Jan 20, 2024 2024 Capital Improvement Program Special Session

UM, WITH SOME LARGE CAPITAL REPLACEMENT ITEMS THAT'S FUNDED WITH CERTIFICATES OBLIGATION, AND THEN IT'S REPAID BY THE VARIOUS FUNDS THROUGH THE OPERATING BUDGET PROCESS.

MORNING.

SO BEFORE WE DIVE INTO WHAT THE 2024 PROPOSED CIP IS MADE UP OF, I'LL GO QUICKLY OVER OUR CRITERIA AND STRUCTURE AND THE COMPONENTS OF THE, THE CIP IN GENERAL.

IT'S A FIVE YEAR FINANCIAL PLAN FOR CAPITAL ASSETS.

IT MUST MEET OUR CAPITALIZATION POLICY CRITERIA.

THE DOCUMENT ITSELF INCLUDES THE PROJECTS PLAN FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, THE EXPECTED COSTS, THE METHOD OF FINANCING, AND ANY ESTIMATED UTILITY OR TAX RATE IMPACTS AS A RESULT OF THE PROGRAM.

THE CAPITAL BUDGET IS THE FIRST YEAR OF THE CIP.

SO WE ARE LOOKING AT, UH, THE APPROPRIATION FOR 2024, AND IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT MOST CIP PROJECTS SPAN MULTIPLE YEARS.

SO THE CIP ITSELF MUST BE VIEWED FROM A MULTI-YEAR PERSPECTIVE.

MOVING INTO HOW WE FUND THE CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, UH, WE HAVE VARIOUS TYPES OF DEBT INSTRUMENTS THAT ARE USED AND ARE PROPOSED TO FUND THE 2024 CIP.

UM, WE HAVE LONG-TERM DEBT INSTRUMENTS, WHICH INCLUDES OUR GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS, WHICH ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE BOND PROGRAMS THAT ARE AUTHORIZED BY THE VOTERS.

WE TYPICALLY, UH, UH, HAVE A AMORTIZATION OF THOSE BETWEEN 17 AND 20 YEARS WITH A A FEW SELECT PROJECTS MODELED TO NOT TO EXCEED 30 YEARS.

AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT THOSE FURTHER IN THE PRESENTATION.

FOR A LOT OF OUR, UH, LARGE CAPITAL EQUIPMENT AND PROJECTS THAT HAVE COME UP AND OUR ONGOING PROGRAMS, WE UTILIZE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION.

UM, AND THEN AMORTIZATION FOR THAT IS BASED IS TO MATCH THE USEFUL LIFE OF THE ASSET.

AND THEN FINALLY, FOR OUR ELECTRIC WATER AND WASTEWATER UTILITIES, WE UTILIZE REVENUE BONDS FOR THE FUNDING OF THOSE.

AND THOSE ARE REPAID, UH, BY UTILITY RATES.

WE DO UTILIZE SOME SHORT-TERM DEBT INSTRUMENTS, COMMERCIAL PAPER, WHICH IS UTILIZED BY THE TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM, AND THEN IS REFUNDED INTO GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS AND COMMERCIAL PAPERS, ALSO UTILIZED BY OUR UTILITY FUNDS AND IS ULTIMATELY REFUNDED INTO REVENUE BONDS.

AND THEN FINALLY, WE HAVE TAX NOTES, WHICH CURRENTLY ARE BEING UTILIZED TO FUND OUR STREETS PROGRAM.

QUICK OVERVIEW OF THE COMPONENTS OF THE CIP.

WE HAVE OUR TAX SUPPORTIVE PROJECTS, WHICH INCLUDES OUR 2004 AND 2019 BOND PROGRAM, AND ANY LARGE CAPITAL ITEMS SUCH AS EQUIPMENT OR PROJECTS FOR WHAT IS TRADITIONALLY KNOWN AS OUR GENERAL FUND DEPARTMENTS.

THIS IS FUNDED WITH GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS OR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, AND IS PAID BY THE DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE.

OUR UTILITY PROJECTS ARE INCLUDE ELECTRIC WATER AND WASTEWATER SANITATION AND STORM WATER MANAGEMENT.

THOSE ARE TRADITIONALLY FINANCED WITH REVENUE BONDS AND OR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION FOR OUR SANITATION AND STORM WATER MANAGEMENT.

AND THOSE ARE REPAID BY THEIR UTILITY RATES.

AND THEN FINALLY, THE ONLY INTERNAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT THAT'S ACTIVE IN THE 2024 PROPOSED CIP IS OUR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY,

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QUICK HISTORY OF CITY OF GARLAND'S, ANNUAL CIP.

THIS IS OUR SECOND LARGEST CIP TO DATE, SECOND TO LAST YEAR, CIP.

UM, AND YOU'LL SEE THE GROWTH IN THE LIGHT BLUE BARS DOWN BELOW, WHICH IS OUR TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM.

UM, YOU SEE THAT REALLY PICK UP, START TO PICK UP IN 2020, WHICH IS THE FIRST YEAR WE HAD THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM INCORPORATED INTO THE CIP AND IN 2023.

AND THIS YEAR'S 2024 CIP, THE BULK OF THOSE PROJECTS ARE EITHER IN DESIGN OR ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION.

SO WE WERE VERY MUCH IN THE THICK OF DELIVERING ON THOSE PROJECTS.

, OUR TOTAL TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM AREA IS $245.6 MILLION WITH OUR LARGEST SECTION OF 65.9 MILLION, OR 27% FOR STREET TRANSPORTATION, FOLLOWED BY OUR PARKS AREA AT 58.7 MILLION.

AND THEN FOLLOWED BY OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AT 34 MILLION.

WE ALSO HAVE LIBRARY PUBLIC SAFETY, REPLACEMENT OF FACILITIES AND EQUIP, UH, MAINTENANCE FOR FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT, AND THEN DRAINAGE AND LANDFILL AND TRANSFER STATION AS PART OF OUR TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM.

EXCUSE ME.

OVERALL, THIS IS A DECREASE IN THE TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM FROM LAST YEAR, BUT STILL OUR SECOND LARGEST, THE LARGEST TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM TO DATE AN UPDATE ON OUR 2004 AND 2019 BOND PROGRAMS AT THE END OF 2024, WE ARE ANTICIPATING TO BE 89% COMPLETE ON THE 2004 BOND PROGRAM, AND ALMOST 74% COMPLETE ON THE 19 BOND PROGRAM WITH SOME KEY MILESTONES NOTED BELOW.

I WANTED TO CALL OUT THAT UNDER THE 2023 STATUS SECTION OF THE CIP DOCUMENT, THERE IS A SCHEDULE THAT LISTS ALL THE REMAINING OH FOUR AND 2019 BOND PROJECTS WITH THE CA UH, THE EXPECTED EXPENDITURE PER YEAR, AS WELL AS THE SCHEDULED COMPLETION DATE, MOVING INTO OUR 2024 TAX SUPPORTED DEBT ISSUANCE.

THIS IS THE REQUEST THIS YEAR TO CITY COUNCIL TO FUND THE CAPITAL PLAN FOR 2024.

IT'S MADE UP OF 50.7 MILLION OF PROPOSED GENERAL OBLIGATION ISSUANCE FOR 2024 AND 35.7 MILLION OF CERTIFICATE OF OBLIGATION ISSUANCE FOR 2024 FOR A TOTAL OF 86.4 MILLION.

AND I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE THAT THE PROPOSED USE OF 30 YEAR DEBT IN THE 2024 PROGRAM IS FOR HOLFORD ROAD SEGMENT, A-P-G-B-T TO CITY LIMITS PROJECT.

THAT IS THE ONLY PROPOSED USE OF THIS DEBT ISSUANCE THIS YEAR.

DIVING INTO THE COMPOSITION OF OUR TAX SUPPORTED DEBT, UH, THE BULK OF OUR TAX SUPPORTED DEBT IS FOR PROJECT STARTING DESIGN OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION THAT MAKING OVER 50, 50 PLUS PERCENT OF OUR CAPITAL PROGRAM, OUR ONGOING PROGRAMS. IT'S OUR SECOND LARGEST AREA, UH, ABOUT 35%.

AND THEN YOU CAN SEE SOME SMALL REQUESTS FOR NEW EQUIPMENT AND A HANDFUL OF NEW PROJECTS THIS YEAR.

SOME FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE THE, THE TAX SUPPORTED PROGRAM INCLUDE OUR TAX-BASED GROWTH INTEREST RATES, THE CITY'S TAX RATE FOR DEBT SERVICE SUPPLY CHAIN, AND CHANGES IN PROJECT COSTS.

AND WE'LL DIVE INTO THESE A LITTLE BIT DEEPER AS WE GO THROUGH THE FOLLOWING SLIDES.

PROPERTY TAX-BASED GROWTH INCREASES THE CAPACITY OF FUTURE YEARS TO FUND NEW PROJECTS OR CHANGES TO PROJECTS PRIOR TO 2023.

OUR 20 YEAR AVERAGE FOR PROPERTY TAX GROSS WAS 4.2%, BUT FOLLOWING SOME VERY HEALTHY YEARS, AND, YOU KNOW, REALLY STARTING ABOUT IN 2020, BUT 20 22, 20 23, 20 24, OUR NEW AVERAGE FOR 20 YEARS IS ALMOST 5%.

UM, IT IS IMPORTANT TO, FOR, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT OUR FUTURE YEARS OF THIS, IS WE NEED TO REMAIN CONSERVATIVE.

WE ARE ISSUING 20, IN ONE INSTANCE, 30 YEAR DEBT TO SUPPORT THIS CAPITAL PLAN.

SO WE NEED TO MAKE SURE OUR FUTURE TAX BASE PROJECTIONS ARE CONSERVATIVE TO ENSURE WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO FUND THAT LONG-TERM DEBT SERVICE IN THE FUTURE.

INTEREST RATES WE WERE EXPERIENCING AT THE TIME OF THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM, AND WHEN THAT WAS APPROVED, YOU KNOW, VERY, UH, HEALTHY INTEREST RATE ENVIRONMENT, THEY WERE LOW.

IT WAS MADE IT VERY, UH,

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CHEAP TO FINANCE PROJECTS, UH, BEGINNING IN 2022 AND THE RESPONSE TO COMING OUT OF THE PANDEMIC AND INFLATION INTEREST RATES BEGAN TO RISE.

YOU CAN SEE THAT SHIFT FROM 22 FEBRUARY OF 22 TO MAY 22 ON THIS GRAPHIC.

AND YOU CAN SEE THAT 2024 FORWARD, WE ARE EXPECTING A RETURN TO KIND OF WHAT WAS MORE NORMAL INTEREST RATES PRIOR TO THE PANDEMIC.

AND, SORRY, JUST TO NOTE ON THAT, OF COURSE, AS INTEREST RATES GO UP, THAT DOES INCREASE THE, UH, COST OF FINANCE PROJECTS.

SO IT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO MAKE, REMAIN CONSERVATIVE AND ENSURE YOU'RE ACCURATELY REPRESENTING THE COST OF BORROWING.

FUNDING FOR OUR FACILITIES MANAGEMENT ONGOING PROGRAMS, UH, TO RESPOND TO THE FACILITIES CONDITION ASSESSMENT, INCREASES TO OUR BRIDGE AND DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE REMEDIATION PROGRAM, UH, INCREASES TO OUR NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY PROGRAM, SUPPLEMENTING, SUPPLEMENTED WITH TREE MITIGATION FUNDING AND OTHER CONTRIBUTIONS.

THE SUPPLY CHAIN CONTINUES TO IMPACT PROJECTS, WHETHER THAT IS THROUGH DELI, THE DELIVERY OF EQUIPMENT, WAITING FOR THE MANUFACTURER TO GET CERTAIN PARTS OR TO EVEN PRODUCE THE EQUIPMENT 'CAUSE THEY HAVE SUCH A BACKLOG, UM, OR JUST THE TIMING OF GETTING IN THE QUEUE FOR CERTAIN DELIVERED MATERIALS.

UM, SO THIS CONTINUES TO IMPACT CERTAIN PROJECTS, ESPECIALLY ON OUR EQUIPMENT FIRE APPARATUS.

WE'RE ORDERING ABOUT TWO TO THREE YEARS OUT AND AMBULANCE REPLACEMENT IS TAKING ABOUT A YEAR AND A HALF TO RECEIVE THOSE.

UM, AND IT'S IMPACTING THE EQUIPMENT WE ARE AND PUTTING IN SOME OF OUR FACILITIES.

AND THE DEPARTMENTS WILL TALK ABOUT THAT AS WE GO THROUGH THE DAY.

THERE ARE SOME, YOU KNOW, SIX TO EIGHT MONTHS IMPACTS ON JUST GETTING THE EQUIPMENT THAT'S NECESSARY FOR SOME OF THESE NEW OR RENOVATED FACILITIES.

QUICK OVERVIEW OF FACT.

UH, THE SUMMARY OF THE FACTORS THAT IMPACT THE FIVE-YEAR PLAN IN TERMS OF COST CHANGES.

SO WE HAVE A APPROXIMATELY 20 MILLION ASSOCIATED WITH WHAT WE WOULD CALL SCOPE CORRECTIONS, 18.4 MILLION, UH, FOR COST ESCALATION, 11.2 MILLION FOR SCOPE EDITION, 13.5 MILLION FOR OUR ONGOING PROGRAMS, 11.4 MILLION FOR NEW PROJECTS.

AND YOU'LL ALSO SEE THAT WE ARE PROPOSING TO USE 10.5 MILLION OF OUR INFLATION RESERVES TO OFFSET COST INCREASES REALIZED IN THE PROJECTS THIS YEAR.

SO THAT'S A TOTAL CHANGE OF 64 MILLION FOR PROJECTS, UH, STILL ONGOING THIS YEAR COMPARED TO PROJECT BUDGETS LAST YEAR.

I WILL NOTE OVER THE NEXT FEW SLIDES, UH, THIS NOT A COMPREHENSIVE LIST, IT IS A LIST OF EXAMPLES.

THE DEPARTMENTS WILL BE GOING THROUGH THEIR PROJECTS WITH YOU TODAY.

JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT A HANDFUL OF PROJECTS FOR EACH CATEGORY.

SO FOR SCOPE CORRECTION, THIS IS CHANGES TO DELIVER WHAT WAS APPROVED IN THE 2004 AND 2019 BOND PROGRAM, OR TO DELIVER THE PROJECT AS ORIGINALLY SCOPED.

UM, THAT IS MADE UP OF 20 MILLION.

UH, AN EXAMPLE OF THAT IS TUCKER PARK HOLLOW BALL RECREATION CENTER AND NAIMAN SCHOOL ROAD.

MOVING ON TO OUR COST ESCALATION.

SO THIS IS THE RISE IN PRICE OF GOODS SERVICES OR COMMODITIES ASSOCIATED WITH PROJECT DELIVERY.

UM, COST ESCALATION IS, CAN BE REALIZED IN THE DESIGN PHASE, BUT CURRENTLY WE'RE, WE'RE MOSTLY SEEING THAT WHEN WE ACTUALLY TAKE THE PROJECT OUT TO BID, WE HAVE AN OPCC, WE GO OUT TO BID THE MARKET TELLS US WHAT THE COST IS TO DELIVER THAT PROJECT.

UM, SO WE'VE, WE'VE REALIZED THAT ON A FEW PROJECTS ON THIS LIST.

SO THAT WOULD BE OUR HOLFORD RECREATION AND NEIGHBORHOOD AQUATICS CENTER.

SOME OF OUR TRAIL DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS, UM, THE RALLY ROAD CYCLE TRACK, AND YOU CAN SEE VARIOUS LISTED ON THERE.

UM, AND THIS IS THE PRIMARY U PRIMARY USE OF THAT 10.5 MILLION OF OUR INFLATION RESERVES HAS BEEN USED TO OFFSET THESE INCREASES.

MOVING ON TO OUR SCOPE ADDITIONS INCLUDED IN THE 2024 PROPOSED CIP THAT TOTALS 11.2 MILLION.

UM, THAT WOULD BE, UH, SOME ADDITIONAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE MEDICAL DISTRICT PROPOSED WITH A PROJECTED REIMBURSEMENT FROM TIF THREE, SOME OPPORTUNITIES WITH THE FIRE STATION BEDROOMS PROJECT TO REMODEL OTHER AREAS OF THE STATIONS WHILE THEY'RE CLOSED FOR CONSTRUCTION.

AND THEN SPECIFICALLY WANTED TO CALL OUT SOME NEW SCOPE ALONGSIDE OF OUR NEW SIDEWALKS AND A DA ROUTE PROGRAM, UH, WITH A TRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES GRANT.

SOME SIDEWALKS TO DOWNTOWN DART STATIONS PROJECT THAT NOT, IT'S STILL SIDEWALKS, IT'S STILL PART OF THE PROGRAM, BUT IT'S, IT'S REALLY A NEW ADDITION TO THAT PROGRAM AND A NEW FUNDING SOURCE FOR THAT PROGRAM MOVING INTO OUR ONGOING PROGRAM.

SO THIS IS ENSURING THE ONGOING FUNDING IS AVAILABLE TO ADDRESS THE CITY'S FACILITIES, EQUIPMENT, CAPITAL, INFRASTRUCTURE NEEDS, UH, AS APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE ANNUAL CIP PROCESS.

SO THIS WOULD BE INCREASES TO FUTURE YEAR

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UH, AND THEN OF COURSE, YOU KNOW, ONGOING, UH, INCREASING COSTS AND NEEDS IN OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT, UH, PROGRAM AND LANDFILL AND TRANSFER STATION EQUIPMENT REPLACEMENT PROGRAMS. FINALLY, THAT BRINGS US TO OUR NEW PROJECTS.

THESE ARE OPPORTUNITIES TO EXPAND ON IMPROVEMENTS UNDERWAY IN THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM, OR TO PROPOSE A PROJECT AS A RESULT OF A MASTER PLAN.

SEVERAL OF THE PROJECTS ON HERE HAVE ALREADY BEEN SEEN BY C CITY COUNCIL IN A PREVIOUS FORUM, SO THAT WOULD BE OUR SPIGEL GREEN PROJECT, WHICH, UH, WENT THROUGH THE CDBG FUNDING PROCESS, OR A FEW PROJECTS ON HERE THAT HAVE ALREADY COME BEFORE YOU ON A 2023 CIP BUDGET AMENDMENT, BUT ARE INCLUDED IN THE CIP FOR THE FIRST TIME PROJECTS AND EQUIPMENT THAT ARE TRULY NEW, BRAND NEW, ASKED TO THE CIP TOTAL 7.4 MILLION.

BUT FOR TRANSPARENCY PURPOSES, THE TOTAL OF NEW PROJECTS, FIRST TIME EVER IN THE CIP TOTALS 11.4, WITH THE MAJORITY OF THOSE, WE'VE HAD OPPORTUNITIES TO IDENTIFY CASH FUNDING SOURCES FOR OR UTILIZE SOME FEDERAL FUNDING TO COMPLETE THE PROJECTS.

FINALLY, OUR INFLATION RESERVES, AS YOU RECALL, IN THE 2023 ADOPTED CIP, WE HAD 64.7 MILLION OF INFLATION RESERVES EARMARKED OF THAT ORIGINAL 77.1 MILLION FROM THE 2022 CIP PRO, UH, REALLY A BUDGET AMENDMENT PROCESS.

10.5 OF THAT WAS APPLIED TO PROJECTS DURING THE 2024 CIP REVIEW PROCESS.

SO THIS PROPOSED CIP INCLUDES 52.4 MILLION OF REMAINING INFLATION RESERVES THAT STAFF IS PROPOSING WE HOLD UNTIL ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT OF THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM, UH, HAVE COMPLETED DESIGN AND HAVE GONE OUT TO BID.

AND I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MATT TO FINISH UP THE REST.

GOOD MORNING COUNSEL.

I'M GONNA QUICKLY GO OVER OUR UTILITY AND OUR INTERNAL SERVICE PROGRAMS AND TALK ABOUT A PROPOSED CHANGE TO THE USE OF OUR AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT FUNDING.

UH, TO START OUR UTILITIES MAKE, UH, UTILITIES MAKE UP ABOUT $313.6 MILLION IN THE 2024 CIP WITH THE BULK OF THAT COMING FROM OUR ELECTRIC UTILITY TO CONTINUE THEIR TRANSMISSION AND SUBSTATION PROGRAMS. WE ALSO HAVE SOME WASTEWATER PROJECTS TO, TO HELP WITH THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANTS AND MAKE PROCESS IMPROVEMENTS FOR, FOR THOSE TWO FACILITIES, AS WELL AS OUR WATER UTILITY, WHICH IS HEAVY ON RELOCATION OF THE MAINS ASSOCIATED WITH REPAVING IN OUR STREETS PROGRAM.

LOOKING AT THE DEBT ISSUANCE REQUIREMENTS, YOU CAN SEE THAT MOST OF THE DEBT THAT IS BEING ISSUED THIS YEAR IS RELATED TO OUR ELECTRIC UTILITY.

AND I WILL SAY THAT THAT IS IN OUR SUBS, MOSTLY IN OUR SUBSTATION PROGRAM.

UH, MR. KLEIN WILL BE TALKING ABOUT THOSE PROGRAMS. UH, YOU KNOW, DURING THESE, THESE MEETINGS THIS MORNING, WASTEWATER AND WATER, FOR THE MOST PART, THEY ARE FINISHING UP, UH, PROJECTS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN STARTED.

AND SO THE DEBT ISSUANCE IS NOT EXTREMELY HIGH THIS YEAR.

IT'S BECAUSE WE'RE WORKING ON COMPLETING WHAT WAS ALREADY STARTED AND THEN TO ROUND IT OUT, SANITATION IS MOSTLY RELATED TO EQUIPMENT AND REPLACEMENT OF THEIR TRASH TRUCKS AND OTHER EQUIPMENT.

WE HAVE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND STORM WATER UTILITY AS WELL FOR OUR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION.

DURING THE OPERATING BUDGET COUNCIL, UH, BEGAN INCREASING THE STORMWATER RATE SO THAT WE CAN START DOING SOME DRAINAGE INITIATIVES, AND WE INCREASED THAT A DOLLAR 50 DURING THE LAST OPERATING BUDGET.

WE DID WANNA POINT OUT THAT WE DO HAVE TWO PROJECTS IN THE STORM, UTILIZING THAT STORMWATER RATE IN THIS PROPOSED CIP, WHICH INCLUDES THE DUCK CREEK EROSION ENGINEERING, AS WELL AS SOME FLOOD DETECTION DEVICES AND AUTOMATIC GATES, UH, FOR 500,000.

NOW, TO GET INTO THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT, UH, COUNSEL, Y'ALL REMEMBER THAT WE DID RECEIVE ABOUT 53 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT THROUGH THE AMERICAN RESCUE PLAN ACT OR WHAT WE CALL ARPA.

AND DURING THAT TIME, CITY COUNCIL PRIORITIZED THAT FUNDING SPECIFICALLY TO DO, REALLY ACCOMPLISH TWO THINGS, PUT IT TOWARDS 2019 BOND PROGRAM PROJECTS THAT WE'RE EXPERIENCING HEAVY INFLATION OR TWO, TO, TO, TO COMPLETE OTHER INITIATIVES IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THAT WERE

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NOT COMPLETELY FUNDED.

AND AS WE'VE BEEN WORKING THROUGH THIS, THERE'S, THERE'S ONE KEY COMPONENT TO THIS THAT, UH, THAT WE HAVE TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE WE'RE GOING THROUGH OUR CAPITAL PROJECTS.

AND THAT IS THAT THERE ARE TWO DEADLINES ASSOCIATED WITH ARPA RIGHT NOW.

THE FIRST IS WE HAVE TO HAVE ALL CONTRACTS AND ALL OBLIGATIONS SIGNED BY THE END OF 2024.

AND THE SECOND BIG COMPONENT IS YOU HAVE TO HAVE ALL OF THE PROJECTS COMPLETE BY DECEMBER 31ST, 2026.

UM, THESE TWO DATES ARE, HAVE BECOME SOMEWHAT OF AN ISSUE DUE TO REALLY DUE TO SUPPLY CHAIN AND JUST TO SOME OF OUR PROJECTS HAVING SLIPPED IN THE TIMELINE JUST A LITTLE BIT.

AND I, I WILL SAY THAT WHAT WE'RE WE'RE ABOUT TO RECOMMEND IS NOT SO THAT WE CAN TOTALLY PUSH OFF THESE PROJECTS AND LET THEM CONTINUE TO SLIP.

THIS IS JUST TO ENSURE THAT WE, THE RISK OF LOSING FEDERAL FUNDING IS MINIMIZED.

SO WHAT WE'RE RECOMMENDING IS THAT WE CHANGE THE USE OF OUR ARPA FUND TO FIT INTO ANOTHER CATEGORY.

AND THIS CATEGORY IS TO FUND NEW POSITIONS THAT WERE ADDED TO THE GENERAL FUND.

SO WE HAVE ABOUT 20, $20 MILLION THAT WE COULD SET ASIDE TO BE UTILIZED FOR NEW POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND SINCE 2020.

WE HAVE ADDED POSITIONS OVER TIME, AND WE HAVE BUDGETED FROM THOSE POSITIONS IN THE GENERAL FUND.

THIS WOULD BE SIMPLY A CHANGE IN FUNDING SOURCES TO FREE UP ADDITIONAL CASH THAT WE COULD TRANSFER TO THE CIP TO BE UTILIZED FOR ALL THE PROJECTS THAT COUNCIL ORIGINALLY WANTED TO HAVE COMPLETED.

THE REASON WHY WE WANT TO DO THIS AGAIN IS THAT THOSE TWO DATES, THOSE THOSE DEADLINES, WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THOSE DEADLINES DON'T FORCE US TO MOVE TOO QUICKLY ON A PROJECT WHERE IT'S NOT COMPLETELY SCOPED OUT.

OR IF WE MOVE BEYOND THAT PROJECT DUE TO UNFORESEEN CHALLENGES, WE LOSE FEDERAL FUNDING.

SO I WILL POINT OUT THAT THE, THE FOUR PROJECTS THAT WILL BE UTILIZED WITH CASH IS HUFF PARK, KINGSLEY NEIGHBORHOOD PARK, WHEN JOYCE AND RICK ODEN.

HERE'S THE FINAL LIST ARE OUR PROPOSED LIST OF HOW TO UTILIZE, HOW WE WOULD LIKE TO UTILIZE THE ARPA FUNDING MOVING FORWARD.

YOU CAN SEE THAT ALL 53 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS IS STILL BEING UTILIZED, BUT, UH, WE'VE HAD HIGHLIGHTED FOR PUBLIC SECTOR STAFFING OF 20.2 MILLION.

AND AGAIN, THAT IS JUST A CHANGE IN FUNDING SOURCES TO FREE UP CASH IN THE GENERAL FUND TO TRANSFER OVER TO THE CIP.

AND WE WILL HAVE TO BE BRINGING FORWARD AN ORDINANCE TO COUNCILS STATING THAT ALL THE POSITIONS WE'VE ADDED SINCE 2020 ARE GRANT FUNDED THROUGH 2026.

AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A, UH, A CAVEAT.

WE, WE HAVE THE FUNDING CAPACITY TO CONTINUE TO FUND THESE PROJECTS IN THE GENERAL FUND.

IT'S JUST WE WOULD LIKE TO FUND THEM WITH THIS GRANT FUNDING FEDERAL FUNDING THROUGH 2026 TO FREE UP ADDITIONAL CASH TO BE UTILIZED FOR THESE PROJECTS.

SO AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A FUNDING SHIFT, BUT WE WOULD LIKE TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN SO THAT THE RISK OF US LOSING FEDERAL FUNDING CAN BE MINIMIZED.

AND WITH THAT, WE CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE OVER THE CIP AND IF NOT, WE CAN JUMP RIGHT INTO OUR DEPARTMENT MEETINGS.

ANY QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE IN? OKAY, HERE WE GO.

MAYOR PRO TEM BASS.

THANK YOU FOR THE DETAILED PRESENTATION, GUYS.

UM, JUST ONE THING I'D LIKE TO DISCUSS SO THAT THE PUBLIC HAS, HAS INFORMATION ABOUT THIS, UM, CAN, CAN YOU DISCUSS ON HOLFORD ROAD SEGMENT A, UM, THE 30 YEAR VERSUS 20 YEAR AND, AND WHY WE DID THAT? SURE.

SO WHAT WE'VE DONE IS OVER THE, THE, THE LAST FEW YEARS WITH THE HEAVY INFLATION THAT HAS OCCURRED OVER THE YEARS, AND WE STILL ARE IN A, A VERY LOW INTEREST RATE MARKET, UH, WE PRESENTED THAT THERE WAS A SPIKE IN INTEREST RATE, BUT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A SPIKE TO ROUGHLY 3%.

WHAT YOU HAVE SEEN IN THE MARKET RIGHT NOW IS RE A RELATIVELY FLAT, WHAT WE CALL YIELD CURVE, MEANING 20 YEAR DEBT AND 30 YEAR DEBT ARE REALLY ALMOST THE EXACT SAME PRICE.

THERE'S PROBABLY ABOUT A FIVE TO 10 BASIS POINT DIFFERENCE.

SO WHAT WE'RE LOOKING TO DO IS STILL MATCH THE USEFUL LIFE OF THE ASSET TO OUR AMORTIZATION SCHEDULE, BUT WE HAVE NEVER PUSHED IT OUT TO 30 YEARS.

AND, AND THERE'S A REASON WHY WE HAVEN'T DONE THAT.

WE NEVER WANT TO TRY TO OVEREXTEND OURSELVES, BUT THERE ARE VERY SPECIFIC PROJECTS WHERE IT MAKES SENSE IN A VERY LARGE EX A HEAVY EXPENDITURE ROADWAY SUCH AS HOLFORD A, WE FEEL THAT IT MAKES SENSE TO SPREAD IT OUT OVER

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30 YEARS.

AND SO IT'S REALLY A COUNCIL DECISION, BUT WE, WE HAVE, WE HAVE MADE THIS, UH, PROPOSAL FOR ONLY THESE SPECIFIC PROJECTS.

THIS ONE SPECIFIC PROJECT NAMING AND SCHOOL ROAD WOULD BE ANOTHER EXAMPLE OF THAT IN FUTURE CIPS.

BUT WHAT WE HAVE, UM, WANTED TO DO IS JUST BE TOTALLY TRANSPARENT IN WHICH PROJECTS THESE ARE COMING FORWARD TO YOU BECAUSE THE LAST THING WE YOU WANT IS FOR US TO START JUST BLINDLY DOING 30 YEAR DEBT.

SO WE WANT TO CALL THESE OUT FOR THE PUBLIC AND FOR Y'ALL EVERY TIME WE DO A CIP.

SO YOU KNOW WHAT PROJECTS THESE ARE.

UH, COUNCILOR MORRISE.

IT'S ACCOMPLISHING THESE PROJECTS.

UM, I UNDERSTAND AND APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION ABOUT THE MONEY SWAP DUE TO FUNDING ISSUES WITH ARPA AND DEADLINES AND ALL THAT.

UM, AND AGAIN, JUST JUST FOR THE SAKE OF, OF THE PUBLIC, SOME OF THE, UM, PROJECTS LIKE LOU HUFF PARK AND WIND JOYCE, UM, I KNOW IT WAS KINGSLEY PARK.

AND ONE MORE, I BLANKED ON THE FOURTH.

UM, THE, THE CONCERNS THAT I'VE BEEN HEARING, AT LEAST WITH LOU HUFF PARK ALL ALONG IS THIS HAS BEEN PUT OFF FOR DECADES, 20 PLUS DECADES.

I'M AFRAID THAT, THAT SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO, UM, FEEL LIKE THIS IS KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD AND THAT THE SCHEDULE WILL BE SLOWED AND ALL THAT.

SO WHAT ASSURANCES ARE WE ABLE TO GIVE THAT THESE ARE GOING TO STAY PRIORITY PROJECTS? I MEAN, THEY'RE IN THE CIP SO WE'RE ON THE ROAD AND WE'RE MOVING FORWARD.

UM, ARE WE ABLE TO PROVIDE ANY ASSURANCES THAT THIS IS NOT GOING TO SLOW THE ACTUAL PROCESS WE GO THROUGH ON THESE PROJECTS? UH, THIS IS, THIS IS FUNDING AND IT'S BECAUSE WE HAVE DEADLINES THAT ARE, ARE CLOSE AND LIKE YOU SAID, WE DON'T WANNA LOSE FEDERAL FUNDING.

UM, DO WE HAVE ASSURANCES WE CAN MAKE ABOUT THE, THE SPEED AND EFFICIENCY OF GETTING THESE THINGS DONE? I THINK FROM AN OPERATIONAL STANDPOINT, UH, UH, DURING THE PARKS PRESENT, ANDY CAN PROBABLY SPEAK BETTER TO THAT.

ANDY HAS HER ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER ON THE ACTUAL GETTING THE PROJECTS DONE.

AS JUDD SAID, APPROVING THE CIP P IS THE EASY PART.

AND I WILL, I WILL SAY, FROM WHAT I KNOW IS FOR THE MOST PART, WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS THERE'S A LOT OF DUE DILIGENCE LIKE WITH LOU HUFF THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE.

A LOT OF COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT THAT NEEDS TO TAKE PLACE TO ENSURE THAT WE GET ALL THEIR NEEDS INTO THAT PROJECT.

AND THAT'S REALLY WHAT WE'VE SEEN THE SLIGHT SLIP IN THE PROJECT RELATED TO IS THAT COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT.

AND AGAIN, THIS CHANGING ON THE SHIFT OF THESE FUNDS IS JUST SO TO LOWER OUR RISK.

WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD.

THAT WAS NOT THE INTENT HERE.

THE INTENT WAS ALLOW US TO CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS FUNDING.

DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIMM MOORE.

UH, I WANT TO ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF OUR, OF, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER MORRISON.

THAT IS, THIS IS NOT A SITUATION OF WHERE WE ARE GOING TO BE, UH, LAX ON COMPLETING THE PROJECTS.

IT REALLY IS A MATTER OF, UH, NOT LOSING FEDERAL FUNDS BECAUSE OF THE DEADLINES.

AND I REALLY WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION THAT YOU WERE ABLE TO REALLY, UH, SIMPLIFY THAT AND EXPLAIN IT TO US PRIOR TO THIS MEETING TODAY.

BUT MUCH LIKE MOST OF THE COUNCIL PEOPLE HERE, I DO WANT THE PUBLIC TO KNOW.

I WANT THEM TO KNOW THAT THIS IS A SITUATION OF WHERE, UH, WE'RE NOT LOSING ANY FUNDS AT ALL.

WE'RE TRANSFERRING THE FUNDS SUCH THAT, AGAIN, WE DON'T HAVE THESE PROBLEMS FACING US, AND THEN THEREAFTER, WE STILL HAVE A COUNCIL HAVE CONTROL OVER.

AND THAT IS, IF YOU BEGAN TO SL OFF, WE AS COUNCIL STILL HAVE THE POWER AND CONTROL TO SAY, OH, NO, NO, NO, WE'RE NOT GONNA DO THAT.

NO, WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO PUSH THIS AS THOUGH THE FUNDS WERE STILL UNDER THE REGULATIONS.

SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE THAT CLEAR.

THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH MS. MAYOR.

ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE ON, COUNCILOR LUCK? AYE.

UM, SO THE, THE CHANGE IN PROJECT EXPENDITURES THAT YOU HAVE LISTED, DO YOU HAVE A SPECIFIC AREA IN THE BUDGET IN THE BINDER WHERE YOU LIST EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THOSE? BECAUSE IN THE POWERPOINT THERE ARE EXAMPLES OR DO WE NEED TO LOOK THROUGH THE EACH PROJECT TO SEE WHERE THOSE CHANGES ARE? YEAH, SO WE PROVIDED THE CITY COUNCIL A SUPPLEMENTAL SCHEDULE.

I THINK IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL JUST BECAUSE OF THE, YOU KNOW, IT JUST OUTLINES THE SCOPE CORRECTIONS AND, YOU KNOW, SCOPE ADDITIONS.

THAT SHOWS THE CHANGE OF THIS YEAR'S PROPOSED CIP TO LAST YEAR'S PROPOSED CIP OH, LEMME GET IT OUT OF THE RINGS TO HOLD IT UP FOR EVERYBODY.

UM, AND THAT'S IN THE FRONT SECTION? YES.

YES, IT WAS, IT WAS A SUPPLEMENT TO THE PROPOSED, UM, PROGRAM.

UM, IT COULD BE MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC IF YOU ALL DESIRED.

WE ARE MORE THAN HAPPY WE POST ALL OF OUR PRESENTATIONS ONLINE.

MORE THAN HAPPY TO POST THIS ONLINE AS WELL, I THINK.

UM, BUT THE CHANGE TIES TO THIS,

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THOSE ARE MM-HMM.

REALLY WHAT I WOULD LOOK FOR.

YEP.

YEAH, WE'LL MAKE THAT OF IT, PULLING THAT SECTION OUT ON AS A STANDALONE SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK FOR PAGE 748 IN OUT OF A THOUSAND PAGES.

SO YES.

, ANYTHING ADDITIONAL? THANK YOU.

ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.

GONNA GET IT KICKED OFF HERE, UH, WITH OUR DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS.

WE'RE

[3. 2024 Proposed CIP – Department Presentations]

FIRST UP IS LANDFILL AT 9 0 5? USUALLY I'M BEFORE LUNCH.

TIME I GET HERE, I'D ALREADY BEEN A ADMONISHED MULTIPLE TIMES.

SPEED IT UP, SINCE I'M FIRST, I GET, I GET TO RELAX.

YOU JUST KINDA, YEAH, TAKE MY TIME AND EXPLAIN ALL OF THE ASPECTS.

I DON'T THINK I ALREADY FEEL THE PRESSURE THAT IT'S LIKE NOW YOU GOTTA SPEED IT UP.

KICK US OFF.

YOU'RE SETTING THE BAR IS WHAT YOU'RE DOING.

I'VE ALREADY WASTED 35 SECONDS OF YOUR TIME, HAVEN'T EVEN TOLD A JOKE.

I'LL RESIST THE URGE TO DO THAT AND GET US GOING.

UM, BUT THAT'S THE BASIC PRINCIPLE THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACHIEVE WITH THIS PROGRAM.

COUNCIL MEMBERS, MR. REX, I'M JUST GONNA GO RIGHT INTO IT.

UM, THE FIRST SLIDE IS A LIST OF ALL OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE ON OUR TABLE AND SHOWING, UH, WHICH ONES HAVE CHANGED.

AND THERE ARE ONLY THREE THAT HAVE CHANGED.

I'M GOING TO TALK ABOUT TWO OF THEM.

THEY'RE BOTH NEW PROJECTS THAT, UH, ALLISON AND MATT JUST REFERRED TO.

SO, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, THE FIRST ONE IS WASTE GRINDING OPERATIONS.

AND TO PUT THIS IN A NUTSHELL, THE SHORT STORY IS WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS TAKE THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION WASTE AND RUN IT THROUGH A GRINDER BEFORE WE BURY IT.

THE REASON FOR THIS IS TO REDUCE THE VOLUME SO THAT WE'RE MOST EFFICIENTLY USING THE AIRSPACE IN THE LANDFILL.

UM, EXTENDING THE LIFE OF THE LANDFILL IS ONE OF OUR CORE PRINCIPLES.

WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT WAYS TO SMASH THE TRASH BETTER, IF YOU WILL.

AND, UM, THIS IS IN A RESPONSE ALSO TO THE LARGE INCREASE IN C AND D VOLUME THAT WE'VE SEEN AT THE LANDFILL OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.

IT'S BASICALLY DOUBLED IN TWO YEARS FROM ABOUT A LITTLE LESS THAN 15% OF OUR TOTAL, UH, INCOMING WASTE STREAM WITH C AND DA NOW IT'S GROWN TO OVER 30%.

AND OUR AIRSPACE CONSUMPTION AS A RESULT OF THAT, HAS GONE UP.

TYPICAL YEAR, I'VE SEEN US USE ABOUT A MILLION CUBIC YARDS PER YEAR.

LAST YEAR WE USED 1.2 MILLION CUBIC YARDS.

SO THESE ARE REALLY COMPLEX CONCEPTS, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF FACTORS THAT GO INTO THESE PROJECTIONS.

BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS, SO WHEN WE HAVE 24 YEARS OF LIFE LEFT IN OUR LANDFILL, WE PROJECT AT A MILLION CUBIC YARDS PER YEAR.

IF YOU USE 1.2 MILLION, THEN AT THE END OF THAT YEAR, YOU WON'T JUST LOSE ONE YEAR OF LIFE.

IT'LL, IT'LL BE LESS THAN 23 YEARS.

SO THIS IS IMPORTANT TO US, UM, IN TERMS OF HOW WE'RE UTILIZING THE AIRSPACE.

SO THE MACHINE THAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO, TWO MACHINES THAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO PURCHASE, YOU SEE PICTURES OF THEM THERE.

UM, I'M, I'M PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT WE'LL SEE UP TO 30% REDUCTION IN OVERALL VOLUME, PROBABLY MORE THAN 50% VOLUME REDUCTION ON THE CONSTRUCTION AND DEMOLITION PORTION OF THE WASTE.

UM, I HAVE SEEN AN OPERATION LIKE THIS OUT A LANDFILL I WORKED AT PREVIOUSLY.

IT WAS VERY SUCCESSFUL.

AND THERE ARE OTHER OPERATIONS LIKE THIS AROUND THE COUNTRY, ALTHOUGH I WOULD SAY THIS ISN'T SOMETHING YOU SEE PREVALENT AT MANY LANDFILLS.

UM, BEING A MUNICIPALITY, WE KIND OF HAVE A, AN INTEREST THAT MAY BE DIFFERENT THAN PRIVATE SECTOR INTERESTS WHEN THEY OPERATE LANDFILLS.

AGAIN, KEEPING IT OPEN AS LONG AS POSSIBLE SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE TO EARN THE DOLLARS FURTHER INTO THE FUTURE IS THE GUIDING PRINCIPLE HERE.

UM, I GOT A COUPLE OTHER PICTURES HERE JUST TO SHOW YOU WHAT THESE MACHINES SORT OF LOOK LIKE.

UM, WHEN THEY'RE IN OPERATION, THE BOTTOM TWO PICTURES ARE SHOWING YOU WHAT THE GRINDING MECHANISM LOOKS LIKE.

THESE ARE LOW SPEED, HIGH TORQUE MACHINES, SO THEY'RE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT THAN THE GRINDERS.

YOU SEE, UH, GRINDING TREES AND BRUSH AND STUFF LIKE THAT.

THOSE ARE OPERATING AT A VERY HIGH RPM.

THESE ARE MUCH SLOWER AND THEY'RE VERY, VERY POWERFUL.

AND YOU CAN PUT ENGINE BLOCKS FROM AUTOMOBILES AND YOU SEE THESE KINDS OF EQUIPMENT AT, UM, METAL RECYCLERS, STEEL MILLS, PLACES LIKE THAT.

AND THEY ARE TERRIFYING.

YEAH, THEY'RE TERRIFYING , BUT WE'RE EXCITED TO GET ONE MAN.

IT'S GONNA, THEY DO AWESOME WORK.

BUT TO OUR EXCITING , UM, I GOT SO MANY DETAILS IN MY HEAD ABOUT THIS PROGRAM.

IT IS EXCITING TO US.

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IT'S A, IT'S ABOUT $1.2 MILLION TO ACQUIRE THIS EQUIPMENT.

UH, I WON'T, IT WON'T RETURN REVENUE IMMEDIATELY, BUT AGAIN, IT EXTENDS OUR ABILITY TO OPERATE THE LANDFILL, UM, INTO THE FUTURE.

AND THAT'S THAT, UH, PROJECT NUMBER TWO IS IMPROVEMENTS TO, UH, RUNOFF MANAGEMENT AT THE LANDFILL.

AND THIS PROJECT REALLY IS IN A NUT TO PUT THIS ONE IN A NUTSHELL, IS GOING BACK AND MAINTAINING AREAS OF THE LANDFILL THAT HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED OVER THE YEARS.

SO THIS IS THE AREA OF THE LANDFILL.

THAT'S WHAT WE CALL THE BACKSIDE.

IT'S THE SLOPE THAT FACES MUDDY CREEK.

SO THE CREEK IS IN BETWEEN THIS AREA OF THE LANDFILL AND ANY RESIDENCE OR, OR NEIGHBORS.

WE'RE NOT RUNNING OFF ONTO ANYONE ELSE'S PROPERTY AND DOING ANY DAMAGE OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.

WHAT WE ARE DOING IS WE'RE DOING A LITTLE BIT OF DAMAGE TO OUR OWN PROPERTY.

UM, AND WHAT YOU SEE THERE IS, THIS IS A ROAD THAT, THAT GOES AROUND THE BACK OF THE LANDFILL AND THERE'S WATER THAT STANDS IN THE DITCH.

THERE'S, UM, SOME PLACES ON THE SLOPE THAT, THAT NEED BETTER, UH, DI DIRECTIONAL, UH, STRUCTURES FOR THE RUNOFF.

WE NEED TO PUT A COUPLE CULVERTS UNDERNEATH THIS ROAD.

AND THEN THE TOP PICTURE THERE IS SHOWING WHERE THERE'S A SPOT WHERE THE WATER DRAINS ACROSS THE ROAD.

AND WHAT WE WANNA PUT THERE IS A, LIKE A CONCRETE RUNOFF, UM, CROSSING FOR THE WATER.

THIS ROAD IS NOT TRAVELED BY THE PUBLIC, IT'S TRAVELED BY STAFF FREQUENTLY, AND IT'S BUILT ON A LEVEE THAT PROTECTS THE FLOODPLAIN.

SO IT'S, UH, REGULATED BY THE ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS.

SO THIS PROJECT IS A LITTLE BIT SENSITIVE.

IT'S GONNA REQUIRE SOME ENGINEERING.

AND, UM, THAT'S WHAT THIS PROJECT IS.

IT'S, IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO DO TO MAINTAIN THE ASSET THE BEST WAY WE CAN.

AND THAT'S IT.

UH, , THIS IS THE SUMMARY OF OUR, OUR, AGAIN, THE LIST OF THE TOTAL LIST OF ALL THE PROJECTS THAT ARE ON OUR PLATE.

UM, AND THE TOTAL MONEY THAT WE'RE STILL ON THERE IS 5,480,000.

AND WITH THAT, UMM, READY FOR SOME QUESTIONS? SEVEN MINUTES.

PRETTY GOOD.

IT WAS RUNNING AROUND 12, 12 AND A HALF IN MY REHEARSALS, SO, BUT I DIDN'T TELL THE JOKES.

SORRY.

COUNCIL MEMBER, OT .

MAYOR.

UH, JUST A QUICK QUESTION.

I KNOW WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE, THE GRINDING EQUIPMENT.

WHAT'S THE LEAD TIME ON THAT PRO? THAT'S A GREAT QUESTION.

PROBABLY, I'D SAY A YEAR.

WOW.

BY THE TIME WE REALLY IDENTIFY THE EXACT MACHINE WE WANT ORDER, IT, IT, IT'S, I, I'M GUESSING NINE MONTHS LATER BEFORE IT ARRIVES.

SO FROM TODAY, PROBABLY AROUND A YEAR.

GREAT QUESTION.

WE'D LOVE TO BE OUT THERE WHEN YOU FIRE IT UP THE FIRST TIME.

WELL, WE'LL HAVE A PARTY.

WE'RE GONNA , WE'LL INVITE YOU ALL.

IT'S GONNA BE .

WE'LL ALL BRING SOMETHING WE WANNA DISPOSE OF AND WE THROW IT IN THERE.

ABSOLUTELY.

THAT'S A GREAT IDEA.

YOU GOT A COUCH YOU WANT GET RID OF A HUNDRED PERCENT HOME.

I'LL FIND SOMETHING.

, BUDGET NOTEBOOKS, .

COME ON, .

I'VE GOT, I'VE GOT 11 YEARS OF BUDGET NOTEBOOKS THAT I CAN, YOU KNOW.

GONNA HAVE ONGOING LABOR COSTS AS WELL.

COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU.

MAYOR.

THE, THE GRINDER, LIKE THE MACHINE, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE LIFE EXPECTANCY OF IT? AND WHEN YOU MAKE THE PURCHASE, WHAT CAN YOU BRIEFLY DESCRIBE? WHAT'S THE PACKAGE, WHAT COMES WITH IT ONCE YOU PURCHASE IT? IS IT WHAT WARRANTY, MAINTENANCE, THAT KIND OF THING.

CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT LIFE EXPECTANCY AND A LITTLE BIT ABOUT WHAT WE ARE GETTING IN ADDITION TO WHAT WE SEE ON THE PICTURE FOR THAT EQUIPMENT? THANK YOU.

I THINK THE, THE, THE LIFE EXPECTANCY WILL BE BETWEEN FIVE AND 10 YEARS ON THAT MACHINE.

IT'LL DEPEND ON HOW MUCH DUTY WE PUT IT THROUGH.

UM, I THINK EVERYTHING YOU MENTIONED WILL BE INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE.

WHEN WE EVENTUALLY EXECUTE A PURCHASE AGREEMENT.

IT'LL HAVE, UM, MAINTENANCE, UH, FROM THE, THE, THE REPRESENTATIVE WHO SELLS THE EQUIPMENT.

SO THE, IT'LL INCLUDE THE MACHINE, OBVIOUSLY ON A MAINTENANCE PACKAGE, UM, AND A WARRANTY.

USUALLY THE WARRANTIES ON THIS TYPE OF EQUIPMENT LAST IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF THREE TO FIVE YEARS, OR 3000 TO 6,000 HOURS OF OPERATION.

SO I'M SURE WE'LL END UP WITH, UH, SOME TYPE OF PACKAGE LIKE THAT.

UM, COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS HIT ON MOST OF MY QUESTIONS.

UM, THE ONLY QUESTION I HAVE IN ADDITION TO THAT, AS FAR AS ONGOING COSTS, UM, HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL STAFF IS REQUIRED, UM, TO MAINTAIN THESE? AND I GUESS YOU SAID THE, THE COMPANY DOES THE ANNUAL MAINTENANCE ON IT, RIGHT? BUT OF COURSE WE'RE

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HOW MUCH, UH, HOW MUCH STAFF IS GONNA BE REQUIRED FOR THAT? YOU BET.

