[00:00:02] TEST ... [1.Call to Order] >> GOOD EVENING WELCOME TO THE ROWLETT CITY COUNCIL. TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 17TH, 2026 IT IS 7 P.M. WELL IS A QUORUM. WE OPEN WITH AN INVOCATION AND CONDUCTING IT IS PASTOR TRAILER WITH CHURCH IN THE CITY. STAND AND JOIN IN THAT INVOCATION >> >> TONIGHT WE ARE GRATEFUL TO STAND BEFORE THIS ASSEMBLY AND PRAY ACCORDING TO FIRST TIMOTHY CHAPTER 2:1. ALL THOSE IN AUTHORITY WE LIFT THEM UP TONIGHT. IN PRECIOUS NAME OF JESUS WE CAN DO BUSINESS, GOD THAT WILL BRING INTEGRITY IS BRING HONESTY TO EVERYTHING THAT WE DO. YOUR WORD DECLARES THAT RIGHTEOUSNESS EXALTS A NATION. WOULD LIKE TO BRING IT DOWN TO EXALTING THIS CITY. SO WHEN THE RIGHT US AUTHORITY TO PEOPLE REJOICE FOR THOSE LEADING. FOR THOSE GUIDING BY YOUR SPIRIT IN JESUS' NAME, LET EVERYTHING THAT BE CONSTRUCTED. LET IT BRING GROVER AND HE HONEST OR TO YOU AND GOD LET US NOT FORGET WE WERE ELECTED BITE PEOPLE TO DO BUSINESS FOR THIS GREAT CITY. BLESS THEM IN ALL THEIR COUNCIL AND WISDOM THAT THEY NEED TO CONDUCT BUSINESS. FATHER AND GIVE YOU PRAISE WHICH THANKS FOR IT. AMEN. AND AMEN. >> THANK YOU, PASTOR. NOW I WILL INVITE STATE REPRESENTATIVE RITA UP IT LEAD US IN THE PLEDGE OF. GREETINGS FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS AS WE DO EVERY DAY STAND JOIN US FOR THE PLEDGE AND THE TEXAS PLEDGE. WITH THAT WE CALL THE MEETING TO ORDER ORDER AT 7:03 THE FIRST ITEM IS TWOE A. [2.A. Presentation of Proclamation recognizing Fire Chief Tim Gauthier's retirement. ] PRESENTATION PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING FIRE CHIEF TIM GUGARIES RETIREMENT. END OF AN ERA. I MAKE THAT PRESENTATION AND CHIEF I INVITE YOU AND YOUR WIFE TO COME DOWN TO THE FRONT, PLEASE. BEFORE I START I WANT INVITE ANYONE WHO IS HERE WITH CHIEF TONIGHT TO COME DOWN TOTE FRONT AS WELL. ALL OF OUR FIRE GUYS IN THE BACK AND ANYBODY HERE TO SUPPORT CHIEF THIS EVENING. PLEASE, COME DOWN. I THINK IT IS SO IMPORTANT THE COMMUNITY SEE HOW MANY ARE HERE TO SUPPORT OUR CHIEF. [APPLAUSE] >> SILL KNEW WHAT I WAS IN FOR. THERE IS ENOUGH ROOM UP HERE. COME ON, YOU GUYS. COME ON. ALL OF OUR POLICE LIEUTENANT'S I KNOW IT IS FIRE DEPARTMENT YOU ARE WELCOME TO COME ON. ALL RIGHT. [00:05:09] >> FOLKS I SERVED O CITY COUNCIL SINCE 2022 THAT IS HAS BEEN A TREMENDOUS PLEASURE. I GOT TO KNOW SO MANY GREAT STAFF MEMBER HERE. SO MANY BOYS IN BLUE WHO DO WORK FOR OUR COMMUNITY. WE HAVE DONE A NUMBER OF RECOGNITIONS LIFE SAVING AWARDS. SO MANY DIFFERENT THINGS. I WATCHED THE CHIEF THE PASTEEN YEAR BEFORE I WAS SERVING ON COUNCIL I WATCHED HIM LEAD THE DEPARTMENT THROUGH HIS ASSISTANT AND NOW CHIEF ROLE IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR. CHIEF, YOU HAVE BEEN A GREAT FRIEND. A GREAT LEADER WITHIN THE CITY. I JUST DON'T HAVE WORDS I WILL LET THE PROCLAMATION SPEAK. FIRE CHIEF BEGAN SERVICE CAREER JULY 20 ISSUE 1998. FOLLOWING FOUR YEARS OF SERVICE WITH LANCASTER FIRE DEPARTMENT. OVER COURSE OF 27 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE TO THE CITY OF ROWLETT. CHIEF SERVED IN EVERY RANK WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT. DEMONSTRATING EXCEPTIONAL LEADERSHIP, COMMITMENT AND EXCELLENCE AT EVERY LEVEL. THE CHIEF PREVIOUSLY SERVED ASSISTANT CHIEF OF ADMINISTRATION AND E MS CHIEF OVERSIGHT AND STRENGTHNING MERGE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OPERATIONS. AND THE CHIEF WAS SELECTED TO SERVE AS CHIEF ON HIS BIRTHDAY PROFESSIONAL MILE STONE AND HONOR IN HIS CAREER. AND THROUGHOUT HIS TENURE THE CHIEF PLAYED A ROLE IN SHAPING THE DEPARTMENT'S HISTORY, CULTURE AND SUCCESS SERVING ON COMMITTEES AND INVOLVEMENT WITH THE FIRE CHIEF BEST PRACTICES COMMITTEE EARNING RECOGNITION IN 2015. AND CHIEF'S LEADERSHIP DEFINED BY INTEGRITY, ASH COUNT ACT, MENTORSHIP AND TEDCASION TO THE SAFETY OF THE ROWLETT COMMUNITY AND THE FIREFIGHTERS HE SERVES ALONG SIDE. THE CHIEF IS SUPPORTED BY HIS WIFE, KATIE SHARED 25 YEARS OF MARRIAGE AND TWO CHILDREN TIM AND HE MADDIE AND LOOK FORWARD TO A NEW CHAPTER OF LIFE CELEBRATING CHILDREN'S ENGAGEMENTS AND ASSISTING WITH WEDDING PLAN THE COUNCIL OF THE ROWLETT EXTENDS DEEPEST GRATITUDE AND APPRECIATION FOR 20 YEARS OF OUTSTANDING SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP AND CONGRATULATES HIM ON WELL EARNED RETIREMENT AND RECOGNIZING HIS LEGACY HIM AND FAMILY CONTINUED HAPPINESS, GOOD HEALTH AND FULFILLMENT IN ALL FUTURE ENDEAVOURS. [APPLAUSE] WE HAVE A SPECIAL PRESENTATION FROM STATE REPRESENTATIVE RITA BOWERS. >> THANK YOU, MAYOR. AND THANK YOU COUNCIL FOR ALLOWING ME TO DO THIS. AND YOU KNOW, ITS I DON'T KNOW WE COULD NOT FIGURE OUT HOW LONG. I KNOW YOU AND I HAVE TALKED BODY IT MANY TIMES YOU KNOW ALL YOUR SERVICE NOT ONLY HERE IN ROWLETT BUT MANY YEARS OF SERVICE. I WANTED TO FROM OUR OFFICE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE PRESENTED YOU WITH THIS CERTIFICATE FROM THE STATE OF TEXAS. CERTIFIES A TEXAS FLAG HERE WITH PRESENTED TO YOU, BY STATE REPRESENTATIVE BOWERS THIS THIS WAS FLOWN OVER STATE CAPITOL. SO THIS FLAG IN HONOR OF YOUR RETIREMENT AND NEAR LOW WHAT WE HAD WAS NEARLY 28 YEARS OF DEDICATED SERVICE OF FIRE DEPARTMENT CHIEF AND WITNESS AND PURSUANT TO THE AUTHORITY VESTED IN THE ME I HAVE HERE UNTO SET MY HAND AND SEAL OF OFFICE IN AUSTIN, TEXAS. THIS FLAG WAS FLOWN OVER THE STATE CAPITOL AND WE WANTEDED MAKE SURE YOU HAD ONE IN HONOR OF YOUR RETIREMENT. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. [APPLAUSE] MY TURN. >> OKAY. WE WILL SEE IF I CAN GET THROUGH THIS. >> I GOT CHEAT ARE NOTES IN CASE I DON'T MAKE IT THROUGH. MAY BE I CAN'T GET THEM OUT. ALL RIGHT. [00:10:06] I HAVE A FEW THINGS TO SAY I WILL KEEP IT BRIEF IN INTEREST OF TIME AND BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW IF I WILL GET THROUGH THIS. . SO -- I WANT TO START BY THANKING THE MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR THIS RECOGNITION. IT IS TRULY AN HONOR AND BEYOND HUMBLING. I'M TRULY HUMBLED. I LIKE TO ALSO THANK CITY MANAGER HALL FOR BELIEVE NOTHING ME AND TRUSTING ME TO GUIDE THIS DEPARTMENT. HIS SUPPORT HAS BEEN CRITICAL FOR MYSELF AND THE ORGANIZATION AND GREATLY APPRECIATED. I LIKE TO THANK THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE ROWLETT FIRE DEPARTMENT WHO SERVED THE COMMUNITY EVERY DAY. SEVERAL ARE BEHIND ME AND I APPRECIATE THAT. THEY ARE TRULY SOME OF BEST IN THE BUSINESS. AND HAD THEY DO IS AMAZING. I WOULD TELL YOU THAT I'M PROUD OF NOT ONLY WHAT THEY ARE DOING NOW BUT WHAT I KNOW THEY WILL DO IN THE FUTURE. I WILL KEEP AN EYE O THAT FOR SURE. LAST, I LIKE TO THANK MY WIFE. MAYOR MENTIONED. SHE IS AMAZING. AND THE FOUNDATION OF MY SUCCESS. [LAUGHTER]. AND COULD NOT DO WHAT I DO WITHOUT HER. SO -- WHEN YOU FIRST CAME TO ROWLETT 20 PLUS GOING ON CLOSE TO 28 YEARS AGO I HAD NO IDEA WHAT THE FUTURE WOULD HOLD. LOOKING BACK I CAN SAY THAT IT WAS THE BEST DECISION NOT ONLY FOR ME BUT FOR MY FAMILY. WE HAVE BEEN BLESSD AND IT HAS BEEN AN HONOR TO SERVE THE CITIZENS OF ROWLETT AND BE A PART OF THIS ORGANIZATION. SO BELIEVE ME WHEN I TELL YOU, THIS COMMUNITY, THIS DEPARTMENT AND THIS CITY WILL ALWAYS BE FAMILY. YOU KNOW THE RELATIONSHIPS THAT I HAVE MADE, FRIENDSHIPS THAT I BUILT. THAT I MEAN SOMETHING AND I WILL CARRY THEM WITH ME. I WILL ALWAYS HAVE AN VESTED INTEREST IN THE SUCCESS OF WHAT YOU DO AS A CITY ISSUE COMMUNITY SPECIAL A DEPARTMENT. WHILE I AM MOVING ON TO THE NEXT CHAPTER YOU KNOW, IT IS NOT GOODBYE IT IS SEE YOU LATER AND I TELL YOU THAT IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING, I'M NEVER MORE THAN A PHONE CALL AWAY. THANK YOU ALL FROM THE BOTTOM OF MY HEART FOR THIS. THE 20 PLUS YEARS. IT MEANS A LOT. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE] CHIEF IN CASE YOU CAN'T TELL IS A BIG TEDDY BEAR. AND HE IS AN AMAZING GUY. WHAT IS SPECIAL IS JUST SEEING HIS THUMB PRINTS ALL OVER THE CITY IN MANY THINGS IT IS COOL TO GO OVER FIRE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING AND YOU LOOK AT THE PHOTOS OVER THE YEARS ALL FIREFIGHTERS. AND IN IT IS THE CHIEF AND THE RANKS YOU GO DOWN AND YOU SEE THE CHIEF IN ALL THE DIFFERENT LEVELS OF FIRE SERVICE. HE HAS DONE EVERYTHING. EVERYTHING THIS THERE IS TO DO IN THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND IT IT IS TRULY REMARKABLE. I INVITE YOU UP. I KNOW YOU ARE HIDING BACK THERE I INI HAVE YOU TO JOIN IN THE PHOTO AND GET EVERYBODY UP HERE THAT WOULD BE PRETTY COOL. IF THERE IS ANYONE ELSE TOO SHY, COME UP NOW. [00:15:31] NORMALLY WE WAIT AWHILE WITHIN MEETING BEFORE WE GET TO THE TEARS THAT WENT STRAIGHT OUT THE GATE. OUR NEXT ITEM THIS EVENING IS ITEM 2B. [2.B. Presentation of Proclamation recognizing the month of February as Black History Month.] PRESENTATION RECOGNIZING MONTH OF FEBRUARY AS BLACK HISTORY MONTH AND MAKING THAT PRESENTATION IS TRAY BOWERS. THANK YOU FOR THE INTRODUCTION. BEFORE I START I WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE IN THIS HUNDREDTH YEAR OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH THE PASSING OF REVEREND JESSE JACKSON. IF WE COULD TAKE A MOMENT FOR THAT >> >> SO. WHERE AS THE CITY OF ROWLETT ACKNOWLEDGES HONOR IT IS RICH TAPPEST REW OF BLACK HISTORY WITH THE BROAD ARE NARRATIVE OF OUR IN ADDITION AND THE STRIDES MADE BY BLACK AMERICANS PAVE THE WAY FOR PROGRESS. INCLUSION AND EQUITY IN THE POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND EDUCATIONAL SPHERES. AND WITH EACH PASSING MONTH WE WITNESS REMARKABLE ACHIEVEMENTS DISMANTLED SEPARATION, INQUALITY AND INJUSTICE. PROPELLING US TO A SOCIETY BUILT ON FAIRNESS AND EQUALITY. RIDICULOUS KNIESING SIGNIFICANCE OF BLACK HISTORY MONT WE CELEBRATE ACHIEVEMENTS OF INDIVIDUALS MADE MARKS ON OUR COLLECTIVE CONSCIOUS INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO BARBARA JORDAN THE FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN ELECTED TO THE TEXAS CENTER. TOM JOIN ARE AND FOUNDER OF THE TOM JOINER FOUNDATION. BARBARA SMITH CONRAD. DOCTOR MAY JEN SON THE FIRST WOMAN TO TRAVEL INTO SPACE AND PHYSICIAN AND KNOWLEDGE ENGINEER VAN CLAY BOURN PIANIST BORN IN LOUISIANA SPENT TIME IN FORT WORTH. LINDA MALONE. COOP ARE CAST O. WHO CREATED ART. AND CAREY HEARTCELL ARTIST. COOPER IS JOSHUA IN THEIR CREATION, EXPRESSION OF DOCTOR MARTIN LUTHER KING JUNIOR'S LEGACY. WHERE AS THE ON GOING BLACK AMERICAN STORY MARKED BY RESILIENCE AND DETERMINATION. WHO COUNTLESS EXAMPLES OF STEALTH THROUGHOUT HISTORY AND THE LEADERSHIP RENEGLECTS THE DIVERSE COMMUNITY. WE ALL REAP THE BENEFITS OF MULTICULTURAL CONTRIBUTIONS OF SKILLS, TALENTS, THOUGHTS AND IDEA THAT UNITE US IN PURSUIT OF UNITY. ROWLETT FOR ALL. NOW THEREFORE I JOHN BOWERS ON BEHALF OF THE MAYOR AND THE CITY COUNCIL DECLARE THE AMONG OF FEBRUARY CELEBRATING BLACK HISTORY MONTH. ICONIC WATER TOWER WILL, E ILLUMINATED NITTED ON FEBRUARY 30 IN RED, GREEN REPRESENTING GROWTH FROM THE MOTHER LAND AND YELLOW SIGNIFYING HOPE, YESTERDAY AND QUESTIONS OF LAWITY. A TRIBUTE TO THE BLACK COMMUNITY. THIS HONORS THE LEGACY OF LEADERS WEB DU BOIS BORN IN 1868. A PIONEERING SCHOLAR. CIVIL RIGHT'S ACTIVIST AND COFOUNDER OF THE NAAC. THIS IS A POWERFUL RECOGNITION OF LASTING CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE BLACK COMMUNITY TO OUR COMMUNITY. STRENGTHENING ROWLETT THE PLACE TO WORK, LIVE AND PLAY. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]. >> THANK YOU. MR. BOWERS. [2.C. Presentation of Proclamation recognizing February 28, 2026, as Rare Disease Day.] NEXT IS ITEM 2C WERE PRESENTATION PROCLAMATION FEBRUARY 28 OF 26 AS RARE DISEASE DAY. I INVITE THE MANSURE FAMILY AND ANYONE CELEBRATING THAT TO COME UP TO THE FRONT. HI. MARLEY. [00:20:06] THIS IS A SPECIAL OCCASION FOR ME PERSONALLY IN A LOT OF WAYS. I HAVE KNOWN KAYLA FOR 12 YEARS? SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I DON'T KNOW. WHEN MY DAUGHTER WAS IN FIRST GRADE IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL KAYLA SERVED ON THE PTA HERE IN THE COMMUNITY. WE HAVE KNOWN EACH OTHER AWHILE WE DON'T TALK OPTION SHE BROUGHT THIS REQUEST TO ME I'M GLAD TO CELEBRATE AND YOU. THIS IS A PROCLAMATION RECOGNIZING FEBRUARY 28 RARE DISEASE DAY. STATISTICS INDICATE ONE IN 10 PEOPLE IN THE STATE ARE LIVING WITH A RARE DISEASE. THE INSTITUTE OF HEALTH ESTIMATED 25 TO 30 MILLION DOLLARS WHEN LIVE WITH A RARE DISEASE. TEXAS WANT SPECIALS THE CITIZENS CAUSES AND DECLARING THIS DAY AS RARE DISEASE DAY IN ROWLETT IT RACES AWARENESS IN OUR COMMUNITY. I HOPE YOU WILL JOIN ME SAYING THE DISEASES ARE RARE THEY ARE NOT ALONE. THERE ARE 7,000 RARE DISEASES AND CONDITIONS EACH AFFECT FEWER THAN 200,000 AMERICANS IN THE UNITED STATES , AND EACH DISEASE MAY AFFECT SMALL NUMBERS RARE DISEASE AFFECT 25-30 MILLION AMERICANS. MANY RARE DISEASES ARE SERIOUS CONDITIONS THAT IMPACT THE LIVES OF THOSE AFFECTED. MORE THAN 620 DRUGS APPROVED FOR THE TREATMENT OF THE 1,000 RARE DISEASES ACCORDING TO THE FDA. 90% DON'T HAVE AN FDA APPROVED TREATMENT. INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES AFFECTED BY RARE DISEASES EXPERIENCE PROBLEMS DELAYS IN OBTAINING AN ACCURATE DIAGNOSE SIMPLE DIFFICULTY FINDING A PROVIDER ASK LACK OF ACCESS TO TREATMENTS OR SERVICES. AND RESIDENTS OF ROWLETT IMPACTED BY RARE DISEASES ONE IN 10 AMERICANS HAVE THEM. AND THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR RARE DISORDERS IS ORGANIZING AN OBSERVANCE OF RARE DISEASE DAY. NOW I, JEFF MAYOR FOR THE CITY OF ROWLETT AND BEHALF OF COUNCIL DECLARE FEBRUARY 28, 2026 AS RARE DEEZ DAY, INCREASE AWARESNESS. SHOWING SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES WITH RARE DISEASES AND PROMOTE ADVANCE AM OF RESEARCH AND UNDERSTANDING. THANK YOU. [APPLAUSE]. THAT GIRL WAS A SWEETHEART. [2.D. Receive the Annual Comprehensive Financial Report for the fiscal year ended September 30, 2025, which includes the independent auditor’s report. ] NEXT ITEM THIS EVENING IS 2D THE COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT FOR SEPTEMBER 302025 INCLUDING THE AUDITOR'S REPORT MAKING THAT PRESENTATION IS WINDSY WENDY BADGET.ENDY BADGET.-WENWENDY BA. HEY. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. AND MAYOR. THE CITY'S CHARTER REQUIRES ANNUAL INDEPENDENT AUDIT OF FINANCIAL RECORDS PERFORMED BY A PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT WITH THOSE RESULTS TO BE READ TO RECORD AS A COUNCIL MEETING. IN COMPLIANCE WITH THIS THE CITY'S INSPECT AUDIT FIRM WEAVER AND TILDEWELL IS HERE TO PRESENT AND READ TO RECORD OF THE AUDIT OF CITY'S FINANCIAL PASSPORT EVERREPORT FISCAL 25 INCLUDING AN OPINION ON THE FAIR AND ACCURATE REPRESENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. ASPECTS OF PROCEDURE AND INTERNAL CONTROLS AND ANY REPORT CONCERNS OR ISSUES THAT I MAY HAVE FOUND DURING THEIR AUDIT PROCESS. THE RESULTS WERE REPORTED [00:25:05] YESTERDAY TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON FEBRUARY 16. I WOULD LIKE TO PRODUCE. >> PAUSE FOR A SECOND. >> OKAY. YOU CAN'T EITHER. I WILL HAVE TO ASK YOU RESTART. SO WE HAVE EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE. WENDY, THANK YOU. >> READY? ALL RIGHT. HERE WE GO. OKAY. I WAS SAYING THE CITY'S CHARTER REQUIRES AN AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL ROESHDS THIS IS TO BE PERFORMED BY A PUBLIC ACCOUNTANT WITH THE RESULTS READ IN RECORD AT AN OFFICIAL COUNCIL MEETING. IN COMPLIANCE THE CITY'S INSPECT AUDIT FIRM WEAVER AND TILDEWELL IS HERE TO READ IN RECORD THE RESULTS EVER CITY'S FISCAL YEAR REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30, 2025. AND TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION WILL INCLUDE AN OPINION ON THE FAIR AND ACCURATE PRESENTATION OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS OF FISCAL 2025. ASPECTS OF THE ACCOUNTING PRACTICES, PROCEDURES AND INTERNAL CONTROLS AND THEY WILL REPORT CONCERNS OR ISSUES THEY MAY HAVE FOUND DURING THEIR AUDIT PROCESS. THE RESULTS REPORTED TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY FEBRUARY 16TH IN OUR MEETING AND MORE DETAIL. AT THIS TIME I LIKE TO INTRODUCE CLAIR WOOTEN THE REPRESENTATIVE TO READ THE FINANCIAL REPORT INTO RECORD. >> THANK YOU. WENDY. THANK YOU FOR HAVING ME TONIGHT COUNCIL AND MAYOR. I APPRECIATE IT. I'M CLAIR WOOTEN I'M A DIRECTOR WITH WEAVER AND I LEAD THE FINANCIAL STATEMENT ENGAGEMENT AND MONITORED THE WORK AS WE WERE PERFORMING. I AM AM A DIRECTOR AND HAVE BEEN WITH WEAVER FOR ABOUT 15 YEARS. WE ARE AUDIT PROCESS WE PERFORM OUR AUDITS IN,A ORDER COANCE WITH ACCEPTING AUDIT STANDARDS GOVERNMENT AUDITING STANDARDS IF THE EXPENDITURES EXCEEDED A MILLION DOLLARS WE WOULD HAVE PRIMARIED A FEDERAL SINGLE AUDIT. THIS YEAR THE CITY'S FEDERAL EXPENDITURES WERE BELOW THERE WAS NO FEDERAL SINGLE AUDIT DID NOT TRIGGER THAT. WE PERFORM TESTS OF THE COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS REGULATIONS, AND GRANT AGREEMENTS THE BIGGEST THE PUBLIC FUNDSES INVESTMENT ACT. WE PERFORM TESTS WHERE THE BIDDING PROCEDURES AND MADE SURE THE CITY WAS IN COMPLIANCE WITH BOTH STATE AND FEDERAL GUIDELINES AND THE CITY'S PROCUREMENT POLICIES. OUR TIME LINE