City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome. I call the meeting of the Henderson City Council to order at 6 PM on this 20th day of May, 2025. I declare a quorum is present and declare that the notices have been legally posted pursuant to the Open Meetings Act. At this time, would you please stand for our invocation, which will be led by Chaplain U Stacy Horn of the Police Department. And then, if you will remain standing, we'll be led by our pledge by uh Councilman Strong with the pledges. To the flag of the United States of

America and to the republic for it stands one nation under God indivisible. With liberty and justice for all the flaggs for the invocation and the pledges. Now we'll go into our citizens comment. I have u one that signed up for that and that is uh Mr. Weatherton uh is uh from uh district two. So if you would Mr. Weatherton, you step up to the podium and address us. You're welcome. You're welcome. All right. Thank you. All

right. Uh, do we have any presentations? Okay. Okay. None of those. So, we'll go on to the uh consent agenda. The consent agenda contains routine and n controversial issues. Are there any items uh the council would like to move into regular session? If not, um could I get a motion upon the consent agenda? I'll move for approval as presented. Second. Uh we have a motion by Mr. um Cersei and second by Mr. uh Strong. All in favor say I. I. Any opposed? Same sign. All right. Consent agenda. Um, this pass. Now we'll move on to our regular business. Uh, item number four, consideration and possible action upon resolution 2025-05-01 for the police department grant. Chief I know we talked about this earlier, just the two of us, but uh I laid out some concerns about data privacy and and how that would be addressed and just

wanted you to repeat that to the rest of the council like we discussed on web servers. So, Chief Taylor, um these this camera system that we have, can you walk me through uh say a bad guy comes to Henderson? I mean, what what happens? It's done in real time. It's not substantial delay, right? They can act on it. As a followup question, will our officers be able to access this like real time? Yes, for the patrol officers that'll be in the patrol units that this will pop up on their computer. Anything on the hot list and it doesn't just have to be our hot list either. I mean, so if say Houston or Nacadocious or other agencies have have something on their hot list, if it picks it up, it'll immediately let us know, too. So, they might have a homicide suspect or something like that that's coming through our area, it'll give our officers opportunity to apprehend that subject.

This system costs us how much? We're asking for six cameras. That's going to be about $25,000. Our match would be or I think it's 255. Our match would be 5100 I believe. And this is a this is an annual grant. So we could apply for more. If if we get the results that we want out out of it, we'd be able to have the opportunity to apply again. This grant this grant also covers subscription cost. So that 5100 would be it for this year. And if we decide to expand further, then we can do that. The Russ County already has some that are are either in place or fixing to be in place. They're uh catching all outbound traffic. So all our cameras would catch all inbound traffic into the city. We'd have a work agreement. So we'd work within the whole system throughout the region. This system hooks up to theirs and other c cities and towns. Yes. They have control over their information. their hot list as do will we but we'll open that up to them just like they'll open it up to us local state and federal hot list what does is block an acronym sir it's just the company or if it is an acronym I don't know but it's a the company's been around for several years and they they've become probably one of the top companies for roadside cameras roadside yes sir it's it's an LPR our camera, but their cameras do more than just license plate reading. I thought it was going to be going on cruisers, you know. No. So, we actually do have those already in several of our cruisers on the cameras that we already get through Motorola, but it's a different system and those are actually mobile. So, those are inside the units on the cameras. If you get on I20 going from Freeport to