WE CALCULATED THAT OPERATING COSTS FOR THIS EQUIPMENT ARE RIGHT AROUND A QUARTER OF A MILLION DOLLARS A YEAR.

UM, THAT INCLUDES, UH, STAFF AND, UM, OPERATING COSTS FOR THE MACHINE.

AND THEN, UM, I'M GUESSING WHEN WE GET THE EQUIPMENT, THEY'VE INCLUDED TRAINING IN THE, IN THE PACKAGE DEAL TOO AS WELL? ABSOLUTELY.

MAYOR, DON'T, DON'T WEAR A NECK TIE AROUND THAT.

REMEMBER THE TRAIL DUST STEAKHOUSE? YES, THAT'S YES.

OR A CLIP ON TIE.

YOU WOULD, YOU KNOW, ONLY CLIP ON TIE.

CLIP ON TIES ONLY.

UH, I BELIEVE WE'VE CLEARED THE QUEUE ON THIS ONE, SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO PARKS AND REC.

HEY, WELCOME TO TEAM SQUARE DESK.

OH MAN, I SURE HOPE THE MIC'S PICKED THAT UP 'CAUSE WE'RE CERTAINLY ENJOYING IT HERE IN THE ROOM.

AND JUST FOR THOSE AT HOME, IF YOU DIDN'T, THE, THE COMMENT WAS WELCOME TO TEAM SWEATER VEST, WHICH ARE, ARE PREVALENT.

FLEXIBLE CLASSROOMS, DINING ROOM, UH, GREAT KITCHEN.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

UM, BEFORE I GO INTO THIS LENGTHY LIST OF PROJECTS, UM, WANNA GIVE A SHOUT OUT TO ALLISON AND HER TEAM AND, AND MATT.

HE, HE WORKS HERE TOO, UM, FOR PUTTING TOGETHER AN AMAZING BUDGET THAT'S VERY COMPLEX AND I KIND OF LOOK AT THIS AS A BOOK OF SOLUTIONS.

SO IT'S REALLY, REALLY AMAZING.

AND TO THAT END, UH, TO THE COUNCIL'S CONCERN ABOUT THE AR RPA PROJECTS, UM, THAT CHANGES NOTHING RELATED TO OUR SENSE OF URGENCY AND OUR ORIGINAL TIMELINE, WHICH IS REALLY Q2, Q3 OF 2026 TO STILL, UM, URGENCY IS, IS EVERYTHING TO US.

IT, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF THEY FOUND A SOLUTION THAT WORKS, THAT IN CASE ON A PROJECT, IF YOU LITERALLY MISSED THE FEDERAL DEADLINE BY ONE MONTH, THE THE RISK IS SIGNIFICANT.

UH, SO THIS, THAT'S, THAT'S THE MESSAGE, UH, TO COUNSEL AND TO THE PUBLIC, UH, IN YOUR PACKET, I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT IT'S BASICALLY A SUMMARY OF THE MANY PROJECTS THAT ARE ONGOING, UH, WITH, WITH PARKS AND REC AND THE DIFFERENCES.

YOU'LL SEE, UH, WHAT'S PROPOSED IN THIS BUDGET, UH, VERSUS, UH, LAST YEAR.

AND THE CHANGES RELATED TO IT, EITHER THROUGH BUDGET OR THE TARGET COMPLETION DATE.

YOU'LL NOTICE ONE THERE IN PARENTHESES.

THAT'S ACTUALLY A, A, A PRICE REDUCTION.

THOSE DO STILL HAPPEN.

COVERED THAT A LITTLE BIT.

UH, AND ALSO YOU'LL NOTICE A FEW HERE THAT ARE COMPLETED THAT ARE ON THE LIST AS, UM, ON SCHEDULE.

UH, SO THE FIRST ONE HERE, UH, VERY EXCITING PROJECT.

WE'RE FINALLY SEEING THE, THE FINAL RENDERINGS HERE, UM, AT THE SURF AND SWIM FACILITY IN AUDUBON PARK.

IT IS ACTUALLY DUE TO GO TO BID IN THE NEXT TWO OR THREE WEEKS.

I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT'S THE END OF JANUARY OR THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY.

UM, SO THIS, THIS PROJECT IS IN HERE TO INDICATE THAT IT IS CURRENTLY DESIGNED, UM, TO THE BUDGET AND TO THE SCOPE.

UH, BUT SOMETIMES WHEN THE BID DAY HAPPENS, WE MAY GET SOME SURPRISES.

SO WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE WE INDICATE THAT IF THERE IS ANY ANOMALIES THERE THAT WE CAN DEAL WITH THAT IN, IN THE 2020, UH, FIVE CIP PROCESS, UH, TUCKER PARK, UM, EVERYONE THAT BRAVED THE COLD FOR THE, FOR THE GROUNDBREAKING, IT IS BEGINNING IN EARNEST.

IT'S GOT THE, UH, A EROSION CONTROL AND THE SECURITY FENCE UP AS WE SPEAK.

AND IT IS MOVING FORWARD.

SO IT'S IN HERE.

YOU'LL NOTICE THAT IT'S APPROXIMATELY 1.6 MILLION IN THE FUNDING INCREASE.

AND THAT IS DUE TO TWO THINGS, ESCALATION OF THE BASE SCOPE ITEMS, UH, AS WELL AS A VERY SIGNIFICANT, UM, STORM WATER MANAGEMENT CHALLENGE THERE THAT AFFECTED BOTH THE TIMELINE AND THE BUDGET.

UH, ESSENTIALLY THAT SITE HAD, UH, NO CAPACITY WHATSOEVER TO GO INTO THE EXISTING STORM WATER SYSTEM.

SO IT TOOK QUITE A BIT OF ENGINEERING, UM, UH, INSIGHT TO GET THAT, GET THAT DONE.

SO QUICK REITERATION IS 12 TENNIS COURTS, UM, AND THE SUPPORT FACILITIES THAT GO ALONG WITH THAT, UM, PARKING LOT.

UH, REALLY NICE LOOKING, UH, FACILITY THAT GOES WITH THE OFFICES.

UM, AND THE CLUBHOUSE, UH, GARLAND SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER, WHICH BY THE WAY, WE WILL PROBABLY ENGAGE A PROCESS FOR A NEW AND IMPROVED NAME, UH, FOR THE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER.

SO STANDBY FOR THAT PROCESS.

UM, QUICK, QUICK REMINDER, IT'S 26,000 SQUARE FEET.

UH, GREAT FITNESS AREA.

GREAT, UM, HUGE BALLROOM, UM, MULTIPLE, UH, VERY

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SO HAD A LITTLE BIT OF AN EXTENSION, UM, ON THE TIMELINE RELATED TO THAT.

UM, JUST DUE TO MAKE SURE WE GOT EXTRA PUBLIC INPUT, PARTICULARLY RELATED TO, UM, AQUATIC CONVERSATION.

UH, WE ARE CURRENTLY IN DESIGN DEVELOPMENT.

SO THE SCHEMATIC DEVELOPMENT IS, OR DESIGN IS DONE.

WE'RE IN DESIGN DEVELOPMENT.

THAT'S WHERE KIND OF THE FUN THINGS HAPPEN, WHERE WE GET TO PICK COLORS AND FINISHES AND FIXTURES AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.

UM, SO WE ANTICIPATE IN MID-APRIL TO BEGIN THE CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENT.

UH, PHASE PULFORD REC CENTER.

UH, THIS ONE, IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN BY THERE, IT'S UH, IT'S A, IT'S GOING, UH, REALLY, REALLY WELL.

IT'S STARTING TO GO VERTICAL, UH, BOTH WITH THE REC CENTER AND THEN THE POOL SECTION IS MOVING QUITE NICELY.

UH, ESSENTIALLY THIS ONE'S IN HERE IS JUST A TWEAK TO THE BUDGET RELATED TO COST ESCALATION.

UM, AND APPROXIMATELY 2.6 MILLION.

THIS IS A SMALL PROJECT IN HERE.

THIS, THIS IS GREENHOUSE, UH, I CAN'T RECALL WHAT MONTH IT WAS, BUT WE HAD PRETTY SIGNIFICANT WIND DAMAGE TO OUR GREENHOUSE, UH, OVER IN WINTERS PARK.

UM, THIS IS THE BALANCE OF WHAT IT'S GONNA TAKE TO, UM, REMOVE AND REPAIR.

UH, THIS WAS A, ONE OF THOSE INTERESTING PROJECTS THAT, UH, WE NEED NEEDED TO ABSORB IT IN THIS METHOD RATHER THAN THROUGH AN INSURANCE TYPE PROCESS.

IT ACTUALLY MADE BETTER FISCAL SENSE IN THIS, THIS METHOD, UH, WHEN JOYCE PARK.

UM, THIS ONE IS JUST A SMALL MODIFICATION IN THE TIMELINE DUE TO MAKING SURE WE HAD GREAT PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT.

SO NOW THAT THAT PRESENTATION WAS MADE THURSDAY NIGHT TO THE PUBLIC, THAT, UM, WHERE THE STAFF PRESENTED THE, THE FINDINGS OF THE PUBLIC INPUT, UM, AND THE CONCEPT, UH, GOING FORWARD.

SO JUST A MINOR CHANGE THERE.

DUCK CREEK GREEN BELT TRAIL.

SO YOU'LL NOTICE HERE ON THIS, ON THE, ON THE MAP, THE, THE CHANGE, THE ONLY CHANGE HERE IS ACTUALLY A DECREASE AND IT'S SOMEWHAT OF A DECREASE IN SCOPE.

UM, IF, IF YOU LOOK ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE OF THAT RED LINE, THERE'S A LITTLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TO THE RIGHT, WE REDUCED A SECTION OF THE TRAIL THERE AT IN WORKING WITH THE SCHOOL BECAUSE THEY ARE INTENDING ON MAKING SOME IMPROVEMENTS, UM, TO THAT FACILITY.

AND SO WE WERE GONNA BE IN THEIR WAY AND END UP, YOU KNOW, DAMAGING.

SO WE'VE GOT ANOTHER SOLUTION TO GET THE TRAIL IN FRONT OF THEIR SCHOOL AND INTO THE PARK.

UH, BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE REASON FOR THAT SCOPE CHANGE.

UH, THE TRAILS PROGRAM, UM, I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE IF YOU'D LIKE TO, IF YOU NEED TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY ON WHERE SOME OF THESE ARE.

I BELIEVE IT'S ON APPENDIX TAB, PAGE 3 35.

THERE'S KIND OF A IN, UH, AREA MAP IN THERE, BUT THE, THE BULK OF THE CHANGES HERE IN APPROXIMATELY 2.9 MILLION IS EITHER COST ESCALATION RELATED, OR, UM, A COUPLE OF THESE ARE SOME CHALLENGING DESIGNS, PARTICULARLY WHEN THEY CROSS MAJOR CREEKS.

UM, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF, UH, DESIGN CHALLENGES THERE THAT, THAT ARE REFLECTED IN THIS PRICE CHANGE.

QUICK SUMMARY HERE.

YOU CAN SEE A LOT OF THESE ARE IN COOPERATION WITH DALLAS COUNTY FUNDING AND HERE'S OUR, OUR PROJECTED TIMELINE.

UH, AGAIN, HERE'S A SUMMARY.

I WON'T GO THROUGH ALL OF THESE, BUT IF THERE'S ANY SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE A VERY EXCITING TIME, UH, IN PARKS RIGHT NOW.

UH, WE ARE MAKING GREAT PROGRESS IN A LOT OF THESE AND SEEING THEM COME TO FRUITION IS JUST AMAZING.

AND SO, AMIR, 58.7 MILLION.

ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILOR HEDRICK.

OTHER PARKS THAT COULD USE A LOT MORE LIGHTING AS WELL.

UH, I KNOW YOU IN THE BEGINNING YOU MENTIONED THE URGENCY YOU WANNA BRING ALL THESE PROJECTS AND THE ONE QUESTION I HAVE ABOUT THAT IS HOLFORD RECREATION.

IT SEEMS SLIPPING TWO QUARTERS HERE DUE TO CONTRACT NEGOTIATIONS.

I WOULD HATE FOR THAT TO, TO BE DELIVERED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE SUMMER, RATHER THE BEGINNING TO OPEN UP FOR THE SWIM SEASON THERE.

WITH THAT NEW FACILITY, I, I BELIEVE IT'S PROJECTED, I'M GONNA DO THIS FROM MEMORY RIGHT BEFORE SUMMER, UH, OF 25.

UH, I THINK WE'RE, I'M, I'M NOT GONNA COMMIT THE CONTRACTOR WITHOUT SOME ADDITIONAL CONVERSATION.

I THINK WE'RE MAKING UP A LITTLE BIT OF GROUND IN CONSTRUCTION.

UH, THAT TOOK, TOOK QUITE A BIT OF NEGOTIATING TIME, UH, JUST DUE TO THE, THE BIDS AND THE SCOPES AND, AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

UM, BUT I DO THINK WE'RE, WE'RE, THAT'S OUR GOAL IS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN RIGHT BEFORE SUMMER.

THAT'S GREAT.

'CAUSE I'D HATE TO MISS ANOTHER SWIM SEASON OUT THERE.

UH, US AS WELL.

UH, ONE OTHER QUESTION I HAVE IS THAT ONE OF OUR FIRST BOND PROJECTS WE DELIVERED IN PARKS WAS THE LIGHTING PROGRAM FOR THE VARIOUS, UH, AT, WELL AT WINTERS PARK WAS REALLY THE MAIN ONE.

IS THERE ANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES TO ADD NEW LIGHTS TO OTHER FACILITIES? RIGHT NOW I'VE, I'VE BEEN OUT WITH MY DAUGHTERS AT THEIR SOCCER PRACTICE AND FOR EXAMPLE, THEY PRACTICE AT CULLUM PARK AND THERE'S ONE SOLITARY LIGHT THAT ABOUT FOUR OR FIVE SOCCER TEAMS ARE ALL HUDDLED AROUND.

AND I'M SURE THERE'S

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AND I KNOW OUR PARKS ARE WELL USED.

I'D LOVE TO SEE ADDITIONAL LIGHTING 'CAUSE I KNOW THAT'S A SMALL, INEXPENSIVE PROJECT RELATIVELY COMPARED TO OTHER PROJECTS.

AND THERE'S A GREAT NEED FOR THAT.

WE, WE COULD CERTAINLY PRICE THAT OUT AND, AND BRING THAT FORWARD.

IN FUTURE CIPS WE CAN TAKE AN INVENTORY.

WE'VE, WE'VE REPLACED QUITE A BIT, UM, THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PARK SYSTEM WITH THE NEW LED EFFICIENT SYSTEM.

UM, AND WE CAN LOOK AT PROGRAMMING THOSE OUT AND, AND INVENTORYING HOW THOSE FUNCTION WITH OUR YOUTH SPORTS GROUPS.

, THERE'S SOME THAT ARE, YOU KNOW, ARE KIND OF INFORMAL PRACTICE AREAS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN TRADITIONALLY ENCOURAGED IN NEIGHBORHOOD PARKS FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.

LACK OF PARKING IMPACT ON NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO WE COULD ABSOLUTELY DO A, AN INVENTORY OF WHAT THOSE OPTIONS COULD BE.

YEAH, I'D LIKE TO SAY NOT JUST, YOU SAID EXISTING LIGHTING, BUT ALSO ADDING LIGHTING AS WELL.

UH, COUNCILOR WILLIAMS. THANK, THANK YOU MAYOR.

THANK YOU ANDY, FOR, FOR THE INFORMATION, JUST A COUPLE OF THINGS I'D LIKE TO ECHO.

UH, COUNCILMAN HEDGINGS REQUEST ON THE LIGHTING.

YES SIR.

FOR ALL THE PARKS, I'D JUST LIKE TO DITO HIS REQUEST, PARTICULARLY AT AUDUBON, PARTICULARLY ON THE EXTREME EASTBOUND SIDE AND THE SOUTH PERIMETERS WHERE WE HAVE A LOT OF SOCCER, WE HAVE A LOT OF FOLKS SHOWING UP, UH, PLAYING SOCCER AND, AND THEY DO IT AFTER DARK.

AND THAT AREA IS, IS IS PRETTY DARK, YOU KNOW, ON THE EAST, EAST OF THE SOFTBALL FIELDS.

RIGHT, RIGHT, RIGHT.

WE HAVE HALF OF IT LIGHTED AND HALF NOT HALF OF IT IS YOU.

AS YOU GET FURTHER INTO IT, YOU GET INTO THE DARKNESS AND I'VE SEEN, AND I, I'VE GONE THROUGH THERE AND CATCH UP AND ESSENTIALLY, UH, KICKING THE SOCCER BALL IN DARK.

'CAUSE THE FURTHER YOU GET AWAY FROM THE PARKING LOT, THE DARK IT GETS.

SO, WE'LL, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO LOOK AT THAT.

I, AS FROM RECOLLECTION, THAT PORTION OF THE PARK MAY NOT BE IRRIGATED AND SO IT MAY BE A, A LITTLE BIT OF A CHALLENGE TO ENCOURAGE.

I'LL DOUBLE CHECK, BUT WE CAN, WE'LL INCLUDE THAT INTO THE CONVERSATION IN THE INVENTORY.

'CAUSE I KNOW THAT THE DEMAND EXISTS.

UM, ON SERVE AND SWIM, YOU SAID IT'S, UH, DESIGN'S DONE.

AND YOU, DO YOU HAVE ANY PROJECTIONS ON A BIDDING WHEN, WHEN YOU THINK IT'S GONNA PROBABLY TWO OR THREE WEEKS IT GOES TO BID AND THEN, AND WE'LL KNOW, UM, A LITTLE BIT MORE KIND OF WHERE WE STAND RIGHT NOW.

THE, THE, THE, THE PMO TEAM AND THE PARKS AND REC TEAM HAVE WORKED VERY HARD TO KEEP THAT DESIGN.

UM, AS BEST AS CONSULTANTS CAN PROJECT THEIR, THEIR COST ESTIMATES RELATED TO THE SCOPE.

UH, BUT IT, I I CAN'T REMEMBER IF IT'S THE END OF THIS MONTH OR THE BEGINNING OF FEBRUARY, BUT IT'S IN TWO OR THREE WEEKS IT BIDS.

ANDY, COULD WE POSSIBLY GET THAT RENDERING THAT YOU SHOWED UP THERE? ABSOLUTELY.

IT JUST FINISHED YESTERDAY, SO WE'LL SEND IT OUT.

IT LOOKS AMAZING.

YEAH, WE COULD SEND IT OUT IF WE GET IT POSTED ON THE WEBSITE, COULD WE POSSIBLY ALSO GET IT POSTED AT AUDUBON REC CENTER IN A LOT OF QUESTIONS.

YOU KNOW, AND THERE'S A LOT OF TRAFFIC SO THE PUBLIC CAN, CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE RENDERING, UNDERSTANDING THAT IT MAY CHANGE AND IT, BUT JUST TO SEE, QUOTE A NEW PICTURE.

OUR RENDERING I THINK WOULD BE BENEFICIAL, UH, TO THIS PROCESS.

COULD WE DO THAT, ANDY? ABSOLUTELY.

THANK SIR.

VERY GOOD SUGGESTION, SIR.

UH, MAYOR PRO TIMM BASS.

THANK YOU ANDY.

ANDY, I KNOW ONE THING WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST.

MAYBE YOU CAN JUST, UM, GIMME A LITTLE MORE INFORMATION ON, IN INCORPORATING IN OUR PARKS, UM, TO TAKE CARE OF OUR, OUR PETS, THE, UH, DOG WASTE STATIONS AND, UH, THE WATER FOUNTAINS, INCORPORATING THE DOG DOG ACCESS.

I, I WILL GET YOU AN UPDATE.

WE, WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT THAT.

I KNOW THAT SOME HAVE BEEN ADDED, BUT I'LL GET YOU AN UPDATE ON, ON EXACTLY WHERE.

NOW SOME OF THOSE THAT TO A, TO A CERTAIN DEGREE, THE DOG WASTE STATIONS ARE A LITTLE EASIER TO ABSORB IN THE OPERATING BUDGET.

A LARGE AMOUNT OF FOUNTAINS MIGHT REQUIRE SEPARATE REQUESTS, BUT I'LL I'LL, I'LL GET YOU AN UPDATE.

I DON'T KNOW OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

AND, AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY I THINK THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO THE PUBLIC.

I MEAN, WE, YOU KNOW, IN THIS DAY AND AGE, PEOPLE LOOK AT THEIR, AT THEIR AS THEIR DOGS AS A, YOU KNOW, INTEGRAL PART OF THEIR FAMILY.

AND WE DO A LOT IN OUR PARK SYSTEMS AROUND ACCOMMODATING THOSE ANIMALS.

SO I THINK THAT WE SHOULD JUST DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO ACCOMMODATE THEM AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR THE FULL FAMILY MEMBERS.

AND DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM MOORE.

THAN EXPECTED, UM, COMMUNICATION.

ANDY, DO WE HAVE ANY UPDATES AS FAR AS JOHN PAUL JONES? WE, I, I'LL, YES.

I'LL GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT.

SO WE, THAT, THAT IS A CHALLENGING PROCESS WITH PARKS AND WILDLIFE.

SO WE ARE GETTING READY TO KICK OFF WITH, UH, OUR CONSULTANT.

AND REMEMBER, IT'S A TWO PHASE GRANT.

THE FIRST PART IS RELATED TO THE DESIGN THAT IS APPROVED AND MOVING FORWARD, UH, ANY DAY NOW.

BUT I'LL GET YOU A MUCH BETTER UPDATE FOLLOWING THIS.

IT, IT IS, IT, IT TOOK, WE HAD TO ACTUALLY GET AN EXTENSION WITH PARKS AND WILDLIFE.

IT, IT'S THERE, THERE'S SOME NEW RULES AND NEW LEADERSHIP WITH PARKS AND WILDLIFE THAT, THAT IS, IS CREATED SOME SLOWER

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SO ONCE WE GET THAT KICKED OFF, THEN THE SECOND PART OF THE, THE GRANT IS THE CONSTRUCTION, THAT THEY'LL USE THAT TO THE DESIGN TO ALLOCATE THE FUNDS FOR THE DESIGN.

SO, UH, I'LL GET YOU A BETTER UPDATE MONDAY.

APPRECIATE IT.

THE POLICE STATION SECURITY IMPROVEMENTS.

MOVING ON TO POLICE I, THIS DRAMATIC , VERY DRAMATIC ENTRANCE THERE.

KICK THE DOOR OPEN AND JUST COME ON IN HOW WE OPERATE.

ALRIGHT, THIS IS A VERY SHORT PRESENTATION.

I'VE GOT THREE ITEMS, UH, TO DISCUSS.

TWO OF THEM ARE CURRENT BOND PROJECTS AND THEN A NEW CIP, UH, REQUEST.

UM, THIS HAS BEEN EXTENDED DUE TO SUPPLY CHANGE AND CONSTRUCTION DELAYS, AND IS EXPECTED TO BE FINISHED IN THE FIRST QUARTER, 2025.

IT IS MOVING ALONG NICELY.

WE, UH, IF YOU'VE DRIVEN BY THE POLICE STATION, YOU'VE SEEN THE NEW SECURITY FENCE THAT HAS ALREADY PAID OFF FOR US.

WE HAVE HAD SOME INCIDENTS THAT OCCUR AT POLICE STATIONS FROM TIME TO TIME, AND IT GIVES OUR, BOTH OUR SWORN AND OUR CIVILIAN SOME EXTRA SECURITY IN THE BACK LOT, UH, AND IN THE PARKING LOT.

UH, AND THEN THIS WAS A CIP REQUEST LAST YEAR.

UM, THERE'S ADDITIONAL FUNDING NEEDED FOR THIS REQUEST AND INCREASE OF 500,000.

UH, AND THIS IS THE RENOVATIONS OF THE JAIL.

AND THIS, AGAIN, THIS IS A 20 PLUS YEAR OLD FACILITY AT THIS POINT.

UH, IT'S NEEDING SOME UPDATED AND WE JUST HAVE SOME, UH, SOME ISSUES DOWN IN THE JAIL.

WE NEED CORRECTING AND I AM MOVING FAST .

AND THEN THE LAST ONE IS, UH, IS A NEW CIP PROJECT OF 800,000 TO RENOVATE THE SHOWERS IN THE LOCKER ROOMS. WE NEED TO MAKE SOME REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS FOR PRIVACY, UH, IN OUR SHOWER ROOM IN THE MEN'S SIDE.

RIGHT NOW, IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE OLD MIDDLE SCHOOL LOCKER SHOWERS WHEN I WAS IN, IN THE EIGHTIES.

YOU KNOW, IT'S A POLE AND TIN SHOWERS, SO WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE SOME, SOME PRIVACY IN THERE.

SO WE NEED TO RENOVATE THE LOCKER SHOWER ROOMS IN THE MEN'S LOCKER ROOM.

UH, AND THAT'S THE QUOTE ON THAT.

AND SO THAT'S A, UH, OVERVIEW OF ALL THE PROJECTS ALSO IN THERE AS AN INCREASE OF THE SIMULATION MUNITIONS TRAINING FACILITY THAT IS REALLY MOVING ALONG NICELY.

I CAN'T WAIT TO SHOW COUNCIL THIS NEW FACILITY AND MAYBE EVEN GIVE YOU A CHANCE TO EXPERIENCE THE NEW FACILITY.

, MAYBE .

IT WAS JUST THREE PROJECTS.

THE MAIN ONE, UH, THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR NEW IS THE CIP PROJECT FOR THE SHOWER ROOMS. SO, VERY GOOD.

I THINK THAT'S A RECORD.

I WILL OPEN IT FOR QUESTIONS.

THAT WAS THREE MINUTES.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE CHIEF COUNCIL MEMBER? HENDRICK.

ONE ITEM WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IN THE PAST IS FLOCK CAMERAS.

I KNOW THERE WAS A SHOOTING RECENTLY NEAR MY DISTRICT AND THE SUSPECT GOT AWAY IN A VEHICLE, AND I WAS WONDERING IF THERE'S ANY OPPORTUNITY TO ADD ADDITIONAL CAMERAS THAT MAY BE OF ASSISTANCE TO THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IN, IN CASES LIKE THAT.

YEAH, THAT'S, UH, OH, I APPRECIATE THE, THE OFFER.

UM, WE DID, WE DID ADD 15 CAMERAS IN OUR LAST BUDGET PROCESS.

SO I THINK PROBABLY THE APPROPRIATE PLACE TO DO THE CAMERAS IN THE BUDGET.

WE DON'T OWN THESE CAMERAS.

IT IS A YEAR TO YEAR CONTRACT.

AND SO RIGHT NOW WE HAVE, UH, 45, IS THAT RIGHT? 60.

SO WE HAD 45, WE ADDED 15.

SO WE HAVE 60 CAMERAS OUT RIGHT NOW.

UH, AND, AND IT DID PLAY A ROLE IN THE INCIDENT THAT, THAT, THAT YOU DISCUSSED.

AND SO, UH, YEAH, WE, WE WILL EVALUATE THAT IN THE BUDGET SEASON NEXT YEAR TO SEE IF WE NEED TO EXPAND.

GREAT.

GOOD TO HEAR.

I LOOK FORWARD TO, UH, THE MUNITION TRAINING AS WELL.

AND EXPERIENCING THAT.

YOU'D THINK YOU'D HAVE THE, THE COURTESY TO GO AHEAD AND QUEUE YOUR, UH, PRESENTATION UP.

AND SAVANNAH, THANK YOU FOR THE, THE CORRECTION ON THE NUMBER OF CAMERAS.

YOU CAN ALWAYS RELY ON HER.

MOVING ON TO FIRE OPPORTUNITY.

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AND YOU, YOU WOULD'VE THOUGHT SO, WOULDN'T YOU? YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T SEE WHAT'S BEHIND YOU, DO YOU, MAN? OKAY.

YOU KNOW, I KIND OF THOUGHT I WOULD COME IN HERE AND, UH, DO HIS AGAIN, SINCE Y'ALL WERE TRYING TO GIVE YOU MORE MONEY THAN YOU ASKED FOR.

SO, , MR. MAYOR, COUNSEL, MR. RES, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE THIS MORNING.

I'LL TRY TO KEEP THIS RELATIVELY SHORT, BUT Y'ALL KNOW ME.

I, I'M NOT REAL GOOD AT THAT, SO, WE'LL, WE'LL KICK RIGHT IN.

UH, OUR, OUR FUNDING, YOU CAN SEE THE CHANGES IN FUNDING BETWEEN 24.

AND THIS IS A PROGRAM THAT GOES ALL THE WAY THROUGH 2029.

SO THE 33 MILLION IS NOT THE ASK FOR THIS YEAR.

OKAY? WE'RE ACTUALLY SENDING BACK ABOUT 214,000 FROM FIRE APPARATUS PURCHASES.

THIS MONEY THAT IS LEFT OVER ON EQUIPMENT WHEN WE OUTFIT THEM, THAT'S ALL PART OF THE BUDGET.

SO THAT TWO 14 IS A REFLECTION OF PROJECTS FROM 20 18, 19 AND 21 THAT ARE LEFT OVER FUNDS THAT ARE ROLLED BACK INTO CIP.

UM, AND THEN THE, THE COLLECTION THERE, THE FIRE STATION REMODELING, THERE'S A SIGNIFICANT INCREASE ON THAT ONE OF 981,000.

UH, ALLISON SPOKE TO THIS A LITTLE BIT EARLIER ON THE CHANGES THAT HAVE BEEN MADE ON THE REMODELING TO INCLUDE A, A, THE LIVING SPACES AS WELL.

FIRE STATION NUMBER SEVEN.

UH, WE ARE SET TO START ON FIRE STATION NUMBER SEVEN, START THE DESIGN PROCESS, UH, HOPEFULLY IN THE FIRST QUARTER OF 2024.

UM, THE, UH, ARCHITECT HAS ALREADY BEEN SELECTED AND IS UNDER CONTRACT.

UH, WE ARE WORKING WITH PMO TO GET STARTED ON THAT PROJECT.

UH, FIRE STATION NUMBER ONE IS SET TO GO OUT TO BID.

UH, WE'RE FINISHING UP SOME CIVIL PLANS AND SOME WORKING WITH ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO GET THE FINAL CIVILS APPROVED ON THAT PROJECT.

AND FIRE STATION ONE WILL GO OUT TO BID AND, UH, HOPEFULLY START CONSTRUCTION, UM, VERY SOON AND FINISH IT PROBABLY LATE 25.

FIRE STATION NUMBER SIX.

THIS PROJECT IS, UH, LINGERING A LITTLE LONGER THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED.

WE THOUGHT WE WOULD BE MOVING IN ABOUT THIS TIME.

UH, SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES HAVE PUSHED THAT BACK A LITTLE BIT.

THE, THE APPARATUS BAY DOORS WON'T BE UNTIL THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT APRIL.

SO WE'RE PROBABLY LOOKING AT COMPLETING THAT PROJECT IN, UH, EARLY MAY.

IS THE GOAL ON THAT ONE AT THE CURRENT TIME.

BEDROOM REMODELS, UH, THESE PROJECTS ARE IN DESIGN AT THE CURRENT TIME.

UH, WE ARE GETTING INTO THE CONSTRUCTION DRAWINGS NOW WITH IT.

UH, THE FIRST GROUP WILL BE STATIONS 2, 3, 8, AND 11.

UH, THOSE FOUR STATIONS WILL BE THE FIRST ONES TO ROLL OUT, UH, FOLLOWED BY FOUR, NINE AND 10, UH, AFTER THAT.

SO THE GUYS ARE REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.

AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE THE INCREASE IN THE CIP THIS YEAR, UH, TO, TO GET THIS PROJECT ROLLING AND COMPLETED.

SUMMARY OF ALL OF OUR PROJECTS REPLACING FIRE APPARATUS.

UH, THERE'S, UH, 2 99 LEFT OUT THERE ON THAT ONE.

UH, THE RELOCATIONS OF THE STATIONS, WE COVER THAT AMBULANCE REPLACEMENT.

THERE'S PROJECTED TO BE A EXPENDITURE OF 4 MILLION THIS YEAR ON THAT.

NEW FUNDING ON THAT IS, UH, JUST OVER A MILLION.

UH, AND THAT'S FOR THREE ADDITIONAL AMBULANCES, I BELIEVE THIS YEAR.

SYDNEY, IS IT THREE OR TWO THIS YEAR? DO YOU REMEMBER? I THINK I'VE GOT IT WRITTEN DOWN ON ANOTHER PAPER.

UM, SO ANYWAY, THE THREE FOR THIS YEAR, THREE THIS YEAR.

3 20, 22.

AND TWO LEFTOVERS FROM 2022 THAT WERE GONNA BE DELIVERED IN NOVEMBER OF LAST YEAR.

WE STILL HAVE NOT SEEN THEM.

UH, AND THEN THE ONES FROM THE 23 CIP, WE STILL DON'T HAVE CHASSIS FOR THOSE, SO THEY'RE NOT UNDER CONSTRUCTION YET.

AND WE'RE ASKING FOR THREE MORE THIS YEAR.

UH, WHICH ALSO WILL NOT GO INTO CONSTRUCTION ANYTIME SOON.

SO WE'RE, WE'RE GOING TO CONTINUE CHASING THE SUPPLY CHAIN.

WE HAVE LOOSENED UP AS YOU, AS YOU MAY HAVE NOTICED, MOST OF OUR FLEET RIGHT NOW IS DODGE.

UH, WE ARE GONNA OPEN THAT UP TO DODGE OR FORD, WHICHEVER ONE WE CAN GET OUR HANDS ON SO THAT WE CAN TRY TO GET CAUGHT BACK UP ON OUR AMBULANCES.

UH, WE'RE STILL IN REALLY GOOD SHAPE WITH THAT FLEET, UH, BUT IT'S STARTING TO GET A LITTLE EDGY TO, TO BEING WHERE WE WANT IT TO BE.

AND WITH THAT, WE'LL ENTERTAIN ANY QUESTIONS.

THOSE OLD WHITE AMBULANCES ARE NOT GOING DOWN WITHOUT A FIGHT AND THEY'RE TRYING TO STICK AROUND, AREN'T THEY, MR. MAYOR? I SEE.

I SEE THEM MORE FREQUENTLY THAN I THINK, YOU KNOW, SOME, AND, AND EVERY TIME I SEE ONE, I'M LIKE, THAT'S A SURVIVOR RIGHT

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THERE, .

YOU KNOW, AND, AND IT'S, I I WISH YOU WEREN'T SEEING THEM BECAUSE, UM, THAT WOULD MEAN THAT OUR NEW ONES ARE EXACTLY IN AND THEY GOT MORE RED ONES IN THE RESERVE FLEET.

EXACTLY.

BUT, UH, THE, THE RED ONES THAT ARE IN RESERVE ARE ALSO REALLY STARTING TO SHOW THEIR WEAR.

AND SO THE WHITE ONES ARE BEING PUSHED IN AS WELL, .

SO YEAH, THEY'VE, THEY'VE GOT SOME TIME ON 'EM.

UH, COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

GOOD MORNING, CHIEF.

GOOD MORNING, SIR.

CAN YOU FILL BACK TO THE BEDROOM REMODELING? YES, SIR.

SLIDE PLEASE.

UH, 2, 2, 2 THINGS.

CAN YOU, CAN YOU SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC, YOU'VE GOT THE STATIONS LISTED THERE.

CAN YOU SHARE WITH THE PUBLIC HOW THOSE, THE SEQUENCES WERE YOU SELECTED OF THOSE? AND, UH, WE'VE GOT THE PROJECTED SCHEDULE COMPLETION WAS 2026.

AND MAYBE IT'S A QUESTION FOR YOU AND THE CITY MANAGER.

UH, IS, IS THERE ANY, AND I'M JUST ASKING TO SPECULATE A LITTLE BIT HERE OF, OF MOVING THAT UP, THAT, THAT TARGET ANY COMMENT FROM YOU OR THE CITY MANAGER ON THAT? BUT FIRST QUESTION, FIRST FOR THE PUBLIC, THOSE STATIONS ARE SELECTED.

HOW, CAN YOU EXPLAIN A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW YOU WANT YOUR PROCESS OF SELECTING WHO THE SEQUENCE OF THOSE PROJECT? YES, SIR.

I'D BE HAPPY TO THE 2, 3, 8 AND 11.

UH, SOME OF THAT IS THE FUNDING SOURCES.

UH, SOME OF THE FUNDS NEED TO HAVE CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS, UM, FOR INSTANCE, A-C-D-B-G FUNDS THAT MAY BE GOING TOWARDS SOME OF THIS PROJECT.

UM, THOSE, THOSE FUNDS HAVE TO BE EXPENDED IN CERTAIN AREAS OF THE CITY.

SO THAT DICTATED SOME OF THE ORDERING OF THE STATIONS 2, 3, 8, AND 11 IN PARTICULAR.

UH, SO THE, THE REMAINDER OF THIS, I BELIEVE, IS ARPA FUNDS WITH A LITTLE BIT OF CO IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.

SO WE'VE GOT A LOT OF, LOT OF POTS THAT WE'RE PULLING MONEY OUT OF TO DO THIS PROJECT.

THE 26TH COMPLETION DATE IS THE ARPA COMPLETION DATE, DEAD HARD LINE, GOTTA FINISH IT BY X.

SO, UM, THE ABILITY TO MOVE THOSE STATIONS WITH AN EARLIER COMPLETION OF ALL SEVEN OF THESE REMODELS IS GONNA BE DIFFICULT.

UH, WE'RE GONNA DO TWO STATIONS AT A TIME.

UH, SO THE, THE WE, WE ARE GETTING A CONSTRUCTION TYPE TRAILER THAT'LL BE OUTFITTED TO BE A PORTABLE FIRE STATION, IF YOU WILL.

IT'LL BE LIVING QUARTERS, KITCHEN, LAUNDRY ROOM, BATHROOMS, UH, AND SLEEPING AREAS IN A, IN A TRAILER THAT'LL BE PARKED NEXT TO A STATION.

THE OTHER STATION ON THAT CYCLE FOR THE TWO STATIONS, THE OTHER STATION WILL BE BLOWN OUT.

WE'LL PROBABLY MOVE THE AMBULANCE TO A NEARBY STATION, UH, AND RUN TWO AMBULANCES OUTTA THAT HOUSE.

AND THEN THE, THE ENGINE STAFFING FROM THAT PARTICULAR STATION WILL OVERSTAFF THE, THE APPARATUS AROUND THEM.

OR IF WE HAVE SPACE, WE'LL RUN A SECOND PIECE OF EQUIPMENT OUTTA THAT HOUSE.

UH, SO STRATEGICALLY WE CAN ONLY DO TWO STATIONS AT A TIME AND STILL EFFECTIVELY COVER THE CITY.

THERE'LL BE SOME DEFICITS IN RESPONSE TIMES OF THE STATIONS THAT ARE, THAT ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION, BUT WE'RE TRYING TO MINIMIZE THAT.

AND IF WE DID MORE STATIONS AT A TIME, THEN THAT RESPONSE TIME IMPACT WOULD START TO BECOME PRETTY SIGNIFICANT.

SO WE'RE LIMITED TO TWO STATIONS AT A TIME.

ONE WILL BE BROWNED OUT, THE OTHER ONE WILL BE RELOCATED TO TRAILERS ON PROPERTY OR NEARBY PROPERTY.

UH, AND, UH, PMO AND, AND FIRE ARE WORKING HAND IN HAND TO GET THIS PROJECT, UH, MOVING AND COMPLETED AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

BUT CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULES, ALL THE ESTIMATES ARE SHOWING PROBABLY END OF 26 FOR FINAL COMPLETION.

UH, AND WHAT, WHAT'S THE, WHAT'S THE PROJECT? ANY PROJECTIONS ON THE DESIGN PHASE? UH, FOR, FOR THOSE DESIGN IS PRETTY WELL DONE.

CONSTRUCTION, I BELIEVE IS ABOUT 60% RIGHT NOW, SO, OKAY.

WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING TO GET CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS PRETTY TIGHT.

UH, SO THAT, AGAIN, WITH SOME OF THE FUNDING SOURCES, IT, IT'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE SEALED PROPOSALS AND WE WANNA HAVE AS TIGHT OF, UH, CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS AS WE CAN SO THAT WE CAN BE SURE WE'RE GETTING THE QUALIFIED BIDDER AND, AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GETTING INTO ON THESE PROJECTS.

APPRECIATE IT.

UH, CHIEF, REALLY APPRECIATE YOUR WORK, LISA.

THAT'S, YOU KNOW, I'VE GOT ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT IT THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT, YOU KNOW, TO OUR YES, SIR.

TO, TO, TO YOUR TEAM.

AND I'M, I'M EXCITED TO SEE THAT AND PEOPLE HAVE BEEN TALKING ABOUT IT, YOU KNOW, SO I'M GLAD TO SEE US TAKING ACTION AND MOVING THAT AS SWIFTLY AS WE CAN.

MASTER PLAN THAT YOU ALL DID EARLIER LAST YEAR? UH, THE, THE BEDROOM REMODELS ARE, THE MASTER PLAN IS PLAYING A ROLE IN, IN WHICH STATIONS WILL BE, HAVE MORE BEDROOMS AND WHICH STATIONS WILL HAVE FEWER BEDROOMS BASED ON THE MASTER PLAN.

ALRIGHT, SO I APPRECIATE YOUR WORK.

HEY, UM, HAVE ANY OF THESE PROJECTS BEEN ADJUSTED, UM, AS A RESULT OF THE

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SO, AS A DUAL COMPANY HOUSE, FOR INSTANCE, AT, UH, STATION THREE, UH, CURRENTLY WE RUN AN ENGINE AND AN AMBULANCE OUTTA THERE.

SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHEN WE DO THIS REMODEL AT STATION THREE, THAT WE EXPAND THE, THE BEDROOM COUNT AT STATION THREE TO ACCOMMODATE FOR THE FUTURE.

AND I KNOW THAT THEY HAD RECOMMENDED LARGER FIRE APPARATUS AT SOME POINT.

UM, THOSE WILL BE ACCOMMODATED BY THE NEW FACILITIES AS WELL.

YEAH, IT, THERE'LL BE SOME LADDER TRUCKS GOING INTO STATIONS THAT DON'T HAVE 'EM TODAY.

UH, AND, AND WE HAVE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, UH, THE ABILITY OF THE APPARATUS ROOMS TO HOUSE THOSE.

GREAT.

AND WHEN WILL YOU BE ASKING FOR THOSE ? SOONER THAN YOU EXPECT.

UH, THOSE IN ALL SINCERITY, THE, THE ENGINES AND LADDER TRUCKS WITH A THREE YEAR BUILD PERIOD, WE'RE GONNA BE COMING BACK TO YOU WITH, WITH, UM, CONVERSATION MR. REX JUST RECENTLY ON THAT, THAT WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA ORDER THOSE AND THEY'LL BE IN FUTURE CIPS.

SO WE'RE GONNA ASK YOU TO COMMIT FUNDS FOR A FUTURE COUNCIL.

SO I REALLY APPRECIATE IT.

YOU'RE WELCOME, .

AND DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM MOORE.

CHIEF, I'M GONNA HELP YOU GET SOME MORE MONEY HERE.

AWESOME.

HEY, CUSTOMER.

I LIKE YOU.

HOW ARE WE BEING IMPACTED, UH, AS A RESULT OF THE NEW RESPONSIBILITIES THAT YOU'VE TAKEN ON WITH THE HOUSING DEVELOPMENT, UH, DEVELOPMENT THAT I THINK IT'S ON LOWNDES ROAD DOWN THERE, UH, AS WE GO INTO SUNNYVALE, HOW ARE WE BEING IMPACTED AS A RESULT OF THAT? WE ARE NOT PROVIDING ANY SERVICES TO THAT DALLAS COUNTY AREA.

REALLY? YES, SIR.

WE, WE ARE, UM, WE MADE A PROPOSAL TO THAT, THAT COMMUNITY, UH, THEIR, UH, DEVELOPER AND THEIR HOA, UH, AND, UH, TOLD 'EM WHAT EXPENDITURES IT WOULD REQUIRE FOR US TO PROVIDE THEM SERVICES.

AND THEY CHOSE NOT TO, TO MAKE THAT COMMITMENT.

UH, SO DALLAS COUNTY FIRE HAS RESPONSIBILITY TO THAT AREA.

AND THE CITY OF GARLAND HAS NO CONTRACTUAL OR LEGAL OBLIGATIONS TO PROVIDE SERVICES IN THAT, THAT, THAT COMMUNITY.

UM, THE CONVERSATIONS THAT I'VE HAD WITH, UH, DALLAS COUNTY'S ATTORNEYS, UH, DALLAS COUNTY FIRE MARSHAL, THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPER, AND THE COMMUNITY'S HOA PERSONNEL, I MADE IT VERY, VERY CLEAR THAT WE ARE HAPPY TO PROVIDE MUTUAL AID TO THEM, BUT MUTUAL AID MEANS IT NEEDS TO BE MUTUAL AND THAT THEY NEED TO HAVE EQUIPMENT THERE BEFORE THEY CALL US TO COME PROVIDE SERVICES.

SO, AS, AS HEARTBREAKING AS IT IS FOR ME AS A, A, A FIREFIGHTER, TO TELL SOMEBODY THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO RESPOND TO YOUR HOME, UM, WE, WE, THEY HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY TO PROVIDE SERVICES FOR THEIR COMMUNITY THAT THEY'VE BUILT.

I'M SURE THAT JUST BROKE YOUR HEART.

THE LORD WORKS IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS.

HE'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT MANAGER.

THANK Y'ALL.

MOVING ON TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND COUNSEL, JUST, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU THE HEADS UP, THE WAY THE SCHEDULE'S RUNNING AT THIS POINT LOOKS LIKE WE'LL PROBABLY TAKE, UH, A RECESS AFTER NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL FROM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

I HAVE JACOB ACTON WITH ME.

WE ARE GONNA TUG TEAM ON OUR SLIDES.

UM, WE HAVE TWO BIG BUCKET, UH, WHICH IS, ONE IS MEDICAL DISTRICT STREET, SCAPING AND, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

AND, UH, JACOB WILL BE TALKING ABOUT MEDICAL DISTRICT.

AND THEN, UH, CURRENTLY WE ALSO HAVE, UM, THIS IS UNDER A DIFFERENT BUCKET OF MONEY, BUT A SIX ACRE LOT UNDER CONTRACT TO SECURE THE, UH, POTENTIAL FUTURE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL SITE.

SO, UM, AS Y'ALL ARE ALL AWARE, UH, COUNCIL ADOPTED THE VELOIS HEALTH PARK STREETSCAPE MASTER PLAN IN MAY OF 2023.

UH, THIS KIND OF MASTER PLAN ANTICIPATED A PHASING APPROACH.

SO THIS WOULD BE A PHASE, KIND OF ONE OF, UM, A NUMBER.

UM, AND SO RIGHT NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT WESTWOOD DRIVE AND WALTER REED BOULEVARD NEEDING A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF ONGOING MAINTENANCE.

UM, THERE'S A, A LOT OF THE SIDEWALKS REALLY KIND OF NEED SOME CLEANING UP AND A NUMBER OF OTHER THINGS.

UM,

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UM, AND SO, UH, WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDER CONTRACT SCHEDULED TO CLOSE, I BELIEVE THE 1ST OF MARCH.

UM, MIGHT BE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER IF WE CAN KIND OF CLEAR UP A FEW THINGS.

'CAUSE WE DO HAVE THE ABILITY TO CLOSE A LITTLE BIT EARLIER.

BUT, UM, WE'RE WAITING ON SOME ADDITIONAL TESTING TO COME BACK.

UM, THE CLARA BARTON STREETSCAPE IMPROVEMENTS IS THE PRIORITY.

UM, WHENEVER WE DISCUSSED WITH PAV, UM, OUR PRIVATE PARTNERS IN THE AREA, THEY SAID THAT THAT IS WHAT WOULD HONESTLY MAKE THE BIGGEST IMPACT FOR THE AREA, UM, BECAUSE IT KIND OF IS ONE OF THE MAJOR ENTRANCES TO THE, THE WHOLE SITE.

UM, AND SO THE PLAN IS FOR CONSTRUCTION DESIGN, UM, THIS YEAR, UM, FOLLOWED BY CONSTRUCTION KICKOFF IN 2025.

UM, AND IT IS PROJECTED TO BE REIMBURSED BY TIF THREE.

UM, THE GOAL, UH, AND THEN THIS IS ALSO REDEVELOPMENT AND REVITALIZATION SUPPORT.

SO, UM, THIS IS A SEPARATE KIND OF, UM, PUSH.

THE GOAL IS TO ENGAGE DEVELOPERS AND PROPERTY OWNERS TO INVEST AND RENOVATE NON-RESIDENTIAL BUILDING STOCK.

UM, THIS INCLUDES OUR FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, UM, COLLABORATION WITH THE MULTI-DEPARTMENTAL FACADE COMMITTEE.

UM, AND THEN A PROPERTY REVITALIZATION GRANT.

UM, THIS IS GONNA HELP US RECRUIT NEW RESTAURANTS, UM, AS WELL AS RETAIL BUSINESSES, UH, TO FILL VACANT PROPERTIES AND TO STIMULATE DEVELOPMENT OR POSSIBLY, YOU KNOW, IMPROVE THE TENANT, UH, MAKEUP THAT'S CURRENTLY IN CERTAIN SHOPPING CENTERS.

UM, THIS FALLS UNDERNEATH A STRATEGIC PLAN IDEA OF DESTINATION RETAIL RECRUITMENT, UM, REALLY KIND OF HELPING DEVELOP THAT DESTINATION AS WELL AS PLACEMAKING.

UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE PROPERTY OWNER AND THE CITY WILL, UM, HAVE ONE OF THOSE EACH TIME.

UH, THE LAST THING THAT WE ALSO HAVE AS A BULLET POINT IS AS WELL, UH, LAND ACQUISITION.

UM, WHICH IS ALSO REALLY, REALLY IMPORTANT FOR THAT BUCKET.

