* This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting. [00:00:04] OKAY. GOOD [1. Call Meeting to Order and Announce that a Quorum is Present.] AFTERNOON EVERYBODY. IT IS FIVE THIRTY TWO AND WE'LL CALL TO ORDER THIS MEETING WITH THE ADDISON CITY COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 24TH, 2026. AND WE'RE GOING INTO OUR WORK SESSION. WE DO HAVE A QUORUM OF THE COUNCIL PRESENT WITH SIX MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE THIS EVENING, AND WE SHOULD HAVE OUR FINAL MEMBER JOINING US VIA ZOOM SHORTLY. ALRIGHT, UH, GOING RIGHT INTO ITEM NUMBER TWO, PUBLIC COMMENT. CITY COUNCIL INVITES CITIZENS TO, UH, 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 A SPECIFIC HEARING STARTS. CITIZEN COMMENTS ARE LIMITED TO THREE MINUTES UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW. THE COUNCIL IS NOT PERMITTED TO TAKE ANY ACTION OR DISCUSS ANY ITEM NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA. AND THE COUNCIL MAY CHOOSE TO PLACE THE ITEM ON A FUTURE AGENDA. I DON'T HAVE ANY PUBLIC COMMENT CARDS THAT WE'VE RECEIVED. IS THERE ANYBODY THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL AT THIS TIME? ALRIGHT, SEEING NONE, WE'LL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT ITEM AND MOVE [3. Council Member Clarification Requests Regarding Consent Agenda Items. ] ON TO ITEM THREE. COUNCIL MEMBER CLARIFICATION, REQUEST REGARDING CONSENT AGENDA ITEMS. ARE THERE ANY QUESTIONS OR CLARIFICATIONS NEEDED ON CONSENT ITEMS FROM COUNSEL? ALL RIGHT, VERY GOOD. AND THEN, UH, THREE A COUNSEL QUESTIONS. YOU HAD SOMETHING HOWARD? NO, I JUST HAD A QUESTION. YOU WANNA HIT THAT MICROPHONE THERE? I DON'T REMEMBER WHICH ONE IT IS. IT'S THE TWO AIR CONDITIONING UNITS. UM, IT'S THIS ONE. NUMBER F SO THE QUESTION WAS, I THINK SOMEONE SAID THEY'RE, THEY ASKED HOW OLD THEY WERE AND I THINK THEY'RE 13 YEARS OLD. SO THE QUESTION IS, ARE THEY WORKING OR ARE THEY NOT WORKING OR, I I KNOW THERE'S, THEY'RE OLDER AND THEY'VE, WE'VE SPENT SOME MONEY ON 'EM. I'M JUST CURIOUS ABOUT THE STATUS. UH, COUNCIL MEMBER, MY NAME IS BRAD BOGAN, RIGHTS ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF GENERAL SERVICES. UM, AT THIS TIME, UH, THE HEAT ON THOSE DO NOT WORK 'CAUSE THE HEAT EXCHANGERS ARE BROKEN AND CRACKED. UH, IF THE HEAT IS TURNED ON, UH, POSSIBLE CO2 LEAKAGE IN THE, UM, IN, IN THE SPACE COULD HAPPEN. UM, THERE'S TWO, UH, COILS THAT, UH, NEED TO BE REPLACED ON THE 20 TON AND ONE ON THE 30 TON. I THOUGHT THIS SAID THERE WAS A 30 TON AND A 40 TON. ARE THEY 2030? EXCUSE ME. YES, SIR. YES, SIR. PARDON ME. WELL, THEY JUST SEEMED, I BOUGHT A BUNCH OF AIR CONDITIONERS IN MY DAY AND I NEVER SPENT THAT MUCH ON ONE, BUT MINE WEREN'T THIS BIG TENS AND TENS AND FIFTEENS. I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS REALLY HIGH. AND I WAS WONDERING, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE LIFE EXPECTANCY IS OF THOSE, BUT I DON'T KNOW. I JUST WAS QUESTIONING THAT. IT SEEMED LIKE A LOT. I SAW WE GOT THREE PROPOSALS, ONE WAS INSUFFICIENT OR SOMETHING. THEY QUOTE HER ON THE WRONG SIZE. WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE DON'T GET A THIRD. ANOTHER QUOTE. WE JUST GO WITH THE THREE THAT WE HAD. I DON'T KNOW. I JUST, I JUST WAS QUESTIONING THAT, BUT THANK YOU. I I I WANTED TO KNOW IF THEY'RE WORKING. SO THE HEATERS ARE NOT WORKING? YES, SIR. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, RANDY. THANK YOU. UH, THAT ONE POPPED UP. OH, HEY, BRAD. SORRY, SORRY, SORRY. NO PROBLEM. NO PROBLEM. UH, THAT ONE POPPED UP TO ME AS WELL. IS THIS GOING TO BE PART OF THE WORK THAT WE WILL BE DOING WITH A LOT OF THE RENOVATIONS THAT WE APPROVED IN THE LAST BUDGET, OR IS THIS SOMETHING ELSE THAT'S COME UP? TH THIS, THIS IS A SEPARATE ISSUE THAT'S COME UP ON THESE TWO RECENTLY. CAN CAN THIS BE POSTPONED UNTIL THEN? OR CAN CAN IT BE REPAIRED UNTIL WE DO THE FULL RENOVATION AND MAYBE DO EVERYTHING TOGETHER? WOULD THAT MAKE MORE SENSE? WHILE IT WAS, WHILE IT WAS GOING ON, THE, WE CAN ALWAYS DO WHATEVER THE COUNCIL LIKES. UH, I WOULD FEEL THAT THE REPAIRS, THE AMOUNT THAT IT WOULD COST TO GET IT HEAT EXCHANGERS, COILS, AND FAN MOTORS THAT WE ALREADY PLACED, IT WOULD JUST, IT WOULD BE MORE, I, IT BETTER TO, TO REPLACE 'EM ON SIDE. THAT'S, THAT'S A FINE ANSWER, SIR. THAT'S WHAT I JUST WONDER IF WE COULD DO IT ALL, IF IT COULD BE POSTPONED UNTIL WE STARTED ALL THAT'D BE GOOD TO DO IT ALL TOGETHER. IS IT JUST THE UNITS THAT WE'RE REPLACING? NO. NO. V NO, UH, UH, VENTS OR NO, SIR. JUST THE RTU UNITS. JUST THE, SO JUST THE UNITS ARE $200,000? YES, SIR. OF COURSE. THE UNITS INSTALLED. OKAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YES, SIR. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU BRIAN. THANK YOU, MAYOR. THANK YOU SIR. ALRIGHT, ANY OTHER CLARIFICATIONS NEEDED OR QUESTIONS? OKAY, VERY GOOD. ITEM THREE A COUNSEL QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS. COUNCIL MEMBERS WILL SEND, UH, QUESTIONS TO STAFF REGARDING ITEMS THAT ARE ON THE AGENDA. THOSE QUESTIONS ARE, UH, ANSWERED AND PUT INTO A, IT'S A SINGLE DOCUMENT THEY'RE EMAILED OUT TO THE COUNCIL. THAT [00:05:01] SAME DOCUMENT IS UPLOADED TO OUR WEBSITE, SO ANYBODY IN THE PUBLIC CAN GO ONTO OUR WEBSITE, ADDISON TX.GOV, FIND THE AGENDA, AND THERE'LL BE A LINK THERE TO DOWNLOAD THE, UH, THE Q AND A DOCUMENT SO EVERYBODY CAN SEE WHAT WE'RE SEEING AS WELL. AND JUST TO, UH, ACKNOWLEDGE, UH, COUNCIL MEMBER LUCIO HAS JOINED US NOW ONLINE, SO WE DO HAVE ALL MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL. UH, GOOD EVENING DAN. ALRIGHT, AND, UH, BEFORE WE GET INTO OUR WORK SESSION REPORTS, UH, WE'RE GOING TO CONVENE INTO EXECUTIVE SESSION PURSUANT TO TEXAS GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 5 51 0.071, SECTION TWO TO CONSULT WITH THE CITY ATTORNEY REGARDING ITEM FIVE A ON TONIGHT'S AGENDA. AND IT'S 5 38. AND WE'LL GOING TO CLOSE SESSION AT THIS TIME, . OKAY EVERYBODY, IT IS 6 21. WE ARE COMING BACK INTO A OPEN SESSION FROM OUR CLOSED SESSION AND THERE'S NO ACTION FOR COUNSEL TO TAKE FROM OUR CLOSED SESSION AND WE'LL MOVE INTO [a. Present and discuss new special event concepts.] OUR WORK SESSION REPORTS. FIRST ITEM WE HAVE IS FOUR A PRESENT AND DISCUSS NEW SPECIAL EVENT CONCEPTS. ABBY, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR COUNSEL ABBY MORALES, DIRECTOR SPECIAL EVENTS IN THEATER TODAY, I'M GOING BACK OUR SPECIAL EVENTS, UM, DISCUSSION AND JUST AS A QUICK REVIEW, UM, A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND. UM, AT THE JANUARY 6TH WORK SESSION, WE, UM, WERE DIRECTED TO DISCONTINUE TASTE ADDISON BEGINNING IN 2026. WE WERE ALSO ASKED TO DEVELOP CONCEPTS TO SUPPORT OUR ADDISON RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS YEAR ROUND, UM, EXPLORE OTHER, UM, OPPORTUNITIES AND TO SHARE THOSE IDEAS AT A FUTURE WORK SESSION. AND SO HERE WE ARE. BEFORE I GO INTO THE ACTUAL CONCEPTS, I WANTED TO PROVIDE A LITTLE BIT OF OVERVIEW ON THE PROCESS THAT WE WENT THROUGH. WE STARTED WITH SOME INITIAL IDEAS AND WE ACTUALLY TOOK THEM TO BIG POST-IT NOTES. AND SO YOU SEE SOME OF THE CONCEPTS THAT WERE CAPTURED HERE. WE REALLY HIGHLIGHTED, UM, SOME OF THE IMPORTANT FEATURES SUCH AS THE IMPORTANCE OF THE BRAND THAT TASTE PROVIDED, UM, LOOKING AT TASTE AS AN EVENT, UM, AS WELL AS A RESTAURANT WHEAT CONCEPT. WE ALSO HAD SOME ADDITIONAL IDEAS THAT REVOLVED AROUND FOOD, SOME THAT WERE STRICTLY MARKETING IDEAS. AND THEN WE ALSO HAD SOME NON-FOOD IDEAS AS WELL. WHAT WE DID AFTER THAT WAS WE TOOK AWAY ALL OF THE PARAMETERS. WE TOOK AWAY EVERYTHING THAT WOULD, UM, ALMOST RESTRICT US, IF YOU WILL. AND WE DID SOME ADDITIONAL BRAINSTORMING, AND YOU'LL SEE SOME OF THOSE NOTES HERE. SOME OF THESE INCLUDED PRE-EVENT THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT FOR 2026. OTHERS WERE JUST IDEAS THAT WE'VE SEEN, UM, HAPPENING IN AND AROUND THE METROPLEX. AND THEN WE ALSO TOOK THE OPPORTUNITY TO JOT DOWN SOME ROADBLOCKS THAT WE WERE HAVING AS WE WERE BRAINSTORMING WITH NO PARAMETERS. ONE OF THE ROADBLOCKS THAT WE HAD WAS THE WHOLE CONCEPT THAT WHATEVER WE CAME UP WITH HAD TO BE ONE SIZE FITS ALL. WE JOTTED THAT DOWN INTO RESTAURANT TYPES, HIGHLIGHTING THE FACT THAT WE WERE ACTUALLY CATERING TO ALL DIFFERENT TYPES OF RESTAURANTS. AND I WANTED TO DO THIS TO HIGHLIGHT TO THE TEAM THAT WE DIDN'T HAVE TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT WAS ONE SIZE FITS ALL. WE COULD COME UP WITH A LITTLE BIT OF SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE. AND SO YOU SEE THAT THERE. WE ALSO LOOKED, UM, AT DATA COLLECTION AND OPPORTUNITIES AROUND THAT. AND WHILE WE WERE COLLECTING THE DATA, WE STARTED BRAINSTORMING SOME MORE WHEN THE DATA WAS COMPLETE. YOU'LL SEE THAT THE IDEAS THAT CAME AFTER DATA COLLECTION WERE A LOT MORE SPECIFIC, KIND OF LIKE WHAT WE RECEIVED WHEN WE HAD OUR INITIAL IDEAS. THERE WERE SPECIFICS AROUND THEMES, SPECIFICS AROUND TYPES OF RESTAURANTS THAT WE COULD DO A LOT OF MIRRORING. WHAT WE HAD IN OUR INITIAL IDEA PHASE, WHEN WE LOOKED AT DATA COLLECTION, THERE WERE REALLY TWO FORMS, UM, OF INFORMATION THAT WE COLLECTED. WE REACHED OUT TO OUR RESTAURANT COALITION, UM, AND CONNECTED WITH THEM AND GOT THEIR FEEDBACK BOTH FROM THEIR PEERS THAT THEY HAD RECEIVED IN THE COMMUNITY AS WELL AS THEIR OWN PERSPECTIVE AS RESTAURANT OWNERS. AND THEN WE ALSO SENT OUT A RESTAURANT SURVEY. THE RESTAURANT SURVEY. WE HAD 214 PEOPLE THAT WERE ON OUR DISTRIBUTION LIST. ONCE WE TOOK OUT THE CATERERS, THE FAST FOOD, THOSE THAT WERE RUN AND REALLY MANAGED BY THEIR CORPORATE, WE HAD ABOUT 165 VIABLE PARTICIPANTS THAT WE WERE REACHING OUT TO. WE HAD ABOUT A 41% RETURN RATE. ON THE SURVEYS THAT WERE UM, RETURNED, WE HAD A TOTAL OF EIGHT QUESTIONS. WE WANTED TO KEEP IT SIMPLE AND BRIEF AND WE, UM, YOU CAN SEE, UH, ON THE SHEET RIGHT THERE, SOME OF THE HIGH LEVEL DETAILS THAT WE COLLECTED. THIS ISN'T THE ONLY INFORMATION THAT WAS COLLECTED. WE HAD QUESTIONS THAT WERE SIMPLE, YES OR NO. YOU SEE SOME OF THE CHARTS THERE. WE HAD QUESTIONS ABOUT WHEN SPECI SPECIFICALLY AROUND OUR RESTAURANT WEEK, WHEN WOULD YOU LIKE TO HOST THAT IF WE DID THAT. WE ALSO HIGHLIGHTED THAT THERE WERE SOME KEYWORDS AND THEMES THAT A LOT OF THE RESTAURANT SURVEY PARTICIPANTS NOTED. A LOT OF IT STEMMING AROUND MARKETING AND ADVERTISING BUSINESSES [00:10:01] AND APARTMENTS, AND HOW CAN WE CONNECT WITH THOSE. WE ALSO, UM, ASKED, WE HAD A LIST, SORT OF A CURATED LIST OF NINE TO 12 DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES THAT THEY COULD SELECT FROM. AND THERE ON THE SHEET YOU'LL SEE THE TOP FIVE THAT WERE SELECTED. UM, THROUGH THAT, ONCE WE HAD ALL OF THAT, WE COLLECTED ALL OF THE DATA. WE HAD OUR OWN BRAINSTORMING SESSIONS, AND WE BUILT OUT OUR CONCEPT, HIGH LEVEL OVERVIEW OF THE CONCEPT. WE DIVIDED THE YEAR INTO QUARTERS, AND SO FROM JANUARY TO DECEMBER, FOUR DIFFERENT QUARTERS. UM, AND WE INCLUDED KABOOM TOWN AND OCTOBER FEST DURING THE, IN THE QUARTERLY DIVIDE FOR PLANNING PURPOSES. AND SO YOU'LL SEE HOW THAT LAYS OUT. UM, IN THE SECOND, WE HAVE A VARIETY OF TYPES OF EVENTS TO INCLUDE MARKETING CAMPAIGNS, PHYSICAL EVENTS. WE HAVE INTERACTIVE EVENTS, AND SOME OF THEM A COMBINATION OF THE TWO. WE ALSO LOOKED AT HOSTING IN A VARIETY OF DIFFERENT LOCATIONS TO INCLUDE OUR RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS, OUR ADDISON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER TO INCLUDE THE INSIDE OF THE VENUE AS WELL AS THE OUTSIDE. AND THEN WE LOOKED AT OUTDOORS AT VARIOUS PARKS. THE IDEA IS THAT WE WOULD COME UP WITH THIS MENU, IF YOU WILL. THAT'S ONE CONCEPT. AND UNDERNEATH THE MENU, WE WOULD HAVE A VARIETY OF ACTIVITIES THAT YOU COULD PICK AND CHOOSE FROM, JUST LIKE A MENU AT A RESTAURANT. I WILL NOTE THAT BEFORE I GO INTO THE SPECIFICS OF EACH QUARTER. ALL OF THIS IS FLEXIBLE AND ALL OF IT IS SCALABLE. YOU'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO SEE SOME INVESTMENT RANGES ON THE VARIOUS SLIDES, AND THAT'S BECAUSE SOME OF THE ACTIVITIES THAT WE HAVE CAN ACTUALLY HAVE TICKET SALES, SO OPPORTUNITIES FOR REVENUE. SOME OF 'EM CAN BE SPONSORED, ACTUALLY MOST OF 'EM CAN PROBABLY BE SPONSORED. UM, BUT SOME OF THEM ARE BRAND NEW INITIATIVES AND SOME OF 'EM ARE JUST STRICTLY MARKETING CAMPAIGNS. AND YOU'LL SEE IT'S ALL FLEXIBLE. WE WANTED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE WERE HITTING THE MARK FROM OUR DISCUSSION BACK IN JANUARY. AND SO WE'LL START WITH THE QUARTERLY BREAKDOWN. SO Q1 WAS JANUARY THROUGH MARCH, AND OUR INSPIRATION WAS THE BIG TEXT CHOICE AWARDS, IF YOU'VE EVER SEEN WHEN THAT'S HAPPENING AROUND THE STATE FAIR OF TEXAS. THE IDEA WOULD BE THAT WE WOULD DETERMINE CATEGORIES WE WOULD HAVE RESTAURANTS ACTUALLY APPLY TO FOR THEIR SUBMISSION TO RUN FOOD. BEST OF THE EVENT PIECE OF IT WOULD BE A PRESS CONFERENCE THAT WE HOSTED FOR THE MEDIA, WHETHER IT WAS, UH, TV, RADIO OR BOTH. AND THEY WOULD DO THEIR JUDGING OF OUR BEST OF CONTESTANTS, AND THEN WE WOULD HOST A MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT WOULD BE OUR PEOPLE'S CHOICE AND THE JUDGING WOULD TAKE PLACE IN THE RESTAURANT PROPER THEMSELVES. AND SO PEOPLE WOULD GO TO THE RESTAURANTS FOR A DESIGNATED PERIOD OF TIME, MAYBE THREE WEEKS OR SO. AND THEN AFTERWARDS WHEN WE CROWNED OUR BEST OF WINNERS, WE WOULD DO A PROMO OF SOME SORT. AND SO THAT KIND OF LAYS OUT AS SUCH. FOR Q1, Q2 WAS REALLY FOCUSED ON PHYSICAL EVENTS. UM, OUR INSPIRATION WAS TASTE ADDISON. UM, WE HAVE EVERYTHING FROM ELEVATED TO CASUAL EVENTS. OUR ELEVATED EVENT, UM, WOULD CONTINUE ITS TASTE OF TASTE ON THE TARMAC, WHICH WOULD BE HOSTED AT GALAXY FBO. WE HAVE A COMMUNITY DINNER THAT WE WERE LOOKING AT THAT COULD BE BOTH ELEVATED AND CASUAL. UM, FOR 2026, WE'LL HAVE SOME WORLD CUP PROGRAMMING THAT WILL TAKE PLACE, UM, AS PART OF THAT INITIATIVE. BUT IN 2027, WE WOULD LOOK TO TURN TO SORT OF AN IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE, A SERIES OF ART AND FOOD THAT WOULD TAKE PLACE INSIDE OF THE ADDISON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. THE VISUAL THAT I CAN PROVIDE FOR THIS IS IMAGINE THAT IN THE MAIN STAGE YOU WERE WATCHING A FLAMENCO PERFORMANCE IN THE STUDIO, THERE WOULD BE LESSONS OF FLAMENCO DANCING, UM, OR SOME SORT OF DANCE. AND IN THE LOBBY WE WOULD HAVE FOOD THAT WAS RELATED TO SPAIN AND SO COMPLETELY IMMERSIVE AND IT WOULD BE A SERIES. UM, OVER THE COURSE OF Q2, I WANTED TO SHOW YOU A VIDEO, UM, OF OUR, UM, INSPIRATION FOR THE COMMUNITY DINNER. THE IDEA OF GETTING EVERYONE FROM THE COMMUNITY TOGETHER, BRINGING TOGETHER ALL THESE DIFFERENT CHEFS, FEATURING ALL THE BEST THAT ONE COUNTY HAS TO OFFER IS PRETTY AWESOME. AND WHAT WE'RE DOING FOR YOU TONIGHT IS GOING TO BE A JUMBO LUMP CRAB CAKE CREOLE REMADE, AND THEN A MIXED GREEN AND CITRUS VINEGARETTE AND HEIRLOOM TOMATO AND SLICED CUCUMBERS. WE DID A BRAISED BEEF CHEEK SERVING THAT WITH SOME VIRGINIA MILLS GRITS, SOME CHOW CHOW WITH SOME GREEN TOMATOES, PEPPERS FROM OUR GARDEN. AND THEN THE BRAISING JU THAT THOSE LOVELY CHEEKS WERE BRAISED IN. SO ALRIGHT, WE ARE SERVING A SWEET POTATO ADD LATTE WITH THAT WE HAVE A LAMB BRIGADE SAUSAGE, AND THEN WE MADE A FRESH ARLO PESTO TO GO WITH THAT. SO TONIGHT TO FINISH WE WILL BE HAVING A FLESS CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH A HAZELNUT PRALINE MARSCAPONE MOUSSE, UH, FRESH PLUMS AND A CARDAMONE CARAMEL SAUCE. [00:15:02] OH, IT'S AWESOME. I MEAN, IT'S ONE OF THOSE NIGHTS THAT REALLY JUST MAKES YOU PROUD TO LIVE HERE IN JUAN COUNTY. THAT WAS OUR INSPIRATION FOR THE COMMUNITY DINNER. UM, AS YOU CAN SEE, THIS ONE, UM, IS VERY ELEVATED. UM, IT DOES TAKE PLACE IN TENNESSEE, UM, AND WE COULD DO, UM, CASUAL OR ELEVATED. AND SO THAT WAS THE INSPIRATION THERE. UM, ON THE COMMUNITY DINNER LISTING, WHEN WE LOOK AT Q3, WE HAVE OUR BIG TWO, WHICH WOULD BE KABOOM AND OCTOBER FEST, UM, BECAUSE OF THE HEAVY LIFT WITH RESOURCES, UM, FOR THE TOWN AS A WHOLE, UM, NOT JUST THE BEYOND THE SPECIAL EVENTS TEAM. UM, THIS IS WHERE THE RESTAURANT WEEK, OUR LUNCH EDITION WOULD COME INTO PLAY. THIS WOULD STRICTLY BE A MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT WE WOULD DO WITH OUR RESTAURANTS. AND OUR INSPIRATION ON THIS WERE THE RESULTS THAT WE RECEIVED FROM THE SURVEY. UM, OUR RESTAURANT SAID, WE WANT TO BE CONNECTED TO THE BUSINESSES AND THE APARTMENTS IN THE COMMUNITY. HOW CAN WE DO THAT? UM, AND IT MAKES SENSE THAT WE WOULD DO A RESTAURANT WEEK DURING THIS TIME. UH, THE LUNCHTIME IN THAT OUR POPULATION SWELLS TO 125,000 DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. AND SO MEETING THE REQUEST OF OUR RESTAURANTS, UM, AND OFFERING AN OPPORTUNITY IN Q3 FOR OUR RESTAURANTS TO CONTINUE TO BE SUPPORTED. WE THOUGHT A RESTAURANT WEEK, UM, FOR OUR BUSINESSES COULD BE OUR LUNCH EDITION. UM, BUT WE ALSO WANTED TO CATER TO OUR ADDISON RESIDENTS AS WELL. UM, AND WE WOULD OFFER SORT OF AN ADDISON AFTER DARK RESTAURANT WEEK CONCEPT. UM, IT DOESN'T HAVE TO JUST BE A, UH, A WEEK, IT COULD BE SEVERAL WEEKS. EACH OF THE WEEKS COULD BE THEMED. UM, AND THEN YOU'LL SEE THERE ON THE BOTTOM SOME OF THE FEEDBACK THAT WE GOT FROM OUR RESTAURANTS. WE WERE VERY SPECIFIC WITH OUR QUESTIONING TO THE RESTAURANTS AROUND WHETHER OR NOT THEY WANTED TO HAVE A RESTAURANT WEEK. INITIALLY WHEN WE STARTED FLOATING CONCEPTS, ONE OF THE PIECES OF FEEDBACK THAT WE RECEIVED WAS THEY DID NOT WANT TO OFFER A RESTAURANT WEEK THE WAY DFW HOSTS THEIRS, THAT THEY WOULD BE EXCLUDED IN, UM, SOME CAPACITY IF WE HOSTED IT IN THE SAME MANNER. AND SO THE QUESTION THERE, UM, IS VERY SPECIFIC TO, THIS WOULD NOT BE HOSTED THE WAY DFW RESTAURANT WEEK IS HOSTED. IT COULD BE ANYTHING THAT WAS INCENTIVE-BASED. WE COULD OFFER, UM, DAILY SPECIALS. WE WANTED TO GET OVER THE, THE IDEA THAT WE WOULD COPY WHAT DFW RESTAURANT WEEK WAS DOING. AND SO THAT'S THE LENGTH OF THE QUESTION THAT YOU SEE THERE. AND THEN AS YOU SEE FROM THE RESPONSES, UM, THAT QUITE A FEW WANTED TO, QUITE A FEW WERE INTERESTED IN HOSTING THAT. AND THEN THE FOLLOW UP QUESTION WAS WHEN, UM, THE MONTH THAT ONE OUTRIGHT WAS APRIL. UM, HOWEVER, THE QUARTER, THAT ONE WAS Q3. AND SO THAT'S WHY YOU SEE RESTAURANT WEEK HERE, WHICH SITS NICELY BETWEEN KA AND OCTOBER FEST. AND THEN LASTLY Q4. UM, OUR INSPIRATION WAS THE NUMBER OF HOLIDAYS THAT YOU FIND FROM OCTOBER THROUGH DECEMBER. UM, I'LL WORK, I'LL WORK BACKWARDS FROM DECEMBER, UM, BACK THROUGH TO OCTOBER. UM, DECEMBER IS PRETTY HEAVY. WE HAVE HOLIDAY IN THE PARK, WHICH WILL ALREADY BE CURATED. DECEMBER AT THE ADDISON WILL ALSO BE HOSTED. WE HAVE OUR TREE LIGHTING AT ADDISON CIRCLE PARK. THE TRIVIUM LIGHTS IS ALSO HAPPENING. WE DID CONSIDER NEW YEAR'S EVE AS A POSSIBLE OPPORTUNITY. UM, WHEN WE SURVEYED OUR RESTAURANTS, NOT A LOT OF SUPPORT THIS GO AROUND WAS ALL. AND SO YOU DON'T NECESSARILY SEE ANYTHING LISTED FOR Q4, UM, FOR DECEMBER AROUND THAT, BUT WE ARE PRETTY HEAVY IN DECEMBER. AND THEN BACKING UP TO OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER, WE REALLY THOUGHT THAT WE COULD AGAIN, PUSH THE RESTAURANTS AROUND A LOT OF THE HOLIDAYS. UM, WE MET WITH A COMPANY THAT DOES PROGRESSIVE DINNERS. UM, THINK OF IT AS ACT ONE. YOU START AT A SINGLE LOCATION AND YOU GET THE WHO, WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, HOW ACT TWO TAKES PLACE IN THE RESTAURANTS. AND IT'S A PROGRESSIVE TYPE OF DINNER WHERE YOU'RE LEARNING ABOUT WHO DID IT KIND OF THING. AND THEN ACT THREE IS, IS AT SOME LOCATION WHERE YOU FINALLY LEARN WHO DID IT. AND SO THINGS LIKE THAT. UM, PUB CRAWLS, UM, MARGARITA MILES, WE HEARD ABOUT BURGER BATTLES. UM, PRINCE OF PIES. UM, ALL OF THESE COULD BE SQUEEZED INTO OCTOBER AND NOVEMBER TO ALLOW US TO BUILD OUT THAT Q4. AND SO THE CONCEPT IN SUMMARY WOULD AGAIN BE THIS MENU IDEA WHERE WE WOULD COME UP WITH DIFFERENT CATEGORIES AND THEN WE WOULD GROUP OUR OFFERINGS THAT WE HAD FOR EACH OF THE DIFFERENT QUARTERS. AND BASICALLY YOU WOULD HAVE A MENU TO SELECT FROM. YOU COULD CHOOSE ANYTHING THAT WAS, THAT HAD A FOOD FOCUS. WE COULD INCLUDE NON-FOOD FOCUS ITEMS. YOU COULD HAVE A MARKETING CAMPAIGN THAT YOU WERE LOOKING AT TO BE A PART OF. YOU COULD DO AN ACTUAL EVENT. THERE COULD BE FAMILY EVENTS, THERE COULD BE ELEVATED EVENTS AND EVERYTHING IN BETWEEN. UM, AND SO THE MENU CONCEPT IS THERE JUST FOR YOU TO KIND OF VISUALIZE WHAT THAT WOULD LOOK LIKE IF WE BUILT OUT THE ENTIRE YEAR. UM, AND THEN SOME BRAND UMBRELLA THOUGHTS THAT WE HAD AS WE WERE BRAINSTORMING. JUST OVERALL CONCEPTS THAT WE COULD BRAND UNDER THE SUMMARY THAT I'M PROVIDING HERE IN GROUPS KIND OF GIVES YOU AN IDEA OF THE VARIETY THAT'S OFFERED. WE HAVE SOME EVENTS THAT WOULD BE FULLY SUBSIDIZED. MOST OF THOSE ARE AROUND THE MARKETING TYPE OF [00:20:01] CAMPAIGNS THAT WE WOULD JUST BE PUSHING OUT THE MARKETING. AND A LOT OF THESE ARE TAKING PLACE IN THE RESTAURANT PROPERTIES THEMSELVES. SOME OF THEM ARE PARTIALLY SUBSIDIZED. THESE ARE A LOT OF THE EVENTS THAT WE'RE PRODUCING, UM, THAT HAVE OPPORTUNITIES FOR US TO SELL TICKETS OR GENERATE OTHER REVENUE STREAMS. WE HAVE MULTI-DAY AND SINGLE DAYS LISTED OUT. AND AGAIN, THOSE THAT ARE MARKETING FOCUSED AND THOSE THAT ARE ACTUALLY EVENTS THAT WE PHYSICALLY PRODUCE. AND YOU'LL SEE THAT WITH ALL OF THE XS. YOU'LL SEE WHERE THINGS LINE OUT AND JUST THE VARIETY THAT WOULD BE OFFERED AS A PART OF OUR MENU. AS A PART OF NEXT STEPS, WE WELCOME FEEDBACK AND SUGGESTIONS, UM, OF THE OVERALL CONCEPT THAT'S BEEN PRESENTED. UM, WE WOULD IMPLEMENT ANY FEEDBACK THAT YOU HAVE INTO OUR UPCOMING BUDGET PROCESS FOR THE NEXT FULL FISCAL YEAR CYCLE. UM, AND THEN WE'D SEEK ANY DIRECTION ON NEW CONCEPTS THAT YOU WOULD BE INTERESTED IN MARCH THROUGH SEPTEMBER TO IMPLEMENT. IN WHICH CASE WE'D NEED TO COME BACK FOR, UM, A FUTURE COUNCIL MEETING FOR A BUDGET AMENDMENT. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE A COUPLE COMMENTS. ONE, UM, JUST ADMINISTRATIVELY YOUR, THE PRESENTATION THAT WAS ATTACHED BECAUSE OF SOME OF THE CREATIVE SLIDES THAT ABBY HAD DIDN'T KIND OF TRANSFORM THE WAY THAT WE WANTED. SO WE'LL GET YOU THE FULL PRESENTATION SO YOU HAVE THAT. BUT SECOND, I JUST WANT TO COMMEND ABBY AND HER TEAM. YOU KNOW, THAT WAS A BIG ASK THAT WE HAD OF HER AFTER THE TASTE CONVERSATION TO, TO RETHINK, TO BRING BACK THIS BRAINSTORMING SESSION TO LOOK AT A LOT OF IDEAS. AND I THINK SHE JUST DID AN EXCELLENT JOB OF THAT. WE WANNA HEAR FROM YOU. THIS DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE ONLY DISCUSSION THAT WE HAVE. THIS COULD BE THE FIRST DISCUSSION. WE CAN COME BACK, BUT I THINK THERE'S A LOT THERE TO, TO HEAR FROM YOU ON AND AND DO WANNA TO COMMEND ABBY AND HER TEAM. YEAH, THANK YOU ABBY. SOME REALLY FUN, CREATIVE IDEAS. AND Y'ALL DID A GREAT JOB PUTTING ALL THIS TOGETHER. AND, UH, AND JUST CAN YOU KIND OF CLARIFY A LITTLE BIT WHAT YOU'RE LOOKING, UH, TO US FOR, UH, DO YOU WANT SPECIFICS ON THE, THE DIFFERENT ITEMS, UH, EVENTS YOU TALKED ABOUT? OR DO YOU HAVE, YOU KNOW, IF IF ABBY WAS GONNA DO IT, THIS IS WHAT ABBY WOULD DO. UM, KINDA HELP US OUT. 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS STUFF OTHER THAN WE LIKE TO GO TO THEM. SO IF YOU CAN HELP US OUT WITH THAT. UM, THEN, THEN WE'LL GO TO MARLINS. PROBABLY A LITTLE BIT OF BOTH. GENERALLY SPEAKING, IS THE OVERALL CONCEPT WHERE WE'RE ACTIVATING ALL YEAR ROUND WITH THE MIX OF MARKETING VERSUS ACTUAL PRODUCED EVENT, IS THAT A GOOD BALANCE THAT YOU'RE SEEKING? UM, THE YEAR ROUND COMPONENT, IS THAT SOMETHING THAT WE'RE SEEKING? WHEN WE LOOK AT THE SPECIFIC EVENTS THEMSELVES, WE ALWAYS WELCOME THAT, BUT I THINK THE BEAUTY OF THE CONCEPT AS WE'VE PRESENTED IS IT ALLOWS FOR THAT FLEXIBILITY. AND SO IF THERE'S ANYTHING ON THERE THAT WASN'T PRESENTED THAT YOU REALLY HAD YOUR HEART SET ON, WE'RE HAPPY TO EXPLORE THAT AND ADD THAT AS WELL. OKAY, GREAT. YEAH. 'CAUSE I THINK THIS IS REFLECTIVE OF THE CONVERSATION THAT WE HAD AROUND TASTE WAS TO DO SOMETHING YEAR ROUND. SO MARLON YEAH. THANK YOU MAYOR. AND, UH, THANKS FOR BRINGING THIS, UH, BACK TO US ABBY. UM, ON PAGE FOUR, THE LAST PAGE FOUR, I THINK THERE WAS A COUPLE PAGE FOURS, BUT UM, THAT ONE ON THE LEFT OVER THERE IN THE, IN THE BABY BLUE, UM, CAN YOU, CAN YOU TALK A LITTLE BIT, I'M TRYING TO UNDERSTAND WHAT, WHAT ALL THAT MEANS, THE BRAND UMBRELLA THOUGHTS? UH, YEAH, AND REALLY, YEAH, ALL THE VARIOUS BULLET POINTS. WHAT THAT, THOSE ARE JUST BRAINSTORM IDEAS THAT WE THOUGHT COULD BE OUR OVERARCHING BRAND UMBRELLA. AND SO LET'S JUST SAY IF WE TOOK A TASTE OF TASTE, THAT WOULD BE THE NAME OF THE OVERALL COMP CAMPAIGN. AND THEN UNDER A TASTE OF TASTE WOULD BE THE DIFFERENT ACTIVITIES AND ACTIVATIONS THAT WE HAD LISTED FOR Q1 THROUGH Q4. THE IDEA BEING THAT WE COULD ADD TO THE MENU, UM, WE COULD HAVE SEASONAL OFFERINGS JUST LIKE A, A RESTAURANT DOES, UM, OR WE COULD REMOVE ALTOGETHER. OKAY. AND REALLY WHAT I'M DRIVING AT IS, IS IS THIS SOMETHING, THESE IDEAS, WOULD THEY HAPPEN, WOULD THEY OCCUR INSIDE THE RESTAURANTS? SOME OF THEM WOULD. OKAY. OKAY. UM, AND, AND WE HAVE, WE HEARD FROM OUR RESTAURANTS THAT, THAT THEY WANT TO, TO EXTEND THIS OUTSIDE OF THEIR, OUTSIDE OF THEIR RESTAURANTS. OUTSIDE OF THEIR RESTAURANTS. MEANING, MEANING OUTSIDE OF THEIR RESTAURANTS, OUTSIDE IN THEIR PARKING LOT, OUTSIDE AT ADDISON CIRCLE PARK, OUTSIDE OF ELSE, OTHER THAN THEIR PROPERTY. SORRY, YEAH. OFFSITE. YES, WE HAVE, UM, AS FROM THE SURVEY RESULTS THAT WE RECEIVED, THE NUMBER FIVE REQUEST IS THAT WE DO A MINI TASTE ADDISON. AND THAT WAS ANYWHERE FROM BACK AT ADDISON CIRCLE PARK AND OR ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY. ON THEIR OWN PROPERTY. OKAY. UM, AND, AND SO WHEN I GO TO SLIDE FIVE, THERE WE GO. AND I, I GUESS I'M GETTING, GETTING BACK TO THE SAME THING ON THE, ON THE NUMBER TWO AND NUMBER THREE, TASTE ON THE TARMAC. MM-HMM . AND THEN THE VIDEO WE JUST LOOKED AT WITH COMMUNITY DINNER CONCEPT. I'M, I'M JUST SEEING KIND OF A SIMILAR THING IS LIKE, THAT LOOKED LIKE FUN. THAT VIDEO LOOKED LIKE FUN, BUT I DIDN'T KNOW IF OUR, IF THAT WOULD BE PRODUCTIVE FOR OUR [00:25:01] RESTAURANT. I'M TRYING TO GET PEOPLE INSIDE THEIR RESTAURANTS MM-HMM . UM, AND NOT MAKE THEM WORK SO HARD AND, AND HOPEFULLY MAKE, MAKE A LOT OF MONEY, UH, WITH WHATEVER WE'RE DOING. SO THOSE, THOSE TWO KIND OF WERE HEAD SCRATCHERS FOR ME. UNLESS, UNLESS WE'RE HEARING FROM THE RESTAURANTS THAT THEY WANT TO HAVE SOME, SOME EVENTS OFF, OFF PROPERTY SO THAT, YOU KNOW, THE, IN THE, THE, THE FOCUS I'VE GOT IS, UM, YOU KNOW, HOW DO WE, HOW DO WE GET PEOPLE TO COME INTO ADDISON HEADS IN BEDS? THAT'S ONE THOUGHT. AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ALIGNED WITH, UM, WITH RESTAURANTS, BUT IT COULD BE. AND THEN WHEN WE, WHEN WE THINK ABOUT DRIVING MORE RESTAURANT BUSINESS, IT'S LIKE DRIVING THAT BUSINESS INSIDE THE, THE, THE RESTAURANT. SO THOSE WERE THE, THE OVERARCHING THOUGHTS I HAD. YEAH. AND I JUST MAKE A COMMENT. I THOUGHT THE VIDEO THAT YOU SHOWED WAS REALLY, THANK YOU. I ALWAYS REMEMBER IT, UH, WAS REALLY THAT, THAT THOUGHT THAT VIDEO SHOWED WAS REALLY QUITE GOOD. AND I THINK THAT'S A REALLY FUN IDEA. AND, AND I THINK MAYBE THE RESTAURANTS WOULD BE ON BOARD WITH DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT OFFSITE BECAUSE IT'S, IT'S A FEW HOURS, IT'S NOT THREE DAYS. YES, SIR. AND, AND IT COULD BE AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THAT, THAT CHEF OWNER, WHOEVER TO, TO BE OUT THERE AND, AND SHAKE HANDS WITH SOME FOLKS THAT HAVEN'T, HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO MEET OR GO TO THE RESTAURANT. AND, UM, AND JUST FROM THAT VIDEO, I KIND OF ENVISIONED, WELL, THAT COULD HAPPEN AT VITRUVIAN PARK OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, IT COULD BE A COOL SPOT FOR THAT. BUT, UM, I THOUGHT THAT IT WAS A PRETTY FUN, CREATIVE IDEA AND I COULD SEE US DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT. 'CAUSE WE HAVE ENOUGH RESTAURANTS THAT COULD, COULD DO THAT ELEVATED EVENT LIKE THAT, CHRIS. SO I APPRECIATE ALL THE CREATIVITY AND THE IDEAS. UM, SO THE IDEA BEHIND GETTING RID OF TASTE WAS WE'RE SPENDING, WE WERE SPENDING A MILLION DOLLARS IN THE PARK WITH THE INFRASTRUCTURE AND TENT AND SECURITY AND, YOU KNOW, MAYBE THAT COULD BE SPENT BETTER DRIVING PEOPLE TO THOSE RESTAURANTS SOMEHOW. RIGHT. SO I GET IT. AND I THINK A LOT OF THESE IDEAS ADDRESS IT. MY, MY FIRST THOUGHT WHEN WE WERE TALKING ABOUT A REPLACEMENT WOULD'VE BEEN A DALLAS STYLE, UM, RESTAURANT WEEK, RIGHT? SO WE, WE HEAR ALL THE TIME ABOUT HOW WE'VE GOT MORE RESTAURANTS PER CAPITA THAN ANY OTHER CITY IN THE COUNTRY. I WAS THINKING, WELL, LET'S DO THE BIGGEST RESTAURANT MONTH THAT ANY CITY HAS EVER DONE. MM-HMM . UM, SO I'M REALLY SURPRISED THAT YOU SAID THE, THE RESTAURANTS DON'T WANT TO DO THAT. 