Dallas, you pass about 10 of them. Well, I'm glad you said it. There's a lot of the local businesses have the opportunity to purchase those as well. Lowe's has one already in their their parking lot. When you pull in, you'll see a camera there that's fly camera and they can open up access for us to use that once we become customers of theirs as well. Have any other questions from the council? I get a motion on item number four. I'd like to make a motion that we approve agenda item number four. I'll second that. Motion was made by Mr. Strong, second by Mr. Cersei. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. Very much. All right. Thank you. All right. Moving on to item number five. consideration and possible actions upon the recommendation of the planning and zoning commission to reszone the property located at 900 East Main Street from an R1 zone to a DP zone. Mr. Brightenberg, thank you. Um, yeah, obviously my last name is Benberg. It says Gimmerson all over this agenda, but she couldn't be here tonight, so you got me. So, um yeah. So, thank y'all for considering this item number five. This is um like I said, consideration possible action on this recommendation from the PNZ commission to reszone the property located at 900 East Main Street. Um 900 East Main Street is uh in district 2 down, y'all are familiar with Chicken Express. You go down the hill where Will Lake is back on the left. It's directly

across from that where you see a sign on there. It says Will Lake Farm and it's it's been just it's a lot of land back there. Um and Jessica and Matthew Jim are here tonight. They they approached us several that's the owners. They purchased this property and they came to us several months ago um trying to really trying to fulfill a vision they have for this property and they were very prepared. They came up here with a lot of had done a lot of research already on our existing ordinances and we looked at the fact that it was currently zoned R1 and they what they have the vision for this property doesn't doesn't really fit the R1 zone and it doesn't and and we looked at all the other zoning options and we just came up with the idea of a plan development would probably be the best fit the way to present this and so um we had had meetings with them. We've had several workshops um several discussions. I know the mayor's sat in on some of those and uh of course uh put this together, sent out 200 foot letters and talked to the adjacent property owners at those meetings. They um pretty much had opportunity to express um all their concerns about this plan development u that they may have and a lot of it centered around just the use of it and what that would look like. And so, um, as you'll see in item number six, which is the first reading on the actual ordinance, but um, we came up with we through these several meeting processes, uh, and the Hamilton group who they're working with here, I think we pretty much satisfied all the outstanding issues and concerns about the types of livestock and the things that they want to do. So, if you look at your plan, just as an overview, um what they want to do is in that front piece of there up front where the green is on that uh by

the road, they want to have a basically a pick your own uh kind of orchard. They want to grow an orchard right there in the front part where you can people can drive up and uh pick your own produce. And back there in the more orange section uh as you see in the rear bottom right, that's where they're going to build a house. and um in the back rear portion of that. And then there'll be I believe an accessory structure. How many accessory structures over there in the back rear usually green green houses in that area back there. And then on the far left on the purple there, which is all back there, you're going to have an apiary in the far back for the bees, right? And then um some cattle and things over there over there on the west side. And there's a creek that runs that creek runs back down through there on the back side. And that's some of that's in the flood plane on the left. And we've explored everything, you know, that has to do with that. they do want to drill a well just for irrigation purposes only. And we we talked about that and said that that would work out because the house the main structure is going to be on city water and sewer and um the the the stuff up front too also right beyond city water and sewer. So really just in that back part on the left would be irrigated by well and again um it sounds like a you know we we couldn't we once we got through the ordinance which y'all can read through be a first reading be the next item um it was just to talk about what kind of animals um they the neighbors wanted were comfortable with and you know how many and quantity and things like that that they felt was you know best use here. And so there's a maximum on those things and you can read through those on the ordinance, you know, in in the next reading and then of

course you have to come back for a second reading on that. Anyway, so this is just a recommend this is just the PNZ commission has recommended that uh to go ahead and proceed with this and so you're just making a decision on the to to approve the recommendation at this time. So I got a phone call last week from concerned citizens, okay, about this project and they told me they were very complimentary of all the parties involved trying to reach an amicable solution and they felt pretty satisfied with that, but they still had some more questions. I was expecting to hear from the city on this. So, I don't necessarily have all the information I can to make a decision on this tonight. And with that, I'm going to ask that we move to table this until I talk to our staff in a little more detail about it. Okay. Okay. And we can continue with the reading of the ordinance and we can take all this up next month if Oh. Oh, yes, sir. Yeah. I didn't I didn't I didn't realize that about this until I got concerns from the neighbors. Okay. That's understandable. I didn't I wasn't aware that you hadn't been contacted. So, they were they were very gracious. They filled me in on a lot and I read as much as I could on this, but I'm just not I'm not comfortable making that decision when they still feel like there's some outstanding. Okay. Um yeah, that said, I will I will make a motion to table a motion. Can I get a second on table item number five? Motion has been made by Mr. Cersei, second by all in favor say I.

