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OKAY, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND BEGIN, UH, THE MEETING
[City Council (Audio Only) on May 15, 2023.]
TONIGHT.UH, WELCOME EVERYONE, UH, TONIGHT'S MEETING OF THE LAKE JACKSON CITY COUNCIL.
THIS IS, UH, MONDAY, MAY 15TH, 2023.
THIS IS A REGULAR SESSION, UH, BEGINNING AT, UH, 6 31, THIS PM AT 25 OAK DRIVE, LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS.
UH, YES, PLEASE SILENCE YOUR PHONES.
UM, AND, UH, COUNCILMAN BAKER, ME, NOT B BLANCHARD IS, UH, NOT HERE TONIGHT.
HE'S ATTENDING A FUNERAL OF, UH, UH, RICK, UH, HEMPLE.
HE, UH, WAS A PAST VOLUNTEER FIRE, UH, MEMBER OF THE LAKE JACKSON FOL FIRE DEPARTMENT.
ALSO, HE, HE'S BEEN IN LAW ENFORCEMENT AND ALSO A, A PARAMEDIC.
AND HIS, UH, FUNERAL IS THIS TODAY, AND COUNCILMAN BLANCHARD WAS A, A CLOSE FRIEND OF HIS.
SO THAT'S WHERE HE IS AT TONIGHT.
UM, PLEASE KEEP THAT, UH, KEEP THE HE FAMILY AND YOUR PRAYERS, IF YOU WOULD, IF YOU MAY.
UH, WE'RE GONNA BEGIN WITH THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE.
THAT'S GONNA BE LED BY COUNCILMAN, UH, MATT BROCKS PLEDGE.
REGENT HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG, AND TONIGHT THE INVOCATION WILL BE GIVEN BY, LED BY, UH, COUNCILMAN BAKER.
FATHER, PLEASE BLESS THIS DAY.
FATHER, JUST THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUNSHINE AND ALL THE REIGN THAT YOU BLESSED US WITH.
BLESS EACH COUNCIL MEMBER THAT'S HERE.
BLESS THE ONES THAT WAS ELECTED ON LAST WEEK, ALSO, BLESS OUR MAYOR, AND PLEASE BLESS US TO MAKE POSITIVE AND WISE DECISIONS TO BETTER THIS GREAT CITY THAT WE ALL LIVE IN.
AND M HEAVEN, FATHER ALSO BLESS OUR FIRST RESPONDERS, UH, FIREFIGHTERS, UH, LAW ENFORCEMENT AND IMS AS THEY GO OUT ON A DAILY BASIS TO PROTECT AND SERVE.
NEXT IT ON THE AGENDA IS VISITORS COMMENTS.
UH, THIS IS THE, UH, WHERE PEOPLE HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO, UH, BRING THE COUNSEL AN ISSUE THAT IS NOT ON THE AGENDA, EITHER CONSENT AGENDA OR REGULAR AGENDA.
UH, IS THERE ANYBODY THAT HAS, UH, COMMENTS THAT THEY WILL MAKE DURING THE VISITOR COMMENTS? AND THIS IS COMMENTS THAT ARE ON ITEMS THAT ARE NOT ON THE AGENDA.
ALL RIGHT, NAC, WE'LL MOVE, UH, FORWARD WITH.
NEXT ITEM ON THE AGENDA IS DECLARATION OF CONFLICT OF INTEREST.
AND THIS IS WHERE MEMBERS OF CITY COUNCIL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DECLARE IF THEY HAVE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON ANY ITEM, EITHER ON THE CONSENT AGENDA OR REGULAR AGENDA.
DOES ANY MEMBER ON COUNCIL HAVE A CLIENT CONFLICT TO DECLARE? ALL RIGHT.
NOT HEARING ANY, WE'LL MOVE ON INTO THE CONSENT AGENDA.
UH, ITEM ONE IS APPROVED MINUTES OF MAY 1ST, 2023.
ITEM TWO IS EXCEPT BOARD AND COMMISSION MINUTES.
WE HAVE ITEM THREE IS APPROVED ONE YEAR CONTRACT EXTENSION TO CROWDER GULF FOR DISASTER DEBRIS REMOVAL SERVICES UNDER THE SAME TERMS AND CONDITIONS.
AND ITEM FOUR IS SET REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING TIMES FOR 6:30 PM ON THE FIRST AND THIRD MONDAY OF EACH MONTH, EXCEPT FOR MEETINGS THAT FALL ON HOLIDAYS, UH, THAT WILL BE HELD ON THE FOLLOWING.
UH, TUESDAY, DO YOU HAVE A REQUEST FOR ANYBODY ON COUNCIL TO REMOVE AN ITEM FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? NOT HEARING ANY.
I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA.
MR. MAYOR, I MOVE THAT WE APPROVED THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS 1, 2, 3, AND FOUR AS PRESENTED.
WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN SINNIA.
WE HAVE A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN BAKER.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO GOT A MOSQUITO ALREADY.
UM, ITEM NUMBER ONE ON REGULAR IS RESOLUTION NUMBER NINE 20, DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE MAY 6TH, 2023 GENERAL ELECTION.
SALLY HILL, WOULD YOU PLEASE READ THE, UH, RESOLUTION? CAN YOU HEAR ME AGAIN? A SECOND.
THIS IS RESOLUTION NUMBER NINE 20, A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS, DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE MAY 6TH, 2023 CITY ELECTION, BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
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CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS, THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY FINDS AND DETERMINES THAT THE FOLLOWING VOTES WERE CAST AT SET ELECTION FOR POSITION ONE, POSITION THREE IN POSITION FIVE.FOR POSITION ONE, MATTHEW BRODIS HAD A TOTAL OF 1,504 VOTES FOR POSITION THREE.
GARY HUNTER HAD A TOTAL OF 598 VOTES, RHONDA SETH, A TOTAL OF 1173.
POSITION NUMBER FIVE, MIKE WALZ HAD A TOTAL OF 672 VOTES, AND JOHN JB BAKER HAD A TOTAL OF 1058.
AND FURTHER, THE CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY FINDS AND DETERMINES THAT THE FOLLOWING VOTES WERE PASSED FOR PROPOSITION A, PROPOSITION A B, SHOULD THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON REMOVE RABBITS FROM THE DEFINITION OF LESTOCK TO ALLOW RABBITS IN THE CITY LIMITS WITH PROHIBITIONS AGAINST BREEDING, SELLING, AND SLAUGHTERING THE RAPIDS.
A TOTAL OF 1161 VOTES FOR PROPOSITION A AND A TOTAL OF 6 51 AGAINST PROPOSITION A AND BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS, THAT THE FOLLOWING PERSONS ARE HERE BY ELECTED TO THEIR RESPECTIVE OFFICES.
POSITION NUMBER ONE, MATTHEW BRODIS, POSITION NUMBER THREE, RHONDA, SETH, AND POSITION NUMBER FIVE, JOHN JB BAKER.
THAT THE CITY COUNCIL OFFICIALLY DECLARES THAT PROPOSITION A REMOVING RABBITS FROM THE DEFINITION OF LIVESTOCK TO ALLOW RABBITS IN THE CITY LIMITS WITH PROHIBITIONS AGAINST BREEDING, SELLING, AND SLAUGHTERING.
THE RABBITS DID GAIN THE MAJORITY OF THE VOTES.
SO I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON THE RESOLUTION, PLEASE.
I MOVE THE, WE APPROVED RESOLUTION NUMBER NINE 20, DECLARING THE RESULTS OF THE MAY 6TH, 2020, THE GENERAL REDUCTION AS PRESENTED BY CITY SECRETARY.
SECOND, HAVE A QUESTION BY COUNCILMAN SINNIA AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER, SETH, ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU.
UH, NEXT ITEM IS ITEM TWO IS THE MINISTER OF THE OATH OF OFFICE AND ISSUE CERTIFICATES OF ELECTION ELECTION TO THE NEWLY ELECTRIC COUNCIL MEMBERS.
MATTHEW, SO SWEAR YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR.
I WILLFULLY I WILL FAITHFULLY OF THE CITY, OF LAKE, STATE, TEXAS LAKE, AND WILL, TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, WILL TO THE BEST PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THE STATE PRESERVE, PROTECT, DEFEND CONSTITUTION LAW.
AND I'D LIKE TO ADD THAT THIS IS, MATTHEW BROUGHT US HIS LAST TERM.
HE WILL BE TERMED OUT IN TWO YEARS, FOUR YEARS.
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J DO YOU SOLEMNLY SWEAR, SOLELY SWEAR THAT I WILL FAITHFULLY EXECUTE THE DUTIES OF THE OFFICE OF CITY COUNCIL POSITION FIVE, CITY COUNCIL POSITION FIVE OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON, AND OF THE STATE OF TEXAS.
AND WILL TO THE BEST OF MY ABILITY, PRESERVE, PROTECT, AND DEFEND THE CONSTITUTION AND LAWS OF THE UNITED STATES AND OF THIS STATE.
YOU WANT TOO? COME ON, I'LL TAKE A PICTURE.
ITEM THREE IS APPOINT MAYOR PRO TEMP.
AND HISTORICALLY, THE WAY WE DO THE MAYOR PRO TIM, IS, IS THAT, UH, WE, UH, NOMINATE, SELECT, AND THIS IS UP SELECTION OF COUNCIL IS THE PERSON THAT HAS BEEN ON COUNCIL THE LEAST.
NO, THE LONGEST WITH THAT HAS NOT BEEN SERVED AS MAYOR PRO TEM.
AND SO FOR THIS YEAR, THAT'S GONNA BE A COUNCILMAN BLANCHARD.
AND SO I HAD A, I CALLED HIM TODAY WHILE I TEXTED HIM TODAY SINCE HE'S, UH, OUT OF TOWN AND NOT BEING ABLE TO ATTEND, BE SURE THAT, UH, IF COUNCIL WOULD BE, IF COUNCIL WOULD APPOINT HIM, IF HE WOULD BE ACCEPTABLE TO THAT.
AND, UH, HE SAID YES, HE'D BE HONORED TO BE THE MAYOR PRO TEM.
SO I'LL NEED A MOTION FROM COUNSEL ON THIS ITEM.
MAYOR, I WILL MAKE A MOTION TO APPOINT COUNCILMAN LANARD AS THE, UH, NEXT MAYOR PRO ALL.
I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER SETH SECOND AND A SECOND FROM COUNCIL MEMBER SANJA.
AND WE'LL MOVE THE SEATS AROUND, UH, FOR NEXT COUNCIL.
AND THAT MEANS YOU'RE, YOU'RE STILL THE FLOATING COUNCIL MEMBER, SO YOU GET TO MOVE ON THE BACK.
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SO WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO ITEM FOUR.
UH, ITEM FOUR IS APPROVED, UH, ORDINANCE NUMBER 2267, ALLOWING RABBITS TO BE KEPT IN THE CITY LIMIT LIMITS.
THIS IS FOR FIRST AND FINAL READING.
UH, MR. UH, MODESTO WILL READ THE ORDINANCE, AND THEN I WILL OPEN IT UP FOR COMMENT.
WE'LL HAVE COMMENTS FROM CITY ATTORNEY ON THE ORDINANCE, AND THEN WE'LL OPEN IT UP FOR COMMENTS, UH, FROM PUBLIC AND COUNSEL.
THIS IS AN ORDINANCE ADMITTING CHAPTER 10, ANIMALS OF THE CITY OF LAKE JACKSON CODE OF ORDINANCES TO ALLOW RABBITS BE KEPT IN THE CITY LIMITS, PROVIDING THAT ALL ORDINANCES ARE PARTS OF ORDINANCES AND CONFLICT ARE WITH SHALL BE REPEALED TO THE EXTENT OF THE CONFLICT.
ONLY PROVIDING FOR A PENALTY, PROVIDING A SAVINGS CLAUSE, AND SUSPENDING THE CHARTER RULE REQUIRING READINGS ON TWO SEPARATE REGULAR CITY COUNCIL MEETINGS.
UH, MS. RUSSELL, YOU WANNA HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON IT BEFORE WE OPEN UP FOR FURTHER COMMENT? SO THIS, UM, REMOVED FROM, AND I'VE ADDED COORDINATE TO, UM, ALLOW.
SO, UM, SO THAT HAS BEEN, WHAT WAS, UM, WILL BE FIRST AND FINAL.
THAT WAS GONNA BE MY QUESTION.
DO WE NEED TO FORMALLY MAKE A MOTION TO YEAH.
PROCEDURALLY TO DO THAT? BECAUSE IT'S STILL AN ORDINANCE.
AND, AND AGAIN, DO WE, BECAUSE WE'LL DO FIRST AND FINAL, WE'LL DO LAST SUSPEND ON, I WAS GONNA SAY, DO WE NEED A MOTION FOR FIRST AND FINAL AND THEN ANOTHER MOTION FOR, OKAY.
SO WITH THAT, WE'LL OPEN UP FOR COMMENTS.
UH, WE HAVE FROM THE COMMUNITY, WE HAVE, UH, TWO PEOPLE HAVE SIGNED UP THAT I HAVE, UH, THAT IS, UH, MS. WILLIAMS'.
I'M LINDA WILLIAMS, 1 25 MS. THE RABBIT ORDINANCE LANGUAGE THAT WAS VOTED ON.
AND NOW, I MEAN, IS THERE ANY DIFFERENCE? NO, THERE'S BEEN NO CORRECTIONS OR CHANGES OR ANYTHING.
I MEAN, IT DIDN'T SAY JUST EXACTLY WHAT IT SAID.
UM, SHALL PEOPLE BE ALLOWED TO BUT NOT BE ALLOWED.
I JUST FEEL WANT, I MEAN, I KNOW WE'VE SPOKEN ABOUT THIS AND I FEEL LIKE I WAS MISLED IN REGARDS TO THE ORDINANCE, AND THERE'S BEEN SOME MATTERS THAT I HAVE BROUGHT UP THAT I FELT I WAS DISMISSIVE OF.
UM, UH, AND THAT IS, YOU KNOW, CONCERNING TODAY.
SO I, I JUST WANTED, I JUST STILL LIKE, IT TAKES ME GETTING TO A HIGHER POWER TO MAKE THINGS HAPPEN.
THANK, AND MS. HUNTER? SHERRY HUNTER ONE 17.
CRYSTAL ON ALL I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW, WHY WAS THE NUMBER OF RABBITS PER HOUSEHOLD NOT INCLUDED IN THE IT'S NOT ON THE BALLOT.
THERE ARE A LARGE MAJORITY OF PEOPLE THAT I'VE SPOKEN WITH FOUR AND AGAINST THIS, AND THEY FEEL LIKE THEY BELIEVE THAT THEY WOULD BE NO MORE THAN THREE PER HOUSEHOLD.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE, I WAS TOLD FROM BOTH SIDES.
UM, SO FOR THAT REASON, I STATE, I BELIEVE THIS MATTER HAS BEEN VERY MISLEADING TO OTHERS AND THE CITY.
CAUSE LIKE I SAID, I'VE TALKED TO BOTH SIDES AND THEY WERE UNDER THE UNDERSTANDING THAT THERE WAS GONNA BE NO MORE THAN THREE PER HOUSEHOLDS.
SO, MS. RUSSELL, FROM YOU WHAT I NEED, I NEED TO KNOW WHAT I NEED TO DO, OBTAIN PROCEDURES AND PAPERWORK TO EITHER AMEND THIS ORDINANCE AND OR POSSIBLY RESEND THIS ORDINANCE.
SO HOW DO I GET THAT FROM YOU? STATE SECRETARY? THE SAME PROCESS.
ANYBODY ELSE THAT, UH, I DON'T HAVE ON THE LIST THAT WANTED TO SPEAK ON, UH, THIS ITEM? UH, ANY OTHER COMMENTS FROM, UH, CITY COUNCIL? IF NOT, I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON THE ORDINANCE.
AND AGAIN, I NEED THIS FIRST, WE NEED A,
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A MOTION TO SUSPEND AND APPROVE THAT, AND THEN WE'LL A MOTION ON THE, THE ORDINANCE PLEASE.I NEED SOMEBODY TO, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE SECOND PARDON ALL.
WE HAVE A MOTION TO SUSPEND THE RULES BY COUNCILMAN BAKER.
AND A, UH, THAT WAS A MOTION AND A SECOND BY COUNCILMAN SANNIA, UH, DISCUSSION.
AND THEN ON THE ORDINANCE ITSELF, I NEED, UH, UH, MOTION ON THIS ITEM FOR FIRST AND FINAL READING, MAYOR, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE ORDINANCE NUMBER 2267 ALONG RABBITS BE KEPT IN THE LIMIT.
