Economic Development Board - Regular Meeting

Consider a city Keller facade improvement grant. Request for 116 Taylor Street here in Keller.

Alright. I believe the applicant is here. Awesome. Yeah. He might be disappointed. Correct. He's in

the restaurant. Okay.

So I can get started if y'all want and then Perfect. Ask him questions when he comes in. Okay. Perfect. Alright. Good evening, everyone. Tonight, we'll be presenting a facade improvement grant for 116 Taylor Street.

It's not moving. Okay.

116 Taylor Street is in Old Town Keller. The business located here is Jade Beauty Collective, and the owner is right over there. And the property owners and applicants are Michael and Brandon Abelman. They have a total project cost of $18,560 and are requesting $10,000. Here's the aerial view of the property.

Here's the before street view photo and side view photo of the property. The applicant plans to install a new sidewalk to include pavers, a new ramp, a new porch, and new driveway. The applicant has replaced the street facing chain link fence that you see here with a wooden gate, which he did after submitting a completed application to staff. For the application, improvements cannot begin until the application is received and marked completed by staff. Just wanna make sure you all knew that. And here is the rendering that reflects the proposed improvements and reflects the public parking addition. I'm gonna have Sarah talk about that.

Right. So the applicant took advantage of a partnership program that we have for Old Town Keller businesses specifically where they pay for the materials for on street parking, the head in parking that you see here. The city actually does the work or or facilitates the contractors to do the work. And then we take over as the city, the the maintenance of that public parking. So it's not dedicated parking for the business, but it's a it's a win win for the city because we're able to gain a little bit more public parking down in Old Town. So we were pleased that the applicant did that in this situation rather than requesting a variance for for parking on on their site plan.

Okay. Here's an additional rendering. And here is one more. Okay. Here are some current pictures of the site that were taken in February, which include the public parking edition from the Old Town parking lot cost share program. And here's the new wooden gate. You can see the porch there and then the front view of the building. Okay. So this is what we printed for you to also have in your hands in case you wanna look at it a little bit closer. These are the requests that the applicant is making for the facade improvement grant.

So it includes the fence replacement, the gate installation, ramp installation, sidewalk installation, driveway installation, the skid steer, the material cost, and the sidewalk concrete. Do have any questions so far? Okay. I'll keep going. Alright.

And here's the applicant site plan.

So I don't have the I didn't pull the exact date. My apologies. But this site plan was approved by council, I believe, last year with a couple of variances. You can kinda see towards the top of your screen that on street parking that has been completed. Again, that's all public parking now. It's not dedicated to the business. And then just below that on the on the image on the site plan is the sidewalk, which is actually required for development in Old Town. We require that six foot sidewalk with bands of pavers every 10 feet in Old Town.

Is DBN Properties a Keller business?

Yes. It's the property owners. It's also their company. Oh, I see. Mhmm. Okay.

And and you said you're gonna be doing this with various subcontractors?

Correct. Yeah.

Mostly Keller based?

Yes. Okay.

This property I know has come up before. Has it been rezoned commercial, or is it still zoned as residential?

Neither. It's zoned to Old Keller. So Old Town Keller allows a residential and non residential. It's not commercial or residential. What this property did is they went through the site plan process, which is required to operate as a non residential or a commercial property.

I tried to not call things commercial zoning because we actually have a dedicated commercial zoning classification, which can kinda get confusing. But they did go through the process last year to get that site plan completed, which is one of the one of the steps required to open as a non residential business or or non residential property. You can't just flip from residential to commercial without going through the the site planning process.

So that's part of the process that they've been going through? That's what

They completed the site plan process. Yes.

Okay. And because I know there was an SUP and for the for the type of business there. So for the facade grant itself, it's it still qualifies because I thought this was just for businesses. So it doesn't matter because it's more of an old town color.

So the facade improvement grant is only for businesses. But because they've successfully received an approved site plan from city council, this property can now be considered for facade improvement because it's no longer being used as a single family residential property.

