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[I. COMMENCEMENT]
A COUNCIL MEETING TO BE HELD? THURSDAY 22ND, 2025 AT 7:00 PM IN THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS OF KLUT CITY HALL, LOCATED AT 1 0 8 MAIN STREET, KLUT, TEXAS 7 7 5 3 1.FOR THE BELOW LISTED ITEMS, CITY COUNCIL RESERVES THE RIGHT TO ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION AT ANY TIME DURING THE COURSE OF THIS MEETING TO DISCUSS ANY MATTERS LISTED ON THE AGENDA AS AUTHORIZED BY THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO SECTIONS 3, 2, 1 POINT, I MEAN 5 5 1 0 7 1.
CONSULTATION WITH AN ATTORNEY, 5 5 1 0.072 DELIBERATION ABOUT REAL PROPERTY, 5 5 1 0 7 3.
DELIBERATION ABOUT GIFTS AND DONATIONS.
5 5 1 0 7 4 PERSONNEL MATTERS.
DELIBERATION ABOUT SECURITY DEVICES 5 5 1 0 8 7.
ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 4 8 7 5 8 3 DELIBERATIONS ABOUT HOMELAND SECURITY ISSUES AND IS AUTHORIZED BY THE TEXAS TAX CODE, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO.
SECTION 3 2 1 0.3022 SALES TAX INFORMATION.
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I ALWAYS WANT EVERYBODY TO SAFE TIME AND STUFF, AND LORD COME UPON MEMORIAL DAY.
WE JUST ASK TO, YOU KNOW, PUT OUR HEART ALWAYS RESPECT ALL THE PEOPLE LOVED.
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NEXT ITEM BE ROLL CALL OF MEMBERS CALVIN SHIFFLET.
[II. CITIZENS/VISITORS COMMENTS]
NEXT ITEM WOULD BE SIOR VISITOR, CITIZEN.THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR CITIZEN AND VISITORS TO SPEAK TO COUNCIL RELATED TO NON AGENDA BY ITEMS. SPEAKERS ARE ADVISED THAT COMMENTS CANNOT BE RECEIVED NO MATTER WHICH ARE THE SUBJECT OF A PUBLIC HEARING.
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IT MUST LIMIT THEIR PRESENTATIONS TO FIVE MINUTES EACH.
I DO HAVE ONE FORM COMPLETED TONIGHT FROM, UH, GAIL FRO BIRD.
I'M RUNNING FOR JUSTICE OF THE PEACE PRECINCT ONE PLACE TWO.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, I'M GONNA BE OUTSIDE AFTERWARDS.
[Ill. CONSENT AGENDA]
WE'LL MOVE INTO THE CONSENT AGENDA AND ITEMS LISTED UNDER THE CONSENT AGENDA ARE CONSIDERED ROUTINE OR GENERALLY ENACTED IN A MOTION.THE ACCEPTED OF THIS RULE IS THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY REQUEST ONE OR MORE ITEMS BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR SEPARATE ACTION.
TONIGHT'S CONSENT AGENDA CONSISTS OF MINUTES, JOINT PUBLIC HEARING, A REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING, MAY 8TH, 2025 AT 7:00 PM DO I HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA? SO MOVE.
SECONDED BY COUNCILMAN AGUILAR.
ANY ITEMS NEED TO BE REMOVED? ANY DISCUSSION? HEARING NONE, I'LL ENTERTAIN A VOTE.
[IV. BUSINESS ITEMS]
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NEXT ITEM WOULD BE BUSINESS ITEMS AND ITEM A.AT, AT THIS TIME I'VE BEEN ADVISED BY CITY MANAGEMENT THAT WE, WE WOULD LIKE TO, UH, TABLE THIS ITEM FOR A FURTHER REVIEW OF THE PROSPECTIVE NUMBERS THAT WERE SENT TO US.
UH, THERE, THERE MAY BE SOME DISCREPANCIES THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYTHING'S CORRECT BEFORE WE PRESENT IT.
I HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN CHRIS.
DO I HAVE A SECOND? I'LL SECOND.
NEXT ITEM WILL BE CONSIDERATION AND POSSIBLE ACTION ON CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN CIP PRESENTATION ON STREET SIDEWALK DRAINAGE AND FACILITY NEEDS.
THANK YOU MAYOR, AND I'M GONNA APOLOGIZE TO EVERYBODY.
WE SHOULD HAVE HAD PILLOWS AND BLANKETS LAID OUT FOR EVERYBODY BECAUSE I SURE.
THIS MIGHT ACTUALLY PUT YOU TO SLEEP.
SO, AS YOU KNOW, BUDGET SEASON IS WELL UNDERWAY AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE LOUISVILLE CENTERS PLAN.
I WANTED TO KIND OF GET EVERYBODY AN IDEA OF HOW THAT FLOWS INTO CIP AND OUR BUDGET PROCESS.
AS YOU KNOW, THE GOAL WAS TO CREATE A, A URBAN CORE FOR THE COMMUNITY AND TALK ABOUT HOW WE WOULD DEVELOP BASICALLY A MAIN STREET FOR CLUE.
AND THAT'S THE GOAL OF THE PROGRAM AND HOW WE GET THERE.
UH, WHAT THAT ENDS UP LOOKING LIKE IS GONNA BE BORN OUT THROUGH THE CIP.
AND REALLY THERE ARE THREE TRACKS THAT COME OUT OF LOUISVILLE CENTERS.
ONE IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE TRACK.
THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT TONIGHT.
THE CID THE SECOND IS THE POLICY TRACK.
WE WERE UNDERGOING OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN PROJECT ALREADY, UH, AND HOPEFULLY HAVE THAT BACK TO YOU.
AND IN ORDER TO REVAMP OUR ZONING AND LAND USE DEVELOPMENT CODES, WE HAVE UNDER TEXAS LAW, WE HAVE TO DO A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
AND THEN THE THIRD IS THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TRACK.
AND WE'VE ALREADY TAKEN STEPS TO PROACTIVELY ACQUIRE STRATEGIC PROPERTIES AND THEN REVAMP OUR INCENTIVIZATION TO HELP DEVELOP AND MENT DEVELOPMENT IN THOSE AREAS.
SO THESE ARE THE STRATEGIC PROPERTIES WE'VE TAKEN, TAKEN POSSESSION OF, UH, THE LAKE, UH, OBVIOUSLY THE PROPERTY DOWN AT ON PLANTATION.
UM, AND THOSE ARE KEYS TOWARDS THE LAKE PROPERTY MORE SO THAN THE OTHER, BUT TOWARDS DEVELOPING THIS IDEA OF AN URBAN CORE FOR OUR FUTURE.
SO A CIP, UH, IN FANCY TERMS IS A SIX YEAR PLAN.
UH, SOME CITIES DO IT LONGER, SOME CITIES DO IT SHORTER.
WE TYPICALLY TRY TO DO SIX YEARS.
WE'RE AT THE END OF OUR CURRENT CIP AND WE LAY OUT A PLAN OVER THOSE SIX YEARS ABOUT THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE GONNA UNDERTAKE.
AND SO WHAT I'M ASKING FOR COUNSEL TO CONSIDER TONIGHT, UH, IS TO KIND OF HELP US AS WE MOVE INTO BUDGET, WHAT ARE THOSE PROJECTS GONNA LOOK LIKE AND WHERE YOUR PRIORITIES ARE.
