* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE ] [00:00:02] ALL RIGHT. IT IS SIX 30, SO GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. SIX 30. ALL RIGHT. WE KNOWN THE CITY COUNCIL. CITY OF LAKE JACKSON WILL MEET MONDAY, JUNE 1ST, 2026 IN REGULAR SESSION AT 6:30 PM AT 25 OAK DRIVE, LAKE JACKSON, TEXAS, UH, IN THE ROGER, UH, ALICE ROGERS COUNCIL CHAMBERS. AND TONIGHT WE ARE GOING TO START THE PLEDGE OF ALLEGIANCE, UH, BY COUNCILMAN AMER PROIN, JB BAKER. HONOR THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA TO CONSIDER THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL ON HONOR, SUPPLY, AND ALLEGIANCE TO BE TEXAS. ONE STATE UNDER GOD, ONE INDIVISIBLE. ALL RIGHT, IF EVERYBODY WOULD BOW YOUR HEAD AND JOIN US WITH INVOCATION THAT'LL BE LED BY COUNCILMAN ELL. THAT IS, PRAY YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR ANOTHER OPPORTUNITY TO MEET YOU. AS OUR MEETING CONTINUES AND DECISIONS HAVE TO BE MADE, WE ASK THAT YOU GIVE US THE STRENGTH, WISDOM, AND COURAGE TO MAKE THE DECISION THAT WE FEEL ARE IN BEST INTEREST OF OUR RESIDENTS, AND THAT OUR CITY, PLEASE BE WITH OUR EMT FOLKS, FIRE AND POLICE PERSONNEL, OUR MILITARY MEN AND WOMEN ABROAD AND STATESIDE, AND BE WITH US AS WE TRAVEL HOME. GET US HOME SAFELY. GIVE YOUR NAME, YOUR PRAYER. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU, COUNCILMAN. ALL [ PRESENTATIONS] RIGHT. TONIGHT WE'RE GONNA START WITH OUR FIRST PRESENTATION, WHICH WILL BE LED BY MS. EDIT FISHER FROM THE BRAZOSPORT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ANNUAL TOURISM REPORT. YES, THANK YOU. UM, I'M NOT GONNA TAKE UP A LOT OF TIME. I JUST WANT TO KIND OF BRIEFLY GO OVER OUR ANNUAL REPORT FOR LAST YEAR. SO, GO AHEAD. SO WE, UM, OUR DIVISION OF THE RISE SUPPORT CHAMBER, WE PROMOTE THE AREA AS A LEISURE AND MEETING DESTINATION. WE'RE FUNDED THROUGH HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAXES COLLECTED NOT ONLY IN LAKE JACKSON, BUT IN FREEPORT, CLUT AND SURFSIDE BEACH. UM, WE SUBMIT QUARTERLY REPORTS TO YOU AND MAKE AN ANNUAL PRESENTATION TO LET YOU KNOW HOW WE RECEIVE THE TAX FUNDS THAT WE RECEIVE. UM, ONE WAY WE PROMOTE THE AREA IS WORKING WITH OUR INDUSTRY PARTNERS. WE WORK PRETTY CLOSELY WITH OUR, UH, LOCAL ACCOMMODATIONS AND ATTRACTIONS, UM, THROUGH TDOT'S TRAVEL DIVISION. THEY RUN THE TRAVEL INFORMATION CENTERS THROUGHOUT THE STATE. THEY DISTRIBUTE OUR, UH, BROCHURES AND OTHER COLLATERAL TO THEIR VISITORS. UM, VISITORS COME IN AND ASK, YOU KNOW, WHAT IS IT? UM, WE'RE INTERESTED IN BIRDING? IS THERE A PLACE YOU RECOMMEND? SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT, UM, THEY HAVE OUR MATERIAL AND THAT WE MEET WITH THEM, THEM, AND THEY KNOW WHERE WE ARE. UM, WE ALSO WORK WITH TRAVEL TEXAS, WHICH IS THE, UM, THROUGH THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR'S ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND TOURISM DIVISION. LAST YEAR, WE SECURED THE, UH, TEXAS FRIENDLY DESIGNATION FOR EACH OF OUR FUNDING CITIES. UM, WE GOT THAT PROGRAM WE WORK WITH AROUND HOUSTON, WHICH IS A TOURISM INITIATIVE THROUGH VISIT HOUSTON. THERE ARE 14, UM, PARTNERS THAT WE WORK WITH. UH, WE WANT VISITORS ONCE THEY'RE IN HOUSTON TO STAY IN THE REGION. UM, INSTEAD OF DRIVING TO SAN ANTONIO OR DALLAS, WE'D LOVE FOR THEM TO COME TO LAKE JACKSON, UH, AND SPEND THEIR TIME HERE. WE ALSO WORK WITH THE TEXAS INDEPENDENCE TRAIL REGION. THAT IS A HERITAGE TRAILS PROGRAM THROUGH THE TEXAS HISTORICAL COMMISSION. AND THEN WE HAVE OTHER PARTNERS LIKE, UM, THE COUNTY PARKS DEPARTMENT, UM, MUSEUM ALLIANCE, PARKS AND WILDLIFE. AND SO OUR ADVERTISING AND PROMOTIONAL EFFORTS, WE DO, UH, DIGITAL MARKETING. WE STILL DO PRINT ADVERTISING PRINT, EVEN THOUGH YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD PRINT IS DEAD, IT'S, THAT'S NOT ENTIRELY TRUE. UM, THERE ARE STILL GREAT TRAVEL PIECES THAT ARE PRINTED THAT PEOPLE ARE WANTING. UM, WE DO A LOT OF, UH, PUBLIC RELATIONS. WE DO CO COOPERATIVE MARKETING WITH PARTNERS THAT HELPS, UH, MAXIMIZE OUR EXPOSURE WHILE KEEPING OUR COSTS DOWN. THAT'S LIKE THE HOUSTON GROUP THAT WE WORK WITH. IT'S A CO-OP MARKETING EFFORT, UM, OUR PUBLICATIONS, AND THEN VIDEO AND CONTENT CREATION. THAT'S SOMETHING, UM, THAT WE'RE TRYING TO DO MORE OF. LAST YEAR WE DID A CAMPAIGN WITH MIKE CURLEY ADVENTURES. SHE WAS, UM, HERE FOR A FEW DAYS. AND, UM, WHEN SHE WAS POSTING ABOUT THE BIRD OBSERVATORIES, EXTREME HUMMINGBIRD EXTRAVAGANZA, SHE HAD LIKE 200,000, UH, VIEWS WITHIN LIKE A DAY, SO, WHICH IS NEW FOR US. SO OUR PUBLICATIONS, UM, EXPERIENCE RISES PORT IS A MAGAZINE STYLE, UM, VISITOR GUIDE. IT FEATURES THE TOP 25 THINGS TO DO IN THE AREA. THE, UM, ONE ON THE RIGHT, THE SEE YOURSELF IN BRAZOSPORT, THAT IS A SMALLER [00:05:01] RACK SIZE, MULTI-PAGE BROCHURE. IT HAS A CENTER FOLD THAT IS A MAP OF THE AREA WITH POINTS OF INTEREST WITH OUR HOTELS, UM, AND OTHER POINTS OF INTEREST. AND THEN WE STILL DO A PRINTED MAP OF THE AREA, A STREET MAP, UM, THAT WAS OUT OF PRINT FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS, AND IT WAS ONE OF THE MOST POPULAR ITEMS, UM, THAT PEOPLE CALL AND COME IN AND EMAIL US ABOUT. SO WE WERE ABLE TO, TO DO THAT AGAIN, AND WE DISTRIBUTE THAT AS WELL. OUR, UH, PAID AND EARNED MEDIA. WE HAD EITHER PAID ADS, UM, LISTINGS OR EDITORIALS IN THESE PUBLICATIONS AND WEBSITES. I'M NOT GONNA READ ALL OF THEM, BUT IF YOU, UM, PUT 'EM ALL TOGETHER, THEY HAD A CIRCULATION OF MORE THAN 12 MILLION AND A MEDIA VALUE OF 190,000. OUR MEDIA AND MARKETING BUDGET IS NOWHERE NEAR 190,000. SO WE REALLY HAVE TO WORK WITH OUR PARTNERS AND USE ALL THE RESOURCES WE HAVE, UM, TO GET, UH, AD BUY LIKE THAT. SO THIS IS WHAT SOME OF OUR ADS LOOK LIKE. UM, A LOT OF OUR DIGITAL ADS ARE BASED ON, UM, THEY'RE TARGETED THROUGH YOUR MOBILE USE. WE CAN DO IT THROUGH, UM, CREDIT CARD USAGE OR YOUR LOCATION. SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU, YOU'RE LOOKING UP, HEY, WHERE CAN I TAKE MY FAMILY, YOU KNOW, WITHIN TWO HOURS AND NOT SPEND A LOT OF MONEY. YOU KNOW, AN HOUR LATER AN AD MIGHT POP UP, YOU'RE NOT GONNA SEE IT BECAUSE WE DON'T PROMOTE, WE DON'T, UM, SPEND OUR ADVERTISING DOLLARS IN THIS AREA. 'CAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO COME IN, SPEND THE NIGHT AND SPEND THEIR MONEY. SO THIS IS JUST AN EXAMPLE OF SOME OF THE ADS WE DO. WE ALSO INCLUDE EACH OF OUR CITIES ON THE AD, AND THEN A LINK TO OUR WEBSITE, UM, PUBLIC RELATIONS. THIS IS ANOTHER WAY THAT WE GET THAT, UM, EARNED MEDIA, THOSE FREE PUBLICATIONS. SO, UM, US PARTICIPATING IN THESE CONFERENCES AND EVENTS IS A GOOD WAY TO, UM, GET THAT FREE COVERAGE. AND THEN TO ALSO HELP OUR PARTNERSHIPS, UM, WITH OUR KEY, UM, TOURISM ORGANIZATIONS. AND THEN OUR WEBSITE, VISIT RISE SUPPORT.COM. UM, THERE'S, UH, UNDER THE ABOUT TAB ON THE WEBSITE, THERE'S A SECTION FOR LAKE JACKSON. SO WE, UM, HAVE A SECTION FOR EACH OF OUR CITIES. THE TOP PAGES ON THE WEBSITE ARE THE BEACHES FOLLOWED BY ATTRACTIONS, DINING AND EVENTS. UM, THE VISITORS TO THE WEBSITE SPEND THE MOST TIME ON THE DINING PAGES, EVEN THOUGH THE BEACHES IS THE TOP PAGE. THEY'RE GONNA SPEND OVER ALMOST TWO MINUTES ON THE DINING PAGE. 'CAUSE EATING IS VERY IMPORTANT TO EVERYONE. UM, THE TOP LOCATIONS THAT VISITORS ARE COMING FROM ARE HOUSTON, DALLAS-FORT WORTH, AUSTIN, AND SAN ANTONIO. AND THEN WE GET A LOT OF TRAFFIC FROM OUR SOCIAL MEDIA. AND THEN VISIT HOUSTON TEXAS.COM THROUGH HUNDRED 65 THINGS IN HOUSTON, AND THEN TRAVEL TEXAS AS WELL. SO OUR, UH, TRAVEL IMPACTS AND DATA. SO IN LAKE JACKSON IN 20 25, 1 0.8 MILLION WAS COLLECTED IN LOCAL AND STATE RECEIPTS. UM, THERE ARE, THERE WERE 200 EMPLOYEES EITHER IN FULL-TIME OR PART-TIME JOBS IN THE TOURISM INDUSTRY IN LAKE JACKSON. AND THEN, UM, TRAVEL SPENDING WAS 16.4 MILLION. AND THAT IS, UM, EITHER YOUR HOTEL, IT'S HOTEL GAS, UM, SHOPPING, DINING, IT'S EVERYTHING COMBINED. AND THEN WE GET THOSE NUMBERS FROM THE OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR. AND THEN YOU CAN SEE THE COMPARISON TO, UM, THE BRAZOSPORT AREA, WHICH IS THOSE FOUR CITIES THAT COLLECT THE, THE HOT FUNDS, LAKE JACK, UM, LAKE JACKSON CREEK, FREEPORT, AND SURFSIDE BEACH. AND THEN THAT'S IT FOR, FOR TONIGHT. SO DO YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THIS IS, UM, OH, SANDRA SHAW IS OUR PRESIDENT AND CEO. UM, SO HER AND I ARE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU MAY HAVE. THIS IS OUR, UH, CURRENT BOARD OF DIRECTORS. UM, THIS IS WHO WE REPORT TO. UM, MONTHLY WE CARRY OUT A PLAN OF ACTION THAT THEY PUT TOGETHER ANNUALLY THAT INCLUDES THE TOURISM DIVISION. SO THANK YOU SO MUCH MS. FISHER. APPRECIATE IT. COUNSEL, ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU FOR WHAT Y'ALL DO FOR THE, FOR THE, FOR OUR AREA. OH, YES, YOU'RE WELCOME. VERY GOOD. VERY EXCELLENT. WE LOOK FORWARD TO CONTINUING THIS PARTNERSHIP. YES. AND THANK YOU FOR BRINGING BACK THE MAPS, I THINK ARE GOOD. OH, YES. YEAH. YEAH. THERE ARE, THEY ARE POPULAR. YEAH. AND THEY'RE NEEDED. SO I'M GLAD WE CAN TAKE CARE OF THAT. THANK. ALRIGHT. THANK Y'ALL VERY MUCH. ALRIGHT. HAVE ANYBODY SIGNED UP FOR VISITORS' COMMENTS? BUT ARE THERE, IS THERE ANYONE WHO HAS ANYTHING THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO TALK ABOUT? UH, THEY CAN ADDRESS COUNSEL, BUT COUNSEL CANNOT RESPOND. ALL RIGHT. NOT HEARING ANY DECLARATION OF CONFLICTS [DECLARATION OF CONFLICTS OF INTEREST ] OF INTEREST. THIS IS WHERE DOES ANY MEMBER OF COUNSEL HAVE A, TO DECLARE A CONFLICT OF INTEREST ON ANY ITEM AGENDA TONIGHT? NO. MAY I LIKE TO POOL NUMBER FIVE? I'M SORRY, POOL NUMBER FIVE AND DISCUSS IT. OKAY. DO YOU HAVE A DECLARATION [00:10:01] OF CONFLICT? NO. JUST LIKE, DISCUSS IT ON FIVE. OKAY. ALRIGHT. SO NOW ONTO THE CONSENT [CONSENT AGENDA ] AGENDA. ALL RIGHT. SO, UH, CONSENT AGENDA. COUNCILMAN BAKER IS ASKING THAT WE DEF THAT WE TAKE ITEM NUMBER FIVE AND PUT IT ON THE REGULAR AGENDA FOR DISCUSSION. ALL RIGHT. ARE THERE ANY OTHER ITEMS THAT ANY OTHER MEMBER OF COUNCIL WOULD LIKE TO PULL FOR FURTHER DISCUSSION? ALL RIGHT. NOT HEARING ANY, I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON THE CONSENT AGENDA. I CAN MAKE A MOTION FOR CON FOR THE CONSENT AGENDA ITEM 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, AND SEVEN. OKAY. AS WRITTEN. A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN BAKER. SECOND. ALL RIGHT. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN JUNE. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ALL RIGHT. ALL RIGHT. SO ONTO THE REGULAR AGENDA, WE'LL TAKE, UH, ITEM NUMBER FIVE [5. Authorize the City Manager to execute a contract with Kimley-Horn for professional services to develop the City’s Comprehensive Safe Streets and Roads Safety Action Plan in an amount not to exceed $350,000 as budgeted. ] FROM THE CONSENT AGENDA. COUNCILMAN BAKER? UH, YES. UH, ITEM FIVE, UH, THESE ITEM, ARE THEY ALL GONNA BE PANEL WORK? IS THAT, IS WHAT KIND OF WORK IS THAT GONNA BE ON THE ROAD? OH, NO. UH, UM, ITEM FIVE IS THE SS FOUR GRANT, WHERE WE'RE HIRING THE CONSULTANT TO DO THE MASTER PLAN FOR THE TRAFFIC SAFETY. OKAY. AND SO WE'RE GETTING A $280,000, UM, UH, GRANT, UH, TO, AND THEN WE'RE COVERING THE OTHER 70 FOR A TRAFFIC, UH, MASTER PLAN. SO THEY'LL LOOK AT THE MAJOR THOROUGHFARES, SEE IF THERE ARE ANY SAFETY CONCERNS AND ANY PEDESTRIAN IMPROVEMENTS THAT NEED TO BE, UH, DONE. AND THEY'LL BE WORKING WITH THE TRAFFIC COMMISSION FOR THE NEXT YEAR. UH, I'D SAY IT'S, UM, I THINK THEIR SCHEDULE IS SOMETIME TO HAVE IT IN, UH, REPORTED IN FEBRUARY, UH, TO COUNCIL A FINAL REPORT. OKAY. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. OKAY. SO DO WE NEED TO TAKE A VOTE? I'D LIKE TO TAKE A MOTION. YEAH. APPROVE. ITEM FIVE, CONSENT AGENDA. WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN BAKER. WE HAVE A SECOND. ALL RIGHT. SECOND BY MR. SCHOOLER. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. A AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER ONE, APPROVE [1. Discuss and consider the reappointments and new appointments of city residents to the city’s board and commissions. – Mayor Seth ] CONTRACT WITH JOHNSON CONTROLS. REPLACE THE CHILLER AND OTHER HVAC EQUIPMENT AT THE MUNICIPAL COURT BUILDING AND REPLACE THE AERATION BLOWERS AT THE WASTEWATER TREATMENT PLANT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $5,142,896. MR. WILSON MAYOR, WE'RE ASKING, UH, TO DEFER THIS ITEM, UH, TO, UH, THE NEXT MEETING IN JUNE. THE, UM, WE HAVE A THIRD PARTY, UH, CONSULTANT THAT HAS TO VERIFY THE NUMBERS AND THEIR REPORT'S. NOT, UH, THEY CAN'T GET A REPORT BACK TO US UNTIL THURSDAY, SO WE WANNA MAKE SURE EVERYTHING'S VERIFIED ON THAT, AND THEN WE'LL BRING IT TO YOU IN, UH, THE NEXT MEETING IN JUNE. GOOD PLAN. ALL RIGHT. SO ITEM NUMBER ONE WILL BE DEFERRED TILL THE JUNE MEETING. ALL RIGHT. ITEM NUMBER [2. Appoint city council members to serve as liaisons to the city’s boards and commissions. – Mayor Seth ] TWO, APPROVED CHANGE ORDER NUMBER FIVE FOR CITY PROJECT NUMBER 25 DASH OH 8 12 17 WITH ANDROID CONSTRUCTION SERVICES, LLC FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE PROPOSED BORE UNDER SOUTH HIGHWAY 3 32 EAST, AND AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $188,480 AND REVISED TOTAL PROJECT NOT TO EXCEED 400 $7,300 AND $250. UH, GOOD EVENING. UH, COUNSEL, UH, THIS ITEM IS, UH, IS A PROJECT THAT WAS APPROVED BY YOU, UH, PREVIOUSLY, AND THAT INVOLVES THE, UH, THE REPLACING OF A WATER LINE TO A LARGER SIZE UNDERNEATH THE HIGHWAY, STARTING AT, UH, AT THE CHURCH, AT, UH, AT, UH, YON, NORTH YON, WHERE THE CHURCH IS, AND CROSSING ACROSS THE HIGHWAY INTO THE, UH, INTO THE OTHER SIDE SOUTH Y POND, AND THEN GO GOING TOWARDS MIMOSA. UH, THE LINE THERE HAD CREATED A, IF YOU REMEMBER, THERE WAS, THERE WAS A WET SPOT. UH, CATTAILS WERE GROWING IN THAT AREA BECAUSE THERE WAS A BREAK IN THE OLD LINE, UH, THAT THAT LINE WAS A SIX INCH LINE. AND, UH, THAT, UH, IT, THAT WAS IN A CASING, IN A CASING THAT DID NOT CROSS, UH, THE WHOLE ENTIRE RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH IS, IS A, A REQUIREMENT BY TDO. NOW, FOR ANYTHING TO CROSSES ACROSS, THAT RIGHT AWAY HAS TO BE CASED IN A STEEL, STEEL PIPE. UH, THAT WAS A PLAN THAT WE HAD, AND WE BID IT OUT. AND WE, UH, HAD A CONTRACT WITH ANDROID, WHICH IS A LOCAL COMPANY, UH, VERY WELL VERSED IN THIS TYPE OF OPERATION, UH, THAT [00:15:01] WORKS, THAT HAS WORKED WITH TECH STOCK, THE HIGHWAY RIGHT AWAYS IN THE PAST. SO THEY HAVE GOOD CONTACT WITH TECHSTAR. ALSO, UH, WE, THE NEW WORK INVOLVED PUTTING IN A STEEL PIPE ACROSS THE ROAD, A LARGER PIPE, UH, ALONG WITH A LARGER SIZED PIPE, 10 INCH LINE THAT WOULD CROSS OVER TO PRO, UH, TO PROVIDE THE, UH, UH, A IN SUPPLY THE OTHER AREAS WITH A BETTER, UH, PRESSURE AND BETTER FIRE PROTECTION TYPE OF, UH, SYSTEM. UH, THAT LINE WAS ORIGINALLY INTENDED TO GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS. AND DO WE HAVE A, UH, DO WE HAVE THE, UH, DETAILED PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS AS THE OLD SAYS? YES, SIR. HOW YOU DOING? I'M GOOD. BEFORE, BEFORE YOU GET IN THERE, I, I'M NOT GONNA SAY ANYTHING. JUST, OH, YOU, YOU NEED TO GET IN THERE. YEAH. AND JUST GO AHEAD AND, OH, OKAY. BUT, UH, WHAT WE HAVE THERE IS WHAT YOU SEE THERE, AND I'M GONNA, THE, THE OVERALL PRO, I MEAN, THE OVERALL PLAN THERE, YOU SEE WHERE THE PROPOSED LINE IS SUPPOSED TO DIM THE LIGHTS. PLEASE DIM THE LIGHTS. I CAN SEE IT FROM THERE. THANK YOU. OKAY. UH, ON THE PLAN, YOU CAN SEE WHAT THE PROPOSED PLAN WAS, AND YOU CAN SEE THAT BLUE LINE GOING ACROSS THERE, STARTING FROM AZALEA ACROSS THE FEEDER. THIS IS WHERE THE AREA WAS, WHERE THE BREAK HAD OCCURRED IN THE PAST, THAT IT WAS CREATING PROBLEMS. SO THIS WAS SUPPOSED TO GO ALL THE WAY DOWN HERE, VEER OFF, AND THEN GO AND CONNECT UP TO OSA STREET. THAT WAS THE ORIGINAL PLAN. UH, WHAT YOU SEE HERE RIGHT NOW IS THERE ARE TWO AREAS INDICATED AS OBSTRUCTION NUMBER TWO AND OBSTRUCTION NUMBER ONE ON THE OTHER FEEDER, UH, SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY. WHEN THEY STARTED PUTTING IN THE CASING, THIS PARTICULAR CASING YOU GO, COULD YOU, UH, RAISE IT THERE SO YOU CAN SEE THE PLAN? I MEAN, THE PROFILE? OKAY. THE ORIGINAL INTENT WAS TO PUT IN WHAT YOU SEE HERE, CROSS HATCHED IS THE, THE CASING, AS WE, AS IT WAS DESIGNED TO GO, UH, WHEN THEY STARTED PUTTING THIS CASING THROUGH HERE, THE STEEL CASING, THEY ENCOUNTERED THIS FIRST OBSTRUCTION THERE. AND, UH, THEY WERE ABLE TO CROSS THAT OBSTRUCTION SOMEHOW AFTER SEVERAL TRIES. AND I'VE GOT THE REPRESENTATIVES RIGHT HERE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, YOU SEE THE REPRESENTATIVES HERE, THEY'RE VERY INTERESTED IN, IN COMING IN HERE. AND, YOU KNOW, IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON, ON WHAT, ON WHY IT IS NECESSARY TO DO WHAT WE'RE DOING IS, UH, HE'S HERE READY TO, TO RESPOND TO THOSE. UH, WHEN THEY ACTUALLY CAME THROUGH HERE, THEY OF COURSE HIT THE SECOND OBSTRUCTION. AND THAT SECOND OBSTRUCTION HAS BEEN A COMPLETE, UH, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GO THROUGH THAT AT ALL. AND EVERY TIME THAT THEY DO THIS THING VEERS OFF THAT BORE. AND THEY'VE USED TWO TYPES OF BOING SYSTEMS WITH, UH, TWO TYPES OF, WITH DIFFERENT TYPE OF, UH, EQUIPMENT THERE. AND IN ORDER TO GET THROUGH THIS FIRST, UH, THIS FIRST AREA, THIS FIRST OBSTRUCTION, AS THEY WERE COMING DOWN HERE, THEY'VE DONE, THEY'VE MADE ATTEMPTS AT DIFFERENT LEVELS HERE, STARTING FROM SIX TO ABOUT 10, UH, FOOT OF LEVEL. AND THEY HAVE NEVER, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN ABLE TO CROSS THAT. SO THAT'S, THAT HAS BEEN SOME SIDE OF A, SOME TYPE OF AN INFRASTRUCTURE. WE DON'T KNOW WHAT IT IS. NOBODY KNOWS. IT'S AN UNKNOWN THAT YOU, YOU, YOU KNOW, ALWAYS YOU TRY TO, YOU KNOW, TRY TO AVOID. BUT WHEN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, THERE AREN'T ANY PLANS. THE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT PLANS THAT BUILT THE NEW HIGHWAY DID NOT HAVE ANYTHING THAT INDICATED ANY SUCH OBSTRUCTION OR CONDITION. THE SUBGRADE THERE, UH, WE HEARD THROUGH, UH, THROUGH AN, UH, UM, AN EX, UH, HIGHWAY EMPLOYEE THAT WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING THAT ROAD, THAT THEY DID ENCOUNTER PROBLEMS ALSO WITH THAT SITUATION THERE. AND THEY NEVER, UH, THEY NEVER REALLY FOUND OUT WHAT THE POND WAS BECAUSE THEY WENT OUT AND, YOU KNOW, THEIR LEVEL OVER HERE WAS, UH, UH, WAY HIGHER THAN THAT. BUT THEY DID ENCOUNTER THIS AREA RIGHT HERE. UH, SO THIS IS WHAT THEY ACTUALLY WERE ABLE TO GET THROUGH WITH THE CASING, THE STEEL CASING THAT THE HOWARD DEPARTMENT REQUIRES. SO BECAUSE OF THIS CONDITION THERE, WHAT THE CONTRACTOR IS WILLING TO DO, OF COURSE, THAT IS THE REASON FOR THIS CHANGE ORDER, AND THE AMOUNT THAT YOU SEE THERE IS [00:20:01] THEY WILL GO TO THIS SIDE. UH, WOULD YOU RAISE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER? OKAY, NOW YOU GOT A FULL PICTURE OF THAT THING. WHAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO DO IS PUT IN ANOTHER CASING. BUT IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, IT WOULD BE A, IT WOULD BE A, UH, H UH, A POLYETHYLENE CASING, WHICH FOR THE MOST PART IS NOT A, UH, TEXDOT, UH, APPROVED TYPE OF SITUATION. BUT IN THIS CASE, BECAUSE THEY KNOW THE CONTRACTOR, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE WILLING TO GO WITH THAT, UH, WITH THAT TYPE OF CASING, WITH THE HDPE, WHICH IS A PLASTIC CASING, IT'S A, IT'S A PLASTIC SMOOTH CASING. IT IS FEASIBLE. AND THAT'S THE WAY THEY DO THIS IS A, UH, WHAT THEY, OF COURSE, IS A TRENCHES APPLICATIONS. THEY BORE FROM ONE LOCATION TO ANOTHER ONE TO ANOTHER ONE. THEY, THAT'S WHERE THEY PULL THIS CASING THROUGH. THEY ARE WILLING TO TRY TO DO WHAT YOU SEE HERE AS A FIRST ATTEMPT. AND AT THAT, THAT ATTEMPT WOULD BE ABOUT A $42,000 WORTH THIS ATTEMPT WOULD TAKE, WOULD GO BELOW AT THE 18 FOOT LEVEL, UH, ELEVATION HERE TO GET ACROSS THAT FIRST, UM, THAT SECOND OBSTRUCTION THERE, AND GO BACK AND TIE INTO THE, TO THE ACTUAL CASING THAT THEY HAVE ALREADY GOTTEN THROUGH AND TIE IN SOMEWHERE IN THIS MEDIAN AREA, IN THIS OPEN AREA OF THE, OF THE ROADWAY. THAT'S THE FIRST, UH, THAT, THAT'S WHAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO DO. THEY FEEL ABOUT A, YOU KNOW, 60% ASSURANCE THAT THEY WILL BE ABLE TO DO THAT. THAT MAYBE, SIR, MAYBE, MAYBE, YEAH. AND THAT'S A, MAYBE. NOW IF THAT'S THE CASE THERE, YOU KNOW, THE, THE DAMAGE WILL BE LIMITED TO THE $42,000. IF THEY DON'T, AREN'T