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[1. Open Meeting.]
TODAY IS THURSDAY, AUGUST 18TH, 2022.AND THIS IS THE BRIEFING WORKSHOP OF THE LANDER CITY COUNCIL CITY.
WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL COUNCIL MEMBER CATHERINE BATTALION COUNCIL MEMBER
MCDONALD'S YOUR MAYOR PRO TEM NICOLE THOMPSON PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER
[3. Receive a presentation on Northline Town Square park design and uses.]
MOVING ON TO RECEIVE A PRESENTATION ON NORTHLINE TOWN SQUARE PARK DESIGN AND USES OF IS OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL, DAN GREENSVILLE, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND, UM, YEAH, SOMEHOW I GOT VOLUN-TOLD ON THIS ONE.
UH, BEFORE I START, UH, THIS PRESENTATION, UM, WAS, UH, PROVIDED TO A CITY COUNCIL, UM, DECEMBER 2ND, 2021.
UM, AND I, AND I WATCHED REWATCH THE VIDEO A COUPLE OF TIMES.
UM, JUST SO, UM, UH, I KNEW WHAT WAS SPOKEN AND SO TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS JUST KIND OF A REOCCURANCE OF THAT SAYING, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE DOING, UM, TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY'S ON BOARD.
AND THEN LATER ON, WE'LL HAVE A, AN ITEM WHERE THIS WAS WHERE THE COUNCIL IS BASICALLY CONFIRMING THAT WE'RE MOVING FORWARD, UM, WITH, WITH SAID PROJECT.
UM, AND, AND, AND WE DON'T WANT YOU TO BE SURPRISED WHEN THIS COMES BACK.
SO WHILE WE'RE DECEMBER, IT WAS A WHILE BACK.
AND, UM, THE VIDEO SHOW, IT WAS KIND OF A QUICK PRESENTATION.
WHAT ELSE? YOU KNOW, THEY WENT THROUGH IT, THEY DID A GOOD JOB EXPLAINING IT ALL, BUT, UM, BUT WHEN WE BRING BACK THE PROJECT AT 2.3 MILLION OR THEREABOUTS, W WE JUST DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO BE SURPRISED.
AND SO, UM, THAT'S, WE'RE GONNA DO A QUICK, QUICK RE REVIEW OF THE OTHER PROJECT.
SO, SO AS YOU'RE LOOKING AT THESE, UM, KEEP IN MIND, UM, WE'VE ACTUALLY, UM, ALSO MOVED FORWARD WITH THE BID PROCESS AND I HAVE SOME TIMELINES FOR THAT.
AND I'LL TALK ABOUT THAT HERE IN A MINUTE.
SO DURING THE LAST PRESENTATION, WHEN THIS WAS GIVEN, UM, A FEW THINGS I NOTED, UM, ONE ALEX GAVE THE PRESENTATION AND I COULDN'T TWIST HIS ARM INTO DOING THAT THIS TIME.
UM, IT WAS PROVIDED BY URBAN GROVE.
UM, AND THEN A COUPLE OF THE, UM, UH, UH, INDICATIONS FROM, UH, FROM THE PRESENTATIONS, WHAT THAT THIS PROJECT WOULD START EARLY THIS YEAR.
AND, UM, UH, WE OUT WHERE WE ARE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR ABOUT, UM, IT STARTED GOING, UM, IT WOULD GO OUT FOR PUBLIC BID, WHICH I'LL TALK ABOUT MORE, AND IT HAS, AND, UM, UH, W ALEX STATED DURING THE PRESENTATION THAT WE WOULD BE USING, UM, CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION, UM, WHICH WE DID, THAT'S THE $15 MILLION THAT THE CITY PUT UP FRONT FOR THIS PROJECT, UM, AS A WHOLE NORTH LINE.
AND THAT THE, BASICALLY IF YOU READ THE MEMO, THAT WAS A PART OF THE BACKGROUND THAT THE, WHAT WAS EVER LEFT OVER FROM THE PHASE ONE FOR THE CITY PART OF THE PROJECT, UH, WHICH IS ABOUT $2.3 MILLION WOULD BE USED TOWARDS THE CIVIC CENTER SPACES.
AND SO, UM, THAT REST OF THAT 15 MILLION ESSENTIALLY IS GOING TO BE USED TO, TO BUILD THESE PARKS.
SO LET ME KIND OF RUN THROUGH HERE ON THIS.
UM, YOU CAN SEE THE TWO LOCATIONS, UM, OF COURSE THE TOWN SQUARE AND THE, UH, ON THE CIRCLE.
AND, UM, AND, AND OF COURSE THE PLANS THAT WE HAVE, UH, INDICATE THE SAME, UM, REAL QUICK, UH, AGAIN, I'M JUST GONNA KIND OF GO THROUGH IT.
I MEAN, YOU CAN, YOU CAN SEE, UH, WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN WHEN YOU SEE THE NEXT ONES.
THIS ONE HAS, YOU KNOW, PAVILIONS AND BUILDINGS ON THIS SIDE.
THIS ONE IS PRETTY MUCH LEFT OPEN ON THIS SIDE, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT AS WE, AS WE MOVE ALONG, UM, AGAINST SOME OF THE AMENITIES ON, AND ONE OF THE THINGS I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT IS THAT, UM, IN THE PUD, IT DOES, UH, REFERENCE, UH, KIND OF MANY OF THE THINGS THAT THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO FOLLOW.
AND I DID BRING A COPY OF THAT.
AND IN THERE, IT KIND OF STATES THAT THE PUD SUPERSEDES THE CITY ORDINANCE FOR THESE SPECIFIC ITEMS TO DO, TO CREATE A UNIQUE SPACE.
AND IT ALSO HAVE THE, HAVE THE PARKS DIRECTOR ON IT.
AND, UM, AND HE WAS APPROVAL OF THIS, UM, AS IT'S BEEN GOING ALONG.
SO HE'LL TALK ABOUT A COUPLE OF OTHER ITEMS AFTER MYSELF, BUT JUST SO YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S GONE THROUGH THE UN THROUGH THE CITY STAFF AND I'LL SHOW THAT, UH, AGAIN, SO SOME OF THE AMENITIES THAT ARE GOING TO BE ADDED, UM, AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE A MORE DETAILED HERE, UM, LOCATIONS OF THE, OF THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS, THIS ONE BEING THE LARGE, UM, STAGE AREA.
IF YOU WANT TO SAY, UM, YOU KNOW, IF, IF, IF IT GETS BUILT THE WAY IT'S SHOWN HERE IN THE PRESENTATION, IT'LL BE, YOU KNOW,
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AS THE COUNCIL SAID DURING THE DECEMBER, UH, BEAUTIFUL PARK WILL BE CREATED.SO YOU GUYS ARE ON BOARD WITH IT AT THAT TIME.
UM, SO, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE, KIND OF THE LAYOUTS FOR IT.
UM, THE VARIOUS, THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS, UM, SOME OF THE POTENTIAL KIOSKI'S THAT ARE GONNA BE IN THERE AND POSSIBLY OTHER TYPES OF, UH, IF YOU WANT TO SAY MODERN COMMUNICATIONS, UM, THAT I HAVE TROUBLE KEEPING UP WITH, UM, VARIOUS PLANTS, ALTHOUGH, UH, SOME OF THAT MIGHT BE DISCUSSED.
ALTHOUGH, ONE THING THAT THE NOTE ABOUT THE NORTH LINE IS THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE ON THE RECLAIM SYSTEM.
AND SO THE PONDS AND, AND MUCH OF THE IRRIGATION WILL BE USING, UM, REUSE WATER, WHICH IS A GREAT DEAL.
AND SO WE'RE WELL ON OUR WAY ON THAT PROJECT.
UM, AGAIN, UH, SOME DETAILS I'M GOING TO THERE, THERE'S QUITE A FEW SLIDES, SO I'M GOING TO KIND OF FLIP THROUGH THESE, UM, RELATIVELY, UH, QUICKLY, JUST SO YOU HAVE A FEEL FOR, UM, WHAT'S BEEN OUT, WHAT'S BEEN PUT OUT FOR BID, AS FAR AS THE DESIGN GOES.
UM, THIS ONE IS KIND OF UNIQUE WHEN THEY DISCUSS IT IN THE VIDEO.
THIS IS A KIND OF THE SETTING OF AREA, AND YOU COULD SEE THE WIDE, IF YOU WANT TO CALL IT BOULEVARD, WALKWAY AREA.
AND THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT BRINGING IN VENDORS FOR, UH, LIKE, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, A FARMER'S MARKET AND THEN SOME FOOD TRUCKS MAYBE BEHIND IT.
SO, UM, THAT WAS UNIQUE TO LISTEN ON A VIDEO AS WELL.
UM, HERE'S THE CIRCLE, UM, AND WHAT IT'S GOING TO ENTAIL.
UM, IT'LL BE A GOOD PLACE TO, FOR ME TO GO, MAYBE READ A BOOK.
I COULD SEE THAT THE, UH, THE UNIQUE PIECE OF COURSE, IS THE CENTERPIECE OF THE LARGE PIECE OF ART THERE THAT THEY DISCUSSED.
UM, I'LL DEFINITELY BE INTERESTED IN SEEING THAT FOR ME PERSONALLY, UM, WHAT THAT'S GONNA ENTAIL, AND THEN, UM, SOME OTHER EXAMPLES OF THE TYPE OF, UH, SITTING AREAS.
AND THAT WAS KIND OF THE, WHAT WAS PROVIDED IN DECEMBER AND, AND SHOWING IT SO WHERE WE ARE TODAY IS THAT, UM, UM, ON THE, UM, ON 11, ON, ON THE 11TH, WE POSTED OUT FOR BID, UM, ON THE 24TH, WE'LL HAVE QUESTIONS, WE'LL BE DUE FOR THE BID, AND THEN THE BIDS ARE DUE THE 15TH ON NINE 15.
AND THEN, UM, WE'LL, HOPEFULLY AT THAT POINT, WE'LL GET SOMETHING BID OUT.
UM, JUST SO YOU HAVE AN IDEA HERE WAS THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION PLANS THAT WERE SENT OUT, AND YOU COULD SEE THAT THEY WERE SIGNED BY ALL THE DEPARTMENTS.
SO WE HAVE AN AGREEMENT BY EVERYBODY THAT, UM, UH, THEY MEET ALL THE CITY REQUIREMENTS AND, OR THE POD REQUIREMENTS.
UM, SO, UH, WITH THAT IN MIND, AND I KNOW THAT WAS PRETTY QUICK.
UM, UM, THIS WAS ACTUALLY THE, UM, UM, THE INVITATION FOR BID THAT WAS SENT OUT, UM, BY FINANCE, UM, SO THAT THIS WAS THE ACTUAL DOCUMENT REQUESTING WHAT WE WANTED BASED ON THOSE DESIGNS AND THE TIMELINES AND, UH, RULES AND REGULATIONS THAT THE CITY HAS TO FOLLOW, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH PUBLIC BEDS.
SO WITH THAT SAID, UM, KIND OF STANDING BY FOR QUESTION, AS FAR AS THE WORKSHOP GOES, COUNCIL, I'M JUST WONDERING IF MR.
IF HE HAD ANYTHING TO ADD TO THAT, OR ARE WE JUST ASKING YOU QUESTIONS? I JUST, SINCE HE'S HERE, I JUST THOUGHT IF THERE WAS SOMETHING, OH YEAH, IT IS AGAIN, GO BACK, YOU KNOW, THE WATSONVILLE, THE ONLY PERSON WHO LIKES TO WATCH THE MEDIA, HE WAS THERE WITH HIS, A CONSULTANT AND THEY FLAT OUT, LAID IT OUT.
AND THAT WAS ABOUT 35, 40 MINUTES OF, UH, OF A PRESENTATION.
SO IT WAS DONE WELL AND, AND PROVIDED GOING FORWARD TO PATH FORWARD IS WHAT WE'RE DOING RIGHT NOW WITH THE BIDS AND THE, UH, THE FUNDING THAT WOULD BE USED FOR THE PROJECT WAS ALL, WAS ALL ADDRESSED.
AND SO THE EX THE EXECUTIVE SUMMARY ITEM 26 IS BASICALLY GETTING THE COUNCIL TO SOLIDIFY THAT, YEP, WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.
WE UNDERSTAND THE PROJECT WILL BE COMING BACK TO US IN THE FUTURE AND SO FORTH.
SO AGAIN, RE RECONFIRMING, UH, WHERE WE'RE AT.
I DON'T THINK I'M CLEAR ON WHY, LIKE, WHAT YOU NEED FROM US AS FAR AS WORKSHOP.
IT WAS, IT WAS JUST GIVE THE TIME TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A CLEAR GUIDANCE AND UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE WANT, BECAUSE AGAIN, NO SURPRISES, IT'S A PRETTY BIG AMOUNT COMING BACK.
AND SO, UM, WE DIDN'T WANT ANYBODY TO TAKE THE CHANCE WITH, I DIDN'T SEE IT, OR I HAVE AN ISSUE WITH THE PIECE OF ART THAT'S GOING IN A CENTER OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
SO THIS WAS KIND OF LIKE, WE DON'T WANT ANY THAT WE WANT A YEEHAW LET'S MOVE FORWARD KIND OF THING, BUT I ONLY HAVE TWO SMALL CLARIFICATION.
ONE IS JUST, IT SEEMS PRETTY CLEAR, BUT JUST TO EXTRA CLARIFY, THE MONEY COMING IS OUT OF THE 15 MILLION, THAT'S THE SURPLUS THAT'S LEFTOVER, CORRECT.
BEING ALLOCATED TOWARDS THAT CARNEGIE.
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IF IT GOES OVER THE 2.3, IT SAYS 2.7, BUT WE'RE GOING TO BE TRUING IT UP.AND SO I WOULD STICK TO THE 2.3 BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT A NORTH LINE PUT IN THEIR MEMO.
UM, IF HE EXCEEDS THAT AND PAIGE CAN TALK THAT WE'RE GOING TO HAVE, UH, UM, BASICALLY AN AGREEMENT THAT IF IT GOES OVER THAT, THEN, THEN IT'S ON THE DEVELOPER TO MOVE FORWARD.
IF THEY WANT THAT BID TO CONTINUE ON, OR DO YOU SCOPE IT TO FIT IN OKAY.
IN THAT, IN THAT AMOUNT, UM, THE ONLY DESIGN THING THAT I REMEMBER COMING UP A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT TIMES FROM WHEN IT STARTED, UNTIL THERE WAS LIKE BATHROOMS ON THE, ON THE SQUARE.
AND I THINK I SAW ONE OR TWO ON THAT SIDE.
AND THERE WAS A FEW OTHERS THAT WERE ASKING, UH, MR. TIMBERG, DID YOU WANT TO COME UP AND SAY SOMETHING? HI COUNSELING, THANK YOU.
UM, I WOULD LIKE TO JUST CLARIFY THAT THE FUNDING, UH, FROM THE CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION BONDS, THE 2.3 MILLION IS ACTUALLY ONLY BEING USED FOR TOWN SQUARE NORTHLAND CIRCLE IS GOING TO BE SOLELY PAID FOR BY DEVELOPER FUNDS.
AND SO THE PIECE OF ART IS ACTUALLY JUST GOING TO BE PAID FOR BY DEVELOPER FUNDS.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE AN ARTIST SELECTED, UM, WHO'S, UH, UH, UH, WE WENT THROUGH A WHOLE BROAD CAST TO FIND AN ARTIST, AND WE GOT A BUNCH OF GREAT SUBMITTALS.
AND SO WE HAVE A FINAL SELECTION AND SHE'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESIGN PROCESS.
SO VERY EXCITED ABOUT THAT, BUT I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WHAT THE CITY FUNDS ARE ACTUALLY PAYING FOR.
I PROBABLY DIDN'T HAVE THAT VERY CLEAR ON THAT ONE, BUT CANCEL ANYTHING ELSE TO ADD QUESTIONS, CONCERNS, AND THEN IT'S PLANNING THE FIRST HALF OF IT.
AND SECOND HALF IS TO BE DETERMINED AS THE DEVELOPMENT GOES ON.
AND SO IS IT, UH, IS THAT TEMPORARY USE IN THAT AREA? OKAY.
BEFORE WE, BEFORE WE CLOSE AND THIS OTHER PART OF THE WORKSHOP, AND I ALMOST FORGOT, AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN WRONG ON MY PART IS MARK, UM, PARK DIRECTOR NEEDS TO COME UP AND TALK ABOUT, UM, THINGS THAT ARE RELATED TO THE PARK, BUT MORE ON AN OPERATIONAL BASIS THAT NEEDS, UH, THAT'S A CONCERN TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO YOU KIND OF RANG MY BELL WHEN YOU SAID SOMETHING ABOUT OPERATIONS.
I WAS LIKE, YEAH, WE GOT, WE STILL NEED TO THAT THE PARK DIRECTOR.
UM, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS, UH, TO SHARE FROM REALLY MY PERSPECTIVE.
UH, WE HAVE WORKED WITH MR. TOM BERG AND HEATHER NORTHLINE AND PARK PLANNERS FOR THE BETTER PART OF THREE YEARS IN CONCEPTUALIZING AND DESIGNING THIS INCREDIBLE PARK.
UM, WE, WE, ONE THING I WANTED TO CLARIFY THOUGH, UM, IS WHILE THE IRRIGATION IS RECLAIMED, UH, MR. TOM BERG AND I ALSO A FEW MONTHS AGO, UM, DETERMINED TO MOVE AWAY FROM NATURAL TURF GRASS OR NATURAL GRASS, UH, ON THAT LAWN AREA INTO A SYNTHETIC.
UM, SO YOU'LL HAVE A REALLY NICE, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT BLOODS SO PARK IS.
AND IF YOU RECALL, THAT'S SORT OF WHERE WE WERE AT.
SO SYNTHETIC TURF, WHICH WILL USE LESS WATER, ALSO SAVE ON MAINTENANCE COSTS, UM, DOWN THE LINE.
SO I WANT YOU TO BE AWARE OF THAT.
UM, FROM AGAIN, FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, TOWN PARK WILL BE AN OASIS IN A HIGHLY URBANIZED AREA.
IN THE YEARS AHEAD, UH, TOWN PARK IS ALSO AN, A PEDES FOR AN ADDITIONAL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
IT WILL BE AN AUTHENTIC TYPE PARK PROVIDING A LO A FOCAL POINT FOR UNIQUE FAMILY AND INDIVIDUAL ACTIVITIES AND TOWN PARK WILL ASSIST WITH CELEBRATING LANDER'S NEW IDENTITY BY CONTRIBUTING TO THE OVERALL QUALITY OF LIFE.
I THINK WE ALL PRETTY MUCH AGREE ON SOME OF THOSE.
UH, AND IT'S ALSO ALONG WITH ALL THE OTHER CIVIC SPACES WILL BE CONNECTED TO A LARGER AMENITY INFRASTRUCTURE, SUCH AS SIDEWALKS GREENSPACES EVEN, UH, ON THE WEST SIDE, NEAR BRUSHY CREEK BIKE PATH STREETSCAPES, AND HEATHER MAKES YOU SOME ENTITIES.
UM, SO TOWNE PARK AND ALL OF THE CIVIC SPACES WILL ASSIST IN CREATING A DISTINCTIVE AND TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY WILL SHIFT THE PARADIGM AND HELP REDEFINE OUR CITY AND EVEN OUR COMMUNITY.
UH, WE HAVE BEEN WORKING WITH NORTH LINE AND S UH, AND EVEN CITY ATTORNEYS.
SO NORTHLAND, ATTORNEYS, AND CITY ATTORNEYS TO DEVELOP CIVIC SPACE MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENT, LICENSE AGREEMENTS, AND SPECIAL EVENT LICENSE AGREEMENTS.
WE'RE STILL IN THAT PROCESS WHERE WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS.
UH, WE HAVEN'T COME TO THAT POINT YET TO BRING THAT TO YOU, BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT WE ARE IN THAT PROCESS OF, OF DOING THAT.
UH, IN THE, EVEN ON THE PAST COUPLE OF WEEKS, WE'VE HAD MEETING AND DISCUSSIONS RELATED TO THE HUB ENTERTAINMENT COMPLEX AND WORKING IN PLANNING THAT RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM AND THE CITY, UH, AND, UH, EVEN PERHAPS ADDITIONAL
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ENTITIES AS THEY COME ON BOARD WITHIN THE NORTH LINE DEVELOPMENT.UH, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE DIALOGUE AS, AS TO TYPES OF ACTIVITIES AND EVENTS THAT WILL TAKE PLACE AROUND OLD TOWN.
UM, WE'VE, WE'VE GOT SOME THINGS TO STILL WORK THROUGH, BUT I'M VERY CONFIDENT WE CAN ARRIVE AT A POINT WHERE ALL FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THE DIRECTION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP.
SO THAT CONCLUDES MY SHORT PRESENTATION.
YOU MENTIONED THE MOVE AWAY FROM NATURAL GRASS TO TURF, AND I APPLAUD THAT FOR CONSERVATION.
WE NEED TO SAVE WATER WHERE WE CAN.
IS THERE ANY RECOURSE FOR HOW HOT TURF CAN GET WHEN WE HAVE THESE SOARING TEMPS OF 1 0 5 AND 110 FOR DAYS AND WEEKS AT A TIME, I'M ASSUMING THAT PEOPLE WOULD BE OUT THERE AND HE WOULDN'T WANT PEOPLE TO RELAX ON THEIR EARS.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE SHADE OR COVERING, OR IS THERE OTHER RECOURSE? OF COURSE, WE'VE, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN PLANNING SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE MATURE TREES AND TREES THAT WILL GROW THAT WILL HELP WITH SHADE COVER.
OBVIOUSLY THERE IS NOT A SPECIFIC SHADE COVER THAT WILL COVER THE ENTIRE AREA.
OBVIOUSLY, UH, THE PAVILION AREA WILL HAVE A SORT OF A PERGOLA TYPE EFFECT.
SO IF YOU'RE EATING A LUNCH ON THE PAVILION AREA, UM, YOU'LL HAVE SOME SHADE AND SUN RELIEF IN THAT AREA.
AS FAR AS THE SYNTHETIC TURF, THERE ARE, UM, WAYS THAT MANUFACTURERS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO USE A COOL BEAD IT'S CALLED COOL BEADS INSTEAD OF THE TYPICAL BLACK PELLETS THAT WE HAVE AT BLEDSOE, UM, COST HAS COME DOWN IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS.
SO IT'S RELATIVELY SIMILAR, AND I BELIEVE THAT'S THE DIRECTION WE'LL GO WHEN WE START PUTTING IN A SYNTHETIC.
SO IT'LL, IT'LL, IT'LL TAKE OFF INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S A HUNDRED DEGREES ON A SATURDAY AFTERNOON AT TWO O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON THAT, YOU KNOW, BLEDSOE'S AROUND 130 DEGREES AT THE SURFACE.
UM, SO HOPEFULLY THAT'LL REDUCE IT DOWN INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF ABOUT AIR TEMPERATURE, MAYBE, MAYBE A LITTLE LESS, BUT PROBABLY RIGHT AROUND AIR TEMPERATURE.
SO MAYBE I MISSED THIS, BUT WHAT KIND OF EVENTS WILL BE AT THIS PART? BECAUSE IT'S NOT LIKE 4TH OF JULY, LIBERTY FEZ IS NOT BIG ENOUGH FOR THAT.
SO WHAT KIND OF EVENTS ARE WE TARGETING? UM, WELL, WE'RE STILL, WE'RE WORKING THROUGH A LOT OF THOSE WHERE WE'VE WE'VE, UM, IDENTIFIED, UH, GOSH, WE WORKED A COUPLE YEARS AGO, IF NOT MORE ON, I THINK WE CAME UP WITH 50 OR 60 DIFFERENT TYPES OF VANS, EVERYTHING FROM, UH, FARMERS TYPE MARKETS, UH, CRAFT MARKETS, UM, UH, JAZZ FESTIVALS, WINE AND JAZZ FESTIVALS.
I MEAN, THERE'S, THE LIST GOES ON AND ON.
THERE'S A LOT OF UNIQUE THINGS THAT WE CAN DO WITH THAT SPACE THAT WE'RE NOT ABLE TO DO IN SOME OTHER AREAS.
SO THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS WE'LL BE CONCENTRATING ON.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. THOMAS.
UH, MR. GRIMSLEY, ANYTHING ELSE? UM, NO.
MA'AM AND HE'S, HE IS CORRECT.
WE ARE, WE ARE CLOSE ON SOME OF THOSE MAINTENANCE AGREEMENTS, SO WE HAVE BEEN WORKING ON THOSE PRETTY HARD.
WE'RE GOING TO ADJOURN THE BRIEFING WORKSHOP AT 6:18 PM.
PLEASE BE IN YOUR SEATS AT SEVEN O'CLOCK FOR OUR REGULAR MEETING,
[4. Open Meeting, Invocation and Pledges of Allegiance.]
PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE PLEDGES OF ALLEGIANCE.LET'S BOW OUR HEADS AND PRAY FATHER.
WE'RE JUST SO THANKFUL FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO GATHER HERE TONIGHT.
I BELIEVE IN YOUR WORD THAT SAYS THAT IN THE MULTITUDE OF COUNSEL, OUR PLANS WILL SUCCEED.
AND SO LORD, WE JUST THANK YOU FOR THE SUCCESS AND FOR ALL WHO HAVE COME TONIGHT, I PRAY THAT YOU'LL GIVE US WISDOM AND GRACE, AND AN ABILITY TO GAIN CLARITY AND UNDERSTANDING IS IN A QUICK AND PRECISE WAY.
I REMEMBER THE LAST TIME I CAME HERE IN THE PRAYERS THAT WE WERE PRAYING.
WE THANK YOU FOR THIS RAIN AND ALL THAT.
WE PRAY FOR EVERY MATTER AND ALL THE BUDGETING THAT YOU'LL GIVE US INCREDIBLE WISDOM AND GUIDANCE.
AND WE'RE SO GRATEFUL FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY EVEN TO BE HERE AND JESUS NAME, WE PRAY.
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UNDER GOD.THE CITY SECRETARY CRABTREE, WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL COUNCIL MEMBER KATHERINE BATTALION PARKER HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER ASKED ME, MATTHEW LYNN, GLORIA HERE.
COUNCIL MEMBER, DAVID MACDONALD, MAYOR PER TIM, NICOLE THOMPSON, PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER CHRIS' SURNAME COUNCIL MEMBER, BECKY ROSS HERE, MAYOR CHRISTINE DULLA HERE.
QUORUM IS PRESENT IN THE CITY.
COUNCIL IS ELIGIBLE TO DO BUSINESS, UH, FOR NON-AGENDA ITEM, PUBLIC COMMENTS.
I DO NOT HAVE ANYBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK ON ANYTHING THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA.
WAS THERE ANYBODY WHO DID WISH TO SPEAK? ALL RIGHT,
[7. Staff Reports Public Works update]
WE MOVE ON TO ITEM SEVEN.STAFF REPORTS WITH A PUBLIC WORKS UPDATE FROM OUR PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR ELLISON.
THIS ITEM IS TO UPDATE ON THE WATER USAGE FOR THE MONTH OF JULY, WHICH HONESTLY SEEMS LIKE A REALLY LONG TIME AGO STILL.
UM, SO I HAVE SOME UPDATES ON OUR COMBINED LAKE STORAGE.
I UPDATED THEM SINCE I TALKED TO Y'ALL, UM, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND OUR DAILY USAGE FOR JULY CONNECTION GROWTH.
AND THEN, UM, SOME OF OUR WATER CONSERVATION, UM, OUTLOOK, UH, ITEMS. AND THEN DAN IS GOING TO PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON THE BCR UA PIPELINE, AS WELL AS THE WASTEWATER PLANT UPDATED FROM LAST MEETING.
UH, THESE GRAPHS SHOW, UH, AUGUST 16TH DATA.
SO, UM, SIMILAR TREND WHERE WE'RE STILL SEEING THE LAKES DROP, THEY DROPPED ABOUT 2% FROM A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO.
THEY'RE STILL SEEING ABOUT THAT ONE FOOT A WEEK, UM, DROP IN LAKE TRAVIS WITH THE HEAT AND, AND, UH, UH, HOT TEMPERATURES AND THE NO RAIN.
THE USAGE FOR JULY IS SHOWN IN THE DARK BLUE JULY OF THIS YEAR.
AND THIS IS JUNE, I'M SORRY, JULY OF LAST YEAR.
AND THEN THIS IS JUNE LAST MONTH.
SO WE STAYED PRETTY CONSISTENT EVEN WITH NO RAIN.
NO, AND IN THE HIGH TEMPERATURES, WE WERE RIGHT AROUND THAT 18 MILLION GALLON A DAY.
OUR PEAK DAY LAST MONTH WAS 19.6.
UM, THE MONTH BEFORE IN JUNE, IT WAS 18.5.
SO ABOUT A MILLION GALLONS MORE, UM, CAN SEE A CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCE HERE, UH, FOR, FOR JULY OF LAST YEAR.
UM, YEAR OVER YEAR, WE DID ABOUT 230 MILLION GALLONS MORE THIS JULY THAN WE DID LAST JULY.
UM, JUST YOU'LL SEE ON THE NEXT SLIDE.
UH, HOT TEMPERATURES, UH, AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR JULY WAS ALMOST 101 DEGREES WITH ZERO RAIN.
SO, UM, THAT'S TO BE EXPECTED.
UM, THE SANDY CREEK PRODUCTION IS SHOWN IN BLUE, OR WE SEE, AND THEN THE BCRA PRODUCTION SHOWN IN GREEN FOR THE TOTAL, UM, FOR THE CITY.
SO WE'RE STILL RIGHT AROUND, UH, 60 40 SPLIT BETWEEN THE TWO WITH
UM, ABOUT THE SAME AS JULY FOR LAST YEAR.
UM, WE DID ABOUT 15.8% GROWTH ABOUT 3,800 CONNECTIONS FROM LAST YEAR AND ABOUT 170, UH, ALMOST 180 CONNECTIONS FROM LAST MONTH.
SO THAT'S KIND OF ABOUT AVERAGE.
WE SEE ABOUT 150 TO 200 A MONTH.
SO, UM, PRETTY, UH, PRETTY CONSISTENT OF A LOT OF NOTES ON WATER CONSERVATION.
UH, WE HAVE, WE HAD OUR MEETING LAST MONTH WITH THE TRIVIA.
TREVISO HOA TALKING ABOUT CONSERVATION.
UM, HE HAS A COUPLE MORE LINED UP OR TO BE LINED UP, MOSTLY TALK ABOUT INDOOR OUTDOOR WATER SAVING TIPS.
UM, MOSTLY ON THE LANDSCAPE OF COURSE, CAUSE THAT'S WHERE WE SEE THE MOST BENEFICIAL USE TO OUR SYSTEM.
UM, HE GIVES THEM IDEAS ON HOW TO SELF ASSESS, UM, AND GOOD, AND THEY GET THAT IDEA OF HOW MUCH WATER THEY'RE ACTUALLY USING, UM, ON COMPLIANCE AND ENFORCEMENT.
WE'VE BEEN WORKING A LOT WITH THE HOS.
UM, OUR GUYS HAVE BEEN WORKING LONG HOURS, UM, MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT HOURS AND DRIVING AROUND TOWN, KIND OF THAT 2:00 AM TO 5:00 AM HOUR THAT WE SEE THE PEAK USAGE AND THOSE HOS THAT WE'RE SEEING IRRIGATING ON WRONG DAYS.
UM, WE'RE SHUTTING THEM OFF, PUTTING A NOTE IN THE BOX AND THEN THEY'VE BEEN REACHING OUT TO US.
SO WE'VE DONE THAT WITH ABOUT HOA EIGHT HOA IS ABOUT 25 METERS.
SO THAT GIVES BILL A GOOD CHANCE TO CONNECT WITH THE HOA AND THEIR IRRIGATOR.
UM, AND HE'S HAD REALLY GOOD SUCCESS WITH THAT.
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WE, WE FIND WE'RE FINDING THAT THEY'RE, THEY ARE WATERING ON THE CORRECT DAY.A LOT OF THEM ARE, BUT THEY'RE WATERING THEIR ENTIRE SYSTEM INSTEAD OF WHERE EACH INDIVIDUAL METER IS.
SO IT'S NOT GIVING US THAT SPREAD THAT WE LIKE TO SEE.
SO WHERE THE METER IS LOCATED, WE'RE SAYING, OKAY, THAT ADDRESS IS THE ADDRESS YOU USE.
SO IT'S HELPING US TO SPREAD THEM OUT.
UM, HE'S WORKING WITH THE AGRILIFE AND THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE TO TRY TO GET AN EVENT TOGETHER, UM, PUBLIC LIBRARY TO KIND OF GET SOME COLLECTION GOING THERE AND THEN WORKING WITH OUR POS OFFICE TO SEE IF WE CAN GET KIND OF THAT NEW RESIDENT PACKAGE AND KIND OF GET PEOPLE WHEN THEY'RE FIRST MOVING IN.
UM, SOME INFORMATION BEFORE I GO TO THAT ONE, UM, ALL THAT SET ON CONSERVATION AND ALL THIS OUTREACH THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE HOA.
UM, WE'RE HAPPILY SEEING SOME, MAYBE SOME GOOD TRENDS HERE.
UM, SO I SAID THE CREWS ARE GOING OUT.
WEDNESDAYS IS TYPICALLY ONE OF OUR WORST DAYS.
UM, AND IT'S, IT'S BEEN OUR PEAK DAY, WEEK AFTER WEEK.
SO THIS LAST WEDNESDAY WE SAW OUR LOWEST WEDNESDAY SINCE, UM, SIX WEEKS AGO.
SO THAT'S, I'M SORRY, BEGINNING OF JULY.
SO THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S HELPFUL, BUT WE ALSO SAW OUR LOWEST DAY PERIOD SINCE JUNE 28 ON MONDAY OF THIS WEEK.
SO WE'RE HOPING MAYBE SOME OF THAT IS STARTING TO LEVEL LOAD IN OUR SYSTEM.
WE'RE NOT SEEING IS THE TIERED RATES.
UM, WE'RE STILL SEEING ABOUT 36% OF THE PEOPLE USING ALMOST 70% OF THE WATER.
SO YOU CAN SEE, I MEAN, THERE ARE QUITE A FEW PEOPLE THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, NOT, NOT QUITE GETTING TO THAT THOUSAND GALLON A MONTH MARK, BUT THERE THAT ONLY ACCOUNTS FOR 30% OF OUR USAGE.
