[00:00:08] WELL GOOD EVENING AND WELCOME TO THE JULY 18TH 2022 WORK SESSION FOR THE GARLAND CITY COUNCIL. FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA THIS EVENING ITEM. ONE PUBLIC COMMENTS FOR WORK SESSION ITEMS . MADAM SECRETARY. I DON'T BELIEVE WE HAVE ANYONE SIGNED UP, BUT I WILL DOUBLE CHECK. OKAY NO SPEAKERS SIGNED UP TO SPEAK. THAT WILL MOVE US TO ITEM TO CONSIDER THE CONSENT AGENDA. [2. Consider the Consent Agenda] I HAVEN'T SEEN ANY REQUESTS FOR CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS WE PULLED. NEXT WOULD BE MOVING ON TO ITEM [3. Written Briefings:] THREE WRITTEN BRIEFINGS. THREE A CITY COUNCIL COMMITTEES PENDING ITEMS LIST. AND I THINK THERE WAS AN UPDATED DEVELOPMENT SERVICES LIST THAT CAME OUT EARLIER IN THE AFTERNOON. SO AND SUB THAT IN THREE B COVID 19 BRIEFING COUNSELING WILLIAMS. I BELIEVE YOU HAD SOME QUESTIONS FOR THAT. I THINK WE YES, I JUST HAVE A QUESTION. MAYBE BECAUSE THERE WAS AN EXCUSE ME BECAUSE THERE WAS AN UPGRADE AND DALLAS COUNTY'S DESIGNATION THIS PAST WEEK. I JUST ASK OUR HEALTH DEPARTMENT TO GIVE US ANY ANY ADDITIONAL INFORMATION THAT MAY BE WE HAVE COME DOWN BETWEEN THAT DETERMINATION AND TODAY AND SHE'D AGREED TO VOLUNTEERED TO DO IT IN JASON'S PLACE. I DON'T KNOW. VOLUNTEER IS THE WORD I WOULD USE, BUT OKAY, VOLATILE, OLD VOLUNTEER. WELL, RIGHT, RIGHT. RIGHT SO, SO THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. AS MOST OF US WERE THE CDC DID, UM, PUT DALLAS COUNTY UNDER THEIR RED ALERT. THEY DETERMINE THAT THROUGH A COMMUNITY ASSESSMENT OF ADMISSIONS, ICU BEDS AND TOTAL CASES. DALLAS COUNTY HAS THEIR OWN LEVEL OF RISK ASSESSMENT. THEY ACTUALLY HAVE A PUBLIC HEALTH BOARD THAT MEETS REGULARLY TO MAKE THAT DETERMINATION. UM THE BOARD WAS SUPPOSED TO BE TUESDAY AND THEY MOVED IT UP OVER THE WEEKEND. I THINK THEY MET FRIDAY NIGHT OVER THE WEEKEND AND THEY DID RAISE THE LEVEL INTO THE ORANGE LEVEL , WHICH IS AN EXTREME LEVEL. UM SO THE BASIC EXTREME LEVEL IS JUST TO BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS AND BE AWARE OF YOUR SURROUNDINGS TO AVOID EXTREMELY CROWDED AREAS. UM IF YOU CAN'T AVOID THAT CROWDED AREA TO WEAR MASKS IF YOU CAN'T SOCIALLY DISTANCE, UM AND, UM YEAH. BE OUTSIDE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE WITH EXCEPT WITH THE HEAT AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BUT I'M JUST JUST JUST BE EXTREMELY CAUTIOUS. WHEN YOU'RE WE'RE AT THE GREEN AT THE ORANGE LEVEL. UM AND ALSO IF YOU'RE DUE FOR YOUR BOOSTER, THEY REALLY ARE PROMOTING GETTING YOUR BOOSTER SHOTS. SO BE AWARE OF THAT ALSO. AND THOSE ARE STILL AVAILABLE AT OUR HEALTH CLINICS, ALL OF THEM. ANYTHING ELSE AHEAD, SIR. YEAH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH WOULD YOU GIVE ARE ADDRESSING INFORMATION ON OUR LOCATION FOR OUR HEALTH CENTER AGAIN FOR THOSE WHO MAY BE BE WATCHING. WE PROVIDE THE COVID VACCINES AT 206 CARVER STREET, AND THAT'S WHAT THE CARVER COMPLEX IN GARLAND AND THE NUMBERS 972539. AND WE'RE OPEN 7 30 TO 5 30, WALKING ONLY MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. RIGHT RIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT FOR THAT BRIEFING. I JUST SAID SOME PEOPLE LIKE I GOT SOME CALLS FROM WHEN THEY SAW THE PRESS RELEASE ON THE CITY. SEE UPGRADE. THEY KIND OF THEY REACTED. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING THE WATER. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU. THAT WILL MOVE US ON TO ITEM THREE C AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER 31 ARTICLE SEVEN FLOOD DAMAGE PREVENTION SECTION 31.104 OF THE CODE OF ORDINANCES. AND THEN ITEM THREE D A T AND T CELL YOUR SITE LEASE AGREEMENT. THREE E NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY MATCHING GRANT SPRING 2022 APPLICATIONS. ITEM THREE F DUCK CREEK LIFT STATION TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP. IN THE FINAL UNDER THIS SECTION THREE G BONE VOLUNTEER APPOINTMENT CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. ALL RIGHT. THAT WILL MOVE US TO ITEM. FOUR [4a. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Final Report on Globe Union Lead Remediation Projec] VERBAL BRIEFINGS. FIRST ITEM IS FOR A ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY. FINAL REPORT ON GLOBE UNION LEAD REMEDIATION PROJECT. WE'LL GIVE YOU A SECOND TO GET THE PRESENTATION. I KNOW THAT'S [00:05:07] ALWAYS. FUN PROCESS TO GET STARTED UP THERE. THERE WE GO. ALL RIGHT. THE MAYOR COUNCIL. MY NAME IS ERIC DELGADO ON THE I WAS THE FEDERAL ON SCENE COORDINATOR FOR THE GLOBAL UNION SITE HERE IN GARLAND. UM TO THIS SO WE'RE JUST GONNA GO OVER SEVERAL TOPICS. THE SITE BACKGROUND? UM, THE PROJECT TIMELINE. THE REMOVAL ASSESSMENT WHICH LED US TO THE REMOVAL ACTION. UM AND THEN ANY QUESTION AND ANSWERS THAT YOU GUYS MIGHT HAVE SO, AS YOU KNOW, MOST OF YOU GUYS HAVE HEARD THIS, UH, THIS BRIEFING BEFORE, BUT I THINK THERE'S SOME NEW FACES HERE IN THE CROWD. BUT THE GLOBE UNION, UM, FACILITY OPERATED FROM THE FIFTIES. UP UNTIL THE MID NINETIES. UM THEY PRODUCED LEAD ACID BATTERIES. YOU KNOW THOSE FOR YOUR CARS OR YOUR BOATS? WHAT HAVE YOU, UM AND THEY WERE ONE OF THE NATION'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF THOSE LEAD ACID BATTERIES. AND THE GARLAND LOCATION WAS JUST ONE OF MANY. MANY OF THOSE LOCATIONS AROUND THE COUNTRY. SO THE. T C Q OR AS IT WAS KNOWN BACK THEN THE TEXAS AIR CONTROL BOARD THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES, EPA, UM, YOU KNOW WE HAD DIFFERENT ASSESSMENTS AND, UM, FOLLOW UPS WITH THIS FACILITY ALL THE WAY BACK UP UNTIL I THINK IT WAS 1973 IS WHEN WE FIRST STARTED. UM THE WE LOOKED AT, UM THERE WAS A LOT OF AIR COMPLAINTS. UM AND AT THE TIME WHEN THE FACILITY WAS OPERATING, AND UNDER THE GUIDELINES THAT WERE IN PLACE AT THAT TIME THERE WAS THERE WAS REALLY NO VIOLATIONS, RIGHT? UM, BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS IN 2019 WE CONDUCTED WITH CALLED A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT. UM WE WANT TO DETERMINE WHETHER THIS SITE WOULD FALL WITHIN THE NATIONAL PRIORITIES LIST, WHICH IS THE MOST CONTAMINATED SITES IN THE COUNTRY. UM SO WE DID NOT . WE DID NOT OBSERVE ANY EVIDENCE OF RESIDUAL CONTAMINATION IN THE FACILITY OR IN THAT PARKING LOT. UM BUT WE NEEDED TO KNOW THERE WAS MORE INFORMATION THAT WE NEEDED TO FIGURE OUT IF THERE WAS A RISK. SO WE STEPPED OUT FROM THAT A LITTLE BIT AND WHAT WE DID WAS WE CONDUCTED WHAT'S CALLED A SITE INSPECTION. UM WE DID THAT IN 2020, AND THAT WAS IN CONJUNCTION WITH WITH T. C. Q WE SAMPLED, UM SOIL AND SEDIMENT FROM THAT DRAINAGE PATHWAY, WHICH IS STREAM TO SEE FOUR. UM AND WE ANALYZE THAT FOR, UM FOR HEAVY METALS, INCLUDING MERCURY. FOR THOSE YEARS. NOT AWARE THAT THIS IS THE GENERAL SITE LOCATION OF THE FACILITY. THIS IS A SCHEMATIC OF THE OF THE FACILITY BOUNDARIES. UM AND THIS I DON'T KNOW IF YOU SEE MY MOUTH. IS THAT MOUTH SHOW UP THERE? NO. UM, A POINTER. HERE WE GO. THAT POINT HERE IN THIS AREA HERE, UM THERE WAS SOME SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS WHERE THEY WOULD STORE SOME OF THE BATTERIES. UM THE, UM THE WASTE WOULD OR THAT THE RUNOFF FROM THOSE WASTE AREAS WOULD GO INTO STREAM TO SEE FOUR. UM AS YOU SEE YOU WOULD. THERE'S A COVERT HERE AND THE MARQUIS DRIVE. IT WOULD GO IN THERE AND THEN CROSSED DOWN UNTIL EVENTUALLY WHERE IT CROSSED OVER. SHILOH ROAD. SO JUST TO CITE HISTORY LIKE I MENTIONED THERE WAS A PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT AND, UM IN 1983, THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE HEALTH SERVICES CONDUCTED CANCER CLUSTERS. UH, ASSESSMENT IN 2018 AT THE REQUEST OF THE CITIZENS OF GARLAND. UM PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT, LIKE I MENTIONED WAS DONE 2019, THEN 2020. AND THEN THE REMOVAL ASSESSMENT. UM OCCURRING IN BETWEEN, FROM 2020 TO, REALLY, ACTUALLY, IT'S 2022. WHEN WE STARTED THIS, RIGHT, UM I WAS GIVEN THIS SITE. UM IT WAS ABOUT A WEEK BEFORE THE WHOLE WORLD SHUT DOWN FOR THE SPRING BREAK THAT NEVER ENDED, RIGHT? AND SO THEY GAVE THAT TO ME. I BELIEVE IT WAS A WEDNESDAY. UM I THINK FRIDAY THE 13TH WAS WAS WHEN WE ALL WENT HOME. BUT I WAS GIVEN THAT SITE ON WEDNESDAY. I SAW SOME OF THE RESULTS. THEY WERE VERY HIGH, UM, PRETTY ALARMING NUMBERS. FROM THAT SIDE INSPECTION, SO WE WERE ACTIVELY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT HOW TO GET THE WORD OUT. UM, AND FIGURE OUT TO DO SOME MORE ADDITIONAL SAMPLING TO FIGURE OUT HOW BIG THE PROBLEM WAS. UM THEN COVID SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN. UM PEOPLE WERE WORRIED ABOUT ABOUT THAT MORE THAN THEY WERE WORRIED [00:10:01] ABOUT, YOU KNOW, LEAD CONTAMINATION. EVERYONE WAS STAYING HOME. UM AND SO I HAD TO WORK WITH OUR COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT FOLKS TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT HOW DO WE GET THAT MESSAGE OUT? UM IN THE REMOVAL PROGRAM, WHERE WE POUND THE PAVEMENT. WE MEET WITH LOCALS. WE MEET WITH THE LOCAL OFFICIALS WHO MEET WITH THE LOCAL LEADERS . THE NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS. UM WE WERE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. RIGHT. SO UM, WE GENERATED UH. WE TOOK ALL OF OUR THOUGHTS. WE CREATED WHAT'S CALLED A STORY MAP. WE PUT THAT ON THE WEBSITE TO TRY TO GIVE THE RESIDENTS AS MUCH INFORMATION AS POSSIBLE ON WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE SITE. UM IT'S NOT THE SAME AS GOING AND KNOCKING ON DOORS AND TALKING TO FOLKS, BUT IT WAS THE BEST THAT WE COULD DO AT THE TIME. UM WE SENT OUTSIDE ACCESS AGREEMENTS TO THE TO THE PROPERTIES. THE BORDERS STREAM TO C FOUR. WE SENT THOSE OUT IN JUNE OF 2020. UM IT WAS VERY SLOW MOVING COMING IN THESE ACCESS AGREEMENTS BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT OTHER THINGS, AND, UM, IT JUST WASN'T IT WASN'T A PRIORITY, RIGHT? UM AND SO WE FINALLY GOT TO START SAMPLING IN NOVEMBER OF 2020. UM I HAD SOME VERY, UH, RESTRICTIONS THAT WERE PUT ON ME BECAUSE E P A DID NOT WANT TO GO OUT AND CONTRIBUTE TO THE TO THE PANDEMIC, RIGHT, SO PEOPLE GOING OUT AND CAUSING THIS PROBLEM? UM, I KID YOU NOT WAS A COUPLE OF DAYS IN THE FIELD. I CONTRACTED COVID AND WE HAD TO SHUT THE WHOLE SITE DOWN. RIGHT. SO, UM. AFTER AFTER A COUPLE OF MONTHS OF, UM OF TALKING TO FOLKS AND SAY, HEY, WE CAN DO THIS. WE CAN DO THIS. WELL YOU KNOW, WE WERE BEING SOCIALLY DISTANT. I DON'T KNOW I COULD HAVE CAUGHT AT THE QUIKTRIP OR AT THE PURPOSE. A PLACE YOU KNOW IT. YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T KNOW WHERE I GOT IT COULD HAVE BEEN CHURCH, WHATEVER. UM, BUT WE WERE ABLE TO COME BACK OUT IN FEBRUARY OF 2021. WE HAD A GOOD SAMPLING EVENT. UM WE GOT THE INFORMATION BACK, UM, AROUND APRIL. WE SENT OUT RESULT LETTERS IN JUNE AND THEN HELD A COMMUNITY MEETING LAST AUGUST. UM YOU GUYS REMEMBER? IT WAS HEAVILY HEAVILY ATTENDED THAT BELIEVE WE HAD SOMETHING LIKE THERE WAS LIKE 75 PEOPLE IN THERE IN THE CHAMBERS COUNCIL CHAMBERS AND ABOUT 300 PEOPLE ONLINE. AND I TOOK QUESTIONS FOR ABOUT THREE HOURS. IT WAS PRETTY PRETTY BRUTAL. UM. WE STARTED OUR REMOVAL IN AUGUST. UM WE STARTED AT THE SCHOOL AT PARK WEST ELEMENTARY. UM AND WE COULD ONLY REALLY WORK THERE THAT SCHOOL UM WHEN THE KIDS WERE NOT IN SESSION, RIGHT? WE HAD BIG, HEAVY MACHINERY. THERE WAS AN OPTICS ISSUE. UM AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAD FOLKS THAT WERE WEARING, UM UM, YOU KNOW THE PRIVATE COVERALLS AND PEOPLE SAY THEY LOOK LIKE YOU KNOW, MOON SUITS, BUT YOU KNOW IT AND IT WAS IT WAS PRIMARILY TO KEEP OUR FOLKS SAFE FROM FROM NOT ONLY THE LEAD DUST BUT THE VEGETATION THAT WAS THERE. THERE WAS A LOT OF POISON IVY. THERE WAS A LOT OF ISSUES THAT WE DIDN'T WANT FOLKS TO, UM, TO GET EXPOSED TO SO THAT WHILE WE WORKED AFTER SCHOOL HOURS OR ON THE WEEKEND. YOU KNOW THAT TOOK US A FEW MONTHS TO GET THAT COMPLETED, BUT WHEN WE WEREN'T AT THE SCHOOL AFTER OUR AFTER SCHOOL HOURS ON THE WEEKENDS, WE WERE WORKING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. UM SO WE ARE. WORK THROUGH THAT IN NOVEMBER, WE STARTED RESTORING. UM SOME OF THE FIRST PROPERTIES . UM RIGHT THERE ADJACENT TO THE SCHOOL. UM WE TOOK A BREAK FOR CHRISTMAS AND CAME BACK IN IN JANUARY. UM WHILE WE WERE DOING THIS, WE FIGURED OUT THAT THERE WAS, UM AND I'LL SHOW YOU HERE IN THIS NEXT SLIDE THAT THAT WE HAD TO STEP OUT A LITTLE BIT RIGHT. AND SO WE DIDN'T REALLY FIND THE CLEAN LINE. RIGHT SO WHEN WE'RE THIS IS A KIND OF A LOT LIKE WHEN DOCTORS ARE DOING SURGERY, RIGHT, AND THEY'RE TRYING TO FIND YOU KNOW THIS CLEAN MARGINS FOR TUMORS, AND THEY'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE THAT IS. AND SO, UM, WE STEPPED OUT JUST JUST A LITTLE BIT. UM BUT WE, UM WE FINISHED UP OUR REMOVAL ACTION. UM IT WAS APRIL OF, UM UH, APRIL 14TH OF 2022. THIS PAST APRIL, WE SENT OUT THE RESULT LETTERS AND THEN , UM, JUST LAST MONTH, WE HAD A VIRTUAL COMMUNITY MEETING TO, UM, TO WRAP THINGS UP. SO I CAN SHOW YOU HERE. THIS THIS, UM KIND OF MUSTARD ORANGE SECTION. HERE WAS THE ORIGINAL STUDY AREA . THE GLOBE UNION SITE WAS RIGHT HERE. WE SAMPLE AS MANY [00:15:02] PROPERTIES AS WE COULD, UM, THAT WOULD GIVE US ACCESS ALONG THERE , BUT WE FOUND A FEW PROPERTIES IN THIS AREA THAT WE'RE SHOWING ELEVATED LEVELS FOR LEAD. UM SO WE SAID, WE STEPPED OUT AND WE SAID LET'S JUST SAMPLE STREAM TO C FOUR. UNTIL IT HITS DUCK CREEK. UM SO WE DID THAT. AND WE NOTICED THAT THAT FAIRLY FAIRLY QUICKLY PASSED, UM, BELIEVE THAT SATURN UM THAT WE FOUND, YOU KNOW, NO MORE LEAD HITS. SO UM, THERE WAS A TINSLEY PARK AREA WAS PROBABLY THE FURTHEST EAST THAT WE CLEANED UP. AND UM, BUT EVERYTHING ELSE DONE THERE WAS SHOWING UP PRETTY CLEAN. BUTTON. SO ALL IN ALL IN THE ASSESSMENT , YOU KNOW, WE COLLECTED, UM OVER 2000 SAMPLES. UM, 84 PROPERTIES. UM AND THOSE PROPERTIES. WE SEPARATED INTO GRIDS, RIGHT? SO WE DO LIKE A FRONT YARD BACKYARD. UM AND THEN SMALLER SECTIONS ALONG THAT ALONG THE CREEK. UM WE, UM. DISTRIBUTED 122 ACCESS AGREEMENTS. 84 CAME BACK, UM SAYING THEY WANTED ACCESS. 10 DENIED US ACCESS. THEY JUST DIDN'T WANT ANY DIDN'T WANT ANY PART OF THE GOVERNMENT. THEY JUST WERE. THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT OTHER ISSUES. UM AND THEN , UM, 28 PEOPLE DIDN'T RESPOND. UM AT THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE OF THE REMOVAL, UM. YOU KNOW, WE ONLY HAD A HANDFUL OF PROPERTIES , YOU KNOW MORE THAN HANDFUL, BUT YOU KNOW TO CLEAN UP BUT AS PEOPLE SAW THE WORK THAT WAS GOING ON, UM, THEY SAID, I REMEMBER GETTING A LETTER RIGHT ? I NEVER RESPONDED. IS IT TOO LATE AND IT WASN'T RIGHT? AND SO WE KEPT WE KEPT ACCEPTING ACCESS AGREEMENTS. UM UP UNTIL, UM, PROBABLY END OF MARCH. RIGHT UM , SO, UM, WE KEPT SIGNING PEOPLE UP. SO. LIKE I SAID IN THE INITIAL STUDY AREA OF THE ACCESS AGREEMENT SENT OUT IN OCTOBER, THERE WAS 34. THEY GAVE US ACCESS 10 DENIED. 