Jul 16, 2024 City Council Meeting

[A. REGULAR SESSION AGENDA - CALL TO ORDER]

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P.M. I WANT TO WELCOME EVERYONE TO THE DESOTO CITY COUNCIL MEETING, IT'S TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH. AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO ASK OUR CITY SECRETARY TO OPEN US UP WITH A ROLL CALL. PLEASE.

MAYOR RACHEL PROCTOR HERE, MAYOR PRO TEM LETICIA HUGHES HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. PARKER HERE.

COUNCIL MEMBER NICOLE RAPHAEL HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDRE BYRD HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. MARX.

COUNCIL MEMBER. CRYSTAL CHISHOLM HERE. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. WE'LL HAVE THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA. FIRST, WE'LL HAVE OUR INVOCATION BY REVEREND EARL G. JONES WITH DESOTO. SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NICOLE RAPHAEL.

IF EVERYONE CAN PLEASE STAND. FATHER WE CALL UPON YOU, FATHER. NOT JUST FATHER. WE SAY. ABBA, FATHER. BECAUSE NOT ONLY ARE YOU THE ONE WHO CREATED US, LORD, YOU'RE THE ONE WE TURNED OUR BACK ON YOU, FATHER. YOU DIDN'T GIVE UP ON US. YOU SENT YOUR ONLY SON TO DIE FOR US, AND YOU BOUGHT US BACK. SO WE CALL YOU FATHER. FATHER, BECAUSE YOU'VE ADOPTED US. YOU BROUGHT US BACK INTO THE FAMILY TONIGHT. FATHER, WE PRAY FOR THIS FAMILY. WE PRAY FOR THIS CITY COUNCIL OF THE GREAT CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS. FATHER, YOU SAY IN YOUR WORD THAT IN THE PRESENCE OF COUNCIL GOOD COUNSEL, THERE IS SAFETY. THERE IS WISDOM. FATHER, GRANT WISDOM TO THIS COUNCIL TONIGHT.

WE PRAY, FATHER, THAT YOU WOULD OPEN THEIR HEARTS AND LET THE WORDS OF THEIR MOUTH AND THE MEDITATION OF THEIR HEARTS BE ACCEPTABLE IN YOUR SIGHT. FATHER, WE PRAY NOW NOT JUST FOR THIS COUNCIL, FATHER, BUT FOR ALL THOSE WHO ARE IN ATTENDANCE. WE OBEY YOUR WORD AS WE PRAY FOR OUR LEADERS. WE PRAY FOR THOSE WHOM YOU ARE ORDAINED TO LEAD US, BECAUSE THEY WATCH FOR OUR VERY LIVES. THEY WATCH FOR OUR VERY SAFETY. THEY WATCH FOR EVERYTHING THAT HAPPENS THAT, FATHER, YOU HAVE NOT ORDAINED US TO DO. SO WE GET ON OUR KNEES, FATHER, AND WE PRAY FOR THEM.

TONIGHT WE COME TO YOU AS THE PEOPLE OF DESOTO AND WE CONFESS OUR SINS AND OUR WRONGS. AND WE SAY, FATHER, WE'RE SO SORRY. FORGIVE US BECAUSE YOU PROMISED US IN YOUR WORD THAT IF MY PEOPLE WHO ARE CALLED BY MY NAME WILL HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND PRAY AND SEEK MY FACE, AND TURN FROM THEIR WICKED WAYS. FATHER, IF THERE'S ANY WICKEDNESS, ANY ANY UN, ANYTHING THAT'S UNHOLY WITH ALL THE THINGS THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD. FATHER, WE ONLY PRAY FOR THESE LEADERS. FATHER, WE PRAY FOR OUR OUR STATE LEADERS. FATHER, WE PRAY FOR OUR NATIONAL LEADERS. WE THANK YOU, FATHER, THAT YOU SPARED THE LIVES OF OUR PRESIDENT, FATHER, AND OUR FORMER PRESIDENT AND ALL THE PRESIDENTS WHO STILL LIVE, ALL THE LEADERS AND CONGRESSMEN AND EVERYONE, FATHER, WHOM YOU HAVE SET AND ORDAINED TO WATCH OVER OUR LIVES. BUT TONIGHT, FATHER, WE FOCUS ON THIS MEETING, THIS COUNCIL, OUR ILLUSTRIOUS MAYOR, FATHER, BLESS HER, OUR MAYOR PRO TEM AND ALL THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, WE'RE PRAYING, FATHER, THAT IF WE WILL HUMBLE OURSELVES AND PRAY. AND TONIGHT WE SEEK YOUR FACE. HELP US TO TURN FROM OUR WICKED WAYS. THEN THIS PRAYER TONIGHT, FATHER, YOU PROMISE TO HEAR FROM HEAVEN. YOU PROMISE, FATHER, THAT YOU WOULD FORGIVE US OF OUR SINS AND YOU WOULD HEAL OUR LAND, HEAL OUR CITIES, HEAL OUR FAMILIES, HEAL OUR VERY SOULS SO THAT WE CAN ALL BE READY TO MEET JESUS WHEN HE COMES. FOR THIS IS OUR PRAYER IN JESUS NAME. LET EVERYONE SAY AMEN. AMEN AMERICAN FLAG AND STATE FLAG I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STAND. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. UNDER THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE. TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. THANK YOU, REVEREND JONES, FOR LEADING US IN PRAYER. AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER RAPHAEL, FOR LEADING US IN OUR PLEDGES. AT

[B. ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST]

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THANK YOU, MISS THOMAS. AT THIS TIME. COUNCIL, ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I'D LIKE TO, PULL OUT IN FRONT AND TELL PEOPLE ABOUT THE LIBRARY. THE CITY OF DESOTO'S LIBRARY HAS MULTIPLE OPPORTUNITIES. BEST FOR TEENS AS WELL AS ADULTS. SO WE'RE GOING TO JUST START WITH THEY HAVE COOKING SKILLS AND WORLD CUISINE CAMP THAT THEY HAVE GOING ON RIGHT NOW FROM, JUNE. IT HAS STARTED IN JUNE. THEY HAVE TWO MORE OPPORTUNITIES IN JULY THE 18TH AND THE 25TH. AUGUST 1ST, EIGHTH, EIGHTH AND 17TH AND 24TH. SO IF YOU'RE READY TO COOK CUISINE ALL OVER THE WORLD, TELL YOUR TEENS TO GO OUT AND ENJOY THAT. WE ALSO HAVE THE TWEEN SCENE. WE HAVE THEM WORKING WITH THE VINYL VENABLE LAB THAT IS ACTUALLY HAPPENING ON JULY 18TH IN THE LIBRARY. THURSDAYS EVERY THURSDAY AT 2 P.M. THEN WE ALSO HAVE LIBRARY, THE CHILDREN'S THEATER, IT STARTS ON JULY 19TH AT 3 P.M. OF COURSE. THIS IS, SPONSORED BY THE, DESOTO ARTIST LAB. AND THEN LASTLY, WE HAVE OUR A PLACE FOR OUR ADULTS, THE FREE CLASS, THE FREE COMPUTER CLASSES. I KNOW THAT WE ALL HAVE SOME ADULTS THAT NEED SOME COMPUTER CLASSES OUT THERE WHERE THE LIBRARY IS, PROVIDING A SERVICE. YOU GO OUT THERE AND YOU FIND OUT ABOUT CANVA AND ALL THOSE GOOD THINGS AND OTHER THINGS THAT ARE DEALING WITH THE COMPUTER, AND THAT STARTS AND THEY HAVE ONE ON JULY THE 24TH, IT WILL BE TRAVEL AND ADVENTURE SPOTLIGHT, BUT COME ON OUT AND GET YOU SOME SERVICES THROUGH THE LIBRARY. THANK YOU. I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU COUNSELOR. ARE THERE ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS? YES. MAYOR PRO TEM. YES. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO ANNOUNCE, GOOD EVENING. DESOTO, THE SENIOR POOL PARTY WILL BE SATURDAY, JULY 20TH. AND THAT IS FROM 9 A.M. TO 11:00 AM. SENIORS, COME OUT AND ENJOY FOOD, GAMES, PRIZES AND SWIMMING. FREE ENTRY FOR DESOTO SENIOR RESIDENTS. YOU MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF RESIDENCY, $5 FOR NONRESIDENT SENIORS AND THEN BEING DOPE FIVE DAY WORKSHOP THAT WILL BE MONDAY, JULY 22ND THROUGH FRIDAY. THE 26TH FROM 10 A.M. TO 3 P.M. AND YOU CAN. AND IT'S HOSTED BY THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT AS WELL. YOU CAN REGISTER ONLINE AT EVENTBRITE.COM. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER RAPHAEL. SURE THING. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I WANT TO THANK ALL THE RESIDENTS OF PLACE THREE AND PLACE FIVE AND OTHERS WHO ATTENDED THE COMMUNITY CONVERSATION AROUND TOWN ON THIS PAST SATURDAY. RESIDENTS HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM OUR DEVELOPMENTAL SERVICES DIRECTOR, MR. CHARLES BREWER, AND TO HEAR A LITTLE BIT FROM OUR NEW CITY MANAGER, MR. AL GODFREY. AND SO I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT TO LEARN ABOUT THE PERMITTING PROCESS, TO SHARE YOUR CONCERNS WITH US. RELATED TO MATTERS THAT INTEREST YOU. WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISPEL SOME UNFOUNDED INFORMATION THAT'S BEEN GOING AROUND IN THE COMMUNITY RELATED TO, AN ENTITY WHO WHO'S HAD COMMUNITY MEETINGS WITH THE COMMUNITY. AND SO IT IS OUR PLEASURE TO LISTEN TO YOU AS OUR PLEASURE TO HONOR YOU BY DOING YOUR WORK AND YOUR BIDDING. AND SO WITH THAT HAVING BEEN SAID, I'D LIKE TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU ARE AWARE OF OUR DESOTO WEBSITE. IF YOU WANT TO GET IN CONTACT WITH ANY OF THE COUNCIL MEMBERS, OUR INFORMATION, OUR CONTACT INFORMATION, PHONE NUMBERS AND EMAIL ADDRESSES ARE ON THE DESOTO, TEXAS WEBSITE. THAT IS DESOTO, TEXAS DOT GOV. THAT IS OUR WEBSITE. AND SO YOU ARE ALWAYS WELCOME TO CONTINUE TO MAKE YOUR VOICE KNOWN. AND FOR THOSE OF YOU AND PLACE THREE, PLACE THREE IS THE LARGEST AREA THAT DOES NOT HAVE ALL THE HOA OR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATIONS. I ONLY HAVE A FEW. HOWEVER, I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO COME OUT TO ANY COMMUNITY MEETINGS THAT YOU MAY HAVE OR GATHER OR PULL TOGETHER, SO FEEL FREE TO REACH OUT ANYTIME. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU, DOCTOR MARKS. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND THANK YOU, COUNCILWOMAN RAPHAEL, FOR BRINGING THAT FORWARD. AND AGAIN, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO ALL OF THE RESIDENTS WHO CAME OUT ON SATURDAY FOR THAT COMMUNITY CONVERSATION, THE OTHER THING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO REMIND US OF IS OUR NATIONAL NIGHT OUT. IT DOES COME UP ON AUGUST SIX. SO A LOT OF US, AS YOU KNOW, WE LIVE IN HOA. SO THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO GET OUT AND KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS, THIS IS ALSO THAT YOU'LL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FROM OUR POLICE UP, IPERSON AND VERY CLOSE. SO PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU, GET WITH YOUR HOA REPRESENTATIVES AND ASK IF THEY WILL BE HAVING, AN HOA BLOCK PARTY FOR THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT. MADAM MAYOR, THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU, DOCTOR MARX COUNCIL, ARE THERE ANY OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD? COUNCILMAN BYRD,

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THE VOICE IS THE GOLDEN VOICES, WHICH IS THE SENIOR CITIZENS CHOIR WILL BE WILL HAVE AN APPRECIATION AT THE SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER, ON THAT I BELIEVE IT'S ON A THURSDAY, SO PLEASE COME OUT IF YOU HAVE NOT HEARD THEM SING, YOU SHOULD COME OUT AND HEAR THEM. IF YOU HAVE NEVER FELLOWSHIPPED WITH THEM, YOU SHOULD COME OUT. IT'S SOMETHING QUITE SPECTACULAR.

THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN BYRD. I DO HAVE A FEW ANNOUNCEMENTS BEFORE WE MOVE FORWARD. I WANT TO REMIND EVERYONE ABOUT THE MEET AND GREET WITH OUR NEW CITY MANAGER.

IT IS A COMMUNITY EVENT AND IT WILL BE HAPPENING THIS THURSDAY, JULY 18TH FROM 6 P.M. TO 8 P.M.

IN THE DESOTO CORNER THEATER. AND THIS WILL BE A CHANCE TO COME OUT AND AGAIN MEET OUR CITY MANAGER, HEAR FROM HIM AND HEAR HIS VISION AND JUST HEAR SOME OF THE THINGS THAT ARE ON HIS HEART FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO. SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU ALL TO COME OUT, AGAIN THIS THURSDAY, JULY 18TH, AT 6 P.M. AND IT'S GOING TO BE RIGHT HERE IN THE COMPLEX AT THE DESOTO CORNER THEATER. AND BEFORE WE MOVE ON, I WOULD BE REMISS, DOCTOR MARX, I KNOW THAT YOU MENTIONED YOU DID NOT WANT OUR USUAL BIRTHDAY PRESENTATION TO HAPPEN, AND SO WE'LL HONOR THAT WISH. HOWEVER, I WOULD BE REMISS NOT TO WISH YOU A HAPPY BIRTHDAY, WE KNOW YOU HAVE A BIRTHDAY THAT'S COMING UP BEFORE WE HAVE ANOTHER MEETING, SO WE WANT TO JUST HOPE YOU HAVE A VERY HAPPY BIRTHDAY, THIS MONTH.

SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU, AT THIS TIME, YES. HAPPY BIRTHDAY. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL

[C. CITIZEN APPEARANCES]

COMMENT CARDS RELATED TO SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS ARE DUE PRIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF AN AGENDA ITEM. HOWEVER COMMENT CARDS RELATED TO THE CITIZEN APPEARANCES PORTION OF THE AGENDA MUST BE SUBMITTED TO THE AMBASSADORS TABLE PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. AND MAYOR, I HAVE SEVERAL OKAY, MISS THOMAS, BEFORE YOU GET STARTED, BECAUSE WE HAVE A NUMBER OF CARDS FOR SPECIFICALLY FOR THE CITIZENS APPEARANCES FOR THE SAKE OF TIME, WE'RE GOING TO BE LIMITING THOSE COMMENTS TO TWO MINUTES VERSUS THE NORMAL THREE MINUTE TIME FRAME. THANK YOU.

MERCY MURCHISON. GOOD EVENING, MISS MURCHISON, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE, FOR THE RECORD. AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. GOOD EVENING, MERCY MURCHISON. DESOTO I REGRET HAVING TO COME HERE THIS EVENING. IN REFERENCE TO COUNCIL IRREGULARITY. AND IT'S IN REFERENCE TO THE VOTING THAT TOOK PLACE WITH DOCTOR MARKS.