ABLE TO GET THERE, THE WAY THEY, THEY SHOWED THIS, THEN THEY WOULD MOVE INTO THE FULL 18 FOOT BORE ALL THE WAY ACROSS, WHICH THEY FEEL VERY COMFORTABLE AND, AND HAVE BEEN ABLE TO, TO GO THROUGH, DO THAT A HUNDRED PERCENT CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN GET THROUGH THERE AT 18 FOOT. AND IF THAT'S THE CASE WE'RE LOOKING AT, AT 188,000 ALTOGETHER, I MEAN, IT WON'T, IT WOULD NOT INCLUDE THIS, IT WOULD BE 188 FOR THE FULL DEAL. IF THEY, IF THEY ARE SUCCESSFUL IN, IN DOING THIS FIRST DEAL, ON THIS FIRST ATTEMPT, THEN WE, UM, LIKE I SAID, THERE WILL BE SOME SAVINGS, IF NOT A HUNDRED, IF WE'RE LOOKING AT 188, UH, ADDITIONAL TO WHAT THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT WAS. THE ORIGINAL CONTRACT WAS FOR $288,000. AND WE'LL GET THE APPROVAL FROM T DOT, I'M ASSUMING IN WRITING FOR THE EXCEPTION TO THE MATERIAL, I CAN GET IT. I MEAN, I CAN TALK TO THE INSPECTOR'S, THE ONE THAT HE OVERSEES THERE, ALL THE CONSTRUCTION MM-HMM . AND, UH, I CAN GET HIM TO MAYBE SEND AN EMAIL TO ME OR SOMETHING, UH, PUTTING THAT IN WRITING. AND IT'S OKAY TO USE THAT HTPE CASING SAL HAS, UM, HAVE Y'ALL TRIED GROUND PENETRATING RADAR TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THIS OBSTRUCTION IS? I MEAN, IT WOULD ONLY SHOW THAT THERE IS A MASS THERE. IT WOULDN'T TELL US WHAT IT IS. NO. BUT POSSIBLY THE SHAPE OF IT OR SOMETHING, IT'S UNDER CONCRETE, SO GPR R'S NOT GONNA WORK VERY WELL. OKAY. IT'S UNDER CONCRETE AND IT WON'T WORK FROM WHEN T STOP PUT THE ROAD IN MM-HMM . YEAH. IF WE COULD DIG IT UP AND MOVE IT OUTTA THE WAY WE WOULD, BUT WE, WE, WE FELL SHORT. WE'RE IN THE MEDIA BETWEEN THE FEEDER ROAD AND THE MAIN LANES OF THE HIGHWAY, AND WE'RE ABLE TO DIG THERE AND FIND THE CASING THAT WAS CAME ACROSS WITH, BUT FROM THE FIRST OBSTRUCTION THAT WE HIT OVER ON THE SOUTH SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY, IT DEFLECTED US UP. AND WE'RE ONLY ABOUT FIVE FOOT DEEP IN THE MEDIAN ON THIS SIDE. WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE 11 FOOT. BUT IT GRADUALLY CAME UP, IT HIT SOMETHING AND PUSHED US UP WHEN WE WERE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE HIT SOMETHING, WE FEEL IT. MM-HMM . BUT WE'RE CHEWING AND CHEWING AND CHEWING AND CHEWING AND TRY TO CHEW THROUGH IT. AND WE DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE IT'S GOING AFTER THAT UNTIL, YOU KNOW, WE GET OUR MACHINE AND WE CAN TELL WHAT IT'S DOING AFTER ABOUT 20 FEET. BUT WE GET INTO THE HIGHWAY AND EVERYTHING'S GOING GOOD, AND WE GET ACROSS THE OTHER SIDE AND, UH, EVERYTHING'S NOT GOING SO GOOD. SO WE DIG IT UP AND WE'RE ONLY FIVE FOOT DEEP. SO THAT'S WHERE WE, I, I GOT PERMISSION FROM SCOTT WAS THE TEXTILE INSPECTOR TO TRY TO GO UNDERNEATH THE TRASH [00:25:01] ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE FREEWAY AND TIE 'EM TO WHAT WE'VE ALREADY PUT IN. BUT WE'RE NOT REAL CONFIDENT THAT WE CAN GET THROUGH THERE. IT'S JUST ANOTHER TRY. WE'VE ALREADY TRIED LIKE SEVEN DIFFERENT THINGS TO GET THROUGH THERE AND MM-HMM . NONE OF THOSE WORKS. AND WHAT'S THE DEEPEST, YOU'VE GONE 12 FOOT 12 MORE WANTING TO GO 18? YES. IS THAT CORRECT? I'M JUST REALLY CURIOUS. WHAT DID IT, WHAT IS IT? WELL, YOU KNOW, I'M, I'M THINKING THAT WE CAN TRY ONE MORE TIME TO GET UNDERNEATH THAT TRASH, BUT WHAT IT ENTAILS IS GOING DOWN 18 FEET AND SAY THE TRASH IS RIGHT HERE, AND WE'VE BEEN HITTING IT, RIGHT? MM-HMM . SO NOW WE WANNA BACK UP TOWARDS AZALEA AND GET DOWN 18 FEET AND TURN UP AND, AND MISS IT LIKE THIS. WELL, THAT'S A, THAT'S A PRETTY, IT'S A PRETTY STEEP, HARD, AMBITIOUS CALCULATION TO, TO GET THAT PIPE TO TURN AND COME UP AND MISS THAT AND TIE ON TO THE OTHER PIPE. YOU KNOW, IT'S, MORGAN IS MY BORING TECHNICIAN AND HE'S BORED ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AND DONE MIRACULOUS THINGS. BUT ANYWAY, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST A SHOT IN THE DARK TO GET THAT DONE. YEAH. BUT WE'RE REALLY CONFIDENT THAT IF WE JUST GO DOWN 18 FEET AND GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS AND ABANDON WHAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE, AND IT'LL WORK. I MEAN, UH, AND TEXTILES OKAY. WITH IT AS, AS LONG AS TEXTILE WILL PUT THAT IN WRITING. OKAY. THAT'S, I GOT. MAKES SENSE. QUICK, I GOT QUICK QUESTION Z. THIS RIGHT HAND OBSTRUCTION? NOPE, I'M NOT, MINE'S NOT WORKING TODAY. OBSTRUCTION TWO OR SOCIAL ONE? YES. THE RIGHT HAND. ONE UHHUH THAT'S IN THIS BLUE, BLUE AREA WE AT, WE'RE AT, CORRECT? YES. Y POND DIDN'T HAVE A TRAFFIC LIGHT ON THE PREVIOUS, UH, SETUP, CORRECT? OR DID IT, UH, YO POND? NO. NO, IT DID NOT HAPPEN. NO, IT DID NOT HAVE ONE. OKAY. I CROSS THAT HIGHWAY EVERY DAY RIGHT THERE. YEAH. I LIVED ON LOTUS, MY MEMORY'S GOOD, BUT IT'S NOT THAT GOOD. NO, I WORKED, NO, THEY DID A, THEY DID A BORE AT 2 88, 2004, AND THEY KEPT HITTING SOMETHING AND IT WAS DEFLECTING ON DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS. YEAH. JUST FIX, THEY DUG IT UP AND FOUND OYSTER MORGAN BAR WITH THE CONSTRUCTION. YEAH. THE HIGHWAY HAD PUT OYSTER CELL IN THERE TO BUILD UP THE YEAH. WITH THE GROUND. KEEP IT. SO ON YOUR NORTHBOUND SIDE, IN THAT FEEDER, WHICH ONE? THE MIDDLE, UH, ABOUT RIGHT HERE? YEAH. WE'VE MOVED OVER ABOUT PROBABLY 12 FEET. MM-HMM . NORTH AND SOUTH. MM-HMM . AND TRIED SEVERAL DIFFERENT PLACES. YOUR WATER LINE TRANSITIONS FROM RIGHT HERE. YEAH. UH, FROM PVC TO AC PIPE OVER IN HERE. MM-HMM . AND IT DOESN'T OFFSET, IF I HAD TO GUESS SOMETIME WHEN THEY WERE BUILDING THAT HIGHWAY YEAH. SOMEBODY PROBABLY HAD TO GET RID OF A WHOLE DUMP TRUCK FULL OF CONCRETE. YEAH. YEAH. AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S AT. YEAH. I, I REMEMBER THE SHELL SHELL TECH STOCK PATH THEY USED TO DO DOWN HERE TOO, PRETTY HEAVY. SO, UM, MY, MY ONLY, MY ONLY FEAR IS, IS THE 18 FOOT OKAY. IS, I MEAN, MY, MY, MY TWO BIGGEST FEARS IS THE 18 FOOT BEING TOO SHALLOW. AND THEN I, I COULD NEVER THINK THAT TEXDOT WOULD PASS THAT, DEPENDING ON WHAT ANGLES OF APPROACH THOSE ARE. I, I MEAN, THAT WOULD, I, I WOULD NEVER IMAGINE TEXDOT PASSING THAT FOR BEING AN ACCESS, UH, CASING. UM, I, I WOULD THINK THE ONLY OPTION WOULD BE THE STRAIGHT DOWN WITH THE FORTIES AT THE END. MM-HMM . YEAH. UM, AND JUST FOR LONGEVITY, BUT I, I, MY, MY, MY MAIN, MY MAIN FEAR IS, IS THAT'S NOT DEEP. THAT'S NOT DEEP DEEP. YOU THINK WE'RE HEADED THAT DEEP BECAUSE THEY BURIED SOMETHING THAT DEEP. THAT'S, THAT'S THE FOURTH. THAT'S THE FOURTH. THAT'S THE FOURTH CIVIL WORK ON THAT STRETCH RIGHT THERE. AND GOD KNOWS HOW MANY TIMES THAT INTERSECTION ON YIN HAS BEEN REDONE BEFORE THAT. OKAY. EXPANDING IT. UM, I MEAN, BEFORE TURN LANE AND EVERYTHING, EVEN WHEN IT WAS JUST A FLASHING LIGHT, THAT'S, THAT'S MY ONLY FEAR. AND I, I WOULDN'T THINK TEXTILE WOULD'VE YEAH. PROVED THE TWO SIXTIES LIKE THAT SOUTH. UH, SO THE QUESTION THAT, OR THE CONCERN OF MEMBER , IF THE 18 FOOT IS NOT DEEP ENOUGH, YOU'LL KNOW IT EARLY. YES. EARLY. PRETTY EARLY ON. YEAH. WE'LL KNOW IT PRETTY QUICK. AND SO IF THAT HAPPENS, OUR ONLY O OPTION IS IT WOULD CON CONTINUE ON AN 18 ALL THE WAY THROUGH. NO. IF IT'S NOT GOING THROUGH THERE. IF IT'S GOING THROUGH, IF WE GOTTA, IF WE GOT PUNCH STEEPER THAT DOWN, WE'RE JUST GONNA HAVE TO SIT BACK AGAIN AND SAY, HOW CAN THAT'S YEAH. UNLESS YOU CAN, YOU CAN MOVE IT NORTH OR SOUTH, YOU KNOW? YEAH. I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE ENOUGH RIGHT OF WAY TO DO THAT. THAT MAN, [00:30:01] WELL, WE BOARD, WE BOARD 12 FOOT DEEP UNDERNEATH THAT. NO, IT WAS 13, WASN'T IT? NO, IT WAS 12. WE WERE ABOUT 13 FOOT DEEP UNDERNEATH THAT FREEWAY. BUT WE WERE HITTING SOMETHING. YEAH. AND, UH, WE GOT THROUGH THERE, BUT WE DON'T KNOW IF WE WERE IN THE MIDDLE OF SOMETHING OR JUST GRAZING IT OR WHATEVER. BUT, SO WE'RE PRETTY CONFIDENT THAT WE GET 18 FOOT DEEP. WE'LL MISS EVERYTHING. SO MY QUESTION IS THIS. SO OUR TWO OPTIONS ARE GO 18, GO BACK UP, GO BACK DOWN, OR GO 18, GO STRAIGHT ACROSS AND THEN COME BACK AND TIE IT UP THERE. THIS I WOULD BE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT. RIGHT. JUST LONGEVITY. 'CAUSE IF WE'VE ALREADY GOT A BREAK IN THE LINE, IF, IF A LINE IS GONNA BREAK AGAIN, IT WOULD BE AT THOSE JOINTS. I WOULD IMAGINE THAT THAT ANGLE CORRECT. I I WOULD DEFINITELY RECOMMEND ENCASING THE WHOLE THING OVER. YEAH. AND, AND HIT THE 18. HOPEFULLY THAT GOES DEEP ENOUGH. GO STRAIGHT ACROSS AND THEN COME BACK UP. DOES THAT MAKE THE MOST SENSE TO Y'ALL? THAT MAKES MOST SENSE TO ME. YEAH. THAT LOOKS LIKE A HAIL MARY THERE. NOT SAYING YOU CAN'T DO IT. YEAH. SO HE SAID YOU'RE A MIRACLE WORKER. IT'S GREAT IF IT WORKS. YEAH. YOU KNOW, SAVE YOU SOME MONEY, SAVE SOME, BUT IF IT DON'T WORK, IT'S GONNA COST YOU SOME MONEY. RIGHT. IN THE FUTURE. THAT'S WHY I, IT'S Y'ALL'S DECISION, YOU KNOW. COUNSEL, ANY QUESTIONS? YEAH, I'M LOOKING MORE AT, UH, LONGEVITY. WHAT, WHAT WOULD BE THE LONGEVITY, UH, THAT YOU WOULD HAVE ON SOMETHING LIKE THAT? IF YOU WOULD DO THE SHORT TERM? THE, I MEAN, UH, WOULD YOU GET MORE OF THE LONGEVITY IF YOU GO DOWN TO, WITH THE 18, THE PIPE THAT YOU'RE PUTTING IN IS THE POLYETHYLENE HCP WATERLINE. IT'S ALL FUSED TOGETHER. SO IF IT'LL MAKE IT THROUGH THE BENDING AND MAKE IT ACROSS, IT'LL PROBABLY LAST A VERY LONG TIME. UH, MOST LIKELY THE CASINGS GONNA DETERIORATE BEFORE THE WATERLINE DETERIORATES THE STEEL CASING. I'M LOOKING IT ERIC, WHO'S ULTIMATELY RESPONSIBLE FOR TAKING CARE OF IT. BUT, UH, ERIC, COME WEIGH IN WITH US. , IS OUR GEOMETRY CORRECT OR NO? WELL, FIRST OFF, ON THE PIPING MATERIAL, HTPE IS THE DIRECTION WE WANT TO GO BECAUSE THEY DON'T KNOW HOW LONG IT CAN LAST AT THIS POINT. AND I ONLY KNOW OF ONE FAILURE, AND THAT WAS IN FLORIDA, AND THAT WAS AN INSULATION FAILURE ON A 42 INCH. UH, THE, I WOULD PREFER TO GO ALL THE WAY ACROSS AT LEVEL AS WELL AND NOT TRY THE BEND, BUT IF THE BEND DID WORK, THE PIPE WOULD HOLD BECAUSE THEY CAN MAKE THE FUSIBLE BENDS IN ANY SIZE WE NEED OR WE USE MECHANICAL JOINTS ON IT. UH, IT WOULD BE TOUGH TO GET IN THERE AND FIX IT. AND WITH THE CONTINUOUS BORE, WITH THE CONTINUOUS CASING, IF THERE IS A LEAK IN THE PIPE, WE CAN DIG UP BOTH ENDS, PULL THE WHOLE PIPE OUT, PULL ANOTHER PIPE THROUGH IT, AND GO BACK TO WORK. SO A LOT LESS WHAT IFS WITH OPTION NUMBER TWO? YES. A A LOT LESS DRILL DOWN. GO STRAIGHT DRILL GOING DEEP. YEAH. YOU'RE PROBABLY NOT GONNA BE ABLE TO PULL THE PIPE OUT IF WE GO UP THERE AND GO DOWN AND, AND NO, THAT JUST LOOKS LIKE A DISASTER WAITING TO HAPPEN. YEAH. YEAH. IF YOU, IF WE GO DOWN GRADUALLY AND GO ALL THE WAY TO THE OTHER SIDE AND COME UP, YOU SHOULD BE ABLE TO SLIDE THE PIPE OUT AND BACK IN IN THE MEANTIME YOU NEED TO. HOPEFULLY NEVER. WE'LL VOTE FOR THAT. . NEVER. ALL RIGHT. COUNSEL, ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR ANYBODY UP HERE? ANY MORE QUESTIONS FOR SAL? NO, SIR. SO HOW CONFIDENT ARE YOU ON THE 18 FOOT? UH, I AM CONFIDENT. 