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[1. Call Meeting to Order and Announce that a Quorum is Present.]
IS FIVE 30 AND WE WILL CALL THE ORDER OF THIS MEETING OF THE ADDISON CITY COUNCIL ON SEPTEMBER 23RD, 2025.WE DO HAVE A QUORUM OF THE COUNCIL PRESENT WITH SIX OF US IN ATTENDANCE THIS EVENING, AND WE WILL GO RIGHT INTO ITEM NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS PUBLIC COMMENT.
UH, IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY FOR FOLKS TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON, UH, ITEMS ON THE AGENDA, OR NOT ON THE AGENDA FOR UP TO THREE MINUTES.
AND, UH, IF THERE'S ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE TO DO SO, PLEASE COME FORWARD AT THIS TIME.
SEEING NONE, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION OUT AND MOVE ON
[3. Council Member Clarification Requests Regarding Consent Agenda Items. ]
TO ITEM NUMBER THREE.COUNCIL MEMBER CLARIFICATION, REQUEST REGARDING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATION NEEDED ON CONSENT ITEMS? NO, MA'AM.
NOT, NOT ON A CONSENT AGENDA ITEM, BUT I WOULD LIKE TO MAKE A, A COMMENT IF I CAN.
UM, OUT OF RESPECT FOR OUR JEWISH MEMBERS, OUR JEWISH RESIDENTS, THE JEWISH FAITH MM-HMM
I'D LIKE TO MAKE A SUGGESTION THAT WE CLOSE THIS MEETING OUT AND NOT HAVE A MEETING ON OUR, ON OUR RELIGIOUS HOLIDAY.
SO, JUST, JUST A SUGGESTION, HONOR.
ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS NEEDED? OKAY.
UH, ITEM NUMBER THREE, A COUNCIL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
WHEN WE HAVE COUNCIL MEETINGS, UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS OFTEN WILL SEND QUESTIONS TO STAFF REGARDING ITEMS ON THE AGENDA, AND THOSE RESPONSES ARE PUT INTO A DOCUMENT SENT OUT TO THE COUNCIL.
AND THAT, AND THAT SAME DOCUMENT IS ALSO UPLOADED TO THE TOWN WEBSITE.
SO ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC CAN GO TO THE, UH, TOWN WEBSITE, ABSENTEE X.GOV, FIND THE AGENDA, AND THERE'LL BE A LINK WITHIN THE AGENDA THAT YOU CAN DOWNLOAD THAT DOCUMENT.
[4. Closed Meeting. The Addison City Council will enter a Closed Meeting pursuant to Texas Government Code Sections 551-071 through 090 to discuss the following item(s):]
ALL RIGHT, ITEM NUMBER FOUR IS A CLOSED MEETING.THE ADDISON CITY COUNCIL WILL ENTER A CLOSED MEETING PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 51 DASH 7 1 9 TO DISCUSS THE FOLLOWING ITEMS, UH, PURSUANT TO SECTION 7 7 1 0 7 1.
SECTION TWO, CONSULTATION WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY REGARDING MATTERS IN WHICH THE DUTY OF THE CITY ATTORNEY UNDER THE TEXAS DISCIPLINARY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL CONDUCT OF THE STATE BAR OF TEXAS CLEARLY CONFLICTS WITH CHAPTER 5 5, 1 OF THE GOVERNMENT CODE DISCUSS LEGAL ENFORCEMENT OPTIONS TO ADDRESS INCREASED UTILIZATION OF PUBLIC SAFETY RESOURCES FOR HOTEL AND MOTEL BUSINESSES.
IT IS 5 32 AND WE'LL GO INTO CLOSED SESSION AT THIS TIME.
[5. Open Meeting. In accordance with Texas Government Code Chapter 551, the Addison City Council will reconvene in an Open Meeting to consider action, if any, on the matters discussed in the Closed Meeting.]
OKAY, IT IS 6 29 AND WE WILL RECONVENE THE COUNCIL FROM THE CLOSED SESSION COMING INTO OPEN SESSION.AND THERE'S NO ACTION TO BE TAKEN FROM THE CLOSED SESSION.
[a. Present and discuss the creation of a Bond Advisory Committee for a potential May 2026 Bond Election to consider funding for a new Police and Courts facility.]
MOVE RIGHT INTO ITEM, UH, SIX A WORK SYSTEM REPORTS PRESENT AND DISCUSS THE CREATION OF A BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR A POTENTIAL MAY, 2026 BOND ELECTION TO CONSIDER FUNDING FOR A NEW POLICE AND COURTS FACILITY.SIR, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR CITY COUNCIL THERAPY CHIEF OF STAFF.
I HAVE A BRIEF WORK SESSION TONIGHT FOR CITY COUNCIL TO DISCUSS AND CONSIDER FORMING A BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR POTENTIAL MAY, 2026 BOND ELECTION FOR A NEW, UH, POLICE IN COURTS FACILITY.
SO THIS FIRST SLIDE SHOWS SOME HISTORY OF DISCUSSIONS THAT COUNCILS HAD AROUND TOWN FACILITIES.
UM, I'M NOT GONNA GO THROUGH ALL THIS, BUT THOUGHT IT WAS IMPORTANT TO HAVE JUST TO ADVISE SOME INSIGHT IN HOW WE GOT TO THIS DISCUSSION HERE TONIGHT.
UM, I WANNA HIGHLIGHT THOSE LAST THREE BULLET POINTS.
UH, THOSE ARE THE MOST RECENT DISCUSSIONS THAT COUNCIL HAS HAD AROUND A NEWS PD FOR COURTS FACILITY.
SO IN MAY OF 2024, TOM STAFF CAME FORWARD WITH, UH, TOM FACILITY STRATEGY.
AS PART OF THAT STRATEGY, WE RECOMMENDED CONSTRUCTING A NEW FEE IN COURTS FACILITY ON THE SAME SITE, UM, THAT THE BUILDING IS CURRENTLY ON.
UH, AT THAT TIME, STAFF PROVIDED AN INITIAL ESTIMATE OF $35 MILLION.
AND BASED UPON THAT COST ESTIMATE AT THAT TIME, COUNCIL SAID, PLEASE PROCEED FORWARD.
UM, AND USING CERTIFICATES OF OBLIGATION FOR FUNDING, WE GOT THAT DIRECTION TO MOVE FORWARD FROM CITY COUNCIL STAFF WENT AT THAT POINT INTO THE NEXT STAGES OF PLANNING AND EVALUATION AND REALLY TAKING A FURTHER DEEP DIVE, UM, INCLUDING DOING A SPACE NEEDS ASSESSMENT FOR A NEW PD COURTS FACILITY, EVALUATING CONSTRUCTION OPTIONS USING THAT SAME SITE THAT WE ARE ON AND ESTIMATING CONSTRUCTION COSTS.
UM, WE DID THAT WORK OVER SEVERAL MONTHS, UM, AND ALSO USING OUR, OUR ACT.
UH, AND WE CAME BACK IN MAY OF THIS YEAR ON THE MOST RECENT WORK SESSION ON MAY 6TH TO REVIEW THE RESULTS WITH COUNCIL.
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HAD A BETTER DEFINED COST ESTIMATE FOR A NEW FACILITY, UM, HIGHER AT ANYWHERE FROM 50 MILLION TO 72 MILLION, JUST DEPENDING ON THE SIZE AND THE SCOPE OF THE FACILITY.AND WE ALSO REVIEWED WITH COUNCIL A NUMBER OF CHALLENGES THAT WE WOULD HAVE IF WE WERE TO CONSTRUCT ON THE SAME SITE.
UM, SO JUST BASED ON SOME OF THOSE ADDED COMPLEXITIES, HIGHER COSTS AT THAT TIME, COUNCIL PROVIDED DIRECTION TO PLAN FOR A BOND ELECTION RATHER THAN ISSUING COS AND BEGIN DEVELOPMENT OF A BOND COMMITTEE THAT COULD BET THE PROJECT FURTHER AND PROVIDE THAT, UM, CRUCIAL COMMUNITY INPUT, UM, TO PREPARE FOR A POTENTIAL BOND ELECTION.
SO IN OUR PREVIOUS DISCUSSIONS WITH CITY COUNCIL, WE HAVE TALKED ABOUT, UH, MAY 20, 26 BOND ELECTION WITH JUST THAT SINGLE PROPOSITION TO FUND A NEW POLICE COURTS FACILITY.
SO THERE WOULD BE NO OTHER PROPOSITIONS, NO OTHER PROJECTS FOR THIS POTENTIAL BOND ELECTION.
UM, WE'VE ALSO REVIEWED IN DETAIL IN PREVIOUS PRESENTATIONS, THE CURRENT CONDITION OF THE FACILITY AND WHY A NEW BUILDING IS NEEDED DID INCLUDE THE BULLET POINTS.
JUST AS A QUICK REVIEW, UM, THE BUILDING IS AGING AND DETERIORATING.
UM, WE CONTINUE TO HAVE MAINTENANCE CHALLENGES THAT ARE SIGNIFICANT AND COSTLY, UM, AND THE POLICE DEPARTMENT HAS EXCEEDED THAT SPACE IN THE CURRENT FACILITY WITH TRYING TO USE DIFFERENT SPACES CREATIVELY AS THEY CAN, BUT THEY HAVE EXCEEDED THAT SPACE ALREADY.
AND I INCLUDED A LINK TO A VIDEO THAT WE DID LAST YEAR THAT SHOWS SOME OF THE FACILITY.
SO YOU CAN SEE VISUALLY WHAT CONDITION IT IS IN AND WHY WE'RE HAVING SO MANY CHALLENGES, UM, WITH THAT FACILITY.
SO AT THIS POINT, I WANNA TURN IT OVER TO STEVEN TO GO THROUGH THE NEXT TWO SLIDES, UM, WHICH REVIEW THE TAX RATE HISTORY AND THEN A POTENTIAL TAX RATE PROJECTION.
UH, IF WE WERE TO MOVE FORWARD.
UM, WE WANTED TO PROVIDE THIS FOR SOME PERSPECTIVE, AGAIN, FOR CITY COUNCIL.
UM, BUT THE INTENT WOULD BE THAT IF A BOND COMMITTEE WERE FORMED, THAT THEY WOULD GO INTO MUCH FURTHER DISCUSSION, UM, AND DETAIL AROUND POTENTIAL FINANCIAL IMPACTS TO FORM A RECOMMENDATIONS FOR STEVEN.
STEVEN BOOKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, AND JUST A COUPLE OF SLIDES.
SO THIS FIRST SLIDE IS A, A 10 YEAR VIEW OF OUR TAX RATE HISTORY.
UM, SO STARTING IN 2017 THROUGH THE, UH, 2026, WHICH IS THE TAX RATE THAT YOU JUST ADOPTED.
UM, SO THIS INCLUDES OUR OPERATIONS AND MAINTENANCE RATE, THE DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE, WHICH WOULD BE AFFECTED BY THE POTENTIAL, UH, NEW BOND PROGRAM, AND THEN THE OVERALL TOTAL PROPERTY TAX RATE.
SO YOU CAN SEE REALLY OVER THE LAST, UM, FIVE YEARS FROM SINCE 2021, UH, UH, FROM OUR LAST BOND ELECTION FROM 2019, WE'VE ESSENTIALLY HAD A VERY STABLE TAX RATE, UM, OVER THAT TIME.
UM, SO REALLY, UM, ANY POTENTIAL, UH, NEW BOND ISSUANCE, WHICH I'LL GO INTO IN THE NEXT SLIDE, WOULD AFFECT THAT INTEREST IN SINKING RATE, UH, WHICH YOU CAN SEE HERE.
SO 2026, UM, WHERE AT 17 AND A HALF CENTS ON THE DEBT SERVICE PORTION OF THE TAX RATE.
UM, IF WE, UH, HAD A BOND ELECTION, IF IT WAS APPROVED BY VOTERS, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE SOME OF THAT NEW, UM, DEBT SERVICE MEETING TO COME ON BOARD, UH, IN 2028.
SO THAT'S WHERE YOU CAN SEE THAT THESE TWO NUMBERS, UH, START TO SEPARATE, UH, FROM, FROM THE CURRENT ESTIMATE.
AND THEN IF THE BOND ELECTION WAS APPROVED, UM, WE ANTICIPATE THAT OVERALL A $50 MILLION BOND, UH, WOULD, UH, INCREASE THE TAX RATE ABOUT 5.60 CENTS.
UM, WE'D ANTICIPATE THAT THE TOTAL DEBT SERVICE PORTION OF THE TAX RATE WOULD INCREASE TO A MAXIMUM OF ABOUT 23.45 CENTS, AND THAT WOULD, UH, PROBABLY OCCUR IN 2029.
UM, SO YOU CAN SEE CURRENTLY WE ESTIMATE 2029, ABOUT 17.85 CENTS UNDER OUR CURRENT, UM, PROJECTS THAT WE HAVE ON, ON THE BOOKS, UM, GOING UP FROM THAT TO 23.45 CENTS.
AND JUST AS, AS YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS, IF, UM, THE COMMITTEE OR COUNCIL MOVES FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT THAT IS MORE OR LESS THAN, THAN THE $50 MILLION ESTIMATE THAT'S USED HERE, AND EVERY $10 MILLION IN PROJECT COST, WHETHER, WHETHER INCREASE OR DECREASE WOULD AFFECT THAT PROPERTY TAX RATE ESTIMATE BY ABOUT 1.10 CENTS.
SO IF WE INCREASE THE COST, UH, YOU KNOW, $10 MILLION, YOU KNOW, IT'S GONNA INCREASE THAT, THAT, UM, THOSE NUMBERS THERE ON THE PROJECTION ABOUT 1.10 CENTS EACH.
SIMILARLY, IF THE COST WENT DOWN $10 MILLION, UH, YOU CAN SEE A 1.10 CENTS DECREASE.
SO JUST A, JUST A, A GOOD, UM, AS WE GO THROUGH THIS ENTIRE PROCESS, A GOOD, UH, NUMBER TO THINK ABOUT IS OVERALL EVERY $10 MILLION IN PROJECT COSTS IS ABOUT ONE 1 CENTS ON THE TAX.
AND THEN I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS ABOUT, ABOUT THE, THE PROPERTY TAX RANGE OR
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ANYTHING.HAVE A QUESTION BEFORE BACK OVER TO SARAH.
SO THE BOND, UH, DO WE HAVE ANYTHING, SO THE BOND PACK, THE BOND PROGRAMS OVER THE LAST TWO DECADES IS 2012 AND 2019, IS THAT RIGHT? DO WE HAVE ANYTHING LEFT FROM 2012 THAT WE'VE NOT DONE? PROJECTS.
THE, THE ONLY THING THAT HAS NOT BEEN ISSUED TODAY IS $3 MILLION FOR, UH, PARKING IN THE ADDISON CENTER.
THAT'S THE, BUT THAT IS REF THAT IS REFLECTED IN THE, THE BLUE LINE DOES SHOW THAT BEING ISSUED.
SO EVERYTHING YOU'RE SEEING IN THAT BLUE LINE INCLUDES THAT BOND.
SO 2019 BOND, UM, ITEMS, IS THAT IN THE BLUE LINE TOO? ALL OF THAT HAS BEEN ISSUED.
SO, UM, SO PART OF THAT YOU CAN SEE THAT WE'RE ESTIMATING CURRENTLY OUR DEBT SERVICE RATE TO GO UP A LITTLE BIT.
SO WE GOT THAT STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK LOAN MM-HMM
UM, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY, WE'VE ALREADY ACCEPTED THAT THE DEBT SERVICE COMES ON IN THREE SUBSEQUENT YEARS.
UM, SO WE, WE RECEIVED ALL OF THAT, THAT'S INCLUDED IN THE BLUE LINE.
SO RIGHT NOW OUR CURRENT ESTIMATE IS A MAXIMUM TAX RATE OF 18.90 CENTS, WHICH IS THE 2028.
SO BIG, BIG PICTURE, THE BLUE LINE SHOWS 2019 BOND PROGRAM FULLY IMPLEMENTED, WHICH WE'VE ALREADY ISSUED EVERYTHING FOR 2019.
AND YOU CAN SEE THAT WE CAP OUT IN TWO YEARS.
SO THAT'S JUST NATURAL FROM THE 2019 BOND PROGRAM.
AND THEN THAT, THEN WE START TO HAVE THAT FALL OFF FROM 20 YEARS AGO AND IT STARTS TO GO DOWN.
SO JUST TO RECALL, UH, IS THE QUORUM SOUTH PROJECT PART OF THAT BOND PROGRAM? YES.
AT 20 SOMETHING MILLION DOLLARS? CORRECT? YES.
AND MONTFORD, BOTH OF THOSE ARE IN THERE, MONTFORD WITH THE EXPANDED SCOPE, WHICH EXPANDED SCOPE? UM, THE, THE FIRST EXPANDED SCOPE, UM, ALL, ALL THE WAY TO CELESTE? YES.
THE OTHER QUESTION IS, UM, WHAT WAS THE TOTAL PROJECTED INCREASE WHEN THE VOTERS APPROVED ALL THE THINGS THE VOTERS APPROVED ALL THE SPENDING? WHAT WAS THE PROJECTED INCREASE? IT WAS, UH, IN 2019, VOTERS WERE TOLD THAT IT WOULD, THE TAX RATE WOULD INCREASE ABOUT 10, A LITTLE OVER 10.30 CENTS.
HAVE WE HIT THAT? WE HAVE, WE HAVE NOT.
SO IF I GO BACK TO THIS SLIDE, YOU CAN SEE, UM, WE WERE AT ABOUT, UH, I THINK THE VOTERS, WE WERE AT, I GUESS 14, ALMOST 14.30 CENTS.
UH, SO OUR MAXIMUM, GOING BACK TO THIS SLIDE IS 18.9.
UM, SO WE'RE, WE'RE OVER ALMOST 6 CENTS BELOW.
SO IT'S PROBABLY, IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD TIME TO SAY THAT ALL THESE PROJECTIONS ARE VERY CONSERVATIVE.
ALL OF THE ASSUMPTIONS ARE VERY CONSERVATIVE.
SO THIS IS KIND OF A, ALMOST A WORST CASE.
I MEAN, AND THAT'S WHAT WAY WE SHOULD LOOK AT IT, BUT THESE ARE VERY CONSERVATIVE ASSUMPTIONS SO THAT THAT'S TURNED OVER WELL.
UM, AND WE, WE CAN'T BANK ON THAT FOR THE FUTURE FOR SURE.
LIKE YOU SAID, BEING CONSERVATIVE, IT'S, IT'S REALLY, UH, YEAH, IT'S REALLY COMFORTING TO KNOW THAT ALL OF THAT IS IN, ALREADY IN THE BLUE MINE, BECAUSE THAT WAS A LOT OF STUFF IN THAT BOND PACKAGE IN 2019 AND IT STARTS TO FALL OFF IN 2028.
DO YOU INCLUDE ANY NEW DEVELOPMENT IN THE REVENUE SIDE? UH, THE REVENUE SIDE INCLUDES BASICALLY WE'RE, WE'RE ESTIMATING ABOUT A 3% INCREASE IN PROPERTY VALUES EACH YEAR, EVERY YEAR.
IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY DELINEATE BETWEEN NEW OR EXISTING PROPERTY VALUES.
IT'S JUST, UM, JUST A HISTORICAL TREND BASIS OKAY.
SO IT DOESN'T INCLUDE ANY, ANY TOD ADDITIONAL BOOST THAT WE SHOULD GIVE? NOT SPECIFICALLY, YEAH.
THAT COULD BE CHANGE IT HAVE MORE REVENUE ON THE TAX THAN CORRECT TAX PER TAX SENSE THAT WE HAVE ALREADY.
THAT'S, I THINK THAT'S ALL I HAVE.
IF WE GO UP 5.60 CENTS ON A 50 MILLION, WHAT WOULD OUR TAX RATE BE? UH, IT WOULD MAX OUT IN 2029 AT 23.45 CENTS ON THE INTEREST IN ZIKE SIDE.
WHAT WOULD THE TOTAL TAX BE? UM, SO, AND I THINK WE SENT THIS TO THE HOMEOWNER, WHAT WOULD THE TOTAL TAX BE? UH, BASED ON THE CURRENT, SO WE'RE NOT PROJECTING THE MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS RATE IN THE FUTURE, UM, SPECIFICALLY TO CHANGE.
SO IF I USE TODAY'S MAINTENANCE AND OPERATIONS RATE, WE WOULD BE AT, UM, AND I THINK I HAD THAT IN, UH, THE RESPONSES TO THE COUNCIL QUESTIONS, BUT WE'D BE RIGHT AT, UH, ABOUT ALMOST 63 CENTS I BELIEVE.
BUT I, BUT I WOULD SAY WE'VE DROPPED THE MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS RATE THE PAST, PAST TWO YEARS, AND OUR, IT HAS DROPPED.
OUR PLAN IS TO CONTINUE TO DROP THAT RATE AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE.
SO CONSERVATIVELY, YES, WE SHOULD SAY, HEY, IT'S SHOW THE CURRENT ONE, BUT OUR GOAL IS TO DROP THAT
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RATE AS WE MOVE FORWARD.SO JUST AS AN EXAMPLE, IF YOU LOOK AT THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, UM, YOU KNOW, WE, TWO YEARS AGO WE HAD A MAINTENANCE OPERATIONS RATE OVER 45 CENTS.
UH, THE DEBT SERVICE RATE WAS UNDER 16 CENTS.
UM, WE DROPPED THAT RATE OVER A CENT LAST YEAR ON THE MAINTENANCE SIDE, DEBT SERVICE WENT UP BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WE'RE IMPLEMENTING WHAT VOTERS HAD APPROVED TAX RATE THE SAME.
SIMILARLY THIS YEAR, UM, OVERALL THE MAINTENANCE RATE WENT DOWN, UM, ABOUT 0.70 CENTS.
SO SIMILAR, YOU KNOW, IT'S JUST CONSERVATIVE ESTIMATING THAT WE WOULDN'T ESTIMATE THE CHANGE IN THAT, BUT IDEALLY WE WOULD CHANGE THAT MAINTENANCE OPERATION.
ROUGHLY 60 CENTS AN HOUR WOULD BE GOING TO 63 ROUGHLY.
AND WHERE WOULD THAT PUT US IN, IN COMPARISON TO OUR SURROUNDING COMPARISON CITIES, IF YOU WANT TO USE THAT? HOW WOULD THAT, HOW WOULD THAT RANK US? UH, I DON'T KNOW THE SPECIFIC RANKING THAT HAVE TO, TO CHECK WHAT THEIR CURRENT RATES ARE.
HOLD, HOW DO WE RANK NOW? I BELIEVE WE ARE PROBABLY AROUND 10 OR SO OF THE 13TH, SOMEWHERE IN THAT NEIGHBORHOOD.
I THINK WE'RE LIKE TWO FROM, FROM THE TOP.
OH, I MEANT, I WAS STARTING WITH THE LOWEST.
OH, I GOT, I'M NUMBER ONE BEING, YEAH, 13 COMPARISON CITIES.
WE, WE CURRENTLY HAVE ONE OF THE HIGHEST TAX RATES IN THE AREA, AND IF WE WENT TO THE 63 CENTS, WE WOULDN'T DROP ON THAT LIST AT ALL.
