San Angelo City Council 4-7-15

[0:00:00] Let's get this meeting started this morning of the San Angelo City Council. We have an excellent crowd here this morning We're so glad I've got kids here from Central. I got kids here from ASU It just doesn't get any better than this. We're glad you're here this morning Sam Honeycutt if you would come forward, please sir, and we will begin our meeting with the word of prayer Stand this as your able Right here, sir. Good morning Good morning. Let's pray together. Almighty God, whose love for all people we celebrate in this season of Easter. You've reminded us through the words and teachings of your servant St. Paul. Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God. And those that exist have been instituted by God. Grant that these servants assemble today may conduct the business of our city government in the spirit of wisdom, courage, grace, charity, and patience as they oversee the temporal affairs of government in and for this community. May all attitudes, words, and actions reflect lives that are seeking peace and civility be motivated by a realization that we are indeed answerable to an authority higher than any present in these chambers this morning. Be gracious to them, O Lord, that their deliberations and their decisions this day may be in the best interest of the citizens of San Angelo, this community we love. We pray in the name of the one who has died, who has risen, and who will come again, let all those who can agree say, amen. Thank you so much. Ms. Delaney Hester, would you come forward

[0:02:00] to help us with the pledge, please, ma'am? Good morning. Pledge allegiance to the Texas One State, under God, one, and indivisible. Thank you so much. Let's give it to you. The council has allowed me to pull our Bobcat girls and our Bobcat boys swim team next so that we could recognize them because they are all very, very enthused about going back to school. So I told the coach that I would get them up here and get them in. If y'all would start filing forward and Coach Hagg, if you would start coming this way and get your team up here, we have both the 215 Central Bobcat Girl Swim Team and also the 215 Central Bobcat Boy Swim Team. Let me read this. It says that the City Council of the City of San Angelo hereby recognizes and applauds the 215 central bobcat girl swim team and the 215 central high boys swim team for becoming district champions for the fifth consecutive year among their many other accomplishments this season along with their dedication to embody the very best of what it means to bear the title student athlete and if you would join me in applause because these kids have done it is phenomenal what they have done and do year after year after year. Coach, come say a few words, please.

[0:04:04] Yeah, you got to speak, too. These, I just want to say, yeah, I've been at Central for 37 years. This is one of my better groups of swimmers that we've had come through. Seniors, they were four times district champions Four in a row five total. So we got a legacy to uphold that worked very hard We put them in that water for about two and a half hours every day to prepare them for these meats and They've done a great job. We had five state qualifiers this year Two relays and three individuals. We've had eight academic all-Americans eight Texas academic all-state probably let's see we had maybe 10 first team all region and about 15 first team all district so they did an outstanding job this year not all of them are here we have about 50 high school kids in our program I brought some of the regional qualifiers to this city council meeting see how the city operates and we appreciate the city's support and thank you very much and that's what we produce

[0:06:06] in the San Angelo independent school district right there very proud of you kids Sandra the old real would you step forward please ma'am have a proclamation here national public health week that I would like to read Bob you coming up as well you got some more to everybody who's involved step up please good morning how are you sir we're stuck your side for a second good deal good morning and welcome. The week of April 6 through 12 to 15 is National Public Health Week and is the theme is healthiest nation in 2030. National Public Health Week is a time to showcase the San Angelo Tom Green County Health Department and the neighborhood and family services departments capabilities to meet the public health challenges and to ensure the overall well-being of our community specifically by the divisions of animal services, code compliance, environmental health, nursing public health emergency preparedness and WIC. The dedicated staff works hard to promote and sustain safer and healthier communities for everyone and to improve conditions and behaviors that affect the health of us all. Over the past 25 years U.S. life expectancy has increased but at a slower rate than in other countries and studies consistently show that we have a lower life expectancy than comparable countries. Public health action together with specific and technological advances have played a major role in reducing and in some cases eliminating the spread of infectious disease and establishing today's surveillance and control systems while heart attack and stroke or still the nation's top killers the public health community has helped achieve amazing declines in deaths from both diseases and since 1950 deaths from cardiovascular disease had declined 60 percent and stroke rates had declined by 70 percent. Now therefore I, Dwayne Morrison, the mayor of the great city of San Angelo, Texas on behalf

[0:08:10] after the City Council to hereby proclaim the week of April 6th through April 12th National Public Health Week in San Angelo, Texas, and called upon the people of San Angelo to observe this week and adopt preventive lifestyle habits in a lot of this year's theme, Healthiest Nation 2030. Now we'll have our speeches. Thank you Sandra. Thank you Mayor and Council for the recognition today being public health week goodness these groups these group of people here plus everyone else is out there already in the field work really hard for you guys to try to keep this community as safe as possible from whether it be that some communicable disease a foodborne illness nutritional nutritional needs of infant women and children through co-compliance making sure that there are no junk things in your lawns that could harbor any kind of rodents or anything, a disease-carrying vermin. So anyway, we try the best that we can. We are a small group, but again, we are working as hard as we can for this community. And thank you again for the recognition today this week for us and for everyone else out there in the public health world. I'd just like to say I'm really proud to be from San Angelo. I have friends all over the country and they always have something to say about the community and I've just seen these guys in the back and the people, the kids, the swimmers, it's a great place to be and good hardworking people doing their job as well as the council and it's a great place we live I think just you know it's nice to remember that sometimes thank you anyone else just a quick one now I'm here on behalf of the neighborhood and family

[0:10:10] services department I want to thank you for the proclamation I've got a staff made up of some very hard-working and dedicated men and women doing some very difficult work for the city it's always great to be recognized for the work they do. Thank you. Anyone else? Let's get a picture. Just slide this way, please. National Service Recognition Day. Delores Swartner. Are you here? I know you're here because I saw you. Here you come. Anyone else you want to bring up with? Bring them all. All right. Got another good crowd of very, very important people with us today. It is very good to see y'all. Good morning. The week of April 6th through 12th to 15th is National Public Health Week and the thing, oh my goodness did we? That's right you did have to. I was going to have to bring your group up again. Let's try this one more time. Service to others is a hallmark of the American character and central to how we meet our challenges. The nation's mayors are increasingly turning to national service and volunteerism as a cost-effective strategy to meet city needs and San Angelou is supported by all three senior course programs, RSVP, Foster Grandparent and Senior Companion. National service volunteers and members help local leaders tackle tough problems by supporting

[0:12:11] food banks, delivering meals to the elderly, providing health services, supporting children, helping frail, elderly, maintain independent, strengthening public safety services, managing community volunteers and so very much more. Participants demonstrate commitment, dedication and patriotism through their intensive commitment to service, making our cities and counties better places to live. The cooperation for national and community service has a priority to engage citizens, improve lives and strengthen communities and is joining the National League of Cities, City of Service and Mayors across the country to recognize the impact of service. Therefore, I, Duane Morris, the Mayor of the City of San Angelo, takes us on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim April 7th to 15th as National Service Recognition Day in San Angelo, Texas and encourage residents who recognize the positive impact of National Service in our city and thank those who serve and find ways to give back to their communities. Ms. Wagner. Thank you. Thank you, Mayor. Mayor and Council members on behalf of Nolan and I we accept this proclamation. You're joining over 200 other elected officials across Texas today, recognizing 23,000 volunteers in 2,500 communities, and it's a lot set for Texas because it's third in the nation in volunteer service at a national level, only behind California and New York, and I think that says a lot about Texas, and saying a lot about San Angelo is the fact that we have all three senior court programs, probably the smallest city in Texas that has, and we're joined today by our great volunteers who get back to the community on a daily basis, we see it every day, we have about 600 volunteers, but they wouldn't all fit in here this morning, So we brought a sampling, but they do give back, and we are most appreciative of their service. It means a lot to them, it benefits their health, it benefits the community, and it benefits the agency. So thank you. Anyone else? Let's take a picture.

[0:14:43] And now, I am really honored to recognize this next group of individuals, hometown boys that have really made it to the top. We are so very proud. The Los Lonely Boys, if y'all would, start coming to the front, and let me read this. We're down here, Rose. I'm so proud of each and every one of you. Thank you, where do you stand? Just stand right here. Good morning. How's it going? Good morning. Howdy. Good morning, sir. Good morning. Let me read this proclamation. Hailing from San Angelo, Texas. Los Lonely Boys are a sibling trio whose music draws from rock, blues, and Tejano. Throughout their touring and successful career in music, the Los Lonely Boys have maintained a deeply rooted commitment to community causes. San Angelo has anticipated both the return home and the celebration of their homecoming concert in support of the Consul Valley Turning Points program, whose mission is to help rehabilitate and rebuild the lives of individuals for a better future. Now, therefore, I, Duane Morrison, mayor of the city of San Angelo, Texas on behalf of the city council, do hereby proclaim April 11th, to 15 as Los Longley Boys Homecoming, in appreciation of the Los Longley Boys bringing in appreciation of Los Lonely Boy, not the Lord. In appreciation of Los Lonely Boy's bringing World Ride recognition to their hometown San Angelo, Texas, and encourage the community to join with Los Lonely Boys and supporting the mission of Consul Valley Turning Point. Give them a hand. Thank you now. Oh, really? Give us your confirmation and start long all make speech. Oh, we could say something. Well, we want to say thank you. just want to say thank you to everybody here in San Angelo that are here this morning and sorry we didn't bring donuts but thank y'all so much and God bless y'all and we love y'all and we do go all over the world and say well from we are from

[0:16:46] San Angelo, Texas so whoever heard that we were saying Austin he got it wrong because we're from San Angelo. I would like to just say something on behalf of, you know, our good Lord Jesus Christ, you know, it's said in the scripture that no prophet is really ever known in his own town, you know, and those that come right out of the word. And for us to be noticed here in our hometown by the seat of St. Angelo does a great pleasure in our hearts to be up here accepting this. So thank you guys for just acknowledging who we are, too, because we are very proud to be where we're from. And St. Angelo, Texas keeps us strong when we go from here to Australia, to China, to Japan, and We let them all know we're just little bitty three Texas brothers from San Angelo, Texas So we're all we're all you know, we're all together on this so thank y'all for the proclamation and Jojo You want to say so I don't really have much more to add to that and my brothers usually they take the stage pretty well and You know truth is that like like they did say we do go all over this this world and You know it seems I guess unimaginable to some people but it's really really far away on the other side It takes a long time to get there, a long time to get back and all around, but you know, we grew up on all the streets of St. Angelo here. We really didn't grow up on the greener side, but to be really honest with you, it's green everywhere here for us. We love this place. We could tell anyone that we're from anywhere else along this place, in this country, in this world, but for some reason we can't, and we don't want to. don't want to stop Levinson Angelo and giving it the recognition that it deserves and we just want to say we love you San Angelo and thank you all very much for making us a part of San Angelo again on this special day. Thank you guys for your attention.

[0:19:13] Thank you guys for your attention. There will be a concert Saturday night, river stage, turning point, go listen to those lonely boys. And just as a matter of an FYI, my wife told Henry when he was at Lincoln Junior High and he was always doing his poetry. And even after Henry left, my wife continued each year to bring Henry back up and said this This is what poetry will do for a boy, and it helps parlay you kids to learn it. So, good to see you guys, thank you. Alright, Carla Payne, are you here, man? Please come forward. Do you have anyone else to bring with you? You buy yourself? Yes. I'm glad to have you, man. Sexual Awareness Month calls attention to the fact that sexual violence is widespread and impacts every community member of San Angelo, Texas, rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment impact our community, and statistics show one in five women and one in 33 men will be raped at some point in their lives. Black at EL 2011. Child sexual abuse prevention must be a priority to confront the reality that one in six boys and one in four girls will experience a sexual assault before age of 19, and the doobie at EL at 8 2005 is a reference for that. Young people experience heightened rates of sexual violence and youth ages 12 to 17 were two and a half times as likely to be victims of rape or sexual assault

[0:21:17] according to Schneider and Sickman in 2006 as a reference. We must work together to educate our community about sexual violence prevention, supporting survivors and speaking out against harmful attitudes and actions. The Consul Valley Rape Crisis Center strongly supports the efforts of national state and local partners and of every citizen to actively engage in public and private efforts to prevent sexual violence. It is time for all of us to take appropriate action and support one another to create a safer environment for all. Now, therefore, I, Duane Morse, and the Mayor of the City of San Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the City Council, join advocates and communities across the country in playing an active role to prevent sexual violence, and along the United States, along with the United States government, state of Texas, do hereby proclaim the month of April as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. leadership and dedication we can be successful in preventing sexual violence in San Angelo by increasing education awareness and community involvement. Thank you ma'am and you the microphone is yours. Thank you. Thank you. I want to thank the mayor and the city council for joining in the conversation about a sexual salt and rape. It's not something a lot of people like to talk about and it's not fun and fluffy and warm and fuzzy. In fact when people ask me where I work and I say the rape crisis center a lot of times they say oh the rape the the red cross because they don't want to hear that word rape and it is ugly and it's bad and we don't like it either but we do need to talk about it and we need to talk about it so it takes its power away. There's a saying in AA that we're only as sick as our secrets. So the more we talk about it, the more we address it, the more we can help victims of this crime, and the more we can hold offenders accountable, and the more we can prevent it from even happening. And the theme to this year's Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month is in our own backyard. And what that means is that these perpetrators

[0:23:22] are people we know. They're not some stranger who's jumping out of the bushes. It's not somebody who somebody we can just pick out of a crowd, it's somebody that we know we may even trust and love, could be somebody who is well known in the community, could be a celebrity, could be someone that nobody even thinks would even come close to doing anything like that, and they count on that. And so that's why we have to be careful. I'm not saying, you know, I don't want to scare everybody that, you know, everybody that you know could be a perpetrator, but perpetrators count on that. They count on that trust. They want to get close. And so we just have to be careful. And I just want to say that we have several events coming up this month that I want to invite everybody to this afternoon. We have an open house from three to five. We're in the basement of the Wells Fargo building and everybody is welcome to come to that. On the 25th we have a walk a mile in her shoes event, and that's kind of a fun way to get men involved in helping us raise awareness about sexual violence against women. Men put on high heel shoes, they walk around the courthouse, and it just gives them an idea of how uncomfortable it is to be a woman. So come and join us in that event. We would love to have you all, and anytime you have any questions or want to help, we do have volunteers, please give us a call. Thank you. Consul Valley Cares Coalition. Start coming forward. I've got another proclamation to read.

[0:25:27] Is it just me or is it hotter than fish grease in here? Good morning. Glad to have y'all. Alcohol is a primary factor in the four leading causes of death for young persons ages 10 through 21. Almost 100,000 persons die each year from alcohol related causes, drinking and driving crashes, other accidents, falls, fires, alcohol-related homicides and suicides. Approximately 15 million current drinkers in the United States are dependent upon alcohol. Adolescents use alcohol more than tobacco or illicit drugs. Young people begin drinking on average at 13.1 years of age. Young people who begin drinking before age 15 are four times more likely to develop alcohol dependence than those who begin drinking at age 21. All abuse is a major factor in unprotected sex, increasing risk of contracting HIV or other transmitted diseases. The typical American will see 100,000 alcohol related commercials before he or she turns 18. And for all these reasons, the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council for the Consul Valley and Consul Valley Cares is asking the residents of the City of San Angelo to join the theme in recognizing April as Alcohol Awareness Month. Therefore, I do Wayne Morrison, the Mayor of the City of St. Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the City Council, though hereby proclaimed the month of April as Alcohol Awareness Month, in St. Angelo and call upon all residents, parents, governmental agencies, public and private institutions, businesses, hospitals, schools and colleges in the City of St. Angelo to support efforts that will increase community awareness and support for individuals and families coping with alcoholism in our community. gets the speech. Good morning. We'd like to thank you for having us here today and as we raise awareness as to alcoholism in our community. I'd like to introduce some of the fine people I have here with me today. This is Paulette Schell. She is our prevention director at the

[0:27:29] Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council and also for the CV CARES or Country Valley CARES Coalition. This is Ray Valdez. He is our program director for the Contravality Care Coalition, and I am Latanya Smith. I am the outreach coordinator for Contravality Care. We'd like to thank you for your support as we go about this community working in our mission, which is to reduce substance use in our community with our focus being on youth. And with us being a part of the ADAC, which is the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council, we'd I'd also like to thank you for your support as we work to save lives and create healthier communities. Thank you very much. Anyone else? I choose Angelo State. Y'all come start coming forward please. It is always a pleasure to have my central kids and have ASU kids here today. It is very good to see each and every one of you. Angelo State University and the community of San Angelo are partnering together in celebration of current students, future students, faculty, staff and alumni who have chosen to participate in the auspices of higher education at Angelo State University. Angelo State University with an enrollment of 6,494 undergraduate and graduate students is an integral part of the City of San Angelo and is set to be all of higher learning in West Texas and it employs 350 faculty members, 500 staff members and 700 student workers who are a vital part of our community.