THIS PARTICULAR SEGMENT IS DEDICATED TO STREET STRANGER SIDEWALKS AND ALSO FACILITIES.
UH, WE'RE NOT GONNA BE TALKING ABOUT WATER.
JOHN AND I HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE WORK TO DO THERE BEFORE WE BRING THAT BACK TO YOU.
UH, BUT THERE'S SIGNIFICANT NEED IN ALL, ALL, ALL OF THOSE FACETS.
AND SO, UH, WE KIND OF DETAIL THE RECONSTRUCTION OF STREET STRAT SIDEWALKS BY NEIGHBORHOOD.
UH, IT SHOULD BE NOTED, THE PLAN CALLS FOR A STANDARDIZATION, A STREET PROFILE WIDTH, 25 FEET, WHICH IS WHAT WE, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE STREETS IN COLLEGE, PARK, LAKE, BEND, WOOD SHORE, THOSE ARE ALL 25 FOOT WIDE STREETS.
OUR TYPICAL SECTION HERE VARIES FROM AS NARROW AS NINE AND A HALF FEET, UH, UP TO 26.
SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE GET THAT STANDARD LOOK AT PUTTING IN CURB GUNNER, UH, AND THEN EVENTUALLY SIDEWALK.
AND SO THE PICTURES YOU HAVE NEXT ON, NEXT TO THAT, THE, ALL THE WALL OF TEXT THERE IS KIND OF A RIVERING AND WHAT THE STREETS MIGHT LOOK LIKE DEPENDING ON WHETHER OR NOT WE WANTED TO DO CONCRETE OR ASPHALT.
IN THE OLD DAYS, ASPHALT WAS MUCH CHEAPER.
UH, THE REALITY IS, IS NOW, UH, IT'S ABOUT 2% DIFFERENCE.
AND AT THE END OF THE DAY, TO DO A MILE OF ROAD, IF YOU'RE GONNA REED IT, CURB GUTTER THE WHOLE NINE YARDS, YOU'RE STILL TALKING ABOUT A MILLION DOLLARS A MILE, REGARDLESS OF WHICH MATERIAL YOU USE.
SO IT'S A LOT OF MONEY, UH, IN ORDER TO DEVELOP THE PLAN.
UH, AND I MIGHT HAVE GOTTEN A LITTLE TOO, UH, AMBITIOUS WITH MIDTOWN, BUT WE DIVIDED THE CITY INTO SPECIFIC ZONES.
UH, WE CREATED 11 OF THOSE ZONES, UH, BASED ON THE EXISTING EITHER MANMADE OR, UH, NATURAL BARRIERS OR BOUNDARIES.
UH, YOU CAN SEE THAT WE HAVE OLD LAKE BARBARA, UH, SOUTH LAKE, MAR NORTH AND SOUTH LAKE BARBARA.
AUSTIN, UH, SUBDIVISION, WEST SIDE COLLEGE PARK AND LAKE BEND, UH, WHICH ONE? LAKE BEND COLLEGE PARK, BRYAN SUBDIVISION, EMERALD SUBDIVISION, UH, ALL SECTIONED OUT.
AND WE CAN LOOK AT, UH, BIFURCATING THE, UH, THE MIDTOWN AREA.
UM, AND THEN WE HAVE THE WEIRD, I DON'T WANNA SAY WEIRD, BUT THE, THE WEDGE BETWEEN THAT KIND OF RUNS BETWEEN THE RAILROAD TRACKS AND BRAZOSPORT BOULEVARD.
AND SO WHAT WE DID IS WE ACTUALLY SAT DOWN AND MEASURED THE ACTUAL LENGTHS
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OF EACH STREET.THE SQUARE FOOTAGE NEEDED, EVERYTHING THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO BRING THOSE STREETS UP TO OUR STANDARDS.
AND YOU CAN SEE, SO WHEN AUSTIN, THAT'S EAST AUSTIN GODFREY LEWIS NURSERY, ROBERTSON WAVE, UH, THAT'S APPROXIMATELY 4,700 LINEAR FEET OF PAVEMENT OR IMPROVEMENT AREA, 117 SQUARE THOUSAND SQUARE FEET, UH, WITH A, UH, 13,000 SQUARE YARDS.
AND SO THE TOTAL COST, IF WE WERE TO TAKE THOSE UP BASED ON CURRENT CONSTRUCTION COSTS, THAT EVERYBODY THAT WE'RE SEEING RIGHT NOW, WE'RE LOOKING AT $2.9 MILLION JUST FOR THAT SECTION OF THE, THAT SECTION OF, OF THE, OF THE PLAN.
AND WE WANNA FOCUS ON THIS SECTION BY SECTION, BECAUSE YOU DON'T NEED THE ELEPHANT IN ONE BITE.
AND IT'S EASIER TO MOBILIZE CONTRACTORS IF WE'RE IN A GIVEN AREA, RATHER THAN DOING ONE PROJECT ON ONE SIDE OF TOWN AND ANOTHER PROJECT ON ANOTHER SIDE OF TOWN.
AND SO THAT WAS KIND OF OUR FOCUS HERE AS WE WENT FORWARD.
AND SO THE NUMBERS ARE GONNA BLIND YOU.
UH, I I, ONCE WE GET TO THE BIG NUMBER AT THE END, I HOPE EVERYBODY'S SOUND ASLEEP OR IN A COMFORTABLE RESTING POSITION BECAUSE IT IS A LOT OF MONEY.
UH, BUT THE REALITY IS, IS WE'LL HAVE TO TAKE ON DEBT TO DO THIS.
UM, WE DO HAVE SOME DEBT FALLING OFF.
WE DON'T HAVE A FORMAL PLAN OF PLAN OF FINANCE YET BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T PRIORITIZED WHAT PROJECTS WE THINK WE WANT TO TAKE ON.
BUT WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT COUNSEL AND THE PUBLIC WERE AWARE OF JUST HOW MUCH NEED THERE IS.
THE TYPICAL LIFESPAN OF A WATER LINE IS ABOUT 50 TO 70 YEARS.
UH, IT'S ABOUT THE SAME FOR STREETS AS Y'ALL KNOW.
MOST OC INCLUDE ON THIS SIDE OF BRAZOSPORT BOULEVARD OR BRAESWOOD BOULEVARD DRIVE, SORRY, I ALWAYS WANT TO CALL IT BOULEVARD, UH, IS ABOUT AT THE END, SOMEWHERE IN THAT TIME SPAN.
SO IT'S TIME TO START THINKING ABOUT RENEWAL AND REDEVELOPMENT.
SO THIS IS AUSTIN, AND THESE ARE AN ALPHABETICAL ORDER.
THEY'RE NOT IN, UH, UH, IN ANY KIND OF PRIORI PRIORITIZED NEED.
UH, AUSTIN IS ABOUT 2.9 BRYANT SUBDIVISION, WHICH WE'VE GOT THE CDBG PROJECT CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY RUNNING ON IS 2.8 COBB PARK, PART 2.7 EMERALD, WHERE WE'RE HAVING THE WATER, THE SEWER LINE PROJECT THIS YEAR, $7, UH, TO REDO THE STREETS, INCLUDING CURB GUTTER.
THANKFULLY THERE, THERE'S CURB GUTTER EXISTING, BUT IT DOES NEED TO BE IMPROVED AND REDONE.
MIDTOWN, UH, AGAIN, WE COULD BIFURCATE THIS OR CHOP IT INTO SMALLER PIECES.
