Aug 08, 2023 Work Session and Regular Meeting

WE WILL MOVE TO THE PUBLIC HEARINGS ITEM FOUR A, WE'LL HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR PROPERTY

ANY OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT.

CONSENT AGENDA PASSES.

[a. Hold a public hearing, present, discuss, and consider action on a request for a Special Use Permit (SUP) for property located at 16601 Addison Road, Suite 106, that is currently zoned Planned Development (PD), through Ordinance No. O83-043, to allow a restaurant with the sale of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption. Case 1882-SUP/16601 Addison Road, Suite 106 (Soulful Street Bites).]

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LOCATED AT 1 6 6 0 1 ADDISON ROAD, SUITE 1 0 6, THAT IS CURRENTLY ZONED PLAN DEVELOPMENT PD THROUGH ORDINANCE NUMBER 0 8 3 DASH 0 4 3 TO ALLOW A RESTAURANT WITH A SALE OF ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES FOR ON-PREMISE CONSUMPTION CASE.

1 8 8 2 DASH U SLASH 1 6 6 0 1 ADDISON ROAD, SUITE 1 0 6, SOULFUL STREET BITES.

KEN, GOOD EVENING, MARION CITY COUNCIL.

KEN SCHMIDT, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

CAN YOU ADVANCE THE SLIDE, PLEASE? THIS ISN'T WORKING.

LET'S SEE NOW IT'S ALRIGHT.

UH, SO THE SUBJECT PROPERTY IS LOCATED AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF ADDISON ROAD AND SUNBELT DRIVE.

UH, THIS RETAIL STRIP CENTER WAS ZONE PLAN DEVELOPMENT IN 2011, UH, TO ALLOW FOR A CONVENIENCE STORE, UH, AS WELL AS, UH, ALCOHOL SALES FOR OFFSITE CONSUMPTION.

WITH THE REQUEST.

TONIGHT, THE APPLICANT'S SOULFUL STREET BITES IS REQUESTING A SPECIAL USE PERMIT, UH, FOR A RESTAURANT, UH, WITH ALCOHOL SALES FOR ONSITE CONSUMPTION.

SO THE PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN FOR SUITES 1 0 6 IS, UH, JUST UNDER 2,500 SQUARE FEET.

IT ALLOWS FOR SEATING, UH, FOR 41, UH, INDIVIDUALS ON THE INTERIOR AND IT WILL HAVE ALCOHOL SALES AS PROPOSED.

THE HOURS OF OPERATION, UH, WILL BE 11:00 AM TO 7:00 PM UH, TUESDAY THROUGH THURSDAY, 12:00 PM TO 9:00 PM FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, AND 12:00 PM TO 5:00 PM ON SUNDAYS.

UH, THE PARKING SERVING THIS SITE, UH, HAD A COUPLE ISSUES THAT NEEDED TO BE WORKED THROUGH, UH, WITH THIS APPLICATION.

UH, FIRST, UH, THERE WERE SOME CODE COMPLIANCE ISSUES, UM, RELATED TO THE FIRE LANE AS WELL AS ALSO TO THE NUMBER OF HANDICAPPED PARKING SPACES.

SO THAT IS WHY YOU SEE, UH, IT IS JUST UNDER THE REQUIRED PARKING SPACES AT 71 OUTTA 73.

UH, THOSE SPACES WERE LOST AS A RESULT OF THOSE, UH, IMPORTANT MODIFICATIONS TO THE SITE.

UH, I WILL NOTE, UH, WHEN THE U D C GETS ADOPTED, A LOT OF OUR COMMERCIAL, UH, USES THE PARKING RATIOS WILL BE, UH, A BIT MORE FRIENDLY TO SITES LIKE THIS.

SO THAT WILL DEFINITELY COME INTO COMPLIANCE WHEN THAT HAPPENS.

UH, ALSO WITH THIS SITE, UH, YOU MAY KNOW THAT IT'S, UH, A BIT COMPACT.

THERE'S NOT A LOT OF ROOM AT THE EDGES OR THE INTERIOR, UH, FOR LANDSCAPE.

UH, SO BACK WHEN THAT PD WAS APPROVED IN 2011, IT ALLOWED FOUR 5% LANDSCAPE AREA AND THIS SITE REMAINS IN COMPLIANCE WITH THAT REQUIREMENT.

UM, WITH THIS REQUEST, SOULFUL STREET BYTES IS NOT PROPOSING ANY MODIFICATIONS TO THE FACADE, UH, OF THIS TENANT SPACE OR THE OVERALL BUILDING.

SO IN ACCORDANCE WITH TOWN AND STATE REQUIREMENTS, THE TOWN DID PROVIDE PUBLIC NOTICE TO ALL PROPERTIES WITHIN 200 FEET, UH, THAT AMOUNTED TO EIGHT NOTICE RECIPIENTS.

UH, WE DID NOT RECEIVE ANY FEEDBACK ON THIS APPLICATION.

UH, AT THEIR JULY MEETING, THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION RECOMMENDED APPROVAL, UH, BY A VOTE OF FIVE TO ZERO.

UH, STAFF DOES ALSO RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THIS REQUEST WITH THREE CONDITIONS.

UH, THE APPLICANT SHALL NOT USE ANY TERMS OR GRAPHIC DEBI DEPICTIONS THAT RELATE TO ALCOHOL BEVERAGES AND ANY EXTERIOR SIGNAGE.

AND THEN PRIOR TO AN ISSUANCE OF A CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY, UM, THE, UH, PROPERTY OWNER AND APPLICANT MUST BRING THE, UH, FIRE LANE INTO COMPLIANCE AS WELL AS ADDRESSING THE ADDITION OF ONE ADDITIONAL HANDICAP PARKING SPACE TO MEET THOSE CODE REQUIREMENTS.

UH, WE DO HAVE THE APPLICANT, UH, HERE, THE OWNER OF SOFA STREET BYS, UH, STAFF WOULD BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS AS WELL.

THANK YOU, KEN.

ANY QUESTIONS FOR KEN? ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE APPLICANT? YES, I'D LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THE RESTAURANT.

YOU OH, GQ WOULD LIKE TO HEAR ABOUT THE RESTAURANT.

ABSOLUTELY.

INTRODUCE YOURSELF.

THIS IS YOUR, THIS IS YOUR CHANCE TO TELL US ABOUT YOU.

PEOPLE COME FROM CALIFORNIA, VIRGINIA, THEY COMING ALL OVER.

MY NAME IS LIZ AND MICHAEL.

MICHAEL, YOU CAN COME UP HERE.

, UH, MICHAEL AND ELIZABETH SMITH.

UH, WE'VE OWNED A BUSINESS IN ADDISON.

UH, THIS IS THE THIRD YEAR.

WE HAD A, A PREVIOUS BUSINESS FOR TWO YEARS, UH, IN THE SAME SHOPPING CENTER, WHICH GAVE US THE OPPORTUNITY TO, TO MOVE INTO THE RESTAURANT VENUE.

UM, OUR RESTAURANT, UH, IS GONNA BE A STAPLE IN THE COMMUNITY, PROBABLY A STAPLE IN D F W.

THE, UH, FEEDBACK IN THE OUTPOUR OF SUPPORT AND PEOPLE COMING HAS BEEN, UH, QUITE A BIT OVERWHELMING.

, , THEY COME, THAT'S REALLY THE REASON, MAIN REASON WHY WE'RE SHOOTING FOR THE, FOR THE DONIN BECAUSE THEY ARE DEMANDING DONIN AND THEY ARE COMING FROM ALL OVER.

JUST THIS SUMMER, WE HAVE HAD

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WE'VE BEEN GOING VIRAL ON TIKTOK, INSTAGRAM, FACEBOOK, WHEN I SAY THEY HAVE BEEN COMING FROM FORNY, FORNEY EVEN REACHED OUT TO US TO COME THERE.

, FORNY, UH, GRAND PRAIRIE, YOU NAME IT.

UH, BUT ADDISON IS PROBABLY BEST PLACE FOR US BECAUSE IT'S CENTRALLY LOCATED IN A REALLY GOOD AREA IN D F W.

MIKE, YOU WANNA SAY SOMETHING? , YOU WANNA DO OUR PART AND PUSH IN AN ADDISON WAY? VERY GOOD.

ANYBODY HAVE ANY QUESTIONS FOR THE SMITH? I HAVE A COMMENT WHEN I WAS, UH, LOOKING YOU GUYS UP DOING SOME RESEARCH ON YOU, OTHER THAN MAKING ME VERY HUNGRY.

UH, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU HAVE A REALLY, UH, A LOT OF GOOD REVIEWS AND, UH, WILL BE A GOOD ASSET AS YOU GROW IN ADDISON.

SO THANK YOU GUYS FOR, IF YOU LOOK BUSINESS, ADDISON, I, I GAVE EACH ONE OF YOU A PACKET I MADE.

I SAW LIKE SEVEN PACKETS, UM, WHEN WE WAS IN THE DALLAS OBSERVER.

UH, BUT WE, WE ARE BRINGING BACK SUNDAY SOUL FOOD, UM, TO THE COMMUNITY.

TO THE COMMUNITY.

NO MORE MCDONALD'S AND NUGGETS AND, UH, WENDY'S.

WE'RE BRINGING BACK OLD FASHIONED FOOD, UH, GOOD FOR YOUR SOUL FOOD.

YOU ALL HAVE BEEN IN THE SAME STRIP CENTER, UH, SINCE YOU, BUT JUST A FEW DOORS DOWN AND YOU WERE JUST DOING CARRY OUT ONLY, IS THAT RIGHT? YEAH, WE WAS, WE, WE ATTEMPTED TO DO A TAKEOUT AND WITHIN SIX MONTHS WE OUTGREW THAT THE LINES WERE DOWN THE SIDEWALK.

AND SO IT JUST, WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY, THE GUY IN THE CORNER CLOSED DOWN AND THEY ASKED US DID WE NEED THE SPACE, WHICH WE DID.

AND WE TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY AND THAT'S HOW WE ENDED UP IN THIS SPACE.

AND NOW THEY SAY WE NEED EVEN MORE SPACE, BUT IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN.

NOT RIGHT NOW.

WE ARE HAPPY WITH THAT LITTLE COZY SPOT.

NICE.

AND, AND I, I LITERALLY WALKED BY YOUR PLACE EVERY MORNING BEFORE WE, YOU KNOW, LIKE AT SIX O'CLOCK IN THE MORNING WITH MY DOG.

AND, UH, SO I'M LOOKING FORWARD TO COMING IN.

I'VE GOT MY EYE ON THAT BRISKET, MAC AND CHEESE.

YEAH, THAT'S ONE OF OUR TOP SELLERS.

BRISKET, MAC AND CHEESE.

YEAH, I BET IT IS.

WE HAVE A FOOD TRAILER TOO, AND THAT'S WHERE IT'S KIND OF STEMMED FROM.

AND WHO KNOWS WHERE WE'LL BE IN PROBABLY ANOTHER SIX MONTHS.

WE KNOW WE'LL BE IN ADDISON, BUT THE GROWTH IS JUST CRAZY.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? I JUST HAVE ONE, ONE SMALL QUESTION.

I'M A BREAKFAST EATER.

HAVE YOU EVER CONSIDERED HAVING BREAKFAST HOURS? UH, WE ARE, RIGHT NOW IT IS JUST PEOPLE WOES, , HIRING PEOPLE, MAKING SURE THEY GET STAFF, UH, MAKING SURE THAT WE CAN MAINTAIN THAT SAME QUALITY FROM MORNING TO NIGHT.

UM, BUT BREAKFAST MIGHT BE A POTENTIAL.

WE ALREADY HAVE A, IT'S A DONUT SHOP THAT'S BEEN RIGHT THERE FOREVER.

MM-HMM.

AND THEN THE TACO PLACE, HE DOES BREAKFAST TOO.

UH, SO IT'S A STRONG POSSIBILITY.

WE DEFINITELY WILL BE DOING SOME TYPE OF BRUNCH ON THE WEEKEND.

OH, ON SUN, ON SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WE'LL BE DOING BRUNCH, WHICH WE'LL OPEN A LITTLE BIT EARLY ON THE WEEKEND.

I'M JUST NOT SURE ABOUT THROUGH THE WEEK.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

IT'S PART OF OUR BUSINESS MODEL, BUT IT'S JUST NOT QUITE .

IT'S NOT QUITE WELL, I LIKE .

SO THAT'S, WHEN DO YOU PLAN ON OPENING? UM, WELL WE'RE OPEN NOW, SO WE'RE JUST TAKING IN YOUR NEW FACILITY.

UH, THE NEW, ONCE WE WAS WAITING ON THIS PROCESS.

SO NOW ALL WE NEED TO DO IS DO THE CERTIFICATE OF OCCUPANCY GO THROUGH THAT PROCESS.

SO, UH, IN BETWEEN, HOPEFULLY THAT DOESN'T TAKE MORE THAN TWO WEEKS.

UM, AND WE JUST NEED SOME MORE TABLES AND CHAIRS AND WE'LL BE OPEN.

KEN, I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU REGARDING THE, UH, ITEM.

THE, THE NOTE ABOUT THE FIRE LANE COMPLIANCE.

UM, IS THAT, WAS THAT ONE OF THE CONDITIONS? YES, SIR.

IT FREQUENTLY, UH, WITH MANY OF THE CASES WE DO, SOMETIMES THERE'S VERY SIGNIFICANT CODE VIOLATIONS THAT I CERTAINLY WOULDN'T WANT THE INDIVIDUAL BUSINESS OWNERS LIKE THIS TO BEAR THE BURDEN OF.

SO HOW DOES THAT WORK WHEN YOU HAVE AN, AN APPLICANT THAT'S A TENANT AND IT'S NOT REALLY THEIR PLACE TO DO SOMETHING WITH THE PROPERTY ITSELF AS FAR AS LIKE A FIRE LAND OR THE, THE TRASH DUMPSTERS, WHICH, YOU KNOW, YOU AND I HAVE TALKED ABOUT BEFORE.

THEY'VE HAD SOME ISSUES THERE WITH, YOU KNOW, GARBAGE PILED UP AROUND THE DUMPSTER AND, YOU KNOW, SCREENING THE DOORS ARE, THE SCREENING DOORS ARE NOT CLOSED.

AND HOW DOES THAT, HOW DOES THAT CONNECTION WORK THERE? SO ULTIMATELY, THE S U P ENCUMBERS, BOTH THE PROPERTY OWNER AND THE TENANTS ON THE SITE.

SO WE DO TRY TO PERIODICALLY ADDRESS, UH, PARTICULARLY MINOR CODE VIOLATIONS LIKE THIS.

IT'S NOT MINOR IN THAT IT'S A, IT'S A LIFE SAFETY ISSUE, BUT, UH, CERTAINLY IF WE NEEDED TO, WE COULD GET A FIRETRUCK IN THERE.

BUT THIS IS SOMETHING THAT CAN BE FIXED WITH PAINT.

SO IT'S SOMETHING THAT'S NOT, I WOULD SAY BURDENSOME UPON THE APPLICANT.

IT'S MORE OF A, A PROPERTY MANAGER ISSUE.

AND OUR STAFF HAS BEEN WORKING, UH, WITH THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY MANAGER ON BOTH OF THE IDENTIFIED CODE ISSUES AND THEY'RE, THEY'RE, UH, HAVE BEEN COOPERATIVE AND, AND THEY'RE ADDRESSING THAT.

YOU'LL, YOU'LL SEE

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AND IT, IT PROBABLY REQUIRES A DIFFERENT APPROACH, BUT ONE LIKE THIS IS, IS MINOR AND WE FEEL THAT IT'S APPROPRIATE TO ADDRESS THIS WAY.

SO YOU FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THAT? ABSOLUTELY.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING AND SO I'LL OPEN UP THE, UH, PUBLIC HEARING FOR ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO COMMENT.

I DO HAVE ONE CARD, BUT IT WAS COMPLETED BY THE SMITHS.

SO I ASSUME YOU PROBABLY SAID ALL YOU WANNA SAY ALREADY.

WHAT PART? THE, IF YOU WANT, IT SAYS YOU'RE SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF IT.

I ASSUME YOU WERE SPEAKING IN FAVOR OF IT, .

ALRIGHT.

IS THERE ANYBODY ELSE THAT WOULD, THAT WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? IF NOT, I WILL, UH, CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

MOVE TO APPROVE SECOND.

SECOND.

THE FOLLOWING MOTION FROM NANCY, SECOND FROM GUILLERMO.

OH.

WITH THE CONDITIONS AS WITH THE CONDITIONS AS AS, UH, AS RECOMMENDED BY STAFF.

DO WE NEED TO READ THOSE OUT? NO.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

ANY OPPOSED? MOTION PASSES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH Y'ALL.

CONGRATULATIONS AND LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU WITH DINE IN BUSINESS OVER THERE.

NEXT ITEM IS PUBLIC HEARING.

[b. Hold a public hearing, present, discuss, and consider action on a request for a Special Use Permit (SUP) for property located at 4851 Keller Springs Road, Suite 203, that is currently zoned Planned Development (PD), through Ordinance No. O85-006, to allow an educational institution. Case 1887-SUP/4851 Keller Springs Road, Suite 203 (Vital Skills Training Center).]

HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING, UH, EXCUSE ME.

UH, HOLD A PUBLIC HEARING PRESENT TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A REQUEST FOR A SPECIAL USE PERMIT FOR A PROPERTY LOCATED AT 48 51 KELLER SPRINGS ROAD, SUITE 2 0 3, THAT IS CURRENTLY ZONED PLAN DEVELOPMENT THROUGH ORDINANCE NUMBER 0 8 5 0 0 6 TO ALLOW AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION CASE.

1 8 8 7 DASH S U SLASH 48 51.

COLOR SPRINGS ROAD, SUITE 2 0 3, VITAL SKILLS TRAINING CENTER.

KEN, GOOD EVENING ONCE AGAIN, MARIN CITY COUNCIL.

UH, THIS REQUEST IS, UM, FOR A EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION USE, UH, SITUATED IN AN EXISTING COMMERCIAL BUILDING ON THE NORTH SIDE OF KELLER SPRINGS ROAD JUST TO THE EAST OF ADDISON ROAD.

UH, THE SUBJECT PROPERTY, UH, WAS ZONED, UH, PD, UH, IN 1985.

AND WITH THIS REQUEST TONIGHT, UH, THE APPLICANT'S VITAL SKILLS TRAINING CENTER IS PROPOSING THIS EDUCATION INSTITUTION USE, UH, WHERE THEY'LL BE DOING, UH, HEALTHCARE TRAINING FOR HEALTHCARE PRACTITIONERS.

SO THE PROPOSED FLOOR PLAN, UH, COMPRISES JUST UNDER 2000 SQUARE FEET.

UH, THEY'LL USE IT TO PROVIDE FOR A CERTIFIED NURSING ASSISTANT, BASIC LIFE SUPPORT AND C P R TRAINING.

UH, TYPICAL CLASS SIZE WILL RANGE FROM FIVE TO 20, UH, STUDENTS, UH, FOR THE C N A COURSES.

AND THEN, UH, JUST UNDER 10, UH, FOR THE, UH, BASIC LIFE SUPPORT TRAINING AND C P R TRAINING COURSES, HOURS OF OPERATION, UH, WILL GENERALLY BE 8:00 AM TO 5:00 PM MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY FOR THE COURSES.

AND THEN THEY'LL BE OPEN, UH, TO 8:00 PM UH, BEYOND, UH, FOR SEVEN DAYS A WEEK.

SO, UH, WITH THIS REQUEST, UH, SIMILAR TO THE LAST ONE, UH, THIS BEING AN OLDER PROPERTY, UH, THERE HAS BEEN SOME HISTORICAL, UM, PARKING ISSUES, NOT IN TERMS OF PARKING, UH, UH, BEING OVERWHELMED BY VEHICLES, BUT JUST, UH, CHANGES IN THE PROPERTY THAT HAVE OCCURRED OVER TIME THAT MAY NOT HAVE, UH, NECESSARILY ACCOUNTED FOR THE ZONING.

UH, AT ONE POINT THERE WAS SOME DOCK DOORS, UH, ADDED TO THE BUILDING, UH, THAT, UH, RESULTED IN A LOSS OF SOME PARKING SUPPLY.

UH, THERE'S NEVER BEEN ANY OBSERVED PARKING ISSUES FOR THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY.

AND ONCE AGAIN, LIKE WE DISCUSSED WITH THE LAST PROPOSAL, UM, THE CHANGES, UH, THAT ARE PENDING WITH THE U D C WILL RESOLVE, UH, ANY, UM, PARKING ISSUES THAT REALLY ARE MORE PERCEIVED THAN ANYTHING.

UH, SO WITH THAT, UH, IT DOES REQUIRE 174 PARKING SPACES AND IT PROVIDES ONE 50.

BUT, UH, GIVEN THE NATURE OF THE PROPERTY NOW, THAT'S NOT A CHALLENGE FOR THIS PARTICULAR USE.

UM, WITH THIS REQUEST, UM, THE, UM, OPEN SPACE AND LANDSCAPE, UH, IS NOT BEING CHANGED.

UM, AND THEN THE, UM, CAN'T SEE MY SLIDES, UH, BUT, UH, UH, THERE'S NO PROPOSED CHANGE ON THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY, UH, NOR IS THERE CHANGES TO THE, UH, EXTERIOR FACADE.

SO, UM, IN THE EVALUATION OF THIS REQUEST, STAFF, UH, PERFORM SITE VISITS, UH, AND IDENTIFIED A SERIES OF CODE VIOLATIONS THAT, UH, SIMILAR TO THE LAST CASE, UH, WE'RE GONNA ADDRESS WITH THIS SPECIAL USE PERMIT.

UM, SO THAT INCLUDES, UH, DUMPSTERS NOT BEING SCREENED, A VERY INTERESTING LOOKING FIRE LANE DESIGN.

AND

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THEN ALSO, UH, SPEED BUMPS, UH, WITHIN THAT FIRE LANE, UH, STAFF HAS, UH, ISSUED NOTICE OF VIOLATIONS.

AND, AND THE PROPERTY OWNER IS WORKING WITH STAFF TO DEVELOP A PLAN TO ADDRESS THOSE.

UH, SO, UH, WE'RE CONFIDENT THAT THOSE WILL BE ADDRESSED MOVING FORWARD.

UM, SO IN ACCORDANCE WITH TOWN AND STATE REQUIREMENTS, STAFF DID PROVIDE NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNERS WITHIN 200 FEET.

108 NOTICES WENT OUT, UH, AND, UM, NO RESPONSES WERE RECEIVED AT THEIR JULY MEETING.

THE PLANNING ZONING COMMISSION APPROVED, UH, THIS CASE BY A VOTE OF FIVE TO ZERO.

UH, STAFF ONCE AGAIN, DOES RECOMMEND APPROVAL OF THIS REQUEST, UH, WITHOUT CONDITIONS.

AND WE DO HAVE REPRESENTATIVES FROM VITAL SKILLS TRAINING CENTER WITH US TODAY.

IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS FOR THEM OR FOR STAFF.

I HAVE A QUESTION, KEN.

CLARIFICATION.

IS IT ZONED FOR NONPROFIT, FOR BUSINESS, OR AS AN EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION? SO THE SPECIAL USE PERMIT IS FOR THE EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTION.

IT'S ZONED PD WITH COMMERCIAL USES.

SOMETHING ABOUT THIS POSITION.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR KEN OR THE APPLICANT? NO QUESTIONS HERE.

IT, THE MICROPHONE'S GOING A LITTLE WONKY.

I'LL TELL YOU SOMETHING.

I THINK SO, .

OKAY, SO THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING.

OH, WHETHER THERE, THERE WERE NO QUESTIONS, RIGHT? OKAY.

UM, THIS IS A PUBLIC HEARING, SO WE'LL HOLD A OPEN A PUBLIC HEARING FOR ANYONE WHO, WHO WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM.

AND I HA I DO HAVE ONE C UH, COUNSEL APPEARANCE CARD FROM CARMELA CA.

I'M NOT SURE IF I'M PRONOUNCING THAT CORRECT.

UH, DID NOT WISH TO SPEAK, BUT IS, UH, WANTED TO RECORD SUPPORT FOR THIS ITEM.

AND THAT'S ALL I HAD AS FAR AS CARDS.

ANYBODY IN THE AUDIENCE WOULD LIKE TO SPEAK ON THIS ITEM? SEEING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC HEARING AND ENTERTAIN A MOTION.

MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE SECOND MOTION FROM MARLON AND EILEEN DID THE SECOND.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

COUNCIL MEMBER CIO.

UH, IS THAT AN AYE? AYE.

ITEM FIVE, A PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE CONTRACTS FOR VEHICLE PURCHASES.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

AND ITEM FOUR B IS APPROVED AND WE'RE GONNA JUMP BACK FOR JUST ONE SECOND AGAIN TO COUNCIL MEMBER CIO, 'CAUSE WE DID NOT ACTUALLY RECORD A VOTE FOR YOU ON ITEM FOUR A.

AYE, VERY GOOD.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THAT.

WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM FIVE.

AND ANYBODY THAT, UM, WOULD LIKE TO LEAVE IS WELCOME, WELCOME TO LEAVE.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO STAY IF YOU DON'T WANT TO, BUT WE ARE GLAD TO HAVE YOU IF YOU'D LIKE, IF YOU'D LIKE.

[a. Present, discuss, and consider action on an Ordinance authorizing the City Manager to execute contracts for vehicle purchases. ]

THERE WE GO.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNCIL BILL HAWLEY, DIRECTOR OF GENERAL SERVICES AND FOR REFERENCE THAT'S, UH, FACILITIES AND FLEET FOR THE TOWN.

SO OUR ITEM TONIGHT IS AN ORDINANCE THAT WOULD ALLOW THE CITY MANAGER TO MAKE BUDGETED VEHICLE PURCHASES WITHOUT ADDITIONAL COUNCIL AUTHORITY.

IF WE'RE IN A SITUATION WHERE WE NEED TO ACT RAPIDLY TO OBTAIN THOSE VEHICLES IN A VERY COMPETITIVE MARKET.

AND I'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE BACKGROUND OF HOW THAT'S COME TO BE.

SINCE 2020, THERE'S BEEN CHIP SHORTAGES, PRODUCTION SHORTAGES, AND MANY OTHER FACTORS THAT HAVE IMPACTED THE AVAILABILITY OF VEHICLES FOR THE FLEET MARKET.

PART OF THAT IS ALSO A LOT OF COMPETITION FROM THE, FROM THE PRODUCTION MARKET FOR END USERS AND MANUFACTURERS HAVE DETERMINED THAT IT'S FAR MORE PROFITABLE FOR THEM TO SELL VEHICLES TO THE END USER VERSUS THE FLEET MARKET.

SO THERE'S BEEN A SHIFT FROM PRODUCTION OF FLEET VEHICLES TO THE PRIVATE SIDE.

AT THE SAME TIME, WE HAD A REDUCTION IN AVAILABILITY OF VEHICLES OVERALL.

SO THERE'S A, UH, UH, A SHORTAGE OF VEHICLES.

SO THOSE THAT HAVE SUPPLIES, UH, INTERMEDIARIES, UPFITTERS,

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UM, ARE MOVING TO A FIRST COME, FIRST SERVED WHO CAN ACT QUICKLY, WHO HAS THE AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE THESE.

AND BECAUSE OF SOME VERY PRUDENT MEASURES THAT THE TOWN HAS IN PLACE REGARDING PURCHASES OVER $50,000, THAT JUST MEANS WE HAVE TO COME THROUGH A COUNCIL PROCESS THAT COULD TAKE TWO WEEKS OR POSSIBLY A LITTLE BIT LONGER.

AND BY THE TIME WE DO THAT, VERY OFTEN THOSE VEHICLES ARE GONE AND WE HAVE MISSED A NUMBER OF OPPORTUNITIES TO PURCHASE OVER THE LAST TWO YEARS.

UM, WE SEE THESE MARKET CONDITIONS PERSISTING, AND IF YOU'LL RECALL FROM THE BUDGET PROCESS LAST WEEK, THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY 40 VEHICLES THAT WE'LL BE LOOKING TO PURCHASE IN F Y 2024 WITH ABOUT HALF OF THOSE BEING THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, FRONTLINE FLEET VEHICLES, UH, THE PATROL VEHICLES.

SO WE'RE JUST LOOKING FOR ANOTHER TOOL IN OUR TOOLBOX.

AND WE BELIEVE THIS WILL GIVE US THAT OPPORTUNITY.

IT WILL STILL, UM, UH, RESTRICT, UH, THE CITY MANAGER AND STAFF TO ONLY ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY APPROVED THROUGH THE BUDGET PROCESS.

IT WILL JUST LET US MOVE AND ACT ON THOSE QUICKER.

WE WOULD STILL THEN BE REQUIRED TO COME BACK TO YOU AND REPORT WHAT WE HAVE DONE AND WHY AND, AND CLOSE THAT ACCOUNTABILITY LOOP.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS.

UH, HEY BILL, UH, ONE OF THE THINGS I SEE ON THE ORDINANCE IS FOR A PERIOD OF THREE YEARS, CAN YOU KIND OF, UH, TALK ABOUT THAT? SO THAT WAS MORE ALSO ALONG THE LINES OF, OF, OF Y'ALL NOT GRANTING US A FOREVER ABILITY TO, TO BYPASS THOSE, THOSE STEPS THAT WERE PUT IN PLACE FOR VERY GOOD REASONS.

SO WE'RE HOPEFUL BASED ON MARKET CONDITIONS THAT THAT WOULD RESOLVE ITSELF DURING THAT TIME PERIOD.

THEN IT WOULD JUST SUNSET OUT AND BE DONE AND IT WOULDN'T BE KIND OF HIDING THERE IN THE BACKGROUND, UH, TO MAYBE BE USED AT, YOU KNOW, INAPPROPRIATELY AT SOME POINT IN THE FUTURE.

IF FOR SOME REASON MARKET CONDITIONS HAVE NOT RESOLVED THEMSELVES, WE COULD COME FORWARD AND ASK FOR AN EXTENSION, UH, OR TO, TO REPEAT THIS ORDINANCE.

SO I WOULD BE MORE COMFORTABLE WITH DOING THIS MORE ON A TRIAL PERIOD OF ONE YEAR, JUST KIND OF WHERE I'M AT RIGHT NOW.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FOR BILL? DO WE HAVE, UH, ANY IDEA OF WHAT THE, UH, THE AVERAGE, UM, AMOUNT WOULD BE BEYOND 50,000? I MEAN, SHOULD WE SET A LIMIT AT 60,000 OR 70,000? SO ONE OF, ONE OF THE COMPLEXITIES THERE, AND I KNOW IT, IT'S, IT'S KIND OF DIFFICULT TO EXPLAIN IN, IN THE MEMO, IS MANY OF THESE INDIVIDUAL PICKUP TRUCKS OR CARS DON'T ONE AT A TIME EXCEED 50,000, BUT WHEN YOU BUY 20, $48,000 VEHICLES, YOU'VE, YOU'VE FAR EXCEEDED THAT.

OR YOU BUY FOUR $35,000 VEHICLES.

SO, UH, WE WERE, WE, WE TRIED TO WORD IT IN A WAY, AGAIN, IT WOULD, IT WOULD BE ONLY ITEMS THAT YOU HAVE APPROVED IN THE BUDGET.

THOSE ARE ALL LISTED OUT.

UM, YOU KNOW, STEVEN DID A GREAT JOB ON THE SURF FUND, THE C E R F, UH, LAYING ALL OF THOSE OUT, WHAT THEY ARE, THOSE, THOSE PRICES.

AND WE WOULDN'T DEVIATE THAT.