POINT OF ORDER VOTED IN POINT OF ORDER, MISS MURCHISON, CAN YOU PULL THE MIC DOWN? SO. YES, MA'AM. CAN YOU HEAR ME? THERE YOU GO. THANK YOU. OKAY. IT'S IN REFERENCE TO THE VOTING THAT TOOK PLACE FOR MAYOR PRO TEM WITH DOCTOR MARKS. I AM SURE THAT ALL COUNCIL MEMBERS ARE AWARE OF THE LEGALITIES OF THE VOTING PROCESS. YOU DIDN'T FOLLOW IT, DOCTOR MARKS IS LEGALLY OUR MAYOR PRO TEM. AND YOU REVOKED THAT VOTING. THAT IS ILLEGAL. AND I REGRET THAT THAT

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COUNCIL. GOOD EVENING. I GUESS I CAN FIGURE OUT HOW TO DO THAT. MY NAME IS MATT CARLSON AND I AM A CITIZEN OF DESOTO. BUT TONIGHT I ADDRESS YOU AS THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OF THE DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. I WANTED TO FORMALLY INTRODUCE YOU TO OUR SUMMER INTERNS. WE HAVE THREE THIS SUMMER WHO ARE WORKING WITH US. WE'RE SO EXCITED TO HAVE THEM ON BOARD. I WANTED TO TAKE JUST A MOMENT TO INTRODUCE THEM TO YOU AND HAVE THEM ACTUALLY TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THEIR, THEIR, ACADEMIC BACKGROUND AND WHAT THEY'RE WORKING ON REAL QUICK FOR US.

AARON, IF YOU WOULD. AARON HALL GOOD EVENING. I'M AARON HALL AND I AM A STUDENT AT TEXAS SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY. I'M A MARKETING MAJOR. AND AFTER I GET MY BACHELOR'S DEGREE, I PLAN ON GOING TO GET MY MASTER'S AND FILM, VIDEO PRODUCTION AND MEDIA. I WANT TO HAVE MY OWN MEDIA COMPANY, AND I WANT TO PRODUCE BLACK HISTORICAL FILMS. AND ALSO MY, MINORITY FILMS AS WELL. SO THANKS. THERE YOU GO, LET ME INTRODUCE TO YOU, SOLLY GARCIA. HI. MY NAME IS SOLEDAD GARCIA, OR SOLLY FOR SHORT. I'M A TEXAS A&M GRADUATE. I GRADUATED THIS DECEMBER, AND I ACTUALLY JUST JOINED THIS TEAM YESTERDAY WAS MY FIRST DAY AND I WAS OFF TODAY. BUT I DON'T HAVE ANY PROJECTS I'M WORKING ON. BUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT IS WHAT I'M PASSIONATE ABOUT. IT'S WHAT I WANT TO DO WITH MY CAREER. SO YEAH, I'M EXCITED FOR THAT. THANKS. THANK AND LAST, PROBABLY WHAT'S A VERY FAMILIAR FACE TO YOU. AND THAT'S MR. JOEL ROWLETT. HE WAS WITH US LAST SUMMER, I GUESS WE DIDN'T CHASE HIM OFF. SO WELCOME BACK TO THE TEAM. GLAD TO BE HERE. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JOEL ROWLETT. I AM A RISING JUNIOR AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS.

I'M MAJORING IN FINANCE. I WANT TO GO INTO COMMERCIAL OR CORPORATE BANKING AS A CAREER.

I'LL TELL YOU A LITTLE BIT ABOUT A PROJECT WE'RE WORKING ON OVER THE SUMMER. SO ME AND THE OTHER INTERNS HAVE BEEN WORKING ON A YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FORUM, IT'LL BE FROM 6 TO 8 P.M. ON JULY 30TH HERE IN THE DESOTO CORNER THEATER. WE'LL HAVE SPEAKERS TO KIND OF TALK ABOUT THE FUTURE OF DESOTO AND HOW YOUNG PEOPLE WOULD LIKE TO SEE DESOTO MORPH INTO IN THE FUTURE. WE'LL HAVE TOPICS SUCH AS HOUSING, CAREER OPPORTUNITIES AND QUALITY OF LIFE HERE IN DESOTO. SO WE'D LOVE TO SEE YOU ALL THERE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR INDULGING ME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. AND PLEASE MAKE SURE YOU TAKE NOTE OF THAT, THAT EVENT AGAIN THAT'S HAPPENING ON JULY 30TH, CORRECT? YES, FOR OUR YOUNG PROFESSIONALS FORUM, IT'S GOING TO BE AN AMAZING EVENT.

THANK YOU SO MUCH. CHRISTY THOMAS CHRISTY. GOOD EVENING, MISS THOMAS.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. ONLY. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. THE BATTERY FACILITY THAT IS BEING DISCUSSE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF CONVERSATIONS GOING ON ON SOCIAL MEDIA. AND THE NEXT DOOR APP ABOUT CITIZENS NOT COMING FORWARD TO TALK ABOUT THIS CRITICAL, PROJECT. AS A CITIZEN OF, OF DESOTO, I DO NOT AGREE WITH A BATTERY FACILITY. I GREW UP IN WEST DALLAS, WHERE WE WERE PLAGUED BY A LEAD PLANT THAT CAUSED SO MANY BIRTH DEFECTS, SO MANY HEALTH ISSUES FOR OLDER PEOPLE. AND I DON'T THINK WE'VE REALLY HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO COME BEFORE THE COUNCIL AND REALLY DISCUSS THE THINGS THAT THAT THE HAZARDS AND THE ENVIRONMENTAL THINGS THAT A BATTERY PLANT WILL DO TO OUR CITY. WE TALK ABOUT OUR ALL AMERICAN CITY ALL THE TIME, BUT I'VE NOTICED THAT WE DON'T MAKE WISE DECISIONS WHEN WE'RE WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO PUT IN OUR CITY.

SO I'M SPEAKING AND I'M COMING FORWARD BECAUSE I'VE HEARD THAT THEY SAID, WELL, THE CITIZEN US CITIZENS ARE NOT SAYING ANYTHIN. WELL, I'M SAYING I'M SAYING SOMETHING FOR MY CITIZENS AND WE DO NOT AGREE WITH A BATTERY FACILITY TO COME TO OUR ALL AMERICAN CITY. THANK YOU. FAYE GILLESPIE, FAYE. MISS THOMAS, ONE MOMENT PLEASE. WE WANT TO, WHILE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO HAVE BACK AND FORTH DIALOG WITH THE SPEAKERS, AND YOU CAN TAKE YOUR SEAT, WHERE YOU FINISHED? YES.

OKAY, WHILE WE'RE NOT ABLE TO HAVE BACK AND FORTH DIALOG, IT IS INCUMBENT UPON US TO STATE WE

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TOO MANY PEOPLE KILLED WHOEVER BROUGHT THIS UP AND EVEN PUT IT ON THE TABLE, THEY THEY NEED TO LEARN WHAT WE'RE ALL ABOUT. AND THE. I JUST WANT TO TELL EVERYONE THERE IS A RECORDING AT THE CITY WEBSITE OF THAT MEETING. EVERYONE GAVE ELOQUENT AND MISS ANDERSON, IF YOU COULD PLEASE ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ONLY WITH YOUR REMARKS. LOOK IT UP ON THE WEBSITE, PLEASE. THANK YOU.

I WAS SO PROUD TO BE AMONG THE CITIZENS OF DESOTO. WE WON'T STAND FOR IT. WE DON'T WANT IT.

I THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE AND EXPRESS MY OPINION. BUT IT'S NOT FOR US.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. EVA ROGALSKI. EVA ROGALSKI. AND JERRY PALERMO, GO BEFORE ME BECAUSE I'M AN ADD ON TO HIS PRESENTATION. IS ANYTHING THERE? MINUS ONE? JERRY PALERMO.

PALERMO. THANK YOU. CAN YOU GIVE ME TWO? MISS PALERMO, IF YOU COULD PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE, AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. YES JERRY PALERMO, CITIZEN OF DESOTO FOR 34 YEARS. MAYOR PROCTOR, I LOVE HOW YOU OPERATE. YOU'RE A GREAT MAYOR. I STOOD OUT HERE AND PRAYED WITH YOU. ONE DAY. THAT WAS AN HONOR FOR ME. CITY COUNCIL, YOU DO A DAUNTING TASK EVERY TIME YOU HAVE TO COME UP AND DO THINGS FOR THE CITIZENS OF DESOTO. NOW, I RESPECT YOU ALL. YOU'LL SEE WITH THE HANDOUT THIS IS A WELL-KEPT SECRET. THERE'S A CITY OF DESOTO. MY WIFE AND I HAVE TRAVELED AROUND THE COUNTRY, AROUND THE WORLD. AND WHEN PEOPLE SAY, WHERE ARE YOU FROM? I DON'T SAY DALLAS. I SAY DESOTO, TEXAS. YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S PICTURES THERE SHOWING THE FRONT OF THIS BUILDING. YOU'LL SEE THE BOULEVARDS. I WANT TO THANK THE PARKS AND RECREATION FOR WHAT THEY'RE DOING TO MAKE THIS CITY BEAUTIFUL. AND THE NEW AQUATIC CENTER THAT'S GOING TO BE GOING IN OUR FITNESS CENTER. SO MANY THINGS THAT WE HAVE DONE SO POSITIVELY IN THIS CITY. NOW, THE NEXT PAGE SHOWS FORMAL CURB APPEAL. YOU NOTICE WELL-KEPT YARDS. THIS IS THROUGHOUT OUR CITY. AND ALSO THERE WAS A WHEN WE BUILT OUR HOME AND WHEN HOMES ARE BEING BUILT NOW IF YOU HAVE A FRONT GARAGE ENTRY, IT HAS TO BE ON THE SIDE FOR GOOD FORMAL CURB APPEAL. NOW YOU TURN TO THE NEXT PAGE AND I'M GOING TO GET TO THE POINT THAT SADDENS ME. ARE THE DUMPSTERS. AND I'VE BEEN TRAVELING AROUND THE CITY. THE DUMPSTERS ARE SO BIG YOU CAN'T MOVE THEM AROUND AND THAT IS NOT CURB APPEAL. THEY PUT THEM IN THE GRASS, THEY LEAVE THEM OUT. AND WE USED TO HAVE A BEAUTIFUL CITY BEFORE THESE DUMPSTERS CAME HERE. AND THEN REPUBLIC TRUCKS, THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BRING ONE THAT YOU LOAD UP, BUT THEY'RE NOT. AND SO THAT'S THE END OF MY TALK. BUT I WANT TO THANK YOU. AND I AM PROUD TO BE A CITIZEN OF DESOTO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE HANDOUT. EVA ROGALSKI. EVA ROGALSKI.

GOOD EVENING. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. I'M EVA ROGALSKI, AND I'M A RESIDENT OF DESOTO. AND I'M JUST KIND OF PIGGYBACKING ON WHAT MR. PALERMO WAS TALKING ABOUT WITH THE TRASH CANS. YES.

THEY'RE HUGE. I LIKE A MONTH AND A HALF AGO HURT MY BACK AND IT RAINED DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.

AND THEY DON'T PUT THE LIDS BACK ON THE TRASH CANS. IT'S OFF. SO I HAD TO DUMP THE WATER OUT AND

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FRAUD WASTE AND ABUSE HAS PLAGUED THE CITY WITHIN THE LAST THREE YEARS, AND THE STANDARD OF LIVING HAS BEEN DEGRADED. HAD THERE BEEN ANY ACCOUNTABILITY ON THE CITY'S PART, CITY STAFF AND CITY LEADERS WOULD NOT ALLOW ONE. THE CITY OF DESOTO VEHICLES TO BE PURCHASED IN RICHARDSON, TEXAS, WHEN TAX DOLLARS WOULD HAVE BEEN REGENERATED AND PLACED BACK IN THE CITY OF DESOTO. TAX BASE TAX BASE. HAD THESE VEHICLES BEEN PURCHASED AT DESOTO LEADERSHIP, HOW DO I KNOW? I PERSONALLY CONTACTED THE FLEET MANAGER OF AT MACK HEIGHT AND LEARNED THAT NO ONE FROM THE CITY OF DESOTO HAS EVER GIVEN THEM A PURCHASE PROPOSAL. SHAME ON YOU, YOU WOULD NOT HAVE ALLOWED THE CITY TO BE INUNDATED WITH SMOKE SHOPS AND LIQUOR STORES THAT SIT NEXT TO PARKS, DAYCARE AND SCHOOLS. AIRBNBS OVERTAKE THE CITY. SUBSTANDARD HOUSING STRUCTURE THAT HAS BEEN VISIBLY WITHIN NEIGHBORHOODS FOR YEARS. RENTAL PROPERTIES THAT ARE EYESORES AND CONSTANT HAZARD TO PAYING TAXPAYERS. AND THIS LIST GOES ON. YET CITY LEADERS AND THE CITY ATTORNEY HAS FAILED TO EVEN ADDRESS THESE CONCERNS. YOU WOULD HAVE CORRECTED THE MAYOR'S PRO TEM. CATASTROPHIC.

BUT BECAUSE SOME CITY LEADERS ARE SO FOCUSED ON MEETING WITH DEVELOPERS AND INVESTORS WORKING OUT DEALS, THIS LEADERSHIP HAS TURNED A BLIND EYE TO SHORT TERM COST OF RETAINING THRIVING BUSINESSES THAT HAVE BEEN LOST, SUCH AS THE VITAMIN SHOPPE, THE RETAIL STORES THAT WERE ONCE PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. WHAT YOU HAVE DONE HAS PICKED WHAT HAS. THAT CONCLUDES YOUR TIME. OKAY.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU. TREY HENDERSON, TRACE HENDERSON. GOOD EVENING, MR. HENDERSON.

PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. TRACE ANDERSON, DESOTO, TEXAS, I WAS COMING BEFORE COUNCIL TO ADDRESS THE FIASCO BACK IN M WITH MAYOR PRO TEM, THE CORRECT MAYOR PRO TEM, DINO MARKS, AND WHY SHE ISN'T MAYOR PRO TEM, AND, HAVEN'T HEARD BACK FROM MISTER GARVIDA, SO I'LL SAY IT HERE, LEFT SEVERAL VOICE MESSAGES WITH, YOUR CITY SECRETARY OR THE CITY SECRETARY AND YOUR ASSISTANT, MAYOR

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COUNCIL WELCOME TO THE SOTO, MISS, KAY BROWN. PATRICK DESOTO, I HAD A QUESTION AND, I GUESS I'LL HAVE TO SPEAK IN TWO OTHER TIMES BECAUSE MY TIME WAS DOWN TO TWO MINUTES. BUT IN REGARDS TO THE ADA TRANSITION PLAN, I SAW, IN THE CDBG, SOME INFORMATION I KNOW A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, SOME MONEY HAD BEEN ALLOCATED TO ADA SIDEWALKS, AND WE HAVE DONE NOTHING WITH THE TRANSITION PLAN. A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO, WE PASSED A TRANSITION PLAN. I KNOW PARKS DID THEIR PART WITH OUR GREAT ALL INCLUSIVE PARK, BUT A COUPLE OF MONTHS AGO, A CITIZEN WAS CITED FOR DRIVING HIS MOTORIZED WHEELCHAIR ON THE STREETS BECAUSE THERE'S NO SIDEWALKS.

AND WHEN MY COMMUNICATIONS WITH THE CITY MANAGER AND THEN INTERIM CITY MANAGER, THEY DIDN'T SAY THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO OR WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO ADDRESS THAT. BUT WE LITERALLY HAVE A TRANSITION PLAN THAT HAS A GRIEVANCE POLICY INSIDE OF THE TRANSITION PLAN.