32 DIDN'T RESPOND. UM. WE COLLECTED OVER, YOU KNOW, AND THAT INITIAL ASSESSMENT RIGHT? IT WAS 1000 SAMPLES OVER 1000 SAMPLES FROM 34 PROPERTIES. WE USE SOME OF YOUR CITY PARKS TO ESTABLISH A BASELINE FOR NATURALLY OCCURRING METALS IN THE AREA. UM AND THAT PROVED TO BE VERY HELPFUL TO GIVE US AN IDEA OF WHAT WAS WHAT WAS KIND OF A NATURAL, UM, LEVELS IN THE AREA. SO WE EXPANDED THAT LIKE I MENTIONED, UM. ASSESSMENT SAMPLING RESUMED , UM IN SEPTEMBER OF, UM LAST YEAR, WE ADDED 26 ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES 44 ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES. 23 GRANTED ACCESS 6 TO 9 AND THEN 15 DIDN'T RESPOND. UM. WHEN WE DID THE SAMPLING. UM WE HAD FOLKS OUT THERE DOING UTILITY CLEARANCE. UM, THIS IS MORE THAN JUST THE ONE CALL WHERE YOU SAY HEY, WHERE ARE MY WATER LINES? WHERE? MY GAS LINES . UM A LOT OF THESE PROPERTIES NOW HAVE FIBER OPTIC, UM, INTERNET. UM I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE SEEN THEM PUT AT YOUR HOUSE, BUT, UH, I'M VERY SHOCKED AT HOW SHALLOW THAT THEY PUT THAT LINE. IT'S ALMOST LIKE A BIG, UM, SCREWDRIVER, FLAT HEAD SCREWDRIVER, AND THEY JUST WIGGLE IT AND LAY THE LINE DOWN AND KICK THE DIRT OVER IT. AND I'M GOING RIGHT. SO UM WE'RE VERY HAPPY THAT OF ALL THE PROPERTIES WE SAMPLED. WE ONLY HAD ONE, UM AND, UM THEY WERE. THEY WERE OUT OF INTERNET FOR PROBABLY ABOUT SIX HOURS, BUT WE GAVE THEM HOT SPOTS. WE GIVE THEM STUFF LIKE THAT TO HELP THEM BECAUSE WE KNOW A LOT OF PEOPLE WORKING FROM HOME, BUT WE WORKED THAT OUT. UM WE USED THE GEO PROBE. THAT'S THIS RIG RIGHT HERE. UM WHAT THAT DOES IS HAS A , UM, AN ACETATE SLEEVE. UM IT'S PROBABLY ABOUT ABOUT THIS WIDE AND IT PUSHES THAT CORE DOWN IN THE GROUND. AND SO WHAT WE END UP DOING IS IF YOU SEE THE THIS THIS DRAWINGS HERE WE TOOK A 0 TO 1 INCH SAMPLES, SO THAT'S 0 TO 1 INCH BELOW GROUND SURFACE. 0 TO 66 TO 12 AND 12 TO 18 18 TO 24 OR UNTIL WE HIT THE BOTTOM, YOU'LL SEE LIKE SOME OF THESE AREAS WERE HERE. WHY IS IT WHITE? BECAUSE IT'S HITTING THAT, UM, IT'S HITTING THAT COLLECT THAT THAT LIMESTONE LAYER THAT'S REALLY NOT RIGHT NEXT TO THE, UM TO THE TO THE RIVERS OF THIS CREEK. AND SO WE DO THAT WE'D MIX THOSE THOSE SAMPLES TOGETHER TO HAVE A REPRESENTATION OF THAT GRID. RIGHT AND SO THAT WOULD TELL US WHEN WE CAN'T WE GOT THE RESULTS BACK. WE WOULD KNOW. ALRIGHT THIS PROPERTY HERE WE GOTTA DIG DOWN 12 INCHES TO GET IT ALL. MAYBE 18 MAYBE 24 INCHES OR MAYBE JUST THE SURFACE GRAPE. AND SOME OF THESE BACKYARDS THAT WERE PRETTY TIGHT WHERE WE COULDN'T GET THAT RIG IN. WELL, [00:20:04] THEN WE JUST HAD TO DO THE OLD FASHIONED WAY. RIGHT SO WE HAD, UM, SHARPSHOOTER, OR, UM, THE CONTRACTORS HATE THIS. THIS IS A IT'S CALLED SLAM BAR, AND IT'S BASICALLY A MINI GEO PROBE WHERE THE PERSON IS THE HAMMER, RIGHT. THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE NOT GOING TO INTO THE GROUND. UM SO WE DO THE SAME THING THERE. YOU CAN SEE RIGHT HERE IN THIS. IN THIS GRAPHIC. THERE'S THE ACETATE SLEEVES AND THEY WOULD TAKE THOSE CUT THOSE UP HOMOGENIZED THAT AND WE SEND THOSE OFF OF THE LAB. YOU GUYS MAY HAVE SEEN THIS OR I DON'T KNOW IF HE GOT CALLS. HEY THERE'S SOME FOLKS AND YOU KNOW IN THESE SUITS OUT THERE, AND THEY'RE THEY'RE CONDUCTING THEIR THEIR SAMPLING. SO FOR THE PROPER FOR ACTION LEVELS, RATHER CLEANUP LEVELS. WHAT DO WE USE? RIGHT SO WE UTILIZES THE T. C. Q S. THE RISK REDUCTION PROGRAM TIER ONE PROTECTIVE CONCENTRATION LEVELS FOR RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES, WHICH IS 500 PARTS PER MILLION FOR LEAD AND 24 PARTS PER MILLION FOR ARSENIC. UM THAT WAS KIND OF OUR TARGET. RIGHT? UM AS YOU KNOW, HEALTH DEPARTMENT. YOU KNOW, THERE'S THESE NUMBERS COME FROM SOMEWHERE THEY COME FROM BLOOD, LEAD LEVEL VALUES. UM BLOOD LEAD VALUES ARE STARTING TO CHANGE. UM AND SO WHAT WE ENDED UP DOING WAS WE CLEANED UP THESE PROPERTIES TO, UM 200 PARTS PER MILLION BECAUSE WE HAVE A FEELING THOSE THOSE BLOOD LEVELS WHERE THEY HAVE CHANGED BY NOW AND SO UM WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE PROTECTIVE IN THAT. WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO COME BACK IF SOMEBODY SAID HEY, IN THE NEXT SIX MONTHS, THIS IS GOING TO CHANGE AND WE WOULDN'T WANT TO COME BACK AND DO MORE WORK. SO, UM THIS IS JUST A SCHEMATIC OF THE OF THE STUDY AREA. UM AS YOU CAN SEE, YOU KNOW, UM I CAN'T REALLY TELL YOU WHICH PROPERTIES WERE CLEAN OR CONTAMINATED. BUT THIS GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE DISTRIBUTION OF WHAT WE'RE FINDING OUT THERE. SO IN THAT INITIAL STUDY AREA, UM THERE WAS 78 PROPERTIES. UM THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN 70. FOR THE BEGINNING. THERE WAS FOUR MORE BECAUSE WE ADDED SOME CITY PROPERTIES. UM UM OVER THERE BY THE, UM THE CHEVRON AND, UM THE QUICK TRIP OVER THERE, AND IN THAT AREA THERE, SILO AND MILLER, I BELIEVE AND, UM WE, UH 61 PROPERTIES WERE SAMPLED RIGHT 78% OF THEM. UM AND 37% OF THOSE SAMPLES HAD EXCEEDED THOSE SCREENING LEVELS. WHEN WE WENT INTO THAT SECOND AREA WHERE WE SAID WE'RE TRYING TO FIND THE CLEAN LINE, YOU'LL SEE THAT THE NUMBER OF PROPERTIES THAT EXCEEDED THOSE THOSE ACTION LEVELS HAD DECREASED DOWN TO 13. ALL RIGHT. AND SO THE REMOVAL ACTION, UM YOU KNOW? WE HAD THOSE 26 PROPERTIES CLEANING THEM UP. UM WE HAD THE INITIAL ONE WAS THE SCHOOL, WHICH WAS OUR BIG DEAL. THERE WAS A LOT OF , UM WE WORK VERY CLOSELY WITH THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. UM WE HAD A REALLY GOOD PARTNERSHIP WITH THEM, UM WE FINISHED EVERYTHING THERE. THERE'S ONLY ONE THING THAT'S LEFT REMAINING, AND WE'RE HOPING TO, UH, ADDRESS THAT. THIS UM BY THE END OF THE MONTH IS THAT WHEN WE WERE DOING THE REMOVAL ACTION AT, UM IN THE IN THE GARDEN AREA. UM THAT THERE WE HAD TO REMOVE A LOT OF THOSE POLLINATOR PLANTS AND VEGETABLE GARDEN THAT THEY HAD. UM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IS WORKING WITH A LANDSCAPE ARCHITECT TO TRY TO, UH TRANSITION THAT TO MORE OF A TEACHING LAB. WHERE THEY'RE GOING TO HAVE RAISED BEDS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE'VE ASKED THE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO LET US KNOW WHICH PLANTS THEY WANT US TO, UM TO, UM, UM REPLACE, SO WE'RE JUST KIND OF WAITING ON THAT. REMOVAL ACTIONS. UM WHEN YOU WHEN YOU HEAR SUPER FUN WHEN YOU HEAR EPA YOU HEAR ABOUT, YOU KNOW THE MOST CONTAMINATED THE CONTAMINATED SITES. THESE THINGS TAKE FOREVER TO CLEAN UP. WELL THE OTHER HALF OF SUPERFUND IS THE REMOVAL PROGRAM, RIGHT? THAT IS WHERE WE UNDERSTAND THAT MAYBE THIS IS NOT THE MOST CONTAMINATED CONTAMINATED SITES , BUT IT'S STILL SOMETHING THAT REQUIRES CLEAN UP NOW. AND OUR PROGRAM IS BUILT AROUND CLEANING UP PROPERTIES IN LESS THAN A YEAR'S TIME. SO FOR ME TO BE TALKING ABOUT GLOBAL UNION WHEN WE DISCOVERED THIS BACK IN 2020 , AND NOW IT'S THE SUMMER OF 2022. IT'S VERY, VERY ODD, RIGHT ? IT'S USUALLY WE IDENTIFY. WE TALKED TO PEOPLE. WE CLEAN IT UP, AND THEN WE LEAVE RIGHT. IT'S ALMOST LIKE LIKE THE MARINES OF ALL RIGHT, YOU GO IN, YOU CONQUER YOUR LEAF, AND, UM SO UM. WE'RE HERE. WE CLEAN THAT UP WHEN WE WHEN WE DID THE, UM UH, THAT PROCESS YOU KNOW, WE [00:25:01] HAD TO WORK WITH THE WITH THE RESIDENTIAL OWNERS. AND THEN YOU GUYS KNOW, UM YOU KNOW SOMEBODY'S FLOWERBED MIGHT BE IMPORTANT OR THERE MIGHT BE A DOG OR THE FAMILY PET THAT WAS BURIED IN CERTAIN AREAS. SO YOU HAVE TO. YOU HAVE TO WORK WITH THESE FOLKS TO MAKE SURE THAT YOU'RE NOT JUST COMING IN. DIGGING EVERYTHING OUT WITH DISREGARD FOR WHAT THEIR FEELINGS AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF LOT OF FINESSE THAT GOES INTO THAT, UM, SO WE WERE ABLE TO CLEAN THAT UP. UM DO THEIR UTILITY CLEARANCE AND SOME OF THESE AREAS WHERE, UM THERE WAS A LOT OF OVERGROWTH AND WE COULDN'T GET OUR EQUIPMENT BACK THERE. WE HAD TO REMOVE THOSE TREES AND, UM, BUT I HAD TO WORK WITH THEM, TOO. BECAUSE SOMETIMES THAT SOME FOLKS THAT TAKE IT ALL DOWN AND WE HAVE TO TELL THEM WELL, THOSE TREES ARE KEEPING YOUR BANK UH, THERE. SO YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO. WE HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THAT. AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA WANNA LOSE YOUR PROPERTY TO THE RUNOFF AND YOU GUYS HAVE SEEN THIS AND I DIDN'T BELIEVE IT WHEN THEY TOLD ME BUT, UM, WHEN THOSE STORES EVEN A SMALL STORM COMES THROUGH, IT IS LIKE A CLASS FOUR, YOU KNOW, RAPID IN THOSE AREAS. UM. AS I MENTIONED WE, WE DIG UP TO 24 INCHES OR BLOOD GROUND'S SURFACE. WE DID CONFIRMATION SAMPLING, SO THAT'S WHERE WHEN WE REMOVE THE CONTAMINATED SOIL, WE TAKE ONE MORE SAMPLE TO FIGURE OUT. DID WE GET IT? ALL RIGHT. AND SO WE DID THAT, UM, IN THE IN THE, UH MOMENTS WHEN WE COULDN'T GET IT, ALL RIGHT, WHERE WE WENT DOWN TO 24 INCHES, AND THERE WAS A LIMESTONE OR THERE'S SOMETHING WHERE WE COULDN'T GET THROUGH THAT, UM, WE WOULD PUT SOME SORT OF BARRIER AND I'LL SHOW THIS TO YOU IN A FUTURE SLIDE WHERE AND WE LET THE PROPERTY OWNERS KNOW THAT. HEY, THIS IS THERE'S SOMETHING THERE. THERE'S A THERE'S A VISUAL CUE FOR YOU THE SO IF YOU START DIGGING THAT AREA, YOU SEE THAT NO THAT THAT SOIL IS CONTAMINATED, BUT EPA CONSIDERS THE FIRST TWO FT OF SOIL TO BE KIND OF SURFACE OIL, AND PEOPLE ARE NORMALLY DIGGING THAT THAT FAR DOWN UNLESS THEY'RE PUT INTO UTILITIES OR WHATEVER. UM BUT WE'VE BACK FILLED WITH CLEAN SOIL. ALL THAT SOIL THAT WE THAT WE PURCHASED, UM, WAS ANALYZED FOR EVERY TYPE OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINANT AND WE VERIFIED THAT IT WAS CLEAN. AGAIN WE DID THE UTILITY CLEARANCE WHEN WE DID THAT, UM, WE WERE VERY SENSITIVE TO, UM, THE COMMUNITY'S CONCERNS ABOUT DUST MITIGATION OR DOES CONCERNS THAT ANY WORK THAT WE WERE DOING ON SITE WOULD GENERATE LEAD CONTAMINATED DUST THAT WOULD GO INTO THEIR HOMES OR GOING? UM, THIS WAS ACTUALLY AT THE SCHOOL. UM WE HAD MONITORS THAT, UM I'M GONNA GET THAT THE NEXT LIFE. HERE'S THE EXAMPLE THAT BRUSH CLEARING THAT WE WERE DOING LIKE I MENTIONED, UM AND TO BE ABLE TO ADDRESS THE CONTAMINATION. WE HAD REAL TIME AIR MONITORING, RIGHT? SO WE HAD THESE, UM THESE UNITS THAT WERE SET UP AROUND TOWN AROUND THE EXCAVATION SITES. AND THEY WERE REAL TIME IF I WE ESTABLISHED, UM, PROTECTIVE, UM ACTION LEVELS FOR DUST IN THE AIR, AND ANY TIME THE MONITOR GOT TO HALF OF THAT NUMBER, THEN I WOULD EVERYONE IN THE TEAM WOULD GET A TEXT. UM YOU KNOW, SO IT HELD EVERYONE ACCOUNTABLE. THEY KNEW IF WE HAD IF WE GOT A TEXT ON THAT, AND WE'RE APPROACHING HALF OF THAT LIMIT WELL, THEN THERE'S GOING TO BE A SHUTDOWN TALK. WHY ARE WE GETTING THERE? AND I'M HAPPY TO REPORT? WE NEVER HAD ISSUES. WHEN I MENTION ONE. WE HAD ONE ISSUE, BUT WE WEREN'T EVEN DIGGING. IT WAS, UM IT WAS IN THE SPRING, AND THERE WAS A TON OF POLLEN EVERYWHERE. SOMEBODY HAD, UM. WALK THROUGH A BUNCH OF BAMBOO, AND IT WAS LIKE A BIG CLOUD OF POLLEN THAT CAME UP AND THE MONITORS PICKED IT UP, AND WE'RE LIKE, WE'RE NOT. WE'RE NOT DIGGING, SO WE KNEW THAT WASN'T WASN'T US, UM BUT WE SET UP ON OUR WEBSITE. WE HAD A WEBSITE THAT THAT SHOWED THE REAL TIME MONITORING UP THERE. SO ANYONE WHO WAS CONCERNED COULD GO IN AND CHECK OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON. I'LL SHOW YOU SOME EXAMPLES OF THE EXCAVATION SITES. THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF ONE OF THE YARDS THAT WE WERE CLEANING UP RIGHT, SO IT LOOKS PRETTY LOOKS PRETTY BAD. YOU KNOW, WE HAD TO REMOVE ALL THE VEGETATION THE GRASS WOULD HAVE YOU SPRINKLERS ALL OF THAT. UM THIS IS ANOTHER AREA HERE, UM HOW ALONG THE CREEK WHERE WE'RE HAVING TO CLEAN UP. AND, UM, WE HAD THESE HANDHELD MONITORS CALLED AN XRF AND SO THAT XRF WOULD HELP US. UM IT'S REALLY, REALLY ACCURATE FOR LEAD, AND SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO KNOW WHETHER WE WERE CLEANING THAT UP AND GETTING EVERYTHING WE NEED TO GO. WE STILL SAID THE SAMPLE OFF TO A LABORATORY FOR LABORATORY ANALYSIS TO VERIFY THAT. THIS IS OUR STAGING AREA. YOU GUYS MAY KNOW THAT WE USE THE AREA, THE VERY REAR OF THE GROUND WATER [00:30:01] DEPARTMENT AND WERE WORKED OUT TO BE A PERFECT LOCATION FOR US. IT WAS AWAY FROM ANY TRAFFIC IS AWAY. IT WAS YOU DIDN'T KNOW WE WERE BACK THERE UNLESS YOU KNEW WE WERE BACK THERE, RIGHT? SO WE DIDN'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT, YOU KNOW, FOLKS COMING ON SCENE AND ASKING QUESTIONS OR CAUSING PROBLEMS. AND THERE WAS A THANKFULLY THERE WAS A LOT OF GARLAND PD. UM UM, PRESENCE, YOU KNOW, I THINK THEY REFILL REFILL YOUR GAS IN THAT AREA, SO THERE'S ALWAYS A PATROL CAR THERE SO PEOPLE. PEOPLE ARE NOT WANT TO GO BACK THERE. SO, UM, THAT WAS A BLESSING FOR US. AS I MENTIONED WE HAD A GEO TEXTILE CAP. UM THAT WE USE THAT SET ORANGE FENCING. YOU CAN PROBABLY SEE THERE. WE'D LAY THAT DOWN SO THAT IF SOMEONE CAME BACK LATER , AND THEY WANT TO DIG FURTHER, THEY WOULD HAVE A, UH, VISUAL CUE THAT SOMETHING WAS THERE. WE LET THE PROPERTY OWNERS KNOW THAT WHEN WE GAVE THEM THE RESULT, LETTERS THERE WE CALL THEM COMFORT LETTERS. UM WE LET THEM KNOW THAT. HEY, THESE ARE THE CERTAIN AREAS THAT YOU MAY HAVE TO THINK ABOUT. IF YOU HAVE CONTRACTING DONE HERE IN THE FUTURE, OR WHATEVER YOU WANT TO SHARE THAT. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF, UM IF US WE JUST USING THE SKID STEER HERE WE'RE DOING WE'RE CONDUCTING BACKFILL OPERATIONS. UM AS I MENTIONED OF THE CLEAN SOIL THAT WE HAD ANALYZED. WE, UM. THAT RESTORATION ACTIVITIES. WE'D, UM ON ON THESE CREEK AREAS TO SAVE THE BANKS. WE HAD THIS, UH, THIS THIS, UH UH, NETTING THAT WE PUT DOWN TO AND THEN PUT WILDFLOWER ON THERE SO THAT THEY WOULD TAKE ROOT AND THEN PROTECT THE BANKS FROM FROM ERODING. WE REPLACED PLANTS. WE WE REPLACE SLAW. SOD. WE WATERED IT FOR TWO WEEKS AFTERWARDS. UM AND THEN ANY FENCES OR ANY STRUCTURES THAT WE THAT WE REMOVED FOR ACCESS FOR HEAVY EQUIPMENT. IT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE OF SIGNAGE OF THE SCHOOL . PUT UP TO KEEP PEOPLE OUT. UM I LIKE THIS PICTURE A LOT BECAUSE IT SHOWS. UM YOU KNOW, WE CLEANED UP THIS ENTIRE HOUSE HERE. THIS THIS WHOLE BACKYARD. UM THIS IS SAWED. THAT WAS THOSE FRESHLY INSTALLED AND THIS WAS ANOTHER PROPERTY. I BELIEVE THAT YOU GUYS OWN NOW. UM BUT IT IS, UM, UM WE WERE WAITING FOR THE CONFIRMATION RESULTS COME BACK. UM SO THAT THAT THOSE RESULTS WERE PENDING, AND SO YOU CAN SEE HOW IT LOOKS LIKE, YOU KNOW, BEFORE RESTORATION, AND AFTER. THIS IS ANOTHER EXAMPLE. THIS IS ONE OF THE REALLY GOOD LOOKING HOUSES. UM THIS HOUSE HAD EXTREMELY HIGH LEVEL LEVELS OF LEAD ALONG THE ALONG THE CREEK. UM AND IT'S ONE OF THE BETTER LOOKING ONES. UM, THAT THAT'S OUT THERE TODAY. SO AS I MENTIONED, UM IN NUMBERS HERE, 79 GRADES WERE CLEANED UP AT 23 PROPERTIES. UM SORRY TO KNOW THAT NUMBER IS WRONG. I THINK IT'S 34 PROPERTIES AND ALMOST 7000 CUBIC YARDS OF CONTAMINATED SOIL. SO. WE HAVE OUR WEBPAGE. THE EPA A RESPONSE AT EPA DOT GOV SLASH GLOBAL UNION WE HAVE WE'LL BE POSTING OUR FINAL REPORT THERE. UM, ANY INFORMATION ABOUT THE SITE? SO WE'VE WE'VE SHARED THIS WITH YOU GUYS. WE SHARED THIS WITH, UM WITH THE COMMUNITY GROUPS. UM WE HAVE SOME FREQUENTLY ANSWERED QUESTIONS THERE. UM AND. IF YOU GUYS HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, THE MAIN POINTS OF CONTACT OR MYSELF , UM AND ED MCKEEL, WHO'S A COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT COORDINATOR FOR THE SITE, AND, UM. YEAH. I JUST APPRECIATE THE INVOLVEMENT WE'VE HAD WITH YOU GUYS WE'VE WORKED WITH WITH MR BRADFORD AND JASON. AND UM YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN REALLY GREAT TO WORK WITH, UM THE, UM YEAH. SO IS THAT THE TIME IS NOW RIGHT. WE'RE DONE. WE'RE DONE. WE'VE CONQUERED. UM I KNOW THERE'S SOME QUESTIONS BY THE COMMUNITY GROUPS ABOUT OTHER SITES. UM WE'VE TOLD THEM THAT YOU KNOW, SUPER FUN IS A COST RECOVERABLE TYPE. UH WELL, STATUTE SO WE CAN'T JUST GO CLEAN UP EVERYTHING RIGHT? THEY IF THERE'S THINGS OUT THERE, THEY HAVE TO IDENTIFY IT. THEY'VE ALREADY DONE IT. THEY'VE LEARNED HOW TO DO IT. SO WORK THAT SAME PROCESS AGAIN, YOU KNOW, IN THE FUTURE, SO THANKS FOR HAVING US AND HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. VERY GOOD. MAYOR PRO TIM MORRIS THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM AND THANK YOU, MR DUGGAN. OH, FOR YOUR REPORT BEFORE I FORGET I WANTED TO SEE KEN CAN COUNSEL GET A COPY OF THE PRESENTATION. OK OKAY. UM SO IT LOOKS LIKE UH , PROPERTIES. THERE ARE SOME PROPERTIES AND I'M NOT SURE WHETHER IT'S 10 THAT WERE DENIED OR OR THREE IN THE END, BUT THE PROPERTIES THAT DENIED ACCESS. UM AM I ASSUMING CORRECTLY, THAT THEY ARE STILL AND WE DON'T HAVE A WAY AND UM TO FORCE PROPERTY PRIVATE PROPERTY OWNERS TO ALLOW [00:35:08] A CLEANUP. AND UM, WHAT HAPPENED ? IF DOWN THE ROAD, THEY SUDDENLY GO? OH, I SHOULD HAVE ALLOWED THEM TO DO IT. WHAT HAPPENS THEN? I'LL TELL YOU FROM EXPERIENCE FROM OTHER SITES. SOMETIMES THEY WILL REQUEST A CLEANUP. UM. BUT WE'D PROBABLY HAVE TO GET A FEW OF THEM TOGETHER BEFORE PEOPLE WOULD MOBILIZE TO DO THAT. WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO KNOW IS WHEN THEY TRY TO SELL THEIR HOUSE. UM REALTORS AND ALL THESE FOLKS WILL DO THESE PHASE ONE ASSESSMENTS AND FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. THEY'LL SAY, DID YOU CLEAN YOUR HOUSE? DID YOU GET YOUR HOUSE CLEANED UP? THEY'RE GOING TO SAY NO. WHERE'S YOUR RESULT? LETTER THAT SHOWS THAT IT'S CLEAN AS PART OF THEIR DISCLOSURES. IF THEY DON'T HAVE IT, THAT'S WHEN THEY START CALLING. AND WE TALKED TO EVERY SINGLE PROPERTY OWNER. ABOUT THAT. WE SAID WE CAN'T FORCE YOU RIGHT WERE THE GOVERNMENT'S WHOLE FOURTH AMENDMENT ALL THAT ? RIGHT? SO, YOU GUYS, UM THESE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT MAY COME INTO PLAY. IF YOU DON'T SIGN WE CAN'T MAKE YOU AND THEY, YOU KNOW THEY DIDN'T WANT IT. SO OKAY, SO IF. IF ONE OR TWO OR OR MORE OF THEM DOWN THE ROAD, DECIDE SUDDENLY THAT THEY REGRET THEIR EARLIER DECISION. THEN THEY MAY OR MAY NOT HAVE A REASONABLE WAY TO GET IT DONE. BELATEDLY SOMETIMES I'VE SEEN, UM PROPERTY OWNERS. UM. DO IT THEMSELVES MHM SO THEY CAN HIRE SOMEONE OR TAKE IT OUT OF WHATEVER THE SALE IS TO DO THAT OR HAVE A DISCOUNT TO DO THAT. UM BUT, YEAH, IF HE PIA IF THEY WANTED EPA TO DO IT, UM IT WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO BE A WELL COORDINATED, UM, YOU KNOW, WORTH TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND DO THAT. I NEVER SAY NEVER, BUT YEAH, OKAY. IT'S UNLIKELY. I UNDERSTAND. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU . THANK YOU, MAYOR. JUST CURIOUS . UM OBVIOUSLY ANOTHER SITES. UM THE NUMBER OF SITES HERE OR ADDRESSES THAT DENIED ACCESS OR DIDN'T RESPOND. HOW DOES THAT COMPARED? I MEAN, WITH OTHER PROJECTS YOU'VE WORKED ON IS THAT IT? IS THERE A NORMAL OKAY ? PRETTY MUCH YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME PEOPLE WHO HAVE DISTRUST OF THE GOVERNMENT DIDN'T WANT THERE'S ONE IN PARTICULAR IS FUNNY. THE MAN DID NOT. THE HUSBAND DID NOT WANT TO INITIALLY SAID HE WANTED HIS HOUSE CLEANED UP. AND THEN HE HAD A, UM HE BUILT THE SHED IN THE BACK, AND HE NEVER GOT A PERMIT FOR IT. AND SO HE WAS IN WELL. MY WIFE'S GONNA KILL ME. IF I GET THIS SET UP, YOU'RE GOING TO TELL THE CITY AND, UH AND I SAID, LOOK, I'M HERE. IT'S NOT MY JOB. I'M HERE TO CLEAN THIS UP. AND SO HE SAID, NO. MY WIFE WILL DIVORCE ME AND I'M NOT GONNA I'M NOT GONNA SIGN IT AND SAID, OK, SO YOU KNOW THERE'S STUFF LIKE THAT RIGHT? OR JUST STUFF LIKE I DON'T TRUST YOU GUYS GO AWAY, YOU KNOW? OKAY I WAS JUST CURIOUS AS AS IT'S ABOUT THE SAME. YOU GET A YOU GET A SMALL AMOUNT, FOLKS, BUT USUALLY THEY COME BACK WHEN THEY WANT TO HAVE THEIR HOUSE, CLEANED OR SOLD. VERY GOOD. GOOD LUCK. UM SO IS THERE ANY FUTURE TESTING TO ENSURE MITIGATION? SO WE'LL KNOW WHAT I CAN TELL YOU. SO WHEN WE WHEN WE CLEANED UP AS MANY OF THE PROPERTIES WE HAD, UM YOU COULD TELL THAT, UM ON THE SURFACE, RIGHT? SO I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE WORRIED ABOUT SURFACE CONTAMINATION. RIGHT? SO IF YOU CLEAN THIS UP WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN WHEN IT RAINS IS GOING TO GO CONTAMINATE SOMETHING ELSE, RIGHT? UM MOST OF THESE PROPERTIES THAT WE CLEANED UP, UM THEY GOT MORE CONTAMINATED AS YOU GOT LOWER, AND IT MAKES SENSE FROM KIND OF GEOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE. WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT STORM WATER YOU THINK ABOUT, UM, SEDIMENT, YOU THINK ABOUT RUNOFF COMING DOWN FROM FROM THE ROADS IS THAT YOU KNOW IT'S PILING ON PILING ON PILING OVER TIME, RIGHT? AND SO, UM MEDALS DON'T REALLY GO ANYWHERE AND THEY'LL STAY IN PLACE. THEY DON'T THEY DON'T DEGRADE. AND SO EVERY TIME WE WERE CLEANING UP ALONG THE CREEK RIGHT ON THE CREEK, WE WERE GOING DOWN TO TWO FT. OR UNTIL WE HIT THAT, UM THAT LIMESTONE LAYER UM, SO WE FEEL PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT THERE'S NOT A RE CONTAMINATION RISK BECAUSE WE GOT MOST OF MOST OF THAT, UM MOST OF THAT SURFACE, YOU KNOW, CONTAMINATION THAT WE DON'T FEEL LIKE THERE'S GOING TO BE A ISSUE MOVING FORWARD, SO NOT EVEN FROM THE HOMES THAT DIDN'T HAVE ANY MITIGATION PERFORMED. THERE'S A NEGLIGIBLE AMOUNT OF HOUSES THAT WERE THERE, AND AS I SAID THE DEEPEST OR THE MOST WORRISOME CONTAMINATION IS THAT DEPTH, SO UNLESS SOMEONE'S COMING UP AND DIGGING ALL THAT OUT, WHAT'S THE KIND OF CLEANER STUFF ON TOP AND [00:40:03] EXPOSING THAT STUFF ON THE BOTTOM? IT'S REALLY NOT GONNA GO ANYWHERE. SO HOW WAS THE CREEK AFFECTED? I MEAN, WE'RE TALKING A LOT ABOUT RESIDENCES AND THE DIRT ON THEIR PROPERTIES. BUT WHAT ABOUT THE BANK AND I MEAN, THE ACTUAL. THE ACTUAL THING THAT BROUGHT ALL OF THE LEAD TO THEIR HOMES. I MEAN, ALSO WHAT BROUGHT THE LEDGE OF THEIR HOMES , RIGHT WAS THOSE SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS THAT THAT THE GLOBE UNION FACILITY HAD RIGHT SO THAT ALL THAT MATERIAL THE SOURCE MATERIAL HAS BEEN GONE SINCE THE MID NINETIES, RIGHT? TRAVELED THROUGH WATER? YEAH SO AS RAIN CAME DOWN, AND SO I'LL GO BACK TO THAT. THAT SLIDE HERE IS THAT AS RAIN CAME DOWN, UM. IT WOULD GO THROUGH THAT THAT CREEK AND CONTAMINATE THEM. THE RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES WHERE IT'S A SCREAM IN THE BEGINNING. YEAH. SO THERE WAS SOME SURFACE IMPOUNDMENTS HERE AGAIN. SO NOW IS THAT AS THAT SOURCE IS GONE, UM REALLY THERE WAS NOTHING ELSE FOR IT TO ADD TO THE CONTAMINATION, RIGHT? I KNOW YOU TALKED A LOT ABOUT SAVING THEM IN BANK MINTS, AND I JUST FEEL LIKE IF THE WATER IS WHAT BROUGHT THE POLLUTION DOWN STREAM WOULDN'T THE EMBANKMENTS P POLLUTED AS WELL? DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT THIS WAY? LIKE IF YOU HAVE, LIKE, I DON'T KNOW. FOOD COLORING RIGHT IN THE POOL, AND AS IT COMES DOWN, IT'S GOING TO GET MORE DELUDED AND DELUDED, DELUDED. AND SO THERE'S NO MORE FOOD COLORING UP HERE FOR THAT FOR THAT THING TO TRAVEL DOWN, UM, DOWNSTREAM. AND SO ANY REMAINING CONTAMINATION ON THOSE PROPERTIES THAT WEREN'T CLEANED UP ARE ESSENTIALLY COVERED. AND EVERYTHING ELSE WOULD BE DILUTED OUT RIGHT? THERE'S NO MORE LEADED GASOLINE. THERE'S NO MORE LEAD PAINT. WE DID. WE DID LEAD BASED PAINT SURVEYS AT ALL OF THESE PROPERTIES. UM ONLY ONE OF THEM HAD LEAD BASED PAINT. UM SO WE'RE NOT WORRIED ABOUT IT LEAD BASED PAINT ISSUE AS BEING A FACTOR OF CONTAMINATING THE STREAM. UM I HOPE I'M ANSWERING YOUR QUESTION. STEP IN FOR A SECOND. I THINK WHAT SHE'S ASKING IS WAS THERE ABATEMENT TO THE CREEK BANK? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY . ABSOLUTELY YES. OKAY I'M SORRY. I THINK I WAS. THAT WAS WHAT I WAS HEARING. SO I WAS CONCERNED, BECAUSE, UM, I'VE NEVER SEEN PARCELS WHERE WHERE A STREAM ACTUALLY BISECTS THE PARCEL. RIGHT SO THEY OWN THE PROPERTY OWNER OWNS ON ONE SIDE OF THE CREEK AND THE OTHER SIDE OF THE CREEK, AND THAT'S ALMOST ALL OF THESE PROPERTIES ARE LIKE THAT. AND, UM YES. SO WE CLEANED UP UP INTO THE WATER LINE. UM SO WE DIDN'T SO THAT THAT THE, UH THAT'S ALL TAKEN CARE OF. AND SO WHEN YOU IF YOU GO INTO EVER WALKED THAT CREEK AS YOU GET CLOSER TO THE TO THE CREEK, IT'S ALMOST ALL LIMESTONE. AND SO WE'D HAVE TO WORK BACK. WE DIG. WE DIG AS FAR AS YOU KNOW, AS THAT LIMESTONE WAS, AND SO WE GOT ALL OF THAT STUFF. AND SO I USED SOME OF THAT, UM THAT THAT NETTING NOT THE NOT THE ORANGE STUFF, BUT SOME, UM, SOME FABRIC TOO. KEEP THAT BANK IN PLACE WITH THE CLEAN FILL SO THERE WOULD BE NO MORE YOU KNOW, IN TRAINING OF CONTAMINATION FROM FROM THOSE EXCAVATION SITES. I MEAN, I LIVE ON SATURN ROAD. SO, UM I'VE BEEN IN THAT CREEK MANY , MANY TIMES BECAUSE TINSLEY'S THE PARK I GO TO AND MOST OF MY NEIGHBORS GO TO THAT PARK AS WELL. UM SO WOULD YOU RECOMMEND THAT ANYBODY WALKED DOWN THAT CREEK IT'S SAFE FROM A FROM A LETTER FROM A LEAD EXPOSURE PROBLEM. YEAH I'D LET MY KIDS WALK IN THAT AREA. THE THING IS, THERE'S A TON OF, UM, THE ONE THING WE NOTICED ABOUT THE CITY OF GARLAND THAT WE DIDN'T WE DIDN'T KNOW. UM THERE'S A BIG, FERAL HOG, UM, ISSUES IN THAT AREA. UM, AND THEY'RE MEAN. AND TERRITORIAL AND SO WOULD I LET MY KIDS RUN. THEY'RE PROBABLY NOT AT NIGHT, BUT UM THERE'S A BIG HOMELESS UM, YOU KNOW, SITUATION OUT THERE. UM BUT FROM A FROM A FROM AN E P A ENVIRONMENTAL PERSPECTIVE. I DON'T HAVE ANY ISSUE WITH GOING RUNNING AROUND THAT CREEK. UM I'VE HEARD THAT THERE WAS SOME TESTING DONE AT SAM HOUSTON MIDDLE SCHOOL. DO YOU HAVE ANY RESULTS FROM THAT TESTING THAT WAS DONE BY THE BY THE GARLAND SCHOOL DISTRICT. UM I WILL TELL YOU THEY FOUND SOME ELEVATED LEVELS OF ARSENIC. UM. WHERE THEY ABOVE THE TEXAS UM TERP NUMBERS THAT THE PROTECTING PROTECTIVE CLEANUP VALUES. YES. WERE THEY REALLY HIGH? NO. RIGHT THEY WERE MAYBE THE HIGHEST IN THE MID THIRTIES, LOW THIRTIES AND THAT WE'RE FINDING THAT THE NATURAL, UM BACKGROUND LEVELS [00:45:07] FOR ARSENIC AND GARLAND OR SOMEWHERE AROUND 12. UM I GOT THE QUESTION AT THE LAST COMMUNITY MEETING. UM WELL, ERIC, YOU CLEANED UP THE COMMUNITY GARDEN AT PARK CREST ELEMENTARY, AND THAT'S WHAT THE NUMBERS WERE THERE. WHEN THE THIRTIES UM YOU CLEANED UP BACK , BUT WHY DIDN'T YOU? WHY AREN'T YOU CLEANING UP SAM HOUSTON. AND SO WHAT? I MY ANSWER WAS IN HIS HONEST RIGHT. I DON'T BELIEVE THAT THE ARSENIC AT THE COMMUNITY GARDENS WAS IN ANY WAY ATTRIBUTED TO THE GLOBAL UNION FACILITY. UM IT PROBABLY WAS DUE TO SOME SORT OF PESTICIDE HERBICIDE, SOME OR SOME SOME ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE RIGHT? AND I BELIEVE THAT THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT'S GOING ON AT SAM HOUSTON. UM AND SO, UM, I MET WITH THE SCHOOL. UM LAST WEEK. I THINK THERE'S THEY'RE CONDUCTING THEIR THEIR OWN REMOVAL OUT THERE JUST TO GO AHEAD AND CLEAN IT UP. UM, I THINK THEY'RE HOPING TO BE DONE IN THE NEXT FEW WEEKS. UM BUT YES, THEY DID FIND SOME ELEVATED ARSENIC LEVELS OUT THERE, BUT YOU KNOW, GARLAND WAS KIND OF A FARM FARMING AREA FOR SO LONG AND THOSE LIKE I SAID, THOSE MEDALS DON'T GO ANYWHERE RIGHT? SO IF PEOPLE ARE SPRAYING THAT KIND OF STUFF TO KEEP, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, UM, DEFOLIANT OR WHATEVER WAY THAN THAN, UM THE MEDALS ARE GOING TO STAY UNTIL THEY'RE DUG UP. SO DUE TO THE OPTICS OF COVID AT THE TIME WHEN YOU KNOW YOU FOUND THAT LEVELS WERE HIGH. I UNDERSTAND NOT WANTING TO KIND OF FREAK EVERYBODY OUT MORE THAN THEY WERE ALREADY. YOU KNOW? UM, FREAKED OUT. WHAT WOULD YOU DO? IF THAT HADN'T HAD BEEN THE CASE, IS THERE ANOTHER WAY THAT YOU WOULD HAVE REACHED OUT TO PEOPLE? UM, ABSOLUTELY. SO I WOULD HAVE BEEN DOOR TO DOOR, RIGHT? UM I WAS. I HAD A TEAM ASSEMBLED AND READY TO START KNOCKING ON DOORS. UM THE WEEK OF MARCH, 16TH GO OUT THERE AND START KNOCKING ON DOORS GETTING ACCESS AGREEMENTS. AND DOING A LOT OF THE WORK THAT WE KIND OF HAD TO DO VIRTUALLY RIGHT. I WOULD HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH WITH CITY LEADERSHIP WOULD HAVE BEEN MEETING WITH THE COMMUNITY GROUPS. UM AND I THINK THAT'S WHERE SOME OF THE WE HAD SOME REAL TRUST ISSUES AT THE BEGINNING. I UNDERSTAND AND SO WORKING WITH THOSE FOLKS, AND I WOULD HAVE BEEN HAVING COFFEE WITH THOSE COMMUNITY LEADERS. HAVING BREAKFAST WITH THEM AND TALKING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, GETTING THEIR INPUT BECAUSE THEY DID GIVE US A LOT OF REALLY GOOD INPUT OF WHAT WHAT HAPPENED AT IN, YOU KNOW IN THIS COMMUNITY, RIGHT? SO WE HAD SOME FOLKS THAT TOLD US THAT YOU KNOW THERE WOULD BE FALLOUT EVERY DAY ON THEIR ON THEIR CARS THAT THEY COULD, YOU KNOW, WIPE THIS THIS FILM OFF THEIR CARS EVERY DAY. UM WHEN THE PLANT WAS IN OPERATION, AND SO THAT'S WHY I SAMPLED FRONT YARDS, RIGHT? LIKE IF YOU ASK ME NOW, WHY? WHY WOULD YOU SAMPLE FRONT YARD WHEN SOMETHING'S COMING DOWN FROM THE CREEK? SAMPLING THE FRONT YARD BECAUSE OF THE INPUT OF THE COMMUNITY, SAYING THERE COULD HAVE BEEN FALL OUT FROM THE SMELTER WHERE THE LEAD WOULD HAVE FALLEN INTO THEIR YARDS AND I CLEANED UP THE SITE AND I'LL PASS. OH WE SAMPLED OVER 3000 HOMES, AND THAT WAS THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. RIGHT AND SO I USE THAT THAT THAT KNOWLEDGE BASE TO