BUT WE DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO BUY TWO OVER HERE AND 10 OVER THERE.

AND IF WE STARTED PUTTING THOSE, THOSE LIMITS ON IT, IT, IT MAY, WE MAY FIND OURSELVES RIGHT BACK IN THE SAME SITUATION WHERE WE CAN'T ACT, UH, TO, TO GET WHAT WE NEED WHEN WE NEED THEM.

BUT OVERALL THAT THOSE AMOUNTS HAVE BEEN BUDGETED, WE JUST DON'T KNOW EXACTLY FROM WHERE WE'LL BE ABLE TO GET THEM AND IN WHAT, WHAT QUANTITIES WE MAY HAVE TO DO THREE OR FOUR HERE, THREE OR FOUR THERE, JUST TO ULTIMATELY GET THE 40 THAT WE NEED OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR.

OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? SOME COMMENTS? UM, I AM IN FAVOR OF GIVING, UH, THE, UH, STAFF THE TOOLS THEY NEED.

UH, I, I AM CONCERNED WITH IT BEING THREE YEARS FOR JUST A, AN OVERSIGHT STANDPOINT AND, AND BEING PRUDENT WITH THIS SPEND AND, AND, UH, CHECKS AND BALANCES.

UH, MAYBE, UH, AFTER THE YEAR THAT WE LOOK AT THE ANALYSIS OF THE SPEND AND SEE IF WE CAN PUT SOME MORE PERMANENT CONSTRAINTS AROUND IT LIKE WE HAVE NOW WITH THE 50,000, THAT'S JUST A THOUGHT.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S POSSIBLE, HOW WE CAN, UH, CRAFT THAT COMMENT.

I DON'T KNOW IF COMES FROM, I'LL JUST SAY THAT I'M NOT REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THAT BECAUSE THEY'RE BUDGETED ITEMS ANYWAYS.

WE'VE ALREADY IDENTIFIED WHAT THEY ARE AND, AND ESSENTIALLY WHAT THE COST WE HOPE WILL BE.

SO I THINK THAT KIND OF ALLEVIATES THAT AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED.

SO WHAT IF IT DOES GO BEYOND THE BUDGET THAT WE HAVE FOR THE VEHICLES? WELL, IN, IN, IN THAT SITUATION, WE WOULD COME BACK WITH A BUDGET AMENDMENT.

I MEAN, THIS, THIS CONSTRAINS US TO ONLY DO THINGS THAT ARE IN THE BUDGET.

AND I CERTAINLY WOULD, WOULD NEVER SUPPORT US GOING OUT AND DOING SOMETHING THAT HASN'T COME TO COUNCIL.

THAT WOULD BE OVER THE 50,000.

SO THAT WOULD CERTAINLY BE SOMETHING WE WOULD COME BACK FOR A BUDGET AMENDMENT PRIOR TO THAT.

UM, WE WOULD NEVER BE IN A SITUATION WHERE WE WOULD BE ACTING QUICKLY ON SOMETHING THAT HASN'T COME TO COUNCIL.

LET, SO I WANNA MAKE FINISH UP, MARLON.

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AND DAVID, I WANTED TO MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD WHAT YOU JUST JUST ANSWERED.

WOULD YOU SAY THAT WE WOULD, UH, GET, RECEIVE A BUDGET AMENDMENT APPROVED BEFORE THE PURCHASE? SO THE WAY THE ORDINANCE IS WRITTEN, IT'S ONLY ITEMS THAT ARE IN THE BUDGET, RIGHT? SO I THINK IN THIS SCENARIO, CUSTOMER GARDNER LAID OUT IF IT WAS AN ITEM OUTSIDE OF THE BUDGET, WE JUST, THIS WOULDN'T APPLY TO THAT UNLESS WE CAME BACK WITH A BUDGET AMENDMENT AND IN THE BUDGET AMENDMENT CALLED OUT THE SPECIFIC VEHICLE THAT WAS IN QUESTION.

AND, AND I UNDERSTAND ALL OF THAT.

AND WHAT I'M, WHAT I'M ASKING IS, WOULD YOU, WOULD, WOULD YOU RECEIVE THE BUDGET AMENDMENT APPROVAL BEFORE GOING OUT TO MARKET AND PURCHASING THESE UNBUDGETED ITEMS UNTIL AT THAT POINT? IS THAT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT? ABSOLUTELY, YES.

WE WOULD, WE WOULD HAVE AN APPROVED BUDGET AMENDMENT BEFORE WE WOULD GO OUT.

SO IT WOULD ALWAYS BE, UH, APPROVED IN SOME FORM OF THE BUDGET, UM, BEFORE THE PURCHASE.

CORRECT? CORRECT.

AND I, AND I WOULD ADD, THIS IS A, THIS IS A, A MEASURE A NUMBER OF CITIES ARE TAKING, WE TOOK IT IN MY LAST PLACE BECAUSE THE MARKET, THE VEHICLE MARKET IS SO JUST CRAZY RIGHT NOW THAT YOU'VE GOTTA BE ABLE TO ACT QUICK AND THESE OPPORTUNITIES COME UP VERY QUICKLY.

SO I THINK WE ALL UNDERSTAND THAT, BUT THAT'S WHY WE'RE TAKING THIS MEASURE.

IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE WANT IN, IN PERPETUITY.

WE HOPE THE MARKET SETTLES DOWN SO THAT WE DON'T, DON'T NEED THIS MEASURE.

YEAH, FOR ME, THE FACT THAT IT'S, THAT IT'S ALREADY A BUDGETED ITEM MAKES IT, MAKES IT REAL SIMPLE AND, UH, YOU KNOW, IT MAKES PERFECT SENSE FOR ME TO BE ABLE TO GET, TO EMPOWER THEM TO MAKE THE, THE DECISIONS QUICKLY, UM, INSTEAD OF WAITING FOR US TO APPROVE AND THEN WE MISS OUT ON SOME GOOD OPPORTUNITIES.

SO, UM, AND I'M NOT CONCERNED ABOUT THE CHECKS AND BALANCES SIDE OF IT BECAUSE IF, YOU KNOW, IT IS A BUDGET ITEM AND IF WE DON'T HAVE, YOU KNOW, TRUST IN OUR, OUR MANAGEMENT TO, TO DO THE JOB AND DO IT THE RIGHT WAY, THEN THEN WE PROBABLY HAVE OTHER CONVERSATIONS WE NEED TO HAVE.

SO, SO I'M TOTALLY COMFORTABLE WITH THIS, BUT I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION AND I WOULD HAVE FURTHER DISCUSSION.

UM, WITH REGARD I DO HAVE TRUST.

WE CAN HAVE A, WE HAVE A DISCUSSION AFTER WE HAVE SECOND ON THE MOTION.

I MOTION I MOVE TO, UH, PASS THE ORDINANCE WITH THE AMENDMENT OF CHANGING THE DURATION TO ONE YEAR.

I, OKAY, I'M NOT HEARING A SECOND.

IS THERE ANOTHER MOTION? MAYOR? I MOVE FOR, UH, APPROVAL OF THE ORDINANCE AS LISTED.

IS THERE A SECOND? I SECOND.

I SECOND, SECOND.

FROM MARLON AND FROM DAN.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? UH, MARLON? YES.

THE ONLY THOUGHT I I WANTED TO SHARE IS I THINK THIS THREE YEAR TIME PERIOD WITH THIS, THIS CIRCUMSTANCE THAT'S BEEN GOING ON FOR A COUPLE YEARS NOW, RIGHT? IT JUST DIDN'T, I THINK I, FOR ME, THAT SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD TIME PERIOD.

I, I, MY HOPE IS THE MARKET WILL GET BACK TO NORMAL BY THAT TIME.

I, I SUSPECT IT WILL, BUT VERY GOOD.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? SO THE ONLY REASON THAT I WOULD WANT TO READDRESS IN ONE YEAR IS 'CAUSE THERE'S A REASON FOR THE $50,000 LIMIT TO BEGIN WITH.

UM, I, I DO AGAIN, SUPPORT THE STAFF AND THEIR JUDGMENT.

IT'S JUST A MATTER OF THE BUDGET IS EVERY YEAR ALSO.

IT'S NOT EVERY THREE YEARS.

UM, AND THERE ARE ARGUMENTS FOR IT.

CLONE SIGNING WITH THE BUDGET VERSUS NOT, UH, THREE YEARS IS, IS A LONG TIME FOR THE MARKET.

UH, THAT'S JUST, JUST MY ONLY FINAL COMMENTS ON THAT.

THANKS, MAYOR.

THANK YOU DARREN.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

WE'LL GO TO ITEM FIVE B, WHICH WOULD PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR THE ISSUANCE OF TOWN OF ADDISON, TEXAS, CULMINATION TAX AND REVENUE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION SERIES 2023, LIVING A TAX IN PAYMENT THEREOF, PRESCRIBING THE FORM OF SAID CERTIFICATES, APPROVING AND AWARDING THE SALE OF THE CERTIFICATES, AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A PAYING AGENT SLASH REGISTRAR AGREEMENT, APPROVING THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT AND ENACTING PROVISIONS IN INCIDENT AND RELATING TO THE SUBJECT AND PURPOSES OF THIS ORDINANCE.

ANY OPPOSED? OPPOSED.

AND, UH, MR. CIO? AYE.

IS THAT AN AYE? VERY GOOD.

AND ITEM? UM, FIVE A PASSES.

[b. Present, discuss, and consider action on an Ordinance providing for the issuance of Town of Addison, Texas, Combination Tax and Revenue Certificates of Obligation, Series 2023; levying a tax in payment thereof; prescribing the form of said certificates; approving and awarding the sale of the certificates; authorizing the execution and delivery of a paying agent/registrar agreement; approving the official statement; and enacting provisions incident and relating to the subject and purposes of this Ordinance.]

STEVEN? THANK YOU, UH, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

STEVEN GLICKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.

AND WE ACTUALLY HAD TWO BOND SALES TODAY.

UH, WE HAD ONE FOR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION AND THEN ANOTHER ONE FOR GENERAL OBLIGATION

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BONDS.

UH, AND I'M PRETTY PLEASED WITH THE, UH, RESULTS OF THOSE SALES.

UM, SO BEFORE YOU, UH, THERE'S A SALE, A SALES BOOK, UH, WHICH YOU, UH, IS IN FRONT OF YOU AT THE DAAS, UH, WHICH, UH, INCLUDES THE RESULTS OF THE SALES TODAY.

UH, WE ALSO, UM, UH, THOSE SALES WERE AT 10 AND 10:30 AM THIS MORNING.

BIDS WERE RECEIVED.

SO THE UPDATED ORDINANCE, UH, THAT INCLUDES THE, UH, PRICING INFORMATION HAS ALSO BEEN PROVIDED TO YOU AS WELL, UH, ELECTRONICALLY.

UM, UH, OVERALL THE, UH, INTEREST RATES WE, WE RECEIVED ON THE SALES WERE 3.77% AND 3.79%.

SO, UH, PRETTY, PRETTY, UH, GOOD RATES IN TODAY'S MARKET.

UM, AND, UH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THE ORDINANCE, WE HAVE JULIE PARTAIN OUR, UH, BOND COUNCIL HERE.

AND, UH, WITH THAT, I'M GONNA TURN IT OVER TO NICK BACH, OUR, UH, FINANCIAL ADVISOR, AND HE'S GONNA GO OVER TODAY'S SALE.

GOOD EVENING MAYOR.

MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, NICK BASH WITH HILLTOP SECURITIES, THE TOWN'S FINANCIAL ADVISOR.

AND MR. GLICKMAN, UH, QUITE HONESTLY, STOLE MY THUNDER AND, UH, DIVERGED GAVE YOU ALL THE RESULTS.

BUT, UM, I, I WILL SAY MY, MY BOOK, UM, COVERS BOTH ITEMS B AND C.

AND IF IT'S OKAY, I WAS GONNA RUN THROUGH THE BOOK QUICKLY, BUT BOTH OF THESE HAVE TO BE TAKEN UP SEPARATELY.

UM, BUT AS MR. GLICKMAN POINTED OUT, WE SOLD, UH, THE GENERAL OBLIGATIONS BONDS VIA COMPETITIVE SELL AT 10 O'CLOCK THIS MORNING.

THE CERTIFICATE'S OBLIGATION AT 10 30.

NICK, CAN I INTERRUPT YOU FOR JUST ONE MINUTE, SIR? UH, WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND CALL ITEM C SINCE WE'RE DISCUSSING THAT AT THE SAME TIME.

SO STANDBY JUST ONE SEC.

[c. Present, discuss, and consider action on an Ordinance authorizing the issuance of Town of Addison, Texas, General Obligation Bonds, Series 2023; awarding the sale thereof; levying a tax, and providing for the security for and payment of said Bonds; authorizing the execution and delivery of a paying agent/registrar agreement; approving the official statement; enacting other provisions relating to the subject; and declaring an effective date.]

UH, ITEM FIVE C IS PRESENT DISCUSSING CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE AUTHORIZING THE ISSUANCE OF TOWN OF ADDISON, TEXAS GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND SERIES 2023, AWARDING THE SALE THEREOF, LIVING A TAX AND PROVIDING FOR THE SECURITY FOREIGN PAYMENT OF SAID BONDS, AUTHORIZING THE EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF A PAYING AGENT SLASH REGISTRAR AGREEMENT, APPROVING THE OFFICIAL STATEMENT AND ACTING OTHER PROVISIONS RELATING TO THE SUBJECT AND DECLARING AN EFFECTIVE DATE.

THANK YOU, NICK.

YOU MAY CONTINUE, SIR.

THANK YOU FOR THAT.

SO THE, THE TOWN'S CREDIT RATINGS WERE AFFIRMED AT AAA BY MOODY'S AND AAA BY S AND P.

JUST AS A REMINDER, THAT'S AS HIGH AS YOU CAN POSSIBLY GET, AND YOU ARE ONE OF 11 TEXAS CITIES THAT HAVE THAT RATING COMBINATION.

UH, THE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION SOLD FINAL PAR AMOUNT OF 4,355,000, AND THAT WILL FUND $4.5 MILLION IN SPENDABLE PROCEEDS.

AND I'LL GET TO THAT MATH HERE IN A MINUTE.

AND THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS FINAL PAR AMOUNT WAS 4,865,000, AND THAT WILL FUND $5 MILLION OF SPENDABLE PROCEEDS.

BEHIND TAB A IS THE TWO RATING REPORTS THAT I'LL LET YOU READ AT YOUR LEISURE, BUT BOTH RATING AGENCIES TAKE A DIFFERENT VIEW, UM, AND DIFFERENT METHODOLOGY, BUT THEY HAVE SOME OF THE VERY SIMILAR CONCEPTS AND, AND COMMENTS.

UH, NUM A COMMON THEME, STRONG FINANCIAL POSITION, FINANCIAL OPERATIONS WITH CONSISTENT, UH, CONSISTENTLY BALANCED BUDGETARY PERFORMANCE.

THE GROWING TAX BASE, MAJOR ECONOMIC CENTER AND STANDARD.

AND POORS ACTUALLY HAS A RATING CRITERIA THAT RATES THE, UH, THE TOWN'S FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT ASSESSMENT AND THE TOWN SCORES AS HIGH AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN WITHIN THEIR ASSESSMENT WITH, UM, VERY STRONG BECAUSE OF THE DETAILED LONG-TERM PLANNING.

AND I'D ALSO LIKE TO EXTEND MY GRATITUDE TO MR. GAINES AND MR. GLICKMAN AND HIS TEAM BECAUSE THESE TAKES A WHILE TO PREPARE FOR THESE RATING MEETINGS AND RATING CALLS.

AND, UH, THEY, THEY, UH, PROVIDE SO MUCH INFORMATION TO MAKE THE, THE CALLS GO SMOOTHLY.

BEHIND TAB B IS THE TABULATION OF BIDS FOR THE, UH, CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION.

WE TOOK THESE BIDS AT 10 30 THIS MORNING, AND THE TOWN RECEIVED FIVE BIDS WITH THE WINNING BIDDER BEING B O K FINANCIAL SECURITIES AT 3.774%.

DIRECTLY BEHIND THAT PAGE IS THE FINAL DEBT SERVICE SCHEDULE RELATED TO THOSE CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION.

SO IF YOU SEE, IF YOU'RE LOOKING AT THIS PAGE, THE ANNUAL PAYMENTS ARE ABOUT $325,000 ANNUALLY WITH THE FIRST PAYMENT OCCURRING IN FISCAL 2024.

SO NEXT BUDGET CYCLE, UM, YOU MAY ASK, WELL, I'M LOOKING AT THE COUPON RATE AND I SEE 5% AND 4%.

HOW IN THE WORLD IS OUR AVERAGE RATE? 3.77%.

AND THAT IS BECAUSE IF YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM OF THE PAGE, CASH PREMIUM FROM PURCHASER, INVESTORS RIGHT NOW STILL WANT PREMIUM COUPON BONDS.

THEY, THEY'RE WILLING TO PAY MORE THAN A HUNDRED PENNIES ON THE DOLLAR FOR

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THAT.

AND AS A RESULT, B OKAY, FINANCIAL SECURITIES IS GOING TO PAY YOU 4,000,355 FOR YOUR CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION, PLUS A CASH PREMIUM OF $206,000.

SO THAT $206,000 IS ALSO GOES TOWARDS THE, UH, PROJECT FUND.

AND, UM, IF I MAY MOVE TO THE NEXT TAB, GOING OVER THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS.

SO THE GENERAL OBLIGATION BONDS ACTUALLY BID AT 10 O'CLOCK.

SO THEY WERE, UH, 30 MINUTES BEFORE THE CERTIFICATES OBLIGATION.

WE RECEIVED SIX BIDS THERE, WINNING BIDDER BEING RAYMOND JAMES, AN ASSOCIATE AT 3.793%.

UM, YOU CAN SEE THE COVER BID WAS JUST LESS THAN, UH, A 10TH OF A, UH, BASIS POINT BEHIND AND BEHIND THAT PAGE IS, AGAIN, THAT DEBT SERVICE SCHEDULE.

SO ABOUT 360,000, UH, DOLLARS A YEAR.

AND AGAIN, SOLD WITH ABOUT $200,000 OF, OF NET PREMIUM ON THIS ONE AS WELL.

198,619.

UM, WELL, WELL, UH, THROUGH OUR PROJECTIONS.

SO WHENEVER I RUN, UH, PROJECTIONS FOR MR. GLICKMAN, I, I TRY TO BE SOMEWHAT CONSERVATIVE IN TODAY'S FINANCIAL MARKETS.

IT'S VERY, VERY VOLATILE FROM ONE DAY TO THE NEXT, QUITE HONESTLY.

SO VERY PLEASED WITH THE, THE PARTICIPATION FROM BIDDERS AND THE FINAL RESULTS, COLUMN D, OR EXCUSE ME, TAB D PARDON ME, IS, UM, REALLY JUST FOR YOUR INFORMATIONAL PURPOSES.

THIS IS THE TOWN'S EXISTING DEBT PROFILE AND THE FINAL RATES FROM EACH ONE OF THOSE BONDS THAT ARE OUTSTANDING.

AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE INTEREST RATE AND THE AVERAGE LIFE, YOU NEED TO, IF YOU'RE TRYING TO COMPARE 'EM, YOU NEED TO LOOK AT THE AVERAGE LIFE.

'CAUSE IF YOU'RE COMPARING SOMETHING THAT'S MUCH SHORTER, IT'S NOT REALLY APPLES TO APPLES, BUT AS YOU LOOK DOWN THE INTEREST RATE, YOU CAN SEE THE TOWN'S COST OF FUNDS IS INCREDIBLY LOW.

UM, AND IF YOU QUITE, AND THE TWO BOTTOM ONES THAT, THAT HIGHER, THE 3.87 AND THE 4.44%, THOSE ARE INCLUDED INADVERTENTLY, THOSE HAVE BEEN REFINANCED AND PAID OFF.

SO THOSE AREN'T EVEN OUTSTANDING ANYMORE.

SO, UM, IT'S, IT, QUITE HONESTLY, IT'S FASCINATING BECAUSE THE TOWN REALLY TOOK ADVANTAGE OF THE, THE MARKET ENVIRONMENT WHEN IT, UH, EMBARKED ON ITS CAPITAL PLAN.

AND THEN FINALLY, BEHIND TAB E, AND AGAIN, WOULD LIKE TO THANK MR. GLICKMAN AND HIS STAFF.

THESE ARE, THIS IS THE PRELIMINARY OFFICIAL STATEMENT THAT IS USED TO MARKET THE BONDS TO POTENTIAL INVESTORS.

AND, UM, IT CONTAINS ALL OF THE INFORMATION THAT INVESTOR WANT TO KNOW BEFORE MAKING AN INVESTMENT DECISION.

THE PLEDGE HAS SOME INFORMATION ON, UH, CONDENSED FINANCIAL OPERATIONS OF THE TOWN.

UM, BUT THIS WILL BE CONVERTED TO A FINAL OFFERING DOCUMENT AND THEN DISTRIBUTED TO ALL THOSE WHO PURCHASED THE BONDS.

UM, WE'RE HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS.

THE ESTIMATED CLOSING DATE IS SEPTEMBER 6TH.

UH, WE HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE TEXAS ATTORNEY GENERAL APPROVAL.

BUT WITH THAT, I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE AND I WOULD RECOMMEND APPROVAL.

VERY HAPPY WITH THE RESULTS.

QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY? GQ? MAYOR, I DON'T HAVE A QUESTION, BUT I DO HAVE A COMMENT.

UH, NICK, THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR THAT PRESENTATION.

UH, EVERY TIME YOU COME UP HERE AND TALK TO US, SPEAK TO US.

UH, YOU ALWAYS HAVE A, A SMILE AND YOU USUALLY BRING A SMILE TO OUR FACE.

I KNOW MR. GLICKMAN AND HIS AND HIS TEAM, UH, WORK HARD, UH, TO, UH, TO, UH, BRING, BRING THIS VALUE TO OUR TOWN AND MAYOR, THAT'S JUST A TESTAMENT TO THE CONSERVATIVE VALUES THAT WE, UH, HAVE HERE, UH, FINANCIALLY IN OUR TOWN.

AND, UM, WANNA APPLAUD, APPLAUD THE COUNCILS THAT HAVE COME BEFORE US AND CONTINUE.

UH, HOPEFULLY WE'LL CONTINUE THAT, THAT EFFORT.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS, EILEEN? I JUST ECHO THAT THIS STEVEN AND HIS TEAM.

GREAT JOB AS ALWAYS.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO.

ANYBODY ELSE? ALL RIGHT, IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION AND WE PROBABLY SHOULD DO THIS SEPARATELY.

I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION ON ITEM FIVE B.

SO MOVED.

SECOND.

WE APPROVAL FROM DARREN SECOND BY MARLON.

ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

AND THEN NANCY CRAIG SECONDED.

ANY OPPOSED? ITEM FIVE B PASSES FIVE C MOTION MOVE FOR APPROVAL FROM I FROM I LIEN.

ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.

SESSION ITEM SEVEN, A DISCUSSION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2024 BUDGET.

ANY OPPOSED? ITEM FIVE C PASSES.

OKAY, LET'S GO AHEAD AND GO BACK TO OUR THANK YOU STEVEN, AND FOR WHAT EVERYBODY WAS SAYING, I A HUNDRED PERCENT AGREE WITH THANK GREAT WORK.

UH, LET'S GO BACK TO OUR WORK SESSION REPORTS AND WE'LL WRAP UP THE NIGHT WHEN WE FINISH WITH OUR ITEMS OF COMMUNITY

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INTEREST.

ITEM SIX, WORK

[a. Discussion of the Fiscal Year 2024 Budget.]

I'M NOT SURE WHERE YOU'RE GOING, STEVEN, BUT YOU'RE .

I'M COMING BACK.

YES, THANK YOU.

SO I'LL, I'LL SAY JUST A COUPLE WORDS AS AS STEPHEN GOES IN THIS PRESENTATION, I, UH, APPRECIATED COUNCIL'S TIME ON LAST WEEK ON THE THIRD AND FOURTH FOR, FOR OUR BUDGET WORK SESSION.

I THOUGHT IT WENT REALLY WELL AND ENJOYED THE DISCUSSION.

THERE WERE A NUMBER OF FOLLOW-UP ITEMS FROM THAT DISCUSSION, BOTH DURING THE MEETING AND QUESTIONS WE RECEIVED AFTERWARD.

UM, AND THIS PRESENTATION WILL ADDRESS THAT AND STEVEN WILL GO OVER AN OUTLINE HERE OF THE PRESENTATION SHORTLY.

AND ALSO WE'LL HAVE THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT PRESENTATION.

UM, SO YOU'LL SEE A NUMBER OF CHANGES BASED ON THE CONVERSATIONS FROM LAST WEEK AND OVER THE PAST NUMBER OF DAYS THAT ARE UP FOR CONSIDERATION.

AND WITH THAT, I WILL TURN IT OVER TO STEVEN.

THANK YOU MAYOR COUNCIL, STEVEN GLICKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, AND WE HAVE A, AN UPDATE, UH, FROM OUR BUDGET WORKSHOP, UH, THIS EVENING.

UH, AND, UH, KIND OF, THERE WE GO.

SO KIND OF THE AGENDA AND THE, THE WAY THAT, UH, THIS, UH, PRESENTATION IS, IS, UH, IS FOCUSED, IS THAT I'M GONNA GIVE A QUICK UPDATE ON SOME GENERAL FUND DECISION PACKAGES.

UH, THEN KEN IS GONNA COME UP AND, UH, GIVE A, UH, HIS BUDGET PRESENTATION, UH, FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

AND THEN HE'S GONNA TOSS IT BACK TO ME.

I'M GONNA GO OVER, UH, ALL OF THE DECISION PACKAGES AND THE OTHER FUNDS.

UH, OVERALL THE GENERAL FUND, WHICH HAD SOME PROPOSED CHANGES, UH, THE HOTEL FUND AND THE UTILITY FUND, WHICH ALSO HAD A COUPLE OF CHANGES.

AND THEN, UH, TODD WEINHEIMER WITH THE, UH, PUBLIC WORKS IS GONNA COME UP AND DISCUSS, UH, MORMON LANE LIGHTING.

AND I'LL JUST ADD ONE PIECE OF HOUSEKEEPING.

UH, THE PRESENTATION, OBVIOUSLY, WE HAD JUST A NUMBER OF DAYS SINCE THE BUDGET WORKSHOP IT TOOK.

WE'VE BEEN WORKING UP UNTIL JUST A FEW HOURS BEFORE THE MEETING.

SO THE, UH, PRESENTATION IS OUT IN THE ONEDRIVE.

I EMAILED IT TO YOU AS WELL IF YOU WANT TO HAVE IT IN FRONT OF YOU.

AND THEN WE'LL HAVE IT POSTED ON THE AGENDA, UH, TOMORROW FOR THE PUBLIC.

AND THEN KINDA GAUGING, GAUGING HOW, HOW THINGS WORK OUT.

EXCELLENT.

SO, UH, DECISION PACKAGES, UM, SO WE PRESENTED A SLIDE SIMILAR TO THIS AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.

UH, THERE ARE SOME ALTERNATE AND PROPOSED OR ALTERNATE RECOMMENDED ITEMS, UH, THAT CAME FROM, UH, THE DISCUSSIONS DAVID WAS, UH, REFERRING TO.

UH, SO EVERYTHING HERE IS, IS THE SAME, UH, AS FAR AS THE EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR POSITION, UH, THE MENTAL HEALTH WELLNESS PROGRAM THAT WAS PRO PROPOSED BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT, UH, THE A E D INSPECTION, UH, MONTHLY INSPECTIONS THAT WAS PROPOSED BY THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, BUILDING SERVICE, UH, BUILDING INSPECTOR, THIRD PARTY SERVICES FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

UH, THERE ARE TWO NEW ITEMS THAT ARE ADDED HERE.

UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, A CODE ENFORCEMENT MANAGER POSITION, WHICH HAS A, A RECURRING COST OF ABOUT $132,000.

UH, A CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER POSITION, WHICH HAS A RECURRING COST OF ABOUT $110,000.

AND WHAT HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THIS, UM, DECISION PACKAGE, UH, GROUP THAT WAS ON THE, UH, PROPOSED BUDGET FROM THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, UH, IS THE FACILITY, UH, PHASING STUDY, UH, AT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS.

SO THAT HAS BEEN REMOVED.

AND THEN IN GENERAL SERVICES, THAT FACILITY ATTENDANT POSITION, UH, IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET WAS ONE AND A HALF, UH, FULL-TIME EQUIVALENCE.

UH, THAT HAS BEEN CHANGED TO HALF OF A FULL-TIME EQUIVALENT, UH, WHICH HAS A, UH, POSITIVE VARIANCE OF ABOUT $50,000 FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, SO IN TOTAL, UH, AND THIS ALSO STILL INCLUDES THE THEATER STUDY, UH, AND THE SPROLE DOG PARK, ARTIFICIAL TURF.

UH, SO IN TOTAL, UH, THE TOTAL OF THESE DECISION PACKAGE COMPARED TO THE PROPOSED BUDGET, IT'S ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS DIFFERENCE.

UH, SO WHAT WE'VE DONE TO MAKE UP THAT DELTA IS WE ADDED ABOUT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS OF INVESTMENT REVENUE IN THE GENERAL FUND, WHICH WE'RE FAIRLY, UH, HAPPY WITH THE INVESTMENT RETURNS THAT WE'RE SEEING.

SO FAIRLY COMFORTABLE WITH THAT.

SO, UM, WITH THAT, YES, I'LL JUST JUMP IN JUST REAL QUICK BECAUSE AFTER THIS OBVIOUSLY WE'LL GO TO KEN'S PRESENTATION, THEN STEVEN WILL KIND OF ZOOM OUT AGAIN AND TALK ABOUT GENERAL PLAN OVERALL.

BUT I'LL, I'LL JUST GIVE A A LITTLE BIT OF CONTEXT TO DECISIONS THAT WERE MADE HERE.

OBVIOUSLY, UH, AS WE TALKED ABOUT IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, WE CERTAINLY PRIORITIZE THESE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES POSITIONS IN THE PROGRAM.

AND WE, WE HEARD FROM COUNCIL AS WELL.

SO WE ARE ALL FORGOING FULL STEAM AHEAD ON THESE AND EXPEDITING THEM.

AND I THINK THE, THE CHANGES THAT WERE MADE ARE CERTAINLY, UH, REASONABLE AND, AND, AND THE ONES THAT WE RECOMMEND ON THE FACILITY STUDY, IT'S STILL A PRIORITY FOR US.

WHAT WE'LL PROBABLY LIKELY DO WITH THE FACILITY STUDY IS JUST HAVE THIS FISCAL YEAR END, SEE WHAT, UH, EXCESS FUNDS WERE ABLE TO SHIFT OVER TO THE SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND, AND VERY LIKELY, UH, COME BACK TO COUNCIL EARLY IN THE, IN THE YEAR WITH A BUDGET AMENDMENT FOR THE SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND TO CONTINUE THAT.

BUT IT'LL GIVE US TIME JUST TO SEE HOW THE YEAR ENDS FINANCIALLY.

UM, AND THEN ON THE, ON THE FACILITIES ATTENDANT POSITION, WE'RE COMFORTABLE INCREASING THE CURRENT HALFTIME POSITION TO FULL-TIME

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THIS IS STILL A NEW PROCESS HERE AT THE CONFERENCE CENTER AND OUR NEW APPROACH.

WE CAN CONTRACT OUT IF WE NEED TO AND AGAIN, MAKE ADJUSTMENTS MIDYEAR IF NECESSARY.