ON PAGE 43, IT TELLS YOU WHAT TO DO TO ADDRESS THOSE THINGS. SO I SAW YESTERDAY WE GAVE AN AMERICAN DISABILITY ACT PROCLAMATION, AND WE WERE RECEIVING AWARDS FOR SUPPORTING DISABILITY PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. BUT WE'RE DOING ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WITH THAT TRANSITION PLAN. AND THE FUNDING THAT WAS IN PLACE IN THE CDBG HAS NOT GONE TO THOSE ADA, SIDEWALKS LIKE THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO BE, LASTLY, I WANTED TO SPEAK TO, BECAUSE I HAVE NOT BEEN HERE FOR THE MAYOR PRO TEM THING, BUT I WANT TO ALSO SPEAK AND SAY THAT, DOCTOR MARKS, I DO BELIEVE THAT YOU ARE THE RIGHTFUL MAYOR PRO TEM, MISSUS. YOU KNOW, THERE'S NOTHING PERSONAL AGAINST YOU, BUT THE WAY THAT THAT TOOK PLACE WAS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY. MISTER GRYFITA AND MAYOR PROCTOR'S RESPONSE TO THAT WAS THAT COUNCIL MAKES THEIR OWN RULES, AND WE'RE JUST GUIDED BY ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDERS, AND THAT'S A LIE. THIS CITY HAS SPENT MONEY AND TIME TRAINING COUNCIL ON ROBERT. RULES. ORDER COUNCIL MEMBERS RECEIVE A ROBERT'S RULES OF ORDER CHEAT SHEET AT THEIR SEATS TO KNOW WHEN TO MAKE A MOTION, WHEN NOT TO MAKE A MOTION. AND SO THAT'S JUST ABSOLUTELY ASININE THAT NOW NOW BECAUSE IT'S CONVENIENT AND IT FELL INTO THE FAVOR OF WHAT BYRD, PROCTOR, CHISHOLM AND HUGHES WANTED TO BE IN THAT 4 TO 3. NO, NO, NO. WHAT I'M SAYING IS, IS THAT HAVING HEARD MAYOR PRO TEM BENEFITS THEM. SO WHOEVER SAID THAT, THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENT. THAT CONCLUDES YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. RENEE, LAST NAME BEGINS WITH AN OH, AND I'M SORRY I CANNOT PRONOUNCE THIS. RENEE. LESS. LESS INITIAL. OH. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M RENEE EDWARDS, A RESIDENT OF DESOTO. I WON'T BE BEFORE YOU LONG TONIGHT, BUT I CAME HERE TO VOICE MY OPPOSITION TO THE VESPER EMERALD HILLS PROJECT AND ITS REPRESENTATIVES, WHO CAME TO THE COMMUNITY MEETING ABOUT A MONTH AGO UNPREPARED. DIDN'T HAVE THE FACTS ON THEIR SIDE, AND COULD NOT DECIDE WHETHER OR NOT THEY HAD SPOKEN TO CITY REPRESENTATIVES OR NOT. AND THEY INSULTED THE CITIZENS WITH THEIR SNARKY BEHAVIOR AND ENTITLEMENT ATTITUDE. AND IT DIDN'T GO OVER WELL. IF THE VESPER PROJECT WAS SO PHENOMENAL, SAFE AND PROFITABLE, THEIR FIRST STOP FOR SURE WOULD NOT BE DESOTO. ON THE FLIP SIDE, IT IS THE GOAL. IF THE GOAL IS TO CAUSE ADVERSE, ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE IMPACTS WHILE THROWING A MEASLY $10,000 SCHOLARSHIPS TO OUR STUDENTS. WE DON'T NEED THAT. I MEAN, THEY COULD TAKE THAT MESS AND GO SOMEWHERE ELSE. OKAY. AND THEN THE OTHER THING IS THEY'RE SHOPPING AROUND GIVING MONEY TO CITIZENS TO SHUT THEM UP ON BEHALF OF THEIR WHAT THEY CALL GOOD NEIGHBOR INITIATIVE. WE DON'T WANT TO BE LIKE DALLAS WHEN THE PLANNING AND ZONING AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS WENT TO

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FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. I'M BERNADINE HARRISON. I LIVE AT 1030 NORTH WESTMORELAND ROAD HERE IN DESOT. I'VE LIVED HERE FOR 28 YEARS, AND DESOTO IS NOW BECOMING A HELL OF A MESS. I HAVE NOT SEEN SUCH A MESS IN ALL MY LIFE. I DO WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO THOSE COUNCIL MEMBERS WHERE WE HAD A MEETING, AND IT WAS NOT A DICTATORSHIP. IT WAS NOT AN AUTOCRAT. THEY WERE INTERESTED IN WHAT WE HAD TO SAY. AND I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT I SINCERELY APPRECIATE THAT. NOW, MY PREPARED SPEECH, TWO MINUTES WILL NOT GIVE ME TIME TO SAY, BUT WHAT I WILL SAY IS I'M NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO YOUR JOB. WHEN PEOPLE CALL ME FOREIGNERS WANTING TO BUY MY PROPERTY HERE IN DESOTO, WE PAY CASH. I TELL THEM IN NO UNCERTAIN TERMS, WE, THE PEOPLE OF DESOTO, WE'RE ON TO YOU. WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE COMING IN HERE TRYING TO BUY OUR PROPERTY FOR $0.50 TO $0.75 ON THE DOLLAR. WE KNOW OUR CITY COUNCIL HAS MADE US AWARE. DO NOT CALL HERE. NEVER CALL MY HOUSE AGAIN. PUT ME ON YOUR. DO NOT CALL LIST.

AND STOP CALLING THE CITIZENS OF THIS COMMUNITY TRYING TO BUY THEIR PROPERTY FOR LITTLE OF NOTHING. SO YOU CAN BRING ALL THESE TENANTS IN HERE, RENTALS THAT YOU DON'T KEEP UP WHEN YOU LIVE OUT IN COPPELL SOMEWHERE. HIGHLAND PARK OR IN CHINA, MIND YOU, FOREIGN COUNTRIES. SO I'M DOING YOUR JOB. AND WHEN THEY CALL MY HOUSE, I'M GOING TO CONTINUE TO DO YOUR JOB UNTIL WE CAN GET SOME COUNCIL MEMBERS IN HERE. THAT WILL DO OUR JOB. WHO WILL REPRESENT WE THE PEOPLE.

WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT YOU, OKAY? WE'RE GOING TO FIGHT YOU. MISS PROCTOR, YOU'RE AT THE TOP OF THE LIST. WE'RE SICK OF YOU. WE ARE TIRED OF YOU. YOU'VE DONE NOTHING FOR THIS CITY. SO I DON'T WANT TO BE RUDE AND BE NASTY. BUT WHAT I'VE LEARNED WATCHING THIS FARCE IS THAT NICE GUYS, WE FINISH LAST. HAVE A GOOD EVENING, MARY BONAPARTE. MARY BONAPARTE.

GOOD EVENING. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK. EXCUSE ME. TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. GOOD EVENING, MARY BONAPARTE, 34 YEARS IN THIS CITY. MR. MAJID, THE CITIZENS OF DESOTO WELCOME YOU TO OUR ONCE GREAT CITY. THANK YOU FOR ACCEPTING THE CHALLENGE. PLEASE KNOW THAT YOU HAVE OUR FULL SUPPORT. AS A 34 YEAR RESIDENT, I CANNOT EXPRESS MY DISAPPOINTMENT WITH CITY LEADER. THERE IS EVIDENCE OF A CLEAR DIVIDE AND WHO SUFFERS THE MOST ARE THE CITIZENS AND TAXPAYERS. WE HAVE A CITY ATTORNEY WHO HAS ALLOWED CITY LEADERS TO TAKE HIS FOCUS OFF OF THE DEVELOPMENT AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE CITY. WE HAVE MEETING MINUTES, MONTHS BEHIND. WE HAVE A CITY WEBSITE THAT'S OUTDATED AND ANTIQUATED. WE HAVE A MAYOR PRO TEM COUNCIL VOTE RESCINDED, VIOLATING OUR OWN POLICIES AND PROCEDURES. AND WHAT'S WORSE, WE HAVE CITY LEADERSHIP THAT HAVE ORGANIZED TOGETHER AS A PACK, VOTING TOGETHER WHETHER RIGHT OR WRONG. YET WHEN CITIZENS WEEK AFTER WEEK STAND BEHIND THIS SAME PODIUM AS A AS A LAST RESORT IN AN ATTEMPT TO HAVE THEIR VOICES AND CONCERNS HEARD REGARDING DISSATISFACTION OF CITY SERVICES, OR EVEN EVEN TO RECOMMEND BEAUTIFICATIONS OF THE CITY, CITY LEADERS HAVE TURNED THEM AWAY WITHOUT CONCERN OR SOLUTION. THERE IS A PARTIALLY.

THIS IS PARTIALLY DUE TO LACK OF LEADERSHIP AND A DIVIDED COUNCIL. CITIZENS HAVE A RIGHT TO BE HEARD AND LEADERS SHOULD HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY OF ENSURING THAT THE RESPONSIBLE CITY STAFF PROVIDE A FOLLOW UP. BUT THAT'S NOT HAPPENING HERE. THIS ONCE BEAUTIFUL CITY LOST THE STRENGTH THAT ONCE ASSURED THE CITIZENS THAT WE HAD LASTING GROWTH, YET, BECAUSE OF LACK OF

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ANYBODY KNOW THE LORD? AMEN. IT GETS WORSE. OKAY. WHEN YOU DON'T DO THE RIGHT THING. AND THE RIGHT THING IS IN YOUR POLICY TO STEP DOWN, OKAY? NOBODY'S TRYING TO ATTACK YOUR FAMILY. NO ONE IS TRYING TO DO THAT. OKAY? NEVER. NOT ONCE HAVE I EVER ATTACKED YOU. I'M TALKING ABOUT THE BEHAVIOR. AND THE BEHAVIOR IS WRONG. IT'S WRONG. AND YOU NEED TO MAKE IT RIGHT. AND I YIELD BACK THE REST OF MY TIME. THANK YOU, MISS CLEVELAND. KEISHA, TO ADDRESS COMMENTS THAT WERE JUST MADE IN, MISS CLEVELAND'S COMMENTS. WAS ABSOLUTELY FALSE, THAT IF YOU WATCH THE VIDEO, THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED. AND I'M NOT HERE TO ARGUE. I'M NOT HERE TO ARGUE WITH IT. BUT I DO HAVE A RIGHT TO STATE. MISS. MISS CLEVELAND, IF YOU I, I CAN COMMENT TO CORRECT FALSE INFORMATION. LET'S BE REAL. SHE WAS LOOKING DOWN. MISS CLEVELAND, IF YOU COULD. IF YOU COULD PLEASE REFRAIN FROM YELLING AT HER. AND I AM. AND I DO HAVE A RIGHT TO MAKE COMMENTS. IF THERE IS FALSE INFORMATION PRESENTED IN THE COMMENTS. AND JUST LIKE WE RESPECTED YOU ALL TO ALLOW YOU TO SPEAK, I'M ASKING FOR THAT SAME RESPECT, AND THAT IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED, AS MISS CLEVELAND STATED IS NOT WHAT HAPPENED THAT EVENING, AND I WILL END IT THER, HOWEVER, I DO I DO THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT AND EVERYBODY IS WELCOME TO PROCEED. HOW THEY WOULD LIKE. HOWEVER, I DO BELIEVE THAT WE DO HAVE A RIGHT TO STATE THAT, AND THAT IS FALSE INFORMATION IN TERMS OF WHAT HAPPENED. AND IF I COULD, IF YOU ALL COULD STOP WITH THE OUTBURST BECAUSE WE RESPECTED EVERYBODY AS THEY CAME TO THE PODIUM. MISS WHITE, YOU GET THE REST OF THE COUNCIL, MISS CLEVELAND AND AUDIENCE, PLEASE. THE WRONG SHE VOTED WRONG AUDIENCE PLEASE. IF WE COULD, IF WE COULD MAINTAIN ORDER IN OUR COUNCIL CHAMBERS.

THANK YOU. KEISHA NIXON BEHIND THE SCENE ON THE PHONE. COME ALL THE TIME. OH, WOW. GOOD EVENING, KEISHA NIXON 936. PLACE OF LOUIS. I HAD PREPARED STATEMENTS, BUT I. OH WOW. I THINK I'M GOING TO SPEAK FROM MY HEART TONIGHT, I CAME TO ADDRESS ANDRE BYRD, WHO IS MY REPRESENTATIVE, OUT OF THORNTREE, AND MY NEIGHBOR. YOU SEE, YESTERDAY IS THE THIRD ANNIVERSARY OF AN ACQUITTAL OF A MALICIOUS PROSECUTION ON WHERE I DEFENDED MYSELF AGAINST MY

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I'M JUST A PRIVATE CITIZEN. WE HAVE COMMISSIONERS THAT HAVE BEEN INDICTED BY THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. WE HAVE, SEATED JUDGES THAT HAVE BEEN ACCUSED OF DUIS. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT I HAVE DONE TO YOU TO MAKE YOU LIE ON ME, SMEAR ME AND TARGET ME IN THIS CITY. NOW, I STILL DON'T HAVE ANY ANSWERS ABOUT MY SON NOT RECEIVING ANY RESPONSE FROM THE CITY FOR HIS, COMPLAINT. HIS FORMAL COMPLAINT WHERE HE WAS FORCED FROM HIS HOUSE. NOW, DURING MY MEETING WITH CRYSTAL CHISM, I KNOW THAT YOU SHARED WITH ME. AND I WILL GIVE YOU THIS CRYSTAL OUT OF ALL OF YOU SITTING UP HERE. SHE'S THE ONLY ONE THAT CONTACTED ME THAT WANTS TO TALK TO ME. ALTHOUGH THAT WENT LEFT, I GIVE HER ENOUGH RESPECT THAT SHE DID REACH OUT TO ME. NOW WE ARE IN AN ACT. WE VOTE AT LARGE. WHEN I STAND IN LINE AND VOTE, I VOTE FOR ALL OF YOU. SO YOU CAN'T SAY THAT MY ISSUES AREN'T YOUR ISSUES, RIGH? OKAY, NOW, IF WE DID THINGS THE RIGHT WAY, WHY WOULD WE IGNORED WHY ANDRE BYRD I HAVEN'T DONE ANYTHING TO YOU. I PAY TAXES, TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION.

RIGHT. YOUR WIFE CONFRONTED ME ON THE PARKING LOT OF DC THREE LAST YEAR, ASKING ME WHAT WAS MY DEAL WITH YOU. THAT'S REALLY NOT HER BUSINESS. AND SHE WAS INAPPROPRIATE. I'VE BEEN THE ONE THAT'S BEEN BULLIED, CRYSTAL. I'M THE ONE THAT'S BEEN BULLIED. NOW YOU CAN LOOK CONFUSED IF YOU WANT TO, BECAUSE YOU SAID YOURSELF THAT YOU KNOW THAT YOUR WIFE THAT CONCLUDES YOUR TIME.

THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DOCTOR JACQUELINE TAYLOR. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DOCTOR JACQUELINE TAYLOR. I'M A RESIDENT OF DESOTO, TEXAS. 541 BAYBERRY LANE, FOR 28 YEARS. I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY, AND I KNOW A LOT OF TIMES WE HEAR THE COMPLAINTS. BUT I STAND BEFORE YOU TODAY TO GIVE A STRONG COMPLIMENT TO THE WATER MAINTENANCE TEAM. JOIN THE WEEK OF 4TH OF JULY. I HAD A SEWAGE BACKUP IN MY HOME, AND WHEN I SAY THE WATER SEWAGE TEAM CAME TO MY RESCUE AND MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT CITIZEN IN DESOTO, THEY DID THA.

THEY CAME. THEY COULDN'T. IT WAS THE DAY BEFORE AND I UNDERSTOOD A HOLIDAY WAS COMING UP. BUT MISS CARMEN ANSWERED THAT PHONE AND MADE ME FEEL LIKE I WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT PERSON IN THE CITY OF DESOTO. THE GENTLEMAN CAME OUT. HE SAID, MISS TAYLOR, WE'LL BE BACK. IF NOT, IT'LL BE AFTER THE FOURTH. I SAY, I UNDERSTAND IT'S A HOLIDAY. THE DAY AFTER THE 4TH OF JULY, I CALLED THE, I GUESS, THE 24 HOUR LINE. THE GENTLEMAN ANSWERED THE PHONE. HE APOLOGIZED THAT THEY DIDN'T COME BACK. I TOLD HIM I UNDERSTOOD, BUT WHEN I SAY DEREK, MIGUEL, ELMO, KIRK AND DAMIEN, THEY CAME TO MY RESCUE. THEY CAME. THEY DID WHAT NEEDED TO BE DONE. SOMETHING THAT OFTEN THE LINE BLOCKED UP MY LINE. SEWAGE COMING UP THROUGH MY TUBS, COMING UP THROUGH MY TOILET. DON'T KNOW WHERE IT CAME FROM, BUT THOSE FIVE GENTLEMEN DID THEIR JOB AND THEY TOOK CARE OF THE TAYLOR FAMILY. AND I WANT THAT DEPARTMENT TO KNOW THAT I AM VERY APPRECIATIVE FOR THE DESOTO WATER MAINTENANCE TEAM, THAT SEWAGE CREW, BECAUSE, AGAIN, THEY MADE THE TAYLOR FAMILY FEEL LIKE WE WERE THE MOST IMPORTANT PEOPLE IN THE CITY OF DESOTO. THANK YOU. ONE.

RON BIVINS. RON BIVINS 901 MOCKINGBIRD LANE, DESOTO, TEXAS. MADAM MAYOR, MADAM COUNCIL MEMBERS. SISTER YVONNE, I GO DAILY WORKING THE ELECTIONS THROUGH DALLAS COUNTY, AND I'VE BEEN ON THE WAR FRONT WORKING AGAINST THIS STATEMENT OF STEALING ELECTIONS. I WORK HARD EVERY DAY TO SHARE WITH THE PUBLICAN PARTY. NOBODY STEALS ELECTIONS. BUT WHEN I HEARD

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YOU ALL HAVE. SO ALL I'M SAYING IS, AS A CITIZEN OF DESOTO, MY TIME IS UP, NO MATTER WHAT YOU GIVE ME THAT TIME. NO, SIR. THANK YOU. REVEREND BIVINS, FOR COMING OUT TO SPEAK, AT THIS

[D. CONSENT AGENDA Items are listed on the Consent Agenda by the City Manager and are recommended to the City Council for single vote approval. An item( s) may be removed from the Consent Agenda for separate vote at the request of a Councilmember, the Mayor, or the City Manager. ]

ITEMS ARE LISTED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA BY THE CITY MANAGER AND ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR SINGLE VOTE APPROVAL. AN ITEM MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR SEPARATE VOTE AT THE REQUEST OF A COUNCIL MEMBER, THE MAYOR OR CITY MANAGER. FIRST, WE HAVE APPROVAL OF MINUTES FOR THE REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING, MINUTES FOR MARCH 19TH AND APRIL 2ND, AS WELL AS SPECIAL MEETING MINUTES FOR MAY 20TH OF 2024, AS WELL AS CONSIDER PRELIMINARY PLAT APPROVAL OF YUILLE PARK ESTATES ADDITION. THE PROPERTY IS LEGALLY DESCRIBED AS BEING TRACT 20 AND JOHN LEWIS ABSTRACT NUMBER 774 1119 EWELL ROAD. THE APPLICANTS AND PROPERTY OWNERS ARE RONALD JOHNSON AND CARLOS ORTEGA. CASE NUMBER P-344-23. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AGREEMENT WITH FREESE AND NICHOLS, INC IN A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $35,000 FOR ENGINEERING AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW ASSISTANCE.

CONSIDER A RESOLUTION APPROVING A GRANT APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. CRIMINAL JUSTICE DIVISION FOR THE US DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, BUREAU OF JUSTICE ASSISTANCE BURN STATE CRISIS INTERVENTION PROGRAM GRANT FOR THE REGIONAL CARE TEAM PROGRAM, AND THAT IS IT, MADAM MAYOR. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER RAPHAEL, MAY I PULL E ONE? THAT IS REGARDING THE PRELIMINARY PLAT. YES. ARE YOU PULLING IT FOR QUESTIONS, OR WOULD YOU LIKE A SEPARATE VOTE, SEPARATE? WELL, OKAY, I'M PULLING IT. I GUESS I CAN START WITH QUESTION, BUT YEAH. SO WITH THIS PARTICULAR PRELIMINARY PLAT, THE CASE NUMBER, I WOULD LIKE IT PULLED BECAUSE THE CASE NUMBER, WHEN I LOOKED IT UP CAME UP AS SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SO I DON'T KNOW IF WE WANT TO GO TAKE A DEEPER DIVE. BUT IT MATCHED A DIFFERENT CASE RELATED TO, A DIFFERENT. YEAH. I THINK IT NEED TO BE PULLED IN AND JUST JUST VERIFY THAT THE, CASE NUMBER IS CORRECT ON IT. OR THE OTHER CASE THAT I FOUND ONLINE. SO PULL SEPARATE VOTE AND THEN TABLED. OKAY. SO PULLING ITEM E ONE COUNCIL. ANY OTHER COMMENTS QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS BEFORE WE VOTE, CALL FOR A MOTION FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CONSENT AGENDA. OKAY. HEARING NONE COUNCIL. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER MARX TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH THE PULLING OF ITEM E ONE COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN THAT THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY, AT THIS TIME, WE

[1. Consider preliminary plat approval of Uhl Park Estates Addition. The property is legally described as being Tract 20 in John Lewis, Abstract No. 774 (1119 Uhl Rd). The applicants and property owners are Ronnell Johnson & Carlos Ortega. (Case No. PP-344-23)]

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IS THAT SOMETHING. I JUST WANT TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT WHAT WE HAVE ON THE WEBSITE, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS, AS, AS OUR DOCUMENTS, YOU KNOW, SO OR YOU CAN VERIFY IT OR JUST MAKE SURE WE CAN DO THAT. WE CAN CONFIRM IT AND GET A GOOD NUMBER. OKAY IS THAT OKAY? ATTORNEY GRIFFITH I MEAN, IF THAT'S THE COUNCIL, IF THAT'S THE DESIRE OF THE COUNCIL TO MOVE THAT ITEM, THAT ITEM CAN BE MOVED. THAT'S FINE. IF WE CAN JUST MOVE IT DOWN, THAT'S ALL. MR. ATTORNEY, JUST WANT TO, QUESTION ACTUALLY, IF MR. BREWER GOES BACK TO HIS OFFICE AND VERIFY THAT WE CAN WE CAN DELAY THE ITEM UNTIL AFTER THE PUBLIC HEARING. I PREFER THAT SO WE CAN GIVE COUNCIL THE ANSWER IMMEDIATELY. INSTEAD OF DEFERRING THE ITEM. THANK YOU. ABSOLUTELY SO JUST WANT TO PROCEDURALLY MOVE THE ITEM TO. YES YES ON THE AGENDA. YES. WE'LL MOVE ITEM E ONE ON OUR CONSENT AGENDA. AND IT WILL BE THE LAST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA TO ALLOW STAFF TIME TO VERIFY, THE CASE NUMBER. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MISS THOMAS WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. YES,

[1. Conduct a Public Hearing to receive input on the 2024-2025 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Annual Action Plan]

THE PROGRAM PERIOD IS GOING TO BE OCTOBER 1ST, 2024 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025, ALONG WITH THESE FUNDS COME SOME HUD REQUIREMENTS ON THE LIMITATIONS FOR THESE FUNDS. SO AT LEAST, NO MORE THAN 20% OF THE FUNDS MAY BE USED FOR ADMINISTRATION, AND NO MORE THAN 15% OF THE FUNDS MAY BE USED, FOR PUBLIC SERVICE TYPES OF ACTIVITIES. AND THE REMAINING FUNDING, OF WHICH THE BALANCE IS 178,001 79, MAY BE USED FOR OTHER CDBG ACTIVITIES, THOSE ARE LISTED ON THIS SLIDE.

SO AS ESTHER MENTIONED, WE ARE THIS IS THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING AS REQUIRED BY HUD BE INITIATED, THIS ACTION PLAN IN APRIL, WE KICKED IT OFF WITH THE START OF A SURVEY AND SOME OUTREACH. WE DID SOME, ONLINE AND PAPER SURVEYS. WE LEFT SURVEYS AT THE ACTION CENTER, THE LIBRARY, THE SURVEY WAS ALSO PROMOTED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA, ON THE WEB AND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE, TO DATE WE HAVE RECEIVED 70 SURVEYS. SO I'LL GO OVER THAT ON THE NEXT SLIDE. ON MAY 21ST, WE HELD THE FIRST OF TWO PUBLIC HEARINGS, TO SOLICIT INPUT ON THE ON THE PROPOSED USES OF FUNDS, TONIGHT, I'M HERE FOR THE SECOND PUBLIC HEARING AND WHICH WE WILL PROVIDE THE PROPOSED BUDGET, ON JUNE 14TH, WE POSTED, IN THE PAPER AND ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE AND HERE AT THE ACTION CENTER, THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND CITIZENS HAD 30 DAYS TO PROVIDE ANY COMMENT ON THAT.

AFTER TODAY'S PUBLIC HEARING, WHERE WE WILL MAKE THESE FINAL RECOMMENDATIONS, CITY COUNCIL,

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WE RECEIVED 70, THE TOP PRIORITY NEEDS, ACCORDING TO THE SURVEY, WERE OWNER OCCUPIED HOUSING, OF MINOR AND OR SUBSTANTIAL HOME REPAIR, UP TO $25,000, INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS WAS THE SECOND HIGHEST NEED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WAS THE THIRD HIGHEST NEED, AND COMMUNITY SERVICE ACTIVITIES WAS THE FOURTH. I BELIEVE THIS WAS PRETTY MUCH A DOUBLE, THE RESPONSES THAT WE RECEIVED FROM LAST YEAR. SO WE'RE VERY HAPPY TO, TO RECEIVE SO MUCH CITIZEN INPUT. HERE IS THE PROPOSED ACTION PLAN BUDGET FOR THE 2024 2025 CDBG PROGRAM YEAR, ADMINISTRATION IS GOING TO BE AT 20% OR PROPOSED TO BE AT 20. AND THAT'S INCLUDES AN AMOUNT OF FUNDS NEEDED TO ADMINISTER THE PROGRAM, THE BULK OF THE FUNDING WE'RE PROPOSING TO GO TO THE HOME REPAIR PROGRAM. WE'VE CURRENTLY ASSISTED MORE THAN 30, CITIZENS OF DESOTO WITH THIS PROGRAM. AND WE'RE, PROPOSING TO CONTINUE THAT FUNDING THERE, 15% OF THE FUNDS MAY BE USED FOR PUBLIC SERVICES. AND BECAUSE THE TRANSPORTATION AFTER DOING AN ASSESSMENT OF THE TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM AND HOW MUCH MONEY WE'VE BEEN ASSISTING OVER THE PAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE'RE PROPOSING TO LIMIT THAT PROGRAM TO $21,000, WHICH SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO CONTINUE TO ENROLL THOSE FOLKS THAT HAVE BEEN ACCESSING THAT FOLKS THAT PROGRAM AND PROVIDE AN ADDITIONAL $20,000 BY ISSUING A REQUEST FOR SOLICITATION, REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS TO IDENTIFY ANOTHER, ACTIVITY, PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITY THAT CAN BENEFIT LOW TO MODERATE INCOME PERSONS, TYPICAL PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITIES. ONE PUBLIC SERVICE ACTIVITY THAT DESOTO HAS USED IN THE PAST WITH THE CARES ACT FUNDS WAS A SHORT TERM UTILITY AND RENTAL ASSISTANCE, SO THAT SOLICITATION COULD, IDENTIFY A PROGRAM LIKE THAT OR, FOOD PANTRY OR SOME OTHER SOCIAL SERVICE. AND THAT CONCLUDES THIS PRESENTATION. I'M HAPPY TO HAVE YOU TAKE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS IF YOU HAVE ANY. THANK YOU, MISS SANTA CRUZ. AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. IT'S BEEN MOVED. I'LL GIVE THAT TO COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING AT THIS TIME.

COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY I. I ALL OPPOSED SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY.

THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. I BELIEVE WE HAVE ONE COMMENT CARD. YES. FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK. KAY BROWN, PATRICK. HELLO, COUNCIL. AGAIN WANTING TO EXPAND ON WHAT I MENTIONED EARLIER, DO I SEE MY NAME IN CITY AGAIN? YES, PLEASE. OKAY. YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. KAY BROWN, PATRICK DESOTO, JUST TO EXPAND ON WHAT I MENTIONED EARLIER ABOUT THE CDBG FUNDS. SO PREVIOUSLY THERE WAS FUNDING IN THE IN THE CDBG FOR ADA SIDEWALKS, I DIDN'T EVEN SEE THAT ON THE SURVEY. WHEN I TOOK IT, IT WAS VAGUE AND SAID SERVICES AND PROGRAMS FOR THOSE WITH DISABILITIES, BUT IT WASN'T SPECIFIC TO THE ADA SIDEWALKS. THERE WAS $107,000 ALLOCATED SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT USE, AND STILL TO THIS DATE, ON THE UPDATE SLIDE FOR EACH CDBG PRESENTATION, IT SAYS NOT STARTED. SO I DON'T KNOW THE FUNDS WERE ALLOCATED AND THEN NOTHING EVER HAPPENED. SO THAT COUPLED WITH THE TRANSITION PLAN, EVERYTHING IS JUST COLLECTING DUST. AND THEN WE'RE NOW HAVING ANOTHER CONVERSATION ABOUT CDBG FUNDS AND THEN THERE'S NOTHING THERE IN REGARDS TO THE SIDEWALKS, I THINK THAT HOME REPAIR IS IMPORTANT, BUT WE'VE DONE THAT COLLECTIVELY YEAR AFTER YEAR AFTER YEAR, AND WE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING WHEN THE RESIDENTS DID VOTE ON THE ADA SIDEWALK. SO I WOULD ASK COUNCIL TO TAKE A LOOK AT THAT AND EVEN ALSO TO REVISIT THE TRANSITION PLAN AND HOW TO COUPLE THAT WITH THE CDBG. NEEDS FOR THE AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, IF THAT CONCLUDES ALL THE CARDS, COUNCIL, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM. SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY, AT THIS TIME, WE WILL, THERE IS NO ACTION ON THIS ITEM. THIS WAS ONLY A PUBLIC HEARING FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS, ON YOUR BEHALF, I HAVE SOME. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. PARKER. THANK YOU, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THAT YOU PUT IN YOUR PRESENTATION, BUT I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SEE SOME PREVIOUS YEARS. I'D LIKE TO KNOW, WHAT THE FUNDS HAVE BEEN USED FOR, AND WHEN

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SO THE FUNDS THAT ARE YOU KNOW, HAD ALREADY BEEN SET ASIDE PREVIOUSLY FOR THE SIDEWALK AND FOR THE SENIOR CENTER ARE STILL THERE. YEAH SO I WAS JUST ASKING IF WE COULD DO THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A REQUEST TO THE CITY MANAGER OR WHAT WHAT WHAT CAN HAPPEN TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT THE WEBSITE GIVES SOME CREDENCE TO THE ITEMS THAT ARE BEING USED? FIRST, THE MONIES, THE PROGRESS, LETTING PEOPLE SEE THAT AND BEING ABLE TO REALLY KIND OF QUANTIFY WHERE THE MONEY IS GOING. THANK YOU, I YIELD BACK. YES. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER, COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM, THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND BEING HERE TODAY. WHEN YOU MET WITH US LAST TIME, YOU MENTIONED THAT YOU WOULD HAVE AN OUTREACH. MAY I ASK YOU WHAT THAT OUTREACH HAS? WHAT SUCCESS HAS? I MEAN, WE HEARD THE SURVEYS, BUT CAN YOU QUANTIFY THAT FOR US TONIGHT? I WELL, COMPARED FROM LAST YEAR I BELIEVE LAST YEAR'S TOTAL WAS ABOUT 38 RESPONSES. AND SO WE DEFINITELY DOUBLED THAT, I KNOW THAT, ESTHER DID HOST SOME MEETINGS, I THINK AT LEAST ONE MEETING WITH THE COUNCIL AND HAD TWO INFO, INFORMATION SESSIONS, AT THE LIBRARY, SO THOSE WERE EXTRA MEETINGS THAT WERE ADDED THAT WERE ADDED IN JUNE. IN JULY, I BELIEVE THAT THIS SURVEY AND THE CDBG ACTION PLAN WAS ALSO PROMOTED IN, WATER BILLS.