'CAUSE I THINK AN IDEA, LIKE ONE OF THE IDEAS I WOULD LIKE TO LOOK AT IS, YOU KNOW, YOU DO PUSH THE FACT THAT WE'VE GOT ALL THESE RESTAURANTS, RIGHT? YOU OFFER THE OPPORTUNITY FOR THE RESTAURANTS TO HAVE PREFIXED MENUS, MAYBE A LITTLE CHEAPER, MAYBE GET SOMEONE IN THEIR RESTAURANTS THAT HAVEN'T BEEN THERE BEFORE. BUT THEN ALSO, ALSO A PHILANTHROPIC SIDE OF IT, YOU KNOW, WHERE A PERCENTAGE OF REVENUE, I COULD SEE IT GOING TO, UM, JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES AND METRO CREST STOCK THEIR FOOD PANTRY. AND I JUST THINK IT'S A, A GREAT, GREAT WAY OF GETTING PEOPLE INTO THE RESTAURANTS AND A GOOD LOOK FOR ADDISON. BUT WHY DID THOSE RESTAURANTS NOT WANNA PURSUE SOME SORT OF RESTAURANT WEEK? IT'S NOT THAT THEY DIDN'T WANT TO PURSUE IT, THEY DO WANNA PURSUE IT. THE INTEREST LIES AROUND US CONNECTING THEM WITH THE BUSINESSES THAT ARE HERE BECAUSE OUR POPULATION DOES SWELL DURING THE DAYTIME HOURS. MM-HMM . UM, AND AROUND THE APARTMENT COMPLEXES THAT, THAT ARE HERE, THEY FELT LIKE THERE'S A LITTLE BIT OF A DISCONNECT WITH THE PEOPLE THAT ARE POPULATING OUR APARTMENTS, UM, AND NOT TARGETING THEM. AND SO I THINK THAT THEY DO WANNA DO A RESTAURANT WEEK. THERE WAS HESITANCY AROUND DOING IT THE WAY THAT DALLAS DOES IT, BECAUSE A LOT OF THEM DIDN'T FEEL LIKE THEY COULD OFFER PREFIXED MEALS, WHICH EXCLUDES THEM FROM BEING ABLE TO PER, UH, PARTICIPATE IN THE DALLAS, UM, FORT WORTH. ONE IS A FEEDBACK SOLUTION. SO WE ONE THAT COULDN'T PARTICIPATE IN DALLAS, NO, THEY COULD PARTICIPATE IN IT, BUT IN THEIR MINDS THEY WERE THINKING THAT WE WERE GOING TO, WE WERE GOING TO PRODUCE IT EXACTLY HOW DALLAS DOES. OH, I SEE. SO YOU HAVE THE PREFIXED MENU, YOU WOULD HAVE A CHARITY, AND THEN THERE WAS THIS WHOLE THOUGHT OF, OH MY GOSH, WHO'S GONNA BE OUR CHARITY? AND SO TO ALLEVIATE SOME OF THOSE ROADBLOCKS, WE TOOK SOME OF THAT OUT AND SAID, OKAY, WE WANT TO IMPLEMENT A RESTAURANT WEEK, A RESTAURANT MONTH, IF YOU WILL. WHAT DOES THAT LOOK AND FEEL LIKE FOR OUR COMMUNITY? AND THEN THE LUNCH PIECE OF IT WAS IMPORTANT WITH THE TIDE OF THE BUSINESSES. IF YOU TALK TO OUR RESTAURANTS, WHAT'S BIGGER, THEIR LUNCH OR THEIR DINNERS? UM, PROBABLY IT'S, IT DEPENDS ON WHO YOU'RE SPEAKING TO. MM-HMM . THERE'S, THERE'S RESTAURANTS THAT DON'T OPEN UNTIL FOUR O'CLOCK, SO YEAH, I GET THAT THEIR DINNERS ARE WELL, AND SO, BUT I LIKE THE IDEA OF TRYING TO MAYBE BUILD LUNCHES MORE AND, AND CATERING TOWARDS, YOU KNOW, THE OFFICE TOWERS AND THE APARTMENTS. SO I THINK THAT'S A GREAT IDEA AS WELL. AND THE COMMUNITY DINNER, I AGREE WITH WHAT THE MAYOR SAID. I THINK THAT'S A, A REALLY GOOD IDEA THAT I THINK WE COULD PULL OFF THAT. UM, AGAIN, HIGHLIGHTS, UM, YOU KNOW, SOME OF OUR RESTAURANTS AND CHEFS, UH, DO YOU, WHAT WOULD BE THE PLAN TO WORK IN HOTELS AND GET, AS MARLIN SAID, HEADS IN BEDS? UM, THE HOTEL COMPONENT IS STILL SOMETHING THAT WE'RE WORKING OUT. SOME OF THE THINGS THAT WE'RE DOING WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE BEST OF CAMPAIGN, [00:30:01] UM, THE MEDIA EVENT, UM, WE WOULD PROBABLY HOST AT ONE OF OUR HOTELS, UM, TO BRING, UM, AWARENESS AROUND ABOUT THAT. THE CHALLENGE THAT WE HAVE WITH THE HOTEL STAYS AROUND THE CONCEPTS THAT HAVE BEEN SHARED WERE THAT WE DON'T HAVE THE MULTI-DAY, WHICH WOULD REQUIRE, UM, AN OVERNIGHT STAY, IF YOU WILL. THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT WE CAN'T GO OUT AND PURSUE OTHER EVENTS, UM, THAT WOULD DRIVE HOTEL STAYS. UM, BUT FOR THIS SPECIFIC CONCEPT THAT WE HAD, IT WAS PRETTY FOCUSED AROUND OUR RESTAURANTS, IF YOU WILL. GOT IT. OKAY. THANK YOU DAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ABBY, FOR THE PRESENTATION. A QUICK QUESTION. WHEN YOU WERE TALKING TO THE RESTAURATEURS AND THE OWNER, EXCUSE ME, THE OWNERS WAS THERE CONVERSATIONS, AND I HAD ALLUDED ABOUT DOING A, NOT A COOKING CLASS, BUT SOMETHING SIMILAR TO THAT. AND THE EXAMPLE I CAN GIVE IS ASIAN MINT. THEY WERE OWNER CHEF NIKKI. SHE GOES DOWN TO THE ARBOR, READ REGULARLY AND PUTS ON A COOKING CLASS, UM, THAT THERE WAS A NOMINAL FEE THAT YOU WOULD SIGN UP TO BE A PART OF. WAS THAT ANY CONVERSATION WITH CHAMBERLAINS, WITH RICHARD OR, YOU KNOW, KENNY AT WOOD FIRE GRILL? YES, THAT WAS ACTUALLY INCLUDED IN ONE OF OUR MARKETING CONCEPTS. UM, WE ACTUALLY HAD INTERNAL DISCUSSIONS WITH OUR PR FIRM AROUND, UM, PURCHASING EQUIPMENT FOR A HOST KITCHEN OR IDENTIFYING AN AREA WHERE WE WOULD HAVE A HOST KITCHEN TO BE ABLE TO HOST, UM, ACTIVITIES LIKE THAT. AND SO YES, DEFINITELY ONE OF THE IDEAS THAT'S ON THE, ON THE BOARD. THANK YOU DARREN. UH, YES. GREAT JOB. REALLY CREATIVE. UM, YEAR LONG. I LOVE, LOVE THAT. AND I THINK THAT'S WHAT A LOT OF WHAT WE WERE LOOKING FOR, IT'S COMPREHENSIVE TOO. UM, SO I DIDN'T SEE ANYTHING FOR THE ENTERTAINMENT PLACES. DID, IS THERE, DO YOU HAVE SOME SPECIFICS, UH, DRILLING INTO THAT? UM, A LOT OF THAT WOULD BE AROUND LIKE SOME OF THE TOURS THAT WE HAVE OR SOME OF THE CRAWLS, UM, OR MARGARITA MILES OR THINGS OF THAT NATURE THAT WE COULD BUILD IN THAT WOULD BE VERY THEMED. UM, WHAT YOU SAW WAS VERY HIGH LEVEL. UM, NOT A LOT OF DETAIL OR VERY SPECIFICS AROUND WHAT WE COULD DO. UM, AS WE LOOKED AT, LOOK AT OUR BEST OF WHEN WE START TO CURATE SOME OF THE CATEGORIES THAT WE COULD, UM, ACTUALLY HAVE BEST OF IN, BECAUSE THAT IS A CATEGORY OF ITS OWN. IT'S SOMETHING THAT COULD BE PLUGGED IN THERE. SO WHILE THERE ISN'T SPECIFICS ON THAT, UM, DEFINITELY ON THE IDEA BOARD. DID LIKE A, LIKE A STAYCATION AND VISITING MULTIPLE RESTAURANTS, UH, BREAKFAST AND, AND BRUNCH AND DINNER, UH, FOR MULTIPLE DAYS STAYING IN A HOTEL, COME TO ADDISON, DO A STAYCATION. DID THAT COME UP? UM, STAYCATION NOT SPECIFICALLY, BUT WE CAN CERTAINLY ADD IT TO THE LIST. I DIDN'T KNOW IF THAT'S A THING THAT MAY, UH, BE ATTRACTIVE TO FOLKS AROUND HERE. THANKS. GREAT JOB. THANK YOU. REALLY IMPRESSIVE. ABBY, DID WE GIVE YOU ANY DIRECTION THAT'S HELPFUL? I THINK SO. . OKAY. DAVID, WHAT, WHAT ELSE YOU NEED FROM US ON THIS? NO, I THINK, I THINK THAT'S GOOD. LET'S, WE'LL GO BACK AND REGROUP AND WHAT WE'LL DO THE NEXT TIME YOU SEE THIS, UM, THE, THE BIGGEST CONVERSATION WILL BE DURING THE BUDGET. WE'LL COME BACK WITH A LOT MORE CON CONCRETE IDEAS FOR THE BUDGET, BUT IN ADVANCE OF THAT, WE, WE WILL PROBABLY BE, WE'LL BRING SOMETHING FORWARD TO SAY, HERE'S WHAT WE SEE FROM NOW UNTIL OCTOBER AND WHAT WE CAN DO OVER THE NEXT FEW MONTHS. UM, AND HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT A BUDGET AMENDMENT TO DO SOME OF THOSE, SOME OF THOSE IDEAS. OKAY. ALRIGHT. VERY GOOD, JOSEPH. THE BUDGET, UH, FOR THE REST OF THIS YEAR WAS MY QUESTION, SO THANKS. ALRIGHT. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU ABBY. APPRECIATE IT. GREAT WORK. ALRIGHT, SO, UH, COUNSEL FOR ITEM FOUR B. WE'RE GOING TO PUSH THAT INTO A, UH, A LATER MEETING AND, BUT I THINK WE HAVE TIME TO GET THE, UH, FOUR C UH, FOUR C IS [c. Present and discuss the Town of Addison FY 2026 First Quarter Financial Report.] PRESENTED TO DISCUSS THE TOWN OF ADDISON FY 2026 FIRST COURT OF FINANCIAL REPORT. AND THAT'LL BE MR. GLICKMAN. UH, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. STEVEN GLICKMAN, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER, AND WE DO HAVE OUR FIRST QUARTER FINANCIAL REPORT, UH, FOR FISCAL YEAR 2026. THIS REPORT COVERS OCTOBER 1ST, UH, THROUGH DECEMBER 31ST, 2025. SO LOOKING AT OUR, UH, EXECUTIVE DASHBOARD, UH, THE LEFT SIDE, WE HAVE OUR REVENUE SOURCES, RIGHT SIDE EXPENDITURES AND DIFFERENT FUNDS. UH, OVERALL, EVERYTHING, UH, IS TRENDING AS WE WOULD THINK, UH, OR PLAN TO, UH, THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER. UH, PROPERTY TAXES, WE'VE COLLECTED ABOUT A QUARTER OF THE OVER OVERALL PROPERTY TAXES. THE MAJORITY OF THOSE ARE COLLECTED IN JANUARY. SO WE HAVE NOW, AT THIS POINT ON THE NEXT REPORT, UH, YOU WOULD SEE THAT MOST OF THOSE HAVE BEEN COLLECTED NON-PROPERTY TAXES, WHICH ARE, UH, SALES TAXES AND MIXED BEVERAGE TAXES TRENDING ABOVE, UH, WHAT WE'VE ANTICIPATED SO FAR BY A LITTLE BIT SO FAR THIS YEAR. UM, OTHER REVENUE SOURCES, UH, ARE TRENDING IN LINE WITH WHAT WE'VE EXPECTED, UH, THROUGH PREVIOUS BUDGETS. ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, THE GENERAL FUND, UH, IS JUST OVER 25% THROUGH, UH, THE FIRST QUARTER HOTEL FUND. UH, A LITTLE OVER 12%. THAT'S, YOU KNOW, MORE SUMMER, UH, WITH THE EVENTS GOING ON. WE'LL SEE MORE EXPENDITURES, UH, AS THE SUMMER GOES ON. UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, 12%, AIRPORT IS 17%, [00:35:01] AND THEN UTILITY IS AT 22%. SO ALL THE MAJOR FUNDS ARE TRENDING WITHIN THEIR BUDGET SO FAR. UH, LOOKING AT ECONOMIC INDICATORS, YOU CAN SEE, UH, OVERALL UNEMPLOYMENT HAS STAYED AROUND THAT 4% AREA IN DFW, UH, REALLY FOR THE LAST, UH, 15 MONTHS. WHAT WE SHOW THERE, UH, YOU CAN SEE HOTEL PER HOTEL REVENUE PER AVAILABLE ROOM. UH, THERE ARE SOME, YOU KNOW, PEAKS AND VALLEYS, UH, AS THAT GOES. SO THE FIRST QUARTER IS GENERALLY NEVER GREAT, UH, BECAUSE OF THE HOLIDAY SEASON. SO YOU CAN SEE DECEMBER, UH, 25 DECEMBER, IF YOU LOOK BACK AT 2024. UH, NOT A REAL GREAT MONTH AS FAR AS HOTEL, UH, STAYS. UH, BUT OCTOBER THIS YEAR WAS REALLY STRONG. UH, THAT WAS ACTUALLY THE STRONGEST MONTH. IF YOU LOOK AT THIS CHART, THE STRONGEST MONTH WE'VE HAD, UH, OVER THE LAST 15 MONTHS. SO, UH, LOTS OF POSITIVES. UH, AS WE GET INTO THE NEW YEAR, UH, WE DO SEE THAT BUSINESS TRAVEL START TO PICK UP, UH, REALLY IN THE, UH, FEBRUARY, MARCH, APRIL TIMEFRAME. SO WE ARE SEEING SOME PRETTY STRONG, UH, OCCUPANCY. UH, THE LAST, UH, THE MOST RECENT WEEKS ESPECIALLY. UM, DOWN AT THE BOTTOM YOU CAN SEE OVERALL HOTEL STATISTICS THAT HAS, UH, THE OVERALL ROOM RATES, UH, REVENUE PER AVAILABLE ROOM, WHICH I KIND OF JUST WENT OVER. AND THE OCCUPANCY, AGAIN, YOU CAN SEE KIND OF THAT CYCLICAL NATURE OF, UH, THE HOLIDAY SEASON. UM, AUGUST, UH, IS NEVER, IS NEVER REALLY GREAT. DECEMBER, UH, LATE NOVEMBER IS, IS NOT REAL GREAT, UH, FOR BUSINESS TRAVEL. SO THAT'S KIND OF WHY YOU SEE SOME OF THOSE, UH, THOSE VALLEYS IN THOSE MONTHS. UH, FURTHER ECONOMIC INDICATORS, UH, WE HAVE A COMPARISON OF SALES TAX FOR, UH, ADDISON CARROLLTON FARMERS BRANCH IN RICHARDSON. SO, UH, WHEN WE LOOK BACK TO THE SAME QUARTER, UH, FROM FISCAL YEAR 2025, WE HAD ABOUT A 5% INCREASE, UH, FROM THAT SAME QUARTER LAST YEAR. UH, CARROLLTON, UH, SAW ABOUT A 6% INCREASE. FARMER'S BRANCH WAS BASICALLY, UH, FLAT OVER THAT, UH, YEAR TO YEAR CHANGE. UH, AND RICHARDSON SAW ABOUT A 3% INCREASE. UH, YOU LOOK AT PERMITS IN VALUATION, UH, OVER TO THE RIGHT. UH, SO NOT THAT MANY PERMITS ISSUED SO FAR. I MEAN, COMPARATIVELY QUARTER, QUARTER OVER QUARTER. BUT IF YOU LOOK AT WHERE THAT DOLLAR VALUE OF THOSE PERMITS ARE THROUGH ONE QUARTER, WE'VE ESSENTIALLY ALREADY ISSUED A DOLLAR VALUE OF PERMITS EQUAL TO WHAT WE DID ALL OF LAST YEAR, ALL OF 2024, AND ACTUALLY MORE THROUGH ONE QUARTER THAN WE DID IN ALL OF 2023. SO YOU'VE SEEN SOME BIG ONES WILL COME THROUGH WITH, UH, WITH THE AMLI, UH, OVER, OFF MIDWAY. SO, SO THAT MAKES UP A BIG PORTION OF THOSE. BUT, UH, SOME, SOME LARGER DOLLAR VALUE PROPERTIES SHOULD BE HITTING, UH, THE PROPERTY TAX ROLL COMING, UH, IN THE, IN THE UPCOMING YEAR OR SO. UH, QUARTERLY PERMIT ACTIVITY YEAR OVER YEAR. NOW, WHEN YOU LOOK AT JUST A QUARTER'S WORTH OF PERMIT ACTIVITY, UH, THIS WAS A REALLY STRONG QUARTER ON THE PERMITTING SIDE. SO, UM, MORE PERMITS WERE ISSUED IN THE FIRST QUARTER THIS YEAR COMPARED TO THE PREVIOUS THREE FISCAL YEARS. AND THEN SALES TAX COLLECTION. SO WE HAVE THREE YEARS OF SALES TAX COLLECTION SHOWN, UH, IN THIS CHART. AND OBVIOUSLY WE ONLY HAVE THREE MONTHS SO FAR IN THE, IN THE CURRENT FISCAL YEAR. UH, BUT YOU CAN SEE, UH, HOW WE'VE COMPARED, UH, YEAR OVER YEAR. UH, THE FIRST MONTH OF OCTOBER WAS A LITTLE BIT BELOW WHAT WE HAD SEEN THE LAST TWO YEARS, BUT THE LAST TWO MONTHS, UH, HAVE BEEN, UH, SIGNIFICANTLY STRONGER THAN WHAT WE HAD SEEN IN THE LAST TWO FISCAL YEARS. AND THEN WHEN WE LOOK AT HOW THAT LOOKS, UH, JUST COMPARED TO LAST YEAR, UH, SO THE FIRST MONTH, AS I MENTIONED, WE WERE A LITTLE BIT BELOW WHAT WE DID LAST YEAR. UH, THE OTHER TWO MONTHS, NOVEMBER, WE WERE 15% OVER WHAT WE HAD DONE THE PRIOR YEAR, UH, DECEMBER, A 7% INCREASE, UH, FROM WHERE WE WERE THE PRIOR YEAR. SO, SO OVERALL, UH, WE HAVE A $17.1 MILLION SALES TAX, UH, AMOUNT IN OUR BUDGET. WE'VE BROUGHT IN 26.3% OF THAT THROUGH ONE QUARTER. SO, SO TRENDING, UH, POSITIVELY, UH, TO THE RIGHT, YOU CAN SEE THE BREAKDOWN OF THE SALES TAX BY CATEGORY. UM, AND THIS, UH, THIS IS PROBABLY MY FAVORITE THING, BUT JUST THE, THE DIVERSITY IN, UH, THE SALES TAX SOURCES IN ADDISON IS, IS REALLY IMPRESSIVE. SO, UM, THE, THE LARGEST ONE ACTUALLY IN THIS QUARTER WAS, IS NOT PROVIDED. SO YOU'RE NOT REQUIRED TO, TO, TO TELL, UH, THE, THE, UH, UH, COMPTROLLER WHAT YOUR, WHAT YOUR, UH, I GUESS WHATEVER CODE THEY USE IS. BUT, UM, THERE'S, THERE'S A LOT OF DIFFERENT BUSINESS TYPES IN THERE. UH, RETAIL CAME IN AT 17% THIS QUARTER. UH, FOOD ER ACCOMMODATIONS AND FOOD SERVICE AT 16. UH, AND THEN, UM, WHOLESALE TRADE AT 9%. THOSE ARE THE THREE BIGGEST MAJOR CATEGORIES. SO, YOU KNOW, 17, 16, AND NINE, THOSE ARE, THOSE ARE NOT BIG PIECES OF THAT PIE. UH, SO IF ONE OF THOSE INDUSTRIES WERE TO HAVE SOME ISSUES THAT IT WOULDN'T OVERALL IMPACT THE TOWN, UH, AS MUCH AS IF IT, IF WE WERE DEPENDENT ON JUST A CERTAIN TYPE OF, UH, SALES TAX GENERATION [00:40:02] AND THEN GETTING INTO THE GENERAL FUND REVENUE. SO, UM, OVERALL, UH, ALL THE REVENUES ARE TRENDING WITH WHAT WE'D EXPECT. WE'RE 25.2% ON THE REVENUE SIDE, UH, THROUGH ONE QUARTER, AS I MENTIONED, WE'LL GET, OR WE HAVE RECEIVED THE BULK OF THE PROPERTY TAX, WHICH IS DUE, UH, JANUARY 31ST. UH, SO YOU'LL SEE A BIG INCREASE IN THAT ON THE NEXT REPORT, UH, ON THE EXPENDER ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE. ALSO AT 25.2%. UH, NO, UH, MAJOR, UH, DEPARTMENTS ARE OUT OF LINE WITH WHAT WE WOULD EXPECT THEIR BUDGETS TO BE AT THIS POINT IN THE FISCAL YEAR. UH, SO OVERALL, UH, REVENUES THROUGH ONE QUARTER ARE BASICALLY, UH, EQUAL TO OUR EXPENDITURES, UH, THROUGH IN THE HOTEL FUND. AND I JUST WANNA POINT OUT, THIS DOESN'T, UH, REFLECT THE ACTION THE COUNCIL TAKE HAD TAKEN IN JANUARY, UH, WHICH WILL SHOW UP IN YOUR SECOND QUARTER REPORT WITH RE AS IT RELATES TO TASTE. SO YOUR SECOND QUARTER, UH, REPORT THAT HAS THAT BUDGET AMENDMENT THAT WAS APPROVED IN JANUARY, UH, WILL REFLECT THAT REDUCTION, UH, IN REVENUE AND REDUCTION IN EXPENDITURES RELATED TO TASTE. UH, BUT SO FAR THROUGH, UM, THE FIRST QUARTER WE'RE ABOUT 19% OF THE OVERALL REVENUE, UH, HAS BEEN GENERATED. AND, UH, JUST UNDER 13% ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE, UH, ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND THEM BEING PROPERTY TAX BASED AS WELL, THEY'LL GET THE MAJORITY OF THEIR PROPERTY TAX, UH, WITHIN THAT SECOND QUARTER AS WELL. UH, THEY'RE AT 26.5% ON THE REVENUE SIDE, 12.1% ON THE EXPENDITURE SIDE. AND THEN OUR AIRPORT FUND, UH, JUST OVER 25% SO FAR IN REVENUE, THEY'RE AT 26%. SO THEY'RE TRENDING, UH, JUST ABOVE WHAT WE WOULD ANTICIPATE THROUGH THE BUDGET. AND THEIR OPERATING EXPENSES ARE AT 17.2%. UH, SO TRENDING BELOW WHAT WE WOULD ANTICIPATE ON THE EXPENSE SIDE. AND THEN OUR UTILITY FUND, UH, WE'RE AT 25.4% ON THE REVENUE SIDE, WHICH IS, IS A PRETTY GOOD PLACE TO BE BECAUSE WE REALLY DEPENDED ON THOSE HOTTER SUMMER MONTHS, UH, WHEN BUSINESSES ARE USING THEIR IRRIGATION SYSTEMS. UM, SO 25% THROUGH, UH, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MORE MILD AND AND COLDER, UH, SEASONS THAT WE HAVE IS A PRETTY GOOD SPOT TO BE IN ON THE OPERATING EXPENSE SIDE, 22.2%. UH, SO TRENDING, UH, POSITIVELY ON, UH, REVENUE AND EXPENSE AND UTILITY FUND. AND THEN WE'VE GOT OUR STORM WATER UTILITIES. SO 26.3% OF THE REVENUE'S BEEN COLLECTED, SO TRENDING JUST ABOVE WHAT WE BUDGETED. AND THEN ON THE, UH, EXPENDITURE SIDE, UH, A LARGE PORTION OF THEIRS IS RELATED TO DEBT SERVICE. SO, UH, THOSE ARE PAID IN THE SECOND QUARTER. SO WE'LL SEE A BIG UPTICK ON THE EXPEND EXPENSE SIDE IN THE NEXT REPORT, BUT THEY'RE JUST UNDER 10% ON THEIR OPERATING EXPENSES, UH, THROUGH THE FIRST QUARTER. AND OVERALL HOTEL OCCUPANCY TAX COLLECTIONS. SO, UH, ABOUT $1.2 MILLION IN THE FIRST QUARTER. AND AGAIN, THE LAST SIX WEEKS OF THE FIRST QUARTER ARE REALLY, UH, SOME OF THE TRADITIONALLY THE LOWEST THAT WE, THAT WE SEE THROUGHOUT THE YEAR. SO, UH, 1.2 MILLION IS A PRETTY STRONG, UH, FIRST QUARTER FOR US. UH, AS I MENTIONED, OCTOBER, UH, WAS, WAS VERY STRONG. UH, DECEMBER, UH, IS TRADITIONALLY JUST NOT, NOT GREAT AS FAR AS HOTELS, UH, FOR ADDISON. UH, AND THEN OUR INVESTMENT REPORT SUMMARY. SO OVERALL, UM, BROUGHT IN JUST UNDER $1.3 MILLION IN, UH, INTEREST REVENUE FOR THE QUARTER. UH, THE WEIGHTED AVERAGE YIELD OF THE PORTFOLIO IS ABOUT 3.86%, UM, JUST DOWN FROM ABOUT ONE BASIS POINT FROM LAST QUARTER. UH, SO THAT, UH, INVESTMENT REPORT IS IN THE AGENDA, UH, AS WELL. AND ALL OF THE INVESTMENTS AND, UM, REPORTING HAS BEEN, UH, IN ACCORDANCE WITH OUR POLICY AND THE PUBLIC FUNDS INVESTMENT ACT. SO WITH THAT, I'LL BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, STEVEN. UH, APPRECIATE THE PRESENTATION. JUST A COUPLE OF QUICK QUESTIONS FROM ME. UH, THINKING ABOUT THE, THE, UH, OCCUPANCY PERCENTAGES MM-HMM . FOR, UH, RETAIL, WHEN WE HAVE NEW RETAIL THAT COMES ON, NEVER BEEN OCCUPIED, AT WHAT POINT DOES THAT BECOME PART OF THAT CALCULATION? I CAN CHECK WITH PROBABLY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ON THAT. 'CAUSE WE GET THAT INFORMATION FROM THEM. UM, THEY, WE HAVE A SUBSCRIPTION TO COSTAR. UM, I, WE CAN ASK THEM HOW THEY, HOW THEY CALCULATE THAT OR WHAT THEY DO TO, SO WE GET THOSE NUMBERS FROM COSTAR. WE GET THOSE NUMBERS FROM COSTAR. OKAY. VERY GOOD. THE OTHER QUESTION I HAD JUST ON, ON SLIDE EIGHT, UM, ON THE, UH, GENERAL FUND EXPENDITURES, MOST EVERYTHING'S AROUND THAT 25 ISH PERCENT, BUT THEN THERE'S A FEW OF 'EM, UH, COMBINED SERVICES COUNCIL PROJECTS MM-HMM . EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS CAN A LITTLE BIT HIGHER. YEAH. UH, SO THERE'S A FEW THINGS THAT WE PAY REALLY AT THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR. UH, COMBINED SERVICES, WE PAY OUR ANNUAL PROPERTY AND LIABILITY INSURANCE IS PREPAID FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. THAT MAKES [00:45:01] UP, UH, ABOUT A THIRD OF THAT ENTIRE BUDGET. SO THAT'S PAID ALL AT ONCE. UM, UH, THE COUNCIL, PRO COUNCIL PROJECTS, UH, YOUR GRANTS THAT YOU APPROVE THROUGHOUT THE BUDGET PROCESS, UH, THOSE INITIAL GRANT AMOUNTS ARE PAID OUT IN THE FIRST QUARTER. UH, SO THAT'S A PRETTY BIG PORTION. I MEAN, THAT'S NOT A BIG BUDGET, $375,000, SO, SO THAT'S A, A PRETTY BIG OR 437,000. I'M SORRY. THAT'S A PRETTY BIG PORTION OF THAT OVERALL BUDGET. SO THAT, THAT'S THE REASON THAT THAT ONE, UM, IS OVER. AND THEN ON THE EMERGENCY COMMUNICATION SIDE, UH, WE PAY INTECH. BASICALLY, WE'VE PAID THEM TWO QUARTERS IN THE FIRST QUARTER. UM, SO WE PAY THEM REALLY BEFORE THE QUARTER STARTS. SO BY THE TIME WE GET TO, UH, THE, THE THIRD QUARTER, WE WOULD'VE PAID THEM FOR THE ENTIRE YEAR. SO WE BASICALLY PAID HALF OF THE YEAR ALREADY, UH, OUT OF EMERGENCY COMMUNICATIONS. THAT ALL MAKES SENSE. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS FROM ANYBODY? I DO HAVE A QUESTION. UM, THIS IS ON THE, UH, ANSWER TO THE COUNCIL OF QUESTIONS, UH, ON THE SALES TAX. UM, WE'VE GOT A DIP IN 26 WITH, UH, INCREASES FROM 23. SO 26 IS ABOUT THE SAME AS 23. WHAT'S, WHAT'S THE CAUSE OF THAT? WELL, SO 26 IS JUST THE BUDGET, SO, UM, OKAY. IT'S NOT WHAT WE'VE ACTUALLY COLLECTED. OKAY. WE'RE TRENDING ABOVE WHAT WE WOULD ANTICIPATE FOR 26, BUT WE, YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS GONNA BE, WE'RE ALWAYS GONNA BE A LITTLE BIT MORE CONSERVATIVE ON THE BUDGETING SIDE. SO WE DID COLLECT 17.6 AND 25. WE BUDGETED 17.1 IN 20 SENSE. OKAY. AND THOSE, THOSE YEARS AFTER THAT, THOSE ARE, THAT'S WHEN IT BECOMES PROJECTIONS. IS THAT CORRECT? THOSE ARE PROJECTIONS. OKAY. GOOD. GOOD. QUE I'M GLAD YOU ASKED THAT. ALRIGHT, ANYTHING ELSE? OKAY. VERY GOOD. THANK YOU STEVEN. THANK YOU. APPRECIATE IT. ALRIGHT, IT IS, UH, THAT'S THE LAST OF OUR WORK SESSION ITEMS. IT'S 7 0 2. WE'LL GO AHEAD AND, UH, TAKE A RECESS FOR ABOUT 10 MINUTES AND, UH, RECONVENE IN THE CHAMBERS AT SEVEN 12. THANKS EVERYBODY. [ COUNCIL MEETING The Addison City Council will convene for a Council Meeting beginning at 7:00 PM in the Town Hall Council Chambers.] OKAY. GOOD EVENING EVERYBODY. IT IS SEVEN 14 AND WE'LL RECONVENE THE, UH, COUNCIL MEETING IN FROM OUR, UH, FROM OUR BREAK AFTER OUR WORK SESSION. AND, UH, WELCOME EVERYBODY. WE'RE GONNA GO AHEAD AND GET STARTED. YOU PLEASE TAKE YOUR SEATS. AND WE DO HAVE A QUORUM OF THE COUNCIL PRESENT THIS EVENING WITH SIX MEMBERS IN ATTENDANCE HERE. AND WE HAVE COUNCIL MEMBER LISIO IS JOINING US ONLINE. AND AS ALWAYS, WE'D LIKE TO START OUR, UH, MEETINGS TO THE PLEDGE TO BOTH OF OUR FLAGS. IF YOU'LL PLEASE RISE AS YOU'RE ABLE. I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG, TO THE BLACK OF UNITED STATES. OF UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. THE REPUBLIC REPUBLIC STANDS, ONE NATION, NATION INDIVISIBLE WITH LIBERTY AND JUSTICE FRAUD. HONOR THE TEXAS FLAG, TEXAS FLAGS TO DEATH, TEXAS AND STATE FLAG ONE AND IN INDIVISIBLE. ALRIGHT, THANK Y'ALL FOR JOINING US THIS EVENING. WE'LL MOVE [2. Proclamations / Presentations] RIGHT INTO, UH, ITEM TWO PROCLAMATIONS. PRESENTATIONS TWO A IS CITY MANAGERS ANNOUNCEMENTS AND TWO B EMPLOYEE RECOGNITION. DAVID GAINES. THANKS, MAYOR. JUST A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS TONIGHT. FIRST, MARK YOUR CALENDAR FOR THE SPRING TOWN MEETING ON TUESDAY, MARCH 3RD AT THE ADDISON PERFORMING ARTS CENTER. MEET TOWN STAFF FROM A VARIETY OF DEPARTMENTS AND GET UPDATES ON PROJECTS AT 6:00 PM THE PRESENTATION WILL BEGIN AT 7:00 PM WE HOPE TO SEE EVERYONE THERE. FINALLY, CALLING ALL TEENS. YOU'RE INVITED TO JOIN US ON SATURDAY, MARCH 7TH FROM EIGHT 30 TO 10:30 AM FOR A TREE PLANTING AND PARK CLEANUP AT LAY LOCKS PARK. IT'S A GREAT WAY TO GIVE BACK TO THE COMMUNITY AND CONNECT WITH OTHER TEENS. YOU CAN FIND MORE INFORMATION ON THE TOWNS WEBSITE, ADDISON TX.GOV. NEXT, WE GET TO DO SOMETHING SPECIAL. UH, ONE OF THE, MY FAVORITE DAYS OF THE YEAR EACH YEAR IS OUR, ONE OF OUR QUARTERLY LUNCHEONS. WE HAVE OUR EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR RECOGNITIONS. UH, WE GET TO HIGHLIGHT THE EMPLOYEES IN ADDISON TO DO AN OUTSTANDING JOB AND RECOGNIZE THEIR WORK. WHAT WE HAVE NOT DONE BEFORE IS BROUGHT THOSE AWARDS TO COUNCIL AND RECOGNIZE THEM IN FRONT OF THE COMMUNITY. AND I'M VERY GLAD WE HAVE A LARGE CROWD TODAY TO RECOGNIZE THEM. SO I'M GONNA ASK THEM TO COME FORWARD AS I, AS I CALL THEIR NAMES. AND I'M GONNA GO THROUGH EACH OF THE AWARDS OF OUR OUTSTANDING EMPLOYEES. THESE, THESE AWARDS REFLECT ADDISON'S BRAVE CORE VALUES, ACCOUNTABILITY, RESPONSIVENESS, INNOVATION, SERVICE, AND INTEGRITY. WE WILL ALSO RECOGNIZE THE HERO AWARD EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AND DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR. FIRST, I'LL INVITE EMILY WATSON, OUR ACCOUNTABILITY AWARD RECIPIENT TO COME UP. NEXT, RYAN [00:50:01] CLUSTER, OUR RESPONSIVENESS AWARD RECIPIENT KURT STILES, OUR INNOVATION AWARD RECIPIENT, FELICIA CRAIGHEAD, OUR SERVICE AWARD RECIPIENT, JUSTIN HARDING, OUR INTEGRITY AWARD RECIPIENT. PETER LUCAS, OUR HERO AWARD RECIPIENT, BRITTANY AVIA, OUR EMPLOYEE OF THE YEAR AWARD AND OUR DEPARTMENT OF THE YEAR THIS YEAR WAS THE POLICE DEPARTMENT. PLEASE GIVE THEM A ROUND OF APPLAUSE. CONGRAT, EVERYBODY. CONGRAT, WELL DONE. THANK YOU MAYOR. THANK YOU DAVID. AND THANKS TO ALL THE, ALL OF OUR GREAT EMPLOYEES AND, AND, AND I KNOW Y'ALL KNOW WHAT A GREAT, UH, GREAT CREW WE HAVE RUNNING THE RUNNING OF TOWN HERE, SO WE APPRECIATE EVERYTHING THEY DO FOR US. ALRIGHT, MOVING [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.] INTO ITEM NUMBER THREE, 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 MINUTES UNLESS OTHERWISE REQUIRED BY LAW. COUNSEL IS NOT PERMITTED TO TAKE ANY ACTION OR DISCUSS ANY ITEM NOT LISTED ON THE AGENDA. AND THE COUNCIL MAY CHOOSE TO PLACE THE ITEM ON A FUTURE AGENDA. ALRIGHT, WE HAVE A, A GOODLY NUMBER OF COUNCIL APPEARANCE CARDS TONIGHT. BEFORE WE GET TO THOSE, UH, WE DID HAVE SOME FOLKS THAT, UH, REGISTERED THEIR COMMENTS ONLINE THROUGH THE WEBSITE. AND I'M GOING TO JUST READ THE LIST OF THOSE FOLKS THAT DID THAT. AND THOSE, THEIR COMMENTS WILL BE, UH, KEPT AS PART OF THE PUBLIC RECORD. AND SO THAT LIST IS, UH, DAWN WEBB, YVETTE PELKEY, HAYDEN ROONEY, LYNN TURNER, JAY BART TURNER, LANCE PRICE, BARBARA WORD, LUIS SANTEZ, LE LINDA PENNINGTON, JERRY FAZIO, CELESTE REHAN, JAN AND BILL LARO, CHRIS WILKOS, STEVE LEE, JOLENE WILKOS, HELENE BUCHANAN DUNN, ELENA ARVA, PETER SPINA, DAVE AND MARILYN COCO AND CHAD HOER. THOSE WERE THE FOLKS THAT REGISTERED, UH, COMMENTS ONLINE. AND UH, OKAY. SO WE'LL GO TO OUR COUNCIL, UH, APPEARANCE CARDS. AND AS USUAL, WHEN YOU COME TO THE, TO THE LECTERN, IF YOU GIVE US YOUR NAME AND ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. AND THE THREE MINUTE TIME LIMIT IS NOT A REQUIREMENT THAT YOU HAVE TO GET THERE. THERE. AS ALWAYS, IF YOU WANT TO SPEAK FOR LESS THAN THREE MINUTES, THAT IS ENCOURAGED AND WELCOMED BECAUSE WE DO HAVE QUITE A FEW. SO WE'LL GET STARTED WITH PHYLLIS SILVER, WHO WILL BE FOLLOWED BY BURKE BURKE HALTER. SO IF YOU WANT TO QUEUE UP BEHIND THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU, YOU'RE MORE THAN WELCOME TO DO THAT. AND WE WOULD, UH, THAT'LL HELP US ON THE TIME. SO PHYLLIS FOLLOWED BY BURKE. HELLO, MY NAME IS PHYLLIS SILVER. I LIVE ON ARTIST WAY IN ADDISON. DART HAS PRESENTED AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE TOWN TO RECEIVE FUNDS FROM THE GENERAL MOBILITY PROGRAM. IF WE RE RESCIND THE MAY DART ELECTION, PLEASE DON'T LET THIS OPPORTUNITY PASS YOU BY. I KNOW THAT SOMEONE ON COUNCIL WANTS TO HAVE AN ELECTION TO DETERMINE IF THE MAJORITY OF ADDISON VOTERS WANT TO REMAIN WITH DO. ALTHOUGH I BELIEVE THAT THE MAJORITY OF ADDISON RESIDENTS WANT TO REMAIN IN THE SYSTEM. AS WITH ANY ELECTION, ONE NEVER KNOWS WHO WILL MAKE IT TO THE POLLS. IF WE HAVE AN ELECTION AND THE VOTE CHOOSE TO LEAVE DD, AS I HAVE MENTIONED IN PREVIOUS MEETINGS, THE ALTERNATIVE MICROT TRANSIT IS VERY SCARY. SINCE I LAST ADDRESSED YOU, I HAVE LEARNED ANOTHER FRIGHTENING ASPECT OF MICROT TRANSITS. EACH CITY SELECTS THEIR LEVEL OF MICRO TRANSIT SERVICE FOR THEIR CITY. THAT RESULTS BASICALLY IN QUOTAS OF HOW MANY VEHICLES ARE USED AND RIDER SERVICED IN A GIVEN PERIOD OF TIME. IT'S NOT UNCOMMON FOR RIDERS TO BE STR UH, STRANDED FOR LACK OF AVAILABLE RIDES. THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN WITH DART'S FIXED ROUTES TODAY, FEBRUARY 24TH [00:55:01] IS MY BIRTHDAY. MY BEST BIRTHDAY GIFT WOULD BE TO LEARN THAT I DON'T HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT THE NIGHTMARE-ISH CONSEQUENCES OF LEAVING DART. I GREW UP IN A CITY WITH ONE OF THE WORLD'S PREMIER TRANSIT SYSTEMS. YES, DART IS NOT PERFECT, BUT AS A RESIDENT IN THE DART SERVICE AREA, AND AS THE CURRENT CHAIR OF DART'S CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE AND A DATA MEMBER, MY MISSION IS TO IDENTIFY DART'S IMPROVEMENT OPPORTUNITIES AND TO RECOMMEND SOLUTIONS AS A PUBLIC SERVANT. PLEASE DO THE RIGHT THING AND LOOK OUT FOR THE PUBLIC GOOD. MANY OF YOU WERE NOT ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THE FIGHT TO GET RAIL AND IMPROVE BUS SERVICE IN ADDISON. PLEASE DON'T ROLL BACK THE YEARS WORTH OF WORK AND PROGRESS THAT'S BEEN MADE. LET'S MOVE FORWARD AND BE A MAJOR PLAYER IN OUR REGION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU PHYLLIS. AND I'LL, UH, AND I WILL GO AHEAD AND ASK YOU ALL TO, UH, RE REFRAIN FROM APPLAUDING BECAUSE THAT JUST ADDS TO THE LENGTH OF TIME. BUT I APPRECIATE YOUR ENTHUSIASM. SO IF, UH, BURKE FOLLOWED BY NEIL RESNICK, I AM, UH, JAMES BURKE. BURKE ALTER, LIVE AT 38 24 WATERFORD DRIVE FOR 30 YEARS. AND MR. MAYOR AND CITY COUNCIL, I DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT TO SAY EXCEPT I JUST WANT YOU TO PLEASE PUT THIS TO THE, TO THE CITIZENS. LET THEM VOTE HOW THEY WANT TO VOTE. DON'T LEAVE IT UP TO YOURSELVES LIKE SOME OTHER THINGS HAVE BEEN DONE THAT PEOPLE DISLIKE LATER. LET THE CITIZENS VOTE ON THIS PROJECT, ON THIS DARK PROJECT I'M TALKING ABOUT THE OTHER THING. I HAD SEVERAL THINGS ON MY MIND, BUT SINCE YOU HAVE SO MANY, MR. MAYOR, I'M GONNA ELIMINATE SOME, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY HAVE VOTED THIS YEAR, BUT THE VOTING SITUATION OVER HERE HAS BEEN TERRIBLE. I DON'T LIKE THE DEMOCRATS AND REPUBLICANS AT DIFFERENT, DIFFERENT SIDES OF THE ROOM. I LOOKED OVER AND I SAW A GUY, I SAID, WELL, I DIDN'T KNOW HE, HE WAS THIS WAY. YOU KNOW, I, I JUST DON'T THINK THAT WE OUGHT TO HAVE A DIVIDED ROOM, REPUBLICANS AND DEMOCRATS FOR VOTING. THAT'S NUMBER ONE, NUMBER THREE OR TWO OR WHATEVER IT IS. I'M STILL DISGUSTED ABOUT THE BICYCLE TRAIL. MY WIFE HAD A LADY COME OVER HERE FROM, UH, FORT WORTH TO HAVE LUNCH WITH HER. AND, UH, THEY WENT OUT TO LUNCH AND THEY WERE GOING BACK HOME. AND THIS LADY IS THE WIFE OF A OWNER OF AN, UH, AUTOMOBILE FACILITY IN FORT WORTH. AND THEY WERE GOING BACK HOME AND SHE LOOKED OUT THE WINDOW AND SHE SAID, NANCY, WHAT, WHAT IS THAT ON THE STREET OUT THERE? AND NANCY SAID, THAT'S OUR, THAT'S OUR NEW BICYCLE TRAIL. AND SHE SAID, THAT'S THE WORST THING I'VE EVER SEEN, DAVID, I'M SORRY YOU LIKE IT, BUT I DON'T. UH, THE OTHER THING IS I HAVE AT THIS POINT SEEN TWO BICYCLE RIDERS ON THE BICYCLE TRAIL AND ONE RIDING LAWNMOWER. NOW, THE OTHER THING IS, AND I WAS SITTING OUT IN MY YARD LAST WEEK READING A BOOK, AND FOR SOME REASON I HAPPENED TO LOOK UP AND HERE COMES A MAN ON A BICYCLE, DOWN LAY. THERE WERE WATERFORD AND LAY LOCKS, IF YOU KNOW WHERE THAT IS. HE WAS COMING DOWN THE HILL FROM PROTON DOWN OR TOWARD, UH, MAKING THE CIRCLE. AND, UH, HE WAS GOING, EVIDENTLY, UH, UH, HER AND BRUCE, UH, HE WAS GOING EVIDENTLY 15, 20 MILES AN HOUR. HE DIDN'T EVEN SLOW DOWN OR LOOK EITHER WAY AT THE STOP SIGN. HE CAME RIGHT THROUGH IT. AND IF ANOTHER CAR HAD BEEN COMING OUTTA THERE, SOMEBODY WOULD'VE BEEN KILLED. AND I THINK THAT IT WOULD BE WISE, MR. MAYOR AND MR. MANAGER, IF YOU WOULD LET, UH, MARY OR WHOMEVER, I'M, I'M COMING. UH, KEN ON THE, UH, ON OUR FRIDAY AFTERNOON LIST THAT WE SEND OUT EVERY FRIDAY, TELL THE BICYCLE RIDE. AND I'M, I USED TO RIDE BICYCLE. THANK YOU. BUR, YOU'RE, THAT'S YOUR TIME, MY FRIEND. THANK YOU. TELL, TELL MARY OR SOMEBODY THANK YOU BUR NOTE IN THERE ABOUT THANK YOU VERY MUCH OF THE LAWS. THANK YOU BURKE. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU FOR THE TIME. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, NEXT WE HAVE NEIL. WE HAVE NEIL RESNICK CALL, FOLLOWED BY JANE FRANCIS ROBINSON. GOOD EVENING, Y'ALL. UM, MY NAME'S NEIL RESNICK, 38 36 PARK PLACE, MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, MANAGER AND STAFF. THANK YOU [01:00:01] FOR, FOR PROVIDING THE OPPORTUNITY FOR ME TO SHARE MY THOUGHTS ON YOUR DECISION TO SCHEDULE AN ELECTION CONSIDERING LEAVING DART. MOST OF THE ISSUES, BOTH PROS AND CONS HAVE BEEN DISCUSSED FOR MONTHS BY YOU. AND THOSE PEOPLE THAT YOU LISTEN TO WHO COME IN AND MAKE THEIR PRESENTATIONS ON THOSE TOPICS, THE CITIZENS, YOUR CONSTITUENTS, AND THOSE MOST IMPACTED BY YOUR DECISIONS HAVEN'T BEEN PARTY TO ALL OF THOSE MEETINGS. THEY DON'T HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION THAT Y'ALL HAVE. THEY DON'T KNOW AS MUCH ABOUT YOU AND THAT THIS ISSUE AS YOU DO FOR THAT REASON, I THANK YOU FOR LISTENING TO THAT AND REMIND YOU THAT THAT'S WHY WE ELECTED YOU TO MAKE THOSE DECISIONS FOR THE CITIZENS. AS I'M SURE YOU'RE AWARE, BUT I HAVEN'T HEARD IT DISCUSSED IN YOUR FORUMS. YOUR DECISION TONIGHT COULD VERY WELL ELIMINATE ADDISON'S ABILITY TO PARTICIPATE IN THE NEW PLANS DEVELOPED BY DART AND OTHER MEMBER CITIES THAT HAVE CHOSEN TO WORK WITH DART IN AN EFFORT TO IMPROVE AND INCREASE THE BENEFIT TO ALL MEMBER CITIES. THOSE PLANS INCLUDE AN ADDITIONAL REFUND OF OVER $8 MILLION. IT'S ABOUT 8.2 MILLION OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS FOR ADDISON. I HOPE YOU WILL CONSIDER ALL THE BENEFITS THAT DART BRINGS TO ADDISON AND THE REGION AND OPT TO WORK WITH DART TO REMAIN IN THIS VALUABLE PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I CAN SAY FOR THE NEXT COUPLE MINUTE AND A HALF, SO I'M DONE. THANK Y'ALL. THANK YOU, NEIL. NEXT UP WE HAVE JANE FRANCIS ROBINSON, FOLLOWED BY TYLER WRIGHT. GOOD EVENING. MY NAME IS JANE FRANCIS ROBINSON, 1 4 7 6 1 BEVERE COURT COUNCIL MEMBERS, PLEASE LEAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE AND RECOGNIZE THAT CITIZENS ARE BETTER EDUCATED THAN YOU ARE. GIVING THEM CREDIT FOR THE RIGHT TO VOTE IS A PRIVILEGE AND A BLESSING IN THE AMERICAN WAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. AND, UH, NEXT WE HAVE TYLER WRIGHT, FOLLOWED BY CHERYL SANDBERG. GOOD EVENING MAYOR. MY NAME IS TYLER WRIGHT, LIVE AT 15 7 2 5 ARTIST WAY. UM, AND YOU GUYS CAN PROBABLY GUESS WHY I'M HERE. SO I WANTED TO TAKE A SECOND AHEAD OF, UH, OF THIS, THIS BIG VOTE HERE. THE THIRD OR FOURTH ONE WE'VE HAD JUST TO KIND OF HOLD UP A MIRROR TO, TO, TO WHAT I, I FEEL COUNCIL HAS REPRESENTED THE PAST COUPLE YEARS. YOU KNOW, WHEN I LOOK AT THIS COUNCIL, MAYOR, I SEE A COUPLE WHO I JUST DISAGREE WITH ON MOST EVERYTHING, BUT AT LEAST I KNOW WHERE THEY STAND. I'VE GOT A FEW WHO ARE MORE LIKE CHAMELEONS TRYING TO PLEASE EVERYONE TO VERY LIMITED SUCCESS IN MY OPINION. AND THERE'S A COUPLE LIKE YOU, MR. MAYOR, THAT ARE TRYING TO KEEP ADDISON AS AN INNOVATOR AND WARNING THE REST OF US THAT THE FUTURE MAY NOT BE SO KIND TO OUR LITTLE TOWN IF WE THROW AWAY CONNECTIVITY REGIONAL PARTNERSHIPS IN THE NAME OF, I'M NOT SURE WHAT EXACTLY. UM, AND I WILL SAY AS AN INHERITOR OF THAT FUTURE, I AM HERE TO LET YOU KNOW THAT MY KINDNESS IS INDEED RUNNING OUT IN MY VIEW. I DON'T BELIEVE THIS COUNCIL HAS REALLY ADDED ANYTHING TO ADDISON OVER THE PAST COUPLE YEARS. THE MAJORITY OF Y'ALL HAVE ELECTED TO REMOVE THINGS. MORE OFTEN THAN NOT. YOU ALL HAVE BEEN STRIPPING THIS TOWN FOR PARTS TO SAVE A COUPLE DOZEN DOLLARS ON PROPERTY TAXES. JUST THINK ABOUT IT. IN THE PAST COUPLE YEARS, WE'VE LOST TASTE ADDISON, A MASSIVE TOURIST ATTRACTION AND BRAND VEHICLE FOR THE TOWN. THERE'S BIKE LANES THAT WOULD'VE BEEN 80% FUNDED BY THE RTC GONE MONEY THAT MAY MAY NOT BE SO QUICK TO OFFER. NEXT TIME WE'VE REMOVED BUSES FROM ONE OF THE MOST WALKABLE NEIGHBORHOODS AND PLACED THEM ON A STREET WITH LIVING PEDESTRIAN SAFETY. AND WE DID IT BEFORE THE INFRASTRUCTURE WAS THERE PUTTING ME AND ANYBODY WHO RIDES THAT BUS ON ADDISON ROAD IN DANGER. AND WE'VE SETTLED FOR A TOD THAT'S ROUGHLY HALF THE VALUE OF THE ORIGINAL VISION. MEANWHILE, IN THE PAST COUPLE YEARS, DARTS ADDED THE SILVER LINE. THEY WERE GOING TO GIVE YOU GO LINK. WE WERE GONNA GET $3 MILLION IN GMP FUNDS AND WE THREW THAT AWAY AND WE'RE GONNA THROW THE AWAY THE REST OF DART TWO. SO WHEN THIS COUNCIL PRESENTS THE IDEA THAT THEY, BASED OFF OF SOME NAPKIN MATH AND CRAYON DRAWINGS CAN DO TRANSIT BETTER, FASTER AND CHEAPER THAN OUR PARTNER OF 40 YEARS RESPECTFUL MAYOR, I DON'T KNOW WHAT THE HELL THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT. THIS COUNCIL HAS USED RESIDENCE AS A BARGAINING CHIP IN NEGOTIATIONS FOR DART AND AGAINST. YOU'VE PUT MY MOBILITY ON THE BALLOT IN THE NAME OF CLAWING BACK MONEY THAT WAS ACTUALLY NEVER YOURS IN THE FIRST PLACE BY STATE LAW. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? IT WORKED. CONGRATULATIONS, YOU DID IT. YOU ALL HAVE ONE LAST CHANCE TO VOTE FOR SOMETHING THAT ADDS TO THE TOWN. IF YOU TAKE THE DEAL, YOU GET 8 MILLION IN GMP OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS, AND YOU GET TO BE A PART OF THE REGIONAL MOBILITY CONVERSATION ALONG WITH ALL MEMBER CITIES. YOU'LL BE SEEN AS PIONEERS WHO AND FIERCE NEGOTIATORS WHO PERMANENTLY ALTERED REGIONAL TRANSIT DYNAMICS AND FUNDING. [01:05:01] WE CAN HAVE MORE SALES TAX BACK AND KEEP DART OR YOU CAN VOTE TO KEEP THE ELECTION FORFEIT ALL 8 MILLION OF THOSE DOLLARS IMMEDIATELY. A SUM THAT YOU GUYS WERE DEEPLY WORRIED ABOUT WHEN CONSIDERING MAY OR NOVEMBER AND BE REMEMBERED PERHAPS AS SELFISH FOOLS WHO BROUGHT DOWN EVERYTHING THEIR PREDECESSORS EVER BUILT. THIS DECISION IS UP TO YOU. MAKE THE RIGHT ONE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, TYLER. NEXT UP WE HAVE CHERYL SANDBERG FOLLOWED BY CHUCK GREEN. GOOD EVENING, CHERYL SANDBERG, 1 4 7 1 4 CELESTIAL PLACE. THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK. I DIDN'T WRITE ANYTHING TONIGHT. UM, I I THINK SAVING PROPERTY TAXES, SAVING MONEY ON PROPERTY TAXES IS A BIG DEAL FOR ANYBODY THAT DOESN'T THINK SO. AND I APPRECIATE THE COUNCIL THAT HAS VOTED IN FAVOR OF A LOT OF WHAT OUR PROPERTY OWNERS HAVE, HAVE WANTED. UM, AND MY QUESTION TO YOU TONIGHT IS, AND WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM WITH LETTING THE CITIZENS VOTE ON THIS START ISSUE? I MEAN, CAN ANY OF YOU TELL ME WHY YOU WOULDN'T WANT US CITIZENS TO VOTE ON IT? ISN'T IT ALL RIGHT? AND I AGREE WITH THE LADY, THIS IS THE AMERICAN WAY. THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE CAN'T MAKE A DECISION. AND YOU KNOW WHAT, IF THE MAJORITY WANTS START, THEN SO BE IT. BUT WE NEED TO CHANCE TO HAVE A VOTE ON IT NOW IN MAY BECAUSE IF IT, WHAT GOES THROUGH THAT COULD MAKE A DECISION ON WHETHER WE ARE GONNA HAVE A BOND ISSUE FOR THE POLICE STATION, AND THAT DOES IMPACT OUR PROPERTY TAXES AND THAT DOES IMPACT WHETHER PEOPLE WANNA LIVE AND WORK HERE AND PAY PROPERTY TAXES. SO THAT'S ALL I'M GONNA SAY. SOMEBODY ELSE CAN TAKE PART OF MY TIME. THANK YOU. THANKS CHERYL. NEXT UP WE HAVE CHUCK GREEN, FOLLOWED BY DAVE COLLINS. MY NAME'S CHUCK GREEN. I LIVE AT 1 4 9 7 4 TO FOGGER COURT. UH, GOOD EVENING, MR. MAYOR AND COUNCILMAN. YESTERDAY THE PLANO CITY COUNCIL UNANIMOUSLY VOTED TO CANCEL THEIR DART ELECTION TONIGHT IT IS OUR TURN TO DO THE SAME. DART HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT CONCESSIONS IN BOTH FINANCES AND GOVERNANCE, AND IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF BOTH OF BOTH OUR TOWN AND THE REGION TO CONTINUE OUR LONG 40 YEAR PLUS COMMITMENT TO MASS TRANSIT. THE REVERSAL OF COUNCIL VOTE FROM DECEMBER 2ND, 2025 TO JANUARY 27TH, 2026, WAS PREMISED UPON. THE VOTERS HAVE A RIGHT TO DECIDE. I BELIEVE THAT PREMISE IS INCORRECT FOR TWO REASONS. FIRST, NOT EVERY QUESTION REQUIRES A VOTE OF THE PEOPLE IN A REPRESENTATIVE FORM OF GOVERNMENT. AND SECOND, THE PREMISE HAS A ONE SIGNIFICANT FLAW. SPECIFICALLY, THERE ARE SHAREHOLDERS IMPACTED BY A VOTE THAT HAVE NO VOICE IN THE DECISION. THOSE BEING OUR BUSINESS OWNERS, OUR GUESTS, AND OUR LARGE EMPLOYERS WHO HAVE EMPLOYEES WHO DO NOT LIVE IN ADDISON. THIS DISENFRANCHISED, DISENFRANCHISED GROUP PROVIDES THE BULK OF OUR SALES TAX RECEIPTS ANNUALLY DUE TO SHEER NUMBERS. BECAUSE OF ITS FACT, THE VOTERS SHOULD NOT HAVE THE SAY ON THE QUESTION, THE RESPONSIBILITY BELONGS TO OUR ELECTED LEADERS WHO SHOULD ACT IN THE BEST INTEREST OF ALL IMPACTED GROUPS. AS WELL AS TO CONTINUE ON WITH A LONG AGO VOTER APPROVED STRATEGY OF MASS TRANSIT PARTICIPATION THAT HAS BROUGHT SO MUCH DEVELOPMENT AND PROPERTY VALUE TO THE TOWN OF MADISON. LET'S CHANGE OUR THINKING ON DART AND SEE IT, IT SEE IT FOR WHAT IT REALLY IS. AN ASSET OF ADDISON PURCHASED FOR WELL OVER $400 MILLION THAT WILL BRING MORE VISITORS AND THEIR MONEY TO OUR TOWN AND MORE COMMERCIAL AND DEVELOPMENT. I RESPECTFULLY REQUEST THAT THE VOTE THIS MAY BE CANCELED. THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION IN ALL THE WORK YOU DO ON OUR BEHALF. THANK YOU, CHUCK. NEXT IS DAVE COLLINS, FOLLOWED BY TRISH STEWART. GOOD EVENING, UH, COUNCIL AND MAYOR TONIGHT YOU'VE HEARD OR WILL HEAR FROM, WILL HEAR FROM PASSIONATE ADVOCATES THROUGH DART. THAT IS FINE, BUT PEOPLE ARE CONFLATING THEIR SUPPORT FOR DART WITH WHAT THE COUNCIL IS IN FACT BEING ASKED TO ACT ON TONIGHT. YOU'RE NOT BEING ASKED TO DECIDE ON THE IMPORTANCE OF DART, SPECIFICALLY THE SILVER LINE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF ADDISON JUNCTION. AS THE PRESIDENT OF THE COMPANY BUILDING THIS HOTEL OFFICE AND ENTERTAINMENT VENUE STATED BEFORE YOU ON FEBRUARY 10TH, THEY'RE COMPLETELY NEUTRAL. WHETHER DART INCLUDING THE SILVER LINE STAYS OR GOES, YOU'RE NOT BEING ASKED TO DECIDE IN THE VALUE OF THE SILVER LINE SERVICE THAT BASED ON THE LATEST NUMBERS FROM DART IS BEING SUBSIDIZED TO THE TUNE OF $70 PER RIDE FOR THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE. YOU'RE NOT BEING ASKED TO OPINE ON THE VALUE OF A BUS SYSTEM THAT RUNS AT BEST WITH LESS THAN 5% OCCUPANCY. HOW MANY BUSES LEAVE ADDISON STATION WITH TWO, ONE OR NO RIDERS ON THEM. YOU'RE NOT BEING ASKED TO VOTE ON AN ON-DEMAND MOBILITY SYSTEM THAT HAS BEEN PROVEN IN OTHER TO NORTH TEXAS MUNICIPALITIES TO BE FAR MORE EFFECTIVE IN FAR LESS EXPENSIVE THAN DART. YOU'RE NOT BEING ASKED TO APPROVE A MOBILITY CONNECT SYSTEM THAT TOWN STAFF HAS PROPOSED THAT CAN SERVE THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE WHO LIVE OUTSIDE OF ADDISON AND WHO NEEDS TRANSPORTATION INTO ADDISON. IN SHORT, YOU'RE NOT BEING ASKED TO PRESERVE A [01:10:01] 20 20TH CENTURY PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM THAT IS WOEFULLY UNDERUTILIZED, POORLY MANAGED, AND PROHIBITED EXPENSIVE, VERSUS A 21ST CENTURY MOBILITY MODEL THAT PROVIDES BETTER SERVICE FLEXIBILITY TO ADAPT TO CHANGING CONDITIONS AT A MUCH LOWER PRICE. I'D ALSO LIKE TO COMMENT ON DART'S RESPONSE TO MULTIPLE CITIES REQUEST FOR A RESET OF THE RELATIONSHIP WITH DART FINANCIALLY SECURITY AND SERVICE WISE. DART'S RESPONSE IS BEING USED AS A RATIONALE TO REVISIT THIS ISSUE TONIGHT. I CHALLENGE ANYONE WHO HAS READ IT TO THINK THAT THEY ACTED IN GOOD FAITH. IT REFLECTS THEIR CONTINUING TONE DEAF ATTITUDE, AND THE FACT THAT THEY ONLY AGREE TO NEGOTIATE UNDER THREAT OF A NUCLEAR OPTION. IGNORE THE DISINGENUOUS RESPONSE FROM DART TONIGHT. YOU ARE SIMPLY BEING ASKED TO REAFFIRM YOUR DECISION TO ALLOW THE RESIDENTS OF ADDISON TO HAVE THEIR VOICES HEARD ON THIS CRITICAL ISSUE AND TO HAVE THE ABILITY TO VOTE IN MAY. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU DAVE. NEXT WE HAVE TRISH STEWART, FOLLOWED BY SNELL BLANTON, MR. MAYOR AND COUNSEL TRICIA STEWART, 1 5 7 5 5 SEA. UM, PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS IMPORTANT JUST AS HEALTHCARE IS IMPORTANT. AND LET'S SAY THAT 40 YEARS AGO YOUR COMPANY SIGNED EVERYBODY UP FOR A REGIONAL HEALTHCARE SYSTEM THAT WOULD GIVE YOU DISCOUNTED MED MEDICAL CARE AND PRESCRIPTIONS FOR ONE TO $3. AND IT SEEMED LIKE A GREAT IDEA AND YOU REALLY HOPE THAT LOTS OF COMPANIES WOULD BUY INTO THAT TO HELP PEOPLE BECAUSE IT WAS A REALLY NOBLE IDEA. BUT UNFORTUNATELY PEOPLE DIDN'T SIGN UP FOR IT LIKE THEY SHOULD HAVE. AND YOU DIDN'T SEE YOUR PEOPLE USING THE SERVICE LIKE YOU HAD HOPED THAT THEY WOULD, BUT YOU DID KNOW THAT THERE WERE SOME PEOPLE WHO DID NEED IT SO TORN ABOUT WHAT TO DO. YOU WOULD SAY, LET'S ASK OUR PEOPLE WHAT THEY WOULD PREFER TO DO BECAUSE THERE WERE OTHER OPTIONS OUT THERE THAT MAYBE HAD VISION OR OTHER THINGS AND, AND MAYBE COST DIFFERENT STRUCTURES. AND SO YOU THOUGHT, LET'S ASK THE PEOPLE. THAT SEEMS LIKE A LOGICAL THING TO DO. UM, SO I DON'T REALLY UNDERSTAND WHY PEOPLE ARE REALLY UPSET ABOUT GIVING PEOPLE THE OPTION TO VOTE ON WHAT THEY THINK WOULD BEST SERVE ADDISON BECAUSE WE HAVE NEEDS TOO. AND, UH, I REALLY, I REALLY THANK, UH, BERT FOR COMING UP AND TALKING. I REALLY ENJOYED HIS, UH, HIS, UH, NOT WANTING PEOPLE TO BE DIVIDED. AND I REALLY HOPE THAT THIS ISSUE DOESN'T DIVIDE OUR, OUR COMMUNITY, JUST LIKE SO MANY THINGS ARE DIVIDING FAMILIES AND COMMUNITIES IN OUR WORLD. BUT IN 2019, UM, 95% IN A CITIZEN, UH, SURVEY SET THAT MAINTAINING OUR TOWN INFRASTRUCTURE WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING TO THEM. THAT WAS FOR A BOND, UH, ELECTION THAT HAPPENED WHERE THERE WERE 21 PROJECTS VALUED AT $223 MILLION. AND WE HAD 28 RESIDENTS WHO HAD FIVE MEETINGS AND, AND DECIDED LET'S JUST BRING 70 MILLION TO OUR PEOPLE. WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ALL HAVE SEEN, UH, KELLER SPRINGS, BUT IN 2019 WE APPROVED AND DESIGN STARTED 20, UM, 23, WE HAD BIDS FOR CONSTRUCTION AND THEY CAME BACK TOO HIGH. SO WE HAD TO GO BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD AND CUT THINGS OUT. AND THEN IN 2024 WORK STARTED. SO I MEAN, I, I KNOW THAT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS VERY IMPORTANT AND SO I REALLY APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK THAT STAFF AND ALL OF YOU HAVE DONE TO REALLY TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE NEEDS OF, OF NOT ONLY OUR PEOPLE, BUT ALL THE PEOPLE WHO WORK IN ADDISON WHO, WHO COME HERE FOR BUSINESS OR FOR, FOR VISITING OR WHATEVER IT MIGHT MIGHT BE. BUT I REALLY HOPE THAT WE DON'T TAKE, UM, AWAY A A RIGHT THAT WAS GIVEN WAS SUPPOSED TO BE GIVEN TO OUR PEOPLE THAT EVERY SIX YEARS WE COULD EVALUATE THINGS AND SAY, IS THIS REALLY SERVING WHAT WE INTENDED IT TO BE? FOR AS NOBLE AS IT WAS AS GREAT OF A, UH, AS AN IDEA AS IT WAS, WE WOULD REALLY HOPE THAT MORE PEOPLE WOULD'VE PARTICIPATED IN A REGIONAL SYSTEM. THANK YOU. THANK YOU TRISH. AND NEXT WE HAVE CHANEL BLANTON, FOLLOWED BY ROBERT KENTNER. GOOD EVENING. UM, MR. MAYOR AND MEMBERS OF THE COUNCIL, MY NAME IS CHANEL BLANTON. I LIVE AT 1 7 0 7 2 KNOTTS LANDING IN ADDISON. UM, I'M HERE TONIGHT TO TALK ABOUT OUR MEMBERSHIP IN DART. FIRST, I WANT TO VALIDATE, UM, THE VERY REAL FRUSTRATIONS THAT, UH, YOU'VE HAD REGARDING OUR SALES TAX CONTRIBUTIONS. AND I THINK THAT, UM, IT'S NOT JUST YOUR JOB, BUT IT'S ALL OF OUR JOBS AS STEWARDS OF THIS TOWN TO SCRUTINIZE OUR FINANCES. SO HOWEVER, I REALLY FEEL STRONGLY THAT, UM, WITH THE NEW REGIONAL COMPROMISE, UH, CURRENTLY ON THE TABLE, I FEEL LIKE THAT WE SHOULD, UM, YOU KNOW, CANCEL THE MAY UH, WITHDRAWAL ELECTION AND ACCEPT THE NEGOTIATED SOLUTIONS. UM, BEYOND THESE NEGOTIATIONS, WE REALLY [01:15:01] NEED TO REFRAME HOW WE, UM, LOOK AT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AND JUDGING. DART, YOU KNOW, STRICTLY BY A DOLLAR FOR DOLLAR RETURN ON INVESTMENT, FUNDAMENTALLY MISUNDERSTANDS WHAT TRANSIT ACTUALLY IS. SO IN MY OPINION, DART IS CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE. UH, WE DON'T DEMAND A FINANCIAL RETURN FROM A SIDEWALK, NOR DO WE ASK TO, UH, STOP SIGN TO TURN A PROFIT. UH, WE MEASURE INFRASTRUCTURE BY THE ACCESS, THE MOBILITY, AND THE ECONOMIC, UH, ACTIVITY. IT, UH, IT ENABLES US, UM, TO THE VOTERS IF WE DO END UP VOTING. IF YOU'RE CALLED TO VOTE TO VOTE, REMEMBER THERE IS A COMMON FALLACY THAT BECAUSE MOST ADDISON RES RESIDENTS, UH, DRIVE PERSONAL VEHICLES, DART ISN'T WORTH OUR MONEY. BUT CIVIC INFRASTRUCTURE IS RARELY USED INFORMALLY WITH EVERY, UM, RESIDENT. UH, WE INVEST HEAVILY IN ADDISON AIRPORTS EVEN THOUGH MOST OF US DON'T OWN A PRIVATE PLANE. UM, WE APPROVE MILLIONS OF BONDS, UH, FOR THE POND AND THE ATHLETIC, EVEN THOUGH EVERYONE DOESN'T SWIM AND WALK THOSE TRAILS. SO IT JUST REMEMBER, A THRIVING TOWN SIMPLY CAN'T RELY ON A HUNDRED PERCENT OF PEOPLE DRIVING A CAR A HUNDRED PERCENT OF THE TIME. OUR RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS DEPEND HEAVILY ON THE BUS NETWORK TO BRING, UH, IN THE WORKFORCE THAT MAKES ADDISON'S HOSPITALITY INDUSTRY FAMOUS. UM, INFRASTRUCTURE IS THE PRICE OF ADMISSION FOR A GROWING CONNECTED CITY. AND I ASK YOU, UH, TO KEEP THE DART, UM, TO KEEP, IF WE HAVE TO VOTE TO KEEP DART, THAT'S TO THE, UH, TO THE VOTERS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, SCHNELL. NEXT WE HAVE ROBERT CANNER FOLLOWED BY YVETTE PKI. GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. MY NAME IS BOB CANNER. I LIVE AT 1 4 8 5 3 WYNWOOD ROAD AND HALF FOR 13 YEARS. I RISE TONIGHT TO TO SPEAK TO YOU ABOUT THE DART ELECTION. IT IS MY UNDERSTANDING OF THE RULES OF THE ROAD THAT YOU AS THE COUNCIL CAN KEEP US IN, BUT CAN'T TAKE US OUT. IF YOU VOTE TONIGHT TO, TO PULL THE ELECTION YOU PREVIOUSLY VOTED TO SCHEDULE, WE STAY IN. ON THE OTHER HAND, IF THE, IF THE, IF THE CITIZENS OF ASIN ARE ALLOWED TO VOTE, WE CAN VOTE YES. STAY IN OR YES, GET OUT. SO WHILE I ACKNOWLEDGE YOU ARE GENERALLY ELECTED TO VOTE FOR US, AND YOU MAY HAVE, AS ONE OF THE EARLIER SPEAKERS NOTED, MORE KNOWLEDGE ABOUT DART IN THIS, IN THIS ARRANGEMENT THAN WE DO, BECAUSE YOU CAN ONLY VOTE ONE WAY OR ACT ONE WAY. WE, WE CAN GO EITHER WAY. YOU SHOULD, YOU SHOULD LEAVE IT TO US, WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT. WE'LL VOTE FOR IT. WE'LL, WE WILL VOTE ON IT. AND I'LL SAY THAT WITHOUT ANY REAL PREJUDICE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER ABOUT HOW, WHAT, WHAT THE OUTCOME SHOULD BE. SIMPLY THAT. BECAUSE, BECAUSE THE PRESIDENTS OF ASIN CAN VOTE EITHER WAY, THEY SHOULD BE ALLOWED TO VOTE. LET US VOTE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, BOB. Y'ALL HAVE BEEN DOING AN EXCELLENT JOB ON YOUR TIME TONIGHT. CONGRATULATIONS, . NEXT WE HAVE YVETTE PELKE FOLLOWED BY FRAN POWELL. UH, I GOT A COUPLE OF THINGS I'M GONNA START BEFORE I FORGET ABOUT THE BIKE TRAIL. UH, ALONG WITH BERT, I'VE SEEN A CAR THAT GOES INTO THE BIKE TRAIL TO TURN INTO THAT BUSINESS AREA. THEY DON'T LIKE TO GO TO THE STREET, SO THEY IMMEDIATELY TAKE A RIDE WHEN THEY'RE GOING DOWN SURVEYOR ONTO BELTWAY. SO CARS ARE USING IT. AND THE OTHER THING THAT I'VE SEEN USING IT IS A SCOOTER THAT WAS GOING FASTER THAN I WAS. SO THEY WERE SPEEDING OTHERWISE, I HAVE NOT SEEN ONE BIKE ON THE TRAIL. SO TO ME THAT WAS WASTE OF MONEY. AS FAR AS DART I'M WITH, UH, ONE OF THE LADIES THAT CAME UP HERE, SHE PRETTY MUCH SAID WHAT I HAD TO SAY. WHAT IS THE FEAR OF PUTTING THIS OUT TO THE PEOPLE? WHAT IS IT? IF, IF WE LOSE, YOU KNOW, IF WE LOSE DART, WE LOSE DART. IF WE WIN DART, WE WIN DART. YOU KNOW, WE STAY WITH DART. I'M SO TIRED OF THIS TOWN BEING SPLIT UP AND IT STARTS WITH YOU, MR. MAYOR. IT'S REALLY DISAPPOINTING. OKAY, IF WE PUT THIS OUT TO A VOTE AND IT WE LOSE DART, WE LOSE START. THAT'S IT. I THINK IT'S GONNA BE ACCEPTED. IF WE STAY WITH DART, WE STAY WITH DART, BUT IT SHOULD BE PUT OUT TO THE PEOPLE TO DO, IT'S A LOT OF MONEY OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME AND WE DON'T GET TO VOTE WITH WITHDRAW RIGHT NOW IN MAY. WE DON'T GET TO VOTE FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS, SO THERE IS NO MOVING IT TO NOVEMBER. AND AS FAR AS THE SILVER LINE, FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, IT WAS FEDERALLY FUNDED. SO DOES IT REALLY GO AWAY IF WE VOTE AGAINST START? CAN SOMEBODY ANSWER THAT FOR ME? NO, WE'RE NOT, WE DON'T RESPOND TO YOUR QUESTIONS. OKAY. THIS, THIS IS YOUR TIME TO GIVE COMMENTS. OKAY. WELL, I, I'D LIKE TO KNOW AFTERWARDS IF SOMEBODY CAN TELL ME OR SOMEBODY THAT'S HERE THAT CAN DO THE RESEARCH ON THAT, IF IT IS FEDERALLY FUNDED, DOES THE SILVER LINE GO AWAY IF WE MOVE AWAY FROM DART? THANK YOU. THANK YOU, YVETTE. NEXT WE HAVE FRAN POWELL, FOLLOWED BY ZACH SCHMUTZER. GOOD EVENING, FRAN POWELL AT 1 4 7 9 6 LOCK INVAR COURT IN OAKS NORTH. I CONSIDER THE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION AS AN ESSENTIAL PART OF THE OPERATIONS [01:20:01] OF LIFE IN ADDISON. YOU COUNCIL MEMBERS MAY NOT USE IT AND PROBABLY MANY OF YOUR NEIGHBORS DON'T USE IT EITHER. SOME OF YOU HAVE STATED THAT YOU DON'T SEE MANY PEOPLE USING THE SERVICES. I DROVE DOWN QUORUM ON MONDAY OF THIS WEEK. AT ABOUT FOUR 30, THE BUS STOPPED TO PICK UP AT LEAST ONE PERSON AT EVERY ONE OF THE STOPS ON THAT ROAD. THESE PASSENGERS WERE MOST LIKELY STAFF MEMBERS OF THE HOTELS IN THE IMMEDIATE AREA GETTING OFF THEIR SHIFT, OR MAYBE GUESTS AT THESE SAME HOTELS WHO DID NOT HAVE USE OF A PRIVATE VEHICLE AND RELIED UPON THE PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM. DART IS A VITAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICE FOR MANY OF THE EMPLOYEES WORKING IN THE SERVICE AND HOSPITALITY INDUSTRIES, RESTAURANTS, ET CETERA, THAT ARE THE LIFEBLOOD OF ADDISON. THESE ARE THE PEOPLE THAT NEED THE SERVICES OF DART, BUT HAVE NO VOTE IN ADDISON. WITHOUT DART, MANY OF THESE EMPLOYEES WILL GO ELSEWHERE FOR EMPLOYMENT, CAUSING SERIOUS ISSUES WITH THE QUALITY OF LIFE AND SERVICES IN THE TOWN. IF THIS IS ALLOWED TO GO TO A VOTE ONLY ADDISON RESIDENTS HAVE A SAY. MOST OF THE THOUSANDS THAT WORK HERE AND RELY ON PUBLIC TRANSPORTATIONS DO NOT HAVE A SAY IN THAT VOTE. I HAVE LIVED IN ADDISON FOR 35 YEARS AND WAS PART OF THE FIGHT TO GET THE SILVER LINE FORMALLY KNOWN AS THE COTTON BELT LINE TO SERVE OUR COMMUNITY. IT WOULD BE RIDICULOUS FOR THE TOWN HAVING JUST ACHIEVED, ACHIEVED THIS SUCCESS TO ABANDON THIS SERVICE. I KNOW THE COUNCIL HAS DISCUSSED ALTERNATIVE TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, BUT THE TOWN IS NOT IN THE TRANSPORTATION BUSINESS, AND I CAN CAN FORESEE ANY ALTERNATIVE BEING A LOT MORE COMPLICATED AND EXPENSIVE THAN ANTICIPATED AND MAY END UP COSTING MORE THAN WHAT WE PAY. DART PLANO HAS REMOVED THE ISSUE FROM THE BALLOT. THEIR RESIDENTS WILL STILL BE ABLE TO USE DART AND MANY WILL WANT TO COME TO THE EVENTS IN ADDISON. IF WE DON'T HAVE DART, THEY WILL GO ELSEWHERE. AS I SAID BEFORE, LET THE DEMISE OF TASTE BE A WARNING. ADDISON IS KNOWN FOR ITS EVENTS, BRINGING PEOPLE TO THE TOWN TO SPEND AT OUR RESTAURANTS AND HOTELS. WE NEED THE VISITORS AND THEIR DOLLARS TO KEEP ADDISON THE SUCCESS. IT IS. WE ARE THE SMALLEST IN SIZE AND POPULATION THAN ANY OF THE OTHER 12 DARK CITIES, BUT PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION IS VITAL TO OUR TOWN. PLEASE VOTE NOT TO HAVE THIS ISSUE ON THE MAY BALLOT. THE VAST MAJORITY OF DART'S CUSTOMERS DON'T HAVE A SAY AT THE ADDISON BALLOT. LET THEIR VO LET BE, LET YOU BE THEIR VOICE IN THIS ISSUE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, FRAN. NEXT WE HAVE ZACH SCHMUTZER, FOLLOWED BY MARY WITHERSPOON. HELLO, COUNSEL. MY NAME IS ZACH SCHMUTZER. I LIVE AT 4 9 2 5 MARCUS AVENUE, UNIT 3, 4 0 9, ADDISON, TEXAS 7 5 0 0 1. I'M REALLY HAPPY TODAY TO SEE THAT POSSIBLY REMOVING THIS ELECTION IS ON THE BALLOT. UM, REMOVING DART FROM MADISON IS NOT IN MY BEST INTEREST AS AN MADISON RESIDENT. IT WOULD HURT MY QUALITY OF LIFE AND IT WOULD UPROOT THE STRUCTURES I'VE BUILT AROUND ME. UM, BEFORE I GET INTO THE DETAILS OF HOW DART AFFECTS MY LIFE, I, I REALIZE THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY. Y'ALL, Y'ALL, Y'ALL DO MAYBE CARE ABOUT HOW IT AFFECTS MY LIFE, BUT THAT ISN'T WHAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT TODAY. TODAY WE'RE JUST TALKING ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT ADDISON RESIDENTS SHOULD BE ABLE TO VOTE ON IT. I BELIEVE THAT IT IS IN THE BEST INTEREST OF EVERYONE IN THIS TOWN THAT Y'ALL DO, UM, NOT ALLOW ADDISON RESIDENTS TO VOTE ON THIS. AND IT'S FOR A COUPLE OF REASONS. THE BIGGEST ONE IS THAT ADDISON RESIDENTS CANNOT VOTE TO RECEIVE THIS NEGOTIATION. ADDISON RESIDENTS CAN'T DECIDE, HEY, I REALLY LIKE THIS NEGOTIATION WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE ABLE TO HAVE FUNDS IN A GMP AND WE CAN DECIDE TO USE THEM ON HOW TO BEST BENEFIT ADDISON RESIDENTS. YOU KNOW, IF Y'ALL TAKE THE GMP FUNDS, EVEN ME AS A REALLY BIG DART SUPPORTER, Y'ALL COULD USE THE GMP FUNDS TO HELP PAY FOR THE EXPRESS ROUTE TO DOWNTOWN. Y'ALL COULD USE THE GMP FUNDS TO HELP DO A CIRCULATOR AROUND TOWN THAT ISN'T AN OPTION FOR ADDISON RESIDENTS TO VOTE FOR. THEY ARE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO BE A PART OF THIS NEGOTIATION. THEY'RE NO LONGER ALLOWED TO DECIDE TO CHOOSE TO RECEIVE $8 MILLION FOR GENERAL MOBILITY. THE OTHER THING THAT I REALLY WANTED TO SAY IS THAT, UM, BUSINESS OWNERS AND EMPLOYEES WHO COME AND WORK IN THE TOWN CANNOT VOTE IN THIS ELECTION. AND WHILE YOU MAY SAY TO YOURSELF, AND, AND I DO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE HERE TO REPRESENT ADDISON RESIDENTS, THERE'S A LOT MORE PEOPLE THAN ADDISON RESIDENTS THAT PAY INTO THIS BECAUSE IT IS FUNDED BY SALES TAX. ALL OF THE PEOPLE WHO COME AND SPEND MONEY ON ADDISON, THEY ALSO SPEND SOME MONEY AND PAY INTO THE SALES TAX FOR THIS. AND SO I I JUST ASK YOU TO PLEASE CONSIDER HOW THIS AFFECTS EVERYONE. ONE OTHER THING I WANTED TO TALK ABOUT WAS HOW IT'S BEEN MADE CLEAR HOW IT, THE PUBLIC IS NOT VERY WELL INFORMED ON EXACTLY EVERYTHING THEY WOULD LOSE FROM HAVING DART LEAVE HERE. THEY WOULD LOSE THE GMP FUNDS AND THEY WOULD LOSE PLUS ACCESS. THEY WOULD LOSE THE SILVER LINE. AND I, I REALLY DO WANT YOU TO [01:25:01] CONSIDER THAT WHENEVER YOU'RE THINKING IT HERE. AGAIN, THE REASON TO NOT CALL THIS ELECTION IS NOT BECAUSE YOU DON'T LIKE DEMOCRACY. I LOVE DEMOCRACY. I WOULD LOVE PEOPLE TO BE ABLE TO VOTE ON THIS, BUT I CAN'T NEGOTIATE WITH DART. I CAN'T BE HERE AND VOTE TO SELECT TO CHOOSE THE GMP FUNDS. I HAVE TO ASK YOU TO DO THAT THERE. THERE'S JUST, THERE'S NO WAY FOR ME TO BE LIKE, HEY, I WANT THE NEGOTIATION THAT WE'VE BEEN WORKING FOR HERE. AND SO I ASK YOU TO PLEASE RESEND THIS ELECTION, ACCEPT THE NEGOTIATION. LET US SEE WHAT DART IS GOING TO BECOME IN THE NEXT SIX YEARS. $8 MILLION SENT BACK TO US, MORE NEGOTIATION, POSSIBLE STATE LEGISLATOR INVOLVED, AND WE CAN SEE WHAT IT LOOKS LIKE SIX YEARS DOWN THE ROAD. WE REALLY WANNA BE THINKING ABOUT ADDISON LONG, LONG TERM HERE. AND THIS IS A GREAT OPTION THAT I, AS AN ADDISON RESIDENT CAN'T VOTE FOR. AND SO I THANK YOU SO MUCH. UM, DART, REMOVING DART FROM HERE WOULD GREATLY UPROOT MY LIFE AND I WOULD HATE TO SEE THAT. AND, UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. PLEASE RESEND THIS ELECTION, ALLOW SOMEONE TO BE ABLE TO VOTE TO RECEIVE THIS NEGOTIATION. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ZACH. DO WE HAVE MARY WITHERSPOON? HOW ABOUT DANIEL SMITH, FOLLOWED BY ED COPELAND? HELLO EVERYONE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. I'M DANIEL SMITH. I LIVE IN 50 18 PARKVIEW JUST DOWN THE STREET. UH, MAN, IT'S BEEN A PLEASURE RIDING THE DART. I REALLY, I, I LOVE THAT SILVER LINE AND I'M STARTING TO SEE SOME RIPPLES OF POSITIVE EXPERIENCES, ESPECIALLY HEARING WHAT PEOPLE SAY AROUND HERE. BUT IF THERE'S ONE THING THAT I DO KNOW, IT'S THAT LOCAL GOVERNMENT ECONOMICS TAKE A VERY LONG TIME. I'M NOT TALKING SIX WEEKS WHERE WE WOULD HAVE THE ELECTION, POTENTIALLY NOT SIX MONTHS OR MORE. IF WE DID IN NOVEMBER, MAYBE, MAYBE WE WOULD BEGIN TO SEE THE FULL RAMIFICATIONS OF THIS NEW DART ENGAGEMENT THAT WE HAVE, ALL THIS $8 MILLION, ALL THESE THINGS THAT WE HAVE ON THE TABLE NOW, MAYBE WE'LL SEE THE RESULTS OF THOSE IN SIX YEARS. IT TAKES A LONG TIME FOR STUFF. SO I'M ARGUING THAT WE RESCIND THE ELECTION NOT BECAUSE OUR POPULA, OUR VOTERS AREN'T EDUCATED. NO, THEY ARE VERY EDUCATED. WE'RE A SMART COMMUNITY. WE JUST LACK THE INFORMATION. WE HAVEN'T SEEN HOW THE ECONOMICS PLAY OUT. IF WE DO HAVE THE ELECTION AND THE PEOPLE THAT MAY OR MAY NOT VOTE, IF THEY DO VOTE, THEY WILL BE VOTING UNINFORMED. AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALREADY MADE UP THEIR DECISIONS. THEY WOULD GO AND THEY WOULD VOTE. AND POTENTIALLY WE LEAVE DART. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE LEAVE DART? WELL THAT STATION'S GONNA BE THERE. THE TRAIN'S STILL GOING TO BE RUNNING. IT JUST WON'T BE STOPPING AT THAT STATION. THERE WON'T BE BUSES. WE'LL STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE NOISE. WE'LL STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE TRAFFIC. IT WILL NOT BE A PLEASANT SITUATION. IN FACT, IT'LL BE AN EYESORE. IT'LL BE LIKE THAT EPISODE OF THE SIMPSONS WHERE THEY HAVE THE DILAPIDATED MONORAIL. NO BUSINESS WILL WANT TO MOVE IN THERE. WE'LL STILL HAVE THOSE FIELDS SIX YEARS LATER. OR WE HAVE TO, YOU KNOW, HAVE ANOTHER BOND, PAY EVEN MORE MONEY TO REFURBISH ALL THAT STUFF OUT OF OUR OWN POCKETS. NOW WE'RE GONNA HAVE TWO KELLER SPRINGS. WHAT HAPPENS IF WE KEEP IT? MAYBE THINGS WILL GET BETTER. IT'LL BE NICE. WE HAVE THE FIELDS GET DEVELOPED, WE HAVE BUSINESSES COME IN. MORE OF THE SALES TAX GETS PAID. WE GET THAT $8 MILLION KICKBACK. IF WE LEAVE THAT SALES TAX GOES AWAY, BUT IT DOESN'T COME BACK TO US. IT JUST GOES AWAY. WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER VOTE, WE'D HAVE TO HAVE A WHOLE NOTHER RIGMAROLE AND THEN ADD A SALES TAX. DO YOU THINK PEOPLE ARE GONNA VOTE FOR MORE SALES TAX? NO, THAT DOESN'T COME BACK TO US. IT JUST EVAPORATES. SO NOW WE'VE LOST A POTENTIAL $8 MILLION. WE'VE GAINED A DEAD TRAIN STATION AND WE'VE LOST THE OPPORTUNITY FOR A LOT MORE BUSINESS AND A LOT MORE PEOPLE TO COME IN AND SUPPORT OUR SMALL BUSINESSES AND OUR COMMUNITY. YEAH, THAT'S ABOUT ALL I HAVE TO SAY. THANK YOU ALL. THANK YOU DANIEL. THANKS. WE HAVE ED COPELAND, FOLLOWED BY CHRIS WILKOS. GOOD EVENING, ED COPELAND. UH, 5,600 CELESTIAL ROAD, ADDISON. GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL MEMBERS. I'M HERE TONIGHT TO RESPECTFULLY ASK YOU TO LAY ANY VOTE TO WITHDRAW FROM DART. WITH RECENT ADDITION OF THE SILVER LINE. WE SIMPLY DO NOT HAVE ENOUGH DATA TO MAKE A FULLY INFORMED LONG-TERM DECISION. MAJOR INFRASTRUCTURE PROJECTS TAKE TIME TO SHOW THEIR TRUE IMPACT IN RIDERSHIP ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TRAFFIC PATTERNS AND REGIONAL CONNECTIVITY. MAKING A PERMANENT DECISION BEFORE WE'VE HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO EVALUATE REAL PERFORMANCE DATA WOULD BE PREMATURE. THE DARTBOARD HAS ALSO OFFERED COMPROMISES THAT SHOWS THERE IS ROOM FOR CONTINUED DISCUSSION AND IMPROVEMENT. WHEN REGIONAL PARTNERS ARE WILLING TO COLLABORATE, WE SHOULD, UH, CONTINUE NEGOTIATING WHETHER THAN BRUSH TOWARDS SEPARATION. OUR [01:30:01] REGION IS GROWING RAPIDLY. AS THE CITIES AROUND US EXPAND TRANSPORTATION CHALLENGES WILL ONLY INCREASE. MASS TRANSIT IS NOT JUST ABOUT TODAY'S NUMBERS, IT'S ABOUT PREPARING FOR THE NEXT SEVERAL DECADES. EMPLOYEES, EMPLOYERS, FAMILIES, AND YOUNG PROFESSIONALS ALL LOOK FOR CITIES WITH MOBILITY OPTIONS AND STRONG REGIONAL CONNECTIONS. WITHDRAWING FROM DART WOULD BE EXTREMELY DIFFICULT TO REVERSE DELAYING THIS VOTE. SIMPLY GIVES US TIME, CLARITY AND BETTER INFORMATION. I URGE YOU TO PAUSE, GATHER THE DATA AND MAKE THIS DECISION BASED ON EVIDENCE, NOT URGENCY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, ED. NEXT WE HAVE CHRIS WEGO FOLLOWED BY PROFESSOR. OOPS, CAN'T READ THE FIRST NAME BUT I JI POSSIBLY. GO AHEAD CHRIS. MAYOR, COUNCIL MEMBERS, GOOD EVENING. I'M CHRIS OSH. 1 5 7 2 9 BOL 20 YEAR, UH, ADDISON RESIDENT. AND I'M HERE TO ECHO THOSE WHO ARE IN FAVOR OF KEEPING, UH, THE, UH, DART, UH, ELECTION ON THE UH, OR THE DART WITHDRAWAL VOTE ON THE MAY BALLOT. UH, I'D LIKE TO SHARE SOME INFORMATION AND AS, AS A COUPLE OF THE SPEAKERS, UH, BEFORE MENTIONED, THERE ARE MANY LAYERS TO THIS. THERE'S LOTS OF EDUCATIONAL, LOTS OF QUESTIONS, A LOT OF ANSWERS THAT ARE STILL SORT OF OUTSTANDING. SOME THINGS THAT WE DO KNOW THOUGH. ADDISON SPENT OVER $400 MILLION, UM, HAS SENT OVER $400 MILLION TO DART SINCE 1983. I KNOW YOU ALL ARE AWARE OF THE UH, ERNST AND YOUNG, UM, REPORT AUDIT. UM, IN 2025 WE SENT 17.6 MILLION. THAT'S MORE THAN OUR POLICE AND FIRE DEPARTMENT BUDGETS COMBINED. ERNST AND YOUNG FOUND THAT WE GET BACK 58 CENTS ON THE DOLLAR. UH, THIS ELECTION CAN ONLY BE CALLED ONCE EVERY SIX YEARS. IF WE CANCEL, WE CAN'T REVISIT THE WITHDRAWAL UNTIL 2032. THE DEAL PLANO ACCEPTED, UM, CANCELING THEIR ELECTION, UH, WAS FOR THEIR GENERAL MOBILITY PROGRAM. IN THEORY, THAT RETURNS $360 MILLION ACROSS 13 CITIES OVER SIX YEARS. ASSUMING EVERYBODY AGREES TO THAT ADDISON SHARE ROUGHLY $8.2 MILLION. WHILE WE WOULD PAY IN APPROXIMATELY ONE POINT OR 105 MILLION OVER THE SAME PERIOD, THAT'S LESS THAN AN 8% RETURN. WHAT ADDISON GIVES UP IF WE WERE TO ACCEPT SOMETHING LIKE THAT, IT'S WITHDRAWAL LEVERAGE UNTIL 20 32, 6 MORE YEARS. MORE IMPORTANTLY, LEGISLATIVE FREEDOM TO PURSUE ANY REFORM OF THE AGENCY SALES TAX AND ANY CAP ON DEBT EXPENDITURES AND EXPOSURE. THE AGENCY ALREADY CARRIES 3.86 BILLION IN OUTSTANDING BONDS AND PLANS TO ISSUE ANOTHER 2.5 BILLION MORE OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS. THAT DEAL ALSO WOULD INCLUDE NO SERVICE GUARANTEES, NO ACCOUNTABILITY METRICS, AND NO AUDIT OF PAST SPENDING. I DON'T FIND THAT NEGOTIATING IN GOOD FAITH. IT DOESN'T STRIKE ME AS NEGOTIATING BEING GOOD PARTNER IN NEGOTIATING GOOD FAITH. WHY DOES THAT DEAL EXIST IN THE FIRST PLACE? IT'S ONLY BECAUSE THE CITY'S CALLED WITHDRAWAL ELECTIONS. THE THREAT OF WITHDRAWAL PRODUCED MAYBE 435 MILLION IN POTENTIAL CONCESSIONS THAT DID NOT EXIST SIX MONTHS AGO. DECADES OF COMPLAINTS AND LEGISLATION PRODUCED NOTHING COMPARABLE PATTERN. THAT'S YOUR TIME CHRIS. 40 YEARS, UH, IS THE SAME SUBURBS PRESSURE THE AGENCY. THE AGENCY OFFERS TEMPORARY CONCESSIONS, SUBURBS BACK DOWN, NOTHING STRUCTURAL CHANGES AND WE LOSE OUR LEVERAGE. SO I WOULD ASK YOU PLEASE KEEP THIS ON THE MAY BALLOT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU CHRIS, AND APOLOGIZE FOR MISPRONOUNCING YOUR LAST NAME. NO, NO WORRIES. YOU'RE NOT THE FIRST ONE. I'M SURE . I'LL BE THE LAST. NEXT WE HAVE PROFESSOR DOJI, FOLLOWED BY DAWN WEBB AND GENTLEMEN. I MET AERUS, PROFESSOR AT UTD AND CITIZEN OF EDISON FOR 10 YEARS. I LIVE IN EDISON CIRCLE 50 55, UNIT NUMBER 7 21. I'VE BEEN WORKING FOR UN AND I'VE BEEN IN NEARLY SIX COUNTRIES AND THIS IS THE ONLY LOCAL DEMOCRACY. I FOUND IT HERE. I WOULD LIKE TO HEAR THE PEOPLE WORSE. LET'S GET AN ELECTION. LET THE [01:35:01] PEOPLE DECIDE FOR THEIR OWN FATE. I THINK WE ARE ALL MATURE PEOPLE. WE CAN DECIDE OUR OWN LIVES. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU PROFESSOR. NEXT WE HAVE DAWN WEBB, FOLLOWED BY WILLIAM MCGREGOR. GOOD EVENING. I'M DAWN WEBB. I LIVE AT 38 20 CANOE LANE IN ADDISON. UM, AND I'M SO GRATEFUL FOR THE TIME TONIGHT DEAR MAYOR AND COUNCIL, BECAUSE YOU'RE DECIDING ON AN ISSUE LIKE DART INVOL INVOLVING MILLIONS OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS TO BE PAID OUT INTO THE FUTURE WITHOUT THE ABILITY TO EXIT THE AGREEMENT FOR SIX YEARS. I STRONGLY BELIEVE THAT THE RESIDENT SHOULD HAVE A VOICE IN THE MATTER. TO MY KNOWLEDGE, WE HAVE NEVER GOTTEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO VOTE ON DART. IN ALL THE YEARS OF ADDISON. PAYING IN THE SITUATION SEEMS A BIT LIKE A SPOUSE MAKING A HUGE PER PURCHASE, THEN TELLING HIS OR HER PARTNER, WE BOUGHT THIS AND WE'RE PAYING FOR IT FOR YEARS. AD NAUSEUM. THINK ABOUT THE OTHER PERSON, THE RESIDENT WHO DIDN'T MAKE THIS DECISION AND IS NOW STRAPPED WITH THIS FINANCIAL OBLIGATION FOR YEARS. THERE IS NO CHANCE FOR THIS OTHER PERSON AT THAT POINT TO SWAY THE DECISION OR TO LEND VALUABLE INSIGHT. PEOPLE OF ADDISON DESERVE TO HAVE A SAY IN SUCH A CONSEQUENTIAL EXPENSE. PLEASE COUNSEL AND MAYOR ALLOW DART TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN MAY. IF YOU VOTE TO ALLOW THIS TO BE ON THE BALLOT IN MAY, YOU CAN KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE ONLY COUNCIL AND MAYOR WHO LET THAT RESIDENTS HAVE A SAY IN THIS PART OF ADDISON'S FUTURE. THANK YOU. THANK YOU DAWN. NEXT STEP. WILLIAM MCGREGOR, FOLLOWED BY GUILLERMO QUINTANILLA. MR. MAYOR COUNSEL, THANK YOU FOR ALLOWING ME TO SPEAK TONIGHT. UH, THE FIRST THING I'D LIKE TO SAY IS TO BERT OVER HERE. I CAN'T AGREE WITH YOU MORE ABOUT THIS SEPARATION OUT HERE. I EVEN HAD A CHAT WITH A COUPLE OF PEOPLE OUT THERE. IT DOESN'T SEEM LIKE IT'S FAVORITE. ALL IT DOES IS SEPARATE US. WILLIAM, IF YOU COULD PLEASE ADDRESS IT. ALL IT DOES IS SEPARATE IT SEPARATE US EVEN MORE. AND THIS WAS DONE, IF I'M NOT MISTAKEN, UM, AT THE GOVERNMENT LEVEL BY, UM, THE GOVERNOR OF THE STATE OF TEXAS. UM, I'M AGAINST IT. I KNOW THAT THERE'S NOTHING . WILL YOU PROVIDE YOUR ADDRESS FOR US ALSO, PLEASE? FOR THE RECORD. I'M SORRY. OH, I'M SORRY. ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD. MY NAME IS WILLIAM MCGREGOR. THANK YOU. I LIVE AT 1 7 1 0 6 FINLAND. YOU'RE IN ADDISON. UM, I'VE COME WITH TWO DIFFERENT TIMES. THE LAST TIME I CAME, I SPOKE ABOUT SOMETHING AND I'M GONNA SPEAK ABOUT IT AGAIN BECAUSE I'M JUST CONFUSED AS TO HOW THE WHOLE THING HAPPENED. AND IT TIES RIGHT INTO WHAT'S GOING ON WITH DART BECAUSE I'M EVEN MORE CONFUSED AS I SIT HERE TONIGHT. UM, BUT THE FIRST THING I WANNA TALK ABOUT IS A TRAFFIC ADJUSTMENT THAT WAS DONE HERE IN THE CITY. AND I DON'T KNOW HOW IT GOT DONE OR WHY IT GOT DONE UNLESS IT WAS A PET PEEVE OF SOMEONE IN HERE OR THEY WERE DOING A FAVOR. AND WHAT IT INVOLVES IS RIGHT HERE AT ADDISON ROAD AND SOUR, AS YOU WERE HEADING EASTBOUND ON SOUR, WHEN YOU CAME TO ADDISON ROAD, YOU HAD THE OPTION OF A LEFT HAND TURN LANE AND ANOTHER LANE TO GO STRAIGHT AND TURN RIGHT. PROBABLY 80 TO 85% OF THAT TRAFFIC EITHER TURNED RIGHT OR LEFT IN ORDER TO ACCOMMODATE THE SCHOOL. ON THAT CORNER, THEY CHANGED THE TRAFFIC FLOW AND THEY ELIMINATED THE LEFT HAND TURN LANE THAT GOES NORTH AND MADE THE EASTBOUND LANE JUST ONE. SO IF SOMEONE COMES UP TO YOU, ADDISON ROAD ON SOUR AND THEY ARE MAKING A LEFT, YOU HAVE TO SIT THROUGH THAT LIGHT FOR THEM TO MAKE A LEFT WHERE BEFORE THEY HAD THEIR OWN LANE AND THEY COULD, THE CAR BEHIND THEM COULD COME UP, TURN RIGHT, GO STRAIGHT OR WHATEVER. BECAUSE OF THIS, I'VE SEEN CARS CUTTING THROUGH APARTMENT PARKING LOTS TO AVOID THAT INTERSECTION. I'VE SEEN CARS BACKING UP AT THAT INTERSECTION AND IT WAS DONE FOR ONE REASON ONLY TO ACCOMMODATE THE SCHOOL ON THE CORNER FOR TWO HOURS A DAY, PICK UP AND DROP OFF FIVE DAYS A WEEK. THOSE TWO HOURS IT IMPACTS THE REST OF THE TIME THERE'S NO IMPACT EXCEPT ON THE DRIVERS WHO HAVE TO DRIVE THAT LANE. AND I LIVE BY THERE. SO I SEE IT ALL THE TIME, BEGINNING TO AVOID IT NOW AND KIND OF GOING [01:40:01] A DIFFERENT WAY, BUT I JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW THAT GOT DONE. THANK YOU WILLIAM. THAT'S YOUR TIME. OH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU. VERY GOOD. NEXT TO WE HAVE GUILLERMO QUINTANILLA, FOLLOWED BY RON WHITEHEAD. UH, GOOD EVENING COUNSEL. UH, MY NAME IS GUILLERMO QUINTANILLA. UH, THANK YOU FOR THIS OPPORTUNITY TO SPEAK TONIGHT. YOU ARE DECIDING WHETHER TO CANCEL THE MAY SPECIAL ELECTION AND MOVE FORWARD WITH THE INTERLOCAL AGREEMENT WITH DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT. I WANNA FOCUS ON ONE THING, THE GAMBLE TO TAKE THIS TOWN. IF WE DO NOT SIGN ON THE ILA LAST NIGHT, PLANO CHOSE STABILITY. THEY STEPPED OFF THE LEDGE AND INTO AN AGREEMENT THAT BRINGS FUNDING BACK TO THEIR CITY AND KEEPS TRANSIT SERVICE INTACT. THAT DECISION FUNDAMENTALLY CHANGES ADDISON'S POSITION. IF WE CHOOSE NOT TO SIGN, WE NO LONGER, WE ARE NO LONGER NEGOTIATING FROM STRENGTH. WE ARE STANDING ALONE. IF ADDISON DOES NOT SIGN THE NEGOTIATED ILA, WE FACE TWO RISKY OUTCOMES. FIRST, IF VOTERS REJECT THE WITHDRAWAL IN MAY, ADDISON STAYS IN DART. BUT WITHOUT THE BENEFITS OF THE ILA AGREEMENT, THAT MEANS NO RETURN SALES TAX FUNDS, NO GOVERNMENTS REFORMS AND NO PROTECTIONS THAT OTHER CITIES WILL ENJOY. ADDISON WOULD PAY THE FULL COST WHILE RECEIVING FEWER ADVANTAGES. THAT IS NOT LEVERAGE, THAT IS ISOLATION. SECOND, IF THE VOTERS APPROVE WITHDRAWAL, THE CONSEQUENCES ARE IMMEDIATE AND SEVERE. DART SERVICE ENDS. BUT ADDISON STILL PAYS 1% SALES TAX FOR YEARS TO COME. ADDISON WOULD BE PAYING FOR TRANSIT WE NO LONGER RECEIVE WHILE SCRAMBLING TO REPLACE IT WITH LOCAL SOLUTIONS THAT ARE UNTESTED, EXPENSIVE AND LESS LIKELY EFFECTIVE. THAT IS A FINANCIAL AND AN OPERATIONAL CLIFF. NOT SIGNING THE ILA IS NOT A NEUTRAL CHOICE. IT IS A WAGER THAT THE ELECTION OUTCOME WILL BE FAVORABLE AND THAT THE REGION WILL ADJUST TO US. BUT AFTER PLANOS DECISION, THE REGION IS MOVING FORWARD WITH OR WITHOUT ADDISON. THE ILA MAY NOT BE PERFECT, BUT IT PROVIDES STABILITY, RETURN FUNDING, AND A SEAT AT THE TABLE. REFUSING IT NOW EXPOSES THIS TOWN TO THE HIGHEST POSSIBLE RISK SERVICE DISRUPTION, FINANCIAL UNCERTAINTY, AND POLITICAL ISOLATION. THIS DECISION IS NO LONGER ABOUT PROTEST, IT IS ABOUT PROTECTION OF OUR TAXPAYERS, OUR BUSINESSES, AND OUR WORKERS. I URGE YOU TO CANCEL THE MAY, 2026 SPECIAL ELECTION REGARDING DART. TO BE SUCCINCT. THE GAMBLE IS NOT IN SIGNING THE ILA, THE GAMBLE IS IN STANDING ALONE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME. THANK YOU GUILLERMO. NEXT IS RON WHITEHEAD, FOLLOWED BY NANCY CRAIG, RON WHITEHEAD, 39 19. BOB AND LANE. FOR 41 YEARS, I WOULD LIKE TO ASK THE COUN THE COUNCIL TO CANCEL THE ELECTION FOR, UH, WITHDRAWING FROM DART ON MAY 2ND FOR SOME OF THE FOLLOWING REASONS. IN 2024, DART HAD 22 MILLION TRIPS ON THEIR RAIL SYSTEM BEFORE THE SILVER LINE WAS OPERATIONAL AND 29 MILLION TRIPS ON THEIR BUS PARATRANSIT AND OTHER SERVICES. NOT EVERYBODY GETS ON A BUS AND ENDS THEIR TRIP AT A DART STATION. UH, THEY ARE DISTRIBUTED THROUGHOUT THE SYSTEM DEPENDING ON THEIR SPECIFIC DESTINATION. SO WHEN YOU SEE A BUS THAT'S EMPTY AT A DART STATION, THEY PROBABLY DELIVERED ALL THEIR PEOPLE BEFORE THEY GOT THERE AND THEY TAKE OFF AGAIN AND DELIVER MORE PEOPLE AND THEY PICK 'EM UP AT VARIOUS SPOTS. JUDGING AND MEASURING DART'S, PERFORMANCE AND EXPENDITURES BASED ON WHAT IS SPENT WITHIN THE TOWN OF ADDISON IS FAULTY AND PAROCHIAL. THE CITIZENS DO NOT LIVE THEIR LIVES. OUR CITIZENS DO NOT LIVE THEIR LIVES TOTALLY WITHIN THE CORPORATE LIMITS OF ADDISON. WE ARE A MEMBER OF A LARGE REGIONAL SYSTEM THAT ENABLES US TO ACCESS THE ASSETS OF THE THAT ENTIRE SYSTEM. THE IDEA THAT THERE IS NOT A HUGE COST TO BUILDING AND MAINTAINING STREETS AND ROADS AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO MASS TRANSIT GETS IGNORED IN THESE CONVERSATIONS. AND IT'S SIGNIFICANT. FOR 43 YEARS, WE WORKED TO GET THE SILVER LINE AND NOW WE HAVE HAVE IT AND HAS BEEN OPERATIONAL FOR FOUR MONTHS. WE ARE TALKING ABOUT WITHDRAWING FROM DART. NOW, COUNTLESS CITIZENS [01:45:01] HAVE ASKED ME TO EXPLAIN THIS AND I CANNOT. FOR 39 DAYS THIS JUNE AND JULY, WE ARE ANTICIPATING 4 MILLION PEOPLE COMING FOR THE WORLD CUP AND THEY WILL BE STAYING THROUGHOUT THE REGION AND IN OUR HOTELS. IF WE WITHDRAW, WITHDRAW FROM DART ON MAY 3RD, SERVICE IN ADDISON WILL END. ADDITIONALLY, THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO ACCESS OUR OWN SPECIAL EVENTS ON THE SILVER LINE IS UNIMAGINABLE TO ME. IN 2050, WE ARE EXPECTING TO REACH 12 MILLION RESIDENTS. AS A REGION THAT MEANS AN ADDITIONAL 3.5 MILLION PEOPLE TRYING TO GET AROUND IN THIS CONGESTED PLACE. WE WILL NEED EVERY MODE OF TRANSPORTATION WE CAN FIND. DART IS AN IMPORTANT PART OF THAT FORM FORMULA. ADDISON NEEDS TO CONTINUE TO BE PART OF THE TRANSPORTATION SOLUTION. AND HOLDING THIS ELECTION DOES NOT SIGNAL THAT, UM, AS ONE OF OUR PRIORITIES. UH, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION. THANK YOU RON. NEXT IS NANCY CRAIG, FOLLOWED BY DYLAN RAFFERTY. NANCY CRAIG, 4 1 1 2 RUSH CIRCLE. UH, GOOD EVENING MAYOR AND COUNCIL. I'M SPEAKING ON THE DART MATTER TONIGHT TO MAKE YOU ONCE AGAIN AWARE OF AN EFFORT PROMOTING THE VOTE. YES FOR DART ADDISON, THIS IS AN INIT INITIATIVE BEING ORGANIZED BY A GROUP OF CONCERNED CITIZENS. IT IS THIS GROUP'S DESIRE THAT AT THIS POINT THE ITEM BE REMOVED FROM THE MAY BALLOT BY A VOTE OF THE COUNCIL TONIGHT. ADDITIONALLY, THIS GROUP HAS ENLISTED NUMEROUS PAST ELECTED OFFICIALS TO JOIN THIS EFFORT. THESE INDIVIDUALS HAVE AGREED TO ENDORSE THE FOLLOWING LETTER, WHICH I WANT TO READ. THIS LETTER COULD BE USED FOR PROMOTING VOTE YES FOR DART ADDISON IF NEEDED. AFTER THIS, AFTER THIS MEETING TONIGHT, IT READS, REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS TAKE DECADES TO BUILD. WE HAVE BEEN INVOLVED IN MANY OF THE DECISIONS AND CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HOW BEST TO SERVE THE TRANSPORTATION NEEDS OF THE REGION FOR O OVER THE LAST 40 PLUS YEARS. AND WE STILL BELIEVE IN DART. WE CHOOSE TO CONTINUE TO BE PART OF THE TRANSPORTATION SOLUTION IN DFW AND WE RESPECTIVELY ASK THAT YOU JOIN US IN VOTE YES TO REMAIN IN DART. PLEASE VOTE TO REMOVE THIS ITEM FROM THE MAY BALLOT. THIS IS ENDORSED BY THE FOLLOWING PAST ADDISON, ELECTED OFFICIALS, FORMER MAYORS, LYNN SPROUL, RICHARD BECKER, SCOTT WHEELER, JOE CHOW, TODD MEYER, FORMER COUNCIL MEMBERS. DIANE MALLORY, KATHY WADE, MARY DOLAN, AL ANGEL, NEIL RESNICK, GUILLERMO NIA, TOM BROWN, EILEEN RESNICK, SUE HALPERN, MARGIE GUNTHER, RAY RYLAND, JIM DUFFY, CATHERINE WHEELER, BIANCA NOBLE, JIMMY NEMAN, KIMBERLY MARTIN, RILEY REINERT, RUDE. PAUL WALDEN, IVAN HUGHES, GLENDA TURNER, LAURIE WARD, AND MYSELF. THANK YOU. THANK YOU NANCY. NEXT WE HAVE DYLAN RAFFERTY FOLLOWED BY, I THINK IT'S REON HASLEY. HASLEY. R HASLEY. THANK YOU. WASN'T EVEN CLOSE. HELLO MAYOR. UH, COUNCIL. MY NAME IS DYLAN M RAFFERTY. I LIVE IN 4 3 1 8 ARMES. I AM NOT A RESIDENT OF ADDISON, BUT I AM, I DO BUSINESS HERE IN ADDISON. AND UH, FRANKLY, I ALSO REPRESENT A SIGNIFICANT PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY HERE IN NORTH TEXAS. AND THAT IS PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES. I'M A PERSON WITH DISABILITIES AND FRANKLY, UM, I AM, I'M, I'M CONCERNED ABOUT THE DIRECTION OF SOME CITIES, BUT I WILL SAY THIS, UM, I USED ART FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS. UM, BUT I ALSO AM HERE ON BEHALF OF THE PEOPLE WHO CAN'T BE HERE AND WANT TO BE HERE AND TO SPEAK ON THE BEHALF OF THEIR, UH, DESIRES IN SUPPORT OF DART. I'M ALSO A REPRESENTATIVE. I'M NOT, I'M NOT HERE TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF AN ORGANIZATION, BUT I I DO, UH, AM PART OF THE NORTH TEXAS DISABILITY CHAMBER AND THEY DO TALK ABOUT THE IMPORTANCE OF ACCESSIBILITY. WHEN WE THINK ABOUT MOBILITY, WE THINK ABOUT QUALITY OF LIFE. WE THINK ABOUT HOW DO WE MAKE IT ACCESSIBLE FOR RESIDENTS [01:50:01] AND THOSE WHO VISIT IN OUR RESPECTIVE CITIES. AND THE FIRST THING I LOOK FOR IS ACCESSIBILITY. IF THE CITY AND IF THE, IS THE COMMUNITY COMMITTED TO ACCESSIBILITY? THAT'S NUMBER ONE. I ALSO WANNA SAY AND HIGHLIGHT MR. RANDALL O' BRYANT AND HIS ABILITY TO COME TO THE TABLE LITERALLY A DAY LATER, UH, WHEN HE GOT ELECTED AS BOARD CHAIR FOUND OUT ABOUT ALL THIS IS HAPPENING TO ME, HIS ABILITY AND HIS LEADERSHIP IS CRUCIAL IN THE NEGOTIATIONS. AND THAT'S WHAT IT WAS, THE NEGOTIATION. AND AS SOMEONE WHO HAS A BACKGROUND IN DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND MEDIATION, THAT IS VERY CRUCIAL TO HAVE A LEADER WITHIN DART ORGANIZATION TO COME FORWARD AND HAVE THAT DIALOGUE. BUT ALSO, I WANNA COMMEND EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU FOR HAVING THIS KIND OF DIALOGUE AND ENCOURAGING TO BE PART OF THE CONVERSATION. AND I BELIEVE THE CITY SHOULD HAVE EVERY RIGHT TO HAVE A VOICE AT THE TABLE. AND YOU DO. AND I HOPE YOU WOULD CONTINUE TO HAVE THAT COLLABORATION WITH DART. BUT I ALSO WANT YOU TO MAKE SURE I REMEMBER THE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES WHO RELY ON LIVING AND WORKING AND PLAYING HERE IN ADDISON. THANK YOU. THANK YOU, DYLAN. NEXT WE HAVE, WAS IT RE RERE HASLEY RE, RANDALL HASLEY. RANDALL HASLEY. THANK YOU. FOLLOWED BY RICHARD REYNOLDS. OH, RIGHT HERE. FACE THIS WAY. YES. PERFECT. OKAY. GOOD EVENING EVERYONE. THANK YOU FOR THIS OPEN FORUM. I REALLY APPRECIATE IT. MY NAME IS RHONDA HASLEY. I LIVE AT 45 22 ABBOTT AVENUE, APARTMENT 12 IN DALLAS, 7 5 2 0 5. AND EVEN THOUGH I'M NOT AN ADDISON RESIDENT, I OFTEN COME HERE WITH FRIENDS TO VARIOUS RESTAURANTS TO SOCIALIZE ALONG WITH, UH, UTILIZING DART TO GO TO WORK IN OTHER PLACES AND CHURCH EVENTS AND JUST, UH, DOCTOR'S OFFICES AND SO FORTH, ALL OVER THE AREA THAT DART SERVES. I RESPECT ALL THE VARIOUS OPINIONS THAT HAVE BEEN EXPRESSED, AND I UNDERSTAND THE NEED FOR PEOPLE TO HAVE A VOICE, BUT AT THE SAME TIME, DART IS CRUCIAL. I'VE BEEN BLIND ALL MY LIFE. I'VE BEEN A RESIDENT OF THE METROPLEX SINCE 88 AND I HAVE UTILIZED DART SINCE THAT TIME. WITHOUT IT, I WOULD NOT HAVE THE MEASURE OF INDEPENDENCE THAT I I DO NOW TO GO TO WORK, UH, TO INVOLVE MYSELF IN OTHER SOCIAL ACTIVITIES. AND ADDISON HAS SOME WONDERFUL RESTAURANTS THAT I'VE TRIED AND I WANNA TRY SOME MORE. SO PLEASE KEEP DART IN ADDISON. IT IS CRUCIAL, NOT JUST THE BUSES AND TRAINS AND GO LINK, BUT ALSO THE PARATRANSIT PROGRAM. AND OF COURSE, UH, THAT INCLUDES THE UBER PILOT THAT, UH, WE'VE HAD FOR QUITE A WHILE WHEREBY WE'RE ABLE TO, UH, TAKE RIDES, MANY OF US VIA UBER WITH A SIGNIFICANTLY REDUCED RATE DUE TO THE VOUCHER, IT HAS BEEN A GAME CHANGER. SO I URGE YOU ALL TO PLEASE CONSIDER THIS AND KEEP DART BECAUSE, UH, IT, IT WILL HAVE A MULTI-LAYERED EFFECT. UH, IF YOU DON'T AND CONSIDER NEGOTIATIONS. YES, DART IS NOT PERFECT. THERE IS ALWAYS ROOM FOR IMPROVEMENT, BUT UH, THE RESULTS OTHERWISE WOULD BE DRASTICALLY COSTLY. THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH. I APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. R UH, NEXT IS RICHARD REYNOLDS, FOLLOWED BY RANDALL BRYANT. GOOD EVENING. RICHARD REYNOLDS, DALLAS, 7 5 2 0 6, JUST EAST OF THE STATE FAIR NORTH GARRETT AVENUE. I SAY THANKS FOR ALL OF YOU, ADDISON, WHO KNOW HOW TO UNDERSTAND AND FIGURE THE TAX DOLLAR 30 PLUS YEARS. I'VE LIVED IN PARTS OF THE METRO THAT HAVE NOT HAD THE BUSING SYSTEM. YOU CAN TAKE A GOOD EYE. THE BADGE IS RIGHT HERE. 56 YEARS OF EPILEPSY, 60 PLUS OF BLINDNESS. AND I SEE PLENTY OF ELDERLY WHO HAVE STEPPED UP, INCLUDING ONE IN THE VOTING WHO SAID HE MAY NOT HAVE HIS DRIVER'S LICENSE RENEWED 'CAUSE OF EYESIGHT HAVE TO FALL DOWN TO STATE IDENTITY. THE PICTURE IS DEFINITELY GROWING. THE PUBLIC BUSING IS NEEDED. [01:55:02] NOW YOU COULD LOOK AS IMMATURE AS WHERE THE REYNOLDS OWN TWO REAL ESTATES IN ALLEN, TEXAS, WILEY, TEXAS, JUST NORTH, JUST EAST OF THE PUBLIC BUSING SYSTEM. OR YOU COULD LOOK AS GOOD AS GARLAND. RIGHT NOW THE NUMBER OF ROUTES IS GROWING. IT IS GROWING HERE. YOU DEFINITELY NEED KEEP IT. I'VE NEVER DONE MUCH IN ADDISON, BUT I KNOW THERE'S A LOT BETTER OPPORTUNITY THAN ALAN OR WILEY. THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF OTHER A DA CASES COMING UP. WE WILL HAVE TO RELY 100% ON WHEELS OF SOMEBODY ELSE. I ASK YOU TO DEFINITELY CONSIDER GETTING IN LIKE PLANO. MY HIGH SCHOOL DAYS DIDN'T EXIST IN THE EIGHTIES, BUT SINCE THEY'VE BECOME PART OF IT, DEFINITELY NEED TO CONTINUE INVESTIGATING AND REVIEWING. I WOULD HOPE YOU WOULD GIVE UP THE BALLOT AND STEP FORTH AS PLANO HAS ALREADY DONE AND BEEN ON FOX FOUR NEWS TO SAY WE WILL WORK. AND THE DALLAS MAYOR HAS ALREADY AGREED THESE TWO MAYORS, THESE TWO CITIES, PLANO AND DALLAS TO WORK TOGETHER TO KEEP THE SYSTEM ROLLING. I DO SEE CONCERNS WITH DARK LIKE THE SILVER LINE, CONNECTING THREE COUNTIES, SEVEN CITIES TO MAJORS LIKE THE AIRPORT THROUGH HERE. WEAKNESSES WITH THE SILVER LINE, ONLY 30 TRAINS EACH WAY COMING RIGHT THROUGH THE CENTER HERE IN ADDISON. THE DISCUSSION TRULY NEEDS TO BE OUT OUTER CITIES GETTING ON THE TOP BOARD AND REVIEWING AND MAYBE PUSHING FOR MORE SERVICE THAN CUTTING BACK SERVICE. I CAN ONLY SAY THANK YOU AS ONE WHO CANNOT DRIVE THE, EVERYBODY'S GOING TO BE IN THAT FAULT, THAT DOWNFALL OF LIFE. THANK YOU RICHARD , DO. NEXT WE HAVE RANDALL BRYANT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. COUNCIL, MR. CITY MANAGER, THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO BE HERE. RANDALL BRYANT, CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD FOR DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT. I THINK THE, THE RESIDENTS OF ADDISON HAVE GIVEN THE GREATEST PERSPECTIVE ON, UM, HOW VALUABLE DAR RT IS TO THEM OR NOT, IS SOMETHING THAT I TALK ABOUT EVERY DAY. SO I WON'T GIVE THAT PERSPECTIVE. BUT 120 DAYS AGO, I BECAME THE CHAIR OF THE BOARD. AND WHILE SOME MAY THINK WE ONLY GOT TO THIS PLACE FROM DART BECAUSE SIX CITIES CALL FOR WITHDRAWAL ELECTIONS. IF YOU GO BACK TO THAT NIGHT THAT I BECAME THE CHAIR, I GAVE AN ADDRESS TO OUR BOARD. SOME OF THEM ARE HERE TONIGHT AS WELL AS OUR GENERAL PUBLIC AND SAID, UM, COMPROMISES AND SOLUTIONS ON GOVERNANCE AND FUNDING WERE MY TOP PRIORITY. AND THAT WAS BEFORE THE VERY NEXT DAY THAT THREE CITIES AT THAT TIME CALLED WITHDRAWAL ELECTIONS. AND THEN THIS CITY AND UNIVERSITY PARK AND OTHERS TOOK PLACE AS WELL. AND SO THAT WAS ALWAYS A GOAL OF MINE TO GET US TO THIS POINT. BUT ULTIMATELY, LET'S BE HONEST, WHILE IT IS A, AN AFFORDABILITY OF THIS CITY COUNCIL AS WELL AS THE RESIDENTS OF THIS CITY TO TAKE PART IN AN ELECTION EVERY SIX YEARS, THERE IS NO OBLIGATION, NO DUTY BETWEEN DART NOR ANY OF OUR MEMBER CITIES TO DO A NEGOTIATION. THIS IS NOW THE FIFTH CYCLE OF ELECTIONS FROM DART. IN 19 83, 15 CITIES VOTED IN, IN 19 85, 2 CITIES TRIED TO WITHDRAW. IN 19 89, 8 CITIES TRIED TO WITHDRAW. TWO WERE SUCCESSFUL IN 19 96, 6 CITIES TRIED TO WITHDRAW. IN 2000 WE HAD BOND DEBT. THIS CITY HAS NEVER TAKEN PART IN ANY WITHDRAWAL ELECTIONS UNTIL THE YEAR THAT THE SILVER LINE GOT OPENED. AND SO I AM, WHEN, WHEN THE QUESTION CAME TO ME AS THE CHAIR ONE DAY LATER, WHAT WILL WE DO? BECAUSE WE DON'T HAVE TO GO THROUGH THIS PROCESS AT ALL. DO WE JUST LET THE ELECTIONS BE, LET THE VOTERS TAKE IT? THAT'S THE QUESTIONS YOU ALL HAVE. I WAS NOT WILLING TO RISK AND GAMBLE THE LIVES OF THE RIDER [02:00:01] THAT DEPEND ON OUR SERVICE. AND SO I, ALONGSIDE WITH OUR BOARD, THE MAYOR, THE MANAGER, YOUR MANAGER HAS MET EVERY TWO WEEKS AT SEVEN 30 IN THE MORNING ON A WEDNESDAY WITH THE OTHER CITY MANAGERS ACROSS THIS NETWORK TO TRY TO FIND COMPROMISES. WE'VE DONE HUDDLES, WE'VE DONE MEETINGS, I MEAN, WITH ALMOST ALL OF YOU INDIVIDUALLY, TO GET US TO THIS POINT. AND AS SOME OF THE SPEAKERS HAVE NOTED, YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT VOTE THAN THEY DO. YOU HAVE A VOTE THAT HAS A, A, A, A HIGHER SIGNIFICANT AMOUNT OF MONEY TIED TO THE OUTCOME THAN THEY DO. THAT'S YOUR TIME, RANDALL. THANK YOU. SORRY. THANK YOU, RANDALL. ALRIGHT, THOSE ARE, THAT'S THE LAST OF THE COUNCIL APPEARANCE CARDS THAT I HAVE. IS THERE ANYBODY THAT, UH, WOULD STILL LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL WHO HAS NOT? IF SO, PLEASE COME FORWARD. MINUTES. GOOD EVENING, COUNCIL MAYOR. UH, MY NAME IS AL CHFI. I'M AT 1 8 1 4 8 6. I SHOULD KNOW MY OWN ADDRESS. 