SO CERTAINLY FEEL COMFORTABLE WITH THOSE CHANGES IN BUMPING THOSE POSITIONS UP, WHICH YOU'LL HEAR MORE ABOUT FROM KEN AND THEN STEVEN LATER.

AND WITH THAT, I'LL HAND IT OVER TO KEN.

UM, I WANNA MAKE SURE I UNDERSTOOD YOU CORRECTLY ON THOSE, ON THE, UH, THE ONES IN BOLD, THE CODE ENFORCEMENT.

IS KEN GONNA TALK MORE ABOUT THAT RIGHT NOW? HE'S GONNA GO IN A LOT OF DETAIL ON 'EM, YES.

DECISION PACKAGE IS THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

ALRIGHT, GOOD EVENING ONCE AGAIN, MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL.

UH, SO THE 16 EMPLOYEES IN THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR FOUR MAJOR PROGRAMS, INCLUDES PLANNING AND ZONING, BUILDING INSPECTIONS, CODE ENFORCEMENT AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH.

ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH TEAM DESERVE RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS, POOL INSPECTIONS, AND VECTOR CONTROL.

SO, UH, IT WAS A BUSY, UH, FISCAL YEAR, UH, AND IT IS, UH, ENDING WITH A BANG AS WELL.

AND WE'VE GOT A FEW PROJECTS STILL TO GO.

BUT, UM, THIS YEAR, UH, CERTAINLY ON THE PLANE ZONING FRONT, UH, WE HAD A, A FEW KEY ITEMS, UH, THE TRANSIT ORIENTED DEVELOPMENT.

UH, WE EXECUTED THE FIRST REZONING PROCESS FOR THAT, UH, BEFORE THE YEAR ENDS, WE'LL GET THROUGH A ANOTHER ONE.

UH, BUT THEN WE'VE ALSO BEEN HEAVILY INVOLVED IN THE, UH, NEGOTIATIONS FOR THE VARIOUS AGREEMENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT PROJECT.

UH, WE'VE HAD A LOT OF VERY IMPORTANT COMMUNITY DISCUSSIONS ON HOUSING.

OUR TEAM HAS FACILITATED THAT.

AND THEN WE'RE ALSO WORKING ON SEVERAL MAJOR PLANNING PROJECTS.

ONE COMPLETING OUR UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE PROJECT.

UH, AND STAFF HAS BEEN VERY ACTIVE IN RECENT WEEKS DOING THAT.

AND THEN ALSO WE'RE GETTING READY TO KICK OFF A COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE AND WE'LL HAVE SOMETHING BEFORE YOU SOON ON THAT.

ON THE BUILDING INSPECTIONS FRONT, UH, MANY OF THE PROJECTS THAT YOU'VE SEEN COME BEFORE YOU FOR ZONING OR ARE NOW GOING THROUGH THE PERMITTING PROCESS ARE OR ARE COMPLETING THE PERMITTING PROCESS.

SO YOU HAVE, UH, SEVERAL MAJOR, UH, PROJECTS, UH, THAT ARE MIXED USE OF NATURE, LOTS OF AIRPORT PROJECTS THAT IS KEEPING THAT TEAM VERY BUSY ON THE PLANNER VIEW AND INSPECTIONS FRONT.

THEY'RE ALSO GETTING READY TO, UH, BRING FORWARD OUR, UH, BUILDING CODE UPDATES TRANSITIONING FROM THE 2018 CODE SET TO THE 2021 CODE SET.

UH, THE HEALTH INSPECTIONS TEAM, UH, THEY OF COURSE ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR RESTAURANT INSPECTIONS AND THEY DO THOSE ANNUALLY AND, AND SOME CASES SEMI-ANNUALLY AND QUARTERLY, UH, FOR ALL THE 200 PLUS RESTAURANTS IN TOWN.

UH, THEY ALSO HAVE A VERY SIGNIFICANT ROLE IN OUR SPECIAL EVENTS GIVEN HOW FOOD ORIENTED THOSE ARE.

SO THEY DO ALL THE INSPECTIONS THERE AND OUR HEALTH INSPECTOR CONTINUES TO, UH, OR OUR HEALTH MANAGER CONTINUES TO ACHIEVE NATIONAL ACCLAIM.

UH, SHE'S THE PAST PRESIDENT OF HER PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATION THEN SHE JUST RECENTLY GOT NAMED TO A NATIONAL BOARD AS WELL.

SO THAT'S SANDRA LONG.

AND THEN THE CODE TEAM, UH, THEY HAVE BEEN BUSY AS WELL WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTIONS TEAM, PREPARING FOR THE, UH, NEW CODE SET UPDATE.

AND THEY'VE HAD A LOT OF, UM, BEEN WORKING ON PROCESSES AND PROCEDURES AND, UM, ENFORCEMENT, UH, ON SOME, UH, LONGSTANDING ISSUES.

AND THEY'VE BEEN MAKING A LOT OF GOOD PROGRESS ON THAT.

FRIDAY.

THEY, THEY HAD, UH, WENT AND CHECKED THE, UM, LAWN BAGS AND THERE WAS NOT A SINGLE VIOLATION.

SO GOOD NEWS ON THAT FRONT.

UH, SO 2024, WE ANTICIPATE IT BEING ANOTHER VERY BUSY YEAR.

UH, WE WILL COMPLETE THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE, UH, THIS YEAR AND THEN WE WILL SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE OUR COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE.

UH, WE WON'T QUITE GET TO THE FINISH LINE, BUT WE'LL BE PRETTY DARN CLOSE.

UM, AND THEN OF COURSE WE WANT TO GET THE T O D UM, MOVING TOWARDS CONSTRUCTION.

SO WE STILL HAVE SOME DEVELOPMENT ENTITLEMENTS TO WORK THROUGH, AGREEMENTS TO WORK THROUGH, BUT THEN PREPARING FOR THE PRE-CONSTRUCTION PROCESS, OUR TEAM WILL BE VERY INVOLVED IN, UH, PERMIT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE, JUST IN CASE WE HADN'T DONE ALL THE MAJOR PROJECTS, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENTS.

DO WE WANNA KNOCK THAT ONE OUT TOO? THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT FOR OUR CUSTOMER SERVICE IN THE DEPARTMENT AS WELL AS RECORDS ACCOUNTABILITY.

AND THEN THE BIG ONE, WHICH IS THE FOCUS OF YOUR, UH, DISCUSSION TONIGHT IS THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES PROGRAM.

SO THAT WILL INCLUDE CREATING A RENTAL INSPECTIONS PROGRAM FOR MULTIFAMILY SINGLE FAMILY AND HOTELS.

UH, ENHANCING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD ENGAGEMENT, UH, EFFORTS, PARTICULARLY AS IT RELATES TO MULTIFAMILY PROPERTIES, UM, EXPANDING AND BECOMING MORE PROACTIVE WITH CODE ENFORCEMENT.

AND THEN TRANSITIONING ANIMAL CONTROL FROM THE POLICE DEPARTMENT TO THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT AND REBRANDING THAT TEAM.

UH, WITH THAT WE WILL HAVE SOME NEEDED WORKSPACE IMPROVEMENTS, PARTICULARLY IF YOU APPROVE WHAT'S IN MY BUDGET THAT WE'LL DISCUSS HERE MOMENTARILY.

SO OUR FIRST

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SO OUR DEPARTMENT, WE HAVE A LOT GOING ON AND WE ARE THE LARGEST DEPARTMENT WITHOUT AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITION.

SO I LIKE TO SLEEP AND I LIKE HAVING A FULL HEAD OF HAIR.

SO THIS, THIS POSITION WILL REALLY HELP ME ON BOTH OF THOSE FRONTS.

UH, BUT REALLY I NEED THIS POSITION AND I WANT THIS POSITION TO FOCUS ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES FUNCTION THAT WE'RE TRYING TO GROW AND EXPAND.

SO SOMEONE WHO'S, UH, HAS A DEEP EXPERIENCE AND PASSION FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT AND CAN WORK WITH OUR GREAT CODE TEAM AS IT GROWS AND EVOLVES AND PROVIDES, UH, ENHANCED SERVICES FOR THE TOWN.

SO THAT WILL HAVE A RECURRING COST OF JUST UNDER 160,000 AND A ONE-TIME COST OF, UH, JUST UNDER 10,000.

UH, THE NEXT DECISION PACKAGE, WHICH WAS, UH, ADDED, UH, BACK INTO YOUR BUDGET AS THE C F O NOTED IS THE CODE ENFORCEMENT MANAGER POSITION.

SO, UM, THIS IS ONE OF THE UNIQUE THINGS ABOUT OUR DEPARTMENT.

UM, SO ALL THOSE PROGRAMS, UM, MOST OF THEM HAVE A MANAGER.

CODE ENFORCEMENT IS ONE PROGRAM THAT DOES NOT HAVE A MANAGER SPECIFICALLY DEDICATED TO CODE.

SO THAT FUNCTION IS CURRENTLY SPLIT BE BETWEEN THE ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH MANAGER AS WELL AS THE PLANNING MANAGER.

BOTH OF THOSE POSITIONS ARE VERY BUSY.

SO IT WOULD BE VERY HELPFUL TO ALL THREE OF THOSE PROGRAMS TO HAVE SOMEONE WHO IS DEDICATED TO CODE AND WHO IS, UH, HAS CODE EXPERIENCE AS THEIR PREVAILING PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE.

SO THAT WILL PARTICULARLY HELP US AS WE EXPAND OUR SERVICES, HAVING SOMEONE THAT CAN HELP FACILITATE THAT AND, UH, TEACH COACH AND MENTOR THAT TEAM, UH, AS THEY, UH, THEIR DUTIES EVOLVE.

SO THAT WILL HAVE A, UH, ONE RECURRING COST OF JUST OVER 130,000 AND A ONE TIME COST OF JUST OVER 50,000.

AND THAT IS DUE LARGELY TO THE VEHICLE NEED.

SO THE NEXT DECISION PACKAGE IS FOR A CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.

UH, WE DO HAVE TWO FANTASTIC OFFICERS CURRENTLY, AND FOR THEM TO BE MORE PROACTIVE AND FOR US TO, UH, ADD A, UM, A RENTAL INSPECTION PROGRAM, UH, IT'S NECESSARY THAT WE SUPPLEMENT THOSE CODE OFFICERS AND ADD ANOTHER POSITION.

UM, THAT POSITION IS NEEDED FOR THAT GROWTH, AND IT WILL HAVE A, A RECURRING COST OF JUST UNDER 110,000 AND A ONE-TIME COST OF JUST UNDER 50,000.

SO OUR LAST DECISION PACKAGE IN THE RECOMMENDED BUDGET, UH, EXCUSE ME, SECOND TO LAST, IS, UH, BUILDING INSPECTOR SUPPLEMENTAL THIRD PARTY SERVICES.

SO, UM, OVER THE LAST NINE YEARS, WE HAVE BEEN VERY FORTUNATE TO HAVE A RETIREE FROM THE CITY OF PLANO SUPPLEMENT KIND OF BE AN ON-CALL INSPECTOR FOR US.

UM, THAT IS BEEN A GREAT LUXURY BECAUSE IT'S VERY DIFFICULT TO FIND, UH, BUILDING INSPECTORS IN THE CURRENT MARKET.

UH, HE HAS, UH, AND WE'RE VERY HAPPY FOR HIM FOR THIS.

HE HAS PERMANENTLY RETIRED, BUT FILLING THAT POSITION, UH, WILL BE A CHALLENGE.

UH, WE DO HAVE TWO TALENTED INSPECTORS ON STAFF THAT CAN TAKE ON AND DO TAKE ON THE INSPECTIONS DUTIES, BUT IN THE EVENT THAT THERE'S A VACATION SICK LEAVE, UM, WE FIND OURSELVES IN A POSITION WHERE, UH, WE HAVE A VACANCY IN OUR INSPECTOR, UH, RANKS.

UH, IT'S IMPORTANT THAT WE HAVE AN IMMEDIATE BACKUP, UH, THAT'S COMPETENT AND THEN CAN, THAT CAN TAKE ON THE INSPECTIONS, UH, DUTIES HERE IN ADDISON.

SO WITH THAT, UH, WE'RE PROPOSING TO HAVE AN ON-CALL CONTRACT WITH BUREAU VERITAS, A THIRD PARTY, UH, SERVICE PROVIDER THAT DOES DO WORK IN ADDISON.

UM, AND, UH, THIS FUNDING WOULD ALLOW FOR ESSENTIALLY SIX WEEKS OF INSPECTION SERVICES BASED ON OUR TYPICAL INSPECTIONS LOAD AND THE, THE SERVICE FEES THAT THEY CHARGE.

SO THAT FUNDING, UH, WILL BE 67,000 IN TOTAL, BUT WE'RE ANTICIPATING OFFSET REVENUES TO BRING THAT DOWN TO REALLY 36,000 IN EXPENDITURES.

THE LAST DECISION PACKAGE IN MY BUDGET, OR THE CITY MANAGER'S RECOMMENDED BUDGET IS START UP FUNDING FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES PROGRAM.

SO, UH, IF THESE POSITIONS ARE APPROVED, UH, THE FIRST THING WE'RE GONNA DO IS WORK TO DEVELOP A STRATEGIC PLAN FOR THAT PROGRAM.

AND WITH THAT, WE'LL THEN IDENTIFY IMMEDIATE FUNDING NEEDS TO DO THINGS SUCH AS STARTING THE RENTAL INSPECTIONS PROGRAM AND TO KICK OFF OUR ENGAGEMENT EFFORTS, UM, WITH OUR, UH, NEIGHBORHOODS AND MULTI-FAMILY PROPERTIES.

SO THIS FUNDING WILL, UH, SERVE TO FACILITATE THAT.

AND THEN AS THAT PROGRAM, UH, SOLIDIFIES AND WE MOVE FORWARD, UH, IN FUTURE BUDGET YEARS, WE'LL CERTAINLY, UH, REFINE AND, UH, MODIFY THAT AS NEEDED TO ACCOUNT FOR, UH, ACTUAL EXPENDITURES.

SO WITH ALL THOSE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES CONSIDERATIONS, I DID TAKE THE TIME TO

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DO A REVENUE PROJECTION FOR OUR RENTAL INSPECTIONS PROGRAMS. SO THIS INCLUDES THE CONSIDERATION OF MULTI-FAMILY RENTAL INSPECTIONS, SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL INSPECTIONS, AS WELL AS HOTELS.

UM, SO FOR THAT FEE STRUCTURE THAT YOU SEE THERE, UM, THAT IS, UM, A VERY COMMON FEE STRUCTURE.

THAT ONE IN PARTICULAR IS FROM THE CITY OF CARROLLTON, SO CERTAINLY ONE OF OUR COMPARATOR CITIES.

UM, AND APPLYING THAT FEE STRUCTURE TO EXISTING DEVELOPMENT HERE IN ADDISON WITH A PROJECTION ON SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL PROPERTIES THAT WOULD RESULT IN, UH, JUST OVER $190,000 ANNUALLY, UM, IN, UM, REGISTRATION FEES, THAT DOES NOT ACCOUNT FOR DEVELOPMENT CURRENTLY UNDERWAY.

WHEN YOU START TO ROLL THAT IN, IT WOULD GET YOU OVER $200,000.

SO WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT THE CODE MANAGER POSITION, THE CODE OFFICER POSITION ANNUALLY, THAT'S ABOUT $250,000.

SO WE WOULD BE ABLE TO RECOVER A LOT OF THAT WITH THESE REGISTRATION FEES.

SO, UM, THAT IS CERTAINLY A BENEFIT OF HAVING THAT RENTAL REGISTRATION PROGRAM BEYOND THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO ENSURE THAT OUR HOUSING IS APPRO AND HOTELS ARE APPROPRIATELY MAINTAINED.

SO WE DID HAVE ONE UN-FUNDED PRIORITY THAT REMAINS UNFUNDED.

UH, OUR STAFF IS VERY COMFORTABLE WITH THIS.

IT MAY BE A, A MORE URGENT NEED IN THE FUTURE, BUT WE DID RECENTLY HIRE A COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING MANAGER WHO IS SKILLED IN NEIGHBORHOOD PLANNING.

SO THIS NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES SPECIALIST POSITION, WHICH WAS REALLY INTENDED TO BE MORE OF AN OUTREACH POSITION TO FACILITATE RELATIONSHIP BUILDING WITH HOAS PROPERTY MANAGERS AND RESIDENTS, UH, WE FEEL THAT IT CAN INITIALLY BE STAFFED BY THE COMPREHENSIVE PLANNING MANAGER, AND IF THAT NEED EVOLVES IN THE FUTURE, WE CAN ADDRESS THAT IN A FUTURE BUDGET REQUEST.

SO THAT WOULD'VE BEEN, UH, JUST OVER 115,000 RECURRING COSTS AND JUST UNDER 8,000 IN ONE-TIME COSTS.

BUT WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT'S BEEN PROPOSED BY THE CITY MANAGER.

SO WITH THAT, I'D BE HAPPY TO ADDRESS ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.

QUESTIONS FROM EVERYBODY? MARLON? YES, SIR.

UH, KEN, COULD YOU GO BACK A COUPLE SLIDES TO THE, UH, FUNDING RIGHT THERE? UM, AND LIKE ON SINGLE FAMILY, $50 PER PROPERTY, COULD YOU KIND OF LIKE TALK ME, TALK ME THROUGH HOW THAT WOULD WORK? UM, I'M, I'M NOT SURE LIKE HOW THE INSPECTION WOULD WORK OR WHY IT'S $50.

WELL, UH, YEAH, I'M JUST TRYING.

OH, YEAH.

UH, I WOULD SAY, LET'S JUST FORGET ABOUT THE DOLLAR AMOUNT RIGHT NOW.

UM, ARE YOU SAYING THAT, THAT THIS GROUP WOULD INSPECT EACH SINGLE FAMILY, UH, SOMEHOW PER YEAR? SO IT, IT'S ULTIMATELY A POLICY CONSIDERATION, BUT IF YOU DID ELECT, UH, WHICH IS NOT UNCOMMON, UH, FOR CITIES TO DO, TO INSPECT SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL PROPERTIES, THEN YES, IT, IT WOULD TYPICALLY BE INSPECTED ANNUALLY.

OH, THAT'S A RENTAL.

JUST RENTAL PROPERTIES, YES.

ONLY RENTAL.

YEAH, JUST RENTAL PROPERTY.

AND, AND DO WE, UH, OKAY.

AND DO WE DO IN, UH, REVENUE ITEMS LIKE THIS FOR HOTELS? RIGHT NOW? WE DO NOT, DO WE HAVE ANY INSPECTIONS FOR HOTELS RIGHT NOW? UH, NOT BEYOND WHAT WE DO FOR CODE ENFORCEMENT AND HEALTH INSPECTIONS.

AND, AND SO THIS CODE ENFORCEMENT MANAGER POSITION, UM, THAT THEY WOULD BE MANAGING THREE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS? YES, SIR.

ANY OTHERS? MAYOR? MAYOR, IF I COULD JUST QUICKLY JUST ADD, JUST, AND I, AND KEN SAID THIS, BUT JUST TO MAKE IT CLEAR, THESE NUMBERS ARE OBVIOUSLY JUST PROJECTIONS AS WE BUILD THE PROGRAM UP, WE'LL HAVE POLICY CONVERSATIONS WITH COUNCIL TO COME UP WITH WHAT THE PROGRAM LOOKS LIKE, WHAT WE CHARGE, EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.

THESE ARE JUST PROJECTIONS TO, TO KEEP IN MIND EILE.

FOR EXAMPLE, IT CAN BE USED FOR SPECIAL EVENT PERMITS.

CAN CAN YOU EXPLAIN JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE ELECTRONIC PERMITTING AND HOW THAT WORKS? YES.

SO PERMIT MANAGEMENT SOFTWARE IS A TOOL COMMONLY USED BY CITIES TO, UH, MORE EFFICIENTLY AND IN A MORE CUSTOMER FRIENDLY MANNER.

UM, PARTICULARLY ALLOWING FOR ONLINE SUBMITTALS AND DISTRIBUTION OF COMMENTS AND SHARING OF FEEDBACK THROUGH THAT PERMIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM.

THAT IT'S A, UH, ESSENTIALLY A, UH, MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TO IMPROVE CUSTOMER SERVICE AND TO PROVIDE FOR BETTER RECORD MANAGEMENT FOR ALL OF OUR FUNCTIONS, NOT JUST PERMITTING, BUT ALSO, UH, LAND USE APPLICATIONS, HEALTH APPLICATIONS, CODE ENFORCEMENT, AND THEN OTHER DEPARTMENTS USE IT AS WELL.

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AND SO, JUST AS A FOLLOW UP, HOW'S THAT BEING DONE? NOW WE HAVE A SYSTEM, UM, AND THIS MAY BE A, A, A MEETING IN OF ITSELF.

UM, IT WAS, UH, I'LL BE BLUNT, IT WAS A FAILED IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT SYSTEM.

UM, THAT'S NOT UNCOMMON FOR CITIES.

I'VE BEEN IN OTHER CITIES, UH, SOME OF WHICH ARE THE, THE DARLINGS OF, UH, THE METROPLEX WHERE THEY HAVE FAILED IN THEIR PERMIT MANAGEMENT SYSTEM IMPLEMENTATION.

UM, SO, UH, BUT THERE ARE, UH, GREAT BENEFITS TO IT IF YOU ALIGN YOUR PROCESSES AND WORKFLOWS WITH THE SYSTEM WHERE CITIES RUN INTO ISSUES IS THEIR WORKFLOWS DON'T ALIGN WITH THE SYSTEM, AND THEN A LOT OF BRAIN DAMAGE IS DONE BECAUSE THINGS DON'T FUNCTION RIGHT.

KEN, UH, HERE ON PAGE 14, UNDER THE PROJECTED REVENUES, CAN YOU, UH, TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE NUMBERS THAT WE HAVE HERE? UH, I UNDERSTAND HOW WE GET THE MULTIFAMILY 9,000 1200, UH, EXCUSE ME, 9,012 UNITS UNDER MULTIFAMILY, AND THEN OF COURSE, THE HOTEL ROOMS OF 4,003.

UH, QUITE UNDERSTANDABLE HOW YOU GOT THAT NUMBER.

CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE SINGLE FAMILY RENTAL PRO 200 PROPERTIES? THAT, THAT WAS JUST A, A PROJECTION? UM, I, I DID NOT HAVE TIME TO GO THROUGH CENSUS DATA, BUT IT WAS JUST TO SHOW WHAT COULD BE THERE.

SO IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A PLACEHOLDER NUMBER, SO IT'S A CENSUS DATA.

I, I COULD, I COULD, IF I WANTED IT TO BE MORE PRECISE, IT WOULD BE, IT WOULD BE A CENSUS DATA.

I DON'T, I DON'T HAVE EXISTING DATA, UH, FOR THAT.

SO I JUST USED A PROJECTION THANK YOU.

ON THE NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.

UM, WHAT, WHAT'S MORE OF A DESCRIPTION OF WHAT THE OUTCOMES AND THE RESULTS FOR THAT, UH, DEPARTMENT WOULD BE? SO I THINK THERE, THERE'S A, THERE'S A HANDFUL OF, OF KEY THINGS.

SO ONE, UM, UH, ENHANCING ENGAGEMENT, UH, FOR OUR, UM, RESIDENTS, WHETHER THAT'S THOSE WHO OWN A HOME OR OWN A CONDO OR, UM, OUR RENTERS IN THE COMMUNITY.

UH, SECOND, I WOULD SAY HOLDING PROPERTY OWNERS, UH, ACCOUNTABLE, UH, FOR THE CONDITION, UH, OF THEIR HOUSING AND ENSURING THEIR HOUSING MEETS TOWN CODES.

AND THAT, UH, THE HOUSING IN THE COMMUNITY REMAINS THE HIGH QUALITY, VERY LIVABLE, UH, DEVELOPMENTS THAT THEY WERE WHEN THEY WERE APPROVED.

AND THEN, UM, I WOULD ALSO SPEAK TO THE BENEFIT, UM, THAT COMES FROM BRINGING THE, UH, ANIMAL CONTROL OR ANIMAL SERVICES TEAM OVER TO THE DEVELOPMENT SERVICES DEPARTMENT.

I THINK CO-LOCATING THAT TEAM WITH THE OTHER CODE AND HEALTH FUNCTIONS, UH, WHILE I THINK THE POLICE DEPARTMENT IS DOING A WONDERFUL JOB, I THINK HAVING THAT AS MORE OF A ONE-STOP SHOP, UM, ADDS GREAT VALUE.

AND I THINK THEY'RE, UH, PROBABLY, UH, HAVE A BETTER, UH, UM, TECHNICAL RELATIONSHIP WITH OUR DEPARTMENTS VERSUS THE PD.

AND I THINK, UM, WE'LL BE ABLE TO BENEFIT FROM, UH, CROSS TRAINING, UH, WITH OUR TEAM.

SO BEING ABLE TO TRAIN, UH, OUR, ALL OF OUR INSPECTORS AND ANIMAL CONTROL OFFICERS TO, UH, REALLY BE ABLE TO BACKFILL EACH OTHER, UH, LESS SO WITH THE BUILDING INSPECTORS, BUT THE HEALTH INSPECTORS, THE CODE OFFICERS, AND THE ANIMAL CONTROL, UH, OFFICERS.

THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF, UM, CROSSOVER THERE AND BENEFIT FROM THERE FROM THEM BEING CO-LOCATED.

SO, UM, IT ALLOWS US TO PROVIDE BETTER SERVICES FOR MORE PROACTIVE CODE ENFORCEMENT, BUT THEN ALSO THE, THE, UH, INSPECTIONS PROGRAM.

SO, UM, THE LAST THING IS, I THINK FROM, JUST FROM THE GENERAL THEME WE GET FROM OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT CUSTOMERS, THERE'S A VERY BROAD CONSENSUS FOR US TO BE MORE PROACTIVE WITH OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT PRACTICES.

SO HAVING THE STAFFING AND HAVING A MORE DEFINED PROGRAM, PARTICULARLY HAVING STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP, UH, UM, ADDITIONAL, UH, MANAGER AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LEVEL STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP OVER THAT PROGRAM, UH, WILL, UH, JUST BE A HUGE MULTIPLIER FOR THAT AND OUR ABILITY TO BE PROACTIVE.

UH, THANK YOU.

UH, ANOTHER COMMENT, SORRY, MAY I HAVE ANOTHER COMMENT? SURE.

SO WE'RE TALKING OCTOBER, 2024.

UM, I THINK, UM, RECENTLY THERE'S BEEN MORE CODE ENFORCEMENT IN MY

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NEIGHBORHOOD.

UM, NOT, IT'S KIND OF PETTY, BUT IT'S, IT'S TRASH BAGS AND IT'S, IT'S A, UH, A CODE.

UM, AND THE ENFORCEMENT'S BEEN HIGHER.

AND JUST LIKE YOU MENTIONED, THERE'S, THERE'S NO TRASH BAGS OUT THERE.

AND WE'VE HEARD, UH, UP FRONT I'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF RESIDENTS IN ADDISON ABOUT, UM, ENFORCING CODE OR THE LACK OF, SO THIS IS A DIRECT RESULT OF, OF THAT DESIRE, UH, THAT WE'VE HEARD FROM OUR CONSTITUENTS TO ENFORCE THE CODE.

SO I'M REALLY, REALLY PLEASED TO SEE THAT NOW, I LIKE THE WAY THAT YOU'RE GOING ABOUT IT, UH, BACK OVER TO NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES OR WHATEVER THE FUTURE NAME OF THAT DEPARTMENT MIGHT BE.

COULD BE A RESTAURANT, COULD BE A SOMETHING ELSE, COULD BE A DEPARTMENT IN THE TOWN, NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.

UM, WE HAVE A LOT OF MULTIFAMILY, A LOT OF UNITS OF THOSE, UM, AND A LOT OF HOTEL ROOMS. AND THIS IS THE, YOU KNOW, THE COST OF DOING BUSINESS, OF HAVING, UH, THOSE QUANTITIES, UM, SINGLE FAMILY, UH, RENTALS ALSO.

BUT THE NUMBERS ARE VERY MUCH SKEWED TO THE OTHER, UH, HOUSING TYPES.

SO I THINK THIS IS ALSO A, A RESULT OF, UM, TAKING CARE OF, UM, THE MULTIFAMILY AND HOTEL AND HAVING THOSE RESIDENTS, UH, HAVE THAT SAME QUALITY OF, OF LIFE IN ADDISON AS FEE SIMPLE, UH, RESIDENTS AS WELL.

SO I, I THINK THIS IS THE RIGHT DIRECTION.

THANK YOU THERE.

Q YES, MAYOR, UH, KEN, UNDER THE OBJECTIVES FOR THE 2024 ON PAGE EIGHT.

SLIDE EIGHT, I'M GONNA PRESS YOU A LITTLE BIT HERE.

CAN YOU GIVE US A LITTLE BIT MORE OF THE UNDERSTANDING OF SUBSTANTIALLY COMPLETE, THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN UPDATE? SURE.

SO AT YOUR NEXT MEETING, WE'RE GONNA BRING A PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT TO ENGAGE A CONSULTANT TEAM.

UM, SO THEY HAVE A SCOPE THAT WILL GO WITH THAT, AND THAT'S A A 15 MONTH SCOPE.

SO THEY'LL KICK THAT OFF, UM, IN LATE, UH, AUGUST, SO THIS MONTH.

AND SO, UH, GIVEN THAT, UH, THE FISCAL YEAR ENDS IN OCTOBER, UH, THEY'LL BE PRETTY DARN CLOSE TO BEING DONE.

SO I THINK WE'LL BE, UH, OR NOT THIS FISCAL YEAR, BUT THE 24 FISCAL YEAR.

UH, THE NEXT ONE, THE NEXT BULLET ARROW POINT, COMPLETE ALL T O D PHASE, UH, PHASE ONE ENTITLEMENTS AND MANAGED PRE-CONSTRUCTION PROCESS.

CAN YOU GIVE US A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE, OF THE MANAGEMENT OF THE PRE-CONSTRUCTION PROCESS? SURE.

SO, UM, CURRENTLY WE'RE IN THE ZONING PROCESS, OR WE WILL BE AGAIN SOON.

SO ONCE YOU TRANSITION FROM ZONING, UH, YOU MOVE INTO CIVIL SITE DESIGN.

SO THEY'LL ADVANCE, UH, CIVIL ENGINEERING PLANS, UH, FOR THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND PRIVATE INFRASTRUCTURE FOR THE PROJECT.

UH, FROM THERE, UM, THEY'LL ADDRESS, UH, INITIAL PLATTING NEEDS TO IDENTIFY HOW THE LOTS, THE RIGHTS OF WAY THE EASEMENTS SHOULD BE LAID OUT.

AND THEN ULTIMATELY, UM, AS THEY, UH, TRANSITION AWAY FROM THAT, THEY'LL MOVE INTO THE BUILDING PERMITTING PROCESS.

AND FROM THERE, UH, THEY'LL BE ABLE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT.

UH, 'CAUSE THEY'LL HAVE AGREEMENTS IN PLACE.

AND SO ONCE THEY ARE READY TO KICK OFF CONSTRUCTION, THE PRE-CONSTRUCTION PROCESS WILL BE OVER.

AND NOW AGAIN, THAT'S AN OBJECTIVE FOR 2024.

BEEN OUT ON MATERNITY LEAVE.

UH, UH, THE C CAR AND CODE ENFORCEMENT, UM, THAT YOU JUST MENTIONED ABOUT THE BAG SITUATION, I WANNA PIGGYBACK ON THAT.

CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT ABOUT YOUR PHILOSOPHY ON THAT, ON, ON THE ENFORCEMENT SIDE? SURE.