SO STILL HOPING, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT TAKES, TAKES SOME STRONGER, STRONGER EFFECT ON THE, ON THE USAGE.
AND THEN IF YOU HAD ANY QUESTIONS FOR ME AND THEN DAN WILL BE UP NEXT, DO YOU MIND JUST GOING BACK TO THAT GRAPHIC FOR A SECOND? OKAY.
I JUST WANTED TO SEE THE NUMBERS AGAIN.
COUNSEL, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING QUESTIONS? I'M USE IT.
GOOD EVENING, MR. GRANTSVILLE, MAYBE.
MAYOR COUNCIL, DAN GRIMSBY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
AND, UM, I ACTUALLY HAVE, UH, UH, TWO THINGS TO TALK ABOUT.
UM, ONE IS THE, UH, OF COURSE THE BCRA WHITEWATER, UH, LINE REPORT.
AND WE, UM, PROVIDING, UH, THE COUNCIL INFORMATION FROM THE STANDPOINT THAT THERE IS, UH, A LEAK ONLINE AND, UH, POTENTIAL REPAIRS.
SO, UH, THIS PRESENTATION WE'LL KIND OF TALK THROUGH THAT PROCESS.
UM, SO JUST KIND OF A TIMELINE, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF HISTORY OF THE FIRST BREAK OCCURRED IN DECEMBER OF 2020.
UM, UM, I'M SURE THAT'S WELL REMEMBERED.
IT TOOK FIVE MONTHS TO REPAIR AND IT WAS REPAIRED.
UM, THE SAME REPAIR IS FAILING AND AS NOW LEAKING ABOUT 1.1 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY.
SO THE CAPACITY OF THE LINE IS 32 MILLION GALLONS PER DAY.
SO THIS IS LIKE 3%, UH, BUT THE DILEMMA THAT'S, THAT'S STILL A LARGE LEAK.
AND SO IT STILL, IT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED BECAUSE THAT COULD LEAD TO OTHER ISSUES.
UM, SO WE'LL TALK A BIT MORE ABOUT THAT.
UM, THE LEAK WAS FOUND, UH, BECAUSE OF THE, THE FIRST BREAK WE HAD A CONTINUOUS, UH, MONTHLY INSPECTION.
AND SO DURING THEIR ROUTINE MONTHLY INSPECTION, UM, THIS LARGER LEAK WAS FOUND.
AND, UM, AND SO, UH, WE'RE NOW TAKING ACTIONS TO FACILITATE, UM, FIGURING OUT WHAT THE NEXT STEPS ARE EVALUATING IT.
AND AGAIN, I'LL TALK TO THAT HERE IN A MINUTE.
UM, YOU CAN SEE THE TIMELINES, WE HAD A CALL, UH, IMMEDIATELY, AND THEN WE WALK, UH, PARTNERS CONTACTED DALE AND GLOBAL.
THOSE ARE THE CONTRACTORS THAT ARE ACTUALLY GOING TO BE USED TO DO THE DEEP WATER INTAKE.
SO THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE WITH TUNNELING AND, AND, UM, DEALING WITH, UH, PIPES UNDER WATER AND REPAIRS AND SO FORTH.
SO, UM, SO IN THAT SENSE, WE HAVE A, WE HAVE A POTENTIALLY REALLY GOOD TEAM ON BOARD, UNDER CONTRACT TO BE ABLE TO HELP US, UH, RESOLVE THIS ISSUE.
UM, THE LAST ONE IS AS A, WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE DOING TOMORROW AND, UM, IS SENDING THEIR RE REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE TO GO INTO WATER.
AND SO THE, BEFORE IT WAS JUST DIVERS DOWN HERE TRYING TO EVALUATE IT.
AND, UM, THEY COULD ONLY GET SO CLOSE TO SEE SO MUCH BECAUSE OF THE VISIBILITY.
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ABLE TO GET CLOSER OR THE CAPABILITY, AND OF COURSE IT HAS RADAR.SO IT WILL BE ABLE TO SEE THROUGH AND, AND KIND OF DETERMINE WHAT'S WHAT'S DOWN THERE AND WHAT ACTIONS WE MIGHT NEED TO TAKE.
UM, THIS WAS THE ORIGINAL BRAKE.
UM, WHAT HAPPENED IS THAT AS WE DISCUSSED, THERE'S A BALL JOINT AND THEN A SOLID JOINT AND THEN ANOTHER BALL JOINT.
AND THEN WHAT HAPPENED WAS THAT BETWEEN THE TWO BALL JOINTS, THE SOLID JOINT, UM, ISN'T VERY FLEXIBLE AND THE PIPE SNAPPED, IT SNAPPED RIGHT THERE.
AND THAT WAS THE FIRST, THE FIRST BREAK.
SO, UM, AS YOU RECALL, THAT SECTION OF PIPE THAT WAS BUILT THAT WAY IS THIS SECTION RIGHT HERE IN THE BLUE, IT'S ABOUT 1300 LINEAR FEET.
AND THEN IT GOES BACK TO THE ORIGINAL, UH, WHERE THE ORIGINAL DESIGN OF A BALL BALL BALL.
SO I'M JUST REITERATING SOME OF THIS, THAT'S KIND OF THE GENERAL LOCATION OF THE BREAK.
AS WE DISCUSSED THE BOARD, THE PIPELINE RUNS ALONG AND THEN RUNS UP, UM, ACCORDINGLY TO THE, TO THE PLANTS.
SO THIS IS A KIND OF A DRAWING OF WHAT'S DOWN THERE NOW.
UM, THEY HAD, UH, THEY HAD, UH, UH, BASICALLY, UH, BECAUSE THE, WHEN THEY REPAIRED IT, UM, OTHER THINGS OCCURRED, THEY ACTUALLY HAD TO REPLACE A SECTION OF THE PIPE.
UM, AND SO BECAUSE OF THAT, THEY HAD TO USE A SLEEVE AND THAT SLEEVE IS, UM, HAS WHAT THEY CALL MEGA LUGS AND IT'S TIGHTENED ON THE TWO PIPES AND IT FILLS THAT GAP THERE.
WELL, UM, IN BETWEEN HERE IS LIKE ANY OTHER FLANGE, THERE'S A GASKET AND OTHER THINGS.
AND SO THE LEAK IS, UH, IS OCCURRING BETWEEN THAT JOINT, IF YOU WANT TO SAY.
AND SO THAT'S THE AREA, THAT'S THE PART THAT THEY NEED TO FIX? UH, OR SO, SO KIND OF WHERE ARE WE AT RIGHT NOW? AND AGAIN, THIS IS HIGH LEVEL THAT'S, UM, VERY MUCH IN FLUX RIGHT NOW.
UM, THE INSPECTION SHOULD HAPPEN TOMORROW AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE MEETING, UM, UM, WITH THE CONTRACTOR ON HOPEFULLY NEXT STEPS.
UM, AS YOU SEE THERE, UM, WE'VE ALREADY SENT OUT A MESSAGE.
UM, WE DID WORK WITH SENDING OUT A MESSAGE TO THE PUBLIC.
IT WAS SENT OUT TODAY AT NOON, UM, KIND OF GENERALLY DESCRIBING WHAT WE'RE DESCRIBING HERE.
SO, UM, THAT, SO PEOPLE KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S THE POTENTIAL LEAK OUT THERE.
AND I ENDED UP IN SOMETHING WRONG WITH THE INTAKE WA WATER LINE RIGHT NOW.
UM, AND THAT, THAT WE'RE WORKING ON IT.
UM, AND THEN THE LAST PART IS KIND OF, KIND OF A LITTLE BIT OF A TIMEFRAME, UM, OF WHAT, WHAT WE WANT TO DO.
SO, SO BEFORE I, BEFORE I GO HERE, UM, WE'RE GOING TO HOPEFULLY LEARN QUITE A BIT MORE BY TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND, AND, AND GO FROM THERE.
UM, YOU'VE SEEN SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE PHOTOS BEFORE, CAUSE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT ACTUALLY MAKING THE PERMANENT REPAIR OF THAT LINE, WHICH WE'RE STILL IN THE PROCESS, THE DESIGN STILL MOVING FORWARD.
AND SO, UM, ANY QUESTIONS AS RELATED TO THIS? YES.
UH, THANK YOU SO MUCH, MR. GRIMSBY.
AND LIKE YOU SAID, A MOMENT AGO, THIS CAME OUT AT NOON TODAY.
UM, THERE'S ALREADY MISINFORMATION ALL OVER THE PLACE, SO I'M HOPING YOU CAN ADDRESS A COUPLE OF POINTS DEFINITIVELY FOR THE PUBLIC.
UM, SO THIS WAS DISCOVERED BY DIVERS THAT WERE INSPECTING IT.
CAN YOU SPEAK FOR JUST A MINUTE ABOUT WHY DIVERS WERE DOWN THERE INSPECTING? SO, UM, SO THEY WERE DOWN HERE INSPECTING BECAUSE WE HAD A, AN INITIAL BREAK AND THEN AN INITIAL DESIGN, THE 2020 BREAK.
AND SO THE INITIAL DESIGN OF THAT SECTION OF PIPE, UM, O WASN'T DONE CORRECTLY, UM, THE SUPPORT MECHANISMS, UM, WEREN'T INSTALLED CORRECTLY, SO THAT THAT PIPE BECAME VULNERABLE AND IN THAT BREAK OCCURRED, AND THERE'S A REPORT THAT ENDED, THAT INDICATES THAT THE VULNERABILITY THAT LINE, AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF REPLACING THAT LINE.
AND WE LOOKED AT, UM, ALTERNATIVE METHODS.
SO TO ENSURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND WHAT THE LINE'S DOING AND THAT DOESN'T SURPRISE US.
UM, THEY WERE DOING WEEKLY FOR A COUPLE MONTHS AFTER THE BREAK, JUST TO ENSURE IT WAS HOLDING AND DOING ITS JOB.
AND THEN, BECAUSE IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS STABLE.
UM, WE WANTED TO KEEP AN EYE ON IT, AND THIS WOULD HAVE BEEN UNTIL WE FIXED IT ON A PERMANENT NATURE, THAT WE WOULD CONTINUE THAT MONTHLY AND ESPECIALLY THE LINE, JUST TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD, UM, A SENSE OF WHAT IT WAS DOING, SORRY, FIXED IT OR REPLACED IT.
WELL, WE INITIALLY REPAIRED IT ONLY, BUT THEN THERE'S GOING TO THAT 1300 LINEAR FEET.
THAT WHOLE SECTION NEEDS TO BE REPLACED.
UM, IF YOU WANT TO SAY REPLACED OR PERMANENTLY REPAIRED AS REMEMBER, THIS LINE IS STILL NEEDED FOR AT LEAST FIVE MORE YEARS, UM, THIS IS WHAT'S PROVIDING, UM, THE RAW WATER TO THE PLANT TO BE TREATED UNTIL THE DEEP WATER
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INTAKE IS ESTABLISHED OR PUT IN PLACE.SO IT'S GOING TO BE THERE FOR A PERIOD OF TIME.
AND SO THE DIVERS ARE GOING DOWN THERE REGULARLY BECAUSE WE KNOW THERE'S AN ISSUE WITH IT AND WE HAVE TO INSPECT IT.
SO THAT'S WHY WHEN I SAY ROUTINE, IT'S ONLY ROUTINE IN A SENSE OF, OF, OF, UM, OF KEEPING AN EYE AND DOING DUE DILIGENCE ON THE ACTUAL REPAIR, UM, FOR THAT LINE.
AND DOES THIS PROBLEM IMPACT JUST LEANDER OR IS THIS THE ENTIRE BCRA AREA? WELL, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE OTHER CITIES, WHAT THEIR IMPACT IS ARE NON-IMPACT.
I CAN SPEAK WITH LEE ANDREWS IMPACT WOULD BE.
AND SO IF YOU WANT ME TO SPEAK TO THAT, I CAN, I MEAN, THE INTAKE, IT DOESN'T JUST FEED LAND.
IT DOES NOT JUST FEED THE AND OR, UM, WELL, THE INTAKE THAT PARTICULAR INTAKE ONLY FEEDS THE, UH, BCRA OR THE PUSHY CREEK REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT PLANT.
WE HAVE OUR OWN INTAKE CURRENTLY, UM, THAT PROVIDES US RAW WATER TO OUR TREATMENT PLANT.
AND CEDAR PARK HAS THEIR INTAKE, UM, BARGE, UH, I'VE SHOWED YOU THAT PICTURE WHERE ALL THREE BARGES ARE SITTING REALLY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER IN A COVE OF THE LAKE.
AND SO, UM, EACH OF THE THREE PLANTS RECEIVE WATER FROM THE LAKE VIA BARGES.
WHAT HAPPENED WAS IN 2013, THE LAKE DROPPED OUT AND THE BARGES WERE ALMOST AT THE BOTTOM AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE BEEN ABLE TO TAKE WATER.
SO THEY PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING.
THEY SAID, WE NEED SOMETHING BETTER.
AND IT WAS, I THINK, ALWAYS ALONG END THE DESIGN, BUT THE DEEP WATER INTAKE IS NOW IN PROCESS.
AND THAT AS I'VE SHOWN BEFORE, IT TAKES WATER FROM, UH, A DEEPER PART OF THE LAKE AND IT WILL PROVIDE WATER TO ALL THREE PLANTS AND ALL THREE BARGES, THEN WON'T BE NEEDED.
AND THEN THE LAST QUESTION I HAD IS THIS ISSUE, NOT THE BREAK, BUT THE ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD WITH THE INTAKE AND THE NEED TO MONITOR IT.
THAT'S SOMETHING THAT'S SUBJECT TO BCR UA ACTION, NOT JUST SOLELY LEANDER ACTION.
IT'S BEEN TALKED ABOUT MULTIPLE TIMES AT BCRF MEETINGS PUBLICLY, RIGHT.
UM, THAT THAT'S A, UM, AT BCRA, UM, FULL PARTNERSHIP, UM, SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
UM, YOU KNOW, WHEN I FIRST READ THE, WHAT WAS SENT TO US, YOU KNOW, YOU READ, LEAK LEAKING, YOU KNOW, OVER A MILLION GALLONS A DAY.
UM, THE AVERAGE HOMEOWNER THAT SAYS AS A HOMEOWNER, I THINK, OH, I'VE GOT A LEAK SOMEWHERE THAT'S BAD.
AND OF COURSE IT'S BAD, BUT THIS IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE IT'S STILL IN THE LAKE.
THE WATER THAT IS LEAKING IS GOING BACK INTO THE LAKE.
IT JUST MEANS WE'RE NOT ABLE TO PULL IT OUT BECAUSE THERE'S A HOLE IN THE BOTTOM OF THE STRAW, NOT IN THE TOP OF THE SHOT WHERE IT'S COMING OUT, IT'S IN THE BOTTOM OF THE STRAW, THAT'S STILL IN THE LAKE.
SO IT JUST MEANS WE CAN'T GET WATER OUT AS FAST AS WE COULD.
AND AS MUCH AS WE COULD, AS QUICK AS WE COULD TO PROCESS IT, TO GET TO THE HOMEOWNER OR COMMERCIAL OR WHATEVER TO TREAT IT, THAT'S TRUE.
SO THE WATER IS BEING, UM, UM, BEING TAKEN IN, IN THE LINE AND THEN SOMEWHERE DOWN THE LINE AND WE'RE KIND OF IN THE MIDDLE IT'S, THERE'S A HOLE AND IT'S COMING BACK OUT.
SO, UM, I EQUATE IT TO MORE LIKE A POOL WHERE YOU HAVE, UM, A POOL THAT'S FILLING AND THEN YOU HAVE A HOLE SOMEWHERE IN THE HOSE.
AND IT'S THIS RESEARCH IN THE WATER BACK INTO THE POOL.
WELL, THIS IS DOING THE SAME THING.
SO GALLONS IS NOT, YEAH, IT'S NOT TREATED WATER.
I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT, THAT EVERYONE UNDERSTOOD THAT IT'S STILL IN THE LEGS.
SO THE OTHER THING, AND THIS, THIS IS ACTUALLY A QUESTION.
SO WHEN, WHEN THE, I KNOW THIS WAS ORIGINALLY, I BELIEVE, DID YOU SAY 2014 THAT WHEN IT WAS BUILT AND THEN IT BROKE 2020? UM, SO NOW WE'RE IN THE RE THE REPAIR PROCESS FOR THE SECOND TIME.
AND, UM, THIS GOES TO, TO BCR BCR UA.
THEY'RE THE ONES THAT WILL VOTE ON OUR, AND TAKE ACTION ON THE COST OF THE REPAIRS APPROVING ALL OF THAT, OR IS THAT GOING TO COME TO US SEPARATELY, UM, TO EACH COUNCIL? SO THERE'S TRIGGER POINTS.
UM, THE, THE GENERAL MANAGER CAN SPEND FUNDS AT HER LEVEL KIND OF LIKE THE CITY MANAGER AND THEN AT A CERTAIN LEVEL.
THE BCRA THE GENERAL MANAGER OF THE BCRA CAN SPEND FUNDS.
AND THEN THE BOARD THEMSELVES HAVE THE CAPABILITY TO SPEND A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF FUNDS.
AND THEN ONCE IT EXCEEDS, AND I THINK IT'S $500,000, AND THEN IT HAS TO GO TO ALL THREE COUNCILS, UM, FOR APPROVAL.
AND SO, UM, DO, DO I THINK THE REPAIR WILL BE MORE THAN THAT? YEAH.
SO YOU'LL, YOU'LL BE SEEING, BUT, UM, SOME OF THE PROCESS, IT IS, UH, IT IS SOMEWHAT UNDER EMERGENCY SITUATION.
SO SOME OF THE PROCUREMENT WILL FALL UNDER THAT, JUST LIKE ANY CITY HAS THAT CAPABILITY, YOU KNOW, TO SHARE THE HEALTH AND WELLBEING OF THE, OF THE CITIZENS.
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THOSE, UM, RULES AND REGULATIONS WILL STILL BE FOLLOWED.AND AGAIN, YOU KNOW, UM, ALL THE PARTNERS ARE, ARE TALKING ACCORDINGLY.
MY QUESTION WAS, CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE REPAIR THAT HAPPENED BEFORE WHAT THAT PROCESS ENTAILED? AND I KNOW WE DON'T HAVE ALL THE DETAILS YET ABOUT WHAT THIS PROCESS WOULD ENTAIL, BUT ARE YOU ABLE TO SPEAK IN GENERAL TERMS ABOUT WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT THE REPAIR TO LOOK LIKE THE TIMEFRAME? UH, NO, I JUST DON'T WANT TO, I JUST DON'T WANT TO SPECULATE UNTIL THE CAUSE THE DIVERS WERE VERY LIMITED ON THEIR CAPABILITY AND THEIR ROVER'S GOING TO HOPEFULLY PROVIDE QUITE A BIT MORE.
AND I MEAN, UM, YOU KNOW, SO TOMORROW WE'LL, WE'LL BE BETTER AGAIN, THIS IS THIS TH TH THE KIND OF MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, YOU KNOW, UM, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW THAT THERE'S A POTENTIAL SITUATION AND THE PIPE IS IN THEIR PROCURIOUS OR KINDA WITH SOMEBODY ON STAPLE AND OUT TOMORROWS, THEY MAY SAY, YOU KNOW, UM, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S NOT AS BAD AS IT SEEMS. AND, AND WE CAN DO OTHER THINGS, BUT I'M NOT GONNA SPECULATE CAUSE GETTING, REMEMBER THE DIFFICULTY OF THIS, THIS IS A 36 INCH, THIS IS A 36 INCH PIPE, BUT THAT'S DUCTILE IRON, WHICH IS AN INCH THICK.
SO, YOU KNOW, THINK OF A PIECE OF METAL, THAT'S A, THAT'S AN INCH THICK THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE SEGMENTS ARE 20 FEET LONG THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE HAVING TO DEAL WITH 40 FEET UNDER THE WATER, UM, TRYING MAKE THIS REPAIR.
SO, YEAH, IT'S, IT'S A LOT OF, A LOT OF DYNAMICS IN IT.
SO THE ROVER IS BEING DEPLOYED TOMORROW.
FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THAT'S, THAT'S THE PLAN.
AND YOU SPOKE EARLIER ABOUT THE COMMUNICATION THAT WENT OUT TO THE CITY OF LEANDER.
DO YOU KNOW IF THE PARTNER CITIES HAVE ALSO PUT OUT COMMUNICATION IN THE CITY OF CEDAR PARK AND THE CITY OF AURORA? UM, I DO NOT.
AND I DON'T KNOW IF RPI KNOWS THAT, UM, I'LL, UH, I'LL LET THE EXPERT SPEAK TO THAT.
UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, MY NEW CHIEF OF STAFF.
WE HAVE, UM, HAD DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR COUNTERPARTS AT CEDAR PARK, UH, ABOUT THE MESSAGING THAT WENT ON TODAY.
WE'VE REACHED OUT TO, UH, THE CITY OF ROUND ROCK AS WELL.
UM, THEY MAY HAVE SOME DIFFERENT MESSAGING.
UH, THEY, WE DID WORK ON A LITTLE BIT OF, OF WHAT WE WANTED TO COMMUNICATE AT THIS POINT, KNOWING THAT WE ARE STILL GATHERING SOME INFORMATION, BUT THEY ARE AWARE OF OUR MESSAGES.
ANYTHING FURTHER? THANK YOU FOR THAT, MR. GINSBERG.
SO THE NEXT ONE IS, UM, AN INCIDENT THAT, UM, ESSENTIALLY OCCURRED YESTERDAY AND IT WAS OUT OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND JUST THE, UM, GIVE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS.
UM, UM, HERE'S OUR, HERE'S OUR W OUR WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT AND, UM, HERE'S OUR DISCHARGE, UM, OR WHAT THEY CALL IT OUTFALL, UH, TO THE WISHY CREEK AND THE, UH, THE, UH, THE INCIDENT WAS THAT WE HAD THE, AND, AND JUST TO MAKE SURE I'M CLEAR TO THE PUBLIC, UM, UH, THE INCIDENT FALLS UNDER OUR PERMIT, WHICH I HAVE IN MY HAND AND UNDER SECTIONS, UH, UM, IN THIS CASE IT WOULD BE SEVEN AND B AND THEN IT'S I, AND IT SAYS, UM, W WHAT HAPPENED FOR US IS THAT ANY ANTICIPATED BYPASS THAT EXCEEDS ANY EFFLUENT LIMITATIONS IN THE PERMIT AS A VIOLATION AND SHALL RE BE REPORTED UNDER MONITORING OR REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.
SO WHAT HAPPENED HERE WAS THAT WE, WE EXCEEDED, UM, AND THERE'S LOTS OF LIMITS, BUT WE EXCEEDED, UM, SOME OF THE PERMIT LIMITS, UM, RELATED TO THE PLANT.
NOW, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS IS CLEAR BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT SANITARY, SEWER OVERFLOWS, OR AN OWNER AUTHORIZED DISCHARGE, UM, THERE'S DIFFERENT KINDS.
YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE PLANT AND THAT WATER WAS ESSENTIALLY, UM, TREATED TO VERY STRINGENT LEVELS.
AND I'LL EXPLAIN THAT A BIT IN A MINUTE, BUT OTHER, YOU HAVE OTHER DISCHARGES WHERE YOU HAVE AN ACTUAL SEWER LINE BREAK, AND THEN THAT'S COMPLETELY WALL SEWAGE, UM, GOING ONTO THE ENVIRONMENT.
SO THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT SITUATION THAN A PLANT I'M EXCEEDING LIMITS.
SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE'S, WHEN SOMEONE SAYS THE WASTEWATER PLANT, THEY THINK OF RAW WATER, UM, BUT A DIFFERENT BETWEEN WHAT'S COMING IN AND WHAT'S EXITING.
UH, WHAT'S EXITING IS, UM, UH, IS VERY, UM, UH, TREE TREATABLE WATER, AND THAT'S OUR WHOLE FUNCTION.
AND WE HAVE TCEQ, UM, PROVIDES VERY STRINGENT LIMITS THAT WE HAVE TO MEET HOW MANY SOLIDS CAN BE, UM, SUBMITTED BACK INTO THE ENVIRONMENT.
UM, OTHER CHEMICALS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT.
AND AS THEY LEARN MORE, THOSE, THOSE, THOSE LIMITS BECOME EVEN MORE STRICT OR TIGHTER
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IF YOU WANT TO SAY.SO, I DON'T WANT PEOPLE TO GET THINK THAT THIS IS A RAW WATER IT'S IT WAS TREATED.
UM, BUT WE EXCEEDED, WE EXCEED OUR LIMIT.
SO IT'S STILL A REPORTABLE OFFENSE.
SO, SO WHAT HAVE WE DONE WELL FOR THE RULES AND REGULATIONS, UH, TCQ WAS NOTIFIED, AND WE SENT OUT A NOTIFICATION WITHIN THE 24 HOUR PERIOD, WHICH IS A REQUIREMENT BY TCQ.
THEY WERE ACTUALLY OUT TODAY AT NOON, THEIR SECOND TIME OUT.
AND THEY SAW ALL THE ACTION THAT, UM, THE TEAM, UH, LEE ANDREW'S TEAM WAS DOING.
AND THEY WERE, UH, THEY WERE HAPPY WITH WHAT THEY SAW BECAUSE WE WERE DOING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS.
UM, SO, SO WHY DID WE GET INTO THIS PREDICAMENT? UM, W WE GOT INTO THIS PREDICAMENT BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO UPGRADE THE PLANT, AND WE'RE TRYING TO DO THAT TWO WAYS.
ONE IS TO IMPROVE THE SLUDGE PROCESSING PROCESS SO WE COULD REMOVE MORE OF IT MORE QUICKLY, WHICH ALLOWS MORE SPACE ON THE PLANT.
AND THE SECOND PART IS THE AREA WHERE WE'RE ADDING, WHAT'S CALLED FINE BUBBLES.
RIGHT NOW, WE, WE HAVE, UM, WHAT'S KIND OF A NORMAL ROUTINE BUBBLE.
AND IF YOUR CAR GUY, OR GAL OR PERSON YOU COULD THINK BACK IN THE DAY, WE HAD CARBURETORS AND THEY PUT THE GAS IN THERE, AND IT WAS KIND OF CLUNKY AND MIX IT WITH AIR.
AND YOU GOT COMBUSTION, YOU KNOW, WITH PRESSURE FROM THE CYLINDER.
WELL, NOWADAYS WE HAVE FUEL INJECTION AND IT ATOMIZES, IT MEANING IN THE SMALL PARTICLES MIXED WITH THE AIR.
AND THAT COMBUSTION HAPPENS MUCH EASIER, UH, WITH LESS FUEL WHILE WE'RE DOING THE SAME THING WITH THE VARIATION, WE'RE PUTTING IT IN FINE BUBBLES TO MIX WITH THE SLUDGE AND THE BACTERIA IN ORDER TO BREAK DOWN THE MATERIAL MORE EFFICIENTLY AND QUICKER.
AND SO, SO WE'RE IN THAT WE WERE IN THAT PROCESS OF MAKING THE REPAIR, UM, OR AN UPGRADE TO THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT.
WE HAVE TWO BASINS, TWO AIR ASIA BASINS, AND WE HAD TO SHUT DOWN ONE, UM, AND CLEAN IT OUT AND GET IT READY FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE EQUIPMENT.
AND THEN WE, OF COURSE DID THE OTHER SIDE, WHEN HE, MEANTIME, WE'RE KIND OF RUNNING ONE.
SO WE'RE RUNNING RIGHT AT THE LIMIT OF THE PLANT.
AND, UM, UNFORTUNATELY WE EXCEEDED IT WELL BECAUSE, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO GET WHAT WE GOT DONE.
BOTH THE AERIATION BASINS ARE CLEANED OUT THE FINE BUBBLE EQUIPMENT, OR THE AIR EQUIPMENT'S ALREADY IS PRETTY MUCH INSTALLED IN THE ONE, BUT THE OTHER ONE, WE WON'T HAVE TO SHUT THE ON TO PLANT THE REST OF THE REST OF THE, IF YOU WANT TO SAY CONSTRUCTION OR UPGRADED, THE PLANT WILL BE DONE WHILE THE PLANT'S OPERATING.
SO THE, THE, THE EQUIPMENT NOW CAN BE INSTALLED SINCE THE, THE, UH, BASINS CLEANED OUT.
IT CAN SIT FLAT ON THE FLOOR AND THEN OPERATE CORRECTLY.
THAT WAS SOME OF THE ISSUES WE HAD TO DO.
CAUSE WE HAD SLUDGE AT THE BOTTOM.
WE HAD TO MAKE SURE IT WAS CLEANED OUT.
SO, SO OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS, UM, THE PLANET WILL COME BACK INTO FULL OPERATIONS AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THIS SYSTEM HOPEFULLY ON, IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS AND, UM, UM, ACTUALLY BOTH SYSTEMS, UM, AND THE AIR PROBABLY IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS OR SO, AND THEN SLEDGING OUT SOON THEREAFTER AND THE PLANT WILL BE IN A MUCH BETTER POSITION TO FACILITATE TREATING WASTEWATER.
AND SO, UM, UNFORTUNATELY, UM, I MUCH LIKE, UH, YOU HEARD PROBABLY FROM RON ROCK, UM, THEY'RE IN A PROCESS OF EXPANDING THEIR PLANT AND UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND THEY HAD A VERY SIMILAR EVENT.
SO, SO THE OTHER THING WE DID AS PART OF NOTIFICATION AND, UM, AND, AND LESSONS LEARNED, UH, WE, WE TOOK THIS ACTUALLY FROM RON ROCK CAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR SIGNS OUT ON THE MIRROR.
IT HAPPENED TO SEE THAT BECAUSE WE HAD TO GO DOWN THERE AND VISIT TCQ ABOUT THAT PARTICULAR, UM, OVERFLOW AND M SEATING SEATING PERMITS.
SO THIS IS A, THIS IS A SIGN WE HAVE, UM, LOCATED IN THOSE LOCATIONS, ALONG THE CREEK, UM, LETTING PEOPLE KNOW, UM, ABOUT THE CURRENT SITUATION.
UM, SO, AND AGAIN, WE PUT OUT, UM, NOTIFICATION, UM, AND THEN WE HAND DELIVERED.
THE, ONE OF THE REQUIREMENTS IS TO ENSURE IF THERE'S ANY WELLS IN THE AREA THAT THEY GET NOTIFIED IN THERE, THERE WAS, UM, A HANDFUL.
AND SO WE, WE HAND DELIVERED, UM, THE PUBLIC NOTIFICATION TO THOSE INDIVIDUALS.
UH, WE'LL BE WORKING WITH TCQ OVER THE NEXT SEVERAL DAYS.
UM, AND THEY'RE GOING TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, WE'RE COMPLYING WITH ALL THE RULES AND REGULATIONS AND CLEAN UP AND, AND WE'RE GOING TO GET THE PLANT, UM, OPERATING, UM, UH, THE WAY IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE.
UM, AND IN THIS CASE MORE EFFICIENTLY BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO HAVE IT UPGRADED.
SO, UM, I THINK I ONLY HAD THOSE, OH, I DID WANT TO SHOW THIS BECAUSE IT'S IMPORTANT.
UM, THIS IS THE BASE IN DRY AND YOU, AND YOU COULD SEE THAT THE WHOLE BOTTOM OF THE FLOOR THERE'S AS CLEAN.
AND JUST TO GIVE YOU A PERSPECTIVE, THAT'S PROBABLY 15 OR 20 FEET DEEP RIGHT THERE, ANDY AND DON AT THE BOTTOM IS THE AREA RATERS.
AND THESE, THIS PIPE WITH THESE LINES ARE THE NEW WITH SOME, WITH SOME PUMP, WITH A VERY SOPHISTICATED AIR PUMPS, UM, TO PROVIDE, UH, ESSENTIALLY OXYGEN,
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IF YOU WANT TO SAY INTO THE WATER TO ALLOW THE BACTERIA TO THRIVE AND THEN BREAK DOWN THE INORGANIC MATERIAL.AND SO, UM, THAT'S THAT THE OTHER SIDE HERE IS ACTUALLY OUR, UM, WAY WE FOR THE SLUDGE.
UM, BUT BASICALLY IT'S A PROCESS OF, UH, GETTING THE WATER OUT, DE-WATERING IT.
AND SO W WE CAN HAUL IT OFF AND, UH, THIS IS A MUCH FASTER PROCESS, SO WE CAN GET RID OF THE SLEDGEHAMMER MORE QUICKLY AND EFFICIENTLY.
AND AGAIN, UM, THE PLANT WILL OPERATE.
SO THIS IS THE NEW EQUIPMENT THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY IN THE PROCESS OF INSTALLING, AND WE'LL BE UP AND RUNNING IN SHORT ORDER.
SO WITH THAT, DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? I JUST HAVE A REQUEST.
CAN YOU TAKE THAT SIGN AND HOLD IT UP FOR THE CAMERA AND THEN LET EVERYBODY HERE SEE IT TOO? CAUSE IT DIDN'T, YOU WERE NOT ON CAMERA WHEN THAT WAS BEING SHOWN.
AND I KNOW PEOPLE WANT TO KNOW THIS IS A SIGN WE PUT UP.
AND THEN, WELL, I MEAN, PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE WATCHING AND THEY WANT TO SEE IT AND THEY'RE GOING TO MISS THE WHOLE THING.
AND I'D BE CURIOUS, WHAT DOES THE SIGN SAY? IT'S ANTICLIMACTIC, BUT AT LEAST NOW THEY'VE SEEN IT IT'S NEEDED.
IT'S AN, UH, AGAIN, IT'S, UH, IT'S, UH, YOU KNOW, THE CITY WORKED WITH TCQ AND, UH, AGAIN, I'VE TAKEN ALL THE RIGHT STEPS AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO DO THAT.
SO, UM, SO ANY, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? I HAVE ONE GREAT.
I DIDN'T WANT TO INTERRUPT IF YOU, HOW MANY TIMES HAVE WE EXCEEDED THE LIMIT? UM, UH, TO BE HONEST, UH, KELLY, THIS IS HIS FIRST TIME.
AND IF YOU READ HIS EMAIL TO ME, UM, IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, UH, THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED AND, YOU KNOW, I SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON TOP OF IT AND I'M LIKE, NO, THIS HAPPENS AT EVERY PLANT AT SOME POINT WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO UPGRADE IT, THIS HAPPENED WITH, YOU KNOW, RON ROCK WAS IN THE NEWS FOR TWO MONTHS, CITY OF CORPUS CHRISTI.