UM, AND SO THIS IS KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF OUR 2023 LAND ACQUISITION.

UM, AND SO IN DOWNTOWN, IN TIF ONE, WE HAD 1 0 1 WEST AVENUE D.

WE'RE CURRENTLY UNDER CONTRACT FROM 1 0 3 WEST AVENUE D UH, WE HAVE ALSO PURCHASED, UH, ONE 19 STATE.

UM, AND THEN IN THE TRIANGLE AREA, WHICH IS ALSO, UM, UH, NEAR DOWNTOWN, UM, ALSO NEAR THE FIRE STATION.

UM, THAT'S COMING UP.

UM, WE'VE, UH, PURCHASED, UH, 2020 EAST AVENUE B 2038, EAST AVENUE B 2052, AND 20, UH, 54 WE'RE ALSO, I BELIEVE, UNDER CONTRACT OR NEARLY UNDER CONTRACT FOR, UM, A COUPLE MORE PROP PROPERTIES IN THAT AREA.

UM, AND THEN IN THE LBJ AND SOUTH GARLAND AVENUE AREA, UM, 3 19 18 OR 39 18 LEON, 39 26 SOUTH SHILOH, 2200 MCCREE ARE ALL PURCHASED, RIGHT? MM-HMM, .

AND THEN FIVE 30, CLARA BARTON WAS ALSO THE LAST ONE THAT WE'RE UNDER CONTRACT FOR IN THE MEDICAL DISTRICT.

IN SUMMARY, UH, WE WORKED ON A, UH, ACQUISITION OF 12 PROPERTY LAST YEAR.

WE ARE CONTINUE WORKING ON, UH, INVESTMENT ON THE STRATEGIC AREA FOR THE, UH, FUTURE REDEVELOPMENT, CONTINUE TO SEEK UNIQUE AND I MEAN, REDEVELOPMENT OPPORTUNITIES.

WE'RE GONNA BE WORKING VERY CLOSELY QUALITY DEVELOPERS TO IDENTIFY THEIR NEEDS IN ORDER TO FACILITATE, FACILITATE EXCITING PROJECT.

NOW, OF COURSE, WE TAKE, IT TAKES A VILLAGE TO DO REDEVELOPMENT PROJECT, SO WE COORDINATE WITH OTHER DEPARTMENTS AND COLLABORATE WITH THEIR PLAN PROJECT.

SO OVERALL, UH, 2024 PROJECT COST.

UM, JACOB MENTIONED WE'RE GONNA DO DESIGN A MEDICAL DISTRICT'S THREE ESCAPING FOR 280,000, AND THEN 22.8 MILLION FOR THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REDEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

WITH THAT, ANY QUESTIONS? VERY GOOD.

ANY QUESTIONS? I SEE NONE.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU, COUNSEL, I HAD A MEETING YESTERDAY MORNING WITH A GROUP OF INVESTORS, SHALL WE SAY, AND, AND AACO.

AND, UH, THE FIRST 10 MINUTES OF THE, OF THE MEETING WERE THEM THANKING AACO FOR THE, THE CONNECTIONS THAT SHE HAS MADE WITH THEM.

AND, AND THIS IS AN EXISTING SORT OF COMPANY.

UM, AND, AND THAT IS, NONE OF IT WAS A SURPRISE TO ME.

UM, BUT OBVIOUSLY IT'S, IT'S REALLY GREAT TO HEAR THAT COMING FROM, UH, THE INVESTMENT COMMUNITY.

AND SO, AND THAT GOES ALONG WITH ALL YOUR SLIDES THAT YOU'VE PRESENTED.

BUT, UH, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I THINK THAT WAS IT FOR YOU.

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AWESOME.

MOVING ON TO NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY.

GOOD MORNING, MAYOR COUNCIL, THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TODAY.

UM, WHAT A GREAT TIME TO BE IN GARLAND, HUH? WE GOT ALL THESE PRO WE HAVE PARKS PROJECTS, WE HAVE LANDFILL GRINDERS, ALL KINDS OF EXCITING STUFF GOING ON TODAY.

, UM, THANK YOU TO BUDGET.

I KNOW Y'ALL PUT A LOT OF WORK IN TO, TO MAKE THIS DAY SUCCESSFUL.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED.

Y'ALL ARE GREAT.

UM, THE, I THINK PART OF THE CIP IS, IS AS PART OF OUR MISSION BUILDING THE, BUILDING THE STAGE FOR OUR RESIDENTS TO LIVE THEIR BEST LIVES.

AND MY PERSPECTIVE, MY ROLE IN THAT IS FROM THE, UH, UH, FROM THE RESIDENTIAL PERSPECTIVE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD PERSPECTIVE, QUALITY OF LIFE FOR OUR RESIDENTS.

SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE FOCUSED ON TODAY.

UH, WANTED TO TALK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT SPIEGEL GREEN, UH, APART FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY PROGRAM BECAUSE IT HAS A UNIQUE, UNIQUE FUNDING SOURCE.

UM, AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY PROGRAM, THAT 327,000 INCREASE, I'LL GO INTO MORE DETAIL IN JUST A BIT.

SO, S SPIEGEL GREEN, UH, AS YOU KNOW, THE, THIS IS THE FORMER LAS BARIS RESIDENCE CLUB THAT WE ACQUIRED IN JANUARY OF 2022.

WE WENT THROUGH SOME COUNCIL INPUT WITH THAT AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT TO DECIDE ON A GREEN SPACE FOR THIS.

UH, COUNCIL ADOPTED THAT SMALL AREA PLAN IN FEBRUARY OF 2023, AGAIN, ON THE DESIGN PROCESS.

THIS IS ACTUALLY OUT FOR BID RIGHT NOW.

UH, SO WE, WE REALLY HOPE TO, UH, I'M ENDEAVORING TO BRING THIS TO YOU ON FEBRUARY 20TH.

THAT'S GONNA BE CUTTING IT REALLY CLOSE WITH THE BID CLOSE.

BUT THAT'S, THAT'S THE GOAL IS TO BRING YOU, UH, THE BID RESULTS ON FEBRUARY 20TH FOR AWARD FOR CONSTRUCTION IN APRIL.

UM, BEEN VERY, TRYING TO KEEP A, TO KEEP A CLOSE EYE ON THIS ONE BECAUSE OF THE FUNDING SITUATION.

IT'S FUNDED PARTLY BY CDBG, WHICH HAS A PRETTY HARD DEADLINE, UH, IN JULY.

SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE TRYING TO GET CONSTRUCTION STARTED IN APRIL.

AND THEN, UH, THE REST OF IT IS FUNDED WITH ARPA FUNDING.

SO IT'S A $2 MILLION CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, UH, THAT WE'VE ALLOCATED.

BUT LIKE I SAID, IT'S OUT FOR BIDS, SO WE'LL KNOW MORE WHEN THOSE BIDS COME IN LATER THIS MONTH.

AND THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY PROGRAM AS A WHOLE, UH, AS YOU KNOW, THIS, THIS STARTED BACK IN 2004, WAS, UM, UH, WAS REAUTHORIZED BY THE VOTERS IN 2019.

AND THIS IS THE SUM OF ALL THE OTHER THINGS WE DO WHERE THE HEART IS AND STAFF DRIVEN PROJECTS, NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY MATCHING GRANT, THAT 327,000 INCREASE, THAT'S A HUNDRED THOUSAND FROM TREE MITIGATION.

AND THEN THE REMAINING 227,000 WAS THE, UH, RETAIL CENTER CO-OWNERS CONTRIBUTION AT NORTH CAROLINA LIBRARY FOR THAT PROJECT.

THAT'S THE INCREASE THERE.

OTHERWISE, THIS INCLUDES ALL THE, ALL THE THINGS WE DO, INCLUDING, UH, ANNUALLY THE, THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY MATCHING GRANT PROGRAM.

UH, WE'RE VERY EXCITED TO START WORK IN QUAIL CREEK.

UM, THIS, THIS YEAR WE HAVE OUR FIRST EVENT STARTING FEBRUARY 3RD.

WE USUALLY ALLOCATE SOME MORE TWO TO THREE COMMUNITY MEETINGS, UH, AND IN THOSE WE SORT OF INTRODUCE OURSELVES, GET COMFORTABLE WITH EACH OTHER, AND THEN WE BRING THEM OUR IDEAS ON WHAT WE THINK COULD HAPPEN.

AND WE TAKE THEIR IDEAS ON WHAT, WHAT, WHAT THEY THINK SHOULD HAPPEN.

WE, WE TRY TO MESH THOSE TWO AND, AND DO SOME PROJECTS WITH THOSE.

BUT WHERE THE, THE HEART IS, WHERE THE HEART IS, UH, WESTERN HEIGHTS, WE'RE STILL DOING SOME WORK THERE.

YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN SOME, SOME CHATTER ABOUT THE TREE, TREE CARVINGS THAT ARE IN THAT AREA.

UM, SO WE'RE JUST STILL DOING SOME WORK THERE, BUT WE'RE PLANNING ON ADDRESSING THAT SCREENING WALL.

THIS IS AT SHILOH, GOING NORTH FROM WALNUT ON THE WEST SIDE OF SHILOH.

UH, WE'RE PLANNING ON DRESSING THAT IN 24 AND THEN DOING CORRIDOR REVITALIZATION THIS YEAR AND, AND GOING FORWARD.

SO ON SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS THAT SPECIFICALLY, ALTHOUGH LAWN WIND IS COMPLETED, I REALLY WANTED TO TO, TO JUST BRING THAT UP HERE BECAUSE IT WAS A REALLY INTERESTING, SUCCESSFUL EXAMPLE OF, IT STARTED AS A NEIGHBORHOOD PROJECT IDEA THAT WE NURTURED AND, AND WORKED WITH THEM ON, ON HOW THAT COULD WORK.

UH, WE HAD A DEDICATION EVENT A COUPLE MONTHS AGO WHERE LIKE 30 LAWN WIND FAMILY MEMBERS SHOWED UP.

AND, UH, THAT WAS, THAT WAS REALLY GREAT.

THEY WERE ABLE TO TAKE PICTURES AND TELL STORIES AND, AND, AND ALL THAT ABOUT, ABOUT THE, ABOUT LAWN WIND HIMSELF.

AND THEN SEEING THE, WHAT WE'VE DONE WITH THAT PARK SINCE, UH, NORTH GARLAND AVENUE, UH, THAT STARTED WITH THE BRIDGE.

AND WE'RE CONTINUING WITH THE LIBRARY.

UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT CURRENTLY RIGHT NOW, APRIL AS, AS AN END DATE.

SOME, SOMEWHERE AROUND THERE.

UH, WEATHER IS AFFECTING THAT.

SO I'LL, I'LL HAVE A, I'LL HAVE A BETTER UPDATE LATER.

BUT, UM, IT'S LOOKING, LOOKING LIKE APRIL RIGHT NOW.

ROSE HILL HERITAGE.

UM, THAT'S THE MONUMENT AT ROSE HILL.

AND, UM, UH, I GUESS THAT'D BE ROULETTE, ROWAN, THAT

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AREA.

UH, WE ORIGINALLY SAID Q1 OF THIS YEAR FOR THAT.

IT, IT'S GONNA TAKE A LITTLE LATER THAN EXPECTED, BUT STILL WITHIN Q1, I THINK THAT'LL, THAT'LL, THAT'LL BE WRAPPED UP.

UH, RAINBOW ESTATES, THAT'S, WE'VE DONE SOME OF THAT AND WE'RE, WE PUT SOME OF IT ON HOLD FOR THE LOU HUFF PROJECT.

SOME OF THOSE ELEMENTS ARE LIKE ON THE GROUND, THINGS THAT WOULD MAKE MORE SENSE ONCE THE TRAILS ARE IN.

AND THEN WE HAVE, UH, GATEWAYS REFRESH, UH, THAT WE SEE.

THIS IS A REALLY, UH, EXCITING, UH, NEW PROJECT, NEW APPROACH.

UH, SOME OF THE HIGH TRAFFIC COUNT VISITOR COUNTS, ADDRESSING SOME OF THOSE THROUGH OUR GATEWAYS.

AND THEN SOME CORRIDOR ENHANCEMENTS, UM, UH, THAT ARE IDENTIFIED THERE.

UH, THE, THESE ARE STILL A LITTLE BIT OF WORK IN PROGRESS, BUT I DO WANNA POINT OUT THAT WE'LL ALSO BE PURSUING GRANT OPPORTUNITIES AND OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES TO COMBINE FOR THIS THAT WOULDN'T JUST BE, UH, HELD BY NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY.

SO WE'LL BE PURSUING TREE VEGETATION, PLACEMAKING, ART STATE, FEDERAL, MAYBE TIFF, JUST TRYING TO GET A LOT OF, A LOT OF, UH, FUNDING SOURCES INVOLVED IN THIS ONE, UH, NEW WEST THAT, THAT CONNECTION.

THE, THE ACTUAL NEW WEST TO SOUTH GARLAND LIBRARY, THE ACTUAL CONSTRUCTION PART WOULD HAPPEN, NOT HAPPEN UNTIL 25, BUT WE WOULD PROBABLY DO SOME ENGAGEMENT AND, AND TALK WITH THE RESIDENTS THIS YEAR REGARDING WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE.

AND THEN I HAVE OTHER ENHANCEMENTS IN HERE, JUST THE FLEXIBILITY TO DO THINGS AS, AS YOU IDENTIFY PROJECTS, AS RESIDENTS COME TO US WITH IDEAS.

THIS, THIS FUNDING HAS THE, HAS THE FLEXIBILITY TO DO SOME OF THOSE.

SO THAT'S THE, THE TOTAL FOR THIS YEAR, THE SPIEGEL GREEN AT 2.2, AND THEN THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY PROGRAM AT 3.8 4 24.

AND THAT IS THE PRESENTATION.

I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

VERY GOOD, SIR.

ANY QUESTIONS? COUNCILOR WILLIAMS? THANK YOU, MAYOR.

GOOD MORNING LADY AND GENTLEMEN.

UH, ONE QUESTION ON THE, ON THE NEW WEST, UH, YOU MENTIONED THE 25 AND POSITIVE ENGAGEMENTS LATER ON THIS YEAR, EARLY NEXT YEAR, WILL THERE BE, DO YOU THINK THERE'LL BE ANY RENDERINGS TO SHOW THE NEIGHBORHOOD AROUND THAT TIME? WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON THAT? WHEN, WHEN ENGAGEMENT PROCESS BEGINS, DO YOU THINK IT'S JUST GONNA BE, WILL WE BE PREPARED TO PROVIDE THE ANCE AT THAT TIME OR JUST SINCE ESSENTIALLY HAVE A DISCUSSION AT THAT TIME? WHAT DO YOU ENVISION, UH, TO KICK OFF THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS? TYPICALLY I THINK WE WOULD START JUST ENGAGEMENT AND CONFIRMING IF THE NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENTS ONE ARE WELCOMING OF THAT, THAT IDEA AND THAT PROJECT.

AND THEN ONCE WE GOT CONFIRMATION ON THAT, THEN IT WOULD MOVE INTO, YOU KNOW, THE DESIGN PHASE.

AND SO THOSE, THOSE ACTIVITIES ARE ANTICIPATED IN 2024.

UM, WHICH IS WHY THEN YOU SEE THE PROJECT SHOWING UP IN THE CIP IN 25.

SURE, SURE.

PENDING THEIR AGREEMENT THAT THEY WANT THE PROJECT WELL KIND YES.

BUT THE ENGAGEMENT, THAT'S WHY PER PER OUR MOST RECENT CONVERSATION ON THAT, THE ENGAGEMENT PORTION, THIS IS GONNA BE VERY, VERY IMPORTANT AS YOU ALL ALWAYS DO A FANTASTIC JOB IN DOING THAT ENGAGEMENT OF THE PROJECT.

AND THAT'S WHY I ASKED, 'CAUSE I WAS ASKED THE QUESTION, YOU KNOW, WELL, WHAT'S IT GONNA LOOK LIKE? CAN ANYBODY HAVE ANY IDEAS? SO, YOU KNOW, I WANNA BE SURE WE DON'T GO, THAT WE DON'T GO INTO THE ENGAGEMENT, THAT THERE'S AN EXPECTATION TO SEE SOMETHING WHEN IT'S NOT.

IT'S JUST ENGAGEMENT.

IT'S SORT OF MEASURING THE TEMPERATURE OF THE WATER, RIGHT? THAT'S WHAT THAT IS ABOUT.

BUT I'M SURE WE CAN FIND A EXAMPLE IF WE EXACTLY, EXACTLY.

SOME, SOME EXAMPLES, YOU KNOW, AS WE MOVE INTO THE ENGAGEMENT PROCESS.

WELL, WHAT IT MAY LOOK LIKE, NOT, NOT DEFINITIVELY, BUT I'VE FOUND THAT THAT HELPS A LOT WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO GET PARTICULARLY, UH, THIS IS A, ONE OF OUR OLDER, OLDER NEIGHBORHOODS.

AND SO I THINK, YOU KNOW, SORT OF A SHOW AND TELL, WELL, THIS IS NOT WHAT, IT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE, BUT THIS IS, THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WOULD BE, WOULD BE, UH, A GOOD ICEBREAKER TO START THAT ENGAGEMENT PROCESS OUT.

SO I SUGGEST AS YOU CAN FIND ANYTHING, BECKY, I, I KNOW YOU'VE GOT STUFF, SO GO THROUGH SOME OF YOUR OLD FILE CABINETS IN THE BACK OF THEM, PULL SOME STUFF OUT.

UH, COUNCILOR REMORSE.

WOULD POINT OUT, UM, SCOTT MENTIONED WE WOULD BE LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES, AND THIS IS A, A CROSS DEPARTMENTAL EFFORT.

UM, AND AS ALWAYS, NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY HAS REALLY EXCITING PROGRAMS. SO, UM, JUST A, A QUESTION.

HIGHWAY 66, ART GATEWAY LANDSCAPING, UM, IS THAT, WHAT EXACT SEGMENT IS THAT? IS THAT FROM THE ROWLETT CITY LINE? ALL THE WAY THE, BECKY, CAN I GET YOU TO SPIN THAT MICROPHONE AROUND THERE? WE, WE GO, THAT'S THE ENTIRE LENGTH.

I LIKE IT.

AND I ALSO

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IT'S NOT JUST NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY.

SO, UM, PARKS, TRANSPORTATION, ENGINEERING PLANNING, IT'S, IT'S, THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE INVOLVED IN CORRIDOR REVITALIZATION.

NOT, NOT JUST NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY.

WONDERFUL.

AND, AND I GET THE COMMENT A LOT AND I HAVE FOR YEARS THAT YOU DRIVE IN FROM ROULETTE AND IT'S PRETTY, PRETTY PRETTY CROSS THE GARLAND LINE, BLAH.

SO THIS IS GONNA BE A GAME CHANGER FOR A LOT OF PEOPLE.

AND WE HAVE SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT AND GROWTH AND NEW INVESTMENTS GOING ON RIGHT NOW IN EAST GARLAND RIGHT ALONG THERE.

UM, THE TIMING COULD NOT POSSIBLY BE BETTER.

I'M HAPPY ABOUT THAT.

THE OTHER ONE, THE GATEWAYS REFRESH, I'M ASSUMING THESE ARE CITY GATEWAYS, CORRECT? CORRECT.

UM, AND THEN ALSO WE ARE WORKING WITH AMY, UH, ROSENTHAL ON THE NEW CULTURAL ARTS DISTRICT AND THE POTENTIAL FOR THOSE GATEWAYS AS WELL.

AND THAT'S ALSO ANOTHER THING COMING INTO OUR CITY.

IF WE CAN HAVE, UH, ATTRACTIVE, WELCOMING AN ENTRANCE EVERYWHERE PEOPLE CAN ENTER OUR CITY, FOR THE MOST PART, THAT IS ALL TO THE GOOD.

SO, ALRIGHT.

HAPPY ABOUT THIS.

VERY GOOD COUNCILOR, LUCK.

AYE.

UM, SO I SEE A LOT OF, UM, UNDERWAY PROJECTS AND NEW PROJECTS.

UM, THERE'S ONLY ONE COMPLETED ONE IN DISTRICT FIVE, SO, UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER DISTRICT FIVE PROJECTS ON THIS LIST, I'D, I'D LIKE TO KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.

UM, ON THE GATEWAY REFRESH, I WOULD REALLY LIKE MORE INFORMATION ON THAT.

WHICH GATEWAYS YOU'RE FOCUSING ON, HOW, HOW LONG THOSE, UM, SWATHS ARE THAT YOU'RE REFRESHING? UM, I HAVE PARTICULAR INTEREST AT NORTHWEST AND LA PRADA.

, UM, AND NORTHWEST AND 6 35 AS WELL.

AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO KNOW WHAT YOUR BUDGET IS FOR THOSE GATEWAY REFRESHES AND, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT A LITTLE MORE IN INFORMATION ABOUT THEM, PLEASE.

AND DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIMM MOORE.

AND I'D LIKE TO ECHO THAT CERTAINLY ON THE SOUTHERN SECTOR WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THAT SAME INFORMATION AND I THINK THAT, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAD VERY MUCH TO DO WITH, UH, THE ONE THERE AT, UH, ROSE HILL AND, UH, I HAVE 30, BUT IT REALLY IS BEGINNING TO LOOK VERY GOOD.

UH, IF THE REST OF IT LOOK ANYTHING LIKE THAT, UH, WE'RE GONNA BE VERY WELCOMING AS IT RELATES TO COMING INTO GARLAND.

WE'LL HAVE TO PASS THAT CREDIT ALONG.

YES, PLEASE DO.

PLEASE, PLEASE.

THANK YOU SO MUCH, .

ALRIGHT, ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? WELL, AGAIN, UH, THANK YOU.

THE OBVIOUSLY, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY, UH, GOES BACK TO MY BEGINNINGS OF INVOLVEMENT WITH THIS CITY.

AND SO I, I HAVE A GREAT APPRECIATION FOR HOW THE, HOW THE DEPARTMENT HAS GROWN, UM, AND WHAT THE DEPARTMENT IS DOING AND, AND THE IMPACT.

SO THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH.

UH, COUNSEL WITH THAT, WE ARE GONNA TAKE A SHORT RECESS.

UH, LET'S HAVE EVERYBODY BACK HERE AT, UH, 10 20, PLEASE.

10 20.

WE ARE IN RECESS.

ALL RIGHT, WELCOME.

UH, WE ARE COMING BACK FROM RECESS.

UH, WE ARE HERE ON JANUARY 20TH, 2024 FOR OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

SPECIAL SESSION, UH, COMING BACK, WE ARE AT LIBRARY.

THANK YOU, KAREN.

EQUIPMENT, UM, GETTING OF OUR LIBRARY MATERIALS MOVED OVER AND SET UP, AS WELL AS TRAINING FOR LIBRARY STAFF ON ALL OF THE EQUIPMENT.

UM, UM, MAYOR, COUNCIL AND MR. RES, I'LL BE, UH, PRESENTING OUR CIV UH, PRESENTATION AND UPDATES FOR LIBRARIES.

SO THIS SLIDE GIVES YOU A GLANCE AT THE PROJECTS, UM, THAT LIBRARIES HAVE IN MOTION.

RIGHT NOW.

WE HAVE ONE CHANGE FOR THE THE WEST GARLAND LIBRARY.

UM, BUT I'M VERY EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT WE WERE OFFICIALLY FINISHED.

THE LIBRARY KIOSK, UM, PROJECT IS COMPLETED.

SO WE HAVE ONE HERE AT RIGHT OUTSIDE CITY HALL AND ONE AT LAWN WIND PARK.

WE'LL START WITH UPDATES TO THE WEST GARLAND LIBRARY PROJECT.

UH, THIS BOND PROJECT IS FOR THE EXPANSION AND RELOCATION OF THE WALNUT CREEK BRANCH LIBRARY.

PHYSICAL CONSTRUCTION ON THE PROJECT IS CURRENTLY UNDERWAY WITH CONSTRUCTION ANTICIPATED TO BE COMPLETED IN LATE 2024.

THE GRAND OPENING OF THE NEW WEST GARLAND LIBRARY IS ANTICIPATED IN EARLY 2025.

THE PROJECT SCHEDULE HAS BEEN UPDATED TO REFLECT THIS OPENING DATE.

UH, THE BUMP BACK WILL ALLOW FOR US, UH, TO MOVE INSTALLATION OF TECHNOLOGY AND

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THE INCREASE IN FUNDS IS BEING REQUESTED TO COVER THE COST OF SOME, UM, UPDATES TO THE AUTOMATED MATERIALS HANDLING EQUIPMENT, BUILDING ENVELOPE CONSULTING, COMMISSIONING, WHICH IS JUST A FORM OF QUALITY CONTROL ON THE PROJECT AND AN OPENING DAY COLLECTION.

AND HERE ARE A FEW IMAGES, UM, ON SITE WHERE THEY'VE BEEN DOING A LOT OF GROUNDWORK PREPPING FOR ALL THE UNDERGROUND UTILITIES.

THAT'S IT.

MOVING TO THE CENTRAL LIBRARY.

UH, CENTRAL LIBRARY CONSTRUCTION IS WELL UNDERWAY.

THE DEMOLITION PHASE IS COMPLETE.

CREWS ARE NOW WORKING ON FRAMING DRYWALL, UM, TRENCHING TO INSTALL PLUMBING NEW ELECTRICAL THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING.

AND OUR TEAM'S BEEN WORKING THROUGH DECISIONS ON FURNISHINGS, FINISHES AND, UH, SELECTION OF TECHNOLOGY EQUIPMENT THAT WILL BE IN THE BUILDING.

CONSTRUCTION IS ANTICIPATED TO BE COMPLETED AGAIN IN LATE 2024 WITH, UM, A GRAND OPENING DATE IN, UH, JANUARY, 2025.

SO THIS IS LIKE A PRE SAVE, THE DATE, DATE MORE DETAILS WILL COME ON THAT PROJECT, BUT WE'RE VERY EXCITED.

AND HERE'S SOME IMAGES.

THIS IS KINDA GIVES YOU A HODGEPODGE HERE OF DIFFERENT THINGS FROM DEMOLITION.

THE MIDDLE IMAGE SHOWS WHERE THEY'VE BEEN TRENCHING DOWNSTAIRS FOR NEW PLUMBING.

AND YOU CAN SEE SOME OF THE FRAMING GOING UP, AND I THINK THAT'S OUR TECHNICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT OR WHERE THE TECHNICAL SERVICES DEPARTMENT WILL BE THERE ON THE TOP RIGHT.

AND THEN WITHOUT SPOILING THE SURPRISE TOO MUCH, THIS GIVES YOU SORT OF A, A GLIMPSE INTO SOME OF THE FURNISHINGS THAT, UH, WILL BE THROUGHOUT THE BUILDING, BOTH ON THE, THE MAIN FLOOR AND DOWNSTAIRS.

I WON'T TELL YOU WHERE THE FUN, UM, ANIMAL SHAPED ITEMS WILL BE IN THE LIBRARY, BUT YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS.

OUR NEXT PROJECT IS FOR THE SOUTH GARLAND LIBRARY.

THIS PROJECT, UH, FOR SOUTH IS FUNDED THROUGH THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM.

AND THIS PROJECT WILL PROVIDE MODERNIZATIONS UPGRADES, UH, TO THE, THE FACILITY, INCLUDING SPACE ALLOCATION AND CONFIGURATION TECHNOLOGY AND SAFETY EXAMPLES INCLUDE, UH, THE ADDITION OF A MAKER AND CREATIVE LAB, UH, THAT WILL HELP SUPPORT INNOVATION AND CREATIVITY FOR ALL AGES, SUPPORT AREAS, SMALL BUSINESSES, UM, UPDATE OUR PUBLIC MEETING SPACES AND INCREASING SPACES FOR TEENS.

AND WE ALSO WANNA BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THE SAME TECHNOLOGY IN SOUTH'S, UH, MEETING ROOMS AND STUDY ROOMS THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE AT THE WEST LIBRARY AND AT THE CENTRAL LIBRARY AS WELL.

AND WE ONBOARDED AN ARCHITECT IN THE LAST QUARTER OF 2023.

ON THIS PROJECT, THE TEAMS CONDUCTING A SCOPE AND BUDGET ASSESSMENT ON THE SITE, AND THE ASSESSMENT WILL BE USED TO HELP IDENTIFY AND PRIORITIZE A LIST OF NEEDED IMPROVEMENTS FOR THE DETAILED DESIGN PHASE OF THE PROJECT.

THIS WILL HELP THE TEAM MAKE THE MOST INFORMED DECISION ON THE PROJECT.

AND NOW FOR OUR LAST PROJECT, UH, YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT THE NORTH GARLAND LIBRARY IS BEING DONE IN TWO PHASES.

UH, PHASE ONE IS ALL OF THE EXTERIOR MODIFICATIONS, UM, IN A, IN CONJUNCTION OR IN PARTNERSHIP WITH NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY.

THAT PART OF THE PROJECT IS UNDERWAY, UH, WITH ANTICIPATED COMPLETION IN THE THIRD QUARTER OF 2024.

PHASE TWO OF THE PROJECT IS PART OF THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM AND CONCENTRATES ON INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS AND UPGRADES FOR THE LIBRARY.

INTERIOR MODIFICATIONS INCLUDE REPLACING SOME OF THE WELL USED AND WELL LOVED FURNITURE IN THAT FACILITY.

UM, SPACE ALLOCATION OUTFITTING OUR STUDY ROOMS WITH THE SAME TECHNOLOGY THAT CENTRAL AND WEST WILL PROVIDE THE PUBLIC, AND CARVING OUT A DEDICATED SPACE FOR OUR TWEEN AND TEAM GROUP.

UH, WE'VE ONBOARDED AN ARCHITECT IN 2023 AND ARE CURRENTLY CONDUCTING A SCOPE TO BUDGET ASSESSMENT, UM, FOR THE BEGINNING OF THE DETAILED DESIGN PHASE OF THAT PROJECT.

AND HERE IS AN OVERVIEW OF OUR PROJECTS FOR 2024, THE ASK, AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

ANY QUESTIONS ON THE LIBRARY? I DID NOTICE, UH, THAT THE, UH, THE FACADE AT AT NORTH HAS, HAS BEEN PAINTED WHITE AND MOVING ALONG YES, BUT, BUT THE GOOD OLD, UH, NEON SIGN REMAINS AND, AND WHATEVER LETTERS IT CHOOSES TO, UH, DISPLAY, UH, I'M SADLY, I, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW THAT I'LL MISS IT WHEN IT'S GONE, BUT I CERTAINLY WILL MISS THE ENTERTAINMENT OF WHAT IT'S, UH, ADVERTISING SOMETIMES.

UH, COUNCILOR MORRIS? THANK YOU, MAYOR.

FOR A LONG PERIOD SAYS BRA.

MY FAVORITE IS WHEN IT

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BRA, YES.

PEOPLE ASK BRA, WHAT DOES THAT STORE SAY? BRA? ANYWAY, UM, I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION.

I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU AND JOB WELL DONE.

YOU ALL HAVE DONE A SPECTACULAR JOB.

I MEAN, ON, ON ALL OF THE, THE LIBRARIES.

WEST IS LOOKING, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CONCEPT AND EVERYTHING IS AMAZING.

CENTRAL IS AMAZING.

IT'S MAGIC HAPPENING THERE AT, UM, THE NORTH GARLAND BRANCH, AND I LOVE THE IMPROVEMENTS COMING TO SOUTH.

ALL OF THIS LOOKS GREAT.

THE KIOSKS.

UM, DO YOU KNOW OFF THE TOP OF YOUR HEAD ANY, ANY USAGE REPORTS ON THE KIOSK? IF NOT, I'LL JUST ASK YOU LATER.

UM, I DON'T HAVE NUMBERS OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

I KNOW THAT THE, UH, KIOSK AT LAWN WIND PARK IS USED ALMOST DAILY.

IT'S THE, THE NUMBERS ARE QUITE IMPRESSIVE FOR LAWN WIND.

UM, HERE AT, UH, THE SQUARE, THE USAGE IS GOING UP FROM WHAT IT WAS, ESPECIALLY SINCE THE, UM, SQUARE HAS COME ONLINE.

MM-HMM, .

UM, BUT, BUT WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT AND WE'RE DOING SOME PROGRAMMING AND ACTIVATIONS AROUND BOTH OF THOSE KIOSKS TO HELP WITH THAT AS WELL.

WELL ANYWAY, JOB WELL DONE.

I'M EXCITED.

A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE EXCITED AND THEY'RE COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS UNTIL EVERYTHING, YOU KNOW, GETS DONE AND POPS OPEN.

SO ANYWAY, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

MOVING ON TO FIRE WHEEL GOLF.

HI, EVERYBODY.

BRIDGES COURSE FACILITY UPDATE.

UH, KEVIN SLAY, DON KENNEDY HERE TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT FIRE WHEEL GOLF PARK.

UM, ACTUALLY IT'S A FAIRLY SHORT PRESENTATION, AND LET'S START OUT WITH, I KNOW EVERYBODY'S BEEN OUT TO FIRE WHEEL, BUT, UH, WE, UH, LOCATED THIS MAP AND ADDED A FEW THINGS TO IT.

BUT AS YOU ARE ALL AWARE, FIRE WHEEL SETS ON ABOUT 700 ACRES.

MUCH OF THAT PROPERTY IS IN FLOODPLAIN.

UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE ALONG BRAND ROAD UP, UP TO CAMPBELL, UH, NORTH GARLAND AND, UH, YOU KNOW, GEORGE BUSH TURNPIKE.

UH, THIS, UH, I JUST WANTED TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE PERSPECTIVE OF OUR 63 HOLES AND HOW THEY'RE LAID OUT.

UH, WE'RE GONNA TALK OF, UH, OUR CIP ASK TODAY IS RELATED TO OUR OLD COURSE AND AN OLD COURSE IRRIGATION SYSTEM.

BUT JUST TO REMIND EVERYONE, THE OLD COURSE, UH, THAT FACILITY WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1983, AND THEN A FEW YEARS LATER WE ADDED OUR LAKES COURSE.

AND THEN IN 2000, OUR BRIDGES CHAMPIONS COURSE, WHICH IS 27 HOLE, 27 HOLES.

UH, LET'S SEE.

YEAH, THIS IS JUST A LITTLE COMPARISON SHEET.

YOU'VE PROBABLY SEEN THESE ALL MORNING.

UH, 2023 VERSE 2024.

UH, SOME OF THE, YOU KNOW, THE CHANGE IN TOLL PROJECT COST FROM PRIOR YEAR, FOR EXAMPLE, FIRE WHEEL GOLF PARK IMPROVEMENTS.

WE TRADITIONALLY HAVE BUDGETED ABOUT 352 TO 300, 350,000 A YEAR JUST FOR GENERAL GOLF PARK IMPROVEMENTS, CART PASS, THINGS LIKE THAT.

AND, YOU KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT SOME OF THAT IS.

WE'VE, WE'VE ADDED A LITTLE MONEY, UH, AS IT RELATES TO INFLATION AND THE COST OF GOLF CARTS GOING UP.

WE'RE NOT GONNA NEED TO REPLACE THESE CARTS UNTIL 20 27, 20 28.

BUT, UH, IN TRACKING WITH, YOU KNOW, FIVE YEARS AND CIP AND ALL THAT STUFF, WE HAD TO POP THAT IN THERE.

I WANNA GO BACK.

LAST YEAR YOU GUYS APPROVED ABOUT $800,000 TO IMPROVE OUR FACILITIES.

UH, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS, THAT WAS AWESOME.

UH, SO, UH, TO DATE, WE HAVE COMPLETED, UH, THE VAST MAJORITY OF WHAT WE WANTED TO DO OVER AT THE BRIDGES COURSE.

WE HAVE A FEW THINGS TO KINDA KIND OF ATTEND TO AND SHOULD HAVE ALL THOSE DONE WITHIN THE NEXT 30 DAYS.

IT'S THINGS LIKE REPLACING OUR CEILING FANS, SOME LIGHTING.

UH, WALL ART HAS STARTED TO ARRIVE, AND WE WANNA GET SOME NEW WINDOW TREATMENTS OVER THERE AT THE BRIDGES AND THE BRANDING IRON.

SO WE'RE ALMOST THROUGH WITH OUR BRIDGES FACILITY OVER AT OUR OLD AND LAKES COURSE.

UH, YOU KNOW, I'D LIKE TO SIT HERE AND TELL YOU WE'RE ABOUT 90% THROUGH, BUT WE'RE NOT.

UH, WE HAVE REPLACED OUR BACK PATIO DECK AREA.

UH, WE'VE REPAINTED THE EXTERIOR OF THE CLUBHOUSE AND THE PAVILION.

WE'VE PUT A NEW CARPET DOWN AT THE PAVILION.

WE'VE DONE SOME MINOR LANDSCAPING OVER THERE.

BUT, YOU KNOW, THE INTERIOR RENOVATIONS WE'RE USING THE SAME CONTRACTOR WE USED TO DO THE BRIDGES COURSE.

UH, THEY KIND OF, THEY'RE KIND OF TAKING CARE OF ALL OF THAT FOR US.

YOU KNOW, THEY STARTED FAIRLY QUICKLY LAST YEAR, UH,

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UH, PROBABLY IN MARCH AND WE'RE JUST BLOWING AND GOING, AND THEN SUMMERTIME ROLLED AROUND AND I THINK THEIR ENTIRE CREW WENT TO A BIGGER, BETTER JOB.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO 'EM, BUT I'M, I'M HERE TO TELL YOU, WE HAVE CONFIRMATION, UH, FROM THEM AND FROM FOLKS IN OUR FACILITIES.

THEY ARE GOING TO BE BACK STARTING THIS WEEK ON MONDAY, AND THEY'RE GONNA START ON THE RESTROOMS, UH, AT THE OLD AND LAKES COURSE CLUBHOUSE.

WE HAVE PLANS TO BRING IN PORTA-POTTIES ON A TRAILER.

UH, WE'RE GONNA REOPEN THE COURSES ON MONDAY.

THEY'VE BEEN CLOSED DUE TO THE FREEZE, BUT WE'RE ESSENTIALLY GONNA CLOSE DOWN THAT CLUBHOUSE, OPERATE EVERYTHING OUT OF OUR PRO SHOP SO THAT THOSE CONTRACTORS CAN GET IN THERE STARTING NEXT WEEK AND BEGIN THAT RENOVATION PROJECT.

AND IT, IT'S FLOOR TO CEILING, WALL TO WALL RESTROOMS, UH, PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING DOWN THERE.

SO WE'RE FINALLY GOT 'EM.

THEY'RE BACK IN TOWN AND THEY'RE GONNA GET TO WORK, UH, NEXT WEEK.

UH, JUST SOME UP THROUGH.

WE, WE'VE GOT SOME PHOTOS OF OUR OLD, THIS IS PRIMARILY OUR OLD COURSE.

UH, I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES WE SPEND A LOT OF TIME OVER AT OUR BRIDGES CLUBHOUSE, BUT THIS IS MY FAVORITE FACILITY, UH, AS IT RELATES TO JUST THE OVERALL ENVIRONMENT OUT THERE.

I MEAN, IT'S JUST, IT'S REALLY A GREAT PROPERTY.

UH, TOP LEFT THAT IS, UH, FROM I THINK, UH, NUMBER NINE, GREEN, UH, LOOKING UP TO OUR CLUBHOUSE UP THERE.

YOU KNOW, UH, THE OLD COURSE AGAIN, UH, THAT FACILITY AND THAT GRASS, THOSE GREENS, THOSE TEE BOXES, THAT IRRIGATION SYSTEM'S 40 YEARS OLD AND EVERYTHING HAS A LIFESPAN.

EVEN OUR FAIRWAYS HAVE A LIFESPAN, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? EVERYTHING'S GOT A LIFESPAN.

AND WE HAVE REALLY, REALLY STRUGGLED THE LAST REALLY 3, 4, 5 YEARS TO KEEP, KEEP WATER ON THAT GOLF COURSE.

UH, AND SO THIS YEAR WE'RE, WE'RE REQUESTING, UH, JUST SLIGHTLY UNDER $4 MILLION TO REPLACE THE IRRIGATION SYSTEM ON THE ENTIRE OLD COURSE.

UH, AS WE'RE DOING THAT, WE, WE, THIS INCLUDES MONEY TO RE SPRIG THE FAIRWAYS.

IN OTHER WORDS, TO GROW NEW GRASS ON 18 FAIRWAYS, TO GROW NEW, UH, TO REPLACE THE, THE GREENS OUT THERE TO REPLACE THE TEE BOX GRASS.

IT'S, I DON'T WANNA, I GUESS I WOULD CONSIDER IT A, A RENOVATION.

UH, BUT WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE ASKING TO CLOSE THAT GOLF COURSE.

WE'RE GONNA KEEP IT OPEN IF WE CAN.

UH, WE MAY PLACE 17 HOLES A MONTH OR TWO.

WE MAY HAVE TEMPORARY TEE BOXES AND TURN A PAR FIVE INTO A PAR THREE.

WE'LL DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO KEEP IT OPEN.

UH, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S GONNA BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION NINE MONTHS IF THIS IS APPROVED.

SO I'M JUST LETTING YOU KNOW ALL THAT.

BUT YOU'VE GOTTA GO, WE GOTTA GO THROUGH THIS AT SOME POINT IN TIME IN OUR LIFE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? AND WE, WE REALLY NEED TO GET THIS DONE.

UH, THE GUY SPENT THE BULK OF THIS PAST SUMMER WORKING ON SPRINKLER SYSTEMS AND IRRIGATIONS.

WE ACTUALLY HAD THE WATER DEPARTMENT OUT FOR ALMOST A MONTH, HELPING US DIG UP AND REPLACE VALVES.

I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S GOTTEN TO BE A REAL NIGHTMARE OUT THERE.

UH, KEEPING WATER ON THAT COURSE.

AND THE GRASS ON THE OLD COURSE, THE FAIRWAY GRASS IS COMMON.

BERMUDA, I MEAN, IN BACK IN 1983 IT WAS, IT'S CALLED MID IRON IS A TECHNICAL TERM, BUT IT'S COMMON.

AND SO WILL WE BE REPLACING IT WITH FOUR 19, WHICH IS A HYBRID TURF, WHICH DOES MUCH BETTER DURING THE WINTERTIME.

UH, JUST A, A MUCH MORE AGGRESSIVE TURF.

UH, YOU GUYS HAVE DONE A WONDERFUL JOB OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS.

I MEAN, WE, I DON'T KNOW I'VE EVER SAID THIS, BUT WE DON'T NEED ANY EQUIPMENT.

WE'VE GOT ALL .

WELL, WE DO, BUT NO, I MEAN, WE'VE, OVER THE LAST THREE OR FOUR YEARS, WE, WE, WE HAVE DOZENS AND DOZENS OF MOWERS AND JUST UNIQUE TOOLS THAT WE USE OUT ON THAT COURSE.

AND, UH, WE'RE NOT REQUESTING ANY REPLACEMENTS THIS YEAR.

SO THAT'S A, THAT'S REALLY, REALLY NICE.

I MEAN, UH, WE'VE GOT SOME GREAT EQUIPMENT OUT THERE TO MAINTAIN THE COURSE.

UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE, UH, WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING, YOU KNOW, TYPICAL CART PATH REPAIR, EROSION CONTROL, POND, DREDGING, RE YOU KNOW, REPAIRING, RETAINING WALLS OUT THERE.

UH, AND THEN ULTIMATELY, I MEAN, DUE TO OUR STRONG REVENUES OUT THERE, I MEAN, WE HOPE TO MOVE EQUIPMENT AND IMPROVEMENTS INTO OUR OPERATING BUDGET.

YOU KNOW, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THOSE REALLY NEED TO BE IN THE CIP AND I THINK GOING FORWARD, UH, WE'RE QUITE FRANKLY, WE'VE GOT THE CAPACITY TO, TO SPEND A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS A YEAR DOING WHAT WE NEED TO DO OUT ON THAT COURSE.

AND, AND, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR GOAL IS, YOU KNOW, TO GET THAT, GET THAT IN THE OPERATING BUDGET.

HERE'S A SUMMARY OF ALL OUR CIP PROJECTS, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS.

I MEAN, WE,

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WE ARE CARRYING OVER MONEY FROM LAST YEAR'S CIP INTO THIS YEAR, BUT WE'VE ALREADY GOT IT ENCUMBERED.

WE'VE ALREADY SPENT IT, WE'VE CONTRACTORS SHOWING UP MONDAY, UH, YOU KNOW, GOLF PARK IMPROVEMENTS.

UH, OUR, OUR EQUIPMENT, WE DO HAVE A COUPLE OF PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THAT IT, IT'S TAKEN ALMOST A YEAR TO GET 'EM DELIVERED.

AND SO WE'LL BE SPENDING THAT MONEY HERE NEXT MONTH.

SO IT'S THIS A SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUE.

I MEAN, GOLF CARTS, FOR EXAMPLE, HAVE PRETTY MUCH DOUBLED IN PRICE SINCE THE LAST TIME WE BOUGHT CARTS.

ARE YOU WITH ME? IT'S, IT'S JUST SHOCKING.

UH, WHAT, WHAT IT COSTS TO MOVE A DOOR OR, YOU KNOW, TO PURCHASE A GOLF CART OR A SIMPLE GREENS MOWER THESE DAYS.

IT'S JUST REALLY, REALLY EYE-OPENING.

WHAT'S OH, ALRIGHT.

QUESTIONS.

GOT SOME QUESTIONS FOR YOU.

DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIMM MOORE.

I JUST WANT TO, UH, SAY TO BOTH KEVIN AND, UH, AND I THINK THAT YOU GUYS ARE DOING A GREAT JOB OUT THERE.

UH, I WAS JUST THINKING ABOUT LAST YEAR, WE HAD TO MAKE YOU TAKE MONEY.

SO , IT SEEMS THAT, UH, THINGS HAVE CHANGED, THINGS HAVE TURNED AROUND.

CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, GOLFER PARTICIPATION, UH, IT BEING UP, IT BEING DOWN, AND WHAT CAN YOU ATTRIBUTE TO, TO THAT AT THIS POINT? YOU KNOW, THE, THE, UM, THE INCREASE IN IN PLAYERS HAVE BEEN ASTRONOMICAL.

I MEAN, WE, WE SEE MORE PLAYERS EVERY, EVERY MONTH.

I MEAN, IT SEEMS LIKE OUR NUMBERS CONTINUE TO GO UP.

NOW, WHAT IMPACTS THAT AT THIS STAGE OF THE, OF THE INDUSTRY IS WHEN WE GET A 10 DAY PERIOD LIKE THIS, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE NO REVENUE, NO REVENUE, NO PLAYERS.

AND EVEN THOUGH IT'S IN FEBRUARY, YOU KNOW, IT'S A, IT'S CAN BE 150 TO $200,000 SWING.

AND SO, YOU KNOW, IT'S REALLY COUNCILMAN IT'S REALLY RELATED AT THIS STAGE OF THE GAME.

IT IS RELATED TO WEATHER.

I MEAN, GOOD WEATHER, WE'RE GONNA BE BUSY THIS YEAR.

WE ARE ALSO, CHERYL PARK, WHICH IS THE OTHER VERY BUSY MUNICIPAL GOLF COURSE IN RICHARDSON, THEY'RE CLOSING DOWN ONE OF THEIR GOLF COURSES PROBABLY AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK TO START A BIG RENOVATION.

AND DURING THAT TIME, I'M SURE WE WILL SEE THEIR PLAYERS COME TO FIRE WHEEL.

I MEAN, SO I ANTICIPATE NO CHANGES IN, IN, YOU KNOW, ROUNDS OR REVENUES MOVING, MOVING FORWARD, UH, FOR, FOR THE NEXT, YOU KNOW, THREE TO FIVE YEARS.

THAT'S WHAT THE INDUSTRY SAYS.

UM, SO I, I WILL ALSO ADD, DON AND I TALK ABOUT THIS ALL THE TIME.

I MEAN, DON THINKS HE KNOWS EVERYONE.

, HE DOES AND RECOGNIZES EVERYONE THAT COMES THROUGH THAT DOOR.

BUT WE ARE SEEING PEOPLE THAT WE HAVE NEVER SEEN BEFORE.

WE DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE COMING FROM.

UH, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE NOT INTERACTING AND TALKING TO EVERYONE, BUT IT'S REALLY, UH, KIND OF FASCINATING SOMETIMES TO SEE A, UH, YOU KNOW, A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS BMW PULL UP OUT THERE AND TWO GUYS GET OUT OF IT, YOU KNOW, ALL DECKED IN, YOU'RE THINKING, HOW DID YOU KNOW, WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE, ? AND, UH, UH, YOU KNOW, SO IT, IT IS PLAY.

IT'S, IT'S KIND OF AN INDUSTRY WIDE THING AND IT'S JUST PLAY AND FASCINATION WITH THE GAME.

UH, I MEAN, EVER SINCE COVID GOLF IS COOL.

I MEAN, FOR SOME REASON GOLF IS COOL NOW.

AND YOUNG PEOPLE ARE, OR, YOU KNOW, JUST, YES.

WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW EVERYBODY, BUT ONE THING I CAN JUST BASED ON, UH, YOU KNOW, I, I'M JUST GETTING INVOLVED IN GOLF AND I WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO BOTH OF YOU FOR THE MANNER BY WHICH YOU'VE ASSISTED ME WITH THAT.

UH, BUT LIKE I SAY, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU KNOW EVERYBODY, BUT EVERYBODY FEEL THAT YOU KNOW THEM .

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT.

THE LEADERSHIP AND WHAT'S TAKING PLACE OUT THERE HAS A LOT TO DO WITH YOUR HOSPITALITY, THE RELATIONSHIPS BY WHICH YOU DEAL WITH THE PEOPLE WHO COME.

AND I THINK THAT THAT'S SO IMPORTANT, UH, TO YOUR SUCCESS.

SEEMS TO ME THAT, UH, AT THIS POINT YOU'RE GONNA BE SELF-SUFFICIENT, AND, UH, YOU WON'T HAVE TO BE COMING BACK HERE AND ASKING FOR A LOT OF MONEY.

