[1. Open Meeting.]
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TODAY IS THURSDAY, JUNE 16TH, 2022.
AND THIS IS THE BRIEFING WORKSHOP OF THE LEANDER CITY COUNCIL
[2. Roll Call.]
CITY.WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL COUNCIL MEMBER KATHERINE BATTALION PARKER HERE.
THE COUNCIL MEMBER ASKED ME IN MATH GIGGLE AND GLORIA HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER CHAISSON SHAW COUNCIL MEMBER, NICOLE THOMPSON, PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER CHRIS' SURNAME MAYOR TIM, BECKY ROSS HERE.
MAYOR CHRISTINE LA HERE CORN'S PRESENT.
[3. Discuss 2021 Roadway Impact Fee.]
WE'LL MOVE ON TO ITEM THREE, DISCUSS 2021 ROADWAY IMPACT FEE CITY ENGINEER.GOOD TO CONSTANT FROM KIMBERLY HORN HERE TO GO OVER THE IMPACT TO YOU THAT YOU WOULD THE PARTICULAR RECOMMENDATIONS FROM PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
SO WE CAN TAILOR THE ORDINANCE EXACTLY THE WAY YOU WANT IT.
WE DON'T HAVE TO MAKE ANY CHANGES WHEN IT COUNTS BACK IN THREE WEEKS FOR THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING.
SO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'LL BE HERE.
UH, IT SHOULD MAYBE BE THE SECOND TO LAST TIME.
UM, BUT UH, I'M GOING TO DO A LITTLE BIT OF A, I JUST KIND OF A RECAP OF WHERE WE'VE BEEN, UH, AND GO THROUGH THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS ADVISORY COMMITTEE LIKE ROSS MENTIONED, WHICH IS ALSO THE P AND Z FOR Y'ALL.
UM, AND THEN I'M GOING TO GO INTO A LITTLE BIT OF WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN IN TERMS OF REVENUE, PROJECTIONS FOR THE CITY, UH, APPROXIMATELY WHICH I THINK WILL HELP AT LEAST UNDERSTAND WHAT ARE THE IMPACTS FISCALLY OF THOSE KINDS OF RECOMMENDATIONS.
UH, AND THEN, UH, JUST TALK THROUGH A LITTLE BIT OF HOW THAT, UH, ORDINANCE THAT YOU'LL SEE IN THREE WEEKS COME INTO ALL FOR THE PUBLIC HEARING.
UH, WHAT, WHAT, HOW DOES THAT ACTUALLY WORK IN PLAY OUT? AND WE'LL WALK THROUGH THAT A LITTLE BIT, BUT THE ULTIMATE THING OF THIS, UM, SO WHEREVER WE'VE BEEN, UH, SHOWED THIS GRAPHIC BEFORE WE'RE AT THE VERY END OF THIS, UM, UH, THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT WENT INTO SOME OF THIS STUFF YOU'LL SEE WAS, UH, THAT WAS ADOPTED ON APRIL 7TH, THAT COUNCIL, UH, CIC MADE THEIR RECOMMENDATION ON APRIL 28TH.
AND THEN WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING THAT'S BEEN ADVERTISED FOR AND SCHEDULED FOR JULY 7TH, WHICH IS THREE WEEKS FROM TODAY, UH, AS WELL AS THE READING, UH, READING OF THE ORDINANCE.
THIS IS A KIND OF A TABLE VERSION OF THAT SCHEDULE, JUST TO REITERATE.
WE DID HAVE, UM, A STAKEHOLDER MEETING HERE IN THE CHAMBERS BACK ON MARCH 9TH WITH SOME OF THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY TO GET THEIR FEEDBACK.
WE PRESENTED THAT FEEDBACK TO THE CIAC BACK IN MARCH, AND THEN THEY DELIBERATED ABOUT RECOMMENDATIONS FOR TWO MEETINGS AND CAME BACK TO THAT WITH US APRIL 28TH, UH, AND THEN PER STATE LAW, WE HAD TO HAVE 30 DAYS OF ADVERTISEMENT BEFORE WE HELD THE PUBLIC HEARING.
SO WE CAME ON MAY 19TH AND THEN ADVERTISE IN THE NEXT CYCLE FOR THAT.
SO WE'VE MADE SURE WE'VE COMPLIED WITH ALL THE STATE LAW REQUIREMENTS AS WELL IN THE RED TEXT, THERE THERE'S A CITY WEBSITE, UH, IT'S LEANDER, TX.GOV/R I F S IS THE SHORT ONE FOR REFS, UM, ROADWAY IMPACT FEES.
UH, THAT'S HAD ALL THE CONTENT THROUGHOUT FOR THE PUBLIC TO SEE FOR THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS SINCE FEBRUARY.
SO, UM, PAST ACTION, UH, STUDY ASSUMPTIONS APPROVED.
SO THAT WAS WHERE WE SET, UH, AREAS FOR THESE COLLECTION FEES.
THESE ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM WATER AND WASTEWATER.
UH, IT'S REQUIRED THAT THEY CAN'T BE LONGER THAN A SIX MILE TRIP LENGTH.
SO FOR LEANDER THAT CAME OUT TO ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE, AND WE TALKED ABOUT THAT BACK IN MARCH AND CAME UP WITH FIVE.
THE NEXT 10 YEARS OF GROWTH IS IN THERE AS WELL AS THE PROJECTS THAT ARE ANTICIPATED AND NEEDED IN THE COST OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE ALL IN THAT BIG FAT STUDY.
UM, WE ENDED UP WITH SOME FINAL RESULTS FOR MAXIMUM FEES.
UM, THERE IS SOME VARIABILITY, UH, THE HIGHEST AREA IN TERMS OF THE COST OF DELIVERING INFRASTRUCTURE AS A LAWYER, I LIKE TO REFER TO THIS NUMBER, UH, IT'S BASICALLY A VERY SIMPLE FORMULA.
THAT'S THE COST OF THE PROJECTS THAT ARE NEEDED DIVIDED BY THE GROWTH IN THOSE AREAS.
SO WHAT THAT SAYING IS, IS YOU HAVE, UM, X MORE EXPENSIVE PROJECTS OR MORE PROJECTS NEEDED TO SERVE GROWTH IN A, THAN YOU WOULD NECESSARILY MAYBE IN BC OR E THAT'S ALL THAT SAYING.
UH, SO E FOR EXAMPLE IS A LOT LOWER BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT MORE DENSITY IN THERE.
AND SO WHEN YOU HAVE HIGHER DENSITY, YOU HAVE FOR YOUR ROADS THAT ARE NEEDED, HENCE IT'S A LOWER NUMBER.
THAT'S KIND OF THE WAY I LIKE TO SAY THAT.
SO IT IS VARIABLE AROUND THE CITY.
THAT NUMBER DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE.
I'LL EXPLAIN HOW IT'S USED TO GIVE YOU THE ACTUAL FEE NUMBER BASED ON LANE USE A LITTLE BIT LATER.
UH, WHAT'S IN THE STUDY AND THE ORDINANCE, WHAT I ALWAYS LIKE TO SAY IS OUR JOB IS TO MAKE SURE WE'RE COMPLIANT WITH THE LAW AND MAKE SURE WE GIVE YOU A STUDY THAT'S COMPLIANT AND THAT MAXIMUM NUMBER.
AND THEN FROM THERE, EVERYTHING'S UP TO KIND OF Y'ALL UP HOW YOU WANT TO CRAFT A POLICY IF YOU WANT TO ADOPT FEES AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT ONE THING I ALWAYS LIKE TO MENTION AT THIS POINT, TOO, WHEN WE GET INTO THE COLLECTION RATES AND THE POLICY PIECE, THIS IS ALWAYS ADJUSTABLE.
SO IF YOU NEED TO CHANGE THIS AS THE PROGRAM STARTS UP AND YOU START GETTING COLLECTIONS AND IT'S NOT HAVING MAYBE, UH, THE INTENDED OUTCOMES THAT YOU'RE HOPING FOR, OR CITY POLICIES AND OBJECTIVES CHANGE, YOU CAN CHANGE THIS AT ANY TIME.
THE ONLY LIMITATION IS THOSE MAXIMUM NUMBERS FROM THE STUDY, AND THEN THOSE MAXIMUMS HAVE TO BE LOOKED AT EVERY FIVE YEARS.
A LOT OF TIMES WE'LL START ROLLING THESE OUT.
AND THEN AS COLLECTIONS BEGAN, THERE MIGHT BE CHANGES IN THOUGHTS OF HOW TO DO THINGS.
THEN YOU CAN CHANGE IT AT THAT TIME.
UM, SO FROM A POLICY STANDPOINT, THIS IS A SIMILAR, UH, FRAMEWORK WE WALKED THROUGH WITH THE P AND Z.
UM, THERE'S KIND OF A COUPLE OF MAIN THINGS YOU HAVE TO DECIDE.
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UM, ONE OF THOSE IS WHEN WOULD YOU WANT TO START COLLECTING? IS THERE ANY KIND OF GRACE PERIOD OR ANY KIND OF EXEMPTIONS FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE IN THE DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE, UH, AND THEN WOULD YOU WANT TO PHASE THE RATES AND, UH, OVER A PERIOD OF TIME, THE COLLECTION RATE ITSELF IS SOMETHING THAT YOU HAVE TO LOOK AT, SHOULD IT BE FLAT ACROSS THE CITY? DOES IT VARY BY THE AREA THAT YOU'RE IN? UH, AND THEN DO YOU CHANGE IT BASED ON THE TYPE OF LAND USE AS WELL? UH, THOSE ARE KIND OF THE GENERAL THINGS WE TALK ABOUT WITH THAT.AND THEN OTHER CITY OBJECTIVES, YOU CAN DO THINGS LIKE REDUCE FEES IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE CITY, IF YOU WANT.
UM, HEY, MAYBE THERE'S A, AN AREA OF CITY THAT WANTS, THEY ALL WANT INVESTMENT, AND MAYBE IT MAKES SENSE TO CHARGE LESS FEES TO TRY TO INCENTIVIZE GROWTH THERE.
SO, UM, THOSE ARE KIND OF THE MAIN FRAMEWORK PIECES FOR THAT.
I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH WHAT OTHER CITIES DO AND WHAT THE PNC RECOMMENDED ON THIS.
SO, UH, FOR NEARBY COMMUNITIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS HAVE ADOPTED THESE IN THE LAST THREE YEARS.
UM, BROWN ROCK, PFLUGERVILLE, AUSTIN, AND GEORGETOWN, THEY ALL HAD A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT WAYS OF DOING THIS IN TERMS OF HOW THEY IMPLEMENTED IT.
UM, SO ROUND ROCK, THEY WAITED FOR 21 MONTHS.
THEY WANTED TO START WITH A CALENDAR YEAR.
UH, SO THEY PASSED THE ORDINANCE IN APRIL OR SORRY, MARCH OF 2019 AND SAID THEY WANTED TO WAIT UNTIL 2021.
SO THEY'VE BEEN COLLECTING NOW FOR ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF.
UM, PFLUGERVILLE WAS A LITTLE BIT FASTER.
UM, THEY BASICALLY SAID, UM, IF YOU HAD A PLAT, YOU HAD THREE MONTHS TO GET THE REST OF YOUR BUILDING PERMITS IN.
AND THEN THEY STARTED COLLECTING PRETTY QUICKLY, THREE MONTHS AFTER THEY ADOPTED, UH, AUSTIN WAS ALSO A LITTLE MORE SIMILAR TO ROUND ROCK.
AND THEN THEY SAID, IF YOU HAD BEEN DOING DEVELOPMENT, I E YOU HAD AN APPROVED TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDY FOR YOUR SITES.
UH, THOSE TRAFFIC IMPACT STUDIES HAD A LITTLE BIT LONGER GRACE PERIOD.
THEY GAVE HIM THREE YEARS TO GET THINGS, GET THINGS TO THE PIPELINE, GET THEIR BUILDING PERMITS.
AND THEN GEORGETOWN WAS PROBABLY THE MOST FRIENDLY TO DEVELOPMENT IN THE SENSE THAT THEY SAID, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU TWO YEARS TO GET A PRELIMINARY PLAT APPLICATION AND YOU'D BE EXEMPT.
SO THAT WAS, THAT WAS BY FAR THE MOST, UM, UH, KICKING THINGS OUT FURTHER DOWN THE ROAD IN TERMS OF COLLECTIONS.
SO BASICALLY PEOPLE CAN STILL BE FILING PRELIMINARY PLATS ALL THE WAY THROUGH MARCH OF NEXT YEAR, UH, AND BE EXEMPTED FROM THESE FEES IN GEORGETOWN.
UM, YOU'LL NOTICE I MENTIONED SOMETHING ABOUT PFLUGERVILLE WITH PLAT STATUS.
UM, THE STATE LAW IS UNDERLINED RIGHT HERE.
ALL IT SAYS IS IF YOU HAVE A FINAL PLAT RECORDED WITH THE COUNTY AT THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE ORDINANCE, UM, YOU HAVE A MINIMUM OF A YEAR TO GET A BUILDING PERMIT.
THAT'S WHAT THE STATE LAW SAYS IN CHAPTER 3 95, BUT THE LOCAL GOVERNMENT CODE ANYTHING LONGER THAN THAT, OR COVERING NON PLOTTED PROPERTIES OR THINGS LIKE THAT IS UP TO Y'ALL Y'ALL CAN DECIDE HOW YOU WANT TO DO THAT.
UH, THEY, THEY WENT WITH WHAT WE'LL CALL A SIMPLE APPROACH.
THEY SAID, LET'S JUST, UM, BASICALLY FROM ADOPTION DATE, GIVE EVERYBODY A YEAR, REGARDLESS OF PLOT STATUS.
AND THEN AFTER THAT TIME START COLLECTING FOR, FOR EVERYBODY.
SO ALL THAT REALLY DOES ON THAT RECOMMENDATION IS, UM, FROM A TIME PERSPECTIVE IS IF SOMEONE WERE TO PLOT, LET'S SAY, LET'S SAY, IF YOU CHOSE TO ADOPT JULY 7TH, SOMEONE DECIDES TO PLOT IN AUGUST, THEY CAN IN THEORY, PULL A BUILDING PERMIT BEFORE JULY OF NEXT YEAR AND NOT HAVE TO PAY THAT.
THAT'S WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN FIRST FOR FOLKS, OR IF THEY HAD A PREVIOUS PLOT AND THEY'RE CURRENTLY PULLING BOOK, BUILDING PERMITS, THEY WOULD STILL HAVE THAT YEAR, UH, AS IS REQUIRED BY THE LAW.
THE OTHER THING THAT THEY WANTED TO DO WAS TO TRY TO BASICALLY, UH, FOR FOLKS IN THE DEVELOPMENT PIPELINE.
SO FOLKS THAT HAVE FINAL PLOTTED ALREADY, UH, HAVE THEY HAVE AN APPROVED TRAFFIC STUDY THAT TELLS WHAT THEY NEED TO DO FOR TRANSPORTATION IMPROVEMENTS OR A DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT OF SOME KIND.