FIRST AND FINAL SECOND, I HAVE COUNT THE MOTION BY COUNCIL MEMBER SETH, AND A SECOND BY COUNCIL MEMBER AND HUNT.
ANY FURTHER DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
WE'LL MOVE FORWARD, UH, ON ITEM FIVE.
ITEM FIVE IS DISCUSSED COMPLAINT REGARDING A NEIGHBORHOOD ACTIVITY ON FIVE 13 STERIA, MODESTO, YOU JUST WANNA GIVE US A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND? YEAH, I'LL GIVE A QUICK SUMMARY.
UM, MS. LAWSON, A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO, REACHED OUT TO THE, UH, CITY SECRETARY ASKING, UH, TO SPEAK TO COUNSEL.
UH, WE'VE HAD, UH, NUMEROUS CALLS OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, UH, TO FIVE 13, UH, STERIA.
ANYTHING? I'M SORRY, I CAN'T HEAR.
UH, MS. LAWSON REACHED OUT TO, UH, THE CITY SECRETARY'S OFFICE A COUPLE WEEKS AGO, UH, REQUESTING TO BE ON THE AGENDA TO DISCUSS, UH, FIVE 13, UH, WISTERIA.
UM, OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS, UH, WE'VE HAD NUMEROUS, UH, UH, CALLS FOR SERVICE, UH, FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, AT THIS ADDRESS.
UM, I THINK MS. LAWSON, UM, AND I BELIEVE MS. LAWSON IS HERE, UM, SHE'LL COME UP AND SPEAK.
SHE HAD REACHED OUT TO THE POLICE CHIEF, UH, A COUPLE YEARS AGO AND SPOKE TO THE CHIEF, UM, SOMEWHERE DURING THE CONVERSATION, UH, A DISCUSSION OF WHAT MORE COULD THE POLICE DEPARTMENT DO, UH, TO TRY TO ADDRESS THE PROBLEMS. AND, UH, SECTION 1 25 OF THE PENAL CODE HAD COME UP AND MS. RUSSELL CAN, UH, TALK ABOUT THAT, AND CHIEF ASSISTANT, CHIEF LANGFORD.
AND AT THE TIME, UM, MY DISCUSSION WITH THE CHIEF, UH, THAT HE HAS BROUGHT, BROUGHT ME UP TO SPEED, WAS HE WAS LOOKING AT PURSUING THAT HE HAD TALKED TO THE CITY OF AUSTIN AND POSSIBLY THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S, UH, OFFICE, BUT ROUGHLY IN APRIL OF 21, UM, A TENANT WAS EVICTED.
AND SO CALLS DID DROP OFF, AND I THINK THE CHIEF WAS UNDER THE IMPRESSION OF THAT POSSIBLY THAT MAYBE THE ISSUE HAD BEEN RESOLVED.
UM, GOING BACK AND LOOKING AT, UH, THE CALL SHEET, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL CALLS SINCE THAT, THAT 21, UH, AND THEN RECENTLY, REALLY WHY I BELIEVE IT'S COME BACK UP, THERE WAS A DRIVE-BY SHOOTING IN APRIL.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT'S BROUGHT IT BACK UP TO HEAD AND THAT, AND THEN THAT'S WHEN MS. SLAUSON HAD REACHED OUT TO US.
UH, SINCE THAT TIME, THE CHIEF IS AGAIN, HE'S BEEN IN DISCUSSION WITH THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE TO GET GUIDANCE, UM, ON 1 25.
UM, THIS IS, UH, UH, A, I GUESS A, A POSSIBLE COURT, UH, PROHIBITION ON THE PROPERTY OF, OF ANYONE WHO COULD LIVE THERE FOR A YEAR OR UNDER CERTAIN CIRCUMSTANCE OR A POSSIBLE SEIZURE.
WE'VE NEVER HAVE, HAVE DONE THAT FROM A CITY PERSPECTIVE.
AND SO THAT'S WHY WE'RE TRYING TO GET GUIDANCE, UH, FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
AND I KNOW THE CITY, UH, THE CITY ATTORNEYS ALSO HAS BEEN IN, UH, CONTACT WITH OTHER, UH, ATTORNEYS, UH, CITY ATTORNEYS WHO HAVE, HAVE POSSIBLY HAVE LOOKED AT THIS SECTION OF THE, OF THE LAW.
SO THAT'S WHERE WE STAND RIGHT NOW.
WE DON'T HAVE MUCH IN THAT WE CAN, UH, GIVE YOU GUIDANCE AT, WITHOUT REALLY HEARING FROM THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE, OTHER THAN SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE LEARNING.
AND WE'VE CONVEYED THAT TO MS. LAWSON.
I'VE ALSO REACHED OUT AND SPOKE WITH THE OWNER OF THE PROPERTY AT FIVE 13 WISTERIA.
UM, HE HAS ADVISED ME ON SATURDAY THAT THE CURRENT RESIDENT, HE HAS STARTED THE EVICTION PROCESS, UH, FOR THAT, UH, FOR THAT PERSON.
UM, BUT I KNOW THAT TAKES, UH, SOMETIME I, I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE EVICTION PROCESS.
I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG, HOW LONG IT TAKES, BUT, UH, I THINK HE HAS FORMALLY NOTIFIED THE, UH, THE TENANT, UH, UH, THAT THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH THE EVICTION.
UH, MS. MS. LAWSON, BEFORE WE MOVE ON, CAN WE GET UNDERSTANDING OF 1 25? SIR,
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WHAT I WANTED TO DO WAS, OKAY.I WANTED TO LISTEN TO MS. LAWSON FIRST AND THEN GET HER COMMENTS, AND THEN WE'LL TALK TO HAVE SHERRY GIVE HER POINTS ON THE ONE POINT ON THE LOSS.
MY HUSBAND AND I LIVE AT FIVE SMITH.
YES, THAT'S GOT NEXT DOOR TO FIVE 13.
UM, LESS THAN TWO WEEKS AGO, ON MAY 4TH OF THIS YEAR, WE CELEBRATED, WE RECOGNIZED OUR 30TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE, AT FIVE 15.
UM, THANK YOU FOR AGREEING TO PUT US ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT.
I KNOW THERE WAS BACK AND FORTH, AND Y'ALL ARE DESIGNED TO DO IT AT A LATER DATE, BUT THANK YOU FOR, FOR ME REQUEST.
THERE ARE, OF COURSE, MANY POSITIVE ASPECTS OF OUR NEIGHBORHOOD, BUT LIKE ALL NEIGHBORHOODS, THERE'S NEGATIVE ASPECTS.
WE KNOW THAT CRIME IS WIDESPREAD, IT'S EVER CHANGING IT'S LOCATION AND ALWAYS SPREADING.
AND WE ARE NOT SO NAIVE FROM THE SYRIAN NEIGHBORHOOD TO BELIEVE THAT WE CAN ERADICATE ALL CRIME FROM LAKE JACKSON.
BUT OUR PROBLEMS ARE SIN IN ONE LOCATION, ONE HOUSE, ONE GROUNDS, THE ZERO RIGHT NEXT DOOR.
YOU CAN ERADICATE THE PROBLEMS AT THIS ONE HOUSE.
THE WORLD IN OUR LITTLE CORNER WOULD BE MUCH BETTER.
THE HOME AREA IS A POSTER FOR THE NUISANCE ABATEMENT LAW.
YOU WANNA MAKE IT CLEAR THAT MY HUSBAND AND I, AMONG MOST, AS WELL AS MOST OF OUR NEIGHBORS, DO NOT SUPPORT, UM, THE GOVERNMENT CONFISCATING PRIVATE PROPERTY ON FIRM PRINCIPLES OF FREEDOM AND LIBERTY.
HOWEVER, THIS IS AN EXTREME SITUATION, DEMANDING EXTREME ACTION TO REGAIN REASONABLE SAFETY.
THE APRIL 28TH SHOOTING WAS THE ULTIMATE EXAMPLE OF WHY WE WANT THEM THE RIGHT.
BUT PLEASE KNOW THAT WE HAD REACHED OUR BREAKING POINT LONG BEFORE APRIL OF THIS YEAR.
WE REACHED IT A FEW YEARS AGO FOR A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD.
IT WAS, UH, UH, MR. MUNO SPOKE AT THE MEETING WE HAD WITH, UH, POLICE CHIEF GIK AND ONE OF THE DETECTIVES.
AND, UH, MY HUSBAND AND I, ALONG WITH ONE OR TWO NEIGHBORS CAME.
AND DURING THAT MEETING WE BROUGHT, UH, 16 HOUSEHOLDS, NOT 16 PEOPLE, 16 HOUSES IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD HAD SIGNED, UH, BEGGING FOR HELP, BEGGING FOR HELP IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD TO HELP US RESOLVE THIS ISSUE.
UM, THE ACTIVITY, CRIMINAL ACTIVITY.
AND LUCI HAD REACHED A FAVORED PITCH.
AND RIGHT AROUND THAT TIME, UM, THE HOME, THE HOMEOWNER DID, UH, EVICT THE CURRENT RESIDENCE.
AND BECAUSE OF THAT, THINGS DID DIE DOWN FOR A TIME BEING.
IT IS SHOCKING WHAT IT TOOK FOR THE HOMEOWNERS TO ACTUALLY TAKE ACTION.
WE HAVE SPOKE TO, SPOKEN TO THEM IN THE PAST THROUGH TEXT CALLS, UH, FACE TO FACE AND REALLY HAVE NOT GOTTEN MUCH RESPONSE.
AND THEM BEING, THEM BEING WHO THEY BEING THE HOMEOWNERS.
AND, UM, ONE OF THEIR EXCUSES IN THE PAST, I CAN'T SPEAK FOR HOW THEY FEEL NOW, WAS, BUT WAS THEY HAVE ACTUALLY SAID TO US, WHY HAVEN'T Y'ALL TOLD US ABOUT THIS? WHY HAVEN'T Y'ALL MAKING AWARE OF THIS? WELL, ON ONE HAND, I UNDERSTAND THAT CONCEPT, BUT IT KIND OF FALLS SHORT THAT IT SOMEHOW FALLS ON ME AND MY HUSBAND AND MY NEIGHBORS TO CONSTANTLY BE TATTLING ON THEIR TENANTS.
WHEN MY HUSBAND WALKED DOWN TO THE POLICE STATION, AS A MATTER OF PUBLIC RECORD, THIS WAS IN, UH, I BELIEVE, UH, THE END OF 2020 OR BEGINNING OF 21, UH, WAS HANDED BECAUSE OF HANDED, UH, ARREST REPORTS.
UM, THERE ARE NINE OF THEM IN MY HAND.
AND THIS JUST FROM THE SUMMER OF 19 TO THE SPRING OF 20, ALL OCCURRING AT THE PLACE OF ARREST FIVE 13.
THIS IS A COPY OF THE PAGE EIGHT OF THE NUISANCE ABATEMENT MANUAL
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OF FROM THE OFFICE OF ATTORNEY GENERAL, TARGETING A NUISANCE LOCATION.AND IT GOES ABOUT WHAT, WHAT THOUGHTS TO CONSIDER WHEN YOU'RE, UH, WHEN YOU'RE TRYING TO DECIDE IF THIS, THE PROPERTY QUALIFIES.
THE FIRST CRITERIA IS THE PROPERTY USED FOR PROSTITUTION, GAMBLING, THE DISCHARGE OF A FIREARM.
YES, ORGANIZED CRIMINAL ACTIVITY, SUSPECTED THE DELIVERY POSSESSION MANUFACTURER OR USE OF CONTROLLED SUBSTANCES, SUBSTANCES, CHECK, CHECK, CHECK OBSCENITY, CHECK GANG ACTIVITY, SUSPECTED OR VIOLATIONS OF THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CODE.
YES, AS WELL AS VERBAL ALTERCATIONS.
I WILL NOT, UH, GO INTO ALL THE EXTENSIVE ITEMS THAT I PERSONALLY HAVE WITNESSED.
I AM HOPING SOME OF MY NEIGHBORS WILL, UM, SHARE SOME OF THEIR EXPERIENCE.
I'VE LISTED SOME IN THE WRITINGS I'VE ALREADY, UM, SUBMITTED.
I WILL REMIND, UM, UH, THAT MY HUSBAND AND I HAVE WITNESSED ON TWO SEPARATE OCCASIONS, UM, STOLEN VEHICLES PARKED AT THIS PROPERTY, BEING CONF INVESTIGATED BY THE POLICE.
ONE WAS PACKED WITH FIREARMS. THERE WAS A FRIEND OF FIVE 13, UH, DOWN, UH, ACROSS THE STREET, BREAKING GLASS FOR FUN AGAINST THE CURB.
CAUSE HE THOUGHT IT MADE PRETTY DESIGNS.
AND OF COURSE THERE WAS THE EVER FAMOUS CHRISTMAS EVE WHERE MY WHOLE FAMILY WAS GATHERED AROUND THE, THE FIRE PIT TO JOIN A WONDERFUL EVENING UNTIL WE COULD HEAR THE WOMAN BEING BEATEN, SCREAMING FROM THE HOUSE NEXT DOOR, BEGGING NOT TO BE HIT AGAIN.
I COULD GO ON AND ON, BUT I WILL MOVE ON.
UM, IS THERE A HISTORY OF ARREST FOR ONE OR MORE OF THESE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES AT THE PROPERTY? OBVIOUSLY, YES.
DOES THE PROPERTY HAVE A REPUTATION AS A PLACE TO FREQUENT FOR ONE OR MORE OF THESE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES? MY NEIGHBORS AND I WOULD SAY YES.
HAVE THE LIVES OR BUSINESSES OF PEOPLE IN THE AREA SURROUNDING THE PROPERTY SUFFERED OR BEEN ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY THESE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES? ABSOLUTELY, YES.
AND THE BEST FOR LAST, THE LAST CRITERIA.
WILL THESE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES CONTINUE IF LEGAL ACTION IS NOT TAKEN? I WOULD LIKE FOR THE, THE COUNSEL THAT THEY WILL CONTINUE.
IT IS VERY EASY FOR US TO THINK THAT EVICTION WILL SOLVE THE PROBLEM.
BUT LET'S NOTE THIS IS THE SECOND EVICTION.
NOT TO MENTION THE CURRENT HOMEOWNERS HAVE OWNED THE HOUSE SINCE 2011.
IT WAS FAIRLY CALM FOR THE FIRST FEW YEARS, BUT SINCE THAT TIME THERE'S BEEN A LARGE TURNOVER.
EVERY FEW MONTHS OR YEARS, THINGS COME TO A HEAD AND THEN THEY DIE DOWN.
THEN THEY COME TO A HEAD AND DIE DOWN.
WE HAVE NO REASON TO BELIEVE NONE WHATSOEVER THAT THIS TIME WILL BE ANY DIFFERENT.
WE WANT THE CORRECT PEOPLE EVICTED.
BUT THE PROBLEM IS THESE HOMEOWNERS CONTINUALLY, HABITUALLY TURN THEIR BACKS ON WHAT THEIR TENANTS HAVE DONE TO DEGRADE OUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
AND I HOPE THAT THE CITY COUNCIL MOVE FORWARD WITH THE ABATEMENT ACTION.
AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO HELPING YOU WITH THAT.
MS. RUSSELL, YOU WANNA GO AHEAD AND EXPLAIN, UM, 1 25.
1 25 CODE AND IT, UM, ALLOWS, EXCUSE ME, FILE AND JUNCTION.
AN INJUNCTION MEANS THAT YOU'RE NOT ALLOWED TO NEGATIVE.
THAT'S THE FIRST, SECOND STEP.
IF THERE ARE REASON, SHUT THE PROPERTY SO THAT NO ONE WOULD BE ALLOWED TO ACCESS THE PROPERTY.
SO IT'S NOT A BUT IT IS THE PROPERTY THAT THAT'S, AND THERE ARE, HERE'S A LIST OF OFFICES OR THAT, OR MOST ARE THAT.
SO IT'S UNDER, SO ALL OF THIS IS DONE UNDER COURT ORDER? THAT CORRECT? YES.
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DISTRICT COURT, PRESUMABLY? YES.DISTRICT, DISTRICT COURT GETTING DOWN THE VIOLATION.
SO WE WOULD NEED TO MAKE THE DECISION THAT YES, WE WANT TO PURSUE THAT ACTION AND THEN IT WOULD GO THROUGH THE COURT.
AND THAT'S WHY THE CHIEF WAS WAITING.
