City Council - Regular Meeting

e e e notice is hereby given that the city council of the city of calwell buron County Texas will convene in a regular meeting at the city hall 107 South Hill Street cwell Texas regular meeting place thereof at 5:30 p.m. April 16th 2024 a quorum is present so we will proceed uh invocation and pledge tonight will be led by councilman father we thank you for this day for your many blessings thank you

for the city of cwell as we meet to discuss the plans and and future forell would give us great wisdom very great wisdom and great discern that our decisions may be pleasing and honoring to you but also be in the best interest of the the citizens that live here thank you for our First Responders we thank you for this great country we live in we pray for those that are In Harm's Way right now whether through war or just um just in the things that are happening around the globe Lord just bless our mil keep them safe all those loved ones that are home Lord Comfort them and be with them thank you again for this evening and pray blessing tonight Christ name pray flag unit States of America and to the Republic for which it stands one nation under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all flag honor the Texas flag IED alance to Texas indivis hey welcome to any visitors we have tonight and the first item is citizens to be heard on City related topics and we have Mr Saul [Music] Pilla good evening my name is res Tas in for years and seven months I am a US C I have concerns about the approaches two approaches that the police department of Texas here made with me

the first was on February 21st this years because I am diabetic I work I work every day and anyway they got this incident with this dog the dog tried to buy me many times in the past this time the dogs come to me I tried to scare the dog I walk into the cemetery and then the lady the only the lady she got me out and called the police the police come talk to me as my ID I presented my ID to him he went back like 15 minutes later he came and give me this War uh they call the uhal pass War I think the police was unfair doing this to me because I just was trying to scare the then he told me if I have another complaint from this lady I will come and arrest you I think they have no right to say that he will arrest because there was no Ser serious incident with the I believe that he considered that depression orist is more valuable than me I am I think when he this he was biased because he told me he was trying to scar to me I will come and arrest you the second incident happens on March 29 between 5 and 5:30 and 6 p.m. on on street I was in my way walking the police the same police off somebody El a Corporal surgeon stop me he says I I was a um how would I say uh I did my description the way I I was he was the one who somebody called around the hospital and somebody was walking that maybe he trying to steal and I said I it's not me I just live there because he was very close to my apartments and the they were so focused arrest me and I say it's not me I'm

innocent then there was two uh my neighbors Vick Gonzalez and Bernardo Gonzalez they spoking my beh but the sergeant of Corporal was so eager to arrest me he said do you want me to hand C you in C you you will talk in the car inside the car I said then they have no water arrest for me I told him I am innocent I live right there and he was look if I reist arrest I will be handcuff beat up if I run away because I'm scared they will shoot me in the back because that's what happened in the United States this is my concern I don't know what to do I just expressing to you my concern I'm not a homeless when I walk on the street I look like a homeless but I'm not not a homeless I never been arrested in my life I am 71 years old thank you so much thank you on behalf of the city of Cowell I appreciate you and thank you for your concerns next consent agenda um these this consists of minutes from the last meeting and additional considerations do we have a motion to accept the items on the I'm sorry do we have a second do I need to read the fair housing thing or no just adop okay all in favor of accepting the items on the consent agenda raise your right hand none opposed motion passes next regular agenda items multiple variance requests for the proposed West Southgate subdivision partial ID number 10680 concept plan pertaining to lot sizes setbacks and pavement width so

may tonight you are actually going to get to deny this item because applicant decided that he going to wait on this project and receive in development projects that he's already working on so because it was an item that postponed we felt that the action need to be taken on this item so that way we clear off agenda for future because we don't know when they're come Backes this so um you need is motion but really they really ask for us to they and they away would it be better to T table you can bring it back up at any time well I don't know if it's going to be the exact same that makes I'll second okay all in favor of uh denying the multiple variance requests for proposed West South gate division partial ID number 10680 raise your right hand none opposed motion passes next awarding a $600,000 Time warrant for Capital Improvement projects and equipment and any processed documents required here to okay so we can Council last month before asking for commission to go out for this the rates that we have I think you'll have them in front of you CI Bank came back with 5.125% of the rate and prosperity is 5.79 so staff would recommend that we issue the debt through State