[0:29:30] The University has graduated 41,670 students since its inception in 1965. Angelo State University Educational Opportunities have grown to include one doctoral degree in physical therapy, 20 master's degree programs, 43 undergraduate degree programs, and over 100 majors and concentrations. Angelo State University is this year celebrating its 86th graduating class. I choose Angelos State Month at Angelos State University. We'll be celebrated by current students, future students, faculty, staff, and alumni through campus events, social media, and local media outlets. Now, therefore, I, the Wayne Morrison, mayor of the city of San Angelo, Texas, on behalf of the city council, they'll hereby proclaim the month of April 215 as I chose Angelos State Month. In San Angelo and call upon the citizens of our area to recognize this remarkable display of pride in our community and the comprehensive educational opportunities at Angelo State University. Thank you, sir. Thank you. You've had the microphone. On behalf of Angelo State University, the 6,400 and some odd students which were this fall, we look for 8,000 students at our university, on behalf of them. I'd like to thank the mayor and the city council for recognizing our university. The partnership that we have with with the City of San Angelo is so important to both of us. And we look forward to working with the mayor, the city council, and all city leaders to strengthen that partnership and to make sure that we provide educational opportunities for all of those who need those. I have a number of folks here with me that I'd like to introduce, Dr. Javier Flores, who is the Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management, Ms. Angie Wright, who is Vice President for Finance and Business, Charlotte Adams, who is the Director of Enrollment Management, Jamie Aiken, who is the Director of our Development Efforts.

[0:31:35] We got a number of other folks. I don't want to take time to let Charlotte do that. So again, thank you for recognizing Angelo State University, and we look forward to continuing success. Charlotte? Thank you, Dr. Topliffe. Thank you, Mr. Mayor Morrison and City Council, we really appreciate the recognition. This is a celebration of all that is Angelo State University and we are excited to recognize some new members who will join us in the fall. We're excited about them becoming part of the Ram family and then we have individuals that will welcome them into the Ram family. Let me take a minute to recognize them. From San Angelo Central High School, we have Katie Dunlap and Becky Bracken, Director of Communications in marketing is welcoming her to the Ram family. San Angelo Lakeview High School, Elizabeth Martinez, and Dr. Topliff, our Provost, recognizing her. TLCA High School, Kristen, I apologize. Shot, Scotty, and Jamie Aiken, Director of Development. Cornerstone High School, Makayla Allen, and then Kimberly Adams, Director of the Alumni Association. Greg Creek High School, Rachel Rathmull, and Dr. Flores, Vice President of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management. Garden City High School, Hope Allen, and then Angie Wright, VP of Finance, and Wild High School, Lane Oliver, Susie Duschek, Director of Enrollment Management Operations. We will recognize you as well. If you attended Angelo State University, would you stand for me, please? If you chose to work at Angelos State University, will you stay in? If you have to pay for someone, go to Angelos State University, will you stay in? OK.

[0:33:35] Raise your ram hearts for me on three. We're going to say go Rams. One, two, three, go Rams. Thank you. Now we're waiting for the Rams. Let me do one more recognition. And then we do have a song, the Low Slowly Boys. Goodness, I did it again. Low Slowly Boys. not the Los Lonely Boys. Los Lonely Boys will play us one song. They're bringing your instruments in. So let's do the Russell family. If y'all would come forward, let's do this recognition, and then we'll have Los Lonely Boys play us. Good morning, gentlemen. Good, very well. If there is a Russell family business, it is without question public safety. Six Russell men representing three generations

[0:35:35] have logged more than 117 years of service County, providing fire and police protection to San Angelo citizenry. Patriarch A.B. Russell launched the family tradition in April 1951 when he joined the San Angelo Fire Department. He served 25 years and 10 months leaving the fire service in March 1977. Larry Russell Sr. was the longest serving so far of the family, amassing 30 years and 9 months with S.A.F.D. retiring as a driver on May 14, 2000. Larry Russell Jr. has served the S.A.F.D. for 24 years in County, working as a driver for nearly 20 years now. Chata, CB Russell is also a driver, having earned the rank on November 1, 2004. He joined the S.A.F.D. on offer 1, 2002 and has served as a firefighter for 14 years and five months. Jordan Russell has been a San Angelo firefighter since February 6, 2006 and is approaching his 10th year with the S.A.F.D. James Russell have taken a different path to public service and protecting the citizenry, he is a police officer, having joined the San Angelo Police Department more than 12 years ago on February 1, 2003. Today we applaud all six Russell's, their mothers, their wives and the children who have supported them despite the inherent dangers of their professions and the service they have and continue to render the public in our time of greatest need. Therefore, I, Duane Morrison, Mayor of the City of San Angelo on behalf of the City Council, Do hereby recognize and applaud the Russell's AB, Larry Senior, Larry Jr., CB, Jordan and James for the dedication and positive determination to make a difference in our community. I can't give you one, I can't give you the one of them to make a speech but we're very proud of each and every one of you and we thank you. What do you want to picture at right here? Let's get back and get picked. Low slowly boys, are you here and ready?

[0:38:03] Hey, Dwayne. Yes. Hensley family? You want some Hensley? What do you want? Huh? What do you want? Huh? What do you want to brine right there? Yeah, sorry. Drummer. Is there a share we can get for Henry? No. Can we just grab one of these shares? Yeah, absolutely. Absolutely. Say it. Just grab one of those shares. All right. So just a second here. You should play right here on the simple little zone. Yeah, I'll hold that. All right. Let me play the drums. All right, I'm holding the front. We've never done this. I'm just going to talk to you. Let's go. Down. We go, see you, see. Don't worry about what you don't have. Make a man inside.

[0:42:30] That the St. Angelou City Council meeting ever represented with the Hensley family here. Y'all would start coming forward. Good morning. Good to have y'all here. Hello, Miss Hensley. I think you should. Hello there. One for her, and we want to be here. That's right. Plans have amassed as long and distinguished a record of service of fire service or public service to St. Angelo as the Hinsleys, who contributed in excess of 100 years of their collective lives to the St. Angelo Fire Department. The late Roscoe Bud Hinsley launched the family's proud tradition as fire service when he joined the S.A.F.D. on January 1, 1957 and retired as a Lieutenant on May 1, 1991 after 33 years in 10 months. During that span, Bud Hensley career overlapped those of his two sons. Mike Hensley's career began with the SFD on February 1, 1972. He served even longer than his father, 35 years, 3 and a half months, retiring as an engineer on May 15, 2007. Curtis Hensley joined SFF Day on February 16, 1979, 7 years after his older brother Curtis retired 30 years than one half months later on March 1st, 213 having attained the rank of Captain. Although this recognition is belated, it is heartfelt in expressing our deepest gratitude and admiration not only to Bud, to Mike, and to Curtis Hensley for their selfish dedication to the San Angelo Fire Department but to the mothers, wives, sons, and daughters in their lives who shared with us, shared them with us in our times of need. Therefore, I, Dwayne Morrison, Mayor of the City of San Angelo on behalf of the City Council

[0:44:31] to hereby recognize and applaud Roscoe Bud Hensley, Mike Hensley Curtis Hensley for the dedication and positive determination to make a difference in our community. And there's a process of recognition, and you want to make a big fan of that. I just want to say thank you to everyone. We lost Bud seven years ago at the end of this month, and he was a dedicated farmer. I thank God for protecting him, for my two sons, Curtis and Mike, for protecting them. And I just want to thank the City of St. Angelo for giving us the time to serve you. My father and brother and I spent the majority of our lives serving the citizens of St. Angelo and Tongering County gladly and helping ensure the public safety through the fire service. We're honored that you would recognize us for that this morning. And we thank you for that. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We have one more. Jeff, you and Mike want to come forward and who, however, whoever else you have back there for the Standard Times, good morning, gentlemen, Jeff. The San Angelo Standard Times has for more than 100 years provided an important platform

[0:46:36] and available service to our community. That is, on a daily basis, a newspaper of record informs, educates, and enlightens our citizenry on the issues that interest and impact them most. This was perhaps never more evident as when the Standard Times published a special 24-page report last year on St. Angelo's most pressing issue, titled, Watching Our Water, Earning the prestigious Team Effort Award from the Texas Associated Press, Managing Editors at the Group's Annual State Convention on March 29. A judge in the competition called the effort a sterling effort at informing a drought-stricken community about how and where it gets water and what individuals in the community can do about it. The works of three Standard Times journalists also were honored by the Texas APME, Business Rider Denise Morris in one second place in business reporting for a story on the local real estate market. Photo editor Patrick Dove earned an honorable mention in the star photojournalist of the year contest and copy editor Deborah Parker garnered third place honors in the headline category. Additionally, the Standard Times website, go to SanAngelo.com, received an honorable mention in the online newspaper of the year category. Therefore, I, Duane Morrison, the Mayor of the City of San Angelo, on behalf of the City Council do hereby recognize and applaud the San Angelo Standard Times for its dedication and positive determination to make a difference in our community. Microphone belongs to you. Thanks, Council and Mayor for this recognition. We're happy to be recognized by the Associated Press for the Watcher on Water Project. But more than that, we felt privileged to be able to serve the community with this effort about this very important resource, and we're going to continue to do that because as we all know, the next drought out there with our name on it is just lingering waiting to come in. I'd also like to give special thanks to our city hall reporter and local government water

[0:48:41] reporter Monique Ching. She played a key role in this and she's she's got some recognition for that. Thanks very much. Monique, come on up here Monique. Yes, get her up there. Young talent. We had a room full of young people earlier. She's very representative of the young talent we have right here in San Angelo and the Consul Valley and not much I can add to what Mike said, but that's one of our number one priorities at the standard times in Go San Angelo is to serve this community however we can to make this place a better place to live and thank you city council and Duane for recognizing us today. and I think Monique was the employee of the year was she not that's what I thought I want to thank all of our firemen that are here today that came to honor the two families I appreciate very much y'all coming in to to show your support thank you very much it only took 54 minutes it is now time for public comment let me read the formalities and the legalities. The Council takes comment, public comment on all items in the regular agenda. Public input on a regular agenda item will be taken as appropriate discussion. Public input on an item not on the agenda or consent agenda may be identified and requested

[0:50:43] for consideration by the Council at this time. The Council may request an item to be placed on a future agenda or for a consent agenda item removed to the regular agenda for public comment. On public hearing items, public input will be received on each item immediately following the council discussion and prior to any action on the item. Each member of the public should make three remarks from the podium and begin by stating their name. Remarks by each citizen will be limited to three to five minutes unless weighed by a council member for all speaking on that matter. No individual will be allowed to speak more than once on any one subject until every citizen wishing to comment has done so. This is the time in which we allow the public to come to the microphone. We allow you to make public comment on anything you want to say, good or bad, pro or con. So, form a line. Harry, here first. Thank you. Harry Thomas, community volunteer. I've been coming to the council meeting consistently for about three years and one of the items we've always talked about or consistently talked about were streets. Now, I know we've got a group out there that's doing mapping of the but I also know that we've had some really extremely bad weather this this winter and I anticipate that that particular report that was due in April if my memory is correct is probably going to be delayed because of all the ice and cold weather that we've got. I know the roads today are worse than they were six months ago so what I'd like to do is have the council instruct the staff to start looking at contracts, looking at those two or three road streets that they know are going to be top priority. I don't want to wait two or three months down the road when we get this report. It'll still take two months to get bids out in another at least another month. We're going to be into the fall season again. Citizens don't want to worry about another year without getting some some forward progress on some of these streets. So I'd encourage you to consider having the

[0:52:47] staff go ahead and go forward and don't wait specifically on that report till we get it back. Thank you. Thank you Harry. Good morning sir. I'm well. I'm Bernays Sheffield, a co-owner of Zentner Star State House and past president of the Texas Restaurant Association and I just want to make a few comments on a number I think on your agenda, I assume this is tough, may do this or not. No. Comments on the agenda. No. Okay. Not until we get to the item. Okay. That's why we asked first. Yes. Okay. Thank you. I'm sorry. No problem. Thank you, sir. We'll get to you, though. Yes, ma'am. Good morning. My name's Ginger McRacker, and I'm with Christians United for Israel. And I wanted to invite our city council and our citizens to a special event, May 17th. And it will be held here at the Convention Center at seven o'clock. We're bringing in guest speaker Irving Roth. He is a Holocaust survivor and we are wanting to bless the Jewish people, bless Israel. And we also wanted to bring a blessing upon San Angelo. And the event is free. Again, it's at seven o'clock and we would love for all of you to come. Thank you. Thank you very much, ma'am. any other public comment? This is your opportunity. If there is no more, no further public comment, then I will open it up to the council for anyone that wish to make remarks or announcements or to move anything from the consent to the regular agenda. Start with you, Ms. Grindstaff. The only thing I have mayor is that I'll have my next neighborhood chat on April 20th. That's It's a Monday night prior to our next council meeting, I believe, and Chief Vasquez is going

[0:54:49] to be a guest, and we'll see what he wants to say about a possible charter election as well as maybe the need for a new police station. What would the meeting be held? I don't have the location, but I'll call your office Daniel, so if anyone wants to know that they'll have it and it'll also be on my Facebook page. Okay. Thank you. Don? I have nothing. Ms. Farmer? I have nothing to pull from consent. I do have a town hall meeting called Let's Talk. This Thursday, April 9th, 6 p.m. at the TLC Church. We will have department heads on hand that are look over our streets and development and various traffic concerns and people from the police department to answer citizen questions. You're all invited The next town hall meeting will be May 21st at Southon Baptist Church at 6 p.m And it will be one subject of trash in the collection and the recycle items and would love for everyone to attend the mayor is going to be there and So if you want to Bring rocks to throw at him. That's okay. I appreciate it At least they'll make sure they don't hit me and I believe our city manager is going to be there as well That's it. Thank you, ma'am. John. Did you have any thanks? I just want quick little comment, you know, I appreciate the folks out there that play eyes and ears for this council person Gary gets does a lot for me and Makes me aware of issues out there another one David can and who happened to call me and this is for I guess for S.A. P.D or Shane Kelton or anybody around the 600 block of Upton there are some speeding cars going through there and kids playing in the streets they're afraid is I'm giving you a heads-up that there's cars speeding here I would hate for a

[0:56:50] kid to get hit by one of these folks that didn't abide by the by the speeding speed limit so anyway the 600 block of Upton if anybody out there's listening, S.A.P.D. or any one of our folks, Shane would, okay, just wanted to share that. Thank you, sir. Marty, do you have any thanks, sir? I'm not at this time. Rodney, do you have any thanks, sir? Not at this time. Okay. All right, then it looks like our consent agenda will... Motion to approve. Do you have a motion to approve? It's presented. Marty has seconded it. Do I have any further council comment on this? Do I have any comment from the public as far as to consent agenda motion has been made do we accept all in favor please say I oppose nay put a seven on that one please it is 101 y'all want to take a 15-minute break just let's take a 15-minute break just 11 up since Bernays here and he's got a lunch rush and Zentner's daughter but let me before you come up Bernay let me get council approval on this because I may not get it Rodney, what do you say about it? Yes. Marty. Yes. Johnny. Since he slipped me some freon onion rings. I'm okay. I'm okay with him. Charlie. I'm fine. How about you, dad? You bit. I don't really believe anyone in the room is any important, any more important than anybody else. But, Bernay, you have everybody else's vote in my support. So, it looks like you're gonna get it anyway. Number 11 is discussion. Our fighters, you just sit there. Y'all just wait. Number 11 is discussion and direction to staff regarding the incorporation of a letter grade system thereby supplementing the routine food establishment inspection to merit system and posting of the grade in front entrances of retail food establishments requested by council member Fleming presentation by health services director, Sanda Villarreal. The O-R-R-E-O. Villarreal, someone asked me to spell that this weekend and I went.

