* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [A. CALL TO ORDER AND CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION] [00:00:03] GOOD EVENING EVERYONE, AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. I'M MAYOR RACHEL PROCTOR. IT IS 4:00 PM AND IT IS, TODAY IS, UH, TUESDAY, JANUARY 6TH, 2026, AND WE ARE JUST EXCITED TO BE BACK IN OUR COUNCIL CHAMBERS WITH YOU ALL TONIGHT. AND WE WANT TO START OUR MEETING WITH A ROLL CALL FOR MY CITY SECRETARY, MAYOR RACHEL L PROCTOR. HERE, MAYOR PRO. TIM CRYSTAL CHISHOLM. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERT PARKER. COUNCIL MEMBER. KEN WATERS HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDRE BY SR. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER DEBORAH NORTH. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER LETICIA HUGHES. HERE. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO ASK, BEFORE WE GO INTO, UM, OUR EXECUTIVE SESSION, DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT CARDS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK? WE DO NOT. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AT THIS TIME, WE DO HAVE AN EXECUTIVE SESSION, SO I'M GOING TO ASK IF YOU CAN READ THE FIRST ITEMS ON OUR AGENDA. AT THIS TIME, THE CITY COUNCIL WILL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.0761 TO DELIBERATE THE DEPLOYMENT IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURITY PERSONNEL AND DEVICES. IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY THE CITY COUNCIL SHALL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.074 PERSONNEL MATTERS REGARDING THE APPOINTMENT, EMPLOYMENT, AND EVALUATION OF THE CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, IT'S 4:01 PM AND WE WILL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. IT IS 5:59 PM I'M MAYOR RACHEL PROCTOR, AND WE HAVE ADJOURN. WELL, WE HAVE CONVENED OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION. UM, THERE IS NO ACTION TONIGHT AS A RESULT OF THAT EXECUTIVE SESSION. SO COUNSEL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN US OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION. SO MOVED. I SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES, SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH TO ADJOURN. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSE. SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES. UNANIMOUS. IT'S 5 59. [B. REGULAR SESSION AGENDA - CALL TO ORDER] JUST TURNING 6:00 PM AND WE WILL GET GOING INTO OUR REGULAR MEETING. IT IS 6:00 PM AND I WANNA WELCOME EVERYBODY TO OUR REGULAR SESSION. AT THIS TIME, I'M GONNA ASK OUR CITY SECRETARY IF SHE WOULD CONDUCT A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. MAYOR RACHEL L PROCTOR. HERE, MAYOR PRO TEM. CRYSTAL CHISHOLM. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PERT PARKER. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER KEN WATERS HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDRE BIRD SR. COUNCIL MEMBER DEBORAH NORTH. HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA HUGHES. THANK YOU. UH, WE'LL HAVE THE FIRST ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, PLEASE. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HAVE THE INVOCATION BY REVEREND JEREMIAH AUSTIN OF COMMUNITY MISSIONARY BAPTIST CHURCH, FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, LED BY STUDENT AMBASSADOR NEVAEH JOHNSON OF ROE HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STAND, LET US PRAY. DEAR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU ON THIS NIGHT AS WE COME TOGETHER TO DISCUSS MATTERS OF THIS CITY. LORD, I PRAY RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS THAT YOU WOULD GIVE THESE ELECTED OFFICIALS THE KNOWLEDGE AND THE WISDOM THAT THEY NEED TO MAKE THIS CITY A CITY THAT SITS ON A HILL THAT IS PLEASING UNTO YOU. LORD, AS WE COMMENCE THIS MEETING TONIGHT, I PRAY FOR UNITY AND I PRAY FOR HARMONY, HAVE YOUR WAY EVEN IN THIS SETTING OF A MEETING TONIGHT. IN JESUS' NAME I PRAY. AMEN. AMEN. YOU READY? OKAY. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG TO FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA INTO THE REPUBLIC WHERE WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDERGONE IN VISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE. FOR HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG, I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD. ONE INDIVISIBLE. THANK YOU, UH, MINISTER AUSTIN FOR LEADING US IN OUR PRAYER THIS EVENING. AS WELL AS CAN WE GIVE IT UP FOR OUR STUDENT AMBASSADOR, MS. NEVAEH JOHNSON FROM COCHLEAR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. I WANNA READ JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UH, MS. JOHNSON. HER NAME IS NEVAEH JOHNSON. SHE LIVES WITH HER MOTHER MADISON DAVIS AND HER GRANDMOTHER, MISTY DAVIS JONES. SHE WAS BORN ON OCTOBER 1ST, 2017 AND IS EIGHT YEARS OLD. NEVAEH [00:05:01] IS A SECOND GRADER AT COCHLEAR HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, ALTHOUGH SHE LIKES LEARNING AND READING. HER FAVORITE SUBJECT IS SCIENCE. SHE ALSO LOVES ANIMALS AND WANTS TO BE A VETERINARIAN WHEN SHE GROWS UP. HER FAVORITE CHARACTERS ARE LILO AND STITCH, AND HER FAVORITE FOODS ARE TACOS AND PEPPERONI AND CHEESE PIZZA. YUMMY. . CAN WE GIVE IT UP ONE MORE TIME FOR OUR STUDENT AMBASSADOR? MS. NEVAEH JOHNSON. MS. JOHNSON, WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ANY, UH, WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE STUDENT BODY AT COCH HILL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL? SHE ALSO WON THE . YAY. CONGRATULATIONS. THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT. WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE ANY WORDS ON BEHALF OF THE STUDENT BODY AT COCH HILL? MM. MAYBE YOU THINK ABOUT IT LATER. . OKAY. GREAT. ALL RIGHT. WELL, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE ANYTHING TO, UH, SAY ON OUR MEETING TONIGHT, YOU MAY DO SO. HOWEVER, YOU MUST FILL OUT A COMMENT CARD FIRST, AND SO MS. JOHNSON WILL ASSIST YOU AT OUR AMBASSADOR TABLE TO DO THAT. AND, UH, WE WOULD LOVE TO HEAR YOUR COMMENTS. UH, NEVAEH, PLEASE STAY RIGHT THERE. I'M GONNA COME DOWN. I HAVE SOME GOODIES FOR YOU. WE'RE GONNA TAKE A PICTURE. OKAY, GREAT. AND IS, I WANNA RECOGNIZE THIS MOM AND GRANDMOM HERE. I KNOW, I SEE MS. LOWE, UH, MS. LOWE FROM COCHRANE HILL, PLEASE STAND IF YOU WANNA COME UP. YES. AT THIS TIME WE WILL HAVE THE SAFETY PROTOCOL STATEMENT BY FIRE CHIEF BROWN SOUTHARD. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO TONIGHT CITY COUNCIL TOUGH ACT TO FOLLOW THE SPELLING, BE CHAMPION RIGHT THERE, BUT I'LL DO THE BEST I CAN. UH, WE ARE NOT EXPECTING ANY INCLEMENT WEATHER TONIGHT. UH, IT'S A BALMY EVENING FOR JANUARY, UH, AND CLEAR SKIES. UH, HOWEVER, IN THE UNLIKELY EVENT THAT WE DO HAVE AN EMERGENCY WHERE WE NEED YOU TO EXIT THE BUILDING, WE WILL INSTRUCT YOU TO INSTRUCT YOU TO EXIT THE BUILDING. UH, WE HAVE TWO EMERGENCY EXITS. WE HAVE ONE TO MY RIGHT, YOUR LEFT, OR YOU CAN GO BACK OUT THE SAME DOORS THAT YOU CAME IN, INTO YOUR RIGHT AND EXIT THE BUILDING. PLEASE REMAIN EXITED UNTIL YOU, UH, GET CONFIRMATION TO COME BACK IN FROM MYSELF, UH, THE POLICE CHIEF OR THE CITY MARSHAL. UH, OTHER THAN THAT, WE EXPECT A VERY NICE QUIET EVENING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, CHIEF. AT [C. PRESENTATIONS] THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. NEXT WE HAVE PRESENTATIONS AND A PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON THE ROADWAY PAVEMENT CONDITION SURVEY TO BE USED TO DEVELOP A MULTI-YEAR ROADWAY INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN. IMP FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO, MAKING A PRESENTATION IS DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DIRECTOR AHMED ESI. GOOD EVENING, MADAM MAYOR, CITY COUNCIL AND HAPPY NEW YEAR. OKAY, AGENDA TONIGHT. THE PURPOSE BACKGROUND PROJECT VISION. WHAT IS THE PAYMENT CONDITION INDEX? AND, UM, WHAT IS THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN? UH, WE'RE GOING TO DISCUSS FUNDING, PROJECT, TIMELINE, BENEFITS, AND CITY COUNCIL REQUEST. AND TO, UH, TONIGHT'S PRESENTATION IS TO INTRODUCE THE, UH, PCI STUDY, WHICH IS A PAYMENT CONDITION INDEX, ALONG WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN, THE DEVELOPMENT OF THIS PLAN OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. THIS WILL BE A DATA DRIVEN APPROACH. UM, JUST A GLIMPSE FROM THE FUTURE. AFTER WE DEVELOP THIS PLAN, WE WILL COME UP WITH THE PROJECT LIST FOR EACH, UH, PLACE IN THE CITY THAT WE ADDRESS FOR, UH, CITRATE, RECONSTRUCTION, REHABILITATION, REPAIR, MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION. AND THIS IS INFORMATIONAL ONLY. TONIGHT, WE ARE NOT ASKING FOR ANY, UM, ACTIONS FROM CITY COUNCIL, BUT WE WILL BRING THAT BACK TO, UM, TO THE AGENDA. THE NEXT, UH, NEXT CITY MEETING, CITY COUNCIL MEETING. BACKGROUND BACKGROUND, WE HAVE IN THE CITY OF DESOTO, WE HAVE 2 44 MILES OF STREETS AND 1 22 MILES OF ALLEYS. UH, THE LAST PCI STUDY WAS CONDUCTED BACK IN 2022, SO IT'S A LITTLE BIT OUTDATED. AND, UM, OBVIOUSLY, YOU KNOW, ROADWAYS IN THE CITY HAVE CHANGED DUE TO TRAFFIC AND WEATHER PROJECT VISION. [00:10:01] UM, THE FIRST STEP IS TO, UH, COLLECT DATA THROUGH THE LASER EQUIPPED VEHICLES THAT YOU SEE ON THE RIGHT SIDE. THIS WILL DRIVE EVERY SINGLE ALLEY IN STREET IN THE CITY TO COLLECT THE DATA, MEASURE ALL THE CRACKS AND DISTRESSES AND THE PAVEMENTS, AND COME UP WITH A PAVEMENT, UH, CONDITION INDEX. AND THEN AFTER WE COLLECT THE DATA, WE WOULD ASSIGN THIS COURSE TO EACH, UH, ROADWAY. AND WHEN WE DO SO, AND WE LOOK AT THE AVAILABLE BUDGET, WE WOULD BE ABLE TO DEVELOP THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH IS LIST OF PROJECTS FOR EACH PLACE IN THE CITY OUT OF THE SEVEN, UH, SIX PLACES. OKAY. JUST THIS IS JUST TO KIND OF SHOW YOU WHAT IS THE PCI. IT'S AN INDEX FROM ZERO TO 10, ZERO BEING THE WORST OR FAILED, AND A HUNDRED. THESE, YOU KNOW, THE BEST. AND AS YOU CAN SEE ON THE LEFT SIDE WHERE YOU HAVE LIKE SOME SERIOUS ISSUES OR, YOU KNOW, FAILED PAVEMENT, THERE'S LIKE A LOT OF CRACKS. AND THEN THE PICTURE ON THE RIGHT SIDE IS, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU HAVE A REALLY GOOD PCI. SO THIS IS HOW WE, YOU KNOW, WE CAN LOOK AT THE, ALL THE ROADWAYS AND ALLEYS IN THE CITY HOLISTICALLY WITH, WITH THE DATA THAT WE'RE GOING TO COLLECT SOME MORE PICTURES THAT WE COLLECTED FROM THE CITY FOR ASPHALT ROADWAYS. UH, JUST TO KIND OF GIVE YOU AN IDEA ABOUT, UM, WHAT IS, HOW IS THE PCI WILL LOOK LIKE FOR THESE. AND, UH, ALONG WITH THE SOLUTIONS ON THE LEFT SIDE, PCI OF 90, WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, REALLY GOOD. AND IN THIS CASE WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, RECOMMEND THE PRESERVATION. SO IF IT'S IN A REALLY GOOD CONDITION, WE'RE NOT GONNA LEAVE IT THIS WAY. WE'RE GONNA, THAT'S GONNA BE PART OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN TO BE PRESERVED JUST TO KIND OF, YOU KNOW, UM, MAINTAIN THE CURRENT CONDITION. AND AS, AS YOU CAN SEE IN THE MIDDLE, THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE CAN, UH, DO SOME REHABILITATION, WHICH IS MAYBE SOME OVERLAY, AND THEN PUT A NEW AS, UH, ASPHALT, UH, OVERLAY. AND THEN ALL THE WAY TO THE RIGHT WHERE THE PAVE FAILS AND NEED TO BE RECONSTRUCTED. UH, SOME FEW MORE EXAMPLES. UM, BUT FOR CONCRETE, THIS TIME IN SAME SOLUTIONS, BUT IT WOULD BE FOR DIFFERENT MATERIAL. AND THIS IS A SLIDE, THIS IS KIND OF SHOW YOU, UM, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER FACTORS THAT WE'RE TRYING TO PLUG IN. WHEN WE PRODUCE THE LIST FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN, IT'S NOT GOING TO DEPEND ON THE PCI ONLY, PCI MAYBE IS GOING TO BE, YOU KNOW, THE 70% OF IT. BUT WE WILL ALSO BE ABLE TO PLUG IN OTHER FACTORS SUCH AS THE DRAINAGE ISSUES. SO EVERY, AFTER EVERY RAIN EVENT, THE TEAM WILL GO OUT AND INSPECT ALL ALLEYS AND DOCUMENT IF WE HAVE ANY DRAINAGE ISSUES. THE ONE IN THE, IN THE YELLOWS, THAT MEANS THOSE ARE THE ALLEYS THAT WE STILL NEED TO INSPECT AND, UM, INCORPORATE WITH THE PCI STUDY. AND THE ONE WITH DEGREES THAT THOSE ARE THE ONES ARE, ARE COMPLETED INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN. UM, SO WHEN WE COME BACK, WHEN WE COLLECT THE DATA, WE PROCESS THE DATA, THEN WE CO AND THEN WE LOOK AT THE AVAILABLE BUDGETS. WE WILL COME BACK TO YOU WITH DIFFERENT SCENARIOS, DEPENDING ON HOW MUCH MONEY THAT WE WILL PUT IN. THEN WE CAN SHOW YOU LIKE, HOW, HOW WILL THE PCI LOOK LIKE IN THE CITY OF DESOTO. LIKE LET'S SAY IF WE PUT $5 MILLION PER PER YEAR, THEN THE PCI, LET'S SAY ON AVERAGE WILL BE 60. IF YOU, YOU KNOW, JUMP THAT BUMP THAT NUMBER UP TO 10 MILLION, THEN THE PCI WILL DEFINITELY BE HIGHER. SO BASED ON THOSE SCENARIOS, IT'S BASICALLY GOING TO GUIDE THE BUDGET. IN THE FUTURE, CITY COUNCIL WILL HAVE THE ABILITY TO DECIDE, OH, WE WANT THIS, WE WANT THE ROADWAYS TO LOOK LIKE THIS BASED ON THE AVAILABLE BUDGETS. AND THEN FUNDING CITY COUNCIL, YOU APPROVED, UM, 1 MILLION FOR ALLEYS FOR THE 2026, UM, AND YOU ALSO APPROVED, UH, 1.5 MILLION FOR CONCRETE AND ANOTHER 1.5 MILLION FOR ASPHALT, UH, STREET REPAIR. SO WE'RE GOING TO TAKE, UH, USE, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THAT MONEY TO, FOR THIS SERVICE TO COLLECT THE DATA AND, AND DEVELOP THE PLAN. AND THE REST OF THE MONEY WILL GO FOR CONSTRUCTION PROJECT TIMELINE, IF WE WILL BE ABLE TO OBTAIN, UM, THE CONSULT APPROVAL, HOPEFULLY THE NEXT CONSULT MEETING. AND THEN WE START COLLECTING THE DATA IN FEBRUARY AND APRIL. ALONG WITH THE PROCESSING, WE COMPLETE THE INVENTORY, WE COME UP WITH ALL THOSE, UH, GIS LAYERS THAT WILL STAY WITH THE CITY FOR YEARS TO COME. AND THEN IN, WE'RE HOPPING IN MAY AND JUNE, WE WOULD DEVELOP THE, THE LIST OF PROJECTS. AND OBVIOUSLY WE'LL HAVE TO COME BACK TO CITY COUNCIL AND PRESENT THE SCENARIOS. AND WE'RE HOPPING THAT WE BRING THE DRAFT REPORT AND TO LIKE, BACK IN JULY. AND THEN THE FINAL REPORT AND CONS ADOPTION IN AUGUST. BENEFITS, YOU KNOW, OBVIOUSLY IT ADDS A LOT OF TRANSPARENCY AND PROMOTES THE TRUST IN THE SYSTEM. OBVIOUSLY CITIES CANNOT FIX EVERY ALLEYS OR STREETS, BUT, UM, THAT SYSTEM WILL, WILL HELP [00:15:01] BUILD IN TRUST WITH THE, WITH THE COMMUNITY BY PRIORITIZING PROJECTS BASED ON THEIR CONDITION. AND ALSO, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE, WHEN WE HAVE ALL THE DATA WE CAN, WE CAN DECIDE WHICH ROAD NEED TO BE PRESERVED, AND THIS WAY WE EXTEND THE PAYMENT LIVES THROUGH TIME, TIMELY PRESERVATION AND REHABILITATION. AND THAT WILL, YOU KNOW, ULTIMATELY IMPROVES THE MOBILITY, SAFETY, QUALITY OF LIFE AND EQUITY FOR RESIDENTS. UH, AGAIN, THIS, THERE'S NO, UM, COUNCIL REQUEST TONIGHT, BUT WE WOULD WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK. THANK YOU MR. AL CASEY. UM, I DO SEE A LIGHT COUNCIL MEMBER, PARKER. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UH, IT IS APPRECIATED THAT WE ARE THINKING ABOUT THE ROLES, BUT BECAUSE OF COURSE, THOSE OF US WHO HAD TIRES HAVE AN ISSUE, IT'S ALWAYS A GOOD THING TO BE THINKING ABOUT THE ROADS. UM, BASED ON THE PRESENTATION, IT SAYS THAT THE LAST ONE WAS DONE IN 2023. UM, THE ASSESSMENT FROM 20, I'M SORRY, 2022, SORRY, THE ASSESSMENT FROM 2022. HAS ALL THE CHANGES OR NEEDED UPDATES BEEN DONE FROM THE 2022 ASSESSMENT? AND THIS IS STARTING FRESH. A GREAT QUESTION. SO THE, THE PCI STUDY IS ONE PIECE MM-HMM . WHICH IS, YOU KNOW, YOU COLLECT THE DATA, YOU PROCESS THE DATA, AND YOU LOOK AT THE DATA. AND THE OTHER PIECE IS TO, TO DEVELOP THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN. SO I BELIEVE, TO MY KNOWLEDGE, IN THE PAST, LIKE WE CONDUCTED THIS STUDY ITSELF, BUT WE DID NOT COME UP WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN, WHICH WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO HERE WITH THIS AGREEMENT, WE'RE PLUGGING TWO THINGS INTO ONE. AND, AND BASED ON THE DATA THAT WE'RE GOING TO COLLECT, WE WILL DEVELOP LISTS OF PROJECTS, WHICH WOULD BE OVER THE NEXT, OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS. AND WE WOULD BRING BACK TO YOU THE LIST OF PROJECTS OVER THE NEXT THREE YEARS ALONG WITH THE REPAIR, RECOMMENDED REPAIR OR, YOU KNOW, CONSTRUCTION. SO THE EXPECTATION WOULD BE THAT THE ONES THAT WERE ON THE LIST, AND I'M NOT SURE IF YOU WOULD HAVE THAT LIST, BUT THE ONES THAT WERE ON THE PREVIOUS LIST THAT WERE AT A PCI LEVEL OF WHATEVER THAT BAD PART WAS, OR EVEN MODERATE BY NOW, THEY ARE AT THE WORST. AND SO THOSE WOULD GO FIRST IN YOUR PRIORITY LIST. THAT'S HOW YOU ARE GONNA PRIORITIZE THOSE. WILL WE EVER SEE THE OLD LIST IS WHAT I'M GETTING. SO, AND, AND, UM, SO WE'LL LOOK AT INTO THIS HOLISTICALLY AGAIN, BECAUSE YOU KNOW, THOSE, YOU, YOU'RE CORRECT. THE ONES THAT WE GOT IN THE PAST, THEY'LL BE IN THE WORSE CONDITION NOW UNLESS WE DID SOME REPAIRS FOR, TO SOME OF 'EM. UM, BUT THEN WE DON'T KNOW THE CONDITION OF THE OTHER STREETS, THE TODAY'S CONDITION OF THE OTHER STREETS. SO UNTIL WE COLLECT ALL THE DATA AND WE PROCESS ALL THE DATA, THEN WE'LL HAVE THE FULL PICTURE ON, ON, YOU KNOW, WHAT'S THE CITY LOOK LIKE TODAY WITH THE AVERAGE PCI. OKAY. SO JUST FOR CLARITY, THE 1 48 IS TO DO THE, THE ASSESSMENT. SO TO, TO DO THE, THE DATA COLLECTION, THE ASSESSMENT, THE DATA PROCESSING, AND ALONG WITH THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN. SO IT'S EVERYTHING IN, IN THE, IN THAT 1 48, WHICH WE ANTICIPATE WILL BE INCREASED, IT WOULD BE AROUND ONE 50, INCLUDING PREVIOUS INFORMATION. UH, YES. EVERYTHING. OKAY. AND THEN, UH, LASTLY I WANTED TO ASK, UM, UM, THE TIMELINE IN WHAT YOU JUST SHOWED US IS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT'S ACTUALLY ONLINE. SO THE ONE ONLINE, CAN IT BE UPDATED TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT THE PUBLIC HAS THE CORRECT INFORMATION AS WELL? YES, MA'AM. AND I APOLOGIZE FOR THIS, BUT YOU KNOW, AFTER TODAY'S MEETING WE WILL, YOU KNOW, PUT THAT PRESENTATION ON OUR WEBSITE UNDER ENGINEERING. UM, BUT WHEN THAT WAS LIKE INTENDED TO GO TO CITY COUNCIL IN NOVEMBER, BUT WE HAD TO PUSH IT TO JANUARY, SO I'LL GET THAT TAKEN CARE OF. YEAH, NO, UNDERSTOOD. I JUST WANNA MAKE CERTAIN THAT WHEN THE PUBLIC GOES BACK, 'CAUSE A LOT OF TIMES PEOPLE GO BACK AND LOOK AT AGENDAS, THEY CAN PULL THEM UP AT ANY TIME IF THAT AGENDA SHOWS SOMETHING DIFFERENT AND THEN THERE'S SOME OVER HERE THAT'S DIFFERENT. IT JUST THAT, THAT TRUST THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, WE WANNA MAKE CERTAIN THAT IT'S SEAMLESS. I I'LL MAKE SURE THAT WE GET THAT. THANK YOU, CAROL. THANK YOU. I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. UM, JUST, JUST FOR CLARIFICATION, UH, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. COUNCIL MEMBER. YOU'VE ASKED A VERY GOOD QUESTION, WHICH IS, WHEN YOU HAVE BAD STREETS, DO YOU UPDATE 'EM? AND AND ARE THOSE THE ONES WHO GO ON FIRST? UH, THERE HAS TO BE A BALANCE BETWEEN, UH, THE BAD STREETS AND SOME OF THE GOOD STREETS, BECAUSE IF YOU SPEND ALL YOUR MONEY ON THE BAD STREETS, WE ONLY CAN ACCOMPLISH ONE OR TWO, UH, ROADS AT A TIME. SO WHAT WE, WHAT WE NEED TO DO, UH, WE IDENTIFY THE PRESERVATION STREETS, THE REHABILITATION STREETS, AS WELL AS THE RECONSTRUCTION STREET ALL TOGETHER. SO WE PUT THOSE IN AN IMP OR AN INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WE'RE, WE'RE TOUCHING AS MANY STREETS AS POSSIBLE, BUT WE'RE ALSO ARE VERY DELIBERATE IN, IN HOW WE CAN ADDRESS THE, THE RECONSTRUCTION ASPECT OF, OF THOSE STREETS. THANK YOU. AND I APPRECIATE THAT. AND SO THIS REPORT WON'T ACTUALLY GET BACK TO US UNTIL ALMOST AUGUST, [00:20:02] THIS REPORT, IF THIS REPORT, NOT UNTIL, UH, YOU SAW THE PICTURE OF THAT, THAT MACHINE ACTUALLY, THEN THEY, THEY GO AND, AND THEN, UM, WE HAVE TO DEVELOP THE IMP. WE HAVE TO INTERPOLATE THE NUMBERS, UH, VERIFY IT IN THE STREETS, UH, VISUALLY VERIFY IT TO MAKE SURE THAT THE, THE NUMBERS ARE CORRECT. UH, LOOK AT THE IMP DEVELOPMENT, THEN BRING IT BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR WHAT WE NEED, UH, TO EITHER MAINTAIN THE PAVEMENT CONDITIONS OR, UH, YOU KNOW, BASED ON THE FUNDING THAT THE CITY COUNCIL ALLOCATES FOR US, WE'LL TELL YOU WHAT THE DEGRADATION IS GONNA BE OR THE IMPROVEMENT THAT IT'S GONNA BE. OKAY. THANK YOU. I YOU BET. MAYOR, MAYOR PRO TIM, UH, THANK YOU MAD MAYOR AND THANK YOU SO MUCH, MICHELLE ALCOTT CASEY, FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND THE DATA COLLECTION, THE PCI STUDY AND THE IMP DEVELOPMENT AS IT RELATES TO THE, WHAT YOU'RE PRESENTING TO US IS THAT THE PROJECT COST AND WHAT THE EXPECTATION SHOULD BE FOR THE NEXT EIGHT MONTHS. MY QUESTION TO YOU IS, UM, AND MAYBE IT'S NOT SO MUCH AS A QUESTION, AS IT MORE SO A STATEMENT, 'CAUSE THIS IS MY SECOND GO ROUND WITH THIS, UM, IS BECAUSE THE RFP PROCESS TENDS TO TAKE A, A LITTLE BIT LONGER, ARE YOU ALL STARTING THAT PRIOR TO THE FINAL REPORT OR ARE YOU, LIKE, WILL THAT START NOW WITH THE ANTICIPATION THAT YOU'RE GOING TO NEED, UM, CONTRACTORS FOR THE, THE WHAT, THE, THESE PROJECTS OR WILL THAT HAPPEN AFTER THE COUNCIL ADOPTION? AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION IS CONSIDERING THAT, UH, THE AMOUNT OF STREETS THAT YOU ALL ARE LOOKING AT, UM, AND WILL DETERMINE BASED ON THE PCI, THE SEVERITY OF THEIR, UM, UH, THE SEVERITY OF THEIR NEED FOR REPLACEMENT. RIGHT. UM, WHAT I A, MY ASK TO YOU AND YOUR STAFF IS THAT WHEN YOU BRING US THE PLAN, THAT THERE'S CONSIDERATION FOR EQUITY ACROSS THE CITY AS YOU LOOK AT THE PCI, AND WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS THAT I'M CERTAIN THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WAY DESOTO IS AGED IS KIND OF, UM, LEFT TO RIGHT, RIGHT. OR EAST TO WEST. SO, UH, MORE THE NEWER DEVELOPMENT IS ON THE WEST SIDE. HOWEVER, THERE ARE STREETS SUCH AS DUET AND, UH, TENDERFOOT THAT, OR EVEN SOUTH OF, SOUTH OF COCKRELL HILL GOING INTO, UH, TO GLEN HEIGHTS THAT HAVE PRETTY AGE AREAS. AND WHAT I FIND IS THAT, UM, MY, MY SIDE IS KIND OF NOT ALWAYS FIRST CONSIDERED FOR SITUATIONS LIKE THIS BECAUSE OUR PCI IS NOT ALWAYS AS DETRIMENTAL AS OTHER AREAS. HOWEVER, JUST FROM AN EQUITY STANDPOINT, AS YOU EVALUATE THOSE STREETS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO GO AFTER, COULD THERE BE CONSIDERATION FOR THE ENTIRETY OF THE CITY? THANK YOU FOR THOSE QUESTIONS. MM-HMM . QUESTION NUMBER ONE, THE, THE CONTRACTS. WE DON'T WANNA WAIT UNTIL, YOU KNOW, WE FINISH THIS STUDY AND THEN WE COME UP WITH THE CONTRACTS. WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO, WE'RE TRYING TO WORK ON THE CONTRACTS FROM NOW AND MAYBE SPLIT THEM OVER, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE THREE OR FOUR MIN, YOU KNOW, SMALL CONTRACTS. SO THEN WHEN WE DEVELOP THE LIST, WE'RE READY TO, YOU KNOW, TAKE ON THEM AND, AND, YOU KNOW, GO FOR CONSTRUCTION. SO THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE'LL BE WORKING ON OVER THE NEXT, UH, SIX MONTHS. UH, IN REGARD TO THE SECOND QUESTION, UM, IN, YOU KNOW, OTHER CITIES DO THE, TO DO THE, DO IT THIS WAY, SO, YOU KNOW, WE WERE SAYING THAT PCI, BUT PCI IS A MAJOR PIECE, BUT WE ALSO ARE GOING TO PLUG IN OTHER FACTORS, YOU KNOW, DRAINAGE ISSUES OR LET'S SAY FOR ALLEYS, THE REAR ENTRY. THEN ANY ALLEY WITH THE REAR ENTRY THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, THAT WILL TAKE MORE SCORES AND LIKE, OR THAT IS BEING USED FOR SANITATION. SAME CONCEPT CAN BE APPLIED FOR EQUITY. LIKE IF THE CITY COUNCIL, YOU KNOW, DECIDES OR ELECTS TO GO WITH EQUITY, WELL, WE CAN DO, WE CAN PLUG IN LET'S SAY A 20% FACTOR. SO THEN, SO THEN, YOU KNOW, SOME OF THE AREAS WILL BE PRIORITIZED OR BE MORE EQUITABLE WITH THE OTHER AREAS. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, I DON'T SEE ANY ADDITIONAL LIGHTS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK. UM, MADAM MAYOR, JUST A POINT OF INFORMATION. YES, MA'AM. IS HOW, HOW OFTEN IS THIS REPORT DONE? UH, A GREAT QUESTION. UM, SO TYPICALLY TWO YEARS, UM, YOU CAN DO THAT EVERY THREE YEARS OR FOUR YEARS, UM, USUALLY 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, CHANGES TO THE PCR FOR CITIES, IT DOESN'T HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. SO, YOU KNOW, TYPICALLY YOU DO THAT EVERY TWO YEARS. SO THEN YOU HAVE LIKE A FULL IDEA ABOUT HOW WE ARE PROGRESSING. AND THEN THE OTHER, THE OTHER TWO YEARS IS TO DEVELOP, TO DEVELOP THE INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE WILL BE DISCUSSING WITH THE CITY MANAGER, WHAT WE CAN DO, UH, WHAT WE CAN DO. LIKE AFTER ONE YEAR OR TWO, WE CAN COME BACK WITH THE SAME STUDY. BUT NO, NO INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT PLAN. IT WOULD BE ONLY THE STUDY JUST TO SHOW YOU IF THE DEPARTMENT IS MEETING, MEETING THEIR GOAL. SO TO ANSWER A QUESTION, IT COULD BE TWO YEARS, IT COULD BE, IT COULD BE THREE YEARS. [00:25:02] AND, AND YOU CAN, AND YOU CAN DO IT DIFFERENT WAYS. UH, WHAT HAPPENS SOMETIMES YOU DO THE INITIAL STUDY AND IN YEAR NUMBER, LET'S SAY TWO, YOU START DOING A THIRD OF THE CITY, DO A FULL, A FULL FLEDGE STUDY ON, ON ONE THIRD OF THE CITY, UH, THE SECOND YEAR DO, YOU'LL DO THE SAME THING. THE THIRD YEAR YOU'LL DO THE SAME THING AND SO ON. SO IT CREATES A CYCLE. ONE OF THE, THE CONCERNS THAT WE WOULD HAVE IS THAT WE DON'T KNOW THE, THE, THE DEGREE. SOMETIMES YOU DON'T KNOW THE DEGREE OF DEGRADATION OF A STREET. SO IT'S, IT'S BETTER TO KIND OF STUDY ALL OF THEM AT THE SAME TIME AND DEVELOP THE PLAN AND ALWAYS LOOK AT THE PREVIOUS PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE OVERRIDING ISSUES. UH, UH, MR. AL CASEY MENTIONED DRAINAGE, RIGHT? YOU CAN GO FROM A PCI 70 TO A PCI 40 IN A MATTER OF A YEAR IF YOU HAVE UNDERLYING ISSUES, RIGHT? THOSE ARE SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE WANT TO PAY ATTENTION TO THAT, THAT WE WANT TO MAKE THAT IMPA FOCUS, UH, FOR US. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. THANK YOU. THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION. AS I LOOK AT THIS, ONE OF THE THINGS COME TO MIND AND THANK YOU CITY MANAGER FOR BRINGING UP THAT THERE MAY BE ALREADY IN PLACE WHERE STUDIES HAVE BEEN FOR, UH, DIFFERENT SIT, UH, SITUATIONS AROUND THE CITY. I WAS CURIOUS TO KNOW, AS WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT THIS STUDY, UH, GOING FORWARD, WILL THERE ALSO BE OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE A LOOK AT STREET THAT MAY, UM, BE JOINED WITH OTHER CITIES? FOR EXAMPLE, WESTMORELAND TO BEAR CREEK, PART OF THAT GOES INTO GLEN HEIGHTS. IS THERE AN OPPORTUNITY TO MAYBE DO A CALL SHARE IN THIS STUDY WHERE GLEN HEIGHTS WILL CONTRIBUTE TO, UH, FUNDING THAT AS WELL? THANK YOU, MA'AM FOR THE QUESTION. I APPRECIATE IT. UM, SO THAT THIS STUDY WILL GIVE US RECOMMENDATIONS, BUT IF WE WANNA DO THAT, WHICH WOULD BE GREAT, THEN IT WOULD BE, I IMAGINE, AND I'LL DEFER TO THE, UH, MR. EFFER CITY MANAGER. IT WOULD BE PART OF THE MASTER PLAN. IT WOULDN'T BE PART OF THIS. THIS IS LIKE MAINLY TO MA MANAGE AND MAINTAIN THE CURRENT ROADWAYS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY, UM, WHEN IT COMES TO PRESERVATION OR RECONSTRUCTIONAL REHABILITATION. BUT IF THE CITY HAS LIKE A INITIATIVE THAT WOULD, YOU KNOW, CONNECT, UM, GLEN HEIGHTS WITH OTTO OR IN SOME OF THE PROJECTS, IT WOULD BE A PORTION OF A MASTER PLAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UH, AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU MS. CASEY. AT THIS TIME, UH, MS. LEWIS WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, PLEASE. NEXT WE HAVE A PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION ON THE DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO MAKING AN INTRODUCTION. IS CITY ENGINEER MD HOSSEIN? GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. SO CITY OF DESOTO PAST COMPLETED THE ORIGINAL DENTIST MASTER PLAN BACK IN 2001 AND APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR AGO WE HIRED HALF AN ASSOCIATES TO DEVELOP A NEW DENTIST MASTER PLAN, BUT IT ALSO INCLUDES SOME OF THE UNFINISHED PROJECT FROM PAST, UH, 2001 DENNIS MASTER PLAN. WE HAVE TWO REPRESENTATIVE FROM HALF AND ASSOCIATES, AND THEY WILL BE PRESENTING, UH, THE STATUS OF DE MASTER PLAN THAT HAS BEEN COMPLETED SO FAR. OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING. UH, MADAM MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS, UH, MY NAME IS KAR FATMA FROM HALF ASSOCIATES, AND I'M HERE TO PRESENT, UH, DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN AND UPDATES TO IT FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO. SO GIMME YOUR LAST NAME AGAIN. KAR FATIMA. FATIMA, YES. AND HERE WITH ME IS CATHERINE JENNINGS AND SHE'S A PROJECT MANAGER WHO'S BEEN WORKING ON THIS PROJECT WITH ME AND WILL BE PRESENTING AS WELL. SO THE MAIN, UM, SIX ITEMS FOR THE OBJECTIVES OF THIS STUDY INCLUDED, UH, CREATING A DIGITIZED DATABASE WITH THE STORM WATER UTILITY INFORMATION. AND WE UPDATED, UH, THE HISTORIC, WE COLLECTED THE HISTORICAL FLOODING COMPLAINT REVIEW AND, UH, CREATED AN EXISTING INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THAT. NEXT, WE HAD WATERSHED MASTER PLANNING DONE, WHICH IS CITYWIDE RE