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[1. Welcome.]
NOTICE OF THE REGULAR MEETING OF THE CITY OF SANTO, UH, CITY COMMISSION, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 20, 20, 22.I'D LIKE TO WELCOME EVERYBODY.
UM, LET WE DO HAVE A QUORUM AT NUMBER TWO, UH, PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE TO US FLAG IN THE TEXAS FLAG, AND PLEASE REMAIN STANDING FOR THE INVOCATION.
I PLAYED JULIE J FLAG, THE UNITED STATES ONE GOD UNDER THE TEXAS FLAG.
I PLEDGE ITY, TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE INVISIBLE.
DEAR WISE, AND LOVING FATHER, ALL WHO ARE GATHERED HERE TODAY.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR MANY AND ABUNDANT BLESSINGS.
FOR THE MEASURE OF HEALTH, WE NEED TO FULFILL OUR CALLINGS FOR SUSTENANCE AND FOR FRIENDSHIP.
THANK YOU FOR THE ABILITY TO BE INVOLVED IN USEFUL WORK AND FOR THE HONOR OF BURYING APPROPRIATE RESPONSIBILITIES.
FINALLY, WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US FROM YOUR BOUNDLESS AND GRACIOUS NATURE IN THE NAME OF YOUR SON.
[4. Announcements: Items of Community Interest.]
ADAMS, A COMMUNITY INTEREST.UM, ANYBODY HAVE ANY COMMISSIONERS? ANYBODY HAVE ANY, ANYTHING TO YOU? THEY WANT TO SAY RIGHT NOW? WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S ON YOUR YEAH.
IT'S IT'S ON YOUR, I JUST WANTED TO ALRIGHT.
I, MORE OF A PUBLIC HEALTH ANNOUNCEMENT, UM, WALGREENS HAS A FLU TRACKER TOOL ON THEIR WEBSITE AND THE RGV, WHICH THEY CONSIDER HAREN BROWNSVILLE EDINBURG AREA IS THE THIRD HIGHEST FOR FLU CASES IN THE NATION.
UM, VALLEY DOESN'T COME, WE DON'T WIN MANY AWESOME AWARDS, UM, AND THAT IS NOT A GOOD AWARD TO WIN.
SO THE THIRD HIGHEST FLU CASES IN THE NATION, WE'RE DEFINITELY FILLING THE IMPACT IN THE PHARMACIES.
THE FLU SHOTS ARE NOW AVAILABLE AND ALSO THE NEW BIVALENT COVID VACCINES ARE AVAILABLE.
JUST GET WITH YOUR LOCAL PHARMACY FOR MORE INFORMATION.
THEN, UH, THE CITY OF SANTO WELCOMES, UH, LA MAFIA AT, UH, SOUTH TEXAS, UH, TEXAS MUSICAL FESTIVAL ON SATURDAY, NEW HAVEN MEMORIAL PARK GATES OPEN AT FOUR.
THE TICKETS ARE SO, UH, ARE STILL AVAILABLE@THEWWW.TOP BOX TICKET.COM OR AT THE BULL RIDER WESTERN WHERE IN HAGEN, THE BOOTJACK AND AT THE SEMI PUBLIC LIBRARY LOCATED AT THE 1 0 1 WEST ROSE STREET.
AND THE OTHER ONE IS, UH, THE SEMIAL POLICE DEPARTMENT HOSTS THE 15TH ANNUAL NIGHT, UH, NATIONAL NIGHT OUT EVENT ON MONDAY, OCTOBER 3RD, FROM SIX TO NINE AT THE HEAVEN MEMORIAL PARK.
UH, COME ON AND OUT AND MEET YOUR LOCAL PD OFFICERS DURING THE FUN FIELD FAMILY NIGHT OUT IN, IN, UH, NIGHT OF ENJOYMENT.
AND THAT'S ALL WE HAVE FOR NOW, AGAIN, COMMISSIONERS, ANY OTHER WORK? ANYTHING? NO.
[5. Presentation of a Proclamation in recognition of World Teachers' Day on October 5, 2022.]
PRESENTATION OF PROCLAMATION.TO THE, UH, RECOGNITION OF THE WORLD.
TEACHER'S DAY ON OCTOBER 5TH, POINT 22.
AND, UH, WE HAVE A PROCLAMATION RIGHT NOW.
UH, THE OFFICE OF THE MAYOR, UH, OF OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION IN RECOGNITION OF THE WORLD TEACHER'S DAY, OCTOBER 5TH, 2022 CITY OF SANTO, TEXAS MAYOR CORTE.
WHEREAS THE FUTURE DEPENDS ON PROVIDING A HIGH QUALITY EDUCATION TO ALL STUDENTS.
AND WHEREAS TEACHER QUALITY MATTERS MORE TO STUDENTS ACHIEVEMENT THAN ANY OTHER SCHOOL RELATED FACTOR.
AND WHEREAS TEACHERS SPEND COMMONS HOURS PREPARING LESSON PLANS AND SUPPORTING STUDENTS.
AND WHEREAS THE SAN BE NEEDLE CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT TEACHERS HAVE DEMONSTRATED GRACE RESILIENCE, ADAPTABILITY AND CREATIVITY DURING THE COVID 19 CRISIS.
AND OUR COMMUNITY RECOGNIZES AND
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SUPPORTS ITS TEACHERS IN EDUCATING THE CHILDREN OF THIS COMMUNITY.AND HASHTAG TEACHER CAN, IS A STATEWIDE MOVEMENT SUPPORTED BY MORE THAN 125 PARTNERSHIP BUSINESSES AND ORGANIZATIONS COMMITTED TO ELEVATING THANK YOU, THE TEACHING PROFESSION AND HONORING THE CRITICAL ROLE TEACHERS PLAY IN THE SUCCESS OF TEXAS.
UH, I GUESS THIS ONE, UH, BE THE FURTHER PROCLAIM THAT THE CITY OF SANTO CITY COMMISSION ENCOURAGES MEMBERS OF OUR COMMITTEES TO BE, BE A LIGHT FOR THE CITY OF SANTO TEACHERS AND PERSONALLY EXPRESS APPRECIATION TO OUR TEACHERS AND DISPLAY A LIGHT BLUE RIBBON OUTSIDE YOUR, YOUR HOMES OR BUSINESS.
THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 5TH, AS ASSEMBLED TO SUPPORT OUR EDUCATORS.
I RICARD MAYOR OF THE CITY OF SANTO CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS DECLARE THE WEEK OF OCTOBER 5TH AS WELL, TEACHERS DAY IN THE CITY OF SANTO.
AND I CALL UPON THIS OBSERVANCE TO THE ATTENTION OF ALL OUR CITIZENS IN THE CITY OF SANTO, TEXAS IN WITNESS THEREOF.
I HAVE HERE UNTIL IN MY HAND, ON THIS 20TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR LORD, UH, 20,000 22 2.
[6. Presentation of a Proclamation in recognition of Red Ribbon Week from October 23rd thru 31st, 2022.]
ANOTHER PROCLAMATION, UM, OFFENSIVE OF THE BEAR, UH, OFFICIAL PROCLAMATION IN RECOGNITION TO A NATIONAL RIBBON WEEK, CELEBRATE LIFE DRUG LIFE LIVE DRUG FREE, OCTOBER 23RD, THIRD THROUGH 31ST, 2022 CITY OF SANTO, TEXAS.WHEREAS COMMUNITIES ACROSS AMERICA HAVE BEEN PLAGUED BY THE NUMEROUS PROBLEMS ASSOCIATED WITH IIT DRUGS USE AND THOSE THAT TRAFFIC IN THEM.
AND THERE IS HOPE IN WINNING THE WAR ON DRUGS.
AND THAT HOPE LIES IN EDUCATION AND DRUG DEMAND REDUCTION, COUPLED WITH THE HARD WORK AND DETERMINATION OF ORGANIZATIONS, THE SAN BERNARDINO CONSOLIDATED INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICT TO FOSTER HEALTHY DRUG, UH, FREE LIFESTYLE.
AND WHEREAS GOVERNMENT AND COMMUNITY LEADERS KNOW THAT CITIZEN SUPPORT IS ONE OF THE MOST EFFECTIVE TOOLS IN THE EFFORT TO REDUCE THE USE OF ILLICIT DRUGS IN OUR COMMUNITIES AND WHERE THIS THING.
WHEREAS THE RED RIBBON HAS BEEN CHOSEN AS A SYMBOL COMMEMORATING THE WORK OF ENRIQUE EK, A DRUG ENFORCEMENT ADMINISTRATION AGENT WHO WAS MURDERED IN THE LINE OF DUTY AND REPRESENTS THE BELIEF THAT ONE PERSON CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
AND WHEREAS THE RIBBON CAMPAIGN WAS ESTABLISHED BY CONGRESS IN 1988, TO ENCOURAGE A DRUG FREE LIFESTYLE AND INVOLVEMENT IN DRUG PREVENTION AND REDUCTION EFFORTS.
AND OCTOBER 23RD THROUGH 31ST HAS BEEN DESIGNATED NATIONAL RED RIBBON WHEAT, WHICH ENCOURAGES AMERICANS TO WEAR A RED RIBBON TO SHOW THEIR SUPPORT FOR A DRUG FREE ENVIRONMENT.
NOW, THEREFORE BIG PROCLAIMED THAT I RICARDO MAYOR OF CITY OF SANTO, CAMERON COUNTY, TEXAS DECLARE RED RIBBON WEAK OCTOBER 23RD THROUGH THE 31ST, 2022 IN THE CITY OF SANTO.
AND I CALL UPON THIS OBSERVANCE TO AT THE ATTENTION OF OUR, ALL OF OUR CITIZENS IN THE CITY OF SANTO, TEXAS IN THE WITNESS THEREOF.
I HAVE, UH, HERE ON TWO SET MY HAND ON 20TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER IN THE YEAR OF A LORD, 2020 TO, AND, UH, WE DO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE FROM THE SCHOOL.
IT'S HARD TO PRONOUNCE YOUR NAME, SIR.
WE WANNA GO DOWN, WE STAND THERE.
I THINK THE, I LOVE RECEIVING WHEN I COVER THIS, BUT ALL GETTING ASIDE, WE HAVE SOME OF OUR FANTASTIC COUNSELORS THAT ARE HERE.
MR. TODD ABRAHAM IS A COUNSELOR AT JUDGE LA THING.
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ELEMENTARY.AND SO, UH, WE HAVE 28 COUNSELORS IN THE SCHOOL DISTRICT AND THEY ARE THE 28 BEST IN THE STATE OF TEXAS.
WE MAKE SURE OF THAT WHEN THEY WERE HIRED.
LOOK FORWARD TO DOING MORE THINGS WITH YOU ALL.
WE HAVE, UH, SOME REALLY BIG PLANS COMING UP, SO WE'LL KEEP YOU ALL INFORMED.
[7. Public Comments - (Speaker/Remarks limited to three minutes. Not more than three speakers on one topic.)]
SEVEN.DO WE HAVE ANYBODY FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS? YES, MAYOR.
WE HAVE UH, MR. VAN GOMEZ, MR. GOMEZ.
I THUMB SOME HANDOUT REALLY QUICK.
I PUT ON MY GLASSES CAUSE I'M KIND OF BLIND.
DID YOU? GOOD EVENING? UH, MAYOR COMMISSIONERS? UM, MY NAME IS VAN GOMEZ.
I RESIDE IN THREE 40 JUS I AM HERE TO TALK ABOUT COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS TO BOARDS AND COMMITTEES APPOINTINGS SHOULD HAVE INTEGRITY AND BE CONSIDERED ROAD MODELS FOR OUR CITIZENS.
THERE ARE REFLECTION OF THE ELECTED OFFICIALS WHO MAKES THE APPOINTMENT.
ELECTED OFFICIALS SHOULD APPOINT PEOPLE WHO WANT TO SERVE THE COMMUNITY AND MAKE IT BETTER.
NOT BECAUSE THEY HAVE PERSONAL AGENDA.
THE MAYOR APPOINTS THE BOARD MEMBERS OF THE SANTO HOUSING AUTHORITY AND DOES NOT HAVE TO CONSENT, UH, DOES NOT GET TO CONSENT TO THE CITY COMMISSION MAYOR RICARDO APPOINTED BEN CORTEZ AS THE BOARD CHAIRPERSON OF THE CITY OF SAN BERNARDINO HOUSING AUTHORITY.
DID YOU KNOW BEN CORTEZ IS A CONVICTED FELON.
HE PLEAD GUILTY AND CONVICTED OF FELONY THEFT HERE IN CAMERON COUNTY.
HE WAS SENT US TWO YEARS IN PRISON AND SIX YEARS PROBATION IT'S IN THE HANDOUT I GAVE YOU GUYS ALSO, BEN CORTEZ THINKS HE DOESN'T HAVE TO PAY HIS BILLS SEVERAL YEARS AGO.
HE WAS SUED IN CIVIL COURT FOR SPREADING LIES ABOUT ONE OF OUR, UH, CURRENT EDC BOARD MEMBERS, EZ LOST IN COURT.
AND HE WAS ORDERED TO PAY $40,000 IN DAMAGES, BUT HE HAS NOT PAID THE MONEY.
I WONDER WHAT OTHER LIES BEN CORTES HAS BEEN SPREADING, UH, LATELY MARY GARRA CHOSE TO APPOINT A MAN TO SHARE THE HOUSING AUTHORITY WHO HAS CONVICTED, WHO IS A CONVICTED FELON, WHO ALSO LOST IN A CIVIL COURT FOR SPREADING LIES ABOUT SOMEONE AND HAS NOT PAID WHAT THE JUDGE ORDERED HIM TO PAY.
IS THIS WHAT SAMINO SHOULD BE PROUD OF? RE UH, REWARDING, A CONVICTED FELON WHO SPREADS LIES ABOUT PEOPLE WHO IS WORSE, THE CONVICTED FELON WHO REFUSES TO PAY HIS BILLS OR THE MAYOR WHO APPOINTED HIM AS BOARD CHAIRPERSON OF THE SAMINO HOUSING AUTHORITY SAMINO DESERVES BETTER AND WE SHOULD DEMAND MORE INTEGRITY FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE.
UM, AND I THINK I, I WILL START A PETITION ALSO AS WELL TO HAVE HIM, UH, REMOVED FROM THE HOUSING AUTHORITY.
AND I KNOW THAT YOU GUYS ARE, UH, OR WHOEVER'S DOING THE DOOR TO DOOR, UH, PETITIONING ARE USING SCARE TACTICS AND INTIMIDATION AGAINST PEOPLE BECAUSE I'VE HEARD IT FROM A COUPLE OF CITIZENS THAT, UH, YOU GUYS GO AND KNOCK WHOEVER IT IS.
THEY DIDN'T TELL ME WHO THEY'RE KNOCKING.
AND THEY'RE SAYING, IF YOU DON'T SIGN THE PETITION, THE CITY'S TAKING YOUR 15, UH, FEET OF EASTMAN OR TAKING YOUR HOUSE HOSTAGE.
SO I THINK THAT'S, UH, PRETTY SAD ON WHOEVER'S PETITIONING OUT THERE AND, AND THREATENING AND, AND INTIMIDATING, ESPECIALLY THE ELDERLY HERE IN SANTO.
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OKAY.WELL, THAT WAS REFRESHING 35 YEARS AGO.
BEN CORTES, UH, 6 75 SOUTH MACAU STREET.
UH, I'M GONNA BE SPEAKING ABOUT AGENDA ITEM NUMBER NINE.
THE, THE ITEM IS NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH CITY CHARTER.
IT APPEARS LIKE A CORRECTION OF WRONGDOING IN PREVENTING PEOPLE FROM A QUALITY OF LIFE.
PEOPLE IN BUSINESSES SHOULD NOT BE LIVING IN FEAR OF RETALIATION BY THE CITY MANAGER, ORDINANCES AND RESOLUTIONS OR SUBORDINATE.
CHARTER PROVISIONS, PROVISIONS OF THE CHARTER ARE MANDATORY AND MUST BE OBEYED.
AND ORDINANCE IS BASICALLY A LAW AND A RESOLUTION IS A RULE HOME RULE, MUNICIPALITIES FOLLOW THE CITY CHARTER.
THE PROVISIONS OF THE CHARTER ARE MANDATORY AND MUST BE OBEYED BY THE CITY AND ITS AGENTS.
IF THERE IS CONFLICT WITH AN ORDINANCE, THE CHARTER MUST PREVAIL.
AN ORDINANCE OR RESOLUTION CANNOT LIMIT THE POWER OF THE CITY.
AND I RECOMMEND SIGNING, UH, VOTING NAY ON ITEM NUMBER NINE.
THE, UH, THE CITY COMMISSION SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO REGULATE THE SUBDIVISION OF ALL PROPERTY TO LOTS AND BLOCKS WITHIN THE CITY LIMITS.
AND SHE'LL HAVE THE POWER TO ENACT ORDINANCES.
THE, THE, UH, THE CHARTER CLEARLY STAYS AS THE CITY COMMISSION HAS THE POWER.
AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THAT THE ORDINANCE, I THINK IT REMOVES THE POWER.
IT REMOVES THE POWER TO THE CITY MANAGER, THE CITY SANTO SHOW TEST ALL ALTHOUGH RIGHTS ARE GRANTED TO IT BY THE HOME RULE AMENDMENT CONTAIN AN ARTICLE 11 SECTION FIVE OF THE TEXAS CONSTITUTION.
WE ARE NOT FOLLOWING THE CITY CHARTER.
WE'RE HAVING VIOLATIONS OF THE CITY CHARTER AND THE POWERS OF THE CITY ARE UNDER THE CHARTER.
AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE IN FAVOR OF THE CITY.
AS WE COLLECT, IF WE COLLECT THE, THE SIGNATURES ON THE PETITION, WE CANNOT REMOVE, UH, WE CANNOT REMOVE THE CITY MANAGER AND I DON'T, I DON'T, I'M REALLY NOT FOR REMOVING THE CITY MANAGER.
WE WANNA JUST BRING ATTENTION BECAUSE IN ALL THE YEARS THAT WE'VE BEEN HERE, PEOPLE CANNOT LIVE IN FEAR THAT THEIR WATER'S GONNA BE CUT OFF.
THEY CAN'T LIVE IN FEAR THAT THEIR, THEIR HOME BUILDING IS GONNA BE STOPPED.
AND THESE ORDINANCE, THESE ORDINANCE ARE VERY CLEAR AND THEY'RE, AND THEY'RE MISINTERPRETED.
HOW CAN YOU TAKE A SUBDIVISION THAT'S BEEN IN, IN, IN THE CITY FOR OVER 30, 40, 50 YEARS AND COME BACK AND SAY, IT'S NOT, IT IS NOT IN COMPLIANCE.
IT WAS IN COMPLIANCE WHEN IT WAS APPROVED.
YOU CAN'T GO BACK AND FIX AND FIX THINGS THAT ARE NOT CORRECT.
AND, AND AS FAR AS ENCROACHMENTS, IF IT WAS ENCROACHING, IT WOULD'VE BEEN ENCROACHING 50 YEARS AGO, THESE SUBDIVISIONS THAT ARE REQUIRED FOR REPLANNING AND, AND, UH, HAVING THE CITIZENS TAKE A BLUNT OF THE, UH, OF THE COST, ESPECIALLY RIGHT NOW WITH COVID IT, IT'S, IT'S A HARD HARDSHIP FOR THE, FOR THE RESIDENTS, BUT I MEAN, THAT'S ALL OVER.
ANYBODY ELSE WITH, YES, MY IS, UH, CARRIE VALENCIA.
MY NAME'S CARRIE VALENCIA, AND I LIVE AT 6 0 8 SOUTH BOW.
I PURCHASED A HOME IN SANTO, MY HOMETOWN IN MARCH, 2022, BUT COULDN'T MOVE IN FOR SIX WEEKS BECAUSE MR. DELOSA AND MR. HERNANDEZ TOLD ME MY PROPERTY HAD TO BE IN FULL COMPLIANCE WITH CHAPTER 10 SUBDIVISION ORDINANCES BEFORE MY UTILITIES WOULD BE RECONNECTED.
I PRESENTED AN APPLICATION FOR VARIANCE AND HAD MY PAYMENT AND MY DOCUMENTATION READY, BUT MR. DELOSA REFUSED TO ACCEPT MY APPLICATION AND STATED THAT WE, AND I QUOTE DON'T DO THAT THE SAME ORDINANCES THAT MR THEA USES TO ENFORCE COMPLIANCE, ALSO LAYOUT STEP BY STEP PROCESSES FOR APPLYING FOR VARIANCES.
IT ALSO OUTLINES THE ABILITY OF THE CITY COMMISSIONERS TO PASS A RESOLUTION THAT WOULD ALLOW PROPERTIES LIKE MINE TO STAND AS IS THESE TWO OPTIONS ARE NOT BEING PRESENTED TO US AS IN THE CITY CITIZENS OF SANTO, OR YOU COMMISSIONERS AS ALTERNATIVES TO RE SUBDIVIDING PROPERTIES THAT ARE ALREADY SUBDIVIDED.
INSTEAD, I WAS PRESENTED WITH THIS OPTION BY MR. DEL LAROSSA.
HE ALLOWED MY UTILITIES TO BE TEMPORARILY CONNECTED AND ONLY CONDITIONALLY.
I HAD TO SIGN AN AFFIDAVIT THAT STATED I HAD FOUR MONTHS TO RE SUBDIVIDE
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MY ALREADY SUBDIVIDED PROPERTY ONE AND A HALF LOTS ONLY INTO ITS OWN SUBDIVISION, OR MY UTILITIES WOULD BE TERMINATED.AND THIS IS AN AFFIDAVIT THAT WAS NOTARIZED HERE IN CITY HALL.
DESPITE CITY STAFF PRESENTING IT TO YOU IN THAT LANGUAGE, THERE IS NEITHER AN ORDINANCE NOR LOGICAL REASON THAT REQUIRES US TO REPLAT SUBDIVISIONS THAT ALREADY EXIST.
YOU HAVE ALL HEARD CITY STAFF SAY THE CITY STAFF SAY THIS IN THIS VERY ROOM THAT IT HAS TO BE DONE, AND IT HAS TO BE DONE THIS WAY.
I HUMBLY ASK THAT YOU MAYOR AND COMMISSIONERS STOP MR. DEL LAA, MR. ANA, AND THEIR STAFF FROM FORCING US TO REPLANT SUBDIVISIONS THAT ALREADY EXIST.
PLEASE USE A RESOLUTION THAT WILL EXEMPT EXISTING SUBDIVISIONS.
AND ALSO PLEASE LET THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION USE THE POWER THAT IS ALREADY WRITTEN INTO OUR ORDINANCES TO ACCEPT THE VARIANCE APPLICATIONS.
THEN PRESENT THEM TO YOU FOR VOTING.
THERE IS NO NEED FOR MR DELOSA OR MR. EAND TO BE IN CHARGE OF THIS VARIANCE PROCESS.
WE ALREADY HAVE A PROCESS AND IT'S LAID OUT IN OUR ORDINANCES.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR TIME, YOUR CONSIDERATION, AND MOSTLY FOR YOUR SERVICE TO OUR COMMUNITY.
I KNOW IT TAKES A GREAT DEAL OF TIME AND EFFORT.
MA'AM GOOD, MR. DAVID FOOTMAN.
SO EVENING, MR. MAYOR, IT'S DAVE LMAN, UH, HERE REGARDING PROPERTY AT 5 45 LOVET ROAD.
UM, HERE, ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE ON WEEK 24 WITHOUT A RESOLUTION ON OUR AMENDED ORDINANCE FOR THE PD D UM, THAT WE FORMED.
UM, WE DID GET A, MY ATTORNEY DID GET A, A NOTE FROM MR. SOI TODAY.
BASICALLY SHE SAID THAT IT DOESN'T SAY ANYTHING SUBSTANTIVE, JUST, UH, REITERATES THAT WE'RE STILL WORKING ON IT.
SO I WANTED TO DO TONIGHT WAS ACTUALLY GIVE YOU A COPY OF THE DRAFT THAT WE'RE PROPOSING TO BE ADOPTED.
THIS INCORPORATES ALL OF THE ISSUES AND RESOLUTIONS THAT WE'VE COME TO, UH, WITH MR. SOSI AND MR. DEL ROSA SHOULD COVER ALL OF YOUR CONCERNS, UM, WAS HOPING TO GET IT ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
SO WE COULD HAVE A DISCUSSION AND HAVE OPEN, UH, MEETING ABOUT ANY CONCERNS THAT EXIST STILL.
UM, AGAIN, IT'S 24 WEEKS TRYING TO GET THIS RESOLVED.
WE'RE ALMOST, UH, COMPLETE WITH THE PROJECT.
AND, UM, I, I SEE US RUNNING UP AGAINST A DEADLINE ON THE END TO GET ACCEPTED.
IF YOU TAKE A LOOK AT THAT, IF WE COULD, UH, ADDRESS IT AND GET IT PASSED.
UH, DID YOU PRESENT SOMETHING TO MR. SASI ALREADY, AS FAR AS HE, HE RECEIVED THIS A, HE DOES HAVE THIS, YES.
COMMISSIONER I'VE LOOKED AT IT.
I'M NOT IN AGREEMENT WITH IT, BUT I, YES, I HAVE.
I, I WOULD LIKE TO, UM, I KNOW WE'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO HAVE DISCUSSION DURING A OPEN COMMENT, BUT ONE, UH, ONE PARTICULAR ITEM THAT THAT WAS DISCUSSED AT A TML CONFERENCE ONE TIME IS THAT WE CAN ALWAYS MOVE AS A COMMISSION TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA.
AND I WANT TO GO AHEAD AND TRY TO MOVE TO PUT THIS ON A FURTHER AGENDA ITEM.
HOPEFULLY THE NEXT ONE, MR. FLYMAN.
SO HE'S BEEN TRYING TO GET ON THERE.
IS THAT SOMETHING THE COMMISSION WOULD WANT TO DO? I BELIEVE THAT'S OKAY TO DO RIGHT MR. SASI I YOU, UH, COMMISSIONER IT'S, IT'S NOT USUAL TO ALLOW DEVELOPERS TO BITE CITY ORCHESTRA.
YEAH, YEAH, BUT THIS IS FOR THE COMMISSION.
MY QUESTION IS, CAN THE COMMISSION PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA? THE COMMISSION COMMISSION CAN PUT WHATEVER IT WANTS.
THANK YOU, MR. SASI WOULD ANYBODY LIKE TO PUT THIS ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT ITEM, MR. GARCIA, PUT IT SO WE'LL HAVE IT ON THE NEXT AGENDA ITEM.
UH, THAT'D BE GREAT MEETING AND I'LL HAVE MARK.
WE WE'LL HAVE THE CHANCE TO ADDRESS A CERTAIN SUBSTANDARD CONDITIONS WITHIN THAT DEVELOPMENT.
IF WE WANT TO AIR THAT PUBLICLY.
CERTAINLY WE'D, WE'D LIKE TO LEARN OF ANYTHING THAT YOU BELIEVE THAT YOU HAVE THE ONLY ONE I KNOW OR WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT LATER.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE ADDRESS ALL THE ISSUES.
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HELLO? UH, HELLO, MAYOR CITY COMMISSION.I'M GONNA BE GOING OFF MY, UH, PHONE NOTES HERE.
UM, I WANTED TO SPEAK IN REGARDS TO THE, UH, POSSIBLE TAX CUTS.
THE STATE IS ALREADY PROVIDING RELIEF THROUGH THE EXPANSION OF THE HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION.
UM, THE SCHOOL DISTRICT, UH, UNFORTUNATELY ALSO PASSED THE CUT TO SO, UM, IT'S MY MAIN OPPOSITION TO THIS IS THAT IT'S COUNTERINTUITIVE TO GROWTH.
UH, YOU KNOW, THE WHOLE IDEA OF OUR CITY GROWING IS PROPERTY VALUE INCREASES.
THE TAX BASE GROWS, UH, GROWS, AND SO DOES REVENUE.
SO IF WE'RE CUTTING WHILE THE CITY GROWS WILL BE HANDICAPPING, OUR ABILITY TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR A THRIVING CITY.
UM, IF YOU WANT TO PROVIDE RELIEF, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN INVEST IN INFRASTRUCTURE, PIPES, BRIDGES, ROADS, UH, YOU HAVE A VERY POPULAR STREETS PROGRAM.
THE ONLY COMPLAINT, UH, I'VE SEEN ABOUT IT IS THAT, UH, THEY WANT IT ON THEIR STREET.
UM, BUT YOU CAN ALSO LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR ROBUST SOCIAL PROGRAMS. UM, I KNOW WE HAVE A REALLY GOOD PUBLIC HOUSING PROGRAM AND I'M SURE THEY WOULD LOVE TO SEE MORE MONEY THROWN THEIR WAY.
UM, SAME THING WITH, UH, PARKS AND REC AND, UH, OUR AWESOME ART MUSEUM, UM, DRUG REHABILITATION, UH, I THINK GIVEN HOW THIS MEETING STARTED OUT, I, I THINK THAT WOULD BE REALLY GOOD FOR, UH, THE CITY COMMISSION TO CONSIDER FOOD ASSISTANCE, MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES, UH, JOBS PROGRAM, UM, MUNICIPAL BROADBAND.
SO, UH, ONCE AGAIN, I HOPE YOU VOTE NA ON THE TAX CUTS AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME.
UM, DID YOU STATE YOUR NAME? OH, SORRY.
THAT WAS, UH, AT NUMBER SEVEN.
[8. Consideration and possible action on the San Benito Economic Development Corporation Executive Director's Employment Contract.]
NUMBER EIGHT CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE CITY'S, UH, SAN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, UH, CORPORATION, EXECUTIVE DIRECTIONS, EMPLOYMENT CONTRACT, AND MR. JULIAN, GOOD EVENING, MAYORUH, THE SUMMARY EDC BOARD IS REQUESTING YOUR APPROVAL OF THE CONTRACT FOR OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR.
THE BOARD HAD A SPECIAL CALLED MEETING TO CONDUCT INTERVIEWS AND HAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED THE CONTRACT THAT WE'VE SENT BEFORE YOU.
UM, THE NAME WAS STILL, THE NAME IS REDACTED ON THE REDACTED FOR YES.
JUST FOR, TO PROTECT THE INNOCENT? YES.
UH, COMMISSIONERS, ANY QUESTIONS YOU DID MENTION? IT WAS A UNANIMOUS UNANIMOUS ON THE BOARD'S BEHALF ON THE BOARD.
UH, UNANIM UH, UNANIMOUS SEVEN, SIX.
WE DON'T HAVE A SEVEN BOARD MEMBER.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS COMMISSIONERS? NONE.
DO I HAVE MOTION? MOTION, MOTION BY COMMISSION GARCIA.
SECOND, SECOND, SECOND BY MARITON VIA FRANCO ALL IN FAVOR.
[9. Consideration and possible action to approve Resolution 2022-0920-009(R) enacting an emergency moratorium on certain permitting and platting requirements for the next sixty days while said municipal ordinances are reviewed and possibly revised.]
NINE, CONSIDERATION IMPOSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 2022 DASH 9 29 R UH, ENACTING AN EMERGENCY MORATORIUM ON A CERTAIN PER, UH, PERMITTING AND PLATTING, UH, REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS WHILE SIT, UH, MUNICIPALITY MUNICIPAL, UH, ORDINANCE ARE REVIEWED AND POSSIBLY REVISED.AND, UH, CITY ATTORNEY MARK SUSSY PRESENTAR GOOD AFTERNOON, MAYOR MEMBERS OF THE COMMISSION.
UH, I HEARD THE PUBLIC COMMENTS AND I THINK THERE'S SOME, THERE'S SOME CONFUSION AS TO WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE WITH THIS ORDINANCE.
AND I, I HEARD SOME OTHER, UH, COMMENTS ABOUT, UH, SUGGESTIONS ABOUT WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SEE, UH, THE CITY DO.
AND I, I THINK THEY MAY BE HAPPY THAT THE CITY'S ACTUALLY KIND OF MOVING ALONG THE PATH THAT THEY'RE SUGGESTING IN REVIEWING THE CITY ORDINANCES.
WE FOUND THAT THERE WERE A COUPLE THINGS THAT WERE DIFFERENT ABOUT THE CITY OF HAR CITY OF SANTO'S ORDINANCES THAT WERE PROVIDED BY OTHER CITIES AND, AND THESE, THESE, THESE ISSUES HAVE CREATED AND CONTRIBUTED TO ROADBLOCKS AND MADE IT INCONVENIENT AND MORE EXPENSIVE FOR SOME OF THE FOLKS HERE IN TERMS OF REPLA AND PLATING.
AND WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS WE'RE TRYING
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TO ADDRESS THOSE ISSUES TO BRING THE ORDINANCES IN A WAY THAT STREAMLINES THE PROCESS FOR THE PEOPLE HERE AND, AND MAKES, MAKES IT CHEAPER AND MAKES IT MORE ACCESSIBLE.AND LOOKING AT THE ORDINANCES, THERE WERE, THERE WERE TWO THINGS THAT ARE NOT IN OUR ORDINANCES THAT REALLY SHOULD BE THAT WOULD I, IN MY OPINION, GREATLY EASE THE PROCESS.
AND IT'S NOT A QUESTION OF GIVING ANYONE ANY MORE AUTHORITY.
IT'S A QUESTION OF STREAMLINING THE PROCESS TO MAKE IT MORE EFFICIENT, MAKE IT MORE RESPONSIVE AND MAKE IT MORE ECONOMICAL FOR THE FOLKS HERE.
NUMBER ONE, I, I HEARD ONE OF THE PUBLIC SPEAKERS TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT WHY ARE WE REQUIRING PLATS FOR PROPERTIES THAT WERE PLATTED BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCES, WHERE THE BOUNDARIES HAVEN'T CHANGED? AND I THINK COMMISSIONER GALVAN, YOU YOURSELF HAVE REPEATEDLY QUESTIONED THAT.
AND, AND, AND THAT'S, AND, AND OTHER ORDINANCES, OTHER CITIES, WE HAVE EXEMPTIONS SPECIFIC EXEMPTIONS FOR THOSE PREEXISTING PROPERTIES, RIGHT? AND, AND THE OTHER THING IS, AND THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT WE HAD TRIED TO TALK ABOUT BRIEFLY.
I THINK AT THE LAST MEETING, WE WANT TO CREATE A STREAMLINED PROCESS FOR MINOR PLATS, NOT TO TAKE AWAY ANY AUTHORITY FROM THE CITY COMMISSION, NOT TO GIVE FINAL MAKING AUTHORITY TO ANYONE ELSE, THE CITY COMMISSION'S ALWAYS GONNA HAVE FINAL AUTHORITY ON EVERYTHING.
BUT WE WANT, WE WANT TO TRY TO CREATE AN OFF RAMP FOR, FOR MINOR PLATS WHERE PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH ALL THE REQUIREMENTS AND COSTS AND DELAYS AND EXPENSE THAT YOU WOULD REQUIRE IF YOU NEEDED A FINE FINAL PLAT, WE NEED SOME PROVISIONS OF MINOR PLAS UNDER THE STATE LAW.
THE, THE CITY COMMISSION CAN DELEGATE AUTHORITY TO, FOR MINOR PLAS, TO, TO A STAFF MEMBER.
IT DOESN'T MEAN THE CITY DOESN'T HAVE AUTHORITY ON THE PLATS.
IT JUST MEANS I DON'T HAVE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO LOOK AT IT IF IT CAN BE RESOLVED AT A LOWER LEVEL.
AND THE IDEA IS TO MAKE THINGS FASTER AND MORE RESPONSIVE TO THE PEOPLE.
SO THE RESOLUTION THAT WE'RE PROPOSING AND, AND I, I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE WITH, UH, THE GENTLEMAN THAT GOT UP HERE AND SAID IT WAS UNLAWFUL.
WE WANT TO CREATE EXEMPTIONS FROM THE PLAT REQUIREMENTS.
AND WHAT WE'RE BASICALLY DOING IS WE'RE CODIFYING IN CITY ORDINANCES, GRANDFATHER PROVISIONS THAT ALREADY EXIST ELSEWHERE IN THE LAW AND STATE LAW, BUT ARE NOT WRITTEN INTO THE CODE OF ORDINANCES, WHICH CREATE CONFUSION.
SO THE FIRST ONE IS EXEMPTIONS FROM THE, THE PLAT REQUIREMENTS.
THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPTED FROM CITY MUNICIPAL REPLA REQUIREMENTS, A PROPERTY THAT WAS DIVIDED INTO ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995, AND HAS NOT HAD A CHANGE IN BOUNDARY SINCE, SINCE SUCH TIME CAN BE EXEMPTED FROM THE PLATTING REQUIREMENTS.
IF THE OWNER CAN JUST PROVIDE PROOF OF THAT, A RECORDED PROPERTY DEED PRIOR TO THE DATE WITH THE MEETS AND BOUNDS OR LEGAL DESCRIPTION EXACTLY MATCHING THE CURRENT PROPERTY WILL PREVENT, WILL CONSTITUTE THE NECESSARY PROOF.
SO, SO WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE AN EXEMPTION HERE.
SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE THE PLAT REQUIREMENT, DON'T HAVE TO MEET THE PLAT REQUIREMENTS IF IT'S A, A GRANDFATHER TYPE SITUATION.
THE OTHER THING IS BASICALLY, WE WANT TO TAKE THAT RIGHT.
BA WE'RE TAKE, WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT.
AND THEN WE GO OVER TO THE CITY'S WATER CODE AND IN THE WATER CODE, IT SAYS, IF YOU'RE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PLAT REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY, WE'RE NOT GONNA CONNECT YOUR WATER.
WELL, WE HEARD, WE HEARD THE ISSUES ABOUT THAT AND WE AGREED.
SO WHAT WE'RE, WHAT WE'RE DOING HERE, BASICALLY, IF YOU FIT WITHIN THAT EXEMPTION, THEN IT STATES, THE CITY MANAGER IS HEREBY DIRECTED NOT TO REFUSE OR DISCONNECT WATER SERVICES TO ANY PROPERTY THAT APPLIES THAT FALLS WITHIN THAT FIRST PROVISION.
IT'S NOT A GRANTING OF AUTHORITY, IT'S IT? WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE THAT EXEMPTION AND THEN MAKE IT CLEAR UNDER THE CITY ORDINANCES THAT THE CITY WON'T TURN OFF WATER.
IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE, IF YOUR PROPERTY'S GRANDFATHER THAT'S ALL.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHAT THAT'S ALL THIS RESOLUTION DOES.
AND WHAT IT DOES IS IT PROVIDES, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE, WE THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY IMPORTANT THAT WE IMMEDIATELY ADDRESSED THE SITUATION.
WE DON'T WANNA WAIT ONE FIRST READING AND THEN SECOND READING.
AND THEN, YOU KNOW, MAYBE WE DEBATE IT FOR A WHILE.
AND, AND, AND, AND THE FOLKS HERE HAVE THE ISSUE AND HASN'T BEEN RESOLVED.
SO THE FASTEST WAY TO ADDRESS THIS ISSUE IS A FORM OF RESOLUTION, SIMPLY TELLING CITY MANAGER, OR LOOK, HOLD OFF ON THAT UNTIL WE CAN REVISE THESE ORDINANCES AND HAVE A MORE PERMANENT SOLUTION THAT WORKS FOR THE PEOPLE HERE.
THAT'S THE ONLY PURPOSE OF THE RESOLUTION.
IT'S IT'S TO PROVIDE SOME IMMEDIATE RELIEF TO THE PEOPLE HERE.
UH, I'M AVAILABLE TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS, UH, ON THIS ORDINANCE.
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MEAN, ON THIS RESOLUTION, WHAT DID YOU MEAN BY, UH, GRANDFATHER? THERE'S THE, THE, THE, OKAY, SO BASICALLY THE, THE CITY SUBDIVISION ORDINANCES WERE ENACTED ON FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995.WE UNDERSTAND THAT THERE WERE PROPERTIES THAT WERE LAWFULLY PLANTED BEFORE FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995.
SO ON PROPERTIES THAT WERE PLANTED PROPERLY PLANTED, ACCORDING TO CITY ORDINANCES BEFORE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF THE STATUTE, AND THE BOUNDARIES HAVE NOT CHANGED THIS, THIS WOULD BASICALLY EXEMPT THEM FROM THE REPLA REQUIREMENTS, UM, PROVIDED IT, MEETS THOSE REQUIREMENTS.
UH, MR. STASSI, UH, WHAT YOU HAVE HERE IS, UH, IT'S FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS.
THAT IS TO GIVE MATT AS, RIGHT.
THIS IS JUST, UH, ALL THIS IS, IS A, THIS IS A QUICK FIX.
THE IDEA, THE IDEA IS THAT IN, IN THE NEXT MONTH OR TWO.
HOPEFULLY FASTER THAN THAT, BUT, BUT THIS WILL BE IN PLACE TO, TO, TO MAKE SURE NOBODY IS THIS, THIS, THIS WILL SOLVE THE IMMEDIATE PROBLEM.
UM, YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY WE CAN GET THIS DONE IN THE NEXT TWO MEETINGS.
IT MAY TAKE, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER, WHAT IT'S, WHATEVER IS UP TO THE COMMISSION.
UM, WE'LL, WE'LL SOLVE THE PROBLEM BY ENACTING AMENDMENTS TO THE, TO THE ORDINANCE.
AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, UH, TWO WEEKS AGO WAS ACTUALLY TRYING TO INITIATE SOMETHING, GET IT GOING, RIGHT.
WHETHER IT'S RESIDENTIAL OR COMMERCIAL.
WE NEED TO WORK HARD ON FIXING THIS, THE RESOLUTION ITSELF.
UH, I HEARD THE PUBLIC COMMENTS.
UH, YES, WE'RE, WE'RE AWARE OF EVERYTHING THAT'S HAPPENING, BUT WE NEED TO FIND NOT A QUICK FIX, BUT A PERMANENT FIX, RIGHT.
SOMETHING THAT WILL ADDRESS THE GRAY AREA THAT, WELL, I INTERPRET THIS AND I INTERPRET THAT AND HE INTERPRETS SOMETHING ELSE.
SO, YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO GET CLARIFICATION ON EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE TO DEAL WITH EVERY DAY AND HOW WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS IT.
THAT'S THAT'S NOT, THIS IS NOT GONNA BE A POWER GRAB BECAUSE I FEEL NO I'M GONNA DO IT THIS WAY.
WE'RE WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS IT'S SAFE AND ORDERLY GROWTH.
AND IF SOMETHING IS PREEXISTING SINCE 1910 OR WHATEVER, UH, YEAH.
I MEAN, WE CAN'T GO BACK AND REPLANT THE WHOLE CITY
60 DAYS WOULD JUST BE MANNY'S ABILITY.
RIGHT NOW HE HAS NO POWER TO OVERRIDE THE CURRENT ORDINANCES.
SO THE ONLY THING WE'RE DOING WITHIN THESE 60 DAYS IS GIVING HIM THAT POWER.
THAT WAY, THE PEOPLE WHO ARE WAITING WELL, I LIKE THE MORATORIUM HERE.
YOU KNOW, LET'S, LET'S STOP THIS, YOU KNOW, AND JUST TO POINT OUT AND SO WE CAN FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE.
THIS WOULD BE, THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS HE'S SUGGESTING, WHICH WOULD BE A VERY, VERY SIMPLE FORM, WHICH IS WHAT I'VE BEEN WANTING FROM THE BEGINNING.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, MARK, FOR THAT.
UM, THE ISSUE WE HAD BEFORE IS THE ORDINANCES.
WEREN'T VERY CLEAR, SO LEFT A LOT OF WIGGLE ROOM TO MAKE A MISTAKE.
AND WHAT I WANTED IS SOMETHING THAT WAS CLEAN, SIMPLE, CLEAR, CUT ACROSS THE BOARD, EQUAL FOR EVERYBODY.
LIKE I TOLD RICK, WHEN WE WERE SPEAKING THE OTHER DAY, WE HAVE OUR PARENTS WHO LIVE A STREET AWAY FROM EACH OTHER.
IF THEY ENCOUNTERED THIS ISSUE, THEY WOULD NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO.
WHAT THEY WOULD DO IS GO IN THERE, BE PRESENTED WITH THE ORDINANCE THEY HAD BEFORE AND NOT KNOW TO COME TO COMMISSIONER, NOT KNOW TO COME REACH THE CITY MANAGER, THEY WOULDN'T KNOW BETTER.
SO I WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT THAT WAS EVEN AND EQUAL ACROSS THE BOARD FOR AVENUE ONE, WHETHER THEY KNEW OR DIDN'T KNOW WHAT NEXT PROCESS TO DO, WHETHER TO COME AND ASK FOR THE EXCEPTION TO THE COMMISSION.
I JUST WANTED TO EVEN, AND ACROSS THE BOARD FOR EVERYBODY, WHICH IS EXACTLY WHAT THIS WILL DO.
SO PARENTS LIKE MINE AND RICKS WHO MIGHT GO IN THERE, WHO OTHERWISE WOULD HAVE NO IDEA WHAT THEY WERE DOING.
NOW HAVE THIS ONE SIMPLE LITTLE FORUM THAT THEY JUST HAVE TO GO CHECK OFF.
AND WE AVOID ALL THIS ISSUE FROM THE BEGINNING, WHICH IS WHAT I'VE BEEN WANTING.
NOW THE 60 DAYS FOR MANNY IS JUST BECAUSE WE DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOW IN THE PREDICAMENT AND I WANNA DO THIS, RIGHT.
SO I DON'T WANNA BE RUSHED AND PUSHED INTO JUST SAYING YES TO THIS ORDINANCE RIGHT AWAY.
SO I DO AGREE GIVING HIM THAT POWER TO BE ABLE TO HELP THE PEOPLE WHO ARE CURRENTLY IN THAT PREDICAMENT IS SOMETHING THAT WE NEED DONE.
COMMISSIONER AND, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND.
AND, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN AN EXEMPTION AND, AND A DEFENSE, RIGHT? SO WHAT WE DIDN'T WANNA DO IS WE DIDN'T WANT TO CREATE A SITUATION WHERE IT'S LIKE, WELL, A PLAT IS REQUIRED, BUT IF YOU FILE AN A REQUEST, YOU KNOW, AND MOST PEOPLE WON'T KNOW TOO.
AND MOST PEOPLE WON'T KNOW TO DO THAT.
