San Angelo City Council 4-18-17

[0:00:00] Good morning. It is good to see everybody out here. April the 18th, 2017, the day our Lord has given us is glad to see you here. We will start this morning with prayer. I will ask Bill Wright to chaplain at the Immanuel Episcopal Church to come forward and get us started. Ask Thank you to stand as you are able. Thank you. Thank you. Let us pray. A merciful God, we gave you thanks for the many opportunities that we have in our city of San Angelo. We thank you for those who work for the city and those who plan for the many activities that we have. We pray your particular blessing today on our mayor and the city council as they deliberate. May they be strengthened by you and experience wisdom to plan for all of the citizens of our town. All this in Christ's name we pray. Amen. Amen. We need a picture. Macie, Lauderdale and Casey Hood would y'all come forward please. I spoke to the middle school at TLCA here about a month ago and I'm going to tell you what, there's not a better group of kids in this entire city than what I found at TLCA. TCLA. They were nice, they were a good looking group, they were respectful, it was a true pleasure. There were two girls though in this audience that stood out and that's these two right here. I have an idea that nothing happens at that school unless these two are the ones that make it happen. So I ask them to come up and do our pledge, I wanted you to see them. These kids are phenomenal. Let's do the pledge. We do have one recognition and this is a school teacher.

[0:02:43] needs to get back to school before we have our music. Uh, Ashley Docks, would you please come forward, please van. Good morning. And welcome. St. Angelo's own. Ashley Docks has been named the Texas Basketball Association's Class 6A Middle School Coach of the Year. In his letter nominating Coach Docks, who leads the Glenn Middle School Lady Raiders, Central High School Lady Cats Basketball Head Coach Taylor noted that not only are Ashley's team successful, they are disciplined and play the game with intensity and heart. Turner added that in his time as a head coach he has never had a junior high staff member who works as hard as Ashley to implement our total program and the results are clearly seen on the court. Coach Dijks team since season regularly won by 30 to 50 point margins has both the A and the B team posted 11 won season records and in the regional tournament the A team took second place in the B Team won the championship. The Texas Basketball Association honored Coach Dijks and her energetic efforts in encouraging her players and not just each day in a gym during the season. She works tirelessly training players during summer campus well, her dedication extends to cheering her athletes from the stands during summer league games, and her commitment to her young charges is meaningful to the students, for they know without questioning that their coach is invested in them. Enough to spend the time during long hours in the summer fall and spring to to push them forward toward excellence. Now, therefore, I, Dwayne Morrison, Mayor of the City of St. Angelo, takes us on behalf of the City Council, do hereby recognize and applaud Ashley Docks. And thank you. Thank you. Thank you, sir. I'm not really good at public speaking, but this goes out to all my girls and the parents that allow me to do what I do to my family that supported me all these years. You know, I don't do it for this piece of paper. I do it to see the girls succeed. So thank all of you.

[0:04:43] And thank you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you, Nana. I'm Nana. We do have a proud grandma here, too. Let's get a picture. And now we have our musical guest. Ellen Myers is probably the greatest guitar picker in the world. She can make noises in that guitar that people don't even know you can make out of. And Kevin Brown, and I grew up listening to Bill Black and Ace Cannon, and they ain't got nothing on Kevin Brown when it comes to play in the sax. So I've got Ellen and I've got Kevin here this morning to play for you. Y'all got about 10 minutes, three songs, go get it. I'm killing me. OK, I chose this especially for you, Mr. Mayor. Thank you. The way you wear your hat, the way you sip your tea, the memory of all that, oh no, the way your smile just me is the way you sing of key, the way you're on my dreams, can't take that away from me. We may never let Bombay roll to love, still always, always keep the memory, the way you hold your knife, the way we talk to, the way you change my life and take that away from me oh they can't take that away from me I'll just be where you sing on the way

[0:08:14] you're hard my dreams in your life oh no way we dance to the way you change my life take that away from me comes after they can't take the song that this next song is from Julie Andrews' very first movie role. She was so cute. She was only 22 years old in the sound of music and this features John Coltrane. I mean... I said it just before Kevin Brown's kind of a genius, kind of a genius, okay we will end

[0:14:00] with um I thought about this Mayor Dwayne Louis Armstrong recorded this toward the end of a long and illustrious and influential career see the see what I did there I see tree I see I see skies of blue in the dark of people I see friends

[0:16:01] at last one's absolutely one of the prettiest songs that's ever been written and y'all did great

[0:19:25] Thank you so, so very much. Thank you. That doesn't put you in a good mood lesson to that. They ain't nothing going to put you in a good mood. That is just wonderful. An angel old river walk is being named the Great in Texas by the state chapter of the American Planning Association. Whoever's going to accept this, please come forward. Good morning. Welcome to San Angelo, Texas. nothing like it. The whole state now knows what San Angelo has known for years. That's a control Riverwalk is one of the great places in the state of Texas. The American Planning Association has officially designated the Riverwalk as one of its inaugural six great places in Texas. The program spotlights localities that exemplify exceptional character and highlight how great planning helps create communities of lasting value. Among the five other two in the 17 honorees or streets, neighborhoods and public spaces, including Fredericksburg's Main Street and downtown McKinney. The selection committee was impressed with the investment that St. Angelo made to develop space along the Conchville River that promotes social interaction and a sense of community. Voters approved spending more than $15 million and have sent

[0:21:29] sales tax revenue to beautify and to enhance the river walk in today. This four mile stretch both the wide range of popular amenities. They include paddle boating, kayak launches, putt putt golf, public art, workout equipment, extensive parks and trails, and the Riverwalk also hosts the annual Riverfast each September. Therefore, I, Duane Morris, and the Mayor of the City of San Angelo and the Half City Council, do hereby recognize and applaud those who were instrumental in the enhancement of the Country Riverwalk for their achievement and their positive determination to make a difference in our community. Carl, give it to you. Give it to Ray. Somebody need my speech. Thank you mayor and city council. Good morning and citizens of St. Angelo. I am Doug McDonald on the present elect for the Texas chapter of the American Planning Association. I have a script because I usually talk too much and so this limits me so I can be respectful of your time. I represent over 2,000 practicing planners within the state of Texas as well as 35,000 practicing planners nationwide. I'm very excited to be here this morning to celebrate this distinguished honor with you, Marin City Council, of having the St. Angel River Walk designated as a great place in Texas. I have family lives here in West Texas. I came back here to go to school at Texas Tech, has a very special place in my heart. I was very excited to see that the inaugural great place listings at the State of Texas has a West Texas City St. Angelo listed and St. Angelo you will now set the standard for future great places in Texas to meet so it's a very distinguished honor not only to be recognized as a great place in Texas but be one of the first six great places listed in the state of Texas. Great places in Texas recognizes the Lone Star's great places, neighborhoods, streets, and public spaces. They celebrate how planning plays a vital role in where we live, work, and play. The program promotes and and recognizes great places while celebrating stories of planning that resulted in healthier

[0:23:29] and stronger communities. Six places were selected by the Texas chapter this year and I'll tell you I wasn't one of the selection committee but I sat on the liberation and it was very competitive this year. These places most illustrate effectively what it means to be a great place including design, functionality, sustainability, character, quality and community participation. On behalf of the Texas chapter I'm proud to recognize City of San Angelo City Council, the Planning Zoning Commission, and staff for your outstanding efforts in making the Riverwalk a great place in Texas. Just to give credit where credit is due requires behind me is my boss. He's the one that made sure we kept on focus on target with this project the whole time and it really started with the House at Sales Tax referendum back in 2004 and we finished it finally in 2013. Also up here is Craig Kinney. He's he's the design. He's the lead of the design firm that we hired, a local firm that designed all the improvements that we did, so he deserves a lot of credit. David Knapp behind me, who is our construction manager, he made sure that all the work got done the way it was supposed to get done, and that's a never-ending project. And just a little explanation, $15 million sounds like a lot, but that included everything. That included all the studies that we had to do, how to hydrological studies, the flood playing studies, even included the dredging that we did of the river back in 2009. It included the connection between the celebration bridge and the pessail that was done by the art museum, included all the work that you saw along the river, all the bank stabilization, all the park improvements, all the trail improvements, the boss key, and everything down there. So we're very thankful for this recognition. And we hope its service centers a little well. And we thank Thank you for your efforts in supporting the House of Sales Tax to make it happen. That $15 million also included about $2 million in grants that we got for the project.

[0:25:36] You know, Carl, thank the citizens and I want to re-echo that because they're the ones who voted to do the House of Sales Tax, which they saw this vision. And there were people who came before us who set the vision for the river trail as well. But also thank you to the Parks Department. and outstanding parks department who keeps those parks in this particular site looking outstanding for you. So thank you to them for all the work they did. They did a lot of the the side work on this, the landscaping, irrigation, all those kind of things. So they go above and beyond every day. Thank you to the planning department for recognizing us and thank you to APA, Texas chapter for the recognition of this project. Anybody else need to make speech? Craig, thank you very much. and it is a beautiful river walk. They're not a prettier spot in the state than our Consul River. Recognition for the Consul Valley Transit District's Outstanding Rural Transit Systems Award, gentlemen. Step forward, please. Good morning. Down out. How much good? How long was there? The Consul Valley Transit District has earned the Outstanding Rural Transit System Award from the Texas Transit Association. The Consul Valley Transit District was recognized during the 217 rodeo. For its innovative practices and improvements in making services more efficient for riders. Under the supervision of Enzwerta of McDonald Transit,

[0:27:36] the CDTD has begun making waves in the Consul Valley. The organization has set high priorities for safety, reliability, and customer service. The CDTD has implemented a dynamic operator training, centralized dispatching, implemented a rule bus pass system, and introduced regional clustering for maximum efficiency all within a little more than a year. The CDTD is a program operator the Consul Valley Council of Governments that serves as a rural transit district for 12 counties surrounding San Angelo. In 2006, the Consul Valley Transit District assumed responsibility from the City of San Angelo to provide public transportation for San Angelo in the surrounding area. The goals of the CDTD are to continue engaging with the public, educating staff and sitting high standards within the transit community. For those wanting to learn more about the Consul Valley Transit District and its services, I commend them to CDTD.org. Therefore, I, Duane Morrison, the Mayor of the City of St. Angelou on behalf of the City Council, do hereby and recognize and applaud the Consul Valley Transit District for its achievement in positive determination to make a difference in our community. John Austin, thank you. The Microphone is here for me. Just quickly, as they say it's been a pretty tough road to But we're excited about being able to celebrate something in the progress that we've made and all credit goes to Vince and his capable management, but also need to think the city and their leadership who supported our efforts to bring in a management firm. In particular, Mayor served on the committee who chose McDonald Transit, who gave us events. So thank you all for all you all support, Vince, who's saying? Just want to thank staff for the incredible job that they do. Our bus drivers are really out there working hard from very early to really late. So again, thank you all. And those of you who haven't ridden the bus, please, we encourage you to ride the bus. It's a good way to go. Thank you all.

[0:29:44] Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month. Who is here for this? y'all come forward please and good morning welcome sexual assault awareness and prevention month calls attention to the fact that sexual violence is widespread and impacts every person in our community rape sexual assault and sexual harassment harm our community and statistics show that nationally one in five women and one in 71 men will be raped at some point in their life child sexual abuse prevention must be a priority to confront the reality that One in six boys and one in four girls nationally will experience a sexual assault before age 18. Young people experience heightened rates of sexual violence and youth's age 12 to 17 were two and a half times as likely to be victims of rape or sexual assault. Nationally on campus, one in five women and one in 16 men are sexually assaulted during their time in college. The theme of this year's sexual assault awareness and prevention month's campaign is engaging new voices. the campaign calls on new partners and community members to help promote healthy relationships, equality and respect. Now therefore, I, Duane Morrison, Mayor of the City of San Angelo, takes us on behalf of the City Council, do hereby proclaim the month of May 2017 as Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and I join advocates and communities across the country in taking action to prevent sexual violence. April is Sexual Assault Awareness and Prevention Month and each day of the year is an opportunity to create change for the future and the microphone is yours. Thank you. Well, thank you. I just want to say on behalf of the board and the staff and volunteers and the recipients of our services, we want to thank the City Council and the community for all of your support all of these years. Thank you very much. At a Sigma Phi day, who's going to accept

[0:32:00] this one. Good morning. Welcome. Yes, ma'am. In honor of being the better Sigma Phi, the world's largest Greek letter woman service, cultural and social organization with many chapters in the city and the state of San Angelo, Texas that A of April 27, 2017 has been designated better Sigma Phi day. Better Sigma Phi is an organization that has grown to include more than 15,000 members representing more than 10 countries across the world, a group of women who We have worked for nearly every known charitable health and cultural organization, raising money, donating time and effort to those in need everywhere. The badge of the organization shall signify life, learning and friendship by its Greek symbols beta sigma5. It is sincerely believed to be a worthwhile act that would benefit as many members around the world with a lifetime of association with the finest people. Now therefore, I, Duane Morrison, the Mayor of the City of St. Angelo, and behalf of the City Council do hereby proclaim April 27 2017 as better sigma 5 day thank you and you got the microphone in 30 minutes then with you the 30 minutes please good morning good morning City Council thank you I am Francis Gladen and on behalf of San Angelo's by the Sigma 5 74 members I want to thank you for the proclamation recognizing us. There are nine chapters and each chapter selects their charities and places they serve. This past year we have donated to the Wesley soup kitchen, boys ranch, girls homes, donated coats to early childhood students totaling $500, donated new blankets, socks and scars to adult

[0:34:03] Protection Service, Salvation Army, Fort Concho, to purchase a three-legged milk stool for the mess hall, stuffed animals to house a faith totaling $800, raise across America the raise, stay here in San Angelo and nursing home services. There were more places we donated to that I have not mentioned. We believe an estimate of $6,000 to $8,000 were donated. Places and things we do for service are, one chapter alone folds left fliers for the Bremas Center for Hospice of San Angelo averaging $2680 a month, a total of $32,160 yearly. Children's Fair Relay for life, furnished lunch sacks and donated them with handmade decorations for meals for the elderly, deliver meals to the elderly, made trick-or-treat bags for boys ranch and sponsors, served pizza and a salad dinner to the girls at Girls Home, and volunteered at Christmas at the fort. There were more places we served. hard to put a figure on the amount of hours that we would believe it would be in the thousands. We had our spring social in March. All the chapters came together and donated gift cards and much needed items for everyday living totaling $2,000 to somebody's rusty homeless ministry. I would like to take a minute to speak about the members of my chapter, Perceptor Lambda Lambda. Mary Tuff is our president of computer with and always have been mostly me. Patsy Jackson, our vice president, has been a member of Bait-a-Sigme Five for 53 years, all here in San Angelo.