WE DON'T HAVE TO FOR, BUT MIGHT, BUT HAVEN'T DONE BEFORE.
UH, THE ATTORNEYS I TALKED TO, EXCUSE ME, COULD YOU SPEAK UP A LITTLE LOUDER? SOUNDS LIKE A BUNCH OF BUMBLE.
WE CAN'T HEAR ANYTHING'S YOUR MOUTH ON THE SPEAKER WHERE THE MICROPHONE JUST CLOSER TO THE MIC.
IF, UH, QUESTION IF, UH, WE PROCEED WITH THIS AND DO HAPPEN IF, AND THE HOMEOWNER DECIDES TO STOP, RENT AND MOVE BACK INTO THE RESIDENCE, HOW, HOW DID THAT WORK? WILL THEY START OCCUPYING THE HOUSE WITHIN A YEAR? DURING THE, THE YEAR? NO, NOT EVEN WHEN WE'RE OCCUPIED.
IF THE JUDGE, I MEAN, THAT'S, THAT'S THE MOST EXTREME FOR THIS, IS THAT, UM, NO ONE CAN BE IN THAT PROPERTY.
WHAT IF THEY CHOOSE TO SELL IT? THEY CAN'T DO THAT FOR, THEY CAN'T DO THAT MATTER.
BUT THAT'S, LIKE I SAID, THE INJUNCTION COMES.
DO WE KNOW, HAS THE PROPERTY OWNER EVER ACTUALLY LIVED IN THIS PROPERTY? I DON'T KNOW.
UM, I, OR IT'S JUST ALWAYS BEEN A RENTAL.
UM, MR. HOOKS, I, THEY'RE HERE.
IS IT PRIVATE OWNER PRESENT? YES.
WHERE MR. HOOKS? THEY'RE HERE IS MR. HOOKS HERE IN THE BACK.
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SPEAK? EVERYBODY ACCUSING ME OF WHATEVER? YES.
THANK YOU LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.
UH, FIRST OF ALL, TELL MY WIFE AND I JUST CONCERNED ABOUT THE SAFETY AND PRESENT.
UM, AFTER ALL SIX MONTHS AGO, OUR SON PROPERTY AND CERTAINLY DIDN'T WANT HIM LIVING IN AN ENVIRONMENT.
UH, MS. LAWSON MENTIONED THAT THERE WERE A NUMBER OF TIMES WHERE ACTIVITIES AROSE AND THEY DIED DOWN.
UM, BUT IT'S CAUSE OF OUR INTERVENTION IN THAT PROPERTY.
THE RESIDENT, UH, AS WIDELY, UH, WHEN, UH, AND I'VE TAKEN ACTION ATTEMPT TO CONTROL WHAT NEGATIVE SITUATION.
AS LANDLORD, I MUST HAVE PROOF LET HIM SPEAK.
LET HE HAS WRITE THE RIGHT TO SPEAK IN ORDER FOR TO PURSUE A, AN EVICTION BASED ON SUCH ACTIVITIES.
WE ALSO WERE BANNED DURING THE PANDEMIC PERIOD FROM ANY EVICTIONS AT ALL.
EVICTION IS WHAT THAT'S DRAWN OUT.
COSTLY AFFAIR NOT TAKEN THAT JUST AND PROOF CALL BELIEVE EVICTED 2021.
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PRIMARILY THE CURRENT TENANT AT, UH, WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH THAT TENANT SINCE FOUR MARCH.ALTERNATE LOCATION SEEMED AGREEABLE TO DO SO.
UH, WE DID NOT PURSUE EVICTION MOVE DEADLINE, LAST DEADLINE FOR LEAVING.
SO THEREFORE, UH, ON SATURDAY.
IS HE HERE TONIGHT? NO, HE'S CURRENTLY RESIDENT.
FOLKS GOT CAUGHT WITH WEAPONS.
FOLKS, YOU CANNOT SPEAK FROM THE AUDIENCE.
HEY MA'AM, YOU HAVE TO KEEP YOUR COMMENTS TO YOURSELF UNLESS YOU'RE STANDING AT THE PODIUM SPEAKING TO COUNSEL.
I WILL SAY REGARD TO THE SHOOTING THAT HE WAS NOT THE PERPETRATOR, BUT HE WAS THE VICTIM.
SOMEONE SHOT AT THE HOUSE AND DROVE AWAY AND FRANKLY, BUT HE'S NOT IN CONTROL OF THAT.
WHAT, WHAT IS YOUR PROCESS FOR VETTING YOUR TENANT? WELL, IN CASES, THE CURRENT TENANT, UM, MY SON WHO WAS RESIDENT, UH, BROUGHT THE YOUNG MAN AND HIS GIRLFRIEND OF THE TIME, UH, TO US AND SAID, UH, YES, THEY HAD TROUBLE WITH THE LAW, BUT THEY'RE TRYING TO GO STRAIGHT AND THEMSELVES TO ME HAD CONVERSATION.
SO, SO, SO WAS YOU LEASING TO YOUR SON AND THEN YOU WERE SUBLEASED TO HIS FRIEND? NO.
DO YOU HAVE, DO YOU HAVE A CONTRACT? DO YOU HAVE A I LEASE CONTRACT WITH HIM.
I HAVE BEEN DOING THE LAST FOR 15 YEARS AND YOU CAN EVICT ANYONE OUT OF YOUR PROPERTY AT ANY TIME.
YOU HAD A PANDEMIC AND IT WAS PUT BEHIND AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
BUT IF A TENANT IS CAUSING ANY KIND OF PROBLEM, EVEN IF THEY'RE PAID UP, THEY SEND YOU A LEASE, YOU CAN EVICT THEM.
SOMETHING I WOULD, IF, IF NOT, YOU CAN LOOK IN THE PROPERTY CODE AND THEY CAN BRING THAT YOU HAVE ALL THE LAWS OF HOW YOU CAN EVICT.
OKAY, WELL I'M, UH, RELATIVELY, UH, NEW TO THE TENANT GAIN.
IF NOT, YOU CAN GET HOLD OF ME AFTERWARDS AND I CAN HELP YOU WITH THAT.
UM, AND YOU KNOW, SCREAMING, THE NEXT TENANT WILL CERTAINLY BE, BECOME MORE RIGOROUS.
UM, PERHAPS EASIER CAUSE THE WATER WILL BE RENTED ONE OR TWO BEDROOMS SIX MONTHS AGO, MINE PURCHASED THE HOUSE FOR MY SON AND A ROOMMATE TO LIVE THERE SHOWING.
AND I WILL SAY, WELL, THE CALL, LET ME JUST CLARIFY SOMETHING ON YOUR JUST STATEMENT JUST MADE THERE IS ABOUT, INSTEAD OF RENTING ROOMS, ARE YOU RENTING, IS THE INDIVIDUAL LEASING A ROOM OR ARE THEY LEASING THE HOUSE? THEY LEASE A PORTION, A SUB CONTRACT.
YOU CAN'T DO THAT IN THE CITY.
YOU CAN'T DO THAT RENT ONE PERSON.
SO IF I'VE GOT TWO PEOPLE THAT WANT TO BE A ROOMMATE, THEY CAN'T, THEY CAN SIGN THE LEASE AT THE OKAY.
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HE NO LONGER LIVES THERE.CORRECT? HE NO LONGER LIVES THERE.
UH, AS I SAID, UH, THE CURRENT TENANT WAS NO LONGER TO HIS PAYMENTS TO VEHICLE, THE WHOLE.
AND SO WE INITIATED DISCUSSION WITH HIM TO, UH, LEAVE THE PROPERTY LAST.
UH, CAN I ASK YOU ONE QUESTION? LET HIM FINISH HIS COMMENT, THEN ASK YOU A QUESTION.
AT THAT POINT IN TIME, GOT PICKED UP ON PROBATION VIOLATION, SPENT FOUR MONTHS.
AND, UH, UH, LET LAND AND PROPERTY AND FINAL ALTERNATIVE, UH, LIVING OUR AGREEMENT THAT GOT THROWN OUT FOR WEEKS WHILE WE, IT'S UNFORTUNATE, WOULDN'T INTERVENE WHERE I COULD MITIGATE OR LIMIT ANY ILLEGAL ACTIVITY.
WELL, LET ME ASK YOU THIS, BOB, LET COUNCILMAN BAKER ASK HIS QUESTION FIRST.
IF THE SHOE WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT, IF THE SHOE WAS ON THE OTHER FOOT, YOU WAS LIVING IN THAT COMMUNITY, THIS WOULD HAPPENED TO YOU.
HOW WOULD YOU HANDLE THIS SITUATION? OR HOW WOULD YOU WANT THE SITUATION NOW? I WOULD.
SO HOW WOULD YOU RESOLVE THE SITUATION WITH 70 CALLS IN THREE YEARS TO PD? WOULD YOU FEEL SAFE LIVING IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD NEXT DOOR? AND THE SHOOTING THAT YOU SAY IS NOT RELATED TO YOUR SON? IT OBVIOUSLY IS BECAUSE NO, HE SAID IT SHOOTING.
IT WAS NOT, HE SAID IT WAS NOT RELATED TO THE CURRENT TENANT.
CURRENT, OBVIOUSLY THEY WANT YOU TO, THE ACTIVITY OF THEIR HOUSE IS WHY THEY WANTED TO SHOOT AT HIM.
CUZ YOU KNOW, HOPEFULLY YOU ARE NOT, UH, A CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR PERSON NORMALLY WOULD BE SHOOTING AT.
SO, UH, CAN YOU GET BACK AND ANSWER MY QUESTION? YEAH, JUST WE'VE GOT TOO MANY QUESTIONS ON, UH, REGARD TO I'M SURE COULD TO WORK WITH THE LANDLORD, UH, TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS GOING ON.
UM, THE CONTACTS THAT HAD RECENTLY HAVE BEEN VIGOROUS TEXT MESSAGES, MY WIFE'S CELL PHONE.
WOULDN'T YOU BE UPSET IF YOU WAS LIVING THERE? THAT'S IT.
I I'M, I'M, I I DON'T DISREGARD HER, SIR, BUT ALL I CAN SAY IS THAT I AM DOING WHAT I CAN TRY AND MITIGATE THE ISSUE AT HAND.
UH, JUST A FEW COMMENTS AND, AND THEN IT BOUNCES OFF OF WHAT COUNCIL BAKER'S SAYING AND STUFF IS THAT, UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE COMING TO US AND YOU'RE SAYING BY SOME OF YOUR COMMENTS AND, AND, AND ACTIONS YOU'VE TAKEN, IS, IS THAT, UH, YOU'VE, YOU'VE KIND OF HAVE A KIND HEART TO PEOPLE, OKAY? YOU'RE, YOU SAID YOU'RE A KINDHEARTED LANDLORD.
THE ISSUE THAT THE NEIGHBORHOOD IS HAVING WITH, UH, YOUR KINDHEARTEDNESS IS, IS THAT YOU HAVE, YOU'RE RENTING TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE KNOWN ISSUES.
OKAY? THE LAST GENTLEMAN JUST GOT OUTTA THE PRISON FOR A LONG LIST OF ISSUES.
AND, UH, YOU'VE ALLOWED THEM TO RENT PROPERTY, RENT YOUR PROPERTY IN A NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU DON'T LIVE IN, BUT THESE PEOPLE HAVE TO LIVE IN.
AND SO YOUR KINDHEARTEDNESS IS IMPACTING THEIR LIVES ON A DAILY BASIS.
AND SO THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE COMING TO US FOR, IS, IS THEY'VE HAD ENOUGH AND THEY WANT US TO TAKE ACTION TO STOP IT.
I I AGREE WITH YOUR, UH, ASSESSMENT THAT, UH, BE WILLING TO GIVE, UH, AT THE TIME WHAT INDICATED THEY WERE GOING DO, UM, HAVING DONE THAT
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LEASE EVIDENCE THAT WASN'T ABLE TO MAKE RENT.NO, BUT, BUT THE, THE FINAL ALTERNATIVE WAS THAT HE COULDN'T MAKE RENT.
WHAT I'M HAVING STRUGGLING WITH IS, IS THAT YOU KNOW, THAT YOU'RE LEASING YOUR PROPERTY TO PEOPLE THAT HAVE ISSUES.
EITHER PRIMARILY THE, THE ILLEGAL ACTIVITIES.
BUT I'M NOT HEARING FROM YOU THAT YOU CHECK ON 'EM ON A REGULAR BASIS THAT YOU'RE TRYING TO FIND, THAT YOU'RE CHECKING ON, FINDING OUT ARE THEY, UH, SEND THAT PROPERTY REGULARLY IN THE LAB? IS THAT RIGHT? BUT HERE'S THE PROBLEM, MR. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS GENTLEMAN, THE CURRENT GENTLEMAN.
BUT THIS ISN'T THE FIRST PROBLEM.
THERE'S NOW AN ESTABLISHED PATTERN.
THERE'S A HISTORY OF POOR RENTAL TO CHOICES.
AND MAYBE THAT'S DUE TO YOUR IGNORANCE OF THE RENTAL AGREEMENT AND HOW THE LAWS IN THE CITY AND THE STATE WORK.
IF I DONE, I WAS EMPOWERED TO JUST RIGHT.
BUT THESE PEOPLE IN THESE NEIGHBORHOODS SHOULD NOT BE SCARED TO WALK OUT IN THEIR DRIVEWAY.
THEY SHOULDN'T BE SCARED TO TAKE THEIR TRASH OUT AT FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING BECAUSE THEY'RE GONNA GET SHOT.
NONE OF US ARE NAIVE ENOUGH TO SIT HERE AND THINK, OH, DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE MAN WHO'S RENTING THIS PROPERTY.
AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS NOW.
AND THAT IS, THAT IS THE CONCERN.
NOBODY UP HERE EVER WANTS TO SEE ANYBODY'S PROPERTIES.
I'M LIKE THE BIGGEST ADVOCATE OF PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS.
BUT PRIVATE PROPERTY RIGHTS COME WITH RESPONSIBILITY.
AND YOU HAVE NEGLECTED YOUR RESPONSIBILITY IN, IN, IN THIS PROPERTY FOR YEARS.
AND I'M JUST SPEAKING FOR MYSELF.
I'M NOT SPEAKING FOR THE REST.
WE, WE HAVE TAKEN ACTION, BUT THEN YOU'VE RETURNED AROUND AND, AND DID, BROUGHT THE SAME ELEMENT BACK INTO THE NEIGHBORHOOD.
YOU TOOK ACTION AGAINST THE WOMAN, HAD HER EVICTED, WENT THROUGH THAT DRAWN OUT PROCESS.
SO YOU RECOGNIZE THAT THAT'S A LONG DRAWN OUT PROCESS TO BE ABLE TO DO THAT.
AND THEN YOU TURN RIGHT AROUND AND YOU RENT IT TO SOMEBODY ELSE WHO JUST GOT OUT OF JAIL.
AND THESE PEOPLE DON'T WANNA LIVE NEXT TO THAT.
I WOULDN'T WANNA LIVE NEXT TO THAT.
YOU WOULD NOT WANNA LIVE NEXT TO THAT.
I, I PUT MY SON IN THAT SAME HOUSE.
IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE YOU WANT TO ADD, UM, TO INFORM COUNSEL? WELL, OTHER THAN TO SAY THAT, UM, WE ARE, WE HAVE LEARNED FROM, WE HAVE LEARNED FROM THE SITUATION, UM, BEING ABLE TO RENT THE WHOLE HOUSE, RENT DIFFERENCE AND PROOF OF INDIVIDUAL THAT, UH, HAS PERHAPS NOT THE ISSUES THAT PREVIOUS RENTERS TO.
UH, WE'VE INVESTED A LOT OF MONEY OVER THE LAST COUPLE YEARS IN THE PROPERTY MAKING REPAIRS THAT THE PREVIOUS TENANT HAD, UH, HAD AFFLICTED ON THE PROPERTY, OUR INTENT DRIVING.
UH, WERE WE, UH, FOOLISH? WERE WE PERHAPS A LITTLE MISGUIDED PERHAPS, BUT, UH, WERE WE INTENTIONALLY NEGLIGENT? ABSOLUTELY.
BUT YOU INTENTIONALLY RENTED TO SOMEONE THAT HAD KNOWN PROBLEMS. WE INTENTIONALLY GAVE SOMEBODY THAT APPEARED SECOND CHANCE STRAIGHT.
NOW WE'RE ALL, UH, WE'VE GOT PEOPLE THAT HAVE SIGNED UP TO SPEAK TO THIS, UH, ITEM AND UH, WE'LL START AT THE TOP OF THE LIST AND I CAN'T READ THE FIRST NAME.