MATTER OF FACT, YOU MIGHT BE ABLE TO START PUTTING SOME MONEY INTO THE, YEAH.

SO WITH THAT, I JUST WANT TO EXPRESS MY APPRECIATION TO THE MATTER BY WHICH YOU ARE, UH, DEALING WITH THE GOLF COURSE AND CONTINUED SUCCESS.

THANK YOU, MS. MAYOR.

SEEMS LIKE I SAW A PICTURE RECENTLY OF YOU ON THE DRIVING RANGE, GETTING SOME INSTRUCTION.

I CAN'T REMEMBER WHERE I SAW THAT PICTURE, BUT I DO REMEMBER SEEING IT.

SOMEBODY SAID THEY THOUGHT THAT I WAS RESTING.

COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. FOLLOW THAT.

UH, THE GOLF PRO TO MY LEFT, ASKED ONE OF MY QUESTIONS.

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, UH, .

GOOD.

A GOOD, A GOOD MORNING.

UH, DON AND KEVIN, JUST A, LEMME ASK YOU JUST A, UH, A PROGRAMMING QUESTION.

DON, YOU SORT OF QUICKLY ALLUDED TO TELL ME ABOUT YOUR YOUTH PARTICIPATION AT FARWELL, THE YOUTH PARTICIPATION.

YOUTH PARTICIPATION.

AND TELL, TALK TO ME ABOUT PUBLIC VENUES THAT ARE DONE AT FARWELL, THAT PRIMARILY FOR THE FOLKS OF GARLAND.

CAN YOU TALK TO ME ABOUT THOSE TWO THINGS? YEAH, I SURE CAN.

UH, SO, SO FIRST OFF, THE YOUTH PARTICIPATION AT FIRE WHEEL, YOU KNOW, I DON'T WANNA BRAG A LOT, BUT THE TEAM HAS DONE AN AMAZING JOB WITH JUNIOR GOLF.

I MEAN, WE RUN A, A PRETTY MUCH A A YEAR ROUND JUNIOR GOLF PROGRAM WHERE THE KIDS ARE COMING OUT AND, YOU KNOW, WE'LL HAVE ANYWHERE FROM 30 TO 40 JUNIOR GOLFERS THAT WE INTRODUCED TO THE GAME, UM, ON, ON A, ON A MONTHLY BASIS, PER SE.

WE, WE HAVE TAKEN OFF THE LAST COUPLE OF MONTHS, BUT JUNIOR GOLF AT FIRE WILL IS, IS STRONG.

UM, DURING THE SUMMER, UH, WE HAVE STAFF THAT RUNS FOUR OR FIVE JUNIOR GOLF CAMPS ALONG WITH OUR YEAR ROUND PROGRAM.

WE INTRODUCE, YOU KNOW, WE INTRODUCE KIDS AND DIRECT KIDS HOW TO, IF THEY WANT TO JUST PLAY FOR FUN.

AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S A GAME OF A LIFETIME.

SO IF YOU, IF YOU'RE NOT COMPETITIVE AND YOU WANT TO GO PLAY GOLF AND AFTER COLLEGE, YOU'RE GONNA KNOW HOW TO PLAY GOLF, YOU'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, AND SO WE HAVE SOME KIDS THAT ARE VERY COMPETITIVE.

THEY WANNA PLAY ON THE PGA TOUR.

AND SO WE DIRECT THEM INTO TOURNAMENTS, INTO WHAT THEY NEED TO BE DOING AT THIS STAGE OF THEIR LIFE, UH, TO, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE THAT HAPPEN.

UH, WE HAVE PGA JUNIOR LEAGUE, WHICH IS A NATIONAL ALRIGHT, UH, ORGANIZATION THAT, THAT HOSTS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE YOU CHAMPIONSHIP, PGA JUNIOR LEAGUE.

I'M GONNA HAVE TO INTERJECT HERE FOR A MOMENT.

OUR, OUR CITY ATTORNEY IS TELLING ME THAT WE'VE GONE WAY OFF OF CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS.

LET, I DIDN'T EVEN SEE HIM.

I, HE'S BEEN HIDING BACK THERE, BUT, WELL, I, SO I'LL, I'LL SWITCH.

SECOND PART OF MY QUESTION.

CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT? THE, UH, UM, PUBLIC, PUBLIC, PUBLIC VENUES? OKAY.

SO THE VENUES, UH, BASICALLY WE DO A LOT OF PUBLIC, UH, PARTIES, YOU KNOW, RETIREMENT PARTIES, UH, CORPORATE, YOU KNOW, EVENTS, UH, REHEARSALS, BRIDGE CLUBS, REHEARSAL DINNERS.

I MEAN, AND, AND TYPICALLY, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE PREPARE AND, AND, YOU KNOW, I PREPARE ONCE A MONTH, UH, YOU KNOW, THE ACTIVITIES THAT HAVE TAKEN PLACE AT FIRE WHEEL, AND, YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOMETHING GOING ON THERE EVERY, ALMOST EVERY DAY, WHETHER IT BE A, THE LADIES PLAYING BRIDGE AGAIN OR, YOU KNOW, A CELEBRATION OF LIFE.

UH, I MEAN, SO, UH, AND WE'RE GETTING MORE AND MORE INTO THAT.

WE, IT IS BEEN A SOFT INTRODUCTION AGAIN, BECAUSE OF THE RENOVATIONS AND, AND THINGS THAT, THAT ARE TAKING PLACE AT FIREWOOD.

BUT I WILL TELL YOU THIS, WITH THE, WITH THE, THE UPDATES THAT HAVE HAPPENED AT THE BRIDGE'S COURSE, THE AMOUNT OF COMPLIMENTS AND JUST THE, THE PRAISE THAT, THAT, YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY FIRE WHEELS GETTING, BUT THE WHOLE CITY.

I MEAN, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THANK Y'ALL FOR SPENDING MONEY IS, I MEAN, AND THEY JUST LOVE THE, THE, YOU KNOW, THE FURNISHINGS, THE CARPET.

AND, AND SO ONCE EVERYTHING IS IN PLACE, COUNCILMAN, WE WILL BE MORE AND MORE, UH, YOU KNOW, IT'LL, IT'LL GET, WE'LL DO MORE AND MORE PARTIES.

I MEAN, WE ARE LIMITED ON SOMETIMES LIKE WEDDINGS, YOU KNOW, WE WILL BE BACK IN THE WEDDING BUSINESS A LITTLE BIT.

BUT AGAIN, I CAN'T BOOK A $4,000, $5,000 WEDDING WHEN I HAVE A $25,000 GOLF TOURNAMENT.

WE'VE GOTTA REMEMBER THAT WE'RE A GOLF FACILITY AND WE WILL HOST EVENTS AND WE WILL BE THERE FOR THE PUBLIC.

AND, UH, WE ARE THERE FOR THE PUBLIC.

AND, YOU KNOW, WHETHER IT'S ON A MONDAY, A DAY, WE'RE CLOSED, A PUBLIC OUT THERE WALKING, YOU KNOW, OR, OR, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S A GREAT FACILITY FOR, FOR, YOU KNOW, AND, YOU KNOW, I THINK OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS WE'VE GOTTEN THE WORD OUT THAT WE ARE MORE OF A, A PUBLIC FACILITY.

A LOT OF FOLKS, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE A CLUB, WE CAN'T COME IN THERE, BUT IT'S OPEN.

CONFERENCE ROOMS THERE AS WELL.

AND SO HERE, HERE'S HOW I WOULD ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

I MEAN, WE ARE A, A PUBLIC GOLF COURSE.

WE OPERATE A, UH, YOU KNOW, A, A RESTAURANT OVER AT THE BRIDGES THAT WILL ACCOMMODATE 80 TO A HUNDRED.

UH, WE HAVE A CONFERENCE ROOM THERE THAT, UH, WE'LL SEAT EIGHT TO 10.

IT'S A PRIVATE ROOM, UH, THERE AT OUR, OUR BRIDGES GOLF PARK.

UH, WE HAVE, YOU KNOW, OVER AT THE OLD AND LAKES COURSE, UH, WE HAVE A SMALL MEETING ROOM THERE AS WELL.

BUT WE HAVE A, A OUTDOOR PAVILION, UH, THAT IS REALLY A MARVELOUS PLACE.

IT WILL ACCOMMODATE, YOU KNOW, 300, UH, AND CONSERVE 300 WITH TWO SMALL

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AND, YOU KNOW, UH, THOSE ARE, ARE USED VERY, VERY OFTEN.

AND, UH, WE HAVE A TOURNAMENT AND AN EVENT COORDINATOR TO KEEP UP WITH ALL OF THAT AT FIRE WHEEL.

UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, I WOULD REMIND YOU AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC, UH, WE, WE HAVE OVER A HUNDRED GOLF TOURNAMENTS A YEAR, AND IT'S CUSTOMARY AFTER, BEFORE AND AFTER A GOLF TOURNAMENT FOR GROUP.

THE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ANYWHERE FROM 80 TO 300 PEOPLE, UH, POTENTIALLY 400 PEOPLE IN SOME OF THOSE TOURNAMENTS.

THEY ALL GATHER.

AND SO WE, WE BLOCK OUT THAT WHOLE DAY FOR THOSE 100 EVENTS BECAUSE THOSE ARE GATHERINGS OF PEOPLE SOCIALIZING, EATING.

AND SO THAT LEAVES TIME.

UH, WE DO HAVE OTHER VENUES, BUT IT'S, WE'RE, YOU KNOW, JUST WANNA REMIND EVERYONE.

WE ARE A GOLF COURSE AND THAT'S, THAT'S OUR BREAD AND BUTTER OUT THERE, YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN? BUT WE DO HAVE TIME AND WE DO LOVE AND ENJOY DOING OTHER THINGS.

I, I THANK YOU BOTH, PARTICULARLY YOU DON, FOR EMPHASIZING THAT IT'S A PUBLIC FACILITY.

AND I ASKED THAT QUESTION PRIMARILY FOR OUR PUBLIC, AND YOU EX YOU NAILED IT.

AND THANK YOU FOR, FOR, UH, REEMPHASIZING THAT IT IS A PUBLIC FACILITY OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, PARTICULARLY THE PUBLIC, OUR CITY.

SO I APPRECIATE THAT.

THAT'S, THAT WAS THE REASON I ANSWERED THE QUESTION, AND THANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION.

COUNCIL MEMBER HENDRICK.

THANK YOU, GENTLEMEN, FOR THE PRESENTATION QUESTION I HAD IS IN A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, OR CIP THERE WAS A TALK ABOUT A TRAINING FACILITY OR VIRTUAL TRAINER.

WAS THAT CONSIDERED THIS YEAR? YES, IT WAS.

AND, UH, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA SEE US ASK FOR THAT OR TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN OUR OPERATING BUDGET.

UH, THE INDUSTRY, UH, THAT PIECE OF THE INDUSTRY IS, YOU'RE PROBABLY AWARE, HAS REALLY EXPLODED.

AND, UH, WHEN WE, YOU KNOW, REDEDICATED DOWNTOWN, WE, WE HAD A DRY BOX SIMULATOR AT THAT EVENT.

AND IN TALKING TO THAT FIRM AND OTHER SIMILAR INDUSTRY, UH, YOU KNOW, FIRMS LIKE THAT, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S REALLY KIND OF GAINING A LOT OF MOMENTUM.

AND I THINK WHAT WE WANT TO TRY TO DO IN OUR OPERATING BUDGET IS BUDGET A, UH, TRAINING CENTER ON WHEELS THAT CAN BE BROUGHT IN AND SET UP AND HOUSE ALL OF THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE HAVE AT FIRE WHEEL, ALL THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO THE INDUSTRY, AND JUST MAYBE LEASE, UH, LEASE A DRIVE BOX OR TWO FOR, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE TO THREE YEAR PERIOD TO SEE, SEE HOW IT DOES.

MM-HMM, .

SO YES, THAT'S STILL VERY MUCH ON THE RADAR, BUT WE'VE GOT A LITTLE DIFFERENT APPROACH WE'D LIKE TO TALK TO YOU ABOUT, AND WE THINK WE CAN FUND IT THROUGH OUR OPERATING BUDGET, QUITE HONESTLY.

UH, CUSTOMER REMORSE.

I, I'M, I'M A LITTLE CONCERNED THAT SOME OF THEM WILL GET DISCOURAGED, BUT THE PLUS SIDE OF THAT IS THEY MAY GO SPEND MORE TIME AT BRIDGES AND FALL MORE IN LOVE WITH IT, ESPECIALLY WITH ALL THE NEW THINGS, UM, THAT YOU'VE DONE THERE.

AND, UH, AND AGAIN, THANK YOU GENTLEMEN FOR YOUR THANKS, UM, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

UM, ONE OF THE THINGS I DON'T THINK A LOT OF OUR CITY REALIZES IS THAT WE HAVE THE LARGEST COMPLEX OF GOLF COURSES IN THE STATE OF TEXAS AND THIRD LARGEST IN THE ENTIRE UNITED STATES.

SO PEOPLE COMING UP IN MERCEDES, BENZS AND GETTING OUT TO PLAY GOLF, I'M NOT A BIT SURPRISED.

I'M JUST WONDERING WHY THE REST OF THEM AREN'T SHOWING UP.

I THINK THE TIMING OF THESE RENOVATIONS HAS BEEN GREAT WITH ANOTHER COURSE NEARBY BEING CLOSED, BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA GET INTRODUCED TO A LOT OF NEW PEOPLE.

SO, UM, I, I AM ALL IN WITH YOUR, YOUR REQUESTS.

I THINK WE'VE, WE'VE GOT A LOT OF MOMENTUM GOING.

WE NEED TO KEEP GOING.

I, I LOVE THE IDEA OF A MOBILE, UM, SIMULATOR TO SORT OF LIKE AN AMBASSADOR.

YOU BE ABLE, IF IT'S MOBILE, YOU CAN DO THINGS LIKE YOU DID DOWNTOWN.

YOU CAN INTRODUCE, UH, NEW PEOPLE WHO DON'T NORMALLY COME TO THE GOLF COURSE TO THE SPORT AND GET THEM INTERESTED IN THE INVOLVEMENT WITH YOUTH.

THAT'S ALSO FAR THINKING, BECAUSE IF WE DON'T RAISE UP NEW GENERATIONS OF GOLFERS, EVENTUALLY THIS WILL DO THAT.

SO I, I LOVE ALL THE THINGS YOU'RE DOING.

UM, I LOVE THE REPLACING THE OLD BERMUDA WITH A HYBRID THAT WILL BE A LOT MORE HEARTY.

UM, YOU KNOW, MY, ONE OF MY CONCERNS, UM, WITH THE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS, LOVE THE IRRIGATION ON THE OLD COURSE.

WE HAVE A LOT OF GOLFERS WHO ADORE THAT OLD COURSE.

THEY, THAT'S THEIR FAVORITE.

THEY TELL EVERYBODY IT'S THEIR FAVORITE.

AND AS WE'RE DOING THE NECESSARY CONSTRUCTION, THE NECESSARY IMPROVEMENTS, UM, THEN

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SO IT'S, YOU KNOW, THINGS THAT ARE DIFFICULT CAN ALSO OPEN NEW DOORS AND BRING, UM, NEW OPPORTUNITIES.

SO, UM, AND KEVIN, THANK YOU FOR ROLLING OFF THE, THE PUBLIC USES.

I THINK THAT'S VERY HELPFUL.

A A LOT OF PEOPLE THROUGHOUT THE CITY WHO DON'T PLAY GOLF ARE MISSING OUT ON THE PUBLIC USES OF, UH, OUR, OUR LARGEST, I'M, I'M ASSUMING 700 ACRES.

THAT'S OUR BIGGEST PARK.

UM, MANY PEOPLE STILL DON'T REALIZE IT'S NOT A PRIVATE PARK, SO THEY'RE MISSING OUT ON EVEN CONSIDERING IT FOR A LOT OF THINGS.

SO ALL THE THINGS THAT YOU'VE DONE, UM, IN THIS LAST YEAR HAS BEEN AMAZING.

I'VE BEEN OUT THERE A NUMBER OF TIMES NOW.

THANK YOU FOR THE RESTROOM UPGRADES.

I'LL JUST SAY THAT SINCE I COMPLAINED LAST YEAR.

UM, ANYWAY, SO THAT'S IT.

WELL DONE.

I'M ON BOARD WITH ALL OF YOUR REQUESTS.

I THINK THEY'RE RELATIVELY MODEST, ALL THINGS CONSIDERED, SO THANK YOU, SIR.

AND MAYOR PRO TIMM BASS.

THANK YOU, UH, GUYS, APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION COUNSEL, APPRECIATE ALL OF THE, UH, CONVERSATION AND FEEDBACK.

ACTUALLY, I THINK THAT EVERYTHING I HAD ON MY LIST PRETTY MUCH HAS BEEN KNOCKED OFF.

AND FOR OUR ATTORNEY, I'LL TRY TO KEEP IT, UH, KEEP EVERYTHING CIP RELATED.

UM, YOU KNOW, UH, FIREWALL GOLF COURSE IS LOCATED IN DISTRICT 1:00 AM PROUD TO HAVE IT AS A PART OF OUR CITY.

UM, YOU KNOW, AS AND AS A-A-C-I-P, UH, YOU KNOW, AS THIS IS CIP CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT, THESE THINGS ARE FUNDED WITH TAX DOLLARS.

AND I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT THAT OUR CITIZENS WHO PAY TAXES ARE UNDERSTANDING THAT THIS IS AN ASSET.

AND IT DOES NOT ONLY BRING, BRING PEOPLE TO OUR CITY, BUT THERE'S ALSO, YOU KNOW, ANCILLARY INDIRECT THINGS.

FOR EXAMPLE, WHEN WE HOST TOURNAMENTS, THOSE PEOPLE NEED TO EAT SOMEWHERE.

THEY NEED TO STAY IN A HOTEL SOMEWHERE.

AND NOT ONLY DOES IT BRING THEM TO OUR BEAUTIFUL CITY TO SEE WHAT WE HAVE TO OFFER, THEY ALSO STAY HERE AND LEAVE THEIR TAX DOLLARS HERE TO HELP SUPPORT, UM, TO HELP SUPPORT US.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, FIREWALL GOLF COURSE IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF THIS CITY.

IT'S AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR, UH, CUSTOMER SERVICE DIVISION.

AND, AND AS FAR AS PARKS ARE CONCERNED, UM, KEEPING IT CIP RELATED THOUGH CAN, AND, YOU KNOW, FOR TAX DOLLARS COMING IN, UM, CAN YOU LIST OFF A COUPLE OF, UH, TOURNAMENTS, UH, THAT WE HOST AND ALSO SOME AWARDS AND RECOGNITION THAT WE'VE RECEIVED AND THOSE THINGS, AGAIN, THOSE THINGS ATTRACT PEOPLE HERE AND FOR US TO COLLECT TAX DOLLARS TO FUND PROJECTS LIKE THIS.

YOU KNOW, THIS YEAR, UH, FOR 2024, JUST A COUPLE OF THE BIG TOURNAMENTS WE HAVE, WE HAVE THE A PT TOUR ALL PRO TOUR, WHICH, UM, IS A, IS A KIND OF A MINI TOUR SITUATION, AND THEY GRADUATE PEOPLE ONTO THE PGA TOUR.

I MEAN, WE HAD BLAINE HELL, THAT'S PLAYED A LOT OF GOLF AT FIRE WHEEL THAT THIS YEAR, UH, GOT HIS PGA CARD AND OUT ON TOUR ON TV TODAY, HE'S A FOUR UNDER PAR, SO HOPEFULLY HE'LL MAKE THE CUT, BUT HE'S A NEWBIE.

UH, SO, YOU KNOW, THIS TOUR IS A, IS A, YOU KNOW, IT'S A STEPPING STONE FOR THESE YOUNG PEOPLE WHO WANNA PLAY ON THIS, ON THE, ON THE REAL TOUR.

UM, THEN WE ALSO HAVE THE LATIN AMERICAN PGA TOUR QUALIFYING, THAT'S JUST A SUBSIDIARY OF THE PGA TOUR THAT WILL, YOU KNOW, THESE, THESE PLAYERS ARE ALREADY PLAYING ON THE PGA TOUR AT A CERTAIN LEVEL, KORN FERRY TOUR.

THEY'LL COME IN, UH, FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND PARTICIPATE IN THIS QUALIFYING.

AND THIS IS A QUALIFIER, UM, THAT THEY, GOING ONTO THE, ONTO THE, I HAVE TO INTERJECT AGAIN, WE'RE BACK TO WHERE WE WERE EARLIER.

UM, NOT CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT RELATED .

SO IF YOU CAN SUM THAT UP OR REDIRECT IT, WE'LL MOVE ON.

A GOOD QUESTION, BY THE WAY, JEFF, I APPRECIATE IT.

I APPRECIATE, IT'S NOT THAT IT'S A BAD QUESTION, IT'S JUST NOT IN, IN THE BALLPARK OF WHERE WE'RE AT TODAY.

I, I TRIED TO, TRIED TO SELL IT AS CIP.

YEAH, IT'S NOT QUITE.

OKAY, I GUESS THEN I'LL JUST, UH, I'LL SAY THANK YOU.

BUT ARE YOU GONNA HAVE ANYTHING TO SHOW US LIKE THAT? YEAH, STAY TUNED.

ANY ADDITIONAL CIP RELATED QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? I SEE NONE.

UH, THANK YOU, UH, FOR, FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING OUT THERE.

IT, IT CERTAINLY IS NOTICEABLE.

UM, AND SO THANK YOU.

THANK Y'ALL.

THANK YOU'ALL.

MM-HMM, , ABSOLUTELY.

WE'LL HAVE EVERYBODY OUT WHEN WE'RE DONE.

NEXT UP WE HAVE ENGINEERING MR. BALOCHE, NO PRESSURE HERE, BUT THE LIBRARY ACTUALLY HAD TRENCHES, PHOTOS OF TRENCHES IN THEIR PRESENTATION.

I KNOW THAT'S KIND OF GETTING INTO YOUR TERRITORY,

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STAY TUNED.

ALRIGHT, GOOD MORNING, HONORABLE MAYOR COUNCIL MEMBERS.

I'M MICHAEL OTHICK, I'LL BE PRESENTING THE STREETS DRAINAGE.

AND WE ALSO HAVE A CATEGORY IN THERE WITH MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE, UH, STORMWATER.

AND, UH, MY LAURA DUNN IS HERE FOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR THE PROJECTS THAT THEY ARE WORKING ON.

I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND PRESENT ALL OF THEM SO IT'S NOT DISJOINTED.

AND THEN SHE'LL BE HERE FOR QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS FOR HER PROJECTS THROUGH THE PMO OFFICE.

SO, GETTING STARTED, STREET PROJECTS, UM, AGAIN, THE COMPARISON THAT EVERYBODY'S BEEN SEEING MOST OF THE MORNING IN OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

WE HAVE A TWO PAGE LIST, LAUNDRY LIST OF PROJECTS THAT, THAT WE HAVE GOING ON AND IN PROCESS.

BUT WE'LL GET STARTED ON THE FIRST ONE.

FIFTH STREET MILLER TO AVENUE D.

THIS IS PHASE B OF THE DRAINAGE PORTION OF IT.

WE CONSTRUCTED THE STREET A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO.

UM, BUT THERE ARE DOWNSTREAM AND DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE'RE WORKING ON ON THIS PROJECT.

FUNDING IS PROVIDED FOR THIS, UM, FOR THE COOPER AND SOUTHERN GARDENS AREA.

THERE WAS A DELAY IN THIS SCHEDULE THIS YEAR.

WE WERE AT PRETTY MUCH 90, 95% PLAN SET.

WE SUBMITTED TO TDOT, UM, ABOUT SOMETIME LAST YEAR.

FOUND OUT QUICKLY THAT THEY DON'T, SINCE WE ARE REPLACING OUR WATER AND WASTEWATER MAINS AND THEY'RE LINEAR ALONG THEIR PROJECT, THEY SAID, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THEM OUT FROM UNDER OUR PAVEMENT.

WE DON'T ALLOW THOSE UNDER OUR PAVEMENT ANYMORE.

SO WE HAD A QUICK SCULPING REDESIGN, AND ULTIMATELY WE HAD TO PURCHASE SOME, UM, EASEMENTS ALONG THIS STRETCH.

UM, AS YOU SEE IN THE BLUE THERE, THE WATER LINE MOSTLY WHERE WE'VE HAD TO ACQUIRE SOME EASEMENTS TO CONSTRUCT OUR WATER LINE OUT FROM UNDER THEIR, UNDER THEIR PAVEMENT.

SO, LONG STORY SHORT, WE ARE AT THE POINT WHERE WE'RE PACKAGING THIS TOGETHER FOR BIDS CURRENTLY.

AND, UM, WE'RE HOPING TO HAVE THIS OUT FOR BIDS, UM, HERE IN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO.

UH, WE'RE REQUESTING 1.9 MILLION THIS YEAR.

AND, UM, FOLLOWED BY TRYING TO GET THIS PROJECT CONSTRUCTED.

NEXT PROJECT CHRIS ROAD WIDENING.

WE BROUGHT THIS UP TO THE COUNCIL LAST YEAR AS A, AS A NEW PROJECT.

WE, WE GOT INTO THE DESIGN OF THIS PROJECT AND, AND, UM, WE ENDED UP AT THE INTERSECTION OF NAIMAN SCHOOL AND CHRIS ROAD WHEN WE BUILT NAMAN SCHOOL ROAD.

IT WAS A FOUR-WAY STOP.

I DON'T KNOW IF EVERYBODY REMEMBERS THAT, BUT IT WAS FOUR STOP SIGNS THERE.

SUBSEQUENTLY, WE HAVE INSTALLED A SIGNAL AT THAT LOCATION.

WELL, THE, THE GRADES ON THE NORTH END WORKED FOR THE FOUR-WAY STOP, BUT NOW WITH THE SIGNAL PEOPLE ARE SCRAPING, BOTTOMING OUT, GOING THROUGH THAT INTERSECTION.

SO WE RE-SCOPE THIS PROJECT A LITTLE BIT TO INCLUDE, UM, SOME REPAVING OF THAT NORTHERN PORTION OF THE ROADWAY THAT HAS RESULTED IN A, IN AN INCREASE OF A 389,000 TO, TO DESIGN AND CONSTRUCT THAT PORTION OF IT.

THIS, THIS PROJECT ACTUALLY HAS BID.

WE ARE CURRENTLY EVALUATING THE BIDS RIGHT NOW, AND THIS SHOULD BE ON THE COUNCIL'S AGENDA FOR APPROVAL FOR THIS PROJECT TO BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AT THE, LET'S SEE, WE SHOULD BE AWARDING HOPEFULLY BY THE SECOND MEETING IN FEBRUARY.

SO YOU SHOULD BE SEEING THIS ON THE COUNCIL AGENDA.

NEXT PROJECT IS BRAND ROAD STATE HIGHWAY ONE 90 TO MUIRFIELD.

THIS PROJECT HAS ALSO, AGAIN, THIS IS WIDENING FROM THE ASPHALT ROAD TO, TO A, A WIDER ROADWAY AND, UM, TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW THROUGH THIS AREA.

UH, THERE, THERE ARE TWO ROUNDABOUTS ON THIS PROJECT, ONE AT MUIRFIELD AND ONE AT RIVER OAKS PARKWAY.

WITH THE ANTICIPATED DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL DISTRICT SITE AND THE COMMERCIAL SITES, BOTH ON THE EITHER SIDE OF BRAND ROAD RIGHT THERE AT THE BUSH TURNPIKE.

UH, WE REEVALUATED THE DESIGN OF THE ROUNDABOUT AT RIVER OAKS.

AND SO THAT HAS RESULTED IN A, IN A SLIGHT SCOPE CHANGE IN IN REDESIGN.

SO WE ARE TO THE POINT NOW THAT WE ARE READY TO MOVE FORWARD.

WE SHOULD HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY DOCUMENTS TO START ACQUIRING RIGHT OF WAY FOR THIS PROJECT BY THE END OF THIS MONTH.

AND WE SHOULD HAVE THE FINAL DESIGN PLANS.

OUR PROJECTED TIME IS AROUND MAY OF THIS YEAR AND BE OUT FOR BID HOPEFULLY SHORTLY THEREAFTER.

AND, UM, THIS PROJECT IS A LONG TIME COMING AND IT HAD BEEN PUT BACK ON A, ON A BACK BURNER FOR A WHILE, BUT WE'VE BROUGHT IT BACK TO THE FOREFRONT.

WE'D LIKE TO GET THIS PROJECT UNDER CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR AND, AND HAVE THIS COMPLETED SOONER THAN LATER.

UM, NEXT PROJECT, NAMAN SCHOOL ROAD BRAND TO 78.

UH, ANOTHER PROJECT THAT'S BEEN IN DESIGN FOR QUITE A WHILE NOW.

THIS IS A TWO-LANE ASPHALT ROAD GOING TO A FOUR-LANE DIVIDED THOROUGHFARE.

IT HAS ALL SORTS OF FUNDING, UM, ASSOCIATED WITH ARPA FUNDING DALLAS COUNTY FUNDS.

UH, THIS HAS SUFFERED A LITTLE BIT OF A, A SETBACK

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WITH JUST THE RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITIONS IN THE FRANCHISE.

UTILITY RELOCATIONS, UH, THE RIGHT OF WAY TOOK A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN WHAT WAS EXPECTED.

AND AS A RESULT, THE FRANCHISE UTILITIES CAN'T MOVE TILL WE HAVE THE RIGHT OF WAY.

SO IT'S A DOMINO EFFECT.

THE FRANCHISE UTILITIES ARE OUT THERE RELOCATING NOW.

WE SHOULD HAVE THIS READY FOR IN PACKAGE TOGETHER FOR BID SOON.

UH, BECAUSE OF THIS DELAY, WE WENT BACK AND, AND RECALCULATED THE OPINION OF PROBABLE COSTS AND IT'S, IT'S RESULTED WITH CURRENT BIDS.

UM, WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT 1.8, 1.9 MILLION ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT TO CONSTRUCT IT.

UM, MOVING ON TO THE NEXT ONE, SHILOH AND KINGSLEY TO MILLER.

THIS PROJECT, UM, HAS SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK GRANT FUNDING, WHICH IS, WHICH IS FEDERAL FUNDING.

AND ONE THING WE FOUND OUT QUICKLY, WE HAVE FOUR PROJECTS THAT ACTUALLY HAVE FEDERAL FUNDING ON 'EM THAT I'M GONNA BE COVERING TODAY.

SO I'M GONNA, I'M GONNA TALK ABOUT THIS REAL QUICK WITH THIS.

THERE ARE, WHAT I, I DON'T WANNA SAY STRINGS ATTACHED TO THE FEDERAL FUNDING, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES THAT THE CITY HAS TO FOLLOW.

AND THERE'S LET, LET'S CALL IT CHECKS AND BALANCES WITH, WITH THE STATE.

THE STATE IS ACTUALLY UTILIZING THESE FUNDS OR FUNNELING THROUGH THE STATE.

SO THEY HAVE REQUIREMENTS EVERY STEP OF OUR PROCESS, WHETHER IT'S THE RF, QS OR OR SELECTION OF THE CONSULTANT, EVEN THROUGH THE BIDDING PROCESS, EVERY STEP OF THE WAY, WE HAVE TO TEMPORARILY STOP, SEND IT TO THE STATE FOR APPROVAL.

AND THEY TYPICALLY SAY IT TAKES ABOUT A MONTH FOR APPROVAL AND GET BACK TO US.

WELL, ON ONE OF OUR OTHER PROJECTS, IT WE, THAT MONTH TURNED INTO TWO MONTHS.

SO WE HAVE TRIED TO BUILD THAT ESTIMATED TIME OF STATE REVIEW INTO OUR SCHEDULE FOR THESE PROJECTS.

SO YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THESE SCHEDULES PUSHED BACK SLIGHTLY, TRYING TO ACCOUNT FOR THE STATE REVIEW OF OUR DOCUMENTS.

SO YOU'LL SEE THAT ON FOUR OF OUR PROJECTS, THIS IS ONE OF THEM, BUT SHILOH ROAD, KINGSLEY TO MILLER IS THE NEXT PHASE THAT WE HAD JUST COMPLETED FROM 6 35 TO KINGSLEY WIDENING FROM A FOUR LANE TO A SIX LANE DIVIDED THOROUGHFARE.

AND IF ANYBODY'S BEEN THROUGH THIS AREA, LOTS OF TRAFFIC IN THIS AREA, HEAVY TRAFFIC.

AND THEN WE EXPECT, WE ANTICIPATE IT TO INCREASE NOW THAT, UM, THE STATE IS ACTUALLY CONSTRUCTING THE LBJ PROJECT.

SO ANTICIPATED COMPLETION AND CONSTRUCTION DURATIONS, AGAIN, HAVE EXTENDED THE SCHEDULE AS WE DON'T ANTICIPATE AN INCREASE IN FUNDING FROM THE 2023 CIP RALLY ROAD CYCLE TRACK.

I BELIEVE I BRIEFED THE COUNCIL ON THIS, UH, PROBABLY ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO.

SOME OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS HERE TODAY WE'RE NOT ON, UH, ON COUNCIL AT THAT TIME.

AND THIS IS BASICALLY, WE'RE ADDING A LANE OF TRAFFIC, THE INTERIOR LANE BASICALLY NORTHBOUND TOWARDS ETTE FROM FROM ALONG ROULETTE ROAD TOWARDS ROULETTE, UH, FROM BROADWAY BOULEVARD TO RONE ROAD.

AND WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA BE ADDING THE INTERIOR LANE AND RE AND RECONSTRUCTING THE LEFT TURN LANES WHERE THEY, WHERE THEY EXIST TODAY.

THEN THE OUTSIDE LANE THAT'S EXISTING TODAY WILL ACTUALLY HAVE A, A LOW PROFILE BARRICADE BETWEEN THE DRIVING LANES AND THE OUTSIDE LANE.

THE OUTSIDE LANE WILL BE REPURPOSED AS A TWO-WAY CYCLE TRACK FOR CYCLISTS.

AND THERE WILL ALSO BE A SIX FOOT SIDEWALK OFF TO THE CURB THROUGH THAT WHOLE STRETCH FOR PEDESTRIAN USAGE.

SO, UM, DALLAS COUNTY IS HEADING THIS PROJECT UP.

THIS PROJECT DID SUFFER ABOUT A THREE MONTH DELAY THIS YEAR.

UH, COUNTY CAME BACK TO THE CITY AND SAID, HEY, WE HAVE INCREASED COSTS ON THIS PROJECT AND WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING.

WE NEED TO LOOK AT SOME VALUE ENGINEERING, TRY TO REDUCE THE COST.

WE MET WITH THEM TWO OR THREE TIMES.

WE TRIMMED, WE TRIMMED SOME OF IT DOWN.

AND THEN, UM, THEY ARE IN THE PROCESS OF PACKAGING THIS TOGETHER CURRENTLY AND, AND PACKAGING TOGETHER FOR BIDS.

I HAVE NOT HEARD THAT IT'S BEEN ADVERTISED YET, BUT I'M HOPING IT'LL BE ADVERTISED SOMETIME SOON.

BUT FROM THAT VALUE ENGINEERING, WE STILL HAVE AN INCREASE ON THE CITY'S SHARE OF JUST OVER A MILLION DOLLARS ON THIS PROJECT.

SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THE COUNCIL UNDERSTOOD THAT, THAT THERE WILL BE AN INCREASE ON THIS PROJECT.

AND WE WILL BE COMING BACK TO THE COUNCIL WITH A, AN AGREEMENT WITH DALLAS COUNTY FOR THIS.

UM, NEXT PROJECT, SIXTH STREET.

THIS WAS A NEW PROJECT THAT WAS ADDED LAST YEAR, UH, AVENUE F AND E.

THIS IS ACTUALLY, UM, CONNECTED OR TO AN ADJACENT MULTIFAMILY DEVELOPMENT.

SO IT'S ALL TIED TOGETHER.

THESE ARE CURRENTLY OLD ASPHALT STREETS WITH, WITH DRAINAGE DITCHES ON THE SIDES AND, AND Y INLETS.

AND, UM, WE'RE GOING TO IMPROVE THE STREETS TO CONCRETE CURB AND GUTTER, UM, WITH UNDERGROUND DRAINAGE AND SIDEWALKS.

UH, WE, ONCE WE GOT INTO THE DESIGN IS RIGHT AFTER THE SURVEY, WE REVIEWED THE SURVEY.

WE QUICKLY NOTICED THAT THERE'S A FEW BUSINESSES OUT THERE THAT

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HAVE PARKING LOTS THAT ARE ACTUALLY IN THE CITY RIGHT OF WAY.

SO WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WORK WITH THEM.

WE'VE ADJUSTED OUR SCHEDULE.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO WORK WITH THESE IN INDIVIDUALLY.

ONE-ON-ONE, TRY TO WORK THROUGH ALL THE, ALL THE DETAILS OF HOW THIS IS GOING TO COME TOGETHER.

AND, UM, WITH THAT WE ALSO ASKED OUR, OUR CONSULTANT TO, TO REVISE THE OPINION OF PROBABLE COST.

AND THEY ESTIMATED THERE'D BE ABOUT A HALF A MILLION DOLLARS MORE TO COMPLETE THIS PROJECT.

BUT THIS, THIS PROJECT IS UNDER DESIGN AND WE HOPE TO HAVE IT, UM, HOPEFULLY HAVE A FINISHED A DESIGN BY THE END OF THIS YEAR AND HOPEFULLY BID SOMETIME NEXT YEAR.

UM, OH WAIT, WENT TOO FAR.

SHILOH ROAD, MILLER TO FOREST, AGAIN, THIS HAS THE SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BLOCK RAMP FUNDS.

THIS IS THE NEXT PHASE FROM WHERE WE WERE TALKING JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO ABOUT WE KINGSLEY TO MILLER.

THIS IS MILLER TO FOREST.

AND, UH, WE CURRENTLY HAVE $18.9 MILLION IN THESE GRANT FUNDS.

AGAIN, THESE ARE, UM, FEDERAL FUNDS THAT REQUIRE THE MILESTONE STEPS TO BE REVIEWED.

AND, UM, WE WILL CONTINUE SINCE THIS PROJECT IS CONTINGENT ON SHILOH FROM KINGSLEY TO MILLER, TO BEING COMPLETED FIRST BEFORE WE CAN START CONSTRUCTION ON THIS.

THE, THE CONSTRUCTION DATE IS PUSHED BACK TO AROUND 2020 7, 28 TIMEFRAME IS WHEN WE'RE ANTICIPATING STARTING CONSTRUCTION.

IN THE MEANTIME, WE WILL CONTINUE TO APPLY FOR ADDITIONAL, UM, STBG GRANT FUNDS DURING THAT TIME.

AND WE, WE DON'T SEE ANY REASON WHY THE, UM, THE YEX DOT WOULDN'T ACCOMMODATE US ON THAT.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE'S A PRETTY HEFTY PRICE TAG ON THIS SEGMENT OF ROADWAY.

AND, UH, BUT WE WILL CONTINUE TO REQUEST FUNDING.

THIS IS AN INCREASE FROM LAST YEAR.

THIS, THIS IS A, A, A STRETCH.

IT ACTUALLY INCLUDES THE INTERSECTION AT MILLER AND THE INTERSECTION AT FOREST.

AND, UM, THERE'S SOME REALIGNMENT THROUGH THIS AREA THAT WE'RE HAVING TO DEAL TO DEAL WITH.

AND SO A LOT OF THIS COST IS, IS RIGHT OF WAY AS WELL AS THE INTERSECTION IMPROVEMENTS.

SO, BUT IT IS, IT IS A BUMPED UP ABOUT $11.8 MILLION ESTIMATE FROM LAST YEAR PEDESTRIAN ROUTES.

FOREST JUPITER STATION DART STATION.

DART HAD A STUDY ABOUT TWO, THREE YEARS AGO, WHICH WAS THE LAST, THEY CALL IT THE LAST MILE TO AROUND ALL THEIR DARTS AROUND ALL THEIR STATIONS.

AND THESE ARE AREAS WHERE THERE'S SIDEWALKS THAT ARE MISSING OR THEY DON'T HAVE CONNECTIVITY TO CERTAIN AREAS WITH SIDEWALKS TO THEIR TRAIN STATIONS.

AND THEY'VE ACTUALLY, UM, ALL ALLOTTED FOR PARTICIPATION FROM, UH, IN THESE SIDEWALKS.

BUT THE CITIES HAVE TO, TO ACTUALLY MANAGE THE PROJECTS FOR THEM TO ACTUALLY CONSTRUCT THE SIDEWALKS.

'CAUSE THESE ARE OUTSIDE OF THEIR, THE DART AREA.

SO, BUT THEY'VE GRANTED US FUNDING FOR IT.

SO WE, WE SAID, OH, THIS IS GREAT BECAUSE WE HAVE A LOT OF UNFINISHED SIDEWALKS AROUND THESE AREAS.

SO AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THIS IS WITHIN A HALF MILE RADIUS OF THE DART STATION AND TO THE SOUTH OF THE RAILROAD, UM, THERE AT MILLER PARK AND INTERNATIONAL, THAT'S AN ACTUAL INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE GET OFF THE TRAIN AND THEY'RE COMMUTING TO WORK BY FOOT THROUGH THIS AREA OFF THE TRAIN.

AND THEN OF COURSE, ON THE NORTH SIDE THERE AT KIRBY, BARNES IN THAT AREA, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF APARTMENT COMPLEXES IN THAT AREA WHERE PEOPLE ACCESS THE TRAIN, TAKE 'EM TO DOWNTOWN DALLAS DURING THE DAY TO WORK.

SO THIS, THIS IS AN IN A GREAT PROJECT, BUT AGAIN, THESE ARE FUNDS THAT WILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE, THE CHECKS AND BALANCES PROCESS AS WELL.

SO WE'VE, WE'VE TRIED TO ADJUST OUR SCHEDULE TO, TO MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN, UM, STAY ON TRACK WITH THAT, BUT HAVE A REALISTIC IDEA OF WHEN THIS WILL ACTUALLY GO TO CONSTRUCTION.

WE DON'T ANTICIPATE AN INCREASE IN THIS PROJECT FROM LAST YEAR'S ESTIMATE.

NEW SIDEWALKS AN A DA ROUTE PROGRAM.

NOW, THIS PRO, THIS PROGRAM HAS TAKEN OFF LIKE A WILDFIRE JUST IN THE LAST TWO TO THREE YEARS.

AND I THINK MOST OF YOU ARE AWARE OF THAT.

UM, WE USED TO BUDGET AROUND 500, 550,000 A YEAR FOR THIS.

THESE, THIS IS THE AREAS WHERE WE ARE, WE HAVE MISSING SIDEWALKS AROUND THE CITY, SIMILAR TO THE, TO THE DART STATION SITE.

WE WENT AROUND A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND WE LOOKED AT ALL THE AREAS AROUND THE CITY ALONG THOROUGH AFFAIRS WHERE WE HAVE THE WORN OUT PATHS WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN WALKING AND, AND WE KIND OF IDENTIFIED ALL THOSE AND, AND KIND OF MONITORED THOSE TO SAY, OKAY, THESE, THESE STAY ALL THE TIME, SO WE OBVIOUSLY NEED TO GET OUT THERE AND, AND BUILD SOME SIDEWALKS.

SO THAT'S WHAT THIS FUNDING GOES TO.

THIS ALSO, UM, GOES TOWARDS CONSTRUCTING A DA COMPLIANT ROUTE, UM, RAMPS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

UH, WHEN WE HAVE SOMEBODY CALL IN AND SAY, HEY, I'M TRYING TO GET FROM POINT A TO POINT B, THEY MAY BE PHYSICALLY

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CHALLENGED IN SOME WAY, THE WHEELCHAIR OR WALKER OR WHATEVER, BUT THEY STILL WANT TO MOBILIZE THROUGH THE SIDEWALKS, BUT THEY CAN'T MANEUVER THROUGH CROSS, YOU KNOW, THE INTERSECTIONS BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A RAMP THERE.

AND SO THAT'S WHAT THIS FUNDING ALSO GOES TO ARE THOSE REQUESTS.

AND THE CITY OVER THE LAST FOUR TO FIVE YEARS HAS CONTINUALLY BUILT ANYWHERE FROM 300 TO $500,000 WORTH OF A DA RAMPS A YEAR JUST ALONE IN RAMPS.

SO WE'RE REQUESTING SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR THIS PROGRAM.

WE'VE HAD SOME, SOME PEOPLE THAT HAVE COME FORTH IN THE LAST YEAR STATING THAT THEY, THEY TAKE THE BUS, THEY GET OFF AT BUS STATIONS, THEY'RE TRYING TO GET TO DIRT, DIFFERENT AREAS AROUND THE CITY BY TAKING THE BUS.

AND THERE ARE JUST NOT RAMPS OR A DA COMPLIANT ROUTES AVAILABLE.

SO ALL THIS IS BUNDLED INTO ONE PROGRAM.

AND AGAIN, PART OF THIS THAT WE HAVE TARGETED AND WE ACTUALLY APPLIED FOR SOME ADDITIONAL FEDERAL FUNDING AND WE RECEIVED IT AT 3.3 MILLION IN DOLLARS IN FEDERAL FUNDING.

THIS IS FROM THE DART STATION IN DOWNTOWN EAST ALONG WALNUT STREET TO THE LIGHT INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT THAT'S IN THAT AREA.

AND ALSO DOWN FIRST STREET, THE CONNECTIVITY DOWN FIRST STREET AND THEN SOME ON MARS.

SO WE DID RECEIVE FUNDING FROM, FROM THAT PROGRAM AS WELL.

AND AGAIN, THAT'S ALL PART, ALL PACKAGED TOGETHER IN THIS WHOLE, UM, PROGRAM OF NEW SIDEWALKS.

AN EXAMPLE, YOU'RE ASKING FOR PICTURES.

MAYOR, HERE'S, HERE'S A FEW PICTURES.

UM, YARBOROUGH PARK.

THIS IS ONE THAT WE JUST COMPLETED, UM, JUST IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I BELIEVE THIS WAS BUILT IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER TIMEFRAME.

THERE WAS, THERE WAS A COMPLAINT THAT THE ENTIRE SUBDIVISION OF THE AREA HAVE SIDEWALKS, BUT THE PARK AND ACCESSING THE PARK, THE SIDEWALK STOP AT THE ALLEYWAYS, IF YOU SEE THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT, THIS IS AN AREA VIEW PRE SIDEWALK AND THERE'S AN ALLEY ON EACH SIDE ON THE EAST AND WEST SIDE.

AND YOU CAN SEE A SIDEWALK CONNECTING TO BOTH OF THEM, BUT THERE'S NO SIDEWALK IN FRONT OF THE PARK TO ACCESS THE PARK.

SO, UM, WE GOT OUR SURVEYORS OUT THERE.

WE, WE QUICKLY PUT A PLAN TOGETHER AND WE'RE ABLE TO, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE TWO PICTURES ON THE LEFT, UM, WE WERE ABLE TO CONSTRUCT THIS PRO, THIS SIDEWALK PUT THE A DA RAMPS IN AND COMPLIANT AT THE ALLEY APPROACHES.

AND NOW WE HAVE A COMPLETED SIDEWALK THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE SUBDIVISION TO ALLOW TO ALLOW THE CITIZENS TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THAT FROM THE, FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD.

SO THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF, OF WHAT THIS PROGRAM AND WHAT WE DO WITH THIS PROGRAM AND WHAT WE GET CONSTRUCTED.

UM, BOTTLENECK IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

THIS IS A PROGRAM WHERE WE HAVE 12 MAJOR INTERSECTIONS THROUGHOUT THE CITY THAT NEED, UM, ENHANCEMENTS TO THE INTERSECTIONS TO IMPROVE TRAFFIC FLOW.

THIS COULD BE LEFT ADDITIONAL LEFT TURN LANES, IT COULD BE RIGHT TURN LANES, BUT IT'S, IT'S USUALLY WIDENING THE INTERSECTION TO TRY TO KEEP TRAFFIC FLOWING SO NOBODY SITS AT THE SIGNAL FOR LONGER THAN THEY NEED.

UM, WE CURRENTLY HAVE PACKAGE ONE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND THEN WE HAVE PACKAGE TWO AND THREE.

UH, THEY'RE DESIGNED AND THEY'RE SCHEDULED FOR BIDDING.

THIS UNFORTUNATELY IS A TYPO, I APOLOGIZE FOR THAT IN 2024, SPRING OF 2024, NOW 2023.

AND THEN, UM, BUT THE CONSTRUCTION PROCUREMENT AS WELL AS THE RIGHT OF WAY ACQUISITION AND FRANCHISE UTILITIES HAVE SLOWED THIS PROCESS DOWN A LITTLE BIT.

ALTHOUGH WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT THESE INTERSECTIONS WIDENING AND IMPROVING TRAFFIC FLOW.

THE PROPERTY OWNERS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO ACQUIRE PROPERTY FROM ARE NOT AS EXCITED ABOUT GIVING UP PROPERTY.

SO, YOU KNOW, THAT'S BEEN A CHALLENGE.

BUT WE HAVE RECEIVED, UM, COOPERATION FOR MOST OF THEM AND WE'RE, BUT IT'S BEEN A SLOWER PROCESS IN WHAT WE ORIGINALLY ANTICIPATED.

AND THEN AGAIN, FRANCHISE UTILITIES HAVE TO MOVE BEFORE WE CAN CONSTRUCT OUR PROJECTS.

NOW, BASED ON THE PACKAGE ONE BID, WE WENT BACK TO OUR PACKAGE TWO, THREE AND FOUR AND REEVALUATED OR RECALCULATED OUR OPINION OF PROBABLE COSTS.

AND WE'RE SHOWING AN INCREASE OR AN ANTICIPATED INCREASE OF APPROXIMATELY $2 MILLION TO COMPLETE THE REMAINING INTERSECTIONS ON PACKAGES TWO, THREE, AND FOUR.

AND AS YOU CAN SEE HERE, THIS IS, THIS IS OUR PLANNED TIMELINE OF TRYING TO GET THESE PRO THESE INTERSECTIONS COMPLETE GARLAND AVENUE AND CAMPBELL AVENUE OR CAMPBELL ROAD AT ONE 90.

