City Council - Regular Meeting

I think they said some of y'all are gonna go this year and maybe some next year. So it's good to know. So I think that is good.

Does that happen all the time?

I thought you fell off. That's what I thought.

I've already told Dustin that we're going to be real palsy because I hang over this guy.

No, I'll tell you that. That's the reason I'm going to be in this seat.

I thought you were going to fall off. No, no, no. I've already told him that. So we're...

I'm just going to .

mistreaters agreement from 1992. I'm sorry.

The new section?

When was that built? Before I was here.

Before I was here.

Carl was mayor. He was going mayor then. Before he was mayor, so he was mayor. 2016? Yeah, I was going to say 16, 17.

Somewhere in that range over in Dakota.

So in 11 years,

Councilman Bartholomew, do you have time after the meeting?

I got to ask you a quick question.

No, but actually one of the questions I have to ask you is KCDC related. I wanted your approval to get with the board, with the KCDC board about possibly having a special meeting the week before having to do with a grant deadline. based on a call that I had earlier with Texas Parks and Wildlife. No, no, it actually would be three agenda items tied to that, but nonetheless.

But I didn't know if you wanted to... I just didn't want...

I just didn't know if you wanted to move the entire... I didn't know if you wanted to move the entire meeting up a week or just address those items. That was more of the question.

Oh, I can do that.

Well, that's what I'm saying, that's what I wanted, that's what I wanted to discuss with you. Because I don't think we have a very long agenda from what I've seen, but I'm not sure. Correct, for the next meeting. No, but there's not any requests that have come up or pending items coming back, so that's kind of where I'm at. But there might be a need, you weren't here, there might be a need of moving it up a week, but I'll discuss that with Councilman Broderson and then poll all the members. Richard, do you have the poster? You can leave it there and turn it around if you want or whatever. We'll hold it up when it's time.

I'd see people figure that out.

Seeing we have a quorum, I will call to order the City of Kemah City Council and Kemah Public Facilities Corporation regular meeting agenda July 1, 2026 at 4 p.m. And the first thing on our agenda are the pledges. Next thing on the agenda is a moment of silence. And next on the agenda is invitation to address council. I don't have anyone on here, but there are people in the audience. Did anyone fail to sign up? Okay, we'll move on. Proclamations, presentations, awards, and community spotlight. It is National Parks Month, and we have public works here to accept a proclamation.

So, this is Day 3 Nation of July. It's Parking Record. mental health by increasing cognitive performance and well-being and alleviating illness such as depression, attention deficit disorders, and Alzheimer's. And whereas parks and recreation encourages physical activity by providing space for popular sports, hiking trails, swimming pools, and many other activities are done to promote active lifestyle. And whereas parks and recreation is a leading and education activities such as school time programming youth sports and environmental education are critical to childhood development and whereas arts and recreation increases the community's economic prosperity through increased property values expansion of the local tax base increased tourism Fundamental to the environmental well-being of our community, and whereas parks and recreation is essential and adaptable infrastructure that makes our communities resilient to the basic natural disasters and climate change, and whereas our parks and natural recreation areas ensure the ecological beauty of our communities and provide a place for and whereas the U.S. House of Representatives has designated July as Parks and Reservation Month, and whereas the City of Pima recognizes the benefits derived from Parks and Reservation resources, in witness whereof, I have here to sit my hand and call upon the Board of the City of Pima to be invigilates this first day of July.

I appreciate it. Can we have all the council come down and take a picture, please? Hey, guys, if you got to stay up there, we're going to take a picture together real quick, if you don't mind. Hold on, we've got Councilman Rourke's on his way. Councilman Oliver's on his way. Yes, please.

Oh, I thought you were there.

I'm sorry. Do you want to pull up? Do you want me to call up some chairs?

You're not going to get up there. Thank you.

We will probably display the poster here at City Hall. Another poster will be displayed at the Public Works site. Being that our Parks and Recreation Department is absorbed through our Public Works Department, I want to say thank you to all of them for their work and their diligence with our parks. Today, July 1st, does kick off Parks and Recreation Month, and we will have several things that we will post throughout the entire month to celebrate the festivities of the month that our team is working on promoting. Thank you.

Okay, next on the agenda is mayor comments. I already had this on for part of the announcements, but July is National Parks and Recreation Month, as you just saw, and we appreciate all of Public Works and the tremendous job they do, and we appreciate their efforts. In other big news, we're happy to announce that Jordan... Wilmore has successfully passed the state exam and will be joining the Kemah Police Department. Jordan will officially be sworn in this coming Tuesday, July 7th at 2 p.m. here in council chambers, and everyone is invited to look up and watch, witness that that night. It's also National Independent Retailers Month. We're so proud of our Indy retail community. It's a network of small independent retailers that locally own businesses. And we just want to encourage all of the community to go out and shop local and support our small business community. The FIFA World Cup is now into knockout rounds. So it's win and advance or lose and go home out there. As always, we have a ton of wonderful options right here in Kemo where you can go pick up a game, pick up some food, get a great drink, and watch the game. And the U.S. plays their next game tonight at 7 p.m. against Bosnia. Bosnia, correct. And then 4th of July, registration is closing for anyone interested in riding in the parade. The staging will be around 9 a.m. at the city parking lot. 10 will be the Kids and Pets Parade and then 10.30 the main parade. Our grand marshals for the parade are Mr. Doug Meisinger, and I said that correctly, and Mr. Isaac Saldana. You can find more information, of course, online at chematx.gov or the Facebook page for our chemo. And thank you all for coming out tonight. We will now go into city council comments, and we'll start with... Councilwoman Shelia Thorne. Thank you very much, Mayor, and welcome, everyone.

Just a real quick announcement. Illumination Station is a Bible study, a vacation Bible school that's being offered at no cost to youth. And that'll be from July 6th to July 10th. And it's going to be in the evening time. So it's 530 to 830. And that's at Fellowship Church. And that's 922 East 518. And literally, just as you're heading out, heading west, leaving King. That's well attended. And invite all the kiddos to participate. I am honored to... a report that Adam Klein, the young man, the artist with autism, made it to the semifinals. So I know it can be with the holidays and the issue, but please, if you're able to, please vote for him. You can still vote once each day. It would just really help him. as we do with all youth with differing abilities to support them in their efforts. And my final thing is have an amazing and safe Fourth of July. Attended a briefing by the police agent. Chief, thank you so much for your staff. detailed, and I've actually put it on my social media page, and I would ask the council and other members to do the same. It's going to be a safe and productive Fourth of July, and thank you.

Councilman Oliver?

Not much to add. Just congratulations to the police department for getting their first cadet. I believe the first cadet in department history through the first step of his training. One for four, Deb. Look forward to that process and seeing how he does in field training and seeing how it goes. So congratulations on that. It's a big step. Hopefully we can do it with more cadets in the future that want to serve the city and the residents. So other than that, thank you all for being here. That's all I got.

Councilman Broaddus.

I just thank everybody for being here. And once again, congratulations to Jordan. I know the ceremony's here at 2, but I think they're doing graduation at 6 that evening in Alvin. So if somebody can't make it 2 o'clock here at City Hall, they'll be having a celebration over at Alvin College? Yes, sir. Okay, at 6 p.m. So just so everybody's aware. So that's all I got.

Okay, thank you. Councilman Wallace is not with us tonight. He's not feeling well. And Councilman Moore.

Well, I first want to say congratulations to Conrad, or Mr. Jordan. And I want to say thank you all for coming here and sitting on this council. It's been an interesting ride because I've discovered a lot of things and I'm still learning. And they keep saying, I kept hearing about can't teach an old dog new tricks while I'm here. And I'm going to keep learning and keep working.

Well, good. It does take a while.