UH, BUT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A GRAND TOTAL THERE, $24 MILLION.
MINE, OLD LAKE BARBARA, NORTH 10.
OLD LAKE BARBARA, SOUTH 15, THE WEDGE.
AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO CALL IT OTHER THAN THE WEDGE
UH, IF ANYBODY HAS A NEIGHBORHOOD NAME FOR IT, I'D LOVE TO HEAR IT.
UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 5.4 WEST SIDE 3.1.
AND THEN WE HAVE OUR MAJOR ARTERIALS AND THOROUGH AFFAIRS.
AND THIS IS, SO TYPICALLY A CITY CAN DO ONE OF TWO THINGS.
THEY CAN SAY WE'RE GONNA START FROM THE MAIN STREETS AND THEN WORK INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
OR WE CAN START FROM THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND WORK INTO THE MID THE MAIN STREETS.
THAT'S KIND OF THE FEEDBACK I NEED FROM Y'ALL THIS EVENING.
UH, THERE ARE SOME KEY PROJECTS THAT ABSOLUTELY HAVE TO HAPPEN, WE THINK IN THE NEXT YEAR.
AND THAT PRIMARILY IS ON ANGLETON ROAD, AS Y'ALL KNOW.
IT IS DISINTEGRATING VERY QUICKLY.
UH, THIS WOULD TAKE IT OUT TO A 41 FOOT WIDTH, 40 FOOT, 41 FOOT ANNUAL PROFILE, STANDING WIDTH FROM START TO FINISH, WHICH WOULD ALLOW US A LITTLE BIT MORE ROOM.
UH, BUT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A TOTAL COST.
THERE IS OLD ANGLETON OF ALMOST $10 MILLION, MY GOD.
SO, UH, THE NEED IS SIGNIFICANT.
UH, WE DON'T EXPECT TO BE ABLE TO GET ALL OF THE MAJOR ARTERIALS AND, AND, UH, THOROUGHFARES TAKEN CARE OF IN THIS PLAN.
UH, BUT WE HAD TO START SOMEWHERE.
AND WE WANTED TO GIVE YOU GUYS AN IDEA OF WHAT THOSE COSTS REALLY LOOK LIKE IF WE'RE GONNA DO THIS FOR, TO LAST ANOTHER 50 TO 70 YEARS.
UH, THERE WAS A QUESTION ABOUT MAIN STREET.
AND SO THE SEGMENT A LET ME GO BACK TO THE PREVIOUS SLIDE.
WE DIVIDED INTO THREE SEGMENTS.
SEGMENT A, WHICH TAKES US FROM 3 32 TO COMMERCE SEGMENT B, WHICH IS THE COMMERCE TO PLANTATION SEGMENT.
AND THEN SECTION C, WHICH IS THE REMAINDER OF THE ROAD BACK FROM PLANTATION ALL THE WAY AROUND TO, UH, 2 88 B.
AND SO, BECAUSE WE DIVVY THOSE UP BASED ON THE STREET PROFILE THAT WE WOULD BE PUTTING IN, LOOKING AT SEGMENT A, WE'D BE AT A BOULEVARD SECTION FOUR LANES, UH, WITH A DIVIDER.
UH, SEGMENT B WOULD LOOK LIKE THE, UH, THE PLAN IN THE, IN THE LIVABLE CENTER STUDY WHERE YOU HAVE THE ESPLANADE.
AND THEN SEGMENT C WOULD BE, UH, BASICALLY WHAT WE HAVE NOW, BUT GETTING THE WATER
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AND SEWER OUT OF THE WAY AND THEN, UH, REDOING THE CONCRETE OR, OR IF WE DECIDED TO REPLACE IT WITH ASPHALT.BUT REDOING THE CURBING GUTTER FOR THAT SECTION.
WHEN WE GET INTO FACILITIES, UH, WE HAVE THE CHILDREN'S SYSTEM IN PITCH ROOF.
UH, YOU'LL BE VOTING OR HOPEFULLY VOTING HERE IN A LITTLE WHILE TO MAKE THE BUDGET ADJUSTMENT TO ALLOW US TO GO AHEAD AND GET THAT PROJECT INITIATED.
'CAUSE IT IS AN EMERGENCY TO INSTALL A DA COMPLIANT DOORS ON THE FRONT OF THE BUILDING.
UH, WE ESTIMATE IT'S GONNA RUN US ABOUT $50,000 TO REDO THE ROOF AND, UH, RELOCATE THE RECORDS BUILDING.
THEN WE INCLUDED, UH, COUNCIL WILL REMEMBER THE, UH, FACILITIES NEEDS ASSESSMENT THAT WAS DONE.
THAT'S THE NEW POLICE STATION.
UH, WE'VE DIVVIED UP THE STORAGE YARD AND PAD SITE FOR THE, UH, RELOCATION OF THE, UH, SERVICE CENTER AT 5.2 AND THEN $14 MILLION FOR THOSE BUILDINGS.
AND THEN, UH, LOOKING AT THE UPGRADES, UH, WE PROPOSED 1.2, UH, FOR PAVILION FISHING PIER AND BOARDWALK AT SHANKS LAKE PAVILION UPGRADES AT CURRENT MUNICIPAL PARK.
UH, IT'S, IT'S IN DECENT SHAPE, IT'S IN WORKABLE SHAPE, BUT WE THINK THERE ARE SOME IMPROVEMENTS THAT COULD BE MADE THAT WOULD MAKE IT MORE MARKETABLE.
UH, AND THEN LOOKING AT CLU, MUNICIPAL PARK PARK, UH, EVERYBODY'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT THE POOL.
SO JUST TO REPLACE WHAT'S EXISTING IS 9.7 IN 2020 $5 TO DRESS IT UP A LITTLE BIT TO REPLACE THE POOL.
AND I'LL SHOW YOU WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE HERE IN A SECOND.
AND MAYBE ADD A LAZY RIVER, MAKE IT MORE ATTRACTIVE, 12.5.
UH, OR WE CAN, WE HAVE AN IDEA FOR A, UH, SMALL AMUSEMENT PARK, MINIATURE GOLF AND FOOD TRUCK COURT, UH, WHICH WOULD BROUGHT US ABOUT $2 MILLION ON THAT SITE.
UH, AND THEN LOOKING AT STRATTON RIDGE, IF WE ARE GONNA REPLACE COP PARK, UH, THE IDEA WOULD BE WE COULD EITHER REPLACE IT WITH SOCCER FIELDS OR PERHAPS A CRICKET PITCH.
UH, AND THOSE ARE ABOUT EQUIVALENT COSTS WHEN YOU COST THEM IN TO DO THAT.
AND SO THIS WOULD BE OPTION ONE AT THE POOL, UH, BASICALLY STAYING WITHIN THE CURRENT FOOTPRINT, REPLACING THE PLUMBING, BRINGING EVERYTHING UP TO STATE CODE.
WE'RE DOING THE POOL, ADDING A LAZY RIVER TO MAKE IT MORE OF, OF AN AMENITY FOR FOLKS.
UM, YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT 12 AND A HALF, ROUGHLY IN 20, $25.
AND THEN TO PUT THE MINIATURE GOLF FOOD TRUCK COURT.
AND OBVIOUSLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT WE WOULD NECESSARILY HAVE THOSE KIND OF RIDES.
YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT $2 MILLION, UH, ON THE RETROFIT.