SO WE'VE WORKED HARD TO, UH, HELP PEOPLE VOLUNTARILY COMPLY.

AND, AND THAT'S GENERALLY THE APPROACH WE TAKE TO CODE ENFORCEMENT HERE IN THE TOWN.

AND, AND IT'S WHAT MOST CITIES DO AS WELL.

UM, SO WE'VE, WHEN WE INITIALLY STARTED DOING SWEEPS, UH, BACK SEVERAL MONTHS AGO, WE DO 'EM WEEKLY.

UH, CODE STAFF, UM, IDENTIFIED PEOPLE WHO WERE IN VIOLATION, UH, PROVI DID THINGS SUCH AS PROVIDE DOOR HANGERS INFORMING THEM OF THE VIOLATION, AND ULTIMATELY ISSUED NOTICES OF VIOLATION.

UM, IN THAT CASE, THE PEOPLE THAT RECEIVED THOSE, MOST OF THEM BEGAN TO COMPLY.

THERE WAS SOME ADDITIONAL FOLKS THAT, UH, REQUIRED ADDITIONAL ENGAGEMENT, UH, TO THE POINT WHERE, UH, WE DID HAVE TO ISSUE, UH, A HANDFUL OF CITATIONS.

UH, BUT NOTHING, NOTHING SIGNIFICANT RELATED TO THAT.

SO MOST PEOPLE CAME INTO VOLUNTARY COMPLIANCE, WHICH IS, UH, ALWAYS THE, THE BEST OUTCOME IN THE, THE CODE ENFORCEMENT REALM.

WELL, I KNOW THIS N PARTICULAR NEIGHBORHOOD, UH, DOES NOT HAVE A H O A IN IT.

AND SO, UH, APPRECIATE YOU, UH, MAKING THE EXTRA EFFORT TO, TO REACH OUT TO THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.

SURE.

AND I, AND I REALLY HAVE TO GIVE THE CREDIT TO, UH, OMAR MIRANDA, OUR CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, HE'S ACTUALLY BEEN, UH, SHORT STAFFED, UH, THIS SUMMER.

'CAUSE HIS COLLEAGUE, UH, CHRISTINA ROMAL, UH, SHE'S

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SO OMAR HAS BEEN PUTTING IN DOUBLE TIME IN ADDITION TO COMPETING ON THE PICKLEBALL COURTS IN ADDISON, , I'M NOT GONNA SAY WITH WHO RHYMES WITH .

UH, SO THE COURT ENFOR ENFORCEMENT MANAGER POSITION AND THE COURT ENFORCEMENT OFFICER POSITION, UH, BOTH THESE, I'M GLAD TO SEE THEM IN THE DECISION PACKAGE.

THIS IS, THIS IS ONE OF THE ITEMS, UH, CODE ENFORCEMENT THAT WE HEAR REGULARLY FROM RESIDENTS ABOUT, UH, UH, LAMENTING THE FACT THAT THERE ISN'T, UH, SUFFICIENT IN, IN SOME CASES NOW, WHETHER THAT'S, UH, PERCEIVED OR OR IN FACT TRUE.

UH, COMMENT.

UM, UM, JUST LIKE TO HEAR YOU, UH, UH, TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THAT, ABOUT BEING ABLE TO HAVE THAT, WHAT, WHAT THAT BRINGS TO, TO YOUR, TO, TO THE TOWN.

I WOULD SAY SOME OF THAT IS A REFLECTION OF OUR STAFFING, NOT THE, THE STAFF MEMBERS ARE HERE, BUT REALLY THE POSITIONS THAT ARE IN THIS BUDGET.

SO OUR, OUR BIGGEST CHALLENGE ISN'T WHAT OUR STAFF DOES.

WE'VE GOT GREAT STAFF THAT WORKS HARD, AND THEY DO THE RIGHT THING.

UM, AND THEY ENFORCE EVERY CODE THEY CAN.

THE, THE CHALLENGE IS NOT DISSIMILAR TO OUR UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE IN THE ZONING FRONT.

UM, WE HAVE VERY OLD PROPERTY MAINTENANCE CODES AS WELL.

SO, UH, THERE'S GREAT NEED.

UM, AND MY MANAGEMENT TEAM IS STRETCHED VERY THIN TO ACTUALLY GO THROUGH AND UPDATE, UH, A LOT OF OUR CODES.

SO YOU SEE THAT, UM, WITH OUR CODE CUSTOMERS, IT PERIODICALLY COMES UP, UH, ON SEVERAL ISSUES.

A BIG ONE OF LATE, UH, HAS BEEN, UM, UH, LANDSCAPE COMPLIANCE WITH RESIDENTIAL PROPERTIES.

UH, OTHER ONES RELATE TO HIGH WEEDS OR TREE LIMBS THAT ARE, UH, IMPACTING, UH, VEHICLES IN THE RIGHT OF WAY.

SO WE'RE WORKING TO ADDRESS THOSE.

BUT HAVING STAFF MEMBERS, PARTICULARLY AT THE MANAGEMENT AND ASSISTANT DIRECTOR LEVEL, WILL REALLY ENHANCE MY CAPACITY TO, UM, ALLOW US TO, TO ELIMINATE THAT PERCEPTION ABOUT CODE, WHICH I THINK IS UNFAIR.

BUT, UH, I CERTAINLY UNDERSTAND IT BECAUSE THERE ARE SOME THINGS JUST DUE TO OUR CODES THAT WE CAN'T ADDRESS.

GQ.

IF I, IF I COULD JUST PIGGYBACK ON THAT, UM, WE, WE, IT'S BEEN A MADE, IT'S BEEN A CONCERTED EFFORT OVER THE PAST NUMBER OF MONTHS, AS WE MENTIONED, TO, TO STEP UP OUR, OUR ENFORCEMENT STEP UP, THESE OUTREACH EFFORTS, AND WITH THE STAFFING ISSUES THAT WE HAVE, AND THIS GOES TO THE ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITION AND THE MANAGER POSITION, A LOT OF THAT'S FALLEN ON KEN.

AND SO KEN'S HAD TO KIND OF GET DOWN TO THAT LEVEL AND REALLY BE A PART OF THAT.

HE HAS GREAT STAFF, OMAR'S DONE GREAT, BUT IT'S ALSO PULLED HIM AWAY FROM ALL THE OTHER THINGS, WHICH I THINK WE ALL CAN LIST IN OUR, IN OUR MIND OFF A CHECKLIST OF THINGS THAT KEN'S WORKING ON RIGHT NOW.

UM, SO THAT'S WHY NOT ONLY ARE WE EXPANDING THE SCOPE OF WHAT THE GROUP WILL DO AS WE TALK ABOUT NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES, BUT THEN IT ALSO GIVES THEM CAPACITY TO REMAIN AGGRESSIVE AT, IN, IN THE FORM AND FASHION THAT KEN HAS LAID OUT.

VERY PROTECTIVE OF WHAT'S AT THEIR PROPERTY BOUNDARY.

UH, ONE OTHER, UH, UM, QUESTION ON THAT.

SO THE, UH, COMMENT, THE, WE, I, I BELIEVE THE WEEKEND SERVICE IS, UH, GONNA BE ENHANCED.

UH, CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT? WE DO, UM, ALREADY PROVIDE WEEKEND SERVICE.

THE PRIMARY, UH, THING WE DO IS, IS THE, UH, THE BANDIT SIGNS.

BUT YEAH, THERE, THERE WILL CERTAINLY BE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ENHANCED WEEKEND SERVICE WITH ADDITIONAL STAFFING.

ANYTHING ELSE? CHIQUI? I'M GOOD, MAYOR.

THANK YOU, NANCY.

I JUST HAVE A QUICK, QUICK, UH, COMMENT AND, UH, THE COMMENT IS THAT, UM, UH, I DID HEAR A LOT OF, UM, CITIZEN COMMENTS DURING CAMPAIGNING ABOUT, UH, CODE ENFORCEMENT.

SO I AM VERY HAPPY TO SEE THIS, AND I THINK IT WILL CERTAINLY BE WELL RECEIVED, UH, BECAUSE I THINK PEOPLE REALLY DO WANT TO BE IN COMPLIANCE, UH, ONCE IT'S BROUGHT TO THEIR ATTENTION.

SO I THINK THIS IS GOOD ALL AROUND.

MY QUESTION IS, WHAT IS THE VIOLATION THAT IS HARDEST FOR YOU TO MANAGE? OOH, THAT, THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION.

UM, I WOULD SAY THE MOST CHALLENGING ISSUES I DEAL WITH ARE, UM, VIOLATIONS OF OUR FENCE ORDINANCE.

AH, OKAY.

THAT'S INTERESTING.

THE, THE SAYING, UH, GOOD FENCES MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS SO THAT THAT, UH, FREQUENTLY COMES UP WITH FENCE ISSUES.

SO, UH, WHEN, UH, FENCES ARE EITHER IN A POOR STATE OF DISREPAIR OR THEY WERE INSTALLED INCORRECTLY OR IN VIOLATION, IT, IT CAN, IT CAN CERTAINLY, UH, CREATE SOME CHALLENGES.

'CAUSE UH, EVERYONE IS, UH, TENDS TO BE

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SURE, SURE.

THAT'S INTERESTING.

MORNING, KEN, DO WE KNOW WHEN CHRIS CHRISTINA MIGHT BE BACK? UH, YES.

UH, WE HOPE TO HAVE HER BACK LATER THIS MONTH.

ANYTHING ELSE WE NEED TO DO ON THIS ONE? WHO'S UP NEXT HERE AND HAND IT BACK OVER TO STEVEN.

STEVEN? OKAY.

LET ME SEE.

I, AS STEVEN GOES INTO, WE'RE GONNA BE KIND OF GOING THROUGH THE, IN THE BUDGET, AGAIN, HIGH LEVEL DECISION PACKAGES.

UM, IF YOU HAVE ANY COMMENTS ON DECISION PACKAGES, ANY QUESTIONS, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SPEAK UP NOW.

UM, 'CAUSE WE WOULD LOVE TO KIND OF GET TO THE 22ND AND START REALLY WRAPPING UP THE BUDGET SO THAT WE CAN, UH, HAVE OUR PUBLIC HEARINGS IN SEPTEMBER.

DAVID, I'VE GOT A, JUST A BRIEF QUESTION FOR YOU AS FAR AS THE, UH, UH, BASICALLY THESE CODE, THIS NEW CODE GROUP WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, IS THERE SOMETHING THAT, THAT CAUSED, UH, YOU TO CHANGE YOUR MIND, UM, IN REGARDS TO FUNDING THEM RATHER THAN PREVIOUSLY WHEN YOU INITIALLY PUT YOUR BUDGET TOGETHER? SURE.

I MEAN, I THINK, UH, CERTAINLY THE BUDGET WORKSHOP AND, AND HEARING THE FEEDBACK AND AS I LAID OUT IN THE BUDGET WORKSHOP CODE, CODE IS CERTAINLY A PRIORITY.

THOSE POSITIONS WERE A PRIORITY FOR ME.

IT WAS REALLY JUST ABOUT TIMING AND HOW AGGRESSIVE WE WANTED TO BE.

DID WE WANNA RAMP THIS UP RIGHT AWAY OR DID WE WANNA WAIT SIX MONTHS AND GET THE DIRECTOR IN? SO HEARING THE FEEDBACK FROM COUNCIL THAT, THAT WE'RE READY TO GO FULL STEAM AHEAD, UM, KIND OF CIRCLED UP WITH STAFF AND SAID, HOW CAN WE MAKE THIS WORK? AND THIS IS, THAT'S A RESULT OF THAT.

SO THEY, THEY WERE PRIORITIES.

YOU, YOU SHARED THAT AND YOU, YOU JUST, AFTER HEARING THE CONVERSATION, YOU JUST MOVED THOSE UP? YES.

I GOT IT.

SO I, I'M GONNA GO THROUGH QUICKLY ALL THE DECISION PACKAGE AND, UH, AGAIN, THE MAJORITY OF THESE ARE ONES THAT YOU SAW AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.

AGAIN, THERE'S A COUPLE OF CHANGES RELATED TO, UH, MOST OF THE ITEMS THAT, THAT KEN WENT OVER.

UH, SO, UH, THESE ARE THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND.

AGAIN, THESE ARE, UH, BASICALLY ALL THE SAME ONES THAT YOU SAW WITH A COUPLE OF CHANGES.

UH, SO THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, THERE'S SOME ONE-TIME COST FOR THE EMERGENCY MANAGER COORDINATOR POSITION, UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT.

THERE'S THE PURCHASE OF SOME AEDS, UH, FIRE DEPARTMENT, ALSO PURCHASE OF TWO, UH, FIRE ADMINISTRATIVE VEHICLES, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

THERE IS THE ONE-TIME COST ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, THEIR, THAT ASSISTANT DIRECTOR POSITION.

AND THEN YOU SEE THAT THE NEXT THREE ITEMS ARE, ARE NEW ITEMS, UH, THAT, THAT KEN JUST, UH, TOUCHED ON.

SO THERE'S THE ONE-TIME COST, PRIMARILY VEHICLE FOR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT MANAGER.

UH, SAME THING FOR THE CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER.

UH, PRIMARILY VEHICLE COST THERE AND THEN STARTUP FUNDING FOR THAT NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES PROGRAM.

UH, CONTINUING, UH, TO GO FORWARD ARE, ARE ITEMS THAT WERE ALREADY IN THE EXISTING PROPOSED BUDGET THAT YOU SAW AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.

UH, WE HAVE, UH, PARKS PLANNED ASSET REPLACEMENT, UH, ADDISON CIRCLE PARK VISIONS PLAN, UH, PICKLE PICKLEBALL, COURT SHADE STRUCTURES, UH, THE ACTUAL TURF INSTALLATION AT THE, UH, SRU DOG PARK, UH, PUBLIC ART INSTALLATION, UH, FROM PARKS, UH, N T T A, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, UM, AND GATEWAY AND LANDSCAPE PLAN, UH, RECREATION VAN, UH, ADDISON, ATHLETIC CLUB, BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS, UH, AND THEN ADDISON ATHLETIC CLUB OUT OUTDOOR POOL RENOVATION.

UH, SO IN TOTAL, THE TOTAL OF THOSE FROM THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND IS, UH, JUST OVER $2 MILLION.

AND THEN NO CHANGE.

STEVEN, WHY DON'T WE JUST, UH, TAKE A BREAK AFTER, AFTER EACH ONE AND SEE IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT.

THOSE, I GUESS I DO HAVE ONE QUESTION.

ARE THERE SOME THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN REMOVED, AND IF SO, CAN YOU IDENTIFY THOSE FOR US? THERE, THERE WASN'T ANYTHING THAT WAS REMOVED FROM THIS FUND.

SO EVERYTHING THAT WAS, THAT WAS IN THERE THAT YOU SAW AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, AND IT JUST HAS THOSE THREE ADDITIONS FROM DEVELOPMENT SERVICES.

SO AS YOU GO THROUGH, YOU'LL IDENTIFY THOSE FOR US.

AND THI THIS IS THE ONLY THING THAT CHANGED WAS THE GENERAL FUND AND THIS FUND.

YEP.

UM, SO CORRECT.

AS FAR AS DECISION PACKAGES GO, MARLIN.

RESIDENTS, OUR COMMUNITY, WHEREVER WE NEED TO TAKE 'EM.

THANK YOU, MAYOR.

UM, ONE OF THE THING, A FEW OF THE THINGS, UH, I'M STRUGGLING WITH AS FAR AS, UH, WANTING IN THIS BUDGET, UM, AND MAYBE WANTING IS THE RIGHT, THE RIGHT WORD.

I, I DON'T, SOME OF THESE THINGS DON'T FEEL LIKE NEEDS, THEY FEEL LIKE WANTS.

UM, AND, AND SO A FEW OF THESE ARE, ARE A RECREATION VAN.

UM, I, I, I SEE THAT WE HAVE THESE PROGRAMS AND WE HAVE BUSES AND SHUTTLE VANS AND SO FORTH THAT, THAT, THAT COME AND GO AND, AND, AND TAKE, TAKE OUR, OUR

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AND I DON'T KNOW HOW THIS, HOW OFTEN IT HAPPENS, BUT I DON'T REALLY SEE IT HAPPENING A WHOLE LOT, MAYBE ONCE A MONTH.

SO WHEN I, WHEN I SEE THIS REQUEST FOR THE RECREATION VAN, I'M, I'M JUST KIND OF SEEING SOMETHING THAT MIGHT BE, MIGHT NOT BE USED THAT MUCH AND, AND MIGHT BE PARKED OUT AT THE ADDISON ATHLETIC CLUB.

UM, YOU KNOW, NOT THE BEST PLACE TO BE STORED.

SO I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH, WITH THAT ITEM.

I'M, I'M ALSO STRUGGLING, AS I MENTIONED, UH, LAST WEEK WITH THE, UM, N T T PEDESTRIAN CROSSING GATEWAY AND LANDSCAPE.

JUST WE'RE TALKING ABOUT WHAT DESIGN AND, AND, UM, MAYBE DEVELOPING CONSTRUCTION COSTS.

I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH, WITH THAT SOMETHING THAT IS, UH, MAYBE IS, IS CONTEMPLATED, I BELIEVE IS GOING UP AND OVER, OVER THE TOLLWAY.

IS THAT CORRECT? NO, THE THE PLAN IS NOT TIED TO THAT.

THE PLAN IS TO LOOK AT VERY BROADLY, WHAT, WHAT IS THE BEST WAY TO GET PEDESTRIANS ACROSS THE TOLLWAY, KNOWING HOW MANY FOLKS ARE GOING ACROSS THE TOLLWAY.

SO IT'S NOT TIED, I THINK EVEN THE PICTURE THAT WE SHOWED WAS MORE OF NOT A GO OVER, NOT A BRIDGE, RIGHT.

IT WAS MORE JUST KIND OF, UM, LIKE LEGACY, RIGHT? WHEN YOU'RE GOING OVER LE, IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE FAMILIAR WITH THIS TOLLWAY LEGACY, IT'S NOT A BRIDGE, IT'S JUST A SAFE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING.

SO IT'S NOT A LIMITED IN SCOPE TO A BRIDGE OR GOING OVER THE TOLLWAY.

WHEN I LOOK AT THE PICTURES AND I LOOK AT THE, WHEN I THINK ABOUT THE SETTING, UM, I, I DON'T KNOW HOW YOU DO THAT WITHOUT A, UH, SOME, SOME BRIDGE GOING OVER THE TOLLWAY.

THAT'S JUST ME.

UM, SO THAT, THAT'S ANOTHER ITEM THAT, THAT I THINK IS, UM, UM, NOT SOMETHING THAT I, I WOULD SUPPORT.

UM, AND ESPECIALLY KNOWING WHAT WE'VE GOT COMING ALONG THE COTTON BELT CORRIDOR, UH, JUST A LITTLE BIT AWAY FROM THERE, UH, A LITTLE WHILE, LITTLE WAYS NORTH OF THERE AT ARAPAHOE, RIGHT.

IN THAT AREA.

UM, AND, AND THEN THE LAST THING I'LL SAY IS, IS WITH THESE ADDISON CLUB BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS, I LOVE, UM, ALL OF 'EM OTHER THAN, OTHER THAN THE ONE THAT THAT IS, IS ASKING FOR A, UM, A BREAK ROOM.

UM, I THINK THAT WE SHOULD STICK WITH THE, UH, ADDISON ATHLETIC CLUB MASTER PLAN.

UH, WE SPENT A LOT OF TIME, MONEY, ENERGY ON THAT.

AND WE OUGHT TO, UH, FOCUS ON COMPLETING WHAT WAS SUGGESTED IN THAT PLAN, WHICH WAS NOT A BREAK ROOM.

IT WAS A, IT WAS A ROOM THAT WOULD BE USED FOR MULTIPURPOSE, UH, UH, WORKOUT.

AND CORRECT ME IF I'M WRONG, WASN'T THERE SOME OTHER ADDITIONAL USES FOR THE RECREATION VAN BESIDES JUST ETTE LET GROUP TRIPS? SURE.

I MEAN, UH, JANET CAN COME UP, BUT I'LL, I'LL KIND OF SPEAK FOR JAN.

SHE CAN CORRECT ME.

CERTAINLY IT'S GROUP, UH, TRIPS, WHETHER IT'S SENIOR GROUPS, BUT ALSO OUR SUMMER CAMPS FOR, UM, FOR OUR CHILDREN'S ACTIVITIES THAT WE, THAT WE'VE DONE THROUGHOUT THE SUMMER.

AND THEN DAN ALSO MENTIONED KIND OF USES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN FOR OTHER PURPOSES, BUT JANA, YOU CAN SPEAK TO THAT, MAYOR COUNCIL, JANA TIDWELL, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION.

UM, YOU DID A REALLY GOOD JOB OF EXPLAINING OUR USE.

UM, WE HAVE MULTIPLE USES EVERY WEEK DURING THE SUMMER FOR KIDS CAMP.

AS I MENTIONED.

UM, WE HAD A REALLY HARD TIME LAST SUMMER.

WE ALMOST DIDN'T GET A VAN.

UM, AND IT TOOK A SIGNIFICANT EFFORT ON STAFF'S PART TO KIND OF CONTINUE TO GO BACK AND RENT VANS TO HAVE AVAILABILITY FOR USE.

SO THE AVAILABILITY IS ONE OF THE DRIVING FACTORS OF THIS.

UM, WE ALSO HAVE A VERY ROBUST 50 PLUS PROGRAM THAT TAKES A LOT OF FIELD TRIPS.

UM, WE DO USE THE VAN A LOT FOR THAT.

I WOULD, UM, LAY OUT THAT SOMETIMES WE WOULD STILL, EVEN WITH THIS SCENARIO, HAVE TO RENT A BUS.

LIKE WHEN WE WENT TO, UM, THE TEXAS RANGERS BALL GAME THE OTHER DAY, WE HAD A BIGGER GROUP, UM, THAN WHAT A VAN WOULD HOLD.

SO WE'LL STILL HAVE SOME NEEDS FOR RENTAL.

UM, BUT THIS IS TAKING CARE OF KIND OF THOSE DAY-TO-DAY OPERATIONS.

WE, UM, DO ENVISION THAT WE WOULD BE USING THE VAN DURING THE SUMMER HEAVILY, AND WHEN IT'S OFF SEASON, UM, WEEKLY, ONE TO TWO TIMES A WEEK.

SO THE DATA YOU'VE COLLECTED IS, IS BASED STRICTLY ON HAVING, HAVING, UH, INPUT FROM THE USERS OF THE, UH, EDISON ATHLETIC CLUB? CORRECT.

SO OFF SEASON, IT'S ONE TO TWO TIMES A WEEK.

THAT, THAT IS OUR VISION WITH THE PROGRAMS WE HAVE NOW, THAT DOES COVER, UM, SOME VISION FOR US GROWING AND OFFERING MORE PROGRAMS. BUT THOSE ARE THINGS THAT WOULD BE A DIRECT RESPONSE RESPONSE TO THE SURVEYS THAT WE'VE DONE WHERE WE HAVE ASKED OUR MEMBERS WHAT THEIR NEEDS ARE.

AND SO WE WOULD BE USING THIS TO KIND OF GROW INTO OFFERING THOSE SERVICES THAT OUR MEMBERS HAVE REACHED OUT TO US ABOUT.

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EILEEN, DOES THAT INCREASE OUR LIABILITY? WE, UM, CURRENTLY, UH, IT WOULD BE TO ME VERY SIMILAR BECAUSE WHEN WE USE A VAN, WE ARE RENTING IT AND WE ARE HAVING OUR STAFF MEMBERS DRIVE THAT VAN.

SO IT'S, IT'S VERY SIMILAR.

IT'S JUST WE WOULD OWN THE VAN INSTEAD OF IT BEING A RENTAL.

UM, NOW WHEN WE HIRE, UH, GO OUT AND HAVE A BUS AND HIRE A BUS DRIVER, THEY'RE RESPONSIBLE FOR SAFETY AT THAT POINT.

DARREN , I'M CERTAINLY IN FAVOR OF HAVING THE TRANSPORTATION, UM, FOR, UM, THE ATHLETIC CLUB AND ALL THE PROGRAMS, UH, ASSOCIATED.

MY CONCERN IS, UH, JUST UTILIZATION OF THE ASSET, AND IF IT'S NINE MONTHS OF THE YEAR, IT'S ONLY ONE TO TWO USES PER WEEK.

I THINK OF THAT AS, YOU KNOW, AS A USAGE OF A, OF AN ASSET THAT WE HAVE SITTING.

I WOULD LIKE IT.

SEE, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE AND HOPE THAT IT WOULD BE USED ACROSS THE TOWN IN ANY OTHER CAPACITIES.

I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S THE PLAN.

AND I, I THINK JANICE SPOKE TO THAT DURING THE BUDGET WORKSHOP TO SOME DEGREE, BUT YES, THE VAN WOULD THEN BE OPEN FOR WHETHER IT'S A TRIP, A CONFERENCE DOWN IN AUSTIN THAT A A FEW FOLKS ARE GOING TO, OR, UM, ANY OTHER REASONS THAT THAT COULD POP UP.

THE VAN WOULD THEN BE OPEN FOR EVERYONE.

YEAH, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE SAME THING, BECAUSE I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS ON P N Z FROM TIME TO TIME, THERE WOULD BE, UM, A SITE THAT WE WOULD WANNA VISIT, AND CARMEN WOULD GO AND RENT A VAN, RENT, RENT A 15 PASSENGER VAN, AND WE'D ALL LOAD UP IN THE VAN AND GO, AND I'M SURE THOSE VANS ARE PRETTY EXPENSIVE TO RENT.

AND IF WE HAD SOMETHING AVAILABLE, UH, YOU WOULDN'T HAVE TO QUESTION, YOU KNOW, IS, IS IT WORTH RENTING THE VAN? WE'D HAVE ONE AVAILABLE THAT WE COULD GO USE IF WE'VE GOT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, THAT'S, UH, THAT'S HANDY FOR US.

I THINK IT'S GOOD TO, UH, TO NOTE THAT, UH, FOR THE PUBLIC, THAT IT WOULD BE USED FOR THOSE OTHER, UM, ACTIVITIES AS WELL.

MM-HMM.

UM, AND ONE OF THE, ONE OF THE THINGS I THINK YOU SHARED WITH US LAST WEEK IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WAS THAT RIGHT NOW OUR CURRENT COST OF, OF RENTALS, BUS, RENTAL VAN, SO FORTH, IT'S LIKE 18,000 A YEAR.

IS THAT, WAS THAT CORRECT? IT'S BETWEEN 18 AND 20,000.

18 TO 20 A YEAR.

BUT THAT 18 AND 20,000 IS JUST RELATED TO PARKS AND RECREATION.

IT WOULDN'T BE RELATED TO OTHER TOWN USES.

THAT'S NOT CON CAPTURED IN THAT NUMBER.

OTHER COMMENTS ON THESE DECISION PACKAGE, SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND.

I HAVE ONE QUESTION, NANCY, UM, FOR DAVID, CITY MANAGER, UM, ON THE, UM, PEDESTRIAN CROSSING, UH, JUST TO FOLLOW UP WITH, UM, MARLON'S COMMENTS, UM, THE OBVIOUS BENEFIT THERE WOULD BRING SAFETY.

UH, WHAT, WHAT OTHER THINGS ARE IN YOUR VISION FOR THAT PROJECT? YEAH, I MEAN, I THINK, I THINK CERTAINLY SAFETY IS PARAMOUNT, AND THAT'S REALLY SAFETY FOR THE EXISTING USERS THAT ARE GOING OVER IT.

THE AMOUNT OF EXIST, THE QUANTITY OF EXISTING USERS THAT ARE ALREADY DOING IT, RIGHT.

UM, BUT I ALSO THINK IT'S PLACEMAKING.

I THINK IT, IT CAN, WE CAN REALLY MAKE IT SOMETHING NICE THAT ATTRACTS PEOPLE TO TOWN.

AND, AND THEN IT CAN BE HOW GRANDIOSE YOU WANT IT TO BE.

IT COULD, I MEAN, YOU COULD GET TO A POINT WHERE IT'S SOMETHING WHEN PEOPLE ARE DRIVING DOWN THE TOLLWAY, THEY SEE IT AND THEY KNOW THEY'RE, UM, THEY'RE GOING THAT ADDISON'S THERE AND THAT, AND THAT, THAT'S WHERE WE ARE.

SO I THINK IT HAS A NUMBER OF BENEFITS.

UM, BUT THAT'S WHY WE GO THROUGH THAT KIND OF STUDY IS YOU REALLY, YOU CAN THINK, THINK THROUGH IT ALL.

AND OBVIOUSLY THIS IS ALSO CONTINGENT ON US GETTING BELTLINE FROM, FROM DALLAS.

WE TALKED ABOUT THAT CONVERSATION.

UM, I THINK ONE OF THE BIG BENEFITS OF GETTING, UH, OF US HAVING CONTROL OVER BELTLINE, THERE'S A NUMBER OF BENEFITS THAT WE'VE TALKED ABOUT IS THAT WE CONTINUE, WE ALREADY, WE HAVE PLACEMAKING AS YOU ENTER BELTLINE, UM, UH, COMING, COMING FROM CARROLLTON, RIGHT? YES.

WE ON THE OTHER SIDE, HOW DO WE MAKE, HOW DO WE AS, AS YOU ENTER BELTLINE, UM, FROM, FROM THE OTHER SIDE OF TOWN, HAVE THAT SAME PLACEMAKING? I THINK THAT PLAYS A PART IN IT AND TO CONTINUE HAVE THAT CONTINUATION.

SO I THINK THERE'S A NUMBER OF BENEFITS FROM THAT STANDPOINT.

DO YOU SEE IT AS SOMEWHAT OF A, YOU KNOW, A CONNECTOR BETWEEN EAST WEST? ABSOLUTELY.

A VISION OF IT'S A ONE TOWN.

YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

OKAY, THANK YOU.

AND I'M NOT PROPOSING THAT WE MAR CAN I CALL ON GQ? YES, SIR.

IT'S, IT'S, PARDON ME.

IS IS ALWAYS FORWARD LOOKING.

THANK YOU, ERIC.

UH, I'D LIKE TO ADD, I'D LIKE TO ADD ONTO THOSE COMMENTS, UH, FROM NANCY.

YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THE COG IS,

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AND, UH, IF YOU HAVE A STUDY IN PLACE AND YOU'VE MADE A, A COMMITMENT ON SOME OF THESE, UH, PROJECTS AS FAR AS NOT JUST COMMIT, NOT NECESSARILY COMMITTING TO A SINGLE PROJECT, BUT, UH, COMMITTING TO MOVING FORWARD AS, UH, WITH ANY KIND OF TRANSPORTATION MOBILITY, UH, THEY, THEY SEEM TO BE A LOT MORE, UH, OPEN TO, UM, TAKING, TAKING YOUR APPLICATION SERIOUSLY.

SO, UM, I I BELIEVE THAT THAT, THAT PUTTING, PUTTING FORTH, UH, THIS, THIS ITEM, UH, ON THE, ON THE DECISION PACKAGE IS, IS A, IS A GOOD, IS IS GOOD FOR US TO DO SO THAT WE MAY, UM, SHOW OUR INTEREST A LEVEL OF INTEREST AND ACCEPTING IT AS A, AS A COUNCIL RIGHT NOW IN A DIRECTION.

SO I, I, I LIKE THAT BEING A DEC DECISION PACKAGE.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? UH, AND I'LL CALL YOU IN JUST A SECOND.