THEY SAID THAT THEY WANTED TO EXEMPT THEM FROM THIS, JUST SO IT'S NOT A CHANGE MIDSTREAM IN THE DEVELOPMENT CYCLE.
UH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS KIND OF THE REASONING BEHIND THAT.
UM, I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH ALL THESE AND WE CAN KIND OF COME BACK TO EACH ONE OF YOU.
I WANT TO TALK ABOUT SPECIFICS.
UM, SO, UH, THE COLLECTION RATES, UM, AGAIN, THIS UNDERLINED PART IS WHAT'S THE LIMITATION.
THE STATE LAW SAYS YOU JUST CAN'T GO ABOVE THAT NUMBER, THE MAXIMUM NUMBER, UM, THE CIC RECOMMENDED TO GO AHEAD AND ADOPT THOSE MAXIMUMS AND THEN SET THE COLLECTION RATE AT 50% OF THAT NUMBER FOR RESIDENTIAL, AND THEN, UH, SET IT AT 10%, UH, OF THE MAXIMUM IN EACH AREA FOR COMMERCIAL OR NON-RESIDENTIAL.
UH, AND WHAT THAT WOULD MEAN IS THAT IT WOULD ACTUALLY BE A VARIABLE RATE.
I THINK IF I SHOWED YOU ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE, IT VARIES BY AREA, SO THAT WOULDN'T BE FLAT.
UM, AND THEN THEY ASKED, THEY SAID THEY WANTED TO INCREASE THE COMMERCIAL, OR NON-RESIDENTIAL AFTER TWO YEARS AFTER THE FEES STARTED BEING COLLECTED.
SO HAVE YOU STARTED COLLECTING ON THEIR RECOMMENDATION IN 2023, YOU WOULD ACTUALLY INCREASE RATES BY ABOUT HALF OF WHAT THOSE RATES ARE OR 50%, UH, IN 2025.
THAT'S WHAT THAT TRANSLATES TO.
THERE'S A LOT OF TEXTS ON HERE, BUT I'LL, I'LL BOIL IT DOWN TO SIMPLICITY.
THESE ARE SOME SAMPLE DEVELOPMENTS THAT HAVE COME THROUGH THE PIPELINE AND LEANDER, NOT IN THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS.
UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE DIFFERENT IN SIZE AND SCALE INTENTIONALLY AND IN DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE CITY.
UM, SO THE FIRST TWO ARE SINGLE FAMILY DEVELOPMENTS.
THE OTHER ONE'S A LITTLE BIT BIGGER WITH 479, UH, ONE'S IN THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN AND A, THE OTHER ONES IN D AND THE SOUTHEAST SIDE OF TOWN.
UH, YOU LOOK AT BOTH OF THESE, THEY PAID DIFFERENT AMOUNTS OF MONEY, UH, PER LOT.
IF YOU KIND OF DO SOME QUICK, QUICK OBSERVATION THERE, THE, THE
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479 HOUSES PAID MORE PER LOT OVER A THOUSAND, UH, AND THEN THE SINGLE FAMILY THAT WAS 124 PAID ABOUT, UM, UH, 500 OR SO PER LOT, APPROXIMATELY FOR THOSE.SO THE CURRENT SYSTEM, WHEN THEY LOOKED AT REDOUBT ADEQUACY FEES, IT'S NOT THE SAME PER LOT, JUST THE WAY THE CURRENT SYSTEM WORKS.
THAT'S WHAT THAT ILLUSTRATES BASED ON WHAT THE CIAC PROPOSED.
UM, THE, BOTH OF THEM WOULD PAY MORE JUST TRANSPARENTLY FROM THAT.
UM, THE ONE IN A IS HIGHER PER LOT, BUT THAT'S ALSO BECAUSE OF THAT VARIABLE RATE, I TALKED ABOUT WHERE THEY'RE ACTUALLY THE MAXIMUM IS HIGHER OUT THERE.
SO THOSE PER LOTS WOULD BE HIGHER, UH, WITH THAT.
AND SO, UM, THEY PAY DIFFERENT AMOUNTS, BUT IT, IT IT'S THAT WAY.
HOW DOES THAT STACK UP WITH THE REST OF THE REGION FOR THE SINGLE FAMILY? UM, SO BASICALLY THE, UM, THE, IN THE HIGHER AREA, YOU'RE, YOU'RE SOMEWHERE KIND OF TOWARDS THE MIDDLE OF THE RANGE WITH THAT, UH, FOR THAT SERVICE AREA, A IN THE NORTHWEST SIDE OF TOWN, THAT'S THE MOST EXPENSIVE ONE, AND YOU'RE PROBABLY SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE RANGE, A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN, UH, WE'RE AROUND ROCKS, ABOUT TO BE IN A YEAR OR TWO AND A LITTLE BIT LOWER THAN PFLUGERVILLE, BUT YOU'RE, YOU'RE KIND OF IN BETWEEN AUSTIN AND GEORGETOWN ISH IN THAT AREA, UM, FOR THE, FOR THE AREAS THAT ARE LOWER COLLECTION RATES LIKE D IN THE SOUTHEAST, UM, YOU'RE DEFINITELY ON THE LOWER END OF THE RANGE IN THAT AREA.
SO FOR MOST OF THE CITY, YOU'D BE KIND OF ON THE LOWER END OF THE RANGE OF THE RECOMMENDATION, UH, EXCEPT FOR THAT NORTHWEST SIDE, YOU'D BE KIND OF MORE EVEN WHERE THE REST OF THE OTHER CITIES THAT YOU WENT WITH THAT.
UM, SO THESE OTHER TWO ON THE BOTTOM, THESE ARE, ARE TWO DIFFERENT TYPES OF COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
UM, THE THIRD ONE ON HERE WAS A, IT'S A, IT'S A MIXED USE SIDE THAT DIDN'T ACTUALLY PAY ANY ROADWAY, ADEQUACY FEES.
UH, SO THERE ARE THOSE CASES THAT HAPPENED TODAY WHERE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO PAY, UM, IN THIS CASE, UH, I PUT TWO DIFFERENT NUMBERS ON HERE.
THE FIRST ONE IS THE 10% RATE.
AND IF THEY CAME IN TWO YEARS LATER, WOULD THAT INCREASE, THAT WOULD BE MORE AT 1 27.
UH, THESE ARE DEFINITELY LOWER THAN ANYBODY ELSE IN THE REGION.
SO THERE WOULD DEFINITELY BE QUOTE UNQUOTE, UH, INCENTIVE IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT.
HAVE YOU ADOPTED THESE RATES COMPARED TO YOUR NEIGHBORS THAT'S FOR BOTH CASES? UM, THE LAST ONE IS MORE, JUST AN ILLUSTRATION OF SOMETIMES HOW, UH, EVEN FOR LIKE A SMALL SITE, THEY MAY HAVE TO PAY SOMETHING.
THERE ARE GOING TO BE A COUPLE OF CASES WHERE THEY MIGHT PAY LESS TODAY.
THAT'S JUST ONE EXAMPLE OF ONE THAT WE, THAT WE HAD AND WE PULLED IT OUT.
SO THAT'S JUST KIND OF A STACK UP AGAINST THE REGION WHERE YOU FALL.
SO IN SUMMARY FOR NON-RESIDENTIAL AT THAT 10 AND 15% PHASED IN IT'S GOING TO BE LOWER THAN MOST FOLKS, BUT FOR RESIDENTIAL, IT'S KIND OF ON, ON AVERAGE, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT LOWER IN SOME AREAS IS WHERE YOU'D FALL OUT WITH THE RECOMMENDATION FROM P AND Z.
THIS IS SOMETIMES MAYBE A LITTLE BIT MORE HELPFUL TRANSLATION OF WHAT THAT WOULD ACTUALLY LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF RATES.
UM, AGAIN, IT'S A RANGE, BUT THESE ARE KIND OF WHAT IT WOULD BE PER UNIT.
SO FOR FOLKS THAT ARE, UM, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT THE RESIDENTIAL ONES, THE FIRST THREE, UH, IT'S ANYWHERE FROM $580 TO ABOUT 4,400 PER LOT, UH, 4,400 OF COURSE, IS THE NORTHWEST SIDE FOR ALL THESE ON THE TOP END OF THE RANGE, UM, DUPLEXES, THE IMPORTANT THING TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT WHEN YOU START HAVING MORE DENSITY IS IT'S PER UNIT.
SO MAYBE A DUPLEX IS ON THE SAME SIZE SITE OR A LOT AS A SINGLE FAMILY, BUT THEY'RE PAYING PER UNIT.
SO YOU ACTUALLY MIGHT END UP PAYING MORE ON THAT LOT.
UM, SAME THING WITH APARTMENTS THAT SIZE OF ANCHORAGE, YOU MIGHT ACTUALLY GET MORE FEES FOR THE OVERALL SITE, BUT IT'S LESS PER UNIT.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S A STRICT FUNCTION OF THE ACTUAL, UM, AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC THAT'S GENERATED BY UNITS.
IT'S ACTUALLY LESS FOR, FOR HIGHER DENSITY UNITS.
THERE'S LESS CAR TRIPS ON THOSE.
THAT'S WHY THAT'S THE WAY IT IS FOR THE COMMERCIAL.
THESE ARE IN COST PER SQUARE FOOT.
SO A LOT OF TIMES WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND DOING YOUR PRO FORMA, YOU'RE LOOKING AT THE COSTS FOR THAT SITE PER SQUARE FOOT OF, OF DEVELOPED LOTS.
UM, THESE ARE THE ACTUAL RATES FOR THAT INITIAL 10%.
IF YOU WENT UP TO THE 15% NUMBER IN THAT TWO YEARS LATER IN 2025, I'M GOING TO PAUSE THERE.
ARE THERE QUESTIONS ON THAT? AND THEN I CAN GET INTO WHAT THIS ACTUALLY MEANS IN TERMS OF REVENUE COUNCIL, KEEP GOING.
SO WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, UM, THE, UM, LIKE THE ROLLOUT PERIOD, UM, WHAT WAS THE, WHAT WAS THE BENEFIT I GUESS, OF, OF ROUND ROCK? AND IT SOUNDS LIKE ROUND ROCK AUSTIN, AND REALLY THERE'S DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT TIMES, DIFFERENT PERIODS OF MONTHS, BUT ROUND ROCK AUSTIN AND PFLUGERVILLE ALL HAD LIKE AN EXTENDED ROLLOUT.
YEAH, I THINK THAT WAS, UM, IT WAS INTERESTING CAUSE I THINK A LOT OF THOSE, UM, AGAIN, THEY ROUNDROCK WAS THE VERY KIND OF FIRST ONE ON THIS AREA.
THE NEXT CLOSEST PLACE THAT HAD THEM WAS NEW BRAUNFELS WHEN THEY WENT INTO THAT.
SO I THINK THERE WAS A LITTLE BIT OF A WE'LL WE'LL SEE WHAT HAPPENS.
LET'S GIVE IT A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME.
FO FOLKS AREN'T USED TO THIS AND THE REGION, UM, WHAT IT BASICALLY PRACTICALLY MEANS IS IT EXTENDS THE AMOUNT OF TIME IT'S GOING TO BE BEFORE YOU COLLECT THE DOLLARS OR GET, OR GET BUILT IMPROVEMENTS BASED ON THOSE DOLLARS.
SO, UH, REALLY WHAT IT DOES IS IT, IT REDUCES YOUR REVENUE OVER THAT 10 YEAR STUDY PERIOD.
UM, BUT I THINK THAT THE, IT WAS MORE OF A, KIND OF A COMPROMISE WITH FOLKS DEVELOPMENT THAT WERE CONCERNED ABOUT THE HEY I'M IN THE PROCESS OF DOING STUFF.
SO WHAT I WILL NOTE IS YOU'LL SEE A ROUND ROCK AND AUSTIN,
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IN THIS CASE, THEY DIDN'T HAVE THE EXEMPTIONS THAT WERE RECOMMENDED BY P AND Z.SO I THINK KIND OF WHAT WAS DONE WITH P AND Z IS MORE OF LIKE A HYBRID WHERE IT'S, HEY, LET'S START COLLECTING IN A YEAR.
SO WE HAVE REVENUE COME IN, BUT IF YOU'RE ALREADY IN THE PIPELINE, LET'S NOT MAKE THIS APPLY TO YOU.
YOU CAN KIND OF GO BY THE OLD RULES THAT YOU WERE UNDERNEATH IN YOUR DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENTS OR WHATEVER THE OLD SYSTEM WAS.
SO I THINK THAT'S KIND OF MAYBE THE LOGIC AND THE REASONING BEHIND P AND Z.
I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THEM, BUT THAT'S KIND OF WHAT I INTERPRETED IT AS IS MAYBE THAT'S A CLEAN KIND OF CUT SYSTEM WHERE YOU'RE LIKE, HERE'S KIND OF THE CUTOFF DATE FOR THE WHO'S IN THE CURRENT PIPELINE.
AND THEN LET'S JUST START ROLLING OUT IN A YEAR AND START GETTING COLLECTIONS ON THE NEW STUFF.
LET ME GO INTO THE REVENUE PROJECTIONS.
SO THIS IS A HELPFUL PIE CHART, AND I'M GOING TO EXPLAIN IT REAL QUICK.
UM, I MAY HAVE SHOWED IT PREVIOUSLY.
I'M TRYING TO REMEMBER, BUT, UM, WHAT THIS REPRESENTS THE FULL PIE, UH, IS THE, IS THE TEN-YEAR PROJECTED NEEDS FOR THE CITY AND THAT'S 392 MILLION AND TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE.
BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE FEE RATES, JUST TO BE VERY TRANSPARENT, THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT GET CUT OUT OF THAT OFF THE GET GO THAT YOU CAN'T COLLECT.
UM, THE FIRST ONE IS IN THE RED, UM, THAT IS THE EXISTING DEMAND ON THE ROADS.
THE WAY I SIMPLY SAY THAT AS YOU HAVE CERTAIN ROADS THAT HAVE TWO LANES TODAY, I NEED TO BECOME FOUR-LANE ROADS.
YOU CAN'T CHARGE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ON IT TODAY.
SO THAT'S ROUGHLY A THIRD OF THE PIE WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT THAT.
UM, THAT'S, THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE ABLE TO BE COLLECTED FROM AN IMPACT FEE PROGRAM LIKE THIS.
THERE'S ALSO A REQUIREMENT TO CALCULATE THE FUTURE PROPERTY TAX REVENUES, THE AD VALOREM TAXES OF THAT GROWTH IN THE NEXT 10 YEARS, BECAUSE THAT'S GOING TO COME INTO THE GENERAL REVENUE FUND FOR THE CITY THROUGH PROPERTY TAX.
UH, SO THAT'S ANOTHER CUT OF ABOUT A SIXTH OR SO, UH, 68 MILLION.
AND THEN, UH, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS WHEN WE DID THE MATH ON IT, ALMOST ALL OF THAT CAPACITY IS NEEDED BASED ON HOW FAST THE CITY'S GROWING.