AND THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO HAVE THE CARNIVAL OPEN YEAR ROUND AND HOPEFULLY PROVIDE AN ATTRACTION IN SOME ONGOING REVENUE.
SO LOOKING AT STRATTON RIDGE, UH, WE CAN DOWNSIZE THE FIELDS, MOVE THEM A LITTLE BIT CLOSER SO THEY'RE NOT IMPINGING ON THE, ON THE BASEBALL FIELD.
UH, BUT THAT WILL REPLACE THE EXISTING FIELDS AND PROVIDE THE SOCCER FACILITY THERE ON STRATTON RIDGE.
UH, THE OTHER OPTION MIGHT BE TO INSTALL A CRICKET PITCH.
WE'D HAVE TO REORIENT IT, UH, SO THAT THERE WAS AN ADEQUATE OUTFIELD.
AND FOLKS MIGHT SAY WHITE CRICKET, BUT IF YOU'VE BEEN TO PEARLAND OR IF YOU'VE BEEN TO FORT BEND COUNTY OR HARRIS COUNTY, CRICKET IS A HUGE AND GROWING SPORT IN THE AREA.
UH, I'VE TRIED TO WATCH IT, I'LL BE REAL HONEST WITH YOU, I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND THEY PLAY FOR SEVERAL DAYS AT A TIME.
BUT BECAUSE THEY PLAY FOR SEVERAL DAYS AT A TIME, YOU WILL HAVE A GROUP OF FOLKS SHOW UP AND STAY FOR THREE OR FOUR DAYS TO WATCH THEIR TEAMS PLAY.
AND WE FIGURED THAT WOULD BE A GOOD HOT OPPORTUNITY FOR, UH, FOR THE HOTELS.
HOTELS AND PROPERTY FOR STATE FARM.
SO, UM, SO THE TOTAL NEED INFRASTRUCTURE AND FACILITIES, AND AGAIN, THE WATER, WE'RE STILL FLUSHING OUT, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE AT ABOUT $568 MILLION ON UNMET NEED, UH, GOING FORWARD.
SO I'M SURE WE ALL HAVE SOME OF THAT LAYING IN OUR COUCH CUSHIONS.
BUT I WANTED TO COUNSEL AND THE PUBLIC TO UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT THE NEEDS REALLY LOOK LIKE FROM AN INFRASTRUCTURE STANDPOINT, FACILITIES FOR THE FUTURE.
WITH THAT SAID, I'M GOING TO TURN IT OVER TO Y'ALL TO ASK QUESTIONS AND MAYBE GIVE US SOME THOUGHTS ON WHAT, HOW Y'ALL WANT US TO APPROACH THIS NEXT PHASE OF CIP.
DO WE WANT TO FOCUS ON THE ARTERIALS AND THEN MOVE OUT FOR THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND MOVE IN? CAN YOU GO BACK TO MAIN STREET? YES, SIR.
WHERE YOU SECTIONED OFF THE THREE? YES SIR.
DO YOU WANT THE IMAGE OR THE COST, THE IMAGE ON THIS ONE RIGHT HERE? COULD WE MAYBE AT A, INSTEAD OF JUST
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SECTION C GOING ALL THE WAY ACROSS, COULD WE SPLIT THAT UP INTO ANOTHER SECTION TO WHERE IT ENDS RIGHT.EITHER AT THE LIGHT OR RIGHT HERE? YES, SIR.
BECAUSE MY, MY WAY OF THINKING ABOUT IT IS MAIN STREET.
IF WE'RE, IF, IF WE'RE BEING SERIOUS ABOUT TRYING TO DEVELOP A CORE OR TRYING TO DEVELOP A DOWNTOWN, ANYTHING LIKE THAT, WE, WE HAVE TO MAKE IT LOOK NICE.
I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S OUR MAIN STREET, YOU KNOW, THE ONE EVERYBODY TRAVELS TO, TO GO TO CITY HALL.
AND HOPEFULLY, YOU KNOW, WE'LL TRAVEL TO COME TO OUR PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON.
SO, I MEAN, I, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOMETHING GET DONE ON MAIN STREET SURE.
AT LEAST THAT SECTION FROM PLANTATION TO HERE OR PLANTATION TO THIS LIGHT.
UM, THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S MY THINKING.
WE CAN CERTAINLY ADD IT IN, AS I SAID IN THE MIDTOWN PORTION, WE CAN CHOP THAT UP TO MAKE INTO SMALLER CHUNKS.
SO, WELL, I'M SPEAKING FROM HISTORY.
WHEN THEY REDID MAIN STREET, IT WAS BRAND NEW, SMOOTH CONCRETE, AND WITHIN SIX MONTHS AFTER THEY PAVED IT, THEY STARTED BUSTING HOLES IN IT AND REPLACING LINES AND STUFF THAT ARE UNDER THE STREET.
I THINK THAT THERE'S A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE UNDER THAT STREET THAT NEEDS TO BE EXAMINED AND POSSIBLY RELOCATED BEFORE WE GO SPEND THAT, THAT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS ON SOMETHING THAT WE'RE PROBABLY GONNA HAVE TO CUT UP AND FIX AGAIN.
IN ADDITION TO OUR OWN INFRASTRUCTURE, THERE ARE WHAT, FOUR SETS OR FIVE SETS OF FIBER OPTIC UNDERNEATH THAT NOW? PROBABLY FOUR, FOUR OR FIVE RUNS OF FIRE OPTIC.
I MEAN, BUT IF YOU'LL, IF YOU'LL LOOK DOWN THE STREET, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THEY'VE BEEN CHOPPED.
AND THAT'S, THAT IS BECAUSE THEY WENT IN, I MEAN, CONCRETE WASN'T EVEN CURED GOOD IN SOME PLACES BEFORE WHEN THEY WENT BACK AND CUT IT UP.
YOU REMEMBER JEFF? UH, SADLY, DUDE, HOW LONG, BUT HOW LONG AGO HAS IT BEEN SINCE WE'VE REDONE MAIN STREET? OH, IT'S PROBABLY BEEN, MAIN STREET WAS PROBABLY PAID 40 YEARS AGO.
I MEAN, AND MAYBE, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T DO THE ROADS.
I MEAN, MAYBE WE CAN JUST DO THE, I MEAN THE, SO HOW MANY KIDS WALK THAT SIDEWALK THERE AND WELL, THAT'S, I MEAN, AND IT'S ALL MESSED UP AND IT'S SIDEWAYS AND IT'S, I MEAN, HONESTLY IT'S UGLY.
SO PART OF THE PLAN IS TO, TO ENHANCE THE SIDEWALK THERE AND ALSO TO GET SOME OF THE TRAFFIC OFF OF THIS MAIN SECTION HERE AND CUTTING THROUGH THAT PARK ON THE, AT THE LAKE PROPERTY.
ALL I'M SAYING IS, YOU KNOW, THERE, THERE'S SOME MAJOR CONSIDERATIONS IN MY OPINION BEFORE YOU GO WITH THAT ONE FOR A BUT TO DO CONCRETE.
IT'S JUST, IT'S SUCH A VITAL ROAD, YOU KNOW, THAT I, I JUST THINK, YOU KNOW, WE, WE SHOULD WORK ON IT AT LEAST IN THE, IN THE NEXT SIX YEARS.
WELL, I MEAN, IF NOTHING ELSE, WE JUST WENT THROUGH AND CLEANED UP AROUND THE GUTTERS, CURBS, AND GUTTERS, AND KILLED ALL THE GRASSES GROWING UP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE EXPANSION JOINTS AND PAINTED THE CURBS, IT WOULD LOOK BETTER.
