City Council - Regular Meeting

It is 6.30 and I'm calling to order the Elgin City Council meeting on June the 16th, 2026. And we will begin with our call to order with Deputy Mayor Pro Tem St. Pierre. St. Pierre here. Mayfield here.

Krim here.

McShann here. Jaimus here.

Silva here.

Love here. Councilmember Pena is out for a funeral. And then of course we congratulate Councilmember Gibson on his new baby girl. Yay. So if we have a motion. I'll make a motion to approve.

I'll second.

All right, it's been moved and seconded. We'll begin with Mayor Pro Tem Love. Love, yes.

St. Pierre, yes.

Mayfield, yes. Crimm, yes. McShann, yes. Jaimus, yes.

Silva, yes.

All right. And Council Member Crimm will give us the invocation.

Okay. Dear Lord, we ask that you lift up our council, our city council, our mayor, and our other local leaders. We ask that you grant them the spirit of wisdom and justice as they make decisions this evening.

We ask that you provide them with godly counselors who offer honest wisdom and unite them in their goal to serve the common welfare.

Protect their families, grant them energy and peace. Amen.

Amen. And we'll stand for the Pledge of Allegiance. We have no one sign up for the public comment, so we will go on then with our announcements.

Hello council and mayor Christina Alvarez Main Street manager. We are officially announcing our accreditation through Main Street. Y'all probably saw the flyer I gave y'all a couple of meetings ago. We just got the press release and everything through Main Street America so we're really excited about that. I also have fit and strong summer aerobics every Friday through August 28th at the rec center 10 15 to 11 15 backyard chickens for beginners Saturday June 20th 12 to 1 at the public library BK bones fossil rocks Tuesday June 23rd 1030 a.m. Here at the library discovery camp into the wild June 25th through 26 12 to 3 at the rec center chair yoga with body and shine the 27th at 11 a.m. At the library and well your awareness junk had experience with pink love Houston on Tuesday, June 30th 2 to 4 and 6 to 8 also here at the library. Thank you.

Thank you Next we'll have our presentations. Ms. Sanders you come forth and do an introduction of new employees. I

Good evening, Council, Mayor, Pam Sanders, HR Director. We had eight new employees. We're gonna start with Public Works, if y'all will come forward when I call your name. Clayton Andrews is a groundskeeper, he's not here. Kevin Garcia, groundskeeper. Kevin Montemayor. It's okay, they were all told to be here. Next. John Breedlove. Okay. Hunter Cooper. Yay. Utility maintenance technician. Joe Ortiz, also utility maintenance. And that's it for Public Works. Pictures? Yes. No. Guys, will y'all come up here and stand with Michael?

Let me do this this time. I'll scoot over just a little bit to your, there you go, that's fine. That'll work.

Heidi Rodriguez, I don't see her, our new IT administrator. Michael Hines, our new building official.

And our new assistant to the chief, Karina Guzman. Just to the center. There you go. Thank you.

All right, I have three service awards tonight, all for five years. First one is Junior. We got more. Let's just do them all at one time. Charlie Nevejas, this is his five years, this go round. His third round. And last but not least, Kaylee Frye.

Stand right there, that would be great. Just center yourselves. Smile. I'll make it fast. Smile. Kaylee smile. Kaylee smile. Okay.

Congratulations to all of you. Next, we'll move on to the city manager's report.