SO THERE WASN'T THAT MUCH LEFT.
IT WAS A, IT WAS A PRETTY NOMINAL AMOUNT ABOUT 1% THAT WAS BEYOND 10 YEARS FOR, FOR FUTURE EXCESS CAPACITY.
SO WHAT I USUALLY TRY TO SAY IS TO MAKE IT REALLY SIMPLE, YOU'RE DECIDING WHERE THIS, THE BREAK POINT REALLY FALLS BETWEEN THE YELLOW AND THE GREEN.
YOU COULD COLLECT BOTH OF THOSE.
IF YOU WENT TO THE MAXIMUM, THAT'S WHAT THAT REPRESENTS, WHICH IS ABOUT HALF OF THE NEED.
AND THEN THE CURRENT RECOMMENDATION GOING TO THE NEXT SLIDE IS IT'S ABOUT ONE SIXTH OF THE NEED OR ABOUT 16%.
ISN'T REALLY WHAT IT COMES DOWN TO, OR ONE OUT OF EVERY SIX PROJECTS THAT YOU COULD BUILD WITH THIS, THE FUNDING THAT COMES FROM THIS THAT YOU HAPPEN TO MEET.
THAT'S WHAT THAT REPRESENTS, UH, FROM A SIMPLE STANDPOINT, UH, AND THEN FROM LIKE A PER YEAR BASIS, UM, GOING BACK TO THIS, THE PROJECTED REVENUES IS ROUGHLY ABOUT 6 MILLION PER YEAR.
UH, BUT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THAT, PEOPLE CAN BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE AS OPPOSED TO PAYING THE FEE AND GET CREDIT IF IT'S ON THE STUDY.
SO I DON'T ANTICIPATE THAT YOU WOULD EVER HIT THAT.
HAVE YOU SAID THE COLLECTION RATE THAT, UH, THE RECOMMENDATION FROM P AND Z, BECAUSE SOME OF IT HOPEFULLY WILL BECOME INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THEY BUILD THEMSELVES.
SO YOU WOULD DON'T EXPECT THAT AND RECEIPTS, BUT IN TERMS OF VALUE THAT COMES UNDER THE CITY, THAT'S WHAT THAT REPRESENTS.
UM, AND THEN THIS IS ANOTHER HELPFUL THING.
I THINK I MENTIONED A SECOND AGO, UH, ON COUNCIL MEMBERS.
OUR NEXT QUESTION WAS THE LONGER YOU PUT THE COLLECTION RATES OUT, THE LONGER IT TAKES FOR FEES TO START COMING IN.
AND THERE'S A RAMP UP TO, UM, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS IS, IS LIKE THE, THE REASON THAT 20, 23 IS ABOUT HALF AS MUCH AS BECAUSE IN THE FIRST YEAR YOU WOULDN'T START COLLECTING FOR THE FIRST SIX MONTHS.
HAVE YOU ADOPTED, UH, IN THREE WEEKS FROM NOW? AND THEN IT RAMPS UP INTO KIND OF MORE OF A STEADY STREAM.
THIS ISN'T PERFECT, OBVIOUSLY, LIKE IT MIGHT BE MORE, MORE OF A BELL CURVE, BUT JUST KIND OF MORE TO EXPLAIN THAT YOU WOULDN'T SEE THE 6 MILLION IN VALUE THE FIRST YEAR, IT MIGHT BE TWO, THREE OR FOUR YEARS UNTIL YOU START SEEING THAT IT KIND OF MID POINT OF THE TIMEFRAME.
UM, THE LAST THING I WAS GOING TO HIT ON WAS, UM, HOW DOES THIS ACTUALLY FUNCTIONALLY WORK IN THE ORDINANCE THAT YOU'LL SEE NEXT WEEK? SO WE HAD THAT, UM, UH, CHART THAT I WAS SHOWN WITH IS LIKE 200 SOMETHING DOLLARS IN THE LOWEST AREA UP TO 2200.
SO HOW DOES THAT GET CONVERTED? UH, THERE'S A BIG FAT CHART IS WHAT I LIKE TO CALL THIS, UH, IN THE STUDY IT'S CALLED THE LAND USE VEHICLE MILE EQUIVALENCY CHART AND WATER AND WASTEWATER.
IT'S REALLY NICE TO JUST HAVE A METER AND THE METER SETS THE RATE FOR TRANSPORTATION.
THAT'S COMPLICATED, CAUSE WE'D LIKE TO BE COMPLICATED.
AND, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S CONVERSION FACTORS BASICALLY IN THE STUDY THAT ARE IN THAT.
SO THAT'S HOW THAT WOULD GET APPLIED.
UM, THIS WAS THAT MAXIMUM FEE CHART.
SO THAT WILL BE IN THE ORDINANCE, UH, WHATEVER THE MAXIMUM FEES ARE THAT WOULD BE RELATED TO THE STUDY, YOU WOULD CONVERT THOSE BASED ON THE LAND USE FOR THE MAXIMUM FEE.
THEN THE COLLECTION RATES, AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW WOULD HAVE A RESIDENTIAL AND A NON-RESIDENTIAL AMOUNT, WHICH IS THAT PERCENTAGE OF THE MAXIMUM.
UM, ONE THING I WILL NOTE IS PART OF OUR SCOPE IS IF THIS DOES GET ADOPTED, WE WOULD CREATE A WORKSHEET FOR DEVELOPERS.
YOU CAN ACTUALLY SEE THOSE ON THE OTHER CITIES.
I MENTIONED THEY HAVE THOSE AS WELL ON THEIR WEBSITES AND IT MAKES IT REALLY SIMPLE FOR SOMEONE THAT'S DOING THEIR PERFORMANCE IS LOOKING AT A SITE THAT CAN JUST PLUG IN NUMBERS AND SEE WHAT THOSE FEES WOULD BE.
SO, UM, THAT'S IT QUESTIONS, DISCUSSION.
I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT, UM, WHEN YOU LOOKED AT OTHER CITIES THAT HAVE DONE THIS BEFORE AND HOW LONG THEY WAITED TO IMPLEMENT IT, DO YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT EFFECT THAT HAD ON THE APPLICATION PROCESS? BECAUSE I ASSUME THAT AS YOU GET CLOSE TO THAT DATE, THEY GET FLOODED AND I REALLY WANT TO PUT
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THIS INTO PLACE.IT'S FANTASTIC, BUT ALSO WE LOVE ROBIN AND WE DON'T WANT TO FLOOD THE DEPARTMENT.
SO I THINK, UM, THERE'S TWO SIDES TO THAT COIN FROM LIKE THE DEVELOPMENT APPLICATION SIDE AND THEN THE CITY IMPLEMENTATION SIDE.
SO WHAT I WILL SAY IS IF YOU REALLY TRY TO GO AGGRESSIVE, UM, LIKE I PFLUGERVILLE DID WHERE THEY SAID, HEY, HAVE YOU PREVIOUSLY APPLIED? YOU'VE GOT THREE MORE MONTHS.
AND THEN THEY STARTED COLLECTING PRETTY QUICK.
I DIDN'T GIVE A LOT OF TIME FOR THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, THE PLANNING AND ENGINEERING TO KIND OF GET READY TO START RECEIVING THESE.
CAUSE YOU HAVE TO SET UP ACCOUNTS.
YOU HAVE TO KNOW WHERE THOSE FEES GO TO KIND OF THE, WHAT YOU WERE SAYING.
AND SO, UM, WHAT WE'VE FOUND IS THAT WHEN YOU HAVE THE REGARDLESS OF PLAT STATUS, YOU KIND OF JUST HAVE IT, HEY, COLLECTIONS ALL START AT A CERTAIN TIME.
CAUSE IT'S LIKE, HEY EVERYBODY, JUST SO YOU KNOW, YOU CAN KIND OF SET IT UP AT YOUR, YOUR BUILDING OFFICIAL KIND OF FRONT OR ON YOUR PERMITTING SYSTEM AND SAY LIKE, THIS IS COMING AT X DAY AND KIND OF START LETTING PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT IT.
THAT'S THAT ONE SIDE OF THE COIN YOU WANT TO MAKE SURE THEY UNDERSTAND WHAT'S ABOUT TO HAPPEN.
UH, AND THEN FROM THE STAFF SIDE THAT GIVES YOU TIME TO GET SET UP INTERNALLY TO RECEIVE, COLLECT AND ADMINISTER THIS PROGRAM.
SO, BUT YEAH, I THINK THAT'S THE, THERE'S NO RIGHT ANSWER ON HOW LONG TO WAIT.
UM, BUT YEAH, IF YOU DO DO THE CLEAN CUT THAT YOU HAVE TO WAIT AT LEAST A YEAR BECAUSE OF THOSE STATE LAW.
SO THE MINIMUM IS ONE YEAR, UH, WE'VE SEEN FOLKS GO UP TO TWO OR EVEN LONGER IN SOME CASES.
BUT, UM, THE OTHER SIDE OF THAT IS THIS HAS TO BE RELOOKED AT EVERY FIVE YEARS ANYWAYS.
SO LIKE THAT'S KIND OF THE TOP END.
LIKE IF YOU WANTED TO BE LIKE WE'LL ADOPT, BUT WE'LL WAIT THAT DOESN'T REALLY, YOU KNOW, AT THAT POINT YOU'RE NOT COLLECTING ANYTHING.
SO DO YOU HAVE A RECOMMENDATION? I WOULD SAY, UM, IF YOU, IF YOU'RE WANTING TO GET IT GOING AND MAKE IT CLEAN, THAT'S I, I THINK P AND Z MAKES SENSE.
I ALSO LIKED THE FACT THAT FROM A ADMINISTRATIVE SIDE, THAT WITH ALL THE DEVELOPMENTS IN THE CURRENT PIPELINE, THEY JUST APPLIED THE OLD RULES.
THAT WAY THERE'S NOT CONFUSION FROM THEM.
AND I THINK THAT THAT'S WHAT I LIKED ABOUT IT WAS THAT THEY ACKNOWLEDGE THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN MAKING DEALS AND FIGURING STUFF OUT ON NUMBERS.
THAT'S NOT GOING TO CHANGE MIDSTREAM.
THAT'S WHERE WE HEAR THE MOST COMPLAINTS FROM THE DEVELOPMENT SIDE.
IS THIS CHANGE MIDSTREAM ON ME.
I DIDN'T HAVE THE FINANCING READY TO GO FOR THAT, THAT IMPACTED MY SITE.
SO I THINK THAT'S HONESTLY A PRETTY GOOD, HAPPY COMPROMISE.
I JUST HAVE A COMMENT OR QUESTION ABOUT FUTURE PLANNING IN REGARDS TO THIS.
SO DOING IT EVERY FIVE YEARS, I'LL ASK YOU BOTH.
UM, DO YOU THINK IT'S FEASIBLE TO INCORPORATE THIS IN THE COMP PLAN AND, AND LIKE, DO IT SOONER, LIKE DO IT NOW OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER AND THEN REVIEW IT AGAIN AT OUR NEXT COMP PLAN AND THAT WAY IT KIND OF, IT DOES HAVE TO DO WITH THE FUTURE PLANNING.
SEE ALL THE STAFF THAT THE COMP PLAN AND THE TRANSPORTATION PIECE WERE DONE RIGHT BEFORE.
THAT'S ACTUALLY THE BEST WAY TO DO IT IS IF YOU GET ON A CYCLE, YOU KIND OF HAVE ALREADY DONE THAT.
HADN'T HAD WORKED, AND THERE'S NOT A LOT OF EXTRA EFFORT WHEN YOU DO THE UPDATES BECAUSE YOU KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THE INPUTS ARE AT THAT POINT.
SO IN ESSENCE, YOU COULD BE SET ON A FIVE FIVE-YEAR CYCLE AT THAT POINT.
THEY KIND OF FOLLOW EACH OTHER NATURALLY.
SO, SO YES, INCORPORATE THEM ALL TOGETHER OR DO ONE THAN THE OTHER.
SO WE'RE DOING IT THE RIGHT WAY.
THIS IS JUST THE CLOTH CLARIFICATION ON THE FIRST QUESTION.
UM, SO THERE WAS WITH THE P AND Z RECOMMENDATION CAN GIVE, THERE WAS, YES, IT'S NOT AS LONG AS ROUND ROCK, IT SOUNDS AROUND SOME OF THESE OTHER THINGS, BUT THERE'S ALSO EXCEPTIONS THAT WERE NOT INCLUDED IN THOSE.
SO IT WAS LONGER ROLLOUT, BUT THERE'S BUT THE EXCEPTIONS ARE GONE.
GEORGETOWN WAS THE FIRST ONE TO INCLUDE THOSE EXCEPTIONS.
THAT'S KIND OF MAYBE WHERE THAT WAS DRAWN FROM.
UM, AND THEN DROWN ROCK ALSO HAD TWO YEARS AND TIED IT TO THE PRELIMINARY PLAT INSTEAD OF FINAL PLOT.
SO THAT WAS, YEAH, IT WAS KIND OF IN BETWEEN THE TWO FROM THE TWO KIND OF SCHOOLS.
AND REMIND ME THE RECOMMENDATION WAS TO DO THE MAXIMUM THAT THEY CAME UP WITH.
NO, SO THEY, THE, THE, THEY WANTED TO GO WITH HALF OF THE MAXIMUM FOR RESIDENTIAL AND 10% OF THE MAXIMUM FOR, FOR COMMERCIAL.
SO, UM, ON THE RESIDENTIAL, UH, MY TAKE ON IT WAS IS THAT THERE DOESN'T NEED TO BE AN INCENTIVE FOR, FOR THAT JUST BECAUSE OF THE AMOUNT OF RESIDENTIAL WE ARE GETTING ALREADY IN CONTINUING TO SEE, WHEREAS THERE'S NOT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DOLLARS TO BE ABLE TO MAKE DEALS FOR LIKE COMMERCIAL.
AND THERE'S A DESIRE FOR THAT.
SO SETTING IT LOWER AND EVEN LOWER FROM THE COLLECTION SIDE THAN THE REGIONAL MA MAYBE ENOUGH OF AN INCENTIVE TO HAVE SOMEONE PICK UP AND RECITE OVER ANOTHER CITY.
BUT WHEN ON RESIDENTIAL BEING AT 50% OF MAXIMUM, WOULDN'T THAT INCENTIVIZE RESIDENTIAL THOUGH, INSTEAD OF JUST GOING WITH THE MAXIMUM AND WE CAN, IT COULD, UM, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IS, UM, WHEN YOU GO WITH A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE MAXIMUM, ONE THING I WOULD SAY ABOUT BAT IS IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER CODE REQUIREMENTS RELATED TO TRANSPORTATION, SO IT'S LIKE,
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HEY, YOU NEED TO DEDICATE AND BUILD A ROAD HERE.YOU CAN'T, YOU GO OVER A HUNDRED PERCENT OF ANY, ANYTHING ELSE COMES UP IN THE CODE, THEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH A PROPORTIONALITY ISSUE, THE STATE LAW.