UH, I DON'T KNOW IF WE'RE ONE OF THE HIGHEST IN DALLAS COUNTY.
UH, OUT OF THE 13 COMPARISON CITIES THAT WE USE, WE ARE ONE OF OUR RIGHT.
AND THIS IS, UM, ASSUMING THAT THE BOND COMMITTEE CREATES AN OPTION THAT IS 50 MILLION OR 40 OR 60.
AND THAT'S WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE.
AND THEN, UM, THEY MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE AN ELECTION FOR THE BOND AND THE VOTERS VOTE ON IT.
THEY'LL MAKE A AND APPROVE AND APPROVE IT, RIGHT? IT'S A LOT.
WELL, THEY'LL MAKE A RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL.
THE COUNCIL WILL DECIDE ULTIMATELY WHAT GOES TO VOTERS.
WHICH MIGHT BE A GOOD SEGUE TO THE REST OF THE PRESENTATION.
SO IF THE COUNCIL WISHES TO FORM, UH, AN ADVISORY BOND COMMITTEE, UM, JUST SOME KEY COMPONENTS OF WHAT WE WERE PROPOSING THE COMMITTEE TO BE.
UM, SO ITS PURPOSE IS THE COMMITTEE WOULD REVIEW POTENTIAL OPTIONS AND COSTS, AND THEY WOULD BE CHARGED WITH MAKING A RECOMMENDATION TO CITY COUNCIL REGARDING THE PROPOSED PROJECT AND THE TOTAL DOLLAR AMOUNT TO BE CONSIDERED BY THE PUBLIC AND BOND ELECTION.
UM, SO WE'RE PROPOSING THAT THE COMMITTEE WOULD BE MADE UP OF 14 MEMBERS, UM, AND TWO RESIDENTS WOULD BE APPOINTED BY EACH COUNCIL MEMBER.
UM, AND WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT IN TERMS OF THE TIMELINE TO FORM OF THIS COMMITTEE WOULD BE COMING BACK AT THE NEXT CITY COUNCIL MEETING ON OCTOBER 14TH TO CREATE THE COMMITTEE, BUT ALSO APPOINT THE MEMBERS.
AND I'LL GO THROUGH WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT IN THE NEXT, UM, SLIDE.
FOR THE TIMELINE, UM, WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THAT THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS WOULD MEET OVER THREE TO FOUR COMMITTEE MEETINGS, UM, FROM OCTOBER TO EARLY JANUARY.
UM, WE LAID OUT SOME TENTATIVE DATES PROPOSING THURSDAY EVENINGS, UM, WITH SOME DIFFERENT TOPICS.
THIS OF COURSE, WILL BE IN DISCUSSION WITH THE COMMITTEE CHAIRPERSON AND THE COMMITTEE, SO THIS MIGHT FLEX OR CHANGE, BUT JUST PERSONAL PERSPECTIVE OF HOW WE SEE THE COMMITTEE ADVANCING THEIR WORK WITH A GOAL TO HAVE A RECOMMENDATION BY EARLY JANUARY.
AND WHY THAT'S IMPORTANT, UM, IS THAT, UM, WE WOULD HAVE THAT BOND COMMITTEE RECOMMENDATION PRESENTED TO CITY COUNCIL IN JANUARY.
UM, CITY COUNCIL COULD HAVE A MEETING OR TWO TO DISCUSS AND REVIEW THAT RECOMMENDATION AND DECIDE IF YOU WISH TO PROCEED WITH THE BOND ELECTION FOR MAY, 2026.
THE DEADLINE THAT WE HAVE TO CALL A BOND ELECTION IS FEBRUARY 13TH.
UM, SO WE'LL NEED TO, AT THAT POINT, HAVE MADE A DECISION.
UM, COUNCIL WILL NEED TO HAVE MADE A DECISION ON FOLLOWING THE BOND ELECTION OR NOT, OR A MAY 2ND, 2026 FOLLOW ELECTION DATE.
SO AT THIS TIME, UM, STAFF SEEKING DIRECTION FROM CITY COUNCIL, IF YOU WISH TO PROCEED WITH NEXT STEPS, UM, MOVING FORWARD TOWARDS A MAY, 2026 BOND ELECTION FOR A POLICE AND COURTS FACILITY, AND THEN ALSO ON THE PROPOSED BOND ADVISORY COMMITTEE.
UM, ANY FEEDBACK OR CHANGES THAT YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE TO THE PROPOSED COMMITTEE? UM, IF YOU DO WISH TO PROCEED, WE ARE READY, UH, TOMORROW TO
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RELEASE AN APPLICATION FOR INTERESTED MEMBERS.UM, WE CAN LEAVE THAT OPEN FOR ALMOST TWO WEEKS AND HAVE IT CLOSE ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH.
UM, AND AS WE GET THOSE APPLICATIONS, WE WOULD SEND THOSE OUT TO CITY COUNCIL SO THAT YOU COULD BEGIN TO REVIEW, UM, AND BE READY TO APPOINT AT THE OCTOBER 14TH, UH, CITY COUNCIL MEETING.
HAPPY TO TAKE ANY QUESTIONS? UH, STEVEN'S HERE.
SO, UM, IF, IF THIS GETS ON A 2026 BALLOT, UM, WHAT, UH, WHAT LIMITATIONS THAT COUNCIL MEMBERS OR COMMITTEE MEMBERS HAVE AS FAR AS PROMOTING OR NOT PROMOTING, UM, HOW, HOW FOLKS SHOULD VOTE OR ANSWER YOUR QUESTIONS.
WHAT DOES THAT LOOK LIKE? YEAH, SO, SO ONCE A BOND ELECTION IS CALLED, YOU CAN'T, UM, REALLY PROMOTE OR FOR OR AGAINST COUNCIL MEMBERS, CANNOT ANY COUNCIL MEMBER, UH, AND WE'LL HAVE OUR BOND ATTORNEY COME AND SPEAK TO THE COUNCIL AS WELL AND GO OVER WHAT YOU CAN AND CAN'T DO.
BUT THERE, THAT WOULD BE DIFFERENT FOR THE MEMBERS OF THIS COMMITTEE YET ONCE IT IS NO LONGER THE COMMITTEE.
YEAH, IT WOULD NOT BE THE SAME.
IT WOULD NOT BE THE SAME RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS.
ONCE THAT COMMITTEE, THIS COMMITTEE ESSENTIALLY, ONCE THEY MAKE THE RECOMMENDATION CEASES TO EXIST.
SO THEY WOULD NOT BE COUNCIL MEMBERS.
AND THE TOWN, ONCE WE CALL THE ELECTION, WE CANNOT PROMOTE IT IN ANY WAY.
WE CAN, WE CAN PROVIDE INFORMATION MATERIALS, BUT LIKE STEVEN SAID, WE WOULD HAVE A BOND COUNCIL COME IN FORM EVERY, THEY'LL COME AND, AND GO OVER THE DUES AND DOWNS OF, OF, UH, ONCE THE ELECTION'S CALLED WHAT WE CAN AND CAN'T DO.
REALLY, IT'S REALLY RELATED TO JUST PROVIDING FACTUAL INFORMATION.
WHAT KIND OF PARAMETERS ARE WE ALLOWED TO SET ON, ON THE BOTTOM ON THE CHARGE? SO YOU CAN DO, YEAH, OKAY.
SO YOU CAN, YOU CAN KIND OF GO AS NARROWER OR AS BROAD AS YOU WANT.
YOU COULD GO AS BROAD AS, SAY WE WANT YOU TO CONSIDER A BOND ELECTION.
OBVIOUSLY WE'VE ALREADY SET NARROWED DOWN TO A SCOPE OF ONE, ONE ITEM, RIGHT? YOU COULD SAY, WE WANT YOU TO LOOK AT A POLICE STATION UNDER $50 MILLION, RIGHT? MM-HMM.
SO YOU CAN KIND OF BE AS NARROW AS YOU WANT WITH YOUR CHARGE THAT YOU GIVE.
WHERE I WAS GOING IS, UM, YOU KNOW, I I I WANT US, YOU KNOW, 50 MILLION'S, A BIG NUMBER.
UM, I WANT TO, I WANNA DO THE BEST WE CAN TO, YOU KNOW, GET WHATEVER POLICE NEEDS.
BUT I'D LOVE FOR US TO CONSIDER MAYBE SOMETHING EXISTING AS WELL IN THE TOWN.
THERE ARE, THERE ARE SEVERAL BUILDINGS THAT, YOU KNOW, MAY WORK IF WE CAN DO A COMPLETE GUT.
I MEAN, OFFICE PRESSES ARE DOWN AND IS THAT THE TYPE OF CHARGE WE CAN GIVE THEM? WELL, THAT'S, SO I, WE ALREADY HAVE A DRAFT PRESENTATION OR BEEN WORKING FOR THE FIRST MEETING OR THE FIRST TWO MEETINGS.
AND IN THAT WE BASICALLY ARE LAYING OUT THREE DIFFERENT CONSIDERATIONS FOR THEM TO LOOK AT.
ONE, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE RESTRICTIONS WE HAVE AT THE CURRENT SITE, AND SO THEY CAN CONSIDER THAT AND UNDERSTAND THOSE SITES WE ALREADY OWN, WHERE WE COULD LOOK AT GREENFIELD SITES.
AND THEN THE THIRD WOULD BE TO LOOK AT BUILDINGS.
WE'RE GONNA SHOW THEM EXAMPLES OF BUILDINGS THAT ARE ALREADY ON THE MARKET AND WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE AT, AS AN EXAMPLE.
SO REALLY LOOKING AT THOSE THREE DIFFERENT WAYS, GREENFIELD VERSUS REFIGURING, AN OFFICE VERSUS THE CURRENT SITE.
AND THEN, UM, IS THERE A NEED FOR ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE FOR THE TOWN? SO, I MEAN, WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO INCLUDE POLICE COURTS AND MAYBE ADDITIONAL OFFICE SPACE FOR, UM, THE COMBINING OTHER AREAS OF THE TOWN? NO, WE, NO, NOT AT THIS TIME.
WELL, I'M GOING DOWN CHRIS'S LINE.
YOU, YOU MUCH READ IN MY MIND,
THAT WITH THIS SUBJECT MATTER MM-HMM
I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT A COMPLETE REMODEL OF THE CURRENT BUILDING.
I'VE, I'VE BEEN THROUGH THAT BUILDING, I HAVE SEEN THAT BUILDING.
AND THE BUILDING ITSELF DOES NOT, IS NOT CONDUCIVE WITH WHAT THEY'RE DOING, BUT IT'S KIND OF THE LAYOUT OF THAT BUILDING, UH, A COMPLETE GUT.
AND, AND, AND REDOING OF THAT BUILDING A REMODEL WOULD MAKE TOTAL SENSE TO ME.
OR LOOKING AT EXISTING BUILDINGS.
ONE OF OUR NON-PROFITS HAS RECENTLY COME INTO TOWN AND BOUGHT A HUNDRED THOUSAND DOLLARS BUILDING AND JUST ABSOLUTELY GOT A TREMENDOUS BARGAIN ON IT.
IT WOULD'VE BEEN PERFECT FOR A POLICE COURT AND OTHER OFFICES BUILDING.
I THINK WE SHOULD LOOK CLOSER AT THOSE OPTIONS.
UH, IT MAKES NO SENSE TO ME TO MOVE THIS POLICE STATION INTO ANY, UH, UH, CURRENT GREEN SPACE BECAUSE WE HAVE NO VALUE IN THE LAND THAT IT'S GOT NOW.
IT WOULD JUST REVERT BACK TO THE AIRPORT IT TO HAVE THE POLICE STATION EXACTLY WHERE IT IS, IS WHERE IT BELONGS.
THERE'S THREE THINGS THAT MAKE HORRIBLE NEIGHBORS AN AIRPORT, A POLICE STATION, AND A FIRE STATION.
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THE CLOSER WE CAN PUT THREE OF THOSE IN THE SAME SPOT FOR RESIDENTS, THE BETTER OFF WE ARE.WHEN I WAS, I THE, WHEN I FIRST STARTED HEARING ABOUT A NEW POLICE STATION, THE $35 MILLION NUMBER KEPT COMING UP AFTER I WAS ELECTED.
AND I WAS JUST SITTING IN THE STANDS.
I HEARD 72 MILLION, NOW I'M HERE IN 50.
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE, I DON'T THINK WE BIND IT OUT ENOUGH TO EVEN TELL SOMEBODY AS TO WHAT TO LOOK FOR.
I THINK WE NEED TO NARROW THE SCOPE AND SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE'RE WILLING TO SPEND.
THIS IS YOUR TEXT IN MY, IF IT'S BEEN THERE 40 YEARS, IT WOULDN'T HURT IT TO BE THERE.
WELL, THAT'S WHY WE HAVE A BOND COMMITTEE SO THEY CAN LOOK AT ALL THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS AND COME UP WITH WHAT THEY THINK IS A RE A GOOD RECOMMENDATION TO THE COUNCIL.
THEN THE COUNCIL DECIDES ON THAT.
AND THEN WHATEVER WE DECIDE, IF WE DECIDED TO, TO, UH, CALL AN ELECTION FOR NEXT MAY FOR IT, THEN, UH, THEN THE VOTERS GET TO DECIDE.
SO IT'S, IT'S ABOUT THE MOST OPEN AND TRANSPARENT PROCESS THAT I THINK WE HAVE FOR SOMETHING AS BIG AND IMPORTANT AS THIS.
IT'S JUST A HUGE WINDOW IF WE CAN NARROW IT DOWN AS TO WHAT.
BUT, BUT THAT I, I DON'T, I DON'T WANT TO CONSTRICT THE, UH, COMMITTEE FROM DOING THEIR JOB BECAUSE IF WE GIVE THEM JUST A REALLY NARROW FOCUS, THEN WE MIGHT NOT NEED A COMMITTEE.
THAT'S A NARROW WIND OF A FOCUS THAT'S JUST, JUST SAYING WHAT WE CAN AFFORD.
WHEN YOU GO LOOK FOR A HOUSE FOR YOURSELF, YOU, YOU SET YOUR BUDGET AND THIS IS WHAT YOU CAN AFFORD.
AND NOW WE GO OUT AND START LOOKING, BUT IT'S UP TO, IT IS UP TO THE VOTERS TO DECIDE WHAT THEY'RE WILLING TO PAY AND THEY GET ALL THE INFORMATION AND THEY SEE WHAT'S, WHAT'S POTENTIAL WORST CASE.
THEY SEE ALL THE INFORMATION AND THEY GET TO MAKE THE DECISION DEMOCRACY IN ACTION.
AND SO IF WE DO GO FORWARD WITH THIS, THE BOND COMMITTEE'S JUST BRINGING A SUGGESTION, A RECOMMENDATION, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY'RE GONNA TO COUNCIL YEAH.
WE'RE GONNA DO WITH IT FOR THAT COUNCIL TO DECIDE.
THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT'S WHAT WE PUT FORWARD.
THEN WE, WE THEN WE WORK WITH THAT RECOMMENDATION.
SO I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF, OF TAKING A DEEP DIVE ON THE EXISTING FACILITY ALSO AS A FOURTH OPTION.
I THINK THAT'S, THAT'S SOMETHING I, I'VE WRITTEN DOWN.
UH, I ASSUME THAT'S ALREADY BEEN DONE, BUT I THINK IT WOULD BE, THERE WOULD BE MORE, UM, UH, UH, TRANSPARENCY, UH, TO MORE PEOPLE IN THE TOWN.
IF, IF THAT'S EMBEDDED OUT FURTHER.
AND CAN WE GO TO THE TIMELINE OF THE MEETINGS? I KNOW THIS IS A FAST TRACK AND I KNOW INITIALLY FROM STRATEGIC PLANNING LAST YEAR, UH, THIS, THIS MADE THE RADAR AND THAT WE'RE GONNA GO DO THIS THOUGHT IT'D BE 35 MILLION.
IT'S LIKE, OH YEAH, WE DON'T WANT, THAT'S WAY TOO MUCH.
SO LET'S, LET'S GET A BETTER SCOPE.
SO THAT'S KIND OF WHERE THAT, THAT CAME FROM.
THE BOND COMMITTEE GETS THIS SCOPE.
UM, WOULD IT BE FEASIBLE TO GO LONGER THAN THAT AND HAVE A MORE OF A DEEPER DIVE, SLOWER PROCESS? OR IS THAT JUST A WAY TO, I DON'T WANT TO DRAG NOW FOR ONE PROJECT, FOUR MEETINGS IS A PRETTY, AND ONE, ONE THING ON THE AGENDA, TYPICALLY YOU, YOU COULD HAVE FOUR MEETING, LIKE TYPICALLY A BOND PROGRAM IS 10, 15 PROJECTS.
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT ONE PROJECT.
AND, AND THE BOND COMMITTEE WOULD HAVE AT THEIR DISPOSAL, UH, ARCHITECTS AND ENGINEERS AND, UM, ESTIMATORS TO SHOW WHAT THESE DIFFERENT ROUGH ORDER MAGNITUDES WOULD BE FOR THE DIFFERENT OPTIONS THAT WOULD'VE THOSE
UM, YOU KNOW, AS FAR AS THE BUILDING GOES, UM, IT'S 40 YEARS OLD, RIGHT? AND MY HOUSE IS PROBABLY 30 YEARS OLD.
SO IT'S, IT'S NOT NEAR IT END OF LIFE.
UM, WHEN WE NEED TO REMODEL, WE TEAR DOWN WALLS AND WE PUT NEW WALLS, HOW BIG.
BUT I DO THINK ABOUT A TOTAL CAPACITY OF THE BUILDING.
HOW BIG WAS ADDISON BACK IN 40 YEARS AGO? BUSINESSES AND RESIDENTS.
I MEAN, HOW MUCH HAVE WE GROWN? I MEAN, IT MAY NOT EVEN BE FEASIBLE TO FIT IN THAT BUILDING.
THAT'S KIND OF WHAT MY THOUGHTS GOING.
AND, UM, BY MAKING MAJOR CHANGES, THEN IT GOES BACK TO A COMPLETE REBUILD.
AND WE HAVE SOMETHING THAT, THAT'S BUILT FORWARD AND ADDISON'S GONNA BE MORE, MORE LARGELY BUILT OUT NOW THAN IT WAS FOUR YEARS AGO.
SO YOU COULD PLAN FOR THE GROWTH TO MAKE IT LAST MORE THAN 40 YEARS NEXT TIME.
WELL, AND THIS IS A 40 OR 50 YEAR COMMITMENT TOO.
'CAUSE THEN, SO IF YOU, IF YOU REWORK THIS BUILDING, THEN YOU GOT A, YOU KNOW, 80-YEAR-OLD, 90-YEAR-OLD BUILDING THAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH THAT'S, YOU KNOW, THE CONSTRUCTION PROCESSES NOW.
AND, AND THE EFFICIENCY THAT THAT WOULD BE BUILT IN NOW WOULD BE SO MUCH BETTER THAN WHAT IT WAS 40 YEARS AGO.
AND, AND I MEAN, I JUST CAN'T IMAGINE THIS SAME BUILDING 40 YEARS FROM NOW SEEING WHAT IT WOULD, WHAT IT WOULD LOOK LIKE.
LOOK, I LOOK THERE ARE CERTAINLY ISSUES WITH JUST RENOVATING THE BUILDING AND, BUT IF THAT'S THE CHARGE COUNCIL WANTS TO
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GIVE THE BOND COMMITTEE, WE CAN WE'LL LAY THAT OUT.YOU KNOW, WE'LL CONSIDER THAT AS AN OPTION AND LAY OUT THE PROS AND CONS OF DOING EACH OF THE OPTIONS.
IT WOULD JUST BE INTERESTING TO SEE IF WE NEED THREE MORE ACRES OF, LANDS IT SIX MORE ACRES OF LAND YEP.
FOR THE SECURITY PURPOSES AND PARKING AND ON AND ON AND ON.
IT'D JUST BE INTERESTED TO SEE WHAT ACREAGE WE NEEDED BESIDES THE BLUEPRINT OF WHAT WE'RE SITTING ON RIGHT NOW.
AND THAT'S WHAT, THAT'S EXACTLY.
DOES THE COURT AND THE POLICE BUILDING NEED TO BE CONNECTED? CAN WHEN THE POLICE EXPAND THROUGH A REMODEL, TAKE UP THAT ENTIRE BUILDING TO GIVE THEM MORE ROOM AND MOVE THE COURT SOMEWHERE ELSE? SO HERE'S, WE JUST DON'T HAVE LAND TO TAKE AWAY FROM FUTURE DEVELOPMENT.
I CAN'T FIND FIVE ACRES IN ADDISON.
AND I HEAR THAT'S THE NUMBER I KEEP HEARING.
WELL, WE DO, WE DO OWN, WE DO OWN A GREEN SPACE RIGHT NEAR THE NEW TOWN HALL THAT WE CAN LOOK AT THAT WE KIND OF WORK WITH IT.
NOT SAYING THAT'S THE OPTION WE HAVE TO DO, BUT THERE ARE OPTIONS WE CAN LOOK AT.
SO, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE COST, WE'RE GONNA, WE, WE ALREADY HAVE ARCHITECTS.
WE'RE ACTUALLY BRINGING IN ANOTHER COST ESTIMATOR.
LOOK AT THE ARCHITECT'S WORK, TRY TO GET DOWN AND, AND TAKE OFF ALL THE FLUFF, GET DOWN, WHAT DO WE NEED? AND THEN WE'LL MAKE IT REALLY SIMPLE, RIGHT? HERE'S THE BASE.
DO YOU WANT TO DO A FIRE, DO YOU WANNA DO A GUN RANGE? DO YOU WANT DO THIS? HOW WOULD YOU WANT TO ADD, DO YOU WANT TO HAVE A, A TRAINING FACILITY IN THERE THAT MAKES A CONVERSATION REALLY SIMPLE TO THE COURT'S CONVERSATION.
WE WERE JUST TALKING WITH CHIEF THIS WEEK.
SOMETHING FOR THE BOND COMMITTEE TO CONSIDER IS, MOST OF OUR COURT HEARINGS NOW ARE VIRTUAL.
WE ONLY HAVE A COUPLE A MONTH.
DO WE HAVE OFFICES FOR THE COURT STAFF, BUT WE DON'T HAVE A COURTROOM AND WE JUST USE CITY, THE NEW CITY COUNCIL BUILDING, THE NEW CITY COUNCIL CHAMBERS FOR THAT TWICE A SO THERE'S A LOT OF OPTIONS LIKE THAT THAT WE CAN CONSIDER REALLY THINKING OUTSIDE THE BOX.
HOW MANY SQUARE FEET DOES THE COURT BUILDING CURRENTLY TAKE? I I THINK THAT'S A REALLY GOOD IDEA IF WE COULD MULTIPURPOSE ANOTHER BUILDING FOR THAT.
I MEAN, IT JUST PHYSICALLY RESPONDED MORE.
I THINK BILL MIGHT THAT YES SIR.
ANSWER I BILL HOLLY GENERAL SERVICES CAN ANSWER YOUR QUESTION ABOUT SQUARE FOOTAGE OF COURT COURT SPACE.
UH, THERE'S SOME LOBBY AREA AND RESTROOMS. WE'RE IN THE SIX TO 7,000 SQUARE FOOT RANGE DEPENDING ON WHAT, WHAT PARTS OF THE FRONT LOBBY YOU WANT TO INCLUDE.