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DO IS WE, WE CREATE AN EXEMPTION STATING, LOOK THERE, THE PLATTING IS NOT REQUIRED, PROVIDED THESE CONDITIONS ARE MET, RIGHT? SO, SO AS THAT APPLICATION COMES IN AND PEOPLE LOOK AT IT AND THEY SAY, HEY, WAIT A MINUTE.THIS IS SOMETHING FROM A LONG TIME AGO, THIS DOESN'T APPLY THE CITY OR THE CITY PLANNING REQUIREMENTS DON'T APPLY HERE.
THEY, THEY CAN, THEY CAN TAKE, TAKE THE, THEY CAN DO THAT WITHOUT, YOU KNOW, THEY, THEY WON'T REQUIRE THE PLAT.
THE, THE OTHER THING IS I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON IS, IS I HEARD, AND I KNOW THERE'S SOME EMOTIONS FLYING AROUND ON THIS.
UM, I, I HEARD THIS CHARACTERIZED, YOU KNOW, WITH THE CITIES TRYING TO DO HERE AS, AS A POWER GRAB, YOU KNOW, FO YOU KNOW, NOTHING COULD BE FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
UM, IF WE LOOK AT THE RE THE LANGUAGE OF THE RESOLUTION, IT'S BASICALLY STATES LOOK, THE CITY MANAGERS DIRECTED NOT TO REFUSE OR DISCONNECT WATER SERVICES.
I MEAN, WE'RE WHAT WE'RE DOING IS WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN WATER SERVICES CAN BE DISCONNECTED AND WE'RE MAKING CLEAR THAT, LOOK, IF THERE'S AN EXEMPTION ON THE PROPERTY, THE CITY'S NOT GONNA TERMINATE IT IN WAS WATER.
AND, AND THE, UH, THE WHOLE CONCEPT BEHIND THE, UH, THE PLAT, THE, THE, THE, UM, THE MINOR PLAT, RIGHT? IT IT'S IT'S TO CREATE AN OFFRAMP IN THE PROCESS.
IT'S NOT THE, IT'S NOT TO EMPOWER ANYONE.
IT'S NOT TAKING ANY AUTHORITY.
AND I, I THINK I READ SOMETHING SOMEWHERE TO SOCIAL MEDIA, AND I DON'T USUALLY, BUT PEOPLE WOULD SEND ME STUFF ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, CITY MANAGER.
WHY HAVE THE FIRST AND LAST SAY, NO, ONE'S TALKING ABOUT THAT.
WELL, FIRST THEY'RE BLAMING HIM THAT IT'S HIS FAULT.
AND NOW WE'RE SAYING, WELL, WHEN WE TRY TO FIX IT, WE'RE TRYING TO GET IT.
AND I, AND I UNDERSTAND PEOPLE ARE FRUSTRATED, RIGHT.
BUT, BUT, BUT IN ACTUALITY, WE'RE NOT TAKING ANYTHING AWAY FROM THE CITY COMMISSION IN TERMS OF THE CITY COMMISSION'S AUTHORITY.
WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS WE'RE TRYING TO CREATE AN OFF RAMP FOR THE FOLKS.
SO THEY DON'T HAVE TO SATISFY ALL THE REQUIREMENTS.
IF IT'S JUST A MINOR PLAT TO EXPEDITE.
MAY I ASK YOU TO EXPEDITE PROCESS? I HAVE A QUESTION FROM, IF, IF, IF THEY'RE, IS IT OKAY IF I ASK HIM A QUESTION? SURE.
I DON'T MIND, MY NAME IS ESKI MENEZ.
AND I ALSO HAD, UM, SIMILAR ISSUES WITH MY PROPERTY IN THE PROCESS OF, YOU KNOW, ASKING FOR VARIANCES AND BEING TOLD YOU DON'T QUALIFY VARIANCE AND NOT BEING ABLE TO BE GIVEN THE FORM FOR THE VARIANCE.
UM, FINALLY, SOMEBODY REACHED OUT TO ME, BUT IT WAS A MONTH LATER IN THE PROCESS.
I'VE MET A LOT OF PEOPLE GOING BACK TO 2016 THAT HAVE EITHER HAD THEIR UTILITIES DISCONNECTED.
UM, THEY ALREADY HAD EXISTING SERVICE, UH, BUSINESSES, HOMEOWNERS WHO WANTED TO DO IMPROVEMENTS, MINOR IMPROVEMENTS.
THEY'VE ALL BEEN PRETTY MUCH, UH, ASKED TO EITHER REPL, UM, AND OR UTILITIES HAVE BEEN REMOVED.
SO I HAVE COUNTLESS AND COUNTLESS OF PEOPLE THAT I'VE TALKED TO.
ARE YOU GONNA GO BACK TO THOSE PEOPLE THAT WERE NOT GIVING THAT, UH, OPTION? IS THAT SOMETHING THAT YOU'RE GONNA DO? YOU'RE GONNA GO BACK AND LOOK AT ALL THE RECORDS OF ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO.
I, I THINK WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TWO DIFFERENT THINGS.
MM-HMM
WELL, NO, NO, NO, NOT VARIANCE FOR ZONING.
THEY, THEY WANTED TO DO A, A PURCHASE OR THEY WANTED TO OPEN A BUSINESS, OR THEY WANTED TO DO AN IMPROVEMENT ON THEIR HOME.
AND THEY WERE TOLD THEY HAD TO REPL.
BECAUSE THIS OLDER HOME EXISTED ON TWO OR MORE LOTS, IT'S ALL THE SAME ISSUE.
IF THE, LET'S SAY A HOME IS NEEDING A REPLAT AND IT GETS SOLD, LET'S SAY LIST GETS APPROVED AND IT GETS SOLD TOMORROW.
UM, WOULD IT MEET THE QUALIFICATIONS OF AN EXEMPTION AS LONG AS IT MEETS THE QUALIFICATIONS SET FORTH IN SECTION ONE? YES.
WELL, CUZ I'M READING A RECORDED PROPERTY DEED DATED PRIOR TO THAT DATE, RIGHT? THE PROPERTY WAS DIVIDED AND IT'S CURRENT CONFIGURATION PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995.
SO, BUT IF PROPERTY WAS SOLD TODAY, BUT IT WAS SUBDIVIDED BEFORE.
NO, IT SITS ON TWO LOTS AND IT WAS SOLD TODAY.
WOULD THE PERSON COMING IN HAVE TO REPLAT THAT'S THE WAY I'M READING.
THEY WOULD STILL NOT IF IT NOT, IF IT WAS DIVIDED INTO ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995.
SO, AND, AND AGAIN, THIS IS INTENDED AS A STOP, IMMEDIATE STOP GAP MEASURE.
WHILE WE WORK THROUGH THE RESOLUTIONS TO LOOK AT ALL THE SITUATIONS.
BUT I WANNA MAKE SURE THIS IS READ CLEARLY AGAIN, WE'VE HAD ISSUES WITH INTERPRETATION AND INTERPRETATION IS BASED OFF OF THE PERSON READING.
IT'S NOT THE ORDINANCE READS AS IS THE INTERPRETER.
IS YOU ME? THEM, HIM, THAT'S THE INTERPRETER.
BUT IT READS AS IS IF YOU WANT TO INTERPRET IT DIFFERENTLY, THAT'S ON YOU.
WELL, BUT, BUT THAT'S WHAT I'M READING THERE.
A RECORDED PROPERTY DATED PRIOR TO THAT DATE WITH A MEETS OF BOUNDS OR LEGAL DESCRIPTION EXACTLY MATCHING THE CURRENT PROPERTY WOULD CONSTITUTE THE NECESSARY PROOF.
IT SAYS WHAT IT SAYS, COMMISSIONER.
SO IF IT'S A DEED FROM 1905 THEY'RE AND THEY SELL IT TODAY, IF THEY GET IT APPROVED AND THEY SELL IT TOMORROW, THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAVE TO REPLAT FOR AT LEAST THE 60 DAY WINDOW.
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OF SECTION ONE A THEN YES.I MEAN, AND THEN, AND I, OKAY, WELL WE'LL MOVE FROM THAT.
SO, UM, WHAT IS THE, IT ALSO ASKS, UH, RECORDING FEES.
WHAT ARE THE RECORDING FEES, UH, FOR INSTRUMENTS ABOVE ON THE, UH, ADDENDUM, THE APPLICATION THAT, THAT IS SIMPLY A, UH, DO WE HAVE THAT SIMPLE FORM FOR CITY STAFF? UM, BUT IS THERE TO GATHER INFORMATION IF SOMEONE IS ASKING FOR A EXEMPTION, IS THERE A COST THOUGH? I, I DON'T THINK ONE HAS BEEN SET.
SO SEE, THERE'S A, THERE'S SOME AMBI AMBIGUITY HERE.
NO, COMMISSIONERS' NO AMBIGUITY IN IT.
I THINK IT'S VERY STRAIGHTFORWARD.
WELL, THIS IS JUST A SIMPLE DRAFT TO, TO MOVE FORWARD.
THAT'S WHY WE SAID WE TO BE KEEP DRAFTING SOMETHING NICE.
SO WE GET SOMETHING THEN GOOD.
AND I, BUT UH, I LIKE TO ACTUALLY, I LIKE TO RESPOND TO THE QUESTION I KIND OF CUT OFF.
UM, OB OBVIOUSLY THERE'S DIFFERENT SITUATIONS THAT HAVE OCCURRED AND, AND I CAN'T BE AWARE OF EVERY SINGLE FACT SITUATION THAT OCCURRED THIS, THIS, UH, THIS, UH, UH, MORATORIUM DOESN'T ADDRESS, EVERY POSSIBLE SOLUTION THAT COULD ARISE.
BUT WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO IS WE'RE TRYING TO ADDRESS A VERY SPECIFIC SITUATION THAT EXISTS AND TRY TO PROVIDE A SOLUTION WHILE WE WORK FORWARD AND, AND, AND LOOK AT OUR ORDINANCES.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE INTENT.
SO WHO'S GONNA REVIEW THIS APPLICATION.
IS IT PLANNING AND ZONING? IS IT THE COMMISSION OR IS IT CITY MANAGER? IS IT CITY ATTORNEY? EVERYBODY? NO, IT'S, IT'S GONNA, IT'S GONNA GO TO, IT WOULD GO TO PLAN THE WHOLE, THE WHOLE IDEA OF THIS IS SO YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO TO THE COMMISSION, BUT IF THERE'S AN APPLICATION, SO WHO REVIEWS IT? I DON'T THINK YOU REVIEW APPLICATIONS.
I THINK THAT'S USUALLY CITY STAFF RIGHT? TO APPROVE IT.
IS IT ENRIQUE FROM PLANNING AND ZONING? IT WOULD BE PLANNING, WHOEVER REVIEWS.
SEE, THE REASON I HAVE THIS IS TOUCHY FOR ME, RIGHT? BECAUSE I HAD, I HAD A PLAT UP A LOT AND A HALF.
AND THEN WHEN I INQUIRED WITH THE CITY, IF THEY HAD A PLAT ON RECORD FOR THE PROPERTY, I WAS TOLD, WELL, YOU JUST OPEN UP A CAN OF WORMS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.
YOU CAN'T FIX THAT HOUSE ANYMORE.
$180,000 IS WHAT WAS EXPECTED TO FIX THAT HOME.
AND THE HOME WAS NOT ABLE TO BE FIXED AFTER OPENING PERMITS.
I GOTTA STOP WORK ORDER $5,000 LATER FROM DEMO AND CONSTRUCTION WORK.
YOU'RE IN A NONCONFORMING LOT.
I, I DON'T HAVE, LIKE, I LIKE TO ANSWER.
I TORE DOWN THE HOUSE A HUNDRED YEAR OLD HOUSE.
I TORE IT DOWN HUNDRED YEAR OLD HOUSE.
I AM SHAKING BECAUSE I'M SCARED THAT MAN'S GONNA DRIVE BY AND SEE THE HOUSE THAT HE RAISE HIS FAMILY IN.
IT HURTS ME TO SAY THAT, WELL, WELL, THIS RESOLUTION ISN'T GONNA REQUIRE ANYONE TO TEAR DOWN ANY HOUSE COMMISSIONER.
ALL THIS DOES IS PROVIDES A MORATORIUM.
SO THE PLATING REQUIREMENTS DON'T APPLY.
BUT THERE'S STILL SOME AMBIGUITY HERE.
AND THE ORDINANCE READS THE WAY I THINK IT READS.
AND I DON'T THINK THIS IS NECESSARY.
COMMISSIONER, LOOK, YOU CAME TO ME WITH A PROBLEM EITHER WAY.
MANY MAINING MEETINGS, YOU KEPT SAYING, YOU KEPT SAYING, HOW LONG ABOUT PROPERTY? CAUSE YOU SAID THIS IS 60 DAYS, BUT HOW LONG HAVE I BEEN COMPLAINING TWO YEARS.
APPARENTLY SINCE YOU HAD PERSONAL ISSUES WITH ME TWO YEARS, COMMISSIONER, YOU, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YOU'VE RAISED THIS ISSUE.
THAT'S WHY I UNDERSTAND IT A LOT BETTER THAN Y'ALL, BUT YOU WON'T LISTEN TO ME.
BUT WHEN WE DO, YOU DON'T LIKE ISSUES TO BE ADDRESSED BY THE COMMISSION WHEN YOU DESERVE THE ENTIRE CITY.
THE MAJORITY, THE MAJORITY OF WHAT THE, WHAT HAS BEEN GUN COMING ABOUT ALSO IS THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, WHEN ALL THIS STARTED COMING ABOUT, YOU KNOW, AND I CAME IN IN, UH, 20, 20, 21.
AND APPARENTLY HAS BEEN ALREADY GONE ON ONGOING ISSUE BEFORE.
AND UH, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE, UH, BEEN HURT.
A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE BEEN HURT ON THIS, YOU KNOW? AND THEY HAVE BEEN SAYING THAT, UH, WHAT DO I HAVE TO BE HERE IN SANTO? EVEN, EVEN, UH, DEVELOPERS HAVE SAID, WHY SHOULD I COME OVER THERE? I MEAN, THERE'S ALWAYS GONNA BE SOMETHING THAT'S GONNA BE STOPPING US FROM, FROM STARTING OR DOING OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
AND YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES IT'S, IT'S IN, IN A SENSE THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, MANAGERS IN CHARGE OF THE DAILY OPERATIONS, HE'S THROWN THAT, THAT QUESTION IN THAT PHRASE, THAT, THAT PHRASE, THAT MEANS SO MANY TIMES I'M IN CHARGE OF DAILY OPERATION MAYOR.
AND I HAVE, I'M OVERSTEPPING MY BOUND.
I SAID THAT A COUPLE OF TIMES.
SO WHAT IS IT, UH, WHAT ELSE DO, I MEAN, DO WE NEED TO GIVE THEM, YOU KNOW, TO ME IT'S MORE LIKE, UH, IT'S NOT ME THAT I'M ASKING.
IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT HAVE ALREADY COME TO US AS A COMMISSION.
I SAID, WE NEED HELP BECAUSE WE'RE NOT MOVING FORWARD.
THAT'S, THAT'S STILL BEHIND THE ISSUE.
SO IN A SENSE, DO I, AM I AGREEABLE WITH THIS? YEAH.
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WE NEED TO LOOK INTO, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I'M NOT GONNA DO THIS.AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I, I'M NOT GOING ANY FURTHER THAN THIS.
I VOTE KNOWING THIS, I MAKE A MOTION TO VOTE.
THE ORDINANCE READS AS IS DOESN'T NEED MODIFICATION.
YOU CAN RUN FOR COMMISSIONER AND THEN YOU CAN MAKE A DECISION.
SO LAST SECOND, I'M NOT SURE IF THAT WAS A QUESTION OR NOT COMMISSIONER
THAT'S GONNA HELP THEM NOT HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS.
60 DAYS IS JUST UNTIL WE GET SIX DAYS IS TO PROVIDE THESE FOLKS WITH IMMEDIATE RELEASE.
YOU UNDERSTAND THE ORIGINAL SO WE CAN ADOPT A RESOLUTION.
YOU KNOW WHAT? IF IT WANTS TO GET VOTED DOWN, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A PROPOSAL MARK.
I WOULD LIKE TO APPROVE THIS WITH CLARIFICATION ON THE FEES, CLARIFICATION ON WHO IS GONNA BE APPROVING IT.
ACTUALLY, I WOULD LOCK THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION TO APPROVE THE APPLICATION.
AND THEN I WOULD LIKE THE MORATORIUM TO BE EXTENDED TO A YEAR.
THIS SHOULD NEVER GET DONE IN THE CITY.
AND THAT'S, THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO INSANITY.
OH, I THINK THERE WAS A MOTION TO REJECT.
THIS IS NOT THE FINAL READING.
THIS IS SOMETHING, THIS IS SOMETHING WHY WE HAVE TO HELP UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
IF YOU DON'T WANT PER PERMIT US.
I, I, I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU COMMISSION.
I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
HERE'S THE, HERE'S THE PROBLEM.
AND TO ORDINANCE AND THE REAL ORDINANCE IS ACTUALLY, AND THAT'S FINE.
I NEVER KNOW WHEN THAT WILL HAPPEN.
SINCE IF THIS OTHER ONE'S NOT GONNA GET, IT'S GONNA GET ORDERED DOWN.
HE EXTENDED IT TO YOU COMMISSION.
FIRST, FIRST, THERE WAS A BIT OF MOTION.
AND UH, YOU KNOW, TO TURN THIS THING DOWN, UH, WE NEED TO BRING IT BACK OR, OR Y'ALL DO SOMETHING TO SAY IT THEN THE FINE THEN.
UH, BUT, UH, UH, I'M NOT WILLING TO PROLONG ANYTHING.
I AM NOT WILLING TO PROLONG ANYTHING.
THIS WILL START THE PROCESS OF FIXING.
AND THIS IS EXACTLY WHY ADDRESSING THE GREAT, THE IDEA BEHIND THE 60 DAYS.
HOLD ON, PLEASE ADDRESSING THE MISINTERPRETATIONS AND THE GRAY AREAS THAT WE'RE ALL TALKING ABOUT AND FIGHTING OVER.
YOU KNOW, THERE'S NO REASON TO DO THAT.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF, AND THIS IS, UH, EVEN I USE THE POWER GRAB THING, CUZ PEOPLE SAY WELL'S POWER GRAB.
NO, IT'S ULTIMATELY THE COMMISSION'S DECISION.
BUT MR. LA ROSA IS THE DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS DIRECTOR.
HE IS THE CEO, BUT WE'RE THE ONES SITTING UP HERE AND TELLING HIM, THIS IS THE WAY YOU WORK.
HE DOESN'T DO THINGS BECAUSE HE WANTS TO.
BUT IF IT'S SOMETHING, IF THIS NATURE IT'S UP TO US TO FIX IT, IT'S UP TO US.
THEY CAN TELL US ALL THE PROBLEMS, EVERY SINGLE MEETING COME AND TELL US THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER.
BUT IF WE DON'T START ADDRESSING THIS, WE'RE NOT GETTING ANYWHERE.
SO I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
WELL, THIS RESOLUTION I'LL SECOND.
WELL FIRST WE, WE MENTIONED THAT THE, I ALREADY KNOWING THIS.
AND I HAD THE, MYSELF AND COMMISSIONER GALVAN AND TIMES, I DON'T UNDERSTAND, UH, EVEN THE PEOPLE THAT APPLAUD THE, THE, LET ME FINISH UP WITH THIS, THE MOTION.
AND THIS IS WHY, BECAUSE YOU KEEP NO, I'M, I'M HIM A SOLUTION, MAN CAN ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT TOMORROW AND HELP CARRIE.
WHO'S BEEN WAITING AND COMING TO EVERY MEETING, HE CAN FINALLY HELP AND DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
NO, THAT'S INSANE TO ME EITHER WAY.
THEY CAN'T TURN OFF FOR WATER.
UM, CAN YOU, CAN YOU, HOLD ON, CAN YOU ASK FOR THE, MY NAME WAS JUST MENTIONED, SO I'M GONNA SQUEEZE IN BEFORE.
UM, SO THE WAY I'M READING THIS RESOLUTION THAT WAS PRESENTED TODAY, IT IS SAYING, MR. DELOSA NO LONGER HAS THE AUTHORITY TO SHUT OFF MY WATER.
HE NEVER HAD THAT AUTHORITY TO BE, HE'S NEVER HAD IT AND THAT'S NEVER IT, BUT THAT WAS NEVER TRUE.
RESOLUTION DOES NOT SERVE A PURPOSE SAYING BECAUSE IT WASN'T SPELLED OUT.
DO YOU GET THAT? I SIGNED BECAUSE WE HAVE PEOPLE LIKE THIS MIS INTERPRETING THING.
THE POINT IS THIS RESOLUTION IS SAYING THAT HE NO LONGER HAS THAT AUTHORITY.
NO, I DON'T HAVE PERSONAL INTEREST IN TRYING TO SELFER MYSELF.
YOU HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO BEGIN WITH.
THERE HAVE BEEN SOME PEOPLE ACTUALLY, AS THE ORDINANCE STANDS, IT IS PLAIN AND BLACK AND WHITE.
THERE IS A PROVISION ALREADY SET FORTH WITH STEP BY STEP INSTRUCTIONS TO APPLY FOR A VARIANCE.
AND THERE'S ALSO A GRANDFATHER CLAUSE LETTER G THAT'S ALREADY, IT'S ALREADY WRITTEN IN THE ORDINANCE AND IT HAS BEEN THERE SINCE 1995.
IT JUST NEEDS TO BE READ FROM, START TO FINISH.
AND THEN WE NEED TO GET THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD BACK INTO, YOU KNOW, THE, THE POWER THAT IS WRITTEN
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OUT IN THE ORDINANCES.WE ALREADY HAVE THIS PROCESS DOCUMENTED.
THAT'S NOT AS, AS, HANG ON, PLEASE LET, PLEASE LET, PLEASE LEMME FINISH.
SHE'S TALKING ABOUT A VARIANCE PROCEDURE.
OKAY? WHICH REQUIRES SOMEONE TO APPLY FOR IT.
WHAT THIS, WHAT THE RESOLUTION DOES IS IT CREATES A MORATORIUM AND AN EXEMPTION.
SO PEOPLE DON'T HAVE TO APPLY FOR ANY, FOR ANYTHING.
IT'S LIKE, FILL THIS OUT JUST TO GIVE US THE INFORMATION.
SO WE KNOW IT DOESN'T APPLY AND THE PLATTING REQUIREMENT WILL NOT APPLY.
YOU DON'T HAVE TO ASK FOR VARIANCE.
YOU DON'T GO HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROCEDURE.
AND THIS EXEMPTION DOES NOT PRESENTLY EXIST IN THE CITY OF SAN BONINO CODE OF ORDINANCES.
THE MINOR PLAT EXEMPTION THAT'S PROVIDED THE STAKES AND STATE LEGISLATURE ALLOWS FOR, FOR THAT THE CITY COMMISSION TO DELEGATE THAT TO STAFF.
SO IT DOESN'T HAVE TO CONSIDER MINOR ORDINANCES IS NOT PROVIDED IN CITY CODE ORDINANCES.
SO WHEN YOU, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THAT, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT INTERESTED IN MAKING PERSONAL ATTACKS AND I DON'T REALLY WANT TO HEAR PERSONAL ATTACKS.
THAT'S GONNA HELP THE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HERE THAT AREN'T HERE BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT A PERSONAL ISSUE.
THEY'RE HERE BECAUSE THEY WANT JUSTICE.
THEY WANT FAIRNESS AND THEY WANNA SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
AND THAT'S WHAT I'M PROPOSING HERE.
