'M GOING TO SAY DITTO TO EVERYBODY'S REMARKS, AND I'M ALSO GOING TO WELCOME OUR NEW CITY MANAGER, OTIS JONES.
HE COMES TO US BY WAY OF HEDO TEXAS WITH OVER 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE IN MANAGEMENT.
UM, JUST THE SHORT TIME THAT HE WAS IN HUDDLE, HE WAS ABLE TO PUT DOWN $4 BILLION OF DEVELOPMENT FOR THEM TO GROW THEIR CITY, AS WELL AS GET THEM OUT OF BANKRUPTCY.
SO I'M LOOKING FOR SOME VERY BIG THINGS FROM HIM HERE IN MISSOURI CITY AND WELCOME, MR. YEAH.
AND I TRULY LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH Y'ALL TO ACCOMPLISH YOUR GOALS AND VISION FOR THE CITY.
UH, WE WILL NOW ADJOURN THESE SPECIAL, THE REGULAR MEETING, BUT WE NEED TO RECONVENE THE SPECIAL MEETING CAUSE WE STILL HAVE TO FINISH, UM, OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION.