City Council - Regular Meeting

Oh, you want me to? Okay. Let me call to order the one thousand eight hundred and ninety fourth meeting of the Deer Park City Council. We're gonna open up with our invocation and by Councilwoman Georgette Ford. And the Pledge of Allegiance by Councilman Sherry Garrison.

If you would bow your heads with me, please. Father God, thank you so much for this city. I know we how blessed we are, and we tell you that all the time. But we honestly believe that we are blessed with such great staff and such great community people that help us and keep this city afloat. We thank you so much and ask you to be with us and go before us and have us to listen to you and all the guidance that we need to make the decisions that we make for this city, God. It's in your holy name that we pray over these things. Amen.

Anyone sign up to speak?

No, sir.

Hey, I could real quick. We want to introduce our intern that's working with us. Sarah, would you introduce him?

Yes, good evening. So as you all know in the past, we have done some internships with the University of Houston Hobby School of Public Affairs. We've had two interns in the past, first in the '25 and then the '25. I mean we're very happy to continue the internship partnership with U of H. So, our intern for the spring twenty twenty six semester is Michelle Nguyen. She started with us last week. She's going to continue with us through the March and we'll make sure that we bring her to future dinners with you guys so she can get to know you all a little bit more. She's gonna be shadowing city operations for the next four months or so. And we're really happy to have Michelle.

Welcome. Welcome Michelle.

Welcome. Welcome.

You for that.

Awesome. Moving on to consent calendar. Move for approval. Second. I have a motion by Councilman Ginn and a second by Councilman Haidt. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. We'll see how fast we can get through this meeting, Mr. Jeter. Agenda item number two, consideration of and an action on the termination of a contract with Central Square Technologies for false alarm tracking and billing services entering into a contract for such services with Alarm Program Systems.

Move for approval. Second.

I have a motion by Councilman Martin and second by Councilman Lee. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number three, consideration of an action on extending the contract with True North Emergency Management for disaster debris monitoring and related emergency management consulting services for two years.

Move for approval. Second.

I have a motion by Councilman Garrison and a second by Councilman Ford. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number four, consideration of an action authorization to make payment toward the third year of the three year agreement with Tyler Technologies for ERP Pro 10 Municipal Justice and Tyler One Cloud Based Software Solutions.

Move for approval. Second.

I have a motion by Councilman Lee, a second by Councilman Ford. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number five, consideration of an action on ordinance to amend section 70 four-six, facilities, rentals, schedule b of the code of ordinance related to parks and recs department fees for the new jabac. Mr. Fox.

According to amending appendix b, schedule of the fees, rights and charges, chapter 74 parks and recreation, section 74 dash six facility rentals of the cut ordinances of the city of your park and providing an effective date.

Move for approval. Second.

I have a motion by councilman for a by councilman again.

Councilman Hates who I saw

heard Councilman Hate. Yes, sir. Did you even say anything? I did.

He was a jinx. They both said

the same time. All right, I got a motion and a second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number six, consideration of an action and orders to amend the fiscal year twenty five-twenty six general fund budget for the police department to migrate to Motorola command central cloud. Mr.

Fox. An ordinance amending the twenty twenty five-twenty twenty six budget of the city of Deer Park taxes appropriate to some set up during the objects and purposes of their names.

Move for approval.

Second.

I'm going

to let you pick. I'm not even going go there.

I heard Councilwoman Garrison first.

Motion by Ms. Garrison and a second by TJ. All right. I got a motion and second. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number seven, consideration of an action on order to amend the approved 20 five-twenty six salary and classification scale. Mr. Fox.

An ordinance providing a reclassification scale and pay range chart for employees of the city of Deer Park, providing a pay range chart for unclassified service employees.

Move for approval. Second. Motion by councilman Ginn and second by councilman Ford. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Agenda item number eight, consideration of an action on the purchase of tennis court resurfering services from Torquette Sports via Sourcewell contract number 31622FTU. Before we get any motions well, let me get a motion and a second.

I move that we resurface and only line the courts for tennis courts.

I second.

Okay, so we've got a motion and a second now. Did we want to cover that or

With respect to Mr. Jeter, this may take a little time. You probably should

Oh, okay. Now we blew the narrative. Okay.

The question we want to ask counsel, and we have a staff recommendation about it. And this is part of the agenda. We can definitely talk about this. We can't stray too far away from it. But with the handball question that has come up and what are some alternative places they could play, we had said previously we did not want them drawing their own lines as handball players on our brand new tennis courts.

If there's any thought from counsel that we want to have it professionally striped, double striped for tennis and handball, now would be the time that we staff would need to know that so that Kenny can tell the striping company that. There would presumably be a small change order associated with that. Our recommendation is that we not do that just because the tennis group has shared that with pickleball for a long time. And now pickleball has some place. So they're about to have their own place for tennis.

That wall that's there is not a regulation size handball wall. It is intended to be one where you could go hit tennis balls off of it. The handball players and it's just part of their game. I'm not being critical of them. But they're going to hit the ball higher than the wall. And they do. And just this past week, we picked out probably 15 or 20 balls from the swimming pool area. And we don't want them going over the fence. And there has been times when that's happened before. So for lots of reasons, we'd suggest to staff that we not have that stripe and encourage handball to be played there.

We can still look at other alternatives for handball to be played somewhere else, but just that not be the location.

So to simplify the narrative, does anybody disagree with the motion and or what Mr. Stokes is saying?

I have a question. Are they painting their own lines now? You said that, so I just would on the tennis courts now?

Kenny can probably address that better than me. But my understanding is they have gone out in the past and painted their own handball lines over

if

we the six say we're not going to do that, can we stop that?

We can. I mean, they have done that. I mean, we'll add some signage. I mean, is vandalism, I would assume.

So

I'd work with PD to try to enforce that. We don't have surveillance cameras there. We could explore adding those.

I was just curious if they were doing it on paper.

But we could speak directly to those that are regular handball players. And we've had this conversation with them. And they understand that that's not something that we want to do with the new once the court has been resurfaced. So I don't think that will be an issue.

And while I think it clearly, we can talk about this because it's in the context of what we do at the tennis court, it's probably going too far to talk about all the other things right now that could places a handball could go. That's not on the agenda. But very soon, want to bring that back to counsel and continue that discussion about what are some alternatives. And Kenny has some good suggestions that are worth your consideration as an alternative. But either the next council meeting or the one after that will want to resume this

discussion. Yeah,

I had a convo with the handball guy that was here, the main driver today. And I said, hey, if it does not go your way to have stripes put on that tennis court, Please do not put any stripes on there. And he assured me they would not

do that. And the existing court is, as you know, it's all green with these white stripes. The new court will be two color to where the interior actual lines will be one color. Think of blue or gray. The outside will be a lighter color to some contrast, looking more like the professional courts. Drawing lines would go into the darker color, it would be much more significantly noticed as an impact to the tennis courts.

I think we should just do it as tennis courts.

Well, that's pretty much what the consensus is. Anybody disagrees with that, speak up. All right. So we've got a motion and a second to move forward with them resurfacing the services. Any more discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. Sorry, Mr. Jeter, we've wasted a lot of time on that one. It won't be the shortest meeting we've had in a while. Agenda item number nine, consideration of an action on the purchase of KL Furniture from Insight Evolutions via Sourcewell contract. It's your pleasure, counsel.

Move for approval. Yep, second.

I have a motion by Councilman Ford and second by Councilman Lee. Any discussion? All in favor? Aye. All opposed? Motion carries. That's all the items we have for tonight. Meeting is adjourned.