do is move on to uh item six I guess for our first reading that ordinance. Mr. Brown, you want to ask with the tableabling of that? So, so we ultimately probably need to meet a table six as well. You think? With that said, I'll also move to table item six made. Cersei second by Miss Martin. All in favor say I. Any opposed? Same sign. All right. Item number seven, consideration and possible action upon the recommendation re of a recommendation from the planning and zoning commission changing the zoning from an M2 medium density multifamily residential zone to an R1 low density single family zone on the two parcels known as the BA BI subdivision owned by Headco. Uh yes, council. This is um I believe uh you've already approved this u or you were aware that headco purchased these properties um before over here on uh off north even side these two lots that were formerly known as a BI addition. Um I think they're they're there on the map. Um, and basically we're uh there was a recommendation from the planning and zoning commission on this item to reszone those uh from I believe yeah M2 was what they were zoned previously and we're going to an R1 zone. So the head co is going to look at building a

building a couple houses and see how they do. So that's the plan. The uh question is about uh council, y'all do understand where the location is here. Okay. And I believe this was changed, the zoning was changed to this not too terribly long ago um by Mr. Bane for BIH and now that it's sold owning jump start some residential and and make it single family back going that direction. Get a motion on item number seven. I believe it I believe it's Mr. Jackson and three motion. Second has been made by Mr. Second by uh Mr. Cersei. All in favor say I. Any oppose? Same sign. Motion seven carries. Motion eight. Uh consideration upon the first reading of ordinance 2025-05-2 changing the zoning from an M2 medium density multifamily residential zone to an R1 lowdensity single family zone on the two parcels known as the BI subdivision owned by headco. That is just first reading for that old eight. The language of that ordinance was was approved and looked at by um Mr. Brown

as well. Just the same language as the as the item says, just moving the zoning uh typical zoning language. That's the first reading. We'll move on to item nine, consideration of possible action upon the recommendation from the planning and zoning commission changing the zoning from low uh intensity industrial to industrial for an application submitted by the city of Henderson to amend the zoning map on property owned by the Henderson Soccer Association located on FM782. two. Uh yes, council. This will be in Mr. Strong's district. This is uh two pieces of of land there. You can see off of FM782 that uh the Henderson Soccer Association owns. And as you can see the uh it was just brought in whenever um the during the annexation head co uh when Headco got involved with Annex and Taylor Drive, it was just brought in as industrial one. And so all we're doing or asking is the planning zoning recommends to change that zone on those two parcels to institutional which is appropriate you know because it's a nonprofit soccer association that owns those land those pieces of land. So making a correction mayor I'll make a motion we approve. I will second that. That was a motion by Mr. Strong, second by Mr. Cersei. All in favor say I. I. Any oppose? Same sign. All right. Item number nine passes. All right. Um, thank you. Thank you. That's

our concludes our regular business. We're moving on now to uh our departmental reports. Those were listed in your packets. Um, we've gone over those. Does anyone have any questions? All right. So, boards and commissions, are there any questions or concerns upon any of the board minutes submitted? If not, we'll move on. Um, we'll go on to our oral presentation. Step up. Good evening, Mayor. Council, just one second. There's one thing I was meant to ask for the city manager to do before you started your presentation. Hold on just a sec. not steal your thunder here or anything. All good. Oh, while he's uh working on that. You there? [Music] Well, that's that's the first thing I was going to do is apologize to you guys for not having any walk out music or any three stooges. So, He had my back. So, Cliff has set a high bar for us. All right. All right. All right. Thank you all for your time and interest in what we do. Um, our public service and parks and recreation department's got a a great staff. They take real pride in what they do. They