AND THE CITY MANAGER'S REPORT, AND WE DID LEAVE IT OPEN LONGER. WE STARTED A LITTLE BIT EARLIER THIS YEAR IN, MID-APRIL AND LEFT IT OPEN A LITTLE BIT LONGER JUST TO SOLICIT MORE INPUT. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE FEEDBACK FOR STAFF BECAUSE WHEN I WAS PLANNING OUT MY, MEETINGS FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR, I SPECIFICALLY ASKED, WAS THERE ANYTHING COMING DOWN IN THE SUMMERTIME THAT WE SHOULD BE AWARE OF, FOR THE PUBLIC THAT DOESN'T KNOW, THE CITY COUNCIL HAS TO PUT IN MEETING REQUESTS AS OUR COMMUNITY CONVERSATIONS 60 DAYS IN ADVANCE. SO WHEN YOU HAVE SOMETHING THAT COMES BEFORE COUNCIL LIKE THIS, WE CAN'T JUST TURN AROUND AND SAY, NEXT DAY, HEY, I WANT TO MEET ON THIS IN A MONTH, THE CITY IS PRETTY STRICT ON THAT 60 DAYS. SO IF WE COULD GET IF BECAUSE THIS SOUNDS LIKE THIS IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT HAPPENS EVERY YEAR AROUND THE SAME TIME, RIGHT? IF, IF, IF BECAUSE I THINK THAT WE CAN HELP DRIVE. IF YOU ONLY HAD ONE COUNCIL MEET ON ONE COMMUNITY MEETING, I THINK GETTING MORE INPUT ON THIS WOULD BE GREAT.

SECONDLY, I WANT TO SAY THAT LAST YEAR WE DID THROW IN THE, RENTAL ASSISTANCE AND WE HAD GREAT SUCCESS FROM THAT. I LOVE FOR THE COUNCIL TO RECONSIDER THAT. IN ADDITION TO SOMETHING THAT WE'VE NEVER TALKED ABOUT. I AGREE WITH THE SPEAKER THAT SAYS WHILE THE HOME REHABILITATION HAS BEEN VERY SUCCESSFUL, I'VE HEARD RAVING REVIEWS ABOUT THAT. I'D LIKE TO SEE SOME FUNDING

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THE CITY OF DESOTO. ESTHER, IN OUR OUR TEAM WITH GROW AMERICA WILL BEGIN THE CONSOLIDATED PLANNING PROCESS. AND SO WE WILL HAVE MORE ROBUST OUTREACH AND MEETINGS AND ENGAGEMENT WITH THE PUBLIC. SO THIS IS THE DEFINITELY THE APPROPRIATE YEAR, FOR THAT. AND WE'LL MAKE SURE THAT TO, TO GET A PLAN AND A SCHEDULE, WELL AHEAD OF TIME JUST TO LET COUNCIL KNOW AND TO LET THE PUBLIC KNOW AND TO BETTER COORDINATE WITH YOU ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER RAPHAEL. I BELIEVE I WAS NEXT I APOLOGIZE, DOCTOR MARKS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION THIS AFTERNOON. I WANT TO LOOK AT THE AMOUNT THAT WE WERE AWARDED THIS YEAR. WHAT IS IT? 279 273 273 AND IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, IN THE PAST, IT WAS LAST YEAR IT WAS, WHAT, 294 OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT? AND IF SO, WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? WILL I SEE WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS? BUT WHAT MAKES THAT DIFFERENCE? CAN YOU TELL ME WHY IT'S THAT WAY? YEAH, SO THE CITY OF DESOTO DID RECEIVE A DECREASED ALLOCATION THIS YEAR. SO THESE THESE ARE FUNDS THAT COME DOWN FROM THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. IT'S A FORMULA ALLOCATION BASED ON YOUR POPULATION, NUMBER OF LOW INCOME FAMILIES. SO IT'S A ONE OF TWO FORMULAS THAT HUD. HUD USES, I KNOW THAT DOCTOR WILLIAMS HAD ASKED ABOUT THAT BEFORE. WHY ARE WE GETTING A DECREASE? WHY IS THE CITY RECEIVING DECREASE WHEN OTHERS MIGHT OTHER GRANTEES MIGHT BE RECEIVING INCREASES, AND IT'S JUST THE FUNDING, LESS FUNDING. SO WHEN THE, YOU KNOW, ALLOCATION FUNDING FOR CDBG COMES DOWN FROM THE FEDS, IF IT'S LOWER THAN IT WAS PREVIOUSLY, DEPENDING ON THE FORMULA, IT'S LIKELY THAT THAT THAT AMOUNT IS GOING TO BE REDUCED, GROW AMERICA IS PART OF MANY GRANTEES, WORKS WITH GRANTEES, AND WE'RE VERY STRONG ADVOCATES FOR THESE FUNDS AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL. SO WHAT WE SAY IS MAKE SURE THAT YOU TELL YOUR CONGRESSMEN AND SENATORS THAT THIS IS IMPORTANT FUNDING AND THAT YOU WE NEED MORE FUNDING, IN YOUR COMMUNITY. AND THAT'S SOMETHING YOU CAN DO. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH, RAPHAEL, THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH FOR YIELDING, MADAM MAYOR, I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER RAPHAEL. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION AND FOR WORKING ON THIS. WHEN YOU SAID WE'RE AT THE END OF THE FIVE YEAR TERM. SO THE 107,000 THAT'S SET ASIDE FOR SIDEWALKS IS THAT WHEN IT RETIRES AT THE END OF THIS NEXT FIVE YEAR TERM, FOR THIS CURRENT FIVE YEAR. NO, NOT NECESSARILY. IF THOSE IF THOSE MONIES ARE STILL AVAILABLE, THEY'LL, THEY WILL JUST CONTINUE TO ROLL OVER CDBG FUNDS EXPIRE AT ABOUT YEAR SEVEN. SO IF BASED ON THE YEAR THAT YOU START, IF THOSE FUNDS HAVEN'T BEEN USED, IN SEVEN YEARS, THEN THEY WOULD EXPIRE. BUT NO, THE CON PLAN HUD JUST REQUIRES COMMUNITIES EVERY FIVE YEARS TO CONDUCT A NEEDS ASSESSMENT AND MARKET ANALYSIS, TO IDENTIFY WHAT ARE GOING TO BE THE PRIORITIES FOR THE USE OF THE FUNDS FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. OKAY. THANK YOU SO MUCH.

DO WE HAVE ANY OTHER POCKETS OF FUNDS THAT ARE STILL WAITING SOMEWHERE THAT HASN'T BEEN EXPENDED TOTALLY YET? NO, WE'RE LOOKING AT THAT ALL THE TIME. AND THAT'S WHY THOSE SIDEWALK FUNDS HAVE HAVE STAYED THERE. THE HOME REPAIR PROGRAM HAS BEEN SUCCESSFUL. AND, WE'VE BEEN BEEN ABLE TO MANAGE THAT. SO WE WE'RE WAITING TO SEE, HOW MUCH THE SENIOR CITY, SENIOR CENTER FACILITY PROJECT WAS GOING TO COST BEFORE WE, LOOKED AT REPROGRAMING ANY ANY MONIES. BUT ONCE WE HAVE THAT, THAT CONFIRMED BUDGET, WE WOULD CERTAINLY BE COMING BACK TO COUNCIL TO LET YOU KNOW IF THERE'S ANY ADDITIONAL FUNDS AVAILABLE. WHAT'S LEFT? AND, YOU KNOW, RECOMMENDATIONS FOR REPROGRAMING. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN BURKE, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR REPORT, JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS. THE FIRST ONE IS, I BELIEVE YOU JUST ADDRESSED IT. IF FUNDS ARE THERE AND BEEN ALLOCATED, THEY CAN BE REPROGRAMED BEFORE THEY EXPERTLY. AND YEAH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD BE LOOKING AT CONTINUALLY MAKING SURE THAT PROJECTS ARE ADVANCING AND PROGRESSING SO THAT YOU DON'T HAVE TOO MUCH MONEY SITTING, SETTING ASIDE, SITTING ASIDE AND TO THE POINT THAT THIS, THAT ONE OF OUR CITIZENS BROUGHT UP AND I BELIEVE, COUNCILWOMAN, PARK. OH, GOD.

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[2. Conduct Public Hearing and consider Ordinance to amend Section 10 "Changes and Amendments To All Zoning Ordinances and Districts and Administrative Procedures" of the City's Zoning Ordinance in order to align with Section 1 of Senate Bill 929 (SB 929). Case No. TA-0007-24]

THIS REQUEST TO OUR P AND Z, THEY APPROVED IT AS FAR AS INITIATING THIS TEXT AMENDMENT REQUIREMENT. THEN WE HAD TO FOLLOW UP THE PUBLIC HEARING. THE PUBLIC HEARING WAS CONDUCTED ON THE JUNE 25TH. DURING THAT PUBLIC HEARING, NO RESIDENTS APPEARED TO SPEAK IN FAVOR OF OR IN OPPOSITION OF THIS REQUEST. FOLLOWING THE PUBLIC HEARING, THE PNC APPROVED BY MOTION OF 5 TO 1 TO APPROVE MAKING A RECOMMENDATION OF APPROVAL TO YOU ON THIS REQUEST TO HAVE A TEXT AMENDMENT TO ADD SECTION ONE FOR SENATE BILL 929 TO THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE. THAT CONCLUDES STAFF'S REPORT. I'LL ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS OR CONCERNS YOU MAY HAVE. THANK YOU. MISTER BOROUGH COUNCIL, AT THIS TIME, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES, SECOND BY COUNCILMAN BYRD, COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. WE HAVE NO COMMENT CARDS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. SO AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCILMAN BYRD, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL ALL IN FAVOR PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS CLOSED. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. MADAM MAYOR. OH, WE. OH, ONCE WE ONCE WE GET A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, THEN WE CAN ENTERTAIN. COMMENT, COMMENT, LAST COMMENT, PARTING COMMENTS. AND THE ORDINANCE READING. IS THERE A MOTION? MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE, THE ZONING, THE ZONING CASE NUMBER TO DASH 000724 AS PRESENTED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS COMMENTS FOR STAFF.

YES. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR GIVING THIS INFORMATION. I DO HAVE A QUESTION NOW. I MEAN, WHEN YOU SAID JUST A FEW MINUTES AGO THAT WE DON'T HAVE TO. I WAS JUST WONDERING, SINCE THERE IS A CHANGE AND WE ARE MAKING A CHANGE, WHAT MADE THAT STATEMENT

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THANK YOU. COUNSEL, ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS BEFORE WE HAVE THE READING OF THE ORDINANCE? OKAY. HEARING NONE. WE'LL HAVE THE ORDINANCE, PLEASE. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE AND MAP OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AS HERETOFORE AMENDED, BY AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING CODE CHAPTER TWO, TITLED ADMINISTRATION BY AMENDING SECTION TEN TITLED CHANGES AND AMENDMENTS TO ALL ZONING ORDINANCES AND DISTRICTS AND ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES BY AMENDING SUBSECTION 10.4 TITLED PUBLIC HEARING AND NOTICE SUBSECTION 10.4 AS SECTION 10.4 A AND ADDING A NEW SECTION 10.4 B TO INCLUDE NOTICE REQUIREMENTS WHEN A ZONING BOUNDARY CHANGE CREATES A NONCONFORMING USE PROVIDING A CONFLICT CONFLICTS CLAUSE. PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE. PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE. PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE. PROVIDING FOR PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF $2,000 FOR EACH OFFENSE, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM, SECOND BY, COUNCIL MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED COUNCIL.

PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PAD. CAN WE CAN YOU RESET IT, PLEASE? HE'S GOING TO RESET IT. COUNCIL MEMBER. COUNCIL, PLEASE VOTE AGAIN. THANK YOU. HE'S GOT A BROKEN BUTTON. YEAH. MY BUTTON IS NOT SO HOW DO YOU VOTE? I GIVE A VERBAL YES. OKAY THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. YES, MA'AM. NEXT WE HAVE

[3. Conduct a Public Hearing and consider an Ordinance to rezone a 6.1815-acre tract of land legally described as being Block A, Lot 3 in the Townsend Square Addition (901 N Polk Street) from existing General Retail to a new Planned Development (PD) with base zoning of General Retail with additional Commercial-1 (C-1) uses and a request for deviation from Section 38.6 "Parking Requirements Based on Use" to utilize the existing number of parking spaces for all future tenants. The applicant is Crest Commercial Real Estate (Eric Fulkerson and Alison Edwards) and the property owner is Valente 901 Polk Inc. Zoning Case No. Z-1520-24]

ZONING CASE NUMBER Z. DASH 1520 DASH TWO, FOR PROVIDING A BRIEF PRESENTATION, IT'S BEST TO REMUNERATES THE PLANNING AND ZONING MANAGER. GOOD EVENING, MISS USA. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, THIS CASE CAME BEFORE, PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ON, JANUARY, JUNE 25TH. AND AFTER THAT MEETING AT THE APPLICANT MET WITH STAFF. AND AFTER THAT MEETING, THE APPLICANT DECIDED TO HAVE THIS ITEM TABLED OR CONTINUED TO YOUR SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2024 MEETING, THE APPLICANT HERE, AND I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE. THE REQUEST IS TO TABLE THIS ITEM TO THE SEPTEMBER 17TH, 2024 MEETING.