Thank you, Mayor. Council and y'all's package should be the Library Advisory Board quarterly report. I didn't know if there were any questions on that. If not, also provided was the Parks and Recreation Advisory Board quarterly report. No questions. And then number three, discussion and possible action regarding new council member onboarding. This has kind of been brought up, kind of wanted to let everybody know where we are right now as a city is it's kind of, we have council that come in, it's kind of a little bit of a tornado from the time that the election results come in to when you're sworn in to when you're up here and you're taking votes on issues critical to the city as part of being on the council. There's a lot of information that is put out there. I kinda got with city staff to see do we actually have what I would call like a standard operating procedure or a written policy to say this is what an expectation should be of a new council member of the information they would receive. Not only for the new council members but also the existing council members to say this is our understanding of what they should be coming in with knowledge when they get here on council. Um, and having that conversation and looking at over the years, it's been what I would, it's, there's a process there, but I would say it's informalized because it's not actually documented down to say X, Y, Z, this is how it should be. This is step one, a one B one C. Um, in the case of this year, we have four new council members that it came on at once, uh, with it. There's a lot of information you guys have seen. I had the city secretary send me just a kind of a snippet of what all that looks like, and you You definitely have to have a Kindle or you got to be really good at reading a computer because there's a lot of information there. There's not necessarily a quote unquote training class. There's not a formal sit down class that happens. Some of the informal meetings are set up either between the city secretary to try to get you in or maybe with the city manager, maybe with the mayor, maybe with other council members. But there isn't really a documented process for that transition period that will be in. um a lot of it's assumed that you're picking it up on the fly so in talking to some council members and the mayor and stuff i do feel like the way that the city has gone when we're talking about like city departments same thing here is potentially consider should there be a set of expectations not only of what you're getting from city staff what you're getting from council and then what you should be what your opinion is of new council members coming in what that should look like for them too when they show up on day one what your expectation of is are they already hit the ground running what they should have at a minimum knowledge to be here on council and moving forward as you guys are you all understand two year terms if it's six to nine months to get the swing of things that you know you're already moving back in it's it's a lot to do in a short period of time So I just wanted to have an open discussion. I've talked to a few of you just kind of getting ideas. The way I kind of look at it, this can be something that council says, yes, we do feel it's good to have it documented. You can direct city staff and say, put us something together that makes sense, and then we'll review it. This could be a council-led committee completely, where you're like, you know what? We do this. We know what we kind of feel like we should and shouldn't be doing. We'll put something together and then come to city staff to make it look pretty, put the bows on it, make it a little bit formalized. Or it can be more of an iteration process. you guys can table it and have further discussion on it but that was one of the request is did we have something in writing that i can basically say here's your onboarding packet as you would say with a new employee to a new council person here's your onboarding packet type of deal and currently i can give you all of that information but the time that it kind of comes out in the email it's probably not formalized that you might have that expectation it might not be an expectation so i don't want to put that in y'all's heads either it might not be an expectation that that should be provided or not But just wanted to bring it up for general consideration and discussion amongst ourselves while we're here. And if you did have anything you kind of wanted staff to do related to that, we're here to help and assist with it.

So since we just had some new ones come in, my deputy mayor, St. Pierre, I'm putting you on the spot. She brought that up and I, to be honest, I never really thought about it. I know what I do and what I do because I've been on the council before and I know how hard it was back then. And so you're definitely right. We do need something in writing, in place. I'm gonna put you over the work group. Gather whoever you want to and put together a little whatever. And then we'll work with city staff to formalize what that needs to look like. And that's my suggestion.

I volunteer to be on that.

So you requested that you want it to be a council-led initiative? Yes. I don't think it should be a council-led initiative. I think that it should be council and staff together because staff already has a heavy workload. And then we're asking, I asked Peyton for the stuff that, because I was kind of confused on what this, why this is on the agenda and what it was as well. for one, because it's not something that benefits the entire city as a whole. It doesn't bring in any type of revenue or any business. This is something that's internal. So even looking at this, I asked Peyton to send me everything that she provides during the onboarding, which is accurate, and the information she gave, I think, is also above and beyond anything, but I do agree that yes, something should be, some type of policy should be written down if there's not one, but the information that she provides is a lot of resources and asking staff to like to have the city council come up with something or be the only ones over it and also put staff in a different bind too because staff does cannot teach us to be city council members and then having the city council members come in and just kind of dictate what they want staff to put together for us it i don't so let me let me go back and try to explain what i just said because obviously it wasn't clear

So I want Deputy Mayor Pro Tem to look at what they she feels like we did not have or how it was presented. The city staff already has done their work. We're not trying to put anything more on them, but how it was presented. And we do need something in writing, you know, so that we know this is what we get. Make sure nobody misses anything. And I don't know what it'll look like once you talk to folks but we're not the intent is not to put any more on staff they already did it right so the most biggest part that will be is making it formal and we're talking about formatting you know or how we do what the process is can I make a clarification to you as well I'm not expecting this to be something that staff is responsible for as you stated staff doesn't know how to be council members but we do