SO AT THAT TIME, AND IT'S LIKE, OKAY, NOW SITES START BECOMING NEGOTIATIONS OF WHAT DO WE ACTUALLY WANT? WE WANT THE RIGHT OF WAY THREE MONTHS A ROAD, THAT KIND OF STUFF STARTS COMING INTO PLAY SAFETY BUFFER.
AND I THINK A LOT OF FOLKS START OUT AT 50 AND THEN GO UP OR DOWN BASED ON HOW IT GOES FROM THERE.
UH, AS, AS MAYBE KIND OF LIKE, HEY, LET'S SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE, START THERE AND THEN SEE HOW IT WORKS OUT.
IT'S KIND OF WHAT THE INITIAL RECOMMENDATION COMES OUT TO.
SO COUNSEL, WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MAKING ANY DECISIONS RIGHT NOW? RIGHT? HOW ARE WE GIVING GUIDANCE? YES.
I MEAN, SO LIKE THE, THE ONLY FEEDBACK THAT I'VE GOTTEN IS, UH, YOU KNOW, FROM STAKEHOLDERS, I GUESS, WOULD BE THAT THE, AS FAR AS THE ACTUAL FEES THEMSELVES AND THAT IT SEEMED LIKE THAT THAT ALREADY BEEN PRETTY WELL HASHED OUT.
IT WAS, MOST OF IT WAS HOW DOES IT GET ROLLED OUT AND WHAT'S THE BEST WAY TO DO IT.
AND SO THAT'S WHY I WAS ASKING A COUPLE OF THOSE QUESTIONS JUST TO SEE, I WANTED TO KNOW FROM OUR STANDPOINT, W WHAT WENT ON IN SOME OF THOSE MEETINGS AND HOW DID THOSE THINGS COME UP TO COME UP WITH THOSE? FOR THE, I DIDN'T QUITE GET TO IT FOR LIKE, SUFFERING HER, I THINK FOR ROUND ROCK AND GEORGETOWN, THE P AND Z RECOMMENDATIONS WERE LESS TIME.
AND THEN THERE WAS KIND OF A COMPROMISE MADE FROM REQUESTS FROM THE DEVELOPER COMMUNITY.
AND THEY KIND OF SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE OF LIKE, HEY, WE'LL INCREASE THAT A LITTLE BIT AS A GIFT AT THE, AT THE END STAGES.
SO THAT, THAT DID HAPPEN IN OTHER PLACES.
ANYTHING ELSE? IS THERE ANYTHING YOU NEED FROM US OR DO YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE GOT THE FEEDBACK? YEAH.
THE FEEDBACK WE NEED, UH, UNLESS Y'ALL WANT TO SEE THINGS DIFFERENTLY, WE'LL PROBABLY HAVE THIS BAKED INTO WHATEVER ORDINANCE COMES ON THE SEVENTH.
SO IF YOU WANT TO MAKE CHANGES, THEN OBVIOUSLY THAT'S Y'ALL'S PURVIEW, BUT JUST WANTED TO GET KIND OF THE DIALOGUE AND HAVE YOU WELL INFORMED WHEN WE COME BACK ON THE SEVENTH FURTHER FINAL THOUGHTS.
WITH THAT, WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN THE BRIEFING WORKSHOP AT 6:28 PM.
PLEASE BE BACK AT SEVEN O'CLOCK FOR A REGULAR MEETING.
[4. Open Meeting, Invocation and Pledges of Allegiance.]
TODAY IS JUNE 16TH, 2022.AND THIS IS A REGULAR MEETING OF THE LANDER CITY COUNCIL, PASTOR BEN WRIGHT OF CEDAR POINT BAPTIST CHURCH AND LANDER YOUTH SOCCER.
WE'LL BE PROVIDING OUR INVOCATION.
PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE PASTOR.
WE THANK YOU FOR THESE CHILDREN THAT YOU HAVE PUT UNDER OUR CARE THAT WE WILL RECOGNIZE TONIGHT.
WE THANK YOU FOR THE GIFTS THAT THEY ARE TO THIS COMMUNITY.
WE THANK YOU FOR HOW OUR CITY COUNCIL FOR HOW OUR SOCCER ASSOCIATION LEADERS FOR JANE AND OTHER VOLUNTEERS HAVE WORKED TOGETHER TO CREATE A PLACE FOR THEM TO PLAY AND TO LEARN FATHER, WE PRAY THAT YOU WOULD GRANT IT TO OUR CHILDREN TO LEARN CRUCIAL SKILLS OF, OF COOPERATION, OF HUMILITY, OF RESPECT AND CARE FOR ONE ANOTHER, HELP THEM TO PREPARE FOR LEADERSHIP IN THIS COMMUNITY.
AND MAY WE PROTECT THEM FROM EVERY THREAT THAT WOULD COME AGAINST THEM? FATHER IS WE AS A CITY CELEBRATE JUNETEENTH.
THIS SUNDAY HELP US TO LEARN ABOUT UNRIGHTEOUSNESS AND INJUSTICE IN OUR HISTORY.
HELP US TO FEAR YOU, TO UNDERSTAND YOUR JUSTICE, TO REPENT OF UNRIGHTEOUSNESS IN OUR HEARTS, AND TO SEEK FORGIVENESS FROM YOU THROUGH THE WAY YOU'VE MADE.
WE THANK YOU LORD, FOR THE MEN AND WOMEN YOU'VE PLACED IN AUTHORITY IN OUR CITY.
WE ASK THAT YOU GRANT WISDOM TO MAYOR, TO OUR CITY COUNCIL, TO OUR CITY MANAGER AND STAFF AND OUR OTHER PUBLIC SERVANTS.
MAY THEY RESPECT YOU AND HONOR YOU IN THEIR WORK, GUIDE THEM IN THEIR WORK TO ADVANCE THE WELLBEING OF OUR CITY.
WE ASKED THAT YOU WOULD PROTECT THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PUT THEMSELVES IN HARM'S WAY ON A REGULAR BASIS ON OUR BEHALF, HELP US AS A CITY TO GIVE ALL OF THESE MEN AND WOMEN, THE RESPECT AND GRATITUDE THAT THEY ARE.
DO WE PRAY THESE THINGS IN JESUS NAME? AMEN.
THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, LIBERTY AND JUSTICE WORLD HONOR.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXTURES.
[5. Roll Call.]
CRABTREE, PLEASE CALL ROLL.COUNCIL MEMBER CATHERINE BATTALION PARKER HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER, JASON SHAW HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER, NICOLE THOMPSON, PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER, CHRIS SARDONIC, MAYOR PRETEND BECKY ROSS, MAYOR CHRISTINE TO LA HERE.
QUORUM IS PRESENT AND THE CITY COUNCILS ELIGIBLE TO DO BUSINESS.
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SIX IS NOT AGENDA ITEM, PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR ITEMS ON THE AGENDA.I WILL CALL ON PEOPLE WHO HAVE SUBMITTED CARDS IN ADVANCE.
WHEN THE AGENDA ITEM COMES UP, THIS IS A TIME FOR ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA IS NOT TIME THAT WE HAVE BACK AND FORTH.
JUST THE TIME FOR YOU TO SPEAK.
I DON'T HAVE ANYBODY WHO SUBMITTED ANY CARDS TO SPEAK TONIGHT.
WAS THERE ANYBODY WHO DID WANT TO SPEAK? ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON TO ITEM SEVEN,
[7. Recognitions/Proclamations/Visitors. Leander Youth Soccer Proclamation Juneteenth Proclamation]
RECOGNIZE RECOGNITIONS, PROCLAMATIONS AND VISITORS ARE FIRST IS FOR LAND OR YOUTH SOCCER.IF MS. SERNA, YOU COULD PLEASE COME UP.
UM, I WANTED TO DO THIS PROCLAMATION BECAUSE WE SHOULD RECOGNIZE ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR THIS COMMUNITY.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DON'T KNOW THE SOCCER FIELDS AT BLEDSOE PARK ARE NAMED AFTER MS. SERNA AND HER LATE HUSBAND WHO STARTED LEANDRA YOUTH SOCCER.
HOW MANY YEARS AGO WAS 20, 20 YEARS AGO.
AND YOU HAVE PROVIDED AN OUTLET FOR THOUSANDS OF KIDS IN OUR CITY.
UM, AND SOME OF THOSE KIDS HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO A LOT OF EXTRACURRICULARS AND YOU ALWAYS MADE SURE THAT IT HAPPENED.
AND, UM, I LOVE THE WAY THAT YOU HAVE WORKED WITH THE CITY.
I THINK THAT YOU ARE A MODEL FOR OUR RESIDENTS, AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK WITH YOU FOR AS LONG AS YOU WANT TO DO THIS.
SO, UH, IT'S AN HONOR FOR ME TODAY TO PRESENT YOU WITH THIS CERTIFICATE OF COMMENDATION, LET IT BE KNOWN THAT LEANDER FC YOUTH SOCCER IS RECOGNIZED BY THE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL OF LEANDER, TEXAS FOR OUTSTANDING ACCOMPLISHMENTS DURING THE 2021 SEASON AS A PROGRAM OF 646 PLAYERS THAT EXCELLED ALL SEASON LONG AND MORE THAN 100 COMMUNITY MEMBERS, WE ACKNOWLEDGED THE COUNTLESS HOURS OF HARD WORK AND OUTSTANDING EFFORT SHARED AMONG ALL TEAM MEMBERS, COACHES, VOLUNTEERS, AND THEIR FAMILIES.
THIS CERTIFICATE IS ISSUED IN RECOGNITION THEREOF ON THIS DAY, JUNE 16TH, 2022.
DID YOU WANT TO TALK AT ALL ABOUT THE PROGRAM? SORRY.
YEAH, IT'S HARD NOT TO, UH, PASS UP A CHANCE TO TALK ABOUT OUR SOCCER PROGRAM.
UM, WE'RE JUST EXCITED TO HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE HOME FIELDS IN LEANDER.
I KNOW WHEN WE HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE IN IN-HOUSE TEAMS AND THEN HOME AND AWAY TEAMS, WHEN THE AWAY TEAMS COME TO VISIT, THEY'RE ALWAYS ASTONISHED AT THE QUALITY OF THE FIELDS AND HOW WELL MAINTAINED THEY ARE.
AND, UM, WE'RE JUST REALLY PROUD OF BEING ABLE TO PLAY AT BLEDSOE PARK AND WE'RE EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO SERVE THE CITY.
AND, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE 20, WE HOPE IS JUST A START AND WE HOPE THAT WILL DOUBLE IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.
SO IF YOU GET BORED, HELP US OUT, BUT OH, AND THERE'S SO MANY PEOPLE IN GREEN SHIRTS HERE TODAY.
AND WHEN DOES YOUR NEXT SEASON START? UM, WE HAVE A CAMP IN AUGUST 1ST WEEK OF AUGUST.
UM, THERE'S A SPLASH PAD NEARBY.
JUST TAKE OFF THE CLEATS BEFORE YOU GO.
UM, THE SEASON STARTS THE FIRST WEEKEND IN SEPTEMBER, SEPTEMBER 10TH, AND WE GO THROUGH MID NOVEMBER AND WE START UP AGAIN LATE FEBRUARY AND REMIND ME ON REGISTRATION.
IS THAT THROUGH OUR WEBSITE OR YOURS? NO.
WE HAVE A WEBSITE IT'S LEANDER, FC.COM.
SO YOU CAN SIGN UP THERE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, LIKE I'LL HELP YOU.
YOU WANT TO COME UP FOR A PITCHER?
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THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH UP NEXT.WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION FOR JUNETEENTH PRESENTED BY COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON.
WHEREAS JUNE 19TH, 1865 MAJOR GENERAL GORDON GRANGER ARRIVED IN GALVESTON, TEXAS TO ANNOUNCE THE END OF THE CIVIL WAR AND SLAVERY IN ACCORDANCE WITH PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
AND IN 1866, TEXANS BEGAN CELEBRATING JUNE 19TH, ALSO KNOWN AS A MANSA PATIEN DAY, FREEDOM DAY AND JUNETEENTH NATIONAL INDEPENDENCE DAY WITH COMMUNITY CENTRIC EVENTS, SUCH AS COOKOUTS, PRAYER, GATHERINGS, READINGS, AND MUSICAL PERFORMANCES.
AND IN 1980 THROUGH THE EFFORTS OF STATE REPRESENTATIVE OWL EDWARDS, AND AFRICAN-AMERICAN THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE DESIGNATING EMANCIPATION DAY IN TEXAS AS A STATE HOLIDAY, THE FIRST COMMEMORATION OF EMANCIPATION ACCORDED OFFICIAL STATE RECOGNITION AND JUNETEENTH MARKS OUR NATION SECOND INDEPENDENCE DAY AND IS A FEDERAL HOLIDAY OBSERVED IN APPRECIATION OF THE AFRICAN-AMERICAN EXPERIENCE AND TO CELEBRATE BLACK HERITAGE AND ACHIEVEMENT WHILE ENCOURAGING CONTINUOUS REFLECTION AND RESPECT FOR ALL CULTURES.
AND ON SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2022, THE CITY OF LEANDER WILL INVITE COMMUNITY RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN THE CITY'S FIRST EVER SPECIAL EVENT IN RECOGNITION AND CELEBRATION OF JUNETEENTH AND OLD TOWN LEANDER.
NOW, THEREFORE I MAY, OR CHRISTINE DELISLE DO HEREBY RECOGNIZE SATURDAY, JUNE 18TH, 2022.
UM, AS THE CITY OF LEANDER INAUGURAL JUNETEENTH JUBILEE AND WITNESS THEREOF, I HAVE HERE TO SET MY HAND AND CAUSE THE SEAL OF THE CITY OF LEANDRA TO BE A FIXED ON JUNE 16TH, 2022.
WE DO HAVE A FEW PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT, UM, FOR OUR PROCLAMATION TODAY, THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON THE PLANNING COMMITTEE TO HELP BRING THIS EVENT TO THE CITY, UM, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY IN THE CITY TO LEARN WHAT JUNETEENTH IS ABOUT AND TO COME OUT AND PARTICIPATE.
SO I'M THANKFUL TO THEM FOR ALL THEIR WORK OVER THE LAST, I DON'T KNOW, FOUR MONTHS SINCE FEBRUARY, AND ALSO TO ALL THE CITY STAFF, THAT'S WORKED REALLY HARD AND DILIGENTLY AND BLAKE AND HIS TEAM FOR GETTING THIS EVENT TOGETHER AND MAKING IT HAPPEN AND OF COURSE, TO COUNCIL FOR SUPPORTING IT.
AND IF Y'ALL WANT TO COME UP FOR THE PICTURE THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYBODY WHO CAME OUT AND ON BOTH OF THESE PROCLAMATIONS, IT JUST STRUCK ME THAT, UM, THE UNSUNG HEROES YOU KIND OF DID, DID MENTION IT THOUGH, IS PARKS WHO PUTS UP WITH ALL OF THE CRAZY SCHEDULING OF SOCCER SEASONS AND ALL OF THE EVENTS.
