[3. LOMR Phase 2 update will include the status of the City’s effort to update the existing FEMA effective model, specifically, with new precipitation data and terrain data in areas most impacted by recent development and provide next steps.]

COUNCILS ELIGIBLE TO DO BUSINESS? I AM NUMBER THREE LOMER PHASE TWO UPDATE WILL INCLUDE THE STATUS OF THE CITY'S EFFORT TO UPDATE THE EXISTING FEMA EFFECTIVE MODEL, SPECIFICALLY WITH NEW PRECIPITATION DATA AND TERRAIN DATA IN AREAS MOST IMPACTED BY RECENT DEVELOPMENT AND PROVIDE NEXT STEPS. I BELIEVE WE HAVE ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER SARVESH DOKO. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS SAKALA. I'M THE ASSISTANT CITY ENGINEER FOR CITY OF LEANDER AND TODAY WE HAVE A PRESENTATION TO WALK YOU THROUGH. LIKE, YOU KNOW SOME OF THE FINDINGS THAT WE'VE FOUND ON THIS STUDY. AND WITH ME, I HAVE. ABBY SALINAS AND TATUM LAWTON, WHO'S WORKING WITH US AS CONSULTANTS THROUGH THIS PROCESS. SO TATUM WOULD LIKE TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE PRESENTATION. THANK YOU. THANKS, SARVESH. HI, MAYOR. MAYOR PRO TEM, COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS TATUM LAWTON. I'M WITH LOCHNER. IT'S NICE TO BE HERE WITH YOU ALL. SO I'M GOING TO BE WALKING YOU THROUGH AN UPDATE ON OUR WORK WITH THIS.

SORRY. CAN YOU GUYS HEAR ME? OKAY, I'LL SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE. SORRY ABOUT THAT.

SO I'M GOING TO BE WALKING YOU THROUGH AN UPDATE ON THE WORK WE'VE BEEN DOING WITH THE CITY FOR A CITYWIDE LETTER OF MAP REVISION, ALSO KNOWN AS ALOMA. WE'RE GOING TO KIND OF GIVE SOME BACKGROUND INFORMATION AND CONTEXT. CURRENT STATUS, WHAT WE'VE ACCOMPLISHED WITH PHASE ONE, AND THEN KIND OF LOOK AHEAD TOWARDS PHASE TWO AND SOME OF THE DIFFERENT PATHS FORWARD THERE. SO I'LL START WITH AN OVERVIEW AND PROVIDE A TIMELINE GOING BACK A FEW YEARS, BRINGING US UP TO THE PRESENT, WE'LL SUMMARIZE THE MODEL UPDATES, TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE RESULTS, NEXT STEPS, AND THEN KIND OF SUMMARIZE THE FINAL OUTCOMES FOR THE PROJECT. OKAY.

SO WHY ARE WE REMAPPING THE FLOODPLAIN? FIRST OF ALL, THE PROJECT IS A FOR A LETTER OF MAP REVISION, COMMONLY CALLED A LOMER. AND THIS IS A LETTER FROM FEMA OFFICIALLY REVISING THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM MAPS TO SHOW CHANGES IN THE FLOODPLAINS, THE REGULATORY FLOODWAYS, OR FLOOD OF EVALUATIONS ELEVATIONS. EXCUSE ME. SO WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? PRIMARILY, WE WANT TO PROVIDE ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF FLOOD RISK WITHIN THE CITY, AND WE WANT TO SUPPORT RESILIENT LAND USE PLANNING AND PUBLIC SAFETY. LEANDER IS EXPERIENCE RAPID GROWTH IN URBANIZATION SINCE 2016, WHICH HAVE CHANGED A LOT OF THE WATERSHED CHARACTERISTICS AND THE LEGACY MAPPING. THE CURRENT FEMA EFFECTIVE MODELS ARE BASED ON OUTDATED MODELS OR INCOMPLETE DATA. FINALLY OR NOT. FINALLY. ALSO, THERE'S UPDATED RAINFALL DEPTHS FROM NOAA CALLED ATLAS 14, AND I'LL GET INTO WHAT THAT IS A LITTLE BIT IN A LITTLE BIT MORE DETAIL IN THE NEXT FEW SLIDES. WE HAVE NEW LIDAR TOPOGRAPHY DATA. THIS GIVES US OUR LAND SURFACE, WHICH IS ONE OF THE CRITICAL INPUTS FOR MODELING FLOOD WATERS IN THE CITY. AND WE HAVE UPDATED REGIONAL MODELS IN DEVELOPMENT. SO THESE ARE ALL KIND OF THINGS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE NEED TO UPDATE THE CITY MODELS. SO MOVING TO THE TIMELINE BACK IN 2018, NOAA PUBLISHED ATLAS 14 AND WHICH IS A NEW RAINFALL ESTIMATES FOR STORM EVENTS ALL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, BUT SPECIFICALLY TEXAS. AND THE CITY ADOPTED THIS AS OUR OFFICIAL RAINFALL STORM TOTALS IN 2020. LATER IN 2020, AFTER THIS ADOPTION OF ATLAS 14, THE CITY HIRED OUR FIRM TO DO SOME TARGETED FLOODPLAIN MODELING AND MAP UPDATES. SO BASICALLY, AT THAT TIME, ATLAS 14 WAS ADOPTED BY THE CITY AND IT WAS FOLDED INTO THOSE MODELS. THE MODELS WERE 2017 LIDAR AND AND THEN THERE ARE SOME OTHER UPDATES SUCH AS ADDING IN

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BRIDGES AND CULVERTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO ONCE THAT WAS COMPLETED IN 2021, THAT WAS CONSIDERED THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA, WHICH IS FOR COMMUNITIES PARTICIPATING IN THE NATIONAL FLOOD INSURANCE PROGRAM, THEY HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO REGULATE TO THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA, WHATEVER THEY DEEM THAT IS. AND SO, FOR EXAMPLE, IF YOU'RE IN WEST TEXAS AND YOU DON'T HAVE ANY FEMA MAPS, IT'S UP TO THE COMMUNITY TO DETERMINE WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO USE FOR BEST AVAILABLE DATA. SO IN 2021, ONCE THOSE TARGETED UPDATES WERE MADE, INCLUDING THE ATLAS 14 RAINFALL, THAT'S WHAT THE THE CITY BEGAN REGULATING NEW DEVELOPMENT. AND THAT FORMED THE BASIS FOR FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT IN THE CITY. SO BUT THEN YOU ALSO HAVE YOUR FEMA EFFECTIVE MAPS. RIGHT. AND THAT'S KIND OF A DIFFERENT A DIFFERENT ELEMENT OF MANAGING FLOOD RISK BECAUSE THOSE ARE WHAT'S SET FLOOD INSURANCE RATES. AND THOSE ARE KIND OF THE THE FEMA OFFICIAL. AND SO IN 2023, THE CITY INITIATED THE FEMA LOMER PROJECT WITH OUR FIRM TO UPDATE THE OFFICIAL FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS WITH THE ATLAS 14 RAINFALL, WHICH THEY HAD ALREADY DONE FOR THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA THAT THEY WERE REGULATING TO. SO THE IDEA IS THAT THEY WOULD BE MERGING THESE TWO FLOOD REGULATION TOOLS THE BEST AVAILABLE THAT THEY'RE USING. AND THE OFFICIAL FEMA MAPS. AND SO THAT INITIATED THIS PROJECT AND PHASE ONE WAS BEGUN. AND HERE TODAY WE'RE COMPLETED WITH PHASE ONE. AND SO I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW OF WHAT THAT WORK IS. AND THEN WE'RE LOOKING AHEAD TO PHASE TWO.

IT'S WORTH MENTIONING IN THE MEANTIME THAT IN APRIL OF 2025, THE STATE OF TEXAS PUBLISHED NEW LIDAR DATA FLOWN FOR THIS AREA IN 2024. SO LIDAR DATA IS IMPORTANT. THEY TYPICALLY TRY TO RECOLLECT IT EVERY FIVE YEARS, AND IT SHOWS ALL THE FEATURES ON THE GROUND. AND SO IF YOU'RE BUILDING A MODEL WITH OUTDATED LIDAR DATA, THAT'S NOT CAPTURING ALL OF THE DEVELOPMENT IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR WHENEVER THE LAST DATA SET WAS FLOWN, THEN YOU'RE NOT CAPTURING THE REALITY ON THE GROUND AND ALL THE THINGS THAT CAN IMPACT CONVEYANCE OF FLOOD WATERS. I'M JUST GOING TO MOVE THIS OVER. OKAY, SO JUST RETURNING TO ATLAS 14, JUST A LITTLE MORE CONTEXT. BASICALLY UNTIL THEY PUBLISH THE ATLAS 14 UPDATE, RAINFALL ESTIMATES IN TEXAS AND ACROSS THE COUNTRY WERE BASED ON STATISTICAL OBSERVATIONS THAT WENT THROUGH THE 1950S. I THINK IT WAS PUBLISHED IN LIKE 1961. SO THIS WAS AN EFFORT TO. TAKE THIS MUCH LONGER PERIOD OF RECORD FOR STORMS AND GET MORE ACCURATE RAINFALL TOTALS. AND THE DATA SHOWS AN INCREASE IN RAINFALL WITH WITHIN TEXAS, WITH THE GREATEST INCREASES IN CENTRAL AND EAST TEXAS. SO THIS IS SORT OF BECOME THE NEW NOT SORT OF IT HAS BECOME THE NEW GOLD STANDARD FOR PRECIPITATION ESTIMATES EVERYWHERE ACROSS THE COUNTRY. IT ALIGNS WITH STATE AND LOCAL REQUIREMENTS, AND THERE ARE A LOT OF JURISDICTIONS ACROSS THE REGION THAT HAVE ADOPTED IT. SO THESE ARE SOME OF THE PEOPLE TXDOT, SEVERAL OTHER CITIES, AND IT REALLY SUPPORTS RESILIENT PLANNING AND FUNDING, BECAUSE IF YOU'RE USING OUTDATED RAINFALL TOTALS FOR THE BASIS OF YOUR MODELS, SIMILAR TO USING OUTDATED LIDAR. YOUR RESULTS ARE LESS ROBUST. SO THIS IMAGE PUBLISHED BY NOAA SHOWS THE AREAS OF TEXAS THAT SAW SIGNIFICANT INCREASES IN RAINFALL. SO FOR LEANDER PRE ATLAS 14, THE HUNDRED YEAR 24 HOUR STORM EVENT WAS 10.2IN, AND WITH THE ATLAS 14 IT INCREASED TO 11.5IN, SO A 13% INCREASE IN RAINFALL DEPTH FOR THAT STORM EVENT. SO WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OTHER THINGS THAT IMPACT THE FLOODPLAIN, WE'VE ALREADY TOUCHED ON IT A LITTLE BIT. BUT THE BIG TWO ARE THE RAINFALL AND CHANGES IN LAND USE THAT OCCUR OVER TIME. SO EVEN THOUGH THE CITY IS ALWAYS ACTIVELY ADDRESSING STORMWATER MANAGEMENT, DEVELOPMENT ALTERS LAND USE AND CONVEYANCE OF FLOOD WATERS OVER THE LANDSCAPE. THIS IS A PICTURE IN BETWEEN BRUSHY AND BLOCKHOUSE CREEK, JUST HIGHLIGHTING SOME AREAS THAT SAW A LOT OF SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN 2018 AND

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2025. SO THESE TWO IMPACTS, THE INCREASED RAINFALL AND THE URBANIZATION, THEY KIND OF HAVE THIS COMBINED EFFECT RESULTING IN CHANGES IN RUNOFF CHARACTERISTICS, CONVEYANCE AND ULTIMATELY THE SHAPE OF THE FLOODPLAIN. AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE MOST CONCERNED WITH BECAUSE WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, REGULATE DEVELOPMENT APPROPRIATELY, KEEP PEOPLE SAFE, PREVENT LOSS OF PROPERTY AND POTENTIALLY LIFE DURING FLOOD EVENTS. SO FOR THIS LETTER OF MAP REVISION, THE BIG PROJECT DRIVERS WERE TO UPDATE THE OUTDATED FEMA FLOODPLAIN MAPS THAT WERE FROM 2018, INCORPORATE THE ATLAS 14 RAINFALL INTO THE FEMA EFFECTIVE MODELS. SO AGAIN, AND PLEASE JUMP IN ANYTIME. IF ANY OF YOU NEED ANY CLARIFICATION QUESTIONS OR ANYTHING. THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT NUANCE IN ALL OF THIS STUFF. BUT SO THE CITY HAD ALREADY UPDATED ATLAS 14 FOR THE THE MODELS THEY WERE USING, Y'ALL WERE USING TO REGULATE TO. BUT FEMA WAS STILL THOSE MODELS ARE STILL BASED ON PRE ATLAS 14. SO THIS PROJECT WOULD BRING THAT RAINFALL UPDATE INTO THE FEMA MODELS. IT WOULD ALSO REFLECT CURRENT LAND USE AND DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE AND COORDINATE WITH THE CITY'S STORMWATER MASTER PLAN. THE PROJECT OUTCOMES ARE TO IMPROVE THE ACCURACY OF FLOODPLAIN MAPS AND FLOODWAYS, AS SHOWN ON THE FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS OR THE FIRMS IT WOULD SUPPORT FEMA COMPLIANCE FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT AND FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT, AND THIS WOULD ESTABLISH THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA TO ACCURATELY IDENTIFY FLOOD RISK. SO AGAIN, IT'S KIND OF THE END RESULT WOULD BE MERGING THESE TWO DIFFERENT TOOLS THAT YOU HAVE FOR REGULATING FOR FLOOD RISK WITHIN THE CITY, BOTH ON THE FEMA SIDE AND WHAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY USING. SO WE'VE COMPLETED THE PHASE ONE WORK AND WE'VE UPDATED ALL THE HYDROLOGY OF THE FEMA EFFECTIVE MODELS TO USE THE ATLAS 14 RAINFALL. WE CALIBRATED TO A HISTORIC STORM FROM 2015. THIS JUST HELPS ENSURE THAT THE MODELS ARE MORE ACCURATELY REPRESENTING OBSERVED STORM EVENTS. WE DID SOME TARGETED MODEL UPDATES, THE FEMA EFFECTIVE MODELS TO BETTER CAPTURE CERTAIN LANDSCAPE FEATURES, AND THEN WE INCORPORATED 2021 LIDAR DATA, WHICH AT THAT TIME DURING THIS PROJECT WAS THE BEST AVAILABLE WE HAD FOR THIS AREA. SO THEY HAD NOT YET PUBLISHED THE THE 2024 LIDAR DATA. AND THEN WE DRAFTED A PRELIMINARY HYDRAULIC OR ALL OF THE PRELIMINARY HYDRAULIC MODELS FOR THE LOWER APPLICATION. WHEN YOU GO TO FEMA AND SUBMIT THIS APPLICATION, YOU HAVE YOU SUBMIT ALL OF YOUR MODELS WITH IT AND DRAFTED A PRELIMINARY REPORT. SO AT THE END OF THAT PHASE ONE EFFORT, WE HAVE REVISED MODELS WITH THE ATLAS 14, AND WE HAVE REVISED FLOODPLAIN MAPS GENERATED FROM THOSE NEW MODELS. THEN THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE APPLICATION PROCESS AND FEMA COMMENTS. AND, YOU KNOW, BEFORE THEY BECOME OFFICIAL. BUT WE DO HAVE THOSE REVISED FLOODPLAINS THAT ARE GENERATED BY THE MODELS. AND FROM THOSE, WE'RE ABLE TO GET SOME REVISED FLOODPLAIN STATISTICS IN TERMS OF ACREAGE AND STRUCTURE COUNTS FOR POTENTIALLY IMPACTED STRUCTURES. SO THIS IS JUST PROVIDING A VISUAL OF WHAT THIS LOOKS LIKE. THE LIGHT BLUE THAT YOU SEE IS THE FEMA EFFECTIVE 100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN. AND THE PURPLE. AND AGAIN THESE ARE DRAFT RESULTS. BUT THE PURPLE SHOWS THE FLOODPLAIN INCREASE DUE TO THESE COMBINED EFFECTS OF INCREASED RAINFALL AND LAND USE CHANGES. AND THEN THE YELLOW SHOW BUILDINGS THAT ARE ALREADY CONSIDERED TO BE IN THE FLOODPLAIN. ACCORDING TO THE FEMA EFFECTIVE MODELS, THE FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS. SO ALL OF THOSE BUILDINGS WOULD BE BUILDINGS THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE POLICIES. AND THEN THE RED BUILDINGS SHOW BUILDINGS THAT ARE POTENTIALLY IMPACTED BY THE REVISED FLOODPLAIN GOING FORWARD WITH THE LOWER. NOW, IT'S WORTH MENTIONING THAT THIS ANALYSIS IS JUST KIND OF AN INTERSECT ANALYSIS, SO IT DOESN'T TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE FIRST FLOOR ELEVATIONS OF BUILDINGS. IT'S JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE BUILDING FOOTPRINT IS TOUCHING PART OF THE FLOODPLAIN.

AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO DETERMINE THOSE, THOSE NUMBERS. SO IN TERMS OF JUST THE TOTAL

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ACREAGE WITHIN THE CITY, THAT CAN BE CONSIDERED A SPECIAL FLOOD HAZARD AREA, ALSO COMMONLY REFERRED TO AS THE 100 YEAR FLOODPLAIN, THE CURRENT FEMA EFFECTIVE MODELS IS 1430 ACRES. SO IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS PROCESS, THE IDEAS THAT YOU'RE GETTING, MORE REFINED MODELS THAT HAVE MORE ACCURATE RESULTS. SO IN SOME AREAS, THERE'S ACREAGE OF FLOODPLAIN THAT GETS REMOVED FROM THE FEMA EFFECTIVE. SO WE SAW A DECREASE IN SOME AREAS OF ABOUT 34 ACRES. BUT THERE WAS A MUCH LARGER INCREASE IN ACREAGE DUE TO THE INCREASED RAINFALL AND INCREASED DEVELOPMENT OF ABOUT 638 ACRES. SO THE NET INCREASE IN ACREAGE IN THE FLOODPLAIN AS A RESULT OF THESE MODEL AND MAPPING OUTPUTS IS 2034 ACRES, WHICH IS AROUND 40% PRETTY SIGNIFICANT. POTENTIALLY IMPACTED STRUCTURES IN THE FEMA EFFECTIVE, THERE'S 329 WITH THE NEW FLOODPLAIN FROM OUR UPDATED MODELS. 19 STRUCTURES WERE REMOVED FROM THE FLOODPLAIN.

AND 414 ARE POTENTIALLY ADDED TO IT. SO THERE'S A NET IMPACTED STRUCTURES INCREASE IN THE FEMA EFFECTIVE OF SEVEN, A TOTAL OF 724 STRUCTURES FROM 329. SO AS WE KIND OF TAKE ALL THAT INFORMATION IN AND. WHAT WE'RE HERE TO TALK TO YOU GUYS ABOUT TODAY IS LOOKING FORWARD HOW YOU WANT TO USE THIS INFORMATION AND, AND MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. AND WE'VE BEEN DISCUSSING WITH YOUR CITY STAFF AND THERE'S A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT PATHS FORWARD. AND WE JUST WANTED TO TALK THROUGH THE BENEFITS TO EACH OF THOSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST HERE TO PROVIDE KIND OF THE THE CONTEXT. AND WHAT WE SEE IS THE PLUSES AND MINUSES OF EACH PATH FORWARD TO ALLOW THE CITY TO DECIDE WHAT'S WHAT'S BEST FOR YOU ALL. AND YOUR CITIZENS ASK A FEW QUESTIONS BEFORE WE KIND OF GO TO OPTIONS AND EVERYTHING, OF COURSE. SO SO LOOKING AT THE I THINK THE SLIDE BEFORE THIS, A FEW SLIDES BEFORE THIS, I MEAN BASICALLY WE'RE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF ACREAGE. YES. IT'S GOING TO FALL INTO IT WITH EXISTING BUILDINGS ON IT. AND SO THEN THOSE PLACES WILL HAVE THEIR RATES GO UP FOR FLOOD INSURANCE. ALL THE THINGS THAT GO WITH THAT, IT'LL CHANGE WHAT THE AN OWNER OF A PROPERTY HAS.

I MEAN, WE'RE WE'RE REFLECTING WHAT'S REALLY GOING ON. YES. IS WHAT'S THING BUT DOES IN THESE NUMBERS. DO WE HAVE WHAT THE. YOU KNOW, SO THE ANSWER IS TAKING CARE OF ITSELF. RIGHT.

WE'RE DOING ALL THE RIGHT THINGS AND STUFF AND, BUT BUT SOMEBODY ELSE IS BASICALLY PUSHING THEIR PROBLEM INTO OUR SECTION. RIGHT. BECAUSE WE CAN'T CONTROL WHAT GOES ON UPSTREAM AND, AND THINGS. SO IS THAT IN THE MODEL AT ALL? I MEAN, SO IF THERE YOU CAN'T CAN'T. IS THAT IS THAT PICKED UP IN THE MODELING OR IS THAT SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'RE JUST ASSUMING RUN OFF FROM HERE. THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS AND IT GOES DOWNSTREAM. YEAH THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. SO IT IS TRUE THAT YOU CAN'T NECESSARILY CONTROL WHAT'S GOING ON UPSTREAM OF YOU. AND SO ESPECIALLY LIKE IN COASTAL AREAS YOU'LL HAVE COMMUNITIES THAT, YOU KNOW, HAVE NO NO RECOURSE TO CONTROL UPSTREAM DEVELOPMENT THAT WILL IMPACT THEIR FLOODING RISK DOWNSTREAM. LEANDER, HOWEVER, YOU GUYS ARE IN A HEADWATERS REGION. SO BRUSHY CREEK AND BLOCKHOUSE CREEK, THEY REPRESENT THE UPPER REACHES OF THE SAN GABRIEL WATERSHED. AND SO THAT'S NOT TO SAY THAT THERE AREN'T SMALL IMPACTS AT THE EDGES OF THE WATERSHED AND THINGS LIKE THAT, BUT THE MODELS ESSENTIALLY ACCOUNT FOR ALL OF THE CONTRIBUTING DRAINAGE AREA COMING IN. NOW, I'LL CAVEAT THAT WITH THE MODEL, REACHES ARE LIMITED TO REACHES BEING LIKE THE LENGTH OF THE STREAM, LIMITED TO WHAT'S IN THE FEMA EFFECTIVE. RIGHT. BECAUSE IF WE'RE UPDATING THOSE MAPS, WE WANT TO HAVE LIKE AN APPLES TO APPLES. SO BUT BUT YES, WE DO ACCOUNT FOR THOSE FLOWS COMING COMING FROM THE HEADWATER. AND SO I THINK THAT JUST GIVEN WHERE YOU ALL ARE IN THE WATERSHED, IT'S LESS OF AN ISSUE HERE THAN IT IS IN A LOT OF OTHER COMMUNITIES, LIKE DOWNSTREAM COMMUNITIES. AND THEN ON THE. ON SO WHEN WE SO WHEN YOU DO THE LIDAR, YOU'RE GOING TO PICK UP ALL THE

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IMPERVIOUS STUFF THAT WE'VE ADDED IN OUR IN OUR GOAL HERE IS THAT WE DON'T IMPACT A NEIGHBOR. ANOTHER PROPERTY DOESN'T IMPACT THE NEIGHBOR AND ALL THAT. BUT WHEN YOU GO THROUGH THE WHOLE LIDAR AND YOU START LOOKING AT IT, ARE YOU PICKING UP WHERE AND WHEN THE STORMWATER WE'RE GOING TO PICK UP KIND OF WHERE WE'RE WHERE THE PROCESS ISN'T WORKING, BUT DO WE FIND ALL OF A SUDDEN THAT, YOU KNOW, WE ACTUALLY ARE GIVING OFF MORE WATER AND WE'RE GROWING THE PROBLEM RATHER THAN KIND OF REDUCING IT OR CAPPING IT OR CAPTURING STUFF AND TAKING IT IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS. YES, WE ARE ABLE TO SEE. SO IT'S A WHAT'S CALLED A ONE DIMENSIONAL MODEL. SO WITH THOSE STREAMS THAT WE'RE MODELING, WE ARE ABLE TO SEE INCREASES IN FLOWS IN SOME AREAS AND DECREASES IN OTHER AREAS. SO SO YOU SEE BOTH YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF SUCCESSFUL STORMWATER MITIGATION GOING ON, YOU ABSOLUTELY CAN SEE DECREASES IN THOSE FLOWS. I WILL SAY, THOUGH, THAT TYPICALLY, JUST AS A RULE OF THUMB, THE MORE DEVELOPMENT, THE MORE IMPERVIOUS THE HIGHER FLOWS OR JUST DIFFERENT FLOW CHARACTERISTICS. SOMETIMES IT'S LIKE A, A, AN EARLIER PULSE, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE GOAL WITH STORMWATER MANAGEMENT ISN'T NECESSARILY LIKE, YOU KNOW, REDUCE THE THE OVERALL FLOW THAT YOU SEE AN EVENT, BUT IT'S TO LIKE DELAY IT. SO IT'S NOT ALL CONVERGING AT THE DOWNSTREAM. SO THE ANSWER IS KIND OF LIKE BOTH. YOU KNOW, WE SEE BOTH OF THOSE THINGS IN THE MODEL. BUT IT IS CAPTURED IN THE MODEL. BUT YOU KNOW, MODELS ALL HAVE THEIR LIMITATIONS.

RIGHT. AND SO WE WE MODEL TO A CERTAIN CONTRIBUTING DRAINAGE AREA THRESHOLD THAT'S REQUIRED FOR THIS LOMER UPDATE. BUT WE DON'T GO MUCH BEYOND THAT. NEXT QUESTION OF COURSE. SO IF WE WERE TO MOVE FROM WHAT THE 2021 LEADERS TO THE 2024, ONCE, WE KIND OF MODEL THIS OUT, IF WE IF YOU DROP THAT INFORMATION IN, WILL IT JUST WE BE ABLE TO GENERATE EVERYTHING RATHER QUICKLY? OR IS IT LIKE IT'S LIKE YOU'RE STARTING OVER. IT'S NOT STARTING OVER. A LOT OF THE WORK IS ALREADY DONE FOR US. AND THAT'S WHY, YOU KNOW, I THINK THE THE CITY HAS MADE A REALLY WISE INVESTMENT IN THESE INCREMENTAL UPDATES, BECAUSE IF YOU JUST GO LIKE 20 YEARS AND YOU DON'T DO ANYTHING AND THEN YOU HAVE TO INCORPORATE ALL THESE NEW DATA SETS, IT'S MUCH MORE STARTING FROM SCRATCH. SO IF WE WERE TO INCORPORATE NEW LEADER AND UPDATE THE MODELS THAT WAY, YOU'RE ALREADY STARTING FROM A REALLY A REALLY ADVANCED STAGE OF MODELING.

THAT BEING SAID, IT'S NOT JUST SWAPPING OUT ONE DATA FOR THE OTHER AND HITTING CLICK TO RUN IT AND DO IT. THERE'S MORE LIKE. THERE'S MORE TARGETED UPDATES THAT GO WITH IT. THERE'S THINGS THAT ARE IN THE LANDSCAPE THAT NEED TO BE CAPTURED IN THE MODEL CROSS SECTIONS, JUST THINGS LIKE THAT. AND SO IT'S SORT OF CASE BY CASE, BUT BUT YOU'RE DEFINITELY MUCH FURTHER AHEAD WITH THE, THE UPDATES YOU ALL HAVE ALREADY DONE IN PREVIOUS UPDATES AND WITH PHASE ONE. CAN I ASK A QUESTION REAL QUICK? OF COURSE, THESE LEADER UPDATES THAT YOU KEEP REFERRING TO ARE THEY'RE INDEPENDENT OF ANY KIND OF FEMA ACTION. SO THIS THIS IS A SEPARATE DATA SET THAT'S PRODUCED. WHO WHO ACTUALLY PRODUCES THAT. YEAH THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. IT IS INDEPENDENT. SO IT'S THROUGH THE STATE OF TEXAS. THE STRAP MAP PROGRAM WHICH IS STANDS FOR STRATEGIC MAPPING AND WHICH IS DONE THROUGH THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. AND SO THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, THEY WORK WITH SEVERAL DIFFERENT VENDORS AND THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, A WHOLE PLAN FOR COLLECTING LIDAR ACROSS THE STATE. I THINK THEY GOT STATEWIDE LIDAR COVERAGE AROUND LIKE 2018 OR 19. AND THEN ONCE THEY HAD THAT STATEWIDE COVERAGE, THEY'RE IN THE MAINTENANCE AND UPDATE CYCLE. AND THEY THEY TRY TO TARGET AREAS FOR MORE FREQUENT UPDATES THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, POPULATION CENTERS WITH A LOT OF GROWTH AND A LOT OF CHANGE, BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN WEST TEXAS OR SOMETHING WHERE THERE'S NOT A LOT OF CHANGE, YOU DON'T REALLY THE LIDAR FROM TEN YEARS AGO MAY BE PERFECTLY FINE, YOU KNOW, BUT IN A PLACE LIKE WILLIAMSON COUNTY, SPECIFICALLY LEANDER, WHERE THERE IS A LOT OF CHANGE, THEY WANT TO BE CAPTURING THAT. AND I THINK YOU MENTIONED, LIKE SOME OF THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES THAT ALSO ARE DOING THIS. CAN YOU SPEAK TO THEIR UPDATE PLANS WHEN WE GET TO THAT PORTION? BECAUSE I'M MORE CURIOUS ABOUT THE CONSISTENCY, CONSISTENCY OF UPDATING THE INFORMATION. IF WE'RE ALREADY MAKING THIS INVESTMENT, OBVIOUSLY WE WANT IT TO BE AS UP TO DATE AS POSSIBLE. SURE. AND GIVEN THE QUICKLY CHANGING ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH, PLUS THE, YOU KNOW, THE EXPONENTIAL GROWTH, I KIND OF WANT TO TRY TO MAKE SURE WE KEEP THOSE TWO THINGS ON TRACK WITH EACH OTHER. RIGHT? ABSOLUTELY. YEAH, I GUESS, AND

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WE'LL GET INTO THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE KIND OF LOOKING AT THE DIFFERENT PATHS FORWARD. BUT THERE ARE SEVERAL COMMUNITIES THAT ARE MOVING FORWARD WITH LOMER UPDATES AND, AND THEN BUT NOT ALL COMMUNITIES MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. THEY'RE STILL DOING, YOU KNOW, ADOPTING ATLAS 14 AND PULLING NEW LIDAR INTO THE INTO THE MODELS BUT NOT GOING THAT THAT FEMA ROUTE.

JUST A MOMENT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS COUNCIL I HAVE ONE UNLESS YOU HAD MORE ON THAT SPECIFICALLY. I THINK FOR NOW I'LL COME BACK TO IT. BUT YEAH, I HAD ONE. WHAT IS THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THIS AND OUR STORMWATER MASTER PLAN THAT WE'RE WORKING ON? I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS A QUESTION FOR YOU OR A CITY MANAGER. I'M SURE THE CITY MANAGER CAN SPEAK TO IT POTENTIALLY BETTER THAN I CAN, BUT THE IDEA IS THAT WE WANT THOSE TWO THINGS TO DOVETAIL REALLY WELL. SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THE CITY STAFF TO REVIEW. WE JUST GOT THE STORMWATER MASTER PLAN AND HAVE BEEN REVIEWING THAT. I WAS REVIEWING THE THE PRESENTATION THAT THAT CONSULTANT DID TO YOU ALL ABOUT KIND OF THE STRATEGY FOR THAT. AND I KNOW THAT IN THAT THEY IDENTIFY CERTAIN TARGET AREAS WITHIN THE CITY FOR, YOU KNOW, FOR A CLOSER FOCUS ON STORMWATER MANAGEMENT AND POTENTIAL UPDATES. AND SO ONE OF THE ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DID WITH OUR PHASE ONE MODELS TO MAKE THEM MORE USEFUL IS WE HAVE BOTH A COMBINED MODEL FOR THE ENTIRE CITY, AND THEN WE HAVE INDIVIDUAL BROKEN INTO INDIVIDUAL STREAM MODELS FOR EACH STREAM REACH. AND SO IF YOU WERE DOING A TARGETED STORMWATER MITIGATION DESIGN FOR A CERTAIN PROBLEM AREA OR SOMETHING, YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO USE JUST THAT LOCAL MODEL. IT MAKES IT A LOT EASIER. YEAH. GO AHEAD. YEAH. MAYBE. MAYBE I'LL JUST LIKE TRY TO SIMPLIFY THIS.

SO STORMWATER MASTER PLAN IS LOOKING AT THINGS OUTSIDE OF THE FEMA FLOODPLAIN OR THE FLOODPLAIN AREA WHICH ARE DELINEATED STREAM STREAM AREAS WHICH CAPTURE MORE WATER. AND AND THIS ONE'S GOING TO BE MOSTLY LIKE MAPPING FOR CREEKS AND BIGGER, BIGGER AREAS. THE INTENTION OF STORMWATER MASTER PLAN IS TO INCORPORATE THE DATA THAT COMES OUT OF THIS AS WELL AS, YOU KNOW, LOOKING AT OTHER AREAS OUTSIDE OF THOSE STREAMS, THOSE CREEKS AND THOSE AREAS.

SO THEY WILL SEAMLESSLY CONNECT AND WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE PASSING ONE AND THEN THE OTHER AND COMING BACK TO THE FIRST ONE. YEAH. SO STORMWATER MASTER PLAN IS SORT OF LIKE A BIGGER PLANNING EFFORT. THIS IS MORE LIKE WORKING ON A FLOODPLAIN. YEAH. FLOODPLAIN WHICH IS LIKE JUST THE CREEKS AND STUFF. SO YEAH. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS SO FAR COUNCIL.

ALL RIGHT. PLEASE GO AHEAD. YEAH THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION. AND YEAH IT'S DEFINITELY ONE OF OUR ONE OF OUR GOALS TO MAKE SURE THOSE TWO THINGS ARE WORKING TOGETHER OKAY. SO MOVING INTO THE OPTIONS GOING FORWARD. SO WHEN THE THE LOWER PROJECT WAS ORIGINALLY ENVISIONED, THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT WE DO THESE MODEL UPDATES. AND THEN FOR PHASE TWO. AND THAT'S SORT OF WHERE WE'RE AT THE POINT WE'RE AT NOW WITH PHASE ONE COMPLETE, IS THAT YOU THEN TAKE THEM, YOU YOU PUT TOGETHER AN APPLICATION AND YOU SUBMIT THAT TO FEMA. AND. THERE ARE SOME ADDITIONAL UPDATES WE WOULD WANT TO MAKE BEFORE WE TURN IT OVER TO FEMA, NAMELY THE 2024 LIDAR. SO THAT WASN'T AVAILABLE FOR THE PHASE ONE. WE WOULD WANT TO DO IT IF WE WERE GOING TO GO TO FEMA IN PHASE TWO, JUST BECAUSE. WHY NOT USE THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA? YOU KNOW YOU'RE SPENDING THIS MONEY, YOU WANT IT TO BE AS UP TO DATE AS POSSIBLE, AND THEY CAN.

THOSE MAPS AND MODELS CAN BE RELEVANT FOR LONGER INTO THE FUTURE. ANOTHER ITEM WOULD BE IN ORDER TO GET THE LOWER APPROVED BY FEMA, YOU HAVE TO HAVE LETTERS OF CONCURRENCE FROM OTHER ENTITIES THAT. ARE IMPACT WOULD BE IMPACTED BY THESE MAPS. AND SO ONE OF THOSE ENTITIES WOULD BE THE UPPER BRUSHY CREEK WCID, AND WE WOULD BE COORDINATING WITH THEM TO ENSURE THAT WE'VE CORRECTLY MODELED ALL THE DAMS AND RESERVOIRS THAT THEY THAT THEY MAINTAIN. AND SO THIS IS A PRETTY SMALL PIECE, BUT JUST BASICALLY SAYING THAT WE'RE ACCOUNTING CORRECTLY FOR ALL THE STORAGE IN THESE DAMS AND THAT AND THEN THEY WOULD SIGN OFF THAT. YET TO FEMA LIKE, YES, THIS IS MODELED CORRECTLY AND FEMA WOULD BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD ON THAT. WE WOULD SUBMIT THE APPLICATION AND THEN WE WOULD USHER THAT APPLICATION

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THROUGH THE APPROVAL PROCESS. SO IT YOU KNOW, WE WOULD SUBMIT IT. FEMA WOULD COME BACK AND MAKE COMMENTS. WE WOULD HAVE TO ADDRESS THOSE COMMENTS. AND AND THEN THE END RESULT ULTIMATELY WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD HAVE FEMA APPROVAL OF THE APPLICATION. THEY WOULD UPDATE THE FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS FOR THE CITY OF LEANDER, AND YOU WOULD HAVE THOSE NEW FLOOD INSURANCE RATE INSURANCE RATE MAPS, BOTH AS A RESOURCE FOR UNDERSTANDING YOUR RISK AND AND FOR HELP HELPING REGULATE AND MITIGATE THAT RISK. SO THE THESE ARE THE FIRM PANELS THAT COVER THE CITY. AND SO THESE WOULD ALL BE IMPACTED BY THIS EFFORT. SO IT'S A PRETTY SIGNIFICANT EFFORT FROM A LOWER STANDPOINT. OFTENTIMES PEOPLE DO LOMAS FOR YOU KNOW, SMALL LOCALIZED AREAS WHEN THEY FEEL LIKE THE MAPS AREN'T REFLECTIVE OF THE REALITY ON THE GROUND.

