City Council - Regular Meeting

Thank you. Thank you.

On behalf of the president, I'm just happy to be here this morning. I'm glad that everyone else is still here. It looks like we've done a good job. There are some construction work in the industrial park. It looks like they would have started with the street outside. So that's something we can really be proud of. Notifications from the city administration. Good morning. Good morning. Thank you all. As Cody mentioned, Metal Play has started with some earthworks.

Basically, they stabilize the ground where the buildings are to be built.

We have removed, sealed and watered. They are doing everything ready. They should give us their construction plans in a short time. As far as the County Road 317 is concerned, yes, they have already stored their equipment there. You should start working on the drainage box today. I'm not 100% sure yet, but you should be by then. They have already installed their traffic control systems. Good, we come to the public comments, Paul.

Yes, good morning, type A, thank you. I'll get to know myself briefly. My name is Paul Knotten. I have been living in China for 39 years and for 27 years in the 107 North Old Mansfield Road. First of all, I would like to remind type A that the city has two stands at the expo. This will be our 22nd annual expo on Wednesday, October 21st. After many years, at the request of our providers, we have postponed the date from Sunday. So we are on a Wednesday. We will join the Southwestern Adventist University and their career fair. So it is a combination of career fair and economic fair. We look forward to it.

May I also make a public comment on this? I think it is important that the citizens of the community know that Metal Plate will have a stand there and will actively look for people from this community to work there.

Yes, very good. Metal Plate has already paid the fee and we are actively working with them. I look forward to Wednesday, October 21st from 11 to 15. There will be entertainment, a food court and many, many exhibitors and companies. Okay, I'm here to talk to you about an exhibit that is a white sheet of paper. Let me go through that briefly. I'm not here to ask for money, but I hope you can tell me where I can find some. About six months ago, I gave a presentation to the Type A board of directors for the recording of old residents from China, to capture their memories on video. And the Type A board of directors said, okay, they would contribute $300 to that. And we started with a videograph of I think it's JVL. I can't think of the name of the company. The expression company. The videography company of George and Liz Velez. JVL. George. Velez. Velez. JVL, exactly. Most of you know George through his work in the Keen Adventist Church. Well, okay. So he's our videographer. So far we have made ten recordings, had ten sessions and we still have these people here in front of us. And there may be others if you have any suggestions. All these names here come from the circle of the old employees. They suggested to us who we should talk to. So we try to contact them as soon as possible. Some reasons why we are not finished yet are the availability of George and the availability of the old rabbit. Oft rufe ich Sie an und Sie sagen, Sie würden gerade nach Spanien verreisen. Sie reisen nach Hawaii ab. Und dann ist da noch die Verfügbarkeit des Studios. Wir nutzen sonntags das Gemeindezentrum und wir nutzen das Hobbs Museum. Okay. Auf der Rückseite sehen Sie die Rechnung, die ich erhalten habe. It was too late for Type B's agenda on Tuesday, but I shared it with you yesterday. I think it's very fair and I don't ask you to finance it. Why do I ask you?

I'll get to that in a moment.

But when it comes to the transitions, the archive pictures, George goes to the Hobbes Museum. Let's say we're talking to Dwayne Barnes and he talks about how he ate at George's Burgers in South College or went to the Post when she was still there. George Velez takes pictures of photos from those days of the Post when she was still in the South College at Hillcrest. And where everyone sat and ate a George Burger. Now very briefly. I'm almost done. Further recordings are from the Keen Stars. For example, for Don Beeson. Do you know? Beeson elected to the commissioner. Beeson re-elected. That simply contributes to the visual presentation. So, I'm wondering if you can give me money privately, without the Keen Chamber being involved. It's just Paul, not the resident. And you know, we can find the money. But it will be on the agenda for type B in October to see what funding they want to provide. But Cody, I heard you have a very wealthy uncle.

So if you could

Yes, I will call them. If they could lead me to this person, I would appreciate it very much. Are you looking for donations? Yes. Or it could be a... I mean, who knows. These could be used by the community through a metal plate.

But I think there are probably other uses for the money of the metal plates.

So we'll see. We'll see. But we'll keep going. We will continue with the other 14 and finish them.

Thank you. Thank you, Paul.

Paul, could some of the older people who have already died have family members video material from which they could borrow excerpts?

That could be very good.

Okay, I'll just say it.

What we ask these people is how they remember China.