AND SO, UM, LET'S JUST TAKE A SECOND AND RECOGNIZE OUR AMAZING PARK STAFF CAUSE THERE'S A BUNCH OF THEM IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT.
SO THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THAT YOU DO AND GIVING OUR LANDER RESIDENTS A REALLY GREAT QUALITY OF LIFE.
[8. Leander History]
EIGHT, LEANDER HISTORY WITH HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION, VICE CHAIR, HOWL.UH, MY PRESENTATION THIS EVENING IS ON JUNE 10TH, WHICH, UM, AS A COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON SAID IN THE PROCLAMATION, IT DID BEGIN HERE IN TEXAS AND IT DID BEGIN HERE JUNE 19TH, 1865 IN GALVESTON.
AND THE PICTURE THAT I HAVE HERE IS ABSOLUTELY QUALITY.
IT'S A MURAL THAT WAS DEDICATED LAST YEAR ON JUNETEENTH TO CELEBRATE
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THE EVENT OF GENERAL GORDON GRANGER ARRIVING IN TEXAS.AND TO GIVE YOU A SCALE OF HOW LARGE THIS MURAL IS, THOSE DOORS AT THE BOTTOM HERE, WHERE WHICHEVER BUTTON THAT IS, UM, RIGHT HERE, THOSE ARE NORMAL OUTDOOR DOORS.
SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT MURAL IS A VERY, VERY LARGE MURAL AND IT GIVES THE HISTORY IN A PICTORIAL HISTORY OF THE EVENTS THAT OCCURRED IN TEXAS FOR US TO REACH JUNETEENTH IN 1865.
AND THAT IS A REPRESENTATION OF GENERAL GORDON RIGHT THERE, GORDON GRANGER, EXCUSE ME.
I KEEP CALLING GORDON HE'S GREAT GORDON GRANGER.
WE START WITH THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION.
FOR THOSE OF US THAT REALLY LIKE TO STUDY HISTORY, THE EMAN SUNPRO, THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION IS A DOCUMENT THAT YOU CAN GO DOWN A RABBIT HOLE AND STUDY FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE AND STILL NOT UNDERSTAND IT COMPLETELY.
IT IS ONE OF THE MOST COMPLICATED DOCUMENTS EVER ISSUED IN THE UNITED STATES.
IT AFFECTED THE WORLD, UM, ALMOST IMMEDIATELY.
AND IT HAS MADE VERY DEEP INROADS IN HOW OUR GOVERNMENT WORKS STARTING.
THIS IS ONE OF THE VERY FIRST, UM, EDICTS THAT WAS ISSUED BY THE COMMANDER IN CHIEF DURING WAR TIMES.
SO IT GAVE THE FOUNDATION FOR ALL OF THOSE THINGS.
IT ALSO GAVE THE FOUNDATION FOR EXECUTIVE ORDERS IN GOVERNMENT.
UM, THE DOCUMENT WAS ACTUALLY WRITTEN IN THE SUMMER OF 1862.
UM, LINCOLN PRESENTED IT TO HIS CABINET AND THE CABINET DECIDED THAT THE BEST THING TO DO WOULD BE TO WAIT UNTIL THERE WAS A UNION VICTORY.
WELL, THE UNION V VICTORY DIDN'T COME, BUT THEY GOT VERY CLOSE AT ANTIETAM.
SO THAT WAS IN SEPTEMBER OF 1862 AND LINCOLN RELEASED HIS INITIAL, UH, THE INITIAL PROCLAMATION.
HE OFFICIALLY RELEASED IT JANUARY 1ST, 1863.
IT DID BECOME A TURNING POINT IN THE CIVIL WAR, BUT THERE WAS A PROBLEM.
IT ONLY FREED THE SLAVES AND CONFEDERATE STATES.
IT DID NOT FREE THE PEOPLE IN THE UNION, UNFORTUNATELY.
UM, BUT IT DID ALLOW ALMOST 200,000 BLACK MEN TO JOIN THE UNION ARMY, WHICH WAS A MAJOR TURNING POINT IN THE CIVIL WAR.
AND THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT POINT LATER ON BECAUSE THAT BRINGS IN MAJOR GENERAL GORDON GRANGER.
UM, IT IS NO MISTAKE THAT GENERAL GRANGER CAME TO GALVESTON AT THE TIME IN 1865, GALVESTON WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY OUTSIDE OF NEW ORLEANS.
AND THEN FROM NEW ORLEANS, YOU WENT TO NEW YORK.
GALVESTON WAS THE GATEWAY TO GET TO NOT JUST TEXAS, BUT THE ENTIRE WESTERN UNITED STATES.
EVERY THING THAT CAME TO THE WEST CAME TO GALVESTON FIRST.
SO HE CHOSE THAT LOCATION VERY, VERY, UM, VERY, VERY CAREFULLY.
SO ON JUNE 10TH, GENERAL GRANGER CAME AND HE ISSUED GENERAL ORDER.
NUMBER THREE IS WHAT ACTUALLY EMANCIPATED ALL THE SLAVES IN THE UNITED STATES.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL ORIGINAL, AND IT WAS WRITTEN BY FW EMERY AND HIS VERY PRETTY, VERY FLOWERY HANDWRITING.
AND HE WAS THE, UM, ADJUTANT GENERAL, HIS SECRETARY.
AND HE'S THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY WROTE IT.
HERE IS THE, IN THE PAPER AT THE TIME IN 1865, THE WORD GOT ACROSS VIA THE PAPER.
WE DIDN'T HAVE THE INTERNET, WE DIDN'T HAVE PHONES.
WE DIDN'T HAVE TELEGRAPH OF VERY FEW TELEGRAPHS.
UH, EVERYTHING WENT WORD OF MOUTH OR THE PRINTED WORD.
AND THE NEWSPAPER WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING.
THE GALVESTON TRI WEEKLY NEWS, BECAUSE GALVESTON WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT CITY.
THE TRI-WEEKLY NEWS WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT PAPER FOR THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
AND THIS ORDER IS WHAT EVERYONE USED TO FIND OUT THAT THEY WERE FREED.
GETTING A LITTLE MORE LOCAL HERE IS A JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION IN 1900.
LOOK HOW THESE PEOPLE ARE DRESSED TO THE NINES AND IT'S IN JUNE 19TH.
I CAN NOT EVEN IMAGINE HOW HOT THEY ARE.
AUSTIN STARTED HAVING, WE TRIED HAVING A CELEBRATION IN 1866 HERE.
UM, BUT THERE WERE VERY FEW FREED SLAVES TO CELEBRATE.
SO THE CELEBRATION, THERE WAS A CELEBRATION IN GALVESTON AND IN HOUSTON, AND THAT'S WHERE THE CELEBRATIONS WENT UNTIL 1872
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IN 1872.THE CELEBRATIONS CAME BACK TO AUSTIN AND, UM, THEY WERE HELD IN ROSEWOOD PARK AND I THINK THERE ARE, THEY STILL HELD THERE.
SO SINCE 1872, WE'VE HAD CELEBRATIONS THERE.
AND THIS PICTURE HERE IS OF THE SOLS FAMILY.
I'VE MENTIONED THE SOLS BEFORE THE SOLS, UH, ISRAEL SOLS WAS ONE OF THE ORIGINAL LAND GRANT RECIPIENTS HERE IN LEANDER.
AND THESE ARE HIS, THE, THE TWO OLDER GENTLEMEN OR HIS GRANDSONS.
AND THOSE ARE HIS GREAT GRANDCHILDREN, THE GIRLS THERE.
AND, UM, EXCUSE ME, THE, THE GIRLS, THEY HAVE A GROUP IS CALLED LITTLE JUBILEES AND THERE'S THREE OF THEM STILL LIVING.
AND THEY STILL SING AT CHRISTMAS AND JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION IN GEORGETOWN, WHICH BY THE WAY, IS CELEBRATING THEIR 75TH CELEBRATION THIS YEAR.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. HELL ALL RIGHT.
[9. Staff Reports City Facilities Update Public Works Update]
STAFF REPORTS.FIRST, WE HAVE THE CITY FACILITIES UPDATE WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR GOODMAN.
SO WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT THE FACILITIES PLAN, BUT SPECIFICALLY FOCUS ON CITY HALL.
AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF REASONS FOR THAT WHICH WE'LL GET INTO, UH, BUT FIRST WE'RE GOING TO REFRESH AND LOOK AT THE OVERVIEW OF FINDINGS FROM THE FACILITIES PLAN.
UH, THEN WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHY CITY HALL MAKES SENSE, UH, WHAT WE SHOULD FOCUS ON FIRST FROM A STAFF PERSPECTIVE, UM, SPACE REQUIREMENTS FOR THAT FACILITY AND THE MIXTURE OF CITY FUNCTIONS OF WHAT DEPARTMENTS WOULD GO INTO A CITY HALL AND THEN A POTENTIAL STEP AS AN RFQ FOR ARCHITECTURAL AND PLANNING SERVICES TO ACTUALLY PLAN, UM, THE NEXT STEPS.
SO THAT OVERVIEW IS WE HIRED BRW.
THEY STARTED IN MAY AND WAS ABOUT A SEVEN MONTH PROCESS, WHICH ENDED IN NOVEMBER LAST YEAR, THEY MET WITH ALL THE CITY DEPARTMENTS.
UH, THEY SPOKE TO THEM ABOUT THEIR EXISTING NEEDS AND THEIR FUTURE NEEDS.
SO NOT JUST WHO WE HAVE NOW PLANNING 20, 30 YEARS INTO THE FUTURE.
UM, WE ALSO LOOKED AT STAFFING LEVELS AGAIN, UP TO ABOUT 250,000 RESIDENTS, WHICH IS WHAT WE PROJECT OUR BUILD-OUT POPULATION.
CITY HALL WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1985.
SO THAT'S ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AFTER WE INCORPORATED, UH, TO GIVE YOU SOME PERSPECTIVE THAT WE'RE ABOUT 16 TIMES LARGER THAN WE WERE WHEN CITY HALL WAS BUILT.
SO NOT DOUBLE OR TRIPLE 16, THE SIZE OF THE CITY BACK THEN, UH, WE'VE HAD MULTIPLE REMODELS OF THE CITY HALL.
UH, IT WAS ORIGINALLY HOW'S THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DEVELOPMENT SERVICES AND OTHER CITY HALL FUNCTIONS ALL IN ONE BUILDING.
UH, PAT BRYSON, WHERE WE ARE NOW WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 2002 AND IT WASN'T FIRE STATION.
SO A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T KNOW THAT YOU CAN SEE THE BAY DOORS AND WE'VE HAD A LOT OF WORK.
THAT'S BEEN GONE TO EXPAND THE SPACE OVER TIME.
AND WE MOST RECENTLY RENTED IT IN 2018.
UM, SO SOME OF THE KEY FINDINGS ARE THAT CITY HALL AND THE PAT BRYSON COMPLEX FOR B ARE CLOSE TO NEARING CAPACITY.
UH, IF YOU COME TONIGHT, YOU CAN NOTICE THAT IT'S A LITTLE HARD TO FIND A PARKING SPOT SOMETIMES.
SO, UM, IT CAN BE DIFFICULT AT TIMES.
UH, WE HAVE A LACK OF AVAILABLE CONFERENCE ROOMS JUST BECAUSE THE CONFERENCE ROOMS WE USED TO HAVE, WE'VE KIND OF CUT UP AND TURNED INTO OFFICES JUST TO MAKE, DO FOR SPACE.
UH, SO WHY ARE WE LOOKING AT CITY HALL FIRST? UH, THE WAY THAT WE THINK OF IT, IT'S KIND OF THE FIRST DOMINO THAT HAS TO FALL IN ORDER TO MAKE DECISIONS ON WHAT OTHER FACILITIES CAN SLIDE INTO SPACE.
SO, UM, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT, IF WE DO BUILD A NEW CITY HALL THAT WOULD FREE UP THIS BUILDING, THE, UH, CITY HALL BUILDING, AND THEN OTHER USES COULD GO THERE AND IT KIND OF SHIFTS THINGS AROUND AND WE HAVE SOME OTHER DETAILS ABOUT WHERE THINGS COULD GO.
UM, BUT JUST TONIGHT, WE'RE FOCUSING ON THE CITY HALL.
UH, SO THE RECOMMENDED SIZE, THEY DID LOOK AT MULTIPLE OPTIONS.
ONE WAS A LITTLE BIT LARGER AND INCLUDED PARKS AND RECREATION IN THE BUILDING.
WE THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE BEST TO FOCUS ON THE DIFFERENT USES, WHICH WE'LL SHOW ON THE NEXT SLIDE, UH, WHICH ONE HAS ABOUT 276 EMPLOYEES IN A 98,000 SQUARE FOOT BUILDING.
UH, TO JUST KIND OF GIVE YOU A LOOK OF WHAT THAT WOULD BE.
YOU HAVE A COURT COUNCIL CHAMBERS, WHICH WE'RE IN NOW, UM, PLANNING DEPARTMENT BUILDING INSPECTIONS, AND YOU KIND OF GO THROUGH THE LIST.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE ENVISION IS FITTING WITHIN THAT ONE ROOFTOP, UH, THE ARCHITECTURE FIRM WOULD CALCULATE THE COST OF CONSTRUCTING A CITY HALL IN TWO PRIMARY LOCATIONS.
SO A DENSE, MIXED USE ENVIRONMENT LIKE NORTH LINE OR A GREENFIELD SITE, UM, AND WHY THOSE COSTS COULD CHANGE AS THE DENSITY IS ONE, AFTER GOING IN NORTHLAND WOULD HAVE TO BE A MULTI-STORY BUILDING JUST TO FIT ON THE SIZE OF A DENSE DEVELOPMENT.
UM, WHEREAS IF YOU BUILT AN A GREENFIELD SITE, IT COULD BE A ONE-STORY FACILITY.
THAT'S A LITTLE BIT LARGER OF A FLOOR PLAN, BUT NOT HIGH, UM, MATERIALS.
THERE ARE SOME REQUIREMENTS IN SOME OF THOSE MIXED USE DEVELOPMENTS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE A HIGHER BUILDING STANDARD.
SO IT LOOKED A LITTLE BIT NICER AND POTENTIALLY COST MORE PARKING, WHETHER IT'S SURFACE, LIKE WHAT WE HAVE HERE CURRENTLY, OR PARKING GARAGE, SO STRUCTURED AND THEN DIFFERENT UTILITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO SOME SITES MAY NOT HAVE UTILITIES NEARBY AND COULD BE EXPENSIVE TO EXTEND.
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STEPS THAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING A STAFF IS TO ISSUE AN RFQ.AND THE REASON THAT WE WANT TO DO THAT IS BECAUSE IT'S A FAIR AND TRANSPARENT WAY TO AWARD THAT CONTRACT.
THIS IS A FACILITY THAT'S GOING TO HAVE A LIFESPAN OF OVER 50 YEARS.
SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT IT'S DONE RIGHT.
WE DON'T WANT TO RUSH THE PROCESS OR AWARD TO A FIRM.