work hard and um I'm proud to lead such a dynamic department and uh proud to share some of what they do with you tonight. So, uh what I'm gonna do is go through I'll be covering six crews tonight. I'll kind of go through and give you like a 30,000 foot overview of the the main duties we do, each crew does. Um and then I'll follow that up with some pictures of some recent jobs we've done. Um and then I got a little bonus for y'all at the end. We'll start with our builds and grounds maintenance crew. Ensure safe and functional city facilities. Uh these guys do general maintenance on all our city buildings. This is things like AC repairs, plumbing repairs, electrical repairs, light bulbs, leaky toilets. You name it, we fix it. Um they also do a lot of preventive maintenance. These are things like air conditioner filters, condenser coil cleaning, routine checks on uh lights downtown and in our parks. They also make sure our school zone lights around town are flashing when they're supposed to during time changes and whatnot. Uh this crew also handles all of our roadway marker maintenance. This is basically just all the street signs throughout the city. 247 custodial excellence. Um we've got three full-time and one part time. uh custodians that clean all of our city buildings. Um they clean city hall, police department, public services, civic center, park restrooms. They do a lot of u after hours work, too. We have guys that or guys or gals that go in on the weekends and clean our park restrooms every day. Um we also have a lot of civic center setups that are late at night or early in the morning. And there may be a a civic center event that goes to a midnight one night and then something else starts back at 10 o'clock the next morning and we'll uh go and take that setup down when it's over with. Uh clean the building up, set it

up for the new event. Um so a lot of time it's late nights and early mornings, but uh do a really good job of that. This crew also uh Jesse Bridges the supervisor on this crew helps me with a lot of special events logistics. things like vendor layout for the syrup festival depending on um electrical or water needs. We have to move all these vendors around depending on whether or not they need electricity or water. Um he also helps move at the like the shuttle routes for the freedom festival, barricade maps, staff scheduling for the events. Next is our construction and fabrication crew. They have a unlimited building potential. Uh these guys, if you can imagine it, they can they can build it literally. U we do a lot of remodels. This crew does. They actually remodeled this building before we moved in. I think this room here was there three or four different offices and they knocked all the walls out, ceiling out. I mean, it looked like a bomb went off in here and there's wires and duct work hanging out of the building and they turned it into what it is today. So those guys are really talented. Uh they've done this building, our old city hall. They've done work at fire station one and two, public services, animal center. Crew is in real high demand and everybody's always wanting them to show up and work on their place. They do a really good job. This crew also does a lot of welding and fabrication. They've built anything from a dump truck bed for one of our dump trucks to a full utility trailer, tongue to tail, handrails around town. They've constructed metal buildings. This crew also uh They collaborate with our other crews. It's a real talented crew. They kind of bounce around and help out as needed. Most of our crews are like three to five employees to it. Um we try to keep them lean and efficient, but as we have bigger jobs, we'll put two or three of them together to knock these jobs out.

So, uh this this crew kind of floats around and helps a lot of other crews out. They also take care of all of our street sweepings throughout town. Kind of keeps the town tidy. Street sweeping also keeps our drains running properly. Um, all the leaves and debris will stop up our storm drains when we don't sweep frequently. So, not only does it keep us down clean, it actually keeps the water flowing, too. Next is our roadway maintenance crew. These guys maintain approximately 75 miles of uh city streets. This is anything from patching potholes to utility repairs to base failures in the road. Um, they also bounce around and help a lot of our other crews. It's a real talented crew that can help with water leaks or concrete work, drainage work, you name it. This crew also handles all of our rideway mowing. Rideway mowing not only keeps the town looking good, but it keeps our intersection safe. It's a it's a v visibility deal. Uh they also they've got a machinist on this crew and a lot of got a lathe and some metal working equipment and pretty much build anything. You can carry one of these guys a chunk of metal and tell them you need a pin or a bushing for a tractor and he can bring you back exactly what you need. Custom custom made crew handle also handles our tree trimming throughout town. Uh this is just trimming low hanging limbs to keep from hitting vehicles basically. is our concrete and drainage crew. These guys maintain all of our storm drain infrastructure throughout town. Uh just keeping the water water in the pipes, rain water in the pipes. This also includes a lot of custom concrete work. They do curb and gutter sidewalk repairs, uh drainage flumes. A lot of these drainage flumes are real intricate. You got to get creative to figure out how to get water off the road