I WAS THERE FOR SEVERAL, UM, UH, THESE ADVISORIES AND, AND I WAS OUT THERE WALKING AROUND AND, YOU KNOW, D D MUD TRYING TO FIND, UH, THE LEAK WITH MY GUYS.
AND SO, YEAH, JUST, I MEAN, IT'S MECHANICAL EQUIPMENT.
UM, WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PREVENT THAT.
UM, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S, UM, MAINTENANCE AND INSPECTIONS, BUT, YOU KNOW, UH, AND IN THIS CASE WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD TO TRY TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, FOR THE UPGRADE, UH, KEEP IT MOVING FORWARD.
SO, YOU KNOW, GOOD ON THE TEAM FOR, AND THEY GOT THE BASIS RIGHT BACK UP AND THE PLANT GOING SO GOOD ON THE TEAM FOR REALLY, UM, GETTING US THROUGH AND THEN GETTING UP THERE NEEDED ACTIONS, TAKEN CARE OF.
SO, YEAH, AND BIG KUDOS TO OUR PUBLIC WORK STAFF.
UM, WE'VE GOT A PRETTY STELLAR RECORD AT THAT PLANT.
I KNOW THAT THE, THE LAST SEVERAL HOURS HAVE BEEN ROUGH ON ALL OF YOU.
SO, UM, PLEASE GIVE THEM OUR APPRECIATION.
ANYTHING ELSE MR. GINSBURG? AND THEN, UH, I HOPE NOT.
[8. Leander History]
ALRIGHT.ITEM EIGHT, LEANDER HISTORY WITH OUR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION, VICE CHAIR, KAT HOWELL.
GOOD EVENING, MR. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
I HAVE A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT SUBJECT.
I'M HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT THE LAND OR THALL LADY.
THIS IS THE 40TH YEAR SINCE HER DISCOVERY, UM, THE SITE WHERE SHE WAS DISCOVERED.
WELL, IT WAS, UM, THE ARCHEOLOGIST HAD KNOWN ABOUT THE SITE SINCE THE 1970S.
UM, I SPOKE ABOUT THIS A COUPLE OF THREE YEARS AGO THAT WERE THE BLOCKHOUSE CREEK NEIGHBORHOOD.
IS THAT, THAT WAS A ARCHEOLOGICAL SITE SINCE THE 1920S.
UM, WE LOST THE 54 INDIAN MINS THERE, BUT WE HAVE NOT LOST THIS SITE.
UM, THE DISCOVERY OF LEANNE IS SHE IS NICKNAMED WAS ON DECEMBER 29TH, 1982.
THE OFFICIAL NAME OF THE SITE IS THE WILSON LEONARD BRUSHY CREEK SITE.
SHE WAS FOUND APPROXIMATELY 12 FEET BELOW GRADE.
SO THEY HAD BEEN DIGGING VERY DEEP FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS, THEREABOUTS, UH, CAUSE I HAD STARTED IN THE LATE SIXTIES DIGGING, FINDING THE ARROWHEADS THERE.
UM, SHE IS THE OLDEST RITUALIZED BURIAL IN NORTH AMERICA, UH, THAT INCLUDE NORTH AMERICA, AS YOU KNOW, INCLUDES MEXICO UNITED STATES, CANADA.
THERE ARE SOME VERY, VERY OLD CIVILIZATIONS IN MEXICO.
THE INCOSE THE AZTECS, SHE PREDATES ALL OF THAT.
UM, UM, SHE WAS ORIGINALLY DATED FOR 13,000 TO 10,000 YEARS OLD AND THAT ORIGINAL CARBON DATING FOR HER WAS DONE BY THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA AT THE TIME IN 83.
THAT WAS THE MOST SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGY SINCE THEN, THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HAS DEVELOPED
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A BETTER CARBON DATING SYSTEM AND THEY HAVE NARROWED IT DOWN TO 11,000 YEARS.UM, AND THAT'S WHAT IT LISTS THERE WITH, UH, GIVE OR TAKE OF 200 YEARS, WHICH I THINK IS PRETTY IMPRESSIVE ACTUALLY.
UM, THERE IS A SIMILAR SITE OUTSIDE OF WACO AND IT HAS A MAN AND A CHILD, BUT IT IS YOUNGER ABOUT BY 900 YEARS, BUT IS STILL PART OF THE SAME PALEO INDIAN SYSTEM.
UM, BUT SHE IS THE FIRST ONE AND SHE IS THE BEST PRESERVED.
UM, SHE WAS BURIED ALONG WITH HER AND LET ME GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE, UM, WITH A SHARP TOOTH, SOME, UH, GRINDING STONES AND THEN THE PICTURE OVER ON THE RIGHT, UM, THAT WAS ACTUALLY TAKEN BY MY MOTHER.
SHE WAS IN, SHE WAS ONE OF THE VERY FEW LAY PEOPLE THAT WAS ALLOWED TO GO TO THE SITE.
SHE WAS ASKED TO GO THERE ON DECEMBER 29TH AND SHE GOT TO SEE IT THERE.
SO SHE WAS ONE OF JUST A COUPLE OF THREE PERSONS THAT WERE NOT PART OF THE TECHSTOP OR UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS ARCHEOLOGIST AND THEN THE A AND M SYSTEM.
UM, WE HAD ARCHEOLOGISTS FROM UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS, FROM ARIZONA FROM A AND M NORTH TEXAS, UM, MUSEUM OF NATURAL SCIENCES.
AND, UM, THERE WAS ONE MORE, UM, THAT THEY STUDIED HER AND SHE CURRENTLY RESIDES DOWN IN A BOX DOWN AT UT PICKLE RESEARCH CENTER.
THIS IS A PICTURE FROM THE ACTUAL ORIGINAL, UM, ARCHEOLOGICAL DIG.
AND YOU CAN SEE THEY DOCUMENTED EVERYTHING.
YOU CAN SEE THERE'S TWO PHOTOGRAPHERS, ONE ON EACH SIDE.
SO THERE WERE ALMOST AS MANY PHOTOGRAPHERS AS THERE WERE PEOPLE DIGGING OVER HERE ON THE LEFT.
THEY WENT BACK TO THE SITE IN THE 1990S AND THEY STUDIED IT AGAIN FOR ANOTHER ABOUT 10 MORE YEARS.
UM, THAT'S WHEN THE ARCHEOLOGISTS, THEY REALLY GEEKED OUT ON THIS WHOLE THING AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THAT'S QUITE A BIT DEEPER THAN 12 FEET.
UM, ON THIS SITE, THEY HAVE FOUND THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF ARROWHEADS.
THEY HAVE, UM, FOUND THEIR FINAL REPORT FROM THIS 1990S STUDY IS FIVE VOLUMES LONG AND CHRIS TWING, WHO IS AN ARCHEOLOGIST AND SHE'S ON OUR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION.
SHE HAS TWO OF THOSE VOLUMES AND SHE SAYS, EACH ONE IS ABOUT TWO AND A HALF INCHES THICK.
SO THIS FOUR ARCHEOLOGISTS IN THE ARCHEOLOGY WORLD, THIS SITE, WHICH IT IS PART OF ACTUALLY IN CEDAR PARK CITY LIMITS NOW, BUT AT THE TIME IT WAS CONSIDERED PART OF LEANDER.
THIS SITE FOR ARCHEOLOGIST IN THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE IS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT SITES.
THERE IS, UM, THE MIDDLE PICTURE.
THERE IS THE DRAWING THAT THEY HAVE OF WARD.
SHE WAS IN SITU AND IT SHOWS HER BODY AND THE OTHER ELEMENTS THAT WERE BURIED WITH HER.
AND THEN OVER ON THE RIGHT, I JUST HAVE THE STRATA TO SHOW HOW DEEP THEY'VE GONE.
AND HERE IS WHAT ALL THAT WE HAVE LEFT TO SHOW.
UM, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IS THE ACTUAL HISTORICAL MARKER THAT WE HAVE ON 180 3 IT'S OVER IN FRONT OF THE CHIROPRACTOR'S OFFICE.
AND ON THE LEFT IS A TRASH CAN.
AND THAT TRASH CAN, I WOULD, I CANNOT COME UP HERE BEFORE Y'ALL AND NOT MENTIONED THIS, UM, THIS TRASH CAN NEXT TO THIS HISTORICAL MARKER IS ACTUALLY BECOME A JOKE WITH A LOT OF PEOPLE.
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IDENTIFY IT ON THE INTERNET IS THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN GO TO FIND THAT INFORMATION IS BY THE TRASHCAN.
SO I KNOW THAT FORMER MAYORS, I KNOW THAT WE'VE HAD ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE GO AND ASK FOR THE TRASH CAN TO BE REMOVED.
AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE, BUT HOPEFULLY SOMEDAY WE CAN GET THE TRASH CAN AWAY FROM THESE MARKERS BECAUSE IT HAS BECOME A JOKE.
AND SINCE IT SAYS LEANDER, I DON'T WANT LEANDER BE A JOKE ANYMORE.
AND Y'ALL HAVE A GOOD EVENING.
[ CONSENT AGENDA: ACTION]
GOING TO MOVE ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA.ITEM NUMBER 15 HAS BEEN PULLED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA AND WILL BE CONSIDERED SEPARATELY.
COUNSEL YOU'D BE CONSIDERING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS NINE THROUGH 14 AND 16 THROUGH 20.
THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM, MOTION TO APPROVE.
IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[15. Approval of a waiver of Article 8.04, Noise, Section 8.04.001(a) (11) in the hours of construction work to Fineline General Contractor to provide for concrete pours to begin at 4:00 a.m. from August 30 through September 30 (weather dependent), for a total of seven (7) concrete pours, for the Shops at Hero Way project site located on 11620 Hero Way West; and requiring Fineline General Contractors to post notifications for nearby tenants a minimum of forty-eight (48) hours in advance of the activities.]
15 APPROVAL OF A WAIVER OF ARTICLE 8.04.NOISE SECTION 8.0 4 0 0 1 8 11 IN THE HOURS OF CONSTRUCTION WORK TO FIND LINE GENERAL CONTRACTOR TO PROVIDE FOR CONCRETE POURS TO BEGIN AT 4:00 AM FROM AUGUST 30TH THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, WEATHER DEPENDENT
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FOR A TOTAL OF SEVEN CONCRETE POURS FOR THE SHOPS AT HERO WAY.PROJECT SITE LOCATED ON 1, 1 6, 2 0 HERO WAY WEST AND REQUIRING FINE LINE GENERAL CONTRACTORS TO POST NOTIFICATION FOR NEARBY TENANTS, A MINIMUM OF 48 HOURS IN ADVANCE OF THE ACTIVITIES, A CITY ENGINEER AT BLACK HEADER.
I AM THE ONE WHO PULLED THIS ITEM.
UM, AND SO I'M SORRY THAT WE HAVE CALLED YOU UP.
DO YOU WANT ME TO START OR DO YOU WANT TO START IF YOU WOULD START? UM, I TEND TO BRISTLE AT THESE THAT START AT 4:00 AM.
UM, ESPECIALLY WHEN THEY'RE IN PROXIMITY TO HOMES AND HER, MOST OF VILLAGE APARTMENT HOMES ARE RIGHT BEHIND THIS SITE.
AND SO I JUST WANT TO ENSURE THAT IF WE ARE APPROVING TO START AT 4:00 AM, THAT'S GOING TO BE ON THE AREAS THAT ARE CLOSER TO HERO WAY.
AND IF THAT'S NOT POSSIBLE, THEN PERHAPS WE CHANGE THAT.
START TIME TO SOMETHING LATER.
IF COUNCIL APPROVES THAT YOUR THOUGHTS, WE WILL CONVEY THAT INFORMATION TO THE CONTRACTOR AND, UH, TRY TO MAKE THEM CONFORM TO THOSE HOURS HERE.
NO MA'AM BUT USUALLY DON'T SHOW UP FOR A NOISE FOR ANSWER.
IT'S TYPICALLY PRETTY STANDARD.
SO WE WILL CONVEY THAT TO THE OKAY.
UM, COUNSEL DID EITHER ONE OF THOSE OPTIONS SOUND GOOD TO YOU? I WON'T, I MEAN, I'M NOT NECESSARILY OPPOSED TO IT, BUT MY UNDERSTANDING FROM OTHER PEOPLE THAT HAVE COMING IS THE EARLY START THOMAS BECAUSE OF THE HEAT AND THE ABILITY TO BE ABLE TO GET THE, THE TRUCKS IN THERE FOR THE POOR.
SO I, I'M NOT SURE THAT THERE REALLY IS AN ALTERNATIVE.
SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST, AND I THINK IT WAS ON HER MOST, A VILLAGE IS THEY WOULD START THOSE EARLIEST MORNING, POURS AWAY FROM THE RESIDENCES AND SORT OF WORK THEIR WAY BACK.
UM, AS THEY GET CLOSER TO AN HOUR WHERE PEOPLE ARE LESS ANGRY BEING WOKEN UP.
I THINK IF THIS REQUEST WAS FOR FIVE 30 OR SIX, I WOULD BE OKAY WITH IT JUST AS IT'S WRITTEN.
UM, BUT I THINK 4:00 AM, IF THEY'RE GOING TO BE ALONG THAT BACK AREA, I DON'T WANT TO WAKE PEOPLE UP WITH THAT.
THEY CAN START FURTHER AWAY FROM THE STREET.
MAYBE JUST, UM, APPROVE IT, APPROVE WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR, BUT NOT WITHIN WHAT DO YOU THINK IS REASONABLE 200 FEET? I DON'T KNOW.
I DON'T WANT US TO MAKE THAT UP.
I DON'T WANT US TO MAKE THAT UP.
I WANT, I WANT US TO JUST, CAN WE DO OUR BEST TO, TO, TO SAY, HEY, THIS IS A CONCERN FROM COUNCIL.
WE UNDERSTAND THIS NEEDS TO HAPPEN.
CAN WE PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE STARTING AWAY FROM THERE? SO WE'RE NOT INTERRUPTING PEOPLE AT FOUR IN THE MORNING.
I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHERE ON THEIR SITE, THEY'RE GOING TO BE HAVING THE CONCRETE POUR SO RIGHT.
WE CAN MAKE IT AS HAVING A SPECIAL CAMP.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH THEN WITH THAT, I WILL MAKE THE MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND MOTION A SECOND.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
WE'RE NOW GOING TO MOVE INTO OUR PUBLIC HEARING PORTION OF THE MEETING.
BEFORE WE START, WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW OUR PUBLIC HEARING PROTOCOLS AND ITEM WILL BE INTRODUCED AND THERE'LL BE A PRESENTATION FROM STAFF SOMETIMES FROM THE APPLICANT.
UM, THEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPENED.
WHEN THE PUBLIC HEARING IS OPEN.
I WILL CALL ON SPEAKERS WHO HAVE SUBMITTED A CARD.
YOU WILL HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK UP HERE AT THE PODIUM.
YOU WILL START WITH YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS, AND THEN YOU WILL STATE YOUR CASE.
UH, WE CANNOT HAVE A BACK AND FORTH LEGALLY.
IT'S A TIME FOR YOU TO SAY WHAT YOU WANT.
THIS IS A LEGAL RECORD THOUGH.
SO WE NEED YOU TO SPEAK DIRECTLY INTO THE MICROPHONE AND NOT TURN AROUND TO THE AUDIENCE.
ALSO NOT SHOUT OUT FROM THE AUDIENCE BECAUSE THOSE THINGS CAN'T BE RECORDED FOR THE LEGAL RECORD.
UM, THIS IS YOUR ONE CHANCE TO TALK.
THERE CANNOT BE OUTBURSTS THROUGHOUT THE ITEM, EVEN AFTER THE PUBLIC SPEAKING FOR THOSE WHO WANTED THEIR POSITION READ IN.
AFTER WE'RE DONE GOING THROUGH THE PEOPLE WHO SIGNED UP TO SPEAK, I'M GOING TO ASK IF THERE'S ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISHED TO SPEAK AT THE POINT THAT THERE ARE NO MORE SPEAKERS.
WE'RE GOING TO GO THROUGH THE CARDS OF THE PEOPLE WHO JUST WANTED THEIR POSITION READ INTO THE RECORD.
UM, SO DON'T FREAK OUT IF THAT'S WHAT YOU SIGNED UP FOR AND YOU DON'T HEAR IT HAPPENING YET.
UM, AFTER THAT IS OVER, THEN THE PUBLIC HEARING WILL CLOSE AND WE WILL MOVE INTO THE DELIBERATION PORTION.
[21. Conduct a Public Hearing regarding Subdivision Case 21-CP-019 to adopt the Cypress Meadows Concept Plan on one (1) parcel of land approximately 44.1 acres ± in size, more particularly described by Williamson Central Appraisal District Parcel R403528; generally located south of Hernandos Loop and west of US 183, Leander, Williamson County, Texas. Discuss and consider action regarding Subdivision Case 21-CP-019 as described above. ]
AND WITH THAT, WE WILL INTRODUCE ITEM NUMBER 21 CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING SUBDIVISION CASE 21, CP 0 1 9 TO ADOPT THE CYPRESS MEADOWS CONCEPT PLAN ON ONE PARCEL OF LAND, APPROXIMATELY 44.1 ACRES PLUS OR MINUS IN SIZE AS DESCRIBED ON THE POSTED AGENDA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE CYPRESS MEADOWS CONCEPT PLAN.
UM, THIS IS THE FIRST STEP IN THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS.
THE PROPERTY ALREADY HAS ESTABLISHED ZONING.
UM, THE PORTION OF THE PROPERTY ON THE NORTH SIDE
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UP HERE IS ZONED SINGLE FAMILY SUBURBAN, WHICH ALLOWS FOR 70 FOOT LOTS.AND THEN THE REMAINDER OF THE TRACT IS SINGLE FAMILY URBAN, WHICH ALLOWS FOR 60 FOOT WIDE LOTS.
UM, TODAY WITH THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS, WE CAN ONLY TALK ABOUT PLANTING THE LAND AND CREATING THE CONCEPT PLAN.
UM, THIS WAS REVIEWED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DURING THEIR MEETING LAST WEEK.
UM, THEY DID MOTION TO APPROVE IT.
IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE 97 SINGLE FAMILY HOMES AND THERE'S 10 ACRES OF PARKLAND AND THERE'S COMMERCIAL FRONTAGE RIGHT HERE.
UM, BASED ON THE TOPOGRAPHY AND THE FLOOD PLAN.
I THINK THE COMMERCIAL FRONTAGE IS GOING TO BE A LITTLE CHALLENGING TO DEVELOP.
AND AT THE PRELIMINARY PLAT STAGE, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCESS FOR ANY CHANGES.
UM, THEY'LL HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE REVIEWS WITH FEMA AND WE HAVE A LOT OF WORK AHEAD HERE, BUT THIS STEP IS JUST THE FIRST STEP, UM, IN SHOWING THE GENERAL LAND USES, UM, I'LL BE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS AND THE APPLICANT IS HERE TO MAKE A PRESENTATION.
UH, SO THIS IS CYPRESS MEADOWS.
SO THIS IS WELL, ANOTHER LOCATION MAP, MY APOLOGIES FOR THE REDUNDANCY THERE.
UM, AGAIN, THIS IS THE ZONING MAP, UH, THAT I WANTED TO BRING SHOW, WHICH YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH.
IT'S THE, THE SIXTIES IN THE YELLOW, THE COMMERCIALS IN THE RED, AND THEN THE 70 FOOTERS WOULD BE IN THE GREEN THERE.
UM, AND THEN THIS IS KIND OF THIS WASN'T SHOWN IN THE, UH, CONCEPT PLAN, BUT WE WANTED TO SHOW IT TO YOU GUYS ANYWHERE.
THIS IS A PRELIM LAYOUT AND, UH, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE'RE THINKING ABOUT DOING WITH THE SITE.
UH, AND AS YOU CAN SEE AT THE VERY TOP, EVERYTHING THAT IS, THAT SAYS 70, THERE THAT'S A 70 FOOT LOT THAT WE ARE PROPOSING EVERYTHING THERE.
THAT'S 60, THAT'S A 60 FOOT LOT.
UH, AND THEN PER CODE, ANYTHING THAT'S KIND OF ON THE CORNER, YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN EXTRA 10 FEET, HER, UH, EASEMENTS ON THE SIDE FOR, UH, UTILITIES.
UM, AND SO WOULD, YOU CAN ALSO SEE THERE IN THAT PINK IS KIND OF OUR PRELIMINARY PROPOSED BOUNDARY FOR THAT FLOOD PLAIN.
UH, AND I BELIEVE THE, WELL, LET ME GO, HERE WE GO.
UH, AND SO THIS IS KIND OF WHAT OUR PRELIM STUDY CONSISTS OF EACH ONE OF THOSE GREEN LINES IS A SECTION THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT AND WE'VE LOOKED AT WATER SURFACE ELEVATIONS.
UH, AND SO WHAT WE'VE DONE HERE IS WE'VE KIND OF GOT THE BOUNDARY HERE WHERE IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY ADVERSE IMPACTS OFF OUR SITE ANYWHERE.
UH, AND SO EACH ONE OF THESE CROSS SECTIONS, YOU CAN SEE THAT IT HAS, WELL, WE DON'T HAVE THE ELEVATIONS HERE, BUT EACH ONE HERE WE'VE ACTUALLY ANALYZED AND MADE SURE THAT NOWHERE OFF OUR SITE HAS A RISE OF AT ALL.
UM, AND SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN GO BACK HERE TO THE SITE.
UH, AND SO SOME, I KNOW ONE OF THE CONCERNS WAS US HAVING TO HAVE A CONNECTION TO 180 3.
AND SO ONE OF OUR DRIVEWAYS, YOU CAN SEE STRAIGHT DOWN IT'S ANOTHER ROAD AND IT TIES INTO 180 3 THAT WAY.
UM, WE UNDERSTAND THAT 180 3 IS CURRENTLY IN THE FLOODPLAIN AND WHAT WE'RE DOING IS OUR BEST TO COME AHEAD AND INCLINE AND ACTUALLY TRY AND GET IT OUT OF THE FLOOD, PLAIN, AS FAST AS WE CAN.
UH, AND THAT WAY THAT ROAD WILL BE OUTSIDE THE FLOOD PLAIN.
UM, THE, THE, EXCUSE ME, UH, THE OTHER SIDE, I KNOW WE, THEY WANTED AS CLOSE AS WE COULD TO 180 3, BUT THE OTHER HOLD THE SECTOR YOU SEE COMING OFF OF THAT, WE'RE PROPOSING, UH, IT, WE AREN'T ABLE TO ACTUALLY GET IT AND TIE INTO THE ROAD ON THE SOUTH BOUNDARY THERE.
UH, IF WE DID PROPOSE THAT ROADWAY, WE'D HAVE TO PROPOSE CULVERTS, WHICH HAS KIND OF, UH, UH, GRADING IN THE FLOOD PLAIN.
AND WE WOULD ACTUALLY CREATE A RISE HIGHER ON 180 3 AND ADJACENT PROPERTIES OF THE COMMERCIAL AND TO THE SOUTH.
UM, ANOTHER ISSUE THAT WE WANTED TO TALK THROUGH IS THE TRAFFIC.
AND ON HERE, YOU CAN SEE, WE'VE KIND OF PUT SOME TRIPS ON HERE.
UH, THIS IS, UH, AGAIN PRELIMINARY, UH, WE'RE STILL LOOKING AT IT, BUT THIS IS, UH, A STUDY THAT WE'VE DONE AND WE BELIEVE MOST OF THE TRAFFIC WILL ACTUALLY LEAVE THIS SITE.
60% I THINK IS WHAT IS SHOWN ON HERE.
UH, AND SO ACTUALLY A LOT OF THIS LAND IN THE MIDDLE, WE WANTED TO SHOW YOU GUYS IS, UH, IT'S PARKLAND HERE AS WELL.
AND SO WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA CONSIDER THAT PARKLAND AND THAT'S PART OF WHAT WE'RE USING FOR OUR REQUIREMENT, UH, PER THE CITY CODE.
UM, UH, I KNOW I WANTED TO GO THROUGH AND TALK ABOUT, I KNOW THERE WAS CONCERNS ABOUT CONSTRUCTION, UH, THROUGH, FOR THIS AS WELL.
UM, WELL, WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE SURE ON THE SITE IS LIMITING THE ACTUAL TRUCKS AND 18 WHEELERS HITTING HERNANDEZ LOOP OR ANY OF THE OTHER SURROUNDING ROADS.
AND SO WE WOULD LIKE TO KIND OF BUILD A SCHEDULE HERE AND BUILD THERE'S GOING TO BE A RIGHT TURN LANE.
THAT'S GONNA BE REQUIRED ON US.
180 3, WE'VE HAD TALKS WITH TXDOT.
AND SO WE'D LIKE TO BUILD THAT FIRST AND THEN HAVE OUR CONSTRUCTION ENTRANCE INTO THE SITE.
AND WE WOULD HAVE TO BUILD OUT SOME LAND TO TRY AND GET A RENT DOWN AND OBVIOUSLY LOUD CONSTRUCTION, BUT THAT'S KIND OF OUR PROPOSED PLAN THERE TO TRY AND LIMIT CONSTRUCTION
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ALONG 180 3.AND I THINK IT'S COUNTY COURT PLAIN THERE ON THE LEFT.
UM, I THINK, UH, AS FAR AS I THINK THAT KIND OF, OH, I KNOW, I KNOW ANOTHER CONCERN WAS DRAINAGE AROUND THE SITES AS WELL.
UM, WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING FOR US LOOP AND WE'VE BEEN ASKED TO DO IS WE'RE EXPANDING THAT ROAD ANOTHER 10 FEET, WE'RE GETTING, UH, DONATE ANOTHER, UH, 10 FEET OF RIGHT AWAY.
AND WE'RE ALSO GONNA BE REQUIRED TO EXPAND THAT ROAD ANOTHER EIGHT FEET OR SO, THAT'S GOING TO GIVE IT MORE OF THAT LOCAL STREET FEEL, UH, OF THE 50 FOOT RIGHT AWAY AND 28 FOOT OF PAVEMENT.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THERE'S NO CURVES ON THAT ROAD CURRENTLY, BUT WITH OUR IMPROVEMENT, WE'LL, WE'LL DEFINITELY HAVE CURVES ON OUR END AND WITH CURB INLETS THAT WE CAN PICK UP THAT ROAD.
AND I WENT OUT THERE ACTUALLY A FEW DAYS AGO AND A LOT OF THAT ROAD SLOPES TOWARDS OUR SITE.
UH, THERE'S A DITCH ALONG THAT ROAD THAT ENDS UP KIND OF DRAINING TO THE CORNER, THE NORTHWEST CORNER THERE.
UM, AND SO WE'LL ACTUALLY BE ABLE TO CAPTURE THAT WATER ON THAT ROAD AND PICK IT UP IN A CURB.
AND YOU'LL SEE HERE THAT WE HAVE A DETENTION POND TO THE SOUTH OF THE CUL-DE-SAC, UH, AND THAT'S WHERE THAT WATER WOULD FLOW.
AND THAT'S ACTUALLY GOING TO BE A WATER QUALITY AND DETENTION POND FOR CODE.
UM, ANOTHER CONCERN WAS SIDEWALKS.
UH, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SIDEWALKS THROUGHOUT THE SITE.
UH, THAT'S JUST AS A STANDARD THAT WE HAVE TO FOLLOW.
AND AGAIN, WE'RE PROPOSING TO DO SIDEWALKS ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF HERNANDEZ LOOP, AND I BELIEVE THERE'S A, A SIDEWALK ON THAT HERD TO THE NORTH THERE THAT WE'RE GOING TO TIE INTO AS WELL.
UM, I BELIEVE THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE WANTED TO PRESENT AND I, THAT, THAT WAS A LOT OF CONCERNS I KNEW WE HAD BNZ.
UH, AND SO I, I GUESS ANY QUESTIONS FROM YOU GUYS, THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I GOT AS FAR AS THE SLIDE, I CAN GO.
YOU CAN'T UNTIL AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING.
THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN.
I WILL CALL ON SPEAKERS WHO HAVE SUBMITTED CARDS AND READ ANY POSITIONS INTO THE RECORD.
UM, FIRST CARD I HAVE IS FOR MS. BLANCHE CORLEY, UM, TAKING YOU FIRST, YOU SET THE BAR, GOOD EVENING, MS. QUARTERLY, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
MY NAME IS BLANCHE CORLEY, AND IT SPOILED THREE HERNANDO'S LOOP.
AND I'M VERY, VERY UPSET WITH HIS FELLOW, THE DISH FOLK.
I'LL TALK ABOUT HER NANDO'S LIP.
OH, I'VE BEEN STUDYING IT HERE FOR A WHILE.
I'VE BEEN THERE SINCE 1969, THEN THEY'RE YOUR FIRST BY OURSELF FOR MANY YEARS.
UH, I'M NOT AGAINST EVERYTHING THAT'S ON THERE.
THE MAIN THING I'M AGAINST IS HE DIDN'T EVEN CONTACT ANYBODY EACH TO TELL US ANYTHING.
NOBODY DOWN ON THE LOOP KNOWS ANYTHING ABOUT WHAT'S GOING ON, NOT EVEN OVER ON COUNTY COURT OR ANY PLACE ELSE.
I CAN PRETTY WELL HANDLE MYSELF MOST OF THE TIME.
SO I, I AM OUT OF TELLING PEOPLE AND YOU AND ABOUT IT.
AND I THINK WE COULD WORK WITH HIM.
IF WE HAD A CHANGE TO TALK TO HIM, UH, WE COULD WORK WITH HIM IF HE COULD COME DOWN THERE AND MEET WITH US.
THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY ELSE THAT HAS BEEN THERE HAS DONE THEY'VE COME AND MET WITH US AND, UH, LOOKED TO THINGS OVER AND SEEING THAT THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT.
AND THEY PULLED OUT AND NO HARD FEELINGS, BUT, UH, THIS GUY HADN'T, I DON'T EVEN THINK HE'S WALKED A LOOP YET, BUT THE THING OF IT IS, UH, IF HE WANTS TO SIT DOWN WITH ALL OF US AND WORK WITH US, I I'VE GOT A BIG PLACE DOWN THERE.
I MEET ANYTIME HE WANTS TO MEET ANYWHERE.
AND, UH, THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT HE DON'T KNOW WHAT'S HAPPENING HAS TO BE DONE BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE MAN'S EVEN BEEN OUT OUT THERE NOW MAY BE MISTAKEN.
I DIDN'T SEE, BUT THE THING OF IT IS, UH, IT'D BE WISE FOR HIM.
IN MY OPINION, IT'D BE WISE FOR HIM TO COME AND TRY TO TALK TO US AND SEE IF WHAT WE COULD WORK A DEAL WITH HIM.
I'M NOT AGAINST IT EVER HOUSE, A BEING ON ALL THAT PROPERTY.
I'M NOT, I'M A GUEST COMING INTO OUR LOOP.
I DO NOT WANT OUR LOOP OPENED.
AND, UH, SO I DON'T THINK THAT WE'RE BOTHERING ANYBODY AND WE WOULDN'T BOTHER HIM UNLESS HE VOLUNTEERS ME.
SO THE SAYING OF IT IS WE'LL WORK WITH HIM.
WE'LL TRY, YOU KNOW, WE'LL TRY TO WORK IT OUT IF WE CAN.
UM, I'M NOT AGAINST A FELLER TRYING TO FIX THIS PROPERTY OVER THERE.
I'M GUESSING COMING IN AND TRYING TO MAKE A BOOK AND, AND BLAME SOMEBODY ELSE FOR IT.
SO IF HE CAN'T SPEAK OUR LANGUAGE, HE NEEDS TO COME AND HAVE SOME MEETINGS FOR ASSISTANT.
LET US TELL HIM WHAT WE'LL DO AND WHAT WE WON'T DO.
IF I CAN GET THE OTHERS TO WORK WITH HIM, I WILL.
SO, BUT I WANT HIM TO LEAVE HER.
I DON'T WANT HIM CUTTING IN ON NOWHERE.
WE'VE BROUGHT THREE WAYS IN AND WE CAN GET IN AND OUT.
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HIT HIM TO OPEN UP ANYTHING.I DON'T WANT HIM TO OPEN UP ANYTHING NEXT TO PAY OUR DAUGHTER WITH HER.
SO ANY ANYHOW, I'LL LET YOU GET SOMEBODY ELSE MADE IT FOR MY THING HERE GIVES HER.
I UNDERSTAND Y'ALL WANT A CLAP THAT FALLS UNDER OUTBURSTS, AND THERE ARE SO MANY OF YOU SIGNED UP.
IF YOU DO THAT ON EVERY SPEAKER, JUST PUTTING IT OUT THERE UP NEXT IS GOING TO BE JOHN CORLEY.
GOOD EVENING, MR. CURLY, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
MY NAME IS JOHN CORLEY AND I LIVE AT 4 0 300 NANDO'S LOOP.
AND THE ONLY THING IS IF THEY OPEN THE LOOP TO THAT AREA, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO EXPAND THE RE THE, THE STREETS.
AND WHEN THEY DO THAT, THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE THE WATER METERS BACK.
THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MOVE A FIRE HYDRANT BACK AND A WHOLE BUNCH OF STUFF.
SO, AND THEY'RE GOING TO TAKE A BUNCH OF DRIVEWAYS OUT TOO.
SO ANYWAY THAT WE DON'T NEED IT, YOU KNOW, AND THE ONLY OTHER THING I NEEDED TO KNOW IS IS THERE AN APPROVAL APPROVED DRIVEWAY PERMIT TO 180 3 FROM TXDOT? AND IF NOT, ACCESS TO 180 3 SHOULD NOT BE SHOWN ON THE CONCEPT PLAN FOR THAT AREA.
AND I DON'T MIND THEM DEVELOPING STUFF OVER THERE AT ALL.
I JUST DON'T WANT THEM TO TIE IN THERE BECAUSE IF THEY DO THE TRAFFIC'S GOING TO COMPLETELY BUILD UP AND PEOPLE'S GOING TO GET HURT AND THERE'S GOING TO BE ACCIDENTS.
AND THAT'S ALL I THAT THANK YOU, MR. CORLEY, JUDGE EDNA STOUT.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT FOUR 20 HERNANDEZ LOOP, WHICH IS DIRECTLY FACING THE PROPERTY ON THE NORTH SIDE.