WE CONSIDER A YEAR ROUND APPROACH. DURING THE YEAR WE START OUR AUDIT PLANNING PHASE. WHERE READING COUNCIL MINUTES, LOOKING AT THINGS AT CITY COUNCIL MIGHT THINK MOST IMPORTANT. WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE CITY. WE COME OUT IN FIELD WORK IN AUGUST AND PERFORM INTERNAL CONTROLS. LOOK WHAT CONTROLS THE CITY HAS OVER DIFFERENT ACCOUNTING CYCLES. ALSO IN BETWEEN THAT INTERIM FINAL PERIOD I MEET WITH FINANCE COMMITTEE TO DISCUSS ISSUES THEY MAY HAVE. AND WE CAN CONSIDER THOSE ITEMS IN OUR PLANNING. AND IN DECEMBER WHEN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS ARE READY SPECIAL PREPARED WE COME OUT IN FIELD. WE COME AT THE CITY'S OFFICES FOR THREE WEEKS AND MAKE SUBURBAN THE NUMBERS ARE RECORDED ACCURATELY. AND PRESENT IT TO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY HERE TO PRESENT TONIGHT. SF THROUGHOUT THE YEAR IF THERE ARE DIFFERENT PRONOUNCEMENTS. ITEMS THAT THE CITY MAY HAVE OR BOND ISSUANCES THE CITY NEEDS HELP THEY ARE WELCOME TO CALL US. WE ARE YOUR AUDITOR YEAR ROUND. >> SO CAN IING CANT CHANGES TO THE STRATEGY THERE WERE NONE. WHEN WE SET OUT OUR STRATEGY AND MET WITH THE FINANCE COMMITTEE IN OCTOBER DURING THAT PLANNING PHASE, THERE WERE NO ITEM BROUGHT UP THAT CHANGED OUR STRATEGY AT YOU WILL. THE STRATEGY THAT WE WENT IN WITH PLAN THAT WAS THE STRATEGY WE ENDED WITH. THERE WERE NO CHANGES TO OUR SIGNIFICANT RISKS WE IDENTIFIED. [00:30:01] WE IDENTIFIED THE RISK IMPROPER REVENUE RECOGNITION PURVASIVE IT ALL ENTITIES THAT RECORD REVENUE. AND THEN THE RESULTS OF THAT WORK WE PERFORMED. DURING THE COURSE OF OUR AUDIT IDENTIFIED NO UNCORRECTED MISESTABLISHMENTS THAT ARE LOW ENOUGH DOLLAR LEVEL WE COULD PASS ON. BUT THERE WERE NONE. WE DEPUTY NOT IDENTIFY ANY AUDIT ADJUSTMENTS. THE NUMBERS THAT ARE IN THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IN FRONT OF YOU ARE THE NUMBERS THE CITY HAS ON THEIR BOOKS, WHICH THAT IT IS A BIG ACCOMPLISH AM THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN OFTEN WITH LOCAL GENTLEMAN. USUALLY THERE IS AN AUDIT ADJUST AM. EVERYTHING IS WAS -- TIGHT BEFORE WE CAME OUT. AND THEN DURING OUR TEST OF INTERNAL CONTROLS AND REVIEW THROUGH THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS IDENTIFIED NO SIGNIFICANT DEEFFICIENCIES OR MATERIAL WEAKNESSES AND NO INSPECT MATTERS TO REPORT. WE ARE INSPECT FROM A TEAM AND INDEPENDENT FROM A FIRM. WE ISSUED OUR UNMODIFIED AUDIT REPORT ON FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THAT IS THE CLEANEST AND HIGHEST LEVEL ON A SET OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. AND AS OF OF THE DATE OF THESE COMMUNICATIONS THERE IS NO OTHER LETTERS YOU HAVE NOT BEEN MADE AWARE OF OF NOTHING THAT DISCUSSES ISSUES THERE WERE NO ISSUES BROUGHT UP TO MANAGEMENT. SO FOR OUR SIGNIFICANT RISKS I MENTIONED THE RISK OF REVENUE RECOGNITION IT IS HIGHEST RISK IS YOUR CHARGES FOR SERVICES. WATER AND SEWER. BEING WATER AND SEWER ALL INDIVIDUALLY MAKES UP TIEN TRANSACTIONS TO ALL CUSTOMERS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. DURING THE YEAR, IF THERE IS WHEN COUNCIL PASSES A RATE CHANGE AND THAT IS NOT IMPLEMENT THE PRESENTLY AT CITY LEVEL IT COULD CAUSE A MISSTATEMENT. WE PERFORMED TRANSACTION SAMPLING THERE AS WELL AS IN THE [INAUDIBLE] AREA IF THERE IS A COMPLIANCE ISSUE IT COULD CAUSE A MATERIAL MISSTATEMENT. AND ALSO THE MANAGEMENT OVER RIDE OF INTERNAL KRELLESS THE HIGHEST WITH JOURNAL ENTRIES SOMEONE DECIDES THEY WILL POST A JOURNAL ENTRY THERE IS THAT RISK OF OVER RIDE CONTROLS WE ENSURE WITH THE NUMBER OF SAMPLES THAT THERE IS SOMEONE THAT POSTS THERE COULD BE SOMEONE THAT PREPARES ONE AND REVIEWS AND POSTS. ACCOUNTING POLICIES INCLUDED IN NOTE ONE TO YOUR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. ONE ITEM IS THE CITY IMPLEMENTS GAS STATEMENT 101. THAT HAD REALLY NO SIGNIFICANT IMPACTS ON THE CITY. THAT WAS THE BIG OF THE YEAR EVERYBODY WAS TALKING ABOUT. THAT IS THE ONE THAT WAS IMPLEMENTED THIS YEAR. AND THERE IS NO OTHER MARRYINGS THAT CAME TO OUR ATTENTION. THERE ARE ITEMS IN YOUR ACT FOR THAT ARE CONSIDERED SIGNIFICANT ESTIMATES. BUT ALL OF THOSE ESTIMATES WERE SO THE PENSION IN THE O PEG LIABILITY AND YOUR MEDICAL CLAIMS LIABILITIES OR WORKER'S COMP LIABILITIES, THOSE ARE TRACKS. WE LOOKED AT THE REPORTS AND LOOKED AT THE ESTIMATES AND ASSUMPTIONS PUT IN THE REPORT AND DEEMED THEM ALL ACCURATE. IS WE REVIEWED FOR SIGNIFICANT OR UNUSUAL TRANSACTIONS AND DID NOT NOTE ANY. NO IDENTIFIED OR EXPECTED FRAUD. AND THEN NO DIFFICULTIES ENCOUNTERED DURING THE AUDIT. MANAGEMENT WAS HELPFUL AND PROVIDED EVERYTHING WE NEEDED QUICKLY. NO DISAGREEMENTS WITH MANAGEMENT NO DIFFERENCES OF OPINION. AND ONCE MANAGE AMMING MENT AND WE WERE READY TO SIGN THE OPINION LETTER THEY HAD A LETTER WHICH WAS MANAGEMENT TAKING RESPONSIBLE OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. >> WE ARE NOT AWARE OF MANAGEMENT CONSULTING WITH OTHER ACCOUNTANTS OR AUDITORS. AND THERE IS NO OTHER SIGNIFICANT MATTERS OR FINANCEOR ISSUES TO BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION. >> JUST TWO QUICK ITEMS TO NOTE I WANTED TO MAKE SURE YOU WERE AWARE OF THAT WAS SIGNIFICANT THE SEWER LINE BREAK AND REPAIR. WE TESTED THAT A CAPITOL PROJECTS DURING THE YEAR. WE ALSO REVIEWED ALL OF THE CONSTRUCTION INVOICES AND INSURED IT WAS IN THE AN EMERGENCY REPAIR THAT THE PROCUREMENT AND VENDOR WENT TO COUNCIL AND APPROVAL ALL OF THE CITY'S PROSECUTE CURE AM [00:35:02] POLICIES WERE FOLLOWED. AND THEN ALSO WITH WET ZONE. AND THAT STOP IN OPERATIONS LAST YEAR FOR ALL OF THOSE IMPROVE AMS THAT WHEN OPERATIONS RESUMED WE WERE ABLE TO LOOK AT REVENUE THIS YEAR. AND COMPARE IT TO THE OKES PEND TOURS AND IN 2023 WHEN IT WAS PRITTING AND LOOK AT REASONABLENESS OF THE EXPENDITURES RECORDED. >> AND THAT IS IT THAT I HAVE FOR YOU ALL TONIGHT. DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OFFER EITHER THE PRESENTATION OR OF AUDIT OR FINANCIAL STATEMENTS THEMSELVES? >> COUNCIL, QUESTIONS FOR CLAIR? UNMODIFIED OPINION THE BEST POSSIBLE ALL THAT JAZZ. PERFECT. >> IF NO QUESTIONS THEN WENDY TO YOU ANOTHER PART. NO. ALL RIGHT. [2.E. Present a budget update based on the Comprehensive Monthly Financial Report (CMFR) for the period ending December 31, 2025. ] >> THANK YOU. THANK YOU, WE APPRECIATE IT. >> NEXT WE MOVE ON TO ITEM 2E BUDGET UPDATE FOR DECEMBER 31, 2025. >> ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL, TONIGHT'S FINAL FINANCIAL PRESENTATION IS FOR PERIOD ENDING DECEMBER 31, 2025 THE FIRST QUARTER OF OUR NEW FISCAL YEAR AFTER WE GOT THE FINAL RESULTS FROM THE PRIOR ONE. THIS WAS REVIEWED IN DETAIL WITH THE AUDIT RESULTS WITH THE CITY'S FINANCE COMMITTEE YESTERDAY AFTERNOON. OVER ALL IN THE FIRST QUARTER THE CITY EARNED 62 MILLION IN REVENUE THIS IS 40% OF THE BUDGET OF 1 PICK MILLION AND 6% HIGHER FOR THE FIRST QUARTER. EXPENSES 31 MILLION. 20% OF THE REVISED OPERATING BUDGET OF 1 PICK MILLION AND 4% LOWER THAN THE FORECAST. PROPERTY TAXES REPRESENT 60% OF THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET AND THE PRIMARY FUNDING SOURCE FOR THE ENTIRE GENERAL GENTLEMAN. CITY COLLECTED 26 MILLION IN PROPERTY TAX REVENUE AHEAD BY 1.2 MILLION DOLLARS DUE TO THE TOMBING OF PAYMENTS NOT DUE UNTIL JANUARY 31ST. >> SALES TAXES COLLECTED BY COMPTROLLER AND REPRESENTATIVE 15% OF THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE BUDGET. THEY ARE SHOWN REPORTED 72,000 ABOVE FORECAST FOR THE QUARTER. WITH DECEMBER BEING INCLUDED AS AN ESTIMATE DUE TO TIMING OF REPORTING FROM THE STATE COMPTROLLER. SUBSEQUENT TO THE FINANCIAL REPORT IN YOUR PACKET AND THE PRESENTATION THE COMPTROLLER'S OFFICE REPORTED THE ACTUAL DECEMBER COLLECTIONS BRINGING THE FIRST QUARTER DOWN TO 17,000 OR JUST UNDER 1% ABOVE FORECAST. >> OVER ALL GENERAL FUND REVENUES ARE SHOWN REPORTED ABOVE THE FIRST FOUR QUARTER FORECAST 4.23 MISSION. PROPERTY TAX REVENUE ACCOUNTS FOR 1.2 MILLION 72 THOUSAND FROM SALES TAX. OTHERS INCLUDE HIGHER INTEREST EARNINGS DRIVEN BY FAVOR OKAY VICTIM MARKETS AND INSPECTION FEES FROM THE TIMING OF DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS FROM COTTON WOOD CREEK AND DOWNTOWN EAST. AND INCREASED AMBULANCE FEES DUE TO HIGHER ACTIVITY LEVELS. TYPICAL FOR THE FIRST QUARTER GENERAL FUND EXPENSES 950,000 BELOW FORECAST MAIN LOW DUE TO THE TIMING OF NEWER YEE PROJECT PURCHASES. SEASONAL SERVICES. ELECTION COSTS AND RENEWAL OF CONTRACTS AND PERSONNEL VACANCIES. AND AS WITH PREVIOUS YEARS EXPENSES WILL ALINE MORE AS THE YEAR PROGRESSES IN FUTURE QUARTERS. AND MOVING ON TO THE UTILITY FUND. WATER REVENUE REPRESENTS 60% OF THE FUND REVENUE BUDGET. AND IT COVERS THE COST OF WATER ACQUISITION FROM THE WATER DISTRICT. WATER REVENUE REPORTED 90,000 OR 2% BELOW FORECAST. >> SEWER REVENUES REPRESENT 40% OF THE FUND REVENUE BUDGET AND COVER SEWER TREATMENT PAID TO THE CITY OF GARLAND. FIRST QUARTER SEWER REVENUES ARE REPORTED POR,000OR AT 1% ABOVE FORECAST. OVER ALL, UTILITY FUND REVENUES ABOVE 61,000 FOR THE FIRST QUARTER REFLECTS THE SHORT FALL DISCUSSED IN WATER SALES OFF SET BY SEWER REVENUES INTEREST EARNINGS AND DISCONNECTION CHARGES. EXPENSES ARE 65,000 BELOW FORECAST. AS ALSO MENTIONED WITH THE GENERAL FUND THIS IS DRIVEN BY THE TIMING OF A RANGE OF SERVICES AND SUPPLY PURS CHAS AS WE START THE NEW FISCAL YEAR AND PERSONNEL VACANCIES. [00:40:06] A PORTION OF THE SAVINGS OFF SET BY HIGHER WASTEWATER COSTS WE EVALUATE AND INFLOW ISSUE. IT TOP FINISH THE PRESENTATION ANOTHER KEY 2026 FUNDS THE DRAINAGE, DEBT SERVICE:EE HEALTH BENEFITS AND REFUSE FUNDS EXCEEDED FORECASTED REVENUES THE DEATH SERVICE FUNDS EXCEEDED FORECAST BY 10 THONNED DUE TO AN INCREASE VOLUME OF ATTORNEY FEES TO PROTEST VALUEOS PROPERTY. PROPERTY TAX REVENUES FUELY OFF SET THE COSTS. AND THE REFUSE FUND FORECAST EXPENSES BY 71,000 FOR VOLUME OF SERBS OF TRASH SERVICE. THIS WAS ALSO OFF SET BY INCREASED FEE REVENUES FOR SERVICES PROVIDED TO RESIDENTS. THAT'S THE CONCLUSION OF TONIGHT'S FINANCIAL REPORT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> COUNCIL ISSUE QUESTIONS FOR WENDY? >> NO QUESTIONS, BUT THANK YOU ISSUE WENDY AND YOUR TEAM WE ARE IN GREAT FINANCIAL STANDING THAT IS DUE IN LARGE PART TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM, I APPRECIATE THAT. APPRECIATE THAT. I HAVE A GREAT TEAM. FINANCE COMMITTEE MET WITH WENDY AND HER TEAM YESTERDAY I'M IMPRESSED HOW MUCH DETAIL THERE IS AND HOW READY THEY ARE TO ANSWER OUR MANY QUESTIONS WE TENDS TO ASK. WE WILL ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT VARIANCES AND THINGS LIKE THAT THEY ARE ALWAYS JANUARYY ON THE SPOT OR GET ONE IN 30 SECOND ITS IS IMPRESSIVE. WE MOVE ON. [2.F. Update from the City Council and Management: Financial Position, Major Projects, Operational Issues, Upcoming Dates of Interest and Items of Community Interest. ] ALL RIGHT ITEM 2F. THANKS. UPDATE FROM THE COUNCIL MANAGEMENT FINANCIAL PROJECT UPCOMING DATES AND ITEM COMMUNAL INTEREST. MR. BRITTON. >> THANK YOU, MAYOR FROM THE LIBRARY. READY TO FEEL CONFIDENT AT YOUR NEXT JOB INTERVIEW VISIT THE LIBRARY JOB INTERVIEW SESSIONS FEBRUARY THE 26 AND 20TH TO LEARN STRATEGIES FOR STANDING OUT AND ANSWERING TOUGH QUESTIONS WITH CONFIDENCE. AND MAKING A LASTING IMPRESSION. ADD EXCITING ENRICHMENT TO YOUR CHILD'S EDUCATION WITH AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS. THE PROGRAMS SPARK CURIOSITY IN CHILDREN AGES 5-8 WITH CREATIVE TOPICS LIKE POWER SOURCE ASKS COINS. ESTEEM SQUAD PROGRAM CHALLENGE AGES 9-13 WITH EXPLOSIONS OF BUTT ARE FLITS, RADIOS AND POCKY MON. ELEMENTAL PROGRAMS ARE WEDNESDAYS AT FOUR P.M. AND STEAM SQUAD ON THURSDAY AT 6 P.M. ARE YOU TIRED OF ONE WAY CONVERSATIONS WITH WHERE YOU ARE DOG OR SPOUSE? ENJOY DISCUSSIONS WITH INTERESTING ADULTS LIKE YOU. AT THE LIBRARY'S BOOK CLUBS. ATTENDS EVEN IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK YET. LISTS OF BOOKS AT ROWLETT.COM/BOOKCLUBS. ALSO THERE IS TIME TO ENTERS THE ARTS AND HUMANITY'S ANNUAL WRITING CONTEST TO WIN 150 DOLLARS. ENTRIES DUE FEBRUARY 27. FORMSA AT ROWLETT.COM/WRITING. FROM OUR FIRE DEPARTMENT, HAVE YOU WANTED TO KNOW WHAT IT IS LIKE TO BE A FIREFIGHTER? I'M SURE COUNCIL GIBBS THOUGHT THAT MANY TIMES IF SO NOW MAY BE YOUR OPPORTUNITY. ROWLETT FIRE DEPARTMENT IS HOSTING THE CITIZEN'S FIRE ACADEMY THE EIGHT WEEK COURSE WILL GIVE YOU A VIEW OF THE FIRE DEPARTMENT OPERATIONS WHILE MAKING IT FUN IN THE PROCESS. CLASSES WILL MEET EVER THURSDAY APRIL SECOND AND FIELD DAY ON IS THE MAY 23RD STUDENTS PUT THEIR NEW FOUND SKILLS TO PRACTICE. IF YOU THINK YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKE AND ARE INTERESTED CONTACT THE FIRE ADMINISTRATION 972-412-6230. CLASS SIZES ARE LIMITED SO ACT FAST. FROM OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT, ROWLETT POLICE DEPARTMENT ADVISING RESIDENTSES TO BE AWARE OF A PHONE SCAM TARGETING COMMUTE MEMBERS. SCAMMERS CALLING AND FALSELY CLAIMING THEY VIA WARRANTY FOR ARREST. THE CALLERS DEMAND PAYMENT OVER THE PHONE USING GIFT CARDS TO AVOID ARREST. IT IS AN IMPORTANT REMINDER TO ALL CITIZENS THE POLICE DEPARTMENTS WILL NEVER ASK I TO PAY FOR ARREST WARRANTIES OR FINES OVER THE PHONE USING GIFT CARDS. [00:45:02] IF YOU RECEIVE A CALL LIKE THIS DON'T PROVIDE PERSONAL INFORMATION. DO NOT PURCHASE OR SHARE GIFT CARD NUMBERS AND HANGUP IMMEDIATELY. DON'T BE AFRAID TO HANGUP SCAMMERS. IF YOU ARE UNSURE WHETHER EYE CALL IS LEGITIMATE CONTACT THE ROWLETT POLICE DEPARTMENT. FROM PARKS AND REC FREE EDUCATIONAL SEMINAR NAVIGATING PALLIATIVE AND HOSPICE CARE BY KIM JOHNSON SPECIAL PRESENTED BY THE ROWLETT SENIOR ADVISORY BOARD ON TUESDAY MARCH 10TH AT 1 P.M. AT ROWLETT COMMUNITY CENTER. ALL HOSPICE CARE IS PALLIATIVE NOT ALL POLTIVE CARE IS HOSPICE. UNDERSTANDING IT ALLOWS FAMILIES TO SEEK HELP SOONER. THE SEMINAR IS OPEN TO ALL AGES AND LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED. ALSO JOIN US FOR A FAMILY OUT DOOR CAMP OUT THE ROWLETT COMMUNITY PARK MARCH 21. FAMILIES SET UP TENTS AND ENJOY THE OUT DOORS AND OTHER CAMPING ACTIVITIES DURING DAY. A MEAL WILL BE PROVIDED AND WE HAVE SMORES FOR DESERTS:CAING SET UP BEGINS AT SUN-DOWN WE HOPE YOU COME TO APPRECIATE THE OUT DOORS AND LEARN HOW YOU CAN GO. CAING IN OUR STATE AND NATIONAL PARKS. REGISTRATION IS 10 DOLLARS PER PERSON AND DONE BY WEDNESDAY MARCH 18TH. AND THAT IS IT. >> THANK YOU, MR. BRITTON. MR. REEVES. >> THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. WE GOT PUPPIES TO INTRODUCE YOU TO TONIGHT THE FIRST ONE INTRODUCING,TATOR. A 1-2 YEAR OLD SHEPHERD BONER MAN MIX THIS IS THE DEFINITION OF A VELCRO DOG WILL FOLLOW YOU EVERY WHERE AND LEAN IF NEAR AFFECTION AND ALREADY HOUSE BROKEN. HE DOES NOT JUST SHOW WELL ENEMY A STRESSFUL SHELTER IN A HOME HE WILL SHINE HE IS READY FOR HIS FOREVER HOME IF YOU ARE LOOKING IF ARE A LOYAL FRIEND,TATOR MAY BE YOUR GUY. IF YOU GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE. WOULD YOU CONSIDER IF YOU DON'T WANT TO ADOPT FULL TIME CONSIDER FOSTERING FOR WEEKEND? THIS IS WINTER, WHITE SHEPHERD. HOUSE BROKEN AND CUDLY AND ALSO A VELCRO DOG. SHELTER ARE LIFE IS LOUD AND FOSTERING FOR THE WEEKEND YOU CAN PROVIDE HER WITH A CALM SPACE TO UNWIND. FOSTERING SAVES LIVES TO ADOPT OR FOSTER CONTACT ANIMAL SERVICES 972-412-6219 OR COME BY THE SHELTER 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. TUESDAY- SATURDAY. WE WANT IT THANK THE FAMILY AN AMAZING FEMALE HUGE THANKS GOES THAT FOSTER ZUK O. GAVE HIM A TEMPORARY HOME AND THIS GUY SAYS THIS CUTIE IS CANADA BOUND AND MAKING JOURNEY NORTH WITNESS HIS TWO WEEK NOT ARE STAY WRAPS UP. YOU WITH MAKE A DIFFERENCE IF ADOPTION IS NOT AN OPTION. FOSTERING IS A WAY TO HELP A SHELL ARE DOG IN NEED. >> ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. >> ANY OTHER UPDATES TO [3. Citizens’ Input] PROVIDE? MOVE ON TO 3 CITIZEN'S INPUT. COMMENTS TAKEN FROM THE AUDIENCE ON ANY TOPIC. I HAVE A NUMBER OF SPEAK FORMS IF YOU HAVE NOT HAD ONE YOU WITH GET ONE IN THE BACK OF THE ROOM. FIRST SPEAKER IS MARK. FOLLOWED BY TONI HINTSHAW. MARK YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES. SORRY. MARK ROWLETT TEXAS. COUNCIL AND MR. MAYOR. I'M HERE TO RESPOND TO ALLEGATIONS AGAIN MADE BY MY NEIGHBOR NIDAL MALIK HASAN THE LAST 5 AND A HALF YEARS HE HAS BEEN THREATENING AND HARASSING MY WIFE AND ME. THEY HAVE STOOD ON THE SHARE PROPERTY LINE YELLING, THREATENING AND RECORDING ME WHILE I'M MOWINGING IS NOT NORMAL. THEY HAVE USED BRIGHT LIGHTS TO LIGHT UP MY PROPERTY IN ATTEMPT TO ANOTICE US. WEAPONIZED THE STEAL AGAINST YOU CALLING MORE TIME THAN I CAN COUNT. THEY COMPLAIN ABOUT ONE FARM ANIMAL PICTURE A PIG POSTER IN MY BACKYARD THIS WAS NOT DIRECTED AT THEM THIS IS PART OF A COLLECTION OF DEPICTIONS OF KINDS ALONG WITH A 5 FOOT METAL [00:50:02] ROOSTER IN OUR BACKYARD >> HE TWISTING EVERYTHING TO MAKE IT ABOUT HIM. THESE PICTURES PURPOSE REMOVED TWO WEEKS AGO. THERE IS MORE ON CHRISTMAS DAY 2025. MY NEIGHBOR REACHES OVER FENCE, THET ENS TAKE A PICTURE AND 15 MINUTES LATER I HAVE THE ROWLETT FIRE DEPARTMENT KNOCKING IT MY DOOR. DISRUPTED DIN ARE AND CHRISTMAS. JANUARY 30 OF THIS YEAR TWO NEIGHBOR AND I INSTALLING A CITY REQUESTS RAIN GUTTER ON THE SHED TO HELP MITIGATING THE NEIGHBOR'S WATER COMPLAINTS. 