Bank we accepted from Citi time all in favor of awarding a $600,000 Time warrant for Capital Improvement projects and equipment and any processed documents required year two the Citizen State Bank raise your right hand none opposed motion passes next ordinance number 0416 24a repealing article 8.02 miners a curfew for minors under 17 years of age and repealing any enforcement procedure or criminal penalties related there to of the city of caldw code of ordinances okay this ordinance is brought to you by House Bill 1819 that uh prohibits any city or county from enforcing any curfew WS that we have in place so just run the street alls day we don't have any just CLE had an ordinance brought back in 2008 yes C so you're want to approve the ordinates repe have a second do we have a motion I'm sorry all in favor of approving the ordinance to repeal article

8.02 the curfew for miners under age 17 raise your right hand and oppose motion passes advaned metering infrastructure proposal from Aqua metric sales company for electric and water metering system so I'm GNA kick this off and then we got some Representatives here from off metric but this is in response to the RFP that we went out for for AMI what we did is we kind of had we had several meetings with different groups we have met with three or four different groups came in kind of in inform formal RFP kind of work through everybody came in and presented the product that they were offering so it allowed us as staff to learn a lot more and and to make a proper decision on this um and the reason we kind of kept it informal each one of the the companies that presented for us was on some sort sort of buyboard now what you have in front of you is from the hgac bbard so they've already done the competitive purchasing requirement for us so with that we let Justin Hamilton with aqu kind of take over and you'll have he's got a quick presentation and he figured he'd be better to answer questions than what I would so mayor C thank you all for having us um my name is Justin Hamilton I'm the manager of strategic sales for aquam metric um I live in colge station we also have Craig Collins here from census represents manufacturer um he is in big city of Rockvale Texas so we got you guys kind of surrounded um talk a little bit about what we talked to the staff about in several meetings we've had I'm try to take too much time up um you can skip the headon give a little bit of brief over about who we are as aetric we've been in business for over 30 years now we covered Texas California and Louisiana main office here in Texas is

in Selma just North of San Antonio we have 15,000 foot Warehouse where we stock all our product there um we are a turnkey installer so we Prime projects as large as uh $ 76 million with the city of Fort wor we changed out all meters and radios um all 250,000 Plus for them so we've got lots of bonding capacity we're very experienced doing TurnKey projects for water gas and electric meter systems um we're still are fairly small company with 45 employees total so it gives us the ability to be pretty flexible if we need something we get the hold of the CEO president of our company out text and we get things resolved pretty Qui um one of the ways we do projects is we operate on the one neck to choke one back to path FL phy so it's our crews that are designing the system putting in the network installing the meters um doing integration to your building system and providing the support for the full 20 years after the project so we hope you like us because we'll same people we going to be here for the long term um go ahead one just a quick look at some of the references we have here um this is by no means all of them but we have more combo utilities using the census Flex net system anybody else in Texas um just around you guys bham Belleville as drop all use our Flex net utility system Fredericksburg is another water Electric System that's in a very similar system to what you guys have um so we we given the reference list to the staff for them to make any kind of phone calls set up site visits um the oldest system we have here in Texas was put in in 2008 um so this is by no means a guinea pig system it's it's very proven um out through throughout the state go so the reason it's been successful it is it is very simple so the Water and Electric meters will be uh at each individual residence connected to a radio every hour that meter is going to take a reading every four hours the radio is going to transmit that in to an antenna that we have on each of your base station sorry