Okay. That's what I was trying to understand.

I had one question on quality of the materials used and just sort of like the long term value for the property. I'm assuming that it's going to be inspected by the building inspectors or the codes or there's some kind of stipulations on the quality of the concrete and the types of brick pavers and these sort of things.

The portion that will be public infrastructure, there's multiple inspections involved in that because those are assets that the city will then take over ownership. So we wanna make sure those are done according to our specifications. We're at the limit of my understanding on the specifications for sidewalks. That's a public works inspection. On the the private side, I don't believe they're proposing anything that would require a permit because we don't permit flat work.

So I don't know that they're and I would have to to take a second look at if there's anything that's triggering a permit, but they're not doing anything on the exterior that I'm aware of that would require a permit, again, on their side of the the property line. But the sidewalk would definitely have to be inspected.

What did the ramp require permit? Because it needs to be ADA approved.

That would that's that's on them to meet the ADA standards.

Does that funnel fall under facade or does that fall under its zoning for the business? It has to have it no matter what.

I'm sorry, David. Will you say that one more time?

The ramp, is that required by code because they have a business there now, or is that an optional thing that they're just looking to put in? So does it fall under a facade kind of improvement, or is it a requirement?

From the city's perspective, is it is optional. If you have a ramp, it has to be ADA compliant. But there's nothing in our code that's requiring the construction of a ramp. But it it's it's always a a good and wise thing to do. So I guess

my question is that it'd be inspected by an inspector for the ramp since it has to be ADA compliant? Because

there's not a permit required there. I don't think they have anything on the on the ramp that would require an inspection.

He's trying to ask

you to say I just wanna interject. I'm sorry. Yeah. So we know there's subcontractors and, you know, because the house is a pier and beam construction, over time, the the foundation has sunk a few inches. Sarah, could you do me favor?

Could you go back to the slide with the showing, like, the porch? Yeah. If you notice around the porch area, there is an area of flex material. There is a somewhat significant amount of dip between the the concrete foundation and the front doorway. Subcontract subcontractors that we met with actually determined, you know, based off the measurement from the bottom of the doorway compared to the grade, you know, especially where the curb is from the parking lot program that, you know, that parking lot that was built.

The grade of the ramp is ramp is only gonna be about 2%. Okay. Which which falls way, you know, in compliance with the ADA. You know? But so

It's just more of an easement to get up over

the threshold. It's it's So it's not

like a ramp to get people from the street up.

Yeah. Sir, could you go to the the the renderings, please? Yeah. So if you see that ramp, it's more it goes from a ramp to more of a elevated, you know, sidewalk. Okay. So, you know, we made sure that And just to this lady goes

in the ramp. I thought it was oh, ramp? But that's that's different.

Thanks. Going around the stairs

to get Yeah. Yeah. Know.

It's like the one it's the one time that we're actually glad that we have a peer and peer foundation because it, you know, works out to help mediate that cost of Okay. Making sure that the everything's gonna be fixed.

And going back to just for everyone's knowledge from an ADA perspective, my understanding from a commercial real estate space is there's no, like, ADA inspections. It's more of a they work out of a place of calls of complaints and then they address it versus making sure business are compliant before they even open. So if you had, like, a just open a business and somebody calls and complains, then they would come do, like, a flat ground.

Mean, from what I've heard before, public inspector comes. He measures for ADA compliant.

If you do building permits and stuff. Yeah. But

But this is a facade ground, so it's not a Mhmm. Yep. I gotcha.

For the sidewalks and for the driveway, the driveway, does that go past the fence, the gate? Yes.

It does. So what do you call it? The essentially, like, we're we're paying out of pocket for everything beyond the fence. Everything in front of the fence that you can see from the sidewalk, you know, as the facade that we're, you know, we're we're gonna be you know, we're trying to rely on that grant for that. So, you know, beyond that, we have other improvements for the property, you know, as, like, a phase two. But, you know, like I said, that falls out of the scope of, you know, what we're trying to achieve with your head. So

So the driveway installation, is

that prorated based on what's beyond the fence? We

received yeah. Yes. Yes. For the full install?