I, I WANNA SOLVE THIS PROBLEM FOR THE PHOTOS.
AND, AND, AND SO NO, BUT YOU, WE, YOU WANNA MAKE A MOTION.
DO YOU WANNA MAKE A MOTION MARK? NO.
I DON'T KNOW IF COMMISSIONER I'M DOING MY JOB AS CITY ATTORNEY AND TELLING YOU, OKAY.
THANKS MARK FAILED ON THE, SO THE FIRST MOTION WAS MADE AND WAS VOTED DOWN.
IS THERE A SECOND MOTION? YOU MADE A MOTION.
IS THERE A SECOND ON COMMISSIONER? GALVAN'S MOTION WAS THERE? NO, I MADE A MOTION WHO I MOTIONED THAT BECAUSE THE WAY IT CURRENTLY READS, IT SAYS THE CITY MANAGER IS HEREBY DIRECTED AS FOLLOWS.
I WOULD LIKE IT TO READ IS THE CITY, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION WILL REVIEWS THE REVIEW.
THIS AND I WOULD VOTE THAT THE MORATORIUM BE EXTENDED TO A YEAR BECAUSE YOU'VE ALREADY TAKEN TWO YEARS TO FIGURE THIS OUT.
SO I DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH LONGER IT'S GONNA TAKE.
SO I WOULD LIKE IT TO SAY A YEAR.
AND THEN TO CLARIFY WHAT THE FEES ARE RECORDED FEES.
I CAN'T, I MEAN, IT SAYS RECORDED FEES DOWN THERE.
WHERE, WHERE, WHERE DOES IT SAY RECORDED FEES? MARK? YOU WROTE THIS.
DON'T KNOW SOMEONE ELSE TOLD ME THAT THEY HELPED YOU WRITE IT.
SO I DON'T KNOW ACTUALLY, BUT THAT'S MY PROPOSAL.
SO YOU DON'T WANT, YOU WANT TO KICK THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD FOR A YEAR AND YOU WANT TO DELEGATE THE PLANNING AND ZONING.
I MEAN, THIS CREATES AN EXEMPTION.
YOU'RE NOT, I HAVE A PROPOSAL MARK.
YOU SAID, RIGHT? I MEAN, OUR PROPOSAL IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY.
I WOULD, I WOULD, MY PROPOSALS THAT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR THIS TO READ.
THE MORATORIUM GETS EXTENDED TO FOR ONE FULL YEAR.
AND THIS IS REVIEWED BY THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, NOT THE CITY MANAGER, LIKE THE WAY IT SHOULD BE AND THE RECORDED FEES NEED TO STATE WHAT THEY ARE.
AND IF THEY'RE NOT, IF THEY'RE ZERO, THEN THEY'RE ZERO.
WE SAY RIGHT NOW THE RECORDED FEES ARE ZERO IT'S REVIEW OF AN APPLICATION.
IT'S PROBABLY LIKE 25 BUCKS, I THINK, TO REVIEW AN APPLICATION ENRIQUES HERE AND RIKA.
DO YOU KNOW WHAT A RECORDING FEE COSTS? DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MIGHT BE? RKA RECORDING FEE SEVEN $87.
SO I WOULD VOTE FOR THOSE TO BE ZERO, RIGHT? BECAUSE I'M PAYING YOU TO REVIEW SOMETHING THAT I ALREADY KNOW IS ON TWO LOTS.
SO ONE YEAR MORATORIUM, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION REVIEWS THIS AND THE RECORDING FEES ARE ZERO.
FOR THIS APPLICATION, THE RECORDED PROPERTY DATE HAS ALREADY BEEN FILED.
THERE'S YOU WOULDN'T BE FILING ANYTHING WITH THE CITY ON THIS MOTION.
MAYOR COMMISSIONER, CAN IT BE, I MEAN, YOU YOU'RE, YOU WANT A YEAR? I DON'T WANT, OKAY.
CAN WE DO A LITTLE BIT LESS THAN THAT TO BE ABLE, CAN WE START IT OFF AT LEAST GIVE US AT LEAST, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST THAT'S ALMOST THREE MONTHS, SIX MONTHS OR WHATEVER.
CAN WE DO THAT? I MEAN, I'LL WORK WITH YOU 90 DAYS.
I WANT TO TAKE CARE OF THIS NOW.
AND YES, I WANNA BRING BACK THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION.
UH, I WANT THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS.
THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS THAT WE NEED TO REVIEW AND GET BACK INTO PLACE, BUT I DON'T WANT A YEAR TO GO BY.
I I'M, IN FACT, I DIDN'T EVEN LIKE THE 60 DAYS.
I DON'T THINK WE CAN DO IT IN 60 DAYS.
IT TAKES SO LONG TO GET THINGS DONE.
I THINK 90 DAYS, MAYBE 120 AT THE MAX.
THE, WE SAY, CAN WE DO 90 DAYS, SIR? OKAY.
SO WITH THE, UH, WITH THE 90 DAYS, WE, SO YOU, IF YOU WANNA PUT THE, SO I UNDERSTAND THE COMMISSIONER'S MO MOTION IS THE ONLY PART OF THIS.
HIS MOTION EXTENDING THE MORATORIUM FOR 90 DAYS
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IS SOME OTHER PART OF HIS MOTION.I WANTED A P AND Z TO REVIEW THIS.
SO THE, THE WHOLE COMMISSIONER, THE WHOLE IDEA BEHIND THIS IS THE PROVIDING ANY, ANY OTHER COMMISSION AGREE? I WANT, I WANT THE PLANNING ZONING TO DO THEIR, THEIR DUTY.
AND I WANT BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS TO THEIR DUTY FOR, TO REQUIRE ENRIQUE PORN, ENRIQUE TO REVIEW SO MANY.
REPLAT GOD, I'M SORRY, ENRIQUE.
I MEAN, IT'S, YOU HAVE A LOT OF WORK.
THERE'S 102 HOMES TRYING TO BUILD, BUILD RUSSELL RANCH.
THIS LITERALLY AVOIDS THE WHOLE RELO.
SO YEAH, 90 DAYS TALKING ABOUT, DO YOU EVEN UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU'RE DOING? I READ THE ORDINANCE SEVERAL TIMES, BECAUSE LIKE YOU SAID, I'M BEING AFFECTED.
SO YEAH, THIS LITERALLY PREVENTS THE RELOTTING.
SO HOW IS HE GONNA BE REVIEWING REPOS THAT THEY'RE NOT GONNA HAPPEN? COMMISSIONER? I WANT THE PLANNING AND ZONING.
SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS I WANT PLAN ZONING TO REVIEW THE, AND I'LL AGREE.
I'LL AGREE WITH YOU THAT I WANT 120 DAYS AND THE FEES BE ZERO.
SO THE EFFECTIVE DATA TO THIS RESOLUTION IS WHENEVER PLANNING AND ZONING APPROVES IT.
SO IF YOU LIKE TO JUMP IN ON THE COMPROMISE, THAT'D BE NICE.
WE NEED TO BE LEVELHEADED HERE.
SO, UM, RUTH, CAN, CAN YOU READ IT, CAN YOU READ TO US AGAIN PLEASE? I'M SORRY.
I NEED CLARIFICATION BECAUSE FIRST COMMISSIONER GALVAN SAID 90 DAYS, AND NOW HE DID SAY 120 DAYS.
ARE WE AT 90 DAYS, SIR? I'M, I'M COOL.
WITH THE HUNDRED, UH, THE 90 DAYS 90 IS SO SIMPLE.
I WANT, I WANNA BE, I WANT TO HAVE SOME INPUT FROM EVERYBODY AND I THINK THIS IS GOOD.
RIGHT? WE'RE HAVING SOME PROGRESS AND WE'RE TALKING THROUGH THROUGH IT.
AND I THINK 90 DAYS, AND I BELIEVE THE, UH, INPUT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.
UH, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE ADVISORY BOARDS.
THAT'S WHY WE HAVE, UH, COMMITTEES AND, AND, UH, PEOPLE THAT, UH, TAKE THEIR TIME TO JOIN US AND TRYING TO GET THINGS DONE RIGHT FOR THE CITY.
NOW THERE'S A LOT OF GRAY AREAS.
AND I BELIEVE IN THOSE 120 DAYS, WE WILL BE ABLE TO ADDRESS ALL OF THEM.
I, I GENERALLY THINK THAT WE'RE GONNA MAKE A LOT OF PROGRESS.
AND, UH, GOING BACK TO MR. ROSA, MR. ROSA, YOU DO A FINE JOB IN ALL AREAS.
UH, I COMMEND YOU FOR IT, BUT THIS MAY BE ANOTHER AREA THAT, UH, I BELIEVE WE, WE NEED TO, AS A COMMUNITY COME TOGETHER AND FIGURE OUT EXACTLY WHAT WE HAVE, WHERE WE WANT TO GO FROM HERE AND HOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE, UH, GOOD GROWTH IN OUR COMMUNITY ORDERLY GROWTH.
I, I DON'T WANT YOU TO FEEL THAT YOU HAVE TO MAKE EVERY SINGLE DECISION THAT INVOLVES THE REST OF THE COMMUNITY.
NO, WE'RE HERE TO HELP YOU AND THE PLANNING AND ZONING BOARD IS THERE TO HELP YOU.
AND SO IS THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS, CUZ I SAT ON THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS.
HOW OFTEN DO THEY MEET AND HOW ARE THEY? THAT WAS MY NEXT QUESTION.
DO WE HAVE A BOARD PASTED? DO THEY MEET COMMISSIONER? IF, IF YOU WANT TO EXTEND THIS FROM 60 DAYS TO 120 DAYS, THE, THE PURPOSE BEHIND THE 60 DAYS IS, WAS TO TRY TO GET THE COMMISSION TO ADDRESS THE ISSUE QUICKLY WITHIN 60 DAYS.
YES, BUT A LOT, A LOT OF THINGS HAVE, HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP.
SO I, I MEAN, TWO YEARS, THE IDEA IS TO GET THE COMMISSION TO CREATE A PERMANENT SOLUTION WITHIN THE NEXT 60 DAYS.
SO I, I, I RESPECTFULLY FIND THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU RUN THE DANGER OF KICKING THE CAN DOWN THE ROAD.
IF YOU WANT 120 DAYS, IT DOES.
IT'S NOT GONNA HARM ANYTHING BECAUSE IF WE, AS LONG AS THE CITY COMMISSION MOVES FORWARD AND CORRECTS THESE WITH ORDINANCES FOR THE NEXT COUPLE MEETINGS, IT, IT, IT WON'T HAVE ANY EFFECT.
HOWEVER, HOWEVER, IN, IN, IN REGARD TO, UH, THE REQUEST THAT THIS RESOLUTION, WHICH IS DESIGNED TO PROVIDE IMMEDIATELY IMMEDIATE RELIEF TO FOLKS NOT GOING INTO EFFECT TO THE GHOST OF PLANNING AND ZONING, YOU'RE DEFEATING THE WHOLE PURPOSE FOR THE RESOLUTION.
WE'RE TRYING TO, WE'RE TRYING TO PROVIDE THESE FOLKS IMMEDIATE RELIEF.
AND, AND, AND THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THIS AND, AND IF YOU WANT TO, YOU KNOW, IF PEOPLE ARE SO UPSET THAT THEY DON'T WANT A SOLUTION, I GUESS THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S THEIR CHOICE.
I DO WANT A PERMANENT SOLUTION.
YOU KNOW, I THINK WE, WE NEED ONE THAT'S THERE'S NO DOUBT THERE.
90 DAYS IS MORE IDEAL THAN 120 BECAUSE THE FASTER WE GET TO SPEND THE BETTER, UM, MARK, UH, WOULD YOU READ THE ORDINANCE PLEASE? IT'S A RESOLUTION, THE RESOLUTION RATHER.
SO WHERE IS THE PERMITTING PROCESS IS DESIGNED TO SAFEGUARD THE PUBLIC INTEREST IN ORDERLY DEVELOPMENT WHILE, WHILE DETERRING
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DETRIMENTAL DEVELOPMENT.AND WHEREAS THE CITY OF SANTO CITY COMMISSION WISHES TO PROMOTE MUNICIPAL GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT WITHIN THE CITY.
AND WHEREAS THE CITY COMMISSION WISHES TO ACTIVELY AND DILIGENTLY REVIEW THE CITY OF SANTO'S PLATTING AND PERMITTING ORDINANCES AND TO REVISE REVISED SAID ORDINANCES WERE DESIRABLE.
AND WHEREAS THE CITY WISHES TO ENACT AN EMERGENCY MORATORIUM ON CERTAIN PERMITTING AND PLATTING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS WHILE SAID MUNICIPAL ORDINANCES ARE REVIEWED AND POSSIBLY REVISED.
NOW THERE ARE NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF SANTO, TEXAS, THAT A 60 DAY LIMITED MORATORIUM IS IMPOSED ON CERTAIN MUNICIPAL PLATTING REQUIREMENTS TO THE EXTENT SET FORTH BELOW.
AND THE CITY MANAGER IS HEREBY DIRECTED AS FOLLOWS SECTION ONE EXEMPTIONS FROM THE CITY OF SANTO PLAT REQUIREMENTS.
THE FOLLOWING PROPERTY SHALL BE EXEMPTED FROM THE CITY OF SANTO'S MUNICIPAL REPLAT REQUIREMENTS, A PROPERTY THAT WAS DIVIDED INTO ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995, AND HAS NOT HAD A CHANGE IN BOUNDARIES SINCE THE SUCH TIME CAN BE EXEMPTED FROM THE T REQUIREMENTS.
IF THE OWNER CAN PROVIDE PROOF OF SUCH A RECORDED PROPERTY D DATED PRIOR TO THE DATE WITH A MEETS AND BOUNDS OR LEGAL DESCRIPTION EXACTLY MATCHING THE CURRENT PROPERTY WOULD CONSTITUTE THIS NECESSARY PROOF.
SECTION TWO, WATER CONNECTIONS, THE CITY OF SANTO CODE OF ORDINANCE SECTION 13.04062.
THE CITY MANAGER IS HERE BY DIRECTED NOT TO REFUSE OR DISCONNECTED WATER SERVICES TO THE FOLLOWING PROPERTIES BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE PLATING REQUIREMENTS OF THE CITY OF THE SANTO, A PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY OF SANTO, WHICH WAS DIVIDED INTO ITS CURRENT CONFIGURATION PRIOR TO FEBRUARY 14TH, 1995, AND HAS NOT HAD A CHANGE IN BATTERY SINCE SUCH TIME.
IF THE OWNER CAN PROVIDE PROOF OF SUCH A RECORDED PROPERTY D DATED PRIOR TO THAT DATE WITH MEETS AND BOUNDS OR LEGAL DESCRIPTION, EXACTLY MATCHING THE CURRENT PROPERTY WOULD CONSTITUTE THE NECESSARY PROOF.
AND THEN THE CITY MAY REFUSE OR DISCONNECT WATER SERVICES FOR NONPAYMENT OR FOR OTHERWISE AUTHORIZED BY STATE OR LOCAL LAW FOR REASONS OTHER THAN SET FORTH IN SECTION TWO, A ABOVE TERM, THIS RESOLUTION SHALL TAKE EFFECT ON THE DAY OF PASSAGE AND SHALL TERMINATE 60 DAYS THEREAFTER ON NOVEMBER 19TH, 2022 PASSED AND APPROVED AND ADOPTED THIS 20TH DAY OF SEPTEMBER 20, 20, 22 BY THE CITY OF SANTO CITY COMMISSION.
I WANT YOU TO READ THAT BECAUSE I WANT EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE SITTING UP HERE.
IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT DECISION.
I DON'T WANNA RUSH INTO TOO MANY THINGS AT ONE TIME.
UH, UH, I DEFINITELY DON'T, UH, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF THINGS, UH, GOOD THINGS WE'VE HEARD TODAY.
UH, PUBLIC INPUT IS VERY IMPORTANT TO ME, TO EVERYONE UP HERE, BUT WE HAVE TO DO THINGS ORDERLY, UH, JUST LIKE THIS RESOLUTION SAYS.
SO, UM, WE DEFINITELY NEED TO START SOMEWHERE AND I THINK THIS IS A GOOD BEGINNING.
UH, UH, WE DON'T, WE CAN'T PROMISE YOU THAT WE'RE GONNA CHANGE EVERYTHING YOU WANT ON THERE, BECAUSE IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT.
IT'S ABOUT DOING THE RIGHT THING FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND THINGS THAT WE'RE NOT GONNA REGRET YOURS TO COME, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, YES, PUBLIC INPUT IS IMPORTANT.
OUR COMMITTEES ARE BOARDS ARE COMMISSIONS.
YES, THEY ARE IMPORTANT TO US BECAUSE THEY HELP US GROW THIS CITY.
AND WE WILL CONTINUE TO STRIVE TO GROW THIS CITY ORDERLY IN A GOOD WAY THAT, UH, WE'RE ALL GONNA FEEL COMFORTABLE LIVING HERE IN SAN BENTO.
I WOULD LIKE, UH, AN EXTENSION OF THIS TO 90 DAYS.
I WANNA KEEP THE MORATORIUM, LIKE IT SAYS THERE, AND YES, IN THE FUTURE, WE WILL CONSIDER AND NEAR FUTURE, I'M TALKING WITHIN 90 DAYS, WHAT'S ACTUALLY GONNA BE ON THE MOVED, UH, TO THE ORDINANCE FROM THIS RESOLUTION, MOVED TO THE ORDINANCE AND WHAT WILL DEFINITELY SPECIFY AND CLARIFY WHAT OUR INTENT IS.
WE, WE, THERE'S NO WAY, UH, YOU KNOW, WE NEED, WE NEED CLARITY.
WE NEED TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO ALL THIS.
AND THE MISINTERPRETATIONS ARE WILD, YOU KNOW? AND IT'S TRUE.
YOU HAD ONE COMMISSIONER, ANOTHER COMMISSIONER, THE MAYOR MYSELF.
EVERYBODY'S AND YOU, AND, AND IT'S JUST LIKE THAT, BUT WE DEFINITELY NEED CLARITY.
SO I'M GONNA MOVE TO AGREE WITH WHAT'S ON THIS RESOLUTION AS PRESENTED WITH EXTENSION TO 90 DAYS.
BEFORE YOU MAKE A MOTION ON THIS, I WANNA HEAR FROM THE PEOPLE.
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COMMISSIONER THAT, UH, YOU WANTED, UH, WE NEED TO LISTEN FROM THE PEOPLE.THEN WE NEED TO LISTEN FROM THE PEOPLE.
SOMETIMES THAT'S THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU ALL, UH, WE CAN ONLY HEAR WHAT, UH, WHAT'S GOING ON BECAUSE YOU GUYS HAVE GONE THROUGH IT.
WE HAVEN'T, WE SOMETIMES IT DOESN'T COME TO US.
YOU ALL SOMETIMES ARE ALL ALONE.
WHAT'S GOING ON OVER THERE AND YOU, IT DOESN'T COME TO US AT THE VERY END.
THAT'S A, YOU KNOW, WHEN EVERYTHING HAS BEEN GOING THROUGH FOR MONTHS, YEARS, OR WHATEVER, AND THEN, UH, YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING'S GOES CHAOS AND I GAVE PHONE CALLS.
LIKE YOU ALL WOULDN'T BELIEVE ALSO.
SO I WANNA HEAR FROM ONE PERSON, LEAST WHAT HAVE YOU, WHAT IS YOUR EXPERIENCE? AND, UH, THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS IS, THIS IS WHAT YOU GUYS WANT.
I NEED FOR YOU GUYS TO SAY, YEAH, WHAT COMMISSIONER LAN SAID.
COMMISS GARCIA SAID, YES, GREAT.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANT? SO THAT COUNCIL CAN LOOK AT IT AND SEE, THIS IS WHAT THE PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, IS WILLING TO DO, YOU KNOW, FOR US TO, UH, TO HELP 'EM OUT.
WHAT DO YOU GUYS WANT? WHAT, WHAT DO YOU NEED MA MAYOR BEFORE THIS BE BEFORE THEY START COMING UP AND, AND, AND MAKING THE COMMENTS? I JUST NEED ONE, UH, FIRST AND FOREMOST, UH, CAN I CALL MY PRIMARY? UH, THIS IS, THIS IS FOR, IN A RESOLUTION.
THAT'S GONNA BE TIME FOR PEOPLE CAN COME AND SPEAK FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS.
THAT'S ONE, TWO WE'RE, WE'RE NOT CATERING TO THE PEOPLE IN THE AUDIENCE.
WE'RE CATERING TO THE PEOPLE IN SANTO THERE'S 25,000 OR SO RESIDENTS THAT, THAT THIS WILL HAVE AN IMPACT.
WE CAN'T, UH, JUST GO BY WHAT WE'RE NOT, WE'RE NOT DOING WHAT, WHAT SOME CERTAIN PEOPLE WANT.
WHAT WE'RE DOING IS FIXING EVERYTHING SO THAT IT CAN HELP OUT THE COMMUNITY AND WHOLE, THE COMMISSION OVER THERE IS, IS VOTING ON, ON, ON, ON EMOTIONS BECAUSE IT, IT, IT, IT, IT GOT TO HIM WHEN, WHEN HE GOT HERE, THAT'S TRUTH, THAT'S TRUTH.
CAROL, CAROL, YOU MADE STATEMENT.
SO FOR YOU, I CAN, I CAN AFFORD THAT.
I CAN, THAT IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT CAN'T, I, SO DON'T EVER QUESTION ME.
I SOLD, CAUGHT CANDY ON THE STREET TO BUY WHAT I WANTED.
SO DON'T EVER QUESTION, MAY I HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO ADDRESS AN ISSUE BECAUSE I WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS AN ISSUE? YES.
UM, THE PROCESS WE'RE PROPOSING IS THIS IS A RESOLUTION IMPOSING A MORATORIUM, SO TO, TO STOP ANY IMMEDIATE PROBLEM.
WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO IS WE'RE GONNA BRING, UH, PROPOSED ORDINANCES.
AND, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE A FIRST, AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE A SECOND READING AND WE'RE GONNA HAVE A PUBLIC HEARING, AND WE'RE ALL THAT PUBLIC INPUT.
AND EVERYBODY'S GONNA SEE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN POST THE, THE PROPOSED ORDINANCES ON THE INTERNET SO PEOPLE CAN COME UP AND THEY CAN KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, MARK.
IT WON'T GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION ISSUES.
IT WON'T GO TO EXECUTIVE SESSION THIS TIME.
NO, WE HAVE NEVER HAD AN ENACTMENT OF AN ORDINANCE, AN EXECUTIVE SESSION COUNSEL.
WHAT, WHAT WE HAVE IS YOU HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO TALK TO YOUR LEGAL COUNSEL ABOUT LEGAL IMPLICATIONS OF YOUR ACTIONS.
DID YOU FINISH, UH, COMMISSIONER? UH, MAYOR PROTE? YEAH, GO AHEAD.
I JUST NEED ONE PERSON AND WE NEED TO TABLE THIS, OR IT'S ONLY WE CAN DO CONSIDERATION OR POSSIBLE ACTION.
MY NAME IS, UH, LORRAINE FLO CITIZEN BOY, AND RAISED HERE IN SANTO.
I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT WE ALL HAVE GIFTS AND TALENTS, AND WE ALL EXCEL IN OUR OWN FIELDS.