MARLON, UM, YOU KNOW, MARLON, YOU KNOW, VOICED HIS, UH, YOU KNOW, CONCERN ABOUT THE, THE VAN AND THE, UH, THE PEDESTRIAN WALK OVER THE, UH, TOLLWAY THAT HE IS NOT CERTAIN OF THAT HE WOULD BE COMFORTABLE WITH.

ANYBODY ELSE HAVE ANYTHING ON THOSE LISTS, EILEEN? YEAH, THERE ARE A COUPLE OF THINGS THAT WERE PRESENTED BEFORE THAT I DON'T SEE, SO I JUST WANT TO, UM, HEAR ABOUT THOSE.

THAT'S THE PA SYSTEM IN THE ATHLETIC CENTER AND THE FACADE MODERNIZATION.

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THOSE? SO THE, THE PA SYSTEM IS IN THE, UH, IT REPLACEMENT FUND, SO THAT'S NOT FROM THIS FUND.

AND THEN, UM, THE OTHER ITEM THAT YOU MENTIONED, THE FACADE IMPROVEMENTS THAT IS IN THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND, UM, WHICH IS A LATER SLIDE.

UH, HERE.

MARLENE, YOU SOMETHING? YES, SIR.

UM, ALL I WAS GONNA ADD IS ON THIS, UH, N T T A PEDESTRIAN CROSS AND GATEWAY LAND.

OBVIOUSLY NOT IN SUPPORT OF THAT, BUT IF THAT IS THE WAY THAT THE, THE COUNCIL IS GOING TO, TO GO WITH THAT, I WOULD SUGGEST THAT, UM, UH, THAT WE, THAT STAFF LOOK AT SOME OF THE WORK THAT WAS DONE BY THE ADDISON LEGACY FOUNDATION, UM, BECAUSE THEY WERE, THEY WERE PROPOSING, UM, I THINK SOMETHING VERY SIMILAR TO WHERE WE'RE GONNA LAND AFTER WE LOOK INTO THIS, UM, MINUS THE, UH, THE PARK, PARK OVER THE TOLLWAY.

WHERE A LOT OF THIS RECOMMENDATION CAME FROM, WAS THE REQUEST FROM RESIDENTS.

BE GOOD, DARREN.

UM, ON THE PEDESTRIAN CROSSING AND GATEWAY LANDSCAPE, I WOULD LIKE TO HAVE PLAN ADDED TO THAT SO THAT IT'S CLEAR ON WHAT THAT IS, UM, IN FAVOR OF THAT.

I THINK THAT'S A GREAT CONNECTOR.

I'D LIKE TO COMMENT ON THAT, ON THE PICKLEBALL COURT SHADE STRUCTURE.

UH, I AM, I HAVE SOME QUESTIONS ABOUT THAT, THAT'S REALLY JUST, UM, A LITTLE MORE ANALYSIS ON MY PART.

UH, I'D LIKE TO ACTUALLY ASK JANA A QUESTION ON THAT WOULD BE, YOU MIGHT'VE SAID THIS IN YOUR PRESENTATION, MY APOLOGIES IF I MISSED IT.

ABOUT, UM, WHERE, WHAT KIND OF VOLUME AND AND NUMBERS OF FEEDBACK DID YOU GET THAT THAT DROVE, UM, THIS TO, TO MAKE A, A SUGGESTION TO BRING TO COUNCIL? UM, SO WE DID NOT DO A FORMAL SURVEY WHERE WE SURVEYED OUR PICKLEBALL USERS TO ASK THEM ABOUT THE SHADE STRUCTURE.

UM, BUT THERE ARE A SERIES OF COMMON EMAILS THAT I DO GET, OR, AND THAT OUR STAFF GETS OVER THE COURSE OF A YEAR, AND THIS YEAR THEY HAVE PERTAINED TO EITHER PICKING UP PET WASTE IN PARKS OR NEEDING TO HAVE SOME SORT OF SHADE STRUCTURE OVER THE PICKLEBALL COURTS.

UM, I, OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD, I COULDN'T GIVE YOU A NUMBER, BUT IT IS A REOCCURRING ITEM THAT HAS COME UP OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR.

DO WE HAVE ANY IDEA HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE IMPACTED BY THAT PER YEAR? HOW MANY PLAYERS, MAYBE WE ARE SO NEW AT USING THE PICKLEBALL COURTS, UM, THAT WE JUST DON'T HAVE GOOD DATA? I COULD PULL SOME NUMBERS FOR YOU, BUT I WOULDN'T HAVE IT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

UM, I CAN TELL YOU THAT WE ARE IN SITUATIONS WHEN THE WEATHER'S NOT 105 DEGREES OUTSIDE, UM, THAT AT KEY TIMES, UM, WE ARE COMMONLY HAVING COURTS, MULTIPLE COURTS BOOKED OUT.

SO PEOPLE ARE HAVING TO, THEY'RE REACHING OUT TO US AND STRUGGLING A LITTLE BIT THAT SOMETIMES THEIR IDEAL TIME ISN'T AVAILABLE AND THEY'RE HAVING TO PLAY A LITTLE, A LITTLE LATER IN THE DAY.

AND I KNOW THAT WE'RE GROWING INTO THAT AND WE'RE GROWING PRETTY FAST.

THAT'S, THAT'S

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UM, AND ALSO SEEING HOW QUICKLY THE USE OF THE PICKLEBALL COURTS ONCE THEY WERE THERE STARTING TO GROW.

I'M, I'M REALLY GLAD ABOUT THE ENGAGEMENT OF PICKLEBALL AND, AND, AND THE COURTS.

I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S FANTASTIC.

UM, I DID SOME MATH OVER 10 YEARS AND JUST AN EXTRAPOLATION OF SO MANY USERS PER DAY AND SUCH, AND IT CAME OUT TO BE LIKE A DOLLAR 50 A PLAYER PER PLAY, OVER 10, 10 YEAR LIFESPAN OF, OF THE MATERIAL.

UM, I'VE GOT SOME FEEDBACK ALSO THAT SOME PEOPLE THAT PICKLEBALL AVID PICKLEBALL PLAYERS ARE, ARE NOT IN FAVOR OF IT.

SO THAT'S ONE ANOTHER REASON THAT'S DRIVING SOME OF MY, MY COMMENTS.

YEAH, I'M A, I'M A LITTLE UN UNCERTAIN ABOUT THE, THIS, THIS PARTICULAR THING, THE, THE SHADE STRUCTURE.

YOU KNOW, I'VE PLAYED PICKLEBALL TWICE, SO I'M REALLY NOT IN A GOOD PLACE TO TALK ABOUT ANYTHING ABOUT PICKLEBALL, BUT IT SEEMS TO ME GENERALLY TO BE AN OUTDOOR SPORT.

SO I, I GUESS THE SHADES PART OF IT DOESN'T MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO ME, YOU KNOW? 'CAUSE I GREW UP PLAYING TENNIS AND THINGS LIKE THAT AND, AND, YOU KNOW, YOU LIKE BEING OUTSIDE AND BEING IN THE SUN AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

SO I GUESS I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND IT.

AND IT SEEMS TO BE, YOU KNOW, PRETTY EXPENSIVE STRUCTURE.

AND THEN WITH SOME ONGOING, WHEN YOU HAVE TO REPLACE THE CANVAS OR WHATEVER IT IS ON TOP OF IT, I, SO I, I CAN'T REALLY SPEAK TO IT AND MAYBE MARLON COULD SPEAK TO IT BETTER.

HE PLAYS A LITTLE BIT MORE THAN I DO.

THE ABILITY TO INTEGRATE SOME FANS OR SOMETHING INTO THE, THE SHADE STRUCTURE IF WE WERE CONCERNED ABOUT AIRFLOW, UM, FOR THE HEAT.

I WOULD SUGGEST COME OUT TO CHURCHILL PARK WITH ME THIS WEEKEND, AND WE'LL FIGURE IT OUT PRETTY QUICK NOW.

NO, HONESTLY, MAYOR, THE, UM, THE, THE THOUGHT IS THIS IS, IS, UM, WHEN IT'S 105, SOMETHING LIKE THAT, LIKE WHAT IT IS NOW, A HUNDRED, 305 ON THE COURT, YOU KNOW, THE COURT IS RADIATING HEAT.

IT'S, IT'S LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, KNOW, ONE 10, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO IT IS, IT IS LITERALLY, IT'S SO HOT THAT, UM, IF YOU, IF YOU JUST DRIVE BY AND LOOK AT, LOOK AT OUR OUTDOOR PICKLEBALL COURTS, YOU, YOU JUST DON'T SEE 'EM BEING USED BECAUSE IT'S SO HOT.

UM, AND YOU, AND IF YOU, AND IF YOU LOOK AND, AND LIKE RIGHT NOW DURING THE SUMMER, WHAT YOU'LL SEE IS, IS IF YOU GO OUT THERE ABOUT 7 30, 7 30 TO 10 30, THEY'RE JAM PACKED.

AND, AND NOT ONLY ON THE THREE PICKLEBALL COURTS, BUT ON THE TENNIS COURT, THEY'RE PLAYING PICKLEBALL OVER THERE ON ONE OR BOTH SIDES, DEPENDING ON HOW CROWDED.

BUT, UM, SO DURING THE SUMMERTIME, UM, IT'S GONNA MAKE A, A BIG DIFFERENCE TO, TO AVAILABILITY OF, OF REAL, REAL PEOPLE WANTING TO GO OUT THERE AND, AND, AND PLAY DURING THE HEAT.

BUT, UM, IT'S, IT'S PRETTY BRUTAL, UM, DURING SUMMERTIME.

YEAH, I CAN IMAGINE IT WOULD BE.

I JUST, I JUST DON'T, UH, IF IT'S 105, I, I DON'T KNOW THAT THERE, I DON'T, AGAIN, I DON'T KNOW HOW HARDCORE THE PICKLEBALL FOLKS ARE, BUT MOST PEOPLE I THINK ARE GONNA STAY INSIDE UNTIL IT'S NOT 105, WHETHER A SHADE OR NOT.

YEAH, I WOULD, I WOULD SAY I'VE, I'VE PLAYED ON, ON THIS STRUCTURE THAT SHE'S PROPOSING.

IT'S NOT THAT FAR AWAY.

IT'S 40 MINUTES AWAY IN ROCKWALL.

UM, AND IT'S A, IT'S A GREAT, GREAT EXPERIENCE.

UM, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS IN TEMPERATURE.

IT MAY BE 10, 15 DEGREES, BUT WHEN YOU'RE OUT THERE PLAYING THAT, THAT'S A BIG, A BIG DIFFERENCE.

COULD I ALSO OFFER JUST A, ANOTHER ADDITIONAL PERSPECTIVE ON TOP OF THAT? UM, SO THE BASKETBALL COURTS THAT ARE THERE ARE ORIENTED ALMOST NORTH SOUTH.

THEY'RE AT A LITTLE BIT OF AN ANGLE.

AND, UM, DURING THE DAYTIME, WHEN YOU'RE PLAYING OUTDOORS BECAUSE OF SUN ANGLES, IT IS SAFER TO PLAY WITH YOUR COURTS ORIENTED, NORTH, SOUTH, EAST, WEST.

BOTH PLAYERS ARE LOOKING INTO THE SUN.

UM, AND SO THERE'S A SAFETY CONCERN WHEN YOU HAVE A BALL IN THE AIR THAT'S A LIGHT COLOR, AND PLAYERS ARE LOOKING DIRECTLY INTO THE SUN.

UM, SO THAT WE'RE LOOKING AT HEAT, WE'RE LOOKING AT SAFETY FROM VISIBILITY.

THERE'S SOME REALLY, UM, IMPACTFUL DATA OUT THERE ABOUT PLAYERS GETTING HIT IN THE FACE AND THE EYE, UM, BECAUSE OF THE SUN ANGLES AND THEM NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE THE PICKLEBALL.

SO THAT'S ANOTHER ONE OF THOSE REASONS, IS JUST ONE CLIMATE.

IT'LL HELP US GET MORE USE OUT OF THE COURTS, BUT IT WILL ALSO HELP WITH THAT SAFETY ASPECT FOR OUR USERS.

I'M SURE IT DOES.

CAN YOU TALK ABOUT THE FLIP SIDE OF THAT? WHEN IT'S 40 DEGREES, DOES THAT MAKE IT 25 DEGREES ON THE COURT? THE SHADE STRUCTURE THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT IS A FABRIC STRUCTURE THAT STILL LETS SOME LIGHT IN.

AND SO IT WILL NOT HAVE THAT SIGNIFICANT OF A TEMPERATURE CHANGE DURING THE WINTER.

IT'S MORE KIND OF KEEPING THE SUN OFF OF YOU.

WE DO HAVE

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BUT WE WOULDN'T REALLY BE, IT WOULDN'T IMPACT MAKING IT A COLDER AREA TO PLAY DURING THE WINTER.

YEAH, I DON'T KNOW.

I, I'M NOT SURE THAT I'M ON BOARD WITH IT.

UH, YOU KNOW, IT'S SOMETHING, THE SUN IS SOMETHING THAT TENNIS PLAYERS HAVE BEEN DEALING WITH FOREVER, AND VOLLEYBALL PLAYERS, ANYBODY THAT PLAYS ANY SPORT OUTSIDE, UM, THEY PLAY IT IN THE SUN AND, AND THAT'S PART OF THE DEAL.

BUT ANYWAY, THOSE ARE MY, MY THOUGHTS ON THAT.

I'M NOT REALLY TOO ON BOARD WITH THAT PARTICULAR PROJECT.

OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT, CARRY ON.

STEVEN, WHAT DO YOU, DO YOU NEED MORE DIRECTION FROM THIS THAN THAT, DAVID? PROBABLY, I THINK I HAVE, UH, POSSIBLY THREE THAT ARE SKEPTICAL OF THE PICKLEBALL COURT.

THAT DOESN'T EQUAL FOUR, SO UNLESS THERE'S SOMEONE ELSE THAT HAVE SKEPTICISM WHERE IT'LL REMAIN IN FOR NOW.

GO AHEAD, STEVEN.

MOVING ON TO THE STREET SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND.

AND THESE TWO ITEMS WERE IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, SO THERE'S NO CHANGE THERE.

UH, THE PAVER REPLACEMENTS ON ARAPAHOE AND, UH, FOR 300,000 IN THE BRICK PAVER REPAIRS IN THE VITRUVIAN, UH, AREA FOR 105,000.

ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THOSE TWO ITEMS? NO.

MOVING ON TO OUR ENTERPRISE FUNDS, AND AGAIN, ENTERPRISE FUNDS, OUR AIRPORT STORM WATER AND UTILITY FUNDS.

UH, THERE'S NO CHANGE FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET WITH THESE, UH, DECISION PACKAGES EITHER.

UH, SO I'LL LIST THEM REAL QUICKLY.

THE AIRPORT HAD THE, UH, INSURANCE, UH, ADMINISTRATIVE PROGRAM.

UH, STORMWATER HAD AN ASPHALT TRAILER, UH, HU HUTTON BRANCH OUTFALL RECONSTRUCTION, UH, THEIR ANNUAL STORM WATER, UH, MAINTENANCE PLAN, UH, A STREET SWEEPER, WHICH INCLUDED A STREET, UH, MAINTENANCE WORKER POSITION AND ALSO WAS OFFSET BY A DECREASE IN CONTRACTUAL SERVICES FOR THE, FOR THOSE SERVICES THAT WE RECEIVE NOW, UH, HALF OF A G I S ANALYST POSITION, UH, WHICH IS REPLACING A, UH, CONTRACT, UH, WORKER, UH, WHICH IS ACTUALLY, UH, AN ANNUAL SAVINGS WITH THAT POSITION.

UH, AND THEN ALSO A, UH, SUPERINTENDENT POSITION IN PUBLIC WORKS, UH, WHICH, UH, COMES AT A COST OF ABOUT $144,000 RECURRING AND THEN CONTINUED, UH, WITH THE UTILITY FUND, THE OTHER HALF OF THAT G I S ANALYST POSITION, UH, WHICH AGAIN IS A SLIGHT SAVINGS FROM THE CONTRACTOR, UH, THAT WE'RE CURRENTLY USING.

UH, UTILITY BILLING, CUSTOMER PORTAL, UH, CONTRACTED UTILITY REPAIRS ON A RECURRING BASIS.

AND THEN, UH, ONE, ONE TIME ITEMS ASSOCIATED WITH KELWAY WET, WELL STRUCTURAL INSPECTION, AND THEN NON-DESTRUCTIVE TESTING, UH, OF A 24 INCH WATER MAIN.

UH, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT UTILITY, UH, DECISION PACKAGES FOR ENTERPRISE FUNDS? OKAY.

AND THEN GOING ON, STEVEN, IF I'LL JUMP IN, SO WE DON'T HAVE A SEPARATE PAGE FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BECAUSE IT'S A VERY SMALL FUND.

THERE'S JUST THERE, T O D MARKETING WAS A SUPPLEMENTAL, AND THEN THERE WAS THE, DO YOU HAVE A SLIDE FOR IT? WE DON'T HAVE A, OKAY.

AND THEN THERE'S THE FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM THAT WAS A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS, UH, TO START THAT PROGRAM, REALLY FOR THIS YEAR, AND SEE HOW IT GOES AND SEE WHAT IT COULD TURN INTO.

SO, UM, I HEARD QUESTION EARLIER, SO THIS, I THINK THIS COULD BE A GOOD OPPORTUNITY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ON THAT.

I HAVE A CONCERN ABOUT THE FACADE MODERNIZATION.

I'D LIKE TO KNOW SOME PARAMETERS ON THAT.

IF WE'RE GONNA DO WHAT WE DO WITH THE AIRPORT FUND WHERE THEY PAY 90% AND WE PAY 10%, IT MIGHT BE OPEN TO SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

BUT I THINK WHEN I LOOK AT THE AREAS THAT HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED, UM, THEY TEND TO BE OWNED BY PRETTY WELL ESTABLISHED, UM, OWNERS, AND I THINK THEY CAN PROBABLY AFFORD THOSE IMPROVEMENTS RATHER THAN HAVE IT PAID FOR AND TAXPAYER EXPENSE.

SO, UH, JUST ONE, JUST ONE RESPONSE TO THAT.

UM, SO THIS, THIS IS NOT SETTING OUT THE EXACT GUIDELINES FOR THAT WOULD COME LATER, OBVIOUSLY, AS WE WOULD KIND OF COME UP WITH THE EXACT CRITERIA.

UM, IT, IT WOULD BE MORE THAN 10%, IT WOULD NOT BE A 10 90 SPLIT.

I CAN, I CAN, I CAN SAFELY PROGNOSTICATE THAT AS WE LOOK AT WHAT WOULD A, A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM BE? I DON'T THINK 10 90 WOULD BE A SUCCESSFUL PROGRAM.

UM, AND, AND CERTAINLY I THINK AS WE GO THROUGH THE GUIDELINES, WE CAN DECIDE WHAT WE WANT TO TARGET, WHO WE WANT TO TARGET, WHAT THE PROCESS IS, HOW WE MAKE THOSE DECISIONS, IF THERE'S CERTAIN, YOU KNOW, IF WE SAY WE DON'T WANT TO FOCUS ON THESE CERTAIN AREAS BECAUSE OF THE OWNER.

SO THERE WOULD BE A PROCESS FOR THAT.

BUT, UM, THAT'S JUST A RESPONSE TO YOUR, TO YOUR POINTS.

YEAH, AND, AND I

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UNDERSTAND THAT.

I THINK I WOULD JUST LIKE TO HAVE THAT INFORMATION BEFORE ALLOCATING FUNDS TO IT, SO I UNDERSTAND YOUR VIEWPOINT.

I GUESS I'M JUST LOOKING AT IT THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION.

MAYOR, I HAVE A QUESTION ON THAT.

THE, THE, UH, PRESENTATION WE RECEIVED THE OTHER DAY WAS FROM ASHLEY WAS, UH, THANK YOU.

IS THERE, WAS, WAS, WERE YOU GONNA HAVE KEN DISCUSS THAT ACTUALLY, THAT ASHLEY, UH, DEPUTY CITY MANAGER, ACTUALLY THAT'S GONNA BE AN ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM.

THEY'LL WORK CLOSELY WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES BECAUSE LIKE WE TALKED ABOUT LAST WEEK, WE WANT TO MAKE SURE WE'RE OBVIOUSLY NOT HELPING REDEVELOP AN AREA THAT IS IDENTIFIED IN THE COMPREHENSIVE PLAN FOR REDEVELOPMENT OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

SO IT WOULD, UM, WORK CLOSELY WITH DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, BUT THE PLAN WAS TO RUN THAT PROGRAM THROUGH ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.

SO IS THERE A, A WAY TO, UH, MEASURE THIS EFFECTIVENESS OR THAT WE'VE SEEN THAT YOU'VE SEEN OR HAS BEEN, UM, HAS HAPPENED IN OTHER AREAS OR, I, I MEAN, OBVIOUSLY LOOK, THERE'S SUBJECTIVE OBJECTIVE.

THERE'S A NUMBER OF WAYS TO SAY, HEY, DOES IT LOOK BETTER? ARE WE SEEING MORE ACTIVITY? I THINK ONE OF THE, IF WE WANNA LOOK AT NUMBERS, YOU LOOK AT THE ASSESSED VALUE INCREASES OVER TIME.

I MEAN, IF THE, THE GOAL OF THIS IS TO TAKE AN AREA THAT REALLY NEEDS THE IMPROVEMENTS, AND THEN IF YOU DO, IF WE DO THIS, IF WE PARTNER AND WE SEE THOSE IMPROVEMENTS, YOU HOPE THAT YOU HAVE THAT KNOCK ON EFFECT, UM, OF ASSESSED VALUES INCREASES, BUT YOU ALSO JUST WANT MORE ACTIVITY AND YOU WANT IT TO LOOK BETTER TOO.

SO I THINK IT'S BOTH SUBJECTIVE AND OBJECTIVE.

THE COMMENTS.

MARLON? YEAH, JUST A QUESTION.

UH, I'M SORRY, DAVID, WHEN YOU FIRST STARTED SPEAKING, I, I DIDN'T UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU WERE SAYING, BUT ARE YOU, YOU TALKING ABOUT THE ADDISON CIRCLE, T O D OFFICE MARKETING AND THE RET, UH, RETAIL FACADE IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM? IS THAT WHAT YOU WERE, YOU'RE, IF IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS ON THE T O D MARKETING, WE CAN ANSWER THEM, BUT THIS CONVERSATION HAS BEEN FOCUSED ON THE FACADE PROGRAM, JUST THE FACADE.

OKAY, SO ON THE FACADE PROGRAM, I DON'T HAVE THE DOCUMENT UP IN FRONT OF ME.

WE DON'T HAVE IT IN THIS NEW DOCUMENT.

SO WHAT WAS THE AMOUNT FOR THE FACADE PROGRAM? AND THAT WAS A SEED.

IT WAS A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS TO, TO START THE PROGRAM, TO START IT.

UM, FOR NEXT YEAR, WE WOULD HAVE MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PROGRAM.

WHEN THE ED DIRECTOR, WHEN THE ECONOMIC DIRECTOR COMES ON BOARD, CER CERTAINLY WHEN THE DIRECTOR'S ON BOARD, REGARDLESS, WE'LL, WE'LL BE BRINGING THE ENTIRE PROGRAM BACK AND COUNCIL WOULD APPROVE ALL THE CRITERIA, EVERYTHING ALONG WITH THE PROGRAM.

I AM, I, I DO THINK IT SHOULD BE A SHARED COST AS WELL WITH, WITH THE LANDLORDS.

UM, BUT I AM IN FAVOR OF IT.

AND JUST TO BE CLEAR, IT, IT, IT'S GONNA BE A SHARED COST NO MATTER WHAT.

IT WAS JUST THE PERCENTAGES THAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT YEAH.

IN THE CITIES THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, IT'S, IT'S NOT ONLY A SHARED COST, BUT IT'S CAPPED AT A CERTAIN AMOUNT, SO.

UH, SO THIS INCLUDES, UH, THE BLUE BARS ARE THE EXPENDITURES, UH, FOR THE TOWN SINCE 2013.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS ON THAT? OKAY.

OKAY, MOVING ON TO, UH, THE GENERAL FUND.

SO, UH, GENERAL FUND REVENUE, SO THIS IS A SLIGHT CHANGE FROM WHAT YOU SAW AT THE BUDGET, UH, WORKSHOP AND WHAT'S IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, AS I MENTIONED EARLIER, THERE WAS A $100,000 INCREASE, UH, TO INTEREST, UH, INCOME.

SO THAT'S REFLECTED HERE.

SO THAT TOOK THE, UH, TOTAL OPERATIONAL REVENUE UP TO 47.9 MILLION.

UH, EVERY OTHER, UH, NUMBER THERE IS, IS, UH, THE SAME THAT YOU HAD SEEN IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

AND THEN ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, A COUPLE OF CHANGES HERE, WHICH WE'VE, UH, DISCUSSED EARLIER, UH, IN THE PRESENTATION.

UH, SO THERE WAS A CHANGE, UH, RELATED TO, UH, GENERAL SERVICES, ACTUALLY TWO CHANGES.

UH, ONE OF THOSE WAS TO CHANGE THE, UH, FACILITY ATTENDANT TO FROM ONE AND A HALF FTES TO HALF OF AN F T E, AND THEN ALSO THE REMOVAL OF THAT, UH, FACILITY PHASING PLAN.

UH, SO, SO THAT NUMBER THERE FOR, UH, GENERAL SERVICES HAS CHANGED FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

AND THEN ON THE OTHER SIDE, UH, DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, WITH THE INCLUSION OF THAT, UH, CODE ENFORCEMENT MANAGER AND THAT CODE ENFORCEMENT OFFICER POSITION, UH, THEIR BUDGET, UH, FOR DEVELOPMENT SERVICES, UH, HAS CHANGED AS WELL.

UH, THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS ARE, ARE ALL THE SAME FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET AND THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.

UH, SO IN TOTAL, UH, EXPENDITURES FOR THE GENERAL FUND, UH, NOW SHOW AS 47, UH, MILLION 843,000.

SO THERE'S STILL A LITTLE BIT OF A, UH, OF A SURPLUS THERE OF ABOUT 80,000, UH, REVENUE TO EXPENSE ON THE GENERAL FUND SIDE.

UH, AND THEN A, UH, QUICK LOOK AT THE GENERAL FUND, UH, 10 YEAR FUND BALANCE HISTORY.

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AND THEN THERE'S, UH, THERE'S THREE LINES LISTED.

UH, THE ORANGE LINE IS OUR ACTUAL FUND BALANCE, UH, AND YOU CAN SEE HOW THAT'S TRACKED, EXCUSE ME, OVER THE YEARS.

AND THEN, UH, YOU CAN SEE THE TWO, UM, THE, THE POLICY, UH, FUND BALANCE REQUIREMENT AND THEN ALSO THE GOAL FUND BALANCE REQUIREMENT, WHICH ARE 25 AND 35, UH, 25 AND 30% RESPECTIVELY.

UH, SO YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, FUND BALANCE GOT PRETTY CLOSE TO, TO THAT, UH, GOAL THERE IN ABOUT 2015.

UH, THEN, THEN UPTICK FAIRLY QUICKLY AFTER 2016, UH, TO WHERE WE BASICALLY LEVELED OFF.

UH, SINCE 2018, THERE HASN'T BEEN ANY REAL DOLLAR INCREASE IN THE FUND BALANCE, BUT YOU CAN SEE THAT THE PERCENTAGE OF FUND BALANCE COMPARED TO EXPENDITURES HAS DECREASED BECAUSE THE EXPENDITURES ARE INCREASING.

SO WE HAVE THE, BASICALLY THE SAME FUND BALANCE, INCREASING EXPENDITURES, SO THAT MAKES THAT PERCENTAGE GO DOWN.

SO AGAIN, THE PROPOSED, UH, BUDGET INCLUDES 43.4% OF ENDING FUND BALANCE, UH, WHICH IS STILL IN A GOOD POSITION COMPARED TO THE GOAL OF 30%.

AND THEN, UH, WE'LL, WE'LL RECEIVE SOME ADDITIONAL SALES TAX INFORMATION TOMORROW.

AND THEN BASED ON, UH, THAT INFORMATION, WE PLUG THAT INTO OUR MODELS.

THERE'S THE POTENTIAL, UH, THAT, THAT DATA COULD BE USED TO, UH, LOWER THE PROPERTY TAX, UH, RATE FROM THE PROPOSED RATE OF 60.98 CENTS, OR, UH, INCLUDE OTHER PROGRAMS OR SERVICE ENHANCEMENTS THAT YOU MAY WANT TO INCLUDE THAT ARE, ARE SOMETHING THAT WASN'T IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, IN THE REVISED, UH, BUDGET.

SO, UH, ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT ANY OF THAT INFORMATION.

STEVEN, I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION, IF YOU DON'T MIND.

YOU KNOW, WE TALK ABOUT THE FUND TO BALANCES ALL THE TIME, THE, THE PERCENTAGES, BUT YOU KNOW, BASED ON OUR GOALS AND OUR, AND OUR, UH, PHILOSOPHY AND EVERYTHING, UH, HOW, HOW DOES THAT COMPARE TO OTHER CITIES, OUR COMPARATIVE CITIES AS FAR AS THEIR, THEIR PHILOSOPHIES AND THEIR, THEIR GOALS AND THINGS LIKE THAT? HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE RANK THERE? THEY'RE, THEY'RE GENERALLY, I MEAN, CITIES FOR THE MOST PART HAVE THE, I MEAN, THEY ALL HAVE THEIR OWN POLICIES.

UM, THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION HAS A P OR BASICALLY A RECOMMENDATION OF 15 TO 20% FUND BALANCE.

UM, MOST CITIES HAVE GENERALLY 25, UH, SOMEWHERE IN THAT RANGE.

YOU GENERALLY SEE THAT THEY HAVE NINE, THEY WANT TO KEEP 90 DAYS, THREE TO SIX MONTHS OF RESERVES, WHICH IS GONNA BE 25 TO 50%.

UH, SOME CITIES THAT RELY VERY HEAVILY ON SALES TAX AND NOT PROPERTY TAX GEN GENERALLY TEND TO BE A LITTLE BIT HIGHER.

UH, KEEP A LITTLE BIT MORE FUND BALANCE BECAUSE OF THE UNCERTAINTY WITH, UH, SALES TAX.

THOSE THAT GENERALLY HAVE MORE RESIDENTIAL, UM, PROPERTY TAX BASED GENERALLY CAN KEEP THAT THRESHOLD A LITTLE BIT LOWER BECAUSE YOU GENERALLY KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET WITH PROPERTY VALUES, UH, YEAR OVER YEAR.

SO, SO IT REALLY JUST DEPENDS ON THE TYPE OF COMMUNITY.

UM, HERE WITH, UH, HIGH COMMERCIAL PROPERTY VALUES, HIGH SALES TAX RELIANCE, UM, KEEPING IT A LITTLE BIT HIGHER IS PROBABLY, UM, A SMART MOVE.

THANK YOU FOR THE EXPLANATION.

APPRECIATE IT.

NANCY, JUST A QUICK QUESTION, AND YOU MAY HAVE TOUCHED ON THIS THE OTHER DAY AND I JUST DIDN'T GET IT ALL.

BUT, UM, AS FAR AS THE FUND BALANCE PERCENTAGES, UM, HOW IS THAT LOOKED AT PERCEIVED KIND OF CREDIT DO YOU GET FOR IT IN THE, IN THE, UM, BOND RATING? SO, SO THEY DO LOOK AT THIS PRETTY, PRETTY, UH, PRETTY THOROUGHLY.

