[00:00:01] GOOD EVENING, EVERYBODY. MAYOR RACHEL PROCTOR, IT'S 5:01 P.M. [A. CALL TO ORDER AND CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION] AND IT IS TUESDAY, JUNE 16TH, 2026. I WANT TO WELCOME YOU ALL TO THE EXECUTIVE SESSION OF THE DESOTO CITY COUNCIL. I'M GOING TO ASK IF OUR CITY SECRETARY WOULD GIVE US A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. MAYOR RACHEL PROCTOR HERE. MAYOR PRO TEM CRYSTAL CHISM, COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER KEN WATERS HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. BRIAN WESLEY. COUNCIL MEMBER. DEBORAH NORTH HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA HUGHES HERE. OKAY, WE'LL HAVE THE FIRST ITEM ON THE AGENDA AT THIS TIME. WE WILL HAVE THE SAFETY PROTOCOL STATEMENT BY FIRE CHIEF BRIAN SOUTHARD. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. SINCE WE HAVE NO ONE IN THE PUBLIC HERE YET, WE'LL WAIT TILL THE 6:00 MEETING TO DO THE IN-DEPTH SAFETY ANNOUNCEMENT. BUT IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY, YOU GUYS KNOW YOUR SAFETY PROTOCOL TO RETREAT TO YOUR COUNCIL CHAMBERS UNTIL WE COME GET YOU. THANK YOU. CHIEF. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. WE WILL NOW HAVE EXECUTIVE SESSION. THE CITY COUNCIL WILL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.0761 TO DELIBERATE THE DEPLOYMENT, IMPLEMENTATION OF SECURITY PERSONNEL AND DEVICES IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY THE CITY COUNCIL, WILL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE 551.074. DELIBERATE THE APPOINTMENT EVALUATION, REASSIGNMENT DUTIES, DISCIPLINE OR DISMISSAL OF A PUBLIC OFFICER OR EMPLOYEE CITY MANAGER. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. IT'S 5:03 P.M. AND WE WILL CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. WE WILL BE BACK AND WE WILL ANNOUNCE ANY ACTION TAKEN AS A RESULT, SHOULD THERE BE ANY. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. [B. REGULAR SESSION AGENDA - CALL TO ORDER] IT IS 6:24 P.M. AND THE CITY COUNCIL HAS CONVENED OUT OF EXECUTIVE SESSION. GIVE US ONE MOMENT. I DO BELIEVE WE HAVE A MOTION. I'M WAITING ON OUR OTHER COUNCIL MEMBERS TO JOIN US. MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION. MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO MOTION FOR THE DE SOTO CITY COUNCIL TO ACCEPT MR. GODFREY'S LETTER OF RESIGNATION, EFFECTIVE JULY 26TH. IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND. IT'S BEEN SECOND IN. I MEAN, EXCUSE ME. IT'S BEEN A MOTION HAS BEEN MADE PROPERLY. SECOND, TO ACCEPT MR. GODFREY'S RESIGNATION, EFFECTIVE JULY 26TH. JULY 26TH OF 2026. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES. EXCUSE ME. COUNCILWOMAN HUGHES, DO YOU HAVE A VOTE FOR THE MOTION? YES. WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? I ACCEPT, YES. OKAY. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME IT IS 626. SO I WANT TO CALL OUR REGULAR SESSION TO ORDER. AT THIS TIME, I'M GOING TO ASK OUR CITY SECRETARY IF SHE WILL GIVE US A ROLL CALL, PLEASE. MAYOR RACHEL PROCTOR HERE. MAYOR PRO TEM CRYSTAL CHISM HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER KEN WATERS, COUNCIL MEMBER. BRIAN WESLEY, COUNCIL MEMBER. DEBORAH NORTH HERE, COUNCIL MEMBER LETITIA HUGHES. HERE. THANK YOU. WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, PLEASE. WE WILL NOW HAVE THE SAFETY PROTOCOL STATEMENT BY FIRE CHIEF BRIAN SOUTHARD. GOOD EVENING. WELCOME TO TONIGHT'S COUNCIL MEETING. WE ARE EXPECTING NO BAD WEATHER THIS EVENING, BUT IN THE EVENT OF AN EMERGENCY AND WE NEED TO EVACUATE THE BUILDING, WE HAVE TWO EMERGENCY EXITS. ONE TO MY RIGHT OR YOUR LEFT OR ONE BACK OUT THE DOORS THAT YOU CAME AND TO THE RIGHT. ONCE YOU LEAVE THE BUILDING, PLEASE FIND A SAFE AREA TO STAY AND REMAIN THERE UNTIL YOU ARE INSTRUCTED TO RETURN INSIDE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CHIEF. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA. NEXT, WE'LL HAVE THE INVOCATION BY GWENDOLYN JONES OF ARISE INTERNATIONAL, IMMEDIATELY FOLLOWED BY THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE LED BY DEBORAH NORTH. CITY COUNCIL, PLACE FIVE. WOULD EVERYONE PLEASE STAND? THERE WE GO. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. AND TO THE CITIZENS OF DESOTO. I ASK THAT WE WOULD GO AHEAD AND BOW OUR HEADS. FATHER, I LIFT UP THE DESOTO CITY COUNCIL AND ITS LEADERS ON TONIGHT. I ASK THAT YOU GRANT THEM WISDOM, DISCERNMENT AND THE INTEGRITY TO MAKE DECISIONS THAT PROTECT THE VULNERABLE, TO PROMOTE JUSTICE IN ORDER THAT THE CITIZENS OF THIS GREAT CITY LEAD QUIET, PEACEABLE AND STABLE LIVES. [00:05:06] FATHER, I ALSO ASK THAT YOU WOULD GUIDE THEIR HEARTS AND SURROUND THEM WITH GODLY COUNSEL FOR THE SAKE OF YOUR WILL AND FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF YOUR KINGDOM, IN JESUS NAME. MAY WE ALL SAY AMEN. AMEN. OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS. ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL. HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THEE. TEXAS. ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE AND INDIVISIBLE. THANK YOU, MRS. JONES, FOR THEIR PRAYER. GOOD TO SEE YOU. AND THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER, FOR LEADING US IN OUR PLEDGE THIS EVENING. AT THIS TIME WE WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, PLEASE. [C. PRESENTATIONS] WE WILL NOW HAVE DISCUSSION OF THE CREATION OF THE PROPOSED COMPREHENSIVE COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC MASTER PLAN. MAKING A PRESENTATION IS COUNCIL MEMBER KEN WATERS, MAYOR. I ALSO WANT TO NOTE THAT WE DO HAVE COMMENT CARDS FOR THIS ITEM. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. YEAH. OKAY. FIRST, I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE FOR COMING OUT TODAY. I'M PROUD TO INTRODUCE DESOTO'S COMPREHENSIVE COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC MASTER PLAN. THIS IS A FOUNDATION AND A BLUEPRINT FOR LONG TERM SUSTAINABLE GROWTH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, AND NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR OUR CITY. THIS WILL ATTRACT MORE INVESTMENT, STRENGTHEN OUR WORKFORCE AND BUILD A MORE PROSPEROUS FUTURE FOR US. THIS IS HOW WE WIN. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. AGENDA TODAY. VISION STATEMENT. WHY THIS PLAN MATTERS. LESSONS FROM SUCCESSFUL CITIES. DISTRICT BASED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY. WHY FOCUSING ON ONE DISTRICT AT A TIME. ADA. THE EIGHT ECONOMIC GROWTH DISTRICTS. THE PURPOSE OF EACH DISTRICT. STRATEGY. OVERVIEW. PROPOSED DISTRICTS IN EACH ZONE. PROPOSED TOURIST ZONES. MAP ZONING ALIGNMENT IS CRITICAL. INTEGRATION WITH FUTURE PLANS, CITYWIDE BENEFITS, AND NEXT STEPS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. THE VISION STATEMENT FOR THIS IS TO CREATE UNIQUE, PURPOSE DRIVEN DISTRICTS SUPPORTED BY LONG TERM PLANNING, ZONING ALIGNMENT AND TARGETED INVESTMENT, THEREBY ENSURING DESOTO'S ECONOMIC STRENGTH AND COMPETITIVENESS FOR THE FUTURE. THESE DISTRICTS WILL ACT AS DELIBERATE ACTIVATORS FOR ALL ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES CITYWIDE. THESE DISTRICTS ARE INTENDED TO BE DYNAMIC IN NATURE AND WILL BE REASSESSED ON A CONSISTENT BASIS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. WHY THIS PLAN MATTERS. EVERYONE. DESOTO HISTORICALLY HAS HAD LIMITED ECONOMIC GROWTH EFFORTS IN THE COMMERCIAL SECTOR, SO TO MAXIMIZE DESOTO'S ECONOMIC FUTURE, WE MUST USE LAND STRATEGICALLY, BUILD DESTINATION DISTRICTS, ATTRACT HIGHER QUALITY MIXED USE AND COMMERCIAL DEVELOPMENT, STRENGTHEN OUR TAX BASE, BRING PREDICTABILITY TO ZONING, COMPETE REGIONALLY AND NATIONALLY WITH A DISTINCTIVE IDENTITY. SO THIS PLAN POSITIONS DESOTO FOR THE FUTURE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW HERE'S SOME LESSONS FROM OTHER SUCCESSFUL CITIES. CITIES LIKE DALLAS, FORT WORTH, PLANO, FRISCO. THEY THRIVE BECAUSE THEY DEVELOP UNIQUE MIXED USE AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS. EXAMPLES HERE WOULD BE UPTOWN DISTRICT, DEEP ELLUM, BISHOP ARTS, THE STAR DISTRICT, AND FRISCO LEGACY NORTH EAST AND WEST DISTRICTS IN PLANO, THE CULTURAL DISTRICT IN FORT WORTH. WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THESE DISTRICTS. SO EACH DISTRICT HAS ITS OWN CULTURE, PURPOSE AND ECONOMIC ROLE. SO DESOTO WILL FOLLOW THIS PROVEN MODEL WITH ITS OWN IDENTITY. THANK YOU. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW, DISTRICT BASED DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IS THIS. WE DIVIDE THE CITY INTO EIGHT COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC GROWTH DISTRICTS, FOCUS CITYWIDE EFFORTS ON DEVELOPING ONE MAIN DISTRICT AT A TIME. ALIGN ALL DEPARTMENTS TOWARD BUILDING DISTRICT MOMENTUM USING ZONING INFRASTRUCTURE INCENTIVES TO ATTRACT DEVELOPMENT. REVIEW PROGRESS, AT LEAST BIANNUALLY BY THE DESOTO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION AND THE CITY COUNCIL, AND CONTINUE TO RECEIVE GUIDANCE ON GROWTH IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE ONGOING STRATEGIC PLANS AND CONSISTENT WITH MARKET CONDITIONS. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW, WHY DO WE WANT TO FOCUS ON ONE MAIN DISTRICT AT A TIME? WELL, IT ALLOWS FOR MEANINGFUL PROGRESS. BEFORE ROTATING FOCUS. RESIDENTS CAN SEE, UTILIZE AND BE PROUD OF ECONOMIC GROWTH. IT ALIGNS WITH CITY COUNCIL SERVING TERMS ENSURES EVERY COUNCIL MEMBER CONTRIBUTES TO THE PROCESS. DEVELOPERS RESPOND STRONGLY TO VISIBLE MOMENTUM. IT CREATES A CALCULATED RHYTHM FOR FIVE AND TEN YEAR STRATEGIC PLANS AND IS ALWAYS FOCUSED AND WE'RE ALWAYS FOCUSING ON OUR PRIMARY DISTRICT FIRST WITH THE SECONDARY DISTRICT NEXT IN LINE WILL KEEP CONSISTENT MOMENTUM INTO THE FUTURE AS WE ARE DEVELOPING. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY. NOW THE EIGHT ECONOMIC GROWTH DISTRICTS ARE AS FOLLOWS. [00:10:02] THE PLAN ORGANIZES DESOTO TO EIGHT DISTINCT DISTRICT IDENTITIES. SO THESE ARE DISTRICTS LIKE DISTRICT ONE. NO PARTICULAR ORDER HERE BUT JUST DISTRICT ONE HERE. DISTRICT STARTING AT POLK AND PARKERVILLE AND EVERYTHING GOING EAST AND SOUTH. ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT. THE ENTIRE I-35 CORRIDOR STARTING FROM EAST CENTER PARK GOING SOUTH. NORTHAMPTON DISTRICT IS HAMPTON ROAD FROM DANIEL DELL ROAD TO PLEASANT RUN, SOUTH HAMPTON ROAD DISTRICT OR SOUTH HAMPTON DISTRICT, I SHOULD SAY IS HAMPTON ROAD FROM PLEASANT RUN TO PARKERVILLE. THE BELTLINE DISTRICT IS THE ENTIRE BELTLINE ROAD FROM I-35 TO DUNCANVILLE ROAD, AND ANY PLOT OF LAND THAT TOUCHES THE BELT LINE THAT IS NOT ZONED SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL WILL BE PART OF THE BELTLINE DISTRICT. MEDICAL DISTRICT IS AREA FROM DANIEL DALE AND BOLTON. BOONE GOING NORTH. THORNTREE DISTRICT. COCKRELL HILL TO WESTMORELAND NORTH TO DANIEL DALE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT. THERE'S NO CHANGES THERE WITH OUR EXISTING INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT. SO EACH DISTRICT HAS A SPECIFIC PURPOSE AND ECONOMIC CONTRIBUTION. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO THE PURPOSES OF EACH DISTRICT ARE THIS. THE ARC DISTRICT IS GEARED TOWARDS SPORTS, FITNESS, AQUATICS AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS SIMILAR TO UPTOWN FEEL BISHOP ARTS OR STAR IN FRISCO ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT GEARED TOWARDS ENTERTAINMENT, SHOPPING, DINING AND DESTINATION VENUES ALONG I-35 CORRIDOR. VENUES THAT ARE INVITING FOR TRAFFIC TO STOP AND SPEND MONEY IN DESOTO, NORTH HAMPTON DISTRICT GEARED TOWARDS COMMERCIAL AND OFFICE BUILDINGS. SOUTHAMPTON DISTRICT GEARED TOWARDS COMMERCIAL OFFICE BUILDINGS, DINING, SHOPPING AND GOVERNMENT BUILDINGS, AND IN THE BELTLINE DISTRICTS GEARED TOWARDS COMMERCIAL SHOPPING AND DINING. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. MEDICAL DISTRICT GEARED TOWARDS THE MEDICAL INDUSTRY AND WHITE COLLAR PROFESSIONALS, WHICH SHOULD INCLUDE BOTH MEDICAL FACILITIES AND INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING. THORNTON DISTRICT, DESIGNED AROUND THE THORN TREE GOLF CLUB AND GEARED TOWARDS ATTRACTING HIGHER INCOME PROFESSIONALS AND EVENTS. INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT IS GEARED TOWARD ATTRACTING THE MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS, WITH THE OBJECTIVE OF OBTAINING INDUSTRIAL COMPANIES WITH THE HIGHEST SALES TAX POTENTIALS, AND ALSO ANY BUSINESS THAT CATERS TO 0 TO 18 YEAR OLDS CAN BE PLACED STRATEGICALLY THROUGHOUT THE DISTRICT AS NEEDED AND AS APPROPRIATE. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. NOW THIS SLIDE HERE GOES OVER THE THE BOUNDARIES OF THE COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS HERE. SO IN RED, I KNOW IT'S HARD TO SEE THE WORDING THERE IN RED. THE ART DISTRICT IS IN RED. GRAY IS BELTLINE DISTRICT BLUE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT. PURPLE INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT. ORANGE IS MEDICAL DISTRICT, YELLOW IS NORTHHAMPTON DISTRICT, BROWN IS SOUTHAMPTON DISTRICT AND GREEN IS THORNBURY DISTRICT. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. NOW TERSE STRATEGY OVERVIEW. MOST OF Y'ALL JUST ON THE REGULAR CITIZEN SIDE RESIDENT SIDE WOULDN'T NECESSARILY KNOW WHAT TO CHARGE. BUT CHARGE IS A TAX INCREMENT REINVESTMENT ZONES. THERE ARE ZONES DESIGNATED BY CITY TO ATTRACT PRIVATE INVESTMENT AND PROMOTE ECONOMIC GROWTH, TO FUND PUBLIC INFRASTRUCTURE IN THAT ZONE, BY REINVESTING THE TAX REVENUE FROM NEW DEVELOPMENT OR BY THE INCREASES IN PROPERTY VALUES. SO DIVIDING THE CITY UP INTO FIVE LARGE ZONES GIVES THE FLEXIBILITY TO OFFER INCENTIVES TO DEVELOPERS, FUND INFRASTRUCTURE, REINVEST TAX GROWTH INTO THE DISTRICTS, ATTRACT MAJOR DEVELOPERS, STRENGTHEN LONG TERM FINANCIAL RETURNS. AND ALSO, FOR THE RECORD, EVERYBODY, THERE IS ONE BULLET POINT HERE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDED THAT SAYS THE FOLLOWING. CREATE MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONES FOR PROJECTS WITHIN A ZONE. AGAIN, CREATE MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONES FOR PROJECTS WITHIN THE ZONE. SO THIS IS IMPORTANT TO MENTION BECAUSE MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONES ARE FOR INDIVIDUAL PROJECTS. AND ZONES ARE FOR MULTIPLE PROJECTS WITHIN THE SAME AREA. MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONES TYPICALLY HAVE A TEN YEAR CYCLE AND THE ZONES TYPICALLY HAVE A 25 YEAR CYCLE. SO YOU ONLY WANT TO FILE FOR MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONES OR ZONES WHEN DEVELOPMENT IS IMMINENT. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. PROPOSED DISTRICTS IN EACH ZONE. OKAY. ZONE ONE ENTERTAINMENT AND ART DISTRICT. ZONE TWO NORTH AND SOUTH HAMPTON. DISTRICT THREE. ZONE THREE WILL BE THORN TREE AND MEDICAL DISTRICTS. ZONE. ZONE FOUR. BELTLINE DISTRICT. ZONE FIVE. INDUSTRIAL DISTRICT. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY, THIS IS A MAP OF THE ZONES IN PURPLE ZONE ONE. GREEN ZONE TWO. RED ZONE THREE. FOUR ZONE. I MEAN, I'M SORRY. BLUE ZONE FOUR AND GRAY ZONE FIVE. NOW THE ZONE MAPS SHOWS THE MAXIMUM. THIS IS IMPORTANT. THE ZONES MAP SHOWS THE MAXIMUM BORDER. EXCUSE ME. BORDERS THAT MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONES AND ZONES CAN BE CREATED WITHIN THESE BOUNDARIES. [00:15:01] SO YOU HAVE MULTIPLE DIFFERENT MICRO AND SMALL TOURS AS YOU'RE BUILDING. BUT THESE ARE THE MAXIMUM BORDERS THAT WE CAN THAT WE CAN HAVE THEM WITHIN EACH CHURCH. SO YOU HAVE MULTIPLE POCKETS OF SMALLER TOURS, BUT THESE ARE THE MAXIMUM BOUNDARIES THAT TOURS ARE GOING TO BE IN. SO THAT'S WHAT THE TOUR ZONE MAP IS. OKAY. NEXT SLIDE. ZONE ALIGNMENT IS CRITICAL TO ENSURE EACH DISTRICT'S SUCCESS. LAND MUST BE PROACTIVELY ZONED FOR THAT DISTRICT'S PURPOSE. NO INCOMPATIBLE DEVELOPMENT ALLOWED WITHIN THE DISTRICT. CLEAR STANDARDS. GUIDE DEVELOPERS. PREDICTABILITY. PREDICTABLE PROCESS EQUALS MORE INVESTMENT. EACH DISTRICT HAS ITS OWN ZONING IDENTITY. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY, NOW. INTEGRATION TO THE FUTURE. PLANS WITH FUTURE PLANS. THIS. THIS COMPREHENSIVE COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC MASTER PLAN WILL BE THE FOUNDATION FOR CURRENT AND FUTURE STRATEGIC PLANS. COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATES. SHORT AND LONG TERM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES CREATING UNIQUE DISTRICT CHARACTER CODES FOR FUTURE DEVELOPMENT. PARKS MASTER PLAN UPDATES. CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLANS. ALL PLANS MUST ALIGN WITH THE DISTRICT'S VISION AND PURPOSE TO ENSURE EFFECTIVE IMPLEMENTATION. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. OKAY, HERE'S SOME BENEFITS. CITYWIDE ECONOMICALLY STRONGER SALES AND PROPERTY TAX BASE. MORE HIGH PAYING JOBS. ATTRACTIVE, DIVERSE COMMERCIAL OFFERINGS ON THE CIVIC SIDE. YOU HAVE DISTRICT PRIDE AND IDENTITY, ATTRACTIVE PUBLIC SPACES, IMPROVE QUALITY OF LIFE, IMPROVE CITY IMAGE ON A GOVERNMENTAL SIDE. CITY COUNCIL LONG TERM CONTINUITY. EASIER LONG TERM DECISION MAKING STRUCTURE. CONGRUENT LONG TERM VISION AND FOCUS FOR STEADY ECONOMIC GROWTH. IMPROVE INTER-DEPARTMENTAL COORDINATION. BOTH EMPLOYEE AND RESIDENT EXCITEMENT OF A COMMON CITYWIDE PLAN FOR SUSTAINED GROWTH. NEXT SLIDE PLEASE. SO HERE'S HERE'S THE NEXT STEPS. PROPOSED EXCUSE ME, CITY COUNCIL ADOPTION OF THIS COMPREHENSIVE COMMERCIAL ECONOMIC MASTER PLAN. SELECTION OF THE FIRST TWO DISTRICTS, TWO DISTRICTS FOR IMPLEMENTATION ARTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT. THIS WOULD JUST GET US THE QUICKEST RETURN ON OUR INVESTMENT FOR THOSE TWO DISTRICTS. START LAND ZONING UPDATES AND MAPPING FOR EACH DISTRICT PURPOSE, TWO ZONES, DESIGNATION AND ACTIVATION WORK START CITY AND DISTRICT BRANDING AND MARKETING INITIATIVES. DEVELOP OUR OUTREACH AND COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT SESSIONS. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. THAT WILL GIVE US INTENTIONAL GROWTH AND LASTING PROSPERITY. SO THAT CONCLUDES MY PRESENTATION. I KNOW I KIND OF SPED THROUGH IT, BUT I WANT TO GET THROUGH THE WHOLE THING. SO I'LL OPEN UP NOW FOR QUESTIONS. I GUESS WE HAVE COMMENT CARDS. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN WATERS. KATE. BROWN. PATRICK. GOOD EVENING, MISS BROWN. PATRICK, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE ONLY. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE THREE MINUTES TO SPEAK. OKAY. BROWN. PATRICK DE SOTO. FIRST, THANK YOU TO THE COUNCILMAN THAT MADE THE PRESENTATION. I AM EXCITED TO SEE THE CAMPAIGN PROMISE BEING FULFILLED. I'M SUPER EXCITED ABOUT THAT. AND SO I WANTED TO COME AND SPEAK SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE EIGHT DISTRICT PLAN. AND I THINK THAT THERE'S A NEED FOR DE SOTO TO HAVE A MORE UNIFIED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN AS OPPOSED TO ACROSS EIGHT DISTRICTS. FROM MY PROFESSIONAL PERSPECTIVE, DESOTO IS 22MI² FROM MY NOTES, SO I DON'T FORGET ANYTHING. SORRY IF I'M NOT LOOKING UP. DESOTO IS 22MI², AND HAVING EIGHT DISTRICTS WITH COMPETING INTERESTS DOES NOT BENEFIT THE CITY AS A WHOLE. I THINK WE NEED MORE OF A PLAN THAT FOCUSES ON STRENGTHENING THE CITY OF DESOTO'S COMMERCIAL CORRIDORS THAT INCLUDE SUPPORTING OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND RECRUITING TARGETED INDUSTRIES AND REDEVELOPMENT, WHICH WAS MENTIONED A LITTLE BIT IN THE PRESENTATION. I THINK THAT COMPARING DESOTO TO PLACES THAT AREN'T COMPARABLE PROVIDES A UNREALISTIC APPROACH TO THINGS. AND I KNOW WE ALWAYS HAVE A APPROACH TO ASPIRE TO BE, AND I REALLY WISH WE WOULD START TAKING MORE OF A APPROACH TO BE THE ASPIRATION OF HOW THINGS WORK. BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE DOING DISTRICTS IN, I THINK THE WORDING WAS MEANINGFUL PROGRESS BEFORE STARTING ANOTHER ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TAKES A LOT OF TIME. SO IF YOU'RE NOT STARTING SOMETHING ELSE UNTIL YOU START ANOTHER DISTRICT, THERE'S EIGHT DISTRICTS YOU'RE MAYBE THREE YEARS BEFORE YOU SEE MEANINGFUL PROGRESS. SO WE'RE AT 24 YEARS BEFORE ALL OF THESE DISTRICTS IN THE CITY START TO SEE ACTIVITY. AND SO DEPENDING ON WHERE YOU ARE IN THE CITY, YOU MAY NOT BENEFIT FROM ANY OF THIS. I ALSO HAVE A LITTLE CONCERN ABOUT THE TOURS, BUT THAT'S A, THAT'S A STORY FOR ANOTHER DAY BECAUSE YOU ARE FREEZING THE BASE VALUE WHEN YOU'RE DOING THAT IN THE ENTIRE CITY IS NOT GOING TO BENEFIT FROM THE GROWTH IN THE, THE GROWTH IN THE TAX WHEN YOU USE TOURS. BUT I ALSO WANTED TO MENTION THAT WE ARE NOT EVEN WE HAVEN'T EVEN SEEN MEANINGFUL PROGRESS IN THE CURRENT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT THINGS THAT WE SPENT MONEY ON [00:20:02] HAMPTON ROAD. THERE'S NO MEANINGFUL PROGRESS. WE HAVE. WE PURCHASED THE CHURCH AT COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH. WE PURCHASED THORN TREE. IT SEEMS LIKE WE HAVE SOME DIFFICULTY SUSTAINING FOCUS WHEN IT COMES TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND I THINK A UNIFIED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, AS OPPOSED TO SOMETHING THAT FOCUSES ONLY ON EIGHT DISTRICTS, WILL BE MORE IN LINE WITH WHAT THE CITY NEEDS. AND I'LL SEND AN EMAIL BECAUSE I WANTED MORE CLARIFICATION ON HOW WHAT ALIGNMENT WITH COUNCIL TERMS HAD TO DO WITH THE PRESENTATION. BUT THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, WE HAVE A CALL FOR CARDS. I'M GOING TO ASK IF THERE ARE ANY QUESTIONS FOR COUNCIL BECAUSE THESE ARE GENERALLY ON OUR MONDAY NIGHT TOPICAL WORK SESSIONS. AND WE DO HAVE OTHER ITEMS IN OUR REGULAR AGENDA. I'M GOING TO DO TWO MINUTE ROUNDS FOR COUNCIL QUESTIONS FOR THESE. BECAUSE THESE ARE NOT ANYTHING THAT WE'LL BE VOTING ON TONIGHT. THESE ARE BEING SIMPLY PRESENTED JUST TO SEE IF COUNCIL HAS ANY INTEREST IN MOVING EITHER OF THESE ITEMS FORWARD. SO I'M GOING TO START, I BELIEVE, MAYOR PRO TEM I BELIEVE YOUR LIGHT WAS ON FIRST. IF NOT, WAS YOUR LIGHT ON FIRST? YES, MA'AM. AND I HAVE COMMENTS MORE THAN A QUESTION. I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUE. IT TAKES A LOT OF COURAGE TO PUT SOMETHING ON THE AGENDA. AND HE HAS BEEN ADAMANT AND SERIOUS ABOUT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. I CAN DO NOTHING BUT APPRECIATE THAT EFFORT. I WANTED TO SAY THAT A LOT OF THIS, WE ALREADY, SOME OF THIS WE ALREADY HAVE IN PLAY, RIGHT? WHEN WE DECIDED TO DO THE HAMPTON ROADS, WE CREATED DISTRICTS THERE ALONG HAMPTON ROAD, THERE'S A MEDICAL DISTRICT, THERE'S A PARK DISTRICT, THERE'S A FOOD AND EATERY PLACE DISTRICT THAT'S JUST ALONG HAMPTON ROAD. WHAT ALSO IS IMPACTFUL ABOUT HAMPTON ROADS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES IS THAT WE'RE ALREADY HAVE TOURS ON ON HAMPTON ROAD. AND FOR THOSE THAT WHO ARE JUST HEARING THAT TERM FOR THE FIRST TIME, TOURS IS A GREAT TOOL. BUT LIKE THE YOUNG LADY WHO CAME DOWN AND SPOKE STATED IT, IT FREEZES THE REVENUE THAT WE WOULD GET IN. SO THE CITY MAY BE ACHIEVING $100 MILLION, LET'S SAY, RIGHT? MOST TOURS ARE ANYWHERE FROM 10 TO 20 YEARS. SO YOU CAN'T DO ANYTHING WITH THAT MONEY FOR THAT LENGTH OF TIME, RIGHT? TOO. RIGHT. BECAUSE YOU'RE STUCK IN THAT AGREEMENT THAT WE'RE GOING TO PULL THAT TERS, YOU KNOW, YEAR OVER YEAR. BUT WHEN THAT TIME ELAPSED, THE CITY ONLY TAKES IN ABOUT WHAT, 60? AND THEN THE REST GOES TO THE TERS. SO ESSENTIALLY WE LOSE MONEY TO THE GENERAL FUND BUDGET TO THINK ABOUT DOING EIGHT DISTRICTS WHERE YOU'RE DOING TERS AND YOU'RE PAUSING TAX, PROPERTY TAX AND THEN FUNNELING THAT INTO A TERS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SOUNDS SWEET. IT'S A SWEET DEAL, BUT IT WILL HAVE A DRASTIC IMPACT ON OUR GENERAL FUND FOR THAT. I, I HAVE SOME PAUSE AND HESITATION ON THAT BECAUSE I DON'T WANT ANY MORE UNSTABLE BUDGET THAN ANYBODY ELSE OUT HERE. RIGHT. IN ADDITION TO THAT, WE JUST ACQUIRED A NEW ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. AND WHAT I WOULD REALLY LOVE FOR HIM TO DO IS SPEND SOME TIME NOT JUST WITH THIS COUNCIL, BUT WITH THE DEVELOPMENT BOARD AS WELL AS THE COMMUNITY, AND THEN FRAME TO US A MASTER PLAN. MAYBE IT'S THE PLAN THAT WE'VE ALREADY TALKED ABOUT, I DON'T KNOW, BUT WE DO NEED A PLAN FOR I-35 AND THE REST OF DESOTO. I'M JUST NOT CONVINCED THIS IS IT. THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION TO MY COLLEAGUE. I AM 2 IN 2 AGREEMENT WITH A LOT OF WHAT MY COLLEAGUE JUST EXPLAINED, BUT I DO WANT TO HAVE A QUESTION ABOUT WE'VE SPENT A LOT OF TIME ON STRATEGIC PLANS, COMPREHENSIVE PLANS, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE SPEND THAT TIME PUTTING THESE TYPES OF THINGS TOGETHER, WE DO WASTE TO ME AND IT'S JUST MY OPINION. THERE'S A LOT OF TIME SPENT PUTTING THE PLAN TOGETHER THAT WE THEN GO AND PUT SOMETHING ELSE ON TOP OF IT. SO THAT'S WHAT THIS FEELS LIKE TO ME, IS THAT WE'RE PUTTING SOMETHING ON TOP OF WHAT WE JUST SPENT YEARS CRAFTING TO COME TO A POINT WHERE WE'RE NOW SAYING, OKAY, NOW WE TALK ABOUT DISTRICTS AND THEN THE TOURS. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION IN THERE, BUT I WOULD HAVE TO ASK THE QUESTION, HOW DOES IT ALIGN WITH THE EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN? IN THAT THE, THE EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TELLS YOU WHAT NEEDS TO GO WHERE. AND BASED ON WHAT THIS SAID, THIS IS TELLING YOU WHAT SHOULD BE IN WHICH DISTRICT AND NOTHING OUTSIDE OF THAT. THAT IS ANYTHING THAT'S NOT COMPATIBLE WITH THAT WOULDN'T GO THERE, WOULD THEY THEN HAVE TO GO THROUGH PLANNING AND ZONING IF THEY NEEDED TO COME INTO THAT DISTRICT? THOSE ARE THE TYPES OF QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE. AND SO WITH THAT, I WOULD JUST SAY IT. IT ALL SOUNDED GREAT. [00:25:04] I JUST THINK WE'RE SPENDING A LITTLE BIT MORE TIME ON ANOTHER PLAN THAT WOULD THEN, TO SOME DEGREE, MAY CONTRADICT THE EXISTING COMPREHENSIVE PLAN. AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW THE ALIGNMENT WITH THAT AND THE STRATEGIC PLAN THAT WE JUST WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF RIGHT NOW. SO THOSE ARE THOSE THOSE ARE SOME OF THE QUESTIONS THAT I WOULD HAVE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I DON'T SEE ANY ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS. COUNCILMAN WATERS, WOULD YOU LIKE TO ADDRESS THEIR QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS PLEASE? COUNCILWOMAN HUGHES I HAD MY HAND RAISED. I'M SORRY. COUNCILWOMAN HUGHES, I DIDN'T SEE YOU. GO AHEAD. THAT'S OKAY. I JUST WANTED TO SAY REAL QUICKLY THAT I APPRECIATE WHAT YOU'VE DONE. COUNCILMAN WATERS. ONE THING. ONE REASON IS BECAUSE I. I TRY NOT TO EVER OVERPROMISE AND UNDER-DELIVER. SO I APPLAUD YOUR EFFORTS. IT'S NOT EASY, ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU COME IN AND DON'T HAVE THE KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE ABOUT EVEN WHAT IS NEEDED. SO THANK YOU FOR, YOU KNOW, GOING OUT ON THAT LIMB. AND I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE YOU TO, AGAIN, GET WITH OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR AND SEE, YOU KNOW, HOW IF YOU KNOW IF THIS PLAN CAN WORK IN ANY PHASE OR FACET AND JUST STAY ENCOURAGED. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN WATERS. OKAY. I DO WANT TO BE CLEAR ON THIS. THIS IS A LONG TERM PLAN, A PLAN FOR US NOW, PLAN FOR CHILDREN AND THINGS LIKE THAT. BECAUSE ALL THESE DISTRICTS TAKE GOING TO TAKE TIME TO BUILD UP. OBVIOUSLY, THIS IS LIKE, SAY, THIS IS HOW WE WIN LONG TERM. AND I WANT TO BE CLEAR, THIS IS NOT WHERE AND I MENTIONED EARLIER THESE BORDERS OF TERMS. YOU DON'T PUT A TOURIST OVER THIS WHOLE BORDER. AT THE SAME TIME YOU PUT AN INDIVIDUAL SMALL TOURS AS YOU'RE IMMINENTLY BUILDING ON THE AREA, LOTS THAT ARE BEING BUILT, WHETHER IT'S SMALL MICRO REINVESTMENT ZONE OR LARGER MULTIPLE LOTS, THEN IT'S THE TOURS. SO TOURS THAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE WOULD BE WITHIN THESE BORDERS. NOW WHAT WE WOULD NEED TO DO IS GET WITH, AND I AGREE WITH THAT. WHAT YOU WERE SAYING PRO TEM ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S HERE TO GO WITH SPECIFIC BOUNDARIES, BUT I WANT TO KIND OF PUT IT OVER TO YOU REAL QUICK. CITY MANAGER, DO YOU HAVE ANY COMMENT ON THIS? AND THEN MAYBE WE CAN BRING UP THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR OR SOMETHING TO CLARIFY. YES. HONORABLE MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC. WE'VE TALKED YESTERDAY SPECIFICALLY ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY ZONE. WE SAID OPPORTUNITY ZONE IS STEP ONE OF MANY STEPS THAT WE'RE GOING TO DO. THIS IS NO DIFFERENT, RIGHT? WE HAVE THE STRATEGIC PLAN. THE STRATEGIC PLAN IS THE VISION AND THE MISSION OF THE CITY. OVERALL VISION AND MISSION OF THE CITY. ONE OF THE COMPONENTS IS GOING TO BE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. SO THEY WILL BE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN AND IT WILL HAVE THE GOALS RIGHT. THOSE GOALS COULD BE THOSE DIFFERENT ZONES. AND THEY CAN BE MASTER PLANNED. NOT TO SAY THAT THEY ARE IN CONFLICT WITH THE COMP PLAN, BUT IN MORE SENSE OF WHAT CAN EXIST HERE THAT BENEFIT US THE MOST AND ALLOW US TO MAYBE PAIR THAT UP WITH A FINANCIAL PLAN, WHICH IS THE TOURIST. THE TOURIST IS NOT MEANT TO TAKE AWAY TAXES. THE TOURIST IS GIVING US THE OPPORTUNITY TO SAY, IF YOU INVEST IN HERE, WE CAN ACTUALLY TAKE THAT EXCESS TAX THAT IS GENERATED TO PAY FOR ADDITIONAL AREAS, RIGHT? AND THERE'S OPPORTUNITIES TO EVEN BARBELL THAT, WHICH MEANS THAT YOU CAN LINK ONE TOURIST TO ANOTHER TO HELP ANOTHER TOURIST WITHIN THE CITY ITSELF. THERE'S A LOT OF FINANCIAL TOOLS FOR IT, BUT I APPLAUD THE COUNCIL MEMBER FOR, FOR GIVING US KIND OF AN OVERVIEW OF AREAS OF FOCUS THAT WE CAN MASTER PLAN. AND AGAIN, THAT'S THAT'S ONLY STEP ONE OF MANY STEPS THAT WE NEED TO TAKE. AND IT WILL BE PART OF THAT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN. I WOULD LIKE TO ADD OUR ECONOMIC ROCK STAR, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR. DO YOU HAVE A COMMENT ON WHAT WE PRESENTED HERE TODAY? IS THIS VIABLE OR DO YOU FROM YOUR POINT OF VIEW. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN WATERS. MISS GARCIA, IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO HAVE COMMENTS, YOU CAN. HOWEVER, I WANT TO BE MINDFUL AND REMIND THE COUNCIL THAT THIS IS AGAIN, FOR THE COUNCIL TO MAKE THEIR DETERMINATION ON WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS. BUT IF YOU HAVE COMMENTS, YOU CAN YOU CAN DEFINITELY SHARE THOSE AT THIS TIME. SURE. GUS GARCIA, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, DUNCANVILLE, DUNCANVILLE, DESOTO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION MY APOLOGIES. USED TO BE AT DUNCANVILLE. CAN EVERYBODY BE RIGHT AT THE SAME TIME? [00:30:03] I THINK IT'S POSSIBLE. OBVIOUSLY THIS IS A COMPREHENSIVE PRESENTATION ON ALL OF THE AREAS WITHIN THE CITY OF DE SOTO. A LOT OF GREAT THINGS ON THIS PLAN. THERE'S A LOT OF ISSUES WITH, YOU KNOW, HOW DOES THIS ALIGN WITH THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN TO MAKE SURE THAT THESE DESIGNATED AREAS ALIGN THERE? I THINK THAT SOME OF THE COMMENTS THAT HAVE BEEN BROUGHT UP REGARDING THE TOURIST DISTRICTS ARE VALID. ONCE YOU FREEZE THOSE BASE VALUES, YOU CAN NO LONGER USE THEM FOR GENERAL FUND DOLLARS. AND I THINK THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE DISCUSSED PREVIOUSLY. REINVESTMENT ZONES. SURE. YOU CAN USE THEM FOR EMINENT PROJECTS THAT YOU WANT TO IDENTIFY AND USE TOURIST DOLLARS FOR, FOR INFRASTRUCTURE AND QUALIFIED EXPENDITURES. I DO BELIEVE THERE'S A LOT HERE AND IT'S GERMANE TO WHAT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW WITH REGARD TO TIP STRATEGIES AS WE DEVELOP OUR STRATEGIC PLAN, AS WELL AS WHAT THE STRATEGIC PLAN WAS FOR THE COUNCIL THAT WAS ADOPTED IN JANUARY. I DO THINK THERE'S A LITTLE BIT MORE THAT NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED, OBVIOUSLY, WITH SOME INPUT FROM OUR OFFICE, AND WE'D BE HAPPY TO DO THAT. SO THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. YES. COUNCILMAN WATERS I, I WOULD JUST SAY, AND I, I WOULD LIKE TO ALLOW STAFF TO REVIEW THE DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND YOU KNOW, LOOK AT THAT AND MAKE SURE THE FINAL BOUNDARIES AND THINGS LIKE ANY, ANY ADJUSTMENTS THAT YOU FEEL IS NECESSARY FROM YOUR EXPERTISE. I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE THEM DO THAT AND SO IT CAN COME BACK LATER. OKAY. SO COUNCIL WOULD HAVE TO GIVE THAT DIRECTION TO STAFF. SO THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF TONIGHT'S MEETING. SO IF COUNCIL IS IN AGREEMENT WITH THAT, THEN WE WOULD GIVE THOSE DIRECTIVES TO STAFF. ONCE WE CREATE A CONSENSUS OF HOW WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD ON THIS ITEM. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. THANK YOU. I HAVE A FEW, FEW COMMENTS. AND KAREN, YOU CAN GIVE ME MY TWO MINUTES AS WELL. I HAVE A FEW COMMENTS. AND THANK YOU AGAIN, COUNCILMAN WATERS FOR THAT FOR, FOR JUST PULLING ALL THIS TOGETHER AND BRINGING THESE THINGS TO THE FOREFRONT. I DO AGREE THAT WE SHOULD BE VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT THE LAND THAT WE HAVE LEFT. WE KEEP WE'VE BEEN SAYING FOR ABOUT THE LAST 15 YEARS THAT DE SOTO HAS ABOUT 85% HAS BEEN ABOUT 85% DEVELOPED OUT. I WOULD ARGUE THAT IT'S PROBABLY EVEN LESS AT THIS POINT. AND SO WE'VE ALWAYS HAD THE THE IDEA THAT WE MUST BE VERY INTENTIONAL ABOUT WHAT WE DO. AND I DEFINITELY THINK PLANNING IS A PART OF THAT. I DON'T NECESSARILY WELL, BECAUSE MANY OF THESE THAT WERE BROUGHT UP LIKE THE ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT A FEW YEARS AGO, WE DID THE COMMERCIAL NODE STUDY. SO WE IDENTIFIED ABOUT NINE DIFFERENT COMMERCIAL NODES. ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT WAS ONE OF THE ONES THAT CAME OUT OF THAT. AND A FEW OF THESE ALREADY CAME OUT OF THE COMMERCIAL NODE STUDY. AND SO SOME OF THESE ARE ALREADY IN PLAY AND IN MOTION TO A DEGREE. AND SOME OF THEM ARE ORGANICALLY HAPPENING. AND I DON'T NECESSARILY AGREE WITH YOU BEING USED AS A TOOL ACROSS THE BOARD FOR SOME OF THE CONCERNS THAT ARE FOR SOME OF THE REASONS THAT HAVE ALREADY BEEN STATED. I DO LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING THE DISTINCT DISTRICTS. I DON'T NECESSARILY KNOW IF I'M IN AGREEMENT WITH WITH JUST PUTTING MORE FOCUS ON CREATING MORE PLANS. AGAIN, AS WE'VE ALREADY STATED, WE HAVE SEVERAL THINGS THAT ARE ALREADY IN MOTION. AND I THINK SOME OF THESE THINGS WILL ORGANICALLY START HAPPENING AS WE CONTINUE TO DEVELOP OUT. YOU KNOW, THE THINGS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE ON THE TABLE, SUCH AS HAMPTON ROADS, SUCH AS THORNTREE, SUCH AS THE ARC THOSE THINGS WILL BE HAPPENING. HOWEVER AGAIN, WE KNOW THAT TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION IS JUST TO SEE IF COUNCIL HAS AN APPETITE TO GO FURTHER. SO I'M GOING TO START I FEEL LIKE I'M GOING TO START TO MY RIGHT. AND SO I'M GOING TO START AT THE END OF THE DAIS AND I'M GOING TO ASK COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES IF SHE HAS ANY COMMENTS IN TERMS OF WHETHER OR NOT SHE WANTS TO SEE THIS ITEM GO FORWARD. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES I DON'T KNOW IF YOU CAN HEAR ME, BUT YOU'RE FROZEN. I'M SORRY. WE DIDN'T HEAR. WE DIDN'T HEAR YOUR RESPONSE. YOU'RE FROZEN. OH, CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW? YES, WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW. I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE INFORMATION. SO THANK YOU. YOU WOULD LIKE TO GET MORE INFORMATION? OKAY. I THINK SHE SAID HER. WE'LL COME BACK JUST TO MAKE SURE. MAYOR PRO TEM, CAN YOU RESTATE MY OPTIONS? IF YOU WANT TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM. OKAY. YEAH. IS THAT WHERE IT GOES BACK TO GO BACK TO STAFF? AND STAFF WOULD THEN BE ABLE TO DO MORE RESEARCH BECAUSE IT WOULD BE AT THE DIRECTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. NORTH. YES. WITH MORE INFORMATION. I'M A YES. COUNCILMAN WESLEY. THAT'LL BE A YES. COUNCILMAN WATERS, I THINK I KNOW WHERE YOU STAND, BUT JUST FOR THE RECORD. [00:35:01] YES, YES. I'M GONNA SAY SOMETHING. OKAY. COUNCIL MEMBER. PARKER. YES. THANK YOU. THAT IS THAT IS UNANIMOUS. I THINK IT IS COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. YOU ARE? YES. CORRECT. WE WERE KIND OF GOING IN AND OUT THERE. YES. YES, MA'AM. YES. OKAY. SO WE HAVE A UNANIMOUS. SO STAFF DOES HAVE THE COUNCIL'S DIRECTION TO MOVE IT FURTHER TO GET MORE INFORMATION ON THIS PARTICULAR ITEM. CITY MANAGER. YEAH. I JUST WANT TO ADD, WE'RE WORKING WITH TIPS STRATEGIES ON OUR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PLAN. I WOULD SUGGEST THAT WE CONTINUE WORKING THROUGH THAT AND PRESENT THIS PLAN AS PART OF THE WORK THAT WE'RE DOING WITH THEM, RATHER THAN TRYING TO CREATE REDUNDANT WORK. SO THAT WOULD BE MY ONLY RECOMMENDATION TO THE CITY COUNCIL. I THINK THAT'S SMART. OKAY. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, WE WILL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. AND THAT IS THE EXPLORATION OF DART. I BELIEVE WE HAVE EIGHT CARDS FOR THAT ONE. I PROBABLY SHOULD HAVE DONE IT IN THE BEGINNING. HOWEVER, JUST FOR TRANSPARENCY, I'M GOING TO REDUCE SINCE WE HAVE SEVERAL CARDS. AND AGAIN, THIS IS KIND OF OUT OF, OUT OF, OUT OF, OUT OF THE ORDINARY FOR US TO DISCUSS THESE ON OUR REGULAR MEETING NIGHT, BUT REDUCE THOSE COMMENT TIME TO FROM 3 MINUTES TO 2 MINUTES, SINCE WE HAVE QUITE A FEW OF THOSE CARDS FOR INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK. HOWEVER, WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE WILL HAVE THE PRESENTATION, I BELIEVE OUR CITY MANAGER AND I'M GOING TO LET YOU ANNOUNCE IT. I'M JUST TRYING TO GET THIS OUT BEFORE YOU GO INTO IT. WE HAVE OUR CITY MANAGER THAT'S GOING TO BE MAKING THAT PRESENTATION. ONCE HE MAKES THE PRESENTATION, THEN WE'LL HEAR FROM OUR OUR ATTENDEES THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. AND THEN WE WILL ENTERTAIN COMMENTS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL. AND MAYOR, IF YOU ALLOW ME, JUST A POINT OF CLARIFICATION, I KNOW THE TITLE SAYS EVALUATING DART METRO STATION IN DESOTO, MICROTRANSIT OR MICRO. OKAY. THE THE WORD DART SHOULDN'T SHOULDN'T BE THERE. I THINK THE WHOLE IDEA IS FOR US TO EVALUATE ALL KINDS OF MODES OF OF PUBLIC TRANSIT IN ORDER FOR US TO COVER THE ENTIRE CITY AND MAKE SURE THAT THE COMMUNITY REALLY HAS CHOICES, WHETHER IT'S UBER, WHETHER IT'S MICRO TRANSIT OR WHETHER IT'S YOU KNOW, THE SMALL BUSSES, ALL OF THAT STUFF. SO TRULY IS, IS, IS SOMETHING THAT WE WANTED TO KIND OF SHARE WITH THE CITY COUNCIL. AND AGAIN, IT'S NOT TIED TO DART OR ANY, ANY THOUGHT OF EVEN A MEMBERSHIP WITH DART. THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE, THAT'S NOT GOING TO BE THE CASE. SO I JUST WANT TO CLARIFY THAT FROM THE GET GO. OKAY. NEXT. A POINT OF INFORMATION? YES, MA'AM. I THINK WHEN I THINK THE AGENDA EXCUSE ME, THE, THE APPLICATION TO ADD THIS TO THE, TO THE AGENDA SPECIFICALLY STATED DART THOUGH WAS THAT CAN WE CONFIRM IT WAS THAT YOUR INTENT? MY INTENT WHEN THIS WAS SUBMITTED WAS TO LOOK AT OPTIONS NOT REPLACE STAR IN ANY WAY BECAUSE STAR IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB IN PROVIDING TRANSPORTATION FOR OUR RESIDENTS. BUT WE DO HAVE SOME LIMITATIONS. SO ONE OF THE OPTIONS THAT I DID PRESENT TO THE CITY MANAGER WAS DART GOLDLINK. SO THAT WAS SUBMITTED ON THE FORM. OKAY. SO I DID SEE THAT, RIGHT? OKAY. I JUST WANT TO BUT FOR FURTHER POINT OF INFORMATION THROUGHOUT THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTATION, IT SAYS DART. I GUESS MY QUESTION WOULD BE IF THAT WAS NOT THE INTENT OF US TO EVALUATE DART, THEN WHY WOULD IT BE SO PERMEATED INTO THE DOCUMENT? AS THIS WAS SUBMITTED, I DID INITIALLY REQUEST THAT THIS ITEM BE PULLED SO THAT WE COULD BE PREPARED FOR STAFF TO BEFORE WE PRESENTED THIS TO THE COMMUNITY. BUT DUE TO OTHER FACTORS IN MIND, CONSIDERING THAT WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE HEARD IN PREVIOUS STAFF TRANSPORTATION PRESENTATIONS ONE OF THOSE ITEMS AS WAS A CHALLENGE AND YOU MENTIONED THIS COUNCIL MEMBER, PARKER, THAT YOU'VE HAD RESIDENTS TO CONTACT YOU, PEOPLE OF DISABILITIES THAT HAD CHALLENGES IN SCHEDULING A RIDESHARE. WE ALSO HAVE HEARD FROM STAR THAT BECAUSE WE'RE LOOKING AT DIFFERENT WAIT TIMES THAT COULD BE EXTENDED. [00:40:03] SO WE IDENTIFIED SOME GAPS THAT WERE THAT STAR HAD PRESENTED TO US. SO WE WANT TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY NOW TO ADDRESS THAT SO THAT WE CAN HAVE THE PROPER CONTEXT. AND WITH THAT SAID, BECAUSE THE CURRENT SERVICE AREAS THAT STAR TRANSPORTATION PROVIDES, THEY SERVICE KAUFMAN COUNTY, ROCKWALL COUNTY, SEAGOVILLE, BOX SPRINGS, MESQUITE, DESOTO, CEDAR HILL, DUNCANVILLE, HUTCHINS, WILMER LANCASTER AND ELLIS COUNTY. SO WITH THOSE AREAS THAT THEY'RE SERVICING YES. IF WE CAN TAKE A LOOK AT WHAT COULD SUPPLEMENT, WHERE OUR RESIDENTS WILL HAVE CONTINUED SERVICES. THAT'S WHAT THIS CONVERSATION IS ABOUT. BUT IT IS NOT. LET ME BE CLEAR. IT IS NOT ABOUT DART BUSSES COMING HERE. IT IS NOT ABOUT FIXED ROUTES. THIS IS JUST TAKING GIVING THE CITY MANAGER THE OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE THE CONVERSATION WITH STAFF, WITH WHAT POTENTIAL SOLUTIONS THEY COULD COME UP WITH ALTERNATE TRANSPORTATION, MICRO TRANSPORTATION FOR OUR RESIDENTS SO THEY CAN HAVE THE CONTINUED SERVICE THEY NEED. FOR THOSE WHO UTILIZE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION, CAN WE HAVE THE PRESENTATION, PLEASE? COUNCILMAN PARKER, WAS THAT YOUR CONCLUSION? THANK YOU. CHAIR. AND ACTUALLY, COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH SAID IT PERFECTLY. I MEAN, SHE SHE ALREADY MADE THAT PRESENTATION. WE'LL GO THROUGH IT ANYWAY. AND AGAIN, DART IS ARTISTS ANONYMOUS IN IN OUR REGION WITH TRANSIT. SO I THINK THAT'S JUST HOW IT WAS LABELED. SO THIS IS THE PURPOSE THAT, THAT YOU SEE BEFORE YOU IS NOT ONLY LOOKING AT THE CURRENT STAR TRANSIT OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE, BUT ALSO LOOK AT GO LINK AMONG ANY, ANY OTHER YOU KNOW, WAYS TO, TO ENHANCE OUR MOBILITY FOR OUR COMMUNITY. AND THEN REALLY GETTING COUNCIL'S AUTHORIZATION TO JUST, JUST ENGAGE JUST FOR CONVERSATION PURPOSES WITH DART. AND I WOULD SAY WITH OTHER SERVICE PROVIDERS, THAT COULD BE A GOOD MODEL FOR OUR CITY. NEXT WHERE WE ARE, WHERE WE ARE TODAY IS, IS REALLY MORE OF A DEMAND RESPONSE SERVICE WITH ADVANCED SCHEDULING. AND I THINK THAT'S PART OF THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE. AND THEN WE HAVE LIMITED HOURS, ALTHOUGH I WILL, I WILL FESS THAT THAT THEY'VE INCREASED THE HOURS. TOTAL STAR TRANSIT HAVE INCREASED THE HOUR AS WELL AS GEOGRAPHIC COVERAGE, AND IT'S PRIMARILY USED BY SENIORS, MEDICAL WRITERS, TRANSIT DEPENDENT RESIDENTS, STUDENTS SPECIFICALLY TO TO UTILIZE THAT THE IDENTIFIED GAPS. SO I THINK THERE'S FEW ISSUES WITH THE RETURN TRIPS WITH, SOMETIMES WITH THE LIMITED SAME DAY SERVICE. AGAIN, YOU HAVE TO SCHEDULE IT AHEAD OF TIME. AND SOMETIMES IT'S INCONSISTENT AVAILABILITY DURING PEAK TIMES WHERE THEY DON'T HAVE THE FACILITIES TO BE ABLE TO PROVIDE THAT SERVICE TO THE RESIDENTS NEXT. AGAIN, THAT'S JUST ONE OF THE MODELS, WHICH IS THE DARK GO LINK. MICROTRANSIT. WHAT IT DOES IS IT PROVIDES ON DEMAND OFFERS SHORT WAIT TIMES, FLEXIBLE ROUTING. IT USES TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS PHONE APPLICATION AND WEB BOOKING AND IT IS ALL OF THEM ARE ADA COMPLIANT VEHICLES. SO THEY HAVE SUCCESSFUL ZONES IN PLANO, IRVING, ROWLETT, SOUTH DALLAS AND THE INLAND PORT AS WELL. AND THE INLAND PORT HAS UTILIZED THAT FOR THE PAST, I WOULD SAY, FOR THE PAST FIVE YEARS. OKAY. THE RESIDENT IMPACT WHO BENEFITS REALLY, AGAIN, GOING BACK TO THE USERS WHO, WHO, WHO REALLY NEED IT MOST SENIOR STUDENTS, WORKERS AND TRANSIT DEPENDENT RESIDENTS. AND THEN FOR EQUITY AND ACCESSIBILITY IS, IS AGAIN, ADDING THE COMPONENT OF ADA COMPLIANCE AS WELL AS THE ABILITY TO UTILIZE TECHNOLOGY SUCH AS FORM BASED BOOKING. AND AGAIN OTHER, OTHER MEANS THAT MAY NOT BE AVAILABLE FOR NON-SMARTPHONE USERS. THE OPERATIONAL CONSIDERATIONS WOULD BE OPERATIONAL. THE FIT ITSELF WOULD BE YOU KNOW, GALLING COULD SUPPLEMENT NOT NECESSARILY REPLACE STAR TRANSIT AND THEN ADDRESS SOME OF THE GAPS, WHICH IS THE SAME DAY OR THE SHORT DISTANCE ISSUES. [00:45:03] AND THEN, AND THEN IT INTEGRATES OBVIOUSLY WITH THE REGIONAL MOBILITY NETWORK, WHICH IS THE, THE, THE, THE TRAIN STATIONS, AS WELL AS WITH THE GUIDED BUSSES OR WITH THE FOLK WITH THE FIXED BUS ROUTES. NEXT, AND AGAIN, THIS IS PRELIMINARY DISCUSSIONS. THIS IS NOT A DECISION THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR THE CITY COUNCIL TO GIVE US ANY DECISION ON AN OPTION TO USE. THIS IS FOR US TO LOOK AT DART, AMONG MANY, OTHER, MANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES FOR PROVIDING TRANSIT SOLUTIONS TO THE PUBLIC AND FOR US TO REALLY, TRULY UNDERSTAND THE SERVICE ZONE OPTIONS, THE OPERATING HOURS AND VERY IMPORTANT IS THE COST SCENARIOS FOR FOR OUR COMMUNITY, AS WELL AS CONTINUING TO INTEGRATE WITH STAR TRANSIT. I THINK THAT'S YOU KNOW, AGAIN, THE ACTION WOULD BE TO JUST ENGAGE TO, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THEY OFFER. AGAIN, AMONG MANY OTHER OPPORTUNITIES OR OPTIONS, AND THEN RETURN, OF COURSE, TO THE CITY COUNCIL WITH FINDINGS AND POSSIBLE RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPLEMENT. AND THAT WOULD BE IT. MAYOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. WE DO HAVE CARDS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK, SO WE'LL HEAR FROM THEM FIRST, AND THEN WE'LL OPEN THE FLOOR UP TO COUNCIL FOR DISCUSSION. MADAM MAYOR, BEFORE WE ASK FOR PUBLIC COMMENTS, CAN I MAY I ASK FOR GUS GARCIA TO COME AND MAKE AN ADDITIONAL COMMENT TO THE PRESENTATION FOR CLARITY AS WELL, IN CONTEXT? GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL GUS GARCIA DE SOTO DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION. COUNCILWOMAN NORTH AND I DISCUSSED THIS BRIEFLY PREVIOUSLY. OBVIOUSLY, TRANSIT IS SUPER IMPORTANT FOR JOB CREATION AND ATTRACTING COMPANIES TO COME TO SOTO. SO JUST FROM A BASE LEVEL DISCUSSION, HAVING TRANSIT THROUGHOUT THE CITY, HAVING MICRO TRANSIT IS SUPER IMPORTANT, WHETHER THAT BE STAR, WHETHER THAT BE GO LINK AND ANY AREAS THAT WE WOULD HAVE LIMITED ACCESS, WE CERTAINLY WOULD WANT TO PROVIDE THOSE SERVICES. OBVIOUSLY HAVING DONE AN EVALUATION ON THE CITY. BUT JUST AS A GENERAL PRINCIPLE, HAVING MICRO TRANSIT WITHIN THE CITY ON DEMAND, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS WOULD BE A POSITIVE THING FOR THE CITIZENS AND THE COMMUNITY WHEN IT COMES TO JOBS, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, ALL KINDS OF OTHER INDIRECT SERVICES THAT WE WOULD WANT TO ATTRACT. THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY ON THAT. THANK YOU, MR. GARCIA. MISS ANNA WILLIAMS. MISS WILLIAMS, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. ANNA WILLIAMS, DESOTO, TEXAS. AND GOOD EVENING, MAYOR, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I CAME TO DESOTO IN 1990. WE HAD NO DARTS, NO STARS, AND PEOPLE STILL DIDN'T WANT ANY. FAMILIES NOW FEEL LIKE THEY WILL LOSE THEIR JOB BECAUSE THERE'S NO JOBS IN. IN DESOTO, NONE. YOU LOOK AROUND ALL. WELL, WE HAVE MORE SMOKE SHOPS. WE DON'T HAVE ANY RETAIL, HAVE VERY LITTLE CLOTHING. I HAVE A LADY WHO TALKED TO ME THE OTHER DAY AND SAID HER HUSBAND AND HER WORKED FOR UBER. SHE WORKED FROM 7 TO 12 P.M. HE WORKED FROM 1 A.M. TO EIGHT. IF DART COMES TO THE SODA, THEY WILL LOSE THEIR JOBS AND HOME. DART NEEDS TO STAY IN DALLAS. IF IT WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH FOR HIGHLAND PARK, PLANO, MCKINNEY, LANCASTER, CEDAR HILL ABSOLUTELY NO PRIVATE SCHOOLS HAVE THEIR OWN BUSSES. I'M SORRY. WE HAVE NO RETAIL JOBS. WE HAVE NO JOBS. WHY ARE YOU. WHY ARE YOU COMING TO THE SODA IF WE HAVE NO JOBS? BARELY. IT'S EASY TO SAY, OH, WE'RE DOING THIS FOR THE PEOPLE IN DE SOTO. NO YOU'RE NOT. WE DON'T WANT DART. WE HAVE STAR. THAT WAS ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE DELIVERED ON WAS STAR, BUT NOT DOOR DART EVER. [00:50:04] WE DON'T NEED IT UNTIL WE GET JOBS HERE. WE WON'T HAVE ANY DARTS. ALL WE WILL HAVE IS JUST PEOPLE CRUISING AROUND 2 OR 3 GETTING ON A BUS. WHAT DO YOU GET ON THERE WITH A SANDWICH AND TAKE IT UBER, TAKE A SANDWICH TO WORK AND THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE JOBS ARE STRUGGLING. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MISS WILLIAMS. MAYOR PRO TEM, CAN YOU CUT YOUR MICROPHONE OFF, PLEASE, SO THEY CAN. SHE CAN HAVE IT. THANK YOU, MR. FRANK DANIELS. MR. DANIELS, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO. MY. MY NAME IS FRANK DANIELS. I'M FROM CITY OF DE SOTO. AND TO YOU, MADAM MAYOR PROCTOR. AND TO THE COUNCIL. AND DEFERENCE TO MY BROTHER WATERS. TONIGHT IS THE FIRST TIME I HEARD ABOUT THE MICRO TRANSITS. I DON'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT, BUT I WROTE DOWN A FEW THINGS THAT I DO HAVE PROBLEMS WITH IN CASE WE DO GET DARTS. SO MY SERIOUS CONCERN ABOUT BRINGING DART INTO DE SOTO, MY FIRST COST IS THE COST TO TAXPAYERS. OUR CITY IS ALREADY FACING FINANCIAL TROUBLES, AND I BELIEVE WE SHOULD FOCUS ON FIXING OUR CURRENT PROBLEMS BEFORE TAKING ON ADDITIONAL EXPENSES THAT WILL COME FROM DART. MY SECOND CONCERN IS I AM CONCERNED ABOUT THE INCREASED TRAFFIC AND CONGESTION IN THE CITY OF DE SOTO. DE SOTO HAS WORKED HARD TO MAINTAIN A GOOD QUALITY OF LIFE, AND I DO NOT WANT TO SEE IT DESTROYED BY FOOT TRAFFIC, TRASH, PAVEMENTS BEING TORN UP DUE TO THE HEAVINESS OF THE OF THE BUSSES. MY THIRD CONCERN IS PUBLIC SAFETY. MANY RESIDENTS WORRY THAT DART STATION COULD MAKE IT EASIER FOR CRIMINALS FOR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES TO MOVE INTO THE CITY, PLACING ADDITIONAL DEMAND ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT AND THE FIRST RESPONDERS. FINALLY, I WANT TO PRESERVE THE CHARACTER OF DE SOTO. MANY OF US CHOOSE TO LIVE HERE BECAUSE IT IS A SAFE, FAMILY ORIENTED COMMUNITY WITH A SUBURBAN FEELING. I BELIEVE WE SHOULD PROTECT WHAT MAKES DE SOTO SPECIAL AND CAREFULLY CONSIDER WHETHER IT ALIGNS WITH THE VISION THE RESIDENTS HAVE FOR THE FUTURE OF THE CITY OF DE SOTO. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. RUTH WASHINGTON. IS RUTH WASHINGTON HERE? OKAY, WE CAN GO TO THE NEXT CARD. DEBORAH GRIFFIN, DEBORAH GRIFFIN. GOOD EVENING, MISS GRIFFIN. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. THANK YOU. MY NAME IS DEBORAH GRIFFIN, AND I LIVE HERE IN DESOTO, TEXAS. OKAY. THE PREVIOUS SPEAKERS HAVE VOICED A LOT OF MY CONCERNS. THE MAIN CONCERN THAT I HAVE IS THAT I FOUND OUT ABOUT IT YESTERDAY THAT THERE WAS A SPECIAL PRESENTATION THAT WAS PRESENTED, AND I JUST HAPPENED TO STUMBLE UP ON IT. SO FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T THINK THAT THIS INFORMATION HAS BEEN PROVIDED TO THE PUBLIC IN A MANNER THAT WE EVEN KNOW WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, BECAUSE I HEAR YOU SAYING THAT IT'S NOT DART, IT'S METRO MICRO SOMETHING. I THINK WE REALLY NEED TO THINK THIS THROUGH. AND I THINK THAT WE REALLY NEED TO CONSIDER, EVEN IF DART WERE TRYING TO GET US INTO TO BE PART OF THEIR COMMUNITY, WHAT ARE THEY OFFERING US, THOSE BUSINESSES WHO ARE GOING TO BENEFIT FROM DART? IF WE WERE TO DECIDE TO LET THEM COME INTO A PORTION OF OUR CITY, WHO IS GOING TO HELP PAY FOR SOME OF THOSE COSTS? ARE THOSE BUSINESSES THAT ARE GOING TO BENEFIT FROM THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE GOING TO BE RIDING, PROBABLY TO SOME OF THOSE JOBS THAT ARE OVER IN LANCASTER. HAVE WE TALKED ABOUT BRINGING THE OTHER CITIES, OR DO WE EVEN WANT DART? THERE'S A SECURITY SITUATION. I KNOW YOU SEE ON THE NEWS ALL THE TIME ABOUT ALL OF THE PROBLEMS IN DOWNTOWN DALLAS. AS A RESULT OF CRIMES AND STUFF WITH DART, WE ARE NOT THAT DOWNTOWN AREA. [00:55:01] WHAT DO YOU CALL IT? THE WEST END AND THE LORD. LORD DEEP ELLUM, AND ALL OF THOSE OLD LEGACY. WE ARE NOT THOSE. THAT CONCLUDES YOUR TIME, MISS GRIFFITH. OKAY. THANK YOU FOR COMING IN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. OKAY. WELL, DOCTOR. DINAH MARKS. GOOD EVENING. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. I AM THE HONORABLE DOCTOR, DINAH MARKS DE SOTO, TEXAS. BEFORE I GET STARTED, I'D LIKE TO BEHOOVE TO ASK YOU IF DART WAS NOT THE INTENT TO PLEASE MAKE SURE MOVING FORWARD, WHOMEVER'S RESPONSIBILITY IT IS TO GET THE RIGHT INFORMATION OUT TO THE PUBLIC. MAKE SURE THAT YOU DO THAT AND HOLD STAFF ACCOUNTABLE. SINCE STAR TRANSIT ALREADY PROVIDES POINT TO POINT TRANSPORTATION FOR OUR RESIDENTS, I WOULD LIKE TO CLEARLY IDENTIFY WHAT TRANSPORTATION PROBLEM DART GO LINK WOULD SOLVE THAT IS NOT CURRENTLY BEING ADDRESSED IS THE DIFFERENCE SIMPLY TECHNOLOGY? IS THAT ADDITIONAL DESTINATION OR IS IT INTEGRATION INTO A REGIONAL TRANSIT SYSTEM. BEFORE MAKING ANY COMMITMENTS, I'D LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THE SPECIFIC BENEFIT THAT DE SOTO RESIDENTS WILL RECEIVE AND WHETHER THAT BENEFIT WILL JUSTIFY THE COST. ANOTHER POINT I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO CONSIDER IS BECAUSE DE SOTO IS ONLY 21.6MI², HOW MUCH OF THE PROPOSED BENEFIT COMES FROM TRANSPORTATION WITHIN DE SOTO VERSUS TRANSPORTATION OUTSIDE OF DE SOTO? AND IF THE PRIMARY BENEFIT IS REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY, THEN WE NEED TO KNOW HOW MANY RESIDENTS WOULD ACTUALLY USE THIS PARTICULAR SERVICE. WE'RE ALREADY TAKING A LOSS ON THE ICE SKATING RINK, AND OF COURSE, WE'RE GOING TO TAKE A LOSS FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS FOR THE ART. WHEN IT COMES TO OUR BUDGET, WE'RE ALREADY $1.6 MILLION IN THE HOLE. HOW ARE WE GOING TO CLOSE THAT GAP? YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ROB PETER TO PAY PAUL. AND WHAT THAT MEANS IS THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TAKE FROM ONE SERVICE AND GIVE IT TO ANOTHER SERVICE, WHICH MEANS ONE SERVICE WILL GO LACKING. BUT WE'VE SEEN THAT PICTURE BEFORE, BECAUSE IF WE LOOK BACK OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, WE FOUND THAT WHAT HAPPENED WAS YOU TOOK MONEY FROM PLEASANT RUN AND WESTMORELAND AND RECHANNELED IT OVER TO DANIEL DANIEL DALE, WHICH HAPPENS TO BE IN PLACE. FOR. HOW MUCH MORE CAN WE TAKE? I YIELD BACK. BERNADINE HARRISON. GOOD EVENING, MISS HARRISON. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. ONE MOMENT, MISS HARRISON. PLEASE LET THEM CATCH YOU. I ALWAYS FORGET THAT. THANK YOU SO MUCH. FIRST, I'D LIKE TO CONGRATULATE MISS PARKER ON YOUR WIN. I THINK YOU DID AN EXCELLENT JOB. AND ALL OF DESOTO APPRECIATES THE HARD WORK THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR WE THE PEOPLE. WE APPRECIATE THAT. I DON'T HAVE MUCH TO SAY ON THIS. I DON'T HAVE A BACKGROUND IN ECONOMICS THE WAY DOCTOR MARCUS DOES. ON THE OTHER HAND, I AM LOOKING AT OUR BUDGET NOW RECEIVED IN THE MAIL A NOTICE SAYING THAT I'M GOING TO BE CHARGED NOW IF I DON'T PAY MY WATER BILL IN A CERTAIN WAY. NOW, THIS IS LUDICROUS. THIS IS CRAZY. BUT ON THE OTHER HAND, WHEN YOU'RE BROKE, WHEN A CITY IS BROKE, WHAT WHAT DO THEY DO? THEY TRY TO COME UP WITH WAYS TO GENERATE INCOME. THIS DART IDEA IS A WAY FOR YOU TO RAISE OUR TAXES, CHARGE US MONEY, AND GENERATE ADDITIONAL INCOME. I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S FOR THE BUS COMPANY OR FOR WE THE PEOPLE. AT ANY RATE, WE CANNOT AFFORD. WHEN I DON'T HAVE MONEY, I DON'T GO SHOPPING. WHEN I DON'T HAVE MONEY, I DON'T WRITE CHECKS THAT I CAN'T AFFORD TO HAVE BOUNCE. SO CAN WE STOP DOING THAT HERE IN DESOTO? COULD WE STOP SPENDING MONEY THAT WE DON'T HAVE AND SPEND MORE OF OUR TIME TRYING TO, TRYING TO SOLVE SOME OF THE PROBLEMS WE HAVE? WE HAVE PLENTY OF FINANCIAL PROBLEMS HERE RIGHT NOW. WHY ARE WE EVEN ENTERTAINING THE IDEA OF DART? WE'VE GOT FAILING SCHOOLS, HIGH TAXES. OUR TAXES HERE ARE HIGHER, ESPECIALLY OUR CITY TAXES, THAN IN CAPELLE. THEY HAVE A SCHOOL DISTRICT OF EIGHT WITH A RATING OF EIGHT. WE HAVE A SCHOOL DISTRICT OF A RATING OF THREE. [01:00:01] STOP SPENDING MONEY. LET'S TRY TO CLEAR UP THE PROBLEMS THAT WE ALREADY HAVE AND TAKE CARE OF THOSE PROBLEMS IN LIEU OF GOING FORWARD AND CREATING OTHER HEADACHES. SO PLEASE, LET'S GIVE THIS SOME CRITICAL THINKING AND JUST FORGET THIS IDEA AND LET'S MOVE ON. THANK YOU. KAY. BROWN. PATRICK. GOOD EVENING, MISS PATRICK. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO KAY BROWN, HONORABLE KAY BROWN. PATRICK KNIGHT, YOUNG LADY. I WANTED TO SPEAK BRIEFLY. I HAD A COMMENT WRITTEN DOWN, BUT I WANTED TO SAY THAT DE SOTO IS 40% COLLEGE EDUCATED, 90% HIGH SCHOOL. I'M OFFENDED THAT Y'ALL SAID HER AND TRIED TO TELL US THAT THIS PRESENTATION WAS NOT ABOUT DART. THE LAST SLIDE LITERALLY SAYS PERMISSION FOR STAFF TO ENGAGE DART. Y'ALL CONTINUE TO INSULT OUR INTELLIGENCE. LIKE THAT'S ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS. BUT BACK TO MY NOTES, THE IN THE PRESENTATION, IT MENTIONED A COUPLE OF CITIES. AND I THINK THAT IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IT GETS POINTED OUT THAT THE CITIES THAT YOU MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION DOES NOT UTILIZE DART GO LINK INDIVIDUALLY. IT'S A PART OF THEIR PACKAGE WHERE THEY PAY THE 1% SALES TAX. SO IRVING PLAY PAYS $108 MILLION A YEAR. PLANO PLAY PAYS $115 MILLION A YEAR. ROWLETT PAYS 10 MILLION A YEAR. AND I DIDN'T INCLUDE SOUTH DALLAS OR THE INLAND PORT BECAUSE THEY'RE PART OF SOUTH DALLAS. BUT I THINK THAT THAT THAT'S AN IMPORTANT POINT THAT THE LAST SPEAKER MADE ABOUT THE FINANCES, BECAUSE I THINK THERE ARE SOME RESIDENTS THAT THINK THAT THEY'RE GOING TO COME IN AND THAT IT'S NOT GOING TO COST THE CITY ANYTHING. IT'S ONLY GOING TO BE US PAYING FOR THE RIDE SHARES, BUT IT'S GOING TO COST THE CITY MONEY TO BE A PART OF GOING ANY MICRO TRANSIT THAT YOU NEED. BUT ALSO MAKE NOTE THAT THE CITY THAT YOU ALL MENTIONED HAVE DECIDED TO EXIT DART'S GO LINK AND START UTILIZING ANOTHER MICRO TRANSIT BECAUSE IT WAS TOO EXPENSIVE. SO HOW DO WE COME TO A CONCLUSION THAT WE ARE SOMEHOW GOING TO BE ABLE TO MAKE THAT WORK HERE, REGARDLESS OF THE GAPS IN THE STAR TRANSIT THAT HAS BEEN MENTIONED IN THE PRESENTATION, WHICH, BY THE WAY, WAS VERY BIASED BECAUSE WE DIDN'T MENTION THE GREAT THINGS THAT STAR DOES. AND YOU MENTIONED THE GREAT THINGS THAT GUERLAIN DOES WHEN THERE ARE SEVERAL ARTICLES OUT THERE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE ISSUES WITH GO LINK. BUT SO I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT WE KEEP THE MAIN THING, THE MAIN THING, AND FOCUS ON THE FINANCIAL PART OF THIS. THERE ARE A LOT OF OTHER REASONS. I, I KNOW THIS IS NOT ABOUT BUSSES. I KNOW THAT WAS MENTIONED, BUT IT'S MICRO TRANSIT, BUT WE CANNOT AFFORD ANYTHING RELATED TO DART IN THE CITY OF DE SOTO. THANK YOU, MISS BROWN. PATRICK. MISS MARY MAURICE BONAPARTE. MISS BONAPARTE, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME. YOUR CITY OF RECORD. CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. GOOD EVENING, MARY BONAPARTE. WHEN MANY OF US MOVED TO DE SOTO, ONE OF THE KEY REASONS WAS THAT THE CITY DID NOT HAVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. THAT DISTINCTION HELPED SET DESOTO APART FROM THE OTHER CITIES THAT STRUGGLE WITH INCREASED HOMELESSNESS, CRIME, AND OTHER CHALLENGES ASSOCIATED WITH TRANSIT HUBS. IN MANY CASES, THOSE CONCERNS BECAME SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH FOR DART TO EVEN ESTABLISH ITS OWN POLICE AGENCY. EVEN WITH THE PRESENT CITY'S AGREEMENT WITH STAR, DESOTO GAINED A SMALL HOMELESS ENCAMPMENT THAT FORMED BEHIND OLD BIG LOTS. NOW, DISCUSSIONS ABOUT EXPANDING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IN DESOTO RAISES IMPORTANT QUESTIONS THAT DESERVE HONEST ANSWERS. WE NEED DOCUMENTED SPECIFIC NEEDS THAT WOULD INCLUDE THE ABILITY TO PROVIDE MEASURABLE BENEFITS FOR A SECOND TRANSPORTATION AGREEMENT, AS WELL AS WHAT SAFEGUARDS WOULD BE PUT IN PLACE TO PREVENT THE UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES THAT OTHER COMMUNITIES HAVE EXPERIENCED. I ASK THAT BEFORE MOVING FORWARD WITH ANY INITIATIVES THAT RESIDENTS DESERVE TRANSPARENCY. PUBLIC INPUT, AND A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF THE LONG TERM COMMUNITY'S IMPACT. IT'S MY UNDERSTANDING THAT WITH THE TRANSPORTATION SERVICE, THE CITY'S PAYOUT IS ONLY ABOUT $225,000 A YEAR. THAT'S WHAT STARR. AS A RESULT OF 60% OF THE OPERATIONAL COST BEING COVERED BY FEDERAL GRANTS. WITH THAT, THE IMPLEMENTATION OF A NEW INITIATIVE WOULD POSSIBLY LEGALLY FORCE THE CITY TO HAND OVER A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF OUR LOCAL SALES TAX. DE SOTO CAN'T AFFORD TO STRIP FUNDING AWAY FROM SERVICES, PARTICULARLY POLICE PARKS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FOR REGIONAL TRANSIT GRID. MY QUESTION IS THERE ARE THERE ANY IDENTIFIABLE ISSUES WITH THE PRESENT STARR CARRIER? BECAUSE THE PRUDENT THING TO DO WOULD BE TO FIX THOSE ISSUES PRIOR TO ADDING ADDITIONAL EXPENSES OR SERVICES. YOU KNOW, WE WE WORK HARD FOR OUR MONEY. AND I THINK THE WAY THAT THAT YOU ARE SPENDING IT IS KIND OF FRIVOLOUS AND THAT THE CITIZENS DESERVE MORE INPUT AS WELL AS STUDIES. [01:05:01] SO TO PROVIDE TANGIBLE DATA. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MISS BONAPARTE. DO WE HAVE ANY ADDITIONAL CARDS? THERE ARE NO ADDITIONAL CARDS. OKAY. THANK YOU. I WANT TO JUST. AND I SEE SOME LIGHTS. COUNCILMAN PARK. I THINK YOU WERE FIRST. WE'LL DO WE'LL DO WE'LL DO TWO MINUTE ROUNDS FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS. I JUST WANT TO REITERATE TO THE PUBLIC WHAT THE PURPOSE OF THIS DISCUSSION IS. AND WE'VE HEARD YOUR CONCERNS AND AND UNDERSTAND YOUR CONCERNS THAT YOU'VE ADDRESSED AND THAT YOU'VE EXPRESSED. TONIGHT'S MEETING IS ONLY TO DISCUSS TO SEE IF THE COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO DISCUSS IT FURTHER. THIS IS AN INITIAL DISCUSSION. NO FUNDS HAVE BEEN SPENT. NO NUMBERS HAVE BEEN DONE BECAUSE THE ONLY WAY THAT STAFF CAN GET INTO A DEEP DIVE IS AT THE DIRECTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL. COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GET DISCUSSION ITEMS ON THE AGENDA. GENERALLY, THEY'RE RESERVED FOR OUR THIRD MONDAY MEETING, WHICH IS OUR TOPICAL WORK SESSIONS. SO AGAIN, THEY'RE ON DIFFERENT TOPICS THAT THE COUNCIL WANTS TO GET BEFORE OUR COLLEAGUES TO MAKE SURE TO GET CONSENSUS ON MOVING THOSE ITEMS FORWARD, BECAUSE ANYTHING THAT WE MOVE FORWARD, WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THOSE ITEMS AS A COUNCIL. SO MANY OF THE QUESTIONS THAT HAVE BEEN RAISED AS FAR AS NUMBERS, HOW MUCH WILL SOMETHING COST? SOME OF THE ISSUES, WE PROBABLY WON'T HAVE THOSE ISSUES IDENTIFIED FULLY BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT TINNITUS, ONLY TO SEE IF THE COUNCIL WISHES TO DO THAT FULLY IN TERMS OF GETTING STAFF TO ENGAGE IN RESEARCH IN THAT. SO I WANT YOU ALL TO BE AWARE OF WHAT THE PURPOSE OF TONIGHT'S DISCUSSION IS. AND SO IF THERE'S ANY FRUSTRATION WITH NOT HAVING CERTAIN BITS OF INFORMATION, IT IS SIMPLY BECAUSE OF THAT, BECAUSE THE COUNCIL HAS TO GIVE STAFF DIRECTION TO BE ABLE TO GET THOSE THINGS. AND THIS IS JUST TO SEE IF COUNCIL HAS AN APPETITE AND A DESIRE TO DO SO, BECAUSE, AGAIN, THIS ITEM WAS COSPONSORED BY COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH AND SECOND BY COUNCILMEMBER WATERS. TO DO THAT, AS COUNCIL MEMBERS HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DO FOR OUR TOPICAL WORK SESSION. SO I JUST WANT TO DO THAT TO STATE THAT PLAINLY. BEFORE WE GO INTO THE QUESTIONS FROM THE CITY COUNCIL. TONIGHT, MAYOR PRO TEM, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND I THANK EVERYBODY FOR COMING OUT AND PROVIDING THEIR POINT OF VIEW REGARDING THIS MATTER. AS SOMEONE WHO IS BORN AND RAISED IN DALLAS AND WHO WAS A DART FIGHTER FOR MANY YEARS, I SAY THIS WITHOUT PREJUDICE OR DISCRIMINATION FOR ANYONE WHO IS TAKING PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION. WHILE I'M EXCITED THAT MY COLLEAGUE AND BOTH MY COLLEAGUES ARE THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX, THEY'RE BRINGING THINGS BEFORE THE COUNCIL. WE, WE'VE SAW SITUATIONS WHERE CONVERSATIONS WERE HAD WITH VENDORS OR DEVELOPERS BEFOREHAND BEFORE TALKING TO THE COUNCIL AND THAT DIDN'T PLAY WELL, PLAY WELL IN THE COMMUNITY. SO I CAN APPRECIATE SOMEONE SAYING, HEY, BEFORE WE GO TALK TO THESE PEOPLE, LET ME MAKE SURE THE COUNCIL IS AWARE. AND DO I HAVE CONSENSUS? SO IN A SENSE, I WANT TO THANK YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH, FOR HAVING A SENSE OF TRANSPARENCY AMONG AMONG IT, WHETHER THE IDEA IS RECEIVED OR NOT. YOUR INTENT WAS TO BRING FORTH THE LIGHT. YOU WANTED TO HAVE THE DISCUSSION RIGHT. WE JUST HAD A CONVERSATION ON MAY 11TH WITH STAR TRANSIT DURING OUR RETREAT. MANY OF YOU WERE NOT THERE. SO I WILL GIVE YOU THE SHORT END VERSION OF IT. STAR TRANSIT TOLD US THAT WE ARE DEFINITELY DOING GREAT AS IT RELATES TO TRAFFIC. THEY ARE GAINFULLY EMPLOYED. HOWEVER, THEY DO SEE OPPORTUNITIES AND DID MAKE TWO SUGGESTIONS TO US IN REGARDS TO OUR MICRO TRANSIT. THIS VERY TOPIC WE'RE DISCUSSING, THEY OFFERED TWO OPTIONS FOR US. ONE WAS ADDING AN ADDITIONAL MICRO TRANSIT BUS THAT WOULD COST US ANNUALLY $24,000 AND COULD DO UP TO AN ADDITIONAL 5000 TRIPS, BUT OR A SHARED BUS OPTION AMONGST OUR SISTER CITIES DUNCANVILLE AND DESOTO AND LANCASTER, WHO HAVE MOST RECENTLY ACQUIRED THE STAR TRANSIT. I SAY THAT TO SAY WE NEED TO VET OUT THE CURRENT VENDOR THAT WE HAVE TO ENSURE THAT WE'RE USING THEM TO THE FULL CAPACITY THAT WE CAN. THIS UPCOMING BUDGET. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM, DID THAT COMPLETE YOUR THOUGHT? NOT REALLY. IF WE HAVE TIME, WE'LL COME BACK. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. EXCUSE ME. MAYOR PRO TEM. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. PARKER. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. AND I HAVE TO WHOLEHEARTEDLY AGREE WITH MY COLLEAGUE. AND I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE JUST A LITTLE BACKGROUND ON WHAT MY OTHER COLLEAGUE SAID EARLIER. YOU'RE RIGHT. I DID BRING THIS UP. AND AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS YEAR, I HAD A PERSON FROM THE COMMUNITY THAT HAD AN ISSUE AND THEY WERE BECAUSE THE, THE PERSON WAS DISABLED, THEY WERE HAVING ISSUES WITH STAR TRANSIT. AND WITH THAT, I CAME BACK TO THE CITY MANAGER AND ASKED IF WE COULD MAYBE GET STAR TRANSIT TO BEGIN REPORTING OUT SOME OF THEIR STATISTICS SO THAT WE CAN [01:10:02] UNDERSTAND THE LEVEL OF OF RIDERSHIP, IF YOU WILL. AND SO I'M JUST GOING TO QUICKLY GIVE A QUICK NUMBER HERE. THE FIRST REPORT BACK IN FEBRUARY, THEY HAD A TOTAL RISE OF 915 FOR THE MONTH FOR DEMAND RESPONSES START NOW WAS 1500. AND THEN THEY HAD SOME TRIP DENIALS, WHICH WERE THINGS LIKE PEOPLE WHO DID HAVE DISABILITIES THAT COULD NOT RIDE THAT BUS, OR IF THEY WERE OUTSIDE OF A TIME FRAME, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS. AND OF THAT, THEY HAD ABOUT 125, WHICH WAS LESS THAN 5% OF THE AMOUNT OF THE ENTIRE MONTH. AND THEN THE NEXT REPORT THAT WAS GIVEN WAS GIVEN IN IN, ON, ON THIS PAST MONTH IN MAY. AND THAT RIDERSHIP WAS TOTAL TRIPS 1200 FOR THE MONTH AND 1205, I'M SORRY, 1200 FOR THE MONTH FOR DEMAND RESPONSE AND 1200 FOR START NOW, WHICH IS SAME DAY SERVICE. AND THEN THE TRIP DENIALS WENT UP TO 27. I'M SORRY, WENT DOWN TO 27, WHICH IS 1% OF THE TOTAL. SO FROM THAT PERSPECTIVE, IF IF THE QUESTION IS ASKING ME DO WE NEED TO GET ANOTHER SERVICE, I WOULD SAY NO, BASED ON WHAT MY OTHER COLLEAGUE JUST MENTIONED, WORKING WITH THE CURRENT VENDOR, WE NEED TO MAKE THEM DO THEIR JOB AND ADD MORE TO WHAT THEY'RE DOING THAN TO BRING IN SOMETHING ELSE. SO FROM THAT, I WOULD SAY I WOULDN'T WANT TO HEAR ANY MORE FROM DART. EXCUSE ME. COUNCIL ARE THERE ANY OTHER COMMENTS? I DON'T SEE ANY OTHER LIGHTS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES. YES. THANK YOU SO MUCH. AND I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU ALL FOR EXPRESSING YOUR POINT OF VIEWS. I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW I LISTENED NOT ONLY JUST LOOKING FOR SOMETHING FAVORABLE, BUT IT'S VERY IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE BOTH SIDES OF THE ISSUE BECAUSE THIS IS IMPORTANT FOR EVERYBODY, AS WE ARE LOOKING TO IF WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THIS INITIATIVE TO ASK STAFF TO GATHER MORE RESEARCH. I WANT TO ALSO JUST BRING TO OUR ATTENTION IN THE EVENT STAR HAS THEIR VAN OR THEIR BUS VANS. WE WANT TO BE CLEAR ABOUT THIS IS NOT BUSSES. THIS, THESE ARE VANS. SO IN THE EVENT THEY MAY HAVE TO HAVE THEIR VANS OUT OF SERVICE FOR MAINTENANCE. WHAT IS GOING TO BE THE OPTION FOR OUR RESIDENTS WHO RELY ON THEM FOR TRANSPORTATION TO GET BACK AND FORTH? SO THAT IS WHY WE'RE TAKING A LOOK AT WHAT OTHER OPTIONS DO THEY HAVE AVAILABLE. YES. DO THEY OFFER LYFT AND UBER? BUT FOR OUR WRITERS WHO HAVE DISABILITIES THEY MAY NEED SPECIAL EQUIPMENT. DOES LYFT AND UBER OFFER THAT? SO AGAIN, WE JUST WANT TO BE CLEAR THAT OUR CITY MANAGER AND STAFF WILL HEAR BOTH SIDES, AND WHEN THEY HAVE THE CONVERSATION WITH STAR, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO SAY OUR RESIDENTS VOICED THEIR OPINION, THEIR THEIR NEED FOR OUR COMMUNITY. SO THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN WATERS. COUNCILMAN WESLEY, ANY COMMENTS QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS ITEM? COUNCILMEMBER WATERS. WELL, EXCUSE ME WHEN COUNCILWOMAN NORTH BROUGHT IT TO ME BACK IN, WAS IT FEBRUARY? ONE OF THE QUESTIONS I ASKED INITIALLY WAS, YOU KNOW, WHAT WOULD BE THE COST? AND WE HAVE TO HAVE THE CITY MANAGER BE ABLE TO START THAT CONVERSATION SO WE CAN HAVE THE COST. I CANNOT MAKE A GOOD DECISION WITHOUT THE NUMBERS. SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO. ONCE THE NUMBERS COME BACK WE CAN SEE, OH THIS WILL WORK. THIS IS NOT GOING TO WORK. YEAH. NO. YES. NO, WHATEVER. BUT THAT WAS THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THIS, TO SEE WHAT WOULD WOULD EVEN BE VIABLE. THIS IS A GOOD IDEA. BAD IDEA. WE DON'T KNOW UNTIL WE HAVE THE NUMBERS. AND SO TO GET THOSE NUMBERS, WE NEED TO LET THE CITY MANAGER DO HIS JOB TO GET THOSE NUMBERS. BUT ANYWAY, THAT WAS JUST MY $0.02 ON THAT. THAT'S ALL. I JUST NEED THE NUMBERS SO I CAN MAKE GOOD DECISIONS. COUNCILMAN COUNCILMAN WEST. I WANT TO THANK COUNCILWOMAN FOR BRINGING THIS FORWARD, BECAUSE IT IS IMPORTANT TO HAVE A CONTINGENCY PLAN ON WHAT WHAT IF STAR GOES DOWN, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO SPEAK WITH STAR AND COME UP WITH THAT CONTINGENCY PLAN. I THINK YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE WITH NOT HAVING ALL THE DETAILS. YOU HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE IN THE STAR THAT'S BEEN WORKING. I BELIEVE THAT COUNCILWOMAN PARKER AS SHE STATED THAT THERE'S ONLY A FEW LITTLE HICCUPS THAT WE COULD GET WITH STARR ABOUT. BUT I DO HEAR YOU WHEN YOU TALK ABOUT A CONTINGENCY PLAN, [01:15:04] THAT'S WHERE I REALLY WANT TO REACH OUT TO STARR. AND WHAT IF YOUR BUSSES AND VANS, YOUR VANS GO DOWN? WHAT WILL OUR RESIDENTS DO? BECAUSE I, YOU KNOW, WITH WITH GOLDLINK, YOU HAVE TO HAVE AN APP THAT COULD BE CONFUSING AND HARD TO USE FOR OUR, FOR OUR ELDERLY. IT'S KIND OF OVERLAPPING SERVICES AND IT'S GOLDLINK HAS THE SAME ISSUES AS A STAR. SO I COMMEND YOU ON IT. IT'S, IT'S JUST THAT I THINK WE COULD WORK WITH STARR TO GET THAT CONTINGENCY PLAN IN PLACE, SO THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM, DID YOU HAVE ANOTHER COMMENT OR DID YOU JUST FORGET TO TURN YOUR LIGHT OFF? NO. I HAD ANOTHER COMMENT. YOU DON'T WANT TO ASK. I'M LOOKING AT HER LIGHT. THAT'S WHAT I WAS GOING TO ASK BEFORE WE WENT BACK. IF SHE WANTS TO YIELD HER TIME, SHE CAN. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES, DID YOU HAVE COMMENTS? I JUST WANT MY COLLEAGUE HER. SHE MUST BE IN A BAD AREA. YOU GOT TO BE INNOVATIVE. WE GOT TO HAVE THESE HARD CONVERSATIONS, SO. THANK YOU. I WOULD ASK ALSO, AS IT HAS BEEN STATED THAT WE DO CIRCLE BACK TO STAFF TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE WORKED OUT ALL THE KINKS AND, YOU KNOW, GIVEN THEM AN OPPORTUNITY TO HAVE A BACK UP PLAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I'M GOING TO YIELD THE OTHER MINUTE TO YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM FROM HER. AND THEN I'M GOING TO HAVE SOME COMMENTS AS WELL. ALL RIGHT. SO I'LL TALK FAST. WE SAY WHAT DO WE DO THEN. I JUST WANT TO SAY THAT OUR SERVICE PLAN NOT JUST INCLUDES THE, THE VAN, BUT WE, THEY ALSO HAVE UBER. IT'S AN ON DEMAND SERVICE AS WELL. SO WHEN THEY CAN'T GET A VAN AND BECAUSE WE ARE CONNECTED WITH THE OTHER CITIES, THEY, THE VAN GOES ALL AROUND THE CITIES. THEY, THEY WILL HAVE THE UBER AVAILABLE TO YOU TOO. THIS IS SOMETHING THAT SUBURBS ARE ACCUSTOMED TO. MORE IMPORTANTLY, THE NEXT 30S, I DO WANT TO SAY THIS BECAUSE A LOT WAS SAID UP HERE TODAY. WE, THIS NOTION THAT WE'RE BROKE IS A LIE. THIS NOTION THAT WE DON'T HAVE MONEY IS ALSO EQUALLY A LIE. I UNDERSTAND THAT THE ARC OPERATIONAL COST IS, IS, IS HIGHER THAN ANTICIPATED. BUT WE HAVE AMENDMENT BUDGET ADJUSTMENTS EVERY YEAR. AND WE'VE HAD SOME OF THE SAME COUNCIL MEMBERS WHO HAVE SPOKEN TODAY WHO HAVE APPROVED OVER TIME IN EXCESS OF 800 $900 FOR OUR POLICE IN JUST ONE YEAR. SO TO SAY THAT WE'RE WE'RE BROKE, THAT THAT IS FLAT OUT NOT TRUE. AND I THINK THAT THAT THAT THAT HAS TO STOP. BECAUSE AS WE COME INTO THE BUDGET SEASON, I WOULD LOVE FOLKS TO COME DOWN AND ACTUALLY LEARN WHAT IS HAPPENING WITH THE BUDGET. ARE THERE IS EVERY CITY HAVING A CHALLENGE WITH MOVING NUMBERS? YES. AUSTIN HAS MADE IT FRANKLY IMPOSSIBLE TO OBTAIN REVENUE YEAR OVER YEAR WITH THEIR CAPS THAT THEY HAVE. BUT THE CITY OF DE SOTO HAS BEEN AMAZING IN MAKING SURE THAT OUR. WE MEET OUR BUDGET EVERY SINGLE YEAR. SO FOR THAT NOTION THAT WE'RE BROKE, WE'RE NOT. AND WE'RE SEPARATE FROM THE THAT WE'RE SEPARATE FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT MAYOR PRO TEM. WE ARE SEPARATE FROM THE SCHOOL DISTRICT. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT HAS A SEPARATE BUDGET. SO I JUST WANT TO POINT THAT OUT AS WELL. THANK YOU, MAYOR PRO TEM GETTING BACK ON TOPIC AS FAR AS THE AGENDA ITEM, I DO HAVE COMMENTS. IF WE COULD ASK FOR THE AUDIENCE TO PLEASE, PLEASE NOT PLEASE NOT TALK. I WANT TO HAVE SOME COMMENTS TO SAY ABOUT THIS THAT I WANT TO SEE IF WE CAN GET A CONSENSUS ON WHETHER OR NOT WE WANT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH IT. THE CITY HAS HAD STAR TRANSIT SINCE 2018. AND IT IS A SERVICE THAT WE HAVE BECOME THAT HAS BECOME CRITICAL REALLY TO OUR RESIDENTS. AND SO SOME OF THE THINGS THAT I WANTED TO SHARE AND JUST MAKE SURE THAT WE THAT WEREN'T NOTED IN THE PRESENTATION IS THAT STAR TRANSIT HAS ALL OF THE OPPORTUNITIES AND THE OPTIONS THAT GOLDLINK HAS. IT HAS AN APP, IT HAS AN ABILITY FOR THEM TO CALL IN BY PHONE. THEY HAVE ADA VEHICLES. PLEASE UNDERSTAND THAT THEY HAVE CONTINGENCY PLANS WHEN THEY HAVE MAINTENANCE OF VEHICLES. THEY HAVE REPLACEMENT VEHICLES THAT THEY PUT ON THE ROAD. FOR ME, I THINK THE I THINK THE CHALLENGE FOR ME WITH ADDING ON ANOTHER TYPE OF SERVICE WHEN WE ALREADY HAVE STAR IS THAT TO ME, THE PROBLEM IS NOT BIG ENOUGH. WHENEVER WE'RE APPROACHING SOLUTIONS AND TRYING TO SEE IF SOMETHING IS A GOOD THING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH GETTING ON, I'M LOOKING AT WHAT IS THE MAGNITUDE OF THE PROBLEM THAT WE'RE TRYING TO SOLVE. AND TO ME, A FEW DENIALS YOU KNOW, WHEN AND COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER HAS STATED THAT, SO I WON'T RESTATE THOSE STATISTICS, [01:20:09] BUT THE NUMBER DOES NOT TO ME EXCEED A THRESHOLD TO WHERE IT WARRANTS GOING OUT TO SEE IF THERE'S AN ENTIRELY DIFFERENT SERVICE, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME OF THE SAME CHALLENGES WITH GO LINCOLN. IF YOU CAN ASK ANY CITIES THAT USE THE SERVICES, A LOT OF THESE SERVICE, THESE CHALLENGES EXIST WITHIN ANY SERVICE BECAUSE IT'S JUST THE NATURE OF WHAT THEY DO. AND SO AS MAYOR PRO TEM MENTIONED, STAR TRANSIT HAS COME TO THE CITY AND INTRODUCED SOME ADDITIONAL OPTIONS TO INCREASE CAPACITY FOR OUR RESIDENTS. WILL WE BE ABLE TO CAPTURE EVERY SINGLE PERSON AT EVERY SINGLE TIME AND EVERY SINGLE RIDE THAT THEY NEED. I THINK THAT THAT'S ASKING A LOT. I THINK THAT'S A TALL ORDER. AND HONESTLY, I FEEL LIKE THAT IS UNREALISTIC BECAUSE YOU'RE JUST GOING TO ALWAYS HAVE SOME THAT MAY NOT BE ABLE TO BE CAPTURED IN THE SERVICES THAT WE OFFER. AND SO I, I WOULD NOT SUPPORT LOOKING INTO ANYTHING FURTHER UNTIL WE'VE ALREADY EXPLORED WHAT WE'VE ALREADY PLACED ON THE TABLE WITH STAR TRANSIT TO LOOK AT THE WAYS THAT THEY CAN EXPAND CAPACITY TO MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STRATEGIC IN, IN TAKING VERY CALCULATED MOVES MOVING FORWARD AS IT PERTAINS TO TRANSIT. BECAUSE I DO BELIEVE STAR HAS BEEN WORKING WELL FOR OUR COMMUNITY SINCE WE'VE HAD IT SINCE 2018. BUT HOWEVER, I'M GOING TO START AGAIN, THIS TIME TO MY LEFT SO THAT WE CAN GET A CONSENSUS AND WE CAN MOVE INTO OUR REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER, WHAT SAY YOU? THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION, BUT I WOULD BE A NO. COUNCIL MEMBER WATERS JUST FOR THE NUMBERS BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT I ORIGINALLY SIGNED UP FOR. I'D SAY YES FOR THE NUMBERS. COUNCILMAN. WESLEY. I JUST WANT TO STATE THAT WHAT YOU SAID. MAYOR PROCTOR. AS FAR AS POLLING SURVEYS, DATA ON HOW MANY ARE BEING LEFT OUT WITH USING THE STAR, I THINK WE SHOULD GO OVER THAT WITH STAR. SO IT'S A IT'S A NO FOR ME. THANK YOU. I KNOW AS WELL COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. I AM A YES BASED UPON. WE NEED TO TAKE A LOOK AT. PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS NOT FOR EVERYONE, BUT FOR THOSE THAT DO UTILIZE IT. I THINK IT WOULD BE FAIR TO THE COMMUNITY IF WE DON'T TAKE A LOOK AT IT NOW, WE MAY. WE DON'T WANT TO BE IN A REACTIVE POSITION FIVE YEARS, TEN YEARS FROM NOW WHEN WE ARE WHEN WE MAY BE SEEING, WOULDA, COULDA, SHOULDA WHEN WE'RE JUST ASKING FOR A CONVERSATION SO THAT OUR CITY MANAGER CAN HAVE THAT CONVERSATION WITH STAFF. AND WE HAVE GIVE DIRECTION TO STAFF TO GATHER THAT INFORMATION AND THEN COME BACK WITH A FAIR DECISION. MAYOR PRO TEM. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THE COMMUNITY YOU SERVE AND THAT AND WHAT THEY'RE ASKING FOR. AND I HAVE NOT HEARD A LOUD REQUEST FOR DART OR FOR EXTENDING OUR OUR TRANSIT SITUATION. I AM FOR US HAVING STAR TRANSIT COME TO OUR BUDGET SESSION AND PROVIDE US WITH THE OPTIONS THAT THEY PROVIDED US BEFORE. AND THIS COUNCIL MAKING A DECISION HOW TO EXTEND THOSE SERVICES FROM THERE. THANK YOU. SO IS THAT YES OR NO? MAYOR PRO TEM? NO. AND COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. THANK YOU. I WOULD RATHER SEE US HAVE A CONVERSATION WITH STAFF. WE NEED DIFFERENT COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES, YOU'RE BREAKING UP A LOT. CAN YOU CLEARLY STATE YES OR NO, PLEASE? NO. OKAY. THAT THAT DOES NOT MOVE FORWARD. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. AT THIS TIME, MADAM SECRETARY, WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE [D. ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST] AGENDA, PLEASE. NEXT WE MOVE ON TO ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 551.0415. THE CITY COUNCIL MAY REPORT ON THE FOLLOWING ITEMS. EXPRESSION OF THANKS, CONGRATULATIONS OR CONDOLENCES. INFORMATION ABOUT HOLIDAY SCHEDULES. RECOGNITION OF INDIVIDUALS. REMINDER ABOUT UPCOMING CITY COUNCIL EVENTS. INFORMATION ABOUT COMMUNITY EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS INVOLVING IMMINENT THREAT TO PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY, AS WELL AS ANY LIAISON UPDATES. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY ANNOUNCEMENTS? I'M NOT SURE WHO HAD THEIR LINE ON FIRST. COUNCILMAN WATERS. GO AHEAD AND GO. OKAY. EXCUSE ME. TODAY I HAVE A COMMENT BEFORE MY COMMITTEE ANNOUNCEMENT. BUT ANYWAY, TODAY MARKS EXACTLY ONE YEAR SINCE MY INAUGURATION SPEECH. NOW, HERE'S MY TOWN HALL. HERE'S MY WHAT I WANT TO SAY. [01:25:01] DE SOTO, I HAVE SOME EXCITING NEWS TO SHARE. I'M ANNOUNCING A POP UP COMMUNITY TOWN HALL EVENT THAT WILL BE HELD NEXT TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD FROM 7 P.M. TO 8:30 P.M. AT THE ARC. AN EXCITING NEW DEVELOPMENT IS COMING TO THE ARC DISTRICT. YOU ASKED FOR MORE SHOPPING AND DINING OPTIONS. WELL, WE'RE ABOUT TO DELIVER FOR YOU BIG, BIG TIME. DID I SAY? BIG BIG, BIG. OKAY. COME BE A PART OF THE PROCESS. THE DEVELOPER WILL BE TAKING SUGGESTIONS FOR THE TYPE OF RESTAURANTS THAT YOU WANT AND SHOPPING STORES AT THAT WE WANT. YES, YOU HEARD THAT RIGHT. RESTAURANTS WITH AN S AND SHOPPING STORES WITH AN S AND IT'S MIXED USE. OKAY, SO I'M CALLING ALL RESIDENTS PLACE THREE RESIDENTS, AND ESPECIALLY ALL YOUNG PROFESSIONALS IN DE SOTO. YES, YOUNG PROFESSIONALS, WE FINALLY ARE GOING TO HAVE A PLACE FOR YOU IN DE SOTO. SO AGAIN, IT'S GOING TO BE NEXT TUESDAY, JUNE 23RD FROM 7 P.M. TO 8:30 P.M. AT THE ARK IN THE CONFERENCE ROOM AT 1400 ACADEMY WAY. SO DE SOTO DON'T MEET ME THERE. MEET ME THERE. I YIELD BACK. COUNCILMAN WESLEY. YES. THANK YOU. MAYOR. I JUST WANT TO EXPRESSION OF THANKS AND TO OUR CARES TEAM. I WANT TO GIVE A ALSO TO OUR S W RCC. OUR CALL CENTER 911 CALL CENTER CHIEF COSTA AND JUST OUR OUR IMPORTANT CITIZEN. AND MENTAL HEALTH, YOU KNOW, MENTAL HEALTH IS IMPORTANT, ESPECIALLY WHEN OUR FIRST RESPONDERS GO INTO A TO RESPOND AND THEY KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING INTO. IF SOMEONE IS HAVING A WITH THEIR MENTAL HEALTH. AND WE HELPED ONE OF OUR CITIZENS AND THEIR LOVED ONE GET THIS LABEL, GET ATTACHMENT TO THE ADDRESS SO OUR FIRST RESPONDERS KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GOING INTO. AND IF ANYONE IN THE CITY OF DE SOTO HAS A LOVED ONE OR THAT HAS A MENTAL HEALTH OR EVEN IF IT'S UNDIAGNOSED PLEASE REACH OUT TO ME AND. WE WANT TO ENSURE THAT THEY ARE. NOTICED AND KNOW ABOUT WHAT THEY'RE DEALING WITH. IF OUR FIRST RESPONDERS HAVE TO GO OUT OR INTERACT IN ANY KIND OF WAY. SO I WANT TO THANK EVERYONE WHO GOT THE BALL ROLLING ON THIS. FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND FOR OUR, AND JUST TO IMPROVEMENT WHEN IT COMES TO MENTAL HEALTH IN OUR CITIZENS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. ONE I WANT TO THANK STAFF FOR THEIR PARTICIPATION AND HELP IN THE DESOTO WORKS JOB FAIR. WE HAD ANOTHER SUCCESSFUL JOB FAIR THAT WAS COMPLETED THIS PAST MONTH. IN ADDITION TO THAT, I WOULD ALSO LIKE TO THANK STAFF REGARDING THE MEMORIAL DAY FIVE K AND EVENT IN THOSE WHO ATTENDED. THANK YOU TO MY COLLEAGUES WHO SHOWED UP AS WELL FOR THE VETERANS AFFAIRS COMMISSION. I ALSO WOULD LIKE TO ACKNOWLEDGE TWO OF OUR DE SOTO LEADERS. MISS BECKY, MISS BECKY, ARE YOU STILL IN HERE? SHE'S NOT. SHE STEPPED OUT AND COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. MISS BECKY LEWIS IS THE ASSISTANT TO THE CITY MANAGER AND COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. THEY BOTH COMPLETED THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL LEAGUE LEADERSHIP FELLOWS. SO I WANTED TO TAKE AN OPPORTUNITY TO GIVE THEM A SHOUT OUT, BUT THEY WEREN'T THE ONLY ONE. THERE WAS ALSO A THIRD EMPLOYEE AND HER NAME IS JACKIE FARMER. SHE'S THE ASSISTANT LIBRARY DIRECTOR. SO THOSE THREE LADIES WENT THROUGH THAT PROGRAM AND REPRESENTED THE CITY OF DE SOTO. AND SO I JUST WANTED TO TAKE SOME TIME TO ACKNOWLEDGE THEM. AND THEN LASTLY DE SOTO, ALSO ALONG WITH CEDAR HILL, DUNCANVILLE AND LANCASTER OFFICE OF EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT, RECEIVED A REGIONAL EXCELLENCE AWARD. NOW I'M GONNA TELL Y'ALL THIS, BUT Y'ALL CAN'T TELL NOBODY. I JUST SO HAPPEN TO SERVE ON THE SUBCOMMITTEE THAT WAS CHOOSING THE AWARDEES. AND THAT SERVED US GREATLY BECAUSE MY VOTE COUNT AND WE WON. BUT I AM A MEMBER OF THE EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANNING COUNCIL, WHICH IS UNDER THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS. I'VE BEEN IN THAT POSITION NOW FOR ABOUT THREE YEARS, AND IT'S A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO BE WITH LEADERS. [01:30:04] BUT I JUST WANTED TO CALL OUT THAT WE WON AN AWARD FOR BEING REALLY GREAT IN EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT. JUST THOUGHT Y'ALL WOULD WANT TO KNOW THAT I YIELD BACK. MAYOR. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, ARE THERE ANY ADDITIONAL ANNOUNCEMENTS? OKAY. AT THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO THE CONSENT AGENDA. [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. ] ITEMS ARE LISTED ON THE CONSENT AGENDA BY THE CITY MANAGER AND ARE RECOMMENDED TO THE CITY COUNCIL FOR APPROVAL. AN ITEM MAY BE REMOVED FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA FOR SEPARATE VOTE AT THE REQUEST OF THE COUNCIL MEMBER, THE MAYOR OR THE CITY MANAGER. APPROVAL FOR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES MAY 13TH, 2026. SPECIAL CITY COUNCIL MEETING MINUTES. MAY 18TH, 2026 REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETING MAY 19TH, 2026 AS WELL AS OTHER ITEMS. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A TWO YEAR AGREEMENT WITH THE THREE ONE [1. Consider authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a two-year agreement with three one-year renewal options with Eagle Labs Inc. for the purchase of Sodium Hypochlorite and Liquid Ammonium Sulfate for the Westmoreland and Hampton Road Pump Stations in the not-to-exceed amount of $100,000] YEAR RENEWAL OPTIONS, WITH EAGLE LABS INCORPORATED FOR THE PURCHASE OF SODIUM HYDROCHLORIDE AND LIQUID AMMONIUM SULFATE FOR THE WESTMORELAND AND HAMPTON ROAD PUMP STATIONS IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $100,000. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH GRESHAM SMITH FOR A NOT TO EXCEED AMOUNT OF $165,500 FOR DESIGN AND ASSOCIATED SERVICES FOR THE TEN MILE CREEK STREAM BANK EROSION MITIGATION PROJECT. FOR THE PROJECTION OF ROY TRAIL AND RECONSTRUCTION OF THE COLLAPSED STORM SEWER PIPE AND OUTFALL STRUCTURE. CONSIDER APPROVAL OF THE RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE SUBMISSION OF AN APPLICATION TO THE TEXAS COMMISSION ON THE ARTS CULTURAL DISTRICTS PROGRAM ON BEHALF OF THE CITY OF DESOTO. CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO NEGOTIATE AND EXECUTE A CONTRACT TO PURCHASE A 2025 FORD INTERCEPTOR FOR THE POLICE DEPARTMENT FROM SAM PAX FIVE STAR FORD UTILIZING BY BOARD CONTRACT. H-GACVEO5-24 AND THE AMOUNT OF 6707 $737.60 TO BE USED BY CITIZENS ON PATROL. CONSIDER AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE FISCAL YEAR 2025 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET TO RESTORE FUNDING TO VEHICLE REPLACEMENT FUND DUE TO PRIOR YEAR FISCAL YEAR 2025 POLICE VEHICLE PURCHASES BEING CHARGED TO THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. FISCAL YEAR 2026. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING CERTAIN BUDGET AMENDMENTS PERTAINING TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2025 2026 ADOPTED BUDGET, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE. THANK YOU. MADAM CITY SECRETARY, AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR A MOTION? MADAM MAYOR PRO TEM. THANK YOU MAYOR. I DID HAVE ADDITIONAL QUESTIONS FOR F4. SO I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO. ARE YOU ASKING FOR AN ITEM TO BE PULLED? OKAY. YOU DON'T HAVE TO MAKE A MOTION TO DO THAT. WOULD YOU LIKE FOR THAT TO BE PULLED? OKAY. ITEM FOUR IS ASKING TO BE PULLED. COUNCIL. ANYTHING ELSE BEFORE WE CALL FOR A MOTION FOR THE REMAINING ITEMS? MAYOR. MAYOR. I'M SORRY. HI THERE. THERE IS AN UPDATE TO ITEM FIVE. WE NEED TO DO AN UPDATE ON THOSE AMOUNTS. OKAY, SO WE'LL PULL THAT ITEM AS WELL. OKAY. OKAY. IS THERE A MOTION? COUNCIL. MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FOUR OF F4 AND F5. OKAY. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECONDED TO APPROVE THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH THE REMOVAL OF ITEMS F4 AND F5. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES, ARE YOU VOTING ON THE CONSENT AGENDA WITH US? YES, I OKAY. YEAH. ALL IN ALL. OPPOSED. SAME SIGN THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. WE CAN GO TO MAYOR PRO TEM YOUR QUESTIONS REGARDING F FOUR. [4. Consider authorizing the City Manager to negotiate and execute a contract to purchase a 2025 Ford Interceptor for the Police Department from Sam Pack's Five Star Ford, utilizing BuyBoard Contract H-GAC VE05-24 for $66,737.60, to be used by Citizens on Patrol] THANK YOU. CHIEF SPENDING MONEY FAST. CHIEF I'M JUST MESSING WITH YOU. HEY, CHIEF. I WAS LOOKING AT THIS ITEM AND. OKAY, SO THE CITIZENS ON PATROL HAD A CAR THAT WAS 17 YEARS OLD. THAT'S QUITE OLD. I'VE NEVER HAD A CAR THAT LONG. MY ONLY CONCERN WAS, WAS LIKE, DID WE HAVE TO REPLACE IT WITH A BRAND NEW CAR WITH A $66,000 TICKET, OR WAS THERE NOT SOME OTHER BEAT UP CAR IN THE BACK THAT WE COULD HAVE JUST USED FOR CITIZENS ON PATROL? AND MAYBE, YOU KNOW, I'M BEING A LITTLE DRAMATIC, MAYBE NOT BEAT UP, BUT CERTAINLY NOT THE TWO 2025 ALL, [01:35:07] ALL ALL WHEELS AND BELLS $66,000 NEW CAR THAT WAS MY ASK. SO CITIZENS ON PATROL HAVE TWO TWO VEHICLES. ONE IS 30 YEARS OLD, AND WE'RE GOING TO PUT THAT. WE'RE GOING TO REPLACE THAT WITH THIS VEHICLE. THE SECOND ONE IS ABOUT 14 YEARS OLD. AND WE'RE GOING TO KEEP THAT ONE IN SERVICE BECAUSE WE USUALLY DO HAVE TWO SETS OF CITIZENS ON PATROL AT ONE TIME. AND WE HAVE SPECIAL EVENTS. SO WHEN WE HAVE PARADES OR YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY'RE JUST OUT IN PATROL AND, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T PAY THEM ANY MONEY, THEY DON'T GET PAID A SALARY. AND I LIKE TO KEEP THEM IN, IN NICE UNIFORMS AND GOOD EQUIPMENT. AND SO THIS WOULD HELP THEM TO TO BE PROUD OF WHAT THEY'RE DOING AND AT LEAST GIVE THEM A VEHICLE THAT'S NOT ONLY DEPENDABLE, BUT IS COMFORTABLE FOR THEM TO BE IN AND AND IS NEW. THANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION, CHIEF. I WILL TELL YOU THAT THE THE MANAGER'S REPORT SAYS 18 YEARS, NOT 30, BUT 30 IS A LONG TIME TO HAVE A CAR. NONETHELESS, IN 18 YEARS IS AS WELL. I JUST I WAS JUST LOOKING AT HOW FRUGAL AS WE TALK ABOUT WHAT IS THAT WORD THAT THE CITY MANAGERS USED AROUND THE BUDGET PRIORITY NEED LIKE I GET A CAR IS A NEED, BUT WHERE IS IT IN LIKE SIX? THAT'S AN EXPENSIVE CAR. SO THIS, THE MONEY FOR THIS VEHICLE IS NOT COMING FROM GENERAL FUND OR THE CITY'S BUDGET IS COMING FROM OUR FEDERAL FORFEITURE ACCOUNT WHICH WE CAN SPEND MONEY ON VEHICLES FOR COMMUNITY, FOR OUR VOLUNTEERS AND FOR OUR PATROL NEEDS TO SUPPLEMENT. SO THIS IS NOT COMING OUT OF OUR GENERAL BUDGET. IT'S COMING FROM OUR FEDERAL FORFEITURE MONEY. OKAY. AND I DON'T THINK WE EVER GOT WHAT YOU CAN ALL USE THE FORFEITURE MONEY FOR, BECAUSE I LOVE TO SEE WE CAN USE IT FOR OVERTIME. WE CAN USE IT FOR SOME OVERTIME. WE CAN'T USE IT FOR ALL OVERTIME BECAUSE THAT'S A BUDGETED ITEM FOR THE CITY. WE CAN USE IT FOR SPECIAL EVENTS. SO IF WE PUT A A HIGH CREW VENT OUT FOR HIGH INTENSIVE CRIME REDUCTION UNIT, WHICH WE DO. WE DO IT FOR SPECIALIZED DWI PROGRAMS. WE DON'T TAKE THAT OUT OF CITY BUDGET. AND AND OTHER SPECIAL PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE, WE CAN USE IT FOR THAT. AND WE DO. I WILL GET YOU THE WHAT WE CAN USE IT FOR. AND I WILL GET YOU HOW MUCH WE SPENT SINCE I'VE BEEN THE CHIEF HERE OVER THE YEARS AND WHAT IT'S BEEN SPENT ON. I DON'T NEED THE LAST 30 YEARS, CHIEF, I JUST NEED. I HAVE NOT BEEN HERE FOR 30 YEARS. THANK YOU. CHIEF. MAYOR PRO TEM. THANK YOU. COUNCIL, IS THERE A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CHIEF. IS THERE A MOTION COUNCIL? MADAM MAYOR, I MOTION THAT WE APPROVE ITEM F FOUR AS WRITTEN. IS THERE A SECOND? SECOND. IT'S BEEN MOVED AND PROPERLY SECOND TO APPROVE THIS ITEM AS PRESENTED. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES IS. WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? AYE. OKAY, THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. WE ARE NOW TO ITEM F FIVE. [5. Consider an Ordinance amending the Fiscal Year 2025–2026 Adopted Budget to restore funding to the Vehicle Replacement Fund due to prior-year(Fiscal Year 2025) Police vehicle purchases being charged to the current fiscal year (Fiscal Year 2026) AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AUTHORIZING CERTAIN BUDGET AMENDMENTS PERTAINING TO THE FISCAL YEAR 2025-2026 ADOPTED BUDGET; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.] MISS SUTTON, WILL YOU BE MAKING THE PRESENTATION ON THAT? OKAY. THANK YOU. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I WANTED TO PROVIDE A CORRECTION FOR THIS ITEM. THE REASON FOR THIS ITEM IS BECAUSE IN THE PRIOR FISCAL YEAR, THERE WERE SUPPLY AND DELIVERY ISSUES WITH ORDERING THE VEHICLES IN FISCAL YEAR 25 THOSE VEHICLES THAT WE WERE NOT ABLE TO ORDER, WE WEREN'T ABLE TO SPEND THOSE FUNDS. THEY WENT BACK INTO THE FUND BALANCE. NOW WE NEED TO STILL ORDER THOSE VEHICLES. THEY ARE ON OUR REPLACEMENT SCHEDULE, BUT I NEEDED TO UPDATE THE AMOUNTS ON THE FINANCIAL IMPACT SECTION SECTION. THE ORIGINAL BUDGET FOR FY 2026 WAS $500,515. WE ARE NEEDING TO ADD THE VEHICLES THAT WE DID NOT GET FOR FY 25. THOSE VEHICLES ARE IN THE AMOUNT OF $617,683. SO WE ARE AMENDING THE BUDGET. THAT FINAL BUDGET LINE ITEM WILL BE 1,118,000 198. AND AGAIN, THESE ARE NOT NEW FUNDS. THESE ARE JUST FUNDS THAT WERE BUDGETED IN THE PRIOR YEAR. AND WE DID NOT USE THEM. BUT WE NEED TO USE THEM AT THIS TIME. SO I WANTED TO UPDATE YOU ON THOSE AMOUNTS. THANK YOU. POINT OF INFORMATION. YES, MA'AM. FOR THE PURPOSES OF THE UPDATE THAT WE HAVE HERE, SINCE WE DON'T WE DIDN'T ACTUALLY GET THAT UNTIL JUST NOW AS WELL. WILL THAT ACTUALLY BE PUT ON THE ACTUAL DOCUMENTATION SO THAT THE COMMUNITY WILL HAVE THOSE UPDATED NUMBERS? I WILL UPDATE IT ON THE EXHIBITS THAT WERE ATTACHED TO THE ITEM. OUTSTANDING. THANK YOU, I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU COUNSEL. IS THERE A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM? MAYOR I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE AS PRESENTED. [01:40:02] SECOND IT'S BEEN MOVED PROPERLY PRESENTED FOR ITEM F FIVE TO BE ACCEPTED AS PRESENTED COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE AYE AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES, WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. OKAY. THANK YOU, MADAM CITY SECRETARY. WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA, PLEASE. WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO PUBLIC HEARINGS. CASE NUMBER Z-1551-26. [1. Case No. Z-1551-26 - Conduct a Public Hearing and consider adoption of an Ordinance amending the Comprehensive Zoning Ordinance by revising use regulations, adding Section 43.28 “Child Care Center (Shared Institutional Facility)” to establish supplemental standards, and amending Appendix A-3 to update and add definitions, including “Child Care Center” and “Child Care Center (Shared Institutional Facility)”, and "Planning Manager" AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AS HERETOFORE AMENDED BY AMENDING PART IV “USE REGULATIONS” BY AMENDING SECTION 36 “USE REGULATIONS” BY AMENDING SUBSECTIONS 36.3 “ACCESSORY AND INCIDENTAL USES” AND 36.6 “EDUCATIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND SPECIAL USES” AND BY AMENDING PART V “DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS” BY AMENDING SECTION 43 “SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS” BY ADDING A NEW SUBSECTION 43.28 “CHILD CARE CENTERS (SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITY)” AND BY AMENDING PART VII “APPENDICES” BY AMENDING SECTION A-3 “DEFINITIONS” BY ADDING AND AMENDING VARIOUS DEFINITIONS; PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CLAUSE; PROVIDING A REPEALING CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SEVERABILITY CLAUSE; PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE; PROVIDING FOR PENALTY OF FINE NOT TO EXCEED THE SUM OF TWO THOUSAND ($2,000.00) DOLLARS FOR EACH OFFENSE; AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.] CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING AND CONSIDER ADOPTION OF AN ORDINANCE AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE BY REVISING USE REGULATIONS. ADDING SECTION FOUR. 3.28 CHILDCARE CENTER SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITY TO ESTABLISH SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPLEMENTAL STANDARDS AND AMENDING APPENDIX A DASH THREE TO UPDATE AND ADD DEFINITIONS, INCLUDING CHILD CARE CENTER AND CHILDCARE CENTER, SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITY AND PLANNING MANAGER. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AMENDING THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF DESOTO, TEXAS, AS HERE FOR. AMENDED BY AMENDING PART FIVE USE REGULATIONS BY AMENDING SECTION 36 USE REGULATIONS BY AMENDING SUBSECTIONS 36.3 ACCESSORY AND INCIDENTAL USES AND. 36.6 EDUCATIONAL, INSTITUTIONAL AND SPECIAL USES. AND BY AMENDING PART FIVE FOR A DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS, BY AMENDING SECTION 43 SUPPLEMENTAL REGULATIONS, BY ADDING A SUBSECTION 43.28 CHILD CARE CENTER, SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITY, AND BY AMENDING PART SEVEN, APPENDIX SIX BY AMENDING SECTION 8-3 DEFINITIONS, BY ADDING AND AMENDING VARIOUS DEFINITIONS, PROVIDING A CONFLICTS CAUSE, 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. AND WE DO HAVE COMMENT CARDS FOR THIS ITEM. YES, MA'AM. MISS COLTON, I THINK YOU WON THE AWARD FOR LONGEST ORDINANCE CAPTION AT TONIGHT'S. WE'RE DONE, AREN'T WE? YES. SO GOOD EVENING, HONORABLE MAYOR PROCTOR, DISTINGUISHED MEMBERS OF THE DESOTO CITY COUNCIL. I'M JACQUELINE COLTON, THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, HERE TO PRESENT THIS ITEM. ZONING CASE Z-1551-26. PROPOSED AMENDMENTS TO THE CHILD CARE ORDINANCE. SO I HAVE BEEN ASKED TO EXPEDITE MY PRESENTATION. SO IF I SELL THROUGH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW WHY. SO OKAY WITH THAT. SO OUR AGENDA TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT UPDATING THE CURRENT CHILD CARE CENTER DEFINITION. WE'RE ASKING FOR OR NEW DEFINITIONS. CHILD CARE CENTER SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITY THAT WOULD BE A SECOND CHILD CARE CENTER. USE AND ADD DEFINITION FOR A PLANNING MANAGER AS PLANNING MANAGER IS USED IN OUR CURRENT CODE, BUT IT IS NOT DEFINED. AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ASK TO PERMIT CHILD CARE CENTER SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITIES IN BY RIGHT THAT USE BY RIGHT IN ALL ZONING DISTRICTS WHEN CO-LOCATED WITH QUALIFIED INSTITUTIONAL USE. OKAY. OKAY. SO THERE ARE OTHER CHILD CARE TYPES LISTED IN OUR ZONING ORDINANCE. WE'VE GOT FAMILY HOME AND GROUP HOMES. AND SO THOSE ARE NOT THE SUBJECT OF OUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT. I JUST WANTED TO YOU KNOW, CALL THAT OUT. SO OUR CURRENT CHILD CARE CENTER ZONING, YOU CAN HAVE A CHILD CARE CENTER BY RIGHT AND GENERAL RETAIL, MIXED USE ONE AND TWO, AS WELL AS COMMERCIAL ONE AND TWO. CHILD CARE CENTERS ARE PROHIBITED TOTALLY IN RESIDENTIAL AREAS AND PERMITTED BY S U, P AND MULTIFAMILY OFFICE ONE AND TWO AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. SO THAT'S WHAT OUR CURRENT ZONING ALLOWS FOR. SO WE ALSO ARE PROPOSING AMENDMENTS TO OUR CHILD CARE CENTER DEFINITION TO ALIGN MORE WITH WHAT STATE LAW CALLS FOR. AND THEN WE HAVE THE NEW CHILD CARE CENTER SHARED INSTITUTIONAL USE DEFINITION. AND BASICALLY YOU CAN THIS WOULD ALLOW YOU TO HAVE A CHILD CARE CENTER AS LONG AS IT WAS CO-LOCATED WITH AN ELIGIBLE INSTITUTIONAL USE, SUCH AS A SCHOOL OR COMMUNITY CENTER, COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, PUBLIC OR PAROCHIAL SCHOOL OR [01:45:09] RELIGIOUS TRAINING SCHOOL. AND THEN WE'VE GOT THE PLANNING MANAGER DEFINITION THAT WE TALKED ABOUT ADDING. SO IN ORDER TO ENSURE THAT WE LIMIT ANY IMPACTS ON THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES, WE ARE PROPOSING OPERATIONAL STANDARDS RELATED TO THESE TYPES OF FACILITIES. SO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT YOU LOOK AT WHEN YOU KNOW, THIS TYPE OF USE IS CONTEMPLATED IS OKAY, OUTDOOR, YOU KNOW, ACTIVITIES AND THE NOISE THAT IT BRINGS. SO WE WANT TO PUT STANDARDS IN PLACE THAT WOULD YOU KNOW, PREVENT OUTDOOR ACTIVITY. WILL ALLOW OUTDOOR ACTIVITY ONLY BETWEEN THE HOURS OF 8 A.M. AND 8 P.M., AND THEN TRAFFIC. TRAFFIC IS ANOTHER CONCERN. SO THE STANDARDS WILL PROVIDE FOR ON SITE TRAFFIC QUEUING AND YOU KNOW, SAFE DROP OFF AND PICK UP OPERATIONS BECAUSE WE DON'T WANT, YOU KNOW, LOADING IN THE STREETS THAT WOULD IMPACT, YOU KNOW, THE EXISTING TRAFFIC. SO WE'RE LOOKING TO, YOU KNOW, ALLEVIATE THAT BY PUTTING IN A STANDARD SUCH AS THE ONE PROPOSED HERE. AND THEN JUST TO EMPHASIZE, THIS WOULD BE A SECONDARY USE TO YOU KNOW INSTITUTIONAL USE. SO IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU KNOW, THAT PRIMARY INSTITUTIONAL USE DOES NOT EXIST AND THIS CHILD CARE CENTER WOULD NOT BE ALLOWED. OKAY. OKAY. SO, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE THE RATIONALE FOR THE PROPOSED AMENDMENTS HERE. YOU KNOW, COMPATIBILITY OF USES, THE REDUCED TRAFFIC IMPACTS, WHICH WE TALKED ABOUT YOU KNOW, MINIMIZE LAND USE IMPACTS, THE EXISTING UTILIZATION OF EXISTING FACILITIES. THIS WOULD PROVIDE EXPANDED CHILD CARE OPTIONS. AND THEN IT WILL PROVIDE THE PREDICTABILITY OF BY RIGHT APPROVAL OF THESE TYPES OF FACILITIES. AND SO I WOULD LIKE TO MENTION THAT, YOU KNOW THE DALLAS FORT WORTH AREA IS A CHILD CARE DESERT. AND SO THERE IS, YOU KNOW, A NEED FOR ADDITIONAL CHILD CARE CENTERS IN THIS AREA. AND YOU KNOW DE SOTO HAS LIKE 2600. RESIDENTS UNDER THE AGE OF FIVE. AND THERE ARE, YOU KNOW, A LITTLE OVER 2000 SPOTS. SO THERE, THERE IS SOME NEED FOR THIS. AND SO THIS IS SHOWS THE PROPOSED UPDATES TO THE ZONING USE CHART, WHICH BASICALLY SHOWS THAT, YOU KNOW, THIS CHILD CARE CENTER, SHARED INSTITUTIONAL FACILITY WOULD BE ALLOWED IN ALL ZONING DISTRICTS. AND THEN WE HAVE THE AMENDMENT TO THE CURRENT CHILD CARE CENTER USED JUST TO REMOVE THE DAYCARE CENTER FROM THE TITLE. AND SO WE LOOK TO SEE, YOU KNOW, WHAT OUR NEIGHBORS WERE DOING AROUND US AS FAR AS THIS IS CONCERNED. SO YOU WILL SEE THAT THERE AREN'T YOU KNOW, MANY THAT ARE ALLOWING WHAT WE'RE PROPOSING. SO THIS ITEM WAS PRESENTED TO THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION ON MAY 12TH, AND IT WAS APPROVED THAT THEY WOULD RECOMMEND TO YOU, YOU KNOW, TO THIS GOVERNING BODY APPROVAL OF THE ITEM. AND SO THIS IS JUST A SUMMARY OF WHAT I DISCUSSED. AND NEXT STEPS, CITY COUNCIL PUBLIC HEARING. OKAY. THANK YOU, MISS COLTON. AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED PROPERLY. SECOND, TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. I BELIEVE THERE IS ONE CARD FROM AN ATTENDEE WHO WISHES TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM. [01:50:05] THERE'S TWO. THE FIRST PERSON IS MR. GARY REED. MR. REED, AS YOU COME, PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME FOR THE RECORD. AND THE CITY. YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. ONLY FOR THE RECORD. AND YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. I AM GARY REED. I ACTUALLY LIVE IN CEDAR HILL, BUT I AM REPRESENTING WINDSOR PARK BAPTIST CHURCH HERE IN DESOTO. THANK YOU. AND I COME TO YOU AND THANK YOU, MAYOR AND COUNCIL PEOPLE FOR CONSIDERING THIS SITUATION. WE FEEL AS A CHURCH THAT WE HAVE A VERY SPECIAL OPPORTUNITY, THAT WE'RE EXCITED THAT THE CITY OF DESOTO IS CONSIDERING THAT WE MIGHT BE ABLE TO UTILIZE OUR BUILDING. AND WE THINK THAT THIS IS A GREAT OPPORTUNITY FOR BOTH US AND FOR A PARTICULAR CHILD CARE ENTITY THAT ALREADY EXISTS OR WAS EXISTING IN DESOTO. THE SWEET START CHILD CARE WAS HOUSED IN THE COMMUNITY BAPTIST CHURCH THAT WAS PURCHASED BY THE CITY, AND THAT CHILD CARE HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY AT LEAST, DISPLACED TO ANOTHER CITY. BUT THEY REALLY HAVE MANY RESIDENTS AND CUSTOMERS HERE IN DESOTO THAT REALLY WANT TO HAVE TO BE BACK IN DESOTO WITH THEIR THEIR CHILDREN. AND IN A FACILITY LIKE THIS, OUR PARTICULAR CHURCH WE'RE BLESSED THAT WE HAVE PREVIOUSLY HAD A CHILD CARE AND EVEN A PRESCHOOL WITHIN OUR BUILDING AND HAD REMODELED IT AND SET IT UP EXACTLY IN A GOOD ORDER FOR IT TO WORK WELL. BUT UNFORTUNATELY, IT'S BEEN SITTING VACANT NOW SINCE 20, JUST AFTER COVID 2020. AND SO WE WERE APPROACHED BY A SWEET START AND THEIR NEED TO RELOCATE FROM COMMUNITY BAPTIST. AND WE FELT LIKE THAT THEY WOULD REALLY BE A GOOD FIT. THE ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED HERE FOR STANDARDS OUR OUR CHURCH FACILITY MEETS THEM. EXACTLY. WE HAVE WE HAVE THE FENCE PLAYGROUNDS, WE HAVE PLENTY OF PARKING. WE HAVE GOOD QUEUING OFF THE STREET. WE'RE AT THE CORNER OF WESTMORELAND AND PLEASANT RUN, JUST NOT FAR FROM HERE. AND ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT ARE LISTED HERE WE'RE ABLE TO MEET THOSE STANDARDS VERY WELL. I DID MEET WITH AND SPEAK WITH THE PLANNING AND ZONING, AND I APPRECIATED THEM, AND I WANT TO COMMEND THEM FOR ALL THE EFFORT THEY PUT INTO PUTTING THIS FORWARD TO YOU TODAY. SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO PLEASE AFFIRM THIS ORDINANCE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, MISTER REED. IS THERE ANOTHER CARD, MISTER PAUL DREYER? GOOD EVENING, MR. DREYER. PLEASE STATE YOUR NAME, YOUR CITY OF RESIDENCE. FOR THE RECORD, YOU HAVE TWO MINUTES TO SPEAK. MY NAME IS PAUL DREYER. I LIVE IN DESOTO, TEXAS. I'M REPRESENTING WINDSOR PARK BAPTIST CHURCH AS THE TREASURER AND A DEACON THERE. JUST TO GIVE MORE CONTEXT TO THIS WHEN SWEET START WAS DISPLACED WE THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO BE A VERY SMOOTH AND SEAMLESS MOVE OVER TO OUR FACILITY. WE BOTH LIKED EACH OTHER. WE BOTH PLOWED MONEY INTO THE IDEA. WE SIGNED LEASES, WE'RE READY TO GO. AND THEN THAT'S WHEN WE DECIDED, OR THAT'S WHEN WE LEARNED THAT WE'RE ZONED WRONG. WE'RE IN A, WE'RE IN A RESIDENTIAL ZONING. WE HAVE A SCHOOL AND A CHURCH, NO RESIDENCES. WE WERE INFORMED BY OUR FIRE MARSHAL THAT YOU CAN'T, IF YOU ATTACH THE WORD BUSINESS TO IT, YOU CAN'T HAVE IT. ALTHOUGH WE'VE HAD CHILD CARE IN A SCHOOL THERE SINCE 1986. SO AS GARY SAID, YES, WE WE'RE FULLY EQUIPPED AND READY TO GO HERE. WE HAD LOTS OF MEETINGS. A CITY MANAGER CAME OUT AND, FIRE MARSHAL. WE ALL SAT AROUND AND CAME UP WITH THIS IDEA. AND I THINK WE'VE DISCOVERED AN OPPORTUNITY BECAUSE THERE'S ANOTHER SIDE TO THIS. WHEN YOU HAVE A FLOURISHING AND VIABLE CHILD CARE CENTER IN THE CITY OF DE SOTO, WE DON'T WANT TO FORCE THEM OUT. WE WANT TO KEEP DE SOTO BUSINESSES WITHIN DE SOTO. AND THIS THIS OPENS UP THE OPPORTUNITY FOR OTHER CHURCHES AND FACILITIES TO MAKE GOOD USE OF, OF THEIR OF THEIR LOCATIONS. SO WE ASK YOU TO VOTE FOR THIS. THIS IS A GOOD THING. THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. DOES THAT INCLUDE INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, COUNCIL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED PROPERLY. SECOND, TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. COUNSEL, I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM BEFORE WE HAVE DISCUSSION. AND A VOTE. MADAM MAYOR MOVED TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. SECOND, THAT MOTION WAS MADE BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES, SECOND BY MAYOR PRO TEM CHISM TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. COUNCIL. IS THERE ANY DISCUSSION ON THIS ITEM? YES. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, AND THANK YOU FOR THE PRESENTATION. I DID HAVE QUESTIONS AND THIS IS NOT ABOUT WINDSOR CHURCH. I GET WHERE THEY WHERE THEY RESIDE RIGHT NOW WITH THE EVENT OR THE CHANGE THAT WE'RE MAKING HERE, [01:55:05] WE'RE ACTUALLY SEEING EVERYWHERE IN DESOTO, RIGHT? YES, MA'AM. OKAY. SO MY ONLY QUESTION IS, IS WHEN SOMEONE IS IN ANOTHER CHURCH THAT MIGHT BE NEAR ALCOHOL OR, YOU KNOW THOSE SEX OFFENDERS, THOSE TYPES OF THINGS THAT WHERE CHILD CARE IS RESTRICTED FROM BEING IN THAT VICINITY, DO THEY HAVE TO COME TO PLANNING AND ZONING OR WHATEVER TO MAKE A DECISION? WHETHER, YOU KNOW, WOULD THAT ALL BE SAID TO THEM THAT NO, YOU CAN'T NECESSARILY. YEAH, THEY WOULD HAVE TO MEET ALL THE CITY REGULATIONS AND IN ALL STATE REGULATIONS. SO THEY HAVE TO GET A PERMIT, AND THEN THEY WOULD COME AND YOU WOULD TELL THEM. SO US CHANGING THIS FOR SPECIFICALLY ONE IS AND MAKING IT FOR ALL IS NOT CHANGING THE RULES AS FAR AS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY HAVE TO HAVE. THIS WOULD BE LIKE FIRST STEP, OKAY, BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO GO THROUGH OUR PROCESSES, OUR CO AND ALL OF THAT. OKAY, I YIELD BACK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT QUESTION. COUNCILMEMBER PARKER, MAYOR PRO TEM, THANK YOU. SO FOR THOSE WHO GATHERED WHAT THE CITIZEN COMMENT, I WANT TO THANK YOU MISTER DRYER, FOR YOUR COMMENTARY. WINDSOR IS IN A PREDICAMENT, RIGHT? CHURCHES ARE YOU CAN GO ANYWHERE AND NO MATTER WHERE. RIGHT. IT JUST SO HAPPENS THEY LANDED ON A PIECE OF LAND THAT'S ACTUALLY SET ASIDE FOR RESIDENTIAL. TROUBLE FOR THEM, RIGHT. NOW I WITH THE WITH THE AVERAGE AGE AND AGE IN DE SOTO BEING 43. I TOTALLY SUPPORT THIS BECAUSE I THINK THAT MOST HAVE YOUNG FAMILIES, ADULTS. SO I TOTALLY RESPECT THAT. AND I THINK THAT THAT KEEPING IN THIS INSTANCE, THAT ONE CHILD CARE BUSINESS FROM HAVING TO RELOCATE OUT OF THE CITY BECAUSE SHE ACTUALLY HAS A VERY LUCRATIVE CHILD CARE RIGHT HERE IN THE HOME OF DE SOTO. SO I THINK THAT THAT'S ALSO EQUALLY GREAT. I DID GET A QUESTION FROM A RESIDENT THAT I JUST WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO CLARIFY FOR ALL, BECAUSE ALLOWING THIS FOR ALL GIVES THE ILLUSION THAT I LIVE AT THIS ADDRESS AND THE PERSON NEXT TO ME, SUSIE, CAN START HER OWN DAYCARE WITH A SIGN RIGHT OUT OF IT. THAT AND SHE LIVES RIGHT NEXT TO ME. NOW, I KNOW YOU WENT IN CONVERSATION DURING PLANNING AND ZONING ABOUT THIS, BUT FOR THOSE THAT WERE NOT THERE, WHICH WAS THE MAJORITY OF THE ROOM. COULD YOU ELABORATE ON HOW THAT CONVERSATION? OKAY. SO ARE YOU REFERRING TO A A HOME BASED DAYCARE? OKAY. YEAH. SO THAT IS SEPARATE AND APART FROM THIS. AND SO, YOU KNOW, THOSE ENTITIES HAVE TO BE YOU KNOW, REGISTERED OR, AND ARE LICENSED BY THE STATE. BUT THAT IS NOT WHAT THIS IS. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT COMMERCIAL FACILITIES HERE. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING. THANK YOU. COUNCILMAN WESLEY I BELIEVE THIS IS THIS IS GOOD BECAUSE LIKE THEY SAID, DALLAS FORT WORTH IS A DESERT. THAT'S THAT'S BEEN DOCUMENTED. MY MOTHER HAD A DAYCARE BUSINESS FOR OVER 30 YEARS. SO I, I SEE THE NEED EVEN WITH SCHOOL DISTRICTS GOING TO K THREE NOW. SO MY ONE QUESTION IS ON THE ZONING AND PLANNING. IT WAS 5 TO 1. WHAT WAS THE, THE DRAWBACK WITH THAT ONE. DO YOU KNOW. OKAY. THEY DIDN'T ELABORATE. THEY DIDN'T ELABORATE. OKAY. NONE OF IT. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. BUT THANK YOU, I SUPPORT THIS. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. COME FORWARD. I HAVE A PERSONAL RELATIONSHIP, AND I JUST LOVE THE WAY THAT, YOU KNOW, THE OWNERS, MY GRANDCHILDREN HAVE GONE THROUGH THE SCHOOL AND I LOVE THE WAY THEY AND THE CHURCH HAVE. SERVICES DIRECTOR AHMED MAN, THEY THEY REALLY, THEY JUST REALLY DID THE THING, YOU KNOW, I ALMOST SLIPPED AND SAID SOMETHING. BUT THAT'S WHAT COMMUNITY IS ALL ABOUT. I SAID IT LAST NIGHT IS WHEN WE CAN COME TOGETHER LIKE MR. DREYER JUST SAID, AND SIT DOWN AND FIGURE IT OUT. AND MY HEART COULDN'T BE MORE WARM. SO THANK YOU. AND I'M SO GLAD TO SEE IT WORK OUT. I WILL DEFINITELY BE SUPPORTING IT. THANK YOU. I DO HAVE A QUESTION. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH COUNCILMAN WATERS. DO YOU ALL HAVE QUESTIONS FOR THIS ITEM? I DO HAVE A QUESTION. WHAT IS CURRENTLY HELP US UNDERSTAND WHAT MAKES THIS DIFFERENT THAN WHAT THEY'RE ALREADY DOING. LIKE WHAT IS THE, WHAT WAS THE WHY DO WE NEED THIS? OKAY. SO THE REASON WHY WE NEED THIS IS WELL, OUR STORY, WHAT WE'RE CURRENTLY DOING. SO YOU'RE ASKING ABOUT THE CURRENT ZONING. YEAH. [02:00:02] THE CURRENT PROCESS FOR A CHILD CARE CENTER TO GO INTO A CHURCH. WHY WEREN'T THEY ABLE TO JUST DO THAT? OKAY. AND SO NOW THERE IS A DIFFERENCE. LIKE IF IT WAS A CHURCH SPONSORED DAYCARE. YEAH, THAT, THAT IS DIFFERENT THAN THIS SITUATION WHERE YOU HAVE A COMMERCIAL DAYCARE BY A SEPARATE ENTITY. AND SO AS FAR AS THE SITUATION AT HAND. THE AREA WAS ZONED RESIDENTIAL AND SO THERE WOULD BE A NEED. WELL, IT WOULD BE PROHIBITED, PERIOD. YEAH. JUST COULDN'T DO IT BECAUSE IT'S A COMMERCIAL DAYCARE, NOT A HOME DAYCARE. YES, EXACTLY. YES, MA'AM. AND THEN CHURCHES, AS WE KNOW, HOUSES OF WORSHIP CAN GO IN ANY ZONING BY. RIGHT. SO THEM BEING IN THE RESIDENTIAL AREA WAS FINE. IT WAS JUST A COMMERCIAL BUSINESS. THAT WAS, AS WE'VE TALKED ABOUT OVERLAYING THIS TONIGHT. THEN THAT'S WHAT CAUSED THE ACTUAL ISSUE IS WHAT I'M HEARING. THAT'S TRUE. YEAH. THERE'S NOT EVEN AN SUP PROCESS FOR FOR THAT. IT'S PROHIBITED. YES. PROHIBITED IN GENERAL. YES, MA'AM. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. I SUPPORT THIS. MY FAMILY HAS BEEN IN THE CHILDCARE BUSINESS ALMOST LONGER THAN I'VE BEEN ALIVE. AND WE'RE STILL IN THE CHILDCARE BUSINESS, SO I DEFINITELY UNDERSTAND ALL THE CHALLENGES THAT CHILDCARE FACES AS WELL AS MY I'M A P K MY, WE HAVE A CHURCH AND CHILDCARE CENTER. SO I UNDERSTAND THIS AND HAVE LIVED. THIS IS MY LIVED EXPERIENCE, SO I UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF IT AND DEFINITELY SUPPORT THE CHANGE FOR FOR OUR RESIDENTS AND FOR OUR COMMUNITY. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR. WE'RE GOING TO USE OUR VOTING PADS. AND THEN COUNCIL MEMBER WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT? AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES WHO'S NOT ABLE TO USE HER VOTING PAD. SO WHAT WE'LL DO IS WE'LL TAKE A TALLY. I'M SORRY, MISTER CITY ATTORNEY, I MADE YOU DO AN EXTRA UNNECESSARY STEP. I KNOW YOU HAVE ONE JOB TONIGHT. YOU'RE NOT EVEN ABLE TO DO IT. ALL RIGHT, SO WE'LL DO I'LL START WITH THOMAS. I'LL START WITH YOU, COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. AND GET YOUR VOTE. YES. YES. OKAY. COUNCILMAN WATERS. YES. COUNCILMAN WESLEY. YES. MYSELF AS A YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. NORTH. YES. AND MAYOR PRO TEM. YES. AND COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. OH. DID WE LOSE HER? HEAR ME. WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW. WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? I'M SORRY. COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES, WE. FOR CLARIFICATION. AND FOR THE RECORD, WE REALLY NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT YOUR VOTE IS. CAN YOU SAY IT AGAIN? CAN YOU HEAR ME? WE CAN HEAR YOU NOW. YES. YES. OKAY. SO THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL MOVE TO THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. [2. Conduct a Public Hearing to receive input on the 2026-2027 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Annual Action Plan] CONDUCT A PUBLIC HEARING TO RECEIVE INPUT ON THE 2026 2027 COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT BLOCK GRANT. CDBG ANNUAL ACTION PLAN. APPROACHING THE PODIUM IS DIRECTOR OF COMMUNITY SERVICES AND EXTERNAL AFFAIRS DOCTOR ESTHER WILLIAMS. GOOD EVENING COUNCIL. I DON'T HAVE A PRESENTATION TODAY. SO TO COMPLY WITH HUD REQUIREMENTS FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE CDBG PROGRAM, A PUBLIC HEARING MUST BE HELD TO RECEIVE PUBLIC INPUT ON THE 2026 2027 CDBG ANNUAL ACTION PLAN, WHICH ADDRESSES USE OF GRANT FUNDING FOR THE UPCOMING FISCAL YEAR. SO THIS AND THIS PUBLIC HEARING WAS ADVERTISED IN THE DAILY COMMERCIAL RECORD NEWSPAPER ON JUNE 4TH FOR TONIGHT'S MEETING, AS WELL AS THE JULY 21ST MEETING. SO THERE ARE TWO OPPORTUNITIES FOR PUBLIC INPUT. AS WELL AS OUR ONLINE SURVEYS. WE ALSO HAVE PHYSICAL SURVEYS OUT ON THE TABLE AND WITH CARDS WITH THE QR CODE AS WELL. SO WE DO INVITE OUR PUBLIC TO SUBMIT THEIR COMMENTS IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM. YOU CAN EMAIL WE JUST HAVE TO BE ABLE TO DOCUMENT YOUR, YOUR COMMENTS. AND JUST AS A VERY QUICK OVERVIEW OF HOW THE FUNDING CAN BE USED THE FISCAL YEAR 2026 CDBG ENTITLEMENT FOR DESOTO IS $268,987, WHICH WE CAN USE BETWEEN WHICH IS FOR THE PROGRAM PERIOD, OCTOBER 1ST, 2026 TO SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2027. AND THESE ARE THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES CAN FALL UNDER THREE MAIN CATEGORIES ADMINISTRATION, WHICH IS 20%. NO MORE THAN 20%. PUBLIC SERVICES. NO MORE THAN 15% OF THAT ALLOCATION. AND THAT CAN INCLUDE TRANSPORTATION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM, WHICH WE HAVE HERE AN OPEN RFP OR OPEN PROGRAM IDEAS FOR THINGS LIKE DAYCARE ASSISTANCE, SENIOR SUPPORT, EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS, THINGS LIKE FINANCIAL LITERACY CLASSES, THINGS LIKE THAT. AND THEN 65% FOR OTHER ELIGIBLE CDBG ACTIVITIES, WHICH HERE IN DESOTO, WE ARE UTILIZING A MAJORITY OF THAT FOR OUR HOME REPAIR PROGRAM, AS WELL AS OUR SENIOR CENTER RENOVATION PROJECT THAT WE HAVE STARTING SOON. [02:05:03] AND THERE ARE OTHER YOU KNOW, OPPORTUNITIES FOR OTHER PUBLIC FACILITIES IMPROVEMENTS, ADA, SIDEWALK MODIFICATIONS AND THINGS LIKE THAT. SO WE ARE STILL ACCEPTING SURVEYS ALL THE WAY UNTIL THE END OF JULY. SO PLEASE LET US HEAR WHAT YOU WOULD LIKE FOR US TO DO AND SHARE THE WORD WITH YOUR NEIGHBORS. THAT'S ALL I HAVE. THANK YOU, DOCTOR WILLIAMS. I'M GOING TO ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. SECOND. IT HAS BEEN MOVED BY COUNCILMEMBER PARKER, SECONDED BY MAYOR PRO TEM TO OPEN THE PUBLIC HEARING. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW OPEN. DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT CARDS? MADAM CITY SECRETARY, WE DO NOT. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNSEL. AT THIS TIME I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER WATERS TO CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING. COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. COUNCIL, THE PUBLIC HEARING IS NOW CLOSED. I WILL ENTER. DO WE HAVE. WE DON'T HAVE. WE DON'T HAVE A MOTION. RIGHT. THIS IS JUST TO RECEIVE INPUT. OKAY. SO COUNCIL, DO YOU ALL HAVE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS BEFORE WE CLOSE OUT THIS PUBLIC HEARING? COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER, IS THAT A LIGHT FOR YOU? YES. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR, AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. WELL, THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THIS THIS TOPIC. I, YOU KNOW, I DO HAVE SOME, SOME THOUGHTS, QUESTIONS. DID WE HAVE A REPORT OUT FROM LAST YEAR FROM THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE CDBG FUNDS? BECAUSE, AND THE REASON THAT I'M BRINGING IT UP IS BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, OVER THE LAST FEW MONTHS, I'VE HEARD EXTENSIVELY OF THE NEED FOR THE SENIOR CENTER TO HAVE SOME SOME WORK DONE. AND IT'S, IT'S A LITTLE SURPRISING, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, I'M SITTING HERE, I'M THINKING NOW, I KNOW WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS ROOF AT THE SENIOR CENTER FOR I KNOW AT LEAST THE LAST YEAR. AND I KEPT SAYING, NOW WAIT A MINUTE, WE'RE DOING THE ROOF AT THE CIVIC CENTER. HOW DID WE HOW DID THE PRESIDENT'S I MEAN, OR THE PRIORITY CHANGE FROM THE SENIOR CENTER? I MEAN, BECAUSE I DON'T REMEMBER US GETTING A ROOF ON THE SENIOR CENTER. OKAY. OR AM I WRONG? I CAN, I CAN EXPLAIN. SO I THINK IN MY LAST PRESENTATION, I DID EXPLAIN THAT THE ONE WHEN WE WERE DOING THE WALK THROUGH AND THE INSPECTION FOR THE SENIOR CENTER, JUST, WE WERE ABOUT TO GET STARTED WITH THE PROJECT. THEY DID NOTICE THAT WE NEEDED A NEW ROOF AT THE SENIOR CENTER. SO WE'RE REVISED THE SCOPE OF THE CDBG PORTION OF THAT PROJECT TO INCLUDE THE ROOF AS WELL AS THE REST OF THE RENOVATION FOR THE FOR THE BATHROOMS AND WITH JUST SOME MODIFICATIONS WITH, YOU KNOW, THE THE TYPES OF I GUESS MATERIALS AND THINGS LIKE THAT FOR THE BATHROOMS SO THAT WE COULD STILL INCLUDE THE ROOF. HOWEVER, WE ARE VERY EXCITED TO LET YOU KNOW THAT THE, THE ROOFING IS ACTUALLY IS GOING TO BE INCLUDED WITH OUR INSURANCE FOR THAT WE ARE PAYING FOR THIS TOWN HALL'S ROOFING. SO ALL OF THE FUNDING THAT WE HAD ALLOCATED BEFORE WILL GO BACK INTO THE RENOVATION. WE'RE GOING TO RE REEVALUATE THE SCOPE AND MAKE SURE THAT WE ARE STILL ABLE TO GIVE THE SENIOR CENTER WHAT THEY NEED. CAN I ANSWER? OKAY. I THINK I HEARD YOU SAY, BUT YOUR FIRST QUESTION WAS ALSO, DO WE HAVE A REPORT FROM LAST YEAR? SO THAT IS ACTUALLY ON OUR WEBSITE. IT'S THE CAPER REPORT. AND IF YOU GO IN CDBG WEBSITE, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO SEE WHAT WE WERE ABLE TO DO LAST YEAR. AND IT HAS ALL THOSE NUMBERS IN THERE. OKAY. SORRY. SO WAS THE DOLLARS ALREADY EXPENDED FROM LAST YEAR. IT'S MOVING OVER INTO THE NEW. SO IT'S, IT'S, THAT'S A TRICKY QUESTION BECAUSE A LOT OF THE FUNDING, MOST OF THE FUNDING, IF YOU DON'T SPEND IT IN THAT YEAR, WE ROLL IT OVER. AND THAT IS PART OF MY PRESENTATION WHEN I DID THE PRESENTATION BACK IN MARCH, JUST TO SHOW LIKE, WHERE FUNDING FROM THE LAST HOWEVER MANY YEARS THAT WE MAY NOT HAVE FULLY EXPANDED PROGRAM MONEY IS NOW CONTRIBUTING TO THIS YEAR'S PROJECT. OKAY. YEAH. SO. BUT THE ROOF IS A PART OF THIS YEAR'S. SO WE DON'T HAVE TO PAY FOR THE ROOF ANYMORE. IT'S COMING THROUGH THE INSURANCE. CORRECT. OKAY, GOOD. OKAY. SO THAT MEANS THE ROOF WILL GET ADDRESSED, ROOF IS GOING TO GET ADDRESSED. AND WE CAN PUT ALL OF OUR CDBG FUNDS INTO THE SENIOR CENTER RENOVATION. OUTSTANDING, I YIELD BACK. WE GOT IT ON TAPE, Y'ALL. COUNCIL. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE WE CLOSE OUT THIS PORTION OF OUR MEETING? I HAVE ONE QUESTION. YES, COUNCILMAN WESLEY. THANK YOU FOR SECURING GRANT FREE DOLLARS. THAT'S AWESOME. RIGHT. AND CAN WE MAKE SUGGESTIONS OR IS ALL THE MONEY'S BEEN ACCOUNTED FOR? HOW DO WE MAKE SUGGESTIONS ON FOR NEXT YEAR'S PROGRAM? SO YOU FILL OUT YOUR SURVEY JUST LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. [02:10:01] OKAY. YES, SIR. AND THE SURVEYS CAN BE FOUND ON OUR WEBSITE. WE ALSO HAVE A WEBSITE. IT'S ON. YES, DESOTO CDBG. YOU CAN ALSO FIND IT UNDER COMMUNITIES. THE DROP DOWN MENU UNDER COMMUNITIES, AND WE HAVE QR CODES AT THE TABLE AND THE ACTION CENTER AND PHYSICAL SURVEYS AS WELL. AND JUST SO JUST SO EVERYBODY KNOWS, EVEN IF THE QUESTION IS NOT ASKED, YOU CAN WRITE NOTES ON THERE AND WE WILL CAPTURE THAT INTO OUR REPORT AS WELL. ONE MORE THING. HOW LONG ARE YOU TAKING, SIR? YOU SAID YOU TOLD US THAT. I DIDN'T WRITE IT DOWN. IT'S OKAY. END OF JULY. END OF JULY. OKAY. OKAY. AND COUNCILMAN. WESLEY, YOU CAN SHARE. SHARE YOUR THOUGHTS HERE IN THE MEETING. THIS IS THE PURPOSE OF THE PUBLIC HEARING IS TO GET THAT FEEDBACK FROM RESIDENTS AND COUNCIL MEMBERS ALIKE. SO IF YOU HAVE SOME COMMENTS THAT YOU CAN SURMISE YOU KNOW, WITHIN A, WITHIN A REASONABLE AMOUNT OF TIME, YOU'RE WELCOME TO SHARE THOSE NOW AS WELL, AS WELL AS ENCOURAGE YOUR CONSTITUENTS TO FILL OUT THE SURVEY. I'M GOING TO A COUPLE OF HOA MEETINGS AND IN PLACE FOR AND I JUST ENCOURAGE PEOPLE WATCHING ONLINE AND HERE TONIGHT TO, TO REACH OUT OR LET'S DO THESE SURVEYS BECAUSE IT'S TIME FOR YOUR VOICE TO BE HEARD. SO I ALREADY KNOW I HAVE. BEFORE JULY IS OVER WITH, I THINK 30HOAHOA MEETINGS AND EVEN OUR VOLUNTARY HOA MEETINGS. SO HOA GROUPS. SO WE JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT CHIEF. WHAT'S THAT. YES. THANK YOU. SURVEYS ARE IN THE BACK AND I NEED ONE TOO. AND A QR CODE. SO I'M TELLING YOU THIS IS THE TIME. I APPRECIATE EVERYONE COMING HERE TONIGHT THAT Y'ALL ARE Y'ALL ARE YOU'RE APPRECIATED MORE THAN YOU KNOW TO COME OUT AND BE THE CONCERNED CITIZENS BECAUSE YOU'RE HEARD, BUT ALSO THE PEOPLE ONLINE AND TELL, TELL YOUR WHOLE BLOCK. IT'S TIME TO GET TO, TO HEAR ABOUT THESE, THESE, THESE FUNDS. LET'S USE THEM WISELY. AND THANK YOU. THANK YOU COUNCILMEMBER. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. DOCTOR WILLIAMS, I JUST WANT TO SAY THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE PRESENTATION AND ESPECIALLY TO HEAR THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER THAT THE ROOF IS BEING REPAIRED AND THAT THAT IS COVERED BY INSURANCE. HAVE YOU DONE A TOUR OF THE FACILITY EARLIER THIS YEAR? THOSE WERE MUCH NEEDED REPAIR, ESPECIALLY REGARDING THAT. SO THANK YOU FOR THAT UPDATE. AND JUST TO SHARE, IT WAS ACTUALLY LISA MENDOZA WHO WAS ABLE TO SECURE THAT WITH OUR RISK MANAGER. SO IF YOU SEE HER LET HER KNOW. GREAT JOB. POINT OF INFORMATION. IS THERE ANY WAY WE CAN GET SOME, SOME TYPE OF GREAT NEWS TYPE OF FLASH FOR OUR SENIORS? LET THEM KNOW BECAUSE THEY ARE ACTUALLY THE ONES THAT ARE REACHING OUT AND SAYING, WE GOT PROBLEMS OVER HERE. I MEAN, I GOT PICTURES. OKAY. THANK YOU. I WOULD RECOMMEND THAT EVEN MEETING HAVING A COMMUNITY MEETING WITH THEM AT THE SENIOR CENTER BECAUSE THEY'RE UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT NOTHING IS HAPPENING. SO I THINK THAT, THAT JUST HAVING THAT. AND IF YOU NEED A DAY, THURSDAYS AND FRIDAYS IS GOOD DAYS TO GO. TO LET THEM KNOW THAT THIS IS COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE. YES, MA'AM. I ACTUALLY HAD A SCHEDULED MEETING WITH THEM, AND I HAD TO MISS IT. IT WAS AN EMERGENCY ON MY PART, BUT I AM GOING TO RESCHEDULE THAT. YES, MA'AM. AND IF YOU DON'T MIND, SINCE I'M IN PLACE TOO. AND THAT SITS IN PLACE TOO. IF YOU DON'T MIND SHARING THAT WITH ME, I'LL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO BE A PART OF THAT. ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. OKAY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. WE'LL GO TO THE NEXT ITEM ON OUR AGENDA. MADAM CITY SECRETARY, WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO THE REGULAR AGENDA ITEMS. [1. Consider approval of a resolution authorizing the City Manager to execute a Funds Sharing and Fiscal Agency Agreement for the 2025 Byrne Justice Assistance Grant (JAG) Program in the amount of $13,774, receiving an allocation of $8,966.87 to fund the annual subscription for five (5) Flock Safety cameras, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the agreement] CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A FUND SHARING AND FISCAL AGENCY AGREEMENT FOR THE 2025 BURN JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT JAG PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $13,774, RECEIVING AN ALLOCATION OF $8,966.87 TO THE FUND FOR THE ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION FOR THE FIVE BLOCK SAFETY CAMERAS, AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENT. GOOD EVENING, MADAM MAYOR. AGAIN. CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS. MR. CITY MANAGER WE I'M HERE TO ASK YOU TO CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE A FUND SHARING AND FISCAL AGENCY AGREEMENT FOR THE 2025 BURN JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT. ALSO CALLED THE JAG GRANT PROGRAM IN THE AMOUNT OF $13,774, RECEIVING AN ALLOCATION AFTER A DALLAS COUNTY TAKES THEIR SHARE. FOR HANDLING THIS GRANT OF THEY'LL TAKE 4132 20. AND SO OUR FINAL AMOUNT ALLOCATION WILL BE $8,966.88. WE'RE GOING TO USE THAT MONEY TO, AS WE'VE BEEN FOR THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, TO FUND FIVE, FIVE FLOCK SAFETY CAMERAS AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THIS AGREEMENT, AS YOU KNOW, [02:15:04] WE GET THIS JAG GRANT EVERY YEAR IN DIFFERENT AMOUNTS, BUT IT USUALLY IS SOMEWHERE AROUND 8000 TO $9000. AND SO WE ALWAYS USE IT TO FUND THESE FLOCK CAMERAS FOR THEIR ANNUAL SUBSCRIPTION. DALLAS, THE CITY OF DALLAS FILES FOR THIS GRANT. AND SO THEY, THEY GET A CUT OF $674.93 FOR FILING THAT WITH ADMINISTRATIVE FEES, FINAL IMPACT. THERE IS NO FINANCIAL IMPACT TO THE CITY. AND WE ALSO DO NOT HAVE TO PROVIDE ANY LOCAL MATCHING GRANT MATCHING FUNDS. SO OUR RECOMMENDATION STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT CITY COUNCIL APPROVE THE RESOLUTION APPROVING THE 2025 BURN JUSTICE ASSISTANCE GRANT PROGRAM, FUNDS SHARING AND FISCAL AGENCY AGREEMENT IN THE AMOUNT OF 13,774, WITH AN ALLOCATION OF $8,966 AND 88 $0.87 FOR DISORDER TO BE USED. AS I SAID, TO FUND THE SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR THE FIVE FLOCK CAMERAS THAT WE HAVE IN THE CITY. THANK YOU CHIEF. COUNCIL. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I MOVE WE APPROVE AS PRESENTED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? COUNCILMAN WESLEY. CHIEF I, YOU KNOW, I LOVE THE IDEA OF FLOCK CAMERAS AS YOU COME INTO DE SOTO AND TO DO ANY TYPE OF CRIME, YOU KNOW, WE'LL FOLLOW YOU AND FIND YOU. I GET THAT, AND AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN PUT THEM AT EVERY LIGHT. BUT ON THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT DO WE DO YOU DO. DO YOU DO AUDITS TO SEE WHO WE'RE ACTUALLY FOLLOWING? SO I'LL TAKE MYSELF, FOR EXAMPLE. FOLLOW ME. JUST SOMEONE RANDOM WORKING THE CAMERAS AND SAY, LET'S. LET'S FOLLOW COUNCILMAN WESLEY FROM HIS HOUSE. SO DO WE DO AUDITS? BECAUSE THIS IS A GREAT PROGRAM AND IT WILL DETER CRIME, AND IT FULFILLS WHAT OUR CITIZENS WANT TO BE SAFE. SO CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THAT? YES. GOOD QUESTION. SO WE DO NOT FOLLOW PEOPLE UNLESS WE HAVE A NOTIFICATION THAT THERE'S A WARRANT. IT'S A STOLEN CAR OR IT'S SOMEONE THAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR THAT'S PUT INTO THE SYSTEM. SO WE DON'T JUST GO IN AND WE SAY, LET'S FOLLOW BRIAN WESLEY TODAY AND SEE WHERE HE'S GOING. WE DON'T DO THAT. WE'RE NOT ALLOWED TO DO THAT. SO THAT THAT DOESN'T HAPPEN. HOWEVER, WE DO AUDIT THE SYSTEM. I BELIEVE IT'S EVERY SIX MONTHS WE DO AN AUDIT TO SEE WHO'S BEEN USING IT, WHAT THEY'VE BEEN, WHAT THEY'VE BEEN USING IT FOR. AND WE CAN TRACK WHENEVER THEY'VE GONE IN THERE. AND THEY ALSO HAVE TO SUPPLY CASE NUMBERS FOR WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR WHEN THEY'RE, WHEN THEY'RE EITHER GOING BACK AND TRACKING SOMEBODY OR LOOKING TO SEE WHERE THEY'VE BEEN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. THERE'S BEEN A MOTION MADE. I'M GOING TO START TO MY RIGHT AND THAT IS COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? OKAY. WHAT ABOUT NOW? WE CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY. WHAT IS YOUR VOTE? YES. THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. YES. AND I'M A YES. COUNCILMAN WESLEY. YES. COUNCILMAN. WATERS. YES. COUNCIL MEMBER. PARKER. YES. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. PLEASE CONSIDER APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION REQUESTING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE FROM THE TEXAS [2. Consider approval of a resolution requesting financial assistance from the Texas Water Development Board, authorizing an application to be filed with the Texas Water Development Board seeking financial assistance in the amount of $21,000,000, and further authorizing the City Manager or his designee to prepare and submit such application if necessary, and to appear before the Texas Water Development Board on such application] WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD, AUTHORIZING AN APPLICATION TO BE FILED WITH THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD SEEKING FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE IN THE AMOUNT OF $21 MILLION AND FURTHER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER OR HIS DESIGNEE TO PREPARE AND SUBMIT SUCH APPLICATION, IF NECESSARY, AND TO APPEAR BEFORE THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD ON SUCH APPLICATION. GOOD EVENING, MR. LACEY. HI. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. THIS ITEM BEFORE YOU THIS EVENING IS SEEKING APPROVAL OF A RESOLUTION FOR AN APPLICATION TO BE SUBMITTED TO THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD ON BEHALF OF THE PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT. JUST A LITTLE BIT OF A BRIEF SYNOPSIS OF HOW WE GOT TO THIS DESTINATION THIS EVENING. BACK IN APRIL, THE 89TH TEXAS LEGISLATIVE SESSION APPROPRIATED JUST SLIGHTLY OVER 1 BILLION. THAT'S BILLION WITH A B DOLLARS FROM THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE TO THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. AND WHAT THAT DID, THAT CREATED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR WATER SYSTEMS TO APPLY FOR A ONE TIME, NO MATCH GRANT OPPORTUNITY. THESE FUNDS ARE ACTUALLY CAN BE ALLOCATED FOR WATER SUPPLY PRODUCTION DISTRIBUTION IMPROVEMENTS, SYSTEM REPLACEMENTS, WATER LOSS MITIGATION, REUSE EFFORTS, OR TO RESOLVE ANY VIOLATIONS. [02:20:02] THE PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT ACTUALLY PARTNERED WITH KIMLEY-HORN BACK IN FEBRUARY, AND WE WENT THROUGH A RIGOROUS EXERCISE TO IDENTIFY PROJECTS IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN THAT WOULD MATCH THE CRITERIA AS LISTED IN THE GRANT REQUIREMENTS. AND AS SUCH, STAFF HAS RECOMMENDED THAT WE SUBMIT FOR TWO PROJECTS FOR THE PUBLIC UTILITY UTILITIES DEPARTMENT. THE FIRST ONE BEING THE INSTALLATION OF EIGHT NEW DISCHARGE ELECTROMAGNETIC FLOW METERS AT THE WESTMORELAND PUMP STATION. THIS WILL ALLOW STAFF TO BETTER AUDIT THE WATER THAT WE'RE RECEIVING, THE QUANTITIES OF WATER THAT WE'RE RECEIVING FROM OUR WHOLESALE PARTNERS, DALLAS WATER UTILITIES. AND WE'RE ALSO RECOMMENDING TO SUBMIT FOR REHABILITATION OF A 20 INCH TRANSMISSION MAIN THAT REALLY FOLLOWS THE ENTIRETY OF OUR CITY AND TERMINATES ULTIMATELY AT PARKS ELEVATED STORAGE TANK. THIS PROJECT WOULD ALSO INCLUDE A REPLACEMENT OF APPROXIMATELY 13,705 LINEAR FEET OF 20 INCH TRANSMISSION MAIN. SHOULD YOU APPROVE THIS EVENING, THE PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT AND WITH THE CITY MANAGER WILL SUBMIT THIS APPLICATION AND THE FULL GRANT ASK AMOUNT OF $21 MILLION, WHICH IS THE MAX FOR THE CITY OF OUR POPULATION SIZE. I WOULD LIKE TO STATE FOR THE RECORD THAT THERE WAS A MISTAKE IN THE RESOLUTION DOCUMENT. I THINK TYPOGRAPHICAL ERROR. I THINK I PUT $22 MILLION IN THERE. IT'S ACTUALLY $21 MILLION. SO THE AGENDA ITEM IS CORRECT AND THE RESOLUTION WILL BE CORRECTED PRIOR TO EXECUTION. I DO HAVE A NEW FACE IN THE AUDIENCE WITH KIM LEE HORN. MR. BEN GLEICHER, WHO IS HERE. SHOULD YOU APPROVE THIS EVENING? THE GRANT APPLICATION WILL BE THE REQUEST IN THE AMOUNT OF $21 MILLION, AND I'M AVAILABLE FOR ANY QUESTIONS YOU MIGHT HAVE OF ME. THANK YOU, MR. LACEY. COUNCIL. I WILL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE AS PRESENTED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM CHISHOLM, SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER KNAUF, TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. COUNCIL. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS FROM MR. LACEY? I HAVE ONE. MAYOR PRO TEM, MR. LACEY, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. YOU'RE SO SERIOUS TODAY, I LOVE IT. I'M. I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. SO THIS TRANSMISSION MAIN ACTUALLY. PROVIDES WATER TO 65% OF OUR CITY, CORRECT? CORRECT. THIS IS PRETTY DOGGONE IMPORTANT. IF YOU HAVEN'T TOURED OUR WATER FACILITIES. I ENCOURAGE YOU TO PLEASE DON'T RUN OUT ALL AT ONCE. IT'S NOT THE MOST BEAUTIFUL THING, BUT IT'S GOOD KNOWLEDGE. NO DISRESPECT, BUT I WANTED TO SAY THAT IF YOU CAN'T GET THIS GRANT AND I APPRECIATE YOU GOING AFTER GRANT MONEY IN ORDER INSTEAD OF MY TAX DOLLARS BECAUSE I AM A HOMEOWNER, I DO PAY TAXES IN THE CITY INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, USING GENERAL FUND OR I ASSUME ONE OF YOUR REVENUE FUNDS. BUT IF WE DON'T GET THE GRANT, WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE? BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THE BUSINESS REPORT STATED THE AGE OF THIS TRANSMISSION. I MEAN, IF YOU CAN PLEASE STATE, BUT GIVEN THE IMPACT IT WILL HAVE ON OUR CITY, WHAT IS THE RECOURSE IF WE DON'T GET THE GRANT? ALL RIGHT. SO JUST FOR A POINT OF CLARIFICATION, YOU KNOW, THE PUBLIC UTILITIES DEPARTMENT IS COMPLETELY RATEPAYER FUNDED. SO BEING THE ENTERPRISE FUND, WE'RE PAID THROUGH THE RATES, NOT TAXPAYER DOLLARS. BUT PLAN A OBVIOUSLY WAS IT WAS IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN. THAT'S WHAT WE AUDITED AGAINST, YOU KNOW, WHAT WE WERE GOING TO ASK FOR. SO THE ORIGINAL INTENT WAS TO FUND THIS VIA, YOU KNOW, OUR BOND SALE. BUT WHEN THIS OPPORTUNITY CAME TO LIGHT, WE ACTUALLY LOOKED AT IT. SEVERAL THINGS CAME INTO TO PLAY WITH WITH THIS DECISION. NUMBER ONE, THE AMOUNT OF THE OVERALL PROJECT BEING NUMBER ONE, AND ALSO THE ASSURANCE THAT WE COULD ACTUALLY GET THE PROJECT COMPLETED BY THE DEADLINE, BECAUSE WE WOULD HAVE TO EXPEND THESE DOLLARS BY 2031. SO THAT'S WHAT WENT INTO IT. SO AS FAR AS THE RAMIFICATIONS, WE WOULD, YOU KNOW, PROCEED WITH RECOMMENDING FUNDING THIS PROJECT THROUGH BONDS. IF WE DID NOT RECEIVE THE GRANT. SO YOU ALREADY GOT THE MONEY EARMARKED, BUT YOU'RE STILL GOING AFTER THE GRANT. AND SO WE DON'T HAVE TO USE THAT MONEY. IT'S IN OUR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PLAN FOR FUTURE BOND SALE. YES, MA'AM. IT'S NOT. IT'S NOT YOUR MARK JUST YET. YOU ALL RIGHT WITH ME? THANK YOU. THANK YOU. MAYOR PRO TEM, COUNCILMAN WESLEY. SO I WANT TO GET AN UNDERSTANDING OF YOU APPLYING FOR THIS GRANT. SO, FOR EXAMPLE, THE STATE DID A GRANT TO ALL THE SCHOOLS IN TEXAS. THE SAFE AND SECURITY GRANT THAT THEY FILLED IT OUT CORRECTLY. THEY GOT SO MUCH FUNDING BECAUSE OF THE THE THE SIZE OF THE SCHOOL OR THE OR HOW MANY SCHOOLS YOU HAVE. SO WITH THIS COMING FROM THE STATE AND THEY'VE ALREADY EARMARKED, YOU SAID A BILLION. [02:25:05] IF WE FILL OUT THE APPLICATION CORRECTLY, WE KIND OF. WE. IT'S A REAL GOOD CHANCE WE'LL WE'LL RECEIVE THE FUNDS. IN YOUR OPINION, HAVE YOU SEEN THAT TYPE OF GRANT BEFORE? OR LET ME MAKE SURE I'M UNDERSTANDING YOU CORRECTLY. YOU SAID IT'S A REAL GOOD CHANCE. IT'S A REAL GOOD CHANCE TO GET. BECAUSE SOMETIMES THEY HAVE GRANTS. I KNOW YOU JUST HAVE TO FILL IT OUT CORRECTLY BECAUSE THEY WANT EVERYONE TO USE THE FUNDS. RIGHT? CORRECT. SO DO YOU HAVE A WITH THIS? IS IS THAT KIND OF THE SAME WITH THIS UTILITY GRANT? SO SO THIS GRANT IS VERY COMPETITIVE. AND LIKE MOST GRANTS NOTHING'S GOING TO BE A GUARANTEE. RIGHT, RIGHT. BUT THAT'S WHAT WE'VE REALLY GONE THROUGH. AND, YOU KNOW, MR., GLYCART AND KIMLEY-HORN. I'LL BE COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT WITH YOU. THIS WAS NOT MY FIRST CHOICE. THIS THIS PROJECT, HOWEVER, WHEN WE LOOKED AT IT VERSUS THE THE SKID AND VERSUS THE SCORING CRITERIA, I WAS ABLE TO BE CONVINCED THAT THIS WAS THE BEST COURSE OF ACTION AND THAT THIS WOULD YIELD IT CHECKED REALLY ALL OF THE BOXES RATHER. SO THAT'S WHY WE ENDED UP LANDING ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. SO WE DO FEEL COMFORTABLE THAT WE HAVE THAT WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE. LIKE I SAID, IT DOES ADDRESS WATER LOSS BECAUSE AND ACTUALLY, MAYOR PRO TEM, I DIDN'T ANSWER YOUR QUESTION. IT'S ABOUT A 40 YEAR OLD MAN. WE'VE HAD SOME ISSUES WITH IT OVER THE YEARS. SO IT DOES ADDRESS WATER LOSS THAT CHECKS THE BOX. IT CHECKS THE BOX THAT, YOU KNOW, WE CAN GET THIS PROJECT DESIGNED AND BUILT BY 2031, SO THE FUNDS WILL BE EXPENDED BY THEN. IT'S A VERY MINIMAL DELTA. IF WE DO GET THE FULL $21 MILLION, I THINK THE OPINION OF PROBABLE CONSTRUCTION COST WAS JUST UNDER $22 MILLION. SO WE WOULD BE ABLE TO, YOU KNOW, SAY, OKAY, WE'RE FULLY FUNDED. WE'RE SHOVEL READY, WE'RE READY TO GO. SO THAT WAS KIND OF THE METHODOLOGY THAT WE WENT THROUGH AND LANDED ON THIS PARTICULAR PROJECT. BRENNAN, IF YOU DON'T MIND, I'M GOING TO ADD ONE THING. GO AHEAD. SO ONE OTHER THING TO NOTE ON THE ACTUAL PROGRAM ITSELF. SO. OH SORRY. BEN WITH KIMLEY-HORN. THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING HERE. I APPRECIATE THE OPPORTUNITY TO WORK WITH YOUR PUBLIC WORKS DEPARTMENT. LIKE BRANDON MENTIONED, WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON THIS SINCE FEBRUARY. I GOT TO GET OUT AND TOUR FACILITIES AND HAVE A LOT OF EXHAUSTIVE CONVERSATIONS WITH STAFF AROUND PUTTING THE RIGHT PROJECT FORWARD, YOU KNOW, MAKING SURE THAT WE ARE MEETING THE CRITERIA AND THE INTENT OF THE PROGRAM THAT THEY'RE ROLLING OUT. IT IS SOLELY FOCUSED ON THE WATER SIDE, TRYING FROM A STATEWIDE PERSPECTIVE TO SOLVE A LOT OF THE ISSUES THAT ARE GOING ON AT A STATE LEVEL. SO ONE COMMENT ON THE COMPETITIVENESS. I THINK WE'VE GOT A GOOD APPLICATION AND PROJECT FORWARD. ONE OF THE OTHER THINGS TO NOTE IS THAT IT'S NOT AN ALL OR NOTHING. SO WE'RE REQUESTING THE MAXIMUM THAT'S ALLOWED FOR THE POPULATION, BUT THERE IS SOME DISCRETION AT THE BOARD REVIEW LEVEL THAT THEY MAY ALLOCATE SOME AMOUNT. BUT AS THEY DIVVY UP THE BILLION DOLLARS OF FUNDS, YOU MAY NOT GET THE ENTIRETY OF IT. AND THEN IT WOULD JUST BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF US TO GO BACK AND FIGURE OUT WHAT ARE THE LIMITS OF THOSE REPLACEMENTS TO STILL ACCOMPLISH SOME PART OF THE ULTIMATE GOAL, WHAT WE PUT FORWARD, AND I APPRECIATE THAT, MR. GLEICHER. AND WE WE ACTUALLY DO HAVE THIS PROJECT LISTED OUT IN SIX PHASES, SO WE'RE PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT WE WILL BE ABLE TO PENCIL WHATEVER APPROPRIATION WE GET TO MAKE THE PROJECT WORK, EVEN IF IT'S JUST OKAY. WE DO TWO PHASES NOW, AND THEN WE FIGURE OUT THE FUNDING IN A FUTURE ENDEAVOR. ALL RIGHT. COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER. THANK YOU, MADAM MAYOR. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PRESENTATION. DID YOU JUST JUST MAKE SURE I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY? DID YOU SAY THAT THE MAIN ITSELF IS 40 YEARS OLD? YES, IT'S PRETTY OLD. AND LIKE I SAID, IT'S PAST ITS IT'S GETTING STARTING TO SHOW ITS AGE. YOU KNOW, STAFF HAS BEEN OUT THERE BECAUSE THAT'S ONE OF THE POINTS OF PROOF THAT WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO SUBMIT ALONG WITH THE APPLICATION, IS THE WORK ORDERS THAT WE'VE DONE OVER THE YEARS FIXING BRAKES AND SUCH LIKE THAT. SO STARTING TO SHOW ITS AGE. SO IT IS TIME FOR A REASONABLE REPLACEMENT. OKAY. AND FOR THE PRESENTATION, YOU WERE SAYING THAT AS SHE WAS ASKING ABOUT WHETHER WE GET THE GRANT OR NOT, THAT YOU ALREADY HAD ANOTHER IT WOULD BE PART OF A BOND, A FUTURE BOND TO, IN ORDER TO DO THE PROJECT, BECAUSE THE PROJECT HAS TO BE DONE. IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING YOU SAY PROJECT HAS TO BE DONE. SO IT WOULD BE OUR RECOMMENDATION TO PUT IT IN A FUTURE BOND. SO AS AS I'M DOING RIGHT NOW, WE'RE ALWAYS LOOKING AT OTHER TYPE OF FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. AS A MATTER OF FACT, AS A PART OF THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT THAT I HAVE WITH KIMLEY-HORN AND MR. GLYCART, THEY'VE BEEN CHARGED WITH LOOKING AT OTHER FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES. SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT PUTTING, YOU KNOW, ALL OF OUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET, BUT WE'RE HOPING FOR THE BEST WITH THIS WITH THIS PARTICULAR ONE OPPORTUNITY IS THIS THIS PARTICULAR THING IS ONLY ONE YEAR. IS IT IS IT ONLY AVAILABLE THIS YEAR? SO THIS IS THIS IS A ONE TIME NO MATCH GRANT OPPORTUNITY. NORMALLY WHEN YOU HAVE GRANTS, YOU HAVE TO FIGURE OUT YOU HAVE THE CITY OR YOUR ENTITY HAS TO PUT UP SO MUCH MONEY AND MATCH WHATEVER YOU'RE AWARDED. RIGHT? LIKE I SAID, THROUGH THE TEXAS STATE LEGISLATURE, THEY DIDN'T REALLY APPROPRIATE THESE FUNDS BEFORE THEY PASSED THE BUDGET. SO THIS WAS INCLUDED IN THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE. SO UNFORTUNATELY, THEY WELL, I SAY UNFORTUNATELY, [02:30:02] FORTUNATELY FOR US, THEY DIDN'T ALLOW THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD TO APPROPRIATE THIS, THIS FUNDING INTO THEIR CURRENT FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES THAT THEY HAD. SO THE TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD ACTUALLY HAD TO KIND OF CREATE THIS WHAT'S CALLED THE WATER SUPPLY INFRASTRUCTURE GRANT TO ACTUALLY HOLD THESE FUNDS. AND THAT'S WHY THERE'S REALLY A QUICK TURNAROUND TIME. THE APPLICATION IS ACTUALLY DUE BY JULY 30TH, AND THEY ANTICIPATE THAT THEY WILL DISBURSE FUNDS BY SPRING OF 2027. OKAY. BUT JUST FOR CLARITY, THOUGH, I'M ASKING IF YOU DON'T GET IT THIS YEAR, CAN IT BE REAPPLIED NEXT YEAR? FROM MY UNDERSTANDING, THIS IS THIS WAS A ONE TIME APPROPRIATION. YES. SO BUT THERE WILL BE OTHER OPPORTUNITIES. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY WITH TEXAS WATER DEVELOPMENT BOARD. THANK YOU. YOU'RE WELCOME BACK. YEAH. AND I JUST JUST WANT TO CLARIFY WE HAVE A CAPITAL PLAN ALREADY IN PLACE. WHAT WE DO IS WE APPLY, WE APPLY FOR GRANTS TO BE ABLE TO UTILIZE INSTEAD OF INSTEAD OF OUR OWN BONDING OR OUR OWN FUNDS ENTERPRISE FUNDS IN THIS INSTANCE, IF WE, IF WE'RE ABLE, IF WE'RE ABLE TO BE SUCCESSFUL IN THIS GRANT, WHICH IS THE MAXIMUM THAT WE'RE ASKING FOR, WHICH IS 20, $21 MILLION, WE'LL BE ABLE TO REDIRECT THE FUNDS SOMEWHERE ELSE WHERE WE STILL HAVE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE. ANY CITY WILL HAVE DEFERRED MAINTENANCE THAT IS IN EXCESS OF ITS CURRENT CAPACITY. SO THAT'S THE WHOLE PURPOSE OF THE BOND OR FUTURE FUNDING. SO IN THAT CASE, MR. LACEY AND KIMLEY-HORN HAVE BEEN PROACTIVE IN TRYING TO SECURE THOSE FUNDS. SO ONE, WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO TAKE CARE OF THOSE DEFERRED IMPROVEMENTS. BUT TWO, HAVE THE ABILITY TO KIND OF DIVERT WHATEVER FUNDS WE WERE GOING TO USE TO DO OTHER THINGS FOR THE CITY. SO THAT'S THE WHOLE IDEA OF OF THIS GRANT. WE HAVE A PLAN, WE HAVE A SIP, AND WE'RE MOVING FORWARD WITH THAT SIP. OUR OPPORTUNITY IS TO UTILIZE SOMEONE ELSE'S MONEY, IF YOU WILL. AND WE'RE TRYING TO UTILIZE THE HELP OF ONE OF OUR BIGGEST SUPPORTER, WHICH IS A STATE REPRESENTATIVE TO SUPPORT US ON THIS. SO WE DO HAVE, WE BELIEVE WE HAVE A GOOD CHANCE OF THIS, BUT I'M GOING TO TELL YOU, YOU KNOW, THE STATE CAN CAN DO WHATEVER THE STATE DESIRES. AND THOSE PROGRAMS ARE ONE TIME THEY COULD REPEAT IT NEXT YEAR IF THEY HAVE EXCESS FUNDS TO PROVIDE. BUT THAT'S NOT A GUARANTEE. THAT'S WHY WE TAKE EVERY SINGLE OPPORTUNITY TO APPLY FOR THOSE FUNDS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR, AND I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT I HEARD YOU CORRECTLY. THIS IS NOT ALL OR NOTHING. SO THEY COULD EVALUATE OUR APPLICATION AND SAY, WE'LL GIVE YOU THE FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT, BUT NOT THIS PROJECT OR PART OF THIS PROJECT, BUT NOT ALL OF IT. IS THAT WHAT I'M HEARING? CORRECT. OR INSTEAD OF, YOU KNOW, THE FULL 21 MILLION, YOU MIGHT GET 7 MILLION. AND THEN AT THAT POINT, WE WILL HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION ON WHAT WILL FIT PHASING WISE. THE PROJECT WILL HAVE TO MAKE THAT DECISION. GREAT. SURE. WELL, WE'LL HOPE FOR THE BEST. ALL RIGHT. SO COUNCIL, THERE IS A MOTION ON THE FLOOR TO APPROVE AS PRESENTED. LET'S GO. LET'S START HERE. COUNCIL MEMBER. PARKER. YES. COUNCILMAN WATERS. YES. COUNCILMAN. WESLEY. YES. I'M A YES AS WELL. COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH. YES. MAYOR PRO TEM YES. AND COUNCIL MEMBER HUGHES. YES. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. COUNCIL. AT THIS TIME WE'LL HAVE THE FINAL ITEM ON OUR REGULAR AGENDA. [3. Consider authorizing the City Manager to accept the completion of construction works for the 2023 Renovation and Replacement Program Water and Sewer Improvements Phase 1A Project] PLEASE CONSIDER AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS FOR THE 2023 RENOVATION AND REPLACEMENT PROGRAM. WATER AND SEWER IMPROVEMENTS, PHASE ONE A PROJECT. HELLO, MD.. HOW ARE YOU? GOOD. HONORABLE MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU. SO TONIGHT, THIS AGENDA ITEM IS BASICALLY FORMALLY ACCEPT THE CONSTRUCTION OF 2023. RENOVATION AND REPLACEMENT R&R PROGRAM. WATER AND SEWER IMPROVEMENT PHASE ONE PROJECT. NEXT SLIDE. OKAY. THANK YOU. THIS IS OUR LIST OF AGENDA. WE HAVE TOTAL EIGHT SLIDES WHICH INCLUDES SOME BASIC BACKGROUND INFORMATION TIMELINE, [02:35:06] COST AND PICTURE. AND THEN THE CITY COUNCIL REQUEST. SO THIS SLIDE SHOWS YOU THE LOCATION OR LIMIT OF THE PROJECT. THE PURPOSE WAS TO REPLACE THE OLD WATER AND SANITARY SEWER LINES WITHIN THE RESIDENTIAL SUBDIVISION USING A TRENCHLESS TECHNOLOGY AND PIPE BURSTING CONSTRUCTION METHOD, WHICH ACTUALLY REDUCES THE NECESSITY OF EXCAVATION OF EXISTING ROADWAY, AND IT HELPS TO COMPLETE THE PROJECT QUICKER. SO THOSE ARE THE FOUR ROADWAY THAT WAS PART OF THIS PROJECT. RENDER DRIVE. WOODHAVEN DRIVE, WOODLAWN DRIVE AND LAKEWOOD DRIVE. YOU CAN SEE ON THIS SLIDE THE BID WAS PUBLISHED IN NOVEMBER 2020. FOR NOW, WE ARE IN BASICALLY JUNE 2026. SO FROM BID PUBLICATION TO TODAY'S DATE, IT TOOK APPROXIMATELY ONE YEAR, SIX MONTHS. THAT INCLUDES BID PUBLICATION, OPENING, COUNCIL AWARD, CONTRACT EXECUTION, CONSTRUCTION START, FINAL INSPECTION AND COMPLETION OF ANY PUNCHLIST. SO. TOTAL CONSTRUCTION CONTACT CALENDAR DAYS WAS ACTUALLY 298 DAYS. THE CONSTRUCTION THE CONTRACTOR TOOK 286 DAYS. SO THAT IS JUST 12 DAYS LESS THAN THE ALLOWABLE CONTACT TIME. THIS IS THE PROJECT COST INFORMATION TABLE. SO ORIGINAL BID WAS 2.098 MILLION. BUT THERE WAS A CONTINGENCY 10%. SO TOTAL BUDGET ALLOCATED BY THE CITY COUNCIL IN FEBRUARY OF 2020 625 WAS ACTUALLY 2.3 MILLION. THE FINAL PAYMENT AMOUNT IS 2.23 MILLION. SO THERE IS A SAVINGS OF $78,000. SO WE ARE WE COMPLETED THE PROJECT WITHIN THE AMOUNT ALLOWED OR ALLOCATED BY THE CITY COUNCIL. THIS 78,000. WE WILL CLOSE THIS PROJECT. IF YOU APPROVE THIS AGENDA ITEM TONIGHT, WE WILL CLOSE THE PROJECT ACCOUNT BY THE END OF THIS MONTH. THAT $78,000 WOULD MOVE BACK TO THE ORIGINAL ACCOUNT 508, WHICH IS PUBLIC UTILITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECT ACCOUNT. SO IT WILL JUST GO BACK TO THE PARENT ACCOUNT FOR OTHER SIMILAR UTILITY PROJECTS. AND THIS AND THE NEXT SLIDE SHOWS SOME PICTURES DURING CONSTRUCTION SANITARY SEWER AND WATER LINE INSTALLATION. SOME MORE PICTURES. SO THIS SLIDE ACTUALLY GIVE YOU AN OVERALL IDEA WHAT IS HAPPENING. WHAT JUST FINISH WHAT IS HAPPENING NOW AND WHAT WILL HAPPEN IN NEXT ONE YEAR. SO WE JUST COMPLETED PHASE ONE LAST MONTH. THAT IS, THOSE RED LINES ARE ON THE UPPER SIDE. PHASE TWO A IS HAPPENING RIGHT NOW IS THE PAVING. SO WHEN WE DID ONE AIR THAT WAS WATER AND SEWER LINE WITHIN THE ROADWAY OR IN THE RIGHT OF WAY, ROADWAY WAS DISTURBED, SIDEWALK WAS DISTURBED. WE ARE NOW RECONSTRUCTING THOSE ROADWAY. THAT IS THE SECOND PHASE. AND THERE ARE THREE MORE ROADS. ON THE DOWNSIDE WITH PINK COLOR, WE ARE GOING TO PUBLISH THE BID FOR THOSE PROJECTS. THE DESIGN IS COMPLETED. WE ARE GOING TO PUBLISH THE BID IN JULY, AND THEN WE WILL DO WATER AND SEWER LINE REPLACEMENT ALONG THOSE THREE ROADWAY. AND THEN ONCE THAT IS DONE, WE WILL ALSO DO AGAIN THE PAVING RECONSTRUCTION. SO THAT WILL BE ONE B AND TWO B THAT PINK LINE SHOWN THERE ON BEN'S RED BIRD AND OXTAIL. JUST HIGHLIGHTS THAT THERE IS A $78,000 APPROXIMATELY SAVINGS, AND THE PROJECT WAS COMPLETED 12 DAYS AHEAD OF SCHEDULE. STAFF RECOMMENDS THAT THE CITY COUNCIL AUTHORIZED THE CITY MANAGER TO ACCEPT THE COMPLETION OF CONSTRUCTION WORKS FOR THE 2023 RENOVATION AND REPLACEMENT PROGRAM, WATER AND SEWER IMPROVEMENTS PHASE ONE PROJECT. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO ANSWER. [02:40:04] THANK YOU, MR. HASSAN. DO WE? COUNCIL. I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM. MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVE AS PRESENTED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER PARKER TO APPROVE THIS ITEM AS PRESENTED. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS FOR MR. HASSAN? I HAVE A STATEMENT. YES. YOU KNOW, I'VE BEEN SITTING ON THIS DAIS FOR FIVE YEARS, AND I WANT TO SAY THAT I HAVE NEVER SEEN DEVELOPMENT SERVICES GIVE US AS MANY PROJECTS AS WE'VE SEEN IN THE LAST YEAR. AND SO TO YOU AND YOUR TEAM, I WANT TO SAY THANK YOU BECAUSE RESIDENTS HAVE BEEN ASKING FOR ROAD IMPROVEMENTS. THEY'VE BEEN ASKING FOR A LOT OF STREET IMPROVEMENT INFRASTRUCTURE IMPROVEMENTS. AND YOU ALL HAVE BEEN DELIVERING SLIDES QUIETLY. BUT SURELY WHAT I APPRECIATE IS THAT THIS WAS $78,000 UNDER BUDGET. THAT'S MORE MONEY WE CAN PUT BACK INTO OUR STREETS. AND SECONDLY, THIS PROJECT ENDED EARLY. SO PEOPLE WHO SEE PROJECT TERMS LIKE THE WESTMORELAND 24 MONTHS, IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GOING TO TAKE THAT LONG, BUT YOU ANTICIPATE, YOU KNOW, THE UNKNOWNS. SO I APPRECIATE YOU FOR GIVING US THIS UPDATE. WE DIDN'T GET THIS BEFORE THE CITY COUNCIL. THE CITY MANAGER ARRIVED. WE NEVER GOT A FOLLOW UP WHEN PROJECTS WERE COMPLETED. SO I APPRECIATE THIS SNAPSHOT OF LOOKING BACK, WHAT WAS APPROVED BY THE COUNCIL, WHAT WORK WAS DONE AND WHAT WAS THE RESULTS? THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER COUNCILMAN WATERS. THANKS. ACTUALLY, I WAS GOING TO SAY THE EXACT SAME THING. SO Y'ALL ARE DOING A GREAT JOB. THANK YOU ALL FOR SAVING THE MONEY. THIS HAS BEEN CONSISTENT THEME WITH YOU ALL AHEAD OF BUDGET AND SAVING MONEY. SO KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. COUNCIL MEMBER. NORTH. AS ALWAYS, EXCELLENT PROJECT AND EXCELLENT WORK. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. I GUESS WE ALL SHOULD SAY THANK YOU. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. YES, I ACTUALLY MY COLLEAGUES COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES, DID YOU WANT TO SAY ANYTHING? I WE DON'T WANT TO FORGET ABOUT YOU OVER THERE. I APPRECIATE THAT. CAN YOU HEAR ME? OKAY. WE CAN HEAR YOU. OKAY? YES, MA'AM. MD.. DO YOU KNOW WHO? I KNOW YOU KNOW WHO THE DALLAS COWBOYS ARE. I THINK I'VE SAID THIS BEFORE, AND I ALWAYS GIVE KUDOS. YOU THAT QUIET PERSON WHO GETS DONE BEHIND THE SCENES, YOU'RE THE MVP. SO THANK YOU. WE APPLAUD YOU. YEAH, ABSOLUTELY. GREAT. WELL THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH. WE DO HAVE A MOTION FOR THIS ITEM. AGAIN WE DO APPRECIATE ALL THE WORK THAT YOU ALL DO. AT THIS TIME I'M GOING TO START WITH YOU, COUNCILMEMBER HUGHES. SINCE YOU BROUGHT UP THE DALLAS COWBOYS, WE'LL LET YOU GO AHEAD AND START FIRST. YES. MAYOR PRO TEM YES. COUNCILMEMBER NORTH. YES. MYSELF AS A. YES. COUNCILMAN. YES. COUNCILMAN. YES. COUNCILMEMBER. PARKER. ABSOLUTELY. YES. OKAY. THANK YOU. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME, WE'LL HAVE THE NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA. [I. CITIZEN APPEARANCES] WE WILL NOW MOVE ON TO CITIZEN 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 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 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 INDIVIDUAL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS OR STAFF. CITIZENS SHALL REFRAIN FROM MAKING PERSONAL, IMPERTINENT, 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 THE CITY COUNCIL FOR THAT SESSION. CITY CITIZENS SHALL OBSERVE THE SAME RULES OF PROPRIETY, DECORUM AND GOOD CONDUCT APPLICABLE TO THE CITY COUNCIL. THANK YOU, MADAM CITY SECRETARY. DO WE HAVE ANY COMMENT CARDS FROM INDIVIDUALS WHO WISH TO SPEAK? WE DO NOT. THANK YOU. AT THIS TIME WE'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION. SO MOVED. SECOND, IT'S BEEN MOVED BY MAYOR PRO TEM. SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER NORTH TO ADJOURN. [02:45:01] COUNCIL. ALL IN FAVOR, PLEASE SAY AYE. AYE. ALL OPPOSED? SAME SIGN. THAT MOTION PASSES UNANIMOUSLY. IT'S 9:08 P.M. COUNCIL. WE ARE NOW ADJOURNED. HAVE A GOOD NIGHT, EVERYONE. * This transcript was compiled from uncorrected Closed Captioning.