AND THE RESTROOMS ARE MULTIPURPOSE, BUT SIX ON THE LOW END AND SEVEN ON THE UPPER END.
AND MY, MY QUESTION IS REALLY WHAT IS THE CAPABILITY OF IT? IF WE, IF WE TAKE THE WHOLE THING AND DO A REMODEL, WHAT IS THE CAPABILITY? I THINK WHEN YOU GAVE ME MY TOUR, I THINK I REMEMBER 25,000 SQUARE FOOT IN THE POLICE BUILDING ITSELF.
SO IF WE TAKE THE SIX OR SEVEN FROM THE COURT, THAT PUTS US OVER 30,000 SQUARE FEET.
AND FROM WHAT I WAS HEARING THAT THAT IS SUFFICIENT SQUARE FOOTAGE FOR WHAT THE POLICE ARE ASKING FOR.
UH, IT JUST DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO ME TO MOVE AWAY FROM THAT LOCATION AND, AND GO TO OTHER LAND THAT CAN BE DEVELOPED FOR, FOR CITY USE OR, OR, OR FINANCE GENERATING, YOU KNOW, LIKE, LIKE THE PROJECTS THAT WE'RE DOING.
IT'S A PERFECT SPACE FOR THE POLICE STATION.
I SO THAT WOULD BE DEEP DIVE, RIGHT? I MEAN THAT WOULD, COULD BE WHAT WE CHARGE THE BOND COMMITTEE TO DO THAT.
SO THAT, THAT IS EXACTLY WHAT THE BO BODY COMMUNITY DOES.
IF YOU LOOK AT PROPERTIES, YOU WOULD TAKE INTO ACCOUNT THE ASSESSED VALUE THAT YOU MAY BE GIVING UP IF YOU DO THIS BY, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE WOULD DIVE INTO ALL OF THAT.
I'D LIKE TO SAY THAT'S A BENEFIT OF HAVING ONE ITEM IS THAT YOU CAN MOVE NO, WE'RE NOT GONNA DECIDE THAT TONIGHT.
ONE THING I I'M CONCERNED ABOUT IS THE, IS THE, THE SPIKE IN THE TAX RATE, UM, PROBABLY THIS SHOULD DELAY ABOUT TWO YEARS WOULD BE MY, MY THOUGHT TO EVEN IT OUT.
I TALKED TO SEVERAL PEOPLE ABOUT THAT.
AND, UM, YOU GET IT DONE NOW YOU'RE PLANT A TREE TODAY, YOU'VE GOT A TREE 10 YEARS FROM OUT, YOU WAIT 10 YEARS, YOU DON'T HAVE A DRINK.
SO GETTING IT DONE SOONER, UH, IS KIND OF ADDRESSING A PROBLEM WE'VE KIND OF PUT OFF FOR A WHILE.
I UNDERSTAND IT SPIKES, BUT IT GOES DOWN AS WELL.
OTHERWISE YOU WOULD BE LEVEL AND THEN SPIKE.
IT'S JUST A SOONER THAN LATER INFLATION.
UM, AND THEN, AND USE OF CURRENT DAY IS, IS SOME OF THE THINGS I, I KIND OF CAME BACK TO AS I WAS GOING THROUGH THAT CONVERSATION.
SO I THINK, UH, I THINK TIMING IS, IS OKAY FOR THAT.
IT, IT'S JUST AS A TEMPORARY, UH, SPIKE VERSUS DELAYING IT TWO YEARS THAT WOULD EVEN OUT THE TAX RATE.
ANYBODY ELSE WANTS TO COMMENT ON THAT? YOU WANNA JUMP IN REAL QUICK? UM, MY STANCE HAS CHANGED.
UH, I THINK CITY COUNCIL OUGHT TO MAKE THIS DECISION.
I THINK THE PROBLEM IS YOU REALLY, UNLESS YOU TOUR THIS FACILITY, UM, YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A HARD TIME UNDERSTANDING WHY, WHY WE NEED TO SPEND SO MUCH MONEY ON A NEW FACILITY, WHEREVER, WHEREVER THAT MIGHT BE.
UM, SO I WOULD LOVE FOR CITY COUNCIL TO MAKE THIS DECISION, BUT IF WE AS A GROUP DECIDE THAT THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO, UM, I'M, YOU KNOW, WE GOTTA MOVE FORWARD.
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AND SO, UM, I'M OKAY WITH THE BOND COMMITTEE, BUT UH, I THINK THAT PUTS US IN A LITTLE BIT OF A TRAP IF THIS THING DOESN'T, DOESN'T PASS.BUT I THINK IT'S A REALLY FAIR, REALLY FAIR AND TRANSPARENT WAY TO DO IT THOUGH, IS TO, IS TO LET THE VOTERS BE INVOLVED.
THE COMMITTEE'S GONNA WALK THROUGH, THEY'RE GONNA TOUR THAT WHOLE FACILITY SO THEY'LL, THEY'LL SEE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE SEEN.
WILL THE VOTERS TOUR THAT FACILITY? COULD BE PART OF IT.
IT SEEMS A LITTLE UNREALISTIC THOUGH.
WELL, NO, I AGREE IN THAT TO ME THAT, BUT WE CAN DO VERY THOROUGH VIDEOS, BILL.
WELL I'M IN FAVOR OF MOVING FORWARD.
I'M IN FAVOR OF MOVING FORWARD THE BOND COMMITTEE.
AND I HOPE THAT WE CAN GET THE CHARGE RIGHT, WHERE WE GIVE THEM A NUMBER OF DIFFERENT OPTIONS AND HEAR FROM THEM EXACTLY WHAT DIRECTION WE FEEL LIKE WE STILL HAVE THE OPTION TO COME BACK AND BREAK DOWN THE BUDGET.
I, I WOULD JUST LIKE FOR US TO TAKE IT, I WOULD LIKE TO HIT THE CHARGE BETTER THAN JUST A BLANK SLATE.
LET THEM GO DO IT AND TELL US WHAT COME BACK TO US.
I WOULD LIKE FOR US TO DO A DEEPER DIVE ON THIS SO WE CAN SAY, THIS IS WHAT WE, THIS IS WHAT WE CAN SPEND NOW FIGURE OUT WHAT WE CAN DO WITH THAT.
BUT I DON'T WANT THEM COMING BACK AND SAYING, WE NEED A HUNDRED MILLION DOLLAR POLICE STATION.
EITHER WE'RE A SMALL TOWN, BUT THEY CAN SAY THAT WE DON'T NEED A TAJ MAHAL IN THE HILL.
LIKE A LOT OF THESE CITIES ARE BUILDING POLICE STATIONS.
I WANT THE POLICE TO HAVE WHAT THEY NEED AND A NICE PLACE TO GO TO WORK, BUT WE CAN'T AFFORD $70 MILLION FOR A POLICE STATION.
WELL, JUST BECAUSE THEY RECOMMENDED IT DOESN'T MEAN WE HAVE TO DO IT.
WELL, YOU MENTIONED AN ESTIMATOR.
WHAT, WHAT DO YOU MEAN? UH, 'CAUSE WE'VE ALREADY HAD THIS ESTIMATED, WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE DEAL ON THAT? YEAH, AND ANOTHER ESTIMATOR JUST TO, AND THIS IS THINGS SERVICES I'VE USED IN OTHER PLACES AS WELL, WHERE YOU GET SOMEONE THAT COMES IN AND CAN LOOK AT THE WORK WHERE THE ARCHITECT GOES IN AND THEY SAY, HEY, HERE'S HOW MUCH YOU NEED.
THE MARKET'S CRAZY AND COSTS ARE GOING UP AND YOU BRING SOMEONE ELSE IN TO CHECK THEIR WORK AND, AND, AND PROBE AND ASK GOOD QUESTIONS THAT MAYBE I'M NOT BEING ABLE TO ASK, NOT KNOW THE MARKET OF LUMBER.
THEY CAN GO IN AND ASK THOSE QUESTIONS.
SO IT'S JUST WHEN WE, TWO THINGS.
ONE, WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE WORKING ON THE BEST POSSIBLE INFORMATION, BUT ALSO WE DON'T, WE WANNA MAKE SURE AS WE GO FORWARD THAT WE FEEL FIRM IN THOSE NUMBERS AND THAT WE'RE NOT IN A SITUATION FIVE, SAY THIS GETS APPROVED IN FIVE YEARS FROM NOW, WE COME BACK AND SAY, OH, WE NEED TO ISSUE 10 MORE MILLION AND CO TO DO THIS PROJECT.
SO JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE'RE DEALING WITH THE BEST POSSIBLE INFORMATION AS WE GO FORWARD.
IT SEEMED LIKE THAT 70 MILLION WAS A LITTLE HIGH AND I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT WAS SOME OF THE REASON TO, I THINK THE SE I KNOW THAT IF YOU REMEMBER WHAT WE SHOWED WAS A RANGE MM-HMM
IT SAID 70 MILLION WAS IF YOU DID EVERYTHING RIGHT, THAT WAS DOING THE GUN RANGE AND DOING A, A LOT OF DIFFERENT AREAS FOR TRAINING AND THINGS LIKE THAT.
SO THAT WAS THE HIGHEST RANGE.
IT WAS, WE SAID 15, 70 MILLION AT THE TIME, AND HEY, WE WOULD LOVE TO GET IT LOWER THAN 50.
AND THAT'S GONNA BE PART OF THE PROCESS.
NOW, IF Y'ALL, IF Y'ALL HAVE A CHARGE AND YOU WANT, AND YOU HOWARD AND YOU, THIS COUNCIL KNOWS THE LIMIT, THEN YOU SHOULD PUT THAT IN THE CHARGE.
UM, IF THAT'S SOMETHING Y'ALL SHOULD THINK ABOUT, BUT I, I FEEL LIKE WE HEARD WHAT THE CHART SHOULD BE.
I MEAN, IT'S NEW CONSTRUCTION, IT'S EXISTING AND THEN, UM, LOOKING AT IT AT AN EXISTING BUILDING, BUILDING, OTHER BUILDING THAT'S, THAT'S WITHIN.
AND THEN YOU, THEN YOU GET INTO THE, DO YOU WANT A GUN RANGE? DO YOU WANT A GYM, DO YOU WANT THE COURTS INVOLVED? IT SOUNDS LIKE YOU, YOU CAPTURE ALL THAT, RIGHT? YEAH, ABSOLUTELY.
AND, AND I WOULD IMAGINE THAT PART OF THE CONVERSATION IS THAT STAFF WOULD SHARE WITH THE, THE COMMITTEE SOME OF THIS DISCUSSION, KIND OF WHAT THE COUNCIL THOUGHTS ARE, AND WE'RE NOT LOOKING FOR A TAJ MAHAL POLICE STATION AND, AND, UH, AND, AND THAT THAT WILL GIVE THEM SOMETHING TO WORK WITH AND KIND OF KNOW THAT WE'RE NOT, UH, YOU KNOW, WE WANNA DO IT.
SO WE, WE DO DEFINE THE CHARGE IN, IN A FUTURE MEETING ON IT IS UP TO US AT THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, YOU WILL SAY HOW YOU, YOU'LL HAVE AN ACTION ITEM THAT WILL SAY, HERE'S HOW WE WANT THE COMMITTEE FORMED.
WHETHER IF YOU GO IN OUR, WELL, WE THREW OUT THERE WITH TWO PER, PER TWO RESIDENTS PER COUNCIL MEMBER.
AND IN THERE YOU'LL SAY, AND HERE AND HERE IS WE, HERE'S WHAT YOU, WE WANT YOU TO DO COMMITTEE.
SO WE WILL DRAFT LANGUAGE FOR THAT, BUT Y'ALL CAN CHANGE THE LANGUAGE AT THE DIOCESE.
AND YOU SAID THE NEXT COUNCIL MEETING, THE ONE WE'RE ABOUT TO HAVE OCTOBER OR OCTOBER 14TH OF FUTURE.
BUT I, THIS IS, THIS IS NOT A SMALL ITEM.
OF COURSE THIS IS A HUGE, HUGELY WEIGHTED ITEM AND I HATE THAT ONE OF OUR MEMBERS IS MISSING FOR RELIGIOUS PREACHING TONIGHT.
I I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO HAVE SEEN THIS PUT OFF TO A DATE WHEN WE COULD ALL BE HERE AND HAVE ALL OF OUR INPUT RIGHT.
ON THIS, BECAUSE THIS, THIS IS A VERY WEIGHTY, VERY IMPORTANT, UH, WE DID SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT LAST WEEK THAT FOR THE, FOR THE FUTURE OF THE TOWN, AND THIS IS PROBABLY THE SECOND BIGGEST THING WE'LL EVER DO AS A COUNCIL.
WELL, WHAT WE'RE DOING, WHAT WE'RE DOING IS TALKING ABOUT PUTTING TOGETHER A COMMITTEE.
AND THAT'S WHAT WE'LL DO NEXT TIME WHEN HE IS HERE.
ARE THERE RESTRICTIONS ON THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS? WE CAN CHOOSE
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YOU, YOU ALL CAN DECIDE HOW YOU WANT TO DO IT.OUR RECOMMENDATION WOULD BE YOU PICK EACH, PICK TWO RESIDENTS, MAKE IT THAT SIMPLE AND YOU MAKE, IT'S UP TO Y'ALL.
FOR EXAMPLE, SOMEBODY THAT'S HOW WE'VE DONE IN THE PAST.
I'M SORRY, BUT KEN OR CAN'T BE ON VCA KEN OR CAN'T BE ON V OH, IT WOULD BE KEN OR CAN'T BE.
TYPICALLY Y'ALL CAN MAKE THAT.
TYPICALLY IT WOULD BE OPEN TO ANYBODY.
BUT IF YOU WANTED TO SAY IT IS RESTRICTED IN SOME WAY, THAT'S UP TO YOU.
WHAT ABOUT BUSINESS PEOPLE? THEY HAVE TO BE ADDISON RESIDENTS, VOTING RESIDENTS.
THAT IS, IT'S COMPLETELY UP TO COUNCIL.
I THINK TYPICALLY YOU WOULD SEE RESIDENTS, THIS IS WOULDN'T BE SOMETHING WHERE YOU WOULD HAVE NON-RESIDENTS BECAUSE ULTIMATELY IF YOU HAD AN EXPERT IN THE FIELD AND YOU WANTED TO PUT ON THIS, I MEAN, THIS IS GOING TO BE A HUGELY IMPORTANT COMMITTEE, UH, THAT EXPERTS I THINK WOULD BE CALLED FOR.
SO I THINK SO I THINK THEY'RE GONNA HAVE THEIR, THEIR, THEIR FAIR SHARE OF EXPERTS TO PRESENT TO THE COMMITTEE.
MY CONCERN WITH HAVING AN EXPERT AS BEING A MEMBER OF THE COMMITTEE IS THAT IT UNLEVEL THE PLAYING FIELD A LITTLE BIT.
I THINK IF EVERYBODY'S A RESIDENT, NOBODY'S AN EXPERT THERE, THEN, THEN THAT PERSON COULD TEND TO DRIVE IT IN A DIRECTION THAT THEY WANT INSTEAD OF THE COMMITTEE FEELING LIKE THEY HAVE AN EQUAL INPUT.
I, I SEE IT COMPLETELY IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS AS YOU THAT'S OKAY.
RESPECTFULLY, BECAUSE I WOULD WANT EXPERTS ON THERE TO KNOW THAT WHAT THEY'RE BEING TOLD IS CORRECT OR NOT CORRECT.
SO I I GO INTO IT ASSUMING THAT WHAT THEY'RE BEING TOLD IS CORRECT.
THAT'S MY ASSUMPTION WHEN I GO IN AND WE ALL HOPE THAT, AND I'M NOT SAYING INTENTIONALLY LIE, BUT, OR INTENTIONALLY DECEPTIVE, BUT DIFFERENT THINGS.
WELL, THE COUNCIL, THE COUNCIL CAN DECIDE IF WE WANT ANYBODY BESIDES RESIDENCE TO BE PART OF THIS COMMITTEE.
WOULD YOU WANT TO APPOINT A RESIDENT THAT'S ON THE POLICE DEPARTMENT? I'M NOT SURE THAT THAT WOULDN'T BE A A, A GOOD PLAN TO SEE WHAT THEY WANT.
TO BE HONEST WITH YOU AS A COMMITTEE MEMBER.
BECAUSE THIS 'CAUSE THIS COMMITTEE MEMBER, IF THEY'RE, IF THEY, I I FEEL LIKE THIS SHOULD ALSO BE A VOTER IN TIME AS WELL.
NO, I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH THAT.
IT'S, IT IS A QUESTION, BUT WE DO HAVE EXPERTS THAT LIVE IN TOWN, SO, UH, NO, I, WELL THEN YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT A RESIDENT, IT THEN IT IS JUST A RESIDENCE.
I I'VE ALWAYS BEEN TALKING ABOUT A RESIDENT, BUT I'M TRYING TO GET CLARIFICATION.
THAT'S NOT WHAT I HEARD AS TO WHAT YEAH.
SO JUST FROM A PROCESS PERSPECTIVE, WE'RE GONNA, WE'RE GONNA OPEN UP THE APPLICATIONS ON THE 24TH TOMORROW.
WE'RE ONLY GONNA SELECT PEOPLE WHO FAIL OUT APPLICATIONS.
IS THAT RIGHT? YOU CAN SELECT YOU HOWEVER YOU WANT.
I MEAN, I THINK THAT'S GOOD PRACTICE TO, LET'S HAVE APPLICATIONS IF YOU HAVE FOLKS YOU WANT TO APPLY, ENCOURAGE 'EM TO FILL OUT THE APPLICATION.
ULTIMATELY, Y'ALL CAN DO WHATEVER YOU WANT, BUT IT'S ALWAYS GOOD TO HAVE AN APPLICATION PROCESS SO THAT EVERYONE'S WORKING WITH THE SAME INFORMATION.
IT WOULD BE ON THE TOWN WEBSITE TOMORROW.
SO EACH COUNCIL MEMBER CAN SELECT ANY TWO RESIDENTS FROM THE TOWN.
THEY DON'T HAVE TO BE A VOTER.
OH, WELL I, IT HAVE TO BE A RESIDENT.
ANYTHING ELSE ON THIS, SARAH? I THINK WE GOT IT.
DAVID, ANYTHING FROM YOU? ALRIGHT.
ALRIGHT, WELL THAT'S IT WITH THIS ITEM.
SO YOU'VE GOT WHAT YOU NEED FROM US? YES.
ALRIGHT, SO, UH, IT IS, UH, SEVEN 10.
SO WE'LL RECESS FOR ABOUT FIVE MINUTES OR SO AND THEN WE'LL, UH, RECONVENE IN THE, UH, COUNCIL CHAMBER TO FINISH UP THE EVENING.
IT IS SEVEN SOMETHING SEVEN 18 AND WE WILL RECONVENE THE COUNCIL, UH, INTO OUR, UH, REGULAR MEETING THIS EVENING.
AND AS ALWAYS, WE WOULD LIKE TO START WITH THE PLEDGE TO BOTH OF OUR FLAGS.
IF YOU'D PLEASE RISE AS YOU'RE ABLE.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA AND TO THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS.
ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INDIVISIBLE, WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FOR ALL HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG.
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE TEXAS ONE STATE UNDER GOD.
[a. City Manager's Announcements.]
EVENING EVERYBODY.WE'LL MOVE RIGHT INTO ITEM NUMBER TWO, PROCLAMATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS.
WE HAVE TWO A CITY MANAGERS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND TWO B EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION.
WE HAD AN INCREDIBLE TIME AT OCTOBER FEST THIS PAST WEEKEND.
A BIG THANK YOU TO ABBY MORALES AND THE ENTIRE SPECIAL EVENTS AND THEATER TEAM, BUT REALLY THE ENTIRE STAFF THROUGHOUT THE ORGANIZATION.
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A TEAM EFFORT THAT THAT INVOLVES EVERYONE OF ALL DEPARTMENTS.SO THANK YOU ALL FOR ALL YOUR WORK, UH, FOR THEIR OUTSTANDING WORK.
WE'RE ALSO GRATEFUL TO ALL OF OUR EMPLOYEES, COMMUNITY VOLUNTEERS WHO GAVE THEIR TIME AND ENERGY TO MAKE THE EVENT A SUCCESS.
PULLING OFF AN EVENT OF THIS SCALE TAKES TRUE TEAMWORK AND IT WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT EVERYONE WORKING TOGETHER.
NEXT ADDISON IS HOSTING A NATIONAL NIGHT OUT EVENT ON TUESDAY, OCTOBER 7TH IN LAY LOCKS PARK FROM FIVE 30 TO SEVEN 30, COME MEET YOUR NEIGHBORS AND TOWN STAFF AND CELEBRATE YOUR COMMUNITY WITH FUN ACTIVITIES, FOOD, MUSIC, AND FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY.
IF YOU BRING A DONATION FOR METRO REQUEST SERVICES FOOD PANTRY, YOU CAN DUNK A DUNK, A COPY IN THE DUNK A COP IN THE IN THE IN THE DUNKING BOOTH
UM, THIS WILL BE OUR THIRD YEAR, UH, IN A ROW OF DOING THE NATIONAL NIGHT OUT AND IT'S JUST BEEN A SUCCESS EACH YEAR.
SO WE'RE SO EXCITED TO DO THAT AGAIN.
THOSE ARE IT FOR ANNOUNCEMENTS.
[b. Employee Recognition.]
EMPLOYEE INTRODUCTIONS AND WE'LL START, UH, FOR MARY TO INTRODUCE AMBER WHO WORKED FOR FOUR STRAIGHT DAYS OUT OF OCTOBERFEST.SO
AMBER HAS BEEN WITH THE TOWN FOR NEARLY FIVE YEARS, A TRUE CITIZEN OF THE WORLD.
SHE GREW UP IN MANY PLACES AS THE CHILD OF TWO ARMY PARENTS AND WAS BORN IN GERMANY WHERE SHE HOLDS DUAL CITIZENSHIP.
HER FAMILY EVENTUALLY SETTLED IN AUGUSTA, GEORGIA, WHERE AMBER GRADUATED FROM LAKESIDE HIGH SCHOOL BEFORE GOING ON TO EARN HER BA IN PUBLIC RELATIONS AND A MASTER'S IN PUBLIC RELATIONS AND ADVERTISING FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA ROLL TIDE.
I'LL LET YOU SAY
SO WE'RE NOT SPEAKING, WE'RE NOT
AMBER RECENTLY GOT ENGAGED TO HER FIANCE STANLEY, AND TOGETHER THEY'RE PLANNING THEIR UPCOMING, UPCOMING WEDDING.
SPORTS ARE ALWAYS A BIG PART OF LIFE CHEERING PROUDLY AND SOMETIMES PAINFULLY FOR THE ALABAMA, ALABAMA, CRIMSON TIDE, ATLANTA FALCONS, AND BOSTON CELTICS.
PROFESSIONALLY, AMBER IS PROUD TO HAVE HELPED PUT TOGETHER ADDISON'S TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE PARK EVENT, WHICH WAS AN IMPORTANT STEP IN BUILDING EVENT PLANNING EXPERIENCE.