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I THINK THEY MIGHT HAVE SOME GOOD IDEAS FOR US. AND, AND SO I LOOK FORWARD TO THAT OPPORTUNITY, IF YOU'LL AVAIL ME OF THAT. THANK YOU. AND THANK YOU, MR. FOX. AND GOOD TO SEE YOU, COUNCIL, AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE A REQUEST FROM THE APPLICANT TO TABLE THIS TO A DATE CERTAIN, THAT THEY PROVIDED FOR US, WE WILL NEED TO TAKE ACTION BY VOTING ON THAT TO ACCEPT THAT REQUEST TO TABLE IT. SO AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. SO MOVED. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER, SECONDED BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO ACCEPT THE APPLICANT'S REQUEST TO TABLE THIS ITEM. COUNCIL PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PADS. LET'S SEE. YES, SIR. I'M SORRY, I JUST WANT TO. I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT THIS QUESTION IS FOR THE CITY ATTORNEY. IF THE APPLICANT IS WILLING TO TABLE THIS ITEM, THEY DON'T HAVE TO COME BACK ON SEPTEMBER 17TH. THEY CAN COME BACK ANY TIME. SO THE MOTION WOULD BE JUST CLEAR TO SAY AT A TIME THAT THE APPLICANT IS, AVAILABLE TO WHAT YOU WANT BACK ON THAT DATE. NO, I MEAN, I WANT I WANT TO LEAVE THE APPLICANT SOME SOME LEVERAGE TO BE ABLE TO COME BACK AT A TIME WHEN THEY ARE READY. CORRECT. AS LONG AS AS LONG AS WE'RE ADVERTISING IT CAN JUST BE TO A DATE, TO A FUTURE DATE. YOU DON'T HAVE TO HAVE A DATE CERTAIN. CORRECT? CORRECT NOW THAT TECHNICALLY WE DID NOT STATE THE DATE, WE BUT THEY PROVIDED US WITH THE DATE BEFOREHAND. SO IS DOES THE MOTION STILL STAND THAT WE HAVE HERE? OKAY DOCTOR MARX, WE HAVE TO TAKE THE. THAT WOULD BE A DIFFERENT MOTION, I WOULD THINK, BECAUSE THE MOTION THAT YOU DID, HE SAY, DID WE SAY IS SHE SAID AS STATED HE HE JUST SAID HE STOOD THERE AND SAID SEPTEMBER

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ALL IN FAVOR OF THE AMENDMENT. PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PADS. I'M HAVING SOME ISSUES WITH THAT GOING DOWN. YEAH I HAVE A VERBAL YES. SO LET'S JUST DO. OH, HERE WE GO. THE AMENDMENT HAS BEEN UNANIMOUSLY, UNANIMOUSLY ACCEPTED. NOW WE ARE VOTING ON THE AMENDED MOTION, WHICH IS TO TABLE THIS ITEM TO A DATE, A FUTURE DATE. COUNCIL, PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PAD. THAT MOTION PASSES SIX ONE. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MISS THOMAS WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA.

[4. Conduct a Public Hearing and consider an Ordinance amending Planned Development-20 (PD-20) in order to allow a new four (4) story hotel to be developed on property that is legally described as being Lot 2, Block A in the Wintergreen Commercial Center Addition. The property consists of approximately 4.323 acres and is addressed as 1301 E. Wintergreen Road. The applicant is Kiew Kam and the property owner/developer is Bhamti DeSoto LLC (Kalpesh Patel). Zoning Case No. Z-1524-24]

THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED ON THE WEST SIDE OF INTERSTATE 35, EAST AND ON THE NORTH SIDE OF WINTERGREEN ROAD. THIS IS THE LOCATION IN RED AND, ON THE ON THE NORTH SIDE IS VACANT PROPERTY. AND THEN ON THE ON THE WEST SIDE WE DO HAVE THIS EXISTING HOTEL, AND THERE'S ANOTHER HOTEL THAT IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION RIGHT HERE. WE DO HAVE ANOTHER HOTEL RIGHT HERE.

AND THEN WE HAVE THE GAS STATION RIGHT HERE. AND THIS IS THE VACANT HOTEL RIGHT HERE. SO THE PROPOSAL IS WILL BE RIGHT IN THIS, IN THIS, VACANT PROPERTY. AGAIN, THIS IS A PROPOSED FOUR STORY HOTEL WITH 97 GUEST ROOMS AND A FUTURE RETAIL LOT ALONG WINTERGREEN ROAD. THE HOTEL WILL HAVE MULTIPLE AMENITIES AS REQUIRED IN PD 20. THE HOTEL DEVELOPMENT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE DESTINATION MIXED USE OF THE 20 2024 COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. THESE ARE THE, THE AMENITIES THAT THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING. THE AMENITIES THAT ARE LISTED HERE, THE FOUR RESTAURANT BAR WITH A BAR, MEETING ROOM, OUTDOOR LOUNGE AND A GREEN SPACE AREA. AND THESE ARE AMENITIES ARE ALSO THEY MEET THE SPIRIT AND THE INTENT OF PD 20 AND THE TABLE ON THE ON THE RIGHT SIDE, JUST SHOWING THE SIZES OF THE DIFFERENT AMENITIES WITHIN THAT ARE BEING PROPOSED. WITH THIS HOTEL. THIS IS THE SITE PLAN THAT IS BEING PROPOSED. THE HOTEL WILL BE ON THE NORTHERN SIDE, WHICH IS THIS BUILDING RIGHT HERE. AND THIS IS THE LOT THAT IS BEING LEFT FOR FUTURE RETAIL USE. AND ON JUNE, JUNE 9TH, THIS, NOTIFICATION WAS PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY FORECAST NEWSPAPER. AND 18 LETTERS WERE SENT OUT TO PROPERTIES WITHIN 400 AND 200FT. ONE LETTER WAS RECEIVED IN FAVOR AND TWO LETTERS WERE RECEIVED IN OPPOSITION. HOWEVER, THOSE TWO LETTERS THAT WERE RECEIVED IN OPPOSITION, THEY DO CONSTITUTE 20. MORE THAN 20% OF THE AREA THAT IS BEING PROPOSED FOR THIS DEVELOPMENT. SO THE AREA IN YELLOW, RIGHT HERE, THE AREA IN BLACK IS THE SITE BEING PROPOSED WITH FOR THE HOTEL AND THEN THE BLUE OR THE BLUE AREA IS THE 200FT NOTIFICATION AREA AND THE PURPLE IS THE 400FT NOTIFICATION AREA. THE YELLOW THE YELLOW COLOR IS SHOWING THE OPPOSITION. THAT IS, THE OPPOSITION TO THIS APPLICATION. AND ON JUNE 2020, JUNE 25TH, 2024, THE COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL OF THIS APPLICANT'S REQUEST TO AMEND PD

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YES, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION PURPOSES TO THIS CITY COUNCIL, IT DOES MEET ALL OF THE REQUIREMENTS IN PD 20, CORRECT? YES SIR. THE ONLY PURPOSE THAT YOU BRING THAT YOU'RE BRINGING THIS FORWARD AS A PUBLIC HEARING IS TO MAKE THE SITE PLAN PART OF THE PD DOCUMENT. YES YES, THE PD DOCUMENT DOES NOT REQUIRE NECESSARILY THE SITE PLAN BE MADE PART OF THE PD, BUT YOU HAVE CHOSEN TO BRING IT FORWARD AS PART OF THE PD. YES. SO WE CAN HAVE IT AS PART OF THE PD 20. CAN I ASK A QUESTION? YES. A POINT OF INFORMATION, MR. GARCIA. SO WITH THAT STATEMENT, YOU JUST MADE, IF THERE ARE NO DEVIATIONS, CAN YOU GIVE THE COUNCIL? BECAUSE WHEN I READ THROUGH THE DOCUMENTS, I WAS A BIT CONFUSED. SO. SO PD, PD 20 ESTABLISHES THE BASICALLY THE BASE ZONING FOR THE REQUIREMENTS IN THE IN IN THE IN FOR HOTELS SPECIFICALLY ON PAGE 20 OF 30 OF THE DOCUMENT THAT IS IN YOUR IN YOUR ZONING PACKET, IT TALKS ABOUT ADMINISTRATIVE PROCEDURES AND REQUIREMENTS FOR THE SITE PLAN, WHAT STAFF HAS DONE IS THEY SO IF THEY'VE JUST WALKED IN AND DROPPED THE SITE PLAN DOWN AND IT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS, IT'S MINISTERIAL.

ONCE WE MOVE AWAY FROM THE ZONING, IT BECOMES MORE MINISTERIAL. IT MEETS THE ZONING REQUIREMENTS, THEN IT'S MINISTERIAL FOR APPROVAL PURPOSES. HOWEVER, WE HAVE ATTACHED THIS TO THE PD. WE'VE OPENED THE PD BACK UP, MAKING IT A ZONING CASE, A PUBLIC HEARING, AND BECAUSE THEY WANT THE SITE PLAN ATTACHED TO THAT PLAN DEVELOPMENT. SO THE QUAGMIRE WOULD BE IT IS BY ORDINANCE APPROVED BECAUSE IT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS. THE SITE PLAN MEETS ALL THE SITE PLAN MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BASE PLAN DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE. YES.

ALSO TO ADD THIS IS PD 20 REASON IT'S COMING HERE ALSO. AND IF YOU LOOK THE EXHIBIT NUMBER IS A TRIPLE LETTER. WE HAVE FOLLOWED THE PRACTICE OF OTHER STAFF LETTERS A THROUGH Z HAVE ALREADY COME THROUGH A PREVIOUS COUNCIL DOUBLE A THROUGH DOUBLE Z HAS ALWAYS COME THROUGH. SO NOW THIS APPLICANT IN THAT PD THAT ALLOWS HOTELS THAT SHOWS THAT SITE PLANS TO BE ATTACHED WITH THIS PD IS BEING BROUGHT TO YOU. AND THE PREVIOUS ONES ALL HAVE HAD DEVIATIONS. FROM THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT REGULATIONS. HENCE WHY THAT WAS A ZONING REQUIRING NOTIFICATION. AND THANK YOU, I'M STILL CONFUSED. SO I LIKE TO ASK ONE FOLLOW UP QUESTION. IF THERE ARE NO DEVIATIONS AND IF THE ORDINANCES ALLOW EXACTLY WHAT THEY'RE TRYING TO BUILD THERE, THEN THE ONLY REASON WE ARE HERE IS BECAUSE WE'RE TRYING TO AMEND THE PD. IS THAT CORRECT? YES. WHICH WILL INCLUDE ADDING THEIR SPECIFIC SITE PLAN, CONCEPT PLAN TO THAT DOCUMENT AND ASSUMING THAT WE DON'T APPROVE THE PD, ARE THEY BY LAW STILL? ARE THEY BY LAW? DO THEY STILL HAVE THE RIGHT BY LAW BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT ASKING FOR DEVIATIONS TO THAT'S THAT'S THE POINT THAT I NEED CLARITY BECAUSE WE HAVE A PROBLEM. WE HAVE WE HAVE AN APPLICANT THAT IS BUILDING SOMETHING THAT IS THAT IS WITHIN THE ORDINANCES WITHOUT ASKING FOR ANY DEVIATIONS. AND THAT'S ONE PART OF IT. BUT THEY WANT TO BE PART OF A PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. AND SO THEY'RE ASKING US TO AMEND THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. SO I'M TRYING TO SEE IF WE HAVE ANY BASIS JUST FOR MY OWN SAKE. NOT THAT I'M GOING TO APPROVE IT OR DENY IT. DO I HAVE ANY BASIS FOR DENYING IT? AND IF I DO, WHAT DOES THAT TRIGGER? SO THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT PD 20 DOES NOT REQUIRE EVERY EVERY USE THAT'S IN THERE TO COME FORWARD WITH A SITE PLAN. AND THAT SITE PLAN BECOME A PART OF THE ZONING ORDINANCE. BUT STAFF HAS MADE THE DETERMINATION THAT THEY WANT THAT SITE PLAN TO BECOME PART OF AN EXHIBIT TO THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT. THE ONLY WAY TO DO THAT IS TO OPEN THE PD UP AS A ZONING CASE, TO MAKE THAT SITE PLAN AS PART OF THE PLANNED DEVELOPMENT. IF THE DEVELOPER WALKED IN THE DOOR TOMORROW AFTER DENIAL AND IT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS AND PLANNED

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AND SO ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS TO WHAT ARE LET ME REPHRASE THE QUESTION. WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS FOR HAVING THEM? PART OF THE PD IS ARE THERE ANY BENEFITS SINCE SINCE THEY ARE IN LINE WITH THE ORDINANCE AND THERE'S NO DEVIATION, WHAT WHAT ARE THE BENEFITS TO THE CITY TO HAVE THEM BE PART OF THE PD? I WOULD SAY WITH THIS PARTICULAR CASE, IT HAS A SITE PLAN THAT ACTUALLY PROPOSES DEVELOPMENT, TWO SEPARATE PHASES. IT ESTABLISHES THAT THAT SECOND PHASE IS GOING TO BE SOME TYPE OF RETAIL BUILDING. AND THAT WAS WHAT THEY WOULD BE HELD TO IF THEY COME BACK TO US FOR THAT SECOND PHASE. COUNCIL MEMBER, AS, AS THE CITY ATTORNEY MENTIONED, THE PD, THE PD ALLOWS SUCH DEVELOPMENT TO HAPPEN, WHAT? WHEN YOU HAVE A SITE PLAN, YOU HAVE THE OPTION OF EITHER, YOU KNOW, PROPOSE IT OR MOVE IT FORWARD THROUGH A MINISTERIAL, PROCESS. AND STAFF HAS CHOSEN TO MAKE IT PART OF THE ACTUAL, ZONING MATTER OR THE ZONING APPLICATION ITSELF. SO IT'S A BENEFIT TO THE CITY COUNCIL TO SEE IT AS WELL. IT REALLY IT COULD HAVE BEEN DONE EITHER WAY. BUT I THINK IN THIS ASPECT THAT THE STAFF FELT IT'S IMPORTANT TO BRING IT BACK, BUT WHEN YOU BRING IT BACK AS A SITE PLAN, YOU HAVE TO OPEN, YOU HAVE TO OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING. YOU KNOW, YOU HAVE TO BASICALLY AMEND THE PD TO ADD THIS DOCUMENT. TO THE ZONING CASE. AND I APPRECIATE THAT INFORMATION. I GUESS THE POINT OF CONTENTION IS BY BRINGING IT BEFORE US, IT GIVES THE SIGN TO THE PUBLIC THAT WE HAVE THE RIGHT TO DENY IT. AND THE TRUTH IS, IF THERE ARE NO VARIANCES, I HAVE NO RIGHT NOT TO APPROVE IT. YOU ARE ACTUALLY BEING WHEN SITE PLANS. AND THAT'S CORRECT. THEY CAN BE APPROVED BY STAFF OR THEY CAN BRING THEM TO THE CITY COUNCIL. ANY TIME WE'VE HAD A SITE PLAN BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL, YOU'VE HEARD ME ASK THE QUESTION WHETHER OR NOT IT MEETS ALL, ALL THE BASE REQUIREMENTS. YOU ARE ESSENTIALLY PUTTING THE HAT ON OF WHAT STAFF WOULD BE DOING WHEN THEY BRING IN THE SITE.

PLAN FOR APPROVAL AND LOOKING AT THE CHECKING THE BOXES, DOES IT MEET THE BOXES? VERY SIMILAR TO PRELIMINARY PLANS, RIGHT? THE FURTHER WE MOVE AWAY FROM FROM FROM ZONING, WHICH IS DISCRETIONARY INTO SITE PLAN APPROVAL, IT BECOMES MORE MINISTERIAL. SO WE'VE MOVED AWAY FROM DISCRETIONARY ZONING BECAUSE THAT PD 20 SAYS SPECIFICALLY HOTELS ARE ALLOWED IF THEY MEET THE FOLLOWING THE FOLLOWING REQUIREMENTS. WE'VE CHECKED THE BOXES. THANK YOU.