SAY WHERE DO WE FIND IN HERE? AND GUESS WHAT? WE DIDN'T FIND ANY LEAD. IN ANYONE'S AND EVERYONE'S FRONT YARD. SO WE KNEW THAT THAT THAT PATHWAY RIGHT OF HOW THESE HOMES WERE CONTAMINATED WAS FROM THAT SURFACE WATER, YOU KNOW, UM, YOUR PATHWAY. DID THE CITY DO ANYTHING TO NOTIFY RESIDENTS IN THE AREA THAT THERE WERE HIGH LEVELS OF LEAD? GOOD. THIS IS THIS IS AN AREA THAT WE DON'T HAVE JURISDICTION AND SO WE WORKED IN COOPERATION WITH THE EPA, BUT IT'S NOT AN EFFORT THAT WE LEAD. THAT WAS ONE OF THE QUESTIONS WE GOT FROM SOME OF THE COMMUNITY LEADERS AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY THINK THEY FIGURED OUT. THE PROCESS, RIGHT ? THEY DON'T HAVE. YOUR CITY DOESN'T HAVE ENVIRONMENTAL LAWS TO, YOU KNOW TO OR ANY CABIN OF ENFORCEMENT MECHANISM TO FORCE SOMEONE TO DO AN ACTION. RIGHT? T C Q. THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE AND GET THAT KIND OF STUFF, BUT BUT HE P A. WE HAVE OUR OWN ENFORCEMENT. WE CAN DO THAT STUFF. AND SO WHEN THEY FIGURED OUT THAT PETITION PROCESS UM, THAT WAS THAT WAS A GAME CHANGER. YOU KNOW, WE DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT IT. BUT ONCE WE FOUND OUT AND WERE ABLE TO MOBILIZE. THEN STUFF STARTED MOVING. SO THAT'S WHAT I'VE I'VE COUNSELED THE COMMUNITY LEADERS AND ANOTHER FRUSTRATED FOR MANY YEARS, I SAID, YOU'VE LEARNED THE PROCESS NOW. KEEP WORKING THE PROCESS. RIGHT. SO UM, YOU [00:50:02] KNOW, WE'RE HAPPY TO IF THINGS ARE BEING, YOU KNOW, PETITION FOR US TO GO AND LOOK AT THEN WE HAVE TEAMS THAT ARE READY TO TAKE THAT INFORMATION AND MAYBE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. I APPRECIATE THE ANSWER. THESE ARE ALL QUESTIONS I'VE RECEIVED FROM RESIDENTS. I'VE YOU KNOW, JUST TRYING TO COVER ALL BASES BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY UPSET PEOPLE WITH THE WAY THAT THE PROCESS WAS HANDLED. UM I KNOW THE CITY'S HANDS WERE TIED AND YOU ALL HAD MANY OBSTACLES. SO UM, I APPRECIATE YOUR EFFORTS IT WAS. IT WAS REALLY IT WAS REALLY TOUGH FOR ME, PERSONALLY, UM WHEN I YOU KNOW, I DO. EMERGENCY RESPONSE NOT JUST NOT JUST THESE PRESIDENTIAL CLEANUPS. WE DEAL WITH THE YOU KNOW WE'RE HAVING TO PUT ON THE RESPIRATORS AND WE'RE HAVING TO DO ALL THE STUFF AND I'M THERE AT HOME. AND I'M ITCHING LIKE LIKE MY HOME IS 15 MINUTES FROM HERE. AND I LIVE IN RICHARDSON AND I'M SAYING LOOK, GUYS, I CAN JUST GO DOWN SHILOH ROAD AND I'M THERE AND SO I'M BUGGING MY BOSSES EVERY DAY. LET ME GET OUT THERE. LET ME GET OUT THERE. AND ONCE I GET OUT THERE AND I KID YOU NOT YOU KNOW? TWO DAYS LATER ON LIKE FEELING WELL. AND I HAVE COVID AND THEN IT SHUT EVERYTHING DOWN, YOU KNOW, AND SO I JUST KEPT HAVING TO ASK MOM AND DAD OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN. COME ON. LET US DO IT. LET US DO IT AND THEN FINALLY BROKE HIM DOWN AND WE WERE ABLE TO GO DOWN. SO YOU KNOW, WE HAD A LOT OF, UM A LOT OF OBSTACLES IN FRONT OF US, AND I KNOW THAT, UM THE CITIZEN GROUPS HAD WERE VERY FRUSTRATED . AND IF I WAS THEM, I PROBABLY WOULD HAVE BEEN TOO BECAUSE I'VE ASKING AND ASKING FOR MANY, MANY YEARS, BUT ONCE THEY FIGURED IT OUT. UM YOU KNOW, THAT COULD HAVE TO THEM, RIGHT? THEY THEY WE SPENT, YOU KNOW. ALMOST $4 MILLION IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, YOU KNOW, AND THEN IN THE IN THE AREA UM SO, UM, YEAH. SO HE BROUGHT A, UM WE DID A LOT OF I THINK A LOT OF GOOD WORK IN IN THAT AND YOU'RE HEARING GARLAND. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. ALRIGHT. ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? I'VE SEEN THAT I WILL SAY I WAS ABLE TO VISIT SOME OF THE SITES THERE. I BELIEVE IT'S ON PARK CREST WHERE WE WERE DOING SOME ARE WE YOU WERE DOING SOME VERY EXTENSIVE REMOVAL ALL THE WAY DOWN INTO THE CREEK AND IT WAS. THERE WAS A LOT WAS A LOT GOING ON, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF REMOVAL AND OBVIOUSLY WAS ABLE TO SEE THE REMEDIATION AND THE REPAIRS TO AN ADJACENT FACILITY . IT WAS A VERY EXTENSIVE PROJECT. UM AND SO I APPRECIATE THE EFFORTS AND YES, WE ALL LIVED THROUGH SOME EXTRAORDINARY TIMES DURING DURING ALL OF THIS, WHICH YOU KNOW, REALLY MADE THE PROCESS MUCH, MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN THAN IT NORMALLY WOULD HAVE BEEN, SO I APPRECIATE APPRECIATE ALL OF THAT. IN THE IN THE PROCESS. UM AND. ANY ADDITIONAL ONE MORE TIME. ONE MORE. GO AHEAD. IT DIDN'T WORK OUT AT THE BEGINNING, LIKE LIKE WE WANTED TO. UM BUT SOMETIMES I THINK YOU KNOW THERE'S A PLAN, RIGHT? AND I THINK THERE WAS, UM YOU GUYS. WE WORKED WITH THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY, FOLKS WITH YOU GUYS. THERE'S SOME DEVELOPMENTS GOING ON FOR PARKS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE WERE ABLE TO SAMPLE THESE OTHER AREAS WHERE I HOPE IN THE NEAR FUTURE WHEN I COME BACK TO GARLAND AND SEE THAT THOSE PARKS HAVE BEEN BUILT AND THOSE THOSE WALKWAYS AND DIFFERENT THINGS THAT CONNECTED THE NEIGHBORHOODS TOGETHER. UM IT SOUNDED LIKE YOU KNOW, THAT'S SOME REALLY, REALLY GOOD STUFF FOR THE CITY. AND FOR THE FOR THE COMMUNITY MEMBERS, SO ABSOLUTELY SO WE'LL SEE. YOU KNOW, MAYBE IF COVID NEVER HAPPENED WOULD HAVE CLEANED IT UP SO FAST AND THEN WE WOULD HAVE BEEN GONE, BUT I THINK THAT THERE'S SOME, UM, SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS ON THE HORIZON FOR THE CITY. VERY GOOD, AND I WILL AGREE THAT IF THERE'S ONE THING WE CAN GROW HERE IN GARLAND. IT IS POISON IVY AND POISON OAK. WE HAVE A TREMENDOUS AMOUNT OF THAT IN EVERY CREEK BED. SO I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT. I'M SURE THAT WAS AS MUCH OF AN OBSTRUCTION IS ANYTHING DURING ALL THIS. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SIR. AND THAT WILL MOVE US TO ITEM FOUR B FACILITY NAMING THIS [4b. Facility Naming] IS AT THE REQUEST OF COUNCIL MEMBERS WILLIAMS AND BASS REQUESTING TO CONSIDER NAMING OF CITY GARLAND FACILITY IN HONOR OF FORMER GARLAND MAYOR AND ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER THE HONORABLE RONALD JONES. I'M NOT SURE WHO'S LEADING THE. EFFORT ON THAT, IT SAID. DO WE HAVE [00:55:03] SITES UNDER CONSIDERATION? KATHERINE WILLIAMS MAYOR. I'M GONNA I'M GOING TO QUICKLY PICK UP THIS BALL AND THEN I'M GOING TO PUNT IT TO COUNCILMAN INVEST, BUT YOU SHOULD SAY THAT THIS THIS IS IN RESPONSE TO REQUESTS FROM RESIDENTS THAT PEOPLE HAVE BEEN GARLAND. AND I'VE GOT CALLS AND EMAILS, AND SO DID COUNCILMAN BASH. THEY DIDN'T JUST START RECENTLY, BUT RECENTLY IT CAME BACK. LIKE LIKE THE ENERGIZER BUNNY. IT KIND OF WENT AWAY. THEN THE BUNNY CAME BACK AND THE BUTTON CAME BACK AND IT CAME BACK WITH PERSISTENCE. AND PERSISTENT. SO UH AND SINCE THE HONORABLE LIVES IN DISTRICT ONE WANTED TO SHARE SOME PAIN WITH THE COUNCILMAN DISTRICT ONE AND HE AND HE AGREED WITH THAT, BUT BUT, YOU KNOW, I DON'T THINK I NEED TO GO INTO THE PROFILE OF SERVICE FOR FARMER JONES. SO, COUNCILMAN BASS, UH YOU KNOW, THE CHRIS CAME AH, WITHOUT WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, IT CAME FROM FOLKS IN THIS COMMUNITY. UM AND, UM AGAIN, I'M NOT GOING TO GO INTO STUFF THAT YOU ALREADY KNOW SO WELL. I'M GONNA POINT TO COUNSELING BASS AND THEN TO OUR CITY MANAGER REGARDING THE NEXT STEP IN THIS PROCESS, BUT UM, BECAUSE DUMBAS. YEAH, IT'S BJ MENTIONED THIS HAS BEEN FLOATING AROUND FOR A WHILE. AND RIGHTFULLY SO. UM I KNOW HE'S BEEN APPROACHED AND I WAS APPROACHED AND. YEAH THEY'RE HONORABLE. UH RONALD JONES LIVES IN DISTRICT ONE AND ANYTHING WE CAN DO TO HIGHLIGHT HIS HIS SERVICE TO OUR CITY. I APPRECIATE AS FAR AS A FACILITY IN MIND. I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO COME UP WITH A FACILITY IN MIND. UM AND SO AND YOU KNOW THAT THAT'S KIND OF THAT'S KIND OF WHERE I'VE BEEN STUCK IN THIS PROCESS. UM YOU KNOW, AND SO I DON'T KNOW IF AT THIS POINT, IT'S A WAITING GAME TO FIND A BUILDING OR FOR THE RIGHT BUILDING TO COME ALONG, OR IF WE NEED TO BE A LITTLE MORE PROACTIVE. AND IN FINDING THE PROPER FACILITY TO HONOR UM RONALD JONES. SO OKAY, SO WITH THAT, I'LL TURN IT BACK OVER TO ONE OF YOU TWO. VERY GOOD. YOU WOULD SAY HANG ON ONE SECOND HERE. DEPUTY MAYOR PROTEIN SMITH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM I JUST LIKE TO ADD TO THE LIST OF POSSIBLE BUILDINGS, THE MAIN STREET MUNICIPAL BUILDING. I THINK IT WOULD BE A KIND OF RIGHT UP HIS ALLEY, MIXING THE CITY MANAGEMENT ROLE IN THE MAIL OR ROLL AND JUST WANT TO LEAVE THAT OUT. THERE IS ONE OPTION. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU. MR BRADFORD. COUNCIL, NORMALLY, UM IN OUR PROCESS. IF COUNCIL CONCURS WITH THIS DIRECTION, WE WOULD COME BACK WITH A LIST OF FACILITIES I CAN CAN BRING ALL THREE OF THOSE BACK. UH AT OUR NEXT MEETING, OR I CAN GIVE YOU THOSE NOW, IF YOU'D LIKE. WE'RE HERE. THE THREE FACILITIES THAT HAVE PUBLIC ACCESS. IN OTHER WORDS, THE PUBLIC FREELY COMES AND GOES, ARE THE MAIN STREET MUNICIPAL BUILDING THAT COUNCILMAN SMITH MENTIONED THE ATRIUM? AND THE ANIMAL SHELTER. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCILOR WILLIAMS. UM THANK YOU FOR NOT NOT NOT HOLDING IT IN ACCUSER. UM THOSE ALL OF THOSE ARE ALL THOSE. YOU KNOW, I'M GOOD. I'LL BE GOOD FOR ANY OF THOSE, BUT I JUST WANT TO ECHO. UM MAYOR JONES WAS VERY, VERY ACTIVE AND CONTINUES TO BE VERY STRONG SUPPORTER OF THE ARTS. HERE MATTER OF FACT, HERE, HE'S APPEARED IN A NUMBER OF THE PRODUCTIONS AND HIS HIS SO HAS HIS HIS WIFE. OVER THE YEARS. AND SO IF I DRANK THOSE THREE, PROBABLY, HMM. SIMPLY BECAUSE OF ITS NIXON AND PROXIMITY. TO THE FORMING GUARD CENTER, BUT I WOULD NOT. I WOULD NOT, UH, AH! YOU KNOW, I WOULD NOT BE BE AT ALL. EITHER EITHER OF THOSE THREE FACILITIES, BUT IF I HAD TO RANK THEM, I WOULD SAY THAT BECAUSE OF HIS BECAUSE I KNOW THEY HAVE A SPECIAL LOVE AND THE SPECIAL INTEREST AND RECORD OF STRONG SUPPORT. FOR CULTURAL ARTS AND PERFORMING RIGHTS IN THE CITY. SO THAT WOULD BE YOU KNOW? THE ONE THAT I HAD RANKED NUMBER ONE, BUT THAT'S JUST 11 [01:00:06] PERSON'S OPINION. THANK YOU, MAYOR. VERY GOOD. ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTARY. WHAT'S THAT? MR BRADFORD, GIVE US THE PROCESS FROM HERE. UM FROM FROM HERE, UH , THAT WOULD BRING FORTH THE 33 NAMES COUNCIL WOULD MAKE A DECISION. THEN WE WOULD CRAFT A RESOLUTION FOR YOU TO PASS. OKAY? ALL RIGHT, UM. I MEAN, THE THREE THE THREE FACILITIES MENTIONED. UM I THINK ALL HAVE HAVE SOME SOME DEGREE OF SIGNIFICANCE. UM. JUST WANTING WONDERING, DO WE WANT TO TAKE SOME TIME TO PERCOLATE ON THIS AND THINK THROUGH THE THREE? I MEAN, I DON'T WANT TO MAKE HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW THAT I WANT US TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHICH ONE OF THESE TONIGHT UM BUT I MEAN, AS I'VE BEEN THINKING THROUGH THOSE TRYING TO THINK OF THINGS WE HAVE FACILITIES, PLACES, PARKS, WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE, UM I WOULD CERTAINLY. I WOULD CERTAINLY BE LEANING TOWARDS THE MAIN STREET MUNICIPAL BUILDING BECAUSE IT DOES KIND OF CAPTURE. UM KIND OF CAPTURED BOTH ASPECTS OF MAYOR JONES SERVICE TO THE CITY. UM BUT THAT, UM. I THINK THE BEST SOLUTION OR THE NEXT SOLUTION AT THIS POINT IS KIND OF THINK THIS THROUGH. MAYBE COME BACK TWO WEEKS FROM NOW PREPARED TO MAKE A SELECTION. SO THAT WE CAN MOVE FORWARD. WE MIGHT HAVE A FEW MORE BILLS. WELL IF THAT'S THE CASE. YEAH. MAYOR BROUGHT TIM MORRIS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM SINCE SINCE THIS IS A PUBLIC MEETING, AND SINCE THIS IS WILL BE NO SECRET FROM, UH, MAYOR JONES, WOULD IT FRANK , COULD COULD WE NOT? AH, A PRO TIM AND ASK HIS PREFERENCE BECAUSE THAT WOULD BE MY PRAYER . I ALSO AM LEANING TOWARDS THE MAIN STREET MUNICIPAL BUILDING FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS, BUT, UM I WOULD. I WOULD REALLY LOVE TO HEAR HIS RESPONSE. I DON'T SEE THE ANIMAL SHELTER AS BEING A GOOD FIT. SO I WOULD SAY INSTEAD OF THREE THAT, AT LEAST FOR RIGHT NOW WE LOOK AT THE TWO THAT HAVE BEEN SPECIFICALLY BROUGHT UP, BUT I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HEAR UM WHAT MAYOR JONES UM, WITHDRAWN TO SINCE HE WILL HAVE TO WEAR THAT NAME ON A BUILDING FOR A VERY, VERY LONG TIME. SO UM, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S SOMETHING YOU COULD DO, OR SOMEBODY COULD DO SO. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. HAVE HIS PHONE NUMBER. YEAH. KATHERINE WILLIAMS MAYOR JUST STOLE MY STOMACH BECAUSE MY SUGGESTION WAS GOING TO BE THAT OUR MAYOR WOULD MAKE THAT CALL AND THEN WE WILL BE PART OF OUR DELIBERATIONS AND WE'D COME BACK. MAYOR I WILL. I WILL CALL HIM TOMORROW. OKAY? ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MAYOR. ALL RIGHT. THAT MOVES US [4c. Public Safety Committee Report] ON TO ADAM FORESEE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE REPORT. CASA RIVERA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. WELL, WE'VE BEEN. OVER THIS SO MANY TIMES. AND, UH, I THINK WE FINALLY CAME TO A CONCLUSION ON IT. YEAH I DON'T MEAN TO. I DON'T MEAN TO LAUGH AT THAT OUT LOUD, BUT IS IT TRUE? I FIND IT? I WILL. UH OKAY, LET'S SEE. RIGHT SO, UM, WE MAY NAME A FACILITY AFTER YOU IF THAT'S GOOD, YEAH. UM, WE'RE GONNA CHIEF. IS GONNA CHIP BRIAN'S GONNA AND HIS SIDEKICK. CHEAP ONES GONNA PRODUCT TO MIKE BETTES. THEY WILL. THEY WILL HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION WE'RE GOING OVER. MR BASS, EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL, SO THERE WERE TWO ISSUES REGARDING PARKING THAT WENT TO THE PUBLIC SAFETY COMMITTEE. ONE WAS WITH RESPECT TO OVERSIZED VEHICLES THAT ARE PARKED IN SOME OF OUR COMMUNITY [01:05:03] SHOPPING CENTERS. AH, IN NON INDUSTRIAL AREAS, JUST SHOPPING CENTER PARK. EXAMPLES I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THE COMMITTEE WHERE EXAMPLES SUCH AS BTS FURNITURE DOWN ON BROADWAY. AH! BEST BUY UP. NORTH SIDE OF TOWN. WE ALSO SEE THEM AT SOME KROGER'S AND SOME OTHER PLACES WHERE BIG 18 WHEELERS WILL GO IN AND JUST PARK. AND STAY THERE FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS AT A TIME. AND THAT WAS THE FIRST ISSUE. THE SECOND ISSUE THAT WAS BROUGHT UP WAS THESE 18 MINUTES THAT ARE PARKED OTHER PLACES AROUND OUR CITY. AND WHAT CAN WE DO TO TRY TO IMPROVE OUR ENFORCEMENT WITH RESPECT TO THESE VEHICLES, UM AND SO I'M GOING TO DRESS THEM. IN THAT ORDER. UM THE OVERSIZED VEHICLES IN THE. COMMUNITY RETAIL CENTERS THAT WE HAVE A PROBLEM WITH. ONE OF THOSE TWO THINGS THAT ARE DRIVING AT ONE IS THE INABILITY OF SOME OF THESE TRUCKS TO UNLOAD. AND THE SECOND THING IS THE LACK OF A LOT OF PARKING BETWEEN SAY WHEN YOU GET OUT OVER THE OVER THE LAKE. ALL THE WAY DOWN THROUGH THE OTHER SIDE OF DALLAS. THERE'S ALMOST NO PARKING SO IF A TRUCK SHOWS UP AND WANTS TO UNLOAD AND IT CAN UNLOAD. THEN. IT WILL BE TOLD TO COME BACK TOMORROW WE'LL COME BACK IN EIGHT HOURS OR 10 HOURS. AND SOME OF THOSE ARE DRIVING THE PARKING PROBLEMS IN THESE AREAS. SOME OF THE COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT WE'VE SPOKEN TO WHERE THE INDUSTRY GROUPS HAVE SPOKEN TO MENTIONED, MENTIONED THIS TO A SPECIFICALLY IN ANOTHER COMMITTEE WHERE THEY SAY, YOU KNOW THE PROBLEM IS THEY DON'T HAVE WORKERS WHO WILL UNLOAD THESE TRUCKS AND THEY CAN'T HIRE ENOUGH WORKERS AND WE'VE SEEN THIS IN SOME OF THE FACILITIES THAT WE HAVE OFF OF SHILOH, WHERE WE'VE GOT TRUCKS BACKED UP IN THE MORNING, SOMETIMES ONTO THE ROADWAY. FOR A LONG WAY. IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE THE CRUISE TO ACTUALLY SOLVE THIS PROBLEM. WELL, THE TRUCKS WILL END UP PARKED IN BTS AND BEST BUY AND KROGER AND PLACES OF THIS NATURE. AND THE. STATUTE AS IT EXISTED FOR MANY YEARS LONG BEFORE WE INSTITUTE THE CIVIL PARKING PROGRAM. UM WAS NOT REALLY CONDUCIVE TO ENFORCEMENT. TICKETING THOSE VEHICLES FOR THIS REASON, AND I WANT TO SHOW YOU WHAT THE ACTUAL ORDINANCE SAYS. NOT SHOWING UP. LET'S SEE IF WE CAN FIGURE OUT A SHOW THIS ON THE SCREEN HERE. I THINK I KNOW HOW TO DO THIS. ONE SECOND. IS THIS WHERE THE MAGIC IF FIVE BUTTON COMES INTO PUTTING NOW THAT ALREADY WANTING TO USE THAT AS THE SOLUTION, BUT YEAH, EXTEND THESE BUT TIME DAN JOB SECURITY FOR DAY AND YEAH CHANGES. THERE WE ARE. SO NOW WE HAVEN'T WHY THAT DOES THAT. NOBODY KNOWS THE ONLY GOD KNOWS IT'S JUST A WORD DOCUMENT. AND SO. SO PARKING IS PARKING IS PROHIBITED. IN NON INDUSTRIAL ZONES, AND IF YOU GO DOWN HERE, IT SAYS IT'S PROHIBITED IN NON INDUSTRIAL ZONES THINK THEY COMMIT AN OFFENSE IF THEY PARKING OVERSIZED VEHICLE IN A NON INDUSTRIAL ZONES, AND ONE OF THE EXCEPTIONS THAT'S LISTED ONE OF THE AFFIRMATIVE DEFENSES THAT'S LISTED IS THAT A BUSINESS THAT HAS A VALID CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY TO UTILIZE OR A PAIR OVERSIZED VEHICLES AND THERE'S A PERIOD THERE RIGHT NOW. THE RED LANGUAGE ISN'T THERE? SO ONE OF THE PROBLEMS THAT WE HAVE WITH A FACILITY LIKE BTS DOWN THERE AND EVEN THE KROGER AND SOMEBODY'S AND BEST BUY THEIR CEO ALLOWS THEM TO USE TRUCKS TO MOVE THEIR TVS OUT THEIR FURNITURE OUT AND SO THE WAY THE ORDINANCE WAS WRITTEN YEARS AGO. YEARS YEARS AGO, WAS THAT IT? IT PREVENTED IT GAVE THEM AN AFFIRMATIVE EVENTS. NOT IF THE PERSON HAD THE TRUCK ASSOCIATED WITH IT. THAT WASN'T WHAT IT SAYS. IT SAYS IF THERE IS A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY TO USE THAT, UH TO USE OVERSIZED TRUCKS IN THAT FACILITY. AND SO WHAT I RECOMMENDED TO THE COMMITTEE WAS WE CLEAN UP THE STATUTE AND SO THE LANGUAGE AND RED IS WHAT WE'VE ADDED, WHICH IS AT A BUSINESS THAT HAS A VALID CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY TO UTILIZE OR A PAIR OVERSIZED VEHICLES WHEN AUTHORIZED IN WRITING BY THE BUSINESS THAT DOES TWO THINGS FOR US NUMBER ONE IS IT LETS US WRITE A TICKET BECAUSE YEAH, UNLIKE THE BUSINESSES WHERE WE KNOW BTS HAS THAT IN THEIR CEO, IT'S NOT REALLY PROPER TO WRITE A TICKET WHEN YOU KNOW THEY'RE ENTITLED TO THE DEFENSE. NOW IT WOULDN'T [01:10:01] BE. I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE ENTITLED TO THE DEFENSE OR NOT. IF YOU WANT TO DEMONSTRATE YOU'RE ENTITLED TO THE DEFENSE SHOW UP WITH LETTER AUTHORIZING AND WRITING. THE SECOND THING IT DOES FOR US IS SOME OF THESE BUSINESSES WE SUSPECT ARE ALLOWING TRUCKS TO PARK THERE. BECAUSE I HAVE A BIG EMPTY PARKING LOT AND WE'LL PAY YOU. YOU PAY ME $30 A NIGHT OR $20 A NIGHT AND YOU CAN PARK IN MY PARKING LOT. WELL THAT'S GREAT, BUT THEY'LL HAVE TO COME DOWN, THEN TO THE HEARING OFFICER WITH A LETTER FROM THE BUSINESS, WHICH THEY MAY EVEN GIVE THEM. BUT WHEN WE GET THOSE LETTERS IN, WE CAN GO BACK NOW BUILDING INSPECTION CAN GO BACK OR CODE ENFORCEMENT CAN GO BACK TO THOSE BUSINESS OWNERS AND SAY, HOLD ON A SECOND. YOUR CEO DOES NOT PERMIT YOU TO RENT OUT SPOTS IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD SPOTS ON THAT CORNER. AND SO IT WILL TELL US. IF PEOPLE DO TRY TO GET THE DEFENSE. IT'LL TELL US THAT THAT'S GOING ON. SO THAT'S THE WAY WE AMENDED THE ORDINANCE OF THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT TO THE ORDINANCE IS SIMPLY THE LANGUAGE IN RED, AND I BELIEVE THAT THAT WOULD ALLOW US TO AT LEAST WRITE TICKETS IN THESE AREAS AS AS OPPOSED TO NOW WHERE WE KNOW THAT THE BUSINESS HAS A CEO AND WE DON'T WRITE THE TICKET BECAUSE IT'S AN AFFIRMATIVE FENCE. IF THE BUILDING OF THE BUSINESS HAS A CEO, IT WOULDN'T BE PROPER. THAT'S THE FIRST ISSUE THAT THE COMMITTEE DID AND BEFORE I MOVE ON TO THE SECOND ISSUE, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS. YEAH. I MAY HAVE TO RETRACT MY CHUCKLING EARLIER. UM IS THERE YOU KNOW, BECAUSE LITERALLY, WE HAVE BEEN DISCUSSING THIS FOR I DON'T KNOW . SEVERAL DECADES. I THINK THAT WE'VE GONE ROUND AND ROUND ON THIS. SO AH! IS THERE ANYONE WHO HAS ANY OPPOSITION TO MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS AMENDMENT? EVERYBODY GOOD WITH MOVING FORWARD WITH IT. I DO WANT TO. I DO WANT TO SAY ONE THING ABOUT IT, MAYOR AND THAT LISTEN, I JUST GOT EVERYBODY TO AGREE ON IT. YOU WANT TO? I DO WANT TO POINT OUT, THOUGH IT'S NOT A PANACEA JUST TO SUGGEST WE'VE BEEN. WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT FOR DECADES. THIS WILL ALLOW US TO WRITE THE TICKETS. OKAY IT MAY NOT MAKE THE TRUCKS DISAPPEAR, BUT THEY'RE GOING TO PAY FOR THE PRIVILEGE. AND THAT'S GOING TO SEGUE ME INTO THE SECOND ISSUE, WHICH IS BOTH FOR THIS ISSUE AND THE TRUCKS THAT ARE PARKED ALL OVER THE NEIGHBORHOOD. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I RECOMMENDED, AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE HEARD IS WELL, IT'S CHEAPER TO PAY THE $25 TICKET THAT WE HAVE THAN TO DRIVE SOMEWHERE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE LAKE, OR DRIVE 20 MILES TO TRUCK STOP OR EVEN TRY TO FIND ONE IN TOWN HERE AND PAY FOR THE OVERNIGHT FEE. SO THEY JUST SAY WELL, EVEN IF THEY HAVE TO PAY THE $25 IF THEY CAN CATCH ME BECAUSE SOME OF THESE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO GO TO PORTLAND'S OREGON NEXT, AND WE'LL NEVER SEE THEM, BUT UH, SOME OF THEM ARE WILLING TO SAY, YOU KNOW, $25. THAT'S JUST THAT'S A COST OF DOING BUSINESS COMPARED TO SOMEWHERE ELSE. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I RECOMMENDED TO THE TO THE COMMITTEE WAS THAT WE CHANGED THE FINE STRUCTURE FOR OVERSIZED VEHICLES TO AVOID THIS VERY PROBLEM, AND THAT IS TO MAKE IT MORE EXPENSIVE FOR OVERSIZED VEHICLES SINCE THEY CAUSE A MUCH BIGGER PROBLEM BOTH IN THE PARKING LOTS AND IN OUR NEIGHBORHOODS. IF AN 18 WHEELER PULLS INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD, IT'S REALLY NOT JUST TAKING UP ONE PARKING SPACE. IT'S TAKING UP HALF THE STREET SOMETIMES, AND THEN NOBODY CAN GET AROUND IT AND CAUSES ALL SORTS OF PROBLEMS IN CHAOS. AND SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE RECOMMENDED WAS CHANGING THE CIVIL ENFORCEMENT FINDS FROM THE CURRENT LEVEL, WHICH IS DOWN BELOW 25 50 75, WHICH WOULD BE STILL IN EFFECT FOR ALL OTHER VEHICLES. BUT FOR OVERSIZED VEHICLES START THE FIRST OFFENSE FINE AT $75. GO TO $100 FOR THE SECOND OFFENSE IN CASE THEY DIDN'T GET THE MESSAGE AND THEN GO TO $150 FOR THE THIRD OFFENSE WITHIN 12 CALENDAR MONTH PERIOD THAT WOULD PUT THEM OUT OF THE PRICE OF SAYING, WELL, I'LL JUST PAY TO SIT ON THE STREET HERE, AND IF THEY MADE $25 TICKET, IT'S CHEAPER THAN DRIVING THE TRUCK SOMEWHERE AND STORING IT AND GETTING SOMEBODY TO DRIVE ME BACK HOME. SO PUT SOME TEETH INTO THIS ORDINANCE WITH RESPECT TO OVERSIZED VEHICLES. THOSE NUMBERS WERE DISCUSSED BY THE BY THE COMMITTEE AND, UH, THEY WERE BASED ON IN PART OF MY RECOMMENDATION TO MAKE IT, UH THE PENALTY LARGE ENOUGH TO ACTUALLY DISSUADE PEOPLE FROM PARKING OVERSIZED VEHICLES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS. BUT I'M CERTAINLY OPEN TO HEAR WHATEVER THE COUNCIL HAS TO SAY ABOUT IT, AND THAT'S ALL I HAVE ON THAT. OKAY? ANY THOUGHTS. ANYONE HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON THE P STRUCTURE? OR I SHOULD SAY. STRUCTURE. IT WAS ON THAT'S WHERE WE LOOKED. UM WELL, YOU DEFINE AN OVERSIZED VEHICLE FOR ME, PLEASE. SO THE OVERSIZED VEHICLE IS IT'S A LENGTHY DEFINITION IN THE STATUTE INCLUDES 18 WHEELERS THAT INCLUDES RVS AND WELL, IT DOESN'T INCLUDE RVS EXCLUDES RVS INCLUDES TRAILERS LIKE A UTILITY TRAILER OVER A CERTAIN SIZE LIKE 12 FT. I THINK IT IS. AH, IT INCLUDES A WHOLE MYRIAD OF TYPES OF BOX TRUCKS ARE INCLUDED. 18 WHEELERS ARE INCLUDED. IT'S [01:15:02] BASED ON THE SIZE OF THE VEHICLE AND THE AND I DIDN'T BRING THAT DEFINITION. IT'S A FAIRLY LENGTHY DEFINITION, BUT IT'S JUST REALLY BIG. IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT AN ORDINARY PASSENGER CARS AND THE LIKE. IT'S USUALLY BOX TRUCKS, 18 WHEELERS, FLATBED TRAILERS. WHAT ABOUT THOSE LIKE LARGE GOOSENECK TRAILERS THAT YES, INCLUDED IN THAT. YES THEY ARE. SO IF THEY'RE GOOSE NECK TRAILER WITH A FLATBED OR RAIL AROUND THE BACK OF IT, TRAILERS OF ANY KIND CANNOT BE PARKED ON THE STREET AND OVERSIZED VEHICLES AND GARLAND. THAT IS WONDERFUL. ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE? RIGHT? ARE WE ALL STILL GOOD MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS? I THINK THAT WOULD BE UNANIMOUS. LISTEN SO MAYOR WILL BRING THIS BACK ON AS A CONSENSUS CONSENT AGENDA ITEM IN TWO WEEKS PROBABLY WILL BE HERE. AND CHIEF. I BELIEVE WE HAVE A PART TO. SO WHAT? SO PART TWO WAS TO DISCUSS THE FLOCK CAMERA SYSTEM AND IF YOU RECALL WHEN WE DISCUSSED THIS RIGHT BEFORE, RIGHT AFTER CHRISTMAS, AH COUNCIL ASKED ME TO COME BACK AND THREE OR FOUR MONTHS ONCE WE HAD THE SYSTEM IN PLACE. ONCE WE HAD THE CAMERAS IN PLACE AND UPDATE YOU ON HOW WE'RE USING IT AND WHAT TYPE OF RESULTS WERE GETTING, SO THAT'S WHAT I'M HERE TO DO. FIRST OF ALL, IT HAS BEEN A LEARNING EXPERIENCE FOR US. WE THOUGHT WE KNEW WHAT THE SYSTEM WAS GOING TO GIVE US. BUT WE'VE ADJUSTED. UM, THERE ARE 45 CAMERAS UP AND RUNNING. AND IF I HAD TO SUMMARIZE HOW WE USE THE SYSTEM THAT WE USE IT IN THREE WAYS, ONE. IF A CRIME HAS BEEN COMMITTED, WE USE IT TO HELP IDENTIFY THE PERSON THAT COMMITTED THAT CRIME. WE USE IT TO IF WE HAVE IDENTIFIED A CRIMINAL AND WE KNOW IT VEHICLE HE'S DRIVING. WE USE IT TO NOTIFY OUR OFFICERS THAT ARE WORKING THE STREETS. THAT WERE THAT VEHICLE IS AND THAT'S THE VEHICLE WE'RE LOOKING FOR, AND WE USE IT TO LOCATE CRITICAL MISSING PERSONS. THOSE ARE THE THREE AREAS THAT WE USE IT. WE HAVE SEEN IMPACTS AND A LOT OF AREAS AND I'LL GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. STOLEN VEHICLES AND OCCUPIED STONE VEHICLES. BEFORE WE HAD THE CAMERA SYSTEM. THE NUMBER OF TIMES THAT WE WOULD ARREST SOMEONE THAT IS DRIVING AN OCCUPIED STOLEN VEHICLE. WE AVERAGED ABOUT THREE TIMES A MONTH. OVER THE PAST THREE YEARS , SO THAT'S A PRETTY GOOD SAMPLE SIZE. AND THE THREE MONTHS THAT WE'VE HAD THIS SYSTEM WE'VE AVERAGED 15 ARRESTS A MONTH. SO I'LL TELL YOU IT'S HARD RIGHT NOW TO DRIVE THROUGH OUR CITY IN A STOLEN VEHICLE AND US NOT KNOW IT. WE'RE GOING TO KNOW IT AND THAT GOES FOR STOLEN VEHICLES AND STOLEN LICENSE PLATES AS WELL AS MISSING INDIVIDUALS OR AN AMBER ALERT NO, SUCH AS THOSE TYPE OF ALERTS. OUR HIT AND RUN INVESTIGATIONS. WE'VE SEEN HIGHER CLEARANCE RATE IN OUR HIT AND RUNS INVESTIGATION ARE INDECENT EXPOSURES ARE THEFTS, AND I'M GONNA SHOW YOU A FEW EXAMPLES. SPECIFIC EXAMPLES HERE IN A MINUTE. AS WELL AS VIOLENT CRIME. IT ALSO HELP US TRACK THINGS LIKE OUR ROBBERIES AND BURGLARIES, WHICH WE DO HAVE. I HATE TO ADMIT IT HELPS US TRACK WHAT TYPES OF VEHICLES THEY'RE USING, AND ROBBERIES AND BURGLARIES. THOSE INDIVIDUALS THAT LIVE THAT TYPE OF LIFE IF THEY'RE OUT, ROBBING SOMEONE, THEY'RE NOT USING THEIR OWN PERSONAL CAR TO DO THAT THERE USING STOLEN VEHICLES ARE STOLEN LICENSE PLATES TO DO THAT, AND SO IT'S NOT ONLY HELPING US TRACK WHAT THEY'RE USING AND HOW THEY'RE USING IT. BUT WHAT OTHER AREAS LINCOLN MULTIPLE OFFENSES TOGETHER AND HOPEFULLY SOME OF THE STOLEN VEHICLE ARREST THAT WE MADE THE 15 A MONTH THAT WE'VE MADE PREVENTED SOME OF THOSE ROBBERIES. SO I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A FEW SPECIFIC INCIDENTS. I'LL TELL YOU THAT EVERYTHING THAT WE HAVE FILED ON FLOCK IS STILL AN ACTIVE CASE, SO THERE ARE VIOLENT CRIMES, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DISCUSS SPECIFIC VIOLENT CRIMES BECAUSE IT IS AN ACTIVE CASE, BUT I'M GOING TO SHOW YOU SOME PROPERTY CRIMES THAT WE SOLVED AND THIS KIND OF GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE HOW WE USE THE FLOCK SYSTEM. SO HERE'S THE VEHICLE AND I'M SORRY FOR THE REDACTION. THAT REDUCTION IS ME AND A BLACK MARKER. THAT I DID ABOUT AN HOUR BEFORE, UH, COUNCIL MEETING. BUT HERE'S A VEHICLE THAT WAS BREAKING INTO AND STEALING CONSTRUCTION MATERIAL AT A CONSTRUCTION SITE. AND YOU CAN SEE THERE. WE'VE GOT A LICENSE PLATE ON THIS VEHICLE AND WE'VE GOT A GOOD DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECT. SO WITH THAT, WITH THE LICENSE PLATE AND A GOOD DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECT WE CAN ENTER THAT VEHICLE ONTO A HOT LIST, AND WE CAN NOTIFY OUR PATROL OFFICERS THAT IF YOU SEE THIS VEHICLE, IT IS INVOLVED AND CONSTRUCTIONS SITES, TIDES, SITE [01:20:05] THEFTS, AND HERE IS A DESCRIPTION OF THE PERSON THAT'S COMMITTING THOSE CRIMES. AND SO USING THAT, UH AND THERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE. THE N P. O S RECEIVED A HIT AFTER IT CROSSED ONE OF THE CAMERAS. THEY'RE ABLE TO STOP THE VEHICLE AND MAKE THE ARREST. HERE'S ANOTHER EXAMPLE. THIS EXAMPLE I THINK IS EVEN BETTER. BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF SIMILAR CONSTRUCTION SITE THEFT. THEY'RE STEALING AIR CONDITIONERS. BUT ON THIS ONE, WE HAVE NO LICENSE PLATE, SO WE DON'T HAVE ANY IDEA WHAT THE LICENSE PLATE BUT WITH THE FLOCK SYSTEM. FOR EXAMPLE, THE TRUCK AND THIS IS NOT A COLOR PHOTOGRAPH THE PHOTOGRAPH WHERE YOU RECEIVED FROM THE SECURITY CAMERA IS COLOR. BUT WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THIS AS A RED GMC PICKUP. WE'RE ABLE TO IDENTIFY THE HOURS THAT IT OCCURRED BETWEEN AND USING THE FLOCK SYSTEM AGAIN AND I'LL THIS THIS TRUCK ACTUALLY CAME TWICE. AND I'LL POINT OUT SOME MORE THINGS. I'M SORRY, BUT YOU SEE SOME UNIQUE FEATURES ON THIS TRUCK. YOU SEE, IT'S GOT A FRONT GRILLE. YOU SEE, IT'S GOT, UM NERF BARS DOWN AT THE SIDE. YOU SEE, IT'S GOT A LITTLE BIT OF UNIQUE TRIM AND SOME UNIQUE WILLS. SO USING THOSE FEATURES, JUST LIKE WE HAVE FINGERPRINTS, EACH CAR