I found that out.

Well, we appreciate your service, though, regardless.

Next on the agenda is the City Administrator's Report, and I will just turn all three of these items over to Cesar. It's May Travel and Tourism, Gulf Coast Coalition and Cities, and HGA Traffic Congestion, Public Feedback Service.

Thank you. Natasha, if you don't mind, if you could please pull up the first item, the domestic travel and tourism report that's on the agenda. I did want to point out some of the struggles that we are having when it comes to tourism. Obviously, in this case, the snapshot that you see as part of this report, it's not too much, it's only seven pages, but if you look at it, there is a drop there is a drop that has occurred in our total tourism as far as total trips and all these areas. And I think it's of vital importance that we continue to push or promote tourism in a way, especially when we rely so much on it. Yes, visit nights are up 2.5%, but if you look at the overall, the total visitor spend is down 7% year over year. That's a lot. That is a lot. So as we're making our budget preparations, that's one of the reasons why we've been so conservative with our projections for next year, even though there has been some growth in the city from people. But your total trips is down 1.5%. Your average monthly visitors, according to the software, is down 3.3%. Your visit nights are up to 2.5%. So there's more people that are spending more nights here when they do come. However, the overall total visitor spend when it comes to dollars, according to this, is down 7%. I wanted to call attention to that. Normally we do our reports in the second meeting of each month, but I want to call specific attention to that one because of that situation and as we're making our budget projections and any decisions that we make coming forward, that we do keep that in mind as far as how many of our businesses and our local economy does depend on that. Next item that we have is the Gulf Coast Coalition of Cities. If you remember, if you've been reading the news, there's been a lot of discussion back and forth on CenterPoint's Temporary Emergency Electric Energy Facility Reduction Settlement, or it's TEAF, with a lot of E's in between. But essentially, They have agreed to reduce it by $48 million. So by amortizing that remaining balance over four and a half years, the reduction is going to result in a $1.63 reduction for each residential customer. That's true, obviously, for the entire region, but I wanted specifically to share that for our state of Hema residents. It's not a lot, but the rate is going to go from $2.39 per month that's been added to each phone bill down to $0.76. So it is a saving of $1.63 per month. That is set to go in effect as of August 1st. Last item that we have as part of the report is the HDAC Traffic Congestion Public Feedback Survey. Traffic congestion, walking suggestions, and our just overall pedestrian continuity that's available here within the City of Kima. As we know, a small city 2.2 square box with less than 3,000 residents does welcome quite a large traffic count. Over 40,000 vehicles do travel State Highway 146 daily, not including 518, 96, and 2094. So you do get a rather large vehicle count that come through here. So that congestion safety protocol, we do urge everybody to please provide their feedback through that survey. This is to our Council of Government through the Houston-Galveston Area Council. There's this survey. Shortly after, there's going to be a bus transportation survey that'll be going out that we would like to solicit feedback from everybody from but this is very important for those that are interested in pedestrian safety and overall congestion within the city. Automation is available. We can make that available through social media and our website, but that concludes my report for this evening.

Does anyone have any questions or comments for Cesar?

Is there any updates on the sidewalks on the Galveston County side? I know you and I have been stabbed at it a couple months ago.

Last we've heard, and we've worked with the folks from Centerpoint and Galveston County, to see if anything of that could be arranged. As of right now, we have heard no comment back as to when and how those would be arranged.

So...

Correct.

Same thing.

I made it very clear to them as to who it was, and I've gotten...

I've gotten zero traction on that so far.

Number nine, reports from staff. I'm assuming we don't have any of those tonight.

No, ma'am.

Besides yours. Correct. Number 10, consent agenda. We have 10A to approve the minutes of the 6-17-26 City Council workshop and 10B to approve the minutes of the 6-17-26 City Council regular meeting. Does anyone want to take anything off of the consent agenda? Do we have a motion to approve?

Motion to approve. Second.