18 FOOT. I AM CONFIDENT. OKAY. YES, CORRECT. OKAY. AWESOME. SO I GUESS WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR HERE IS A MOTION THAT TELLS US TO GO WITH OPTION NUMBER TWO. RIGHT? I'LL MAKE A MOTION APPROVE. ITEM NUMBER TWO, APPROVE CHANGE ORDER NUMBER FIVE. FOR CITY PROJECT NUMBER 25 0 8 1 2 1 7. ANDROID CONSTRUCTION SERVICES LLC FOR THE RELOCATION OF THE PROPOSED BORE UNDER STATE HIGHWAY 3 32 EAST, AND AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $188,480 AND REVISED TOTAL PROJECT NOT TO EXCEED 473,250 WITH WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM TECH STOP WITH WRITTEN APPROVAL FROM TECH STOP. OKAY. YES. AND POINT OF POINT. ALL RIGHT. SO WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN SCHOOLER. DO WE HAVE A SECOND? [00:35:06] A SECOND. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN JUNE. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. CAN I SAY ONE MORE THING? SURE. I USUALLY EXACTLY, BUT I NEVER WORKED IN LIKE THAT. I WAS GEARED UP TO WORK IN HOUSTON. SO FOR YEARS I GO BACK AND FORTH AND THEN I STARTED WORKING FOR RICHWOOD FREEPORT. AND THIS IS THE FIRST JOB THAT I'VE DONE FOR LAKE JACKSON. AND IT GETS ALL MESSED UP. AND IT'S KIND OF EMBARRASSING TO ME BECAUSE IT'S THE FIRST JOB THAT I HAVE EVER BOARD THAT I NEVER GOT THROUGH. YEAH. IN 15 YEARS. WELL, WE MAKE 'EM TOUGH HERE IN LAKE JACKSON. WHAT CAN WE SAY? ALL RIGHT. THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH. IT'S TOUGH. LIKE I'M MOSQUITOES. YEAH. WELL, MORGAN'S PRETTY GOOD AT WHAT HE DOES STUFF. WELL, WE COUNT ON THAT. YEAH. THANK Y'ALL FOR COMING TONIGHT AND ANSWERING OUR QUESTIONS. ALRIGHT, VERY GOOD. ALL [3. Approve a contract with Johnson Controls to replace the chiller and other HVAC equipment at the municipal court building and replace the aeration blowers at the wastewater treatment plant in an amount not to exceed $5,142,896. – Eric Wilson ] RIGHT. SO ITEM NUMBER THREE IS THE TIME FOR THE LAKE JACKSON CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER THEIR REAPPOINTMENTS AND NEW APPOINTMENTS OF CITY RESIDENTS TO THE CITY'S BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. SO ALL OF OUR BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS ARE VOLUNTEERS BY THE CITIZENS OF LAKE JACKSON, WHICH WERE, WE'RE VERY BLESSED THAT WE HAVE AS MANY PEOPLE SIGNED UP TO WANNA DO THE DIFFERENT BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. UM, AND SO THIS IS THE TIME THAT WE'VE GOT OUR, ALL OF OUR APPLICATIONS AND THE CITIZENS HAVE ANSWERED THEIR QUESTIONS AND IT'S JUST TIME FOR COUNCIL TO SIT AND WORK THROUGH IT. SO CAN WE GET A LIGHT THE LIGHTS BACK ON? YES. I'M OKAY. SO COUNSEL, LET ME PULL THIS FOR A SECOND. I WAS WORKING THROUGH THIS FOR MYSELF AND YOU KNOW, WE GOING BACK AND FORTH, BACK AND FORTH. I MADE THIS LITTLE DOCUMENT HERE. THIS ONE SHOULD, EVERYBODY SHOULD HAVE ONE. AND ALL I DID WAS I TOOK EVERY POOR PERSON IN THE ORDER THAT SALLY HAD ON FOR PLANNERS AND PUT 'EM IN A LINE FOR EACH ONE OF THE COMMISSIONS SO THAT IT'S ALL ON ONE SHEET. AND THEN IF THERE WEREN'T ENOUGH PEOPLE THAT THEIR FIRST CHOICE WAS WHATEVER THE BOARD WAS, I PUT THE PEOPLE WHO HAD A SECOND CHOICE OR THIRD CHOICE JUST TO MAKE IT FOR EASY FOR ALL OF US TO SEE WHAT'S WHAT. OKAY. SO, UM, I'S START WITH TRAFFIC. UH, PLANNERS IS ONE THAT WE MAY GO TO EXECUTIVE, UH, SESSION TO DISCUSS, UH, BECAUSE IT IS A VOTING, WHAT IS THE WORD? QUASI JUDICIAL. WHAT IS IT? QUASI-JUDICIAL. YEAH, QUASI-JUDICIAL. THE LAWYER SAID, UH, BOARD. SO ANYWAYS, ON TRAFFIC COUNSEL, UM, I KIND OF JUST WENT THROUGH AND I THINK JUST, IF EVERYBODY'S ALREADY GONE THROUGH IT, JUST KIND OF THROW OUT YOUR NAMES ON THERE. WE'VE GOT TWO OPEN VACANCIES ON TRAFFIC. UM, I'LL START, I GUESS SHAWN, SEAN BAKER. I WOULD PROMOTE SAME FOR THE, UH, PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE SHE HAS WITH OTHER COMMISSIONS THAT WOULD DEFINITELY GET MY VOTE. AND SHE'S A BUS DRIVER, SO SHE SEES ALL THE THINGS. SHE'S A LOT. YEAH, VERY. SO I THOUGHT THE SAME THING. VERY. UM, DO THE, DO EITHER THE OTHER TWO, UH, RORY OR TERRY HAVE ANY PREVIOUS, UH, PLACEMENTS OR ANY ANYTIME DOWN HERE? OH, GOD BLESS. NO, BUT THIS ONE, UH, SO GET DOWN FOR RAINBOW. YES. I THREW OUT RORY BERNET, UM, ON THERE BECAUSE THE OTHER PERSON DIDN'T REALLY PUT ANYTHING. THAT ONE WAS A FIREFIGHTER. AND, UM, I THINK TRAFFIC AND STREETS AND STUFF LIKE THAT ARE FAIRLY IMPORTANT TO THOSE GUYS. SO TERRY, SO IT WAS SEAN BAKER, ROY NIK, AND TERRY RICHARDSON WHO PUT TRAFFIC DOWN AS THEIR FIRST CHOICES. AND WE HAVE THE TWO OPEN SPOTS. [00:40:10] OKAY. SO I'M GONNA KEEP RECORD TRAFFIC OF WHAT Y'ALL WANT. A PRETTY GOOD ONE TO ME. OKAY. LET'S DO IT. THANKS. OKAY. SO FOR THE TWO APPOINTMENTS FOR TRAFFIC, WE HAVE SEAN BAKER. IS THAT CORRECT, COUNSEL? CORRECT. OKAY. AND THEN RORY HUNECK, IS THAT A YES OR NO? COUNSEL TO ME? IT IS. MR. JOIN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. YOU'RE WELCOME, MA'AM. YES. NO. OKAY. I'M IN THE PRINCIPAL'S OFFICE. I FEEL LIKE OVER HERE HAS TO BE ALL PROPER. ALL RIGHT. SO THE NEXT ONE IS THE LAKE JACKSON DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE. THERE WERE THREE OPEN SPOTS ON THAT ONE. UM, ONLY THE FIRST TWO PEOPLE ON THE LIST WAS THIS, THEIR FIRST CHOICE, UH, STARTING WITH MR. HARRINGTON. IT WAS THE SECOND CHOICE. MR. LANDIS, ADAM, SECOND CHOICE. AMY WAGNER, SECOND CHOICE, AND GLENNA BAILEY. SO MY THOUGHTS ARE THE FIRST TWO, TWO PEOPLE WHO IT WAS THEIR FIRST CHOICE, BUT WHAT DO Y'ALL THINK I HAD LIKE TO NOMINATE LANDIS, ADAM, MR. LANDIS ADAMS. OKAY. SO MY QUESTION IS, THIS IS, WE HAVE TWO PEOPLE WHO LJDC WAS THEIR FIRST CHOICE. DO YOU WANNA USE THOSE TWO PEOPLE FIRST AND MR. ADAMS ON THE THIRD OPEN SEAT? SOUNDS GREAT. OH, WAS FIRST CHOICE FOR MR. LINDER SMITH HEARING FROM PLANNING? YES. CORRECT. SO THREE VACANCIES ON LJDC. TWO PEOPLE. IT WAS THEIR FIRST CHOICE. THAT'S ANDREW GORDON AND BRETT BORIN. AND THEN MR. BAKER IS SUGGESTING LANDIS ADAMS. MR. BORIN IS ON PAGE TWO. YEP. I'M COOL WITH, I'M COOL WITH GORDON AND ADAMS. AND MR. GORDON IS ON PAGE FOUR. MS. MAY, ANYBODY THIS, YOU NEED THREE UHHUH. THERE'S THREE OPEN SPOTS. YEP. ADAM GORDON. AND, UH, OKAY. SO THREE VACANCIES, MS. WAGNER. OKAY. WHAT ARE YOUR THOUGHTS ON MS. WAGNER? UH, WELL, SHE HAS THE EXTENSIVE FINANCIAL UNDERSTANDING WITH HER FORMER SITE CONTROL OF DOW OPERATIONS AND, UH, LIFELONG RESIDE JACKSON, ALONG WITH BEING, HAVING THE, WITH THE FINANCIAL ANALYTICS AS HER, UH, ATION. OKAY. SO WE'VE GOT WAGNER AND LANDIS ADAMS. YEP. I LIKED MS. GLENNA BAILEY ALSO. SHE'S ON THAT FIRST PAGE. SHE'S UNDERSTANDING OF SAFETY PROTOCOLS. AND SHE'S BEEN DEEP INTO LAKE JACKSON FOR A LONG TIME. MM-HMM . [00:45:25] HOW ABOUT ONE OF THESE GUYS WHO IT WAS THEIR FIRST CHOICE? I, THAT WAS ANDREW GORDON AND BRETT GORDON AND YEAH. ANDREW GORDON. OH. OR ARE WE NOT RIGHT NOW. I'VE, I'VE WRITTEN, UH, WHATEVER LANDIS ADAMS AND AMY WAGNER. CORRECT. SO I HAVE ONE SPOT THAT ANDREW GORDON. ANDREW GORDON. COUNSEL. YES. NO. MR. BUELL. YES. I YOU GOT THE DOCK. OKAY. OKAY. ZBA, THERE ARE NO VACANCIES, SO WE CAN MOVE ON. ALL RIGHT. PARKS AND RECS. THERE ARE TWO OPEN VACANCIES ON THAT ONE. THERE WERE FOUR CITIZENS WHO PARKS AND RECS WERE THEIR FIRST, UH, CHOICES. I PERSONALLY KNOW LANCE ALKI, HE WOULD BE A GREAT FIT FOR PARKS AND RECS. VERY ACTIVE, ENERGETIC. MS. ROBIN CAN PUT HIM TO WORK. WHICH NAME WAS THAT? MAYOR LANCE, UH, AKI. PAGE THREE. YEAH. MM-HMM . AND, UH, I LIKE MISS, UH, WAL , UH, KELLY. SHE WAS MY, SHE WAS MY SECOND ONE. I LIKE, I LIKE HER. SO, KELLY WAPA, SHE'S ON THE LAST PAGE. YEAH, SHE'S GOT LOTS. A BUSY, BUSY GIRL. OKAY. SO ARE WE GOOD WITH, I'M GOOD WITH, I'M, I'M PERSONALLY GOOD WITH THOSE TWO LANCE KY COUNSEL, UH, LANCE KY AND CALLIE WALTHALL. AND IF YOU'RE OUT THERE LISTENING, ANY OF THESE PEOPLE AND I'VE BUTCHERED HER NAME. I'M SORRY. I WAS GONNA ASK ROBIN, CAN YOU PRONOUNCE KY? NO, I JUST TOLD JAMES THAT I'M DIVORCED. THAT'S OKAY. THEY'LL UNDERSTAND. SAY MY NAME. OKAY. SO ARE WE GOOD WITH LANCE KY AND KELLY WALT ON THAT ONE? OKAY. ALL RIGHT. THE NEXT ONE IS KEEP LAKE JACKSON. BEAUTIFUL. THERE ARE TWO OPENINGS ON THIS ONE. THIS BOARD IS A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT IN THAT THEY ARE, THEY HAVE A BUDGET, THAT'S NUMBER ONE. BUT NUMBER TWO, THEY ARE SUPER DUPER BUSY. THEY'RE THE ONES THAT ARE ACTUALLY OUT PICKING OUT, PICKING UP STUFF AROUND THE COMMUNITY, PLANTING THE TREES. UH, VERY ACTIVE GROUP. UM, I DID REACH OUT TO MS. TOTO, HOW DO I SAY YOUR LAST NAME? STO. STO I DID REACH OUT TO HER AND KIND OF WENT THROUGH, 'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW ANY OF THE, UH, PEOPLE WHO WANTED TO DO THIS. UM, THERE WERE A COUPLE ON THERE WHO HAVE ACTUALLY BEEN ACTIVE IN HELPING WITH THEIR PROJECTS, EVEN THOUGH THEY ARE NOT ON THE BOARD. AND, UH, MS. TSO WAS, UM, FAMILIAR WITH HIM. AND THAT WAS APRIL, ALLEN AND LYNETTE BROOKS. SO LYNETTE BROOKS IS THE VERY FIRST ONE, AND SHE HAS BEEN HELPING WITH PROJECT. SO SHE'S PAGE ONE, NUMBER ONE. YOU OKAY WITH THOSE TWO? YEP. SO MAYOR, WHICH ONES? OKAY, SO THAT WAS APRIL, ALLEN AND LYNETTE BROOKS. COUNSEL FINE WITH ME. YEP. OKAY. [00:50:03] OKAY. THEN FLIP OVER. OKAY. WE'VE GOT THE LIBRARY COMMITTEE AND THERE WERE TWO VACANCIES ON THIS. I DON'T KNOW ANY OF THESE PEOPLE, BUT THE GENTLEMAN, BRENT COOPER, HE PUT LIBRARY FOR HIS FIRST, SECOND, AND THIRD CHOICE. SO HE'S VERY PASSIONATE ABOUT THE LIBRARY. I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY A GOOD FIT FOR US. SOUNDS LIKE MR. COOPER GETS MY VOTE. YEAH, IT WAS, HE WASN'T