This should be a policy that we are responsible for implementing with our newly elected council members. I think that it should be our responsibility to make sure that we are setting them up for the best success that they can because we need them, we need to ensure that they know how to make informed, well-decisions from day one. And so this shouldn't be a staff thing. This should be a council-led operation where we're responsible for providing them with these resources and this information.

the information that Peyton provides is all of the resources from the state and from TML. So this is why I'm also kind of confused. What more, I guess this would be during this conversation, what more are you asking for? Because all the resources are there. This is not stating that we know what we need, what we're wanting. All the resources are there. TML is there. And it's also important that even as newly elected officials come on, that we all have to do some type of due diligence. We ran for an election. We should know what we're getting ourselves into. It's not just a Tuesday thing. This is more than that. So that's why I'm also confused on that's a lot of resources that's there. We can't, I can't even teach Roland, my counterpart, to be a council member. I am, since I'm not, you know, older, but I'm older, I'm longer on council, a mentor to him too, which is, he can come to me and I can explain stuff, so I'm just, I'm trying to figure out what more are you asking for.

Let me kind of approach that, because I think, From a strategic building type of approach, we're looking at having some kind of peer-led training, you could say. Peer-led meaning the council would be helping new onboarding. And making that a little smoother so that it's not just gathering material and saying, go home and read this, find whatever is pertinent to you. we can help them understand what is gonna be most important, where to start, and yeah, these documents are really gonna be important to you, so focus on that, but here are the sections that you really wanna jump on first, helping them understand bringing up or maybe tabling items on the agenda, things like that. And you guys did a great job, I have to say. I appreciate what you did for me. And Tiffany, you and I also met and I did as much as I could to meet with staff in advance so that I could understand because my first agenda was packed. And not every new city council member's first agenda is going to be that heavy, but that one was. And I really appreciated the work you guys did with me. And I think it's more or less along those lines. Set up some guidance for these new city council members.

And I think we can do that. Would it be fair to say it's almost like a outline? Decorum, these are the reference materials for decorum. Council, these are the reference materials.

Not actually teach the materials, but put them in an order so you don't get... Like a basic minimum standard of just how meetings run. I do understand that there is due diligence that each of us need to take part of, where we have to learn our own things, we have to do our own research, we have to take the resources, and we have to find it. But on top of all that, we also have to learn how to pull something from a consent agenda to discuss it, how we can table something. And those are things that I had to learn as they happen in a meeting. And I don't think it's... too much to ask to take a three or four hour afternoon once they're elected to just sit them down and be like, this is the basics of how this meeting is going to run. Here are your resources, it's your responsibility to do x, y and z. But I want to make sure when you walk in on Tuesday, and we're doing this, this, and this. If you have questions and you wanna talk about it, this is how you do it. If you wanna make an agenda item, this is how you do it. Those are things that we can educate them where they're not gonna be buried in the pounds of reference materials that you get that you have to find on your own. And I think that those are important starting materials for when you first get elected. The rest of the stuff you can learn and research as you go, but that bare minimum at least should be set to them.

And this work product would be a structured approach, right? So that we can reinstitute it every time and use the same approach and adjust as we learn what works best. So it's just applying some structure to those meetings that we had that helped me a great deal. So I think that's what it is.

I also think you can read document after document and get a certain degree of clarification out of it. But I don't think there's any Practical experience is invaluable, and I think that those of us that have served a while, and some that have been only just a year, but could really offer some of the newer folks. I know what the policy says, but here's how it's practically applied. in a real meeting setting, that sort of thing. So I don't think it hurts because one of the things we have to remember is that regardless of how educated you are about policies and all that sort of stuff, when you come on board here the first night, you assume a certain amount of liability for the city and it would just be a safeguard to make sure we know what we're doing to some degree.

So just to roll it up, what I'm understanding, Tiffany and Roland will kind of put your heads together and kind of lay out some outlines and potentially bring back or, you know, and the city secretary help if you're like, hey, can you send us the email of all the materials, which I know you guys all have, but there is an email that has them all attached, a giant email. And then you guys can have that discussion and at least, i would say start with an outline of what you guys feel there's a lot of things to pull into one place but maybe just a high level outline one pager to kind of go from there and then we can breach the discussion of is that really something that needs

I think at the top of that, y'all should also, I mean, I know that staff can't mandate people to go to TML newly elected, but that's where you get your start.