I'M JUST A FEW, THE THIRD HOUSE FROM THE END ON THE WEST END, THEIR PROPOSED DRIVEWAYS ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT MY FRONT YARD.
THEIR PROPOSED HOUSES APPARENTLY ARE GOING TO HAVE DRIVEWAYS ALL ACROSS OUR ALSO I'M LOOKING AT THE BACKS OF THE HOUSES.
HOW MANY WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE YOUR STREET AND LOOK AT THE BACK OF SOMEBODY'S HOUSE? I DON'T THINK THAT'S WHAT WE WANT TO DO, BUT, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE CONCERNS.
THERE'S GOING TO BE MANY CONCERNS RIGHT HERE TO NOT CONCERN THIS PROPERTY.
WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS HEARINGS A COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE PAST AND THE 180 3 ACCESS IS SOMETHING I DON'T UNDERSTAND.
I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAD, THEY HAVE HAVE HER APPROVAL FOR THAT.
THAT MEANS THAT ALL OF THESE ROADS THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED ARE GOING TO GO THROUGH THAT LITTLE BLOOP.
MOST OF YOU HAVE BEEN ON THAT LOOP.
AND EVEN IF YOU WIDEN THAT ONE SIDE, YOU'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT ALMOST A HAIRPIN ON ONE SIDE AND ON CURVES ON BOTH ENDS.
AND THE TRAFFIC, IF YOU PUT 97 HOMES OVER THERE, ROUGHLY TWO PEOPLE PER HOME, NO LESS, THAT'S 200 CARS THAT ARE GOING TO BLEEDING THROUGH EITHER HERNANDO'S LOOP OR COUNTY COURT.
BOTH OF THOSE ARE SMALLER WITH SMALL ROADS.
THE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS WAS NOT DONE BECAUSE I UNDERSTAND THAT A FEE WAS PAID.
SO THERE'S BEEN NO REAL SERIOUS CONCERN OR TRAFFIC ANALYSIS ON WHAT KIND OF TRAFFIC IS GOING TO BE INTO THAT LITTLE BITTY LOOP.
ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU'RE TALKING TO ROADS ON MY SIDE OF THE LOOP, YOU'VE BEEN THERE.
THAT'S, IT'S JUST INCONCEIVABLE THE SAFETY.
YOU KNOW, THAT IS A LITTLE LOOP THAT'S BEEN THERE.
IT IS A LOOP THAT PEOPLE ESCAPE TO IN ORDER TO RIDE THEIR BICYCLES OR BICYCLES, THEIR STROLLERS, BECAUSE IT IS A, THERE'S NO CARS, VERY LITTLE CAR TRAFFIC ON IT, OTHER THAN THE PEOPLE THAT ARE LIVING THERE.
AND SO IT'S NOT A WALK, IT'S NOT A JOB.
THERE WAS NOT A, A PACE THAT PEOPLE GO THROUGH TO GET ONE END OR THE OTHER.
AND SO IT'S GOING TO DESTROY THE BEAUTY OF THAT LOOP, THAT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE HAVE BEEN THERE MANY YEARS.
THAT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE HAD LIKED.
AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR ABOUT THE FLOOD PLAIN.
MY, WHEN IT RAINS, MY FRONT YARD IS ON THE FRONT.
I HAVE NICE BIG TREES, BUT I ALSO HAVE BUSHES IN THE FRONT BECAUSE WHEN IT RAINS, I HAVE STANDING WATER THAT THAT PROPERTY IS MOSTLY FLOOD PLAIN.
AND THE CONCERN THAT WE HAVE A FLOODING IS VERY, VERY REAL.
THEY HAVE YOU BUILT A BIG CUL-DE-SAC AT THE BOTTOM OR A BIG GUM DRAINAGE AT THE END OF MY LOOP.
UH, THERE'S A REALLY SERIOUS THERE.
YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR IT ALSO TALKS ABOUT THE WALL OFF.
AND YOU'RE GOING TO HEAR TALKS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, ARE THEY GOING TO BUILD A SUBDIVISION? THAT'S GOING TO MATCH OURS, BUT RATHER THEY BUILD SOMETHING THAT MATCHES MINE OR NOT.
MY MAIN ISSUES IS THE TRAFFIC ON THAT ROAD.
200 CARS, EASY WITH A HUNDRED HOMES.
YOU'VE GOT 200 CARS BECAUSE YOU GOT NO LESS THAN TWO CARS PER PERSON.
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AND YOU'VE GOT BASICALLY TWO OUTFIT OUTLETS.YOU'RE NOT VERY FAR, 180 3, THE LIGHT AT 180 3 AND COUNTY GLEN.
IT'S JUST A STONE'S THROW FROM THE ENTRYWAY THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING.
UH, THE TRAFFIC STUDY, I BELIEVE IS SOMETHING THAT HAD TO BE DONE.
AND EVEN IF IT'S DONE, I DON'T SEE THAT CAN POSSIBLY WORK.
THANK YOU, JUDGE STOUT, ALEXI KEATON, ALEXI, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT CHOOSIER THREE HERNANDEZ.
PLEASE DO NOT OPEN THE STREETS TO, UM, THE ROADS BECAUSE I WANT TO BE ABLE TO PLAY IN THE STREETS LIKE THE GOOD, GOOD OLD DAYS.
LIKE MY PARENTS DID, I RIDE MY BIKE? UM, WHERE DID I, SORRY.
UM, I RIDE MY BIKE 24 7 UP AND DOWN THE STREETS AND HAVE BEEN PRACTICING BASKETBALL SO I CAN SIGN UP.
UM, AND I CAN DO SOME TENNIS TRICKS ON THE STREETS TOO.
I ALSO GO ON EVENING STORES SOMETIMES, UM, ON THE STREETS, BUT IF YOU OPEN OUR STREETS, I WON'T BE ABLE TO DO ANYTHING.
YOU'VE GOT THIS OF THAT BECAUSE SAFETY FIRST.
UM, ALSO MY BUS STOP MOVED AND, UM, LIKE FAR AND, UM, I HAVE TO KIND OF GO ON THE ROAD TO GET TO MY HOUSE NOW.
SO THAT'S A LITTLE BIT, UM, I HAVE TO GO TO THE STREETS.
THANK YOU, MS. KEATON, JENNIFER.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
UM, MY NAME IS JENNIFER GRAVEL.
I LIVE AT TWO OR THREE HERNANDEZ LOOP.
UM, FIRST THING I WANT TO TALK ABOUT IS MY CONCERN FOR CRYING.
SINCE WE LIVE IN A LOOP, WE DON'T HAVE ISSUES WITH CRIME.
GLEN IS A MAIN THOROUGHFARE BETWEEN BAGHDAD AND 180 3 PEOPLE LEAVE THEIR GARAGE DOORS, OPEN PEOPLE, POP IN, GRAB THEIR PORCH PACKAGES OR THINGS OUT OF THE GARAGE.
WE'RE GOING TO GIVE CRA CRIMINALS MORE ACCESS IN AND OUT IN AND OUT.
THE SECOND THING IS OUR CHILDREN DO PLAY ON THE STREET.
THEY DON'T HAVE A PLAYGROUND, THEY DON'T HAVE A FIELD.
SO THEY GO TO THE STREETS, UM, AND THEY'RE SAFE THERE.
AND WE WERE WILLING TO ACCEPT THAT BECAUSE WE KNEW WE WERE ON A LOOP.
WE DON'T WANT TO SHARE OUR LOOP WITH OTHER PEOPLE.
UM, ANOTHER ISSUE IS FLOODING.
OF COURSE, YOU HEAR THAT A LOT.
UM, OUR STREET, WELL, WE LIVE COUNTY GLEN IN HERNANDO SLEEP WHERE THEY INTERSECT.
UM, HERE IS WHERE THE WATER COMES FROM COUNTY GLEN, OVER HERE TO THE OTHER SIDE OF THIS BRIDGE, THIS SIDE IS WIDE OPEN.
BUT ON THE OTHER SIDE, IT BOTTLENECKS AND WE'VE GOT ONE FOOT.
WE GO FROM AN 18 FEET WIDE DITCH TO A ONE FOOT WIDE DITCH.
SO IT CAN'T FLOW IN FROM MY HOUSE.
SO MY KIDS WANT TO GO TO THEIR BUS STOP.
THAT USED TO BE IN THE FRONT YARD.
THEY CAN'T, IT'S ABOVE THEIR ANKLES.
UM, WE WANT TO CHECK THE MAIL.
WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T CHECK THEM OUT.
WE CAN'T PULL IN OUR GARBAGE CAN.
OUR GARBAGE PEOPLE CAN'T EVEN GET THERE.
I'VE CONTACTED MR. WATTS, THE ENGINEER, HE CAME OVER TO MY HOUSE.
HE COULDN'T WALK INTO MY HOUSE BECAUSE OF ALL THE WATER.
SO WE'RE GOING TO BUILD UP THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND IT'S GOING TO CONTINUE TO FLOW INTO MY YARD.
AND I CAN'T DEAL WITH THIS ANYMORE.
I'VE ASKED FOR HELP OVER AND OVER.
I EMAILED EVERY SINGLE ONE OF Y'ALL I HAVE YET TO YOUR RESPONSE.
AND I'M A LITTLE DISAPPOINTED IN THAT.
I KIND OF FEEL THAT THE CITY IS MORE CONCERNED WITH THE DEVELOPERS AND NOT THE CITIZENS.
YOU KNOW, WE ARE BEING LEFT OUT.
WE ARE SELLING THE CITIZENS OUT THAT NEED HELP, THAT WE NEED ISSUES TO BE TAKEN CARE OF BEFORE WE MAKE ANOTHER PROBLEM.
WE ARE CREATING MORE ISSUES AND I'M TIRED OF BEING UNHEARD.
AND I AM JUST TIRED OF WORRY ABOUT NEXT.
WHAT MY CHILDREN'S GOING TO DO.
UM, AND THEY APPROVED THIS FENCE.
YOU CAN'T SEE AROUND THE CORNER, MY CHILD RIDES HER BIKE RIGHT AROUND THAT CORNER.
SOMEBODY'S GOING TO COME AROUND THERE.
YOU'RE PRACTICALLY HITTING MY WATER METER AND BOOM.
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WHERE THE BASKETBALL GOAL IS THEY NEED PROTECTION.Y'ALL NEED TO PROTECT OUR CHILDREN.
THANK YOU MR. ROBERT, SEAN REBEL.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I'M SURE YOU'RE ALL AWARE WHAT THIS SAYS, BUT I'D LIKE TO READ IT ANYWAY.
THIS IS FROM CHAPTER 10, SUBDIVISION OR SUBDIVISION REGULATION, SECTION TWO, PURPOSE.
THE SYSTEM OF APPROVEMENT FOR THOROUGHFARES WATER AND WASTEWATER SERVICES, OTHER UTILITIES, DRAINAGE FACILITIES, AND COMMUNITY AMENITIES DETERMINED IN LARGE MEASURE THE QUANTITY QUALITY OF LIFE ENJOYED BY THE RESIDENTS OF THE COMMUNITY.
HEALTH SAFETY ECONOMY, AMENITIES, ENVIRONMENTAL SENSITIVITY, AND CONVENIENCE ARE ALL FACTORS WHICH INFLUENCE AND DETERMINE A COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE AND CHARACTER AND COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE HAS PUBLIC INTEREST.
CONSEQUENTLY, THE DEVELOPMENT OF LAND AS IT AFFECTS THE COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE IS AN ACT OF I'M SORRY, IT'S AN ACTIVITY WHOSE REGULATION HAS A VALID FUNCTION OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT.
THE COMMUNITIES SPECIFICALLY CITIZENS RESIDING IN HERNANDEZ LOOP AND COUNTY, GLEN HAVE RAISED NUMEROUS CONCERNS AND ISSUES TO THE ZONING COMMISSION ON EIGHT 11 IN REGARDS TO THE PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT.
THESE ISSUES INCLUDED THE LACK OF ADEQUATE ROADWAYS IN PLACE.
AS HERNANDEZ LOOP BARELY SUPPORTS TWO-WAY TRAFFIC AS IT'S A NO OUTLET SUBDIVISION, UTILITY DRAINAGE ALSO TAUGHT THE CONCERNS AS THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES HAVE ISSUES WITH DRAINAGE AND FLOODING.
BUILDING A NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE NATURAL DRAINAGE AREA COULD NOT POSSIBLY HELP WITH THEIR DRAINAGE ISSUES.
THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE BUILT UP TO KEEP THE NEW HOMES ABOVE WATER LEVELS.
THIS ENTIRE DEVELOPMENT WOULD BE BUILT AT A HIGHER ELEVATION THAN OUR EXISTING HOMES IN THE COMMUNITY.
A COMMUNITY'S QUALITY OF LIFE AS A PUBLIC INTEREST, AS STATED IN SECTION TWO OF THE SUBDIVISION REGULATIONS THAT TURN OUT AT THE LAST MEETING IS AN INDICATION OF HOW MUCH WE BELIEVE IT WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT OUR QUALITY OF LIFE.
HERNANDEZ LOOP IS A HIDDEN GYM IN THE CITY OF LEANDER.
IT IS HIGHLY DESIRABLE NEIGHBORHOOD AS, AS IT IS A NO OUTLET WITH LITTLE TRAFFIC FULL OF MATURE LIVE OAK TREES, CEDAR ELMS WITH STURDY BUILT HOMES ON LARGE LOTS.
IT IS A SAFE PLACE FOR KIDS TO PLAY IN THE STREET NEIGHBORS TO WALK THEIR CHILDREN OR DOGS IN AN ABUNDANCE OF WILDLIFE.
HER NET DOES LOOP CONTAINS BOTH LONG-TERM CITIZENS WHO WILL BUILD THEIR HOMES THERE AND LIVE THERE FOR OVER 50 YEARS, AS WELL AS NEWER RESIDENTS WHO BELIEVE THEY HAVE FINALLY FOUND THE IDEAL PLACE TO SETTLE LONGTERM.
A MONITOR TERRY VALUE CAN NOT BE PUT ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE.
THIS NEIGHBORHOOD PROVIDES THE CITIZENS WHO RESIDE HERE, NEITHER COUNTY GLEN NOR HERNANDEZ LOOP HAVE DIRECT SSH ACCESS TO ANY CITY AMENITIES.
THIS INCLUDES A LACK OF SIDEWALKS, PARKS, STREETLIGHTS, AS THESE ARE ALL NON-EXISTENT ADDING A THOROUGHFARE TO AN ADJACENT NEW ADULT DEVELOPMENT THROUGH
UH, SECTION 42 STATES LOCAL STREETS HAVE BEEN DESIGNED TO CALM TRAFFIC INTO DISTURBED AND DISCOURAGED CUT-THROUGH.
AS PREVIOUSLY STATED VEHICLES LEAVING THE NEW DEVELOPMENT WOULD CUT THROUGH HER LOOP AS IS THE ONLY SAFE LIGHT TO TURN NORTHBOUND ON 180 3 OF SKIPPING FOURTH.
UH, IF YOU PULL UP GOOGLE MAPS AND LOOK AT THE PROPERTY, UH, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE DRAINAGE AREAS ARE, UH, IN SECTION 49, IT TALKS ABOUT THE, UH, CHARLES A RIGHT GOOD EVENING, MR. WRIGHT, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
MY NAME IS CHARLES H. WRIGHT AND, UH, I LIVE AT FOUR 12 HERNANDO'S LOOP LAST 36 YEARS.
AND I'M REALLY AGAINST HAVING THEM OPEN UP AN EXPRESSWAY, THOROUGHFARE RACETRACK, RIGHT ACROSS OUR CORNER.
THEY CAN EXPAND THOSE ROADS TO BE 50 FEET WIDE, AND THEY'RE GOING TO PP PEOPLE GOING 70 MILES AN HOUR.
THE ONLY PEOPLE THAT DRIVE FAST AROUND OUR LOOP ARE THE DELIVERY PEOPLE.
AND WE HAVE TO GET AFTER THEM REGULAR.
BUT THOSE CORNERS ARE HAIR PINNED AND YOU CAN ADD A FEW MORE FEET AND IT'S NOT GOING TO MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
AND ALSO A ONE TO POINT OUT, LIKE I SAID, I LIVE RIGHT UP THERE WHERE THAT LITTLE ARROW IS.
THERE'S A BLUE LINE AND A RED LINE.
I UNDERSTAND THAT RED LINE WAS THE ANCIENT, UH, FID LINE.
YOU KNOW, THE ANCIENT CREEK BEDFORD LINE.
AND THAT MAP IS NOT CORRECT BECAUSE ACCORDING TO THE MAPS, UP IN GEORGETOWN, MY EX MORTGAGE COMPANY, THE BANK AND FEMA, MY FRIEND TOLD ME THAT FLOOD PLAIN TOUCHES A PIN ON MY HOUSE.
IT WAS AN ANCIENT CREEK BED 500 YEAR FLOOD, PLAIN.
SO WE GOT THE NEW ROAD, THEY PUT IN A BOX CULVERT DOWN NEAR JOE CHAVEZ HOUSE.
IT USED TO BE A PIPE ABOUT THAT.
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RAN OFF INTO THE COW PASTURE.NOW YOU CAN DRIVE A CLOWN CAR DOWN THROUGH THERE AND IT STILL DOESN'T WORK.
AND THAT CULVERT HEAD DOWN THERE IS PROBABLY EIGHT BY 12 FEET.
AND WATER DOES COME DOWN THROUGH THERE AT A BIG RATE.
AND WHEN THEY BUILD SOMETHING, SO THAT WATER IS GOING TO COME BACK ON US, UNLESS THEY CAN JUMP THROUGH SOME BIG HOOPS TO GET A, NOT TO.
SO THEY'RE GOING TO PUT A ROAD RIGHT THROUGH A FLOOD.
IF MY FRIEND FEMA SAYS I'M IN A HIGH PLUG RISK PLAYING, WHAT MAKES THEM NOT? AND THERE'S SO MANY CHILDREN, EVERYBODY WALKS THE LOOP.
THEY COME FROM BLOCKS AWAY TO WALK THE LOOP AND HEAVEN FORBID A CHILD GET HURT OR KILLED ON MY WATCH BECAUSE IT WON'T BE A HAPPY DAY IN LEANDER.
IT WILL NOT BE A HAPPY DAY BECAUSE THERE ARE SO MANY PEOPLE THERE WALK.
AND I, IN THE LAST FELLOWS, I TRIED TO DEVELOP THIS SPOT.
THEY CAME OUT THERE AND THEY SPENT OVER 50 GRAND AND THEY SAID, WELL, WE DON'T THINK WE CAN MEET ALL THE STATE, FEDERAL AND THEMA REGULATIONS.
SO SOMEBODY IS GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE A REALLY DEEP, DEEP POCKET TO RUIN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE A GOOD THING.
STATE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS PLEASE.
MY NAME IS DEVIN FOSTER AND I LIVE AT TWO, TWO HERNANDO SLOPE.
UM, SO I AM PRETTY NEW TO THE LOOP.
I'VE BEEN HERE FOR ABOUT A YEAR, BUT I AM A NATIVE AUSTINITE.
I'VE SEEN A LOT OF PROGRESS IN MY YOUNG LIFE, IN THIS CENTRAL TEXAS AREA.
I TOTALLY GET THE PROGRESS HAS TO HAPPEN, BUT WE ARE APPEALING TO YOU AS LOCAL PEOPLE.
WE NEED HELP TO PROTECT OUR LOOP AS IT IS.
WE HAVE A LOT OF ISSUES AND I YOU'VE CLEARLY HEARD OF A LOT OF THEM, BUT, UH, I THINK IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT IT CAN GET WORSE IN THE TIME I'VE LIVED HERE, WHICH, LIKE I SAID, IT'S ONLY BEEN A YEAR.
UH, I'VE WALKED THE LOOP MULTIPLE TIMES AND I'VE MET PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER NEIGHBORING NEIGHBORHOODS OF THE COUNTY, CORE COUNTY, GLEN, ALL THESE DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEY ALL COME TO US TO WALK AROUND AND I'VE TALKED TO THEM.
THEY LET THEIR KIDS WALK AROUND WHERE I LIVE.
I'M SURROUNDED BY ABOUT 15 CHILDREN AND THEY ALL PLAY OUTSIDE.
AND I WOULD HATE TO SEE THAT GO AWAY.
BECAUSE WHEN YOU LOOK AT OTHER NEIGHBORHOODS THAT AREN'T AS PROTECTED, THE CHILDREN CAN'T PLAY OUTSIDE.
AND LIKE MY WONDERFUL NEIGHBOR, JEN SAID, WE DON'T HAVE ANYWHERE ELSE FOR PEOPLE TO GO THERE.
THERE ISN'T EVEN A FIELD THERE ISN'T A PLAYSCAPE.
UM, I WOULD MUCH RATHER SEE A ZONE THAT'S TURNED INTO A PARK.
THAT'S A BUFFER BETWEEN THIS DEVELOPMENT AND US THAT WOULD PROTECT US.
IT WOULD ALSO GIVE THE PEOPLE THAT COME TO THE NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, AN OPPORTUNITY TO PLAY.
I WOULD LOVE TO SEE SOME SECTION TURNED INTO A PARK, UM, BECAUSE AS IT IS THAT CONVERGING POINT ON OUR LOOP IS VERY NARROW JUST THIS WEEK.
UH, I WAS LIKE ALMOST RUN OVER WHILE WALKING RIGHT AT THAT ENTRANCE SLASH EXIT BECAUSE IT IS BOTH.
AND SOMEONE ACTUALLY SLOWED DOWN AND APOLOGIZED TO ME AND SAID, OH, I'M SORRY.
HONESTLY, REALLY? THAT HAPPENS.
AND LUCKILY MY NEIGHBORS ARE KIND ENOUGH TO APOLOGIZE, BUT IF THEY'RE NOT MY NEIGHBORS, ARE THEY GOING TO APOLOGIZE? ARE THEY GOING TO SEE ME? I DON'T KNOW.
I WOULDN'T FEEL SAFE WALKING THE LOOP BY MYSELF AS A SMALL WOMAN.
IF I KNEW THAT THERE WAS ALL THIS OTHER TRAFFIC AND ALL THESE PEOPLE THAT JUST WEREN'T PAYING ATTENTION, WEREN'T CARING.
ANOTHER ISSUE WITH SAFETY IS THE WILDLIFE.
UM, I KNOW FOR A FACT I'VE SEEN AND HEARD BOBCATS AND COYOTES IN THAT WHAT'S RIGHT NOW, THE RANCH.
AND, UM, ONCE IT STARTS BEING DEVELOPED, I KNOW ALL OF THOSE THINGS WILL COME RIGHT INTO OUR YARDS.
WE HAVE NICE LARGE OPEN YARDS WITH BEAUTIFUL TREES, AND UNFORTUNATELY THAT'S A VERY INVITING FOR DANGEROUS WILDLIFE.
SO, UM, WE WOULD NOT FEEL SAFE.
AND, UM, WE ARE ASKING YOU TO HELP US.
GOOD EVENING, MR. BRIEFLY, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT 2 0 2 HERNANDEZ LOOP.
I'M SELLING TO A SIX HERNANDEZ LOOP AND I REPRESENT A COUPLE OF THE OTHER NEIGHBORS IN THE AREA THAT CANNOT BE HERE TONIGHT, ROUGHLY 20% OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, THIS MAP ISN'T QUITE HONEST, THE GREEN AREA IS WHAT WOULD BE CONSIDERED THE FLOOD WAY.
SO YOU SHOULD REALIZE THAT THAT'S A A HUNDRED YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
IT HAS A 1% CHANCE EVERY YEAR.
UH, FLOODING SOME OF THAT AREA IS ALSO A 25 YEAR FLOOD PLAIN.
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SO THAT INCREASES THE RISK.NOT ONLY TO ANYBODY THAT MOVES THEIR BUILDS THERE, BUT ALSO BACKS UP INTO COUNTY COURT COUNTY, GLEN AREA, AND THOSE HOMES COULD FLOOD.
UM, I AM A RETIRED MILITARY POLICE INVESTIGATOR.
I SPENT MANY OF THOSE YEARS AS A TRAFFIC ACCIDENT INVESTIGATOR, I'M CURRENTLY A REALTOR.
I SAY THE THINGS I'M GOING TO SHARE TONIGHT, NOT AS A MATTER OF OPINION, BUT EXPERIENCE AND EXPERTISE FROM MY PREVIOUS CAREERS AND CURRENT CAREER.
IF YOU USE HERNANDEZ LOOP AS A WAY TO ENTER AN ACT EXIT, UH, THE NEW DEVELOPMENT PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GET HURT.
THERE ARE 11 TO 15 CHILDREN AT THE ONLY WAY IN AND OUT OF THAT NEIGHBORHOOD OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
CURRENTLY THE HOUSE THAT'S NEXT TO ME, I'M SELLING IT CLOSES TOMORROW.
A NEW YOUNG FAMILY IS MOVING IN.
UM, THE ROADS ARE 18 FEET WIDE.
EXACTLY NOT TWO INCHES WIDER, EVEN AT THE CURVES.
THE TECH STACK REQUIRES, RIGHT? EVEN AT THE CURVES, YOU CAN'T HAVE TWO CARS PASS EACH OTHER.
SOMEBODY HAS TO STOP, PULL OFF THE SIDE OF THE ROAD.
THIS MAP SHOWS ONE WAY IN, BUT AS THE ENGINEER SHOWED US EARLIER, THERE'S ACTUALLY TWO CUL-DE-SACS THEY'RE PLANNING.
IF YOU HAVE ALMOST A HUNDRED HOMES, TWO DRIVERS PER HOME, PLUS A TEENAGE DRIVER, MAYBE EXTENDED FAMILY.
WE'RE TALKING 300 CARS A DAY IN THE MORNING IN THE AFTERNOON IN THE EVENING, COMING BACK IN AND OUT HERNANDO'S LOOP IS ACU SHAPED AREA.
THE ENTRANCE AND EXIT IS RIBBON SHAPED.
AND SO WE OFTEN DRIVE OFF THE ROAD WHEN WE COME IN AND OUT, BECAUSE IT'S JUST NARROW, SUPER NARROW.
AND SOMEBODY BUILT A LITTLE BIT OF CONCRETE ON THE EDGE TO TRY TO KEEP PEOPLE ON THE ROAD IN ONE SPACE.
IF YOU'RE GOING TO ADD 200, 300 CARS IN THE MORNING, 200, 300 CARS IN THE NIGHT, WHICH THAT'S ALSO WHERE THE, THE BUS STOP IS FOR ALL THE KIDS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, YOU HAVE TO WIDEN HERNANDEZ LOOP, NOT JUST THE AREA OF THE DEVELOPER WANTS TO WIPE THE WHOLE ENTRANCE AND EXIT NEEDS TO BE WIDE.
AND THEY'RE NOT GOING TO DO IT.
THEY'VE ALREADY TOLD US LAST WEEK.
THAT'S NOT THEIR RESPONSIBILITY.
I KNOW OUR NEIGHBORHOOD IS DANGEROUS BECAUSE WE MOVED IN AND BOUGHT THE HOUSE IN NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR.
I'VE REPLACED TWO MAILBOXES, TWO MAILBOXES.
IF THOSE WERE CHILDREN, IF THAT WAS ALEXA, SEAN HAS, BEFORE I MOVED IN, HE'S SEEN PEOPLE RUN OVER OUR MAILBOXES BECAUSE WE'RE THERE AT THE ENTRANCE.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
ELICIT LIVE AT 6 0 8 COUNTY COURT LANE.
HEY, I LIVE AT 6 0 8 COUNTY CORK LANE.
AND, UH, FIRST OFF, I JUST WANT TO SAY I'M UPSET BECAUSE I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS EVEN HAPPENING UNTIL A FEW DAYS AGO.
THERE WAS NO NOTIFICATION SENT TO ANYBODY ON COUNTY CORK OR AN HERNANDEZ LOOP.
UM, AND JUST LET SOME GUY JUST, YOU KNOW, SET UP SHOP OR WHATEVER, TALK ABOUT IT, WHATEVER HERE WE ARE.
UH, IT'S JUST, IT'S REALLY FRUSTRATING.
OUR NEWS LOOP IS A GREAT NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, COUNTY COURTS, ALSO COUNTY GLEN OLD NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, I JUST THINK THE TRAFFIC PUTTING OUR EXPRESSWAY FROM 180 3 ALL THE WAY THROUGH COUNTY CORK, IT'S GOING TO COME RIGHT INTO OUR STREET.
WE DON'T HAVE CURBS OR SIDEWALKS.
IT'S ALREADY REALLY CONGESTED.
LIKE YOU'VE HEARD FROM ONE SAY, AND IT'S GOING TO BE REALLY DANGEROUS.
UM, SO THAT, AND WHAT EVERYONE ELSE IS SAYING, ALL THE PROBLEMS FLOOD PLAIN.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I'M GOING TO KIND OF SPEAK QUICKLY CAUSE I HAVE A LOT TO TALK ABOUT.
UM, BUT FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT I'M REALLY PROUD OF EVERYONE, UM, AT COUNTY GLEN AND HERNANDO'S HIDEAWAY WHO CAME OUT LAST WEEKEND TONIGHT TO, UH, SPEAK ABOUT THIS ISSUE.
SO, FIRST OF ALL, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT WAS BUILT IN 1968, A DECADE BEFORE THE CITY OF LEANDER WAS EVEN ESTABLISHED FIRST.
I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO SAY THAT THIS IS NOT A, NOT IN MY BACKYARD SITUATION.
I ACTUALLY WANT THIS PROPERTY DEVELOPED.
CAUSE I'D FEEL THAT IT WOULD PROVIDE SOME DRAINAGE AND FLOODING RELIEF TO THE NEIGHBORHOOD THAT HAS BEEN NEGLECTED AND WHOSE BONDS FIXED THE DRAINAGE PASS YET THE REPAIRS BY THE CITY HAVE NEVER BEEN COMPLETED.
MY PROBLEM WITH THE CONSTANT PLANT CONCEPT PLAN LIES IN THE FACT THAT THE PROPOSING ADDITIONAL ACCESS POINTS TO THE PROPERTY AT BOTH TWO AT HERNANDEZ SLOOP AND AT COUNTY CORGAN, EMERALD AISLE.
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IN ADDITION TO 180 3, THIS WOULD BRING APPROXIMATELY 200 CARS FOR OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AS SPECIFICALLY SAID BEFORE.BUT THE CASA CONCEPT PLAN ACTUALLY STATES THE DEVELOPER WOULD PRODUCE APPROXIMATELY 2000 AVERAGE DAILY TRIPS.
AND INSTEAD OF A TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS ON ROADS THAT WERE BUILT IN 1968, THEY'VE BASICALLY JUST SAID, WE'RE GOING TO PAY A FEE IN LIEU, WHICH IS A KICKBACK, UM, TO THE CITY INSTEAD OF ACTUALLY FIGURING OUT HOW THIS WOULD IMPACT TRAFFIC WITHIN THE, WITHIN THE LOOP AND COUNTING GLEN, THE ROADS WERE NOT DESIGNED FOR THIS KIND OF TRAFFIC AS EVIDENCED BY THE DETERIORATION OF THE EXISTING ROADS AND THE ROADWAY CONDITIONS ASSESSMENT PRESENTED TO THIS COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER OF 2020 AT THAT COUNCIL MEETING, THIS ASSESSMENT SHOWED THAT HERNANDEZ LOOP WAS IN FAIR CONDITION, NOT GOOD OR SATISFACTORY, BUT FAIR.
IT ALSO SHOWED THAT COUNTY CORK AND EMERALD DIAL WERE IN VERY POOR CONDITION, VERY POOR, WHICH IS CONSIDERABLY LOWER PSP PCI SCORE THAN A SATISFACTORY ROAD.
IT'S 26 TO 40 INSTEAD OF 71 TO 85.
HOW WILL THIS BE ADDRESSED BY THE CITY? UM, SINCE REED'S RECENT MAINTENANCE WILL NOT BE SUFFICIENT FOR AN ADDITIONAL 2000 TRIPS PER DAY.
THERE ARE KIDS THAT PLAY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND WE HAVE NO SIDEWALKS.
UM, AND PEOPLE PARK IN FRONT OF THEIR HOUSES AND I COUNTY CORK.
THE ROADS ARE EVEN MORE NARROW, JUST NAVIGATING AROUND PARKED CARS IS GOING TO BECOME DIFFICULT.
I CAN'T IMAGINE 2000 ADDITIONAL TRIPS ON THAT STREET.
THERE ARE 33 RESIDENTS RESIDENCES ON HERNANDEZ LOOP.
IF YOU CALCULATE TWO CARS PER HOUSEHOLD AND TWO TRIPS PER DAY, THAT EQUATES TO 132 TRIPS THAT SIGNIFICANTLY DIFFERENT THAN 2000 ADDITIONAL TRIPS.
ALSO SEEING THAT I'VE NEVER SEEN AN ASSET MANAGEMENT PLAN FROM THE CITY AND LEFT TO CONCLUDE THAT THESE ROADS WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE CONSIDERABLE QUALITY ISSUES.
THESE PROPOSED ROADS ARE NOT ANYWHERE IN THE MASTER TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
HOW DID THESE DISCUSSIONS COME ABOUT TO PLACE THESE ROADS WITHIN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD? I WOULD MUCH MORE PREFER THAT EMERGENCY SERVICES ONLY GATES AT HERNANDEZ LOOP AND COUNTY COURT, WHICH WOULD ALLOW THEM TO ACCESS IN AN EMERGENCY, BUT WERE WHAT PREVENT THE APPROXIMATE 2000 ADDITIONAL TRIPS INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
THESE ACCESS POINTS WILL NEGATIVELY IMPACT THE EXISTING RESIDENTS.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE ON, UH, FOUR 15 HERNANDEZ LOOP.
MY HOUSE IS DIRECTLY FACING THE PROPERTY.
UM, I'VE LIVED THERE ALL MY LIFE.
I BOUGHT THE HOUSE FROM MY DAD.
I KNOW THE FLOOD PROBLEM IS VERY REAL.
I'VE HAD TO ADDRESS IT SEVERAL TIMES AT MY PROPERTY.
THE IT'S GOTTEN TO THE POINT WHERE I WAS SO BAD WHERE THE WATER IS RUNNING INTO THE BACKYARD INTO THE HOUSE.
UM, IT'S, IT'S BEEN ADDRESSED SEVERAL TIMES, NEVER REALLY FIXED.