[0:58:51] S-I-E-M-D-R-I. It's a real village in English, real village. I think she's telling me about the idea of that standard. Well, good morning again, Council and Mayor. Very briefly, Mr. Fleming wanted us to go ahead and explore the possibility of using a grading system instead of our demerit system that we normally use or are we currently using today. Just to show you the landscape of what we do deal with on a yearly average basis, we have about roughly 530 and 540 food establishments and we are always in a state of flux. So that's why I kind of just gave you an average. And as you can see there are the number of different kinds of retail food establishments that we do have, I won't point those out individually. Our current system is a demerit system when an inspection is done, the number of points that are basically taken out, that is the score. So we have 27 debited indicators in the inspection form, on the inspection form, five of those are five pointers and then nine or four and then thirteen or three points. So once the inspection is done, let's say that restaurant ex, for example, here, had two violations of five points, one of four and three, they had 17 total points, demerit, that is their score of 17. So really you're looking at it, lower score is actually better, it's a better score than a higher score. And we do post those monthly, so we have the current month posted, actually right now it's February. I haven't gone to the month, but we do that on a monthly basis. We do post the ones that we did that month onto the website. And versus the letter grading system, and this

[1:00:52] is what Mr. Fleming would like to see, basically it translates the demerit score into something that's more recognizable that we all know, which is the A, B, and C system. We all went to school. We all know what that means. And so basically it's taking your demerit points. zero to ten would be between a ninety and a hundred score which would be an a so and as you can see there and then at that point the what we can do is if council you know requests we can post that letter grade along with the inspection form and I did see I well there is a current study out of the National Association of City County Health Officials did a study and the report went out last year. And so what they did is they sent out a survey to, a random survey to what you can see there, 25, a little over 2,500 LHDs, actually, not even LHDs, just anybody that does any kind of inspections. And they took 20% random of that, which was 531, those were local health departments. Of that, 79 responded to their survey, and 75% used a numerical score, a 17% used the letter grade, and 16% used a combination, so they can do the demerit, you've got your inspection form, plus your grade, and then they post both of those, that's a combination. And according to the study, the perception on the impact of that food safety and establishment, 59 perceived it would impact on attention so that actually someone would pay more attention to the food safety, 58 perceived improvement on the food safety according to that study. I also, back in October, sent out an email to my counterparts, Texas Association of Local

[1:02:56] health officials and asking if anybody else in the state used the grading system and there was a little over 75 contacts. I only had four responses. They all used the demerit system. Now Austin would like to and it is moving towards a possibility of doing the grading system. I did actually follow up with one of the other contacts who said that look at the city of Rosenberg and then also Town of Little Elm, both of those are using a grading system and I actually spoke to the person at Town of Little Elm and basically that is it. And it's just a matter of what council's preference would be and it's a stuff for discussion as to what y'all wanted to see. It doesn't impact the inspection, the inspection stays the same, use the same form, it's just a matter of translating that score into a great system. Rodney, start with you. You asked for this. Okay. I asked for it, but I had several people approach me and ask me after I'd mentioned it before in a council meeting I think a year ago or more. And actually in the last two days I've had a lot of phone calls. And normally when I get a lot of phone calls it's negative. I get a lot of people that are very mad at me. Every person that called me in the last two days has been very positive. They would love to see a grading system. And it's very confusing. One of the things that you said, Sandra, was a lower grade is a better grade. Well, that's completely opposite of pretty much how all of us were raised, where the one to 100, 100 being the best, one being the worst zero is how most people see it. So I think that doing the letter grade system would be a positive and move us into the right direction. It also allowed people to understand how the restaurant did a little bit better.

[1:04:57] There was a couple of things that we had talked about and you didn't mention here on this report. I was posting the letter grade and that was the call that I got the most on and I know I know Bernays is going to talk about this here in a minute, but in several cities nationwide, big cities nationwide, they have postings of the grades on the doors. A lot of people, or everybody that I talked to on the phone was for that. I know that a lot of restaurant owners wouldn't be for that, and when I researched, did my research and found a lot of these studies, I found that the bigger cities did a deal where where they would do the inspection and you would get your score and then you would have, you could have a seven day period or a ten day period to have a re-inspect so you didn't immediately have, let's say your food establishment had an A and you just, on an off day, you got a C. You'd have seven to ten days to correct that, they would come and re-inspect, the owner would have to pay for a re-inspect and they would come and re-inspect and that would be your final grade. So it's not a deal where you just get killed right there because all of us that have been in the food industry know that there are times where if that inspector shows up you're going to get a bad grade. I mean it's just the luck of the draw sometimes. And so I really like that idea of being able to do that and then for us, for me I know that we post these grades, but I know that no one goes and looks at those. I've never, I don't even know where it's at on our website, to be honest with you, and I probably would know more than the general public out there. So I like the idea somewhat of posting, I'm not posting on the storefront, but I'm not hung up on that. What I would like to see though is the letter grade system put in place that we had at least post that on our site wherever they could go, and then they would know if it's an A, it's an A, if it's a B, it's a B. And we still give them the time to do the, to re-inspect seven, ten days. We can decide

[1:06:57] that as a council, all of us. And I think that's a fair thing to do for the general public out there. And I gave you all a couple examples of some ordinances, actually both of those. So that just kind of gives you an idea of how they could be written. And yes, you can post in the front if you so wish, and we can do it, like you say, on the side. Well, I think I would be more in favor of starting out with doing the posting to our website, but doing it to a letter grade instead of doing the numerical grade. And then when doing my research, I think one of the biggest issues was that the restaurants in the bigger places had issues because they were only really inspected, and they are only inspected once a year. whereas we really do try to make every attempt to go anywhere from two to four times a year so we definitely visit restaurants more often here than in larger cities and we do have over 500, 500, 500 establishments but we still try you know two and a half inspectors really make every effort to do it you know two to four times a year so and I know that gives up the opportunity opportunity as well to improve And I know the majority of our restaurant owners out there are quality first-class restaurants and they're going to get good grades on most of these things, but I also know, and I think Bernal will talk about this at any given time, somebody could set a towel over on the sink or whatever that's out of place, and you can get a bad grade. So I think that you could correct that by doing the seven or ten days. And a lot of those can be corrected even on site, the towel over the hand wash thing, correct it on site. It's not that critical, but there are certain critical points that, yeah, you're going to It obviously took some time to get to that point, so. There are also restaurants though that are in the city that, you know, and I went to one last month where it was super bad. And I noticed, I mean, violation after violation, and I'm not an expert, but it freaked me out.

[1:08:57] Enough to the point where I would never go back there again. And that's what I, you know, that's one of those things where I want to stop that if we can or help do that and help people if if if that place consistently got a C and everybody knows it's a C you know I probably wouldn't want to go to a C restaurant I probably would want to go to an A or B restaurant always if they consistently get higher marks on their on their inspections. That's all I have. Marty. Well you just said one thing that kind of concerned me that if I understood your right that that they're it's They're going to get a bad grade if they, I take it, we inspect sometimes without notice. Oh, they don't have time. We never get noticed. They're just unannounced. A bad grade would be a bad grade. I wouldn't want to. I mean, I guess I'm not opposed to giving them time to correct, but you'd want the good grade all the time. Yeah. Yeah, every restaurant they have to be prepared every single day and be doing those things correctly every single time Or for the most part. I mean they should be for food safety purposes, so okay John I'm actually teeter tottering like I told Ronnie earlier that you know I've got the pros and cons but my question to you is how often are these establishments? inspected and what is the norm every two to four times a year so once a quarter if it's a four yeah it's like a risk for highly complex systems are in place we would go four times a year normally three times so about once a quarter if not every four through four months and I know we'll hear I know we'll hear from Bernay, but I would think that if I'm a restaurant and I'm clean and I do all my

[1:10:57] things right and I get an A, I would be proud of it. I would want to display it. So when I hear from those folks that say that they're against even this idea, it kind of, you know, it confuses me thinking, why wouldn't you be proud to display your A? Now, on the other hand, if I've got a restaurant out there and I've visited few and I haven't been back, But it's amazing how they could be a C or a D, in my opinion. I mean, that's my opinion, but yet, folks still go there. I guess we have our own preference of where we go. There'll be a restaurant that I don't agree with and I won't be. That's my prerogative, but still, that's where I'm in between. I really don't know which way I'm leaning. And I guess more discussion is needed. This is a discussion only. I'm OK with it. So, direction. Ms. Johnny? Well, more government in personal private business needs to butt out. I'm sorry. We grade them and inspect them two to four times a year. It's posted on the internet. The restaurants know when they're doing their business. And like Johnny just said, and Mr. Fleming just said, people regardless of a grade will go because they trust and they like the food and they go. and we don't need to be adding and getting involved anymore, then our inspections for health and safety purposes, which we do. Now, I don't have a problem changing it to a lettering system, A, B, C, D. I do have a problem with posting it at the door. There again, people have their preferences and I don't think that the restaurant owners, because of training processes or a few mishaps should go from an A to a D and not have the time to correct. And it's that picture thought in people's mind out there, oh, they're a D. Well, what does the D represent?

[1:12:58] Did they fail in taste? Did they fail in the heat of the food, being the storage in the coldness in the cold room? Did they fail in the cleanliness? I mean, what do those letters represent? And that would be very important for me to post the inspection form as well, because some of those are not as critical, and therefore at least someone can say, okay, it was this violation, that's not so bad, even though they got this score, but it wasn't as bad. So that would give the client or the customer something to look at, okay, this is why they made it B instead of an A. They had some cold, hot, cold violation or something, but it was a five point, it wasn't as bad. I just don't think that the city should get involved in a third party inspection. It's kind of like an appraiser, an appraiser. It's a third party opinion. My business and me the customer, or you the customer out there. So at third party post a grade, and I may disagree with their perception or their how they came about that grade or that inspection. That's the reason I like the idea of posting the form. people can see what went into it and what was made. I do have a couple of questions I want to ask you. Do we permit from the health department street vendors? They have to go through us. If it is someone that's just selling pre-packaged items, they don't really get a permit from us. However, they still need to go see us and visit us, and then take a form that we all sign off on to the police department, and they sign off on an itinerant Martins permit okay what about catering businesses catering businesses a retail food establishment we would have to it is a retail food estate it falls in that category so a caterer that rents a venue or somewhere would still have to have the permit to serve food to the public if it's a private matter a private

[1:15:01] party not necessarily no but if it is subject to public and the public is invited, then we would have to, whether it's a temporary permit, or if it's a retail food establishment, that someone that is actually permitted annually to be a caterer or a temporary event caterer, basically, you're just making everything on-site and you're serving to the body. Well, do you have a problem with posting a grade or a point system at the front door? The fact that it's inspected, it's got the cities permit and inspected and the people know that the city makes the inspections, I don't think we should be in the business of advertising to the people as to what their rating or their standing is. I mean, you could say the same for a fence building business. Let's go out of here and post on your office. Are you an A, B, C, D or an F fence builder? That's a personal opinion of others, the same with a real estate office. You know, you want to post on the front doors of that real state offices to whether they're good at selling real estate, they're poor at, or don't do the paperwork. There's just so many things that go into that grade, and you can't post just one piece of paper at the door without cluttering up the whole building, but explaining how you got to that determination. That's my feeling on the matter, and I'm most interested in hearing from the Restaurant Association as to how they feel after I've heard that. Charlotte, a de-grating is like delicious. That's what it stands for. Delicious done deal right now. What you got? I'd like to hear from Bernai before did you want to how about you Liz, but you want to know that will first Sandra Okay, can I do that? Yes, okay Sandra. What is your recommendation on this my recommendation? I? Don't really have a recommendation because we're doing what we're supposed to be doing and we go out and inspect and Sandra, you know me better than that. You're our public health official. I'd like to know what your opinion is on this

[1:17:02] you've done a very good job in presenting the issue and knowing both sides and investigating. The grade is good. The grade is good because it actually just gives the public a way to interpret what the score is. Yeah, the merit system is a little different. Higher is lower than the advice of versa. So, yeah, A, B, or C is good. It allows people to interpret to basically say this is this is what this is what their score is. It's just a simplified version of what we're doing. Just makes it easier. Now as far as posting, that doesn't really matter, but the A, B, or C is always good. It's easier for people to interpret. And if we operated in the way that Councilman Fleming just explained where there was a return to that facility in 10 days or something like that, What kind of staffing requirements do you see? Because how many, can you remind me how many sanitarians you have on staff right now? I have two and a half, sorry, two and a half. Two and a half for 500. Well over 500, okay. So if we were to do a return, what kind of staffing requirements do you see? We do follow-ups now on some occasions, especially if they're pretty bad. So, and I will say that probably about 85, 90% of our places now would probably get an A. So that leaves maybe 15% that we would have to revisit if they still chose to get revisited. That's, again, it's up to the property, me and it, or the property owner to decide if they want to re-inspect or not. So I don't, I can't say that for sure, I just really don't know. I mean, are you worried about that if that's 75 more inspection? That's what Sandra said. You know, what she does now is she inspects two to four times a year we shoot for, which,

[1:19:03] as Sandra pointed out, that's more than some communities do. So you would have the option of whether you want to add additional staff or actually her number of inspections that she does might reduce. So worst case scenario, that's what happens is that she's not doing two to four. She's doing one. The state guidelines say two at least two We are actually going above and beyond to threes and fours, but if we can just get to Twice a year, and that's what the state rules say We'd be doing what the state suggests. So I think we're doing pretty good with the staff that we do have and And can you please clarify, you said that these ratings, the current scores are on the city's website? Just the current month's rate, the current month that we did. Okay, so if somebody was inspected six months ago, it doesn't show up. And we used to, we used to do the yearly, we would have all the years there. The problem is there, it's all scanned into basically A to C, so you'd have to look for it. We can't just say, oh, let me look at Olive Garden and go to an O. I mean, you can go to the O's, but you don't know if it was done that month or not. You'd have to see. You have no idea how old the information is. Now, unless they call the office and say, when did you all do it, then we could actually physically go to the file and look. Okay. Those are all the questions I have right now. Okay. Johnny, you had one more? I did. Right now, are there any restaurants, bakeries, et cetera, that would have rated low that are open for business? Or do we ever shut them down? We will shut someone down. And we have, if they have no hot water, if they have no cooling, and they've got things that are, I mean, actually no hot water, and if there's sewage backup, those are the only two times that we can say,

[1:21:04] We've closed somebody down. So it's safe to say there's not any one out there running their business with this type of low, low grade. No, we have a couple that are in the low, probably low 70s. But there's still, it would still be a seat. It would not be a fail. Just curious. Thank you. Randy? Well, just a comment on Charlotte's comment on the grading system being out there. And I can live with just putting the ABC system on the internet, I think that the general public from what I heard would prefer to have it on the door, but if this is what the council wants and now I'll be fine with that. But when we're grading these, this is not a personal opinion. I disagree with her tremendously on this, this is an inspector's opinion and it's not a third party, it's our, it's a city inspector. So it's not a third party that's involved in that. And when she was saying, you know, you grade a real state office, for example, realtors don't serve you food that could kill you. So that's a foodborne illness that we're trying to prevent and keep this from going on. So this is not a business. That's the reason why we inspect food establishments is the safety for our citizens. So I think this is pretty much in just like your recommendation, going to the ABC system, I really don't think it even, it really changes anything for you. We'll use the same forms, we'll do the same thing. And when you talked about doing the re-inspects, well, if it was a bad inspection, you do the re-inspect anyways, within usually what, seven, 10 days? Depending on the violation, anywhere from 10 days to up to the next, depending again on the violation, up to the next inspection. So you're not requiring any additional man hours or to go out there and redo that.