THAT'S NOT GONNA DO THE BEST JOB.
SO WE WANT TO OPEN IT UP, UH, TO ALL THE DIFFERENT FIRMS THAT HAVE THE HIGHEST QUALIFICATIONS TO DO THIS FOR US.
AND AGAIN, THEY'RE GOING TO LOOK AT TWO DIFFERENT SCENARIOS THAT MIXED USE ENVIRONMENT INTO A GREENFIELD SITE.
UM, IT WOULD ALSO POTENTIALLY INCLUDE OPPORTUNITIES FOR ENGAGEMENT WITH LANDER RESIDENTS.
WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HEAR FROM RESIDENTS, WHAT THEY WANT IN THE CITY HALL, SINCE WE WORK FOR THEM, WE WANT TO HEAR FROM THEM WHAT THEY ENVISION AS A FIT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PROVIDE YOU WITH THE MATERIALS AND FACTS.
YOU NEED TO MAKE A GOOD DECISION ABOUT WHAT WE WANT AS A COMMUNITY, WHETHER IT'S IN A MIXED USE ENVIRONMENT, OR IT'S A MORE OF A SUBURBAN, SMALLER SCALE ONE, UH, WHAT DO WE HAVE AS A VISION AND AS A COMMUNITY, UM, INTO THE FUTURE, UH, THE TIMELINE FOR THE RFQ IS TO COMPLETE IT WITHIN THE NEXT THREE WEEKS.
SO WE'RE WORKING ON THE SCOPE CURRENTLY.
UH, WE'RE KIND OF JUGGLING A FEW THINGS WITH THE BUDGET SEASON RIGHT NOW, BUT WE SHOULD BE WRAPPING THAT UP POTENTIALLY EVEN AS SOON AS TWO WEEKS, UH, IT'S REQUIRED TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE HILL COUNTRY NEWS FOR TWO CONSECUTIVE WEEKS.
AND THEN IT HAS TO BE LEFT TO, OH, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE UP IN, BUT WE'RE CHOOSING TO KEEP IT UP.
AND FOR 30 DAYS IN ORDER TO KEEP, UM, GET THE BEST RESPONSES FROM THE MOST QUALIFIED FIRMS, UH, WE'RE KIND OF PLANNING FOR AROUND TWO WEEKS OF VALUATION.
SO WE WANT TO GO THROUGH ALL OF THE QUALIFICATIONS OF THE FIRMS AND MAKE SURE IT'S A GOOD FIT FOR THE COMMUNITY.
AND THEN WE PLAN TO BRING THAT BACK TO YOU AND MAKE A RECOMMENDATION AT THE EARLIEST AVAILABLE COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, IT'S A LOT OF IFS, BUT WE'RE THINKING AROUND SEPTEMBER IS WHEN WE GET ACCOMPLISHED THIS.
AND I DO HAVE SOME EXAMPLES JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF WHAT THEY WOULD BE COMING BACK WITH.
WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE THINGS LIKE FLOOR PLANS TO KIND OF SHOW WHERE THESE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS COULD GO AND HOW THEY WOULD FIT TOGETHER, UH, AND RENDERINGS.
SO THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF A RENDERING OF A CITY HALL COMPLEX.
SO THAT WAY YOU KIND OF KNOW WHAT YOU'RE PLANNING FOR, AND IF IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A FIT FOR THE COMMUNITY AND WITH THE FLOOR PLAN THAT WE MENTIONED, YOU CAN KIND OF SEE HOW THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS FIT TOGETHER.
I KNOW A LOT OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS WORK REALLY WELL RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER AND SOME, SO WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE BEING THOUGHTFUL ABOUT IT AND THAT'S IT, BUT, UH, AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS, IF THERE'S ANYTHING.
PUBLIC WORKS UPDATE WITH PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR ELLISON.
BUT, UM, SO THIS IS THE, UH, WATER REPORT.
I'M GOING TO GO THROUGH KIND OF, UM, THE LAKE STORAGE, LIKE I ALWAYS DO, UM, DAILY USAGE, CONNECTION GROWTH, AND THEN INTO SOME OF OUR CONSERVATION ITEMS. AND THEN DAN'S GOING TO TAKE OVER AND TALK ABOUT THE, BOTH THE REGIONAL WATER PLANT AND THE REGIONAL WASTEWATER PLANT.
SO, UM, I'M SURE YOU'VE SEEN IN THE NEWS, THE LAKES, UH, HAVE BEEN, UH, LIKE LEVELS HAVE BEEN STEADILY DROPPING OVER THE PAST COUPLE MONTHS.
UM, YOU CAN SEE IN THIS GRAPH, UM, JUNE OF LAST YEAR, THEY WERE THE TWO LAKES, BUT CANON AND TRAVIS WERE ABOUT 78% FULL.
AND NOW THEY'RE ABOUT 69% FULL.
AND, UH, LCRA IS PREDICTING WITH THESE HIGHER TEMPS, NO RAIN IN THE FORECAST THAT WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO SEE THEM DROP JUST BASED ON USAGE AND EXCUSE ME.
UH, SO THE DARK BLUE LINE IS OUR, IS OUR MAIN NUMBERS.
UM, AND THEN RED IS MAY OF LAST YEAR.
AND THEN, UH, THE GRAY DASH IS, IS APRIL OF THE CURRENT YEAR.
SO, UM, YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, APRIL, WE HAD A 14 AND A HALF MILLION PEAK AND WE DEFINITELY JUMPED UP IN, IN MAY, WHICH IS TO BE EXPECTED.
UM, MAY 18TH WAS OUR PEAK DAY.
AND, UH, OUR PEAK, UM, WHOLESALE WAS ALSO THAT DAY.
SO OF THE 16.9 2.67 OF IT WAS, UM, OFF TO LIBERTY HILL AND GEORGETOWN.
UM, SO WE CAN CLEARLY SEE THERE'S A REAL BIG JUMP FROM MAY OF LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR, BUT, AND I'LL TALK ABOUT IT ON THE NEXT SLIDE TOO.
UM, LAST MAY WAS VERY, VERY WET IF YOU REMEMBER, WE HAD, I THINK, OVER 13 INCHES OF RAIN.
SO, UM, WE DID ALMOST EXACTLY THE SAME AMOUNT IN MAY AS WE DID IN APRIL OF THIS YEAR.
SO THESE TWO ARE, YOU CAN SEE THEY'RE PRETTY, PRETTY STEADY WITHIN LIKE 200,000 GALLONS OF EACH OTHER.
SO IT WAS PRETTY, PRETTY CLOSE.
UM, THE TEMPERATURE PRECIPITATION WITH OUR DAILY USAGE AND THEN BROKEN DOWN BY THE TWO PLANTS.
SO, UM, THE GREEN IS RBC OR UA WATER, AND THEN, UH, SANDY CREEK IS SHOWN IN BLUE HERE.
SO, UM, AS I MENTIONED, WE, WE TOOK A BIG, BIG JUMP FROM MAY OF LAST YEAR TO THIS YEAR, ALMOST 175 MILLION GALLONS.
BUT, UM, AS I MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, IT WAS ALMOST A FOOT OF RAIN THAT WE GOT IN MAY OF LAST YEAR.
SO, UM, AND THEN THE TEMPERATURES, THIS MAY,
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WE'RE ALSO ABOUT 10 DEGREES HOTTER THAN LAST YEAR.SO THAT ATTRIBUTES FOR THAT, THAT BIG JUMP.
UM, AND THEN I'D LIKE TO, I ALWAYS LIKE TO POINT OUT WHAT RAIN DOES FOR US.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HUMMING ALONG HERE AT 15, 16 MILLION GALLONS AND THE TEMPERATURES DROP AND WE GET RAIN AND WE'RE DOWN TO ABOUT EIGHT TO NINE, 9 MILLION GALLONS.
SO, UM, WE'RE STILL AT ABOUT A 60, 40 SPLIT FROM THE TWO PLANTS WITH 60% OF THE WATER COMING FROM BCR UA AND 40% FROM SANDY CREEK.
UH, WE AVERAGED SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION GALLONS A DAY FROM WAY AND ABOUT 5 MILLION GALLONS FROM, FROM SANDY CREEK AND THEN, UM, OUR CONNECTIONS.
SO WE'RE STILL A STEADILY RISING.
WE DUMPED FROM MEDA LAST YEAR, UM, MADE IT THIS YEAR ABOUT 3,800, EXCUSE ME, 3,800 CONNECTIONS, UM, WHERE WE WERE AT ABOUT 3000 LAST YEAR.
SO 16 AND A HALF, ALMOST 16 AND A HALF PERCENT GROWTH RATE, SOME GOOD NEWS TO, UM, OUR CONSERVATION COORDINATOR STARTING ON TUESDAY.
SO, UM, I GOT WORD FROM HR TODAY, SO HE'LL BE HERE, UM, RIGHT AFTER THE HOLIDAYS, NOT 30 DAYS.
SO THEY, THEY WORK THEIR MAGIC BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S SOME, SOME TIGHT THINGS WITH THEM, BACKGROUND CHECKS AND STUFF.
THEY WERE, YOU KNOW, LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE IS DELAYED.
SO, UM, HE WILL BE HERE ON TUESDAY.
SO, AND SOME OTHER EFFORTS THAT WE'VE, WE'VE DONE OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, UH, THE BILLING STATEMENTS WITH THE TIERED RATES, UM, CONTINUE TO PUSH IT ON SOCIAL MEDIA.
UM, WE CONTINUE OUR OUTREACH WITH HOS AND OUR CONTACTS THERE, AND AS WELL AS THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UM, HOPE TO GET A LOT MORE DONE WITH OUR NEW PERSON COMING SHORTLY.
UM, DAN'S GOING TO TAKE OVER WITH SOME TIERED RATE INFORMATION AND THEN, UM, ONTO THE REGIONAL PLAN.
ALL RIGHT, REAL QUICK BEFORE DAN TAKES OVER, I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU.
AND, UH, HR IS NOT HERE, BUT SUPER SHOUT OUT TO CHRISTIE FOR MAKING THIS HAPPEN.
CHRISTIE AND CARRIE WERE WE'RE, UH, AN AWESOME TEAM.
MAYOR COUNCIL, DAN GREENSVILLE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF, UH, INFRASTRUCTURE.
UH, SO I'M GOING TO START WITH THIS SLIDE.
UM, THESE ARE, UH, TWO PIE CHARTS, UM, INDICATING KIND OF, UM, OUR TIERED RATES, UM, BY ACCOUNT AND, UH, BY USAGE.
AND YOU CAN SEE THE USAGE, UM, IS, UH, IS, UH, KIND OF, KIND OF HIGH FOR THE TIER TWO, THREE, BUT, UM, WHAT WE DON'T HAVE IS A LOT OF DATA TO FACILITATE IF IT'S MAKING A DIFFERENCE OR NOT.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL EVALUATING THE INFORMATION.
UM, WE DID LOOK AT THE TOP 100 AND THE TOP 100 USED ABOUT 8 MILLION GALLONS AT A MONTH, WHICH IS A LOT OF WATER.
THAT'S ABOUT 300,000 GALLONS A DAY, BUT, UM, UNFORTUNATELY AT 100 ONLY COUNTS ABOUT 2% OF THE WATER THAT WE USE, WHICH, YOU KNOW, VARIES.
I USE 15 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, UM, KIND OF LOOKING AT A NUMBER.
SO THAT'S THE ONLY 2% WE NEED TO GET THAT OTHER 26, 20 6% TO, UH, AND THAT TOP 100 TO START REALLY REDUCING OUR WATER, UM, WATER USAGE THAT WOULD HELP US OUT GREATLY.
SO, UH, SOME
UM, BUT WHAT THIS IS SHOWING YOU HERE IS YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE CHAIN MECHANISM THAT RUNS THESE PADDLES, WHICH HELPS WITH THE CREATION.
UM, THAT'S HOW YOU, UH, GET THE DIRT OUT OF THE WATER.
IT COLLECTS IT, IT, UM, BUILDS UP TO A CLUMP AND THEN SEEKS SINKS TO THE BOTTOM AND HE'S PADDLES HELP, UM, AGITATE THE WATER IN A SLOW MANNER TO FACILITATE THAT CLUMPING, IF YOU WANT TO SAY, UM, YOU CAN SEE THE TIMELINE, UM, WHEN IT FAILED, WHEN IT WAS REPAIRED, UM, UH, GINA AND KENLEY WENT OUT THERE AND HE TALKED WITH THE OPERATOR AND, UM, THIS PARTICULAR CHAIN MECHANISMS HAD SOME ISSUES IN THE PAST.
SO THE MANUFACTURER IS GOING TO IS GOING TO BE REPAIRING A REPORT.
UM, IF THERE'S LONGER-TERM PROBLEMS WITH THIS CHAIN, IF THERE IS MECHANISM, WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE NEEDED TO FIX IT? UM, JUST SO YOU GET A FEEL, UM, THAT'S PROBABLY 20, 25 FEET DEEP IN THERE, SO THAT'S A BIG, BIG, UH, BIG BASIN.
UM, AGAIN, UM, PHASE ONE, UM, A B THERE IS OUR NEWEST ONE C, WHICH YOU JUST SAW, AND OF COURSE THE D IS THE NEXT ONE WE'RE WORKING ON.
SO, UM, JUST TO GIVE YOU A LAYOUT, A REMINDER OF THE, OF THE PLANT, UM, KIND OF, UH, OFFBEAT FROM
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WATER IS THE, UM, UH, THE OTHER REGIONAL PLANT THAT WE'RE PART OF, AND IT'S THE, UH, UH, BRUSHY CREEK REGIONAL WASTEWATER SYSTEM TO BE CR WWS, WHICH I LIKE SAYING WWS, CAUSE I FEEL LIKE I'M WRESTLING.UM, SO, UM, THEY HAD AN INCIDENT AND THE CITY RECEIVED A LETTER INDICATING THAT THERE, THEY HAD EXCESSIVE FLOWS AND THE, UH, THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT, AND IT CAUSED SOME ISSUES WITH THE, WITH THE LOCAL CREEK THERE BECAUSE THE FLOWS FLU, UM, FLOAT INTO THERE.
SO THIS IS SOME OF THE, AND, AND ALL THIS IS, UM, I'M GOING TO GIVE FULL CREDIT TO, UM, UM, RON ROCK.
AND IN PARTICULAR, A MICHAEL THING, YOU PUT THESE SLIDES, I STOLE A FEW OF HIS, JUST FOR THIS PRESENTATION.
SO THIS IS KIND OF WHAT HAPPENED.
UM, THE SUDDEN JUMP HAPPENED IN, UH, THE MADE YOU TIMEFRAME.
YOU CAN SEE HERE IN THE GRAPH, UM, WHERE IT HAPPENED.
NORMALLY THEY'RE FLOWING HERE THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, AND THEN THEY HAD A LITTLE ISSUE HERE, BUT YOU CAN SEE WHERE THEY NORMALLY FLOW.
AND THEN THEY HAD THIS HUGE JUMP.