30 MINUTES LATER THEY CAME OUT AND STARTED YELLING AT US AND CALLED THE POLICE DISRUPTING THAT PROJECT. THIS IS AN ATTEMPT TO HAVE MY 20 YEAR PERMITTED SHED TAKEN DOWN. THE SHED DOES NOT AFFECT THEM IN ANY WHICH WAY. THEY NEW THE SHED AND FENCE WERE THERE WHEN THAT HE MOVED IN. THIS BECOME A NARRATIVE FOR RELENTLESS BEHAVIOR. WHY DO WE CHANGE OUR LIFE FOR THEM? HE DOES NOT SEEM TOP WANT IT PAY PEOPLE FOR SERVICES. HE DIDN'T PAY A 30,000 BALANCE FOR RETAINING WALL. THIS WAS TOLD TO ME BY THE CREW INSTALLED THE WALL. CAUSING THE OWNER TO PLACE A LIEN THEIR HOUSE FOR PAYMENT. AUGUST 18TH 2025 HE DID NOT PAY FOR A SURVEY COMPANY FOR A LAND SURVEY DUE TO THE SURVEY SHOWING OUR SHED WAS WITHIN OUR PROPERTY LINES. AGAIN, DOES NOT ALINE WITH HIS NARRATIVE TO REMOVE OUR SHED OR FENCE. WE HAVE WITNESSES THAT CAN, ATESTIFY THIS FOLLOWS A TRENDS WEAPON ALL OF THE COMPLAINTS IF HE IS TRYING TO GET SOMEONE ELSE TO PAY FOR ALL HIS HOME REPAIR OR ISSUES THAT HE DOES NOT GET ENGINEER ANALYSIS DONE BEFORE REMOVING WEIGHT BEAR WALLS FROM HIS HOME DURING REMODELS AND GET INSPECTION. >> THAT WAS 3 MINUTES. I'M DONE. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. >> THANK YOU. >> NEXT SPEAKER IS TONI HENSHAW FOLLOWED BY ALLEN HOG AN. >> TONI HENSHAY I LIVE IN ROWLETT I WILL READ THIS FOR COURTNEY. GOOD EVENING. I'M COURTLY JILLSON HERE TO SPEAK ABOUT HER HUSBAND KILLED SEPTEMBER OF 2023 RIDING HIS SCOOTER ON A ROWLETT CITY ROAD. HIS DEATH WAS CAUSED BY FOUR INCH HEIGHT DIFFERENCE IN FRONT OF HOME DEPOT. SCOOTER HAD TWO INCH TIRES THE FOUR INCH GAP HAS HALF THE HEIGHT OF HIS WHEELS. TEXAS LAW PROSECUTE I HAVEDS IMMUNITY FOR MINOR DEVIATIONS A FOUR INCH DEVASTATE EXCEEDS THRESHOLDS. THE CITY HAS A DUTY TO MAKE SAFE DANGEROUS CONDITIONS WHICH IT HAS KNOWLEDGE. INDUSTRY SAFETY THOSE SIGHTED FROM TEX DOT PAVE AM GUIDELINES THIS EXCEEDING 2 INCH ARE HAZARDS REQUIRING INTERVENTION. CITY CLAIMS IT HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF THIS DEFECT PRIOR TO THE ACCIDENT. THE CITY IS EFFICIENT IN FINDING DEFECTS WHEN IT BENEFITS THE BUDGET. UNDER ROWLETT CODE ENFORCEMENT QUICK TO ISSUE CITATIONS THE RESIDENTS GRASS EXCEEDS 12 INCHES USE DRONES AND AI TO ENFORCE IF YOU CAN USE THAT TO MONITOR LAWNS WHY IN THE FOR THE STREETS. IT IS A STALL BLADE OF GRASS MORE VISIBLE THAN THE CITY'S 4 INCH DEATH TRAP. THE CITY HAS KNOWLEDGE SINCE 2023, YOU KNOW MY HUSBAND DIED THERE YOU KNOW THE HAZZARD EXISTS. AFTER A FATALITY. YOU ARE SIGNALLING THAT YOU DON'T PLAN TO DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT IT HAS BEEN TWO YEARS. AND YOU GUYS HAVE KNOWLEDGE YOU HAD TO HAVE. NOTHING DONE NO CONES OR NO NOTHING. CITY IS HIDEYING BEHIND SOVEREIGN IMMUNITY THE KING DID DO NO WRONG THERE WAS FEE YOU ARE PUBLIC SERVANTS NOT KINGS DENYING AND REFUSING TO REFAIR A KILLER THEED RADIOS YOU ARE TELLING ME THAT A LEGAL TECHNICALITY IS WORTH MORE THAN A LIFE. I ASK WHAT IS THE COST OF A HUMAN LIFE IN ROWLETT THESE DAYS. [00:55:02] WHICH ROADWAY ON STATE HIGHWAY 66. >> CORRECT. >> THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT NEXT SPEAKER IS ALLAN AND PATRICK BANDEL. 'LL ALLEN HOG CITIZEN OF ROWLETT SINCE 1991. AND TONIGHT I WILL SPEAK ABOUT THE PARKS. I'M VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE PARKS. AND WHEN I SEE CHILDREN IN HERE I THINK ABOUT THEIR FUTURE. IT IS NOT ABOUT ME I'M OLD. I WILL NOT BE ON THIS EARTH MUCH LONGER. P ARE NOT FOR ME THEY ARE FOR KIDS. I ENJOY GOING TO THE PARKS. LAST WEEK MY WIFE AND PIWENT. WE WENT TO PECAN GROVE. AND IT IS BEAUTIFUL DAYS WE HAVE BEEN HAVING LATELY. WALKED DOWN SIDEWALK PATH WAY. IT IS GORGEOUS TO SEE THING LIKE THE CHLOE HOUSE. IT LIKE FALLING AAPARTMENT A BIT. IT NEEDS TO BE LOOKED AT. ROTTING BOARDS AROUND IT. BUT -- MY MAIN POINT IS THE PARK ITSELF. IT IS PECAN GROVE. PECAN TREES. WE WALK DOWN PATH AND SEE MORE TREE I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT. BO DARK. WALK DOWN PATH AND SEE HAT BERRY. IN THIS PARK THE PARK IS NOT FOR A REALLY JUST WHAT YOU THINK IT IS NOT FOR THE PEOPLE. THERE ARE BIRDS. THERE ARE POSSUMS, RACCOONS. SNAKES. OTHER CRISTERS, BIRDS THIS MAINLY AND WE GOTA BE CAREFUL ABOUT TAKE DOWN THE TREES. TO SATISFY OUR NEEDS. I SEE DALLAS OUT DOOR RECREATIONAL BIKING ASSOCIATION >> I USED TO GO TO THE TRAILS IN GARLAND WHEN I WAS YOUNGER. I SEE THE TRAIL THEY BUILT HERE THEY DID A FANTASTIC JOB. PUT LOTS OF MONEY INTO PECAN GROVE. I HATE TO SEE ALL THAT TAKEN UP AND THE PATH WAYS THEY DID NOT COST THAT MUCH THEN NOW IF YOU PUT A PATH WAY THROUGH IT WILL COST MILLIONS TO PUT IN A NEW PATH WE HAVE BEEN TRYING TO PUT THEM IN FOR YEARS. SO WALKED FURTHER DOWN, AND I SEE THING LIKE A TOOTH ENTRY. IT IS A TREE THAT THEY USE IN THE PAST TO PUT A PIECE ON TEETH AND IT WOULD USE AS AN ANESTHETIC TO PULL A TOOTH 80 TREE. THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING WAS THE STANDARD JUNIPERS. MY GOSH. TALK ABOUT BEAUTIFUL. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU VETERAN IN PECAN GROVE AND WALKED AROUND IF YOU HAVEN'T YOU NEED TO WALK PECAN GROVE. IT BEAUTIFUL. PEOPLE WERE RIDING ON THE BIKE TRAILS. >> MR. HOG AN, YOU ARE OUT OF TIME. [APPLAUSE]. ALL RIGHT. FOLKS. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE OUR E MAIL SHOOT AN E MAIL WITH THE REST. NEXT IS PATRICK BANDEL AFTER THAT IS DENISE. PATRICK ROWLETT. I COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL TO CONTINUE TO ASK FOR TRANSPARENCY REGARDING THE CITY SCREENING WALLS AND EVERYTHING REGARDING OUR CITY. I'M NOT HERE TO WASTE TIME ON A HOT MIC PRIOR TO LAST MEETING. I WANT OUR COMMUNITY TOP STAY INFORMED AND AWARE OF PROGRESS. WE ARE EAGER IT SEE WORK BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT GROUND PLANS NEED TO BE IN PLACE. UNFORTUNATELY WE DON'T SEE THAT AND FEEL LEFT IN THE DARK. IS THERE A WAY TO KEEP TRACK OF PROGRESS BEHIND THE SCENE TO KNOW WHEN THE SHOVELS COME AND BRICKS LAID. WE ARE LOYAL SENTENCE CITIZENS UNDERSTANDS THINGS TAKE TIME. WE NEED TO SEE PROGRESS IS BEING KNEAD. I WAS TOLD THAT CONSTRUCTION IS SLATED FOR NEWBORN 30 THAT IS FAR AWAY. DON'T TLA THIS OR PUSH THIS BACK WE HAVE BEEN WAITING GOING ON FOUR YEARS NOW. WE WILL SHOW UP TO EACH MEETING AND DEMAND TRANSPARENCY ALWAYS. [01:00:05] SMALL STEPS TURN TO BIG STRIDES AND LONG FOR THE DAY THE PROJECT SEE FRUITION AS I'M SURE YOU LONG FOR DAY BEFORE YOU WITH THE SAME REQUEST. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME AND CONTINUE TO MAKE ROWLETT BEAUTIFUL. I WILL SEE YOU IN TWO WEEKS AND HOPE WE HAVE MORE TRANSPARENCY. >> HOPE YOU WILL STICK ARNOLD FOR ITEM FIVE. NEXT IS DENISE FOLLOWED BY NIDAL MALIK HASAN. HOWLET TEXAS LAST NIGHT THE MINUTES AND VIDEO WAS NOT WORKING. I DON'T KNOW WHY THE MEETING WAS NOT STOP I WILL REITERATE. 6 SUCCESSES 02 WARWICK DRIVE THE INSURANCE IS ILLEGAL IT FAILS TO MEET THE REQUIREMENT OF SECTION 77908. THE CITY CANNOT ISSUE A PERMIT FOR NONE CONFORMING STRUCTURE IF DETRIMENTAL PUBLIC HEALTH, SAFETY OR WELFARE. HOW CAN THIS BE IN COMPLIANCE FOR JANUARY FIRST OF 2024. WHEN THERE WAS A HOLE IN THE ROOF UNTIL APRIL OF 2025. ESTATE ISSUED A PERMIT FINDING NO ADVERSE IMPACT THAT WAS IMPOSSIBLE FROM 23 TO APRIL OF 25 THE STRUCTURE HAD A GAPING HOLE. ANY SAFETY OR ENGINEER CHECK THE BUILDING WAS DECAYING OPEN AIR SHOW WAS NEGLIGENT. YOU CANNOT SIGN OFF ON SAFETY AND DRAINAGE OF A STRUCTURE OPEN TO ELEMENTS FOR 17 WEEKS, AN ADDITION MUST MATCH THE LOOK OF YOUR HOUSE. VINYL FENCE PANELS ARE NOT PER FITTED FOR EXTERIOR WALLS. PLACING A FIRE WALL HAS NOT BEEN TESTED TODAY LIKE A FIREPROOF VEST ON A GAS SOAKED SHIRT IT WILL SPREAD FIRE MY HOUSE THIS IS A FIRE TRAP SETBACKS ARE THERE FOR A REASON. THE 226 SQUARE SLAB AND ENCLOSED STRUCTURE ACTS AS A PHYSICAL DIAGRAM. VIOLATES TEXAS WATER CODE SURFACE WATER TO MY FOUNDATION THE SOIL HEAT SUGGEST NOT A THEORY THE FRAMES ARE SEPARATING FROM MY BRICK AND BRICK ARE CRACKING THE GAPS ARE PARAGRAPH OF AIN'T INVERSE IMPACT THE CITY FINDING OF NO INVERSE PACT UNDER 77908 IS INVALID YOU PRIORITIES NEIGHBOR'S CONVENIENCE OVER INTEL RITY OF MY HOME. PROTECT OUR SAFETY AND OUR PROPERTY RIGHTS YOU HAVE CREATED A HUGE LIABILITY AS THE PREVIOUS MAYOR STATED HE WAS NOT COMFORTABLE CHANGING THIS IS SPOT ZONING. THE BUILDING THEY CREATED A LOOPHOLE. KEPT THE BUILDING UP. YESTERDAY YOU CONTINUED A MEETING WHEN THERE WAS A GLITCH YOU ARE SUPPOSED TO STOP IT. I DON'T UNDERSTAND THAT. >> THANK YOU. YESTERDAY I HAD NO KNOWLEDGE OF FACT THE MEETING WAS NOT BEING BROADCAST WITH AUDIO I DID NOT FIND OUT ABOUT HALFWAY THROUGH THE MEETING I'M NOT GOING TO ALLOW YOU TO RESPOND I'M STATING THAT FOR THE PUBLIC RECORD I CONFIRMED WITH TH SECRETARY THAT ALL MINUTES WILL REFLECT THE PUBLIC COMMENT FROM EVERYONE WHO PARTICIPATED. NEXT SPEAKER IS WHAT TAN AND ALISON FELDEROF. TALKING ABOUT THE FER MITT APPLICANT 6602 WARWICK DRIVE. STRUCTURE SURVIVED AN F4 TORNADO. IT PROVE IT WINDS LOAD STANDARD THIS IS A FACT. NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CONFIRM THAT FOOTWORK 4 TORNADO NEVER REACHED WARWICK DRIVE. THIS IS A CONSIDER FRAUDULENT INFORMATION. AND THE BUILDING CODE THE CITY HAS THE AUTHORITY TO REVOKE IT IMMEDIATELY. BECAUSE THE PERMIT WAS NEVER LEGALLY VALID IT BEGIN WITH. PERMIT WAS ACCESSORY BUILDING, DEVELOPMENT CODE 77-501 FOR [01:05:05] ATTACHED STRUCTURE THIS STRUCTURE IS PHYSICALLY ATTACHED TO THE PRIMARY RESIDENT. IT IS ILLEGAL. IT IS LEGALLY AN ADDITION THE CITY ALLOWED THE WRONG PERMIT TYPE. PERMIT PUB USES THE SUBCOP TRACTOR SUBMIT AN APPLICATION FAILING TO DISCLOSE THAT STRUCTURE IS ATTACHED. FOR -- IF THEY FAIL TO CHECK THE BOXES FOR CONCRETE ELECTRIC AND MECHANICAL. THE BOK WERE LEFT BLANK THE CITY DID NOT PERFORM A LIVE SAFETY INSPECTION. FOUNDATION, ELECTRIC OR MECHANICAL THE GARAGE DOOR. PERMIT ISSUED BASED ON THE FALSE INFORMATION. IS -- CITY POLICY. BECAUSE THIS IS ATTACHED ADDITION SITTING IN PROPERTY LINE WITH 0 SETBACK. IT IS VIOLATED THE 2015 SECTION ERROR 332. FIRE RESISTING CONSTRUCTION. AND FINALLY A 0 FIRE RATING AND IT IS COMBUSTIVE FUEL THAT INTERNAL FIRE WALL IS RELEVANT BECAUSE THE EXTERIOR AND ENVELOPE IS NOT FIRE READY. THIS CREATED A LEGAL FIRE BRIDGE BETWEEN OUR HOMES. I AM DEMANDING THE STRUCTURE BE MOVED BACK TO THE ORIGINAL 5 FOOT SETBACK. REQUIRE FOR RESIDENTIAL STRUCTURE. AND ROWLETT THIS BUFFER EXISTED IF PER MANY REASON THAT THE CITY -- CITY CURRENTLY IGNORE. THANK YOU, SIR. >> NEXT IS ALISON FELD ARE OF AND JUSTIN FELDEROF. >> ALISON ROWLETT TEXAS. GOOD EVENING. TONIGHT YOU RISE NOT AS THE TURTLE KING FROM THE STORIES BY DOCTOR SUES ON A THRONE ON SHELVES LOOKING DOWN AT THE DUMB PESANT TURTLES. IN THAT TALE KING KEPT STACKING TURTLES STRETCHING THIN AND IGNORING THE WOBBLE. WAY UP HIGH HE DECLARED I'M THE RULER FOR ALL THAT I SEE BUT WHAT HE DOES NOT SEE WERE TIRED TURTLES AT THE BOTTOM. DOES NOT SEE BACK BENDING OR STRAIN IN SHELLS OR HEAR THEM WHISPER UNTIL MACK BEST OF YOUR MEMORIED. AND THE WHOLE THING FELL APART. OUR CITY IS BEGINNING TO WOBBLE WE HAVE EMPLOYEE PROBLEM. DEPARTMENTS UNDER STAFFD AND PEOPLE ARE LEAVING. INSTITUTIONAL KNOWLEDGE IS WALKING OUT. THE TURTLES AT THE BOTTOM ARE TIRED. WHEN AND POSITIONS STAY VACCANCE SERVICES SLOW AND MANAGES DON'T MANAGE MORAL DROPPED WHEN LEADERSHIP DOES NOT LYNCH GOOD PEOPLE MOVE ON. WHEN GOOD PEOPLE LEAVE THE STACK GETS SHAKIER. YOU CAN ONLY PILE SO MUCH BEFORE SOMETHING GIVES. DEMAND SO MUCH WITHOUT SUPPORT. YOU CAN IGNORE CULTURE ACCOUNTABILITY FOR SO ALONG THE KING BELIEVE THE THE HEIGHT MEANT STRENGTH BUT IT MEANT INSTABILITY. WE TALK ABOUT OUR GRAND PLAN AND SHINE PROJECTS AND VISION FROM HEIGHT. IF THE DEPARTMENTS ARE FAILING BECAUSE THEY ARE UNDER STAFFED OR NOT MANAGED THAT DOES NOT MATTER IF WE CANNOT ROW TAIN TALENT WE CANNOT EXECUTE. WE CANNOT SERVE RESIDENTS EFFECTIVELY IF. THE PROBLEM IS THE NOT THE TURTLE ITS IS THE KING THIS IS NOT BEING DRAMATIC IT IS BEING HONEST. CITIES 63ED BECAUSE OF THE PEOPLE WHO SHOW UP TO DOT WORK. CREWS ADD ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF AND FIRST RESPONDERS. WHEN THEY FEEL UNMENT SPECIALED AND UNHEARD OR OVER BURDENED THEY LEAVE. AND THEY LEAVE WE FEEL IT. IN BOOK ONE SMALL TURTLE SPOKE UP AND THE TOWER CAME DOWN I'M ASKING TO YOU LOOK DOWN FROM A PLACE OF RESPONSIBILITY ASK HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT RETENTION. ASK WHY DEPARTMENTS ARE STRUGGLING AND WHY OUR TALENT IS LEAVING DEMAND ACCOUNTABILITY AT THE TOP. IN THE END NO ONE WANT TOING THE COUNCIL THAT IGNORED THE SHAKING STACK IT IS TIME FOR A THIRD PARTY AUDIT OF THE DEPARTMENTS IN OUR CITY. THANK YOU. >> ALL RIGHT. NEXT SPEAKER IS JUSTIN FOLLOWED [01:10:08] BY DAN HAT. >> GOOD EVENING I'M JUSTIN AND I LIVE IN ROWLETT. I COULD NOT MAKE THE LAST MEETING BUT WATCHED THE STREAM OVER WEEKEND AND APPRECIATED THE PRESENTATION ON THE TIME LINE OF THE PROJECT AND MUNICIPAL COMPLEX AND HISTORICAL CONTEXT FOR THE CITY'S CURRENT NEEDS. COMMENTS MADE BY OTHER COUNCILMEMBERS WERE TROUBLING. AFTER CITIZENS GAVE COMMENT IN OPPOSITION TO THE PARK THE HARKS GAVE APPEARANCE THEIR INPUT DID NOT MATTER AND MISGUIDED OR DOES NOT HAD UNDERSTAND THE ISSUE. THESEIP TOOS OF COMMENTS ILLUSTRATE LACK OF RESPECT DEMEANING TO PEOPLE WHO TOOK TIME TO GIVE INPUT ON ISSUE THEY CARE ABOUT. THE EPISODE FELT LIKE A PARENT CHASTISING A CHILD. REFERRING TO PLACES PEOPLE CARE ABOUT AND MAIN TAUNT THEIR DIME IS A DUMP OR CITIZEN INPUT ACCOUNT PROSECUTES IS BACKLASH DISRESPECTFUL TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC. A MINORITY IS NOT A BAD THING TO HAVE IN IA COMMUNITY. MOST PEOPLE ARE BUSY WITH WORK AND FAMILY AND LEAVING THEMINGS TIME TO DO RESEARCH RELATED TO GOVERNMENT AND PROJECTS. WITHOUT PEOPLE THAT ARE ABLE TO BRING THE ISSUES TO LIGHT I WAGE ARE MANY WOULD BE UNAWAY AND NOT RECOGNIZED THERE WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TO SHAPE DIRECTION THEIR CITY IS HEADED IN. THE PEOPLE CARE ABOUT THEIR COMMUNITY TO DIG IN THE TOPICS AND RIDICULING THEMMING THEY HAVE A DIFFERENT OPINION IS WRONG. REENFORCING THAT COUNCILMEMBERS DON'T VALUE INPUT FROM CITIZENS. QUESTIONS ABOUT PROJECTS SHOULD NOT GET A NEGATIVE REACTION PEOPLE CHARGED BY PUBLIC TO ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS. THIS IS ALL TO SAY I DON'T APPRECIATE BEING TALKED DOWN TO BY OFFICIALS ELECTED TO REPRESENT NEIL. ALL MEN WERE CREATED EQUAL AND INFORMED PUBLIC WAS FUNDAMENTAL TO THE PROSPERITY. SILV DISCOURSE IS A PART OF THAT THE SYSTEM AND CITIZEN SHO SHOULD NOT BE DISREGARDED SIMPLY BECAUSE OF ASKING QUESTIONS OR HAVING A DIFFERENT OUTLOOK. DAN AND THEN SHELBY COLEMAN. >> DAN, ROWLETT. IN JANUARY 2026 MY WIFE TRACE AND HE I DISCOVERED SOMETHING AREMEMBER LAING ONLINE UTILITY BILL SHOWS WITHIN 14 DRRSZ CHARGEDED OUR CREDIT CARD OUR CHECKING ACCOUNT HAD AN ACH WITH DRAWL OF 261 WHEN I WANT TO THE BUILDING I LEARNED MY CHECKING ACCOUNT HAD BEEN DEBITED 20 SEPARATE TIMES I NEVER FILLED OUT AN AUTHORIZATION FORM WITH THE CITY. WHEN I ASKED TO SEE THE FORM I WAS TOLD IT WAS INCOMPLETE AND NOT FILLED OUT CORRECTLY. THAT MEAN THERE ARE 20 SEPARATE FELONIES COMMITTED BY SOMEONE IN THE ROWLETT WATER DEPARTMENT THE TAKEN WAS 3, 397 DOLLARS. I APPRECIATE THE CITY REIMBURSED US QUICKLY. REIMBURSE AM DOES NOT ANSWER THE QUESTION. HOW AND WHY WAS MY INFORMATION OBTAINED AND WITHOUT AUTHORIZATION? WHO ELSE HAS THIS HAPPENED TO THAT WE MAY NOT BE AWARE OF. I FILED POLICE DEPARTMENT. DETECTIVE INDICATE THIRD DEGREE IS NOT AN ISOLATED CASE THIS POINTS TOA >> LAM ARE ISSUE. INTERNAL CONTROLS AND OVERSIGHT WE CAN'T IGNORE FACTOR EMPLOYEE TURNOVER. THERE HAS BEEN SIGNIFICANT TURNOVER WITHIN THE CITY INCLUDING THE DEPARTMENTS HANDLING SENSITIVE FINANCIAL INFORMATION. THESE ARE POSITIONS OF TRUST AND PARAMOUNT IN OUR CITY. HIGH TURNOVER CREATES INSTABILITY AND WEAKENS ASH COUNTSABILITY. INCREASES RISK. WHY IS THERE SO MUCH TURNOVER? WHAT IS DONE TO STOP IT? HOW CAN CONSISTENTS FEEL CONFIDENT WHEN EMPLOYEES THAT SHOULD BE SAFE GUARDING OUR FINANCIAL INFORMATION. WHEN HIS THE LAST INDEPENDENT AUDIT. I GUESS THIS LAST YEAR BUT NOT CAUGHT. I'M WORRIED ABOUT OUR AUDITOR. WHEN WAS THE LAST FORENSIC REVIEW. TIME TIME FOR AN FORENSIC AUDIT OF ALL WANT DIDS IN THE CITY IF IT HAPPENED US IT IS LIKE LIE HAPPEN TO OTHERS. [01:15:01] IT IS YOUR JOB TO FIX THIS PROBLEM. AND PLEASE, HONOR VOTERS AND IMPROVE PARK AS APPROVEDD AND KEEP PECAN GROVE TRAIL A PARK. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, SIR. >> FOLKS, PLEASE, NEXT IS SHELBY COLEMAN AND BROOKE ALLEN. >> SHELBY COLEMAN ROWLETT. THIS COME FROM A PLACE OF CARE NOT HOSTILITY AS ACCUSED OF BY SOME. MANY OF US ARE HERE TONIGHT DEEPLY INVESTED IN ROWLETT RAISE OUR FAMILIES HERE. BAPTIST BUSINESSES HERE AND SPEND HOUR VOLUNTEERING AND ATTENDING MEETINGS AND SHOWING UP BECAUSE WE BELIEVE IN THE CITY'S POTENTIAL. WHAT HAS BEEN SHOCKING TO ME IS THAT REPEATED CONCERNS OF TURN OFFER UNADDRESS SAID THIRD DEGREE IS NOT AN NEW PUNISHER A PERSONAL ISSUE. STAFF TURNOVER HAS BEEN A CHALLENGE FOR YEAR WITH PRIOR MANAGEMENT. WHICH I SHOWED BY SHOWING 30 MONTHS OF PRIOR I COMPARED THE DATA IT WAS BAD WITH BOTH. BUT WE ROUGHLY LOST 270 EMPLOYEES IS HALF OF THOSE DID NOT MAKE IT A YEAR. THAT LEVEL OF TURNOVER IS NEAR LOW THREE TIMES WORSE THAN WHAT WE HAD SEEN THE NUMBER PRIOR WERE NOT GOOD. AND AS WE REVIEWED OUR FINANCES TONIGHT. MULTIPLE CREDIBLE WORKFORCE STUDIES SHOW THE LOWEST COSTS OF TURNOVER OF THE SCALE IS 26 MILLION DOLLARS. WE CAN BUILD A REALLY GREAT PARK OR CITY HALL WITH THAT MONEY. I DON'T KNOW WHY THOSE FINDINGS WOULD NOT APPLIES TO AN ORGANIZATION LIKE US. WEAVE MUST ACKNOWLEDGE THIS INSTABILITY HAS CONSEQUENCES OUTSIDE OF FINANCES.PWHEN STAFF STALL. PROMISES DON'T GET FULFILLED. WEAVE HEAR WORDS LIKE DUMP. USED TO DESCRIBE THINGS PEOPLE CARE ABOUT DEEPLY. A PARK THAT FAMILY LOVE AND WAITING A BOND PROMISE UPGRADES. COTTIN GIN WITH POTENTIAL DEVELOPMENT REQUIREMENTS THAT MAKE PROGRESS IMPOSSIBLE. THE HISTORIC COIL HOUSE WHEN NOT MAINTAINED ACCOUNT BE DUMPY. A DOWN TAUNT THAT COULD THRIVE AGE BEING INFRASTRUCTURE THAT NEEDS ATTENTION. HERE IS THE TRUTH WITH ALL CHALLENGES THE COMMUNITY SAW THE POTENTIAL OF ROWLETT. PROXIMITY TO DALLAS. LAKE, CHARACTER AND PEOPLE. WE DID NOT SHOW UP BECAUSE THING WERE PERFECT WE SHOWED UP BECAUSE WE BELIEVED ROWLETT ACCOUNT BE CRASE IT TURNS TO PROGRESS AND THE ORGANIZATION IS STABLE IF THE COUNCIL ADDRESSED THE ACCOUNTABLE I BELIEVE WE WOULD SEE IMPROVE AM ACROSS PARKS, DOWNTOWN AND INFRASTRUCTURE. UNTIL THEN THE SAME DUMPS WILL REMAIN NOT BECAUSE COMMUNITY DOES NOT CARE BUT THE SYSTEM SUPPORTING THEM IS NO. FUNCTIONING. AND WITH THE 11 SECONDS I SAY THE NEW TRAIL LOOKED AMAZING. THANK YOU FOR THAT. I WANT TO GET A POSITIVE WORD IN. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, FOLKS. NEXT IS BROOKE ALLEN THEN RHONDA JOHNSON. >> HI I'M BROOKE ALLEN I LIVE IN ROWLETT. I WANT IT SAY THANK YOU TO THE COUNCIL FOR LIN TO RESIDENTS AND VOTING TO LOOK INTO ALTERNATIVES FOR NEEDED CITY BUILDINGS. WAY WOULD LIKE TO TELL YOU A STORY BUT MY EXPERIENCES IN THE PARKS. >> ONE DAY KWHI WAS IN MIDDLE SCHEDULE AT COIL, MY FRIENDS I WERE HANGING ONUT AFTER SCHOOL. THIS WAS 2003 THERE WERE ACTIVE BASEBALL FIELDS AND OFTEN LOCKED UP DURING DAY WE DID WHAT KIDS WHO WERE BORED DID. WE CLIMBED OVER FENCE AND WERE RUNNING ON THE BASES AND WITHIN MY FRIENDS YELLED, RUN! TIDID NOT TAKE A SECOND TO THINK I JUST HEEDED MY FRIEND'S WARNING AND RAN. WHAT MADE MY FRIEND SAW THAT MADE HER YELL, RUN WAS A POLICE VEHICLE DRIVING THROUGH THE PARK AND WHEN SHE AWE MIDDLE SCHOOLER RUNNING AWAY HE GAVE CHASE THE OFFICER CALLED OUR PARENTS I WENT FIRST. LUCKY FOR ME MY MOM HAD BEEN HIS YOUTH LEADER AT CHURCH AND LUCKY FOR MY FRIENDS HE DID NOT BOTHER [01:20:04] CALLING THE REST OF THE PARENT HE TREFTED HER TAKE CARE OF THE PROBLEM. IF YOU PLAYED THE GAME TWO TRUTH AND WILLS A LIE. THAT'S THE STORY I TELL I HAVE RUN FROM THE POLICE BEFORE BUT ONLY THAN ONE. I HAVE REALIZED THE PARK AND OTHERS ARE AT RISK IN ROWLETT THAT STORY TAKEN ON ANOTHER MEANING FOR ME LIKE CROWDS WHO MAKE TLA WE TO MAIN STREET I WAS A KID LOOKING FOR SPECIALING TO DO. AT THE TIME PARK NEXT DOOR DID NOT HAVE MUCH ROOM. WHAT IS THE KIDS WHO IN REGARD OR STREETS HAD A POSITIVE ENGAGING PARK WHERE THEIR PROBLEM WAS FIGURING OUT WHICH ACTIVITY TO DO THE PARK HAS BEEN UNDER UTILIZED AND THE PEOPLE OF THE TOWN MANAGED TO CREATE A SPECIAL PLACE FULL OF CONNECTIONS AND JOY WORTH PROTECTING. TO ME IN THE PARK WE HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMUNICATE TO OUR AT THIS TIMES CITIZENS WE WILL PRIORITIZE THEIR WELL BEING. MY PARK STORY HAS BEEN A SILLY STORY THAT I PULL OUT AT PARTIES BUT I WOULD LIKE IT TO BE A REMINDER KIDNAP KID CAN FALL IN BAD CIRCUMSTANCES WHEN WE DON'T PROVIDE STRUCTURE AND VALUE ETCH OTHER 95 TO GO BENEFIT TO PROTECT, PRESERVE AND PRIORITIZE GREEN SPACES. SPACES BIKE PECAN FWROEF AND THE OTHER GREEN SPACES, THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU, NEXT IS RHONDA JOHNSON AND KATHY KIRK. >> I'M -- I LIVE IN ROWLETT. I WANT TO THANK THE MAYOR AND CITY COUPS FOR PAUSING THE DECISION TO MOVE FORWARD WITH PLACING A MUNICIPAL COMPLEX AT THE PARK TO CONSIDER OTHER ARE LOCATIONS I BELIEVE ROWLETT NEEDS A NEW POLICE DEPARTMENT BUILDING HOWEVER IT PRESENTS PROBLEM. MY DAD SAID YOU CAN'T GET SOMETHING FOR NOTHING. HE MEANT EXPECTING SOMETHING TO BE FREE IS NOT REALISTIC WHEN SOMETHING APPEAR FREE THERE IS ALWAYS A COST. GIVE UP ONE THING TO GAIN ANOTHER. IF THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS PLACED AT THE PARK OFFICERS WOULD FACE LIMITED EASE OF MOVEMENT TO AND FROM THE FACILITY. TRAVELING WEST REQUIRE PASSING STEVEN'S ELEMENTARY WHICH EXPERIENCES HEAVY TRAFFIC. GOING WEST ON LLANO TAKE OFFICER PAST COIL. TRAFFIC LINE LLANO AND SKYLINE. MORNING AND AFTERNOON. ALONG WITH STUDENTS WALKING IN THE AREA. IF OFFICER TRAVEL NORTH TOWARD MAIN STREET THEY COME TO FIRST, METHODIST CHURCH. HEADED EAST TRAFFIC IS BACKED UP BEFORE 7 IN THE MORNING AND AGAIN IN THE AFTERNOON. STUDENTS, PEDESTRIANS AND NEW DRIVERS IN THE AREA. IN OCTOBER 2024, SPENCE ARE A NEIGHBORHOOD RESIDENCE DENIAL EXPRESSED CONCERN UPON ABOUT CONGESTION NEAR ELEMENTARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL AND NOTED ONE LANE OF TRAFFIC CAN GET THROUGH. ASKED A STUDY AND I GREET ONE SHOULD BE CONDUCTED IF THE DECISION TO MAKE FOR PARK LOCATION >> THE LAND AT THE PARK MAY SOUND APPEALING BUT COME AT A COST TO THE POLICE OFFICERS AND THEIR TIME AND RESPONSE. TO OUR CITIZENS WITH AND TERRIBLY LONG ARE RESPONSE TIMES. PLACING AN ANIMAL SHELTER AND CITY HALL AT THE PARK AND ROADS AND PARKING LOTSES HAS A COST, ALSO. PLAN CREDIT COURTS, POND AND TRAILS WE WOULD LOSE MUCH OF PEACEFUL OPEN CHARACTER THAT MAKE A PARK A PLACE FOR FAMILIES TOGETHER AND STUDENTS TO ENJOY AFTER SCHOOL >> 40% WOULD BE LOST SXF THERE HAS BEEN DISCUSSION ABOUT ADDING A LIBRARY TAKE MORE PARK LAND. THE CITIZENS ARE NOT GETTING SOMETHING FOR NOTHING >> USING THE PARK FOR COMMUNAL BUILDINGS HAS A PRICE IT IS NOT FREE. WE SHOULD NOT BOX IN OUR POLICE OFFICERS WITH SURROUND REGULAR TRAFFIC AND SHOULD NOT GIVE UP PARK LAND THE COST IS TOO HIGH. I HEARD ALL THAT CITIZENS HAVE NOT OFFERED ALTERNATIVES HERE IS A FEW. THERE WERE ADDITIONAL FUNDS THAT'S HOW ALL THIS STARTED >> THERE IS LAND WITH THE FUNDS LAND CAN BE PURCHASED. LAND FOR SALE BY CURRENT POLICE DEPARTMENT. THIS COULD BE PURCHASED. >> THANK YOU, MA'AM. NEXT SPEAKER IS KATHY KIRK FOLLOWED BY TRACY HAT. >> KATHY KIRK ROWLETT. [01:25:13] SO, I'M HERE TO TALK ABOUT A COUPLE THING 1 HAS TO DO WITH PUBLIC INPUT. AND HOW IT IS NOT FOLLOWED UP ON. YOU SEEN PEOPLE COME UPON HERE MULTIPLE TIMES TALKING ABOUT THE SAME THING OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND OVER AND NOTHING IS EVER FOLLOWED UP ON. I DON'T KNOW IF Y'ALL ARE TALLING THEM. THERE NEEDS TO BE A TRACKING SYSTEM. ACKNOWLEDGE AM. AT THE MOMENT SAY, SO-AND-SO WILL FOLLOW UP ON THAT. AT LEAST GIVE US SOMETHING. THERE ARE PEOPLE THAT ARE SHOWING UP WE ARE READING PACKETS. WE ARE PAYING ATTENTION IT WA HAD IS GOING ON HERE AND WE ARE NOT GETTING THE SAME RESPECT BACK. I THINK THAT I HAVE SPENT THE LAST SEVERAL MONTHS REVIEWING PACKETS. CAPITOL PLAN, CONTRACTS AND TASK FORCE DISCUSSIONS AND NOTHING IS EVER DONE. I CAN'T EVEN I DON'T KNOW. I JUST WANTED TALK ABOUT OTHER THINGS HERE BUT -- THERE IS TOO MUCH. THAT'S THE PROBLEM. IS THERE IS TOO MUCH. GOING ON WITH CITY UPON CAN'TEEN TRACK ONE THING IT TRACK TO 10 OTHERS THE COIL HOUSE WHAT IS DEAL? THAT IS A HISTORIC HOME. IN ROWLETT THERE IS OVER A MILLION DOLLARS SPENT THERE THE MONEY SPENT ON NATURE TRAIL COULD HAVE RESTORED THE COIL HOUSE. UM TIRED OF PLACES PUT UP WHEN THESE THINGS ARE GOING ON. SCENIC POINT PARK IS ANOTHER. THIS WOULD HAVE COST 200 THOUSAND DOLLARS TO REPAIR. I WATCH A C IP MEET ASKING AND THE CITY MANAGER SAYS IT WILL BE 5 MILLION. HE IS LYING, THAT'S A LIE. PEOPLE NEED TO GET BACK UP DOCUMENTATION ON THE MOP AND HE COST OF THINGS YOU NEED TO SEE WHAT IS GOING ON. YOU ARE TAKING EVERYTHING THAT IS BEGIN TO YOU AT FACE VALUE YOU ARE NOT BACKING YOURSELF OR NOT -- ASKING FOR PROOF. PROOF MATTERS. THANK YOU. >> THANK YOU. NEXT IS TRACY HAT AND CARA SOLICE. HELLO MAYOR AND COUNCIL I'M TR TRACY HAD THE. I'M SPEAK IN OPPOSITION OF 5C. THERE IS AN E RANGE OF MOTION OF TRUST THE CITY NEEDS TO REESTABLISH. POLITICAL INFLUENCE COULD AFFECT WHERE MONEY IS TRANSFERRED WITH FRAUD BY THE WATER DEPARTMENT THIS SHOULD NOT BE APPROVED THAT'S IT. NEXT IS CARA SOLICE. NEVER REMEMBER HOW TO SAY YOUR NAME. THANK YOU. >> CARA SO LIPS ROWLETT TEXAS. FIRST OF ALL GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCILMEMBERS. I WANT TO THANK EACH. YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE TO ROWLETT. LEADERSHIP IS NOT EASY AND PUBLIC CRITICISM OFTEN OUT WEIGHS APPRECIATION. I THANK YOU. WITH THAT SAID I WANT TO MAKE TWO POINTS TONIGHT. PROGRESS VERSUS STAGNATION. AND THE NARRATIVE THAT CITIZENS ARE PAINTING A DARK AND GLOOMY ROWLETT. FIRST TALK ABOUT PROGRESS. PROGRESS SHOULD REFLECT THE WILL OF THE VOTER ASKS AND THE STRENGTH OF THE FOUNDATION OF OUR CITY. VOTERS DID NOT APPROVE A SHINY NEW CITY HALL IF OFFICE SPACE IS NEEDED PRESERVE ROWLETT'S HISTORY HERE KEEP THE EXISTING STRUCTURE AND BUILD BEHIND IT. BUT IN THE WE SEEN A PATTERN. A CITY HALL PROPOSAL WITHOU VOTER APPROVAL. FAILED MAIN STREET EFFORTS. SAPPHIRE BAY COLLAPSE RIFLING GARLAND'S MISSTEP OF THE 80'S [01:30:07] AND SACRIFICING PECAN PARK FOR A PARTNERSHIP GARLAND ALREADY REJECTED THAT IS NOT PROGRESS. TO THOSE CALLING PROGRESS, BE CLEAR, IN WHAT PROGRESS LOOKS LIKE. PROGRESS IS REPAIRED STREETS MAINTAINS ALLY WAYS FUNGING SIDEWALKS. MY NEIGHBOR BEING ABLE WALK SAFELY IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD WITH A WALKER. MANAGER MEAN INVESTING IN OLD ARE PARTS OF ROWLETT NOT NEGLECTING THEMMING SO NOW AREAS CAN SHINE. FIX WHAT IS BROKEN BEFORE ADDING GLITTER. PROGRESS IS ATTRACTING HOME DOWN BUSINESSES THAT STRENGTH EN COMMUNITY NOT REPEATING THE CYCLE OF NAIL SALON, LOOKER STORES IS TRANSIENT APARTMENTS. LET ME BE CLEAR I SUPPORT MOD UPPERIZATION AND I SUPPORT THOUGHTFUL GROWTH. WHAT I DO NOT SUPPORT IS WATCHING PARTS OF THIS CITY DECLINE IN THE NEXT SOUTH GARLAND BECAUSE PRIORITIES WERE MISPLACED. I HEARD IT SAID THIS PROCESS OPEN AND TRANSPARENTS. I WILL OWN THE FACT THAT I DID NOT FOLLOW EVERY STEP AS CLOSE LOW AS I SHOULD HAVE BECAUSE I TRUSTED MY VOTE AND TRUSTED YOU TO GOVERN AT THE HIGHEST STANDARD. SOME OF YOU HAVE NOT MET THAT STANDARD. MY SECOND POINT CONCERNS COMMENTS MADE JANUARY 6 SUGGESTING SOME OF CHARACTERIZE ROWLETT A DARK, BROKEN CITY. SEWAGE RUNS DOWN STREET. PUBLIC SAFETY IN DMREKTED ROADS ARE CLOSED AND PARKS BOARDED UP THIS IS NOT WHAT WE STAY SAYING RAISING CONCERNS ABOUT PRODUCT, MAINTENANCE, LAND USE IS NOTS PAINTING ROWLETT AS BROKEN. IT IS CIVIC -- THANK YOU, MA'AM. >> ALL RIGHT. FOLKS THANK YOU. THAT WAS MY LAST SPEAKER CARD DO WE OTHER REQUESTS WITH. [4. Consent Agenda] WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM 4 CONSENT AGENDA. FOLLOWING ITEMS ACTS UPON IN ONE MOTION A COUNCILMEMBER OR DO WE HAVE ANY ITEMS TO PULL OR ANYONE FROM THE PUBLIC WANT TO PULL AN IDEA. SEEING NONE. READ THOSE IN THE RECORD. WHY 4 ACONSIDER -- SORRY, HOLD ON A SECOND UPON THAT'S ALREADY ON INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION THIS IS ONLY THE ITEMS WITH THE NUMBER FOUR. >> OKAY. >> GO AHEAD >> FOR YOU A ACTION APPROVING MINUTES. 4B CONSIDER ACTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF 4, 750 UNDER THE 2025 STATE HOME LAND SECURITY PROGRAM. >> WE READ THOSE. A MOTION BY MR. SCHUPP. A MOTION AND SECOND ANY DISCUSSION? CALL VOTE. >> ALL RIGHT THAT CARRY UNANIMOUSLY. [5.A. Conduct a Public Hearing regarding an ordinance approving text amendments to Chapter 77-800 “Review and Approval Procedures” of the Rowlett Development Code, by amending Section 77 805.B.7.b regarding review, protest, and approval procedures for zoning cases; Section 77-803.F at Table 8.3-1 regarding Notice Requirements; Section 77-803.F.3, 77-803.F.4, and 77-803.F.5 regarding common notice procedures.] MOVE ON TO INDIVIDUAL CONSIDERATION ITEMS FIRST IS 5 A. CONDUCT A HEARING REGARDING AN ORNS TEXT AMENDMENTS REVIEW AND APPROVAL PROCEDURES OF ROWLETT CODE AMENDING CODE REGARDING REVIEW, PROTEST AND APPROVAL FOR ZONING CASES. SECTION 77-80 STLEE REGARDING NOTICE REQUIREMENTS. SECTION 77, 4 AND 80 STLEE F.5 COMMON NOTICE PROCEDURES >> TAKE IT AWAY. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. I APPRECIATED JEFF READING THE CAPTION IN I DID NOT WANT TO READ IT IT WAS LENGTHY I WILL DISCUSS HOUSE BILL 24 AND IMPLICATIONOS THE DEVELOPMENT CODE. THAT BEING SAIDED I'M GOING TO WALK YOU THROUGH WHAT RICHLCASIONS ARE AND WHAT WE ARE REQUIRED TO DO IN TERMS OF AMENDING THE ROWLETT DEVELOPMENT CODE. THIS BILL WAS ENACTED WITH THE 89TH LEGISLATIVE SESSION AND EFFECTIVE LAST YEAR IN SEPTEMBER OF 2025. SO, LET'S TALK ABOUT THE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS. [01:35:01] HB24. REVISE THE REQUIREMENTS IF ARE ZONING NOTICES AND THE PROTEST FUNCTION ASSOCIATEDED WITH THIS. AND DEFINED AND THE NEW RULES FOR CREATED THE DEFINITION FOR COMPREHENSIVE ZONING CHANGES. INCREASED THE PROTEST THRESH MOLD FROM 20% TO 60%. FOR CHANGES THAT WOULD ALLOW MORE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND HAVE EFFECTIVE ALLOWING ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL USES OVER 35% OF OVER ALL DEVELOPMENT ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF RESIDENTIAL USES. AN ENABLING OR THE 8 FOR MIXED USE. E ELIMINATING THE PROCEDURES FOR COMPREHENSIVE ZENING. WHAT THIS REFERENCES IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE ENTIRE ROWLETT DEVELOPMENT CODE. [INAUDIBLE]. AND ALSO UPDATING NOTICE AND SIGNAGE FOR HEARINGS. I WILL GO THROUGH THESE STEP BY STEP AND HAVE OUR CITY ATTORNEY WHO CAN JUMP IN. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT AS IF YOU RECALL I MEMGZED THE ZOEP CHANGES TALK ABOUT THAT DEFINITION. THIS BILL DEFINES PROPOSED ZONING CHANGE AS CHARGES THAT I WILL READ FROM THE SLIDE IN THIS, WILL HAVE THE EFFECTIVE ALLOWING MORE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT IS APPLIES UNIFORMITY TO EACH PARCEL IN ONE OR MORE ZONING DISTRICT >> ADOPT A NEW ZONING CODE OR MAP THAT APPLIES TO THE ENTIRE CITY. OR ADOPT A ZONING OVER LAY DISTRICT ALLOW MORE RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT AND AN AREA ALONG A MAJOR CORRIDOR OR HIGHWAY OR TRANSIT CORRIDOR. THE REQUIREMENTS CURRENTLY STATES ALL CITY ZONING CHANGES SUBJECT TO PURCHASE. HOWEVER, THE NEW BILL ENACTED IN SEPTEMBER OF 2025 EXEMPTS PETITIONS TO ZONING CHANGES. AS RELATES TO NOTIFICATION FOR REZONING THANK YOU FOR TABLE IT WILL HELP. THE PURPOSE OF THIS TABLE IN FRONT OF YOU IS TO ARTICULATE THE TYPES OF APPLICATIONS OR APPLICATION PROCEDURES. THE REQUIREMENTS FOR MAILED NOTICES WITHIN A 2 HUM HUH FOOT RADIUS AND PUBLISHING DAILY NEWSPAPER. POSTINGS IN TERMS OF A SIGN AND MAIL NOTICES TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS. PROPOSED ZONING AMENDMENT WE TOUCHOD THAT. MAILED NOTICES IN A 200 NOTIFICATION IT IS NOT APPLY BAY NOTICE IN THE NEWSPAPER IS REQUIRED. A SIGN POSTING IS NOT REQUIRED AND I WILL CLOSE THE LOOP AND GO THROUGH THIS TO SUM RAISE. MAILED NOTICESES TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS NOT REQUIRED. AMENDMENTS TO TEXT OF OF THE CODE OTHER THAN PROPOSED ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDMENTS OR SCREEN ZONING AMENDMENTS A MAILED NOTICE IS NOT REQUIRED EITHER. A NEWSPAPER NOTICE IS REQUIRED IN THE DALLAS MORNING NEWS. A SIGN POSTING IS REQUIRED A PHYSICAL SIGN HAS TO BE POSTED AT CITY HALL FOR EXAMPLE STATING THE TIME AND THE REQUEST THE TIME AND LOCATION. A MAIL NOTICE REQUIRED TO GO TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IT IT AFFECTS RESIDENTIAL OR MULTIFAMILY ZONING. CAN YOU TURN YOUR MIC ON. SORRY >> >> I DO HAVE A QUESTION WHEN SHE IS FINISHED. SHOULD I ASK IT NOW. >> ABSOLUTELY. YOU SAID SIGNS POSTED. YOU SAID AT CITY HALL AS AN EXAMPLE. THAT I WILL BE POSTED ON PROPERTY ITSELF? >> NO. I'M GRAD YOU ASKED THAT THIS IS THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE THE OVER ALL ORDINANCE I WILL NOW TOUCH ON ALL OTHER REZONINGS WHEN A SIGN IS POSTED THE SITE OR PROPERTY. >> OKAY. >> THANK YOU. >> THE SIGN THAT IS POSTED IN THE CASE OF A COMPREHENSIVE ZO ZO ZONING AMENDMENT IS THE SAME TYPE AND SIZE. >> YES. FOR KEMP HENCIVE ZONING NO SIGN ARE REQUIRED A TEXT AMENDMENT NOT COMPREHENSIVE THAT REQUIRES A SIGN IN A PUBLIC RIGHT-OF-WAY. AND FOR ANY OTHER ZONING ON THE PROPERTY THAT IS AFFECTED. >> SO LET'S CLOSE OUT THIS TABLE WITH ALL OTHER ZONINGS A MAILED [01:40:13] NOTIFICATION 200 FEET NOTIFICATION. PUBLICATION IN DAILY NEWSPAPER. SIGN POSTING ON THE SUBJECT PROPERTY AND ABSOLUTELY A NOTICE TO THE SCHOOL DISTRICT IF AFFECTS RESIDENTIAL OR MULTIFAMILY ZONING. LET'S DISCUSS THE PROSECUTE TEST PROCEDURE. IT STATES IF THERE