I ALSO WANNA GIVE AMBER A SHOUT OUT FOR BEING INSTRUMENTAL IN GETTING OUR TID PROGRAM UP AND RUNNING.
UH, PER, PER PERSONALLY, SHE'S ESPECIALLY PROUD OF EARNING BOTH UNDERGRADUATE AND GRADUATE DEGREES WHILE BALANCING TWO JOBS AND AN INTERNSHIP AND EVEN PAYING HER WAY THROUGH GRAD SCHOOL.
IN ADDITION, AMBER LOVES TO TRAVEL AND HAS RECENTLY ALREADY VISITED MORE THAN 10 COUNTRIES.
MOST RECENTLY RETURNING FROM AN INCREDIBLE TRIP TO THE UK AND FRANCE.
WHEN WE ASKED WHAT THE ADDISON WAY MEANS, AMBER SHARED THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT SERVICE, EVEN IN SMALL, SIMPLE TASKS THAT MAY SEEM MINOR TO US, BUT MAKE A WORLD OF DIFFERENCE TO RESIDENTS LEADING WITH KINDNESS IS AT THE HEART OF EVERYTHING SHE STRIVES TO DO BECAUSE KINDNESS COSTS NOTHING BUT CAN MAKE A LASTING IMPACT ON SOMEONE'S DAY.
IF YOU'RE OUT AT OCTOBERFEST, YOU MAY HAVE SEEN AMBER AT THE SIGN STATION, THE MARCH 10, SHE WAS AT THE EVENT EARLY EVERY DAY TO SET UP THOSE AREAS AND STAYED UNTIL THE END TO PUT THEM AWAY.
SO I'M ESPECIALLY GRATEFUL FOR HER JOINING US TONIGHT.
UH, WE DO HAVE ONE OTHER EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION TONIGHT.
UH, IT'S OUR NEWEST EMPLOYEE IN TOWN, UH, IN A BRAND NEW POSITION.
UH, UH, ASHLEY'S GONNA INTRODUCE CHARLES, WHO'S STARTED YESTERDAY.
YES,
SO I AM PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE CHARLES MAKIS, WHO WORKS WITH THE CITY MANAGER'S OFFICE.
AND THEN WE WILL PRIMARILY BE WORKING WITH DEVELOPMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.
AND HE IS OUR, WHAT DO WE CALL IT NOW? THE DR.
PM THE, BECAUSE I CAN NEVER REMEMBER THIS.
IT'S THE DEVELOPMENT RELATIONS PROJECT MANAGER.
SO
OUTSIDE OF WORK, CHARLES AND HIS WIFE HANNAH, RECENTLY CELEBRATED THEIR ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY.
THEIR FAMILY ALSO INCLUDES BELLA, A 16-YEAR-OLD MINNIE, AUSSIE, AND TWO CATS, CALLIE AND ZARA.
CALLIE'S FIVE AND ZARA IS NINE WHEN IT COMES TO SPORTS.
CHARLES IS A PROUD DALLAS STARS FAN PLAYING RIGHT NOW.
PROFESSIONALLY, HE IS MOST PROUD OF SUPPORTING A LOCAL PIT MASTER DURING HIS TIME AS
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A SMALL BUSINESS ADVISOR WITH THE SBDC, HELPING HIM BUILD A BUSINESS PLAN AND FINANCIALS THAT SECURED A SMALL BUSINESS LOAN LED TO THE OPENING OF A SUCCESSFUL BRICK AND MORTAR LOCATION IN LONGVIEW, WHICH NOW SELLS OUT NEARLY EVERY DAY IN HIS EXPLORING EXPANSION.PERSONALLY, HE TAKES PRIDE IN HIS PASSION FOR HIKING.
ONE OF HIS BIGGEST ACCOMPLISHMENTS WAS COMPLETING BEN BIG BEN'S NATIONAL PARKS OUTER LOOP, A RUGGED 25.5 MILE TRAIL OVER THREE DAYS DURING BEAR BEER, SORRY, BEER SEASON.
IT'S OCTOBER FEST,
SOMETHING FUN ABOUT CHARLES IS HIS LOVE OF MUSIC.
HE AND HANNAH ARE DEDICATED METALHEADS AND ATTEND AS MANY LIVE SHOWS AS THEY CAN.
WHEN ASKED ABOUT THE ADDIS WHAT THE ADDISON WAY MEANS TO HIM, CHARLES SHARED THAT THIS IS ABOUT BEING SERVICE ORIENTED AND PROFESSIONALLY RESPONSIBLE.
WHILE IT MAY NOT ALWAYS BE POSSIBLE TO SOLVE EVERY ISSUE, IDENTIFYING THE SITUATION CLEARLY, OFFERING ALTERNATIVES AND STAYING RESPONSIVE GOES A LONG WAY.
AS HE SAYS, MOST PEOPLE SIMPLY WANT TO KNOW WHAT SOMEONE IS, THAT SOMEONE IS ON THEIR SIDE AND READY TO HELP.
I WILL SAY THIS IS A POSITION THAT, UM, WE TOOK A LOT OF CARE IN HIRING.
WE THINK THAT, UH, CHARLES IS GONNA DO A GREAT JOB.
HE DID THIS IN ROULETTE AND IS GOING TO DO IT NOW FOR US THAT WILL SHEPHERD THESE PROJECTS THROUGH THE PROCESS, KIND OF BE THE POINT PERSON AND WILL BE OUR EYES ON THE GROUND AND AND BE OUR ADDISON WAY PERSON FOR ALL OF OUR DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.
SO PLEASE HELP ME IN WELCOMING CHARLES ELSE.
ALRIGHT, WE'LL MOVE RIGHT ON TO,
[c. National Preparedness Month Proclamation.]
UH, ITEM TWO C, NATIONAL PREPARED PREPAREDNESS MONTH PROCLAMATION.SO WE HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF HAVING A RELATIVELY NEW PERSON ON OUR STAFF.
UH, I'M NOT, I DON'T REMEMBER HOW EXACTLY HOW LONG JULIE'S BEEN HERE, BUT OUR EMERGENCY MANAGE MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR JULIE WINKLER, AND I'D ASK JULIE TO COME FORWARD AS I READ THE PROCLAMATION, BE A PROCLAIMED BY THE MAYOR TOWN OF ADDISON.
WHEREAS EACH YEAR, TEXAS EXPERIENCES A VARIETY OF EMERGENCIES AND NATURAL DISASTERS THAT POSE SIGNIFICANT DANGERS TO COMMUNITIES SUCH THAT IT IS VITAL FOR ALL TEXANS TO REMAIN PREPARED FOR ANY DISASTER.
AND WHEREAS ADDISON'S FIRE DEPARTMENT AND EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT STAFF ENCOURAGE OUR COMMUNITY MEMBERS TO FOCUS ON THE ESSENTIALS OF EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS.
AND WHEREAS INDIVIDUALS AND FAMILIES CAN STRENGTHEN THEIR RESILIENCE TO DISASTERS BY BEING AWARE OF THEIR RISK MAKING AN EMERGENCY PLAN, BUILDING AN EMERGENCY SUPPLY KIT, AND GETTING INVOLVED IN THE COMMUNITY.
AND WHEREAS ADDISON RESIDENTS ARE ENCOURAGED TO SIGN UP FOR ADDISON ALERTS TO ENSURE THEY RECEIVE TIMELY INFORMATION DURING A DISASTER AND VISIT READY.GOV TO LEARN MORE ABOUT HOW TO BE PREPARED FOR DISASTERS.
AND WHEREAS ALL ADDISON COMMUNITY MEMBERS ARE EMPOWERED TO GROW THEIR RESILIENCE FOR A STRONGER AND SAFER COMMUNITY.
NOW, THEREFORE, I BRUCE ARFON, MAYOR OF THE TOWN OF ADDISON AND ON BEHALF OF THE ADDISON CITY COUNCIL DO HEREBY PROCLAIM AND RECOGNIZE THE MONTH OF SEPTEMBER, 2025 AS NATIONAL PREPAREDNESS MONTH IN THE TOWN OF ADDISON, TEXAS, AND ENCOURAGE ALL FAMILIES AND BUSINESSES TO DEVELOP THEIR OWN EMERGENCY PREPAREDNESS PLANS, THEREBY CREATING A SAFER AND MORE PREPARED ADDISON.
AND I'M HAPPY TO PRESENT THIS TO JULIE.
WELL, WE'VE, WE'VE BEEN, UH, JUST THRILLED TO HAVE JULIE ON BOARD HERE, UH, AS OUR EMERGENCY EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT COORDINATOR AND I KNOW THE FIRE DEPARTMENT AND, UH, POLICE AND EVERYBODY ELSE HAVE BEEN, UH, BEEN UH, BEEN VERY PLEASED TO HAVE HER AROUND.
[3. Public Comment. The City Council invites citizens to address the City Council on any matter, including items on the agenda, except public hearings that are included on the agenda. Comments related to Public Hearings will be heard when the specific hearing starts. Citizen comments are limited to three (3) minutes, unless otherwise required by law. To address the Council, please fill out a City Council Appearance Card and submit it to a staff member prior to the Public Comment item on the agenda. The Council is not permitted to take any action or discuss any item not listed on the agenda. The Council may choose to place the item on a future agenda.]
MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER THREE, PUBLIC COMMENT.THIS IS THAT TIME FOR FOLKS IN THE PUBLIC TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL ON ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE AGENDA OR NOT ON THE AGENDA FOR UP TO THREE MINUTES.
AND I DO HAVE ONE COUNCIL APPEARANCE CARD.
AND FRAN, I BELIEVE YOU KNOW THE DRILL.
YOU'RE GONNA GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD? YES.
I'M FRAN POWELL, UM, LOCKIN BAR COURT IN OAKS NORTH.
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UM, THANK YOU FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY PROGRAM.OAKS NORTH WAS A BENEFICIARY OF THIS PROGRAM THIS YEAR, HOWEVER, WE DO HAVE A FEW SUGGESTIONS.
THE TOWN SHOULD SOLICIT AND PRE-QUALIFY CONTRACTORS SUCH AS BRICK MASONS.
THIS LIST OF PRE-QUALIFIED CONTRACTORS WOULD ENSURE THAT THE TOWN WILL BE SATISFIED WITH THE SELECTION BY THE HOMEOWNER AND SAVE THE TIME AND EFFORT BY THE HOMEOWNER OF OBTAINING BIDS FROM CONTRACTORS THAT ARE ULTIMATELY NOT SATISFACTORY TO THE TOWN.
USUALLY INSURANCE ISSUES, STRUCTURAL ENGINEERS COULD BE INCLUDED IN THIS PREQUALIFICATION AND IN THE REIMBURSEMENT GRANT.
THE PROGRAM SHOULD SET SOME GUIDELINES FOR CONSISTENCY.
IN THE CASE OF THE OAKS NORTH PERIMETER WALL, EACH WALL IS PRIVATELY OWNED BY A NEIGHBOR, BUT OBVIOUSLY THE DESIGN IS CONSISTENT.
PROCEDURES AND LIMITATIONS COULD BE PRESET TO MAKE THE APPLICATION AND APPROVALS EASIER.
THESE SHOULD INCLUDE TYPE AND COLOR OF MATERIALS, PARTICULARLY BRICK HEIGHT OF WALLS, DESIGN PATTERN, FOOTING DEPTH TYPE, PEER CONSTRUCTION, ET CETERA.
COMMUNICATION FROM THE TOWN'S MVP DEPARTMENT IN A TIMELY MANNER COULD PREVENT SOME OF THE ISSUES WITH THE APPLICATIONS AND PROCESS OF THE WORK.
THE ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE OF OAKS NORTH HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION REMAINS WILLING TO HELP NEIGHBORS WITH THEIR APPLICATIONS BUT SOME OF THE DELAYING IS ISSUES WHICH OCCURRED THIS YEAR CAN BE AVOIDED IF THE TOWN HELP HELPS WITH THE CONTRACTOR LIST ALREADY MENTIONED AND PREPARES A DEFINITE DESIGN TO BE FOLLOWED BY ALL.
WE ALSO SUGGEST THAT TREE REMOVAL COSTS BE ALLOWED AS PART OF THE PROGRAM, AS THE LOCATION TYPE AND SIZE OF SOME OF THE TREES IS WHAT IS CAUSING AS A CONTRIBUTING FACTOR IN THE FAILURES OF THE WALL.
FINALLY, WE WERE LED TO BELIEVE THE HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION WAS LED TO BELIEVE THAT THE DEADLINE OF THE END OF AUGUST WOULD BE EXTENDED THIS YEAR.
WE WERE NOT NOTIFIED OF ANY NEW DEADLINE AND HOPE THAT THE NEIGHBORS WHO NEED WORK DONE ON THEIR WALL CAN STILL APPLY THIS YEAR WITH THE HELP OF OUR ARCHITECTURAL CONTROL COMMITTEE.
AND THAT'S THE ONLY COUNCIL APPEARANCE CARD I HAVE.
IS THERE ANY, ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL AT THIS TIME? ALRIGHT, SEEING NONE, I WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION AND WE WILL MOVE ON TO ITEM NUMBER FOUR,
[4. Consent Agenda. All items listed under the Consent Agenda are considered routine by the City Council and will be enacted by one motion with no individual consideration. If individual consideration of an item is requested, it will be pulled from the Consent Agenda and discussed separately.]
THE CONSENT AGENDA.CONSENT TONIGHT INCLUDES ITEM FOUR A AND FOUR B.
IS THERE A MOTION? MAYOR? I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE BOTH FOUR A AND B.
ANY, ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
[a. Present, discuss and consider action on a Resolution approving the installation of a mosaic art piece, donated by the Addison Arbor Foundation, to be located on a masonry wall constructed as part of the Les Lacs Pond Phase II Construction Project, and providing for an effective date.]
MOVING ON TO ITEM NUMBER FIVE, A PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A RESOLUTION APPROVING THE INSTALLMENT OF A MOSAIC ART PIECE DONATED BY THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION TO BE LOCATED ON A MISSIONARY WALL CONSTRUCTED AS PART OF THE LAY LOCK POND, PHASE TWO CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, AND PROVIDING FOR AN EFFECTIVE DATE.JAN MAYOR AND COUNCIL JANET TIDWELL, DIRECTOR OF PARKS AND RECREATION.
I'M HERE THIS EVENING WITH REPRESENTATIVES FROM THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION TO BRING FORWARD, UM, A PROPOSED ART PIECE BY MOSAIC ARTIST RACHEL ROADIE.
UM, THEY'RE GOING TO GIVE, SHARE SOME INFORMATION FOR YOU ABOUT THAT PROJECT.
I WANTED TO PROVIDE SOME HISTORY THAT THIS IS, UM, PLANNED TO BE PART OF THE LAY LOCKS POND PROJECT.
THE PHASE TWO PORTION OF THE PROJECT.
THE PROPOSED ART PIECE WOULD BE CONSTRUCTED ON A MASONRY WALL THAT IS INCLUDED IN THE CONSTRUCTION DOCUMENTS WITH THAT PROJECT.
THE WALL'S 50 FEET, 51 FEET LONG.
UM, IT'S SIX FEET TALL, IT'S HIGHEST POINT, AND THE OUTER EDGES ARE FOUR FEET TALL.
UM, AS WE MOVE FORWARD WITH THE PROJECT, WE HAD A LOT OF PUBLIC INPUT FROM THE COMMUNITY.
AND IF YOU REMEMBER BEFORE WE DID THE CONSTRUCTION PROJECT, THERE WAS 165 FOOT HEDGE THAT WAS LOCATED IN THE AREA OF THE WALL.
AND WE HEARD HAD A LOT OF RESIDENTS COME OUT AND REQUEST THAT WE PUT SOMETHING BACK THAT WOULD HELP BUFFER NOISE FROM BELTWAY AND THAT WOULD HELP, UM, ALSO BLOCK LIGHTS FROM TRAFFIC THAT'S TRAVELING ON BELTWAY.
IF YOU LOOK AT BELTWAY, THERE'S A CURVE THAT KIND OF CAUSES HEADLIGHTS TO FUNNEL INTO THE HOMES THAT SURROUND THE POND.
UM, AND SO WE DID OUR BEST AND OUR RECOMMENDATIONS FOR WHAT COULD BE PUT THERE THAT COULD HELP BALANCE ALL OF THOSE NEEDS OF CREATING SOME OPENINGS THAT PEOPLE COULD SEE INTO THE PARK AND ENJOY IT, BUT ALSO, UM, CREATE SOME BUFFERING WHERE IT WAS NEEDED.
THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION, UM, JOINED US IN BECOMING A PARTNER IN SUGGESTING THAT THE SCREENING HEDGE COULD BE REPLACED WITH THE MASONRY WALL THAT THEY COULD, UM, INSTALL A MOSAIC ART PIECE ON.
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UM, WE WORKED WITH THEM TO ISSUE AN RFQ TO IDENTIFY MOSAIC ARTISTS.FROM THAT PROCESS, THEY WERE ABLE TO SHORTLIST A SEVERAL ARTISTS THAT THEY IDENTIFIED THAT THEY WOULD LIKE TO WORK WITH ON FUTURE PROJECTS, AND THEY IDENTIFIED MS. RODIE AS THE MOST QUALIFIED FOR THIS PROJECT TO MOVE FORWARD WITH.
J IREG FROM THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION COME FORWARD AND SHARE, UM, THAT INFORMATION WITH YOU.
GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
MY NAME IS JAY IIG, AND, UH, I'M PRESIDENT OF THE AS ARBOR FOUNDATION TONIGHT.
HEY, JAY, CAN YOU GO AND MAKE SURE I HAVE THE MICROPHONE IN FRONT OF YOU SO IT DOESN'T SO PICK UP.
I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE IT PICKS YOU UP.
UM, I HAVE WITH ME TONIGHT, UH, BARBARA PAPPAS, THE VICE PRESIDENT AND MARGIE GURU, OUR BOARD OF DIRECTORS.
AND AS MS. TIDWELL, UH, MENTIONED, WE DID DO A AN RFQ, WHICH IS A REQUEST FOR QUALIFICATIONS.
UM, WE REVIEWED SUBMISSIONS FROM OVER 21 ARTISTS, RACHEL RODIE, WHO WAS A MOSAIC ARTIST FROM CALIFORNIA WEST, SELECTED FOR THE PROJECT.
UM, CAN I GET THE, OH, DO I HAVE A YES, I'LL DO IT FOR YOU.
SO THIS IS THE, UH, UH, THE WALL.
AND AS MS. TIDWELL SAID, UH, IT IS SIX FEET HIGH IN THE THREE CENTER PORTIONS AND FOUR FEET HIGH ON THE TWO, UH, END PORTIONS.
IT'LL BE SLIGHTLY CONCAVE, UH, AND DOES KIND OF FOLLOW THE ROADWAY THAT IS BEHIND IT, WHICH IS BELTWAY.
SO THIS IS THE, UH, OVERALL DESIGN, AND THIS IS THE, AN ORIGINAL DESIGN.
AND IT IS JUST FOR THE THREE INNER PANELS.
AND IT REPRESENTS ON THE FAR LEFT, THE SPRING PANEL.
IN THE MIDDLE, IT IS THE SUMMER PANEL.
AND ON THE RIGHT IT IS THE END OF SUMMER PANEL, WHICH IS ESSENTIALLY OUR GROWING SEASON FOR ADDISON WITH, WITH FLOWERS.
SO STARTING WITH THE SPRING ONE, UM, WE START WITH OUR TULIP SEASON, WHICH ARE REPRESENTATIVE OF OUR ADDISON TULIPS.
WE ALSO HAVE, UH, PRAIRIE, CELESTIAL PRIMROSE, INDIAN PAINTBRUSH, AND BLUE BONNETS, WHICH ARE, IF NOT IN ADDISON PROPER, THEY ARE NATIVE TO NORTH TEXAS.
WE ALSO PUT A POLLINATOR, THAT WAS OUR RECOMMENDATION TO HAVE A BEE IN THERE.
AND, UH, SO IT JUST ADDS MORE, MORE INTEREST IN IT.
AND THE, UH, MOST MOSAIC WILL BE CONSTRUCTED OUT OF GLASS.
THIS IS A COMPUTERIZED IMAGE, SO THE, UH, ACTUAL GLASS HAS MORE DEPTH TO IT.
UH, SO YOU'LL ACTUALLY SEE MORE, UM, VEINING AND SO FORTH, ACTUALLY IN THE GLASS AS OPPOSED TO JUST FLAT.
NEXT ONE WE HAVE IS THE SUMMER, UH, FLOWERS.
AND AGAIN, UH, IT'S THE POPPY MAOW, THE INDIAN MAOW, UM, SWAMP MAOW.
WE ALSO HAVE A NATIVE TEXAS BUTTERFLY, UH, CONE FLOWERS AND PRAIRIE VERINA.
AND SO IT'S JUST KIND OF A NICE NATURAL PROGRESSION WHERE TULIPS AND THE NEXT PLANTS, THE NEXT PLANTS AND SO FORTH.
AND ON THE LAST, UH, PANEL, WE HAVE SALVIA.
WE ACTUALLY HAVE A RUBY RED THROAT.
AS OUR CREW FOUND, UH, UH HUM MEAN BIRD THAT WAS NATIVE TO OUR AREA.
WE ALSO HAVE, UH, YUCCA THE TEXAS AGE AND BLACK-EYED SUSAN'S REPRESENTED.
AND SO WE WORKED VERY CLOSELY WITH RACHEL ROADIE TO COME UP WITH A DESIGN, UH, TAKING INTO ACCOUNT ALL THE RECOMMENDATIONS FOR, UH, NATIVE TEXAS FLOWERS, UH, AND THINGS WOULD GROW IN THE ADDISON ADDISON AREA.
AND SO WE ARE ASKING TONIGHT IF COUNSEL WOULD APPROVE THAT, UH, DESIGN, UM, FOR THE LE LOCK POND AREA.
I ANY QUESTIONS? QUESTIONS FOR JAY OR FOR JENNA? NO ONE ELSE.
WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE ARTWORK, YES.
ARE WE JUST TALKING ABOUT THE GLASS PANELS OR THE WALL? ARE YOU SUPPLYING THE WALL AND THE GLASS PANELS? NO, SIR.
THE WALL IS BEING SUPPLIED BY THE TOWN OF AS, AS PART OF THE, SO WE, WE WOULD BUILD THE WALL AT, AT TOWN EXPENSE.
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SWITCH WITH YOU.THE WALL IS INCLUDED IN THE PHASE TWO CONSTRUCTION PROJECT FOR LAY LOCKS POND, AND IT IS BEING CONSTRUCTED BY THE TOWN ON TOWN DOLLARS.
THE ART PIECE IS BEING FUNDED BY THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUN FOUNDATION THROUGH A GRANT THAT THE TOWN SUPPLIES TO THE ADDISON ARBOR FOUNDATION.
AND IS THE, I I, I KEEP READING THAT THE ART IS ON THE WALL.
IS IT, IS IT JUST ATTACHED TO THE WALL OR IS IT A PART OF THE WALL TO WHERE YOU CAN SEE, IS IT TRANSPARENT, YOU SEE IT FROM BOTH SIDES OF THE WALL, OR IS IT JUST FROM THE ONE SIDE? IT IS NOT TRANSPARENT ON ONE SIDE OF THE WALL.