You'll get it, but you don't get it day one. Right. And that's the problem. It'll be July or August, and they're already here and got to do what they got to do. So when I first became mayor, there was no book. There was no anything. I just had to jump in feet first and pray about it. So I do understand.

And I'm not trying to make it super complicated. I mean bare minimum, simple. But we can also use it as an opportunity. One of the first things that we did or that I did when I got elected was we voted for Mayor Pro Tem. I didn't have any interaction with half of you. So having a meeting where we could get together with a newly elected official and sit with them for two or three hours and go over some basics and let them be able to get our contact information, be able to kind of interview us so that way when they come in for that first meeting, they have an idea of who they want in that leadership role. They're not just kind of guessing or getting a feel off of what they've seen here or there. It's a good opportunity. I didn't even have some of the older council members' contact numbers.

See, but I get what you're saying, but just also like this one example right there, it's also doing your due diligence. You know that you're running for an election. City Council is open. Come to a meeting. You can reach out to people. I mean, I reach out to constituents all the time, but I do not know every single person. I have many people reaching out to me, and that works. I talk to people all the time, but That example right there is just saying like, you have to do your part too. And if you didn't do your part, then you can't say, well, I didn't know who to really vote for if you knew that you were coming on.

Give us a chance to put something together and then we'll take a look and we'll talk after.

Yep, let's work on that. Okay, the consent agenda. We have the regular meeting minutes for April 7th, May 12th, and June 2nd. I'll make a motion to accept. And then the appointment for Main Street Board. I'm sorry, I didn't understand that part. Yeah, I'm sorry. I'm trying not to choke on everybody. I'll make the motion to accept.

Second.

Okay, we'll start with Deputy Mayor Protege, St. Pierre.

St. Pierre, yes. Mayfield, yes. Creme, yes.

McShane, yes. Hyman, yes.

Silva, yes.

Love, yes. All right, so we're gonna start with our new business, and it's discussion and possible action regarding a request by Aviators Pizza and Brew Company to grant a variance from city code section 32-267 to allow for operations of an animated moving sign on the property located on 136 Roy Rivers Road.

Yes, council mayor before you. Many of you guys probably don't realize the city of Elvin has a sign ordinance that's adhered not only for signs that are out on the right away or in front of a business, but signs that also go up on a wall of a building from the main street area to anywhere within city limits. So the sign ordinance, if you're putting together a business, you go through the sign ordinance, you put that up before you as aviators. And I think they're here Kaylee is here from the EDC to kind of talk, and Aviators is also here to answer your questions. What they are asking for is a very specific variance from the ordinance, which currently states we do not allow any kind of digital or moving signs to be placed within the city limits. And what they're proposing to do is just that. And I know the EDC has been working very closely with them. They had this discussion, but essentially that is the variance you're looking to grant for is a moving sign. I believe you've kind of been given some copies of it as well to kind of look at it, but I'll turn it over to Kaylee to kind of from the EDC standpoint.

Sure, I think everybody's probably familiar with Aviators Project for the most part, but since we have so many new council members, just brief overview. It's a total of about seven acres, an elegant business park too. It'll be about 50,000 square feet of commercial space, 40,000 square feet of entertainment, venue space, beer garden space. They're gonna be occupying a portion of it and then leasing out the space to additional tenants. So yes, we've been working with aviators and they are looking for this variant. So we brought it to the EDC board for discussion. The EDC board was in support of this because they think it'll bring visibility to the project. It is also kind of a destination entertainment space that is located off the highway, behind Whataburger, behind First National Banks, and so we wanted to get as much visibility as possible. They're doing significant capital investment. I think, I don't, I know originally there was supposed to be $10 million investment. I know it's probably gone up from there, but so it's a great project. As most of you know, Aviator has got their start noggin, and they are expanding where they got their start. So we're excited about this project. I think there's some renderings, but the EDC board is in support of this. We didn't vote on it, but they just said they want to counsel to know that they are in support of this project. They think it'll be a great asset to the community. So go to the next one for the renderings. So these are just some renderings and stuff this one, but they were also going to be promoting different, so obviously some of their tenants, some of their entertainment that they have going on, but also they are going to be doing community type events, so Hawkeye Festival, school district events. So it'll be promoting not just aviators, just other projects that they're collaborating on or just great community projects. That's a brief overview. I'll invite John up if he wants to fill in any gaps or answer any questions that you guys might have. Yeah.