AND I, I THINK I DID MENTION THIS DURING THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, THAT THEY DON'T JUST LOOK AT OUR GENERAL FUND BECAUSE, UH, THE TOWN HAS, THROUGH THROUGH PLANNING HAS SOME OTHER FUNDS THAT ARE ESSENTIALLY EXTENSIONS OF THE GENERAL FUND THAT CAN BE USED, UM, IN CASE THERE WAS NEED, LIKE THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND OR THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND THAT, THAT THIS FUND BALANCE, UH, THOSE FUND BALANCE ARE, ARE ALSO INCLUDED AND ADDED TO THIS.

AND THEY SAY, THIS IS OUR ENTIRE POOL OF RESERVES THAT COULD BE USED IN A STRESS SITUATION.

SO THIS IS IMPORTANT, BUT ALSO HAVING SOME AVAILABILITY IN THOSE OTHER FUNDS IS ALSO IMPORTANT.

UM, SO TO ANSWER YOUR QUESTION, THEY LOOK AT THAT, THAT'S PROBABLY ONE OF, I'D SAY THE TOP TWO OR THREE ITEMS THAT, THAT THEY, THAT THEY CARE, CARE ABOUT IS WHAT, WHAT ARE OUR RESERVE LEVELS? DO WE HAVE PLANS TO REDUCE OUR RESERVE LEVELS OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

UM, AND BASICALLY THEY DON'T, THEY DON'T LIKE TO SEE, UH, EXPENSES EXCEEDING OUR REVENUES ON AN ONGOING BASIS.

SO AS LONG AS OUR LONG-TERM PLANS SHOW SUSTAINABILITY AND, AND THAT KIND OF THING, THEN UM, WE'RE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE.

DO NOT WANT IT TO DROP DRAMATICALLY.

ARE ARE A PERCENTAGE DROP DRAMATICALLY, UH, EVEN IF IT WAS, YOU KNOW, 50% OR 60%, THEY DON'T WANNA SEE IT DROP DRAMATICALLY? OR DO THEY, DO THEY LOOK AT THAT KIND OF CHANGE? I'M NOT AN ANALYST, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT THEY PROBABLY

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SO IF YOU LOOK AT, IF YOU LOOK AT THE WAY THIS 10 YEAR HISTORY HAS KIND OF GONE SINCE 2018 THAT THE FUND BALANCE HAS GONE DOWN, THE PERCENTAGE HAS GONE DOWN, UM, SLIGHTLY YEAR OVER YEAR.

SO WE WERE AT BASICALLY 57%.

WE WENT DOWN TO 55 AND THEN DOWN TO 52, AND THEN DOWN TO 50 AND 47.

SO WE'VE HAD A GRADUAL REDUCTION IN THAT PERCENTAGE, BUT THE ACTUAL FUND BALANCE HAS STILL BASICALLY INCREASED SLIGHTLY EVERY YEAR.

SO THEY DON'T WANT TO SEE A SHARP DECREASE 'CAUSE IT KIND OF, YOU KNOW, STRESSES THEM OUT A LITTLE BIT.

I THINK.

SO, UM, AS LONG AS YOU'RE NOT DOING ANYTHING LIKE THAT, YOU'RE, YOU'RE PROBABLY FINE.

I THINK THE WAY THAT WE'VE DONE IT WHERE IT'S BASICALLY STAYED FLAT, BUT THE PERCENTAGE HAS GONE DOWN, UM, IS, IS IS A GOOD WAY, IS A GOOD WAY TO KIND OF GET THAT MORE IN LINE WITH, WITH YOUR POLICY, IF THAT'S WHAT THE GOAL IS.

I WOULD, I WOULD JUST ADD TO, IT'S ABOUT HAVING EXPLANATIONS AND SHOWING YOU'RE MAKING DELIBERATE DECISIONS.

SO IF YOU HAVE, IF YOU HAVE A DROPDOWN, BUT YOU SAID, HEY, WE PUT, WE WERE SETTING THIS EXTRA RESERVE ASIDE FOR A SPECIAL PROJECT IN THREE YEARS AND WE WERE, WE HAD IT DESIGNATED FOR THAT, THEN YOU GET TO YEAR THREE AND YOU USE IT FOR THAT PURPOSE.

THAT'S AN EASY EXPLANATION.

YOU CAN SHOW THEM THAT WE PLAN FOR IT FOR THAT, FOR THAT REASON.

UH, JUST, UH, I DON'T WANNA SAY A DROP 'CAUSE OF A BIG CHANGE IN PHILOSOPHY OR, OR, UH, POLICY OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

UM, STEVEN, COULD YOU GO BACK TO THAT SLIDE WHERE YOU WERE SHOWING, UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT SALES TAX RAMIFICATIONS OF WHAT MIGHT COME TOMORROW? ARE, ARE WE WITH OUR SALES TAX BUDGETING WHERE WE, I THINK WE'RE PRETTY CONSERVATIVE IN, IN THESE NUMBERS THAT WE HAVE NOW? YES.

AND SO, UM, WE EXPECT WHAT WE'LL GET TOMORROW WILL BE MUCH BETTER.

MAYBE 16 MILLION, SOME, UH, SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

WELL, WELL, WE GET IT EVERY MONTH, SO WE GET IT.

OUR, WE GET DATA BASICALLY THE SECOND WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH.

SO THIS WILL BE, UH, FOR SALES THAT HAPPENED IN JO, UH, JUNE.

SO THIS WILL BASICALLY GET US THROUGH THREE QUARTERS OF THE YEAR.

UM, SO IT'S JUST ANOTHER DATA POINT.

SO IT'S JUST A MONTH, RIGHT? ONE MONTH.

BUT YOU, YOU FEEL CONFIDENT ABOUT WHAT, WHAT'S COMING TOMORROW? SOMEWHAT.

I'M ALWAYS CONFIDENT, BUT YOU REALLY, YOU REALLY HAVE NO, WELL, I STEPPED INTO THAT ONE.

YEAH, YOU REALLY HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE GONNA GET.

SO IT'S, YEAH, I, I, I, I WOULDN'T BE TRUTHFUL IF I SAID I I EXPECTED IT TO BE, UH, SOME, SOME NUMBER.

UM, I CAN SAY THAT THIS ONE IS A QUARTERLY, UM, REMIT REMITTANCE, SO WE GENERALLY GET MORE IN, IN A QUARTER BECAUSE SOME FILERS PAY QUARTERLY, SOME PAY MONTHLY.

UM, SO THIS ONE IS ONE THAT'S GENERALLY HIGHER, UM, THAN MOST OTHER MONTHS.

BUT, UH, BUT YEAH, I MEAN, WE, WE DON'T KNOW.

THERE CAN ALWAYS BE AUDIT OR SOME KIND OF ADJUSTMENT IN THERE AS WELL THAT WE DON'T KNOW ABOUT.

STEVEN, CAN YOU GO BACK TO, UH, SLIDE 25 AND AS WE'RE LOOKING AT THIS, CAN YOU REMIND US, UH, OF WHEN WE, UH, OBTAINED OUR TWO AAA BOND RATINGS? I, I BELIEVE MOODY'S WAS 2018.

UM, AND SS AND P I BELIEVE THAT THE TOWN'S BEEN AAA WITH S AND P I'D.

I'D HAVE TO GO BACK, BUT IT'S BEEN QUITE A WHILE.

IT HAS, SO IT, IT'S, IT'S BEEN, I THINK BEFORE 2013.

AND, AND WHEN DID YOU START WORKING FOR THE TOWN? UH, 2020.

2020.

SO, ALL RIGHT.

WELL, WE'VE BEEN HERE FOR THE GOOD TIMES.

IF WE WERE TO GO DOWN TO, DOWN TO THE, THIS 40 TO 49%, UH, WERE PROJECTED AT 43, WOULD THAT BE GRADUAL OVER TWO OR THREE YEARS, OR IS THAT WELL, AND IT, AND IT HAS BEEN GRADUAL, SO IT HAS BEEN A SLIGHT DECREASE IN THE PERCENTAGE ONLY.

WE APPRECIATE THAT.

ABSOLUTELY.

UH, SO I'M, I'M, I'M INTERESTED HERE, HERE IN THE 2015 TO THE 2018, UH, INCREASE, UH, FROM 36.3 TO 60.8.

CAN YOU SPEAK TO THAT A LITTLE BIT? WELL, I DON'T HAVE THE DETAILS ON THAT, BUT WHAT I CAN TELL YOU IS THAT, THAT THOSE TWO YEARS, 20 16, 20 17, UH, THEY ADDED ABOUT, I THINK BETWEEN THREE AND $4 MILLION TO FUND BALANCE BOTH OF THOSE YEARS.

UM, SO I THINK WE WERE AT ABOUT 12 MILLION IN 2015 AND THEN ADDED BASICALLY 8 MILLION OVER THE NEXT TWO YEARS.

UM, SO I'D HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT THE DETAILS AS TO SURE, SURE.

THAT THAT'S FAIR.

SO I, IS THERE A, A RANGE BETWEEN THE 36 AND THE 60 THERE THAT YOU'VE CO YOU'D BE COMFORTABLE WITH? I MEAN, YOU HAVEN'T BEEN HERE.

WELL, WE'VE HAD THAT, BUT THAT, THAT PERCENTAGE, UM, BETWEEN, THERE'S SOME, UH, I'M SURE YOU'D LIKE TO BE AT THE HIGHER END, PERHAPS THE 50 55 OR SO.

UM, WELL, I, I, I, CAN WE SUSTAIN, CAN WE, UM, MAYBE THAT'S NOT THE RIGHT WAY TO ASK THAT.

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SO AGAIN, BECAUSE EXPENDITURES HAVE BEEN GOING UP, UM, WE'VE STILL BEEN ADDING SLIGHTLY TO THE FUND BALANCE, UH, EACH YEAR, BUT THE PERCENTAGE, BECAUSE EXPENDITURES HAVE GONE UP, HAS GONE SLIGHTLY DOWN.

SO OVER, YOU KNOW, WHEN, WHEN WE PUT THIS IN OUR LONG-TERM MODEL, UH, IT ACTUALLY CONTINUES TO GO DOWN SLIGHTLY.

IT GETS DOWN INTO THE THIRTIES, I THINK, AT IN, IN THE 10 YEAR MODEL, WHICH IS PERFECTLY FINE.

UH, IT'S, YOU KNOW, IT'S THAT WE'RE STILL SUSTAINABLE.

WE STILL HAVE REVENUES THAT ARE SLIGHTLY EXCEEDING OUR EXPENDITURES AND THAT TYPE OF THING.

SO WE STILL HAVE LONG-TERM SUSTAINABILITY, SO THAT, THAT PERCENTAGE GOING DOWN SLIGHTLY EACH YEAR IS NOT AN ISSUE AS LONG AS WE'RE STILL WITHIN OUR POLICY GOAL AND OUR, OUR WITHIN OUR POLICY AND MEETING THE COUNCIL'S GOAL.

UH, NOW FOCUSING ON THE OTHER, ON THE OTHER FUNDS BALANCES, ARE, ARE THERE ANY HERE THAT YOU'D RECOMMEND ADJUSTMENTS IN, UH, BASED ON THE, UH, POLICY REQUIREMENTS THERE? THERE'S NOT, UH, AND WE REALLY ONLY HAVE THE POLICY REQUIREMENTS FOR, AGAIN, THE OPERATING FUNDS.

SO IT'S BASICALLY, YOU KNOW, THE, THE FUNDS THAT HAVE RECURRING REVENUES AND RECURRING EXPENDITURES.

UM, SO THE, YOU KNOW, OUR, OUR POLICY IS, IS BASICALLY WHAT MOST, I THINK MOST POLICIES ARE, IS THAT WE REQUIRE, YOU KNOW, A FOURTH OF A YEAR OF OPERATING, UH, RESERVES, WHICH IS I THINK FINE.

UH, AND THAT'S, I THINK, A GOOD POLICY TO HAVE.

SO, SO I WOULDN'T, YOU KNOW, WOULDN'T CHANGE, UH, ANYTHING REGARDING THE POLICY.

AND I THINK THAT EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE DONE AS FAR AS THE LONG-TERM PLANNING, UH, AND THEN WHEN WE PUT THESE, YOU KNOW, TAKE OUR BUDGET AND WE PLAN THAT OUT, UH, THROUGHOUT THE LONG-TERM MODEL THAT, UM, IT'S, WE MAKE SURE THAT IT'S SUSTAINABLE WITHIN, YOU KNOW, LIKE YOU SAW AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP WITHIN, UH, THE POLICY, UH, REQUIREMENTS THERE.

THANK YOU, SIR.

ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY.

ONE LAST QUESTION.

AND, AND WHEN YOU SAY A QUARTER, A QUARTER OF A YEAR, IS THAT, IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS IN THE POLICY, OR DOES IT SAY A PERCENT? IT SAYS 25%.

25%.

OKAY, I HAVE A COMMENT.

UM, I SEE THE, THE INCREASE IN THE, UH, EXPENDITURES AND THE FUND BALANCE GOING DOWN, MEANING THAT WE'RE, WE'RE NOT KEEPING UP WITH THE FUND BALANCE, UM, PERCENTAGE.

OBVIOUSLY THAT'S A CONCERN OVER LONG TERM.

YOU MENTIONED 10 YEARS OUT, WE GET DOWN INTO THE, WAS IT 30%, 30 LOW THIRTIES, OR, UH, IT, IT'S STILL THE UPPER, UPPER UPPER THIRTIES.

FOR, FOR PEOPLE CONCERNED WITH THE, THE, OUR FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY, UH, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO KEEP AN EYE ON.

UH, I, I HAVE MORE EDUCATION FOR MYSELF FROM, FROM OUR POLICY AND, AND HOW ALL THE, ALL THIS FITS TOGETHER.

I JUST, UM, I'LL HAVE MORE QUESTIONS IN THE FUTURE.

IT LOOKS GOOD RIGHT NOW.

SURE, GO AHEAD.

GRANT FUNDING FROM THE TOWN'S GENERAL FUND OF 66,120.

SO, UM, MOVING ON TO GENERAL FUND GRANT EXPENDITURES, AND AGAIN, THIS IS THE SAME SLIDE THAT WE SHOWED AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP, UH, WHICH IS, UH, WHAT WAS REQUESTED IN FISCAL YEAR 2024, AND WHAT'S IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET, UH, WHICH IS, UH, MATCHES WHAT'S IN THE, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2023 BUDGET.

UM, SO ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION REQUESTED 65,000.

THE PROPOSED BUDGET INCLUDES 50,000, UH, PLUS 15,000 IN MATCHING FUNDS.

UH, DALLAS CAT LADY REQUESTED 5,000, 5,000 IS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, DALLAS COUNTY, UH, M H AND M R, UH, REQUESTED 10,000.

WHAT'S IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS $2,500.

UH, METRO CREST SERVICES ORIGINALLY REQUESTED 82,650, WHICH IS WHAT'S IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, THEY PROVIDED A REVISED REQUEST OF $139,653.

UH, BUT A REMINDER THAT 82,650 IS WHAT'S IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET RIGHT NOW.

AND THEN WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC, UH, REQUESTED 8,000, UH, 5,000 IS IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, SO OVERALL, THE ORIGINAL REQUESTS WERE, UH, ONE 170,650, AND WHAT'S IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS 160,000, UH, 150.

AND THEN WE ALSO PROVIDED SOME PAYMENT HISTORY REGARDING, UH, METRO CREST SERVICES.

I KNOW THERE WAS SOME, UH, UH, SOME DISCUSSION ABOUT, UH, OTHER ITEMS THAT WERE FUNDED, UH, BY THE TOWN OR THROUGH GRANTS TO THEM, UM, OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS.

SO WE PRO PROVIDED A BREAKDOWN OF WHAT THOSE WERE.

UH, SO IN FISCAL YEAR 20, UH, THEY RECEIVED THEIR NON, UH, THEIR NONPROFIT

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UH, THEY ALSO RECEIVED CARESS ACT RESIDENTS ASSISTANCE FUNDING, WHICH WAS A PASS THROUGH FROM US.

UH, FEDERAL GRANT THAT WE RECEIVED FROM, FROM, UH, THE FEDERAL, UH, GRANT, UH, FROM THE CARES ACT, UH, OF $126,484.

UH, THEN IN FISCAL YEAR 2021, THEY RECEIVED THE SAME AMOUNT OF GRANT FUNDING FROM THE GENERAL FUND, UH, $66,120.

UH, THEY RECEIVED CARES ACT FUNDING AGAIN, WHICH WAS A PASS THROUGH, AGAIN, FROM THAT FEDERAL GRANT, UH, $54,450, UH, THAT THOSE FUNDS RAN OUT.

UH, THE COUNCIL HAD AWARDED THEM SOME ADDITIONAL FUNDS FOR RESIDENT ASSISTANCE.

UH, SO THEY RECEIVED $68,352, UH, ADDITIONALLY IN, UH, FISCAL YEAR 2021, SO A TOTAL OF ABOUT 180 8 922.

AND THEN MOVING ON TO FISCAL YEAR 2022, AGAIN, THEY RECEIVED THE, THE SAME, UH, SIX 66,120 FROM THE GENERAL FUND FOR THEIR, UH, UH, FOR THEIR NONPROFIT GRANT.

UH, THE TOWN ALSO, UH, PURCHASED A, UH, TABLE AT THE METRO CREST GALA, UH, FOR A THOUSAND DOLLARS.

UH, THERE WERE SOME ADDITIONAL RESIDENTS ASSISTANCE FROM THE GENERAL FUND FROM $14,506.

AND THEN COUNCIL HAD ALSO APPROVED A, UH, CONTRIBUTION TO THEIR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN OF $120,000.

SO THE FIRST PAYMENT OF THAT, UH, $60,000 WENT OUT IN FISCAL FISCAL YEAR 2022.

SO IN TOTAL, $141,626 WENT TO THEM IN 22.

AND THEN SO FAR IN 23, THEY'VE RECEIVED THEIR, UH, NONPROFIT GRANT FUNDING, $82,650, UH, PURCHASE OF A TABLE AT A KEY HOLDER BREAKFAST, $750, AND THEN THE SECOND HALF OF THAT CAPITAL CAMPAIGN OF $60,000.

SO IN TOTAL, UH, FOR THEM FOR 23 SO FAR, $143,400.

ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT OR COMMENTS ABOUT, UH, METRO CREST SERVICES, PAYMENT HISTORY? OKAY.

ANY OTHER QUESTIONS ABOUT, YEAH, SO I THINK, UH, YOU WANNA GO, MARLON? YES.

I APPRECIATE IT.

UM, SO COULD WE GO BACK TO THE SLIDE 27? OKAY.

AND, AND SO THESE ARE THE GENERAL FUND GRANT EXPENDITURES OF THESE MAXIMUMS, UH, IF APPROVED AND, AND, AND WHERE I'M GOING, I, IT'S NOT, NOT A TRICK QUESTION, BUT WHAT I'M, WE JUST SAW METROCREST SERVICES WERE JUST ONE EXAMPLE, BUT WHAT MY, WHAT I'M ASKING IS WHEN, WHEN, UH, CERTAIN NONPROFITS AND SO FORTH HAVE GALAS, UM, SOMETHING TO THAT EFFECT, UM, IS THAT TAKEN INTO EFFECT? WHAT, WHAT, WHAT WE'RE APPROVING HERE OR NOT? AND THE BUDGET, OR IS THAT SOMETHING SEPARATE? THAT THAT'S, THAT IS SOMETHING SEPARATE, THAT'S SOMETHING SEPARATE THAT WOULD BE IN THE DEPARTMENT BUDGET IF THEY BUDGETED TO GO TO GET A TABLE AT THE GALA OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT.

YEAH, SO THIS WOULD BE SPECIFICALLY FOR THE SERVICES OUTLINED IN THEIR GRANT APPLICATION.

UM, SO SPECIFICALLY TIED TO WHAT'S IN THE GRANT APPLICATION, SEPARATE FROM ANY OTHER, AS YOU CAN SEE THROUGH THE METROCREST HISTORY, UM, I, I'M NOT SURE OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD IF THERE WOULD BE SIMILAR CONTRIBUTIONS ON THE OTHER ONES, BUT THEY WOULD BE SEPARATE.

AND, UH, THANK YOU.

$5,000 IN $25,000, UH, PAYMENTS, UH, FOR THE, FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS.

MOVING ON, UH, TO THE HOTEL FUND.

UH, SO THERE WAS ONE CORRECTION OF $60,000 TO THIS FUND.

UH, I MENTIONED THAT, UH, ON THE ADDISON THEATER CENTER, UH, THAT WAS OVERSTATED BY 60,000 IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, THIS IS SIMPLY HERE TO SHOW THAT CORRECTION.

UH, SO THAT CHANGES, UH, THE OVERALL EXPENDITURES AND THE OVERALL FUND BALANCE AND FUND BALANCE PERCENTAGE.

UH, SO IT'S BASICALLY A $60,000 SAVINGS, UH, THERE.

SO ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT THIS? OKAY.

UH, MOVING ON TO HOTEL FUND NONPROFIT GRANTS.

UH, NOTHING HAS CHANGED OR PROPOSED TO CHANGE, UH, HERE.

UH, SO WATER TOWER THEATER, AGAIN, THEY REQUESTED 450,000.

UH, WHAT'S INCLUDED IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET IS THE SAME AS, UH, WHAT THEY WERE AWARDED IN 23.

UH, THAT'S 226,589 AS A PRIMARY GRANT, AND THEN MATCHING FUNDS OF $150,000.

UH, IN ADDITION, THEY RECEIVE IN-KIND FUNDING, UH, FOR OFFICE RENT AND PRODUCTION RENT, WHICH TAKES THE TOTAL VALUE OF THAT GRANT TO $425,000.

UH, AND THEN WE HAVE OUTCRY THEATER, WHICH REQUESTED 10,000, UH, AND IS, UH, AWARDED TWO, TWO, UH, 2,500 IN THE PROPOSED BUDGET.

UH, SO ADDITIONALLY, UH, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL NOTES DOWN THERE ON, UH, ADDITIONAL, UH, FUNDS WATER TOWER THEATER HAS RECEIVED THROUGH EXCLUSIVE NAMING RIGHTS.

UM, SO, SO THOSE ITEMS ARE LISTED THERE.

THEY'VE RECEIVED $30,000 IN THREE PAYMENTS, UM, BEGINNING IN 2023.

UH, THEY, UH, ALSO IN 2370

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AND THEN, UM, IN 2017, THEY RECEIVED $50,000 LUMP SUM FOR EXCLUSIVE NAMING RIGHTS.

SO, UH, THOSE DON'T COME FROM THE TOWN.

UH, BUT THOSE ARE OTHER, UH, CONTRIBUTIONS THAT THEY'RE RECEIVING, UH, FOR USE OF THE THEATER.

I'VE GOT A QUESTION ON THE, UM, THE RENT, THE OFFICE RENT AND THE PRODUCTION RENT.

DO WE, DO WE OFFER ANYTHING LIKE THAT, UH, FOR OUTCRY THEATER? WE DO NOT.

WE DO NOT.

UM, AND THEY DON'T EVEN, DO THEY, THEY DON'T OFFICE HERE, DO THEY? THEY DO NOT.

AND THEN, UH, THIS ALSO JUST SHOWS THE CORRECTION, UH, RELATED TO, UM, THE, THE ITEM I, UH, MENTIONED EARLIER.

SO, UH, THAT, UH, SHOWS THE OVERALL THEATER CENTER OPERATION, UM, AND YOU CAN SEE THE RENTAL INCOME AND THEN ALL THE EXPENDITURES ASSOCIATED WITH, UH, THE THEATER CENTER.

AND THEN, UH, EXCUSE ME, STEVEN, CAN YOU, UH, ON THIS SLIDE 32, CAN YOU TELL US A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE CONTRACTUAL SERVICES, UH, ASSOCIATED WITH THE, WITH THE ADDISON THEATER CENTER? SO THE MAJORITY OF THAT IS GOING TO BE THESE NONPROFIT GRANTS.

SO 379,000 OF THAT 461,000, IS THOSE PAYMENT OF THOSE GRANTS, IS THERE A REASON THAT THEIR RENTAL INCOME HAS GONE DOWN? WELL, WE DIDN'T CHANGE THE BUDGET FROM THE PREVIOUS BUDGET, BUT, UM, SO THE ESTIMATE NOW IS 50,000.

UM, JUST WE CONSERVATIVELY INCLUDED THE SAME 30,000 THAT WAS THERE PREVIOUSLY.

UM, I'M NOT SURE THAT WE ARE AWARE OF WHAT THE PROGRAMMING MAY BE OR WHAT TYPE OF REVENUE MAY BE GENERATED, SO, UM HMM.

CAN YOU TELL ME HOW THAT'S STRUCTURED? I MEAN, HOW DO WE DETERMINE WHAT THE RENTAL INCOME IS? I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW, UH, THAT I'D HAVE, I'D HAVE TO DIG INTO THAT MORE.

I DON'T, I DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER TO THAT RIGHT OFF THE TOP OF MY HEAD.

SO I'D HAVE TO GET WITH, UH, THE FOLKS AT THE THEATER CENTER AND, AND, UH, GO OVER THAT WITH THEM.

AND THEN IN THE UTILITY FUND, UH, WE, UH, HAD THE ORIGINAL PROPOSED BUDGET THAT INCLUDED A, UH, 5.5% INCREASE IN WATER AND SEWER RATES.

UH, THE REVISED PROPOSED INCLUDES, UH, A 4.5% INCREASE IN WATER AND SEWER RATES.

SO THIS WAS THE CHANGE THAT WAS DISCUSSED, UH, AT THE BUDGET WORKSHOP.

SO YOU CAN SEE THAT, UH, THAT MOVES THE REVENUE REVENUE DOWN A LITTLE BIT, UH, FROM THE PROPOSED BUDGET, UM, $16.1 MILLION OVERALL IN THE UTILITY FUND REVENUE.

UH, BUT IT STILL EXCEEDS OUR OPERATIONAL EXPENSES AT JUST OVER $16 MILLION.

SO STILL IN A GOOD POSITION.

UH, THERE IS, UH, A COUPLE OF ONE-TIME ITEMS AND THEN, UH, SOME CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS THERE.

SO THERE'S A SLIGHT DRAWDOWN IN THE, UH, ENDING WORKING CAPITAL.

BUT OVERALL, UH, AS WE SHOWED, UH, WITH THE LONG-TERM FINANCIAL PLAN, THIS IS, THIS IS SUSTAINABLE AND, UH, CAN PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF RELIEF FROM, UH, THE, UH, CURRENT RATE MODEL, UH, THAT WAS ADOPTED, UH, A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO.

I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE 4.5%.

SO IT WAS PLANNED ORIGINALLY 5.5% ON THAT UTILITY RATE, UM, UH, PLANS, CORRECT? FOR THE NEXT FIVE YEARS? IT, WELL, IT'S NOT 5.5%.

IT WASN'T 5.5 OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS, IT WAS 5.5, 5.5 FOR THREE YEARS, AND THEN 4% AND 3.5%.

SO, AND THIS, THIS 4.5 IS JUST FOR THIS NEXT YEAR, IT'S NOT NECESSARILY, UM, FIXED AT 4.5? CORRECT.

UM, I DON'T WANNA MESS YOU UP WITH, WITH WHAT YOU'RE PRESENTING, BUT I WOULD LOVE IT TO LOOK AT THE FORECAST OF, OF A FLAT 4.5, IF THAT'S, IF WE COULD LOOK AT THAT.

AND I DID INCLUDE THAT IN THE RESPONSES TO THE COUNCIL QUESTIONS.

UM, SO THAT, THAT ITEM'S IN HERE, IT'S NOT IN THIS PRESENTATION THOUGH.

I WOULD LOVE TO KIND OF TALK THROUGH IT WHEN, WHEN YOU GET TO THAT, WHEN WE CAN GET TO THAT POINT.

WE CAN DISCUSS IT NOW.

I JUST DON'T HAVE A SLIDE REGARDING IT.

DID, UH, OBVIOUSLY YOU LOOKED AT THAT.

UM, YES.

AND AS WE'RE PULLING THAT UP, UM, AM I CORRECT IN THE, THE CURRENT RATE POLICY AS FAR AS THE RATES THAT GO OUT TO 2018 AS FAR AS WHAT'S BEEN, UH, ADOPTED POLICY-WISE? UH, IT WAS READOPTED LAST YEAR, UM, AND THAT EXTENDS FROM BEGINNING FISCAL YEAR 2024 TO 2028.

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RIGHT, RIGHT.

2000.

SO THAT WAS ADOPTED IN 2018, WENT FROM 2018 TO 2023, AND NOW WE'RE ON THE NEXT ONE THAT GOES FROM 24 TO 28.

RIGHT, RIGHT.

I GOT IT.

UM, THANK YOU.

AND SO DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS, UM, AND I ASKED FOR THIS, AND I APPRECIATE YOU PUTTING THIS TOGETHER.

UM, I HOPE IT WASN'T A LOT OF WORK, BUT, UM, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS IF WE IMPLEMENTED JUST A FLAT 4.5, NOT FOR JUST THIS UPCOMING FISCAL BUDGET, BUT, YOU KNOW, THROUGH 2028, DO YOU HAVE ANY THOUGHTS ON WHETHER THAT MAKES SENSE? YOU LIKE IT, YOU DON'T LIKE IT? UH, WHATEVER.

I MEAN, I, I THINK, AND, AND YOU, YOU ADOPT THE RATES ON AN ANNUAL BASIS, SO YOU CAN ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, SO REGARDLESS OF IF WE DID FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT, YOU CAN BRING THOSE, I MEAN, YOU CAN, THEY'RE LOOKED AT IT ON A, ON AN ANNUAL BASIS.

YOU ADOPT AN ORDINANCE WITH RATES JUST FOR THAT FISCAL YEAR THAT YOU'RE ADOPTING THE RATES FOR.

SO, UM, YOU KNOW, THIS, IT, IT ISN'T THAT MUCH DIFFERENT FROM JUST THE 4.5% CHANGE THAT WE HAD THIS YEAR.

IN FACT, BASICALLY IN OUT YEARS 29.

AND GOING FORWARD, I ADD FOUR AND A HALF PERCENT OUT THERE, UH, IN THE EXISTING MODEL.

UM, SO IT'S NOT THAT MUCH OF A CHANGE.

UM, SO IT'S PROBABLY, UH, SUSTAINABLE.

IT DOES GO DOWN A LITTLE BIT SHARPER AS FAR AS THE FUND BALANCE.

WE DO HAVE SOME MORE OPERATING DEFICIT AS OPPOSED TO, UM, THE, THE EXISTING UTILITY RATE MODEL.

UM, BUT IT'S NOT, LIKE I SAID, YOU'RE ADOPTING THE RATE JUST FOR A YEAR, SO WE CAN ALWAYS REVIEW AND, AND ADJUST ACCORDINGLY.

SO, UM, BUT I WOULD SAY THAT THAT RATE MODEL WAS ADOPTED BY COUNCIL BACK LAST YEAR.

SO IF WE WANTED TO UPDATE THAT, THEN, UM, YOU KNOW, I, I THINK WE NEED TO LOOK AT THAT.

BUT, AND WE WOULD BE DOING THAT TO SOME DEGREE WITH THIS BUDGET JUST FOR, FOR THIS UPCOMING YEAR? ABSOLUTELY CORRECT.

WERE THERE ANY OTHER QUESTIONS? SO THAT, THAT WAS THE LAST SLIDE THAT I HAD AS FAR AS THE BUDGET UPDATE, ANY ADDITIONAL COMMENTS, QUESTIONS, UM, OVER THE BUDGET.

OKAY, GREAT.

I'M GONNA PASS IT ON TO TODD AND HE'S GONNA GO OVER MORMON, UH, LANE LIGHTING.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

TODD WEINHEIMER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING FOR THE TOWN.