SO THE ROADSIDE, YOU'LL SEE THE BRICK FACING, AND THEN THERE WILL BE BACKER BOARD, AND THEN THE ART PIECE WILL BE SLIGHTLY RECESSED INTO THE THICKNESS OF A BRICK ON THE WALL, AND IT WILL BE GROUTED INTO PLACE AND THEN SEALED AROUND THE EDGES.
SO PEOPLE DRIVING DOWN BELTWAY WON'T GET THE BENEFIT OF THE ART.
PEOPLE DRIVING DOWN BELTWAY WILL NOT SEE THE ART PIECE.
UM, FRANKLY, THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A SAFETY CONCERN BY PROVIDING TOO MUCH ARTISTIC DETAIL FOR MOTORISTS ON THE ROAD.
UM, SO WE HAVE IT MORE PEDESTRIAN ORIENTED FOR PEOPLE USING THE PARK.
AND I'M, UH, I THINK I'VE EITHER READ OR, UH, YOU MENTIONED THAT IT WAS A CALIFORNIA ARTIST.
DO WE NOT HAVE ANY LOCAL ARTISTS THAT WE CAN SUPPORT IN THIS MATTER? YES.
WE ACTUALLY, UH, DID CONSIDER, UH, AN ARTIST BY THE NAME OF, UH, UM, JULIE RITCHIE.
JULIE RITCHIE, AND WE HAVE PURCHASED, UH, HER BUTTERFLY, WHICH IS GOING INTO THE BELTWAY PARK AREA.
SO THERE IS A LARGE BUTTERFLY'S GOING OVER THERE.
OH, MY, MY PERSONAL PREFERENCE AND MY OVERWHELMING, UH, UH, COMMENTS THAT I'VE GOT FROM THE PUBLIC AND, UH, RESIDENTS AROUND THE LAKE IS TO LEAVE THAT AREA OPEN, TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE LAKE WHEN YOU DRIVE DOWN THE ROAD, LOOK OVER AND, AND SEE THE LAKE, UH, WHEN YOU DRIVE THROUGH OTHER COMMUNITIES THAT HAVE PONDS.
THAT'S, THAT'S JUST A, A REALLY NICE VIEW TO BE ABLE TO SEE INTO THAT.
I UNDERSTAND, UH, IN, IN MS. TIDWELL'S PRESENTATION, TALKING ABOUT LIGHT CONCERNS AND, BUT I, I'VE GONE OVER THERE MULTIPLE TIMES AND THE, THE TWO HOUSES THAT WOULD BE IN QUESTION FOR THAT, THE ONE ON THE EAST SIDE OF THE LAKE THERE ALREADY HAS A WALL ALONG THE STREET, AND IT HAS A TOWN SUPPLIED WALL THAT HIDES AND, AND PROTECTS THE EQUIPMENT FOR THE LAKE.
AND ON THE WEST SIDE, IT HAS THE HUGE HEDGING.
SO LIGHTS SHOULDN'T BE AN ISSUE WITH EITHER OF THOSE HOUSES.
AND I WOULD, I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US LEAVE THAT OPEN FOR A, A NICE VIEW.
IF YOU'RE WALKING, BIKING, OR DRIVING BY TO BE ABLE TO SEE THE LAKE, IT'S ALWAYS EASIER TO PUT SOMETHING UP LATER RATHER THAN TAKE SOMETHING DOWN THAT, THAT, UH, UH, YOU, YOU COME TO, TO NOT APPRECIATE.
SO MY, MY ASK AND REQUEST AND DESIRE WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD JUST LEAVE THAT OPEN.
OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS? I HAVE A COMMENT.
CAN YOU BRING UP SLIDE THREE? SO I TOO HAVE, HAVE CONSIDERED WHETHER WE SHOULD LEAVE IT OPEN OR NOT.
AND PREVIOUSLY IT WAS VERY OBSCURE BY THOSE TALL BUSHES.
YOU COULDN'T SEE ANYTHING, YOU DIDN'T EVEN KNOW IT WAS THERE.
UM, AND, AND IF YOU WALK THROUGH THERE, AND I HAVE HUNDREDS OF TIMES IT'S NEARBY, UM, THAT THAT SIDEWALK GOES STRAIGHT INSIDE TO THE, THE POND, THE PARK POND, RIGHT? MM-HMM
SO I DON'T SEE THAT IT WOULD, UM, BE MISSING FROM PEOPLE WALKING BY.
OBVIOUSLY IF THEY'RE, IF THEY'RE ON THE STREET, UH, ON THE OTHER SIDEWALK OR IF THERE'S A SIDEWALK OR GO GOES ALONG THE STREET, THEY WOULD, COULD CHOOSE TO WALK THAT WAY.
ALSO, UM, CARS DRIVING BY LOOKING OVER AT THE POND.
SEEMS LIKE THEY WOULD BE DRIVING OFF THE ROAD.
UM, PEOPLE ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STREET THAT HAVE A OVERLOOKING OFFICE WOULD BE NICE ALSO.
UM, THERE WAS LIKE, UM, PROBABLY 12 DIFFERENT GOOD POINTS THAT WOULD MAKE WAS MADE THAT I SAW BY SOME OTHER RESIDENTS AS WELL AS WHY WE WOULD LIKE TO HAVE IT THERE.
BUT, UM, OR NOT TO HAVE THE WALL THERE, BUT IT DOES MAKE A LOT OF SENSE TO BE THERE.
SO THERE'S, THERE'S, UM, THERE'S PROS AND CONS OF IT.
I THINK THE WALL MAKES MORE SENSE.
IT IS MUCH MORE VISIBLE THAN IT WAS, SO YOU CAN SEE OVER THE WALL.
UM, SO I'M IN FAVOR OF THE WALL AS DESIGNED, AND IT WAS ALL PUBLIC INPUT BY ALL OF THOSE RESIDENTS.
I MEAN, THERE'S GOOD CONVERSATION ABOUT WHY BY NO WALL, BUT, UH, THAT'S KIND OF MY FEELING ON IT, IS THE WALL'S A GOOD PLACE.
THANK YOU FOR THE ART CONSIDERATION.
LIKE TO HAVE A TEXAS ARTIST TOO, FOR THE WHOLE THING.
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ARTISTS COME FROM ALL OVER.SO I WOULD LIKE TO ADD WE, YOUR COMMENTS.
WE DID OUR BEST TO STAFF TO BALANCE THE TWO SIDES THAT WE HEARD FROM THE RESIDENTS THAT WERE LIVING IN THE AREA.
UM, WHAT WE HAD ORIGINALLY WAS 107 OR 65 FOOT HEDGE THAT WAS 12 FOOT TALL.
WHAT WE HAVE NOW IS A 51 FOOT WALL THAT THE CENTER PORTION'S SIX FOOT TALL AND THE OUTER EDGES ARE FOREFOOT.
AND SO WE HAVE PROVIDED A LOT OF VISIBILITY WHEN YOU'RE DRIVING THAT YOU SEE GLIMPSES INTO THE POND.
UM, SO THAT WAS OUR TRYING TO BALANCE ALL THE NEEDS OF THE RESIDENTS.
BUT OF COURSE, WE, YOU KNOW, I JUST WANTED TO MAKE SURE Y'ALL HAD THAT INFORMATION.
WE'LL MOVE FORWARD HOWEVER YOU DIRECT US TO.
YEAH, I'VE GOT, I JUST WANNA SHARE A COUPLE COMMENTS, UM, UH, OF LATE DRIVING, UH, ALONG BELTWAY AND JUST YOU CAN KIND OF PEEK DOWN A LITTLE BIT THROUGH THE FENCE, UH, AND SEE THE LAKE.
IT LOOKS ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFUL.
AND RECEIVED, UH, SOME REALLY NICE COMMUNICATIONS TO, TO HOPEFULLY LEAVE THAT OPEN.
UM, I WAS CONCERNED ABOUT, UM, THE, THE HOUSES, THE TWO HOUSES CLOSEST TO BELTWAY DRIVE, UM, YOU KNOW, WHAT THAT, HOW THAT MIGHT AFFECT THOSE RESIDENTS, WHETHER IT BE NOISE OR LIGHT.
SO I, I WENT OUT AND, AND I COMMUNICATED WITH, WITH, UM, THREE DIFFERENT INDIVIDUALS, BOTH OF THOSE HOMES.
UM, KATHY QUALS OVER AT, UH, CHATHAM COURT.
UM, SHE'S, SHE'S GOT A GREAT HEDGE AND I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S ON HER, HER, UH, YOU KNOW, THE PROPERTY WHERE SHE'S LIVING OR IF THE TOWN.
ANYWAY, THAT'S A GREAT, UM, A GREAT BUFFER.
AND THEN, UH, I KNOW WE JUST INSTALLED ONE OR TWO TREES MM-HMM
OVER, UH, ON THE PARK OVER THERE BY RIDGE LAKE COURT.
I SPOKE WITH, UH, KATHY AND, UH, AND DAVID OVER AT RIDGE LAKE COURT.
THEY'RE NOT HAVING ANY ISSUES WITH, UH, WITH, WITH THE NOISE, THE ISSUES THEY HAD WITH THE NOISE OF THE CONSTRUCTION, WHICH IS OBVIOUS, RIGHT? BUT, BUT THEY SAID, HEY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE, WE'VE BEEN LIVING HERE FOR, I DON'T KNOW HOW LONG.
WE DON'T HAVE ANY, YOU KNOW, WE, WE DON'T HAVE ANY PROBLEM WITH THE TRAFFIC.
UM, ASKED HIM ABOUT THE LIGHTING, AND HE GO, YEAH, WE HAD A LITTLE BIT OF PROBLEM ON THE LIGHTING, BUT THAT WAS ON THE FRONT PART OF THEIR HOUSE.
UM, SO, UH, I WAS HAPPY TO HEAR THAT, THAT THAT WAS NOT AN ISSUE WITH THOSE RESIDENTS THAT THINK IF ANYBODY'S AFFECTED WOULD BE THOSE TWO HOMES.
UM, I PERSONALLY LOVE LOOKING DOWN BELTWAY AND, AND SEEING THAT, THAT POND.
UM, SO THOSE ARE JUST THE THOUGHTS.
I WANTED TO SHARE OTHER QUESTIONS, COMMENTS, JUST A COUPLE OF COMMENTS.
UM, I LOVE THE WAY THAT THE LAKE TURNED OUT.
UM, AND I THINK THIS IS, UM, JUST A, A GREAT ADDITION TO IT.
I APPRECIATE YOU GUYS AND ALL YOU DID TO FIND THIS ARTIST.
UM, I SEE THE ARGUMENT ON, YOU KNOW, WHY WE WANT TO KEEP IT OPEN AND ALLOW THE ENTIRE TOWN TO ENJOY THE VIEW, BUT I ALSO THINK THERE NEEDS TO BE A BUFFER THERE.
I THINK WE'VE HAD SEVERAL MEETINGS AND WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF PUBLIC INPUT, AND I THINK OVERWHELMINGLY WE HEARD THAT, YOU KNOW, THOSE RESIDENTS OVER THERE WANT SOMETHING THERE.
I THINK THIS IS BETTER THAN WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE.
UM, SO I'LL, I'LL SUPPORT THE WALL AND, AND THE ART, DAN.
UM, JUST MY 2 CENTS ON THE, UH, CONVERSATION.
SO I LIVE AT BELTWAY AND LAGRAND AND THOSE THAT KNOW IT WELL, THERE'S A STOP SIGN THERE.
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TWO LOCATIONS WOULD BE, IN A SENSE, I WISH I HAD A WALL BECAUSE I LIVE A FEW HOUSES IN, I, I'M NOT GONNA CONTRADICT MARLON, BUT I CAN TELL YOU JUST FROM NOISE BUFFERING, I WISH I HAD A WALL AT THE, AT THE LA GRAND ENTRANCE BECAUSE THERE'S, WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE ABOUT NOISE WITH VEHICLES NOW.
BUT IF I LIVE THERE AND WANT SOME PRIVACY IN MY BACKYARD FOR BARBECUING AND GRILLING, I DON'T WANNA BE HEARING CARS GOING UP AND DOWN MEL WEST.
SO I'M IN SUPPORT OF THE WALL IN THE, IN THE DECORATIVE, CERTAINLY AGREE RANDY'S FAVOR, WHICH IS WHAT I'VE ALWAYS ASKED FOR, WHICH IS TEXAS ARTISTS, AS YOU KNOW, I'VE TALKED TO YOU ABOUT THAT, DR.
BUT CERTAINLY THINK IT'S A BEAUTIFUL PROJECT.
AND, UH, YEAH, MY COMMENTS WOULD BE, I MEAN, I THINK I, I AGREE WITH THE FOLKS THAT, UH, I THINK THE WHOLE PROJECT LOOKS REALLY GREAT AND, UH, AND, AND I DO SEE THE POINT ABOUT NOT HAVING A WALL THERE, BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT THAT BELTWAY, IT'S, IT'S A VERY MUCH A VERY PEDESTRIAN HEAVY, UH, AREA.
PEOPLE WALKING THEMSELVES, WALKING THEIR DOGS.
AND I REALLY WANT PEOPLE DRIVING DOWN BELTWAY TO FOCUS ON THE DRIVING AND NOT BE DISTRACTED BY SOMETHING ELSE.
SO, JUST FOR, FROM A SAFETY PERSPECTIVE, I THINK IT'S BETTER, UH, TO KEEP THE WALL THERE AND, AND, UM, AND, AND, UH, AND GO WITH THAT.
SO, AND THEN THE, THE ONE OTHER COMMENT I WOULD HAVE, AND I DO LIKE THE, THE IDEA OF HAVING A TEXAS ARTIST, THAT'D BE, THAT'D BE KIND OF GREAT.
UM, THE OTHER COMMENT I WOULD MAKE JUST ON A, ON A JUST KIND OF MORE GENERAL COMMENT, UM, I GUESS IT WAS LAST WEEK I WAS SHOWING SOMEBODY THE, THE AUTO AUTOCAST APP, WHICH
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IF YOU HAVEN'T BEEN ON THE AUTOCAST APP, BUT IT'S, YOU CAN TOUR ALL OF OUR PUBLIC ART, WHICH IS REALLY GREAT.IT HAS VIDEOS AND, AND AUDIO AND STUFF REALLY GOOD.
UM, AND WHAT, WHAT KINDA STOOD OUT TO ME AS I WAS SHOWING THIS PERSON THE AUTOCAST APP, WAS ALMOST ALL OF OUR ART IS REALLY CONCENTRATED IN ONE PART OF ADDISON.
IF I LOOKED AT, AT THE NEIGHBORHOOD NEIGHBORHOODS EAST OF THE TOLLWAY IN ADDISON, I THINK I SAW ONE DOT OVER THERE FOR ONE ART PIECE OVER IN, UM, UH, OAKS NORTH.
AND THEN IF YOU LOOK NORTH OF ADDISON CIRCLE, IT'S AN ART DESERT.
SO I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO FIND SOME OPPORTUNITY TO FIND SOME LOCATIONS FOR SOME ART, UH, FOR THE FOLKS THAT MIGHT LIVE NORTH OF, UH, NORTH OF BELL AND NORTH OF ARAPAHO AND, AND, UH, IN THE NORTHERN PARTS OF TOWN.
'CAUSE THEY WOULD ENJOY THAT AS WELL.
SO WITH THAT, I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
A MOTION TO SECOND AND A SECOND FROM DAN.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? YEAH, MAYOR.
UM, I'M NOT GONNA SUPPORT THIS RESOLUTION, BUT IT'S NOT ABOUT ART.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? JUST TO, JUST TO ADD ON, UM, WHEN WE WERE, THEY WERE HAVING ALL THE PUBLIC INPUT ON THE WALL, UM, ON THE DESIGN.
A LOT OF PEOPLE DIDN'T WANNA LOSE ALL OF THAT.
ALL OF THOSE, THAT'S LIKE, THAT WALL'S TOO SMALL.
SO I JUST WANNA PUT THAT IN THERE AS WELL.
I, I FORGOT TO MENTION THAT PREVIOUSLY.
TWO OPPOSED, THEN THAT ITEM IS APPROVED.
[b. Present, discuss, and consider action on an Ordinance to amend the Town's annual budget for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2025.]
B.UH, ITEM FIVE B, PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND THE TOWN'S ANNUAL BUDGET FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDING SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025.
STEVEN, UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
STEVEN GLICKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER.
AND FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION THIS EVENING, WE HAVE AN ORDINANCE, UH, TO AMEND OUR BUDGET FOR THE SECOND TIME, UH, FOR FISCAL YEAR 2025.
UM, SO, UH, GETTING INTO OUR PROCESS.
SO, REGULAR AMENDMENTS OF THE BUDGET ARE AN ACCEPTED, UH, PRACTICE.
SO IT MEANS THAT WE'RE, UH, MONITORING AND MANAGING OUR FISCAL AFFAIRS.
UH, IT HELPS MITIGATE IMPACTS OF CHANGES IN CIRCUMSTANCES.
AND THEN THE TOWN'S, UH, BUDGET, BUDGET AMENDMENT POLICY.
UH, SO TRANSFERS BETWEEN ACCOUNTS WITHIN A DEPARTMENT CAN BE, UH, APPROVED BY MYSELF.
THE CFO, UH, TRANSFERS BETWEEN DEPARTMENTS OF LESS THAN 5% CHANGE CAN BE APPROVED BY THE CITY MANAGER AND THEN TRANSFERS BETWEEN FUNDS OR A MORE THAN 5% CHANGE WITHIN, UM, A DEPARTMENT OR FUND MUST BE APPROVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL.
SO, GOING FORWARD TO WHAT IS IN THE AMENDMENT BEFORE YOU, SO I THINK WE TALKED ABOUT THIS, UH, PRETTY MUCH IN DEPTH DURING THE BUDGET PROCESS, BUT WITHIN THE GENERAL FUND, UH, THE, THE BUDGET AMENDMENT HERE AUTHORIZES THE CITY MANAGER TO TRANSFER, UH, ANY EXCESS REVENUE OR ANY EXPENDITURE SAVINGS, UM, TO, UH, THE SELF-FUNDED PROJECTS FUND, UH, IN THE AMOUNT OF UP TO 75%.
AND THEN WHAT'S ADDED NEW THIS YEAR IS THAT ALLOWING 25% OF THAT AMOUNT TO BE TRANSFERRED TO THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND.
UM, SO WE WILL KNOW THAT TOTAL AMOUNT WHEN WE GET, UH, ALL OF OUR, UH, REVENUES AND EXPENDITURES RECORDED FOR THE FISCAL YEAR.
UH, WHAT WE ESTIMATED IN THE BUDGET THAT YOU JUST APPROVED AT THE LAST MEETING, UH, WAS THAT WE'D HAVE ABOUT $1.6 MILLION, MAINLY FROM SALES TAX, UM, COLLECTIONS GOING OVER BUDGET, UH, THAT WE WOULD, UH, THAT WE WOULD BE ABLE TO ALLOCATE $1.2 MILLION TO THE SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND AND THEN 400,000 TO ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT FUND.
UH, BUT THAT, THAT FINAL NUMBER WE'LL KNOW HERE, UH, IN ABOUT SIX WEEKS, UH, GOING FORWARD TO THE INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT FUND.
UH, WE ADD PRIOR ENCUMBRANCES FOR TWO PROJECTS THAT WERE APPROVED PREVIOUSLY BY COUNCIL IN THE AMOUNT OF ALMOST $730,000, UH, FOR THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND A DA IMPROVEMENT PROJECT.
AND THE REDDING TRAIL EXTENSION DOG PARK PROJECT.
UH, THOSE PROJECTS WERE BUDGETED IN PREVIOUS YEARS.
AND MORE OF THE EXPENDITURES OCCURRED, UH, IN THIS FISCAL YEAR.
UH, THEN IN THE CAPITAL PROJECTS FUND, A SIMILAR SITUATION, UH, PRIOR YEAR, ENCUMBRANCES RELATED TO PROJECTS THAT WERE BUDGETED IN A PRIOR FISCAL YEAR AND, UH, ARE BEING EXPENDED IN THIS FISCAL YEAR RELATED TO IMPROVEMENTS TO EXISTING BUILDING BUILDINGS.
THE LAY LOCKS POND PROJECT IN THE MIDWAY RE, UH, ROAD RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT.
UH, THEN WE HAVE OUR SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND.
SO THERE'S A REVENUE SOURCE FOR TREE MITIGATION FUNDS, WHICH CAN ONLY BE USED FOR TREE MITIGATION.
UH, THERE WAS A, A, AN EMERGENCY PUMP REPAIR AT THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT, UH, LIGHT POLE AND BOLLARD REPLACEMENTS, WHICH, WHICH WERE, UH, REIMBURSED BY INSURANCE AND THEN IRRIGATION IMPROVEMENTS AT NORTH ADDISON PARK.
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AND THAT TOTAL FOR, UH, SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND OF $206,000.AND THEN IN THE GRANT FUND, UH, WE RECEIVED, UH, A GRANT FROM METRO CREST HOSPITAL AUTHORITY TO PURCHASE SOME LIFE PACKS.
SO THERE'S THE GRANT REVENUE OF 50,000 OFFSET BY THE EXPENDITURES, UH, TO PURCHASE THOSE LIFE PACKS IN THE AMOUNT OF $50,000.
AND THEN WITHIN THE FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND, THERE WERE, THERE WERE SEVERAL ITEMS. THE TWO MAIN ONES WERE, UH, RELATED TO THE, UM, UH, THE RECONSTRUCTION OR SOME OF THE PROJECTS OVER AT THE FIRE DEPARTMENT, UH, TO REBUILD THE BATHROOMS OVER THERE, WHICH WERE APPROVED BY COUNCIL IN SEPTEMBER OF 2024.
AND THE WORK ACTUALLY WAS DONE, UH, IN THIS FISCAL YEAR.
AND THEN THERE WERE SOME EMERGENCY REPAIRS THAT WERE APPROVED BY COUNCIL, UH, TO THE ATHLETIC CLUB IN MARCH, UH, OF OVER $70,000, UH, WHICH WERE, UH, UNBUDGETED REPAIRS.
UH, THE TOTAL, UH, INCLUDING, UH, A COUPLE OF OTHER ANCILLARY ITEMS WERE, WERE ABOUT $200,000, UH, WHICH IS INCLUDED IN THAT FACILITY MAINTENANCE FUND.
AND THEN OVERALL THE AMENDMENT, UH, INCLUDES, UH, AN IMPACT TO EXPENDITURES, UH, $3,812,136, UH, REVENUE, WHICH WAS WAS THE GRANT, UH, $50,000.
UH, SO, UH, OVERALL ABOUT $3,762,000, UH, IS, IS THE NET AMOUNT.
AND WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS YOU HAVE.
YEAH, STEVEN, I'VE GOT ONE QUESTION ON THE SLIDE.
SLIDE SEVEN SELF-FUNDED SPECIAL PROJECTS FUND.
UM, AS FAR AS THE ITEM FOR LIGHT POLE AND BOLLARD REPLACEMENTS OF 42,000, I, I GET THE EXPENSE, BUT ARE WE, ARE WE RECOUPING THAT MONEY THAT, THAT ONE WAS AN INSURANCE CLAIM? SO WE DID RECOUP, IT WAS JUST THE ONE, THERE WERE, THERE WERE SEVERAL.