I have a question was probably not related to them at all. It's probably more for you. Is there a reason why specifically this ordinance is the entire city limits and it doesn't have like an exemption for a business park? Because this is technically in our business park, which you would expect to see stores advertising. And so is there a reason why it's the entire city?

It has to do with, again, council. When this was passed, a lot of the visibility and decisions coming before council. So council having policy decisions, you can't do it as a scaffold. It's kind of a meat cleaver. And so the idea was we'd rather bring the city all in and say, this is what it should be. but we want it to be a council decision to make the one-offs based on whatever the reason may be and so what you didn't want to do is create a separate market within the business parks they have their own standard but their standards are only related to the buildings and a few other things that don't necessarily override everything that the city has done Um, in order to do something like that, what we basically have to do is the EDC would have to approve it and council would have to approve it and we would take that and dovetail it into the business park ordinances at that point in time. The sign specifically at that time we was discussed was no, because it could be a free for all potentially in the business park. And so you have the business park is next to residential Saratoga in that particular case. Um, and so that's why that decision was made not to bring it in. Hopefully that answers the question. Thank you.

And sitting on the EDC board, this conversation came up. And of course, I do live right there in Saratoga. So some of the questions that I had was basically about the sign and where it's going to be. And since the agenda came out, everybody has access to the agenda. So I did have residents and neighbors reach out to me asking like, Hey, is it going to be in my backyard type of thing? And I did mention, I know Walmart is right behind us, but But I told them, I said, no, this is gonna be facing 290 and it's, I mean, those of us on the EDC board and talking to somebody who lives in Saratoga, they think it's gonna be a awesome opportunity to have for the city. I mean, we have signage coming off of 290 and then it doesn't just promote one business, but multiple, so. And downtown.

Did any of those residents anything? Go ahead. I'm sorry, we definitely don't want to be interfering with the neighborhood because those are our customers, so we don't want to make them mad.

Oh, no, we're excited to be able to walk and ride our bike over there.

I need a sign over where you live to make it back. Right. We might need that.

You'll see the lit up sign. You'll be like, from your backyard, you'll be like, oh, I want to, this is what I want to do over there.

Just use the map app in walking. So I'm super stoked that it's going to be aviators. And did you guys have any concerns? Anybody say anything about the sign title, the beer garden?

No, because everybody knows what Aviators.

Beard Garden Center.

It is, and it was already promoted how it was going to be back when Aviators was first built. So, I mean, like I said, our neighbors are excited. They're talking about they need a bridge gap in us. A pedestrian bridge, I like that. Keep it in mind.

I think this sign is absolutely appropriate for an entertainment venue. It wouldn't be for a funeral home. This is what we would expect. In my opinion, having seen it now, there's nothing... I like the sign. It's

Nice design.

Yeah, I appreciate it. Well, we feel like that we're being able to capitalize on bringing people out of Austin, being able to bring people out of Manor, and when we get people here, we don't just want them to be interested in what's happening at our center with our business, but we want them to be saying, oh, look, Hawkeye's coming up. Look, Sip and Stroll on the street. We want to do all that. We want to be a partner here. That makes me happy. Because the better community we are, the better the business is going to be. Yeah.

And the lit up part around the top is just that red portion, right? That's the only portion that's lit up?

Well, the letters are lit up. Your garden center is all neon. And it's canned, but they're very thin. So it is all lit on the top. And on the bottom is that section that's the LED. And if there's any kind of problem with neighborhood or anything that light would get too much at night, we'd tone it down. So we're not going to shine it. We'll probably shine it out. for the 290, so people can kind of see. We're a little bit worried we're off the highway, but since we're on top of that hill coming up and everybody can kind of see us up there, we're happy about that.