Yes.

They remember the time when nothing was paid. There was no payment. The sound hall had no side walls. It was an open pavilion, which was named by Richard Boaty, Luis Bayer and these old bunnies, who are now old, as a pavilion. We never took the term La Esquipol Tour. So, all right. Thank you.

Any more public comments?

We continue. No public hearing is held for this meeting. For general review, discussion and consultation of the protocols of the regular King ADC type A board meeting on August 19, 2026.

A request that we accept the protocols from September 16.

Okay, we have a request for support. Everyone for it? Everyone against it? Okay, review of the proposed changes to the EDC Type A Business Improvement Grant Act and the guidelines based on the discussions of the previous meetings. The proposed changes include the allocation of the requirements to be presented to the board and the requirement of three offers for the proposed work on the company.

Good morning, board. As discussed at our last meeting, there were difficulties when we finally went through the process and one of our companies received the first grant in cooperation with the city due to some of these guidelines. Es fühlte sich fast so an, als würden wir deren Geschäftstätigkeit ausbremsen, um sicherzustellen, dass wir sie unterstützen. Und wir hoffen natürlich, dass alle Unternehmen gefördert werden. Wir haben die Kriterien und Richtlinien festgelegt. Solange sie diese erfüllen, gibt es keinen Grund, warum sie den Zuschuss nicht erhalten sollten. Therefore, I think, it was a little more difficult to adapt to this than I originally thought. It was not only done to change a few words, because everything was very formal. So I have looked through and rewritten the entire document, so that it is now much easier to do business with us. And that is exactly what lies in front of you now. You are welcome to read it in peace, but I am convinced that it coincides with everything we have discussed. As for the core, we will take over 50% up to a height of $ 10,000 at a minimum amount of $ 1,000. The smallest project would therefore be a $ 2,000 project, at which $ 1,000 will be provided up to a maximum of $ 10,000 for this year. Do we still have $41,000 left or a little less than $41,000 left? So to all companies out there, if you are interested, please use it. Please use it.

I have a question about that because I read the document. It's really very good. I think it's good. But is that also true for someone who already has an existing company? For example, Nelly or someone like that. Okay, so they can also apply.

Dafür ist das Ganze ja da.

Ich meine, ist das hauptsächlich für Unternehmen gedacht, die... Hat erst neu angefangen. Nein, nein, nein. Es ist so, neue Unternehmen können sich definitiv bewerben. Das steht auch so drin, aber sie müssen mindestens drei Jahre lang bestehen bleiben. Andernfalls müssten sie rein technisch gesehen die Investitionen der Stadt an uns zurückzahlen. So, yes, I know that this is intended for existing companies to help you, to address and invite your companies, so that people come and stay there. Absolutely.

Do we spread this information somehow or are we just going to...

Well, Don and I, we got into it a little bit, because the other part is now, where we have a main professional fire protection officer and an administrative authority. I don't want it to sound like I'm not doing my job, but I wasn't there just for that. Let's start writing penalties, you know. Because, especially in the face of the landscape and the high inflation and the costs, it is difficult to go to a company that is probably just about to get around and say, oh, you are against a provision, a regulation, so you have to leave $ 10,000. You know? And that's why I wanted to have this here, so that we can help this company. And now that there is this grant, we will start to tighten the screws a little at some of these points. Yes, you know, we went to these companies and said, listen, we have to start implementing these rules because they are urban laws. But here is a way you can use to achieve this without going bankrupt.

and I lived it. I file the claim that we accept the guidelines and procedures for the Business Improvement Grant for the K4 Board for new companies. All for it.

All against it. We now examine and discuss the five priorities that have been determined from the SWOT discussions of the previous meetings. Industrial growth, company settlement, income and growth of existing companies, commercial and individual trade development and readiness for economic development.

On this point, and of course it is entirely up to you, but since this is a matter led by Rolando, we thought it would be best if he and the rest of the board were more involved in the continuation of this SWOT analysis and similar analyses. But as I said, if you want to continue, it's up to you. That was just our thought.

We have to make a request if we want to wait until she's there. I suggest that we postpone this to our next session, so that Rolando is there, because he was an important part of it.

Hello for it.

Hello against it.

Okay, there is no non-public session today. We can skip that.

Our next session is on the 21st.

The next session will take place on the 21st. I think that's it. Do you have anything else to say? We will adjourn the meeting at 9.16.