SO ANYWAY, THIS IS A A LARGE SCALE WIDESPREAD MAP UPDATE. YES. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WANT TO JUST CLARIFY IS THAT THIS MAPPING EFFORT IS GEARED TOWARDS BRUSHY CREEK WATERSHED, WHICH IS ONE OF THE WATERSHEDS THAT LEANDER HAS. WE HAVE THREE DIFFERENT WATERSHEDS IN THE CITY, WHICH IS BRUSHY CREEK, AND THERE IS THE BIG SANDY WATERSHED, WHICH IS TOWARDS THE TRAVIS COUNTY, LITERALLY LIKE WHERE THE COUNTY BOUNDARIES ARE BETWEEN TRAVIS AND WILLIAMSON, AND THEN SAN GABRIEL WATERSHED, WHICH IS RELATIVELY SMALLER LAND AREA COMPARED TO BRUSHY CREEK WATERSHED. BUT THIS ONE IS PARTICULARLY GEARED TOWARDS THE BRUSHY CREEK WATERSHED.

THIS ONE. THANK YOU. SO JUST GOING TO KIND OF WALK THROUGH SOME OF THE BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS OF EACH OPTION. SO FOR OPTION ONE, ULTIMATELY THE IDEA IS THAT YOU'D HAVE A BETTER TOOL FOR ADDRESSING PUBLIC SAFETY AND FLOOD RISK IN YOUR CITY. YOU KNOW, THE FEMA FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS, EVEN ASIDE FROM THE INSURANCE PIECE, THEY'RE JUST KIND OF THE GOLD STANDARD FOR FLOOD RISK. YOU KNOW, WHEN PEOPLE ARE BUYING HOMES OR DEVELOPERS ARE BUILDING DEVELOPMENT, THEY'RE A REALLY, REALLY ROBUST, YOU KNOW, FEDERALLY ACKNOWLEDGED ASSESSMENT OF FLOOD RISK IN THE CITY. IT WOULD ENSURE APPROPRIATE INSURANCE COVERAGE FOR PROPERTIES WITHIN THE MAPPED AREAS. SO. AND IF THERE WAS A FLOOD EVENT, IT WOULD FACILITATE INSURANCE CLAIMS AND PAYOUTS. IT'S A MUCH SMOOTHER PROCESS WHEN YOUR MAPS HAVE BEEN UPDATED AND PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT INSURANCE, THE INSURANCE THAT THEY'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE GIVEN THEIR LOCATION WITHIN THE FLOODPLAIN, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR LOWERING FLOOD INSURANCE RATES ACROSS THE CITY. SO FOR EVERYONE THAT HAS AN EXISTENCE EXISTING POLICY, THEY HAVE WHAT'S CALLED THE COMMUNITY RATING SYSTEM, AND YOU'RE REWARDED WITH CERTAIN PROACTIVE FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, INCLUDING UPDATING YOUR MAPS.

AND THERE'S A WHOLE RATING SYSTEM. AND THEN THIS CAN LEAD TO SAVINGS FOR EVERYONE WHO HAS A FLOOD POLICY IN THE CITY. IT ESTABLISHES A BASIS FOR LONG TERM FLOODPLAIN MANAGEMENT. IT MAY ENHANCE YOUR ELIGIBILITY AND COMPETITIVENESS FOR CERTAIN FEMA GRANTS, AND IT CAN SUPPORT THE DEVELOPMENT COMMUNITY JUST BY PROVIDING THAT CLARITY, RIGHT. WHEN YOU DON'T HAVE ALL THESE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT KIND OF TOOLS FOR REGULATING, IT'S IT'S EASIER WHEN YOU JUST HAVE THIS ONE, YOU KNOW, VERY THIS CONSENSUS AROUND THIS ONE TOOL. SO THERE'S DRAWBACKS, OBVIOUSLY.

AND ONE OF THE BIGGEST ONES IS THE LENGTHY FEMA REVIEW PROCESS FOR ADOPTION. IT'S NOT JUST TO SUBMIT THE APPLICATION AND THEY RUBBER STAMP IT. IT'S THEY DO A PRETTY RIGOROUS TECHNICAL REVIEW. THERE'S COMMENTS. YOU ALWAYS GET COMMENTS. SO THERE'S NOT THAT THAT'S A SURE THING.

AND THEN WE WOULD BE REQUIRED TO ADDRESS THOSE COMMENTS AND GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS I'M SORRY. HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE BALLPARK? I MIGHT DEFER TO ABBY ON THAT. DO YOU HAVE ANY LIKE ARE WE TALKING MONTHS OR YEARS? HOW WOULD A YEAR, PROBABLY A YEAR. OKAY.

THANK YOU. SO THEN THE OTHER ONE OF THE OTHER DRAWBACKS AND THIS ISN'T LIKE NECESSARILY A

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DRAWBACK DEPENDING ON HOW YOU YOU LOOK AT IT. BUT THERE WE TALKED ABOUT THE NEW STRUCTURES BEING ADDED INTO THE FLOODPLAIN. AND SO THOSE PEOPLE WOULD BE NOW REQUIRED TO GET FLOOD INSURANCE. AND SO YOU WOULD HAVE HOMEOWNERS WHO SAY, HEY, I DIDN'T USED TO NEED FLOOD INSURANCE, AND NOW I'M BEING TOLD BY MY MORTGAGE COMPANY, I DO HAVE TO HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE.

AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A DIFFICULT, A DIFFICULT THING TO TO TELL THE HOMEOWNER. AT THE SAME TIME, YOU CAN LOOK AT IT THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE PEOPLE ARE NOW PROTECTED AGAINST A REAL RISK THAT'S THERE. IT JUST HASN'T BEEN ACKNOWLEDGED BY THE EXISTING MAPS BASED ON OUTDATED DATA. SO AGAIN, NOT NECESSARILY A BAD THING, BUT CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, NOT GOING TO BE A REALLY POPULAR THING POTENTIALLY WITH SOME HOMEOWNERS. SO OPTION TWO IS TO BASICALLY DO EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT AND JUST STOP SHORT OF SUBMITTING THE APPLICATION TO FEMA FOR UPDATING THE MAPS. RIGHT? SO NO ONE, NO ONE IS IS MAKING ANYONE UPDATE THEIR FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS. LEANDER HAS FLOOD INSURANCE RATE MAPS, AND SO WE JUST WANTED TO BE SURE THAT WE PRESENT THIS AS AN OPTION. AND WE STILL ACCOMPLISH A LOT OF THE OPTION ONE OUTCOMES WITHOUT GOING TO FEMA, RIGHT? WE STILL HAVE, YOU KNOW, THE UPDATED MODELS, THE UPDATED MAPPING, THE UPDATED UNDERSTANDING OF THE FLOOD RISK, THE MORE ACCURATE FLOOD RISK ON THE GROUND. I'M SORRY. SO YOU'RE SAYING THAT THIS OPTION, WE CAN ADOPT THESE MAPS SO WE CAN REGULATE THE BUILDING THERE, JUST LIKE IF IT WAS GONE THROUGH FEMA. BUT WE DON'T HAVE TO SPEND THE TIME OR MONEY TO GO THROUGH FEMA. THAT'S CORRECT.

IS THERE A DOWNSIDE? YES. I'LL TALK ABOUT THIS. I'VE GOT ONE QUESTION. SURE. SO IT SAYS HOMEOWNERS AND FLOODPLAIN CAN BE NOTIFIED. YEAH. SO I MEAN WE HAD TALKED ABOUT WITH WITH THE CITY STAFF THAT, YOU KNOW, IF IF WE SUDDENLY HAVE THESE MODELS AND WE'RE SHOWING A LARGER FLOODPLAIN WITH MORE HOMES IN THE FLOODPLAIN, IT FEELS INCUMBENT ON THE CITY TO AT LEAST MAKE THOSE HOMEOWNERS AWARE. RIGHT? BECAUSE ANYONE CAN HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE IN THE FLOODPLAIN TO GET FLOOD INSURANCE. AND SO CERTAINLY IF I WAS A HOMEOWNER AND, YOU KNOW, FOUND OUT THAT I MAY BE IN THE FLOODPLAIN BASED ON UPDATED DATA, I WOULD I WOULD WANT TO KNOW. AND CERTAINLY IF THERE WAS A FLOOD EVENT AND, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE DIDN'T HAVE INSURANCE AND FOUND OUT THAT, WELL, HEY, THE CITY WAS AWARE THAT THIS WAS IN THE FLOODPLAIN, YOU KNOW, SO THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT EVEN IF YOU'RE NOT GOING TO FEMA, LIKE IF YOU GO TO FEMA, THEY'LL PROBABLY HEAR ABOUT IT THROUGH THEIR MORTGAGE COMPANY. RIGHT? BUT IF YOU DON'T GO TO FEMA, NO ONE'S NECESSARILY GOING TO TELL THEM. AND I DON'T THINK MOST HOMEOWNERS ARE LIKE, YOU KNOW, CHECKING THE THE PUBLIC WORKS SITE OR WHATEVER TO LOOK AT THE FLOODPLAIN ON A REGULAR BASIS. AND SO THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT THERE WOULD BE SOME KIND OF OUTREACH EFFORT TO LET THEM KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, THESE THIS UPDATED MODELING AND MAPPING INDICATES THAT THEY'RE AT RISK FOR FLOODING. THEY MAY WANT TO CONSIDER BUYING A FLOOD INSURANCE POLICY, BUT THAT IT'S NOT MANDATORY. IT'S UP TO THEM. I COULD SEE US ADOPTING AN ORDINANCE THAT WE NOTIFY ANNUALLY, BUT WITH THE CITY HAVE ANY LIABILITY IF WE DID THAT. IS OUR CITY ATTORNEY HAVE INPUT. YEAH. I'M PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT PERSON TO ADVISE ON THIS IS OUR CITY ATTORNEY. YOU REPEAT THAT QUESTION. SORRY. SO IF WE WENT WITH OPTION TWO WHERE WE DON'T GO TO FEMA, BUT WE ADOPT THE MODELING AND WE SEND NOTIFICATIONS, SAY, ANNUALLY TO PEOPLE THAT WOULD BE IN THOSE FLOOD ZONES. IF WE HAD GONE TO FEMA, JUST NOTIFYING THEM THEY MIGHT WANT TO GET INSURANCE. IS THERE A LIABILITY TO THE CITY IF A FLOOD HAPPENS IN THOSE AREAS AND THEY DON'T HAVE INSURANCE? NO. THE CITY INCURS LIABILITY FOR THE CITY'S OWN ACTIONS THAT CHANGE THE WATER FLOW. SO YOU'D HAVE TO DO SOME KIND OF PROJECT OR BE INVOLVED IN A PROJECT THAT ACTUALLY CHANGES THE FLOW OF THE WATER. OKAY, SO THEY CAN'T COME TO US AND SAY, YOU KNEW I WAS IN A FLOODPLAIN AND YOU DIDN'T REQUIRE A CHANGE FOR ME, REQUIRE A CHANGE IN WHAT FORM THAN HAVING TO HAVE INSURANCE AND HAVING TO HAVE THE FEMA MAP UPDATED, THAT KIND OF STUFF. YEAH, THOSE ARE INDIVIDUAL DECISIONS, I LIKE THAT. DID YOU HAVE MORE QUESTION? HOLD ON ONE SECOND OKAY. YOU DON'T OKAY. GO AHEAD.

SO BY CHANGING IN ESSENCE THE FLOOD MAP AND THE AMOUNT OF PROPERTY THAT IT COVERS ON SOMEBODY'S LAND AND ALL THAT, COULD THAT BE CONSIDERED A TAKING AND COULD IT END UP BEING SOMETHING WHERE WE WOULD END UP IN COURT OVER CHANGING, IN ESSENCE, THE VALUE OF A

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PROPERTY? I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT. I'D HAVE TO LOOK AT THAT AND UNDERSTAND THAT A BIT MORE, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW WE SEE THAT WE'RE BASICALLY HOW MANY ACRES ARE WE GOING TO PUT IN A FLOODPLAIN NUMBER, BUT SEVERAL HUNDRED. THAT WOULD REQUIRE SOME RESEARCH TO GIVE YOU A GOOD ANSWER. AND I CAN FOLLOW UP WITH THE COUNCIL ON THAT QUESTION. MAYBE, MAYBE CAN I GET SOMETHING? MAYBE. MAYBE IT'S SO WE IF WE CAN UNDERSTAND IT, LIKE, YOU KNOW, THE THIS EFFORT IS NOT PUTTING THE PROPERTIES IN THE FLOODPLAIN. THE PROPERTIES ARE ALREADY IN THE FLOODPLAIN. THIS IS JUST REPRESENTING WITH DATA THAT THEY THEY ARE IN THE FLOODPLAIN.

SO IT'S A REAL DATA THAT SHOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, PROPERTIES WOULD BE IN THE FLOODPLAIN. AND IT'S JUST GOING TO SHOW SO THAT IN IN THE MAP BASICALLY. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT CHANGES OUR LIABILITY SITUATION. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ANDREW. SO. IN YOUR PRESENTATION A LITTLE BIT FURTHER AND I THINK IT'S PROBABLY ADDENDUM, YOU'RE INDICATING THAT THERE ARE OTHER ENTITIES UPDATING THE FEMA PANELS. YES. THESE ARE PRIMARILY COUNTIES. YES. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CITY OF AUSTIN. THAT'S RIGHT. DO WE KNOW IS IF THE COUNTY HARRIS OR RATHER TRAVIS OR WILCO ARE DOING THIS? YES. I BELIEVE WILLIAMSON COUNTY DOES HAVE PLANS TO UPDATE. AND I THINK MY UNDERSTANDING IS SOME OF THE ORIGINAL INTENT BEHIND THE THE LEANDER LOWER EFFORT WAS AN ACKNOWLEDGMENT THAT THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY WAS GOING TO BE POTENTIALLY YEARS OUT, BECAUSE IT'S SUCH A LARGE SCALE LOMI OR REMAPPING. AND SO THE IDEA WAS THAT THE CITY WANTED TO HAVE THAT TOOL AT THEIR DISPOSAL WITHOUT WAITING FOR WILLIAMSON COUNTY TO DO IT. AND, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER THING IS THAT IF THE CITY DOES IT FIRST, THEN THEY KIND OF BECOME THE BEST AVAILABLE DATA IN THE REGION, AND WILLIAMSON COUNTY WOULD NEED TO TIE INTO OUR MODELS. AND ANYWAY, THERE'S A THERE'S A LOT OF. I GUESS, JUST UNCERTAINTY THERE IN TERMS OF TIMELINES AND THESE PARALLEL EFFORTS AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

WOULD WOULD THAT POSITION OF LEADING THE THE EFFORT IN LEANDER, WOULD THAT OCCUR WITH EITHER OPTION? SO IN OTHER WORDS, SAY WE DECIDE THAT FOR ECONOMIC REASONS PERHAPS I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE COSTS ARE YET, OBVIOUSLY. BUT LET'S JUST SAY THAT'S THE REASONING THAT WE HAVE FOR OPTION TWO AS OPPOSED TO OPTION ONE. BUT KNOWING THAT IF WE DO OPTION TWO, IT, FOR LACK OF BETTER TERMS, MIGHT FORCE THE HAND OF WILLIAMSON COUNTY TO CATCH UP AND THEN EVENTUALLY THEY HAVE LOAD OUT. RIGHT? IS THAT RIGHT? AM I USING THE RIGHT TERMINOLOGY? YES. LAMAR. OKAY. LAMAR. TOO MANY ACRONYMS. YEAH. BUT IF THAT WERE TO OCCUR, THEN WOULD THEIR APPLICATION TO FEMA FOR LAMAR KIND OF SUPERSEDE ANYTHING THAT THAT THAT THE CITY HAD DONE? FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, CAN YOU KIND OF FOLLOW THE THE THINKING THERE? YEAH. SO I THINK THE IDEA BEHIND YOUR QUESTION, IF I'M UNDERSTANDING, IS THAT, LIKE IF YOU ALL WENT AHEAD WITH THE LOMER THEN AND THEN WILLIAMSON COUNTY COMES LATER DOES AND THEY DO A LOMER FOR THE WHOLE COUNTY, DOES THAT SUPERSEDE WHAT YOU ALL HAVE DONE? YES, IT'S PART OF IT. ALSO, IF WE CHOSE NOT TO GO THE LOMER RATE OR ROUTE RATHER, AND THEN WAITED FOR THE COUNTY TO DO IT, DOES IT SUPERSEDE SO IF AND MAYBE CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, IF WILLIAMSON COUNTY, IF YOU GUYS DIDN'T DO IT AND WILLIAMSON COUNTY EVENTUALLY DOES DO IT AND THOSE MAPS GET REVISED. THOSE ARE THE NEW REGULATORY FLOODPLAIN MAPS AFFECTING YOUR COMMUNITY. AND SO IF STRUCTURES ARE ADDED TO THE FLOODPLAIN THROUGH WILLIAMSON COUNTY'S EFFORT, THOSE STRUCTURES IN LEANDER WOULD BE REQUIRED TO HAVE FLOOD INSURANCE AT THAT TIME. SO. YEAH, I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE YOU WANT TO. I MEAN, I THINK THERE'S ANOTHER NUANCE TO THIS. RIGHT? AND IF WILLIAMSON COUNTY WERE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH REMAPPING THE FLOODPLAINS THROUGH FEMA, THEY WOULD BE REQUIRED TO SUBMIT FOR A LETTER OF CONCURRENCE FROM THE IMPACTED COMMUNITY. SO I THINK LEANDER WOULD HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO CONTEST OR REJECT THAT AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO USE OR NOT PARTICIPATE IN THAT PROCESS. SO IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH LAMAR, WE WOULD POTENTIALLY HAVE A STRONGER HAND IN THAT PARTICULAR CONVERSATION. IS THAT A FAIR SUMMARY? YEAH, I

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THINK SO. OKAY. AND THE WE'VE BEEN COORDINATING WITH WILLIAMSON COUNTY, AND I THINK THE CONVERSATION AND LINE OF THOUGHT HAS BEEN THAT WE'RE DOING THE MODELING AND THEY WOULD INCORPORATE OUR MODELS INTO THEIR MODELS SO THAT IT WOULD BE ALL TYING IN TOGETHER.

SO THERE WOULD POTENTIALLY BE A ROUTE THAT IF WE WERE TO CHOOSE OPTION TWO AND NOT SUBMIT TO FEMA, THAT BEHIND US, WILLIAMSON COUNTY WILL STILL TAKE THE DATA THAT WE'VE COLLECTED AND APPLY IT TO THEIR APPLICATION TO FEMA FOR LAMAR. IS THAT FAIR? MY OPINION IS YES.

AND I'M GOING TO DEFER TO SARVESH AND GET ANOTHER OPINION HERE. YEAH. SO SO WE WOULD STILL AGAIN HAVE THIS CONVERSATION OF WHETHER OR NOT WE CONSENT TO, YOU KNOW, ALLOWING WILLIAMSON COUNTY TO MAP OUR CITY LIMITS FOR THE FLOODPLAIN. RIGHT NOW, CITY MAINTAINS OUR OWN FLOODPLAIN ADMINISTRATION AND UNDER OUR EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. AND THEN THEY HAVE THEIR OWN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT PROGRAM. SO WE ARE INDEPENDENTLY ADMINISTERING THE FLOODPLAIN PROGRAM, THE NFIP PROGRAM. SO FOR THEM TO USE UPDATE OUR WE'D HAVE TO CONSENT TO THAT. AND IF WE CONSENTED, WE'D HAVE THE SAME CONVERSATION RIGHT NOW WITH WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO CONSENT AT THAT TIME WHEN THEY WANT TO DO LIKE A COUNTY WIDE MAPPING FOR US. IS THAT SO AGAIN, WITH THAT THOUGHT, IS IT FAIR TO SAY THAT OUR PROCEEDING WITH OPTION ONE AND SUBMITTING TO LAMAR PUTS US IN A STRONGER POSITION AS FAR AS HOW WE MANAGE OUR OWN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, ETC. RELATED TO WATERSHED, RELATED TO STORM WATER, ETC.

WE'RE NOT WAITING FOR ANYBODY ELSE. YEAH, IT'S A PROACTIVE APPROACH. IT'S A PROACTIVE APPROACH. AND WHEN WE WHEN WE DO IT WITH OUR MODELING PROCEDURES, YOU KNOW, LIKE OUR MODELING APPROACH, THEN WE HAVE A BETTER CONTROL OF OUR MODELS. WE HAVE BETTER CONTROL OF OUR.

THE HYDRAULICS AND THE HYDROLOGY PART OF IT. THEY COME BACK, THEY MIGHT HAVE LIKE, YOU KNOW, LET'S DO THIS BECAUSE WE HAVE DONE IT FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY. IT MAKES SENSE TO USE THE SAME TYPE OF APPROACH. LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, THEY CAN HAVE A DIFFERENT TYPE OF, LET'S SAY, HYDRAULIC METHODOLOGY TO USE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEIR THEIR MINDSET IS, YOU KNOW, HOW CAN I MODEL THE ENTIRE COUNTY? AND OUR MINDSET IS, HOW CAN I DO A LITTLE PIECE HERE THAT JUST OUR COMMUNITY HERE AND MAKE IT LIKE A BETTER DATA COMPARED TO, YOU KNOW, THEIR APPROACH. SO THERE IS ADVANTAGE OF JUST DOING OUR OWN MODEL. BUT THERE IS ALSO ADVANTAGE OF LIKE CHIMING IN WITH THEM BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THAT WAY THERE'S LIKE A FINANCIAL BENEFIT OF, YOU KNOW, BUT WE DON'T WE DON'T HAVE ANY REAL STRONG IDEA OF WHERE WILLIAMSON COUNTY IS ON THEIR EFFORTS AS FAR AS WHERE THEY STAND TODAY. YOU KNOW, IF IF THEY'RE TWO YEARS, THREE YEARS.

YEAH, TWO MONTHS BEHIND US. THEY HAVE STARTED THEIR EFFORT. RIGHT NOW THEY HAVE A PRELIMINARY MAPS THEY HAVE PUBLISHED TO TO THEIR WEBSITES. AND, AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE MOVING TOWARDS THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT BEHIND WHERE WE WERE IN 2021. THEY'RE KIND OF LIKE AROUND THERE RIGHT NOW. THEY WOULD STILL HAVE TO KIND OF DO THE HAVE THIS SIMILAR DISCUSSION, WHETHER OR NOT THEY WOULD GO DO THE ENTIRE LAMAR FOR THE FOR THE ENTIRE COUNTY AND TAKE IT TO LIKE A FORM MAP. SO BASED ON ON THE TIMELINES THAT YOU INDICATED, THAT'S FOUR YEARS. THEY'RE LITERALLY FOUR YEARS BEHIND US. YEAH. AND FOR THE COUNTY MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT MORE. OKAY. SO THERE ARE ADVANTAGES TO US ACTUALLY DOING THIS FOR OUR OWN COMMUNITY, FOR SAFETY, FOR SECURITY, FOR CONTROL OVER THE PROCESS, ETC. IT'S A VERY PROACTIVE APPROACH.

IS THAT A FAIR SUMMARY? IT'S A FAIR SUMMARY. THERE ARE I MEAN, I THINK YOU'D HAVE TO LOOK AT BOTH THE POSITIVES AND NEGATIVES OF THIS. SO MAYBE, MAYBE WE CAN WALK THROUGH THE.

YEAH A COUPLE MORE SLIDES. YEAH. IF THAT'S OKAY WE CAN SLIDE. SO WE'VE GOT ABOUT FIVE MINUTES LEFT. SO MAYBE WE CAN HOLD THE QUESTIONS FOR A FEW MINUTES IF YOU GUYS COULD. BOTTOM LINE IT FOR US AND AND AND TELL US WHAT YOU NEED FROM US TODAY OKAY. THAT SOUNDS GOOD. THANK YOU.

YEAH. SO JUST REAL QUICK THE BENEFITS THAT I SEE THAT WE SEE FOR OPTION TWO, YOU STILL HAVE THE MODELING AND MAPPING PRODUCTS. YOU MAYBE HAVE SOME MORE FLEXIBILITY FOR FUTURE UPDATES BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT YOU KNOW, YOU HAVEN'T SUBMITTED THIS APPLICATION OR WHATEVER AND SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY ON THAT. SO MAYBE YOU HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TO WORK WITH ON OTHER THINGS. YOU STILL HAVE A GREAT TOOL. ALL OF THAT STUFF. AND THEN SOME OF THE DRAWBACKS ARE THAT SOME HOMEOWNERS WHO ARE AT FLOOD RISK MAY NOT HAVE THE INSURANCE COVERAGE THEY NEED, RIGHT? BECAUSE IT'S NOT MANDATORY. YOU CAN TELL THEM, BUT NOT EVERYONE'S GOING TO BUY IT. THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE GRAY AREA IN WHAT'S THE BEST AVAILABLE, AND THAT CAN BE CHALLENGING FOR YOU ALL TRYING TO ENFORCE YOUR FLOODPLAINS. AND THEN MAYBE COULD DISQUALIFY

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SOME FEMA FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. OKAY. SO IN SUMMARY, YOU KNOW, AT THE END OF THE DAY, LEANDER HAS BEEN HAS DONE A REALLY GREAT JOB OF MOVING THEIR FLOOD RISK MANAGEMENT FORWARD WITH THESE MODELING AND MAPPING UPDATES. A LOT OF COMMUNITIES DO NOT DO THIS, YOU KNOW, AND SO THERE'S BEEN THIS REALLY IMPORTANT INVESTMENT IN ADDRESSING THAT RISK IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND EITHER EITHER OPTION THAT YOU CHOOSE OPTION 1 OR 2 YOU HAVE THESE MODELS AND MAPS AT YOUR DISPOSAL, WHETHER THEY GO TO FEMA AND BECOME REGULATORY FOR INSURANCE PURPOSES, OR WHETHER YOU JUST USE THEM FOR YOUR OWN ENFORCEMENT, HOWEVER YOU WANT TO DO THAT, YOU STILL HAVE THEM AND THE DATA THEY PROVIDE AT YOUR DISPOSAL TO ADDRESS PUBLIC SAFETY, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND PLANNING AND DECISION MAKING. SO THE BOTTOM LINE IS REALLY JUST THAT YOU GUYS ARE BEING HAVE BEEN AND ARE BEING PROACTIVE ABOUT THIS. AND BOTH THE PATHS FORWARD HAVE, YOU KNOW, BENEFITS AND DRAWBACKS. AND IT'S UP TO YOU ALL TO DECIDE KIND OF WEIGH THOSE IN LIGHT OF WHAT'S BEST FOR YOUR CITIZENS. AND AND AND YEAH. AND IT'S IT'S NUANCED AND COMPLICATED AND THERE'S UNCERTAINTIES CERTAINLY WITH COORDINATING WITH FEMA IN THE PROCESS. BUT THERE'S A LOT OF BENEFITS THAT TO, YOU KNOW, SO I GUESS I'LL JUST END WITH SAYING, AS YOU GUYS ARE NAVIGATING THESE CHOICES, YOU KNOW, WE'RE HERE TO SUPPORT THE CITY IN WHATEVER WAY WE CAN. WE CAN PROVIDE ADDITIONAL DATA AS A FOLLOW UP TO THIS PRESENTATION. WE'RE ALWAYS HAPPY TO COME AND TALK TO YOU.

SO, YOU KNOW, PLEASE, PLEASE REACH OUT TO US OR THROUGH YOUR CITY STAFF. AND WE'VE BEEN COORDINATING CLOSELY WITH THEM. TRY TO GET YOU ALL THE INFORMATION YOU ALL NEED TO MAKE THIS DECISION. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, IS THERE A WAY THAT WE'RE LEANING? I DO HAVE A QUESTION, BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED THAT THIS IS KIND OF OLD DATA, AND THERE'S BEEN SOME UPDATED DATA THAT WAS NOT UTILIZED SO THINGS COULD CHANGE. IS THERE A WAY TO PUT OFF BOTH OPTIONS UNTIL WE GET THE MOST CURRENT INFORMATION. SO RIGHT NOW THE THE UPDATED LIDAR, WHICH IS THE BIGGEST PIECE THAT WAS MISSING DURING PHASE ONE THAT BECAME AVAILABLE IN APRIL. SO WE DO HAVE THAT NOW. SO WE DON'T ANTICIPATE ANY MAJOR DATA COMPONENTS THAT GO INTO THE MODELS CHANGING IN THE PHASE TWO TIMELINE. DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. KIND OF OKAY. SO I MEAN YOU CAN ALWAYS YOU CAN ALWAYS HOLD OFF. AND I THINK THE RISK WITH HOLDING OFF WOULD SAY, OKAY, LET'S SAY YOU TABLE THIS FOR TWO YEARS. WELL NOW IN TWO YEARS YOU COME BACK TO THE TABLE AND DECIDE TO RESTART IT. THEN THAT DATA ISN'T AS CURRENT AS IT WAS. THE 2025 LIDAR IS NOW TWO YEARS OUT OF DATE. AND YOU KNOW, BUT ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT, YOU HAVE MORE CLARITY INTO WHERE WILLIAMSON COUNTY IS AND KIND OF WHAT THEY'RE MODELING APPROACH IS. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVEN'T SPENT THAT MONEY. SO IT'S HARD TO KNOW EXACTLY HOW THOSE DIFFERENT EFFORTS ARE GOING TO GO. IT'S HARD TO KNOW HOW MUCH EXACTLY HOW MUCH DEVELOPMENT IS GOING TO HAPPEN. BUT I THINK IN A PLACE LIKE, LIKE LEANDER THAT'S GROWING SO RAPIDLY, LIKE YOU'RE GOING TO SEE SOME SIGNIFICANT CHANGE IN A TWO YEAR TIME PERIOD. OKAY. SO I WOULD JUST SAY FOR ME, YOU KNOW, I, I LIKE THE IDEA OF UPDATING EVERYTHING, BUT AND YOU KNOW, WE'VE REALLY HAVE FOCUSED ON ON RATES, FLOODPLAINS, BUT WE REALLY HAVEN'T TALKED TOO MUCH ABOUT THE PUBLIC SAFETY ASPECT OF THINGS. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS IS THAT, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT WHAT YOU GAVE US HERE, THERE IS THIS AREA HERE IS WHERE WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT HAS THE MOST IMPACT IN LEANDER, BASICALLY RIGHT DOWN HERE BY OLD TOWN.

AND SO I KIND OF I KIND OF WOULD LIKE TO SEE A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON AND MAYBE THE IMPACT ON US, YOU KNOW, HOW WOULD WE HANDLE SOMETHING WITH THIS, EVEN THOUGH AS WE GO TO LOOK AT ADOPT IT? BECAUSE I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WHEN WE START TALKING JUST RATES AND WE START TALKING ABOUT, YOU CAN'T BUILD ON THIS LITTLE SPOT AND ALL THAT, IT ALL GETS CAUGHT UP IN THAT. BUT WHAT WE'RE REALLY TALKING ABOUT IS PUBLIC SAFETY AND MAKING SURE THAT PEOPLE DON'T GET TRAPPED IN A HOUSE AND GET FLOODED OUT AND BUSINESSES AREN'T DESTROYED AND ALL THOSE KIND OF THINGS. AND SO I KIND OF THINK THAT THAT WOULD HELP WITH SOME OF OUR, OF WHERE WE GO WITH THIS, BECAUSE I THINK IF WE JUST SAY, HEY, WE'RE GOING TO JUST TALK ABOUT WHERE WATER IS GOING TO GO AND PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE IMPACTED FINANCIALLY AND WE DON'T TIE THE SAFETY TO IT. I THINK IT KIND OF JUST DOESN'T IT KIND OF DOESN'T RING THAT GOOD. SO I THINK THAT'S AN EXCELLENT POINT. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU NOTED IS, IS THE AREAS I COULDN'T TELL FROM THE PRINTOUT WHAT THE AREAS WERE. MY EYES ARE TOO OLD. AND SO I THINK MAYBE HAVING THAT CONVERSATION WHEN THIS COMES BACK UP, ALONG WITH MAYBE CLOSE UPS OF THE AREAS TO SEE WHAT THAT IMPACT IS LIKE, HOW MANY HOUSES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT WOULD BE HELPFUL.

YEAH, WE CAN ABSOLUTELY PUT TOGETHER SOME EXHIBITS THAT WILL HELP KIND OF VISUALIZE

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THAT, BECAUSE IT IS VERY VISUAL AND FOR SURE. COULD WE ALSO GET A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS WITH THIS BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT OPTION ONE AND OPTION TWO, BUT THERE'S NO COST ASSOCIATED WITH THOSE AS FAR AS THIS PROGRAMING IS CONCERNED WITH THE APPLICATION TO FIFA VERSUS NOT DOING THAT, CAN YOU INCLUDE THAT IN ANY UPDATES IF THAT'S WITHIN YOUR. YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK THAT WOULD BE A SIGNIFICANT EFFORT TO TO PUT TOGETHER SOME OF THAT DATA AND WE'D HAVE TO COORDINATE AND GET THAT, I THINK APPROVAL WITH SARVESH. BUT TO DO A BENEFIT COST ANALYSIS, COULD WE MAYBE NOT, MAYBE NOT TO THAT SCALE, BUT COULD WE AT LEAST GET AN IDEA OF WHAT THE COSTS WOULD BE? SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENS WITH THE NFIP INSURANCE POLICIES IS THEY'RE HANDLED BY PRIVATE INSURANCE COMPANIES. SO THEIR RATES ARE DIFFER BASED ON LIKE, YOU KNOW, WHAT THE WHAT WHAT THEY, YOU KNOW, SEE THE INSURANCE COMPANIES SEE THE RISK ARE RISKS ARE IF THEY'RE LIKE INSIDE OR OUTSIDE OF THE PORTION OF THAT IS ALSO FEMA REGULATES SOME OF THE SOME OF THE VALUES OF THE INSURANCES ALSO. SO I MEAN, IT WOULD HAVE WE'D HAVE TO WE'D HAVE TO DIG INTO LIKE WHAT EXACTLY IS LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE AND HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE ACTUALLY PAYING THOSE INSURANCE AND WHAT THAT INSURANCE TOTAL IS FINANCIALLY.

AND KIND OF COMPARE THAT WITH THE THE BIGGEST BENEFIT OF THIS, WHICH IS HARD TO MONETIZE, IS THAT, YOU KNOW, ONCE THERE IS A FLOOD AND PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THE FLOODPLAIN, THE FEMA FLOODPLAIN, THERE IS THERE IS GOING TO BE A, YOU KNOW, AN EFFORT FROM FEMA, LET'S SAY, YOU KNOW, IF THEY DECLARE A DISASTER AND THERE IS LIKE A AN EFFORT FROM FEMA TO REACH OUT TO THE FOLKS AND GIVE THEM MONEY TO KIND OF HELP THEM OUT, THEY THEY GO TO THE, THE IT'S EASIER TO TO ADMINISTER THAT TO THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE WITHIN THE FIRM COMPARED TO THE ONES THAT ARE NOT IN THE FIRM.

ARE YOU SURE? BECAUSE WHEN THEY REPORT TO TDEM, THEY'RE TAKING PHOTOS OF THE DAMAGE, AND IT'S AN ASSESSMENT OF THE AREAS OF DAMAGE. RIGHT. SO YOU'D HAVE SO WHAT THEY WHAT THE THE PROPERTIES THAT ARE OUTSIDE THE FLOODPLAIN ARE THEN LIKE REQUIRED TO GET A FLOOD INSURANCE AFTER, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE GETTING. SO THERE'S LIKE A LITTLE BIT OF PAPERWORK THAT WOULD HAVE TO BE DONE TO TO GET THAT INCORPORATED. SO IF SO, IF THERE IS A DISASTER AND, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE ARE NOT IN THE FLOODPLAIN, BUT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR FEMA ASSISTANCE, THEY WILL REQUIRE THEM TO HAVE FLOOD PLANNING, MANDATORY FLOODPLAIN INSURANCE. OKAY. GOTCHA. THANK YOU. SO WHAT I'M HEARING IS WE'RE GOING TO BRING THIS BACK. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SAFETY INFO.

WE'RE GOING TO HAVE CLOSE UP ON THE MAPS. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE REMIND ME, I'M SORRY, SOME COST COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE WANT TO SEE. COUNCILMEMBER CHANG, COULD WE ALSO POSSIBLY HAVE A COMPARISON OF LIKE A CITY THAT HAS ADOPTED THE FIRST OPTION AND THE SECOND OPTION JUST TO GET A GENERAL COMPARISON? YEAH, LIKE WE SAID, YOU KNOW, WE ARE PROBABLY LIKE THE FIRST CITIES IN CENTRAL TEXAS THAT ARE DOING THIS COMPARED TO LIKE SOME OTHER CITIES. SO IT'S A VERY PROACTIVE APPROACH THAT WE ARE TAKING. BUT WE CAN FIND SOME OTHER CITIES THAT ARE OUTSIDE OF CENTRAL TEXAS. MAYBE HARRIS COUNTY, I MEAN, HOUSTON'S KIND OF LIKE GROUND ZERO FOR A LOT OF FLOODING. YEAH. SO I THINK ABOUT AUSTIN. AUSTIN HASN'T DONE THAT YET. SOME OF THESE OTHER CITIES HAVEN'T DONE THAT YET IN THIS AREA. WE TALKED WITH CEDAR PARK RECENTLY. THEY ARE LOOKING TO DO THIS AGAIN. SO IT'S LIKE PEOPLE ARE CATCHING UP. EVERYBODY'S WAITING ON SOMEBODY TO START THIS HONESTLY. SO YEAH, YOU KNOW, WE COULD WE COULD LOOK INTO THAT AND KIND OF GATHER THOSE DATA AND INFORMATION.

THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE WANT COMING BACK, COUNCILMEMBER. OH, I THOUGHT YOU WERE REACHING FOR THE MIC. ANYTHING ELSE THAT WE WANT TO COME BACK? ALL RIGHT. DO Y'ALL HAVE THE GUIDANCE THAT YOU NEED? NOT NECESSARILY. I MEAN, I THINK WE'RE APPROACHING THE TIME RIGHT NOW. WHAT MORE GUIDANCE DO YOU NEED? SO I THINK I WANTED TO KIND OF HEAR, YOU KNOW, BETWEEN OPTION ONE AND OPTION TWO KIND OF DISCUSS. YOU KNOW, HOW DO HOW DOES THE COUNCIL SEE THE BENEFIT OF PEOPLE HAVING AN INSURANCES THAT DON'T HAVE THE INSURANCES RIGHT NOW, YOU KNOW. AND, AND WOULD YOU SEE THE ADVANTAGE ON THAT. OR IS THIS GOING TO BE MORE LIKE A BURDEN THAT CITY IS GOING TO PUT TO THE, TO THE FINANCIAL BURDEN THE CITY IS GOING TO PUT TO THE TO THE PUBLIC? I THINK A LOT OF THAT IS GOING TO COME FROM THE MORE INFORMATION, LIKE IF WE SEE THAT TO ME, IF I SAW THE UP CLOSE VERSIONS OF THE MAP AND COULD SEE HOW MANY HOUSES ARE IMPACTED, I CAN BETTER ANSWER THAT. BUT FROM THIS, I CAN'T, I CAN'T. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT EVERYBODY ELSE. OKAY, OKAY. MAKES SENSE. SO THAT'S TO BE DETERMINED OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE THAT YOU NEED FROM US? NO NOT RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. I APPRECIATE YOUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT.

WITH THAT, WE ARE GOING TO ADJOURN OUR BRIEFING WORKSHOP AT 7:00 PM. DUE TO THIS RUNNING OVER A LITTLE BIT, WE'RE GO

[4. Open Meeting, Invocation and Pledges of Allegiance.]

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GOOD EVENING. TODAY IS THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16TH, 2025 AND THE TIME IS 7:15 P.M. AND THIS IS THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE LEANDER CITY COUNCIL. I SHOULD HAVE ASKED, ARE YOU STILL DOING THE PROCLAMATION? WHERE DID YOU GO? HE IS NOT. DO I HAVE A VOLUNTEER FROM THE DAIS? HE WANTS TO DO THE PROCLAMATION. I CALL ON YOU ONE SECOND. COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID MCDONALD WILL BE PROVIDING THE INVOCATION. AFTER THE INVOCATION, PLEASE REMAIN STANDING. FOLLOWING THE INVOCATION WILL HAVE THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE COME BEFORE YOU TONIGHT. AND JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR BLESSINGS TO BE HERE. FATHER, IN THIS FREE COUNTRY. WE THANK YOU FOR ALL THE MEN AND WOMEN WHO PROVIDE THAT PROTECTION FOR US DAILY. THOSE WHO KEEP THIS CITY SAFE, FATHER, FOR THOSE ALSO THAT WORK, FOR CITY STAFF, THAT WORK IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS TO REALLY MAINTAIN AND KEEP A BEAUTIFUL CITY. FATHER, WE JUST ASK FOR YOUR WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT TONIGHT TO GIVE US THAT IN ABUNDANCE SO WE CAN MAKE DECISIONS THAT BRING HONOR AND GLORY TO YOU AND BRING GOOD THINGS TO THIS COMMUNITY.

FATHER, BE WITH EVERYONE HERE. GO WITH THEM AS THEY GO LATER THIS EVENING. BLESS THEM IN THEIR TRAVELS AND AS THEY GO THROUGH DAILY LIFE. WE ASK ALL THESE THINGS IN JESUS NAME.

AMEN, AMEN. PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL, ALL UNDER THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE. TEXAS. ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. YEAH, I JUST. ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER FIVE, CITY SECRETARY CRABTREE,

[5. Roll Call.]

WILL YOU PLEASE CALL ROLL? COUNCILMEMBER STEVEN CHANG, PRESENT COUNCIL MEMBER MICHAEL HERRERA HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER DAVID MCDONALD HERE. MAYOR PRO TEM NICOLE THOMPSON, PRESENT.

COUNCIL MEMBER ANDREW NORDEEN HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER BECKY ROSS. AND FOR THE LAST TIME, MAYOR CHRISTINE DELISLE. THE MAYOR IS PRESENT, QUORUM IS PRESENT, AND THE CITY COUNCIL IS ELIGIBLE TO

[6. Recognition of service of Mayor Christine DeLisle.]

DO BUSINESS. ITEM NUMBER SIX. MAYOR PRO TEM, I BELIEVE YOU ARE TAKING THIS ONE. DO YOU WANT TO ANNOUNCE IT? YES. WE ARE HERE TO RECOGNIZE OUR MAYOR AND ALL OF THE WONDERFUL WORK THAT SHE HAS DONE OVER HER TIME BEING HERE. AND THERE IS A BEAUTIFUL. AWARD THAT THE CITY HAS HAD MADE FOR HER. I'M TAKING IT OUT VERY CAREFULLY BECAUSE IT'S VERY HEAVY AND IT'S MADE OF GLASS, BUT IT SAYS IN APPRECIATION OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE, VALUABLE CONTRIBUTIONS AND UNFAILING COMMITMENT TO THE CITY OF LEANDER, TEXAS, WHILE SERVING AS MAYOR FROM 2021 TO 2025. THANK YOU, MAYOR CHRISTINE. THANK YOU. YES. AND I WOULD LIKE FOR US ALL TO STAND FOR HER. THANK YOU. SHE IS NOT LIKING THIS. SO I WOULD SAY KEEP CLAPPING BUT WE WON'T EMBARRASS HER MORE. SO THANK Y'ALL. THANK YOU. WE ALSO LIKE TO TAKE A MOMENT TO MAKE SOME STATEMENTS ABOUT ALL OF HER WORK AND HER JUST HER, HER BEING HERE AND BEING OUR MAYOR.

AND I WANT TO START FIRST WITH THE ONE FROM COUNCILMAN COUNCILWOMAN BECKY ROSS. SHE COULDN'T BE HERE. SHE IS TRAVELING AND WANTED ME TO MAKE SURE THAT I READ THIS ON HER BEHALF TONIGHT. SO I'M READING THIS ON HER BEHALF. I HATE THAT I'M MISSING YOUR LAST MEETING, BUT WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO SINCERELY THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND YOUR DEDICATION. YOUR COMMITMENT AND EFFORT HAVE NOT GONE UNNOTICED, AND I TRULY APPRECIATE THE ENERGY AND CARE YOU PUT INTO LEANDER THROUGH COUNCIL EFFORTS SINCE 2021, WE PUT MASSIVE CRITICAL WATER PROJECTS BACK ONLINE, BUILT THE SENIOR CENTER, HIRED A NEW CITY MANAGER AND SUPPORTED STAFF REORGANIZATION ALONG WITH MANY, MANY OTHER THINGS. IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE WORKING WITH YOU AND I'M GRATEFUL FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTIONS. WISHING YOU WELL IN YOUR NEXT ADVENTURE.

COUNCILWOMAN BECKY ROSS. YES. THANK YOU BECKY, WHEREVER YOU ARE. THANK YOU BECKY. I ALSO HAVE SOME COMMENTS AND THEN WE CAN GO RIGHT DOWN THE LINE AND HAVE EVERYBODY SAY THEIRS WHILE WE'RE HERE. THAT'S OKAY. OKAY, MAYOR, SINCE I FIRST MET YOU, I'VE BEEN IMPRESSED WITH YOUR

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COMMITMENT TO SERVING OTHERS. AND WHILE YOU ALWAYS WORK TO LEAD WITH COMPASSION AND UNDERSTANDING, YOUR HEART AND PASSION FOR WOMEN, FOR GIRLS, AND FOR THOSE IN MARGINALIZED COMMUNITIES HAS BEEN ADMIRABLE AND HAS NOT GONE UNNOTICED BY ME. YOUR ABILITY TO LISTEN, TO CONNECT, AND TO FIND SOLUTIONS HAS BEEN A BLESSING TO OUR COMMUNITY AND TO OUR CITY.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR HONESTY, FOR YOUR PASSION, FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, AND FOR YOUR MENTORSHIP. YOU'LL BE GREATLY MISSED. AND PLEASE KNOW THAT I HAVE ALWAYS SEEN YOU, AND I'VE ALWAYS RECOGNIZED THE HARD WORK YOU'VE PUT IN DAY IN AND DAY OUT. I AM TRULY GRATEFUL FOR THE TIME WE'VE SPENT HERE TOGETHER, AND MY PRAYERS ARE FOR GOD'S GREATEST GIFTS AND BLESSINGS FOR YOU AND YOUR FAMILY AS YOU STEP INTO THIS NEW CHAPTER. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. PLEASE. ONE MAYOR, I JUST WANTED TO TAKE THIS MOMENT TO TO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE OVER THE YEARS AS A COUNCIL MEMBER AND ALSO AS MAYOR. I THINK IT'S IT'S IT'S IRONIC TO ME TONIGHT GOING TO BE CONSIDERING APPOINTMENTS. AND MY FIRST INTERACTION WITH THE MAYOR WAS AS A POTENTIAL APPOINTEE TO A COMMISSION. I INTERVIEWED WITH WITH THE MAYOR, ALONG WITH SEVERAL OF THE MEMBERS ON THIS ON THIS DAIS. AND WHEN I WON MY CITY COUNCIL ELECTION, WHAT STOOD OUT TO ME THE MOST WAS THAT THE MAYOR TOOK THE TIME TO SEND ME AND MAIL ME A HANDWRITTEN NOTE IN WHICH SHE LAID OUT DISTINCT DETAILS FROM OUR CONVERSATIONS TWO YEARS IN, IN, IN THE PAST. AND SO I'VE JUST BEEN IMPRESSED BY THE MAYOR'S COMMITMENT TO SERVICE, COMMITMENT TO THE CITY, TO THE PEOPLE OF LEANDER, AND HER ABILITY TO BRIDGE THE GAP ACROSS PARTY LINES AND ON PARTY LINES JUST TO DO WHAT'S RIGHT FOR THE CITY OF LEANDER. AND WE'RE GOING TO MISS THAT LEADERSHIP. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH, MAYOR. THANK YOU. MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE WITH ME. I KNOW WE'VE HAD A LOT OF TALKS AND THINGS, AND I'VE ALWAYS APPRECIATED IT. AND I ALSO WANT TO SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU GET A DIFFERENT IMPRESSION WHEN YOU'RE SITTING IN THE AUDIENCE VERSUS SITTING UP UP HERE. AND, AND WHAT I'VE REALLY SEEN IN THE, THE YEAR AND A HALF I'VE BEEN HERE IS HOW MUCH YOU CARE ABOUT THE CITY AND HOW MUCH UNSEEN STUFF YOU DO. I MEAN, THERE'S THERE'S SO MUCH THAT YOU DO AND, AND I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, I APPRECIATE I ALSO KNOW THAT IT'S BEEN ROUGH ON YOU AT TIMES, AND PEOPLE HAVE NOT BEEN THE MOST FRIENDLY OR THE MOST APPRECIATIVE. AND, AND IT TAKES A STRONG PERSON TO, TO TO TAKE IT AND STAND UP TO IT AND CONTINUE TO BE WHO YOU ARE.

AND SO I JUST WANT TO TELL YOU, I REALLY APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR THE CITY AND, AND WHERE WE'VE COME. AND WE I REALLY FEEL THAT WE'VE SET OURSELVES UP FOR SOMETHING GOOD IN THE FUTURE. AND SO I JUST REALLY APPRECIATE THAT. AND SO I HOPE YOU HAVE A GOOD TIME.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH. MAYOR. I JUST WANT TO THANK YOU FOR, I DON'T KNOW WHAT, SEVEN, EIGHT YEARS OF SERVICE. AND I HOPE EVERYBODY OUT THERE UNDERSTANDS THAT THIS IS AN UNPAID POSITION.

WE REALLY VOLUNTEER OUR TIME. AND THIS LADY'S GIVEN ABOUT EIGHT YEARS OF HER THURSDAY EVENINGS AND MANY MORE DAYS DURING THE WEEK FOR THINGS THAT SHE HAS TO ACCOMPLISH FOR THIS CITY. AND YOU DON'T DO THAT FOR SELFISH REASON. YOU DO THAT BECAUSE YOU REALLY WANT TO SERVE THIS COMMUNITY. AND I'VE ACTUALLY GOT TO SEE THAT FIRSTHAND. AND I DEFINITELY APPRECIATE I FEEL LIKE WE BOTH SHARE AND OUR SUPPORT FOR OUR RESPONDER COMMUNITY. AND YOU'VE REALLY BEEN A BIG SUPPORTER FOR BOTH POLICE AND FIRE, AND I APPRECIATE THAT ABOUT YOU AS WELL. SO I JUST WANT TO WISH YOU ALL THE BEST IN YOUR NEXT ENDEAVORS, AND THANK YOUR FAMILY FOR GIVING YOU UP ON THURSDAY EVENINGS FOR ABOUT EIGHT YEARS. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY THURSDAYS THAT IS, BUT FOLKS, THAT'S A LOT. AND IT'S NOT JUST THURSDAYS. WE HAVE TO.

WE HAVE TO GO THROUGH THESE AGENDAS. WE HAVE TO PREPARE FOR OUR MEETINGS. THERE'S OTHER EVENTS WE HAVE TO MAKE, AND IT TAKES A LOT AND IT TAKES A LOT ON THE FAMILY. SO THANK YOU TO YOU GUYS OUT THERE, MATT. I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN THROUGH A LOT WITH IT. SO THANK YOU GUYS AND FOR FOR ALLOWING HER TO DO THAT. AND I HOPE EVERYONE WILL JUST REALLY RECOGNIZE THE SERVICE TO THIS COMMUNITY THAT SHE'S DONE. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. SO MAYOR HAS ALWAYS BEEN A A GOOD FRIEND AND KIND AND RESPONSIVE. I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE JOINING HER HERE ON THE DAIS TO HAVE SOME REALLY IN-DEPTH CONVERSATIONS WITH HER AS A LEADER OF THE CITY. LITTLE PLUG HERE. SHE'S ON THE PODCAST TWICE, SO IF YOU REALLY MISS HER, YOU CAN GO BACK AND YOU CAN. THERE'S VIDEO. OKAY. WE CAN GO FOR THREE IF YOU WANT. YOU CAN WE CAN HAVE A CLOSING. RIGHT. BUT YOU THE KINDNESS AND THE GENEROSITY AND FRANKLY, THE RESILIENCE OF YOUR

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LEADERSHIP REALLY ECHOES IN THE CITY TODAY. I ARRIVED HERE ABOUT SEVEN YEARS AGO, AND IT WAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT. IT WAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT. LET ME SAY IT ONE MORE TIME. IT WAS A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT ENVIRONMENT. AND WE'VE COME SO FAR AND YOU GET OUT WHAT YOU PUT IN. I KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL SAY THAT, BUT YOU'RE AN ACTUAL EXAMPLE. SOMEONE CAN POINT TO THAT AND CITE IT THAT THE EFFORTS THAT YOU UNDERTOOK, ALONG WITH THOSE WHO SERVED WITH YOU AND GUIDING THOSE EFFORTS TOWARDS WHERE WE ARE TODAY. I'M THANKFUL I'M I'M IN YOUR DEBT, AND I CERTAINLY HOPE THAT WE CAN CONTINUE ON THAT ON THAT VEIN GOING FORWARD. SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND GOOD LUCK. THANK YOU. AND WE DO HAVE A SPEAKER, MISS KATHY BERNARDI, I OH, I WAS LIKE, I KNOW I SAW YOU. I DIDN'T KNOW I WAS GOING TO BE PART OF THIS WONDERFUL GROUP OF THANK YOU MAYOR. WELL, WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO GIVE YOUR NAME AND YOUR. YES I AM. HOLD THE GOOD THINGS. YEAH. YES.

KATHY BERNARDI 1412 VALENTE LANE HERE IN LEANDER. AND GOOD EVENING, CITY COUNCIL MAYOR AND CITY MANAGER WHEN I MOVED HERE IN 20, EXCUSE ME, IN 2018 FROM ROUND ROCK, MAYOR CHRISTINE WAS ON CITY COUNCIL UNDER THE UNMENTIONABLE MAYOR. I APPLIED TO THE ACTIVE ADULT COMMITTEE BOARD AND WAS APPOINTED. WE WERE TO BE ON THE GROUND FLOOR FOR THE BUILDING AND DESIGN OF THE APPROVED SENIOR CENTER. FROM THAT DAY FORWARD IN OCTOBER OF 2018. YOU HAVE BEEN MY FRIEND, MY NEIGHBOR AND MY ALLY. SORRY. DURING YOUR CAMPAIGN AS MAYOR, YOU PROMISED MANY THINGS. ONE OF THEM WAS THE TRAFFIC LIGHT AT BAGHDAD AND BAGHDAD AND SUNNY, WHICH WAS INSTALLED QUICKLY AFTER THE ELECTION. THE SECOND WAS THAT A SENIOR CENTER FOR THE RESIDENTS OF LEANDER AND THE SURROUNDING AREAS WOULD BE BUILT. HAVING THE GROUNDBREAKING IN MAY OF 24 TOOK A LITTLE MORE TIME. EVEN THOUGH THE BOND WAS PASSED IN 2016. OH THANK YOU. THE ROADBLOCKS WERE MANY. THE PREVIOUS PARKS AND REC DIRECTOR, THE PREVIOUS CITY MANAGER AND THE PREVIOUS CHIEF OF STAFF, AND OF COURSE, THE DREADED COVID VIRUS COSTS. ROSE INSTALLS FROM THE PROCEEDINGS KEPT OCCURRING. DILLY DALLYING ON THEIR PART WAS STOPPED BY THE INTERIM CITY MANAGER, ISAAC TURNER. AND YOURSELF, I AND OTHERS ARE TRULY GRATEFUL FOR THIS INTERVENTION. THE SENIORS OF LEANDER AND SURROUNDING AREAS WILL SOON HAVE A SENIOR CENTER TO CALL OUR OWN. AND YES, IT HAS BEEN DELAYED FOR MONTHS. 235 DAYS HAS EXTENDED TO OVER A YEAR. BUT WE SEE A BUILDING. IT IS PROGRESSING DAILY AND WE FOUND OUT IT'S GOING TO BE MAYBE READY NOVEMBER 19TH. WE'LL SEE. WELL, I'D SAY SANTA CLAUS CAN BE THE RIBBON CUTTER WITH ISAAC. AND YOU, OF COURSE, I WILL MISS SEEING YOU ON THE DAIS. PLUS, AT THE CITY EVENTS I ATTEND. GOOD LUCK ON THE NEXT ADVENTURE. KNOW THAT YOU HAVE ANY ADVISORS HERE IN LEANDER.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MISS BERNARDI. WAS THERE ANYONE ELSE THAT WISHED TO COME UP AT THIS TIME AND SPEAK, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T DO A CARD? WELL, LOOK WHO'S HERE. I THINK WE NEED TO DO A RECOGNITION. I KNOW CURRENT CEDAR PARK CITY COUNCIL MEMBER MEL KIRKLAND. COME ON UP.

WELCOME TO LEANDER, MR. KIRKLAND. ALL THE WAY. PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS.

YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES. MEL KIRKLAND, CEDAR PARK CITY COUNCIL, 103 WOODLAND COVE, CEDAR PARK, TEXAS. I JUST LIKE TO THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE FOR THIS COMMUNITY.

LEANDER WAS ALWAYS A WONDERFUL TOWN, BUT YOU'VE SET THE FOUNDATION THAT WILL MAKE IT AN INCREDIBLE CITY, AND THAT'S HARD TO DO WITH ALL THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE TO WORK WITH OVER THE TIME, PLUS THE CITIZENS, PLUS THE STAFF. AND JUST FROM CEDAR PARK AND EVERYBODY ELSE. AND I STILL HAVE PTSD FROM LIKE, COVID AND EVERYTHING ELSE. WE REALLY APPRECIATE WORKING WITH YOU. YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT PARTNER THROUGH THE YEARS. WE JUST WANT TO THANK YOU, WISH YOU ALL THE BEST. I REMEMBER WHEN YOU STARTED, YOUR KIDS WERE REALLY YOUNG. NOW THEY'RE NOW THEY'RE YOUNG ADULTS AND THEY'RE REALLY THRIVING. IT'S REALLY WEIRD, RIGHT? VERY WEIRD, I KNOW. WELL, EVERYBODY'S TALLER THAN ME, EVEN THOUGH. SO. BUT AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE. THANK YOU FOR THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE. I LISTEN TO ALL YOUR KIND

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WORDS AND EVERYTHING. AND GOOD LUCK WITH EVERYTHING YOU'RE DOING IN THE FUTURE. I KNOW LEAVING COUNCIL IS ALWAYS A HARD THING BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE GET UNELECTED AND SOME PEOPLE LEAVE ON THEIR OWN AND YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE ON YOUR OWN. AND YOU'LL HAVE A WONDERFUL LIFE AND EVERYBODY WILL REMEMBER YOU AND THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. MAYOR. MR. KIRKLAND, IF YOU DON'T MIND PICKING UP, LIKE, DINNER OR SOME KIND OF SHOPPING WHILE YOU'RE HERE IN TOWN, WE WOULD APPRECIATE THAT. WE HAVE ONE MORE COMMENT. PLEASE COME FORWARD AND GIVE YOUR NAME AND YOUR ADDRESS, AND YOU'LL HAVE THREE MINUTES. WELL, GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. MY NAME IS COCA-COLA AND I LIVE IN 2720 BRUSHWOOD MEADOW, LEANDER, TEXAS. AND COMMUNITY, THANKS FOR YOUR SERVICE, MAYOR. AS I SAID BEFORE, I WANT TO ALSO SAY GOOD EVENING TO ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY MANAGER AS WELL. BUT YOU ARE SERVICE TO THIS CITY. I'VE BEEN OBSERVING YOU FOR FOUR YEARS. WHEN I MOVED FROM MINNESOTA. I HAVE RESEARCHED THE CITY AND THE SERVICE THAT YOU PUT TOWARDS THE SAFETY AND THE CULTURES, LIKE, YOU KNOW, DIVERSE CULTURES YOU DO. I STILL REMEMBER YOU CAME TO A DIWALI PARTY TWO YEARS AGO WITH COMMUNITY, AND THE WAY YOU MINGLED WITH ALL THE NEW CULTURE, THE WAY YOU SUPPORTED THE NEW GROUPS AND COMMUNITIES TOWARDS LEANDER. WE SEE THAT GROWTH HERE AND EVERYTHING. SO I ECHOED AND EVERYBODY SPOKE ABOUT YOU. EIGHT YEARS IS A LONG TIME, AND I WAS IN MILITARY FOR FOUR YEARS, SO I KNOW HOW TOUGH IT IS TO COME OUT OF THAT FAMILY AND GIVE THAT TIME. YOU KNOW, IT'S A COMMITMENT. SO THAT COMMITMENT ITSELF SPEAKS ABOUT WHAT YOU DO. SO EIGHT YEARS IS A LONG TIME.

SEVEN AND A HALF EIGHT YEARS IS A LONG TIME. SO DOING THE SAME THING FOR SUCH A LONG TIME IS WONDERFUL THING. SO I HOPE YOU HAVE GREAT ADVENTURES AND ENDEAVORS, WHATEVER YOU TRY TO DO. AND I'M HOPING TO YOU ACHIEVE ALL THOSE. SO THANK YOU AGAIN FOR YOUR SERVICE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU AROUND. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. THANK YOU. WOULD ANYBODY ELSE LIKE TO MAKE A COMMENT? YES, PLEASE. OH, I THINK MISS TANYA. I'M NOT A PUBLIC SPEAKER, SO PLEASE FORGIVE ME. TANYA CLAWSON 801 NORTH FOURTH GERALD, TEXAS GERALD CITY COUNCIL PLACE THREE I JUST WANTED TO COME BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING AND KNOW THAT YOUR BRAND OF LEANDER EXTENDS OUTSIDE OF LEANDER. YOU HAVE INSTILLED CONFIDENCE IN SO MANY PEOPLE THROUGHOUT YOUR JOURNEY, AND I AM ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE YOU HAD ENCOURAGED ME TO SERVE.

AND I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT WHAT YOU'VE DONE, WHAT YOU'VE DONE HERE, GOES WELL BEYOND YOUR CITY. IT SPREADS THROUGH WILLIAMSON COUNTY, AND I'M FOREVER GRATEFUL FOR YOUR MENTORSHIP AND YOUR LEADERSHIP AND HOW IT'S HELPED ME THROUGH MY JOURNEY. AND I GIVE YOU MY THANKS. AND MY GRANDDAUGHTER IS LOOKING FORWARD TO HAVING LUNCH WITH YOU. BUT APPARENTLY SHE WON AN ITEM ON THE CHAMBER'S EVENT, SO WE'LL GET A CHANCE TO VISIT SOON. AND I APPRECIATE THAT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS AT THIS TIME? YEAH. COME ON. YEAH. HELLO.

MATTHEW CAMMACK, 1701 BRADFORD STREET. I JUST WANTED TO COME UP HERE. I'M CHRISTINE SUN, SO I'VE GOTTEN TO SEE THIS FIRSTHAND SINCE 2017 WAS REALLY THE START, I THINK, OF WHERE THIS WAS GOING. I REMEMBER GOING TO WHAT IS CURRENTLY THE I THINK THE ACTIVITY CENTER, WHEN WE WERE USING THAT AS A COUNCIL SPACE AND SITTING WITH THE MEETING WITH MY MOM TO GET ICE CREAM AFTER BECAUSE I WAS 13. AND THAT'S HOW YOU BRIBE ME TO GO WITH YOU TO TO THINGS.

AND IT'S BEEN REALLY INSPIRING TO SEE YOU OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS AND JUST HOW MUCH YOU'VE GROWN INTO SUCH A COMPLICATED POSITION, BECAUSE IT'S NOT AN EASY JOB. AND IT'S I THINK A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE HOW MUCH TIME IT TAKES. IT'S A COMMITMENT. IT'S A FULL TIME JOB, AND YOU RAN WITH IT HARDER THAN I THINK ANYBODY WOULD RUN. AND SO I'M REALLY PROUD OF YOU.

YOU'RE A GREAT ROLE MODEL AND YOU'RE A GREAT MOM. THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WELL, I WAS DOING GOOD UNTIL THAT COMMENT. THAT IS MY WONDERFUL FIRSTBORN. THANK YOU. HE'S A COMMUNICATIONS MAJOR. SO, MATT, YOU SHOULD PROBABLY REACH OUT TO ONE OF YOUR PROFESSORS AND

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TELL THEM YOU NEED EXTRA CREDIT TODAY. THAT WAS VERY GOOD. ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? AND I AM GOING TO THROW IT DOWN TO OUR CITY MANAGER BECAUSE I DIDN'T GIVE YOU AN OPPORTUNITY. MY APOLOGIES. THANK YOU. I APPRECIATE IT VERY MUCH. I WILL TELL YOU, ONE OF THE GREATEST OPPORTUNITIES IN MY LIFETIME WAS THE OPPORTUNITY THAT YOU HELPED CREATE FOR ME AND FOR MY FAMILY TO COME BACK TO TEXAS. YES, FOR EVERYBODY OUT THERE. I AM A NATIVE TEXAN. I DID GO TO THE WEST COAST FOR A WHILE, AND THANKFULLY TO THE MAYOR AND TO THE COUNCIL. I GOT TO COME BACK HOME TO FAMILY WHEN WE DESPERATELY NEEDED TO COME BACK.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT YOUR LEADERSHIP HAS BEEN INCREDIBLE. THE LATE NIGHTS, THE TEXTS, THE THE MANY, MANY WEIRD BAD CALLS LATE AT NIGHT AND EARLY IN THE MORNINGS. YOU ALWAYS BEEN THERE AND YOU'VE SUPPORTED US. YOU HAVE STEPPED UP AND SUPPORTED STAFF EVEN WHEN THE CHIPS WERE DOWN. YOU'VE ALWAYS EXTENDED YOUR GRACE TO US, YOUR EMPATHY TO US, AND THAT HAS BEEN VERY WELL ACCEPTED AND APPRECIATED, Y'ALL. SHE REFERS TO OUR STAFF AS HER LEANDER STAFF FAMILY, SO WE ARE CONSIDERING OURSELVES PART OF YOUR EXTENDED FAMILY. SO WE WE APPRECIATE YOU BEING OUR MOM AS WELL. SO SO WE APPRECIATE THAT. SO ON BEHALF OF MYSELF, ON BEHALF OF THE STAFF AND MY FAMILY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR WHAT YOU'VE DONE FOR US. THANK YOU, THANK YOU.

SO WE'LL HAVE YOU MAKE ANY STATEMENTS IF YOU WANT TO I DO, AND THEN WE'RE TAKING A PICTURE AFTER OKAY. SO THANK YOU. IT'S ALL YOURS. OH GOODNESS I AM NOT GOOD AT ACCEPTING COMPLIMENTS.

SO THIS IS A LOT. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. IT'S BEEN AN HONOR. FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO WHO KNOW THIS IS THIS IS A FAMILY DECISION FOR US. WE'RE ACTUALLY RELOCATING AND AND I'VE BEEN SAYING IT'S LIKE GOD IS PUTTING THIS NEON ARROW IN FRONT OF OUR FAMILY SAYING, GO DO THIS. AND WHEN WE WERE SITTING IN OUR WORKSHOP TONIGHT, I WAS SO SURPRISED. I GOT A GOOGLE PHOTOS REMINDER 18 YEARS AGO TODAY. TIME TO CELEBRATE. AND IT WAS MY GRANDFATHER'S CELEBRATION PARTY WHEN HE WAS ENDING HIS SERVICE AT A VOLUNTEER ORGANIZATION. AND THAT REALLY STRUCK ME BECAUSE ALL MY LIFE I LOVE MY GRANDPARENTS. I'M SORRY FOR ALL Y'ALL THAT YOU DID NOT HAVE MY GRANDPARENTS BECAUSE YOU'VE MISSED OUT. THEY WERE THE MOST INCREDIBLE PEOPLE IN THE WORLD, AND THEY'RE ALWAYS THE PEOPLE THAT IF I HAD TO EMULATE, I WANTED TO BE LIKE THEM. MY GRANDFATHER, HE WAS MUCH MORE PATIENT THAN ME, BUT HE WAS ALWAYS A LEADER. HE RETIRED EARLY AND THEN JUST PUT HIS HEART INTO SERVICE. AND HE WAS ALWAYS THE PRESIDENT OF THE MOOSE LODGE, AND HE WAS JUST GOOD WITH PEOPLE AND GOOD AT HELPING SERVE THE COMMUNITY. MY GRANDMOTHER WAS ALSO A VOLUNTEER, BUT SHE WAS FEISTY AND SHE WOULD ALWAYS SPEAK UP FOR WHAT SHE BELIEVED IN, EVEN WHEN THE PEOPLE AROUND HER DIDN'T. AND SHE GOT STUFF DONE AND TOGETHER THEY WERE AMAZING. AND I FEEL LIKE HAVING THAT REMINDER TONIGHT ON PHOTOS, IT'S IT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE NEON SIGNS. IT'S LIKE, ALL RIGHT, CHRISTINE, YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING. THIS IS WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. NOW, IT'S BEEN AN HONOR TO SERVE YOU ALL. I. I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED I'D BE HERE. IT'S STILL WEIRD. IT'S NEVER GOTTEN. NOT WEIRD. I. I DIDN'T REALLY EXPECT A WHOLE LOT OF OUTREACH WHEN I SAID I WAS MOVING. I FIGURE THINGS ARE COOL AND WE'RE WE'RE SET. AND I DON'T THINK ANYBODY WOULD REALLY NOTICE THAT MUCH. RIGHT. SO I'VE BEEN REALLY TOUCHED BY THE OUTPOURING FROM THE PUBLIC AND, AND HEARING ABOUT HOW THINGS THAT I THOUGHT WERE SMALL REALLY MATTERED, BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MATTERS UP HERE. THOSE ARE ALWAYS MY FAVORITE STORIES, IS WHEN WE CHANGED SOMEBODY'S LIFE. BUT ALL OF YOU ARE REACHING OUT AND TALKING ABOUT HOW I IMPACTED YOU, AND IT BLOWS MY MIND BECAUSE YOU ALL IMPACTED ME. YOUR BELIEF IN ME BUILT UP MY CONFIDENCE, AND THAT CONFIDENCE GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO LEAVE A TOXIC AND ABUSIVE RELATIONSHIP TO FIND MY BEST LIFE. AND THREE YEARS LATER, IT GAVE ME THE COURAGE TO TALK TO A SWEET, HANDSOME MAN WHO LOVES ME MORE THAN ANYBODY AND MORE THAN I EVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE. IT CHANGED NOT JUST MY POLITICAL LIFE, MY PERSONAL LIFE AND WHO I AM, AND I WILL FOREVER BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT. MY TIME AS A COUNCIL MEMBER WAS INTERESTING AND NOT SOMETHING I WOULD EVER WANT TO

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LIVE THROUGH AGAIN. BUT JUST LIKE THE CITY, I'M BETTER FOR SURVIVING THE HARD TIMES. BEING YOUR MAYOR HAS BEEN A RIDICULOUS HONOR AND SOMETHING I NEVER COULD HAVE IMAGINED.

THERE ARE DAYS THAT I JUST THINK, HOW THE HECK DID I GET HERE? I CAME TO A CITY STAFF AND COUNCIL THAT WAS DIVIDED AND BROKEN. WHEN I BECAME MAYOR. MY ALWAYS SUPPORTIVE KIDS WERE SAD ON MY SWEARING IN THAT I DIDN'T BRING THEM UP WITH ME, LIKE HOW WE NORMALLY HAVE OUR FAMILY. WHEN I BECAME MAYOR, I BROUGHT UP OUR REPUBLICAN COUNTY JUDGE, OUR DEMOCRAT HOUSE REPRESENTATIVE, AND I INVITED ALL PREVIOUS MAYORS TO JOIN ME, TWO OF WHICH DID. MR. COLEMAN IS HERE TONIGHT. HE WAS ONE OF THOSE. THE POINT WAS TO DEMONSTRATE TO THE ENTIRE CITY THAT IT DID NOT MATTER WHAT SIDE YOU'RE ON, WHAT YOU BELIEVE IN. WE ARE ONE, LEANDER.

WE ARE A TEAM AND WE'RE GOING TO MAKE IT WORK. MY MANTRA WAS SIMPLE. WE WILL NOT BE THAT COUNCIL. I MAINTAINED A ZERO TOLERANCE POLICY FOR ANY AGGRESSIVENESS TOWARDS STAFF FROM THE DAIS, AND I REMAINED CALM WHENEVER THAT AGGRESSIVENESS CAME MY WAY. MY BELIEF HAS ALWAYS BEEN THAT WE LEAVE OUR OUTER WORLD OFF OF THE DAIS, AND EVERY MEETING WE DO, EVERY CITY COUNCIL BEFORE US, HAS DONE. WE MAKE THE BEST DECISIONS WITH THE INFORMATION THAT WE HAVE AT THE TIME. I AM SO INCREDIBLY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE HERE. WE ARE FUNCTIONAL AS BOTH A CITY AND AS A COUNCIL. I'M SORRY WE ARE SO FUNCTIONAL THAT WE HAVE BECOME THE MODEL OF WHAT A CITY COUNCIL SHOULD BE. ON THE DAIS. I HAD A GREAT CONVERSATION WITH SOMEBODY A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, WHO WAS REPRESENTING A DEVELOPMENT THAT WAS COMING IN FRONT OF US, AND THIS PERSON WAS A MAYOR IN A SIMILAR SIZED PEER CITY FOR, I THINK HE SAID 12 YEARS. AND HE IS TALKING ABOUT HOW, YOU KNOW, OUR MEETING RAN SO WELL AND WE ALL HAD GOOD INPUT AND AND HE JUST SORT OF SAYS OFF HANDED, YOU KNOW, HE GOES, YEAH, I NEVER HAD THAT. BUT YOU DON'T HAVE TO DEAL WITH THAT. I HAD A DIVIDED COUNCIL AND I LAUGHED OUT LOUD BECAUSE THIS HAS BEEN SO INTENTIONAL. WE WE WERE THE COUNCIL. THAT WAS AN EMBARRASSMENT. AND NOW OTHER COUNCILS MAKE COMMENTS THAT THEY'RE LOOKING TO US OF HOW TO DO THINGS. A HUGE, HUGE REASON BEHIND OUR SUCCESS AS A CITY HAS BEEN THE WAY THAT WE TREAT EACH OTHER, AND THE WAY THAT WE DO THINGS UP ON THIS DAIS. I HAD ALWAYS HEARD THAT DEVELOPERS WATCH COUNCIL MEETINGS BEFORE THEY DECIDE TO BUILD, AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS AN OLD WIVES TALE. IT WAS JUST A LIE, BECAUSE WHY WOULD THEY DO THAT? THEY HAVE MORE IMPORTANT THINGS TO DO. IT'S JUST ECONOMICS. BUT I WILL TELL YOU THAT SOME OF THE BIGGEST, MOST IMPORTANT PROJECTS TO COME TO THE CITY IN THE LAST THREE YEARS HAVE REACHED OUT AND TOLD ME DIRECTLY AND WITH SPECIFICITY ABOUT WHAT THEY SAW WATCHING OUR MEETINGS AND HOW THAT BECAME A DECIDING FACTOR. DO NOT LOSE THAT MOMENTUM. I'M TELLING YOU THIS BECAUSE SOME OF YOU ARE STILL VERY NEW. YOU WEREN'T HERE DURING THE DYSFUNCTIONAL YEARS. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW PRECIOUS AND DELICATE THIS IS, NOR DO YOU REALIZE THE IMPORTANCE. I REALIZE THAT MY ABSENCE LEAVES AN OPPORTUNITY FOR NEW LEADERSHIP, AND CREATES A DISRUPTION IN THE BALANCE THAT WE'VE ALL HAD UP HERE. SO I WANT YOU TO BEAR WITH ME WHILE I TELL A STORY. ONE OF MY KIDDOS LOVES ZOOS. EVERYWHERE WE GO, WE GO TO THE ZOO. WE'VE PROBABLY BEEN 200 TIMES EASILY TO VARIOUS ZOOS, AND WE WERE AT ONE SEVERAL YEARS AGO AND WE WENT TO GO SEE THE MEERKATS, AND WE SAW THIS SIGN THAT IS UP ON THE SCREEN. OUR MEERKATS ARE UNDERGOING A SHIFT IN HIERARCHY.