[0:36:07] Grace Brazil, our recording secretary, has been a member for 52 years all in San Angelo. Beth Watkins, Jackie Sessom's, Lou King, and volunteer at Christmas at the Fort. Donald Donaldson lives in paint rock and beats everyone selling our raffle tickets when we raffle off our beautiful Christmas baskets. Martha King served three years on the Fort Concho Board. Her term just ended in January. Dana Gray serves on the Fort Concho Foundation Board. Every December in conjunction with Rees Across America, A ceremony is held where wreaths are laid on the graves of our brave veterans at Belvedere Cemetery to honor them. Dana Gray organizes this cemetery and has for the past ten years, and I believe I am correct that Mayor Morrison has attended every ceremony. I have made over 100 issue holders. The chapter bought the packets of tissue to put inside, and we donated them to meals for the elderly for birthday gifts. I would like to present Mayor Morrison, city council, city manager with one. I believe there may be a few extra, if so, one for the city clerk and the assistant. The packets of tissue have a yellow rose on them, which is the flower of Beta Sigma Phi. Beta Sigma Phi is alive and well in San Angelo, and helping people have better lives. Thank you, thank you, appreciate it, y'all, let's take a picture of him. Just

[0:38:12] give him the brine and he will take care of him. Just makes you feel good to live in San Angelo, Texas, doesn't it? Thank y'all also very much. I want more proclamation. This is a put on purple day and whoever's going to accept this, please come forward. Let me just and he'll get it to the right spot. An estimated 1.5 million Americans suffer from lupus. The chronic inflammatory auto-immune disease that can affect various parts of the body, especially the skin, joints, blood, and kidneys. Lupus can be difficult to diagnose, because his symptoms are similar to those of many other illnesses, and major gaps exist in understanding the causes and the consequences. The lupus foundation of America Lone Star Chapter is part of a national forced-evoting National Force devoted to solving the cruel mystery of Lupus while providing caring support to those who suffer from its brutal impact. The chapter rallied the city of San Angelo community to wear the color purple and to further unify the support for those living with the disease. Awareness is vital in raising funds for research for those affected by Lupus and it is our responsibility as a community to advocate on behalf and to further encourage educational programs so everyone affected by Lupus can have an improved quality of life.

[0:40:14] Therefore, I, Dwayne Morrison, the Mayor of the City of San Angelo on behalf of the City Council lawyer here by appropriate May 19, 2017, has put on Purple Day throughout the City of San Angelo and urge all citizens to support the cause of raising awareness of Loopas so that we can have a world with no Loopas. Thank you. It is now time the part of our agenda in our meeting where we ask for public comment items or issues that are not on the agenda may be raised by the public at this time. Citizens should speak from the podium, began by stating their name and limit remarks to less than three minutes. Council members may request that a discussed item be placed on the future agenda. The council takes public comment on all regular agenda items during discussion of these items. If you would like to approach the council, if you've got anything you would like to say, or if you're happy, you can talk to us and tell us. If you're unhappy, you can talk to us and tell us about it. Ask you to come forward. Form a line at the front, right behind Dan Coney. Good morning, sir. Good morning, good morning, Mayor. Good morning, Council. Dan Koenig with the San Angelo Chamber of Commerce. I'll be brief here this morning. Just wanted to take a minute to introduce Diane Bays to you. Diane is our newly named vice president of our convention and visitors bureau. Diane has a 20 year history in the convention and travel and tourism business. Most recently with the Texas travel and tourism industry, of the McKinney Hillsboro and Manhattan, Kansas CVBs. We had a very healthy and productive nationwide search process

[0:42:16] which included many of our community leaders and CVB advisory members. And we're very pleased that we have Diane on board. And I know you'll be interested in getting to know her better and meeting her in more detail in the future. So Diane, do you want to say anything? Thank you, Mayor, City Council, City Manager, and distinguished guest. When I came to San Angelo in 2012 as a, I was the membership services director for the Texas Travel Industry Association, and the San Angelo CBB was a member. So I visited here two years later, we sponsored the Texas Travel Councilors to come to San Angelo. So we came back again and I brought those tribal counselors with me and we visited the community again. So coming back here in 2017, now being a part of this community, which is a beautiful community of Riverwalk, truly my husband and I have been so impressed with it. But in talking to other people about the community who had lived here, we did our research too. their comments about St. Angelo were, it is the best quality of life of any community we've ever lived in. And that spoke volumes to me as a now resident of the city and I look forward to working with our great team in marketing this community and getting visitors to come here so that they can learn more and more about the city. So thank you. Thank you very much. And I saw you in action in Austin here a couple years ago so I know you're up. I know what you can do. Welcome to St. Angelo. Thank you. Do I have any other public comment? Further public comment? Good morning, Chris. Morning, Chris Choreau. Respectfully requested you pull item H off the consent. I've got some comments that I'd like to make about fees being charged to little leagues.

[0:44:19] Any further public comment? Any other public public comment? All right, at this time being, I will call an end to this part of our agenda. I'm going to start with you, Charlotte. If you have anything you need to say, if you have anything you want to pull any comments you need to make, this is your opportunity. I want to give a special thanks to Brian and the City Manager for the proclamation and recognition and to you mayor to Ashley's efforts as a coach. I appreciate it. It's a great honor for her. So thank you very much for that. I have nothing to pull from the agenda and no other further comments. Thank you. I'm kind of proud over too. I love to see these local kids do well. Thank you Charlotte. Lane did you have any thanks sir? No comment but I'd like to pull H just to see what he likes to see. I have nothing to pull. Harry. I have nothing to pull but I do make a couple of comments. I'm gonna go shout out to a couple young entrepreneurs one of us my son actually lives in Fredericburg and has a wine tour business but he released his first wine this past weekend and it was very very good while he was there another young San Angelo resident Jason Fernandez was there and Jason was promoting his salsa Fernandez salsa Jason indicated to me that he's expanding his line and probably will be opening up a full operation in San Angelo sometime in the near future so I want to thank those to central graduates and say hey along with the mayor I love the city and the young people. Thank you Harry. Did you have anything Marty? I have nothing to pull. Okay. I will entertain a motion then to approve the consent agenda that would be items A through I with the exception of H. So moved. To have a

[0:46:22] motion do I have a second? Do I have a second? I'll take Marty second on that. Do I have any questions comments from Council? Do I have public comment at this time on the consent agenda with the exception of H. We'll call for the vote all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Drop a 6-0 on that one please Brian. Item number H is a second reading and consider adopting an ordinance amending a appendix A fee schedule. Article A6 double triple zero park use fee by renaming article parks and recreation fees adding section A6 double five park facility and activity fees. Margin, check with, probably need you to do some splaining. Lane, did you have any questions on this, sir? No questions. OK, Margin. These are fees we approved this last time. This is a second reading. These are fees that we charge. Do you have them on? I don't know that the PowerPoint's back there. The fees are for the Parks Division and the Recreation Division simply ratifying the fees that they already charge that have been approved by the Council in in the boards in prior times. The only fee for increase at this time is the nutrition meals for non-members would be increasing from five dollars to six dollars. And everything else is remaining the same. That's correct. A five to six dollars non-registered members for lunches. That's the only change for you. We're gonna make an extra dime per meal. Well the current cost of service is five dollars and ninety cents so the charge of five dollars doesn't cover. If we go to six we're gonna get in the black we're gonna make a make a dime. For those that are non-members the vast majority of folks eating at the senior center are members. I don't have a problem with all this it's a second reading I will really entertain a motion.

[0:48:27] Yeah, we can have public comment, we can have council comment. I move approval. Okay, I do have a second, I do have a motion. Do I have any extra questions from council on this? Public comment on this item. Yes, sir. Chris, I do understand that what I have to say has no bearing on the lunch thing, but when this was discussed at the last meeting, I believe it was you, Mayor Morrison, that asked if the fees that are being charged to Little League were considered being overcharged. I've since spoken to Little League and they've had to go up $30 a year on their fees that they have to charge the kids to play. Since you guys took over the sports complex on Bell Street, Southern Little League had to go up on their fees. You guys are talking about redoing the 29th Street Sports Complex and the Little Leagues that are there right now, they're paying for everything except for, they're paying maintenance fee, but they're paying for water and lights and all. You guys, I'm sure, are gonna go up on fees for them too. We're talking about low to middle income children that are playing in these leagues. We're not talking about the select leagues. We're talking about the little league leagues. And a lot of these people are being priced out of being able to play because they're approaching $100 a year to cover costs that the city is imposing on them. Before the Bell Street Complex was built, The little league had leased that land from the city and they built their fields. They maintained their fields. They paid for water. They paid for lights. And when the city took it over, the fees just started going up. And so they're having to start charging more and more and more. Pretty soon, these kids aren't going to be able to play baseball. I would rather see them out there participating in sports, playing baseball than doing who knows what. Let's not price our kids out of the luxury of being children, being able to play sports.

[0:50:28] And I can only imagine what they would be doing if they weren't out there. So if we could please revisit what we're charging on these fees, thank you. Thank you. And we have spoke about this. We've been speaking about this ever since the Bell Street Complex, he's been there. I want to hear from Carl. Yeah, all. It seems like some of the concern is about 29th Street Complex. We just started the design process for that. And there is one field that's used by Northern Little League there, and we intend to keep a field there for them. We have not had any discussion about any kind of rental charge for that in the future once it's renovated. We'll have that discussion later. But in terms of- I mean, South is the only one that uses the Bell Street. I know Lakeview has their field. West has theirs, North has theirs. That's correct. So South is the only one that uses the Commonwealth. Those fees were established in 2009. And we really had joint meetings with them at that time to go through the process of what we would provide and what they were willing to do. And so we did that. And we have worked, we have worked with South and we've, we've negotiated and we've tried to give them some of the concessions. We've worked with them to help them make this work and we will continue to do so. We don't want them to not have a place to play either. Any other questions from Council? Any other public comment on this item? No, I do have a motion and a second on the floor. I have a comment. Okay, go ahead in working with the softball not baseball, but we're working with softball for 20 years and being very familiar with the 29th string complex the improvements and The Texas bank sports complex which I started on the committee before it was approved by the city I do know that every year the price of water goes up every year the price of any fertilizers ant killers everything goes up, including the cost of salaries for the employees that work the parks. That's the way it is, and I do know from being on the end of fundraising

[0:52:36] for these various ball teams that huge participation from parents and people in fundraisers are very successful, and I think it's wrong to expect to capture and keep all of the efforts and the fundraisers to themselves whenever they've got to share a burden of expense to maintain these fields and I wish we could do it for free but the reality is we can't and that's all I just clarify we said they haven't gone up since 2009 Morgan the Texas bank sports complex those of fees that we charge the rental for the leagues to use the the quads in the fields that was established in 2009 by Kelton. Any other comment from Council? Public comment calling for the vote all in favor please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. Put a 6-0 on him. Regular agenda number a consider appeal of the denial of a City Taxi Permit, appealed by Lola Luth. He's going to deal with this. Martinez, are you going to deal with this? Or who's? Who's? Ma'am, if you would come forward, Lola Luth, you are the one that is appealing. This denial of the City Taxi Permit, the City has denied the permit. And if you would like to come forward and tell us about your appeal, we would welcome you. Good morning. Right there in front of the microphone. Speak into the microphone. We got you on television. I'll tell you a little bit about myself. I've lived in Christowal for 27 years. I don't

[0:54:51] meet a stranger. I know a lot of people. I'm a Vietnam veterans widow. Well, we're just now. I worked five to six jobs trying to keep lights on and water and food on the table. five kids, two of my sister's kids, worked for Red Ball for two years. I decided to do something that would make my life a whole lot more bearable. So I bought a van from Red Ball. It wasn't the best van in the world. It broke down major repairs every other day. Most of my money in my company went back to the repairs on the van. That van stayed in shop most of the time. I used to work 37 hours in three days. I didn't want to drive to Gristobel, so it's been the night in the backseat of that van. I have a pension coming in from the VA. I fought these years to get it after my husband passed away, leaving me five notes behind on the property because of gambling and I was struggling for every thing I have. I'm a pretty happy go lucky person. I talked to a lot of people, everybody I meet. Three years in a row, I volunteered to take the military base to good fellow appreciation because of their service free of charge. Two years in a row, I got the boat races from the Chamber of Commerce. This made a lot of people angry and threatened to shut me down because I

[0:56:51] hurt their pocketbooks because I worked on the Goodfellow Air Force Base and I built myself a real big following before I took on the Granny Shuttle. I would watch 14 kids walk past you red ball vans and two yellow checker vans to get in my van. I support that military base because I love those kids for what they give up. I am a pension drawing widow. That pension is not much so I need something help me pull out from the bills that I have. They awarded me that pension which qualifies me as a veteran over anybody else because I am a qualified veteran drawing a pension. His death was service connected and I've been widowed for 12 years and I've stood on my own two feet without filing for any kind of benefits. but upward toward to get their service that I offer offers me independence and I don't want to burden the city by having to file for welfare so I'm asking you to please grant me my permit because I do my best and on my own two feet and I've met with a lot of opposition because I have taken money out of people's pockets I've had two competitors threaten to shut me down at Exodus one year I went to the airport. I had a 13 passenger van with a wheelchair lift. I left with 15 passengers every time, except for twice, then I never had less than 10. Red Ball had two vans there, Yellow Checker had two or three vans there, and none of them got any business. Because I was telling those kids from Dallas, tell the people on that plane that Granny has a van and I can hold them and all their luggage. And I'm doing my best to make ends meet, but I don't want to burden the City. I'm begging you please have a little bit of mercy. Thank you very much ma'am.

[0:59:02] I'm trying to say that I have an illness diabetes that would cause me not to be able to drive. I have a letter from my doctor that says that I am not insulin independent and that Metformin is a Uglycemic drug, so my sugar doesn't bottom out. Give it to Brian, please. Mayor, we do have representatives from the Police Department from Good Fellow Air Force Base, and I believe Code Compliance is here as well. I was waiting for her to finish hers, and then I will call for it. I want to hear the other side as well. Now they're here to roast me because of complaints from other competitors. And maybe I was addressed with the items, the reason she was denied or just this one. I'll wait to let the others make those statements. Maybe I was a gunslinger and came off out of left field, but people were coming at me in left field and made my life very unbearable.