UH, I AM HERE TO GIVE YOU AN UPDATE ON THE MORMON LANE STREET LIGHTING, UH, WHAT OUR CURRENT PROPOSED PLAN IS FOR THIS.

UH, THIS IS A CURRENT STREETLIGHT OVERVIEW.

TODD, TODD.

TODD, I'LL JUST JUMP IN REAL QUICK AND JUST PROVIDE A LITTLE CONTEXT OF WHY WE'RE HAVING THIS CONVERSATION.

IN THE BUDGET MEETING.

UM, SO THERE WAS A QUESTION FROM, UH, FROM M MEMBER WILLISON ABOUT MORMON LANE STREET LIGHTING.

UM, IS IT IN THE BUDGET? WHAT, WHAT ARE THE PLANS? AND I RESPONDED, OBVIOUSLY NOT IN THE BUDGET MEETING LAST WEEK, BUT IN CONVERSATION TO THAT QUESTION SAYING WE, WE HAD A PLAN FOR IT, IT WAS IN OUR EXISTING BUDGET, AND THERE WAS A FOLLOW-UP QUESTION OF ARE THERE THINGS WE COULD DO IN THIS BUDGET, UM, THAT ARE DIFFERENT? SO THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S WHY THIS CONVERSATION IS BROUGHT FORWARD.

AND TODD TOLL GO IN THAT IN MORE DETAIL, BUT TO PROVIDE SOME CONTEXT OF WHY WE'RE HAVING THIS DISCUSSION.

PROJECT IS CURRENTLY FUNDED FROM OUR EXISTING BUDGET, SO ON OCTOBER 1ST, WE'RE PLANNING ON GETTING THE BALL ROLLING ON THIS.

SO THIS IS A CURRENT STREETLIGHT OVERVIEW OF WHAT THE EXISTING CONDITIONS ARE ON MORMON LANE.

UH, THERE'S ABOUT ROUGHLY 300 FEET IN BETWEEN THE STREETLIGHTS THERE, UH, SORA CIRCLE AND SURVEYOR BOULEVARD ON MORMON LANE, AND THEN FROM SURVEYOR TO KIND OF THE MIDDLE OF MORMON LANE, UH, WHERE THAT MEDIAN KIND OF CUT THROUGH IS THERE.

UM, SO OUR CURRENT PLAN FOR RIGHT NOW IS TO CONVERT SIX STREETLIGHTS TO LEDS IN THE AREA, AND I'LL SHOW YOU A MAP OF THAT HERE IN A SECOND.

ENCORE WILL BE PERFORMING THE WORK, UH, FOR THIS PROJECT.

UH, THEY'LL ALSO HAVE ONE ADDITIONAL STREETLIGHT THAT COSTS FOR THE ONE ADDITIONAL STREETLIGHT IS, UH, $17,700.

UH, THAT WILL BRING THE PROJECT TOTAL OF $19,245 AND 2 CENTS.

UH, AS A PART OF THIS PROCESS, WE'RE GONNA EVALUATE AND, UH, CONSIDER OTHER OPTIONS.

UH, THIS

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UH, WE'RE DEVELOPING PROCESSES AND POLICIES FOR FUTURE STREETLIGHT REQUESTS IN THE FUTURE.

UH, WE WANNA MAKE 'EM CLEARER AND MORE EFFICIENT IN THE FUTURE.

SO WE'RE GONNA WORK ON THAT THIS, THIS FISCAL YEAR.

UH, WE ALSO HAD A COUNCIL MEMBER THAT REQUESTED CONSIDERATION OF ALTERNATIVE STREETLIGHT POLLS, AND I'M GONNA GO OVER THAT A LITTLE LATER IN THE PRESENTATION.

UH, OUR CURRENT PLAN OVERVIEW FOR THE PROJECT, AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S SOME, UH, YELLOW, UH, DOTS THERE THAT HAVE THE STREETLIGHTS IDENTIFIED WITH THE RED CIRCLES AROUND THEM.

THOSE ARE THE ONES THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT CONVERTING TO L E D LIGHTS.

UH, WE'RE HOPING THAT THAT'LL MAKE IT, UH, BRIGHTER IN THOSE AREAS.

AND THEY'RE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE PICTURE, YOU CAN SEE THE BIG RED DOT.

THAT IS THE AREA OF PROPOSED NEW STREETLIGHT INSTALLATION.

UH, THAT COULD CHANGE DEPENDING ON FACTORS.

UH, FRANCHISE UTIL LOCATIONS OF FRANCHISE UTILITIES AND EVERYTHING LIKE THAT.

BUT WE THINK WE CAN GET ONE KIND OF IN THAT GENERAL AREA THERE.

UM, PRIOR TO CONSTRUCTION, WE PLAN ON REACHING OUT TO RESIDENTS.

WE'VE DONE SOME OF THIS IN THE PAST, UH, UH, UH, LETTING THEM KNOW ABOUT THE CONSTRUCT, UPCOMING CONSTRUCTION IN THE AREA, WHAT THEY CAN EXPECT, AND ALSO THINGS THAT THEY CAN HELP TO, TO ILLUMINATE THE STREET, UH, SUCH AS, YOU KNOW, HAVING THEIR PORCH LIGHTS ON AT NIGHT AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

WE'VE HAD GOOD SUCCESS WITH THAT IN THE PAST.

UM, UH, AND ALSO TRIMMING THE TREES.

AS YOU CAN SEE, THERE'S SOME BIG, BEAUTIFUL ESTABLISHED TREE CANOPIES IN THIS AREA.

SO THAT HAS AN EFFECT ON THE, THE STREET LIGHTING OUT THERE.

AND SO WE'LL ALSO PROVIDE SOME INFORMATION ON KEEPING THOSE, UH, TRIMMED AND, UH, ALLOWING THAT LIGHT TO EFFECTIVELY ILLUMINATE THE AREA.

UH, OUR PARKS DEPARTMENT IS ALSO LOOKING INTO THE POSSIBILITY OF, UH, INSTALLING MORE, UH, UP TREE LIGHTING THERE IN THAT MEDIAN AREA THAT I TALKED ABOUT.

UH, IN BETWEEN SURVEYOR BOULEVARD AND BELTWAY DRIVE, THERE'S KIND OF LIKE THAT CUT THROUGH AREA.

UH, SO THEY'RE LOOKING IN TO SEE IF THEY CAN ENHANCE THE LIGHTING THERE.

UM, SO LIKE I SAID, THERE WERE, UH, A REQUESTS FOR LOOKING AT OTHER STREET LIGHTING OPTIONS.

UH, THE PICTURE ON THE LEFT IS KIND OF THE STANDARD, UH, DIRECT BURIED POLE.

THERE'S NO FOUNDATION REQUIRED WITH THESE TYPES OF LIGHTS.

UM, UH, THAT'S WHAT IS EXISTING OUT THERE TODAY.

AND THE DECORATIVE TYPE OF LIGHT POLES, THESE ARE MORE FOR AREAS WHERE THERE ARE, UH, SIDEWALKS, STREET SCAPE AREAS, UH, THEY SHINE DOWN DIRECTLY, KIND OF LIKE ON THOSE SIDEWALK AREAS.

UH, CURRENTLY THERE ARE NO SIDEWALKS ON MORMON LANE IN THAT AREA.

UM, AND ALSO THOSE FOUNDATIONS TAKE UP A LOT OF REAL ESTATE.

AND SO WHEN WE CONVERT FROM THE STANDARD LIGHT POLE WITH NO FOUNDATION, TWO ONES WITH FOUNDATIONS, WE USUALLY RUN INTO, UH, ISSUES WITH FRANCHISE UTILITIES, UH, WATER SERVICE LINES, UH, THINGS OF THAT NATURE.

SO THOSE WILL NEED TO BE ADJUSTED, WHICH INCREASE THE COST.

AND THIS KIND OF, WE HAVE SOME PICTURES THERE, UH, THAT SHOW SOME OF THE EXISTING CONDITIONS.

UH, BUT LIKE I SAID, THEY'RE PRIMARILY NEEDED FOR PEDESTRIAN AREAS.

UH, CURRENT LOCATIONS MAY NEED TO BE ADJUSTED DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION OF EXISTING UTILITIES.

UH, ONE OF THE LOCATIONS THERE ON SOPR CIRCLE IS SURROUNDED BY SHRUBS IN A TOWN OWNED MEDIAN THAT, THAT WE MAINTAIN.

UH, SO, UH, THAT'S ACTUALLY A PICTURE ON THE BOTTOM THERE.

UH, SO WE WOULD HAVE TO TEAR SOME OF THESE BIG, UH, ESTABLISHED SHRUBS OUT IN ORDER TO DRILL, UH, PIERS FOR THE FOUNDATION IN, UH, AND THEN COME BACK WITH A KIND OF A LANDSCAPE PLAN GOING FORWARD.

UH, UH, WE MAY NEED TO TRIM PRIVATELY OWNED TREES DEPENDING ON WHERE WE NEED TO ADJUST SOME OF THE LOCATIONS FOR THESE MORE DECORATIVE POLES.

UH, AND SO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE GETTING INTO PRIVATELY OWNED TREES AND TRIMMING THEM, UH, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE TO DO THAT AT A CERTAIN TIME OF YEAR SO WE DON'T STRESS THE TREES.

UH, SO WE'RE GETTING INTO THOSE ISSUES AS WELL.

AND THE ESTIMATED COST FOR THIS WOULD BE ANYWHERE FROM IN BETWEEN 50,000 TO $85,000 DEPENDING ON, UH, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY ADJUSTMENTS WE NEED TO MAKE AND EVERYTHING GOING FORWARD.

AND ALSO WOULD HAVE TO, UM, BORE CONDUIT THROUGH A SHALLOW ROCK THAT'S IN THE AREA.

WE'VE DONE SOME STORMWATER PROJECTS IN THE AREA AND THAT THAT ROCK IS, IS PRETTY CLOSE TO THE PAVEMENT.

I THINK THAT'S WHY THOSE ROADS HAVE LASTED AS LONG AS THEY HAVE.

SO, WITHOUT ANYTHING ELSE, ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR ANY OTHER CLARIFICATIONS? I'LL, I'LL, I'LL JUST ADD ONE POINT.

THEN START, UM, LOOKING AT THE CONSTRUCTION.

THANK YOU, TODD, FOR THE, FOR THE PRESENTATION.

UM, ON THE CURRENT PLAN, THAT'S NOT SOMETHING, UH, JUST TO BE CLEAR, WE'RE NOT, WE DON'T HAVE TO WAIT TILL OCTOBER 1ST FOR THAT.

THAT'S SOMETHING WE HAVE IN EXISTING BUDGET.

SO REALLY, WE'VE ALREADY HAD THE CONVERSATIONS WITH THE ENCORE.

WE WANT, AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, WE'LL GET THE L E D LIGHTS AND

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SO THAT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE SAYING WE HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL OCTOBER 1ST.

AND I WOULD ADD, UH, WHAT THAT ONE NOTE ON THE, THE CURRENT PLAN IS TO COME BACK WITH A POLICY FOR COUNCIL, SO WE CAN HAVE A PROCESS FOR THIS IF A NEIGHBORHOOD OR A STREET WANTS TO REQUEST LIGHTS.

THIS IS SOMETHING WE SEE IN A LOT OF OUR COMPARATOR CITIES RIGHT NOW, AS YOU SEE MORE ESTABLISHED NEIGHBORHOODS WITH ISSUES LIKE THIS, UM, COME UP.

SO CERTAINLY DEVELOPING A PROCESS.

AND I THINK THAT, THAT TODD MENTIONED THE OUTREACH ON TRYING TO, UH, ENCOURAGE FOLKS TO HAVE THEIR PORSCHE LIGHTS ON AND THINGS LIKE THAT.

IT DOES HAVE A BIG IMPACT.

IT DOESN'T SOLVE THE ENTIRE PROBLEM.

AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE, WE'RE, THIS IS A PRIORITY FOR US AND WE'RE PUTTING THESE SOLUTIONS FORWARD.

UM, BUT IT'S A PART OF THE, PART OF THE SOLUTION.

QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? GQ? UH, YES, MAYOR, I CAN TELL YOU THAT PERSONALLY, UH, IN, IN MY SUBDIVISION, UH, THE, UH, LIGHTING, UH, THAT WE HAVE, UH, ON THE STREETS IS, IS REALLY, UH, INCREASED BY THE USE OF THE PEOPLE'S FRONT YARD OR THEIR FRONT DOOR LIGHTS.

SO IT'S A GOOD IDEA, UH, THAT WE REACH OUT, MAKE THAT UNDERSTOOD THAT, UH, WE COULD USE AS MUCH ASSISTANCE HERE IN LIGHTING THESE STREETS AND MAKING SAFE, SAFE, UH, IF, IF THAT'S THE, IF THAT'S A CHALLENGE WE HAVE HERE.

THE OTHER ITEM I'M CURIOUS ABOUT THE DECORATIVE POLE.

SO IS THIS MAP WITH THE CIRCLE YELLOW CIRCLES, UH, YELLOW DOTS WITH THE RED CIRCLE AROUND 'EM? YEAH.

SO INSTEAD OF UPGRADING THOSE JUST TO LEDS, THAT WOULD BE REPLACING ALL THE ONES THAT ARE CIRCLED AND THE ADDITION OF THAT ROADWAY OF THAT ONE.

AND THOSE WOULD ALL BE THOSE, UH, CONSIDERED DECORATIVE POLES.

THAT'S WHAT ENCORE CALLS THEM.

AND ARE THEY THE SAME HEIGHT? UM, I BELIEVE THEY'RE AROUND 18 FEET IN HEIGHT.

UH, GIVE OR TAKE A COUPLE FEET, BUT I THINK IT'S, I THINK THEY'RE AROUND 18, 20 FEET HIGH.

ANYTHING ELSE? GQ? NO SIR.

WHO ELSE? ANYBODY? YES, MARLON.

AND SO ON, THE DECORATIVE LIGHTS, WOULD THAT BE PART OF THIS UPCOMING BUDGET IF APPROVED? RIGHT.

IF WE WANTED TO UPGRADED THE DECORATIVE LIGHTS, WE WOULD NEED TO BUDGET.

WE WOULD, IF WE WANTED TO, UH, DO THE DECORATIVE LIGHTS, WE WOULD NEED TO BUDGET THE 50 TO 85,000 IN THE UPCOMING BUDGET.

YEAH, I, I APPRECIATE THE WORK, TODD.

AND, AND I KNOW I'M CERTAIN THERE'S OTHER PEOPLE I KNOW SHANNON'S BEEN OUT THERE AND, UH, DAVID, I APPRECIATE ALL YOUR HELP, BUT, UM, UH, I'VE COVERED A LOT OF GROUND IN ADDISON LOOKING WITH, WITH A FOCUS ON THIS.

AND, AND THIS IS BY FAR THE DARKEST RESIDENTIAL AREA THAT I'VE SEEN.

AND, AND GQ BRINGS UP A GOOD POINT.

UM, AND THE, AND THE POINT CAME UP AT, UM, ABOUT A YEAR, UH, 16, 18 MONTHS AGO, I ATTENDED A, A, A POLICE COMMUNITY OUTREACH PROGRAM.

AND IT WAS MENTIONED THAT IT, YOU KNOW, IT TAKES, UH, IT TAKES MULTIPLE PARTIES, H O A IF THERE IS ONE RESIDENCE AND, AND THE TOWN TO HAVE ADEQUATE LIGHTING.

AND, UH, ONE OF THE HOMEOWNERS SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, I LIVE OVER HERE ON MORMON LANE AND IT'S, IT'S INCREDIBLY DARK.

CAN YOU LOOK INTO IT? SO THAT STARTED THIS PROCESS FOR ME, AND I DID LOOK INTO IT, BUT, UM, ANYBODY WHO'S, WHO'S LOOKED AT THIS IS GONNA REALIZE REAL QUICK THAT THERE'S A, THEY NEED SOME HELP OVER THERE.

AND, AND I THINK IF, IF WE COULD APPROVE 50 TO $80,000, IF THAT'S WHAT IT TAKES TO GET DECORATIVE LIGHTS, UM, IN THIS BUDGET, I WOULD, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE IT DONE BECAUSE, UH, AND I, AND, AND WE'VE DONE IT IN OTHER, OTHER PARTS OF OUR COMMUNITY, OAKS NORTH IS, UM, THEY'RE, THEY'RE THE ONES THAT CAME UP WITH THIS BACK IN 2007.

AND, AND WHEN YOU LOOK AROUND, UH, WITH A FOCUS ON THE STREETLIGHTS, THE, THESE OLDER ONES, UM, WHEREVER YOU ARE IN THE COMMUNITY THERE, IT'S NOT IN MY OPINION, VERY WELL, UM, THOUGHT OUT DESIGN.

YOU'VE GOT A, A POLE, UH, FOR STREET, SUPPOSEDLY FOR STREET LIGHTING.

IT'S 18, ROUGHLY 18 FEET HIGH, AND IT'S, IT'S SHOOTING OUT SIDEWAYS, OUT INTO THE TREES.

IT'S ILLUMINATING TREES, BUT IT'S NOT SHOOTING DOWN ON THE STREET.

SO MY HOPE IS THAT WE WOULD,

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WE WOULD APPROVE THIS IN THIS MAYBE THE MOST NEEDED AREA, BUT IN THE FUTURE WE WOULD CONSIDER MORE, MORE OF THIS, UM, WHEN WE CAN.

THANK YOU, DARREN, ON SLIDE 36.

TODD, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS, BY THE WAY.

SO THE L E D UH, REPLACEMENTS FOR THE EXISTING LIGHTS, WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO BE USED IN NEW LIGHTS IF THEY WERE REPLACED? I'M SORRY? ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THE, THE LIGHTS THAT THEY'RE TAKING OUT OF THE, THE L E D REPLACEMENTS, CONVERTING THE SIX LIGHTS TO LEDS, THOSE BULBS OR REPLACEMENTS, THOSE HEADS? WOULD THEY, IF WE WERE TO REPLACE THE POLES WITH DECORATIVE POLES IN THE FUTURE, WOULD THEY BE ABLE TO U BE USED IN THE DECORATIVE POLES? WOULD BE ANY COST SAVINGS FOR REUSE OF THE L E D LIGHTS? I'M NOT SURE ABOUT THAT.

I WOULD HAVE TO REACH OUT TO ENCORE AND ASK THEM FOR THAT.

SO, ENCORE, HOW DOES ENCORE FIT INTO THIS, INTO THE LIGHTS RIGHT NOW? ENCORE OWNS 'EM, MAINTAINS THOSE STREET LIGHTS.

SO WE PAID THEM A FEE, YOU KNOW, FOR THE ELECTRICITY.

UH, BUT THEY OWN AND MAINTAIN THE LIGHTS.

UH, YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO THEIR WEBSITE, YOU CAN REPORT OUTAGES TO THEM FOLKS WHO, UH, USE THE FIXIT ADDISON APP AND, AND REPORT THEM TO US.

MM-HMM.

WE SIMPLY JUST, UH, GO TO THE ENCORE WEBSITE AND REPORT IT FOR 'EM.

UH, SO THEY'RE THE ONES WHO OWN AND MAINTAIN THE STREETLIGHTS IN THIS AREA.

SO IF WE DO SOME WORK OR WE WANT SOME ADDITIONAL OR BETTER LIGHTS, WE PAY FOR 'EM.

WE PAY FOR 'EM.

BUT, UH, THEY'RE ENCORE'S LIGHTS, SO IT'S THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE.

SO THEY WOULD, GOING FORWARD, THEY WOULD RE THEY WOULD MAINTAIN THE, THE POLES OR THE CORRECT.

THEY, THEY MAINTAIN 'EM, WE JUST BEAR THE UPFRONT COSTS AND THE ELECTRICAL COST FOR THOSE LIGHTS.

AND ONE OF THOSE EXISTING POLES, THE NON DECORATIVE ONE IS $18,000.

UH, WELL, FOR THE INSTALLATION OF THE NEW AREA.

SO YOU GOTTA REMEMBER, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO BORE THROUGH ROCK IN ORDER TO INSTALL THAT NEW POLE.

UH, WE'RE NOT SURE EXACTLY WHERE THEIR INFRASTRUCTURE IS, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE IT'S THEIRS.

UH, BUT, UH, WHEN THEY CAME UP WITH THE, THE PLAN TO, TO BORE AND EVERYTHING TO THAT AREA, THAT, THAT, THAT'S INCLUDED IN THAT COST AS WELL.

IT'S NOT JUST THE COST OF THE POLE.

SO BACK TO SLIDE 36, UH, LED'S A LOT MORE EFFICIENT THAN MOST OTHER LIGHTS.

AND THOSE, IF THEY'RE THE OLD INCANDESCENT ONES, I MEAN, THEY'RE A LOT MORE EFFICIENT.

YOU HAVE A SIGNIFICANT ENERGY SAVINGS.

ARE MOST OF THE LIGHTS IN ADDISON, THE, THE OLD BULBS, THE OLD TECHNOLOGY, FROM WHAT I REMEMBER YEARS AGO WHEN LISA PILES WAS THE DIRECTOR AND I WAS A MANAGER IN THE DEPARTMENT, I WAS, UH, LISTENING TO SOME OF THOSE CONVERSATIONS THAT THEY WERE HAVING WITH ENCORE.

AND MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT, UM, THEY WILL BASICALLY START CONVERTING TO LEDS ON, ON THEIR TIME AND ANY COST TO UPGRADE THEM BEFORE THEN, UH, WOULD BE AT OUR COST IF WE REQUEST IT.

DOES THAT ANSWER YOUR QUESTION? SO, SO IF THEY CONVERT ON THEIR, THEIR TIMEFRAME, THEY PAY FOR IT, OR WE PAY FOR IT, CORRECT.

YEAH, THEY, IT'S PART OF THEIR NORMAL, I GUESS, MAINTENANCE PROCESS.

AND THEN IF WE REQUEST ANY L E D CONVERSIONS, THEN, THEN WE BEAR THE COST.

THE, UH, I DO LIKE TO, I, I LIKE THE IDEA OF, OF THE POLICY AND THE STUDY COMING BACK TO COUNCIL.

I THINK WE NEED TO DO THAT.

I THINK THE STANDARDIZATION OF THE SWEEP OF THE WHOLE TOWN IS, IS IMPORTANT.

SO I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S A GOOD RIGHT WAY TO GO.

UH, LIGHT POLLUTION IS, IS A SIGNIFICANT FACTOR, UH, IN CITIES.

UM, THE LIGHT SHINING UP IS, IS DIFFERENT THAN THE LIGHT SHINING DOWN.

UM, SO TO MARLIN'S POINT ABOUT THE LIGHT SHINING OUTWARDS IS, THAT'S A THING TO CORRECT AS WELL.

UM, SO I'M IN FAVOR OF THE, THE POLICY THAT WOULD BE COMING UP OR COMING TO US FOR CONSIDERATION.

I'M NOT IN FAVOR OF REPLACING ALL OF THOSE WITH DECORATIVE LIGHTS, BUT MAYBE ADDING THAT ONE POLL FOR, FOR THAT POINT, AND THE LEDS.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? OKAY, I THINK THAT'S THE END OF THIS PRESENTATION.

TRY TO ADDRESS ISSUES AND, UH, I'D LIKE TO SUPPORT IT AT A HIGHER LEVEL.

WHAT DO YOU NEED FROM US AT THIS POINT, DAVID? NO, I THINK, UH, I THINK THAT WAS A GREAT DISCUSSION.

I KNOW IT WAS A LOT, BUT I, I THINK THAT REALLY SETS US UP WELL FOR THE 22ND.

SO WE'LL BRING BACK, UM, HOPEFULLY A VERY SHORT PRESENTATION AND JUST TOUCH BASE AND, AND WE CAN MOVE ON WITH THE BUDGET PROCESS.

THE 22ND WILL BE A PACKAGE AGENDA WITH MANY OTHER THINGS, SO WE'LL BE READY FOR THAT.

THANK YOU VERY MUCH.

I, I DO WANNA SAY ONE THING, AND THAT IS THAT, UH, I REALLY WOULD LIKE TO SEE US BE ABLE TO INCREASE THE FUNDING FOR METROCREST SERVICES.

THEY SERVE OUR MOST VULNERABLE POPULATION, MUCH LESS EXPENSIVELY THAN WHAT WE COULD DO IT AS A TOWN.

UM, THEY WORK WITH OUR POLICE TO

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YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT INCREASING TO THE, UH, TO THE REVISED THE REQUESTED AMOUNT? YEAH.

NO, I'M WITH YOU A HUNDRED PERCENT ON THAT.

THEY DO, THEY DO SO MUCH FOR US THAT WE COULDN'T EVEN TOUCH FOR THE, FOR THE KIND OF MONEY THAT WE WOULD GIVE THEM.

MARLON, MAYOR, I'VE GOT ONE, ONE MORE QUESTION.

UM, AND IT'S FOR THE CITY MANAGER WHERE, UH, I MAY HAVE MISSED IT, BUT WHERE ARE WE WITH THE, THE, UH, THE THOUGHT OF ADDING A HOUSING, UH, AN EMPLOYEE HOUSING INCENTIVE? OH, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T HAVE A, SEE, A MAJORITY OF COUNCIL.

OKAY, SO YOU'RE, OKAY.

WELL, INITIALLY WE'RE, WE'RE GONNA GO, UNLESS WE'RE, WE, WERE STILL GONNA DO THE POLL AND BRING IT BACK AND, AND BRING THAT DISCUSSION, BUT I HAVEN'T PUT IT IN THE BUDGET AT THIS POINT BECAUSE I DIDN'T SEE THE MAJORITY.

BUT WE ARE DOING A POLL OF STAFF, SO THAT'S SOMETHING WE COULD HAVE BACK ON THE 22ND, INCLUDING THE BUDGET PRESENTATION.

I WOULD, I WOULD LOVE THAT.

AND I WOULD LOVE TO, UM, HEAR FROM OUR, MY FELLOW COUNCIL COLLEAGUES, WHAT, WHATEVER THEY THINK ABOUT IT AT THAT TIME.

YEAH, WE CAN BRING IT BACK ON THE 22ND.

AND IF, JUST ON METROCREST, IF THERE'S ANY OTHER, OBVIOUSLY I, I HEAR IT FROM TWO, IF THERE'S ANY OTHERS THAT WANT TO INCREASE THAT, THIS WOULD BE THE, THIS WOULD BE A GOOD TIME TO LET US KNOW.

OBVIOUSLY IT COULD COME BACK ON THE 22ND AS WELL.

GQ, YES, MAYOR, I, I, YOU KNOW, I'M LOOKING HERE AT THE GRANT, THE TOTAL, UH, GENERAL FUNDS.

I'M SURPRISED THAT WE DIDN'T, UM, PROPOSE AN INCREASE, UH, TO THE WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC.

IS THERE SOME, CAN WE SPEAK TO THAT A BIT? SO THE, THE COMMON PRACTICE OVER A NUMBER OF YEARS HAS BEEN THAT WE, THE PROPOSED BUDGET SIMPLY HAS THE PRIOR YEARS, UM, FUNDING LEVEL, RIGHT? UM, AND THEN THERE'S THE OPTION TO ADD IT.

THERE IS FUND IF, IF YOU LOOK AT THE REVENUES AND EXPENSES RIGHT NOW, UH, IT'S A HUNDRED THOUSAND OR SO, THERE'S A SURPLUS RIGHT NOW THAT COULD BE OUT THOUSAND, 80,000, THE SURPLUS THAT COULD BE ADDED TO ANY OF THESE.

SO, UM, THAT IS NOT A VALUE STATEMENT ON OUR, FROM US, FROM STAFF AT ALL.

THAT'S JUST SIMPLY THE PREVIOUS FUNDING LEVEL.

SO I'D LIKE MY COLLEAGUES TO CONSIDER AT LEAST, UM, MAKING UP THE HALF OF THE DIFFERENCE THERE BETWEEN THE FIVE AND THE EIGHT, IF YOU'D CONSIDER THAT FOR WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC, THEY, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE, THEY ARE STEPPING UP.

THEY'RE, THEY'RE, THEY, THEY'RE LOOKING AT EXPANDING MORE OF THEIR SERVICES.

AND OF COURSE, UH, I BELIEVE THE R O I, UH, UH, FOR THE TOWN OF ADDISON, UH, IS, IS, UH, IS WORTH, UM, WORTH, WORTH, UH, PUTTING SOME MORE, UH, MONEY TOWARDS THAT.

I WOULD SUPPORT THAT AS WELL.

I WOULD ALSO DEFINITELY, I, UM, HAVE VISITED OVER THERE AND WAS VERY IMPRESSED WITH THE ORGANIZATION.

UM, ALL OF THE, ALL OF THE STAFF, THE DIRECTOR, UM, AND, UH, I WOULD DEFINITELY SUPPORT ANY INCREASE THERE.

DAVID, DO WE, DO WE HAVE THE GRANT FUNDING, UH, PAPERWORK AND THE APPLICATIONS AND ALL THOSE THINGS THAT, THAT THE NONPROFITS SEND TO US? DO WE HAVE THAT ON THE ONEDRIVE SOMEWHERE? YES, IT'S ON THE, IT'S ON THE ONEDRIVE IN A, IN A FOLD, IN A SPECIFIC FOLDER THAT HAS ALL OF THEM.

SO OKAY.

IT'S OUT THERE ON THE ONEDRIVE AND THE F Y 24.

YEAH, I'D LIKE TO LOOK AT THAT BEFORE WE, AND I'LL LOOK AT THAT BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR NEXT MEETING.

SURE.

WELL, AND ON THE 22ND AS WELL, WE COULD SIMPLY JUST PUT THIS SLIDE UP AND CONTINUE DISCUSSION WITHOUT CONTINUE THE DISCUSSION ON THE 22ND AND PUT THIS SLIDE UP IF THERE'S, IF YOU WANNA HAVE MORE DISCUSSION AND DECIDE HOW TO ALLOCATE THOSE FUNDS.

PERFECT.

GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.

YEAH, AND, AND I AGREE WITH THE COMMENTS ABOUT WOVEN HEALTH CLINIC.

THEY DO REALLY GREAT WORK OVER THERE, AND I WOULD BE, I WOULD BE SUPPORTIVE OF THAT INCREASE AS WELL.

ANY OTHER COMMENTS? ALL RIGHT, WELL, LET'S MOVE ON TO OUR FINAL ITEM, WHICH IS ITEM SIX, ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST.

IT'S THE TIME THAT, UH, FOR COUNCIL TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING.

GOOD.

AM I MISSING SOMETHING? WHAT ABBY STILL HAS HER, UH, HER PRESENCE? OH, WELL SHE'S BEEN HERE ALL NIGHT, SO SHE COULD SHE'D COME AND GIVE HER, I'M SORRY, ABBY, BECAUSE SHE WAS THE ONE I WAS GONNA TALK SO NICE ABOUT.

ABBY DOES BRING A LOT OF ENERGY, SO SHE'LL, UH, , SHE'LL LIFT THE ROOM UP.

[b. Present and discuss a Taste Addison 2023 Recap and Oktoberfest 2023 Preview.]

ABBY MORALES, DIRECTOR OF SPECIAL EVENTS.

UM, IT'S BEEN A MINUTE SINCE WE'VE HAD TASTE AND EXPERIENCE FOR EVERY VIBE, AND I'M HERE TO TALK POST NUMBERS AND WRAP IT ALL UP FOR US.

AND SO, LET'S SEE.

WE STARTED WITH AN EXPERIENCE FOR EVERY VIBE, AND I WANTED TO START WITH, UM, HOW THAT WAS DRIVEN.