PART OF THE, AND I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY, I HEARD SHANKS LAKE.
ARE Y'ALL CALLING MISS SHANKS LAKE? YES, SIR.
BECAUSE THAT'S ALWAYS BEEN SHANKS LAKE SINCE I'VE BEEN HERE, SO I DIDN'T OH, I DIDN'T KNOW THAT, THAT, SO THEY CAS WERE INSISTENT THAT WE CALL IT SHANKS LAKE.
SO THE CAS ONE THAT REFERRED TO AS SHANKS LAKE, SO IT PROBABLY WOULD MAINTAIN THAT NAME MAKES SENSE.
WHEN I, A KID, WHEN I WAS A KID, WE CALLED IT SHANK LAKE TOO.
THAT'S ALL I'VE EVER HEARD IT CALLED.
WELL, SOMEBODY ON A GOOGLE ALERT ON THE OTHER END OF SHANKS, WE CALL IT
BUT OVER THERE THAT, THAT OVER THERE WAS ALWAYS CALLED SHANK LAKE ALSO.
THAT, THAT, THAT WAS THE ONLY QUESTION I WAS GONNA SAY A GOOGLE ALERT THAT ACTUALLY SHOWS UP AS CLU LAKE.
THAT'S A LOT OF MONEY LIKE THAT.
I MEAN, WE COULD CALL IT THE GULF CLUT.
TO ME, IF WE PAY THE SECTION OF MAIN STREET, THE SEGMENT A WOULD BE PART BE PAID BECAUSE THEY'RE JUST A LOT OF TRAFFIC.
YEAH, I ALL, I COULD SEE ON COUNCIL AGUILAR DEAL FROM 2 88 POSSIBLY TO MAIN, MAIN PLANTATION MM-HMM
PLANTATION THREE, TWO WOULD BE A RIGHT, UH, NECESSITY.
AND I WOULD THINK AT SOME POINT, IF THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A PRIORITY, UH, IF THIS IS IN THE SCOPE OF THINGS, THEN I WOULD DEFINITELY THINK FROM HERE TO THERE.
HOW DO WE SPECIALIZE WITH WHAT WE WANT AND WHAT WE NEED? RIGHT.
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AND SAY, WELL, AND WHEN WE PUT THE SEGMENT TOGETHER, WE TRY TO DO IT BY WHAT THE PAYMENT PROFILE LOOKS LIKE.THAT'S WHY IT'S ALL ONE LONG SEGMENT.
WE CAN DEFINITELY BIFURCATE AND BREAK IT UP.
UH, THE REALITY IS, IS TYPICALLY WE'VE ISSUED DEBT ON A 21 YEAR CYCLE.
WE'VE GOT TWO ISSUES FALLING OFF IN 2026.
WE HAVE TWO MORE ISSUES FALLING OFF IN 2029.
UH, GIVEN THE NEW VALUE, THEY HAVEN'T GIVEN US BASICALLY WHAT OUR CAPACITY IS WITHOUT HAVING TO START RAISING TAXES, WHICH IS ALWAYS THE GOAL.
WE ALWAYS TRY AND GO OFF WHAT THE NEW REVENUE IS.
UM, SO THAT'LL HELP I GUESS, DIAL IN A LITTLE BIT MORE.
BUT WE KIND OF NEEDED TO KNOW, OBVIOUSLY WE'RE NOT GONNA BITE OFF $568 MILLION FOR THE DEBT IN ONE CHUNK, BUT, OH MAN, WHAT IS THE, WHAT IS THAT? WHAT DOES THAT POINT LOOK LIKE AND WHERE DO YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE US? DO YOU WANT IT IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS OR DO YOU WANT US LOOK AT THE ARTERIALS OR THIS ARTERIAL THAT MAIN POINT? BUT WE'VE GOT THE, SO WE JUST NEED SOME GUIDANCE, I GUESS IS THE BEST WAY TO PUT IT.
AND IT IS, IT'S LIKE I SAID WHEN I WAS, THAT'S TOUGH PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.
IT'S A HUGE NUMBER AND IT'S A LOT OF, A LOT OF CONSIDERATIONS TO TAKE IN.
UH, WHAT, WHAT CAN WE REALISTICALLY GO IN THAT FAR 20 MILLION PROBABLY THEREABOUTS? WELL, I DON'T WANNA SAY THAT BECAUSE I THINK WITH THE NEW VALUE, WE'RE GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN THAT.
WELL, I MEAN, I DON'T THINK WE'VE EVER ISSUED ONE OVER 20 MILLION.
NO, YOU'VE NEVER EXCEEDED $21 MILLION.
SO I MEAN, SO WHAT, YOU KNOW, 568 MILLION DIVIDED BY 20, THAT'S, BY THE TIME YOU GET, THE TIME YOU GET THAT DONE, THAT'S THE FIRST THING THAT YOU DID NEEDS TO BE REDONE AGAIN,
WE'LL HAVE A, A 3.9 AND 26 PLUS THERE'S A REVENUE BOND ATTACHED TO THAT FOR THE ENTERPRISE SYSTEM OF ABOUT FOUR.
AND THEN IN 29 YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SEVEN, 7.2 FALLING OFF.
SO, AND BY FALLING OFF FOR THE PUBLIC, I, THAT'S WHEN IT'S RETIRED AND PAID OFF.
SO, BUT THAT THE, AFTER THAT WE, WE COULD, BASED ON PROPERTY VALLEYS IN THE VAL IN THE VALUATION OF ALL THE LAND, OUR DEBT CEILING GOES UP TOO.
SO OUR DEBT CEILING, WE, WE, WE'VE GOT DEBT CEILINGS GOING UP, DEBT'S FALLING OFF.
SO THAT GAP IS GONNA BE WHERE WE'RE ABLE TO DO IT WITHOUT A TAX INCREASE, WHICH IS ALWAYS THE GOAL.
DO YOU, IS, DO YOU HAVE A GUESSTIMATE ON THAT NUMBER? LIKE A, A ROUGH ONE OR NO, I, I'VE GOT A ROUGH ONE, BUT AGAIN, I'M NOT THE FINANCIAL PLANNER, BUT WE'RE PROBABLY IN THE 32 TO 34 MILLION RANGE.
WELL, I MEAN, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, BUT SOME OF THESE THINGS SHOULD BE, SOME OF THESE THINGS SHOULD PROBABLY BE ELIGIBLE FOR GRANTS, LIKE THE CORRECT.
THE POOL PDS, SOME OF THAT STUFF.
SOME OF THAT STUFF SHOULD BE ELIGIBLE FOR PARTIAL GRANTS ANYWAY.
SO WILL AND I, DO YOU WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE SITUATION WITH THE POOL AND GRANTS AND KIND OF WHAT TPW IS? YEAH, THERE, THERE, THERE ARE PLENTY OF PARK GRANTS AVAILABLE.
UM, THEY TIP THROUGH PARKING WILDLIFE, THEY OUT HUNDRED 50,000 FOR OUR SIZE COMMUNITY.
SO LIKE IT'S NOT A WHOLE, A LOT OF HELP FOR THE PROJECT THIS SIZE.
IT DEFINITELY HELPS, BUT I THINK THE MATCH FOR NON-URBAN OUTDOORS, 150,000.
NOT TO OPEN UP A CAN OF WORMS LIKE I NORMALLY DO.