I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT IN THIS, IN THIS PARTICULAR SITUATION, THIS SHOULD GO TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING WHO HAVE EXPERIENCE IN REAL ESTATE, WHO KNOW THE REAL ESTATE LAWS AS GUIDED, AS INTERPRETED AS THE STATE OF TEXAS, THE TEXAS BOARD OF REALTORS DICTATES AND ALLOWS US TO, TO PERFORM, ALLOWS US TO BUILD, ALLOWS US TO BUY AND SELL.
I BELIEVE THAT THE 120 DAYS IS PERFECT BECAUSE THAT ALLOWS FOR QUESTIONS TO BE ANSWERED.
THAT ALLOWS FOR ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS TO BE ASKED.
SO I AGREE WITH COMMISSIONER GALVAN, THE 120 DAYS, AND FOR IT TO GO TO PLANNING AND ZONING SO THAT THERE ARE PROFESSIONALS IN THAT FIELD THAT WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISION ACCORDING TO THE LAWS THAT THE STATE HAS ALREADY GIVEN.
THANK GIVE SERVICE, MAKE A DIFFERENCE.
I THINK THAT'S A GOOD RECOMMENDATION, BUT, AND, AND I THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS, BUT LIKE I SAID, WE'RE GONNA DO THIS IN A WAY THAT IS GONNA BE ORDERLY.
UH, WE'RE NOT GONNA RUSH INTO ANYTHING THAT, BECAUSE, UH,
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IT'S DEEMED NECESSARY.NO, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE DO HAVE TO BE CAREFUL WHAT WE DO AND WE ADDRESS IT CORRECTLY.
UM, LET US START, LET US START THE PROCESS.
WE CAN BEGIN THE PROCESS AND YES, WE WILL DEFINITELY CONTINUE TO HAVE MORE INPUT FROM YOU BECAUSE IT'S NECESSARY.
I WANNA KNOW WHAT AFFECTS YOU BECAUSE SOME DAY IT'S GONNA AFFECT HIM AGAIN, HER, HIM, BUT ALL OF US, IT JUST GOES AROUND.
SO YEAH, WE HAVE TO DO THE RIGHT THING, BUT WE HAVE TO DO IT ORDERLY.
AND I THINK, UH, WE'RE, WE'LL DEFINITELY TAKE EVERYONE'S, UH, INPUT, WHETHER IT'S A REALTOR, WHETHER IT'S HOMEOWNER, WHETHER IT'S A DEVELOPER, UH, YES.
UH, EVERYONE WILL HAVE THAT CHANCE TO GIVE US YOUR FEEDBACK, WHICH IS VERY IMPORTANT.
UH, RUTH, UH, YOU, YOU MENTIONED THAT WE HAVE A MOTION BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA AND SECOND BY COM UH, COMMISSIONER SANCHEZ.
UH, WHAT WAS IT? THE, ON THE SECOND ANYBODY'S I HAD A, I HAD A MOTION THAT NEVER WENT FOR VOTE WAS THE PROPOSAL.
ACTUALLY, IT WAS AFTER COMMISSIONER GALVAN, UH, COMMISSIONER, UH, GARCIA HAD MOTION TO APPROVE, AND THEN IT WAS SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER SANCHEZ.
SO WHAT IS YOUR MOTION AGAIN? SO MY, SO MY MOTION WAS THAT WE MOVE WITH 120 DAY, THE PLANNING AND ZONING REVIEWS, THESE APPLICATIONS, AND THAT THEY RECORDED FEES ARE SET AT $0 FEES.
CAUSE CURRENTLY MSIKA STATED THAT THEY'RE ABOUT 80 SOMETHING DOLLARS.
I'M, I'M STILL UNSURE OF THAT EXACT COST OF THESE FEES.
SO, UH, 120 DAYS, THE CITY, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION REVIEWS THIS AND THE RECORDED FEES ARE ZERO.
UM, COM COMMISSIONER CLARIFICATION, ARE YOU ASKING THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION TO REVIEW THIS ORDINANCE? I MEAN, THIS RESOLUTION, OR ARE YOU ASKING THAT THE RESOLUTION BE PASSED, BUT THAT EXEMPTIONS BE REVIEWED BY PLANNING INSURANCE? SURE.
SO THE LANGUAGE THAT REED CHAIR SAYS, THE REQUIREMENTS, IT SAYS THE 60 DAY LIMITED MORATORIUM IS IMPOSED ON CERTAIN MUNICIPAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS.
THE EXTENT SET FORWARD BELOW, AND THE CITY MANAGERS HERE BY DIRECTED AS FOLLOWS.
I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO READ THAT 120 DAY LIMITED MORATORIUM IS IMPOSED ON CERTAIN MUNICIPAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS TO THE EXTENT SET FORWARD BELOW.
AND THE CITY PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION IS HERE BY DIRECTED AS FOLLOWS.
AND THEN THE BOTTOM ON THE APPLICATION, THERE'S A RECORDED FEES WITH NO SET NUMBER.
SO I WOULD LIKE FOR IT TO READ $0, HOW MUCH, UH, AND BECAUSE YOU SAID THERE WERE $89, 80, 87, 86, THAT WAVE THAT FEE.
SOC SO COMMISSIONER ONE, CAPTAIN T THAT ONE WE NEED, WE NEED THAT ONE TO BE 86, SIR.
HE'S TALKING ABOUT FOR PLATTING REQUIREMENTS.
WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE CITY OF SANTO'S APPLICATION.
THIS RESOLUTION DOESN'T IMPOSE ANY FEE AND IT'S NOT OUR ORDINANCE AND OR SO IT'S NOT, IT DOESN'T IMPOSE A FEE.
HOW ARE YOU GONNA CHARGE A REPLYING FEE? WE'RE NOT REPLYING.
IT'S AN, I'M JUST READING WHAT IT SAYS HERE.
IT SAYS RECORDED FEES, NOT ON THE RESOLUTION COMMISSION.
HE CANNOT SAY THAT RECORDING ATTACHMENTS, RECORDING FEES FOR INSTRUMENTS ABOVE OR PROVIDED RECORDED COPIES.
I'M JUST READING WHAT IT STATES.
I'M LET'S READ BACK TO THE STATEMENT.
DID I SAY A 120 DAY LIMITED MORATORIUM IS IMPOSED ON CERTAIN MUNICIPAL PLANNING REQUIREMENTS TO THE EXTENT SET FORTH FORWARD BELOW AND THE CITY PLANNING AND THE CITY PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION IS HERE BY DIRECTED AS FOLLOWS COMMISSION COMMISSIONER.
JUST IT'S THAT ONE SENTENCE JUST, YEAH, BUT JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, THAT WAS MY PROPOSAL.
AND THAT WAS A MOTION I MOTIONED.
AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE WHAT THE COMMISSION THINKS.
WELL, THAT ONE HERE WAS COMMENT.
BASICALLY AT THE TIME THAT YOU FILL THIS OUT, MM-HMM IF YOU'RE FILLING OUT OTHER DOCUMENTS THAT REQUIRE A FEE JUST TO NOTE IT THERE.
BUT THE, THE, THE EXEMPTION ITSELF DOESN'T REQUIRE A FEE.
AND THAT'S WHY I DON'T WANT YOU TO SEND OUT THE NEXT MESSAGE THAT THERE'S NO CHARGE OR FEE CONFUSING.
THESE THAT THEY'RE GONNA COME BACK WITH THAT.
THAT'S THE, THE, THE WHOLE PURPOSE.
THANK YOU, RIGHT? IT'S A RESOLUTION.
IT'S NOT THE, AND IT'S NOT THE FINAL.
IT'S NOT THE FINAL YOU THAT I UNDERST SOLUTION.
THE FINAL THING I UNDERSTAND THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING IS GIVING WE'RE WORKING ON IT TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN WAITING TWO
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YEARS, THAT WOULD BE ECSTATIC.TWO YEARS FOR HIM WOULD LITERALLY CRY WITH JOY THAT THEY CAN COME IN TOMORROW.
MANNY CAN, CAN FIX THIS TOMORROW.
NOT WAIT FOR A MEETING, NOT WAIT FOR A COMMITTEE, JUST HAVE IT FINALLY FIXED.
THE EXCEPTION DON'T HAVE A SOLUTION.
THE EXCEPTION UNTIL WE'RE ABLE TO FIND THE EXCEPTION IS ALREADY THERE'S DONE.
THE EXCEPTION IS ALREADY WRITTEN THERE.
NO, WE'RE NOT GONNA ARGUE ABOUT WHAT IT IS OR WHAT YOU THINK IT SAYS, BUT IT'S NOT.
LET'S I'M NOT HERE TO ARGUE ABOUT THE POWER.
THEN DON'T, YOU KNOW, DON'T MOTION IT AND LET IT DIE.
BUT, UH, TO ME, IT'S, LIKE I SAID, THE, UH, YOU SAID THEY 120 DAYS AND P AND Z TO GO TO A P AND Z ALSO, UH, I'LL STICK IN IT.
THE ONE THAT COMMISSIONER GARCIA MADE MM-HMM
90 DAYS IN P AND Z TO GO TO PRISON.
AND THE REASON I'M NOT READY FOR THAT, BECAUSE I DON'T WANNA JUMP FROM ONE BECAUSE WE'RE IN THE FRYING PAN OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT.
AND GO INTO ANOTHER FRYING PAN.
I WANNA CLEAR THIS UP COMPLETELY.
WE'RE GETTING READY TO DO SOMETHING THAT HASN'T BEEN ADDRESSED FOR MANY YEARS, AND IT'S NOT ABOUT WHAT WE WANT.
IT'S ABOUT WHAT WE NEED AND HOW WE CAN BUILD THIS COMMUNITY.
UM, WITHIN 90 DAYS, I'M SURE WE'RE GONNA CLEAR UP A LOT OF THINGS.
AND LIKE I SAID, I WOULD DEFINITELY INCLUDE THE P AND Z BOARD BECAUSE IT'S THERE AND IT HELPS US GROW THIS CITY AND DEFINITELY THE BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS, BECAUSE I'VE EVEN SAT ON THAT BOARD OF ADJUSTMENTS SO IT CAN FUNCTION.
BUT GIVE US A CHANCE TO START WORKING ON THINGS.
UNDERSTAND THAT THIS IS NOT THE FINAL RESOLUTION.
MAYBE WE NEED TO, WE HAVE A NEED TO BRING IT BACK TO PLACE.
YOU'RE JUST PUTTING THEM IN ANOTHER WAITING LIST.
WE HAVE A, A MOTION BY COMMERCIAL GARCIA.
AND SO, AND AGAIN, THIS 90 DAYS AS GO TO MOVE TO PASS.
AND THEN A P AND Z ALSO TO MOVE TO? NO, NOT YET.
SO YOU'RE JUST CHANGING THE 90 DAYS INSTEAD OF 16.
SECOND BY MARI, TIM VIA FRANCO ALL IN FAVOR.
ANY NA I CAN, UH, I CAN COMPROMISE WITH YOU GUYS.
AS LONG AS WE CAN MOVE FORWARD AND, AND TRY TO HELP THE PEOPLE MARK.
I LOT THE PEOPLE I WAS WELL NOW, WHEN I GET OTHER COMMENTS LIKE THAT, THERE'S MORE TO IT THEN.
THAT'S WHY I'VE KEPT MY MARSH SHUT ON IT.
SO MOTION PASSES ON THIS 90 DAYS.
THANK YOU TO HELP THE PEOPLE HELPING THE CITIZENS THAT WE WERE SUPPOSED TO.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, PLEASE COME OUT TO COME TO US AT NUMBER
[10. Presentation by Research, Applied Technology Education and Service, Inc. (RATES) and the LRGV TPDES Stormwater Task Force Partnership, Inc. (Task Force) regarding the partnership with the Lower Rio Grande Valley Development Council (LRGVDC) to implement a Texas Water Development Board (TWDB) Flood Infrastructure Fund (FIF) Category 1 (one) Flood Management project.]
10, PRESENTATION AND RESEARCH.APPLY THE TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND SERVICE INC RATES AND THE L GB T P D E S STONE, UH, STORM WATER TASK FORCE OF PARTNERSHIP, INC.
TASK FORCE REGARDING THE PARTNERSHIP WITH THE LOWER REAR GRAND VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, LR GV, DC, AND TO IMPLEMENT THE TEXAS DEVELOPMENT BOARD T W DB, UH, FLOOD IN THE INFRASTRUCTURE FLOOD, UH, F IIF CATEGORY ONE FLOOD MANAGEMENT, UH, PROJECT.
ADAM, THANK YOU, MAYOR, MAYOR PRO TIM AND COMMISSIONERS, FRED BELL ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER.
FOR THE RECORD, AS YOU MAY RECALL, THE CITY OF
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SAN BONITO HAS BEEN A MEMBER OF THE L RRG V STORMWATER TASK FORCE PARTNERSHIP.THE TASK FORCE IS A JOINT PROGRAM BETWEEN THE RESEARCH APPLIED TECHNOLOGY, EDUCATION AND SERVICE OR RATES AND VARIOUS MUNICIPALITIES ALL ACROSS THE RGV TO EDUCATE AND IMPROVE HOW CITIES AND CIVIL ENGINEERS PLAN FOR STORM WATER MANAGEMENT.
RECENTLY, THE TASK FORCE PARTNERED UP WITH THE LRG V DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL AND LAUNCH STATE, TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, FLOOD INFRASTRUCTURE, INFRASTRUCTURE FUND CATEGORY, ONE FLOOD MANAGEMENT PROJECT.
THE SCOPE OF THIS PROJECT IS TO CREATE A HYDROLOGIC ASSESSMENT OF THE REGION.
SAM BENITO'S PARTICIPATION IN THIS ASSESSMENT WILL POSITION THE CITY FOR ELIGIBILITY FOR CAT ONE FUNDING.
JOINING US TODAY ARE DOCTORS AND OR EARNEST WHO IS THE CEO AND PRESIDENT OF RIGHTS.
CHRISTOPHER FULLER, I'M GONNA INVITE DR.
UH, ERNEST TO STEP UP AND WALK THROUGH THE POWERBOARD PRESENTATION.
YOU MAYOR MAY, UH, MAY APPROACH THEM AND, UH, UH, CITY COUNCIL.
UH, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, UH, TO PRESENT TO YOU.
UH, I APOLOGIZE FOR MY SOMEWHAT CASUAL, UH, ATTIRE.
UH, HOWEVER, I'M, I'M SURE YOU'RE GRATEFUL THAT I ACTUALLY DID REMEMBER TO PUT PANTS ON TODAY.
SO THE, UM, UM, I'M, I'M ANDY EARNEST, I'M THE CEO AND PRESIDENT OF, UH, UH, RATES RATES AS A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ESTABLISHED IN 2000 AND, UH, FIVE.
UM, AND, UH, UM, THE, I ALSO WAS A FOUNDING MEMBER OF THE LOWER GRAND VALLEY, UM, UH, TOTAL POLLUTANT DISCHARGE ELIMINATION SYSTEM, UH, STORM WATER TASK FORCE.
UH, THIS WAS A TASK FORCE PUT TOGETHER, UH, BACK IN 1998.
UH, THE CITY OF SAN BONINO WAS AN EARLY MEMBER.
UH, SO YOU, YOU ALL OUGHT TO BE CONGRATULATED FOR BEING A MEMBER OF, OF THE, OF THE STORM WATER TASK FORCE.
UH, THE TASK FORCE WAS ESTABLISHED IN 98, UH, AS A RESULT OF SOME FEDERAL REGULATIONS DEALING WITH, UH, STORM WATER QUALITY, UH, AND, UM, THE, UM, UH, THE REQUIREMENTS WOULD HAVE PUT IN A UNFAIR OR, OR AN EXCESSIVE BURDEN, FINANCIAL BURDEN ON SMALLER COMMUNITIES IN TRYING TO COMPLY.
SO MYSELF, UH, UH, UH, AND TWO OTHER COLLEAGUES, UM, UH, GOT TOGETHER AND WE DECIDED THAT THERE'S GOTTA BE A BETTER WAY TO DO THIS.
SO WE FORMED A, UH, A COALITION INITIALLY, I BELIEVE IT WAS ABOUT, UH, UH, 12 COMMUNITIES.
UM, AND, UM, UH, WITH THE IDEA I WAS AT, UH, TEXAS A M UNIVERSITY KINGSVILLE AT THAT TIME, THIS IS IN THE, IN THE LATE 1980S WITH THE IDEA THAT WE WOULD, UH, UH, TAKE THE, UH, POINTY-HEADED ACADEMIC FACULTY AND THE PHD STUDENTS THERE, AND HAVE THEM WORK ON THE NEEDS OF THE, UH, REGULATED COMMUNITIES AND PROVIDE THEM WITH THE, WITH SOLUTIONS.
UM, THE TASK FORCE HAS BEEN IN PLACE, UH, UH, OVER 25 YEARS.
UH, AND IT IS A MODEL PROGRAM.
IN FACT, THERE IS NO OTHER PROGRAM LIKE IT IN THE COUNTRY.
IT IS A PROGRAM THAT THE, UH, UH, THE S EPA POINTS TO AS A SUCCESS IN COLLABORATION, UH, BETWEEN, UH, MULTIPLE ENTITIES.
I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL AWARE OF THE TOTAL POPULATION OF, UH, THE LOWER GRAND VALLEY, BUT IT'S APPROXIMATELY EQUAL TO THAT, OF THE, UH, DALLAS FORT WORTH, UH, UH, THE COMBINATION OF DALLAS AND FORT WORTH.
UH, BUT IN TERMS OF BUYING POWER, UH, IN TERMS OF ECONOMIC BUYING POWER OR POLITICAL BUYING POWER, UH, WE ARE WAY, WAY DOWN.
AND THAT'S BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE RIGHTLY SO EVERY THERE'S ABOUT 40 TO 50, UH, POLITICAL JURISDICTIONS IN, IN, IN THE VALLEY, EACH OF THEM HAVING, UH, UH, AN AX TO GRIND AND A, A DESIRE TO PUSH THEIR OWN AGENDA FORWARD AND NOT REALLY CONTRIBUTING TO THE BETTERMENT OF THE WHOLE, THE TASK FORCE WAS SET UP TO ADDRESS THAT INITIALLY WITH THE, WITH THE, UH, UH, COMPLIANCE WITH THE, UH, PHASE TWO REQUIREMENTS, UH, AND THEN FURTHER ON, BY, UH, BY BRINGING IN, UH, OVER $10 MILLION IN, IN, UH, UM, STATE AND FEDERAL GRANT DOLLARS, UH, UH, TO THE REGION, UH, THAT, UH, UH, WAS SPENT ON TRAINING FOR, UH, STAFF, UH, FOR, UM, UH, SUPPORTING, UH, CITIES TO GO OUT AND GO GET GRANT FUNDING TO, UH, TO DO, UH, TO DO WORK.
AND, AND, UH, AND ALSO COMING UP WITH MODEL ORDINANCES, UH, THANKFULLY NOT, UH, REAL ESTATE RELATED, BUT, UH, MODEL OR ORDINANCES, UH, RELATED TO, UH, UH, STORM WATER, UH, MANAGEMENT AND, AND SUCH,
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UH, THE, UM, UH, UH, 2005 IS WHEN, UH, RATES WAS ESTABLISHED.RATES WAS ESTABLISHED BY MY FORMER PHD ADVISOR, UH, WITH THE IDEA THAT THE, THE TECHNOLOGY THAT IS AVAILABLE TO LARGE COMMUNITIES IS GENERALLY OUTSIDE THE REACH OF SMALL, UH, UH, AND MID-SIZED COMMUNITIES.
AN EXAMPLE OF THIS IS SCADA, UH, THE AUTOMATION TOOLS THAT, THAT WATER AND WASTE WATER, UH, TREATMENT FACILITIES, UH, RELY ON TO, TO BE MORE EFFICIENT.
THE PRICE STRUCTURE FOR THAT IS EXORBITANT.
AND A LOT OF TIMES SMALLER COMMUNITIES CANNOT AFFORD IT.
UM, AND, UH, UM, BOTH MYSELF AND JIM, MY, MY, UH, UH, PHD ADVISOR BELIEVE THAT THAT IS A, UH, THAT'S A TRAVESTY THAT THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE, UM, UH, THOSE ARE OUTCOMES OF THE, UM, UH, TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT INFRASTRUCTURE THAT FAVOR DEEP POCKETS, MEANING, UH, IT IS MUCH EASIER FOR A TECHNOLOGY PROVIDER TO SELL YOU A SET OF GINSU KNIVES, RATHER THAN SELL YOU A POCKET KNIFE.
THEIR MARGINS ARE MUCH, MUCH HIGHER, UH, WITH THE, WITH THE GINSU KNIVES.
AND SO A LOT OF TIMES THOSE TECHNOLOGY ADVANCES SKIP PAST THE SMALLER COMMUNITIES.
AND SO RATES WERE SET UP, UH, BACK IN 2005 TO ADDRESS THAT, UH, WE'VE DEVELOPED, UH, IN-HOUSE TECHNOLOGY.
UH, OUR, UH, KEYSTONE TECHNOLOGY RIGHT NOW IS, UM, UH, AND ENVIRONMENTAL AND WATER RESOURCE, UH, MONITORING, UH, REALTIME MONITORING CAPABILITY THAT, UH, WE'VE DEVELOPED IN HOUSE.
UH, AND, UH, IT IS, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE BASE COST OF OUR SYSTEMS ARE ABOUT, UH, ANYWHERE BETWEEN ONE, ONE FIFTH TO ONE 10TH, WHAT, WHAT IT WOULD COST, UH, AT A, UH, UH, FOR A COMMERCIALLY, UH, A COMMERCIAL OFF THE SHOP, UH, UH, UM, UH, SETUP, UH, I'M SURE YOUR CITY ENGINEER CAN, CAN ATTEST TO, TO, TO THAT THE, THE, UM, UH, THE, THAT TECHNOLOGY BRINGS TOGETHER WITH THE STORM WATER TASK FORCE, THE PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN YOU CITY OF SAN BONITO AND YOUR PARTNER AND YOUR NEIGHBORS, AND THEN THE BRINGING IN OF WHAT WE CALL WATER INTELLIGENCE, WHICH IS THE, THE KNOWLEDGE THAT COMES WITH THE, THE DATA THAT WE PROVIDE WITH THESE, WITH THESE REAL TIME SENSORS, UH, GIVES THE DECISION MAKERS LIKE YOU, THE ABILITY TO, UH, MAKE KNOWLEDGE ENABLED DECISIONS, MEANING WE CAN, UH, UH, THE, WE CAN, UH, WE CAN PROVIDE YOU WITH INFORMATION ABOUT HOW SOON A FLOOD FRONT IS GOING TO BE COMING, UH, DOWN YOUR WAY.
UH, IN FACT, WITHIN A, WITHIN SIX MONTHS TO A YEAR, WE'LL BE ABLE TO TELL YOU HOW DEEP THE WATER IS GONNA BE IN YOUR BACKYARD OR IN YOUR HOUSE, UM, UP TO FIVE DAYS IN ADVANCE BASED USING THE TECHNOLOGY AND, AND MODELING TOOL THAT WE'RE DEVELOPING.
I, I WANNA STRESS THAT WE ARE A NON-PROFIT ENTITY, AND WE DON'T HAVE AN ALL, WE DON'T HAVE A DOG IN THIS FIGHT.
UH, UM, ME AND MY STAFF, WE SURVIVE ON CHICKEN WINGS AND, AND RAMEN, UH, SO WE CAN PROVIDE THESE SERVICES TO YOU.