YOU MAY NOTICE BITE WOUNDS AND ABRASIONS. THESE LOOK BAD BUT ARE ACTUALLY QUITE SUPERFICIAL.

WE ARE MONITORING THEM CLOSELY. THIS IS A NORMAL PART OF MEERKAT SOCIETY. INDIVIDUALS SOMETIMES FIGHT FOR THE DOMINANT POSITION IN THE GROUP. IF THAT DOESN'T DESCRIBE LOCAL POLITICS, NOTHING DOES, RIGHT? I DON'T WANT YOU ALL TO BE MEERKATS. REMEMBER THAT THE SUCCESS THAT HAS CREATED OUR ABILITY TO HIRE TOP NOTCH STAFF HAS GIVEN BUSINESSES OF ALL SIZES AND INDUSTRIES CONFIDENCE TO BE HERE, AND THAT HAS MADE US. U.S. NEWS AND WORLD REPORT'S NUMBER EIGHT BEST PLACE TO LIVE. NUMBER THREE IN TEXAS. THANK YOU. AND IT IS BECAUSE WE ARE ONE LEANDER. WE ARE UNITED. WE ARE WORKING TOGETHER FOR THE BEST OF THE ENTIRE CITY. EVERY RESIDENT MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS ARE NONPARTISAN, AND IT IS THAT WAY FOR A REASON. DELIVERING WATER IS NOT DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. SAFE ROADWAYS ARE NOT DEMOCRAT OR REPUBLICAN. AND EVERYONE I'VE WORKED WITH, NO MATTER WHAT SIDE OF THE POLITICAL AISLE, HAS BEEN UNITED IN SUPPORTING FIRST RESPONDERS, KEEPING TAXES LOW, AND BEING BUSINESS FRIENDLY AT THE LOCAL LEVEL. NONE OF THESE THINGS BELONG TO A PARTY. MY ADVICE

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FOR BOTH COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS IS TO NOT LET NOISE CONVINCE YOU OTHERWISE. EACH OF YOU IS SPECIAL AND HAS SOMETHING IMPORTANT TO OFFER. THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG. YOUR YOUR ENTHUSIASM IS INFECTIOUS. I LOVE YOUR DESIRE TO LEARN AND THE THOUGHT PROCESS THAT YOU BRING TO DECISIONS. I HAVE NO DOUBT THAT YOU WILL CONTINUE TO GROW AND BE A PHENOMENAL COUNCIL MEMBER. COUNCIL MEMBER HERRERA, I WASN'T SURE WHAT TO MAKE OF YOU AT FIRST, BUT I HAVE SEEN YOU GROW AS A COUNCIL MEMBER AND I BELIEVE YOU AS WELL WILL BE A STRONG ASSET TO COUNCIL AS YOU CONTINUE TO LEARN. I APPRECIATE YOUR ABILITY TO TAKE IN NEW INFORMATION AND I ADMIRE HOW YOU JUST MEET PEOPLE EVERYWHERE. IT'S LIKE YOU'RE LIKE A MAGNET.

COUNCIL MEMBER. MCDONALD I ALSO DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO MAKE OF YOU AT FIRST, BUT I HAVE ENJOYED OUR TIME WORKING TOGETHER. YOU'VE BEEN A GREAT HELP DEALING WITH ISSUES LIKE TRAFFIC SAFETY AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. I HAVE NO DOUBT YOU'LL BE MISSED UP HERE, BUT I AM EXCITED FOR WHAT YOU'VE BEEN CALLED TO DO AND I WISH YOU LUCK. COUNCIL MEMBER ROSS, I KNOW YOU'RE WATCHING SOMEWHERE. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME TWIST YOUR ARM TO RUN IN 2021. I'VE NEVER REGRETTED THAT AND I HOPE THAT YOU DON'T EITHER. THE WORK YOU'VE DONE WITH CAPMETRO IS THE SINGLE BIGGEST FINANCIAL ACCOMPLISHMENT I KNOW OF FROM ANY COUNCIL MEMBER, PAST OR PRESENT. THANK YOU FOR ALL OF YOUR WORK, AND I'M GLAD THAT YOU'LL BE HERE TO HELP GUIDE SOME OF OUR NEWER COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBER NADINE, THANK YOU FOR STEPPING UP TO SERVE. I APPRECIATE THE WAY YOU LOOK AT ISSUES FROM ALL SIDES, INCLUDING A BIT OF DEVIL'S ADVOCATE. IT'S ALWAYS GREAT TO HAVE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO ARE INTERESTED IN THE NUANCES OF ISSUES, AND THIS WILL ALSO HELP YOU GROW INTO A STRONG COUNCIL MEMBER. MAYOR PRO TEM THOMPSON, THANK YOU FOR FOR ALWAYS BEING THERE TO BACK ME UP. WHETHER IT'S SOMETHING THAT I GIVE YOU NOTICE OF OR IF I WAKE UP WITH A MIGRAINE TWO HOURS BEFORE I'M SUPPOSED TO GIVE A PRESENTATION, AND YOU HAVE TO ANSWER ALL THE QUESTIONS JUST RANDOMLY, YOU DID GREAT. I APPRECIATE YOUR REASONING, YOUR ABILITY TO BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER AND TO PUSH FOR COMMON SENSE. AND THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF TIMES THAT I'VE SAT UP HERE, ALSO IN OUR MEETING THE OTHER DAY, TRYING TO FORMULATE A VERY TOUGH, CRITICAL QUESTION IN A WAY THAT IS NOT ACCUSATORY. AND WHILE I'M SITTING HERE TRYING TO THINK IT THROUGH, PRO TEM THOMPSON JUST SAYS IT AND YOU SAY IT IN THIS VERY NATURAL WAY THAT IS NOT ACCUSATORY OR MAKES PEOPLE DEFENSIVE AT ALL. AND I ADMIRE THAT SO MUCH. AND I'VE TRIED TO WORK ON THAT SITTING NEXT TO YOU FOR FOUR YEARS, AND YOU'RE JUST WAY BETTER AT IT THAN I AM. I KNOW YOU'LL CONTINUE TO DO A WONDERFUL JOB FOR OUR RESIDENTS, AND BRINGING POSITIVE CHANGE TO OUR CITY STAFF. YOU ALL ARE INCREDIBLE.

WE ARE SMALL, BUT WE ARE MIGHTY. IT ALWAYS FEELS RIDICULOUS FOR ALL OF THE CREDIT THAT WE GET UP HERE, BECAUSE WE WE JUST THINK OF THINGS. WE THINK OF THINGS. WE WIN POPULARITY CONTESTS AND WE SAY, YEAH, WE SHOULD DO THIS. BUT THE REAL WORK HAPPENS WITH ALL OF YOU AND IT DOES NOT GO UNNOTICED. ALL OF THE HOURS AND EFFORT AND STRESS THAT GOES INTO IMPLEMENTING THE WHIMS THAT WE HAVE UP HERE. WE ARE A BETTER CITY FOR ALL OF YOUR HARD WORK AND AND WE JUST APPRECIATE YOU SO VERY MUCH. TO MY FAMILY, WHO I DON'T TALK ABOUT MUCH. THANK YOU FOR ALWAYS BEING SUPPORTIVE, EVEN ON THE HARD DAYS. EVEN ON THE DAYS I'M NOT HOME, EVEN ON THE DAYS I'M HOME AND I BRING ALL OF THIS HOME WITH ME. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING THE LONG NIGHTS, THE BUSY WEEKENDS, AND THE INABILITY TO WALK THROUGH HEB WITHOUT CONVERSATIONS WITH MULTIPLE PEOPLE. I WILL ALWAYS BE SORRY FOR THE MOMENTS I'VE MISSED, BUT I VOW TO YOU THAT I WILL NEVER BE THAT PERSON AGAIN. JUST AS I WAS INTENTIONAL WITH COUNCIL, I WILL BE INTENTIONAL WITH YOU AND OUR PRECIOUS TIME TOGETHER. I WILL ALSO ALWAYS BE THANKFUL FOR THE WONDERFULLY WEIRD STORIES YOU ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE OF GROWING UP WITH YOUR YOUR MOM. AS THE MAYOR, WE HAVE HAD A LOT OF FUN. MY TWO OLDEST. THEIR FIRST EXPERIENCE DRIVING WAS A GOLF CART PUTTING ME THROUGH A PARADE THAT'S NOT NORMAL. AND THEN MY YOUNGER ONE A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, BLESS THEIR TEACHER, THEY HAD A BRAND NEW TEACHER FIRST YEAR AND AND IT'S LIKE THE FIRST WEEK AND MY KID GOES, MY MOM'S THE MAYOR. AND THEN THIS OTHER KID, THEIR FRIEND GOES, MY MOM'S ON THE SCHOOL BOARD. AND THAT POOR TEACHER, SHE DID GREAT. BUT IT'S IT'S INTERESTING TO ALL MY FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR BELIEVING IN ME. THANK YOU FOR GIVING ME THE

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COURAGE TO KEEP GOING. THANK YOU FOR UNDERSTANDING WHEN I DON'T HAVE TIME TO BE THE KIND OF FRIEND YOU DESERVE. YOU ARE ALL EMBLAZONED ON MY HEART AND I'M SO GLAD TO HAVE YOU IN MY LIFE. TO OUR RESIDENTS AND TO COUNCIL, I HAVE A WHOLE LIST OF THINGS THAT I'VE BEEN WORKING ON, WHETHER IT'S RIGHT HERE, JUST A THOUGHT OR IT'S SKETCHED OUT. I HAVE THINGS AND I'LL BE SENDING A LIST. AND TODD, I CAN SAY ANYTHING I WANT TO YOU NOW, LIKE THERE'S NO CONSTRAINTS, SO I'M SURE YOU'LL HEAR FROM ME, BUT I HOPE THAT OUR RESIDENTS WILL STAY ENGAGED, AND I HOPE THAT COUNCIL AND RESIDENTS WILL MAYBE FIND SOME THINGS THAT THEY LIKE, INCLUDING UPDATES TO THE LANDSCAPING, LANDSCAPING AND TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCES THAT OFFER OPTIONS AND INCENTIVES FOR THIRD PLACES AND PUBLIC ART. A REBRAND OF OLD TOWN TO THE OLD TOWN ARTS DISTRICT, A RECOGNITION PROGRAM TO DEMONSTRATE SUPPORT FOR BUSINESSES THAT HAVE INVESTED IN US FOR MANY YEARS. LEANDER LOYAL MAYBE A PRINTED NEWSLETTER VERSION OF THE STATE OF THE CITY REACHING EVERY RESIDENT WITH INFORMATION WE WANT THEM TO KNOW. A DUCK CROSSING SIGN ON SUNNY DRIVE. TODD A REQUIREMENT THAT PHASE ONE OF CONSTRUCTION MUST INCLUDE TWO ACCESS POINTS BEFORE CEOS ARE ISSUED, AND SPECIFIC DAYS IN THE YEAR DEDICATED TO STAFF TRAINING AND TEAM BUILDING. I SAID IN OUR RETREAT LAST YEAR THAT I'VE ALWAYS KIND OF THOUGHT IF IF WE WERE TO TRY AND SET A WORLD RECORD, I WOULD WANT US TO BE THE FRIENDLIEST CITY. WHICH SEEMS KIND OF CHEESY, BUT IT'S FANTASTIC AND IT MAKES SENSE AND IT'S ALWAYS WHAT I HAVE TRIED TO LIVE WHILE I'VE BEEN HERE, AND I HOPE THAT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DO. I ALWAYS THINK LEANDER IS SO FAST GROWING THAT ALMOST NOBODY IS FROM HERE. THAT MEANS PEOPLE ARE MOVING HERE FROM SOMEWHERE ELSE EVERY DAY. THAT MEANS WE ARE WELCOMING. WE ARE THAT ONE LEANDER THAT WELCOMES YOU IN. AND SO IT'S EASY TO BE THE FRIENDLY CITY OR TO BE THE KIND CITY. AND SO I HOPE YOU ALL WILL CONTINUE WITH THAT. I AM SO VERY PROUD OF THE WORK THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE LAST 2709 DAYS. I'VE BEEN UP HERE, AND I AM SO VERY EXCITED FOR THE THINGS WE ALL KNOW ARE GOING TO BE ANNOUNCED IN THE NOT TOO DISTANT FUTURE. AND I THINK YOU ALL HAVE A GREAT FOUNDATION RIGHT NOW, AND I CANNOT WAIT FOR ALL OF THE FUN AND EXCITING THINGS THAT THAT WE KNOW ARE ABOUT TO HAPPEN. THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL THE SUPPORT.

YES, YES. NOT ONLY ON THIS SIDE OF ME. OKAY, OKAY. THAT'S GOOD. OKAY.

OKAY, GOOD. ALL RIGHT. I'M GONNA GIVE ONE QUICK LITTLE FUN STORY BEFORE WE GET BACK TO THINGS. I HAVE ZERO DEPTH PERCEPTION WHATSOEVER. AND SO WHEN I STAND IN THE CENTER ON THE PHOTOS, IT'S ACTUALLY KIND OF GOOD. IF YOU LOOK BACK AT MY FIRST THREE YEARS ON COUNCIL, I TRIED TO STAY ON THE SIDE. AND SO ALL OF THEM, I'M THIS FAR APART FROM EVERYBODY. SO THANK YOU ALL FOR SQUEEZING IN AND TAKING CARE OF THAT FOR ME. COUNCIL, THE TIME IS 7:54 P.M.

I THINK THIS IS A GOOD TIME TO TAKE A FIVE ALL RIGHT. WE ARE GO RECONVENE AT 8:09 P.M. ITEM

[7. Public comments on items not listed in the agenda.

Public comments on items listed in the agenda will be heard at the time each item is discussed.

[All comments are limited to no more than 3 minutes (6 minutes if translation is needed) per individual.]]

NUMBER SEVEN, NON AGENDA ITEM, PUBLIC COMMENTS. FOR ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED ON THE AGENDA, I WILL CALL ON SPEAKERS PRIOR TO THE DISCUSSION OF THAT AGENDA ITEM. AND DURING THE PUBLIC HEARING. INDIVIDUALS THAT SUBMITTED COMMENTS VIA THE WEBSITE HAVE HAD THEIR COMMENTS SENT TO THE COUNCIL IN ADVANCE. IT IS IMPORTANT TO NOTE THAT PUBLIC COMMENTS IS A TIME FOR YOU TO ADDRESS. COUNCIL IS NOT A TIME THAT WE CAN HAVE A BACK AND FORTH DIALOG WITH THAT. I HAVE ONE PERSON SIGNED UP TO SPEAK MIKE SANDERS. GOOD EVENING, MR. SANDERS. PLEASE GIVE YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS. YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS MIKE SANDERS. I LIVE ON SOUTH STREET HERE IN LEANDER. AND JUST WANT

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TO SPEAK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE THE UPCOMING ELECTION. I AM ON THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OF THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY, AND JUST WANT TO MENTION THAT THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY HAS ENDORSED ONE OF THE CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR THIS POSITION AS COUNCIL MEMBER, AND THAT'S ANNA YELLEN. SHE'S ALSO BEEN ENDORSED BY THE TRAVIS COUNTY REPUBLICAN PARTY.

AND SOME FOLKS MIGHT SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, BEING ON THE CITY COUNCIL IS NONPARTISAN. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU'RE IN, BUT IT DOES. IT MATTERS A LOT. THE FOLKS IN, IN, IN THE CITY OF AUSTIN ARE WELL AWARE OF THAT. SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT IF YOU IF YOU IF YOU'RE A CHAMELEON, OF COURSE IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PARTY YOU ASSOCIATE WITH, BUT IF YOU HAVE A PERSON OF CONVICTION, IT CERTAINLY MATTERS IF YOU BELIEVE THAT AMERICA IS A GREAT NATION, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE RIGHT. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT AMERICA IS A TERRIBLE NATION, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE LEFT. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD SHOULD NOT OVERTAX THE CITIZENS, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE RIGHT. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT GOVERNMENT SHOULD MAXIMIZE THE AMOUNT OF TAXES WITHHELD FROM CITIZENS, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE LEFT. IF YOU BELIEVE IN STRONG PUBLIC SAFETY, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE RIGHT. IF YOU BELIEVE IN DEFUNDING THE POLICE. THAT ALWAYS HAPPENS IN CITIES THAT ARE GOVERNED BY FOLKS WHO TEND TOWARDS THE LEFT. IF YOU BELIEVE THAT CHILDREN SHOULD BE SEXUALIZED, WELL, SHOULD SHOULD EXCUSE ME, SHOULD BE SEXUALIZED, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE LEFT. AND IF YOU BELIEVE THAT NO ADULT SHOULD BE TALKING TO YOUR CHILDREN ABOUT SEX, WELL, YOU TEND TOWARDS THE RIGHT. SO THERE'S A VERY DISTINCT DIFFERENCE BETWEEN IDEOLOGIES. AND IT MAKES A DIFFERENCE WHEN OUR CITY COUNCIL IS GOVERNED BY FOLKS WHO TEND TOWARDS THE RIGHT OR TEND TOWARDS THE LEFT. RECENTLY, WELL, JUST A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, THE CITY COUNCIL THERE IN AUSTIN HELD, YOU KNOW, HELD AN ELECTION TO RAISE THEIR TAXES BY 25%. WELL, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO THE FOLKS THAT LIVE IN AUSTIN. AND IF THAT WASN'T ENOUGH, NOW THEY'RE HAVING ANOTHER ELECTION TO RAISE THEIR TAXES BY ANOTHER 20%. SO IT MAKES A VERY BIG DIFFERENCE. AND ANNA YELLEN IS A CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN. SHE'S THE ONLY CONSERVATIVE REPUBLICAN RUNNING IN THIS RACE. THE ONLY PERSON WHO HAS EVER VOTED FOR IN A REPUBLICAN PRIMARY, THE ONLY CANDIDATE IN THIS RACE WHO, WHO HAS EVER WENT OUT AND CAMPAIGNED FOR FOR REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES. SO WE'RE VERY PROUD, THOSE OF US WHO ARE IN THE WILLIAMSON COUNTY EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, THE REPUBLICAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, WE'RE VERY PROUD TO SUPPORT ANNA YELLEN. AND I WANT TO FINISH OFF WITH THIS. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS UPCOMING ELECTION, YOU CAN LOOK AT WILCO, TX.GOV ELECTIONS. IF YOU LIVE IN WILLIAMSON COUNTY, PARTS OF LEANDER ARE IN TRAVIS COUNTY. AND IF YOU LIVE IN TRAVIS COUNTY, YOU CAN GO TO TRAVIS.GOV. EARLY VOTING BEGINS ON MONDAY, OCTOBER THE 20TH, JUST A FEW DAYS FROM NOW, AND ELECTION DAY IS NOVEMBER THE 4TH. HAVE A GREAT EVENING.

THANK YOU. THERE'S NOBODY ELSE SIGNED UP FOR NON AGENDA ITEM PUBLIC COMMENTS. WAS THERE

[8. Recognitions/Proclamations/Visitors.

Proclamation recognizing October 21, 2025 as Unplug Texas Day

]

ANYBODY ELSE ELSE WHO WISH TO SPEAK. ALL RIGHT MOVING ON TO ITEM EIGHT RECOGNITION RECOGNITIONS PROCLAMATIONS AND VISITORS. WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING OCTOBER 21ST, 2025 AS UNPLUGGED TEXAS DAY. COUNCILMEMBER MCDONALD. THANK YOU MAYOR. AND I'M GUESSING ABOUT 30 OR 40 YEARS AGO, THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO DO THESE PROCLAMATIONS, BUT HERE WE GO. WHEREAS UNPLUGGED TEXAS DAY WAS CREATED BY THE TEXAS RECREATION AND PARKS SOCIETY TRAPS AND ADOPTED BY THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE THROUGH SENATE BILL 2232, AUTHORED BY SENATOR ADAM HINOJOSA AND SPONSORED BY REPRESENTATIVE BEN BARNES BUMGARDNER. AND WHEREAS UNPLUGGED TEXAS DAY ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS TO DISCONNECT FROM DIGITAL DEVICES AND ENGAGE IN OUTDOOR PLAY, RECREATION, AND COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES OFFERED BY LOCAL PARKS AND RECREATION AGENCIES. AND WHEREAS, ON AVERAGE, AMERICANS SPEND OVER SEVEN HOURS PER DAY IN FRONT OF SCREENS, CONTRIBUTING TO RISING RATES AND INACTIVITY, POOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SLEEP DISRUPTION. AND WHEREAS, PARKS AND RECREATION FACILITIES SUCH AS TRAILS, OPEN SPACES, POOLS AND RECREATION CENTERS PROVIDE SAFE AND ACCESSIBLE PLACES FOR PEOPLE OF ALL AGES TO UNPLUG, BE ACTIVE AND CONNECT WITH, MATURE AND WITH NATURE AND ONE ANOTHER. AND WHEREAS RESEARCH SHOWS THAT TIME SPENT OUTDOORS IMPROVES MENTAL CLARITY, REDUCES STRESS, INCREASES PHYSICAL ACTIVITY, AND FOSTERS STRONG COMMUNITY BONDS. AND WHEREAS, THE CITY OF LEANDER VALUES THE VITAL ROLE THAT PARKS AND RECREATION PLAYS AND ENHANCING QUALITY OF LIFE, HEALTH AND COMMUNITY CONNECTION. AND WHEREAS, THE CITY ENCOURAGES RESIDENTS TO PARTICIPATE IN UNPLUGGED TEXAS DAY BY VISITING LOCAL PARKS, ENGAGING IN SCREEN FREE PLAY AND SCREEN FREE PLAY FOR ANY KIDS OUT THERE, AND ENJOYING RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS. NOW THEREFORE, I, CHRISTINE DELISLE, MAYOR OF THE CITY OF LEANDER, DO HEREBY PROCLAIM OCTOBER 21ST, 2025 AS UNPLUGGED TEXAS DAY IN THE CITY OF

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LEANDER AND ENCOURAGE ALL RESIDENTS TO CELEBRATE BY UNPLUGGING FROM TECHNOLOGY AND PLUGGING INTO TEXAS ABUNDANCE PARKS, TRAILS AND RECREATION OPPORTUNITIES AND WITNESS THEREOF. I HAVE HEREUNTO SET MY HAND AND CAUSE THE SEAL OF THE CITY TO BE AFFIXED ON OCTOBER 16TH, 2025. PARKS DIRECTOR BOYLE, DO YOU HAVE COMMENTS? THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THE PROCLAMATION. WE APPRECIATE IT. AND IT'S A SPECIAL HONOR TO BE PRESENTED WITH THE PROCLAMATION ON YOUR FINAL MEETING DATE. MAYOR, WE DO HAVE AN EXCITING EVENT PLANNED FOR GOOD OUTDOOR OR UNPLUGGED DAY NEXT TUESDAY.

THERE'S THE WONDERFUL FLIER THAT TONY HAD CREATED. WE WILL HAVE LIVE MUSIC. WE WILL HAVE FREE HOT DOGS WE'RE GIVING AWAY. WE HAVE YARD GAMES AND ACTIVITIES, AND IT'S AT ROBIN BLEDSOE PARK FROM 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M. AND IT'S FREE FOR THE COMMUNITY. AND WE ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO GET OUTDOORS, UNPLUG AND PLAY WITH US. THANK YOU. THANKS. I BELIEVE WE'RE DOING A PHOTO. ALL RIGHT. I SHOULD PROVIDE PROPS.

READY. GOOD. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. NO. ALL RIGHT. MOVING ON TO ITEM

[9. Leander History including historical photographs from the Bryson collection of Leander families and significant events.]

NINE. LEANDER HISTORY, INCLUDING HISTORICAL PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BRYSON COLLECTION OF LEANDER FAMILIES AND SIGNIFICANT EVENTS WITH OUR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSIONER, MISS HOWELL. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

THANK YOU. COUNCIL. OKAY, SO I WAS TASKED WITH GOING TO BOBBY BRYSON'S HOUSE TO LOOK THROUGH HIS PHOTOS IN THE HOPE OF FINDING A PICTURE OF THE INTERIOR OF THE BRYSON HOMESTEAD. BECAUSE I FOUND OUT THAT BRYSON, BOBBY'S STEPMOTHER, HAD A BEAUTY PARLOR THERE, AND MY HOPE WAS TO FIND A PICTURE OF THE FIREPLACE. I GOT PICTURES OF ALL THREE WALLS IN THAT ROOM, BUT NOT THE FIREPLACE. BUT WHILE I WAS GOING THROUGH THOSE PICTURES, I THOUGHT I WOULD SHARE SOME OF THOSE WITH YOU AND I. THERE IS ONE CAVEAT HERE. BOBBY'S SON, STEVE IS WHO HAD THE MAJORITY OF THE PICTURES AND HIS HOUSE BURNED TO THE GROUND A FEW YEARS AGO, SO THE MAJORITY OF THE BRYSON COLLECTION, THE BRYSON PICTURES, BURNED, BUT THERE WERE A FEW THAT HIS MOTHER AND PAT SAVED. AND THAT'S WHAT'S HERE. I DO WANT TO SHOW THIS PICTURE HERE. I'M NOT SURE IF I'VE SHOWED THIS ONE IN PARTICULAR OR NOT BEFORE, BUT I DO WANT TO POINT OUT THAT, OOPS, WRONG BUTTON THE KIDDOS UP FRONT. IF YOU NOTICE THEY'RE NOT WEARING SHOES. IN THAT ERA, IT WAS VERY RARE FOR CHILDREN TO HAVE SHOES, BUT THEY ARE WEARING THEIR NICE SUNDAY GO TO CHURCH CLOTHES, BUT VERY FEW OF THEM HAVE SHOES. UP UNTIL ABOUT WORLD WAR TWO, IT MOST PEOPLE AROUND HERE THE YOUNGSTERS DID NOT HAVE SHOES AND YOU COULD CAN ALMOST GUARANTEE THAT THE OLDER KIDS IN THE BACK DO NOT HAVE SHOES BECAUSE. EVERYONE GETS THE HAND-ME-DOWNS. SO THE THE YOUNGER KIDS, THOSE SHOES WERE THE HAND-ME-DOWNS FROM THEIR OLDER SIBLINGS. ON THE LEFT IS JC AND NANCY BRYSON AND I. THESE PICTURES ARE RAW. I JUST SCAN THEM. I DID NOT HAVE ANY TOUCH UP ON THEM, AND I DO NOT KNOW WHERE THAT HOUSE IS, BUT IT IS NOT FROM THEIR HOME. THEY ARE. WHO BUILT THE BRYSON HOMESTEADS AND THAT IS. I DO NOT KNOW WHAT HOME THAT IS, BUT THAT IS NOT THEIR HOME. BUT THAT IS A VERY FORMAL PICTURE IN. IT'S THE FIRST TIME THAT I'VE PERSONALLY SEEN THAT ONE. THE NEXT PICTURE OVER IS JESS

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AND MAUDE HUMBLE, AND I PUT THIS IN HERE BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN REALLY TELL THIS OR NOT. IT DOESN'T SHOW AS WELL IN THIS SIZE, BUT THAT PICTURE IS OFFSET. AND BACK THEN PICTURES WERE SO EXPENSIVE. IF YOUR PICTURE DIDN'T MAKE IT OUT PERFECT, OR IT WASN'T CENTERED OR ANY OF THAT KIND OF STUFF, YOU STILL GOT IT AND YOU STILL PAID FULL PRICE FOR IT.

SO YOU GET WHAT YOU TOOK, WHAT YOU COULD GET, AND YOU WERE VERY APPRECIATIVE OF IT BECAUSE IT WAS A RARITY AT THAT TIME. OKAY. IN THIS PICTURE HERE, I'M INCLUDING THESE HERE IN IN THE COLLECTION. THESE WERE VERY SMALL PICTURES AND I RECOGNIZED THEM IMMEDIATELY. I HAVE SEEN THESE PICTURES MULTIPLE TIMES FROM DIFFERENT THINGS IN THE AUSTIN AREA. THIS EVENT WHERE THIS JAPANESE SUBMARINE ARRIVED IN AUSTIN IN 1943, WAS ONE OF THE MOST SIGNIFICANT DAYS IN AUSTIN'S HISTORY. AT THAT TIME, WE WERE STILL AT WAR WITH THE JAPANESE, AND THIS WAS A CAPTURED SUBMARINE THAT DID NOT KILL ANYONE, AND THEY WERE USING IT AS PROPAGANDA TO GO AROUND FOR THE WAR EFFORT. BUT I HAVE SEEN PICTURES FROM ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE, AND IT WAS A SIGNIFICANT, SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH EVENT THAT BOBBY'S MOTHER WENT AND TOOK THESE PICTURES FROM BOTH SIDES. THIS WAS AN INTERESTING PICTURE FOR ME. IT'S THE MCBRIDE FAMILY, AND IF Y'ALL CAN EVER GO UP TO BAGHDAD CEMETERY, THERE'S MCBRIDE'S ALL OVER, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A LOT OF CHILDREN THERE. AND INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, I SHOW THE BACK OF THE PICTURE BECAUSE THIS IS WHEN I WAS GOING THROUGH THE PICTURES. THIS IS WHERE I STARTED THINKING AND REALIZING WHAT WAS GOING ON THE TOP AND WHERE IT SAYS MCBRIDE FAMILY. THAT'S PAT BRYSON'S HANDWRITING. THE NAMES. THAT IS BOBBY'S MOTHER'S HANDWRITING. THE TWO AT THE BOTTOM IS MY MOTHER'S HANDWRITING, AND A LITTLE FURTHER ALONG I FOUND THE FOLDER WHERE IT WAS. MY MOTHER HAD THE BRYSON FOLDER OF HER PICTURES FROM THE BRYSON'S, AND I FOUND THAT FOLDER IN THIS BOX, SO I WAS LITERALLY GOING BACK THROUGH AND DOING THE EXACT SAME THING THAT MY MOTHER DID YEARS AGO. I WISH I HAD KNOWN THAT BEFORE. THIS IS THE COLORADO WHEN IT WAS STILL A RIVER. NOT IT WASN'T DAMMED IN AND YOU CAN SEE AT DIFFERENT TIMES YOU CAN SEE THE LIMESTONE THERE, HOW THERE'S VERY LITTLE GROWTH THERE. THAT MEANS THAT THERE WAS WATER WHEN IT WAS STILL THE RIVER. SO THE RIVER WOULD FLOOD VERY MUCH VERY HIGH.

AND, AND, AND THIS IS OVER CLOSER TO THE LAGO VISTA AREA. JONESTOWN AREA. OVER ON THE RIGHT IS THE SHEEP SHEARING. BOBBY'S GRANDFATHER INVENTED THAT MACHINE. AND THOSE ARE THE SHEEP. AND THAT IS WHAT THE BRYSON FARMSTEAD WAS. IT WAS A ACTUAL THEY DID SHEEP AND GOATS THERE, AND THEY WOULD HAVE THE SHEEP SHEARING DAYS, AND THEY WOULD BRING IN THIS BIG RIG, AND THEN THE YOUNG MEN WOULD COME AND SHEAR THE SHEEP ALL AT ONE TIME OVER THERE. AND BOBBY SAID THAT THIS WAS JUST A WONDERFUL DAY WHEN THEY ALL DID THAT. I CAN REMEMBER THE SHEEP SHEARING DAYS WHEN I WAS YOUNG, AND I WILL TELL YOU, IT IS A HARD, HARD DAY AND YOU NOTICE THE OLD MEN ARE STANDING AROUND WATCHING THE YOUNG MEN DO ALL THE WORK. THESE WERE INTERESTING. THE THE PHOTO ON THE LEFT. I PICKED IT UP AND I SHOWED BOBBY AND I SAID, WHO IS THIS? AND HE SAID, I DON'T REMEMBER HIS NAME, BUT HE LIVED OVER ON THE EAST SIDE AND HE GAVE ME A BOWL AND IT'S HANGING UP ON MY DINING ROOM. IT'S HANGING UP ON THIS DINING ROOM WALL THERE. BUT YOU NOTICE IT SAYS ANYWHERE TEXAS. SO IT WAS ONE OF THE THE ROVING VENDORS THERE. AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT HERE IN LEANDER, BUT THEY HAD A PICTURE OF IT. AND BUT JUST LIKE LEANDER WITH THE RAILROAD TRACK AND THE TELEGRAPH LINE AND THE ANIMALS, THAT'S THAT COULD BE LEANDER. AND THEN THIS WAS THE THE DEDICATION OF WHERE WE ARE RIGHT NOW FOR PAT BRYSON. AND THAT'S PAT. AND SHE HAD WRITTEN IN THERE ON THE BACK, THESE WERE HER THESE WERE HER PHOTOS THAT SHE HAD WRITTEN ON THERE.

AND SO THAT'S WHEN THIS HALL OPENED. AND THAT IS PAT BRYSON, THE THE LADY THERE IN THE MIDDLE. IF YOU HAD NOT SEEN A PICTURE OF HER OTHER THAN THE ONE HANGING ON THE WALL. AND I

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WOULD LIKE TO SAY THAT MAYOR CHRISTINE. I KNOW THAT PAT WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF YOU, AND I KNOW THAT MY MOM WOULD BE VERY PROUD OF YOU, BECAUSE FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT DON'T KNOW, WE ARE HERE BECAUSE OF PAT BRYSON. PAT BRYSON IS THE ONE THAT THAT MANAGED TO GET US WATER. AND I KNOW I REMIND EVERYONE OF THAT EVERY CHANCE I GET, BUT IT'S THE TRUTH. AND MAYOR CHRISTINE, WE HAVE WATER AGAIN BECAUSE MAYOR CHRISTINE DID NOT GIVE UP ON IT. AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU EVERYONE. THANK YOU. I HAVE A I'VE ALWAYS WISHED A COUPLE OF THINGS ABOUT PAT BRYSON. ONE, I WISH THE PUBLIC REALIZED THAT SHE WAS A WOMAN BECAUSE A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT. AND TWO, I WISH THAT THEY HAD TAKEN THE PHOTO OF HER WHEN SHE WAS MAYOR BECAUSE SHE WAS MARRIED WHEN SHE WAS MY AGE, LIKE WE WERE BOTH THE SAME AGE WHEN WE STARTED. AND I THINK SHE SERVED A LITTLE LONGER THAN ME. AND YOU FORGET THAT. YEAH, BUT SHE'S INCREDIBLE. SHE'S BEEN AN INSPIRATION. WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TWO VERY STRONG WOMEN

[10. Staff Reports

Introduction of Trace Caraway, appointed as Information Technology Director.
Water Update including current water usage and lake levels.
Capital Improvement Project Update: Senior Center (CIP P.6) including construction update and timeline for completion.

]

RIGHT HERE. THANK YOU. OKAY. MOVING ON TO ITEM TEN. STAFF REPORTS INTRODUCTION OF TRACE CARAWAY APPOINTED AS INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR. CITY MANAGER. PARTON. YOU'RE UP.

HELLO, MAYOR. COUNCIL, IT'S MY HONOR TO INTRODUCE A MAN WHO HATES UNPLUGGED TEXAS DAY. AND THIS WOULD BE MR. CARAWAY. PLEASE COME ON UP. I DID NOT SEE THAT I DIDN'T. I'VE BEEN WORKING ON THAT ONE TRACE FOR A WHILE, SO THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT. IT'S MY PLEASURE TO PRESENT MR. CARAWAY FOR RATIFICATION. AS OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR, WE GOT TO SAY GOODBYE TO PAUL A FEW WEEKS AGO. HAVING SERVED THE CITY FOR TEN YEARS AND HAVING 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE. SO WE OWE A DEBT OF GRATITUDE. AND AND MR. CARAWAY IS COMING IN TO TAKE US TO THAT NEXT TEN, 15, 20 PLUS YEARS, I PRESUME. SO HE COMES TO US WITH 15 YEARS IN PUBLIC SECTOR AND GOVERNMENT LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE. MOST RECENTLY, HE WAS THE IT DIRECTOR FOR ACC, AND HE WAS WORKING ON EXPANDING ERP, WORKED WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO PUT A SYSTEM IN, AND SO BRINGS A TON OF EXPERIENCE TO US THAT WE NEED AS WE CONTINUE TO GROW OUR SERVICES AND MOVE FORWARD. ONE OF THE MOST EXCITING THINGS ABOUT HIS EXPERIENCE IS HE'S AN AI EXPERT. AND SO AS WE ARE LAUNCHING INTO THE NEXT GENERATION OF TECHNOLOGY, HE IS GOING TO STEP UP AND TAKE US THERE AND LEAD US INTO THE FUTURE. SO WITH THAT, I'D LIKE TO INTRODUCE MR. CARAWAY FOR RATIFICATION OF CITY DIRECTOR.