Okay. And

then the sidewalk piece of it, that's not part of the city. That's more part of their property? No.

It's it's a requirement in Old Town Keller. And and really anywhere you're developing commercial property in in the entire city. There's some sort of sidewalk requirement typically, and on the residential side as well. But once the sidewalk is constructed, and this is why we we will inspect that part is it becomes the city's asset. So it becomes then publicly maintained by the city. It's not on their it's not within their lot. It's within the right of way.

Would that typically fall under though being included in this breakout for the facade grant?

So in the grant policy, Anna, correct me if I'm wrong, it mentioned sidewalk pavers. To be honest, staff struggled with it a little bit and kinda wanted to to put so these are the criteria verbatim from the from the grant policy. We struggled a little bit with a few of the different components of this application, especially the sidewalk being already required for for anyone developing in Old Town. But kinda wanted to just put the criteria in the board, In front of the board, I should say, for for discussion and and feedback.

But to Ashley's point, have we ever granted a a grant to a business owner for something they're required to do? Like a sidewalk?

Not that I'm aware of. Okay. But we we also did not go back through previous applications to confirm that. Okay. So we'd have to look.

And then I'm assuming, do you have a slide? If not, then can we go through the the requested project items? Which ones are required? So we know the sidewalk is. Is there anything else that's required by the city?

It's the sidewalk, the pavers. It's those two.

Where am I missing the pavers? Is it the contour?

Contour cost.

It's like the bottom. Okay.

To answer your question, mayor, no. There's there's nothing else that is required.

Okay. So if they were not to get the facade whatsoever, they still need to put in the pavers and the sidewalk?

Yes, sir. Okay.

Has the the grant been changed at all? I know there was discussion about the changing of, like, it being matching or or anything like that. Is has that been

We haven't changed it yet, but it's definitely on my horizon

Okay.

Bring it to this group.

So just for clarification too, like, if we didn't include those, they still because of the project in total is $18.05 6. If you even just remove those, they're still over that 10,000 threshold. So it would still match for that full for that

max and that one. Up to the city council to decide. I know for the last two, they they did kinda, like, a 50% Right. Thing. So it just depends on what city council would decide.

The

sidewalk concrete, the last item here, is that part of the requirement? I'm assuming it is. Right? That's the that's the load of the concrete. So it's not just the sidewalk installation. But if I'm looking at line items, it'd be number four, the last one, material cost, probably the steer as well. Right? Is the steer being used for the sidewalk or is it for the rest of the

It's it's being used for the entire project.

Okay.

Is there any other slides? Okay.

So this would be coming out of the FY '26 budget. The development grant budget $35,000. The remaining grant funds is a little over 20,000, and this is because this reflects the reimbursements to be paid later on this fiscal year for the ones that this group approved last year. But just so y'all know, we do have additional funding capacity available through a different line item that is also economic development incentives if needed and approved by the city council. So if we were to box out the 35 k, then we would bring it to council for consideration.

We do have additional funds that could be used. So the Keller Economic Development Board has the following options when considering a request for the improvement grant, recommend approval as presented, recommend approval with changes and or conditions, and recommend denial.

Do y'all have any anything else you wanted to add to your presentation?

I mean, outside of what you've seen, not really. We do tend we we do have plans to, you know, out of our own pocket, you know, improve on the general landscaping around that the property itself, like flower beds, you know, new what do you call it? New turf. Is it turf turf, or is it saw it. I'm so sorry. Saw it. Saw it. Yeah. Just try and maintain, you know, general upkeep of the property. Just try and reflect the rest of Old Town Keller. And we know y'all are doing the whole what road is that?

Elm Street.