UM, SO WITH THE, THE DEVELOPMENT ON THAT PROPERTY, I'M VERY CURIOUS TO KNOW WHAT YOU GUYS ARE REALLY GOING TO BE DOING ABOUT THE ACTUAL FLOOD PROBLEM.
UM, IF IT GETS WORSE AND WHO IS THERE REALLY TO BLAME? IS IT THE CITY OR IS IT A DEVELOPER? UM, NOT ONLY THAT, BUT AS, AS MANY OTHER PEOPLE HAVE SAID, THE ROADS ARE VERY NARROW.
UM, IT HAS BEEN A VERY SAFE NEIGHBORHOOD FOR A LONG TIME.
I GREW UP THERE PLAYING THERE.
UM, IT REALLY WON'T BE AFTER ALL THAT DEVELOPMENT STARTS.
UM, ALL THOSE TRUCKS ARE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH COUNTY, GLEN AND, AND INTO HERNANDEZ LOOP JUST TO BE ABLE GET TO THE PROPERTY.
I DON'T REALLY SEE HOW YOU'RE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH 180 3 INTO IT.
UM, THE WILDLIFE IS A VERY BIG ISSUE THERE.
I'VE SEEN SEVERAL FOXES, LOTS OF RABBITS DEER.
UM, THAT'S REALLY THEIR LAST PLACE TO BE.
IF YOU START DEVELOPING ON IT, THEY'RE GOING TO BE RUNNING OUT IN THE STREETS.
THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF, UH, CAR ACCIDENTS, SOME BEEN GOING INTO OUR PROPERTY.
UM, IT'S JUST, I DON'T REALLY SEE A GOOD SCENARIO FOR IT.
UM, WHAT ELSE DO I HAVE HERE? THE STREETS THAT WE HAVE ON HERNANDEZ LOOP FACING THE PROPERTY.
SO WHENEVER THERE IS FLOODING THAT HAPPENS, IT CAN'T REALLY ESCAPE INTO THAT PROPERTY.
IT USUALLY GETS TRAPPED IN OUR FRONT YARD, WHICH ENDS UP COMING UP TOWARDS OUR FRONT DOOR.
SO IT'S PRETTY, PRETTY BAD SCENARIO.
UM, IT JUST, IT CONTINUES GETTING DEEPER AND DEEPER BECAUSE THE WATER RUNOFF IS JUST DOWN THE STREET TOWARDS THE, UM,
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ENTRANCE.SO ALL THAT WATER STARTS TO CREATE AN EVEN BIGGER DIVOT.
UM, AND IT JUST CREATES A HUGE GAP FOR ALL THAT WATER TO GET EVEN DEEPER.
SO I CAN'T EVEN PARK MY TRUCK THERE.
CAN'T WALK OUT TO THE STREET FROM YOUR FRONT DOOR.
THAT'S ALL I REALLY GOT TO SAY.
UH, PETER HELITO GOOD EVENING.
AND PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
MY NAME IS PETER TOLEDO, 2,101.
WHAT A WASTE OF TIME FOR THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, THE PLANNING COMMISSION AND THE NEIGHBORS AROUND THIS PROJECT.
YOU HAVE ARRIVED AT A POINT WHEN WE ALL HAVE HAD NO CONCEPT OF WHAT THIS SUBDIVISION WOULD LOOK LIKE.
ONE WEEK AGO, I WAS BEFORE THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION AND PRESENTED SOME CONCERNS IN REGARD TO THE SUBJECT CASE, THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF COMMENTS BY OTHER RESIDENTS IN THE AFFECTED NEIGHBORHOOD WERE VERY CRITICAL, MAIN SHIFT FROM LACK OF NOTIFICATION, LACK OF INFORMATION AND IMPACT OF THE PROJECT TO THE SURROUNDING AREA, ASIDE FROM US AND SEVERAL OTHER NEIGHBORS, NOT BEING NOTIFIED OF EITHER HEARING THE PLAN ON THE SCREEN AT THE PLANNING COMMISSION HEARING WAS NOT THE SAME PLAN ATTACHED TO THE NOTIFICATION LETTER, BUT ONLY THE LOT OUTLINE NO STREETS, NO LOCATION OF HOUSES, NOR PROPOSAL, HOW TO DEAL WITH THE RAIN RUNOFF FROM BACK THAT ROAD ALONG COUNTY, GLEN, AND THEN IN FRONT OF HOUSES ON WICKLOW AND THROUGH A CULVERT UNDER ONE PROPERTY, THEN TO DITCH A MERCHANTS BEHIND OUR PROPERTY BEFORE DRAINING UNDER EMERALD THE AISLE DRIVE ONTO THE PROPOSED SUP WE'LL POST SUBJECT PROPERTY.
IT WASN'T A SURPRISE FOR THOSE NEIGHBORS WHO SPOKE BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION WITH MOSTLY NEGATIVE COMMENTS ONLY TO BE TOLD THAT THE PLANNING COMMISSION HAD TO APPROVE THE PROJECT BEFORE THEM, ACCORDING TO THE PRESENT LAW, THIS SHOULD BE CHANGED TO A PROCESS WHICH MANDATES FOR ANY DEVELOPER TO WORK WITH THE PLANNING DEPARTMENT, FOR THE PROJECT TO CONFORM TO ALL THEN CURRENT RULES AND REGULATIONS SUPPORT IS BEFORE JUST BEING PLACED BEFORE THE PLANNING COMMISSION ALSO TRAFFIC ENTERING AN OR EMERGING FROM THE PROPERTY WOULD BE EITHER ONTO US.
180 3 HERNANDEZ LOOP OR COUNTY CORK LANE HAVE ALL THE RESIDENTS OF COUNTY CORK LANE BE NOTIFIED OF THE INCREASED TRAFFIC ONTO THEIR ROAD.
THE MAP SHOWN TONIGHT WAS NOT ATTACHED TO THE NOTIFICATION LETTER, BUT IT ONLY SHOWED AN OUTLINE.
A GOOD USE FOR THIS PROPERTY WOULD BE A NEIGHBORHOOD PARK.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
HI, MY NAME IS PEGGY GILLAM AND I LIVE AT 4 1 4 HERNANDO'S LOOP AND LAND, OR WE BUILT OUR HOME ON THE ONLY VACANT LOT FOR SALE ON HERNANDEZ LOOP.
38 YEARS AGO, LIKE ANYONE CONSIDERING WHERE TO BUY OR BUILD, WE LOOKED AT WHAT WAS IMPORTANT TO US.
OUR DECISION TO BUILD ON HERNANDEZ LOOP WAS THE LOCATION.
AND WE WERE TOLD THAT NO ONE WOULD BUILD ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR HOUSE BECAUSE OF THE FLOOD PLAIN.
AND WE LIVE FACING, UM, THIS, THIS PROPERTY, THERE IS NO OR LOW CRIME BECAUSE OF ONE WAY IN AND ONE WAY OUT IT'S QUIET, LITTLE OR NO TRAFFIC SAFE FOR CHILDREN, SAFER RIDING BIKES, SAFE FOR WALKING ON THE STREET AND OUR NEIGHBORS.
MANY OF OUR NEIGHBORS WE'VE GROWN UP TOGETHER WHEN WE MOVED TO LAND OR THERE WERE FOUR SCHOOLS, TWO ELEMENTARY, ONE JUNIOR HIGH AND ONE HIGH SCHOOL.
AND NOW THERE ARE 47 WITH ALL OF THE GROWTH.
I'M VERY THANKFUL THAT OUR LOOP IS STILL THE SAME.
THE REASON THAT WE CHOSE TO MOVE THERE, I'M NOT SURE WHAT WAS TAKING PLACE ACROSS THE STREET.
IN 2012, THERE WAS A LOT OF MULCHING, UH, TAKING DOWN OF TREES, A LOT OF MULCHING.
AND, UM, I DEVELOPED, UH, AN ESOPHAGUS INFLAMMATION OF MY ESOPHAGUS TO WHERE I WAS, UM, COULDN'T SWALLOW FOOD FOR ABOUT FIVE AND A HALF MONTHS.
IT WAS JUST BABY FOOD OR PUREED.
AND IT WAS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS THE ALLERGIES FROM THE MULCHING AND THE RESIDUE.
WE LIVED IN CONSTANT DESKS, YELLOW ON OUR, OUR CARS.
UM, COULDN'T WASH THEM ENOUGH TO GET THE STUFF OFF AND ANYWAY, UM, AND WE'VE GOT A GRANDSON NOW WITH ASTHMA.
I'M CONCERNED ABOUT MY HEALTH OF HOW LONG THIS WILL TAKE, WHAT THE PROCESS WILL BE.
UM, JUST THE, UM, THE PREVIOUS CO
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DEVELOPERS THAT CONSIDERED BUILDING ACROSS THERE.UM, THE COST, I THINK THEY REALIZED THE COST OF THE PROJECT AND DETERMINED TO, UM, NOT START ANYTHING, BUT MY CONCERN TOO IS ONCE THEY GET STARTED, IF THEY START, IF IT'S APPROVED THAT, UM, IT, IT MAY JUST END OF THEM TAKING OUT OUR LOOP MORE TRAFFIC MORE, UM, W HE TALKED ABOUT A DITCH.
I'M NOT SURE WHERE HE WAS TALKING ABOUT A DITCH THAT ACROSS THE STREET FROM OUR HOUSE, IT'S JUST LAND.
IT'S NOT, THERE'S NO DITCH, NO PLACE FOR WATER TO GO, BUT I'M JUST CONCERNED ONCE IF THEY GET STARTED AND THERE'S NOT ENOUGH MONEY TO PAY TO, TO FINISH IT UP, WHAT'S GONNA TAKE PLACE.
AND ALSO JUST THE COST OF, OF, UM, WE'RE JUST BEING ASKED TO GIVE UP OUR PEACE, OUR SAFETY, OUR HEALTH DECREASE IN THE SELLING PRICES OF OUR HOMES.
THANK YOU, JOSEPH GILLEN, BEFORE IT STARTS, YOU GET IT TO THE BACKWARD, SHOWS THE LAUNCH.
HOW DO WE DO THAT? IS IT RIGHT HERE? UH, I BELIEVE OUR PLANNING DIRECTOR IS GOING TO BRING THAT UP.
ALL RIGHT, MR. GILLEN, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
UM, FOR ONE FOR HERNANDEZ LUBE, WE BUILT OUR HOUSE 38 YEARS AGO.
I BUILT MY HOUSE STARTED EIGHT YEARS AGO.
I'VE ACTUALLY FRAMED IN, BUILT A LOT OF THE HOUSES AND LOOP ABOUT A QUARTER OF THEM AT A QUITE A FEW IN COUNTY, GLEN, BETWEEN 1976 AND 1984 WITH A MAN NAMED KENNETH WILEY.
WE WERE TOLD NOTHING WOULD EVER BE BUILT IN THE FLOODPLAIN WAY BACK WHEN THESE ARE THE FACTS, THE ROADS WILL NOT BE WILING TO WIDE ENOUGH TO HANDLE THE TRAFFIC.
OUR HOMES WILL LOSE 10% VALUE AT AN AVERAGE OF $40,000.
WHEN YOU OPEN A LOOP TO A THROW THROUGH, IF IT GETS OPEN TO THROUGH, THROUGH TRAFFIC, CRIME WILL GO UP.
WHEN TRAFFIC CONGESTION WOULD EXCEED A SPECIFIC THRESHOLD TO PREVENT EXCESSIVE DELAY IN INCREASE IN TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS, THE LAW MUST PROHIBIT DEVELOPMENT THAT WOULD EXCEED THE THRESHOLD.
MOST LOCAL GOVERNMENTS WOULD REQUIRE AT LEAST TWO MEANS OF ACCESS TO AND FROM A PROPOSED DEVELOPMENT OF THIS SIZE.
IT'S ACTUALLY WHERE THEY'RE ONLY REQUIRED TO HAVE TWO INTERESTS AS IN TWO EXITS ON THE, ON 50 ACRES OR MORE.
UH, ALSO THERE WAS, HE SAID THERE WON'T BE ANY, UH, TRUCKS COMING IN ON THE LOOP OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
WELL, THAT CULDESAC IS GOING TO HAVE TO HAVE TRUCKS COMING IN.
THERE WILL BE TRUCKS COMING ON THE LOOP AND STUFF.
THIS, THIS GUY, WHOEVER HE IS, I DON'T KNOW WHO HE IS.
HE'S NOT HERE AGAIN TONIGHT REPRESENTING HIMSELF.
UH, IT'S JUST, THERE'S JUST A LOT OF THINGS THERE THAT AREN'T GOING RIGHT HERE.
WE HAVE MADE SUGGESTIONS TO MAKE A GREENBELT 200 TO 300 FEET FEET ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE LOOP ALL THE WAY DOWN.
WE HAVE SUGGESTED A LOT GUIDE ON THE LOOP FOR EMERGENCY VEHICLES, ONLY MOST IMPORTANT ONES.
THE SUGGESTION TO THE CITY TO BUILD A PUBLIC PARK, WHICH LANDER IS VERY LIMITED ON, ON THE LOOP.
WE HAVE REPUBLICANS, DEMOCRATS INDEPENDENTS.
WE HAVE CATHOLICS, PROTESTANTS, MUSLIMS. WE HAVE YOUNG AND OLD ALIKE.
WE HAVE MULTICULTURAL BELIEFS OF RELIGION AND POLITICS EXPO.
WE HAVE ALL COME TOGETHER FOR THIS ONE THING TO PROTECT OUR SAFETY, OUR VALUES, OUR PROPERTY, OUR FAMILIES, AND OUR WAY OF LIFE.
THIS DEVELOPER HAS DECEPTIVELY COME IN AND NOT COMMUNICATED, NOT CARING ABOUT US AT ALL.
IF THIS HAS PASSED, HE WILL CONTINUE THE PROCESS, DO THE RIGHT THING AND SHUT THIS THING DOWN.
THANK YOU, MR. GILLUM, LYALL JOHNSON.
GOOD EVENING, MR. JOHNSON, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES WHILE JOHNSON 700 NEW CASTLE LANE.
MY PROBLEM IS WHERE DO I START? THIS? THIS WHOLE PROJECT REMINDS ME OF A FAIRY TALE.
IT SOUNDS GOOD WHEN YOU LISTEN TO IT, BUT IT LACKS ONE REAL IMPORTANT ASPECT.
THE REALITY IS 180 3 IS AT CAPACITY OR BEYOND IN THE MORNING AND THE EVENING.
WHAT ARE THESE PEOPLE GOING TO GO? THEY'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD BECAUSE THAT'S FASTER AND EASIER THAN WAITING TO GET ONTO 180 3.
THIS WILL CREATE A LOT OF TRAFFIC IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS THAT ARE NOT DESIGNED FOR THIS.
THEY WERE BUILT BACK WHEN THERE WERE MUCH FEWER
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CARS AND TRAFFIC.THE OTHER THING IS TALKING ABOUT FLOODING.
THAT WAS THE BASE FOR THE HOUSE IS GOING TO BE SIX TO EIGHT INCHES ABOVE GROUND LEVEL.
THAT MEANS THAT THE WATER THAT'S BEEN FLOWING ACROSS THERE HAS TO GO AROUND.
THAT MEANS MORE WATER RETAINED THERE.
AND THEN, UH, IT'S GOING TO JUST CHANGE THE ENTIRE FLOW OF WATER IN THAT AREA.
AND I DON'T THINK THEY'VE TAKEN THAT INTO ACCOUNT.
THE, NO, THERE, THEY'RE SAYING 63% OF THE PEOPLE WILL GO OUT ON 180 3.
I THINK IT'LL BE MORE LIKE 15%.
I, WHEN I LEAVE MY HOUSE, IF IT'S IN THE, PARTICULARLY IN THE MORNING, I DON'T TAKE THE SHORT ROD DOWN TO 180 3.
I GO UP TO BAGHDAD ROAD AND TAKE IT DOWN TO NEW HOPE TO GET OVER THERE OR SOME OTHER STREETS, BECAUSE 180 3 IS REALLY SLOW.
THE INTERSECTION THAT W 180 3 AND NEW HOPE YOU CAN, IT CAN TAKE YOU FIVE CHANGES OF LIGHT TO GET THROUGH THERE IN THE MORNING OR THE EVENING.
IT'S JUST, IT'S JUST REALLY TERRIBLE TRAFFIC.
THEY'RE GOING TO INCREASE THE PROBLEM IN ADDITIONAL WETTER.
WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THE WILDLIFE THERE.
IF THEY GO IN AND BUILD HOUSES, WHERE ARE THOSE ANIMALS GOING TO GO? WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
THEY'RE GOING TO BE EVEN CLOSER TO OUR HOUSES THAN THEY ARE NOW.
I MEAN, WE, I KNOW PEOPLE HAVE SEEN, KYLE'S WANDERING DOWN NEW CASTLE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY.
AND IF YOU, IF YOU DO THIS THERE, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE ANY PLACE TO GO, BUT INTO THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
AND THAT'S WHAT THEY'LL DO BECAUSE THEY WANT TO SURVIVE.
THAT'S WHY THEY'RE THERE AND THIS SMALL AREA NOW IT'S BECAUSE THE ONLY PLACE THAT THEY CAN GO, THIS PROJECT JUST NOT REALISTIC.
GOOD EVENING, MS. MILLER, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
UM, I'M REALLY DISAPPOINTED TO HAVE TO BE HERE TONIGHT.
CAUSE I FEEL LIKE A LOT OF US ARE JUST SAYING THE SAME THING AND I'M GOING TO JUST BE REITERATING MOST OF WHAT EVERYONE ELSE HAS SAID AS WELL.
UM, I AM RIGHT ON THE BACK OF THIS PROPERTY AND UM, I ALSO HAVEN'T RECEIVED ANY NOTICES.
AND I'M MORE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE, UM, THE, THE GUYS THAT ARE TRYING TO DO THIS, THE, UM, APPLICANTS, UM, FOR NOT HEATING, WHAT WAS SHARED WITH THEM LAST WEEK TO REACH OUT TO US AND SEE WHAT WE CAN DO.
UM, IT SOUNDS LIKE EVERYONE IS PRETTY MUCH ON BOARD.
LIKE IF WE CAN COME TO A GOOD CONSENSUS THAT WE'D BE WILLING TO.
UM, SO JUST TO REITERATE, UM, EVERYTHING THAT EVERYONE ELSE SAID IS THE SAFETY.
UM, CONSIDERING ALL THE TRAFFIC THAT'S GOING TO BE COMING THROUGH THE, UM, BUSY-NESS WITH CONSTRUCTION, THE FLOODING INCREASE IN TRIPS.
UM, I LOVE THAT ANNETTE IS ABLE TO FIND ALL OF THIS STUFF.
I REALLY WISH WE COULD HAVE GOTTEN LIKE A PACKET.
HEY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING.
UM, WITH WHAT THE, UM, MANAGER SAID EARLIER, UM, THE PROPOSED PLAN SOUNDED LIKE HE WAS HITTING ALL OF THOSE NEEDS.
RIGHT? I ALMOST THOUGHT WE DIDN'T NEED TO COME UP HERE AND SAY ANYTHING BECAUSE AS HE SHOWING US ALL OF THESE PLANS, I FELT LIKE HE WAS ADDRESSING THE FLOODING.
HE WAS ADDRESSING, UH, SAFETY.
HE WAS ADDRESSING, UH, THE BUSY-NESS.
UM, BUT I'D LIKE TO SEE THAT RIGHT, AS HE WAS TELLING US, AND AS WE SAW THE PICTURES THERE WERE POINTING AND WE DON'T HAVE A POINTER TO ACTUALLY SEE WHAT IT WAS THAT HE WAS SPECIFICALLY ADDRESSING.
I'D LIKE TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THOSE, TO BE ABLE TO CONSIDER BEFORE WE TAKE YOUR GUYS AS TIME TO NOW TELL YOU, HEY, WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON, BUT HERE'S OUR CONCERN.
AND WE'RE ALL SAYING THE SAME THING.
NEIGHBORS LOOKING OUT FOR EACH OTHER.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT 6 0 4 SHANNON CIRCLE, KIND OF AT THE BACKSIDE OF THE, UH, COUNTY GLEN PORTION OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD, THE SOUTH SIDE, UM, GUARANTEE THAT ALL OF THOSE FAMILIES, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT IT WILL BE IN.
THOSE HOMES ARE COMING THROUGH COUNTY GLEN TO GET TO SCHOOL.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO GET ON 180 3 AND GO TO NEW HOPE OR OSAGE BECAUSE OF WHAT YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD.
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THAT'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF PEOPLE GOING THROUGH.YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD THERE'S NO SIDEWALKS.
THE ONLY PLACE THAT EVEN HAS RIBBON CURVES IS COUNTY GLEN.
THE MAIN STREET THAT HAS A FOUR WAY STOP THAT.
NOW PEOPLE BLOW THROUGH CUTTING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
WE JUST NOTICED THAT DURING COVID.
I THINK WE SAW COPS THERE AND WE'RE LIKE, WHAT ARE Y'ALL DOING HERE? OH, PEOPLE BLOW THROUGH THIS STOP SIGN.
UM, WE WALK BABIES, DOGS, EVERYTHING ON THOSE STREETS, AND IT'S NOT JUST, IT'S GOTTEN TO BE SAFE BECAUSE THEY'RE GOING TO COME ACROSS COUNTY CORK, AND THEN THEY'RE GOING TO FIGURE IT OUT.
WELL, THAT TAKES A LITTLE BIT LONGER.
EMERALD ISLE, WHICH TURNS TO RUBY ISLE, NEWCASTLE.
I MEAN, THERE'S GOING TO BE WAYS.
UM, SO MY NOTES HERE, UM, SAME THING, COMMUNICATION.
DIDN'T HEAR A WORD TILL I SAW SOMETHING FROM A NEIGHBOR ON THE FACEBOOK DRAINAGE, BIG ISSUE.
I'VE BEEN IN MY HOME SINCE 97.
UM, STILL HAVE WATER UP TO OUR DOOR.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THE HERNANDEZ LOOP, PEOPLE DEALING WITH THAT WATER.
AND I'D LIKE TO INVITE YOU GUYS TO COME WALK THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT A DOG, I'VE GOT A GRANDSON TAKE YOU ON A WALK, NO BIG DEAL, BUT IT'D BE NEAT FOR YOU TO SEE IT.
AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL HAVE THAT.
YOU'VE HEARD SOME OF OUR CONCERNS AS TO WHAT'S GOING ON.
AND IT'S NOT THAT WE DON'T WANT DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE WE KNOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT THIS PROBABLY ISN'T THE RIGHT SPACE WITH ALL OF THE ISSUES.
THAT WAS THE LAST PERSON I HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK.
WAS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISHED TO SPEAK MARK HELEN, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
YOU WILL HAVE THREE JOHN KELMAN, 1920 HOLLY HILL DRIVE HERE IN LEANDER.
I'M HERE AT THE GUEST OF A, OF COURSE.
UM, BUT I AM FAMILIAR WITH IT.
UH, TONIGHT THERE'S A LOT OF PASSION, A LOT OF ISSUES ON THIS PIECE OF PROPERTY.
THERE ARE MANY, UH, AND ALL VALID.
I KNOW THAT FROM THE HISTORY, WHICH I'M FAMILIAR WITH TOO, BUT, UH, THE TONIGHT AND I, I COULD STAND CORRECTED.
I BELIEVE THIS IS A PROCEDURAL THING WHERE, UH, ALL THE BOXES HAVE BEEN CHECKED AND IT MOVES TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
SO I THINK YOU ALL, I BELIEVE HALF THE VOTE IN THE AFFIRMATIVE THAT THIS IS A PROCEDURAL MOVE TO THE NEXT LEVEL AND ALL THESE, SORRY, DIDN'T MEAN TURN AROUND ALL THESE ISSUES THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP BEFORE YOU NEED TO BE ADDRESSED AT THE NEXT LEVEL.
IT THEN GOES TO P AND Z, UH, FOR THE, AND I CAN BE CORRECTED BY YOUR CITY ATTORNEY AND SUCH, BUT, UH, BUT ALL THESE, ALL THIS STUFF IS TO BE ADDRESSED AT THE NEXT LEVEL, THIS MYSTERY MAN, WHOEVER HE MAY BE PUBLICLY, I'M GOING TO SAY MY PHONE NUMBER IS FIVE ONE TWO SEVEN EIGHT NINE, 5,000.
AND I ENCOURAGE HIM TO CALL ME AS A NEUTRAL THIRD PARTY.
I WANT TO START A LITTLE GROUP TO WORK ON THIS PLANNING EFFORT.
AND I BELIEVE THIS LAND, SOMETHING NEEDS TO HAPPEN WITH THIS PROPERTY.
HE HAS THAT, RIGHT, BUT IF YOU WOULD PLEASE CALL ME, WE'LL SET UP A LITTLE WORKING GROUP AT 4 0 3 HERNANDO'S LOOP, UH, AND WORK.
AND THE COMMUNITY WOULD WORK WITH HIM BECAUSE THERE IS A WAY THAT WE CAN MAKE THIS WORK.
WE DID SOME PRELIMINARY WORK THIS AFTERNOON AND IT LOOKS LIKE WE HAVE A WAY IT'S NOT SPLITTING THE BABY, BUT IT IS IT'S MAY MAKE BOTH PARTIES EQUALLY UPSET, BUT WE THINK WE CAN FIND A SOLUTION FOR THIS.
SO I APPLAUD YOU FOR WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE.
UH, AND IF ALL THE BOXES ARE CHECKED, I DO EXPECT YOU TO DO YOUR JOB LIKE WE ALL DID.
AND THAT IS DEVOTE, UH, PROPERLY, ACCORDING TO STATUTE.
IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK? HI, I'M LOVEY SPONSLER.
I LOOK FORWARD TO HERNANDEZ LOOP.
UM, SO I PLAYED ON THE SLOOP AS A CHILD FOR, I THINK ABOUT SEVEN YEARS NOW.
UM, AND IT'S ALWAYS BEEN VERY, VERY SAFE.
UM, AND I'VE NEVER FELT LIKE I NEEDED TO BE SCARED ANYWHERE ON THE LOOP.
UM, WHEN WE SEE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE SMILE AND WE WAVE AND WE TALK AND STOP AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS.
I CAN'T TELL YOU HOW MANY TIMES I'VE STOPPED AND TALKED TO MS. BLANCHE OR SOMEBODY ELSE JUST WHO WAS WALKING ON THE LOOP.
UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU GUYS DON'T HAVE AN EMOTIONAL CONNECTION TO THE LOOP BECAUSE YOU GUYS DON'T LIVE THERE AND YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY THAT WE HAVE, BUT YOU HAVE ALL OF THESE PEOPLE WHO ARE HERE AND THEY'RE TALKING AND THEY'RE TRYING TO EXPLAIN
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TO YOU HOW WE FEEL ABOUT IT.SO EVEN THOUGH YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, AND YOU CAN'T FEEL THAT SAME SENSE OF COMMUNITY FOR US SPECIFICALLY, JUST TRY TO KEEP THAT IN MIND WHEN YOU GUYS MAKE YOUR DECISION ABOUT THIS, BECAUSE IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO A LOT OF PEOPLE.
WAS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK? COME ON UP.
MA'AM OH, PLEASE GIVE YOUR, YES.
YOU'LL GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES AND THEN YOU'LL FILL OUT A CARD WITH THE CITY CEMETERY.
I'M SUZANNE REDFIELD AND I LIVE AT 6 0 5 NEW CASTLE LANE, AND I THINK IT WOULD BE MOST BENEFICIAL IF YOU COME TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, LIKE NANCY SAID, AND WALK AROUND DON'T DRIVE BECAUSE WE'RE THE TYPE OF PEOPLE THAT ARE, WE'RE GOING TO SAY, OOH, WHO'S IN THAT CAR.
WHO'S THAT? WHY ARE THEY HERE? BUT YOU NEED TO SEE WHAT WE VALUE BECAUSE IT, WHEN I MOVED INTO MY HOUSE, I PAID $140,000 FOR IT.
MY HOUSE IS NOW VALUED AT 428,000.
THERE'S A REASON PEOPLE HAVE, HAVE MOVED INTO COUNTY GLEN AND HERNANDO SALUTE BECAUSE WE HAVE BIG YARDS AS VERY QUIET.
WELL, EXCEPT YOU KNOW, WHEN THE GUYS START THEIR DIESEL TRUCKS, THAT IT'S NOT VERY QUIET, BUT YES, PLEASE COME AND SEE WHAT WE VALUE.
PLEASE FILL OUT A CARD WITH THE CITY SECRETARY, SIR, PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT 26 0 1 HILLTOP DIVIDE LANE, PREVIOUS RESIDENT OF FOUR 10 HERNANDEZ LOOP.
AND BEFORE THAT I LIVED ON 4 0 3 HERNANDEZ LOOP.
SO I LIKE MANY OF THESE CHILDREN THAT HAVE TALKED HERE.
UH, I GREW UP THERE, UH, I'M NOT OPPOSED TO THE GROWTH.
UH, WHEN YOU SEE THE DEVELOPER AND YOU SEE THE PLAN, YOU CAN PUT LIPSTICK ON A PIG, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S STILL A PIG.
THE FACT THAT ALL THESE PEOPLE ARE WILLING TO COME TOGETHER AND HELP DEVELOP A PLAN, I THINK IS COMMENDABLE.
UM, ON TOP OF THAT, IF YOU CHANGE THE LOOP, YOU MAKE MULTIPLE OPENINGS.
IT'S KIND OF HIDDEN FROM THE REST OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU'LL HAVE TO ADD AN AGENDA ITEM TO CHANGE THE NAME OF THE LOOP, WHICH NOBODY'S GOING TO AGREE TO.
THANK YOU, MR. CORLEY, PLEASE FILL OUT A WITH THE CITY SECRETARIES.
ANYBODY ELSE WISHING TO SPEAK? COME ON UP.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT 606 NEW CASTLE ON MY STREET.
14 OF THOSE HOMES HAVE CHILDREN UNDER 13.
AS SOMEBODY SAID EARLIER, THERE ARE NO SIDEWALKS IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD.
OUR CHILDREN RIDE THEIR BIKES IN THE STREET.
THEY WALK IN THE STREET AND FOR NOW IT'S, IT'S A SAFE PLACE.
OF COURSE, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE DELIVERY TRUCKS.
I WANT TO THROW THAT INTO, UM, THE THING IS WE'RE NOT JUST GOING TO BE DEALING WITH TRAFFIC FROM THIS NEW NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, BUT ALSO FROM VEHICLES FROM BAGHDAD, CUTTING THROUGH COUNTY CORK AND NEWCASTLE.
MY STREET THIS MORNING, THE TRAFFIC FROM LHS WAS BACKED ALL THE WAY UP TO COUNTY.
GLEN PEOPLE ARE TURNING AROUND, LOOKING FOR SOMEWHERE TO GO.
THEY'RE GOING TO COME THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
SO IT'S NOT JUST THE TRAFFIC HERE AND I'M NOT GOING TO BE ONE TONIGHT TO SAY THAT I'M NOT AGAINST PROGRESS.
SOMETIMES THE WORD PROGRESS IS NOT A SYNONYM FOR GOOD.
WHAT WOULD BE GOOD WOULD BE TO LOOKING AT SOME OF THE PROBLEMS THAT PEOPLE HAVE BROUGHT UP HERE.
LET'S ADD SOME SPEED BUMPS, FIX THE DITCHES, FIX THE FLOODING, YOU KNOW, MAKE THIS A CITY PARK.
I DON'T THINK ANYBODY'S AGAINST THAT OR JUST LEAVE IT ALONE.
DON'T ALLOW TRAFFIC CRIME AND WHO KNOWS WHAT ELSE? OTHER UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES TO COME INTO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
PLEASE FILL OUT A CARD WITH THE CITY SECRETARIES.
MA'AM I SAW YOUR HAND, YOU WERE ON TOP OF IT WITH THE CARD.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT 605 COUNTY CORK LANE.
WE'VE BEEN IN THIS AREA SINCE 2011 AND THAT HOUSE, UM, I'VE WATCHED THE FLOODING PROBLEMS IN THAT I'VE SEEN THE DEVELOPMENT THAT THEY DID ON COUNTY GLEN.
IT DID SEEM TO HELP SOME, BUT IT DIDN'T HELP EVERYTHING.
I KNOW HERNANDEZ LOOP STILL HAS ISSUES.
I USED TO GO ON THREE AND A HALF MILE WALKS AROUND THE ENTIRE NEIGHBORHOOD EVERY DAY.
UM, AND I WENT THROUGH HERNANDEZ LOOP A LOT.
I ENJOYED SEEING AND PETTING THE COWS THAT WERE
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OVER THERE OR SO I GET THE IT'S HARD TO WANT CHANGE.IT'S HARD TO, TO BREAK AWAY FROM THAT.
BUT I THINK THE BIGGEST ISSUE THAT I HAVE WITH THIS WHOLE SITUATION IS PRIOR DEVELOPERS HAVE LOOKED AT THIS NOWHERE IN THESE PLANS.
DO I SEE THE HUGE RETENTION POND THAT THE OTHER DEVELOPERS KNEW THEY HAD TO DO BASED ON FEMA RULES? I DON'T KNOW WHY THESE THINGS GET THROUGH PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT.
WHEN YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S CERTAIN THINGS THAT HAVE TO BE DONE.
SO IT GETS EVERYBODY RILED UP AND WORKED UP AND UPSET AND STIRPES THEIR LIVES BECAUSE THINGS ARE NOT LOOKED AT AHEAD OF TIME.
SO I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND FULLY HOW THINGS GO THROUGH PLANNING DEVELOPMENT THAT YOU KNOW, WE'RE GOING TO FAIL BASED ON FEVER, NOT A CITY LAW, NOT A STATE LAW, FEDERAL LAW FOR FEMA.
UM, THAT'S, THAT'S THE BIG THING.
I ALSO ALSO HAVE OBVIOUSLY BEING ON COUNTY CORK, WE DON'T NEED THE ROADS FOR TRAFFIC.
WE'VE GOT THE DAYCARE AT THE END OF THE STREET.
WE ALREADY HAVE THROUGH TRAFFIC BECAUSE THEY CUT THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO RUN TO THAT DAYCARE AT THE END OF THE STREET.
CAUSE THEY DON'T WANT TO COME DOWN BAGHDAD.
THEY DON'T WANNA COME DOWN AND THEY DON'T WANT TO COME DOWN CRYSTAL FALLS TO GET TO THAT DAYCARE.