[1:23:05] So I think that we're covered on that as far as that goes. And if these are bad businesses that are open, you know, we want them to be gone. We want them to, or we want them to at least get up to where they should be, where they should be great at that and be safe for everybody that's involved. That is correct. Sandra, to clarify, I think as far as the posting on the website, there's really not a way for us to easily post those every day. And so while we're posting it monthly, and we can work with Anthony or something to make a location where maybe it's easier for those to be found, it's still going to be more of a monthly type posting. It'll be monthly, right? And so it will give some of that time for correction as that happens. If we had more staff than, yeah, like Elizabeth was pointing out, you could do some of those more inspections or post it every day. But right now with our current staff, posting every day is gonna be pretty much impossible. So we'll have a little bit of that time. And of course, in larger cities, they do have electronic, that's something I briefly mentioned today, and you know, they have electronic inspections and everything's just right there. And I mean, they've got a way to, someone can just easily call it up. And in all of that, we don't have that luxury. But that is something we would ask council to look at as we need about with we need to move towards that direction exactly and I have one less comment Sandra and I get I had a comment from a small mom and pop food service establishment and I'm playing the devil's advocate here I feel that is if I'm that owner I feel that you guys are nitpicking everything I do because I'm on a smaller scale versus the cheddar's or the olive gardens or is that what do you tell the form. The form is the exact same form. Okay. They have 27. In this current form, there's 27 indicators and they look at all of those. Of course, there's a thicker book and I did not bring that. There's some other items in there that

[1:25:06] could also be noted, but they don't have points taken off of them. There's only 27 and those are the only ones we take points. So there's no difference. Let's Let's open it up to the public comment. Vernet, did you have? He's on the phone. Well, as I said earlier, past president's Texas Restaurant Association. First of all, I'd like to compliment all of our inspectors in the health department. They did an excellent job, as you just heard a number of people we have out there in the number. They have to inspect some believable. And, you know, we could talk a whole lot, a lot of things came up just while we were talking, you know, on the re-inspection of stuff. As you mentioned, I don't know what type of person they'll have many more people we'd have to have and all that type of thing. We're happy with the system. We'll go along with anything that improves the system as far as the grading because our interest is in the, you know, safety of our customers and health. I guess what I'm going to be addressing more than anything is the posting. And before we just jump out and start posting it on the front window, I think a lot of research needs to be going into that and thinking through. But I would like to just maybe read my comments before I go off on a whole lot of rabbit trails and waste everybody's time and be more effective that way, I believe, time-wise. And again, the main thing I'm here about is the posting.

[1:27:07] We'll do anything that would improve the system to help them out, you know, we've always had a good grade, but you know, when they come by, we immediately, that minute, take care of the situations they roll us up, well, however small. And so I'm just, if it's okay with you, I'm just gonna read this to save time, and that's why it deals with more than anything. So I'm just gonna say, of course, I said it in a different way, but food safety is non-negotiable. It's a priority issue to the restaurant and food service industry. The industry is committed to being professional. We certainly do not condone restaurants violate good sanitation procedures or health codes. However, the snapshot, isolated inspection examples, like grades posted on the windows, do not represent a picture in our opinion, in, you know, the entire industry is important to educate the public about what grades mean before requiring restaurants to post them publicly. And teach them how to go to the web page and get that. And if we had the whole form that they inspect us on, on the wind of two, who's going to read all that? And we're concerned about that. The Health Department inspection sheet, while a matter of public record is a really working document that is provided by the Health Department is not designed to serve as a guide post to general consumer as to the quality or purity of the food served in a restaurant.

[1:29:09] The fact that a restaurant is open for business indicated that no health hazard existed at that establishment. If an eating place posts a risk to human health, it is closed on the spot and should be closed. Health inspection report records items that in many cases are fixed during the inspection. up during their inspection. Structure issues entirely unrelated to food safety may result in a low score, and since the next inspection will occur months later, the report will not reflect the current conditions on the restaurant. Any public postings of health inspection, results should be accurate, objective, timely, comparable to previous inspections, easy to understand for laypersons and indicated indication of food safety only. At inspection violations, listed publicly should be directly related to food safety, such as holding temperatures of food items, non-food safety violations, such as cracked The floor tiles do not pose a threat to public health and can be misleading if non-food safety violations to be listed, they should clearly be identified as such. Rate existence should be modified, do not mislead the public about potential health hazards. For example, critical food safety violations should be corrected immediately or the facility should be closed while evaluation is not related

[1:31:11] to food safety, do not endanger public health, a pass or fail or closed grade system publicly, post unexpected results rather than a number or later grade system. It's the most accurate and way of informing the public the status of an individual food service establishment. A full description and significance of any food safety violation, for example, grade should accompany public listings to avoid misinterpretation and inaccuracy. Food safety violations have been corrected by food service establishments, should be acknowledged immediately to let the public know there's no continuing problem. Violations and inspection reports challenged by the food service establishment should be listed as such to avoid conveying the subjective inaccurate or unfounded information. As a creation and maintenance of a website can be costly and time-consuming, health departments need to ensure that enough funds and personnel are available to maintain accurate and up-to-date information on the site without reducing the number of quality of health inspections before launching an internet posting program. Food service establishments should be allowed to quickly appeal inaccurate information that is publicly posted and have it removed in a timely manner. is caused by the posting of inaccurate information should be compensated by the health department, which must also assume full legal responsibility of the accuracy of the information it publishes.

[1:33:11] Standardization of certification of individual health inspectors should in the, should, a loss of place. Standardization of certification of individual health inspectors should be established to guarantee objective and accurate inspections results and accuracy of any public listings of those results. Health inspectors should be performed at consistent frequency at all all food service establishment to ensure fairness and accuracy. Public listings should be updated with the same consistency. Scales of inspection rating should be established to accommodate variance in size and complexity of the food service establishment. For example, coffee We shop, school, cafeterias, and find dining restaurants very not only in operations, but also by food items served, and number of required certification of staff, food preparation, and cooking methods and serving tools used. Rating systems should be modified to not mislead the public about potential health hazards. For example, critical food safety violations should be corrected immediately, or the facility should be shut down. Are we about three burning? I'm just about one second. Violation's not related to food safety, they're not in danger, public health, and so that's all I have. Sorry, it went on so long, but there's a lot to cover. This is a complex issue, and you just kind of up and do that.

[1:35:16] But we're for improving the system, and the more inspections better, however, you know, that goes. You have any questions? Dwayne. Yes, sir. So, Bernat, you're in favor of doing the grading system, just not posting the grader system. So we're not really changing things. We're just making it where it's not confusing. That was one of my biggest beefs. Because if you got a 10 on something, well, 10 sounds terrible, but in reality, a 10 is probably pretty good. It would be an A if you got a 10. So if we just change the system, we kind of flip-flop how, and we go to an ABC system, I think that, and this is just a discussion right now, but I think my opinion would be that we should move forward towards that. And maybe we would talk later on about the posting if that ever became even. first thing first go to the ABC system and then possibly go further and one thing that I want to point out out there is I'm the only one that evidently clearly up here on the council that got phone calls it the general and my the calls I got were all overwhelming in favor of posting I think that you should call your city council person and tell them how you feel about this the general public and when we come back on this because we're not going to take any action on this today. When we come back on this maybe they would have a better snapshot of what their constituents want. Bernays in my district and he contacted me. I'm not opposed to changing up the grading system. As long as we are protecting the health and safety of the public I feel like that is the limit of our duty. I am highly opposed to posting at the door. It reminds me of the scarlet letter system and And once it's branded, it's branded, and it's very, very difficult to change. And even though it's a health inspector's opinion, there again, you're back to the opinion. You can take a set of regs and give it to one inspector and another inspector, and they may

[1:37:18] read differently, which could cause a difference in that grading. So look at the grading. I'm not opposed to looking at the grading and protecting the health and safety, highly opposed to public posting where we're getting too involved in the public's business. It's my opinion. We are too. Until I hear from my construction. Yeah, okay. The posting I think is just on the windows. It's just, I mean, that is, I just don't, you say where you'd like to see you have a good, you know, your establishment. We've always had it, but you know, the misconception that I'm afraid would happen could really hurt a lot of people. And it's, you know, they do a good job here of changing the inspector up periodically too. So just like you said, they get a different opinion. One come in and take more eyes, look at your restaurant the better. I mean, we're not opposed to anything that will improve the system, but we are definitely opposed to the posting on the window unless you can come up some way to educate. that people know exactly what you're doing. Marty. We're supposed to direct staff. Correct. Yes. So I move we direct staff to bring us back a ABC system that we will post on the internet the way we do right now rather than the grading system. Second. Second. Johnny. How many local members are there with the Texas Restaurant Association here in San Angelou? 138. Is it safe to say you speak for all of them? I don't say I do. I'm disappointed more to show up. It's just kind of like you know people getting involved. I got letters last night, emails you know a grant about the posting.

[1:39:18] Nobody, no one, I do not know one restaurant here that is not completely concerned and committed to safe food in a clean environment. Really there's no motion necessary because this is just a discussion item. I understand what you're saying and I don't have a problem with what you have said as far as consensus. Does anyone else have a problem with the consensus of directing staff to come up with something to present us? No, sir. Okay. What do we do that? Sandra, bring us something back. And I think there's been some viable points. It's been some good discussion. The Texas Restaurant Association would do anything in our power to help to give information to discuss it. Thank you, Bert. I just want clarification. Yes. This is strictly for posting online. Is that correct? Yes. Yes. Is there a, as far as the future, Ron, you mentioned a wall, I want to make sure I have clarification on this before we start working on it, that there is that potential for posting other doors, or just for now, I'll just go and strip you for posting online. We'll go online for now, but I think that if the public calls you guys the way they call me, and I hope that they do, I think that there will be more discussion on this in the future. If we develop a system, though, and then the public does want more, then we can discuss that. We can always add to it. Yeah. Thank you very much. I hope I didn't take too much. No, you did not. It's very comprehensive and I appreciate what you had to say. You're speaking for a lot of people, so it's very important that we hear both sides. Thank you. Thank you for that. What do y'all want to move on to now? Nine, you want to go to 12? You get the fireman out of here or what? Let's go to 12. Get the fireman out. Let's go to 12 then, and get the fireman taken care of. First public hearing, consideration of introducing an ordinance in City of San Angelo, Texas, amending chapter two entitled Administration Article 2.08, Entitled Classification Classified Service, more

[1:41:19] particularly by amending Section 208.002, Entitled Classification Plan, Paragraph B, Staffing Level Sub-Paragraph 1A, Entitled Fire Department to change the number of authorized positions for the fire department by increasing the number of fire engineer driver from 33 to 50, and decreasing the number of fire fighter from 91 to 74, providing for severe ability, providing for an effective day to this ordinance chief done you our own sir mayor council here to talk about amending our staffing ordinance back in may of 2011 we looked at going from 63 66 to 33 drivers and in that savings from doing so we were raising amlets pay up in blocks as we as we went through that from 50 to 75 and then 75 to 100 as we progressed through there currently we're setting at 50 drivers and we have raise amlets, assignment pay to $75 per shift. What we were looking at, and we are currently setting up 50 drivers right now, if we continue going on, it would go up to the 100 and cost X amount of dollars. Some of the things that have happened since then, since 2011, we have significantly improved the bottom pay scale for the firefighters. So now, there's not nearly as much savings in reduction of those positions. Does that, am I, everybody following me so far. So if we continue forward, it will probably actually cost the city more money. These guys that are sitting here right now would like to see it set at 50. They're reasoning. We have more opportunity for promotion. It's not like we're going to promote a whole bunch right now. We got 50. So as if we have openings, we will start promoting again. The savings that were there would be to help cover the bump up or out of classification cost which I pulled a year's worth of data and went through it by hand individually and the money was there in the original savings to cover that and then some but it's no longer there

[1:43:20] because of the pay adjustments which has been well needed. So right now what we are asking is to stay at 50. do not go to the $100 ambulance assignment pay and just change our staffing from 33 to 50 drivers and reduce our firefighters from 91 to 71. So we're not actually changing our total number of positions. We're just reconfiguring where some of those are at. Council Lady Dunn? So from what I understand the association is behind this, but how will this affect our pay scale that we've been working on as far as different ranks those sort of things. This will actually just will not affect it at all. Okay. Okay. Okay. Good move to approve is presented. Second. Okay. Who's for a second? Rodney. This has been said to ask a question. I would go ahead and made a motion or second. But like with Sanders presentation, you're recommending approval. Yes. Yes. Okay. Yes. And I see that now. I'm sorry. It just said it didn't elaborate, but I appreciate that, Chief. I think it's a very good way to address this situation. I always want to see everybody have the chance to promote. And I think this will do it in a cost-effective way. Marty? Chief Dan, I didn't fully understand you. Now, out of classification, they move up. But that does cost us. It does cost us. And right now, we have these about five extra drivers per shift. If you have a lieutenant that's off, sick vacation holiday, the driver moves up. Well, we have those extra drivers to fill that slot this time. If we go down to that bare minimum and we won't, and that's what I did the hand calculations on for that entire year, and it would actually increase or out of classifications by five and a half a day, which was that $108,000 number that I gave you.

[1:45:22] That would be probably the max, but you're going to see a significant increase in that if you do away. The extra five drivers will probably fill those slots because we have our off time for vacation holiday is full and it's limited to six, but it's pretty much full every day, so you have, if you have a captain off, you have a lieutenant bump to captain, a driver bump to lieutenant, and then you're gonna have, if I'm out, if I don't have the extra drivers, you're gonna bump another firefighter up. So if you have the drivers, which they're gonna drive, they're gonna fill that slot pretty much every day now. Okay, I understand now. Thank you. Anyone else? Is the association happy with this? Is there any discussion or pardon any dissension before we move on to this? This is a time to speak, if you got a problem. And there we met with all of them. I mean, as far as the support is there, so. I love the initiative. We want everybody to be happy. And it looks like we found a happy compromise here. So if everybody's happy, then I'm certainly happy. We do have a motion to approve as presented. I do have a second. Do I have any public comment on this before we make the vote? Then I will call for the vote to accept as it has been presented. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Put a 7-0 vote on that one, Mr. Brian. Thank you, gentlemen. Number nine, consideration of a resolution approving in-kind support from the public information office to the 20 under 40 young leaders recognition program. Brother Wesson, you are on, sir. Thank you, Mayor, if you give me just a moment here to find my PowerPoint. Well, we spent a good portion of the morning this morning celebrating some of the good things that occur here in San Angelo. And I think this item falls along those lines. I'm here to talk about the 20 under 40 program.