We have a motion by Councilman Rob Rourke and a second by, yes, sir? And a second by Councilman Dustin Oliver. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. 11A. These are consideration of possible option items. 11a, preliminary final replat of CSP retail plat generally located at 365 FM 518. This is by the Verizon store, and I think this was on the prior agenda?

No, actually, we have the actual vendor here. She didn't have any questions. But one of our partners, if there's any questions specific to the actual replat, but this is already past our entire agenda. preliminary process. So if there's any other comments that we have or any questions, we'll take them at this time.

The zone, I mean, we don't zone in, but I mean, the drainage is already completely figured into that acreage, so they don't have to, no detention at all. That's correct.

And your name, sir?

Jordan Cruz.

Okay.

I wanted that for the record.

Sure. Okay. And he's with our partner representing us through Safefield.

I second. So we have a motion by Councilman Darren Broaddus, a second by Councilwoman Shalia Thorne. All those in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you for coming. Thank you. Short and sweet. 11B, consideration of possible action to approve Resolution 2026-22, a resolution of the City Council of the City of Kemah, Texas, for the designation of an alternate for the Gulf Coast Transit District. This is just a representative.

May I speak to this, Mayor? There seemed to be some confusion with the actual agency. They had down Councilman Oliver as one For some reason, Councilman Saldana is too, and myself as a proxy. But the action we saw that we took was actually Councilman Oliver, Councilman Wallace, and myself as a proxy. If you want to continue that or assign other folks at this time, that's a decision to do it. But every time that there's an election, if there's a person representing that board on any one of those three positions that there's a change, they ask you to make the change at that time. That's why this item is before you today.

I'm fine with it being what we originally decided. I don't care. It's fine with me. It's just cleaning up the, getting Isaac off, I guess.

Is there any reason, Cesar, you should be second and then

No, ma'am.

You would just go if the other two could not.

So elected officials are the ones that are asked to be the voting members from each one of the partner agencies. If any admin staff that would be assigned to go, we serve as proxies to provide information or anything else of that nature. So when those meetings take place, it's usually what it is. They do confer with us. They do hear us. We do participate in the meetings. But those votes, they want representation from the cities whenever possible. Many times some cities send the proxy and one of their elected officials. Sometimes it's one or the other, so whatever we do. The meetings, I will say, the meetings take place, one meeting is in Texas City, followed by the next meeting being in Lake Jackson and vice versa. Just keep that in mind.

And Lee's not here to defend himself, so Councilman Oliver, would you like to make a motion to leave this as is?

Sure. I will make a motion to leave the representation of the... Gold Coast Transit Authority, the same as previously voted on by council.

Can you state the names, please?

Resolution 2026-2022, myself as the first, Councilman Wallace as the second, and City Administrator Garcia as the proxy. Second.

So we have a motion by Councilman Oliver, a second by Councilman DeRogatis. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11C. Councilman Thorne, did you want to talk to this?

Yes, I would. So this is consideration of possible action to approve Resolution 2626, and it's the adoption of a local sales... and use tax in the city of Kemah at the rate of one-fourth of 1%, which was 0.25%, to provide a revenue for maintenance and repair of municipal streets.

I got questions. I mean, where's this money going to come from?

If you would allow me to... I'm new on it as far as terms of do I need to get a second to go ahead and just I want to do an introduction to it.

I was under the impression we were going to table this or move it to another meeting. That's why I asked you.

I would like to do just a brief introduction so it gives a

I mean, I've been saying for three years we need to do 10% of our budget, but there's not 10% of our budget here to associate to this. There's three kinds of income. There's three kinds of income.

If the councilman will allow me to speak or if you're making a motion that I can't.

No, no motion is on the floor.

I'm not making a motion. I'm asking how we're going to pay for it because there's no funds.

If you allow me.

I asked you if you wanted to speak to it, so go ahead.