AND AGAIN, THIS CONVERSATION IS NOT TO REBUTTAL OR TO REVIEW THE PROCESS. IT IS REALLY TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC THAT WHEN THINGS ARE ARE FALLS WITHIN THE RAMIFICATIONS OF, OF REQUIREMENTS THE BAR, THE ROOM SIZES, THE MEETING ROOM SIZES, THEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO DENY IS REALLY OUT EVEN EVEN WITH, WELL, OKAY, I HAVE ONE OTHER QUESTION. IF IT TRIGGERS THE SUPERMAJORITY, DOES THAT NOT HOLD TRUE? THE SAME REASON I AND I'M SORRY FOR HAVING THIS THIS ACADEMIC CONVERSATION, BUT BECAUSE BECAUSE THE DECISION WAS TO BRING THIS BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL, THE ONLY WAY TO BRING IT BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL, TO HAVE IT ATTACHED TO THIS PLAN DEVELOPMENT WAS TO OPEN UP THE ZONING CASE, WHICH TRIGGERS THE SUPERMAJORITY. CORRECT. BECAUSE IT IT IS AN AMENDMENT TO THE PLAN DEVELOPMENT. SO IT STILL TRIGGERS A SUPERMAJORITY. IT'S NOT JUST A SITE PLAN APPROVAL BECAUSE WE ARE AMENDING THE PD. OKAY THANK YOU. BUT THEN THAT BUT THEN THAT BRINGS US RIGHT BACK TO WHERE WE STARTED, IT'S GOING TO BE APPROVED. IT'S GOING TO MOVE FORWARD ANYWAY. BE IT MINISTERIAL OR BE IT COUNCIL. CORRECT. WHETHER OR NOT IT'S 20% CORRECT, WHETHER OR NOT IT'S SUPERMAJORITY OR NOT, IT WILL MOVE FORWARD, CORRECT? NO, NO, BECAUSE IF IT DOES NOT, IF IT DOES NOT GET APPROVED HERE AS AN AMENDMENT TO THE PD. OKAY. THEN THERE'S GOING TO HAVE TO BE ANOTHER MECHANISM FOR IT TO GET APPROVED BY. OKAY. SO THEN WHAT WOULD BE WHAT WOULD BE THROUGH THE REGULAR SITE PLAN APPROVAL PROCESS, WHICH THE WHICH THE ZONING CODE AND PD 20 LAYS OUT AS FAR AS WHAT IS REQUIRED ON PAGE 20 OF 30 FOR ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVALS. SO, SO IF IT DOESN'T, IF WE DON'T GET A SUPERMAJORITY HERE, WHAT HAPPENS. IT GOES BACK TO THAT'S UP TO THE DEVELOPER OKAY OKAY. ALL RIGHT. WELL SORRY I WASN'T JUST ONE LAST FOLLOW UP

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OKAY, OKAY. THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU, MR. GODFREY. DID YOU HAVE COMMENTS? YEAH MAYBE I SHOULD HOLD BACK AND NOT COMMENT, IF IT WAS, IF IT WAS UP TO ME AND I HAD KNOWN A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT IT, I PROBABLY WOULDN'T HAVE BRING IT BACK TO COUNCIL. I WOULD INFORM THE CITY COUNCIL A DIFFERENT WAY THROUGH, THROUGH AN EMAIL OR THROUGH A MEMORANDUM TO THE CITY COUNCIL. SO YOU'RE AWARE OF IT BECAUSE AS AS THE CITY ATTORNEY SAID, IT IS APPROVED, BY THE PD, YOU KNOW, IT MEETS ALL THE PD REQUIREMENTS AND WE REALLY DIDN'T NEED TO TAKE THE EXTRA STEP IN THERE. JUST BECAUSE SOMETHING HAS HAPPENED IN THE PAST. WE SHOULDN'T GO THROUGH IT JUST SO WE CAN ADD MORE PROCESS. AND SO, WHAT WE'LL I'LL WORK WITH THE TEAM TO, YOU KNOW, CLEAN UP THIS MOVING FORWARD. AND, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, I DO WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT COUNCIL IS KEPT APPRIZED OF EVERYTHING THAT WE'RE DOING. AND SO THERE THEY HAVE FIRST KNOWLEDGE ABOUT WHAT, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE DOING. MAYBE THAT WOULD BE A REPORT BY THE CITY MANAGER ON ALL DEVELOPMENTS AND ALL HAPPENINGS. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE MORE COMMENTS, BUT HOWEVER, I WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING BECAUSE WE DO HAVE A RESIDENT COMMENT CARD, AT THIS TIME COUNCIL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM, SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. WE DO HAVE A COMMENT CARD FOR AN INDIVIDUAL. INDIVIDUAL WHO WISHES TO SPEAK. JOYCE HILL. MR, IF YOU COULD PREPARE OUR TIME CLOCK. GOOD EVENING, MISS HILL. GOOD TO SEE YOU. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME AND YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE ONLY FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK.

AND JOYCE HILL, DESOTO, TEXAS. THANK YOU FOR HEARING ME THIS EVENING. AND I'M TOTALLY CONFUSED ON EVERYTHING THAT YOU GUYS HAVE DISCUSSED. SO, I JUST WANT TO GIVE MY COMMENTS ANYWAY, BECAUSE I DO REPRESENT MYSELF AS WELL AS THE NORTH MEADOWS, SOME OF THE NORTH MEADOWS EIGHT.

NEIGHBORS, OUR CITY IS A FOUR STAR EXEMPLARY CITY. WE NEED TO LET PEOPLE KNOW THAT WE ARE GROWING AND WE WANT NEW BUSINES. HOWEVER, WE DON'T WANT TO ACCEPT JUST ANYTHING IN OUR IN OUR COMMUNITY, AND WE HAVE BEEN INUNDATED WITH HOTELS. AND I KNOW YOU'VE HEARD THAT BEFORE. I THINK WE HAVE, LIKE 12 ON THE I 35 CORRIDOR AND THREE ARE NEW AND 1 OR 2 ARE STILL IN THE PROCESS OF BEING BUILT. SO I KNOW WE NEED REVENUE AND THEY DO BRING A LOT OF REVENUE TO THE CITY, BUT WE DON'T WANT TO JUST ACCEPT ANYTHING. AND THIS HOTEL, WHICH IS THE COUNTRY INNS AND SUITES, I'VE SEEN THEM IN, THEY ARE BUILT NICE AND THEY DO ACCOMMODATE, PEOPLE, BUT I JUST DON'T THINK THAT IT IS A LEVEL OF QUALITY LEVEL HOTEL FOR DESOTO, TEXAS. THE PRICE RANGE IS LESS THAN THE OTHER HOTELS THAT ARE BEING BUILT IN OUR AREA, WHICH MEANS THAT BRINGS A DIFFERENT CLIENTELE TO OUR CITY. AND WE'RE ALREADY HAVING PROBLEMS WITH OTHER THINGS. AND

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SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER, SECOND BY COUNCILMAN BYRD TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED. SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY AT THIS TIME. COUNCIL. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. COUNCIL, PLEASE REMEMBER, A MOTION JUST SIMPLY GETS IT ON THE FLOOR SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE DISCUSSION. MADAM MAYOR AND COUNCIL, I, MAKE A MOTION TO DENY. IS THERE A SECOND? IT HAS BEEN SECOND BY COUNCILMAN BYRD, AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL, COMMENTS? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, I APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO ASK THE QUESTION BECAUSE I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED AS WELL.

I HAD PREPARED QUESTIONS, AND YET NOW I SIT WITH A SITUATION WHERE I'M A LITTLE CONFUSED AS TO, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE'RE ACTUALLY NEEDING TO DO TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN. THIS IS ALL MINISTERIAL. IS THAT WHAT I HEARD? THAT MEANS THERE'S REALLY NO VOTE THAT NEEDS TO HAPPEN. IT HAS BEEN BROUGHT TO YOU AS A ZONING, AS A ZONING CASE, SO YOU HAVE TO ACT ON IT. SO IF IT'S DENIED, THERE STILL IS A MECHANISM FOR THE FOR THE, THE APPLICANT TO SEEK APPROVAL THROUGH THE ADMINISTRATIVE PROCESS AS IS SET UP IN PD 20. OKAY THANK YOU. I YIELD BACK A POINT OF INFORMATION. SO A YES VOTE. NOW WE CAN'T YOUR MICROPHONE I'M SORRY JUST FOR CLARITY POINT OF INFORMATION A YES VOTE NOW IS A VOTE TO DENY IT. YES OKAY. THANK YOU, AND THIS NEEDS A SUPERMAJORITY, CORRECT. TO APPROVE IT. CORRECT. OKAY. BUT WE'RE VOTING. THERE'S A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO DENY IT. OKAY SO I, I DO I, I DID HAVE MANY OF THE SAME QUESTIONS.

AND AGAIN, I THINK COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER SOMEWHAT ASKED THE QUESTION THAT I WAS GOING TO ASK. IF IT IS NOT APPROVED TONIGHT, THEN THERE STILL IS A WAY FOR THE APPLICANT TO SEEK APPROVAL BECAUSE IT MEETS ALL THE REQUIREMENTS AND THERE IS ANOTHER PROCESS, CORRECT? CORRECT. OKAY YES. CORRECT. OKAY. COUNCIL, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL, COMMENTS? YES COUNCIL MEMBER RAFAEL. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, THANK YOU TO THE TEAM FOR THE PRESENTATION AND MAKING THIS CLEARER FOR US, ON THE DAIS. WE APPRECIATE I APPRECIATE THAT, MY REQUEST WOULD BE IF THIS DOES MOVE FORWARD AND I UNDERSTAND THE APPLICANT IS HERE. IF THERE IS A CONVERSATION WITH OUR CITY, WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT, WITH OUR CITY MANAGER, THAT WOULD BE GREAT. GREATLY APPRECIATED. AS IT RELATES TO OUR COMMUNITY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. IF THERE ARE NO OTHER, QUESTIONS, WE WILL NOT NEED THE READING OF THE ORDINANCE OR WILL WE NEED TO STILL READ THE ORDINANCE SINCE IT WAS A VOTE FOR DENIAL? LET'S GO AHEAD AND TAKE THAT VOTE. OKAY. THANK YOU COUNCIL. SO THERE HAS BEEN IS A VOTE NO OKA.

SO COUNCIL PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PADS. THAT MOTION PASSES, UNANIMOUSLY. SO THE CASE IS DENIED. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. YES MA'AM.

[1. Consider an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of City of DeSoto, Texas combination Tax and Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2024; prescribing the terms thereof; providing for the payment thereof; awarding the sale thereof; making other provisions regarding such certificates and matters incident thereto]

MAYOR AND COUNCIL. ON MAY 21ST, THE COUNCIL ADOPTED A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE PUBLICATION OF A NOTICE OF INTENT TO ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION. OUR CIP PROGRAM, OF COURSE, YOU

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THE CERTIFICATES THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT TONIGHT WERE OFFERED FOR SALE JUST TODAY. THIS MORNING, THE RESULTS AND THE FINAL PRICING ARE BEING PRESENTED TO YOU THIS EVENING.

AND WE'RE AFTER THAT. WE'RE ASKING THE CITY COUNCIL TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION IN ORDER TO WALK YOU THROUGH THE POWERPOINT. THAT INCLUDES THE DETAIL FOR THE SALE. I WOULD LIKE TO BRING FORWARD OUR FINANCIAL ADVISOR FROM HILLTOP SECURITIES, MR. ANDRE AYALA. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL ANDRE WITH HILLTOP SECURITIES, CITY'S FINANCIAL ADVISOR, PLEASED TO TELL YOU THAT THE SALE OF THE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION WAS A TREMENDOUS SUCCESS, I DO WANT TO PUBLICLY CONGRATULATE YOUR STAFF, MR. ISOM. CAMERON MR. SUTTON AND MR. TRACY CORMIER FOR DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB PRESENTING THE CITY'S FINANCIALS AND MANAGEMENT TO THE THREE RATING AGENCIES, THE MAJOR RATING AGENCIES IN THE COUNTRY.

THE CITY HELD ITS AA RATING FROM STANDARD AND POOR'S. STABLE OUTLOOK. THE CITY JUST WAS RECENTLY NOTIFIED THIS AFTERNOON AS I WAS DRIVING HERE THAT FITCH, EVEN THOUGH WE DIDN'T ASK THEM TO RATE THESE BONDS. AFFIRMED OUR RATING AS AA STABLE OUTLOOK. WE HAD TO GO THROUGH A PROCESS WITH SOME GUYS IN EUROPE ON THIS ONE, AGAIN, YOUR STAFF DID AN EXCELLENT JOB. AND, WE ADVISE YOUR STAFF TO GO TO MOODY'S THIS TIME AROUND TO SEE WHAT THEY WOULD GIVE US. WE PUT TOGETHER AN ANALYSIS, AND WE BELIEVED THAT MOODY'S WAS GOING TO GIVE US AN A RATING EQUIVALENT TO WHAT WE HAD WITH STANDARD AND POOR'S AND FITCH AND OH, BOY, THEY DID A GREAT JOB, MOODY'S GAVE US A DOUBLE A TWO RATING. SO AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO THE CITY OF DESOTO, MAYOR COUNCIL'S LEADERSHIP, YOUR CITY IS A HIGH INVESTMENT GRADE BY ALL. THE RATING AGENCIES, THE MAJOR RATING AGENCIES HERE IN THE COUNTRY. SO CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU GUYS AND YOUR STAFF. WITH THAT, I'M PLEASED TO TELL YOU THAT IN THE MORNING, THE CITY OF DESOTO RECEIVED BIDS FOR THE CERTIFICATES, WE GOT SEVEN BIDS. THESE ARE FIRM BIDS FOR A 20 YEAR FIXED INTEREST RATE, THE LOW BID WAS JEFFREY'S AT 3.7286. AND I'M GOING TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THOSE FOUR DECIMALS, BECAUSE THE SECOND BEST WAS J.P. MORGAN AT 3.7291. SO THEY WERE VERY CLOSE TO EACH OTHER, ALL OF THEM WERE GREAT. BOX BANK OF TEXAS, HERE IN DALLAS, B OF A SECURITIES MESIROW FINANCIAL. BAIRD AND FIDELITY CAPITAL MARKETS. I WANT COUNCIL TO NOTE SOMETHING INTERESTING. THIS TIME AROUND. I WANT YOU TO LOOK AT THE LIST OF BIDDERS. AND YOU GOT A LOT OF WALL STREET FIRMS IN THERE. SO THIS WAS A BIG TRANSACTION IN THE MARKETPLACE TODAY. YOU ATTRACTED THE BEST OF THE BEST IN THE MUNICIPAL BOND MARKET. SO AGAIN, CONGRATULATIONS TO DESOTO. OUR RECOMMENDATION IS OBVIOUSLY TO TAKE THE CHEAPEST COST, WHICH WOULD BE JEFFERIES LLC OUT OF NEW YORK, HERE WE PUT TOGETHER THE NUMBERS SO YOU CAN TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT WE'RE DOING, THE CITY'S CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, AS MISS SUTTON WAS INDICATING, IS THAT $50 MILLION THIS THIS TIME AROUND, WE GOT 40 MILLION FOR GOVERNMENTAL PROJECTS. AND $10 MILLION FOR WATER AND SEWER SYSTEM PROJECTS. YOU CAN SEE THAT WE FUNDED $50 MILLION OF PROJECTS TODAY WITH THE ISSUANCE OF $47,145,000 IN CERTIFICATES. WHY IS THAT? INVESTORS CHOOSE TO PAY US MORE THAN 100 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR FOR OUR BONDS. IT'S A FACTOR OF OUR HIGH CREDIT RATING AND HOW INTEREST RATES WORK HERE. SO YOU WILL BE ISSUING 47, IF APPROVED, $47 MILLION, 145,000 IN CERTIFICATES, WE GOT THE NUMBERS IN THERE. FOR THOSE THAT ARE MATHEMATICALLY INCLINED, I DO WANT TO GO THROUGH THE TIMELINE HERE, AS MISS SUTTON WAS MENTIONING, COUNCIL APPROVED US TO MOVE FORWARD BACK IN MAY. SO HERE ARE THE RESULTS OF THE TRANSACTION. IF COUNCIL APPROVES THIS TRANSACTION, OUR BOND ATTORNEYS WILL TAKE THIS TO AUSTIN, TO THE AG'S OFFICE TO GET IT VALIDATED. AND WE WILL BE ALL SET TO CLOSE ON AUGUST 13TH

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COUNCIL. IS THERE A MOTION? MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE ACCEPT AS PRESENTED. THANK YOU.