each of your water towers um so two collection points um it's a point to multi-point system so each radio speaks directly to the tower um we have redundancy built in throughout the system so we save hourly readings in the meters themselves we save hourly readings in the radios we save hourly readings in the base station and three years of hourly readings in the software system so we'll have hourly readings coming in from all the meters that we're storing um you guys will be able to take action on that as you see um I'll get into a couple slides here in a second one of the biggest reasons cities have moved to this Ami network is the difference between getting one read every 30 days and getting hourly reads uh gives the utilities the ability to be proactive instead of reactive um if it was in my house we're collecting one read every 30 days if I have a leak in my house that happens the day after you read the meter we're not going to know about it until the next time you go buy and read which could be 30 Days by the time I get the bill we're looking at 45 days where we with an hourly system we have customers that are looking at their reports daily and are contacting customers saying hey we're seeing that there's continuous usage for the last 24 hours can you check the toilets in your house can we see if there's a valve that's turned on somebody like a water hose running so it gives this system gives your staff the ability to have the information to make action decisions in a proactive the city of Brian will see in hours in three hours our office water and no one was there on Saturday open up back the city of Bryant also uses f is it color coded warnings like yellow or red is possibility that water was left on like you said water hose or yellow it's different than what it has been or no it would just be a different report so staff have the ability to run a report that says give

me every meter that's sh continuous usage or give me every we'll have an alarm report so the alarms will show up on all different categories um we can automate those so staff can have that first thing in the morning you can have it already pre-populated on your system here's all the customers that had alarms Maybe all them are actionable maybe some of them are people build a swimming pool or something like that but it's better to know what's going on than b gu um what you're looking in front of you is a propagation study so we actually took the meter um addresses here in calwell ploted them on a map um and then took the locations of your two elevated storage tanks that's where we would put the antennas everything you see in green is fully covered two-way system so we should have no coverage issues anywhere here in C um this probably is guaranteed so if we put the system out there and we're not getting the results that we expect which is 98 a half% of your readings over a 4- day period it's on us to provide the additional infrastructure we're not going to change over you guys and say we think we can cover it with two and then two becomes four four becomes six um since this is guaranteed that we're going to cover all call Gold to but needs Ward that it's all a little bit of warranty information we do have the longest warranty on the market for our meters and radios so it's a full 15year warranty on all meters radios and then 5 years per r on the battery um that goes for all the residential meters we sell um some of the meters on this slide are not applicable to what you guys are do to cwell but it shows the warranty for everything um the biggest thing again is 15 years full and five years per industry standards 10 and 10 so an extra five years of warranty at aens and this is a little screenshot of what your customer service reps would see in the field this called census analytics this takes the hourly data we're getting in from the field and makes this is what your utility staff would be looking at um that screenshot on the bottom left is what it would look

like if somebody has a spike in usage so if they had a sprinkler system come on in the middle of the night that's what it would look like kind of on the bottom left there the one on the bottom right is what a leak would look like um you can see those bar graphs never get to low never get to zero at any point until the leak gets fixed and then it looks like normal usage after that so if your citizens are calling saying I don't know why my bill is so high we have the ability to pull up an hourly graph we can show exactly when sprinker systems came on um when water was used how long it was used um so you we're providing actionable intelligence for your end users um this little tool called meter Insight this gives an overall system health so your your staff will have the ability to say this is a screenshot we pulled from another utility um this customer has 6,300 active meters they had um one is almost stale which we're saying stale means we have not heard from that meter in two days we should be hearing from every four hours why are we not here did somebody park a truck over it did something happen to it did he get damaged um but before we go out and you need to reading from it we can be proactive and go out and look at that res and see why are we not hearing from this right um so I won't go through all all the squares but this does give a kind of a overall system Health that your your staff can be looking at on a daily basis and this is the customer portal so your end users will have the ability to create their own account they can set up their own alerts um the BX smart portal also give them suggestions on ways they can conserve water Um this can be accessed through the website it's not a standalone app it's a website that you just kind of save as your favorites um but it will allow your utility of like your end users to set their own alerts and alarms so they can set they're going out of town for a certain number of days they can go into the app and or the portal excuse me and say hey I'm going to be out of town for these three days