1 4 8 6 7 TOWN LAKE CIRCLE. UM, I'M NOT GOING TO REHASH THE REASONS THAT HAVE BEEN GIVEN TO YOU. THERE ARE VERY, VERY GOOD POINTS ON ALL SIDES OF THIS ISSUE. I, HOWEVER, AM VERY DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED THAT WE HAVE GOTTEN TO THIS POINT. AND FRANKLY, THIS IS A MESS. THE QUESTION THAT IS REALLY BEFORE US IS, ARE WE BETTER OFF WITH DART OR ARE WE BETTER OFF WITHOUT DART? WHICH MEANS WE'RE GOING TO GO IT ALONE. AND LIKE THE PROVERBIAL DOG THAT CHASED THE MAIL TRUCK, ONCE YOU CATCH IT, WHAT ARE YOU GONNA DO WITH IT? I HAVE HEARD NOTHING IN THE WAY THAT HAS BEEN ARTICULATED IN A MANNER THAT CAN BE UNDERSTOOD AND INTERNALIZED BY THE VOTERS AND THE CITIZENS OF THIS CITY, AND THOSE WHO AREN'T REPRESENTED, WHO ARE MORE IMPORTANT CONSTITUENTS, THE ONES THAT ACTUALLY PAY THE SALES TAX 140,000 VISITORS A DAY THAT COME HERE THAT DON'T HAVE A VOTE. I'VE HEARD NOTHING IN THE WAY OF A CONCRETE PLAN THAT LAYS OUT THIS IS THE ALTERNATIVE. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA PAY FOR THIS ALTERNATIVE PLAN. THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GONNA LOSE IN THIS ALTERNATIVE PLAN. THIS IS WHY THIS IS BETTER, AND THIS IS WHY THIS IS WORSE. I HAVEN'T SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THAT. IT'S NOT QUITE AN EXECUTIVE MBA PRO PROJECT, BUT IT'S PRETTY DAMN CLOSE. IT'S GONNA TAKE A TEAM OF PEOPLE A NUMBER OF MONTHS TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING, MAYBE A YEAR TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU DON'T ENTER INTO THE TRANSIT BUSINESS LIGHTLY. AND I AM DEEPLY, DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED IN THIS ENTIRE BODY FOR PUTTING THE CITIZENS OF THIS TOWN IN THIS POSITION. AND PLEASE DON'T TAKE THIS AS A THREAT. BUT THOSE SAME VOTERS THAT ARE GONNA GO AND VOTE IN MAY ON WHETHER TO STAY IN AND OUTTA DART, SHOULD CONSIDER THE MESS THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US TO CONSIDER. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. L NEXT MICHAEL DEVEREAUX, 1 5 0 3 2 WYNWOOD ROAD, 28 YEAR RESIDENT OF ADDISON, TEXAS. I HAVE, UH, $35,000 REASONS PROPERTY TEXT TO DISCUSS WHATEVER. AND I, I, I LEARNED A COUPLE THINGS AND I DIDN'T REALIZE YOU COULD COME IN FROM OKLAHOMA AND MAKE A COMMENT AND FROM DENTON AND ELSEWHERE. SO I, I GUESS THAT'S NEW. I THOUGHT IT WAS ALL ABOUT ADDISON. AND EVERYTHING I'M SAYING IS, IS NOT JUST SELF-SERVING LIKE MOST PEOPLE ARE HERE. I GET IT. IF YOU'RE RIDING THAT, THAT TRAIN EVERY DAY. BY THE WAY, I WENT TO LOOK AT THE TRAIN OVER THE LAST THREE DAYS AND I SAW, I THINK EVERYBODY IN THIS ROOM THAT'S EVER RIDDEN DART THIS SILVER LINE IS HERE IN THIS ROOM BECAUSE I SAW A FEW PEOPLE. I'M NOT SAYING I'VE SEEN EVERY SINGLE TRAIN COME IN AND OUT. I SAW SUCH WASTE, I SAW SUCH, I CAN, I CAN GO ON AND ON AND ON. UM, WE'RE NOT HERE TO DISCUSS THAT. AND BY THE WAY, IS I THOUGHT GROUNDHOG'S DAYS WAS A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO. I THOUGHT WE JUST HAD THIS VOTE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO THAT WE WERE GONNA PUT IT ON THE BALLOT, AND NOW SOMETHING CAME NEW. I DON'T KNOW WHAT THAT NEWNESS IS THAT WE HAVE TO COME IN AND DISCUSS THE SAME THINGS AGAIN. AND BY THE WAY, WHATEVER YOU GUYS DISCUSS, I'M STILL YOUR FRIEND'S NEIGHBORS. I, I, I'M, I'M, I'M STILL GONNA BE YOUR FRIEND IF YOU VOTE ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE VOTE. THIS IS JUST TO PUT IT ON THE BALLOT. OKAY? YOU'RE TRYING TO TAKE AWAY OUR RIGHT AS ADDISON CITIZENS. I DON'T CARE IF YOU'RE AN APARTMENT PERSON, NOT PAYING TAX, OR A PERSON WHO'S PAYING A LOT OF MONEY EVERY YEAR WAS A LIFELONG CITIZEN. WE LOVE THIS TOWN, RIGHT? THERE'S A LOT OF GREAT THINGS HERE. AND BY THE WAY, I APPRECIATE WHAT Y'ALL ARE DOING FOR LITTLE OR NO MONEY, ALL RIGHT? I REALLY DO. BUT TO TAKE IT OFF THE BALLOT DOES NOT MEAN YOU'RE GONNA VOTE AGAINST, UH, TO KEEP IT ON THE BALLOT. IN MAY DOES NOT MEAN YOU'RE GONNA VOTE AGAINST DART. THERE'S A LOT OF INFORMATION THAT HAS TO COME OUT FROM THIS COUNCIL TO SHOW THAT THERE ARE ALTERNATE MEANS [02:05:01] TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING TO HELP THESE PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES OR JUST USE IT OR CAN GO TO ANOTHER PLACE OR WHATNOT. AND IF THEY DON'T DO THAT BETWEEN NOW AND MAY, THEN IT'S GONNA BE ELIMINATED. IT, IT'S GONNA BE KEPT ON, AND WE'LL KEEP IT FOR ANOTHER SIX YEARS, WHICH IS A GOD AWFUL LONG PERIOD OF TIME. AND BY THE WAY, THOSE APARTMENT RENT BE THINKING ABOUT WHEN YOU'RE BEING A HOMEOWNER AND YOU HAVE TO PAY A LOT OF DAMN TAXES IN SIX YEARS, IF YOU WANT BE AT THAT POINT, $18 MILLION, A LOT OF MONEY PEOPLE, LOT OF MONEY. AND IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S GONNA BE 18 MILLION, NOTHING. YOU'RE GONNA COME UP WITH HOPEFULLY AN ALTERNATIVE SOLUTION IF IT'S, IF IT'S FOR SOME REASON NOT DECIDED TO COME UP WITH SOMETHING THAT CAN SERVE THE CITIZENS, SAVE US SOME MONEY, AND BY THE WAY, MAYBE PAY DOWN SOME OF THE DEBT. THINK ABOUT ALL THAT. THE LAST THING I WANNA MENTION, I'VE SEEN SOME PEOPLE ON SOCIAL MEDIA THAT CAME OUT AND SAID, UH, DON'T SUPPORT THIS PERSON OR THIS PERSON BECAUSE THEY VOTED TO PUT IT ON THE BALLOT. AND MAY, THAT'S DISGUSTING TO ME. HOW, HOW CAN SOMEBODY HOLD IT AGAINST PEOPLE THAT WANNA JUST PUT IT ON THE BALLOT? THEY'RE NOT SAYING THEY'RE VOTING FOR DART OR VOTING AGAINST. THEY'RE JUST SAYING GIVE IT TO THE CITIZENS. LET THEM DO WHAT THEY WANT TO DO. RIGHT? FOR YOU GUYS TO HOLD IT AGAINST SOMEBODY HERE ON THIS COUNCIL THAT SAYS, PUT IT ON THE BALLOT. LET THE CITIZENS DECIDE. BY THE WAY, WE'RE SMART, RIGHT? WE'RE SMART. IF NOT, YOU'RE GONNA KEEP IT ON. I RECOMMEND STRONGLY TO KEEP IT ON IN MAY. THANK YOU, MICHAEL. AND, ALRIGHT, ONE, ONE MORE COMING UP. AMY MCGREGOR 1 7 1 0 6 FINLAND DRIVE. ADDISON. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. YOU ALL KNOW THIS. I'M A RI, I'M A DART RIDER. SO I HAVE A PERSONAL VESTED INTEREST IN THIS, BUT I'M TAKING THAT ASIDE. AND I WANNA TELL YOU, ADDISON SITS IN THE CENTER OF ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING REGIONS OF THE COUNTRY. BELIEVE IT. I HEAR IT ALL THE TIME. HOW MANY PEOPLE A DAY MOVE INTO NORTH TEXAS, DALLAS, FORT WORTH NOW EXCEEDS 8 MILLION RESIDENTS AND CONTINUES TO ADD TENS OF THOUSANDS OF NEW RESIDENTS EVERY YEAR. GROWTH ISN'T SLOWING DOWN. THE QUESTION IS, IS ADDISON GONNA STAY CONNECTED TO THAT GROWTH OR NOT? ADDISON IS THE HEART. WE'RE IN THE MIDDLE OF DFW, WE'RE SURROUNDED BY GROWTH, ENERGY, AND OPPORTUNITY. BUT GUESS WHAT? A HEART ONLY WORKS IF BLOOD FLOWS THROUGH IT. OUR RESTAURANTS, FESTIVALS, BUSINESSES, AND HOTELS DON'T SURVIVE ON GEOGRAPHY ALONE. IT'S ABOUT PEOPLE, PEOPLE MOVING HERE, PEOPLE COMING HERE AND CIRCULATION OF THOSE PEOPLE THROUGH OUR AREA WHEN VISITORS CAN'T EACH EASILY REACH US. WHEN WORKERS STRUGGLE TO COMMUTE, WHEN REGIONAL CONNECTIONS BYPASS US, WE DON'T JUST INCONVENIENCE PEOPLE. WE SLOWLY REDUCE THE FLOW THAT KEEPS THEIR LOCAL ECONOMY ALIVE. ADDISON IS ALWAYS PUNCHED ABOVE ITS WEIGHT. WE ATTRACT VISITORS FROM ACROSS NORTH TEXAS BECAUSE WE'RE VIBRANT, WALKABLE, AND CENTRALLY LOCATED. THE CENTRAL ONLY MATTERS IF YOU'RE CONNECTED. WE CAN PROTECT WHAT MAKES ADDISON SPECIAL AND STILL INVEST IN ACCESS. IN FACT, PROTECTING OUR FUTURE REQUIRES IT. IF WE WANT ADDISON TO REMAIN THE HEART OF DFW, PLEASE MAKE SURE THE BLOODLINE KEEPS FLOWING. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU AMY. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL? SURE. COME FORWARD. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. MY NAME IS MICHELLE WONG KRAUSS AND I LIVE AT 77 35 MUL RAINEY, DALLAS, TEXAS, JUST ON THE OTHER SIDE OF ADDISON. UM, OUR FAMILY COMES HERE AND ENJOYS YOUR WONDERFUL RESTAURANTS AND ENTERTAINMENT DISTRICT. YOU SEE HERE THREE CHAIRS OF DART SITTING HERE. BECAUSE WE ARE SO INVESTED IN OUR SYSTEM AND ADDISON BEING PART OF THE SYSTEM, WE HAVE WORKED VERY HARD TO COME WITH A COMPROMISE. IT'S NOT A PERFECT COMPROMISE, BUT IT IS A STEP FORWARD. I WAS ON THE BOARD WHEN WE LISTENED TO ADDISON WHEN IT SAID, WE WANT THE SILVER LINE. YOU'VE PROMISED IT TO US, AND WE WOULD LIKE THAT TO HAPPEN. AND IT DID HAPPEN. YOU HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SILVER LINE STATION. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE HAD A CHANCE TO, UM, SEE IT. IT IS, UM, JUST A BEAUTIFUL ART. IT IS THERE. YOU'VE GOT MOBILITY TO, UM, THE, UM, DFW AIRPORT. UH, I WORRY ABOUT ALL OUR RIDERS, PARATRANSIT RIDERS, OUR DIALYSIS PATIENTS. BUT FOR EVERY DOLLAR INVESTED IN PUBLIC TRANSIT, $5 IS RETURNED. I ALSO WAS THE CHAIR OF THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION, SO, WHICH IS THE PREEMINENT AGGREGATOR OF PUBLIC DATA FOR PUBLIC TRANSIT. AND, UM, I JUST WANTED TO THANK YOU FOR WORKING WITH US ON THIS COMPROMISE AND YOUR INPUT. AND I CAN ASSURE YOU THAT ALL THE DARS BOARDS OF RECTOR WORKED HARD ON THIS. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. YES. HELLO. MY NAME IS PATRICK MORGAN AND I LIVE AT 14 5 0 1 MONFORT DRIVE. UH, AND I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR Y'ALL. FARMERS BRANCH JUST VOTED TO POLL DOWN THEIR WITHDRAWAL ELECTION. THEY WILL NOT BE HAVING, WILL NOT BE ON BALLOT. I ALSO WANTED TO ANSWER A COUPLE QUESTIONS THAT SOME OF THE OTHER COMMENTERS HAD. UH, ONE WAS, WILL THE SILVER LINE STILL [02:10:01] RUN IF YOU PULL OUT BECAUSE IT'S FAIRLY FUNDED, THE ANSWER IS NO. THE SILVER LINE WILL NOT STOP IN ADDISON. IN FACT, ADDISON WILL HAVE TO PAY BACK THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT FOR FUNDS THAT WERE USED TO BUILD IT. UH, THE OTHER ONE WAS, THERE'S, ARE THERE SERVICE GUARANTEES IN THE ILA? THERE ARE, THERE'S A CLAUSE IN THE ILA THAT GUARANTEES EXISTING SERVICES. UH, WHAT THE THIRD ONE IS WHAT IS NEW? WHAT'S NEW IS THERE'S AN ILA THAT WILL GIVE ADDISON MONEY, UH, AND SET A PATH FORWARD THAT TO BRING NEW FUNDS INTO THE REGION. THIS IS THE ONLY PLAN I'VE SEEN THAT EXPANDS THE PIE RATHER THAN IS JUST THE ZERO SUM GAME WE'VE BEEN IN. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COMMENTS. COMM MAYOR, COUNCIL, ANDY SOMAN, DALLAS COUNTY COMMISSIONER DISTRICT TWO, THAT'S YOUR COUNTY COMMISSIONER FOR THE ENTIRE NORTHERN UH, DALLAS AREA. JUST WANTED TO BRIEFLY ADDRESS YOU. ANDY, WOULD YOU MIND GIVING US AN ADDRESS FOR THE RECORD, PLEASE? YEAH, SURE. IT'S 46 40 MEYER WOOD LANE, DALLAS, TEXAS. THANK YOU. UH, I JUST WANNA BRING UP TWO ISSUES IF YOU DON'T MIND. UH, THE FIRST OF WHICH IS THE ILA ITSELF. OF COURSE, THE ILA GIVES A DIFFERENT POINT OF VIEW IN TERMS OF HANDING THIS OVER TO THE VOTERS. YOU'RE NOT HANDING TO THE VOTERS THE SAME VOTE THAT YOU GET. THE VOTE YOU GET, OF COURSE, HAS ALL THE BENEFITS OF THE ILA AND THE MONIES THAT ARE RECEIVED FROM IT. BUT IF YOU VOTE TO ACTUALLY, UH, DECIDE WHETHER TO HAND IT OVER TO THE VOTERS THEMSELVES, THEY VOTE ON SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT. THEY VOTE ON SOMETHING LESS THAN WHAT YOU CAN VOTE ON. AND SO AS A RESULT, I, I LIKE TO ANALOGIZE IT TO A MEAL, AS IT WERE. YOU HAVE A FULLY COOKED CHEF'S HOT MEAL READY FOR YOU RIGHT NOW, AND IF YOU VOTE TO RESCIND THE ELECTION, YOU GET THAT HOT MEAL OR YOU CAN TURN IT OVER TO THE VOTERS AND THEY GET STONE COLD LEFTOVERS TO VOTE ON. THAT'S GOING TO COST THEM MORE THAN WHAT YOU HAD THE CHANCE TO VOTE ON AS WELL. AND SO, AS A RESULT, I THINK THAT DIFFERENCE MAKES A POINT OF, UH, IN TERMS OF WHETHER YOU DECIDE TO HAND THIS OVER TO THE VOTERS OR NOT. 'CAUSE YOU'RE NOT GIVING THEM THE CHANCE TO VOTE FOR THE SAME THING THAT YOU CAN GET. I ALSO WANT TO ASSURE YOU THAT DALLAS COUNTY STANDS BEHIND YOU ON THIS SO THAT, THAT THEY WILL SUPPORT YOU, THAT NOT ONLY THAT, BUT WE ARE ALSO GONNA BE SUPPORTIVE OF DART IN TERMS OF TRYING TO REMOVE HOMELESS AND THE CRIME OFF OF DART. WE'RE DOING THAT WITH DEFLECTION CENTERS THAT I'LL BE GLAD TO GO INTO IN GREAT DETAIL WITH ANY ONE OF YOU AT ANY POINT IN TIME. I'D BE GLAD TO DISCUSS THAT COMPLETELY. UH, IF THERE'S ANY QUESTIONS THAT YOU MAY HAVE, I ALSO STAND READY TO BE A RESOURCE TO YOU AS WELL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ANDY. IS THERE ANYONE ELSE WHO WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL? SURE. COME FORWARD, SIR. I WAS TOLD THAT TWO PEOPLE WROTE IN WITH THEIR OPINIONS AND YOU DIDN'T READ THEIR NAMES. JIM ROBINSON AND TRACY ROBINSON, THEY WROTE INTO THE SYSTEM TODAY. OKAY. IT, IT WASN'T ON MY LIST. IT WAS WASN'T, I'M SORRY. OKAY. I HOPE THAT THEY'RE ACCOUNTED FOR. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR CLARIFYING THAT. SURE. ANYBODY ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL? I ALSO HAD, UH, ABOUT 10 PEOPLE CONTACT ME THAT SENT EMAILS. AND YOU DIDN'T SAY THEIR NAMES EITHER. OKAY. I I, I WENT WITH THE LIST THAT WAS GIVEN TO ME BY THE CITY SECRETARY. OKAY. IF I MISSED ANYBODY, ALL THE, ALL THE EMAILS ARE RECEIVED AND THEY GO INTO THE PUBLIC RECORD. ANYBODY ELSE THAT WOULD LIKE TO ADDRESS THE COUNCIL? ALRIGHT, SEEING NONE, WE WILL CLOSE THE PUBLIC COMMENT SECTION OF THIS MEETING AND MOVE ON TO OUR [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.] CONSENT AGENDA AND CONSENT TONIGHT. UH, AND BY THE WAY, THANK YOU ALL FOR YOUR, FOR YOUR THOUGHTFUL COMMENTS. CONSENT AGENDA TONIGHT, UH, INCLUDES ITEMS FOUR A THROUGH FOUR J. IS THERE A MOTION? MAYOR, I MOVE TO APPROVE FOUR A THROUGH FOUR. FOUR J. I'LL SECOND MARLON AND CHRIS FOR THE SECOND. ANY DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? OPPOSED? ALRIGHT. CONSENT AGENDA IS APPROVED. ALRIGHT. UH, FIRST ITEM WE HAVE UP IS FIVE A PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE. BEFORE WE GO GET INTO THIS, DO WE NEED A SHORT BREAK? WE'VE BEEN GOING FOR A LITTLE BIT OF TIME. FIVE MINUTES WOULD BE GOOD IF WE COULD. FIVE MINUTES. ALRIGHT, LET'S TAKE A FIVE MINUTE RECESS AND SO WE CAN MAYOR, BE READY. OKAY. IT IS 8 49 AND WE'LL RE RECONVENE THE COUNCIL INTO OUR MEETING. IF Y'ALL COULD PLEASE HAVE A SEAT. IF Y'ALL COULD PLEASE HAVE A SEAT. HAVE QUIET IN THE, UH, CHAMBERS PLEASE. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, PLEASE HAVE A SEAT SO WE CAN GET STARTED. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN, [02:15:01] PLEASE HAVE A SEAT SO WE CAN GET STARTED. EVERYBODY SIT DOWN PLEASE. HAVE A SEAT. THANK YOU. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU VERY MUCH. UH, GOING [a. Present, discuss, and consider action on an Ordinance canceling an election to be held in and throughout the Town of Addison, Texas on May 2, 2026 to dissolve the Dallas Area Rapid Transit System (DART) in the Town of Addison, Texas.] INTO ITEM FIVE, A PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON AN ORDINANCE CANCELING AN ELECTION TO BE HELD IN AND THROUGHOUT THE TOWN OF ADDISON, TEXAS ON MAY 2ND, 2026 TO DISSOLVE THE DALLAS AREA RAPID TRANSIT SYSTEM. DART IN THE TOWN OF ADDISON, TEXAS. ASHLEY, GOOD EVENING. CA MAYOR. SEE, I'M ALREADY ALL FLUSTERED. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. UM, AS YOU SAID, WE'RE HERE TO TALK ABOUT RESCINDING THE ORDINANCE TO CALL THE DART ELECTION. WANTED TO START WITH A TIMELINE JUST TO KIND OF LET YOU KNOW HOW WE GOT HERE. UM, DECEMBER 2ND, WE HAD THE COUNCIL MEETING TO, UH, SEE IF WE WANTED TO WITHDRAW FROM DART THAT WAS VOTED AGAINST. THEN WE HAD THE DISCUSSION AGAIN ON JANUARY 6TH, GOING ALL THE WAY THROUGH UNTIL WITH DIFFERENT MEETINGS FROM DART SETTING OUR GOALS WITH DART, TALKING ABOUT, UH, DIFFERENT MOBILITY OPTIONS ALONG WITH WHERE WE ARE TODAY. SO PART OF THAT WAS, UM, CALLING THE SPECIAL ELECTION ALONG WITH THE OTHER CITIES, ADDISON PLANO, HIGHLAND PARK, UNIVERSITY PARK, FARMERS BRANCH, AND IRVING, THE CITY OF PLANO, DID RESCIND THEIR ELECTION LAST NIGHT. UH, FARMERS BRANCH JUST RESCINDED THEIRS AND IRVING IS VOTING ON TWO OR THURSDAY TO IF THERE WILL RESCIND THEIRS. WE'VE HAD CONVERSATIONS AND NEGOTIATIONS WITH THE NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION AND THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENT, MAYORS, CITY MANAGERS, AND OF COURSE, DART AND THE DART BOARD. AND THEN THE DART BOARD PRESIDENT HAS MET DIRECTLY WITH CITIES AND I THINK WITH SOME OF THE MAYORS AND OBVIOUSLY SOME OF YOU. UH, ON FEBRUARY 10TH, THE DART BOARD ACCEPTED A PROPOSAL, UH, FOR A PRESENTATION TO MEMBER CITIES DALLAS COUNT. DALLAS CITY COUNCIL VOTED ON THAT ON FEBRUARY 11TH TO SUPPORT A REVISED GOVERNANCE MODEL. AND THEN THE RTC VOTED, WHICH IS THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 12TH TO PROVIDE $75 MILLION IN MATCHING FUNDS TO DART OVER THE NEXT FIVE YEARS. UM, WE EVEN AS RECENTLY TO AS TODAY HAD MEETINGS WITH DALLAS COUNTY WHERE THEY WERE OFFERING, UH, FUNDS THROUGH THE ROAD AND BRIDGE MAINTENANCE ACT IF WE WOULD, UH, CONTINUE OR IF WE WITHDREW FROM OUR ELECTION. UM, ADDISON'S LETTER TO DART THAT WE SENT HIT THE FOUR MAJOR PRIORITIES, FUNDING AND SERVICE GOVERNANCE, THE CURRENT GMP AND THEN THE SAFETY AND CLEANLINESS OF THE DART SYSTEM. SO THE PROPOSAL FROM DART THAT WAS SENT ORIGINALLY WAS A SIX YEAR GMP PROGRAM. IT HAD FUNDING TERMS THAT ALLOCATED THE AGREEMENT TO ALL THE MEMBER CITIES. UM, IT WAS A 5% AS OF 2026 BASED ON, UM, THIS 2024 SALES TAX COLLECTION. AND THEN FROM 26 TO 31, IT WOULD INCREASE BY 1% BEGINNING IN YEAR TWO, CAPPED AT 10% IN YEAR SIX. UM, THE ONE PER PERCENT INCREASE FUNDED HALF BY DART AND HALF BY THE RTC IN THOSE MATCHING FUNDS. THE PROGRAM FUNDS, UM, FOR CITY PROJECTS THAT SUPPORT MOBILITY NEEDS. SO WE COULD NOT USE THIS MONEY FOR THINGS OTHER THAN, UM, MOBILITY AND TRANSIT. THE APPROVED GMP THAT WAS APPROVED LAST WEEK BY DART ESTABLISHES THAT SIX YEAR GMP. FOR ALL THE DART CITIES WITH THE SUPPLEMENTAL RTC FUNDS, THE ELIGIBLE PROJECTS MUST BENEFIT DART'S PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM OR PROVIDE A COMPLIMENTARY TRANSPORTATION SERVICE. THE CLAWBACK PROVISION THAT WE HAD ISSUES WITH IN THE GMP WAS FIXED, BUT IT DOES SAY THAT ANY FUTURE PAYMENTS ARE FORFEITED IN THE CASE THAT YOU DO WITHDRAW. IF A CITY AT A FUTURE TIME HAS AN ELECTION AND WITHDRAWS, THEN THOSE PAYMENTS ARE FORFEITED, BUT IT DOESN'T HAVE THE SAME CLAWBACK THAT THE FIRST GMP HAD. UM, TO ENCOURAGE CANCELLATION OF THE WITHDRAWAL ELECTIONS WITH THE SIX CITIES, THE ILA DEFINES THE EFFECTIVE DATE AND THE EXECUTION DATE AND THE, IT CAN BE NO LATER THAN APRIL 30TH, 2026. SO, AS WRITTEN, IF WE PROCEED WITH THE MAY ELECTION AND VOTERS CHOOSE TO REMAIN IN DART, ADDISON WOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR THIS GMP PROGRAM. SO THIS, IF WE WENT WITH THE GMP PROGRAM, THIS IS WHAT OUR FUNDING WOULD LOOK LIKE. IT WOULD BE, AGAIN, FOR TRANSPORTATION PER PURPOSES ONLY. SO, UH, OVER THE SIX YEAR, IT'S JUST OVER $8 MILLION. AND IF YOU REMEMBER, OUR PREVIOUS GMP OFFERED ADDISON $2.9 MILLION IN [02:20:01] FY 26. AND AGAIN, THIS, THESE FUNDS BEGINNING IN 27 WILL COME FROM DART AND THE RTC. UM, THIS IS JUST, UH, THE FUNDING PROPOSAL FOR ALL THE MEMBER CITIES. I WON'T GO INTO THAT, IT'S VERY SMALL, BUT ONE OF OUR OTHER ISSUES WAS GOVERNANCE. SO DALLAS'S PROPOSAL FOR THE GOVERNANCE, WHICH AGAIN, HAS TO GO TO THE STATE LEGISLATURE, IS, UM, A LITTLE, IT IS BETTER THAN WHAT WE SAW THE FIRST TIME. AND SO YOU CAN TELL BY THE NUMBERS IN GREEN, THOSE HAVE INCREASED THE PERCENTAGES, UH, THOSE IN RED HAVE GONE DOWN. SO ALTHOUGH WE DON'T HAVE A FULL WEIGHTED VOTE, IT HAS GONE UP FROM THE ORIGINAL PROPOSAL, BUT WE WOULD STILL HAVE ONE REPRESENTATIVE, BUT WITH JUST A WEIGHTED VOTE, A , A WEIGHTED VOTE OF 0.68%. UH, DART HAS ALSO REFERENCED SOME FUTURE STEPS THAT THEY WANT TO TAKE. ONE IS AN INDEPENDENT RAIL MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY. THIS WAS ALSO IDENTIFIED IN THE RTCS TRANSIT 2.0 RECOMMENDATIONS. AND THAT WOULD BASICALLY TRANSFER THE TRE AND THE SILVER LINE TO AN INDEPENDENT MANAGEMENT AUTHORITY. UH, THOSE SAVINGS WOULD HELP FUND A FUTURE GMP PROGRAM, BUT WOULD REQUIRE, UH, LEGISLATIVE ACTION TO MAKE ANY OF THOSE CHANGES. ANOTHER PROGRAM THAT THEY HAVE PROPOSED IS A VEHICLE REGISTRATION FEE. IT WOULD GENERATE A NEW REVENUE THAT COULD GO TO TRANSIT AGENCIES, BUT AGAIN, WOULD NEED, UH, LEGISLATIVE ACTION. SO NEXT STEPS. IF COUNCIL RESCINDS THE ELECTION TONIGHT, THEN WE WILL CANCEL THE RFP THAT IS OUT RIGHT NOW FOR TRANSIT SERVICES. WE'LL BRING BACK AN ILA THAT APPROVES THE REVISED GMP AND THEN CONSIDER A RESOLUTION THAT SUPPORTS THE PROPOSED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE. IF COUNCIL PROCEEDS WITH THE WITHDRAWAL ELECTION MARCH 10TH, WE ARE HOPING TO HAVE VENDORS HERE SO THAT YOU CAN REVIEW PROPOSALS FOR OUR TRANSIT PLAN WITH, UH, MOBILITY SERVICES OR WITH AGREEMENT APPROVED ON MARCH 24TH. AND WITH THE, UM, ELECTION RESULTS, HOPEFULLY HAVING EVERYTHING READY TO GO IN A PILOT PROGRAM BY MID-APRIL AND READY TO GO AS SOON AS MAY 2ND. ANY QUESTIONS? THANK YOU, ASHLEY. THANK YOU, ASHLEY, SINCE I, UH, SINCE I PLACE THIS ITEM ON THE AGENDA, YOU KNOW, GENERALLY I LEAVE MY REMARKS TILL LATER, BUT SINCE I DID PLACE THE ITEM ON THE AGENDA, I'LL GO AHEAD AND MAKE, UH, SOME REMARKS NOW TO GET US STARTED. AND I DO HAVE SEVERAL COMMENTS I'D LIKE TO MAKE. UH, ONE, AGAIN, I'D LIKE TO THANK THE FOLKS THAT CAME IN AND SPOKE TONIGHT. UH, IT'S IMPORTANT IS IT'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR PROCESS TO HEAR WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING. AND IT SHOULD BE CLEAR TO EVERYBODY THAT THERE'S NOT A UNIFIED VOICE ON THIS. PEOPLE HAVE DIFFERENT OPINIONS. AND SO THAT WE HAVE TO TAKE ALL OF THAT AND TAKE WHAT WE, WHAT WE HAVE FOR OURSELVES AS FAR AS OUR VALUES, WHAT'S IMPORTANT TO US, AND THEN WE GET TO MAKE OUR DECISION. AND THERE'S NO MATTER WHAT DECISION YOU MAKE UP HERE, THERE'S GOING TO BE A GROUP OF FOLKS THAT ARE NOT HAPPY WITH IT. AND THAT'S THE JOB THAT WE HAVE. BUT THAT'S OKAY. NOW, CONTRARY TO SOME COMMENTS THAT, UH, RECEIVED SOME FUN, SOME FROM SOME FOLKS, THIS IS NOT AN EFFORT ON MY PART TO CANCEL THE CITIZEN'S ABILITY TO VOTE. I'M ALL IN FAVOR FOR PEOPLE TO VOTING. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN. IT'S, IT'S, IT'S OUR DEMOCRACY, UH, THAT WE, THAT WE, UH, THAT WE'RE ABLE TO VOTE ADDISON HAS IN OUR CHARTER ELECTION, THE, THE, THE MAY ELECTION EVERY YEAR THAT WE'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE. THIS IS NOT A REQUIRED ELECTION. THIS THIS IS A, IT'S AN OPTIONAL ELECTION, AND IT, IT'S, UM, IT'S, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S A, IT'S ONE THAT THE, THE COUNCIL DETERMINES WHETHER THEY WANT TO PLACE THAT ON THE BALLOT OR NOT. THERE'S NOT AN OBLIGATION TO HAVE THAT. SO IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE TRYING TO TAKE, AND I'M NOT CERTAINLY NOT TRYING TO TAKE IT AWAY, ANYBODY'S RIGHT, RIGHT TO VOTE. BUT WE HAVE TO DECIDE, IS THIS SOMETHING THAT WE WANT TO HAVE ON THE BALLOT? THIS ISN'T SOMETHING NEW EITHER. THIS IS NOT SOMETHING THAT I MADE UP BECAUSE, BECAUSE I DIDN'T LIKE THE WAY THE VOTE WENT LAST TIME. IT'S NOT ABOUT THAT AT ALL. THIS HAS BEEN PART OF THE DISCUSSION FROM THE VERY BEGINNING WHEN WE STARTED TALKING ABOUT, WELL, WE'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THE DIFFERENT THINGS, WITH THE GOVERNANCE, WITH THE FINANCING, THE SERVICE, SAFETY, WHATEVER. WE'RE NOT HAPPY WITH THAT. SO, WELL, SO THEN WE, WE, WE ENDED UP, WE CALLED THE ELECTION AND THE, AND THE COMMENTS WERE EVEN ON THE COUNCIL FOR THOSE THAT WERE WILLING TO, THAT WANTED TO CALL THE ELECTION. THE COMMENTS WERE AROUND, WELL, IF WE GET MORE INFORMATION, IF WE GET A DEAL OF SOME KIND, WE CAN ALWAYS CANCEL THE ELECTION. SO THOSE WERE WERE COMMENTS THAT WERE MADE FROM THIS COUNCIL. AND SO THIS IS NOT SOMETHING NEW. THIS HAS BEEN PART OF THE DISCUSSION, [02:25:01] AND THIS IS THE NEXT PART OF THAT PLAN BECAUSE THERE IS A DEAL IN PLACE AND WE HAVE TO DECIDE IF WE WANT TO TAKE THAT. THERE'S CERTAINLY NO DISPUTE THAT, THAT THERE ARE THINGS THAT DART CAN DO BETTER. DART ACKNOWLEDGES THAT THEMSELVES. THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH TIME THAT'S BEEN DEDICATED TO THIS, TO THIS TOPIC. FROM THE MEMBER CITIES FROM DART, FROM THE NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION, FROM THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL. THE FEBRUARY 12TH, UH, REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL MEETING WAS THAT YOU'VE ALREADY HEARD REFERENCED. UH, THAT WAS, UH, ROUGHLY FOUR HOURS BETWEEN THE WORKSHOP AND THE REGULAR MEETING DEVOTED TO THIS TOPIC. AND I KNOW, UH, RANDY AND HOWARD WERE ABLE TO BE THERE FOR, FOR THE, THAT WHOLE SESSION. AND, AND, AND I'M SURE THEY, UH, THEY, THEY TOOK A LOT AWAY FROM THAT. AND, UH, AND THAT'S JUST PART OF WHAT'S BEEN GOING ON. THERE'S BEEN DOZENS, PROBABLY HUNDREDS OF HOURS THAT ARE SPENT, UH, FROM THE DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS BETWEEN CITY MANAGER GROUPS AND MAYORS, UH, AND THE DIFFERENT FOLKS THAT ARE INVOLVED IN, IN, UH, NORTH TEXAS COMMISSION AND RTC AND SO FORTH. UM, BUT THE, AND THESE MEETINGS WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN PLACE IF THEY DIDN'T SEE THE VALUE OF HAVING A SOLID REGIONAL TRA UH, PUBLIC TRANSIT SYSTEM. AND, AND I'VE SERVED ON THE RTC FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS, BOTH AS MAYOR AND WHEN I WAS PREVIOUSLY ON THE CITY COUNCIL. AND THAT MEETING ON THE 12TH, THAT WAS REALLY ONE OF THE BEST EXAMPLES THAT I'VE SEEN OF THAT REGIONAL BODY COMING TOGETHER TO WORK ON AN AGREEMENT THAT, THAT THOSE INVOLVED COULD LIVE WITH, NOT NECESSARILY LOVE, BUT THEY COULD LIVE WITH. AND SO THE RESULT WAS AN AGREEMENT THAT NOBODY WALKED AWAY FROM, FROM THAT SPIKE IN THE FOOTBALL FEELING LIKE THEY WON. EVERYBODY, EVERYBODY SACRIFICED, ALL PARTIES SACRIFICED IN ATTEMPT TO GET TO A GOOD FINISH LINE. SO DALLAS WILL NO LONGER HAVE A MAJORITY VOTE ON THE BOARD. THAT WAS A HUGE ACCOMPLISHMENT, AND I APPRECIATE DALLAS BEING WILLING TO, TO, TO TAKE THAT LESSER, UH, VALUE, A LESSER VOTE ON THE, UH, UH, ON THE, ON THE DART BOARD. SO EACH MEMBER CITY, ACCORDING TO THE ILA, WILL HAVE A SEAT ON THE BOARD. AND THIS PART OF THE GOVERNANCE WAS SOMETHING THAT WAS CRITICALLY IMPORTANT TO EVERY MEMBER CITY THAT WAS INVOLVED. FOLKS LIKE TO TALK ABOUT THE 400 PLUS MILLION DOLLARS THAT, THAT WE'VE, TO SOME FOLKS SAY, THEY SAY WE'VE WASTED PAYING INTO DART OVER THE YEARS. I DON'T SEE IT AS A WASTE. I SEE IT AS AN INVESTMENT IN A, IN AN IMPORTANT PART OF OUR INFRASTRUCTURE IN OUR REGIONAL TRANSIT SYSTEM. AND FOR ME TO WALK AWAY FROM IT IS, IS A MISTAKE. I I I PREFER FOR US TO WORK ON IT TOGETHER AS A REGION, AS WE'VE ALREADY SEEN THAT THERE, THERE'S BIG, A HUGE DESIRE FOR THAT TO MAKE THE SYSTEM BETTER AND CREATE A BETTER REGIONAL SYSTEM. AND THE OVERWHELMING MAJORITY OF THE FUNDS THAT PAY, THAT PAY FOR ARE OUR SALES TAX CONTRIBUTION ARE NOT PAID BY ADDISON RESIDENTS. THEY'RE PAID BY THE FOLKS THAT COME, NOT JUST TO OUR RESTAURANTS AND RETAIL, BUT ALL THOSE BUSINESSES IN THAT 12 MILLION SQUARE FEET OF OFFICE SPACE THAT ARE SELLING GOODS THAT WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY'RE