IS A PRO TEST BY PROPERTY OWNER IN 200 FOOT RADIUS OF THE PROPERTY 20% OR MORE AND RESPONSES RECEIVED OF 20% OR MORE HEART LAND AREA WITHIN THAT RADIUS A SUPER MAJORITY IS RIVERED BY COUNCIL. THE 3 FOURTH'S VOTE. HOWEVER WITH THE NEW ENACTMENT IT INCREASES THE PROTEST THRESHOLD FROM 20% A SUPER MAJORITY IS REQUIRED. I WILL EXPLAIN THIS 260% WHERE A SUPER MAJORITY IS NOT REQUIRED WITHIN A 200 FOOT ZONING CHANG THAT ALLOWED MORE RESIDENTIAL AND PERMITS 35% INDUSTRIAL USE ON FIRST FLOOR. IF A SINGLE ZONING THAT DOES NOT HAVE AN INCREASE IN RESIDENTIAL OR DOES NOT HAVE COMMERCIAL USES IN IF THE 35% THRESHOLD THEN A SUPER MAJORITY IS REQUIRED OTHERWISE IT IS NOT. WITH 60%. >> ON YOUR PRIOR SLIDE, WITH THE TAKE, YOU MENTIONED THE 200 FOOT RADIUS WE TO A 500 FOOT COURTEOUS RADIUS. WE ARE NOT CHANGING THE NOTIFICATION DISTANCE OR SORT OF COURTESY NOTIFICATION WE DO. ARE WE? >> WE CAN NOTIFY WITHIN A 500 FOOT BECAUSE IT IS NOT LES RESTRICTIVE. IS THAT CODIFIED. >> I BELIEVE IT IS CODIFIED IN THE ROWLETT DEVELOPMENT CODE I'M SPEAKING FROM MY EXPERIENCE I DON'T KNOW IF THEY MADE CHANGES BELIEVE IT IS STILL IN TACT. NO CHANGES IN THIS ORDINANCE TO REMOVE THAT IF IT EXISTS? >> NO NOW THE 500 FOOT COURTESY NOTICE IS IN ORDINANCE. IT HAS NO AFFECT ON THE SUPER MAJORITY. >> THAT IS REFERENCED IN F.3A AND B? >> I BELIEVE SO. >> THANK YOU. >> CONTINUE. >> THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS THE ROWLETT DEVELOPMENT CODE REQUIRES PUBLISHING AN OFFICIAL OF THE HEARING IN A NEWSPAPER BY MAIL AND THE WEBSITE 10 DAY PRIOR TO THE DATE OF THE HEARING. THE HB24 REQUIREMENTS ARE BASICALLY REQUIRE PUBLICATION IN THE DAILY NEWSPAPER ON CITY'S OFFICIAL WEBSITE. NO LATER THAN 15TH DAY BEFORE THE DATE OF PUBLIC HEARING WHICH IS 16 DAYS. THERE IS NO CHANGE TO THE NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS VIA MAIL. >> WE TALKED ABOUT SIGNAGE I WANT TOP ADDRESS THAT, TOO. THIS IS STILL DISCUSSIONING NOTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS THE RDC REQUIREMENTS ARE SIGNS REQUIRED TO BE POSTED 10 DAYS PRIOR TO THE PUBLIC HASHING. EACH MEASURE LES THAN 4 BY 4 THE NEW REQUIREMENT IS THAT YOU HAVE TO HAVE IT IS MANDATORY TO HAVE SIGNAGE THE SIZE OF TWO OF THE BY 4 WE COMPLY WITH THAT REQUIREMENT. AND WHAT YOU SEE ON YOUR SCREEN TO MY LEFT IS THE SIGN THAT WE HAVE. IT IS INSTALLED BY APPLICANT. IT MEETS THE DIMENSIONS WITH THAT LANGUAGE THERE. WITH RESPECT WE DO NOT -- IN PAST, ROWLETT CODE DID NOT REQUIRE NOTIFICATION TO SCHOOL DISTRICTS FOR ZONING CHANGES FOR RESIDENTIAL AND MULL FAMILY SINCE THE INTRODUCTION OF THIS THAT HAS NOW STARTED TAKING PLACE. WHERE IF THERE IS RESIDENTIAL AND MULTIFAMILY ZONING THE DISTRICT IS NOTIFIED. WITHIN THE 10 DAY PERIOD. JURY ROOMS SPECIFIED IF BEE NOTEIFIY THE CAMPUS OR ADMINISTRATION. >> THE ADMINISTRATION. >> THANK YOU. >> THIS ITEM WAS HURD EVERHEARD PIE PLANNING AND ZONING ON JANUARY 13TH HAY RECOMMENDED APPROVAL WITH A 6 TELEVISION 1 [01:45:03] VOTE. WITH THAT COUNCIL, RECOMMENDATIONS ARE BEFORE YOU AND I WILL TRY TO ENTERTAIN QUESTIONS YOU HAVE OR ANSWER. >> COUNCIL WHAT QUESTIONS DO YOU HAVE FOR STAFF THAT WE DID NOT ASK. >> NO QUESTIONS. >> MS. BOWER. WE MUST DO THIS TO COMPLY WITH STATE LAW. >> ABSOLUTELY. THERE IS NO QUESTION. THIS HAS BEEN PUT THROUGH BY OUR STATE LEGISLATORS SIGNED BY OUR STATE GONE GONER WE MUST COMPLY >> YOU ARE CORRECT. >> THANK YOU >> IF WE DIDN'T THEY WOULD STILL APPLIES. SO -- >> ALL RIGHT IF NO QUESTIONS COUNCIL THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING WE WILL OPEN FLOOR FOR PUBLIC HEARING AT 8:45 P.M. AND I DON'T HAVE REQUESTS TO SPEAK FOR THIS ITEM BUT IS THERE ANYONE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK. CLOSE THE HEARING AT 8:45 AND [5.B. Consider action to adopt an ordinance approving text amendments to Chapter 77-800 “Review and Approval Procedures” of the Rowlett Development Code, by amending Section 77-805.B.7.b regarding review, protest, and approval procedures for zoning cases; Section 77-803.F at Table 8.3-1 regarding Notice Requirements; Section 77-803.F.3, 77-803.F.4, and 77-803.F.5 regarding common notice procedures. ] MOVE TO THE ACTION ITEM 5B I WILL NOD READ THAT READS THE 5A IS IS THE TAME ADOPTS AN ORDINANCE APPROVING THE AMENDMENTS. IF ARE THERE NO QUESTIONS I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. >> A MOTION BY MS. BOWERS. >> I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE APPROVE THIS AS READ. >> A SECOND BY MR. BOWERS. >> I SECOND. >> MOTION AND SECOND TO APPROVE AS READ. ANY DISCUSSION? I WILL ADD I DID LOOK UP ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE ON THE ORDINANCE JUST WHILE PRESENTING ABOUT THE NOTICE REQUIREMENT IT IS CODIFIED WE DO THE 500 FOOT COURTESY NOTICE THERE IS A REASON IT SAYS SECTION F.3A AND B. THE 200 FOOT WINDOW B 500 FOOT NOTICE THAT WAS IMPORTANT I WOULD NOT WANT THAT TOP GO,A I WA. I DO FIND THOSE 500 FOOT NOTICES VALUABLE 200 FEET WHEN HUTALK ABOUT ZONE SUGGEST SMALL. COUNCIL, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? >> QUICK, SINCE THIS IS PLAYING WITH STATE LAW WE DON'T HAVE A CHOICE. YOU KNOW I THINK FROM A DISCUSSION PROCEDURAL BASES JUST FOR FUTURE COUNCILS I CAN'TEEN THINK TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING IN AUSTIN WITH STATE LAW IT APPEAR THIS IS AN ATTEMPT BY THE STATE TOP ALLOW MORE DENSE IS. AND OBVIOUSLY, WE HAVE AN ACTIVE ENGAGED COMMUNITY. SO -- I THINK FROM A PROCEDURAL BASIS IT IS SOMETHING FOR COUNCIL'S AS MORE STATE LAWS COME FROM AUSTIN STRIPPING OUR LOCAL CONTROL AND POWER AWAY, I THINK IT IS ESSENTIAL FOR FUTURE COUNCILS TO BE VERY MINDFUL OF HOW WE COMMUNICATE THIS DOWN THE ROAD WITH CHANGE SO THE COMMUNITY CAN BE INVOLVE THE IN THE DECISIONS THAT ARE MADE GOING FORWARD. I WILL SUPPORT THIS WE HAVE NO CHOICE FOR THOSE OF YOU ON COUNCIL IN THE FUTURE IT IS IMPORTANT FOR TO YOU KNOW THAT >> OR THINK THROUGH THAT. >> THANK YOU. COULD NOT AGREE MORE. I MADE IT A POINT WHEN WE HAD CASES WE TALKED ABOUT ISSUES LIKE THIS TO BRING UP THE FACT NOW WITH THE DENSITY INCREASES WE ARE SOMEWHAT BRACKETED OUT UNDER SOME STATE LAWS I THINK CHARGE IS COMING WOO WILL BE LOOPED IN AT SOME POINT. OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE. [5.C. Consider action to adopt a resolution authorizing the transfer of funds between Capital Improvement Projects (CIPs) and authorizing the Mayor, City Manager, or his designee to execute all necessary and related documents.] THAT ITEM CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. NEXT 5C. CONSIDER ACTION TO ADOPT ORDINANCE RZ AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF FUNDS AND MAYOR OR EXECUTE ALL RELATED DOCUMENTS. >> JEFF? >> I'M SORRY. MR. MAYOR COULD WE HAVE A 5 MINUTE RECESS. IT IS 8. . 48 WE IT IS 8. . PEN WE WILL RECONVENE ON ITEM 5 C I WILL READ THAT ONE MORE TIME. CONSIDER ACTION TO ADOPT AUTHORIZING TRANSFER OF FUNDS PROJECTS AND MAYOR, CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE ALL RELATED DOCUMENTS. >> GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL. IT IS PURPOSE OF TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION IS TO FACILITATE ADVANCEMENT INCLUDES INDUSTRY [01:50:03] AND WASTEWATER PROJECTS WITH FUNDING GAPS. I KNOW THERE IS A LENGTHY STAFF REPORT IN YOUR PACKET TO SHOW WHERE WE ARE IN EXISTING PROJECTS THE SHORT FALL AND WHAT STAFF'S RECOMMENDATION IS IN AN EFFORT TO FEEL MOVE THEM FORWARD WITH DESIGN OR CONSTRUCTION OR BID PHASE. IF YOU BEAR WITH ME I WILL GO THROUGH EACH STEP BY STEP SPECIAL PAUSE WE HAVE OUR TEAM. TO ADDRESS TECHNICAL QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. BEAR WITH US AS WE GO THROUGH THIS STEP BISTEP. BY WAY OF BACKGROUND THEY ARE CONSTRUCTION READY OR REACHING MILE STONES I RESERVE THAT BID, DESIGN OR CONSTRUCTION READY. PROJECTS HAVE PROGRESSED OVER YEAR WE HAVE EXPERIENCED FUNDING SHORT FALLS DUE TO PERHAPS UPDATED REQUIREMENTS. MARKET RATE ESCALATION OR UPDATED DESIGN STANDARDS. IS SO -- WE HAVE ASSESSED THE AVAILABLE RESOURCES AND INTERPROGRAM FUND TRANSFER HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED USING C IP AND UTILITY FUNDS ONLY ALL WITHIN THE LINE ITEMS. WE ARE ONLY RECOMMENDING FROM A STAFF PERSPECTIVE UTILIZING EXISTING C IP FUNDS IMPACT FEES AND UTILITY FUNDS. >> SORRY IT PAUSE YOU YOUR FIRST SLIDE. TALK ABOUT EACH ONE OF FUNDS AND WHAT THOSE MEAN. C IP IS THAT ALL BONDED FUNDING >> CORRECT. IMPACT FEE. >> THE C IP FUNDS WE REFERENCE IN IN PRESENTATION, YES, BUT THEY ARE NOT NECESSARY LOW ALL BONDED. IT WOULD DEPENDS ON THE PROJECT. I BELIEVE ALMOST ALL OF THE PROJECTS ARE IN THAT FORMAT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THREE I WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THOSE. IMPACT FEE I'M REFERENCING THE CITY HAS AN ORDINANCE HAS AN IMPACT FEE ORDINANCE IS AND ARTICULATES ROADWAYS IN TWO ZONES ATTRIBUTED TO STREET IMPROVEMENTS AND YOU HAVE WATER AND WASTEWATER FEES THAT ATTRIBUTABLE CITYWIDE. NOT SPLIT TO FACILITATES PRODUCT AND THE U TILL IDFUNDS WHICH ARE REVENUE FUNDS. >> THANK YOU. >> THE FIRST IS TO DISCUSS STREET PROJECTS. THERE ARE SEVEN C IP STREET PROJECTS. AND I WILL WALK YOU THROUGH THOSE. THE MERPIT ROAD, COUNTRY AIR ESTATES PHASE TWO. BUSINESS PARK PHASE ONE AND TWO. RIGHT TURN LANES FOUR AND 5. SOUTH AND LIBERTY ROAD. SO. WE WILL DIVE. TALK ABOUT THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR >> AND BEAR WITH ME WITH THIS PROJECT THIS ONE HAS A LOT OF ELEMENTS OF COMPONENTS ASSOCIATEDED WITH THIS. THIS PROJECT STARTED WITH PROP ONE IN 2015. WE HAVE PROP AIN 21 AND A24 WHERE THERE WAS FUNDING OF MADE AVAILABLE FOR THE MERIT ROAD INNERCONNECTOR PROJECT. THIS PROJECT PIWILL TRY TO USE MY POINTER. THIS IS THE MERMITT ROAD IRPT CONNECTOR COMPONENT. THIS PIECE CONSTRUCTED PIE THE LAKE VIEW BUSINESS DISTRICT THE JACKSON SHAW PROJECT AND THIS IS THE DOM PONENT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT. IT IS 3400 FEET OF 4 LINE ROADWAY. WITH BRIDGE OVER LOOKS AND ENHANCED SIDEWALK. IT IS A MULTIAGENCY PROGRAM. IT IS FEDERALLY FUNDED. STREET TRANSPORTATION, BLOCK GRANT FUNDS AVAILABLE. THERE IS A FUNDING SHORT FALL OF 5.SICK MILLION THIS AVAILABLE IN TERMS OF DEVELOPMENT AND WHAT IS AVAILABLE FOR THIS ROADWAY IS 21.2 MILLION. I IF YOU LIKE I CAN GO THROUGH FULL NUMBER I'M ABRIEFIATING IT. THERE IS 21.TW MILLION AVAILABLE THERE IS A SHORT FALL OF 5.6 MILLION OF 250,000 IS WITH WATER COMPONENT. AND THEN FOR STREETS 5.3 MILLION. [01:55:01] WHEN I TALK ABOUT WATER COMPONENT WE CANNOT LOOK AT STREET IN ISOLATION OF SAYING PAVE AM THERE IS ALWAYS THE INFRASTRUCTURE ASSOCIATED WITH IT WATER LINE OR SEWER LINE OR DRAINAGE. THOSE FUNDS IF YOU HAVE YOUR STREET FUNDS AND YOU HAVE THOSE COMPONENTS THE FUND TRANSFERS THAT TRAVEL IS PROSECUTE POSING IS UTILIZING FROM AN AVAILABLE FUND BALANCE IN THE MERIT INTERCONNECTOR ITSELF THAT PROJECT IS ALREADY FUNDED JUNE OF LAST YEAR THE ESTATE COUNCIL HAD EARMARKED 7 PASSPORT 3 MISSION FOR THE LIBERTY AGREE ROAD IMPROVE AM PROJECT. THAT MONEY OR THAT AMOUNT OR THAT ITEM WAS TRANSFERRED BY COUNCIL PROVE TO THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR. FAST FORWARD WHEN WE LOOK AT OUR PROJECTS READY TO MOVE FORWARD, ANYMORE 3 I MENTIONED EARLIER WE KNEW WE COULD OFF SET AND SEE FORWARD MOBILITY WITH OUR PROJECT TEAING BACK TO 2018 THE RECOMMENDATION FROM STAFF IS TO UTILIZE 5 POINT 3 MILLION FROM THIS COMPONENT FROM THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR LINE ITEM WHICH IS ST2110 AND UTILIZE THE ZONE ONE IMPACT FEES TO COMPENSATE FOR THE STREET SHORT FALL AND UTILIZE THE WASTEWATER AND FUNDING WA2145, WHICH IS A REVENUE BOND FROM EMERGENCY WATER AND SEWER RESERVES OF IN THE AMOUNT OF 250 THOUSAND DOLLARS. TABLE WHAT IS IDENTIFIED IS TALKS ABOUT THE FUNDING THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR PROJECT. FUNDING AVAILABLE AND THE TRANSFER AMOUNT. LEVELLING YOU WITH BALANCE. IT TALKS ABOUT THE IMPACT FEE COMPONENT. THE ROADWAY OR STREET IMPACT SFEE ZONE. FUNDING AVAILABLE IN THAT LINE ITEM AND THE PROPOSED AMOUNT TO BE UTILIZED FOR MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR PROJECT. AND PECULIAR THE EMERGENCY WATER/SEWER REVENUE BONDS. TOO TO COMPENSATE TO INITIATE THE FINANCIALIZED DESIGN AND INITIATE THE CONSTRUCTION OF MERIT ROAD. I WILL PAUSE AND ANSWER QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. WITH THANK YOU. QUESTIONS I HAVE. I REALLY DON'T UNDERSTAND ST2110 IF THIS IS A MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR PROJECT HOW DO WE TRANSFER MONEY PHASE 2 TO THE C IP? SURE. SO WHAT HAPPENED WAS 7.3 MISSION MOVE FRIDAY WITH THE LIBERTY GROVE ROAD TO THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR FUND. AND SO -- BECAUSE WE ARE IN NEED OF THE 5.3 MILLION FROM THAT WE ARE DEDUCTING THAT AIM TO EARMARK AND PEG THAT AND HOLD ON I HAVE A RESPONSE. ARE YOU ABLE TO ADDRESS THIS. SHE IS WELL VERSED WITH THE ACCOUNT ON THIS ONE. SHE CAN EXPLAIN IT MORE. 7.3 MILLION DOLLARS FROM LIBERTY GROVE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT. WE TRANSFERRED THAT TO MERIT ROAD. ONE ISSUE IN THE ACCOUNT. THE REST IS 6.3 MILLION WE ARE TRYING TO ALLOCATE THAT TO VARIOUS PROJECTS. >> CONTINUE. WAS THAT IT. >> IF WE AT SOME POINT COUNCIL MADE THE AUTHORIZATION TO MOVE 7.3 MILLION WHY DO WE HAVE TO MAKE A SUBSEQUENT AUTHORIZATION TO MOVE ANYTHING IF IT IS ALREADY AUTHORIZED IT MOVE? >> OF THE 7.3 MILLION A MILLION HAS BEEN PARTED TO BE USED FOR CURRENT MERIT ROAD WORKS. >> RIGHT. IF WE IF COUNCIL ASH PROVED 7.3 MILLION REGARDLESS HOW MUCH HAS BEEN USED IT SHOULD HAVE BEEN MOVED OVER TO THE PROJECT. >> WHICH IT WAS. IN JUNE OF LAST YEAR THE LIBERTY GROVE PROJECT FUNDING WAS MOVED TO THIS FUND. [02:00:01] >> RIGHT. >> AND SO NOW ASK ME YOUR NEXT QUESTION I'M MAKING SURE I CONNECT THE DOTS. >> I DON'T KNOW IF I KNOW THE QUESTION I WANT TO ASK DOES ANYBODY UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M GETTING AT? I REQUESTS WHAT I'M CONFUSED BY IS THIS WAS ORIGINALLY FUNDING FOR MERIT AND GOT MOVED TO THE LIBERTY GROVE PROJECT. AND THEN GOT MOVED BECOME OR NEVER GOT MOVED BACK? >> 7.3 WAS ORIGINALLY FOR LIBERTY GROVE PROJECT. SO I BELIEVE -- LAST JULY WE DECIDED COUNCIL DECIDED TO MOVE THAT 7.3 FOR MERIT ROAD PROJECTS BECAUSE WE HAVE FUNDING GAPS. >> WE AGREED >> CORRECT. OM THAT POINT TO MOVE 7.3 FROM LIBERTY AGREE TO MERIT ROAD. >> YES. >> WE ONLY USED A MILLION? >> WE USED 1 MILLION ISSUED IT IS IN THE ACCOUNT. THE REST OF THE 6.3 MILLION WE ARE LEAVING 592,000 FOR LIBERTY GROVE. REST OF THE AMOUNT WE -- ARE PROPOSING IT MOVE TO VARIOUS PROJECTS WITH FUNDING GAPS. >> THIS IS WE ARE MOVING FUNDS OUT OF MERIT THIS IS NOT TO CLOSE A GAP. IT IS NOT TO -- MERIT ROAD ALREADY HAS 5.6 MILLION DOLLARS FUNDING GAP. IN ADDITION TO THIS ONE MISSION. 6.3 THEY ARE MOVING. WHY ARE WE MOVING IT. >> DECIDEDED USE THIS. ONE OF THE REASON I BELIEVE WE ARE PROPOSING IS WE CAN USE STREET IMPACT FEE FOR MERIT ROAD AND WE CAN USE THE LONE MONEY FOR OTHER PROJECTS. MOVE TO THE NEXT QUESTION I THINK I UNDERSTAND WHAT IS HAPPENING. >> I DON'T. I'M -- IF WE CAN I WILL GET TO THE SECOND QUESTION AND HOPEFULLY I CAN EXPLAIN. SO TELL ME PRESIDENT STREET IMPACT FEE ZONE ONE IS THAT A PART OF THE CITY THE ENTIRE CITY? >> THE ROADWAY IMPACT FEES IS THE ROADWAY IMPACT FEE SPLIT IN TWO ZONES ONE AND TWO. THIS PROJECT IS LOCATED WITHIN ZONE ONE. HOW LARGE? I DON'T KNOW. I DON'T HAVE THAT ANSWER I CAN PULL UP THEA MAP AND SHOW IT TO YOU FOR ROADWAY IMPACT FEES. >> CAN YOU TURN YOUR MIC ON? THANK YOU. >> IT IS NORTH SHORE DOWN TO 66 >> THE NORTHERN PART OF THE CITY AND ZONE TWO THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE CITY. >> CORRECT. >> SO -- IMPACT FEES ARE FEES THAT ARE PAID BY DEVELOPERS THROUGHOUT THE CITY IN THESE ZONES. I COULD BUILD NEAR WAL-MART 66 AND KEN WOOD AND PAY AN IMPACT PEE TO THE FUND. WHAT WE PROPOSE IS TO REALLOCATE THOSE FUNDS TO THE MERIT ROAD PROJECT AND DOING THAT BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH, WE HAVE ENOUGH IN THE MERIT ROAD PROJECT WE GOT THIS 6.3 MILLIONY WOO ARE BRO POSING TO REALLOCATE TO OTHER PROJECTS. BUM THAT SEEMS WE ARE USING THE STREET IMPACT FEE FUNDING THAT SHOULD BE FOR OTHER PARTS OF THE CITY FOR ONE PROJECT? I ARE CORRECT YOU SEE WE UTILIZED TW FOR OTHER FEES. THE GOAL IS TO BRIDGE THE GAP. WE KNOW THERE IS A FUNDING SHORT FALL FOR MERIT READ INTERCONNECTOR IS AND KNOW THERE ARE NINE OTHER PROJECTS THAT HAVE FUNDING SHORT FALLS. IN TERMS HOW TO WE ADDRESS THE SHORT FALL FOR STREETS THEN WE KNOW WE HAVE ACCUMULATED A FUND IN THE ROADWAY IMPACT FEE ZONE ONE THAT COULD BE COMPENSATED FOR ROADWAY CONSTRUCTION HERE. >> I APPRECIATE THAT. IN THE BULLET POINTS THERE IS A FUNDS SHORT FALL OF 5 MILLION DOLLARS AND TAKING IT OUT OF [02:05:01] MERIT ROAD WHICH IS ENOUGH TO COVER THAT GAP. THE REASON WE DO THAT IS BECAUSE SING THE IMPACT FEE FUN CORRECT? >> THAT'S CORRECT. DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. >> NOT REALLY. >> IT SOUNDS LIKE WHAT THE INTENT OF THIS IS THAT THERE ARE CURRENTLY THE 6.3 MILLION IS RESIDING IN THE MERIT INTERCONNECTOR PROJECT THE PROPOSAL IS TO ONLY USE ABOUT 593,000 OF THAT THE REST REALLOCATED TO OTHER PROJECTS AND SUPPLEMENT THAT AMOUNT WE WILL USE THE STREET IMPACT FEE FROM ZONE ONE. 4.78 MILLION TO SUPPLEMENT THAT. >> I HEARD THOUGH WHEN WE MOVE THE 6 WHATEVER MILLION FROM GROVE TO MERIT I HEARD THAT WAS BEING ALLOCATED TO OTHER PROJECTS. WHAT OTHER PROJECTS. >> SHE WILL GET TO THAT LATER. MR. BOWER. >> WE ARE LOOKING AT ONE OF THE PUZZLE PIECES HERE. GET TO THE REST OF THE PIECES THE PICTURE IS NOT CLEAR WE WILL COME BACK. >> MS. BOWERS? >> THERE IS MONEY IN THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR BOND MONEY CORRECT? >> THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN MONEY IF I UNDERSTAND, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG. MONEY PREVIOUSLY ALLOCATED FOR LIBRARY AGREE AND THE COUNCIL IN JULY MOVED TODAY TO MERIT. SO THAT WAS OUR ACTION THAT MOVED THAT MONEY TO MERIT. >> THIS WAS BOND MONEY OR JUST REGULAR STREET MONEY? >> IT IS BOND MONEY. >> IF WE TAKING MONEY OUT OF THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR TOP DO OTHER PROJECTS, HOW ARE WE GOING TO REFUND THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR WHEN IT WE NEED IT IN 2028? THE IMPACT FEE STREET IMPACT FEES WOULD SUPPLEMENT THAT. >> YES. I MEAN I THINK -- DO YOU WANT TO ANSWER OR ME IT TAKE A STAB. >> LET ME TAKE A STAB. THERE IS CONFUSION. WE HAD A LOT OF CONSERVATIONS IS STAFF AND THIS PRESENTATION IS CONFUSING BECAUSE YOU HAVE THAT. THERE WAS A PROJECT THAT WAS PUT IN THE BONDS ISSUE TO EXTEND IMPROVEMENTS FOR LIBERTY GROVE 7.3 MILLION DOLLARS PROJECT. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT PROJECT A NUMBER OF TIMES HOW THAT WAS OVER SIZED IS LOWER PRIORITY. WE ARE LOOKING AT REUSING THE FUND IN A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT PLACES. THIS ONE WE WESTBOUND THE HIGHEST PRIORITY FOR IMPACT FEES THE MOST APPROPRIATE USE IS FOR MERIT ROAD PROJECT. YOU WILL SEE THE 7.3 IS BEING SPREAD AROUND A BIT AND SEE WHERE IT GOES AS WE MOVE TO THE OTHER PROJECTS. HERE BECAUSE IT IS CONFUSING WE SAY IT HAS BEEN MOVED OVER TO MERIT. I WOULD HAVE A BIT OF DISAGREEMENT WITH THAT. WE ARE PROPOSING TO USE A MILLION OF THAT FUND IN THIS PROJECT. WE ARE PROSECUTE POSING TO USE STREET IMPACT FEES AND WATER FEES TO BALANCE THIS OUT. WE TALK ABOUT THIS AND THE PUBLIC THIS IS BASED ON UPDATED OPINION OF PROXIMATE CAUSE FOR PROJECTS NO GUARANTEE WHEN WE BID IT THIS IS THE NUMBER. I GUARANTEE TELL IN THE BE THIS NUMBER. WE TONIGHT KNOW WHETHER TELL BE HIGHER OR LOWER. WE ARE MAKING SURE WE IDENTIFY APPROPRIATE FUNDS BEFORE WE MOVE IT FORWARD FURTHER IN THE DESIGN PROCESS. >> CORRECT. THANK YOU, I APPRECIATE THAT AND BRINGING BRITAIN HISTORY INTO THE DISCUSSION. BECAUSE THIS PROJECT IS MULTIFACETED. SEVERAL AGENCIES INTERCONNECTEDED IT FROM TEX DOT AND DALLAS COUNTY. ALL THOSE REQUIREMENT ASKS AND DESIGN STANDARDS HAVE CHANGED ALONG THE WAY. SO YES IT SEEMS CONFUSING IN THE NEXT SLIDES IT WILL MAKE MORE SENSE AND COME BACK TO AND YOU WILL UNDERSTAND WHY THE PROPOSED -- REALLOCATION OF FUNDING SHOWS THIS WAY. I APOLOGIZE I PROMISE YOU IT HAS BEEN A BRAIN SCRATCHER HOW DO WE ADVANCE THE PROJECTS WE NEED TO ADVANCED IF WE WAIT WE WILL BE IN A MORE COMPROMISED SITUATION. SO, YOU REIN ON YOU TALKING ABOUT LET ME SEE. THE NEXT PROJECT STREET IS [02:10:06] COUNTRY AIR ESTATES I WILL GO TO THE TABLE BECAUSE THIS WILL MAKE SENSE. WE TALK ABOUT THE MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR THE 7.3 MILLION WE STARTED OFF WITH. AND UTILIZING THOSE FUNDS TO OFF SET THE STREET SHORT FALL 364, 384. AND ALSO LOOKING AT FUTURE PROJECT FOR WATER AND SANITARY NITU ARE COMPONENT 1.1 MILLION DOLLARS. THAT REMAINING BALANCE IS NOT NOW A NET BALANCE IT IT IS REFLECTING THE ORIGINAL. >> RIGHT. >> IT IS REALLY I'M SURE WE WILL SEE THAT WHERE IT IS NOT A NET BALANCE. >> IT IS NOT THE REASON IT IS NOT A NET BALANCE WE WANT TO ARTICULATE WHAT WE ARE USING FROM THAT MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR BUCKET. AND WE CAN COME BACK AND REFLECT THAT IN OUR FUTURE PRESENTATION TO YOU TO SO YOU WHICH THAT NET BALANCE IS. WE DID PASSPORT TO BE BEFORE YOU TONIGHT AND HAVE THIS CONVERSATION. GIVEN SOME OF PROJECTS IF YOU LOOK AT MERIT ROAD INTERCONNECTOR THE PROJECT DATES BACK TO 2015. WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE DECISIONS. SAME WITH COUNTRY AIR ESTATES WE HAVE A SHORT FALL. AND WE KNOW THAN WITH PROP AIF YOU RECALL IN 2021, PROP AI BELIEVE DESIGNED FOR ONE AND TWO APPROVED CONSTRUCTION OF ONE IN IT AND NOW WENT TO THE POINT CONSTRUCTION OF PHASE TWO WHICH IS WHY WE ARE WHERE WE ARE TONIGHT. >> SO. >> MS. BOWERS. SO, FUTURE GO PROJECT. IS THAT FUTURE GENERAL OBLIGATION PROJECT? WHAT IS GO? >> GENERAL OBLIGATION. >> SO ARE -- WE SAYING THAT -- WE. MIC STILL ON? >> SORRY SO -- I'M CONFUSED ABOUT THAT CAN YOU EXPLAIN THAT? >> THAT IS JUST A TITLE THAT WE USE FOR WATER SEWER COMPONENT FOR THE STREET PROJECT. >> THOSE ARE REVENUE BONDS? >> YES. >> BECAUSE THAT IS IN UTILITY THEY ARE REVENUE BONDS NOTS GEOBONDS. >> OKAY. THIS IS WE ARE NOT COUNTS ON A GENERAL BOND OBLIGATION. IT THE TITLE OF THAT ITEM. >> MAYOR, YOU ASKED A QUESTION. I THINK I MIESZ MISSED IT. DID YOU ASK ABOUT THE MERSNIFT ROAD FUNDS BEING THE BALANCE ANSWER IT WAS MORE OF A COMMENT OPEN EACH OF THE SLIDES THAT REMAINING BALANCE IS NOT NET OF THE PRIOR SLIDES IT IS EACH OF THOSE AMOUNTS IN THEIR OPEN BUBBLE. >> GOT YOU. A QUICK QUESTION ON THE PREVIOUS SLIDE. I'M SORRY. I KNOW WE WANT TO GET THROUGH THIS. ON THE IMPACT FEE, IS THAT MONEY WE ALREADY HAVE REALIZED OR WAITING ON DEVELOPER. IT IS REALIZED. JOOF IS THAT ENTIRE BALANCE OF ZONE ONE. >> TO DATE. YES AS OF NOVEMBER THAT IS THAT BALANCE. H NUMBER ONE I THINK THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN A WORK SESSION ITEM. CONTEMPLATED CONSIDERING THIS. YOU APPRECIATE THE INITIATIVE I WANT OUR C IP PROJECTS ATTACKED AS MUCH AS ANYBODY I WANT THEM TO GO AND HAPPEN. BUT I THINK THIS NEEDSES TO BE VERY CLEAR AND TRANSPARENT BASED ON CONVERSATIONS WE HAD AND THIS TO ME WHILE A VERY THOROUGH PRESENTATION NOT A DIG AT YOU IT IS DIFFICULT FOR EVEN US TO UNDERSTAND AND LIVE AND BREATHE THIS STUFF I IMAGINE WHAT WILL PUBLIC THINKS IF THEY SEE THIS IT IS DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND THE GRAVITY OF WHAT WE TALK ABOUT MOVE MILLIONS OF DOLLARS TWP BETWEEN PROTECTS WE WOULD LOVE TO COME BACK AND TAKE IN COMMENTARY TO SIMPLIFY IT MORE. AND I APPRECIATE YOU SAYING -- WE WERE WANT THE PROJECTS TO MOVE FORWARD IT MAKE SENSE TO COMPLETELY CLEARLY ARTICULATE IN A WORK SESSION AND POP THAT IN IN A SUBSEQUENT BEYOND. THANK YOU FOR THAT INPUT. [02:15:02] >> THE LAST COMMENT I WILL MAKE YOU ARE ACCEPTING FEEDBACK THAT IS IMPORTANT. IS THE EMERGENCY WATER AND SEWER RESERVE. I WOULD CONTEMPLATE WHETHER THAT IS AN APPROPRIATE USE OF THE FUNDS IF WE IDENTIFIED THEM EMERGENCY FUNDS TO PULL THEM OUT AND USE THEM FOR A CAPITOL PROJECT OF THIS NATURE IS THAT A GOOD USE OF FUNDS. THAT IS A QUESTION I HAVE I WOULD ASK STAFF TO REFLECT ON AND PROVIDE FEEDBACK AND IMPACT FEES I WENT THROUGH ORDINANCE AND COULD NOT DETERMINE OUR ORDINANCE WHETHER THEY SPECIFIED THE INTENT OF AN IMPACT FEE, TO ME, IN MY MIND THE IMPACT FEE HAS AN ENTENT OF SUPPORTING THE STREETS INFRASTRUCTURE IMMEDIATELY ADJACENT TO DEVELOPMENTS. IT WILL NOT ALWAYS WORK OUT THAT WAY. I DON'T SEE THAT PURPOSE OF IT IS TO SUPPLEMENT A CAPITOL PROJECT MUCH LIKE EMERGENCY WATER AND SEWER RESERVE THAT IS NOT INTENT OF OF THAT FUND. IF THE IMPACT FEE IS USED IN THAT WAY, CERTAINLY NEED COUNCIL'S DUE CONSIDERATION THAT WE ARE MAKING A DECISION NOT ABOUT THIS ONE PROJECT THAT IMPACT FEES USED IN THIS WAY GOING FORWARD. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT IS WHAT THE INFENT OF AN IMPACT FEE IS. I WOULDMENT WHEN HI THINK OF AN IMPACT FEE AND I THINK OF NEIGHBORHOODS BUSINESSES NORTH OF 66. HOMESTEAD PAID A LARGE IMPACT FEE OR MAY BE IT WAS WAIVED. THERE MIGHT BE FEE PAID NORTH OF HIGHWAY 66 I WOULD WANT TO SIGH ROADWAYS ADJACENT IS HAVE THOSE UPGRADED A PART OF OF THAT IMPACT FEE. I KNOW IT WILL NOT ALWAYS BE A ONE FOR ONE WITH THE FEE OR REPLACING A ROADWAY THAT WOULD SUPPLEMENT OUR FUTURE INVESTMENT IN THE AREAS. >> I WOULD NOT AGREE. IMPACT FEES CAN BE USED FOR THAT AND THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE USED FOR. YOU LOOK AT THAT COMPONENT OR SECTOR ROWLETT ONLY HAS TWO SECTORS. WE CAN GO BACK AND REEVALUATE IS AND COME BACK WITH THE SCENARIO AND SAY OPTION A THIS OR THIS OR WE WOULD LOOK AT THEN WHAT ARE WE TAKING ABOUT IN TIMES OF PROJECT MOBILITY. >> I THINK THAT WOULD BE HELPFUL. >> BEING00. >> BELIEVE ME PIWANT THE PROJECTS TO MOVE LIKE TODAY. THE LIST OF SEVEN ROADWAY PROJECTS YOU IDENTIFIED I WANT THOSE MOVING THERE ARE SO MUCH VALUE TOADDED. COUNTRY AIR ESTATES PHASE TWO. THE BUSINESS PARK OVER WEST OF ROWLETT ROAD. TERRIBLE CONDITION I WANT THIS - TO HAPPEN BUT NOT AT THE EXPENSE OF MAKING THIS A TRANSPARENT PROCESS. >> HUNDRED PERCENT I KNOW WE WILL COME FORWARD WITH A WORK SESSION BEAR WITH US IT WILL BE A LONG PRESENTATION BUT LIKE TO GO EVERY PROJECT AND FROM THERE WE CAN DISCERN OUR NEXT STEPS. >> THANK YOU. >> COUNCIL WITH THAT I WOULD ASK FOR A MOTION TO POSTPONE THIS ITEM IF SOMEONE IS WILLING. MR. BRITTON. >> YES, THANK YOU, I MOVE WE POSTPONE THIS AND PICK THIS BACK UP IN A WORK SESSION. >> MOTION BY MR. BRITTON. >> I SECOND. >> MOTION AND SECOND, DISCUSSION. >> JUST TO STAFF, WOULD BE HELPFUL MOVING ACOUNTIES IF THEY WAY TO PUT THAT IN A SPREADSHEET WE CAN HAVE TO LOOK. I THINK THAT WILL HELP ME. I DON'T KNOW IF WILL HELP YOU TO SEE IT WILL BE BETTER THAN BULLET POINTS. THANK YOU. >> HAD YOU SUGGEST SPREADSHEETS YOU TALKING MY LANGUAGE >> >> THE OTHER TWO QUESTIONS I WAS GOING TO HAVE. WERE WHAT ARE OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. THIS WAS IN THE PACKET, IT SAID WE WERE TAKING MONEY FROM OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE RIM PROVEMENTS I WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE IMPROVEMENTS WERE AND I ALSO THERE WAS SOMETHING ABOUT STAFF TIME WAS NOT I KNOW. >> COUNTED. >> YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT ABSOLUTELY. AND SO I NEED AN EXPLANATION. CEAR EXPLANATION. WE WILL THAT >> APOLOGIZE. >> THIS NOT A SHOT AT STAFF AND THIS AN APOLOGY IS NOT [02:20:02] WARRANTIESED YOU ARE OPERATING THE BEST DIRECTION MAKE PROJECTS HAPPEN YOU BRING A PROPOSAL THAT SAYS HERE IS AN OPTION TO MAKE IT HAPPEN AND I CAN UNDERSTAND WHY THAT I MIGHT BE FRUSTRATING ON YOUR PART THIS IS A LEARNING EXPERIENCE. WOULD LOVE TO SEE THIS AS A WORK SESSION I THINK THAT IS WHERE WE CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION. >> WE LOOK FORWARD TO MEETING YOU IN THE WORK SESSION AND GOING THROUGH IT ALL. >> ONE MORE COMMENT. MAKE SURE THAT THERE WERE PARTNERS WITH KOG AND MAKE SURE THEY ARE ALL IN THE LOOP AND KNOW WE ARE MOVING MONEY AND HAVE CONVERSATIONS WITH THEM TO MAKE SURE WE ARE DOING THE RIGHT THING AND THE NOT PUNISHED WHEN IT COME BACK AND BE FUNDING IS NOT THERE AND THEY ARE READY TO GO. >> NOTED WE ALREADY ADDRESSED THAT. >> THANK YOU. >> ANY OTHER COMMENTS THE MOTION TO POSTPONE THE ITEM TO A WORK SESSION A MOTION AND SECOND. >> NO OTHER DISCUSSION, CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE. >> MAYOR, SORRY. >> IT IS AN ACTION ITEM IT REALLY -- WOULD BE POSTPONEED ANOTHER REGULAR MEETING YOU CAN HAVE A SEPARATE ITEM FOR DISCUSSION AT A WORK SESSION >> >> OKAY. SO FAR -- MR. BRITTON POSTPONE TOW A FUTURE REGULAR MEETING. PERIOD. >> I MOVE THAT WE POSTPONE THIS ITEM TO AN ANOTHER REGULAR MEETING. THAT IS AN AMENDED MOTION WE HAVE A -- SECOND. >> SECOND AMENDED MOTION. >> AN AMENDED MOTION ON THE FLOOR BY MR. BRITTON AND SECOND BY GIBBS. CAN YOU HIT YOUR MOTION MAKE MOTION BUTTON. >> I'M SORRY. >> AND THERE WE GO. WE HAVE A MOTION TO POSTPONE TO A FUTURE MEETING. OTHER DISCUSSION? NOW CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE. >> THAT WERE ITEM CARRIES UNANIMOUSLY. LET'S GO AHEAD AND CALL FOR A FUTURE WORK SESSION ITEM FOR THE ITEM IF YOU READ THAT IN THE RECORD. >> >> OKAY. MAYOR I LIKE TO ASK THAT THIS ITEM IN TERMS OF OUR PROJECTS EXPLANATION MERIT AND OTHERS BE SCHEDULED AS SOON AS POSSIBLE FOR ANOTHER WORK SESSION >> >> A SECOND. >> I SECOND. >> HAVE A FUTURE AGENDA ITEM AND SECOND THAT WRAPS UP 5 C. THANK FOR YOUR FORBEARANCE 5B [5.D. Consider action to adopt a resolution authorizing the purchase of two (2) 2026 Ford F550 Gasoline Type I Horton Ambulances from Professional Ambulance, LLC, a division of Southwest Emergency & Rescue Vehicle Sales (SERVS) and the authorized Horton dealer for Texas, through a Sourcewell cooperative purchasing contract, for a price not to exceed $822,092.00; authorizing the City Manager or his designee to execute all necessary documents to effectuate said purchase; and providing an effective date. ] PURCHASE OF 2F50 HORTON AMBULANCES. DIVISION OF SOUTHWEST EMERGENCY AND VEHICLE SAILS AND THE DEALER THROUGH TEXES A CONTRACT FOR PRICE NOT TO EXCEED 822, 092 AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE DOCUMENTS FOR PURCHASE AND PROVIDE AN EFFECTIVE DATE AND IT IS OUR OVER CHIEF TIM. >> ALL RIGHT. SO -- HOPEFULLY THIS IS EASIER FOR ME TO GET THROUGH THAN THE LAST ONE. AGAIN, THANK YOU MAYOR AND COUNCIL FOR HAVING ME. I HAVE A QUICK PRESENTATION WITH GENERAL INFORMATION ABOUT THE ITEM A LOT WAS IN THE STAFF REPORT. >> SO -- I WILL ANY THROUGH AND IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER. THE ITEM BEFORE YOU FOR PURCHASE OF TWO, 2026 FORD HORTON AMBULANCES THEY ARE PURCHASED THROUGH PROFESSIONAL AMBULANCE. THERE YOUA I CO-OP PURCHASE CONTRACT 822, 092. GIVE YOU BACK GROUND BY PURCHASING THE AMBULANCES THROUGH HORTON AMBULANCE ALLOWS US TO CONTINUE A RELATIONSHIP WE HAVE WITH HORTON AMBULANCE UPON THIS IMPORTANT BECAUSE IT MAINTAINS THE STANDARDIZATION OF FLEET WITHIN OUR DEPARTMENT. IF YOU LOOKED AT OUR AMBULANCES THEY ARE ALL SET UP THE SAME. THEY ARE LAID OUT THE SAME THAT IS CRITICAL BECAUSE IT BREEDS FAMILIARITY YOU KNOW WHERE THINGS ARE IN THE HEAT OF THE MOMENT IN THE AMBULANCE WHEN SECONDS COUNTS THE PURCHASE OF THE MEDIC UNITS ALINEUPS WITH THE CITY AND THE ROWLETT FIRE DEPARTMENT REPLACE AM UPON CYCLE FOR THE AMBULANCE UNITS. WE ARE ON A SIX YEAR REPLACE AM CYCLE. THIS 6 YEAR CYCLE IS FRONTLINED WHEN WE TRANSFER TO RESERVE IS AND BY DOING THIS IT ALLOWS US TO MAXIMIZE THE FRONTLINE USAGE AND MAINTAINING RESERVE CAPACITY WE TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE UNIT IN [02:25:01] A NONPRIMARY WAY. THESE TWO UNITS ARE DIRECT REPLACEMENTS FOR MED PICK TWO AND THREE. THEY WERE DELIVERED LATE 2020 AND SERVICED IN EARLY JANUARY OF 2021. THE PLAN WHEN TWO UNITS GO IN SERVICE TRANSITION THE AGING UNITS TO RESERVE STATUS LIKE I MENTIONED BEFORE TAKE ADVANTAGE THEM THE REMAINDER OF THE USABLE LIFE THAT I HAVE. CURRENT DELIVER SEJULY OF 2027. THAT IS AN ESTIMATE AT THIS POINT WE REALIZE LIKE EVERYTHING ELSE, EMERGENCY VEHICLE MANUFACTURER ARE PLAGUED BY SUPPLY CHAIN ISSUES AND MANUFACTURING DELAYS. THE FUNDING REPLACEMENT TIME LINES FOR THE VEHICLES WERE ESTABLISHED PART OF THE CITY'S OVER ALL DEBT STRATEGY IS FUNDING PLAN THAT HAS BEEN IN DISCUSSION. SO, THE ACTION ITEM SHOULD YOU CHOOSE TO APPROVE IS RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING PURCHASE OF THE TWO 2026 FORD 550 AMBULANCES. FROM PROFESSIONAL AMBULANCE. THROUGH A SOURCE CO-OP PURCHASE CONTRACT 822, 092 I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. >> THANK YOU, CHIEF. ARE THERE DO WE HAVE EQUIPMENT STAGED OR PURCHASED FOR STATION FIVE? >> 4 AMBULANCES? NOT A CONCERN AMBULANCE THE PROGRAM TO GO IN WITH STATION FIVE WHEN IT OPENS. A LOT OF THAT DETERMINED BY CALL VOLUME AND A NUMBER OF OTHER FACTOR WE CONSIDER IN THAT. IT WILL GO IN SERVICE WITH AN ENGINE THERE. >> GOT IT. OKAY. COUNCIL QUESTIONS? >> MR. GIBBS? I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION IT WAS GOOD AND IT SPEAK VOLUME WHEN YOU HAVE AN AMBULANCE WHERE EVERYTHING IS IN THE SAME PLACE YOU ALWAYS REACHED WHEN THE HITS THE FAN I WILL SAY AND EVERYTHING IS GOING AND YOU ARE TRIG TO DO YOUR STUFF AND YOU MUSCLE MEMORY COME TO PLAY IF IT IS NOT THERE WHEN SECONDS COUNT COULD BE A DISASTER I'M GLAD YOU HAVE THAT AMBULANCE HORTON I THINK IT IS A GOODS AMBULANCE AND SEEN IT DOING GOOD JOB AND SAVING FOLKS. THANK YOU. >> OTHER QUESTIONS? I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. NOBODIMENTS TO MOTION TO APPROVE? JURY MOTION BY MS. BOWERS. SECOND BY STATE YOUR MOTION IF YOU WOULD. >> I MOVE WE ACCEPT THIS AS READS. >> MOTION TO APPROVE AND SECOND BY MR. BOWERS. >> SECOND. MOTION AND SECOND, ANY DISCUSSION? CHIEF. I EXPECT THIS MIGHT HAVE YOUR LAST PRESENTATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE AND THANK YOU FOR ALL THE WO, AND ALL THE YEARS AND EVERYTHING THAT I DID NOT SAY EARLIER AT THE PODIUM RECOGNIZING YOU. WE APPRECIATE YOU AND YOUR LEADERSHIP. >> THANK YOU VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. [APPLAUSE]. CALL THE VOTE, PLEASE. ALL RIGHT THAT ARE CARRIES UMMEE 5E ADOPTRESS LUGZ AGREEMENT IF [5.E. Consider action to adopt a resolution authorizing a Professional Services Agreement for the design of a screening wall for Lake Bend Estates subdivision with DCCM Infrastructure, Inc., for compensation in the amount not to exceed $128,400; authorizing the City Manager or his designee to execute the Agreement and all necessary and related documents; and providing an effective date.] SAY SCREENING LAW WITH DC C INFRASTRUCTURE INC. FOR COMPENSATION IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED 128, 400 THURSDAYING THE MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT AND DOCUMENTS AND PROVIDING AN EFFECTIVE DATE. >> I DO MY BEST. BETTER FOR THEM WITH ME BACK HERE. PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PER LAKE BEND ESTATES. GOT THE SCOPE, SCHEDULE, COST SUMMARY. IS TALK ABOUT THE PROPOSAL FROM THE ENGINEERING FURTHERMORE I DID GET A CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATE I WILL GO OVER THAT AND DIFFERENCE WITH THAT AND WHAT WE WILL LOOK AT AS A FINAL DESIGN AND DESIGN DIRECTION. ASK YOU FOR INPUT BEFORE MAIC A DECISION ON THE FINAL ITEM THE DCM PROPOSAL. SO, WE ARE LOOKING AT A FIRM AS WE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE THIS IS BRINKLY BARFIELD HAVE A STRONG [02:30:08] QUALIFICATIONS, DOING SCREEN WALLS FOR THE COMMUNITIES IN THE AREA. >> THEY BEGIN US A PROPOSAL TO DO ALL OF THE DESIGN W FOR THIS. THIS INCLUDES GEO TECH. IT IS 1800 FEET. WITH POTENTIAL CONSTRUCTION DATE BEING TOWARD THE END JUNE. WE WILL GO THROUGH THAT IN DETAIL. SO DATA COLLECTION THEY WILL DO W TO VERIFY THAT SURVEY WORK. AND ALSO GEO TECHNICAL, YOU KNOW THE REASON WHY THE CURRENT FENCE IS FAILING OUR EARTH MOVES. WE WANT IT MAKE SURE WE DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PREVENT THAT IN THE FUTURE. >> THESE OTHER STANDARDS OR THE PROCESS FOR THAT DESIGN. START WITH THE DEMOLITION. GO THROUGH DESIGN. AND STANDARDS AND THE PROPOSAL HERE IS TO START WITH PLANO AND DEVELOP OUR STANDARDS FOR OUR COMMUNITY BASED ON FEEDBACK AND THE CONDITIONS WE FIND OUT THERE. ONE. ADVANTAGES WE HAVE WE HAVE AN ENGINEERING FIRM THAT IS EXPERIENCED THAT CAN BRING LEARNING FROM OTHER ORGANIZATIONS TO US. SO ONE OF THE PIECES HERE THAT MITIGATES RISK HAS A COST IS A SUE. THAT'S A NEW TERM. INCLUDES THREE TIME IF WE HAVE A MARKING AND WE ARE CLOSE TO INFRASTRUCTURE, WE WOULD BORE DOWN AND VACUUM OUT AND NOT HIT ANYTHING CRITICAL THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS. CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT IS INCLUDED IN THIS. THEY HELP US WITH THE DESIGN SPECIFICATIONS AND MOVE THROUGH THAT AND DO ADDITIONAL SITE VISITS AND HAVE SOME CITIZENS ANSWER QUESTION DURING CONSTRUCTION PHASE AS WELL. >> CAN I ASK YOU TO GO BACK? THE SUBSURFACE GOES TO 10 FEET BORING DOWN TON 20 ARE THERE NO UTILITIES BETWEEN 10 AND 20 FEET? HARD TO BELIEVE. >> WE HAVE RICHARD ENGINEER I GET THIS WRONG YOU JUMP UP WITH I DON'T THINK WE TEND IT SEE A GAS LINE DEEPER THAN 20 IS THAT THE ISSUE? >> YES , SIR, THANK YOU. STATE YOUR NAME AND -- GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL, STAFF I'M RICHARD. I LIVE IN MURPHY. DONE WITH DCMM FOR 30 YEAR. TO YOUR QUESTION THE BORE OTHERS THE PURPOSE OF OF THAT IS TO DETERMINE WHERE THE DEPTH OF BED ROBEING AND SOIL CHARACTERISTIC WITH OUR ENGINEERS DESIGN THE FOUNDATIONS COP CREE PIER THIS IS ENGINEERING LEVEL AIN THIS INSTANCE POTHOLES IS VACUUM WITH A PROVIDER TO LOOK. THIS WILL BE USED IF IN OUR PRILIMNARY ANALYSIS IF THERE ARE GAS LINES IN IT IS AREA. LEGALLY, IF A CONTRACTOR COMINGS COME IN AND EXCAVATING 18 TO 24 >> THEY USE VAP UM INCREASES THE COST OF THE CONSTRUCTION KEY WE WANT TO GIVE THE CONTACTORS AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE TO GET THE BEST BIDS TO GET THE BEST PRICE POSSIBLE DURING CONSTRUCTION. THAT HELPS. WE DON'T EXPECT TO FIND GAS LINE DEEP ARE THAN 10 FEET. I WAS THINKING SEWER LINES BUT IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU ARE FOCUSED ON GAS. >> CORRECT. LEVEL C AND D BASED ON RECORD DRAWINGS AND SURVEY INFORMATION WE KNOW WHERE THE SEWER LINE ARE AND WATER LINES. >> QUICK QUESTION. SO KWHAP IS THE ARE THE PIERS GOING TO BE DOWN TO BED ROCK? >> THE DESIGN GOES DOWN TOW BED ROCK. >> OKAY. GOOD. THANK YOU. YOU ARE WELCOME TO HAVE A SEAT. I'M AVAILABLE. >> THANK YOU. LET'S NOT INCLUDE IT IS WOULD KNOW LANDSCAPE AND IRRIGATION DESIGN IF WANT LAN SCAPING. LIGHTING DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION STORM WATER, THAT IS REQUIRED. I'M NOT SURE THAT WOULD BE REQUIRED IN THIS CASE IF NOT IT WOULD NOT BE INCLUDED IN THEIR SCOPE OF WORK. [02:35:03] THIS IS HOW IT BREAKS OUT YOU GOT THE DIFFERENT STEPS IN THE PROCESS WE HAVE SURVEY WORK. THAT CONSTRUCTION FACE AND GEOTECHNICAL. PROBABLE COST. AND YOU THINK YOU WILL SEE THIS IS CONSERVATIVE. THAT'S WHEN WE WANT IT TO BE. NOT DIFFERENTS FROM WHAT WE SHOWED YOU DURING THE PROCESS DOING ASSESSMENT. WE DID GO OUT THIS IS THE TIME LINE HERE NOTICE TO PROCEED AFTER TONIGHT IF YOU APPROVE AND LOOK AT JUNE 30 THE DATE TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION. I DID GO OUT AND SEEK QUOTES. WE WENT OUT TO THREE DIFFERENT BRICK CONTRACTOR. HEY THAT YOU CHARGE GIVE US A PROPOSAL TO REPLACE THEM FENCE. THIS IS A FIRM THAT WILL NOT FAR FROM HERE THAT CAME OUT ASK GAVE US A QUOTE. THEY SOMEBODY THAT DCMM HAS BEEN IN COP TACT WITH AND HAD CONVERSATIONS ON DIFFERENT ITEMS. I THINK THIS FENCE IS NOT DIFFERENTS FROM WHAT IS SPECIFIED. THERE ARE DIFFERENCES IN DESIGN WE RECOMMEND. THIS HAS A GAP BETWEEN BOTTOM OF THE FENCE AND THE FOUNDATION IT IS STANDARD AND LEAD TO PREMATURE FAILURE >> THAT MAY BE SOMETHING TO LOOK AT DIFFERENTLY. WE HAVE A COST TO SUBMIT HERE THAT WILL NOT REFLECT THAT DESIGN THAT WE WOULD MOVE FORWARD WITH IN THIS CASE. PROBABLY WOULD NOT. THIS IS CLDZ INCLUDED IN THE QUOTE. AN EIGHT INCH BEAM. YOU KNOW THEY IDENTIFIED THE COLUMNS UPON PANELS. THIS IS WE TALKED BODY A SINGLE WIDTH BRICK CONSTRUCTION. NOT INCLUDED ENGINEERING. WHAT WE WERE TALKING BURGLAR TONIGHT. U TILLITY LOCATING AND ANY CHANGE ORDERS. IF THEY WENT FATHER THAN DEPTH THEY IDENTIFIED. HERE IS THE QUOTE. SO IT IS SIGNIFICANTLY LES LESS WHEN YOU HAVE FOR AN ENGINEER YOU HOPE THEY ARE CONSERVATIVE AND THEY HAVE BEEN. THIS HAS A ONE YEAR WARRANTY NOT WHEN WE ARE LOOKING FOR LONG-TERM. WE ARE LOOKING FOR A FENCE THAT HAS A LONGER ONE THAN A YEAR >> THAT IS WHERE WE ARE FOR DESIGN AND PIWANTED TO GIVE YOU THAT INFORMATION AS FAR AS WHAT A QUOTE MIGHT LOOK LIKE. >> YOU MENTIONED YOU GOT A FEW WAS THAT COMPARABLE TO THE OTHERS THAT WERE RECEIVED. >> WE ASKED FOR THREE AND GOT ONE. >> I SEE. >> OKAY. LET'S PAUSE THERE BEFORE WE GET TO COLOR. AND TALK ABOUT THE FINANCIAL PIECE OF THIS. >> WHAT WE ARE YOU ARE PROPOSING TONIGHT UNDER THIS ITEM IS THE DESIGN PIECE OF THIS EQUATION. THE DESIGN PIECE IS 128, 400 THE ENGINEER PROVIDED A COST ESTIMATE FOR THE ENTIRE THING. ADDITIONAL COST OF 1.4 MILLION? IN TOTAL TELL IS 1. 5 SOMETHING. THIS OTHER CONTRACTOR HAS SUGGESTED A COST OF 500,000 THAT IT IS NOT INCLUDE ENGINEERING. ARE THERE INSTANCES A WALL CONSTRUCTED WITHOUT ENGINEERING WOULD HE DO THE W WE SAY HERE IS THE WALL WE WANT TO REPLACE OR DO THEY SEEK OUT THEIR ENGINEERS WHAT ARE THE STEPS WHEN CONTRACTOR IS ENGAGED DIRECTLY. OVER 20 THOUSAND DOLLARS WE HAVE TO HAVE AN ENGINEY AND SUPERVISOR THE CONSTRUCTION. IT IS REQUIRED. CERTAINLY WE COULD TELL THAT CONTRACTOR GO FIND YOUR OWN ENGINEER. WE ARE NOT IN CONTROL OF THE QUALITY THAT W THEY ARE. IT IS A DIFFERENT RELATIONSHIP. THAT COST WOULD BE FLOW THROUGH CONTRACT. THE PURCHASE OF THE QUOTE TO NOT GO OVER NOD TO EXCEED QUOTE >> THE IDEA IS WE HEARD CONCERN ABOUT THE TIMING. AND EXPENSE. RELATED TO GOING THROUGH THE PROFESSIONAL DESIGN PROCESS. WE WANT TO TEST THAT. [02:40:01] SO WE SAID, OKAY WHAT IF WE DID NOT GO AND SAID, BUILD US A FENCE LIKE A DEVELOP ARE MIGHT. WE COULD CONTRAST THE DEFENSES BETWEEN THE TWO APPROACHES. WE DID GET A PROPOSAL THAT WAS COST EFFECTIVE BUT DID NOT HAD INCLUDE THE SAME SUBSURFACE INVESTIGATION AND DESIGN PROCESS THAT IS PROPOSED. AND YOU GET A YEAR WARRANTY. IF YOU CALLED THEM TOMORROW AND IF THEY SAID IT TELL COST 500 THOUSAND DOLLARS YOU UNDERSTAND THERE IS A DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THAT PROCESS AND CERTAINLY IF PUWANT US TO HEAD THAT DIRECTION WE CAN. WE WANTED MAKE SURE YOU HAVE KNOWLEDGE. DIFFERENCES WHAT IS RMDZED AS A DESIGN BID BUILD PROCESS OPPOSED TO A CONSTRUCTION FIRM PURCHASE. THEY WOULDVILLE TO PUT ENGINEERING NOTHING AND GET TWO MORE BIDS YOU HAVE TO HAVE THREE. THE DIFFERENCE IS THAT THE QUALITY OF THE PREP W IS DIFFERENT. AND THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE WALL ARE DIFFERENT. IS THERE ANY WAY TO ESCALATE THE TIME LINE ON CONSTRUCTION. JUNE IS A LONG WAY OFF. THAT IS A QUESTION FOR YOU, SIR. COULD I SPEAK TO ABOUT THE DIFFERENCE INSPECT COST. I WILL ANSWER YOUR QUESTION FIRST. I TRIED TIE TOAS CONSERVATIVE TO GO AS QUICKLY AS I CAN ON THE CONSTRUCTION SCHEDULE. WHEN I TELL YOU I WILL GET SOMETHING DONE IMALTHOUGH A MAN OF MY WORD AND WORK TO HIT THAT I'M CONFIDENT WE CAN HIT THAT THE JUNE 30. THAT REQUIRED RAP RID EXECUTION OF THE COP TRACK ONCE APPROVED THE CONTRACTOR GETTING BONDS THAT IS OUT OF MY CONTROL. THIS IS A WEISTIC TIME FRAME TELL TAKE A MONTH TO DO THE SURVEY AND THE TESTING TO GIVE YOU A FOR OUR -- DESIGNERS AND ENGINEERS TO DESIGN THIS FOR YOU UMP THE 90% PLANS I'M GETTING DONE WITHIN TWO MONTHS OF NOTICE TO PROCEED AND I MONTH IS SURVEY AND GEOTECHNICAL WORK. I, WE STRIFE TO MEET THE SCHEDULE OR EXCEED OR BEAT IT IS A REALISTIC SCHEDULE NOW. THE COST DIFFERENCES WITH THE CONTRACTOR PROPOSAL AND MY ESTIMATE OF PROBABLE CONDUCTION COST THERE ARE FACTORS WHICH WERE MENTIONED. THIS IS WE ARE USING STANDARDS CITY OF PLANO MODIFIED TO RICHARDSON AND ROWLETT AS WELL. THE CONTRACTOR IS TALKING ABOUT 8 FOOD FOUNDATIONS VERSUS DEEPER. OUR COLUMNS ABOVE GROUND ARE WIDE ARE FOR THE DETAIL. PIERS ARE WIDE ARE AS WELL. AND IN THIS PROPOSAL YOU SEE THIS IS NOT WHAT THE WALL WOULD YOU HAVE A CONCRETE CAP STONE. THAT WAS ON THE PLANO STANDARDS YOU WILL GOT THAT. THE NICE THING ABOUT THIS HI THINK THAT THE GOT INVOLVED COMMUNITY READY IT GET THIS GOING THEY SEE PLANS ALONG WAY PROVIDE INPUT AS WELL. OTHER THINGINGS THAT WE INCLUDED IN THE COST ESTIMATE THAT WERE NOT IN THE CONTRACTOR'S ESTIMATE IS THERE ARE ENTRY SIGNS. IF YOU REUSE THE EXISTING CAP STONE SIGN THEY FALL APART. THEY WILL NOT LOOK LIKE WHAT YOU WANT IF YOU REUSE THEM I HAVE ESTIMATE TO HAVING THOSE REMADE. I GOT 100 THOUSAND DOLLARS CONTINGENCY. THIS WILL GET YOU DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHAT THE CONTRACTOR IS QUOTING AND WHAT I AM UPON QUOTING I LIKE TO GET A QUOTE YOU CAN COUNT ON. FOR BILLIONING PURPOSES AND HOPEFULLY THE BID COME OUT LES UPON THIS WOULD IF YOU CHOSE TO GO WITH US AND WE HELP WITH THE BIDDING PROCESS I WOULD IMAGINE THIS CONTRACTOR WILL BID THE W WITH OTHER CONTRACTORS AS WELL. [02:45:01] >> WOEN COST AND TIME NEED IS THAT THERE ARE EASEMENTS THAT WILL NEED TO BE ACQUIRED. WE ARE, WORKING ON SOME INSTANCES PRIVATE PROPERTY. WE WILL HAVE TO HAVE A LEGAL DESCRIPTION NEGOTIATIONS TO PROPERTY OWNERS. THAT WILL TAKE US TIME. REGARDLESS OF THE PATH WE TAKE. WHY TO THAT POINT WE ARE PLANNING ON PUTTING THE WALL BACK WHERE IT IS THE SURVEY WILL IDENTIFY WHERE THE RIGHT-OF-WAY LINES ARE, IF THERE ARE EASE AMS WE DON'T HAVE CREATING NEW EASEMENT DOCUMENTS. IF THAT IS NECESSARY WE GOT A SURVEYOR THAT CAN WORK ON THAT. >> SOMETHING WE HANDLE IN HOUSE OR -- WE USUALLY CONTRACT THAT OUT. THANKS ARE IF THIS INFORMATION FOR AN ENGINEERED DESIGNED WALL COMPARED TO A COLONEL TRACTOR PUT ONE UP FOR 466 THOUSAND DOLLARS WHAT IS THE LIFE CYCLE FOR A WALL THAT GOES DEEPER AND MORE STUDIED ON THE SOIL. >> GOOD QUESTION. I BELIEVE ANOTHER COUNCIL MEETING PRESENTED TWO TYPE OF WALLS. ONE SINGLE WIDE BRICK WALL ON FOUNDATIONS. ANOTHER WAS THE LONG SPAN PRECAST PANEL YOU HELPED WRITE THE SPECIFICATIONS FOR THE CITY OF MOSQUITE THE CITY ENGINEERMENTED A 50 YEAR LIFE SPAN. WE DID REALLY GREAT TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS. A WALL LIKE THIS I'M NONE AN EXERT I SAY THEY ARE USED IN THE STANDARDS IN OTHER COMMUNITIES WITH THE FOUNDATIONS GOING DEEP TO THE BED ROCK WE ARE GUARDING AGAINST WIND LEDS AND THEN AND THERE THESE WALLS WILL HAVE A VOID BOX UNDER THE GREAT BEAM THAT RESISTED SOIL MOVEMENT AS WELL. I WOULD BE HESITANT TO HOW LONG DEPENDS ON CONSTRUCTION. BALLPARK. 25 YEARS. Y'ALL DON'T BUILD YOU DESIGN. >> CORRECT. >> PART OF THE COP TRACT DO YOU HELP US CHOOSE WHAT CONTRACTOR CAN DELIVER PRODUCT Y'ALL DESIGNED. >> GO THROUGH A BIDDING PROCESS >> WHAT WE DO AS I'M NOT SURE IF I HAVE IT IF I DON'T WE TYPICALLY ASK FOR CONTRACTOR REFRENCES AND CALL DIFFERENT MUNICIPALITIES. THICK OUT FINANCIAL STANDING AS WELL. AN CHECK THREE REFERENCES SIMILAR PROJECTS BEFORE WE HELP THE CITY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION ON THAT. >> DEPUTY CITY MANAGER BOWER. MENTIONED A YEAR WARRANTY THE STRAIGHT CONTRACTOR QUOTE IS THERE AN EXTENDED WANDER THAT AWE CONTRACTOR WOULD AGREE TO. I ASSUME HAVE YOU A MAINTENANCE BOND FOR TWO YEARS IS THE STANDARD. >> WITHOUT HAVING FULL TIME INSPECTION WHICH YOU DON'T WANT PAY FOR I CAN'T SPEAK TO THE W THAT CONTRACTOR DONE TWO YEAR MAINTENANCE BOND IS STANDARD. >> THANKS. YOU MENTIONED EASE WANTS WE ACQUIRE DO YOU EXPECT A TYPE DELAY CONSTRUCTION. OR ANYTHING WITH THAT AS IT GOES THROUGH THAT. >> I HAVE TO GIVE WITH YOU LAWYER ANSWER, DEPENDS. >> WHEN WE GET THE SURVEY IN WE KNOW WHERE THEY ARE. >> THANK YOU >> MAY BE INFORMATION WALL CONSTRUCTION. DRIVE AROUND TOWN MOST COMMON CAUSE OF WALL FAILURE ASIDE FROM SHIFTING BASES. IS WHERE WE HAVE THE BRICK SEPARATED YOU KNOW THEY ARE UP ABOUT A BRICK WIDTH UP. AND THAT IS WHERE WHEN I SEE WALLS FAIL OVER AND OVER. THAT'S WHERE IT OCCURRED. WHY WOULD WE DO THAT SINCE IT SEEMS TO BE A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM. WE GO WITH EYE SOLID BASE WITH DRAINAGE HOLES IS THAT A SIGNIFICANT COST INCREASE OR A DESIGN REASON WHY WE WOULD NOT DO THAT. [02:50:01] IS THAT A MORE ROBUST SYSTEM THAN UP STEAL LENTILS I'M NOT SURE. I CAN SPEAK TO MY PREFERENCE IS GO TO THE GRAY BEAM. ONE AESTHETICS AND TWO A RESIDENTIAL PROPERTY YOU DON'T CARE FOR THE GRAPES AS FAR AS ANIMALS AND SMALL CHILDREN. I LIKE THE LOOK GOING ALL THE ISSUE UNDER THE WALL YOU ARE GE- RIGHT BRICKS ARE LEFT OUT FOR DRAINAGE AM >> YOU MIGHT, I DON'T KNOW. KEEP THAT IN MIND AS YOU DOT DESIGN, IT IS SO SYSTEMIC I AHEAD TO INVEST MILLION DOLLARS ON A WALL THAT HAS THAT PROBLEM >> STANDARDS WE PROPOSE HAVE IT GOING TO THE GROUND. >> THERE CAN- >> WHERE ARING QUEANY OTHER QUESTIONS AT THIS POINT UPON LET'S MOVE ON TO CAN WE GO BACK TO THE PIE CHART YOU HAD THAT TALK THE. YES. THANK YOU. SO WITH THIS H BUILT INTO THIS YOU MENTIONED THERE ARE THING LIKE A SIDEWALK REPAIR AND LANDSCAPING REWHATEVER. PUTTING IT BACK. GRASS AND SOIL AND THING LIKE THAT. THAT IS INCLUDED IN THIS ESTIMATE. AND THIS IS AN ESTIMATE YOU SAY THAT YOU CAN PRET REMUCH PUT A PIN IN A CONTRACTOR CHARGE US THIS AMOUNT FOR THE ENGINEERING SPECIFICATION. WHAT IS THIS AMOUNT IN THIS IS BASED OFF CONSTRUCTION COST ESTIMATE. IT IS BASED WE HAVE DONE SUCCESSFUL SCREENING FOR CITY IT ISES. IN RICHARDSON AWE SIMILAR WALL IT IS MY BEST GUESS IN THIS PRELIMINARY POINT IN TIME OF WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT IT TO COST. AS WE KNOW SEEN ON PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS PRICE ESCALATIONS -- I CAN'T SAY. WE ARE GOOD AT COST ESTIMATING AND WE ARE LIKE YOU KNOW NOT THE LOWEST OR HIGH ED BIDDER WE ARE IN BETWEEN. THIS INCLUDE SAYS THINGS THAT PROBABLY WILL NOT BE USED. I IMAGINE THAT HAD THE COST WOULD COME IN LOWER >> >> IF WE COULD COUNCIL I WILL ASK FOR A RECESS I WOULD LOVE A COPY OF THAT DOCUMENT THE INCLUDED TABLE YOU HAVE INCLUDED IN THE OUR PACKETS CUT OFF ON THE RIGHT SIDE WE DON'T SEE AMOUNTS I ASK SECRETARY TO MAKE COPIES SO WE HAVE ONE WE WILL CALL A 5E. I ASKED FOR COPIES OF DOCUMENTS INCLUDED IN THE PACKET AND CUT OFF. OVER HAS A COUP THE REASON I WANTED TO SEE THIS IT HELPS EXPLAIN WHAT IS ON THE CHART IT DOES DETAIL WHERE THE COSTS ARE ESTIMATED TO COME FROM THE WALL ITSELF AT 525 LINEAR FOOT IS 971, 250. TWO THIRDS OF THIS ESTIMATE ON THE SCREEN HERE THE REMAINDER OF TELEVISION INCLUDING 100,000 CONTINGENCY IS INCLUDED. EVERYTHING GREEN WHAT ARE THOSE LIKE CONTING'SES OR ESTIMATES? THOSE ARE ITEMS KEY DONEESES WITH IT IS CONTRACTORS ESTIMATE AND MINE. WHERE GOT IT THE TOTAL OF THOSE APPEAR TO BE ABOUT 50, 70.IT IS MINE. WHERE GOT IT THE TOTAL OF THOSE APPEAR TO BE ABOUT 50, 70.S CON MINE. WHERE GOT IT THE TOTAL OF THOSE APPEAR TO BE ABOUT 50, 70. I GOT MONEY IN THERE THE FIVE PERCENT OF CONSTRUCTION COSTS. >> THAT DOES HELP. ADD CONTEXT TO THE CONVERSATION. THANK YOU. ANY