send me a text message if my water bill goes over 10 Gall so they'll know what's going on finally this is kind of the last slide we have um just all the advantages we have is alom metric um we do have an inhouse instate technical team so we have our own employees who their entire role is to make sure that our customers systems are healthy um we as aquam metric don't sell pipe and supplies and other water we only do metering metering systems so it's our entire business model make sure these systems work and work effectively um we have our own installation crew we have um the most reliable Network on the market it uses our primary license frequency um so centus actually owns the spectrum that we're operating on and we lease that to the city of calwell so you alone as a city of calwell will be able to operate on this FCC license frequency we're building you your own proprietary cell phone network that you alone can offer you so don't have to worry about it outside interference um coverage issues anything like that um at the end of the day way we built our business is focus on long-term Partnerships um again it's the same people that you we've had multiple meetings with staff going back several years now um we designed the network our crews be the one selling we're also the ones supporting it for the next 20 years um so we're here for the long term so we happy to I know that was a lot of information in a very short amount of time be happy to answer any questions um you guys might have you have 45 people employ employ so you're using cons contractors to install is that correct okay just we use the same sub project now that's just aetric employees when we do the actual labor we sub that out we use the same subs for all of our projects they only work on our system is there a capacity limit on how many meters we have on this system each base station will hold up to I think

it's 30,000 more yeah 45000 yeah so unless you guys are going to expand Way Beyond what you have now I think we'll be okay as he mentioned you know for worth is their lar Curr deploy 300,000 City of Houston currently being deployed with the next Years be over 500,000 is this just for water it's for electric also okay so cus also makes the electric meters so we manufacture the water meters the electric meters the network as you said we've actually I forget we we had been meeting for a couple of years we've been trying to get this going um in our last meeting we kind of talked about deployment so the electric meters are a lot harder to get nowadays than what the water meters are so we would look to deploy those water meters first and then come back in we get the electric we go back in with those but just the water meter alone to go and read those I don't know if you've ever seen our met readers out there digging water out and deal with all kind of stuff that yeah everything I mean it'll be very beneficial I think another thing that we look at here before we talk is you know more about the money and how we want to pay for it the majority of our water meters correct me if I'm wrong are probably about 25 years old so they start to lose accuracy pretty quick after 10 years yeah the ewwe warranty on it is once it passes 750,000 gallons it's considered repair meter status so we can be reading it 90% and still be considered accurate so I get what I'm saying we would see additional revenue from having all all of our water accounted for and that also helps us when we're talking about water loss I think at the same time some of the charts that he show um as far as seeing continuous water use is going to be very beneficial to justest group

because right now we I don't know how many calls a day we run on to show water leak and it's on the customer side so this will help us see those and reduce our truck rolls well in I know you said you just said electric meters are hard to come by would it be something that we could look into as far as putting electric meters as we build new homes and subdivisions to start off with since it would be done at that time not having to go back expl yeah the biggest issue with electric meters is we can't stop them each each electric meter is made individually for each utility so on the front end we have to go through what we call the first article process so they'll get a sample meter s meter we'll make sure that it all the tags are exactly how you want it to read the way you want it um all the parameters are set specifically for the city of col um that process takes a few weeks um probably six to eight weeks um to go through we get that sent back to census then they approve the order and then from there we go into the manufacturer process and as you guys know for anything electronic specifically electric meters if you anything electric related right now is is out there it just takes a long time to get so and in Ideal World yes the way we sit today no probably not the way it's going to happen Okay on the water how does [Music] the the it's a lithium battery that's built into the register so the battery actually Powers the meter itself the meter is electromagnetic um static meter there's no moving parts to wear down over time so we generate a magnetic field through the flow tube um and then we also power the battery of the reg basically supposed to recharge it doesn't recharge itself but it's only on for essentially micros seconds at a time that's how they get the 20-year life expectancy because we're really only