UM, THE, UH, THE, UH, AND OUR FOCUS IS ON, ON PROVIDING CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT FOR THE REGION.
UM, THE, UM, SO I WANTED TO KINDA LAY THAT, THAT, THAT BACKGROUND FOR YOU, WHY RATES IS HERE, WHY THE STORMWATER TASK FORCE IS HERE.
AND, UH, THIS, OUR EFFORTS CULMINATED, UH, ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO WITH ACTUALLY CAME OUT OF HURRICANE HARVEY WHEN THE TEXAS LEGISLATURE, UM, UM, UH, ALLOCATED ABOUT 1.7, 1.8 BILLION OUT OF THE TEXAS RAINY DAY FUND TO FUND THE FLOOD INFRASTRUCTURE FUND.
AND BECAUSE OF THE WORK THAT THE TASK FORCE AND RATES HAD BEEN DOING IN THE VALLEY, WE WERE APPROACHED BY, UH, COMMISSIONERS COUNTY COMMISSIONERS FROM ACROSS THE VALLEY, ALL THREE COUNTIES, UH, AS WELL AS, UH, THE MUNICIPALITIES TO PURSUE A REGIONAL PROJECT.
WE SECURED A, THE LARGEST REGIONAL PROJECT IN THE STATE OF TEXAS, UH, TO THE TUNE OF ABOUT $8.8 MILLION, UH, TO DEVELOP A REGIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MANAGING FLOOD.
THE, AND CHRIS IS GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE IN, IN DETAIL ABOUT THAT, THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT, BUT I WANT, WHAT I WANT TO STRESS ABOUT THE FLOOD INFRASTRUCTURE FUND PROGRAM IS THAT IT IS AN ONGOING EFFORT.
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THE INITIAL OUTLAY WAS IN, UH, 2021, AND WE EXPECT THE STATE TO OPEN UP.AND I THINK IN THE INITIAL OUTLAY, I THINK THERE WAS ABOUT, UH, $700,000 WORTH OF GRANT FUNDS THAT WERE SORRY, UH, UH, $7 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDS THAT WERE, UM, UH, NO $700 MILLION IN GRANT FUNDS THAT WERE, WERE RELEASED.
THE, UM, THE, UH, UH, WE EXPECT THE STATE TO OPEN UP A COMPETITION IN, UM, UH, IN THIS COMING YEAR, THERE ARE FOUR LEVELS OF, UH, UH, UH, CATEGORY OF F FI F FUNDING CATEGORY.
ONE IS KIND OF THE PLUG, THE STUDY, LET'S FIGURE OUT WHAT WE HAVE.
UM, THE CATEGORY TWO IS BRICK AND MORTAR, BUT YOU CAN'T GET TO CATEGORY TWO UNLESS YOU UNDERSTAND, UNLESS YOU PROVE TO THE STATE THAT YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR ISSUES ARE AND WHATEVER MONEY THEY, THEY EITHER GRANT YOU OR, OR LOAN YOU IS GOING TO BE INVESTED IN THE RIGHT INFRASTRUCTURE.
SO THE, IT REQUIRE CATEGORY TWO PROJECTS REQUIRE THE ENTITY TO, TO HAVE A GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF THE, OF YOUR SYSTEM.
THEN THERE'S CATEGORY THREE AND CATEGORY FOUR.
I FORGET WHAT ORDER THEY ARE IN, BUT WHAT, UH, CATEGORY THREE IS, IS MATCHING FUNDS.
IF YOU WANT TO GO AFTER A FEDERAL PROJECT, MAYBE, UH, ARMY CORPS, UH, UH, PROJECTS, OR A, A, UM, A FEMA PROJECT, UH, THEN, UH, BECAUSE THESE ARE, UM, UH, RAINY DAY FUNDS, STATE, STATE DOLLARS, THOSE STATE DOLLARS CAN BE USED TO COST SHARE THAT FEDERAL BATCH, WHICH PUTS, PUTS THESE LARGE 10 MILLION HUNDRED MILLION PROJECTS NOW WITHIN THE REACH OF THE SMALLER COMMUNITIES, BECAUSE YOU DON'T HAVE TO COME UP WITH THE 10 MILLION OR A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS IN COST HERE, BECAUSE YOU CAN GO TO THE STATE AND SAY, LET ME HAVE SOME OF THAT F FI F CATEGORY THREE, UH, FUNDING.
IN FACT, THE CITY OF HARTON, WE WROTE THE PROPOSAL, ACTUALLY, CHRIS WROTE THE PROPOSAL FOR THE CITY OF HAREN.
THEY MATCHED A 1.6 MILLION, UM, UH, FEMA PROJECT WITH, UH, SOME, UM, UH, UH, CATEGORY THREE PROJECTS, UH, LAST YEAR.
AND THEN THE, THE LAST ONE IS ANY PROJECT THAT BENEFITS OR PREVENTS THE LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY.
AND SO THESE WILL BE EARLY WARNING SYSTEMS AND SO ON.
AND EVEN THOUGH THE PROJECT THAT CHRIS IS GONNA TALK TO YOU ABOUT IS NOT AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM, IT IS A, UH, IT HAS THE POTENTIAL FOR PROVIDING THAT.
UH, IN FACT, WE ALREADY ARE DOING THAT, UH, UH, IN SOME OF OUR INSTALLATION.
SO WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO CHRIS.
AND IF YOU WANT, SIR, BEFORE YOU STEP AWAY, THEY DON'T HAVE YOUR BIOGRAPHY.
I MENTIONED WITH CASA ENGINEERING WHEN SOME YEARS AGO, IF YOU'LL EXPLAIN OR AT LEAST GIVE THE AMERICAN COMMISSIONERS.
BUT YOUR BACKGROUND AND CREDENTIALS FOR CULTURE, UH, I HAVE A, UH, BACHELOR'S, MASTER'S IN PHD IN CIVIL ENGINEERING.
UM, I'VE SERVED AS A PROFESSOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING AT TEXAS A AND M KINGSVILLE, UH, AT, UM, UM, UH, WESTERN KENTUCKY UNIVERSITY, UH, AT, UH, THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AND AT, UH, MOST RECENTLY AT, UH, UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS RIO GRANDE VALLEY.
MY FOCUS, MY SPECIALTY IS IN THE BUILDING OF LARGE SCALE PARTNERSHIPS.
UH, I'LL JUST GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND.
MY FATHER WAS WITH THE, WITH THE UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM AS A, I GREW UP IN PARTS OF AFRICA IN UNDER, UH, UNDERPRIVILEGED AREAS.
THAT'S NOT TO SAY WE ARE UNDERPRIVILEGED, BUT IF YOU COMPARE THE OREGON VALLEY TO THE REST OF THE COUNTRY, UH, ONE OF MY FAVORITE COMMISSIONERS IN, IN CAMERON COUNTY IS FOND OF SAYING WHERE THE REDHEADED, UH, WELL, THE BASTARD STEPCHILD, UH, AT THE, AT THE FAMILY REUNION, WE, WE TEND TO GET LEFT OUT OF, OF A LOT OF THINGS BECAUSE FOR MANY REASONS, ANYWAY, SO THE, SO WE DO HAVE SOME UNDERREPRESENTATION HERE, UH, THAT, UH, THAT, UH, UH, AND SO A LOT OF MY PROFESSIONAL, UH, UH, PRACTICE HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON PROVIDING THE TECHNOLOGICAL BASIS TO BRING THE, UM, UH, CAPACITY IN COMMUNITIES LIKE THIS UP.
NOW, THE ONE LAST THING I WANT, I WANNA MENTION THERE ARE THREE PARTS TO THIS.
ONE IS WE ARE STRONGER TOGETHER, AND THAT IS WHAT THE TASK FORCE DOES.
WE, WE BUILD PARTNERSHIPS BETWEEN OUR NEIGHBOR COMMUNITIES AND TOGETHER WE ADDRESS, UH, OUR COMMUNITY NEEDS, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER, AND THAT'S WHERE THE TECHNOLOGY THAT RATES DEVELOPS IS DESIGNED SPECIFICALLY TO PROVIDE THE KNOWLEDGE
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TO COMMUNITIES THAT COULDN'T AFFORD IT OTHERWISE.UM, AND THEN THE, THE, THE FINAL PIECE IS FOR CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT IS ABOUT EDUCATING THE FUTURE.
UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, THOSE, THOSE THREE PIECES TOGETHER ARE CRITICAL, UM, UH, TO, UH, TO, AND SO WE'VE GOT, I, UH, I'M A FACULTY MEMBER.
CHRIS HAS, UH, SERVED AS A FACULTY MEMBER AT CLARKSON UNIVERSITY.
UH, WE HAVE MORE PHDS PER CAPITA AT RATES THAN I WOULD SAY, UH, UH, UTR GV.
BUT ANYWAY, SO THAT SHOULD GIVE YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND WHAT WE, UH, WHAT WE'RE ABOUT, UH, UH, IS THAT GOOD, MAN? YES, SIR.
I'M, UH, CHRIS FULLER, I'M THE CHIEF OF OPERATIONS AT RATES, AND I PRETTY MUCH SERVE ON THE, THE, THE TECHNICAL ASPECT SIDE OF THIS, UH, PROJECT.
I JUST WANNA KIND OF GIVE YOU A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE PROJECT IS AND, UM, WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT.
SO, UH, AGAIN, IT'S A, IT'S THIS PROJECT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S, IT'S LED BY THE DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL, THE LOWER REAL GRAND VALLEY DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL.
THEY'RE THE FISCAL LEAD AND, AND RATES IS ACTUALLY SERVED AS THE TECHNICAL, UH, LEAD ON THE PROJECT.
SO BASICALLY HE MENTIONED THAT THAT IT'S, IT'S, IT'S A REGIONAL PROJECT.
SO IF YOU LOOK AT THIS, UH, MAP, YOU CAN SEE THE PINK THAT, THAT INCLUDES THE WHOLE REGION THAT, THAT WE'RE STUDYING.
SO IT'S BASICALLY THE TRICOUNTY AREA.
UM, HE DOGO CAMERON AND WILLY COUNTY, SO THAT THAT'S OUR AREA.
SO WE'RE, WE'RE TAKING A REGIONAL FOCUS.
THERE ARE FOUR OTHER PROJECTS IN, IN THE REGION.
THERE'S THE, UH, RAYMONDVILLE DRAIN THE, THE WILLY COUNTY, UH, STUDY, UH, THERE'S A HAREN STUDY, CAMERON COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICT IN BROWNSVILLE.
THOSE ARE ALL SMALLER SCALE STUDIES LOOKING AT, UM, TH THEIR SUB WATERSHEDS, BUT WE'RE, WE ARE THE REGIONAL PROJECT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DEVELOP A HYDROLOGIC MODEL, UH, TO KIND OF HELP DRIVE, GIVE INFORMATION THAT THE SMALLER, UM, PROJECTS MIGHT NEED, BUT WE CAN ALSO USE THEIR DATA AS WELL.
AND OUR PROJECT, IT ALL, IT'S, IT'S A REGIONAL, REGIONAL PRO REGIONAL ISSUE.
SO WE HAVE TO ADDRESS IT IN A REGIONAL, UH, CAPACITY.
SO THE MAJOR COMPONENTS OF OURS, LIKE I SAID, IT'S A HYDROLOGIC MODEL.
SO BASICALLY IS WHAT WE HAVE IS A, A MODEL THAT WILL PREDICT, UH, STREAM FLOWS, YOU KNOW, AS A FUNCTION OF LIKE, UH, PRECIPITATION FORECAST, YOU KNOW, WEATHER FORECAST ALSO TAKES IN REAL DATA FROM OUR STREAM MONITORING NETWORK TO ACTUALLY TWEAK THE MODEL, TO MAKE IT RUN BETTER AND PERFORM BETTER.
THEN THERE'S ALSO A BIG MODELING COMPONENT.
WE HAVE SUBREGIONAL HYDRAULIC MODELS WHERE WE WOULD TAKE LIKE THE RAYMONDVILLE DRAIN FOR INSTANCE, AND WE'LL ACTUALLY APPLY HECK GRASS.
SO THAT, THAT'S WHAT FEMA LOOKS AT FOR DETERMINING, YOU KNOW, UM, INUNDATION LEVELS AND, AND HOW, HOW, HOW FAST THE WATER'S MOVING.
SO YOU CAN ACTUALLY DESIGN, UH, MITIGATION MEASURES AND TR AND, AND, AND, AND WAYS TO, TO CORRECT YOUR FLOODING ISSUES.
BUT YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE THIS INFORMATION, UH, THERE'S ALSO AN OR URBAN STORM WATER MODELING COMPONENT.
UM, LIKE IN OUR PROJECT, WE DO HAVE, WE'RE GONNA BE DEVELOPING 20, IS IT 20, 20 URBAN, UM, MODELS, STORM WATERS MODELS IN, IN THAT.
SO THAT'S ONE THING WE'RE GONNA BE DOING AS WELL.
UH, AND ALSO ALL THE DATA THAT WE'RE COLLECTING.
IT'S COMPREHENSIVE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING DATA FROM ALL THESE OTHER PROJECTS AS WELL, AND BRINGING IT INTO A COMPREHENSIVE WEB ACCESSIBLE DATABASE, WHICH IS CRITICAL.
SO EVERYBODY HAS THAT INFORMATION TO WORK WITH.
AGAIN, THIS IS JUST A, A, A SCREENSHOT OF OUR, OF OUR DATABASE.
UH, IT WILL HAVE A LOT OF APPLICATIONS.
IT WILL HAVE, UH, LINKS TO OUR, OUR HYDROLOGIC MODELS, NOT OUR HYDRO, OUR HYDRODYNAMIC MODELS AND OUR HYDROLOGIC MODELS.
UM, YEAH, SO THIS IS A PICTURE.
THIS IS, UH, THREE OF OUR STATIONS THAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY OP IN OPERATION, UM, IN, IN, IN WILLESEE COUNTY, ON THE RAYMONDVILLE DRAIN, HEDO WILLY MAIN DRAIN AND THE I B WC.
SO WE CAN ACTUALLY SEE THE, THE HYDRO GRASS OR OUR, OUR STREAM STAGE HEIGHTS OVER TIME.
I, I CAN'T SEE WHAT THE DATE IS.
SO I THINK IT'S LIKE MAY TIMEFRAME.
SO THAT'S ALL GONNA, THAT'S ALL AVAILABLE ON, ON, ON THE WEBSITE AS WELL.
UH, AND THEN AGAIN, WE HAVE OUR TIER TWO MODELS.
THESE ARE OUR SUBREGIONAL HYDRAULIC MODELS, UH, THAT ARE OUR MODEL SHE'S IN THE AUDIENCE AS WELL TODAY.
UH, LINDA NAVARRO SHE'S, SHE'S BEEN DOING, DEVELOPING THESE MODELS.
SO THIS IS KIND OF WHAT IT'S ALL BRINGING IT, YOU KNOW, THAT WE'RE WORKING TOWARD AGAIN, I KEEP TALKING ABOUT THIS WARP THE, THE, THE HYDROLOGIC MODEL, UH, WE'VE ADOPTED, WHAT'S CALLED THE WARF HYDRO.
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UH, WHAT'S WHAT THE NATIONAL WATER CENTER HAS DEVELOPED, UH, TO PREDICT STREAM FLOWS ACROSS THE NATION.UH, IF YOU LOOK DOWN IN OUR AREA, THERE ARE THERE, THERE THERE'S NOTHING MODELED IN THIS REGION.
MM-HMM,
THERE IS NO DATA, SO THERE'S NO STREAM GAUGES, VERY FEW STREAM GAUGES IN OUR REGION TO ACTUALLY GIVE THEM THE DATA THEY NEED TO, TO DEVELOP A HYDROLOGIC MODEL.
SO THAT'S ONE PLACE WHERE WE'RE TRYING TO, TO FILL THAT DATA GAP, UH, WITH OUR PROJECT.
ONE OF OUR BIG THINGS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PUT IN IS, IS A, IS A MONITORING NETWORK THROUGHOUT THE REGION.
SO WE'RE LOOKING AT PUTTING IN, LOOKING AT, PUTTING IN UP TO 44, UH, REAL TIME STAGE HEIGHT, SENSORS, OR STREAM GAUGES THROUGHOUT THE REGION.
SO, AGAIN, OUR FOCUS ON THIS, IN THIS STUDY IS, IS REGIONAL.
WE NEED TO HAVE THE REGIONAL FLOOD MODEL OR THE REGIONAL HYDRAULIC HYDRAULIC MODEL, H I'M SORRY, HYDROLOGIC MODEL.
UH, SO WE CAN PREDICT THESE STREAM FLOWS.
SO WE'RE FOCUSING HERE IN OUR STUDY ON THE, THE MAJOR DRAINS AND, AND, AND THEIR PRIMARY TRIBUTARIES.
WE NEED TO KNOW WHERE THE BIG, WHAT ARE THE BIG DRIVERS.
SO WHAT'S MISSING IN OURS, OUR STUDY, WHAT WE'RE NOT REALLY COVERING ARE THE SMALL MUNICIPALITIES LIKE SAM BENITO, YOU KNOW, WHERE, WHERE THE, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S JUST KIND OF MISSING IN OURS.
SO THAT'S ONE THING THAT WE, YOU KNOW, IF WE CAN, CAN GET SOME STATIONS IN YOUR, IN, IN YOUR AREA, YOU CAN HAVE THAT DATA, AND IT CAN BE APPLIED TO, TO DEVELOPING SOME OF THE, UM, URBAN STORM WATER MODELS THAT WE HAVE PLANNED FOR OUR PROJECT.
AGAIN, THERE'S SEVERAL THINGS THAT GO INTO US SELECTING OUR, OUR, OUR DRAINS, LIKE FOR OUR REGIONAL PROJECT.
LIKE I MENTIONED, WE'RE LOOKING AT THE PRIMARY DRAINS, HIGHER CHANNEL ORDER TRIBUTARIES, AND WE'RE ALSO LOOKING AT AREAS THAT DON'T HAVE A LOT OF MONITORING EXISTING.
AND AGAIN, WE'RE JUST TRYING TO ADDRESS THE DA THOSE DATA GAPS, UH, IN THE MODELS THAT, THAT ARE NEEDED FOR THE CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF THOSE MODELS.
I MEAN, WE CAN DEVELOP A MODEL, BUT IF YOU HAVE NOTHING TO COMPARE IT TO, YOU DON'T KNOW IF IT'S WORKING, RIGHT.
SO THAT, THAT'S KIND OF WHAT WE, WE NEED THIS FOR.
UH, AGAIN, LIKE ANDY MENTIONED EARLIER, TALKING ABOUT DIFFERENT APPLICATIONS, UH, WE DO HAVE SEVERAL STATIONS, UH, THEY CAN BE USED FOR, UH, FLOOD EARLY WARNING.
UM, WE DO HAVE SOME OF THESE SYSTEMS SET UP WHERE YOU, YOU KNOW, THE, THE CLIENT WANTS AN AUTOMATED SYSTEM WHEN IT HITS A THRESHOLD LEVEL.
LIKE YOU, WE REACH A CERTAIN STAGE HEIGHT, YOU KNOW, IT'LL ISSUE A TEXT OR, OR AN EMAIL ALERT TO WHOEVER YOU WANT IT TO GO TO.
CAN ALSO SAY, HAVE MERCEDES HAD ONE OF THEM INSTALLED? WE INSTALLED ONE FROM BY A YEAR AGO ABOUT A YEAR AGO NOW ABOUT A YEAR AGO AND WHAT THEY WERE, YOU NEED TO COME OVER HERE, PLEASE RICKING HAVE YOU RECORDED THE, UH, CITY OF MERCEDES HAD US INSTALL ONE OF THESE STATIONS FOR THEM, UH, ON THE AQUITA DRAIN, UH, THAT DRAINS INTO THE ARO COLORADO.
WHAT THEY WERE CONCERNED ABOUT WAS THAT, UH, THE, UH, GATES OR THE PUMPS AT THE INTERSECTION BETWEEN AQUITA DRAIN AND THE ARO COLORADO WEREN'T BEING TURNED ON, OR WEREN'T BEING, UH, ACTIVATED EARLY ENOUGH DURING A FLOOD.
AND THAT, THAT WAS CAUSING WATER TO BACK UP, UH, UH, INTO, UH, THEIR DOWNTOWN CITY OF MERCEDES DOWNTOWN AREA.
AND THEY'VE HAD, YOU KNOW, UH, I DON'T WANT TO GET INTO, HE SAID, SHE SAID KIND OF A THING, BUT THEY'VE HAD CONCERNS ABOUT HIDALGO COUNTY DRAINAGE DISTRICT NOT BEING RESPONSIVE ENOUGH TO THEIR, UM, UH, UH, TO THEIR NEEDS IN, IN KICKING THOSE PUMPS ON.
SO THEY APPROACH JUST, AND ASKED US TO, TO INSTALL ONE OF THESE STATIONS IN THERE AND WHAT THIS DOES IS AS SOON AS THE, UH, THE WATER LEVEL, I FORGET WHAT THE SET POINT IS.
BUT AS SOON AS THE WATER LEVEL REACHES A CERTAIN LEVEL, UH, IT TRIGGERS A TEXT MESSAGE TO, UH, UM, UH, TO THE, UH, UM, FIRE.
IS IT FIRE CHIEF EMERGENCY YEAH.
EMERGENCY, UH, RESPONSE, AND THEY CAN START DOING WHATEVER THEY, THEY NEED TO.
UM, SO, YOU KNOW, THIS IS THESE, THIS IS EXAMPLES OF, OF HOW THIS TECHNOLOGY CAN BE USED ABOVE AND BEYOND THE CALIBRATION AND VALIDATION OF THE MODELS THAT WE DOING.
UM, AND ALSO THE DATA'S ALSO AVAILABLE, YOU KNOW, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S REAL TIME BASICALLY, SO YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE AND ACTUALLY LOOK AT IT.
SO IF YOU KNOW WHERE THAT STATION IS, YOU CAN GO TO, TO THE MAP OR THE LINK AND YOU CAN ACTUALLY WATCH IT, UM, WHICH, WHICH IS, WHICH CAN BE HELPFUL.
SO I GUESS KIND OF GETTING TO THE PROPOSAL FOR CITY OF SAN BONITO, I, I GUESS, UM,
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CONSIDERING THE, THE, THE COMMISSION OF UP TO THREE OF THESE AND, AND SAN BONITO, UM, DO THOSE IN THE NEXT SLIDE.SO I THINK THAT'S, IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE OUT HERE? OH, I GUESS WE CAN GO ABOUT THE F IIF PROJECT CATEGORIES.
SO THE ANDY MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, THERE ARE FOUR CATEGORIES THAT F IIF FUNDING, UH, THAT, LIKE WE MENTIONED ONE, THE CATEGORY ONE, THAT'S THE PLANNING FOR THE ENTIRE WATERSHEDS.
THAT'S WHERE WE'RE IN RIGHT NOW.
THAT'S WHAT THIS BIG PROJECT IS, IS A CATEGORY ONE, UH, CATEGORY TWO IS THE PLANNING ACQUISITION, DESIGN CONDUCTION CONSTRUCTION REHABILITATION.
SO TO GO TO THE CATEGORY TWO, YOU NEED TO HAVE THE INFORMATION FROM THE CATEGORY.
ONE, YOU HAVE TO HAVE DESIGN CRITERIA BEFORE YOU CAN START DESIGNING IT.