INTERESTED IN ANYTHING BUT THE LIBRARY. I SAW THAT AND I JUST, I THOUGHT THAT WAS GREAT. AND THEN I THINK TERRY RICHARDSON IS THE OTHER ONE. AS I WAS GOING THROUGH THESE, I THINK HE HAD PUT, UM, LIBRARY WAS HIS THIRD CHOICE. IS IS COOPER EMPLOYED BY THE LIBRARY? I DON'T KNOW. LIBRARIAN AT THE COLLEGE? HE WORKS AT THE COLLEGE. COLLEGE, OKAY. I, YEAH. I, WELL, THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE WHY HE WAS EXCITED ABOUT OVER THE PAST 18 YEARS AS A LIBRARIAN. I WASN'T SURE IF HE WAS A RECENT RETIRED AND RETIRED. YEAH. OKAY. COOPER'S DE CATCH, DEFINITELY DOWN MY VOTE. GOOD CATCH. OKAY. AND THEN MR. TERRY RICHARDSON WAS THE OTHER ONE THAT PUT, UM, LIBRARY WAS ACTUALLY HIS THIRD CHOICE. AND THEN YOU HAD, UH, MELISSA DAVIS MCGEE, AND IT WAS HER THIRD CHOICE ALSO, BUT SHE DIDN'T GIVE US ANY, ANYTHING TO READ. AND THEN DESIREE EZ DOING THESE APPS ON YOUR PHONE ARE NOT EASY, BY THE WAY. NO. IT'S NOT EVEN EASY ON PAPER. THAT'S WHY I'VE, I, I, I KNOW HOW EASY IT IS TO SKIP THE, UH, EXPERIENCE LINE ON THAT WONDERFUL INTERFACE. YEAH. OKAY. ANY THOUGHTS? COUNSEL? I WHO, BESIDES COOPER? UM, SO DESIREE VALDEZ, IT WAS HER THIRD CHOICE. TERRY RICHARDSON, IT WAS HIS THIRD CHOICE. AND MELISSA DAVIS MCGEE, IT WAS THEIR THIRD CHOICE. SO WE ONLY HAD ONE PERSON IN THE LIBRARY. WAS THEIR FIRST CHOICE, THE OTHER THREE OPTIONS? IT WAS AT LEAST A CHOICE. I THINK MS. VALDEZ GOT IT FOR ME. MS. VALDEZ? YEP. OKAY. SO COUNSEL'S GOOD WITH BRENT COOPER AND DESIREE VALEZ. MR. SCHOOLER, DID YOU HAVE SOMETHING? WHO WAS IT? WHO WAS IT THAT HAS A LIBRARY BACKGROUND? BRETT BRENT COOPER. HE WAS OUR NUMBER ONE. OKAY. HE'S ON THERE. I THOUGHT THERE WAS SOMEONE ELSE THAT HAD LIBRARY BACKGROUND. UM, NO, I DON'T THINK THERE WAS ANY. NO. NOBODY ELSE HAD A TEACHING OR LIBRARY BACKGROUND. NO PROBLEM. SO FOR LIBRARY COUNCIL, UH, THE TWO VACANCIES ARE BRENT COOPER AND DESIREE VALEZ. THAT CONCUR? YES. OKAY. HOT COMMITTEE HAS NOTHING DANGEROUS. STRUCTURE BOARD HAS NOTHING MADE IT THROUGH. SO, OKAY. SO SHERRY, WE NEED TO MAKE TWO MOTIONS HERE. WE NEED TO MAKE ONE MOTION FOR THE REAPPOINTMENT OF PEOPLE. MM-HMM . AND THEN WE NEED TO MAKE A SECOND MOTION WHERE WE NEED TO READ ALL THIS. CORRECT? YES. THAT WOULD WORK OUT. OKAY. WHOEVER WANTS TO MAKE THE MOTION IF YOU DIDN'T WRITE IT ALL DOWN. I DID. I YOU CAN HAVE MY PAPER. AND CAN WE DO PLANNERS SEPARATELY, OR DO WE NEED TO DO THAT ONE FIRST? YOU, YOU ALL DECIDE, UM, IF YOU WANT TO DO PLANNERS NOW OR IF YOU WANNA GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. I MEAN, IF YOU WANNA DO IT NOW, YOU CAN, YOU KNOW, DO 'EM ALL TOGETHER. I THINK WE DO NEED EXECUTIVE SESSION ON THAT ONE. THERE WAS A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE IN THAT. THAT'S YOUR CALL. PRIMO. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO DO WE GO AHEAD AND PROCEED WITH WHAT WE HAVE? OKAY. COME BACK TO THAT ONE. YEAH, LET'S DO THAT. OKAY. SO WE HAVE TO MAKE THE FIRST MOTION FOR ALL OF THE REAPPOINTMENTS THAT WE HAVE LISTED. TAKE A VOTE AND THEN WE HAVE TO MAKE A SECOND MOTION WITH A SECOND AND TAKE ANOTHER VOTE ON THE ONES THAT WE JUST APPOINTED. SO I'LL TAKE A [00:55:01] MOTION, A MOTION TO APPOINT EVERYBODY THAT IN BELIEVE FIRST. WHAT WOULD BE EVERYBODY THAT IS LISTED FOR REAPPOINTMENTS? FOR REAPPOINTMENT? RE YEAH. MM-HMM . OKAY. IF NOBODY MAKES A MOTION, IT JUST FAILS, THEN WE DON'T HAVE ANYMORE. I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR APPOINT ALL THE REAPPOINTMENTS. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN BAKER. SECOND. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN JUNE. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. OKAY. ON THE SECOND ONE, WHOEVER MAKES THE MOTION HAS TO READ THE NAMES WITH THE BOARD. I DID WRITE THEM DOWN. UM, I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A MOTION FOR 2026 BOARD COMMISSION APPOINTMENTS ON JUNE 1ST. TRAFFIC COMMISSION TO SEAN BAKER AND HUECK ON LJ DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE. GORDON ADAMS, WAGNER, PARKS AND REC. UM, NO, I DID IT WRONG. HAD DIFFERENT ONES ON THAT ONE. YOU HAD DIFFERENT ONES ON THAT. MM-HMM . FOR, UH, LJ, LJDC. I HAD ADAMS, WAGNER AND GORDON. OKAY. OH, 'CAUSE I WROTE ANDREW WAGNER AND AMY WAGNER. THAT WAS THE PROBLEM. SORRY. YOU'RE GOOD. BOSS. UM, PARKS AND REC. UM, CALLIE AND LANCE? UH, SAY THAT ONE MORE FOR ME. OSHO OS SHAKI. GO WITH THAT. CAN HE PLAY JACKSON? BEAUTIFUL. UH, MS. ALLEN AND MS. BROOKS AND LIBRARY. UH, COOPER AND VALDEZ. OR, I'M SORRY. VALEZ. YEAH. OKAY. WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN. JUNE 2ND. SECOND BY COUNCILMAN SCHOOLER. ALL RIGHT. ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? NO. ALL RIGHT. MOTION CARRIES. WHO SECOND THAT MAYOR, I'M SORRY. UH, COUNCILMAN SCHOOLER. MS. SCHOOLER. OKAY. OKAY. ITEM [4. Approve change order #5 for City Project No. 25-08-1217 with Android Construction Services, LLC for the relocation of the proposed bore under S. Hwy 332 E., in an amount not to exceed $188,480, and revised total project not to exceed $473,250.- Sal Aguirre ] AGENDA NUMBER FOUR. THIS IS APPOINT THE CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS TO SERVE AS LIAISONS TO THE CITY'S BOARDS AND COMMISSION COMMISSIONS. SO JUST, IF ANYBODY'S NEW, THIS IS, UH, ONE COUNCIL PERSON GOES TO THE MEETINGS. THEIR ROLE IN THESE MEETINGS IS GENERALLY JUST TO LISTEN. UM, IF THEY'RE ASKED A QUESTION ABOUT HOW SOMETHING PERTAINS TO THE CITY, THEY CAN ANSWER THOSE QUESTIONS, BUT THEY, THEY'RE NOT USUALLY VOTING MEMBERS OR, UM, ON MOST OF THE COMMITTEES. UM, AND THEY'RE JUST THERE AS A RESOURCE AND TO ANSWER QUESTIONS ABOUT COUNCIL. OKAY. SO, OKAY. SO FOR PLANNERS HAVE MAYOR PRO TIM BAKER FOR TRAFFIC. COUNCILMAN ELL FOR LJDC. THIS ONE'S A LITTLE DIFFERENT. IT ACTUALLY, UH, REQUIRES TWO OF US. AND WE ARE ACTUAL MEMBERS. SO THAT WOULD BE MYSELF AND MAYOR PRO TIM BAKER. UH, ZBA WILL BE, UH, MYSELF, PARKS AND RECREATION. MR. SCHOOLER KEEP LAKE JACKSON BEAUTIFUL. BUT MR. JUN, UH, LIBRARY OF MR. BUELL, UH, THE HOT COMMITTEE. I WILL DO, UH, DSDB, UM, AS NEEDED. I WILL DO. AND THEN THE MUSEUM. DO WE HAVE TO DO THAT ONE? UH, NO. NO. UM, WE NEED TWO MEMBERS. OKAY. YEAH, THE MAYOR USUALLY SERVES OUT THAT MYSELF AND COUNCILMAN SCHOOL, OUR ACTUAL MEMBERS. OKAY. SO IT WAS YOURSELF, MYSELF, AND COUNCILMAN SCHOOLER. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. OKAY. PARKS AND MUSEUM. SO, LEMME THIS REAL QUICK. OKAY. OH, AND COUNSEL, JUST, THIS IS ALL. SALLY SENT US ALL THE HANDBOOKS THAT ALL OF THE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS GET. AND JUST, Y'ALL PROBABLY KNOW SOME OF THIS, BUT, UM, MAYOR PRO TIM BAKER, PLANNERS, THIS FIRST TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH HERE IN CITY HALL AT SIX 30, COUNCILMAN BUELL TRAFFIC IS THE SECOND TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH HERE AT CITY HALL. SIX 30. UH, LJDC [01:00:02] IS MYSELF AND BAKER. THAT ONE IS QUARTERLY OR AS CALLED. SO THAT ONE'S TO BE ANNOUNCED. UH, ZBA IS ONLY AS NEEDED. UM, PARKS AND REC, MR. SCHOOLER IS THE THIRD TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH AT THE REC CENTER AT FIVE 30 KE LAKE JACKSON. BEAUTIFUL. MR. UNE IS THE THIRD TUESDAY OF EACH MONTH HERE IN CITY HALL AT 6:00 PM THAT TIMING MIGHT OR THURSDAY THE THIRD? THURSDAY. TUESDAY. TUESDAY. THE TIMING IS 6:00 PM MIGHT BE DIFFICULT FOR ME. THE EARLIEST I COULD BE THERE WOULD BE DURING SCHOOL YEAR. EARLIEST I COULD BE, THERE WOULD BE SIX 30 DURING SUMMER. IT'S NO PROBLEM, BUT, OKAY. THEY, UH, WE'LL TALK WITH MS. TSO ABOUT IT. OKAY. THEY PROBABLY WANT YOU MORE THERE ON SATURDAYS. YEAH, ON THE DO IT DAY. I'LL, THEY, I'LL MAKE MY BEAUTIFUL APPEARANCE. I WAS GONNA SAY, AND THEY DO PUT KIDS TO WORK. I HAVE PLENTY OF THOSE TO PUT TO WORK. OKAY. UH, LIBRARY, MR. BUELL IS ONCE A QUARTER, UH, HOT COMMITTEE IS AS NEEDED. DANGEROUS STRUCTURE IS AS NEEDED. AND MUSEUM IS ONCE A YEAR. ONCE A YEAR, ONCE A MINUTE. ALL RIGHT, COUNSEL, THANK YOU ALL FOR BEING WILLING TO EXTEND YOUR SERVICE ONTO THESE, UH, BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. A LOT OF OUR WORK IN THE CITY GETS DONE THROUGH THESE BOARDS AND COMMISSIONS. UM, SO I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP. OKAY. [5. Discuss the procedure to appoint a new council member for Position 3. – Mayor Seth ] ITEM NUMBER FIVE, DISCUSS PROCEDURE TO APPOINT A NEW COUNCIL MEMBER FOR POSITION THREE. SO, WANTED TO, WE'RE NOT ON ANY TIME SCHEDULED TO HAVE TO DO THIS. LIKE WE COULD REALLY JUST LET IT RIDE FOR THE NEXT SIX MONTHS. WE DON'T HAVE TO DO THAT. UM, WE'RE STRONGER. WE HAVE A LITTLE BIT OF ALL OF US HERE, YOU KNOW, FOR IDEAS AND OPINIONS. UM, HOWEVER, I WANTED TO GO AHEAD AND GET THIS ON THE AGENDA. AND THE REASON BEING IS BECAUSE WHOEVER COMES ON, FIRST OF ALL, WE NEED TO ADVERTISE IT, UH, TO GIVE EVERYBODY AN OPPORTUNITY TO PUT THEIR NAME IN THE HAT. UM, AND THEN WE NEED AN OPPORTUNITY TO DISCUSS IT AND TALK ABOUT WHOEVER DECIDES TO APPLY. BUT IDEALLY WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TRY TO DO IS GET SOMEBODY ON COUNCIL BY THE FIRST MEETING IN JULY. AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS BECAUSE THE NEXT ONE IS BUDGET WORKSHOP. AND WHOEVER COMES ON BOARD, LET THEM SIT THROUGH THE, THE BUDGET WORKSHOP. IT'S GONNA BE A LOT ALL AT ONE TIME, BUT IT AT LEAST GIVES THEM EXPOSURE TO IT TO WHERE IF WE WAIT AND THEY HAVEN'T GOTTEN TO GO THROUGH THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, THEN LATER ON THEY'RE GONNA BE ASKED TO VOTE ON A BUDGET THAT THEY REALLY DIDN'T GET A CHANCE TO EXPLORE. SO, UM, I HAD ASKED SALLY, SHE PULLED UP, AND IT SHOULD BE IN YOUR PACKET HERE. THERE ARE SOME COUNSEL INTERVIEW QUESTIONS THAT COUNSELS IN THE PAST HAVE USED. THERE'S PRETTY MUCH EVERYTHING I WOULD WANNA KNOW IS ON THESE, ON THESE QUESTIONS. HOWEVER, WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO TAKE THE TIME TO DO IS IF ANY ONE OF YOU HAS A QUESTION THAT YOU WOULD LIKE ADDED OR ONE OF THESE QUESTIONS THAT WE CAN TAKE OFF, UM, WOULD LIKE YOUR INPUT ON THAT AS WELL. SO IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO KNOW FROM WHO WE APPOINT, 'CAUSE THAT'S A BIG DEAL TO APPOINT SOMEBODY. SO WE, AND