sending when radio is suddenly sending a microc transmission every 4 hours um so it's a very minuscal power draw from that um the meter itself is doing a little bit more work than that but they still try to keep it um low power so we're it typically takes us about three months to get the network stood up to install the antennas and base station that your elevated storage tanks and also integrate with incode which your current CIS your filling system vendor um so we need to get that down first make sure all the plumbing all the data is going where we need it to be um from we would also we would order meters on water meters on the front end actually all meters on front the water would come in first um and then from there for roughly 2 met we're projecting was it four months that wow from the time the network stood up after that so electrometer is a little bit different because it's vary on when we can get them um the water Network should be very quickly so there were a few meters you had go back to that chart the warranty chart no that was the warranty the one so there were it was 98 something that's for the read percentage Yeah that's for the network so what about the other 2% or whatever not read so the way they do the way they figure that percentage is there's always going to be a certain amount of your meters that aren't going to read every four hours it's typically a half percent to 1% and it could be anything from like I mentioned earlier somebody has a truck parked over the meter box live or we just miss a transmission the way the system's designed is the next time we connect to

that radio it's going to backfill the data that we miss um so the radio sends the readings from the current hour and the three previous hours as well as two to seven days worth of backfield data so that whenever we reconnect we don't miss anything um if we miss a transmission um one and a half% variance on the network is to cover for those that just may not have come in during that 4 per doesn't mean we're not going to get a reading from it's just been in that one transmission we this go back to that the city that one yes so what is the okay so I know most of our but there's a little part down like at the park that doesn't right there is that and there's some metors in that is that cover C the difference in so the dark green area is what we call Ally there's a meter that census has called Al has a remote disconnect value um we don't have it proposed as of right now as the primary meter for this project but we do have one that does remote disconnect the remote disconnect meter for residential services requires more RF coverage because we worst case scenario is we turn the valve off and then we can't connect back to it turn the valve back on right so we need more RF to operate that valve so even if we're not going to use that we run the propagation study as if we were going to use that meter because we know that's most that's the strongest RF coverage we have so everywhere in the dark green area on that map is the most the highest level of RF coverage we need that's Ally coverage the light green is two-way coverage so we're still reading and connecting the meter we can speak down to the individual register we have no issue with coverage it's just not Ali rated coverage okay everywhere out to the blue areas we're still getting

coverage this is not a shut off at all can can the city shut off water through this meter we have a meter that can it's not the primary meter that we put in most most cities are not going all out with that meter what they're doing is most cities have a handful of accounts where they Happ to go out every single month whether it's I college station so it's students moving in and out or it's people that's for whatever reason it's the same people on the cut off list every single month those are the ones where they're getting Ally me because it's just saving truck rolls every time they have to go back and forth the majority of the residents and most of my customers are not it's a it's kind of a specialty application it's not across theboard solution we've already applied for a grant with this right close 300,000 I haven't heard back electric met are those be shut I believe we did all disc so normally if we do a cut off for non payment we're cutting the electricity because there just water every time so we've got everything right in here we can do that remotely on the electric side you mentioned earlier that it takes you know to get one meter and to put it in actual working in on electric I'm talking about and you said it would take two to three weeks or something like that would it not be advantageous for us to get all that something not I'm not saying start off with but I'm just saying for us to have that all that information you have that information when we decide to go we can certainly start that process off that from the sensus standpoint is and so without having a PO from that's what kicks off the first article process we can definitely start that when we do a combo project like we

did in L range that's the first step the very first thing we do is start the process because we know how much time it takes to get okay I mean we're doing that with our waste water and everything else and Camden's been given authority to start all that stuff because it takes time and we'll have it in place when needed so I was just curious if that wouldn't be something that we could look at because you said the tags and everything else so it's definitely something we can thing about Electro meters is you can't return them right we can't resell them anywhere El every meter is made specific for that utility that's so that's why we go through that process we definitely different companies we have blue b yeah yeah so yeah I [Music] understand I would be don't I'm water guy so don't commercial don't this price on this bid is for both water and elri yeah so we'll start with the price so 1786 is what we've looked at on this um