[1:01:07] I've learned a lot in the last couple of years, and I've changed a lot in the last couple of years. So I'm not the person that I was. Is there anything else you would like to, before we bring up the other side, ma'am. No, sir. Thank you very much. Chief, did you have some, I know that you, I've read some of the reports. Are you gonna keep that? Oh, I gave it back to Brian. You have to keep it as part of the record. Good morning, Chief. Good morning. Good morning. Good morning. I'm Robert Martinez, still your assistant chief for the Snaggle Police Department. And first of all, I want to thank Mr. Luke for doing what you did for the military. I myself support that as well. My son currently is first week in Kuwait, so I really appreciate that as well. But I've forwarded some information to you guys on the kind of a short timeline of what's happening. This is nothing we selected anybody on, or randomly selected anybody. This started with complaints. We had some initial complaints earlier, which we didn't act on. And yeah, they were from the airport, I believe. But the ones I got involved with where when the Chamber of Commerce received an email complaint from a visitor from the state of the think it was Tennessee, and that got forwarded to the mayor. That got forwarded to the city manager, and then I got contacted. So I called Ms. Luthien and spoke to her about it. And then I recommended that we do nothing with it about it because we did not have enough yet to do anything with her. Then we had some driving conditions were kind of off-base a little bit. We spoke about it in hopes that things would get better. That was on November the 17th. We got to complaint November the 14th. We got another complaint

[1:03:10] December the 20th. I called her in again and we met with her again and we discussed each and every one of the complaints that we had. She blamed competitors but it was not competitors, there was other folks that were calling. We spoke to her. She agreed that she's going try to do better. Apparently it did not happen. We received another complaint that came in from the military base and I have a text sergeant here that has a video of something that occurred up there's a very short video about 26th long. If you guys would like to look at it concerning granny shuttle and Miss Luth driving through the gate, crashing the gate, which in this day and age is not a a good thing to do, can I get that keyed up? I don't have a problem with what, is it? Council have any problem? Yes, go ahead, sir. This occurred on March the 7th. I don't think it's going to play, Chief. I'll continue on until they get that done then. Her permit expired on March the 2nd. And on March the 2nd, that's one reason we didn't do anything about the complaint was because all the complaints were getting we decided to give the opportunity to we did not want to revoke a permit at that time so we continued on and that would have happened to an average individual I don't think they would have left the base I believe she got a pretty hefty fine and she got borrowed from the base and the colonel had to write a letter himself about her as well I don't think she's allowed back on

[1:05:14] on the base right now. So that was another issue that came up. Called her in again after that complaint, trying to explain to her that the reason for the denial after she applied again to get a permit. Yes, one of the reasons for the denial was the part about the medical condition. We never saw the letter, she never attached the letter. They're attached to the last page on that packet I gave you is the place where she can fill out if there's a medical condition, if so, you include some a note like the one she currently has, I guess. We weren't planning on denying her, but we didn't have anything about it. She spoke to me during an interview that we had and said she had a medical condition, and she spoke to some individuals in a van with her, said she could not function sometimes if she did not take care of the medical condition she had. We spoke about her driving habits. She was driving in bar ditches with people on board. That's a problem. And she was a couple of issues came in where she was doing some obscene gestures to some people. We asked her about it. She never denied it or admitted it. My own records division supervisor who's here now saw her in front of the military base on the South Gate waiting to pick up some personnel. And I approached her about it and asked her about it. She said they were lying, and so was the military. So we left it alone. She came back later in that same day and said that she was lying, that she was up ahead, waiting for fairs to come aboard, but she justified that by saying she didn't charge him any money for the fairs. She said she, at the gate, as you could see, she rode the wind all down, she says, and waved they waved her in, that didn't happen. So I don't know what to believe about her, I don't know what she has going on, but we're not here to get anybody, we're just trying to make sure it's correct.

[1:07:15] I was asked to look into it, I did, and that's my justification for what we did. So you recommend denial? I do to this point. Any questions for the Chief? You got two military people. Yes, I'm gonna bring them up next. Mayor? Yes, sir. I also neglected to let you know that we have representatives from the airport as well. Okay. We'll get them all up. Thank you, Chief. Air Force. Would y'all like to come forward, please? Welcome, sir. When I was starting to carry us up, working over a good fellow for space, onto the on-duty flight chief on the day of the 25th. You know, it's... I just got here in San Angelo at PCSTN in September, and when I went straight to flight, we call it flight basically on on-duty, so I went straight to flight in September, and that's That's when I started hearing stories about the granny shuttle and the issues we've been having on base with her. We've heard multiple, I've personally heard multiple stories from several different patrolmen about her, how she's handing out cards that says, don't call your first sergeant, call me. Of course, we have issues with that because we try to promote contacting her first sergeant for any airman, for that matter, and her handing out those cards kind of discredits that. I understand maybe some of the airman thinks it's cool to hop in the van and drive around with her or whatnot. Maybe it's a cheaper fare. But my concern is the health and well-being of these young airmen that are on base because of what they do. So, on the day of the 25th I was radioed, I was radioed across the net that somebody ran the gate. Of course, we take that very seriously on Goodfellow on any installation, you know, it's a different world nowadays. So, of course, we had several patrols respond within a matter of 30 seconds to a minute. We had stopped her, they radiated in, we surrounded her vehicle, we made contact with her, and she was saying that she goes through the gate constantly, they waved her through and

[1:09:20] whatnot. It was later found in the video that that's not what had happened. So we did issue her in 1805, a barman from base, and she did receive a fine, of course she can rebut that, and we instructed her not to come on to the installation again without calling first. So that very next day, our VCCR Visitor Control Center right outside of gate radios us and says that she's at the base, again, without contacting us first. So I go down there and I make contact with her personally, I just let her know you're she was supposed to call down here. Of course she didn't, but I tried to talk to her about what had happened. Of course she was upset, and she was emotional about the situation, telling me that if she comes through the gate, when she came up to the gate, she rolled down the window, she gave the thumbs up, and she was giving me this whole story. And I did stop her there, and I showed her the video. I had it on my phone, and I said, go ahead and just look at this before you go any further. And that's when she stopped, and she said, I don't remember that. I don't remember doing that, I don't remember doing that. So it's another concern for me that these young airmen are getting in this vehicle. And then I read some of the other reports that the chief had about reckless driving and the gestures she's given to other people and stuff like that. Things that I don't want are airmen involved in necessarily. So I can't speak for Colonel Downs or for the base, but my professional opinion, it does scare me that this stuff is going on and these airmen or hopping in this van going all over the place. And there were people that did talk to me about how she overloads for Van. I've had her come through where we've had to stop her and pull Airmen out because there weren't enough seat belts for that. So again, that's just stories that I've heard from other patrolmen on base as well. But that's the incident, and that is the video that happened that day. Airmen Davis was the one that was actually working the gate.

[1:11:20] He's here as well. He's one of our newest Airmen. those run in the gate. And just like the chief said, if it was, maybe a different vehicle and it did go through the gate, we do have the pop-up barriers as well, and it could cause a lot of damage to the vehicle once we pop those things up. So we did recognize the van and whatnot, and that's why we didn't pop the barriers on her causing potential for her injury for her or any other vehicles on the road, so. I thank you very much for coming forward. Thank you very much. Anybody in council have any questions? I've been. Airport. Good morning. Bruce. Mr. Mayor, Councilor Burkin, I'm with the airport police. We have been dealing with Lola since she started driving. The problems we have are city violations are minor. We've had the rider traffic tickets. She continues to come into the airport and solicit. She dropped cards into the restroom. That's violation of the ordinances. We talked to her at one time, we suspended her ability to come there and let her come back. Whenever I talked to her about dropping cards in the restroom, she told me she doesn't do that and I have to prove it. And we have complaints from the airlines, from the TSA, and from the car rental people about her going to them and saying, please direct all the military people of me. And that's violation two, it's called solicitation. So we've been working with her. I've been trying to let her go in about business, but she just won't quit breaking the rules. And that's our problem with we have out there. Thank you, Rose. Lou. Good morning. And Luis Algazabal, your director. As Bruce say, we have had issues with Grandy Shuttle.

[1:13:23] For several years, even Mr. Valenzuel again involved in one time. And we held meetings with all the cab companies because of the issues that arose. Again, like Bruce said, we had suspended her ability to come to the airport, and we reinstated after she complied. But we've had issues, and we continue to have issues to the point down that we're with municipal court. We're happy to answer any questions. Thank you, sir. Any questions for Lewis? Thank you, sir. Anyone else care to speak? Well, we've heard the pros, and we've heard the cons. I guess it's time to make a decision. Yes, ma'am? Before you talk about making the decision, I'd like to go over what the Code of Ordinances says regarding the denial. There's actually two bases that you can base a denial on. The first is what was referred to earlier, that the applicant is affected with physical or mental disease or disability, that is likely to prevent him from exercising ordinary and reasonable control over a motor vehicle, or that is likely to otherwise endanger the public health or safety. That was the complaint we received from somebody regarding the issue of diabetes. The second is the applicant has ever been convicted of or is presently under indictment for felony or misdemeanor when directly relates to the duties responsibility as a taxicab driver. So she has a federal citation and there was a testimony that she has been given local citations as well. So either of those two can be a basis for denial on March 7th. I will entertain and the denial has been made. The permit has been denied. The permit has been denied by the police department. And she is appealing to the denial. I will entertain a motion to uphold the denial of the permit. I do have a motion to continue to uphold hold the denial. I do have a second. Do I have any questions from Council? Do I have any

[1:15:24] further public comment on this? Motion has been made that we stay with the denial that we do not issue the permit. All in favor please say aye. Aye. All opposed nay. Put a 6-0 on it. I'm sorry, ma'am. It is 949. Let's go to number B, which is Annual Presentation by St. Angelo Community Medical Center on the State of the Employee Wellness Program. Cheryl Flueger, Jenny Charlesworth, and Mary Solomon. Step forward, please. If you got good news for us, ma'am. That's what I wanna hear. Good morning. My name is Janet Charlesworth, and I'm one of the wellness coordinators for the City of San Angel Wellness Program. I share my role with Mary Solomon. Mary is a dietitian and a certified diabetes educator. And we also, the Wellness Program is also overseen by a Wellness Committee, an Employee Wellness Committee. That consists of several employees from various departments. We meet monthly to oversee the program, provide direction and ideas for constant improvement. But we've, this is our sixth year going into implementing a Wellness Program for the City of St. Angelo. And I would just like to provide an overview of what we've done this past year and throughout the years. This first picture is an event we did. One moment, ma'am. Yes, sir. Is everybody cold? Anthony had the air conditioners cut down. Please, sir, sorry to bother you. Please continue. This first picture is an event we did back in October. It was called our city fit 5k event. It was several employees from the City Cord laid the event, put on the event, and our purpose

[1:17:26] was to raise money for the Red and Royal Trail for artwork, art along the Red and Royal Trail. And I will show you here in a minute what we did with that project. These are just some highlights of what our wellness program accomplished in 2016. We offered over 20 wellness challenges and programs for the employees. The employees lost a total of 585.9 pounds during our weight loss challenges. We did wellness screenings at 18 department locations from October through December. We gave over 500 flu shots to employees and retirees and for the city event I was talking about, we raised over $4,000 for our uncommon places to put artwork along the Ritter World Trail. The Wellness Program won the Workplace Wellness Goals Award from the American Heart Association, and we had a 39% increase in wellness challenge participation over the past two years among employees. This is how many employees participated in our wellness challenges just looking throughout the past three years we've had a substantial increase in employee engagement and those that decided to get on board and participate in several of the challenges that we offered. In 2017 we've already had over 200 employees participate in the wellness challenges that we've done in the first quarter so it continues to increase. These are some of the programs, the challenges and programs we did we try to offer two or three programs each month to give the employees a variety of things to participate in. All of these are aimed at improving their health, wellness, nutrition, fitness, everything we're trying to improve with folks. Even a new little snapshot here of what we did. About three years

[1:19:43] ago, we actually branded the wellness program and we branded it by calling it wow, working on wellness. And at that time we decided to provide an incentive for employees to engage in the wellness program and participate and award them for healthy behaviors. And so what we did was with the WOW program is we created a point system where if they earned 400 points They got an extra wellness day off. If they earned 700 points or more, they get two extra wellness days off. And there are many ways they can earn points. All of the ways include health fitness, doing things that promote their health, getting involved in our challenges, donating blood, community service, doing a 5K, there's several different ways. doing a walking program, going to their doctor, getting their preventive screenings done, everything we try to promote to improve their health. This past year, we also offered a program called While on Demand. So, for instance, if we offered a stress challenge one month, and maybe they weren't in the mood to do that challenge, but say six months later, they're under a tremendous amount of stress, they can do the stress challenge on demand. So we offer that as a way to get more participation. We had a 28% increase in the number of employees that earned wild days since the program implemented, and this is that slide. This shows how many wild days the employees were granted over the past three years since we implemented the program. This is a health risk assessment.

[1:21:44] Every October, November to December annually, We asked employees to complete a health risk assessment. Then when we got the results back from the health risk assessment, over the past year, these are the different ways the employees improved. 33% of them increased their physical activity levels. 29% reported eating more fruits and vegetables. 25% started coping better with stress. 9 employees quit smoking. 253 employees improved their wellness score. in 29 employees lost 20 plus pounds. And this just shows you their overall wellness score. The questionnaire, the health risk assessment, is a 60 question questionnaire. And it covers many areas of wellness and health. And the COSA employees, their overall wellness score is a 68 out of 100, which puts COSA employees in the doing well category. And this slide just breaks it down to what percentage of employees scored excellent, doing well, or needs improvement, or high risk on that health risk assessment. The first year we haven't had anybody in the high risk category, so we're very proud of that. This just shows, from that health risk assessment, we also do biometric and lab testing on them. So when I say biometric testing, we check their blood pressure, we do height and weight, we measure their waste, and then we run labs on them. check their cholesterol. We do a full lipid profile. We also do an A1C test for diabetes. This shows the results of their biometrics when we did their annual screenings, which is some great results right here. 33% lower their triglyceride level, 20% increase their good cholesterol, 19.3 lower their bad cholesterol, 19% lower their systolic or diastolic blood

[1:23:46] pressure and 13% lower their total cholesterol level. These are people who actually improved by at least 10% on their biometric labs. And this shows the financial impact health risk and financial impact of employees if they have no risk, no health risk, or if they have one to seven health risks. So this could be anything from a risk could be anything from smoking, could be that they have obesity, they have high blood pressure, they have diabetes. So the more risk the employee has, the more costs for their health insurance or medical costs, I'm sorry. So this is if they have one risk, their medical costs generally run around $1,000. If they have seven or more risk, their medical costs are over $8,000. So, this shows you when we started the program in 2011, at the very bottom you'll see that those with greater than five risks, there was 15.1% of employees back in 2011 had greater than five risks and in 2016 we lowered that number down to 9.8% of the employees had five or more risks on there. So our goal is just to try and reduce the risk so that their medical costs are lowered. These are the top clinical health risk and conditions that showed up on the health risk assessment and on their screenings. Mind you, when we talk to Atna and they look at their book of business, the COSA, this municipality is very in line with other municipalities across the country. There's nothing that the employees in San Angelo have that are much greater than any other municipality, but this shows you how many employees are overweight, obese, have

[1:25:51] high waist circumference, diabetes, high blood pressure, and metabolic syndrome. These are the top health risks for cost employees, but if you were to Google this and look at These are actually the top health risks for Americans across the board. These are the pretty much the conditions that most people are going to see their doctor for. So we have some work to do. We've got some overweight and obesity that runs through our employees and pretty much just runs through San Angelo. If you look at the national average, 68% of Americans are overweight or obese. So if you total up your overweight and obese on here, you're looking at 69%, so we kind of fall within the national average for that. We did lower waist circumference. We did lower over the past year diabetes, but we've kind of just stayed the same there. high blood pressure is a big issue with cenagelol and with employees, one in three Americans has high blood pressure. And so we also see that with our employees in cenagelol. And then metabolic syndrome, we've dropped the amount there. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors. And if you have three or more of those cluster of risk factors, you're consider to have metabolic syndrome. So we lowered that a little bit. But these are our main focus when we're implementing programs, when we're implementing challenges and fitness programs and nutrition programs, we are focused on trying to lower the numbers here and make improvements. I have a question. Yes, ma'am. In most of your demonstrations that you were showing the in comparing the percentages to the 2016 you use 2014-2015 except the

[1:27:54] one deal you went back to 2000 and used 2011 and didn't give the what 2015 or 14 was in that year I was just curious as to why. I was running out of room on my slide was there was a lot of numbers to put on there so I did it wasn't going to quite fit according to what font this needed so I just broke it down into 2011 and where we've gone I can tell you that every year has improved almost by a percent every year so when you look at 2012 it dropped down to 14 2013 so we looked at about a percentage each year but I really was running out of room to put all the figures on there. I can if you would like email you with that with that chart would show but it does show improvement for each year. Thank you. You're welcome. These are the top five health risks when we ask employees on the health risk assessment. This is what shows up is their top five health risk so So weight management, nutrition, healthy eating, stress reduction, reducing diabetes risk and blood pressure reduction. So the question on there asks them, it gives them several choices to choose from and asks them what health interests would they like to focus on, what kind of things would they like to reduce. And we're glad that their interests show up with what actually does need to be improved on. This also, there's a question on there of their top five lifestyle changes that they desire. It gives them about 20 things to choose from and this is the top five things that employees really want to work on, number one being lose weight, maintain a healthy weight, practice good eating habits, be physically active, live an overall healthy lifestyle and lower or maintain healthy blood pressure.