IT WAS, IT WAS SEVERAL ITEMS OVER THE COURSE OF THE YEAR.
WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE MOTORISTS THAT HIT, UH, SOME OF OUR LIGHT POLES AND SOME OF THE BOLLARDS.
SO THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, UH, $42,000 WAS, WAS WHAT WE SPENT ON THAT.
AND SO WHEN WE RECEIVE THAT, UH, WHERE DOES THAT, WHERE DOES THAT MONEY GO? UH, THE REVENUE IS GOING INTO THE GENERAL FUND.
SO IS IT NOT SHOWN ON REVENUES? 'CAUSE WE'VE NOT RECEIVED IT YET? UH, WE HAVE RECEIVED IT.
UM, WE'RE, WE'RE REALLY JUST ASKING FOR THE APPROPRIATION.
UM, SINCE IT'S GOING INTO THE GENERAL FUND, IT'S REALLY TWO DIFFERENT FUNDS.
UM, BUT WE'RE JUST, WE'RE JUST MAKING SURE THAT WE HAVE A, A ADEQUATE BUDGET TO PAY, UH, THE BILLS.
SO THEY ESSENTIALLY, THE EXPENSES ARE JUST CROSSING FISCAL YEAR.
SO WE NEED TO RE-APPROPRIATE THE MONEY SO WE CAN FINISH THE EXPENSES.
SO THE QUESTIONS I HAVE A QUICK QUESTION FOR YOU, STEVEN, ON SLIDE.
IS THAT EIGHT, THE TOWN WIDE FACILITY REPAIRS? SO THE, THE 70 K THAT WAS SPENT ON THE A A C REPAIRS? I THINK I'D ASKED THAT QUESTION WHEN THAT CAME UP.
THE ORIGINAL GENERAL CONTRACTOR THAT CAME IN TO DO REPAIRS, WASN'T IT PART OF THE ROOF? DIDN'T, DIDN'T THEY HAVE SOME CULPABILITY OR LIABILITY TO FIX WHAT THEY HAD ALREADY SUPPOSEDLY FIXED? OR IS IT A NEW, WAS IT A NEW ISSUE THAT WASN'T A PART OF THE AS ATHLETIC, UM, UPGRADES? WELL, IT, IT, I DON'T, THIS ONE WASN'T RELATED TO THE UPGRADES.
SO THE WORK THAT WAS DONE ON THE A A C, THIS HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.
CORRECT? IT WAS NOT RELATED TO THE RENOVATION.
I THOUGHT I'D ASK THAT QUESTION.
WAS THERE A TIE OVER? NO, IT WAS NOT A TIE.
ALRIGHT, SO THE QUESTIONS ALL RIGHT, IF NOT, I'LL ENTERTAIN A MOTION.
I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE.
THANK YOU CHRIS AND MARLON FOR THE SECOND.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT, ITEM FIVE B IS APPROVED.
[c. Present, discuss, and consider action on a Resolution adopting revisions to the guidelines of the Neighborhood Vitality Grant program.]
FIVE C, PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A RESOLUTION ADOPTING REVISIONS TO THE GUIDELINES OF THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY GRANT PROGRAM.MAYOR RAY MENDEZ, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.
I'M HERE THIS EVENING TO PRESENT TO YOU OUR PROPOSED GUIDELINE REVISIONS FOR THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY GRANT.
AS YOU RECALL, UH, WE WERE HERE IN, UH, OOPS.
AS YOU RECALL, WE WERE HERE IN AUGUST, UH, AT A COUNCIL WORK SESSION WHERE LESLIE PRESENTED THE FIRST YEAR OVERVIEW OF THE GRANT PROGRAM, UH, AS PART OF THE BUDGET PROCESS.
AND IN CONSIDERATION OF, OF THE COUNCIL'S, UH, UH, REVIEWING THE, THE POTENTIAL TO CONTINUE THE GRANT PROGRAM.
UH, THERE WAS A COUPLE OF ITEMS THAT WERE SUGGESTED IN TERMS OF REVISING OUR GRANT GUIDELINES, UH, MAINLY TO ADDRESS CONCERNS RELATED TO THE REIMBURSEMENT OF COSTS, UH, ONGOING MAINTENANCE AND ELIGIBILITY FOR FUTURE GRANT AWARDS.
UH, STAFF HAS REVIEWED THOSE, UH, GUIDELINES AND WE'RE COMING BACK TO YOU WITH OUR PROPOSALS.
UH, BEFORE WE DO THAT, LEMME JUST KIND OF GO OVER THE GRANT GUIDELINES, UH, JUST TO KIND OF REFRESH THOSE FOR YOU.
AS YOU KNOW, THE PURPOSE OF THE PROGRAM IS TO ADDRESS PART OF OUR AGING INFRASTRUCTURE.
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UH, ESSENTIALLY, UH, IT WAS DESIGNED TO ASSIST IN THE MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF RESIDENTIAL MAIN MAIN MASONRY PERIMETER SCREENING WALLS.UH, IDEALLY TO PRESERVE THE, THE PHYSICAL CONDITION OF NEIGHBORHOODS, ENCOURAGE CONTINUITY IN THE AREA, PROMOTE COMMUNITY PRIDE AND AND ADDRESS STRUCTURE STRUCTURAL ISSUES THAT MIGHT POSE SAFETY CONCERNS.
UM, AS FAR AS WHO CAN APPLY FOR THE PROGRAM, THIS PROGRAM IS OPEN TO INDIVIDUAL PROPERTY OWNERS AS WELL AS NEIGHBORHOOD GROUPS, UH, SUCH AS HOAS, WHICH IS, UH, WE'VE HAD BOTH, UH, IN THE PAST.
UH, THE TIMELINE FOR THE APPLICATIONS, UH, HAS BEEN GENERALLY FROM AUGUST 1ST TO AUGUST 31ST.
UH, WE DID MEET WITH OAK NORTH, UH, NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION EARLIER IN THE SUMMER, AND, UH, THEY HAD SUGGESTED THAT WE MOVE THAT TIMELINE OVER A LITTLE BIT.
UH, WE LOOKED AT THAT, BUT BECAUSE OF THE FACT THAT THESE TOWN, THESE FUNDS, UH, DON'T ROLL OVER FROM YEAR TO YEAR, THEY HAVE TO BE APPROVED BY COUNCIL.
WE WANTED TO ENSURE THAT WE HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO TAKE THE APPLICATIONS IN, REVIEW THEM, AND THEN MAKE THE GRANT AWARDS SO THAT THE FUNDS COULD BE AWARDED AND THE PROJECTS COULD BE COMPLETED WITHIN THE TIMELINE OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
UM, THE WAY THE PROGRAM WORKS IS IT'S A MATCH AND REIMBURSEMENT PROGRAM.
SO BASICALLY APPLICATE APPLICANTS ARE REQUIRED TO PROVIDE 20% OF THE FUNDS AND THEN THE TOWN REIMBURSES THEM, UH, FOR 80% OF THE PROJECT.
UM, ONE OF THE DISCUSSIONS THAT CAME UP, AS YOU RECALL, WAS THE AMOUNT OF THE REIMBURSEMENT.
UH, PRIOR TO THIS, UH, THERE WAS NO MAXIMUM.
UH, SO WHAT, FOR EXAMPLE, ONE OF THE PRO, UH, ONE OF THE APPLICANTS THAT WE HAD, UH, LAST YEAR, THE COST EXCEEDED, UH, $50,000.
UH, THAT WAS THE, THE 80% REIMBURSEMENT.
UM, THERE WAS SEVERAL, SEVERAL NUMBERS THAT WERE, UM, THROWN ABOUT AS FAR AS, UH, WHAT WOULD BE AN APPROPRIATE CAP.
UH, AND I BELIEVE WE ENDED UP WITH, UH, A MAXIMUM REIMBURSEMENT AMOUNT OF $25,000.
AS FAR AS THE IMPLEMENTATION PROCESS, AS I MENTIONED, UH, GRANTS ARE AWARDED IN OCTOBER.
UH, THE IDEA BEHIND THAT, OF COURSE, IS THAT WE WANT TO GET THIS WORK COMPLETED PRIOR TO THE END OF THE FISCAL YEAR.
UH, THE TOWN HAS LOOKED AT AT POTENTIAL CONTRACTORS TO ASSIST, PUT A CALL, CALL OUT FOR CONTRACTORS.
UH, WE DIDN'T GET VERY MANY THAT RESPONDED TO THAT.
I BELIEVE WE ONLY HAVE TWO CURRENTLY ON OUR LIST.
UM, GRANT PAYMENTS, UH, ARE MADE ONCE THE PROJECT IS COMPLETED.
UH, THERE IS A REQUIREMENT THAT THE PROJECT BE INSPECTED BY OUR BUILDING OFFICIAL AND CERTIFIED AS COMPLETED.
AND THEN AT THAT POINT, THE APPLICANTS CAN SUBMIT THEIR APPLICATION FOR REIMBURSEMENT.
UH, AS FAR AS FUTURE GRANT AWARDS, ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WAS PART OF THE DISCUSSION THAT WE HAD IN THE WORK SESSION WAS THAT, UH, WE WANTED TO LIMIT THIS, UH, FOR A CERTAIN TIMEFRAME FOR THOSE THAT HAVE PREVIOUSLY APPLIED.
UH, SO WE CAME UP WITH, UH, A PERIOD OF 10 YEARS FROM THE DATE OF THE PREVIOUS AWARD, AND THAT WOULD APPLY ONLY TO THOSE THAT HAVE SUBMITTED FOR A PARTICULAR SECTION OF WALL.
SO IF IT'S, IF THEY'RE APPLYING FOR THAT SAME GENERAL AREA, THEY WOULD HAVE TO WAIT THAT TIMEFRAME.
WE WILL CONSIDER GRANT AWARDS FOR WALL SECTIONS THAT ARE DIFFERENT FROM THOSE THAT WERE PREVIOUSLY AWARDED.
UH, AND WITH THAT, UH, OUR RECOMMENDATION IS APPROVAL OF THIS RESOLUTION.
IF I COULD JUST MAKE ONE COMMENT.
SO, UH, IN RELATION TO SOME CONVERSATION EARLIER, FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR, UH, WE ONLY HAVE, WE ONLY RECEIVED ONE APPLICATION, WHICH WE BELIEVE WILL BE WELL UNDER THE TOTAL AMOUNT THAT WE HAVE.
WE DID RECEIVE INQUIRIES FROM SOME FOLKS AFTER THE APPLICATION DEADLINE ASKING IF WE COULD EXTEND IT THIS YEAR.
WE ARE COMFORTABLE EXTENDING IT THIS YEAR FOR A FEW MORE WEEKS, SINCE WE HAVE PLENTY OF FUNDS LEFT OVER, NO OTHER APPLICATIONS COMING IN, BUT WANTED TO INFORM COUNSEL OF THAT CHANGE FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR.
HOW MANY APPLICATIONS DID YOU SAY WE RECEIVED FOR THIS BUDGET YEAR? THIS ONE FOR THIS, THIS ONE.
AND THERE'S NO ISSUES WITH EX EXTENDING THAT PERIOD? WE DON'T HAVE AN ISSUE WITH IT.
'CAUSE THE, THE ONE WE RECEIVED IS NOT GONNA COME ANYWHERE CLOSER TO MAX.
ONE OF THE ISSUES WE HAD LAST YEAR IS WE KNEW WE HAD SUCH A BIG DOLLAR AMOUNT THAT IT MADE IT DIFFICULT KNOWING WE'LL HAVE PLENTY OF FUNDS.
WE'RE COMFORTABLE WITH EXTENDING IT THIS YEAR.
UH, DAVID, WE STILL HAVE A CAP OF A HUNDRED K AS THE BUDGET? YES, THAT'S CORRECT.
I THOUGHT MY MEMORY WAS, WE, WE ALSO WENT TO A 50 50, NOT, NOT THE 80 20, SO WE'RE STILL AT 80 20.
UH, UH, OTHER COMMENTS I WOULD HAVE, I, I'M OPPOSED TO THIS PROGRAM AND EVERYONE KNOWS IT BECAUSE IT, BEING ON PRIVATE PROPERTY, UH, I DON'T THINK CITY FUNDS SHOULD BE PAYING THAT, BUT THERE HAVE BEEN SOME COMMENTS MADE TONIGHT THAT I COMPLETELY AGREE WITH.
AND MOST OF THESE WALLS ARE IN HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATIONS.
AND I THINK THE HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION SHOULD GET FAR MORE INVOLVED, UH, IN THE PROCESS OF THESE WALLS TO APPROVE MATERIALS, TO APPROVE COLORS.
UH, YOU KNOW, PART OF THE ISSUE WE'VE HAD ON SOME WALLS IS THEY COME IN
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AND WANT TO USE THEIR OWN BRICK, AND THEN WE HAVE A MISMATCH WALL.MY UNDERSTANDING IS THAT'S A, THE PURPOSE OF A HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING MATCHES AND IS AESTHETICALLY PLEASING AND, UH, GOES THROUGH THE PROCESS.
SO I, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO SEE OUR HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS STEP UP IN GETTING MORE INVOLVED WITH THEIR MEMBERS BEFORE IT EVER COMES TO THE TOWN.
IS WHAT IS WHAT I WOULD TRULY, AND, AND I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US SUPPORT THOSE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS IN THEIR EFFORTS ON, ON THAT.
SO, UH, THEY HAVE, IN, IN SOME OF THESE CASES, THEY HAVE FAR MORE RECOURSE AND AND AUTHORITY ON THAT PROPERTY THAN THE TOWN DOES.
AND I JUST WOULD LIKE TO SEE THEM STEP UP AND, AND, AND DO MORE ON THEIR OWN.
YEAH, I JUST WANNA JUMP IN REAL QUICK.
UM, FROM AN HOA STANDPOINT, SO SOME OF THESE, NOT ALL HOAS ARE EQUAL, RIGHT? AND SO SOME OF THE HOA, THEY ALL HAVE DIFFERENT ASSETS THAT THEY EITHER MAINTAIN OR, UM, REPAIR OR, UM, REPLACE.
SO WE'VE GOT, UH, OAKS NORTH, FOR EXAMPLE, VERY, VERY LIMITED SCOPE, UM, VERY LIMITED ASSETS THAT THEY MAINTAIN.
SO, UH, SO THEY'RE THE HOMEOWNERS ON MONFORT, THEY'RE, THEY'RE, IT'S THEIR WALL.
UM, BUT YOU'VE GOT OTHER HOAS AND THEY'RE HEAVY ASSETS.
AND THE HOA HAS THE RESPONSIBILITY OF KEEPING UP, KEEPING UP WITH THE WALL.
SO, UH, IT'S ALL, YOU KNOW, EACH ONE'S DIFFERENT, BUT, BUT, BUT SOME OF THESE HOAS, UM, MANY OF THEM THAT I KNOW WORK VERY, VERY HARD AND DO AN EXCELLENT JOB, UM, MAINTAINING THE ASSETS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO.
AND, UM, AND THAT'S THEIR FOCUS PER THEIR COVENANTS.
I THINK PART OF YOUR POINT, RANDY, WAS ALSO THAT THE, THE, UH, ARCHITECTURAL STANDARDS COMMITTEE, OR THAT'S WHAT I'M, THAT, THAT THEY, THAT THEY SHOULD, THEY, THEY SHOULD BE APPROVING WHATEVER THAT WHATEVER THAT BRICK SELECTION IS PRECISELY.
SO YOU'RE, YOU'RE FAMILIAR VERY MUCH.
EVEN, EVEN IF THEY'RE NOT PAYING FOR IT.
YEAH, I COMPLETELY THAT, THAT, THAT IS MY POINT.
IT IS ALSO THEIR GARAGE DOOR, BUT THE HOA WON'T LET 'EM PUT A PINK GARAGE DOOR UP IN MANY CASES.
I MEAN, SO THE ARCH THE ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEES IN THESE HOAS SHOULD BE FAR MORE INVOLVED.
EVEN IF WE HAVE THIS PROGRAM TO HELP 'EM FINANCIALLY, THEY SHOULD BE MORE INVOLVED IN THE PROCESS OF SAYING, AND, AND EVEN SO FAR AS THEY COULD HAVE THEIR OWN APPROVED CONTRACTORS THAT'S GONNA COME INTO OUR CITY, WHY SHOULD WE PROVIDE THE CONTRACTORS FOR 'EM, GET THEM INVOLVED, AND KEEP THEIR NEIGHBORHOODS THE WAY THEY WANT IT KEPT.
AND I, I WOULD WHOLLY SUPPORT 'EM ON THAT, AND I WOULD HOPE THE TOWN WOULD SUPPORT THE ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEE SAY, YES.
THAT'S WHAT YOUR ARCHITECTURAL COMMITTEE HAS SAID AND DO.
WE'RE, WE'RE ALL IN THIS TOGETHER.
AND IN, IN ESSENCE, THEY ARE SELECTING THEIR OWN CONTRACTORS.
THE ONLY REQUIREMENT THAT WE HAVE IS THAT THEY BE RE REGISTERED WITH THE TOWN AND THAT THEY ALSO PULL THE, THE BUILDING PERMIT.
SO ON ON THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION, UH, DOES THE TOWN HAVE ANY BUSINESS IN, IN MANAGING HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS? MM-HMM.
SO IT'S, I I FREELY ENCOURAGE THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATIONS TO DO THAT AS WELL, BUT I, I DON'T THINK THE TOWN HAS A LOT OF, UH, TEETH FOR THAT TO, TO MANDATE THAT.
WELL, I'M NOT, I'M NOT AT ALL TALKING ABOUT A MANDATE TO THE HOMEOWNERS ASSOCIATION.
I WOULD SAY THEY ARE TASKED WITH THEIR, WITH THEIR CHARTER AND THEIR MANDATES TO DO THAT ALREADY.
IT'S JUST A MATTER, IT'S JUST A MATTER OF THEM.
AND SINCE IT'S A REIMBURSEMENT, WELL, THEY HAVE TO, THEY SHOULD BE WORKING WITH THE HOMEOWNER ASSOCIATION IN, IN ADVANCE AS WELL.
UM, SO WITH CONSIDERATION TO SOME OF THE COMMENTS, I THINK THE COMMENTS WERE REALLY GOOD.
UM, WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING THAT WE CHANGE IN THE FUTURE? UM, MAYBE SOME OF THE, UH, UH, DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION PARAMETERS, UH, TREE REMOVAL, THAT'S, THAT'S THE ONE THAT KIND OF WOULD GO ACROSS, UM, ALL OF THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF WALLS.
WOULD THAT BE SOMETHING WE CONSIDER NOW OR IN THE FUTURE REVISION? UH, I MEAN, AS FAR AS THE CONVERSATIONS, I THINK THE, I THINK TREE REMOVAL WOULD BE THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WOULD CHANGE IN THIS, IF THAT'S SOMETHING COUNSEL WANTED TO CONSIDER.
UM, I THINK THE OTHER CONVERSATIONS WERE MORE PRACTICE AND THINGS WE CAN DO, BUT THE ONLY THING THAT YOU WOULD CHANGE IN THIS WOULD BE IF YOU WANTED TO EXPLICITLY SAY TREE REMOVAL WAS REIMBURSABLE.
AND ACTUALLY OUR CURRENT APPLICANT ACTUALLY HAS THAT WITHIN THEIR WORK PLAN.
THEY'RE PLANNING TO REMOVE SOME PART OF THEIR LANDSCAPE IN ORDER TO ADDRESS THE ISSUES WITH THE WALL.
SO WOULD IT CURRENTLY BE INCLUDED IN THE REIMBURSEMENT? YES.
SO IT'S NOT, UH, EXCLUDED? NO, IT'S PART OF THEIR, THEIR THE BID THAT WAS SUBMITTED BY THE CONTRACTOR THAT THEY PART OF THE PROJECT.
MY ONLY QUESTION I, I'VE ASKED BEFORE IS WE AS A TOWN, WE'RE NOT RELY, WE'RE NOT RESPONSIBLE, GOD FORBID, THAT WALL FALL AND HARM, HARM A
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NEIGHBOR OR SOMEONE THAT WE'RE INSURED, THAT THE CONTRACTORS ARE INSURED OR WE INSURED TO PROTECT OURSELVES.THE CONTRACTORS IS INSURED AND THEN THE, UH, THE PROPERTY OWNER OR THE ASSOCIATION ALSO HAS TO SUBMIT A PLAN FOR ONGOING MAINTENANCE OF THE WALL ONCE THE PROJECT'S COMPLETED.
AND IF, JUST AS A REMINDER, THE REASON THAT ONE OF THE REASONS THAT WE AS A TOWN CHOSE THIS PATH AS OPPOSED TO THE OTHER PATH, WAS BECAUSE IN THIS PATH WE HAVE NO LIABILITY.
I'LL MOTION TO APPROVE ITEM FIVE C FOR, UH, THANK YOU, DARREN.
THE NEIGHBORHOOD VITALITY GRANT PROGRAM.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE.
ONLY 'CAUSE I'M OPPOSED TO THE PROGRAM.
ALRIGHT, ITEM FIVE C IS APPROVED.
[d. Present, discuss, and consider action on Change Order #2 to the professional services agreement with Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc. for additional design services for the Montfort Drive Reconstruction Project in an amount not to exceed $576,500, increasing the total contract amount to $1,663,500.]
ON TO ITEM FIVE D, PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A CH ON CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO TO THE PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT WITH KIMBERLY HOR AND ASSOCIATES, INC.FOR ADDITIONAL DESIGN SERVICES FOR THE MONFORT DRIVE RECONSTRUCTION PROJECT IN AN AMOUNT NOT TO EXCEED $576,500, INCREASING THE TOTAL CONTRACT AMOUNT TO 1,000,663, UH, AND $1,663,500.
BECKY, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL.
BECKY DEVINNEY, DIRECTOR OF PUBLIC WORKS IN ENGINEERING.
SO, JUST A LITTLE BIT OF THE PROJECT TIMELINE BACKGROUND BACK NOVEMBER 21ST, 2019, VOTERS APPROVED PROPOSITION B, WHICH WAS FOR THE MONTFORD DRIVE RECONSTRUCTION.
AT THAT TIME, THE EXTENT WAS FROM BELTLINE ROAD TO THE CITY LIMIT, UM, AS A NORTH ROADS PROJECT, WHICH IN INITIALLY WAS ESTIMATED TO BE 7.3 MILLION.
UM, THEN LATER APRIL 25TH, 2023, COUNSEL DID APPROVE THE FIRST PROFESSIONAL SERVICES AGREEMENT TO KIMLEY HORNE FOR THE $792,700.
ALSO, IN JANUARY OF 2024, UM, THE PUBLIC WORKS AND ENGINEERING TEAM IN THEIR QUARTERLY UPDATE, UM, PRESENTATION, DISCUSS THE POSSIBILITY OF EXTENDING THE LIMIT TO THE SOUTH.
SO JUST A LITTLE BIT OF AN OVERVIEW 'CAUSE WE'RE GONNA TAKE THIS SAME MAP AND WE'RE GONNA CONTINUE TO GROW AS EACH ONE OF THE CHANGE ORDERS, UM, UH, GOES THROUGH THE PROCESS.
SO THE FIRST, UH, OVERALL DESIGN SCOPE WAS THE $792,700.