QUESTIONS ON THE FINANCIAL PIECE BEFORE DESIGN PIECE? LITE MOVE TO THE DESIGN OPTIONS. >> THIS IS NOT OVERLY COMPLEX. CERTAINLY THERE ARE LOTS OF [02:55:09] COLORS OF BRICK AND THE FACT IF YOU PICK A THEME THERE IS A LOT OF VARIATION IN BRICK COLOR OVER TIME. THERE IS BUT YOU NEED TO PICK A THEME BEIGE, WHITE, OR RED. THAT I CAUTION WHERE YOU GO HERE YOU ARE SETTING A PRECEDENT. IF WE WANT A UNIFORMED LOOK THROUGHOUT THE COMMUNITY. >> I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU THE FEEDBACK WE I HAVE SEEN FROM THIS NEIGHBORHOOD NOT THAT THIS NEIGHBORHOOD SHOULD GOVERN A THEME THAT COVERS THE CITY ALSO THE DESIGN CLOUT OTHER IS A BEIGE OR WHITE IN THAT REALM. EGG SHELL OR CLOUD WHATEVER THE COOR OF THE YEAR IS. A SORT OF OFF WHITE OR WHITE COLOR BEIGISH. FEEDBACK THAT? >> I AGREE. >> SOUNDS GOOD I THINK IT IS FUNNY WHEN YOU LOOK AT CERTAIN COLORS YOU CAN SEE ERA IT WAS FROM. SOMETHING LIKES 80S OR 90'S. WE CAN'T LOOK TO 2040 AND SAY WHAT WILL LOOK FRESH THEN. I THINK FOR THE STANDARDS BEIGE AND WHITE IS THE FEEDBACK RECEIVED SO FAR. CERTAINLY THAT SEEMS LIKE IT WOULD BE PRETTY BENIGN AND GOOD LONG-TERM. >> I SPOKE TO THE RESIDENTS OF LAKE BEND AND AS A GROUP THEY HAVE DISCUSSED IS AND PREFERENCE IS THE WHITE. THE WHITER, LIGHTER COLOR. AGAIN I THINK WE NEED TO CONSCIOUS WE ARE SETTING THE THEME AND IF THAT IS WE GET THE FIRST AND THAT'S WHAT WE WILL GO I'M FINE WITH IT. KWEMOI HAVE A WE FWRT EXPERT IN THE ROOM. WHEN IS COME TO THE CLEANLINESS OF A BEIGE OR WHITE WALL IT IS PRONE TO DISCOLORATION FROM RAIN, CAN YOU THAT YOU CAN ABOUT WHAT SORT OF MAINTENANCE SCHEDULE OR OBLIGATION THERE MIGHT BE IT KEEP IT LOOKING WHITISH. AMOUNT NOT VIRSZED OTHER THAN DESIGN OR CONSTRUCTION I IMAGINE TO YOUR POINT A LIGHT ARE WALL EVEN INVENTORYING SPECIAL ASSESSING THE WALLS ON VEETS THE LIGHT ARE TONE SHOW MORE STAINING UPON WITH REGULAR POWER WASHING AND STAYING AHEAD WILL BE NONE ISSUE. YOU WILL HAVE THAT WHATEVER WALL BUT MORE NOTICEABLE ON A LIGHT ARE WALL. AREA THE CITY ASSUMES OWNERSHIP WALLS IT WOULD BE IMPORTANT WORK WITH NEIGHBOR AND AND NEIGHBOR INITIATE THIS THEIR OWN TO ENSURE THERE IS MAINTENANCE THAT IS HAPPENING WITHIN NEIGHBORHOOD. WE TALKED PERIOD DIFFERENT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS THAT ARE HOA BUT VOLUNTARY ASSOCIATIONS THAT HEADLINE BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR THEM TOP BAND TOGETHER. I KNOW HAVE IN LAKE BEND LANDSCAPING AND THING REPAIRED THAT MAY BE AN OPPORTUNITY TO COMMIT TO THAT. >> IF WE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DESIGN THIS FOR THE CITY WE WILL MAKE SURE WE WOULD SPECIFY THE COLOR SCHEMES THIS THE COMMUNITY IS BEING LOOING FOR AND REQUIRE CONTRACT WEROR TO SHOW A MOCK BOARD PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION SO PEOPLE SEE IT BEFORE PURCHASED AND CONSTRUCTED. >> COUNCIL, OTHER THOUGHTS ON THE COLOR. >> NOT THE COLOR BUT YOU BROUGHT UP A POINT ON MAINTENANCE. THINK AGAIN FOR FUTURE CONSIDERATION, FOR LIFE CYCLE IS 25 YEARS, NEEDS TO BE FORECASTED IN THE IMPROVE AM PROGRAMS GOING FORWARD FOR THE CITY. >> YEA. I THINK THAT IS A VALID POINT. REASON THAT SCREENING WALLLESS PART OF THE IMPROVEMENT OVER TIME. UNTIL THIS LOG JAM. OTHER THOUGHTS? WE HAVE AN ACTION ITEM THAT IS CONSIDER ACTION TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AN AGREEMENT WITH DCCM INFRASTRUCTURE NOT TO EXCEED 128,000 FOR DESIGN AND ENGINEERING NOT CONSTRUCTION. AGAIN THAT WOULD GO OUT TO BID AND IN THE PACKET THERE IS A TIME LINE OF HOW THAT WOULD WORK. AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU HAVE THAT OR NOT THERE IS A MONTH BUILT IN FOR BID PROCESS TO BID [03:00:03] ON THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE WALL. AND TIME LINE SHARED AS WELL. SO I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION UNLESS THERE ARE OTHER QUESTIONS. MOTION BY MR. SCHUPP. >> I MOVE WE ACCEPT PROPOSAL AS PRESENTED. >> MOTION BY MR. SCHUPP AND SECOND BY GIBBS. MOTION AND A SECOND TO APPROVE THE ITEM AS PRESENTED. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. TO THE LAKE BENTED FOLKS I WOULD ASK FOR A BIT MORE PATIENCE I REAL HIEZ EVERIZE THIS EXTENDS THE TIME LINE IT HAS BEEN SHARED BY DCCM IS FAIR BEGIN ALL UNDULATIONS WE ABOUT THROUGH TO ACCEPT. BID AND WORK ON THE WALL. WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT IS A LONG-TERM ASSET A 25 YEAR ASSET TO YOUR POINT MR. REEVES THAT IS WORTH THE WAIT WHEN IT COME TO THIS RATHER THAN US POTENTIALLY APPROVING SOMETHING THAT MAY LAST 5OR 10 YEARS AND IN THE SEATS AGAIN CURSING OUR NAMES. HOPE THAT DOES NOT HAPPEN. >> COUNCIL OTHER COMMENTS? >> CALL A VOTE, PLEASE. >> THAT CARRY UNANIMOUSLY. [5.F. Consider action to adopt a resolution supporting proposed revisions to the Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART) Board governance structure.] ALL RIGHT NEXT 5F. ACTION TO ADOPT ORDINANCE SUPPORTING REVISIONS TO THE RAPID TRANSIT GOVERNORS STRUCTURE. IF YOU HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO LOOK AT THIS IN THE PACKET I WILL GIVE YOU A RUN DOWN OF HOW THINGS HAVE BEEN GOING WITH DART. AS YOU MAY OR MAY NOT KNOW THERE HAVE BEEN SIX CITIES CALLED PULL OUT ELECTIONS. THE OFFICIAL TERM. THINK TO REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM THE DART SYSTEM. I THINK IT IS REALLY IMPORTANT WE UNDERSTAND THE IMPLICATIONS OF A PULL OUT ELECTION SUCCESSFUL BOTH FOR ROWLETT AND THE OTHER CITIES OR CITIES IS THAT MIGHT CONTEMPLATE THAT. ONE, IF THE CITY WERE TO HOLD A PULL OUT ELECTION AND THAT PULL OUT COLLECTION LEEKZ ELECTION SUCCESS WILL THE CITY STILL ON THE HOOK FOR DENT. GARLAND RAN CALCULATIONS ABOUT 18 YEARS WORTH OF SALES TAX CONTRIBUTIONS GO TO DART AFTER THE SYSTEM WAS NO LONG ARE RUNNING WITHIN THE CITY AND SERVICES STOP THE DAY AFTER DART THE REACTION IS CERTIFIED. THAT IS IMPORTANT TO KNOW. IF ELECTIONS WERE SUCCESSFUL IN OTHER CITIES I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT WOULD DO TO THE SYSTEM IT WOULD CAUSE MASSIVE SERVICE REDUCTIONS THE FUNDING DEBT SERVICE WOULD DISAPOOR FROM THE CITIES TO THE TUNE OF MANY MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. SO. WITH THAT, THE CITIES WORKING CLOSELY WITH EACH OTHER. AND WITH DART TO COME TO AN AGREEMENT ON WHAT DART SERVICE LOOK LIKE IN THE FUTURE. AND JUST LAST WEEK, THERE WERE THREE THINGS THAT HAPPENED. NUMBER ONE WE HAD OUR CITY MANAGER PART OF A WORKING GROUP OF SIX CITY MANAGERS THREE CITIES CALLED FOR PULL OUT LAEKDZS AND 3 MORE SUPPORTIVE OUR CITY MANAGER IS A PART OF THAT WORKING GROUP THAT INCLUDES DALLAS AND PLANO. IT IS IMPORTANT IT MENTION THOSE 2. WITH DISCUSSIONS THEY HAVE WORKED TIRELESSLY TO ATTEMPT TO GET EVERYBODY ON THE SAME PAGE. THERE ARE TWO ISSUES THAT HAVE COME UPMENT FIRST IS GOVERNORS GOFF GOVERNANCE AND THE SECOND IS FINANCE. THE FIRST GOVERNANCE A STICKS POINT BECAUSE DALLAS HAD MARNLT VOTE CAN THE DART BOARD. AND THAT IS UNDERSTANDABLE. SO GOES DALLAS AND THE SYSTEM. RIGHT? AND SO NOT LONG AGO A RESOLUTION WAS PASSED IN THE DART BOARD THAT MADE IT SO THAT ANY SERVICE CHANGE REQUIRED A TWO THIRD'S VOTE. THAT WOULD RESTRICT DALLAS FROM UP ENDING THE SERVICE CHANGE IN THE SUBBUSHES AND PROVIDE SECURITY FOR THAT. BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY NOT EVERY CITY FEEL WELL REPRESENTED. ROWLETT IS AN EXAMPLE I LIKE OUR REPRESENTATIVE BUT HE REPRESENTS TWO OTHER CITIES GARLAND AND GLEN HEIGHTS WE AGREE ON MANY THINGS THAT I MAY NOT ALWAYS BE THE CASE. IT BECOMES DIFFICULT WHEN WE ARE TRYING TO AGREE SOMETHING WITH FWAR LAND AND GLEN HEIGHTS GARLAND IS THE THEY CARRY THE [03:05:07] IRON FIST THEY ARE BIGGER THAN US. GLEN HEIGHTS IS A SMALLER COMMUNITY THE LEGISLATOR ESTABLISH SAID EVERS HOW SYSTEM WORKING FOR DART SORRY LAID OUT IN LEGISLATION MEANS WE AS A CITY WE AS A REGION CANNOT CHANG IT WE CAN'T SAY WE CHANGING THE STRUCTURE. WHAT THE CITIES AGREED TO DO IS PUT FORTH A RESOLUTION LIKE WHAT YOU SEE IT SAYS, NOT ONLY DO WE SUPPORT A CHANGE TO THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE AND THIS TAKEN TO THE LEGISLATOR AND MAKING THAT CHANGE CODIFIED IN THE LEGISLATIVE LANGUAGE THAT ESTABLISHED THE DART SYSTEM. SO, THAT'S THE GOVERNANCE TOPIC WHAT WE ARE TALKING ABOUT I WANT TO TOUCH ON THE FINANCE PIECE AS WELL. DART HAS IT IS DARED BOARD CHAIR WORKED HARD THE PAST 30-60 DAYSES TO COME UP WITH A SOLUTION THAT EVERYONE CAN TOLERATE. THE COMPROMISE WHEN NOBODY IS HAPPY. THINK HE ARRIVED AT SOMETHING I THINK NOBODY IS HAPPY WITH BUT THE SAME TIME EVERYBODY IS CONTENT WITH. WHAT THAT WOULD START OUT AS IS A REBATE BACK TO THE MEMBER CITIES OF SOME OF SALES TAX CONTRIBUTION. THE SALES TAX CONTRIBUTION THAT GUESS IN THE SYSTEM THAT IS PAID FOR BY THE CITY AND OTHER CITIES EQUAL IT ONE PERCENT OF SALES TAX IS NOT SOMETHING WE CAN CHANGE. IT IS TAXICABED BITE LEGISLATOR AND WE DON'T GET TO TURN IS ON OR OFF. YOU REMEMBER PLANO NOT WENT TO THE LEGISLATOR TO PUSH A CHANGE TO THE LEGISLATION. THAT FAILED THEY ARRIVED AT THE NEXT STEP TO CALL A PULL OUT ELECTION. THROUGH THAT PROCESS NOW THE PROGRAM GENERAL MOBILITY PROGRAM THAT ALLOW CITIES TO BE REFUNDED MONEY OF SALES TAX CONTRIBUTION THAT COULD BE USED FOR MOBILITY PROJECTS THAT STARTS SMALL I THINK AT FIVE PERCENT AND RAMPS UP OVER A GRADUATED SCALE IDEA BEING WEIGH ARE GIVING THE MEMBER CITIES FUNDING BACK TO DO PROJECTS WITHOUT CANNIBALIZING THE SYSTEM. FUNDING MAKE EVERYBODY HAPPY AND IN THAT PROCESS WE MANAGE THE TO GET, WEIGH LIKE I DID ANYTHING I DIDN'T ATTENDED A FEW MEETINGS THAT'S IT. THE CITY MANAGER GROUP AND DART BOARD CHAIR GOT THE RTC TO AGREE TO HELP FUND THE SYSTEM AS WELL. THAT OFF SETS THE FUNDING THEY WOULD GIVE UP. AND TO TAKE OWNERSHIP OF THE REGIONAL LINES. BETWEEN DALLAS AND FORT WORTH. ALL OF THAT TO SAY WE HAVE WE -- AS A COUNCIL AND THE REGION HAVE BEEN ABLE GET BUY IN FROM THE CITY DALLAS ON THE GOVERNANCE INSTRUCT. IT WAS CRITICAL IF DALLAS DIDN'T WOULD NOT BE ADOPTED BY ANYBODY. WOUL HAVE BEEN SUBURB COMPLAINING AND DALLAS SAYING NO YOU CAN'T DO THIS. DALLAS AGREED THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL AGREED TO FUNDS AND THE NEXT STEP WILL BE SEEING IF PLANO WITH DRAWS THE PULL OUT ELECTION ALONG WITH OTHER CITIES THE CITIES ARE PLANO, IRVING, HIGH LAND PARK, UNIVERSITY PARK, FARMER AVENUE BRANCH AND ADDISON THE MOST RECENT TO CALL A PULL OUT ELECTION TWO WEEKS AGO. THAT'S WHERE WE STANDS AND THE INFORMATION I CAN PULL OUT OF MY BRAIN AT 10. . 30 AT NIGHT ON A TUESDAY. I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS. >> WHEN WE HAVE THE DART DISCUSSIONS EARLIER, THEY WERE MAKING THE CASE AND I THINK SAYING THAT THE NUMBERS WERE WRONG. -- WE WERE 9 MILLION IN AND GETTING 16 MILLION WORTH OF BENEFIT. AND SO THE IDEA THAT WE WERE YOU KNOW GETTING MORE THEN AND THERE WHAT WE PAID FOR. IT YOUR KNOWLEDGE WHEN WE TALK ABOUT A REBATE WE ARE NOT LIKE PLANO 65 MILLION DOLLARS WOULD THERE BE SOMETHING COMING BACK [03:10:02] TO US. ALL OF THIS IS DISCUSSIONS HAPPENED NOTHING FORMALIZED THE CITIES WOULD EACH ENTER IN AN AGREEMENT, M OUSHGS U WITH DART THAT WOULD ESTABLISH WHAT THAT LOOKED LIKE. EVERY CITY WOULD HAVE THAT OPPORTUNITY REGARDLESS IF QUOTE A DONEE OR DONOR CITY. TO ELABORATE, THE CITY PAYS 9 MILLION IN THE DART SYSTEM THROUGH OUR CONTRIBUTION VIA OUR SALES TAX. THAT IS A LEGISLATIVE ESTABLISHED DECISION. NOT ANYTHING THIS CITY CAN MAKE DECISION TO STOP DOING. SO WITH THAT, WE RECEIVE LIGHT RAIL SERVICE IN OUR CITY. RECEIVE GO LINK AND RECEIVE PAIR PARATRANSIT WE HAD BUS SERVICE AND GAVE THAT UP TO HAVE GO LINK ONE BUS UP AND DOWN 66 WAS NOT ACCOMPLISHING A LOT FOR RESIDENTS FURTHER NORTH AND SOUTH. SO DIFFERENT CITIES THROUGH THIS THERE WAS A STUDY CONDUCTED FWL AN ACCOUNTING FIRM AND ATTEMPTED TO I SAY ATTEMPTED TO ALL OF THIS IS VERY FUZZY MATH WHETHER YOU GET TO TRYING TO ALLOCATE VALUE TO SERVICES PROVIDED IN A SYSTEM LARGE AND REGIONALAS THIS. THEY ATTEMPTED APPLIES A VALUE SERVICES THAT CITIES WERE RECEIVING AND CITY SAID WE ARE PAYING NOTHING THIS MUCH AND RECEIVING THIS MUCH IN SERVICE. THAT IS A PLANO EXAMPLE. THEY OF RECEIVING LES SERVICES THAN WHAT THEY PAY IN THE SYSTEM. THAT WAS YOU CAN CANNED IN 2023 AND IN 25 THE SILVER LINE WENT LIVE THROUGH NORTH PART OF THE CITY ADDISON, PLANO AND OTHERS AS WELL. THAT WAS NOT OF FACTORED IN. IF YOU RAN THAT TODAY IF THEY REDO THAT STUDY THE MATH MAY LOOK DIFFERENT. TYPESET IS HARD TO SAY WHAT THAT WOULD DO FOR ROWLETT. BUT THAT IS WHAT THEY ARE TALKING ABOUT. AND YES ROWLETT IS A DONEE CITY WE RECEIVE MORE SERVICES THAN WE PAY IN THE SYSTEM. >> MR. BOWERERS. >> THANK YOU. MINE IS ON THE GOVERNANCE SIDE. FROM YOUR MORE CLOSE KNOWLEDGE TO THE SUBJECT DO WE HAVE CONCERN ABOUT THE PROPOSED FRAMEWORK REDUCING OUR REPRESENTATION. WHAT I FEEL LIKE THIS IS A COMPROMISE FOR US. WHAT IT IT IS ALLOW US TO HAVE IS A REPRESENTATIVE WHO SPEAK JUST FOR ROWLETT. I THINK IT IS IMPORTANT TO DISTINGUISH THAT TODAY THE GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE IS A SHARED THROUGH REALLOCATION POLICE O - CITIES ARE ATTEMPTED TO BE PAIRED UP TO LIKE MINDED SIZE OR SERVICES. AND WHAT THIS ATTEMPTS TO DO IS GIVE EVERY CITY ONE AT LEAST ONE PERSON. WE HAVE ONE VOICE IN THE ROOM. THAT VOICE IS A FRACTIONAL VOTE. IT IS A WEIGHTED VOTE OF.44. RIGHT? AND SO YES, THAT IS A FRACTION OF A VOTE. HOWEVER, WHEN THIS ARE 22 PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AND YOU HAVE AN INDIVIDUAL SPEAKING ON BEHALF OF ROWLETT'S INTERESTS THERE IS TREMENDOUS VALUE IN THAT THAT ONE VOICE SPEAKING FOR ROWLETT. YES, I HAVE CONCERNS BUT A GOOD COMPROMISE THAT ALLOWS US TO HAVE OUR OWN VOICE THE ROOM. >> IS THERE A GUIDELINE WHO THAT PERSON WILL BE. A CITY MANAGER OR CITY COUNCIL? WHAT IS THE TEA LEAVE LACK LIKE. THE CITY COUNCIL APOINTS THAT TODAY. I ASSUME WE WOULD APPOINT THAT POSITION WITH LEGISLATE OF CHANG THAT WOULD HAPPEN UNDER THIS. OUR REPRESENTATIVE IS A ROWLETT REPRESENTATIVE AND FORMER ROWLETT MAYOR I ASSUME HE WOULD WANT TO CONTINUE TO SERVE THE CITY UPON A LONG BOARD MEMBER WITH DART AND HAS TREMENDOUS RESPECT AS SUCH. I THINK THAT WOULD BE THE WAY IT WOULD GO. COUNCIL APPOINTS THAT POSITION. THAT CONSIDERATION WOULD GONE WITH THE COUNCIL AS A WHOLE. [03:15:07] >> I WOULD THINK IF WE HAVE OUR OWN REPRESENTATIVE A DIRECT LINE TO COUNCIL FROM DART. MORE CONST. ASSISTANT COMMUNICATION WOULD BE GOOD FOR US AS WE YOU KNOW WORK ON VARIOUS MOBILITY THINGS. IDEALLY WE WOULD HAVE EVERY CITY IN THE METRO PLEX CONTRIBUTE TO DART AND HAVE A ROBUST SYSTEM. BUT THAT SHIP MAY HAVE SAILED 40 YEAR AGO. BUT I THINK HAVING CONTINUITY THERE HE WOULD PROBABLY IF HE CONTINUED ON I THINK HE WOULD BRING A LOT OF HISTORICAL KNOWLEDGE AND HAVE RESPECT IN THE ROOM FROM TAIL ONE. IF HE SWITCH WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT SOMEONE THAT CAN BUILD A COALITION. AS YOU LOOK AT THE ATTACHMENT THAT THE COUNCILMEMBER BOWERS WAS REFERRING TO, DALLAS WILL HAVE SEVEN PEOPLE IN THE ROOM AS AN EXAMPLE. SO THE OTHER CITIES I'M SURPRISED THEY WILL HAVE TWO. AT MOST. THAT DOES PUT US THEIR VOTES ARE WEIGHTED HIGHER. PER THE OUT LIAR CITIES WE NEED SOMEONE TO BUILD A COALITION TO MAKE SURE CONCENTRATION OF POWER DOES NOT JUST GO TO DALLAS. >> SOMETHING I DID NOT MENTION NOW EVERYTHING IS BASED ON POPULATION IT IS CONVERSATION HAS BEEN WHAT ABOUT SALES TAX THERE ARE CITIESES THAT CONTRIBUTE MORE IN TERMS OF SALES TAX THAT WEIGHTS THEIR CITY HIGHER. AT THE END OF THE DAY I'M A BELIEVER WE REPRESENTING A POPULATION OF PEOPLE NODOLLARS. OTHER CITIES DISAGREE THEY CONTRIBUTE MORE THAN THEIR POPULATION MIGHT PRESENT. DID YOU HAVE A QUESTION? COUNCIL OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? IF NOT I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. THE MOTION UNDER THE AGENDA WOULD BE CONSIDER ACTION OR MOVE TO ADOPT A RESOLUTION SUPPORTING THIS RESOLUTION. I HAVE A MOTION BY MS. BOWERS. I MAKE A MOTION THAT WE ADOPT THE RESOLUTION AS READ. >> A MOTION TO APPROVE AND SECOND BY MR. SCHUPP. >> COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT, LET'S CALL THE VOTE. THAT CARRY UNANIMOUSLY. GET THAT SIGNED AND SENT OVER TO THE DART BOARD CHAIR I APPRECIATE THAT. [Members of the City Council may request topics to be placed on an agenda for a subsequent meeting. Any deliberation or decision shall be limited to a proposal to place topic on the agenda for a subsequent meeting.] THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT WE HAVE REACHED THE END OF THE AGENDA FOR TONIGHT. MEMBER OF THE COUNCIL REQUEST TOPIC PLACED ON AGENDA FOR A MEETING DELIBERATIONOR DECISION LIMITED TO A PROPOSAL TO PLACE IT ON THE AGENDA. DO I HAVE AGENDA ITEM REQUESTS? >> I HAVE ONE. >> MS. BOWER, >> I WOULD LIKE TO PLACE ON THE AGENDA FOR NEXT REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING TO CONSIDER THE SELECTION OF A MAYOR PROTIM. >> WE HAVE A REQUEST FOR AGENDA ITEM TO I HAVE A SECOND FOR THAT REQUEST? >> NO SECOND. SO -- THAT WILL NOT BE ON A FUTURE MEETING. >> COUNCIL OTHER AGENDA ITEMS TO ADD? >> ALL RIGHT WE ARE * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.