YOU DON'T HAVE TO COME UP WITH IT TONIGHT, JUST TAKE A LITTLE TIME AND THINK ON IT, PONDER ON IT AND EMAIL ANY QUESTIONS OR, OR THOUGHTS OR CONCERNS THAT YOU WOULD HAVE TO, UH, SALLY AND MODESTO IS THIS RIGHT HERE? WHAT? WE'RE GOING TO ASK EVERY ONE OF THEM ALL THESE QUESTIONS, OR WE CAN PICK THESE QUESTIONS ASKED. ARE WE YOU WANTING US TO ASK EACH AND EVERY ONE OF THEM 12 QUESTIONS? NO, THESE WERE JUST QUESTIONS THAT WERE ASKED IN THE PAST. WE YEAH. WE CAN USE THEM TO, YEAH. SO WE CAN TAILOR THIS TO WHAT QUESTIONS THAT WE THINK ARE IMPORTANT. OKAY. ALL THAT'S, THAT'D BE LONG MEETING IF A LOT OF PEOPLE JOINED UP. THAT'S WHY I MADE, THAT'S WHY I ASKED THE QUESTION. NO, NO, NO. SHE JUST, SHE JUST, UH, PROVIDED THESE WAS GOING ALONG AND THEN WE NEED TO YEAH, SHE JUST ASKED, SHE JUST PROVIDED THESE, SO WE WOULD KINDA GIVE US SOME DIRECTION. OKAY. OKAY. BUT IF Y'ALL HAVE ANYTHING DIFFERENT OR ANYTHING, CAN I ANSWER MY QUESTION? YEP. IS COUNSEL OKAY WITH US POSTING FOR THE OPENING AND TAKING THE APPLICATION SO WE CAN START THAT PROCESS NOW? UM, AND HAVE THE DEADLINE BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING? THE NEXT MEETING. CAN YOU GIVE US A WEEK OR AT LEAST TILL THE END OF THE WEEK TO EITHER NARROW THESE QUESTIONS DOWN AS, AS COUNCILMAN BELE IS SUGGESTING, OR TO ADD QUESTIONS? WE WOULDN'T GIVE 'EM THE QUESTIONS. OKAY. WE WOULD JUST BE POSTING THAT THE COUNCIL IS TAKING APPLICATIONS NOW. [01:05:01] OKAY. FOR, UH, AN OPEN COUNCIL SEAT. YEP. UM, BUT THE INTERVIEW QUESTIONS CAN BE, YOU KNOW, IF COUNSEL WANTS TO GIVE THOSE TO THEM IN ADVANCE OR IF YOU WANT TO ASK THEM IN INTERVIEWS, IF YOU WANT TO INTERVIEW, IF THERE'S 50 APPLICANTS, IF YOU WANT TO LOOK AT THEM AND INTERVIEW ONLY FIVE APPLICANTS, THAT IS COUNSEL'S PREROGATIVE. BUT WE NEED TO ASK EACH ONE OF 'EM THE SAME QUESTIONS. I WOULD. YEAH. PROBABLY. YEAH, IT'S GOOD. IT'S GOOD TO DO THAT. BUT YOU CAN ALSO HAVE A CONVERSATION. IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE BEN. I JUST THINK WE HAVE TO GET SOMETHING OUT ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT COUNCIL IS TAKING APPLICATIONS. WELL, YEAH, BUT I'M ASKING, WHEN WE GO TO INTERVIEW, WE'RE GONNA ASK EACH AND EVERYONE THE SAME QUESTIONS. WE DO. I Y'ALL DO IT. I'M ASKING, I'M NOT SAYING DO IT. I'M ASKING. I THINK THAT'S FAIR. I WANTED DECLARE BEFORE WE GO IN THERE, BECAUSE WE'RE NOT GOING ASK, I THINK WE TO ASK HOW MANY 15 QUESTIONS. I MEAN, ASK, GET THE SAME ANSWER FOR FROM IN FIVE QUESTIONS OR FOUR THREE. YEAH. SO THAT'S REASONABLE. YEAH, FOR SURE. OKAY. GOING INTO IT, EVERYBODY REALIZE THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO. AND I, I MEAN FOR MYSELF, I HAVE NO, I I MEAN I'VE LIMITED IT TO THREE OR FOUR QUESTIONS MYSELF. ALL I'M SAYING IS HOW MANY WE DO, WE ASK THE SAME QUESTIONS TO WHOEVER'S IN FRONT OF YEAH. THAT'S ALL I'M ASKING. WE AGREE ON THAT, EVERYBODY. I MAKE IT HARD, EASY. AND ALSO ALSO WHEN YOU PUTTING OUT THE APPLICATION, WILL WE PUT IN THE NOTES THAT IT'S JUST A, TO FILL THE TERM AND THEN THEY WOULD'VE TO RUN, UH, TO WELL, WE'LL WE'LL ADVERTISE THAT. IT'S ONLY FOR ONE TERM IF THEY CHOOSE TO RUN OR CHOOSE NOT TO, THAT'S THEIRS. BUT WE'LL SAY THAT IT'S ALWAYS SERVING OUT THE REST OF, UH, IS THE REST OF THE, THE REST OF THE TERM. YES. YEAH. A PARTIAL TERM AT THAT POINT. YEAH. PARTIAL. AND WILL YOU SPECIFY WHAT A PARTIAL TERM IS? SOME PEOPLE MIGHT KNOW WHAT A PARTIAL TERM IS AND SOME OF 'EM MIGHT NOT KNOW WHAT A PARTIAL TERM. YEAH, WE'LL WE'LL GIVE THE, UH, WE CAN GIVE THE, UH, START AND END DATE. ALRIGHT. THANK YOU. YEAH. SO WHEN WE WANNA TAKE, HOW LONG YOU WANNA TAKE THE APPLICATIONS FOR AND HOW Y'ALL WANT TO, UM, NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT, NO, I MEAN I, I'M JUST LIKE, FOR OUR POSTING, DO YOU WANNA SET A DEADLINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS? ARE Y'ALL GONNA WANNA MEET, YOU WANT TO SEE THEM AT THE NEXT MEETING? TWO WEEKS? I THINK THAT'S REASONABLE. AND THEN IT GIVES US TIME TO, TO LOOK AT 'EM OURSELVES LIKE WE DID WITH THIS. WELL, WELL, WE HAVE SOME, SOME WRITTEN INFORMATION ABOUT THE APPLICANT'S BACKGROUNDS. YEAH, THAT'S WHAT HE, THAT'S WHAT HE'S SAYING. TWO WEEKS BEFORE THE NEXT MEETING OR THE JULY MEETING. SO SECOND COUNCILMAN'S QUESTION. IT WOULD SEEM TO ME THAT IF WE HAVE INFORMATION ABOUT PEOPLE'S BACK LIVES, THEN WE TAILOR THE QUESTIONS TOWARDS THE THINGS THAT YOU'RE DEFICIENT OR QUESTIONABLE. SO FOR INSTANCE, IF SOMEONE SAYS, WELL, I'VE BEEN GONNA CONTROLLER FOR METRO CORPORATION FOR YEARS, WE DON'T NEED TO ASK THEM IF THEY UNDERSTAND FINANCE, BUT I NEED TO ASK HIM OTHER QUESTIONS. I I HAVE A QUESTION IN REGARDS TO THIS. I UNDERSTAND. HOW LONG, IF WE WERE TO APPOINT SOMEBODY IN JULY TO POSITION THREE THREE, HOW LONG IS THERE TERM LEFTOVER TILL NEXT MAY. THAT'S MAY UNTIL NEXT MAY. THAT'S WHAT I JUST SAID. TILL NEXT MAY 11 MONTHS. THAT'S WHAT I JUST ASKED HIM TO. OKAY. SPECIFY. YEAH. THE, THE, THE, IT FEELS LIKE WE'RE PUTTING A LOT INTO A SHORT ITEM. AND WHEN IT COMES TO APPOINTING IT, I THOUGHT THAT THE PROCESS WOULD BE MORE, WE'RE GONNA GO WITH SOMEBODY WHO UNDERSTANDS THAT IT'S A SHORT TERM ONE, BUT ALSO NOT ANOTHER FRESHMAN OR SOPHOMORE ON THE SEAT. BEING THAT WE HAVE A NEW MAYOR, WE HAVE A COUNCIL MEMBER THAT'S IN HIS SECOND YEAR OF HIS FIRST TERM NEW COUNCIL MEMBER. I, I'M NOT SURE IF BRINGING POTENTIALLY SOMEBODY WHO HAS NO TIME IN A SEAT SOMEWHERE OR NOT WITHIN RECENT HISTORY OR IT, IT SEEMS LIKE WE'RE PUTTING A LOT OF WEIGHT ON THE APPLICANTS INSTEAD OF NOMINATING SOMEBODY AND OR TALKING ABOUT NOMINATING SOMEBODY THAT WE KNOW WOULD BE WILLING TO DO IT AND OR HAS THE EXPERIENCE ALREADY SINCE IT'S GONNA BE A ROUGHLY, I MEAN 30%, 50, 60, 60% OF THE BOARD AND THEIR POSITIONS ARE LESS THAN TWO YEARS. I FEEL, I FEEL WEIRD BRINGING SOMEONE FROM, I'M GONNA FLIP THAT AND I THINK THAT'S A VALID, VERY VALID [01:10:01] POINT. AND ONLY FLIP IT AND THINK ABOUT THIS THOUGH. SO YOU HAVE SOMEBODY WHO, HALF OF US HAVE BEEN HERE FOR, YOU KNOW, AT LEAST THREE BUDGET CYCLES. OKAY. YOU'RE GOING TO, IN A YEAR FROM NOW, COUNCILMAN BAKER'S GONNA TURN OUT, I DON'T KNOW, I MS I HAVEN'T SEE IF I COULD TALK MR. BUIN TO RUN IT AGAIN OR NOT. SO YOU, I'VE RUN HERE FOR TWO YEARS, SO YOU COULD POTENTIALLY HAVE EVEN MORE NEW PEOPLE. AND SO WHAT I WAS THINKING IS IF YOU GOT SOMEBODY IN HERE WHO HAD INTEREST IN DOING IT LONGER TERM BESIDES, YOU KNOW, WOULD RUN, THEN IT GIVES THEM A LITTLE BIT OF A BUFFER TO SIT HERE WHEN YOU DO HAVE PEOPLE WHO KIND OF KNOW WHAT QUESTIONS TO ASK WHILE, AND THAT'S WHAT I WAS SAYING, WHILE THEY CAN GO THROUGH THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, WHILE THEY CAN GO THROUGH THE ENTIRE BUDGET PROCESS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE CIP THAT WE'VE ALREADY DONE, AND KIND OF LET THEM DRINK FROM THE FIRE HOSE WHILE THEY HAVE MORE SUPPORT. SO I CAN SEE BOTH SIDES. UM, I'M, I'M LOOKING IN THE FUTURE OF WHAT WE DON'T HAVE ANY CHOICE IS GONNA HAPPEN AND YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A VERY NEW COUNCIL AND EVERYBODY'S GONNA BE, MODESTO MAY RETIRE ON US BEFORE THEN. SO THAT WAS MY THOUGHT PROCESS ON IT, WAS GET SOMEBODY IN HERE AND GIVE 'EM A LITTLE, AND I DON'T KNOW. I MEAN, IT'S, WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S GONNA APPLY. I'M THINKING ABOUT RETIRE RIGHT NOW. WE DON'T KNOW WHO, WE DON'T KNOW WHO'S GONNA APPLY. LEMME THROW THIS EITHER. YEP. PUT IN THE AD THAT THEY REALIZE THAT THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO RUN AGAIN. THAT THIS IS A ONE YEAR DEAL. MM-HMM . NOT EVEN A YEAR SAID THAT. WELL, YEAH. MM-HMM. BUT YEAH. TOO MUCH. YEAH. LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE THAT. YEAH. WELL, THEY DON'T, WELL, I WOULD JUST EDUCATE ON THEY DO NOT HAVE TO WRITE. RIGHT. BUT EDUCATE THEM. I SAID, BUT IN THAT, REALIZE THAT, THAT THE JOB WILL TO CONTINUE ON. OH, IN ONE YEAR. IN YEAR. YES. YEAH. THIS IS JUST A 10 MONTH DEAL. YEAH. THAT MIGHT CALL A BUNCH OF WASTING THEIR TIME. YEAH. I MEAN, A LOT OF PEOPLE DON'T WANNA RUN FOR STUFF. WHY WASTE ALL THE TIME FOR 10 MONTHS? I, YEAH, THAT'S A GOOD POINT. WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME THAT? IT'S AN EDUCATIONAL PIECE FOR SURE. PEOPLE LIKE TO KNOW THE WHOLE IDEA BEFORE THEY'RE GOING JUMP INTO SOMETHING. LEAST I WELL, WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME IT WAS ALL 10 MONTHS? YEAH. YOU CAN CLARIFY AND JUST SAY IT'S LET KNOW WHAT ALL EXPECTED OF IT. IT'S JUST TO, UM, FEEL AN UNEXPIRED TERM FOR 10 MONTHS. MM-HMM . NOT WASTE TIME, TIME . YEAH. I THINK, YOU KNOW, UH, ALL, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THE ITEMS THAT HAVE BEEN MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, ALREADY ARE, ARE VALID POINTS. I THINK YOU'LL, YOU KNOW, YOU'LL DEBATE THAT ONCE YOU MEET THE, YOU KNOW, WHOEVER THROWS THEIR NAME IN THE HAT AND EVERYBODY WILL HAVE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S STRENGTHS ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. AND THEN COUNCIL WILL HAVE TO DETERMINE IF THEY WANT, YOU KNOW, EXPERIENCE OR SOMEBODY, YOU KNOW, SOMEBODY COULD STILL BE, YOU KNOW, FRESH, UH, BUT HAVE A LOT OF EXPERIENCE, YOU KNOW, THAT, YOU KNOW, COUNCIL VALUES, YOU KNOW, FROM OUTSIDE, YOU KNOW, OF, OF SERVING BEFORE. SO, UM, I'M SURE ALL OF THESE, UH, ITEMS WILL COME UP, UH, IN THE FUTURE, BUT WE'LL LET COUNCIL KNOW. UM, I UNDERSTAND COUNCILMAN BA JUNE'S CONCERN OF NOT MAYBE RUSHING INTO THE DECISION MAKING. ALL I WAS ASKING IS THAT IF YOU DO PICK A CANDIDATE, IS THAT, I THINK IT'D BE VERY HELPFUL TO HAVE THEM ON BOARD, UH, THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, WHICH IS JULY 25TH, UH, THAT WOULD HELP THEM. SO THAT GIVES YOU A LITTLE BIT OF BREATHING ROOM THAT YOU, THREE MEETINGS. YOU COULD LIKE, GIVE US, YOU KNOW, THREE MEETINGS BETWEEN, YOU COULD HAVE, YOU COULD SELECT THEM ON THE SIXTH OR THE 20TH. UM, SO THAT GIVES YOU, UM, THE 15TH. UM, WHICH WOULD BE TOUGH FOR US TO START INTER, YOU KNOW, KNOW, POSTING SOMETHING NOW. I GUESS WE COULD POST SOMETHING BY WEDNESDAY, UM, OR TOMORROW. I MEAN THAT, THAT'S AN EASY POST. AND THEN WE COULD TAKE RESUMES UP TO THE 12TH, OR IF YOU WANT TO GO A LITTLE BIT