[1:29:58] Since we've implemented the wellness program, this shows you there's a question on the health assessment asks, what is your perception of COSA's interest in creating a healthy workplace? And this shows quite a significant improvement since we implemented the program in 2011. The employees feel that COSA's interest in creating health workforce. 50% employees rank it as excellent. 39.5 is good, 6.7 is fair, and 0% rank it poor. But if you look at that, we've made significant strides since we started this in 2011. This slide shows you just in the first quarter some great successes and enhancements we've done with the wellness program. We just finished up last week, a 10-week weight loss challenge. We had 100 employees participate in the challenge. They lost over 700 pounds. Our top female in the challenge, she lost over 40 pounds. mail lost over 50 pounds, the first place team, so they had teams that the departments competed against departments. We had the first place team averaged a weight loss of 18 pounds per person, and they were each awarded with Fitbit, and they were very excited to get those. We've had more than 200 employees that have already participated in Wellish Challenges in the first quarter, we are going to implement a blood pressure challenge in May, so what we have been doing is we ordered blood pressure, self-monitor blood pressures, and we have been delivering those to all the departments in this city so that any time they want to check their blood pressure, they can self-monitor it and check it, and we are trying to get an

[1:31:58] awareness campaign because sometimes people are a little bit of denial that they do have blood pressure problem or they may feel like when we come and do the screenings they always say well you make me stress because I'm going to have to have my blood drawn and I don't like needles and so we want to make sure that they're monitoring their blood pressure not just when we come in only at the screenings but that they're doing it on a continuous basis on a regular basis so that they can keep track whether or not it really is a they're having a problem with their blood pressure We are giving free diabetic meters to employees that have elevated A1Cs, new employees that come on board, we do initial lab testing on them, and if we're finding any of them have elevated A1Cs, we're giving them a free diabetic meter, and then Mary Solomon, the other wellness coordinator, she does a one-on-one diabetic consult with those employees. We are implementing a program called Naturally Slim May 1st, and this is a wonderful weight loss program. It's nationally known, and we are, employees can apply to get in the program, any employee on the medical plan, and then the Naturally Slim will select 20 people based on a random lottery system that will get to go through this pilot program, and it's a 10-week weight last program, so we're excited to implement that and see the results of those and hopefully continue the program in the future. We recently had the Mayor's Wellness Partnership do a walk across Texas. The Mayor was at the event a month ago. We kicked off the walk across Texas program. There's seven teams, City of San Angel teams that are participating in that. It's a 10-week walking challenge. And it's doing wonderful, employees are doing fabulous with that.

[1:33:58] There's several teams across an angel that are participating in this, several businesses are doing this. And so it's a great way to get our employees involved in improving their fitness. And then in May, I'm going to have an internship student with me from Northern Arizona University. She's going to be with me for three months to assist with the wellness program and bring also some fresh ideas to the program. We commend you for offering a program to the City of San Angel employees, and we appreciate you on behalf of San Angel Community Medical Center, appreciate you allowing us to implement the program. I can tell you that you have wonderful employees, and I get the honor of being able to serve on the Employee Wellness Committee that we meet monthly. They bring wonderful ideas, and we constantly are trying to improve and upgrade the program to make it better every year, but I think you should be proud of the successes that the employees have made and of the participation increase that they've shown. So I'm very proud of them, and I'm here to take any questions that you might have regarding the program that we've done. Well, that was good news. Yes, sir. Do I have any questions from Council? I just like to add though, aside from the expense reduction, we start talking about the insurance. We also have happier, healthier employees and you start looking at the reduction in sick days, the productivity that comes along with that. You have the morale also, you have teams that work together to help with the weight loss challenges. So again, overall, one of the things that I saw on there is there's a 25% reduction or people that can deal with stress better. I think that's a big, big point as well. So again, thank you for the work that you've done with the Wellness Program. We appreciate everything now. You're welcome, thank you. Thank you very much, Ms. Charles Webb.

[1:35:58] Any comments from Council on this? Public comment. Thank you, Mayor. Thank you, Mayor. I appreciate the opportunity. My name is Steve Hampton. And I think this is an excellent program. I think too often y'all hear negative comments everything on things that you put in place, and I know it's defeating your morale, but this is an excellent program, and I think this is this program, this well program on preventative medicine, can be corollary to other things in the city that we could focus on like a recycling and things of that nature where we can get the citizens employed or actively moving in the right direction, incentivizing their participation here and there with simple things can move this city from good to great. And I appreciate this application and hope that you can abstract it to other uses. Thank you. That's why I asked her if it was good news for a letter start. Any other public comment on this? Ms. Charles Worth and Angelo Community, Ms. Flugger, thank you very much. We do appreciate it. It is 10-11. Let's take a break and be back about 10-30. This show back on the road. Item number C on the regular agenda is first reading and consider adopting an ordinance submitting chapter seven health and sanitation section seven oh five double six prohibition of smoking and outdoor sports arenas and seven oh five double eight we're smoking not regulated providing for severe ability and an effective date call white you have the floor sir

[1:37:58] yes sir we have a return for we have returned back to council for another first reading of a proposed ordinance amendment regarding smoking as you recall we came Council back in February 21st as a first reading on this item. It did pass four to two and there was some discussion during that time where it was clear to me that it wasn't clear as actually where you could smoke based on the language that was in the proposed ordinance. We even talked about specifically Brown Park if you use the language that was in the ordinance where could you to actually smoke within 50 feet of all park communities. And it really is hard, a little difficult to determine where you could actually smoke. So based on that concern, even though it did pass forward to based on that concern, we went back to try to think of how we could improve the language to make it more clear. And also during that time, we had a really cool exercise with leadership, San Angelo, leadership, San Angelo word that actually set up a mock city council meeting. and we had a discussion about this specific item. So I thought, well, let me take this back to the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board, see how we might be able to improve the language. And so what they recommended is tweaking of the language in one of the clauses, and I'll show it here in just a second. But we think this is better because it's more clear to the public what areas would be prohibited to smoke. It's more clear for law enforcement, And it's also more clear for staff. So we think it is approved from that regard. And the language that changes, the proposed ordinance does have some clauses, which includes prohibition of smoking within the fenced in and closed in areas around the swimming pools. Smoking would not be prohibited at State Parks and outdoor amenities at Lake Nazarethi. But the one that changed from the last meeting is this clause where it states,

[1:39:59] Smoking is prohibited in the following outdoor areas owned by owned or operated by the city of San Angelo within 50 feet of park playgrounds and pavilions and other locations designated by the Parks and Recreation Director where no smoking signs are posted. Now a couple of things on that. The only place we're in tend to do right now would that would include would be the Bosque essentially the area between the parking lot and the bridge, the Chabron Bridge, along with River, where the Pupgolf courses, the Washroom Pitching Planning Area is essentially have a sign at the west entrance, a sign at the east entrance, and maybe something near the concession that would say that smoking is not allowed in this area. Now, Council would prefer to retain that authority to designate future areas, I'm totally fine with that. It doesn't have to necessarily have to be me. So in terms of enforcement, it would be the same. It would basically be complaint driven if somebody called in, notice somebody was smoking at a playground, they would have to call it in, and the police would have to respond. So that's why we think this is better, it makes it more clear. We're not talking about park amenities, It's just strictly park playgrounds and pavilions, and other areas of designated with no smoking signs. Well, I don't like any part of it. I didn't like it the first time, and I don't like it this time. I think it's a waste of time. But Council, y'all have questions on them? One thing I guess that I'm pleased with is that this is clear. So there shouldn't be a lot of questions when somebody walks in a park if they are concerned where they can or cannot smoke. So I appreciate the fact and one thing is this is you're gonna do this for $800 so from my perspective I think it's it's good. I'll

[1:42:00] say say the $800 and let people smoke outside but that's my opinion. Any other comments council? Do I approve this percentage? Is that necessary? First reading and consider adopting, if y'all want to adopt it, you need a motion. No, ma'am. Second. Do we have a motion and a second that we adopt this smoking ban? Do I have any further questions from council? It was an agency if I was going to use I did not. Thank you. Do I have public comment on this item? No, go ahead and type the public comment on my item. Okay. Good morning sir. My name's Ray Valadez. I'm with the alcohol and drug abuse council. I'm one of the prevention directors. This is some of our prevention staff back here. And so we're here obviously because we're for the amendment. We just talked about or heard a great presentation about a wellness program so we want to continue to promote wellness in our community and in our cities and typically when people go to parks they want to be outdoors and they want to be exercising and having physical activities and clean air and because it is outdoors the smoke does dissipate pretty quickly but being within a close proximity of somebody smoking, especially on a playground or kids playing on a playground, they do still inhale second-hand smoke. It may not be as strong as inside of an enclosed area but they do still receive that second-hand smoke and there are carcinogens inside second-hand smoke which are cancer-causing agents. So it kind of isn't fair for somebody who decides not to smoke. I understand that there's a balance between not taking away freedoms of people who choose to smoke, but also respecting the freedom of people who choose not to smoke and want to avoid second smoke. And so, again,

[1:44:07] we are, you know, for this amendment, and we would like to do anything we can to kind of help out with it. Thank you. Marty? Carl, I have two questions. One, and I don't remember when we brought this up the first How come we didn't put all the tobacco in there? It does, what the vapors help explain what that includes. What was the question? Why we didn't include all tobacco? Yeah, did we? No, we didn't. The smoking ordinance only deals with substances that are burned. As far as the e-cigarettes are concerned, you kind of have to know what is actually in that to know whether or not it violates our code of ordinances or not. In some cases it might, in other cases it wouldn't, but that's not clearly addressed by this change. And I guess my second question is, we're just discussing or voting on whether or not we're gonna amend it. If it fails, we still have the smoking. That's correct. Okay. We'll have it as it's written. All right, thank you. Have a comment in your, yes ma'am. Brenda Gunter, just a question when it says smoking to be prohibited within 50 feet of park playgrounds, Does that 50 feet go into private property? You wouldn't regulate it if they're smoking on private property. Right. Which is so just a question, Mark. If 50 feet of playgrounds, pavilions, and other locations. So if that 50 feet out within that 50 feet range, if that's private property within that 50 foot range around the public, I mean, the private city owned property, what do you do? This is going to be impossible to enforce anyway. I mean, it's just to feel good ordinance. There's no way to enforce this, but that's a good question,

[1:46:08] right now. If off one more foot, I guess, so that you're 51 foot. Yes, ma'am? Good morning. My name is Christina Diaz. I'm a prevention specialist at the Alcohol and Drug Disease Council for the Concho Valley. I think this is something that we do need to put in place, pass, approve. I work directly with the children. And when we talk about tobacco with the kids, we ask them where do you see it, when are you most exposed to it? They say, well, at home, of course. At that part, we can't really control, because they do have their parents, their adults, they're legally able to make this decision. But at the parks, I feel as community members and leaders, we do have the opportunity to control that. There is second hand smoke, there is third hand smoke. Third hand smoke is where it's left in the clothing and the environment where kids are still exposed to those harmful chemicals. And we do know the carcinogens, those cancer-causing chemicals that are in second-hand smoke as well. So I think having a smoke-free environment for our children to thrive and have fun in is definitely something we all want for our youth and for other people in our community as well, adults. Thank you. Chris Churro. I'm a non-smoker. I hate smoking as much as the next non-smoker. But it is your God-given right if you want to kill yourself for the cigarette to do so. I think that the city overstepped its bounds when they passed a smoking ordinance several years back. I vote with my pocketbook. If an establishment wants to allow smoking, I don't go there. You're talking about the outdoors, like Morrison, Mr. Morrison said, you're not gonna be able to regulate this. It's gonna be very tough to enforce certain types of e-cigarettes or violation of law. Other types aren't, are we gonna train our officers to know which one you're smoking and whether to give you a ticket, it's absurd.

[1:48:08] I think Mr. Morrison's right, we're spending $800 for something that's not gonna be enforced. We need to look elsewhere. I agree, smoking, it harms people, but you're not doing any good with this ordinance. You're God giving right to kill yourself. You just can't do it on city property. Yes, ma'am. Good morning, my name is Courtney Bingham and I am the prevention coordinator at the Alcohol and Drug Abuse Council. And one comment I want to kind of make is, Mr. Morrison, you did say it's going to be really hard to enforce it. And we did kind of, you know, the point is someone would have to call in law enforcement. But with this ordinance and with the signage and everything like that, it kind of puts the power back in the hands of the citizens. And even if, you know, a law enforcement doesn't get called in every single time, if there's just a little bit more awareness where The citizens can say, hey, there's a sign. My kids right here, can we not smoke right here? So not necessarily where we're calling law enforcement every single time, but where the citizens can kind of help with that a little bit, just with the awareness and keeping it within the hands of the citizens. Creating awareness, basically. Thank you very much. That's true. Sorry, I just thought of something. We're going to have to be calling law enforcement to come in. At any given time, we have approximately 14 officers on the streets, and I think I'd rather have them handling calls other than a smoking issue. I think that this is something that we can self enforce. I've been out at parks and asked people to please move away if they're smoking a cigarette if I'm in an area with my kids. And most of the time, they're more than

[1:50:08] happy to move over. I don't think that we have the personnel at law enforcement to be handling smoking issue in a park thank you. Anybody else? Motion has been made that we accept these amendments as presented. It has been seconded. We have had public comment. I will now call for the vote. All in favor of accepting the amendments please say aye. Aye. Opposed nay. One nay. Put a 5-1 on that one. Let's move on to item number D which is public hearing and second reading of an ordinance regarding the voluntary annexation of 17.192 acres generally located south of US Highway 67 and west of Southland Boulevard at the end of Willickie Drive and Pinyon Ridge Drive. John do you have the floor sir? This one should look familiar. John James, Director of Planning and Development Services. This will be the I think the fifth time you've seen this again we're following the state law requirements for annexation. This is an annexation extension of a neighborhood. The next case you'll see is the rezoning of this property. So I'll go through this one pretty quickly, just a survey of the property. We are required to do a service plan for the property, basically saying what services the city will be providing to the area. With an undeveloped tract like this, it's basically will provide the same services we provide throughout the rest of the city as the property develops. Similarly, we did a capital improvements analysis. Again, these are typically for when cities are annexing already developed areas, so it identifies how you will maintain the streets and water lines and all of that. With an undeveloped area, this is a pretty simple straightforward analysis. All we're asking today is the final vote on the annexation of these 17 acres. And with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. Yes, move to approve as submitted.