[1:47:22] And I know most of you are probably aware of what this is. It's an effort spearheaded by the standard times to recognize and honor rising young leaders in our community who are contributing both professionally and civically to the well-being of our community. You might know that in the first three years of this program, the city has had a member of the 20 under 40 class three years ago. It was Sean Lewis, who was our Community and Economic Development Director. Two years ago, it was Brian Groves from the public information office, and then this past year was our civic events manager on helicapina. And during all three of those years, the Costa DC has been a co-sponsor of this event, in fact, a presenting sponsor. The city recognizing the benefit of this program, not only to our organization, but to the community at large, would like to continue to be involved in some way as a co-sponsor. But instead, what we're here to propose today is that instead of making a financial contribution, as has been done in the past, with half-cent sales tax dollars through the Costa DC, that we instead make an in-kind contribution of services. And you have before you right now a special section that the Standard Times produces as part of this effort. You can see that there are portraits and profiles in that publication of the honorees. They also do very short video interviews that they post on the Standard Times website. We have run a few of those of our own honorees on SATV and put those on our website. So what we are proposing is that that content that you have before you, the written profiles, the photographic portraits and the video interviews of the 20 honorees in the next class, be produced by our office myself and Brian Groves. you may ask yourself, you know, what does the newspaper get out of this? Well, that

[1:49:26] in-kind contribution would actually represent a pretty significant financial value to the newspaper. And that's because this publication is not produced by its in-house journalist. It's contracted out to freelance reporters so as not to overtax the newsroom. So there would be a cost savings in this effort to the standard times. But it would only be an indirect cost to the city and that being the time that Brian and I would invest in producing this content and we would approach it as we do any special project that we do that is you know we'd make sure that the things that we have to get done as part of our duties such as filming city council meetings would continue to be done and then we'd work on this in the times in between those things that must be done. The way that we see it the the city of San Angelo and the community would see benefits. First, the materials that we would produce would be posted on the city's website, so all those honorees and social media and would be broadcast on SATV. And that sort of ties in with what we see as the second benefit. And that is we think that there is a substantial public benefit by doing this because what we're trying to do is highlight and spotlight and encourage and inspire people in our community to get involved. You know, whether it be through their profession, which helps the economy of our local community, or whether it be through charitable organizations or whether it be civically. And these are things that we want to spotlight because they're going to inspire the peers of these honorees to engage in that same sort of activity. The way I see it, this program serves as a little bit of a breeding ground for the boards and commissions that we're trying to populate with people who are engaged in our community. And hopefully, some of these people who are being honored would be sitting in the seats that you're in at some point. So again, that's where we see the benefit both to the city

[1:51:26] as an organization and to the community. Before I issue the staff recommendation, I'd like to invite Jeff DeLoch, the publisher of the Standard Times, to come up, say a few words about this effort, and then between the two, and then I'll issue the recommendation in between the two of us will answer any questions you may have. Welcome, Mr. Dilets. Thank you and thank you, Anthony. I'll try not to repeat. I agree with everything Anthony said. Been publisher at the standard times for over five years now. I don't own the paper. I'm responsible for the paper. One of my objectives, though, I see the newspaper as being a community paper. And among my objectives when I landed here over five years ago, two of them was to get personally involved in the community myself so I could listen to the community so I could take that feedback and use the newspaper in a way that would help address issues or concerns to make or help our community grow and to prosper. One of the first things that I heard consistently over time from some of the elders of our community was who are the younger people that are going to be sitting in these chairs later. Who are the next generation? And then secondly, I heard we're educating a lot of people right here in this community at Howard College at ASU. And we have a lot of children that are growing up here and going away to be educated. But many of our brightest and talented individuals are over and ended up in Austin and Dallas and Houston and San Antonio. Who is having an impact now? The younger generation having an impact today. Who are they? Let's identify them, let's encourage them, let's get them involved and let's try to retain them. And within our newspaper company I was aware of a program referred to as 20 under 40 that was having some success there.

[1:53:28] And it occurred to me one evening that that type of a program here would help us address that in this community, understanding that the vision that I had though compared to some other properties outside of San Antonio newspapers that were doing this, I wanted to raise it to a different level, I wanted it to be first class, I wanted it to be a set down dinner banquet. I wanted the publication to have a glossy cover over it so it would be something that the people being recognized, individuals being recognized would retain and feel good about having retained it. That's costly. That product, that glossy cover is shipped out. It's costly. The banquet, some of you have been to the banquet. We just had our third one at Angelo State, about 280 to 300 people there, first class. And so I know over time, I knew over time that some Some of the individuals being recognized, the idea to help support this, theoretically, would be the congratulatory ads and the revenue that would come from the thank you ads or congratulatory ads. But I knew just from being in the business, I also knew that some of the individuals being recognized may not, they may be self-employed or may not be employed at a business that's capable of supporting that financially. So I knew to achieve the vision I had, we had of the program that I needed to get some support through sponsorships and with the sponsorships you would have a congratulatory ad and other benefits and when you think about the program because I'm gonna forget this I sort of wanted to two things I want to talk about economic development real quick but also we've tried to take this program if you will and along such a path to involve as many young people as possible. So what we've been successful doing is San Angelo Independent School District

[1:55:32] culinary students prepare the meal. They work with the facility chefs wherever we're having it. They're there. The students are from from from San Angelo in the Bend School District are there serving the food etc. Around the same time as I had this vision was getting ready to talk for some people about it. I was at a chamber board meeting and young professionals of St. Angelo made a presentation that they really wanted to you know as a group really be successful with this pulling this young professionals of St. Angelo together again And I thought, you know what? To myself, I thought we could possibly have our 20 under 40 program in the banquet benefit them. If we could get to a certain revenue level where we could justify it, fortunately, we've been able to do that. The last three years, we've been able to give young professional St. Angelo $3,000 each year. That's their primary source of funding for their organization. And then we're doing it on our college campus. So there's a number of ways to involve young people. Economic development, if you think about economic development, a lot of times what comes to mind is the buildings, businesses. But behind every building, behind every business, economic development is really us, human beings. And so I see this as an economic development program for our community as well. Whenever some questions come up about taxpayers' dollars, funding this type of a program, and from the standpoint of trying to figure out how to navigate that gently, the idea of trade came up, and I endorsed that.

[1:57:33] It will, in fact, save us some expense, and so it would be beneficial. More importantly though, I believe having the city of San Angelo support in this type of program gives the program added credence as well. And so I would basically ask that you guys take this under serious advisement and surely hope that you can be a part of it as a supporting sponsor. Thank you, sir. So very briefly, here's our recommendation. The legal staff had said that in order for us to be involved in this, City Council needed to approve a resolution finding that there is a substantial public benefit to our involvement in this in-kind contribution. So our recommendation is that you do in fact approve that resolution and direct the public information office to produce the written photographic and video content for the 20 under 40 program and with that we'll be happy to answer any questions that you may have. Who wants to start? Oh I'll be happy to start. I'm all for the program and I don't have any problem whatsoever in city participation in kind or whatever I just firmly believe it didn't coincide with the guidelines of economic development specifically but it is community involvement in community development and I'll make a motion to support it second do I have a motion to support it as presented and a second further comment I have a couple of questions for Anthony, maybe Jeff, but I was at the city, but I can't really remember who birthed this project. Can you remind me that? Was it, did it come out of Costa DC or did it come from the Standard Times? Standard Times. I had the idea and honestly what I just laid out was God's honest truth. And there's a few people in the room earlier. They've departed now. But once I had the idea, I had the concept of my mind, I started making a telephone calls,

[1:59:37] and I called some people in the community and asked them to support me from a sponsorship standpoint. And honestly, I think I called eight people and six of them stepped up to it. And then among that group, we had a conversation on who could be a presenting sponsor. And the idea of making a presentation to Cosa DC came out of sort of an inner city inner group and then I got a hold of I think Larry Tigg or maybe it was the city. The Cosa DC came in very quickly I remember that. They loved it. They loved the whole concept of it from an economic development standpoint. Well I like a lot of people believe that we need to be developing young leaders for tomorrow because, as you can see from council elections, there aren't a lot of people who want to run for whatever reason, and perhaps that's a lack of education as to what's involved in the job, and just getting more involved in the community, and to identify those I think is very important. So I think it's an important program. If it had started at the city, I would say that it's important that we open it up to more partners, so to speak. If it was really the standard times, then I applaud what you've done and welcome the city's participation in an in-kind contribution. But I think that we all know that this isn't a money maker. It's really done for the purpose of civic investment. And I would hope in the future that we could involve more partners and perhaps defray the costs for all of us, because I do think it's very important. Thank you, Elizabeth. I'd like to add just one thing, off topic. Another thing I've been hearing in the community, and there's an individual in here today he didn't know I was going to talk about this, but that called me several years ago and said, Jeff, you know, rightly so. We celebrate our high school sports in first class,

[2:01:40] and I applaud that. But there's a whole lot of kids in our high schools that are achieving academic success, and they don't get the recognition they need, and that telephone call stuck with me. And three years later, okay, and it is a program that I've seen at another newspaper that we're bringing here now, and we've reached out to community leaders to help us, it's called Star Students. So in May, we're gonna recognize 20 students, you may have seen us looking for nominations in the newspaper, we're gonna recognize 20 students at an event at Howard College. I wanted to try to involve Howard College. We had ASU involve a 20 under 40. I firmly believe in junior level college. If it wasn't for that, I wouldn't have forgot my degree. And so we're gonna recognize 20 of our juniors this year in May for academic achievement. And so those are the type of programs to the extent that we as a community can use our newspaper to recognize good things when good things happen, I am all ears to that. I would love to be involved in that. I had a conversation at the Girl Scout banquet with Rick Mantooth and a few other people. Charlotte was at the table and we were discussing the very fact that we don't necessarily celebrate education or academic success. But we are a fairly smart city. We've got Howard growing, we've got Angelo State growing, and that we should do that. We should position ourselves in the future that way, so that's a great idea. Thank you. And again, having the city to be a part of these programs, I think is awesome, and I would encourage that. Thank you. Johnny? I just wanted to add, Jeff, I applaud you and Anthony for moving on with this program.

[2:03:42] But when I hear words such as spotlighting kids or inspiring kids or raising kids to a different level, it was told developing young leaders, substantial public benefit to doing that, opening up to more partners, I challenge you guys. I challenge you right now to think outside the box because I'm looking at Harry Thomas out there. He's involved with the Boys and Girls Club. Those are young people out there that one day could be a council person, like I was, I'm a product. So it's more than just this program. It's many nonprofits out there that, if you're willing to do this for this program, can you imagine what would happen to the others? I'm thinking of the boy scouts, I'm thinking of the girl scouts, the house of faith, but especially the boys in girls club. Just think outside the box and don't just stop, don't end here. I mean, hopefully this will be a seed that you plant, but if the option is there to help them, They've got a fundraiser coming up at the end of May. It's a golf tournament. It would be nice for us to partner with such organizations as that. So don't just, and again, I applaud you. I'm all for it. I will vote for it. But don't stop here. Open it up. There's other folks, other organizations out there that would just welcome, embrace such a shot as this to help them out. So that's what I wanted to say. Just don't stop here. It's more than these young 20 under 40, they're fine. They're set and they're ready to go on their careers. But the little kids out there that need that inspiration, that need that shot in the arm, it's all about. That's what these leaders hope they're here for. It's to inspire somebody. So I don't want to repeat myself, but just plant the seed and move on. But there's other folks out there that could use something like this. I just wanted to say that. Well, Councilman, you may be aware that I am the United Way Campaign Chair for St. Angelo in 2015, and in the Mort Awards of the Terminator, I'll be back. Further copy, buddy?

[2:05:42] I just had one question. I can see your passion for it, but you stated it at the first that you and Brian would be doing it, y'all'd have to take care of your regular. Brian is on board with it, right? Oh, yes, I mean, we're both very enthused about this because it's a great opportunity for us is sort of showcase the skills here within the city of San Angelo, and we think it's going to add greatly to the content that we're already producing for SATV and for our website and for our social media. So as our mayor might say, I'm going to I'm into quoting people today, I guess, giddy up. Rodney, what you got? Dime, do you have any thanks, sir? I've subject just a little bit. I just wanted to thank Jeff for the community involvement that he has with the paper, also for the Easter Sunday article that he wrote as a Christian. I was very proud of that. Thank you very much. I appreciate that, Don. If we don't keep these youngsters here, they're going to go somewhere else. We need to keep them here. Anything and everything that we do to enhance our own citizens to stay, it's a win-win for all of us. you Jeff. Do I have further comment before we move on to vote on this? If not, any further council comment? I'm going to call for the vote. The motion has been that we accept the in-kind support from the Public Information Office to the 20 under 40. All in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Motion to adopt the resolution to support it. Second the motion to adopt the resolution to support the in-kind support from the public information on office to the 20 under 40 So in all in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Put a 7-0 on that one. Number 10 present presentation on the possibility of adopting a new city logo and seal and

[2:07:43] Any action and connection there to continue for the Wilson? Okay, so if you don't like this idea please feel free to blame Carl White because he is the genesis of this. But Carl, more than a year ago, came to me with some prototypes because he wanted to change the Parks and Recreation Department's logo. And he had our advertising agency, McLaughlin Advertising, do some of these prototypes. He showed them to me and frankly I love them because I think the logo that McLaughlin came up with is the direction that I believe that we should move with our city logo. The prototypes which you'll see here in a second, they're not really a great departure from what we currently have. It uses the same color palette with blue, green, and yellow as the color scheme, although it's a little bit more muted than what we currently have. It has the same sort of depictions. It has a depiction of the Consul River and of the greenery of twin buttes and of sunshine, but I think it's cleaner, it's more modern, it's more stylized, and this is a trend that we're seeing among a lot of municipalities in the state of Texas. So, of course, here is our city logo everyone is familiar with. Now, by comparison, here are some of the logos for some other communities, and these are ones that I happen to like, and it's the direction I would like us to move with our logo, and that is these are, as I mentioned, much more stylized, very clean, and they just have a much more sort of contemporary look to them, if you will. So anyway, so there's some other Texas cities are doing with their logos right now. So here are what I see as the benefits of a new logo. I think that it's an opportunity for us to present something to the world that is more aesthetically pleasing, and that does yield a more forward thinking, contemporary first impression to the outside world. One of the things that I've tried to do as the public information officer is to establish

[2:09:45] more corporate consistency within our organization. We now have a website where the pages all have a template and they look alike. We have a certain way of doing things, and frankly we have a lot of different logos that that are floating around the city. And so I think this is an opportunity to adopt a logo that lends some corporate consistency, and it's an opportunity to consolidate a logo with our city's seal, the infamous Bloodshot Eye, which you'll see here in a second, which is the official city's seal. Also, and this is frankly a little bit of a public relations play, it's an opportunity to engage the community in this effort. We could select a certain number of logos and prototypes and then allow the public to choose from list of finalists through our website and through our social media. One of the questions I know that will pop into your mind is well, how much would this cost us? And what I would see this happening, if we do in fact adopt a new city logo, is we would phase that in on our assets as being things like vehicles or uniforms or stationery as those assets are replaced. And so for instance, any stationery that we have right now that has the current city logo, we would continue to use that until it runs out. And when we order new stationery, we would have it printed with the new city logo. So that would minimize the cost greatly. I mentioned the city seal. So here is the city seal, which is something that is as part of our ordinance actually. So if we were to consolidate to have a city, have you never seen this councilman Fleming? If we, this is just the seal. So if we were to, and I think I have the city clerk on board with adopting a new city seal as well, but if we were to adopt a new city seal and consolidate that with the logo, it would require an ordinance change. Again, there's our current logo. And so here are some of the prototypes that McLaughlin advertising came up with at Carl White's request.