into the ditch sometimes to keep it from washing everything out along the way. And these guys are really good concrete. Some of these concrete jobs they do looks like artwork. It's it's beautiful work. They also take care of all of our rideway drainage. This is just cleaning ditches out, keeping covers open, just keeping the water keeping the water going where it needs to go. The last two crews we've got, our parks and recreation crews are split into two different crews just to kind of divide and conquer all we need to do. Uh they do grounds maintenance on all city properties. Uh this is approximately about 200 acres of landscape work mowing and weed eating. Uh we've got six city parks, four city cemeteries. Yes, four city cemeteries. They do city hall, the police department, animal center, all the water wells in town, all the sewer lift stations. Uh this crew also keeps up with all of our cemetery lot sales and records. They meet with families and sell spaces and document on keep the paperwork on all that. They also do landscaping at our parks and facilities. Um that's just basically flower beds at city park, city cemeteries, um city hall, our alley on main, heritage square. Also do a rideway maintenance and beautifification. This is things like uh flower beds at the traffic star, flower beds all along Highway 79, along Highway 64. We've got some island beds uh downtown and on Jacksonville Drive. They take care of all of those. They also do our turf management program. This is uh putting out pre-emergent herbicide, selective herbicide, non- selective herbicide, insecticide, fertilizer. They ariate the soil to keep the grass looking good, keep it green, keep the weeds out of it. And they also take the lead on all of our special

events as far as staffing our special events. Our parks and recreation crew handles the majority of that. These are things like the syrup festival, freedom festival, Marty Gro, National Night Out, Christmas parade, a day old man. They handle just about all of that. I'll show you some department updates we've been working on. Um, we got a GIS work order and asset management system we've been integrating for the past probably three or four years. I don't want to talk a whole lot about that because I understand David Hortman's going to kind of inform you all on what exactly that consists of next month. So, I'll let him pick that up. Um, we're doing a pickle ball complex fundraising right now. This is to uh rehab our tennis courts that are at Fair Park and convert that into a pickle ball complex. Um, we're doing fundraising for it right now. We're trying to raise about $300,000 to uh convert that. We're also doing fundraising for a inclusive playground at Yates Park. This would be to replace the existing playground over there with a brand new inclusive playground. This is uh it's got features for special needs children, just all children really. Um it's a neat deal. We're trying to raise about $800,000 for that job. Um, he's also over the past couple of years, Jay's brought in a professional development coach that uh I've been real excited about. This is a great deal. He's uh coming and doing leadership training with us. This deal started out with a uh a personality assessment that we all took where you you go through and there's a page with 110 words on it and beside each one of these words is a box and you just go through and check which box you feel like describes you. um based off the boxes you check um it creates basically a personality type for

you. I guess you've got like an archetype if you will. Um measures you on uh assertiveness, extraversion, patience, detail orientation, creativity, versatility, and one more. Um but yeah, um it's a really neat deal. Um, we all took these tests and after these tests, we got trained on kind of how to how to read these tests and how to understand your employees better. Uh, assessments. Yes. Yes. Uh, we got trained on how to, you know, how to read these and how to uh how to understand your staff better based off their their their traits. It's been really neat. Um, then from there it went into leadership training, just doing these trainers to do these coaching sessions. It's just a one-on-one session with your direct report employees and you sit them down and ask them kind of what they've got going on. Um, what they need help with, what they're struggling with, how you can help, and it's just kind of uh checking in on them. Um, it's been it's been great for our department. It helps build rapport for one with your employees. Um, it gives you one-on-one time to to uh get to know them and show interest in what they've got going on. And it's it's it's done great for for our department and I'm sure other departments in the city, too. So, thank you, Jay, for that. And it's been great. Next, I've got just some pictures of some recent jobs we've done. Uh, picture on the left, this is Wesley Rurge. He's one of our builds and grounds maintenance guys. He's fixing some electrical plug at the fire department, I believe. Middle picture, this is Jesse Bridges fixing a water leak on our splash pad over at Fair Park. Top right, that's again Jesse Bridges fixing a splash pad manifold for the splash pad at Fair Park. Those they