SO THEY CUT THROUGH OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
IT'S GOING TO BE JUST LIKE COUNTY, GLEN, JUST LIKE OSAGE, WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO CUT THROUGH, NOT EVEN LIVE IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
I HAVE SEEN NUMEROUS PEOPLE RUN THAT FOUR WAY.
STOP ON COUNTY GLEN BECAUSE THEY'RE CUTTING THROUGH, LIKE, IT DOESN'T EVEN EXIST.
I'M NOT EVEN TALKING TO CALIFORNIA.
STOP UP TALKING FULL ON, RUN IT.
WE ACTUALLY HAVEN'T HAD THEM COME OUT.
WE'VE OFFERED TO LET THEM SIT AT OUR DRIVEWAY BECAUSE THEY RUN THE ONE AT, UM, I'M SORRY.
WE'VE HAD A DRUNK DRIVER HIT OUR HOUSE BECAUSE THEY RAN THAT STOP SIGN, ACTUALLY THINKING THEY WERE, THEY WERE AT THE FOUR-WAY STOP IT AT COUNTY GLEN.
UM, I DON'T NEED ANY MORE TRAFFIC.
WE'VE HAD ENOUGH DISASTERS IN THAT AREA.
THERE'S TONS OF KIDS THAT PLAY RIDE THEIR BIKES, FAMILIES THAT WALK.
I LOVE SEEING THE FAMILIES WALKING THEIR DOGS.
AND AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE SIDEWALKS, BUT PART OF THE REASON WHY WE MOVED THERE WAS BECAUSE WE LIKED THAT CHARM TAKING SOMETHING THAT HAS A TOTALLY DIFFERENT FEEL NEIGHBORHOOD WISE AND TRYING TO BLEND IT AND SOMETHING THAT'S TOTALLY OPPOSITE IS JUST NOT A GOOD FIT.
I THINK THERE'S A BETTER WAY TO DEVELOP THAT LAND.
MAYBE COMMERCIAL IN THE FRONT, SOMETHING DIFFERENT IN THE BACK.
MY BIGGEST CONCERN IS THAT THEIR PLAN HAS NO RETENTION POND RIGHT NOW.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR CARD TO THE CITY SECRETARY.
WAS THERE ANYBODY ELSE? COME ON UP.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT, UH, 6 0 3 COUNTY CORK LANE.
UM, MY MAIN CONCERN IS THE TRAFFIC LIKE EVERYONE ELSE, EVERYONE ELSE.
I DON'T HAVE ANY KIDS YET, BUT I'M IMAGINING IT'S NOT SUPER FAR OFF.
UM, AND I, I, UH, I, I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO DEAL WITH, YOU KNOW, AN EXTRA 2000 TRIPS A DAY THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
UM, I THINK I HEARD A, AN IDEA THAT I LIKED A LOT THAT WAS, IF THIS IS GOING TO BE DEVELOPED EMERGENCY VEHICLE GATES, UM, AND COUNTY CORK AND AT HERNANDEZ LOOP.
UM, BUT, UH, YEAH, I MEAN, MY MAIN CONCERN IS THE TRAFFIC AND I HOPE THE FLOODING.
I JUST HEARD ABOUT THIS YESTERDAY THROUGH A NEIGHBOR WHO, I MEAN, I MOVED THERE IN 2020 AT A NEIGHBOR WHO I JUST MET YESTERDAY.
HE CAME AND KNOCKED ON MY DOOR AND THAT'S HOW I FIGURED OUT ABOUT THIS.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, HOPE TO GOD, IT DOESN'T FLOOD AND OR HOPE THAT THIS DOESN'T MAKE IT WORSE.
UM, BUT I GUESS THAT'S ALL I'VE GOT.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR CAR TO THE CITY SECRETARY.
WAS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK? COME ON UP.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I LIVE AT 26 0 1 HILLTOP DIVIDE LANE AND I'M AGAINST OPENING THE LOOP.
I HAVE ALWAYS FELT SAFE THERE NO MATTER WHERE I LIVE, NO MATTER WHERE I RESIDE 4 0 3 HERNANDEZ LOOP HAS ALWAYS BEEN HOME TO ME.
I CAN'T, AS A KID, I COULD JUST WANDER OUT INTO THE STREET, ALWAYS FINE.
GO ON, WALKS, RIDE MY BIKE, ALWAYS SAFE THERE IT'S HOME.
INTRODUCING THROUGH TRAFFIC WOULD GET RID OF THE SAFETY.
AND THERE'S BOTTLENECK IN AROUND THAT CORNER.
I'VE DRIVEN AROUND THAT CORNER A COUPLE OF TIMES, NOBODY LIKES IT.
IT'S HARD TO SEE AROUND THERE'S PEOPLE AT SPEED RIDE AROUND IT.
YOU'VE GOT TO WORRY ABOUT GETTING HIT SOMETIMES AND THAT'S GOING TO BE A MUCH WORSE ISSUE IF WE INTRODUCE HUNDREDS MORE CARS.
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AS SOMEONE WHO'S BEEN THROUGH HURRICANE HARVEY, THERE NEEDS TO BE VERY SOLID FLOOD PREVENTION MEASURES IN THE PLANNING.IF THIS HAS TO GO THROUGH WHATSOEVER.
NOW, I LOVE SEEING THE CITY FLOURISH.
I LOVE SEEING NEW DEVELOPMENT, BUT I'VE ALSO SEEN WHAT FLOODING CAN DO TO A FAMILY.
AND I WANT THAT TO HAPPEN TO ANYBODY YET.
PLEASE FILL OUT A CARD WITH THE CITY SECRETARY, SIR.
PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.
I'M AT 3 0 4 AND NANDO'S, UH, I ACTUALLY JUST BOUGHT THE HOUSE LAST YEAR.
IT'S THE FIRST HOUSE I HAVE A PURCHASE, YOU KNOW, SO I'M KINDA GLAD I GOT IN A LITTLE LOOP LIKE THAT IT'S REAL COZY THERE.
UM, BUT THE MAIN THING I WANTED TO BRING UP IS MAINLY COMMUNICATION.
I MEAN, THE COMMUNICATION HAS BEEN KIND OF DREADFUL ACROSS THE ENTIRE BOARD.
AND I KNOW IF WHOEVER, YOU KNOW, HANNAH WAS HANDLING THE TASK, IF THEY WORK FOR ME, THEY THEY'D BE OUT THE DOOR THE NEXT DAY.
CAUSE I I'D HAVE EVERYONE I SPOKE TO.
I WAS THE ONLY PERSON WHO GOT A LETTER.
UM, YOU KNOW, AND, AND THANKFULLY JOE WAS KIND ENOUGH TO GO AROUND AND PASS SHEETS OUT TO EVERYONE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD TO KIND OF GET THE MESSAGE ACROSS.
I MEAN, IT'S JUST KIND OF, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, LOOKING AT THE WAY THAT THEY HANDLED IT, IT INSPIRES ABSOLUTELY ZERO FAITH THAT, YOU KNOW, WHOEVER'S DOING THIS JOB IS GOING TO DO IT APPROPRIATELY AND DO IT CORRECTLY.
AND I COULD JUST IMAGINE MOST OF US WILL PROBABLY END UP BACK HERE AT SOME POINT WHEN SOMEONE HOUSE HAS FLOODS, THERE'S SOME CHILD HAS HIT, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE OF POOR ROADS THERE, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN MENTIONED SO FAR TONIGHT, UH, I MEAN, HOW ARE YOU LOOKING AT ADDING 22 HOUSES, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN THOSE TWO CUL-DE-SACS THOSE HOUSES AREN'T GOING TO USE 180 3.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO USE COUNTY COURT.
THEY'RE GOING TO GO RIGHT THROUGH HERNANDEZ, SLOOP THROUGH, YOU KNOW, THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE OF THE ROAD.
YOU KNOW, EVEN IF THE ONE SIDE IS THE OTHER SIDE, WON'T BE, AND THEY'RE GOING TO END UP BEING UP, YOU KNOW, GOING THROUGH A NEIGHBORHOOD, CAN'T HANDLE THAT TRAFFIC.
SO, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANT TO WASTE ANY MORE TIME.
THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO BRING UP, BUT YEAH, COMMUNICATION SHOULD BE LOOKED AT WHOEVER HANDLED THAT JOB DID ABSOLUTELY AWFUL.
PLEASE GIVE YOU A CAR TO THE CITY SECRETARY.
WAS THERE ANYBODY ELSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK? OKAY.
THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE WANTED THEIR POSITIONS READ INTO THE RECORD.
UH, MIKE MANARY KEVIN SPAHN CELLAR, MADISON MARTINEZ, HELEN JOHNSON, NATASHA BRUNEL, TRAVIS ERMINE, AND ELIZABETH PEARSON ALL WANTED TO REGISTER THEIR POSITION AS AGAINST WITH THAT.
THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED.
WE WILL NOW MOVE INTO THE ACTION REGARDING SUBDIVISION CASE 21, CPA 0 1 9 AS DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY, DID WE GO TO COUNCIL OR SHOULD WE START WITH, I THINK WE GET THROUGH IT AND THEN WE BREAK MS. SIGNS.
DO YOU MIND COMING UP AND EXPLAINING OUR PROCESS AND WHAT'S HERE AND THEN, UM, MS. GRIFFIN, IF YOU WOULDN'T MIND COMING UP NEXT AND TALKING ABOUT THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS AND WHERE WE ARE AND WHAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN PLEASE? GOOD EVENING, MS. SIGNS.
UH, THE, THE ITEM THAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU TODAY IS A CONCEPT PLAN.
AND THE CONCEPT PLAN IS THE FIRST STAGE IN THIS STEP IN THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS OF DIVISION IS WHEN, UM, A DEVELOPER WANTS TO DIVIDE UP LAND INTO DIFFERENT PARCELS TO SELL OFF TO OTHER PROPERTY OWNERS.
UM, AND I'LL MS. GRIFFIN WILL DESCRIBE MAYBE MORE COMPREHENSIVELY THE DEVELOPMENT PROCESS, BUT THE STATUTES THAT GOVERN THE COUNCIL'S APPROVAL OF SUBDIVISIONS, UM, HAVE SOME VERY SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS.
AND THOSE ARE THAT SUBDIVISION APPLICATIONS THAT COME BEFORE YOU, IF THEY ARE COMPLIANT WITH THE, WITH THE STATUTES.
AND IF THEY'RE COMPLIANT WITH THE CITY'S ORDINANCES, THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE DISCRETION.
THE COUNCIL DOES NOT HAVE DISCRETION.
IF THE, IF THE ORDER, IF THE CONCEPT PLAN IS COMPLIANT WITH THE STATE LAW AND THE CITY ORDINANCES, THE COUNCIL IS REQUIRED TO APPROVE THOSE.
AND IT'S UNDER STATE LAW, NOT UNDER STATE LAW, IT'S UNDER STATE LAW AND THERE'S, THERE'S NOT A WAY.
AND EVERY TIME THAT THE LEGISLATURE TAKES A LOOK AT THESE STATUTES, THEY MAKE IT HARDER AND HARDER FOR COUNCIL TO, YOU KNOW, UM, HAVE DISCRETION IN THOSE.
IT'S BEEN THE LAW FOR A VERY LONG TIME.
UM, AND IT'S BEEN AFFIRMED SEVERAL TIMES.
THE LEGISLATURE MORE RECENTLY LOOKED AT THESE STATUTES AND THEY MADE SOME ADDITIONAL CHANGES TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE, UM, PLATS ARE PROCESSED QUICKLY AS WELL.
SO THOSE ARE SOME CHANGES THAT WERE MADE RECENTLY, BUT THE, THE LAW
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REGARDING IF IT'S, IT'S, IT'S AN ALMOST A MINISTERIAL, UM, PROCESS IN WHICH YOU'VE GOT NO DISCRETION.YOU CAN'T SAY NO, IF IT'S COMPLIANT WITH THE STATUTE, IT'S COMPLIANT WITH YOUR ORDINANCES, YOU'VE GOT TO APPROVE IT.
BUT BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST STEP, THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT NECESSARILY IT GETS BUILT THAT IT GETS WHAT BUILT.
NO, NO, THERE, THERE ARE SEVERAL STEPS THAT STILL HAVE TO PROCEED.
THERE'S A CONCEPT PLAN, PRELIMINARY PLAT CONSTRUCTION PLANS, UM, AND FINAL PLAT, THE CONSTRUCTION PRELIMINARY PLAT AND CONSTRUCTION PLAN PHASES, WHERE THEY ADDRESS ISSUES RELATED TO DRAINAGE AND, UM, TRAFFIC FLOWS AND ALL THOSE TYPES OF THINGS.
AND MS. GRIFFIN CAN GET INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL RELATED TO THAT.
AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONS IF YOU NEED IT.
SO I PULLED UP FIRE PROCESS ON THE SCREEN, UM, AND THIS SITUATION THEY'RE HAVING TO FOLLOW THE LONG FORM PROCESS BECAUSE THEY'RE BUILDING ROADS AND EXTENDING INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE ON THE CONCEPT PLAN STAGE.
THIS IS THE ONLY STAGE IN THE SUBDIVISION PROCESS THAT REQUIRES A PUBLIC NOTICE.
SO THEY WERE REQUIRED TO, OR WE SENT A NOTICE TO ALL PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 200 FEET, AND THEN THE STATE LAW REQUIRES THE LETTERS, BUT IT DOES NOT REQUIRE SIGNS.
WE PUT THOSE UP AS A COURTESY.
SO THOSE WERE PLACED ON THE PROPERTY AS WELL.
UM, AFTER THIS STEP IN THE PROCESS, WE MOVED TO THE PRELIMINARY PLAT, UM, THAT WILL GO TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION FOR REVIEW.
IF IT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBDIVISION AND ZONING, IT HAS TO BE APPROVED ON CONSENT.
UM, THINGS THAT WOULD TAKE IT OFF OF CONSENT AND AUTOMATIC APPROVAL WOULD BE REMOVAL OF HERITAGE TREES, UM, OR IF THEY REQUEST ANY TYPE OF VARIANTS FROM THE REGULATIONS, UM, WHEN THEY COME IN WITH THE PRELIMINARY PLAT, IT'S GOING TO INCLUDE THE ROAD LAYOUTS AND ALL THE UTILITY EXTENSIONS, THEY ALSO DO A DRAINAGE REPORT.
UM, THEY HAVE TO EVALUATE TREES, THEY DO A TREE SURVEY.
UM, THEY DO TRAFFIC IMPACT ANALYSIS.
THEY DO A LOT OF DIFFERENT THINGS WITH THEM ENGINEERING TO KIND OF SET THE STAGE FOR THE PROCESS PROJECT.
UM, ONCE THE COMMISSION APPROVES THAT WE MOVE TO THE, UM, THE PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION PLANS, THOSE PLANS WILL INCLUDE THE ROADS, THE WATER, THE WASTEWATER, THE DRAINAGE, AND THOSE ARE THE ACTUAL ACTUAL PLANS THEY USE TO, UM, TO BUILD THE SUBDIVISION.
UM, I THINK THAT'S WHEN THEY'LL HAVE TO SECURE THE PERMITS WITH TECH STOCK FOR THE ACCESS TO 180 3, THAT'S WHEN THEY WOULD SUBMIT A FLOODPLAIN DEVELOPMENT PERMIT AND WORK WITH FEMA.
IF THEY'RE MAKING CHANGES TO THE FLOODPLAIN, EVERYTHING PRELIMINARY PLAT IS PRELIMINARY, SO THEY DON'T GO THROUGH THOSE AUTHORITIES YET TO MAKE CHANGES, BUT IT CONSTRUCTION PLANS WERE ACTUALLY APPROVING THEM TO GO OUT AND BUILD THINGS.
SO THAT'S WHEN YOU GET THOSE OTHER PERMITS.
AND THEN THE LAST STEP IS THE FINAL PLOT.
UM, CONSTRUCTION PLANS ARE ADMINISTRATIVE.
THEY DON'T GO TO THE COMMISSION.
THE FINAL PLOT, UM, DOES GO TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
IT'S SIMILAR TO THE PRELIMINARY PLOT.
IF THEY'RE MEETING ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, THEY'RE ON CONSENT AND THEY GET APPROVED.
UM, AND THEN THEY HAVE EITHER STARTED BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE OR THEY POST FISCAL FOR IT AND THEY RECORD THE PLAT AND THEY HAVE LOTS.
COUNSEL, CAN I ASK YOU A QUESTION, SORRY, BEFORE YOU WALK AWAY, WE HEARD A LOT OF CONVERSATION ABOUT PEOPLE NOT GETTING NOTIFICATION.
AND YOU MENTIONED IT, IS IT THE CITY THAT NOTIFIED OR WAS IT THE DEVELOPER OR? WELL, TH THE CITY SENDS THE NOTICE.
SO WE USE THE COUNTY RECORDS AND WE PULL ALL PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 200 FEET OF THE PROPERTY AND THEY GET MAILED A NOTICE WITHIN 200 FEET.
THANK YOU, COUNSEL, ANOTHER QUESTION ROBIN.
CAUSE I'VE BEEN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD AND HERNANDEZ LOOP IS VERY NARROW AS THEY MENTIONED.
SO CAN HAVE NANOS LOOP OR KELLY COURT, EITHER ONE HANDLE A CONNECTOR STREET TO IT.
SO THAT'D BE A QUESTION FOR THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT, UM, WHEN THEY COME WITH A PRELIMINARY PLAT THAT'S WHEN WE DO THE TRAFFIC ANALYSIS AND THEY'D BE ABLE TO ANSWER THAT.
SO DID I UNDERSTAND WE, IT WILL COME TO US FOR, FOR THE UNLESS IT WAS A VARIANCE, DEPENDING ON THE VARIANTS AND HERITAGE TREE REMOVAL, THEN IT COMES BACK TO YOU.
SO IF THEY WERE TO ASK FOR A VARIANCE ON THE STREETS, LOOK LIKE THE CONNECTOR STREETS, THEN IT WOULD COME BACK BEFORE US.
SO I KNOW WE CAN'T REQUIRE THAT, BUT IF THEY SAW THAT IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL OR, YOU KNOW, TO HELP THE NEIGHBOR, WHATEVER REASON, THEN WE WOULD HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO APPROVE THAT IF THE DEVELOPER CHOSE TO DO THAT.
UM, NOW ARE WE READY TO ASK ALL OF OUR QUESTIONS? CAN I, OKAY.
SO I KNOW WE KIND OF TALKED ABOUT, UM, FEMA AND THAT WE'RE GETTING AHEAD OF OURSELVES.
I'LL JUST A LITTLE BIT, BUT JUST FOR THE SAKE OF CONFIRMING, UM, AND YOU, YOU DID ANSWER THIS, BUT I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE EVERYBODY KNOWS WHAT, WHAT I UNDERSTAND, WHAT I UNDERSTOOD YOU TO SAY IS THAT, UM, FEMA JUST STATES THAT THE SITUATION
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CAN NOT BE MADE WORSE.UM, FEMA'S GOING TO EVALUATE THE FLOODPLAIN AND ANY CHANGES THEY MAKE TO IT WORSE.
THAT'S THE, YEAH, THAT'S THE PREMISE, BUT THEY LOOK AT OTHER THINGS TOO.
UM, AND LET'S SEE, I HAD THE QUESTION ABOUT THE 200 FEET.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE SOME PEOPLE THAT ARE SAYING THAT THEY DID NOT RECEIVE IT WITHIN THE 200 FEET.
UM, HOW, HOW DO WE FOLLOW UP ON THAT? HOW DO WE, UM, WE PULL THE RECORDS FROM WCAB.
I HAVE THE LIST OR THE NOTICES WERE SENT, THEY'RE SENT TO THE, UM, OWNER ADDRESS, NOT THE SITE ADDRESS.
SO IF YOU'RE A RENTER, IT GOES TO THE ACTUAL PROPERTY OWNER, BUT WE HAVE A LIST.
AND WHEN DO WE DO THE 500 FEET? IS THAT JUST, THAT'S JUST FOR ZONING.
UM, SAME THING WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGS.
I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE CONFUSION HERE BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO DO APARTMENT.
SO THEY WERE REQUIRED TO MEET WITH THE COMMUNITY AND TALK ABOUT THEIR PROPOSAL.
SO THIS ONE WAS DIFFERENT, CAUSE IT DIDN'T HAVE THE SAME REQUIREMENT.
SO IF I RECALL THE LAST PROJECT, UH, WE DENIED THAT PROJECT.
THEY DID, I THINK WE DID A DEVELOPMENT PROPOSAL REVIEW.
IT DIDN'T EVEN REALLY GET SUBMITTED, BUT YES, Y'ALL DENIED THE REQUEST.
AND UH, SO THAT WAS NOT, THEY, THEY MAY HAVE DETERMINED THAT IT WAS COST PROHIBITIVE TO DO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT NEEDED TO BE DONE.
WE ACTUALLY, WE HAD THE ABILITY TO DENY THAT, SO THEY DIDN'T JUST LEAVE.
SO THAT WAS SOMETHING WE DID HAVE CONTROL OVER THAT.
I THINK THERE'VE BEEN A COUPLE OTHERS THAT DIDN'T MAKE IT TO YOU GUYS CAUSE THEY REALIZED IT WASN'T GONNA OKAY.
SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S IMPORTANT TOO TO NOTE, UM, I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE RIGHT NOW, BUT I MIGHT HAVE SOME MORE NOW THAN IT.
AND ANYBODY ELSE? I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANYTHING ELSE THAT WILL BE HELPFUL IN THE CONVERSATION.
I MEAN, WE'RE KIND OF, WE HAVE OUR HANDS TIED AS FAR AS THIS GOES AND THERE, BEFORE THERE WAS, IF SOMEBODY COMING BEFORE US, THIS THING, IT FITS EXACTLY WHAT THE ZONING IS AND THAT'S, AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE DEALING WITH THE STATE STATUTE.
SO, UM, IF, UH, IF A DEVELOPER AND THEIR ENGINEERS HERE AND THEY'RE GOING TO GO FORWARD AND THEY KNOW ALL THE PROBLEMS AND THEY KNOW WHAT EXIST OUT HERE, IF IT'S WORTH IT TO THEM TO PURCHASE A PROPERTY AND PUT THEIR MONEY AT RISK TO GO DEVELOP THAT, IT'S, IT'S REALLY UP TO THEM.
AND IF IT WAS UP TO US, LIKE WE, OUR LAST NEIGHBORHOOD THEY'RE BUILT RIGHT BEHIND US AS WELL TOO.
AND IT WAS LIKE, YOU KNOW, IF WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING, WE SHOULD HAVE GONE TO BUY, BUY THE LAND OURSELVES OR TO DO SOMETHING THAT THEY DO.
THEY DO HAVE A RIGHT TO, TO DEVELOP THE PROPERTY.
AND THEY'RE DOING EXACTLY WITH WHAT THE ZONING SAYS.
SO IT PUTS US IN A REALLY TOUGH SPOT HERE, EXCEPT FOR, YOU KNOW, IF, UH, WE CAN'T SAY GO DO IT.
UM, IF YOUR DEVELOPMENT TEAM FEELS IT'S, YOU KNOW, WITHIN, WITHIN THEIR, UM, UM, I DON'T KNOW WHERE TO PUT IT, BUT IF YOU WANT TO GO SPEAK TO THE NEIGHBORS, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD ENCOURAGE THAT, BUT WE CAN'T TELL YOU TO DO IT OR NOT DO IT AS WELL, UM, PER THE STATUTE.
SO, UM, NOTHING ELSE IS GOING TO HELP IN THE SITUATION, BUT THIS IS PRETTY STRAIGHT FORWARD.
EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN SUBMITTED BEFORE HAS BEEN SOMETHING THAT THEY ASKED FOR SOMETHING OUTSIDE OF WHAT WAS ALLOWED WITHIN THE ZONING.
AND THAT'S WHAT HAMSTRINGS US FROM HAVING ANY CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO PUT THERE, IF THEY'RE COMPLYING COMPLETELY.
AND IF AT ANY POINT DURING THE NEXT COUPLE PRELIMINARY PLAT OR FINAL PLAT, IF SOMETHING'S NOT CHECKED OFF COMPLETELY, THEN THEY HAVE THE RIGHT TO DENY IT.
SO THAT PUTS US IN A TOUGH SPOT.
SO I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BE HERE FOR WHILE, SO I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE AS WRITTEN.
SO I WILL SECOND, BUT I, I JUST WANT TO MAKE ONE MORE COMMENT JUST TO EVERYBODY THAT CAME OUT.
UM, I KNOW SOME OF YOU SAID COME OUT AND SEE THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I KNOW SOME OF YOU KNOW, THAT I'VE BEEN THERE A LOT.
I HAVE SOME FRIENDS THERE AND I'VE MADE SOME NEW FRIENDS, SO I KNOW EXACTLY WHAT Y'ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT ANY OF US DON'T UNDERSTAND.
UM, AND IT'S, IT IT'S FRUSTRATING FOR ALL OF US BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE WE, WE CAN'T, WE CAN'T DO ANYTHING EXCEPT ENCOURAGE THE DEVELOPERS TO COMMUNICATE.
AND I KNOW THAT A, A GOOD CONVERSATION CAN GO A LONG WAY.
AND IF THAT HASN'T HAPPENED, I MEAN, I, I WAS SHARING WITH, UM, UM, BRANDY, BRANDY, UM, EARLIER THAT THE, THE PREVIOUS DEVELOPER DID REACH OUT.
AND, BUT THERE WAS A NEED, THERE WAS, IT WAS NECESSARY.
AND THEY WERE REALLY NICE PEOPLE AND, UH, IT, BUT IT WASN'T THE RIGHT PLACE.
AND, UH, SO, SO THEY DID CHOOSE TO GO SOMEWHERE ELSE AND THEY ACTUALLY HAD A RIBBON CUTTING LAST WEEK.
SO IT, IT WORKED OUT, IT WORKED OUT FINE.
WE DENIED THAT AND IT WORKED OUT FINE.
UM, SO I DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE, BUT I MEAN, TO HAVE THE TURNOUT THAT WE HAVE, I MEAN, I'LL WRITE DOWN EVERY TIME SOMEBODY COMES AND SPEAKS, I WRITE DOWN THE NAME AND SOME OF THE COMMENTS, IF THEY'RE, ESPECIALLY IF THEY'RE THEY'RE DIFFERENT.
CAUSE I LIKE TO KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE SHOWED UP.
I MEAN, IT, IT IT'S, IT MEANS EVERYTHING WHEN A NEIGHBORHOOD GETS TOGETHER.
AND I'M SORRY THAT WE DON'T HAVE MORE CONTROL TO HELP.
UM, BUT I DO ALSO UNDERSTAND THAT WE'VE BEEN HEARING BEFORE I WAS ON COUNCIL WHEN I WAS SITTING ON
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THE BACK ROW.I MEAN, I'VE BEEN HEARING ABOUT SOME OF THE FLOODING ISSUES, UH, FOR, FOR QUITE SOME TIME.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DO ABOUT THAT.
UM, I ASKED ABOUT IF THERE WAS ANY, ANY IMPROVEMENTS THAT ARE ON THE, THE PROJECT LIST TO, TO HELP.
AND THERE AREN'T, SO I DON'T WANT THAT TO GO UNNOTICED.
UM, DON'T THINK IT GOES UNNOTICED.
UH, BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DO RIGHT NOW, BUT JUST KNOW THAT YOU'RE, YOU'RE BEING HEARD AND THESE THINGS ARE BEING ADDRESSED, UH, WITH CONVERSATIONS AND, UH, MONEY IS ALWAYS AN ISSUE.
OH, IT JUST, WE JUST CAN'T, WE CAN'T DO IT FAST ENOUGH.
SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT.
AND, UH, WITH THAT, I DID SECOND.
SO, UM, THE BOX BACK TO YOU AND WE READ ABOUT LACK OF THOSE REQUIREMENTS AND YET IS THE COUNCIL DECIDED THAT THAT WAS YES.
MA'AM OUR STAFF KEEPS A RECORD OF ALL OF THAT.
AND I'M SORRY, I HAVE TO ASK NEW SPEAKING FROM THE GALLERY.
UM, I JUST HAVE A COMMENT FOR THE APPLICANT BEFORE WE WRAP UP.
UM, AND I UNDERSTAND SO THAT YOU ARE, YOU ARE JUST THE ENGINEER, YOU'RE THE MESSENGER.
UM, IF THIS WAS AN ACTUAL PLAN THAT WAS IN FRONT OF US, NOT A CONCEPT PLAN, BUT A, WE ARE PUTTING A SHOVEL IN THE GROUND PLAN.
I'M SURE I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE UP HERE THAT WOULD BE INCLINED TO VOTE COMPLETELY AGAINST IT.
UM, IT WOULD BEHOOVE YOUR CLIENT TO SAY THE LEAST TO REALLY DO SOME OUTREACH WITH THESE NEIGHBORS AND RETHINK WHAT HAS BEEN SUBMITTED.
UM, THIS IS ONE OF THE OLDEST, MOST ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS IN THE CITY.
DID YOU WANT TO MAKE A COMMENT? OH, YOU DIDN'T HAVE TO COME UP HERE FOR ME TO YELL AT YOU.
UM, YOU'RE YOU'RE THE MESSENGER.
UM, BUT, BUT YEAH, AND I THINK THIS IS WHAT WE'RE HEARING IS THE LACK OF COMMUNICATION AND REALLY THAT ULTIMATELY COMES DOWN TO THAT PROJECT DEVELOPER.
UM, IT CAN MAKE OR BREAK WHAT YOU DO.
I THINK COUNCIL, DID YOU HAVE ANYTHING FURTHER? ALL RIGHT.
THERE'S A MOTION AND A SECOND.
WE'RE GOING TO BE IN A 15, 10 MINUTE RECESS.
WE ARE BACK IN SESSION AT 9:32 PM.
[22. Conduct a Public Hearing regarding Zoning Case 22-Z-020 to amend the Tylerville Tract PUD (Planned Unit Development) by adopting the Sodalis Minor PUD with the base zoning district of LC-2-A (Local Commercial) on one (1) parcel of land approximately 4.995 acres ± in size, more particularly described by Williamson Central Appraisal District Parcel R539851; and generally located to the northwest of the intersection of W. Broade Street and W. San Gabriel Parkway, Leander, Williamson County, Texas. Discuss and consider action regarding Zoning Case 22-Z-020 as described above.]
ON TO PUBLIC HEARING ITEM NUMBER 20 TO CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING ZONING CASE 22 0 2 0 TO AMEND THE TAYLORVILLE TRACT PUD PLANNED UNIT DEVELOPMENT BY ADOPTING THE SO DALLAS MINOR PUD WITH THE BASE ZONING DISTRICT OF ELSIE TO A LOCAL COMMERCIAL ON ONE PARCEL OF LAND, APPROXIMATELY 4.995 ACRES PLUS OR MINUS IN SIZE AS DESCRIBED ON THE POSTED AGENDA EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.THIS IS A REQUEST TO CHANGE THE ZONING TO ALLOW FOR AN ASSISTED LIVING FACILITY.
UM, THIS ZONING DISTRICT DOES COMPLY WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN.
THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION REVIEWED THE REQUEST, UH, DURING THE AUGUST 11TH MEETING, AS WELL AS THE JULY 28TH MEETING.
AND THEY HAVE RECOMMENDED APPROVAL.
I'LL BE AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING AND THE APPLICANT IS ALSO AVAILABLE.
THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN.
UH, NOBODY HAS SUBMITTED A CARD TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.
WAS THERE ANYBODY WHO GOT EXCITED ON THE LAST ONE? I WANTED TO SPEAK ON THIS ONE.
WE WILL NOW MOVE INTO THE ACTION REGARDING SUBDIVISION, SORRY, ZONING CASE 22 0 2 0 AS DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY
[23. Presentation and discussion on the Proposed FY 2023 Annual Budget and proposed tax rate.]
MOVING INTO OUR REGULAR AGENDA ITEM 23 PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR, 2023 ANNUAL BUDGET AND PROPOSED TAX RATE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE POWERS.MAYOR MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL.
WE'RE GOING TO GO OVER THE, UM, SOME OF THE HIGHLIGHTS IN THE PROPOSED FISCAL YEAR, 2023 ANNUAL BUDGET.
THE, UM, OFFICIAL PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE BUDGET IS SCHEDULED FOR THE NEXT MEETING ON SEPTEMBER 1ST.
AND THEN, UH, IF ALL GOES WELL, HOPEFULLY, UH, AND YOUR QUESTIONS ARE ANSWERED, THEN THE BUDGET WOULD BE, UH, ADOPTED ON SEPTEMBER 1ST, BEFORE I GO ANY FURTHER, I WANT TO, UH, GIVE A BIG THANK YOU TO, UH, JODY LEVY, ASSISTANT FINANCE DIRECTOR WHO, UM, HAS PUT TOGETHER THESE SLIDES AND, UH, THEY MAKE US LOOK GOOD.
UH, THE FIRST SLIDE IS JUST TO GIVE YOU AN
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OVERVIEW OF THE PROCESS.THIS, UH, STARTS, UH, NEARLY FIVE, SIX MONTHS AGO WHEN THE, UH, THE DEPARTMENTS FIRST START WORKING ON THEIR BUDGET PROPOSALS FOR NEXT YEAR.
THIS SLIDE LOOKS LIKE A RACETRACK THAT IT STARTS IN MARCH.
AND THEN WE ZIPPED THROUGH MEETINGS WITH FINANCE IN THE CITY MANAGER.
UH, AND THEN WE GET TO THE CITY COUNCIL.
UH, WE IN FINANCE SELECT TO REFER TO THIS AS THE, THE BUDGET DEATH MARCH.
UH, WE PUT, WE PUT THE DEPARTMENTS THROUGH A LOT THAT THEY, UM, UH, DON'T ALWAYS LIKE, BUT IT GETS US TO A GOOD PLACE.
SO WE LOVE THIS BEFORE WE GO INTO THE, UM, UH, THE, THE BUDGET FOR NEXT YEAR.
WE WANTED TO JUST DO A QUICK LOOK BACK ON SOME OF THE THINGS THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN THE, IN THE LAST, UH, YEAR AND A LOT OF THESE THINGS THAT, UM, YOU FACE EVERY TWO WEEKS.