Elm Street. Yeah. Mhmm. You know, so we're just trying to work in tandem with y'all, you know, make sure that, you know, at least our portion of Old Town Keller is as well kept as the rest of city. So

Awesome. And then the scope of the she mentioned in the beginning, but how many employers are you guys anticipating at that location? How many people you think would visit on any given day?

Oh, I see. So as of right now, I'm a solo practitioner.

K.

I do have some subcontractors under me, but it's usually one of us at a time at the location, and it would never be any more than, like, one or two people within, like, an hour time frame.

Okay.

So we're talking, like, five to six clients a day max.

Okay. In the scope of what you all do?

Yes. As far as beauty services. And then I remember that when we did talk about the initial, when we were going through the SUP process, there will be instances where within the beauty scope we can do like bridal showers or things of that nature. So then there would be, you know, a few more people within the building at that point.

Okay. Any

questions, folks, for the other the applicant or staff? Or

Were you able to finalize your CF?

So that's what we're in the process of. We're at the last, you know, two stages of that. Yeah. We only

have we we already spoke to a city inspector prior. He gave us a list of recommended things that we need to change required to one for this year. Those should be wrapped up within, like, eight, you know, week of, you know, once we get started with that meeting. Everything will be rest assured in compliance so that once you do apply for a SEO, it should be seen. I

can I can speak to this project directly that I know it's been a long journey?

Yes.

And a very committed journey. So I appreciate that because I think in Old Town Keller, I think the conversion of the house is going into more commercial. It's something I think we're gonna be seeing quite a bit over the next couple

of years.

So I appreciate the commitment that you've had with X and It's been a long journey. Of course. Yeah.

Well, I

guess for the board so this is probably the first time I've been here in a while because it's just to you all well, just to give you by way of background, the intention is to make this a full on citizen board. So it used to be that the mayor along with council member who's at the point tag green. I say this because some of y'all are fresh faces. We would serve alongside with you all. We're trying to get away with that, so that's why I slowly got away from it and asked councilman Green to kinda lead it to for us to get to a point where then now a citizen can kinda lead the committee just like any other one.

So I'm gonna deliberately this will come to city council. So, obviously, it's you guys are recommending body. But I'm gonna try to stay out of it as much as you as I can because, ultimately, I think this is gonna be better off with you guys kind of leading these meetings. So we need a motion, obviously, in a second. These are the items we can do. We can recommend as approved or with changes and denial. But Can we talk about the changes? Go for it.

Yeah. So we took out the the material costs on the sidewalk for the sidewalk that's requirement. It's still at, what, $14,005.60?

I I would make a recommendation to approve with with changes based on that just because I just don't wanna set a precedent for the for the future with the grant to see a lot of that kind

of with as opposed to what you're doing.

Right. Right. So I think in that instance, I would just recommend a change, but I know that they would still be above the threshold to be able to get that full 10,000. But I I think it would

be That's where I was going with it.

Good to approve, but with that minor change.

Because the 18 that we have in front of us is the total project cost. Cost. They're asking for the 10.

10.

Got it. Okay. Mhmm. Yeah.

But, actually, do do we know for sure that we don't have any precedent of providing grants to provide and whatnot that are required? I

I can't say that with absolute certainty. We'd have to go back unless you guys had research that I'm not aware.

We can we can go back. For the

council meeting. As far as what is that, Christian?

Yeah. So See if we provided any previous applicants, I think, that we

haven't done that.

I think in the sense of, like, for the past three years that I've been on the board, I've never seen it. It it has been for other things. I mean, just just from that.

Yeah. We'll definitely look for it before we bring it to council. Okay.

Just for clarification, might be good to put requesting 10,000 there Because, you know, some might just think it's the 18,000, but we know they're making that request of 10.

Yes. So and I should have mentioned this. I also forget we have so many folks here. So apologies. That's the That's invoice that was provided to us. But, yes, it is at every request. It's about 10,000, which is a max that they can request.

Very good. Thank you.