DOING, WHAT THEY'RE SELLING. BUT THEY, BUT THEY PAY SALES TAX IN. SO PLANO, PLANO REALLY LED THE CHARGE, UH, ON THIS TO, TO START CALLING FOR THE, UH, POSSIBLE RECALL ELECTION. THE WITHDRAWAL ELECTION, BECAUSE THEY HAD THE LARGEST DISPARITY OF WHAT THE SERVICES PROVIDED COMPARED TO THE MONEY THAT THEY PAID IN. SO I GET IT. AND, AND THE MONEY'S AN IMPORTANT PART OF IT REALLY ISN'T. SO WE WANTED TO GET TO SOME SORT OF BETTER EQUITY. IT'S NEVER GONNA BE A HUNDRED PERCENT DOLLAR IN DOLLAR OUT. IT'S JUST THAT'S NOT, THAT'S NOT HOW IT WORKS. IT'S JUST NOT GONNA HAPPEN THAT WAY. UM, BUT NOW THEY'VE SEEN THE VALUE AND THEY WERE, THEY CAN LIVE WITH THE ILA WITH THE AGREEMENT THAT WE, THAT'S, THAT'S IN PLACE OUT THERE, THAT'S ON THE TABLE. THEY CAN LIVE WITH THAT. AS WE'VE HEARD, FARMERS BRANCH CAN ALSO LIVE WITH IT. AND EVERYTHING I HEAR ABOUT WHAT IRVING IS GOING TO DO ON THURSDAY TELLS ME THE SAME THING THAT THEY'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO LIVE WITH IT. WE JUST HAVE TO DECIDE CAN WE LIVE WITH IT? WE, WE DON'T HAVE TO LOVE IT. NOT GOING TO LOVE IT. I DON'T LOVE IT, BUT IT'S SOMETHING I CAN LIVE WITH. SO IT'S FAR FROM PERFECT THIS ILA THAT'S BEING BROUGHT FORWARD, BUT, BUT WE'RE MAKING PROGRESS SO THAT WE CAN ENABLE THE REGION TO NOW WORK ON IMPROVING OUR MOBILITY TO HAVE A BETTER REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION TRANSIT SYSTEM, A TRUE REGIONAL TRANSIT SYSTEM ALONG WITH DART AND OUR OTHER AND THE OTHER TRANSIT AGENCIES. SO THOSE ARE MY THOUGHTS FOR NOW. SO I'LL STOP THERE. AND, UH, CHRIS, I SEE YOUR LIGHT ON OVER THERE. WELL, FIRST I'VE GOT A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR ASHLEY. THE ILA AGREEMENT, UH, IT TALKS ABOUT GMP FUNDS BEING [02:30:01] REFUNDED BACK TO THE TOWN, AND THERE ARE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WE CAN USE THAT FOR. SO, UH, IN YOUR PRESENTATION IT TALKS ABOUT DART RELATED AND ALSO CONNECTIVITY. SO TALK A LITTLE MORE ABOUT THAT, PLEASE. SURE. SO, UM, IT SAYS PUBLIC TRANSIT AND THEN COMPLIMENTARY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES. UM, SO I'M GLAD YOU ASKED 'CAUSE I ACTUALLY PRINTED THAT OUT AND HIGHLIGHTED IT RIGHT, BECAUSE I THOUGHT SOMEBODY WOULD BE INTERESTED. SO IN THE ILA COMPLIMENTARY TRANSPORTATION SERVICES MEANS SPECIAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR A PERSON WHO IS ELDERLY OR HAS A DISABILITY, MEDICAL TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, ASSISTANCE IN STREET MODIFICATIONS TO IMPROVE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION INFRASTRUCTURE, OR IS NECESSARY TO ACCOMMODATE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IN ANY OTHER SERVICE THAT COMPLIMENTS DARTS PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION CITY SYSTEM, INCLUDING PROVIDING PARKING FACILITIES, ROADWAYS AND PEDESTRIAN CORRIDORS. SO WE COULD USE THAT TO COVER THE EXPENSE OF A CIRCULATOR. YES, WE COULD, WE COULD USE THAT AS PART OF OUR CONNECTIVITY PLAN. WE'VE GOT SOME REALLY FANTASTIC CREATIVE WAYS. WE'RE TRYING TO CONNECT OUR RAIL STATION WITH QUORUM WHERE ALL THE OFFICE TELLERS ARE THAT BADLY NEEDS SOME SORT OF CATALYST TO GET GOING. WE COULD USE THE MONEY FOR THAT. IS THAT RIGHT? YES. OKAY. UM, AND THEN ON THE SUBJECT OF GOVERNANCE, IT'S, IT'S ONE CITY, ONE SEAT NOW, IS THAT CORRECT? YES. SO IT IS ONE CITY, ONE SEAT, AND I'VE, I'VE FLUBBED THAT A LITTLE BIT ON THE PERCENTAGE VOTES. I, I WAS LOOKING MORE AT THE GREEN. I THOUGHT SO, AND YEAH, SO, AND I WANNA MAKE SURE IT'S CLEAR TO EVERYONE THAT THAT'S A REALLY BIG DEAL AND IT WAS A REALLY BIG DEAL TO THIS COUNCIL. WE PUT IT IN WRITING THAT WE WANTED ONE SEAT, BUT PROBABLY JUST AS IMPORTANT, WE DID NOT WANT EDDIE CITY TO HAVE A MAJORITY. CORRECT. AND IT'S NOT THAT WAY ANYMORE, IS IT? CORRECT. SO THAT'S A HUGE CHANGE. YES. OKAY, THANK YOU. AND THEN I'VE GOT SOME COMMENTS, UM, LIKE THE MAYOR, I APPRECIATE EVERYONE BEING HERE TONIGHT. THIS IS, THIS IS PROBABLY ONE OF THE BIGGEST ISSUES THAT WE FACE IN A VERY LONG TIME. AND REGARDLESS OF WHAT SIDE OF THE ISSUE YOU ARE, YOU'RE ON. UM, I APPRECIATE YOU BEING HERE AND I'M LISTENING. UM, MY GOAL TONIGHT WITH MY COMMENTS AFTER SOME OF THE THINGS I'VE HEARD, IS TO MAKE SURE THAT OUR RESIDENTS HAVE A CLEAR UNDERSTANDING OF HOW WE GOT HERE, WHAT'S CHANGED, AND WHILE WE'RE CONSIDERING CANCELING THE ELECTION. SO YOU HEARD SOME OF THIS ALREADY OVER THE PAST TWO YEARS, MANY DART MEMBER CITIES, INCLUDING ADDISON, HAVE RAISED QUESTIONS ABOUT REALLY THREE MAJOR THINGS, FUNDING, GOVERNANCE, AND SERVICE. AND WE'VE TALKED ABOUT TWO OF THOSE THREE TONIGHT ALREADY. AS THE DISCUSSIONS INTENSIFIED MULTIPLE CITIES, INCLUDING ADDISON, SCHEDULED WITHDRAWAL ELECTIONS FOR MAY OF 2026, I DIDN'T SUPPORT THAT STYLE OF NEGOTIATION. UH, IT BROUGHT TO THE TABLE DART, UM, AND IT WORKED. WE GOT A BETTER DEAL AND WE GOT A BETTER DEAL, UM, BECAUSE IT WAS NEGOTIATED. UM, AND THAT'S, THAT WAS WHAT WAS, THAT'S HOW, LIKE THE MAYOR SAID, ALL OF THIS STARTED, WE WANTED A BETTER DEAL. SO AS YOU HEARD, DART APPROVED THE NEW GENERAL MOBILITY PLAN, WHICH CHANGES THEIR FUNDING MODEL. IT'LL RETURN A PORTION OF OUR 1% SALES TAX REVENUE. IT GIVES IT BACK TO THE TOWN IN 2026. WE'D RECEIVE A 5% REFUND, AND THAT INCREASES EVERY YEAR TO 7.5% BY YEAR SIX. ON TOP OF THAT, THERE'S A COMMITMENT FROM THE REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION COUNCIL THAT ADDISON RECEIVED 10% OF ITS STAR CONTRIBUTION BY YEAR SIX. IT'S A TOTAL OF OVER $8 MILLION TO THE TOWN. AND I WANT EVERYONE TO UNDERSTAND IT'S $8 MILLION THAT WILL NOT BE AVAILABLE TO US IF WE CHOOSE TO MOVE FORWARD WITH AN ELECTION TONIGHT. I'VE HEARD FROM A LOT OF OUR RESIDENTS, AND I THINK OVERWHELMINGLY A MAJORITY SUPPORT START. AND I'M NOT WILLING TO COST THEM $8 MILLION BY PLACING ON THE BALLOT ELIGIBLE PROJECTS READY TO GO. THAT CAN BE FUNDED WITH OUR DART REFUND RATHER THAN ISSUING DEBT OR FUNDING IT OUTTA THE GENERAL FUND. IT'S A TRUE COST SAVINGS FOR OUR RESIDENTS. THE NEW GOVERNANCE MODEL, WHICH WE JUST TALKED ABOUT, ADDISON GETS ITS OWN SEAT, A FULL VOTE, AND PREVENTS ANY CITY FROM HAVING MAJORITY. IT'S AN ISSUE THAT'S VERY IMPORTANT TO THIS TOWN. AND LET ME BE CLEAR, THIS DEAL IS NOT PERFECT, BUT IT REPRESENTS PROGRESS. AND I THINK IT'S A FAIR ELECTION OR IT'S, IT'S FAIR AND MEANINGFUL OFFER FROM DART THAT THE TOWN OF EDISON SHOULD ACCEPT AND CANCEL OUR MAY ELECTION. IT PUTS MONEY BACK INTO OUR POCKETS WHILE KEEPING PUBLIC TRANSIT. I THINK IT'S A WIN-WIN. AND IF WE ACCEPT THESE TERMS, THE CONVERSATION DOESN'T STOP. THERE'S ALSO IN THIS AGREEMENT, UM, YOU KNOW, AN OUTLINE OF SHARED PRIOR PRIORITIES THAT ALL 13 MEMBERS AT THE STATE LEVEL, INCLUDING [02:35:01] EXPLORING COMMUTER RAIL SHIFT TO REGIONAL TRANSPORTATION AND LOOKING FOR ADDITIONAL SOURCES OF REVENUE THAT COULD AT SOME DAY REDUCE ADDISON'S FUNDING LEVEL DARK CONNECTS ADDISON TO THE NORTH TEXAS REGION. UH, WE'RE NOT THE LAST STOP ON THE TOLLWAY ANYMORE. AND STAYING CONNECTED KEEPS US RELEVANT. YES, START IS AN EFFICIENT WAY OF MOVING PEOPLE AROUND. IT'S A LIFELINE TO SOME WITH DISABILITIES AND FOR CITIZENS WITHOUT TRANSPORTATION. BUT JUST AS IMPORTANT FOR ADDISON, IT ATTRACTS EMPLOYERS THAT BOOST OUR LOCAL ECONOMY AND ALLOWS US TO HAVE SUSTAINED ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT. AND THAT'S WHY I SUPPORT CANCELING THE MAY ELECTION. THANK YOU, HOWARD. FIRST I HAVE A QUESTION FOR YOU. I THINK CHRIS SAID WE GET ONE CITY EQUALS ONE SEAT. UH, DOES GARLAND, PLANO AND IRVING EACH JUST HAVE ONE SEAT? UM, LET'S SEE. DALLAS, IRVING, PLANO, AND GARLAND ALL HAVE MORE THAN ONE SEAT. OKAY. SO THOSE THREE CITIES EACH HAVE TWO SEATS I'M LOOKING AT, AND DALLAS HAS SEVEN, IS THAT RIGHT? UH, SO UNDER THE NEW FRAMEWORK, DALLAS WOULD HAVE SEVEN SEATS, BUT 45% OF THE VOTE. SO IT'S, IT IT'S WEIGHTED DIFFERENTLY. SO THEY WOULD HAVE 45% OF THE VOTE. GARLAND WOULD HAVE TWO, IRVING WOULD HAVE TWO. PLANO WOULD HAVE TWO. AND WHAT IS THEIR WEIGHT? NINE AND A QUARTER. GARLAND IS NINE AND A HALF. NINE AND A HALF. AND SO ARE THE OTHERS? NINE AND A HALF. AND, UM, CARLTON AND RICHARDSON, WHAT IS THEIR WEIGHT? UH, 6.25 FOR EACH ONE? YES. SO DALLAS PLUS RICHARDSON IS OVER 50%. YES, 51 AND CHANGE. DALLAS PLUS CARROLLTON, DALLAS PLUS GARLAND, DALLAS PLUS PLANO, DALLAS PLUS IRVING. SO, UM, I, I LIKE THE GOVERNANCE BETTER THAN WHAT WE HAD, BUT I STILL HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THE GOVERNANCE BECAUSE, UH, WHILE WE HAVE ONE SEAT AT THE TABLE, ADDISON ONLY HAS 2%. AND THERE ARE SIX OTHER CITIES, SMALL CITIES LIKE US, THAT EACH US HAVE 2%. AND SO THE SEVEN CITIES THAT ONLY HAVE 2%, WE ONLY HAVE 14%, SEVEN CITIES THAT REPRESENT MORE THAN HALF OF THE CITIES, EVEN THOUGH IT'S WAY LESS THAN HALF THE POPULATION. WE DON'T EVEN HAVE 15%. ONE OF MY BIGGEST ISSUES WITH THIS WHOLE MESS HAS TO DO WITH DART BORROWING MONEY ON THE BACKS OF THE CITIES. AND IN OCTOBER, I WAS THE IGNORANT ONE. I KNEW NOTHING ABOUT DART. I DI I I JUST KNEW THEY GOT 1% AND IT WAS A PENNY. I DIDN'T HAVE A PROBLEM WITH DART. I HAD A PROBLEM WITH TWO BUS ROUTES ON ONE STREET, BUT THAT GOT FIXED AND I WAS FINE WITH DART. I WAS CELEBRATING THE SILVER LINE JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. WHEN THOSE OTHER CITIES STARTED CALLING FOR THESE ELECTIONS, I STARTED PAYING ATTENTION AND DIGGING AND RESEARCHING AND LEARNING. AND IN THE LAST FOUR MONTHS, I HAVE BEEN TO MORE MEETINGS THAN I CAN COUNT. I HAVE BEEN ON THE INTERNET, UH, CONSTANTLY. I HAVE HAD MEETINGS WITH PEOPLE I HAVE STUDIED AND STUDIED. AND SO ALL THE ISSUES THAT CHRIS JUST BROUGHT UP, THE GOVERNANCE, THE FINANCE, AND THE SERVICE, YES, THOSE ARE ALL ISSUES. AND I APPLAUD RANDALL FOR YOUR EFFORTS TO TRY AND FIX IT. I REALLY DO. AND I APPLAUD EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN HERE AND EVERY COMMENT EVERYONE'S MADE FOR OR AGAINST, WE DON'T HAVE THE POWER TO VOTE THIS BOARD TO STAY IN DART OR GET OUT OF DART. WE DON'T HAVE THAT CHOICE. WE HAVE THE CHOICE TO CALL AN ELECTION OR DO NOTHING. THAT'S WHAT WE HAVE THE CHOICE TO DO. IF WE DO NOTHING, WE STAY IN DART. SO THOSE PEOPLE WHO ARE BEGGING, PLEADING, UH, ENCOURAGING US TO NOT CALL THE ELECTION OR TO CANCEL IT, ARE SAYING WHAT I'M HEARING IS LISTEN TO MY VOICE AND DON'T LISTEN TO THE REST OF THE PEOPLE. JUST LISTEN TO ME. AND I HAVE A PROBLEM WITH THAT. SO I'M WORRIED ABOUT THE GOVERNANCE, EVEN WITH THE NEW MODEL, THE MONEY, THE FINANCE. SO WE'RE GONNA GO 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10% OVER THE NEXT SIX YEARS. AND I THINK THAT'S ALL BEEN APPROVED AND PASSED, AND THAT'S WAY BETTER THAN NOT DOING IT. BUT WE WERE ASKING FOR 25% AND WANTING TO GO TO HALF A PENNY. THE PEOPLE IN TRE AND THE PEOPLE IN DCTA, THAT'S TARRANT COUNTY AND DENTON COUNTY. DENTON COUNTY HAS THREE CITIES IN THEIR, UH, TRANSIT AGENCY. AND [02:40:01] TREI THINK HAS FIVE, SIX OR SEVEN WHEN I CHECK, I CAN'T FIGURE OUT WHAT THE NUMBER IS. BUT, UH, TOGETHER, THOSE TWO, THOSE TWO AGENCIES ONLY CHARGE A HALF A PENNY. BUT DART CHARGES A PENNY. WE, WE ARE PAYING TWICE AS MUCH AS THE OTHER CITIES IN THOSE AGENCIES. SO WE WERE ASKING TO LEVEL THAT PLAYING FIELD. IN 43 YEARS, DART HAS NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET ONE NEW CITY TO JOIN, NOT ONE. AND AS FAR AS THE TRAFFIC, WHICH IS ATROCIOUS, IT'S, IT'S ONLY GOTTEN WORSE SINCE WE'VE BEEN IN DART, IT HASN'T GOTTEN BETTER. DART'S NOT SOLVING THAT PROBLEM. I THINK IT'D BE NICE IF WE HAD A REGIONAL TRANSIT SYSTEM, BUT I'VE DONE THE HOMEWORK ON THIS. AND I THINK IF YOU JUST LOOK AT, WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS COUNCIL OF GOVERNMENTS, THAT 16 COUNTIES OF 171 CITIES WITH DART, TRE AND DCTA, THERE'S STILL 150 CITIES THAT AREN'T IN ANY OF THIS. AND IF YOU LOOK AT DALLAS WITH 30 CITIES, COLLIN COUNTY WITH 25, DENTON WITH 40 TARRANT COUNTY WITH 41, AND ROCKWELL WITH SEVEN, IT'S 143 CITIES. DART'S NOT A REGIONAL TRANSIT SYSTEM, IT'S A SYSTEM WITH 13 CITIES CARRYING IT ON THEIR BACKS. AND IN ALL MY RESEARCH, I LOOK AT THAT AND WHEN I FOUND OUT THAT WE HAVE TO PAY $50 MILLION TO GET OUT OF DART NUMBER ONE, I DIDN'T KNOW WE COULD GET OUT EVERY SIX YEARS. I NEVER HEARD THAT. I DIDN'T KNOW NONE OF THE COUNCILS BEFORE THIS ONE EVER EXPOSED IT TO ALL OF US. WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW. AND NOW HERE WE ARE WITH, WE CAN EXIT IN 2026 IF THE CITIZENS WANT TO. UM, WE DON'T HAVE TO CITIZENS GET TO VOTE. IF THE CITIZENS OF THIS TOWN SHOULD WE CALL THIS ELECTION AND THEY VOTE TO STAY IN DART, I 1000%, I RESPECT THAT DECISION AND I WOULD SUPPORT IT. AND IF THE CITIZENS VOTE TO GET OUT, I WOULD RESPECT THAT ONE TOO. BUT I THINK THIS DECISION IS TOO BIG FOR THIS BOARD TO MAKE THE DECISION FOR THE RESIDENTS. AND I AGREE THAT THE, THE RIGHT TO VOTE IS IMPORTANT AND THESE ARE TAX DOLLARS THAT THE CITIZENS OF THIS TOWN SHOULD DECIDE HOW THEY WANT THOSE TAX DOLLARS SPENT. NOW, IT IS, IT IS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT IF WE DO VOTE TO GET OUT OF DART, WE DON'T AUTOMATICALLY GET THAT PENNY. THAT PENNY IS, I GUESS UP FOR GRABS. I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE TO, TO SAY IT. WE WOULD HAVE TO HAVE ANOTHER ELECTION. THE RESIDENTS AND THE THE TAXPAYERS WOULD HAVE TO VOTE WHETHER OR NOT WE WANNA LEAVE OUR, OUR SALES TAX AT EIGHT AND A QUARTER. AND IF SO, HOW DO WE WANT THAT PENNY SPENT? WE DON'T GET TO JUST AUTOMATICALLY GET IT. THERE IS MORE PROCESS TO THIS, BUT I TOTALLY AM IN FAVOR OF PUBLIC TRANSIT AND I WOULD NEVER WANNA VOTE TO LEAVE PEOPLE STRANDED. SO I'VE LOOKED AT SOME OF THE OTHER CITIES, I'VE GONE AND DONE MY OWN RESEARCH WRITTEN ON SOME OF THEIR, THEIR PROGRAMS AS OTHER PEOPLE HERE HAVE. AND WE'VE HAD GOOD EXPERIENCES. SO I AM REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT DART WITH, UH, ADDISON WOULD ONLY HAVE A 2% VOTE. THEY ARE PLANNING IN THE NEXT SIX YEARS TO PUT 2.5 BILLION MORE DEBT ON DART OR ON THE CITIES WHEREVER IT'S COMING FROM. ACCORDING TO MY MATH, EXCUSE ME. IF ALL THE CITIES STAY IN AND I DO THE MATH, WE, ADDISON WILL BE RESPONSIBLE FOR $14.5 MILLION OF THAT. AND IF THE FIVE CITIES GOT OUT AND WE STAYED IN, WE'D BE RESPONSIBLE FOR 19.5 MILLION OF IT. NOW WE KNOW PLANOS STAYING IN AND FARMERS BRANCH IS STAYING IN. NOBODY'S MENTIONED HIGHLAND PARK OR, OR UNIVERSITY PARK AND WHAT THEY'RE GOING TO DO. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? I REPRESENT ADDISON. I'M ON THIS BOARD FOR ADDISON AND I'M LOOKING OUT FOR ADDISON AND I WANT WHAT'S BEST FOR ADDISON. AND I THINK THE BEST THING FOR ADDISON IS TO ALLOW OUR PEOPLE TO VOTE ON THIS ISSUE AND DECIDE HOW WE WANT OUR TAX DOLLARS SPENT. THIS COUNCIL AND THIS STAFF IS NOT GOING TO LEAVE ANYBODY STRANDED. IF WE VOTE TO GET OUT OF ADDISON, WE ARE GOING TO BUST OUR BACKSIDES TO MAKE SURE WE HAVE SOMETHING IN PLACE THAT WILL BE EQUAL TO, IF NOT BETTER THAN WHAT WE CURRENTLY HAVE FOR TRANSIT IN ADDISON AND CONNECT TO DART AND ALL THE NEIGHBORING CITIES. SO IF PEOPLE WANT DART, THEY CAN STILL HAVE DART AS FAR AS THE SILVER LINE'S CONCERNED, I KNOW THAT'S AN ISSUE. THERE'S A STATION SIX BLOCKS EAST, IT'S AN NOLL TRAIL. MAYBE IT'S NOT IDEAL, BUT IT'S ONLY A HALF A MILE AWAY. SO THE SILVER LINE'S STILL GONNA RUN. WE CAN STILL RIDE IT. WE JUST WON'T BE PAYING $18 MILLION A YEAR FOR IT. WE'LL HAVE TO PAY THE 18 MILLION FOR THE NEXT THREE YEARS [02:45:01] AND THEN AFTER THAT, INSTEAD OF GETTING 10%, WE GET A HUNDRED PERCENT IF THE VOTERS VOTE TO DO THAT. AND THAT'S WHAT I WOULD ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO. SO I I'VE LISTENED TO EVERYBODY. I APPRECIATE WHAT EVERYBODY SAID. I I'VE HAD JUST AS MUCH INPUT FROM PEOPLE WHO, UH, WANT THE RIGHT TO VOTE AS WHO WANT US TO, TO CANCEL THE ELECTION. SO, UM, I'M, I'M SURE YOU CAN TELL HOW I FEEL ABOUT THIS. I JUST WANTED TO EXPLAIN MY REASONING. IT'S NOT LIKE I TAKE THIS LIGHTLY. I HAVE DONE NOTHING FOR THE PAST FOUR MONTHS EXCEPT WORK ON THIS ISSUE. SO I HOPE THAT EDUCATED SOME PEOPLE. THANK YOU. I HAVE A QUESTION. SO THE ORIGINAL 5% GMP, UH, THAT HAD THE UM, UH, NUCLEAR CLAUSE IN IT, UH, THAT THAT WAS TAKEN OUT BEFORE IT GOT TO US OR NEVER DID GO FORWARD BECAUSE THE NEW GMP CAME UP WELL CORRECT. IT WAS IN AN ORIGINAL DRAFT. OKAY. SO, UM, AND THAT WAS ONE TIME, RIGHT? 5%, ONE TIME, RIGHT? NOT GUARANTEED ANY MORE THAN THAT. CORRECT. OKAY. UH, JUST JUST WANT TO CLARIFY. UM, YEAH, HOWARD SAID A LOT OF FACTS AND THAT'S ONE OF THE THINGS THAT, UM, THIS IS KIND OF NOT FUNNY, BUT WE'RE REALLY PREACHING TO A LOT OF THE CHOIR HERE BECAUSE A LOT OF YOU GUYS ALREADY KNOW A LOT OF THIS INFORMATION. AND I GUARANTEE YOU A LOT OF MY COUNCIL PEOPLE UP HERE KNOW A LOT ABOUT THIS. WE'VE SPENT HUNDREDS OF HOURS ON THIS AND WRITTEN OTHER TRANSIT SYSTEMS. UM, NEXT QUESTION ON SLIDE SIX, I THINK IT IS, YOU HAVE A DIFFERENT SLIDE DECK THAN WE HAVE. SO, UM, THE, THE CLAUSE HERE, UM, IF IF A CITY PROCEEDS WITH AN ELECTION WITHOUT RESCINDING IT, UM, THEN THEY WOULD NOT BE ELIGIBLE FOR THE GMP. CORRECT. OKAY. I I THINK THAT PUTS A REALLY BAD LOOK ON DART FOR PUTTING THAT LEVERAGE IN THERE. YOU KNOW, THE, THE LEVERAGE TO DISCOURAGE PEOPLE FROM VOTING, THAT'S, THAT'S A, THAT'S A BAD LOOK. UH, THAT'S MY OPINION. I JUST WANNA CLARIFY. UM, I KNOW THE REASONING FOR IT TO GIVE MOTIVATION, GIVE, GIVE, YOU KNOW, AND, AND IT COULD LOOK LIKE IT'S GIVEN US COUNSELING OUT TO SAY, WELL, LOOK, YOU GOTTA GO WITH THAT TO GET THAT. IT IS $8 MILLION 8.2 AND SLIDE ELEVEN'S ON 11 ON THE GOVERNANCE. UM, IT MAY NOT BE YEAR 11 NINE. SO WE, THOSE NUMBERS ARE ROUNDED TO THE, UM, PERCENTAGE OF TWOS, SIX AND A QUARTERS HALFS AND SUCH. SO IT LOOKS LIKE LIKELY UNIVERSITY PARK AND HIGHLAND PARK MAY EXIT, THEY'RE ONLY 2% LIKE US. WHERE DOES, DO WE GET 2.1% OR 2.2%? OR HOW DOES THAT GET REDISTRIBUTED? DO WE KNOW THAT ANSWER? SO IT WOULD, IT WOULD JUST, IT WOULD'VE TO BE REDISTRIBUTED AND ULTIMATELY THE RECOMMENDATION WHEN WE GO TO THE LEGISLATURE WOULD BE DIFFERENT BASED ON WHAT THE MEMBER CITIES ARE AT THAT TIME. OKAY. I I WOULD, I WOULD THINK SO. I JUST WANTED TO, TO ASK ABOUT THAT. UM, I HAVE MORE COMMENTS, BUT I'LL SAVE THEM FOR THE DISCUSSION. SAVE THEM FOR WHAT THE DISCUSSION IF THERE'S A MOTION. OKAY. RANDY, THANK YOU. JUST A COUPLE OF REAL SHORT THINGS. UH, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THIS ILA AND THE GMP AND ALL THAT. UH, NOT ALL OF THIS IS A GUARANTEED THING. THERE IS STILL SOME OF IT. FOR INSTANCE, THE GOVERNANCE THAT WE ALL ARE TALKING ABOUT THAT IS BETTER THAN IT WAS, IT STILL HAS TO GO TO THE LEGISLATURE TO BE APPROVED. CORRECT? CORRECT. UH, THE LAST SEVERAL LEGISLATIVE SESSIONS, THEY'VE NOT BEEN INTERESTED IN TAKING THIS UP. SO FOR US TO HAVE TO, TO WAIT ON ANY OTHER LEGISLATIVE BODY TO TAKE AN INTEREST IN THIS AND TO EITHER FUND IT OR APPROVE IT, AND THEN THEY DON'T, AND WE'RE STUCK WITH THE SAME DEAL THAT WE'VE HAD FOR SIX MORE YEARS IS ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. UH, I AGREE WITH DARREN THAT THE, THE POISON PILLS THAT DART PUTS IN THEIR AGREEMENTS ARE ABSOLUTELY UNACCEPTABLE. AND, UM, UH, JUST SHOWS A, A, IN MY OPINION, NOT GOOD FAITH IN THEIR NEGOTIATING TO TRY TO TAKE AWAY THE RIGHT OF THE PEOPLE VOTING. IT WAS LEGISLATIVELY PUT IN IT IN 1983, THAT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO VOTE EVERY SIX YEARS AND TO BE PUNISHED FOR EXERCISING YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE IS ABSOLUTELY A REASON TO VOTE IN MY MY OPINION. AND I ABSOLUTELY IN FAVOR OF PUTTING THIS TO THE PEOPLE TO DECIDE. OKAY. ANY OTHER COMMENTS, QUESTIONS? MARLON, MAYOR, I'D LIKE TO SHARE. UM, THIS IS OUR FIFTH MEETING ON DART, SO I'M NOT GONNA REPEAT EVERYTHING WE, WE TALKED ABOUT IN [02:50:01] THE PREVIOUS MEETINGS, BUT, UM, I DO WANT TO TOUCH UPON SOME OF THE CHANGES THAT HAVE OCCURRED SINCE OUR LAST MEETING AND MY THOUGHTS ON THOSE. UM, AND I'M JUST GONNA TOUCH UPON THE, THE HIGHER LEVEL ONES ON THE GOVERNANCE. UM, I'M APPRECIATIVE THAT THERE WERE SOME CHANGES MADE. THAT'S AWESOME. UM, I'M STILL A LITTLE CONCERNED. DALLAS HAS GOT 40, 45% OF THE WAY TO VOTE, AND WE HAVE 2%. UM, AS FAR AS THE ILA, IT'S A SIX YEAR ILA, THERE'S NO GUARANTEES AFTER THAT WHERE WE'RE GONNA BE. UM, AND WITH THE, WITH THE ILA, THE FUNDING, OUR FUNDING, UH, APPEARS TO AVERAGE OVER THOSE SIX YEARS. UH, ABOUT 16 MILLION, 600,000 SOMEWHERE THERE FOR THE PRODUCT. UM, AND, AND WHILE I LOVE, UH, I MEAN, I LOVE THE SILVER LINE. I I LOVE THE RAIL. THERE'S A, THERE'S, UH, THE BUS SITUATION DOES NOT SOLVE THE FIRST MILE, LAST MILE PROBLEM. UM, AND, AND WE HAVE STARTED TO RESEARCH THAT WITH OTHER LOCALITIES THROUGHOUT THE COUNTRY. AND SOME OF US HAVE BEEN TAKING A LOT OF TEST RIDES FROM NEARBY, UM, CITIES AND, AND THEY DO HAVE GREAT PRODUCTS THAT DO SOLVE THAT. SO, SO FOR ME, THAT THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING. UM, AND, AND THOSE ARE THE, THOSE ARE THE HIGH LEVEL, HIGH LEVEL THINGS I WANTED TO TOUCH UPON. OKAY. DO THE COMMENTS NOW. SURE. GO AHEAD. SO, UH, I, UM, YOU KNOW, I REALLY APPRECIATE EVERY, ALL THE INPUT. AND RANDALL, THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORK ON THIS. AND, AND THE OTHER COUNCIL, UH, THE, UH, BOARD MEMBERS, UH, I THINK YOU, I THINK WE'VE COME A LONG WAY. UM, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT SPOKE TONIGHT, ALL THE LETTERS WE RECEIVED, UH, ALL THE PEOPLE THAT I'VE DISAPPOINTED, ALL THE CALLS AND EVERYTHING. UM, SO, UM, RTC GRATEFUL TO RTC. UH, AND, UH, SO THE PROCESS, THIS HAS NOT BEEN EASY. THIS HAS BEEN UGLY, REALLY, AND IT'S CAUSED PAIN, RIGHT? UM, IT'S UNCOMFORTABLE AND, UM, BUT DISCOMFORT DRIVES CHANGE. YOU KNOW, THERE'S TWO THINGS THAT DRIVE CHANGE, IT'S PAIN AND IT, AND IT'S AN ATTRACTION. SO GOVERNANCE, YOU KNOW, RESPONSIBLE GOVERNANCE RE REQUIRES US TO EVALUATE AND ADJUST AND, AND RESPOND TO THE CHANGING WORLD. I'M, UM, I DON'T THINK DARTS RESPONDED OVER THESE 43 YEARS AS THE CHANGING WORLDS THEY SHOULD HAVE. UM, SO THE TONIGHT WE'RE, WE'RE, WE'RE DOING TONIGHT. WHAT'S PART OF THIS PROCESS? IT'S PART OF THE WHOLE PROCESS THAT WE, WE RUN THE COUNTRY BY, RIGHT? AND IT'S THE ONE THAT'S DEFINED BY THE LEGISLATURE THAT GOVERNORS DART AND THIS RESCIND VOTE TONIGHT I'M IN, I'M IN FAVOR OF HAVING THE RECENSION. I THINK IT'S PART OF THE PROCESS, AND I'M GLAD THAT, THAT, UH, WE'RE, WE'RE GOING THROUGH THIS. UM, SO THAT'S, THAT'S THE WAY THAT THIS SHOULD WORK. SO I, I BELIEVE IN THE DEMOCRATIC PROCESS AND I BELIEVE IN THE RIGHT TO VOTE. AND I THINK WE SHOULD RESPECT PEOPLE'S RIGHT TO VOTE. THAT'S, THAT'S A FOUNDATION TO OUR SYSTEM. SO ADDISON'S NOT PLANO, IT'S NOT IRVING, IT'S NOT, UH, FARMER'S BRANCH. IT'S A VERY SMALL GEOGRAPHY TOWN WITH OUR, OUR OWN PRIORITIES AND NEEDS AND DECISIONS THAT AFFECT ADDISON. UM, THE, THE WILL OF THE VOTERS WHEN WE HAVE THIS OPPORTUNITY IS, IS SOMETHING THAT WE CONSIDER HEAVILY. 'CAUSE THERE'S JUST THREE TIMES WHEN PEOPLE GET TO VOTE, THEY GET A VOTE FOR ADDISON COUNCIL PEOPLE AND MAYORS. THEY GET A VOTE FOR BONDS AND THEY GET A VOTE FOR THIS ONCE EVERY SIX YEARS. SO IT'S A VERY, REALLY UNIQUE SITUATION. I'M NOT AFRAID OF EITHER OUTCOME, I'M REALLY NOT. IT'S, IT'S, UM, YOU KNOW, REMAINING IN DART IS NOT A FAILURE FOR THE PEOPLE THAT MAY WANT TO EXIT. AND EXITING DART IS NOT DOOMSDAY FOR THE PEOPLE THAT WANNA REMAIN IN DART. UM, WHAT MATTERS IS, IS, UH, THE CITIZENS VOTE ON THIS, LET THE CITIZENS VOTE. WE'RE GONNA INFORM THEM, I'M GONNA HAVE ALL THE INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL ME THAT WHAT I HAVE AND OTHER COUNCIL FOLKS AND, AND THE TOWN'S GONNA PROVIDE THE INFORMATION. SO NOT AFRAID OF EITHER OUTCOME. UM, SO WHATEVER THE VOTERS CHOOSE, THIS IS, THIS IS THE KEY THING THAT I WANNA SAY IS WHATEVER THE VOTERS CHOOSE, I'M GONNA BE ON BOARD WITH A HUNDRED PERCENT. I'M GONNA FOCUS, I'M GONNA TREAT IT RESPONSIBLY AND HAVE A COMMITMENT. IF, IF WE STAY IN DART THE VOTERS STAY IN DART, I'M GONNA WORK WITH DART TO HELP DART WIN, TO HELP ADDISON WIN, TO HELP THE RIDERS WIN. AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE THE THING THAT I WANT EVERYBODY TO, TO KNOW FROM MY POSITION. AND I THINK ALL OF US UP HERE WILL BE, SO ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I DON'T FEAR IS I DON'T FEAR CHANGE. AND, UM, I THINK WE SHOULD DELIVER EXCELLENCE, UH, WHATEVER PATH, UH, ADDISON VOTERS CHOOSE. AND THAT'S, THAT'S MY POSITION ON THIS. SO IT'S, IT'S NOT DOOMSDAY. IT'S NOT A FAILURE TO STAY IN OR STAY OUT, AND WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT WORK EITHER WAY. AND WE HAVE A LOT OF PLANS AND, AND, AND, AND, UH, UH, OPTIONS THAT WE CAN GO WITH. AND WE'VE, WE'VE TRIED 'EM OUT. I WAS UP IN DENTON LAST WEEK RIDING DENTON TRANSIT AND LOOK AT THE, YOU KNOW, THE PROS AND CONS OF THAT. SO, UM, THE OTHER THING WE NEED TO REALIZE IS THE LAST [02:55:01] TIME THIS VOTE WAS CONSIDERED, IT WAS IN 2017, UH, WHEN THE COUNCIL DIS UH, DISCUSSED IT. AND THAT WAS FOR THE 2020 VOTE. 2020 VOTE WAS KIND OF BAD TIMING. 'CAUSE COVID WAS STARTING TO HAPPEN. AND THAT'S, THAT WAS REALLY BAD FOR JUST EVERYTHING, UH, EVEN BIGGER THAN THIS. SO, UH, THE NEXT SIX YEARS STARTS NOW, EITHER WAY, AND THAT'S, THAT'S THE WAY WE HAVE TO LOOK AT IT. WE DON'T NEED THIS FIRE DRILL. AND THAT'S, THAT'S, UH, THAT'S WHAT I'M, UM, UH, NOT HAPPY ABOUT, BUT THIS IS WHERE WE ARE. THIS IS THE PROCESS. WE'RE DOING THE PROCESS. THANK YOU, MAYOR. OKAY. ANY OTHER QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS? YEAH, COMMENTS, PLEASE IF I CAN. SURE. DAN? YEAH. WELL, I'M COMING THROUGH CLEARLY FROM THE HOTEL. YES, SIR. SIR, I JUST WANNA SAY, SORT OF REITERATE WHAT EVERYONE HAS SORT OF ALREADY TALKED ABOUT FROM THE PAST, COUNCIL MEMBERS, PAST MAYORS. WITH ALL DUE RESPECT, I COMPLETELY UNDERSTAND THE SITUATION THAT YOU'RE ASKING US TO BE PUT IN. UM, RESPECTFULLY, WHEN YOU LOOK AT SITUATIONS OF THIS GRAVITY, CERTAINLY I'M NOT TAKING THIS, I'M SURE MY COUNSEL'S NOT TAKING THIS LIGHTLY. UM, I'VE SAT THROUGH, UH, HOURS AND HOURS AS HOWARD HAS SAID, UH, DARREN HAS SAID, MARLIN HAS SAID, BRUCE, YOU'VE SAID IT YOURSELF. WE, WE'VE SPENT HOURS AND HOURS COUNTLESSLY DISCUSSING THIS. UM, YOU KNOW, I'M SITTING HERE READING ANOTHER EMAIL THAT HAD COME THROUGH AND WE TALK ABOUT THE NUMBERS OF RESIDENTS, AND IT IS A VERY IMPORTANT NUMBER WHEN YOU START TALKING ABOUT HOW MANY PEOPLE HAVE ENGAGED PERSONALLY MYSELF. UM, I CAN'T SPEAK ON BEHALF OF THE REST OF THE COUNCIL, BUT I CAN GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW. I'LL, I'LL QUOTE THIS AT THIS TIME. OUR GROUP INCLUDES OVER 120 ADDISON RESIDENTS, STRONG AND GROWING HOMEOWNERS, RENTERS, BUSINESS OWNERS, AND LONGTIME COMMUNITY MEMBERS. WE ARE THE SILENT MAJORITY RESIDENTS WHO CARE DEEPLY ABOUT ADDISON AS FUTURE. MANY OF US PREFER NOT TO ENGAGE PUBLICLY FOR PERSONAL OR PROFESSIONAL REASONS, BUT WE ARE INFORMED AND ACTIVELY INVOLVED IN THESE ISSUES RESPECTFULLY. AND IT'S, IT'S SIGNED OFF. AND, AND I, I HAVE TO READ THAT WITH SINCERITY BECAUSE THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT GET UP AND SPEAK PUBLICLY. UM, THERE ARE A LOT OF PEOPLE WHO WILL NOT MAKE PUBLIC COMMENT IN A COMMENT CARD, BUT WHEN YOU START TO WEIGH THAT, THEN I HAVE ANOTHER QUOTE FROM A, FROM A DATA MEMBER WHO IS QUOTED ON THE NEWS. AND HIS QUOTE BASICALLY READS, SHOW THAT DART IS POPULAR, LET FOLKS VOTE. SO FROM A DATA MEMBER WHO IS, WHO OBVIOUSLY MADE LOCAL NEWS, UM, YOU'RE, YOU'RE, YOU'RE HEARING CONTRADICTORY SIDES, WHETHER YOU ARE AGAIN, FOR THIS VOTE OR AGAINST THIS VOTE. UM, AND, AND HAVING SIT IN THE SAT IN THE SEAT THAT I'M IN NOW, UH, I CAN ONLY TELL YOU THAT, YOU KNOW, THE TEXT MESSAGES, THE PHONE MESSAGES, THE EMAILS, UM, I'M NOT SAYING I'VE BEEN PERSONALLY ATTACKED, BUT THE TONALITY OF SOME OF THE MESSAGES THAT I'VE RECEIVED AND FROM THE YEAR THAT I'VE JUST COME THROUGH PERSONALLY WITH MY HEALTH, I CAN TELL YOU IT'S GREATLY UNAPPRECIATED. UM, I RESPECT EVERYONE'S OPINIONS. I CERTAINLY RESPECT THE VIEWS OF THE PAST, UM, PEOPLE WHO HAVE LED THIS TOWN AND MOLDED THIS TOWN. BUT I ALSO LOOK AT THINGS, AND WE'VE DISCUSSED THIS PERSONALLY ON CALLS OR IN TEXTS OR IN EMAILS. YOU KNOW, IF, AGAIN, I'VE SAID THIS TO OTHER MEMBERS IN THE COMMUNITY, THE PHONE BOOK DOESN'T EXIST ANYMORE. IT, IT'S STILL OUT THERE. PEOPLE CAN CHOOSE TO USE IT. BUT, BUT TYPICALLY, MOST PEOPLE DON'T HAVE A PHONE BOOK. UH, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO SAY THAT DART IS THE PHONE BOOK, BUT I'M TRYING TO TELL YOU IS IF WE DON'T THINK ABOUT THE FUTURE AND WE STILL DON'T START TALKING ABOUT THINGS LIKE DRONES OR PERSONAL DELIVERY VEHICLES, UM, WE'D BE IGNORANT NOT TO IN THE FUTURE. SOMETIMES YOU HAVE TO PRESS FORWARD THE SAME WAY WE'RE HAVING CONVERSATIONS ABOUT AI. A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE UNCOMFORTABLE ABOUT AI. I REMEMBER WHEN UBER CAME OUT AND COUNTRIES, CITIES, COUNTIES WERE PROTESTING ABOUT UBER AND HOW ILLEGITIMATE THE SERVICE WAS AND HOW OVERPRICED THE PRODUCT WAS. AND YET, UBER HAS A COMPETITOR NOW CALLED LYFT. AND I JUST LOOK AT THE WAY THAT THINGS HAVE TO PROGRESS SOMETIMES IS NEVER EASY. CHANGE IS NOT EASY. UM, GOVERNMENT IS NOT EASY. BUT FROM MY PERSPECTIVE, I JUST CAN'T UNDERSTAND HOW WE CAN'T HAVE MORE OPEN COMMUNICATION, MORE OPEN DIALOGUE ABOUT THE GOVERNANCE, THE FINANCES, THE LEGISLATIVE, THE THE LEGISLATIVE SIDE OF THINGS IS COMPLETELY BROKEN, IN MY OPINION. IT IS PERSONALLY MY OPINION, IT IS NOT SOMETHING THAT SHOULD WAIT ANOTHER SIX YEARS. THIS SHOULD HAVE BEEN ADDRESSED YEARS AGO. GENERATIONS AGO. I, I SAT BACK AND LISTENED TO RANDALL AND I DO GREATLY APPRECIATE THE CONVERSATIONS WE'VE HAD. I THANK YOU FOR THE WORK YOU'VE PUT IN WITH YOUR BOARD. 