UM, FOR THE MOST PART, THOSE WERE SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR LAST YEAR.

UM, THAT'S IN PACKAGE ONE.

ALSO IN PACKAGE ONE OR BROADWAY BOULEVARD AND FOREST LANE AT JUPITER.

UM, BOTH OF THESE PROJECTS ARE UNDER CONSTRUCTION AND WE SHOULD HAVE THOSE COMPLETE THIS YEAR.

WE SHOULD BEGIN PACKAGE TWO AND THREE THIS, THIS YEAR AND NEXT.

AND WE HAVE THOSE PROJECTED OUT IN 25 AND 26.

AND THEN IN 27 IS PACKAGE FOUR THAT WE HOPE TO HAVE THAT ALL COMPLETED BY 2027.

SO A SUMMARY OF ALL OF OUR STREET PROJECTS, UM, INCLUDING SOME THAT WE DID NOT TALK ABOUT TODAY.

UM, TWO PAGES TOTAL

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GRAND TOTAL FOR 2024.

THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT AND PMO ARE REQUESTING $52.4 MILLION TO KEEP THESE PROJECTS EITHER MOVING OR UNDER CONSTRUCTION OR ALL.

SO WITH THAT, I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS CONCERNING STREETS.

COUNCIL MEMBER MORRIS.

UM, YOU KNOW, STREETS ARE EXPENSIVE, BUT THAT REMAINS OUR CITIZENS NUMBER ONE CONSTANT, CONSTANT REQUEST.

SO, UM, BEING VERY FAMILIAR WITH A WHOLE LOT OF THE STREETS THAT YOU MENTIONED AND, AND I'LL JUST SAY ONE IN, IN DISTRICT ONE WHERE WE LIVE FOR 20 YEARS, THE CHRIS ROAD.

, YOU KNOW, SCRAPING.

I LIVE WITH A, UM, A, A GARLAND VOTER WHO COMPLAINS EVERY TIME WE DRIVE ACROSS THAT BECAUSE IT SCRAPES THE BOTTOM OF HIS CAR.

SO JUST SAYING, UM, THE SIXTH STREET AVENUE, F AND E, UM, ANYBODY WHO, UH, COUNSEL WHO HAVEN'T BEEN OVER THERE, DRIVEN AROUND THERE, UM, THIS IS A MUCH NEEDED, MUCH, MUCH NEEDED.

UM, STREET PROJECT, UH, FOR DRAINAGE, FOR EVERYTHING THAT IS A MESS.

THAT'S ANOTHER, UH, POINT OF PAIN AMONG CONSTITUENTS.

SO, UM, AND I ALSO WOULD JUST WANNA SAY THE 80 DA RAMPS THAT YOU'RE SAYING, WE'RE SPENDING 300 TO 500,000 A YEAR.

UM, UH, WELL DONE BECAUSE IT'S WORKING.

SO I GET A LOT OF THOSE CALLS AND YOU GUYS HAVE BEEN LIKE THAT.

UM, AND THAT'S BEEN ONE OF THE THINGS THAT CITIZENS HAVE SAID.

THIS IS ALMOST LIKE MAGIC, YOU KNOW, ALL I HAD TO DO WAS ASK.

SO, UM, ANYWAY, I DON'T SEE A SINGLE PART OF THIS REQUEST THAT, THAT I QUESTION OR HAVE CONCERNS ABOUT.

UH, YOU SAID AT ONE POINT IT'S A LONG TIME COMING ABOUT A COUPLE OF THE PROJECTS.

AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED, ALL THESE THINGS WERE A LONG TIME COMING AND THESE AREN'T FLUFF, THESE AREN'T, YOU KNOW, UM, EXCESSIVE.

UH, THESE ARE ALL MUCH NEEDED PROJECTS TO IMPROVE THE CITY AND THE DRIVING EXPERIENCE.

SO, UM, I, I'M ALL IN WITH, WITH ALL OF YOUR REQUESTS AND THANK YOU FOR PRESENTING.

VERY GOOD CUSTOMER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU MAYOR.

JUST WANNA SEE WHAT TIME IT GOOD MORNING, MR. GOOD MORNING.

YEAH, HOW ARE YOU? OH, WOULD YOU GO BACK TO SLIDE ON THE, UH, THE ETTE ROAD WALK AND PROJECT? THERE IT IS.

YEAH, RIGHT THERE.

RIGHT THERE.

AND YOU HAD MENTIONED YOU, YOU'RE WORKING WITH THE COUNTY, THERE WERE SOME DELAYS, ANY GOING FORWARD, ARE THERE ANY, USUALLY DESIGN COMES UP WHEN YOU'RE DEALING WITH THE COUNTY.

ARE THERE ANY ANTICIPATED OTHER MAJOR DESIGN ISSUES, UH, OBSTRUCTION OR THAT'S PRETTY MUCH BEEN CLEARED OUT? EXCUSE ME.

NO SIR.

WE, THAT'S PRETTY MUCH BEEN CLEARED OUT.

THAT WAS WHAT THE VALUE ENGINEERING MEETINGS WERE FOR IS TO, TO VET ALL OF THESE, TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE WE CAN CUT SOME COSTS AND THEN WE ALL AGREED TO IT AND THEY'RE MOVING FORWARD.

THEY ARE PACKAGING AGAIN, I, I MENTIONED THAT THEY'RE PACKAGING THIS TOGETHER BID THAT WE, THAT, THAT WE'RE AWARE OF.

WE HAVE NOT BEEN NOTIFIED THAT THEY'VE BID IT OR IT'S FOR OUT FOR ADVERTISEMENT, BUT WE'RE ANTICIPATING THAT NOTIFICATION ANY DAY.

ALRIGHT, THANK, SO THAT SHOULD BE UNDER CONSTRUCTION THIS YEAR.

THANK YOU SO MUCH.

AND, AND, AND MICHAEL, YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO IT.

I MEAN, I, I KIND OF HAVE HAVE A GOOD IDEA OF WHAT YOUR STAFFING IS OVER THERE AND, UH, SO I JUST WANT TO COMMEND YOU WHAT YOU AND YOUR TEAM DOES WITH, WITH, WITH THE SPONSOR TEAM.

WE, WE HAVE AN INCREDIBLE STAFF.

PEOPLE, IT'S MOSTLY ALONG THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARES THAT WE WERE FOCUSING ON.

AND, UH, AND IT, IT SHOWS ALL OVER THE CITY, PARTICULARLY IN DISTRICT FOUR.

I WAS WITH TWO OF YOUR FAVORITE PEOPLE YESTERDAY AND I, I OFTEN I TEASE AND SAID IF WE HAD SUCH THING AS, AS, UM, MAYORS BY DISTRICT, UH, POLO CHECK COULD BE ELECTED MAYOR IN DISTRICT FOUR.

UH, BUT, BUT I WAS WITH THEM FOLKS YESTERDAY THAT WAS, SPOKE VERY HIGHLY OF, OF THE WORK THAT YOU HAD DONE AND YOUR TEAM.

SO I JUST WANTED TO PASS THAT ON TO YOU AND APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU DO.

UM, SO ABOUT THE, UH, NEW SIDEWALKS AND A DA ROUTE PROGRAM, HOW ARE YOU IMPLEMENTING THAT WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS? WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS? THERE, THERE IS A PLAN THAT WE WENT WITH.

OUR FOCUS WAS MORE ON THE THOROUGHFARE LOCATIONS, UM, WHERE THERE WAS A LOT OF, AGAIN, WE WENT AROUND AND LOOKED AT ALL THE DIFFERENT AREAS WHERE THERE WERE, THERE WERE TRAILS NOW.

UH, WE WERE NOT AWARE OF THE PARK ISSUE, UM, UNTIL THIS PAST YEAR.

AND WE SAID, NO, THAT'S, THAT'S TRUE.

WE NEED TO GET THIS WHERE EVERYBODY HAS ACCESS TO THE PARK.

ESPECIALLY WITH ALL, ALL THE CIP FUNDING THAT'S BEING PUT INTO PARKS.

WE NEED TO GET PEOPLE TO, TO, TO BE ABLE TO ACCESS THE PARKS.

SO, UM, BUT AS FAR AS INTERIOR TO THE SUBDIVISIONS, THOSE ARE PROBABLY LET BECAUSE THEY SERVE FEWER

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NOW WHEN THEY DO COME UP IN CERTAIN AREAS AND THERE IS A LOT OF FOOT TRAFFIC IN NEIGHBORHOODS, WE WILL CONSIDER TRYING TO WORK SOME IN.

IF THERE'S SMALLER SECTIONS OF SIDEWALK THAT JUST FOR SOME REASON IT JUST NEVER, THAT LOT NEVER DEVELOPED OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT, WE CAN, WE CAN GO IN THERE AND USUALLY FIT SOME OF THOSE IN.

UM, BUT IF IT'S LARGE SECTIONS IT'S A LITTLE BIT MORE DIFFICULT BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A PLAN IN PLACE FOR A LOT OF THESE SIDEWALKS OR FOR A LOT OF THIS FUNDING.

AND DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM MOORE.

MIKE, UH, I DO AGREE THAT NEXT TO, UH, PARKS AND RECREATION, YOU'RE PROBABLY THE MOST POPULAR GUY IN THE CITY.

UH, AS IT RELATES TO HAW HALL ROAD YES.

IN A STATE HIGHWAY 30 TO LAKE RAY HUBBERT, UH, ARE THERE ANY CONTINGENCIES WITH THAT PROJECT IF WE GO FORWARD AS IT RELATES TO THE COMPLETION OF I 30? OR WHAT ARE WE LOOKING AT WITH IT? NO, SIR.

THE WHERE WE ENDED CHA HA ROAD AT THAT LOCATION, WE KNOW THAT THAT TDOT'S GOING TO THAT SWITCH, THAT INTERCHANGE THERE.

AND, AND THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I KNOW THAT CHA HA NORTH OF THAT IS, WAS ON OUR BOND PROGRAM IN 2004.

BUT THAT'S PUT ON HOLD UNTIL WE FIGURE OUT HOW, WHAT IT'S GONNA LOOK LIKE WHEN TXDOT DOES THEIR, THEIR IMPROVEMENTS.

BUT THE IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE HAD SOUTH OF THERE, UM, BEGIN FAR ENOUGH SOUTH THAT IT SHOULDN'T HAVE ANY IMPACT.

THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE DIDN'T WANNA DO, IS HAVE TEXDOT COME OUT AND TEAR OUT SOMETHING THAT WE JUST POURED, YOU KNOW, AND REPLACED.

SO WE ENDED IT A LITTLE BIT FURTHER SOUTH KNOWING THAT THEIR PROJECT WAS COMING IN.

AND WE MAY HAVE, WE'LL WORK WITH TEXDOT AT THAT TIME IF WHETHER THEY PAVE ALL THE WAY TO OUR SECTION OR, OR THEY LEAVE US A PORTION WE MAY HAVE TO DO LATER, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH PLANS ON THAT AT THIS TIME TO KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING.

SO WHEN YOU SAY SOUTH, YOU'RE REALLY SPEAKING OF THE BASS PRO SIDE? YES, SIR.

SO WE YES, SIR.

FROM, FROM BASICALLY FROM THE BASS PRO DRIVE IS WHERE WE ENDED OURS.

NOW DOWN TO LAKE RAY HUBBARD PARKWAY.

AND COUNCIL MEMBER DUTTON.

UM, SO AS SOMEONE WHO HAS BUSTED MY OIL PANIC, KRISTEN A AMEN.

THANK YOU, .

'CAUSE LORD JESUS .

UM, ALSO I WANNA SAY THAT I, I SERIOUSLY APPRECIATE THE PEDESTRIAN, UM, THE NEW COMPLETION, ESTIMATED COMPLETION DATE FOR THAT, UM, FOR THE DART FOREST, JUPITER, THANK YOU SO MUCH.

UM, AND THEN THE ONLY QUESTION I REALLY HAD WAS, UM, WHEN WE GET READY TO DO THE SHILOH BETWEEN MILLER AND FOREST, IS THERE A LAND ACQUISITION THAT'S GONNA GO ALONG WITH THAT? YES.

THERE IS.

THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I NEEDED.

ANY FURTHER QUESTIONS? I SEE NONE.

IMPROVEMENTS TO IMPROVE THAT WESTERN HEIGHTS DRAINAGE AREA.

EVEN THOUGH YOU DIDN'T HAVE ANY PICTURES OF TRENCHES YET? NO PICTURES OF TRENCHES? I, UH, NO, I, I DO HAVE.

WELL, THE ANTICIPATION HAS BEEN BUILT.

WELL, LET'S SEE WHAT WE HAVE.

ALRIGHT, SO AGAIN, WE'LL, WE'LL PICK UP ON THE DRAINAGE PROJECTS.

NOW AGAIN, HERE'S ALL THE DRAINAGE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE GOING ON THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

UM, NUMBER OF DIFFERENT AREAS, UH, BUT WE'LL MOVE INTO THE INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS CLASSIC IN YALE.

THIS IS A PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN, UH, IT WAS ON THE OH FOUR BOND PROGRAM.

WE HAD FLOODING OVER OFF OF CLASSIC AND YALE AREA.

AND, UM, IF PEOPLE REMEMBER WAY BACK WHEN THERE WAS, THERE WAS A BUILDING ACROSS THE CREEK.

WE, WE PURCHASED THE BUILDING A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO AND RAISED THE BUILDING.

I BELIEVE IT WAS AN OLD POOL HALL.

AND, AND THAT HAS IMPROVED THE DRAINAGE FLOW THROUGH THAT AREA WITH NOT HAVING A BUILDING SITTING ACROSS THE CHANNEL.

AND SO, UM, WE HAVEN'T HAD ANY COMPLAINTS, BUT WE, WE FIGURED, ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOTTA GO BACK AND RERUN A DRAINAGE STUDY THERE.

THERE'S A COUPLE OF, BEEN SOME ADDITIONAL REQUESTS ALONG THE STREAM.

ONE IS, THAT WAS AT THE INTERSECTION OF JUPITER AND WALNUT, UH, WHERE WE REMOVED THE BUILDING AND THAT IMPROVED THAT DRAINAGE UPSTREAM.

BUT WE WANNA RERUN THE MODEL TO MAKE SURE THERE'S NOT ANY ADDITIONAL WORK THAT WE NEED TO DO.

UM, BUT THERE'S ALSO A CONSIDERATION AT THE INTERSECTION OF WALNUT AND JUPITER, OF IS THERE ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO IN THIS AREA TO REDUCE THE FLOODPLAIN IN THAT AREA? 'CAUSE ALL OF THESE, THESE, UM, STRIP CENTERS THAT ARE IN THAT AREA, IF, IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN THE FLOODPLAIN MAP, IT'S REALLY WIDE IN THAT AREA.

SO WE WERE THINKING, ALL RIGHT, LET'S LOOK AND SEE IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE CAN DO WITH MODELING IN THIS STUDY TO HELP REDUCE THAT TO PACE.

POSSIBLY SPARK SOME KIND OF, MAYBE REDEVELOPMENT OF THE AREA OR, OR AT LEAST IMPROVE THE LOOK OF THAT AREA.

EXCUSE ME.

SO THAT WAS ANOTHER PART OF ADDING THIS DOWNSTREAM OR THIS DRAINAGE STUDY FOR THIS YEAR.

AND THEN ALSO, UM, WE HAVE ANOTHER PROJECT THAT'S WESTERN HEIGHTS, UM, DRAINAGE

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IT ACTUALLY DISCHARGES INTO THE SAME CHANNEL OR THE SAME CREEK.

AND TO IMPROVE SOMETHING TO ACCOMMODATE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM AND YOU DISCHARGE IT IN THE CREEK, WHAT ARE, WHAT IMPACTS DOES THAT HAVE ON THE CHANNEL AND THE PEOPLE DOWNSTREAM ON THE CHANNEL, WILL IT FLOOD? SO WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL OF THESE IN THIS DRAINAGE STUDY THIS YEAR TO TRY TO FIGURE OUT, ALRIGHT, ARE WE CAUSING ANY ADVERSE IMPACTS TO ANYBODY UPSTREAM AND DOWNSTREAM? SO THAT'S WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS DRAINAGE STUDY IS THIS, THIS YEAR FROM THAT, UM, THERE MAY BE SOME ADDITIONAL SMALLER PROJECTS THAT COME OUT OF THIS.

UM, WE'RE NOT A HUNDRED PERCENT CERTAIN YET, SO, BUT WE ARE TRYING TO FINISH THE DRAINAGE STUDY THIS YEAR.

BRIDGE AND DRAINAGE INFRASTRUCTURE REMEDIATION.

UM, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH, UM, I'VE, I'VE REPORTED THIS I THINK YEAR AFTER YEAR, 'CAUSE THE, THIS IS A, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PROGRAM THAT WE HAVE AT THE CITY.

THIS IS REPAIRING ALL THE BRIDGE STRUCTURES IN, IN GARLAND THROUGH WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY NEED IT AND WHEN IT OCCURS.

UM, WE ARE CURRENTLY ON OUR PACKAGE ONE C RIGHT NOW.

UH, THERE ARE, I BELIEVE, 16 BRIDGES IN THAT ONE.

NOT ALL OF 'EM ARE MAJOR.

UM, THEY'RE NOT MAJOR.

WE TRY TO GET TO 'EM BEFORE THEY BECOME A MAJOR PROBLEM.

SO THESE ARE, THESE ARE REPORTS THAT TXDOT SENDS US EVERY TWO YEARS, EVERY ODD YEAR, 21, 23, AND WE'LL HAVE SOME MORGAN IN 25.

BUT WE REVIEWED THESE AND THERE ARE 13 ADDITIONAL BRIDGES THAT CAUGHT OUR ATTENTION WITH THE SCORES THAT THEY'RE RANKING.

THEY'RE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING FROM THE COLUMNS TO THE CAPS, TO THE DECKS, TO THE SUPERSTRUCTURE, SUBSTRUCTURES, UH, ABUTMENTS, YOU NAME IT.

ALL THE DIFFERENT PARTS THAT THAT COULD GO WRONG WITH THE BRIDGE.

UM, EVEN THE RAILINGS.

SO THEY SEND US A REPORT BACK AND WE START LOOKING THROUGH THERE AND THEY HAVE THEM RANKED.

AND THEN THERE'S CERTAIN NUMBERS THAT CATCH OUR ATTENTION TO SAY, OH, WE REALLY NEED TO GO OUT AND LOOK AT THIS.

SO THIS YEAR WE'RE GONNA BE LOOKING AT 13 ADDITIONAL BRIDGES THAT CAME UP IN LAST YEAR'S STUDY THAT WE WANT TO EVALUATE AND COME UP WITH OUR OWN ASSESSMENT AND THEN POSSIBLY GO INTO SOME SORT OF DESIGN FOR, FOR REPAIRS TO THESE BRIDGES.

AGAIN, WITH A BRIDGE AND WITH OTHER DRAINAGE PROJECTS, TIME IS NEVER A GOOD THING.

SO WE WANNA TRY TO GET ON IT AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.

BUT WE, WE WILL BE LOOKING AT 13 ADDITIONAL BRIDGES.

CASE IN POINT, SOME OF THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, THIS IS, THIS WAS JUST RECENTLY COMPLETED THIS LAST YEAR.

THIS IS THE BRAND ROAD BRIDGE NEAR OVERLAND AND QUEENS WOOD, IF YOU CAN SEE ON THE RIGHT, IT'S A LITTLE BIT DARK.

I TRIED TO LIGHTEN THE PHOTO UP, BUT YOU CAN SEE UNDERNEATH THE BRIDGE, THERE'S, THERE'S NOT ANY KIND OF REVETMENT OR ANYTHING PROTECTING THE COLUMNS FROM EROSION AND SCOUR UNDER THE BRIDGE.

AND THIS IS ONE OF 'EM THAT CAME UP LAST YEAR THAT'S IN OUR PACKAGE ONE C AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE, IN THE LEFT AFTER WE CONSTRUCTED IT, WE'RE PROTECTING THOSE, THOSE COLUMNS IN, IN THE UNDER STRUCTURE OR THE, OR THE SUBSTRUCTURE OF THAT BRIDGE TO, UM, FROM SCOUR AND EROSION AND THAT TYPE OF THING, EXTENDING THE LIFE OF THIS BRIDGE AND, AND HOPEFULLY THAT WE WON'T HAVE TO BE BACK OUT HERE FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS.

SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT AND THIS IS WHAT YOU DON'T SEE FROM THE TOP OF THE DECK AS YOU'RE DRIVING OVER IT, BUT WE'RE LOOKING AT EVERYTHING ELSE SO THAT IT STAYS SAFE AND THAT EVERYBODY CAN UTILIZE THE BRIDGE TO, TO ITS FULLEST EXTENT.

UM, AGAIN, IN 24 WE'RE FINISHING UP PACKAGE C 25.

WE, WE WOULD LIKE TO DESIGN AND START CONSTRUCTION OF, OF PACKAGE 1D IF WE CAN.

AND THEN 26 B CONTINUATION OF, OF THE CONSTRUCTION OF 1D OF THOSE 13 BRIDGES, DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM, THERE ARE A NUMBER OF GIAN WALLS AND, UM, OTHER EROSION PROTECTION THAT THE CITY HAS CONSTRUCTED THROUGHOUT THE YEARS ON MANY OF THE CREEKS.

AND, UM, THOSE, SOME OF THOSE WERE PUT BACK IN, UH, EARLY EIGHTIES, MID EIGHTIES, LATE EIGHTIES, EVEN EARLY NINETIES.

AND SOME OF THESE, SOME OF THESE STRUCTURES ARE SHOWING SIGNS OF NEEDING SOME REPAIRS.

SO WE ARE ASKING FOR ADDITIONAL FUNDING ON, ON THIS PROGRAM TO GO OUT AND MAKE REPAIRS TO CITY MAINTAINED INFRASTRUCTURE ALONG THESE CREEKS AND CHANNELS.

UM, AGAIN, SOME OF 'EM ARE ALONG SPRING CREEK, SOME OF THEM, UH, AND SOME MIGHT BE FAMILIAR WITH THAT.

UP IN DISTRICT ONE, UH, BETWEEN JUPITER AND CAMPBELL, THERE'S A CREEK SECTION UP THERE THAT WE HAVE SOME FAILURE, NOT FAILURES, BUT WE'RE, THEY'RE STRESSED IN THE END.

IF WE DON'T GET TO 'EM AND, AND REPAIR 'EM, UM, THEY, THEY COULD END UP LOOKING LIKE THIS.

THIS IS WHAT WE DON'T WANT TO HAPPEN.

UH, SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER, UH, I KNOW COUNCILMAN WILLIAMS IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH THIS LOCATION, 500 VALLEY PARK DRIVE.

EARLIER LAST YEAR WE HAD A STORM EVENT THAT, UM, WASHED OUT.

YOU CAN SEE IN THE LEFT PICTURE THERE WAS, YOU COULD SEE THE END OF THE

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CONCRETE RIP WRAP THAT WAS IN THE BOTTOM OF THIS CHANNEL.

IT WASHED OUT, GOT WASHED DOWNSTREAM AND LEFT THIS EXPOSED, EXCUSE ME.

PARDON ME.

AND, UM, WE HAD TO GET OUT THERE IN A HURRY TO SURVEY THE AREA AND, AND RUN A COUPLE OF SOIL SAMPLES TO FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON.

DID WE HAVE A, UH, ANY KIND OF A FAILURE WITH THE, WITH WHAT WAS BEHIND THE WALL OR WHATEVER THE CASE MAY BE.

AND ON THE LEFT, YOU SEE WHAT WE UM, REPAIRED IT WITH WAS THE R WRAP BAG WALLS IN, IN THE LEFT PICTURE, YOU CAN KINDA SEE THERE'S AN ALLEY RIGHT ABOVE THIS THAT YOU SEE THE GUARDRAIL ALONG THE, THE, THE ALLEYWAY.

AND, UM, THIS ALLEY WAS SHUT DOWN FOR A NUMBER OF MONTHS.

THERE, THERE WAS TYPICALLY TRASH PICKUP BACK THERE.

UM, PEOPLE ACCESS IT TO GET TO THEIR, TO THEIR GARAGES AND THEIR HOMES.

AND SO THIS WAS A BIG INCONVENIENCE TO HAVE THIS ALLEY SHUT DOWN FOR SO LONG.

BUT, BUT WE GOT OUT THERE IN A HURRY.

BUT THIS IS WHAT THE DRAINAGE MAINTENANCE PROGRAM IS ALL ABOUT, IS TO TRY TO GO OUT AND REPAIR SOME OF THIS STUFF BEFORE IT GETS TO THIS CONDITION.

SO THE, YOU CAN SEE OUR LIST OF PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE THAT WE WANNA TRY TO GET CONSTRUCTED IN THE NEXT COUPLE OF YEARS WITH THIS FUNDING AND, UH, TRY TO PROTECT THESE LOCATIONS BEFORE WE GET TO AN ISSUE LIKE THIS GATEWOOD DRAINAGE STUDY, ANOTHER DRAINAGE STUDY THAT, UH, THIS IS ACTUALLY ARPA FUNDED.

AND UM, THIS WAS STUDYING THE AREA.

GATEWOOD ROAD IS AN ASPHALT ROAD AGAIN WITH BAR DITCHES, THAT TYPE OF THING.

AND DRAINAGE.

AND THIS IS A, A, UM, PARTICULAR ROADWAY THAT'S BEEN, IT'S BEEN CONSIDERED ON THE LAST COUPLE OF BOND PROGRAMS. AND, UM, IT, IT HAS NOT MADE THE CUT, BUT WE STARTED LOOKING THIS A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

AND AGAIN, TO IMPROVE GATEWOOD DRAINAGE SYSTEM TO ACCOMMODATE THE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM.

THERE'S, THERE'S AN OPEN CHANNEL THAT YOU SEE IN THE BLUE LINE THERE, AND IT ACTUALLY IS CONTAINED UNDERNEATH THE ROAD THROUGH BOX SECTIONS UNDERNEATH THE BROADWAY AND OATS ROAD.

AND SO YOU GO OPEN CHANNEL, CLOSE BOX, AND THEN OPEN CHANNEL DOWN BEHIND MIAMI DRIVE.

SO WHAT WE WANTED TO DO IS STUDY THIS AREA.

IF WE EVER IMPROVE GATEWOOD ROAD, WHICH SOMEDAY WE HOPE TO, WHAT IS THE DRAINAGE IMPACT DOWNSTREAM ON THE, ON THESE CHANNELS AND TO THESE PROPERTY OWNERS DOWNSTREAM.

SO IF WE IMPROVE THAT FOR A HUNDRED YEARS, SO THIS IS WHAT THE STUDY'S GOING TO TELL US IS ARE THERE ANY OTHER IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE NEED TO MAKE DOWNSTREAM SO THAT WE DON'T CAUSE FURTHER ISSUES FOR THE RESIDENTS DOWNSTREAM.

SO THAT'S WHAT THIS PROJECT IN INCLUDES.

AND UM, WE SHOULD HAVE THIS COMPLETE BY, I BELIEVE THAT WE SHOULD HAVE THE FINAL REPORT COMPLETED BY, I BELIEVE, UM, MAY OF THIS YEAR, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN.

SO IN SUMMARY, FOR THE DRAINAGE PROJECTS, UM, THOSE THAT WE TALKED ABOUT AND THOSE THAT ARE ON THE LIST HERE, WE'RE REQUESTING 13 POINT, A LITTLE OVER $13 MILLION FOR THE 2024 CIP.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL TAKE QUESTIONS CONCERNING DRAINAGE PROJECTS.

VERY GOOD, COUNCILOR LUCK.

AND IT'S REALLY ABOUT EXPLAINING THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT THE STORM DOES.

UM, SO WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A HUNDRED YEAR STORMS, ESPECIALLY IN, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT DRAINAGE PROJECTS MM-HMM AND HUGE PROJECTS THAT ARE VERY EXPENSIVE.

UM, WILL YOU JUST TALK ABOUT WHAT A HUNDRED YEAR STORM IS AND HOW OFTEN THAT A HUNDRED YEAR STORM MAY OCCUR? UH, AND HOW MANY HUNDRED YEAR STORMS HAVE WE HAD ? UH, YEAH, I'VE BEEN HERE FOR A WHILE.

WE'VE HAD, WE'VE HAD A FEW , EXACTLY, A HUNDRED YEAR STORM BY DE BY DEFINITION.

'CAUSE THAT'S A TRICK QUESTION, RIGHT? , UM, .

BUT, BUT, BUT THE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM IS, IS A STORM EVENT THAT HAS AN INTENSITY THAT HAS A 1% CHANCE OF HAPPENING IN ANY GIVEN YEAR.

NOW EVERYBODY SAID, OH, WELL YEAH, WE HAD A HUNDRED YEAR STORM.

OH, WELL THAT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN FOR ANOTHER A HUNDRED YEARS.

WELL THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE.

UM, WE CAN GO BACK TO 2015 AND 2016 AND AND SEE THAT THE A HUNDRED YEAR STORM OCCURRED ALONG DUCK CREEK ALMOST TO THE DATE.

OH, I THINK ALMOST TO THE EXACT DATE ONE YEAR APART.

SO IT, ALTHOUGH IT SAYS ANY GIVEN CHANCE, BUT IT COULD HAPPEN, IT COULD HAPPEN THIS WEEK AND IT COULD HAPPEN AGAIN THREE WEEKS FROM NOW.

BUT, BUT IT'S, IT'S JUST A PROBABILITY.

IT'S ALL PROBABILITY.

AND SO THAT'S THE, THEREIN LIES THE PROBLEM OF, OF TRYING TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.

'CAUSE IT'S JUST NOT EVERYBODY THINKS, OH WELL WE'RE NOT GONNA HAVE ANOTHER ONE FOREVER.

WELL, THAT'S NOT NECESSARILY THE CASE, RIGHT? SO, AND THEN YOU HAVE YOUR OTHER STORM FREQUENCY STORM EVENTS IN BETWEEN THERE.

THAT COULD BE A 25 YEAR, 10 YEAR, THAT TYPE OF THING.

SO IT'S, IT'S, IT'S PROBABILITY AND IT'S DIFFICULT TO, TO, FOR PEOPLE TO CON TO CONCEIVE THAT IT COULD HAPPEN TWO YEARS IN A ROW.

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IT DOES.

AND, AND IT'S HIGH INTENSITY AND CREEKS RISE QUICKLY AND INUNDATES A A LARGE, LARGE AREA.

AND, AND IN GARLAND, BEFORE THE MAPS WERE EVER CREATED IN THE SEVENTIES, THE FLOODPLAIN MAPS PEOPLE WERE DEVELOPING ALL UP AND DOWN DUCK CREEK.

AND THAT'S ONE OF OUR WORST FLOODING AREAS IS DUCK CREEK BECAUSE THEY BUILT PRIOR TO ANYBODY EVER MAPPING THE A HUNDRED YEAR FLOODPLAIN.

AND, AND THAT'S WHERE WE GET THE, WHERE THE CITY HAS SEEN THE MOST IMPACT TO DAMAGES FOR FLOODING EVENTS.

YES, VERY GOOD.

YEAH, SEEMS LIKE A HUNDRED YEARS COMES AROUND A LITTLE MORE OFTEN THAN, THAN A HUNDRED YEARS .

BUT, UH, ANY MORE QUESTIONS ON DRAINAGE? I SEE NONE CONTINUE.

MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE SUPPORTED, UM, IN STORM STORMWATER FUNDING.

UM, WE, WE HAVE A FEW PROJECTS ON THIS LIST AND, UM, TWO OF 'EM ARE NEW, WHICH I WANT TO COVER THIS MORNING.

UM, OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT HAS, HAS, UH, ASKED THE ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT TO HELP 'EM WITH THIS ONE 'CAUSE WE HAVE A LITTLE MORE EXPERTISE IN THIS, UM, EROSION WALL IMPROVEMENTS ALONG DUCK CREEK AND THEIR DUCK CREEK TRAIL SYSTEM.

UM, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE PICTURE, IT'S, UM, , IT'S, FOR LACK OF A BETTER EXPRESSION, THE EROSION ALONG DUCK CREEK IS, IS THREATENING THE, THE TRAIL SYSTEM.

AND WE'RE TRYING TO GET ON TOP OF THIS AS JUST AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

SO WE'RE REQUESTING FUNDING TO, TO DESIGN, I BELIEVE THERE'S THREE LOCATIONS ALONG DUCK CREEK IN THEIR TRAIL SYSTEM THAT HAVE BEEN WASHED AWAY.

AND SO WE WANT TO TRY TO GET ON TOP OF THIS JUST AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE.

WE NEED SOME FUNDING TO GET THIS STARTED AND DESIGNED AND COME UP WITH A CONSTRUCTION, UH, HOPEFULLY BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR AND GET THIS THING REPAIRED AND, AND PROTECT THESE TRAIL SYSTEMS BEFORE WE HAVE ADDITIONAL DAMAGE THAT WE HAVE TO REPLACE TRAIL SYSTEMS. SO, UM, THAT'S ONE OF OUR NEW PROJECTS THIS YEAR.

THE OTHER NEW PROJECT IS FLOOD DETECTION DEVICES AND AUTOMATED GATES.

THERE ARE FIVE INTERSECTIONS, OR OUR ROADWAYS SECTIONS OF ROADWAY THAT DURING THESE A HUNDRED YEAR STORMS OR EVEN LESSER EVENTS, SOME OF 'EM ARE EVEN LESSER EVENTS WHERE THE STREET DEPARTMENT IS BASICALLY PATROLLING THESE AREAS.

POLICE IS PATROLLING AND THEY, THEY COME ACROSS, ARE WE GONNA, IS THIS FLOOD, IS THIS ROAD GONNA FLOOD? WE NEED TO BARRICADE IT BEFORE IT FLOODS TO KEEP PEOPLE FROM DRIVING OFF INTO THESE AREAS.

SO, UM, AGAIN, BRAND CASTLE MILES, CAMPBELL AND HOLFORD, WE WOULD LIKE TO PUT IN AUTOMATED GATES THAT GET TRIGGERED FROM EITHER FLOOD GAUGE SYSTEM OR SOME OTHER CREEK.

UM, IT COULD BE UNDER A BRIDGE OR IT COULD BE JUST RAINFALL, FLOOD GAUGES.

UM, BUT WHEN SOMETHING WILL TRIGGER IN THE CREEK UPSTREAM, WE WOULD KNOW THAT THE GATES COULD BE TRIGGERED AND THEY COULD COME DOWN AUTOMATICALLY, WHICH WOULD ELIMINATE HAVING TO CONTINUOUSLY PATROL THESE WITH THE STREET DEPARTMENT, THESE AREAS IN THESE LOCATIONS WITH THE STREET DEPARTMENT AND THE, AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DURING RAIN EVENTS.

SO WITH THIS, WE'RE, WE WERE REQUESTING $500,000 TO INSTALL THESE AUTOMATED GATES SYSTEMS AT THESE LOCATIONS, AS WELL AS, AS THE, UM, FLOW MONITORING OR RAIN GAUGE MONITORING SYSTEMS THAT WE NEED TO ACTIVATE THESE GATES.

WE'RE ALSO LOOKING FOR CAMERAS IN THESE LOCATIONS SO THAT WE CAN VISUALLY SEE.

SO IF THERE IS POSSIBLY A MALFUNCTION WITH THE GATE OR SOMETHING, WE CAN, WE CAN, WE CAN HAVE THE CAMERA TO ACTIVATE THE GATES, TO CLOSE THE GATES AS WELL.

SO WE'RE REQUESTING THAT FUNDING FOR THESE LOCATIONS IN THIS YEAR'S.

UM, CIP WITH THAT, THERE'S, THIS IS THE TOTAL FOR THE, FOR THE PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE ON THE STORM WATER FUNDING, LITTLE OVER $2 MILLION, 2.1 MILLION TO BE EXACT.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE PROJECTS.

MORSE.

UM, MICHAEL, WHAT ARE THE THREE LOCATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED FOR THE, UM, CREEK, THE BANK STABILIZATION? WELL, THEY'RE, THEY'RE ALL TOGETHER, AND I'M NOT EXACTLY SURE WHERE THOSE LOCATIONS WERE TAKEN.

THESE WERE PICTURES THAT WERE ACTUALLY PROVIDED TO US BY OUR, OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT.

AND THEY WERE INDICATING THAT, UM, I DON'T THINK I HAVE THEM.

THEY SAID THERE'S A LOW WATER CROSSING AND THEN THERE'S TWO LOCATIONS SIMILAR TO THIS, BUT THEY'RE ALL RIGHT NEAR EACH OTHER WHERE DUCK CREEK MAKES ITS BENDS AND TURNS THROUGH THE PARK.

UH, GETTING CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE CREEK BECAUSE THE BANK IS ERODING AND IT'S, THEY'RE, THEY'RE LOOKING AT A FEW YEARS AND HAVING THEIR HOUSE FALL IN.

WELL, I'M JUST CURIOUS 'CAUSE I HEAR REGULARLY FROM SOMEONE WHOSE HOUSE IS GRADUALLY,

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SO I CAN I, CAN I GET SOME SPECIFIC LOCATIONS FROM YOU LATER? OKAY.

AND, UM, AND WITH THE, WITH THE FLOODGATES, UM, THE AUTOMATIC FLOODGATES IS PART OF THAT NOTIFICATION AND OPERATION SYSTEM GOING TO BE TAKING INTO ACCOUNT REPORTS FROM UPSTREAM? BECAUSE I KNOW WHEN WE LOST THE YOUNG WOMAN, UM, NOT TOO LONG AGO THAT THE, IT, IT CAME ON SUDDENLY, BUT THERE WAS A LOT OF, OF RAIN AND RUNOFF THAT STARTED WAY UPSTREAM.

AND, BUT THEN IT HIT US HARD AND FAST.

SO IT IS PART OF THE WAY THAT THIS OPERATES, HAVING, HAVING UPSTREAM REPORTS COME TO US TIMELY.

THAT, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER.

AND THIS IS WHERE I WAS, WHERE I WAS TALKING ABOUT WHETHER WE'RE GONNA HAVE THE, THE, THE ACTUAL FLOOD GAUGES WHERE THE RAIN EVENT OR WILL IT BE MOUNTED UNDER A BRIDGE AND MONITORING THE ELEVATION UNDER A BRIDGE.

THEY DO MAKE EQUIPMENT LIKE THAT.

NOW, WE WOULD PROBABLY HAVE TO WORK IN SOME OF THESE SINCE THESE ARE RIGHT ON THE VERY NORTHERN EDGE OF THE CITY AND, AND WHERE WE WOULD NEED NOTIFICATION MIGHT, MIGHT BE UP IN RICHARDSON.

AND WE MAY HAVE TO WORK WITH RICHARDSON.

WE DON'T KNOW THE, THE PARTICULARS ON ALL THIS YET AND HOW FAR UPSTREAM WE NEED TO TO MONITOR THIS.

BUT, UM, WE KNOW THAT OTHER CITIES HAVE RAIN GAUGES AND WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO UTILIZE SOME OF THEIR RAIN GAUGE INFORMATION AS PART OF THIS SYSTEM.

UM, SO WE, WE'VE GOTTA, WE'VE GOTTA RESEARCH THIS A LITTLE BIT MORE WHEN WE GET INTO PURCHASING THE EQUIPMENT IN, IN FIGURING OUT WHERE WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO PUT THE ACTUAL MONITORING STATIONS TO TRIGGER THE GATES.

UH, WELL GOOD, BECAUSE IT'S THE NORTH END OF THE CITY.

I WAS, I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT, 'CAUSE THAT'S WHERE YOU GET SLAMMED FIRST, RIGHT? SO OUR NOTIFICATIONS THROUGHOUT THE REST OF THE CITY WOULDN'T BE VERY HELPFUL IN ANTICIPATING SOMETHING THAT'S ROARING DOWNHILL TOWARD US.

SO, ALRIGHT.

THANK YOU SIR.

COUNCILOR WILLIAMS. THANK YOU.

THANK YOU MICHAEL.

GLAD TO SEE THAT DUCK CREEK EROSION, UH, PROJECT.

UH, I KNOW WHERE ALL THREE THOSE LOCATIONS ARE.

I, I'VE BEEN THERE WITH SOME PARK STAFF.

I'VE BEEN THERE WHEN THE RAINS, I'VE WATCHED SOME OF THE TREES.

PEOPLE COMPLAIN MORE ABOUT THE TREES.

THE TREES WERE, WERE THERE WHEN THEY DID THE LAST WALK.

THEN WE HAD A HEAVY RAIN AND THE TREES END UP ACROSS THE, WALKING ACROSS THE TRAILS OVER THERE.

SO I'M EXCITED FOR YOUR WORK AND TO SEE THE PROGRESS ON THAT.

'CAUSE IT DOESN'T TAKE MUCH RAIN NOW LATELY, UH, BECAUSE OF, I'M ASSUMING 'CAUSE IT'S SOME UPSTREAM OBSTRUCTIONS AND IT FILLS UP HEAVY.

AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN THE SOIL GOES, THE TREES GOES AND I'VE, I GET A LOT OF FEEDBACK FROM PEOPLE, WELL, WHAT'S HAPPENING TO OUR TREES.

SO I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT, ABOUT THAT, ABOUT THE WORK AND, AND DOUBLY EXCITED.

AND YOU SAID SOMETIME THIS YEAR WE SHOULD SEE SOME MOVEMENT ON THAT.

I KNOW YOU'VE BEEN WORKING CLOSELY WITH PARKS AND, AND FOLKS, BUT, BUT, UM, YOU KNOW, IT'S IN A TRADITIONAL RAIN.

IT'S NOT A NICE PLACE TO BE.

SO THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THAT.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU MAYOR.

ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? UH, JUST A QUESTION ON THE, I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE FLOOD GATES.

I MEAN THE GATES WE HAVE NOW OBVIOUSLY MANUALLY OPERATED AND ARE THEY COME FROM EACH SIDE OF THE ROAD AND ARE SECURED TO EACH OTHER? YES, SIR.

THUS PREVENTING SOMEONE FROM DRIVING AROUND THEM, THE GATE IN THIS PHOTO, SIMILAR TO THE ONES WE SEE AT RAILROAD CROSSINGS, WHICH WE KNOW PEOPLE DRIVE AROUND.

SO IS THERE, I'M ALL FOR THE AUTOMATED SYSTEM, BUT THE TYPE OF GATE THAT I'M SEEING CONCERNS ME, JUST KNOWING PEOPLE.

WE'LL HAVE TO DISCUSS WITH, WITH, UM, WITH THE STREET DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS, AS WELL AS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.

SO, AND, AND AGAIN, THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE.

I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S OTHER PRODUCTS OUT THERE THAT, THAT ARE MORE SECURE.

I, I DON'T KNOW THAT AT THIS PARTICULAR TIME.

UM, THESE WERE WHAT WE LOOKED INTO, UH, I BELIEVE IT WAS THREE YEARS AGO WHEN WE APPLIED FOR FUNDING.

I, I BELIEVE WE, WE APPLIED FOR STATE OR FEDERAL FUNDING TO, TO INSTALL THESE.

AND WE WERE, WE DID NOT MAKE THE CUT ON THAT, ON THAT FUNDING, BUT WE DECIDED THAT THIS, THIS IS IMPORTANT.

IT NEEDS TO BE, WE NEED TO INSTALL SOMETHING OUT THERE SO THAT WE'RE NOT RELYING ON THE, ON HUMAN INTERACTION.

THAT THEY, THEY LEAVE, THEY COME BACK AND IT'S INUNDATED.

AND, AND, AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT, THAT WE CAN GET OUT THERE AND AT LEAST HAVE SOMETHING.

NOW, IT MAY, IT MAY BE FOLLOWED UP THAT SOMEBODY GOES OUT THERE ONCE THE GATES ARE TRIGGERED, THAT SOMEBODY GOES OUT THERE TO MONITOR AT THAT POINT, TO MAKE SURE PEOPLE DON'T DRIVE THROUGH OR GO AROUND THE GATE.

I DON'T KNOW HOW WE'LL HANDLE THAT YET.

THAT'S SOMETHING THAT

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IT IS JANUARY 20TH, 2024.

ALRIGHT, UH, BELIEVE WE HAVE CLEARED THE QUEUE AND YOU HAVE CLEARED ALL YOUR PRESENTATIONS.

AND, UH, I BELIEVE OUR LUNCH HAS ARRIVED.

SO WE WILL TAKE A RECESS, UH, FOR LUNCH.

WE'LL SAVE ALL THE UTILITIES FOR AFTER LUNCH.

UH, SO LET'S HAVE EVERYBODY BACK AT 1220 PLEASE.

WE ARE IN RECESS.

ALRIGHT, WE ARE COMING BACK FROM RECESS.

WE ARE STILL HERE FOR OUR 2024 CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

SPECIAL SESSION, UH, COMING BACK FROM RECESS.

WE HAVE A FEW MORE DEPARTMENT PRESENTATIONS AND WE WILL PICK UP, UH, RIGHT HERE WITH SANITATION.

UH, GENTLEMEN, COUNSEL, UH, GOOD AFTERNOON.

I APPRECIATE THE TIME TODAY.

UM, I KNOW IT'S AFTER LUNCH, BUT WE'LL TRY TO KEEP THINGS LIVELY.

, OUR FIRST TWO SLIDES ARE JUST KIND OF A, A, A COMPARISON, O OVERVIEW OF OUR 24 VERSUS 23 PROJECT COSTS.

AND, UM, OUR FIRST SET OF REQUESTS IS WE ARE REQUESTING FUNDING, UH, FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF, UH, TWO, UH, REAR LOADING TRUCKS AND THREE NOCO BOOM TRUCKS.

THOSE ARE THE TRUCKS THAT WE USE FOR OUR RUSSIAN BULKY DIVISION.

UH, ALSO REQUESTING FUNDING FOR THREE AUTOMATED SIDELOADING TRUCKS.

AND THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE USE FOR OUR, UH, TRASH AND OUR RECYCLE PROGRAM.

UM, REQUESTING ALSO FUNDING FOR FOUR COMMERCIAL FRONT-LOADING TRUCKS AND ONE ROLL-OFF TRUCK.

UH, THOSE ARE USED FOR OUR VERY, UM, UH, SUCCESSFUL COMMERCIAL DIVISION.

UM, AND WE'RE ALSO REQUESTING FUNDING FOR ONE BOBCAT SKID LOADER.

AND THAT'S THE VEHICLE THAT WE USE IN OUR RECYCLING CENTER TO MOVE MATERIAL AROUND.

UH, NEXT SET OF REQUESTS ARE FOR OUR TRANSFER STATION, UH, REQUESTING FUNDING TO REPLACE, UH, TWO TRANSFER TRAILERS AND ONE TRANSFER TRACTOR.

AND THOSE ARE THE BIG LONG SEMIS THAT YOU GUYS WILL SEE ON THE ROADS THAT WE USE, UH, TO TRANSFER, UH, TRASH TO THE LANDFILL.

UM, WE TYPICALLY MOVE ON A DAILY BASIS, ANYWHERE BETWEEN FIVE TO 600 TONS OF MATERIAL TO THE LANDFILL FIVE DAYS A WEEK.

SO, .

ALRIGHT, AND, AND PLEASE KEEP IN MIND THAT EVERYTHING THAT OSUS TALKED ABOUT IS EQUIPMENT THAT'S ALREADY ON THE SCHEDULE.

SO THIS IS, WE ANTICIPATED THAT THIS EQUIPMENT WAS GONNA COME UP THIS YEAR AS PART OF THE, THE REGULAR, UH, REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE.

SO THIS IS NOT ON THE REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE.

THIS IS ACTUALLY A NEW PROJECT.

WE'RE REQUESTING $111,000 FOR THE PURCHASE OF A BOBCAT LOADER FOR THE RECYCLING CENTER.

ON AVERAGE, WE PUSH, WE PROCESS APPROXIMATELY 13,000 TONS OF MATERIAL AND WE'VE NEVER HAD A BACKUP.

SO THE PRIMARY USE OF THIS UNIT IS GONNA BE TO BE A, A BACKUP.

THE, THE PRIMARY UNIT THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE RIGHT NOW, WHEN IT GOES OUTTA SERVICE, IT CANNOT, WE KIND OF HAVE TO STOP THE OPERATION.

SO THIS WILL ALLOW US TO CONTINUE WORKING WHENEVER, UH, THE, THE PRIMARY UNIT HAS TO GO OFF FOR SERVICE.

NOT ONLY THAT, WE ANTICIPATE THAT HAVING TWO, WE SHOULD BE ABLE TO EXTEND THE REPLACEMENT CYCLE OF THESE UNITS GOING FORWARD.

AND I CALL THIS EUROS $280,000 CHRISTMAS PRESENT.

, LET ME EXPLAIN THAT TO YOU.

SO THIS IS FOR A NON CDL SIDE LOADER.

SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO IN THE, IN THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE, WE LIKE TO JUST SET TIME ASIDE TO START THINKING FOR THE UPCOMING YEAR, BUT WE ALSO SET TIME ASIDE TO START ANALYZING PROBLEMS THAT WE HAD DURING THE YEAR THAT WE CAN TRY TO COME UP WITH SOLUTIONS.

BY FAR, THE BIGGEST PROBLEM THAT WE HAD IN 2023 WAS THE SHORTAGE OF PERSONNEL.

UH, THERE WERE MONTHS IN WHICH WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE ANY APPLICANTS.

WE HAVE PEOPLE ON THE STAFF BUT DON'T HAVE CDLS.

THIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT WILL ALLOW ME, US, ANYBODY THAT HAS A REGULAR PASSENGER, UH, DRIVER'S LICENSE TO GET ON THE FIELD AND REALLY HELP OUT WITH FIELD OPERATIONS.

KEEP IN MIND, EVERY DRIVER COLLECTS APPROXIMATELY 1300, UH, CONTAINERS PER DAY.

SO EVEN THOUGH THE CAPACITY OF THIS UNIT IS ABOUT 50% OF THAT, THAT 750 CONTAINERS THAT WE CAN HELP HIM WITH.