THANK YOU. THANK. SO I WOULD JUST LIKE TO SAY, APPARENTLY, MAYOR CHRISTINE, I AM EIGHT YEARS LATE FROM BEING ABLE TO RIDE ON YOUR COATTAILS. BUT FORTUNATELY, TODD CAME TO HIS SENSES TO COME BACK TO TEXAS, SO MAYBE I CAN JUST RIDE ON HIS INSTEAD. A ROLE LIKE THIS, IN TERMS OF BEING SORT OF A CHIEF TECHNOLOGY ADVISOR, HAS BEEN A CAREER ASPIRATION OF MINE. BUT THAT'S NOT THE PRIMARY REASON THAT I'M HERE. THE PRIMARY REASON REALLY IS MY DAD. AND SO I GREW UP IN A SMALL TOWN OUTSIDE OF OF KANSAS CITY, AND HE WORKED DOWNTOWN KANSAS CITY, JUST WITHIN A WALKING DISTANCE OF 18TH AND VINE. AND SO FOR THOSE OF YOU NOT AWARE OF OF KANSAS CITY, 18TH AND VINE IS THE CULTURAL CENTER AND HEART OF THE CITY. IT'S WHERE THE JAZZ AND BLUES STARTED AND ORIGINATED, AND IT'S WHERE ALL OF KANSAS CITY BARBECUE RESTAURANTS RESIDE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD. MY DAD WORKED FOR A MANUFACTURING COMPANY DOWNTOWN, AND THE MOSAIC OF THE CITY, WELL, IT REALLY WAS REPRESENTED IN THE PEOPLE THAT WORKED WITH AND FOR HIM. IN ADDITION, THE FAMILY THAT OWNED THAT COMPANY WAS THE BERKELEY FAMILY AND RICHARD BERKELEY. THROUGHOUT MY LIFE, ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, MIDDLE SCHOOL AND HIGH SCHOOL WAS THE MAYOR OF KANSAS CITY. AND SO I'VE ALWAYS HAD SORT OF AN ARM LENGTH DISTANCE IN TERMS OF SORT OF HOW A CITY RUNS AND SORT OF THE POLITICS OF THINGS. ASIDE FROM THAT, MY MY DAD, ALSO IN OUR HOMETOWN, VOLUNTEERED AS THE PARK BOARD MEMBER FOR WELL OVER A DECADE,

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TO THE EXTENT THAT WHEN HE PASSED AWAY IN 2003, THEY NAMED THE LAKE IN OUR TOWN AFTER MY DAD. MY DAD ALSO, WHEN I WAS GROWING UP, TAUGHT ME GOLF. SO AT THE LOCAL CITY GOLF COURSE AND THEN THE ONE OF THE UNFORTUNATE THINGS OR TRAGEDIES IN MY LIFE WAS WHEN I WAS A SOPHOMORE AND IN HIGH SCHOOL, AND I LOST MY SISTER TO A DRUNK DRIVER. AND SO IT'S THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I BECAME A RESERVE POLICE OFFICER. AND SO THIS, THIS IS ALL TO SAY THAT THESE ARE THE REASONS THAT I'M HERE, THAT YOU OFTEN HEAR OF, YOU KNOW, INDIVIDUALS CHASING OFFERS OR CHASING SALARIES AND THINGS OF THAT NATURE. AND IT'S REALLY ABOUT FINDING A CAREER THAT ALIGNS WITH WHO YOU ARE. AND I HAVEN'T FOUND A PLACE THAT REALLY, TRULY DID THAT UNTIL THE CITY OF LEANDER. AND SO I'M EXTREMELY EXCITED ABOUT IT. AND I REMEMBER COMING IN FOR MY SECOND INTERVIEW, WALKING INTO CITY HALL, MAKING A LEFT, BEING ESCORTED TO EDWIN'S OFFICE FOR MY SECOND INTERVIEW, AND I'M WALKING DOWN THE, THE, THE, THE HALLWAY AND THE I BELIEVE IT'S THE SECOND DOOR ON THE RIGHT. I'M WALKING AND I SEE A KANSAS CITY CHIEFS PENNANT STUCK ON THE DOOR, AND I'M LIKE, THIS. JUST THAT'S THE ICING ON THE CAKE, RIGHT? AND SO I KIND OF KNEW THEN THAT THIS THIS WAS A SPECIAL PLACE, AND IT WAS SORT OF MEANT TO BE WHEN I WALKED INTO THAT INTERVIEW, I SAT DOWN AND I COULD HAVE SAT ON A METAL CHAIR WITH PINS AND NEEDLES ON IT, AND I STILL JUST WOULD HAVE BEEN COMFORTABLE. IT WAS LIKE AN EASY CAMP FIRE CONVERSATION, AND IT JUST WENT BY SO FAST AND. I JUST LOVE THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE MET HERE, AND I HAVE HIGH EXPECTATIONS FOR EVERYONE ELSE. SO ANYWAY, I APPRECIATE YOUR TIME AND THAT'S JUST A BIT ABOUT ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU AND WELCOME ABOARD. THAT'S A FANTASTIC INTRODUCTION. WATER UPDATE, INCLUDING CURRENT WATER USAGE AND LAKE LEVELS WITH PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR CROWDER. GOOD EVENING, MR. CROWDER. I HOPE I HOPE GINA SENT YOU UP WITH HAPPY NEWS THIS TIME. YES. GOOD GOOD GOOD GOOD. YES. I WILL LEAVE YOU WITH SOME GOOD NEWS THIS TIME. NOT ALWAYS THE DOOM AND GLOOM, BUT BEFORE I GET STARTED ON EVERYTHING, WE JUST WANT TO SAY PUBLIC WORKS. THANK YOU FOR ALL THE SUPPORT. THROUGH ALL THE HARD TIMES, THE TROUBLING TIMES WE'VE BEEN THROUGH THE ROLLER COASTERS, THE WATER. WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR SUPPORT AND COUNCIL SUPPORT AS WELL. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT. SO THE WAY BACK SORRY, THE FIRST SLIDE WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO IS THE OUR SEPTEMBER INFLOWS FOR LAKE TRAVIS AND BUCHANAN COMBINED FLOWS. AS YOU CAN SEE OUR CURRENT PROJECTIONS WE'RE RIGHT NOW WE'RE SITTING AT ABOUT 22,000 INFLOW FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER.

HISTORICALLY WE WERE SITTING ABOUT 25. AND THEN OUR HISTORIC AVERAGE, WE'RE ABOUT 93,000. SO YOU CAN KIND OF SEE THAT DROP OFF THERE AS OUR FLOWS. WE'RE GETTING INTO THAT KIND OF DRIER TIME. NORMALLY WE GET THE WETTER TIMES IN FEBRUARY OR SORRY, IN SEPTEMBER AND OCTOBER, BUT WE JUST HAVEN'T SEEN THAT RIGHT NOW. INFLOWS. HERE IS A PROJECTION OF WHERE WE'RE AT NOW. CURRENT LEVELS. CURRENTLY WE ARE SITTING AT 1.7 MILLION ACRE FEET AND BOTH COMBINED LAKE TRAVIS AND BUCHANAN. OBVIOUSLY AS YOU SEE THE DRIER CONDITIONS OBVIOUSLY IN THE RED AND YELLOW, IF WE CONTINUE ON THE DRIER PATH, IT WILL OBVIOUSLY START DROPPING A LEVEL. IF WE GET WETTER CONDITIONS, WHICH WILL BE THE GREEN AND BLUE, WE'LL CONTINUE AN UPWARD DIRECTION. COMBINED LAKE LEVELS AT THIS POINT RIGHT NOW, THIS TIME LAST YEAR, WE WERE SITTING AT 55% FULL IN BOTH LEVELS. CURRENTLY NOW WE ARE SITTING AT 89% FULL. SO THAT'S REALLY GOOD NEWS FOR US AT THIS POINT. THE NEXT SLIDE WE'RE GOING TO GET INTO IS GOING TO BE OUR DROUGHT MOISTURE RIGHT HERE, INDICATING IN SEPTEMBER THIS MONTH

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BEGINNING. YOU KIND OF SEE WE'RE KIND OF GETTING INTO THAT ABNORMAL DRY STAGE.

UNFORTUNATELY NOW WE'RE STARTING TO SEE WITH THE DRIER SEPTEMBER, WE'RE GETTING INTO A LITTLE BIT MORE MODERATE DROUGHTS KIND OF IN OUR AREA, A LITTLE BIT MORE TO THE SOUTH OF US. BUT TRAVIS, BUT A LITTLE BIT IN WILLIAMSON AS WELL. IT'S JUST INDICATION OF DRIER LEVELS.

LET'S SEE OUR WATER USAGE HERE. WE ARE SHOWING OUR PEAK DAY FOR SEPTEMBER WAS 19.12 MGD FOR THE DAY. IN 24. WE HAD A PEAK DAY OF 18 MGD. SO WE WENT UP A LITTLE BIT MORE THERE FROM LAST YEAR. AND THEN IN AUGUST YOU CAN SEE WE WERE AT 19.6 LAST MONTH. CURRENT. AVERAGE FLOW FOR SEPTEMBER. RIGHT NOW WE ARE AVERAGING ABOUT 13 MGD PER DAY. WHAT OUR AVERAGE IS FOR SEPTEMBER. LET'S SEE. THE NEXT ONE IS OUR DAILY WATER USAGE AND AND TEMPERATURE AND RAINFALL. OBVIOUSLY YOU CAN SEE RAINFALLS A BIT SCARCE. WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY OF SEPTEMBER MUCH .18. LAST YEAR WE HAD 0.08 OF RAINFALL HERE. YOU CAN KIND OF SEE OUR TEMPERATURE FOR THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER. WE'RE AVERAGING ABOUT 93 DEGREES HERE. YOU'RE ALSO LOOKING AT THE TOTAL PRODUCTION FOR BOTH SANDY AND BCR UA. WE LIKE TO KEEP THAT SPLIT. 7030 TYPICALLY IS WHAT OUR AVERAGE DEMAND IS FOR BOTH PLANTS. LET'S SEE. THE NEXT SLIDE WE HAVE IS GOING TO BE OUR WATER CONNECTIONS. SO FAR THIS YEAR WE'RE WE'RE UP ABOUT 14 OR SORRY ABOUT 4.4% SO FAR THIS YEAR FOR WATER CONNECTIONS FROM 2024 TO 2025. AND WE WANT TO FINISH OFF THIS ONE WITH OUR CONSERVATION TEAM KIND OF GIVING A LITTLE INDICATION OF WHERE WE'RE AT AND WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH CONSERVATION HERE RIGHT NOW. BILL TEETER AND HIS TEAM HAVE REACHED OUT TO ABOUT 80 CITIZENS RIGHT NOW TO DO MAKE CONTACT FOR IRRIGATION EVALUATIONS, WHERE THEY'LL GO IN AND DO EVALUATIONS ON THEIR IRRIGATION. RIGHT NOW, WE HAVE A TOTAL OF 74 RAIN BARRELS AND 27 COMPOSTING BINS SET FOR SCHEDULED FOR PICKUP OF OCTOBER 25TH. SO FAR, MR. TEETER HAS DONE NINE IRRIGATION EVALUATIONS SO FAR. AND DOWN AT THE BOTTOM HERE, WE KIND OF ADDED IN A LITTLE BIT TO KIND OF SHOW WE HAD A RESIDENT REACH OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, BILL WAS ABLE TO TO GET THEM UNDER 5000 GALLONS ON THEIR CURRENT IRRIGATION SETTINGS. SO HE'S ON PACE TO DO THIS YEAR. HE'S TRYING TO ESTABLISH TO AT LEAST DO 80 TO 90 CITIZEN EVALUATIONS FOR THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM. THAT'S WHERE WE'RE AT. ANY COMMENTS? QUESTIONS. FANTASTIC. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. ANYTHING. JUST ONE REAL QUICK QUESTION.

WHEN WE LOOK AT THE CONNECTION GROWTH AND THEN THE USAGE YEAR OVER YEAR, DOES THAT KIND OF TRACK BASICALLY THE INCREASES. BASICALLY WE JUST HAVE THAT MANY MORE CONNECTIONS. IT'S NOT A AN OVERALL USAGE RIGHT. YES SIR. OKAY. THANK YOU. YEP. JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE. ANYTHING ELSE. COUNCIL QUESTIONS I'LL SAY MY BLOOD PRESSURE ROSE EVERY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR LIKE FIVE YEARS. OPENING THAT LCRA EMAIL EXCEPT THE LAST TWO MONTHS. EXACTLY. SO IT IS NICE TO SEE YOU. IT'S NICE. NICE. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT UPDATE SENIOR CENTER CIP SIX, INCLUDING CONSTRUCTION UPDATE AND TIMELINE FOR COMPLETION CIP PROJECT MANAGER ALABASTRO. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR, COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER. BARTON. HELLO. SO THE MAJOR ACTIVITIES WE HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW, THE FIRE ALARM AND FIRE SPRINKLER SYSTEMS ARE BEING INSTALLED. NETWORK CABLING IS BEING INSTALLED AS WELL THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE FACILITY. MECHANICAL ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS ARE BEING STARTED UP. DOORS ARE BEING INSTALLED. THE CEILING GRID SYSTEM IS ALMOST FINISHED AND TILE INSTALLATION ACTUALLY STARTED LAST WEEK. SO KIND OF LOOKING THROUGH. HERE'S SOME OF THE PICTURES YOU HAVE SEEN BEFORE. JUST THE LOBBY BEING PRETTY FULL. THERE'S THE ART FEATURE BEHIND THE RECEPTION DESK. THE RESTROOMS DOWN HERE. OOPS, ARE TILED FLOOR AND WALLS.

SO WE'RE GETTING THERE. AND ACTUALLY, EARLIER TODAY WHEN I WENT FOR A WALK DOWN THERE, THEY WERE PUTTING IN THE TOILETS. SO THEY'RE MOVING ALONG THROUGH THERE, THE PICTURES ON TOP ARE SHOWING THE MULTI-PURPOSE ROOM. THEY'VE GOT THE TILE PUT UP ON THIS WALL

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HERE, WHICH I THINK WHEN YOU ALL TOOK YOUR TOUR LAST TIME, THAT WAS NOT UP THERE. SO THEY'RE COMING ALONG THE KITCHEN. THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF THE THE WALL FINISHES ALREADY UP, THE HOODS UP, THE MATERIAL ON THE WALLS FRP. IT'S AN EASILY WASHABLE SURFACE, SO THEY'RE MOVING ALONG THROUGH THERE. THEY ARE GETTING READY TO POUR A LOT OF THE COURTYARD.

THEY HAD TO MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS. SO TODAY THEY SAID THEY THEY WEREN'T GOING TO POUR THIS WEEK, BUT THEY'RE PLANNING TO POUR MONDAY. AND THEN THEY'VE ALSO GOT A LOT OF SIDEWALKS THAT THEY'VE BEEN PREPARING AND THEY HOPE TO TACKLE GET THAT DONE TOWARDS THE END OF NEXT WEEK AS WELL. MORE OF THE INTERIOR UP HERE IS THE FITNESS ROOM. THIS IS THE ACTIVITIES ROOM HERE. MECHANICAL UNITS HAVE BEEN SET. THIS IS THE FLEX SPACE DOWN HERE. IT'S IT'S GETTING THERE. THIS IS A VIEW FROM THE. OFFICE. THE STAFF OFFICE LOOKING OUT INTO THE RECEPTION AREA. AND THIS IS THE CORNER OFFICE FROM THAT STAFF OFFICE AREA.

QUESTIONS. COUNCIL. AND THEY ARE TARGETING WORKING ON THAT NOVEMBER 19TH DATE TO FOR SUBSTANTIAL COMPLETION. THAT'S FANTASTIC. ANY QUESTIONS COUNCIL I WANT YOU ALL TO KNOW SOMETHING VERY SPECIAL ABOUT PROJECT MANAGER ALABASTER. HE HAS GONE ABOVE AND BEYOND TWICE IN THE LAST MONTH. AND I WANT TO RECOGNIZE YOU. I WANT COUNCIL TO RECOGNIZE YOU. WHEN I WAS DOING THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE REALTORS UPDATE, I WAS PUTTING TOGETHER MY SLIDES AND I THOUGHT AT THE LAST MOMENT, IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE A RECENT PHOTO OF THE CONSTRUCTION. I FIGURED THEY'RE JUST LYING AROUND. RUSSELL WENT OUT THAT MORNING AND TOOK A BEAUTIFUL PHOTO WITH THE SUN COMING UP. AND IT WAS IT WAS LIKE IT WAS SO PERFECT. IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS PHOTOSHOPPED, BUT IT WAS ALL NATURAL. IT WAS PHOTOSHOP. WAS IT REALLY PHOTO? YEAH. YOU HAVE A VERY NATURAL TALENT. THANK YOU. AND THEN JUST THE OTHER DAY ON MONDAY, CITY HOLIDAY, HE TOOK THE TIME AND VOLUNTEERED TO COME UP AND GIVE ISAAC AND MYSELF A TOUR.

AND I KNOW THAT ISAAC WAS VERY TICKLED AND I JUST APPRECIATE YOU SO MUCH. AND COUNCIL KNOWS HOW AWESOME YOU ARE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, MOVING ON TO OUR CONSENT AGENDA

[ CONSENT AGENDA: ACTION]

COUNCIL. WE ARE WE WILL CONSIDER CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS 11 THROUGH 20. THIS IS AN ACTION ITEM MOTION TO APPROVE. SECOND. MOTION. AND A SECOND. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL

[21. Conduct a Public Hearing regarding Special Use Case Z-25-0161 for a Special Use Permit to allow for outdoor sporting activities such as soccer, cricket, football, and other similar sports on two (2) parcels of land approximately 0.603 acres ± in size, more particularly described by Williamson Central Appraisal District Parcels R036045 and R036046; and commonly known as 302 and 304 Brushy Street, Leander, Williamson County, Texas.

Discuss and consider action regarding Zoning Case Z-25-0161 as described above.

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THOSE IN FAVOR? PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. PUBLIC HEARING ITEM 21. CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING SPECIAL USE CASE Z-250161 FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT TO ALLOW FOR OUTDOOR SPORTING ACTIVITIES SUCH AS SOCCER, CRICKET, FOOTBALL AND OTHER SIMILAR SPORTS ON TWO PARCELS OF LAND APPROXIMATELY 0.603 ACRES PLUS OR MINUS IN SIZE, AS STATED ON THE POSTED AGENDA. EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, GRIFFIN. WELCOME. VERY LATE TONIGHT. YES, YES. GOOD EVENING. SO THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR THE DESI HANGOUT.

THIS IS ACTUALLY TO THE THE RIGHT OF US IN OLD TOWN. AND THEY ARE LOOKING TO ADD OUTDOOR CRICKET AREA FOR PRACTICE. THIS DID GO BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION DURING THEIR SEPTEMBER 11TH MEETING, AND THE COMMISSION DID RECOMMEND APPROVAL WITH A COUPLE OF CONDITIONS. WE HAD A GOOD MEETING WHERE THE ADJACENT PROPERTY OWNER SHOWED UP AND HAD SOME SOME QUESTIONS, SO THEY AGREED TO SUPPORTING THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT AS LONG AS THE USES WERE LIMITED TO CRICKET ACTIVITIES ONLY THE HOURS OF OPERATIONS ARE LIMITED TO MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY FROM 5 P.M. TO 11 P.M. FRIDAY FROM 5 P.M. TO 12 A.M. SATURDAY FROM EIGHT TO NOON, AND SUNDAY FROM 8 TO 11 P.M. AND THERE WILL BE A FIVE YEAR TIME LIMIT FOR THE SUP THAT THEY COULD REQUEST AN EXTENSION FOR IF THE WHEN THE TERM ENDS. AND WITH THAT, I'M GLAD TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. AND I BELIEVE THE APPLICANT IS ALSO HERE TO SPEAK. THANK YOU.

APPLICANT. YEAH. DID YOU WANT TO MAKE COMMENTS? I MAY HAVE JUST VOLUNTEERED. VOLUNTOLD.

YEAH. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY MANAGER AGAIN.

MY NAME IS COCA-COLA AGAIN. 2720 BRUSHWOOD MEADOW, LEANDER, TEXAS. I'M A RESIDENT OF LEANDER AND ALSO BUSINESS OWNER. I WANT TO WHY? CRICKET WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THAT CAME IN EVEN IN OUR MEETING. SO CRICKET HAS BEEN GROWING A LOT IN RECENT TIMES. CITY OF LEANDER HAS NO PRACTICE FACILITY OR ANY FACILITY, ESPECIALLY FOR MY FIVE YEAR OLD. I TAKE HER ALL

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THE WAY UP TO ROUND ROCK, TRAVEL 30 35 MINUTES, OR GO ALL THE WAY UP TO LIBERTY HILL WITH THE NEW GROUNDS THAT WAS CREATED THERE. SO IT HAS BEEN SO MUCH PAINFUL FOR PRACTICE.

AND I ALSO COACH UNDER 17, UNDER YOUTH, WHO ARE REPRESENTING THE NATIONAL AND CRICKET HAS BEEN IDENTIFIED AS ONE OF THE SPORT IN OLYMPICS, WHICH IS COMING IN LA VERY RECENTLY. SO WE ARE TRYING TO PROMOTE NOT JUST THAT, BUT ALSO CRICKET ARE TRYING TO FIND THE FACILITIES LOCALLY. SO WE WANT TO PROMOTE THE HEALTH AND ALSO BRING MORE DIVERSE GROUP THAT PLAYS CRICKET INTO THE CITY OF LEANDER DOWNTOWN ESPECIALLY, AND EXPLORE ALL THE BUSINESSES AND YOU KNOW, AND HAVE SOME RECREATIONAL ACTIVITIES, AS YOU JUST MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, NO PLUG DAY AND LOT OF OTHER THINGS. SO I'M TRYING TO ENGAGE AND GIVE BACK COMMUNITY THE BEST I CAN. SO I'M TRYING TO MAKE A FACILITY AND ALSO TRY TO TAKE THE RECOMMENDATIONS FROM THE ZONING COMMISSION AS WELL. AND I WANT TO HONOR WHAT THEY MENTIONED AND MOVE FORWARD. BUT CRICKET IS GROWING, SO WE WANT TO TAKE IT AS A FIRST STEP TO SEE HOW BIG IT CAN GROW. AND I WANT TO BE THE FIRST PERSON TO BRING A SMALL FACILITY WITHIN THE AREA WHERE I DO BUSINESS SO THAT IT ATTRACTS MORE ATTRACTION TOWARDS LEANDER RESIDENT AND LEANDER BUSINESSES LOCALLY. SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. THERE'S NOBODY SIGNED UP TO SPEAK FOR THIS ITEM. IS THERE ANYBODY WHO WISHES TO SPEAK? PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. WE WILL NOW DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION REGARDING SPECIAL USE CASE Z-250161. AS DESCRIBED PREVIOUSLY. MISS GRIFFIN, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION. WHY WAS IT SPECIFICALLY THAT PNC RECOMMENDED TO KEEP IT TO CRICKET ONLY? LIKE WHAT WERE THE CONCERNS? SO THE PROPERTY OWNER TO THE SOUTH, HE IS AN ATTORNEY AND THERE WAS CONCERNS ABOUT THE THE NOISE CONFLICTING WITH HIS WORK HOURS. AND THE OWNER ONLY WANTED TO DO CRICKET.

AND I THINK IT MADE THE NEIGHBOR FEEL BETTER TO LIMIT IT TO CRICKET. OH, OKAY. YEAH, THAT'S EASY ENOUGH THEN. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, I HAD A QUESTION ABOUT AND I KNOW WE'RE NOT TO THE POINT THAT WE WOULD DO TRAFFIC AND ALL OF THAT, BUT I'VE HAD SOME EXPERIENCE WITH OUR FAMILY PLAYING CRICKET AND THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC POTENTIALLY WITH DROP OFFS WITH PEOPLE COMING TO PARK IN. THAT AREA IS VERY SMALL. SO IS THERE ANY CONSIDERATION FOR THE IMPACT OF THAT? YEAH, I KNOW WE'RE EARLY IN THE STAGE. SO THIS THIS WOULDN'T BE LIKE A TRADITIONAL CRICKET FIELD FOR GAMES, RIGHT. IT'S JUST A PRACTICE AREA. SO THEY HAVE A NET AND YOU'RE POPPING THE BALL OKAY. SO IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. IT'S A SMALLER SCALE OKAY. IT'S LIKE A BATTING CAGE. YEAH EXACTLY OKAY. THANK YOU. YES. PLEASE COME UP TO THE MICROPHONE FOR THE RECORD. IT'S DEFINITELY NOT THE TRADITIONAL CRICKET, OKAY. EVEN IF YOU PLAY THE CRICKET, IT'S A BOX JUST LIKE THIS ROOM. YEAH. FIVE PEOPLE AROUND. SO MAX, YOU WILL SEE IS TEN PEOPLE PLAYING IN ONE GAME. BUT IT'S NOT LIKE A BIG GAME WHERE WE HAVE THAT GROUND AND YOU GET THE LEVEL OF EXPOSURE, BUT IT WILL ALLOW YOU TO EXPLORE YOUR CAPABILITIES TO HIT HARD, BUT IT WILL JUST BE WITHIN THE NETS. IT WILL BE THE LIKE, YOU KNOW, SO MAX, IT WILL BE LIKE 10 TO 12 PEOPLE AT ONE TIME IN THE IN THE GROUND. SO THEY'LL STAND. SO IT'S NOT A BIG PLAYGROUND WHERE WE DO 22 TEAM MEMBERS AND TWO UMPIRES. AND YOU KNOW, THAT WILL BECOME TO 25 PEOPLE. SO YEAH, NO, IT WILL BE ANYWHERE LESS THAN 15 PEOPLE WITHIN THAT CIRCLE. THEY PLAY IT ONE TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU. YES. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER MCDONALD. PLEASE DON'T GO ANYWHERE, SIR. HAVE A QUESTION. SO IT SAYS OUTDOOR. IS THIS GOING TO BE OUTDOORS OR IS THIS. IT IS OUTDOOR, SIR. THERE'S NO INDOOR CONSTRUCTION. AS A ZONING SAID, DON'T TRY TO PUT SO MUCH INVESTMENT ON THERE. JUST TRY TO PUT THE BOX THE MOST EASIEST WAY AND ECONOMICAL WAY POSSIBLE SO THAT IT IT GIVES OUTDOOR BECAUSE WE CALL CRICKET AND EVERY GAME WE CONSIDER CONDITIONS. SO WE WANT TO KEEP IT AS NATURAL AS POSSIBLE. SO THE SUN WE DON'T PLAY IN RAIN, BUT YOU KNOW, THE SUN AND THE HUMID NATURE WILL BUILD UP THE MORE ENDURANCE FOR EVERYBODY. SO WE WANT TO GIVE THE HOURS PROPOSED OR 5 P.M. TO LIKE 11 P.M. DURING THE WEEK.

DO YOU HAVE LIGHTING OUT THERE? YES, WE NEED LIGHTING IN THE IN THE EVENING, SO I HAVE TO WORK ON PERMITTING TO GET LIGHT. BUT IT'S NOT LIKE A SUPER BRIGHT WHERE ARE YOU GOING TO DO FLOODLIGHTS, BUT IT WILL BE VERY SMALL, LIMITED LIGHTS WHERE YOU CAN SEE THE BALL. I'M JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE TIME RESTRICTIONS BECAUSE THAT'S WHEN EVERYBODY COMES TO OLD TOWN. WHEN YOU HAVE NIGHT OWL AND THE OTHER BUSINESSES THERE, IT'S WE TRYING TO CREATE TRAFFIC OR I MEAN, I'M JUST NOT SET ON THE HOURS RECOMMENDATION. SO I'D LIKE TO BE A LITTLE BIT

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MORE FLEXIBLE THERE. ROGER. DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING ANY OTHER QUESTIONS COMMENTS MOTIONS. SO AGAIN JUST I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M CLEAR ON THIS. THIS IS AND THIS IS I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT IT EARLIER THIS WEEK. I'M SORRY, I, I PROBABLY WON'T HAVE ANY NEED FOR RESPONSE ON THIS ONE, BUT FEEL FREE TO HANG OUT. AS IT CURRENTLY STANDS, THIS ZONING REQUEST WOULD BE SPECIAL USE IN OLD TOWN LEANDER, CORRECT? SO IT'S A SPECIAL USE JUST FOR THIS PROPERTY. SO IT DOESN'T APPLY TO ALL OF OLD TOWN. IT'S JUST HIS PROPERTY.

JUST THAT PROPERTY. CORRECT. BUT IT STILL WOULD IT STILL TECHNICALLY ENCOMPASSED IN THE.

IT'S LOCATED IN OLD TOWN MASTER PLAN. CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. DOES ANYBODY HAVE A MOTION? I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE, WITH OR WITHOUT THE TIME RESTRICTIONS. WITH THE RESTRICTIONS AND EVERYTHING THAT WE HAD PRESENTED TO US. IS THERE A SECOND I SHOULD HAVE SAID OUT LOUD, WOULD YOU LIKE TO REPEAT IT? NOW YOU HAVE A MICROPHONE ON. I'D SAY WE TAKE THE MOTION AS PRESENTED WITH A WITH A SPECIAL USE FOR THE HOURS AS AS DESCRIBED. SO LIMITING THE USE TO JUST CRICKET AND THEN THE HOURS OF OPERATION I SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION. ALL RIGHT. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR. OPPOSED. ALL RIGHT. MOTION PASSES 5 TO 1. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. MOVING INTO REGULAR AGENDA ITEM

[22. Discuss and consider action on the Collective Bargaining Agreement by and between the City of Leander and Leander Professional Fire Fighter Association, Local 4298 for a term of three (3) years expiring September 30, 2028.]

22, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON THE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT BY AND BETWEEN THE CITY OF LEANDER AND LEANDER PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION, LOCAL 4298 FOR A TERM OF THREE YEARS EXPIRING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2028. CITY MANAGER. PARDON? I HAVE YOU DOWN FOR THIS ONE. YES, MA'AM. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU HAVE BEFORE YOU A THREE YEAR INITIAL COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENT THAT WAS NEGOTIATED BETWEEN REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY AND REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION. SO I'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE THOSE WHO ARE PART OF THAT TEAM. THAT WORKED VIGOROUSLY, REALLY, PROBABLY OVER THE LAST 45 TO 50 DAYS THROUGH FOUR VERY PRODUCTIVE MEETINGS. SO CHRIS DAVIS, OUR HR DIRECTOR AND LIAISON, WAS THERE, AND CHIEF BILLY WUSTERHAUSEN WAS PART OF THAT. A SPECIAL THANK YOU TO THE. REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ASSOCIATION, BRAD MOORE, OUR PRESIDENT, MIKE THOMAS, OUR VICE CHAIR, DAN PHILLIPS IS OUR SERGEANT AT ARMS. AND MATT HUGHES IS A MEMBER. IN ADDITION, THEY WERE REPRESENTED BY JOE TELLEZ. HE'S WITH THE IAF DISTRICT REPRESENTATIVE. SO AGAIN, IT'S A THREE YEAR TERM THAT WE NEGOTIATED. IT WAS REALLY PROMULGATED PURSUANT TO A SPECIAL ELECTION THAT WAS HELD ON MAY 4TH, 2024. THE VOTERS AT THAT TIME DID APPROVE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING. SO A COUPLE OF THE CRITICAL OR KEY ELEMENTS OF THE AGREEMENT, I'D LIKE TO JUST HIGHLIGHT THOSE REAL QUICK. FOR FOR THOSE THAT MAY BE LISTENING, ARTICLE 12 IS A RETIREE INSURANCE PROVISION. THERE'S BEEN A RECENT PIECE OF LEGISLATION CALLED HB 4144, WHICH WAS PASSED THIS LAST SESSION THAT GOES INTO EFFECT ON JANUARY 1ST. THE PURPOSE OF THAT BILL WAS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A CONTINUANCE OF CARE FOR MEDICAL CARE FOR RETIRED FIREFIGHTERS AND POLICE OFFICERS. SO A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS AFTER RETIREMENT OR POST-RETIREMENT IS A HEALTH BENEFIT THAT, SHOULD SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC HAPPEN TO THEM, THAT THAT THEY DO HAVE SOME SORT OF COVERAGE FOR THAT WE FELT IT. INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR SOMETHING CATASTROPHIC TO HAPPEN, WE WANTED TO BE ABLE TO GO AHEAD AND EXTEND OUR HEALTH INSURANCE COVERAGE AT NO COST TO OUR RETIREES, TO MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE GETTING A CONTINUATION OF CARE. WE'D RATHER KEEP THEM HEALTHY POST RETIREMENT AS AS RESPECTED MEMBERS OF OUR OPERATION ON ARTICLE 13, WE DO HAVE SOME RECLASSIFICATIONS, SO WE HAD SEVEN LIEUTENANT POSITIONS THAT WERE RERANKED TO CAPTAIN. THIS REALLY ADDRESSES THE EVOLVING OPERATIONAL NEEDS THAT WE HAVE FOR THE DEPARTMENT, AND ANTICIPATES ALSO THE GROWTH IN THE DEPARTMENT AS WE ADD NEW STATIONS, AND THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE NEED FOR THOSE POSITIONS. WE ADDED SOME PROVISIONS FOR OVERTIME AND CALL BACK. SO WE DO HAVE A FOUR HOUR PROVISION AND A MULTI CALL BACK PROVISION IN THAT SECTION, WHICH IS REALLY A STANDARD THAT

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WE HAD IMPLEMENTED THROUGH OUR MEET AND CONFER WITH POLICE. AND SO THIS DOES CARRY US IN A CONTINUAL WAY, IN A FAIR, CONSISTENT WAY THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRETY OF OUR ORGANIZATION.

WE HAVE CERTIFICATION, EDUCATION, INCENTIVE PAY. SO WE DO HAVE MEMBERS OF THE DEPARTMENT WHO WORK HARD TO ACHIEVE ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS AND MAINTAIN THOSE. IN ADDITION TO THAT, THEY TAKE ON ADDITIONAL DUTY ASSIGNMENTS THAT THAT REQUIRE EDUCATION, REQUIRE COMMITMENT OF TIME. SO THIS IS RESPECTFUL OF THAT AND AND PROVIDES SOME ACCOMMODATION FOR THAT. WE DO PROCEDURALLY HAVE A GRIEVANCE PROCEDURE PROCESS. AND SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE WAS A FAIR AND EFFECTIVE WAY TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS ANY GRIEVANCES THAT MAY ARISE FROM THE APPLICATION OF THE AGREEMENT. AND FINALLY, ARTICLE 24 WAGES. WE HAVE A PROVISION HERE. WE HAD APPROVED A STEP PLAN WITH THIS COMPENSATION PLAN PROGRAM. WE DIDN'T JUST APPROVE A STEP PLAN OR A COMPENSATION PLAN. WE REALLY LAUNCHED THE FIRST PHASE OF A COMPENSATION PROGRAM, WHERE WE WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR STEP PLANS AND OUR COMPENSATION PLANS REMAIN MARKET COMPETITIVE, AND WE'RE MAKING THOSE ADJUSTMENTS AS WE GO. HOWEVER, ONE OF THE THINGS WE DID TALK ABOUT AND WE APPRECIATED WAS A RECOGNITION THAT THERE MAY BE TIMES WHEN THE CITY FACES FISCAL STRESS AND THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO BACK AND REOPEN AND RECONSIDER THOSE, AND TO COME UP WITH SOME AGREEMENTS SHOULD WE RUN INTO THOSE TYPES OF FINANCIAL CONSIDERATIONS. AND SO WITH THAT ALL BEING SAID, I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THIS THREE YEAR TERM FOR THIS AGREEMENT. SO, MR. MOORE, I'D LIKE TO TURN IT TO YOU. DITTO. OKAY. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND CITY ADMINISTRATORS. AS MOST OF YOU KNOW, MY NAME IS BRAD MOORE AND I'M THE PRESIDENT OF THE LEANDER PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ASSOCIATION. IAFF LOCAL 4298. ON BEHALF OF OUR MEMBERS, WHICH WE HAVE SOME HERE THIS EVENING, I WANT TO THANK CITY COUNCIL AND CITY ADMINISTRATION FOR YOUR PARTNERSHIP AND COMMITMENT IN REACHING A FAIR AND TRANSPARENT AGREEMENT THAT STRENGTHENS BOTH OUR DEPARTMENT AND OUR COMMUNITY. THIS AGREEMENT REFLECTS COLLABORATION AT ITS BEST. IT DEMONSTRATES WHAT CAN BE ACHIEVED WHEN CITY LEADERSHIP AND FIREFIGHTERS WORK TOGETHER WITH A SHARED PURPOSE OF KEEPING LEANDER SAFE. IT BRINGS STABILITY TO OUR FAMILIES AND HONOR AND INTEGRITY TO EVERYONE INVOLVED, AND REINFORCES OUR COMMITMENT TO THE PEOPLE WE PROUDLY SERVE.

WE ARE HONORED TO SERVE THE CITY AND TO STAND BESIDE YOU AS PARTNERS IN PUBLIC SAFETY.