1 0 7 RESIDENT, I THINK JUST, OH, THAT WAS MAYBE, YEAH.
AND THEN WE HAVE UH, UH, MR. SLAUSON, WOULD YOU TO ADD ANYTHING? TAKE A BIG BREATH.
OKAY, JOE, I'M NOT TRYING TO GROW LONG HAIR.
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UH, YEAH, I'LL LIVE THERE AND, UH, A FEW NOTES.MORE STUDIOUS THAN, UH, I'LL ASK THE AUDIENCE WHO IS HERE.
NO, NO, CAN'T, YOU'RE TALKING WHO IS HERE? RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU'RE HERE.
YOU'RE NOT TALKING TO THE AUDIENCE.
WELL THERE'S A LOT OF PEOPLE HERE, RIGHT? I UNDERSTAND FOR THIS VARYING ISSUE.
SIGNED UP TO SPEAKER, WE'RE ALL KINDA MAD.
RIGHT? AND THANKS FOR LEAVING WITH PRAYER.
THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR DOING THAT.
I SAID ON TWO PROPERTIES IN NEIGHBORHOOD.
NOW RECENTLY MY DADDY 88 MOVED IN WITH ME.
SO I HAVE SIX FAMILY MEMBERS HERE, RIGHT HERE, LITTLE ONES.
CAN I DO THAT? LITTLE ONES, MY GRAND BABIES AND ALL THE RESIDENTS OF FIVE 13.
I'LL GET TO KNOW 'EM OVER THE YEARS AS LONG TERM RESIDENTS.
AND I CONSIDER EVERY ONE OF FRIENDS.
THERE'S A LOT OF CHILDREN IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD THAT MAY NOT BE REPRESENTED HERE ENOUGH, BUT REALLY IS.
EVEN IF THEY WAKE ME UP OFF THE GRAVEYARD SHIFT, IT DOESN'T BOTHER ME AT ALL.
YOU'RE KID CHASING EACH OTHER PLAYING.
AND I LIKE TO SOUND LAWNMOWER.
I'M IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD CAUSE I LIKE IT.
ONE THING I DON'T LIKE ABOUT MOWING IS HAVING TO CARRY MY PISTOL WITH ME.
IT RUSTS, IT
AND I LIKE MY FIREARMS AND I DON'T LIKE GETTING SWEATING AND I DON'T LIKE STUFF PULLING ON MY POCKET.
BUT I HAVE TO NOW FOR SOME TIME.
THE RESIDENTS BEFORE COVID WERE CAUSING THE SAME PROBLEMS AS DURING COVID.
YESTERDAY I SAW ONE OF THE OLD RESIDENTS WALKING RIGHT BACK UP THE NEIGHBORHOOD WITH HIS BACKPACK AND HEADING BACK.
THERE WAS A LOT OF PEOPLE THERE YESTERDAY.
MAYBE THEY WERE GETTING SOMETHING OUTTA THE HOUSE.
THEY WERE, I'LL TELL YOU THE WORST ONE, IN MY OPINION, SHOOTINGS WERE BAD.
THE WORST ONE WAS THESE KIDS SHOWED UP ONE DAY.
THOSE KIDS, THEY WERE LIVING THERE, THEY WERE STAYING THERE.
THEM A PEDOPHILE WAS ARRESTED RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY YARD.
NOW I DON'T HAVE THE PICTURE WITH ME.
NEXT THING YOU KNOW, CPS IS COMING.
I CAN SHOOT BACK BUT I CAN'T, I DON'T KNOW.
LOOK AT LARGE PROBLEMS IN LARGE CITIES.
CHICAGO, DAN, HOUSTON, YOU KNOW, ONE, THERE'S A LOT OF REASONS FOR THOSE, UM, CRIMINALS STARTING THAT BREAKDOWN, FAMILY, THAT KIND OF THING.
BUT ANOTHER REASON OF WHAT BIG REASON IS BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T TAKE OUT THAT FIRST GUY AND SAY STOP IT RIGHT NOW.
THE FIRST GUY THAT STARTED CAUS PROBLEMS, YOU END IT AND SOMEBODY ELSE TRIED TO START IT, YOU END IT, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A LOT LESS PROBLEMS. AND THEY WANT, WELL, THE OWNER HOOKED OR HOOKED, WHATEVER THE NAME IS.
THAT'S THE ONLY TWO CHOICES HE'S GOT.
UH, NEXT PERSON ON THE LIST IS, UH, VICTORIA CAMERON.
UM, WE MOVED TOLAND AREA IN AND NO LONGER
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CAREFUL.AND THEY'RE LIKE, THAT IS HOUSE.
THAT'S WHAT EVERYBODY ON THE STREET CALLS THAT HOUSE.
WE DO HAVE HOLES, BUT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS THERE'S BEEN A LOT OF TRAFFIC AND YES, I'M THANKFUL THAT JOSH NOT ENOUGH COPS RECKLESS DRIVING ME.
WE HAVE KIDS FROM ONE OF THE STREET TO THE OTHER AT ALL DIFFERENT HOUSES.
THEY PLAY IN THE FRONT YARD ALL THE TIME.
UM, MY, THE LITTLE DRIVE HOME, THE ROAD.
SINCE THE INCIDENT THAT HAPPENED APRIL, I NO LONGER LIKE TO PLAY DIFFERENT CAUSE SAFE THERE.
UM, AFTER EVERYTHING THAT'S BEEN PULLED TODAY, I'M RENOVATING WITH THE HOUSE.
CAUSE I DON'T WANT LIVE SOMEWHERE WITH MY KIDS.
THAT FEELS BAD AND SAFE CONCERNING THAT THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR AS LONG AS IT HAS.
I DON'T GET ANY, ARE THEY TRYING TO RUN A HALFWAY HOUSE? CAUSE THAT'S REALLY WHAT IT SOUNDS LIKE.
MAYBE THE OWNERS NEED TO GET MAYBE BETTER MANAGER TO BE BACKGROUND CHECK AND FIGURE OUT WHO'S LIVING IN THE RENTAL PROPERTY.
CAUSE THEY'RE CHECKING ON IT REGULARLY.
AND THEN THEY SAY THEY'RE THE COPS WOULD CALL.
THEY HAVE, I DON'T, I DON'T KNOWING THAT, I MEAN THEY AND I HAVE NO IDEA WHY.
ESPECIALLY NEXT DOOR TO PEOPLE LIKE THAT.
IF THERE IS ANYTHING THAT Y'ALL HAVE THAT Y'ALL CAN DO TO GET THEM OUT OR STOP LETTING PEOPLE IN THAT HOUSE WHO THEY'RE LETTING RENT THAT PROPERTY.
I WANT MY KIDS SIDE AND I WANT FEEL SAFE.
I KEEP MY HOUSE LOCKED ALL THE TIME.
AND MY MOM, MY MOM WOULD CONSTANTLY TELL ME NOTHING EVER HAPPENED.
AND I WASN'T GOING FOR THE SHOOTING.
I WAS AT WORK, BUT I CAME HOME TO MY BROTHERS TELLING HE HEARD THE GUNSHOT.
THEY CALLED, COME TO FIND OUT I WENT BACK ON MY CAMERAS AND OF COURSE I CALLED THE POLICE OFFICER THAT I LET THEM KNOW THAT I HAD THE VIDEO, EVERYTHING.
BUT NOT ONLY DID IT SHOW THE DRIVE-BY CAR FLYING THROUGH THE STREET, IT ALSO SHOWED THE RESIDENCE FACING
SO THE POLICE DID TOLD ME THAT THE RESIDENCE IN THAT HOUSE WERE NON-COMPLIANT WITH THEM.
AND AT THAT POINT, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY HERE 30 YEARS AND THEY HAVE ALL OF THOSE INCIDENTS.
THERE ARE THAT MANY RECORDS OF POLICE CALLS.
WE HAVE UH, SAM CHANING 6 0 4.
I CAN COMPLI SPEAK FOR EVERYONE ON ONION STREET WHEN I SAY THAT WE'VE ALL HAD ENOUGH.
THE ISSUE AT FIVE 13 STERIA NEEDS TO END THE CITY AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS INFORMED THOSE OF US ASKING IF THE SITUATION IS BEING HANDLED.
HOWEVER, THE EVENT AFTER EVENT HAS REACHED AN ESCALATING POINT FROM NEIL'S BEING FOUND IN YARDS NOT FAR FROM WHERE CHILDREN PLAY TO DRUG DEALS HAPPENING ALL TIMES OF THE DAY.
THE SHOOTINGS AND BROAD DAYLIGHT ENOUGH IS ENOUGH.
THE INDIVIDUAL AT FIVE 13 WAS JERRY HAS EVEN HAD THEIR CLIENTELE COME TO MY HOME BY MISTAKE, LOOKING FOR THEM IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, ALL ON MY CHILDREN THIS WEEK.
THIS IS HOW OUT OF THE HAND IS A SITUATION HAS COME.
THE OWNERS OF THE SAID RENTAL PROPERTY NEED TO REALIZE THAT THEY REFUSE TO EVICT THESE INDIVIDUALS PUTTING THE FAMILIES ON WITH AT RISK.
THEY TOO CAN BE HELD RESPONSIVE.
WHAT WILL IT TAKE TO GET THE CRIMINALS AT FIVE 13 WAS JURY EVICTED.
WE, THE PEOPLE OF MR ARE AT TIRED OF THE CONSTANT DISREGARD FOR SAFETY OF THE FAMILIES AND THE REST OF THEIA STREET CITIZENS CHANGES NECESSARY AND IS NECESSARY IMMEDIATELY FOR THE CITIZENS OF A WILL BE FORCED TO ADDRESS THIS WITH A HIGHER PROPERTY.
I THINK IT'S, IS THAT RIGHT? DOES DID IT GET YOUR NAME RIGHT? LAST NAME CHENEY ALSO? YES SIR.
AND I'VE WATCHED THIS GO ON FOR YEARS.
I'M WITH FRIEND PETE HERE AND WE'VE HAD MANY SITUATIONS WHERE WE'VE HAD TO REALLY PUT OURSELVES IN DANGER
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CAUSE OF STUFF THAT'S GOING ON IN FRONT OF THAT HOUSE.PEOPLE FIGHTING, ARGUING, CAR SPEEDING.
THIS FRIDAY CAR WENT THROUGH THIS NEIGHBORHOOD AND I TRIED TO SLOW HIM DOWN.
HE GOT MAD AT ME AND STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE STREET, SPUN ITS TIRES WITH HIS BRAKE ON UNTIL IT SMOKED UP THE STREET.
TOOK OFF SIX HOUSES DOWN THE STREET, JUST ONE HOUSE PAST THE DRUG HOUSE.
WE CAUGHT THE DRUG HOUSE, UM, TURNED AROUND, CAME 60 MILES AN HOUR PAST US AGAIN.
AND SUPPOSEDLY I HEAR THAT THEY RENTED THIS MAN IN THIS HOUSE.
I'VE SEEN THE CAR IN THE DRIVEWAY.
I SEE ALL THE CARS IN THE DRIVEWAY.
I WALK MY DOG PAST THIS HOUSE.
MY WIFE WON'T GO THAT WAY NO MORE.
AND I'VE GOTTEN TO WHERE I ALMOST DON'T WANNA GO THAT WAY NO MORE EITHER.
CAUSE YOU NEVER KNOW WHO'S GONNA COME OUTTA THAT HOUSE AND WHAT THEY'VE BEEN DOING.
IF SOMEONE'S BEEN UP ON DRUGS FOR THREE DAYS, THEY'RE NOT NICE PEOPLE AND I'M NOT GONNA GET HURT CAUSE OF THEM.
I HAD TO WALK AWAY WITH THIS RESIDENT THAT HE TRIED TO HELP DO BETTER.
AND I THOUGHT THE MAN WAS GOING TO DO BETTER SIX MONTHS AGO OR WHENEVER HE CAME AROUND.
BUT NAH, HE WENT RIGHT BACK TO THE TRASH.
YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, PLACES AND THINGS.
YOU STAY AWAY FROM THAT AND YOU'LL BE ALL RIGHT.
SO IF YOU KEEP GOING BACK TO THESE THINGS AND PEOPLE LET PEOPLE, PEOPLE THAT GOT EVICTED BACK IN 20 OR WHATEVER IT WAS BEFORE THE HOUSE WAS EMPTY FOR A WHILE.
THE GIRL WAS BACK AT THE HOUSE, THE BICYCLE WAS BACK AT THE HOUSE WITH THE MAN THAT USED TO RUN UP AND DOWN THE STREET WITH THE BACKPACK.
THE GIRL WAS AT THE HOUSE THAT WAS ALWAYS NEVER COME OUT UNLESS SHE WAS HIGH.
I WALK MY DOG TWICE AS TWICE A WARRANT IN THE MORNING AND IN THE EVENING I SEE IT.
I SEE CARS COMING AND GOING AND PEOPLE THAT YOU JUST HAVE TO TURN YOUR HEAD CAUSE YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
AND I'M NOT REALLY A PERSON LIKE THAT CAUSE I'LL, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA BACK DOWN.
YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA LET THESE PEOPLE HURT ME.
BUT WE NEED TO GET RID OF THEM.
AND THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MANY YEARS.
I AM THE ONE THAT FOUND SYRINGES IN FRONT OF THAT HOUSE.
I FOUND SYRINGES IN FRONT OF MY HOUSE AT 5 34 WITH STEREO AND ACROSS THE STREET FROM MY HOUSE AT THE TIME, ALL THIS MAJOR STUFF WAS GOING ON.
PEOPLE WITH BACKPACKS, THEY'D LEAVE WITH NOTHING.
COME BACK WITH BACKPACKS ON THE BACK.
THEY'RE OUT IN THE FRONT OF HIS HOUSE AT FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
CAUSE THEY DON'T WANT THEM TO COME DOWN TO THE HOUSE ON 600 BLOCK IN FRONT OF HIS HOUSE DOING DRUG DEALS AT FIVE O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING.
WE CAN'T KEEP DOING THIS, MAN.
I MEAN, THIS IS, YOU KNOW, MY WIFE WON'T EVEN, IT'S SCARY TO GO OUTSIDE.
YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT.
SO APPRECIATE Y'ALL LISTENING.
AND, UH, ANNE KESSLER KESLER OR KEELER FIVE 10 WORCESTER.
I CAME AND TALKED TO THE POLICE, UH, LAST YEAR ABOUT A MAN ON MY FRONT PORCH WHO THREW A POTTED PLANT UP AGAINST MY WINDOW AS HARD AS HE COULD.
AND, UM, STARTED SLAMMING HIS FISTS AGAINST MY DOOR.
AND THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF MY WONDERFUL STAY AT FIVE 10 WEST JU.
UM, THE MAN WAS OUT OF HIS MIND DRUNK OR IN ON DRUGS.
UM, WENT DOWN THE NEXT WEEK AND TALKED TO A INVESTIGATOR OR A LIEUTENANT AND WAS TOLD THAT HE WAS NOT CHARGED WITH ANYTHING EXCEPT OUTSTANDING TRAFFIC WARRANTS.
I WONDERED WHAT WAS GOING ON AT THAT TIME AND WHAT WAS BEING DONE THEN.
I STARTED NOTICING FIVE 13 AND FIVE 13 IS A NIGHTMARE FOR EVERYBODY BECAUSE YOU CAN TELL BY THE BIKE RIDERS AND THE SAME PEOPLE THAT WALK UP AND DOWN THE STREET AT ALL HOURS OF THE DAY AND NIGHT THAT THESE PEOPLE ARE A LITTLE BIT OFF AND DON'T KNOW WHERE THEY'RE GOING EXCEPT THEY'RE GONNA GO GET THEIR DRUGS.
I AM A LICENSED CHEMICAL DEPENDENCY COUNSELOR SINCE 1978.
I KNOW THESE PEOPLE WORKED WITH THEM FOR 32 YEARS.
THESE PEOPLE ARE DRUG ADDICTS.
WE ALL RAN OUT INTO THE STREET DURING THE SHOOTING.
I WAS SCARED TO DEATH THAT ONE OF THE KIDS.
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THAT PLAY OUTSIDE FROM THE AGES OF, FROM TODDLERS ON UP.A MIRACLE THAT ONE OF THOSE KIDS DID NOT GET SHOT.
THAT IS WHEN I SAID, OKAY, YOU KNOW, ALL THE PHONE CALLS THAT I'VE MADE ABOUT THE, THE LOUD BOOM BOOM MUSIC AND ALL THAT KIND OF STUFF.
I'VE MADE SEVERAL CALLS TO THE POLICE ABOUT THAT.
AND YOU KNOW, AT ONE 30 AND TWO O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S, THAT'S GRIPING AND, AND NOT LIKING THE GENERAL, GENERAL THINGS THAT ARE GOING ON.
BUT THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUS.
THESE PEOPLE DO NOT CARE ABOUT LIFE AND DEATH.
AND WHEN YOU GET TO THE LIFE AND DEATH PART OF THIS, THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.
AND I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY HOME IMPROVEMENTS DONE TO THE HOUSE.
AS A MATTER OF FACT, THE GARAGE DOOR HAS TWO HUGE HOLES, GLASS HOLES IN IT WHERE THEY LOOKS LIKE SOMEBODY'S TRYING TO BREAK IN THE GARAGE DOOR.
I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE OWNER IS TALKING ABOUT, ABOUT HOME IMPROVEMENTS, BUT I HAVE NOT SEEN ANY, I'VE SEEN SEVERAL B O BIKES THAT THEY RIDE CONSTANTLY OVER THERE.
YOU CAN RECOGNIZE THE SAME PEOPLE.
THE SAME PEOPLE ARE GOING IN AND OUT.
YOU KNOW, CARS, IT'S THE SAME CAR.
EVERYBODY THAT'S ON THE BLOCK KNOWS WHO GOES IN AND OUT.
THE GIRLS DOESN'T GO IN AND OUT.
I MEAN, EVERYBODY, WE KNOW 'EM.
AND SO IT'S JUST LIKE WE'RE BEING IGNORED.
AND I THINK THAT'S THE FRUSTRATION OF, OF THE, YOU KNOW, SEEING THEM.
WE KNOW, WE KNOW WE'RE IN DANGER AND SO NOBODY WANT, WANTS TO WALK THEIR DOOR DOWN AND WALK THEIR DOG DOWN THE STREET.
NOBODY WANTS TO DO ANYTHING THAT YOU DO IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD.
ALRIGHT, WHICH WAY DID THAT GO? IS IT CLOSER THIS WAY? SO I KNOW WE'VE ALREADY STATED THAT THE PD IS, UH, PURSUING, UH, ALONG WITH UH, UH, CITY ATTORNEY, UH, NEXT STEPS ON THIS, UM, 1 25.
AND WHAT DO WE NEED TO DO TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT? IS THAT CORRECT? SHERRY AND ASSISTANT CHIEF.
CAN, CAN YOU TELL US WHAT WE'RE DOING TODAY AT THE PD WITH, UH, CONCERNING THIS AS MUCH AS YOU CAN? MAYOR, COUNSEL, UH, FIRST OF ALL, I JUST WANNA APOLOGIZE THAT, UH, CHIEF
THE, UH, ONE MANDATE TRAINING A YEAR THAT HE IS REQUIRED TO GO TO HAPPENED TO FOLLOW.
UM, NONE OF THESE PEOPLE ARE WRONG.
UM, THIS ACTIVITY HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR YEARS.
UM, THE REACTIVE AND PROACTIVE STEPS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS TAKEN OVER THOSE YEARS TO ADDRESS THOSE CONCERNS, UM, HAVE WORKED TEMPORARILY.
UM, EACH TIME WE ARE ABLE TO AFFECT SOME OF THE CRIMINAL ACTIVITY AT THAT ADDRESS.
UM, WHETHER IT'S ARRESTING THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE THERE OR THE PEOPLE WHO FREQUENT THERE, UM, CUZ THEY'RE NOT ALWAYS RESIDENTS.
UM, WE DO FIND A LITTLE BIT OF A LULL IN THE ACTIVITY.
UM, AND THEN IT, IT COMES UP AGAIN, WHETHER THAT'S NEW RESIDENTS OR NEW VISITORS, ROOMMATES OF THE, THE, THE RESIDENCE.
SO THESE PEOPLE'S CONCERNS ARE ABSOLUTELY VALID ABOUT THE ADDRESS AND THERE'S, THERE'S PLENTY OF DOCUMENTATION SUPPORT THAT.
UM, ALONG WITH, UH, TEXAS, UH, CIVIL REMEDIES CODE, UH, 1 25, WE HAVE FILED ALL OF THE DOCUMENTATION THAT EXIST WITH THE POLICE DEPARTMENT REGARDING THIS ADDRESS TO THE TEXAS, TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE.
UM, WE HAVE REQUESTED THAT THEY REVIEW ALL OF THAT INFORMATION REGARDING TITLE 1 25, UM, IN THE HOPES THAT MAYBE THEY WILL BE ABLE TO, UH, IF IT MEETS THEIR CRITERIA, MOVE FORWARD ON THEIR SIDE, TAKING CIVIL ACTION AGAINST THE PROPERTY ITSELF, UM, TO A FAITH ACTIVITY AT THAT.
SOME OF THE MORE RECENT ACTIVITY THAT WE'VE HAD, UM, A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE OF THE PRODUCTIVITY THAT WE'VE BEEN TRYING TO CONDUCT THERE.
UM, INCREASED PATROLS, NOT ALWAYS, UH, MARKED PATROLS, BUT THERE HAS BEEN UNDERCOVER PATROLS OF THAT ADDRESS.
WE ARE AWARE OF THE ACTIVITY AND ESPECIALLY DRUG ACTIVITY GOING ON THERE.
THERE HAS BEEN UNDERCOVER NARCOTIC ACTIVITY TAKING PLACE AT THAT HOUSE.
UM, WITHOUT GETTING INTO TOO MANY DETAILS, UM, ABOUT ONGOING INVESTIGATIONS, UH, SOME OF THAT ACTIVITY AND INFORMATION GLEANED FROM IT DID RESULT IN THE ARREST OF THE CURRENT RESIDENCE
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ON FRIDAY.UM, AND THAT THE CHARGES INCLUDED, UH, NARCOTICS STAND AWAY.
SO I DON'T KNOW, UM, WHO ELSE MIGHT BE COMING IN AND OUT OF THE HOUSE PRESENTLY OR THAT THERE IS ANY OTHER ACTUAL RESIDENCE AT THE HOUSE CURRENTLY.
UM, BUT OUR, OUR PATROLLING OF THE AREA, UM, BOTH MARK AND UNMARKED WILL CONTINUE UNTIL WE'RE CERTAIN THAT THE ACTIVITY AS FAR AS WE ARE CAPABLE OF AFFECTING AS AB EVA AND AWAITING RESPONSE FROM THE O OR THE COUNCIL FOR ANY POSSIBLE FUTURE ON THE PROPERTY.
SHERRY, IF THE O A DOESN'T DECIDE, OH, THE ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE GET IT BACKWARDS HERE, UH, IS THAT'S ATTORNEY.
UM, IF THEY DON'T, IF THEY DON'T DECIDE TO TAKE THE CASE THEN ON THEMSELVES, THEN WHAT'S THE NEXT STEP? SO, UM, I CAN TAKE THE CASE.
IT'S JUST SO HOW SOON DO YOU THINK WE MIGHT HEAR FROM, I KNOW THEY'RE SLOW.
AND DO THEY HAVE YOUR NUMBER OR THEY CORRESPONDENCE? CORRECT.
YOU HAPPEN TO KNOW IF THIS, IS THIS AN ACTION IN ROOM OR IS IT PERSONAL AGAINST THE OWNER? IT'S EXPLAIN, YEAH.
AN ACTION IN RIM IS AN ACTION AGAINST THE PROPERTY ITSELF VERSUS AN ACTION HIM FOR STONE IS AGAINST THE INDIVIDUAL WHO OWN THE PROPERTY.
YEAH, BECAUSE WE CAN GET, DO WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE AGING'S OFFICE OR CAN WE GO AHEAD AND START ON OUR END? AND IF THEY PICK IT UP, GREAT.
NOT, WE'VE GOT THE BALL ROLLING.
SO IS THIS AN ACTION OF A, IS THIS A TOOL FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT PER SE VERSUS A CITY ACTION? I GET WHAT I'M ASKING.
I MEAN, THIS IS A, THIS IS IN A TOOLBOX OF LAW ENFORCEMENT OR IS THIS A THIS IS A CITY ACTS DOUBLE PRACTICE.
IT'S, IT'S A, I MEAN, IT'S, IT'S, I MEAN, THE POLICE ARRIVED TO
RIGHT? SO, UM, THIS IS, THIS IS, YEAH.
I THINK THAT'S ALSO THE DILEMMA OF IN TWO, IN 2021 WHEN MS. LAWSON ORIGINALLY APPROACHED, YOU KNOW, THE CHIEF, THE CHIEF HAD ASKED HER, I BELIEVE, UM, YOU KNOW, FOR A LETTER OF SUPPORT AND THEN WAS GETTING LETTERS FROM, UH, THE NEIGHBORHOOD OF STARTING TO BUILD A, A CASE.
UM, AND SO I, I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A TOOL THAT WE WOULD WANT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO DO WITHOUT GUIDANCE FROM, YOU KNOW, UH, CITY COUNCIL.
WELL, I WOULD HOPE THAT, I WOULD'VE HOPED THAT IF, IF IT WOULD'VE GONE, IF WE WOULDN'T HAVE SEATED SUBSIDE, LIKE THE CHIEF IS SAYING, LIKE THE HISTORY SHOW IS THAT THING WOULD'VE COME TO US.
SO, SO WHAT DID WE STAND AS THE, THIS WE'RE WAITING ON THE 18TH.
YEAH, WE'RE NOT, WE, WE HAVEN'T INITIATED IT AS FAR AS US TAKING CIVIL ACTION, BUT, BUT THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS FILED ALL DOCUMENTATION WITH THE O'S OFFICE ASKING FOR THEIR ASSISTANCE FOR REVIEW AND MOVING FORWARD INJUNCTION ON THE PROPERTY.
SO IS THE HOUSE SHUT DOWN NOW OR DID THE HOMEOWNER FILE EVICTION? IS THAT IN PROCESS? THAT'S NOT IN PROCESS EVICTION.
I HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT THE EVICTION PROCESS HAS BEEN FILED AGAINST THE CURRENT RESIDENT.
MY CONCERN IS THIS, YES, THE AG CAN PICK IT UP.
THEY CAN PROBABLY MOVE A LOT FASTER THAN WE CAN, BUT THE BOTTOM LINE IS THIS IS OUR COMMUNITY.
I, I'M CONSTANTLY ALWAYS THE ONE SAYING I HATE THE STATE AND OUR BUSINESS.
AND I FEEL LIKE THIS IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY IN MAKING OUR COMMUNITY SAFER.
AND I PERSONALLY DON'T WANT TO WAIT FOR THE AG.
I THINK THIS IS SOMETHING THAT, I MEAN, AND I'M SPEAKING FOR MYSELF, RIGHT? I MEAN, I THINK THAT THIS IS OUR RESPONSIBILITY TO, TO BE GET ON IT, YOU KNOW? I AGREE WITH CONS, YOU KNOW, SO I MEAN, WE NEED TO TAKE CARE OF OUR RESIDENTS.
WE CAN'T WAIT ON SOMEBODY ELSE TO DO THAT FOR US.
UM, SPEAKING WITH THE, UM, SOMEONE WHO DID ATTEMPT TO SHUT DOWN A PRIVATE, THEY SAID ONE
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HONOR THAT THIS WON'T HAPPEN.AND IF IT DOES, WE WILL PAUSE, JUDGE.
BUT, BUT WE DO HAVE DOCUMENTATION CORRECT.
THAT THIS IS A, THIS IS A PATTERN.
AT THIS POINT WE HAVE NOT JUST A PATTERN OF THERE'S WITHIN 70 CALLS, BUT THERE'S A PATTERN OF A VARIETY OF TENANTS THAT HAVE ALL LED TO THE SAME BEHAVIOR.
THEY USUALLY END UP BEING DIFFERENT TENANTS OVER FOR A PERIOD OF TIME IN SOME REOCCURRING.
AND IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE'S PEOPLE NOT ON A LEASE COMING AND GOING.
SO WHERE DO WE, HOW DO WE INITIATE THE FIRST PHASE THAT YOU JUST TALKED ABOUT, SIR.
WE'LL GET WITH THE, THE OWNER AND HAVE A MEETING.
AND MAYBE SO THAT THEY, LIKE, THEY'RE INVOLVED.
SO THIS IS NOT C ME IF I'M WRONG, AND I HAVEN'T LOOKED THROUGH ALL THE PROVISIONS OF 1 25 AND THE ONE THAT'S IN THE PACKET DOESN'T SAY, BUT I PRESUME AT SOME POINT THERE WILL BE A SURE.
UH, I PRESUME IF IT'S JUST LIKE ANY OTHER COURT CASE, CIVIL COURT CASE, AT SOME POINT THERE WOULD BE A CONTESTED HEARING OF SOME KIND.
AND THAT TAKES TIME TO GET SCHEDULED.
THE, THE, THE, UH, OWNER WOULD BE AVAILABLE AND LEGALLY REQUIRED TO, YOU KNOW, REQUIRE, BUT ALLOWED TO PRESENT THEIR OWN CASE.
AND IT'S NOT JUST LIKE A, YOU KNOW, WE FILE SOMETHING AND THEY START BOARDING UP THE WINDOWS.
BUT THERE'S SOME, I DUNNO, MAYBE THERE'S A TEMPORARY MAY.
MAYBE THERE'S, THERE IS SOME EX PARTE COMPONENT OF IT, AND MAYBE THERE'S NOT.
MAYBE YOU GOTTA GO STRAIGHT TO THE CONTESTED.
I DON'T KNOW THAT, AND I, I, I WOULD HOPE THAT 1 25 AND THE OTHER PROVISIONS WOULD SAY WHAT THE PROCESS IS.
IT'S NOT THAT PROBABLY THAT DOESN'T SURPRISE ME, BUT DO WE NEED, IS THIS SOMETHING LIKE TML WOULD HELP US DO? OR WE, WE WOULD HIRE SOMEBODY OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, I WOULD DO IT OR WE WOULD HIRE SOMEONE.
SO IF I'M UNDERSTANDING YOU SURE IT IS, UH, WE HAVE A LOT OF DOCUMENTATION FOR THE, FOR THE CRIMINAL CASE, BUT THEY HAVE NO DOC, NOTHING FOR CIVIL, SO, OH, WE USE ALL OF THE CRIMINAL.
BUT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT PUTTING THE OWNER, HAVING AN OWNER AGREEMENT WITH WE DON'T HAVE A, DON'T HAVE A CIVIL ONE.
YOU'RE RECOMMENDING THAT WE GET A CIVIL AGREEMENT AND PENDING ON A CERTAIN DATE AFTER THAT HAPPENS AGAIN, WE JUST RIGHT.
SO YES, THAT WAS THE, UM, ADVICE THAT THE ATTORNEY DONE PRIVATE.
AND WHAT TIME PERIOD DID SOMETHING LIKE THAT COMPOS? UH, SO IT'S, I I THINK IS WHAT'S GONNA END UP BEING IS A CONVERSATION AND A DISCUSSION AND AGREEMENT.
AND THEN IF YOU FAIL, IF THE, IF THE PROPERTY OWNER FAILS TO THAT AGREEMENT, THEN WE TAKE IT TO THE NEXT LEVEL.
SO WE'LL HAVE TO HAVE THAT DISCUSSION.
SO THAT'S WHAT I'M HEARING FROM COUNSEL IS SOUNDS LIKE WE WANNA MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT PROCESS AND HAVE THAT MEETING HO HELD AS SOON AS POSSIBLE.
AND OF COURSE, UH, YES, INCLUDE, UH, UH, SOME RESIDENTS, APPROPRIATE NUMBER.
MS. LAWSON, I'M SURE, UH, WOULD BE THE APPROPRIATE PERSON IF SHE'S AVAILABLE, UH, TO BE INVOLVED IN THAT.
AND SO WHEN WE'RE MOVING THE PROCESS FORWARD, AND, UH, ALSO I JUST WANNA REMIND FOLKS, IS THAT, UH, THERE'S A PIECE, THERE IS A DATABASE THAT'S OUT THERE THAT'S AVAILABLE TO EVERY CITIZEN.
UH, AND, UH, I USED IT AT, AT, IN THIS INCIDENT TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE HISTORY ON THAT PROPERTY.
AND YOU CAN GO ON THE INTERNET AT, UH, PC TWO, LAKE JACKSON.NET, AND YOU CAN LOOK UP, UH, UH, BULLETIN'S EVENTS, RECORDS ON WHAT'S HAPPENING AT A RESIDENT AND ALSO CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES THAT'S AVAILABLE.