UH, IS THERE ANY WAY FROM THE CITIZENS PER SE INPUT OF POOL VERSUS NO POOL? WE CAN, I KNOW THAT'S REALLY HARD.
YEAH, I MEAN WE CAN, ANY FEEDBACK ON, WE, WE HAVE A, A, A FEW FOLKS, UH, WHEN WE MONITOR THE, THE INTERWEBS AND SOCIAL MEDIA THAT ARE VERY VOCAL ABOUT WANTING A POOL, I THINK AS LONG AS WE HAVE AN ACTIVITY CENTER OR SOMETHING FOR KIDS TO BE ABLE TO DO, I THINK THAT'S THE MORE IMPORTANT THING.
UM, THAT'S WHAT I'M GETTING OUT OF, DON'T GET ME WRONG, I CAN'T TALK TO A LARGE MAJORITY OF MY WARD IS THE LANGUAGE BARRIER, BUT FROM WHAT I HAVE SEEN OR HEARD OR YEAH, WHAT YOU SAID THAT THEY, THEY WANT SOMETHING BUT NOT NECESSARILY SWIM BOAT.
AND I DON'T, I I WOULDN'T DARE SAY I'M SPEAKING FOR SOMEONE THAT'S JUST THE GOAL BETWEEN FEEDBACK.
THE FEEDBACK WE'VE GOTTEN IS WE WANT SOMETHING FOR OUR KIDS TO DO.
WE WANT, WE NEED A POSITIVE ACTIVITY FOR FOLKS TO, TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
WE CAN PUT A POLL UP, BUT IT'S GONNA BE, YEAH.
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I MEAN A LOT OF THE, A LOT OF FEEDBACK THAT I GOT WHENEVER IT WAS CLOSED WAS FROM ACTUALLY FROM PEOPLE OUT OF TOWN THAT WERE ACTUALLY USING THE POOL.THAT'S WHERE I WAS GOING WITH THAT.
PEOPLE NOT, NOT NECESSARILY CITIZENS THAT WERE USING THE POOL THAT WERE TERRIBLY, TERRIBLY UPSET THAT IT GOT CLOSED.
WELL, IT WAS A PRETTY INEXPENSIVE PLACE TO GO.
IT WAS, YES, IT WAS VERY COST EFFICIENT.
UH, IN REGARDS TO OTHER GRANTS, UH, YOU KNOW, WE'VE GOT THE CDBG FUNDING FOR BRIAN'S SUBDIVISION.
THIS NEXT YEAR WE'LL BE REDOING THE, THE SEWER.
SO IT'LL BE THREE YEARS BEFORE THE CDBG COMES BACK UP FOR US.
AND UNFORTUNATELY OUR FORMULA ALLOCATION BECAUSE THE COUNTY HAS GROWN BUT NOT GROWN WHILE IT'S GROWN IN TERMS OF THE FORMULA ALLOCATION, IT'S ALSO GROWN IN TERMS OF POPULATION SHARE.
SO OUR, OUR WHERE WE USED TO GET ABOUT $250,000, WE'RE DOWN TO TWO 20 ON CBG AT THIS POINT.
SO THEY'LL MATCH OUR FUNDS TO THAT AMOUNT.
AND YOU'VE GOTTEN A POSSIBLE NUMBER AS FAR AS WHAT THEY'RE EXPECTING FROM THE APPRAISAL DISTRICT VERSUS PROTEST.
SO THE APPRAISAL VERSUS PROTEST, WE'LL HAVE A FORMAL NUMBER IN THREE WEEKS, BUT THE, RIGHT NOW THE CURRENT, UH, WHAT IS NOT BEING PROTESTED WAS ONE POINT JUST RIGHT OVER $1 MILLION THAT'S NOT BEING PROTESTED.
SO, WE'LL, WE'LL PASS THAT BENCHMARK THIS YEAR.
AND OF COURSE THE LAST TIME WE ISSUED DEBT WE WERE AT 600 AND SOMETHING MILLION.
UH, ONE OF THE ISSUES THAT CAME UP LAST TIME THAT KEPT US FROM GETTING A LITTLE BIT BETTER RATING, WE, WE GOT SEVERAL FACTORS REGARDING DEBT THAT NEEDED TO BE TAKEN INTO ACCOUNT.
HOUSEHOLD MEDIA DEBT ACTUALLY IS A MAJOR CONCERN.
UH, THAT'S WHAT KEPT US AT A DOUBLE A PLUS LAST TIME INSTEAD OF AAA.
UH, AND THEN YOU GET THE ONGOING UNCERTAINTY IN MARKETS, WHICH HAS JUST PUMMELED THE MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET, UH, IF YOU LOOK AT YIELDS AND EVERYTHING ELSE.
SO WE'RE HOPING THAT BY WHEN WE GET READY TO START ISSUING DEBT, THAT WE'RE IN A POSITION THAT THINGS ARE MORE FAVORABLE TO ACTUALLY SELL IN THAT DEBT.
WHAT STREETS DO YOU THINK NEED THE MOST ATTENTION? SO, AS I SAID, OLD ANGLETON HAS GOT TO BE YEAH, IT'S GOT FOR SURE A PRIORITY FOR US.
UH, I HATE GOING DOWN THAT ROAD.
EVERYBODY HATES GOING UP AND DOWN THAT ROAD.
UH, AND THEN FROM THERE, LEMME GET BACK OVER TO THE ARTERIALS.
I'M SORRY, NOT BEING, CAUSE EVERYBODY LOOK LAST YEAR.
UH, I THINK YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK.
I THINK HART, UH, WHILE IT'S IN FAIRLY DECENT SHAPE RIGHT NOW, WE JUST HAD IT REDONE.
UM, WE'RE SEEING SIGNIFICANT SHEARING HAPPEN THERE.
THERE, UM, I THINK THAT RAUS WOOD'S IN GOOD SHAPE COLLEGE PARK, I'VE GOT SOME OF THESE THAT ARE TABBED, UH, BECAUSE THEY'RE IN, IN PRETTY DECENT SHAPE.
UH, OR NOT IN NEED OF ANYTHING AT THIS TIME.
UH, BUT I THINK LAZY LANE, UM MM-HMM
UH, OBVIOUSLY SOUTH SHANKS IS IN FAIRLY DECENT SHAPE RIGHT NOW, BUT WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF SPOTS THAT WE CAN DO SPOT REPAIR ON.
UH, WILSON ROAD SEES A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF HEAVY TRAFFIC AND UH, IT'S STARTING TO SHOW THE WEAR AND THAT'S WHERE WE'VE GOT SOME MORE SHEARING GOING ON.
'CAUSE THE DITCHES ARE SO STEEP.
UH, BUT I'D SAY PRIMARY SO IS STRATTON RIDGE.
AND SO, UH, I THINK IN YEARS ONE THROUGH SIX, I THINK YOU'RE DEFINITELY TALKING ABOUT OLD TON STRATTON RIDGE, UH, AND PROBABLY WILSON.
UM, I THINK THE OTHER IS WE COULD, I HATE TO SAY IT, LIKE PATCH AND KEEP GOING.
UH, BUT I THINK FROM THE MAJOR ARTERIALS, I THINK THOSE ARE PRIMARY.
UH, AND THEN LOOKING AT NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, THE WEDGE, IF YOU'VE DRIVEN BACK THROUGH THERE, UH, THEY'RE GETTING TORN UP PRETTY QUICKLY, PRETTY EASILY.