Thank you so much. Again, this is just an overview. I would like to just bring it to the attention. If I can have the next slide, please. This is about road repairs through a sales tax revenue. This is just an overview. So it would need to be, an election would need to be the call to dedicate one quarter of 1% of sales tax to road maintenance. The ask is placing the proposition on a ballot to dedicate that one quarter percent of local sales tax to street maintenance fund. And that's under Texas code, tax code 321. And then for specific maintenance under 327. This is similar to what we spoke, what was brought up earlier the workshop about a crime district. This is a portion of the code that allows to do that. If I can have the next slide, please. These are some of the streets in Kima, and these are pictures taken today. And for full disclosure, one of the streets is my street. I'm not going to identify it, but it's representative of some of the conditions of the streets in Kima. So that's Park, Kipp. Next slide, please. This is Kipp and Rader and Sioux. Next slide, please. This is a sample as far as the revenue. What we currently have is that we, and again, this is just sample revenue. We currently have 1%, which is goes to the general fund, another one and a half percent to the general fund. And then the, Half percent goes to KCDC. What I'm proposing is that we provide one quarter percent to Rhodes. The general fund would still get the other half Quarter percent, so that's that half percent. And then the 1%. So this is just, again, this is just a sample. So we're still talking, getting approximately $2.3 million. Then KCDC would get their full amount, half percent. Again, this is just a representative sample. Next slide, please. KEMA's roads require ongoing maintenance. It's not a one-time fix. This quarter percent sales tax dedication is authorized by state law and is used by many Texas cities. The city administrator has given me some input, which I will bring back at a later meeting. But again, this is just an introduction. So that revenue would be about 450,000. It does not increase total sales tax above the 8.25 cap. Again, voters must approve this. The council would only call the election. This is not even looked at for this coming fiscal year. This is looking at within the 2028 time. Again, we're not talking about this coming fiscal year. This is a long, because it's been kicked around the can many times over the years. We had a survey by LJA Associates, which gave an amount of all the streets. And again, it's an astronomical amount, but how do you chew off an elephant? One bite at a time.

Councilwoman Thorne, we're not up here to- Again, this is my last slide.

This is it.

We are not up here to educate and discuss this matter that's that long term out. This is not in the packet. You need to share these kind of things with all of council prior to a meeting. And you need to give it to the city secretary and have her disseminate it to everyone and they can study it. We're up here to vote on things and to do business, not to educate. That was it. Darren, you wanted to say, Councilman Broaddus, you wanted to say something.

Well, I just want to educate a council in that we're already having a hard time meeting $7.1 million budget and paying our bills. With this proposal, you're going to pull out $900,000 out of that budget.

That is not correct. That is correct. He has the floor.

That is correct, because we can only charge 2% in total in sales tax. We're only going to get 2%. You can designate it. I don't disagree with what you're saying. You can actually designate a quarter percent to that, but it comes out of your general fund, which we are spending today to pay our normal bills. We can't add another quarter percent to the state level, because that's not allowed. They get six and a quarter, we get two. How we distribute that 2% is wide open, but we only get 2%. So... You've either got to create $45 million new revenue, you've got to raise taxes like eight or nine cents, which good luck with that one, or you've got to cut your bills by a million dollars. That's your three choices to make this happen.

Are there any other comments on this subject matter? Moving on, 11D, consideration of a part.

Don't we need to table this?

No, we never had a motion. We never had anything.

Okay.

But, Deja, correct me if I'm wrong. Do we need to table it if there was no action or motion or anything?

There needs to be some action taken on it.

I make a motion to table the 11C to a future date.

I second. So we have a motion by Councilman Dustin Oliver, a second by Councilwoman Thorne. All those in favor? Any opposed? Did you hear that, Natasha? Okay, and thank you, Councilman Oliver, for reminding me of that. 11D, consideration of possible action to approve an application for the fiscal year 2026 community-oriented policing services or COPS hiring and technology grant.