UM, WE KIND OF FORGET BECAUSE THERE'S SO MUCH IN FRONT OF US AND WHAT TO TACKLE, BUT, UM, JUST A QUICK REVIEW OF THE AGENDAS, UH, FROM THE PREVIOUS 12 MONTHS, IT'S A LONG LIST OF, AND THIS IS JUST A SMATTERING OF, OF THINGS THAT, UM, THE COUNCIL AND STAFF HAVE, HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN FROM YOUR, UM, GOVERNANCE AND STRATEGIC PLANNING WORK SESSIONS WITH RON COX CONSULTING, UH, TO THIS CITY'S BOND RATING INCREASE, WHICH IS A REFLECTION OF THE TREMENDOUS GROWTH AND FINANCIAL STABILITY OF THE, OF THE CITY OVER THE YEARS.
UH, RECENTLY YOU ADOPTED THE ROADWAY IMPACT FEES, UH, TIERED WATER RATES, UM, UH, WITH YOUR APPROVAL PARKS OPENED THE LEANDER ACTIVITY CENTER.
WE HAVE RECEIVED FEDERAL GRANT FUNDS WITH THE ARPA-E PROGRAM.
OF COURSE, THE, THE CAPITAL METRO SALES TAX BALLOT WAS ON THE, ON THE BALLOT IN MAY.
UM, SOON TO BE LAUNCHED AS IS INTER GOV, UH, AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS IN OFFICIALLY KNOWN AS THE DEVELOPMENT HUB, UM, DEVELOPMENT SERVICE, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES PROCESS REVIEW IS UNDERWAY.
UH, THE OLD TOWN MASTER PLAN IS UNDERWAY AND SO ON AND SO ON.
THIS IS JUST A, A GRAPHIC THAT SHOWS THAT THE BUDGET REALLY CONTAINS A LOT OF DIFFERENT, UH, PIECES, ANY ONE OF WHICH IS PRETTY SUBSTANTIAL IN ITSELF.
OBVIOUSLY THERE ARE TAXES AND REVENUES AND FEES THAT, THAT PAY FOR THE BUDGET.
UM, BUT AS WE BUILD THE BUDGET, WE HAVE TO LOOK AT WHERE WE THINK SOME OF THOSE REVENUES ARE GOING, ARE THEY GOING UP DOWN SIDEWAYS? AND IF THEY'RE GOING UP, HOW MUCH UP, UH, SO THERE'S A LOT THAT FINANCE DOES ON THE BACK END, TRYING TO GET A PICTURE OF WHAT NEXT YEAR IS GOING TO LOOK LIKE IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT AND REVENUE PROCESSES.
UH, ANOTHER COMPONENT OF THE, OF THE BUDGET, ESPECIALLY IN LANDER IS IN OUR, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIVISION AND, UH, THE RESOURCES NEEDED TO SUPPORT THE GROWTH THAT WE'VE CONTINUED TO SEE YOU'RE IN AND YOU'RE OUT, UM, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS BUDGET.
UM, ALTHOUGH THAT DEVELOPMENT OF THAT, UH, PROJECT PLAN IS HANDLED BY, UM, UH, DAN AND HIS TEAM.
AND IN ENGINEERING, WHAT WE IN FINANCE DO IN THE OPERATING BUDGET IS BRING IN THE NEXT YEAR'S FUNDING.
SO THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THAT ARE, HAVE BEEN VETTED AND, AND RECOMMENDED BY, UH, DAN AND HIS TEAM, UM, THOSE THAT NEED FUNDS FOR FYI 23 ARE IN THIS, UH, PROPOSED BUDGET THIS YEAR, A MAJOR COMPONENT OF AN, UH, UH, AN A LARGE AMOUNT OF, UH, OF, OF CONCENTRATION AND EFFORT HAS BEEN IN THE, UH, REVIEW OF THE CITY'S, UM, COMPENSATION PLAN AND, UH, UH, MS. DAVIS AND THE HR DEPARTMENT, AND THE CITY MANAGER HAVE ALL BEEN, UH, HEAVILY INVOLVED IN LOOKING NOT ONLY AT THE PUBLIC SAFETY STEP PLANS THAT AFFECT UNIFORMED POLICE AND FIRE PERSONNEL, BUT ALSO THE, THE, UM, THE, WHAT WE CALL THE CIVILIAN, UH, PAY PLAN, UH, WAS ALL PART OF THE COMPENSATION STUDY PERFORMED BY THE, THE CONSULTANT IN THE PAST SUMMER.
AND THEN AS ALWAYS, THERE'S A LARGE COMPONENT
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OF THE RESOURCES, UM, AND THE, AND THE NEED FOR PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS.THIS IS A GRAPHIC, JUST THE OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED TAX RATE.
YOU OBVIOUSLY RECALL IN YOUR LAST MEETING THAT YOU VOTED TO CONSIDER A MAXIMUM TAX RATE OF 45.5 TO 62 CENTS.
THAT'S THE MAXIMUM THAT YOU CAN CONSIDER FROM THIS POINT FORWARD UNTIL, UM, THE VOTE IN SEPTEMBER TO FINALLY ADOPT THE TAX RATE FOR NEXT YEAR.
UM, AND SO OF THAT TAX RATE, UH, IT HAS TWO COMPONENTS.
ONE IS THE OPERATING, UH, COMPONENT THAT FUNDS A LARGE PART OF THE GENERAL FUND.
AND ON, ON THE DEBT SIDE, IT'S 18.2937, SINCE THE DEBT SERVICE PAYS FOR, UM, THE, UH, DEBT THAT HAS BEEN BORROWED OVER THE YEARS AND, UH, IS PAID FROM, UH, PROPERTY TAXES.
THIS IS JUST A GRAPHIC THAT SHOWS YOU HOW PROPERTY TAX RATES OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS HAVE, HAVE STEADILY DECLINED.
AND AS WE ALL KNOW, THE GROWTH IN THE TAX SPACE IS THE PRIMARY DRIVER OF THE DROP IN, IN THE, IN THE TAX RATE.
UM, THIS IS THE SIMILAR SAME SLIDE JUST BROKEN UP BETWEEN THE OPERATING SIDE OF THE TAX RATE AND THE DEBT SERVICE SIDE OF THE TAX RATE SALES TAX REVENUES OVER THE, OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS HAVE BEEN CONSISTENTLY CLIMBING.
I DO WANT TO DRAW A LITTLE ATTENTION TO, TO NEXT YEAR BECAUSE, UM, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A, KIND OF A, UH, AN ANOMALY FOR, UH, OUR PROJECTION FOR NEXT YEAR.
I CAN'T GO INTO, UH, SPECIFIC DETAILS ABOUT ANY ONE, UH, BUSINESS OR, UM, OR THAT, BECAUSE IT ALL SALES TAX INFORMATION IS PROPRIETARY AND CONFIDENTIAL.
UM, BUT THE, THE FLATTENING FROM THIS YEAR TO NEXT YEAR IS THAT, UM, WE'VE HAD SOME BUSINESSES, UM, THAT HAVE, UH, CHANGED THEIR, UM, SALES TAX REPORTING DESTINATION, UM, STATE LAW DICTATES THAT SALES TAXES IS, UH, THE BLADE AT THE POINT OF SERVICE, NOT THE POINT OF SALE OR WHEREVER YOU CONSUMMATE THE TRANSACTION, BUT YOU DELIVER THE SERVICES SOMEWHERE ELSE.
UM, WE'VE BEEN IN, WE NOTICED A DECLINE, UH, IN OUR ANNUAL, UH, OR, UH, A DECREASE IN THE, UM, TREND THIS, THIS PAST SUMMER.
AND, UH, UH, WE DID SOME RESEARCH AND WE'VE NOTIFIED THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE TO TAKE A LOOK AT, AT SOME OF THOSE BUSINESSES TO SEE IF THEY'RE STILL REPORTING IT CORRECTLY.
AND, UH, HOPEFULLY, UM, NEXT YEAR, THIS SLIDE WILL LOOK A LOT DIFFERENT, BUT, UM, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT WE DON'T KNOW, SO WE HAVE TO BE CONSERVATIVE AND WE DON'T KNOW, UH, IF IT DOES TURN AROUND AND GET CORRECT IN OUR OPINION CORRECTED, UH, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THAT WOULD HAPPEN.
SO THAT'S WHY THERE'S A FLATTENING.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING ABOUT OUR, UM, PREDICTION OF, OF THE FUTURE.
THE ACTIVITY IS STILL HAPPENING.
UM, BUT, UH, AT THIS POINT WE MAY NOT BE WE LAND OR MAY NOT BE GETTING ALL OF THE SALES TAX THAT WE USED TO BE GETTING THREE OR FOUR MONTHS AGO FROM SOME OF THOSE BUSINESSES.
SO IT'S IN SOMEONE ELSE'S HANDS THE CONTROLLER AND, UH, WHATEVER THE STATE STATUTE DICTATES WILL, WILL BE OUR FUTURE.
UH, ANOTHER LARGE, A MAJOR COMPONENT OF THE GENERAL FUND IS DEVELOPMENT RELATED FEES.
THIS INCLUDES BILLING, PERMITS, PLANNING, AND ZONING FEES, UH, AND CONSTRUCTION IMPROVED, UH, CONSTRUCTION INSPECTION FEES.
SO WHENEVER A SUBDIVISION IS, IS BUILT, UH, AS WAS DISCUSSED IN THE, IN THE PREVIOUS PRESENTATION, THERE'S A LOT OF INFRASTRUCTURE THAT THE DEVELOPER HAS TO PUT IN TO BUILD THAT SUBDIVISION WATER, SEWER STREETS.
UM, AND THERE IS AN INSPECTION SERVICES FEE THAT IS CALCULATED AND THE DEVELOPER PAYS
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THE CITY TO COVER THOSE THOSE COSTS.SO, UM, IN THE YEAR, UH, LAST YEAR, 2021, UH, THINGS WERE JUST OFF THE CHARTS.
I MEAN, UH, AS YOU CAN SEE THAT $13.4 MILLION FOR ALL DEVELOPMENT RELATED FEES, UH, DWARFS ANYTHING THAT WE SAW PRIOR TO THAT.
AND THEN, UM, IT MAKES THE CURRENT YEAR LOOK KIND OF SMALL, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY NOT THE WAY TO LOOK AT IT TO WHERE YOU'RE, UM, FROM A HISTORICAL STANDPOINT THIS YEAR IS STILL VERY, VERY STRONG.
UM, AGAIN, TO FOCUS ON NEXT YEAR COMPARED TO THIS YEAR, I DON'T WANT YOU TO READ INTO ANYTHING THAT, THAT WE HAVE ANY KIND OF A SOFTENING, UH, OUTLOOK OR A PESSIMISTIC APPROACH.
WE HISTORICALLY BUDGET VERY CONSERVATIVELY WITH GROWTH RELATED REVENUES, UM, BECAUSE W WE CANNOT PREDICT THE FUTURE.
AND IF IN SIX MONTHS OR NINE MONTHS SOMETHING HAPPENS, UM, UH, AT THE LARGER ECONOMY, UH, WE DO NOT HAVE THE ABILITY TO PULL BACK OUR EXPENSES.
SO WE WOULD RATHER, UM, UH, BUDGET, UH, ON THE LOW SIDE AND BE SURPRISED DURING THE YEAR THAT WE'VE ACHIEVED MORE THAN WE, WE BUDGETED THAT THEN FEEDS INTO OUR, OUR, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN.
I JUST WANT TO JUMP IN FOR A SECOND AND SAY THAT I WOULD HOPE OUR DEVELOPMENT WOULD SLOW A LITTLE BIT.
WE'VE TALKED A LOT OVER THE LAST, UH, COUPLE OF WEEKS AND, UH, ABOUT THE GENERAL FUND, WHICH IS WHERE THE MAJORITY OF THE CITY DEPARTMENTS RESIDE, BUT THERE'S ALSO AS YOU KNOW, THE UTILITY FUND, AND THAT IS, UM, THE WATER AND SEWER, UH, FUND REVENUES, UH, FOR NEXT YEAR ARE PREDICTED TO PROJECTED, TO BE UP, UM, FROM 44 MILLION THIS YEAR TO 45.2 MILLION NEXT YEAR, I WILL SAY 90% OF THAT $45 MILLION COMES FROM CUSTOMERS, UH, IN BUSINESSES, WATER, WATER BILLS.
SO THERE IS SOME, UH, THIS IS THE OPERATING BUDGET FOR THE UTILITY FUNDS.
SO THERE ARE SOME ONE-TIME FEES PAID AT THE START OF A NEW CONSTRUCTION, BUT, UH, THE MAJORITY OF THIS REVENUE IS FROM THE MONTHLY, UH, WATER AND SEWER BILLS.
THESE ARE ALL THE DIFFERENT, UH, FUND GROUPS THAT THE CITY BUDGET HAS WHEN YOU ADDED UP, UH, ALL OF THEM LAST YEAR, OUR BUDGET WAS 213 MILLION.
UH, THIS YEAR, THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS, UH, $329 MILLION OF THE INCREASE IN THE GENERAL FUND IS ABOUT 14% OVER THE, THE ADOPTED BUDGET THIS YEAR.
UH, IF THE COMPENSATION, UM, ADJUSTMENTS WERE TAKEN OUT OF THAT 67 MILLION, UH, THAT WOULD TAKE OUT 2.5 MILLION FROM THAT NUMBER.
AND SO THE INCREASE WOULD BE ABOUT 10%.
UM, UM, THE GOLF FUND, UH, SHOWS A DECREASE, BUT THAT, UH, AGAIN, EVERY ONE OF THESE FUNDS PROBABLY COULD HAVE SEVERAL FOOTNOTES.
PART OF THE RE THE MAIN REASON THIS GOLF FUNDS BUDGET FOR THE CURRENT YEAR IS SO MUCH HIGHER, IS THAT THERE WAS A TRANSFER, UM, OF OVER, UM, INITIALLY $600,000, WHICH THEN GREW TO $900,000 TO, UM, TO FINISH THE DRIVING RANGE IMPROVEMENTS.
SO THAT WAS SOME ONE TIME, UH, MONEY OVER THE LAST, UM, LAST YEAR.
UM, BUT THE GOLF COURSE IS, IS DOING QUITE WELL, REVENUE WISE AND PLAY ON THE, SO THE GENERAL CAPITAL PROJECT FUNDS THAT IS PRIMARILY THOSE, UH, UH, FUNDS THAT COME FROM THE OCEANS OF DEBT, BUT THERE'S ALSO, UH, FUNDS THAT ARE, UM, COLLECTED FROM, UH, PARKLAND DEDICATION FEES, THE DEVELOPERS PAY.
AND THERE'S ALSO WHAT WE CALL THE GENERAL CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND.
UM, THAT BY ITSELF IS MONEY THAT IS GENERATED FROM THE SURPLUS
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FROM ONE YEAR COUNCIL IN THE BUDGET PROCESS, APPROVES SOME OR ALL OF THAT SURPLUS TO, TO BE USED FOR ONE TIME PROJECTS.HERE'S IT, HERE'S A CHART FROM HIGH TO LOW OF IN TERMS OF THE WHICH DEPARTMENT, UM, UH, MAKES IT WHAT PERCENTAGE THE DEPARTMENT MAKES OF THE OVERALL GENERAL FUND NORM NON-DEPARTMENTAL PEOPLE, UH, OUTSIDE MY WORLD, USUALLY LAUGH AT THAT, UH, NAME, THE NON DEPARTMENTAL DEPARTMENT BUDGET, BUT BASICALLY WHAT IT MEANS IS THAT THERE'S NOT A DIRECTOR CONTROLLING THOSE CITY RELATED EXPENSES.
ONE OF THE LARGEST EXPENSES IN THIS BUDGET IS, UM, AS, AS, AS YOU KNOW, THE, THE CITY CONTRACTS WITHOUT COST AND DISPOSAL TO PROVIDE, UH, TRASH COLLECTION SERVICES WITHIN THE CITY OF LEANDER.
UM, WE DO THE BILLING ON THE RESIDENTIAL SIDE.
UH, WE TAKE IN THOSE COLLECTIONS AND THEN, UM, RETURN THAT, PAY THAT BACK TO, UH, CLAWSON, UH, MINUS THE FEE THAT WE, THAT WE GET.
SO, UH, NEARLY $5 MILLION OF THAT 15 MILLION IS JUST AN IN AND OUT.
WE COLLECT, UM, UM, THROUGH OUR BILLING, UH, TRASH SERVICES, AND THEN WE TURN AROUND AND PAY CLAWSON.
SO THE OTHER HALF OF THAT, SO THAT WOULD LEAVE 10 MILLION.
THE OTHER HALF OF THAT REMAINING 10 MILLION IS WHERE WE TRANSFER SURPLUS FROM LAST YEAR THAT IS APPROVED IN THIS BUDGET, UH, FOR CAPITAL AND ONE TIME PROJECTS.
UH, SO, UM, THAT, THAT IS TWO THIRDS OF THAT LARGE BUDGET, AND THERE'S SOME OTHER THINGS, PROPERTY INSURANCE AND LIABILITY INSURANCE ELSE ELSEWHERE, AND THE GENERAL FUND AND THE GOLF AND UTILITY FUND.
THIS IS A CHART THAT SHOWS THE, THE NUMBER OF NEW POSITIONS THAT ARE BEING RECOMMENDED.
UM, GENERAL, SIR, IT'S A SMATTERING THROUGHOUT THE CITY GENERAL SERVICES LIBRARY.
UM, THE TWO WITH THE TWO DEPARTMENTS WITH AN ASTERIX MEANS ONE OF THOSE POSITIONS WAS APPROVED AND IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS YEAR, SO IT WASN'T A PART OF THE ADOPTED 22 BUDGET, BUT IT WAS, UH, UH, APPROVED BY THE CITY MANAGER DURING THE YEAR.
AND SO WE WANT TO SHOW THAT TO RECONCILE BETWEEN ADOPTED LAST YEAR TO PROPOSED NEXT YEAR AND THE GOLF DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE THREE AND A HALF POSITIONS, AND IN THE UTILITY, UH, DEPARTMENT, THERE ARE NINE NEW POSITIONS.
ONE OF THOSE, UH, THE WATER CONSERVATION MANAGER WAS, UH, APPROVED, UH, THE MIDDLE OF THIS YEAR.
SO, SO IN, IN CONTEXT OF THE ADDITION OF, UH, EMPLOYEES OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS, THE LINE SHOWS THE NUMBER OF FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS AS COMPARED TO OUR POPULATION GROWTH OVER THE LAST 10 YEARS.
ONE WAY TO LOOK AT THIS, UH, AND PROBABLY, YOU KNOW, JUST SOME FACE VALUE.
IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE KEEPING PACE WITH POPULATION GROWTH.
UM, BUT, UH, THAT WOULD ASSUME THAT WHERE WE STARTED IN 2014 AND 2015, WE HAD ALL THE PEOPLE THAT WE NEEDED TO SERVICE THAT, UM, UH, POPULATION.
AND, UH, I DON'T THINK ANY DEPARTMENT, ANY DIRECTOR HERE WOULD SAY THAT WE DID.
SO, UM, WE MIGHT BE TREADING WATER AND KEEPING UP WITH POPULATION, BUT I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE, UH, IT'D BE TOO STRONG TO SAY WE'RE GAINING GROUND IN TERMS OF KEEPING UP WITH, UH, POPULATION GROWTH.
BUT, UM, WE LIKE WHAT WE DO, UH, THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS.
THOSE ARE SIGNIFICANT PROJECTS THAT, UH, ARE ONE ONE-TIME SOURCE OF FUNDS.
UH, I WON'T GO INTO ALL OF DAN'S THUNDER, BUT WE BREAK THE, THE TYPES OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS BY THEIR, UH, THEIR FUNDING SOURCE.
AND ALSO THE KIND OF WHAT THEY'RE RELATED TO.
SO MUNICIPAL PROJECTS USUALLY MEANS THAT THEY'RE JUST NOT UTILITY
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OR TRANSPORTATION OR PARKS.SO THEY KIND OF FALL INTO A, UM, POLICE AND FIRE STATION IMPROVEMENTS OR, UM, UM, LARGE, UH, UM, OTHER, UM, NON NON PARKS OR PUBLIC SAFETY IMPROVEMENTS.
IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THE $2.2 MILLION IS ALLOCATED TO, UH, RENOVATE, UH, FIRE STATION TWO ON CRYSTAL FALLS PARKWAY.
THAT'S BEEN IN THE BUDGET, UM, LAST YEAR AND, UH, DUE TO A VARIETY OF REASONS IN TERMS OF PUTTING IT OUT TO BED AND NOT, NOT GETTING, UH, SUFFICIENT BIDS OR BEING OUT OF, OUT OF, UM, RANGE.
IT HASN'T BEEN, BEEN, UH, STARTED YET, BUT IT, THE, THE STATION NEEDS TO BE RENOVATED AS WELL AS A, THAT WAS THE DESIRED, UH, LOCATION TO ACCOMMODATE, UH, UH, A SECOND EMS, UM, STATION.
SO IT'D BE A COMBINATION OF IMPROVING THE STATION THAT WAS BUILT IN 2008 OR 2009, UH, AS WELL AS PROVIDING, UM, SPACE FOR A SECOND EMS FACILITY.
I DO WANT TO POINT OUT IN THE WATER AND WASTE WATER PROJECTS, TOO MANY W'S IN THAT SENTENCE.
UM, THAT $110 MILLION DOES NOT INCLUDE THE $120 MILLION THAT THE CITY OF LEANDER IS COMMITTED TO WITH THE BCR UA, UM, PHASE TWO PROJECT.
SO IF YOU HAD THAT HUNDRED AND 20 MILLION, YOU'D GET $230 MILLION IN UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS.
THE REASON THAT'S NOT ON THERE IS TECHNICALLY THAT THAT PROJECT IS ON THE BCR UIS BOOKS IN THE CITY OF LANDERS, JUST PAYING JUST IS PAYING THE DEBT SERVICE RELATED TO THAT, BUT WE'RE A HUNDRED PERCENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THAT, UH, THAT DEBT SERVICE HERE.
SOME OF THE, THE, THE PROJECTS ON THE NON-UTILITY SIDE OF THE, THE CAPITAL PROJECTS LEDGER, UH, AS I MENTIONED, FIRE STATION TWO IS, IS ONE PIECE.
THEN WE HAVE, UH, SEVERAL PARK PROJECTS AND THEN A NUMBER OF TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
UM, MANY OF THESE YOU HAVE SEEN IN A PREVIOUS YEAR, SO WE HOPE THAT, UH, A LOT OF PROGRESS CAN BE MADE AND, UH, CHECK SOME OF THESE OFF, UM, AT THE END OF NEXT YEAR ON THE UTILITY SIDE, UM, AGAIN, NOT, UH, RELATED TO THE $120 MILLION IN BCR UA DEBT FOR PHASE TWO OF THE DEEP WATER, BUT THERE'S $110 MILLION IN, IN, UH, WATER AND WASTEWATER, UH, PROJECTS.
AS I MENTIONED AT THE BEGINNING, A LARGE, UM, A LARGE AMOUNT OF EFFORT AND CONCENTRATION DURING THE, THIS YEAR'S BUDGET DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN RELATING TO ANALYZING THE COMPENSATION STUDY RESULTS BY THE CONSULTANT, WORKING WITH POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENTS TO, TO DEVELOP, UH, UH, UH, A STEP BY STEP PLAN FOR BOTH POLICE AND FIRE UNIFORM PERSONNEL.
SO, UM, WE HAD A FAIRLY GOOD IDEA OF THE COSTS THAT, THAT WE WOULD BE NEEDING BASED ON THE CONSULTANTS WORK ON WHERE W WHERE LEANDER WAS RELATIVE TO THE MARKET.
SO, UM, EVEN THOUGH THE, THE, THE COMPENSATION PLANS ARE STILL BEING FINALIZED AND WORKED ON, UH, WE HAD SET ASIDE IN THE BUDGET AND THE PROPOSED BUDGET, THESE AMOUNTS, AND, UH, WE ARE STAYING, UH, WITHIN, WITHIN TARGET FOR, UH, UH, FOR THOSE, FOR THOSE PLANS.
UM, ONE OF THE, UM, PIECES OF THE COMPENSATION PLAN THAT IS, UM, IS BEING RECOMMENDED AS AN ACROSS THE BOARD COST OF LIVING ADJUSTMENT FOR ALL FULL-TIME EMPLOYEES OF 4%.
AND THEN, UM, BEYOND THAT, THERE ARE A PAY PLAN ADJUSTMENTS FOR THE CIVILIAN SIDE OF THE HOUSE, AS WELL AS A STEP PLANS FOR THE POLICE AND FIRE UNIFORM, UM, PERSONNEL.
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UH, STILL BEING WORKED ON BY HR AND CITY MANAGER.AND, UH, I'M IN SOME OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS.
SO, BUT CERTAINLY NOT THE EXPERT, UM, BASED ON THE, THE LAST, UH, MEETING, UH, WITH, AT THE AUGUST 4TH COUNCIL MEETING, UH, WE, WE HEARD YOU THAT YOU WANTED US TO LOOK AT ADDITIONAL, UM, OPTIONS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY, AND WHAT WE'VE COME UP WITH IS, UH, FOUR OPTIONS.
ALTHOUGH ONE OF THE OPTIONS HAS THREE SUB OPTIONS, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT'S, THAT'S FINANCE FOR YOU.
UM, SO TO, TO BACK UP A LITTLE BIT, WHEN, UM, WHEN THE CITY MANAGER'S PROPOSED BUDGET WAS FINALIZED, WE NOT YET RECEIVED THE FINAL TAX RATE CALCULATIONS FROM THE COUNTY TAX OFFICE.
AND SO THE, UM, ASSUMED OPERATING TAX RATE THAT WE WERE OPERATING OFF OF BASED ON OUR BEST KNOWLEDGE AT THE TIME, IT TURNED OUT TO BE ABOUT NINE TENTHS OF A PENNY, LESS THAN THE, UM, CALCULATED MAXIMUM TAX RATE.
SO, UM, WHEN COUNCIL ADOPTED TO, OR VOTED TO CONSIDER, UH, A PROPOSED TAX RATE, THAT, THAT GOES TO THE, THE MAXIMUM ALLOWED, THAT LEAVES THAT NINE TENTHS OF A PENNY AVAILABLE, UM, TO APPLY TO ANY OTHER, UM, EXPENDITURES THAT, THAT YOU CHOOSE OR NOT.
SO THAT NINE TENTHS OF, UH, OF A CENT GENERATES ANOTHER $750,000.
THAT IS NOT ANY PLUGGED IN ANYWHERE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
SO ASSUMING THAT $750,000 IS AVAILABLE, THEN OPTION A AND OPTION B, UH, ARE TWO WAYS TO, UM, NOT THE ONLY WAYS, BUT TWO WAYS TO, TO SPEND THAT $750,000.
AND AGAIN, THIS IS IN ADDITION TO, UM, THE, THE POSITIONS THAT WERE, UM, RECOMMENDED IN THE CITY MANAGER'S BUDGET OPTION, A JUST DEALS WITH, UH, UH, PATROL OFFICERS.
THE, UM, POLICE DEPARTMENT REQUESTED IN THEIR BUDGET, SUBMITTAL EIGHT, UH, ADDITIONAL PATROL OFFICERS, THE CITY MANAGERS, UH, RECOMMENDED BUDGET, UM, PROVIDES FOR FUNDING OF THREE.
SO, UH, OPTION A WOULD FUND THE REMAINING FIVE OF THOSE EIGHT THAT WERE REQUESTED, UH, BY, BY THE DEPARTMENT IN THAT, UH, WHICH WAS THEIR NUMBER ONE, UH, HIGHEST STRENGTH SUPPLEMENT OPTION B, UH, LOOKS NOT ONLY AT THE TOTAL NUMBER OF, UH, POLICE OFFICER PATROL OFFICERS THAT WERE ASKED FOR, BUT THE SECOND HIGHEST RANKING SUPPLEMENT BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, OR IN THE CID DIVISION FOR ADDITIONAL DETECTIVES, THE DEPARTMENT ASKS FOR FIVE AND THE CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDED, UH, BUDGET INCLUDES, UM, UH, THREE, UH, ADDITIONAL, UM, DETECTIVES OR TWO.
SO OPTION B WOULD FUND THREE ADDITIONAL POLICE OFFICERS.
SO FOR A TOTAL OF, OF, UH, SIX IN THE NEW BUDGET AND TWO ADDITIONAL DETECTIVES IN THE CID DIVISION FOR A TOTAL OF FOUR OPTION C LOOKS AT COMPLETELY FUNDING, UH, ALL OF THE, UH, UM, THE ADDITIONAL FIVE PATROL OFFICERS THAT WERE REQUESTED IN THE, BY THE DEPARTMENT AND THE, AND THE, UM, FIVE, UH, OR THE REMAINING THREE, UH, DETECTIVES IN THE, IN, IN THAT REQUEST, OBVIOUSLY WHEN YOU ADD IN THOSE OFFICERS, ADDITIONAL OFFICERS IN THERE IN THE REQUIRED VEHICLES, UM, THAT $1.1 MILLION EXCEEDS THE $750,000 IS AVAILABLE.
SO, UM, WHERE DOES THAT ADDITIONAL $350,000, UH, COME FROM, WE LOOKED AT, UH, THE OTHER SUPPLEMENTS THAT HAD POSITIONS ASSOCIATED, UM, WITH THEM.
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WE JUST DIVIDED THEM UP INTO THREE GROUPS BECAUSE, UM, IF WE'RE LOOKING FOR $350,000, WE DON'T HAVE TO WIPE OUT ALL OF THE NON-PUBLIC SAFETY, UH, REQUESTS.UH, SO THERE WAS NO SCIENCE TO OPTION C1, C2, AND C3.
WE JUST DREW A LINE, UM, UM, WITHIN THE DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS AND KIND OF GROUP TO GROUP THEM IN, IN DIFFERENT WAYS.
UM, OPTION D GETS US TO THE SAME POINT, EXCEPT IT, IT DOESN'T, UH, UM, REQUIRE ANY CUTS TO, UM, POSITIONS THAT, THAT WERE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.
IT JUST LOOKS AT, AT ONE TIME, UM, OR, OR, OR NON FTE RELATED EXPENDITURES SUPPLEMENTS THAT WERE REQUESTED BY THE DEPARTMENTS, UH, AND, AND THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET.
SO THIS LIST DOES HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF, OF A METHOD TO IT.
WE TOOK THE, THE LOWEST RANKED SUPPLEMENTS FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, AND THEN STOPPED WHEN WE, WE MET OUR, OUR TARGET OF $350,000.
SO, UM, YOU CAN SEE IN THE SPECIAL OPERATIONS DIVISION OF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UM, NINE MILLIMETER AR PISTOLS WAS, WAS THEIR 42ND RANK, SO PRETTY LOW ON THEIR LIST, BUT, UH, WE JUST WENT FROM, UH, UH, LOWEST RANKED DOWN TILL WE GOT TO THE, THE AMOUNT NEEDED.
UH, EVERYONE USUALLY LIKES KNOW ON THE TAX RATE, WHAT THE IMPACT WILL BE, UH, ON THE AVERAGE TAX BILL.
AND AS YOU ALL KNOW THAT AVERAGES ARE, ARE DECEIVING.
IT ALL DEPENDS ON, ON WHERE YOU'RE AT WITH YOUR HOME VALUE, BUT THIS CHART, UM, TAKES, UH, INFORMATION THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE, UM, UH, WILLIAMSON COUNTY TAX OFFICE.
AND IT'S THE INFORMATION THAT WILL BE, UH, SOME OF THIS INFORMATION WILL BE, WILL BE USED IN THE, UH, PUBLIC NOTICE THAT GOES IN THE, UM, UH, IN THE, IN THE PAPER.
BUT LAST YEAR, THE AVERAGE RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEAD VALUE IN LEANDER WAS $361,577.
AND LAST YEAR'S TAX RATE WAS 47.90 CENTS FOR A TOTAL TAX BILL TO THE CITY LAST YEAR, $1,734 THIS YEAR.
UH, THE AVERAGE HOME RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEAD VALUE IS 417,571.
AND AS YOU KNOW, THESE ARE VALUES AS OF JANUARY 1ST, 2022.
SO, UM, KEEP THAT IN MIND WITH WHEN, BUT, UM, BUT IF YOU WERE MAGICALLY, UH, THAT HOME LAST YEAR, AND NOW YOU'RE AT FOUR 17 THIS YEAR, THAT'S NOT HOW YOUR TAX BILL WOULD BE CALCULATED BECAUSE STATE LAW LIMITS RESIDENTIAL HOMESTEAD, UM, INCREASES IN THEIR TAXABLE VALUE, UH, TO ONLY 10%.
SO YOUR HOUSE MAY GO UP 50% ON A MARKET VALUE, BUT ON A TAXABLE VALUE, IT CAN ONLY GO UP 10% A YEAR.
SO I SAY ONLY THAT'S STILL A BIG JUMP, BUT, UM, SO IF THIS HOME THAT WAS THE AVERAGE LAST YEAR WENT UP 10%, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE ON THE TAX ROLLS THIS YEAR FOR 3 97, 7 35 AT THE MAXIMUM TAX RATE THAT IS UNDER CONSIDERATION OF 45 CENTS.
THAT PERSON'S TAX BILL WOULD BE $1,811, WHICH IS A DIFFERENCE OF $77.
UH, SO TO PUT THAT IN PERSPECTIVE FOR, UH, FOR YOU, I DID WANT TO MENTION THAT, UH, THE CITY OF LEANDER, UM, UM, DOES OFFER THIS THE OVER THE 65 AND OVER AND DISABLED PERSONS TAX-FREE.
SO, UH, PERSONS, HOMEOWNERS THAT HAVE THAT, UH, EXEMPTION, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL NEVER SEE A, AN ABSOLUTE INCREASE IN THEIR TAX BILL.
SO DESPITE WHATEVER THEIR PROPERTY VALUES MAY DO, UH, THEIR TAX BILL CAN NOT GO UP.
IT CAN GO DOWN AND IF IT GOES DOWN IN ANY ONE YEAR, THAT'S THE NEW, UH, THAT'S THE NEW CEILING FOR THAT, FOR THAT PERSON LAST YEAR, THE CITY, UH, COUNCIL APPROVED A
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1% HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.SO, UM, IT'S, UM, 1% OF THE VALUE OF THE PROPERTY OR $5,000, WHICHEVER IS, IS MORE SO, UM, IF YOU'RE THIS PERSON WITH $417,000, 1% WOULD BE A LITTLE OVER $4,000.
SO THAT'S LESS THAN THE 5,000 MINIMUM.