SO WITHOUT A DOUBT, IT'S GONNA HELP OUT WITH THE OPERATION, BUT MORE THAN ANYTHING, I THINK IS GONNA BOOST THE MORALE IN THE FIELD FOR THE, THE GUYS TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE DIRECTOR, THE ADMINISTRATOR, OR ANYONE OF THE MANAGERS TO BE OUT THERE WITH THEM, REALLY TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION FOR THE DAY.

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AND THE LAST REQUEST THAT WE HAVE FOR YOU IS FOR $240,000 FOR THE PURCHASE OF A NEW ROLL OFF TRUCK.

UH, THIS IS FOR THE COMMERCIAL DIVISION AND AS I HAVE SAID IN, IN, IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, EVERY PENNY THAT WE PUT INTO THE COMMERCIAL DIVISION HAS A VERY NICE RETURN ON THE INVESTMENT IN FISCAL YEAR.

UH, THIS LAST FISCAL YEAR, WE ACTUALLY FINISHED $788,000 AHEAD OF THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR.

SO FAR THROUGH THE END OF DECEMBER, WHICH IS THE FIRST QUARTER OF THIS FISCAL YEAR, WE'RE UP BY $212,000.

SO WE HAVE A POSSIBILITY TO FINISH THIS YEAR, A MILLION DOLLARS AHEAD OF THE PREVIOUS FISCAL YEAR, WHICH IS MY GOAL.

BUT IN ORDER FOR ME TO DO THAT, I NEED THE RESOURCES, AND IN THIS CASE, IT WILL BE IN THE FORM OF A, OF A ROLL OFF TRUCK.

UH, WE'RE PRETTY MUCH AT CAPACITY WITH THE, WITH THE TRUCKS THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE RIGHT NOW.

AND CHIEF LEE WAS TELLING ME THAT, UH, IF WE CAN ACTUALLY FINISH THE YEAR WITH A MILLION DOLLARS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE, THEN HE'S GONNA REQUEST FOR A FEW FIREFIGHTERS.

SO ANY EXCESS MONEY THAT I CAN BRING IN IS GONNA GET DISTRIBUTED TO OTHER DEPARTMENTS.

SO IN IN SUMMARY, WE'RE ASKING FOR ABOUT SEVEN AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.

AND THIS INCLUDES THE THREE, UH, UH, PIECES OF EQUIPMENT THAT ARE NOT ON THE SCHEDULE, AS I JUST MENTIONED.

AND, AND COUNSEL BEFORE.

UM, UH, BEFORE WE, UH, OPEN THAT UP FOR QUESTIONS, I DO WANNA MENTION THAT, THAT WE HAVE A, A AN EXCELLENT WORKING RELATIONSHIP WITH THE FLEET DEPARTMENT AND WITH THE VENDORS THAT, THAT WE GET THIS EQUIPMENT FROM.

SO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, WE'RE MEETING WITH THEM FOR LUNCH, WE'RE CALLING THEM, WE'RE SENDING EMAILS.

WE'RE ALWAYS BEING PROACTIVE TRYING TO GET AHEAD OF THE LINE TO GET THIS EQUIPMENT TO US.

WHENEVER THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S A DEMO OUT THERE AND, AND WE GO, WE TEST IT AND WE FEEL THAT, THAT WE CAN PURCHASE IT, WE, WE MAKE THE CALL.

SO, SO WE'RE ALWAYS BEING PROACTIVE WORKING WITH GUARD FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO, TO GET US THIS EQUIPMENT AHEAD OF SCHEDULE AND COUNSEL WITH THAT, WE'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE.

COUNCILOR WILLIAMS. GOOD NOTE, GENTLEMEN.

I'M THE, WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? SLIDER SIDE LOADER, SIR? SIDE SIDE LOADER.

THE ONE WHERE YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE A LICENSED DRIVER.

OKAY, SO THAT, DOES THAT MEAN FOLKS APPEAR TO ABSOLUTELY .

WE'LL LET YOU TEST IT OUT.

AS A MATTER OF FACT, UH, COUNCIL, UH, COUNCILMAN T UH, ALMOST BROKE ONE OF OUR KNUCKLE BOOMS ONE DAY, BUT NOW I'M KIDDING.

HE WAS ABLE TO GET ON IT AND HE PLAYED WITH IT A LITTLE BIT.

SO, SO YES, THIS IS WHAT, THIS IS SO IMPORTANT FOR US THAT, UH, ANY ONE OF US WITHIN THE SANITATION DEPARTMENT THAT, THAT, THAT DON'T HAVE A CDL, WE CAN GET ON THIS PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND ACTUALLY MAKE AN IMPACT IMMEDIATELY ON THE OPERATION AND HELP OUT THE, THE FIELD PERSONNEL.

O OKAY, MY QUESTION, AND I KNOW OUR CITY ATTORNEY LISTENED BACK THERE, HE NOT, YOU WON'T SHOW HIS FACE, BUT HE'S LISTENING.

UM, RISK DOES, DOES THAT AT ALL IMPACT THE, OUR RISK, OUR LIABILITY WITH THE NON CDL LICENSE DRIVER DRIVING? THAT DOES AFFECT OUR, OUR RISK AT ALL? NOT AT ALL, SIR.

THE C THE THE CDL REQUIREMENT APPLIES TO THE LENGTH AND THE WEIGHT OF THE VEHICLE, RIGHT? THIS IS WITHIN, EXACTLY.

SO, SO FOR THIS SPECIFIC UNIT, A CDL IS NOT REQUIRED.

SO ANYBODY WITH A CLASS C WILL BE ABLE TO, UH, WILL BE ABLE TO OPERATE THIS, THIS MACHINERY.

I FLESHED HIM OUT.

I THANK, UH, YOU DID, SIR.

THANK, THANK YOU SIR.

ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS ON THIS? I SEE NONE.

AND THAT WILL MOVE US ON TO WATER WASTEWATER.

GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR CITY COUNCIL.

MY NAME IS MIKE BRINKMAN AND UM, THIS WILL BE MY FIRST CIP BUDGET PRESENTATION FOR THE CITY.

I'M GONNA ASK YOU IF YOU COULD JUST SWING THAT MIC AROUND THAT WAY.

WE HAVE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES OF TYPES OF MAINS AND WE'VE GONE THROUGH THOSE INDIVIDUALLY AND CREATED PROJECT SHEETS.

THERE WE GO.

SO, UM, I GUESS THE, THE MAIN WORD I WOULD LIKE TO SAY FOR THE WATER UTILITIES IS WE'RE GONNA TRANSITION WITH WATER UTILITIES AND THE BUDGET.

SO I WANTED TO WALK THROUGH SOME OF THOSE CHANGES THAT WE'RE MAKING.

UM, THE OVERALL WATER BUDGET FOR 2024 IS ABOUT 155 MILLION.

UM, AND WE'VE GONE THROUGH THIS OVERALL PROGRAM IN, IN SIGNIFICANT DETAIL IN, IN PAST, UM, I'LL SHOW HERE.

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AND IN THOSE PROJECT SHEETS WE'VE BEEN ABLE TO BETTER DEFINE SCOPES, UM, LIMITS OF CONSTRUCTION AND THEN DO BETTER COSTING ON SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THOSE CHANGES REFLECTED HERE.

IN SOME CASES, PROJECTS WERE LISTED UP MAYBE LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, IN TRANSMISSION MAINS, AND ACTUALLY THEY WERE PROBABLY NEED TO BE RELOCATED ON A, ON SAY A RELOCATION OF WATER MAIN PRIOR TO PAVING.

SO THEY WEREN'T QUITE CATEGORIZED CORRECTLY.

AND SO WE DID A LOT OF WORK IN THE OVERALL CIP, BOTH ON WATER AND WASTEWATER TO BE ABLE TO GET THOSE IN THE RIGHT CATEGORIES.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE SOME CHANGES BETWEEN 23 AND 24 CIP NUMBERS.

AND THAT'S REALLY REPRESENTS REALLY OUR VISION AND OUR TRANSPARENCY TO TRY TO SHOW YOU SOME OF THESE WERE IN LARGE BUCKETS, I'LL CALL 'EM.

AND WE'RE TRYING TO ITEMIZE THOSE AND BECOME MORE DETAILED WITH REGARD TO OUR CIP PLANNING SO THAT WE CAN TRACK THOSE COSTS, TRACK THOSE PROJECTS A LITTLE MORE IN MORE DETAIL.

SO AS WE GO THROUGH THE 23 VERSUS 24 CIP, UM, WE HAVE THE TOTAL 24 CIP JOB COSTS AT $250 MILLION.

SOME OF THAT HAS, IS UNDERWAY.

UM, WE HAVE SOME EXPENDITURES THAT, UM, THOSE PROJECTS ARE CARRYING INTO 2024.

UM, AND THEN WE HAVE SOME PROJECTS THAT ARE ONGOING AND THAT WILL GO ON OUT TO 2029.

UM, FROM A WASTEWATER PERSPECTIVE, SAME THING.

WE BROKE THOSE PROJECTS DOWN, UM, INTO DIFFERENT CATEGORIES.

AGAIN, WE LOOKED AT THE LIMITS.

UM, WE DID A TOP TO BOTTOM REVIEW OF THE CIP EFFORTS HERE.

UM, AND WE'VE CHANGED AND MODIFIED SOME OF THAT TO BE ABLE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF OUR BUDGET AND OPTIMIZE WHAT OUR RESOURCES ARE SO THAT WE'RE KEEPING UP WITH THOSE REPAIRS NECESSARY FOR THE SYSTEM.

UM, BUT FOR, FOR WASTEWATER, UM, WE'RE TALKING $246 MILLION AND SOME OF THE CHANGES WE HAD, IT'S ABOUT $11 MILLION WORTH OF CHANGE.

AND SO SOME OF IT IS PROJECT SCOPE CHANGE, BUT MOST OF IT IS COST CHANGE, UH, PROJECTIONS IN WHAT THE, UM, INFLATION RATE WILL BE, WHAT ADDITIONAL EQUIPMENT COSTS WILL BE IN THE FUTURE.

SO WE'RE GOING THROUGH NOT ONLY CHANGING THE CATEGORIES WHERE OUR PROJECTS WERE LANDING, BUT WE'RE ALSO GOING INTO CHANGES WITH REGARD TO HOW WE'RE COSTING THOSE, HOW WE'RE LIMITING THOSE, UM, SCOPES.

AND THEN WHERE WE'RE PUTTING THOSE WITHIN THE CIP AND WE'LL GET INTO MORE DETAIL ON THESE.

UM, LET'S SEE.

THESE ARE SOME OF THE, UH, WASTEWATER PLANT CHANGES.

AND AS YOU SEE, THE FIRST ONE, IT'S A BIG EXAMPLE OF A LOT OF OUR PROJECT COSTS WE'RE SITTING IN THE RAIL, FOR EXAMPLE, LINE ONE, UH, $57 MILLION HAS BEEN PULLED FROM THAT AND PUSHED TO OTHER ITEMS BECAUSE IT WAS JUST ONE BIG BUCKET.

THERE WAS NOTHING REALLY DEFINING WHAT WAS HAPPENING AT ETTE.

SO WE BROKE THOSE OUT AND, UM, AND ITEMIZED THOSE IN MORE, MORE DETAIL AND WE'LL WALK THROUGH THOSE INDIVIDUALLY.

UM, AND THEN THIS IS THE FIRST PROGRAM ON WATER.

SO, SO HERE WE GO WITH THE WATER PIPE PIPELINE REPLACEMENTS.

UH, WE'RE TALKING $23 MILLION OF, OF, OF AN INCREASE.

UM, 15 OF THAT 25 IS, UH, 23 IS AN INCREASE.

WE'VE TALKED ABOUT SOME ADDITIONAL PIPELINE REPLACEMENT PROJECTS WITHIN THE CITY, UH, THAT HAVE CHANGED SOME OF THAT, UH, PRICING.

UH, WE'VE ALSO UPDATED THE COST PER LINEAR FOOT 'CAUSE WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THE BIDS COME IN HIGHER.

AND SO THAT'S A, THAT'S REQUIRING US TO ADJUST OUR CIP ESTIMATES, UH, TO $23 MILLION VERSUS 15 NINE, UH, A YEAR AGO.

BUT I THINK WITH THAT INCREASED REVIEW WITH THAT DETAIL, I THINK WE'RE TRYING TO SHOW HOW WE'RE MAKING THOSE CHANGES TO THE BUDGET.

UM, AND WE CAN ITEMIZE ANY ONE OF THOSE IN DETAIL, INCLUDING IN YOUR BUDGET PACKAGE SHOULD ALSO BE, UH, PROJECT SHEETS FOR EACH ONE OF THOSE LINE ITEMS. AND SO WE'LL BE ABLE TO GO BACK AND TRACK THOSE, UM, AND ITEMIZE THOSE APPROPRIATELY.

THIS IS A PROJECT SEAT FOR WATER, UH, WATER REPLACEMENT PROJECTS, UH, TO THE LEFT IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE DOING IN 2024.

AND THEN SUBSEQUENT YEARS 25 THROUGH 27, THOSE ARE THE OTHER PROJECTS THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

THEY'RE A WHOLE HOST OF, OF, OF, UH, PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE CITY.

WE'VE PRIORITIZED THEM BASED ON NEED AND BASED ON CONDITION.

AND SO YOU CAN SEE WHERE THOSE LINE OUT.

UM, THEY HAVE APPROPRIATE PROJECT SHEETS IN THE BUDGET, UM, BUT QUITE A BIT OF WATER REPLACEMENT, UH, CAPITAL, CAPITAL REPLACEMENT PROGRAM.

AND, UM, THESE ARE PIPELINE REPLACEMENT EFFORTS.

SO IN DETAIL, UM, WE HAVE, UM, SOME PUMP STATION UPGRADES.

THIS IS AN INCREASE, UM, THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT.

WE HAD A FIRE WHEEL PUMP STATION INCREASE WHERE WE'RE GONNA REHAB FIRE WHEEL PUMP STATION.

TOTAL PROJECT COST IS 9 MILLION.

UH, I TAKE THAT BACK FOR 2024.

FOR 2024 EXPENSES.

TOTAL PROJECT COSTS 30 MILLION TO REHAB THAT ENTIRE FACILITY.

SO IT'S AN INCREASE OF $1.58 MILLION JUST FROM THE 23, UH, CIP BUDGET.

UM, PUMPS, MOTORS, ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT, SWITCH GEAR, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS THAT ARE COST, THAT ARE, THAT ARE REFLECTIVE IN THAT COSTING NO TRENCH PICTURES, BUT , THEY'RE COMING, THEY'RE COMING YET.

ANDREW IS, IS THAT RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT POINT.

THAT'S OKAY.

UM, AND THEN WHAT WE'RE SEEING IS INCREASED COST FOR,

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UM, AND THEN WE HAVE SOME GENERATOR, UH, PROJECTS THAT WILL HELP OUR SYSTEM MAINTAIN RESILIENCY.

UM, UH, WITH THE POWER GRID GOING DOWN, WE WANNA MAKE SURE OUR PUMP STATIONS ARE STILL UP AND RUNNING, UH, NO MATTER WHAT THE FIRE, UH, THE, UH, UH, POWER SITUATION IS THROUGHOUT THE STATE.

SO, UM, WE HAVE SOME COST HERE.

THERE ARE ESCALATING, BUT WE WANT THAT EMERGENCY CAPACITY TO BE ABLE TO BACK UP OUR PUMP STATIONS TO MAKE SURE WE ALWAYS HAVE WATER.

UM, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, I THINK MOST CITIES AND IN THE STATE OF TEXAS HAD SOME CHALLENGES WITH WINTER STORM URI AND WE SAW SOME CLOSE TEMPERATURES THIS PAST WEEK.

SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY EVER IMPORTANT TO KEEP THOSE GENERATORS, UM, AVAILABLE AND UP AND RUNNING FOR US SO THAT WE ALWAYS HAVE WATER FOR OUR CITIZENS.

UH, BUT WE ARE SEEING SOME BIDDING PRICES GO UP WITH REGARD TO GENERATORS AND SOME OF THE ELECTRICAL WORK AND SWITCH GEARS THAT GO WITH THAT AS WELL.

UH, ANOTHER NEW PROJECT THAT WE HAVE IS A MI PROJECT.

UH, THIS COUNCIL HAD TALKED TO BOTH GPNL AND WATER WITH REGARD TO UPGRADING THE METERING SYSTEM FOR THE CITY, BOTH ELECTRIC AND AND WATER.

UH, THIS IS THE WATER SIDE OF THAT.

UM, SO IT BASICALLY ALLOWS US TO REMOTELY, UM, RECEIVE THE REEDS.

UM, AND IT WILL ALSO PROVIDE SOME DETAIL FOR THE CUSTOMER TO BE ABLE TO LOOK AT THEIR BILL BACKWARDS AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHERE DID THEY USE WATER AND WHEN, AND GIVE A LOT MORE DETAIL FOR THE CUSTOMERS, EMPOWER THE CUSTOMERS TO BE ABLE TO TAKE CONTROL OF THEIR BILL AND THEIR WATER USAGE.

AND SO THAT'LL START HERE, PROBABLY HERE FIRST QUARTER, SECOND QUARTER OF 2024.

WE'RE WORKING WITH THE VENDOR NOW TO NEGOTIATE THAT.

UH, SOME EXPENSES PROBABLY, UM, SOME SMALL EXPENSES, UM, UM, EARLY IN 2024.

UH, BUT THE SIGNIFICANT EFFORT WILL BEGIN NEXT YEAR.

WE HAVE A WATER, EXISTING WATER METER REPLACEMENT PROGRAM.

WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE THAT UNTIL THE A MI PROJECT IS UP AND OPERATIONAL.

UH, METERS DEGRADE OVER TIME.

THEY START TO SLOW DOWN OVER TIME, THEIR MECHANICAL METERS.

UM, AND SO WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE WITH THAT FUNDING THAT TW DB GAVE US FOR THOSE EXISTING METERS.

THOSE METERS AS WE PLACE THEM, THEY WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW A MI SYSTEM.

SO ALL THE NEW A MI SYSTEM HAS TO DO IS JUST TO PLUG INTO THOSE NEW METERS AND WE'LL BE ABLE, WE'LL BE ABLE TO OBTAIN THOSE READS.

SO, UM, WE'LL, WE'LL CONTINUE, UM, FINISHING UP THOSE WATER METER REPLACEMENTS.

'CAUSE ULTIMATELY THAT IS THE ACCURACY OF OUR METERS TO OUR, UH, OF, OF, UH, COUNTING THE WATER THAT GOES TO THE CUSTOMER.

THAT'S REALLY IMPORTANT.

BUT ALL OF THOSE METERS WILL BE COMPATIBLE WITH THE NEW A MI SYSTEM.

AND THEN A NEW PROJECT, UM, FOR WATER AS A WHOLE FOR, UM, WATER MAINE PROJECT ALONG GEORGE BUSH.

HULL IS 1600 FEET OF WATER MAIN THAT WILL CONNECT TWO DIFFERENT SERVICE LEVELS TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE SOME MORE REDUNDANCY AND, AND SUPPLY OPPORTUNITIES FOR THE CITY OF GARLAND.

UM, AND, AND REALLY HELPS US BE ABLE TO MANAGE WATER AND WHEEL WATER AROUND THE CITY A LITTLE BIT BETTER.

SO IT GIVES US SOME ADDITIONAL RESILIENCY ALONG THAT, UH, STRETCH OF THE CITY.

WE STILL HAVE THE LEAD SERVICE LINE PROJECT THAT WE'RE WORKING ON AND WE'RE UNDERWAY RIGHT NOW WITH REGARD TO REVIEWING ALL THE SERVICES IN THE CITY OF GARLAND.

UM, AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO PUBLISH THAT HERE IN THE FOURTH QUARTER OF 2024.

IF WE FIND ANY SERVICES THAT ARE GONNA BE LED, UM, EITHER FROM THE CITY TO THE METER CITY SIDE OF THE, OF THE PIPELINE TO THE METER OR FROM THE METER TO THE HOME.

WE'RE WE'RE PREPARING THAT SURVEY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THAT COST WOULD BE.

SO THE LEAD AND COPPER ROLL VIA EPA IS GONNA REQUIRE THE UTILITY TO GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE CUSTOMER FROM THE METER TO THE HOUSE TO REPLACE THOSE LEAD SERVICE LINES.

AND WE'RE NOT FINDING THAT HERE IN THE CITY OF GARLAND.

WE THINK, WE THINK WE FOUND MAYBE A COUPLE, UM, NOTHING ON THE PUBLIC SIDE FROM THE METER TO THE, UH, TO THE PIPELINE.

AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE, UM, WE'RE STARTING TO FINISH UP THAT INVENTORY AND TRY TO FIGURE OUT WHAT WOULD OUR EXPOSURE BE? WHAT IS THAT GONNA BE WITH REGARD TO REPLACEMENT DOLLARS? BUT, UM, RIGHT NOW WE ONLY HAVE ABOUT $385,000 PLANNED FOR THOSE REPLACEMENTS, BUT WE'LL HAVE A BETTER IDEA LATER THIS YEAR.

AND IN 2025 COME BACK TO YOU FOR SOME SORT OF REQUEST IF NECESSARY WITH, UH, REPLACING SERVICES ON THE CUSTOMER SIDE OF THAT METER.

UM, THIS IS A BIG PROJECT STARTED, UM, SEVERAL YEARS AGO, UM, NATIONALLY AND EVERY UTILITY IN THE NATION'S HAVING TO GO THROUGH THIS EFFORT.

BUT, UM, FOR US, OUR PROJECT'S PROGRESSING, BUT WE WANTED TO SET ASIDE SOME DOLLARS HERE IN CASE WE DO FIND ANY LEAD PIPE WE CAN REPLACE THAT, UM, FROM WASTEWATER.

UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAVE SOME INFILTRATION IN

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WHAT INFILTRATION MEANS IS WATER THAT'S GETTING INTO THE SEWER SYSTEM VIA CREEK OR VIA BROKEN MANHOLES, BROKEN PIPES, UM, COLLECTION MAINS AND, AND, UM, UM, THINGS THAT WILL, UM, UM, THOSE WEAKNESSES IN THE SYSTEM PROVIDE ADDITIONAL LOADING ON THE PLANT THAT COSTS AND THOSE EXPENSIVE UPGRADES WHEN YOU TRY TO UPGRADE A PLANT VERSUS REPAIRING THE PIPE.

AND SO WE HAVE SIGNIFICANT INVESTMENT INTO THOSE INFILTRATION CORRECTION PROJECTS.

UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF PROJECTS THAT ARE GONNA BE RELOCATED BECAUSE OF PAVING.

AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO GET OUT OF THE RIGHT OF WAY IN SOME CASES.

UM, UM, TO WHERE, WHERE, UM, OR, OR WE HAVE TO, WE HAVE CONFLICTS WITH DRAINAGE PROJECTS AND SO WE'LL HAVE TO RELOCATE SOME OF THOSE PIPELINES.

AND SO THOSE DOLLARS ARE, ARE SET ASIDE FOR THAT.

WE'RE ALSO WORKING WITH REHAB ON SEWER MAINS AND DIRT ALLEYS.

AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF THOSE SEWER MAINS FOR SOME REASON THAT ARE IN DIRT ALLEYS THAT ARE A PROBLEM FOR US.

AND SO THOSE CONTRIBUTE TO A LOT OF WHAT WE CALL INFLOW INFLOW AND INFILTRATION.

AND IT'S JUST EXTRA WATER ENTERING THE SYSTEM 'CAUSE THE PIPES ARE CRACKED OR LEAKY.

UM, AND, AND WHEN, WHEN IT RAINS, UM, WE END UP GETTING HUGE PEAKS THAT GOES TO OUR PLANT PLANTS.

AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO CORRECT THOSE.

BUT AN INCREASED TOTAL PROGRAM, $10.5 MILLION ROUGHLY.

UM, AND SOME OF THAT IS ASSOCIATED WITH COST OF REPLACEMENT, UM, COST OF, UM, MAYBE REPAVING AN ALLEY, THOSE TYPE OF THINGS.

AND SO, UM, THOSE ADJUSTMENTS ARE, UM, THOSE PROGRAMS WILL CONTINUE.

UM, THERE'S SOMETHING THAT ARE PERPETUAL AND THEY'RE ONGOING.

UM, BUT, UM, IMPORTANT FOR THE CITY TO ADDRESS.

THIS IS A, A MAP, TWO MAPS.

YOU SHOULD HAVE THESE TWO MAPS, UH, IN YOUR HANDOUT.

IF NOT, WE CAN GET YOU THOSE.

BUT THESE ARE SIMILAR TO THE WATER.

THESE ARE WASTEWATER PIPELINE REHAB PROJECTS THAT WILL, OR REPLACEMENT PROJECTS THAT WILL BE REPAIRED IN 2024.

AND THEN THE SUBSEQUENT, UM, PICTURE TO THE RIGHT WILL BE THOSE REPLACED FROM 25 TO 27, I BELIEVE.

AND WE JUST, RIGHT NOW GOING TO 28, 29 OR 30 WAS A LITTLE, UM, STARTED TO ADD UP TO QUITE A FEW PROJECTS.

AND SO WE LEFT IT TO THOSE.

WE'LL, WE CONTINUE TO REPRIORITIZE EACH YEAR TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE REPAIRING THE RIGHT PIPE AT THE RIGHT TIME AND THAT OUR PRIORITIES HAVEN'T CHANGED.

SO, UM, WITH REGARD TO IMPORTANCE OF, UM, STOPPING THE LEAKS, STOPPING THE I AND I, SO WE WILL RE-LOOK AT THOSE, UH, EACH YEAR.

UM, BUT, UM, THIS IS OUR PLAN RIGHT NOW FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL YEARS, UM, WITH THOSE IDENTIFIED SPECIFICALLY, UH, FOR NEXT YEAR, UH, OR 2024 ON THE LEFT HAND SLIDE.

SO FOR WASTEWATER, UH, HERE'S, HERE'S, UH, AS CLOSE TO THE TRENCH PICTURE, I THINK AS WE GET .

UM, THESE ARE, ARE, THIS IS A REALLY COOL PROJECT.

IT'S A, A REHAB OF AN OUTFALL, AND THESE ARE THE MAIN TRUNK LINES THAT GO TO THE, UH, WASTEWATER PLANTS.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE TO THE LEFT, BOTTOM LEFT, YOU'LL SEE A PIPE THAT'S SOMEWHAT CORRODED, FALLING APART AND MAYBE CAST, UH, OR MAYBE DUCT LINER OR SOMETHING.

UM, AND WE CAN RUN IN THERE WITH A FELT LINER THAT IT HAS RESIN AND YOU HEAT IT UP AND IT BASICALLY CURES INTO A BRAND NEW PIPE IN THE SAME LOCATION WITHOUT EXCAVATION.

AND SO WE CAN GET QUITE A BIT OF THAT REHAB DONE WITH, WITH MINIMIZING THE IMPACTS TO THE NEIGHBORHOODS AND THE CREEKS AND THOSE TYPE OF THINGS BY DOING THIS TYPE OF, THIS IS A PROBABLY AN INIT FORM PRODUCT AND, AND REALLY IT'S JUST LIKE A FELT IMPREGNATED, UM, UH, WITH RESIN THAT GETS PUT INTO THE PIPELINE, UM, INFLATED AND THEN HEATED UP SO IT CURES.

AND SO, UM, THAT PROGRAM IS GOING VERY WELL.

AND SO WE'VE, AS FOR, WE ASKED FOR SOME ADDITIONAL DOLLARS TO TRY TO DO MORE OF THAT REHAB, UM, BECAUSE IT, UH, THE CONTRACTOR BASICALLY IS, UH, WE, WE RUN OUTTA MONEY BEFORE WE RUN OUT OF TIME.

SO, UH, WE CAN GET QUITE A BIT OF THIS DONE, UM, HERE IN 2024 AND EXPEDITE SOME OF THAT.

THAT WILL MINIMIZE OUR I AND I.

AND THEN WE HAVE A REHAB THAT WE NEED ON THE SPRING CREEK INTERCEPTOR.

IT'S A NEW PROJECT.

IT'S 2,500 FEET OF A, OF A WASTEWATER PIPELINE THAT'S, UM, CHALLENGED.

UM, I'LL JUST PUT IT THAT WAY.

UM, BUT A PIPELINE THAT NEEDS TO BE UPGRADED, UM, IT IS CONTRIBUTING TO A LOT OF I AND I.

AND SO WE WANT TO BE ABLE TO, UH, REPLACE THAT PROJECT AND, AND IF THERE'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO LINE IT LIKE THE OTHERS, WE WILL LOOK AT THOSE OPPORTUNITIES AS WELL.

UM, ETTE CREEK WASTEWATER REPLACEMENTS.

UM, SO, UM, THE OVERALL PROJECT COST ON THIS IS ABOUT $24 MILLION.

WE'RE UPGRADING PLANT COMPONENTS, UM, GATES, VALVES, INSTRUMENTATIONS, GATED SYSTEMS. IT'S KIND OF A CATCHALL FOR ALL OF THE, UM, MISCELLANEOUS TYPE OF EQUIPMENT THAT WE'RE PLACING AT RT.

AND SO, UM, A LOT OF THAT'S ONGOING, BUT, UM, WE HAVE TO CONTINUE TO, UH, FUND THAT TO BE ABLE TO, UM, KEEP THAT PLANT UP AND OPERATIONAL.

UM, SO THIS IS WHERE WE TOOK, THERE WERE EVEN MORE COSTS WITH THIS MORE CAPITAL COSTS.

WE, WE MADE 'EM INTO A DIFFERENT PROJECTS.

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AND SO WE'VE ITEMIZED THIS AND, AND THIS IS A RESULT OF THAT, BUT IT WILL, IT WILL HELP US MAINTAIN THAT RE CREEK IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.

UH, WE HAVE SOME BLOWER PROJECT.

THIS IS A NEW, AND, AND WHAT WE MEAN BY NEW IS IT WASN'T DEFINED AS WELL.

AND SO WE'RE ASKING, AND WE'RE PUTTING IN A NEW CATEGORY.

THIS IS A REPLACEMENT OF FOUR AERATION BLOWERS THAT HELPS THE PLANT PROCESS.

AND WE JUST IDENTIFIED IT AS NEW.

WE WERE PLANNING TO REPLACE THESE, BUT IT WA DIDN'T HAVE ITS OWN LINE ITEMS. SO THAT'S WHY IT'S RELATIVELY NEW FOR US.

AND SO, UM, IT'LL HELP US MAINTAIN PROCESS CONTROL AND KEEP THAT AERATION GOING THROUGHOUT THE FACILITY.

UM, THEN ETTE CREEK IS CHALLENGED WHEN WE HAVE RAIN FLOW A LOT OF TIMES.

UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE THE CAPACITY NEEDED TO BE ABLE TO HAND OUR PEAK FLOWS, AND SO WE'LL BYPASS A LOT OF THAT FLOW DOWN TO DUCK CREEK.

THIS PROJECT WILL HELP US BE ABLE TO MANAGE THAT.

WE HAVE SOME CHOKE POINTS WITHIN THE PLANT THAT PROHIBIT US FROM BEING ABLE TO TREAT MORE VOLUME.

UM, BUT WE'RE SEEING GROWTH.

WE'RE SEEING I AND I, UM, UH, GROWTH FROM, UM, INCREASED INFLOW.

WE'RE SEEING ADJACENT CITIES THAT ARE, UH, WE'RE SERVING, UH, FOR WASTEWATER, INCREASE THEIR FLOWS.

AND, UM, WHAT THAT IS, IS CHALLENGING US WITH IT'S, IS BEING ABLE TO HANDLE THOSE FLOWS AT THE APPROPRIATE POINT.

AND SO IN SOME CASES, WE CAN TREAT A LOT OF IT AT RT, BUT IF WE GO, IF WE RUN INTO SOME CHOKE POINTS AT T CREEK BETWEEN THE PROCESSES, UH, THEN WE'RE PUSHING A LOT OF THAT FLOW TO DUCK CREEK.

AND SO WE'D LIKE TO TRY TO MAXIMIZE AND OPTIMIZE WHAT WE'RE DOING AT RT.

WE HAVE SOME WASTEWATER UV DISINFECTION THAT WE'D LIKE TO DO AT RT.

UM, THIS IS ULTRAVIOLET DISINFECTION RATHER THAN CHLORINE.

AND SO WITH THE CHLORINE, WE HAVE HAZARDS, SAFETY HAZARDS.

UM, WE HAVE ONE TON CYLINDERS OF CHLORINE THAT OUR STAFF ARE WORKING WITH.

AND THIS WOULD ELIMINATE THAT, UM, AND ALLOW OUR STAFF TO WORK WITH BASICALLY UV LIGHT DISINFECTION.

AND SO MANY UTILITIES ARE DOING THAT.

THE CHEMICAL COST FOR CHLORINE IS SKYROCKETING THROUGHOUT THE NATION.

AND SO, UM, THIS CONVERSION TO UV WILL REALLY HELP US IN THE LONG RUN, NOT ONLY FROM A, FROM A COST PERSPECTIVE, BUT ALSO SAFETY PERSPECTIVE FOR OUR EMPLOYEES.

DUCK CREEK WASTEWATER REPLACEMENTS, OF COURSE, WE HAVE SOME, UM, LARGE PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING INTO DUCK CREEK.

UM, THIS IS THE SAME THING AS ROULETTE.

WE HAVE A LOT OF S SCADA UPGRADES, VALVE INSTRUMENTATION THAT HELPS KEEP THAT PLANT GOING.

AND SO, UM, WE IDENTIFIED THIS AS, UM, A NEW PROGRAM WHERE WE'VE SORTED THOSE DOLLARS A LITTLE DIFFERENTLY, BUT IT'S, IT'S AN ONGOING INVESTMENT INTO THE CAPITAL, UH, ASSETS.

WITH REGARD TO DUCK CREEK TO KEEP IT OPERATIONAL, UM, DUCK CREEK HAS A WASTEWATER CLOTH FILTERING, UV UPGRADE PROJECT THAT HAS BEEN BID.

IT SHOULD BE COMING TO YOU WITHIN THE NEXT MONTH OR SO FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION.

BUT THIS BASICALLY UPGRADES DUCK CREEK'S CHLORINE TREATMENT FOR WASTEWATER CHLORINE DISINFECTION AND FILTERING INTO A UV AND A CLOTH FILTER SYSTEM.

AND I THINK, UM, SOME OF YOU HAVE SEEN, UM, I THINK COUNCILMAN OTT, MAYBE YOU ON YOUR THIRD DAY, MY, MY THIRD DAY, YOUR FIRST DAY HERE, MM-HMM.

UM, YOU SAW THOSE FILTERS THAT WE HAD, THOSE DIAMOND FILTERS, AND THAT'LL DO THE SAME THING HERE AT DUCK CREEK, WILL BE ABLE TO UV AND DISINFECT THOSE, UM, UH, FROM THE DISINFECTION PERSPECTIVE, BUT WE'LL BE ABLE TO FILTER THAT THROUGH THESE, UM, VERY SUCCESSFUL, UM, I THINK THEY WERE CALLED, UM, DIAMOND FILTERS THAT WE WERE USING OUT AT THAT PLANT.

SO WE'RE SEEING THE SAME THING HERE.

WE HAVE THE BIDS IN, WE'RE EVALUATING THOSE BIDS, AND Y'ALL SHOULD SEE THIS PROJECT SHORTLY.

AND THE WASTEWATER, THE, UH, DUCK CREEK ALSO HAS SOME CHALLENGES WITH REGARD TO SECONDARY CLARIFIERS, SOME OF THAT, THAT FIRST TOP LEFT PICTURE THERE IS, UM, A, A LARGE CLARIFIER BUILT WITH, IT LOOKS LIKE CINDER BLOCK CONSTRUCTION.

IT'S BEEN THERE A LONG TIME AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN THAT AND REPLACE SOME OF THOSE THINGS AND REHAB THOSE SO THAT THEY HAVE GOOD INTEGRITY FOR THE LONG RUN.

UM, AND THEN, UM, THESE ARE JUST, UM, TRICKLING FILTER CLARIFIERS UPGRADES, UM, TO BE ABLE TO MAINTAIN THE PROCESS TREATMENT GOING, GOING FOR, UH, FOR DUCK CREEK.

UH, WE ALSO BROKE THIS PROJECT OUT.

THIS IS A WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT ADMIN BUILDING, AND IT WAS NEVER IDENTIFIED, UH, SPECIFICALLY, BUT WE BROKE THAT OUT TO BE ABLE TO TALK ABOUT, WE HAVE AN ADMIN BUILDING DOWN THERE, BUT IT'S SOMEWHAT RUN DOWN AND WE'D LIKE TO GET THOSE EMPLOYEES AND MAYBE EVEN SOME MECHANICAL UNITS, UM, BUILT, UM, AND, AND PLANNED FOR, UH, IN, IN THESE UPGRADES.

BUT I THINK THE, UH, I THINK THE CURRENT ADMIN BUILDING THAT'S ABOUT 50 OR 40 YEARS OLD OR SO, SO, UM, ANYWAY, JUST PART OF THAT PROCESS OF EVALUATING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE, EVALUATING OUR BUILDINGS AND, AND PLANNING THOSE LONG TERM FOR THE STAFF.

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AT DUCK CREEK, WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE LAND AT DUCK CREEK.

AND SO AS I TALK ABOUT GETTING A LOT OF PEAK FLOW AND THEY PUSH IT TO DUCK CREEK.

DUCK CREEK HAS WHAT WE CALL A FLOW EQUALIZATION BASIN HERE AND ALLOWS THEM TO STORE BIG PEAK FLOWS UNTIL, UM, THE STORM HAS PASSED.

THEN IT ALLOWS YOU TO TREAT IT, UM, AT THE PACE OF YOUR PLANT.

AND SO WE'RE LOOKING TO POSSIBLY BUILD ANOTHER ONE OF THESE, UM, FLOW EQUALIZATION BASINS TO HELP US MANAGE FLOWS.

UM, WE DO GET A LOT OF PEAK FLOWS, UM, AND SO THIS WILL BE ABLE TO GIVE SOME FLEXIBILITY DURING STORM EVENTS TO BE ABLE TO MANAGE ALL OF OUR FLOWS AND LESSEN OUR RISK FOR ANY SORT OF ACCIDENTAL DISCHARGE OR ANYTHING TO THE CREEKS.

ABSOLUTELY CRITICAL.

UM, AND THEN WE HAVE SOME PLANT EXPANSION, UM, DISCUSSIONS WITH REGARD TO, UM, DUCK CREEK.

AND, AND YOU WOULD THINK THIS IS OUR, OUR PERMITS ARE ABOUT UP WITH THE STATE.

AND SO, BUT WE ARE GETTING PRESSURES FROM THE REGION AND OUR CUSTOMERS TO SAY, HEY, WE WANT TO DUMP SOME MORE FLOW ON YOU.

AND SO NOT ONLY RICHARDSON SAXE, UH, ROULETTE, THOSE CITIES ARE, IN SOME CASES THEY'RE REDEVELOPING, AND SO THEY HAVE MORE DENSE DEVELOPMENT.

GARLAND IS REDEVELOPING, IN SOME CASES IT HAS MORE DENSE DEVELOPMENT.

SO ALL OF THOSE FLOWS ARE ADDING SOME ADDITIONAL LOADING TO OUR PLANTS.

AND SO WE SEE SOME IN ETTE QUITE A BIT.

UH, THEY HAVE MORE DEVELOPMENT GOING ON, BUT ALSO SOME OF THESE CITIES HAVE EYE AND EYE PROBLEMS. AND SO WE'RE SEEING SOME OF THE PEAK FLOW ISSUES AS WELL.

AND SO WE'VE GOTTA, GOTTA MAKE SURE THAT THEY'RE LOOKING AT A, KEEPING THEIR INTEGRITY OF THEIR SYSTEM INTACT, UM, SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO TREAT STORMWATER THAT WOULD NORMALLY PASS THOSE AND, AND, AND END UP IN THE WASTEWATER SYSTEM.

SO WE'VE GOTTA LOOK AT DUCK CREEK WASTEWATER EXPANSIONS, UM, AND LOOK AT WHAT THAT OVERALL PROGRAM IS FOR THE CITY.

THERE MAY BE SOME OPPORTUNITY THERE AS WELL TO BE ABLE TO TREAT OTHERS WASTEWATER, UH, MORE APPROPRIATELY THAN, AND, UM, HELP SHARE IN SOME OF THOSE COST EXPENSE IN EXPENSES.

SO THE SUMMARY, UM, FOR WATER, CIP PROJECTS, UM, UM, THIS IS THE SUMMARY FOR THOSE WATER CIP PROJECTS, 52 MILLION THERE.

UM, AND THEN $59 MILLION FOR WASTEWATER.

UH, THIS IS THE WASTEWATER COLLECTION SYSTEM, AND THEN THE WASTEWATER PLANT SYSTEM IS $43 MILLION, MAKING UP THE TOTAL 1 55, UH, REQUEST FOR THE YEAR.

UM, THESE BUDGET DOLLARS, AND THIS REQUEST IS NOT ANTICIPATED TO CHANGE OUR RATE PROJECTIONS.

CURRENTLY WE HAVE, UH, WHAT IS IT, ANDREW? UH, 4%? YES, SIR.

SO ON THE WASTEWATER SIDE, WE'RE EXPECTING RATE INCREASES OF ANYWHERE BETWEEN TWO AND A HALF AND 4%, UM, IN THE NEXT COMING YEARS.

AND ON THE WATER WE'RE LOOKING IN CLOSER TO THOSE IS SEVEN TO 8.5%.

BUT THE, THE FACTORS THAT ARE, UM, UM, PUSHING ON THOSE RATES ARE A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT, WHICH IS WE, WE CAN GET INTO IN THIS SLIDE.

AND SO, UM, FROM THE, FROM THE WASTEWATER SIDE, OUR PROJECTIONS, THIS IS THE COST THAT WE CAN CONTROL ARE, WE'RE, WE'RE STILL WITHIN THE, OUR PROJECTIONS WITH REGARD TO RATE INCREASES LONG TERM.

AND WE ARE ALSO STILL DEALING WITH THOSE RATE INCREASES, UM, ON THE POTABLE WATER SIDE FROM NORTH TEXAS.

AND SO THOSE ARE ALWAYS A CHALLENGE.

THEY HAVE SOME SIGNIFICANT GROWTH THAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH THAT'S BEING SHARED AMONGST ALL OF THEIR USER GROUPS, BUT, UM, THAT'S PLACING A CHALLENGE ON US.

UM, AND WE TALKED ABOUT A LITTLE BIT IN THE L AND M BUDGET, SO, UM, OF THOSE CHALLENGES.

BUT, UM, UH, BUT OVERALL THIS IS, UM, A PRETTY COMPREHENSIVE PROGRAM.

IT'S A KIND OF A TRANSITION FOR WATER AND WASTEWATER AND THAT WE'RE REALLY TEARING APART THIS BUDGET AND TRYING TO BUILD IT BACK AGAIN.

IT'S KIND OF LIKE BASE LEVEL BUDGETING ON UP AND, AND, UM, AND, AND AS BRINGING JAMES SSON, JAMES IS OUR DIRECTOR OF OUR WASTEWATER AND, AND WITH ROBERT HERE, UM, 41 YEARS WITH THE CITY AND, AND ANDREW, WE'RE RETHINKING SOME OF THESE THINGS.

AND SO WE'RE TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND OPTIMIZE SOME OF OUR IMPROVEMENTS.

AND SO AS WE THINK ABOUT THIS, JAMES HAS BEEN HERE MAYBE THREE MONTHS.

UH, HAVE YOU MET YOUR THREE MONTH QUOTA YET? UH, YOUR, YEAH, YOU GOT HERE THREE MONTHS.

SO, UH, AND NOW I'M OVER SIX, SO, UH, I'M A VETERAN NOW.

UM, BUT, UM, WE HAVE SOME NEW THOUGHTS ABOUT CIP AND AS WE LOOK AT IT, LOOK AT IT, WE'RE TRYING TO APPLY THAT TO THE CIP AND THINK ABOUT WAYS TO DO THINGS DIFFERENTLY, MORE EFFICIENTLY, MORE EFFECTIVELY.

BUT THIS FIRST YEAR WE WANTED TO BE TRANSPARENT.

WE WANTED TO SHOW YOU THE, WHERE THOSE DOLLARS ARE LANDING AND HOW WE'RE BREAKING UP THE BUDGET A LITTLE BIT.

AND, AND INSTEAD OF BIG, LARGE BUCKETS TO WHERE IT'S KIND OF INNOCUOUS AND NON-SPECIFIC, WE'RE TRYING TO GET MORE DETAILED IN THOSE BUDGETS BY CREATING THE PROJECT SHEETS.

SO, UM, WE'RE TRYING TO BE A LITTLE MORE, MORE DETAILED AND A LITTLE BIT MORE METHODICAL ABOUT TRACKING THOSE COSTS.

UM, AND HOPEFULLY THAT'LL HELP US LONG TERM WITH, WITH BUDGETING.

ANY QUESTIONS? CUSTOMER REMORSE?

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AND, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION.

I, I LIKE THE TRANSPARENCY AND BREAKING BIG VAGUE, UH, BUCKETS DOWN INTO SPECIFICS.

THAT'S HELPFUL.

UM, I HAD ONE QUESTION.

A NUMBER OF THESE THINGS, UM, SPECIFIC ITEMS LIKE THE A MI, THE LEAD PIPES PEAK, UH, INPUT FLOW, UM, THE UV DISINFECTION THING, THEY WERE LISTED AS EITHER UNAPPROVED PROJECTS THIS YEAR OR NEW UNAPPROVED PROJECTS.

AND THEN IT SAYS TO BEGIN IN 2025 OR 2026, WHAT'S THAT ABOUT? SO, SO SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE PROJECTS ARE TRULY NEW.

UM, THEY'VE NEVER BEEN PRESENTED IN ECIP PRIOR.

UM, BUT SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN PRESENTED IN CIP, BUT THEY'VE BEEN BURIED WAY IN THE BUDGET.

AND SO WE WANTED TO SHOW THAT UP FRONT.

WE WANTED TO SHOW IT AND BE A LITTLE MORE TRANSPARENT WITH THAT, ALTHOUGH THEY SPECIFICALLY WEREN'T APPROVED, THEY WERE CONTAINED WITHIN A BUDGET, BUT RATHER BURIED.

AND SO WE WANTED TO BRING THOSE TO THE FOREFRONT AND SHOW YOU WHAT THOSE WERE.

SO UNAPPROVED IS TALKING ABOUT PREVIOUSLY UNAPPROVED? CORRECT.

BUT THEY ARE APPROVED IN THIS, CORRECT? ABSOLUTELY.

SO, SO THOSE, THOUGH, I THINK I GOT THIS NOW.

, , UM, THOSE PROJECTS WOULDN'T BE SCHEDULED TO ACTUALLY START UNTIL 2025.

CORRECT.

SO FOR THE 2024 CIP, THEY'RE STILL UNAPPROVED PROJECTS.

WE'RE BRINGING 'EM TO YOUR ATTENTION, UM, AS PROJECTS AND IN THE FIVE YEAR PLAN, BUT NEXT YEAR IS WHEN WE'LL BE COMING FORWARD TO SAYING, NOW WE'RE ASKING TO APPROPRIATE FUNDS FOR THE PROJECT.

SO THESE ARE THINGS YOU'RE NOT ASKING FOR FUNDING THIS YEAR? NOT, NOT THIS YEAR, BUT YOU'RE ALREADY LINING UP TO ASK FOR GOT WELL, THAT, THAT MAKES BETTER SENSE.

JUST HAVING IT BE UNAPPROVED AND THAT YEAH.

YOU KNOW, 'CAUSE A LOT OF THE THINGS, THE UV DISINFECTION PROCESS, UM, AND, AND YOU KNOW, YOU AND I HAVE TALKED SEVERAL TIMES ABOUT LAC CREEK WASTEWATER AND EAST GARLAND IS DEVELOPING FAST.

AND SO THERE ARE A LOT OF CALLS ABOUT THAT.

AND UH, I JUST WANNA COMMEND YOU, AGAIN, I DID PRIVATELY BUT PUBLICLY COMMEND YOU ON YOUR DETECTIVE WORK WITH ONE OF THOSE COMPLAINTS ABOUT ODORS THAT WERE BEING ATTRIBUTED TO THE ROW CREEK WASTEWATER.

AND, UM, THIS ISN'T SOMETHING NEW THAT I'VE HEARD, BUT YOU WERE THE FIRST ONE THAT I'VE EVER SEEN GO TRACK THINGS DOWN LIKE A DETECTIVE AND FIND SOLUTIONS.

THAT WAS AMAZING.

AND IT, AND IT WASN'T EVEN OUR THING.

IT'S ACROSS THE BORDER .

AND LOOKING FORWARD TO THIS.

AND WE STILL HAVE SOME MORE FOLLOW UP ON THOSE ISSUES AS WELL, AND SO WE'LL HAVE TO GO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS TO ENCOURAGE THEM TO, UM, BE INNOVATIVE AND HANDLE SOME OF THEIR ODOR COMPLAINTS.

AND SO, UH, WE'LL HELP THEM WITH THAT AND, AND, UM, IN ANY WAY WE CAN.

SO HOPEFULLY, UH, 'CAUSE THE WIND TENDS TO CHANGE DIRECTION QUITE A BIT, AND SO, UM, TEXAS, IT GETS, YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE THAT WITH WASTEWATER AND SO, UM, WE'LL TRY TO, WE'LL TRY TO MAKE SURE WE EXPEDITE THOSE THINGS.

A-A-P-V-C OR AN EPOXY TYPE OF PIPE.

WELL, SORRY MAYOR, ONE, ONE MORE QUICK QUESTION.

YOU MENTIONED DIRT ALLEYS, SEWER LINES UNDER DIRT ALLEYS AND THE CASE, I GUESS, PERMEABILITY WHEN THEY GET CRACKS OR, UM, I, I'M JUST, WE HAVE ALMOST A HUNDRED MILES OF DIRT ALLEYS IN THIS TOWN.

UM, MOST OF THEM TOWARD SOUTH AND, AND CENTRAL GARLAND.

UM, SO, AND, AND PROBABLY NOT IN THE NEAR FUTURE GETTING PAVING ON ALL OF THEM AT THE RATE WE'RE GOING.