like you mentioned we have appli the $300,000 from Post Oak Savannah I'm not sure when we here on that um also I think in the next packet here we' we've done a little bit of preliminary work with government Capital as a financing structure for this so there's a couple of different options on there you know we we did 1.8 million so if the councilor decides that youall want to move forward with this you know I do expect some fluctuation in in the bid as we go through and we really look at each meter that we're going to need and you know maybe we decided not to exceed 1.8 million so that's the reason that we use this number um but we looked at 7 years 10 years and 15 years out I don't know that I've want to go anywhere past 10 um on this project but I mean you can see the annual payment amounts those respective terms if we get that Grant you know we're down to 1.5 and then we could also utilize some cash on hand if we wanted to do that as well I'm open to however but one of the things that we we look at as we move forward with this project is your I hate to say increased revenues but more accurate revenues right we're not increasing rates but we're we're getting an accurate picture of what's actually flowing through that meter and then you know we'll save on the employee side too as far as truck rolls and truck maintenance and just about everything so I think the the goal here would be to be able to make up a lot of this money as we go so most of these these terms would start your first payment wouldn't start until a year from whenever we take the loan out so hopefully we can generate the additional Revenue we're really not out a whole lot of

cash it's a win win for the residents and the city this one of few projects City can do that'll actually pay for itself now why is there a delivery date of 2025 on this when we completely finish it I think we just had to put a data there for the hgac pures and then on the financing is there any uh pre early payment penalties there's not and I asked if we just haven't gotten back just uh some different figures on that we were to finance you know 1.5 or 13 or just a million right what are those figures look like and we haven't gotten those back yet so I don't know how the Comfort level that y'all are feeling with this right now if we pick this up at another meeting it's as far as the financing part I mean I think the project itself is going to be really good month for the labor side have that many meters so all the thing that gets usit longer if if they were all spread out all over you know like four 4 square miles you know you guys are pretty much barly come back I can't wait to see the crw start electric be able yes

yes so for new construction do y'all come out and do that or do we do it as a city once once the project is complete we will handle the new meter install from there if we have four or five of them or something like that you know just a sub I believe we discussed let's say we have a mass subdivision and you know it's something that we could contract with them for if we were going to put in 100 200 meters at a time but just the two or three here there I think we can hand there'll be training for our staff as far as that goes as far as the installation and the setup of the the additional meters it make it sound pretty easy but it's yeah what you get used to it is pretty easy Ian it's just matter the meter s like any other normal beer um then we connect to the radio with a handheld unit and then that's how it connects to the Bas station so it takes a couple minutes U for the radio to connect each meter installation should take about 15 to 20 minutes on the water sign so are we going to do this now or we it's up to you all I would like to see some different Finance looks on it I'd like to see if we you know what we can manage a payment at if we you know add a little cash here we get this grant really where that needs to be I'm not sure if y'all want to act on it what kind of motion you can make to give me that flexibility or if we I'd rather if we approve it tonight when's the first payment because it's going to take some time for yall to do I mean do we is it all 1.7 million do it FR or is it no it's kind of two separate things because the financing isn't through us no no but what I'm saying is y bill is 1.8 million but it's going to take out two to three

months to get things going so I mean do we pay all 1.8 doe tomorrow or no no we would on initial we would order the two base stations um all the metering products we get that on order um in the first year of Annual fees we don't fill any of the labor for the installation till it's done um we don't actually invoice anything until the product is delivered um so there's no Ian we take an order but nothing that's invoiced until product is actually on site here how long's that what what I'm asking is do we have time to talk we approve this tonight so you we can go forward where we have time to talk about financing yeah there would there would be any kind of um billing or anything B metric for several months is this two separate bills no I see it is one one okay that's I don't know if we can separate kind ofer of you I mean if you're approving the projects oh we're going appr yeah well have to come with the money but we have money in the bank too we don't get financing they approve the project proposal isric sales company and not for the not for the finance financing so if a motion was made to approve what is EV ad details a later and that's your call bring back no no I me I meant your call on which way if we can divide it and that way you leaves you the what you're supposed to do anyway bring it back to us so because I'm for the project