SO THIS PERSON'S, YOU KNOW, TAXABLE BILL WOULD, YOU WOULD TAKE 5,000 OFF OF THAT VALUE AND THEN, THEN DO THE MATH.
SO, UM, WHAT, WHAT IS NEXT? UM, OBVIOUSLY, UM, THE BUDGET THAT IS IN YOUR HANDS IS YOURS TO, UH, WORK WITH MAKE, UM, ADDITIONS, SUBTRACTIONS, UM, REARRANGE THINGS, HOWEVER, YOU, YOU WISH CERTAINLY ANY QUESTIONS TONIGHT WE'LL WE WILL DO OUR HOMEWORK AND, AND BRING YOU BACK INFORMATION AT THE NEXT MEETING.
IF WE CAN'T ANSWER IT TONIGHT.
UM, THE, UM, SEPTEMBER 1ST IS THE ADVERTISED PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE BUDGET.
UM, WE HOPE THAT GOES WELL, TOO.
AND, AND YOU'RE ABLE TO VOTE TO APPROVE THAT ON, ON, UH, ON THE FIRST, THE CITY OF ATLANTA REQUIRES TWO READINGS OF THE PROPERTY TAX RATE.
SO THE FIRST READING WILL BE SEPTEMBER 1ST.
AND THEN THE SECOND READING WILL BE AT YOUR, UM, SEPTEMBER 15TH CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
UM, SO WE ARE HAPPY TO DISCUSS AND ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT COUNCIL MAY HAVE OR COUNSEL, NO.
SO ARE THESE SO OUT OF THE ONE WITHOUT REALLY LOUD, UM, THOSE ARE THE FOUR OPTIONS THAT, THAT WE'RE, THAT WE THINK AS A STAFF AND AS A COUNCIL THAT WE SHOULD BE FOCUSING ON.
ARE WE IN AGREEMENT THERE? I WOULD, I WOULD DISAGREE THAT THERE'S FOUR, LIKE, I THINK A M B R YEAH.
I'M KINDA LIKE LEANING TOWARDS A AND B THE REASON I DON'T LIKE C IS, CAUSE I THINK PLACE ONE BROUGHT IT UP LAST TIME.
WHAT, WHAT IS NOT HAVING ONE MAINTENANCE PERSON? AND I DON'T KNOW IF WE HAVE THAT LEVEL OF DETAIL, BUT OPTION C KIND OF TAKES AWAY SOME NEEDED PEOPLE, BUT MAYBE IT'S NOT SO NEEDED.
I DON'T KNOW, UH, OPTION D IT SOUNDS LIKE THOSE ITEMS ARE NEEDED BY THE POLICE AND FIRE.
SO KIND OF OPPOSED TO D YEAH, I AGREE.
AFTER, OUT OF WHAT WAS PRESENTED OUT OF THE FOUR, A AND B ARE THE DEFINITELY CHOICES, AND I THINK SHE HAD AN OPINION MORE THAN LIKELY ON WHICH ONE MAY BE MAYBE BEST IF WE'RE CONSIDERING THOSE THINGS TOO.
UM, SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE OKAY WITH ME JUST SPEAKING FOR.
SO IT JUST SOUNDED LIKE B WAS THE BEST, I THINK EVEN COMING FROM DAVID, WHO'S WORKED IN THIS FIELD BEFORE TO BE, SEEMED THE BEST OPTION OUT OF THOSE ONES COMING FROM THE DEPARTMENT.
I DIDN'T WANT ANYBODY TO THINK THAT WE JUST CAME UP WITH THAT ON OUR OWN, LIKE WE KNOW BEST.
AND SO I THINK IT'S APPROPRIATE TO, TO SAY, UM, AFTER SPEAKING WITH YOU, IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT WOULD BE THE BEST FIT OUT OF WHAT'S BEEN THERE.
IT WAS KIND OF BETWEEN A AND B, BUT IF THESE BETTER, BECAUSE WE GET W DETECTIVES INSTEAD OF, UH, OFFICERS, YOU CAN PREFER THAT.
WELL, AND I GUESS FOR ME, IT'S LIKE, IF YOU'VE GOT THE PEOPLE, BUT THEN YOU STILL NEED SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT, OTHERWISE YOU'RE A LITTLE BIT HAMSTRUNG, SO, AND I FELT LIKE, YOU KNOW, I'M SURE CHIEF MITTEN HAD, UM, KNEW, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS DIVIDING IT UP AND TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WOULD BE BEST.
SO, UM, AND I DON'T WANT TO STRIP THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS BECAUSE I THINK THOSE THINGS ARE NEEDED TOO.
SO I, I GUESS I'D BE INCLINED TOWARDS B, BUT I I'D BE OKAY WITH A TWO I'M REALLY DOUBT.
I THINK THAT WOULD BE A DECISION IF THE MONEY WORKS, THAT THAT WOULD BE A DECISION THAT CHIEF MEANT AND WOULD MAKE CITY MANAGER UP HERE FIRST, DON'T RECOGNIZE THIS.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A TRIP.
THAT WAS JUST ONE COMMENT, MR. FIBRILLIN AT GREG,
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I WAS GONNA, I WAS GOING TO MENTION LIKE SOME OF THE, I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THE, THE SUPPLEMENTS AND AGAIN, THIS IS ABOVE AND BEYOND THE OTHER, UH, BOTH PATROL OFFICERS AND THE DETECTIVES THAT WE HAD RECOMMENDED, UH, PREVIOUSLY.SOME OF THE OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE ON THE LIST THAT BY DEPARTMENT THAT WERE NOT REAL HIGH.
SO LET'S TAKE BALLISTIC SHIELDS, LET'S TAKE AR PISTOLS, WHICH WOULD BE LIKE AN ENTRY PLATFORM.
LET'S TAKE SUPPRESSORS ON A GREG ASKED FOR 50.
AND I SAID, WELL, IF EVERYBODY'S SPECIAL OPERATIONS ARE YOU'RE REALLY SPECIAL.
AND SO YOU COULDN'T GET THAT PAST MAY, BUT THAT BEING SAID, THEY PUT THE SUPPLEMENTS IN PRIORITY.
VALDI, UH, MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH.
I MEAN, EVERYBODY'S GOT AN AR PLATFORM IN THEIR, IN THEIR PATROL VEHICLE ANYWAY, BUT YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A DOZEN SUPPRESSORS FIRING IN DOORS, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE SOME, I THINK WE'RE GOING TO BUY WHAT HALF A DOZEN AR PISTOLS WITH THAT 4,000.
I CAN, WE DID REDUCE THE AMOUNT, BUT I THINK IT'S TWO DIFFERENT UNIT, BUT, OKAY.
SO, BUT WE DID WANT TO INCLUDE SOME OF THOSE.
SO IF THERE'S LOOKED LIKE THEY WEREN'T HIGHLY RANKED, YOU KNOW, IN LIGHT OF EQUALITY, THE SCHOOL DISCUSSION, EVERYTHING ELSE, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE THREW THOSE IN THERE TOO, YOU KNOW? YES, YOU ARE HIRING MORE OFFICERS.
YOU CAN AND NOT HAVE SOME OF THE OTHER ISSUES.
SO I THINK CHIEF HAS, WAS HIS BEST TO SPEAK ON THIS ISSUE BECAUSE I DON'T HAVE ANY STARS ON IT.
UM, AND I'M HERE TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION.
I WASN'T SURE IF THERE WAS A QUESTION OR WAS JUST WHAT OPTION WE WERE LOOKING AT, OR, AND I APOLOGIZE.
I WAS JUST SAYING, I, I LEFT IT UP TO YOU TO DECIDE WHETHER, YOU KNOW, JUST THE PEOPLE OR THE PEOPLE IN SOME OF THE EQUIPMENT.
THAT WAS MY ONLY COMMENTS SO WE CAN PICK.
I THINK, I THINK LIKE OPTION B WOULD BE PERFECT FOR US.
I MEAN, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IT COMES DOWN TO PEOPLE PAY AND PARTS, RIGHT? WE ALWAYS TALK ABOUT FUCK ABOUT THAT.
AND I KNOW WE'VE GOT THE STEP PIECE PART THAT WAS BEING WORKED ON AND DONE, AND THEN THE PEOPLE PIECE AND, AND, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE THINGS THAT WE DID ASK FOR, UH, ON THE PARTS SECTION OF IT, YOU KNOW, WERE LOWER PRIORITY IN SOME AREAS AND SOME WERE, YOU KNOW, HIGHER AND DIFFERENT AREAS.
SO, UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK OPTION B WOULD BE THE BEST FOR US IF THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE ASKING.
AND I KNOW HE'S ASKED EVERY YEAR AND I KNOW BILLY GOT HIS TILLER TRUCK, BUT IF LET'S SAY WE, WE CURE THE, UM, THE ISSUE ON THE, WHERE THE CASH REGISTER IS.
I DO THINK AT A MID-YEAR WE COULD MAYBE COME BACK AND, OR CAT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, UM, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT THEY'VE PUT IN.
I KNOW THE MRF GETS USED A LOT.
I KNOW IT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE CHEAPEST VEHICLE, BUT IT DOES HAVE A, A, A LOWER PROFILE RELATIVELY SPEAKING VERSUS A BOMB RESISTANT, YOU KNOW, AFGHANISTAN TYPE IRAQ TYPE VEHICLE.
SO AS NORTHLINE DEVELOPS AS AN EXAMPLE WHERE YOU HAVE TIGHTER STREETS, TIGHTER TURNING RADIUS OR RADIO, THAT, SO WE CAN, I THINK WE WOULD WANT TO LOOK AT THAT WHEN THAT TIME COMES.
AND AS LONG AS BILLY DOESN'T ASK FOR A SECOND TILLER TRUCK AT THE SAME TIME, COUNCIL MEMBERS, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING? YEAH, I JUST HAVE ONE LEFT.
SO I KNOW IN THE LAST TIME WE MET LAST MEETING, THERE WAS, THERE'S A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF VACANCY.
I DON'T REMEMBER HOW MANY VACANCIES THAT ARE, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO FILL WITH THESE ONES THAT ARE BEING ADDED AND KNOWING THAT THE STEP PROGRAM IS COMING AND IT'S INCREASING OUR ABILITY TO BE ATTRACTIVE FOR OTHER PLACES, TOO.
IF YOU SEE US HAVE ANY ISSUES FILLING THESE SPOTS, UH, NOT, I MEAN, THE, THE MARKET RIGHT NOW FOR JUST HIRING IS, IS INTERESTING.
UH, YOU KNOW, I THINK I TOLD YOU WE HAD 29 PEOPLE APPLY FOR DISPATCH, LIKE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO.
AND OUT OF ALL OF THAT, WE GOT ZERO, YOU KNOW, SO WE'RE AT TODAY, WE WERE VERY PICKY.
BUT I JUST RECENTLY, YOU KNOW, UH, INTERVIEWED THREE PEOPLE FOR CADETS AND THEY ALL CAME ON BOARD.
THEY'LL BE STARTING IN OCTOBER.
UM, IT'S LATERALS THAT ARE DIFFICULT TO GET.
AND, UH, WITH THE PAY PLAN STUDY, WE'RE HOPING TO, UH, THAT'LL ATTRACT SOME LATERAL TRANSFERS FROM OTHER OTHER AGENCIES RIGHT NOW, PAY PLANS ARE GOING EVERY DEPARTMENT EVERYBODY'S TEXTING NICK, WHAT, WHAT'S THIS? AND WHAT'S THAT ONE CHIEF WILL SAY, WHAT ARE Y'ALL DOING? AND CAUSE THEY'RE ALL, ALL ON THE SAME KIND OF SAME BOAT, BUT, UH, WE'RE ALSO GONNA LOOK AT JUST BECAUSE OF THE WAY WE'RE SET UP, EVEN IN OUR STEP PLAN ABOUT LATERALS AND HOW THAT COMES IN.
AND CAUSE WE'LL HAVE TO CHANGE SOME OF OUR POLICIES AS WELL AS GOING FORWARD WITH A STEP PLAN.
BUT I THINK IT'S GOING TO HELP A LOT, TRYING TO GET SOME EXPERIENCED PEOPLE IN HERE TO KIND OF HELP US FILL IN BECAUSE YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY GOING THROUGH THE ACADEMY, LIKE I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE, IT TAKES SIX MONTHS TO GO THROUGH SIX MONTHS TO GET THEM ON ACTUALLY ON THE STREET.
SO WHEN WE HIRE HIM, IT'S A YEAR BEFORE THEY ACTUALLY GET ON THE STREETS.
SO WE'RE HOPING WITH THE LATERALS, THEY USUALLY CAN TAKE ANYWHERE FROM FOUR TO SIX MONTHS TO COME STRAIGHT IN AND GO RIGHT ONTO THE STREET.
SO, AND HOPEFULLY WITH THAT STEP PLAN, WE KEEP RETAINING SOME OF OUR AWESOME OFFICERS.
UM, THIS IS NOT AN ACTION ITEM.
UM, I'M REALLY PLEASED WITH THIS.
THANK YOU STAFF FOR COMING UP WITH THIS, UM, COUNSEL, WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE
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MR. POWERS? DID YOU NEED ANYTHING ELSE FROM US? NOPE, WE'LL BE READY BETWEEN NOW AND SEPTEMBER 1ST.IF OTHER QUESTIONS COME UP, WE APPRECIATE YOU VERY MUCH.
[24. Discuss and consider action on a Resolution authorizing the Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority, Inc.(BCRUA) to execute a Financing Agreement with the Texas Water Development Board relating to the sale of $40,000,000.00 Brushy Creek Regional Utility Authority, Inc., City of Leander, Texas Contract Revenue Bonds, Proposed Series 2022 (Brushy Creek Regional Water Treatment and Distribution Project).]
ITEM 24, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE BRUSHY CREEK REGIONAL UTILITY AUTHORITY INCORPORATED BCR UA TO EXECUTE A FINANCING AGREEMENT WITH THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD RELATING TO THE SALE OF $40 MILLION BRUSHY CREEK REGIONAL UTILITY AUTHORITY INCORPORATED.CITY OF LEANDER, TEXAS CONTRACT REVENUE BONDS PROPOSED SERIES 2022 BRUSHY CREEK REGIONAL WATER TREATMENT AND DISTRIBUTION PROJECT EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF FINANCE POWERS.
UH, THIS IS THE SECOND INSTALLMENT OF THE $120 MILLION COMMITMENT THAT THE CITY OF LEANDER HAS WITH THE, THE BCR UA REGIONAL OR DEEP WATER INTAKE PROJECT.
UH, JUST LIKE LAST YEAR, THERE'S A PROCESS THAT THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD MAKES YOU GO THROUGH.
YOU HAVE TO SUBMIT AN APPLICATION AND THEN THEY VET THAT.
AND, UH, THEN THERE ARE SERIES OF, OF, UH, RE REAFFIRMATIONS THAT, UH, ALL THE PARTIES ARE, ARE INTERESTED.
SO, UH, LAST YEAR WE WERE APPROVED FOR THE, FOR THE FULL AMOUNT, THE 120 BY THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD.
AND THEN, UH, WE INDICATED THAT WE WANTED TO TAKE OUR PLAN WAS TO WITHDRAW THOSE FUNDS, UH, OVER THREE, UH, THREE SERIES.
SO LAST YEAR WE DID 40 MILLION.
WE'RE LOOKING AT ANOTHER 40, UH, AT THIS POINT, UH, EXHIBIT B WAS NOT IN YOUR PACKET AT, UH, PRESS TIME, BUT, UH, MS. CRABTREE HAS PLACED A THINK AT YOUR DYESS EXHIBIT B IS JUST THE SCHEDULE OF PAYMENTS.
IT IS THE IT'S A 25 YEAR LOAN COMMITMENT WITH THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD.
UH, IT IS, UH, WHAT EXHIBIT B IS, IS THE, UM, ANNUAL PRINCIPAL PAYMENTS.
THE ACTUAL INTEREST RATES WILL BE, UM, FINALIZED BY THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, UH, LATER IN, IN, UH, SEPTEMBER OR OCTOBER.
UM, SO WE DO HAVE AN ESTIMATE OF WHERE THOSE ARE TODAY, BUT THEY RESERVE THE RIGHT TO, UH, TO TWEAK THOSE UNTIL THE VERY LAST MINUTE, WE WILL HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE TO WITHDRAW IF, UH, IF RATES WERE CRAZY AND WE DIDN'T WANT TO GO THAT PATH, BUT YOU KNOW, THESE ARE SUBSIDIZED LOANS, SO WE DON'T THINK THAT WILL HAPPEN.
BUT, UH, UM, AS OF TODAY, THE ANNUAL DEBT SERVICE PRINCIPAL AND ANDREW AND INTEREST THROUGH THE WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD WOULD BE, UH, UH, TWO POINTS, APPROXIMATELY $2.3 MILLION TO THE UTILITY FUND, WHICH IS WE HAVE THAT, UM, IN THE PROPOSED UTILITY FUND BUDGET.
AND, UH, THE FULL AMOUNT OF THIS PROJECT WAS CONTEMPLATED IN THE WATER RATE STUDY, UH, LAST YEAR.
SO WE'RE ON TRACK AND NO WATER RATE INCREASE, UH, IS RECOMMENDED OR PROPOSED THIS YEAR.
THANK YOU, MR. POWERS COUNSEL, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THEM.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[25. Discuss and consider action on an Ordinance regarding conditions under which building permits may be issued before the completion and acceptance of subdivision infrastructure for a temporary period of time to address the effects of the supply chain issues associated with power supply, and to provide for related matters, Leander, Williamson & Travis Counties, Texas. ]
25, DISCUSS, DISCUSSING CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE REGARDING CONDITIONS UNDER WHICH BUILDING PERMITS MAY BE ISSUED BEFORE THE COMPLETION AND ACCEPTANCE OF SUBDIVISION INFRASTRUCTURE FOR A TEMPORARY PERIOD OF TIME TO ADDRESS THE EFFECTS OF THE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES ASSOCIATED WITH POWER SUPPLY AND TO PROVIDE FOR RELATED MATTERS, LANDER WILLIAMSON AND TRAVIS KENNY'S, TEXAS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.THIS IS A TEMPORARY ORDINANCE THAT, UM, STAFF HAS PROPOSING TO HELP ADDRESS SOME OF THE CONCERNS WITH THE SUPPLY CHAIN.
UM, RIGHT NOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR SUBDIVISION COMPLETED TO GET A BUILDING PERMIT.
UM, WITH THE CURRENT SUPPLY CHAIN, THEY'RE HAVING STRUGGLES GETTING THE STREET LIGHTS INSTALLED IN TIME.
UM, SO THIS ORDINANCE WOULD ALLOW FOR US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE BUILDING PERMITS AND STARTING CONSTRUCTION AND STOPPING IT AT A CERTAIN POINT IN THE PROCESS.
AND THEN ONCE THEY GET POWER, THEY CAN GET THEIR CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY.
UM, WE'VE BEEN WORKING VERY CLOSELY WITH PEC.
THEY'RE NOW SENDING US A LIST OF SUBDIVISIONS EVERY WEEK AND WHERE THEY'RE AT IN THE QUEUE.
UM, SO WE CAN FEEL CONFIDENT THAT THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD ONCE THEY'VE PAID, UM, PEC.
AND THEY'VE STARTED THAT PART OF THE PROCESS.
UM, THE OTHER ELEMENT OF THIS, UM, ORDINANCE IS, UH, ADDRESSING THE ISSUES WITH THE DROUGHT.
UM, SO TODAY YOU HAVE TO INSTALL ALL OF YOUR, UM, LANDSCAPING FOR SUBDIVISIONS LIKE THE, THE TREES AND SHRUBS IN THE LANDSCAPE PLOTS.
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TO BE DELAYED UNTIL OCTOBER WHEN WE HAVE LESS WATER CONCERNS.UM, WE DID REVIEW THIS WITH THE HOME BUILDERS ASSOCIATION.
THEY GAVE US SOME FEEDBACK AND WE'VE INCORPORATED THE CHANGES, SOME OF THE CHANGES, UM, DORIS GAVE YOU GUYS A RED LINE, COPY THAT SHOW THOSE CHANGES WE AGREED TO, AND I'M AVAILABLE IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS.
OH, AND THIS IS FOR SIX MONTHS.
AND, UM, WE'LL BRING IT BACK IF WE NEED TO MAKE A CHANGE SOONER, LIKE TO GET RID OF IT.
CAUSE HOPEFULLY THE SUPPLY CHAIN IS FIXED, UM, OR IF WE NEED TO EXTEND IT, BUT WE'LL, WE'LL BRING IT BACK IF WE RUN INTO THAT.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MS. GRIFFIN COUNCIL MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND WITH THE RED LINES, RIGHT? YES.
IS THAT A GOOD FOR YOU, MS. CRABTREE? OKAY.
IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.
[26. Discuss and review the design for Northline Town Square.]
ITEM 26, DISCUSS AND REVIEW THE DESIGN FOR NORTHLINE TOWN SQUARE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE CRIM SPOKE AT EVENING.MAYOR COUNCIL, DAN GRIMSBY, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF INFRASTRUCTURE.
UH, BASICALLY, AS WE STATED BEFORE, THE STAFF HAS AT FORMING CITY COUNCIL THAT'S THE STAFF IS PROCEEDING WITH THE BIDDING PROCESS TO CONSTRUCT AND COMPLETE TOWNSQUARE AND RELATED CIVIL CIVIC SPACES.
STAFF WILL BRING BACK THE RECOMMENDED BID AND CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT FOR THE PREVAILING BUILDER FOR COUNCIL'S APPROVAL AGAIN.
UM, I THINK THE CITY SECRETARY INDICATED WE DO WE'LL PULL UP CONFIRMATION ON THAT.
WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS.
[27. Council Member Closing Statements.]
ALL RIGHT.COUNCIL MEMBER CLOSING COMMENTS PLEASE.
I'M GOING TO MAKE UP FOR THE LAST FEW MEETINGS WHERE I HAVEN'T REALLY SAID ANYTHING.
SO ON THIS DAY IN 1920 ON AUGUST 18TH, THE 19TH AMENDMENT WAS RATIFIED AFTER TENNESSEE BY JUST ONE VOTE BECAME THE 36 STATE TO APPROVE IT CAPPING THE 72 YEAR FIGHT TO WIN, UH, THE WOMEN'S RIGHT TO VOTE IN THE UNITED STATES.
SO 1920 WOMEN EARNED THE RIGHT TO VOTE.
ALSO IN THIS DAY IN HISTORY, ROBERT REDFORD WAS BORN AND PATRICK SWAYZE IN 1952, THAT IS IN 1227.
GINGISS KHAN, A WARRIOR AND OF GENIUS WHO STARTED FROM OBSCURE, UH, INSIGNIFICANT BEGINNINGS BROUGHT ALL THE NOMADIC TRIBES AMONG GOALIE INTO THE RIGID DISCIPLINED MILITARY STATE DIED AT AGE 65, BUT MOST NOTABLE ON THIS DAY IN 2022, IT KIND OF RAINED IN LANDER.
SO I THINK THAT MIGHT EVEN MAKE HISTORY.
UM, BUT IT'S ALSO JUST FOR FUN.
IT'S ALSO NATIONAL BAD POETRY DAY AND NEVER GIVE UP DAY.
SO IN HONOR OF BAD POETRY DAY AND NEVER GIVE UP RAIN, DON'T GIVE UP AND HERE'S THE BAD POETRY PART, RAIN RAIN DON'T GO AWAY, COME BACK AGAIN EVERY DAY, FILL THE RIVERS, FILL THE LAKES IN THIS DROUGHT, WHATEVER IT TAKES.
ALSO, I WANTED TO JUST THANK OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT AND OUR, THE SWAT TEAM FOR, I FORGET THE CENTRAL TEXAS REGIONAL SWAT.
UH, FOR, INCLUDING SOME OF US, UM, IN THEIR, THEIR TRAINING LAST FRIDAY, THAT WAS QUITE AN INTENSE EXPERIENCE.
AND, UH, I THINK, UH, LIEUTENANT MUELLER MIGHT'VE GOTTEN AN AWARD FOR THAT PERFORMANCE WAS PRETTY INTENSE.
AND I, I, I DID FEEL LIKE WE WERE BEING HELD HOSTAGE.
UM, YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED MY, YOU KNOW, LOWER TAXES, HIGHER WAGES, BUT YEAH, WE'RE KIND OF BEING HELD HOSTAGE HERE, BUT, BUT HE GOT THE POINT ACROSS MESSAGE RECEIVED AND WELL DONE.
SO THANK YOU FOR, INCLUDING US IN THAT.
SO YESTERDAY WE STARTED SCHOOL.
SO JUST THINKING ABOUT KIDS, PARENTS, STAFF, TEACHERS, PLEASE DRIVE CAREFULLY AND THANK YOU TO THE POLICE WHO ARE ALWAYS THERE, UH, AT THE SCHOOLS.
AND THE FIRST FEW WEEKS ARE A LITTLE ROUGH WITH DROP OFF AND PICKUP, BUT WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS.
SO EVERYONE JUST BE SAFE OUT THERE.
UH, DON, MUCH TO SAY, YOU'RE GOING TO FIND, I'M NOT THAT PERSON THAT HAS A LOT TO SAY, BUT I APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK BY THE CITY, YOU KNOW, AND THEN WE CAME AT YOU PRETTY HARD LAST MEETING ASKING FOR THESE THINGS FOR PUBLIC SAFETY AND YOU GUYS WENT ABOVE AND BEYOND AND DELIVERED ON THAT AND REALLY APPRECIATED THE OPTIONS.
AND, UH, HOPEFULLY THOSE GUYS IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM, APPRECIATE IT AS WELL.
AND, UH, HOPEFULLY THAT PAYCHECK
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A LITTLE BIT, A LITTLE BIT BETTER IN THE FUTURE.NO, IT'S BEEN A LOT OF THE RAIN WE'VE BEEN PRAYING ABOUT THE RAIN FOR SO LONG.
SO I JUST WANT TO LIKE ACKNOWLEDGE, I COULD SAY THANK YOU.
I THINK THERE'S MANY, MUCH MORE COMING TOO, BUT, UM, UM, JUST, IT'S AWESOME TO HAVE KIDS BACK IN SCHOOL AND ROUTINE.
HOPEFULLY MOST OF YOUR KIDS ARE EXCITED TO GO BACK TO SCHOOL.
OURS WERE, AND YOU GOT BASEBALL AND SOCCER AND ALL THE DIFFERENT SPORTS STARTING UP RIGHT NOW, TOO.
SO, UM, JUST A REALLY EXCITING TIME AS WE TRANSITIONED INTO, UM, HOPEFULLY A LITTLE BIT OF COOLER TIMES FOR MS. GINA AND UH, ALSO WANT TO THANK YOU THAT PUTTING THE BUDGET, I DON'T KNOW HOW THAT ALL GETS DONE AND HOW YOU COULD POSSIBLY DO ALL THOSE THINGS.
IT SEEMS LIKE EVERY SINGLE I'VE ONLY BEEN HERE FOR THREE YEARS, BUT WE'RE ALWAYS IN BUDGET SEASON.
AND SO JUST THANK YOU FOR THE THANKLESS EFFORTS AND ALSO JUST THE ABILITY FOR OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND FOR EVERYBODY TO TRY TO PUT YOURSELF ASIDE AND TO, TO, TO MAKE THE WHOLE CITY GO FORWARD.
I CAN'T IMAGINE THAT'S AN EASY THING TO DO.
SO JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR SELFLESS EFFORTS THERE TOO.
THAT WAS FASTER THAN I WAS EXPECTING.
UH, IN AN EFFORT TO, UH, SHOP LOCAL, EVERY TIME WE HAVE A MEETING, WE HAVE DINNER FROM A LOCALLY AND A RESTAURANT.
AND TONIGHT I THINK THIS MIGHT'VE BEEN THE FIRST TIME WE HAD DINNER FROM MOUTON'S LANDER ORIGINAL.
AND IF YOU ARE IN THE MOOD FOR SOMETHING SPICY, IT'S A FABULOUS PLACE TO GO.
UM, WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO KEEP YOUR TAX DOLLARS HERE IN LEANDER BY SUPPORTING OUR LOCAL BUSINESSES.
AND, UM, SO IF YOU CAN, THIS WEEKEND, IF YOU WANT TO GET AWAY AND NOT COOK, UM, WE HAVE LOTS OF RESTAURANTS LIKE MOUTON'S, AND I KNOW THAT TOMORROW NIGHT SHARK'S BURGER IS HAVING A BIG ANNIVERSARY PARTY.
I THINK IT'S AT THEIR REAGAN LOCATION.
UM, AND SO I KNOW THAT'S WHERE MY FAMILY WILL BE GETTING DINNER, BUT PLEASE SHOP LOCAL.
AND THEN AS YOU HEARD, LOTS OF BACK-TO-SCHOOL NEWS THIS WEEK, UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH TO LANDER PD FOR PATROLLING THE SCHOOL ZONES.
UM, I WAS EXCITED THIS MORNING GOING THROUGH THE LANDER HIGH SCHOOL SCHOOL ZONE AND SAW TWO POLICE CARS.
ONE OF THEM WAS PULLING SOME, UH, SOMEBODY OVER AND I WAS LIKE, YES, NOT IN THE SCHOOL ZONE.
UM, WE KEEP OUR KIDS SAFE HERE.
AND SO JUST A REMINDER TO EVERYBODY PLAN EXTRA TIME IN THE MORNINGS, STOP FOR ALL THOSE BUSES AND LOOK OUT FOR THE KIDS AND TEACH YOUR KIDS TO NOT TO OPEN UP THE RANDOM CAR DOORS BEHIND THEIR BUS.
CAUSE I HAD A KID DO THAT TO ME YESTERDAY.
I COULD HAVE TOTALLY STOLEN THAT KID.
UM, LASTLY, SUPER SHOUT OUT TO A BUNCH OF STAFF.
SO LIKE I SAID, PD, YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME.
I KNOW IT'S BEEN A ROUGH WEEK AND WE APPRECIATE YOU.
I CAN'T IMAGINE WE APPRECIATE YOU GUYS SO MUCH.
UM, AND YOU'RE JUST HOPING THE HARD STUFF IS OVER FOR AWHILE.
UM, FINANCE, UM, I KNOW THIS IS LIKE THE FINAL PUSH AND WE APPRECIATE YOU.
I'M SURE Y'ALL ARE PUTTING IN A TON OF HOURS.
UM, HR, EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE BEEN DOING WITH THE, THE STEP PLANS I CAN'T IMAGINE.
UM, AND EVERYBODY ELSE FOR JUST STICKING WITH US.
UM, WE WERE HARD ON PARKS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND I'M SORRY.
UM, SO THANK YOU SO MUCH TO EVERYBODY.
EVEN THE DEPARTMENTS THAT I DIDN'T NAME, WE REALLY APPRECIATE ALL OF YOU.
[28. Convene into Executive Session pursuant to: (1) Section 551.071, Texas Government Code, and Section 1.05, Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct to consult with legal counsel regarding Docket No. 53063, petition by outside city ratepayers appealing the water rates established by the City of Leander, Texas; and (2) Section 551.072, Texas Government Code, to deliberate the acquisition of property located in Elijah D. Harman Survey, Abstract 6, Horizon Lake Phase 1, Section 4, for the purpose of a wastewater easement with temporary construction easement for Lift Station #2 (CIP Project T.44); and (3) Section 551.074, Texas Government Code, to discuss or deliberate the appointment, employment, evaluation, reassignment, duties, discipline, or dismissal of a public officer or employee: city manager Reconvene into open session to take action as deemed appropriate in the City Council's discretion regarding: (1) Docket No. 53063 appealing water rates established by the City of Leander; and (2) Section 551.072, to deliberate the acquisition of property located in Elijah D. Harman Survey, Abstract 6, Horizon Lake Phase 1, Section 4, for the purpose of a wastewater easement with temporary construction easement for Lift Station #2 (CIP Project T.44); and (3) City Manager.]
FEST UP HERE TONIGHT.SO WITH THAT, WE ARE GOING TO MOVE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION FOR ONE SECTION 5, 5, 1 0.071 TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE AND SECTION 1.05, TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT TO CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING DOCKET NUMBER 5, 3 0 6, 3 PETITION BY OUTSIDE CITY RATE PAYERS APPEALING THE WATER RATES ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY OF LEANDRA, TEXAS.
AND TO SECTION 5, 5, 1 0.072 TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE TO DELIBERATE THE ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY LOCATED IN ELIJAH D HARMON SURVEY ABSTRACT SIX HORIZON LAKE FATE IS ONE SECTION FOUR FOR THE PURPOSE OF A WASTEWATER EASEMENT WITH TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENTS FOR LIFT STATION NUMBER TWO CIP PROJECT T 44 AND THREE SECTION 5, 5, 1 0.074 TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE TO DISCUSS OR DELIBERATE THE APPOINTMENT, EMPLOYMENT, EVALUATION, REASSIGNMENT DUTIES, DISCIPLINE OR DISMISSAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICER EMPLOYEE CITY MANAGER, BUT THAT WE ARE CONVENING INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION AT 10:33 PM.
ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION AT 12:14 AM.
TAKE ACTION AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE IN THE CITY COUNCIL'S DISCRETION REGARDING ONE DOCKET NUMBER 5, 3 0 6, 3 APPEALING WATER RATES ESTABLISHED BY THE CITY OF LEANDER MAYOR PRO TEM.
DO YOU HAVE A MOTION? NO ACTION.
TO SECTION 5, 5, 1 0.072 TO DELIBERATE THE ACQUISITION OF PROPERTY LOCATED IN ELIJAH D HARMON SURVEY ABSTRACT SIX HORIZON LAKE PHASE ONE, SECTION FOUR FOR THE PURPOSE OF A WASTEWATER EASEMENT WITH TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT FOR LIFT STATION NUMBER TWO, CIP PROJECT T FOUR FOR MAYOR PRO TEM.
DO YOU HAVE A MOTION TO APPROVE
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A PURCHASE CONTRACT FOR A WASTEWATER EASEMENT AND A TEMPORARY CONSTRUCTION EASEMENT FOR PROPERTY LOCATED AT ELIJAH D HARMON SURVEY ABSTRACT SIX HORIZON LAKE PHASE ONE, SECTION FOUR AS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION.ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY AND NUMBER THREE, CITY MANAGER, MAYOR PRO TEM.
DO YOU HAVE A MOTION? NO ACTION.
COUNSEL IS ADJOURNED AT 12:15 AM.