I know the concrete stuff doesn't fall within the traditional facade, but we are wanting to have much more development in a nicer area in that. So I mean, we could argue the precedent the other way too. And then in the end, this property is gonna look a lot nicer than the pictures where it started. It could be kind of a showpiece for for how this program could work. True.

I mean, don't think it

would be terrible if we did the full amount. I do understand that, you know, maybe holding it back a

little bit.

I don't think I mean, I wasn't talking me personally was kind of holding back the 10. I just wanted to make sure that the the required items are taken out. Yeah. So because we don't want other people to say, oh, let me throw this required. It gets me over the $10 threshold so I get my we're make

sure additional. Right? I mean,

what I mean, like, David and I talked about, they're they're putting a lot of efforts in a long journey for

them. Yep. Yeah.

And they're making

it look

really well. So I don't mind with but along with Ashley making the motion saying, hey. I approve with taking those two items out.

As long as

they still get it.

Yeah. And they they'll still pass that threshold. Yeah. They're still pass that. Yes. But, like, to to that point in the future, if we do have someone come in that's just doing maybe flower beds and then sidewalks to get them to that threshold to ask for more money reimbursed in that sense, I feel like I wouldn't be as comfortable to approve. So in this sense, they're over that threshold anyways. Yeah. I just don't wanna set the question at the future.

That's why I'm at Yeah.

If if I may interject, would you be opposed to leaving the line items the required line items on the invoice, but listing them as required and having a separate total amount on the same invoice showing or differentiating between required costs, but to be excluded from the From the grant. So I have little low.

So I have,

like, a subtotal over the fourth.

Yeah. I think so. I I

have to know.

Yeah. It's

mark through it, like, what they've invested.

Yeah. No. Yeah.

Or have it at the top

where these are required. Yes.

And then down below everything else.

Whichever which way as long as it, you know, clearly, you know, indicates that this is not optional. Mhmm. You know, and it's not to be taken into consideration when looking at the total. I

understand. Yeah. Yeah.

So Yeah. For the city council meeting, we will make that adjustment. Okay.

Quick question. You mentioned you might, in the future, have, like, a bridal shower. Right? So what are your thoughts on parking?

On parking?

Yes. So

that's part of the reason why we included and agreed to because I believe when we first initially applied, it was an option for us to include and say that we were going to move forward with all of that additional parking. We also have the driveway where we have, you know, room for a couple of different vehicles. And then across the street from our building, which the other business owners also use part of that city parking. So there's more than ample parking for, know, things of that nature. My neighbor to the right is an event venue. Okay. And, you know, they use part of our parking that we've now available in there.

And And what what would be that maximum capacity for packing? Just just thinking. And also for, like, the bridal showers, what is the capacity,

the maximum that you have? That I would have to once we finally get the full CO was getting with the city again because that's that was all included in my the special use permit. Okay. So I don't really know what the occupancy rules are and regulations at

this time. Determined by the the certificate of

occupancy process that they are still working towards. Okay.

When you say driveway installation, can you can we go back to the rendering? Can you point to what you mean by that?

So do you see right there to the right? Uh-huh. That right there fits about three, probably, vehicles comfortably.

Okay. And then right now

And then as of right now, what we have are adding is five different city parking slots. So the four that you see and then to the left of that tree on the left is the handicap.

Watch it. It's not a handicap. It's not. No. The so you can't see the bottom right. So that so we determined that we'll actually inform rather that our neighbor in front of their property and their city parking has a handicap spot. And because we fall within 75 feet of that of that spot of our property, you know, if it is we're also adding an ADA compliant sidewalk, that that parking spot would satisfy the ADA requirements for our road.

Okay. But the driveway right now, it's just it's just grass? It's gravel. At the

moment, it's gravel? It's dirty. If you yeah. You can see it's like it's a

it's more of a Oh, I got it.

Okay. So Yeah. Okay.

Grab on meat.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Depending on the season.