TOGETHER, WE WILL CONTINUE BUILDING A STRONGER AND SAFER LEANDER FOR EVERYONE WHO LIVES, WORKS, AND VISITS OUR CITY. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP, YOUR COLLABORATION, AND YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT. THANK YOU MIKE. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR, COUNCIL, CITY MANAGER. MY NAME IS MICHAEL GLENN, AND I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF SERVING AS THE 11TH DISTRICT VICE PRESIDENT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF FIREFIGHTERS. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? I GET TO REPRESENT MORE THAN 31,000 PROFESSIONAL FIREFIGHTERS ACROSS OKLAHOMA, TEXAS AND THE CANAL ZONE OF PANAMA. AND I WAS TELLING DARRAH AT THE BREAK, I'M REALLY EXCITED TO BE ABLE TO HAVE THIS KIND OF MOMENT TO SPEAK WITH YOU. ON THE HEELS OF THE BIG ANNOUNCEMENT AND PRESENTATION EARLIER, RATHER THAN SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS THAT I SOMETIMES GET TO HAVE WITH DIFFERENT COMMUNITIES, I REPRESENT MORE THAN 325 CITIES AND COMMUNITIES. SOME ISDS, IN FACT, THERE'S AN ESD THAT I'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO GO AND SPEAK TO SEVERAL TIMES HERE RECENTLY AND HAVE THE EXACT CONVERSATION THAT WAS BROUGHT UP EARLIER ABOUT THE NONPARTISAN NATURE OF OUR JOBS WHEN WE WORK FOR CITIES. AND BEING A CITY FIREFIGHTER MYSELF, I RECOGNIZE THE FACT THAT THE CITY COUNCIL THAT REPRESENTS ME AS AN EMPLOYEE NEEDS TO BE LOOKING AT THINGS FROM A NONPARTISAN MANNER AND LOOKING AT WHAT'S BEST FOR THE COMMUNITY AND BEST FOR ITS EMPLOYEES. AND I APPLAUD YOU, AND I'M PROUD TO SEE EXACTLY WHAT YOU ALL HAVE TAKEN. AND TO COUNCILMEMBER NADINE'S COMMENTS EARLIER ABOUT WHAT THE PAST WAS OR WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE NOW. I CAN'T REMEMBER HOW YOU SAID IT, SIR, BUT BUT I CAN'T SPEAK TO WHAT IT WAS BEFORE, BUT WHAT I'M SEEING NOW AND AGAIN, AS SOMEONE WHO TRAVELS ACROSS BOTH STATES AND HAVE HAD THE CHANCE TO TEACH FOR INTERNATIONAL ACROSS THE COUNTRY, WHAT YOU HAVE GOING ON HERE IS SPECIAL. AND IT REALLY IS BASED ON SOME SOLID LEADERSHIP. AND HAVING HAD THE CHANCE TO BE HERE FOR THE OPENING DAY, WHERE I SAW DARA AND THE CITY MANAGER AND MISS CHRISTY BACK THERE FROM HR, IT HAS BEEN A BLESSING. IT REALLY HAS BEEN FUN TO SEE AND THE RESPECT FOR THE ORGANIZATION AND THE RESPECT

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FOR THE PROCESS, AND JUST COMING TO A GOOD AGREEMENT THAT'S GOOD FOR THE EMPLOYEES, THAT'S GOOD FOR THE CITY. I'M REALLY PROUD TO SEE Y'ALL COME TO THIS CONCLUSION AND DO IT RAPIDLY, TO REALLY DO IT IN FAR LESS TIME THAN NECESSARY BY THE STATUTE. SO I APPLAUD WHAT YOU'RE DOING. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHOWING YOUR SUPPORT FOR THE FIREFIGHTERS THAT I REPRESENT. AND I ALSO WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT IT'S NOT JUST MYSELF WHO'S TRAVELED IN. IT IS WE HAVE BOB NIX FROM AUSTIN. HE TRAVELED ALL THE WAY UP FROM AUSTIN. HE'S THE LOCAL PRESIDENT THERE. BUT THEN WE ALSO HAVE BROTHER JAY NICHOLSON, WHO'S THE PRESIDENT FROM EL PASO. YOU HAVE FIREFIGHTERS FROM ACROSS THE STATE WANTING TO COME AND SHOW SUPPORT. AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE GREAT THINGS THAT Y'ALL ARE DOING HERE WITH YOUR FIREFIGHTERS AND LOCAL 4298. SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. WE APPRECIATE IT. AND CITY MANAGER, THANK YOU FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP IN THIS. IT WAS IT WAS A PLEASURE TO SEE THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH COUNCIL. COUNCILMAN MCDONALD. SO CITY MANAGER YOU HIT ON THIS A LITTLE BIT BECAUSE BACK IN 2020 FOR OUR RESIDENTS DID APPROVE THIS OVERWHELMINGLY AND SUPPORT OF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS HERE. AND I MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE WORKED IN A CITY SOUTH OF HERE THAT HAS COLLECTIVE BARGAINING, THAT MAY OR MAY NOT GET THINGS DONE IN A TIMELY MANNER. AND I JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU AND YOUR STAFF FOR GETTING THIS DONE SO EXPEDITIOUSLY WITHOUT HICCUPS. I NEVER HEARD ANY COMPLAINTS OR ANYTHING OF THAT NATURE, AND I JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU ON YOUR LEADERSHIP.

BUT I ALSO WANT TO COMMEND US BECAUSE SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS UP HERE AND SOME MAYBE A COUNCIL MEMBER OUT IN THE AUDIENCE HIRED YOU BACK IN APRIL 2024. SO WE DID A GREAT JOB. SO I JUST WANT TO ECHO THAT WE DID A GREAT JOB. GREAT JOB. GO US. SO I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THIS CONTRACT. I'LL SECOND. MOTION AND A SECOND. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS. COMMENTS.

DID YOU OKAY I HAVE A COUPLE OF QUESTIONS FOR MISS LINCOLN. COMING TO THE MICROPHONE. MISS LINCOLN, PLEASE. DO YOU THINK IT'S A GOOD CONTRACT? YES. DO YOU THINK WE SHOULD PASS IT? YES. ARE YOU SUPER PROUD OF YOUR DAD? YES. ALL RIGHT. THAT'S GOOD FOR ME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALL RIGHT. MOTION SECOND. YES. ANY FURTHER CONVERSATION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND I WANT TO ECHO WHAT COUNCILMEMBER MCDONALD SAID. THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF. I KNOW THAT THIS IS NOT ALWAYS EASY. AND THIS WAS OUR FIRST ONE AND Y'ALL KNOCKED IT OUT OF THE PARK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. ITEM 20 THREE OH. OH YEAH. SURE. RIGHT OVER HERE. SHOULD HAVE MY ATTORNEY LOOK AT THIS FIRST. YEAH. YOU BETTER. I DON'T WANT TO LOSE THESE. PLEASE. THANK YOU. OKAY. SOMETHING THAT SHOWS IT. DO YOU WANT ME TO SIGN IT REAL QUICK? THANK YOU. OH, I'M SO SORRY. ALL RIGHT, WE'RE BUILDING ANTICIPATION.

IF THEY ASK ME HOW AWESOME IT IS. THERE YOU GO. OKAY. NO, NO, NO, WE'RE ALL GOOD. I'VE GOT ONE MORE. DO YOU WANT YOUR PLANS? YES, SIR. ABSOLUTELY. APPRECIATE IT.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU. OKAY. LET'S GO. YEAH. THANK YOU. YES. YES. THANKS. YES. ALL RIGHT.

[23. Review and consider providing direction to staff on the various City Boards, Commissions and Committees composition, purpose and duties.]

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ITEM 23 REVIEW. AND CONSIDER PROVIDING DIRECTION TO STAFF ON THE VARIOUS CITY BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES. COMPOSITION, PURPOSE AND DUTIES. THIS WAS MY ITEM THAT I ADDED BEFORE WE GO APPOINTING PEOPLE. I THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE A TALK ABOUT IT, BECAUSE WE KIND OF HAD THESE LITTLE TALKS OVER THE LAST YEAR OR TWO ABOUT MAYBE CHANGING UP A FEW THINGS ON THE BOARDS. AND SO, MR. PARTON, WERE ANY OF OUR DIRECTORS ABLE TO GIVE THEIR INPUT ON WHAT'S WORKING AND WHAT SHOULD CHANGE? DID WE GET THAT? NO, MA'AM, I DON'T HAVE THAT. I'M SORRY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. WELL, THEN IT'S ON US. I'M GOING TO START WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, BECAUSE I KNOW THAT WE'VE WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS ONE A LOT.

THERE HAVE BEEN SOME DISCUSSIONS WITH, WITH RANDALL, WITH MR. PARTON AND MYSELF AT DIFFERENT TIMES. AND WHAT'S REALLY WORKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS HAVING THE THE MORE RECENT ITEMS OR PEOPLE THAT WE PUT ON THERE, WHICH IS A REPRESENTATIVE OF SAINT DAVID'S, A REPRESENTATIVE OF ACC, A REPRESENTATIVE FOR NONPROFITS. HAVING THOSE GROUPS TOGETHER HAS BEEN WHAT'S REALLY BEEN HELPFUL. AND WE LOVE OUR, OUR RESIDENTS THAT THAT HELP WITH THE BOARD AND SERVE ON IT. BUT WHAT WE WERE KIND OF TALKING ABOUT AND THINKING ABOUT IS, WHAT IF WE CHANGE THAT MAKEUP TO BE A LITTLE MORE SPECIFIC IN KEEPING PEOPLE FROM LIKE THE EDUCATION TO WORKFORCE PIPELINE? SO MAYBE WE RESET THIS TO HAVE THOSE THREE REPRESENTATIVES AND THEN LIKE SOMEBODY FROM L-I-S-D, SOMEBODY FROM TEXAS WORKFORCE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. BECAUSE ULTIMATELY THE GOAL THAT WE'RE GETTING TO IS TO HAVE BUSINESSES LOCATE HERE AND GROW HERE. AND SO WE KIND OF NEED THE EDUCATION PIPELINE. WE NEED THE SKILLS TRAINING, ALL OF THOSE SORTS OF THINGS. THE ACC REPRESENTATIVE THAT IS ON THERE RIGHT NOW, HE IS PART OF WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT. AND SO IT'S ALL SKILLS TRAINING FOR VARIOUS TRADES OR UPSKILLING FROM FROM WHAT EMPLOYEES ALREADY KNOW. AND SO THAT'S WHERE THAT HELPFULNESS IS. AND SO I WANTED TO GAUGE EVERYBODY'S THOUGHTS ON THIS. I THINK THAT'D BE A GREAT IDEA TO ADD SOME REPRESENTATION FROM THE WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT ANGLE. I RECENTLY PHASED OFF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WHEN I WAS ELECTED TO CITY COUNCIL, AND I KNOW THAT COUNCIL MEMBER NADINE HAD ALSO SERVED ON THE COMMITTEE. AND JUST SOME FEEDBACK THAT I'D LIKE TO ADD TO EDC IS THAT IN OUR CITY, OUR EDC COMMITTEE IS NOT REALLY HAD CLEAR OBJECTIVES, AS OPPOSED TO SOME OTHER CITIES LIKE CEDAR PARK OR ROUND ROCK, BECAUSE WE'VE DON'T HAVE AN INCENTIVES FUND. AND SO I FEEL LIKE THERE'S A FEELING AMONGST COMMITTEE MEMBERS AT TIMES THAT THERE'S NOT SUBSTANTIVE WORK TO DO. AND SO I'D LIKE US TO LOOK INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF GIVING THE EDC SPECIFIC TASKS OR SUBCOMMITTEE WORK TO DO THAT WOULD HELP TO ADVANCE OUR CITY'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA, AND I THINK THAT GOES FOR A LOT OF OUR COMMITTEES, ACTUALLY, BECAUSE WE HAVEN'T BEEN REAL CONSISTENT IN GIVING DIRECTION TO ANY OF THEM. A LOT OF THEM ARE JUST FINDING THEIR WAY. AND I THINK IT'S IT'S HARD ON OUR VOLUNTEERS BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE SPINNING THEIR WHEELS SOMETIMES. SO I THINK THAT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT SUGGESTION FOR ALL OF THEM. COUNCIL MEMBER NADINE. YEAH, I WOULD, I WOULD DOVETAIL ON COUNCILMAN CHANG'S COMMENTARY, HAVING SERVED AS CHAIR OF THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ADVISORY, THERE WAS A LACK OF. ACTIONABLE ABILITY. YOU KNOW, TECHNICALLY, THERE WERE SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS AROUND THE TABLE WHO WERE GIVING OF THEIR TIME, EXTENDING THEIR OWN PERSONAL CAPITAL TO ASSIST THE CITY IN DISCOVERING, OR AT LEAST ANTICIPATING WHERE THERE COULD BE SOME SOLUTIONS TO PROBLEMS. AND WE SAW THIS WHEN THE CANDIDATES FOR ALL OF THESE VARIOUS COMMITTEES SHOWED UP A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, IN THAT THERE IS THIS TREMENDOUS VOLUNTEERISM WITHIN THE CITY AND WITHIN OUR COMMUNITY, AND

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WE ARE NOT DOING THAT SPIRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM. THE PROPER PATHWAY TO BE ABLE TO ACTUALLY ASSIST. AND I WOULD I WOULD AGAIN ECHO WHAT WHAT COUNCILMAN CHANG IS SAYING DIRECTIONALLY, I THINK THERE'S A BIG, BIG, BIG, BIG GAP. CONSTITUTIONALLY, THE WAY THAT WE PUT THE COMMITTEES TOGETHER, THERE'S A TREMENDOUS OPPORTUNITY THERE. I LIKE WHAT WE'RE DOING WITH THE EDC, IN THE SENSE THAT WE'RE BRINGING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TO THE TABLE. I THINK THAT NEEDS TO BE THE TEMPLATE FOR EVERY COMMITTEE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHERE WE WILL FIND THE THE NOT ONLY THE SPIRIT OF VOLUNTEERISM, BUT ALSO THAT SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE. AND I, YOU KNOW, I KNOW WE'RE GOING TO BE GOING THROUGH THIS, AND I KNOW THAT THERE'S PROBABLY NOT A REAL EASY SOLUTION AS TO HOW WE GET THERE. BUT I DO THINK WE NEED TO BE INTENTIONAL IN GETTING THERE. YOU MAYBE THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO MODIFY SOME OF THE THE COMPOSITION OF THE CURRENT COMMITTEE STRUCTURE AS AN INTERIM STEP, AS WE CONSIDER ADDITIONAL COMMITTEES OR ADDITIONAL DIRECTIVES TO COME FROM COUNCIL. THERE'S SO MANY THINGS THAT WE CAN DO AS A CITY WHERE WE NEED WE NEED INPUT AND WE NEED HELP. WE NEED FORCE MULTIPLIERS BECAUSE THE STAFF CANNOT DO ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. SO WE NEED TO ACCELERATE THAT. AND I THINK THAT WOULD BE AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO DO THAT. I HESITATE IN SOME OF THE APPOINTMENT CONVERSATIONS THAT WE'VE BEEN HAVING, BECAUSE I JUST DON'T WANT TO TAKE VALUABLE TIME FROM PEOPLE'S EFFORTS IN A ALMOST I HATE I HESITATE TO USE THE WORD FRUITLESS, BUT IT WE LOSE VOLUNTEERS WITH OUR CURRENT STRUCTURE AND PEOPLE GET DISAPPOINTED AND THEY GET BURNT OUT. AND YOU KNOW, WE MIGHT YOU MAY HAVE, YOU KNOW, HAD A LITTLE BIT MORE RESILIENCY. SO WE KNOW WHAT IT'S LIKE. RIGHT.

WE DO KNOW IT'S IT'S IT'S THIS IS THE THIS IS THE ULTIMATE VOLUNTEER COMMITTEE. RIGHT. SO I THINK WE NEED TO KEEP OURSELVES VERY, VERY THOUGHTFUL. AND AND YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING WE NEED TO PAUSE, BUT I THINK WE NEED TO TAKE SOME TIME TO BE VERY CONSIDERATE IN THE WAY WE DO THIS GOING FORWARD. THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS. I THINK YOU YOU HIT THE NAIL EXACTLY ON THE HEAD. AND I ACTUALLY WROTE DOWN WHAT YOU SAID, BRING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTS TO THE TABLE. I THINK THAT'S EXACTLY PERFECT. AND I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY THAT'S LOST WHEN WE HAVE THESE LISTS OF PEOPLE THAT COME TO US THAT ARE EXCITED AND THEY WANT TO HELP, AND THEN WE PUT THEM ON A COMMITTEE WHERE EXACTLY, LIKE YOU SAID, WHAT ARE WHAT ARE WE DOING? WE. OH, SORRY. AND THEN WE JUST LOSE THEM FOREVER AND WE LOSE THAT ENTHUSIASM AND THAT WANT TO BE HERE. AND I WOULD LOVE IF WE COULD EVEN FIND OTHER COMMITTEES THAT WOULD CAPTURE THAT SAME EXCITEMENT. YEAH. I MEAN, I OBVIOUSLY THAT'S MY THOUGHT AND I COMPLETELY CONCUR.

AND I THINK THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY HERE WE ARE AT AN WE ARE AT A POINT OF, OF OF OF INFLUX WHERE WE CAN WE CAN DECIDE HOW WE MOVE FORWARD. RIGHT. YEAH. WE DON'T NEED TO BE STODGY AND COMMITTED TO THE WAY WE'RE DOING THINGS NOW, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S AN ARGUMENT THAT IT'S NOT REALLY WORKING. CORRECT. YEAH. THANK YOU. PRO TEM YOUR COMMENTS.

YEAH. I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY I REMEMBER IN 22, I THINK IT WAS THAT LPAC CAME BEFORE US AND WANTED TO ADD COMMISSIONERS AND THERE WAS A WHOLE CONVERSATION. WELL, WE DON'T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH VOLUNTEERS TO FILL THE SEATS THAT ARE OPEN. WHY ARE WE CREATING MORE SEATS? AND TO COME, WHAT, TWO WEEKS AGO? AND WE HAVE A ROOM FULL OF PEOPLE THAT ARE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING. WE HAVE WAY MORE VOLUNTEERS LISTED THAN WHAT WE ACTUALLY HAVE OPEN POSITIONS TO BE ABLE TO FILL. AND SO I DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO WASTE PEOPLE'S TIME AND HAVE PEOPLE FRUSTRATED WITH THIS WHOLE PROCESS. SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE US TO REALLY TAKE A MOMENT TO STEP BACK AND REEVALUATE WHAT OUR COMMISSIONS ARE DOING, WHAT IS THE GUIDANCE THAT WE WANT TO GIVE THEM FROM COUNCIL? WHAT IS OUR OBJECTIVE FOR THESE COMMISSIONS BEFORE WE JUST START APPOINTING PEOPLE? AND WE GO THROUGH THIS SAME CYCLE THAT WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH. NOW WE HAVE SOME COMMISSIONS THAT ARE MORE ACTIVE THAN OTHERS, AND THEY HAVE SOME CLEAR OBJECTIVES THAT THEY'VE BEEN WORKING ON. BUT I KNOW THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS BEEN ONE THAT'S BEEN A REAL CHALLENGE. AND I DO THINK IT'S BECAUSE OF PEOPLE ARE MOVING HERE FROM DIFFERENT PLACES, AND THE WAY THEY OPERATE IS DIFFERENT THAN HOW OURS OPERATES. AND SO THEY COME WITH A LOT OF ASSUMPTIONS, AND WE HAVEN'T DONE A GOOD JOB OF

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BEING VERY CLEAR ABOUT WHAT OUR OBJECTIVE IS. SO THAT'S WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US DO, IS TO REALLY HONE IN ON WHAT IS OUR GOAL AS COUNCIL FOR EACH ONE OF THESE GROUPS, SO THAT THEY CAN BE CLEAR AND FEEL LIKE THEY'RE BEING PRODUCTIVE. WE DON'T WANT TO LOSE PEOPLE. THANK YOU.

OTHER. SO I HAVE A FEW THINGS ABOUT DIFFERENT COMMITTEES, BUT TALKING ABOUT THE EDC, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DESCRIBING HERE IS REALLY NOT A COUNCIL OF OUR CITIZENS. WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IS BRINGING IN PEOPLE FROM OUTSIDE OF THE AREA IN ORDER TO FILL THESE THINGS, SO THAT WE CAN BASICALLY HAVE THEIR INPUT IN ORDER TO GENERATE THE BUSINESS, TO BRING THE ATTRACTION, TO BRING ALL THAT THERE. SO SO I THINK IN THAT CASE, IT'S MORE OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, LIKE A CAMPO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT WHERE YOU'RE BASICALLY SAYING, HEY, WE WANT THESE BIG PLAYERS TO BRING THEIR PEOPLE HERE AND PUT THEM THERE AND KIND OF TAKE THAT OFF THE BOARD AS OUR CITIZENS PART, BECAUSE WHAT WE'RE REALLY SAYING, HEY, WE WANT YOU TO SEND SOMEBODY HERE TO COME TO THE MEETINGS. WE WANT TO TALK ABOUT WHAT YOU'RE DOING. SAME THING WITH THESE OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. SO I THINK I THINK THAT MAKES SENSE BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I DID I WAS THE LIAISON FOR ONE MEETING. YOU DID GREAT. AND I DID A FANTASTIC JOB. AND THEN THEY GAVE IT TO STEVEN. BUT BUT THE THING IS, IS THAT ON THAT WHAT WHAT REALLY WAS WAS MORE OF A REPORT OUT, YOU KNOW, RANDALL AND HIS TEAM REPORT OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AND WE GET AND WE SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT'S GOING ON, AND WE WANT YOU TO GO CHEERLEAD FOR IT. BUT WHAT WE'RE REALLY SAYING IS WHAT WE WANT THEM TO DO IS WORK WITH THE CITY ON BRINGING BUSINESS, BRINGING EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND ALL THESE THINGS TO OUR CITY.

SO I THINK, I THINK IT MAKES SENSE TO RESTRUCTURE THAT AND LOOK AT THAT, ON THAT. WHEN IT COMES TO TO LPAC, I THINK THAT LPAC CARRIES AN UNDUE BURDEN TO PULL OFF EVENTS AND EVERYTHING, AND THEY HAVE A LOT OF PRESSURE ON THEM AND IT'S REALLY HURTING THEM. AND I THINK THEY NEED LPAC NEEDS TO BE FOLDED BACK INTO THE PARKS BOARD AND BE PART OF A WORKING COMMITTEE WITHIN THAT, AND COME UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF THE PARKS DIRECTOR AND EVERYTHING. I THINK I THINK THAT IN SOME WAYS I SERVED ON THAT COMMITTEE AND AND I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN THE LIAISON FOR A LONG TIME, AND SOMETIMES THEY THEY FEEL LIKE, OH, THEY'RE NOT GETTING WHAT THEY NEED BECAUSE IT'S BECAUSE THEY FEEL LIKE THEY'RE BEING, IN ESSENCE, OUTCAST. AND ON THE OTHER HAND, THE OTHER PART OF IT IS, IS THAT THEY FEEL THEY HAVE ALL THE BURDEN TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE PARKS AND PARKS EVENTS. AND SO AND IT'S A LOT OF PRESSURE, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, WE JUST HAD OUR, OUR OCTOBERFEST AND WE HAD ART FEST THE YEAR BEFORE AND THAT BASICALLY FELL ON THE COMMITTEE. THE OTHER ONES ARE, YOU KNOW, CONSIDERED PARKS ONES FOR MLK AND JUNETEENTH, AND THEY'RE ALL GREAT EVENTS. AND, AND I THINK THEY SHOULD BE PART OF PARKS AND, AND STUFF. AND SO I JUST WANT TO PUT THAT THERE. I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU, HOW WE DO THAT.

AND I THINK THAT'S KIND OF A DISCUSSION BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT TO STOP THE MOMENTUM OF WHAT WE'RE DOING, BECAUSE RIGHT NOW, I'M PRETTY SURE YOUR PLANNING MLK AND AND WE'RE PREPPING FOR JUNETEENTH FOR NEXT JUNE AND STUFF. AND SO I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT WE HAVE CONTINUITY ON ALL THAT. BUT I THINK THAT WE NEED TO KIND OF WORK ON, YOU KNOW, GETTING THEM WHAT THEY NEED. SO AND SO I HAVE TO SAY ABOUT COMMITTEES. THANK YOU. ANYBODY ELSE? I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ALSO, WE'VE HAD DIFFERENT ITERATIONS OF IT, NOT JUST THIS ONE, BUT LIKE BACK IN 2017, I WAS ON A VERSION OF IT THAT HAD EXISTED FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS. AND IT'S THE SAME COMPLAINTS WITH BOTH ITERATIONS IS THE PEOPLE JOIN THINKING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE VERY HELPFUL AND THEY'RE GOING TO KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON.

BUT BECAUSE OF THE NON-DISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS, WE CAN'T REALLY TELL THEM WHAT'S GOING ON. AND SO YOU'RE RIGHT, IT BECOMES A WE SHOULD BE CHEERLEADING. AND IN 2017, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR TOLD US IS. WE'RE TELLING YOU THIS WITH ALL THIS REDACTED INFORMATION, SO THAT IF YOU SEE SOMETHING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, YOU COULD SAY, NO, THE CITY IS DOING AWESOME, WHICH IT IS. BUT YOU ALSO JUST DON'T HAVE A LOT OF INFORMATION.

AND IT FEELS LIKE LIKE YOUR TIME IS NOT RESPECTED WHEN YOU DO THAT. SO I THINK YOU HIT ON SOMETHING WITH THAT. I'M NOT OPPOSED TO FOLDING ARTS AND PARKS TOGETHER. IF WE CREATE A STRUCTURE FOR IT. I KNOW SOME OTHER CITIES HAVE DONE THAT, AND THEY ACTUALLY CALL IT LIKE ARTS AND PARKS. AND I REMEMBER THAT BECAUSE OF THE RHYME. AND IT'S HELPFUL. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE CONSIDERED IS WE GET ALL OF THESE VOLUNTEERS FOR LPAC EVERY YEAR, AND I ALWAYS SAY THE SAME THING TO ALL THE APPLICANTS. I SAY, IF YOU DON'T MAKE IT LPAC IS ALWAYS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS BECAUSE THEY DO THEIR SUBCOMMITTEES TO DO THE EVENTS AND THEY HAVE QUORUM ISSUES, SO THEY CAN ONLY HAVE, WHAT, 2 OR 3 PEOPLE ON A SUBCOMMITTEE. AND SO THAT'S ALL THAT CAN WORK ON ALL THESE BIG EVENTS. AND THEY NEED VOLUNTEERS, BUT NOBODY VOLUNTEERS. AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO RECOMMEND THAT WE MAYBE REQUIRE IN THE FUTURE THAT IF YOU WANT TO BE CONSIDERED FOR THE BOARD, YOU HAVE TO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR AT LEAST A SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME TO KIND OF SEE WHAT WHAT IT'S LIKE AND TO

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LEND A HAND, BECAUSE EVERYBODY WANTS TO BE ON BOARD, BUT NOBODY WANTS TO LIKE, DO THE WORK. RIGHT. WE WERE AT HISTORICAL COMMISSION I WAS AT LAST NIGHT, LAST NIGHT. AND THAT WAS KIND OF WHAT WE TALKED ABOUT, THAT YOU WANT VOLUNTEERS TO SHOW UP SO THAT THEY CAN REALLY, TRULY HAVE AN IDEA OF WHAT IT'S LIKE TO SERVE ON THE BOARD BEFORE THEY'RE OBLIGATED TO BE AT MEETINGS EVERY MONTH AND DO THAT. SO WE WE JUST HAD THAT CONVERSATION LAST NIGHT ACTUALLY COMING UP TO THE MICROPHONE IN OUR DISCUSSION LAST NIGHT, WE WE WERE DISCUSSING HOW WHEN WE GET NEW COMMISSIONERS, WE SPEND SIX MONTHS TEACHING THEM WHAT WE DO.

SO WE LOSE SIX MONTHS WORTH OF ACTIVITY. AND LIKE THE ARTS COMMISSION, WE WE HAVE SCHEDULE.

WE HAVE THINGS TO DO. WE HAVE TO DO. AND WE RELY ON VOLUNTEERS AND AND WE ONLY HAVE THAT SMALL AMOUNT OF TIME TO DO IT IN. SO I ABSOLUTELY 100% SECOND YOUR YOUR IDEA OF LET'S REQUIRE VOLUNTEERS FIRST SO THAT THEY CAN LEARN WHAT THE COMMITTEES ARE DOING, ESPECIALLY FOR LPAC IF YOU FOLD IT IN PARKS, WHATEVER, AND THEN HISTORY COMMITTEE BECAUSE IT WILL BE EXTREMELY BENEFICIAL TO US. THANK YOU, THANK YOU I THINK MAYBE HOLD ON. SORRY.

MAYBE ANOTHER WAY TO CONSIDER IT IS CREATING LIKE A SCORING MATRIX FOR WHEN WE'RE APPOINTING PEOPLE. AND YOU COULD GIVE EXTRA POINTS FOR IF YOU VOLUNTEERED AND, YOU KNOW, VARIOUS OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. IF YOU'RE IN AN INDUSTRY THAT WE WANT TO ATTRACT, STUFF LIKE THAT. COUNCILMEMBER. THANK YOU, AND I APOLOGIZE. I DIDN'T MEAN TO JUMP IN. THE INTENTIONAL DIRECTION THAT THAT I HAVE IN MIND AND THAT I WOULD ADVOCATE FOR IS MORE STRUCTURE, NOT JUST AT THE COMMITTEE MEMBER AT THE COMMITTEE LEVEL AND DIRECTION FOR CHAIRS OF COMMITTEES, BUT ALSO A MORE DEFINED STRUCTURE OF SUBCOMMITTEES, WHICH LENDS ITSELF TO THE TYPE OF CONVERSATION THAT YOU'RE HAVING RIGHT NOW. BECAUSE IF THE SUBCOMMITTEES ARE DEFINED AND THAT COULD BE REDEFINED YEAR OVER YEAR, I MEAN, WE DON'T NEED TO HAVE THEM PERMANENTLY DEFINED IN A CERTAIN WAY. BUT IF THOSE SUBCOMMITTEES EXIST, THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE PEOPLE WHO CAN COME FROM SUBCOMMITTEES TO APPLY FOR COMMISSION OR COMMITTEES SEATS. AND IF YOU'RE NOT, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN AGAIN GAIN SOME OF THAT KNOWLEDGE, HAVE A WORKING UNDERSTANDING OF THE COMMITTEE BY HAVING SERVED ON A SUBCOMMITTEE, AGAIN, UTILIZING SUBJECT MATTER EXPERTISE AND, YOU KNOW, LIFE EXPERIENCE. THERE'S PEOPLE WHO COULD DEFINITELY COME IN AND GIVE THEIR EXPERIENCE TO CERTAIN COMMITTEES THAT WOULD WHERE IT WOULD MAKE SENSE, RIGHT? YEAH. ANYTHING ELSE? SO WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK IF WE DID THIS, IF WE GO AHEAD AND APPOINT TONIGHT TO EVERYTHING EXCEPT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AT YOUR NEXT MEETING, HAVE A CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT YOU WANT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TO LOOK LIKE. AND FOR THE REST, WORKSHOP IT WHENEVER YOU'RE NOT WORKSHOP. BUT I THINK IT SHOULD BE A RETREAT LEVEL DISCUSSION. SO YOU HAVE MORE THAN AN HOUR AND WE CAN HAVE INPUT FROM STAFF AS WELL AS COUNCIL. AND Y'ALL CAN SET UP HOW YOU WANT TO FIGURE OUT THE VOLUNTEER SITUATION. IF YOU WANT TO DO A SCORING MATRIX, OR IF YOU WANT TO HAVE JUST HARD AND FAST REQUIREMENTS AND REALLY THE DIRECTION THAT YOU WANT TO GIVE TO EVERY ONE OF THE COMMITTEES SO THAT THEY AREN'T JUST OFF DOING WHATEVER WITHOUT US BEING INVOLVED AT ALL. BECAUSE I FEEL LIKE SOMETIMES THE THE COMMITTEES ARE OFF DOING STUFF, WE HAVE NO IDEA. AND IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE THAT WAY. AND MAYBE THIS CAN LEAD TO A REWRITE OF OUR ORDINANCES. TO MAKE THINGS MORE CLEAR, I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY, IN THE PAST, WE'VE DONE A SUBCOMMITTEE TO WORK ON THAT AND PRESENT IT TO COUNCIL. OR DO WE WANT TO JUST HAVE IT AS AN OPEN RETREAT? I KNOW IT'S WHATEVER YOU WANT THAT WOULD BE. I THINK IT MAKES SENSE. I KNOW I THINK IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE FOR SUBCOMMITTEE. I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T I DON'T WANT US TO WAIT TILL NEXT OCTOBER. NO. RIGHT. AND I THINK IT'S SOMETHING WE CAN KIND OF SIT DOWN AND IRON OUT AND BRING BACK AND KIND OF GO THROUGH TO GET TO WHERE WE WANT TO BE, BECAUSE I THINK THERE'S THERE'S DIFFERENT STRUCTURES WITHIN DIFFERENT THINGS. THERE'S ALSO A LOT OF COMPLIMENTARY STUFF BETWEEN SOME OF THESE THINGS. SO IF YOU PUT HISTORICAL AND ARTS AND CULTURE UNDER PARKS AND YOU CREATE A I MEAN, THERE'S SOME POSSIBILITIES THERE AND THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF. SO I THINK THAT I WOULD PREFER THAT BECAUSE MY QUESTION WAS GOING TO BE IS, HEY, WHEN WOULD WE ACTUALLY GET THIS DONE AND HOW CAN WE GET IT DONE? SO I HEAR YOU VOLUNTEERING, I'M THINKING I WAS THINKING THIS COULD BE DONE PROBABLY EASILY IN TIME FOR THE APRIL APPOINTMENTS FOR THE UNEXPIRED TERMS, BECAUSE IT'S ONE OF THE THINGS TOO, LIKE WE GET ALL THESE VOLUNTEERS THAT ARE EXCITED AND THEN THEY GET ON THE BOARDS AND THEY'RE LIKE, WELL, THIS ISN'T WHAT I THOUGHT IT WAS. AND THEN THEY DROP OUT

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AND THEN WE HAVE TO REAPPOINT TO THEIR UNEXPIRED TERMS. SO I THINK Y'ALL CAN GET IT DONE BY THEN. JUST JUST TO BE CLEAR, THERE'S A BUNCH OF OCTOBER 2025 POSITIONS THAT ARE EXPIRING. SO WOULD THOSE COMMITTEES JUST HAVE VACANCIES UNTIL SAID TIME? I THINK WE SHOULD JUST APPOINT FOR THOSE TONIGHT. OKAY. WHAT DO YOU GUYS THINK STAFF EVERYTHING TONIGHT. RIGHT. I WOULD HOLD OFF ON EDC. OH YEAH OKAY. YEAH. EVERYTHING EXCEPT FOR AND HAVE YOU DO A RESTRUCTURE? YES. YEAH. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS ONE? ALL RIGHT. PERFECT. THANK YOU. SO Y'ALL THINK ABOUT IF YOU WANT TO SERVE ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE. I MEAN, THERE'S NOTHING THAT SAYS YOU CAN'T, RIGHT? YOU CAN GET APPOINTED. JUST FILL OUT YOUR APPLICATION. ONE OTHER THING YOU MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER AND WORK WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY ON. AND I'M SORRY, DARREN, YOU'RE GOING TO HATE THIS. WE ALWAYS GET COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE COMMITTEES FOLLOWING THE OPEN MEETINGS. ACT LIKE WE DO, ESPECIALLY WITH THE VOLUNTEERS. AND SO I THINK IT'S WORTH AT LEAST HAVING THE CONVERSATION AND EXPLORING. ARE THERE OTHER OPTIONS? AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THROWING THE BABY OUT WITH THE BATHWATER. THERE CAN BE SOMETHING THAT STILL HAS TRANSPARENCY BUT IS MORE FUNCTIONAL. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL AT SOME POINT, MAYBE FOR A RETREAT FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION OF WHAT THE OPTIONS ARE AND THE PROS AND CONS, AND DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO KEEP GOING WITH THE SAME STRUCTURE AND RULES THAT WE HAVE NOW. DO YOU WANT TO DO THAT? YEAH. OKAY. STAFF, DO Y'ALL HAVE WHAT YOU NEED FROM

[24. Convene into Executive Session pursuant to Section 551.074, Personnel, to discuss appointments to the Planning and Zoning Commission and Board of Adjustment.

Reconvene into open session.]

US? ALL RIGHT OKAY. WITH THAT WE ARE GOING TO MOVE TO ITEM 24. CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO SECTION 551.07 FOR PERSONNEL TO DISCUSS APPOINTMENTS TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT. THE ALL RIGHT. WO RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION AT 10:02 P.M. ITEM NUMBER 25, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION. OH, WAIT. HOLD ON. ITEM 24. NO ACTION IS BEING TAKEN AS A RESULT OF THE EXECUTIVE SESSION. ITEM 25. AND NOW I'M RECONVENING INTO OPEN SESSION.

[25. Discuss and consider action on appointments to the following boards, commissions and committees: Board of Adjustment, Economic Development Committee, Ethics Commission, Leander Public Arts and Cultural Commission, Planning and Zoning Commission, Tax Increment Reinvestment Zone No.1(TIRZ) Board, and the Development Authority Board, as well as the Historical Preservation Commission and the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, if needed.]

THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. WHAT WOULD WE DO WITHOUT YOU? ITEM 25 DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON APPOINTMENTS TO THE FOLLOWING BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE, ETHICS COMMISSION, LEANDER. PUBLIC ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION. COMMISSION. PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION. TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONE NUMBER ONE, TOURIST BOARD AND THE DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY BOARD, AS WELL AS THE HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION AND THE PARKS AND RECREATION ADVISORY BOARD. DEPUTY CITY SECRETARY BROWN, GOOD EVENING. WELCOME. GOOD EVENING. MAYOR. COUNCIL MEMBERS, I'M FILLING IN FOR DEBORAH EISENBERG THIS EVENING. SO PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH US.

YOU ALWAYS DO A FABULOUS JOB. NO, THEY KNOW I'M APOLOGIZE. I'M GOING TO READ SOME OF THIS BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IT ALL OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD. ANNUAL APPOINTMENTS ARE MADE IN OCTOBER TO FOR EXPIRING TERMS TO CITY BOARDS, COMMISSIONS AND COMMITTEES, AS WELL AS ANY VACANCIES TO BE CONSIDERED BY CITY COUNCIL. THERE ARE FIVE BOARDS WITH EXPIRING TERMS AND TWO BOARDS WITH VACANCIES WITH UNEXPIRED TERMS. THERE ARE NO EXPIRING TERMS OR VACANCIES ON THE LAND OR HISTORICAL PRESERVATION COMMISSION OR THE PARKS AND RECREATION BOARD.