THAT'S SOMETHING'S BEEN OUT THERE SINCE RAMA'S DAYS.
I THINK HE'S THE ONE THAT STARTED THAT.
YEAH, IT WAS WAY, WAY BACK THERE.
SO IT'S STILL, IT, I, I HADN'T HEARD ABOUT IT IN A LONG TIME, SO I WENT AND CHECKED IT, AND IT'S STILL OPERATIONAL.
SO IT'S, THE DATA'S THERE AND IT'S, IT'S PUBLIC RECORD.
CAN YOU GIVE THAT ADDRESS AGAIN? SURE.
IT'S, UH, P C TWO, THE NUMBER TWO, LAKE JACKSON.NET.
AND AGAIN, YOU CAN LOOK UP, UH, ANYTHING YOU WANT TO, UH, US CONCERNING, UH, POLICE RECORDS.
UH, WELL, I SAY EVERYTHING YOU WANT TO WITHIN LIMITS, OF COURSE, BUT IT'S A, IT'S A GOOD REFERENCE POINT FOR IF YOU'RE LOOKING TO SEE IF THERE'S AN ISSUE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND STUFF.
IT TELLS YOU WHO'S IN JAIL AND, WELL, ALL THAT HAS A LOT OF INFORMATION.
I HAVE A RANDOM QUESTION FOR MR. BAKER.
ABOUT HOW LONG DOES THE PROCESS TAKE? I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S DIFFERENT ABOUT THE PRECINCT, BUT THE EVICTION PROCESS, IS IT LIKE MONTHS OR IS IT SIX MONTHS, OR IS IT A YEAR OR? NO, NO, DON'T TAKE, DOESN'T TAKE THAT LONG.
AND THEY CAN FILE PROPER PAPERWORK, PROCESS, NEED TO LEAN FORWARD TO THE MIC.
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OKAY.COUNSEL, I NEED TO REMIND Y'ALL, WE ALL NEED TO SPEAK INTO THE MICROPHONE.
IF HE WANTS TO, HE CAN SPEAK THE PROCESS ON THE PAPER.
SO GIVEN THAT IN, IN TERMS OF TIMING, NOW THIS IS A SHERRY OR MR. LANGFORD QUESTION.
SO THESE PEOPLE ARE ASKING, THEY NEED RELIEF NOW, NOT THREE WEEKS FROM NOW WHEN WE CAN GET, UM, SOME SORT OF AGREEMENT IN PLACE.
SO MY QUESTION IS, IS THAT THE CURRENT RESIDENT, AND MY, TO MY UNDERSTANDING, THE ONLY RESIDENT IS CURRENTLY HOUSED IN THE COUNTY JAIL.
SO NOBODY SHOULD BE COMING AND GOING IN THIS HOUSE AT THIS TIME.
IS THAT CORRECT? I THOUGHT THERE WAS AN EMAIL.
I THINK THAT WAS BEFORE, BEFORE THIS TIME, PREVIOUSLY.
I'M UNAWARE OF ANYBODY, UNLESS THAT WAS THE ONE THAT GOT EVICTED.
GUESS WE, SO, MR. MR. HOOKS, MR. HOOK IS, IS THERE ANYBODY THAT SHOULD BE COMING AND GOING FROM THAT PROPERTY RIGHT NOW AT THIS POINT? THERE IS NO ONE.
UH, THE OTHER THING THAT, UH, AS AN OUTCOME OF THIS, UH, INCIDENT, ALSO, I'VE, I'VE SENT AN EMAIL TO THE CITY MANAGER AND TO THE POLICE CHIEF.
AND THAT, UH, I, I'M REQUESTING THAT IF WE DON'T HAVE A METHOD TODAY, UH, THAT WE, UH, DEVELOP A METHOD TO IDENTIFY, UH, CRIMINAL HOTSPOTS LIKE THIS.
AND SO THAT IF WE, WE'LL DEFINE THAT.
I'M ASKING PD TO COME UP WITH A CRITERIA.
WHAT DEFINES A CRIMINAL HOTSPOT? AND THEN ONCE THAT'S AGREED WITH COUNSEL ON WHAT THAT DEFINITION IS, IS THAT OUR EXPECTATION THAT I AS MAYOR WOULD EXPECT THAT COUNCIL WOULD, UH, AND AGAIN, YOU GUYS CAN CHIME IN, UH, OF COURSE, BUT THAT, UH, COUNCIL WOULD EXPECT, UH, THAT WE'D GET A REGULAR REPORT WHEN ONE, AN AREA IS DEFINED AND KEEP US POSTED ON WHAT'S HAPPENED.
BECAUSE, UH, WE DO GET POLICE, WE DO GET Y'ALLS POLICE REPORTS FROM Y'ALL, AND WE GET INCIDENTS LIKE THAT HAVE HAPPENED OVER YEARS AND YEARS OF THIS LOCATION.
AND THERE'S NO WAY TO TIE IT TOGETHER.
AND SO WE LOOK AT YOU GUYS TO HELP US TIE THOSE SNIPPETS TOGETHER INTO THIS IS A, A PROBLEM AREA.
AND AGAIN, UH, IN NO WAY DO WE WANT TO MICROMANAGE YOU GUYS BECAUSE Y'ALL ARE PROFESSIONALS AND WE'RE NOT.
BUT WE DO WANNA BE MADE AWARE OF, UH, SITUATIONS LIKE THIS IF WE HAVE ANY MORE IN THE CITY.
THANK YOU FOR EVERYBODY THAT COMING OUT AND, UH, AND RAISING YOUR, UH, OPINION AND YOUR BRINGING TO US, UH, UH, THE TURMOIL THAT Y'ALL HAVE BEEN HAVING TO LIVE IN.
AND, UH, WE APOLOGIZE THAT THAT'S GONE ON FOR SO LONG.
AND, UH, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO MOVE FORWARD WITH, UH, ADDRESSING IT WITH THIS TOOL.
SALLY, CAN YOU GET WITH MR. HOOKS BEFORE HE LEAVES AND SEE IF YOU CAN SET UP A TIME WITH HIM TO MEET WITH, UH, UH, US TOMORROW? OKAY.
IF NOT, WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO, UM, ITEM SIX.
IF YOU WANT TO STICK AROUND, PLEASE DO.
WE'RE GONNA MOVE ON TO, UH, ITEM SIX'S AWARD BID NUMBER 23.
UH, AWARD BID NUMBER 23 0 2 0 5 6 8 2 MATULA MATULA FOR THE ZA STREET EXTENSION AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $458,734.
MODESTO MAYOR, UH, MR. AGARIO SPEAK, UH, TO THE BID.
WE DID RECEIVE, UH, TO, UM, WE'RE RECOMMENDING THE LOW BID.
WE ALSO, UM, MR. GUI IDENTIFIED, WE DO HAVE, UH, ADDITIONAL EXPENSE FOR INSPECTION.
UM, THAT WILL DO WITH A SEPARATE CONTRACT WITH THE ENGINEER AND ALSO FOR SOIL SOILS TESTING.
BUT THIS, RIGHT NOW WE'RE ASKING JUST FOR, UH, AWARD OF THE, THE BID PRICE.
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UM, THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE, UH, THAT WAS APPROVED, UH, BY THE LAKE JACKSON DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION WAS 750,000, UH, DOLLARS.SO THIS COMES UNDER THAT AMOUNT ALSO, UM, UH, JAMES, UM, OUR FINANCE IN DIRECTOR, UM, UH, FOUND THAT WE STILL HAD, UH, APPROXIMATELY $86,000 AND CHANGED REMAINING FROM OUR CONSTRUCTION FUND FROM, UH, HEB, STILL UN UNUSED.
WE HAD USED SOME OF IT IN, YOU KNOW, OTHER PROJECTS, UH, DOWNTOWN.
SO, UH, MY RECOMMENDATION WAS WE WOULD USE THAT FIRST, UH, AND DEPLETE THAT ACCOUNT SINCE IT'S SITTING THERE.
AND THEN WE WOULD GO INTO THE 700 AND FIF 50,000.
SO, UM, UM, TO COVER THE REMAINING BALANCE OF THE PROJECT, I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE SEVEN $50,000 THAT WAS APPROVED BY THE HEF AND STEEL TAX PROJECT FUND WAS, UH, THAT WAS BASED ON A CALCULATED NUMBER THAT WE, SO MUCH OF THE STREET WAS THIS AMOUNT.
AND SO WE MULTIPLIED BY THE CERTAIN AMOUNT TO GET THAT NUMBER RIGHT? CORRECT.
SO WE, WE DON'T WANNA SPEND ALL THAT MONEY CAUSE WE MADE AN ERROR ON THAT.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WE UNDERSTAND THAT SEVEN $50,000 NUMBER SHOULD NOT BE USED AS THE BENCHMARK NUMBER FOR THAT NO JOB.
NO, IT'S ONLY THE PROJECT FUNDS, UH, FOR IT.
SO WE ONLY, UH, SO THE BID IS WE HAVE 490,000 MINUS 80 MINUS 86.
WE EXPECT TO USE 404 OF THE SEVEN 50.
THE REMAINING BALANCE WOULD GO BACK INTO THE FUND BALANCE FOR THE HALF CENT.
UH, WOULD PROBABLY SUBMIT A PROJECT, UH, TO THE HALF CENT.
THEN TO, UH, CONSTRUCT THE PARKING LOT.
UH, THAT'S BEING PROPOSED, UH, AS A REQUEST FROM OUR DONATION, BUT WE'VE ALSO SUBMITTED THAT FOR CDBG FUNDS AS WELL.
UM, OUR, I GUESS OUR OVERALL PROJECT COSTS, I'VE GONNA ROUND IT TO 300.
UH, WE'VE SUBMITTED FOR GRANT FUNDS FOR 235,000.
SO, UM, BUT AGAIN, THAT'LL HAVE TO GO THROUGH THE PROJECT PROCESS ALL OVER AGAIN.
UH, WHEN THEY HAD THE PUBLIC HEARING, THEY ONLY HAD IT FOR THE ROAD EXTENSION, SO IT WOULDN'T, UM, BUT OVERALL, I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, WE'LL, WE'LL HAVE THAT PROJECT, YOU KNOW, WE'LL GO AGAIN.
SO, UH, I ANTICIPATE WE'RE USING 404 OR 405,000 OF THE SEVEN 50 FUND.
AND ALSO THIS, UH, CONTRACT IS CONTINGENT UPON US RECEIVING THE, UH, EASEMENTS.
UM, WE'RE ASKING THAT, UM, TOWARD THE BID, BUT IT'S STILL CONTINGENT ON RECEIVING RIGHT.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR SAL SINCE WE MADE HIM STAND HERE? YEAH,
NO, I MEAN, MR. THAT, WELL, UH, THE ONLY THING THAT THERE IS 20 DAYS AS BEING THE CALENDAR DAYS, THAT'S, THIS PROJECT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, UH, COMPLETED IN.
SO, UM, THAT'S THE OTHER ROUTE.
SO AS FAR AS THIS PROJECT MOVING FORWARD, THE ONLY THING IF WE AWARD THE BID TONIGHT, THE ONLY THING THAT WOULD BE HOLDING US UP IS, UH, GETTING THE, UH, EASY EASEMENTS CORRECT.
AND THE EASEMENTS, UH, THE E THE WELL, THE RIGHT OF WAY, RIGHT OF WAY.
AND THE RIGHT OF WAY COULD TAKE EITHER FORM TO TAKE, UH, THE, THE FORM OF A NATURAL DEED, UH, GIVEN TO THE CITY THAT IS GONNA BE RECORDED, UH, FOLLOWED BY AN OFFICIAL PLANNING OF THAT, OF THAT RIGHTWAY.
SO, UH, BUT IT CAN BE DONE IN A SHORT, IN A SHORT ORDER, BUT CREATING THE, THAT DESCRIBES THE, UH, THE RIGHT OF WAY, THE SIX RIGHT OF WAY, AND IT'D BE DULY, UH, RECORDED THE PEN.
SO, AND AS FAR AS THE CONTRACTOR, THE CONTRACTOR IS TO JUST SITTING THERE TIGHT, THEY'RE WANTING TO MOVE INTO THIS THING AS SOON AS THEY CAN.
THEY'RE WORKING ON TWO OTHER PROJECTS FOR US.
SO THEY ARE GONNA BE TRYING TO GETTING EVERYTHING AT THE SAME TIME.
SO, SO THIS IS PRETTY MUCH A STRAIGHT ROAD, OR IS A LITTLE, GOT A LITTLE JIG TO IT.
THERE'S, HE IS GONNA BE A PERCEPTIBLE PRO, BASICALLY WHAT I KNOW.
IS THAT AN ENGINEERING TERM? YEAH,
IT'S A, IT'S A STRAIGHT ROAD BASED ON LAKE JACKSON STANDARD.
AND THEN IT'S BEING BUILT TO THE CURRENT RIGHT.
TO OUR STANDARDS, AND IT'S GONNA BE, UH, INSPECTED TO OUR STANDARDS.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ON THIS ITEM? IF NOT, I'LL TAKE A MOTION.
MAYOR, I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO AWARD FIFTH NUMBER 23 0 2 0 5 68
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MATULA MATULA FOR THE AZELIA STREET EXTENSION IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $458,734.SECOND, I HAVE A MOTION FROM COUNCIL MEMBER SETH AND A SECOND FROM COUNCILMAN BAKER.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? YES, WE DO.
WE NEED TO ADD THE CONTINGENCY PART POINTED TO THAT.
RIGHT NOW, THERE'S NO CONTINGENCY MENTIONED ON THE MOTION.
YOU CAN, I'M NOT SIGNING A CONTRACT UNTIL, WELL, WE CAN'T BUILD A ROAD UNLESS WE HAVE, UH, RIGHT OF AWAY.
SO I'M NOT GONNA SIGN THE CONTRACT UNTIL WE HAVE RIGHT OF WAY.
I MEAN, WHAT'S THE HARM IN ADDING THE CONTINGENCY? YOU CAN, YOU CAN, YOU CAN, YOU WANNA MAKE A MAYOR? I'D LIKE TO MAKE, UH, A NEW MOTION TO AWARD BID NUMBER 23 0 2 0 5 68 TO MATULA MATULA FOR THE AZELIA STREET EXTENSION IN THE AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $458,734.
CONTINGENT UPON GETTING THE RIGHT OF WAY, UH, SECURED.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE.
UH, MOVE ON TO, OKAY, ITEM SEVEN WAS DEFERRED.
UTILITY CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
THIS IS SHORT AND SWEET COUNCIL MAYOR.
UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, UH, PRESENTED IN FRONT OF YOU IS WHAT WE HAVE CURRENTLY RECOMMENDED FOR OUR UTILITY, C I D.
UM, WE DO THIS WITH THE MINDSET OF TAKING CARE OF WHAT WE HAVE REGARDING OUR INFRASTRUCTURE.
MOST OF THESE PROJECTS HAVE BEEN IN PREVIOUS, UH, THAT YOU'VE SEEN BEFORE, AND IT'S A CONTINUATION OF THAT.
UM, A COUPLE OF THINGS TO NOTE THAT I WOULD LIKE TO NOTE IS THAT WE, UM, UM, MOVED OVER THE LATERAL LINE REPAIR THAT WE HAD IN PREVIOUS CI IPSS TOWARDS OUR OPERATING, WHICH YOU WILL NOTE AS WE GO THROUGH OUR OPERATING BUDGET PROCESS IN THAT REGARD.
UM, AND WE, UM, HAVE A NEW SPANISH OAK, UH, WATER LINE RESIZED EIGHT INCHES.
UH, CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG HERE, SAL, IS THAT, THAT, UH, LINE WAS TOO LARGE AND CORRECT, MORE SMALL, SO, UM, CORRECT.
IT'S A 12 INCH LINE NOW WE'RE GONNA DO TO EIGHT.
SO THIS IS WHAT WE HAVE PRESENTED IN FRONT OF YOU.
IF YOU HAVE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS, HAPPY, I'LL BE WILLING TO DELEGATE OVER TO WE CAN.
SO JUST MY QUESTION, I MEAN, IT'S NOT IMPORTANT THAT DO TO RESIZE THE LINE.