Okay. Only only suggestion I would make, whatever recommendation comes out tonight. When you get to city council, I would also probably if there's a way for you to have other make this easier for counsel to read what is specifically required as opposed to, you know, what you can get recommended for today. You understand what I'm saying? For example, the material cost. Here you put out three fifty four brick pavers, 16 bags. So what of that is for the sidewalk versus what of that is for the driveway? So there's a way for you to break those kind of items. Because I think you're gonna get some questions from counsel just kind of forewarning you. They're gonna wanna know, okay.

Well, of the 10,000, if that ends up being the recommendation, what's required, what's

not. Right.

So I would just have that exercise handy for

your staff. By knowledge, that's a pretty we got a pretty precise counting according to all these measurements, you know, by our subcontractors. So all of the papers in that cement, that's exclusively for the required part of the project. That's required by city.gov.

Okay. Okay. Yeah. And I would just I would just have this, but then do a separate one for what's required, what's

not. Gotcha. Yeah.

I have one last question. Just from the city perspective, I know that the side streets eventually are going to be redone as well. Is this one of the streets as well that's on the the list that will be added with, like, pavers and new sidewalks?

So as of right now, there's nothing under design. Staff has received no direction from counsel to even begin the process of designing the side streets. We anticipate that will be part of the newly elected group this summer. We'll have a strategic session. One of the topics will almost definitely be Old Town. And that that would come from council direction in terms of do we even want to start design on a side street? And if we do, what kind of exercise we wanna go through to prioritize which one would be next? Or are we gonna two two at a time, you know, what whatever that might be. But as of right now, we have no direction, nothing under design. So Okay. We're we're a ways off

from that.

Okay. I just wanted to make sure that we didn't there wasn't something and then, like, ripping this up. Right.

There and there's you know, we've all seen Bates Street and how that was done. There's a very realistic scenario and and mayor can weigh in or tell me I'm wrong, but there's a very real realistic scenario that the side street reconstruction is more of a traditional street reconstruction. Definitely looks better. The street is much better, but maybe it's not all the bells and whistles and and the parallel parking of Fake Street. Okay. Because if you if you look at most of the rest of the parking in Old Town, because it's been a code requirement for years, most of what we have on the side streets looks like this, that that hidden parking. But it's a great question because absolutely, we we don't wanna have these requirements and then we already know we're gonna rip them

out in eighteen months. Right. Right. Okay.

Thank you. Okay.

Is there a recommendation?

Recommendation to approve with those slight changes

for the breakout of the

For the for the 10,000? Yeah.

For the 10,000. Okay.

Alright. We got a motion second. Any discussion?

Okay. I second the opposed.

Any anybody opposed? Okay. So that's unanimously then recommended. So when do they come to city council?

It'll be in two weeks, April 7.

Okay. So

we'll see you then.

And then if if you want just would get that document to to staff so that way council has it handy. So Alrighty. Next item is just d one, administrative comments. Receiving economic development update.

You. Pass it around.

Halfway there. Halfway there. Okay. We

had four new business CEOs in February. One of those being the Forge of Keller at 459 Keller Parkway C C, which is a fitness and wellness studio. Also, the Luna Counseling Family Forensic Services at 1698 Killer Parkway Suite 100, Judge Beams Restaurant Cantina at 314 North Main Street, and it's officially opened, as well as Aquaria Pizza Pasta Bar at 967 Killer Parkway Suite date, which has also opened. So far and remember, this is for February. So far, we've had 10 COs that have been issued through the February, seven of those being new businesses and four of those being restaurants.

Building permits currently under review or in process. Christina's Keller at eighteen twenty one South Main Street. We met with them last week. They're really excited. It's gonna be a really neat concept. This is their first building that they actually own, which is really cool. All the other ones, they're leasing, and they have about 11 across the Metroplex. And they are hoping to be open before Cinco de Mayo. We also have Frost Keller at 1231 Keller Parkway, Autostone at 2131 Rufe Snow Drive. The permit was issued on February 9.