I everything you said and I think it's something that will definitely you know be beneficial as far as moving the city forward and I'm for project not worri about finding the we'll find the I mean we can push the I it's it's the you put into 10 years instead of five right exactly right so I just want to analyze the financing put us in the best spot to well we can yeah I could do I think we need to improve did you have any more questions I would like to approve aqu cont have a second second in favor of approving the advanced metering infrastructure proposal from aquam metric sales company for water metering system at this time watering electric uh raise your right hand none opposed motion passes thank you thank thank you so piggy backing on that Financial advisory agreement between the SE call and cross bank for Professional Services for upcoming CIP uh so is that just authorizing you to see so there's the financial advisory agreement between the city and cross Bank just so they can advise us this is more of a compliance type document this is non-binding if we decide we get down the road and we don't like the way that they're handling it then you know we move on and do something with somebody else payment for their services is not until we were

actually go forward and complete a bond package and it's actually funded that's my the services would be so you we' talked about this several times so this is kind of one of the steps in the road excuse me to get us a little bit further down in the large Capital Improvement projects that we need to do I need to got on my calendar tomorrow we got to revive Wastewater master plan that was delivered to us last week je and I'll review it tomorrow and then I really want to come back and put a solid package in front of council and we start moving down that road so this is just so we can start having some more open conversations legal conversations with uh Frost Bank is our financial advisor this [Music] thing so we're not in other I'm not ready to roll out a big package yet I think we we'll figure it out over the next few weeks to months and start put this together I move we enter into Financial advisory all in favor of entering into a financial advisory agreement between city of cwell and Frost Bank for Professional Services for upcoming capital Improvement projects raise your right hand then oppos motion passes next department and Community reports if there's any discussion to be had or questions concerning these reports

on the code enforcement report there were lots of them are citizens reporting those or are our city employees seeing it and then recording it I think the majority of it city employees city employees seeing it okay so great it was a lot VII has her eyes open all over okay it it was a lot this time like overgrown grass and so well that time here too [Music] any questions comments about the department and Community reports if not we will move on to administrative and elected officials reports all right um I did want to put this in front of y'all um I've met with atmas last week uh mrri may have to help me out with the terminology here but they are increasing gas capacity coming in here they're upgrading I think to an 8 in line that's going to push towards the industrial part so they're going to need an easement and access to a what do they call it it's a basically a station that takes the

stas come above the station at where V in and tap off the main and get that pressure there rather than get it from so they'll have that line and so this station basically takes it from about 90 PBS of pressure down to 30ish is that right so this this is definitely a much needed project for cwell this will help give us capacity at the industrial park and then on the west side of town so I would expect in the next month or so to bring that back we asked them to stake out that area because I want to make sure that we were far enough away from um our power lines over there and then Jeff and I need to look to see where it is in in relation to our water line we got but uh definitely excited to hear about that project it's it's good stuff last week uh on the airport project we attended a project implementation meeting uh drove over to Austin sat down with techto kind of walk through everything that seems to be a very simple process Tech Stock's going to handle the majority of it for us and I'm I'm really excited about that um we'll have to come up with basically it's a RFQ process in order to find a consultant that we want to use to do engineering work so I think that group's going to include Gordon Richardson he's he knows a lot about the airport Thomas trink myself and we'll we'll uh tex. will actually push out for all the engineering consultant requirements they'll get the rfqs back and then they'll pass them along to us to take a look at as long as they meet the Tex out requirements on the truest building are soon to be City Hall my understand we're waiting on some materials waiting on some doors for that to

resume um hopefully that's pretty quickly OT project still moving forward we're working with some of the parties that have intervened and kind of seeing if we can work through some issues up front instead of going to a hearing and then I wanted to talk to y'all see what your thoughts are on having a workshop coming up pretty soon I would like to kind of get some Council goals for the next budget year because I'm going to start working on budget really soon and that way we we kind of all on the same page I can make sure I capture exactly what y'all are looking for for for the next years we can continue to discuss the CIP Pro projects and anything else that we may need to have I don't know next week is good what what time that's up y bu back so Thursday tues Wednesday the 24 or we can p it to the last week I don't have a calendar the 30th the 30th if that works better give us a little bit of a break a short time yeah stick with 5:30 or up to the