require a lot of maintenance to keep those things going. Um bottom right picture, um that's a Texas Baptist Baptist Institute wayfinding sign. Uh next up, this is our construction and fabrication crew. Uh top left picture that's they're replacing a little bridge that goes between the concrete sidewalk and the gazebo out there at Lake Forest Park and it sunk. So they um tore it out and put some good foundation underneath it and replaced it and it's nice and smooth now. Uh the bottom two pictures on the left, this is some work we helped Randy Boyd with at our surface water treatment plant recently. And there's a these water filters have about two foot of media in the bottom of them um that actually filters the water and then some hardware underneath it that has literally thousands of screws in each one of these deals. And we went out and helped them rehab one of these filters here within the past month or so. So that's that's them working on those. The picture on the right, this is Gabe Bagley. He's one of our supervisors. He's welding. I think they're there. They're building a air compressor building um at our surface water treatment plant. Next, uh on the left, this is kind of just a street repair operation. The picture on the left, that's uh Jacob Gray. He's saw cutting a utility repair looks like on Hoverard Drive. U middle picture is again Jacob Gray. He's compacting some limestone flex base we use in our patches before we hot mix it before we put asphalt in there. And then on the right, this is a drainage ditch around the girl softball field at the sports complex that we recently did. Uh next, this is our concrete and drainage crew. The picture on the left, that's a storm drain and inlet box repair we did in front of the courthouse

recently. Top right picture is a that's a sidewalk replacement we did over on I believe Beverly Street. Bottom right, this is a storm drain replacement we did on Line Street sometime last year. Last but not least is our parks and w crew. Picture on the left, this is Cleave Jennifer Gmerson. He's a another one of our foreman. He's a level in the dirt for a headstone at Lakewood Cemetery there. The top right picture again is Cleave uh setting a home plate on the softball field over at Yates Park. And then the bottom right picture, we didn't decorate that, but I just thought the picture looked good. Uh we did do the setup. It was kind of an example of uh uh a civic center set. We put out the table and chair. That's a professional that did all that. I just thought it looked good for our presentation. Uh, any questions? Glad you put that disclaimer out. You almost set yourself a trap. Yeah, do that. You know, and there's um, Daniel, I think that's been passed to a guy named Daniel. Do you remember his name, Jay? Daniel. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes. I think he's taking the lead on that. Um I don't know exactly where that is right now. I haven't heard an update in a little bit. So hope Yeah, hopefully hopefully it takes off. We're excited about that. Yeah, it's very popular. I was uh just going to add that there are a lot of things that go on behind the scene that weren't brought up. Yeah, there's so much. You know, I think of uh one after the uh surf festival. If you go down the

street on Sunday morning, you'll never know anything went on. And it's just amazing the transformation from uh you know 20,000 people to everything's just Thank you. Thank you. There's a lot of work to it. That's just one example. Yes. Of things. Try to leave it better than we found it on everything. Anything else? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that leads into our next deal. We've had some help lately. Um, I'd like to invite up now Shana Ferrara from uh MTC. I'm g'll let her explain a little bit and then I'll I'll be back up to Thank y'all for having me. Uh, I'm Shana Ferrara and I'm the facility administrator at Hope TTC and we are owned and operated by MTC. So, when he asked me to come up and say something, I think the biggest question that people ask is where have y'all been? How do you get to hope? What is hope? How'd you get there? You know, how do people get in there? Is it private? Is it you know? So, I'm going to briefly give you a a rundown of uh of what Hope Transitional Treatment Center is. So, the you have to the ticket in our door is through the criminal justice system. However, everybody that comes through our door has gone through a very