We have our staff here available to answer this question, but a pretty basic synopsis of it. We are requesting two additional police officers with 75% being covered by the agency, 25 by us over the course of the three years. After that, we have to keep those positions for at least one year on our own. This is a consideration to the increased activity, traffic, And in general amount of visitors that are still coming to the city, even though they're not saying as much as we want to spend what we want, they're still here and they are still coming. But the increased traffic count and increase activity due to the completion of the construction has been felt. And also our population has now. Almost doubled since when this last. difference was added from our police force. So we're seeking your approval to put in for these two police officers, even though we've increased efficiency, we can still use the help. I'll paraphrase.

Yes. Chief, this is something. Oh, definitely.

I've talked to a couple of you guys along the way, but if we can get this grant, it'll definitely help. So we just want your approval to get the grant going.

Did you write this in your budget?

or it will be figured out within your budget.

Depending on action taken tonight, we can make that adjustment in B.

What would be the award date, I guess? Is it this year's or next year?

It would be in next year's budget.

Right, correct.

It's not in this year's budget. Right, so next year's budget that starts October. That is correct. So you're prepared to write it in there?

Yes, sir. We're ready to make it happen.

You want to give them side by sides or what?

If I can ask a question. Yes. And this is just for clarification. It was my understanding that the police department is asking for the additional $41,000 in addition to their current budget. I could have possibly misunderstood it.

You're talking about the matching funds?

Yes, sir.

Yes, ma'am. But the thing about it is that as an entity, we can actually apply for a waiver. So that has to be determined by Department of Justice whether or not we qualify for it.

In the alternate, that it is not...

It'd be $40,000.

So that would be an addition. Yes. And I'm for it, but I just want to make sure that that's understood that then you would be asking for an additional $41,000 to the police budget.

Correct. And that wasn't done already before previous in our budget workshop because we couldn't be preemptive as to what action would be taken now on this item. Also, just for the record, I've had the the ability to apply for this grant at several locations. There's been some that we've been able to get the waiver, some that we haven't. So that is dependent on how well we present that.

Thank you. Any other questions or comments? Do we have a motion?

Make a motion to approve an application for the... Fiscal year 2026, community-oriented police services hiring and technology grant. Second.

So I have a motion by Councilman Broaddus and a second by Councilman Oliver. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries unanimously. Thank you, Captain. 11E, consideration and possible action to accept community forestry grant award. This is a, I think a $20,000 grant with a $10,000 matching.

that is correct uh this was approved for application through kcdc and we had a special meeting on monday to approve this acceptance uh we're coming forward because there will be an expense of possible expense of up to ten thousand dollars of kcd funds kcdc funds for the match uh we are anxious ready to get started we have everything staked and ready to go and this is just waiting on our signature should you approve tonight any questions or comments make a motion to accept

Community Forestry Grant Award. Second.

So we have a motion by Councilman Darren Broaddus, a second by Councilman Rourke. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11F, consideration of possible action. Consideration of possible approval. Department from the Blue Line Legion Foundation, and this is the drone. What is it, $11,000?

$11,000.

The value of $11,000. Captain Rees has prepared the following presentation to share should any questions arise.

Okay.

Who, sorry, we may have talked about this in the past. Who do we have that are certified operators?

We have two, and we're going to send in two more to be certified. Okay. It's almost probably one on every shift because you don't want someone to be out of town and we need it. So we're looking at maybe four to five people total.

I don't have any questions. I think we have a response to some feedback.

Yes. There was a question that was posed to council and us as a body, as a staff, to look into a matter. By a concerned resident, we did look into the matter. We did get legal opinion on that. Ms. Deja did document a letter that was both emailed and printed for you all in case you didn't get it. You had to get the email from the time that we received that. And We have not had a chance to send that letter over to the respondent yet, but we will do so here shortly. Uh, the general idea is that we are allowed to accept this donation to utilize this drone. And obviously mistake is here to comment on that. Should you have any questions, but also in fairness to Captain Reese, who prepared the presentation is pretty brief. If you have any questions, we would like to share that.