NATIONAL ASSESSMENT. AND WE DID FLOOD PLAIN ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFIED TOP 40 HOTSPOT AREAS FOR FLOODING RISK. UM, AFTER THAT WE HAD, UM, JUST HIGH LEVEL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT PROGRAM WHERE WE ANALYZED THE 2001 DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN AND IDENTIFIED THOSE TOP CIP PROJECTS, UPDATED THE COST TO THE CURRENT, UH, DOLLAR VALUE, AND THEN PRIORITIZED THE THOSE BASED ON THE CRITERIA THAT WE DEVELOPED DURING THE ANALYSIS. AND THEN WE ALSO DID FIVE ADDITIONAL HOTS, UH, CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS AND CREATED [00:30:01] THE SOLUTIONS FOR THOSE AND PRIORITIZED THOSE AS WELL. NEXT, FOR THE STREAM BANK ANALYSIS, WE CONDUCTED SITE VISITS AND PERFORMED TA, UH, SITE VISITS FOR SIX EROSION SITES AND CREATE ALTERNATE ANALYSIS AND CAUSES ESTIMATE FOR THOSE AS WELL. UM, IN THE END, UH, WE HAVE SUMMARIZED EVERYTHING IN THE REPORT, UH, THAT'S IN THE WORKS RIGHT NOW. AND THEN PUBLIC OUTREACH IMPLEMENTATION JUST TO EDUCATE THE PUBLIC ON THE MASTER PLAN. UH, WITH THAT, WE'LL START OFF WITH, UH, SOME FLOODING HISTORY. UM, DESOTO HAS OBSERVED SIGNIFICANT FLOODING IN THE PAST, SO MANY YEARS, STARTING AS EARLY AS 1908. AND THE MORE CURRENT ONE IS FROM OCTOBER, 2023. AND THE DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN, THE 2001, AND THE CURRENT ONE IS HERE TO GUIDE THE INFRASTRUCTURE UPDATES AND THE FLOOD PREVENTION STRATEGIES. SO WITH THAT, THE WATERSHED MASTER PLANNING IS BASICALLY A 2D RAPID ASSESSMENT IS A TERM THAT WE USUALLY USE. IT'S A 2D HRA MESH ANALYSIS WHERE WE ANALYZE FOR TWO YEARS TENURE AND THE A HUNDRED YEARS STORM EVENTS OVERALL FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO. AND THEN WE, UH, COMPLETE THE HIGHLIGHT, UH, FLOOD POTENTIAL, HIGHLIGHT POTENTIAL FLOOD FLOW AREAS BASED ON THE TOPOGRAPHY. WITH THAT, WE WERE ABLE TO IDENTIFY TOP 40 FLOODING AREAS OF CONCERN USING THE CRITERIA LISTED. AND, UH, THE IMAGE ON THE RIGHT SHOWS THOSE AREAS AS WELL. UH, HERE IS JUST A COMPARISON FOR DIFFERENT STORM EVENTS, HOW WE WERE GOING INTO LIKE MORE DETAIL AND IDENTIFYING THE FLOOD RISK FOR EACH OF THESE EVENTS. UM, OUT OF THOSE 40 AREAS, THERE ARE THREE THAT ARE BEING ANALYZED WITH THE CITY CURRENTLY, AND THESE ARE THE, THOSE PROJECTS. UM, WITH THAT, CATHERINE, SO THE NEXT PHASE OF THE PROJECT WAS FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS. AND SO WE, UH, LOOKED AT THE 2001 DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN FIRST AT THOSE TOP 20 AREAS, AND THEN UPDATED THE COSTS ACCORDING TO 2025 VALUES. AND THEN WE PRIORITIZED ALL OF THEM AND DID CIP PLANNING FOR THE NEXT FIVE TO SEVEN YEARS. SO HERE YOU CAN SEE THE UPDATED COSTS IN 2020 $5 FOR EACH OF THOSE 20 2001 CIPS. AND HERE IS THE LIST OF CRITERIA THAT WE USED IN ORDER TO PRIORITIZE EACH OF THE PROJECTS. AND SO WE'VE GOT POTENTIAL LOSS OF LIFE AS THE TOP PRIORITY. AND THEN ON THE RIGHT SIDE, YOU CAN SEE THE FIVE ADDITIONAL AREAS THAT WE STUDIED AS A RESULT OF THIS DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN. SO TO GO INTO A LITTLE MORE DETAIL ON THESE TOP FIVE FLOODING AREAS OF CONCERN, UM, WE FOUND SOLUTIONS FOR EACH OF THESE PROBLEMS AREAS. AND SO THE FIRST ONE'S IN MOCKINGBIRD HILL NEIGHBORHOOD, AND THE COST WOULD BE 2.4 MILLION TO UPDATE THIS SYSTEM. UH, THE NEXT ONE IS IN WESTMORELAND HEIGHTS NEIGHBORHOOD. THAT WOULD BE AT A COST OF 6.7 MILLION. IN CLUB PARKS NEIGHBORHOOD, IT WOULD BE $340,000. THEN AN ELLERSON TRACE PARK NEIGHBORHOOD, IT WOULD BE 845,000. AND LASTLY, IN SUMMER MEADOW, IT WOULD COST $4 MILLION. SO THEN THE NEXT PHASE WAS STREAM BANK STABILIZATION. AND SO WE WERE ABLE TO TAKE SITE VISITS TO SIX DIFFERENT LOCATIONS WITHIN THE CITY OF DESOTO, AND WERE ABLE TO RANK THESE ACCORDING TO, UH, THE SEVERITY OF EROSION. SO HERE EACH OF THE SIX SITES THROUGH SITE ONE AND TWO, THESE ARE BEHIND ARBOR CREEK DRIVE AND NORTH PARKS DRIVE, AND WE PROPOSE DRILL SHAFT RETAINING WALLS HERE. UH, SITE THREE IS BEHIND WOODHAVEN DRIVE, AND WE PROPOSED STONE TO PROTECTION. UM, UNDER PLANTATION DRIVE, WE'VE PROPOSED SCAB BIAN BASKETS. SITE FIVE IS AT THE MEADOWS PARKWAY, AND WE PROPOSED A DROP STRUCTURE HERE. AND LASTLY, WE'VE GOT, UM, SITE SIX BEHIND CLEAR SPRINGS DRIVE, AND WE'VE PROPOSED A TEMPORARY SOLUTION OF ROCK RIP WRAP IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE TRAIL, AND THEN A MORE LONG-TERM SOLUTION OF A MANHOLE DROP IN GIAN BASKETS TO PROTECT THE CHANNEL AND THE BANK. UM, THE NEXT PHASE WAS JUST IDENTIFYING DIFFERENT FUNDING SOURCES OF ENDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT ALIGNS WITH THE, UH, GOALS OF THE DRAINAGE MASTER PLAN FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO TO SUPPORT THE IMPLEMENTATION. UH, HERE IS A TABLE OF, UH, DIFFERENT AGENCIES THAT SUPPORT DIFFERENT TYPES OF FUNDING AND WHAT TYPE OF PROGRAMS THEY SUPPORT. AND THEN THE MAIN KEY CONSIDERATION IS THE MATCHUP TO LIKE 50%. AND THEN MOST OF THESE PROGRAMS DO REQUIRE A COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS, UH, BEFORE YOU MOVE FORWARD WITH THEM. UH, IN THE END, UH, WE ALSO DEVELOPED A PUBLIC OUTREACH IMPLEMENTATION PLAN WHERE A SURVEY WAS CONDUCTED AND WE HAD PUBLIC MEETINGS DONE. UH, WE'LL, UH, ALSO HAVE A QR CODE WITH LINKING TO THE ACTUAL DESOTO ENGINEERING SITE AND A FLYERS AVAILABLE, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC KNOWLEDGE. UM, WELL WITH THAT, UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR LETTING, MAKING US LISTEN TO US. THANK YOU MS. FATIMA. I DO SEE, UM, A LIGHT, [00:35:01] UH, FROM OUR MAYOR PROTO. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. UM, I THINK IT WAS A LITTLE BIT UNCLEAR TO ME IS HOW DID YOU ALL COME TO THE TOP FIVE, UH, UH, SITES, UH, IN THE CITY THAT YOU DEEM ARE MOST CRITICAL FOR, UM, FLOOD MANAGEMENT? AND THEN MY SECOND QUESTION, BECAUSE I'VE, I'VE PERSONALLY, UM, DEALT WITH THIS AND FOR DEVELOPMENT IN, IN PLAY SIX AND, UM, BECAUSE I HAD MY HAND SO HEAVILY INVOLVED IN IT, I KNOW THAT WE DID A LOT OF OUTREACH. I DOOR KNOCKED FOR ALL OF THE HOMES, IMPACTED SEVERAL TIMES. UM, WE HOSTED SEVERAL MEETINGS, UM, REGARDING THAT OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS OF, OF WHERE WE ARE WITH, UH, THEIR FLOOD PLANT. WHAT, WHAT IS THE OUTREACH OR TO THESE RESIDENTS THAT ARE NOW FINDING OUT THAT THEY ARE IN A TOP FIVE FLOODING ZONE AREA AND WHAT PRECAUTIONS THEY SHOULD POSSIBLY TAKE, IF ANY, RIGHT? SHOULD THEY GET A, UH, HUNDRED YEAR STORM AND THAT IMPACTS THEIR PROPERTY? SO TO ANSWER YOUR FIRST QUESTION, THE CRITERIA TO ESTABLISH THE TOP FIVE OUT OF THOSE TOP 40 IS, UH, LISTED HERE. WE LOOKED AT THE SEVERITY OF THE FLOODING WITH THE, HOW MUCH NUMBER OF STRUCTURES OR HOUSES THAT WERE BEING INUNDATED AT DIFFERENT LEVEL OF INTENSITIES AND, UH, WHAT THE F FREQUENCY WAS, IF THERE WERE ANY FLOODING COMPLAINTS, WE RECEIVED THE DATABASE ORIGINALLY IN THE FIRST STEP FROM THE CITY, AND THEN THE DEPTH OF THE FLOODING AT THAT LOCATION. SO ALL OF THIS IS STILL A RAIN ON MESH, WHICH IS JUST THE RAINFALL ON THE TERRAIN. SO WE, THERE ARE SOME RESTRAINTS TO HOW THE SEVERITY OF THIS FLOODING IS, AND THIS IS NOT JUST LIKE CREEK FLOODING, IT'S ALSO LIKE OVERLAND FLOODING AS WELL. SO, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE VERY SMART. THIS IS YOUR LANE, THIS AIN'T MY LANE. RIGHT. SO WHEN YOU SAY ALL OF THAT, ARE YOU SOMEWHAT SAYING LIKE, UH, HYDRAULIC, UH, LIKE THE 100 STORM TESTING, LIKE IF THERE WAS SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THE TOP ON USING THE TOPOGRAPHY, UM, WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE? IS THAT WHAT YOU'RE STATING? YES. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE LOOKED AT THE TWO YEAR, THE TENURE YEAR AND THE A HUNDRED YEAR. OKAY. AND IF IT WAS COVERING ALL THREE OF THEM, IT, IT RANKED HIGHER FOR US. GOTCHA. SO WE RANKED THEM ALL, AND THEN THE TOP FIVE THAT COME UNDER THOSE RANKS, OUT OF THOSE 40 ARE THE ONES WE SELECTED WITH DISCUSSION WITH THE CITY. AWESOME. AND IS THIS BEING ALSO PROVIDED TO FEMA AS WELL? NO, THESE ARE STILL LIKE CONCEPTUAL LEVEL OKAY. AND FEASIBILITY STAGE. SO THEY WILL STILL HAVE TO GO THROUGH LIKE MORE INTENSIVE DESIGN LEVEL ANALYSIS BEFORE THEY CAN COME UP WITH SOLUTION. THESE ARE STILL LIKE HIGH LEVEL SOLUTION AT THIS POINT FOR DRAINAGE MASTER PLANNING. THANK YOU. AND THEN REGARDING THE OUTREACH, UH, FOR OUTREACH, WE HAD A SURVEY DONE. UM, WE HAD A SURVEY DONE WITHIN THE CITY, UH, DEPARTMENTS. AND THEN THERE WAS A QUESTIONNAIRE THAT WAS DEVELOPED AND WE SENT IT OUT TO THEM AND WE GOT A LOT OF ANSWERS. HOWEVER, WE DON'T HAVE AN, UM, LIKE AN YES, GO AHEAD. NO, IF, IF I MAY, IF I CAN ELABORATE A LITTLE BIT MORE ON, ON THE OUTREACH, SOMETHING DIFFERENT THAT WE TRIED FOR THIS PROGRAM. WE DEVELOPED A LIST OF ALL THE CITIZENS THAT MADE COMPLAINTS ON DRAINAGE ISSUES IN THE PAST, AND WE COLLECTED THE, THE CONTACT INFORMATION FROM THEM. SO WHAT WE DID, WE CALLED THEM, WE ASKED THEM LIKE, WHAT IS THE BEST TIME FOR YOU TO KIND OF SHOW UP FOR THIS MEETING? AND, AND WE CONTACTED ALL THESE PEOPLE AND, AND YOU KNOW, A GOOD NUMBER SHOWED UP HERE AND WE DID THE PUBLIC OUTREACH AND, YOU KNOW, WE PRESENTED THAT, THAT INFORMATION TO THEM. UM, THANK YOU FOR THAT. AND I APOLOGIZE, MAYOR, UM, IF I'M OVERSTEPPING, BUT JUST OUTSIDE OF THOSE THAT YOU DID NOT CONTACT AND IT'S THE EVERYDAY CITIZEN THAT'S WORKING, RIGHT. THAT FITS IN ONE OF THESE TOP FIVE CRITERIA WHERE THEY GET SOME KIND OF LETTER, LIKE HOW WILL THEY BE NOTIFIED? SO, AND THAT'S, WE, WE FOLLOW THE STANDARD PROCEDURES THAT WE HAVE WITH THE CITY, LIKE BASICALLY PUBLISHING ON OUR SOCIAL MEDIAS, FACEBOOK AND INSTAGRAM IN THOSE CHANNELS THAT WE HAVE AND ON THE WEBSITE AS WELL. BUT UNFORTUNATELY IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, A, A REALLY CHALLENGE TO SEND A, A LETTER FOR EVERY CITIZEN IN, IN, IN THE CITY OF DESO TO KIND OF LET THEM KNOW THAT WE HAVE A, A PUBLIC MEETING ON, ON, ON THIS DAY. SO OUR PROCEDURE, WHAT WE DO IS WE ADVERTISE, UH, THROUGH OUR CHANNELS AND WE THAT WOULD BE IN CONTACT WITH THE COMMUNICATION, UH, DEPARTMENT, BUT IT'S NOT FOR EVERYBODY. IT WOULDN'T BE FOR EVERYBODY. RIGHT. IT'S THESE TOP FIVE SITES, RIGHT? LIKE THAT'S MY, THAT'S WHAT I'M, WE ARE SAYING THESE TOP FIVE SITES AND WHEN WE START LOOKING, WHEN WE START TALKING THE LANGUAGE OF YOU'RE IN A FLOOD ZONE AREA RIGHT. IN TOP FIVE, I'VE SEEN THE IMPACT OF, I'VE WALKED THE HOMES AND I'VE SEEN WHAT THAT DOES FOR THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE INSIGHT. NOT TO SAY THAT IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, RIGHT. GOD FORBID IT HAPPENS, BUT [00:40:01] IT DID HAPPEN ON THE WEST, FAR WEST SIDE OF DESOTO AND IT WAS VERY DEVASTATING TO SOME OF THOSE HOMEOWNERS. SOME OF 'EM MOVED. UM, I, I WOULD THINK THAT IF WE ARE AWARE THAT YOU ARE IN THIS AREA, OUR KNOWLEDGE, 'CAUSE THE CITY WASN'T AWARE THAT WOLF CREEK WAS IN THAT AREA, RIGHT. OR THAT EVEN EXISTED UNTIL IT HAPPENED. BUT NOW THAT WE ARE AWARE, WE WOULD PROACTIVELY LET YOU KNOW, HEY, BY THE WAY, YOU'RE IN AN AREA THAT COULD BE IMPACTED BY A 10 YEAR OR A HUNDRED YEAR STORM WHILE WE HAVE NO, WE, WE HAVE CITY HAS IMMUNITY. IMMUNITY, HERE'S WHAT THIS IS JUST KNOWLEDGE FOR YOU, JUST IN CASE YOU'RE FREE TO REACH OUT TO YOUR INSURANCE AND GET SOME EXTRA INSURANCE OR DO WHATEVER YOU MAY DO SO THAT YOUR HOME AND THE INVESTMENT THAT YOU MADE IS PROTECTED. THANK YOU FOR THE RECOMMENDATION. WE WILL CERTAINLY WORK ON THAT. THANK YOU. I'M SORRY, IT'S A POINT OF INFORMATION. JUST SO THAT WE KNOW THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN CONTACTED, IS THAT SOMEWHERE, IS THAT LISTED SOMEWHERE TO SAY WHO HAS BEEN CONTACTED AND WHO HAS NOT? LIKE IS THERE LIKE A LIST OF FOLKS OR WE YES. WE MAINTAIN A LIST OF, UH, OF CITIZENS, YOU KNOW, MADE COMPLAINTS IN THE PAST ABOUT DRAINAGE ISSUES. OKAY. ALONG WITH EMAILS AND PHONE NUMBERS. IS THAT ONLINE OR IT'S NOT ONLINE? IT'S, IT'S, UH, LIKE INTERNAL DOCUMENTS. OKAY. SO THE INFORMATION YOU HAVE HERE, AND I'M SORRY MADAM MAYOR, I, I WAS REALLY JUST REALLY WANTING TO POINT OF INFORMATION, BUT NOW THAT HE HAS SAID THAT, I I HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION. SO THIS, THIS MAP THAT YOU HAVE RIGHT BEFORE US, THE LITTLE ROUND CIRCLES ARE SAYING THESE ARE, THESE ARE ALL IMPACTED AREAS OR IS THIS THEIR STUDY? THIS IS, IS THIS INFORMATION YOU ALL STUDY? YES, YES. THIS IS OUR STUDY. SO THAT'S OUR LIKE FOUR 40 LOCATIONS THAT HAVE BEEN STUDIED AS PART OF THIS, UH, MASTER DRAINAGE PLAN. OKAY. AND I KNOW THERE'S A MEETING ON THE 12TH, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN. YES. UM, DON'T LET ME TALK AHEAD OF THAT. UM, BUT WAS THERE ANY, UH, ZOOM CALLS? SO THAT MEETING THAT WE HAVE IS BASED ON, YOU KNOW, CONSTANT RECOMMENDATION THAT WE HAD IN THE PAST FROM, UH, FOR, UH, STREAM BACK EROSION FOR THE COST SHARE PROGRAM, WHICH IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT FROM THIS ONE. OH, IT IS? YES. OKAY. BUT, AND, AND THEN, AND THEN, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A MEETING, UH, WE, WHAT WE TRY TO DO, WE TRY TO DO ONE VIRTUAL ONE IN PERSON, SO THEN WE GIVE, AND THEN WE DO ONE AT 6:00 PM AND THEN WE DO ANOTHER ONE, LET'S SAY AT 1:00 PM. SO WE GIVE, YOU KNOW, DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT OPPORTUNITIES AND OPTIONS TO HAVE, YOU KNOW, A CHANCE TO ATTEND THOSE MEETINGS. SO JUST TO GO ALONG WITH MY, UH, UH, COLLEAGUE, I WOULD ACTUALLY HOPE THAT WE WOULD DO JUST A LITTLE BIT MORE BECAUSE IT IS, I SAW STUFF ON HERE THAT I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW, UH, NOT JUST THE TOP FIVE. I WAS LOOKING AT THE OTHER ONES AND I WAS LIKE, I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT THEY COULD POSSIBLY FLOOD. AND SO IT MIGHT BE BENEFICIAL TO GIVE SOME MORE INFORMATION. SURE. WE CAN STILL GET THAT OR MAKE IT AVAILABLE FOR PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO GO OUT AND TAKE A LOOK. YES MA'AM. THANK YOU. I THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I SEE NO ADDITIONAL LIGHTS FROM, UM, COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO WISH TO SPEAK. THANK YOU SO MUCH. [D. ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST] AT THIS TIME, UH, MADAM CITY SECRETARY WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA, PLEASE. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.041. THE CITY COUNCIL MAY REPORT ON THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, EXPRESSION OF THANKS, CONGRATULATIONS OR CONDOLENCES INFORMATION ABOUT HOLIDAY SCHEDULES, RECOGNITION OF INDIVIDUALS, REMINDERS ABOUT UPCOMING CITY COUNCIL EVENTS, INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNITY EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS INVOLVING IMMINENT THREAT TO PUBLIC SAFETY AND HEALTH, AS WELL AS ANY LIAISON UPDATES. THANK YOU, MAYOR PROTO. UM, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. I DO WANNA GIVE A KUDOS AL TO CONCERN TO SODA'S CITIZENS. UM, LAST WEEK WAS IT, OR THE WEEK BEFORE, UM, THEY HOSTED A KWANZA EVENT IN THE CITY. AMAZING TURNOUT. UM, I THINK THERE WAS PROBABLY OVER A HUNDRED PEOPLE THERE. UM, SO JUST, I'M JUST SHOUTING THEM OUT FOR, UM, UH, INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATION. ANYBODY CAN JOIN. UM, THEY DO FAMILY RATES, THEY'RE CONCERNED DESOTO CITIZENS, YOU CAN FIND THEM ON FACEBOOK. UM, AND, UH, THEY HOST MONTHLY EVENTS AS WELL, UH, ON VARIOUS TOPICS ON THINGS THAT IS GOING IN THE CITY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO CALL THEM OUT AS A, A COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION DOING GREAT WORK IN THE COMMUNITY. UM, I ALSO WANTED TO, UH, COMMENT ON, UM, SOME THINGS OF INTEREST THAT AM, MAY, WE PROBABLY SHOULD BE AWARE OF THAT WE HAVE A NEW UTILITY BILLING SYSTEM THAT IS COMING THIS MAY, THAT WENT OUT IN OUR CITY MANAGERS, UM, REPORT. AND IF YOU'RE NOT SIGNED UP FOR THE REPORT, I STRONGLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO SO THAT YOU KNOW HOW THAT WILL IMPACT YOU. UM, ALSO, UH, 2026 [00:45:01] POINT IN TIME COUNTS. THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE PROJECTS THAT WE DO IN OUR COMMUNITY. AND IT'S SO IMPORTANT, UM, UH, BECAUSE THE WHAT POINT IN TIME, UH, COUNT IS, IS A PARTNERSHIP WITH HOUSING FORD HOUSING FORD IS AN ORGANIZATION THAT WORKS WITH MUNICIPALITIES ACROSS THE COUNTY, UM, TO REGARDING, UM, THE UNHOUSED IN THOSE WITHOUT HOMES WHO ARE IN OUR COMMUNITIES, RIGHT? UM, AND SO WHAT THE POINT IN TIME CONTACT ALLOWS IS THAT ON A SET DAY AND TIME, ALL ACROSS, UH, THE COUNTY AND BEYOND, UH, RESIDENTS LIKE US, WE GO OUT AND WE COUNT THE UNHOUSED. WHY IS THAT AND SO IMPORTANT? CRYSTAL GLAD YOU ASKED, BECAUSE THAT COUNT THEN IS RECORDED FOR THE CITY AND HOUSING FORWARD THEN WORKS WITH OTHER ENTITIES AS WELL AS OUR COUNTY AND FEDERAL OR ENTITIES IN ORDER TO ALLOCATE RESOURCES AND DOLLARS TO BRING RESOURCES TO OUR CITY AND COUNTY FOR ASSISTANCE WITH THOSE THAT ARE UNHOUSED. WE'VE ALL SEEN THEM IN OUR COMMUNITY. THEY'RE A PART OF OUR COMMUNITY. UM, AND TODAY WE DON'T HAVE INFRASTRUCTURE, RIGHT? A LOT OF THAT HAS TO DO WITH THE INABILITY TO ACTUALLY COUNT WHO IS HERE IN OUR COMMUNITY THAT IS UNHOUSED. SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? THIS IS A CALL TO ACTION TO YOU HERE IN THE AUDIENCE. YOU WATCHING, UM, YOUR RECORDING PLAYBACK THAT IF YOU HAVE TIME, UM, ON JANUARY THE 22ND, UM, THAT WE WILL DO OUR POINT IN TIME. UM, HERE IN THE CITY OF DESOTO, THIS IS TYPICALLY AN, UH, A PROJECT THAT OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT HOST. UM, AND IT'S FROM, IT'S A LITTLE LATE. SO THOSE WHO ARE EARLY BIRTHS, UH, THAT GO TO BED LIKE MYSELF, UH, YOU'LL HAVE TO STAY UP A LITTLE LATE THAT NIGHT. IT STARTS AT 8:00 PM ENDS AT 11:30 PM UM, BUT IT IS ONE THAT I, I NEVER, I DON'T, I DON'T TYPICALLY, I DON'T MISS IT. SO WE'LL MEET AT THE, UM, POLICE DEPARTMENT AT 8:00 PM AND WE WILL DEPART NO LATER THAN EIGHT 30. THIS FLYER'S ALREADY POSTED ON THE CITY'S WEBSITE WITH THE QR CODE WHERE YOU CAN REGISTER TO, UM, ATTEND. AND THEN LASTLY, I DO WANT TO BRING UP ANOTHER MEETING THAT THE CITY IS DOING IS THE, WHICH KIND OF WE DISCUSSED TODAY, THE EROSION MITIGATION COST SHARING PROGRAM, PUBLIC INFORMATION MEETING THAT IS BEING HELD MONDAY, JANUARY 12TH. THAT'S NEXT MONDAY, RIGHT BACK HERE IN THIS CITY COUNCIL CHAMBER. UM, THAT IS STARTING AT 1:00 PM UM, THAT IS GOING TO BE ABOUT OUR, UH, PROGRAM OF EROSION MITIGATION FOR RESIDENT PROPERTY, UM, THE BUSINESS PLAN, BECAUSE THAT IS NUMBER 15 ON THE BUSINESS PLAN. AND THEN STAFF WILL BE AVAILABLE FOR QUESTIONING AND ANSWER AT THAT TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN WATER. OKAY. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. I HAVE TWO UM, EVENTS. FIRST ONE IS THE DADDY DAUGHTER DANCE. IT'S THE CINDERELLA BALL. SO IT'S GONNA BE DANCING, FOOD ELEGANCE, GIVEAWAYS. IT'S GONNA BE FEBRUARY 7TH AT SIX 30 TO NINE 30. REGISTRATION IS FROM DECEMBER 18TH THROUGH FEBRUARY 4TH. GENERAL, UH, SEATING IS $80 PER COUPLE, $40 FOR ADDITIONAL GUESTS ARRIVAL TIME IS SIX 30. NOW IF YOU WANNA DO V-I-P-V-I, EXCUSE ME, VIP SEATING IS $90 PER COUPLE AND 45 FOR EACH ADDITIONAL GUEST. UH, EARLY ARRIVAL AT THE TIME IS, UH, 5 34 VIP. OKAY? PURCHASE TICKETS ONLINE@DESOTOTEXAS.GOV. UH, FOR SLASH REGISTER OR PURCHASE TICKETS AT THE DESOTO RECREATION CENTER. SPACE IS LIMITED. TICKETS MUST BE PURCHASED IN ADVANCE. TICKETS WILL NOT BE SOLD AT THE DOOR. SO IT'S AT THE DESOTO CIVIC CENTER AT TWO 11 EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD. OKAY, NEXT THING. NEXT ITEM OF INTEREST IS COMMITTEE INTEREST IS A SOULFUL LADIES NIGHT. OKAY? THAT'S, UH, FEATURING TASIA MARLEY'S. IT'S GONNA BE JANUARY 24TH. UM, AND THAT IS GONNA BE AT THE DESOTO CORNER THEATER. AND IT'S $35, UH, FOR A SINGLE ADMISSION, $60 FOR TWO DATE, NIGHT PACKAGE OR PACK. IT STARTS AT 7:00 PM SO FOR TICKETS FOR THAT, UH, YOU CAN GO TO DESOTO EVENTS.EVENTBRITE.COM. SO, UM, COME ON OUT TO THOSE TWO EVENTS IF YOU CAN. THANK YOU. THANK TO YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN WATERS. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HUGH. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. GOOD EVENING. DESOTO. JUST WANNA ENCOURAGE YOU TO JOIN THE DESOTO AREA CHAMBER OR IF YOU KNOW ANY BUSINESSES OR ANYONE WHO WOULD LIKE TO JOIN, PLEASE DO SO. THEY'RE DOING SOME INCREDIBLE THINGS AND WOULD LOVE TO, UH, BUILD THE CHAMBER OF THIS YEAR. SO PLEASE KEEP THEM IN MIND. PLEASE SHARE. ALSO WOULD LIKE TO SAY CONGRATULATIONS TO THE SOUTH OAK CLIFF GOLDEN BEARS, THE DUNCANVILLE PANTHERS, ALTHOUGH THEY DIDN'T FINISH, [00:50:01] THEY DID GET THERE. AND THEN OF COURSE, OUR HIGH FLYING DESOTO EAGLES. WE ARE SO PROUD OF ALL OF THEM. WE WENT TO THE, UH, STATE TOURNAMENT JUST A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO AND IT WAS AN AMAZING TIME. SO Y'ALL BE READY TO GO THIS YEAR 'CAUSE WE ARE GOING BACK AND LET'S GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. AND, UH, HELLO DESOTO. I AM, I'LL SAY IT LIKE THIS. I ACTUALLY WANT TO SHOW YOU THE, THE FLYER. I'M GONNA PUT THE FLYER OUT HERE. WE HAVE A, A COMMUNITY CONVERSATION COMING FORWARD. THERE HAVE BEEN MANY UNANSWERED QUESTIONS ABOUT THORN TREE AND I AM PUTTING ON A TOWN HALL. I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO COME OUT, GET YOUR QUESTIONS ANSWERED, ASK YOUR QUESTIONS, AND MAKE SURE THAT WE GIVE THE, UH, CITY ANY INFORMATION THAT WE NEED IN ORDER TO GET OUR ANSWERS AS RESIDENTS OF THIS COMMUNITY. AGAIN, THAT MEETING IS HAPPENING MONDAY, JANUARY 26TH AT THE DESOTO LIBRARY. 6:00 PM TO SEVEN 30. LIGHT BITES WILL BE PROVIDED AND PLEASE COME OUT, BRING A FRIEND, SOMEONE WHO LIVES IN DESOTO TO GET SOME INFORMATION ABOUT THORNTREE. I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH, DO YOU HAVE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? NOT AT THIS TIME. OKAY. I HAVE A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS, UH, ONE THAT IS COMING UP THIS MONTH AND I WANT TO, UH, PIGGYBACK OFF OF COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES ANNOUNCEMENT REGARDING THE THREE TIME STATE CHAMPIONSHIP EAGLES. UM, YOU CAN CLAP RIGHT THERE. THEY ARE HAVING THEIR, UH, FOOTBALL CHAMPIONSHIP CELEBRATION PARADE. AND THAT IS GOING TO BE TAKING PLACE ON SATURDAY, JANUARY 24TH. IT IS GOING TO BE BEGINNING AT 10:00 AM AT AMBER TERRACE WITH THE LINEUP STARTING AT NINE 15. THEN THE PARADE IS GOING TO PROCEED ALL THE WAY TO THE CHRIS DYER GYM, WHERE THERE WILL BE A CELEBRATION CEREMONY HELD. AND THIS IS A ONCE IN A LIFETIME MOMENT FOR OUR SCHOOL AND OUR COMMUNITY AND ONE THAT WILL BE REMEMBERED, UH, FOR YEARS TO COME. SO PLEASE MAKE PLANS TO ATTEND. ALSO, WE HAVE, COMING UP IN THE MONTH OF FEBRUARY, WE HAVE THE STATE OF THE CITY. AND THAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING ON FEBRUARY THE 12TH AT 11:30 AM RIGHT HERE AT OUR CIVIC CENTER COMPLEX IN THE BLUE BONNIE ROOM. AND THIS YEAR'S THEME IS CELEBRATING OUR HISTORY, ELEVATING OUR TODAY, INNOVATING OUR TOMORROW. AND SO IT'S GOING TO BE A POWERFUL LOOK AT WHERE WE'VE BEEN, WHERE WE ARE IN THE BOLD VISION TO SHAPE DE SOTO'S FUTURE. SO AGAIN, THAT IS GOING TO BE HAPPENING ON THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 12TH, 2026, UH, AT 11:30 AM AND IT'S GOING TO BE RIGHT HERE IN THE CIVIC CENTER, UH, CIVIC CENTER IN THE BLUE BONNET ROOMS. AND SO MAKE SURE YOU GET YOUR TICKETS FOR THAT. UM, THEY DO HAVE SPONSORSHIPS AND TABLES AVAILABLE IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO DO THAT. THIS EVENT ALWAYS SELLS OUT. AND SO IF YOU WANT TO COME, PLEASE MAKE SURE THAT YOU, UH, GO AND VISIT WITH OUR DESOTO AREA CHAMBER TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS. WE WILL ALSO BE HAVING OUR WATCH PARTY AS CUSTOMARY, SO IF YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO JOIN US IN PERSON, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO WATCH IT LIVE STREAMING THAT DAY AS WELL, AS WELL AS WATCH THE REPLAY IF YOU'RE NOT ABLE TO ATTEND WITH US ON THAT DATE. ALRIGHT, IF THERE ARE NO OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS, I'M GOING TO GIVE, UH, THE MICROPHONE AND TAKE A POINT OF PRIVILEGE TO GIVE TO OUR CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UH, THIS IS THE CITY MANAGER'S MESSAGE FOR 2026. UH, DEAR MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS, AS WE BEGIN 2026, I WANTED TO TAKE A MOMENT TO ACKNOWLEDGE THE OPPORTUNITY AND NEW YEAR PROVIDES FOR REFLECTION, GROWTH, AND RENEWED FOCUS. I WOULD LIKE TO RESPECTFULLY APOLOGIZE TO COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER FOR ANY ACTION, COMMUNICATIONS OR CIRCUMSTANCES OVER THE PAST YEAR THAT MAY HAVE CAUSED FRUSTRATION OR STRAIN IN OUR WORKING RELATIONSHIP. THAT WAS NEVER MY INTENT. UH, MOVING FORWARD, I TAKE RESPONSIBILITY FOR ENSURING THAT MY APPROACH REFLECTS THE PROFESSIONALISM, TRANSPARENCY, AND COLLABORATION THAT THE CITY COUNCIL AND THE COMMUNITY WE SERVE RESPECTFULLY AND RIGHTFULLY EXPECT. MY COMMITMENT IN THIS YEAR IS TO FOSTER CLEAR COMMUNICATION, MUTUAL RESPECT, AND SOLUTION ORIENTED PARTNERSHIP WITH THE ENTIRE CITY COUNCIL. I VALUE ALL OF YOU AND, UH, YOUR ROLE, YOUR PERSPECTIVE, AND THE IMPORTANCE OF WORKING TOGETHER IN A WAY THAT BEST SERVES OUR RESIDENTS AND ADVANCES THE CITY'S GOAL. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP. I LOOK FORWARD TO A CONSTRUCTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE YEAR AHEAD AND TO THE DESOTO COMMUNITY. I'M HONORED AND PRIVILEGED TO CONTINUE SERVING YOU DILIGENTLY AND FAITHFULLY AS YOUR CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MR. CITY MANAGER FOR, UH, FOR YOUR MESSAGE ON THIS EVENING. [E. 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.] AT THIS TIME, MADAM CITY [00:55:01] SECRETARY WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. NEXT WE'LL HAVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. ITEMS ARE LISTED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA BY THE CITY MANAGER AND ARE RECOMMENDED TO 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 THE CITY MANAGER. FIRST, WE HAVE APPROVAL OF CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES FOR DECEMBER 2ND, AS WELL AS OTHER CONSENT ITEMS. CONFIRMATION OF APPOINTMENT OF CHARLES HOLMES TO THE DESOTO VETERAN AFFAIRS COMMITTEE. PLACE SEVEN. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH KIM LEE HORNE AND ASSOCIATES INCORPORATED FOR A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $99,000 FOR A DESIGN BID AND OTHER ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE EAST PLEASANT RUN ROAD CORRIDOR INTERSECTIONS IMPROVEMENTS AND TRAFFIC SIGNAL UPGRADE PROJECT. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONSTRUCTION CONTRACT WITH ES STRATA CONCRETE COMPANY LLC IN THE AMOUNT OF $853,235 AND APPROVING A TOTAL PROJECT BUDGET OF $936,000, 954 AND 75 CENTS TO INCLUDE CONSTRUCTION CONTINGENCY AND MATERIAL TESTING SERVICES FOR THE 2023 RENOVATION AND REPLACEMENT PROGRAM. PHASE TWO, A PAVING IMPROVEMENTS PROJECT. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH SHI INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION TO PURCHASE NINJA ONE, A REMOTE MONITORING AND MANAGEMENT RRM SOFTWARE TOOL IN THE AMOUNT OF $12,874 AND 25 CENTS. AND SENTINEL ONE, AN AI ENHANCED ENDPOINT PROTECTION SYSTEM EPS IN THE AMOUNT OF $52,478 AND 67 CENTS. CONSIDER APPROVING THE PUBLIC ART POLICY D DASH SIX DASH 0 1 0. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE AN INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT ILA WITH THE DALLAS COUNTY HOSPITAL DISTRICT DBA PARKLAND HEALTH AND A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $153,492 FOR THE SUPPORT OF A ONE-TIME FULL EMT PARAMEDIC AND ONE FULL-TIME LICENSED SOCIAL WORKER, LSW TO PROVIDE SERVICES TO THE DESOTO CARE TEAM, AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT WITH FOUND A WAY FOUNDATION AS A THIRD PARTY ADMINISTRATOR FOR THE HELPING HANDS OF DESOTO PROGRAM. THANK YOU. I SEE, UH, LIGHTS OR THOSE LIGHTS FOR ITEMS TO BE PULLED OR QUESTIONS? UM, YES, BOTH. BOTH. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER, LADIES FIRST. UM, THANK YOU. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. UM, I'D LIKE TO, UH, PULL F THREE. IS IT F THREE, F THREE, F FIVE, F SIX AND F SEVEN? REPEAT THAT. F THREE, F FIVE AND F SIX AND F SEVEN JUST FOR QUESTIONS? JUST FOR QUESTIONS, YES. OKAY. SO ON UH, ON F THREE, I KNOW WE JUST GOT THROUGH TALKING ABOUT PAVING COUNCILWOMAN PARKER, LET ME ASK YOU TO HOLD ONE SECOND. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER WATERS, ARE YOU PULLING ITEMS OR QUESTIONS? I'M PULLING. WHICH ITEMS WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE PULLED? F FIVE. F FIVE. OKAY. SO WE'LL PULL F FIVE AND THEN DO A SEPARATE VOTE. YEAH. OKAY. OKAY. THANK YOU. YOU CAN CUT YOUR LIGHT OFF. COUNCILMAN WATERS. IS THAT, THAT'S YOUR, THAT'S YOUR ONLY REQUEST. OKAY. SO FOR, UH, F THREE, THE, UM, THE PAVING THAT'S IN THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, I KNOW THAT WE JUST GOT THROUGH TALKING ABOUT PAVING, POINT OF VOTING. YES. SORRY, MAYOR, SHOULD WE APPROVE THE ONES OUTSIDE THAT WEREN'T APPROVED, THAT WERE NOT, THAT WERE PULLED FIRST? THAT'S RIGHT. SHE JUST HAS QUESTIONS ON THOSE THOUGH. SO, OR DO YOU, BUT SHOULD, DO YOU WANNA, WE CAN GO AHEAD AND PULL ALL OF THOSE AND THEN WE CAN GO AHEAD AND APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA. YEAH, LET'S DO THAT. SO SORT OF MAKE IT NICE AND CLEAR. OKAY. OKAY. SO WE ARE PULLING F 3, 5, 6, AND SEVEN. UM, IS THERE A MOTION ON THE REMAINING ITEMS? MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE, UM, APPROVE ON THE CONSENT AGENDA, F1, F TWO, F FOUR, UM, AS PRESENTED. OKAY. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM CHISHOLM AND SECOND BY POINT OF POINT OF ORDER. I'M SORRY, POINT OF CON UH, INFORMATION? [01:00:01] YES, MA'AM. THE CONSENT AGENDA ITSELF, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FIVE THREE, UH, 3, 5, 6, AND SEVEN. YES MA'AM. BECAUSE THE REASON I'M SAYING THAT, 'CAUSE I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY F AND WE MISSED THE MEETING MINUTES, THE CONSENT AGENDA. MANY MINUTES. WE MISSED THAT IN THAT, IN THAT E, IN THAT MOTION. SO ALL OF THAT WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE ONES THAT HAVE BEEN REQUESTED TO BE PULLED. CORRECT. OKAY. SO I CAN RESTATE MY MOTION, PLEASE. I WOULD LIKE TO RESTATE MY MOTION. I, UH, MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA, UH, TO INCLUDE E ONE, THE, UH, COUNCIL MINUTES, F1 AND TWO AND FOUR SECOND. THANK YOU. IT IS BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED AS STATED. COUNSEL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. I WANT TO CONGRATULATE, UH, MR. CHARLES HOLMES, WHO WAS APPOINTED TO THE DESOTO VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMITTEE, PLACE SEVEN. IS HE HERE TONIGHT? NO, HE IS NOT HERE TONIGHT. HOWEVER, WE WANT TO, UH, ALWAYS APPRECIATE PUBLICLY THOSE RESIDENTS WHO STEP UP TO FILL, UH, THESE SLOT, ESPECIALLY, UH, TO SUPPORT OUR VETERANS. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. IF YOU'RE WATCHING, [3. Consider authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a construction contract with Estrada Concrete Company, LLC in the amount of $853,235.00 and approving a total project budget of $936,954.75 to include construction, contingency, and material testing services for the 2023 Renovation and Replacement Program Phase 2A - Paving Improvements Project] OKAY. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL GO BACK TO, UM, THOSE QUESTIONS IN, IN ORDER. YES. SO FOR F THREE, THIS TALKING ABOUT PAVING, AND I'M ALWAYS GONNA ASK THE QUESTION WHEN IT GETS TO BE THESE TYPES OF NUMBERS. UM, BECAUSE THE, THE LIST IS EXACTLY THE SAME AS THE LIST BEFORE. THERE'S A, THERE'S A PHASE ONE OR A PHASE A, AND THEN THIS IS A PHASE B OR PHASE ONE. AND PHASE TWO, THIS IS PHASE TWO. BUT THE ROWS, THE ACTUAL ROWS THEMSELVES ARE THE SAME. SO I WAS TRYING TO UNDERSTAND, WE'RE SPENDING THIS MONEY ON THE SAME AREA. OKAY. SO THE FIRST PHASE IS JUST TO REPLACE THE WATER LINES AND SEWER LINES. OKAY? THE SECOND PHASE IS TO DO THE PAVEMENT. OKAY? SO THE FIRST PHASE ALREADY DESIGNED, ALREADY BEEN, YOU KNOW, UH, NO PITTED AND IT'S UNDER CONSTRUCTION IS AT 70% COMPLETION. NOW THIS IS SAME ROADWAYS, BUT DIFFERENT PROJECT, WHICH WE WOULD COME BACK AFTER WE REPLACE THE PIPES AND THEN WE PLACE THE PAVEMENT. THIS IS FOR THE PAVEMENT ONLY, NOT, NOT FOR THE REPLACEMENT OF THE WATER AND SEWER LINES. OKAY. AND SO WHEN THIS ONE IS FINISHED, ONCE IT'S APPROVED, OR IF IT'S APPROVED, THEN IT GOES ONCE THAT 70%, YOU SAID THEY'RE AT 70%. NOW WHAT DOES THAT TIMELINE LOOK LIKE? BECAUSE WILL THIS BE THE SAME AMOUNT ONCE THAT'S DONE? IT SHOULDN'T EXCEED THIS AMOUNT IF THAT'S NOT DONE UNTIL THE FALL. YEAH. SO, UH, YOU KNOW, TWO, IT, IT, IT'S SAME ROADWAYS RIGHT? BUT TWO SEPARATE PROJECTS. OKAY. YOU KNOW, FIRST PROJECT IS DIFFERENT CONTRACT, DIFFERENT CONTRACTOR, DIFFERENT PEOPLE, DIFFERENT WORK. AND THIS IS A SECOND CONTRACT WITH A, WITH, WITH A SECOND CONTRACT, WITH A DIFFERENT WORK AS WELL. ALTHOUGH THEY'RE THE SAME FOR THE SAME ROADWAY. BUT THE FIRST PHASE IS, YOU KNOW, FOR CONTRACTORS THAT ARE SPECIALIZED WITH TRENCHING AND PIPE REPLACEMENT. AND THIS IS A DIFFERENT CONTRACT WITH PAVEMENT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I YIELD BACK. I JUST WAS, I WAS A LITTLE CONFUSED 'CAUSE I WAS LOOKING AT IT AND SAYING HOW FAR ALONG IS THE PREVIOUS PROJECT BECAUSE WHEN YOU START TALKING IN TERMS OF, OF ABOUT A MILLION ON THE SAME ROADS, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. YES. THAT'S REALLY WHERE I WAS KIND OF CONFUSED. YES MA'AM. WELL, THANK YOU. MM-HMM . I YIELD BACK. IS THERE A MOTION I MOVE THAT WE, UH, APPROVE F THREE AS WRITTEN. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECOND TO APPROVE F THREE AS WRITTEN COUNSEL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, [5. Consider approving the Public Art Policy (D-6-010)] WE WILL NOW MOVE TO F FIVE. I'M GOING TO, I'M GONNA GO AHEAD AND GIVE THAT TO, UM, COUNCILMAN WATERS, MA'AM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. MADAM MAYOR. UM, WELL ON THAT ONE, THAT'S THE, UH, NO PROVING THE PUBLIC ART POLICY, BUT, UM, I, I'M THE, UH, COUNCIL LIAISON FOR THE CULTURAL ARTS BOARD AND WE HAD OUR MONTHLY MEETING YESTERDAY AND THE WORDING FOR THE PUBLIC ART POLICY IS NOT QUITE READY YET. AND BECAUSE OF THIS, THEY NEED MORE TIME TO FINALIZE THAT POLICY. SO THIS BEING A CASE, I MOVED TO POSTPONE THIS ITEM TO THE MARCH 17TH COUNCIL MEETING. SO THE COUNCIL, SO THE CULTURAL ARTS BOARD AND STAFF CAN FINALIZE THE LANGUAGE AND ADDRESS ANY RESIDENT FEEDBACK. I'M SORRY, I DID HAVE SOME QUESTIONS OUTSIDE OF YOUR QUESTION. YOU'RE MOVING TO ACTUALLY MOVE IT, PULL IT? YES. UNTIL I NEED TO POST, I MOVE TO POSTPONE THIS ITEM TO THE MARCH TO PUT IT ON THE MARCH 17TH COUNCIL MEETING. 'CAUSE COACH ARCH BOARD NEEDS MORE TIME TO FINALIZE UP THE WORDING. IT'S NOT REALLY READY TO GO YET. SO MADAM MAYOR, I THINK. OKAY. SO THAT'S A MOTION. YES. MOTION TO, SO IN ORDER FOR US TO DISCUSS IT, I NEED TO SECOND THAT. I NEED TO SECOND IT AND THEN WE CAN DISCUSS IT. I SECOND THAT. IS THERE DISCUSSION? YES. OKAY. MY QUESTION IS AROUND THE, THE IDEA [01:05:01] THAT THE ARTS FOUNDATION ACTUALLY HAS TO REVIEW IT. UM, ARE WE THEN GOING TO GET SOMEBODY FROM THE ARTS FOUNDATION TO PRESENT THIS TO THE COUNCIL OR IS THIS COMING FROM THE EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DEPARTMENT? UH, FOR THIS PARTICULAR POLICY, I BELIEVE WE AGREED THAT THE CULTURAL ARTS AND, UM, HERITAGE MANAGER WOULD BE PRESENTING AS WELL AS A MEMBER FROM THE, A MEMBER FROM THE, UM, BOARD. SO THE ACTUAL FINISHED PRODUCT CORRECT. WILL BE THEIR FINISHED PRODUCT? CORRECT. AND THEN THEY WILL BE PRESENTING THAT TO US? YES. OKAY. I YIELD BACK. AND I ALSO HAD, WE DON'T HAVE A MARCH 17TH MEETING. OKAY. WHY DON'T WE JUST MAKE A MOTION TO GO AHEAD AND JUST REMOVE IT FROM THIS REMOVE IT AGENDA. THAT WAY GIVES US THE, YOU KNOW, THE ABILITY TO, THE ABILITY TO BRING IT BACK, YOU KNOW, AT SOME POINT IN MARCH OR, AND YOU RESTATE YOUR, UH, MOTION PLEASE. JUST TO REMOVE IT FROM THE MEETING PER STAFF'S REQUEST. PULL THIS ITEM PER STAFF'S REQUEST. OKAY. SO, UM, I MOVE TO MOVE, MOVE THIS ITEM RIGHT? TO JUST PULL IT, TO JUST PULL IT ALL TOGETHER FOR STAFF CAN, UH, RE REEVALUATE THIS PARTICULAR ITEM, BRING IT BACK AND BRING IT BACK IN A SEPARATE COUNSEL MEETING. SECOND. THANK YOU, . THE SECOND. OKAY. SHE, UM, COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER WAS THE SECOND. HE WAS JUST RESTATING HIS MOTION. YES. UH, WE HAVE A, IT'S BEEN MOVED PROPERLY. SECOND TO, UH, PULL THIS ITEM PER STAFF'S REQUEST TO BRING BACK AT A FUTURE MEETING. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL I'LL OPPOSE SAME SIGN THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU [6. Consider authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute an Interlocal Agreement (ILA) with Dallas County Hospital District dba Parkland Health in a not-to-exceed amount of $153,492 for support by one full-time EMT/paramedic and one full-time licensed social worker (LSW) to provide services to the DeSoto CARE Team] COUNSEL. UH, AT THIS TIME WE HAVE MOTION, I MEAN, EXCUSE ME. ITEM F SIX FOR F SIX. I WAS JUST ASKING THE QUESTION. UM, IS THIS ALREADY BUDGETED? BECAUSE IT, WHEN WE LOOK AT THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTATION, IT SHOWS WHO'S THE PERSONAL, OKAY. IT SHOWS THAT THIS WILL GO. AND I WANTED TO KNOW, IS THIS A ONGOING, UH, POSITION THAT'S BEING DONE? AND IS IT PART OF THE BUDGET ALREADY? GOOD EVENING. GOOD. GOOD EVENING. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. GOOD EVENING. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. YES, IT IS BUDGETED AND THIS IS FOR EIGHT MONTHS. UH, NEXT YEAR IS GONNA BE THE FULL YEAR, UH, CAPACITY. AND THIS IS AN ONGOING BUDGET, UH, WHICH WILL INCLUDE ONE TEAM FROM THE CITY OF AND ONE TEAM FROM PARKLAND. ONE TEAM FROM WHERE? FROM THE CITY OF DESOTO AND ONE TEAM FROM PARKLAND. OH, PARKLAND. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MADAM. MAY I HAVE A STATEMENT? YES, MA'AM. UM, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR PULLING THIS ITEM. UM, THIS DOES GIMME A, A OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, BRAG ON STAFF REGARDING THIS ITEM. UM, AND I'LL JUST JOG EVERYBODY'S MEMORY. IN OUR LAST BUDGET, WE ALLOCATED $300,000 FOR, UM, A CARES TEAM. UM, AND, AND THERE WAS A LOT OF, UM, MISINFORMATION THAT WAS PUT OUT IN THE COMMUNITY SUCH AS THAT THE CARES TEAM WAS BEING DISSOLVED, SUCH AS THAT THERE WAS A POLICE OFFICER THAT LOST THEIR JOB AS IT RELATES TO, UH, THE CARES TEAM. JUST A LOT OF MISINFORMATION. UM, BUT WE AS A COUNCIL DECIDED, UM, DURING THE SUMMER OF 2024 THAT WE WANTED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT AS IT RELATES TO HOW OUR CITY RESPONDS TO MENTAL HEALTH CALLS AND OUR UNHOUSED THAT ARE IN OUR COMMUNITY, UM, BECAUSE OF THE EVENTS THAT HAD OCCURRED AROUND THEM. UM, I WANT TO GIVE KUDOS TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE FOR HOW THEY'VE HANDLED THIS, UH, INITIATIVE FROM START TO FINISH. UM, PROBABLY ONE OF THE FASTEST, UH, RESPONSES THAT I'VE SEEN TO ONE OF OUR PROJECTS HERE IN THE CITY. 'CAUSE EVERYBODY KNOWS GOVERNMENT MOVES KIND OF SLOW, RIGHT? UM, BUT TO WATCH THEM, UM, REACH OUT TO SIT AT THE TABLE WITH THE CITY OF MESQUITE, UM, I WAS THERE AND TO SEE HOW THEY RUN THINGS AND THEIR PARTNERSHIP WITH PARKLAND, TO USE AN ENTITY THAT IS ALREADY IN OUR COUNTY THAT OFFERS LICENSED CLINICIANS, AGAIN, LICENSED CLINICIANS, AND TO PARTNER THEM WITH OUR EMT THAT WILL GO OUT WHEN THERE'S A MENTAL HEALTH CALL. AND IF THE POLICE DEEM THIS, THIS AREA AS A SAFE FOR THEM TO ENTER, THEY WILL BE THE RESPONDENT TO THE MENTAL HEALTH CALL, ALLOWING, UH, UH, SOMEONE WHO IS LICENSED AND TRAINED TO HANDLE MENTAL HEALTH CALLS TO BE ABLE TO SOLVE FOR THAT. SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE ASKED OUR POLICE OFFICERS TO DO THAT THEY ARE NOT TRAINED TO DO. AND I AM EXCITED FOR WHAT THIS MEANS FOR THIS DAY IN OUR CITY AND WHAT THIS SAYS TO OUR RESIDENTS ON HOW WE RESPOND WHEN YOU SAY DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. SO TO THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, AND BY THE WAY, THE COST IS BELOW [01:10:01] WHAT I BELIEVE THAT CARES TEAM WAS ORIGINALLY SAYING, THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO SPIN IN ORDER TO CHANGE THE DIRECTION THAT WE WANT IT TO GO. UM, AND THIS WILL ALSO, PARKLAND HAS THE ABILITY THEIR SYSTEM ALLOWS US TO TRACK. ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES THAT WE'VE HAD WITH OUR UNHOUSED IS BEING ABLE TO TRACK THEM. UM, AND THIS ALLOWS TO KEEP CASE MANAGEMENT RECORDS THAT WE BE ABLE TO HAVE FOLLOW UP AFTER THE FACT. SO TO OUR CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE, TO HIS, UH, HIS, HIS DEPUTY MANAGER, UM, WHO HAS ALSO BEEN A INTRICATE PART OF THIS. THIS IS A GREAT DAY FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO. 'CAUSE THIS CLOSES THE GAP IN WHAT OUR CARES TEAM NEEDED IN ORDER TO MOVE FORWARD. AND IF ANYONE'S CASE IS CONCERNED, THAT OFFICER THAT WAS ONE SUPERVISING THIS IS NOW IN THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DOING WHAT THEY'VE BEEN TRAINED TO DO BEST. AND THAT IS PROVIDE PUBLIC SAFETY TO OUR CITY OF DESOTO. THANK YOU. MAD MAYOR. THANK YOU. UM, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS BEFORE WE CALL FOR A MOTION? IS THERE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR? MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE AS PRESENTED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED COUNSEL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. A AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU COUNSEL. AT [7. Authorize the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract with Found A Way Foundation as a Third Party Administrator for the Helping Hands of DeSoto Program] THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE ITEM NUMBER F SEVEN, UH, THE LAST AND FINAL ON THE F SEVEN. THE QUESTION I HAVE IS I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, WE ACTUALLY DID THIS BACK IN UH, NOVEMBER AND YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, JUST TO MY SURPRISE, WHEN I SAW THIS, I WAS LIKE, I THOUGHT FOR SURE WE WAS GONNA HAVE A REPORT OF WHO'S BEEN HELPED, HOW THEY'VE BEEN HELPED, THAT SORT OF THING. SO I'M A LITTLE SURPRISED WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS AGAIN HERE IN JANUARY, BUT I JUST WANTED TO UNDERSTAND WAS, YOU KNOW, UH, BECAUSE DOES THIS, DOES THIS REPLACE MINT FOUNDATION? BECAUSE I KNOW THEY WERE THE ONES ORIGINALLY THAT WE TALKED ABOUT. OKAY, SO WE HAVE NOT STARTED THE PROGRAM YET ON THIS SIDE OF THE PRO, YOU KNOW WHAT WE HAD DISCUSSED IN THAT MEETING? MM-HMM . UM, MINT FOUNDATION WAS A SUGGESTED, UH, ORGANIZATION. HOWEVER, WE HAD, WE PUT OUT AN RFP FOR THIS PRO FOR THIS PROGRAM BECAUSE THAT WAS WHAT OUR PURCHASING MANAGER SAID WE HAD TO DO. IT WAS PART, LIKE, THAT'S JUST PART OF THE PROCESS FOR THE AMOUNT THAT WAS BEING USED FOR THIS PROGRAM. SO AFTER THAT PROCESS, WE HAD, UM, THREE OVERALL, UH, ORGANIZATIONS WHO APPLIED AND THE, UM, THE ORGANIZATION THAT WON THE BID WAS, UM, FOUND AWAY. OKAY. MM-HMM . OKAY. YEAH. THAT'S THE ONLY SURPRISE. SO I THINK I SAW THE ACTUAL CITY MANAGER'S, UH, MEMO ABOUT IT AND I WAS WONDERING, I WAS LIKE, I THOUGHT FOR SURE THIS IS WHY I WAS LIKE, RIGHT. PROBABLY WE WOULD HAVE A REPORT AS TO HOW MANY FOLKS IN OUR AREA, BECAUSE THEY ARE, UH, REACHING A POINT WHERE JANUARY 31ST IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER. RIGHT. AND THERE'S GONNA BE ANOTHER SITUATION WHERE THE GOVERNMENT, IF IT DOES NOT GO FORWARD, THEY'LL BE BACK IN THE SAME POSITION. AND WE HAVEN'T EVEN STARTED WITH THE FIRST PARTY. RIGHT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I JUST THOUGHT I'D, I'D ASK, BUT THANK YOU. I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. IS THERE A MOTION? SO MOVED. SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM CHISHOLM. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. COUNCIL ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY AT THIS TIME. THAT CONCLUDES OUR CONSENT AGENDA. I'M GONNA CALL OUR CITY SECRETARY, UH, FOR OUR ELECTION ANNOUNCEMENT. THANK YOU MAYOR. JUST WANT TO MAKE THE PUBLIC AWARE THAT THE NEXT GENERAL ELECTION FOR THE CITY OF DESOTO WILL BE HELD ON SATURDAY, MAY 2ND, 2026. AND THE FOLLOWING OFFICES WILL APPEAR ON THE BALLOT CITY COUNCIL. PLACE TWO AND CITY COUNCIL PLACE FOUR. THE CANDIDATE FILING OFFICIAL PERIOD OPENS ON WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 14TH, AND CLOSES ON FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 13TH AT 5:00 PM CANDIDATE PACKETS WILL ONLY BE AVAILABLE AND ACCEPTED DURING THIS OFFICIAL FILING PERIOD IN ACCORDANCE WITH TEXAS ELECTION LAW. ALSO, WE HAVE PACKETS AVAILABLE IN PERSON IN THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE AND AT THE ACTION CENTER. AND WE ALSO HAVE A FULL PACKET, WHICH IS ALMOST 300 PAGES, THAT INCLUDES KEY DATES, HOME RULE, CHARTER INFORMATION, ELIG ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS, AND MORE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE CONTACT THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE. EXCUSE ME. THANK YOU MADAM CITY SECRETARY. WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. WE'LL [1. Zoning Case #Z-1543-25 - Conduct a Public Hearing and consider an Ordinance to approve a requested change in base zoning from Mixed Use-1 (MU-1) to Mixed Use-R (MU-R) of Lot 1, Block A, Red Sea Addition. The property is located at 1001 Danieldale Rd., DeSoto, TX, and is located near the northwest corner of W. Danieldale Rd. and Bolton Boone Dr. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE AND MAP OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED, BE FURTHER AMENDED BY GRANTING A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM MU-1 MIXED USE DISTRICT (MU-1) TO MU-R MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT (MU-R) FOR LOT 1, BLOCK A, RED SEA ADDITION, AN ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DESOTO, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS; PROVIDING A CONFLICTS RESOLUTION CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND ($2,000.00) DOLLARS FOR EACH OFFENSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.] NOW HAVE, WE WILL NOW HAVE PUBLIC HEARINGS, ZONING CASE Z DASH 1543 [01:15:01] DASH TWO FIVE. CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE A REQUESTED CHANGE AND BASE ZONING FROM MIXED USE ONE MU DASH ONE TO MIXED USE RMU DASH R OF LOT ONE BLOCK, A RED C EDITION. THE PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT 1001 DANIEL DANIELDALE ROAD, DESOTO, TEXAS, AND IS LOCATED NEAR THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF WEST DANIELDALE ROAD. AND BOLTON BOONE DRIVE AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE AND MAP OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS AS PREVIOUSLY AMENDED, BE FURTHER AMENDED BY GRANTING A CHANGE IN ZONING FROM MU DASH ONE MIXED USE DISTRICT MU DASH ONE TO MU DASH R MIXED. USE RESIDENTIAL DISTRICT MU DASH R FOR LOT ONE BLOCK, A RED C ADDITION AND ADDITION TO THE CITY OF DESOTO, DALLAS COUNTY, TEXAS, PROVIDING A CONFLICTS RESOLUTION 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. MAKING A PRESENTATION IS PLANNING AND ZONING MANAGER CAMBRIA, JORDAN, GOOD EVENING COUNCIL MEMBERS MAYOR PROCTOR, CITY MANAGER AL GODFREY. THIS EVENING I BRING FORWARD FOR YOUR REVIEW AND CONSIDERATION, A REQUEST TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER APPROVING AN ORDINANCE TO ALLOW FOR A ZONE CHANGE FROM MIXED USE, ONE TO MUR, WHICH IS MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL. SO A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS CASE. THIS ITEM IS ACTUALLY COMING BACK BEFORE CITY COUNCIL. IT WAS, UM, PREVIOUSLY SEEN BY YOU ON MAY 6TH, 2025 DUE TO STAFF OVERSIGHT. SO, UM, TODAY WE'RE HOPING TO RECTIFY THAT. SO, UM, AT ITS BEGINNING, THE PROJECT HAS ALWAYS PROPOSED TOWN HOMES. HOWEVER, TOWN HOMES ARE, UM, NOT, EXCUSE ME, THEY'RE NOT PERMITTED IN THE MU ONE ZONING DISTRICTS, BUT THEY ARE PERMITTED IN THE MUR ZONING DISTRICT AND THE APPLICANT, UM, MOVED FORWARD WITH THE REZONING PREVIOUSLY IN APRIL AND ALSO MAY OF, UH, 2025 DUE TO DIRECTION FROM STAFF. SO BACK TO THE, UM, THE MAIN PARTS OF THE CASE, UH, EXCUSE ME, EXCUSE ME. SPECIFICALLY THE APPLICANT, MR. HERSCHEL SMITH AND THE, UM, PROPERTY OWNER ST. STEPHEN COMMUNITY CHURCH INCORPORATED. THEIR REQUESTING THAT THE DESOTO CITY COUNCIL GRANT AN ORDINANCE TO APPROVE A ZONE CHANGE FROM MIXED USE. ONE TO MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL IN, UM, JUST A LITTLE BIT, OR TO REPEAT MYSELF AGAIN, MIXED USE RESIDENTIAL ALLOWS TOWN HOMES. AND THAT'S WHAT THE APPLICANT HAS BEEN PROPOSING SINCE DAY ONE. AND YOU CAN SEE TO THE FAR RIGHT, UM, OUR AERIAL MAP, YOU HAVE THE SUBJECT SITE OUTLINED IN GREEN PUBLIC NOTIFICATION. SO THE PUBLIC NOTICE PUBLICATION WAS PUBLISHED IN THE DAILY COMMERCIAL RECORD ON NOVEMBER 24TH, 2025. IN TOTAL STAFF NOTICE, 22 PROPERTY OWNERS, 14 OF THOSE PROPERTY OWNERS WERE RENTED. THE 200 FOOT RADIUS AND THE REMAINING EIGHT WERE WITHIN THE 400 FOOT RADIUS. AS OF TODAY, PLANNING AND ZONING STAFF HAS RECEIVED ZERO LETTERS OF SUPPORT AS WELL AS ZERO LETTERS OF OPPOSITION FOR THE CASE. YOU CAN SEE THIS IS OUR SUBJECT SIDE TO THE RIGHT ADJACENT PROPERTIES. SO, UH, PROPERTIES TO THE NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE SUBJECT SITE ARE ACTUALLY ZONED AS PLAN DEVELOPMENT 1 21, WHICH HAS A BASE ZONING OF MULTIFAMILY. IT'S CURRENTLY VACANT PROPERTIES TO THE SOUTH ARE CURRENTLY ZONED AS PLANNED DEVELOPMENT ONE 60, WHICH IS DEVELOPED WITH SINGLE FAMILY 10 HOMES AND PROPERTIES IMMEDIATELY TO THE WEST OF THE SUBJECT SIDE ARE OUTSIDE OF CITY OF DESOTO CITY LIMITS. SO BEFORE YOU DO SEE THE PROPOSED SITE PLAN DANIELDALE ROAD, WHICH THE, UM, THE SUBJECT SITE FRONTS OFF OF IT IS A MIDBLOCK LOT IS SHOWN TO THE FAR LEFT OF THE SCREEN. AND THIS WILL BE THE ROAD THAT THE, UH, SUBJECT SITE TAKES ACCESS OFF OF. AND YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE ARE TOWN HOMES. AND THEN THESE ARE THE SAME TOWN HOMES THAT HAVE ALWAYS BEEN PROPOSED. THESE ARE OUR PROPOSED ELEVATIONS AT ITS HIGHEST POINT. UM, BUILDINGS IN THIS, UH, MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT WILL BE APPROXIMATELY 50 FEET PER OUR ZONING REGULATIONS FOR THE, UM, MIXED U MIXED USE R ZONING DISTRICT. THE HIGHEST, UM, HIGHEST POINT CAN CANNOT EXCEED 60 FEET. AND THIS IS OUR PROPOSED LANDSCAPE. YOU CAN SEE HERE THE SHRUBBERY THAT'S BEEN INCORPORATED IN PER OUR REGULATIONS, ALL LANDSCAPE REGULATIONS HAVE BEEN MET. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN COMPATIBILITY. SO [01:20:01] IF YOU LOOK AT THE TOP, OR EXCUSE ME, THE FAR RIGHT OF THE SCREEN, THEN YOU GO UP TO THE TOP WHERE YOU SEE A BLACK STAR. THAT BLACK STAR IS, UM, SYMBOLIZING THE LOCATION OF THE PROPOSED SUBJECT SITE. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE AREA OF THE SUBJECT SITE IS RED. AND IF YOU GO TO THE BOTTOM OF THIS SAME, UH, FUTURE LAND USE MAP THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT, YOU'LL SEE THAT RED, UH, SYMBOLIZES DESTINATION MIXED USE. THE APPLICANT IS PROPOSING A MIXED USE DEVELOPMENT. SO, UM, PLANNING AND ZONING STAFF HAS CONCLUDED THAT WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING IS PERMITTED AND IT DOES ALIGN WITH OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. WITH THAT IN MIND, STAFF, UM, EXCUSE ME, STAFF REQUEST, I'M SO SORRY. STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE DESOTO CITY COUNCIL ACCEPT THE RECOMMENDATION FROM THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION OF APPROVAL AND ADOPT AN ORDINANCE THAT ALLOWS, UM, FOR A ZONE CHANGE TO CHANGE FROM MIXED USE. ONE TO MIXED USE R AT THE SUBJECT SITE THAT IS CURRENTLY ADDRESSED AS 1001 DANIELDALE ROAD. AND THAT CONCLUDES THE PRESENTATION FOR ZONING CASE Z DASH 1543 DASH 25. THANK YOU MS. JORDAN. AT THIS TIME, COUNSEL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. COUNSEL, ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. MADAM CITY SECRETARY, DO WE HAVE CARDS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THE ITEM? WE DO NOT. OKAY. AT THIS TIME, SINCE WE DO NOT HAVE ANY CARDS, I'M GONNA RECOMMEND AND ASK FOR A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. OH, MOVED. IT'S BEEN MOVED, UH, BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. A AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, IS THERE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR? MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE AS PRESENTED. SECOND. I HAVE A COMMENT. I, I GOT YOU. OH YEAH, , COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES MADE THAT MOTION TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. AND THEN IT WAS SECOND BY COUN, UH, EXCUSE ME. MAYOR PRO TEM CHISHOLM. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, IS THERE ANY QUESTIONS IN DISCUSSION? I HAVE A QUESTION. YES, MA'AM. MS. JORDAN, DID YOU HAVE A COMMENT THAT, UM, WOULD LEAD US INTO IT BEFORE WE RECEIVE QUESTIONS? YES, I DID HAVE A COMMENT. SO THE APPLICANT AND THEIR, UM, THE PARTY IS HERE AND THEY DO HAVE A VIDEO THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH YOU ALL. OKAY. DID YOU WANNA HAVE THEM COME UP? WHAT IS THE LENGTH OF THE VIDEO? THE DANGER OF THE VIDEO? IT'S MAYBE TWO, TWO MINUTES. TWO TO THREE MINUTES. I BELIEVE IT'S NOT, IT'S NOT LONGER THAN FIVE MINUTES. THINK IT SWELL UNDER COUNSEL, PLEASE HOLD YOUR QUESTIONS. WE'LL VIEW THE VIDEO FIRST AND THEN WE'LL TAKE QUESTIONS. THANK YOU. OKAY, COUNSEL, AS YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. UH, YES. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU, UH, MS. JORDAN FOR YOUR PRESENTATION, AND THANK YOU FOR THE VIDEO. UM, IT, IT BEGS ME BACK, BACK TO ASK THE QUESTION. WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE LEVEL, UH, THE HEIGHT MM-HMM . UM, OF THE ACTUAL, UH, TOWNHOUSES OR APARTMENTS, WE ARE STAYING WITHIN A CERTAIN LEVEL WITHIN THOSE APARTMENTS, RIGHT? THAT'S CORRECT. OR THOSE OH, HEIGHT LIMITS HAVE BEEN MET? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS, YOU, YOU SAID THAT BACK IN APRIL IS WHEN THEY MADE THE DECISION TO MOVE IT TO MUR. SO IN APRIL, THEY, UM, WELL BEFORE APRIL, THEY, THE LAND, UM, AT 1001 DANIELDALE ROAD EXISTED AS AN OFFICE ONE ZONING DISTRICT. SO, UM, PREVIOUSLY, UM, BEFORE APRIL TO GET IT TO THE APRIL 8TH MEETING, UM, STAFF RECOMMENDED THAT THE APPLICANT REZONE THEIR PROPERTY FROM OFFICE ONE TO MIXED USE ONE. AND IN MIXED USE ONE TOWN HOMES ARE PROHIBITED. OKAY. SO [01:25:01] WHEN WE WERE SEEING IT BACK IN MAY, IT DIDN'T HAVE TOWNHOUSES. IT DID, IT HAD TOWN HOMES THE ENTIRE TIME. OKAY, BECAUSE I MEAN, I'M, I'M ONLY GOING BY WHAT THE, WHAT THE WRITEUP SAYS. IT SAYS THAT IN NOVEMBER IS WHEN THE DECISION WAS MADE TO MOVE IT FROM U ONE TO MUR. AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT, IS THAT A CORRECTION OR NO, THAT THAT IS CORRECT. SO I'LL START FROM THE BEGINNING. SO, UM, AT THE APRIL 8TH PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION, HEARING PLANNING AND ZONING STAFF BROUGHT THE CASE BEFORE THE COMMISSION, UM, TO REZONE THE AREA FROM OFFICE ONE TO MIXED USE ONE THAT WAS THE OVERSIGHT. UM, AND THEN IT WAS, IT WAS AN OVERSIGHT BECAUSE OF THE, UM, WHAT'S ALLOWED IN THE MIXED USE ONE TOWN HOMES ARE NOT ALLOWED. SO INSTEAD OF, UM, STAFF RECOMMENDING THAT THE APPLICANT REZONE FROM OFFICE ONE TO MIXED USE R THEY RECOMMENDED THAT THE APPLICANT REZONE FROM OFFICE ONE TO MIXED USE ONE WHERE TOWN HOMES ARE NOT PERMITTED, BUT TOWN HOMES HAVE ALWAYS BEEN A PART OF THE APPLICANT'S PROPOSAL. OKAY, GOOD DEAL. ARE YOU AWARE COUNCILMAN WATERS? UM, THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. UM, I HAD A QUESTION ON THE PHASE SEVEN MULTI-USE, MULTI-FAMILY RE RETAIL. UM, WAS THAT RETAIL AT THE BOTTOM AND THE TAS AT THE TOP OR WHAT, WHAT, WHAT'S GONNA BE RIGHT THERE WHERE IT SAYS ON THE, UM, WELL ACTUALLY I'M LOOKING AT IT AT THE, UH, DESIGN LAYOUT HERE. HERE, LIKE RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE. IT HAS, UM, PHASE SEVEN MIXED USE MULTIFAMILY RETAIL. WHAT, WHAT IS THAT GONNA BE? UH, IS IS IT GONNA BE JUST, I MEAN I'M ASSUMING IT'S RETAIL AT THE BOTTOM, RIGHT? RIGHT. IT'LL BE A MIX OF BOTH. IT'LL BE RETAIL AT THE BOTTOM AND MULTI-FAMILY AT THE TOP AS IT STANDS TODAY. BUT THEY DO HAVE THE AUTHORITY TO CHANGE THAT. OKAY. AND I HAVE A COMMENT ABOUT THIS, UH, PROJECT. UH, YOU KNOW, THIS CITY NEEDS, UH, MULTIPLE HOUSING TYPES, YOU KNOW, SO THIS BRINGS US, UH, SOME DIFFERENT TYPE OF HOUSING TYPE HERE, WHICH WE NEED. SO, UH, I THINK THIS IS THE TYPE OF PROJECT THAT THIS, THIS CITY NEEDS, ESPECIALLY IN THAT AREA. SO I REALLY LIKE THIS PROJECT, SO THANK YOU FOR BRINGING IT TO US. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. UH, THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I WAS JUST CURIOUS, HAS THE DEVELOPER PROVIDED INFORMATION WITH REGARDS TO WHAT PERCENTAGE WILL BE A DA COMPLIANT WITH THESE PARTICULAR UNITS? THAT INFORMATION HAS NOT BEEN PROVIDED JUST YET, BUT IT CAN BE FURNISHED. GO AHEAD. LEMME ANSWER THIS QUESTION. UM, THANK YOU. UM, COUNCILWOMAN NORTH, UM, THAT WOULD BE PART OF THE BUILDING PLANS WHEN THEY SUBMIT THE BUILDING PLANS THAT WE, WE ARE UNDER THE BUILDING CODE 2021 AND THEY WILL MEET, THEY WILL HAVE TO MEET THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE BUILDING CODE THAT THE CITY ADOPTED. COUNCILMAN WATERS, DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER QUESTION OR YOUR LIGHT JUST REMAINING ON, OKAY. UH, COUNSEL, I SEE NO OTHER LIGHTS. I DO HAVE A QUESTION OR TWO. UM, SO, AND YOU, I THINK YOU'VE ANSWERED IT THOUGH. IT WAS A, IT WAS ABOUT THE MU ONE MU ONE HAS WILL ALLOW MULTIFAMILY JUST NOT TOWN HOMES. CORRECT. IS THAT WHAT THE ISSUE WAS? THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY. AND IT WAS JUST KIND OF AN OVERSIGHT AS FAR AS THAT, THE PARTICULAR TYPE. RIGHT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. I HAVE NO QUESTIONS. AND WE DO HAVE A MOTION ON THE FLOOR AND THE ORDINANCE HAS ALREADY BEEN READ, SO I'M GOING TO, UM, ASK FOR COUNCIL TO VOTE. I, I THINK WE'LL TAKE A HAND VOTE 'CAUSE WE, I DON'T THINK WE HAVE OUR VOTING MACHINE UP TONIGHT, SO WE'LL DO A HAND VOTE. MS. UH, MADAM CITY SECRETARY, CAN YOU DO A ROLL CALL PLEASE? MAYOR RACHEL L PROCTOR? YES. MAYOR PRO TEM. CRYSTAL CHISHOLM? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER PERT PARKER? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER KEN WATERS? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDRE BY SR. COUNCIL MEMBER DEBORAH NORTH. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA HUGHES? YES. THANK YOU. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCIL. CONGRATULATIONS. AT THIS TIME. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M GONNA EASE US INTO THIS. OUR CITY SECRETARY GOT ME A WONDERFUL GIFT THAT I'M SUPPOSED TO USE AT OUR MEETING. SO, , NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. I'LL JUST SAVE IT FOR PUBLIC HEARINGS ONLY SO WE DON'T GET, UH, OVERTAXED WITH THIS NOISE UP HERE. ALL RIGHT, HERE WE GO. I FEEL OFFICIAL. NOW [1. Consider authorizing the City Manager to proceed with a Request for Bids (RFB) for the Nance Farm Renovation Project] MOVING ON TO A REGULAR AGENDA. FIRST, WE'LL HAVE CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED WITH A REQUEST FOR BIDS RFB FOR THE NANCE FARM RENOVATION PROJECT. GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. UM, THIS, UH, ITEM HAS BEEN BROUGHT FORWARD JUST TO REQUEST THAT YOU AUTHORIZE, UH, CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED WITH A REQUEST FOR BIDS FOR THE NANCE FARM RENOVATION PROJECT. UH, FOR TONIGHT I JUST WANNA, UH, GO OVER THE SCOPE OF WORK THAT WILL BE INCLUDED IN THIS RFB. UM, THIS IS CONSIDERED PHASE ONE [01:30:01] AND WILL CON, WE WILL INCLUDE THE RESTORATION OF THE HISTORIC MAIN HOUSE AT NAN'S FARM, THE CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW ART CENTER, MASONRY PERIMETER FENCING AND SITE ENHANCEMENTS, PARKING AND ACCESSIBILITY IMPROVEMENTS, AS WELL AS BID ALTERNATES FOR HVAC UPGRADES AND THE MILKING BARN RESTORATION. SO JUST AS TO, UM, TO, UM, REVISIT SOME OF THE PAST, UM, UM, PLANNING PHASES ALREADY, THE DESIGN AND PLANNING, WHICH CAUSED ABOUT $583,500 HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED. AND, UH, IN WHICH WE USED FISCAL YEAR 2024 AND FISCAL YEAR 2025, UM, BUDGETS. SO THEREFORE, THIS PHASE, UH, WE'LL BE USING FISCAL YEAR 2026 ALLOCATION OF $4 MILLION, 3 MILLION OF WHICH ARE FROM HOT FUNDS, AND 1 MILLION OF WHICH IS FROM A FISCAL YEAR 2025 BOND SALE. AND, UM, APPROVAL OF THIS ACTION DOES NOT COMMIT THE CITY TO A CONSTRUCTION AWARD AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER, IT IS AUTHORIZING US TO PROCEED WITH AN RFB, WHICH WILL ALLOW US TO SOLICIT COMPETITIVE BIDS, VALIDATE CONSTRUCTION PRICING, AND THEN RETURN TO CITY COUNCIL WITH A RECOMMENDED AWARD AND FUNDING STRATEGY FOR CONSIDERATION. THEREFORE, STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL, UH, AUTHORIZE THE CITY MANAGER TO PROCEED WITH ISSUING A REQUEST FOR BIDS FOR THE NANDS FARM RENOVATION PROJECT. UM, I CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AND I ALSO HAVE MY, UM, ARTS CULTURE AND HERITAGE MANAGER HERE WHO CAN ANSWER ANY OF THE MORE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE TONIGHT. THANK YOU DR. WILLIAMS? YES, MAYOR PROTO. THANK YOU. UM, YOUR, IN THE BUSINESS REPORT, IT STATES THAT THE PHASE ONE FOR THIS IS $4 MILLION. IS THAT CORRECT? THAT IS, THAT IS CORRECT. AND IF I RECALL CORRECTLY, THE TOTAL COST FOR THIS PROJECT IS $7 MILLION, RIGHT? THAT'S AN ESTIMATED, UM, COST FOR ADDITIONAL PHASES FOR PHASE THREE AND PHASE FOUR. IS THAT SAFE TO SAY BEFORE YOU PLACE THE BID, THE 4 MILLION AS WELL? SO WE, I'M SORRY, SAY THAT, IS IT SAFE TO ESTIMATE $4 MILLION BEFORE THE BID HAS EVEN BEEN PLACED? IS THAT JUST BASED ON THE DESIGN AND THE THINGS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THUS FAR? IT'S BASED ON THE RECOMMENDED, UM, WELL THE ESTIMATIONS MADE BY OUR, THE ARCHITECTS WHO HAVE CREATED THAT FOR US. OKAY. YES. OKAY. BUT THIS DESIGN WAS DONE, UM, WAS THAT BACK IN 23 OR 24? BECAUSE THAT, I ONLY REASON WHY I SAY THAT IS BECAUSE TARIFFS IS REAL IN THE STREETS AND THAT MEANS INFLATION COSTS IS ALSO GOING TO BE A REAL AS WELL. THE AMOUNT INCLUDES ADJUSTMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN MADE. OH, OKAY. THE ARCHITECTS ARE CONSTANTLY UPDATING US, SO YES. GOTCHA. GOTCHA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. UM, I SEE NO ADDITIONAL LIGHTS FROM COUNSEL. IS THERE A MOTION? MADAM MAYOR, WE APPROVE IS PRESENTED. SECOND. THANK YOU. UH, IT IS BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES SECOND BY COUNCILMAN WATERS. CORRECT. UH, TO APPROVE THIS ITEM AS PRESENTED. COUNCIL ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. NAY. THAT MOTION PASSES. FIVE ONE, NO, 5 4 1, 4 2, SORRY. SO LET'S DO A ROLL CALL, UM, MS. MS. LEWIS SO WE CAN MAKE SURE WE HAVE THE CORRECT VOTE FOR THE RECORD. MAYOR RACHEL L PROCTOR. YES. MAYOR PRO TE. CRYSTAL CHISHOLM? NO. COUNCIL MEMBER PER PARKER? NO. COUNCIL MEMBER KEN WATERS? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER ANDRE BYRD SR. COUNCIL MEMBER DEBORAH NORTH. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA HUGHES. OKAY. THERE WE GO. WE HAVE, UH, THAT MOTION PASSES. FOUR, TWO. THANK YOU COUNSEL. [2. Consider approving the names to appear on Peak Performance Wall at the Aquatic and Recreation Center (ARC) at McCowan Park] AT THIS TIME WE WILL HAVE THE, UH, FINAL ITEM ON OUR REGULAR AGENDA. CONSIDER APPROVING THE NAMES TO APPEAR ON PEAK PERFORMANCE WALL AT THE AQUATIC AND RECREATION CENTER ARC AT THE MCALLEN PARK. GOOD AFTERNOON OR GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. UM, AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. SO I'M SUPER EXCITED TO BE COMING BEFORE YOU ALL TODAY. UM, AS YOU ALL KNOW, WE ARE TRACKING VERY, VERY QUICKLY TO THE COMPLETION OF THE AQUATIC AND RECREATION CENTER AT MCOWEN PARK. UM, AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING WILL BE PRESENTING ON A CONSTRUCTION UPDATE. BEFORE TODAY, I WANTED TO BRING, OR THE TEAM WANTED TO BRING BEFORE YOU, UH, THE REQUEST FOR APPROVAL OF NAMES THAT WE WOULD LIKE [01:35:01] TO PUT ON THE PEAK PERFORMERS WALL. UM, SO FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN FAMILIAR WITH THE PROCESS, WE CONTRACTED WITH SMITH GROUP BACK IN 2022 IN REGARDS TO THE DESIGN OF THE FACILITY, UM, AS WELL AS THE ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN. AND SO ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT CAME ABOUT WAS NEAR IN THE LOBBY, UM, KAREN, DO YOU MIND ZOOMING IN? WAS THAT WE WOULD HAVE A ARC PEAK PERFORMERS WALL. UM, AND SO THERE WAS TWO IDEAS FLOATED. ONE THAT EITHER INDIVIDUALS COULD PAY TO BE ON THE WALL OR WE COULD ATTRIBUTE IT TO THOSE WHO HAVE, WHO ARE EITHER FROM THE DESOTO AREA ATTENDED, UM, ONE OF THE DESOTO SCHOOLS, UH, AND HAS SOME TYPE OF RECOGNITION OR SOME TYPE OF CONNECTION TO DESOTO. SO WITHIN THE MANAGEMENT REPORT, THERE WAS A LIST OF NAMES PROVIDED. IT WENT BEFORE PARK BOARD ON DE DECEMBER 7TH, AND IT WAS UNANIMOUSLY APPROVED OF THOSE NAMES. UH, AND SO WE'RE JUST BRINGING IT BEFORE COUNCIL SO THAT WE CAN CONTINUE MOVING FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT AND GET THE DESIGN. UH, MAYOR PROTO. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR, AND THANK YOU SO MUCH, UH, MS. ELLIOTT FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. I THINK THAT, UM, I, I'M, I AM EXCITED TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE WALLS. I THINK THAT IT'S A GREAT IDEA. I THINK DESOTO HAS DEFINITELY POSITIONED ITSELF AS THE, UH, SPORTS CAPITAL AND HEY, IF FRISCO CAN DO THAT AND BE VERY SUCCESSFUL IN IT AND BE ABLE TO PIVOT IN OTHER BUSINESS AVENUES, WHY DESOTO? RIGHT? UM, AND SO POINTING OUT THESE PEOPLE THAT HAVE BEEN HIGH ACHIEVERS, UM, THAT COME FROM OUR COMMUNITY IS GREAT. HERE'S MY CONCERN. UM, ANYTIME WE GET TO A NAMING CONVENTION FOR PEOPLE THAT ARE STILL ALIVE, UH, WE PUT, WE POSITION OURSELVES IN A POSITION THAT, AND I GET THIS IS NOT A BUILDING, RIGHT? IT'S A WALL. TOTALLY UNDERSTAND. AND I'M COOL WITH THAT. HOWEVER, THE COUNCIL WANTS TO MOVE. I THINK THAT WE NEED TO HAVE A CONVERSATION THOUGH. BUT ANYTIME WE GET IN THIS POSITION, WE PUT OURSELVES IN THE PREDICAMENT OF IF THEY DO ANYTHING THAT IS NOT ETHICAL OR MORALLY RIGHT, UM, WE POSITION OURSELVES IN ANSWERING TO THE PUBLIC FOR THAT. UH, AS I LOOKED AT THE LIST OF NAMES, I SAW A COUPLE THAT HAVE HAD DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SITUATIONS IN THE MOST RECENT LAST COUPLE YEARS. AND SO WE HAVE ALSO TAKEN A STANCE AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. WE HAVE A COMMISSION DEDICATED TO IT. AND SO WHEN I LOOK AT A SITUATION LIKE THIS, UM, CONSIDERING WE WE DO SOMETHING AND MOVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS, WHAT WILL BE, HOW, HOW WOULD WE NAVIGATE? AND MAYBE THAT'S PUTTING THE CART BEFORE THE HORSE, BUT I THINK IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE SHOULD THINK ABOUT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, UM, I GUESS, UH, UM, PLACING PEOPLE ON THE WALLS. AND, YOU KNOW, THE UNFORTUNATE PIECE IS THAT, YOU KNOW, ATHLETES TEND TO ALMOST, YOU KNOW, FIND THEMSELVES IN THOSE TYPE OF SITUATIONS, RIGHT? WRONG OR INDIFFERENT. NOT TRYING TO LABEL ANYBODY, BUT I MEAN, IT DOES HAPPEN, RIGHT? UM, I THINK THEY'RE ALL SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE AND THEY ALL DID GREAT THINGS, BUT I JUST WANNA POINT THAT OUT BECAUSE THAT'S A VERY SLIPPERY SLOPE. AND AS I MENTIONED, JUST LOOKING AT THE LIST, THERE ARE A FEW ON THERE THAT HAVE BEEN IN THE NEWS IN THE LAST TWO OR THREE YEARS FOR THE THAT SITUATION. SO WHAT, HOW DO WE NAVIGATE THAT? ABSOLUTELY. AND ALSO, UM, TO YOUR POINT, WHAT HAPPENS IF THERE'S NEW PEAK PERFORMERS? SO WHAT HAPPENS AS WE HAVE NEW INDIVIDUALS OR INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE UP AND COMING THAT WE WOULD NEED TO LOOK AT MAKING SURE, OR ENSURING THAT WE KEEP UP WITH THE WALL? SO AS WE SPOKE WITH OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT FIRM, UH, WE WOULD HAVE TO POTENTIALLY GO INTO CONTRACT WITH A VENDOR, THE CURRENT VENDOR THAT WE'RE WORKING WITH, OR ANOTHER VENDOR. UM, IN TERMS OF THE UPKEEP, IN TERMS OF BEING ABLE TO REMOVE NAMES, OBVIOUSLY WITH THIS LIST. AND IT DOES COME WITH COST. UM, AND THAT WOULD BE SOMETHING THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DISCUSS AS IT COMES TO THE NAMES THAT ARE LISTED HERE. WE WOULD STILL HAVE TO REACH OUT AND HONESTLY FINALIZE, THIS WAS JUST ONE LIST THAT WE SAID, HEY, OUTTA ALL OF THOSE THAT HAVE BEEN AFFILIATED WITH THE SETTLE, THIS IS THE LIST THAT WE CAME UP WITH. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT IT HAS TO BE FINALIZED. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS IS GONNA BE THE FINAL DESIGN AND APPROVAL THAT GOES TO ON THE WALL. WE CAN DEFINITELY TAKE IT BACK FOR MORE DISCUSSION. AND IF COUNCIL LETS US KNOW, HEY, THESE ARE THE NAMES THAT WE WANT PULLED, OR THERE ARE SOME NAMES THAT WE WANNA SEE ADDED, THAT IS SOMETHING THAT WE CAN DEFINITELY DISCUSS. BUT I, I DO AGREE WITH YOUR POINT. THANK YOU. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR, THANK YOU FOR YOUR, UH, PRESENTATION. AND, UH, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M, I'M ALONG ALONG THE SAME LINES. THAT'S EXACTLY WHERE I WAS GOING. YES. BUT I WANTED TO GO A LITTLE FURTHER AND TALK IN TERMS OF THE NAMING POLICY THAT WE HAVE IN PLACE ALREADY, THAT THIS BE ADDED TO THAT POLICY. BECAUSE THERE ARE OTHER PLACES WHERE WE WERE TALKING ABOUT FALLING HEROES, ALL THIS GOOD STUFF, AND [01:40:01] WE DON'T REALLY HAVE A POLICY TO REALLY ADDRESS IT. AND MAYBE THE POLICY THAT WE DO HAVE IN PLACE NEEDS TO BE MODIFIED IN ORDER TO INCLUDE THIS TYPE OF THING. AND THEN AS FAR AS THIS PARTICULAR WALL, BASED ON WHAT I'M LOOKING AT, MY THOUGHT WAS THE MINUTE THAT SOMETHING HAPPENS, THEN YOU GOTTA GO THROUGH A WHOLE BID TO TRY TO GET THE WALL REDONE. IS THERE NOT SOMETHING A LITTLE LESS, UH, FINAL, YOU KNOW, IN, IN, IN, ITS IN ITS IMPRINT, IF YOU WILL. THAT CAN BE EASILY CHANGED. MAYBE THAT MIGHT NEED TO BE A DISCUSSION FROM A, UH, 'CAUSE IT'S GONNA COST TO PUT THIS TOGETHER. MAYBE THERE SHOULD BE SOMETHING ELSE PUT IN ITS PLACE WHERE THE NAMES CAN GO UP, BUT NOT REALLY. THEY'RE THERE, BUT THEY'RE NOT. DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IT, IT DOES. OKAY. THANK YOU. IT DOES. THANK YOU. I YIELD BACK. CAN I ASK YOU ABOUT MAYOR? SURE. IF, IF YOU DON'T MIND. YEAH. IF YOU ALLOW ME, SIDNEY. UM, I, I THINK THAT'S A REALLY VALID QUESTION ON THE POLICY ITSELF. UH, I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE, WE SHOULD DEVELOP NOT ONLY THAT, BUT IN INTEGRATE THE MAYOR PORT TEMS THOUGHTS ON IT, MAKING SURE THAT IF, IF THERE'S VIOLATION OF THAT, OF, OF, OF THE NAME BEING PLACED ON, ON THE FACILITY ITSELF, THEN THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE COULD DEFINITELY LOOK AT. UM, THIS IS FOR ILLUSTRATION. WE CERTAINLY CAN LOOK AT SMALLER PLACARD AND PLACARD THAT ARE EASILY REMOVABLE. UH, YOU KNOW, YOU, YOU WOULD HAVE INDENTATION IN THAT PLACARD AND THOSE ARE EASILY INSTALLED AND ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS JUST REMOVE THE PLACARD. SO THAT'S SOMETHING. AND THEN, AND THEN FOR THE OTHER SIDE, MAYBE WE LEAVE A BLANK PLACARD. SO, SO WE CAN, SO WE CAN ADD THAT. SO THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS TO DO THIS RATHER THAN TRYING TO PAINT AN ENTIRE WALL. SO, UH, DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY SOMETHING WE CAN LOOK AT. THANK YOU. AND THAT WAS GOING TO BE, UH, TO MY POINT TO THE POLICY POINT, I BELIEVE THERE IS SOMETHING IN OUR CURRENT NAMING POLICY THAT SPEAKS TO, UM, SHOULD THERE BE A REASON THAT THE NAMES NEED TO BE REMOVED, LIKE REMOVAL OF A NAME, RIGHT. UM, ON THE BUILDING. SO IT JUST MAY NEED TO BE REVISITED AND, UM, AND LOOKED AT, AND THAT WAS ONE OF MY NOTES, IS MAKING IT EASIER TO ADD AND REMOVE NAMES. MAYBE SOME SORT OF A, YOU KNOW, SOME SORT OF A SOMETHING OTHER THAN JUST PAINTING IT DIRECTLY TO THE WALL. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. AND, AND ALONG WITH I ECHO THE SENTIMENTS OF MY COLLEAGUES. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I WAS THINKING MAYBE OF SOMETHING, UH, ALONG THE LINES OF ELECTRONIC, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE HAD A CHANCE TO CHECK ON THAT, WHERE IT'S OPERATED BY MAYBE A, UM, IPAD OR A LAPTOP OR YOU KNOW, SOMETHING ALONG THOSE LINES WHERE YOU CAN ELECTRONICALLY JUST GO IN THERE AND CHANGE OUT THE NAMES ON A REGULAR BASIS, YOU KNOW, QUARTERLY, MONTHLY, EVERY SIX MONTHS, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 'CAUSE WE HAVE SO MANY, I LOVE THE IDEA OF HONORING OUR ATHLETES, ESPECIALLY BECAUSE THEY ARE STILL ALIVE. SO I LIKE THAT PART OF IT. AND I THINK IT WOULD BE GREAT IF WE COULD LOOK AT, YOU KNOW, GETTING SOME KIND OF PROPOSAL THAT WILL HELP US, YOU KNOW, DO SOMETHING THAT'S ELECTRONIC THAT MAKES IT A LITTLE MORE EASIER AND CONTROLLABLE. ABSOLUTELY. I CAN DEFINITELY TAKE THAT BACK TO OUR PROJECT MANAGEMENT FIRM. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBER. NOR I LOVE MY COLLEAGUES 'CAUSE IT MEANS WE'RE UNIFIED IN OUR THINKING HERE AND THAT IS THAT WE BRINGING FORTH, UH, CONCERNS AT THIS JUNCTURE RATHER THAN WAITING TILL AFTER THE FACT WHEN THIS IS DONE. SO I, I APPLAUD EVERYONE HERE IN HONORING, UH, OUR, UH, PERFORMANCE HERE. AND I DO AGREE WITH PRESENTING OTHER OPTIONS THAT, UH, THEY CAN BRING BACK TO US. AND I LIKE THE IDEA ABOUT ELECTRONIC BECAUSE WE ALSO WANNA STAY WITHIN BUDGET, IF YOU WILL. WE DEFINITELY KEEPING OUR EYES ON BEING FISCAL RESPONSIBLE AND ALSO TAKING A LOOK AT OUR POLICY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE DOING GOOD GOVERNANCE HERE. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH. COUNCILMAN WATER? YEP. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. MY, MY, UH, THING JUST SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT IN THE SENSE THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, I KNOW THIS IS A RENDITION OF IDEA OF WHAT Y'ALL WANT TO DO, BUT YOU KNOW, DE SOTO, WE SPORT SPORTS CAPITAL HERE IN NORTH TEXAS ANYWAY, SO WE'RE GONNA BE PUMPING OUT A BUNCH OF THESE, UH, PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE. SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GONNA NEED TO HAVE MORE SPACE HERE, YOU KNOW, SO, UH, MAYBE THE DIGITAL THING OR SOMETHING, BUT I'M JUST SAYING THIS HERE DOESN'T LIKE ENOUGH SPACE FOR THE NAMES THAT'S COMING. YEAH. SO WHEN WE DISCUSSED IT, IT WAS GONNA HAVE TO BE SMALLER. SO WE KNEW THAT THE FONT BASED OFF OF THE LIST THAT WAS JUST PROVIDED HERE, THE FONT WAS GONNA HAVE TO BE SMALLER. YEAH. AND I'M, I'M KIND OF ON COLLEAGUES, UH, WHAT SHE WAS SAYING. I'M, I'M ALWAYS A HUNDRED PERCENT FOR GIVING PEOPLE THEIR FLOWERS WHILE THEY'RE LIVING. SO THESE PEOPLE HERE, THEY DID THE WORK, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE THE BEST AT WHAT THEY DO, SO THEY NEED TO BE HONORED HERE. BUT THAT'S MY 2 CENTS. OKAY. THANK YOU. I'LL YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. UM, I, I AGREE WITH EVERYTHING [01:45:01] MY COLLEAGUES HAVE SAID. I REALLY, REALLY LOVE THE IDEA OF DOING SOMETHING ELECTRONIC. UM, THAT WAY IT CAN, IT'S I GUESS FOR EASE OF USE IS, IS WHAT I'M THINKING IN TERMS OF ELECTRONIC AND JUST QUICKLY BEING ABLE TO UPDATE IT SHOULD WE NEED TO MOVE ON THE FLY. UM, I WAS LOOKING AT THE LIST AND I KNOW YOU SAID THAT THAT LIST IS NOT COMPLETE, BUT THERE WAS A NAME THAT I FELT WAS NOTICEABLY, UM, ABSENT FROM THIS LIST. AND THAT IS JORDAN JONES. UM, SHE IS A DESOTO GRAD. UM, SHE'S HER, HER MATT JONES, HER BROTHER, HIS NAME IS ON THE LIST. THERE'S ALSO MASON JONES WHO'S IN THE NBA AS WELL. UM, BUT MATT AND JORDAN WERE BOTH, UH, THE THIRD BROTHER SISTER DUO TO EVER HAVE THE MCDONALD'S ALL AMERICAN HONOR. UM, AND SHE WAS ALSO, UH, IN THE WNBA AS WELL AS SHE'S PLAYED NATIONALLY. I THINK WE WOULD DO A GREAT DISSERVICE TO NOT INCLUDE HER IF, SHOULD WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS. SO I'M GONNA PUT MY BID IN, UM, TO ADD JORDAN JONES TO THIS LIST. UM, SHE ALSO WAS ONE OF THE ASSISTANT COACHES FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM, THE BACK TO BACK CHAMPIONSHIP TEAM, THE DESOTO LADY EAGLES, UH, WHEN THEY DOMINATED, UH, DURING THAT TIME. SO WE DEFINITELY WANNA MAKE SURE WE ADD HER ON THERE. I THINK SHE HAS HAS EARNED HER RIGHT ON THAT WALL AS WELL. YES. AND SINCE WE'RE COMING BACK BEFORE COUNCIL ON THE 20TH, WHAT I CAN DO IS AFTER UM, TOMORROW I CAN WORK WITH THE TEAM SO THAT POTENTIALLY IN THAT MEETING WE CAN PROVIDE AN UPDATE ON WHAT IT MAY LOOK LIKE JUST FROM HEARING YOU ALL'S CONCERNS AND YOUR FEEDBACK, UH, SO THAT WE ARE MOVING FORWARD AND WE'RE ALSO BEING BUDGET EFFICIENT AND FISCALLY RESPONSIBLE. UH, JUST POINT OF INFORMATION. ARE WE GOING TO BE CHANGING THE POLICY? I WOULD ADMIT YES, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. GOOD DEAL. BUT AT LEAST TO JUST GET YOU THE SCHEMATIC DESIGN OF WHAT IT MAY LOOK LIKE JUST WITH THE FEEDBACK RECEIVED, WHETHER IT'S ELECTRONIC OR HOW WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT. WE SHOULD BE AT LEAST BE, AT LEAST BE ABLE TO PRESENT THAT IN THAT NEXT MEETING AND THEN ALSO WORK INTERNALLY ON THOSE POLICIES. A LITTLE BIRDIE WHISPERED IN MY EAR. LED PANELS. THANK YOU TO THE LITTLE BIRDIE. UM, OKAY COUNSEL, WE NEED A MOTION ON THE FULLER PLEASE. MADAM MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE IS PRESENTED WELL, NOT AS, IS THAT WHAT WE'RE DOING? OR WE JUST BRINGING IT BACK? WHAT, WHAT KIND OF MOTION DO WE NEED? SORRY. WE ARE APPROVING IT. RIGHT? BUT EVEN WITH APPROVAL AS PRESENTED, TECHNICALLY IT WAS NOT FINAL BECAUSE OF THE DESIGN HAS NOT BEEN FINALIZED AND ALL OF THOSE AND THE NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN FINALIZED. BUT I THINK THE CONCEPT ITSELF AND MOVING FORWARD WITH VERSION CORRECT. IS WHAT IS FINAL. THAT IS CORRECT. SO WE WILL BE APPROVING THAT AS PRESENTED YES. WITH THE ADDITION OF JORDAN JONES. YES. IS THERE A SECOND? I I YOU NEED ME TO MAKE THAT CORRECTION TO ADD JORDAN JONES? NO, SHE, BUT SHE'S SAYING WE JUST APPROVE, WE'RE JUST APPROVING THIS TO HAPPEN. GOTCHA. CONCEPT. THE CONCEPT. APPROVE THE CONCEPT. APPROVE OF THE CONCEPT FOR THE PEAK PERFORMERS. ALRIGHT, THAT'S WHAT COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES IS. ARE YOU OKAY WITH THAT? YES. THAT WAS YOUR MOTION. IS THERE A SECOND? OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES MADE THE MOTION. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER SECOND THE MOTION TO APPROVE THE CONCEPT. UM, COUNSEL ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU COUNCIL. AT [I. CITIZEN APPEARANCES] THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE THE, UH, THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. WE'LL NOW HAVE CITIZENS' APPEARANCES. THE CITY COUNCIL INVITES CITIZENS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON ANY TOPIC NOT ALREADY SCHEDULED FOR PUBLIC HEARING. CITIZENS WISHING TO SPEAK SHOULD COMPLETE A CITIZEN'S COMMENT CARD AND PRESENT IT TO THE CITY SECRETARY OR RETURN TO THE AMBASSADOR'S TABLE PRIOR TO THE START OF THE MEETING. IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEXAS OPEN MEETINGS ACT, THE CITY COUNCIL CANNOT TAKE ACTION ON ITEMS NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA. HOWEVER, YOUR CONCERNS MAY BE ADDRESSED BY CITY STAFF PLACED ON A FUTURE AGENDA OR RESPONDED TO BY SOME OTHER COURSE. FOR ATTENDEES WANTING TO SPEAK ON ANY ITEM LISTED ON THE AGENDA, THE COMMENT CARDS RELATED TO THE SPECIFIC AGENDA ITEMS ARE NOT TO BE PRESENTED TO THE CITY SECRETARY PRIOR TO THE INTRODUCTION OF THAT AGENDA ITEM. THE STANDARD TIME LIMIT IS THREE MINUTES PER SPEAKER AND MAY BE MODIFIED AT THE MAYOR'S DISCRETION TO MAINTAIN AN EFFICIENT FLOW OF THE MEETING. PLEASE NOTE COMMENTS ARE TO BE ADDRESSED TO THE ENTIRE COUNCIL AND NOT TO AN EVENT. INDIVIDUAL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS OR STAFF. CITIZENS SHALL REFRAIN FROM MAKING PERSONAL IMP PERTINENT PROFANE OR SLANDEROUS REMARKS OR BECOMING BOISTEROUS WHILE ADDRESSING THE CITY COUNCIL. IF SUCH CONDUCT OCCURS AND IS NOT CORRECTED IMMEDIATELY, THE CITIZEN MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE ROOM FOR THE REMAINING SESSION OF THE MEETING AND THE CITIZEN SHALL BE BARRED FROM APPEARING BEFORE CITY COUNCIL FOR THAT SESSION. CITIZENS SHALL OBSERVE THE SAME RULES OF PROPRIETY DECORUM AND GOOD CONDUCT APPLICABLE TO THE CITY COUNCIL. [01:50:02] DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT CARDS? YES MA'AM. FIRST WE HAVE SAMMY PRICE AND CAROLYN PRICE IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY BURLEIGH HANSON, WHICH IS OUR FINAL CARD. HAPPY DO YOU GUYS, GOOD EVENING. CAN YOU CUT YOUR MICROPHONE ON? IT'S A BUTTON THERE. OKAY. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE ONLY FOR THE RECORD. YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. OKAY. I'M SAMMY PRICE, THIS IS MY MOTHER, UH, CAROLYN PRICE. UH, AND I'M SORRY. EXCUSE ME MR. PRICE. WE HAVE TWO MINUTES ON THE CLOCK, PLEASE. I'M SORRY. YOU CAN START OVER. THANK YOU. WE APOLOGIZE. OKAY. I'M SAMMY PRICE. THIS IS MY MOTHER'S CAROLYN PRICE. AND SHE, UM, CAME TO ME, UH, LAST YEAR WITH A CONCERN ABOUT A, UH, PROGRAM THAT YOU GUYS JUST, UH, HAD AND, UH, SHE THOUGHT THAT PASSED AND STUFF LIKE THAT. IT WAS, UH, SOMETHING LIKE, UH, THE HEALTHCARE MD HEALTHCARE PLAN. IT WAS, UM, WHAT IT IS. UH, I DID SOME RESEARCH. IT WAS, UM, YOU CAN CALL YOU, UH, UH, YOU ABLE TO THOSE WHO ARE SICK OR SOMETHING AT HOME, YOU CAN CALL A DOCTOR FROM YOUR HOUSE AND STUFF LIKE THAT. YOU HOW TO GET OUT IN THE STREETS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. UM, I'M IN, I'M FROM KENTUCKY AND THEY, THAT'S, THEY DO THAT THERE IN BOWLING GREEN, KENTUCKY. AND IT'S, IT'S A GREAT PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN CALL, UH, YOU KNOW, OBAMACARES IS, IS IS GETTING UP THERE AND THE FLU SEASONS COMING. SO YOU, YOU, IT'D BE NICE FOR, YOU KNOW, YOUR RE THE RESIDENTS TO, UH, BE ABLE TO CALL A DOCTOR AT A MOMENT'S TIME TO SPEAK AND, AND, AND, UM, TO A DOCTOR AND THEY CAN GIVE YOU, INSTEAD OF GOING TO THE EMERGENCY ROOMS AND HAVING ALL THIS TYPE OF STUFF LIKE THAT. IT'D BE NICE TO HAVE SOMETHING LIKE THAT. SHE, MY MOTHER DON'T GET AROUND AS MUCH, SO SHE'S WANTING THAT PROGRAM. SHE THOUGHT IT PASSED, BUT I DON'T, I, I KEPT GOING AND GOING AND LED ME HERE, BUT I KEPT LOOKING FOR IT AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SO I WAS HOPING YOU GUYS CAN, UH, REVISIT THAT AND SEE IF WHAT YOU GUYS CAN DO, UH, FOR THE RESIDENTS, UM, UM, TO HAVE THAT PASSED AND STUFF LIKE THAT, OR TO LOOK AT IT AND SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT YOU GUYS CAN DO. IF I CAN HELP ANY KIND OF WAY, I'LL BRING MORE PEOPLE HERE IF I NEED TO, THAT, THAT SAYS THEY WANT IT AND STUFF LIKE THAT. BUT LIKE I SAID, IT JUST HELPS PEOPLE, UH, THAT DON'T HAVE TO GET OUT THERE IN THE STREETS. UH, I CAME FROM BALL SPRINGS TODAY AND IT'S BUMPER TO BUMPER, SO I'M LIKE, HOW CAN YOU GET TO THE HOSPITALS WHEN YOU CAN JUST TALK TO A DOCTOR RIGHT THERE AND THEY CAN TELL YOU EVERYTHING IS WRONG WITH YOU OR SEND PICTURES IF YOU VIA, UM, TEXT OR WHATEVER THEY NEED TO DO TO SEE IF, YOU KNOW, IF, IF THEY CAN HELP YOU SEND PRESCRIPTIONS AND STUFF LIKE THAT. SO I WAS HOPING YOU GUYS CAN, UH, LOOK THROUGH THAT AND, UH, REVISIT THAT AND UH, AND IF I NEED TO HELP SOME KINDA WAY, I WILL. HAPPY NEW YEAR'S GUYS. THANK YOU MR. PRICE. AND FOR THE RECORD, UM, THAT ITEM WILL BE COMING BACK TO THE CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON OUR AGENDA ON OUR JANUARY 20TH MEETING AS IT STANDS RIGHT NOW. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU MADAM MAYOR. WE DIDN'T GET HIS CITY ADDRESS. YOUR CITY OF RECORD, SIR? MR. PRICE? YES. YOUR CITY OF RECORD. I'M SORRY. UH, WE MUST HAVE MISSED THAT FOR THE RECORD. OH, YEAH, DESOTO, JUST YOUR CITY, NOT YOUR ADDRESS. OKAY. DESOTO. DESOTO? YES SIR. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE ONLY FOR THE RECORD. YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS DR. BURLEY HANSEN AND I LIVE IN THE CITY OF DESOTO. YES, MA'AM. OKAY. UM, ON YESTERDAY I CALLED. I WENT ONLINE TO, UH, RESEARCH THE, UH, NEW AQUATIC CENTER TO SEE WHAT ACTIVITIES AND SERVICES THEY WOULD BE PROVIDING. I WAS PARTICULARLY INTERESTED IN AEROBICS AND, UH, WATER AEROBICS. AND, UM, I STARTED CALLING AT 8 45. UM, I WAS PUT ON, I WAS PUT ON HOLD FOR 15 MINUTES BY THE RECEPTIONIST LEFT ON HOLD, DIDN'T COME BACK TO ANSWER THE PHONE. I HUNG UP AND I CALLED BACK AND I FINALLY SPOKE WITH A YOUNG LADY IN THE PARKS AND RECREATION DEPARTMENT AND I ASKED HER WHY WAS THE FEE SO EXPENSIVE FOR THE NEW AQUATICS CENTERS FOR SENIOR CITIZENS. SHE WAS VERY RUDE. AND SHE SAID SHE DIDN'T KNOW THAT I NEEDED TO CALL THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. I WENT ONLINE TO LOOK FOR THE MAYOR'S TELEPHONE NUMBER AND THERE WAS NO NUMBER LISTED FOR THE MAYOR. THE CITY OF DALLAS MAYOR HAS A PHONE NUMBER LISTED THE CITY OF, UH, DUNCANVILLE MAYOR HAS A PHONE LISTED, BUT THE CITY OF MAYOR FOR DESO DOES NOT HAVE A PHONE NUMBER LISTED. I WAS TOLD TO CALL THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE. I CALLED BACK, THEY TRANSFERRED ME THERE AND SAID THAT, UM, I DON'T WANNA MISQUOTE THE PERSON. UH, SHE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT MY, MY TAXES PAY FOR, BUT IF I WANTED TO KNOW, I NEED TO TALK WITH THE MAYOR'S OFFICE. I WAS TALKED TO VERY [01:55:01] RUDELY, VERY DIS DIS. UM, UNPROFESSIONAL. NOW'S A BAD REFLECTION ON THE PARTS OF RECREATION DEPARTMENT, THE MAYOR'S OFFICE, THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE. THERE SHOULD BE A NUMBER FOR THE MAYOR, UH, POSTED. WE SHOULD NOT. DR. HANSEN, THAT CONCLUDES YOUR TIME. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. DO WE HAVE ANY CARDS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK REMAINING? WE DO NOT. OKAY. AT THIS TIME, COUNSEL, THAT CONCLUDES ALL OF OUR ITEMS FOR OUR REGULAR AND FOR OUR ENTIRE AGENDA. AT THIS TIME, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO ADJOURN. TO WHO? I'M SORRY. WHO MADE THAT FIRST MOTION? COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER IS SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES TO ADJOURN. COUNCIL ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES. YOU UNANIMOUSLY. 7:53 PM COUNCIL, WE ARE NOW ADJOURNED. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.