rigorous 6 to9 month treatment program. You have to complete that treatment program successfully to get in our door. So all of the the guys that we have here tonight that we've used for volunteers before they came to us, they completed a six to nine month treatment program successfully did what they were supposed to do, did everything right, but maybe the probation officer, proal officer thought, you know, they're not I'm not ready to just send them back into the community. I think I need to transition them. So that they come to us and we are a transitional treatment center. our job is to slowly transition them back into a productive member of society. So what I found out in the last year, what part of part of their treatment goals when they get there is to get out, get a job, you know, go go to there there's other things with it, but the biggest thing is get out of this facility, get a job, make some money, save some money. Well, what I found out was we have 140 guys and I don't have there's not that many employers. I am very grateful. Um, Halapin Tree, Tia Wanas, I want to thank them. Townley Lumber, um, Lonear, Sign Express. Um, I I could, you know, there are a lot of of employers that that do, you know, give our guys a chance, but we, you know, with transportation and things the way they are, I was finding that they were sitting around the facility all day and we just weren't it wasn't what what I envisioned it. They weren't getting out. Um, and I I didn't feel like we were doing our job as far as um I mean part of part of transitioning back into society is realizing that you can you get a second chance, have a second chance. You can be a productive member of society. Go out there, make better choices, mingle with

the public, get to know people, make a change, help somebody else out of self into others. Um, so somehow I got connected with the mayor and the mayor gave the parks and recreation our number and um, so he called and I said I've got the manpower and um, you know, we're willing to volunteer. And so that turned into um, uh, the program they y'all come pick up the city comes and picks up at least 10 every day from our facility um, and they volunteer. So what I do for these guys is I'm like if you will volunteer for the city of Henderson, I will give you the same privileges as somebody that goes out because you earn privileges there. So if you go out, you get a job. Um save money, do what you're supposed to. You know, you're going to get a two-hour pass, you're going to get a 4-hour pass, and it's kind of a graduated deal. So what I've done is treated this like a full-time job. And man, I'm going to tell you what, they love it. It has been absolutely amazing to see these guys walk back in that facility. My program director is here. Maisha Da, she's here. She's been helpful in instrumenting uh the the plan. And then uh my boss is Carrie Dixon. He's here with me tonight, too. So, yeah, he just show he shows up to support me. So, that that's the best part of it all. Um, but anyway, so they they've gone out and I've said, I don't know what they have for lunch at the facility. I can't tell you on any given day, but I can darn sure tell you what the city fed our guys every single day of the week because that's what they do this for. They they Oh, we had sauce today. You know, we had pizza, we had It has been a winwin. Um, I think for the city of Henderson and for us because thank y'all for giving them a chance to get back out into society. Y'all had a

blast, haven't you? They have bonded. Um, y'all come pick them up. That is such a bonus, but you know, Townly Lumber employs them and I appreciate that they employ them, but it's a 10 or 15 minute mile one-way trip, you know, and um, so our transportation's kind of limited. So, y'all have done a lot to to help us help the morale at the facility. Um, get these guys out and they're treated like kings. So, there's two Who are the two crew? Where do they go? You have a crew and then who's the second crew leader? Okay, he's not here. So, they man, they have fallen in love with y'all's employees. Uh, I mean this just it is just it is so far it has been amazing. When I talked to Kurt um last week, he said like, "I don't I don't really know what you know what to do for y'all. Like, I feel bad we're not paying these guys." I said, "You're feeding them lunch." That that that is literally what they want. And he said, "Well, I'd like to continue this partnership forever." And I'm like, "I'm in. We're in." You know, so I think it's good for Henderson and it's good for Hope. And it, you know, kind of the the ETF and MTC. I know how Henderson, you know, a lot of people back off of that. And so I hope that these guys and the work that they've done maybe will will everybody will kind of look at it and say, you know what, I believe in second chances and that you can do some make bad choices and then come back in society and change your life. But that is my hope. [Applause] Yeah, they reached out to us a couple months ago and uh wanted to get involved with some community projects. So, uh we jumped all over it and they partnered with our parks and rec department and it