Okay, so what you have in your packet is right there. Can you go to the next slide for me, please? Essentially, that's the drone that we're looking at. It's something what they would call a pocket drone. So it's something that can be launched from the back of a cruiser or pulled out of a briefcase. That can be launched during any time, during special events, holiday proceedings, parades. Also for accident scenes as well as various other reasons.

Next one.

Once again, it's no cost to the city whatsoever for this donation. It's being given to us by a nonprofit. One of the capabilities for public safety, it has thermal capability, so that can definitely help if we have somebody lost in the middle of the night. or in 57 Acre Park, whether it's an older person or a child. Also, that can also help the fire department with fires inside buildings, if possible. It does have obstacle avoidance, so that's one of the things that does attract us to it, is because it's not very technical. You'll have a myriad of different people that'll be operating it, so it's different operator levels and experience. And it's some of the uses that you can use it for, law enforcement, fire and rescue, search and rescue. Like I said, once again, you have a person that's lost in 57 Acre Park or somewhere else walking around here. And this is a little bit about the Blue Lion Legion Foundation that is actually gifting this drone to the police department.

I guess my only question is, does this attach to your IT in any way? Do you see it from your office in here? Is it going to be all hands-on?

It probably would have to be on-site because it's going to be controlled by the remote.

Could another officer be looking at it at the same time? No, sir. No, sir.

That would literally be the operator that's actually standing there holding the remote.

But we already have. It would not be tied in somehow, so they could. Somebody could miss something, too.

You start looking at one of those kind of drones, you're talking more like $30,000 to $50,000.

And that's a DFR drone you're talking about.

And we are working on a DFR drone through a grant.

You actually approved a grant application through NBCPA, which the upcoming presentation is going, that we're going to go defend, which would have that capability, and that would be funded through the state through that program. We've already approved that one. We've already submitted application. Now we're going to go defend that.

How long have we had a drone already?

No. That's why we can't believe we don't have one here at all. We need one. The DFR drone they're talking about will be dispatched with a call. Dispatch will be able to see everything live from the drone. This is more for smaller occasions, crime scene type things.

And that was through a grant application. That's through a grant application.

That other one that we're going after would be through a grant application. Totally separate, totally separate use. That one is imagine a drone police officer that is available at any given time that would just dispatch this is for specific use in case it's a it's a like was mentioned something on the water. 57 acre bark whatever the case is again this is no cost no match it is it is a donation to this nonprofit.

And this is just giving you some brief oversight of how it can be used during large special crowds, New Year's, Fourth of July. Also, significant traffic congestion. We'll be able to look over and just see where we need to adjust to actually get traffic flowing a little bit better. And absolutely. This is the main reason why we're striving for this is because it gives us a faster response time. It also helps increase officer safety for when we are going into situations. If we are able to put something up in the air and see what's going on first, that works better for us. also improves our allocation of resources. If it's a disturbance call or there's a suspicious person or whatever, if we can put that up and look and we don't see anybody, then that keeps us from having to divert resources to actually go out there unnecessarily.

That makes sense. Does it take pictures? Yes.

Yes, ma'am.

Video and pictures. And videos? Oh, yes, ma'am.

That's also in your packet.

Like this 4th of July event, this would have been great to have it to fly over so we'd know what to look for next year.

Okay, next one.

All right, keep going. I'll make a motion to approve the donation to the Kemah Police Department from the Blue Line Legion Foundation. Second.

We have a motion by Councilman Oliver, a second by Councilman Broaddus. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. Thank you. 11G, consideration and possible action to approve a proposed prosecutor's agreement between the Galveston County District Attorney's Office and the Kemah Police Department.

Yes, ma'am. This is something that's mandatory through the NBCPA grant, the state funding that we have proceeded previously. So this is a requirement.