APPOINTMENTS TO THE BOARDS WILL BE CONDUCTED BY BALLOT PROCESS. BALLOTS FOR EACH OF THE BOARDS WILL BE HANDED OUT ONE AT A TIME FOR YOU TO VOTE ON IT. ONCE YOU HAVE MADE YOUR SELECTIONS, WE WILL PASS THEM DOWN TO DARA, AND DARA WILL TALLY THE VOTES FOR EACH OF THE BOARDS. ONCE THE BALLOTS HAVE BEEN TALLIED, DARA WILL READ THE SLATE OF APPOINTMENTS TO BE TAKEN ON ONE MOTION. WE'RE GOING TO START WITH THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT. I KNOW THERE ARE CERTAIN ASPECTS TO THIS THAT I'M NOT VERY FAMILIAR WITH. SO DARA WILL FILL YOU IN BEFORE I PASS THE BALLOTS OUT FOR A VOTE. MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. THE TYPICAL PRACTICE WITH A BOA BOARD. BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT IS ALTERNATES. YOU HAVE ALTERNATES ON THAT BOARD. THAT'S THE ONLY BOARD. WE HAVE ALTERNATES, AND THEY SERVE AS NON-VOTING MEMBERS AND AS VOTING MEMBER POSITIONS. OPEN UP. THEY MOVE UP TO FULL VOTING MEMBERS. THIS YEAR WE HAVE TWO PLACES THAT ARE OPEN, COMPLETELY OPEN WITH ONE POSITION, DESIRING TO BE REAPPOINTED. SO ALTERNATE NUMBER ONE, CYNTHIA ROSENTHAL, WITH THE PRACTICE THAT WE HAVE, WOULD BE MOVING UP TO FULL VOTING MEMBER AS WELL AS JOEL BACA WOULD BE MOVING UP TO FULL VOTING MEMBER. SHANTELL GAMBOA IS DESIRING REAPPOINTMENT AS WELL. AND LAURA DAVIS, THE OTHER ALTERNATE, HAS CHOSEN NOT

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TO BE REAPPOINTED. THE ALTERNATE POSITIONS. IF WE DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH TO FILL THOSE POSITIONS, THEN THAT'S OKAY. THEY'RE THERE TO FILL IN. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. SAVE IT, FRAME IT. AND SO, DARA, I'M SORRY YOU WOULD LIKE US TO WRITE DOWN. WOULD YOU LIKE US TO WRITE DOWN? THE CURRENT ALTERNATES ARE MOVING UP ON EACH OF OUR BALLOTS. THANK YOU. IF THAT'S YOUR DESIRE, YOU NEED TO SEPARATE THESE THREE AND THEN WRITE THAT CIRCLE. SO. THE TOTAL MEMBERS REFLECTED ON THE BALLOT FOR THE OPEN OFFICE POSITIONS. SO YOU HAVE ACTUAL VOTING MEMBERS. POSITIONS HAVE BEEN POSITIONS YOU. YEAH. WHAT'S THAT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. NEXT WE HAVE THE ETHICS COMMISSION. IT SAYS CIRCLE UP TO THREE. PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE TWO APPLICANTS FOR THIS. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO. THANK YOU. NEXT WE HAVE LEANDER PUBLIC ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION. IT SAYS CIRCLE UP TO FOUR AND WE HAVE TEN. WELL THANK YOU I LIKE THAT IT'S PINK COLOR. THAT MAKES ME HAPPY. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU.

NEXT WE HAVE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION CIRCLE UP TO FIVE AND WE HAVE 15 APPLICANTS.

AND THE LAST ONE WE HAVE IS TOURIST DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY. IT SAYS CIRCLE UP TO ONE. AND WE HAD ONE APPLICANT.

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BUSINESS. YES. THIS. IS FOR THE. NEXT. HI. SO WE DO HAVE A RUNOFF FOR THE LEANDER PUBLIC ARTS AND CULTURE COMMISSION. YOU'LL NEED TO PICK TWO OUT OF THE THREE THAT WE HAVE STARRED ON THE SHEETS. AND SO I'LL PASS THEM BACK OUT AND SAME PROCESS AND PASS THEM DOWN TO DARA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OUT OF THREE. YOU HAVE. THREE.

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THANK.

ONE FOR THE DISTRICT.

AND. SECONDARY ARTS. AND. THREE FOR.

I. I FEEL THAT. THEY WE ARE READY. THANK YOU. WE'LL READ OFF THE RESULTS. SO YOUR SLATE IS GOING TO BE FOR BOA. FULL VOTING MEMBERS WILL BE JUAN ALANIS, CYNTHIA ROSENTHAL AND JOE BACHIE, WITH TARA JOACHIM AS THE ALTERNATE NUMBER ONE. I APOLOGIZE IF I'M BUTCHERING NAMES. I'M REALLY SORRY. LEANDER. PUBLIC ARTS AND CULTURAL WILL BE MATT PITCHER, KYLA SPADY, MONIQUE PARKER, AND READY EUDORA. PLANNING AND ZONING WILL BE DONNIE MEHAN, JAMES OLIVER, JAY COATS, KAREN LEWIS, AND TYLER BRAY, AND TERSE AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY WILL BE SHEETAL GAMBOA. ETHICS. SORRY, SORRY, STEPHANIE. ETHICS. WE NEED THE ETHICS. THANKS. OH I APOLOGIZE, WE HAVE IS KATRINA LUDDINGTON AND ROBIN. ROFFLER. DINA. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU.

SORRY FOR BUTCHERING THOSE NAMES. I'M SO SORRY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. IT'S 1030 AT NIGHT. IT'S LONG NIGHT. ALL RIGHT. I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE THE SLATE AS READ OFF. CITY SECRETARY, SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR

[26. Discuss and consider action on an Ordinance amending Division 3, Article 1.09 of the Code of Ordinances governing the Old Town Development Incentives Program to rename the program the "Old Town Revitalization Program"; providing the purpose of the program; establishing the available incentives; providing for an application process; establishing the Old Town Revitalization Fund; providing effective date and open meetings clauses; and providing for related matters.]

PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT. ITEM 26, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON ORDINANCE AMENDING DIVISION THREE, ARTICLE 1.09 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES GOVERNING THE OLD TOWN DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES PROGRAM, TO RENAME THE PROGRAM THE OLD TOWN REVITALIZATION PROGRAM, PROVIDING THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM. ESTABLISHING THE AVAILABLE INCENTIVES.

PROVIDING FOR AN APPLICATION PROCESS. ESTABLISHING THE OLD TOWN REVITALIZATION FUND, PROVIDING EFFECTIVE DATE AND OPEN MEETINGS CLAUSES, AND PROVIDING FOR RELATED MATTERS.

ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER. GOOD EVENING. GOOD NIGHT, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. IT'S ACTUALLY NIGHT NOW. OKAY, WELL, THIS IS MY LAST PRESENTATION BEFORE MAYOR DELISLE, SO I'M GOING TO MAKE THIS FUN AND SHORT. SO PART OF THE REASONING BEHIND THIS OLD TOWN REVITALIZATION PROGRAM IS, I BELIEVE THIS IS GOING TO BE ONE OF MANY CONVERSATIONS WE'LL HAVE WITH COUNCIL AND REALLY ENVISIONING WHAT OLD TOWN'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE. AND SO THIS FIRST STAB IS LOOKING AT THE GRANT PROGRAM THAT'S IN PLACE. IT'S JUST A QUICK HISTORY. THE COUNCIL FORMER COUNCIL ADOPTED THE OLD TOWN DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES PROGRAM IN 2015. SOME AMENDMENTS HAVE BEEN MADE THROUGH THAT. IN 2020, THERE WERE COVID BUSINESS GRANTS THAT

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WERE ADOPTED VIA ORDINANCE THAT WERE WENT INTO THIS PROGRAM. SO THE WAY THAT WE'RE SHAPING THIS PROGRAM NOW IS TO REALLY FOCUS ON THE REVITALIZATION OF OLD TOWN AND REALLY ENCOURAGE BUSINESSES TO COME UP AND MAKE IMPROVEMENTS OR NEW BUSINESSES TO COME IN AND REALLY HELP US BUILD THAT VISION THAT WE WANT HERE IN OLD TOWN. AS PART OF THAT, WE REALLY WANT TO ESTABLISH TWO GRANT PROGRAMS UNDER THIS. THE FIRST IS FOR FACADE IMPROVEMENTS. AND SO WE WOULD PROVIDE GRANTS WITH REIMBURSEMENTS UP TO $30,000. THE SECOND WOULD BE FOR INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS, AND WE WOULD PROVIDE REIMBURSEMENTS UP TO $65,000.

AND WHEN WE WERE WORKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON THIS, WAS LOOKING AT SOME OTHER CITIES IN TERMS OF, YOU KNOW, WHAT WERE THEY PROVIDING? AND ALSO LOOKING AT OUR HISTORY, TOO. WE'VE HAD A HISTORY OF AROUND, I WOULD SAY, AVERAGE 35 TO 40,000 IN TERMS OF PREVIOUS FUNDING THAT WAS APPROVED. AND JUST SOME ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS, MAKING SURE THAT THEY ARE LOCATED IN OLD TOWN. THEY COMPLY WITH ALL OUR CITY STANDARDS AND REQUIREMENTS AND THEN ALSO BE COMPLETED WITHIN A SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD. AND THAT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, INCLUDED IN THE DEVELOPMENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT. THE APPLICATION PROCESS. THIS IS SOMETHING WE REALLY WANTED TO STREAMLINE AND MAKE IT EASY. THE FORMER PROCESS WAS VERY CUMBERSOME. IT REQUIRED BUSINESSES TO DO A BUSINESS PLAN. A LOT OF THESE ARE SMALL BUSINESSES. IT'S VERY HARD FOR THEM TO REALLY PROJECT OUT LONG TERM IN TERMS OF WHAT THEIR REVENUE IS GOING TO BE. AND SO WE REALLY WANTED TO MAKE THIS AN EASY PROCESS FOR CURRENT BUSINESSES AND SMALL BUSINESSES TO APPLY FOR THE GRANT, AND THAT'S SOMETHING THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT HAS ALREADY DEVELOPED. AND SO WITH THE PASSING OF THIS ORDINANCE, YOU KNOW, WE WOULD WORK ON COMMUNICATING THAT OUT, YOU KNOW, SOME SORT OF GUIDE AND SHARING IT OUT WITH THE COMMUNITY. SO AND WITH THAT, YOU KNOW, ANYTHING THAT COMES IN WITH THE APPLICATION, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT WOULD REVIEW THAT AND THEN PROVIDE A RECOMMENDATION TO COUNCIL IF IT'S SOMETHING THAT WOULD FIT WITHIN THE VISION OF OLD TOWN. AND JUST TO GET Y'ALL'S BRAIN THINKING, THE CITY OF FRISCO HAS RECENTLY STARTED SHAPING THEIR HISTORIC DOWNTOWN AREA. IT IS LAID OUT VERY SIMILAR TO OURS, REALLY NO HISTORIC BUILDINGS THERE AND EVEN THE STREETS. IT'S KIND OF SHAPED HOW WE ARE HERE, SIMILAR TO CITY HALL AND A LOT OF THE BUSINESSES. AND SO WHAT THEY'VE DONE IS YOU CAN IMAGINE A STAGED PARK KIND OF OUT IN THAT AREA TO AS AN ENTERTAINMENT CENTER OR FOR EVENT SETTING, AND THEN HAVING A LOT OF THE BUSINESSES. ALONG THE STREETS WITH WALKABILITY AND BEAUTIFICATION AND REALLY LIVENING UP THAT OLD TOWN, THEIR HISTORIC RAIL DISTRICT AREA. SO JUST WANTED TO SHARE THOSE EXAMPLES WITH Y'ALL. AND SO I KNOW WE'LL HAVE SOME CONTINUED DISCUSSIONS AS WE THINK ABOUT HOW WE DO THINGS WITH OUR BRANDING. AS PART OF THAT WORK. OLD TOWN WILL BE PART OF THAT, AND WE ALSO HAVE OUR FACILITIES MASTER PLAN.

THERE ARE OPPORTUNITIES FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS AS WELL AS WE LOOK AT THIS AREA. SO WE HAVE A LOT OF EXCITING THINGS COMING UP. SO IF YOU ALL HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER THEM. THANK YOU COUNCIL. MR. SO ON THIS SO ONE OF THE I HAVE TWO QUESTIONS. SO ONE, I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY, CAN BUSINESSES THAT ARE LOOKING TO MOVE INTO THE AREA APPLY FOR THESE GRANTS? OKAY. AND THEN CAN A GROUP OF BUSINESSES COME TOGETHER AND APPLY FOR A SERIES OF GRANTS. KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, FIVE BUSINESSES ARE SAYING, HEY, WE WANT TO DO THIS.

THEY ALL COME FOR THE DIFFERENT GRANTS AND YOU KIND OF APPROVE THEM ALL AT ONCE. SO THEY KIND OF, YOU KNOW, KIND OF A BIGGER CONCEPT, WHICH IS A LITTLE CONCEPT. YEAH. I THINK WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WE HAVE SOME OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY THINK ABOUT, YOU KNOW, HOW THAT FITS WITHIN. SO IF IT'S A GROUP OF BUSINESSES, I FEEL LIKE, YOU KNOW, WOULD MEET THE THE NEEDS AND THE BUSINESSES SAY, YEAH, YEAH, YEAH. THEN THAT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO APPROVE THOSE, YOU KNOW, AS YOU KNOW, SEPARATE GRANTS FOR THOSE GROUPS. BUT CAN YOU GUYS, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROCESS, MAKE IT SO THAT YOU CAN ENCOURAGE SOME OF THAT STUFF. YEAH. YEAH. AND THAT WAY THEY CAN COME AS A GROUP AND GET APPROVED AS A GROUP AND NOT NECESSARILY IN PIECEMEAL. AND ONE GETS DONE AND ONE DOESN'T GET DONE OR THINGS LIKE THAT. YEAH. BECAUSE A LOT OF IT TOO IS, YOU KNOW, WITH COORDINATION AND STUFF, RIGHT, WITH ANY KIND OF UTILITY LINES AS WELL, SIDEWALK IMPROVEMENTS, PARKING, THOSE THINGS. I THINK THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, A GOOD IDEA. GOOD QUESTION. SO IN YOUR PRESENTATION, IT SAID THAT THEY MUST COMPLY WITH THE SMART CODE.

DOESN'T SAY THAT IN ORDINANCE. WE'RE GOING TO MAKE THEM COMPLY THE SMART CODE, BECAUSE I HEAR FROM SOME OF THE BUSINESSES DOWN HERE SOMETIMES THAT'S CHALLENGING. SAID IT'S NOT IN THE ORDINANCE. I DON'T I DIDN'T READ IT IN ORDINANCE BECAUSE I WAS LOOKING SPECIFICALLY BECAUSE IT SAID IN YOUR PRESENTATION. OKAY, IT'S ON PAGE TWO. I'M SORRY. IT'S ON THE EXHIBIT A. UNDER SECTION 1.09.074. I DIDN'T GET THAT. YEAH. SECTION TWO. YEAH. CAN WE

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STRIKE THAT? YES. ABSOLUTELY. YEAH. OR DO YOU. YEAH. YEAH. SO IN OLD TOWN WHERE THE SMART CODE APPLIES, IT GIVES WAIVERS TO THE DEVELOPMENT SO THEY CAN DO THINGS LIKE CRUSH GRANITE PARKING. SO IT PROVIDES MORE FLEXIBILITY IN THAT AREA. I THINK YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE SMART CODE LIKE NORTH LINE WHERE IT'S NEW BUILD AREAS. BUT IN OLD TOWN IT'S A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. SO I THINK IT'D BE SMART TO KEEP THAT IN IF POSSIBLE. OKAY. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THE DIFFERENCE. THANK YOU ALL FOR PUTTING THAT TOGETHER FOR THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE IN THE AREA. MY ONLY HESITATION AND CONCERN IS WE SAW, I THINK IT WAS A COUPLE MEETINGS AGO WITH THE SOCIAL THAT WAS WANTING TO OPEN THAT. THE FOCUS OF OLD TOWN IS MAYBE NOT WHAT WE INTENDED IT TO BE AND WHAT WE DID. THIS WHOLE MASTER PLAN AROUND IT REALLY HASN'T COME TO FRUITION IN THAT WAY THAT WE WANTED IT TO. AND SO MAYBE THIS IS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR US TO RECONSIDER WHAT OLD TOWN SHOULD BE AND COULD BE, AND WOULD WE WANT TO BE APPROVING THIS, OR WAIT UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT WHAT THE DIRECTION IS? WE'RE GOING TO GO WITH OLD TOWN, AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THE REST OF Y'ALL FEEL ABOUT THAT, BUT I'D LIKE THE MAYOR'S SUGGESTION OF IT BEING AN ART DISTRICT, BUT ALSO LIKE ADDING AN ART IN HISTORY, THIS WHOLE AREA. AND THAT REALLY GIVES A UNIQUE FOCUS TO THE AREA. INSTEAD OF JUST BEING ABOUT EATERIES AND RESTAURANTS. I KNOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE ABOUT SHOPS, BUT WE HAVEN'T SEEN A WHOLE LOT OF THAT COME TO OLD TOWN YET. AND SO THAT'S MY ONLY HESITATION.

DO WE CONTINUE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS WHEN WE DON'T HAVE A CLEAR CONCEPT OF WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO WITH OLD TOWN? UNLESS WE DO, AND NOBODY ELSE HAS AN ISSUE WITH HOW THINGS ARE WORKING RIGHT NOW. YEAH, I THINK THE THE ISSUE THAT WE'RE FINDING FROM JUST WITH, I WOULD SAY, LACK OF APPLICATIONS THAT ARE COMING IN UNDER THE OLD PROGRAM RULES WAS THE WAY THAT WAS LAID OUT FOR THE APPLICATION PROCESS. THIS REALLY OUTLINES LIKE THE DIFFERENT FACADE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD QUALIFY UNDER THAT GRANT, AND THE DIFFERENT IMPROVEMENTS THAT WOULD QUALIFY UNDER INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS TO REALLY HELP GUIDE FOLKS AS THEY COME IN. LIKE IF IT'S, YOU KNOW, SOMETHING THAT WOULD BE OF INTEREST TO THE COUNCIL. AND THAT'S ALSO TRUE FOR COUNCIL, FOR YOU ALL TO HAVE THAT DISCRETION AS WELL. DOES THIS REALLY FIT IN TERMS AS, AS WE'RE TRYING TO WORK THROUGH THE THINGS AND IF WE'RE SEEING SOMETHING THAT COMES IN, THAT'S DEFINITELY A DISCUSSION WE'LL HAVE WITH COUNCIL AS WELL. UNTIL WE REALLY KIND OF REFINE WHAT THAT NEW VISION IS FOR OLD TOWN. AND ONE OF THE THOUGHTS I'VE HAD TOO IS, YOU KNOW, WE CAN CONTINUE TO WORK EITHER AT A FUTURE RETREAT OR WORKSHOP IS LOOK AT, OKAY, WHAT ARE THE SPECIFIC USES, AS YOU MENTIONED, THAT YOU WANT IN OLD TOWN? HOW DO WE WANT TO LAY IT OUT? AND I THINK WITH THE OPPORTUNITY, WITH THE BRANDING AND THE FACILITY MASTER PLAN, WE CAN REALLY CREATE THE CONCEPTUAL VISUAL. RIGHT. AND WE CAN HELP KIND OF PINPOINT, HEY, THIS WOULD BE A GREAT AREA FOR US, ACTIVITIES OR, YOU KNOW, ENTERTAINMENT. AND THEN THIS WOULD BE A GOOD ACTIVITY SPOT FOR LIKE SHOPPING OR RESTAURANT ROAD, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WE CAN HELP SHAPE. SO YOU DON'T SEE THE APPROVAL OF THIS A HINDRANCE TO KNOW THE BRANDING ASPECT? NO, NO, I THINK THIS WILL JUST MAKE THE APPLICATION PROCESS A LOT EASIER. AND I THINK IT'S A LOT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO LOOK AT THE RULES AND SEE THAT, HEY, THESE ARE THINGS THAT THE CITY CAN ACTUALLY HELP US WITH FOR FACADE AND INFRASTRUCTURE. AND THEN WE CAN KIND OF WE CAN WORK WITH COUNCIL ON THAT TO SEE WHETHER OR NOT IT'S A FIT. YEAH. SOME OF THE THE IMPRESSION I GOT IN TALKING TO PEOPLE WAS THAT THE LACK OF APPLICATIONS UNDER THE OLD PROGRAM PROGRAM WAS BECAUSE THEY JUST DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT, AND WE WEREN'T REALLY ADVOCATING IT. SO WHAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT IN THIS ONE? YEAH. SO I'VE HAD SOME IDEAS THAT ARE ALREADY BREWING IN MY HEAD IS DEFINITELY THAT COMMUNICATION PUSH. SO A HOT DOG CART, CAN I BUY A HOT DOG CART? TODD OKAY, GOOD. I'LL PUSH HIM EVERYWHERE. BUT, YOU KNOW, REALLY GETTING IT OUT THERE. AND I WANTED TO CREATE A REALLY A GUIDE. RIGHT WITH HERE ARE NEW PROGRAMS, GET PEOPLE EXCITED FOR CURRENT BUSINESSES AND PROSPECTIVE BUSINESSES AS WELL. AND MAYBE ENTICE SOME OTHERS WHO ARE IN OTHER COMMUNITIES, RIGHT. WHO DON'T REALLY HAVE THAT FEEL THAT WE'RE TRYING TO BUILD HERE IN OLD TOWN. IT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY ENGAGE WITH THEM ON THAT. SO DEFINITELY A COMMUNICATION PUSH ON THAT. I KNOW WE ARE ALSO HAVING A DEVELOPER FORUM IN NOVEMBER, SO THAT'S ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO GET PEOPLE EXCITED TO COME HERE. AND A LOT OF, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT NETWORKING EVENTS. DEVELOPMENT FORUM. CAN YOU TELL US ABOUT THAT? OH YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. WE ARE HAVING A DEVELOPER FORUM ON WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12TH FROM 6 P.M. TO 7:30 P.M. AT THE LEANDER ACTIVITY CENTER. THE CITY WILL BE GIVING A

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PRESENTATION ON HOW DO YOU CONDUCT BUSINESS WITH THE CITY. THAT INCLUDES LEARNING ABOUT LAND USE, RIGHT? LEARNING ABOUT WHAT GOES IN IN SPECIFIC AREA, WHAT KIND OF CAPITAL YOU KNOW, PROJECTS MIGHT BE, YOU KNOW, IMPACTING THAT AREA. WHAT OUR PERMITTING PROCESS, PLANNING PROCESS, OUR CODES, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. AND THERE'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY. WE'LL HAVE STAFF RESOURCE TABLES THERE FROM KIND OF DIFFERENT DEPARTMENTS JUST TO PROVIDE EVEN MORE INFORMATION AFTER THE PRESENTATION. AND SO I ENCOURAGE EVERYBODY TO COME TO THAT. SO IS IT JUST FOR PEOPLE WHO HAVE BUILT A BUSINESS BEFORE? CAN ANYBODY COME AND LEARN? ANYBODY CAN COME. WELL, WE'RE HOPING TO GET A FLIER FINALIZED BY TOMORROW. AND SO WE'LL BE POSTING AND SHARING THAT OUT. AND THERE'LL BE AN RSVP LINK SO WE CAN GAUGE HOW MANY ATTENDEES WILL SHOW UP TO THAT. SO FANTASTIC. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO RECOGNIZE COUNCIL MEMBER NADINE. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WHAT WHAT YOU'RE ASKING HERE. WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE IS JUST STREAMLINE AND SIMPLIFY THE APPLICATION PROCESS ITSELF. BUT YOU KEEP TALKING ABOUT LIKE DEFINING, DEFINING REVITALIZATION AND THE IDEATION AROUND WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO IN THIS SPACE. THOSE MORE PARTICULAR TO LIKE CODE ENFORCEMENT TYPE ITEMS OR ARE THEY MORE WHAT I WHAT I WOULD HATE TO SEE HAPPEN HERE IS THAT WE WE MAKE IT EASIER FOR PEOPLE TO APPLY, WHICH BY MOST MEASURE WOULD PROBABLY ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO APPLY.

BUT THEN THE IDEATION COMING FROM THE APPLICANTS DOESN'T NECESSARILY MEET THE VISION.

RIGHT. AND THAT'S A THAT'S A RISK. RIGHT. SO I CAN DEFINITELY SEE THE PRUDENCE AND SIMPLIFYING THE PROCESS TO ENCOURAGE MORE PEOPLE TO COME. BUT I ECHO COUNCILMAN.

THOMPSON'S THOUGHTS IN THAT WE WE'RE A LITTLE LACKING OF THE, OF THE, OF THE VISION. RIGHT.

AND I KIND OF FEEL LIKE THIS IS A LITTLE PREMATURE, GIVEN SOME OF THE OTHER THINGS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT NOW. AND I AND I HATE TO SEE US MAKE THESE TYPE OF SILOED DECISIONS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A IT'S NOT HOLISTIC. AND I SEE THE BENEFIT OF DOING IT. DON'T GET ME WRONG.

RIGHT. BUT I JUST I DON'T KNOW THAT THE TIMING IS NECESSARILY RIGHT. SO THAT WOULD BE MY THAT WOULD BE MY FEEDBACK. OKAY. YEAH. YEAH. THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW WE CAN DEFINITELY IF COUNCIL FEELS MORE COMFORTABLE WE COULD DEFINITELY BRING BACK AS PART OF A BIGGER WORKSHOP WITH OLD TOWN. IF Y'ALL WANT TO HOLD OFF ON THAT. AND REALLY YOU KNOW, WHEN SPEAKING WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, WE REALLY KIND OF SAW THIS AS THAT KICK START TO THAT PROCESS. LIKE THAT'S THAT'S REALLY FOCUSED ON THIS IS A REVITALIZATION, THIS OLD TOWN DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES PROGRAM. I THE AVERAGE PERSON OR THE AVERAGE BUSINESS OWNER, WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? RIGHT. WE REALLY WANT TO LOOK AT REVITALIZING THIS WHOLE AREA.

AND AS PART OF THE BRANDING THAT GIVES THAT OPPORTUNITY TO REALLY THINK ABOUT WHAT DOES THAT REVITALIZATION LOOK LIKE. SO IT'S REALLY MORE OF A KICK START TO REALLY CONTINUE TO START THOSE CONVERSATIONS, AS YOU ALL ARE GOING TO HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE BRANDING COMPANY. AND THEN ALSO WHEN WE GET INTO FACILITY MASTER PLAN, THERE'LL BE AN ENGAGEMENT PIECE THAT WE CAN REALLY KIND OF VISUALIZE THOSE CONCEPTUAL DESIGNS TOO. SO, SO ON THAT POINT, I MEAN, I DEFINITELY SEE WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM AND I'M NOT TRYING TO LESSEN THE IMPORTANCE OF WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING TO ACHIEVE, BUT LET'S JUST LET'S PLAY OUT A SCENARIO, RIGHT? WE HAVE AN EXISTING BUSINESS IN OLD TOWN. THE NEW REVITALIZATION PROGRAM COMES ONLINE. THERE'S THINGS THAT THEY'VE BEEN WANTING TO DO FOR YEARS AND THEY WANT TO DO.

LET'S JUST SAY IT'S THE FACADE AND THEY GET REALLY EXCITED ABOUT GETTING THIS NEW FUNDING.

AND FINALLY, WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO WHAT WE WANT TO DO. AND THE VISION THAT THEY BRING TO THE COUNCIL AT A FUTURE MEETING DOESN'T REALLY MATCH WHAT IT IS THAT WE WANT TO DO, AND THEY GET DECLINED. THAT'S A THAT'S A RISK. AGAIN, THAT'S THAT'S WHERE I WOULD BE A LITTLE HESITANT. MAYBE IT'S JUST TAPPING THE BRAKES, YOU KNOW. BUT IT JUST SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE, UNINTENDED OPPORTUNITY THERE THAT COULD COME AROUND AND MAKE IT LOOK BAD AT THE END OF THE DAY, AND THAT WOULDN'T BE CONDUCIVE TO WHAT YOU'RE TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH. YEAH. COUNCIL MEMBER YES. SO SO WHAT I WOULD SAY SO, SO KIND OF I DID WANT TO TALK ABOUT THAT, BUT BUT I WOULD SAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF POSSIBILITIES DOWN HERE. AND WE'VE PAINTED SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS IN, IN, IN OUR DOCUMENT FOR OLD TOWN.

AND WE KNOW THAT IT'S GOING TO BE VERY FLUID. WHAT GOES ON IN THIS AREA? I THINK THAT MAKING THIS, THIS MONEY AVAILABLE FOR THESE THINGS CAN ALSO INCENT PEOPLE TO COME INTO THE CITY AND INVEST IN THAT AREA. SO IF I WAS GOING TO PUT A BOUTIQUE AND I KNEW THAT I COULD GET HELP WITH THE FUNDING FOR THE AWNINGS OR THIS OR THAT, I MIGHT MOVE MY BUSINESS HERE AND

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PUT IT RIGHT HERE FOR THAT. AT THE SAME TIME, I THINK THAT YOU NEED TO PAIR THIS, AND WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS, IS REALLY STEP UP WITH OUR PLAN AROUND THE ENTERTAINMENT ZONE. SO WE GO TO THIS AREA AND WE WE BASICALLY SAY, HEY, THIS IS WHAT AN ENTERTAINMENT ZONE LOOKS LIKE.

THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN DO. THIS IS A SPECIAL SIGNING. ALL THIS STUFF YOU CAN DO IN THIS AREA FOR THAT, WHICH GOES TO WHAT YOU WERE TALKING ABOUT, IS HAVING THEM AS A GROUP OF PEOPLE, AS BUSINESS OWNERS THAT ARE DOWN HERE KIND OF SAYING THIS IS WHAT WE THINK IT SHOULD BE, INSTEAD OF US MICRO PLANNING AND TRYING TO SAY, HEY, WE WANT IT TO LOOK LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, NEW NOUVEAU MEXICO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. LOOK, I THINK THAT WE KIND OF LET THEM BECAUSE THEY HAVE THEIR INDIVIDUAL BRANDS. AND WHAT WE'RE SEEING HERE IS WE'VE GOT WE'VE GOT THE DESI HANGOUT OVER HERE. WE'VE GOT VERANDA OVER HERE, WE'VE GOT THE NIGHT OWL, WE GOT MAGGIE MAE'S, WE GOT THE BEER GARDEN, WE GOT OUR SMOKE SHOP, WE GOT OUR SCHOOL DISTRICT. YOU KNOW, THE POSSIBILITIES ARE ENDLESS. I'M JUST BEING FUNNY THERE, BUT BUT I THINK THE THING IS, IS THAT WE KIND OF LET IT DO. BUT IF WE PUT THOSE THINGS OUT, OUT IN THE MARKETPLACE, SOMEBODY WILL COME DOWN HERE AND INVEST IN HERE. IT'LL CREATE MORE TRAFFIC AND WE'LL GET THE BUSINESSES. I SO I DON'T DISAGREE WITH PUTTING, PUTTING, PUTTING THE BRAKES ON IT. I SAY LET'S SEE WHAT HAPPENS. I MEAN, WE'VE HAD THE MONEY SITTING THERE FOR YEARS, RIGHT? THIS MONEY'S BEEN SITTING THERE, ISN'T IT. YEAH.

WE HAVEN'T HAD. RIGHT. AND NOBODY'S USING IT. SO WHY ARE WE AFRAID THEY'RE GOING TO COME USE IT NOW? I MEAN LET'S LET THEM TRY, YOU KNOW. ANYWAYS, THAT'S WHAT I GOT TO SAY.

ANYBODY ELSE? I THINK IT'S GOOD. AND I THINK EVEN IF YOU DO WANT TO GO AHEAD WITH A REBRAND, WHICH I THINK IS A WONDERFUL IDEA, THAT I THINK THIS STILL WORKS BECAUSE THESE ARE A LOT OF THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO WANT ANYWAY. IT MIGHT BE IT MIGHT BE A GOOD IDEA TO WHEN YOU HAVE A TALK ABOUT OLD TOWN AND WHAT YOU GUYS WANT TO SEE WITH IT, TO TALK ABOUT MAYBE WAYS THAT YOU MANIPULATE THIS TO SEE, TO INCENTIVIZE MORE HEAVILY CERTAIN THINGS AND LESS HEAVILY OTHERS, DEPENDING ON WHAT YOU'RE YOU'RE GOING FOR. OH, GOSH, I HAD SOMETHING ELSE.

NOW I'M TIRED. IT IS GETTING LATE. OH, I DO, I DO LIKE THE IDEA ALSO OF Y'ALL TAKING A LOOK AT WHAT THAT APPLICATION LOOKS LIKE, BECAUSE I THINK THAT THAT'S A FEEDBACK THAT WE GET FREQUENTLY IS THAT PEOPLE ARE CONFUSED BY OUR APPLICATIONS BECAUSE THEY'RE WRITTEN BY PEOPLE WHO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT, BUT BEING READ BY PEOPLE WHO DON'T. SO I THINK THAT THIS IS A FABULOUS START THAT CAN BE SORT OF JUST EDITED AS YOU GO ALONG. YEAH. ANYBODY ELSE? I GUESS I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE IT. SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. YEAH. AND WE CAN SHARE THAT APPLICATION WITH COUNCIL TOO. THAT WOULD BE

[27. Discuss and consider an Ordinance amending the City Council Rules of Procedure. ]

GOOD. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER 27 DISCUSS AND CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE CITY COUNCIL RULES OF PROCEDURE. THIS WAS ALSO MY ITEM. WE LAST EDITED THIS I THINK, LAST SUMMER. AND BEFORE I GO, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE EDITED AGAIN. STAFF HAS BROUGHT US THE PROVISION FOR OUR ONEDRIVE POLICY, BUT THERE WERE A COUPLE OF OTHER EDITS THAT I THINK IT'S WORTH TALKING ABOUT. WAS THERE ANYBODY SPEAKING ON THE ONEDRIVE POLICY? EDIT. STUART ASSISTANT I. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME BACK TO THE DOUGLAS. THERE YOU GO. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. GOOD TO SEE EVERYBODY. SO THE ONEDRIVE SOLUTION FOR STORAGE OF COUNCIL DOCUMENTS AND EVERYTHING IS IN THE IS IN YOUR PACKET. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS ON HOW THAT'S ORIENTED? I THINK WE'VE ALL THAT'S WHAT WE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY OF THE ORGANIZATION OF THE FOLDERS AND SUCH. YOU ALL ARE HAPPY WITH THE WORDING THERE. WE'RE GOOD.

OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU. COUPLE OF THE THINGS THAT I WAS HOPING TO ALSO LOOK AT. DARA ON B AGENDA ITEM THREE A FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS PUTTING SOMETHING ON AGENDA. IT SAYS THEY HAVE TO HAVE THE INFORMATION TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE BY 5 P.M. ON THE WEDNESDAY BEFORE THE REGULAR MEETING. IS THAT STILL ACCURATE OR DO WE NEED TO AMEND THAT? STATUE OF POSTING SOME STUFF THAT WE WERE TRYING TO POST TUESDAY? SO IT NEEDS TO GO BACK TO THE FRIDAY BEFORE POSTING? YES. OKAY, SO OH MY GOSH, THIS NEW THIS NEW POLICY

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IS TERRIBLE. IT'S NOT OUR POLICY. IT'S THE STATE'S POLICY. AND IT'S TERRIBLE. AND WE'RE TRYING TO WORK WITH IT. SO THAT'D BE EIGHT DAYS. EIGHT DAYS PRIOR. NO, THAT'S 13. YEAH.

YEAH WE WOULD BE HERE NINE BUSINESS DAYS. OKAY. SO IT TAKES INTO ACCOUNT THE HOLIDAY OKAY. SO UPDATE THAT TO CITY MAYOR'S OFFICE BY 5 P.M. NINE BUSINESS DAYS BEFORE THE REGULAR MEETING. OKAY. THEN. SEE CONDUCTING THE MEETING. SECTION THREE B, WHEN AN ITEM IS RAISED FOR DISCUSSION, THE PRESIDING OFFICER WILL ASK FOR INPUT FROM EACH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL. EACH COUNCIL MEMBER WILL BE GIVEN AN OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK BEFORE A COUNCIL MEMBER WHO HAS SPOKEN MAY SPEAK AGAIN. COUNCIL MEMBERS SHALL RAISE THEIR HANDS TO INDICATE A DESIRE TO SPEAK. THE PRESIDING OFFICER WILL RECOGNIZE A MEMBER WHOSE HAND IS RAISED. THE SAME PROCEDURE WILL BE FOLLOWED FOR DISCUSSION ON AN ITEM. AFTER A MOTION HAS BEEN MADE AND SECONDED. SO WE NEVER, EVER FOLLOW THAT BECAUSE WE'VE ALL HAD OUR RHYTHM UP HERE. WE DO THE EYE CONTACT, WE DO THE POINT AND IT WORKS OUT. BUT I RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S ABOUT TO BE DISRUPTED. SO I'M HOPING Y'ALL CAN MAYBE DECIDE IF YOU WANT TO AMEND THAT TO SOMETHING ELSE, OR IF YOU WANT TO START DOING THAT, LIKE I WANT TO START WITH PRO TEM. WHAT WOULD MAKE YOU COMFORTABLE. AND THIS CAN BE CHANGED LATER. YEAH, I PREFER TO BE WHOEVER IS SPEAKING TO BE RECOGNIZED BEFORE DOING SO. AND I THINK TODD AND I HAD A CONVERSATION TRYING TO FIND A SOLUTION. IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO LOOK LEFT AND RIGHT AND SEE WHO'S TALKING.