IT WENT FROM BELTLINE TO THE EXISTING CORPORATE LIMIT, UM, THAT YOU CAN SEE THERE IN THE BLUE.
UM, YOU CAN SEE THAT THERE WAS A TEMPORARY TRAFFIC SIGNAL THAT WOULD BE USED DURING CONSTRUCTION AT BELTLINE ROAD, A PERMANENT TRAFFIC SIGNAL TO BE INSTALLED AT SAKOWITZ.
UM, AND REALLY INCLUDED OBVIOUSLY WATER, SEWER LINE ROADWAY RECONSTRUCTION, UM, SIDEWALK WHERE IT CAN BE CONNECTED, UM, AND MEDIAN IMPROVEMENTS IN THOSE AREAS AT THIS TIME.
THE PROJECT DID INCLUDE, UM, ALSO RIGHT AWAY ACQUISITION.
UM, THEN AS I MENTIONED, APRIL 23RD, 2024, COUNSEL APPROVED A CHANGE ORDER NUMBER ONE, UM, TO KIMBERLY HORN TO EXTEND THE LIMIT APPROXIMATELY 500 FEET TO THE SOUTH TO PALLADIUM DRIVE FOR $294,300.
AS YOU CAN SEE FROM THIS MAP IN RED, UM, IT INCLUDED, UM, SOME OF THE ADDITIONAL MEDIAN IMPROVEMENTS AND THEN INCLUDING THE SCOPE EXTENDING ALL THE WAY SOUTH TO PALLADIUM.
UM, WITH THAT IT DID, INCO DID REQUIRE A TEMPORARY TRAFFIC SIGNAL TO BE INSTALLED AT PALLADIUM.
UM, AND THEN AS YOU CAN TELL, THERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL ROADWAY IMPROVEMENTS THAT WERE ADDED TO, UH, HELP WITH THE TRANSITION FOR THE DRIVEWAYS THAT ARE ALONG THAT AREA.
SO THAT MADE THE TOTAL ONE, UH, MILLION $87,000.
AS YOU'RE ALL AWARE, WE'VE HAD, UH, MANY CONVERSATIONS WITH THE CITY OF DALLAS ABOUT THE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
BACK IN OCTOBER 11TH, 2023, THE TOWN DID REQUEST THE ADJUSTMENT FROM THE CITY OF DALLAS TO TRANSFER MONTFORT DRIVE TO, UM, FROM THE CURRENT CITY OF DALLAS CITY LIMITS TO CELESTE CELESTIAL ROAD.
UM, FROM THAT, UH, DALLAS TO ADDISON JURISDICTION, UM, IN FEBRUARY 5TH.
UM, THEN THE CITY OF DALLAS DID ACCEPT THAT BOUNDARY AGREEMENT CONVERSATION, UM, AND BEGAN THE PROCESS OF FORMALIZING IT WITH THE FIRST STEP, WHICH WAS THEIR TRANSFER TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE.
UM, MY BIRTHDAY PRESENT THIS YEAR WAS THAT THE TRANSPORTATION AND INFRASTRUCTURE COMMITTEE APPROVED THE TOWN OF ADDISON BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT, UM, AND INVOLVING MONTFORD DRIVE, SPECIFICALLY EXTENDING, UM, FROM THE CURRENT SIM CITY LIMITS TO SOUTH TO CELESTIAL ROAD.
SO AS YOU CAN SEE JUST IN THIS GRAPHIC, UM, THE, UH, OUTLINE WITH THE, UH, HATCHING IS THE ADDITIONAL EXTENSION TO GET
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ALL THE WAY DOWN TO SOUTH OF CELESTIAL ROAD.UM, JUNE 11TH, UM, THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL APPROVED THE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT EXPLICITLY STATING, UM, THE RELEASE OF THE LAND AND JURISDICTION TO ADDISON AT NO COST TO THE CITY.
UM, SEPTEMBER, AND NOW IT APPEARS WE'RE GONNA BE MOVING INTO THE BEGINNING OF OCTOBER.
THE DALLAS CITY COUNCIL IS GOING TO CONSIDER APPROVING THE ACTUAL LEGAL DESCRIPTION FOR THE BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT, WHICH WILL INCLUDE, UM, THE RIGHT OF WAY AGREEMENT AND ALSO EASEMENTS IN THOSE AREAS.
UM, AND THEN, UM, IN OCTOBER, UM, AS SOON AS DALLAS FINISHES, UH, TAKING IT THROUGH THEIR CITY COUNCIL PROCESS, I WILL THEN BRING IT FORWARD TO YOU FOR YOUR APPROVAL.
SO A LITTLE BIT OF THE BACKGROUND ON WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO CONSIDER THIS DALLAS BOUNDARY ADJUSTMENT.
UM, NUMBER ONE, NO TAXABLE LAND OR REVENUE GENERATING PROPERTY IS INCLUDED.
THIS IS STRICTLY FOR TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE.
UM, AS YOU CAN TELL, THERE'S, YOU KNOW, SOME DIFFERENT BULLETS HERE THAT I WANT TO GO THROUGH WITH YOU.
SO FIRST OF ALL, LET'S TALK ABOUT ENHANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT AND COORDINATION.
SO REALIGNING THIS JURISDICTION ALLOWS ADDISON TO BETTER PLAN AND MANAGE INFRASTRUCTURE WITHOUT CROSS JURISDICTIONAL, UM, HURDLES.
AND ALSO WE ARE HAVING, AND I'VE ALREADY BEEN, UH, BEGINNING THOSE CONVERSATIONS WITH OUR POLICE DEPARTMENT.
UM, THEY'RE GONNA HAVE ADDITIONAL POLICE PRESENCE AND ENFORCEMENT IN THESE AREAS AND IMPROVE EMERGENCY COORDINATION AND RESPONSE, INCLUDING THE SCHOOL ZONE THAT'S LOCATED IN THIS AREA.
AS FAR AS INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT, IF YOU'VE DRIVEN IN THIS AREA, YOU'VE SEEN SOME OF THE, UM, TRAFFIC SIGNALS THAT ARE LIKE IN THIS PICTURE ON SPAN WIRE.
UM, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE HAVE IN A COUPLE OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS THAT ABUT US THROUGHOUT TOWN.
UM, SO THIS INFRASTRUCTURE MANAGEMENT WILL INCLUDE, UM, SIGNAL UPGRADES, BETTER SIDEWALKS, UM, THOSE BUFFERS THAT WILL HELP, UH, GIVE THAT BUFFER FOR THE SIDEWALKS.
UM, UNDERGROUND UTILITY REPLACEMENT AND THEN ADDING, UH, FIBER CAPABILITIES.
THIS PROJECT WILL, WE WILL BE ADDING FIBER THROUGHOUT, UM, AND THEN IT SIMPLIFIES PERMITTING THROUGHOUT THE TOWN.
WE'VE TALKED A LOT ABOUT THE WALL TONIGHT.
UM, INTERESTINGLY ENOUGH, THAT WALL WAS ACTUALLY LOCATED, UM, IN THE CITY OF DALLAS.
SO WHEN YOU COME FROM A PERMITTING PERSPECTIVE, IT MAKES IT VERY INTERESTING FOR LESLIE'S DEPARTMENT AND MY DEPARTMENT WHEN WE'RE WORKING THROUGH RIGHT OF WAY PERMITTING, BUILDING, INSPECTION, PERMITTING, BECAUSE WE'RE IN TWO DIFFERENT JURISDICTIONS, UM, INTERSECTION MANAGEMENT IS OBVIOUSLY IMPORTANT.
IT REPLACES THIS SIGNAL AS I MENTIONED.
UM, ITS MET ITS USEFUL LIFE, DEFINITELY.
UM, IT WILL HELP US ALSO WITH THE INCREASE, UM, SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS TO HELP WITH THOSE A DA IMPROVEMENTS.
SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT THAT, I'M TALKING ABOUT PEDESTRIAN, UH, CROSSINGS, ADDITIONAL PEDESTRIAN BUTTONS, MARKINGS ON THE GROUND TO HELP MOVE, UH, INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE WALKING, UM, IN THIS AREA.
AND THEN IT ADDS, AND ALSO AN ADDITIONAL SIGNAL DOWN AT CELESTIAL DRIVE.
UM, IT HELPS CREATE KIND OF A SAFER ENVIRONMENT FOR ALL MODES OF TRANSPORTATION.
UM, AND THEN IT ALSO ADDS PREEMPTION TO SIGNALING.
FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO MAY NOT KNOW, PREEMPTION IS SOMETHING THAT, UM, OUR, UH, EMERGENCY RESPONSE ACTUALLY HAS IN THEIR VEHICLES WHERE THEY ARE WHEN THEY, AS THEY GET CLOSE TO AN INTERSECTION AND THERE'S A DISTANCE, UM, DEPENDING ON THE LOCATION, IT'S ACTUALLY PREEMPTING THE SIGNAL TO TURN GREEN SO THAT THE EMERGENCY RESPONSE CAN TRIGGER THE SIGNAL, ALLOWING FOR THEM TO GO THROUGH THE INTERSECTION FASTER.
SO IT PUTS THE LANE OF TRAVEL OF WHICH THEY'RE TRAVERSING GREEN AND THE LANE OF TRAVEL OF WHICH, UM, IS PERPENDICULAR TO WHERE THEY'RE TRAVERSING RED TO HELP WITH EMERGENCY RESPONSE.
SO THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT COMPONENT.
SO THIS OVERALL DIS DESIGN SCOPE THAT I BRING FORTH TO YOU TODAY IS CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO, WHICH IS 560 $576,500.
UM, WHAT IT DOES IS EXTENDS THE LIMIT ALL THE WAY DOWN TO CELESTIAL, ADDING NOT ONLY THAT PERMANENT TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT PALLADIUM, BUT ALSO A PERMANENT TRAFFIC SIGNAL AT CELESTIAL.
UM, IT ALSO HAS ADDITIONAL WATER LINE, UM, THROUGH THIS AREA.
AND I'M GONNA GO INTO THE SCOPE A LITTLE BIT GREATER, BUT I WANTED TO SHOW YOU THIS VISUAL BECAUSE I BELIEVE THAT THIS IS A VERY GOOD GRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION.
AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, THE PROJECT ORIGINALLY WAS THE TURQUOISE THAT YOU SEE.
AND THROUGH THE TWO CHANGE ORDERS, THE PROJECT HAS BASICALLY DOUBLED IN LENGTH.
SO CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO HAS QUITE A FEW DIFFERENT COMPONENTS TO IT IN THAT 576,000.
UM, FIRST OF ALL, IT INCLUDES A SURVEY AND A SIO, WHICH IS THE UPDATED TOPOGRAPHIC AND BOUNDARY SURVEY.
UM, AND THEN RELATED MAPPING, UM, EXTENDING THE LIMITS TO THAT RECONSTRUCTED PRIVATE DRIVE, UM, NEAR VILLAGE ON THE PARKWAY.
IT DOES INCLUDE FINAL PAVEMENT, DESIGN GRADING, STORM DRAINAGE, UM, AND EXTENDING NORTH TO BELTLINE ROAD.
UM, THERE'S ALSO SOME INLET REPLACEMENT ALONG THE WAY.
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GOING TO BE REPLACING 850 LINEAR FEET OF A TOWN OF ADDISON WATERLINE THAT IS CURRENTLY LOCATED IN THE CITY OF DALLAS LIMITS AND RIGHT OF WAY THAT SERVES THE RESIDENTS OF THE OAKS NORTH AREA AND SOUTH.UM, OBVIOUSLY I TALKED ABOUT THE TRAFFIC SIGNAL IMPROVEMENT, SO PERMANENT SIGNALS AT PLENUM AND CELESTIAL, UM, FRANCHISE UTILITY COORDINATION.
SO THE TOWN WILL BE PUTTING FIBER THROUGHOUT THIS ENTIRE STRETCH, LANDSCAPING AND IRRIGATION TO MATCH BELTLINE ROAD, UM, INCLUDING STAMPED CONCRETE AT EACH ONE OF THOSE MEDIAN INTERSECTIONS, UM, WHERE THE TRAFFIC SIGNALS ARE GONNA BE LOCATED.
AND THEN LIGHTING DESIGN AND UNDERGROUND CONDUIT FOR FUTURE MONUMENT SIGNS TO BE LOCATED AT BELTLINE ROAD AND MONTFORD DRIVE.
UM, AND THEN OF COURSE WITH THESE ADDITIONAL SIGNAL IMPROVEMENTS, UM, THERE ARE PLAN REVIEWS AND MEETINGS AND CONSTRUCTION SUPPORT THAT'S NEEDED ALONG WITH UM, TDLR REVIEW FROM AN A DA PERSPECTIVE.
AND IT'S ABOUT 150 ADDITIONAL HOURS, UM, TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS.
SO RECOMMENDATIONS AND NEXT STEPS, UM, IS TO MOVE FORWARD, UH, WITH THIS OVERALL CHANGE ORDER.
NUMBER TWO, UM, THE PROJECT IS FUNDED FROM THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK TO, UH, THE 2019 BONDS AND UTILITY FUNDS.
UM, AND STEVEN IS HERE TODAY IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS RELATED TO THAT.
BUT THE PROJECT IS FULLY FUNDED.
UM, THE CHANGES BETWEEN THE 2019 ESTIMATED COST AND THE CURRENT ESTIMATED COST WITH CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO INCLUDE, LIKE I MENTIONED, DOUBLING THE PROJECT LIMITS.
AND THAT'S WHY I REALLY LIKE THAT GRAPHIC BECAUSE IT REALLY SHOWS HOW WE WENT FROM THE TURQUOISE TO ADD THE YELLOW AND THE RED.
YOU CAN SEE THE LIMIT HAS DEFINITELY DOUBLED, UM, ADDING THOSE TRAFFIC SIGNALS.
I'LL TELL YOU, TRAFFIC SIGNALS AT EACH INDIVIDUAL INTERSECTION ARE, UH, RUNNING IN THE ORDER OF 500 TO $750,000.
UTILITY IMPROVEMENTS, LANDSCAPING, ILLUMINATION AND FIBER.
UM, AND THEN APPROXIMATELY A 30 TO 40% INFLATION.
SO OVER TIME, AND ESPECIALLY AFTER COVID, WE HAVE SEEN APPROXIMATELY 30 TO 40% INFLATION IN CONSTRUCTION.
UM, THE COSTS ABOVE DO NOT LIST FRANCHISE UTILITY RELOCATIONS.
UH, WE DON'T ANTICIPATE LARGE FRANCHISE UTILITY RELOCATIONS.
UM, IF THEY ARE SOMETHING THAT'S IN THE WAY THAT WILL BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE FRANCHISE UTILITY TO RELOCATE.
I DID WANNA BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION, THE TEAM DID GO OUT AND DO SOME RESEARCH ALONG WITH OUR CONSULTANT TO LOOK AT IF WE WERE TO TAKE ALL OF THE OVERHEAD ELECTRICAL LINES, THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT SYSTEMS OF OVERHEAD ELECTRICAL IN THIS AREA TO UNDERGROUND IT.
UM, THAT COST CAME BACK AT APPROXIMATELY 6 MILLION ADDITIONAL DOLLARS ON TOP OF THE 15 MILLION TO UNDERGROUND THE ELECTRICAL.
UM, IN OUR CONVERSATIONS WITH NOT ONLY ENCORE BUT ALSO WITH OUR CONSULTANT, UM, WE ANTICIPATE FINAL DESIGN BEING SUBMITTED IN AUGUST OF 26 AND CONSTRUCTION, UH, BEGINNING IN 2027 AFTER WE GO THROUGH THE FORMAL BID PROCESS.
AND WITH THAT, I WILL STAND FOR ANY QUESTIONS.
I, I'LL JUST MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS.
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS OBVIOUSLY QUITE A BIT THROUGH DIFFERENT COUNCILS OVER THE PAST YEAR AND A HALF, TWO YEARS.
UM, BUT IT REALLY IS A GOOD STORY AND I, AND I KIND OF WANT TO STEP BACK AND THINK ABOUT HOW WE GOT HERE.
I THINK BECKY'S PRESENTATION DID A GOOD JOB, BUT YOU KNOW, IF WE GO BACK IN INTO THE ORIGINAL PROJECT WITH OUR CURRENT CITY LIMITS, WE WOULD'VE STOPPED THE ROAD RECONSTRUCTION WELL BEFORE PALLADIUM.
I THINK TO RESIDENTS, FOLKS DRIVING THAT WOULD'VE BEEN PRETTY CONFUSING THAT WE WOULD'VE HAD THIS BRAND NEW ROAD ALL THE WAY TO THIS ONCE POINT AND THEN HAVE ROAD IN THE CONDITION AND IS NOW.
AND WE WOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE PROBABLY THE WORST INTERSECTION WE HAVE IN THE ENTIRE TOWN WITH THE LIGHT THERE AT PALLADIUM AND, AND MONTFORT.
SO AS WE MOVED TO PALLADIUM, WHICH MADE A LOT OF SENSE, WE'RE ABLE TO HAVE THAT CONTINUITY ALL THE WAY TO THAT INTERSECTION AND UPGRADE THAT INTERSECTION, THOSE LIGHTS TO WHERE THEY NEED TO BE.
SO THAT WAS A HUGE IMPROVEMENT AS WE CONSIDERED GOING TO CELESTIAL THAT GIVES US CONTROL OF THAT ROAD ALL THE WAY TO WHERE OUR RESIDENTS ARE USING IT TO CELESTIAL.
WE HAD A LOT OF FOLKS COME OUT OVER THE PAST FEW YEARS FROM THAT AREA TALK ABOUT HOW DANGEROUS IT IS TO COME OUTTA THAT INTERSECTION.
WE'RE ABLE NOW TO ADDRESS IT DIRECTLY, HAVE CONTROL OF THAT.
IF WE WERE TO CONTINUE IN OUR PREVIOUS PATH, WE JUST WOULD NOT HAVE THAT CONTROL.
AND THIS IS NOT AN AREA DALLAS IS GONNA IMPROVE ANYTIME SOON.
SO I THINK IT'S JUST GOOD TO STEP BACK AND TALK ABOUT HOW WE GOT HERE AND REALLY EXCITED TO BE AT THIS POINT.
QUESTIONS, BRANDY? NO, I'M GOING CHRIS.
SO I KNOW THIS MIGHT BE HARD FOR YOU TO ANSWER, BUT DO YOU ANTICIPATE ANY ADDITIONAL CHANGE ORDERS AS YOU MOVE FORWARD? NOT AT THIS TIME, SIR.
AND THEN STEVEN, SO THIS WAS FUNDED BETWEEN 2019 BOND ELECTION FUNDS
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AND THEN THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK, THAT $13.7 MILLION LOAN.UM, SO THESE TWO CHANGE ORDERS.
I, I HEARD BECKY SAY IT, BUT THEY ARE FULLY FUNDED.
SO WE'VE GOT PLENTY OF FUNDS FOR THIS PROJECT.
WHEN WE, UH, WHEN WE BROUGHT THAT STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK LOAN FORWARD, WE INCLUDED THE, IN THE, THE FULL SCOPE EXPANSION OKAY.
UM, SO, UH, WE, WE HAD $14.6 MILLION ON HAND.
THESE, THESE FUNDS ARE EARNING A LOT OF INTEREST RIGHT NOW.
SO THAT INTEREST CAN BE APPLIED TO THIS PROJECT AS WELL, SO, OKAY.
SO WE, WE WE'VE GOT THE CHANGE ORDERS PAID FOR, CORRECT? YES.
UH, NOW IS THIS LAND BEING DEEDED TO US FROM DALLAS? THIS WILL BECOME TOWN OF ADDISON PROPERTY FOREVER AND EVER.
THAT, THAT MAKES ME A LITTLE BIT MORE COMFORTABLE WITH IT.
I'M TIRED OF DOING PROJECTS ON, ON DALLAS LAND.
AND HOW FAR, SO YOU'RE TELLING ME THIS WALL THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT IN OAKS NORTH WAS ACTUALLY ON DALLAS PROPERTY.
SO I THOUGHT OUR LAND KIND OF STARTED AT THE, AT THE SIDEWALK THERE AND WENT EAST SO THERE AND LESLIE MIGHT BE ABLE TO ANSWER MORE SPECIFICALLY.
AND, AND THAT'S NOT ONE OF MY BIG QUESTIONS HERE, BUT I'M JUST TRYING TO GET THE LAY OF THE LAND HERE ON THAT.
LESLIE KNIGHT, DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES.
SO THAT PARTICULAR PROPERTY, THE RIGHT OF WAY THAT THAT PROJECT BORDERED WAS THE UM, CITY OF DALLAS RIGHT OF WAY.
AND SO WHAT WAS REALLY CHALLENGING FOR THAT PARTICULAR COORDINATION WAS THEY ACTUALLY NEEDED A, A CITY OF DALLAS RIGHT OF WAY PERMIT.
UM, AND THERE WAS SOME CHALLENGES UNRELATED TO THE TOWN OF ADDISON THAT WERE OUT OF OUR CONTROL.
UM, THAT CAUSED A LOT OF CHALLENGES FOR A PARTICULAR CONTRACTOR.
ONCE AGAIN, WE'RE OUT OF OUR CONTROL.
UM, AND SO IT JUST MAKES THE COORDINATION OVERALL VERY CHALLENGING.
AGAIN, THERE WERE SOME ISSUES WITH, UM, TRAFFIC CONTROL.
YEAH, I WOULD SAY TRAFFIC CONTROL PEOPLE, THE CONTRACTOR STOPPING, BACKING UP TRAFFIC, NOT FOLLOWING APPROPRIATE SAFETY PROCEDURES.
TECHNICALLY THAT IS NOT OURS TO ENFORCE.
OF COURSE WE ADDRESS THE SITUATION TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE, UM, KEEPING EVERYONE SAFE, BUT IT JUST CAUSED A LOT OF, UM, CONTENTION AND CHALLENGES TRYING TO EXECUTE THE PROJECT IN A SAFE MANNER.
THAT, THAT'S JUST THE FIRST TIME THAT I'M HEARING THAT.
AND THIS IS MY FIRST MEETING ON THE MONTFORD PROJECT.
SO ALL OF THIS IS NEW TO ME AT THIS POINT.
THE PRIVATE PROPERTY IS TOWN OF ADDISON, BUT THE, THE PROPERTY LINE IS DALLAS ON THE OTHER SIDE.
AND IS THIS PROPERTY GOING TO STOP AT CELESTIAL? 'CAUSE YOU KNOW, THERE'S HOMES ON CELESTIAL CIRCLE THAT ARE JUST A LITTLE FARTHER DOWN THE ROAD THAT WOULD BE IN ADDISON.
OUR GOAL IS REALLY TO GET TO THE POINT WHERE WE COULD ADDRESS THE CELESTIAL INTERSECTION AS FOLKS ARE TO GET TO THE FO WHERE PEOPLE ARE USING IT FOR ACCESS INTO THEIR HOMES.
SO WE WILL HAVE ENFORCEMENT OF EVERYTHING ON THAT STREET.
AND SO HOW FAR ARE WE BEING DEEDED ON THE WEST SIDE, ON THE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SIDE? HOW MUCH LAND ARE WE GETTING THERE? THE SIDEWALK, THAT AREA, THAT SIDEWALK.