YOU ARE GONNA PUT A SLEEVE IN THERE, OR HOW ARE YOU GOING TO DO THAT? IT'S GONNA BE, IT'S GONNA BE A NEW LINE ENTIRELY ABANDONED THAT LINE, OR YOU GONNA DIG IT UP? UH, IT'S GONNA BE ABANDONED, IT'S GONNA BE USED THIS, THIS LINE, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT THE PROBLEM IS AS FAR AS THE WATER AGE IS THE FACT THAT YOU HAVE, UH, TOO LARGE OF A LINE, UH, GOING RUNNING FOR A LONG, FOR A LONG DISTANCE FROM CLOSES THE SUPPLY POINT.
AND THIS IS WHAT WE FOUND OUT IN OUR WATER MODELING.
ONCE WE GOT OUR WATER MODELING, WE, WE KNEW THAT WE HAD HAD PROBLEMS, BUT WE NEVER REALLY COULD DETERMINE WHAT IT WAS.
BUT THE WATER MODELING HELPED US, UH, DETERMINE THAT.
DETERMINE THAT THE LINE'S TOO SMALL.
THERE'S ALSO PROBABLY, WE'LL HAVE TO MAKE A CONNECTION IN THE BACK.
WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA CHANGE THE ROUTING ENTIRELY.
WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO GO THROUGH, THROUGH THE BACKSIDE OF THE SUBDIVISION.
WHERE WILL WILL WE BE CONNECTING BOTH NEIGHBORHOODS, UH, IN THE BACKSIDE? UH, NO, NOT AT THIS TIME.
UH, THE OTHER NEIGHBORHOOD DID NOT SHOW STONE FOR WHATEVER REASON.
SO, AND IT COULD BE DONE BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL BOTH INTER INTERCONNECTED ANYWAY, SO YES, IT'LL BE AFFECTING THE, UH, SUBDIVISION AGAIN, THIS IS, THIS IS THE CORRECT, CORRECT.
AGING OF THE WATER IN, IN THE LINE.
AND WHAT WE'RE FOUND OUT IS, IS THAT AS THE WATER SITS AND BECOMES OLDER, SEDIMENT STARTS FALLING OUT, THE CHEMICALS START USING, START LOSING THEIR CAPACITY.
AND USUALLY, UM, YOU KNOW, DEVELOPERS AND ENGINEERS WANT TO TRY TO BUILD, YOU KNOW, AS BIG A SYSTEM AS THEY CAN BECAUSE YOU'RE PLANNING ON FOR CAN BE GROWTH SOMEWHERE ELSE.
AND THAT JUST HASN'T REALIZED YES, TOO BAD.
A NEW SUBDIVISION ON PRISON LAND IS NOT COMING UP.
YOU COULD PROBABLY EXTEND THAT OUT TO USE THAT BIG LINE.
WELL, THE GOOD THING IS THAT WE HAVE A PLANT, UH, THERE IN THE NORTH SIDE THERE, WHICH IS IN CLOSE PROXIMITY THERE.
AND THE LINES THEMSELVES NOT YEAH.
BUT WE LEARNED THAT LESSON AND WE WERE APPLYING OUTSTANDING, SAME, UH, THE SAME CONDITION OF THE NEW NORTHWOOD EXTENSION.
UH, SO, UH, BECAUSE WE WERE ALREADY PLA OR THE CLIENTS WERE ORIGINALLY TO EXTEND A LARGE SIZE LINE UP NORTH,
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WELL, WE DECIDED THAT THAT WAS NOT GONNA BE A PRUDENT THING.DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS, SPECIFIC QUESTIONS ABOUT THESE UTILITY PROJECTS? AGAIN, WE'RE, UH, WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR APPROVAL.
IT'S JUST A, IT'S IN THAT'S CORRECT.
UH, IT'LL BE IN THE BUDGET FOR THE SUMMER.
WE'RE, YOU KNOW, THIS IS OUR FIRST, YOU KNOW, PORTION OF DISCUSS THE CIP P NEXT WEEK.
WE HAVE, UH, OUR, THAT NEXT WEEK, MAY 22ND, I'M SORRY, MAY 22ND IS OUR WEEK, UH, AS OUR GENERAL CIP P DISCUSSION.
WHAT WE MAY ASK, I'LL HAVE TO TALK TO SAL.
I MAY ASK FOR AN AMENDMENT ON THIS 300,000, UH, AMENDING IT THIS YEAR'S.
BUT THE, THE FUNDS ARE THERE JUST FOR US TO GET STARTED.
BUT I'LL JUST SEE WHAT HIS TIMELINE IS RIGHT THERE.
THERE'S JUST NO REASON FOR US OTHER THAN WHAT PROJECTS ARE IN THE QUEUE TO WAIT TILL OCTOBER 1ST.
AND SINCE, UH, REAL QUICK ON, THERE'S ONE OF 'EM, SINCE IT'S GOING TO GLARE OUT IF ANYBODY ELSE, UH, LOOKS AT IT AS THE LEAD AND COPPER EPA MANDATE.
COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN THAT REAL QUICK? YEAH.
THAT'S, UH, REQUIRED BY, UM, THE EPA FOR US TO CHECK SERVICE LINES, UM, AS THEY LEAVE THE WATERMAKER TO SEE THE PRIVATE LINE OF THE HOMEOWNER IF IT'S LETTER COPPER.
AND SO WE ARE IN THE FIRST PHASE OF THIS YEAR, I THINK WE'RE AT 40% OR 50%, SABRINA, I THINK WE'RE FURTHER.
SO THAT'S, SO THAT'S TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR METER IS NOT TIED IN TO A COPPER OR LEAD PIPE ON THE CUSTOMER SIDE.
SABRINA CAN EXPLAIN IT BETTER THAN ME.
THE WHOLE THING IS JUST FLINT, MICHIGAN.
UM, IT'S ALL IN
UM, SO THIS IS COMING AROUND AND THEN WE'RE IDENTIFYING ONE IF WE HAVE, BUT ALSO YOU'RE GONNA SEE THERE, IF HOUSES HAVE THAT POTENTIALLY WILL BE THE NEXT STEP FOR THE GOVERNMENT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, WHAT CAN BE DONE TO HELP WITH THIS? BUT RIGHT NOW THAT'S, SO YOU JUST DIG UP AT THE METER, YOU DIG IT UP, YOU LOOK AT IT.
UH, WE HAVE A COMPANY GOING AROUND RIGHT NOW, THEY'RE DOING VERY WELL AND, AND PROCEEDING FASTER THAN WE, UH, HAD HOPED.
UH, AND MOST OF OUR LINES ARE SHOWING UP.
THAT, UH, WE'RE NOT THE TOPIC.
WE DO HAVE A FEW THAT ARE IN DETERMINATE, AND WE WILL DO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER TESTING ON HIM.
YOU SAID WE'RE FINDING SOME, IS THAT WHEN WE'RE FINDING ON OUR SIDE OR ON THE CUSTOMER RIGHT NOW, WE'RE JUST, I DON'T KNOW THAT OFF THE TOP OF, I JUST KNOW THAT WE HAVE FOUND UP TO YOU.
AND, AND YOU'RE TO EXPECT THAT CAUSE CHANGES OTHER SYSTEM, AGE OF POINT HOUSES AND STUFF WE'RE PUTTING IN.
BUT, UH, THOSE THAT WE DO FIND ARE INDETERMINANT.
WE WILL GO BACK AND DO A LITTLE BIT FURTHER.
I THINK WHAT WE HAD THE LAST TIME I SAW A NUMBER, IT WAS, WE WERE AROUND, WE HAD DONE MAYBE LIKE 3000 INSPECTIONS AND I THINK SHE SAID THEY MAYBE IDENTIFIED 10 THAT UNDER REVIEW.
WE'LL MOVE ON TO, UH, ITEM NINE IS, UH, CUSTOMER, I MEAN CITY MANAGER'S UPDATE.
UM, EVERYBODY'S AGREED, UH, THAT WE CAN MOVE THE, UH, BUDGET WORKSHOP TO JULY 15TH.
SO IF YOU COULD PUT THAT, WE'LL GIVE, SEND YOU OUT A CALENDAR NOTICE.
WE'RE STILL KEEPING THE 22ND JUST AS A, THE 22ND IS A BACKUP.
UM, AT 8:00 AM WE HAVEN'T HAD TO USE THE BACKUP IN A LONG TIME.
I THINK MAYBE ONLY ONCE OR IF, I'M NOT SURE IF WE'VE EVEN USED NOT SINCE I'VE BEEN ON TIME.
UM, BUT WE'RE MORE THAN HAPPY TO NO.
UH, AND THEN THE CIP P WORKSHOP I ADDED, UH, THAT'S MAY 22ND AT FIVE 30.
AND WE'LL DISCUSS THE GENERAL FUND.
AND I, WE'RE GONNA TRY TO ALSO TALK, UH, THE HALF SET FUND AS WELL.
AND, UM, AND GET YOUR BLESSING.
AND IF YOU DO, UH, BLESS US, THEN, THEN WE WOULD MEET THEN WITH THE, UH, HALF SET BOARD AND TAKE TAKE PROJECTS ON THE COUNCIL ACTION ITEM.
WHAT DATE WAS THAT MAKE? WEDNESDAY, UH, MAY 22ND.
UM, MONDAY ACTION ITEMS, UM, I HAVE THAT WE WILL SET UP A MEETING WITH MR. HOOK, UM, EITHER TOMORROW OR THIS WEEK WHEN, UM, AND DISCUSS OUR NEXT STEPS, UH, WITH, UH, THE CITY ATTORNEY AND, UH, THE ASSISTANT CHIEF AS WELL.
CAN COUNCIL BE KEPT UP, KEPT CURRENT ON HOW THAT GOES WITHOUT, UH, ANY KIND OF OPEN MEETINGS ISSUES YOU CAN COMMUNICATE TO US? I GUESS WE CAN.
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RIGHT.AND ON THE NEXT AGENDA, WE'LL, UM, WELL, WE'LL WORK ON THE AGREEMENT WITH ENCORE ENTERPRISES.
IT MIGHT BE A COUPLE MEETINGS NOW.
UHS, THAT MOHAR HAS BEEN SHUT DOWN.
WE ARE IN THE PROCESS OF, UH, REPAIRING THE WALL ROAD.
UM, SHOULD BE A ROLL OFF DOWN AT THE, WHAT USED TO BE THE EXIT FOR THE, WHERE WE STILL DROP STUFF OFF THERE.
UH, WE AREN'T HAVING TRANSIT COMING OUT.
UH, QUITE A BIT MORE TRAFFIC THAN WE HAD ANTICIPATED.
WELL, WITH TRA WITH TRANSIT THERE.
BUT EVERYTHING SEEMS TO BE GOING VERY WELL.
UH, GAY'S NOT HAVING ANY ISSUES TRANSITION, NOT HAVING ANY ISSUES.
IF THEY ARE, THE LADY WHO RUNS TRANSIT IS ALSO NAMED GANG.
SO GAY AND GAY TALK TO EACH OTHER AND EVERYTHING JUST WORKED OUT VERY WELL.
UM, AND HOPEFULLY IN TWO WEEKS WE'LL HAVE THAT LITTLE SECTION IN FRONT OF THE CCC REOPENED.
I SAY TWO WEEKS, BARRING WEATHER.
UM, AND THEN THAN HAVE, AND THEN WE'LL BE ABLE TO JUST GO INTO THE CCC.
YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO CONTINUE ON DOWN THAT.
TAKE, UH, A LITTLE BIT LONGER THAN THAT.
SEVERAL MORE WEEKS AFTER THAT.
UM, OTHER THAN THAT, THE, TODAY YOU SAID EVERYTHING WAS GOING PRETTY GOOD.
ANY IDEA ON WHEN THE, UH, CELL ANTENNAS ARE GONNA BE BACK ON THE TOWER? WATER TOWER? THERE IS AN ISSUE GOING ON WITH THE FELLOW ANTENNAS.
UM, WE'VE HELD THEM RIGHT NOW.
UM, THEY, UM, BEFORE THE PROJECT STARTED, WE ASKED THEM, YOU KNOW, THEY HAD ANY CHANGES, THERE WAS NONE.
AND NOW THEY WANTED TO ADD TWO ANTENNAS.
WE HAVE TO HAVE THAT CHECKED BY THE ENGINEER AND APPROVE FOR IT, UM, STRUCTURAL TO STRUCTURALLY FOR IT TO BE DONE.
NOW AT ONE PROJECT, WE SAID, UNTIL THE ENGINEER AND THE TERMS OF AGREEMENT ARE ADDRESSED, UH, THEY HAVE TO HOLD.
AND SO, UM, WE'RE WAITING FOR THE STRUCTURAL ENGINEER TO, UH, MARK IS GETTING WITH THEM.
YES, MARK, WHO HAS BEEN MANAGING THE PROJECT.
SO HE IS GETTING WITH THE MANUFACTURER OF THE TANK TO, UH, MAKE SURE, UM, THAT IT WILL HOLD THE INTEGRATION.
SO IT'S MORE OF A SAFETY CONCERN RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS, AND YES.
AND THERE WILL BE SOME CONTRACTING NEGOTIATIONS.
AGAIN, THANK YOU FOR ARRANGING FOR, UH, WAY TO UPGRADE TO THE FRONT PART OF THIS DISPOSAL.
AND I, LAURA, I USE THAT WHOLE THING ALL THE TIME.
SO MUCH EASIER THAN HEAVY TRASH.
THE GUYS THAT YOU HAVE OUT THERE RUNNING IT, JUST DO A GREAT JOB.
UM, THE POOL PACK IS FINALLY COMING.
SO WE'RE FINALLY GONNA GET THAT CHANGED OUT IN THE NAV AUDITORIUM.
OF COURSE IT HAPPENS RIGHT WHEN SUMMER STARTS, BUT, UM, WE'VE REALLY WORKED THINGS AROUND.
UM, SO JUNE THE FIFTH RIGHT NOW, WE TENTATIVELY HAVE THE NAV AUDITORIUM SHUT DOWN FOR TWO WEEKS.
UM, WE ARE TRYING TO, WE ARE OPENING THE OUTDOOR POOL.
WE'RE MOVING SOME OF THE AEROBICS CLASSES, UM, EXTENDING UP THE SWIM OUT THERE, DIFFERENT STUFF.
SO, UM, WE HOPE MAYBE A WEEK IT COULD, IT COULD BE THE TWO WEEKS, BUT THE CONTRACTOR THINKS IT MIGHT BE A WEEK THAT WE WOULD BE SHUT DOWN THERE.
SO, UM, ALL THAT'LL BE GOING ON STARTING JUNE THE FIFTH.
WE HAVE BEEN NOTIFYING EVERYONE ABOUT THAT.
UM, THE OTHER PROJECTS WE HAVE GOING ON, OF COURSE, IT'S OUR RESTROOM, SO, AND WHETHER BEING THAT IT IS, UH, WE'RE A LITTLE DELAYED RIGHT NOW.
THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO POUR THE, THE BEANS YET FOR THE BUILDING.
WE WERE HOPING IT WAS GONNA BE PUT IN NEXT WEEK.
SO THAT'S KIND OF BEEN DELAYED.
BUT WE'VE BEEN WORKING WITH EVERYBODY AND THEN THEY SHOULD BE STARTING ON PEEWEE AS SOON AS THAT'S DONE.
WE'RE GETTING THEIR STUFF OUT AND WE'LL BE READY FOR ALL OF IT.
ROBIN, THE MAYOR HAD SENT US A PICTURE OF, UH, DUCK THAT HAD FALLEN ANOTHER CITY IN AN E DUCK WORK.
THAT'S SAL, RIGHT? YOU LIVE OVER THERE ANYWAY.
UM, WE CHANGED OUT OURS YEARS AGO.
WE HAVE TO THE DUCK, TO THE DUCK SOCK.
BUT THERE'S STILL A PORSCHE THAT HAS A COVER.
IS THAT, THAT IS NOT, THAT IS THE ELECTRICAL MOTOR LINES.
THAT IS, THAT IS NOT ANYTHING WITH THE DUCT, SO, OKAY.
UM, AND THOSE ARE THINGS, SO WHAT? YEAH, WE JUST HAVE THE,
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AND I DID HAVE THAT INSPECTED A FEW YEARS BACK.UM, AGAIN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE THEMES ARE HOLDING IT UP.
BUT THAT'S JUST BASICALLY THE COVER FOR THE WATER.
JUST THAT INCIDENT JUST REMINDED ME IS JUST THE IMPORTANCE OF PPM AND WE SHOULD BE ANY, ANYTHING LIKE THAT WE SHOULD ON A REGULAR ANNUAL BASIS.