has gone great. I've got to brag on Harriet Craig. um soon as this deal come up, I knew Harriet would be ideal to look after this program and she goes and picks half of these guys up every day and keeps them with them and she carries them through and um we've you know we've got some request on jobs that uh we've needed done. But Harriet also can without any input is perfectly capable of leading these guys every day. She does a great job. Um she does she uh she knows how to deal with them. Uh, I can't I can't say enough enough about Harry Craig. She's she's great. [Applause] Um, next up, we've got some certificates we'd like to pass out. two different two different ones. One for the um hope staff and then different ones for the volunteers. What I'd like to do is is read ones for the staff first and then we'll pass those out and then I'll I'll read the other one and we'll pass them out. Um, this one says, "In appreciation of our partnership with Hopeo Hope Transitional Treatment Center for your support and commitment to providing opportunities for positive change through community engagement. We've got one here for Michael Bell. He's the vice president of MTC, but he's not here tonight. Um, got one for Carrie Dixon, which is the regional director of MTC. one from Maisha Dael. She's the program director for MTC.

And up on the screen there's Jay's kind of flipping through some different jobs that they've helped us with. We've got one for Shana Ferrara. She's a facility [Applause] administrator and then I heard you by the way. I'm just shocked. It is beautiful. did a great job. Um, okay. The uh the next certificate is going to be for the volunteers. I just wanted to read the the wording on it. Said, "Appreciation of your dedication, work ethic, and valuable contributions through daily volunteer service with the Hope Transitional Treatment Center and helping our community thrive one project at a time." First up is Diamond Williams. We got Bad news for him. He got six months tacked on [Applause] to Jared Baker. [Applause] Joseph's Joseph [Applause] Bradley more. [Applause]

Ryan Martin, [Applause] George Thomas, I got out already. Uh, Matthew Linkweiler [Applause] John [Applause] Hood and Robert [Applause] Meredith. You don't mind? I'd like to uh focus on these pictures over here. I can kind of show you what these pictures are as we flip through them. This first one is a a flower bed at Old City Cemetery that they helped us mulch here recently. Um next are some flower beds downtown and the little um little islands on the corners that also helped us mulch here within the last week or two. Um, these are, in case y'all haven't noticed, on the intersection of Highway and 79, those trees, they've spent days and days trimming all of those trees up there, and it looks terrific down there. So, if you haven't seen it, when you pass through, look over there. It looks great. Yeah. Uh, this is another picture of the same job. This is a assembly of some benches that are going to go in our alley on main downtown. They may already be installed. I'm not sure yet. They helped us helped us put them together. These are flower beds over at Fair Park behind the uh softball fields. They helped us mulch those. These are there's some limbs that fell

during a storm. I think that's on Garden Lane Street recently. This is some some shrubs they trimmed downtown. On the side of the motorcycle building, there's a big There's a big mural inside that building that I understand is going to get redone. And so they went down and trimmed these bushes and got them out of the way for us for the painter. This is some weed eating across the road from the trees that were trimmed on the corner of Fair Park and Highway 79 by the little ice station there beside what used to be Hush Puppies. And that's it. [Applause] I just like to uh tell the guys if there's anything that I can do as far as a recommendation or whatever you need uh just let me know. Uh and again we appreciate um the hope facility. appreciate each and every one of you guys for the marriage that we have and the collaboration that we have to uh keep going with the efforts to uh keep Henderson beautiful. Good job. Thanks again. [Applause] Thank you. Okay. There's nothing else. Can I get a motion and a second to adjourn this meeting? I make a motion to adjurnn. All right, Miss Martin and Miss Wararez uh seconds that motion. Uh all are opposed. Okay, meeting adjourned at 6:56. Y'all have a great

evening. [Laughter]