WELL, THAT'LL BE THE RIGHT OF WAY.
SO WILL THIS BE AN IRON ENFORCEMENT AREA? CORRECT.
SO WHEN THESE, WHEN THESE SCHOOL PICKUPS COME IN HERE AND THEY STOP IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD AND BLOCK THE ROAD, THAT'LL BE ADDISON POLICE SAYING YOU CAN'T PARK IN THE ROAD.
AND I'VE ALREADY BEEN WORKING WITH CHIEF FREEZE AND I HAVE A MEETING ALSO SET UP NEXT WEEK TO START GOING THROUGH THE PROJECT.
UM, HE'S VERY INTERESTED, OBVIOUSLY FROM A SCHOOL ZONE PERSPECTIVE, VEHICULAR PERSPECTIVE OF CARS STOPPING ON THE ROADWAY SO WE'RE ALREADY WORKING ON THAT.
I CAN GET THAT COMMITMENT THAT, THAT WE CAN DO THAT.
I WILL BE A HAPPY MAN BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT MAKES THAT INTERSECTION.
BUT YOU HAVE DANGEROUS, YOU HAVE THAT
I UNDERSTAND AND I KNEW I WOULD, BUT THAT, THAT'S WHAT MAKES THAT INTERSECTION SO DANGEROUS DURING THE SCHOOL ZONES THERE.
SO THAT, THAT'S A GREAT THING FOR ME.
UH, THE UNDERGROUND UTILITIES FOR 6 MILLION, IF WE ELECT TO DO THAT, WHO PAYS THAT? UH, THAT WOULD BE THE RESPONSIBILITY OF THE TOWN.
AND I WOULD ASK THAT COUNCIL, MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION IF THEY WANTED US TO MOVE FORWARD WITH THAT.
I WOULDN'T MAKE THAT RECOMMENDATION.
UH, LENGTH OF CONSTRUCTION, UM, HOW LONG IS HIS FROM THE TIME WE PUT A SHOVEL IN THE GROUND TO WE'RE, WE'RE DONE.
SO WE'RE WORKING ON GETTING FINAL, UM, NUMBERS ON THAT, BUT WE'RE ESTIMATING 18 TO 24 MONTHS.
SO TWO YEARS WE'RE GONNA KIND OF SO BE DRIVING AROUND THAT AREA.
UM, OUR CONSULTANTS HERE TONIGHT, UM, LISTENING.
UH, SO HE DEFINITELY UNDERSTANDS, UH, THAT WE WANNA MAKE SURE WE'RE SEQUENCING IT APPROPRIATELY.
IT'S A HEAVILY USED ROADWAY AS WE ALL KNOW.
UM, SO THOSE WILL BE ALL THINGS THAT WE WORK THROUGH THROUGH THE DESIGN PROCESS.
UM, AND THEN ALSO SOMETHING THAT WE'LL GO THROUGH WITH THE BIDDING.
CAN YOU GO TO SLIDE NINE PLEASE? SURE.
UH, WHERE WE'RE LOOKING AT THE NEW PERMANENT RED LIGHTS.
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YES, SIR.CELESTIAL PALLADIUM HAS ONE NOW.
SO WE, NEW ONES ARE GONNA BE AT CELESTIAL, UH, PERMANENT ONE UP THERE IN AT, UH, SITZ.
ARE THOSE THE ONLY TWO NEW ONES? I THOUGHT THERE WAS A THIRD PERMIT.
NO, WE'RE GOING TO REDO THE ONE AT PALLADIUM.
WELL, BUT THERE IS ONE THERE NOW IT WILL BE REDONE.
SO, NEW PLACES THAT I'M GONNA HAVE TO STOP GOING HOME FROM CELESTIAL TO BELTLINE.
HOW FAR OF A DRIVE IS THAT? UM, I BELIEVE IT'S A LITTLE OVER 3000 LINEAR FEET.
HOW FOUR RED? SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE FOUR RED LIGHTS, RIGHT? ONE, TWO, WE'RE GONNA HAVE FOUR RED LIGHTS WITHIN A HALF A MILE.
AND FROM SWI TO CELESTIAL IS ABOUT A QUARTER OF A MILE.
I THINK THAT SEEMS LIKE AN AWFULLY LOT OF RED LIGHTS IN A SHORT, A SHORT STRETCH OF ROAD.
AND I THINK I, I THINK REALLY IT COMES DOWN TO THE ONE AT VILLAGE ON THE PARKWAY.
AND I MEAN, YOU'VE PROBABLY BEEN OUT THERE IF FOLKS TURNING LEFT OUT OF THAT BY LAURA, WHICH IS REALLY WHERE IT IS RIGHT THERE.
IT'S JUST SUCH SAFE, BUT I HEAR YOU.
WHAT, WHAT MY REQUEST ON THAT WOULD BE AS WELL, IF WE DO ALL OF THESE RED LIGHTS AND I KNOW THERE'S A WAY OF DOING IT AND YOU, YOU USED THE WORD YES.
SEQUENCING THESE RED LIGHTS TO WHERE I'M NOT STOPPING EVERY 200 YARDS TO, TO GET TO WHERE I'M GOING.
SO, SO CAN WE GET THOSE SEQUENCED TO WHERE WE CAN, THE TOWN OF ADDISON WILL DO TRAFFIC SIGNAL TIMING ON THE ONE AT SAKOWITZ, PALLADIUM AND CELESTIAL, BECAUSE THOSE WILL ALL BE THE TOWN OF ADDISON'S RESPONSIBILITY.
THE SIGNAL LOCATED AT BELTLINE AND MONTFORD IS THE CITY OF DALLAS'.
AND WE WILL COORDINATE WITH THEM TO THE BEST OF OUR ABILITY.
BUT YES, WE DO OUR BEST TO SIGNAL TO TIME ALL OF OUR SIGNALS.
THE ONES COMING DOWN MONTFORD ARE THE, THE ONES I'M MORE TALKING ABOUT THAN BELTLINE.
THAT'S MORE OF A MAJOR INTERSECTION AND I UNDERSTAND THAT.
ONCE I GET ON MONFORT, IF I, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE CERTAIN YOU HAVE TO DRIVE THE SPEED THAT I CAN DRIVE THAT I KNOW I DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT AND I CAN GO THROUGH.
IT'S FASTER TO DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT THAN OVER THE SPEED LIMIT.
WELL, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, WE ACTUALLY CHIME THE SIGNALS FOR YOU TO DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT.
AND IN THAT AREA, IT'S A PLACE THAT YOU NEED TO DRIVE THE SPEED LIMIT.
I THINK YOU'VE JUST ABOUT ANSWERED ALL OF MY QUESTIONS THERE, SO I APPRECIATE YOUR, UH, PATIENCE WITH ME ON THAT.
I SEE GREEN LIGHTS IN YOUR FUTURE, RANDY.
OTHER QUESTIONS? IF WE CAN JUST GET THOSE CARS OFF OF MONTFORD SO WE CAN GET DOWN THE ROAD.
OTHER QUESTIONS? JUST ONE MORE QUICK ONE I'LL FOLLOW UP.
SO YOU, YOU WILL BREAK OUT YOUR, UH, YOUR TOOLBOX FOR CROSSWALKS TO CONNECT, YOU KNOW, THAT, UM, RESIDENTIAL AREA WITH SOME OF THE RETAIL GETTING ABSOLUTELY ACROSS MONFORT SAFELY.
AND THE DESIGN CONSULTANT WHO'S DESIGNING THIS ROADWAY IS ALSO THE DESIGN CONSULTANT WHO HAS PREPARED THE MASTER TRANSPORTATION PLAN.
SO THEY HAVE A LOT OF INTERNAL CONVERSATIONS AND HAVE SIMILAR PEOPLE SERVING IN THOSE CAPACITIES TO ASSIST WITH THIS.
SO THERE'S A LOT OF COMMUNICATION GOING ON, BUT DEFINITELY WE'RE BRINGING THE PEDESTRIAN TOOLBOX INTO FULL FORCE IN EVERY PROJECT WE DO.
I WAS HOPING, I WAS HOPING YOU SAY THAT.
ALRIGHT, OTHER COMMENTS, DARREN? SO WHAT WE'RE APPROVING TONIGHT IS JUST THE DESIGN WORK AND ON SLIDE 10, CAN YOU MOVE TO SLIDE 10? SURE.
UH, TO TALKS ABOUT ALL THE DIFFERENT, UH, DESIGN.
SO IS THE SIGNAL, PERMANENT SIGNAL AT PALLADIUM NOT INCLUDED IN CHANGE ORDER ONE? UH, NO.
IT IS INCLUDED IN CHANGE ORDER NUMBER TWO.
OH, WE EXTENDED IT, BUT WE DIDN'T INCLUDE THE TRAFFIC LIGHT.
UM, AND UP HERE IT DOESN'T TALK ABOUT THE, UM, THE CROSSWALKS AND THE WALKABILITY THAT I SEE.
SO WHEN YOU LOOK AT, UM, PEDESTRIAN ELEMENTS UNDER TRAFFIC SIGNALS, IT SAYS INCLUDING POLES, PEDESTRIAN ELEMENTS.
SO THE, UH, THE ELECTRICAL SERVICE THERE, UH, WHAT ALL DOES THAT FEED? THE ENCORE ELECTRICAL SERVICE? YES.
UM, PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING IN THAT AREA.
UM, IS IT FEEDING THE NEIGHBORHOOD? IT'S FEEDING THE NEIGHBORHOODS.
IT'S SOME OF THEIR VERY, UM, THEIR LARGER SYSTEM IN THAT AREA.
THERE'S THREE DIFFERENT, IT'S ALL, UH, PHASES.
IT'S ALSO FEEDING, UM, THE VILLAGE ON THE PARKWAY.
SO IT'S A SUBSTANTIAL PIECE OF INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENCORE.
ONE OF THE THINGS ABOUT UNDERGROUNDING, UH, THE ELECTRICAL LINES IS IT GETS, IT MAKES IT MUCH MORE RELIABLE.
AND IF THERE'S UNRELIABILITY IN THAT AREA, THAT MAY BE, UH, SOMETHING TO CONSIDER.
I DON'T WANNA SPEND $6 MILLION TO PUT IT UNDERGROUND JUST FOR AESTHETICS.
I LIKE AESTHETICS, BUT I DON'T WANNA SPEND THE MONEY 'CAUSE I'M A LITTLE MORE FRUGAL THAN THAT.
BUT THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE MIGHT WANT TO CONSIDER A REVIEW OF WHAT ALL IT'S FEEDING.
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BACK WHEN THERE WAS A SIGNIFICANT, UM, COUNCIL CONSIDERATION FOR SOME ISSUES GOING ON OVER IN, UM, THE WYNWOOD STREET AREA IN CELESTIAL, UH, WITH WHITE ROCK CHAPEL OVER AND OVER AND OVER AGAIN.THEY TALKED ABOUT TRAFFIC, TALKED ABOUT GETTING OUTTA THE NEIGHBORHOOD, HOW, UH, MUCH CONGESTION THERE WAS, UH, RELATED TO WHAT RANDY HAD MENTIONED ABOUT SOME OF THE, UH, STOPPING FOR THE SCHOOL ZONE AND JUST CONSTANTLY.
SO THIS REALLY DOES ADDRESS, UH, A, A SIGNIFICANT, UM, VOCAL NEED FROM ALL OF EAST ADDISON.
SO I'M REALLY GLAD TO SEE THIS.
THAT'S, YOU KNOW, UM, ANOTHER, UM, ANOTHER IMPROVEMENT TO THAT, TO ONE THAT ONE PART OF TOWN.
SO, UM, UH, IN FAVOR OF THAT, UM, IT'S IMPORTANT ARTERY.
AND CAN WE TALK, UH, STEVEN, CAN YOU, UH, GO OVER THE INFRASTRUCTURE BONDS THAT WE GOT? JUST, JUST A LITTLE QUICK PIECE ABOUT THAT.
AND DO THEY MAKE US MONEY ON THE INTEREST THAT WE'VE ALREADY BORROWED THE MONEY ON? I, I THINK THAT'S A GOOD BACKGROUND ON WHAT THIS, THESE FUNDS ARE ALREADY BORROWED.
SO, UH, PART OF WHAT VOTERS APPROVED IN 2019 WAS, UH, THIS PROJECT, UH, AT 7.3 MILLION.
UH, WE HAD KELLER SPRINGS ROAD AND THEN WE HAD, UH, IN ADDITION THE, UH, QUORUM UH, DRIVE PROJECT.
UM, SO VOTERS HAD HAD APPROVED THOSE PROJECTS.
UH, WE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY RATHER THAN ISSUING BONDS FOR THOSE APPROVED PROJECTS TO GET THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK LOAN, WHICH ESSENTIALLY TAKES THE, THE INTEREST RATE THAT WE WOULD GET ON A BOND ISSUANCE AND BASICALLY PULLS A FULL PERCENTAGE POINT OFF OF THE INTEREST RATE.
UM, SO WE WERE ABLE TO GET THESE BONDS, UH, WHICH WE, WE DID $44.6 MILLION, UM, UM, IN THE STATE INFRASTRUCTURE BANK LOAN FOR THESE THREE PROJECTS.
UM, AT AN INTEREST RATE THAT WILL SAVE US ABOUT $5.9 MILLION OVER THE 20 YEAR TERM BASED ON, UH, WHAT WE WOULD'VE GOTTEN IF WE HAD SOLD BONDS.
AND WE ARE EARNING INTEREST, UH, ON THE PROCEEDS.
UM, WE RECEIVED $15 MILLION DISPERSED IN OCTOBER OF 2024.
UH, SO FAR THIS YEAR WE'VE EARNED, I BELIEVE AROUND $600,000 ON THAT 15, UH, MILLION DOLLARS.
WE WILL RECEIVE THE REMAINING FUNDS, UH, ON FEBRUARY 15TH, 2026 AND WE'LL CONTINUE TO EARN INTEREST, WHICH CAN BE APPLIED TO ANY OF THESE TRANSPORTATION PROJECTS.
I KNOW THAT'S A REALLY GOOD DEAL FOR THE CITY, FOR THE TOWN OF ADDISON, FOR THAT, THAT STATE PROGRAM FOR THOSE FUNDS DON'T GO ANYWHERE.
CAN I, IN DOING THIS PROJECT, YOU SAY IT'S FULLY FUNDED AND WE'RE MAKING MONEY ON THE INTEREST.
IF WE GO FORWARD WITH THIS PROJECT, IS IT GOING TO AFFECT OUR PROPERTY TAX RATES? ANY IN IN IN ANY OF NO, NO.
WE'VE, WE'VE ALREADY, WE'VE ALREADY ISSUED THE LOAN.
SO THE, THE STATE'S ALREADY ISSUED THE LOAN TO US.
SO THAT'S INCORPORATED WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT THE PROJECTIONS FOR THE, UH, DEBT SERVICE TAX RATE AT THE, IN THE WORK SESSION RELATED TO THE POLICE BUILDING.
WHETHER WE DO IT OR NOT, OUR TAX RATE WON'T BE AFFECTED UP OR DOWN.
THOSE WERE ALREADY INCORPORATED INTO OUR BASE SCENARIO BECAUSE WE'VE ALREADY ACQUIRED THE LOAN.
I WOULD ENTERTAIN A MOTION, A MOTION TO APPROVE A SECOND BY ITEM FIVE D.
THANK YOU MARLON, FOR THE SECOND.
ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? MAYOR? I'VE GOT SOME DISCUSSION.
I DON'T THINK THIS, WE DON'T EVEN LOOK AT THIS.
WE DON'T FOR CONSIDERATION WITHOUT A CITY MANAGER THAT LIVES HERE AND IS VERY OPEN, OPEN-MINDED, UM, AND A COUNCIL THAT'S VERY OPEN-MINDED AND ASSUMING IT PASSES, IT'S GONNA MAKE A LOT OF, OF OUR, UH, RESIDENTS IN EAST ADDISON VERY, VERY HAPPY ONCE WE GET THIS THING COMPLETED.
SO, UM, I JUST WANNA KEEP THAT IN MIND AS WE, AS WE VOTE AND GO FORWARD.
OTHER DISCUSSION? I HAVE ONE OTHER COMMENT THAT IT IS ON OUR STRATEGIC PLAN AS, UM, ITEM LIKE, UH, 2 1 6.
SO THIS IS, UH, COMPLETING WHAT WE'VE ARE SET OUT TO DO, WHAT WE PLAN TO DO.
SO THANK YOU FOR MAKING THIS GO THROUGH OF THE DISCUSSION.
I'D JUST LIKE TO ADD ONE MORE COMMENT BACK TO WHAT RANDY WAS ALLUDING TO AND WHAT WOULD SPORT EVEN BROUGHT UP BOB.
GOOD FRIENDS LOOKING DOWN ON US AND SAYING HALLELUJAH.
'CAUSE I KNOW HE WAS ONE OF THE BIGGEST PROPONENTS FOR US TO GET A STOPLIGHT IN THERE.
ANY OPPOSED? ALRIGHT, ITEM FIVE D IS APPROVED.
[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.]
FINAL ITEM OF THE NIGHT IS ITEM SIX, ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST.IT'S AT TIME FOR COUNCIL MEMBERS TO, UH, SHARE ANY EXPRESSIONS OF THANKS, CONGRATULATIONS, CONDOLENCE, ET CETERA.
ANYBODY HAVE ANYTHING THEY WOULD LIKE
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TO SHARE? MAYOR, I'VE GOT A COUPLE THINGS.MARLON, IF I COULD, OBVIOUSLY WE HAD A HUGE EVENT WITH OCTOBER FEST AND, UH, HAD A LOT OF ALL HANDS ON DECK, IF YOU WILL, VOLUNTEERS TOWN STAFF, AND I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERYBODY WHO PUT IN SO MUCH WORK TO, UH, TO MAKE THAT EVENT HAPPEN AND, UH, MOTHER NATURE FOR NOT REIGNING ON US.
UM, AND WE DID, I'M SURE WE HAD MANY OCTOBER FEST RECORDS, BUT THE ONE THAT I, I NOTICED THURSDAY NIGHT, IT WAS THE MAYOR TAP THE KEG IN ONE, ONE BLOW, ONE TAP.
AND SO THAT'S AN ALL TIME RECORD.
UM, AND THEN, UH, THE OTHER THING I WANT TO, UH, SHARE IS, UH, UH, THAT FOLLOWING NIGHT, THE FRIDAY MAYOR AND I GOT TO GO TO MEXICAN SUGAR FOR A SOFT OPENING.
SO MEXICAN SUGAR OPENED WHAT YESTERDAY AND, UH, WHEN WE WERE THERE FRIDAY, THE SERVICE COULD NOT HAVE BEEN ANY BETTER AND THIS FOR A SOFT OPENING.
UM, SO I CAN VOUCH FOR, FOR THEIR, THEIR PRODUCT, THEIR EXPERIENCE.
WHEN YOU GO IN THERE, IT'S A WHOLE, IT'S A WHOLE DIFFERENT EXPERIENCE.
YOU LEARN THINGS ABOUT THE FOOD, ABOUT THE DRINK, AND UM, IT IS A GREAT ADDITION TO OUR COMMUNITY.
OTHERS? YEAH, I LAND, I'D LIKE TO, I'D LIKE TO MAKE A A A AN ANNOUNCEMENT.
OBVIOUSLY I HAD SPENT TIME LAST NIGHT FOR ROSH HASHANAH WITH HOWARD FREED, WENT TO, UH, TEMPLE EMMANUEL.
AND IT WAS CERTAINLY SOMETHING THAT, UM, WAS JUST AN ENCOURAGING INSPIRATIONAL EVENING WITH HOWARD AND HIS, HIS, SOME OF HIS EXTENDED FAMILY.
BUT, UM, MISS HIM TONIGHT, CERTAINLY AGREE WITH THE SENTIMENTS ABOUT LOOKING AT ALL HOLIDAYS AS OPPORTUNITIES TO PASS ON COUNCIL MEETINGS.
SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR LETTING ME GET THAT OUT.
ANY OTHERS? WELL, I'VE GOT, WELL, MARLON, YOU KIND OF, UH, WENT, WENT EXACTLY WHERE I WAS WITH BOTH OF THOSE ITEMS. I WAS NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THE, UH, I WAS NOT GONNA TALK ABOUT THAT.
I THINK, I'M PRETTY SURE THE STAFF PUT THAT IN EASY MODE FOR ME.
SO THAT WAS VERY KIND OF THEM.
NOW THAT WE HAVE OUR OWN PERSONALIZED CUSTOM, UH, KEG FOR TO TAP, SO THAT WAS A, A REALLY GREAT EVENT.
AND, AND I WAS OUT THERE A LITTLE BIT EACH OF THE FOUR, FOUR DAYS AND, UH, AND, AND WE SAW STAFF THAT WERE THERE FROM BEFORE THE GATES OPEN UNTIL THE, UNTIL THEY SHUT IT DOWN AT NIGHT.
AND SO MY KUDOS TO THE STAFF FOR ALL THEY DID.
I MEAN, SO MANY HOURS AND, AND IT WAS HOT AND HUMID AND, BUT I TALKED TO SO MANY PEOPLE.
THAT'S ONE THING, THE REASON I LIKE TO GO OUT THERE IS TO TALK TO THE FOLKS THAT ARE ATTENDING.
AND I GET TO HEAR SO MANY STORIES ABOUT PEOPLE THAT HAVE THESE TRADITIONS OF COMING TO THESE EVENTS FOR YEARS AND YEARS, AND IT'S A FAMILY TRADITION FOR THEM.
AND THEY HAVE STORIES AND OH, WHAT WAS THE STORY WE HEARD? OH, THAT WAS A DIFFERENT STORY.
NO, WAIT, WE WERE AT A RIBBON CUTTING YESTERDAY, DARREN, MM-HMM
RIGHT? WE WERE AT A RIBBON CUTTING YESTERDAY AND THEY WERE TELLING THE STORY.
THE, ONE OF THE, UH, FOUNDERS OF THE COMPANY WAS TELLING A STORY ABOUT BEING AT OCTOBER FEST FIVE OR SIX YEARS AGO AND CAME ACROSS THIS, THIS YOUNG MAN WHO WAS SPEAKING GERMAN.
AND HE WENT UP AND STARTED, GOT A CONVERSATION WITH HIM AND BEFORE HE LEFT HIS, THAT TIME WITH HIM, HE OFFERED HIM A JOB AND HE WAS THERE YESTERDAY AT THAT RIBBON CUTTING.
SO HE, SO OCTOBER, I, I'VE MET PEOPLE THAT MET THEIR SPOUSES THERE AND NOW WE MET SOMEBODY THAT GOT THEIR, GOT A, FOUND A GREAT EMPLOYEE.
SO IT'S, IT'S REALLY, YOU NEVER KNOW WHAT'S GONNA HAPPEN AT, AT OUR EVENTS.
SO, UH, KUDOS TO THE STAFF FOR ALL YOU DID AND Y'ALL LOOK RESTED MOSTLY, AND, UH, BUT CONGRATULATIONS FOR, FOR PULLING OFF A REALLY GREAT EVENT.
SO, UH, ANYTHING ELSE FROM ANYBODY? ALRIGHT, WITH THAT, IT IS 8 43 AND WE WILL ADJOURN FOR THE NIGHT.