[2:11:46] And I want to say, I'm not here today to suggest that we should adopt any of these logos, But this is just sort of food for thought to see if the council is potentially interested in this, exploring the opportunity to adopt a new city logo, and then we can kind of go from there and let that process play out. But here's what McLaughlin has come up with. And there are four versions of this. So here are the first two. Frankly, the one on the top, I think, may be my personal favorite. And here are the other two. So all variations on a theme there. So here's our staff recommendation that we would like you to instruct the public information office to work with McLaughlin advertising to propose up to six logos that we would then bring back to the city council. You guys would whittle that down to however many that you think there should be. And then again, I think that it's an opportunity to engage our community and let them have a voice in what the city logo should look like. And then of course we would also work with the city attorney's office to revise language regarding the city seal if you happen to agree with us and think that the consolidation of the seal and the logo is a good idea. So with that I'll entertain any questions. Could you go back? Yes sir. And then here are the here are the first two right here. I like the first one but I really do like the one we have now. I mean I just I really do and in turning it looking behind us here you know the burst the rays of sunshine with the mountains and the water and I don't say any buffaloes or buffalo soldiers or forts or military. Well one of the things you have to do with the logo is you can't less is more so you can't overwhelm a logo with a lot of details which is frankly why Carl in the first

[2:13:47] place wanted to look at adopting a new Parks and Recreation logo is because it's a bit of a carnival going on within that logo. The way that I look at it we're going from the the bloody eye to the fried egg on this one I mean well and again and again councilman we are not we're not necessarily saying that these are necessarily the logos that we're asking you to adopt it's just again this is just food for thought but if the council's interested in exploring the opportunity of a new city logo then you know we'll work with uh we'll work with I don't have any problem with you spending a little time on it I you know I think that you can see there's going to be a lot of opinions and that's what you get when you ask if you ask six people you might get six different opinions or seven in this case I think the issues that you have pressing though with parks and rec and other departments. I think whatever we do we should be standardized. I think the public needs to recognize a city event or a city vehicle or a city employee very clearly. I don't think any department should have their own logo. So whatever it is you know I hope that it reflects kind of you know who we want to be in something that each department can be proud of and and I totally agree with you on that and in fact I've spoken with Chief Dunn and Chief Harris from our fire department to see if incorporating this into the fire department essentially logo is something that they'd be interested in they were they were completely open to that idea I've not spoken with the police chief about that but but frankly that's always been one of my concerns is that we do have different department logos and so I think it's confusing for the public because you know I don't want the public to think that there's the city and the fire department

[2:15:47] and the police department, for instance, that we are all city employees. So if you can promise that it unites all of those, I'd be probably more in favor of doing it. That would be one of my aims. Marty? I like fried eggs. Oh, thank you. It's sunny side out. So I'm not opposed to looking at the possibility. Rodney? I agree with Marty on this. I think coming to a modern, making it more modern, like the other cities that are sister cities, I would agree that we should step forward on that. I think that we should have several versions put before us. I'm not sold on any of the four that you have here, of course, but to allow us to try to decide, and maybe do a contest, like you said, you had mentioned that earlier, to contest where the public maybe even picks out. Said it's just the seven saying what the logo is gonna be. It's a good idea, John. You know, and I was going to mention that, you know, when you had that SATV type, I don't know if it was a contest or not, but that was a good idea. Now, these are four, you said you're gonna work with McLaughlin for a total of six, so then he would supply two more. Because I like the idea, like Rodney said, if you could get maybe some graphic artists out there to submit maybe you may get inundated I don't know you may not but and those are all things that we'll explore and I think you know again these are all variations on a theme maybe we'll come up with six different themes so that so there's a lot of diversity here so if someone doesn't like and I think you understand that we need more than four this is a very good start I kind of like that top one myself I am a fan of eggs over easy but that is supposed to be the contourver, right? Yes, sir. Yes, sir. I can see little twin mountains there at the bottom of the sun there, but you know, that's just me. But anyway, God, I have no problem with

[2:17:52] going forward in the in the cities that you researched. How do they they put that on a patch for uniform on their stylized ones? Well, I have to say it, I don't know that I've researched patches per se. And when we have uniforms, I mean, you know, some of our uniforms are embroidered and some of them have patches so you know if we wanted to ensure some consistency in that regard I guess that that's something that we could explore administratively. Well and I think it goes back to what Elizabeth was saying I think that we need to have it across the whole city so it looks like a joint and united kind of front on those sort of things but if you can get something that stylized to where it will fit everything I think it would be really good. Yes, Rodney. One last question. I'm going to be the bad guy on this. How much is this going to cost? The general public is going to ask, I mean, if I was watching this on TV, I would probably be sitting there saying to myself, how much is it going to cost the city to do this? We'll negotiate with with the law for an advertising. I have a budget for this sort of thing. Okay, you do. I thought we were in the contract anyway for him to do that. Well, yes, but that doesn't mean it's cost-free necessarily. It's in the contract. He advertises for us. It's too costly. No, he places advertising in paid media for us, and then if there's a production cost, then we are charged the production cost. But I have a budget for this, so we'll work with McLaughlin advertising on this. It will be within budget. Oh, yes, sir, of course, and I'm probably at least as frugal as you are a councilman. Thank you. And also, we would face this in gradually, so it wouldn't be a big expense. and I like that idea. Mary, we are moving also, and we've been forward with a new vision as far as the statement for the City of St. Angela. I think this ties in really well with that as well. And that's something we'll discuss a little bit in an executive session, but I think that the timing is just right. Is anyone have a problem with moving forward on this?

[2:19:54] No. I like the idea of opening up to the public, because my goodness, we've got Angelo State and Howard, and we've got all sorts of people out there that might have the exact logo in their mind, just matter of time. So we'll consider this one logo and we'll work to develop some others. Do I have a consensus that we'll move forward on this? That's a very good start. I like that. Move forward, please, sir. Thank you, sir. Number 13, discussion and direction to staff regarding proposal removal of the traffic control signal located in Main Street in Kovalent. Ryan Ward. Good morning. Good morning, sir. Actually, what we're bringing today is We had a request for Councilman Silva. Silva's to look at an intersection that may or may not need a signal anymore. And that's how this kind of came about. Start in with slides here. You can see the intersection is main and covalent that we're looking at. This signal has been in place. I really can't tell you the length of time it's been there a long time. It's actually a strand pole connection type of signalized intersection. And to just give you a little bit of background on this, Councilman Silvus had asked that we do a signal warrant study on this particular intersection. And what we do is we use the MUTCD manual, which is the manual uniform traffic control devices. And it's chapter four, which covers all the signal warrants. What we did is we used the federal 2009 requirements to determine if this signal is still necessary and needed. And so the study was done on December 9th of 2014,

[2:21:55] between the 9th and 11th. What we did was we actually used the data in the middle of the week there. So December 10th was where we actually pulled the data from. And just a quick overview, I'll go into a little more detail as we kind of move along on this. But as far as the warrants that we ran out of the eight, there's eight particular warrants, there's only three that actually applied to this intersection. We had the eight hour vehicle volume warrant. We had the four hour and we also had the peak hour. None of them met at this particular intersection. And of course, what we do is we look at the 24 hour span and 15 minute increments and kind of break it out that way to look and see kind of what kind of traffic we have. As you can see, the traffic volumes for Main Street are still significant daily. We have 8,745 cars a day. Coberlin Street on the west side, which is coming from Shannon, it's about 269 cars a day there, and on the east side is 560 cars a day. And I won't get into a lot of detail on this particular chart. Basically, what this eight hour volume reflects is a study that looks at, to meet this particular warrant, you have to hit every hour of an eight hour period. It has to meet these standards where you either have one lane, two lanes with one lane on the side streets. There's different criteria for that, but just to give you just a quick background, it's broken out per hour. And as you can see, anywhere between 500 and 600 cars on your main through affair, which is Main Street in that hour, and then on the side streets, you would typically have 150 to 200 cars per hour feeding in on the side streets. None of this was met for this particular warrant. And then the second warrant we looked at was the four hour vehicle volume warrant.

[2:23:55] This one's a little bit easier to understand it. It looks at a graph system. There's actually three lines. It may be a little difficult to see the gray lines are very light, but what it is is it builds up. You can see where the red dots are shown on that graph. That's actually what's out there now, as far as vehicle volumes calculated against Main Street versus Side Streets. Very low on the Side Streets, that's really why this particular intersection, no longer warrants needing a signal there. I'm sure back when Cobrelin was real busy, it was a need to have that there with a different amount of traffic that we had. But this particular warrant, what you look at on this one is, were there four hours, where there was any major and minor street volumes that were above the apical curve. And this one, you can see the bottom curve is, if you had one major lane, both directions, and then one side street lane, this particular intersection actually is four lanes on Main Street there. So you actually have a two lane, you're looking more at the purple or the magenta line on the curve chart. But this one was not met either. The warrant three for the peak hour. What we actually used, the highest volume, the hour was between five and 6 p.m. And that's based on this study, it was the hour we actually looked at because it was the highest on Main Street. There were 717 vehicles, which is approximately 12 cars per minute when you put it in kind of a minute time frame. It's not a lot of vehicles during that minute. And then Coberlin Street, both sides incorporated so both west and east at that time had 67 vehicles within that hour, which is pretty significantly low for having an actual signalized intersection on something like that. And you can also see on this chart kind of where we fall with all the red dots where we're pretty low as far as,

[2:25:57] it's actually the side street traffic, like I'd mentioned, is where we're not getting enough cars. this one was not met either. So at this time, staff recommends that we remove this particular traffic signal, not just due to the low volumes of cars out there, but it's also a maintenance cost factor. Typically in a year on that particular signal, if there's nothing hit or damaged, it's just paying for basically maintenance of changing out bulbs that go bad or the electricity, it's It's about $900 a year to upgrade, which this is actually on our upgraded list of signals to be upgraded. And it would have to be with the new standards in MUTCD. It would be a signalized intersection that had a mast arm poles, no longer strand poles. And so about $250,000 is what it takes to upgrade an intersection. And that's with mast arms, video cameras, things like that. So currently, this particular intersection is also mounted on the AEP poles. We don't own the poles. We have strand cable connected to AEPs poles. So if there's damage, if one of those poles gets hit, we have to then pull our signalized items off of their poles and put them on our own poles, which is a significant cost. And so what we're asking for is just direction in this. If it is approved, there will be a 90-day study period in which basically we will set the signals to red flash four ways. And we will put signs up saying this is under a traffic signal study. And then we will go ahead and install stop signs on the side street, which is covalent on both sides. Main street will go ahead and continue like it is as the main through affair. And so once it's complete, all the items will be removed and it will permanently be set to stop condition on the side street. Johnny? Ryan, is that the normal procedure?

[2:27:57] I mean, the four-way red flash condition. Is that what you do? I thought you guys covered them for a while. It is. Typically, what we do, the way the M-E-T-C-D manual states is you have a 90-day flash period. But typically, in the past, it is always all red for a safety factor. They can be set on the main through affair to a yellow flash condition with red flash on the side streets. That's not something we typically do only because the safety factor. And typically, usually, the last 30 days, we will cover the heads up. They may not flash the full 90 days. The last 30 days of the study, typically, we will cover the heads up. Well, and the reason I brought it, I've had numerous people mention that, and I've experienced it myself when I'm going up north on Maine. You sit there that red light and there is no traffic coming from the sides. So I'm thinking, you know, the safety would be, the safety way to look at it is to continue to have a continuous flow. And that seems to be a big problem right there, when you have to. Right, when you're stopping for size, or there may be one car and it holds up Main Street traffic for one vehicle. Yes. I'm in agreement with this, I mean, that's just me, so. If you want to make a motion to approve, I'll second it. Is it? Yeah, it's just direction. Direct, just direction. So if you want to make a motion, okay. No, we don't need a motion. You don't? Yeah. We have consensus. Just consensus. Just consensus. I don't have a problem with it. I don't have a problem with it. It looks me like it's something this time. How do you feel about Rodney? I'm good with it. Marty. Johnny. It's needed. I go down through there all the time. Shorted. Good for me? Listen. Good. I don't have a problem with it. Good succinct presentation. Thank you. Thank you. Very good. Their direction is get rid of the light. That's good. Thank you. We'll accept that. Thank you. bring us into compliance with the MUTCD every chance you get right thank you that's what we're working on save us money that's right cost savings thank you thank you it is right at 10 minutes to

[2:30:02] 12 we've got about probably two hours in executive looks like everything else is going to take a Wildtiff the deal with oh I can go on what if we were 20 can we take 15 in 10 minutes 15 oh right 14 the petitioner is here he's here right now so on 14 well let's do 14 I think we can do 14 in that let's do 14 is Rebecca here yeah I see but right okay number 14 discussion consideration potential seeking annexation City City limits. Certain properties located situated mid-west of San Angelo's and relocated on the northwest corner of Arden Road and FM Highway 2288, specifically described as approximately 44.821 acres out of land BS&F Survey 5, abstract number 101, AB&M Survey 3, abstract number 24, Tom Green County, Texas, and said 44.821 acre track, also being out of of the certain 917.9 acre-trag described and recorded an instrument number, 703-583, official public records of Tom Green County, Texas, and said 44.821 acre-trag being more particularly described by meats and bounds of Tom Green County, Rebecca Guerra, you are all ma'am. I second, having a small problem in my powerpoint. Rebecca, can you go back out to your car and then run back? Give me one problem, can't find my powerpoint now. You don't have all that memorized? She thought he does. It's OK. We'll find it. Yeah, I think it was up here one, but I don't know how I bet it. It says regular PL regular right there, that second one.