SO IS, UH, AUSTIN SUBDIVISION IN ADDITION TO BRIAN, UM, AND THOSE ARE AUSTIN IS WHERE WE SEE THE GREATEST VARIATION AND PAVING WIDTH.
I MEAN, YOU GOT, I THINK IT'S WEIGHED, IT GETS DOWN TO YEAH.
AND THEN OTHER PLACES YOU'VE GOT 18 FOOT OF PAVEMENT, BUT THERE'S NO STANDARD AND YOU'VE GOT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF SHEARING THERE AS WELL.
'CAUSE THOSE GARBAGES ARE STARTING TO COLLAPSE IN ON THEMSELVES.
ALL OF THAT LA ALL THOSE ROWS THAT FEED OFF OF LAZY LANE, THOSE ARE YEAH.
I MEAN, WE DID DO SOME PATCHING DOWN MAIN STREET ON THE SIDEWALK.
BUT THERE ARE TOOLS SOME PLACES THAT NEEDS SOME REPAIR.
THAT, THAT CONTRACTOR STILL UNDER
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THAT'S NEXT MEETING.THEY'RE STILL WORKING UNDER THE EXISTING CONTRACT, BUT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO RENEGOTIATE.
YEAH, I THINK ABOUT A PRETTY GOOD DEAL FOR A LONG NOW.
IT'S BEEN A VERY DEAL FOR A LONG NOW.
OH, I SAID JUST A LOT TO THINK ABOUT.
YEAH, LIKE I SAID, I MEAN, TO ME, TO ME WE NEED SOME KIND OF DEFINITION OF HOW MUCH MONEY WE'RE GONNA HAVE.
WELL THAT'S, THAT'S THE OLD CHICKEN AND THE EGG SITUATION WHERE THEY WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE PRIORITY IS RIGHT NOW THAT'S YEAH.
I'LL, I'LL CALL BOB IN THE MORNING AND SEE IF HE CAN GIVE ME A BETTER UNDERSTANDING.
UH, BUT I THINK IT'S PROBABLY AROUND 32 MILLION IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS.
SO, BUT I MEAN, BUT THAT'S ALSO COUNTING 32 30.
BUT THAT'S ALSO WE HAVE TO ACCOUNT FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT WOULD OR WOULD THAT BE SEPARATE? YEAH, THAT, SO IN A PERFECT WORLD, IT WOULD BE PART OF THIS PACKAGE AND MAYBE, MAYBE THE WINDOW OPENS WIDER THAN I'M EXPECTING IT TO IN TERMS OF WHAT OUR DEBT CAPACITY IS ON THE GENERAL FUND SIDE.
BUT I, I HAVE A FEELING THAT'S GONNA REQUIRE A GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND AND MAYBE, OH, I, I'M TALKING, WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE DEBT CAPACITY, I'M TALKING ABOUT WHAT WE CAN HIT WITHOUT HAVING TO RAISE THE BASELINE TAX.
I MEAN, SOME OF THIS STUFF IS JUST GONNA HAVE TO BE PRESENTED TO THE VOTERS AND LET THEM DECIDE.
DEBT CAPACITY SCARES ME THAT TERMINOLOGY.
THAT'S GOT A WHOLE BUNCH OF PEOPLE LIVING IN HOUSES THAT THEIR DEBT SAYS THEY CAN AFFORD IT AND THEY'RE HAVING TROUBLE KEEPING UP.
SO, BUT THAT'S THE CITY TO BE IN THE SAME SPOT.
WELL, THE, THE THE, THE WORST, THE BAD PART ABOUT A CITY IS, IS THEY CAN AUGMENT THAT BY TAXES AND HOMEOWNER.
AND SO WHAT WE TRY AND DO WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT CAPACITY IS WHAT'S IT, WHAT CAN WE, WHAT CAN WE IMPLEMENT KNOWING WE'VE GOT A REVENUE BASE AT THIS NUMBER WITHOUT HAVING TO INCREASE TAXES.
YOU HAVE TO DO IT BASED ON YOUR, BASED ON WHAT YOU HAVE, NOT WHAT YOU NEED.
YOU HAVE TO BASE IT ON WHAT, WHAT YOUR, WHAT YOU HAVE TO PAY BACK.
LIKE A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE, THEY, WHEN THEY GO MAKE THEIR DEBT, THEY BASE IT ON 10 HOURS OVERTIME A WEEK.
OH, 20 HOURS TIME A WEEK, THAT KIND OF THING.
THAT'S NOT THE WAY I UNDERSTOOD IT, BUT I AGREE WITH YOU
THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT.
WE CAN'T BASE IT ON, OKAY, WE, WE THINK WE'RE GONNA GET THIS BUS GONNA INCREASE.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO BASE IT ON A FLAT RATE.
WE'RE ALSO IN KIND OF THE UNFORTUNATE POSITION THAT WE DON'T HAVE.
WE HAVE 1, 2, 2 SECTIONS TO FINISH IN WOOD SHORE, POSSIBLY A THIRD OF COLLEGE PARK.
BUT WE DON'T HAVE A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF NEW VALUE THAT'S GONNA BE HITTING IN THE NEXT THREE TO FIVE YEARS, WHICH IS, UH, WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO OUTGROW.
I GET EMOTIONAL WHEN I TALK ABOUT IT AND ALSO AING
IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THE CITY'S ACHIEVED SINCE 2014, IT'S A ALMOST A FIVE, 500% INCREASE IN TOTAL VALUE.
AND SO, UH, WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE THAT LUXURY GOING FORWARD FROM THIS POINT.
THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I WAS TRYING TO SAY.
WE CAN'T GROW ANY, BUT OH, I, WE CAN'T GROW ANY MORE THAN THAT.
WE HAVE TO, TO BASE OUR, WE HAVE TO BASE OUR PAVEMENTS ON ON WHAT IT WOULD, WHAT THE MAX WOULD BE.
IT, IF Y'ALL HAVE THOUGHTS, IDEAS ON PRIORITY, IF YOU WOULD LET ME KNOW OR LET JOHN KNOW AND JUST KIND OF TELL US, LIKE I SAID, I THINK THAT HOME HAMILTON HAS GOT TO GET BU YEAH.
AS I SAID, I THINK THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD WORKSHOP.
UH, THAT WE NEED TO SIT DOWN AND SCRATCH THAT.
I THINK THAT'S A GREAT WORKSHOP.
BECAUSE I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE INSIDE THEY WANT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T SEE Y'ALL, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CITY IS DOING ANYTHING AND DO, AND IT'S, SO IT'S, WE GOT 'EM.
CHOOSE SOME STUFF THAT'S HIGH VISIBILITY THAT EVERYBODY CAN SEE SO THEY KNOW WE ARE WORKING, RIGHT? YES.
BECAUSE NOBODY
AND SO EVERYBODY THINKS, WELL NOTHING'S GETTING DONE, BUT IT, EVEN THOUGH IT WAS MAJOR WORK AND NEEDED TO BE DONE, SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE SPLITTING IT BETWEEN STUFF THAT WE
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REALLY NEED, BUT ALSO NOT FORGETTING THE STUFF THAT'S HIGH VISIBILITY.IT, IT MIGHT BE OTHER WAY AROUND TOO, BECAUSE IF PEOPLE ONLY GO TO WORK AND HOME A CERTAIN WAY, THEY ONLY SEE SERVICES HAVE TO BE MAINTAINED BY ALL THAT'S GOING ON.