[1:52:09] Thank you. Do you have a motion to approve? Marty's in the second. Any questions? Public comment on this? All in favor of accepting this on the second reading as presented, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Put a 6-1 on that, Brian. Item D. Item E. First reading in public hearing for case Z-1-7-1 in order to submitting a request for rezoning. from ranch and estate zoning district to single family residential or S1 zoning district, generally located west of Willakea and Pinyon Ridge drives west of the Preston Wood residential development on one seven point one nine two acres same same presentation yes this one actually is new but it's the same area this is a rezoning case as you know when properties are annexed into the city they come in as ranch in a state. This is simply the action to rezone that to the proposed single-family zoning. Here you can see it is in our future land use map as part of the Conference of Plan. It's designated as area for neighborhood expansion. The current zoning as I mentioned per your previous action the zoning is now ranch in a state. This would change that to RS1 single-family residential to approve is presented okay the motion to approve as presented with the second any questions public comment all in favor please say aye aye pose nay for the 6-0 on that one item number f is first reading and public hearing for case issue 1702 in order to request for special use to allow for retail sales and service industrial service and wholesale trade in the neighborhood commercial zoning district generally located southeast corner of the Houston Heart Expressway Fronties Road Ever Street and Montague Avenue on 4.6 5-1 acres, John. I'm going to skip through this one. We've got our two presentations flipped, I think. Okay, this is a special use request. The current, this property is zoned neighborhood commercial,

[1:54:17] and I'll talk a little bit more about that in a second, but that's the reason it comes before you as a special use. use the proposed use on this property is not allowed in that zoning district but requires a special use and that's why it's coming before you just in terms of the location here you can see Houston Hart here and then Montauu is is right to the left of the property and this is the future land use map this designation down here is neighborhood and then you've got commercial back to the east this whole area of the subject tract is in a transitional area, basically meaning that it's intended to transition from the heavier commercial uses to the north and to the east, to the neighborhood areas to the south and the west. A couple of years ago, this property came before the council requesting zoning of general commercial. At the time the council decided that was too intense given the homes in this area and homes immediately across the street, and so recommended zoning to neighborhood commercial instead. This is, as I mentioned earlier, the existing zoning map. All of this area, as you can see, is zoned single-family residential currently, and that plays into the staff's recommendation for this particular property given the presence of homes. We had some concerns about the intensity of the proposed use on the property. This is the proposal, it would primarily be for trailer, sales, and repair, and outdoor storage of the trailers themselves. I'll go ahead and mention talking about what activity happens outdoors. The Planning Commission did recommend approval of this item, but they did add an additional condition on top of the condition staff had already recommended that all of the construction

[1:56:17] repair, welding, any of that sort of activity on the trailers occur only indoors and the applicant was amenable to that condition. This is part of a larger property. You can see the first phase is the front piece right up on the frontage road. Currently there are no plans for the back part of the property. I'm not going to go through all of these during your staff report but we believe that based on that designation in the comprehensive plan of transitional and again relying partly on the council's prior action two years ago that we don't believe this intensity of use for trailer sales including construction and welding and repairs of trailers is appropriate right across the street from homes. We did send out our notices. We did receive one in favor from one of those homes across the street. we did not receive any in opposition. And so again, what's before you is a special use that would allow retail sales and services, industrial and wholesale trade, specifically for the trailer sales and repair and other similar uses. As I mentioned, staff did recommend denial, but the planning commission did the approval subject to 10 conditions. Just briefly, some of the conditions address things like lighting require for some screening, fencing, and trees, where it's adjacent to those neighboring homes. Limited the hours of operation from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Again, because of the presence of those homes adjacent. No loudspeakers or other noise making devices. They can't have RVs mobile homes or junk vehicles on the property. And at this point, it is, as I mentioned, there are two pieces of that property.

[1:58:17] This approval would only be for that northern half, not the southern half. And as I mentioned, this item number 10 was added by the Planning Commission, that all welding and construction activity be indoors. Just a number nine, approval limited to northerly property. You'd explain that. Yes, that, back to that. This is the entirety of the property that they own. Their current proposal is only to develop this northern piece, and so this special use would only allow the use on the northern piece, so nothing could happen at this point unless they come back to you in that southern half. Isn't this across the street to the west from the Shannon facility, rehab facility? Yes, it's just down to the south and east a little bit. I don't know if that may show up. Yeah, I think that's the corner of it right there. Again, everything up in this area is all commercial, commercial and industrial uses, but then you've got neighborhood to this side. And so really the question before you is, what's appropriate for that property that's kind of the transition between the two? Was it a be happy to answer any questions? Except to the staff to stay on top of the 10 conditions. And if they don't meet the conditions, or if one of the 10, what is the recourse? It would be a violation similar to any other ordinance violations, so they could, initially, we would respond to them with a notice of violation and ask them to fix it. They could be sited, ultimately, there's a process to revoke this special use if it became egregious enough and they did not follow through after a request, but there would be multiple steps before we ever got to something like that.

[2:00:17] In similar cases, generally, the applicants will comply when it's brought to our attention. Let's see, this is yours. Take the lead on it. Hey, yes, sir. Do you do the neighborhood, the residential area, I would like for it to continue to stay as a neighborhood commercial. I would go with the staff recommendation of the Nile for this special. You did send out letters, though. You had one in favor in zero in opposition. that's great. This is all commercial. This entire area is going commercial. It abuts a commercial area. It's inevitable this is going to be commercial. It ought to be commercial. I have no problem at all with this at all. Not one, Harry. This is right on the border of my particular district. Lucy and I talked about this before. All the residents that are west of Montague is actually in single-member District 3. You know, I don't have a problem with the commercial sales of these trailers. I have a little bit of a problem of the welding, even if it's inside. Anybody that's done welding over their life, they know that there are some health risks, health hazards for those, I can't really approve the welding portion of this. I could go ahead and improve the trailer sales, but that would be the only thing I could do. No smoking within 50 foot of it. Or do you have any thoughts on this? I think it's a good transition myself. Lane, what do you think about it?

[2:02:18] Go back to that site diagram. Did I see a six foot fence on that side? I know we had talked about some landscape yes they are proposing a six a six foot fence I think on the Montague side is that that's the only side now under our ordinances they would need a variance from the zoning board for that I don't know how much of an issue that would be but that would be an extra step if they do want to put that six foot fence there and the welding would be in that 2,400 square foot shop Presumably, yes. Okay. And that's what my problem is, is that I don't want to see these residents have to put it up with something like that, and not only that, but you know later on come in and add more to it, because that's what they're going to do. But then we have welding at Century Trailer, which is just in the area. We have welding at the NW trailer, which is down the way. We've got the International House right there. is a diesel repair shop, all of this is right in that area. This commercial activity is already there. We're right there in a commercial area doing commercial things. You draw on an awful, awful tight line here and it abuts commercial. So, you know, if you're welding, does the welding fumes come from century or B.W. or the International House or does it come from that 2,400 foot shop? We're drawing. Yes Lane. How long has this vacant property been vacant in the condition? I couldn't tell you but I know there's someone here from the applicant to speak I'm sure they could not have him speaking a minute I'll have him make his case. It's almost like that property we just okay for zoning change over off the loop by in Charlotte's district a couple weeks ago it's been vacant someone's willing to do something with it there's a six-foot metal fence

[2:04:20] welding is inside the shop century trailer and the others they they do it outside don't they in and out in and out okay with it we're putting some land to When again, you're not taking the residence into consideration, and that's live there, and y'all are thinking, hey, it's commercial, let's just do this, and that's where I have a big problem is approving it because of those people that live there. Zero in opposition. Zero in opposition. It's almost like an approval. No, because some of these people do not take the time to do that, they don't have a voice and they feel like they don't have one, so why even submit these things back? I'm telling you that it's just the fact that I see that those people over there really would not want to see something like this go up, but they feel like they don't have any control over it. Wasn't there just three homes behind that? Is that what I saw on that slide? Oh, they're running back. Yeah, there's one there, another home here, at least a few through that strip. and then more down this way. It's the one that's right there behind it, it's the one that wrote the letter of approval, isn't it? Yes, that's the one that was so fine. So the ones as close as to it said do it, are all most closest. And then the one that's right beside him up at the top said nothing. There's no opposition from the neighbors. I don't have a problem with it. Public comment, do you want to come speak to it? You ask every council member but me, am I being into this? You've already made the statement. Not on this one. I have a problem with it because it is so close to residential. I have seen in the past when we put conditions on a commercial entity that we've had to literally

[2:06:20] push them to get everything done that was recommended to the point that most plant trees well okay got around they didn't take care of and this is for the residents on their side the privacy of fences or trees so that they don't have to look out into this, the residents that have been there and have lived there and paid for their homes. They've not had to stare right into this welding. I'm very familiar with welding. It is something that should be done outside, but that is going to be a problem to me this close in a residential. I'd love to see the area, that particular area, develop out. But I'm uncomfortable with the number of conditions. The fact that staff recommend a denial to begin with, and the number of conditions that was put on there, and, you know, who says they're going to put up a privacy advance, maintain and take care of trees. If you look at that where we've required it before, go to the residential side, grasp much more the 24 inches tall, trash, as well as dead dying trees, and a fence that's falling down. They just don't maintain it. And I have to side with the residents on this one. And the fact that the council members of the district aren't real keen on it as well tells me that staff had a reason to deny. They're the professionals. So I won't support it. Anyone else from council? I might remind you that Bruton trailer has residents all around him and always has. I mean, just because you've got a welding shop in a residential area does not destroy the area. Public comment, do you want to speak for this?

[2:08:26] Good morning, Russell with SKG. Well, I have my work cut out for me this morning. Planning Commission approved this four to one. But I did put some conditions on it, which we agree with for the most part, we're willing to do those, the fence. So we don't have to go and get a variance. We're actually would move it into the property 25 feet. So we could be create more of a buffer and separation from the residential area. And then so there would be this 25 foot additional buffer strip between the six foot. And if you guys want us to put an 8-foot fence there, because we're concerned about the trees living or dying, we'll be happy to do that. The residences in the area that Mr. Colstray has spoken with them, explained to them their operation. As we've seen, we get one letter in support, not in opposition. And we also talk about all of these other businesses that do welding. We have Hirschfield that does huge amounts of welding. We have a martyfer out there that does a lot of welding. So, you know, we moved the welding inside, Mr. Col- even the planning commission wanted it inside, Mr. Colser's like, I'm going to be inside welding anyway, I want to be on concrete, I want to be out of the sun, so we're going to be inside working with our- the little bit of fabrication and repair stuff that we do on our trailers. And I find this interesting and I wish they would have done, and maybe we can put this one to the side and let staff come present the next case that's coming up for a zone change because this is currently zone CN and it's not going to change, Ms. Gonzalez, we're just getting a special use for it. But the next one is going to be a zone change and a special use toward the residents is right

[2:10:31] behind it and not across the street but right behind it and so it was it seems odd that staff can ride a nice report and be supportive of that one but this one they can't you know it's for a car dealership it's it's in a transitional area there's so much similarities in those and I'd be happy to as part of this go into and read you excerpts from staff's report for the upcoming case where they present a great case for you to approve it. But if you're going to deny this one because of the proximity of residences then I would like you to approve both of them and I don't so be very careful about denying this one and approving the next one that's before you when there is a residence in feet or less from the back of this special use. There's a lot to go through. You know, my main question is, is there a specific concern that we need to address that would allow you to vote to approve this special use? You know, can we move the residents? No, that's not necessarily feasible. We build a higher fence. Is there something we can do that would allow these people to develop this area and as they come in there this is in that transitional we are at the east side of the transition and and the transition goes west and over time as this area develops you're going to see more business develop you're gonna these residents in there are crying out for this commercial because they see value of their property transitioning to commercial which will will in turn mean better tax base, more jobs, all of that stuff that we need in this city. But back to my question, is there a specific concern that we can address for you to vote for this? So you're talking very well, you know,

[2:12:34] you're working on me here, but I have to ask you, how many employees will this employ and where will they park to come to work? Are they gonna be parking in the residential side streets? going to be parking in the north of the back end of the property, where would they be parking? As part of the building permit, the the constructor, the builder of this building has the requirement to build the suitable number of parking spaces, off street parking spaces, to park their vehicles. I can ask Mr. Colster to come answer the question as to the number of his employees, but they will not be parking out on the side street of Montague, however we want to pronounce that. They're going to be internal into that property. In the trailer sales, all of that is facing forward to the frontage road. Montague is just kind of a side street there. The frontage, the sales side of this, is Houston Hart, the frontage road there, where the commercial activity of this will sit. The other report had spoke about impacting minimized impacts, and it says the proposed use may be considered to be non-intense enough to be located next to single-family residential because the nature of the business and the infrequency and level of activity that may be associated with such a business. is referring to the car dealership that's right next to a residential structure. You know there's similarity there. We're actually across the street plus at least 25 foot that we're going to have between the right of way and our fence. And so we're moving our activity away from that residence. If and I don't know if they can pull back up the site plan but if it would help give

[2:14:35] some comfort level and we say the the welding operations or that building needs to be at least a hundred feet from our west property line that would put us a hundred feet plus a fifty foot right of way plus that house that's probably 50 feet or so that would put us at least 200 feet away from any residential structure as opposed to 10 foot away from this upcoming case so we're creating a a transition and buffers between these residents. We're concerned about them. Mr. Colster spoke to them, and that's probably, they do have a voice, and Mr. Colster has used his voice to share with them what they're proposing to do at this location. Okay, so the zoning that you're requesting allows for the bottles that used for welding, those bottles that are explosive. Well, the zoning is not, we're getting a special use. So the zoning is different, but. It's different, so we wouldn't be concerned about those bottles and explosive materials in a special use. Any, that could be anywhere. You could do that in your own shop and your own back yard. I have some in my house. Well, I know, but I'm referring strictly to the city's ruling of the ordinance, You know, the zoning of what is allowed, not allowed, you know, we don't allow a lot of businesses that use those in certain areas because of the explosive nature of it. I think that neighborhood commercial allows for sales, retail sales, which, and if you wanted to sell a settling in oxygen, it would be allowed as it is without a conditional use. This face is the frontage road. This face is Houston hard. I mean, this residential area will never be residential again. It's just like 87 on both sides. When we built that road there,

[2:16:35] it took away the residential aspect. All of those will be commercial eventually because it faces the frontage road. And as a business, Mr. Colster has the requirement to maintain those in a safe working condition and has to store them properly, secure them properly. So they're probably a whole lot more secure than in my garage at the house. So. That mayor was referring to sales, and I'm referring to use. And maybe Mr. Colster could share with us how many of those bottles he may have at any one time. I know maybe one or two, one in the machine and one spare. And then you have the salesman coming by and exchanging knows as they as they go but they're they're going to be they'll have probably smaller than all of these other trailer sales, martyr for her field than what they have around their facility. Also, those two I'll be happy I'd be willing to go along with the approval on this thing if you wouldn't move that east move that building that that welding building east, not leave that works out. And we go, how do I get to the site plan, how far east would you like it to? You made a mention of a hundred foot, I mean whatever that is, you take it away from Montague and those residents on that side, then I'd be willing to support that as long as it was in the welding was done in the building and moved the building, how far east from Montague

[2:18:37] right now? 89, 79.86 to its 80 foot right now, and then you got the width of the street, and then you've got the setback for the house. So you're already, you already 120 130 foot from the house where it sets right now, close to 200 feet, and you know, and if you want to we can go out and survey in the house if we want to say 220 feet minimum from the house and we can set the building east that direction. we would be willing to do that. I'm kind of speaking here when I probably shouldn't be, but that's not a big issue. I mean, there's a light pole for the front edge road and the middle of the property, where the property angles up, and a telephone pole there with a three phase line that goes down, that's the only thing that would have dictate moving it over. You just wouldn't want your entrance in the middle of that and you just still want your entrance in the middle of your building on the shop. But you can move the building over 40, 50 feet. You're not going to change anything on my aspect of it. I mean, it just moving it over. I mean, basically, Lenzo went on the situation, but done. Yes, sir. Boys, two to four planning on workload. Never had more than four employees. It's not like we're hiring 50. I don't want the headache. Well, the shop half the time we're out in the field, the shop shut. No, ain't nobody there. I want the, I do the same thing on 1024 North Bell and the microphone coaster. I do the same thing on 1024 North Bell. I got a third of an acre. I'm a lone steel trucks, trailers, everything in the middle of the bell street. It's gonna get somebody hurt, a truck driver, driver. I'm trying to get away from that. I'm not trying to cause problems and impact these people, pick this piece of property, anything was gonna be that big of a hassle and anything was gonna be wasting everybody's time. It's basically pretty simple.