'CAUSE I KNOW YOU'RE FIGHTING, UM, TOOTH AND NAIL, BUT I, I, I HATE TO REGRETFULLY SAY THAT THIS IS A SITUATION THAT IS BEYOND YOU. YOU ARE ONE MAN [03:00:01] FIGHTING AN UPHILL BATTLE, OF WHICH I GREATLY APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT YOU'VE PUT IN THE WORK YOU'VE PUT IN, IN A SHORT PERIOD OF TIME. SO DON'T LET THAT GO AND RECOGNIZE BY MY COMMENTS. BUT I REALLY FEEL IS THOUGH, THE BIG PICTURE IS THERE'S SOMETHING SERIOUSLY WRONG. AND IT, AS I SAID IT BEFORE, THE, THE, THE, THE TEMPERATURE NEVER GOT ELEVATED ENOUGH, FAST ENOUGH, SOON ENOUGH. AND THERE'S NO REASON WHY WE SHOULD NOT ALLOW RESIDENTS AS JUST PREVIOUSLY STATED, ONLY EVERY SIX YEARS. IT JUST ABSOLUTELY MIND BLOWS ME. 'CAUSE I'M NOT A POLITICIAN. I'M JUST A PERSON WHO CARES DEEPLY ABOUT ADDISON AND THE RESIDENTS ON ALL SIDES. I, AS I'VE SAID IT BEFORE, I DON'T WANT PHYLLIS SILVER TO FEEL LIKE SHE CAN'T GET A RIDE. I DON'T WANT TYLER WRIGHT TO FEEL LIKE HE CAN'T GET TO AND FROM A PLACE WE WILL NOT LEAVE PEOPLE HANGING REGARDLESS OF THE ELECTION'S OUTCOME. I PROMISE THAT THAT'S ALL I HAVE TO SAY. I DO HAVE A QUICK A QUESTION. YEAH, A QUESTION BACK ON THE QUESTION, UH, SIDE HERE. SO, UM, ON SLIDE 11, THIS IS JUST KIND OF A, MAYBE A FORMALITY. SO, YOU KNOW, IF WE, UM, DON'T RESCIND THE ELECTION, THERE'S GONNA BE AN ELECTION AND IT GIVES DART A SI, YOU KNOW, A CHANCE TO HAVE THE AFFIRMATION. AND, AND I I KIND OF EXPECT THAT. UM, CAN YOU GO TO SLIDE 11? SO, WOULD WE WANT TO, UH, GET A HEAD START ON THE RESOLUTION, UH, FOR THE PROPOSED GOVERNANCE STRUCTURE? BECAUSE THE, THE ELECTION'S NOT A FOREGONE, UH, DECISION THAT WHICH WAY IT WOULD GO OUT? I, I'LL COME OUT, RIGHT? OR WHEN'S THAT RESOLUTION SUPPOSED TO COME OUT? I, I MEAN, IF, IF Y'ALL WANT TO DO THE RESOLUTION NOW, YOU CAN. I THINK IF WE WAIT, I MEAN, NOT NOW. I MEAN, JUST TO GET THAT ON, ON THE, UH, AGENDA IN THE FUTURE. 'CAUSE IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S A DECISION POINT. I DON'T THINK WAITING TILL MAY HAS ANY MATERIAL CHANGE ON, ON WHEN WE DO THE GOVERNANCE. OKAY, THANKS. OKAY. IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, I'M GONNA ENTERTAIN A MOTION. I'D MAKE A MOTION TO DENY AGENDA ITEM FIVE A AND ALLOW OUR CITIZENS TO VOTE ON A WITHDRAWAL FROM DART. I SECOND IT. ARE YOU OF MOTION TO SECOND? ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. ALRIGHT. THAT'S FIVE AND OPPOSED NAY. ALRIGHT. UH, I, ITEM FIVE A IS, UH, DENIED FIVE TO TWO. ALL [b. Present, discuss, and consider action on acceptance of the FY 2025 Annual Comprehensive Financial Report (ACFR).] RIGHT. ITEM FIVE B, DISCUSS, PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON ACCEPTANCE OF THE FY 2025 ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT ACT FOR, I DON'T KNOW. I THOUGHT THEY LIKED US. WE'RE GONNA MAKE IT HAPPEN. I DO. I, I, I WOULD APPRECIATE THAT. RIGHT. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. GO RIGHT AHEAD. GOOD EVENING, MAYOR AND COUNCIL. AMANDA TURNER, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF FINANCE. WE'RE HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT OUR LADIES AND GENTLEMEN. COULD, COULD Y'ALL PLEASE KEEP IT DOWN IN THE, IN THE GALLERY PLEASE, PLEASE KEEP IT DOWN. WE'RE STILL HAVE BUSINESS TO CONDUCT. THANK YOU. GO RIGHT AHEAD. TONIGHT WE'RE PRESENTING OUR ANNUAL COMPREHENSIVE FINANCIAL REPORT FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED SEPTEMBER 30TH, 2025. UM, AND WE'RE PRESENTING THIS REPORT FOR ACCEPTANCE AS WELL AS PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF OUR ANNUAL EXTERNAL AUDIT. AS MENTIONED IN THE AGENDA ITEM WE'RE REQUIRED BY CHARTER TO PREPARE ANNUAL FINANCIAL STATEMENTS AND ALSO HAVE THEM AUDITED BY AN EXTERNAL INDEPENDENT AUDITOR. UM, I HAVE WITH ME TONIGHT RACHEL ORNSBY. SHE IS THE PARTNER OF OUR AUDIT FIRM, FOUR OF US AND OURS, AND SHE WILL BE PRESENTING THE RESULTS OF OUR ANNUAL AUDIT. THANK YOU, AMANDA. ALRIGHT, GOOD EVENING, MAYOR. COUNCIL, I THINK WE MAY BE SAVED THE BEST FOR LAST. SOME GOOD, SOME GREAT NEWS. ? NO, UM, LET ME MAKE SURE TECHNOLOGY'S WORKING. THERE WE GO. OKAY. UM, WE'LL JUST GET RIGHT INTO IT. SO I'M HERE TONIGHT TO PRESENT THE FISCAL YEAR 2025 AUDIT RESULTS. OKAY. SO PLEASE TO PRESENT THAT THIS, THE TOWN HAS RECEIVED CLEAN UNMODIFIED OPINIONS ON YOUR 2025 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS. YOU KNOW, WE COME IN YEAR END IS SEPTEMBER, WE START IN AUGUST. SO IT'S SIX MONTHS OF A LOT OF HARD WORK WHERE WE'RE SPENDING A LOT OF TIME COMING IN, LOOKING AT RECORDS, UM, AND ASKING A LOT OF QUESTIONS. AND SO WE GREATLY APPRECIATE THE FULL COOPERATION THAT WE [03:05:01] RECEIVE FROM ALL THE DEPARTMENTS. PLEASED TO LET YOU ALL KNOW THAT AS PART OF OUR AUDIT, WE DID NOT IDENTIFY ANY MATERIAL WEAKNESSES, SIGNIFICANT DEFICIENCIES OR DEFICIENCIES IN INTERNAL CONTROLS. ANOTHER THING THAT I WANNA POINT OUT, SO THE CITY OR THE TOWN, I'M SORRY, DOES SUBMIT TO GFOA. SO THAT'S THE GOVERNMENT FINANCE OFFICERS ASSOCIATION EVERY YEAR FOR THE PRESTIGIOUS AWARD. AND THE TOWN HAS RECEIVED THIS AWARD FOR 49 CONSECUTIVE YEARS. SO I DO A LOT OF THESE PRESENTATIONS ACROSS THE METROPLEX, AND THAT IS ONE OF THE LONGEST, UM, TRENDS THAT I HAVE SEEN. AND SO THAT JUST IS KUDOS, YOU KNOW, TO, TO THE, TO THE DEPARTMENTS, UM, THAT REALLY SHOWS YOUR COMMITMENT TO SOUND AND FINANCIAL, UH, REPORTING AND TRANSPARENCY. AND SO, UM, AS WITH EVERY SET OF FINANCIAL STATEMENTS, THERE ARE ESTIMATES. AND SO HERE, I'M NOT GONNA READ ALL OF THESE TO YOU ON THE SCREEN, BUT AS PART OF THE AUDIT, WE COME IN AND WE WANNA MAKE SURE THAT THE ESTIMATES THAT MANAGEMENT MAKES THE ASSUMPTIONS THAT THEY USE ARE SOUND, THEY'RE COMPLETE, THEY'RE ACCURATE. AND SO WE DO LOOK AT A LOT OF HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS AND THINGS TO ENSURE THAT THOSE ESTIMATES RELATED TO THESE, UH, VARIOUS ITEMS ON THE SCREEN ARE COMPLETE AND PROPER. AND ALONG THOSE SAME LINES IN THE, IN THE BOOK THAT YOU HAVE IN, UH, IN YOUR PACKET, THE FINAL ACT FOR EVERY ONE OF THESE DOES CONTAIN SIGNIFICANT FOOTNOTE DISCLOSURES. AND SO THOSE ARE HERE ON THE SCREEN FOR YOU AS WELL. ANOTHER THING THAT I DO WANNA POINT OUT IS THAT WE DID NOT IDENTIFY ANY AUDIT ADJUSTMENTS. SO I KNOW THROUGHOUT THE YEAR YOU ALL GET INTERIM FINANCIAL REPORTS. AND SO THAT WHAT THAT MEANS FOR YOU ALL AS A COUNCIL IS THAT THROUGHOUT THE YEAR, THOSE INTERIM REPORTS AND RECORDS THAT YOU WERE RECEIVING, YOU CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE AND TRUST THAT THOSE ARE SOUND FINANCIAL NUMBERS AS EVIDENCED BY THE YEAR END AUDIT RESULTS. YOU KNOW, WE CAME IN, UH, WE LOOKED AT ALL OF, YOU KNOW, THE RECORDS, THE TRIAL BALANCE, THINGS OF THAT NATURE, AND WE DID NOT HAVE TO PROPOSE ANY AUDIT ADJUSTMENTS. SO KUDOS TO THE TEAM THERE, THERE. AND THEN, UH, LAST BUT CERTAINLY NOT LEAST, IS NOT AN AUDIT PRESENTATION. IF WE DON'T TALK ABOUT THE GOVERNMENTAL ACCOUNTING STANDARDS BOARD, THAT'S GASB, THAT'S THE STANDARD BOARD THAT YOU FOLLOW AS A GOVERNMENTAL ENTITY. THEY'VE BEEN VERY BUSY OVER THE LAST SEVERAL YEARS. UM, THERE'S A COUPLE OF PRONOUNCEMENTS THAT ARE COMING DOWN THE PIPELINE, UH, GASB 1 0 3 WILL BE IN EFFECT FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 26 THAT YOU'RE CURRENTLY IN. AND WE'LL WORK CLOSELY WITH THE TOWN TO ENSURE THAT THAT STANDARD'S PROPERLY IMPLEMENTED AND EVALUATED ALONG THOSE SAME LINES TOO, GASB 1 0 4, THAT'S ALSO GONNA BE IMPACTFUL FOR THIS FISCAL YEAR 2026 THAT WE'RE IN. THIS IS REALLY JUST A FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE, AND I DO NOT FORESEE THIS HAVING ANY TYPE OF AN IMPACT ON THE TOWN. AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, WHEN IT COMES TO FUTURE PRONOUNCEMENTS, THERE'S ONE MORE THAT'LL BE APPLICABLE FOR FISCAL YEAR 27. AND AGAIN, THAT IS A FOOTNOTE ONLY DISCLOSURE, AND WE DO NOT FORESEE THAT HAVING A SIGNIFICANT IMPACT ON YOU ALL. AND THEN I JUST WANNA KIND OF ROUND IT OUT WITH A COUPLE OF FINANCIAL METRICS. SO YOU ALL, AS A COUNCIL, THERE'S SOME METRICS THAT I THINK YOU FIND YOU WOULD FIND THAT ARE IMPORTANT. AND SO AS, UM, A TOWN, YOU ALL HAVE ADOPTED A MINIMUM UNASSIGNED GENERAL FUND BALANCE POLICY OF 30% OF YOUR BUDGETED EXPENDITURES. AND YOU CAN SEE HERE ON THE SCREEN AT, AT FISCAL YEAR END, 9 30, 20 25, UH, YOU NOT ONLY MET YOUR INTERNAL POLICY THAT YOU HAVE ESTABLISHED, BUT YOU EXCEEDED IT. AND SO I THINK THIS JUST GOES TO SHOW THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU ARE FISCALLY SOUND. UM, YOU KNOW, GFOA, WHO I MENTIONED EARLIER, THEY'RE A BEST PRACTICE IN OUR INDUSTRY. THEY RECOMMEND 16%. SO AS YOU CAN SEE, UM, YOU'RE EXCEEDING INDUSTRY NORMS AS WELL AS YOUR, UM, INTERNAL POLICY. SO KUDOS TO YOU ALL THERE FOR THAT. AND THEN PENSION FUNDED STATUS, THIS IS ALWAYS A, A FUN TOPIC, AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT YOU ALL PARTICIPATE IN TMRS, WHICH IS THE TEXAS MUNICIPAL RETIREMENT SYSTEM. IT IS MEASURED AND BASED AND VALUED ON A CALENDAR YEAR END, WHICH IS DIFFERENT, YOU KNOW, THAN THE FISCAL YEAR END. SO AT 12 31 24, THE TOWN WAS ALMOST 92% FUNDED, WHICH IS EXTREMELY HEALTHY. UM, YOU KNOW, YOU ALL, A LOT OF THIS IS DRIVEN BY HOW THE MARKET DOES AS WELL AS TIMING. AND YOU ALL CONTINUOUSLY PUT IN YOUR ANNUAL REQUIRED CONTRIBUTIONS. SO AGAIN, ANOTHER VERY HEALTHY METRIC AND SOMETHING TO BE VERY PROUD OF. AND THEN LAST BUT NOT LEAST, OVER THE YEARS, IT WAS A FEW YEARS AGO, YOU TOOK ALL, YOU ALL TOOK ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO CREATE A RETIREE, UM, OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFIT HEALTHCARE TRUST FUND TO SET ASIDE FUTURE, UM, PAYMENTS AND RESERVES FOR THOSE OBLIGATIONS THAT WOULD BECOME DUE OVER THE YEARS. AND SO OVER THE LAST COUPLE OF YEARS, THIS FIDUCIARY NET POSITION HAS GROWN, AND THIS, UH, FUND IS ALMOST 40% FUNDED. SO AGAIN, VERY HEALTHY. AND IT'S NICE TO SEE YOU ALL TAKING PROACTIVE MEASURES TO THINK ABOUT, UH, WHERE THE FUTURE IS HEADED WITH SOME OF THESE OTHER POST-EMPLOYMENT BENEFITS. AND THEN JUST ONE [03:10:01] OTHER THING I WANTED TO MENTION. YOU KNOW, AS I MENTIONED, WE CAME IN, WE DID NOT HAVE ANY AUDIT FINDINGS, AND I DO HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH A LOT OF CLIENTS ACROSS THE METROPLEX, BUT WE DO REALLY APPRECIATE WE COME IN. YOUR TEAM DOES A PHENOMENAL JOB, AND IT'S DEFINITELY A, A DEPARTMENT, EVERY DEPARTMENT ACROSS THE TOWN PLAYS A A FABULOUS ROLE IN MAKING SURE THAT WE PUT THIS TOGETHER. AND SO THAT BOOK THAT'S IN FRONT OF YOU, UM, IT'S A LOT OF WORK THAT ACTUALLY GOES IN BY YOUR DEPARTMENTS AND YOUR STAFF. SO WE ONLY PUT THREE PAGES, WHICH IS OUR AUDIT OPINION IN THIS. AND EVERYTHING ELSE IS WRITTEN BY AMANDA AND THE REST OF THE TEAM. AND SO IT'S A LOT OF HARD WORK THAT GOES INTO THIS. AND SO IF YOU GET A CHANCE, I WOULD SAY READ THE MANAGEMENT'S DISCUSSION AND ANALYSIS, IT'S ABOUT 10 PAGES AND IT GIVES A REALLY GREAT SNAPSHOT OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING THE FISCAL YEAR. SO WITH THAT, I TRY TO KEEP IT SHORT AND SWEET. I KNOW EVERYBODY'S PROBABLY TIRED, BUT I'M HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS THAT ANYONE HAS AT THIS TIME. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. YOU ALWAYS GIVE A REALLY NICE PRESENTATION, , VERY UNDERSTANDABLE EVEN TO, TO SOMEBODY LIKE ME THAT THIS IS NOT MY WHEELHOUSE. AND, AND, AND AMANDA, THANK YOU AND YOUR TEAM FOR ALL YOU'VE DONE. UH, DARREN, ON, UM, SLIDE 15, PAGE 15, THREE OR FOUR SLIDES BACK ON THE, UH, RETIREE HEALTH HEALTHCARE PLAN, 37%. SO WILL THAT BE FUNDED, UH, FULLY FUNDED BY, UH, TWO TO THREE YEARS FROM NOW? OR, I MEAN, IS THAT THE RATE? THAT'S NOT AN ANNUAL AMOUNT, IS IT? NO, TYPICALLY WE'VE BEEN FUND, WE, IN THE FIRST YEAR WE CONTRIBUTED ABOUT 200,000. THIS WAS ONLY A FEW YEARS AGO. WE STARTED THE TRUST, AND IT'S NOT A REQUIREMENT THAT WE HAVE A TRUST TO FUND THIS, BUT WE DECIDED TO, IT WOULD, YOU KNOW, DRASTICALLY REDUCE OUR, UM, LIABILITY FOR THIS OVER TIME. SO WE'VE BEEN FUNDING ABOUT $60,000 A YEAR, AND I THINK WE'LL CONTINUE, YOU KNOW, IN THE FORESEEABLE FUTURE TO CONTINUE TO CONTRIBUTE THAT MUCH. UM, SO PROBABLY A LITTLE LONGER DOWN THE LINE BEFORE IT'S FULLY FUNDED. OKAY. I AM REALLY IMPRESSED, UH, EVERY YEAR WHEN THIS COMES IN AND I, I THINK IT IS A TESTIMONY TO THE FINANCE DEPARTMENT ON, ON HOW YOU GUYS RUN, RUN THE DEPARTMENT AND RUN THE BOOKS. AND AMANDA, GREAT. IT LOOKS LIKE YOU'RE IN CHARGE OF THIS ONE. SO, GREAT, GREAT JOB. AND THANK YOU FOR OUR, YOU KNOW, THANK YOU FOR OUR, UM, THE AUDIT AND, AND YOUR REPORT ON US. ABSOLUTELY. ABSOLUTELY. THANK YOU. ANY OTHER COMMENTS OR QUESTIONS? ALL RIGHT. AND, UM, THAT'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO, UH, TAKE AN ACTION ON. SO IS THERE A MOTION I MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE SECOND MOTION. SECOND. CHRIS AND MARLON FOR THE SECOND, AND DAN FOR THE SECOND AND A HALF. ALRIGHT. UH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? AYE. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. ANY OPPOSED? AYE. ALL ITEM FIVE B IS APPROVED. THANK YOU ALL VERY MUCH. APPRECIATE IT. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. ALL RIGHT. ITEM FIVE [c. Present, discuss, and consider action on a Resolution approving a Master Development Agreement and related definitive agreements between the Town of Addison and AMLI Residential for the AMLI Treehouse, Phase II development project, and authorizing the City Manager to execute the agreements.] C, PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A RESOLUTION APPROVING A MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT AND RELATED DEFINITIVE AGREEMENTS BETWEEN THE TOWN OF ADDISON AND AMIE RESIDENTIAL FOR THE AMIE TREE HOUSE PHASE TWO DEVELOPMENT PROJECT AND AUTHORIZING THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE AGREEMENTS. LESLIE? GOOD EVENING, LESLIE. AND I'M DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. UM, THIS RE UM, ITEM BEFORE YOU, HERE WE GO. UM, IS A, THE, UH, MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT OR MDA FOR AM EMILY TREEHOUSE, PHASE TWO. UM, YOU MAY HAVE RECALLED THAT WE, UM, UM, UH, CITY, EXCUSE ME, CITY COUNCIL TOOK ACTION ON PHASE ONE SEVERAL MONTHS AGO. AND THIS IS FOR PHASE TWO OF THE PROJECT. A LITTLE BIT OF BACKGROUND ON THIS PARTICULAR, UM, PORTION OF THE PROJECT. SO, UM, PHASE TWO ENTITLEMENTS, UM, CAME THROUGH IN 2024 AND THEY WERE APPROVED. THAT INCLUDED A MIXTURE OF FEE SIMPLE AND RENTAL TOWN HOMES, AS WELL AS, UM, STACK STACKED FLATS, UH, RENTAL UNITS AND, UH, RETAIL AS WELL AS, UM, PUBLIC, UH, AND PRIVATE OPEN SPACES. UM, WITH THAT APPROVED A MEMORANDUM OF UNDERSTANDING OR AN MOU, UH, WHICH ESTABLISHED MORE RESTRICTIVE PERFORMANCE MEASURES, UM, THAT WOULD, THAT MAY, MAY BE ACCOMPLISHED VIA ZONING. THIS WAS CONSISTENT WITH WHAT WAS COMPLETED WITH PHASE ONE AS MENTIONED. UM, IN OCTOBER OF 2025, UH, THE, THERE WAS AN AMENDMENT FOR PHASE TWO, WHICH CAME BEFORE COUNSEL, UM, TO APPROVE MOD OR, UM, AN AMENDMENT TO ESTABLISH, UH, DEVELOPMENT PLANS FOR THE FEE SIMPLE TOWN HOMES. THE DEVELOPER FOR THAT, UH, IS CADENCE HOMES. AND BEFORE YOU TONIGHT IS CONSIDERATION OF THE MDA TO FORMALIZE, UM, THE TERMS OUTLINED IN THE MOU. SO ONCE AGAIN, JUST, UM, TO DEPICT WHERE WE'RE AT, WE ARE ON THE NORTH SIDE OF THE DEVELOPMENT IN PHASE TWO. PHASE ONE HAS ALREADY BEEN EXECUTED. SO ONCE AGAIN, THE PURPOSE OF THIS MDA, UM, IS TO ESTABLISH MORE STRICT PERFORMANCE MEASURES. [03:15:01] UM, THERE ARE NO FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS RELATED TO THE TOWN. UM, AM DID NOT SEEK ANY FINANCIAL OBLIGATIONS AS A PART OF THIS PROJECT. SO SOME GOALS OF THIS, UM, THIS MBA WILL ACHIEVE IS TO MAKE SURE THAT THERE ARE THE USES THAT WILL BE, UM, ESTABLISHED, CONSTRUCTED, AND ESTABLISHED ON THE PROPERTY AS DEPICTED. UM, THEY WILL BE EXECUTED IN A PHASED MANNER, UM, THAT ALL OF THE OTHER ENHANCEMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED BY THE DEVELOPER, SUCH AS THE, UM, PUBLIC PARK SPACE THAT WE KNOW AS THE TRAIL BEHIND THE PROJECT, AS WELL AS ACHIEVE ENHANCED SUSTAINABILITY STANDARDS THAT, UM, WE DID NOT HAVE AT THE TIME IN OUR ZONING ORDINANCE. SO ONCE AGAIN, THE COMPONENTS OF THIS MDA, UM, ONCE AGAIN ALL OF THOSE GOALS I JUST MENTIONED, BUT ALSO INCLUDES THE PARK DEDICATION, COVENANTS, THE, UH, PURCHASE OPTION FOR THE FEE SIMPLE TOWN HOMES AND THE PARK SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED. SO THOSE ARE ALL INCLUDED IN THE PACKAGE OF THE MDA. THIS IS CONSISTENT WITH HOW IT WAS STRUCTURED FOR PHASE ONE AS WELL. SO ONCE AGAIN, KIND OF GOING THROUGH SOME OF THE MAJOR COMPONENTS, UM, YOU'LL NOTICE SOME OF THESE ARE COMPLETED. UM, THE ONLY THING THAT WAS MODIFIED IS THE FIFTH BULLET POINT, WHICH WAS THE EXTERIOR FACADE BUILDING MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS. THIS WAS APPROVED, UH, WITH THE ZONING AMENDMENT IN OCTOBER OF LAST YEAR. BUT I JUST WANNA NOTE THAT THIS IS THE ONLY CHANGE FROM THE MOU THAT WAS ORIGINALLY APPROVED IN, I THINK IT WAS JULY OF 2024. EVERYTHING ELSE THAT WAS APPROVED IN THE MOU HAS EITHER BEEN, UM, EITHER WILL BE, HAS ALREADY BEEN COMPLETED OR IS IN PROCESS OF BEING COMPLETED AS INDICATED. AND WITH THAT STAFF, UH, RECOMMENDS APPROVAL OF THIS ITEM TO AUTHORIZE, UH, THE CITY MANAGER TO EXECUTE THE MDA, UM, WITH AMLI RESIDENTIAL FOR THE PHASE TWO. AND WE ALSO HAVE A REPRESENTATIVE, UM, ONLINE FROM LEE. THEY COULDN'T MAKE IT PHYSICALLY IN PERSON TODAY, BUT, UM, IF THERE ARE SPECIFIC QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, LESLIE. UH, CHRIS, YOUR LIGHT WAS LOW. IS THAT LEFT OVER? SORRY, THEN MARLOW. YEAH. THANK YOU MAYOR. YEAH, LESLIE, UM, YOU KNOW, THE ONLY, THE ONLY ISSUE I HAVE WITH ALL OF THIS IS IT'S, THE PURPOSE IS TO ESTABLISH MORE RESTRICTIVE PERFORMANCE STANDARDS MM-HMM . THAN WHAT WOULD TYPICALLY BE ACCOMPLISHED VIA, VIA THE ZONING PROCESS. CORRECT. AND SO IT APPEARS THAT, AND THEN YOU GO TO SLIDE FIVE IF YOU COULD ON THE FACADE. AND IT JUST, IT DOESN'T, YOU KNOW, WE HAD A, I THINK WE APPROVED, UM, MODIFICATION FROM ORIGINAL MOU ALLOWS MINOR DECREASE OF MINIMUM MASONRY REQUIREMENT FROM 90% TO, UH, ALL THE WAY DOWN TO 50%. YEAH. SO THAT WAS 50 TO 88% DEPENDING UPON THE FACADE THERE WAS FOR THE FEE FOR THE FEE SIMPLE FOR THE TOWN HOMES ONLY FOR THE FEE SIMPLE. THIS DOES NOT INCLUDE ANY OTHER, THAT THAT'S THE PART THAT, THAT I'M, YOU KNOW, IT DOESN'T REALLY MATCH UP WITH THE PURPOSE. AND I'M, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SEE, UM, THE TYPE OF TOWN HOME AND THE PRICE FOR THE TOWN HOME, UM, UH, HIGHER STONE, HIGHER FACADE LEVEL IS, UH, IT'S GONNA BE BETTER FOR OUR COMMUNITY AND IT'S GONNA, UH, IN MY OPINION, IT'S GONNA SELL FOR, FOR MORE THAN, THAN, UM, YOU KNOW, DECREASING OUR FACADE REQUIREMENTS. SO THAT, THAT'S THE ONLY ISSUE THAT, UH, THAT I HAVE WITH US. RANDY, THANK YOU. BACK, UH, YOU DON'T EVEN NEED TO GO TO A SLIDE. DOES THIS HAVE ANYTHING TO DO WITH THE PARK AREA BACK THERE? OR HAS THAT ALL BEEN YOU, YOU DID MENTION SOMETHING ABOUT THE PARK LAND BACK THERE. YES. SO THIS IS WHAT, AS A PART OF THIS MDA, ONCE AGAIN, IT'S, UM, A LOT OF, THERE'S THE MASTER DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT IS AN UMBRELLA AGREEMENT THAT ENCOMPASSES A LOT OF, UM, MISCELLANEOUS REGULATIONS OR REQUIREMENTS THAT, ONCE AGAIN WE COULD, IT, WE ARE UNABLE TO INCLUDE IN A ZONING, UM, UH, A PLAN DEVELOPMENT, WHICH IS, OR THE ZONING FOR THE DISTRICT. SO WHAT THIS DOES IS IT DOES SET, UH, SPECIFIC REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE PARKLAND, WHICH ONCE AGAIN IN THIS IMAGE, UH, ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE IS THE, THE, UH, PORTION IN THE FOREGROUND OF THIS RENDERING. UM, SO IT SETS STANDARDS FOR HOW THE PARK IS CONVEYED TO US. UM, FOR EXAMPLE, UM, TO GET A LITTLE IN THE WEEDS, ONE OF THE ITEMS IS THAT THE IMPROVEMENTS WITHIN THE PARK NEED TO BE WARRANTIED BY AMLI FOR TWO YEARS AFTER WE TAKE OWNERSHIP IN CASE FOR SOME REASON, UM, LET'S SAY A BENCH GETS RUSTY EARLIER THAN ANTICIPATED, THAT WARRANTY WOULD COVER, UM, THE TOWN IN THAT CASE AND [03:20:01] WOULD BE ABLE TO REPLACE IT. SO ONCE AGAIN, THAT'S JUST AN EXAMPLE KIND OF IN THE WEEDS OF STANDARDS THAT ARE IN PLACE FOR THE, UM, THE, EXCUSE ME, THE PARK DEDICATION. AND THEN THERE IS, UH, ALSO WITHIN THE PACKET, THE MEETING PACKET WITHIN THE MDA, THERE IS THE SPECIAL WARRANTY DEED FOR WHEN THE PARK IS COMPLETED OR DEEMED COMPLETE. UM, IT WILL BE, UM, TRANSFERRED. THE OWNERSHIP WILL BE TRANSFERRED TO THE TOWN. SO A SAMPLE IS IN THERE. UM, AND JUST THIS ISN'T NECESSARILY IDENTIFIED IN THE MDA FOR A DEADLINE, BUT, UM, WE ARE, THERE'S BEEN A FINAL PUNCH WALK ON THE PARK AND WE ARE VERY CLOSE TO EXECUTION OF THAT, THAT WARRANTY DEED. WELL, PENDING THIS, WELL, I, I HOPE WE HAVE NO WEEDS IN THAT PARK. IT'S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL PARK . YES. YES. BUT I THINK YOU KNOW WHERE I'M GOING ON THIS. HAVE WE HAVE, WE COME TO A CON A A RESOLUTION WITH THE, WITH THE NEIGHBORS ALONG THAT PROPERTY LINE THAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEIR, THEIR DEED AND IS NOT IN, IN COMPLIANCE WITH THAT. HA HAVE WE COME TO ANY, ARE ALL THE RESIDENTS HAPPY WITH WHAT'S GOING ON? HAVE THEY ALL COME, COME ON BOARD WITH THAT. GO AHEAD, DAVID. SO THIS IS A DIFFERENT PHASE OF THE PROJECT, SO THIS DOES NOT, IT'S NOT THAT THIS PHASE DOES NOT RELATE TO THE CONVERSATION THAT YOU REFERENCED. OKAY. SO THAT DOESN'T HAVE TO DO WITH THE WHOLE PARK AREA, BUT OKAY. YOU LOOK AT THE MAP, YOU CAN SEE THIS IS PHASE TWO AND THAT'S PHASE ONE THAT YOU'RE REFERENCING. OH, IT WAS IN PHASE ONE. OKAY. YES. YEAH, IT WAS THAT, THAT, OKAY. UM, ISSUE IS ENTIRELY IN PHASE ONE. AND IF YOU LOOK AT THE, THE PARK, I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT PERCENTAGE, BUT I WOULD GUESS THAT ABOUT 75 TO 80% OF THE ACTUAL PARK TO BE DEDICATED IS ACTUALLY IN PHASE ONE. OKAY. IT'S A MUCH SMALLER PORTION. UM, I GOTCHA. I APOLOGIZE. I THOUGHT THE, I, AS A MATTER OF FACT, I THOUGHT, BUT I MEAN, I, I WOULD LET MY, MY QUESTION SURE. I'D BE HAPPY. HAVE, HAVE WE, HAVE, WE WORKED WITH THE RESIDENTS AND, AND COME TO A CONCLUSION WITH THEM IN THE PHASE ONE AREA OF THEIR PROPERTY LINES? CORRECT. SO THERE WERE SEVEN IMPACTED OR AFFECTED PROPERTIES. I THINK THERE'S ONLY ONE THAT'S REALLY UNHAPPY WITH THIS SITUATION. YES. HAVE WE COME TO ANY CONCLUSION WITH THEM? NO. SO THERE IS STILL ONE PROPERTY, AS I MENTIONED, SEVEN TOTAL SIX HAVE RESOLVED THE, UM, THE ISSUE OR CONCERN. RIGHT. UM, AND THERE IS ONE PROPERTY THAT, UM, AMIE IS STILL ACTIVELY TRYING TO WORK WITH AND THE TOWN IS, UM, WORKING WITH AMIE IN THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY TO OKAY. I WISH WE COULD TALK ABOUT THAT PHASE ONE. 'CAUSE I DO HAVE CONCERNS WITH THE FENCES AND LOOKING DIFFERENT, BUT THANK YOU FOR THAT. I APOLOGIZE. I DIDN'T KNOW DID, AND I'D BE HAPPY TO TALK OFFLINE. YEAH, WE'LL DO THAT. NO WORRIES. THANK YOU, DEAR. SO, UM, WHILE WE'RE ON THE PARK, WHAT'S, SO I LOOKED AT THAT THIS MORNING, UM, AND IT'S REALLY, YOU'VE GOT TWO THIRDS OF A PARK DONE AND IT'S REALLY COOL. SO WHAT'S THE TIMELINE ON, ON PHASE TWO OF THAT PARK? UM, IS ROBERT ONLINE? I WOULD SAY, DO YOU MIND IF I DEFER THAT? SURE. UH, THIS IS AT YOUR DISCRETION IF I DEFER THAT TO ROBERT. OH, ME? YES. OKAY. UH, ROBERT, DO YOU MIND ANSWERING THE QUESTION ABOUT THE TIMELINE OF PHASE TWO PARK? YEAH, GOOD EVENING. UH, COUNCIL MEMBERS AND MAYOR, UH, THANK YOU ALL FOR TAKING THIS ITEM INTO CONSIDERATION. AS FAR AS THE TIMELINE GOES. FOR PHASE TWO, WE ARE CURRENTLY INSTALLING ALL OF OUR UTILITIES. AS YOU CAN SEE, WE ARE POURING OUR FOUNDATIONS. IT'S OUR GOAL TO START THIS PARK HERE. IN THE SHORT TERM, WE'VE ALREADY WENT AHEAD FOR LONGER LEAD TIME ITEMS SUCH AS OUR LIGHT, BALLARDS AND LIGHT POLES AND HAD THOSE ORDERED, THOSE USUALLY TAKE SOME TIME TO GET IN. BUT IT IS OUR GOAL TO START THAT. WE ARE HOPEFUL THAT WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR WE COULD GET THAT PART COMPLETE. UH, IT'S IMPORTANT TO US BECAUSE OUR TOWN HOME DEVELOPER CADENCE'S HOME IS, AS YOU ALL ARE FAMILIAR WITH, NEEDS TO HAVE THIS PART COMPLETE TO BE ABLE TO SELL THE VISION TO SELL THOSE FOR SALE TOWNHOUSES. SO WE'RE ESSENTIALLY TIED AT THE HEAD. OKAY. THANK YOU. THANK YOU. AND ROBERT, WOULD YOU MIND, UH, JUST FOR THE RECORD, IDENTIFYING YOURSELF? YES. ROBERT LAP, VICE PRESIDENT OF DEVELOPMENT ADDRESS 50 57 KELLER SPRINGS. THANK YOU VERY MUCH AS THE TEXAS APPRECIATE THAT. AND ON SLIDE SIX, AND IT MAY NOT BE ALIGNED WITH MY SLIDES, SORRY, THE MASONRY MM-HMM . SO WE, IS THAT, THAT'S THE ITEM WE DISCUSSED IN DEPTH, UH, WHEN, WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT CHANGING IT AND WHAT THE CHANGES WERE, AND IT WAS REALLY, IT WASN'T COST DRIVEN, IF I RECALL NECESSARILY. IT WAS MORE MARKET DRIVEN FROM A DESIGN ARCHITECTURE STANDPOINT. MM-HMM . I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT I RECALL THAT CORRECTLY. YEAH, THAT'S CORRECT. THE, THE DEVELOPER, OH, , I CAN RESPOND TO THAT. ROBERT. UH, YEAH, THE DEVELOPER CADENCE HOMES ACTUALLY WANTED TO USE A, A WOOD LOOK MATERIAL THAT'S ACTUALLY, UM, MORE EXPENSIVE THAN TRADITIONAL MASONRY. SO IT'S ACTUALLY, IF YOU LOOK AT JUST COST [03:25:01] AND QUALITY, IT'S ACTUALLY A HIGHER QUALITY, UM, UM, BUT SLIGHTLY MORE CONTEMPORARY, UM, MATERIAL THAT THEY'RE PROPOSING TO USE. AND THEN ON THANK YOU. THEN ON SLIDE FOUR, I THINK IT IS, YEAH, THE PURCHASE OPTION, SORRY. UH, SO YEAH, THAT ONE SLIDE FIVE FOR YOU. UM, DOES THAT, IS THAT RELATING TO IF, UH, THE TOWNHOMES DON'T GET DEVELOPED? THAT IS CORRECT. IF SO, THIS, UM, MDA HAS PERFORMANCE STANDARDS FOR, UM, AM L AS THE MASTER DEVELOPER TO DELIVER ON, AS I MENTIONED, VERY SPECIFIC ITEMS SUCH AS THE RETAIL, THE FEE, SIMPLE TOWN HOMES AND SO FORTH. AND IF THEY DO NOT DELIVER, UM, THE TOWN HAS THE OPTION TO BUY THE FEE SIMPLE LOTS FOR A FIXED COST. UM, SO THAT WE AS THE TOWN COULD THEN SERVE IN THAT INSTANCE AS THE DEVELOPER FOR THOSE, UH, OR SEEK OUT ANOTHER DEVELOPER AND SOME SORT OF PARTNERSHIP OR OTHERWISE TO BE DETERMINED AT THAT TIME. OKAY. THANK YOU, MARLEY. THANKS, MAYOR. UM, LESLIE, GOING BACK TO THE EXTERIOR FACADE, THIS IS FOR PHASE TWO, RIGHT? CORRECT. SO THE, THIS, UM, MODIFICATION, UH, TO THE ZONING WAS APPROVED FOR BOTH PHASES ONE AND TWO IN OCTOBER OF 2025. OKAY. SO I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE THAT WHAT, SO WOULD THIS MODIFICATION TO THE M MO MOU CHANGE BOTH, UH, PHASE ONE AND TWO OF, OF BOTH, BOTH ALL THE TOWN HOMES IS THIS, SO, SORRY, THIS IS PROBABLY WRITTEN IN A KIND OF A CONFUSING MANNER. SO THE BACK IN OC, SO THIS, THE MOU AND THE ZONING ARE TWO SEPARATE ITEMS. WE CANNOT END ZONING PER STATE LAW, UM, REGULATE BUILDING MATERIAL IN CERTAIN INSTANCES, AND THIS IS ONE OF THEM. SO WE HAVE USED THE MDA TO REGULATE BUILDING MATERIAL. UM, SO IN THE ZONING, HOWEVER, I WILL NOTE IN THE ZONING, UM, FOR THE PD, WE DID IDENTIFY DEVELOPMENT PLANS AND THOSE WERE APPROVED, UM, BACK IN OCTOBER OF 2025 FOR THE FEE. SIMPLE TOWN HOMES ONLY FOR A, A RANGE OF 50 TO 88% PER FACADE. UM, DEPENDING UPON THE FACADE, OBVIOUSLY, UH, FOR THE FEE SIMPLE TOWN HOMES. THIS IS JUST A NOTE TO IDENTIFY THAT THAT IS NOT CONSISTENT THIS OR WHAT YOU IS BEFORE YOU TONIGHT FOR CONSIDERATION. THE ONLY INCONSISTENCY THAT, UH, TO WHAT WAS APPROVED IN THE ORIGINAL MOU BACK IN JULY OF 2024 IS THAT VARIATION. AND THAT IS CONSISTENT WITH THE ZONING THAT WAS APPROVED OKAY. IN OCTOBER. AND, UM, SO, SO BOTH OF, UH, ALL, LET ME PUT IT THIS WAY. ALL OF THE TOWN HOMES RIGHT NOW HAVE THE SAME FACADE REQUIREMENTS, CORRECT. ACROSS PHASE ONE AND PHASE TWO? CORRECT. AND WHAT IS THAT RIGHT NOW? UH, 50 TO 88%. OH, IT IS 50. OKAY. SO, SO ON ON THIS, IT'S NOT A CHANGE. IS IT A CHANGE? IT IS NOT A CHANGE THAT COUNSEL IS ACTING ON TONIGHT, IF THAT MAKES SENSE, BECAUSE WELL, WHAT I'M, YEAH. WHAT I'M REALLY AT IS, IS YOU'RE SAYING THAT, THAT IT'S, THIS IS ALREADY IN, THIS HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED. CORRECT? I JUST WANTED TO NOTE THAT THE, FROM WHEN THE ORIGINAL MOU WAS EXECUTED, THAT IS THE ONLY DIFFERENCE TO THE ORIGINAL MOU, BUT TECHNICALLY THE CHANGE HAS ALREADY BEEN APPROVED BEFORE THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL. AND THAT WAS DONE IN OCTOBER OF 25. OKAY. AND THIS, SO WOULD YOU CLASSIFY THIS AS JUST MORE OF AN UPDATE, NOT A CHANGE? UM, I'M JUST TRYING TO, I, I'M, I'M STRUGGLING WITH, UM, IF IT'S A CHANGE OR NOT. I, I WOULD SAY IT'S FUNCTIONALLY NOT A CHANGE, IT'S JUST AN ADMINISTRATIVE UPDATE TO OKAY. A DEVELOPER AGREEMENT APP. SINCE IT'S DIFFERENT FROM THE MOU, THAT'S ALL. IT'S OKAY. OKAY. THANKS. OKAY. IF THERE'S NOTHING ELSE, I WOULD, UH, ENTERTAIN A MOTION PRESIDENT. WHAT OUR CURRENT STRATEGY, AGAIN IS WITH THE LONG TERM P IS WITH I, RON. HE DEFINITELY TOUCHED ON IT, BUT NOT AS KIND OF DETAIL, BUT I'LL MAKE A MOTION TO APPROVE. THANK YOU. CHRIS. I SECOND MOTION, MOTION TO SECOND DARREN FOR THE SECOND. UH, ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? JUST ONE OTHER PIECE OF DISCUSSION OR QUESTION IF I COULD. IS THIS, THIS IS ALL WE'RE VOTING ON IS JUST FOR THE STANDARDS A HIGHER STANDARD OF ALL THIS, RIGHT? WE'RE NOT VOTING, WE'RE NOT VOTING ON ANY MORE APARTMENTS OR ANY MORE STRUCTURES IN THAT. IT'S JUST TO, TO THE STANDARD. AND THE ONLY OTHER QUESTION THAT I WOULD HAVE IS ON, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE BROUGHT UP THAT IF THE TOWN HOMES ARE NOT DEVELOPED MM-HMM . WILL THAT HAVE TO, IS THERE ANY POSSIBILITY THAT THEY COULD PUT MORE APARTMENTS ON THOSE OTHER LOTS IF THE TOWN HOMES DON'T DEVELOP? [03:30:01] UM, SO NOT WITHOUT COUNCIL APPROVAL. OKAY. SO UNDER WHAT THEY'VE BEEN APPROVED NOW, THEY COULDN'T JUST COME IN THERE. WELL, WE CAN'T SELL THOSE. THAT IS, WE'RE GONNA BUILD SOME MORE APARTMENTS TO FILL IN THE SPACE. THAT IS CORRECT. THEY WOULD HAVE TO COME BACK TO US FOR THAT. THEY WOULD HAVE TO REPL THE PROPERTY. UM, AND BECAUSE THEY'RE INDIVIDUAL LOTS, UM, THEY'VE, IT'S THE PROPERTIES, UM, GONE THROUGH A REPL PROCESS AND THEY WOULD ALSO HAVE TO COME BACK FOR THE PLANNING AND ZONING COMMISSION AND CITY COUNCIL TO AMEND OR UPDATE THEIR ZONING TO ALLOW THAT. SO THE ZONING IS, IS VERY STRICT. THEY'RE REQUIRED TO HAVE A VERY SPECIFIC NUMBER OF FEE, SIMPLE TOWN HOMES, RENTAL TOWN HOMES AND SO FORTH. UM, AND IN VERY SPECIFIC LOCATIONS. SO THEY CAN'T COME IN AND BILL MORE RENTAL TOWN HOMES THERE EITHER THEN? THAT IS CORRECT. NO MORE RENTAL. IT HAS TO BE A CAA FEE SIMPLE PROJECT UNDER WHAT THEY'VE BEEN APPROVED RIGHT NOW. THAT THAT IS CORRECT. THANK YOU FOR THAT CLARIFICATION. OKAY, VERY GOOD. UH, GOOD QUESTION. AND UH, WE HAVE A MOTION OR SECOND. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? AYE. ALL RIGHT. ITEM FIVE C IS APPROVED. THANK YOU, LESLIE. [d. Present, discuss, and consider action on a request for an Alternative Sign Design to Article 5 of the Unified Development Ordinance (UDC) for Dryden Properties, for an existing multi-tenant office/warehouse building located at 4135 Lindbergh Drive, in order to allow a detached real estate sign to encroach into the required setback (Case MR2026-01/4135 Lindbergh Drive).] ITEM FIVE D PRESENT, DISCUSS AND CONSIDER ACTION ON A REQUEST FOR AN ALTERNATIVE SIGNED DESIGN TO ARTICLE FIVE OF THE UNIFIED, UH, DEVELOPMENT ORDINANCE, UDC FOR DRYDEN PROPERTIES FOR AN EXISTING MULTI-TENANT OFFICE, UH, SLASH WAREHOUSE OFFICE, UH, BUILDING LOCATED AT 41 35 LINDBERGH DRIVE IN ORDER TO ALLOW A DETACHED REAL ESTATE SIGN TO ENCROACH INTO THE REQUIRED SETBACK CASE. MR 2026 DASH ZERO ONE SLASH 41 35 LINDBERGH DRIVE. LESLIE, LESLIE, I'M DIRECTOR OF DEVELOPMENT AND NEIGHBORHOOD SERVICES. UM, IT'S NOT WORKING THERE. WE'RE SORRY ABOUT THAT. UM, THE, AS MENTIONED, THIS REQUEST IS FOR ALTERNATIVE SIGN DESIGN ADDED PROPERTY LOCATED AT 41 35 LINDBERGH DRIVE. UM, THE REQUEST SPECIFICALLY IS TO ENCROACH INTO THE REQUIRED 10 FOOT, UH, SETBACK FROM THE PROPERTY LINE. JUST A LITTLE BIT OF, UM, ORIENTATION. SO THE SITE PLAN IS ON THE LEFT HAND SIDE OF YOUR SCREEN AND THIS, THE RED CIRCLE, WHICH IS ZOOMED IN AT THE BOTTOM OF THE SCREEN, IDENTIFIES THE APPROXIMATE LOCATION OF THE DESIRED SIGN, UM, AT THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING, UM, WHICH IS ADJACENT TO LINDBERGH DRIVE AT THAT LOCATION. UM, THIS IS A DEPICTION OF THE SIZE OF THE SIGN, A THREE BY FIVE APPROXIMATELY, UM, SIX FEET IN HEIGHT. UM, THERE IS ACTUALLY A PHOTO OF THE SIGN ON THE RIGHT HAND SIDE. THIS WAS PREVIOUSLY EXISTING. UM, AND THEY ARE, THE APPLICANT IS, UH, REQUESTING THROUGH THIS ALTERNATIVE SIGN DESIGN TO PUT IT BACK WHERE IT WAS PREVIOUSLY LOCATED. UM, SO THEY WOULD, THE INTENT, UM, I BELIEVE IT'S TO REUSE THE PREVIOUSLY EXISTING SIGN. HOWEVER, IT IS NOT THERE TODAY FOR CLARIFICATION. UM, A LITTLE BIT ABOUT OUR REAL ESTATE SIGN REGULATIONS WITHIN THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE. UM, THERE, HERE ARE SOME STANDARDS, BUT WHERE, UM, THIS SETBACK, UM, STANDARD IS COMING FROM IS ITEM FOUR, WHICH IS THAT SIGNS UP TO 20 FEET IN HEIGHT, OR EXCUSE ME, UP TO 20 SQUARE FEET IN SIGN AREA SHALL BE SET BACK A MINIMUM OF 10 FEET FROM THE PROPERTY LINE. SO THAT'S WHAT, UM, THIS REQUIREMENT IS TRIGGERED FROM. AND JUST AS A NOTE, UM, REAL ESTATE SIGNS DO REQUIRE AN ANNUAL PERMIT. UM, SO THEY'RE REEVALUATED ON AN ANNUAL BASIS. AND, UM, IN THAT INSTANCE, ANY NEW SIGN OR UM, CHANGE A MODIFICATION TO SIGN AS AN ANNUAL BASIS WOULD BE REQUIRED TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE WITH THE NEW STANDARDS. SO, UM, JUST A LITTLE BIT ABOUT, UM, THE SPECIFICS OF THIS PROPOSAL THIS EVENING. UM, SO THE PROPOSED SIGN IS 15, UH, SQUARE FEET OF A DETACHED REAL ESTATE SIGN. AND THE REQUIRED SETBACK, AS MENTIONED IS 10 FEET FROM THE PROPERTY LINE. AND THE PROPOSED SETBACK IS 5.5 FEET, UH, WHICH WOULD BE A FOUR AND A HALF FOOT ENCROACHMENT. UM, THE APPLICANT PROVIDED SOME JUSTIFICATION. SO, UM, THIS, UM, CHANGE, OR EXCUSE ME, THIS SIGN REQUEST IS DUE TO MODIFICATIONS THAT CAME FORWARD IN THE SIGN ORDINANCE AS A PART OF THE UNIFIED DEVELOPMENT CODE OR UDC RELATED TO SETBACKS FOR REAL ESTATE SIGNS. UM, AND OBVIOUSLY THE APPLICANT IS, UH, REQUESTING AN EXCEPTION TO THIS, UH, TO BE REINSTALLED IN THE PREVIOUSLY EXISTING LOCATION. IN THE PHOTO I SHOWED A FEW SLIDES EARLIER. UM, SO ONCE AGAIN, UM, WHAT IS REQUIRED TODAY IS 10 FEET THERE AT 5.5 FEET. UH, FOR REFERENCE, I JUST WANNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THE FORMER CODE AND WHY WE'RE HERE TONIGHT. SO THE FORMER CODE MEASURED SETBACKS FROM THE BACK OF CURB, NOT THE PROPERTY LINE. THIS IS THE MAJOR DIFFERENTIATOR BETWEEN THE OLD CODE AND THE NEW CODE. UM, WHY THIS WAS DONE IS BECAUSE WE WERE HAVING SOME INSTANCES WHERE WE WERE HAVING REAL ESTATE SIGNS ACTUALLY WITHIN THE PUBLIC RIGHT OF WAY, WHICH WAS VERY CONCERNING. UM, BECAUSE THE CURB [03:35:01] LINE, OBVIOUSLY THE CURB LINE AND THE PROPERTY LINE ARE NOT CONSISTENT. WE HAVE AREAS WHERE WE HAVE EXTENSIVE AMOUNT OF AREA BACK OF CURB THAT IS IN THE RIGHT OF WAY. SO, UH, THAT WAS THE PURPOSE OF THIS CHANGE. UM, NOW OBVIOUSLY THIS CHANGE HAD MORE EXTENSIVE IMPACTS ON SOME PROPERTIES THAN OTHERS. UM, AND, UH, THIS IS SOMETHING THAT WE MAY NEED TO CONTINUE TO REEVALUATE, ESPECIALLY AS WE, UM, CONTINUE TO EXPERIENCE, UM, CHALLENGES OR, UM, HURDLES IMPLEMENTING THE NEW UDC. SO ONCE AGAIN, THE DIFFERENCE HERE IS, UH, THE MEASUREMENT FROM CURB TO PROPERTY LINE. SO THE PURPOSE OF THE ALTERNATIVE SIGN DESIGN IS NOT TO DISCOURAGE INNOVATION. UM, AND THAT, UH, INDIVIDUAL'S PROPERTY OWNERS, UH, MAY REQUEST AN ALTERNATIVE SIGN DESIGN, UH, TO, WHILE NOT MEETING THE CRITERIA MAY HAVE MERIT. SO LOOKING AT THE CRITERIA, THERE ARE THREE SPECIFIC CRITERIA FOR AN ALTERNATIVE SIGN DESIGN. UH, THE FIRST IS THAT, UM, YOU KNOW, UH, MEETING THE REGULATIONS IS IMPOSSIBLE DUE TO VARIOUS REASONS. UM, TWO IS THAT IT WILL NOT HAVE A SUBSTANTIAL ADVERSE IMPACT, AND THREE, THAT IT WILL NOT, UH, SUBSTANTIALLY CONFLICT WITH THE PURPOSE OF THE UDC. SO STAFF DOES, UH, NOT BELIEVE THAT CRITERIA ONE IS MET IN THIS INSTANCE AS IT IS POSSIBLE FOR THE SIGN TO BE SCOOTED BACK TO MEET THAT 10 FOOT, UM, SETBACK FROM THE PROPERTY LINE, NOT THE CURB IN THIS INSTANCE. UM, AND WHY THE CODE DID CHANGE AT WHICH CREATED THIS NON-CONFORMITY. THERE'S STILL, AS I MENTIONED, ADEQUATE ROOM. HOWEVER, STAFF DOES ACKNOWLEDGE THAT, UM, WE DO NOT BELIEVE CRITERIA OR THAT, EXCUSE ME, THAT CRITERIA TWO AND THREE ARE MET IN THIS INSTANCE. UM, SO ONCE AGAIN, AS I MENTIONED, WE HAVE REVIEWED THIS PROPOSAL, UM, AND DO NOT BELIEVE IT COMPLIES WITH THE FIRST CRITERIA, BUT WE'D BE HAPPY TO ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS. THANK YOU, LESLIE MARLEY. THANK YOU, MAYOR. UM, LESLIE, CAN YOU GO BACK TO SLIDE TWO ON, ON THIS PROPERTY? UM, WITH THAT, THAT PARTICULAR SIGN THAT THE APPLICANT HAD, WHERE, WHERE COULD THEY PUT IT ON THIS PROPERTY OTHER THAN THIS, THIS ONE LITTLE AREA THAT, THAT WHERE THEY HAD IT? YEAH, SO, UM, THE COMMENT IS IS, EXCUSE ME, THAT THEY COULD PUT IT IN THIS EXACT AREA THAT IS SHOWN HERE, BUT THEY COULD PHYSICALLY JUST SCOOT IT BACK FOUR FEET CLOSER TO THE BUILDING AND THEY WOULD ACHIEVE THE STANDARD. RIGHT? I GUESS MY POINT IS, IT, IT, I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY OTHER PLACE ON THE, ON THE PROPERTY. OH, OKAY. YEAH, THEY, I MEAN IS THERE ANOTHER, I MEAN, IT JUST, IT'S WHEN I DRIVE AROUND HERE AND I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT RIGHT OF WAYS, BUT I, I KIND OF HAVE A SENSE AND I'M JUST TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHERE ELSE COULD THEY, COULD THEY PUT THAT, THAT SIGN THAT IS CORRECT ON THIS PARTICULAR PROPERTY DUE TO THE LOCATION, IT, ESPECIALLY THE EXISTING PARKING AND ASPHALT OR PAVING ON THE SITE, THE EAST SIDE OF THE BUILDING, UM, KIND OF AT THE TERMINUS OF, UH, WHERE LINDBERGH DRIVE COMES OFF OF MIDWAY IS, I WOULD SAY THE ONLY LOCATION WHERE IT IS EVEN FEASIBLE FOR THEM TO PUT SO IN THAT SAME, IN THAT SAME AREA? CORRECT. OKAY. OKAY. AND, AND SO, UM, AND WHAT'S THE DELTA, WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN WHERE THEY HAD IT AND WHERE, WHERE THE NEW UDC IS IS REQUIRING IT? DO WE, DO WE KNOW THE, UH, FOUR AND A FOUR AND A HALF FEET? FOUR AND A HALF FEET. OKAY. UM, SO COUPLE THOUGHTS I'VE GOT IS, AND AND WHAT'S THE CALL, IF THEY DIDN'T CHANGE THEIR SIGN WOULD BE A, WOULD THERE BE A ANNUAL COST FOR PERMIT OR SOME PERMIT? YES, THERE IS AN ANNUAL, UH, FEE FOR, UH, SIGN, WHICH, UH, IS $75. OKAY, SO THEY, THEY'D PAY, THEY'D PAY THAT ANNUALLY, CORRECT. REGARDLESS. THAT'S CORRECT. OKAY. UM, YEAH, I JUST, WHEN I LOOK, WHEN I LOOK AT THAT SITE, UM, AND, AND WE TALK ABOUT WHERE, WHERE THE SIGN COULD GO, THERE'S ONE, ONE SPOT, CORRECT. RIGHT. AND ONE SPOT. AND SO, UM, AND IN THAT ONE SPOT, IF, IF YOU PUT IT BACK, WHAT DID YOU SAY? FOUR FEET? YEAH, FOUR AND A HALF FEET. FOUR AND A HALF FEET FURTHER. WELL THEN, THEN IF YOU'RE, UH, IT'S JUST VERY, IT IS JUST THE, THE BUSHES, THE BUSHES, UM, SEEM TO BLOCK IT OUT IF YOU'RE COMING ONE WAY AND THEN THE, AND, AND IT'S, I DON'T THINK YOU'D SEE IT ON LINDBERGH IF YOU WERE COMING THE OTHER WAY. AND THEN LIKE, THE ONLY WAY YOU COULD SEE IT WOULD BE IF YOU'RE, IF YOU'RE COMING LINDBERGH, UM, WEST OR WEST. RIGHT. AND THEN YOU'RE POINTED AT IT. SO IT JUST, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THESE, UM, UM, YOU KNOW, THESE THINGS YOU HAVE [03:40:01] TO, TO REACH FOR, TO, TO, TO, TO GET THIS EXEMPTION, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THEM, NUMBER ONE YOU SAID IS, IS, UM, IT'S NECESSARY BECAUSE THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT PREVENTS ANY REASONABLE OPPORTUNITY TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE SIGNS ON THE SITE CONSIDERING THE NEW UNIQUE FEATURES OF A SITE, INCLUDING ITS DIMENSIONS, LAND. SO I WOULD, I WOULD SAY, YOU KNOW, FOR ME, WHEN I'M LOOKING AT THIS AND I'M, I'M THINKING THERE'S NO OTHER PLACES ON THE SITE TO PUT THIS. AND THEN THE ONLY OTHER PLACE YOU CAN PUT IT IS FOUR AND A HALF FEET FURTHER. AND WHEN YOU DO THAT, THEN YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE JUST KIND OF BLOCKED FROM, FROM TWO OF THE, UH, THE, THE, THE STREETS. AND SO I, I JUST SEE THAT THEY MEET THAT, THAT THAT FIRST REQUIREMENT. UM, BUT IT OBVIOUSLY, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE, LIKE YOU VIEW THAT THEY DO. IS THAT, IS THAT CORRECT? YEAH, THAT WAS, THAT'S ACCURATE. JUST ASK NOW. OKAY. I JUST, I WAS JUST TRYING TO WRAP MY BRAIN AROUND THIS AND SO YEAH, I DIDN'T, I DIDN'T QUITE COME TO THAT CONCLUSION, BUT I JUST WANNA MAKE SURE I WAS UNDERSTANDING THE INFORMATION CORRECTLY. THANK YOU. SURE. SO I WENT OUT THERE LOOKING FOR THE SIGN AND THERE'S NO SIGN. IT IS NOT THERE, THERE IS NO SIGN. CORRECT. UH, BUT THERE'S POSTS IN THE GROUND WHERE THE SIGN WAS 'CAUSE THEY HAD TO CUT IT DOWN. CORRECT. SO ONE OF THE QUESTIONS YOU'VE ALREADY ANSWERED IS, UH, HOW'D YOU FIND OUT ABOUT IT? IT'S NOT JUST A CODE PERSON DRIVING AROUND. THIS IS A PERMIT THING. SO WHEN THEY DO THE ANNUAL PERMIT, THEY GO LOOK AT IT. SO YES. UM, SO I DO WANNA CLARIFY THAT. UH, CODE DOES PROACTIVELY, UH, LOOK AT SIGNS, UH, AT ALL SIGNS. OKAY. OKAY. AND THEY'LL CONFIRM IF THEY HAVE A PERMIT OR NOT. AND I BELIEVE THIS, THERE WAS, UH, THERE WAS A DISCUSSION BETWEEN THE PROPERTY OWNER AND CODE ABOUT THE, UM, COMPLIANCE OF THE SIGN. AND IT WAS REMOVED THROUGH A CODE PROCESS. UM, THEY APPLIED FOR A SIGNED PERMIT AND IT WAS THEN ROUTED THROUGH THIS PROCESS 'CAUSE IT DIDN'T COMPLY. SO THAT'S HOW IT KIND OF ARRIVED TONIGHT. SO TH THIS IS RIGHT AS YOU DRIVE IN FROM LINDBERGH AND, UH, IT'S RIGHT IN THE LINE OF THE PATH AND, UM, SETTING IT BACK THAT FAR WOULD BE A LITTLE EXCESSIVE. AND, AND THIS IS THE PROCESS THEY'RE SUPPOSED TO GO THROUGH, RIGHT? IT ZOOMS STRAIGHT TO CITY COUNCIL TO LOOK TO LOOK AT AN EXCEPTION. SO THIS IS NOT, THAT IS THE CORRECT, NOBODY'S DONE ANYTHING WRONG IN THIS CASE. I WOULD LIKE TO SEE US NOT REMOVE A SIGN BEFORE THE REST OF THIS PROCESS IS, IS GONE THROUGH BECAUSE WE COULD HAVE AVOIDED REMOVING A SIGN AND PUTTING IT BACK. AND I'M SURE THERE'S A LOT OF OTHER BACKSTORY, BUT IF WE COULD STREAMLINE THAT AND BE AS BUSINESS FRIENDLY AS POSSIBLE WOULD BE WHAT I WOULD LOOK AT. MM-HMM . I, I MET THE APPLICANT OUT THERE. YEAH. ALSO, KEVIN, YOU'RE A TROOPER TO STAND THROUGH THIS WHOLE MEETING SINCE SEVEN O'CLOCK . SO, UM, I WOULD BE IN FAVOR OF THIS, UH, EXCEPTION, BUT WE WILL GET TO THAT POINT. I THINK YOU'RE UP, RANDY. UH, THIS IS NOT THE FIRST SIGN THAT'S BEEN BROUGHT TO MY ATTENTION IN, IN THIS AREA WITH, WITH THE UDC. AND REALLY THESE SIGNS ARE THE, THE LIFEBLOOD OF THESE PEOPLE TRYING TO LEASE THESE BUILDINGS OUT. UM, DID HE REMOVE THE SIGN BECAUSE HE GOT THE NOTICE THAT HE WOULD BE FINED IF HE DID NOT? OR DID HE VOLUNTARILY REMOVE THE SIGN WHEN HE WAS TOLD THAT IT DIDN'T COMPLY WITH UDCI? WELL, I THINK THOUGH, SO I CAN'T CONFIRM THAT. UM, BUT THROUGH OUR NOTICE PROCESS, UH, IT WOULD BE A, UH, NOTICE OF VIOLATION THAT WOULD BE SENT TO IN INFORM AN INDIVID A PROPERTY OWNER IN THIS CASE THAT THERE WAS A VIOLATION THAT EXISTED. UM, AND THAT'S KIND OF ONE OF THE THINGS THAT WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT ON COUNCIL WITH THESE FIRST NOTICES THAT GO OUT, THAT SOUND A LITTLE BIT THREATENING AND IT'S GONNA COST YOU A BUNCH OF MONEY IF YOU DON'T GET THIS THING PULLED OUT OF THE GROUND IF YOU DON'T TRIM YOUR TREES OFF, YOU KNOW, OFF THE SIDEWALK. UH, AND WE'RE TRYING TO GET A LITTLE SOFTER WITH THAT. I'M, I'M HOPING, OR THAT'S KIND OF BEEN OUR DIRECTION ON THAT. UH, AND, AND I WOULD ALMOST, TO DARREN'S POINT, IF THIS IS BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION, I'D KIND OF LIKE TO SEE THIS MAYBE BROUGHT TO OUR ATTENTION QUICKER TO WHERE WE CAN, WE CAN ADDRESS THESE AND, AND THEY DON'T HAVE TO TAKE THE SIGNS DOWN. AND IT SOUNDS TO ME LIKE WHEN HE WAS TOLD TO TAKE IT DOWN OR I I SAY HE JUST GENERICALLY, WHEN, WHEN THEY WERE TOLD THAT THE SIGN WAS NOT IN COMPLIANCE, THEY DID THE RIGHT THING AND TOOK IT DOWN, THAT IS CORRECT. UNTIL, UNTIL THE PROCESS THAT IS LAID OUT. YES, SIR. UH, NOW EVERYONE THAT I GO LOOK AT AND I'VE, I WENT, I'VE HAD SEVERAL BUSINESS OWNERS CALL ME ABOUT THEIR SIGNS. NOW. I HOPE THAT WE WORK WITH THEM TO DRESS THESE SIGNS UP A LITTLE BIT. THE THIS SIGN LOOKS LIKE IT HAS BEEN THERE A WHILE AND NEEDS A LITTLE BIT OF ATTENTION WITH PAIN ON THE LEGS. AND I'VE NEVER TALKED TO A, A BUSINESS OWNER THAT WASN'T HAPPY TO DO THAT BECAUSE IT LOOKS BETTER FOR THEM TOO. YEAH. AND THAT'S A PART OF OUR ANNUAL PERMIT THAT WE GO AND CHECK TO MAKE SURE. 'CAUSE THAT IS, I KNOW THAT THERE IS MORE OUT THERE THAT THEY, AND THEY'RE ALL FACE SUN FADED AND YOU KNOW, THEY JUST LOOK LIKE THEY'VE [03:45:01] BEEN THERE FOREVER. AND IF WE COULD WORK WITH THEM TO MAKE 'EM MORE ATTRACTIVE YEP. WE, WE CAN GET THIS PROCESS GOING. MM-HMM . UH, I I ALSO WENT AND TRIED TO LOOK AND IT WASN'T THERE, SO I WASN'T ABLE TO GET MY, MY BEARINGS ON THIS VERY WELL EITHER. BUT I'M WITH DARREN, I WOULD BE COMPLETELY IN FAVOR OF GIVING THIS EXEMPTION TO THIS BUILDING TO LET THEM, UH, AT LEASE THEIR BUILDING OUT AND, AND GET SOME PEOPLE IN THERE. AND I, I DON'T SEE A, IF IT'S MOVED TO WHERE WE WANT IT TO, I DON'T THINK IT WOULD HAVE THE EFFECT THAT THE OWNER WANTS. SO I'D BE IN FAVOR. DO WE KNOW HOW FAR BACK FROM THE CURB THOSE LEGS OF THAT SIGN ARE? IS IT MORE THAN 10 FEET? IT IS, UH, IN THIS IMAGE, YEAH. IT IS 10 FEET. IT IS 10 FEET. SO IF THE PROPERTY LINE WAS ON THE CURB, IT WOULD BE IN COMPLIANT? THAT IS CORRECT. THE PROPERTY LINE IS SET BACK FROM THE CURB. THAT IS CORRECT. SO VISUALLY, THIS ISN'T TOO CLOSE TO THE CURB, RIGHT? I MEAN, AND, AND UNDER THE PREVIOUS ZONING OR ORDINANCE THAT WE HAD BEFORE UDC, THIS SIGN IN THIS PLACE WAS COMPLIANT. THAT IS CORRECT. I'M TOTALLY IN FAVOR OF LEAVING IT WHERE IT IS AND LETTING 'EM DO IT. NO PROBLEM. DID YOU HAVE A MOTION THERE? I HAVE JUST A QUESTION. SO WHEN WE GIVE THE NOTICE OF VIOLATION, THANK YOU FOR, BY THE WAY, ENFORCING THE CODE. SO YOU AND YOUR TEAM, I APPRECIATE THAT. THAT'S, THAT'S AWESOME. UM, WE COULD WE GIVE THEM OPTIONS? HERE'S YOUR OPTIONS. YOU, YOU CAN, UH, HAVE, ASK FOR A, UH, EXCEPTION. UM, AND THEN CAN WE, IF, IF WE GIVE AN EXCEPTION, CAN IT BE LIKE A THREE YEAR EXCEPTION OR SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO WHERE WE, WE SLOWLY DO PHASE THESE OUT AND DO GET INTO COMPLIANCE? I'M JUST, ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT THIS PROCESS SPECIFICALLY? YEAH, THE PROCESS, NOT THIS PARTICULAR CASE. OH, OKAY. BUT JUST COMMENT FOR OVERALL. THAT'S, THAT'S ALL I WANTED TO PUT IN. YEAH, YOU DON'T HAVE TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS. UM, WELL, SO I'LL SAY THAT, UM, KEVIN IS A VERY RESPONSIVE LANDLORD. THE, THE DRYDEN PROPERTIES, UM, HE HAS SEVERAL PROPERTIES IN TOWN AND KEVIN AND I HAVE BUILT A RELATIONSHIP OVER THE PAST SEVERAL YEARS, UH, WORKING TOGETHER. UM, SO I WOULD SAY HE IS A VERY RESPONSIVE TENANT. AND I WOULD SAY, AND NOT TO UM, FAULT ANY PART OF THE PROCESS IN PARTICULAR, BUT MOST OF THE TIME THERE'S SOME EXCHANGE OF, HEY, YOU KNOW, THIS IS IN VIOLATION. WE NEED TO COME INTO COMPLIANCE. AND THEN THERE'S A, A BIT OF A, A NEGOTIATION, IF YOU WILL, THAT'S PROBABLY NOT THE RIGHT TERM TO USE, BUT JUST AN EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION TO HOW WE CAN GET, UM, AND SOMETIMES WE HAVE PROPERTY OWNERS LIKE THE APPLICANT THAT IS, UM, MORE RESPONSIVE THAN WE CAN HAVE THAT EXCHANGE. UM, WE HAVE MOVED TO A, UM, A COURTESY NOTICE PROCESS PRIOR TO ISSUING AN NOV, WHICH KIND OF ADDRESSES SOME OF THE, SOME OF THE CONVERSATIONS WE HAD EARLIER. WE IMPLEMENTED THAT, UM, GOSH, I BELIEVE THAT WAS BEGINNING OF DECEM MID-DECEMBER TIMEFRAME AND RIGHT BEFORE THE HOLIDAYS. UM, AND THAT PROVIDES, AND IN SOME CASES, UNFORTUNATELY, LIKE FOR EXAMPLE, UM, I CAN TELL YOU RIGHT NOW, UM, THE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT DOES NOT OFFICE IN THIS BUILDING. SO IT WOULDN'T DO US IN THIS PARTICULAR INSTANCE, A LOT OF, UH, BENEFIT TO GO INSIDE AND TRY TO SERVE A COURTESY NOTICE TO ANY OF THE TENANTS BECAUSE THEY LIKELY DON'T HAVE THIS. BUT IN THIS CASE, IN THIS PARTICULAR CASE, WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PROPERTY MANAGER AND THERE IS A NUMBER. NOW, I WILL GIVE THE CAVEAT THAT MOST OF THE TIME THIS GOES TO A BROKER FIRM THAT HAS NO INTEREST IN RETURNING OUR CALLS, AND WE CANNOT HAVE A, WE DON'T HAVE A CONTACT AND WE CAN'T GET IN TOUCH WITH THEM. SO LEAVING A COURTESY NOTICE ON THE DOOR DOESN'T GET US ANYWHERE. UM, SO IN THOSE INSTANCES, WE DO HAVE TO SEND AN NOV, UM, AND TRY TO GET A, A, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE TO ENGAGE WITH US. SO THERE ARE SOME EXTENUATING CIRCUMSTANCES, BUT LIKE I SAID, UM, THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS, UH, SPECIFICALLY REAL ESTATE SCIENCE IS ANOTHER TOPIC THAT HAS COME UP A COUPLE OF TIMES WHEN IMPLEMENTING THE NEW EDC THAT, UM, MAYBE A, A POLICY CONVERSATION ABOUT HOW WE MAKE IT EASIER AND MORE STREAMLINED. THANK, I THINK THE COURTESY IS ON THE WAY, UH, TO THAT. SO THAT'S, THAT'S GOOD. THANK YOU. OKAY, LET'S GO ONLINE TO DAN. THANK YOU. THANK YOU MAYOR. UM, LESLIE, IT, WHEN WE FIRST SEND THE NOTIFICATION OUT, IS THERE A WAY OF MAYBE SOFTENING THAT MESSAGING THAT IT'S, YOU HAVE, YOU HAVE 48 HOURS, YOU HAVE FOUR, FOUR DAYS, YOU HAVE A WEEK PRIOR TO ASKING A BUSINESS OWNER TO TAKE THE SIGN DOWN. I MEAN, THIS IS, AS RANDY SAID, THIS IS THE RITE OF PASSAGE. THIS IS HOW THEY PUT FOOD ON THEIR, ON THEIR TABLE. THIS IS THEIR SIGNAGE. SO TO HAVE 'EM TAKE THIS DOWN, ESPECIALLY WHEN WE HAVE A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BUSINESS OWNER SEEMS KIND OF A LITTLE BIT HARSH, NOT THE ADDISON WAY, IN MY OPINION, I'D, I'D RATHER SEE US CHANGE THAT TO WHERE WE GIVE THEM A LEASE NOTICE, UM, TO POTENTIALLY COME INTO, COME INTO COMPLIANCE AND OR FILE THAT WITH CITY COUNCIL. JUST SOMETHING FROM, FROM WHAT WAS ON MY MIND. YEAH, OF COURSE. UM, SO THE COURTESY NOTICE, LIKE ONCE AGAIN, WE IMPLEMENTED AND BE HAPPY TO SEND OUT AN EXAMPLE OF WHAT THAT LOOKS LIKE. UM, SO YOU CAN READ THE, THE, IT'S, IT'S A DOOR HANGER, UM, BUT IT ACTUALLY PROVIDES A [03:50:01] FIVE DAY COURTESY NOTICE. UM, AND GENERALLY IT SAYS, UM, I'M SIMPLIFYING, BUT WE BELIEVE THERE MAY BE A CODE VIOLATION. AND THEN IT GIVES A LITTLE BIT OF INFORMATION ABOUT WHAT THE CODE VIOLATION IS AND ENCOURAGES THEM TO CONTACT US, UM, TO HAVE THAT CONVERSATION ABOUT WHAT, WHAT THAT CODE VIOLATION IS OR HOW THEY CAN RESOLVE IT. UM, I WILL NOTE THAT IN, IN CASES WHERE, UM, LET'S SAY THE SIGN WAS EXISTING, AS LONG AS AN APPLICANT HAS, IS MAKING PROGRESS TO COMPLIANCE, SO, UH, WE WOULD NOT REQUIRE THEM TO REMOVE THE SIGN. SO IF THEY HAD SUBMITTED THIS APPLICATION AND THEY STILL HAD THEIR SIGN UP, UH, WE WOULD ALLOW THEM TO, UH, KEEP THEIR SIGN UP UNTIL THIS, THIS PROCESS, THIS REQUEST WAS RESOLVED AT COUNCIL. LIKE I SAID, THANK YOU FOR EXPLAINING. YES. YEAH, THE PROPERTY OWNER WAS JUST A LITTLE, UM, MORE RESPONSIVE. YEAH. I JUST HATE TO SEE HIM HAVE TO TAKE IT DOWN TO THEN WAIT FOR A COUNCIL MEETING TO COME INTO SESSION TO BRING THIS UP TO US TO HAVE TO HAVE THIS DIALOGUE TONIGHT. SO THAT'S ALL. THANK YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE, KEVIN. HOWARD, DO YOU HAVE A MOTION FOR US? I MOVE TO APPROVE FIVE D. SECOND MOTION. I'LL SECOND FIVE D THANK YOU FOR THE SECOND I'D GO FORWARD. ANY OTHER DISCUSSION? YEAH, JUST, JUST CLARIFICATION. SO WE ARE APPROVING AN EXEMPTION? YES. OKAY. ALL IN FAVOR? AYE. AYE. OPPOSED? ALL RIGHT. ITEM 5G IS APPROVED AND THANKS FOR HANGING OUT WITH US. ALRIGHT, THANK YOU LESLIE. ALRIGHT, [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.] OUR FINAL ITEM FOR THE NIGHT ITEMS OF COMMUNITY INTEREST, UH, OPPORTUNITY FOR THE COUNCIL TO, UH, SHARE ANY EXPRESSIONS OF THANKS, CONGRATULATIONS, CONDOLENCE, ET CETERA. MARLON, I SEE YOUR LIGHT FIRST OVER THERE. YEAH, THANK YOU MAYOR. WE HAD A, A BIG ANNOUNCEMENT THAT WAS, THAT CAME OUT THIS MORNING. UM, AND THAT, UH, WAYMO LAUNCHED INITIAL, UH, SERVICES IN, UH, IN A DEFINED TERRITORY FOR IN THE CITIES OF DALLAS, HOUSTON, SAN ANTONIO, AND ORLANDO, WHICH IS, UH, PRETTY BIG. SO, UH, WE, WE DON'T KNOW WHEN THEY'RE GONNA EXPAND, UH, THAT, THAT SERVICE TERRITORY IN DALLAS, BUT, UH, THIS IS, THIS IS, UH, THIS IS A GREAT START. SO THAT'S HUGE. SO I WANTED TO SHARE THAT WITH EVERYBODY. UM, THAT'S ALL I HAD. MAYOR, THAT'S BIG NEWS. AND THEN RANDY, I SAW YOUR LIGHT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I JUST WANTED TO GIVE, UH, OUR MAYOR KUDOS TONIGHT FOR TRUDGING THROUGH AND, AND GETTING THROUGH AND NOT, AND NOT PUTTING ANYTHING OFF UNTIL ANOTHER MEETING. SO WE GOT THROUGH EVERYTHING TONIGHT. WE DID, AND I, IT, IT, IT'S MIRACLE. IT'S A LONG NIGHT AND IT'S, IT'S A HARD NIGHT, BUT WE GOT THE PEOPLE'S WORK DONE. THANK YOU, SIR. YOU SAID WE COULDN'T DO IT. EXACTLY. ALRIGHT, AND DARREN, SIGN UP FOR YOUR WAYMO ACCOUNT SO YOU CAN DRIVE RIDE WAYMO. SO I WAS, UH, UH, TALKING TO A COUPLE OF, UH, THE FIREFIGHTERS, UH, RECENTLY. AND, UH, ONE OF 'EM BROUGHT UP, UH, THAT THEY HAD SOME OPENINGS FOR THEIR POSITION, AND I DON'T WANT TO GET THIS WRONG, BUT I'M GOING TO PARAPHRASE IT. UM, SO THEY HAD A, UM, APPLICANTS FOR IT AND THEY, THEY SAID THAT OVER THE LAST, UM, MANY YEARS THAT, THAT HE'S BEEN THERE, THEY'RE, THEY'VE NOT HAD A LOT OF APPLICANTS, UM, BUT HE SAID THEY HAD OVER A HUNDRED APPLICANTS FOR THIS AND HE SAID THEY WERE GOOD APPLICANTS, VERY GOOD. I MEAN, TOPNOTCH. SO, YOU KNOW, THINKING ABOUT, UH, WHAT CAUSED IT, YOU KNOW, THE, UM, THE 48 96 SCHEDULE MADE A BIG DIFFERENCE AND OBVIOUSLY THE STEP PROGRAM MADE A REALLY BIG DIFFERENCE. SO I JUST WANNA, YOU KNOW, LET THE, THE CITIZENS OF ADDISON KNOW IF ANYBODY WATCHES THIS, THAT, UM, THESE THINGS DO MAKE A BIG DIFFERENCE TO GET US TOP QUALITY PEOPLE. OBVIOUSLY WE HAVE TO SET HIGH STANDARDS AND CHECK ON THOSE AND HOLD 'EM ACCOUNTABLE AND HELP THEM IMPROVE, BUT PAYING THEM WELL, GIVING THEM GREAT OPTIONS AND SHIFTS. UM, I THINK THAT'S REALLY GOOD. I, UH, I WAS REALLY, REALLY HAPPY TO HEAR THAT THEY'RE, THEY'RE VERY PLEASED WITH THAT. SO YEAH, JUST WANTED TO OFFER THAT. THANK YOU DARREN. UH, AND I'LL JUST ADD ONE THING. UH, I APPRECIATE DAVID, UH, BRINGING THE, UH, THE AWARD WINNERS, UH, FOR A PRESENTATION TONIGHT. THAT WAS A REALLY NICE THING TO DO. UM, YOU STILL HERE ? I MEAN, THAT'S, YO, THAT'S A, THAT'S AN EVENT THAT THEY HAVE THAT THEY AT THE QUARTERLY LUNCHEON, WHICH I, WHICH I LOVE ATTENDING THOSE. AND THIS IS ALWAYS ONE OF MY FAVORITE ONES, UH, BECAUSE YOU GET TO HEAR THE STORY ABOUT WHY THEY WON THAT AWARD AND THEY'RE REALLY GREAT STORIES. AND I, I SPENT THE DAY IN ARLINGTON AT RTC, SO I WASN'T ABLE TO GO THIS TIME. BUT, UH, REALLY APPRECIATE THAT AND SO GRATEFUL AND THANKFUL FOR ALL OF OUR FOLKS TO DO SUCH GREAT WORK IN ADDISON. SO ANYTHING ELSE FROM ANYBODY? ALL RIGHT. IT'S 10 29. WE ARE ADJOURNED FOR THE NIGHT. THANKS EVERYBODY. I. * This transcript was created by voice-to-text technology. The transcript has not been edited for errors or omissions, it is for reference only and is not the official minutes of the meeting.