AND A LOT OF TIMES WHAT HAPPENS IS, LIKE THIS LOCATION HERE, THEY, THEY THOUGHT IT HAD, THEY HAD IT COVERED BECAUSE THINGS WERE STAINLESS STEEL.
WELL, THE PROBLEM YOU HAVE IS STAINLESS STEEL AND CHLORINE DOESN'T WORK WELL EITHER, CUZ YOU GET CHLORIDE STRESS, TRACK CRACKING.
AND YOU'LL HAVE A CATASTROPHIC FAILURE INSTEAD OF A SLOW SLOPE FAILURE.
SO, UH, THIS WAS A PICTURE OF A, UH, MUNICIPAL NATATORIUM LIKE WE HAVE, INSTEAD OF HAVING THE SOCK, LIKE WE HAVE, THEY HAD METAL DUCT WORK, METAL, METAL DUCT WORK, AND IT COLLAPSED AND IT FELL AND IT INJURED QUITE A FEW PEOPLE.
THE SAME THING HAPPENED TO US.
UM, AND IT WAS A FIBERGLASS, BUT IT WAS STILL BEING HELD OUT BY THE SAME RIGHT.
AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, AND THIS IS SOMETHING TOO WE CAN GO ABOUT, BUT THAT, YOU KNOW, ALSO KEEP, LIKE YOU SAID WITH THE STAIN, WAS TO TRY TO KEEP IT OILED AND GREASED.
THAT HELPS SOME OF THAT STUFF TOO.
SO, UM, YOU KNOW, AGAIN, YEAH.
BEFORE WE WATCH OFF OF THAT, BUT YEAH.
SO, UM, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? UH, JUST GO AHEAD.
I'M JUST GONNA MAKE A QUICK COMMENT IS THAT, UH, UH, I DIDN'T, I WASN'T EVEN MAKING IT TO THE FIRST CONCERT, BUT I GOT GOOD COMMENTS BACK ON IT.
SO YEAH, I HEARD SOME REALLY GOOD THINGS.
TIMBER CREEK PARK SIZES BEEN UP THERE.
I HAVE A SIGN, UM, I WAS TRYING TO GET ONE PRINTED AND IT DIDN'T WORK.
UM, SO I'M JUST GONNA LAMINATE ONE AND PUT IT OUT THERE.
UH, THERE'S SOME ISSUE WITH THE PLAYGROUND PEOPLE.
IT'S NOT, THEY'VE HEARD ME SEVERAL TIMES AND NOW IT'S BEEN POST GOING TO JUNE.
I'VE HEARD SOME OTHER REASONS, BUT I HAVE A
AND I'M SO SAD BECAUSE I KNOW WE WERE READY FOR IT ALL.
WE'RE GONNA GET HOLD, HOLD UP ON MATERIALS.
THAT'S WHAT I WAS TOLD HONESTLY.
UM, HE SAID THERE WAS A HOLD UP WITH THE CONTRACT.
I KNOW THAT'S NOT TRUE BECAUSE I PULLED, I HAVE EVERYTHING, I KEEP ALL MY EMAILS, I KEEP ALL THAT STUFF.
I PERSONALLY THINK HE DIDN'T PUT IT, THE INSTALLER DIDN'T PUT IT ON HIS SCHEDULE.
THAT'S KIND OF WHAT MY THOUGHT IS.
SO, BECAUSE I'VE RECEIVED BILLS AND EVERYTHING ELSE FROM THE MANUFACTURER, BUT I HAVEN'T RECEIVED THE PLAYGROUND.
SO I STARTED CALLING THEM AND I'VE GOT A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, NOBODY'S REALLY SAID THAT, BUT I'M PRETTY SURE THAT'S WHAT IT'S, SO, AND WE'LL BE THINKING ABOUT THAT FOR YOU AGAIN.
SO I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE, THE JUNIOR SERVICE LEAGUE PARK.
YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A NEW PAV BACK THERE.
SO IS THERE ANY CHARGE TO, OR ANY, UH, RESERVATION TO RENT THAT? WE DO RESERVE THAT OUT.
IT DOESN'T GET RESERVED OFTEN JUST BECAUSE THERE'S NO BATHROOMS THERE.
BUT THE NEXT PHASE OF BATHROOMS WOULD BE THERE.
SO IT WILL BE BECAUSE PEOPLE DO LIKE TO RENT IT OUT.
AND, AND IF IT'S NOT RENTED, IT'S FIRST COME, FIRST SERVE.
SO, AND IT'S USED QUITE A BIT.
WE'VE HAD A FEW RENTALS, NOT PEOPLE COMPLAINING.
IT'S NOT ENOUGH PARKING THERE, YOU KNOW, JUST, UH, BUT WHEN THEY, WHEN THEY HAVE SOMETHING THERE, PEOPLE, OTHER PEOPLE CAN'T USE THE PARK BECAUSE THERE'S NO PLACE FOR THEM TO PARK.
AND WE HAVEN'T HAD A RENTAL WHILE I CAN SAY PROBABLY SIX, SEVEN MONTHS.
SO THIS IS JUST OTHER GROUPS THAT COULDN'T USE IT.
UM, YOU KNOW, I EXTEND THAT PARKING, I MEAN, IT'S, IT WOULD BE KIND OF HARD I THINK.
UM, I KNOW THAT'S A PAIN BECAUSE IT'S A NICE PARK.
I KNOW EVERYBODY ENJOYS IT, SO, UM, BUT CON PARKS ARE ON THE CORNER.
BUT PARTLY IT'S NICE BECAUSE THERE'S NOT A TON OF PEOPLE THERE.
ANY QUESTIONS FOR SAL ON PROJECTS? YES.
UHOH SAL, I GOT A CALL FOR COUNCIL MEETING TONIGHT.
A CITIZEN WANTING TO KNOW WHAT IS HAPPENING OVER THERE BY CHICKEN EXPRESS IN THAT CHICKEN.
OH, THE OLD, UH, THE NEIGHBORS.
OH, AS FAR AS WHAT? CONSTRUCTION OF THE CONSTRUCTION, SOMETHING ABOUT ALL THE DUCKS AND STUFF WERE BEING TAKEN BACK OUT OR SOMETHING.
I THINK PEOPLE ARE GOING AND LOOKING IN THE WINDOWS.
UH, AS FAR AS OUR END OF THE, UH, OF THE DEAL HERE IS, YOU'VE SEEN IT AND IT'S KIND OF SLOW RIGHT NOW, AND IT WILL BE GOING SLOW BECAUSE THIS IS THE, UH, THE MOST TEDIOUS PART OF THE WORK AND TRYING TO CLOSE IN ALL THE ENDS THAT, UH, LOOSE ENDS THAT WERE, WE'RE STILL OUT THERE, THE POWER COMPANY, THE ACTUAL LIGHTING COMPANY, STREET LIGHTS, UH, DID ALL THE BASES, ALL THE FOUNDATIONS WERE THERE.
I WAS EXPLAINING TO THEM TO MOVE IN THERE, TO START HANGING SOME OF THAT, UH, SOME OF THOSE LIGHT POLES.
ONCE THEY START, UH, UH, SETTING THOSE THINGS UP, THE ONLY PROBLEM IS THAT THEN THERE HAS TO BE ANOTHER CREW BEHIND THAT THAT COMES HERE AND ACTUALLY
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LASTS THEM UP.SO IT'S JUST THE PROCESS OF HOW THE POWER COMPANY WORKS.
THE SAME THING WITH THE, UH, UH, WE FINALLY GOT THE CHANGE ORDER FOR THE ACTUAL PEDESTRIAN LIGHTS, WHICH IS PART OF THE CONTRACT.
YOU, YOU CAN SEE ALL THOSE POSITION LINES THAT HAVE BEEN INSTALLED.
NOW IT'S A MATTER OF NOW GETTING THE WIRE, UH, PULLED THROUGH ALL THIS CONDUIT THAT THEY PUT IN THERE.
ONE OF THE HOLDING BLOCKS, OR ONE OF THE HOLDING WAS THE, UH, CHANGING OF THE, UH, MAIN LINE THAT HAD TO BE EXTENDED TO DESIGN PROBLEMS. AND, UH, WE, WE HAD TO, UH, NEGOTIATE THE, UH, THE SIZE OF THE WIRE TO BE INCREASED, UM, IN ORDER TO, TO DO THAT.
SO THAT IS STILL WAITING ON THE CONTRACTOR TO COME IN AND DO AND PULL THAT WIRE.
UH, WHAT THEY SHOW UP TODAY WERE THE, UH, PAPERS, UH, THEY ARE CLOSING IN ON ALL THE OPEN AREAS THAT THEY HAD.
OF COURSE, THERE'S STILL THE MAIN OPEN AREA THAT'S GONNA BE LEFT ON THE, UH, NORTH FRONT MARKETPLACE, MEZZANINE AREA, WHERE IT DROPS DOWN AND WHERE THE, UH, WALL IS GONNA BE PUT IN THERE.
UH, UH, SOMETIME, UH, SHORTLY, UH, ONCE THEY, THEY FINISH OFF ON THE SIDEWALK AT THE LOWER LEVEL, THEY'RE FINISHING UP THEIR LOW, THEIR HIGHER LEVEL OF SIDEWALK.
UH, AND PEOPLE ARE BEING, ARE ABLE TO STILL, YOU KNOW, UH, BE ABLE TO ACCESS THEIR PROPERTY.
THAT HAS NOT BEEN ANY, ANY DELAYS ON THAT OR NOBODY BEEN STOMP ON THAT.
SO AT LEAST THAT IS, THAT IS PROGRESSED.
WELL, THE PIZZA, UH, HAS THE PIZZA, UH, PARKING LOT.
ALLSTAR, ALLSTAR, THE ALLSTAR PIZZA.
AND THE COURSE, THEY TRIED TO WORK THE, THEY FORMED UP, THEY, UH, THEY WERE THINKING ABOUT GOING WEDNESDAY.
THE WEATHER MIGHT HAVE SET THEM BACK A LITTLE BIT.
WE DON'T KNOW HOW MUCH, BUT IF THEY WEREN'T GONNA BE DOING IT WEDNESDAY, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE TRYING TO ARRANGE A, A DELIVERY SOMETIME EITHER THURSDAY OR FRIDAY.
SO THAT WILL FINISH THAT PARKING AREA UP SO THAT THE BUSINESSES CAN THEN START OPERATING AGAIN FROM THEIR OWN PARKING LOT ACCESS THE REPAIR OR THE LEDGE THAT WAS GONNA BE POURED FOR THE TWO BUSINESSES.
UM, HAS THAT BEEN DONE, COMPLETED? NO.
THEY ARE WORKING ON THE ONE FOR ONE OF THE BUSINESSES, WHICH IS WHERE THE HAIR OF SALON IS.
WE ARE IN CONTACT WITH THE, UH, PROPERTY OWNER, UH, THE, UH, CHHA GROUP, UH, ABOUT, UH, YOU KNOW, WHETHER THEY ARE SATISFIED WITH WHAT WE'RE GONNA BE PROPOSING TO DO.
THEY'RE GONNA CREATE A LEAVE OUT THERE, UH, FOR THEM, FOR US TO BE ABLE TO PROGRESS THROUGH THAT SIDEWALK AND HAVE A, YOU KNOW, THE PEDESTRIAN AMBULATION THROUGH THERE.
ESTABLISHED AGAIN, BELIEVE IN THIS LEVI, WHICH IS NOT GONNA IMPACT ANY ANYONE FOR THE TIME BEING UNTIL, UNTIL THEY'RE SATISFIED WITH WHAT WE HAVE DONE.
AND, UH, 10 DAYS AGO YOU GAVE ME PET POSITIVE NEWS ON THE DRAINAGE FOR DOWNTOWN.
IS IT STILL POSITIVE? OH, DEFINITELY.
SO THAT DOWNTOWN, ARE THEY DONE WITH THE INTERSECTION THAT WAY IN OCD? YES, THEY HAVE, OF COURSE.
THE, UH, THE SIGN SIGN, WELL, THE SIGNAGE IS STILL, YOU KNOW, OUT THERE, THERE'S SIGNAGE INVOLVED THAT'S GONNA TAKE IT.
THE, WELL, NOT ONLY THE, THE DELINEATION OF THE LANE IS STILL OUTSTANDING.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE, UH, PROBABLY A TWO DAY AFFAIR.
WE'RE HOPING, WE'RE TRYING TO CONVINCE WHOEVER'S GONNA BE DOING THAT ONE FOR THEM TO COME AND DO IT THROUGH THE WEEKEND WHERE THEY CAN HAVE THE LESSER AMOUNT OF TRAFFIC IN THE DOWNTOWN AREA AND THEY CAN FINISH UP IN TWO DAYS.
OTHERWISE, IF THEY COME DURING THE WEEKDAY'S, GONNA BE A PROBLEM.
UH, SO WE'RE, WE'RE HOPING THAT WE CAN TIME THAT PROPERLY.
AND OF COURSE, WE STILL HAVE THE, UH, WE STILL HAVE THE LANDSCAPE, WHICH IN ITSELF IS QUITE MESSY.
THAT'S THE REASON, REASON WHY WE DON'T WANT TO HAVE IT.
THE DELINEATION DONE UNTIL THE LANDSCAPE PORTION IS OUT.
YOU'RE GONNA WAIT TILL THE TRAFFIC LIGHTS TO BE, UH, ON DEMAND ONCE ALL THAT IS DONE OR DO NO.
I'LL MOVE ON TO, UH, ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTERESTS.
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TO HAVE YOU, MATT.UM, I WOULD LIKE TO EXTEND MY SINCERE CONDOLENCES TO THE WN FAMILY FOR THE RECENT LOSS OF, UH, ZEKE, WHO WAS A LONG TIME EDUCATOR HERE AT 30 PLUS YEARS.
AND, UH, HUSBAND, FATHER, GRANDFATHER, BROTHER, UH, FOOTBALL COACH.
AND HE IMPACTED A LOT OF, UH, STUDENTS LIVES IN OUR COMMUNITY, INCLUDING THIS ONE.
AND HE DIED UNEXPECTEDLY AT THE AGE OF 58.
HIS FUNERAL WAS ON SATURDAY, AND IT WAS EXTREMELY WELL ATTENDED.
UM, AND JUST WANTED HIM TO KNOW EVERYTH THINGS ABOUT, ALL RIGHT.
UH, JUST A QUICK COMMENT WAS, UH, WE HAD PRIVILEGE OF, UH, I HAD PRIVILEGE AND ALSO MODESTO HAD PRIVILEGE OF, UH, ENTERTAINING, UH, HI.
THE HOMESCHOOL KIDS, UH, GROUP THAT CAME THROUGH ON FRIDAY, UH, STARTED AT NINE O'CLOCK AND I THINK WE WERE HERE.
THEY, THEY HAD A LOT OF GOOD QUESTIONS.
AND, UH, OF COURSE MODESTO HAS A LOT OF FUN WITH LETTING 'EM PLAY CITY COUNCIL AND STUFF.
SO, UH, BUT ANYWAY, IT'S, THEY WERE JUST AS CONSERVATIVE AS, AS WE ARE AS YOU ARE.
THEY HAD A CITIZEN THAT CAME AND WANTED, UH, FREE PIZZA FOR EVERYBODY.
SO, UH, THEY DIDN'T, NOBODY WANTED TO.
EVEN THE PARENTS QUESTION WAS ASKED TO THE QUE THEY TOOK, THEY TOOK IT TO THE VOTERS AS A BOND, AND THE VOTERS, UH, THE PARENTS AND THE AUDIENCE TURNED IT DOWN,
SO, UH, THEY GOT TO SEE THE WHOLE PROCESS AND, AND AN HOUR WERE THERE.
BUT ANYWAY, IT WAS A GOOD EXPERIENCE.
AND, UH, YOU KNOW, WHENEVER I HAVE THE CHANCE, I HEAR ABOUT, AND WE HAVE THOSE, THERE'S, THERE'S, UH, I, I WILL CONTINUE TO TRY TO INVITE YOU GUYS, UH, A FEW OF Y'ALL IN THERE IF WE CAN.
SO, UH, ANYWAY, THAT'S, OTHER THAN THAT, LIKE I SAID, THE CONCERT, UH, I HEARD GOOD THINGS ABOUT IT.
BUT, UH, AGAIN, IT'S SOMETHING THAT, UH, WE, WE MAKE AVAILABLE TO THE COMMUNITY AND, AND IT'S SPONSORED BY OLIN, WHICH WE GREATLY APPRECIATE.
UH, ANYTHING STAFF? STAFF? NOPE.
AND SALLY DID A VERY GOOD JOB READING THE, THANK YOU VERY MUCH.