[2:20:40] Well, in shopping come by, you can look at my shop, you can look at it. It's not a full blown fabricating facility where we're like Hirschfield where there's big old cranes and trucks and people on fork lifts and music blaring out loud. I mean, it's a basic welding shop, I'm pretty laid back, getting my bills paid, keep a couple of guys working, I'm pretty happy, you know, it's not as intense as people think it lay it out to be. It's not like when you drive down 29th Street, Hirschfield has taken a beam across the road with it sticking out 15 foot off the back of the trailer, it's none of that like that, I mean, it's pretty bad. And you know, you can go buy his welding shop on Bell Street right now, and it's clean, and it's neat, and it's orderly. There are no problems, there are no problems, like a room. You're moving from Bell Street to here. You build five to six trailers a year, custom trailers, I put them on being a trailer, I'm already a licensed trailer here, I put them on buying trailers and putting them out front along the Houston Heart Expressway and selling them along with our other farm and ranch supplies that we sell, you know, nothing major. I mean, there's not not gonna be open at six in the morning. I'm not gonna be open at 10 o'clock at night. I'm not, you know, I don't I don't do a lot of things that I mean, I just ate back and I'm to do what I can to get this accomplished. I'm already got my head stuff on the sand. I can't breathe as it is, but I'm just, you know, trying to move forward on it. And And it's just pretty simple. It's not a basic, and I know it seems like it in the city. They're doing their job, and they think it is, but it's really not. You can spend five minutes out in front of my shop, and you're gonna know right away. I've been intense. I've worked in intense shops. I don't like that. Like I said, two to four employees right now, it's two, maybe next fall to before, but never goes over four. Please understand, I'm not anti-business in any way. I truly am not, especially at the risk of residents, residential neighborhoods.

[2:22:45] However, Mr. Kelly has spoke very well on the project. I like your answers, but please know, however this turns out, if approved, I'm that council member who's going to take the time to drive around your property to see if those conditions are met, and it is conducive to the neighborhood, even if I'm not on this council, I'm the type to do that, because I really care about our city and the impression that we make upon people, and that area is affront into the city. And as Mr. Mayor said, it, you know, there's a lot of commercial activity out there. And we would certainly welcome that as the Mayor indicated, come by his office and see how good of a business Mr. Colster runs their iteration for this matter. Any other public comment on this item? I need a motion one way or the other. Let's get this decided. Let's see it's yours. Um, I do not know for it, so. Can we say that the 10th state in restrictions? Could you show us the 10 restrictions again? Yeah. Other slide, if you're ready for me to go. Yeah. Does say there's an operation 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. Then an 11th one would be 220 feet from any residential existing residential structure property. Can you live with that, Colster?

[2:24:46] In our motion, do we need to include that 220? I want to add that it would need to be part of the motion. I would add one more thing. He mentioned other equipment, farm and ranch type equipment. That would be limited under the neighborhood commercial zoning. So if you're OK with that element of it, I would suggest a 12th condition that allows for not only the trailer outdoor display, but also that other equipment. I have a problem with number seven. A lot of RVs require from time to time some work that includes, you know, welding and have to take the RV. Is this limiting him from working on an RV in his yard? I think, well, yeah, if you don't reword that condition, I don't want to shoot him in the foot. Have you ever had that condition, Mr. Colster? or two or three, some people I have had one guy to leave one his total for three hundred sixty four days. You get the mic goes a little bit better. Well, I want, you know, if this goes your way, I want your business to be successful. But hindering you from working on our visa, I don't think it's fair. I agree. And and I agree, it's just eventually there'll be a hundred stipulations. I can't move my left arm without scratching my left butt cheek first. But I I mean, I mean, we're trying to meet you here in the middle. I'm trying to do what I want, but y'all want me to do, but it's almost a borderline ridiculous. I mean, I can't work on this, but I can work on this.

[2:26:47] But wait, no, sir, I can't work on your RV as long as I can do it on the street, but I can't do it in the, I mean, I'm working here and trying. Mr. Goldley, 220 feet, is that what we agreed on? I give it to you, that would give it to you, Mr. Goldler. I'll move to approve as presented with the exception moving the structure 220 feet. No she didn't make a motion she said she was against it but she never put it in form of emotion did you okay I didn't hear are you gonna let him work on an RV occasionally and take out the exception of the RV so he can work on them 220 foot away from the neighbor he gets to work on an RV occasionally if they should come in yes and then the other condition if you want to allow more than just trailers you would have to to expand to allow the outdoor storage of other equipment. We'll do that. I'll second that. Okay, we've got a motion on the floor. Can you live with that coaster? Okay, any other further comments from the council? Do I have any more public comment on this? Mayor, I'm Steve Hampton. I appreciate you trying to broker a deal. I think this is good business. This is good for the citizens. I think we're a little too cautious. I'm surprised at the trepidation which this has been approached and it seems straightforward to me. It's a mom and pop operation. We've been very obstructive of these kind of businesses with our codes and what have you. This is one of the chief complaints that is out of here on the political field and so I appreciate you trying to do the right thing here. I appreciated the comments of the one who was trying to file for her, who's bringing this before you, and so thank you very much.

[2:28:47] We cut in red tape here. Do I have a motion on the floor? All in favor please say aye. Aye. Any opposed nay? Nay. Put a 5-1 on it. Let's move on now. The first reading in public hearing for case Z1702, an order proving request for a rezoning from a single family residence R.S. zoning district to the neighborhood commercial zoning district generally located at the north northwest corner of west 17th street and north bright boulevard U.S. 87 on point 0.345 acres. Brother James your own sir. Thank you and I'm going to talk about G and H together. I need to read it vote on separately sure you'll need to vote on separately, but you can go ahead and either way Let's read it first reading in public hearing for case issue One seven oh one in order's proving requests for a special use to allow for an automobile in both dealer Automotive in light truck sales only with that the neighborhood commercial see in this zoning district Generally located the north northwest corner of a west sub 17th and north bright boulevard us 87 on zero point three four five acres We, we've got them both red, but we'll vote on them individually. Thank you. Again, John James, Director of Planning and Development Services. This is the location you can see at 17th, North 17th, and Bryant. As Russell mentioned, this is a similar case, but I'll mention a couple of differences. There is commercial in this area, neighborhood back here. This is also designated as transitional between the two. although much of this area is residential and you'll see that there is a home immediately adjacent to this site. You can see the surrounding zoning. It is currently zoned RS1, single family residential, but you can see some general commercial up here that actually is an auto sales and then both general commercial and lot manufacturing across Bryant. Just some pictures of the site. You can see a couple of homes across the street. This is the subject site.

[2:30:51] but I believe this site, this is part of the property and that existing house will be removed if it hasn't already, and then there is this home that's immediately adjacent to the property. We did send out 28 notices to the surrounding property owners, also two to the school district. We did not receive any responses to this. We are proving that the first element is the zone change. So right now, as I mentioned, this is zone RS-1, So that's one of the differences from that other side. This would change the zoning to neighborhood commercial, which is what the other side had. And then the second step would be the special use similar to the case you just heard. Again, staff is recommending approval of both. I will note that this is a less intense use. This is car sales only. Would not include any repair, construction, anything like that. And so I think that is the difference of why we would be recommending approval of this one and not the previous. Similarly, this one does have conditions similar to the previous case to help protect the properties adjacent and across the street that would continue to be single family homes. As I mentioned, staff recommends approval as did the planning commission of both the zoning and the special use. At this point, I think I'll stop and maybe discuss the zoning aspect of it, then I can go into the conditions on the special use piece after you've voted on the zoning. All right, Lucy. Okay, now you said that the house that was next to it, is that one's gonna be torn down and then there's the other one that's gonna be left up there? Yes, that's my understanding, is this the little yellow house, that's part of the subject property and that would be demolished in making way for the development on this property.

[2:32:51] And did the guy that lives in the other house that they didn't respond to anything? This home was sent a notification, but did not respond. You've got the car lot on the other side, right? Yeah, and in this picture, you can see a little bit back in here is the car lot that's about a block to the north. I'll make a motion to pass this president. OK, do I have a motion to approve? presented I do have a second changing from RS-1 to a CN public comment council questions all in favor please say aye aye pose may 7-0 now we'll talk now we're ready for H done and so again staff recommended approval of this one subject to 14 conditions and the Planning Commission agreed unanimously with that recommendation I'm not going to read through all these but it's very similar limiting lighting providing some screening and fencing for the neighbors that are adjacent particularly. One of the requirements is that no offloading of vehicles if vehicles are delivered to the site should not happen in Bryant 17th or the alley that that should be done on the property so that it doesn't affect traffic. No vehicle repair or body work on the premises just be for sales only but I believe that's what the property owner intends. Again, if you have any questions about any of those recommendations, I'd be happy to answer them. That's the same man that has the car lot. I'll defer to the applicant on that. I'm not sure if it's the same owner as the car lot to the north or not. I don't guess it makes any difference. I was just going to say that the guy with the car lot has met every one of the conditions that we put on here. He's been very, very good to do what he's supposed to do. Lucy? I approve, it's presented.

[2:34:51] OK. You have a second from Harry. Motion to approve is presented to allow the conditional use. Any other questions from Council? Public comment. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Drop a 6-0-1-2, bud. Number I is first reading in public hearing of an ordinance approving request for the vacation in advance. vacation, reproving a request for the vacation. Approving every place. New vacate, okay. Yeah, understand. A quest to vacate an abandoned all of the east-to-west public alley located in Block 1 real visitor edition, consisting of approximately 0.064 acres, 2,794 square feet, generally located 124 north, the paint rock road, emanating westward from the west right-of-way line of Jordan Street, John. Thank you. This is an abandonment of an alley, although it's a platted alley that has never been constructed. You can see the location there, just north of Paint Rock, where Kristolville comes in. And so you can see in yellow here, I believe the owner, the applicant, owns all of this property and wants to re-platted into one large property, incorporating what is now platted as an alley. As I mentioned, there's no actual alley constructed there, and there's no utilities to maintain, although as normal if there are, that would be addressed when they replat the property. And just a picture overhead view of that area, staff does recommend approval subject to three conditions. The Planning Commission agreed. These are standard conditions that they pay the standard ordinance fee, recording the quick claim deed, and then re-plat all of the property within 12 months to legally affect the actual abandonment. I can't answer any questions. This is yours, Harry, is it?

[2:36:51] Not? It is. And I've looked at it, I think this makes sense. So I move to approve as presented. Second. You have a second from Marty. Any other questions, Council? Public comment? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Be a 6-0 on that one. J is the first public hearing consideration in order to amending the land development subdivision ordinance to allow for the submittal of flat applications in accordance with the published schedule and to allow for variances to two provisions that are currently not bearable regarding street access to a manufactured home park, mobile home park, recreational vehicle park, and regarding restriction of data in streets not providing exclusive fronts to more than 40 lots or tracks of land. John. Thank you. This basically comes down to two changes to the subdivision ordinance. I'll talk about the second one first. You may recall at a meeting, a couple of meetings ago, U-Haul had a case that had been appealed to you. And one of the issues involved in that was the inability of the applicant to seek a variance to a part of the subdivision ordinance. You asked us to bring back a change to the subdivision ordinance to allow all elements to be varied. Again, that's no guarantee that they get a variance, but at least it would allow them to ask for a variance. So we found two parts of the subdivision ordinance that basically said no variances is possible. We've recommended language here to amend that to allow those two elements to be varied. The other piece is regarding application deadlines. Currently we have a specific deadline written into the ordinance. What we're recommending is removing that specific day deadline and falling back to the state law requirements. All plats by state law have to be approved within 30 days of the application anyway, and so that will give us a little more flexibility to work with applicants to take those applications earlier in the process to give more time for review and back and forth

[2:38:53] to make full use of those 30 days. Also removing the requirement right now, we require 13 copies. There's really no reason we need 13 copies of the plat that the ordinance specifically says we need that many. So this will allow us to only ask for a fewer number of copies of the plot. This is just the actual language change that we're proposing for that application deadline. And then this is the second piece I already mentioned, removing the shall not be allowed under any circumstances wording that would allow those two different provisions to be varied. That I'd be happy to answer any questions. I appreciate you doing that. I need a motion on that. Move and prove. Need a second. Charlotte? Motion has been made that we take out that in no circumstance and give people the right to appeal to council, housekeeping, just to make the ordinances correct. Do we have a motion and do we have a second to have public comment? All in favor of these changes please say aye. Aye. Opposed, nay. Another 6-0, Brian. Item K is first public hearing and consideration of an ordinance submitting the zoning ordinance Article 5, Section 501 and 804, establishing a definition and creating development standard for industrial housing, i.e. modular homes. John. Thank you. Just a brief introduction to what modular homes are. These would be, they're not manufactured homes or mobile homes, but there are structures that are built offsite and moved on to the site. The difference with a manufactured home is that these meet all standard building codes, manufactured homes or mobile homes are built to a different standard, whereas a modular home or an industrialized housing is what the state calls it, those have to be built to the full building code just like an on-site structure would be built. The state does have restrictions on industrialized housing that basically says an industrialized home or