SO, UM, IS THAT, THAT SEEMS TO BE A, A, A FACTOR IS THAT DIRT ALLEYS VERSUS PAVED ALLEYS CAUSE MORE PROBLEMS WITH SEWER LINES? IT CAN BE.

UM, BUT I THINK THAT'S REALLY JUST KIND OF LEADS BACK TO WHEN WE STARTED VISITING WITH, UM, STREETS AND TALKING ABOUT COLLABORATION AND, AND, AND ALIGNING OUR PROJECTS TOGETHER.

WE REALIZED THERE ARE SOME, UM, SOME ALLEYS IN WHICH THEY MAY NOT GET TO FOR A WHILE, BUT WE HAVE A NEED RIGHT NOW FOR SEWER.

AND SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT REPLACING THOSE AND THEN PAVING THEM AFTER WE'RE COMPLETE.

UM, BUT THAT REALLY TALKED ABOUT, YOU KNOW, WHERE IS THAT PROJECT, WHERE'S THE DEFINITION OF THAT PROJECT? UM, IT'S SOMEWHAT, UM, UNDEFINED.

AND SO WE WANTED TO TRY TO ALIGN THAT WITH STREETS AND THEN PUT THAT ON OUR PROGRAM SO THAT WE'RE IN SYNC WITH WHERE STREETS IS HEADED, LONG TERM STREETS AND STORM WATER AND EVERYTHING ELSE.

I WANTED TO SAY HOW COOL I THINK THAT INTERCEPTOR REHAB PROJECT IS.

IT'S, I IT'S JUST AMAZING TO ME WHAT THEY COME UP WITH.

UM, HOW LONG DO THOSE REPAIRS LAST ONCE THEY'RE, ONCE EVERYTHING'S HEATED AND FORMED AND, OH, UM, SO YOU END UP WITH, UH, AN EPOXY SORT OF ALMOST LIKE

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AND SO YOU'RE GONNA GET GOOD 50 YEARS OUT OF THAT.

OH WOW.

IF YOUR, YOUR STRUCTURE IS, IF THE PIPE STRUCTURE IS IN, IS IN DECENT INTEGRITY, YOU'LL COME BACK IN AND WE CAN PUT UP TO A QUARTER INCH OR A HALF INCH THICK NEW LINER INSIDE AND GIVE US A LONG-TERM, 50 PLUS YEAR, UM, LIFE EXPECTANCY ON THOSE.

AND SO, UM, IT'S A, IT'S A VERY INNOVATIVE WAY TO MINIMIZE SURFACE DISRUPTION WHEN YOU CAN.

IT, A LOT OF IT DEPENDS ON THE, UM, INTEGRITY OF THE EXISTING PIPE, AND IF YOU HAVE A LOT OF HOLES IN THERE, YOU MAY HAVE TO GO MAKE SOME POINT REPAIRS.

UM, BUT LONG TERM, YEAH, WE'RE EXPECTING 50 OR PLUS YEAR LIFE OUT OF THOSE.

THAT'S AMAZING.

UM, DO YOU, IT COMPARATIVELY IS THE COST OF, IT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE CHEAPER THAN GOING IN AND DOING A LOT OF DIGGING AND REPLACING PIPE, BUT IS IT COMPARABLE OR CHEAPER, MORE EXPENSIVE? WHAT, WHAT'S HARD TO ULTIMATELY I THINK IT'S CHEAPER.

AND BECAUSE SOMETIMES YOU CAN'T QUANTIFY THOSE SOCIAL IMPACTS THAT YOU HAVE WITH REGARD TO THE CONSTRUCTION DISRUPTION OF THE STREET, OF THE NEIGHBORHOODS BUSINESSES, UM, PRICE WISE I THINK IS PROBABLY CHEAPER AS WELL.

THERE'S LESS DIRT YOU HAVE TO MOVE YOU, BUT WE STILL HAVE SOME, WE HAVE A LIMITED NUMBER OF VENDORS.

THERE'S A HANDFUL OF LESS THAN A HANDFUL OF, UH, MAYBE THREE OR FOUR VENDORS THAT SELL THIS LINER.

AND SO WE'RE, WE'RE SOMEWHAT DEPENDENT ON THE MARKET.

UM, AND WE SEE SPIKES QUITE A BIT IN THAT MARKET BECAUSE IT IS A CHEMICAL MM-HMM.

, UM, THAT THEY'RE USING, UM, TO, ULTIMATELY IT'S A RESIN AND THOSE RESINS ARE DEPENDENT UPON THE CHEMICAL MARKET.

AND SO, UM, BUT WHEN YOU TAKE IN INTO ACCOUNT SOME OF THE COST, AND SOMETIMES WE USE THIS METHOD WHEN WE HAVE REALLY DIFFICULT CONSTRUCTION CONSTRAINTS DOWNTOWN, UM, OR, OR OTHER CONGESTED UTILITY LOCAL, UH, CORRIDORS, IT, IT'S, IT'S A SIGNIFICANT IMPROVEMENT AND, AND PROBABLY A FASTER TIME PERIOD AS WELL TO GET THOSE THINGS DONE.

I ALSO JUST WANTED TO SAY WE HAD A, A DRAIN PIPE BURST ON SATURN LAST WEEK AND YOUR CREWS WERE AMAZING.

UM, THEY WERE HELPING PEOPLE GET OUT OF THEIR DRIVEWAYS AND I JUST WANTED TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH.

WE GOT A, WE GOT A GREAT TEAM HERE IN GARLAND.

SO, UM, I, I, I BROUGHT ROBERT, BROUGHT JAMES, ANDREW, THEY'RE MY TEAM.

SO, UM, WE ALL KIND OF COLLABORATE TO TRY TO GET THE BEST DONE AND, AND, UM, YOU KNOW, I HAVE A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE BEING NEW.

SO DOES JAMES, BUT THEN ROBERT BRINGS IN THE OLD PERSPECTIVE AND SOMETIMES THE OLD WAY IS THE BEST AND SOMETIMES THE NEW WAY IS THE BETTER, AND WE HAVE THOSE DEBATES, UM, BUT IT'S HEALTHY.

AND ULTIMATELY BOTTOM LINE, IT'S FOR THE, FOR THE RESIDENTS OF GARLAND, WE'RE TRYING TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE, UM, EFFICIENT USE OF THEIR FUNDS.

SO, UM, I APPRECIATE THE COMMENTS.

WE'LL PASS THAT ON TO THE CREWS.

ABSOLUTELY.

DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIM MOORE.

MIKE.

ROBERT JAMES, I JUST WANNA APPLAUD WHAT I HAVE HEARD HERE TODAY.

IT SEEMS LIKE YOU'VE COME IN AND DONE AN OUTSTANDING JOB IN THE WAY OF THE SURVEY THAT YOU'VE DONE IN THE WATER DEPARTMENT, BUT I DO WANT TO JUST CLARIFY SOMETHING.

SO THE TOTAL BUDGET CIP BUDGET THAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR THIS YEAR IS WHAT, BECAUSE I'M LOOKING AT 30 MILLION HERE, SO WHAT, 1 55? SO FOR THE 2024 SPENDING, UH, ROUGHLY 150 MILLION BETWEEN WATER WASTEWATER, COLLECTIONS AND WASTEWATER TREATMENT, UH, SOME OF THE OTHER SUR UM, SUMMARY SLIDES MAY HAVE HAD OUR FULL FIVE YEAR PLAN.

UM, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO CLARIFY, SO.

SURE.

SO ON THIS SLIDE, UH, 155, ALMOST 156 IS OUR 2024 CIP EXPENDITURES.

UH, IF YOU LOOK AT OUR WHOLE FIVE YEAR PROGRAM AND SOME OF THOSE PROJECTS GO OUT PAST FIVE YEARS IS THE 730.

SO THAT'S WHAT YOU'LL BE COMING BACK FOR.

EACH YEAR AND EACH YEAR WE'LL BE UPDATING THAT FIVE YEAR PLAN, UM, AND COME BACK TO COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL.

THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT ALREADY.

COMMISSIONER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU, MAYOR.

UH, UH, MR. BRINGMAN, UH, BE CAREFUL HOW YOU PICK ON THE OLD GUYS, RIGHT? , , HE MAKES ME LOOK GOOD SOMETIMES, MOST OF THE TIME.

YOUR EXPECTATION FOR THAT PIECE OF IT? SOME OF IT IS, UM, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE NEEDS OF THE CITY OF GARLAND FROM A WASTEWATER PERSPECTIVE AND LISTING OUT ALL THOSE PROJECTS, WHAT'S HELPING IDENTIFY ALL THAT FOR US SO THAT WE CAN REPRIORITIZE AND MAKE SURE WE'RE COVERED WITH REGARD TO ENOUGH FUNDING FOR THOSE IMPROVEMENTS.

APPRECIATE IT.

AND YOU PROBABLY CAN PUT THAT ADMIN BUILDING AND THE TOWER AT, UH, DUCK CREEK NATIONAL REGISTER.

THEY BOTH HAVE BEEN AROUND A LONG TIME.

YOU, YOU PROBABLY CAN GET A PLAQUE FOR BOTH OF THOSE.

I'VE BEEN IN, I'VE BEEN IN BOTH OF THOSE.

OH, WOW.

YES, YES.

MY QUESTION, UH, YOUR SLIDE, YOU HAD A SLIDE ON RATE INCREASES, AND I KNOW I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT THE DISTRICT ONE THAT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT, BUT I THINK TWO AND A HALF, I THINK I REMEMBER IT.

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT HOW YOU ARRIVED AT HOW YOU, AND WITH THAT, WHERE YOU'VE GOT A RANGE OF 2.5 OR 4.0, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR, YOUR SIDE OF THAT AND, AND HOW YOU KIND OF CALCULATE AND, AND WHAT, WHAT'S YOUR VISION, WHAT'S

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BUT WE ALSO HAVE TO LOOK AT HOW MUCH THROUGHPUT WE CAN DO.

THERE'S ONLY SO MANY INSPECTORS, SO MANY CONTRACTORS, AND WE ARE HAVING SOME CHALLENGES WITH THE CONTRACTORS STEPPING UP AND PERFORMING AND, AND, AND GETTING GOOD BIDS.

SO AS WE LOOK AT THE OVERALL PROGRAM, WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE, UM, APPROPRIATELY SIZED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE KEEPING UP, UM, AND, AND NOT LETTING THE SYSTEM GET BEHIND, UM, WITH REGARD TO REPLACEMENTS.

AND SO FOR ME, UM, ON A, ON A LARGER SYSTEM, YOU LOOK AT IT, YOU LOOK AT HOW, HOW AND WHERE IS OUR SYSTEM FALLING APART FASTER? AND YOU WANNA MAKE SURE YOU DON'T GET THERE.

AND SO YOU START INVESTING IN THOSE LOCATIONS AND WE HAVE A LOT OF DATA THAT'S HELPING US INDICATE WHERE TO GO FIRST.

AND SO, UM, BUT THAT HELPS DEVELOP OUR NEEDS.

AND THEN WE GO BACK AND I VISIT WITH ANDREW AND HE'S HELPING, UM, ALONG WITH MY OTHER TEAM MEMBERS ARE HELPING US ALLOCATE THAT APPROPRIATELY OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

YOU KNOW, CAN YOU DO IT ALL IN ONE YEAR? I DON'T THINK WE HAVE SOMETIMES THE INTERNAL CAPACITY TO DO IT AND CONTRACTOR CAPACITY TO DO IT.

AND SO WE TRY TO TIME THAT APPROPRIATELY FOR THE, UH, FOR THE CITY.

BUT WE ALSO NEED TO MAIN MAKE, UH, PAY ATTENTION TO RATES TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE MINIMAL IMPACT ON THE RATE, UH, OF THE CUSTOMER.

AND SO THE LONG-TERM PLAN, WHAT I UNDERSTOOD WAS ROUGHLY BETWEEN A TWO AND A HALF TO 4% LONGER TERM CIP PROJECTION OR, OR A RATE PROJECTION.

AND SO IF WE CAN DO IT WITHIN THAT, THAT'S EVEN BETTER.

UM, AND SO, BUT WHAT THAT REQUIRES IS US TO GO BACK AND BE VERY JUDICIOUS WITH REGARD TO WHAT PROJECTS WE'RE GONNA DO AND WHEN.

AND SO I THINK THAT'S REALLY WAS OUR FIRST EFFORT THIS YEAR, WAS TO BREAK ALL THOSE PROJECTS APART, LOOK AT WHEN WE NEED TO DO THOSE, AND THEN LAND THAT ON A SPREADSHEET AND THEN MAKE SURE WE'RE IN KEEPING WITH WHERE OUR BUDGET ALLOCATION IS, UM, WHAT WE'VE TOLD PEOPLE IN THE PAST FIVE YEARS AND SO THAT WE'RE MAINTAINING THAT.

SO, UM, I THINK ANDREW, UM, I THINK WHERE WE'RE AT RIGHT NOW IS RIGHT SIZED.

UM, AND IN SOME CASES WE DO HAVE CHALLENGES OF GETTING PROJECTS COMPLETE.

SO WE DON'T WANNA ASK FOR MORE MONEY, MORE APPROPRIATION AND HAVE THAT MONEY JUST SIT THERE, UM, WHEN IT'S MAYBE NOT NEEDED THAT YEAR.

MAYBE WE NEED IT NEXT YEAR.

AND SO WE, WE LOOK AT A LOT OF THOSE DIFFERENT FACTORS TO BE ABLE TO, UH, MATCH THAT RATE PROJECTION.

APPRECIATE THAT VERY MUCH AND I PUBLIC APPRECIATE THAT AND I APPRECIATE YOUR STRATEGY AND YOUR APPROACH TO THAT.

FACILITY, AS WELL AS OUR, UH, QSE OPERATIONS AT DUCKWORTH.

AND LAST, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, MR. KLEIN AND G, P AND L AND UH, UH, SURE.

, THIS WAS OUR LAST, UH, OUR LAST PRESENTATION FOR THE DAY FOR DEPARTMENTS.

SO HERE WE GO, MAYOR, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, GOOD AFTERNOON, DARRYL KLEIN, GARLAND POWER AND LIGHT.

AND, UH, AS I THINK YOU'VE SEEN IN OTHER PRESENTATIONS, HERE'S A COMPARISON OF OUR 20 23 5 YEAR CIP VERSUS THE 20 24 5 YEAR.

CIP.

IF YOU LOOK AT TOTAL FOR 20 24, 5 YEAR CIP, WE'RE ROUGHLY ABOUT $475 MILLION.

THAT'S, UH, ABOUT $50 MILLION MORE THAN THE 20 23 5 YEAR CIP INCREASE OF ABOUT 12%.

UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT, FROM THE STANDPOINT OF, OBVIOUSLY YOU'VE HEARD INFLATION, WHEN YOU SEE WHAT WE'VE BEEN EXPERIENCING, AT LEAST ON THE MATERIAL SIZE, BEEN ANYWHERE FROM 15 TO 30% TYPE OF INFLATION THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, UM, WITH SOME OF OUR ACTIVITIES.

SO IT'S NOT A SURPRISE THAT YOU'RE SEEING AN INCREASE AS FAR AS THE FIVE YEAR CIP, UH, JUST GO THROUGH A COUPLE OF THESE ITEMS THAT AREN'T RELATED TO INFLATION THAT WE'VE HAD SOME CHANGES FROM LAST YEAR'S, FIVE YEAR CIP.

UH, THE FIRST ITEM THERE, YOU'LL SEE A ROUGHLY $16 MILLION REDUCTION ASSOCIATED WITH COMMUNICATION UPGRADES AND IMPROVEMENTS.

UH, THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH A BACKUP CONTROL CENTER THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, UH, UH, EVENTUALLY BUILDING.

SO, UH, YOU MAY BE FAMILIAR WITH OUR SYSTEM OPERATIONS AT OUR MCINTYRE

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BOTH OF THOSE, UM, HAVE A BACKUP OPERATION THAT'S OUT AT OUR OLINGER PLANT WHERE YOU CAN IMAGINE THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF DISTANCE BETWEEN DOWNTOWN AND OLINGER.

AND IF YOU GO BACK TO WINTER STORM URI, FORTUNATELY WE DIDN'T HAVE AN ISSUE WHERE WE NEEDED THAT BACKUP CENTER, BUT BEING ABLE TO GET OUT THERE, UH, COULD HAVE CAUSED SOME ISSUES GIVEN THE DISTANCE AND HOW THE WEATHER CONDITIONS WERE AT THE TIME.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT DOING A BACKUP CENTER THAT'S CLOSER.

UM, BUT WHEN OUR FOLKS PUT TOGETHER THEIR LIST, IT WAS, IT WAS A WISHLIST.

AND SO I'VE ASKED THEM TO SHARPEN THEIR PENCIL, COME BACK IN, AND LET'S LOOK AT MORE OF KIND OF WHAT WE NEED.

AND MY EXPECTATION IS RATHER THAN CLOSE TO $16 MILLION, WE'LL SEE SOMETHING SUBSTANTIALLY LESS THAN THAT.

UH, WE DON'T NEED TO RECREATE THE CURRENT OPERATION SYSTEMS THAT WE HAVE, WE JUST NEED SOMETHING FROM A BACKUP STANDPOINT.

UH, SO YOU'LL BE SEEING THAT IN THE FUTURE, BUT IT IS NOT IN THE CURRENT FIVE YEAR CIP, UH, COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL.

YOU'LL SEE ABOUT A $19 MILLION INCREASE THERE.

IT'S ACTUALLY A POSITIVE BECAUSE OF THE GROWTH THAT WE'VE BEEN SEEING IN THE CITY.

WE'RE SEEING MORE NEED FOR COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL TYPE OF CONNECTIONS.

SO WE'RE DOING MORE WORK AND WE'RE ACTUALLY BEING POSITIVE FROM THE STANDPOINT WE THINK THAT'S GONNA CONTINUE OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

SO WE'VE INCREASED THE BUDGET TO REFLECT THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE MORE GROWTH FROM A COMMERCIAL STANDPOINT, AND YOU'RE GONNA NEED US GOING IN AND PUTTING IN MORE FACILITIES TO BE ABLE TO HANDLE THAT GROWTH.

UH, AND THEN THE LAST ONE I'LL TALK ABOUT IS TRANSMISSION.

UH, YOU'LL SEE ALMOST A $32 MILLION INCREASE IN THE TRANSMISSION SIDE THAT'S ASSOCIATED WITH FOUR NEW PROJECTS THAT WE'RE SEEING.

AND SO, AS YOU'RE PROBABLY FAMILIAR WITH TRANSMISSION, TRANSMISSION IS NOT CHEAP WHEN YOU'RE DOING THESE PROJECTS.

UH, SO YOU'RE SEEING A PRETTY, UH, SUBSTANTIAL INCREASE THERE.

UH, WITH REGARDS TO THE FIVE YEAR CIP, UH, THE NEXT ITEMS I'LL BE TALKING ABOUT, THERE ARE THREE PROGRAMS THAT WE HAVE, UM, ADDITIONAL FUNDING THAT WE'RE REQUESTING FOR THE 2024 CIP.

THE FIRST IS THE SUBSTATIONS PROGRAM.

UH, IN TOTAL IT'S 13 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS.

SO THE FIRST TWO ITEMS ARE ASSOCIATED WITH THE NEW HOLFORD SUBSTATION THAT IS GOING IN JUST NORTH OF, UH, GEORGE BUSH.

AND THIS IS ASSOCIATED WITH THE DATA CENTER LOAD THAT'S IN THE AREA.

THAT NEW STATION WILL BE SERVED BY OUR CAMPBELL AND LOOKOUT STATIONS.

AND SO WE'RE HAVING TO MAKE TERMINAL IMPROVEMENTS SO THAT STATION CAN CONNECT INTO THOSE TWO STATIONS.

AND BOTH OF THOSE ARE ESTIMATED AT FOUR AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS EACH.

UH, OATS ROAD.

WE'RE LOOKING AT REBUILDING THE SUBSTATION.

ENCORE HAS A TRANSMISSION LINE THAT GOES INTO THAT STATION.

AND BECAUSE OF GROWTH THAT THEY'RE HAVING ON THEIR SYSTEM, ESPECIALLY OUT EAST ROCKWALL AREA, ROYCE CITY, SO FORTH, THEY'RE HAVING TO INCREASE THE CAPACITY OF THAT LINE BECAUSE THOSE FACILITIES ARE TRANSMISSION IN NATURE AT THAT STATION, WE'RE HAVING TO REBUILD AND UPGRADE THAT CAPACITY.

SO WE'RE LOOKING AT THREE AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS, UH, FOR 2024, BUT THE TOTAL COST OF THAT PROJECT IS $11 MILLION.

UH, AND LASTLY, UM, BECAUSE OF GROWTH THAT'S HAPPENING OVER IN THE FARMERSVILLE AREA, THERE'S NOW A SECOND TRANSMISSION FEE THAT'S BEING PROF, UH, BEING PROPOSED TO A NEW SUBSTATION FOR FARMERSVILLE.

SWINDELL IS ACTUALLY OUR STATION THAT IS CLOSE TO HIGHWAY THREE 80.

I'LL GIVE YOU AN IDEA OF HOW WE'VE GROWN OVER THE YEARS THAT WE HAVE FACILITIES THAT ARE NORTH IN THE WILEY, PRINCETON, EVEN EVENTUALLY IN THE FARMERSVILLE AREA.

UH, AS FAR AS HOW WE'VE BEEN EXPANDING ON OUR TRANSMISSION 'CAUSE OF THE GROWTH IN THE FARMERSVILLE AREA THAT ARE NEEDING THE SECOND FEED, $1 MILLION IS ASSOCIATED WITH 2024.

TOTAL PREP PROJECT IS OF ROUGHLY $3 MILLION IN TRANSMISSION.

WE ONLY HAVE ONE NEW FUNDING REQUEST.

THIS IS, UH, FROM OUR MARQUEE STATION, WHICH IS OVER BETWEEN JUPITER AND SHILOH.

UH, UH, REPLACING A, UH, WOODEN STRUCTURE LINE TO STEEL AND ALSO UPGRADING THE PACK CAPACITY.

AND THIS WOULD GO OVER TO THE PAX AIR STATION, AND WE'RE REQUESTING $2 MILLION IN PRODUCTION.

WE HAVE $1.75 MILLION OF ADDITIONAL FUNDING WE'RE REQUESTING FOR 2024.

UH, AS I THINK WE'RE ALL FULLY AWARE OF, THE PLANTS AT SPENCER AND OLINGER ARE 50 PLUS YEARS OLD.

WE DO HAVE OBSOLETE EQUIPMENT.

UH, AND SO WE'RE LOOKING AT GOING THROUGH AND, AND PRIMARILY THESE ARE THINGS SUCH AS CONTROLLERS, ACTUATORS, ANALYZERS, THINGS THAT WE HAVE DIFFICULTY IN FINDING REPLACEMENT PARTS.

AND SO WE'RE ESTIMATING $800,000 FOR 2024 TO REPLACE THOSE ITEMS. UH, BECAUSE OF CHANGES

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THAT THE TEXAS COMMISSIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY, OR Y'ALL MAY ALSO KNOW AS TCEQ IS MAKING WITH REGARDS TO EMISSIONS, WE'RE HAVING TO UPGRADE, UH, OUR EMISSIONS, UH, SOFTWARE.

AND SO THAT'S $300,000 ASSOCIATED WITH THAT UPGRADE.

UH, OLINGER ONE, UH, WE ARE LOOKING AT THE POSSIBILITY OF BRINGING BACK OLINGER ONE.

I THINK WE'RE ALL VERY FAMILIAR WITH THE CHANGES THAT ERCOT HAS BEEN MAKING, UH, WITH REGARDS TO HOW THEY'RE OPERATING THE SYSTEM, BUT ALSO ADDITIONAL CHARGES THAT THEY'RE BRINGING INTO THE SYSTEM, WHICH MAKES IT, MAKES IT TO A POINT WHERE YOU START LOOKING AT HAVING ADDITIONAL AVAILABLE DISPATCHABLE CAPACITY, MORE VALUABLE.

AND SO WE WANNA LOOK AT THE POSSIBILITY OF BRINGING OLINGER UNIT ONE BACK THAT'S 75 MEGAWATTS OF ADDITIONAL CAPACITY RIGHT NOW FOR SEVERAL YEARS THAT UNIT HAS BEEN IN MOTHBALL.

SO WHAT WE NEED TO DO IS, UH, THE FIRST THING THAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS TAKE AND OPEN UP THE TURBINE, BECAUSE THAT'S REALLY GOING TO DETERMINE WHAT THE COST WILL BE IN THE TIMEFRAME ASSOCIATED WITH THESE IMPROVEMENTS.

RIGHT NOW, WE ESTIMATE SOMEWHERE BETWEEN 10 TO $15 MILLION WOULD, UH, WOULD BE THE COST TO GET THE UNIT BACK RUNNING.

WE'D ANTICIPATE AT LEAST 10 YEARS OF SERVICE ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

TO PUT IN PERSPECTIVE, 75 MEGAWATTS IF YOU WERE TO GO AND BUILD NEW, WOULD BE AT LEAST $75 MILLION.

SO IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT BRINGING SOMETHING BACK FROM THE STANDPOINT OF 10 TO $15 MILLION, AND YOU REALLY ARE LOOKING AT FROM A CAPACITY STANDPOINT AND NOT NECESSARILY A UTILIZATION STANDPOINT, IT MAKES MORE SENSE TO TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF YOUR EXISTING CAPACITY.

AND THE REALITY IS THAT'S WHAT YOU'RE SEEING IN THE ERCOT MARKET AND WHY YOU'RE NOT SEEING DISPATCHABLE OR THERMAL GENERATION BEING BUILT, IS WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE COST OF THE NEW CAPACITY VERSUS EXISTING, IT'S HARD TO COMPETE AGAINST SOLAR AND RENEWABLE.

UH, AND THE REASON WHY WE HAVE THE 250,000 AGAIN, IS TO, TO OPEN THAT TURBINE.

WE DO NOT HAVE THE 10 TO $15 MILLION IN THE CIP AT THIS MOMENT.

WE WANT TO WAIT TO SEE WHAT WE BELIEVE THE COST WILL BE, AND THEN WE'LL COME BACK TO COUNCIL WITH IT.

UH, WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT A, AN ASSET INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE SYSTEM FOR, UM, OUR OLINGER AND SPENCER FACILITIES TO HELP US IMPROVE WITH OPERATIONS.

UH, AND THEN FINALLY, UM, WE HAVE THE EXISTING LIGHT FIXTURES OUT AT THESE 50 PLUS YEAR OLD FACILITIES.

AND SOME OF THOSE LIGHT FIXTURES NO LONGER WORK.

WE HAVE INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE HAVING TO USE FLASHLIGHTS OR LIGHTS ON THEIR HARD HATS IN AREAS WHERE THEY'RE HAVING TO GO WORK.

AND THAT'S NOT HOW WE NEED TO HAVE OUR FOLKS WORKING.

SO LET'S SPEND A COUPLE HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS PUT LED LIGHTING, AND AS SOMEBODY SAID, LET'S LIGHT IT UP LIKE THE CHRISTMAS TREE IT USED TO BE.

AND, UH, SO THAT'S THE PLAN.

AND AS PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED, UH, WE WILL BE WORKING ON A JOINT PROJECT WITH WATER AS FAR AS A MI, UH, OBVIOUSLY FOR US FROM A BILLING STANDPOINT, THERE'S SOME BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

BUT THE KEY PORTION I THINK FROM, FROM COUNCIL PERSPECTIVE, FROM OUR PERSPECTIVE, IS WITH A MI, IF A CUSTOMER IS WITHOUT POWER, WE AUTOMATICALLY KNOW AND YOU ELIMINATE THE CALLING IN.

NOW, FOR ANYBODY LISTENING, PLEASE STILL CALL IN.

'CAUSE WE DO NOT HAVE EMI AND IT WILL BE A FEW YEARS BEFORE WE HAVE IT IN PLACE.

BUT ONCE THAT'S IN PLACE, THAT WILL BE ONE OF THE BENEFITS ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

SO IN TOTAL FOR 2024, WE'RE REQUESTING $146 MILLION.

UH, THAT IS $24 MILLION MORE THAN 2020 THREE'S REQUEST.

IT'S ABOUT 20% INCREASE.

BUT TO KIND OF STEP BACK A LITTLE BIT, IF YOU LOOK AT 2021 AND 2022, WE WERE IN THE MID $140 MILLION A YEAR REQUEST.

SO COMPARABLE TO WHAT WE REQUESTED IN 2021 AND 2022.

ALSO, IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT TRANSMISSION AND SUBSTATION AND ADD THOSE TWO TOGETHER, THAT'S ROUGHLY 75% OF THE BUDGET.

AND IF YOU MAY RECALL, TRANSMISSION RELATED PROJECTS ARE RECOVERABLE THROUGH OUR TRANSMISSION COST OF SERVICE RATE, WHICH IS CHARGED TO ALL RATE PAYERS IN ERCOT.

AND OH, WE ALSO EARN A RETURN ON IT.

SO 75%, ROUGHLY 75% OF THIS IS RECOVERABLE THROUGH OTHER MEANS BESIDES, UH, THE RATES OF OUR RATE PAYERS.

AND WITH THAT, IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS, VERY GOOD, SIR.

COUNCILLOR LUCK.

I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT A MI, UM, I, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT WHEN I TOUR THE FACILITIES WITH YOU.

UM, WHEN DO YOU SEE THAT THE ENTIRE CITY GETTING ALL OF THOSE METERS REPLACED, ABOUT HOW LONG DO YOU THINK THAT'LL TAKE? LOADED QUESTION.

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, REALISTICALLY, I WOULD SAY FIVE YEARS.

UH, I, THERE'S BEEN SOME ESTIMATES OF THREE YEARS, BUT SUPPLY CHAIN IS A REALITY FOR THESE METERS.

AND THIS IS A BIG, BIG MOVE FOR GARLAND POWER AND LIGHT.

AND I WANT TO MAKE SURE, ME PERSONALLY, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THIS IS DONE CORRECTLY AND IT NOT BE RUSHED.

AND SO WE, WE ARE GONNA BE VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT THE ROLLOUT AND THE INSTALLATION BECAUSE IT'S MORE THAN JUST, IT'S MORE THAN JUST A NOTIFICATION OF SOMEBODY'S POWERS OUT.

THERE ARE MANY THINGS THAT THIS A MI SYSTEM WILL TOUCH ON OUR OPERATIONS.

AND SO WE'VE GOTTA BE VERY CAREFUL AND VERY SENSITIVE ABOUT, ABOUT, UH, HOW WE ROLL THIS OUT.

AND SO REALISTICALLY, I, I WOULD SAY SOMEWHERE IN THE FIVE YEAR TIMEFRAME, WELL, I THINK IT'S A MOVE IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION AND, UH, IT'S JUST NEXT LEVEL FOR GPNL.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION.

ANY ADDITIONAL? GO AHEAD.

COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK.

I KNOW ONE THING WE TALKED ABOUT AFTER THE STORM MUY WAS ABOUT SUBDIVIDING THE DIFFERENT SERVICE AROUND THE CITY INTO SMALLER UNITS, SO WE COULD BETTER SHUT THOSE OFF AS NEEDED IF THERE WAS EVER A NEED TO ROLL BLACKOUTS.

CAN YOU GIVE AN UPDATE RELATED TO, IS ANY OF THAT WORK IN THIS CIP OR HOW IS THAT PROGRESSING? SO HE'S NOT SITTING THERE? NO, NO, IT IS NOT IN THE CIP BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY GONE THROUGH AND MADE CHANGES WITH REGARDS TO HOW WE ROTATE OUTAGES.

SO WE'VE, WE'VE GONE IN AND IT'S ACTUALLY NOW AUTOMATED.

UH, IT USED TO BE A, A, A MANUAL PROCESS.

SO, SO NOW THE AUTOMATION'S IN PLACE, AND SO YOU CAN PUT IN, UM, THE AMOUNT OF LOAD THAT NEEDS TO BE REDUCED, THE TIMING ASSOCIATED WITH IT.

SO ALL THAT'S BEEN DONE, OH, I WOULD SAY PROBABLY SIX TO NINE MONTHS AFTER WINTER STORM URI, WE MADE THOSE CHANGES.

SO THAT, THAT'S NOT, THAT, THAT WOULD NOT BE IN THE BUDGET SINCE THAT'S BEEN, THAT'S GOOD TO HEAR.

YEAH, I THINK YOU SHOULD.

THE, THE CITY ATTORNEY HAS NOT COME BACK THROUGH YET, SO I THINK, I THINK WE'RE SAFE.

UH, ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS, UH, FOR MR. KLEIN, FOR GP AND L CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT? I SEE NONE.

AND EVEN THOUGH THE CITY ATTORNEY WOULD PROBABLY STOP ME, I JUST WANNA THANK YOU AND ALL THE GPNL CREWS, UH, FOR THE COLD WEATHER, NOT THANKING YOU FOR THE COLD WEATHER, , LET ME REPHRASE THAT.

BUT, UH, OBVIOUSLY OUR RESPONSE DURING THAT TIME, UH, WAS OUTSTANDING.

AND SO I, I APPRECIATE THAT AND THANK YOU TO ALL OF, ALL OF OUR CREWS.

MOVE ON, UH, TO THE NEXT ITEM.

NARROWLY, AVOIDING BEING REPRIMANDED BY THE CITY ATTORNEY ONCE AGAIN.

ALRIGHT, COUNSEL, THAT WAS OUR LAST, UH, DEPARTMENT PRESENTATION.

UH, WE WILL

[4. Overview and Discussion of Upcoming Capital Initiatives]

ITEM, ITEM.

OH, CUSTOMER.

WE, I'M SORRY, JEFF, I DON'T KNOW.

UH OH.

UM, TIMING.

THIS IS TIMING SINCE MAYOR, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU WANNA WAIT ON, WAIT ON THIS.

SINCE WE'VE HEARD ALL THESE PRESENTATIONS AND WE'VE HEARD A LOT ABOUT SUPPLY CHAINS, COST ESCALATION, I WANT ASK WOULD BE APPROPRIATE FOR THE CITY MANAGERS.

TALK ABOUT THE IMPACT OF THIS AND, AND WHAT WE'VE DONE ON THE PROCUREMENT SIDE, LOOKING AT TO IMPLEMENT IF, IF ALL THIS IS APPROVED, THE STRATEGIES THAT HE'S USING TO, TO, TO UH, MITIGATE OR MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF THOSE THINGS LIKE SUPPLY CHAINS, COST ESCALATION ON THIS WHOLE PACKAGE, IF HE WOULD SHARE THAT WITH THE FULL COUNCIL.

WE'RE NOT GONNA WAIT UNTIL 2027 TO PLACE THAT ORDER.

IT IS NOW OR LATER.

MAYOR, I SHOULD WE WAIT? OKAY, WHERE WE ARE NOW IS OVERVIEW AND DISCUSSION OF UPCOMING CAPITAL INITIATIVES.

I THINK THAT WOULD FALL IN SOMEWHERE INTO THERE IF YOU WANNA ADDRESS THAT BEFORE WE MOVE IN TO THE PRESENTATION.

I'LL PUSH THE RIGHT BUTTON OCCASIONALLY.

UH, SO YOU HEARD FROM MANY OF OUR DIRECTORS, ESPECIALLY RELATED TO EQUIPMENT AND VEHICLES THAT ARE IN THE CIP, THAT UM, WE HAVE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES.

AND SO THERE'S, THERE'S QUITE A LENGTHY LEAD TIME THAT HAS DEVELOPED OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS WITH A LOT OF OUR, UH, FIRE TRUCKS, SANITATION TRUCKS, EVEN JUST OUR FLEET VEHICLES.

UH, THERE'S A, THERE'S QUITE A BIT OF LEAD TIME NOW.

AND SO YOUR QUESTION ABOUT HOW WE'RE SORT OF DEALING WITH THAT, UH, ONE OF OUR STRATEGIES IS TO, YOU KNOW, SAY FOR THE, IN 2027, I DON'T HAVE THE NUMBER IN FRONT OF ME, BUT IF WE'RE ORDERING THREE TRASH TRUCKS IN 2027, UM,

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WE'RE ACTUALLY GONNA DO THAT THREE YEARS IN ADVANCE SO THAT WHEN 2027 ROLLS AROUND, WE, WE GET THOSE ON THE LOT.

AND, AND THAT'S DONE THROUGH A, A PURCHASE ORDER SYSTEM.

WE ISSUE THE PO NOW DON'T SEE ANYTHING HAPPEN FOR THREE YEARS, AND THEN WE GET THE, WE GET THE TRUCK THAT SHOWS UP IN THREE YEARS.

SO THAT'S A JUST KIND OF A SIMPLE EXAMPLE.

UM, THERE'S, THERE'S PROBABLY A FEW OTHER STRATEGIES TOO, BUT ESSENTIALLY WE'RE JUST ADAPTING TO THE, TO THE SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES THAT ARE AROUND US AND ADAPTING TO THAT LEAD TIME FOR A LOT OF OUR VEHICLES AND EQUIPMENT.

SO YOU WANT TO KICK US OFF ON THIS? I'LL JUST KEEP GOING.

DEBT SERVICE CAPACITY, MEANING WE HAVE THE CAPACITY TO TAKE ON $738 MILLION WORTH OF PROJECTS.

NICE WARM UP, .

SO WHAT WE WANT TO ENGAGE COUNCIL WITH RIGHT NOW IS SOME DISCUSSION AROUND UPCOMING CAPITAL INITIATIVES.

AND, AND SO WE'RE GONNA LAY SOME GROUNDWORK FOR FUTURE DECISIONS ON, UH, ONE, YOU KNOW, A COUPLE DIFFERENT THINGS.

ONE IS, HOW MUCH ADDITIONAL LONG-TERM DEBT CAPACITY DO WE HAVE FOR FUTURE INITIATIVES? UH, WHEN YOU LOOK AT OUR OVERALL, AND MATT'S GOING TO GONNA TALK NUMBERS WITH YOU IN A, IN A LITTLE BIT, UM, THAT WILL PLACE A BOOKMARK AND A KIND OF A MARKER IN YOUR HEAD IN TERMS OF WHAT'S AVAILABLE.

UM, BUT WHEN YOU LOOK AT WHAT WE, SO WE HAVE A, A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DECK CAPACITY THAT'S AVAILABLE, AND WE HAVE A LOT OF NEEDS THAT, THAT COULD EAT INTO THAT CAPACITY.

SO, UH, THE BIG ONE THAT COMES TO MIND IS, IS OUR STREET MAINTENANCE PROGRAM.

UH, HOW DO WE MAINTAIN, UH, OUR STREETS LONG-TERM? UH, RIGHT NOW WE'RE ON A, ON A REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE, UH, EVEN THOUGH WE'VE UPPED OUR, UPPED OUR FUNDING ON STREETS SIGNIFICANTLY OVER THE LAST, YOU KNOW, FIVE OR SIX YEARS, UH, INFLATION HAS EATEN INTO THAT AMOUNT.

UM, AND WE, AS WE GET OUR STREETS ASSESSMENT DONE THIS YEAR, UH, WE SHOULD HAVE THAT INFORMATION BY THIS SUMMER, HOPEFULLY IN TIME FOR YOUR JUNE, UM, WORKSHOP.

WHEN WE GET THAT STREETS ASSESSMENT BACK, UH, WE'RE GONNA ENGAGE COUNSEL IN A, IN A DECISION MAKING POINT ABOUT HOW WE WANNA FUND OUR STREETS AND TO WHAT LEVEL, YOU KNOW, IF, IF WE COME BACK WITH THIS STREETS ASSESSMENT, UH, THAT'S LOOKING CITYWIDE AT OUR STREETS AND ALLEYS AND IT GIVES US A, AN AVERAGE PCI OF SAY 70, UH, WHAT'S GONNA BE COUNCIL'S GOAL TO INCREASE THAT NUMBER, OR IT MAY BE THAT WE JUST ARE ABLE TO, TO MAINTAIN THAT NUMBER, UH, AND WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT, UH, WE'LL HAVE DIFFERENT DECISION POINTS AND OPTIONS FOR THAT DECISION.

WHEN, WHEN WE GET TO ABOUT A JUNE TIMEFRAME, UH, WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF WRAPPING UP A, A CITYWIDE FACILITIES MASTER PLAN THAT WILL, THAT'S TELLING US HOW MUCH WE NEED TO MAINTAIN ALL OF OUR 200 PLUS CITY FACILITIES.

UH, AND THAT'S EVERYTHING FROM A, YOU KNOW, A CITY HALL TYPE OF BUILDING TO, UH, OUR WAREHOUSE TO, UM, UH, THE, THE RESTROOM FACILITIES AT PARKS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN.

UH, HOW MUCH IS IT GONNA COST US TO MAINTAIN THOSE IN THE CURRENT CIP WE'VE PLUGGED IN, WE'VE INCREASED THE AMOUNT OF ANNUAL FUNDING FOR FACILITY MAINTENANCE, BUT WE'RE NOT SURE IF THAT'S GONNA BE ENOUGH.

WE'LL KNOW MORE HERE IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS.

UH, AND THERE'S OTHER LONG-TERM FUNDING NEEDS.

UM, MATT'S GONNA GET INTO THE NUMBERS HERE IN A MINUTE, BUT, UH, TO THAT FIRST BULLET UP THERE THAT SAYS FUTURE BOND PROGRAMS, UH, YOU'LL RECALL COUNCIL THAT WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT, UM, ANOTHER BOND PROGRAM FOCUSED ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

UH, ONE OF THE POINTS OF INPUT WE'D LIKE FROM ME TODAY IS FROM YOU TODAY, IS WHETHER WE START THAT, UH, BOND STUDY COMMITTEE.

NOW, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S KIND OF TWO, TWO BIG NEEDS THERE.

ONE IS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT.

THE OTHER I THINK IS GONNA BE STREETS.

AGAIN, WE DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT THAT NUMBER'S GONNA BE ON THE STREET.

UH, ONCE WE GET THE STREET ASSESSMENT, WE WILL.

BUT, UH, THOSE ARE KIND OF THE TWO BIG INITIATIVES THAT I SEE THAT A BOND STUDY COMMITTEE COULD FOCUS ON.

AND SO THERE'S A, A DECISION POINT ABOUT, UH, WHAT'S THE SCOPE THAT OF THE, OF PROJECTS OR, OR PROGRAMS, INITIATIVES THAT THAT BOND STUDY COMMITTEE COULD LOOK AT.

AND, UM, WHEN DO WE START THAT INITIATIVE GIVEN THAT OUR STREETS ASSESSMENT, YOU KNOW, ISN'T GONNA BE DONE UNTIL JUNE, YOU KNOW, DO THEY GET STARTED A LITTLE BIT SOONER WITH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THEN ROLL INTO STREETS? AND, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, FINAL QUESTION IS, UH, WHAT ABOUT A TARGETED ELECTION DATE? IF WE, IF WE SEND A BOND STUDY COMMITTEE TO START TO WORK, UH, WHAT DATE DO WE REALLY GIVE THEM TO, UH, TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE BALLOT? SO, UM, JUST WANTED TO QUEUE THOSE QUESTIONS UP.

MATT'S GONNA TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS AND EXACTLY WHAT IS OUR LONG-TERM DEBT CAPACITY.

UH, AND THEN REALLY LOOKING FOR SOME FEEDBACK FROM COUNSEL ON THOSE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS RELATED TO THE BOND STUDY COMMITTEE.

SO I'LL TURN IT OVER TO MATT.

HELLO, COUNSEL.

SO I TRY TO MAKE THIS AS SIMPLE AS POSSIBLE IN A LITTLE DONUT CHART, I GUESS I CALL IT.

UM, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THIS CHART, WHAT WHAT WE'RE SAYING IS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, WE HAVE

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WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE 344 NUMBER, THAT IS THE PROPOSED CIP, ALL THE DEPARTMENT TRANSPORTATION, UH, PRESENTATIONS YOU SAW, THAT TAKES UP 344 MILLION OF THAT.

WE ALSO, DURING THE LAST OPERATING BUDGET, WE'VE ALREADY STARTED DISCUSSING ABOUT STORM WATER RATES.

HOW WE'RE INCREASING OUR STORMWATER RATES TO GET UP TO THE METROPLEX AVERAGE.

THAT SHOULD YIELD ANOTHER $46 MILLION WORTH OF PROJECTS FOR DRAINAGE SPECIFICALLY.

THERE'S ALSO MONEY THAT WE'VE SET ASIDE 'CAUSE FOR CONSERVATIVE REASONS LIKE CAPACITY FOR EMERGENCIES AND FOR OUR INFLATION RESERVES, AS WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT WITH SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES, INFLATION HAS ALSO BEEN A BIG COMPONENT OF COST GOING UP OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS WITH OUR CIP.

SO WE'VE SET ASIDE CAPACITY TO ISSUE ADDITIONAL $54 MILLION WORTH OF BONDS TO COVER ALL THE THINGS WE HAVE IN THE PIPELINE IF COST ESCALATION CONTINUES TO BE A PROBLEM.

AND THEN THE 24 MILLION IS, THERE'S ALWAYS EMERGENCIES.

UH, AN EXAMPLE WOULD BE AN AMBULANCE GETS COMPLETELY TOTALED.

THOSE THINGS JUST HAPPEN.

WE HAVE TO BE ABLE TO REACT AND GET THOSE REPLACED QUICKLY.

AND WHAT THAT LEAVES IS $270 MILLION OF CAPACITY THAT COULD BE UTILIZED FOR ALL THESE FUTURE INITIATIVES.

SO THE WAY I KIND OF SEE IT IS WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A FUTURE BOND PROGRAM FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

SO WE KNOW WE HAVE TO GROW GARLAND.

WE KNOW WE HAVE TO DO THINGS TO CONTINUE TO BRING OUR TAX BASE UP.

SO THERE'S ED COMPONENTS WHERE WE ALSO HAVE HUGE STUDIES THAT JUDGES TALKED ABOUT WITH STREETS, DRAINAGE AND FACILITIES TO MAINTAIN WHAT WE HAVE EXISTING.

SO ALL THESE THINGS AT SOME POINT ARE GONNA ALL COME TOGETHER AND WE'RE COUNCIL'S IN THE, THE WONDERFUL POSITION OF PRIORITIZING THOSE SO THAT WE ENSURE THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN WHAT WE HAVE WHILE ALSO GROWING GARLAND.

SO THAT CAPACITY IS 270 MILLION.

AND SO WE KIND OF EARMARKED SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS WHEN WE WERE ORIGINALLY TALKING ABOUT THE BOND PROGRAM, WE WERE TALKING ABOUT $250 MILLION WORTH OF, UH, PROJECTS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SPECIFIC.

UH, WITH A HUNDRED MILLION OF THAT COMING FROM A TIFF, WE'VE EXPANDED THAT TIFF.

SO YOU TAKE THAT OUT OF THE EQUATION.

SO THAT'S NOT IN THESE NUMBERS.

YOU HAVE ROUGHLY $150 MILLION OF CAPACITY FOR WHAT WE WERE ORIGINALLY TALKING ABOUT FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACROSS THE CITY.

WE HAVE STREETS AND DRAINAGE ON THE STREET SIDE.

THIS IS JUST IN OUR MODEL.

WE'VE SEGREGATED OUT AN ADDITIONAL 40 MILLION.

BUT REALLY THAT IS JUST WHAT I'M CALLING SEED MONEY TO COVER ALL THE INFLATION, ALL THE ISSUES THAT HAVE COME UP TO ENSURE THAT OUR STREET PROGRAM CONTINUES, HOW IT IS, HOW IT'S GOING.

NOW IN THE CIP WE'VE EARMARKED SOME MONEY, UH, 12 AND A HALF MILLION DOLLARS OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS.

IT IS IN YOUR CIP FOR FACILITIES.

'CAUSE WE KNOW WE'RE GONNA NEED TO DO ADDITIONAL HVAC WORK, ROOFS AND THINGS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR FACILITIES STAY IN, IN, IN GOOD SHAPE.

AND THEN THERE'S JUST OTHER LONG TERM NEEDS.

WE HAVE TONS OF NEEDS IN THE CITY.

SO WHEN YOU LOOKING AT JUST THE NUMBERS, YOU KNOW, JUDD KEEPS SAYING INGRAINED IN YOUR HEAD, THE NUMBER IS 2 70, 200 70 MILLION IS WHAT WE HAVE CAPACITY TO, TO ISSUE BONDS FOR THESE PRIORITIES.

SO AGAIN, TRYING TO QUEUE UP, UM, SOME INPUT FROM COUNCIL HERE.

HERE'S SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE KEY QUESTIONS AND, AND AGAIN, THE, THIS IS REALLY JUST A DISCUSSION STARTER, YOU KNOW, WHEN DO WE WANT TO KICK OFF THE BOND BOND STUDY COMMITTEE, UH, THROUGH SPRING 2024 UP THERE? UH, INITIALLY WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A, A FALL 2023 START.

UH, WE POSTPONED THAT TO WAIT ON SOME LONGER TERM DISCUSSIONS.

UM, YOU KNOW, SPRING 2024 IS A, IS AN OPTION.

I, IT'S REALLY RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER WHEN YOU THINK OF IT.

WE'RE HALFWAY THROUGH JANUARY ALREADY.

SO, UM, I, I THINK THE, THE OTHER OPTION WOULD BE IF YOU, IF COUNCIL DID WANNA WAIT TO GET THE FULL STREETS ASSESSMENT BACK, UM, WAIT ON THAT, WAIT ON START STARTING THE COMMITTEE UNTIL SUMMER.

UH, SO THAT'S KIND OF AN OPTION A OPTION B OPPORTUNITY.

UM, AND THEN WHAT IS THE SCOPE OF THE COMMITTEE? WE, WE KNOW COUNCIL WANTS TO HAVE 'EM LOOK AT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

UH, DO WE WANT TO ADD STREETS TO THAT AS WELL? AND, AND WHEN WE GET THE PAVEMENT ASSESSMENT DONE AND, AND THIS SUMMER, UH, THAT'LL BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO ENGAGE THE COMMITTEE IN, IN LOOKING AT STREETS AND, AND HELPING STEER WHAT FUNDING WE CAN SEND TOWARDS STREETS, UH, THROUGH A POTENTIAL BOND PROGRAM.