IS JUST A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT. WE CAN. WE IDENTIFIED THE TRUCK THROUGH THE FLOCK SYSTEM. GOT A LICENSE PLATE PUT AN ALERT ON THE VEHICLE AND THE NEXT TIME HE'S OUT RUNNING AROUND. WE CATCH HIM. OFFICER STRONG, ACTUALLY GOT THIS SUBJECT. AND THE LAST ONE THAT I'LL SHOW YOU AND THIS IS KIND OF THE SAME THING. BUT THIS INDIVIDUAL WAS STEALING TAILGATES. SO HE'S DOING TAILGATE THEFTS AND WE KNEW HE WAS DOING THEM BETWEEN TWO A.M. AND FIVE A.M. AND EARLY IN THE MORNINGS. AND AGAIN KIND OF A UNIQUE VEHICLE. IT'S A WHITE SUV , A CHEVY TAHOE, AND IT'S GOT SOME UNIQUE RIMS TO IT. NOW WHAT I WANT TO POINT OUT IS THINK ABOUT HOW WE USED TO DO THIS. HOW WE USED TO DO. THIS IS WE WOULD PUT THIS BULLETIN OUT WITH NO LICENSE PLATE. AND WE HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF THE SUSPECT AND WOULD HAVE A DESCRIPTION OF THE VEHICLE AND WE PUT A BULLETIN OUT TO OUR OFFICERS. AND SO OUR OFFICERS AT NIGHT WOULD BE LOOKING FOR A WHITE TAHOE WITH AFTERMARKET RIMS. AND I SUSPECT THAT MATCH THIS DESCRIPTION, WHICH IS EFFECTIVE. BUT WHAT ALSO HAPPENS. IF YOU'RE DRIVING A WHITE TAHOE WOULD AFTER YOU'RE GETTING STOPPED. YOU MATCH THE DESCRIPTION, RIGHT? WE'VE HEARD THAT A MILLION TIMES. AND SO THIS HELPS ME. THIS HELPS US TO SAY IT'S THIS WHITE TAHOE WE'RE LOOKING FOR. WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A WHITE TAHOE. WE'RE LOOKING FOR THIS SPECIFIC WHITE TAHOE NOW WHEN THEY GET THE ALERT THEIR SPECIFIC NOTES IN THERE THAT TELLS THEM THAT GIVES THEM THE DIRECTION OF HERE'S. HERE'S WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR. AH ALSO SAY THAT THE ALERT ALONE THEY CANNOT STOP A VEHICLE FOR AN ALERT ALONE. IT'S JUST INFORMATION. WE'RE FEEDING THEM . THEY STILL HAVE TO DEVELOP PROBABLE CAUSE FOR THE TRAFFIC STOP TO MAKE THE STOP. HERE'S AN EXAMPLE OF ALERT THAT DID AN OFFICER MAY GET. I MEAN, IF HE'S ABOUT PATROLLING UH, HE'LL GET SOMETHING WILL START DINGING ON HIS COMPUTER. AND THEN SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD PULL UP. THIS IS A MISSING PERSON WE'VE GOT ABOUT SIX DAYS AGO. AH, AND YOU CAN SEE HERE GIVES YOU THE TIME IT GIVES YOU THE DAY. UH APPEAR AT THE TOP THERE. THEY'RE TRAVELING SOUTHBOUND ON BROADWAY AT BOULEVARD BROADWAY AT REALITY. AND SO THE OFFICERS CAN TRY TO GET IN FRONT OF THE DIRECTION OF THIS VEHICLE AND SEE IF THEY CAN LOCATE THIS MISSING PERSON. SO HOPEFULLY THAT KIND OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF HOW WE'RE USING IT. UM THERE ARE SOME CHALLENGES TO THE SYSTEM FOR US. ONE CHALLENGE IS THAT IT CREATES A TREMENDOUS WORKLOAD. OUR DETECTIVES FOR EACH CASE NOW. THEY'VE GOT A TERM FOR IT. IT'S CALLED FLOCKING THE VEHICLE. I'M GOING TO GO FLOCK THAT VEHICLE. AH BUT FOR EACH CASE, IT'S 10 15 20 MINUTES WORTH OF RESEARCH, UH, TO DO ONE VEHICLE AND THAT'S A LOT OF WORK. SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS WE'VE CREATED A NEW UNIT, A CRIME ANALYST UNIT. WE HAVE TO CRIME ANALYST WHERE WE'VE GOT TWO MORE THAT WE'RE IN THE PROCESS OF HIRING. THEY'RE GOING TO BE THEIR OWN UNIT, AND THEY'RE GOING TO HANDLE THE SOCIAL MEDIA. THEY'RE GOING TO HANDLE THAT THEIR RESEARCH AND ANALYSTS AND THEY'RE ALSO GOING TO HANDLE THE MORE COMPLICATED FLOCK SEARCHES TO HELP WITH SOME OF THAT WORKLOAD. ANOTHER PROBLEM THAT WE FACE IS CHASING THESE HITS. YOU KNOW, YOU CAN IMAGINE YOUR PATROL OFFICER AT NIGHT AND YOUR ANSWER AND CALL THE CALL THE CALL. AND YOU'RE GETTING THESE HITS AND YOU WANT TO GO CHASE HIM. WELL OUR PRIORITY IS THE CALL. AND SO, UH , MANAGING THAT TIME AND NOT CHASING EVERY STOLEN LICENSE PLATE THAT THAT HITS ACROSS THE COMPUTER IS SOMETHING WE HAVE TO MANAGE. AND THEN ALSO, I'M GETTING A LOT OF REQUESTS FOR THESE CAMERAS OR I'M GETTING [01:25:06] REQUESTS. CAN YOU MOVE THE CAMERA TO MY NEIGHBORHOOD OR MOVE OVER HERE OR OVER HERE? UH, OUR ADD THAT WHEN I COME TO COUNCIL IN THE NEXT BUDGET SESSION, WE ARE UPDATING OUR AXON CONTRACT. AND WITH THAT EXXON CONTRACT OR THESE CAMERAS IN THE PATROL VEHICLES AND SO YOU CAN IMAGINE HOW THAT'S GOING TO CHANGE HOW WE OPERATE. UM WHEN? WHEN THEY'RE OUT THERE NOW WE'RE TRYING TO GET IN FRONT OF WE KNOW THE DIRECTION WE'RE TRYING TO GET IN FRONT OF THAT, BUT IT'S DIFFERENT WHEN YOU'RE GETTING THAT HIT AND THAT VEHICLES IN FRONT OF YOU AND COORDINATING THAT RESPONSE, SO THAT WOULD BE A BIG CHALLENGE FOR US HERE. YOU'RE COMING PRETTY SOON. AH THE OTHER TWO THINGS I'LL MENTION TO YOU. THERE'S TWO HOT LIST ALERTS. THERE'S ONE IS THE HOT LIST THAT'S PULLED OFF AT N C I C O N C I C IS WHERE EVERYONE PUTS IN THEIR STOLEN VEHICLES. THEY'RE MISSING CRITICAL PEOPLE. UM WARRANTS THAT'S ALL DUMPED IN THE N C. I C THAT IS ONE LIST. THERE'S ANOTHER LIST THAT WE CREATE THAT THE GARLAND POLICE DEPARTMENT CREATES THAT'S JUST FOR GARLAND OFFICERS. AND THAT'S THE LIST THAT YOU SEE, LIKE FOR THE INDIVIDUAL THAT'S COMMITTING THEFTS IN GARLAND AND WE'RE COMMUNICATING. OUR DETECTIVE IS COMMUNICATING TO THE PATROL OFFICERS THAT WORKING AT NIGHT SAYING, OKAY, I'M LOOKING FOR THIS CAR. IT'S COMMITTING THEFTS. WE HAVE IDENTIFIED IT IN MULTIPLE THEFTS. HELP ME FIND THIS CAR AND IDENTIFY THE INDIVIDUALS DRIVING IT. THAT TYPE OF COMMUNICATION IS GOING ON THROUGH FLOCK THROUGH OUR CUSTOM HOT LIST. I THINK THAT'S ALL THE TOPICS OUT. I WAS GONNA HIT SO VERY GOOD. DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM SMITH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. HEY, CHIEF. UM HAS THEY HAVE THEY MADE ANY PROGRESS ON THE SHOT? SPOT TECH, YOU KNOW THAT WAS GOING TO BE IN BETA THROUGHOUT KINDA EARLY ADOPTION , AND I DIDN'T HAVE ANY EXPECTATIONS ON IT. BUT JUST CURIOUS HOW THAT'S KEVIN ALONG FORGETTING SOMETHING. YES UH, THAT I GOT A TEXT FROM FLOCK TODAY THAT THEY'RE SAYING OCTOBER WILL SAY THAT THEY PUSHED THAT DATE THREE TIMES NOW , BUT THEY'RE PUSHING IT. THEY'RE HAVING THE SAME SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES. THAT THAT EVERYONE ELSE IS HAVING AS A REMINDER ARE SHOT SPOTTER SYSTEM IS FREE TO US FOR A YEAR, SO WE GET A YEAR TO TEST THIS TO SEE IF IT'S WORKED HAVING OR NOT WORTH HAVING IF IT WORKS. IT'S NEW TECHNOLOGY, AND THEN WE CAN MAKE A DECISION HOW TO MOVE FORWARD AFTER AFTER THAT YEAR TRIAL PERIOD. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MA'AM. CUSTOMER, WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MARY CHIEF. AH! SOUNDS LIKE A SOUND INVESTMENT. IT IS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU TALKED ABOUT. WHEN YOU FIRST BROUGHT THIS. THERE WAS SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT WHETHER IT SHOULD BE LOCATED PARTICULARLY AND NEIGHBORHOOD. ARE YOU GETTING? WHAT'S A PULSE NOW? ARE YOU GETTING REQUESTS FOR THESE AND WHAT WOULD WHAT? WHAT ARE THE MAIN DRIVERS? AS FAR AS THE LOCATION OF THESE CAMERAS IS THAT THE ACTIVITY IS THAT THE REQUEST WHAT WOULD BE THE MAIN DRIVERS THAT WOULD DICTATE TO YOU WERE THESE WHERE THESE CAMERAS WOULD BE WANTED TO DO TWO THINGS WE WANTED TO SPREAD EVENLY ACROSS THE CITY AND THE PLACES THAT WE COULD CAPTURE THE MOST. ACTIVITY UH, SO WHAT I EVER PUT IT IN NEIGHBORHOODS. NOT UNLESS I THINK NEIGHBORHOODS HAVE THE ABILITY TO PUT IT IN THEMSELVES. AH H O S HAVE THE ABILITY AND SOME DO HAVE THEM IN GARLAND CURRENTLY. BUT AS FAR AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT PUTTING IT IN A NEIGHBORHOOD. I DO NOT ANTICIPATE DOING THAT, UM AND LESS. THERE IS A SPECIFIC SITUATION SUCH AS A YOU CAN ALSO USE THEM FOR A FAMILY VIOLENCE THAT THERE IS A PROTECTIVE ORDER AND WE'RE WORRIED ABOUT YOU KNOW THE VIOLENT OFFENDER. UM SURVEILLANCE IN THE HOUSE, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, BUT IT WOULD BE A RARE INSTANCE, WHERE WE WOULD TEMPORARILY PUT ONE INTO A NEIGHBORHOOD. BUT MY PLAN IS NOT TO PUT THEM IN NEIGHBORHOODS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. VERY, VERY GOOD. ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. VERY GOOD, SIR. THANK YOU. I THINK THAT'S ALL WE HAVE FOR PUBLIC SAFETY. THAT WAS IT. AND THAT MOVES US ON TO FOUR D ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES COMMITTEE REPORT. [4d. Administrative Services Committee Report] DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM SMITH. THANK YOU, MAYOR. BUT THIS IS AY THAT TOOK US QUITE A WHILE TO GO THROUGH AND ARGUE AND RIGHT AND WE ARGUE AND REWRITE AND FOR ANYBODY WHO'S. PAYING ATTENTION AT HOME. YOU KNOW ANY TIME A POLITICIAN STARTS TALKING ABOUT WRITING THEIR OWN ETHICS POLICY . YOU CERTAINLY WANT TO PAY ATTENTION AND GIVE IT A GOOD READ. AS AS WE GET INTO THIS, [01:30:06] THE INTENT HERE IS TO GET A FIRST. LOOK AT THIS TONIGHT. LET EVERYBODY SLEEP ON IT FOR A COUPLE OF WEEKS. LOOK AT IT. READ IT. THINK ABOUT IT. COME BACK TO THE NEXT WORK SESSION, DISCUSS IT AGAIN MAKE ANY REVISIONS THAT WE WANT TO MAKE POTENTIALLY HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING. LET THE PUBLIC WEIGH IN ON THIS. UM GENERAL STRATEGY WITH THIS WAS TO UPDATE THIS TO MATCH STATE AND FEDERAL LAW. THERE WAS NO REALLY BIG, GLARING HOLES THAT WE WANTED TO LOOK AT . UH FROM AN INTERNAL POLICY PERSPECTIVE, WE REALLY JUST WANTED IT TO ACTUALLY BE. LEGALLY ENFORCEABLE. AND SO WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE IS A LOT OF CHANGE WRAPPED AROUND THAT TYPE OF THING. WE DID TWEAK A FEW THINGS FROM A TRANSPARENCY PERSPECTIVE. WE WERE IN EVERY POSSIBLE SCENARIO WE COULD FROM , UM, UM, BEST TO DOWNRIGHT UGLY ON ON HOW THESE HOW AN ETHICS ORDINANCE SHOULD BE ENFORCED OR COULD ACCIDENTALLY BE WEAPONIZED. HER COULD CATCH SOMEBODY WRONGLY. SO MR ENGLAND'S GOING TO PRESENT THOSE CHANGES TO US TONIGHT AND AGAIN, HAPPY TO TAKE QUESTIONS. THERE IS NO RUSH ON COMPLETING THIS, AND SO IF WE NEED TO TAKE OUR TIME AND REALLY EXAMINE SOME SECTION OF THIS. WE ARE NOT OPPOSED TO THAT AT ALL. SO I DON'T WANT ANYBODY TO FEEL RUSHED OR PRESSURED INTO, UH, MOVING THIS ALONG ANY FASTER THAN WE NEED TO. MR ENGLAND. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. UM. AS UM DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM SMITH SAID. THERE CERTAINLY ISN'T A RUSH. IN FACT, SOME OF THE EARLIER NOTES AND EARLIER VERSIONS OF THIS AMENDMENT WERE FROM BRAD NEIGHBOR IN 2020. SO THIS HAS BEEN A LONG PROCESS. THAT'S UM UM TAKEN QUITE A WHILE ALREADY, AND WE MIGHT AS WELL GET IT RIGHT ONE OR THE OTHER. ONE OF THE OTHER IMPORTANT FEATURES OF THE AMENDMENTS WAS TO TRY TO SIMPLIFY THIS IN SOME WAYS, SO WE TOOK OUT SOME STUFF THAT WAS EITHER OUTDATED OR THAT WAS COVERED IN STATE LAW. JUST FOR SIMPLICITY'S SAKE. UM MAYOR PROTEIN MORRIS HAD MENTIONED EARLY ON IN THE PROCESS, HOW SHE HAD LOOKED AT OTHER OTHER PLACES ETHICS ORDINANCE, INCLUDING REALITY AND JUST NOTED HOW SIMPLE IT WAS AND HOW EASY IT WAS TO READ. SO WE DID TRY TO DO THAT MAKE IT MORE SIMPLE LITTLE BIT MORE EASY TO READ, AND THERE WAS SOME OF OUR GOALS AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. THIS EVENING. THIS IS JUST GOING TO BE A HIGHLIGHT. UM IF YOU'LL NOTICE ATTACHED TO THE TO THE AGENDA IS A SAMPLE ORDINANCE WITH THE RED LINES AND IT'S PRETTY MARKED UP AND YOU'LL SEE THAT IN ORDER. IF I WERE TO DO A POWER POINT WITH EVERY SINGLE ONE OF OUR EDITS, WE COULD BE HERE ALL NIGHT. AND I'D RATHER NOT DO THAT, AND I DON'T THINK Y'ALL WOULD BE WOULD WANT TO DO THAT EITHER. AND SO I THINK THAT AS A GOOD INTRODUCTION, WE'RE GOING TO HIT THE HIGHLIGHTS SOME OF THE BIGGER CHANGES AND SOME SAMPLES OF WHAT WE CHANGED. THAT MAKES IT MORE CONSISTENT WITH STATE LAW. BUT UM, I'LL TAKE SOME QUESTIONS TONIGHT AND THEN, UM AS DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM, UM SMITH SAID. THAT'S A BIG TITLE. AH UM, UM WE'LL BRING IT BACK, AND I'M SURE YOU ALL HAVE QUESTIONS HERE IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF WEEKS, ONE SECOND, BECAUSE YOU HAVE A QUESTION NOW. GO AHEAD, CUSTOMER REVERE. CAN. CAN WE GET A COPY OF THAT? SURE. IT'S IN ONE OF THE ATTACHMENTS, OKAY? OKAY I CAN GET YOU A HARD COPY. UM OKAY. UM. THE FIRST PROPOSED AMENDMENT IS JUST THE DEAFNESS IS A SAMPLE OF WHAT WE DID WITH SOME OF THE DEFINITIONS. IT'S DEFINED THAT THE BUSINESS ENTITY IS DEFINED IN STATE LAW. AND SO IF YOU GO TO THE DEFINITIONS PAGE ON PAGE THREE, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE'VE TAKEN THAT DEFINITION. WE'VE JUST MADE A REFERENCE TO HAS THE MEANING PROVIDED BY SECTION 572.2 OF THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE AND SO BUSINESS ENTITY WAS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT WE DID THE SAME THING WITH SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST INSTEAD OF LISTING OUT. THE ENTIRE DEFINITION. WHAT WE DID. WE JUST MADE REFERENCE TO THE STATE LAW, WHICH IS BASED ON AND SO WHAT? THAT HAPPENED. WHAT THAT REASON WE DID IT THAT WAY IS FREQUENTLY STATE LAW CHANGES, AND WE ALWAYS WANT TO BE CONSISTENT WITH STATE LAW WHEN WE'RE DEALING WITH SOMETHING THAT'S COVERED BY STATE LAW, AND INSTEAD OF TRACKING WORD FOR WORD WORD WITH STATE LAW. SOMETIMES IT'S EASIER AND BETTER AS IT CHANGES. WE JUST REFERENCE IT, AND SO WE DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK AND CHANGE IT EVERY TIME. ONE OF THE CHANGES WE MADE WERE FOR ZONING INTERESTS AND SECTION 10.5 TO G, AND AFTER FOLLOWING ALONG IN THE UNDER AGENDA, THIS IS PAGE SIX. OF THE ORDINANCE THAT THE REDLINED ORDINANCE ANDT HAPPENS WHEN YOU HAVE A ZONING MATTER IN YOUR DISTRICT. THAT'S WITHIN 200 FT. OF YOUR OF YOUR RESIDENTS, AND IT ADDRESSES WHEN YOU NEED TO ABSTAIN. AND WHEN [01:35:05] YOU DO NOT NEED TO STAIN AND SO IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE IN ANY ZONING MATTER OTHER THAN CITYWIDE AMENDMENTS TO THE ZONING ORDINANCE. SO WHAT? WE WERE WORRIED ABOUT THEIRS WHEN WE HAVE AN OVERHAUL OF THE ORDINANCE WHEN WE HAVE A GLOBAL CHANGE IN THE G D. C WE DON'T WANT THE ENTIRE COUNCIL FEELING LIKE THEY HAVE TO ABSTAIN BECAUSE OF THE AT THIS ORDINANCE, AND SO EXCEPT FOR THOSE GLOBAL ORDINANCES, THOSE GLOBAL AMENDMENTS ANY MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL WHO HAS OR HAD WITHIN THE 12 MONTH PERIOD PRECEDING THE VOTE. AND IT'S ABSOLUTE STAN SHAL INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY WITH 200 FT OF THE ZONAL REQUEST. EUROPE TO DISCLOSE THAT AND RIDING OF YOUR SUBSTANTIAL INTEREST AND THEN ABSTAINED FROM VOTING ON THE MATTER. ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ALSO WAS, THE COMMITTEE RECOMMENDED, ADDING IS SECTION 10.53, AND THAT IS THAT THE CITY TO MAKE AVAILABLE ON ITS WEBSITE A COPY OF THE MOST RECENT VERSION OF THE CAMPAIGN FINANCE REPORT OF EACH MEMBER OF CITY COUNCIL, AND THIS ACTUALLY WENT THROUGH QUITE A BIT OF CHANGES. IT WENT FROM DISCLOSING PUBLICLY AND EACH MEETING THAT IF SOMEONE THAT HAD GIVEN YOU THE CONTRIBUTION AND WAS AN APPLICANT FOR A MATTER BEFORE COUNCIL OR WAS PRESENTING A MATTER BEFORE THE COUNCIL THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER, UM SHOULD DISCLOSE THAT DURING THAT MEETING, IT WENT FROM THAT A LOT OF DEBATE. GOOD HEALTHY DEBATE. A LOT OF DISCUSSION AND IT ENDED UP WITH, UM LET'S JUST MAKE IT MORE TRANSPARENT ON THE CITY WEBSITE FOR WHEN CITIZENS WANT TO SEE WHO'S CONTRIBUTED TO WHOM ON THE COUNCIL THAT IT'S AVAILABLE, AND IT'S EASY TO ACCESS AND IT'S ON THE CITY WEBSITE. I THOUGHT IT WAS A VERY SIMPLE BUT STRAIGHTFORWARD APPROACH. SECTION 10.53. IT'S ON PAGE SEVEN. OF THE, UM COORDINATES. THE RED LIGHT ORDINANCE. THIS IS COVERED BY STATE LAW. AND SO THIS IS AN EXAMPLE OF WHERE WE ACTUALLY SIMPLIFIED OUR ORDINANCE A LITTLE BIT TO TRACK WITH STATE LAW, AND SO WE REMOVED IT. THERE'S NO REASON TO REPEAT THOSE PROVISIONS. AND SO WE REMOVED IT AND SECTION 10 50 GENERALLY HAS A REQUIREMENT THAT EACH OFFICIAL UPHOLD ALL APPLICABLE LAWS AND SO IT WAS PRUDENT TO JUST REMOVE IT COMPLETELY AND SO SECTION 10.53 AND PROPER ECONOMIC BENEFITS BECAUSE IT'S COVERED BY STATE LAW WAS REMOVED FROM THE, UM EXISTING ORDINANCE. AND THEN SECTION 10.55. IT'S ON PAGE NINE OF THE RED LINE. AND THIS IS CONFLICTING OUTSIDE EMPLOYMENT. ACTUALLY, IT'S BOTTOM OF PAGE EIGHT. I'M SORRY. AND WHAT THE COMMITTEE DID WAS, THEY ADDED AN EXCEPTION. UM OR THEY CLARIFIED AN EXCEPTION AND ADDED QUITE A BIT TO IT, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU SEE THERE ON THE SCREEN. IT DOES NOT APPLY TO WAGES, SALARY OR EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS RECEIVED BY THE MEMBER, A MEMBER OF COUNCIL FROM AN APPLICANT OR VENDOR IF THE WAGES, SALARY OR EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS ARE RECEIVED IN THE ORDINARY COURSE OF EMPLOYMENT. AND ARE THE PRIMARY SOURCE OF INCOME FOR THE OFFICIAL. IT'S FAIRLY STRAIGHTFORWARD. AND THEN SECTION 10.55 IS ON THE BOTTOM OF PAGE NINE AND YOUR RED LINE. COPY. THIS IS. A CLEAN UP ON THE EXCEPTIONS. AND OF THE GENERAL RULE ITSELF. AND BASICALLY FOLLOWING THE 12 MONTH PERIOD FOLLOWING YOUR FINAL TERM OF OFFICE IS A CITY COUNCIL MEMBER . YOU MAY NOT REPRESENT OUTSIDE PERSONS ENTITIES OR GROUPS FROM THE PODIUM. THE EXCEPTION OF THAT IS HIMSELF OR HERSELF. RELATIVES NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS OR ENTITIES CREATED BY THE CITY TO PERFORM GOVERNMENTAL FUNCTIONS. AND THIS IS AN EXAMPLE. ANOTHER EXAMPLE 10.61, WHICH IS ON PAGE 12 OF YOUR RED LINE. BOTTOM OF PAGE 12 TOP OF PAGE 13 AND ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF IT BEING REMOVED, SIMPLIFYING THE ORDINANCE. BECAUSE IT'S COVERED ENTIRELY BY STATE LAW. AND THEN 10.62. DEALS WITH MATTERS WHERE THERE'S COMPLAINT AGAINST A COUNCIL MEMBER MEMBER OR OTHER OFFICER. AND IT DISCUSSES ANONYMOUS AND FRIVOLOUS COMPLAINTS. YEAH AND IT ADDRESSES THAT. UM UM WELL, WE REMEMBERED IT. BUT IT ALSO THEIR FRIVOLOUS AND ANONYMOUS ANONYMOUS COMPLAINTS ARE NOT ACCEPTED AND ARE NOT SUBJECT TO FURTHER ACTION. AND A FRIVOLOUS COMPLAINT, AS DETERMINED FROM THE ALLEGATIONS OF THE COMPLAINT WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED EITHER. AND UM, PERSON WHO FILES SUCH A [01:40:01] COMPLAINT. MAY NOT FILE ANOTHER COMPLAINT UNDER THIS ARTICLE FOR A PERIOD OF ONE YEAR FROM THE DATE OF FILING THE COMPLAINT STRICKEN AS FRIVOLOUS. AND. MAYBE ASKING WHO MAKES THE JUDGMENT AS TO WHAT'S A FRIVOLOUS COMPLAINT. THAT WOULD BE THE CITY ATTORNEY. HAVING SAID THAT WE'LL HAVE AN ETHICS HEARING BOARD. THIS IS KIND OF AN INTERESTING ONE. BECAUSE THE PREVIOUS ORDINANCE OUR CURRENT ORDINANCE, I SHOULD SAY, HAS AN ETHICS REVIEW PANEL AND IT ALSO HAD AN ETHICS. UM HEARING BOARD. AND WHAT WE DID IN THIS PARTICULAR AND THIS PARTICULAR VERSION OF THE ORDINANCE. WE COMBINED THE TWO WHEN I SAY WE, OF COURSE, I MEAN, THIS IS NOT MY ORDINANCE AS AS I LIKE TO POINT OUT. THIS IS THE COMMITTEE'S ORDINANCE. THEY COMBINE THE TWO AND THEY CREATED A SINGLE AD HOC ETHICS HEARING BOARD. AND IN THAT ETHICS HEARING BOARD. IT IS COMPOSED OS RECEIVED IN HIS TERM AND NOT TO BE FRIVOLOUS. UM A ETHICS HEARING BOARD WILL BE FORMED AND IT'S COMPRISED OF THE FOLLOWING PEOPLE. THE CHAIR OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION. THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AND THE CHAIR OF THE PROPERTY STANDARDS BOARD. IN ADDITION, CITY SECRETARY WILL THEN SELECT TWO OTHER MEMBERS BY LOT FROM A POOL OF THE PLANNED COMMISSIONING BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT AND THEN, OF COURSE IN THE BOTTOM, IT SAYS. HOWEVER A PERSON MAY NOT SERVE AS A MEMBER OF THE BOARD. IF THE COUNCIL MEMBER WHO APPOINTED THAT PERSON IS THE SUBJECT OF THE COMPLAINT FOR OBVIOUS REASONS. NOW THERE'S NOTHING ABOUT THIS. YES. DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM SMITH. I JUST WANT TO ADD IN A LITTLE COMMENTARY THAT THERE ARE A MILLION WAYS TO SLICE THIS AND COMPOSING ETHICS HEARING BOARD. UM WE DEBATED THIS AT LENGTH AND FOUND THAT THAT NO ONE SOLUTION SOLUTION APPEARED TO BE BETTER THAN ANY OTHER. WE LOOKED AT APPOINTING OUTSIDE BOARDS AND, UH, OUTSIDE BOARDS. WE THOUGHT YOU KNOW, LET'S FIND SOME FOLKS WHO HAVE SOME QUASI JUDICIAL BOARDS TODAY AND PUT THEM IN A IN A JUDICIAL QUASI JUDICIAL ROLE, BUT WE'RE CERTAINLY OPEN TO FURTHER INPUT IF SOMEBODY HAS A DIFFERENT IDEA, SO I JUST WANTED TO GET THAT OUT THERE. BECAUSE THE RIVIERA ON THIS ONE. CAN THE COUNCILMAN UH, LAWYER. SURE TO THE. ETHIC COMMITTEE BOARD IS A GREAT POINT. AND NO, I'M NOT ONLY CAN YOU HIRE A LAWYER, BUT GUESS WHAT. I GET TO HIRE A LAWYER TO GOT YOU. THAT'S GOOD. THAT'S GOOD. I DON'T HAVE TO KNOW I'M BUT I'M JUST SAYING RIGHT. SO, YES, YOU CAN HIRE A LAWYER AND, UM SECTION 10.63 ITT DIRECTS THE CITY ATTORNEY TO HIRE OUTSIDE LEGAL COUNSEL TO PROVIDE COUNSEL AND LEGAL ADVICE TO THE BOARD ITSELF. AND SO THEREFORE, I GET TO STEP OUT OF IT. AND THANK YOU AGAIN, UH, DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TEM SMITH'S THAT WAS HIS IDEA, AND I THOUGHT HE'S AS USUAL. I THINK IT WAS BRILLIANT. UM BUT HE DID A GOOD JOB WITH THAT. ANOTHER INTERESTING CHANGE TO THIS IS THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD AND HANG ON ONE SECOND. SOMEBODY ELSE IN THE QUEUE CAN REMEMBER MORE. IN LIGHT OF WITH JUST STATED. DO YOU THINK WE MAY NEED TO MAKE THAT PART OF THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER DOES HAVE THE RIGHT TO LEGAL COUNSEL. WE CAN DO THAT. I'M THINKING THAT WE WOULD PROBABLY SHOULD MAKE THAT PART OF THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. AND COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. CAN YOU GO BACK? ONE SLIDE, PLEASE, SIR? I GO BACK RIGHT THERE, RIGHT THERE. JUST I'M ON DEVASTATED, DEVASTATED DEVIL'S ADVOCATE FOR A MINUTE. AND I'M SORT OF FOLLOWING. UH MAPLE ATTEMPTS COMMENTARY ON THIS LOOKING FOR SOMEBODY WITH SOME QUITE AS A JUDICIAL OR ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE. UM. WHAT IF THE CASE WHERE THEY CHAIRED THE PLANNING COMMISSION? BECAUSE THAT POSITION AT SOME POINT IN TIME CHANGES. TWO STATES CHANGED AND ALL THOSE BOARDS WHAT IF THE PERSON SITTING IN THE CHAIRS OF THOSE THOSE SPORTS DO NOT HAVE THAT KIND OF BACKGROUND. IT DOES THAT IT IS THIS AN IS THIS ABSOLUTE? I'M JUST I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE. DID YOU MAKE A PROTEIN SMITH TO ANSWER THE QUESTION? THE BOARD ITSELF IS QUASI JUDICIAL. YEAH AND SO WE USED THAT DEFINITION, NOT NECESSARILYS OF THOSE BOARDS WOULD HAVE JUDICIAL EXPERIENCE, BUT THAT THE NATURE [01:45:03] OF THE BOARD ITSELF IS JUDICIAL , AND IT'S PRESUMED THAT SOMEBODY WHO WAS ELECTED TO BE CHAIR OF THAT BOARD WOULD HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THAT ROLE. AND SO WE FELT IT WAS CLOSE ENOUGH. NO, I GET YOUR POINT. NOW YOU'RE GOING WITH THE BOARDS, DEFINITION, NOT THE PERSON AND IT'S IN THE SEA. OKAY, THANKS FOR THAT. CLARIFICATION THANKS. THANKS. THANKS. THANKS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY AT THE UM. A MEMBER OF THE BOARD OF COUNCIL MEMBER, CAN I, IF WHO WAS APPOINTED BY IT? WHAT IS THE DEFAULT IF THE CHAIRMAN OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OR THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT OR PROPERTY STANDARDS IS THAT PERSON WHAT IS THE IT'LL BE THE IT WILL BE THE FIRST VICE CHAIR OR SOME DEGREE THERE BELOW, OKAY? IF THAT'S THE CASE , THEN THE CITY SECRETARY WILL SELECT ANOTHER MEMBER BY LOT THAT POSITION VERY GOOD. STILL GOT A FEW FOLKS IN THE QUEUE CANCER. HEDRICK THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. I KNOW YOU SAID THAT THERE'S A MILLION WAYS TO DETERMINE WHO MAKES UP THIS SPORT. BUT UH, IT SEEMS FINE THAT THE CHAIRS OF THOSE THREE BOARDS, BUT THEN WHY AREN'T THE THREE BOARDS UP FOR SELECTION OF BEING CHOSEN BY LOT MEMBERS CHOSEN BY LOT TO FILL THE REST OF POSITIONS? SEEMS LIKE PLANNING COMMISSION BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS, BUT PROPERTY STANDARDS BOARD WAS LEFT OFF. THE REMAINING POOL. THERE. THERE'S A REASON PROPERTY STANDARDS BOARD MEETS A LOT LESS , AND THEY HAVE A LOT LESS EXPERIENCE. FOR THE MOST PART, IT'S NOT ALWAYS THE CASE BUT TYPICALLY SPEAKING MEMBERS OF THE PROPERTY STANDARDS BOARD MEET. MUCH LESS FREQUENT THAN THE PLAN COMMISSION AND THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENT, SO THERE'S AN EXPERIENCE FACTOR THERE. OKAY? I MEAN QUITE POSSIBLE. YOU CAN MAKE THAT CASE FOR THE CHAIR THEN OF THAT PUBLIC STANDARDS FOR BEING PART OF THAT. COMMITTEE AS WELL. BUT YEAH, OKAY. WE'LL HAVE TO THINK OF THAT ONE. I'LL HAVE TO THINK ON THAT ONE. I THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. COUNCILOR MORE YOU'RE IN THE QUEUE YESTERDAY. NO, OKAY. ALL RIGHT, GO AHEAD, GOING TO SAY ALSO THAT ONE OF THE ADVANTAGES OF HAVING SOMEBODY WITH THE PROPERTY STANDARDS BOARD BECAUSE THEY ARE AN ACTUAL QUASI JUDICIAL BOARD. AND SO THEY ACTUALLY ARE USED TO HEARING CASES THAT HAVE LEGAL CONSEQUENCE AND ISSUING ORDERS THAT HAVE LEGAL IMPACT, ACTUAL LEGAL IMPACT, AND SO THAT'S ONE OF THE THOUGHTS ON IT. I THINK ENERGIA PART OF THAT. WHY NOT MAKE THAT ONE? YOU CAN DO THAT? SURE. YOU CAN. YOU CAN SLICE THAT UP AS MUCH AS YEAH. 11 OTHER CHANGE. ONE SUBSTITUTE CHANGE ALSO IS THE JURISDICTION OF THE BOARD AND. THE RECOMMENDED AMENDMENT IS THAT THE BOARD MAY NOT CONSIDER AN ALLEGED VIOLATION THAT OCCURRED MORE THAN ONE YEAR BEFORE THE DATE OF THE FILING OF A COMPLAINT. AND SO THE BOARD GETS TO LOOK BACK ONE YEAR. ONCE IT'S ONCE THE COMPLAINT IS FILED. I MEAN, WE DISCUSSED THIS ALREADY. I'LL GET THE HEART SPECIAL LEGAL COUNSEL AND THEN ONCE THE BOARD MAKES A DECISION IF THE BOARD FINDS THAT THE COUNCIL MEMBER. HAS VIOLATED A PORTION OF THE ONE OR MORE, UM, PORTIONS OF THE ETHIC ORDINANCE. L REFER FOR COUNCIL ACTION, SO THE BOARD ITSELF DOESN'T SET QUOTE, PUNISHMENT OR DISCIPLINED. IT REFERS IT BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL WITH ITS FINDINGS. AND THEN THE CITY COUNCIL. UNDER THE PROPOSED AMENDMENT. CAN ELECT TO DO ONE OF THE FOLLOWING FOR ME EITHER SUSPENSION OR REVOCATION . YOU CAN'T SUSPEND LEADERSHIP ROLES ON THE COUNCIL FOR THAT PARTICULAR MEMBER. YOU COULD SPEND COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIPS. PARTICIPATION AS CITY OFFICIAL AT CITY EVENTS, NOT INCLUDING, OF COURSE, OFFICIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS. OR THE INCLUSION OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS NAME ON OFFICIAL PLAQUES. YOU DON'T GET TO BAN PEOPLE OFF THE ISLANDER OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. THEY GET TO COME BACK AND PARTICIPATE IN COUNCIL MEETINGS. BUT THESE ARE SOME EXAMPLES. ONE OF THE ONE OF THE EXAMPLES THAT YOU MAY BE THINKING THAT THEY THAT THE COMMITTEE DISCUSSED IS THE IDEA OF SANCTUARY SANCTIONING COUNCIL MEMBER AND REMOVING. THEIR RIGHTS TO RECEIVE THE LARGE SALARIES THAT YOU ALL RECEIVED FOR BEING AT THESE AT THESE MINIS THAT THANK YOU RETIREMENT, RIGHT, BUT THAT THE DIFFICULTY IN THAT IS THAT THOSE THOSE THOSE PAYMENTS ARE SET BY CHARTER AND THE IDEA THAT Y'ALL COULD REVOKE THOSE PAYMENTS THROUGH AN ORDINANCE. IT'S PROBABLY PROBLEMATIC AT BEST, SO UM, I DIDN'T RECOMMEND THAT YOU ACTUALLY SANCTIONED COUNCIL MEMBERS FINANCIALLY OR REMOVE ACTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS FROM THEM. AND JUST TO BE CLEAR. ALL [01:50:01] FOUR OF THOSE COULD BE IMPOSED. I THINK YOU'VE SAID ONE BUT ALL FOUR OF THOSE OR ANY COMBINATION COMBINATION THEREOF, OKAY? AND IF YOU CAN THINK OF ANY MORE THAT YOU ALL WOULD LIKE TO IMPOSE, THEN THAT'S SOMETHING TO THINK ABOUT FOR THE NEXT 22 WEEKS. ALSO YEAH. AND THEN SECTION 10.70. THIS IS THE LAST ONE. IT'S ON THE LAST PAGE OF YOUR RED LINE, AND THIS IS THE DELETION OF THE CRIMINAL PENALTY. NOW OKAY? HANG ON. ONE SECOND COUNSELOR. WILLIAMS FLIP BACK AGAIN, OKAY? QUESTION. THAT'S THE. PARTICULAR COUNTER MEMBER WHO'S THAT'S COMPLAINT IS AGAINST. WHAT'S THE APPEAL PROCESS OR IS THERE ONE? I KNOW THEY CAN GO OUT AND HAVE THEIR OWN PRIVATE JOURNEY. I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THAT. WHAT IS THERE BUILT INTO THIS POLICY? RIGHT PROCESS. I DON'T HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET. THE APPEAL PROCESS OF THE COUNCIL ITSELF AT THE COUNCIL RECEIVES A REPORT BACK FROM THE ETHICS ETHICS BOARD. UM THEN, AND THEY DON'T AGREE WITH THE FINDINGS OF THAT EXPLORED AND THEY CAN CERTAINLY NOT. THEY CAN CHOOSE NOT TO INVOKE ANY OF THESE PRIVILEGES. TO BE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED. THAT'S THE OPTION. THERE'S NOT. THERE'S NOT AN APPEAL PROCESS PER SE, BECAUSE THIS ISN'T A TAKING OF AN ACTUAL LEGAL PROPERTY RIGHT FROM SOMEONE. THIS IS MORE OF A POLITICAL SANCTION PROCESS. THIS ISN'T A PUNISHMENT PROCESS, AND THAT'S THE REASON BY THE WAY. WE'RE REMOVING THE CRIMINAL PENALTY BECAUSE WITH THE CRIMINAL PENALTY WOULD BE ACTUAL CASE BEFORE IN THE MUNICIPAL COURT, AND, UM, UM, IT'S OBJECTS SOMEONE, A COUNCIL MEMBER WHO HAS ALLEGEDLY VIOLATED ONE OF THE PROVISIONS OF THE ETHICS ORDINANCE TO CRIMINAL PENALTIES. IN THE AMENDED IN THE RECOMMENDED AMENDED, UM, ORDINANCE THAT CRIMINAL PENALTIES BEEN REMOVED. BUT THERE IS NONE FOR IT BE WOULD. I GUESS I COULD COMPARE IT TO UM, AND IMPEACHMENT WHERE IT'S NOT A CRIMINAL ACTION. THERE'S NO APPEAL FOR AN IMPEACHMENT. IT'S A POLITICAL ACTION. IT'S A POLITICAL PENALTY. AND SO THERE'S NO APPEAL FOR THAT. THAT THE PHRASE THE SENTENCE THAT THAT DRIVES. MY QUESTION IS THE LAST SENTENCE BEFORE THE 1 TO 4. BUT THE