[2:40:55] building has to be treated no differently than any other single family home. But there are a couple of exceptions to that and so that's part of what this ordinance is about. These would be allowed in any basically any residential district under this proposal. Basically what this does is include a definition in the ordinance of industrial housing using the state definition and then applying some of the standards that the state allows us to apply for these that are currently not regulated other than just being treated like any other single family home. So the standards that are being proposed are that siding, roofing, roof pitch, and foundation are compatible with homes within 500 feet. One of the concerns we've heard from some neighborhoods is people bringing in a modular home that is, while it meets the building code, is not compatible with the homes in the neighborhood. So it brings down values, is less attractive, and this would require that it generally meet what's around it. We'd also have to meet all other requirements for a single family home, we'd have to be on a permanent foundation, must obtain building permits, that's already required, but this would just reiterate that. If the industrialised housing is the principal single family dwelling on the lot, if this is is going to be the home as opposed to an accessory building, then it would have to have a value greater than or equal to the median value of homes within 500 feet. Again, this is addressing the issue of not allowing people to move in a home that's significantly lower quality than all of the homes surrounding it in the neighborhood. If there are no homes within 500 feet, this wouldn't apply. They could do whatever they wanted. The property owner, the ordinance would require that the property owner provide those valuations of the surrounding homes, either through an appraisal or simply with the information that's publicly available

[2:42:57] from the appraisal district. That allows them some flexibility. If the appraisal district numbers are worked for them then they can provide that. If for some reason that doesn't work for them they could have an appraiser do a more detailed appraisal. So what's before you are those changes for industrial housing. I've got the specific conditions. if you have questions or want to see them. But with that, I'd be happy to answer any questions. The Planning Commission did recommend approval. All right. Do you have one question? Is there a particular reason this change came up? Was it requested? Or is this a part of your continuing to go over the buildings, the building codes, and you're cleaning up? You feel that it needs a change? This was actually brought to us as both a concern. there was a particular instance in a neighborhood where we got a number of complaints. And then, so it was brought to us for, to ask us to look into this. Marty? Now, if it's the primary residence has to be equal to, but what if it's not the primary residence? If it's not the primary residence, it still has to meet this, that the appearance would have to be compatible with those properties surrounding. So, all of the standards you see on this page apply whether it's the principal or an accessory. The only one that applies only if it's the principal home is the valuation. So. I'm able to prove. Second. Motion to approve, do I have a second? Now the questions? Public comment? All in favor, yes sir. I have a question about, oh, Christro, sorry. I have a question about this. Does this pertain to, I've noticed excess school portables that have been moved out

[2:44:57] into residential areas and turned into homes. Is that what this is referring to? Oh, it's referring to a modular home that's being put in residential areas. Not, it's, they're manufactured up. So a school, an old school portable may moved into a residential area and turned into a house does not fall under this zoning regulation. I don't see why it wouldn't. I don't know if that falls into it. That's not what this would apply technically. Now those buildings are built to a different standard. They're for commercial use or assembly use for schools. So it would require changes to meet a residential code for people living inside it, but if they were able to make it meet the residential code, then it would be subject to these standards as an offsite constructed home. What would the qualifications for a permanent foundation be? Pier and beam on that? Because you can't put it on a slab. Pier and beam is allowed now. Yeah, it would we have standards in the building code already for a foundation. It could be pier and beam. It could be a slab. The main point of that is that it be permanently attached through a foundation and that it be screened. So if it is pier and beam, you wouldn't you shouldn't be able to see underneath it. It would have to be skirted in some way. Here and be more slammed. All in favor say aye. Aye. Opposed may. Now the 6-0, Brian. And this is the John Jane show today, isn't it? There it is, yes. Out of mail is presentation and update on the development review process and software implementation. Go, John. Thank you. This should be the last one, at least for me. Oh, they got to get it's on a separate presentation.

[2:47:01] Okay, some of this I'm going to go through quickly because you saw some of this at your workshop a month or two ago, but just wanted to set the stage here that back in 2014 there was a review of basically looking at what can we do to make the development process work better. Some of the goals were reducing the review times, providing better information to citizens so they know what processes they have to go through, ensuring consistency in the process and all of those sort of things. These are a list of some of the things we've already done. We created basically a one-stop shop where no matter what process they're going through, whether it's with the fire marshal or engineering or planning or building, they all come to one place to submit those things and get questions answered. We've streamlined some of our concurrent application reviews. Instead of doing step one, then waiting to start step two, some of the processes we've done where you can overlap them so before, sort of as you saw with the annexation, we move forward with the zoning of that property before we would have done that. They would have had to wait to apply for the rezoning until after the annexation was completely through the process. So that's an example of how we kind of allowed people to double up and move more quickly through the process. More pre-application meetings, we strongly encourage developments, especially if there's anything unique about them come meet with us before they start the process. We can help guide them through the process and for people who have used that, unfortunately the numbers of people using that aren't as high as we would like, but for people using that they routinely say that that's been very helpful in getting them through the process. We've standardized many of our submittal requirements. We've rewritten almost all of our applications to to make them simpler for people to understand and to fill out increased use of checklists. So you get a checklist and you know if you're applying for this particular permit,

[2:49:02] here are all the things I need to provide. And so you can go through and check that off yourself to know that you're submitting everything we need to review an application. Revised all of our handouts, put them all on the city's website so that those are available to anyone any time. One thing that we've done just in the last couple of months is we've streamlined field inspection. Prior to this change, our inspectors, they used tablets and they had flip phones and we were paying basically connection fees for both of those. What we did was go to iPhones which were cheaper than the tablets, got rid of the flip phones so we basically confined two into one. Our monthly costs went down from our standpoint, from a budgetary standpoint, but also the inspectors have really loved this change because they can input information in the field that they couldn't do before. So whereas before, when they were doing inspections, say all morning, we wouldn't know if inspection pastor failed until they came back into the office, input all that into the computer. Now they're doing that out in the field on their iPhone, so an applicant can know, in some cases, a couple hours quicker, yeah, they got their approval know it was read tagged and here's the reasons that it wasn't approved so I know that's that's been helpful both from our staff's perspective but also for our customers out there and here's some of the things that we're working on this current year we're looking at our electronic permit tracking plan review and case management software the testing of that began this month we're doing the internal testing we don't want to roll it out to the public until it's it's fully ready and we know it's working like it should. The last thing we want is is bugs for something we roll out. What this will allow is applicants to submit applications online. They can go on to the computer, fill out our applications. We have, in fact, we already

[2:51:04] have PDF fillable forms that citizens can download, fill them out on their computer, email them in, but this new software will make that process smoother and the whole review process will be through the computer, they can submit scanned copies of plans, for example. Those will be distributed to all reviewers at the city side digitally so they can be reviewed with this review software. So getting rid of a lot of paper copies, we get folks who come in and say a big Walmart, for example, they might bring in a stack of 200 sheets of paper that are 24 by 36 inches. I know in talking with one developer, just printing the sheets that they need to submit to us for building permit reviews for a big project like that can be in the hundreds of dollars. So allowing them to just submit those digitally, we think, well, it'll help us, it'll help them. We think it'll be good. We're assuming the software rolls out on the schedule we think with no problems. Sometime later this year, we should be opening that up to the public to be able to submit applications digitally. Another couple of things we're working on is development handbook, basically putting all of our handouts and flow charts together into a guide because now we've got the handouts, we've got the applications, but sometimes it's hard for an applicant to know which application do I need. So we think this handbook will help them answer questions through some flow charts and things. Well this is what I'm doing and so it'll tell you well this is the application need or these are the processes you need to go through. Also looking at selective ordinance amendments as Councilwoman Farmer asked with that previous question that didn't happen to be one that we had identified that that came to us but we are looking at ways we can amend ordinances. In fact there'll be a couple of changes coming to the next planning commission that you'll see in a couple of months with some changes to streamline some things. Just mentioned

[2:53:06] briefly, we do customer surveys, and those had a huge improvement from 2014 to 2015, wasn't quite as big of an improvement from 15 to 16, mostly because we've gotten up into the 90, 95% approval range. It's hard to eke out additional improvement from there. But just as a general, we've asked 10 or 12 questions, but generally 90 percent or more approval rating from those surveys that we send out saying that the staff is doing a good job in terms of those meetings with the applicants. This is something you saw just about a year ago, and so I updated it for 2016. You can see that the average review times for commercial plans. Last year we had gone from 25 to 16 days as an average review time. That's now down to 12 days. That is for plans with no revisions required. If somebody submits an incomplete plan, and we have to say, hey, we need some more information, those generally take a little bit longer because there's more back and forth. But those have also gone down from 60 days. Last year, it was the average of 36 days. I'm sorry, the second half of 2015. Now that's down to a 19-day average. But as I was looking at this, I thought, and sometimes averages aren't the best way to express this sort of information, because that can hide a lot of variation. So I went ahead and broke those numbers down a little bit more and into three different categories. So review is completed within three weeks. That's what our goal is, is to complete a commercial plan review within three weeks. In 2015, that number was 57% completed within that time frame. In 2016, it was 55%. So about the same, not a real improvement there, but where we did see the improvement was in this three to six-week range. Actually, I would say this is greater than six weeks. In 2015, 14 percent of our reviews took more than six weeks.

[2:55:08] Now we've got that down to only four percent. So basically what that means is we've been successful at shifting reviews that were taking more than six weeks up to this three to six-week range. Our hope is to get more of those up into the less than three-week range, but you can see that now 41% of those are taking three to six weeks. Again, our goal is to move those up, but I think hopefully what you can see is that we've made progress in getting those review times down to less than what they have been in the past couple years. That's a kind of a quick overview of where we are. I'd be happy to answer any questions if you have them. Well, I take it from looking at the numbers in the years from our workshop in 2014 when Mr. Self instructions were to the city manager from the rest of us to find a way to say yes and you have been chipping away and chipping away. Are you overall pleased with the software, the technology that we've provided you with to help you do this job because As you know, we brought you, you've been here what, two weeks, I think, when we had that workshop and boy, it was all dumped on you, but do you feel it's, the investment was well worth? Yeah, it's moving along again. I think one of the questions we've gotten is, why is that taking so long? But we knew when we purchased that software that it would take a couple of years to get it implemented because of all the steps required. as I mentioned before, it's not like Microsoft Word, you just buy a disk and you put it in and you're done. This required all of our applications, for example, to be coded into the software, a number of things like that that are required to get into the system before we can actually start using it. But I think it's taken a little longer than we had hoped,

[2:57:10] but we're on track for getting that rolled out. I mean, if I could add to that, one other point that John really doesn't talk about this. He talks about the success and to speak to the dedication of this group. I did some research, and since 2014, there's about eight people in that department as a whole. We have had all of those turnover once, if not twice. And we currently have AJ's position, which has been held this whole time due to budget constraints, other positions that are unfilled, because we have such a turnover. A lot of that's for a variety of reasons, whether that's pay or whether that's people moving going to but to speak you see the stats there and what they've done and just to put light to things that's in addition to this amount of turnover in that department and they've still been able to accomplish that so kudos to them and and what they're working on well I want to make a point here if I may you brought up the turnover and I was out yesterday and talking to people and and they asked the specific question why have we had so much turnover and our planning permit you know department and correct me if I'm wrong correct it right here in the public is my response was is due to our pay scale salary that a lot of times to hire the educated experience that's out there we fall below that and we are left to hire folks straight out of college with their degrees in planning. And we become a stepping board. We do all of that training for them to step up to the next location that pays better in another city. I think that John may be able to speak to it better, but that is true. It is not unusual to San Angelo. Other cities struggle with it as well, Abilene, you know, those, but yes, we, there's a multitude. Some people move just because they need a different environment, a larger city, but a

[2:59:11] lot do move as they try to move up in that profession, and then of course we struggle with the pay salaries as well. John, you mentioned this is the whole purpose of this is to implement speeding up the planning, but after planning you have inspections, you use the word checklist when the inspection process comes through and an initial inspector comes out. If it fails, he makes a checklist of A, B, C, and D. How are we going to help the process after that if a secondary inspector comes after everything's fixed? And A, B, and C are complete. And what I've seen and what I've heard from people that he'll add D, E, and F. How can we prevent that? Because because that's time and money, while this program helped that. A couple of things, one, we try to have the same inspector go out, but hopefully they're not missing things, and I think that's pretty rare, but I'll say we do have circumstances where something was just missed on a first inspection, and when we see it on the second inspection, we can't just say, well, just because we missed it, you don't have to do it, especially if we're talking, you know, life safety kinds of things. Because it's a matter of a change to fix A, they had to change something that then resulted in D that wasn't an issue before, but now it becomes an issue. But one of the things we've done along those lines is we've got one staff person who's one of her primary roles is to ensure consistency among inspectors. So she rides around with the different inspectors and tries to make sure that Inspector A is looking for and finding the same things as Inspector B so that people don't have the issue of, well, you know, Inspector A never finds this and Inspector B always makes me for that. We're

[3:01:11] trying to get consistent and I think we're making lots of progress on that as well. So from my perspective, I think those circumstances where we find something that wasn't found on the first inspection is pretty rare. One thing I didn't mention that's sort of related to that is, you know, while this is down to 4%, I think probably 80% of the complaints I hear is about that 4%. So, and I would say that what you're hearing is probably similar that we don't often miss anything on a first inspection, but when we do, those are the stories that get around more than the success stories where we do everything right, because we're doing everything right, you know, a hundred times a day. And so it's those anomalies I would call them that I think we have to maybe take with the grain of salt that those things are going to happen, but I wouldn't call them a regular occurrence. And those circumstances do happen. Is there a process that we can implement to where if they, those are completed within the hour or two hours, they can be expedited and possibly get re-inspected that day? I think that's reasonable if we've missed something on a first inspection and the inspector finds it to basically place them at the top of the list. Yeah, I think that would be a reasonable way to approach it. And also one more question. You talk about the inspectors having iPhones and relaying that back to the software. When we had talked to, I think it was in January, will the builders have access to where they They can log in and check the process once the inspector inputs this information, they'll be able to see it automatically. Yes. Yeah. Okay. In fact, and I should have said, portions of that software lock the piece that the inspectors are using with the iPhones. That's part of the software overall software system that we purchased.

[3:03:14] That's already in place in running. So some of the internal things already there. the pieces that haven't been rolled out are the public facing side where applicants can see and apply online. There are ways for a notification to be sent out also that inspector is at site, because a lot of times the general contractor or the plumber or electrician aren't there at that specific time. So if an inspector comes to a site and no one's there to inspect it because they usually give a three to four hour window, a notification sent out to them. Hey, I'm here. St. Angel is not that big. They can get there in about five minutes. Yeah, I can look into that. I don't know if that's a function of the software or not. If it is, we would surely use that. Well, I can tell you that we before last as I was out walking, started at one end of the street, saw the city truck there and saw the inspector with his phone, you know, and I guess it was the supervisor of the job site was standing there watching. He may say He was, you know, putting in the phone, but at the time I went all the way down, but two blocks then came back at two blocks. The builder was there. So, you know, whether people on the job site was calling that high cities here, you know, I don't know, but by the end, the builder was there. That would limit a lot of variables, questions with the inspectors and knowing what to do for the builder. Thanks, John. Thank you, John. Further questions? John, I know this is a moving target, but I know it's getting better because my phone's not ringing like it did. So, I would say keep going the right way. You're on the right path. I appreciate you. Thank you. We do the last item. The last item. We're going to have executive session. Which would be performance. Which one do you want to do? In? The appointments he's talking about. Oh, okay. You about to leave aren't you?