UH, AND AGAIN, THE CATEGORY THREE, THE FEDERAL MATCHING FUNDS, AND THEN CATEGORY FOUR, UM, LIKE I SAID, THE MEASURES IMMEDIATELY EFFECTIVE IN PROTECTING LIFE AND PROPERTY.
THAT COULD BE AN EARLY WARNING SYSTEM OR CROSSING BARRIER.
WHAT, WHAT HAVE YOU, SO THOSE ARE THE DIFFERENT CATEGORIES, UH, OF F FI F PROJECTS.
SO AGAIN, WE'RE WORKING ON RIGHT AT CATEGORY ONE, BUT WITH THIS TYPE OF SYSTEM IN PLACE THAT WE, YOU COULD USE IT TO, TO GO TOWARD THE CATEGORY, TWO PROJECTS, MAYOR, COMMISSIONERS, I THINK HE'S DONE WITH THE PRESENTATION ON IJU ITEM 10, IF WE CAN MOVE TO 11 MAYOR, THEN, UH, MR. FULLER CAN CONTINUE WITH THIS PROPOSAL, SO, OKAY.
SO NOT SUPPOSED TO DO THE PROPOSAL.
IS IT GONNA BE ACTION? NO, THERE IS A PRESENTATION.
I DID HAVE QUESTIONS BEFORE WE MOVE ON TO THE ACTUAL, I WANNA KNOW, UH, I'M READING THAT THERE'S NO BUDGET IMPACT, BUT WHAT ABOUT MAYBE AN IMPACT ON OUR CURRENT OPERATIONS OR INFRINGEMENT OF ANY KIND OF HAVE, BECAUSE YOU MENTIONED MERCEDES AND HOW YOU, MAYBE YOU CAN HELP ME WITH THAT.
YEAH, THE, UH, WELL, THE, UH, JUST TO GIVE YOU AN IDEA WHAT THE NETWORK OF STATIONS THAT WE'RE PUTTING TOGETHER RIGHT NOW UNDER, UH, CATEGORY ONE IS REALLY DESIGNED TO, IS REALLY DESIGNED TO, UH, UM, TO GIVE US A REGIONAL PICTURE OF HOW THE, HOW THE WATER'S FLOWING, THE, UH, HOW WE, UH, WHAT GOES ON IN YOUR MORE FLOOD FLOW PRONE AREAS.
IT'S, IT'S APPLES AND ORANGES, YOU KNOW, EVEN THOUGH THE WATER THAT PONDS IN YOUR CITY EVENTUALLY GOES INTO THE MAIN, MAIN DRAINS AND EVENTUALLY FLOWS OUT THE, UM, THE, WE WOULD HAVE TO MAYBE, UM, UH, TRIPLE OR, OR EVEN MORE THAN, THAN, THAN TRIPLE THE BUDGET FOR INSTALLING, UH, STATIONS AT THE LOCAL LEVEL TO, TO FIGURE OUT WHAT'S GOING ON AT THE LOCAL LEVEL.
THE, UM, SO WHAT THE, THE, WHAT, IN ORDER FOR YOU TO HAVE A REALLY GOOD UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE THE WATER IS COMING FROM WHEN YOU HAVE PONDING DOWNTOWN, UM, AND MORE IMPORTANTLY, WHAT IT WOULD TAKE TO MITIGATE THAT, YOU KNOW, IS GOING FROM A FOUR INCH PIPE TO A 10 INCH PIPE, IS THAT REALLY GONNA CHANGE ANYTHING, UH, OR IS, IS THE BOTTLENECK SOMEWHERE ELSE? IT, OR IS THE BOTTLENECK WITH THE DRAINAGE DISTRICT THAT HASN'T KEPT UP WITH THEIR MAINTENANCE?
IT'S MORE ABOUT I UNDERSTANDING I HEAR YOU, BUT WHEN THE CITY FLOODS, IT'S ALWAYS THE CITY THAT DIDN'T DO THEIR PART, I'LL GIVE YOU DIDN'T KEEP US WHEN, UM, UH, ABOUT TWO YEARS AGO, UH, DAN CERNA, WHEN HE WAS, UH, CITY MANAGER AT CITY OF HAREN, UH, HE APPROACHED US AND ASKED US IF WE COULD INSTALL, UH, THREE OR FOUR OF THESE STATIONS IN, UM, UH, IN HAREN PRECISELY FOR THAT REASON, BECAUSE THE ARRO COLORADO, IT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE, WELL, THAT'S LOCAL DRAINAGE.
IT'S NOT A I, BECAUSE ARO COLORADO IS I BWC.
AND SO IT'S, IT'S NOT EVERYBODY SAYS THIS WELL, KNOWLEDGE IS POWER.
IF YOU CAN SAY, WELL, THAT POINTY AHEAD THERE, OR THE GUY WITH THE NO HAIR SAYS, YOU KNOW, UH, HIS SENSORS SAY THIS AND THE MODELS THAT THEY'VE PRODUCED SAY THIS, THEN, YOU KNOW, IT'S, IT'S A SLAM DUNK TO, FOR YOU TO, TO, TO BE ABLE TO SAY, NOT NECESSARILY, THIS IS YOUR FAULT, BUT THIS IS WHAT'S GONNA DO NO, I, I DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO DO THAT.
IT'S NOT ABOUT POINTING FINGERS.
HOWEVER, IT'S ABOUT MAINTENANCE.
IT'S ABOUT KEEPING OUR COMMUNITIES SAFE FROM FLOODING, UH, THIS TOOL.
I, I BELIEVE IT'S, IT'S A GOOD TOOL, BUT, UH, THANKS FOR ANSWERING.
ALL I WANNA KNOW IS MAKING SURE THAT IT'S NOT GONNA IMPACT OUR CURRENT OPERATION OR INFRINGE ON ANY PART VIOLATE ANYTHING.
SO NO MOST MORE LIKE THESE, UH, I THINK WE SAW A PICTURE.
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THEY, UH, CHRIS'S GUYS CAN PUT ONE OF THOSE IN, UH, IN, IN UNDER 24 HOURS, A, BASICALLY A POLE IN THE GROUND, UH, WITH A $35 MICROCOMPUTER AND A, UH, $200 SOLAR PANEL AND A MARINE BATTERY, UH, WITH A FEW OTHER PIECES OF ELECTRONICS HOOKED UP TO IT.WE, UH, SET IT UP AND IT SENDS UP, SENDS, UH, THE DATA UP TO OUR, UH, UH, OUR SERVERS TO MAKE IT AVAILABLE, UH, UH, UM, GLOBALLY, THE, THE ONLY ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD IS, UH, WE HAVE A SITE IN LOS FRESNOS WHERE THE LOCAL POPULATION HAVE TAKEN TO USE OUR SOLAR PANELS AS TARGET PRACTICE.
UH
TYPICALLY IT'S EITHER THE COUNTY OR THE CITY, UH, IN SOME CASES IT'S BEING TAX DOT, UH, TO MAKE SURE THAT, UH, OR I BWC IN SOME CASES TO MAKE SURE THAT WHEN THEY DO MAINTENANCE, THEY CAN TAKE A LITTLE BIT MORE CARE AROUND OUR INSTALLATIONS.
OTHER THAN THAT, THERE IS NO, NO IMPACT ON, UH, UH, ON Y'ALL'S, UH, UH, DAY TO DAY OPERATIONS.
ONE FINAL THING I FORGOT TO MENTION IN THE TAG ON TO THE EDUCATION BIT, THESE, UH, WE HAVE ANOTHER INITIATIVE THAT'S GOING ON.
UM, UM, THAT IS, UM, WHERE WE, UH, THE, THE TECHNOLOGY THAT WE PRODUCED, IT'S ACTUALLY SOMETHING THAT A MIDDLE SCHOOL OR A HIGH SCHOOLER CAN DEVELOP WITH A LITTLE.
UH, AND SO, UM, THE, UH, UH, WE HAVE A EDUCATION AND OUTREACH PROGRAM, WHICH TARGETS HIGH SCHOOL KIDS, UM, UH, UH, TRAINING THEM HOW TO BUILD THESE SENSORS AND, UH, AND, UH, HOW, HOW THIS KIND OF TECHNOLOGY ACTUALLY IMPACTS POSITIVELY IMPACTS THE, THE ENVIRONMENT.
AND I KNOW YOU GUYS ARE VERY INTO THE, THE, THE EDUCATION BIT, JUST LIKE I AM.
SO THAT'S A, THAT'S A, UH, BEING ABLE TO TAKE A GROUP OF HIGH SCHOOL KIDS OR MIDDLE SCHOOL KIDS TO A LOCATION IN THEIR BACKYARD AND SAY, THIS IS STA THIS STATION IS MEASURING WATER LEVELS OR WATER QUALITY GO TO THIS SITE.
UH, AND YOU CAN SEE WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO, SIR, DO YOU HAVE THE THREE LOCATIONS WHERE YOU PERSONALLY, WE HAVE, WE HAVEN'T IDENTIFIED THE LOCATIONS THE WAY THAT, UH, UH, WORKS IS FOR THE LOCAL STATION, UH, FOR THE, UH, LOCAL INSTALLATIONS, LIKE THE ONE WE HAD IN, UH, A MERCEDES, UH, WE BRING THE, OUR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LOCAL HYDROLOGY, AND THEN WE SIT DOWN WITH, UH, THE MANNY'S OR THE FREDS AND SO ON, OR, UH, UH, THE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE, THE, THE ENGINEER TO, UH, UH, UH, TO IDENTIFY WHERE THE PROBLEMS ARE.
AND THEN SOMETIMES IT'S NOT AS SIMPLE AS SAYING, WELL, YOU HAVE FLOODING HERE, LET'S PUT A STATION HERE BECAUSE WE'VE GOTTA KIND OF WORK OUR WAY BACK UPWARDS AND FIGURE OUT WELL, WHERE, WHERE IS THAT STATION GONNA HAVE THE GREATEST IMPACT? SO WE KNEW IN MERCEDES FOR EXAMPLE, THAT THE PROBLEM WAS AT THE, UH, JUNCTION BETWEEN AQUITA DRAIN AND ARROYO, BUT WE DIDN'T PUT THE STATION THERE.
WE PUT IT, UH, WHAT ABOUT A MILE UPSTREAM, CHRIS? WAS IT THE, THE, UH, AT THE CIVIC? YEAH, ABOUT A MILE UPSTREAM, UH, NEAR THEIR CIVIC CENTER, BECAUSE WE CAN SENSE HOW QUICKLY THE WATER'S RISING THERE, UH, AND GIVE THEM MORE ADVANCED NOTICE OF ABOUT WHAT WHAT'S GOING ON.
SO IT TAKES A LITTLE BIT OF COMBINING LOCAL INTELLIGENCE WITH THE HYDRAULIC HYDROLOGIC INTELLIGENCE TOGETHER TO IDENTIFY THE, UH, UH, THE BEST LOCATION.
SO THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO WORK WITH WITH YOU AND, UH, WITH CITY STAFF.
OKAY, SIR, ANY QUESTIONS? NOPE.
[11. Consideration and possible action to authorize the City Manager to negotiate with RATES and Task Force, a cost not to exceed $45,000 for the installation of Real Time Hydrologic System (RTHS) stations within the San Benito city limits in order to collect and analyze water flows within the region; including San Benito, as part of a regional water flow study.]
THEN, UH, LET'S GO TO ITEM NUMBER 11 CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION TO AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE WITH RATES AND, UH, TASK FORCE, UH, THAT COST NOT TO EXCEED 45,000 FOR THE INSTALLATION OF, UH, UH, REAL TIME HYDRAULIC HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM, RT H S STATIONS WITHIN THE CITY SANTO CITY LIMITS IN ORDER TO COLLECT AND ANALYZE WATER FLOWS WITHIN THE REGION, INCLUDING SANTO AS PART OF THE REGIONAL, UH, WATER FLOW STUDY.AND MR. FRED, BE PRESENT THIS ARM.
AND THANK YOU, MAYOR MAYIM COMMISSIONER, FRED BELL, ASSISTANT CITY MANAGER FOR THE RECORD, AS YOU JUST HEARD FROM DR.
FULLER, UH, PROVIDED YOU AN OVERVIEW OF THIS, UH, PARTNERSHIP BETWEEN RATES AND THE ALL RGV D UH, DV, L R G V DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL REGARDING THE FLOOD AND WATER FLOW ASSESSMENT PROJECTS.
THESE REALTIME HYDRO HYDROLOGIC SYSTEM OR RT HS STATIONS WILL BE INSTALLED THROUGHOUT THE ASSESSMENT AREA.
ERNEST SAID, THAT WOULD BE BASED ON DISCUSSION.
WE WOULD HAVE WITH, UH, SOME OF OUR PUBLIC WORK STAFF, UH, AS WELL AS SOME OF WHAT WE'VE EXPERIENCED OVER THE, THE, THE LAST SEVERAL RAIN EVENTS, UH, WE WOULD HAVE THAT DISCUSSION WITH
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THEM, BUT AT THIS POINT IN TIME, I WOULD LIKE TO KIND OF HAND IT BACK OVER TO, UH, DR.FULLER TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, EXPLAIN ABOUT THESE SPECIFIC DEVICES, CUZ THOSE ARE TECHNO QUESTIONS THAT ARE WAY ABOVE MY SKILLSET.
SO I GUESS UP, THERE'S JUST HAVE A COUPLE BRIEF POINTS TO MAKE IS, IS I, I GUESS THIS IT'S PROPOSING THREE STATIONS, UH, EACH OF THESE STATIONS WOULD MEASURE STAGE HEIGHT AND OTHER HYDROLOGIC PARAMETERS LIKE, UM, PRECIPITATION ALSO HAVE WIND SPEED AND BAROMETRIC PRESSURE, ALL THAT IS KIND OF NEEDED AS WELL.
UM, WE HAVE STREAM FLOW MEASUREMENTS UP THERE THAT'S SO WE COULD ACTUALLY DEVELOP DISCHARGE RATING CURVE.
WE ACTUALLY KNOW WHAT THE FLOW RATE IS LIKE WHEN YOU'RE DESIGNING THESE, THESE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THAT FLOW RATE IS.
SO YOU KNOW, WHAT TO DESIGN FOR.
SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE GET THESE INSTALLED, WE'LL GO OUT THERE AND, AND, AND FOUR TIMES A YEAR, YOU KNOW, MEASURE THOSE STREAM FLOWS, WE CAN DEVELOP THOSE RATING CURVES.
UM, ALSO THE, YOU KNOW, ONCE THESE ARE INSTALLED, THE DATA WOULD BE BECOME PART OF THE, THE, THE LRG V REON NETWORK.
SO AGAIN, ALL THAT DATA WOULD BE AVAILABLE, ACCESSIBLE ONLINE, AND IT COULD BE INTEGRATED WITH THE OTHER MODELING PROJECTS THAT ARE GOING ON AND OTHER PROJECTS THROUGHOUT THE WHOLE REGION.
SO IT, IT, IT, IT, IT, IT BUILDS THE WHOLE NETWORK.
YOU KNOW, LIKE I SAID, WE'RE LOOKING AT REGIONAL, THIS, THIS BRINGS IT INTO TO MORE OF A LOCAL, UH, APPLICATION.
UH, AGAIN, THE DATA CAN BE USED FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE, THESE, UH, TIER THREE, UH, URBAN STORM WATER MODELS.
LIKE I SAID, MENTIONED PREVIOUSLY, WE, WE HAVE 20 OF THOSE THAT ARE ALREADY FUNDED AS PART OF THE F FI F OUR REGIONAL F FI F.
AND ONE OF THOSE COULD BE ALLOCATED TO, TO SAN BENITO TO KIND OF LOOK AT THOSE ISSUES.
SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT THIS DATA WOULD LET ALLOW US TO DO IS TO ACTUALLY, UH, MODEL THAT, UH, YOU KNOW, MORE EFFECTIVE MODELING OF, OF SAN BENITO AND URBAN STORM WATER MODEL.
UH, AGAIN, UH, THE, THE DATA CAN ALSO BE USED TO, TO ADDRESS A CATEGORY, TWO REQUIREMENTS, UH, SO PROVIDES THE DATA FOR, FOR FEASIBILITY ANALYSIS, HYDRAULIC AND HYDROLOGIC STUDIES, ALL THAT'S NEEDED FOR A CATEGORY, TWO REQUIREMENT.
UH, IT ALSO DEMONSTRATES COORDINATION WITH OTHER ENTITIES, IF YOU, THIS BEING DONE, YOU KNOW, THAT THAT'S SHOWING YOUR COORDINATION AMONG THE WHOLE LGV REGION, WHICH IS ADOPTING THE, THE, THIS NETWORK.
SO, UM, THAT'S WHAT I HAVE ON, ON, ON, ON THE PROPOSAL.
COMMISSIONER, IF I COULD JUST ADD REAL QUICK.
SO IT KIND OF GETS BACK TO THE, THE INTENT OF THIS AGENDA ITEM.
UM, THESE DEVICES THAT THEY'VE DESCRIBED TO YOU, UM, THEY'RE NOT, THEY'RE NOT CHEAP.
I KNOW THAT OTHER COMMUNITIES, MUNICIPALITIES THROUGHOUT THIS ASSESSMENT AREA HAVE, UH, HAVE, UH, YOU KNOW, PROVIDE US SOME TYPE OF FUNDING, UH, ASSISTANCE FOR SOME OF THESE DEVICES.
UM, THE, THE REQUEST AT THIS TIME IS TO, UH, AUTHORIZE, UH, CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE, UH, YOU KNOW, UH, PRICE POINT, NOT TO EXCEED 45,000 AS FAR AS A CITY'S, UH, CONTRIBUTION TOWARDS THIS OVERALL ASSESSMENT.
UM, WE BELIEVE THAT, UH, IF, IF APPROVED, UH, THERE ARE, THE FUNDS ARE AVAILABLE OUT OF THE, THE CARES FUNDING.
AGAIN, IT'S THE COMMISSION'S DECISION.
SO WE JUST WANTED TO BRING IT TO YOU AND, AND, AND, UH, AND SEE IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, Y'ALL WOULD LIKE TO CONSIDER.
OKAY, MR. BELL, IS THAT, UH, OUR ENGINEER? YES.
I'D LIKE TO ASK THE ENGINEERS.
UH LISTEN, UM, WHAT'S YOUR TAKE ON THIS TYPE OF, UH, WHAT, SO I HAVE EXPERIENCE WITH, UH, SIMILAR, UM, DATA, UH, STATIONS.
UM, I'VE WORKED, I LIVED IN AND WORKED IN A MUNICIPALITY THAT USED AT US G S UH, RAIN, UH, DATA GAUGES, UM, AND IN MY COMMUNITY, THE WAY WE USED THEM WAS, UM, IN CENTRAL TEXAS, WE SUFFER A LOT FROM FLASH FLOODING, WHICH IS INSTANT FLOODING WITH A HIGH VELOCITY.
SO AS A CITY, WE, UH, WE LOCATED THEM AT, UM, AT LIKE WATER BODY OF WATER CROSSING S NEAR, UM, STREET CROSSINGS, UH, BECAUSE WHAT HAPPENS A LOT OF THE TIMES WITH FLASH FLOODING IS THAT YOU'RE OUT ON THE ROAD AND THAT HIGH VELOCITY WILL BE FAST AND DEEP ENOUGH TO MOVE VEHICLES.
SO WE PUT 'EM IN, UH, BODIES OF WATER IN ORDER FOR US TO NOTIFY US US WHENEVER WE WERE ABOUT EIGHT INCHES ABOVE FROM TOPPING LING OVER.
UM, AND WE USED IT AS A PREVENTION MEASURE IN ORDER FOR US TO BE ABLE TO CLOSE THOSE STREETS DOWN, UM, IN ORDER TO PREVENT, UM, FLASH FLOOD AND, UM, HUMAN AND VEHICLE VEHICULAR, UH, DAMAGE, BECAUSE THAT'S MORE FOR WHAT I'M INTERESTED IN.
UH, I UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE CITY OF MERCEDES AND THE, UH, I GUESS WHERE THEY HAD, IT WAS, UH, WELL,
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IN MY OPINION, IT'S JUST SOMETHING, UH, THAT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE EARLIER AND WHAT YOU'RE SAYING, THAT'S WHAT I WANTED TO HEAR.SO, UH, BUT YOU, YOU CAME FROM THE CITY OF HARLINGEN AND HE MENTIONED HE HAD WORK WITH DAN CERNA OUT OF HARLINGEN.
WERE, DID YOU EXPERIENCE THAT WITH THE CITY? SO, UM, I WORKED THERE FOR HAREN FOR A SMALL PERIOD OF TIME.
UM, AND I BELIEVE THAT THEY'RE STILL WORKING ON GETTING THEIR, UM, R TH STATIONS, UM, LOCATED.
UM, BUT LIKE I SAID, UM, IN THE COMMUNITY OF COLLEGE STATION, WE USE THE S G S UH, RAIN, UH, GAUGE DATA THAT WAY.
UM, AND WE USE IT AS A PREVENTATIVE MEASURE IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT, UM, PEOPLE STOP TURN AROUND AND DON'T DROWN BECAUSE IT REALLY IS A BIG ISSUE IN, IN CENTRAL TEXAS, THE FLASH FLOODING MM-HMM
UM, AND WHEN I WAS WORKING ON THE PRIVATE SECTOR, UM, AND HAVING THAT VALUABLE DATA IS REALLY IMPORTANT IN ORDER FOR YOU TO DO FLOOD FLOODING RECLAMATION.
AND IN ORDER FOR YOU TO BE ABLE TO PUT YOUR, UM, STRUCTURES AT THE APPROPRIATE, YOU KNOW, UM, ELEVATION IN ORDER FOR YOUR HOME NOT TO FLOOD DURING A RAIN EVENT.
UM, SO HAVING DATA LIKE THAT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR BOTH, UM, YOU KNOW, EXISTING STRUCTURES AND, AND, UM, OR EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE, AS WELL AS NEW DEVELOPMENT AS WELL.
IT ALLOWS YOU TO KIND OF HAVE AN ONGOING, UH, DATA AND UPDATED ANALYSIS.
UM, YOU KNOW, WE GET RAINFALL, UM, INTENSITY DATA FROM, UM, NOAH, WHICH IS, I'M NOT GONNA TRY TO THROW OUT THE WHOLE ACRONYM, UH, BUT NOAH, BUT THEY'RE NOT UPDATED AS RECENTLY.
AND, UM, NATIONAL NATIONALITY.
YES
OF COURSE SOMETHING IS GONNA SERVE US.
COMMISS, I HAVE MR. BELL, IS THIS GONNA TIE INTO AN EARLY ON WE, UH, APPROVED A FLOOD MITIGATION STRATEGY WITH HARLINGEN, UM, IS THAT, IS THIS, IS THIS GOING HELP THEM AS WELL? IS THIS KIND OF SIMILAR OR IS THIS SOMETHING SEPARATE FROM THAT, THAT IT IS SOMETHING SEPARATE CUZ THAT, UH, THAT STUDY, UH, WHERE IT, UH, THE CONTRIBUTION THAT THE CITY PROVIDED WAS, UH, IT'S GONNA FOCUS ON THE WESTERN HALF AS IT, AS IT BUTTS UP TO THE AREA OF THE O' ROYAL, THAT DOESN'T ADDRESS THE ENTIRE CITY AS A WHOLE, AS WE WELL KNOW, YOU KNOW, CERTAIN AREAS SOUTH OF TOWN, YOU KNOW, SOUTH PART OF TOWN RIGHT OVER HERE, RIGHT.