YOU HAVE TO LEAN FORWARD. YEAH, YEAH. AND SO WE WERE TRYING TO FIND SOME SOLUTIONS OF A BUTTON, SOMETHING I WISH WE HAD THAT WE COULD USE TO GET PEOPLE. IT IS WORKING ON SOME SOLUTION. NOW YOU GUYS ARE GOING TO GET A BUTTON. WELL I DON'T KNOW I DON'T KNOW BUT IT'S BEEN BROUGHT AND THERE'S SOME WORK BEING DONE TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE BEST WAY IS SO WE CAN GET EACH OTHER'S ATTENTION. OKAY. INSTEAD OF JUST TRYING TO LOOK DOWN. AND INEVITABLY SOMEBODY GETS MISSED. AND YEAH, THEY DON'T GET RECOGNIZED. I JUST ANOTHER WAY TO DO IT IS TO JUST GO DOWN THE LINE. YEAH. WOULD YOU RATHER DO THAT OR DO YOU WANT LIKE AN ATTEMPT AT YOU KNOW WHAT? I WAS HERE WHEN WE DID THE RAISE OF HANDS. AND SOMETIMES YOU'RE HERE SO LONG YOUR ARM STARTS FALLING ASLEEP. JUST SAY NO. I THINK, YOU KNOW, PRO TEM MAKES A GREAT POINT. IF YOU'VE EVER BEEN TO THE TEXAS HOUSE OR THE SENATE, THERE'S A, LIKE, LITTLE LIGHTS ON TOP OF EACH PART OF THE DAIS OR THE COMMITTEE ROOM AREA. AND THEN WHOEVER'S THE CHAIR, YOU HAVE A LITTLE TOGGLE UP FRONT AND YOU CAN SEE LIKE WHAT ORDER IN WHICH IT WAS PRESSED. SO IF I PRESS IF I PRESS IT FIRST, IT'LL APPEAR AS LIKE ONE IS IN QUEUE. AND THEN YOU CAN MANAGE THE CLOCK THAT WAY. I WAS ALSO THINKING FOR LIKE VOTING, SOME CITIES HAVE VOTING BOARDS. I WAS AT THE CITY OF MEETING AT ONE POINT. AND SO YOU JUST HAVE A BOARD THAT'S OVER THERE. AND LIKE WHEN YOU VOTE ON A MOTION, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY GREEN IS LIKE AN AFFIRMATIVE. RED IS A NO. BUT THEN YOU CAN SEE IN REAL TIME IT'S LIKE, DID EVERYONE VOTE? AND THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU'VE GOT FIVE, TWO OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WHICH I THINK IS A MUCH MORE EFFICIENT WAY OF VOTING AND DOING SECONDS. I THINK THERE WAS SOME ISSUE WITH THE WAY OUR DYAS WAS BUILT, THAT THERE'S SOME TECHNOLOGY ISSUE THAT HAS WE HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO IMPLEMENT THAT YET. SO THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND SOME OTHER WORKAROUND, BUT IT IS IN PROCESS. SO FOR NOW I'LL JUST GO DOWN THE LINE. THAT'S FINE OKAY. YEAH. SO SO LET'S MAKE THAT EDIT. WE CAN JUST CUT EVERYTHING AFTER THE FIRST SENTENCE. WHEN AN ITEM IS RAISED FOR DISCUSSION, THE PRESIDING OFFICER WILL ASK FOR INPUT FROM EACH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL. DOES THAT WORK FOR EVERYONE? YES. ALL RIGHT. OOPS. YOU. ALL RIGHT? AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO DRAW ATTENTION TO ITEM FOUR ON THE SAME PAGE. EXECUTIVE SESSION MATTERS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION WILL BE KEPT CONFIDENTIAL, AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS SHALL NOT DISCUSS MATTERS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION OUTSIDE OF THE EXECUTIVE SESSION. I LOVE YOU GUYS ALL VERY DEARLY. YOU ARE PART OF MY FAMILY, BUT A COUPLE OF TIMES IN THE LAST YEAR, THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN EXECUTIVE SESSION HAVE BEEN MENTIONED OUT IN OTHER PLACES, AND IT WAS ALWAYS WITH

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REALLY GOOD INTENTIONS OF OF TRYING TO HELP, BUT NEVERTHELESS IT IS SOMETHING THAT CANNOT BE TAKEN OUTSIDE OF EXECUTIVE SESSION UNLESS WE ALL AGREE TO IT. AND SO LOOKING AT THAT, I NOTICED THAT EVEN THOUGH THE CHARTER SAYS WE ARE, WE ARE TO JUDGE AND POLICE OUR OWN MEMBERS, WE DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE ANYTHING IN HERE TO DO THAT. AND SO I THOUGHT YOU ALL MIGHT WANT TO ADD SOME TEETH TO THIS ABOUT HOW YOU WOULD HANDLE THAT IN IN CASES WHERE SOMEBODY IS BREAKING OUR POLICIES. AND I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL ARE READY TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION TODAY OR IF THAT'S A FUTURE CONVERSATION, BUT I THINK MY ADVICE WOULD BE THAT YOU ALL REALLY THINK ABOUT THAT, BECAUSE WE'VE SEEN IN OTHER CITIES WHERE THINGS JUST GET OUT OF CONTROL AND HAVING HAVING SOMETHING UP FRONT, I THINK CAN KEEP IT FROM SPIRALING OUT IN THE FUTURE. I AGREE, I WAS JUST GOING TO ASK CITY MANAGER, DO YOU HAVE A RECOMMENDATION FROM YOUR EXPERIENCE OF WHAT WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE? I THINK, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S BEEN HELPFUL OTHER PLACES IS WHERE WE HAVE AN OFFICIAL STATEMENT AND AS. IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN POST, YOU KNOW, AT THE BEGINNING OF A MEETING. SO IT JUST KIND OF SETS THE EXPECTATION FOR THE RULES OF DECORUM. AND A LOT OF TIMES IT'S JUST, YOU KNOW, BEFORE PUBLIC COMMENT, JUST READING THAT OUT LOUD. HEY, JUST REMEMBER, HERE'S OUR PROCESS, RESPECTFUL OR PROFESSIONAL, NO ATTACKS. YOU KNOW, THOSE KINDS OF THINGS. SO I THINK SETTING THAT PROCESS AND THAT EXPECTATION GOING IN I THINK IS HELPFUL. IT'S BEEN HELPFUL IN OTHER COMMUNITIES WHERE THERE'S BEEN A LOT MORE CONFLICT WITHIN THE COMMUNITY, BUT SPECIFICALLY AROUND EXECUTIVE SESSION AND NOT TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT ARE DISCUSSED THERE OUTSIDE OF THAT. WELL, AND THAT THAT'S ONE WHERE I THINK WE JUST REAFFIRM WITH COUNCIL TO AS WE'RE GOING INTO SESSIONS THAT, YOU KNOW, REMEMBER THAT THIS IS CONFIDENTIAL. YOU KNOW, WE CAN'T WE CAN'T SHARE THAT. AND IT IS A WAY THAT IT'S KIND OF SELF-POLICING IN RESPECT TO THAT. IF THERE'S A VIOLATION OF THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, Y'ALL ARE HOLDING EACH OTHER ACCOUNTABLE TO THAT KIND OF MOVING FORWARD. HOW ABOUT THIS? CAN Y'ALL PUT THIS ON A FUTURE AGENDA AND STAFF MAYBE MAYBE TODD AND PAGE, Y'ALL CAN BRING SOME EXAMPLES OF POLICIES WE CAN HAVE BECAUSE I THINK CURRENTLY, SINCE THERE'S NOTHING DESCRIBED, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN AND I ALWAYS GO TO WORST CASE SCENARIO IS IF SOMEBODY DOES SOMETHING THEY'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO. AND I WOULD ALWAYS ADVISE THAT YOU COUNSEL THEM FIRST, BUT IT GETS TO THE POINT THAT YOU HAVE TO TAKE AN ACTION. IT'S GOING TO LOOK VERY POLITICAL AND TARGETED. IF YOU DON'T HAVE A POLICY IN HERE OF WHAT THE ACTION OPTIONS ARE, AND THAT'S GOING TO MAKE YOUR SITUATION MUCH WORSE, AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE Y'ALL DON'T END UP WITH THAT. AND WHATEVER COUNCIL IS HERE AFTER US DOESN'T END UP WITH THAT. SO THE QUESTION ON THAT WOULD BE THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS ARE, ARE THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS AND CITY MANAGER. IF YOU CAN HELP WITH THIS MAYBE AS WELL. OR OR PAGE HONESTLY THE EXECUTIVE SESSIONS ARE DONE TO MEET A LEGISLATIVE.

DICTUM. RIGHT, RIGHT. THEY, THEY THEY HAVE SAID THIS IS THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN DO THIS, RIGHT? YEAH. IT'S THE LONG DISCLAIMER EVERY TIME. OKAY. SO GIVEN THAT, IS THAT NOT IS THERE NOT ANY KIND OF DEFINITION THERE. SO THE STATE HAS LEFT THAT UP TO US BASICALLY. RIGHT. DOES THAT MAKE CORRECT PAGE. THE ONLY ACCOUNTABILITY IS WITH US. IT'S LEFT UP TO YOU. THERE'S NOT ANYTHING SPECIFICALLY DIRECT ON POINT THAT YOU WOULD POINT TO THE SAY IF YOU SPEAK WHAT IS DISCUSSED IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, HERE'S THE CONSEQUENCE. IT'S GOING TO BE MORE DID YOU USE IT FOR PERSONAL GAIN? DID YOU GET CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION USED FOR PERSONAL GAIN. AND THEN THAT GOES INTO CRIMINAL TYPE STATUTES. SO THE COUNCIL IT BEING IN COUNCIL HANDS. YOU WOULD USE YOU'D USE YOUR ORDINANCES TO ADDRESS THAT AND BE MORE SPECIFIC ABOUT THE CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION THAT'S IN EXECUTIVE SESSION AND THE CONSEQUENCES THAT YOU, AS THE COUNCIL WOULD USE AS THE JUDGE OF YOUR MEMBERS AND THE WAY THAT YOU CAN ADDRESS THAT. SO I GUESS WHAT I'M SAYING IS THERE'S NOT A STATE LAW THAT YOU COULD JUST POINT TO, THAT

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YOU WOULD ADDRESS THAT IN A WAY THAT'S WITHIN YOUR HANDS, BECAUSE YOU'RE GOING TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES, AND IT'S GOING TO DEPEND ON THE DEPEND ON THE FACTS AND CIRCUMSTANCES.

IT'S THERE. IF I'M HEARING YOU CORRECTLY, THERE MAY BE SOME LANGUAGE IN EXISTING ORDINANCES THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE. I'M NOT SURE WHAT THE RIGHT WORD HERE IS, BUT WE COULD TAKE FROM THOSE SPECIFIC ACTIONS OR CONSEQUENCES AND JUST SUMMARIZE THEM AS POLICY OR OR PROCEDURE AS IT RELATES TO EXECUTIVE SESSION. YOUR ETHICS ORDINANCE HAS LANGUAGE IN THERE ABOUT MISUSE OF CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION OR PROPRIETARY INFORMATION THAT YOU RECEIVE IN YOUR CAPACITY AS A COUNCIL MEMBER. AND SO THAT CAN BE ADDRESSED. YOU CAN USE THAT TO ADDRESS EXECUTIVE SESSION AS WELL. AND THAT'S KIND OF LIKE THAT'S THE MASSIVE HAMMER THAT YOU WOULD USE. AND THEN THERE'S SOME OTHER MEASURES THAT YOU CAN TAKE TO AS AS CITY MANAGER MENTIONED, SETTING THE TONE AT THE BEGINNING OF EXECUTIVE SESSION WITH A REMINDER AND SOME OTHER STEPS YOU CAN TAKE BEFORE IT GETS TO THE HAMMER. I WANT TO JUMP IN HERE REALLY QUICK. OUR ETHICS ORDINANCE SUCKS. IT IS PRIMARILY ABOUT FINANCIAL BENEFIT AND GAIN. AND SO IN THIS SCENARIO, IF IF YOU'RE NOT GAINING ANYTHING, IT IS HARD TO TO DO ANYTHING THROUGH ETHICS IN MY OPINION. AND I WOULD ALSO ADVISE YOU TO LOOK AT THAT ORDINANCE. RIGHT.

NO, AND I APPRECIATE THAT. BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO LOOK FOR A PLACE TO START. YEAH, BECAUSE I DON'T DISAGREE. THE OTHER QUESTION I WOULD HAVE ON THAT WOULD BE WHAT COMES TO ME COME TO MIND FOR ME IS LIKE AN NDA TYPE DOCUMENT. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S ANY PRECEDENTS FOR THAT ANYWHERE ELSE, BUT MAYBE SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES THAT ONCE ELECTED THAT THERE IS A SIGNATORY TYPE OF, YOU KNOW, ACCEPTANCE THAT CAN BE DOCUMENTED. I THINK MAYBE THAT COULD POTENTIALLY BE A SOLUTION TO THAT AS WELL, THAT THAT'S AN OPTION IN THE PUBLIC INFORMATION ACT WAS AMENDED RECENTLY TO RECOGNIZE THAT'S A TOOL THE COUNCIL USES. AND WHEN DID WE STOP DOING THAT? YOU CAN YOU HAVE ONE COPY OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO THAT'S NOT WORKING SO WELL. YEAH I MEAN AGAIN MAYBE JUST EMPHASIZING THAT AT THAT POINT MAKING IT BETTER BETTER CALLING THAT OUT A LITTLE BIT MORE FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE. BUT I THINK THERE'S OPPORTUNITY THERE THAT WE ALREADY HAVE SOME THINGS THAT WE CAN WORK WITH AND NOT HAVE TO NECESSARILY REINVENT THE WHEEL. SO THANK YOU, COUNCILMEMBER. I THINK DRAWING A NOT REINVENTING THE WHEEL. THERE ARE MUNICIPAL BODIES AND LEGISLATIVE BODIES THAT HAVE, YOU KNOW, CODES OF CONDUCT FOR MEMBERS OF THE BODY. AND ONE OF THEM IS THAT IF YOU BREAK THE RULES OF THE BODY, WHICH MIGHT INCLUDE DISCLOSING INFORMATION IN EXECUTIVE SESSION, THAT'S A CENSURABLE OFFENSE OR THAT THERE'S LIKE A WARNING, A FIRST TIME WARNING, AND A SECOND TIME ACTION COULD MAKE YOU OPEN TO CENSURE THAT COUNCIL WOULD VOTE FOR. AND THEN IF SAID PERSON WAS CENSURED, THAT WOULD BE A BLACK MARK ON THAT PERSON. SYMBOLIC, BUT NOT SOMETHING THAT ANY MEMBER WOULD WANT TO HAVE. YEAH, I AGREE, AND I HAVE SEEN THAT DONE IN OTHER COUNCILS. AND YEAH, IT DOESN'T PRECLUDE YOU FROM ANYTHING. IT JUST IS. IT'S LIKE IT GOES INTO YOUR FILE. BUT ALL OUR FILES ARE VERY PUBLIC. MR. CITY MANAGER, I WAS GOING TO SAY, I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS THAT HELPS IS TO KIND OF PUT INTO CONTEXT WHAT THE EXECUTIVE SESSION ACTUALLY IS. SO THERE'S REALLY TWO BASIC PURPOSES OF IT. ONE IS TO CONSULT WITH THE ATTORNEY ON LEGAL MATTERS. AND SO OF IMPORTANCE TO THE COUNCIL. AND SO THAT'S OUR LEGAL STRATEGY. THOSE ARE THINGS THAT NEED TO BE KEPT. THE OTHER IS WITH REGARD TO NEGOTIATING CONTRACTS. AND IT'S NEGOTIATING CONTRACTS OR TERMS, SO THAT YOU CAN DO IT IN A WAY THAT DOES NOT DETRIMENTALLY AFFECT YOUR NEGOTIATING POSITION. SO THOSE ARE I ALWAYS THINK ABOUT IT.

THOSE ARE KIND OF THE TWO BASIC REASONS WHY YOU WOULD DO AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. SO I THINK GOING IN, IF WE TO ME IT ALWAYS HELPS IF WE THINK ABOUT IT FROM THAT CONTEXT, IT PUTS IT INTO PERSPECTIVE. OKAY, WE'RE TALKING ILLEGAL. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT OUR LEGAL OFFENSE. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT POTENTIAL LIABILITIES TO THE CITY. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT NEGOTIATING TERMS THAT KEEP THE CITY IN A GOOD POSITION. YOU DON'T WANT TO DISADVANTAGE YOURSELF FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE. LOOSE LIPS SINK SHIPS. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY. SO I'M GONNA. OH. DID YOU.

OKAY, SO, YOU KNOW, I, I UNDERSTAND THAT WE WANT TO, YOU KNOW, PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF THINGS IN AN EXECUTIVE SESSION. I THINK PUTTING TEETH INTO INTO THIS AND CREATING A STRUCTURE THAT PEOPLE CAN BRING, IN ESSENCE, CHARGES AGAINST EACH OTHER, I DON'T THINK I DON'T SEE IT AS A NECESSITY. WHAT I THINK IS THAT WE HAVE ENOUGH THINGS. WE HAVE

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A CITY MANAGER, WE HAVE A CITY LAWYER AND ALL THAT THAT CAN CONFRONT US INDIVIDUALLY AS COUNCIL PEOPLE, ALONG WITH THE MAYOR OR WHATEVER, TO KIND OF BRING SOMETHING IN STRUCTURE.

AND THEN IF IT DOESN'T, IF WE DON'T FALL INTO IT, THEN WE HAVE OTHER TYPE THINGS. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, KIND OF LIKE WHAT CITY MANAGER WAS SAYING IS THAT, YOU KNOW, BRINGING INTO THE MEETING WHEN WE HAVE A MEETING AND SAYING, YOU KNOW WHAT, WE'VE HAD A PROBLEM WITH THIS OR THIS IS SOMETHING THAT DEFINITELY, YOU KNOW, KIND OF ADDING TO SOME OF THAT, I THINK IF WE GET TO, YOU KNOW, YOU HEAR ABOUT THESE CRAZY CITY. I, YOU KNOW, I WASN'T I DIDN'T COME TO YOUR MEETINGS. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ALL THIS STUFF, BUT YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR THE GOOD TIMES. BUT I'VE HEARD ABOUT SOME OTHER THINGS IN OTHER CITIES, AND IT'S CRAZY STUFF.

AND AND I THINK IF YOU START PUTTING IN RULES THAT PEOPLE CAN ESCALATE AND PUT THAT IN, I THINK THEY WILL GET USED. WE WE'RE IN AN AGE WHERE PEOPLE WANT TO EXPAND EVERYTHING TO THE NTH DEGREE. AND, AND I THINK HAVING IT VAGUE HERE AND DOING IT AND KNOWING THAT WE CAN GO TO THE CITY MANAGER AND, AND THE, THE LEGAL SIDE OF IT AND, AND KIND OF BRING A PERSON IN LINE IS A BETTER WAY TO GO ABOUT IT. SO I JUST THAT'S THAT'S WHERE I'M AT ON THAT. I GET THAT. AND THAT'S NOT ENTIRELY WRONG. MY CONCERN WOULD BE THAT SINCE THE CHARTER SAYS THAT WE ARE THE THE BODY TO JUDGE EACH OTHER, THAT COULD BE PUTTING STAFF INTO A POLITICAL POSITION. AND THEY ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO BE POLITICAL AT ALL. SO I'M SO SORRY TO ASK YOU THIS ON THE SPOT, TODD. IS THAT IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU FEEL IS PART OF YOUR ROLE TO TALK TO THE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHEN STUFF LIKE THAT GETS OUT? OR IS THAT SOMETHING COUNCIL'S SUPPOSED TO HANDLE? I THINK IF I'M COMFORTABLE DOING THAT, IF WE HAVE A CLEARLY DEFINED POLICY GOING IN AND EVERYBODY ACKNOWLEDGES RECEIPT OF IT AND ACKNOWLEDGES FULL UNDERSTANDING OF IT, BECAUSE THEN THAT THEN I THINK WE'VE GOT A PLATFORM TO TALK ABOUT. AND I THINK IT'S ALSO IMPORTANT AS WE GO INTO OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION AND AS WE'RE TALKING, WE SHOULD REMIND OURSELVES JUST AS A MATTER OF PRACTICE. I JUST REMEMBER EXECUTIVE SESSION. THESE ARE THINGS. IF WE HAVE QUESTIONS ABOUT POTENTIAL INFORMATION THAT CAN BE DISCUSSED OR RELEASED, WE CAN ALWAYS REVIEW THAT WITH PAGE IN THAT PROCESS AS WELL. BUT I THINK, YES, IF WE HAVE IT WRITTEN, IT'S CLEARLY DEFINED. EVERYBODY ACKNOWLEDGES WE'VE GOT OUR NONDISCLOSURE AGREEMENTS THERE. THEN I FEEL COMFORTABLE AND COME BACK AND SAY, HEY, I THINK WE KIND OF MESSED UP ON THIS ONE. THANK YOU. OKAY. ANYTHING ELSE? COUNCIL I WAS JUST GOING TO SAY I APPRECIATE YOUR COMMENTS. COUNCIL MEMBER CHANG ABOUT CENSURE AND WHAT HAPPENS IN OTHER ORGANIZATIONS. SO I WOULD BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT OTHER CITIES HAVE IN PLACE FOR THEIR CODE OF CONDUCT FOR THEIR COUNCILS. I MEAN, WE JUST KIND OF CAME UP WITH THE RULES. I FEEL LIKE WE WERE JUST LIKE, THIS IS WHAT'S NOT WORKING, SO LET'S FIGURE OUT WHAT'S WORKING. AND THERE WASN'T A WHOLE LOT OF COMPARING IT AND A LOT OF ADDITIONAL RESEARCH TO WHAT'S BEEN WORKING AT OTHER CITIES. SO I'D BE INTERESTED TO SEE THAT. SURE. TO THAT POINT, I THINK A GOOD STARTING POINT WOULD BE CEDAR PARK. I KNOW THAT THERE'S BEEN ONE EMPLOYED IN THE LAST FEW YEARS. YEAH. THANK YOU. AND I THINK THAT ENDED UP NOT PASSING, BUT THEY HAD THEIR OPPORTUNITY TO POLICE EACH OTHER. AND I FEEL LIKE THAT THAT WENT OVER WELL WITH THE PUBLIC THAT IT WAS AT LEAST ADDRESSED. OH YES. IF I CAN MAKE A REQUEST ON THAT TOO, IS TO REALLY HAVE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF COUNCIL BE APPOINTED TO DO THAT. I'VE BEEN IN A POSITION WHERE I'VE HAD I WAS TASKED TO DRAFT SOMETHING TO PRESENT TO COUNCIL. THE CITIZENS DIDN'T UNDERSTAND IT. THEY THOUGHT THAT OR FOR POLICY POLICY ON OVERALL GOVERNANCE AND ETHICS POLICIES. AND THEY CONSTRUED THAT STAFF WAS PUTTING FETTERS ON THE ELECTEDS. AND SO IT IS IT WOULD BE VERY IMPORTANT MOVING FORWARD THAT WE HAVE A SUBCOMMITTEE OF COUNCIL THAT SAYS, NO, THIS IS US DRIVING THIS. WE ARE LOOKING TO ESTABLISH OUR OWN GUIDING RULES AND PRINCIPLES. OKAY. THANK YOU. ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY. OH.

SOMETHING TO REDUCE STAFF. OKAY. SO WE DON'T WANT TO PASS IT THE WAY IT IS NOW, AND THEN HAVE IT COME BACK FOR THE OTHER CHANGES FOR THE ONE DRIVE. ONE DRIVE AND BRING BACK THE ADDITIONAL.

THANK YOU. THAT'S PERFECT. THAT WAS GOING TO BE MY MOTION. THANK YOU. SO WAS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY I'M GOING TO MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THE CHANGES THAT ARE IN OUR PACKET AND THEN HAVE THE AMENDMENTS BROUGHT BACK. THE FIRST ONE IS B3A TO CREATE THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMITTING YOUR ITEMS TO NINE BUSINESS DAYS BEFORE THE REGULAR MEETING. THE NEXT ONE WILL BE. C, THREE B TO CUT EVERYTHING AFTER THE FIRST SENTENCE. WHEN AN ITEM IS

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RAISED FOR DISCUSSION, THE PRESIDING OFFICER WILL ASK FOR INPUT FROM EACH MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL AND THEN AT A FUTURE DATE. COUNSEL. YOU ALL CAN DECIDE HOW YOU WANT TO DO A SUBCOMMITTEE AND FACT FINDING AND ALL OF THAT. THAT'S MY MOTION. SECOND MOTION A SECOND.

IS THERE OTHER DISCUSSION? OKAY, ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU ALL VERY

[28. Discuss and consider action on appointing a Councilmember(s) to the Capital Area Council of Governments General Assembly (CAPCOG).]

MUCH. ALL RIGHT. THESE LAST ONES SHOULD BE QUICK. DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON APPOINTING COUNCIL MEMBERS TO THE CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. GENERAL ASSEMBLY.

WE HAVE THREE SLOTS ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. AND THEN TO GET TO THE VOTING BOARD MEMBER, YOU HAVE TO ALREADY BE A GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEMBER. AND SO DAVID AND I ARE TWO OF THOSE SLOTS. SO, NICOLE, IT'S ALL ON YOU IF WE DON'T DO THIS. SO I WOULD LIKE TO APPOINT COUNCILMEMBER CHANG TO ONE OF THOSE SPOTS. AND THEN THE OTHER ONE IS UP FOR GRABS IF ANYBODY WANTS IT RIGHT NOW. BUT WE CAN ALSO LEAVE IT VACANT. IT'S NOT UNUSUAL TO HAVE A VACANT SPOT THAT JUST GETS FILLED LATER. THE REQUIREMENT FOR GENERAL ASSEMBLY IS YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO SHOW UP TWICE A YEAR IN. I THINK IT'S SEPTEMBER AND DECEMBER FOR THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY MEETINGS, WHICH ARE GREAT NETWORKING OPPORTUNITIES, AND YOU LEARN A LOT AND YOU JUST VOTE ON BASICALLY THE NOMINATIONS FOR THE BOARD FOR THE NEXT YEAR. IS THERE ANYBODY THAT'S INTERESTED IN JOINING THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY? ALL RIGHT. SO THEN TO CLARIFY, THE REMAIN ON. YES, PLEASE. COUNCILMEMBER CHEN. YES. SO MY MOTION IS TO APPOINT COUNCILMEMBER CHANG TO THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SECOND. SECOND, I RECOGNIZE THE SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER MCDONALD, OUR CURRENT VOTING MEMBER. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU ALL SO

[29. Discuss and consider action on a Resolution appointing a member of the City Council to the Central Texas Clean Air Coalition of the Capital Area Council of Governments (CAPCOG) to fill an unexpired term expiring December 2025 and to serve a full term beginning January 2026 and expiring December 2027.]

MUCH. ITEM 29 DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A RESOLUTION APPOINTING A MEMBER OF THE CITY COUNCIL TO THE CENTRAL TEXAS CLEAN AIR COALITION OF THE CAPITAL AREA COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS TO FILL AN UNEXPIRED TERM EXPIRING DECEMBER 2025 AND TO SERVE A FULL TERM BEGINNING JANUARY 2026 AND EXPIRING DECEMBER OF 2027. COUNCILMEMBER CHANG HAS LOTS GOING ON RIGHT NOW. HE IS NOT INTERESTED IN THIS APPOINTMENT. IT'S NOT UNUSUAL FOR US TO HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSON AS OUR VOTING MEMBER THAN AS OUR CLEAN AIR COALITION MEMBER. DO YOU ARE YOU CURRENTLY OUR CLEAN AIR COALITION? THANK YOU. HOW OFTEN DO Y'ALL MEET? WE MEET BI MONTHLY EVERY OTHER MONTH. EVERY OTHER MONTH FOR ABOUT HOW LONG. IT CAN GO ANYWHERE FROM 45 MINUTES TO AN HOUR AND A HALF. OKAY. AND IT'S DOWN BY THE AIRPORT AND IT'S DOWN BY THE AIRPORT. AND JUST AS YOU MENTIONED, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE ON THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY TO BE ON THAT. MANY OF THE PEOPLE THAT ARE ACTUALLY ON THE CLEAN AIR COALITION ARE NOT ON GENERAL ASSEMBLY. SO THANK YOU. IS THERE ANYBODY WHO'S INTERESTED IN TAKING THAT OR DO WE WANT TO LEAVE IT VACANT? THANK YOU. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE DO HAVE REPRESENTATION. I'M NOT FAMILIAR ENOUGH WITH THAT TO NECESSARILY JUMP IN WHOLEHEARTEDLY, BUT I WOULD RATHER NOT HAVE A VACANCY THERE.

SO IF I COULD MAYBE RELY ON COUNCIL MEMBER MCDONNELL TO BRING ME UP TO SPEED, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT. BUT I'D BE I'D BE HAPPY TO SERVE THERE. THANK YOU. I THINK YOU WOULD ACTUALLY BE REALLY GOOD THERE. I THINK THAT'S ACTUALLY A REALLY GOOD SLOT FOR YOU IF YOU'RE WILLING TO GO DOWN THERE EVERY OTHER MONTH. IT'S PRETTY COOL. I GO DOWN THERE FOR OTHER THINGS, SO I'LL JUST WORK IT OUT. THAT SOUNDS GREAT. THEN I WILL MAKE A MOTION FOR COUNCIL MEMBER NADINE TO TAKE OUR CLEAN AIR COALITION SPOT. SECOND MOTION AND A SECOND. IS THERE ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. CONGRATULATIONS, BOTH OF YOU.

[30. Discuss and consider action on appointing a Councilmember to fill the City of Leander's voting position on the Transportation Policy Board (TPB) of the Capital Area Metropolitan Planning Organization (CAMPO).]

AND THEN ITEM 30, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON APPOINTING A COUNCIL MEMBER TO FILL THE CITY OF LEANDER'S VOTING POSITION ON THE TRANSPORTATION POLICY BOARD, TPB OF THE CAPITAL AREA METROPOLITAN PLANNING ORGANIZATION. CAMPO. THIS IS TYPICALLY THE MAYOR NICOLE HAS FILLED IN FOR ME AS AS MY ALTERNATE A FEW TIMES WHEN WHEN I HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO MAKE IT, I GUESS. SORRY, NOT ALTERNATE MY PROXY. WE DON'T HAVE AN OFFICIAL ALTERNATE, AND SO SINCE I WILL NO LONGER BE ON CAMPO, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR NICOLE TO BE OUR APPOINTMENT. I'LL SECOND. MOTION AND SECOND. IS THERE ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT.

ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. ITEM 31. COUNCIL MEMBER CLOSING COMMENTS, PLEASE.

[31. Council Member Closing Statements.]

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ONE GOOD NIGHT FOLKS. SHORT AND SWEET PLACE TO. I WISH YOU LUCK, MAYOR. THANK YOU. PLEASE THREE WISH YOU LUCK AS WELL. BUT IT'S LATE. GOOD NIGHT. OKAY. PLEASE. FIVE GOOD NIGHT AND PRO TEM.

ABSOLUTELY. GOOD NIGHT. YES. ALL RIGHT. TONIGHT WE PICKED UP DINNER FROM BLUE CORN HARVEST.

AS ALWAYS, WE HAVE A PROMISE TO SUPPORT LOCAL IN LEANDER. AND WE HOPE THAT YOU DO AS WELL.

WHEN YOU ARE OUT AND ABOUT DOING YOUR SHOPPING, GRABBING SOMETHING TO EAT. YOU SHOULD TRY AND PICK IT UP FROM LEANDER FIRST. BECAUSE WHEN YOU SHOP IN LEANDER, YOUR MONEY STAYS IN OUR LOCAL ECONOMY. IT KEEPS JOBS HERE, IT BRINGS NEW BUSINESSES HERE, AND IT PAYS FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL THINGS THAT WE TALK ABOUT EVERY SINGLE WEEK. AND IT MAKES YOU A GOOD PERSON. AND SO WE HIGHLY ENCOURAGE THAT. AND ONE OF MY FAVORITE SAYINGS, IF YOU CAN'T FIND IT IN LEANDER, YOU REALLY PROBABLY DON'T NEED IT THAT MUCH. A PROCLAMATION WAS ISSUED FOR DIWALI IN HINDU HERITAGE MONTH. I WANT TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF OUR NEW COMMISSIONERS THAT WE APPOINTED TONIGHT, AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE PEOPLE THAT APPLIED. IT IS A BLESSING AND A CURSE THAT WE HAVE SO MANY APPLICANTS. WE LOVE THAT YOU'RE ENGAGED, AND WE HOPE THAT YOU WILL STAY ENGAGED IN ANOTHER WAY, BECAUSE WE REALLY DON'T WANT TO SAY NO. WE WANT YOU TO STAY HERE WITH US. SO HOPEFULLY YOU ALL WILL WILL STAY INVOLVED.

WE TALKED EARLIER ABOUT NEEDING VOLUNTEERS FOR THE ARTS COMMISSION, SO YOU CAN JUST SHOW UP AT ONE OF THEIR MEETINGS AND THEY WILL LOVE YOU. I I'M TELLING YOU, I ALSO WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AGAIN TO EVERYBODY. IT'S BEEN INCREDIBLE ALL THESE YEARS UP HERE. WE DON'T HAVE FAMILY HERE. AND SO THIS COMMUNITY HAS REALLY BEEN OUR FAMILY. SO THIS IS THIS IS AN INTERESTING CHANGE FOR US. I WANTED TO LEAVE YOU WITH ONE MORE THOUGHT.

IN MY PAST LIFE, I WAS A PTA PRESIDENT BECAUSE I AM THAT KIND OF PERSON. AND EVERY YEAR PTA HAS A BIG CONVENTION IN TEXAS, AND I CALL IT PTA SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY GO OVER A LOT OF THE SAME STUFF AS TML. ALL OF YOUR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS AND JUST HOW TO BE A GOOD MANAGER AND ALL OF THAT. AND THE VERY FIRST THING THAT THEY SAID, THE YEAR THAT I WENT TO THE PRESIDENT'S TRAINING IS REMEMBER THAT IT IS NOT ABOUT YOU. YOU ARE ONE BODY, ONE VOICE. AND I HAVE ALWAYS BROUGHT THAT IN THE MAYOR'S SEAT. THERE HAVE BEEN A NUMBER OF THINGS THAT I HAVE BEEN A CHEERLEADER AND AN ADVOCATE FOR THAT I VOTED AGAINST. BUT I'M OVERRULED. AND IT TAKES SEVEN OF US, ACCORDING TO THE CHARTER, TO MAKE ANYTHING HAPPEN. AND SO I JUST HOPE Y'ALL REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ONE LEANDER, AND WE ARE BEST WHEN WE ARE UNITED AS A TEAM AND WE DON'T HAVE TO AGREE ON EVERYTHING. WE JUST HAVE TO BE SEEKING WHAT'S BEST FOR THE CITY AND WE'RE GOING TO BE OKAY.

I'LL MISS YOU GUYS. I'LL MISS ALL OF YOU. ALRIGHT. ITEM 32 CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION

[32. Convene into Executive Session pursuant to Section 551.071, Section 551.072 and Section 551.087, Texas Government Code, and Section 1.05 Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct to consult with legal counsel regarding acquisition of properties for public purpose; and to deliberate proposed economic development incentives for one or more business prospects that the governmental body seeks to have locate, stay, or expand in or near the territory of the governmental body with which the City is conducting economic development negotiations along with consideration of a Chapter 380 Agreement for Project EDA-25-008.]

PURSUANT TO SECTION 551.071. SECTION FIVE FIVE, 1.072 AND SECTION 551.087 TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE AND SECTION 1.05 TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT TO CONSULT WITH LEGAL COUNSEL REGARDING ACQUISITION OF PROPERTIES FOR PUBLIC PURCHASE, AND TO DELIBERATE PROPOSED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES FOR ONE OR MORE BUSINESS PROSPECTS THAT THE GOVERNMENTAL BODY SEEKS TO HAVE, LOCATE, STAY, OR EXPAND IN OR NEAR THE TERRITORY OF THE GOVERNMENTAL BODY WITH WHICH THE CITY IS CONDUCTING ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT NEGOTIATIONS, ALONG WITH CONSIDERATION OF A CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENT FOR PROJECT EDA DASH

[ Reconvene into open session to take action as deemed appropriate in the City Council's discretion regarding property for public purpose and Chapter 380 Agreement for Project EDA-25-008.]

ALL RIGHT. WE ARE GOING TO RECONVENE INTO OPEN SESSION AT 11:54 P.M. TO TAKE ACTION AS DEEMED APPROPRIATE IN THE CITY COUNCIL'S DISCRETION REGARDING PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC PURCHASE IN CHAPTER 380 AGREEMENT FOR PROJECT EDA DASH 25008 NEW PRO TEM. DO YOU HAVE A MOTION? NO ACTION. ALL RIGHT. AND ITEM 33 ACCEPTANCE OF A LETTER OF RESIGNATION FROM CHRISTINE DELISLE. MAYOR I THINK THAT'S ME. THAT IS SHE. DO WE TAKE THESE ARE TWO SEPARATE ACTIONS.

OKAY. I SUBMITTED A LETTER. IT'S IN YOUR PACKET. I'LL MAKE A MOTION THAT YOU'LL ACCEPT IT.

I WILL SECOND THAT MOTION. THANK YOU. MOTION. AND A SECOND. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION? ALL THOSE IN FAVOR PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I THINK I SHOULD HAND THE GAVEL OVER AT THIS POINT AND LET NICOLE FINISH US OUT. IS THAT ALRIGHT, PAGE? THANK YOU.

OH. ALL RIGHT. THAT ONE. I'LL BE ON THE DAIS. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ITEM 33 WILL DISCUSS AND

[33. Acceptance of a letter of resignation from Christine DeLisle, Mayor.

Discuss and consider action on an Ordinance ordering and establishing procedures for Special Called Election in the City of Leander to elect a Mayor to fill an unexpired term; providing for notice of election; providing election precinct and polling places; providing for early voting; providing for an effective date and open meetings clause; and providing for related matters.

Aceptación de una carta de renuncia de Christine DeLisle, Alcaldesa.

Debatir y considerar la acción sobre una Ordenanza que ordena y establece procedimientos para elecciones especiales convocadas en la ciudad de Leander para elegir un alcalde para cubrir un período no vencido; prever la notificación de la elección; proporcionar un precinto electoral y lugares de votación; prever la votación anticipada; prever una fecha de vigencia y una cláusula de reuniones abiertas; y prever asuntos relacionados.]

CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE ORDERING AND ESTABLISHING THE PROCEDURES FOR A SPECIAL CALLED ELECTION IN THE CITY OF LEANDER TO ELECT A MAYOR TO FILL AN UNEXPIRED TERM, PROVIDING FOR NOTICE OF THE ELECTION, PROVIDING FOR ELECTION PRECINCT AND POLLING PLACES. PROVIDING

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FOR EARLY VOTING. PROVIDING FOR EFFECTIVE DATE AND OPEN MEETINGS CLAUSE, AND PROVIDING FOR RELATED MATTERS. AND THIS IS ACTION ITEM MOTION TO APPROVE. I'LL SECOND. ALL RIGHT.

I HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. ALL THOSE IN FAVOR SAY AYE. WE RAISED OUR HANDS. ALL RIGHT.

NONE OPPOSED. THE MOTION CARRIES. ALL RIGHT. ITEM 34. WE ARE ADJOURNED AT.

* This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.

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