[3:05:15] Yeah, let's move on and get the get the appointments That would be father follow-up and administrative issues There is not going to be an executive session so there will be nothing done in executive we need to talk about Item B is consider approving various board nominations animal shelter advisory committee most Suppuisie SMB 5 to a first full term Indian January 219 Betty Bradley petty SMD 6 2nd full-term entering January 219 Victor Schultz, Mayor, 1st full-term ending January 219, Civic Events Board Tim Condom, SMD 2 to a 2nd full-term ending October 219 Donald Barnhart, SMD 6 to a 1st full-term ending October 219, Construction Board, Bill Ford, SMD 2, Commercial Building Contractor to a 1st full-term ending February 219 and Lyndon Butler, SMD 6 to the 1st full-term ending February 2-19. Costa DC, Tommy Hebert, SMD 2 to a second full term ending February 2-19. Design and Historic Review Commission, Henry Smith, SMD 6. First full term ending September 2-19. Park and Recreation Advisory Board, Michael Perry, SMD 4. First full term ending December 2-18. Zoning Board, David Morales, SMD 4. First full term ending January 2-19. May I have a motion to approve? Move. You have a second from Lucy motion to approve questions public comments all in favor say aye. Opposed nay. That's another six old vote. Mr. Brian. And you going to Chile. Eat a big bowl of Chile. His daughter's in Chile he gonna go see his baby girl. Out of them is discussion on water fund performance including number one update to the five-year rate plan and number two consideration the

[3:07:19] possibility that she and rebates of a water fees. Ms. Chagwinton. Good morning or afternoon the case may be. All right we're gonna run through this information. Bill Riley's joining me this morning. We're required to review the water fund fund balance twice a year but in addition to that we wanted to have the opportunity to update y'all on the rate study, the performance of all of that, and give y'all an update. So with that, I have Bill Riley. Mayor and members of council, good afternoon. I think it's important to look at this issue that we also take a look at the five-year rate plan that you've adopted and come see how that's tracking and see some changes that are anticipated, primarily in the capital expense area. The O&M expenses are tracking as had been projected in the study. Most significant changes that we've seen are in the assumptions made on capital expenditures. As you can see from this graph that the blue vertical lines or our total revenue requirements and our projected revenue is tracking just as we had projected, The orange on top of the blue is the difference that we have to make up for to meet our financial goals, fund balance, days of cash on hand. What I like to do is just kind of take you through each of the five years and just show you what our projected expenses and revenues were and what we would anticipate to be our surplus each year as we begin to build our fund balance or rebuild our fund balance in our days of cash on hand. This was the actuals for 2016. We actually came in a little bit under. I think we had showed that to you back in December. We were anticipating being a little bit under for 2016 and what we had projected. That's for a couple of reasons. One is that the year we actually, the rate plan, actually anticipated a full year of the new rate in 2016,

[3:09:21] but the rate actually went into effect January 1. So we had only had nine months of that rate increase. The other significant issue was last year in 2016, we had the third highest rainfall ever for this area. So that certainly impacted our revenue and the water use. 2017 this year, we're anticipating a total revenue of 32 million and expenses about the same. And again, the O&M are tracking a stand pretty flat, but this is due to some of the capital expenses, and we'll talk a little bit more in detail about that on how the capital anticipated capital expenditures have changed from the original plan. As we move through 2018, we continue to see, again, the expenditures track our revenues as we would anticipate doing based on our revenue needs and the rate increases anticipated to meet those specific needs, again, primarily associated with capital. Then this is a five-year plan, so we're anticipating through fiscal year 2020. And we would see that as we move into 19 and 20 on the current plan, we would begin to see a greater surplus as we meet our financial goals. Again, looking at what's changed in this plan, the plan today from when it was initially implemented last year was we were anticipating, originally, an $80 million expense in fiscal year 2018. That was associated with new water supply While we knew that the project that we were looking at at that time might not be the project, we do understand that it's gonna take somewhere in that range over the next few years to begin to meet some water supply needs and also our infrastructure rehabilitation needs. But we've changed that because of the expenditure for the ranch that was in 2017.

[3:11:21] So while that is now a new expenditure that we needed to fold into the plan. So we've anticipated probably that there would not be another expenditure as we're going to be looking at a plan that I talked to you about at the strategic planning session to when we would actually implement water supply and infrastructure improvement needs. So we plugged in $35 million for that, which would be anticipated in this forecast window in 2020. Now, part of that might move closer due to the whatever plan we do with the groundwater treatment facility. We would need to anticipate how we would fund the improvements or the expansion of that. However, that still fits within this plan and the current rate increase projections. So, just to kind of take a look at from a capital perspective, what has actually changed, the light blue being what was in the original plan. You can see, beginning in 2017, that we had an increase of a little over a million dollars in capital. That's associated with the projected capital expense for the ranch. In 2018, we had anticipated the $80 million. So in 2018, we were seeing a substantially higher capital costs or debt service rather. And so that's going to flatten a little bit as we move out towards the end of the forecast window. Again, if we move some of that $35 million projected in this plan from 2020 back to 2018 or 2019, you can see that it still keeps us within the original plan and the anticipated rate increases. So from our perspective, the five-year plan is working. We are increasing the fund balance. We're meeting our financial targets and days of cash on hand. We're also So anticipating how to fund additional water supply and infrastructure improvements.

[3:13:23] And so as we see from this graph that as it originally had projected, and that's showing our days of cash on hand that we meet our goal somewhere around 2019, and then I think the important thing is to continue to look at this annually like we had anticipated doing so that we project this out every five years, every year, and make sure that we are continuing to track and we're on track and then we can fund the needs that the city has in meeting your one of your top priorities of water supply and infrastructure rehabilitation. So with that I think Morgan will come back and talk about the other issue of this which is the looking at our fund balance and rebates. As Bill mentioned the short part of it is that the fiscal year 17 fund balance is is less than the 75-day goal. So that's what's before you today. Of course, we're required to review this by annually in April. We have taken action this council in the past two separate times in various ways, but the real meat of it here is that our estimated fund balance as of March 31st is $3,074,000. Now that is an estimate, it's budgeted ending fund balance, meaning that if we do have another wet year in revenue, we are at risk of revenue, not meeting budget, but even at the $3,074,000, which is a best case scenario, the fund balance goal at this point is in excess of $4.7 million. So we would recommend no action at this time as it's necessary to have, you know, a minimum standard of fund balance in this fund to continue operations. If there's not an action item, if there's just discussions, am I correct? Am I reading that right? Second part is an action item. I was missing that second sentence, alright. Need a motion somewhere, do we want to get

[3:15:32] my money back or we want to keep it like it is? I stated you were less than 75 days as of today. Would you, I didn't catch how many days is it look like maybe 64 days in that area? Roughly, yeah, that $3 million is under the 75-day goal. That's probably about right in the 60-ish day range. You know, this is a tough day. I apologize, 50 days. I would love to refund back, but we're still short of the recommended 75-day. And I just think that our pocketbook is still a little short. To give back less than what we could if we had that 75 days. Based on projection, we're not going to get there for two more years. So the bottom line is that we're not where we need to be. This is actually less than 50 days, that $3 million. So we're about two thirds of the way to where we need to be. Oh, if you're gonna dip in the coffers to give money back, you're gonna take that projection out to past 2020. I just don't see that we can do anything at this time. And being an election year, I certainly hate to be the one to say I make a motion not to do any refunds at this time, but I don't believe it's financially prudent for the city for us to get back. So therefore I do make that motion. I'll make a second on that. Motion has been made, we leave it as it is. No rebates. I may have 17. After 2020, then if our projections keep going,

[3:17:33] then we're gonna have rebates constantly. I would certainly be at the council's pleasure to determine, do we wanna match more of that with projects? Or do we want to lower the rate? Or, you know, there's a lot of opportunities at that point, but there's also a lot of risk between now and fiscal year 20, exactly what's gonna happen. So I do believe we're gonna continue to have these conversations so that we can be all on the same page. I would really doubt that there would ever be a time when that there will be more income than, I think it will always be expensive. I don't like this last increase that would make first a year. I mean, when we sold this deal, when we made this five year plan, we didn't say we were going to do the 134 million on the water reuse, but we did imply that's what this was for. And I realized setting up here, I realized there's other things that need to be done. I know there's infrastructure problems. But we did sell this program with a five-year increase that we would do the wastewater. And that was 134 million that we did. So let me just remind the people that are watching out there, this isn't the end of looking at it. You know, if we choose to do so, we can look at it, we do look at it again in November, I believe. So, for the public, just be reminded that, I don't think Morgan will forget to put it on the agenda, but we are going to look at it again in November and do it sooner if we want. There's not a lot of clarification. Bill, are you still here? Let's talk real quickly so that the public knows that $134 million was not strictly for water reos. That was for upgrades at both plants, is that correct? That is correct. That was embedded in that project was to improve the rehabilitation of the plants for the future as well. Some of that money, as Duane, as you said, is for those other items that are out there.

[3:19:35] And I know that. But the figure that we were given when we did this is that it's going to cost $134 million for us to use the wastewater to reuse our wastewater. This is what it's going to cost, $134 million, and that was a figure that was thrown out, and that's the figure that we voted on. I know that that included some upgrades at the plant. I know that it included some infrastructure, but we didn't say we need $50 million for the wastewater, and we need $50 million to upgrade. We didn't break it down. We said we'd need 134 million for wastewater reuse, and that's the way it was sold, and that's the way the public perceives it. I don't like this last five percentage that will end up in January, and I fought it the last time we dealt with it, and I lost, and I lose again this time, but I still don't like it. I think we're taking advantage of our public. I feel I would like to see, possibly at next meeting, exactly what our expenses have been here today. And I'm not running for re-election, and I still don't like it. Mayor, here we go again. As far as the project that was direct potable reuse, I mean, the discussion was for a future project. I mean, it could be a desalinization project at this point. But again, the discussion was to shore up those three different issues that we discussed to resolve our shortage right now. As far as our fund balance, we want to make sure we made that up and to make sure also that we had enough money to replace to the ground. We've had a lot of leakage. We've had a lot of issues. We wanted those lines replaced. And thirdly was to make sure that we addressed a future water project. Whether it was a direct potable reuse or desalinization, whatever it is, at this point we're projecting that the cost, as far as $135 million, which doesn't need to make sure that we do revamp our wastewater treatment facility. But aside from that, you know, we still have to look at a future project what the cost is going to be we're not sure yet if you want to make tweaks to that and say you know what we want to drop that amount we can take

[3:21:36] a look at that but we still have to plan for a future project that investing in our water chain look at what our year to date expense actual at the end or in the water and sewer overall we're all next time we postponing this then the next maybe? No, it doesn't have to be postponed. Yeah, we know if we've been watching in our book books, we know approximately what it's been. And we are not going to consider the possibility of issuing rebates for water fees. We do have motion and a second. Ocean and a second. Okay, we are going to deal with it. Public comment. You, Hampton. Excuse me, I want to comment on the fact that you're keeping it the same. You know, high rates have the same effect as high taxes. They just choke things off. People start economizing and it slows down. You're trying to sell water. This enterprise is fun. The water department is a big money maker for the city, and so you're using the carrot of a future project in order to collect some money, and it doesn't necessarily have to be a future project for water, it could be a future project for something else, but it's still something that you have you're collecting money on. So if you're there and there's no there's no time there's no rush in my opinion as far as when we get to that point but if you start raising and raising and raising then you're

[3:23:36] choking choking choking and it has effect all over the city and it's the same way with codes when you're choking off the flow of income because people can't start a business or expand a business or have to meet some requirements, blah, blah, blah, and so you just keep going up, going up, there's going to be a time when you're going to have to say, well we can't do it anymore, we're going to have to start cutting something else. And I think some kind of, I think that time is now, and I appreciate my people. Yeah, the public comment. First of all, I'm a single man, I don't wash clothes at my house, I don't water my lawn, I don't wash my vehicle at my house, and my bill is over $70 a month. I can only imagine what it would look like if my ex-wife and three kids live with me. $70 a month to shower daily and brush my teeth and wash my dishes which are very few I run my dishwasher Maybe once a week is a ridiculous amount of money to be paying to use the city water So I can only imagine what these the families for five people are having to pay per month on their water bill This city needs to seriously look into what these water rates are they need to look into what the the usury fee for being a minute late is on their water bills, something's got to change because you're gonna price people out of living in San Angelo because they can't afford to water. We have a public comment. Yeah, I'd read a future where we don't have water in this community and this is why we have to plan for the future and make sure that we are allocating monies for that future water supply. So again, we do understand the concerns

[3:25:38] that have been expressed but our concern as well is to make sure that we do have a steady water supply going into the future, not just for ourselves for our grandkids and our great-grandchildren, so we want to make sure that we're planning for all that as well. You have a motion on the floor that we do not issue water rebates in May, and it's been seconded. All for the vote. All that are in favor of not issuing water baits say aye. And those that are say nay, nay. So it's one, two, three, four to one. And update on sales tax revenue performance, Tina. Good afternoon, Mayor, Council, Mr. Valenzuela. Have your update on sales tax performance. We did see a slight increase this month of 2.37% from the same month last year. So April sales tax revenue reflects sales that were made in February, which means that was rodeo season just to give you a picture of what that was. We are still very closely monitoring revenues and expenses, capturing anything that we can to make up for the deficit. The year to date deficit so far is about $536,000 and so we are making every effort to close that gap and to look for anything that we can to fund any future deficit that we might see. That's good news, Dana. Hi, Dana. Hi, Dana. All right. Thank you. Any questions of Tina? No. Sharp in her physical. of the comment on this. Well we are down down. There is to approve. Move to approve to close. Are we going to do announcement consideration of future agreement? No I want to go it's my birthday. Happy birthday to you.

[3:27:39] No I do not. You know in my opinion I think one of our investments that we are assets that we have is our watershed so why not use and look at what the West Texas Water Partnership to see about clearing out all of the mesquite and the salt cedar and juniper up there because that can be a heck of a source of fresh water for us. Very good Lucy. Harry one item I'd like the city to consider public information video from Anthony on the new ball pickup we still have people that don't understand that. The difference between the blue and the red and which weeks are going to be which. So I'd like to try to see if we can't help that threat process along. Or you could just put out both and they'll pick up the one they're supposed to hit or miss hit or miss and when you do that phone rings and says how come I didn't get it picked up. I got a motion to adjourn. I need a second. Second. Aye. Everybody say aye. Aye. We'll go out to 23, this meeting's over.

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