[2:32:03] Perfect. Thank you, sir. OK. Good morning, Rebecca Garra, planning manager. The next item before you is what we're calling the Art and Road It's a little over 44 acres, it's located north of Arden Road and west of FM-2288. It is currently in the ETJ, obviously, because it's an annexation, but if it's annexed in, it will be brought into single member district number six, which is Council Member Farmer's District. This future land use map is the way that it currently stands today. However, this has been the subject of a comprehensive plan amendment, and our GIS system has not been updated quite yet. So if you all will remember from the Compline Amendment, they changed it from rule to commercial and neighborhood. So the piece is coming in, and GIS is working on this as we speak, and so you will see an updated map, but I wanted to reflect exactly what's on our system today, so that if anybody would go from the public would go on to our system, they would see what it's like. So it shows this rule, however, it was approved as commercial and as neighborhood. And so this parcel coming in, this 44-acre parcel, would come in as partly commercial and partly neighborhood. You can see it doesn't have zoning today, but you can see the adjacent zoning specifically on the other side of Arden Road is currently CG. Here's a copy of the major thoroughfare plan. The purple lines reflect current major arterial roads. That is Arden in 228. light blue colored lines are future major collector roads. So that's what those lines in front of you mean. Here's a copy of the utility maps. It shows fire hydrants and existing water mains. So the actual request today, there is no action required. As you all remember from the last annexation, there are five steps for every annexation, the petition, two public comment hearings, and two ordnance

[2:34:04] hearings. This is the petition, so you all have the ability to either accept the petition or to deny the petition. If it denies the petition, it ends here. But once the petition is accepted, if it is in fact accepted by counsel, then per state mandate, the annexation has to be approved or denied within a maximum of 180 days. Does that make sense? Okay, so no action requested, but the first reading, I'm sorry, the first reading, not the first of the annexation ordinance. I'm sorry, this is a mistake. The first public comment hearing will be held on April the 21st. Is that clear? Okay. I have an, if you have all have any questions, I'm happy to answer them. And we have a representative from the, the owner of the property, as well as different departments that can answer different questions that you may have. Charlotte. I have a question. If you could flip back, yes, to the map from here, where Where the farm-to-market road turns into Arden Road, I notice this request doesn't go all the way to the intersection and this request doesn't go all the way to 853. So you'll see it better on this one? Yes. So we did ask the applicant, ma'am, two different times to seek perhaps an improvement, if you well as to the annexation request. That is for them to extend that line, the southernmost line, all the way to that magenta colored piece that's on the intersection of Arden in 228, the applicant indicated that it's not their desire twice. So in this case you have the applicant here who can give you a more detailed response as to why they didn't want to extend the parameters. We did request it twice other than doing a involuntary annexation for those other pieces to connect them. This is part of the voluntary annexation that they are willing to bring forward at this time. Okay my concern in looking at it the

[2:36:05] overall project at number one is water. It's to in the future how to get water to service to those areas and then if you go further what I call to the North and And I'm sure you're calling it to the east when you get out to the Buffalo Heights range out there is water, of course, at all of the construction, the homes. There's a lot of houses in the construction. And I had originally understood that this that we're looking at today will be housing. Most of it, not all of it, most of it will be housing. We're from water here, but if you can see those blue lines located here, we have in In fact, water mains that are running along 2288, and Mr. Pelle will be able to answer more clearly. Sure. Hi, my name is Russell Pail and I'm with the Water Utilities Department. There is an existing 16-inch main running along FM 2288, and currently in that area, our city is broken up into two pressure zones, and this is in the upper pressure zone, and we have plenty capacity in that area for any new development for that region. I hope I'm answering your question. Is that your question? Yes. Okay. But I I still have the same concern. You're saying the blue line is a water line? Yes ma'am. That is in there. That water line goes outside of the city limits here. I'm looking at the top of the picture and connects to what is this water this current water main connects to Highland Range this is the only area okay in our water system that provides water outside of the water come from that feeds this line this water comes from the the bluffs tank the bluffs tank the tower correct how do we do that how do we provide water to Highland Range they're it was it was no

[2:38:07] they're not how do we provide water to Highland Range Daniel I sure that's a good Yeah, it was outside of the city limits and I believe it was from what I understand, Lewis Runyon, who developed that, made an agreement with the city for water prior to his going and doing the subdivision because there was no water available out there for that. They have fire hydrants and everything out there. That was done prior to the ordinance that we had to be annexed. Right. The ordinance now states that you had to be in to get any water service in that Because they didn't have city water and in the late 70s, early 80s They went dry and then that's when they made the arrangements and put in the fire and a house burned to the ground long ago Right because they they don't they're not currently serviced by our fire That's right, right there by the right by the volunteer fire department in great great. Yeah and how many homes are you anticipating in the residential three hundred twelve hundred I mean I don't have a member but maybe mr. Jensen who's the owner could could answer that question please identify yourself my name is David Jensen and I own the property this particular parcel we're looking at about 80 lots residential lots and then one area that might be for a church or whatever so. Is this just one entrance into this subdivision? There will be two entrances one on the southern part and then in the future there'll be an additional one on the northern side. How long is a piece of string? Are you talking three years, five years, two years, two months, I mean.

[2:40:08] We hope it'll be a short, fairly short period of time. And obviously that all depends on the economy and how a lot sell. But there will be two entrances and then possibly or likely a third one to Hardin Road. So what do you need from us today, Rebecca, this is just just to give us an idea. So it's actually to accept the petition. And that's what the council wants to do. You are correct, sir. To accept the petition. You need this by motion or you need it by consensus. We need a motion to accept the annexation petition. Okay, shorted, this is your area. Move to approve the annexation petition. Do you need the adopting the as far as the timetable as well, at the same time? If you wish, you don't necessarily have to adopt the timetable. We're gonna go ahead and follow that timetable because I would like to follow the timetable. Okay. In the motion. Okay. All right, we have any further council discussion on this item. Do I have any further comment from the public on this item. Motion has been made that we accept the petition. It has been seconded. All in favor, please say aye. Opposed, nay. Put a 7-0-1. It is 12-1-1. Let's break for lunch. Let me read the executive. Executive F, executive session under the revision of government code Title 5, open government ethic. Yes, sir. Is there anyone else here for public comment? for an item that we can do relatively quickly just. Mayor? If I could, Mayor, our auditors are here and I think they would only need a few minutes to make their presentation. Okay, what number are we talking about here? Last one, eight. We're on number eight, eight, eight, eight. Anybody probably, anyone have a problem with going ahead and taking number 18? They're 20 also. So that way they could leave. Yeah, that's fair, that's fair. I appreciate you bringing to my attention, Marty.

[2:42:09] Okay, let's take number 18, which is consideration of accepting the City of St. Angelo's fiscal year 214, comprehensive annual financial report, Kefir, and single audit as presented by the city's external auditor, precisely presentation by Armstrong Bacchus. Mayor, did I miss it? Did you ask for public comment on the last item? I did ask for public comment. I missed it. Okay. Yeah, I did it. Hi. Yes, ma'am. Tina Benel, for the record. I am going to introduce our city's external auditors and let them present their report. I'm of course here if you have any other questions for me as well. We have Mike Bodiford and Gala Thornton who are both partners with Armstrong Backison Company. They completed the annual audit, the single audit and the PFC audit as well. And Tina, could you rave with the council with that left hand please? Really nice engagement ring. I'm not sure he's from here and staying here. need a report on that. Yes. Mayor Council, I'm Mike Bodiford with Armstrong Backison Company and I just want to start off by saying thank you to the city for allowing us to again work with you in the preparation of the annual audit, the fiscal 2014 audit and we appreciate the help of the finance people at the city who worked well with us and we had no disagreements with them during the conduct of the audit. And I'm going to let you let go over some of the highlights of the financial statements and then afterwards if anyone has questions, please feel free to ask. Thank you, Mayor, Council. You do engage us to report on your financial statements as a whole, and I'm pleased to pronounce that you had unmodified opinions, which in layman's terms is a clean opinion, on your financial statements, they are fairly represented in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles so everything was clean, fairly stated.

[2:44:11] Just some of the highlights, I'll talk about some of your nap positions, your fund balance, your equity in the city. As an overall view of your city, you had an increase in your nap position or your equity of $27 million this year. Seven million of that came from your governmental funds and your governmental activities. $20 million came from your business type activities, your water, sewer, airport, store of water, solid waste. You had unrestricted net position that you could spend on anything that does have a restriction on it of $17 million at the end of the fiscal year, so that's a very positive number. On your fund level, your general fund alone increased its fund balance by $9.5 million in 2014, and this came from all the economic uptakes that you had within your city, the sales tax, the property tax, franchise, hotel, motel, all of those increased significantly over the prior year. So that led to an increase in your fund balance. In addition, your governmental funds pretty much spent below budget, so you did have an increase. Your business type activities, your net position did increase 20 million. 10 million of that came from solid waste, which in prior years was reported as a general fund instead of a proprietary fund. But it meets the same criteria that water and sewer meet. So we reclassified it in the current year. This was also the first year that you started seeing somebody from your new republic contract, and you received $3.6 million in a one-time royalty payment. They funded $4.7 million in a trust to fund your post-closure cost when your landfill ends. And so there was quite a bit of revenue in that fund alone. You didn't have any new debt in 2014, But subsequent to 2014, in February of 2015, you issued $3.2 million to fund various capital projects, so that will be in next year's financials.

[2:46:12] Also, next year's financials will be different in that GASB 68 will be applicable, and you will have to recognize your net pension liability for the first time, which will be probably a decrease in fund balance, but that effect is unknown at this time. And then those were the highlights of the CAFRA. Are there any questions? Could you add the time frame that this was on time, no extensions, nothing needed thanks to both parties, but especially Tina Benel's department? That is true. We did meet the March 31st deadline this year. In addition, this CAFR also has the certificate of excellence in financial reporting for the first time in several years, and that's thanks to the finance staff. So that's exciting. And you also audited the airport boardings, the airport funds stuff out there and everything is good. Passenger facility charge? Yes, ma'am. Anything to do? Yes. I do want to make the comment as well council members that I do want to thank the staff. I know that as far as the budget maintaining the expenditure budget and staying within, we do appreciate that of course does help with the fund balance. So I just want to make sure that I express my appreciation to the staff for the final work that they do as well. Excellent report. Thank you. Thank you any further council comment. Can we see that certificate again? Can you hold it up Tina? I'm looking for something spruccly now and see Are you hiding it or there it is? Okay, we do need a motion to accept this to approve Do you have a motion to approve? I do have a second. Do I have any further council comments on this item? Do I have comment from the public on this motion has been made do we accept the caper all in favor of please say aye aye aye opposed nay put a 7-0-0 now and the boss is asked that we do number 16 before we move on number 16 is everybody

[2:48:14] agreeable with that okay number 16's first public hearing and consideration for approving an ordinance amending chapter 7 entitled health and sanitation article 704 entitled portable use of groundwater more particularly, to re-title Article 704 municipal setting designations more particularly, to prohibit the use of certain groundwater from beneath property located to 601 West 11th Street, supporting issuance of a multiple setting these designations certificate by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, providing a penalty, providing for severability and providing for an effective date, what are utilities director Bill Riley, one of the manufacturing Representative Brad Jackson, your own serve. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate y'all doing this. The gentleman can get back to Dallas today. We make this fairly quickly. But this is just an amendment to an existing ordinance pertaining to a piece of property, the Windland property and creating a municipal setting designation on that property for some issues that have taken place there. I'm just going to do the introduction here, Mr. Brad Jackson, with NSave, who represents Windland Manufacturing. We'll have a short presentation here to describe to you what is taking place there and what they're asking for in this case. Thank you. Welcome, sir. Appreciate it. Thank you. As you said, my name is Brad Jackson. I'm a professional geologist with NSAFE, and we've been assisting Windland Manufacturing through the MSD process. Let me, the slide show that I'm going to show you is just a brief summary of the information that I've given or that the board already has, so let me go into the slide show. Okay, Windland is about two miles from here. It consists of 4.22 acres. It's located at 601 West 11th Street. It's in a mixed use area. It's bounded to the north by West 11th Street, to the east by undeveloped property to the west

[2:50:14] by commercial businesses and the Consul River and railroad tracks to the south by 250, 300 feet. The facility is developed with several buildings, welding and manufacturing, buildings and administrative building, and they currently manufacture steel storage tanks. There's a topo map, it's a little skewed on the TV, but you can see in general where it is. It's about two miles northwest of here. Historical environmental conditions. There was a below-ground waste management unit that was used to contain their x-ray wastewater, and basically what they did is They x-rayed their welds to determine integrity. And it consisted of a steel vault that was encased in a concrete vault. Groundwater fluctuation throughout the years came in contact with it and impacted the groundwater right around the vault. We conducted several site investigations, installed groundwater wells, collected soil samples and found that the arsenic concentrations from the material that was stored in the vault impacted groundwater right next to the source. That was reported to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality. The results, as I said, was conveyed to them and we began doing a semi-annual groundwater sampling program using three selected wells. One well was adjacent to the vault. The other well was a property line vault and the other one was a down gradient well that was off-site between the property and the control river. That went on for basically five years. We've been semi-annual groundwater sampling since 2009. The results have shown us that arsenic

[2:52:15] concentrations at the source well exceed the applicable TCQ level however the property line well and the offsite down gradient well have not exceeded it all so basically it's telling us that the arsenic is isolated right next to the previous wall it has been removed and that process has been seized for probably six years or so. We also did additional contaminant trend evaluation such as the man-kindle testing which shows that arsenic concentrations are not exceeding or not expected to increase in the future and aren't moving off site. Based on this information, we prepared a response action plan for the TCEQ and recommended that a municipal setting designation be put in place. And basically that is a TCEQ approved groundwater response action, which is put into place as an administrative control to manage onsite groundwater within the source area. MSD places a de-notice on the site property restricting the use of groundwater as a potable drinking water source. The MSD administrative control would be limited to the whenland property boundary. A lot of times if you have all site contamination you have to include additional properties into the MSD. This is a fairly simple MSD, it would be just limited to that property itself. In November 2013, the TCEQ approved the MSD as a proposed response action. Upon approval from COSA, we would complete a TCEQ required MSD application, which would basically be the same information that you have here, but it would be on the TCEQ form, and that would be submitted along with an approved ordinance from the city showing that COSA has approved it, and we was submitted to the TCEQ for their approval. Once that's approved,

[2:54:18] basically what we would do, we would see semi-annual groundwater sampling, and we would sample two specified down gradient wells for a five-year interval for a period of 10 years or two sampling events, just to ensure that the data that we have is correct, and it's not moving on side, but that's basically it. Sounds very reasonable. Johnny, is this your area? I don't believe it is. I don't know whose area it is. I think it's mine. Is that yours, Don? Well, then take the lead, sir. I think it's great that they'll cop this thing and it's not moving. I move for approval as presented. Second. Okay, I do have a second. I'll take Johnny's second, Don's motion is short. No question. If we don't approve this, what happens? Because this can't proceed without the city's approval to accept it. Right. What happens? Well, there are other alternate remedial methods that you can use. I mean, some of them obviously more costly. But this since arsenic is very immobile and soil and groundwater is stained right there at the source, which has been removed, and there will be attenuation over time where it'll lessen through the years. It seemed like the most reasonable and feasible thing to do and TCQ has approved it but we would either have to go in and do a physical removal or a pump and treat system which would be rather costly and it would go on for a number of years. And you're not worried or have any fears of any contaminant with river being right there and no not at this point no by doing this that helps prevent right exact contamination right and you know we've as I said we've gone through numerous events sampling events over five years of sampling the data does not show that is moving outside so we're confident it's not going

[2:56:18] to sounds good further comment from council public comment mostly has been made that we accept and approve the ordinance to take care of the TCEQ response action. All right, thank you. Well said. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Put a 7-0 on that one. Do we have anything else it needs to be taken care of before we break for executive? Public comment. Motion to adjourned. Okay, I didn't hear. We did public comment. I didn't hear. If not, I'm going to take us into exacting. It is 1216 PM, executive session under the revision of government code title five open government ethics up title a open government chapter 551 open meeting sub chapter D exceptions to requirement the meetings to be open under the following sections, section 5500 7118 to consult with the attorney with the governmental body seeks the advice of its attorney about pending or competent contemplated Legation, litigation, litigation, litigation, regarding A, two thirteen seal coding program contract and B, Marta for Hirschfield Energy Systems, L-L-C-E-T-A-L, number two, section 5510712 to consult with the attorney on the matter in which the duty of the attorney to the governmental body under the Texas disciplinary rules professional conduct of the state bar of Texas, clearly conflicts with this chapter, sports complex naming rights number three section five five one oh seven two to liberate the purchase exchange lease or value of real property regarding a potential size for a police department administration building and number be the Avenue P drainage project and the redroids of project and see real property located in the San Angelo Regional Airport number four section five five one oh seven four a one to liberate the six month evaluation of the city manager we are now