C April 30th 5:00 yeah start that project also much right after change say put up inst program no I'm excited and I think they want to start that project really quickly too long overdue that's all I have all I have is uh early voting starts on Monday and we'll go through the 30 has the Harvey mitigation on for the echo Street has that I mean C Street has that been we out we have not gone to bid yet on back out okay status is the new City website it's live and working great I just res okay

great just and just say real quick on that why you I don't not take that but no after I heard that Donnie Cooks our guy liance Club I told him the next day he went in and put all the meetings in there I mean it was that easy so it's really whatever it is it's good and uh last meeting you said building code amendments you have yes I meet with them two Fridays ago and they they are working on Gathering all of the building code amendments that we've been sending them throughout the past few months and they are hoping that they will get started on a draft ordinance in the next month or twoing that okay sometime c Watch driving project all right because what about the vandalism that caught of juveniles in the park but we but at least we did catch him but now then did you ever find the bench that was yes we did it was in the back in the well at least we recovered it did you happen to find a disc off cage in the back okay and the restroom doors have been fixed so they can't crawl under

anymore once they if they are locked okay U that I think I uh contacted chap I don't know time but just to look into squatter Ms for our community trying to be proactive I had a the gentleman who bought my house there they're from Austin moved from Austin to here he does a lot of work in Austin he's saying it's it's happening there so just trying to be proactive if there's something we can put in force as far as an ordinance or something to give police the right to remove immediately I did you find out anything yet okay fine that's fine everything good I noticed in the permit report it was someone's living in a box on a piece of property did you see that that they're living in a box on a piece of prop I'm sorry code Code Enforcement okay at the very bottom of the first page you see a complaint of a female living in a box on the vacant property next to this residence on Walnut Street it's not it's

not okay so probably no electricity just a portable building they're just um the only thing I have is citizen report where are we on that still [Music] like something like very simple um also Main Street sort of organized a second Saturday thing on this first one held this Saturday uh lots of positive feedback they really appreciated the covered Pavilion so um hoping we can expand on that and get more people to come downtown on Saturday so that's all I got Rush Truck Rush truck is still on order hopefully next couple months we did get our sweeper in and out about same thing with the FR L garbage truck we're looking hope the next few months uh downtown side some areas need to cut out and

replace armr far no we can put something together I think at one point whenever we get that brush truck we're certainly going to do that to where that way you know when that they'll be in the area you know get your frush day is Tuesday then you know have your stuff out on Tuesday on streets like there's been down two streets the last couple of days that have rock me I didn't know got projects going on we don't we don't have any large reconstruction a lot of the the failures that we're seeing is been a result of weather and all kinds of different factors but we are digging those out and going back and putting bait and then coming back with Co mix on top of that you see something that we don't see feel free to send me a list the only one I've been going down recently 21 heading towards par Le fields and keep forgetting about that right past that stop sign yeah there's there's I don't know what it is it could be manhole I really don't know but it it'll hit you hard the last thing I was going to ask is about you know we had here on Buck

Street um is that something that we want to discuss coming up because what I've heard people it's it's an everyday oral people seeing how fast they get W last week one they off building that tree right beside it they t- it did like a 9 from well most of the time it's they come over the tracks and when they get over the tracks from that direction this way well no this one was going the other way but what I'm saying is generally they come up over the [Music] tracks in the morning Woodson has truck traffic so it's not happening then it's it's going to be around lunchtime it's not going to happen in the morning you TR is it kids

or but they missed the telephone they right okay anything else we have a motion to you know what I could ask got second okay all faving this meeting ra your right hand motion passes meeting have you e

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