City Council - Regular Meeting

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the only choice. It's the only choice we have. We have to do something. But I've worked with him before.

I've only met him if you heard my name. He was an officer on board and they got some kind of good suggestion It's not sticking out too far. Brian, sounds good.

I'm sorry. Wake everybody up. Um, thank you for coming tonight. I would like to ask uh Councilwoman Post if she would offer our invocation tonight. Heavenly Father, we just thank you for the beautiful weather that we're having and we just ask that you please bless our decisions that we make for the city and just have your hand in our decisions. We just pray these things in your precious name. Amen. Amen. Please join me in the pledge. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

Please silence your telephones if you haven't done so already. Done. Thank. All right. All right, the next item on our agenda is community interest. Um, anybody have anything they would like to toss out there? I don't know if we have anything going on here in the near future. Oh, the shredathon, the spring shredathon is April the 11th. Somebody asked me that the other day. Yep. April 11th. Wellington State Bank. All right, let's move over. Do you have a city manager report?

I really don't, but there's a couple of things I can bring up. Uh we're kind of in between everything. Uh uh the uh sewer line project is ongoing. We're not real happy with the contractor, but they're beginning to straighten up a little bit and act right and are working again. So they were out for a couple of weeks. Uh uh we're waiting on two little parts for the substation before we finish wiring up the transformer and get all the wires run and stuff. We're working on that. So, it's just kind we're kind of in the middle of everything waiting on that. So, anybody got any questions?

Well, if not, let's move to the consent agenda items. Your uh minutes are in your packet from the March 27th I mean the March 10th meeting plus your write-offs for the city utilities and the library. If you have read it and would like to make a motion to approve, please do so with the I'll make a motion to approve. I do have a question just on these write offs. Do we maintain some sort of list so that these folks can't Yes. Yes. Okay. Even after the write off is complete. Okay. Thank you. Do we have a second question? Post Shaw. Hi.

Holstein. Hi. Sprouls.

I post I thank you. All right, the next item on the agenda is to fulfill our vacant spot. And we have an applicant in the audience that has agreed to be that has agreed to be that candidate. You also only have one application. Um, there were a few more applications, but they didn't meet the requirements. So, we had one solid application and that is for TJ Mchuan. He has been here before for those of you that do not know. And so, I would like to entertain a motion to accept TJ's placement on the city council to field the spot of Brandon Walker, recently resigned.

So, moved. Shaw. Second. Sprouls Shaw. Yes. Holstein. Hi. Sprouls. Hi. And post. I. Yeah. Okay. Um, so now we will do a swearing in ceremony. Yay.

I'm good at swearing. We don't want everyone to raise after me. In the name of the authority of the state of Texas, the Office of Council, City Council Tracer, protectitution

and the laws of the United States of this United States. So, ladies and gentlemen, that gives us a full slate full house as we come into budget planning season. Oh, boy.

All right, let's move on to the next item. We have a resolution 2026-11. A resolution of the city council of the city of Buouie authorizing the city to submit a grant application to the motor vehicle crimerevention authority for the 2026 autotheft task force grant force grant program and providing an effective date. Would you like to present to them what that is? Sure.

So, excuse me. Have you ever heard of the flock cameras? other some. So, that's what this is. Um, what we want to do is apply for a grant for six flock cameras. And what that is is they are video, but they're also license plate readers. And there would be one at the entrance to each of the major corridors coming into the city. Um, or just directly outside that we actually put them a little further out. So, what happens is if they read a license plate and if it's stolen or entered into the system by the state of Texas, TCIC or whatever, it will alert and we'll know it's coming. If we have a car stolen, we can put the license plate in. It'll tell us if that camera read it, you know, however many days ago or where where it's coming and going. And we can use it to for a numerous amount of other criminal investigations. But the main thing the grant is for is for vehicle autotheft. And uh so that's what we're asking to apply for that so we can we get if you get at least four cameras I believe you get access to the nationwide database.