Make a motion to approve the agreement.

District attorney's office. Second.

So we have a motion by Councilwoman Thorne, a second by Councilman Oliver. All those in favor? Aye. Any opposed? Motion carries. 11H, regional 2050, regional transportation plan call for projects Park, Ride, and Garage.

Yes, this is, I'm sorry? Nothing. Yeah, this item was one that I wanted to bring to everyone's attention. I know that the idea of a park and ride or a potential garage is one that the city has entertained in the past. Not hiding from that, not running from that, I completely understand that. The project as it was was never submitted through the regional transportation plan. Never went through thorough planning and different things of that nature. What I'm asking for tonight is to consider, obviously, if it got as far as it did, the need was obviously there. The reason why it did not pass previously was not because it needed, because it needed to be modified in the study, and because, as I understand it from the history that I've received, is that it was due to the maintenance cost. What we're asking for now is to put it into the 2050 Regional Transportation Plan, which is, again, put together through our Houston-Galveston Area Council, which is our COG, our Council of Governments for the entire region. What the project would essentially include, we're asking for at this time to initially get started is a full study and potentially have that study sponsored through our relationship with Gulf Coast Transit District to do this the right way. But we're asking for is to petition for formal inclusion in the 2050 regional transportation plan. The reason or the tie-in to that that we talked about, we talked about parking and so forth. The parking lot itself would allow there to be free parking at least during the week. You are allowed to charge on the weekends or on peak times, which would allow that to be something that we'd allow here. Because of the influx and the growth in our city as well as the region, we're not the only ones growing. Seabrook's grown, East Lake City's grown, Clear Lake City, everyone else around us has grown in this region. And because of the corridors that we entertain from 146, 96, 518, and 294, the need for medical care. There's a lot of reasons why this park and ride makes sense. We all know that it does, because again, it was pretty much a decision before. What we're asking for today is to potentially revisit that idea for the location to be determined through the plan. That's not to be determined by us today. It's to be determined through the plan to look at this study and look at it further. There's no cost to submit. For for for for this consideration, and it's just to see this all the way through and go down that route through through our local council of governments. We already have another project that's submitted for this. Um, that we've looked at that involves a corridor of get real in your park. There's other funding that we have applied for, actually one for Kipp Road, that would do Kipp Road all the way through, with switch to concrete, curb and gutter, and sidewalks. So along with strengthening our relationship with HGAC, we are asking for your approval tonight to pursue this further through a planning phase, to be included in the 2050 Regional Transportation Plan. We've got to think that far ahead. My understanding that we now have one project already in consideration. My understanding is Keno had never participated in these RTPs before, and we were just trying to leverage the partnership that we have through HCAC. We're seeking your approval to take the next step.

Questions, comments?

After speaking to some local property owners, They would need support of us looking into the matter thoroughly.

And no cost to the city?

For the submission to the RTP at this time, no. If we ever go to apply for any funding or assistance, being in the plan helps us. I mean, it gets us extra points. So it actually helps us in that sense.

I was around for the last part.

That's what I see. None of us here will be around to see this through.

That's something I foresee in my head.

Who's going to carry the torch to make sure this...

Well, the beauty of taking this council action is it serves as a historical document. Once it reaches the RTP, then we're included through that, through the COG. So it's not us carrying it. It's us as the partnership with the agency. But more importantly, old Provert said, if we hadn't planted those apple trees 25 years ago, we wouldn't be eating from them today. So we owe this to the future of KEMA and the future of what it could be. That's my opinion. Again, I don't sit here and have a vote like you do, but.

Make a motion to approve the 2050 regional transportation plan calls and projects, parks and rides.

Now we have a second by Councilman Roark. A motion was made by Councilman Broad. Is all those in favor?

Aye. Any opposed?

I abstain. And we have one abstaining. Motion still carries and passes. We do not have an example. last minute comments or anything? If not, we will adjourn the meeting at 4.46 p.m.