LONGER, IF WE GO PAST THE 15TH, THEN, UM, THEN YOU'RE DOING IT ON THE SIXTH. OR YOU COULD CALL A SPECIAL MEETING IF YOU WANTED TO, JUST FOR INTERVIEWING. IF YOU HAD A LOT OF CANDIDATES, THAT MAY BE THE, THE FAIR THING TO DO, UH, OF HAVING A SEPARATE NIGHT WHERE YOU'RE INTERVIEWING AND THEN NOT TRY TO RUSH IT BEFORE A COUNCIL MEETING OR DURING A COUNCIL MEETING. DEPENDS ON HOW MANY SIGN UP. YEAH. YEAH. UH, YOUR OFF DAY WOULD BE THE EIGHTH, THE 22ND. WE MIGHT BE SITTING UP HERE BY OURSELVES. I MIGHT, [01:15:02] SO MY, THE, THE POINT OF PUTTING THIS ON THE AGENDA TONIGHT FOR ME WAS JUST THAT I WOULD LIKE COUNCIL'S, EVERYBODY'S COME UP WITH SOME GOOD VALID POINTS. AND I WOULD JUST LIKE COUNCIL'S INPUT ON HOW WE GO ABOUT THIS PROCESS TO MAKE IT AS FAIR AND BENEFICIAL FOR THE CITIZENS AT THE END OF THE DAY AS WE CAN. SO IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS, IF YOU HAVE QUESTIONS OFF THIS LIST, I, I KIND OF AM WITH COUNCILMAN MULE. I DON'T WANNA, AND IT, EVEN IF WE HAVE THREE PEOPLE SIGN UP, I DON'T WANNA ASK THREE PEOPLE 12 QUESTIONS. UM, LET'S PICK FOUR OR FIVE BASIC TOPICS. WHY DO YOU WANNA DO THOSE? YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. AND, UH, IF YOU HAVE ANYTHING ELSE YOU THINK IS SIGNIFICANT, IF YOU'LL JUST PUT THOSE IN AND WE'LL COME UP WITH SOME QUESTIONS BETWEEN NOW AND THEN THAT WE'D LIKE TO USE. IS THERE A DEADLINE THAT YOU WOULD WANT TO HAVE AFTER? CAN I SEE YOUR LITTLE BOOK? YES. OKAY. SO TODAY'S THE FIRST, UM, IF WE GET 'EM IN, YOU THINK TWO WEEKS IS FAIR TO GET APPLICATIONS? SO IF WE START ADVERTISING TOMORROW, WELL, IT WON'T GO OUT UNTIL PROBABLY THURSDAY IF YOU CAN PUT IT IN THE PAPER. WELL, I MEAN, LAURA MARIE CAN PUT IT OUT TOMORROW. YEAH, WE WOULDN'T PUT IT IN THE PAPER. YEAH, WE WOULDN'T, THE PAPER NOT PRINT TOMORROW. I DON'T PRINT IT WEDNESDAY, THURSDAY. I DON'T THINK WE WERE PLANNING ON PUTTING IT IN THE PAPER. NO PAPER. WE WERE DOING THE CITY WEBSITE. PEOPLE. I PUT IT IN THE PAPER TOO. I DON'T LOOK, I DON'T LOOK AT, I READ IT OUTTA PAPER. DIDN'T TELL ME IN THE SIX. YOU SEE WHY 24? SO PUT IT IN AND GO TO TWO OPPORTUNITIES TWO WEEKS SO THEY CAN GIVE THEIR APPLICATIONS TO SALLY. IN THE MEANTIME, WE CAN COME UP WITH WHAT WE WOULD LIKE TO ASK, AND THEN DEPENDING ON HOW MANY PEOPLE SIGN UP, WE CAN DECIDE WHETHER TO DO IT AS PART OF A REGULAR COUNCIL MEETING OR A SPECIAL MEETING. OKAY, SO DEADLINE. EITHER THE 18TH, JUST MAKE IT THE 19TH. OKAY. 18TH. THE 19TH. 19TH, OKAY. YES. OKAY, WE'LL GET IT. UH, WEEKS. MM-HMM . SO WE'LL GET IT, UH, POSTED AND WE'LL TRY TO DO, UH, AN AD, UH, AS QUICK AS POSSIBLE. TELL THE TAX REPORTER WE WOULD LIKE FOR HER TO MENTION SOMETHING. I BET, I BET SHE CAN RUN THAT FAR. CAN'T . SO SHE MAKE IT HAPPEN. SHE MAKE IT HAPPEN. OKAY. OKAY. DEADLINE THE 19TH. COUNSEL, ANYTHING ELSE ON THAT ITEM? NO, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT. [6. New Business Updates. – David Walton ] ITEM NUMBER SIX. THE BEST PART OF THE EVENING. NEW BUSINESS UPDATES. MR. WALTON. GOOD EVENING MAYOR. MEMBERS OF COUNCIL, I KNOW YOU'VE HIGHLY ANTICIPATED MY APPROACH TO THE PODIUM. UM, I JUST WANNA POINT OUT THAT DUE TO THE, UM, POSTING GUIDELINES, DEADLINES THAT THE STATE IMPOSED UP UPON SALLY TO HAVE THE AGENDA POSTED AND EVERYTHING, THE INFORMATION THAT YOU TYPICALLY RECEIVE IS, COULD BE OLD 10 TO 14 DAYS OLD BY THE TIME YOU ACTUALLY TALK ABOUT IT IN COUNCIL. SO I WOULD LIKE TO POINT OUT THAT THE FIRST LINE ITEM, THE CHIPOTLE SHELL BUILDING, THE RED LOBSTER IS DOWN, OBVIOUSLY, AND THE CONSTRUCTION FOR THE NEW BUILDING HAS STARTED. THAT'S NOT THE CHIPOTLE ITSELF YET, BUT THE, THE OVERALL BUILDING THAT'S GONNA FIT INTO IS UNDER CONSTRUCTION. UH, THE OTHER THING THAT DID NOT MAKE THE LIST IS YOU, YOU KNOW, HAVE NOTICED THAT THE, UM, UH, HALLMARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OF LAKE JACKSON HAS STARTED TO COME DOWN. I'M NOT A, I TYPICALLY DON'T BELIEVE A, A SCHOOL DISTRICT TAKES A BUILDING DOWN UNTIL I ACTUALLY SEE IT. SO THIS IS ONE THAT I CAN ACTUALLY SEE. BUT IS THERE ANY OTHER COMMENT, QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, OR CONCERNS ABOUT THE LIST IN FRONT OF YOU? GOOD STUFF. HOW'S MY FAVORITE APARTMENT COMPLEX BEHIND BUCKY'S ON 3 32? UH, WE HAVE A, AN UPDATE MEETING WITH THEM TOMORROW. HAVE THEY EVEN FINISHED ALL THE APARTMENTS? ? NO. YOU TALKING ABOUT THE SEVEN YEAR COMMERCIAL PROJECT THAT LAKE JACKSON HAS AT ONLY SEVEN YEARS? RIGHT NOW IT IS ON PAUSE AND WE HAVE A MEETING WITH HIM. YES. YES. SEVEN YEARS. ALRIGHT, DAVID, THANK YOU. COUNSEL. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS BEFORE HE LEAVES? ALL RIGHT. I'M EXCITED ABOUT CHIPOTLE. THANK YOU. IT'S BEEN MY PLEASURE AS ALWAYS. ALL RIGHT. CONSTRUCTION [7. Construction Updates] UPDATES. WHERE'S THE MAN OF THE HOUR? THANK YOU LADIES. [01:20:02] SAL, I PUT YOU ON THE, I DRAW HIM IN AND DON'T HAVE . YOU AND JAMES . OKAY. UH, LAST JUNE, NOW YOU HAVE A DIRECT INFORMATION. I NOTICED THAT , I, I WAS QUITE IMPRESSED. . OKAY. UH, OF COURSE, UH, ABEL EDDIE, UH, WAS ABLE TO, UH, PROVIDE THIS INFORMATION, WHICH HE ALWAYS, UH, ALWAYS KEEPS UP, UH, VERY UP TO DATE. AND THEREFORE, YOU KNOW, I TRUST HIM, WHATEVER HE SAYS. I GO BY THERE ONCE IN A WHILE JUST TO CHECK ON THAT AND, UH, MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING IS GOING RIGHT. UH, PRIMARILY THE MAIN, THE MAIN JOBS THAT WE'VE GOT GOING RIGHT NOW, WHICH IS THE, UH, THE PARKWOOD TERRACE RECONSTRUCTION THERE. UH, UH, I DON'T KNOW WHETHER YOU HAVE SEEN THE COMPLETED, UH, OUTFALL FOR, UH, FOR THE, UH, FOR THE PROJECT, WHICH IS THERE AT FREDERICK, UH, FREDERICK STITCH. AND IT HAS BEEN COMPLETED NOW. UH, THEY WERE CLEANING UP TODAY, THEY WERE CLEANING UP THE FLOW LINE. IT'S DRAINING TREMENDOUSLY WELL WITH WHATEVER RAINFALL WE'VE GOTTEN UP TO DATE. SO I THINK THAT'S GONNA BE A VERY, A VERY, UH, SUCCESSFUL, UH, PORTION OF THE JOB. THEY ARE CONTINUING INSIDE DOING SOME OF THE UTILITY WORK EXTENSION. THE WATER LINES ARE GOING, ARE GOING IN A LITTLE BIT OF TIME, UH, TRYING TO, IN BETWEEN THE RAIN ACTS TOMORROW, I GUESS. UH, THERE IS A PROGNOSTICATION OF MORE RAIN. I HOPE IT, UH, IT DOESN'T COME IN AS, AS FAST AND FURIOUS AS IT HAS IN THE PAST SO THAT THAT WORK CAN CONTINUE. AND ALSO GOING BACK, UH, INTO THE OTHER JOBS THAT WERE PRIMARILY THE ASPHALT JOB, WHICH ALSO HAS, HAS BEEN A PROBLEM BOONDOGGLE ON THAT ONE. THEY FINALLY STARTED POURING CONCRETE ON THE CURB, ON THE FLUSH CURB AT, UH, BALSAM. UH, THEY WERE FINISHING UP AND, UH, STARTING THE F THEY FORMED WORK ON THE OTHER CURB ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET, UH, FOR SOME POURING PROPOSED TO BE DONE TOMORROW, WHICH I DON'T BELIEVE IS GONNA HAPPEN, BUT IF IT DOES, IT'LL BE A WELCOME, IT WILL BE A WELCOME EVENT IF THEY DO START POURING THE OTHER CURB. UH, THERE WERE ALSO, SINCE THEY WERE ALREADY FINISHING UP ON DIGGING THE, THE WHOLE CURB THROUGH THAT AREA, THEY WERE PLANNING ON MOVING THEIR EQUIPMENT, UH, THEIR, UH, DITCH WITCH, UH, UH, UH, EQUIPMENT TO THE, UH, WILLENBERG AREA SO THEY COULD START THAT PROCESS DOWN THERE. WE HAVE NOT ALLOWED THEM TO START ON, ON THE, UH, MAIN PORTION OF THAT JOB, WHICH IS A, WAS SLEEPY HOLLOW, PRIMARILY BECAUSE WE ARE NOT YET, UH, YOU KNOW, WE, WE HAVEN'T SEEN A GOOD TRAIN OF PROGRESS IN THE, UH, IN THIS PARTICULAR, AND NOT UNTIL WE SEE SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT WE ARE, WE'RE GONNA BE, YOU KNOW, GIVING THEM PERMISSION TO MOVE INTO THAT SLEEP HOLLOW. UM, WE HAVE ALL THE OTHER JOBS GOING ON. YOUR, YOUR, UH, UH, THE, THE LARGE $8 MILLION PROJECT ON THE, UH, ON THE SPOT REPAIR PROJECTS THAT YOU'VE APPROVED. UH, WE HAVE GOTTEN THE 90 PER 90% SET ON THE FIRST PORTION OF IT. AND THAT'S, UH, THAT'S THE ONE BEING DONE BY POWER ENGINEERING COMPANY. WE WILL PROBABLY HAVE IT OUT IN THE, UH, OUT IN THE MARKET FOR BIDDING, UH, PROBABLY AROUND THE END OF, UH, ABOUT MID, UH, MID MONTH TODAY, THIS MONTH. AND, UH, BAKER AND LAWSON IS WORKING ON THE, IN THE LION'S SHARE OF THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT. AND THEY ARE, UH, YOU KNOW, YOU KNOW, THEY ARE PROGRESSING TOWARDS THEIR DESIGN OF THAT PARTICULAR PORTION. THE LAST PHASE IS ALSO BEEN, UH, HAS ALSO BEEN, UH, PUT OUT TO, UH, DUNWAY ENGINEERS, DUNAWAY ENGINEERS. AND THEY HAVE GIVEN US A PROPOSAL IN DOING THAT PARTICULAR JOB. IT'S ALSO A SMALLER JOB, SIMILAR TO THE ONE WE ARE GONNA BE PUTTING AT FIRST. IS THAT YOU'RE NOT, YOU'RE NOT PROPOSING THAT ALL THREE ARE NO, THAT'S THE REASON WHY I DIVIDED. WE DI WE DIVIDED THAT UP AND WE'RE GONNA ALLOW THE FIRST, UH, SMALLER PHASE TO GO IN, WAITING FOR THE LARGER CHUNK TO BE AT THE LAST. OKAY. SO, UH, AND OF COURSE THERE ARE OTHER PROJECTS. THE, UH, FINALLY THEY ARE [01:25:01] PUT, UH, PUTTING THE FINISHING TOUCHES ON THE, UH, SEWER PLANT, UH, HEADWORKS THAT'S FINALLY DONE. UH, THEY WERE DOING SOME PUNCH LIST ITEMS, UH, AND THEY'RE WORKING THROUGH THOSE, UH, AS WE SPEAK. UH, THE, UH, MAJOR, UH, 20, UH, WHAT IS IT, 13, $14 MILLION PROJECT ON LIFT STATION. NUMBER ONE. THEY MADE THEIR MOVE IN, UH, THEY MADE THEIR EQUIPMENT. THEY STARTED PREPPING, UH, THE SITE, UH, DOING SOME INVESTIGATION, SUBSURFACE INVESTIGATION, TRYING TO FIND THE EXISTING UTILITIES SO THAT WHEN THEY START ACTUALLY PLACING THE WET WELL, UH, INTO, IN THE AREA THERE, THEY WON'T RUN ACROSS ANY OF THOSE THINGS AND THEN CREATE PROBLEMS THERE. UH, THEY HAD A HARD TIME FINDING OUT THE FINDING WHERE THE, UH, OLD, UH, THE OLD PIPING FORCE COMING FROM THE LIFT STATION WENT. WE DON'T KNOW WHY EDDIE WAS BAFFLED BY THAT. HE FINALLY WENT OUT THERE AND SHOWED THEM WHERE THE PIPES WERE. SO THEY WERE SURPRISED WHERE, YOU KNOW, BUT THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THAT'S A GOOD THING ABOUT HAVING SOMEBODY THAT KNOWS THE SYSTEM AND ONCE THAT GOES IN, YOU KNOW, THE, THE ACTUAL, YOU KNOW, THE REAL WORK IS GONNA START ON THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT. THE, UH, THE, UH, MAIN PIPING IS NOT GONNA BE HERE UNTIL, UH, MID-JUNE. I THINK THAT'S WHEN THEY ARE ABOUT, THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO BE, UH, GETTING THAT PARTICULAR PIPING, UH, UH, MATERIAL. ALRIGHT. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR STAFF? ANY PARTICULAR OF ANY OF THE OTHER PROJECTS? THEN I'LL BE GLAD TO JUDGE. SO DON'T LEAVE. SURE. DON'T LEAVE. OKAY. GOTTA GO TO THE NEXT ITEM. YEP. OKAY. SO NEXT [8. Staff updates ] ITEM. STAFF UPDATES. UM, COULD YOU LET COUNSEL KNOW ABOUT THE OLD ANGLETON, UH, BRIDGE, OLD ANGLETON BRIDGE? FINALLY, THE STATE, UH, HAS GIVEN, UH, US PERMISSION TO REMOVE THE SIGN, WHICH THEY DID. UH, LAST WEEK, FRIDAY, THEY REMOVED THE, THE, THE CURRENT SIGNAGE, WHICH SHOWED IT TO BE LOAD A CAPACITY OF 24,000 POUNDS, STAND THE AXLE. UH, AFTER WE, UH, AFTER WE, WE, UH, MADE THE REPAIRS TO THE JO TO THE BRIDGE, UH, THAT CAME FROM TEXDOT AND PRESENTING THAT REPORT BACK TO TDOT, THEY HAVE NOW, UH, AGAIN, UH, CERTIFIED IT TO FOR AN $84,000 CAPACITY, WHICH NOW, YOU KNOW, ALLOWS FOR US FOR OUR EQUIPMENT TO GO THROUGH THERE. AND, UH, ORIGINALLY, I MEAN, THAT KIND OF PUT A STOP TO OUR BEING ABLE TO USE THAT ONE FOR OUR TRASH, FOR EXAMPLE. SO NOW IT'S OPEN BACK AGAIN. OPEN. THE SIGNAGE HASN'T GONE UP UNDER 84,000. UH, ORIGINALLY WE WERE THINKING THAT THE STATE WOULD GIVE US THAT, WHERE WE ASK, ASK THEM, AND THEY TOLD US THAT, THAT, THAT THEY WOULD LOOK AT IT, BUT THEY HAVEN'T, UH, RESPONDED TO THAT WHETHER THEY ARE GONNA BE GIVEN US A SIGNAGE. AND SO, UH, NICOLE IS RUNNING THE TRAPS. MAYBE WE WILL HAVE TO DO IT OURSELVES, WHICH I DON'T THINK IS GONNA BE A PROBLEM. SO WE'LL GO OUT THERE AND SIGN IT, YOU KNOW, PUT THE SIGNS UP, WE'LL TAKE THE TWO AND PUT ON IT. UH, IF SOMEBODY THAT HAS ANY, ANY CLOUT WITH TECH STOCK WOULD HELP US. SO WE WOULD BE GLAD TO DO IT. WE HAVE A SIGN MACHINE TOO. ? YEAH, I THINK WE CAN DO IT. . OKAY. THANK YOU SIR. UH, THE ONLY OTHER UPDATE, UH, JUST WANTED TO PASS ON, UM, UH, R WENT HOME, UH, YESTERDAY. I WAS, UH, SO, UH, HE'LL, HE IS NOW BACK ON THE ROAD FOR RECOVERY. UM, SO I WAS, HE'S DOING MUCH BETTER. HE TAKES YOU FOR YOUR, UM, YOUR WELL WISHES AND PRAYERS. HAVE THEY GIVEN HIM HIS PHONE BACK YET? UH, YES, I GUESS THEY DID 'CAUSE HE TEXTED ME. OKAY. . THAT WAS A VERY WIFE THING TO DO. THEY TOOK HIS PHONE AWAY FROM HIM, SO. ALL RIGHT. UH, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE THERE, WE'VE GOT ITEMS [ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST ] OF COMMUNITY INTEREST. SO JUST TO CLARIFY, ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST ARE KIND OF THE POSITIVE INTO OUR MEETINGS WHERE WE HIGH FIVE SOMEBODY OR RECOGNIZE THE JOB. WELL DONE. SO, MR. BE NO. ANYTHING, MR. SCHOOLER? UH, OKAY. COUNCILMAN BAKER. WELL, I DIDN'T HAVE ANYTHING BUT HIGH FIVE ANYTHING, BUT I GUESS I MISSED MY MOMENT TO TALK TO SAL ABOUT SOME, UH, SOME DEALS I NEEDED TO BRING UP ABOUT SOME, UH, SOME DEALS THAT I NEEDED TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT IN THE COMMUNITY. OKAY. UH, [01:30:01] SAL? YES. I DON'T MEAN TO PUT YOU ON THE HIGH SEAT. HE LIKES IT. UH, IT IS BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION ABOUT THE, UH, ARCHER CREEK, UH, ON EWAY STREET. THE, THE DITCH, THE SING DITCH. MM-HMM . THAT IT GOT A LOT OF SLUDGE AND, AND STUFF IS STARTING TO GROW IN IT. IT, IT HADN'T BEEN CLEANED OUT AND THE WATER'S NOT FLOWING TOO GOOD. THE OCEAN CREEK RIGHT THERE BY THE APARTMENTS. OH, BY THE APARTMENTS, OKAY. THAT'S NOT OURS. THAT IS THE TTOS DITCH. THE, THE, THE ANYWAY STREET. OH, THE, ANYWAY, OKAY. WELL, THAT'S WHAT I'M SAYING. OYSTER CREEK. ANYWAY, RIGHT THERE, THE ONE THAT RUNS ALONG ANYWAY, WHICH IS PARALLEL TO ANYWAY. RIGHT. IS THAT THE ONE YOU'RE REFERRING TO? OYSTER? ANYWAY, ANYWAY, THE ANYWAY DITCH, BECAUSE THERE'S THE O CREEK RIGHT AT THE CORNER BY THE APARTMENTS AT THE HIGHWAY WHERE YOU LIVE. THE STREET WHERE YOU HEAD ACROSS THE BRIDGE RIGHT THERE. ME ANY, WELL IN FRONT OF THE APARTMENTS, IN, IN FRONT OF THE APARTMENTS, IN FRONT OF RUNNING ALONG. ANYWAY, ANYWAY, THAT'S OUR DITCH. THAT'S OUR DITCH. YEAH, THAT'S THE CONCRETE, THAT'S THE DITCH. WE'RE TALKING NOT THE ONE ON OYSTER CREEK DRIVE. NO, BUT THE CURVE RIGHT THERE. NO. OKAY. YES. OKAY. THAT'S OUR, SO THEY SAID, OKAY. I WASN'T AWARE THAT THAT IS, UH, SILTED. UH, BUT WE CAN LOOK AT IT. AND ALSO AT THE END OF THE DITCH WHEN IT GOES OUT TO 2 88. OKAY. WHERE IT CURVE, I GUESS THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONE THAT'S FALL. THAT'S, THAT'S TEXTILE. THAT'S TEXTILE. OH, CREEK OUTFALL. IT BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION. LOOK LIKE IT'S BEGINNING TO CAVE IN. THERE'S A CAVE IN IT'S CAVE IN. IT'S A LOT OF CORRECT. IT IS GROWING AND IT'S CAVING IN. I TOOK, I TOOK, AND A LOT OF OUR PEDESTRIANS FROM THE APARTMENT OR BEEN ABLE TO WALK WALKING THROUGH THERE AND IT'S GONNA, THERE'S SOME KIND OF HAZARD THERE AND I'M AFRAID 'CAUSE THEY TOOK ME THROUGH IT AND I WAS AFRAID TO WALK ACROSS IT BECAUSE IT LOOKED LIKE IT'S GONNA START. IT IS CAVING IN AND WE ARE HAVING A LOT OF RAIN COMING UP NOW. AND WE TOOK PHOTOS, WE TOOK PHOTOS OF THAT CONDITION THERE. WE BROUGHT, YEAH, I TOOK SOME PHOTOS TOO. WE BROUGHT IT, WE BROUGHT IT TO THE ATTENTION OF EVERYONE HERE AT STAFF THERE, AND IT WAS, UH, GIVEN TO THE T THEIR MAINTENANCE DEPARTMENT TO LOOK AT. AND HONESTLY, I DON'T KNOW. I THOUGHT THEY HAD COME IN HERE AND COME IN AND DONE SOME REPAIR WORK TO IT, BUT, UH, I GUESS IT'S OBVIOUS THAT THEY HAVEN'T DONE THAT. SO WE'LL REMIND 'EM AGAIN. I MEAN, WE CAN GO IN THERE AND DO IT OURSELVES, I GUESS. I DON'T KNOW. IT'S NOT, UH, I MEAN, IT'S IN THERE RIGHT OF WAY. IT'S IN THERE RIGHT OF WAY. YEAH. I DON'T, OKAY. WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT TOMORROW. AND HOW ABOUT, UH, SHOOTING ACROSS THE HIGHWAY, GOING ALL THE WAY ACROSS TO, UH, THE RESTAURANT. UH, WHAT IS THE RESTAURANT DO THAT, UH, DO THE OLD, UH, DO THE OLD BUFFET PLACE? UH, IT'S A DITCH THAT GOES RIGHT THERE. MM-HMM . THERE'S A LOT OF TREES THAT GROWING IN THAT DITCH RIGHT THERE. OKAY. THAT, OKAY. NOW IF IT'S IN, IF IT FITS WITHIN THE RIGHT AWAY THE RESTAURANT, WELL, THERE IS THE BUFFET RESTAURANT. THE BUFFET RESTAURANT. CHINA. CHINA. THE CHINA, CHINA, YES. JUST TREES AND PACKED TAILS NOW IN THE DITCH AND WATER DON'T EVEN FLOW DOWN THROUGH THAT ANYMORE. THAT DITCH IS VD D'S DITCH. ACTUALLY, THAT OUTFALL IS BBDS HOME. UH, ONCE YOU GET, ONCE YOU GET OFF OF THE HIGHWAY THE RIGHT OF WAY, THEN IT, IT'S TOTALLY IN, IN VDD AND IN THAT CASE, IT'S GONNA BE ONE OF THOSE THINGS WE'LL CALL 'EM IN, BUT WE'RE MORE THAN LIKELY ARE GONNA HAVE TO WORK THE DEAL OUT WITH THEM. SOMEBODY'S GOT TO DO BECAUSE IT, IT DON'T EVEN LOOK LIKE IT'D BEEN TAKEN CARE IN 20 YEARS. YES, SIR. VELA RANGER NEED TO TALK TO WILL BROOKS. YES. I MEAN, YEAH, WE HAVE CONTACTS THERE. I MEAN, WE, WE, WE HAVE CONTACTS PRO THE, UH, THE QUESTION IS WE HAVE, I MEAN, IT USED TO BE THAT THERE WAS A FI THERE WAS A DEF UH, A DEFINITIVE, UH, YOU KNOW, RESPONSIBILITY THAT WAS WORKED OUT IN THE PAST IN THE, IN, IN THE, REALLY, AT THE VERY START. UH, THAT, THAT THOSE WERE THEIR DITCHES AND THE CITY HAD THEIR DITCHES. WELL, THAT HAS CHANGED DURING THE COURSE OF TIME. AND, UH, THEY STARTED DELEGATING A LOT OF THOSE THAT THEY USED TO MAINTAIN BACK TO THE CITY TO MAINTAIN. AND THAT'S JUST ONE OF THOSE THINGS WHERE WE'LL ASK VDD, BUT THAT MAY COME BACK TO US. UH, YEAH, I MEAN IT GOT, OKAY, IT GOT EIGHT FOOT TREES IN IT AND, OKAY. ALL COUNCILMAN JUNE. AND ALSO, OH, SORRY, GO AHEAD. AND ALSO, UH, COMING BACK DOWN ANYWAY, UH, THAT SHOP HUNT OUTLET MM-HMM . THAT COMES OUT RIGHT THERE. MM-HMM . IT'S FULL OF, [01:35:01] WHAT ARE THOSE LITTLE GREEN DEALS THAT THE LITTLE OH, A LOT OF HYEN, HYEN, HYEN AND THE HYEN. YEAH. THERE'S THE WATER HYEN. YEAH. IT'S GETTING REAL BAD IN THERE. THE HYEN. OH, YES. REAL. IT STARTED, IT'S BEEN THAT TIME OF THE YEAR WHEN THE WEATHER STARTS CHANGING INTO HOT WEATHER AND THOSE THINGS START PROLIFERATING AND, UH, YES. UH, PARKS AND THE PARKS DEPARTMENT, UH, IN THE PAST HAS GONE OUT THERE AND TREATED SOME OF THAT HOT, THOSE WATER HIGH SINCE, AND I GUESS IT CAN BE DONE. I DON'T KNOW. I, I DON'T WANT TO SPEAK FOR THE, UH, DIRECTOR. UH, SO, UH, BUT, UH, I'M SURE SHE'LL, SHE'LL TALK ABOUT IT TOMORROW. THAT THE DITCH MINE CLOSE TO YOUR HOUSE, YOU TALKING ABOUT IT'S YEAH, IT'S CLOSE TO, CLOSE TO. YEAH. THAT'S, THAT'S THE OUT FAULT DITCH FOR SIDE PARK. CORRECT. AND IT CROSSES IT ANYWAY, THAT CONNECTS UP TO THAT AREA, RIGHT? CORRECT. NOW ONE, ONE THING THAT I THOUGHT YOU WERE GONNA BRING THAT CROSSING ANYWAY, THAT WAS GONNA BE THE NEXT ONE. YEAH, THAT ONE IS SOMETHING THAT WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO PUT IN THE CIP BECAUSE THAT'S GONNA BE SIMILAR TO THE ONE THAT WE DID ON, ON ANYWAY, FURTHER UPSTREAM. OKAY. THAT'S IT, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT. COUNCILMAN JUNE, ANYTHING FROM YOU? NOT THIS EVENING, NO, MA'AM. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. ONLY TWO QUICK THINGS I HAVE IS OUR CHLORINE FLUSH STARTS, UH, TODAY THROUGH JUNE 22ND, AND THEN OUR CONCERT SERIES IN THE PARK, IT STARTS THIS FRIDAY WITH CHECKERED PAST. SHOULD BE FUN. IT'S A FREE EVENT TO BRING EVERYBODY TO. SO ANYTHING ELSE? ALL RIGHT. SO AT [ EXECUTIVE SESSION] THIS TIME, 8 0 6, WE'RE GONNA GO INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION. THANK YOU. YOU NEED TO READ THE WHOLE THING. READ THE WHOLE THING FIRST. OKAY. YEAH, THE LINK. YEAH. THE LAKE JACKSON CITY COUNCIL WILL NOW ADJOURN TO EXECUTIVE SESSION UNDER TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 5 1 0.074 A ONE REGARDING THE APPOINTMENT OF A CITY OFFICER TO THE PLANNING COMMISSION. THERE YOU GO. [RETURN TO REGULAR SESSION] YES, MA'AM. OKAY. ALL RIGHT. SO BACK INTO REGULAR SESSION. UH, WE NEED TO, UH, APPOINT, WE HAVE TWO OPEN VACANCIES TO PLANNERS, SO I'LL TAKE A MOTION ON THAT. I MOVE FOR THE 2026 BOARD COMMISSIONS APPOINTMENT FOR PLANNERS TO OPEN SLOTS TO GO TO, UH, MR. DOUG SMITH AND MR. NEY, UM, ON JUNE 1ST, 2026. AND WE HAVE A MOTION BY COUNCILMAN JUNE. AND THIS IS THE PART WHERE WE NEED A SECOND. I'LL SECOND THEM AND WE HAVE A MOTION AND A SECOND. COUNCILMAN SCHOOLER? ALL IN FAVOR SAY AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? MOTION CARRIES. ALL RIGHT. ANYTHING ELSE FROM COUNSEL? NO, MA'AM. ALL RIGHT. MEETING ADJOURNED. 35. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.