SO I THINK A LOT OF IT WE NEED TO TARGET THE OLDER.
ONE OF, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I'VE NOTICED THOUGH, THE YEARS IS LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE STREETS, YES.
SOME OF THE STREETS THAT HAVE ASPHALT ON 'EM RIGHT NOW, THEY'VE PROBABLY BEEN PAVE, THEY'RE LOPSIDED.
THEY PROBABLY BEEN PAVED 20 TIMES OVER THE LAST 20 YEARS.
WE'VE RAISED THEM UP ABOUT TWO FEET BY DOING THAT.
VERY FEW OF THEM EVER BEEN GROUND UP BEFORE THEY WERE PAVED.
SO I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU PAVE OVER A HOLE, YOU GET IT HOLD BACK.
AND THAT'S THIS, WHEN I TALK THIS COST THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HERE IS TAKING IT BACK DOWN, HAVING IT FUNCTION ALMOST THE WAY THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO IS A DRAINAGE CHANNEL, GETTING A MAC GRADE SO THAT WE'RE NOT IN A SITUATION.
'CAUSE WHAT, RIGHT NOW, WHAT THE REASON WE'RE HAVING TO DO THE THICK OVERLAYS IS YOU GET SO MUCH SHEARING.
'CAUSE AS THE ROAD PRESSES DOWN, IT PUSHES THE WALLS IN ON THE, ON THE, ON THE DITCHES.
AND THEN ISN'T THAT ALWAYS GONNA HAPPEN UNTIL WE TOP, UNTIL WE COVER THE TILE OF THESE DITCHES? AND THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THIS CALLS FOR.
IT'S THEMATICALLY GOING THROUGH AND INSTALLING SUBTERRANEAN, UH, DRAINAGE.
I MEAN, IT SOUNDS, SOUNDS TO ME LIKE Y'ALL ALREADY PRETTY MUCH IDENTIFIED THE ONES THAT ARE THE WORST ONES.
WE JUST COMMON SENSE TELLS YOU TO START WITH THE WORST ONES AND GO, GO FORWARD IN MY OPINION.
BUT WE CAN DEFINITELY, I CAN BRING THIS BACK.
WE CAN GO THROUGH THIS ONCE WE GET THE WATER AND DO A FULL WORKSHOP ON IT.
UH, BUT IN THE INTERIM, IF Y'ALL HAVE RATINGS AND RANKINGS OR IDEAS, PLEASE LEMME KNOW.
SEE I PLAN, I WANNA GET CITY HALL FIXED.
JUST DISCUSSION, CORRECT? YES SIR.
WELL IT SAID POSSIBLE ACTION, BUT I THINK THE ACTION WAS THAT WE HAD A MOTION TO SCHEDULE A WORKSHOP.
WORKSHOP AND I HAD A SECOND FROM COUNCILPERSON BOND
SO THAT BEING SAID, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, NOT I'LL ENTERTAIN THE VOTE.
YEAH, I WOULD WOULD LIKE TO SAY JOHN AND CJ Y DID A GOOD WORK ON ALL THOSE NUMBERS.
AND ALL THAT MAPPING IT, IT LOOKS GOOD.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE EVEN MARCH, SUNDAY.
THEN THE NEXT ITEM WILL BE CONSIDERATION OF POSSIBLE ACTION TO ADOPT ORDINANCE NUMBER 2025 DASH OH ONE THREE.
BUDGET AMENDMENT NUMBER ONE TO THE CITY OF PLU FISCAL YEAR 2024.
2025 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET APPROPRIATING FUNDS FOR EMERGENCY FACILITY REPAIRS.
IT WILL BE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2025 DASH OH ONE THREE.
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY OF KLUTE, TEXAS APPROVING BUDGET AMENDMENT ONE TO THE CITY'S FISCAL YEAR 20 24, 20 25 ANNUAL OPERATING BUDGET PROVIDED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATION AND OR TRANSFER OF CERTAIN FUNDS PROVIDED FOR SEVERABILITY AND PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATED TO THE SUBJECT.
SO THIS ASK IS TO TRANSFER $650,000 OF RESERVE GENERAL FUND UN UNRESTRICTED FUNDS TO THE GENERAL FUND TO ALLOW FOR THE MITIGATION, UH, INSTALLATION OF A PITCH GRIP ON CITY HALL, UH, MITIGATION TO THE HVAC SYSTEM, UH, REVISION OF THE HVAC SYSTEM TO GET AWAY FROM THE, UH, ROOF MOUNTED UNITS TO A GROUND-BASED EITHER CHILLER OR MULTISYSTEM.
UH, AND THE SAME FOR THE RECORDS BUILDING.
UH, WE HAD, WE WERE REIMBURSED BY INSURANCE.
UH, NOW WE'RE GOING BACK AND FORTH WITH THEM ON THE EXACT AMOUNT WITH, WE RECEIVED A CHECK FOR ABOUT 250, UM, TO BUY A HELP BUY DOWN THE COST OF THIS WORK.
AND WE BELIEVE THAT THE SIX 50 WOULD ALLOW US TO GET THE WORK DONE COUPLED WITH THE INSURANCE FUNDS TO MAKE THAT PROJECT, GET THAT PROJECT LAUNCHED.
UH, THE ENGINEERS WOULD COME BACK AND ACTUALLY HAVE THE TASK ORDER LAID OUT SO THAT WE CAN GET THE PROJECT STARTED.
GONNA INCLUDE INTERIOR REPAIRS TOO.
THAT WAS ONE OF THE ISSUES MEANT THAT I WAS MISSING FROM THE ENGINEER'S REPORT WAS THE MITIGATION FROM INSIGHT.
BECAUSE I DIDN'T READ THAT IN THE ENGINEER'S REPORT THAT IT DIDN'T.
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SIX 50 AND UP, I THINK.SO IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT THEIR ESTIMATIONS ARE, WE'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT $300,000 FOR THE ROOF, ABOUT $400,000 FOR THE CHILLER.
SO IF WE'VE GOT A TOTAL OF $900,000, THAT SHOULD BE MORE THAN ADEQUATE TO COVER THAT.
IS THAT JUST CITY HALL? DOES THAT INCLUDE THE RECORDS BUILDING? THAT'S THE RECORDS BUILDING IN CITY HALL.
COUNCILMAN CHRIS, THAT WE ADOPT ORDINANCE 2025 DASH 13.
I'LL SECOND COUNCILMAN AGUILAR.
HEARING NONE ALL ENTERTAIN BOTH.
[V. NOTICE/ ANNOUNCEMENT OF UPCOMING EVENTS AND MEETINGS]
NEXT ITEM WILL BE NOTICE AND ANNOUNCEMENTS OF UPCOMING EVENTS AND MEETINGS.MEMORIAL DAY IS MAY 26TH, MONDAY AND CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED.
OUR NEXT REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING IS SCHEDULED FOR THURSDAY, JUNE THE 12TH, 2025 AT 7:00 PM JUNETEENTH HOLIDAY IS JUNE 19TH, 2025.
CITY OFFICES WILL BE CLOSED AND REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING THURSDAY, MAY 26TH, 2025 AT 7:00 PM NEXT ITEM WILL BE ADJOURN, MOVE BY COUNCIL PER BOND.
A I'LL SECOND COUNCIL PERSON, MADDOX DISCUSSION.
HEARING NONE, I ENTERTAIN A VOTE.