[2:58:18] in executive. 258, let's get this meeting started again. Let's see where we are. 15, 15. That is consideration of the placement of art to be incorporated with the Red Arroya Trail Project and approving any matters related thereto. Carl, why? You have the floor, sir. Yes, sir. And now for something completely different. Art. This art is being proposed by art in on Common Places, they're a local nonprofit group that promotes putting art in public places. You may be familiar with some of their other work around town, the working cowboy on North Bryant, the runners at the sports complex, all the art, virtually all the art, along the river, basically from Abe Street to Oak Street. I say virtually because they didn't do the bronze statues at the visitor center. But everything else, all the rest of the art has been done by promoted by art and uncommon places. They've been envisioning art for the Redrawary Trail Project since the very beginning. And that's going back eight to 10 years when we first started talking about trying to get money to do the trail project. This trail project, as you know, is ongoing and is planning to be finished this fall. If this artwork is approved, most likely this art would be placed after the project is constructed. We have discussed this art at two meetings of the public art commission. At first, I bought the art to the commission conceptually. I'll first show you the glowstones. The glowstones, the art commission, didn't consider this to be art. It's an artistic enhancement to the trail, but it wasn't necessarily art. So we didn't think this would need formal approval to do. The rest of the art, we clearly see as art, since it's three-dimensional and vertical. These are glowstones that are placed into the concrete

[3:00:20] of the trail to kind of illuminate it at night. And I would like to introduce Julie Raymond and Sue Rainey with Art Nunk common places. And you may want to talk about the glowstones. And they did get a grant from the Health Foundation to do the glowstones. Welcome, Ms. Rainey. Thank you. I am Julie Raymond, Art Nunk common places co-founder with Sue Rainey. The glowstones is an exciting project. We are partnering with a design team and Amsterdam. We've been using them in our work for quite a while. They're solar charged, little plastic stones that we apply just like aggregate. We'll be the first in the nation to do it. We will make the Guinness because we'll have a mile. And I think in Amsterdam they have a half a mile. And they charge in the day with our beautiful Texas son. and then they'll glow at night from 10 to 12 hours. This will add a safety feature to this area. It is not, is only ambient light. It is not light, bright blaring, but also in this area there's been no lights provided for safety. So it's a safety feature as well as something that we find very attractive. That is that. We're excited. You can, I went to a site where they were applying concrete and did a sample for the engineers for the city. And you can see how they will be installed. And during the day, they will also be blue and green, so they'll be attractive in the day as well as the night. The glowstones get embedded into the concrete, so it's the same level as the concrete at the top. So it just looks like aggregate during the day. The rest of the art, we do think, we need City Council's consideration. And I'd just like to introduce it first. I'll show a map here in a second, but there's two stone figures that'll be placed at the

[3:02:23] two ends of the trail, Sherwood Way and Nicker Barker. There's several trailheads, but six of them are being proposed to have bird cage adornments and we'll show those to you in a moment. Inside those bird cages would be benches on top of which would be placed mosaics. And then in the front of the bird cages would be mandillas, which is an artistic imprint on concrete. We'll show you here in a second. Two metal dog sculptures, we'll show you that in a second to be placed by the dog waste receptacle. There's different dispensers that folks can get bags to pick up dog waste. And then 16 tuffets, which are essentially serving as quarter mile markers along the trail. And those would be artistic markers. And then a set of metal boats to be placed in one of the water pooling areas adjacent to the Millburg Road and College Hills Boulevard. This map is difficult to see, but I just wanted to point it out. Here's the Red-A-Rory Trail Sherwood Way, Knickerbocker, here are the two ends. It's in the shape of basically a Y. The one of the stone, the metal figures would be at this end. One would be at this end. The bird cages are proposed to go at six of the trailheads. This one, this one, this one, this one, this one, this one, and this one. The metal boats would be supposed to be placed inside this pond here. The dog sculptures, one was proposed to be placed here, sorry here, and then one over by potentially where the dog park would be either here or here where the dog dispensers bag dispensers are thank you Carl for the map I've been trying for the life made to figure out where Sherwood Way and knickerbocker road met and you mean two different places okay let's see and the tough it's the tough it's would go along the length of the trail and then

[3:04:27] And the mandalas, we'll be on the concrete, an image on the concrete at eight of the locations. One, two, three, four, five, no, I'm sorry, six, where the bird cages are. One, two, three, four, five, six. Here's a look at what the bird cages would look like. And this is a mandala, which would be the image in front of the bird cages. And I'll let Julie talk about the bird cages and how each one has its own theme as well as their own color. We felt that this trail needed some visual vertical presence, also some way finders so people would know what location they are and where they're going. We were very fortunate to secure a grant from the area foundation. We won't pay for all this. We hope the day of giving will also help in this fundraising. six cages which have been designed by an engineering team are done in pipe and we're going to color code each area so that if you need to find someone you'll be able to go to the red section or the blue and the cages inside each one we recycled benches from the city that's what we love to do and then we designed a mosaic with native animal I mean native things on top and so you just finished one in the studio, they're very beautiful. They'll be valued about, oh anyway, a great value for what you're getting. These are mandalas in front of these cages. They're going to be 10-foot wide. Soo and I will be hand cutting a stencil for each and every one of them. We have designed these meeting with the engineer and the city engineers for safety, graffiti, as top notches we possibly can. We also have a handshake with the West Texas Training Center, so we have had some help

[3:06:40] from students, high school students in this process also. But these on the ground have representation of what meaning for strength and courage the patterns and things that will be done. Inspiration is Charlie Harper was the artist we kind of took a clue up here and we made our own designs but Charlie Harper designed biology books back way back in the 50 and 60 and then Todd Odom which is the designer designer for Target updated it and very inspirational I think they're going to be super cool. There's the yellow one. This one is going to be at Cedar Hill. It is a theme of the monic butterfly. It will be some monic butterflies placed on the outside. Each one of these have a finial on top and if possible we did something that was solar charged so it would light it in the evening. Here is, we did a presentation for the Art Commission, so we did a design board for each and every one where the commission could walk through and see everything and all the materials that we'll be using. Here is the blue one for the Hummingbird Trail, and of course we'll have Hummingbirds there. And you can see the Hummingbird, the long strip there, is the design for the bench that will be inside. The blue ball is a cellular charge ball that will glow as a finial one top. the blue circular design, which is the mandala. And if possible, we will have a chandelier in there that hangs between the ceiling and lower, which are of little glowstone balls, then they'll light up. And you won't be able to touch it because we have a fall factor of so high that they can get us so we're using chain link fence with donated plexiglass pieces.

[3:08:44] Gosh, from Brian Vincent's company, but they're wired in by the West Texas Training Center. So when you look up, it'll be a colorful display, but you won't be able to get it in any of the light fixtures. We have one from Millbrook. The largest entry to this project is starting at College Hills right across from Unidad Park. And you go into Unidad and we have a big piece there. And then the cross from it is Millbrook. and the boats will be in the center looking from one side to the other, but this one is the trees. We'll have some blacksmiths that will forge these trees that will go off the side of the cage with birds in them and then the mandala will be on the ground in front. Here's the finial, which we have the turtle, which is a sign of longevity. And in San Mount Gail Familia and Barcelona, they have turtles holding up the kid theater also. We have our own little influence of that and we'll have birds, the ceramic birds that will be installed. This is the big one that's at Unidad. It's taller than the rest. This one is 12 to 14. The engineers have our drawings at the present time. They have top thinnials on top. It has a chandelier that you can see why you'll have solar lights and then I'll have a ceiling of the chain link fence which white plexiglass will be installed. This will be done totally and white. It'll have a gothic entry to it and I'm excited about it. We've been calling it the Bird Cathedral. These are all gabions. A gabion is what is used in a dry riverbed to filter the water so that was the inspiration for all of these and a gabion is wire with rocks in it and when

[3:10:44] And the water flows through it since the red aurora is a blood plane. We use that as our inspiration. Gabyon also means big cages. That's the big gabyon pavilions which are bird cages. That's just more design of the finials that go on top. And this one's at university and it's a red one and it also has a solar globe on top of it. And here's the whole design layout. This has the owls in it. This will have, its ceiling will be red highway reflectors, which the light will bounce off of. Okay. This one's at Yale and it's orange. It's not showing up very well, but yeah, let's see what the next. So you can see this has a duck theme, it has an orange top to it, and a solar globe that also glows with it, and the medallin front will of course be orange. Tuffets, which were done by the Houghton family, their daughter's a high school student and she wished for a project. So she made these my markers. We decided if you're walking four miles that you should have a place to sit. So these are cylinder, cylindrical pieces, which are actually stools. So we call them Gabyon Tuffets. So they have a cement bottom, which has a mount to the bottom and then it has wire that goes around and then rocks are filled in. First of all, what we're going to do to hold these down, they're going to be mounted into the ground. David Missouri is going to do these. Don't need his time to go pour the foundations which go down to the ground. Then we'll come install the wire. We'll put two cement bags in the center which you can't see. Put beautiful rocks around which are up against the fence so you can see the rocks. We will be in studio producing the tops which are already poured with screws going through them. The designs are drawn. We'll have the community with Olivia's

[3:12:48] direction to mosaic these so they will have great community involvement and also a place to sit and they're marked with one fourth mile so that each direction you can form you know how far you've gone. There's one design, but there's, how many of them, there's seven, you know, you make one more, okay, 16 of those designs. So we're just going to page through because they're, yeah. Now these are the dogs. We think they have a little bit of sense of humor, what you're excited about. They're made out of recycled bicycle chain, which we thought was appropriate for the bike and hike path and their concrete field. We are inspired, the artists that do these because St. Angelo can't afford one of these, so we are going to create these in-house and produce them. These are the Gavian stone fixtures, which stone figures would soon I and our fabricator, we tried to get a bid by a fabricator, they're too labor intensive, so soon I and our fabricator Mike Hensley will be doing two of these. These were the illustrations you see to the right we're done by West Texas Training Center, they put a piece of clay on a computer or visually these students did and then they pull it out and create these people. Then they drop a polygon net over the top of them which you can see and they have to start out in the T formation and then they move these figures to the position that we wanted like the squatting position. Then after they got that we came by and we gave them the wire or the taping and then they enlarged the lines to that. So now we will know how the length of each piece should be, which will have to be cut on our chop saw, welded together, they will be done in pieces. The bottom will start, weld it, rocks will be put in, then we'll put the second section

[3:14:48] in, weld it on, drop box and then complete that process. They're pretty, these are gabions, but they're going to have a very big present standing and they would be ten foot tall, squatter their five foot. Their placement is very highly visible. It's going to draw attention that this is where the trails start and you may come in and be apart. And I think it shows great strength of our city and of our people. I think the rock and the wire shows that. These are the boats that will be installed. They will be produced by, no, what's the welder? I just flew in on them a little bit, jet lag, I'm sorry. Anyway, these are about seven foot, five of them, they'll be hollow in the bottom, walk will be on the bottom, they'll be mounted in, there'll be a seat that you can, you know, go sit and have your picture taken, but if we don't get a rain, water will flow around them and there'll be on a gay being so they're built for what we need when we get right okay ma'am when we get right okay thank you when we get ready I appreciate your attention and we are very fortunate that we have such great support by the citizens of San Angelo engineers the community helpers the area foundation and we are very grateful and thank you for your time. Thank you Ms. Raymond that is that is nice. Really it is. I'm super excited and I have to say this this is the very first project that I started working on when I got on council in May 2005 and to see it come to this I might have known get it into Carl's hands and we just really get to moving along and that I'm excited about this have been watching the work and the progress out in the district and it's

[3:16:48] super it's gonna be other comments yes yeah no it won't take years not working on it I promise you know not this has been a very long project and process in the beginning getting funds approved from the state and various sources, but I remember it well. Elizabeth? Elizabeth? This is beyond nice. I mean, this is something that's absolutely, I would say, world-class, absolutely unique. Probably we won't be seeing anything like it anywhere else. I love the fact that you've taken elements and materials from, you know, all of the things that you all have been exposed to. So I'm really excited about it, and Charlotte may have started on it, but I'm so happy to say that much of it is in my district. So it started out in mind, which was the lines of really y'all, it's breathtaking. So I hope you survive it, absolutely. I do have to make a comment. Sue and I taught for 20-something years in the school district, and we were itinerant our teachers so we traveled to every spot in the town. We worked very hard to make sure there's a placement in each one of your districts and we're excited so thank you. Do we have public comment on this before we move on? Thank y'all very much. Very, very nice. Let's move on to number 17 which is the first public hearing and introduction of an order that's amending the 2152. We are asking for some action. Oh, I didn't know he needed any action. I thought it was just consideration. What do you need to prove any matter to you need motion motion to approve as presented to proceed. Anybody go second second. We'd have motion and a

[3:18:49] second. All in favor say aye. Opposed nay. And we've already called for public comment. So is that what you need buddy? Yes sir. Never said teens first public carrying an introduction of an ordinance amending the 214-215 budget for capital projects and complete projects and grants. Ms. Morgan. Hello, I'll go through these quickly. I have some routine items for you and if you like I can go through the additional information line by line. I have the Ebola preparedness and response program that's a grant that was approved earlier today since it launches May 1st. We wanted to get that on the agenda quickly and get that budgeted for that program from the Department of State Health services grant. The general debt service, this item that's up, there's going to be revenue of $41,000 from ambulance service to services revenue that we just issued in February. There will also be an access of $1.5 million in the debt service fund balance for a total increase of expense of $1.541 million, and that's related to the bond as you approved it February 17th, just putting that into action. The next item there is the air service development plan. That's just coming from airport operating fund balance. There's sufficient fund balance there to tackle continuation of this project. And so we're putting those funds in place to begin that phase of the contract. The next item there is home buyers assistance program, $8,694 in unexpected program income, and just reinvesting that in the HUD program. The next item is the Fairmount Cemetery column barrier. We have the $36,000 contribution from friends of Fairmount that we need a budget for in an additional amount of $18,084 from the general fund balance as discussed, I believe last meeting. The next item there is certificates of obligation issue cost if you recall we budgeted for this bond issue

[3:20:49] back in January in a reimbursement resolution before we really knew what those final costs would be. So there will be that $150,000 expense but it will be funded with the CO proceeds. So no problem there. And then the last item, affordable housing reimbursement. This is the type B sales tax affordable housing program. Again, unexpected program income. Just need a budget for that and reinvest it in the buy down program. So for total expenses of $1,844,656. This is just housekeeping. Yes, sir. Somebody want to make a motion to approve? Motion to approve. Second. Motion to approve. Do I have a motion to approve from Elizabeth with a second from Charlotte? Do I have further council comment on this? Any questions from Morgan? Public comment on this. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Put a six hole on that one. Thank you. That got it. All right, number 19 is consideration and possible action on matters discussed in executive closed session if needed. Man, I don't want... What is... That's my machine. Are you going to explode? And since there are none, are you looking for a motion to adjourn? No, I don't. I can just read it all well. No, my machine was making a lot of money. No, it was. I didn't know what was going on. Oh. Executive closed session, there is nothing we, there is nothing to decide. Nothing was... There's no... We need no votes on this. Number two is consideration of approving various board nominations for council and designated council members civic events advisory board Billy R. Nahara SMD 3 to a full first term October 2 16 I do need a motion here the Marty and Don any further council come in go ahead public comment all in favor please say aye I pose nay put a 6-0 on that one and as was consideration of future agenda items I start with you to Ms. Grindstaff.

[3:22:50] Nothing mayor. Mr. Warder. Ms. former. Trash on the loop, the Southwest portion of town. Please, we need, I'm gonna try to do what they said in church Sunday, you know, let's don't be beggars. Let's be believers. I'm believing that it's gonna get done. We're addressing everything. Thank you. Marty. Nothing. I got it this time. I have nothing either which brings us to item number 22 and I need some help. Motion to approve. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. This meeting is over.

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