AND THEN AGAIN,

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LOOKING AT THE TARGET ELECTION DATE, I KNOW TALKING TO MATT AND OTHERS THAT WERE AROUND FOR, FOR, UH, THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM, UH, ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE POINTS OF FEEDBACK WAS, HEY, IT WOULD'VE BEEN NICE TO HAVE A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME TO SCOPE THE PROJECTS, MAKE SURE THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT ALL ANGLES OF ALL THE PROJECTS AND ISSUES.

SO I, I, YOU KNOW, I WOULD, I WOULD BE COMFORTABLE AND I WOULD BE OKAY IF, IF IT TOOK THIS COMMITTEE EVEN A YEAR TO DO THEIR WORK.

UH, AGAIN, KNOWING THAT THIS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PART IS GONNA REQUIRE A LOT OF BACKGROUND WORK AND EDUCATION, UM, IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT THAN, THAN JUST LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, QUALITY OF LIFE PROJECTS LIKE TRAILS AND PARKS AND, AND REC CENTERS THAT WE HAD A VERY LENGTHY LIST OF IN 2019.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT.

AND SO IT MAY TAKE MORE TIME FOR THAT, FOR THE COMMITTEE TO DO THAT WORK.

UM, AND THEN OF COURSE, STREETS, UH, KNOWING THAT THIS SUMMER WE'RE GONNA GET SOME, SOME ADDITIONAL INFORMATION, UH, YOU KNOW, A TARGET ELECTION DATE.

YOU KNOW, IS IT A NOVEMBER, 2024? IS IT MAY, 2025? I, I THINK THERE'S A COUPLE DIFFERENT OPTIONS THERE THAT, THAT THE COUNCIL WOULD HAVE.

SO AGAIN, THIS SLIDE'S REALLY JUST TO QUEUE UP, UH, SOME DISCUSSION FOR COUNCIL AND, AND BE HAPPY TO RECEIVE ANY FEEDBACK AND DIRECTION AND THEN ALSO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS.

GOT A FEW FOLKS ALREADY IN THE QUEUE.

UH, CUSTOMER HEDRICK.

MM-HMM, THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE.

UM, I, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO WAIT UNTIL WE GET THE INFORMATION IN THAT WE NEED, ESPECIALLY WITH THIS PAVING, UH, ASSESSMENT THAT WE'RE DOING IN THE 2019 BOND COMMITTEE.

THERE WERE 58 DIFFERENT ROAD PROJECTS ALONE BY ITSELF.

AND TO PUSH THAT TIMELINE, YOU KNOW, TRY TO COMPACT IT TO MEET SOME OF THESE OTHER TIMELINES, ESPECIALLY WITH THE ELECTION, THIS IN NOVEMBER BEING A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, I'D HATE FOR A BOND TO GET LOST IN ALL THAT MADNESS.

I WOULD RATHER HAVE IT ALIGNED WITH A MERRILL ELECTION IN 2025.

I THINK THAT'S A GOOD, YOU KNOW, MUNICIPAL CITY ELECTION FOCUSED ON CITY NEEDS AT THAT POINT.

UH, IT WOULD GIVE MORE TIME FOR THE COMMUNITY TO DO THEIR WORK AND HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT STUDIES, UM, AND THE INFORMATION THEY NEED TO, TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS.

ONE QUESTION I DO HAVE IS THAT, UM, ON THE PREVIOUS SITE IT MENTIONED FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS.

ARE THERE ANY OTHER CITY FACILITY, NEW FACILITIES THAT MIGHT NEED TO BE CONSTRUCTED? THE LAST BOND HAD SPECIFICALLY THE POLICE, UH, PROPERTY, THE EVIDENCE BUILDING AND THE ANIMAL SHELTER WERE DRIVING THAT BOND.

ARE THERE ANY PROJECTS LIKE THAT RATHER THAN JUST MAINTENANCE AND IMPROVEMENTS OF EXISTING FACILITIES? SO THE, THE FACILITY ASSESSMENT THAT'S OUT RIGHT NOW IS SIMPLY LOOKING AT EXISTING FACILITIES AND WHAT MAINTENANCE NEEDS ARE OVER, YOU KNOW, OVER A CERTAIN WINDOW OF TIME.

UM, SO IT'S, IT'S HARD TO SAY FOR SURE IF THERE'S OTHER NEEDS OUT THERE.

IT WASN'T NECESSARILY A NEEDS ASSESSMENT THAT SAYS, HEY, AS THE CITY GROWS, AS OUR STAFFING GROWS, DO WE NEED MORE SPACE? UM, I I THINK THE ANSWER TO THAT IS YES, WE ARE GONNA NEED MORE SPACE.

MM-HMM, , BUT WHAT THAT IS, THAT, THAT'S, THAT'S HARD TO SAY FOR SURE.

WELL THEN I WOULD, I'D LOVE TO HAVE THIS BOND FOCUSED ON THREE THINGS, REALLY.

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ROADS, YOU COULD TAKE OUT SOME OF THE DRAINAGE, UM, IMPLEMENT DRAIN DRAINAGE PRODUCTS IS WE DO HAVE THAT NEW FUNDING SOURCE.

AND THEN ANY OTHER OF THE FACILITY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WE MIGHT NEED AND HAVE THOSE THREE BE THE FOCUS AND, AND GIVE THEM THE TIME THEY NEED.

SO THAT'S MY OPINION.

THANK YOU, COUNSEL.

UH, COUNCILOR WILLIAMS. THANK, THANK YOU MAYOR.

UM, I, UH, AGREE WITH CONMAN, CONMAN, HENDRICK HENDRICKS ON ON WAY PUSHING THIS OUT.

I DON'T, I DEFINITELY DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE NOVEMBER, 2020 FOURTH.

I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE DURING NOVEMBER ANYWAY, I THINK DURING THE MUNICIPAL TIME BECAUSE IT'S GONNA GET LOST IN THE NOISE AS YOU SAID.

UM, I THINK THAT WHAT I CONSIDER THE BIG THREE STREETS ASSESSMENT, THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, FACILITIES AND DRAINAGE AS FOUR, I THINK I RECOMMEND THAT WE TAKE A, WHEN WE LOOK AT DRAINAGE PROJECTS, WE'VE GOT SOME THAT, THAT HAVE BEEN OUT THERE FOR A WHILE.

UM, SO WE TAKE, DO PERHAPS MAYBE WANT TO DO A REASSESS RE-LOOK AT THOSE TO SEE AND PRIORITIZE THOSE DRAINAGE PROJECTS, UM, TO SEE WHERE THEY FALL AND WHAT I WOULD LIST AS AS ITEM FOUR.

BUT I THINK THOSE DRAINAGE PROJECTS ARE IMPORTANT AND WE NEED TO LOOK AT THEM.

I WOULD HATE, I WOULD NOT LIKE SEE ONCE, SEE THIS, WE DO A STREETS ASSESSMENT, DO ALL THE STREETS WORK, AND THEN DISCOVER, WELL WE'VE GOT THESE DRAINAGE ISSUES OUT HERE, WE'VE GOT THESE DRAINAGE.

SO I THINK IT'S SORT OF HANDING GLOVES WHEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT, 'CAUSE SOME, WE'VE GOT SOME AREAS THAT HAVE NEITHER OR HAVE POOR STREETS AND POOR DRAINAGE.

SO I THINK IT'S GONNA BE DIFFICULT.

SO I'D LIKE TO SEE AN ASSESSMENT,

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UM, ON THOSE.

UH, AND I THINK, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, IN OUR CURRENT 2019, I THINK WE ARE COMPLETION ABOUT 83%.

I, IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I, IT WAS 80 SOMETHING, RIGHT? MATT AND ALLISON, YOU PROBABLY GOT THAT IN YOUR HEAD.

I THINK IT WAS, YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE SLIDE, BUT IT WAS 80, WHAT WAS IT, 74% BY THE END OF 2024 WITH A HUNDRED PERCENT COMPLETE BY 2029 OO.

WE'RE AT 74%.

UH, YOU, YOU KNOW, UH, I WOULD NOT LIKE TO GO BACK NOW, I DON'T THINK NOW'S THE TIME TO GO BACK.

WE'VE GOT A 74% COMPLETION RATE.

I WOULD HOPE YOU KNOW THAT, THAT WHEN WE DECIDE TO APPOINT A NEW BOND STUDY COMMITTEE, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST AS PART OF OUR MESSAGING THAT OUR NUMBERS, WE CAN SORT OF TAKE THOSE COMPLETION BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE THE QUESTION THAT YOU'RE GONNA GET WHEN YOU GO, OKAY, YOU ASKED US FOR 2019 IF WE ARE AT 70 IN THE SEVENTIES, AND THEN WHAT YOU WANT MORE.

SO I THINK THAT THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT SHOULD FACTOR INTO OUR, OUR, UH, OUR WEIGHT BOTTOM LINE IS I AGREE WITH COUNCILMAN HENDRICK THAT WE SHOULD, UH, WAIT, UM, THOSE ASSESSMENTS ARE CRITICAL.

AND MY QUESTION FOR MR. CITY MANAGER ON THESE ASSESSMENTS, ARE THESE ASSESSMENTS BEING DONE INTERNALLY OR ARE THEY BEING DONE BY CONSULTANT? CONSULTANT? AND HAVE WE ESTABLISHED THE SCOPE OF THOSE ASSESSMENTS AS FAR AS WHAT WE WANT, WHAT WE ARE LOOKING AT? CAN YOU TALK A BIT ABOUT WHAT THOSE ASSESSMENTS, WHAT ASSESSMENT TOOLS ARE THEY USING TO DO THOSE ASSESSMENT FOR WHATEVER COMES BACK? CAN YOU TALK, UH, SO FOR STREETS AND FACILITIES, WE'RE, WE'RE USING CONTRACTORS FOR BOTH OF THOSE ASSESSMENTS.

UM, THE, THE FACILITY ASSESSMENT INCLUDES ALL EXISTING CITY FACILITIES, UM, AND THEN ON THE STREET SIDE AND, AND CRYSTAL JUMP IN IF YOU NEED TO.

UM, IT'S EVERY, IT'S ALL STREETS AND ALLEYS WITHIN THE CITY, UM, ON THE STREET ASSESSMENT.

IS THAT RIGHT? IT'S OKAY.

AND THERE'S THOSE, THOSE ARE BEING DONE BY OUTSIDE CONTRACTORS? THAT'S CORRECT, YES.

AND DO WE HAVE A TIMELINE FOR THOSE ASSESSMENTS? UH, IF, IF SO WHAT ARE THEY? THE FACILITIES ASSESSMENT? I, I KNOW IT'S A SUMMER, SUMMER 20 22 4.

WE'LL HAVE CRYSTAL COME UP AND, AND SOMEBODY JUST KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE TIMELINES PLEASE.

SO, ON THE STREET ASSESSMENT, UM, WE ARE IN PROGRESS OR IN THE PROCESS OF SELECTING A VENDOR TO ACTUALLY DO THAT WORK.

UM, WE HAVE, I THINK WE'VE NARROWED IT DOWN TO A FINAL TWO VENDORS.

AND THE CRITERIA THAT WE'RE USING REALLY IS ABOUT THE DELIVERABLES.

UM, WHAT KIND OF DATA CAN THEY PROVIDE BACK TO US, AND THEN, UH, THE FREQUENCY OF UPDATING THAT DATA.

SO WE SHOULD BE KICKING THAT OFF VERY, VERY SOON.

UM, THE VENDORS THAT WE ARE SELECTING ARE FROM, UM, OH MY GOSH, INTERLOCAL OR BY BOARD THAT KIND OF, UH, WE HAVE AGREEMENTS ALREADY IN PLACE, UH, THROUGH OTHER ENTITIES THAT WE CAN UTILIZE THOSE CONTRACTS.

SO, UM, WE DO NOT ANTICIPATE THAT THERE'LL BE ANY MAJOR DELAYS IN GETTING THAT DONE.

AND RIGHT NOW WE ARE ANTICIPATING SUMMER.

I DON'T KNOW IF IT WILL BE COMPLETED BY JUNE, REMEMBER WE HAVE 57 SQUARE MILES THAT WE HAVE TO COVER.

SO AS SOON AS WE GET SOMEONE ON BOARD, WE ARE DEFINITELY GONNA BE PUSHING THEM AS QUICKLY AS WE CAN.

CAN YOU SPEAK TO THE FACILITIES? NO, SIR.

, I THOUGHT SAID YOU WERE THERE.

YOU WERE THERE.

I THOUGHT I WAS THERE.

THAT WAS A SOLID, NO, THAT, THAT'S NEVER HEARD.

THAT WAS, THAT WAS OKAY.

GO AHEAD.

SORRY.

COUNSEL, I CAN SPEAK ON THE FACILITIES ASSESSMENT STUDY.

UH, SO THIS STUDY, UH, KICKED OFF IN, UH, EARLY FALL, AND SO WE SHOULD BE COMPLETE WITH THE STUDY BY MARCH.

THERE'S A, A FIRM NAMED MCKINTRY THAT IS ON A STATE CONTRACT THAT WE, UH, HAVE CONTRACTED WITH THAT IS DOING THE STUDY.

AND SO THEY HAVE PROFESSIONALS THAT ARE, UH, MECHANICAL, PLUMBING AND CONSTRUCTION BASED, AND THEY'VE GONE AND DONE AN OVERVIEW OF ALL CITY BUILDING.

THIS INCLUDES, UH, CITY HALL TO, UH, GP AND L SUBSTATIONS.

SO IT WAS A LITTLE OVER TWO AND A HALF MILLION SQUARE FEET THAT THEY LOOKED AT.

AND SO THAT REPORT, AGAIN, WILL BE DONE IN MARCH.

AND THAT'LL GIVE US A FIVE, FIVE AND A 10 YEAR OUTLOOK OF WHAT, UH, WORK NEEDS TO BE DONE TO IMPROVE OUR FACILITIES.

AND AGAIN, IT'S JUST OUR EXISTING FACILITIES AND WHAT SYSTEM UPGRADES WE NEED TO DO.

AND IT'LL, UH, BETTER HELP US BETTER UNDERSTAND WHAT WE NEED TO PLAN FOR IN THE FUTURE FOR THE CIP.

THANKS SIR.

YEAH, THERE ARE SEVERAL FACTORS.

SO I'M GONNA ASK, CAN YOU ANSWER ANY OF THE QUESTIONS ON THE STREET ASSESSMENT? UH, I, I CAN, I CAN ANSWER QUESTIONS.

I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'RE RIGHT.

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I DEFINITELY THINK THAT, THAT WE SHOULD WAIT FOR LAUNCHING A BOND STUDY COMMITTEE UNTIL THIS SUMMER FOR ONE, WE'VE GOT FOUR DISTRICTS UP FOR ELECTION IN MAY.

AND THINK IT WOULD BE, UH, MORE GRACIOUS TO WAIT AND LET THE PEOPLE WHO ARE SITTING IN THESE SEATS, UH, CHOOSE THEIR, UH, BOND STUDY COMMITTEE MEMBER.

UM, AND ALSO CERTAINLY WAIT UNTIL WE HAVE THE, UH, PAVING AND FACILITIES INFORMATION DATA HARD IN HAND.

UM, I ALSO AGREE, WE, WE SAW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A MAY ELECTION GETS MOVED TO NOVEMBER, UM, IN 2020.

UH, I WOULD NOT EVER WANNA DO THAT AGAIN.

SO OUR OUR MUNICIPAL, UM, VOTERS PAY A LOT MORE ATTENTION TO THE ISSUES AND ARE A LOT BETTER INFORMED ABOUT IT OVERALL.

UM, SO I WOULD THINK THAT CERTAINLY NOT PUTTING IT OFF UNTIL MAY, 2025, I DON'T THINK THAT'S A, AT ALL A STRETCH OR A BAD IDEA.

UM, AS FOR THE THINGS INCLUDED PERSONALLY, I WOULD RATHER SEE OUR NEXT BOND BE FOCUSED LIKE A LASER ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STREETS, BECAUSE THOSE ARE FOR MOST OF OUR VOTERS, NO-BRAINERS.

UM, WE DID NOT HAVE A LOT OF RESISTANCE TO SOME OF OUR FACILITIES IN 2019 BECAUSE WE HAD THINGS LIKE THE ANIMAL SHELTER AND THE POLICE EVIDENCE FACILITY, EVERYBODY.

BUT WE ALSO HAD THINGS IF, IF LET'S SAY THE, THE STREET DEPARTMENT FACILITY HAD BEEN, UM, ISOLATED, THEN IT'S A LITTLE BIT HARDER TO GET CITIZENS EXCITED ABOUT BUILDING WHAT THEY SEE AS OUR BUILDINGS .

SO, UM, IT'LL BE GOOD TO GET THE FACILITIES INFORMATION BACK.

MY INITIAL THOUGHT, THOUGH IS FOCUS THE NEXT BOND ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND STREETS AND JUST KEEP IT SIMPLE.

UM, WE CAN DO THIS AGAIN.

SO, UM, I THINK THAT WAS, THAT WAS, OH, THOSE WERE ALL MY THOUGHTS.

HANG ON JUST A SECOND.

MAYOR PRO TIM BASS.

JUST VERY QUICKLY, I'D LIKE TO SAY I CONCUR WITH WHAT'S BEEN SAID HERE TODAY.

UM, EVERYTHING POINTS TOWARD, UM, TOWARD, UH, YOU KNOW, DELAYING THIS TILL WE HAVE THE DATA AND WE HAVE THE, UH, PROPER REPRESENTATION IN THESE SEATS.

DON'T JUST COME IN AND IMMEDIATELY KNOW WHAT BONDS AND ALL THAT ARE, ARE ABOUT.

UH, ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT.

SO, UH, I THINK FIRST WE'LL SORT OF WORK BACKWARDS.

HOW ABOUT THAT? UH, BACKWARDS BEING, UH, WE, AS FAR AS THE FU AS FAR AS THE ELECTION IS CONCERNED, OBVIOUSLY MAY 25, I THINK IS PRETTY UNIVERSALLY AGREED UPON WITH EVERYONE.

I MEAN, IT'S, IT'LL BE A MAYORAL ELECTION AND, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

AND NOT WANTING ANYTHING TO DO WITH NOVEMBER EVER EVER.

SO, SO WORKING BACK FROM, SO, SO A MAY 25 BOND ELECTION.

UM, SO WORKING BACKWARDS, UM, AS FAR AS, UH, WHEN DO YOU ENGAGE THAT BOND STUDY COMMITTEE? UH, VERY GOOD POINT IN THAT THERE'S, THERE'S AN ETERNAL ELECTION CYCLE IN THIS CITY, IT SEEMS LIKE.

UM, AND SO YOU'VE GOT, YOU'VE GOT SEATS THAT ARE UP, UM, AND, AND ALLOWING FOR IF, IF THERE IS SOMEONE NEW IN THAT SEAT, UH, TO PICK THEIR REPRESENTATIVE ON THIS BOND STUDY COMMITTEE.

UM, SO FIGURING IT'S A MALE ELECTION, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS, IF THERE'S NO RUNOFF, THEY'RE SWORN IN END OF MAY , AND THEN THEY SPEND JUNE AND JULY TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THEY'VE GOTTEN THEMSELVES INTO FIND, NOT TRYING TO FIND THE COUNCIL CHAMBERS, YOU KNOW.

AND SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND AGAIN, THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S BARRING ANY RUNOFFS IN ANY OF THOSE RACES, WHICH THEN PUSHES IT INTO JUNE AND, AND SO ON AND SO FORTH.

UM, BUT LIFE BEING WHAT IT IS, UM, I DON'T THINK THAT, UH, I THINK THAT WE NEED TO LOOK AT ENGAGING THAT COMMITTEE.

UM, THEY NEED TO BE UP AND RUNNING 1ST OF JULY AT THE LATEST TO GIVE THEM THE TIME BECAUSE WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS COMING ONLINE.

'CAUSE IT'S NOT JUST STREETS.

THERE ARE OTHER THINGS THAT THEY CAN BE LOOKING AT.

UM, I MEAN, I, I WOULD WANT THAT COMMITTEE UP AND RUNNING BY JULY BECAUSE THERE IS, AND, AND COUNCIL MEMBER HENDRICK CAN CERTAINLY, THERE'S, THERE'S SOME EDUCATION UNDERSTANDING THAT GOES, I MEAN, THEY

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SO THERE'S, THERE'S SORT OF A BUILDUP WHICH SHOULD GIVE US TIME TO GET THE STREET ASSESSMENT, UM, UNDER, AT LEAST IN HAND, MAYBE NOT UNDERSTOOD, BUT IN HAND.

UM, SO WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THAT WE HAVE ALL, WHEN WE WERE PLANNING ON A, WHEN WE WERE PLANNING ON A, A BOND STUDY COMMITTEE STARTING EARLIER, I KNOW WE HAD ALL REACHED OUT.

WE ALL HAD SORT OF APPOINTEES SORT OF IN HAND.

UM, OBVIOUSLY THIS MAY CHANGE THAT.

I MEAN, GIVEN THE TIME AND PEOPLE'S CONFLICTS, I KNOW I HAVE CHECKED IN WITH MINE PERIODICALLY.

THEY STILL THINK THEY'RE GOOD TO GO, BUT THAT CERTAINLY, YOU KNOW, THAT CERTAINLY CAN CHANGE.

UM, SO WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT THAT, UH, FOR THOSE, UH, AND, AND MAKING CONTACT WITH THOSE FOLKS.

UM, COUNCILOR LUCK BEFORE I RAMBLE ON ANY FURTHER, I WOULD JUST, UM, LIKE TO PUT AUGUST 1ST OUT THERE IN CASE THERE'S A RUNOFF.

I, THAT'S WHERE I WAS SORT OF HEADED, BECAUSE AGAIN, KNOWING THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE A BRAND NEW COUNCIL MEMBER WALKING IN HERE, UH, LATE MAY, GETTING SWORN IN AGAIN, YOU SPEND TWO MONTHS TRYING TO FIGURE OUT AND RECALCULATE YOUR LIFE CHOICES BEFORE YOU GET TO MAKING ANY DECISIONS.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, I I THINK AUGUST, UH, YOU KNOW, ON THE, TO, TO ERR ON THE SIDE OF SAFETY, I DON'T THINK THAT'S, I DON'T, I DON'T THINK THAT'S A BAD THING.

UM, SO ACTIVATING THAT COMMITTEE, AUGUST OF 24, , HAVE TO THINK ABOUT THE YEARS.

MAYOR, CAN I MAKE A CLARIFICATION? I WANT SURE.

REAL QUICK.

CERTAINLY.

SO WE JUMP IN, BUT SO IF WE'RE GOING MAY ELECTION, REMEMBER THAT WE'LL HAVE TO CALL THAT ELECTION IN FEBRUARY.

SO, SO THERE'S TIMEFRAMES IN FRONT OF IT.

SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT Y'ALL UNDERSTAND THAT.

SO AUGUST WOULD GIVE A, GIVE THAT COMMITTEE ONLY SIX MONTHS TO WORK ON THIS, THIS BOND PACKAGE.

AND I'LL ALSO SAY THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PORTION OF THIS, EXCUSE ME, IS A A IS GOING TO BE, NEEDS SOME, A LOT OF LEAD TIME, MORE THAN LIKELY TO SCOPE OUT PROJECTS.

SO JUST WANTED TO THROW THOSE TWO THINGS OUT FOR CONSIDERATION.

ALL RIGHT, LET'S BACK UP A SECOND HERE.

UH, THANK YOU COUNCILOR HENDRICK.

CONSIDERING THAT THE PREVIOUS BOND STARTED IN SEPTEMBER AND THEN WENT THROUGH JANUARY, UM, IF FEBRUARY IS PUSHING IT ON THAT SIDE, I MEAN, AUGUST IS ONLY ONE MONTH SOONER, WE MIGHT WANT TO GO, YOU KNOW, EVEN EARLIER, I KNOW THAT MIGHT PUT PRESSURE ON A, A NEW COUNCIL MEMBER ONE MONTH IN, BUT YEAH, YOU, YOU IS PART OF THE JOB.

EXACTLY, AND THAT'S WHAT YOU WERE ELECTED TO DO.

SO IF THESE, I KNOW THE INFLATION AND THE PROJECT COSTS WERE VERY LARGE PERCENTAGE OF OUR DISCUSSION WITH THE PREVIOUS BOND, JUST GIVEN ALL THE DOLLARS INVOLVED.

AND IF THERE'S EVEN MORE THOUGHT THAT HAS TO GO INTO IT BECAUSE OF THAT NOW THEY'RE GONNA NEED AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE.

SO, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

GOOD POINT.

UH, COUNCILOR REMORSE.

WELL, I WILL JUST PUSH BACK.

I, I BELIEVE THAT COUNCIL MEMBER LUT WASN'T SWORN IN UNTIL JULY.

CORRECT? COUNCIL MEMBER LUT? YES.

WITH A RUNOFF.

WHICH, WHICH CAN HAPPEN.

AND, AND REMEMBER THE 2019 BOND WAS LIKE A BILLION DOLLARS WITH A WIDE DIVERSE BUNCH OF THINGS TO SORT THROUGH.

IF WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A FAR MORE FOCUSED ONE, I, I JUST, I DON'T THINK WE SHOULD SHOVE, UM, POTENTIALLY BRAND NEW COUNCIL MEMBERS INTO THAT KIND OF SITUATION.

AND I THINK AUGUST MAKES A LOT MORE SENSE.

THAT'S WHEN THEY HAVE TO APPOINT, UM, COMMITTEE MEMBERS.

SO THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF THOSE DECISIONS.

BUT, UM, I, I DON'T SEE RUSHING IT IN, IN THAT THIS IS GOING TO BE A MUCH MORE COMPACT STREAMLINED, I WOULD ASSUME.

UM, OUR, OUR CHARGE TO THEM WILL BE A LOT LESS HUGE THAN OUR CHARGE REGARDING THE 2019 BOND, SO.

ANYTHING ELSE? NOPE.

BUT FROM, FROM, FROM A PUBLIC'S PERSPECTIVE, ONCE IT GOES OUT, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE THAT SSM BOARD OF ELEMENTS THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE COMBED THROUGH LIKE THEY DID 2019.

COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS. THANK YOU MAYOR.

MAYOR, I, I AGREE WITH COUNCIL LADY.

UH, MORRIS, I'M SORT OF REFLECTING BACK ON 2019, I'VE ALSO BEEN REFLECTING BACK ON SOME JSS D BUTTON PROGRAMS THAT, THAT HAD A LOT OF DIFFERENT INGREDIENTS IN THE CAKE.

I MEAN, HAD EVERYTHING, BUT IF WE HAD TO BE GUIDED BY THIS, THIS LIST, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STREETS, AND MAYBE IF FACILITIES, WE, WE, WE ARE NARROWING, SORT OF NARROWING THE SCOPE, EVEN THOUGH I UNDERSTAND EXACTLY WHAT YOU'RE SAYING ABOUT THEY CAN DEVELOP THE RATHER SCOPE OUT PROJECTS,

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IT'S, IT'S, I MEAN, THERE'S GONNA BE A LOT OF WORK ON THIS SIDE, BUT ONCE IT GOES OUT THERE, YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO MAKE THE VARIETY OF CHOICES THAT, THAT WE WERE ASKING VOTERS TO MAKE ON THE 2019 PROJECT.

YOU AGREE? YOU, YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING THERE, AND I KNOW YOU'RE EXACTLY RIGHT ON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND SCOPE OUT THE PROJECT, BUT I'M LOOKING AT IT FROM THAT SIDE OF THE FENCE, WHETHER WE COME UP WITH, IF WE COME UP, USE THIS LIST ON THAT SIDE OF THE, THE, THE WINDOW, THEY'RE NOT GOING TO BE CHALLENGED TO WORK THROUGH AS MANY THINGS NEARLY AS AS WE DID AND AS VOTERS IN 2019.

AM I TELL MY MIND, MY MIND, WHATEVER.

NO, I THINK THAT'S DEFINITELY THE INTENT.

AND WE COULD DEFINITELY WORK TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPING AND SCOPING THOSE ED PROJECTS ALONG THE WAY.

AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE COME FORWARD IN JUNE, HAVE, YOU KNOW, AT THAT POINT, IF AUGUST IS THE DATE Y'ALL ARE LOOKING FOR, WE COULD COME FORWARD WITH, YOU KNOW, SOME SUGGESTIONS FOR WHAT IS THE CHARGE FOR THIS, THIS BOARD AT THAT TIME AND, AND, AND WHAT RESTRICTIONS AND WHAT DOLLAR AMOUNTS OR DO THEY NEED TO LOOK INTO.

SO IT'S MORE TARGETED APPROACH AT ED, IF THAT'S WHAT COUNCIL WANTS.

SO I'M A FAN OF THE AUGUST DATE FOR PER COUNCILMAN LUXE RECOMMENDATION.

THANK, THANK YOU.

MAYOR, UH, COUNCILOR ROT, I'M, I'M MORE IN FAVOR OF DOING IT AS EARLY AS POSSIBLE.

JULY, UH, JULY 1ST WOULD BE MORE OF MY LIKING SIMPLY BECAUSE I SUSPECT THAT, UH, THAT THE ENTIRE ELECTION CYCLE OF THIS YEAR IS GOING, A LOT OF IT'S GOING TO BE DISCUSSING SPECIFICALLY THIS, IT'S GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

IT'S GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THIS, UH, THIS BOND, UM, STUDY PROGRAM THAT WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING.

AND THAT COUNCIL PERSON IS GOING TO BE GETTING ELECTED SPECIFICALLY WITH THAT IN MIND.

SO, UH, I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE JUMPING INTO IT, UH, WITH THEIR LEGS RUNNING.

SO, UH, I WOULD SAY EARLIER THE BETTER AND TO HELP STAFF AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.

AND COUNCIL MEMBER HEDRICK.

UH, THANK YOU, MAYOR.

AND YOU KNOW, THESE ARE THE TARGETED ITEMS, BUT I DON'T THINK WE WANNA NECESSARILY LIMIT THE BOND STUDY COMMITTEE TO JUST, THOSE PARKS IS HUGELY POPULAR.

WE ALWAYS WANT MORE MONEY FOR TRAILS.

THAT'S THE NUMBER ONE REQUEST THAT WE GET AS PART OF OUR, UH, MASTER PLANNING IS WHAT WE WANT.

MORE TRAILS, MORE PARK FACILITIES THAT PASSED WITH A HUGE PERCENTAGE OF CITIZENS SUPPORTING IT.

UH, I DID A STRAW POLL AMONG, UH, CITIZEN GROUP.

I TALKED TO ROADS, OF COURSE, CAME NUMBER ONE, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS NUMBER TWO AND PARKS AND NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENTS.

THERE'S NUMBER THREE IMPROVEMENTS THAT THEY WANT TO SEE AFTER THAT.

THAT'S, I DON'T THINK WE WANNA LIMIT OUR BOND COMMITTEE TO JUST THAT AND GIVE THEM THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF TIME TO CONSIDER ALL THESE.

WE HAVE A CERTAIN AMOUNT OF DOLLARS, BUT I WOULD LOVE TO HAVE ANOTHER $10 MILLION PART OF THAT FOR PORTRAYALS OR PARKS.

UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, SURE IS GONNA BE A PART.

BUT NEIGHBORHOODS VITALITY, I WANT THAT TO BE PART OF IT TOO, TO CONTINUE TO IMPROVE OUR NEIGHBORHOODS.

SO LET'S NOT LIMIT IT TO THAT.

LET'S HAVE THESE OTHER ELEMENTS TOO, AND HAVE THAT BOND COMMITTEE CONSIDER ALL THOSE AND GIVE 'EM THE TIME THEY NEED TO DO SO.

AND DEPUTY MAYOR PRO TIMM MOORE.

LISTENING TO MY COUNTERPARTS AND PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN HERE, ESPECIALLY DURING THIS LAST BOND ELECTION AND HAVE THE EXPERIENCE, I'M HEARING REALLY 30 DAYS IS THE DIFFERENCE THAT WE'RE HAVING HERE NIGHT OF JULY OR AUGUST, IS THAT CORRECT? PRETTY MUCH.

PRETTY MUCH.

UH, I'M HEARING COMING FROM OUR FINANCE DEPARTMENT TO THAT LET'S DO THIS AS QUICKLY AS POSSIBLE AND GIVE OURSELVES AS MUCH TIME AS POSSIBLE.

AND I DO AGREE THAT ANYONE WHO IS ELECTED TO THE POSITION, THEY RECOGNIZE WHAT THEY'RE GETTING INTO.

I RECALL THE MAYOR LOOKING AT ME DURING A, AN ELECTION, UH, DURING A VOTING, UH, SEQUENCE.

AND I'M SAYING THAT, UH, I'M NOT, I DON'T THINK I HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION TO VOTE ON THIS AND HIM SAYING, YOU SIGNED UP FOR THE JOB, .

SO I THINK THAT THAT IS THE KEY HERE.

SO I WOULD, UH, BE MORE INCLINED TO GO WITH THE JULY DATE.

30 DAYS CAN'T MAKE.

I, I JUST DON'T THINK IT'LL MAKE THAT MUCH OF A DIFFERENCE, REALLY.

AND I HOPE I SAID IT NICER THAN THAT.

NO, YOU DIDN'T.

YOU, MATTER OF FACT, I GOT UPSET.

YEAH, THAT'S PROBABLY TRUE.

AND THAT IS TRUE.

I MEAN, THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT WE DO.

WE MAKE DECISIONS AND SOMETIMES , SOMETIMES WE HAVE MORE PREP TIME THAN OTHERS.

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SO, UH, YOU KNOW, AND, AND ALL VERY GOOD POINTS.

ELECTIONS AND, AND, AND TIMINGS AND ALL THAT.

UM, YOU KNOW, WE'VE, WE'VE TALKED EARLY, WE'VE TALKED, YOU KNOW, WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING THE DIFFERENCE IN JUNE, JULY AND AUGUST.

UH, I THINK JUST HONESTLY MORE THAN ANYTHING, SPLIT THE DIFFERENCE.

ENGAGE THAT COMMITTEE IN JULY, YOU KNOW, AND JUST EVERYBODY MOVES FORWARD.

UM, YOU KNOW, NEW COUNCIL MEMBER, NOT REGARDLESS OF HOW LONG YOU'VE SAT HERE, UM, LET'S HAVE THAT COMMITTEE READY TO GO.

UM, STARTING IN JULY, UM, AFTER THE 4TH OF JULY HOLIDAY, THEY'LL, THEY CAN BE OFF AND RUNNING.

WE GOOD START ON MY BIRTHDAY.

WE CAN START ON COUNCIL MEMBER L'S, BIRTHDAY , SO MAY 25, ELECTION JULY 24, AND GET THE COUN, YOU KNOW, GET THE COMMITTEE GOING.

AND AGAIN, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO REACH OUT TO THE FOLKS THAT YOU'VE TALKED TO PREVIOUSLY ON THIS AND SEE IF THAT SCHEDULE STILL WORKS FOR THEM.

I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY SOME PEOPLE CAN PLAN THEIR LIVES OUT LONGER TERM THAN OTHERS.

UH, BUT, YOU KNOW, LET'S CHECK IN WITH THOSE FOLKS.

UM, AND, AND IF, IF THE, IF THE SUMMER DATE JUST DOESN'T WORK FOR THEM, THEY'RE, YOU KNOW, FOR WHATEVER REASON, UH, LET'S KNOW THAT NOW, UM, RATHER THAN KNOW THAT THEN.

UM, SO, UM, SO NOW THEN AS FAR AS SCOPE, UH, CERTAINLY, UM, I THINK UNIVERSALLY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS ON EVERYBODY'S LIST.

UM, STREETS NUMBER TWO, UH, NOW I HAVE A QUESTION, UH, TO THAT COUNCIL MEMBER WILLIAMS BROUGHT UP.

AND THAT IS INCLUDING DRAINAGE.

SO WE CURRENTLY HAVE SOME DRAINAGE STUDIES UNDERWAY.

WE, WE TALKED ABOUT DRAINAGE IN 2019.

THERE WERE SOME PROJECTS THAT DIDN'T MAKE THE LIST.

ONE BEING GATEWOOD, I THINK THE OTHER'S GARON, UH, WHO, WHO HAVE SOME REALLY LONG-TERM ISSUES TO RESOLVE.

UM, I, I'M, I'M KIND OF TORN ON INCLUDING DRAINAGE.

I MEAN, I, NOT NOTHING AGAINST DRAINAGE ON THIS NEXT, ON THIS NEXT BOND, BUT ARE WE, ARE WE GOING TO BE IN A POSITION SAY BY JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, WHATEVER OF, OF HAVING INFORMATION BACK ON THOSE TWO BIG PROJECTS THAT WE'VE SORT OF BEEN HOLDING OUT ON OR HOLDING OFF ON, I SHOULD SAY? UH, CRYSTAL , YES.

SPIN THAT MICROPHONE AROUND.

SO IF YOU RECALL, WHEN MICHAEL WAS DOING HIS PRESENTATION ON THE DRAINAGE, UM, AND HE BROUGHT UP GATEWOOD, WE ARE ANTICIPATING HAVING THE GATEWOOD STUDY BACK AT THE END OF THE SUMMER.

I BELIEVE IT IS JUNE JULY TIMEFRAME.

UM, WE ARE, WE'RE PROBABLY AT ABOUT 60%, I THINK 60% IS, IS DUE TO US IN FEBRUARY.

SO IT'LL BE KIND OF CUTTING IT CLOSE , BUT WE DO ANTICIPATE TO HAVE SOME DATA AVAILABLE DURING THAT TIME.

NOW AS FAR AS, I DON'T REMEMBER THE OTHER ONE, THE GARVAN GARON THAT YOU MENTIONED, THAT'S PART OF A MUCH LARGER STUDY.

MUCH, MUCH LARGER, MUCH, MUCH LARGER STUDY.

MUCH, MUCH LARGER.

IN ORDER TO PUT INTO OUR BOND DOCUMENTS NOW, SO ON THE FACILITIES, TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION WHEN YOU'RE GOING OUT WITH GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.

AND I'LL, IF I CAN ADD MAYOR AND COUNCIL, THE, SO WHEN, WHEN THE COUNCIL INCREASED OUR, OUR DRAINAGE FEES, UH, IT CREATED ABOUT A $50 MILLION BUCKET OF FUNDING FOR THAT.

AND SO WHAT I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE EQUATION IS THAT THERE'S, THERE IS AN IDENTIFIED FUNDING SOURCE FOR DRAINAGE THAT DOESN'T NECESSARILY HAVE TO BE IN THE BOND PROGRAM.

COULD IT BE? IT, IT COULD.

SO I, IT, IT MAY BE THAT YOU WAIT ON, ON THAT DECISION, UM, TO INCLUDE IT AFTER WE GET SOME MORE INFORMATION, UH, ON THE DRAINAGE SIDE.

BUT JUST, JUST KNOW THAT OUTTA THAT, THAT 270 MILLION, UH, THERE'S AN ADDITIONAL 46 MILLION THAT THE STORM DRAIN FEE IS GOING TO CREATE, UM, TO ADDRESS DRAINAGE ISSUES.

WHETHER THAT'S GARON, GATEWOOD, THAT'S UP TO THE COUNCIL TO DECIDE.

BUT, UH, THERE IS ANOTHER BUCKET OF MONEY THAT'S, THAT'S AVAILABLE THERE.

AND IF I CAN ADD FROM THE, STRICTLY FROM THE FINANCIAL GROUP, WHEN YOU'RE LOOKING AT FACILITIES AS A WHOLE, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE HAS GOTTEN REAL FIDGETY ABOUT DOING, DOING, UH, UPGRADES TO EXISTING FACILITIES.

SO FACILITIES TO ME, FROM FINANCE BEING ABLE TO ISSUE BONDS WOULD PROBABLY BE BETTER HANDLED THROUGH A CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION AND THROUGH JUST AN ANNUAL CIP PROCESS.

'CAUSE TYPICALLY YOU'RE EITHER ARE HAVING TO ACT FAIRLY QUICKLY, HVAC SYSTEMS ABOUT TO GO OUT OR, OR THIS OR THAT.

WE HAVE TO KNOW WHAT THOSE FACILITIES ARE AND

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AND WE ACTUALLY RAN INTO A SLIGHT PROBLEM WITH THIS, WITH OUR 19 BOND ON THE STREETS FACILITY THAT LANGUAGE WORDS MATTER AS THE ATTORNEYS SAY.

SO IT'S VERY HARD TO PROJECT OUT EXISTING FACILITIES NEEDS, EVEN WITH A, A COMPREHENSIVE STUDY IN A BOND PROGRAM.

AND THEN SAME KIND OF ON THE STORM, ON THE STORM WATER RATE SIDE, THESE DRAINAGE PROJECTS LITERALLY COULD GO BE A HUNDRED A MILLION DOLLARS FOR ONE PROJECT, OR IT COULD BE SCOPED DOWN TO $20 MILLION.

BUT EACH ONE OF THOSE, TO ME, REQUIRES EXTENSIVE STUDY TO ENSURE THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AMOUNT OF DOLLARS FOR THAT PROJECT.

SO TAKE, TAKE THAT INTO CONSIDERATION TOO.

BOND PROGRAMS TO ME ARE USUALLY FOR NEWER, SHINY OR THINGS THAT ARE KNOWN, ARE EASIER TO PREDICT, LET'S SAY MA'AM MAY THANK YOU, MAYOR, UM, STORMWATER, THE THOSE FEES, MR. CITY MANAGER.

UM, I UNDERSTAND THAT IT COULD BE ANOTHER BUCKET OF FUNDING THAT SHOULD NOT, THAT'S NOT, WILL NOT NECESSARILY REQUIRE THE DRAINAGE PROJECTS TO BE A PART OF THE BOND PROGRAM.

BUT I THINK WE NEED TO BE, GET TO A POINT CRYSTAL HAS INDICATED THAT SOMETIME THIS SUMMER, EARLY SUMMER, THAT ASSESSMENT WILL BE BACK AS A PART OF THE INFORMATION THAT, THAT THAT COUNCIL IS GOING TO GET MATCH, MATCH SHOP IS GOING TO GET.

I THINK WE HOPEFULLY WE'LL BE ABLE TO MAKE SOME RELATIVELY DEFINITIVE DECISION DECISIONS ON WHATEVER THAT STUDY SAYS.

IF WE ARE GOING TO, HOW WE'RE GONNA PAY, WHAT IT ENTAILS, WHAT'S GONNA BE BEYOND THE STUDY, WHAT'S GOING TO BE OUR FUNDING SOURCE FOR THAT.

AND, AND, UH, WE CAN SPECIFICALLY IDENTIFY THAT FUNDING SOURCE AND HAVE THAT FUNDING SOURCE BEFORE A DECISION IS MADE OF SHOULD SOMETHING GO IN THE BOND, THE, THE NEW BOND PACKAGE OR NOT.

UM, I WANNA BE SURE THAT THERE IS THAT, THOSE QUESTIONS ANSWERED, IS IT GOING TO END UP HERE OR IS IT GONNA END UP HERE? UH, WHAT I, WHAT I HOPE WE DON'T RUN INTO IS WE BRING THE, THE STEADY COM, THE BOND COMMITTEE TOGETHER, WE START TO WORK ON THAT.

AND THAT QUESTION IS STILL LINGERING ON THE DRAINAGE PIECE AND WE'RE NOT SURE.

THEN WE GET TO BUDGET TIME AND IT, AND IT'S STILL LINGERING THAT, THAT'S MY CONCERN.

I I, I WOULD BE VERY CONCERNED IF IT'S STILL LINGERING OUT THERE.

SO ANY, ANY FEEDBACK FROM YOU INSTEAD OF MY CONCERN ON THAT, BECAUSE AGAIN, ONE OF THOSE PROJECTS WAS INITIALLY A PART OF THE 2019 BOND, IT WAS TAKEN OUT.

THAT'S HISTORY.

I'M NOT GONNA EVEN ADDRESS THAT.

AND THOSE FOLKS KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, BUT THE PROBLEM HAS GOTTEN CONTINUOUSLY WORSE, HAS WORSENED AND PUTTING IT OFF IS NOT GONNA RESOLVE THE PROBLEM.

SO CAN YOU TALK, TALK TO THE, I KNOW WE GOT THE OPTIONS OF INCLUDED IN BONDS OR NOT INCLUDED IN BONDS, BUT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION AT THIS POINT.

DO YOU THINK WE'LL HAVE INFORMATION BY JULY? I THINK WE AGREED.

SET JULY OR SOMETHING.

SO WE CAN MAKE, YOU CAN MAKE THOSE DECISIONS AND YOU CAN HAVE YOUR RECOMMENDATION AS TO HOW WE SHOULD PROCEED BASED ON WHATEVER THE STUDY SAYS.

CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT? YEAH, AGAIN, THAT'S COUNCIL'S DECISION.

WE'LL HAVE THE INFORMATION BY THEN THE, THE STUDY WILL BE DONE AS CRYSTAL MENTIONED.

UM, I THINK AT THAT POINT WE COME BACK TO COUNCIL AND SAY, YOU KNOW, HOW DO YOU BUT ACTUALLY REALLY LEADING UP TO, IF IT'S JULY 1ST THAT THE BOND STUDY COMMITTEE GETS GOING, I THINK WE'LL HAVE CONVERSATIONS IN, YOU KNOW, MAY, JUNE, UH, WHAT THE CHARGE IS GOING TO BE TO THE COMMITTEE.

AND SO I, I THINK, WE'LL, TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, YES, WE'LL HAVE THE STUDY DONE AND IT'LL BE COUNCIL WITHIN COUNCIL'S DISCRETION TO SAY, HEY, WE WANNA INCLUDE DRAINAGE OR THIS PROJECT OR, OR NOT AT THAT POINT, UM, WE'LL HAVE ENOUGH INFORMATION BY THEN.

OR USING AN ALTERNATIVE FUNDING METHODS.

THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT I WANNA BE SURE THAT WE HAVE, THAT WE ARE NOT, HAVE THE COMMITTEE, THAT WE'RE NOT POST COMMITTEE SORT OF WAFFLING, STILL TALKING ABOUT, WELL, WHAT IF KIND OF THING.

'CAUSE A WHAT IF MESSAGE IS NOT A VERY GOOD MESSAGE.

AND SO, SO BEFORE, AS WE, AS WE GO THROUGH, DECIDE WHAT, WHAT'S GONNA BE INCLUDED AND WHAT IS NOT IN JUNE OR JULY OR MAY, WHAT HAVE YOU SAID, YOU KNOW, I WANNA BE SURE THAT WE DEFINITIVELY IDENTIFY WHAT WE'RE GOING TO DO AND HOW WE'RE GOING TO FUND IT.

WHETHER IT'S THE BOND PACKAGE

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I THINK WE ARE WHAT LAND ON THAT MESSAGE.

I'D LIKE TO HAVE THAT MESSAGE BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE BONDING PIECE.

I DON'T WANT TO GO INTO THE BONDING BUN BOND, NEW BOND PROGRAM, SPEC, SPEC, SPECULATING, AND WITH THE MESSAGE OF SPECULATING THAT, LIKE I SAID, THAT THAT'S JUST NOT A GOOD, VERY GOOD MESSAGE.

IT'S NOT WHAT I WANT TO CARRY, SO.

SO AT THIS POINT, UM, AS FAR AS THAT BOND STUDY COMMITTEE, UM, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STREETS, CERTAIN, UM, AND YES, BEFORE THIS COMMITTEE ENGAGES, WE WILL HAVE TIME TO UPDATE.

WE HAVE SOME ASSESSMENTS IN THE WORKS.

SO WE WILL ANTICIPATE AN UPDATE TO THIS MAY, JUNE OF, OF 24 BEFORE THE COUNCIL, BEFORE WE MAKE OUR FINAL CHARGE TO THIS BOND STUDY.

WE SHOULD HAVE THAT.

SO, BUT JUST FOR PLANNING PURPOSES AT THIS POINT, ECONOMIC, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IN STREETS, CERTAINLY, UM, FACILITIES, WE WILL WAIT AND SEE.

UH, AND THEN ALSO DRAINAGE, WAIT AND SEE.

UH, MOVING ON TO ITEM FIVE, COUNCIL DISCUSSION QUESTIONS.

UH, SO, UH, YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE? YOU, SIR, YOU WANT TO FINISH WITH THAT TOPIC? ALL RIGHT.

[5. Council Discussion and Questions]

UM, OBVIOUSLY, UH, WE'VE HAD ALL THE PRESENTATIONS TODAY.

WE'VE GOTTEN ALL THE INFORMATION AND, AND ALL OF THAT.

UM, THIS PROCESS WILL CONTINUE, UH, IN ABOUT 48 HOURS.

UM, WHEN WE'RE BACK HERE ON MONDAY, UH, WE WILL HAVE OPPORTUNITY FOR DISCUSSION.

UH, WE HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING TUESDAY NIGHT.

UM, IN THE MEANTIME, I THINK STAFF HAS CAPTURED, UH, ANY QUESTION OR FOLLOW UP OR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION.

I KNOW I'VE, I'VE SEEN MR. REX TYPING OUTTA THE CORNER OF MY EYE.

I KNOW I'VE SEEN ALLISON MAKING NOTES.

UM, IS THERE, UH, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE, UH, THAT YOU KNOW OF RIGHT NOW WHERE YOU WANT OR NEED ADDITIONAL INFORMATION? IF SO, SPEAK NOW.

UM, OBVIOUSLY IF YOU GET HOME AND AS YOU'RE, AS YOU'RE SITTING AROUND THE AF THIS AFTERNOON, READING THROUGH THE DOCUMENTS AS I KNOW YOU WILL BE, UM, IF YOU COME UP WITH QUESTIONS, PLEASE PRESENT THOSE TO STAFF.

THEY WILL THEN IN TURN, UH, SHOOT OUT THE ANSWERS TO ALL OF US.

UM, AND WITH THAT, UH, ALLISON, UNLESS YOU HAVE ANYTHING, I WAS JUST GONNA SHOW THE CALENDAR ONE MORE.

A CALENDAR, YES.

EVERYONE WAS AWARE OF OUR UPCOMING DATES.