THERE HAS BEEN A MOTION TO ACCEPT AS PRESENTED, TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. WE DO HAVE AN ORDINANCE. WELL, BEFORE WE HEAR FROM BEFORE WE HEAR FROM THE ORDINANCE COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF OR FOR MR. AYALA? YES. MISS COUNCILMEMBER PARKER, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. I I KNOW THAT WE CAN'T NECESSARILY, COMMUNICATE BACK AND FORTH, BUT I DO WANT TO HAVE SOME QUESTION ABOUT, SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED, IS THERE A POSSIBILITY THAT WE CAN GET ANSWERS ON WHAT WAS ASKED ABOUT THE DIFFERENT PROJECTS, BECAUSE THE CIP, PRESENTATION DOES SHOW CERTAIN THINGS ON THE LIST. AND, YOU KNOW, WOULD LOVE TO KIND OF GET A LITTLE BIT MORE INFORMATION THERE. IS THAT SOMETHING THAT CAN HAPPEN? AND THAT'S, AS AS CITY, CITY MANAGER, RECOGNIZES THOSE WERE NOT AGENDA ITEMS, TO DISCUSS THOSE PROJECTS SPECIFICALLY SO WE CAN DEFER TO OUR CITY ATTORNEY IN TERMS OF PROVIDING INFORMATION ON THOSE ON THE QUESTIONS THAT WERE RAISED BY THE RESIDENT WHO CAME TO SPEAK. YEAH, WE CAN PROVIDE THEM AT A LATER DATE. SURE. OKAY. AND SO STAFF WILL PROVIDE A FOLLOW UP TO COUNCIL AND THEN, TO THE, TO THE RESIDENT BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ONE WHO POSED THE QUESTION, WE CAN GET A FOLLOW UP. IS THAT, YES. MISS SUTTON, CAN YOU MAKE SURE WE FOLLOW UP WITH THE RESIDENT THAT POSED THE QUESTIONS AS WELL AS WELL AS FOR COUNCIL? THANK YOU. COUNCILMEMBER PARKER. DOES THAT CONCLUDE YOUR QUESTIONS? IT DOES, YES. COUNCIL MEMBER RAFAE. SURE THING. AND SO FOR CLARITY, THIS VOTE IS FOR THE FUNDING OF AND THEN THE ALLOCATIONS CAN VARY LATER BASED UPON. AND I'M ASKING A QUESTION BECAUSE THAT, THAT THAT THAT IS SOMETHING THAT I WAS CURIOUS ABOUT AS IT

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OKAY. YES, MA'AM. SO YES, FOR, WE SUBMITTED A PLAN, THAT HAD A TEN YEAR PERIOD OF TIME ON IT.

FOR THE, THE BONDS, THE COES TO NOT EXCEED THE 51 MILLION THAT WE BROUGHT. WE LISTED SPECIFIC, VERY SPECIFIC PROJECTS. SO WHICH ON THE PRESENTATION LISTED OUT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT WAS ALLOCATED FOR EACH ONE OF THESE FIVE PROJECTS LISTED. SO THIS BOND SELL IS SPECIFICALLY FOR THOSE FIVE PROJECTS. NOW, COUNCIL OF COURSE HAS IN THE FUTURE, YOU KNOW, THE OPPORTUNITY IF YOU WANT TO EVALUATE PROJECTS AND YOU KNOW, FOR EXAMPLE, SOME OF THE JOINT WE HAVE THREE MC IPS ON THERE. BUT FOR THIS SALE, WE, THIS ONE WAS PRIORITIZED. THANK YOU.

HOPEFULLY THAT ANSWERS. THANK YOU. AND, MISS HARDING, JUST FOR THE RECORD, WERE ANY OF COUNCIL PART OF THAT PRIORITIZING OR CHOOSING THESE PARTICULAR, CIP ITEMS? THE CITY COUNCIL? I DON'T THINK SO. I THINK THAT CAME FROM THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. OKAY. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM. THANK YOU, MAYOR, AND THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER BYRD, BECAUSE THAT WAS PART OF MY CONCERN AND IN MOVING FORWARD WITH THIS, IS BECAUSE AND THIS THIS IS MY FIRST TIME BEING ON THE COUNCIL WHERE WE'VE DONE A COE FOR THIS DOLLAR AMOUNT, AND WITH COUNCIL HAVING NO INPUT IN IT, IT WAS ALSO DONE RIGHT BEFORE WE HIRED OUR NEW CITY MANAGER, WHICH I HAD CONCERNS ABOUT AS WE WERE DISCUSSING THAT, JUST ON THE SIMPLE FACT OF HAVING HIM TO HAVE TIME TO EVALUATE THE PROJECTS AND PRIORITIES PRIORITY AND TO GIVE COUNCIL A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF WHERE WE SHOULD BE GOING. AND SO I SAY ALL THAT TO SAY THAT I DO HAVE RESERVATIONS JUST BASED ON ON THE HOW QUICKLY THIS HAS MOVED. AND I KNOW THAT THERE WAS IN YOUR INITIAL PRESENTATION, YOU SAID THERE WOULD BE CITIZEN OUTREACH, BUT THIS ISN'T LIKE LISTED AS A PUBLIC HEARING. SO IS THAT TO COME OR HOW DOES THAT WORK? SO FOR AUTHORIZING OF THESE CALLS THIS EVENING, THIS IS THE FINAL STEP. THE FIRST THING THAT WE DID WAS WE HAD THE FINANCIAL ADVISERS TO BRING FORWARD A FINANCING PLAN. AND THAT'S WHAT OCCURRED INITIALLY.

AND THEN WHEN WE BROUGHT THE ITEM BACK ON MAY 21ST, THESE SAME FIVE ITEMS WERE LISTED.

AND, AND LOOKED AT AS WELL. THE ITEMS HAD ALREADY BEEN CHOSEN. AND SO, AT THAT TIME ON THE MAY 21ST MEETING AND, YOU KNOW, AND SO, AS I STATED, THE CIP, THERE ARE SOME OTHER JOINT PROJECTS LISTED THERE, BUT THESE WERE PRIORITIZED FROM THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE. I'M NOT SAYING SPECIFICALLY MR. GODFREY, BUT, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT THEY WERE EVALUATED BY THE CM'S OFFICE AND, THE 9 MILLION WAS ALLOCATED FOR THE DANIEL DALE PROJECT. AND THEN LOOK ON COLUMN 2024. YOU CAN SEE 2 MILLION ALLOCATED FOR CONCRETE STREET REPAIR, 2 MILLION FOR ASPHALT.

AND OF COURSE, THE 27 MILLION THAT'S NEEDED. THAT'S NEEDED NOW FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE AQUATIC CENTER. SO THAT AND WITH THE 10 MILLION IN WATER AND SEWER CAPITAL PROJECTS THAT ROUNDS US OUT AT THE 50 MILLION. SO THOSE ARE THE SPECIFIC PROJECTS THAT HAVE BEEN LAID OUT FOR FISCAL YEAR 24 FOR THIS BOND SALE. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING MY AND MY QUESTION, BUT CAN I CAN YOU JUST MAKE CERTAIN CAN YOU CLARIFY THAT MRTP NUMBER ONE THAT SAYS PLEASANT RUN ROAD? THAT'S FOR THE EXPANSION. THANK YOU FOR ANSWERING MY QUESTION. I JUST WANT TO FOLLOW UP AND SAY ON ON THIS DETAIL, IT SAYS MRTP NUMBER ONE, PLEASANT RUN ROAD. THAT'S THE EXPANSION OF PLEASANT RUN ROAD, RIGHT? YES. OH, OKAY. BECAUSE IT WAS MENTIONED IT WASN'T MR. JUSTICE. YES. OKAY.

THANK YOU. DOCTOR MARKS, THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND THANK YOU, MISS SUTTON. YOU MENTIONED THAT, OF COURSE THIS WAS DONE PRIOR TO OUR CITY MANAGER GETTING HERE. BUT, MR. CAMERON, YOU WERE IN THAT SEAT. CAN YOU PROVIDE SOME SOME LIGHT ON THIS, PLEASE? YES, MA'AM. I WAS THE REASON WHY YOU

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REMEMBER THEY SAID SOMETHING ABOUT PLEASANT RUN AND. WELL, SO IT WAS IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WHEN WE ISSUED THE DEBT THAT WHEN WE WHEN WE ISSUED THE DEBT, THAT IT WOULD BE EVEN THOUGH THESE PROJECTS WERE LISTED IN TERMS OF THIS IS THESE ARE OUR PRIORITIES IN TERMS OF WHAT WE WANT TO GET DONE AND HOW WE HOW WE ARRIVE AT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT. BUT IT WAS MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WHEN THE WHEN THE DEBT IS ISSUED, IT'S DONE GENERALLY IN TERMS IN TERMS OF WE WHAT I'M SAYING IS WE SAY ROAD PROJECTS, WATER, SEWER PROJECTS, THOSE TYPE OF PROJECTS, SO THAT IF A PROJECT IS NOT READY TO MOVE, WHEN WE WHEN WE THOUGHT IT WOULD BE, THEN WE COULD REALLOCATE THE FUNDING TO BE ABLE TO USE IT FOR THE PROJECTS THAT ARE READY TO MOVE. IF SO. SO DANIEL DALE WAS READY TO MOVE VERSUS THE OTHER. IS THAT KIND OF WHAT YOU'RE SAYING? WELL SO REMEMBER DANIEL DALE, THE DANIEL DALE PROJECT, AS WELL AS, WESTMORELAND PROJECT AND, AND THE, PLEASANT RUN PROJECT, THOSE ARE ALL PARTNERSHIPS WITH DALLAS COUNTY.

SO WE'RE NOT MOVING BY OURSELVES ON THOSE. SO THOSE HAVE TO DO WITH WHICH ONES? DALLAS COUNTY IS READY TO MOVE ON. SO THAT IS HOW THAT PRIORITY CAME ABOUT. IT'S NOT IT'S NOT JUST ARBITRARY OKAY. SO I WANT TO MAKE THAT CLEAR. THANKS FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. THANK YOU I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCIL ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONS. THANK YOU, MISS SUTTON. COUNCIL.

ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS? WE DO HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. AND WE DO HAVE A ORDINANCE THAT NEEDS TO BE READ. COUNCIL MEMBER RAFAEL. SURE THING. SO I JUST WANTED TO MAKE CERTAIN I WAS CLEAR. SO DALLAS COUNTY IS READY TO MOVE ON THE PROJECTS. AND SO WE HAD THE ORDER OF THE ONE, TWO AND THREE. AND SO AS IT RELATES TO ONE BEING PLEASANT RUN AND THAT ONE DOES STICK OUT TO ME, AND I'M SORRY IF I MISSED IT IN THE LAST MEETING. I THINK I WAS A NO ON IT BECAUSE I WAS JUST NOT CLEAR ON SOME OTHER THINGS. BUT AS IT RELATES TO THE ONE THAT WAS LIKE A REALLY BIG DEAL WHEN MAYOR MCALLEN WAS HERE, BECAUSE IT WAS ONE THAT, YOU KNOW, HAD BEEN TALKED ABOUT AD NAUSEAM. BUT AS IT RELATES TO DALLAS COUNTY AND THEIR PARTICIPATION WITH THE CIP NUMBER ONE, TWO AND THREE, IS IT THAT THEY TOOK A LOOK AT IT AND THEY SAID THAT WE WANT TO ALLOCATE, YOU KNOW, THESE GREATER FUNDS IN THIS POT VERSUS THAT POT THEY MADE THAT DETERMINATION IS THAT IS THAT MY UNDERSTANDING? WANT TO ASK, DIRECTOR BREWER TO HELP ME ON ON THAT QUESTION? MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONTRACTS THAT WE HAVE WITH DALLAS COUNTY IS JUST FOR DESIGN ONLY. DANIEL DALE PROJECT HAS BEEN COMMITTED BY DALLAS COUNTY TO BE A 50 OVER 50, IN REFERENCE TO THE STREET RECONSTRUCTION AND STORM DRAINAGE IMPROVEMENTS, ZERO ON WATER AND SEWER, ZERO ON LANDSCAPING WITH PLEASANT RUN EXCUSE ME, WITH WESTMORELAND, I THINK IT WAS ONLY LIKE A $1 MILLION CONTRIBUTION. SO THEY WERE DRIVING WHICH ONES WE WERE GOING TO PROCEED WITH. AND THIS DID HAPPEN UNDER THE CITY MANAGER PRIOR TO ISO. THANK YOU.

COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS BEFORE WE HAVE THE READING OF THE ORDINANCE. THANK YOU MISS THOMAS. ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS COMBINATION TAX AND REVENUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, SERIES 2024 PRESCRIBING THE TERMS THEREOF. PROVIDING THE PAYMENT THEREOF. AWARDING THE SALE THEREOF.

MAKING OTHER PROVISIONS REGARDING SUCH CERTIFICATES AND MATTERS. INCIDENT THERETO. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. WE DO HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PADS. THAT MOTION PASSES SIX ONE. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, WE DID MOVE ITEM E1, TO THE END OF OUR, AGENDA TO, GET CLARIFICATION ON THAT. SO I'M GOING TO ASK OUR CITY MANAGER IF HE WOULD, GIVE US AN UPDATE ON STAFF'S DISCOVERY. THANK YOU.

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ACTUALLY, THE CASE NUMBER SHOULD BE P-346, DASH 24. SO, IF THE CITY SECRETARY CAN READ THE WHOLE MOTION WITH THAT CORRECTED NUMBER PP-346, DASH 24. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME WE WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. AND IF I COULD ASK IF YOU WOULD, ADD IN YOUR MOTION TO APPROVE IT WITH THE CORRECTED, NUMBER NUMBERING, IS THERE A MOTION? MADAM MAYOR, I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE BY PUTTING IN THE AFOREMENTIONED NUMBER. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND? IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER MARKS. SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM HUGHES TO APPROVE, AS PRESENTED WITH THE CORRECTED NUMBERING COUNCIL, PLEASE USE YOUR VOTING PAD. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU.

COUNCIL. THAT CONCLUDES ALL OF THE ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA FOR TONIGHT. SO AT THIS TIME, WE WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN. SO MOVED. SECOND. AS THE FASTEST MOTION WE'VE SEEN TONIGHT, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER CHISHOLM, SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER TO ADJOURN COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY IS 8:21 P.M. COUNCIL. WE ARE NOW ADJOURNED. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT, EV

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