Health at 135 South Main Street, they do IV therapy services, and the permit was issued on February 11. As far as updates to incentivize projects, the Keller House Collective at 207 South Elm Street, the building building permit application has been received, but the permit fee needs to be paid before the plan review process can begin. And then city sports, this one's really exciting. They have one last round of revisions and could be ready for a preconstruction meeting. This is from last week. So as early as this week. Forgot to update that.

How do do you

have any updates, Sarah? On that window. From last week?

Okay. I do. Oh, yes. Have.

Monday. Been out of the office for several days.

I know we both have.

So

yes. Okay. And now for open rewards, the update here. So I actually brought this update to counsel last week, and I talked to them about how open rewards is going, which we're pretty much out of the 50 that we started out with. But just for comparison sake, what we realized is that, you know, our neighbors in Southlake and NRH, they said, give it longer and you will see the money go, and we've definitely seen that.

You know, the first go around, we only distributed $1,700, and now we are almost out of the 50 k. So we have a balance of in fact, I wrote this this morning, $6,800. Before I left my office this afternoon, it was 6,200. So we I started sending out text messages with counsel's guidance to end the program come April 1. And so if you have any friends or yourself, you haven't uploaded your receipts or you haven't cashed out, please do really soon because you wanna make sure that you get the money.

We definitely need to look at success rate, and we need to wait a couple more months because I think the true indicator is gonna be the sales tax increase year over year, and we are always three months behind with the controller's office. So right now, I can only see up to November, which we started at the November. So we need to get some really good data because what we have seen in the reporting is that currently and it has changed as Melanie and I have watched our dashboard. Currently, the top businesses as far as total transactions are the big boxes. So the grocery stores, the Lowe's, the Home Depot.

I will say we get some really entertaining comments on our dashboard where people will say, I came to the Home Depot and tell her because of this and not the other one. So it's like little, you know. So and we've also seen during the holidays. During the holidays, a lot of the local businesses were actually in the top 10 to top top 20 which I think I I showed you guys that list a few months ago. So I really think the the community welcomed it well.

North Richmond Hills residents were actually our top visitors over Keller. Wow. I saw that today. So we are bringing people from outside which is a good goal. But overall, we're gonna dig deeper. We need to see the year over year in sales tax and then we'll be able to really report if this was a success or maybe a half success. So I think

NRH have they been part of the program prior. Yes.

Because I even now

I'm getting notifications to go to NRH on the app because I think they relaunched it again. They did. So they might be also more familiar users potentially. Yeah.

They've done it. They've they've had success in the past.

Yeah. So they already kinda had a base using

using that. Mhmm. Mhmm. And that is all. Do y'all have any questions for me?

It's good to see the users though. That went up to the 2,700, so that's good. Because obviously, the idea is to just change the consumer habits. So even if it's NRH users, that's good.

Oh, yeah. Love it. Over here instead of Come spend money here. Okay. One last thing. I forgot. This is Eva, our intern. Hello. Hello. My husband doesn't get to come at night because

she goes to school. She's at UNT.

She's a senior, and she's been with us since August. Yes. And I think this is the first time that some of you get to meet us. I wanna make sure that you see this is Eva. So, yeah. Say hi to Eva. Welcome. Thank you. And that really is all.

Well, very good. Well, welcome aboard, Eva. Oh, you're gonna be with us?

Did she did

I miss it? I will be graduating this May. So I'll be looking for some entry level positions, as I look forward to my master's program in public administration still at UNT Go Mean Green. So until that's those opportunities are kinda seen and looked at, I would probably stay until the May.

Are you from the area?

Yes. I stay on campus in Denton, but I'm originally from Bralette Rockwall, Texas.

Okay. Alright.

We're graduating Harmon in May too. Yeah.

So you

got to make sure you wanna put an application in. Well, awesome. Welcome forward. Alright. Any other questions? Alright. If not, we'll need a motion to adjourn.

Second. Alrighty. We're adjourned.