UM, AND IT WAS BY OUR 2022 STRATEGIC PLAN, AND THAT WAS TO CONTINUE WITH THE TWO DAY FESTIVAL, UM, TO DESIGN AND MARKET FOR THE FOODIES, THE MUSIC LOVERS AND THE FAMILIES, UM, TO IMPROVE OPERATIONS AROUND THE V I P EXPERIENCE AND TO CONTINUE THE ENHANCED SPECIALTY AREAS FOR

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CHILDREN AND THOSE ADULTS THAT WERE 21 YEARS AND OLDER, UM, FOCUSING ON SPONSORSHIP PARTNERSHIPS.

UM, THE NUMBERS AT A HIGH LEVEL GLANCE, THESE NUMBERS WILL COME INTO PLAY LATER THROUGHOUT THE PRESENTATION, BUT I WANTED TO POINT OUT A FEW THINGS.

WE HAD 29 RESTAURANTS AND CONCESSIONAIRES THAT PARTICIPATED THIS PAST YEAR, 25 MARKETPLACE VENDORS, AND WE HAD THREE STAGES THAT INCLUDED NATIONAL, REGIONAL, AS WELL AS LOCAL ACTS.

UM, HIGHLIGHTING THE PARTNERSHIPS AND SPONSORSHIP ASPECT RESULTED IN OVER 21,500 COMPLIMENTARY WINE AND, UH, SPIRIT TASTINGS THAT WERE PROVIDED THROUGHOUT THE, THE TWO DAY FESTIVAL, AND THEN A SURVEY THAT WE TOOK ON THE GROUNDS.

UM, WHAT ATTRACTED YOU TO TASTE? WHEN WE LOOKED AT HIGHLIGHTING AND MARKETING, UM, THE FOODIES, THE MUSIC LOVERS AS WELL AS FAMILY, UM, YOU'LL SEE THAT FOOD WON THAT RACE WITH 58% OF OUR ATTENDEES, UM, BEING ATTRACTED TO TASTE BY WAY OF FOOD.

UM, A NICE TIE BETWEEN MUSIC AND ALL OF IT.

UM, AND THEN FAMILY FUN ROUNDED OUT THAT LIST AS WELL.

UM, THE NUMBERS DO SHOW THAT THE ATTENDEES HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SELECT AS MANY, UM, OPPORTUNITIES THAT ATTRACTED THEM, AND IT WASN'T JUST LIMITED TO JUST ONE HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW ON THE FESTIVAL.

DEMOGRAPHICS.

UM, MALE, FEMALE, UM, ATTENDANCE PRETTY MUCH SPLIT.

86% OF OUR ATTENDEES LIVE WITHIN 30 MILES OF ADDISON, SO CERTAINLY A REGIONAL DRAW.

AND YOU SEE THE NUMBER, UM, BREAKDOWN AS FAR AS AGES THERE AS WELL.

UM, ATTENDANCE IS ALWAYS A BIG FACTOR THAT, UM, PEOPLE LIKE TO LOOK AT AND CERTAINLY ONE OF THE WAYS THAT WE, UM, MEASURE OUR IMPACT.

UM, CERTAINLY A NUMBER OF WAYS THAT YOU CAN ACTUALLY CALCULATE ATTENDANCE.

UM, THE TYPICAL STANDARD THAT, UM, IS USED IN THE INDUSTRY IS YOU TAKE THE TOTAL NUMBER OF TICKETS THAT ARE SOLD BOTH ON SITE AS WELL AS ONLINE.

YOU ADD THOSE TOGETHER AND THEN YOU USE A MULTIPLIER TO ACCOUNT FOR ANY COMP TICKETS THAT ARE PROVIDED JUST TO GENERALLY RUN THE FESTIVAL AS A WHOLE.

UM, I WANTED TO PROVIDE COMPARABLE NUMBERS SO THAT WE WERE COMPARING, UM, OVER THE PAST FOUR YEARS.

AND THE WAY THAT WE DO IT HERE IS WE ACTUALLY TAKE THE NUMBER OF TICKETS THAT WERE SCANNED IN AT THE SITE.

THERE'S NEVER GOING TO BE A HUNDRED PERCENT REDEMPTION ON THE TICKETS.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE OUR OFFICIAL NUMBER IS 14,650 AS FAR AS ATTENDANCE GOES, BUT YOU'LL ALSO SEE HIGHLIGHTED THAT THE NUMBER OF TICKETS THAT WERE ACTUALLY SOLD THAT I CAN SHOW YOUR REPORT FOR WAS ACTUALLY 18,096.

BUT AGAIN, IN AN EFFORT TO SHOW YOU, UM, THE HISTORY OVER THE FOUR YEARS AND TO SHOW YOU THOSE COMPARABLE NUMBERS, UM, IN THE INDUSTRY AS A WHOLE, A LOT OF US ARE LOOKING AND WORKING REALLY HARD TO GET BACK TO WHERE WE WERE PRE COVID.

AND YOU'LL SEE THAT WE CERTAINLY HAVE DONE THAT.

OUR MARKETING EFFORTS, OUR MARKETING TEAM DOES A PHENOMENAL JOB OF GETTING THE WORD OUT THERE ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF THE SCREEN.

YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE DO BY WAY OF PAID ADVERTISING ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE, YOU'LL SEE WHAT WE DO WITH REGARDS TO IN-KIND PARTNERSHIPS, UM, IN THE AREA.

UM, JUST BY THE GROSS NUMBER OF IMPRESSIONS AND OR REACH, YOU'LL SEE THAT WE HAD QUITE AN IMPACT FROM OUR MARKETING EFFORTS WITH DIGITAL AND RADIO LEADING THE WAY.

AS FAR AS, UM, OUR MARKETING EFFORTS GO WITH REGARDS TO OUR PR REACH BROADCAST, UM, BRINGS IN THE MOST IMPRESSIONS AND YOU SEE THAT ACROSS THE BOARD FOR BOTH OUR PAID AS WELL AS OUR IN KIND MARKETING EFFORTS.

WHEN WE LOOK AT THE HOTELS, CERTAINLY AN IMPORTANT ASPECT WHEN WE'RE LOOKING AT, UM, FESTIVALS AS A WHOLE.

UM, TOWN WIDE OCCUPANCY FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, YOU'LL SEE LISTED THERE.

UM, I DON'T ACTUALLY HAVE COMPARABLE INFORMATION TO SHARE WITH YOU OVER THE COURSE OF FOUR YEARS BECAUSE WE WOULDN'T BE COMPARING APPLES TO APPLES THIS PAST YEAR.

YOU'LL SEE THAT 13 HOTELS ACTUALLY PARTICIPATED IN OFFERING A SPECIAL RATE THAT WAS TIED TO TASTE LAST YEAR.

EVERY HOTEL WAS ABLE TO PARTICIPATE, NOT EVERYONE OFFERED A SPECIAL RATE.

AND THE NUMBER OF, UM, PACKAGES AND ROOM NIGHTS THAT WERE BOOKED WERE ACTUALLY JUST TOWN WIDE.

FOR COMPARISON, WHAT I CAN SHARE IS TOWN WIDE HOTEL OCCUPANCY LAST YEAR WAS 70% AND 74% RESPECTIVELY FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY.

FOOD AND BEVERAGE, ALWAYS A FUN THING.

UM, AT FESTIVALS YOU'LL SEE GROSS NUMBERS THAT ARE LISTED HERE.

I WILL HIGHLIGHT THAT WE DO NOT ACTUALLY RECEIVE ALL OF THE GROSS SALES.

UM, WE RECEIVE REVENUE BY WAY OF FOOD AND BEVERAGE IN TWO DIFFERENT WAYS.

WE RECEIVE BOOTH FEES OR VENDOR PARTICIPATION FEES FROM, UM, ALL OF OUR ADDISON PARTICIPATING RESTAURANTS.

AND THEN WE DO

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A REV SHARE, UM, WHERE WE TAKE A PERCENTAGE OF THE REVENUE THAT'S GENERATED BY ALL OF OUR CONCESSIONAIRES, AND THAT DOES INCLUDE BOTH RESTAURANT AND BEVERAGE CONCESSIONAIRES.

I DO HAVE SOME HISTORICAL DATA ON WHAT OUR GROSS SALES HISTORY WAS.

UM, AGAIN, A LOT OF TIMES IN THE INDUSTRY NOW, UM, IS LOOKING AT WHAT YOUR NUMBERS WERE PRE COVID, AND YOU'LL SEE THAT COMPARISON THERE.

ABBY? YES, SIR.

25 RU ADDISON RESTAURANTS.

THAT WAS, UM, WE'RE GOING UP IN THE NUMBER IN THE LAST FEW YEARS.

H H HOW, HOW DID THAT WORK FOR US? THE 25 AND, AND DO WE HAVE ROOM FOR MORE? WE ABSOLUTELY HAVE ROOM FOR MORE.

THERE'S ALWAYS ROOM FOR MORE.

UM, IN COMPARISON TO LAST YEAR, THERE WERE 18 PARTICIPATING ADDISON RESTAURANTS THIS YEAR BEING 25.

DEFINITELY ROOM FOR MORE.

A QUESTION, ABBY.

SO ATTENDANCE WAS UP THIS YEAR.

AND THE RESTAURANT GROSS SALES WAS DOWN.

IS THERE MORE TO THAT STORY? IS THERE A REASON? WHAT WE LOOKED AT WAS, UM, THE REST, THE COST OF FOOD IS RISING.

AND SO YOU SAW AN INCREASE IN PRICES WITH REGARDS TO THE VENDORS THAT WERE PARTICIPATING.

AND WHAT WE NOTICED THIS YEAR IN COMPARISON TO LAST YEAR, WAS THE NUMBER OF TASTY BUCKS THAT TASTE, TASTE BITES.

THE REDEMPTION RATE ON THAT WAS $9,000 VERSUS $3,000 IN 2022.

SO WHAT WE SAW THIS YEAR WAS THAT PEOPLE WERE SPENDING LE UH, MORE ON LOWER COST ITEMS. WE'LL GO OVER REVENUE, UM, AND EXPENDITURES IN A LITTLE MORE DETAIL.

GIVEN MY, UM, FIVE MONTH TENURE HERE, I THOUGHT I WOULD BRING IN AN EXPERT TO TALK SPECIFICALLY AROUND THE REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES THAT YOU SEE HERE.

I WILL HIGHLIGHT BEFORE ISH COMES UP, UM, THAT THE, UH, PRESENTATION WAS DUE, UM, PRIOR TO NUMBERS BEING, UM, COMPLETELY FINALIZED.

AND SO YOU'LL SEE A LITTLE DISCREPANCY ON WHAT'S HERE ON THE SCREEN, BUT THIS IS THE MOST ACCURATE VERSUS WHAT'S IN THE PACKET.

I JUST WANTED TO HIGHLIGHT THAT BEFORE ISH TOOK THE STAND.

GOOD EVENING.

UH, ISMAIL ALTA, SENIOR ACCOUNTANT FINANCE, UH, JUST WANTED TO SHARE SOME NUMBERS REGARDING ADDISON OR TASTE ADDISON.

2023, UH, REVENUE WAS TOTALING 412,000.

UH, THAT COMPROMISES OF ON SALE AND ONLINE TICKET SALES OF 259,000 SPONSORSHIPS OF 96,000 VENDOR FEES FROM RESTAURANT AND MARKETPLACE OWNERS OF 25,000.

UM, OUR REVENUE SHARE OF 20% TO OUR CONCESSIONAIRE, UH, 25,000 AND, UH, MERCH SALES AND ANYTHING MISCELLANEOUS REVENUE WISE, UH, WAS 6,000.

UH, EXPENSES FOR THE YEAR WERE 874,000.

UM, MOSTLY THE MAJORITY BEING FROM ENTERTAINMENT AND CONTRACTUAL SERVICES.

UH, THREE 11,000 FOR ENTERTAINMENT 2 61, UM, FROM SERVICES, UH, STAFF COMPENSATION WAS 100,000.

UM, AND THEN, AND THEN, UH, I CAN'T SEE WHAT, LEMME SEE.

OH, AND THEN RENTALS WERE ONE 13 ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.

UH, WEATHER INSURANCE AND ANY MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES WERE 53,000.

UM, OUTSIDE SECURITY, 15,000 CREDIT CARD FEES OF 18,000 HERE.

I'VE GOT IT.

IT'S A FOUR YEAR COMPARISON OF TASTE.

UM, WHAT WAS THAT? YEAH, I'VE GOT IT.

QUICK QUESTION ON THAT LAST SLIDE.

SLIDE EIGHT.

IF YOU COULD GO BACK ONE.

SO THAT, UM, THAT'S DIFFERENT THAN, THAN WHAT WE HAVE.

UH, AND SO IS, IS THAT GONNA BE, UM, UPDATED IN THE AGENDA PACKET? I MISS THAT.

QUESTIONS? SO A COMMENT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAME UNDER BUDGET ON EXPENSES, CORRECT? SIGNIFICANTLY.

WELL, ABBY, ABBY, WHEN SHE INTRODUCED US SAID THAT WE GOT SOME FINALIZED NUMBERS BETWEEN WHEN THE PACKET POSTED AND NOW, SO THESE ARE THE OFFICIAL NUMBERS AND THEY WILL BE UPDATED IN THE PACKET.

ALRIGHT, THANK YOU.

UH, HERE'S A FOUR YEAR COMPARISON OF TASTE.

UM, JUST TO GIVE SOME CLARIFICATION ON THE NUMBERS, I KNOW THERE'S A BUNCH, UM, IN THE BAR YOU'LL SEE ACTUALS FOR EACH YEAR.

BELOW THAT YOU'LL SEE BUDGETED AMOUNTS AND THEN THE PERCENTAGE BELOW THAT IS BUDGET USED FOR THE YEAR OR UNUSED, UM, GREEN REVENUES, UH, TEAL EXPENSES, AND THEN OUR P AND L IN BLUE.

UM, ANY

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ALWAYS GOOD TO POINT THAT OUT.

AND A LITTLE STRONGER ON REVENUE.

YES, TOO.

ALWAYS A GOOD THING.

MOSTLY FROM MY ADMISSIONS.

GOOD JOB.

NOW HAND IT BACK TO HAPPY.

ISH.

I KIND OF WANTED TO ROUND OUT, UM, THE PRESENTATION WITH THE ECONOMIC IMPACT.

AND THIS COMES FROM MY DAYS WITH THE CONVENTION AND VISITORS BUREAU.

UM, WHEN I THINK ABOUT WHY I'M INVOLVED IN THE INDUSTRY THAT I'M IN, IT'S BECAUSE YOU MAKE AN ECONOMIC IMPACT IN, IN THE PLACE THAT YOU'RE HOSTING YOUR EVENT.

UM, IT GOES BEYOND JUST THE TWO OR THREE OR FOUR DAYS THAT YOU'RE ACTUALLY HOSTING.

THIS, UM, FORMULA ACTUALLY COMES FROM DESTINATIONS INTERNATIONAL, WHICH IS A STANDARD IN THE INDUSTRY THAT, UM, A LOT OF US USE.

UM, THEY HAVE SPECIFIC FORMULAS THAT ARE TIED DIRECTLY TO FESTIVALS AND EVENTS.

THEY HAVE 'EM TIED TO SPORTING EVENTS.

THEY HAVE THEM TIED TO CONVENTION AND SALES.

AND SO THIS IS ACTUALLY THE GENERIC ONE, UM, THAT IS USED.

AND YOU'LL SEE THAT IT HINGES ON THE NUMBER OF TICKETS THAT ARE SOLD.

THE NUMBER OF YOUR ATTENDEES, THE PERCENTAGE THAT COMES FROM OUTSIDE OF YOUR IMMEDIATE UM, PLACE.

UM, HOTEL STAYS ARE CERTAINLY AN IMPACTFUL AREA THAT GETS PLUGGED IN.

AND THE HIGHLIGHTED CELLS IN THE FORMULA ARE WHAT YOU PLUG IN AND WHAT POPULATES, UM, FROM THE FORMULAS THAT THEY CREATE.

UM, YOU'LL SEE THERE IN THE WHITE AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THIS PAST YEAR OUR TOTAL ECONOMIC IMPACT FOR THE TOWN AS A WHOLE IS JUST UNDER A MILLION DOLLARS.

AND I THINK THAT'S IMPORTANT TO HIGHLIGHT.

AND SO I WANTED TO BE SURE AND SHARE THAT.

ANY QUESTIONS? I HAVE ONE.

YES, MA'AM.

ON THE HOTEL OCCUPANCY, YES.

WHEN IT SAYS 38 TOTAL PACKAGES REDEEMED, BUT TOTAL ROOM NIGHTS BOOKED IS 79, TELL ME WHAT THOSE MEAN.

SO WHEN YOU BOOK A HOTEL ROOM, UM, PART OF YOUR PACKAGE INCLUDES ADMISSION TICKETS, AND THEN YOU RECEIVE A VOUCHER THAT YOU REDEEM AT THE EVENT SITE.

UM, TO, TO GET OUR TOTAL ROOM NIGHTS THAT WERE ACTUALLY BOOKED, YOU HAD TO CLICK A SPECIFIC LINK THAT WAS TIED THAT WOULD GIVE US THE INFORMATION THAT GAVE US THE ROOM NIGHTS.

IN ORDER FOR OUR PACKAGE TRACKING, YOU ACTUALLY HAD TO REDEEM THE VOUCHER ON SITE.

SO WE ONLY HAD 38 THAT WERE ACTUALLY REDEEMED.

SO ABOUT HALF, YES, SOME OF THOSE ACTUALLY PURCHASED A V I P PACKAGE.

AND SO WE SAW SOME OF THAT REDEMPTION ON THAT END, IN WHICH CASE BOTH OF THOSE, BOTH FRIDAY AND SATURDAY WERE COMPLETELY SOLD OUT.

AND DO WE KNOW WHAT HOTELS LIKE BENEFITED THE MOST? I WOULD THINK THE ONES THAT ARE CLOSEST, BUT MAYBE NOT.

SO YES, IT WAS THE ONES THAT WERE WITHIN WALKING DISTANCE OF THE SITE THAT BENEFITED THE MOST.

SO ABBY, UM, GOING FORWARD, DO YOU HAVE IDEAS TO DO THINGS, DO ANYTHING DIFFERENT WITH TASTE? OR WHAT ARE YOU, WHAT ARE YOU THINKING ABOUT THAT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.

AND SO WE'RE LOOKING TO KIND OF REIMAGINE THE ENTIRE EVENT.

UM, WE'VE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY INTERNALLY TO DOWNLOAD AS A TEAM, WE'LL DOWNLOAD AS A TOWN AS WELL.

AND I THINK THAT THERE'S A VERY REALLY, REALLY UNIQUE OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF CHANGE THINGS UP DRASTICALLY.

UM, I'M BRAND NEW.

DAVID IS BRAND NEW.

ALL OF YOU ARE BRAND NEW AND THERE'S REALLY A BIG OPPORTUNITY TO KIND OF TRANSFORM THIS INTO SOMETHING THAT, UM, COULD CERTAINLY CONTINUE TO DRIVE, UM, ADDISON AS A DESTINATION.

SO I EXPECT WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER PRESENTATION AT SOME POINT.

YES SIR.

YOU WILL.

ALL RIGHT.

THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HARD WORK.

APPRECIATE IT.

BE CLEAR.

WE'RE KEEPING THE SAME NAME.

THE NAME IS NOT CHANGING, JUST TO BE FAIR.

SEPTEMBER 14TH THROUGH THE 17TH.

THAT'S, THAT'S NOT UP FOR NEGOTIATIONS.

, ANYBODY ELSE? AND DO YOU HAVE, DO YOU ALSO HAVE OCTOBER FEST PREVIEW? I DO.

I'M SWITCHING VIBES AND SO I'M GOING FROM AN EXPERIENCE FOR EVERY VIBE TO GERMAN FAIR WITH A TEXAS FLARE.

SO ADDISON OCTOBER FEST IS COMING UP.

UM, JUST SOME INFORMATION WE ARE SLATED TO TAKE PLACE.

YOU'LL SEE THE HOURS LISTED THERE.

ADMISSION IS $10.

UM, ON FRIDAY AND SATURDAY, THURSDAY AND SUNDAY OUR FREE ADMISSION AND KIDS NINE AND UNDER ARE FREE THE ENTIRE WEEKEND.

UM, AND THEN WE ALSO ARE IMPLEMENTING GROUP SALES.

WE SAW SOME SUCCESS AT TASTE AROUND THAT.

AND SO GROUP TICKETS WILL ARE, WILL BE ON SALE AS WELL AND YOU CAN TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT IF YOU HAVE A GROUP OF 20 OR MORE.

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WE HAVE A NUMBER OF TICKET PACKETS THAT, UM, ARE ON SALE AND AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE.

THE UNIQUE PIECE OF UH, THE TICKET PACKETS IS THAT EACH OF THEM COMES WITH THE COMMEMORATIVE STEIN, THE COMMEMORATIVE LAPEL PEN, AND OF COURSE POLL OR BEER.

THE ONLY WAY THAT YOU CAN GET THE COMMEMORATIVE LAPEL, UM, IS BY PURCHASING ONE OF THE PACKAGES.

AND YOU'LL SEE THAT THERE'S AN ADDISON OCTOBER FEST PACKET.

THE PARTY HALL DECK TABLES ARE BACK AND WE DID ADD SUNDAY TO THE LINEUP, UM, FOR PURCHASE.

UM, AND THEN OF COURSE OUR HOTEL PACKETS AS WELL.

WE HAVE FUN FOR THE FAMILY.

OUR KIDS' GARDEN IS BACK THIS YEAR OFFERING SOME FREE HANDS-ON ACTIVITIES AND GAMES FOR OUR KIDS.

12 AND UNDER SOME NEW THINGS THAT WE'RE ADDING TO THE KIDS' GARDEN, WE'RE LOOKING TO IMPLEMENT A ROOT BEER GARDEN FOR OUR LITTLES.

UM, AND THEN WE WILL ALSO HAVE THE MINI MOSS KRUG, WHICH IS THE STEIN HOLDING CONTEST FOR THOSE THAT ARE 12 AND UNDER SUNDAY.

HYUNDAI IS BACK WITH THE DOCS AND RACES.

THE RACES WILL MOVE TO THE PARTY HALL THIS YEAR.

AND THE BIG CHANGE AROUND THAT IS SUNDAY'S NOT JUST FOR THOSE DOGS THAT ARE RACING, IT'S OPEN FOR ALL DOGS AND THEIR PARENTS AS WELL.

THE PARTY PLOTS IS A NEW AREA THAT WE ARE, UM, IMPLEMENTING FOR THE TEENS IN THE CROWD.

UM, WE'RE ADDING SILENT DISCO TO THE AREA AS WELL AS A MINOR MOSS KRUG, WHICH AGAIN, THE STEIN HOLDING CONTEST.

BUT THESE ARE FOR MINORS AGES 13 TO 20.

AND THEN OF COURSE OUR MARKETPLACE WILL BE BACK WHERE YOU CAN GET YOUR DURDAL, YOUR STEINS OR YOUR ALPINE HATS AND SO MUCH MORE.

UM, A TENS TENTS CERTAINLY PLAY, UM, HOMAGE, UM, TO MUNICH.

AND THEN THE GARDENS, UH, SERVE AS OUR TEXAS FLAIR THAT WE DO HERE AT ADDISON OCTOBER FEST.

ALL OF THESE AREAS WILL BE, UM, THERE ON SITE THIS YEAR WHERE YOU CAN FIND LIVE MUSIC GAMES AND OF COURSE POLAN OR BEER.

UM, SOME OF THE GAMES THAT WILL BE HIGHLIGHTED AND FEATURED WILL BE THE BEER MAIDEN STEIN BEER GARDEN.

BINGO.

UM, AND THEN OF COURSE THE EVER POPULAR BARREL ROLLING.

AND THEN THE MOSS KRIEG FOR THE ADULTS WILL BE HELD IN THE PARTY HALL AS WELL AS THE MUSIC ZELT ON STAGE.

UM, SOMETHING TO NOTE ABOUT THE PARTY HALL.

WE ARE THE ONLY ONE IN THE LOCAL REGION THAT HOSTS A PARTY HALL, VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT THEY DO IN MUNICH.

THE SIZE OF OUR TENT IS ACTUALLY 100 FEET BY 300 FEET, WHICH MAKES IT CHALLENGING FOR VENDORS TO ACTUALLY COME OUT AND ERECT A STRUCTURE THAT LARGE.

UM, IT'S ACTUALLY THE ONLY ONE IN THE REGION AND THERE'S ONLY ONE VENDOR THAT CAN ACTUALLY PRODUCE A TENT THAT SIZE AND WE'RE PROUD TO SAY THAT WE HAVE IT.

I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH SOME FUN FACTS AROUND OCTOBERFEST.

WE ACTUALLY, UM, PURCHASED OVER 10,000 STEINS.

YOU'LL SEE THE ACTUAL IMAGE OF THE STEIN THAT WILL BE THERE THIS YEAR.

THAT IS OUR COMMEMORATIVE SIGN.

THE IMAGE ON THE FAR LEFT HAND SIDE, IT'S ACTUALLY A CUSTOM MOLD.

WE ARE PURCHASING THE STEIN FROM OUR PARTNER, PAUL LANNER.

THEY ACTUALLY SENT US, UM, OPTIONS EARLIER IN THE YEAR.

UM, AND THE CERAMIC ONES, THE ONE THAT WE SELECTED, IT WASN'T IN THE RIGHT SIZE, IT WAS GOING TO BE TWICE THE SIZE OF THE NORMAL STINE THAT WE PURCHASED.

AND SO WE WERE HAVING TO TRY TO MAKE A DECISION DO WE BUY THAT? AND THEN YOU HAVE LESS BEER IN THERE AND THEN YOU HAVE TO TRY AND EXPLAIN THAT AWAY.

AND SO WE REACHED BACK OUT TO THEM AND SAID, DO YOU HAVE ANOTHER OPTION OF THIS PARTICULAR STINE IN THIS PARTICULAR SIZE? AND WHAT THEY DID IS THEY SAID, NO, WE DON'T, BUT WE'RE HAPPY TO DO A CUSTOM MOLD, SO THIS WILL BE ONE OF A KIND FIND.

NO ONE ELSE WILL HAVE IT.

AND SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO HAVE THAT.

UM, THERE THIS YEAR THAT THE BOOT THAT YOU SEE THERE IN THE CENTER, THAT'S THE COMMEMORATIVE LAPEL PIN THAT IS AVAILABLE BY ONLY PURCHASING ONE OF THE PACKETS THAT I'D MENTIONED EARLIER.

UM, AND THEN OVER THE COURSE OF THE WEEKEND, WE WILL ACTUALLY, UM, SERVE OVER 300 KEGS OF BEER.

THERE'S LITERALLY BEER FOR EVERYONE, INCLUDING A NON-ALCOHOLIC OPTION THAT YOU'LL SEE THERE ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE.

AND SO WITH THAT, I SAY PRO Y'ALL.

ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY? I'M SORRY.

I'LL JUST ASK IF THERE WERE ANY QUESTIONS.

I JUST HAVE A THOUGHT I I WANT TO SHARE OVER THE YEARS, I'VE, I'VE GOT A LOT OF INPUT ABOUT THE STEINS, SO I APPRECIATE, UM, THE THE AMOUNT OF DETAIL THAT, THAT YOUR GROUP HAS FOCUSED ON THAT I THINK IT'S A BIG DEAL TO, TO EVERY, UH, MOST PEOPLE THAT, THAT ATTEND THAT EVENT.

SO THANK YOU.

YOU'RE WELCOME.

THANK YOU MARLON.

ANY ANYBODY ELSE? GQ? YES.

I HAVE A QUESTION ON THE TICKET PACKETS.

HOW ARE THE SALES GOING FOR THE PARTY HALL DECK TABLE? OH, THE PARTY HALL DECK TABLES, UM, ARE GOING QUICKLY.

UM, IT WAS PROBABLY ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS TO SELL BEFORE ADMISSION TICKETS STARTED SELLING, SO THEY'RE GOING WELL.

WELL, THAT'S GOOD.

I I KNOW I WAS, UH, FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO BE UP THERE LAST YEAR AND UH, WE HAD A REALLY GOOD

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TIME.

RECOMMEND IT HIGHLY.

ANYBODY ELSE? ABBY, THANKS SO MUCH.

APPRECIATE ALL YOUR HARD WORK.

[6. Items of Community Interest. The City Council will have this opportunity to address items of community interest, including: expressions of thanks, congratulations, or condolence; information regarding holiday schedules; an honorary or salutary recognition; a reminder about an upcoming event organized or sponsored by the Town of Addison; information regarding a social, ceremonial, or community event that was or will be attended by an Addison City Council member or an official; and, announcements involving an eminent threat to public health and safety in Addison that has arisen since posting this agenda.]

NOW CAN WE GO TO ITEM SIX? AH, LEE, I'M GONNA GET THROUGH ONE OF THESE AND GET IT RIGHT ONE, ONE TIME.

ITEM SIX IS THAT ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST IF THE, UH, MEMBERS OF COUNCIL HAVE SOMETHING THEY WOULD LIKE TO SHARE WITH THE GROUP, SOMETHING GOING ON, SOMEBODY YOU'D LIKE TO RECOGNIZE OR SAY SOMETHING GOOD ABOUT OR MARLON YES, SIR.

I, I WOULD LIKE TO SHARE THAT.

I WISH I HAD HALF OF THE, I WISH I, I WISH I HAD HALF OF THE ENERGY ABBY HAS BECAUSE IF I DID IT WOULD BE AMAZING.

UM, AND THE OTHER, THE OTHER THOUGHT, UM, UM, I HAVE IS, IS WHEN I FIRST BECAME ELECTED IN 2018, UH, WE HAD COUNCIL ASSIGNMENTS AND I, AND I WAS A LIAISON AMONG OTHER THINGS ON THE, UH, FINANCE COMMITTEE.

AND SO WE WOULD ALWAYS DO THIS DEEP DIVE IN FINANCE AND, AND UM, AND SO THERE, THERE WAS SOME, THERE WAS SOME ISSUES, SOME CONCERNS BACK THEN.

AND WE WORKED THROUGH THEM.

AND I WOULD JUST SAY THIS IS, UM, THE DAY THAT WE GOT STEVEN, THE, THE DAY THAT HE WALKED INTO THE FINANCE COMMITTEE, ALL OF THOSE CONCERNS WENT AWAY.

AND, UM, AND SO I APPRECIATE EVERYTHING YOU'VE DONE AND UM, AND I DON'T EVER LOSE ANY SLEEP ABOUT OUR, UH, UH, FINANCE.

SO THANK YOU.

THANKS MARLON.

WHO ELSE? WELL, I WOULD, I'D LIKE TO JUST SAY ONE THING.

UH, WITH THIS EXTENDED DAYS OF A HUNDRED PLUS DEGREE TEMPERATURES, I AM, UH, JUST EVER MORE GRATEFUL FOR THE MANY STAFF THAT WE HAVE EMPLOYEES THROUGHOUT THE TOWN THAT HAVE TO WORK OUTSIDE.

AND WE MIGHT NOT THINK ABOUT ALL OF THEM, BUT THERE'S SO MANY THAT ARE OUT THERE.

WE, WE THINK ABOUT THE PARK SKIES AND PUBLIC WORKS, BUT THERE ARE PLENTY OF OTHERS.

AND YOU KNOW, THE POLICE THAT ARE OUT THERE WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR GEAR ON EVERY DAY AND, AND, AND THEY DO THE, THEY, THEY DO THE JOB AND, AND, UH, I'M ETERNALLY GRATEFUL TO ALL OF THEM.

SO, UM, THAT'S ALL I HAVE.

AND WITH THAT, IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, WE'LL ADJOURN AT 10 40.

GOODNIGHT EVERYBODY.