DOWNTOWN, THOSE ARE AREAS THAT ARE NOT COVERED IN THAT, UH, THAT STUDY THAT FOR THE NORTH SIDE OF THAT AGREEMENT MORE, UH, WILL COVER THE NORTH NORTH, NORTH, NORTH NORTHWEST.
SO IS YOUR RECOMMENDATION? YES.
IF, IF THE CITY, I BELIEVE IT WOULD BE BENEFICIAL.
UH, I HAD SAID NO BUDGET IMPACT, BUT THEN I DO SEE, OF COURSE IT'S NOT ON OUR BUDGET, BUT IT'S A CARES.
ERNEST AND I WE'VE, YOU KNOW, WE WE'VE KNOWN EACH OTHER SINCE I CAME TO WORK HERE.
UM, HE'S, HE'S VERY KNOWLEDGEABLE.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA DO WHAT WE CAN TO HELP SHARPEN THE PENCIL THOUGH, AND WE'RE GONNA DO WHAT WE CAN TO PREVENT FLOODING.
WE'VE UM, WE EXPERIENCED THE, THE WORST FLOODING IN THIS AREA BACK IN, IN 1990.
SO WE HAVE 1991 AND, AND SO WE DON'T WANNA GO THROUGH THAT AGAIN.
SO DEFINITELY ANYTHING TO HELP PROTECT OUR, OUR PROPERTY AND OUR HOMES.
MOTION TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED.
UM, A SECOND, YOU SAID THAT THERE'S ONLY THREE.
CAN WE, I MEAN, IF THEY FEEL THAT WE NEED MORE INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, THREE ONLY, UH, ITEMS. YES, SIR.
WE'VE HAD A VERY OPEN LINE OF COMMUNICATION WITH, UH, YOU KNOW, MS. GARETO AND, AND DR.
SO, UM, I HAVE NO DOUBT IF, IF, IF, AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, UM, YOU KNOW, THAT, UH, UH, THEY FEEL THAT THERE'S A NEED TO ADD MORE, THEN WE WILL DO OUR BEST TO SUPPORT IT.
BUT AGAIN, WE WILL TAKE OUT THE EXTRA PENCIL SHARPENER AND HAVE HIM SHARPEN IT EVEN MORE
SO I GOT MOTION BY, UM, MAYOR FRANCO SECOND BY COMMERCIAL GALVAN, ALL IN FAVOR.
[12. Consideration and possible action to approve the minutes of the May 17, 2022 Regular City Commission Meeting.]
I REMEMBER 12 CONSERVATION POSSIBLE ACCIDENT TO APPROVE MINUTES ON MAY 17TH, 2022 REGULAR CITY COMMISSION MEETING.ANY QUESTIONS, MOTION TO APPROVE.
I GOT A MOTION BY MARI TIM FRANCO.
SECOND, SECOND, SECOND BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA, ONLY FAVOR.
[13. Consideration and possible action to approve Ordinance Number 2610-09-2022, after Second and Final Reading, an ordinance levying the Ad Valorem Property Tax Rate for the City of San Benito, Texas for the year 2022 and repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith.]
NUMBER 13.CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER
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TWENTY SIX, TEN NINE TWENTY TWENTY TWO.UH, AFTER SECOND AND FINAL READING ORDINANCE, UH, LIVING THE LAUREN PROPERTY TAX RATE FOR THE CITY SANTO, TEXAS ON, ON THE YEAR 2022, AND REPEATING ALL ORDINANCE OR PARTS OF ORDINANCE IN CONFLICTED HERE WITH, AND, UH, MR. ROSA, UH, PRESENT.
GOOD EVENING, UH, MAYOR COMMISSIONERS, LISA ROSA FINANCE DIRECTOR FOR THE RECORD.
UM, YOU HAVE IN FRONT OF YOU THE SECOND AND FINAL READING OF ORDINANCE 26, 10 0 9, 20 22.
UM, IT STATES THE, UM, TAX ORDINANCE IN A REDUCTION OF THE 2 CENTS.
UM, THE MNO WILL BE 0.6, 3 6, 8 44 IN NS IS 0.0 7, 12 81, WHICH WOULD BE THE TOTAL TAX RATE 0.70 8 1 25.
COMMISSIONERS, ANY QUESTIONS? NOPE, NO QUESTIONS.
I HAD, UM, AND I DID GET YOUR EMAIL ON THAT.
I WAS FOLLOWING UP WITH YOU, UM, SIMPLY OF COURSE I'M NOT QUESTIONING YOUR WORK OR ANYTHING.
IT IS JUST THAT, UH, THE LAST FIGURE THAT WAS ON THERE, UM, IT, IT, UM, AND MY CALCULATION, BUT LIKE I SAID, I, UH, YOU'RE THE EXPERT ON IT.
MY CONCERN WAS THAT I FELT THAT FIGURE, UH, BECAUSE IT, THAT, IT'S A, UH, THE RATE THAT SHOULD GO BEFORE, UH, A VOTE.
I FELT THAT SHOULD BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER THAN WHAT YOU HAD POSTED.
DID IT MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE OR, UM, CUZ YOU DID SEND ME SOMETHING BACK.
UM, THIS RATE OR WHICH RATE ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? NO, NO, I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT THIS RATE.
I'M TALKING ABOUT THE PRESENTATION THAT YOU GAVE US LAST TIME.
MM-HMM
COMMISSIONER'S UH, IT'S THE, UH, VOTER APPROVAL TAX RATE.
YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VOTER APPROVAL TAX.
SO I DID CONTACT, UM, THE, UM, NEVA CORTEZ, CAUSE I DID HAVE A QUESTION ON THAT.
UM, AND SHE DID SAY THAT WE WERE EXEMPT ON OVER THE DO MINIMUS.
THE DO MINIMUS IS AT 0.8037 AND OKAY.
WE ARE EXEMPT THAT'S THE EXEMPTION.
AND THAT'S SOMETHING I HADN'T READ, BUT THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT.
YEAH, YEAH, NO, NO, IT CROSSED MY MIND.
SO HEY, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR ADDRESSING THAT.
I MEAN, PROBABLY IT, UH, KIND OF, UH, RELIEVES US OF ANY CONCERNS, SO YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD EXEMPTION.
SO ANY, ANY CITY UNDER 30,000, UNDER 30,000 IS EXEMPT.
I RECALL CONGRESSION, IF I RECALL THAT WAS SENATE BILL TO IN THE 86 LEGISLATIVE SESSION IN 20 19 20 19.
YEAH, IT'S NOT BY MOTION BY COMMISSIONER GALVAN.
SECOND BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA.
[14. Consideration and possible action to approve Appropriation Ordinance Number 2611-09-2022, after Second and Final Reading, an ordinance adopting a Budget for the General Fund, Debt Service Fund, Community Development Block Grant, Economic Development Fund, Waterworks Enterprise Fund, Wastewater Enterprise Fund, Solid Waste Enterprise Fund, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, and Hotel and Motel Occupancy Tax for the Ensuing Fiscal Year October 1, 2022 and ending September 30, 2023, in accordance with the Charter of the City of San Benito, Texas and repealing all ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith.]
14 CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE UH, UH, APPROPRIATION ORDINANCE NUMBER 26, 11 DASH 9 20 22 AFTER SECOND FINAL READING IN ORDINANCE ADOPTING A BUDGET FOR THE GENERAL FUND, UH, DIPPED SERVICE FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND WATERWORKS, UH, ENTERPRISE FUND, UH, WASTEWATER ENTERPRISE FUND SOLID WASTE, UH, ENTERPRISE FUND UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH AND CENTER, UH, SCIENCE CENTER AT[02:15:01]
HOUSTON, THE HOTEL AND MOTEL OCCUPANCY, UH, TAX FOR THE ENSURING, UH, PHYSICAL YEAR, OCTOBER 1ST, 2022 AND ENDING OCTOBER 30TH, 2023 IN THE ORDINANCE OF THE, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE CHAPTER OF THE CITY OF SANTO, TEXAS AND REPEATING ALL ORDINANCE OR PART OF ORDINANCE IN CONFLICT, UH, HERE WITH AND MS. ROSE PRESENT CENTER.UM, YOU DO HAVE ON HERE AS AN EXHIBIT ORDINANCE NUMBER 26, 11 0 9 20 22.
AGAIN, THIS IS, UM, THE APPROVAL OF THE SECOND AND FINAL READING OF THIS ORDINANCE.
UM, IF WE GO ON THERE ON THE, UM, FIRST PAGE, UM, THE GENERAL FUND IS 16 2 0 5, 1 30 TOTAL ADMINISTRATION IS 2 9 73, 360 TOTAL PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT, 360 7 55, TOTAL CULTURE AND RECREATION, 5 46, 6 15, TOTAL PUBLIC SAFETY, 7 5 65, 2 65.
TOTAL PUBLIC WORKS 4 75, 1 35 AND TOTAL EXPENDITURES IS 16, 2 0 5, 1 30 THAT'S FOR GENERAL.
SERVICE IS 7 75 90 HOUSING AND URBAN, UH, DEVELOPMENT IS 360 3, 1 93.
UH, WATER WORKS IS 5 8 57, 3 93, WASTEWATER 44 36, 7 42 SOLID WASTE 3 6 72, 8 70.
UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE IS 60,000 HOTEL AND MO MOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX IS 1 0 2, 7 11.
AND THIS IS AGAIN THE LAST, UH, SECOND AND FINAL READING OF THIS ORDINANCE.
UH, MS. ROSA, DID WE EVER GET THE DEBT SERVICE FUND WITH MORE CLARITY THAN THE ONE PAGE SUMMARY? UM, I WAS LOOKING AT PAST EMAILS TO SEE, UM, WHAT WAS SENT YOUR WAY AND I COULD NOT SEE, SO IT, YOU WANT TO SEND ME WHAT WAS SENT YOUR WAY? THAT WOULD BE GREAT.
I DON'T, YEAH, JUST THE, BUT FROM THE BUDGET, JUST THE ONE PAGE DEBT SUMMARY.
ALSO, DID WE DISCUSS THE, I MISSED THE LAST MEETING.
I WAS OUT OF TOWN FOR CONFERENCE.
BUT, UH, DID WE DISCUSS THE, THE, THE, THE PAY RATE STRUCTURE? WAS IT, UM, WAS THIS, IS THIS INCLUDING THE 3% ACROSS THE BOARD FOR ALL EMPLOYEES? THIS IS INCLUDING A 3% AND THEN I, EXCEPT POLICE, I THINK RIGHT.
WE DID IN, WE DID, UH, SEND A, UM, WHAT YOU REQUESTED WE SENT, SENT IT TO, BUT THIS BUDGET IS GONNA INCLUDE A 3% OR IS IT, IT INCLUDES, UH, 3% ACROSS THE BOARD ACROSS THE BOARD SUPPORT.
UM, DO YOU HAVE A MOTION, MOTION TO APPROVE? HAVE A SECOND.
WHEN NAME WENT, STAY OPTION PASSES
[15. Consideration and possible action to approve Ordinance Number 2583-B-09- 2022, after Second and Final Reading, an ordinance amending Ordinance Number 2583-A-09-2021 and all other ordinances in conflict therewith and providing for a change in the number of a budgeted and authorized position at the rank of patrol officer for the San Benito Police Department and providing for an effective date.]
AGENDA UNDER MY 15 CONSIDERATION IMPOSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 83, B 0 9 20 22.AFTER SECOND AND FINAL READING AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 83 DASH A DASH NINE DASH 2021 AND ALL OR OTHER ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT WITH THEY'RE WITH AND PROVIDING FOR A CHARGE.
I'M SORRY FOR CHANGING THE NUMBER OF THE BUDGETED AND AUTHORIZED POSITION AT THE RANK AND PATROL OFFICER FOR THE, FOR THE COMMAND POLICE DEPARTMENT AND PROVIDING THE, FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE POLICE CHIEF MARIO, UH, PERCENTAGE ITEM.
MAYOR, MAYOR, MAYOR, TIM AND COMMISSIONERS POLICE CHIEF MARIO FOR THE RECORD, THE AGENDA ITEM IS A SECOND READING OF THE ORDINANCE THAT WOULD CHANGE THE NUMBER OF BUDGETED POLICE OFFICER POSITIONS FROM 44 TO 45.
THE ADDITIONAL OFFICER WOULD BE A PATROL OFFICER AND IT WOULDN'T GO INTO EFFECT UNTIL, UH, FEBRUARY 1ST, 2023, AS THE CITY CONTINUES TO GROW THE SAM DIEGO POLICE DEPART WANTS
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TO ENSURE THAT WE HAVE ADEQUATE PERSONNEL TO PROTECT AND SERVE ITS CITIZENS AND VISITORS.THE ADDITIONAL PERSONNEL WOULD ALLOW THE DEPARTMENT TO KEEP THE PATROL DIVISION ADEQUATELY STAFF WHILE ALSO PROVIDING AN OPPORTUNITY TO CREATE OTHER DIVISIONS WITHIN THE ORGANIZATION.
STAFF RECOMMENDS APPROVAL, AND I AM AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
I GET A MOTION BY MAYOR VIA FRANCO SECOND GARCIA ONLY IN FAVOR.
CHIEF, CAN YOU JUST, DO YOU HAVE LIKE STATISTICS OF WHAT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, HOW THEY'VE BEEN PERFORMING AS FAR AS LIKE CRIME RATES? UM, THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO IT KIND OF GIVES ME AN IDEA.
IT GIVES US AN IDEA OF YOUR, OF THE DEPARTMENT'S PERFORMANCE, RIGHT? OR CRIME RATES GOING DOWN WITH INCREASED PATROL.
UM, AT THE MOMENT I DON'T HAVE THOSE, UH, READY, AVAILABLE FOR YOU, BUT I CAN'S, I COULD WORK ON THEM.
UH, I'LL GET WITH MY RECORD SUPERVISOR AND WE'LL PUT SOMETHING TOGETHER WE REPORT TO FEDERAL.
IS IT FEDERAL CRIMES THEY HAVE, THE FBI THINK HAS LIKE CORRECT A LINK.
JUST SO THAT WAY, YOU KNOW, THAT JUSTIFIES, YOU KNOW, I'M GIVE YOU AN EXTRA, ARE WE, ARE WE MEETING THE DEMAND OF THE CITY? DO YOU NEED MORE? DO YOU NEED LESS WHERE'S CRIME RATE GOING JUST LIKE THAT? YES, SIR.
[16. Consideration and possible action to approve Ordinance Number 2566-C-09-2022, after Second and Final Reading, an ordinance amending Ordinance Number 2566-B-09-2021 and all other ordinances in conflict therewith, and providing for the budgeted and authorized number of personnel, wages, and pay structure for the San Benito Fire Department.]
CONSIDERATION POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 20 66, C DASH NINE DASH 2022.AFTER SECOND FINAL READING AND ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 25 66 DASH B 9 20 21 AND ALL OTHER, OTHER ES IN CONFLICT THERE WITH AND PROVIDING FOR THE, UH, BUDGET AND AUTHORIZED NUMBERS FOR, UH, PERSONAL WAGES AND PAY STRUCTURE IN THE, UH, CITY INS SEMIAL FIRE DEPARTMENT AND MR. CHIEF PERCENT CENTER.
UH, GOOD EVENING MAYOR, UH, MAYOR POOR TEMP COMMISSIONER, STEPHANIE BIESA FIRE CHIEF.
UH, SO THIS IS JUST THE ORDINANCE THAT, UM, IS PROVIDED FOR THE BUDGET AND AUTHORIZED NUMBER OF PERSONNEL WAGES AND PAY STRUCTURE FOR THE DEPARTMENT.
UH, THIS YEAR WE'RE JUST, UH, ADDING ONE MORE FIREFIGHTER, UM, ON FEBRUARY 1ST, UM, RECOMMEND APPROVAL.
IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, ANY QUESTIONS,
UM, BUT, UM, THE, WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M SEEING NOW IS THAT THE PAY IS FOR AN ENTIRE FISCAL YEAR, BUT IT'S NOT, IS THIS, IS THIS GOING THROUGH IN FEBRUARY THE SAME AS POLICE? CORRECT.
SO IT WOULD BE ACTUALLY LESS CAUSE YOU'RE ONLY GONNA PAY THE EMPLOYEE EIGHT MONTHS OF PAY OR IS THIS BASED OFF OF EIGHT MONTHS OF PAY? I, I, THIS WAS BASED OFF OF JUST THE, UH, PERSONAL SERVICES FROM LAST YEAR AND THIS YEAR DOES A DIFFERENCE ON THAT.
AND THIS IS JUST BASED ON JUST ONE EXTRA SALARY.
SECOND, SECOND BY MARI TEAM WILL VIA FRANCO IN.
I WOULD'VE EMOTIONALLY, IF WE WOULD'VE GOT, WE HAVE NO, I WOULD BE MORE EMOTIONAL.
WE HAD TO PROVE THE THREE LIEUTENANTS THAT THEY NEEDED.
UH THAT'S WHAT I, THE EMOTIONAL, BUT NO.
[17. Presentation of the City of San Benito Financial Statements for the period ended July 31, 2022.]
OF THE CD'S FINANCIAL STATEMENTS WERE PERIOD ENDING, UH, JULY 31ST, 2022.WE HAVE CASH AND CASH EQUIVALENCE, AS YOU CAN SEE, I WANNA POINT OUT THAT THE CASH, UH, EQUIVALENCE FOR JULY 31ST, 2022 IS LOW.
UM, THIS WAS BECAUSE WE PAID OUR BOND PAYMENTS.
UM, IN JULY THERE WERE DUE AUGUST 1ST, SO WE PAID THEM OUT JULY 28TH.
UM, JUST, UH, WE RAN THE NUMBERS JUST SO YOU ALL, UM,
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ARE AWARE.UM, THE, UH, CASH EQUIVALENTS UP TO DATE ARE 4 MILLION.
SO JUST WANTED YOU TO KNOW
UM, SO, UM, AT BOTTOM YOU CAN SEE OUR TOTAL ASSETS ARE 16,000 503 5 0 8, JULY 31ST, 2021 WAS 20 MILLION 550 0 63 GENERAL FUND.
LET'S GO ON TO THE NEXT LIABILITIES, 26 43 0 9 LAST YEAR, 76, 28, 5 95.
LAST YEAR WAS 12, UM, 9 21, 4 68, TOTAL LIABILITIES AND FUND BALANCE 16 5 0 3, 5 0 8.
UM, ONTO THE NEXT PAGE, PAGE FOUR, WE HAVE OUR REVENUES 8 87, 1 29 AND YEAR TO DATE WAS 12 9 25, 7 14.
THIS IS WHEN, UM, WE'RE COMING TO YEAR END.
WE'RE NOT GETTING, UM, AS MANY PROPERTY TAX, AS YOU ALL ARE AWARE IN OCTOBER, WE SEND OUT OUR TAX STATEMENTS.
UM, AND SO WE'LL START, UH, GETTING SOME PROPERTY TAX HERE IN THE COMING MONTHS.
UM, MONTH TO DATE, WE HAVE 11 43, 3 94 AND YEAR TO DATE.
IT'S TEN EIGHT THIRTY EIGHT, SIX OH SEVEN.
SO DUE TO US HAVING MORE EXPENDITURES THAN REVENUES, WE'RE UNDER 2 58, 2 56, SORRY.
I KEN KENSEY 2 65 FOR THE YEAR TO DATE.
UM, WE'RE AT 2 MILLION 87, 1 0 6.
UM, THE MAIN ONE AGAIN, CONTINUES TO BE STREET MAINTENANCE.
UM, THAT'S THE BIGGEST ONE ON OUR EXPENDITURES.
UM, SALES TAX, A TOTAL FIVE, GOSH, I CAN'T SEE 5, 6 53, 9 37 37.
AND THEN YOU CAN SEE, UM, THE CITY IS AT 4, 2 44 53 0 1.
UM, WE DID ADD THE OCTOBER, 2021 BECAUSE I WANTED YOU TO SEE WHAT THE ACTUAL FISCAL YEAR IS.
AND AS YOU CAN SEE, THE FISCAL YEAR FROM THE COMPTROLLER REPORT, UM, IS ACTUALLY ON LAST YEAR.
SO I WANTED TO INCLUDE THAT AMOUNT AND THEN THE ACTUAL, UH, AMOUNTS FROM THIS YEAR.
SO IT HAS THE OCTOBER AMOUNT AND THEN, OH, I'M SORRY, THEN THOSE AMOUNTS.
DOES ANYBODY HAVE QUESTIONS? UH, YOU MENTIONED EDC.
UM, IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT PAGE, I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE MM-HMM
UH, I WANNA, I JUST WANNA SAY WE'RE ON THE RIGHT TRACK THOUGH.
I MEAN, THIS IS, I KNOW EDC HASN'T BEEN, UH, FULLY OPERATIONAL LATELY, SO, UH, WE'RE NOT MISSING ANYTHING.
THIS IS DEFINITELY WHAT, OKAY.
WE STILL NEED AUGUST, SEPTEMBER TO CLOSE OUR BOOKS.
WHICH WE'RE FINALIZING ALREADY.
WE HAVE 10 DAYS TO CLOSE OUR BOOKS, UM, TO CLOSE ALL VIDEOS AND RIGHT.
MM-HMM
NOW I NEED TO KNOW, I WANNA KNOW.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? THANK YOU.
ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS? NOPE.
[18. Executive Session]
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WITH A LEGAL COUNSEL PURSUANT TO THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE OF 5 0 1 0.07.ONE REGARDING THE ITY STO UH, CASE NUMBER 20 TWAIN, A CDL, UH, 33, 3 81 D G 18 B CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE 5 51 0.0 72 REGARDING LAND ACQUISITION PROJECT 20 20, 22, 2 AND 18 C CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY PURSUANT TO THE TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE WITH 5, 5, 2 0.1071 TO, UH, DISCUSS THE PRIVILEGE COMMUNICATION, UH, PROTECTED BY THE CLIENT ATTORNEY, CLIENT THAT PRIVILEGE.
AND, UH, THE TIME IS, UH, 8 0 1 AND WE'RE IN EXECUTIVE POSITION.
THE TIME IS, UH, NINE 50 WE'RE BACK FROM EXECUTIVE DECISION AND ITEM ARE OKAY.
[19. Consideration and possible action on Executive Session Agenda Item 18(a).]
CONSIDERATION.POSSIBLE ACTION ON THE EXECUTIVE AGENDA.
[20. Consideration and possible action to approve Resolution 2022-0920-020(R) authorizing the City Manager to execute closing documents for land acquisition.]
NUMBER 20 CONSIDERATION.POSSIBLE ACTION TO APPROVE RESOLUTION 20 22 0 9 20 DASH 0 2 0 R AUTHORIZING CITY TO EXECUTE THE CLOSING DOCUMENT FOR LAND ACQUISITION.
ANY NAMES? MOTION PASSES, ITEM 21
[21. Consideration and possible action on Executive Session Agenda Item 18(c).]
CONSIDERATION.AN EXECUTIVE SESSION ITEM, UH, SESSION AGENDA ITEM 18.
DO I HAVE A MOTION TO ADJOURN? I GET A MOTION BY, UH, COMMISSIONER SANCHEZ, UH, SECONDED BY COMMISSIONER GARCIA, ALL IN FAVOR.
TIME IS EIGHT NINE CORRECTION, 9 52, AND WE ADJOURNED.