AND, UM, TO THIS DAY, THEY COULDN'T QUITE, HAVEN'T FIGURED IT OUT, BUT THEY DID A LOT OF, UM, INVESTIGATIVE WORK.
AND I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU THAT HERE IN A MINUTE, UM, AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THE GRAPH, THERE STILL HAVE A HIGH FLOW.
AND, UM, UH, THEY EVEN HAD TO BRING ON, SO THIS IS WHAT THEY CALL THE EAST PLANT.
UM, BUT THEY ALSO HAVE A WEST PLANT AND THEY BROUGHT THAT ONLINE TO HELP FACILITATE, UM, WITH THE FLOWS THROUGH THIS PARTICULAR PLANT.
SO, UM, THESE ARE ALL THE INTERCEPTORS, UM, THEY'RE LARGE LINES.
UM, MOST OF THEM, THE PLANT'S LOCATED RIGHT HERE AT THE BOTTOM.
UM, LEANDRA IS, IS RIGHT HERE, OUR INTERCEPTOR IT'S, IT'S NOT ON THIS PARTICULAR MAP BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ANY INFORMATION WHEN HE PRESENTED HIS POWER POWERPOINT, UM, TO THE GROUP AND GINA AND I WERE AT THAT MEETING, BUT IT KIND OF RUNS UP TO HERE TO THIS POINT, UM, DOWN TO THIS CONNECTION, ALL THESE OTHER ONES COME FROM, UM, THE, THE FOUR CITIES THAT ARE INVOLVED ARE OF COURSE, CEDAR PARK, UM, AUSTIN, UM, RON ROCK ITSELF, AND THEN LEANDER.
SO, UM, FOR ACTUALLY PROVIDE WASTEWATER ONTO THAT PARTICULAR PLANT, WHICH ONE IS BUILT OUT WILL BE 3 MILLION GALLONS A DAY OF TREATMENT CAPACITY.
UM, WHAT, WHY I'M SHOWING YOU THIS IS THAT THAT INFLOW, THEY THOUGHT CAME FROM A POSSIBLE LEAK ON, ON THESE INTERCEPTORS.
AND THAT'S ABOUT, YOU'RE LOOKING AT ABOUT 40 MILES WHERE THE LINE THERE, WHICH IS SUBSTANTIAL, THE RED IS WHAT THEY WERE CAMERA ON.
SO RON ROCK HAD, I THINK AT 1.6 CAMERA TRUCKS OUT THERE, AND ACTUALLY CAMERA'S GOING THROUGH THE, INTERCEPTORS TRYING TO FIND WHERE THERE'S A LEAK OR NOT.
AND SOME OF THESE CAN BE RELATIVELY DEEP NOW, 20, 30 FEET.
SO IT'S NOT A, UH, IT'S NOT AN EASY JOB TO, TO TRY TO FIGURE THAT OUT.
SO WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS IT LOOK LIKE WHEN YOUR CAMERAS, OH, HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF IT.
THIS, THIS IS WHAT WE CALL INFILTRATION RIGHT HERE.
THERE'S A CRACK EITHER IN A, IN A, IN THE PIPE OR BETWEEN THE, UH, THE JOINTS AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, AND THEY HAD OTHERS, THEY FOUND SEVERAL LEAKS THROUGHOUT THE 40 MILES.
AND IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THEY'RE SHOWING YOU THAT ON NOW THE INTERCEPTOR, THEY FOUND, UM, FOUR, FOUR LEAKS, AND THIS IS WHAT THOSE LEAKS, UM, LOOK LIKE COMING IN.
OF COURSE YOU DON'T WANT THOSE BECAUSE YOU'RE TREATING WATER, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, RAIN OR GROUNDWATER AND THAT'S COSTLY.
SO ANYWAY, UM, IT WAS A GOOD EXERCISE TO GO AND TRY TO FIND ALL THOSE CAUSE THAT PROBABLY HADN'T BEEN DONE IN AWHILE.
SO THEY'VE BEEN ALSO NOT ONLY INSPECTING IT, BUT THEY'RE MAKING REPAIRS TO THE, TO ALL THESE INFILTRATIONS THAT THEY HAVE FOUND.
SO WHERE ARE WE AT RIGHT NOW? WELL, UM, OVER THE PAST, ACTUALLY SEVERAL MONTHS, UM, ROUND ROCK AND THE PARTNERS HAVE BEEN TAKING ON THESE VARIOUS STEPS ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, MOVING FORWARD AND TRYING TO FIND IT.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT, UM, THEY HAVE INSPECTED MOST OF THE, UH, INTERCEPTIONS, BUT WHAT WAS SURPRISING TO EVERYBODY IS THAT, THAT THEY WOULD FIND ONE LARGE LEAK OR A REALLY INFLOW.
AND THEY REALLY DIDN'T FIND A LARGE LEAK, BUT THEY FOUND MANY SMALLER ONES.
AND SO THEY'RE HOPING, UM, AS THEY REPAIR THEM THAT MAYBE THAT'S THE ISSUE AND THE DEATH BY A THOUSAND CUTS.
UM, THEY, THEY ALSO, UM, PART OF THE EAST PLANT EXPANSION HAS BEEN COMPLETED AND THEY BROUGHT ON ADDED ADDITIONAL TREATMENT.
AND THEN, LIKE I SAID, HERE'S THE WEST PLANT IT'S MUCH SMALLER.
UM, IT HAS A CAPACITY OF 3 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY, BUT RIGHT NOW THEY'RE, THEY'RE ONLY GETTING ABOUT 2 MILLION ON IT, BUT IT HAS, IT HAS HELPED THE ACTUAL PLANT, UM,
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DIVERTING THAT AMOUNT.SO ANYWAY, THEY'RE THERE, THEY'RE FACILITATING, UM, GOING ALONG ONE OF THE IMPORTANT ONES I'LL POINT OUT IS THAT THEY'RE GONNA INSTALL FLOW METERS AND VARIOUS KEY POINTS.
SO THE, THAT 40 MILE INTERCEPT, UM, SYSTEM THAT TRY TO GET A BETTER HANDLE ON IT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE HOPING, DETERMINE IF THERE'S INFLOWS CAUSE IT HAS BEEN DRY.
SO, UM, MAYBE SOME OF THE FLOW IS, UM, BEEN HIDDEN AND IT'LL, IT'LL COME BACK WHEN IT RAINS OR AT THE WATER TABLES RISE.
UM, BUT I THINK THE METERS WILL BE AN IMPORTANT PART.
AND WITH THAT SAID, UM, IS THERE KIND OF ANY QUESTIONS? YES.
UM, SO FIRST CAN COUNCIL, PLEASE GET A COPY OF THIS SLIDE PRESENTATION, THOSE FANTASTIC AND VERY INFORMATIVE.
UM, I CAN SEND YOU THAT AND ALSO SEND YOU THE ONE THAT ACTUALLY RON REPRESENTED.
IT HAS A LOT MORE SLIDES AND MORE DETAILED.
UM, I DIDN'T WANT TO SHOW YOU EVERY DETAILED SLIDE.
SOMETIMES IT GETS KIND OF DEEP, BUT I CAN DO THAT.
AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION IS, IS THE BELIEF THAT ALL OF THESE CRACKS CAME ABOUT BECAUSE OF WINTER STORM URI? OH NO.
YOU KNOW, ONE OF THEM WAS ACTUALLY, THEY FOUND AT A CABLE COMPANY, DRILLED A HOLE THROUGH THE, THROUGH THE PIPE AND WAS RUNNING A CABLE.
AND SOME OF THEM AS IF THE CRACKS USUALLY OCCUR, ESPECIALLY BETWEEN JOINS AS THE MOVEMENT OF THE GROUND.
AND IF YOU, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN WET SEASONS AND DRY SEASONS, UM, YOU SEE WATER BREAKS.
SO DESSA WAS A FINE EXAMPLE OF A SIX YEAR OLD PIPE THAT SHIFTING OF THE GROUND BROKE THAT LINE.
ANYTHING ELSE? I JUST WONDER SAYING THAT THE WATER THAT YOU SHOWED US, THE, WHERE IT WAS LEAKING, IT WAS THAT PRETREATED ONE, NOT PRETREATED, BUT INTAKE WATER BEFORE IT'S GONE TO THE TREATMENT PLANT.
THAT'S INFILTRATION THAT'S THERE.
IT COULD BE GROUNDWATER OR RAINWATER, OR IF IT'S CLOSE TO A CREEK, IT COULD BE CREEK WATER AFTER IT'S BEEN TREATED NO TOWARDS BEFORE.
AND SO WHAT HAPPENS IS THAT COSTS, COST MONEY TO TREAT THAT BECAUSE IT'S NOT COMING FROM AN ACTUAL BUSINESS OR A RESIDENT IT'S, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU DON'T WANT IN THERE, BUT EVERY, EVEN OUR PLANT AND THAT'S, WELL, IT'S WASTEWATER, THAT'S GOING INTO THE WAY.
THAT'S WHY I SAID I CHANGED IT UP ON OUR OTHER PLANS.
I THINK I DUST OFF ON THAT ONE.
ANYTHING ELSE FROM COUNCIL? THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. GRANDPA.
[ CONSENT AGENDA: ACTION]
ALL RIGHT, COUNSEL.WE'RE NOW MOVING ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.
YOU'LL BE CONSIDERING AGENDA ITEMS 10 THROUGH 20.
THAT'S AN ACTION ITEM, MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND.
ANY DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[21. Discuss and consider action on Tree Removal Case 21-TRP-002 regarding removal of Significant and Heritage Trees associated with the San Gabriel East Elevated Storage Tank Capital Improvement Project generally located north of Palmera Ridge Section 9 and west of the intersection of Ronald Reagan Boulevard and Capistrano Path, Leander, Williamson County, Texas.]
AGENDA ITEM 21, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON TREE REMOVAL CASE 21, TRP 0 0 2 REGARDING REMOVAL OF SIGNIFICANT AND HERITAGE TREES ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAN GABRIEL EAST ELEVATED STORAGE TANK, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT GENERALLY LOCATED NORTH OF PEMA OR RIDGE SECTION NINE AND WEST OF THE INTERSECTION OF RONALD REAGAN BOULEVARD AND CAPISTRANO PATH LEANDER WILLIAMSON COUNTY, TEXAS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.UM, SO THIS IS A REQUEST FOR A TREE REMOVAL.
THERE'S A HERITAGE TREE ON THE CITY'S PROPERTY.
UM, IT'S ASSOCIATED WITH THE SAN GABRIEL STORAGE TANK.
UM, THE, THE TREE IS IN THE WAY OF THE EXPANSION AND THE ACCESS TO THE PROPERTY.
UM, THIS DID GO BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION FOR REVIEW AND THEY DID APPROVE THE REQUEST.
AND I ALSO HAVE SOMEONE HERE FROM ENGINEERING.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT I'M AVAILABLE, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
DO WE HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THEM.
NO SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[22. Discuss and consider action authorizing the President of BCRUA to execute Supplemental Agreement No. 13 for BCRUA Phase 2 Raw Water Delivery System with Walker Partners/Freese and Nichols Joint Venture.]
ITEM 22, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION.AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT OF BCRF TO EXECUTE SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT.
NUMBER 13 FOR BCRF PHASE TWO RAW WATER DELIVERY SYSTEM WITH WALKER PARTNERS AND FREESE AND NICHOLS JOINT VENTURE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE GRIMSBY.
A MAYOR COUNCIL GETTING ANY DAN CRUMBS.
SO EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, THE PURPOSE OF THIS, UH, SUPPLEMENTAL AMENDMENT, WHICH IS IN THIS CASE AS NUMBER 13, IS TO PROVIDE CONSTRUCTION PHASE SERVICES, INCLUDING CONTRACT ADMINISTRATION AND FIELD OPPOSITE OBSERVATION, UM, SERVICES, UM, FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE DEEP WATER INTAKE AND SANDY BY FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
I'LL SECOND MOTION AND SECOND.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
I THINK THAT PASSED UNANIMOUSLY.
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YEAH.[23. Discuss and consider action on the appointment of a council liaison to the Public Art Commission.]
ITEM 23, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON THE APPOINTMENT OF A COUNCIL LIAISON TO THE PUBLIC ART COMMISSION, COUNCIL MEMBERS, SHAW.THIS IS YOUR ITEM, NICOLE THOMPSON.
WE'VE ALREADY TALKED TO THEM TO THAT POINT.
THAT MOTION TO APPROVE FOR NICOLE ABOUT THAT MOTION AND A SECOND, IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION COUNCIL MEMBER THOMPSON? DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? I ACCEPT THIS NOMINATION.
ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[24. Discuss and consider action on establishing a Memorial Day ceremony to be held the Saturday prior to the holiday in conjunction with the Boy Scouts laying of flags.]
ITEM 24 DISCUSSING CONSIDER ACTION ON ESTABLISHING A MEMORIAL DAY CEREMONY TO BE HELD THE SATURDAY PRIOR TO THE HOLIDAY IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE BOY SCOUTS LAYING OF THE FLAGS COUNCIL MEMBERS SHALL.YEAH, I KNOW WE WON'T TAKE LONG ON THIS ONE.
IT DOESN'T NEED TO BE FANCY OR EXPENSIVE.
IT'S JUST, WE HAVE A VETERANS DAY CELEBRATION AND I THINK IT'S TIME, UH, THE CITY'S BIG ENOUGH TO CELEBRATE THOSE THAT HAVE GIVEN THEIR LIVES TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN DO ALL THESE OTHER CEREMONIES.
SO, UM, THERE'S A CEREMONY THAT ALREADY TAKES PLACE.
THE BOY SCOUTS ARE OUT AT BAGHDAD CEMETERY.
THEY PUT FLAGS ON THE GRAVES OF THE, UH, UM, THE ANYBODY THAT'S A VETERAN BASICALLY OUT THERE, BUT IT'S JUST, UM, WE WERE WORKING WITH MS. STAFF AND HAVE JUST A SMALL PRESENCE OUT THERE AND JUST OFFICIALLY SAY, WE RECOGNIZE THERE'S MINIMUM IS THIS FOR VETERANS DAY OR MEMORIAL DAY, WHICH IS A BIG DIFFERENCE.
WE ALREADY DO A HUGE VETERANS DAY.
IT'S JUST, HOW ARE WE DOING FOR, SO DO YOU WANT THIS TO JUST BE APPROVED AND TO BE FOR A SITE TO TURN, TO BE DETERMINED AT A LATER DATE? OR DO YOU WANT TO DECIDE ON THAT AND FOR Y'ALL TO WORK ON IT? I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY I'M GOING TO BE GONE, BUT JUST WORK ON HOWEVER Y'ALL WANT.
JUST, IT CAN BE AS SMALL AS THE MAYOR OR SOMEBODY OR A COUNCIL MEMBER GOING OUT THERE.
JUST SAYING A COUPLE OF QUICK WORDS THAT THE CITY'S THANKFUL.
DO YOU HAVE A PREFERENCE? I DON'T CARE.
UH, I THINK IT'S A GREAT IDEA.