It is a tall sign.

It is, yeah. So we wanted to do something that was kind of in line with Southside and Myers, you know. It kind of does resemble it. Big Elgin kind of businesses.

I was after the fact, but I'm assuming their ordinance is probably been in place for a while or sign ordinance.

Sign ordinance a little less than a decade, I want to say.

Okay. We may want to revisit, you know, after the fact. I make a motion. We approve this.

I'll second.

All right. It's been moved and seconded. We'll begin with Council Member Krim.

Krim, yes.

McShann, yes. Hymas, yes.

Silva, yes.

Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Mayfield, yes.

Motion carries. So the next one's a resolution of the city of Elgin, Texas authorizing the creation of the position of public information officer, PIO, as a new full-time equivalent FTE within the city's organizational structure and providing for related matters and establishing an effective date. Ms. Sanders.

This is what we had talked about maybe six months ago, separating the community services director who also assumed the PIO role. So this is separating the two and bringing the PIO out and and we'll go under the city manager's office in communications. Any other questions?

Well, I think we pretty much had a discussion before on this, and I think everybody was pretty much in favor of it at the time. We did clarify that the PIO for the police department will be separate. Is that true?

I don't think so.

Within the department. Within the department, yeah.

Yeah, but I mean, it wouldn't be the city's people. They won't. Anyway, yeah. Again, I make a motion that we approve this resolution.

I'll second. It's been moved and seconded, and we'll move again to Council Member Crimm. Crimm, yes. McShane, yes. Hynek, yes.

Silva, yes.

Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Mayfield, yes. Thank you.

All right, the next one's a resolution for the City of Elgin, Texas, requesting financial assistance from the Texas Water Development Board, authorizing the filling of an application for assistance. and making certain findings and connections, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Go ahead, Mr. Michael.

Good evening, council. Michael Gonzalez, director of public works. Some time ago, this council, previous council, authorized the staff to go after a Water Development Board grant. And at that time, the prize wasn't established. So this resolution before you tonight is the formal ask to the Water Development Board for $12 million, not to exceed 12. Bo and I worked with them. the other set of engineers to define a specific set of projects. And there was no shortage of projects to pick from. There was just the highest level amount of money that we could ask for. And we feel like this is the most competitive approach to formally ask for these funds. And so that's what this resolution is here tonight.

That's what makes us most competitive in this application process. While we could identify future needs, they're looking more at what can you do to protect water investments right now, shovel-ready projects.

that are ready to go. So it's the expansion of our water treatment plant, which we've already started with the MITMOD grant. And so this will kind of cover the funds there and allow us more breathing room not to dip into our impact fees. The other one is we've also had in previous projects, it was just limited by the amount of money, our storage capacity. And so up there at Pistol Hill, we have a new tank that augments, that offsets the Pistol Hill tank. This will allow us to go for the rehabilitation project that we didn't get to do in the first round. And so both outstanding shovel-ready projects that we have designs for already that we think could be competitive.

I appreciate the tour here today. I understand how much it's needed. Right. Do I hear any more questions? I'll make the motion.

I second.

It's been moved and seconded, and we'll begin with Deputy Mayor Pro Tem St. Pierre. That's a lot of St. Pierre. St. Pierre, yes.

Can I just say DP St. Pierre?

Kareem, yes.

McShane, yes. Hymas, yes.

Silva, yes.

Love, yes. Motion carries.

Okay, number four is a resolution of the city of Elgin, Texas authorizing the city manager to execute an agreement for utility line relocating and making certain findings related thereto. Mr. Gonzalez.

In the most straightforward of terms, we have the County Land Road project that is widening. And when we widened, we kind of offset or moved ACWA out to another private easement. They like to be in private easement to start out with, and so this one took their existing line and pushed it out even further. This agreement here authorizes the city and ACWA to work together to make that happen, to move it. And we can help you answer any questions, but it's essentially that straightforward. We move them over, and this is to facilitate that move.

So we need this in order to complete our expansion on County Line Road, which I know the community is very much for. That's right. But because we're asking them to do it, this is on our dime, right?