PRIVILEGES PRIVILEGES MAY BE SUSPENDED OR REVOKED. AND IN MY OTHER LIFE. I'VE DEALT WITH THESE ADMINISTRATIVE CONTEXT OFTEN. AND THERE WAS AN APPEAL PROCESS. THE INDIVIDUAL. I KNOW HE TURNED THE BODY BUT THE INDIVIDUAL HIM OR HERSELF. THERE WASN'T THERE WAS AN APPEAL PROCESS. BEFORE THE. DECIDING BY THE BEFORE IT REACHED THE DECIDING BODY, SO I'M JUST THERE WAS THE INDIVIDUAL AGAIN. THAT'S MOST LIKELY IN CASES WHERE PROPERTY RIGHTS HAVE BEEN TAKEN FROM SOMEONE IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE. THERE ARE NO PROPERTY RIGHTS BEING TAKEN OR THREATENED TO BE TAKEN IN THIS CASE. OKAY WHAT? WHAT? WHAT THE WHAT WOULD THE COUNCIL DO? GOD FORBID THIS EVER COVID NEVER COMES INTO PLAY. BUT WHAT WHAT IF THIS DOES HAPPEN AND A PARTICULAR COUNCIL MONEY SO IS THAT ONE APPEAL? WHAT DO WE DO THAT ONE? GO AHEAD. WALK THROUGH THE PROCESS. UM SO THE COMPLAINT GETS FILED. THE BOARD GETS PUT TOGETHER. COMPLAINT GOES TO THE BOARD. YOU REPRESENT YOURSELF DURING THE THAT THAT ETHICS BOARD HEARING LEGAL COUNSEL ON BOTH SIDES. LET'S SAY THEY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION THAT YOU BE STRIPPED OF YOUR TITLE. OKAY, THAT COMES TO COUNSEL. YOU'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION WITH COUNCIL AND OPEN SESSION. UM WITH PUBLIC HEARING EVEN AND YOU'RE MAKING THAT APPEAL TO THE COUNCIL AS A BODY SAYING, OKAY, THIS IS WHAT THE ETHICS BOARD FOUND. BUT HERE'S WHAT THEY MISSED, OR HERE'S WHAT I THINK THEY GOT WRONG. AND THEN COUNCIL AS A WHOLE VOTES, AND IT'S OVER. IN YOUR LEGAL COUNSEL COULD SPEAK FOR YOU DURING THAT, YOU KNOW, REASON WHY THEY COULDN'T THAT THEY COULD MAKE THAT APPEAL. I GUESS IS YEAH, AND NOW OR YOU COULD SPEAK FOR YOURSELF . LET'S SAY THE COUNCILMAN DECIDE NOT NOT TO GET LEGAL COUNSEL. AND COUNCIL COUNCIL MEMBER X. I WANT TO PEEL THIS PROCESS. AND USUALLY, IF THERE'S AN APPEAL, THERE'S A TIMELINE. FOR THAT. PROCESS SO IS THERE ANY THOUGHT IF THAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN, AND HE THOUGHT OF PUTTING SOME TIMELINES USUALLY FOR THE PROCESS TO GO BECAUSE ABSENT A TIMELINE IT COULD GO ON. YEAH AND WE'VE SEEN THAT BOTH POSITIVE AND NEGATIVE AND OUR OTHER ORDINANCES. ARE YOU WONDERING IF WE YOU KNOW, ONCE THE CONCLUSION OF THE ETHICS BOARD IS DELIVERED TO THE [01:55:01] COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL WITHIN X NUMBER OF DAYS. WELL HERE AND MAKE A DECISION. I GUESS I'M I DON'T WANT TO. I DON'T WANT I WANT TO REALLY DO ANYTHING LIKE LEGISLATURE. BUT I DIDN'T SAY THAT. BUT ANYWAY, BUT I'LL USE THE TERM SET OF THE SHOT CLOCK APPLICATION PLANNING THAT THERE'S A WINDOW. UNDER WHICH WE HAVE TO ADJUDICATE THIS. YEAH. 30 60 DAYS. SOMETHING LIKE THAT . THAT'S WHAT YEAH, WHATEVER. WHATEVER I THINK THERE SHOULD BE A TIME WINDOW. WE HAVE ONE THAT'S IN THERE IN 10 POINTS. OKAY AND IT IS. IT IS 25 DAYS AFTER RICO 36. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, SIR. THANK YOU, MAYOR. CONSIDER MORE. YOU STILL IN THE QUEUE, OR DID THAT? ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? OR DID THEY CREATE ANOTHER ONE? HMM. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. GO AHEAD. YEAH I CAN TAKE CARE OF. YOU KNOW, I'M THINKING ABOUT MY TIME WITH THE E. L. C AND EVERYTHING THAT I KNOW OF, IN THE WAY OF THESE REMEDIAL TYPE OF PROCESSES. UH, AND MUCH AS I HATE TO SAY THIS COME OUT WITH, LIKE, BROTHER. WE WORKED ON THIS FOREVER. I THINK THAT WE DO NEED TO AT LEAST CONSIDER THERE'S ALWAYS SOME TYPE OF AN AMENDMENT PROCESS SOME KIND. THAT NOT A MINUTE. BUT THE APPEAL PROCESS. FOR WHATEVER THE JUDGMENT, MAYBE I'M JUST SO THE OPINION AT THIS POINT THAT THAT'S ALL THAT'S LACKING AT THIS POINT. THAT'S ALL THAT I SEE LACKING HERE. I'M JUST THINKING. WE HATE TO SAY THIS, BUT WE MAY NEED TO GO BACK AND AT LEAST CONSIDER THAT PIECE BECAUSE WE'RE TALKING NOW ABOUT DUE PROCESS. THAT THAT'S THAT'S THE BOTTOM LINE AND WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DUE PROCESS ON US , YOU KNOW, AND EVEN MORE SO. SO I'M THINKING MR CHAIR AND LEGAL. I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. VERY GOOD. CANCER. HEDRICK THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. OH WE'RE NOT ASKING ABOUT APPEAL. WHO WHO ARE WE GOING TO APPEAL TO? ULTIMATELY THE COUNCIL IS THE ULTIMATE AUTHORITY ON THAT, AND IT'S NOT A DUE PROCESS PROCESS BECAUSE IT'S NOT A LEGAL PROCEEDING. IT'S A MUCH LIKE, UH IMPEACHMENT HEARING. THE OLD MAN APPEALS TO THE VOTERS THEMSELVES WHO GET TO DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT THOSE THAT PERSON OR THAT COUNCIL WAS, HOWEVER, WHICH WAY IN, SO I REALLY DON'T THINK WE NEED AN APPEAL AT THIS AT ALL. I THINK THE APPEALS THE BOULDER VOTERS ULTIMATELY INTO THE COUNCIL CAN MAKE THEIR DECISION AND IN TWO YEARS, YOU'LL HAVE AN ELECTION. EITHER WAY. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. THANK YOU. YES, SIR. MORE GO AHEAD. I DON'T LIKE GOING BACK AND FORTH, AND I'M NOT GONNA DO THAT. I'M JUST THINKING, BUT WHEN I SEE WORDS LIKE FOLLOWING PRIVILEGES MAY BE SUSPENDED AND REVOKED AND THAT TYPE OF LANGUAGE. I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO CALL IT DUE PROCESS OR NOT, BUT I DO THINK THIS THOUGH. WHY GO FORWARD WITH A SUPPOSITION OF MAYBE, AND MAYBE NOT. AND WE CAN BE CERTAIN. BY JUST. GOING BACK AND TAKING A SERIOUS LOOK AT IT. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU, MR MAYOR. HMM. AND COUNCILOR WILLIAMS. I AM WORKING ON JAMAICAN, BUT BUT I AM, UM UM AGAIN, I'M GOING BACK TO MY OTHER LIFE. UM IN BETWEEN THE BOARDS. THEIR THEIR ETHICS HEARINGS BOARD. AND I'M I'M TALKING ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THIS IS. THEY MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION, CORRECT. YES, OKAY. AFTER THEY MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION. THEN IT GOES TO MAKE A RECOMMENDATION. OKAY THEY GIVE YOU THEIR FINE GAVE YOU FIND IT. OKAY AND AS THE ACCUSED , THAT'S THAT'S TOO HEAVY AWARDS, WHICH YOU KNOW THE PERSON AGAINST WHOM THE COMPLAINT IS AGAINST. REVIEWS THEIR FINDINGS. OKAY? AND LET'S SAY. DISAGREES WITH THEIR HEADS, ADDITIONAL INFORMATION OR DOCUMENTATION. OKAY PART TO IT COMING TO COUNCIL. I BELIEVE WE'RE STRONG AT THAT INDIVIDUAL SHOULD HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY. SOME OF WHAT WE CALL THAT SO THAT WHEN IT DOES GET THE COUNCIL COUNCIL HAS THE WHOLE BASKET. TWO ON WHICH TO MAKE A DECISION COUNSELORS GOT THE BOARD HAS MADE ITS FINDINGS. THEY, UH THE ACCUSED HAS HAS HAS REVIEWED THOSE FINDINGS. THEY ACCUSED HAS. RESPONDED IS NOT THE WORD BUT BUT COME IN IT BUT [02:00:04] LACK OF BETTER TERM. ALL THOSE FINDINGS. ALL OF THOSE KIND OF LIKE GOING SUPREME COURT. THE COUNCIL IN THIS MATTER IS THE SUPREME COURT. EVEN THOUGH IT IS ADMINISTRATIVELY. SO I BELIEVE THAT IF THE COUNCIL ROLE IS TO MAKE. TO DO ONE OF THOSE THOSE FOUR THINGS SO THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT THEN I THINK THAT COUNCIL SHOULD HAVE I SHOULD CLARIFY ALSO GREAT THAT IT'S NOT JUST THESE FOUR THINGS. OKAY WHAT WE HAVEN'T CHANGED AND WHAT'S IN THE CURRENT ORDINANCES ? YOU CAN JUST ISSUE A LETTER OF ADMONITION, REPRIMAND A VERBAL REPRIMAND OR WRITTEN REPRIMAND A CENSURE, WHICH IS A LITTLE STEP UP FROM BOTH OF THOSE, AND THEN YOU COULD DO ONE OF THESE AS WELL. OR YOU COULD DO ALL OF THE ABOVE. I JUST THINK THAT TAB TO KEEP THE THREAT FROM ROLLING IF , IF THAT PERSON HAS FEEDBACK FOR WHATEVER IT IS TO WHOM SHOULD I GIVE MY FEEDBACK? THE ONE WHO SHOULD I GIVE IT TO THE HEARING BOARD? OR SHOULD I WAIT AND GIVE IT TO THE COUNCIL? THAT THAT PROCESS DIDN'T SAY THAT. WHO WHO DO I WHO DO? I AND THEN THEN I THINK IF WE IF THAT PERSON IS SAYS WAIT UNTIL COUNCIL TIME. AND PARTICULARLY YOU SAID 45 DAYS. IF WE USE THAE THE COUNCIL HAS GOT ORIGINATED DECISION. IN 45 DAYS, AT LEAST RATE. RIGHT SO WHAT? WHEN I'M NOT GETTING IT HERE IS THAT ONCE THIS THIS CASE GOES TO COUNSEL, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE IN THE BASKET. AND I'M JUST SYMPATHY, SAYING HOW DOES THAT PERSON AGAIN? HOPE IT NEVER HAPPENS? BUT HOW DOES THAT PERSON GET IF THEY GOT SOMETHING THAT THEY WANT TO GET IN THAT BASKET AFTER THAT HEARING BOARD HAS WRITTEN AND SHARED ITS FINDING. HOW DOES THAT PERSON GET. IT'S HIS OR HER EGGS. IN THE BASKET, SO THAT WHEN IT GETS TO COUNSEL COUNCIL DIDN'T SAY WELL. OH WAIT, WAIT AND THE PERSON SHOWS UP AT COUNCIL. SAYING. I DIDN'T GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS X Y Z AND MY TALKING ABOUT THE MERITS OF IT. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PROCESS OF IT. THAT'S THAT'S SORT OF MY THINKING. THANK YOU, MAN. THAT'S MR CHAIR. DEPUTY MAYOR, PROTEIN. AND OKAY, THAT'S YEAH. I'VE GOT SOME IDEAS THAT I'VE SKETCHED OUT. IF IT'S OKAY WITH YOU, COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS. LET'S GET TOGETHER AFTER THIS, AND I'LL MAKE SURE I'VE GOT YOUR IDEAS ENCAPSULATED. GO BACK WITH LEGAL AND PRESENT SOMETHING IN TWO WEEKS THAT MAY ADDRESS THAT THAT PROCESS CONCERNED, BUT I THINK WE COULD DO THAT. YEAH THANKS. OKAY. VERY GOOD. COUNCILOR RIVERA. THANK YOU, MAYOR. ON THAT NUMBER TWO COMMITTEE MEMBERSHIP. TO ME. IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE PAYING TO BE IN THAT COMMITTEE. MEMBERSHIP. CAN WE SAY COMMITTEE MEMBER INSTEAD OF MEMBERSHIP. SURE BECAUSE MEMBERSHIP IT MEANS LIKE YOU PAYING TO BE IN THAT COMMITTEE. HMM. I MEAN, THAT'S THE INTERPRETATION. NOT THAT I'LL WORK ON SOME LANGUAGE WITH THAT. ALRIGHT I PAUSED AND NOBODY PUNCHED IN. GO AHEAD. LAST ONE DELETION OF THE CRIMINAL PENALTY AND THE REASON WE DID THAT IS FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS ONE WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT, UM BECAUSE. IT WOULD BE DIFFICULT FOR A COUNCIL MEMBER TO ADDRESS POLITICAL CHARGES BROUGHT AGAINST HIM IN A POLITICAL CONVERSATION IF THERE'S A THREAT OF CRIMINAL PENALTY HANGING OVER HIM OR HER AT THE TIME. UM ALSO , IT'S WORTH NOTING THAT STATE LAW ADDRESSES THE SERIOUS ETHICAL VIOLATIONS THAT MAY THAT THAT COULD LEAD TO SUBSTANCE. STANGEL HARM TO THE CITY, AND SO AGAIN, IT'S GOING BACK TO. WE DON'T WANT TO DO SOMETHING THAT'S INCONSISTENT WITH KATE STATE LAW, BUT ALSO AT THE SAME TIME, WE ALSO DON'T WANT TO PUT THE INDIVIDUAL COUNCIL MEMBER, THE ACCUSED COUNSELOR POSITION TO HAVE TO DEFEND THEMSELVES INTO POLITICAL PROCESS THAN IT BE LATER USED AGAINST HIM IN A COURT OF LAW. VERY GOOD. THAT'S IT. ANY QUESTIONS? THAT'S IT? YEAH JUST THAT IT OKAY, SO OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS THIS IS A LOT TO TAKE IN. UM YOU KNOW, I APPRECIATE THE SUGGESTION OF [02:05:03] BRINGING IT BACK IN TWO WEEKS WITH SOME OF THE DISCUSSION WE'VE HAD TONIGHT. NOW I THINK EVEN AFTER THAT IT'S GOING TO TAKE SOME TIME TO SOAK THIS IN. SO HERE HERE IS MY SUGGESTION THAT AFTER THE AFTER WE BRING BACK SOME OF THE REVISIONS TO THE NEXT WORK SESSION, BUT THEN KNOWING THAT WE ARE ENTERING BUDGET TIME, AND WE NEED TO FOCUS ON THAT, AND THAT'S GOING TO TAKE UP AN ENORMOUS AMOUNT OF OUR TIME. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE BRING THIS BACK TO A WORK SESSION THAT OUR FIRST MEETING IN NOVEMBER. KIND OF REVISIT WHERE WE AFTER WE'VE HAD TIME TO KIND OF ABSORB SOME OF THIS, UH AND THEN HOPEFULLY THAT WILL PREPARE US TO TAKE ACTION ON IT BY THE SECOND MEETING IN NOVEMBER. BECAUSE IF SOMETHING COMES UP IN THE AT THE FIRST MEETING IN NOVEMBER, WE CAN DEAL WITH IT. BUT TO BE PREPARED TO TAKE FORMAL ACTION ON THIS SECOND MEETING IN NOVEMBER. THAT SEEM REASONABLE. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT UH, ITEM FIVE [5. Discuss Appointments to Boards and Commissions] IS DISCUSSED APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE WE HAVE QUITE A FEW FOR TOMORROW NIGHT, MOST OF THOSE BEING FOR THE YOUTH COUNCIL. UM AND WE WILL TAKE THOSE ALL IN A BLOCK. YEAH. ANDE AGENDA ITEMS. IS THERE ANYONE WHO HAS FEATURE AGENDA ITEMS FOR [6. Announce Future Agenda Items] THIS EVENING? COME HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MARY MARY. THIS IS FOR PUBLIC SERVICE SAFETY COMMISSION WOULD LIKE FOR US TO REVIEW THE AUDIENCE THAT PROHIBITS FIREWORKS IN THE CITY LIMITS. UM, WE'VE. WE'VE GOT THAT ON THE BOOKS, BUT IT'S UM, IT'S GONE GOING TYPE, SO I'D LIKE TO REFER THAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT. IF THE CHAIRS SECOND, RIGHT, RIGHT, OKAY. IT'S THAT WAY. THAT WAS IT. YOU GOT A SECOND KATHERINE REVERE VERY DEAD. OKAY? THANK YOU MAY CONSIDER LUCK BUT ALSO LIKE THE PUBLIC SERVICE COMMITTEE TO LOOK AT WAY FINDING SIGNS ALONG TRAILS. UM TO SEE IF THERE IS SOMETHING THAT WE COULD KIND OF MAKE SURE HAPPENS. PUBLIC SAFETY OR YOU SAID PUBLIC SERVICE. I JUST WANT TO PUBLIC SAFETY. UH. YEAH I DON'T KNOW THAT. THAT'S A PUBLIC SAFETY. YEAH. EVEN EVEN WHEN THEY'RE NOT IN PARKS, LIKE ALONG ALL OF THE BIKES AND TRAILWAYS. YEAH I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY MORE COMMUNITY SERVICES I WOULD LIKE FOR THE COMMUNITY SERVICE COMMITTEE TO TAKE A LOOK AT YOU TAKE A LOOK AT WAY FINDING SIGNS ALONG TRAILS AND BIKE WAYS. ALL RIGHT, MOBILITY. YEAH. I WOULD LIKE ONE OF THE COMMITTEE'S TO TAKE A LOOK AT A SECOND IT WAY FINDING SIGNS ALONG TRAILS AND BIKE WAYS. YEAH. THE CITY MANAGER AND I WILL TALK ABOUT THAT HERE BECAUSE, UM, UM YEAH. WE CAN TEST BETWEEN ALL THE COMMUNITIES. YEAH, YES. YEAH GOOD. GOOD POINT. WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT. ANYTHING ELSE? I JUSTL FIGURE OUT THE APPROPRIATE COMMITTEE FOR THAT TO GO TO ALRIGHT. UH, ANY ADDITIONAL. ALL [7. Council will move into Executive Session] RIGHT, THAT MOVES US ON TO ITEM SEVEN COUNCIL MOVE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. CITY COUNCIL ADJOURNED INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTIONS 551.87551 POINT 86552.13. AND 551.71 TO DISCUSS AND DELIBERATE ONE COMPETITIVE MATTERS AND TO DISCUSS VOTE ON AND TAKE FINAL ACTION WITH REGARD TO PENDING OR CONTEMPLATED LEAD LITIGATION SETTLEMENT OFFERS REGARDING LEGAL AND FINANCIAL ISSUES RELATED TO A REQUEST FROM THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL POWER AGENCY FOR APPROVAL OF ITS GENERATION BUDGET UNDER THE TM JOINT OPERATING AGREEMENT AND ATTORNEY CLIENT MATTERS CONCERNING PRIVILEGED AND UNPRIVILEGED CLIENT INFORMATION RELATED TO SAME AND TWO COMPETITIVE MATTERS OF PUBLIC POWER UTILITY CONCERNING GENERATION UNITS AND ATTORNEY CLIENT MATTERS CONCERNING PRIVILEGED AND [02:10:03] UNPRIVILEGED CLIENT INFORMATION RELATED TO SAME I SEE. LET'S WE WILL TAKE A SHORT RECESS. GIVE US TIME TO CLEAR OUT, SO LET'S HAVE EVERYONE BACK AT 8 20, PLEASE 8 20. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.