Wow. They're in 48 states and there's already one if you come into Monte County from the peach orchard on 81 you barely see there's one right there. There's one out here at Sunset that belongs to the city of Witto Falls. They get a 45minute notice, something's heading their direction. Jacksboro, Jack County has them all over the place. They're they're in several towns, but the the grant would pay 80%. So, the city would be have to pay an upfront cost and would get reimbursed minus the 20%. You have an estimate of what that 20% would be? $3,600. Okay. No problem.

Well, while we're at it, I got some other thing. No, I'm just kidding. Put it up, Laura. We'll let you pay more if you'd like to. Okay, that's just the kind of highlight. I can go into more detail if you if anybody has questions, but what's the timeline on the the grant just opened this month. There is a workshop in April and then there's a uh Yeah, they're not gonna be awarded until October again. Yeah.

Um another question. Oh, do they pay do they pay their grants award? I guess have we done this before? I've not done this before, but I have been advised that um the state of Texas gets x amount of millions of dollars in this grant. And last year they had a very little bit of it given out. So I asked them, okay, let's say we awarded the grant and we do this and let's say next year we don't get the grant. What happens? They said, well, we just come get the cameras you don't want to pay for. So you're not stuck still paying you like an 18 grand the next year or something. Okay, sounds good. Are there any other perpetual costs to operate these?

Not that I've been told. I hope not. Better not be. So you said the grant would be reimbursed. So we would have to pay the city would have to pay 18 grand upfront and then they reimburse you money. That's the way most grants most but we don't do that until we know we have the grant. Correct. Correct. Yes. Right. Okay. So there's a story behind that question.

Some of them take a long time to pay back. That's why Brent was asking that question. And one thing you that is interesting about this, they they we did a demo. They did a demo with me and you can put in there, we're looking for a Ford pickup, blue with a red door, and type it in there and it'll just start pulling everything that it has seen. It said a certain pickup with a sticker on the back. It was picking up tiny little stickers on the back window.

I mean, it's that detailed. You can also, this is not part of this, but you can also get cameras from this system that can be added to this system. You could put one at the parks that you can control and move and set it for different things, criminal mischiefs or different. I mean, there's all kinds of opportunities if the city wanted to push this further out to do more things in the future if you wanted to. So the cameras that are would be positioned whatever who makes that choice you or

uh the the salesman and I have talked about it. So what we talked about doing was putting one at the radio state. We have we would have to get approval from the county judge. Otherwise if he doesn't approve it, they have to be in the city limits. But what I'd like to do is have one say like at the radio station coming in out at the fat hat factory out at Selma Park cut off out around the Ford dealership lip scums. So we have a little bit of notice something's coming in town that's reported stolen. We got time to get to it before we actually had one the other day. We've actually had several of these that have hit the sunset camera and Witto Falls calls Monteg. Monte calls us and we we get them out here by the new alups. We've had three or four stolen cars we've recovered from the metroplex right there.

And what does this system does? It tie into something that we currently own that you're dispatchers or It ties into the the state um system where we enter things, it it also ties that's what it's scanning. It's called TCIC. Okay. So that's so if any agency enters a vehicle stolen and it's in the system and I run it in dispatch, that camera is going to run it the same way and it's going to alert this car is wanted for a murder investigation or it's stolen or whatever it is. Okay. Thank you. Yes, sir. So it'll cover like Amber alerts and all that kind of stuff too

if the license plate is is is if something is attached to that license plate in the system. Yes. Great. Thank you. Make a motion we approve this. Okay. Um second that. That was quick. Okay. All right. Hold on. Shaw made a motion. Post. Seconded. Holstein. Hi, Sprouls. I Shaw. I and Post. I Oh, wait a minute. TJ's been added. Wait a minute, TJ. I had to write you in here. Okay, TJ. Hi. Thank you.

You bet. That's why it went I. So, the resolution's in your packet. You can also read that. Do we have any public comments from anybody out there? Would you Would you like to have anything to say, ma'am? I wonder how many of those public mischief cameras we can get. Oh, yeah. Absolutely. We'll work on that next time. Yeah. Once you get that establish, what is the I know we've already done this. Let's Hey, let's let's close the meeting before we do that. Um, so if there are no other questions, then I'll call the meeting tonight at 6:13. Call. All right. Now, I ask you,

what is the per camera? Say we get this approval and then we go, you know what? We could really use another