That's right. And this is a very coordinated project with both a lot of different utilities, but the city, Aqua, and then also we have that private landowner that we're also working with. Bo's been heading up this project as far as negotiations. We've come a long way. We're ready to move it over.

Was this already factored into the previous cost, or is this new?

No, this is factored into the existing cost. We have developer fees to help us with that.

All right, if there's no discussion, well, further discussion, I'll make a motion to approve.

I second.

It's been moved and seconded. We'll begin with Mayor Pro Tem Love.

Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Mayfield, yes.

Creme, yes.

McShane, yes. Hymas, yes.

Silva, yes.

Motion carries.

The next on our agenda is Bastrop County Advisory Board of Health appointment. I'm gonna pass that over to our Mayor Pro Tem Love, because she's been working with that.

All right, so this one is, we have two applicants. With Bastrop County Public Health Department, our city is obligated to have one person to represent our city on that board. So right now, because Mr. Roger Adams had to step down for work reasons, we right now have no one representing Elgin. So we need to have somebody on that board so Elgin can have a voice for what's happening in the county. So we had two applicants. One was Dr., I always mess up my name, but we have two applicants. Y'all saw the name. Dr. Ambrose. Yes, Ambrose. And then we also had Valerie Neidig. Any discussions? My discussion on that one is I would choose Dr. Amber Rose because she is in the health field already. She is a provider and she does this work and that is something that's very important when you're dealing with public health.

And I spoke to both and I think knowing Valerie and all the work that she does for the community, her primary concern is that we have that position filled and that we have it filled with somebody that knows what they're doing. and spoke to Dr. Ambrose, and she's very qualified, and I agree with that.

Yeah, her research and education is top.

And with that said then, I make a motion to appoint Dr. Ambrose. I'll second.

Okay, that's been moved and seconded. We'll begin with Mayor Portum Love.

Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Mayfield, yes. Creme, yes. McShane, yes.

Hymas, yes.

Silva, yes.

Motion carries.

I think they can work well together.

Number six is the city appointment of one council member to the Capital Area Council of Governments, CAPCOG, as we know it, General Assembly as a city of Elgin representative. So currently, it was myself and council member, former council member, Chuck Swain. Chuck Chuck. And so now that he's off, then we need to put somebody else. And they have... it used to be quarterly meetings but now they're only having one so that makes it a whole lot easier um and it's in austin so the next date for the next meeting is is december 9th so they're only having one miss uh council member silva has talked to me and asked that he be considered and i have no reason not to consider him so uh anybody else

I make a motion we appoint Mr. Silva.

I'll second. Thank you. It's been moved and seconded, and we'll begin with Council Member Crimm.

Crimm, yes.

McShann, yes. Hymas, yes.

Silva, yes. Can I do that?

Love, yes. St. Pierre, yes. Mayfield, yes. all right motion carries that's what that that's what they're talking about yeah council members i think i read that somewhere we see the need we're going to work on that we see the need okay it is 7 12 and we're going into executive session

See what we're saying?

Even at this point.

Oh my gosh. Okay, so we're going into executive, we're adjourning to executive session. I can't talk today and I'm coughing. And convene pursuant to chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code to discuss any matters specifically listed on the agenda and are as permitted by chapter 551 of the Texas Government Code. consultation with the city attorney regarding pending litigation in matters subject to attorney client privilege pursuant to texas government code section 551.071 um style state of texas versus city of elgin and all 26 21-21 okay point taken

Yes, we do. Oh, okay. I was about to say. Reconvene.

All right, it is 728 and we are reconvening to our regular meeting again. And there was no decisions or actions on our executive session. And one thing I do wanna say, Michael's gone. Well, shoot. So I wanted to publicly thank Michael. for his help with the Juneteenth parade. He made it so easy, y'all, so easy. I've been on many a parade, but he had a cover so we didn't have to worry about the sun and had church benches so we didn't have to worry about the hay.

He did a good job.

That was the most fun I've had on any floor. So I want to publicly say thank you. He came for us and took care of that, and he did the yeoman's job on a weekend when he didn't have to. That's right. So kudos to Michael. Yes. Yes. Okay. And next day is Western Days, okay? Yes. All right. It is Western Days, isn't it? It is Western Days next, yes. Okay. It is 729, and we are adjourned.