UM, I DID INVITE THE, UH, LEADER OF THE BOY SCOUT TROOP THAT GOES OUT THERE AND HAS BEEN DOING IT FOR 10 YEARS HERE SO THAT WE CAN KIND OF HASH OUT SOME OF THOSE DETAILS.
UM, MR. PAT, DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING OR ARE YOU FEELING PRETTY GOOD ABOUT THIS ALREADY? I HAVE TO THE MICROPHONE PLEASE.
SO, UH, YEAH, MY NAME'S STEPHEN PRATT.
UM, I LIVE IN FOR 12 MONTHS, THE GRAND ELIANA WHAT'S THAT WHO I AM.
UM, AND WE DO THIS SO YOU CAN HEAR ME A LITTLE BETTER.
UM, AND, UH, YEAH, COUNCILMAN SHAW CAME OUT THIS YEAR TO OUR, OUR, UH, SYRUP, NOT SERVICE, BUT, UM, CEREMONY OUT AT, UH, BAGHDAD CEMETERY.
UH, THE BOY SCOUTS OF 2 33 HAD BEEN DOING IT FOR, I THINK, 14 OR 15 YEARS NOW.
UH, WE GO OUT ON EVERY SATURDAY AND THE BOYS PLACE, UM, UH, THE FLAGS ON ALL THE NOTES, THE GRAVES THAT WE CAN IDENTIFY, WE'VE ACTUALLY BEEN WORKING WITH KAT HOW, UM, SHE HAS SOME APPS ON, THERE ARE SOME UNIDENTIFIED GRAVES ON IDENTIFIED FROM THE FACT THAT THEY'RE NOT MARKED AS VETERAN'S GRAVES AND WE'RE TRYING TO WORK OUT A WAY THAT WE CAN FIGURE OUT TO BE ABLE TO DO EVEN EXPAND IT, TO COVER THOSE AS WELL.
UM, SO WE'D BE HAPPY TO WORK WITH THE, WITH THE CITY COUNCIL OR, UM, WITH THE VFW WHO IS OUR CHARTERED ORGANIZATION, UM, WAS INVOLVED THIS YEAR AS WELL.
UM, THEY PROVIDE US WITH THE FLAGS THAT WE ACTUALLY PUT OUT THERE.
UM, SO WE'D BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO WORK WITH COUNCIL TO FIGURE OUT.
UM, WE WOULD PREFER TO KEEP IT, UH, FROM OUR POINT OF VIEW AT BAGHDAD CEMETERY RATHER THAN SOME OTHER LOCATION.
UM, THAT'S FOR LOGISTICS, FOR OUR SCOUTS AND VOLUNTEERS TO COME OUT, UH, WITH THE NEW PAVILION THERE.
IT DOES WORK OUT PRETTY WELL AS WELL.
AND THEN Y'ALL RETURN LATER AND PICK UP THE FLAGS.
SO YES, THE BOY SCOUTS COME OUT USUALLY ON TUESDAY NIGHT.
UM, AND THAT IS A MUCH EASIER EFFORT BECAUSE, I MEAN, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO HUNTING FOR WHERE YOU'RE PUTTING THEM.
UM, A MAP THAT YOU HAVE, CAUSE I KNOW THE LIKE LAST YEAR WE DID THERE AND IT IS HELPFUL TO HAVE RATHER THAN JUST WANDERING AROUND, ESPECIALLY WITH SO-CALLED.
UM, BUT IF YOU HAVE THAT, THAT WAS LIKE, I'D LOVE TO HAVE THAT PROVIDED TO CAT TO COORDINATE ACTUALLY HE'S THE ONE WHO PROVIDED US WITH THE MAP.
UM, SHE HAS WORKED WITH THE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION.
SHE HAS IDENTIFIED ON HER MAP PER UH, ROUGHLY 400 VETERANS GRAVES.
UH, WE ESTIMATE, UM, I'VE NEVER GOTTEN A FORMAL COUNT OF FLAGS, BUT UH, BECAUSE OF THE WAY THE BOYS DO IT, BUT WE ESTIMATE WE DO BETWEEN 200 AND 250 THAT WE'RE ABLE TO IDENTIFY JUST BY EITHER INSCRIPTIONS OR PLAQUES HAVE BEEN PLACED ON THE GRAVES.
UM, SHE HAS SOME THAT ARE EVEN SIMPLER THAN ONES ON HER MAP OR NOT EVEN MARKED GRAVE SITES.
THEY'RE JUST, IT'S OVER THERE SOMEWHERE.
UM, SO, UM, THERE'S THE WAY THE REESE WERE RUN AND OUR, UH, OUR TRIP DID HELP OUT WITH THE REESE ACROSS AMERICA THIS YEAR AS WELL.
UM, IS IT'S CHALLENGING TO DO IT NAMED BY NAME AND GRAVE BY GRAVE.
UM, THAT, THAT IS A VERY LARGE EFFORT WHILE IT SOUNDS HARD TO GO FIND THEM ALL.
WE CAN, I CAN ACTUALLY, WITH A DOZEN BOYS, WE CAN DO IT IN UNDER TWO HOURS.
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SO I KNOW SEVERAL OF US WERE HELPING AND I DIDN'T HAVE A MAP AND IT WAS LIKE, WE WERE JUST WANDERING AROUND ROW BY ROW.AND, AND THAT'S WHY I DIDN'T REALIZE THERE WAS A MAP.
SO IF SOMEBODY HAD A MAP, BUT I HAD HIM THERE AT LEAST ACROSS AMERICA, AND THAT'S WHY THEY'RE THERE PUTTING, IF SOMEONE CAME IN AND WANTED TO LAY A WREATH ON A PARTICULAR GRAVE, UM, THEY COULD DIRECT THEM TO WHERE THAT WAS, BUT IT IS, UM, IT'S A VERY OLD CEMETERY.
UM, THE NEWER SECTION IS, YOU KNOW, STRUCTURED, ORDERLY, THE OLD SECTIONS ARE HAPHAZARD.
UM, SO FINDING YOUR WAY AROUND IS CHALLENGING.
CAN I SAY SOMETHING SHARE MY WHOLE INTENT WITH THIS WAS NOT TO MAKE IT COMPLICATED, RIGHT? THERE'S GOING TO BE, TRUST ME.
THERE'S THERE'S SERVICE MEMBERS THAT ARE INTEGRATED WITH THERE'LL BE OKAY IF YOU MISS A GRAVER TO THE SPIRIT OF THE CITY SAYING WE REMEMBER THE FALLEN, RIGHT? SO THAT'S MY BIGGEST FEAR IS THIS IS GOING TO TURN INTO BE SOMETHING WHERE IT'S WAY, IT'S A DAY OF SOLACE.
AND I SET OUT THERE THAT MORNING.
I WAS LIKE, GO HAVE BARBECUES, HAVE FUN WITH YOUR FAMILIES BECAUSE THEY'RE SERVICE MEMBERS THAT GET THEIR LIVES.
THAT THAT'S WHAT THEY WANT YOU TO DO.
THERE'S JUST TO TAKE A SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME AND NOT A MASSIVE AMOUNT OF MONEY.
AND SO WE'RE HAPPY WITH THE BOY SCOUTS IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE VFW FOLKS TO BE ABLE TO DO ALL THE LEGWORK.
AND WE JUST KIND OF BE HAPPY TO INVITE YOU GUYS TO COME JOIN US.
I THINK IT'S A WONDERFUL IDEA.
I'M GLAD THAT YOU BROUGHT THIS TO US, COUNSELOR AND SHOP.
UM, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT, UM, AS WE GO FORWARD, WE DON'T COME UP WITH ANYTHING THAT, UM, INTERFERES WITH WHAT YOU GUYS ARE ALREADY DOING.
SO, UM, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT LOCATION, I THINK WE'VE ALREADY GOT ANY EVENT THAT IS HAPPENING IN TOWN.
LET'S HELP AMPLIFY IT AND PUT OUR SUPPORT BEHIND IT AND JUST MAKE IT BIGGER AND BETTER.
IS THAT ALL RIGHT? THAT MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR.
THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT, MR. PRATT,
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UH, ITEM 25 COUNCIL MEMBER, CLOSING COMMENTS, PLACE ONE.O'CLOCK NOT EVEN EIGHT O'CLOCK THIS IS AWESOME.
OH, JUST LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING Y'ALL OUT ON SET ON SATURDAY AT THE JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION AND AGAIN ON THE 4TH OF JULY FOR LIBERTY FEST, AND THEN WE'LL BE BACK HERE IN JULY 7TH.
NICE DO HAPPY PRIDE MONTH FOR THOSE THAT CELEBRATE.
AND SO YOU GUYS ON JUNETEENTH AND ON LIBERTY FEST, SO HOPE TO SEE YOU GUYS OUT THERE.
HEY, DAR THAT WANT TO CONGRATULATE.
I WANTED TO CONGRATULATE, I NEVER GRADUATED AND CATHERINE ON HER WIN AND ALSO CHRIS AND DAVID JUST, UH, PROBABLY CONDOLENCES FOR THE WIN, BUT I JUST WANT TO CONGRATULATE ON JUST CLEAN, JUST ABOVE, ABOVE THE FRAY CAMPAIGNS YOU GUYS ARE, UH, ARE, UM, TO BE EMULATED AND TO BE, UH, COMMENDED.
SO I'M VERY PROUD OF YOU GUYS.
PRETEND, UM, SEE ALL SATURDAY AND ALSO HAPPY FATHER'S DAY AT ALL THIS DADS OUT THERE.
I WAS LIKE, WHAT AM I GOING TO TALK ABOUT TODAY? FATHER'S DAY.
I JUST, I JUST PRAY THAT WE HAVE LIKE THAT WE JUST HAVE A CALLING BACK OF THE FATHERS OF THIS NATION AND I JUST WANT TO PARTICIPATE IN THAT.
SO, UM, JUST TO ALL THE FATHERS OUT THERE, UM, WE HAVE SUCH A RESPONSIBILITY AND SO, UM, I JUST COST TO DO THE BEST JOB POSSIBLE AND TO, UH, TO BE PRESENT FOR THE FAMILIES AND TO BE AN EXAMPLE TO ALL EVERYBODY ELSE AROUND HERE.
SO WE HAVE A LOT TO CELEBRATE AND, UH, AND FATHER'S DAY IS A PRETTY AWESOME ONE.
SO, UM, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE ABLE TO SERVE YOU FOR ANOTHER THREE YEARS TOO.
SO I HOPE TO DO A GOOD EXAMPLE OF, UH, OF, UM, SETTING A GOOD EXAMPLE.
I WAS A FATHER AS I SERVED FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.
I WILL ALSO SAY HAPPY FATHER'S DAY.
I'M BLESSED ENOUGH TO HAVE A MARRIED, AN AMAZING MAN WHO IS AN AWESOME FATHER, BUT I ALSO HAVE AN AMAZING FATHER.
BUT I ALSO THINK ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT DON'T HAVE THAT.
AND SO I'M HOPEFUL THAT THEY'LL FIND MENTORS IN OUR COMMUNITY, UM, THAT CAN BE THAT FATHER FIGURE FOR THEM.
AND THE, THIS IS NOT A TIME OF SADNESS FOR THEM, BUT A TIME OF HOPE FOR WHAT IS TO COME FOR THEIR FUTURE, BUT ALSO, UM, HAPPY JUNETEENTH.
IT'S OUR INAUGURAL CELEBRATION.
I'M EXCITED TO BE A PART OF THE COMMITTEE THAT HELPED BRING THAT TO OUR CITY.
AND I'M EXCITED TO CELEBRATE ON SATURDAY.
SO PLEASE WEAR SUNSCREEN, WEAR YOUR HAT, BRING A CHAIR, BRING AN UMBRELLA FOR SHADE, ALL OF THAT.
AND I LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU ALL AT FOUR ON FRIDAY ON SATURDAY.
UM, SO FIRST OFF I WANT TO CONGRATULATE OUR CITY SECRETARY MS. CRABTREE, YOU HAVE SURVIVED A VERY LONG, COMPLICATED ELECTION SEASON AND
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WE HAD SOME CONCERNS.IT WAS A LITTLE ROUGH THERE FOR A MINUTE, SO, BUT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR KEEPING EVERYTHING TOGETHER ON TOP OF ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU ALWAYS DO.
UM, IN AN EFFORT TO, UH, SUPPORT OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES DINNER EVERY NIGHT THAT WE HAVE A COUNCIL MEETING IS PURCHASED AT ONE OF OUR LAND RESTAURANTS.
SO TONIGHT WE HAVE A HUGE SHOUT OUT TO CASA MIGOS.
IF YOU DON'T KNOW CASA MIGOS, THEIR TACOS ARE FANTASTIC.
UM, AND THEN I WANTED TO USE MY COMMENTS TONIGHT TO SORT OF TALK ABOUT THE BUSINESS CLIMATE IN LEANDER.
UM, WE ALL KNOW THAT COSTS ARE GOING UP FOR, FOR ALL OF US, UM, ON EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, FILLING UP AT THE GAS PUMP IS A LITTLE PAINFUL.
UM, BUYING GROCERIES IS GETTING MORE PAINFUL.
AND SO WE ARE STARTING TO SEE IT AT A LOCAL LEVEL WHERE CONSUMER SPENDING IS STARTING TO GO DOWN A LITTLE BIT.
AND SO THAT HURTS OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES WHO ARE ALREADY DEALING WITH THEIR OWN INCREASED COSTS AND SOMETIMES TROUBLE HIRING PEOPLE.
AND I WAS TALKING TO ONE OF OUR BUSINESS OWNERS YESTERDAY AND THEY TOLD ME THAT THE CURRENT SITUATION IS HARDER FOR THEM THAN DEALING WITH COVID, WHICH, UM, THAT'S JUST BEEN RINGING THROUGH MY HEAD FOR THE LAST 24 HOURS.
UM, YOU THINK ABOUT COVID AND BUSINESSES THAT WERE SHUT DOWN FOR WEEKS.
AND THEN, UM, WHEN THEY WERE ABLE TO COME BACK ALL OF THE PRECAUTIONS THAT THEY HAD TO TAKE AND THE TEMPORARY SHUTDOWNS, WHEN SOMEBODY WOULD GET INFECTED.
AND, UM, AND THEY'RE SAYING NOW THAT THIS IS EVEN HARDER.
UM, AND SO I JUST, I KNOW EVERY WEEK WE SIT UP HERE AND WE SAY, PLEASE SUPPORT LOCAL.
I'M ASKING YOU SUPPORT LOCAL 10 TIMES MORE THAN YOU'VE EVER SUPPORTED LOCAL BECAUSE I DON'T THINK ANY ONE OF US WANTS TO SEE OUR LOCALLY OWNED BUSINESSES, UM, GOING UNDER AND, AND LOSING THAT VIBRANCY THAT WE HAVE HERE IN TOWN.
SO PLEASE, WHEN YOU'RE OUT SHOP LEANDER, EATON, LEANDER, ALL THE THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, TELL THE PEOPLE THERE THAT YOU APPRECIATE THEM BEING THERE.