City Council - Regular Meeting

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You can leave it on. It's fine. As long as the green lights on. Here we go. Seeing we have a quorum, I will call to order the city Okima City Council and KMA public facilities corporation regular um council meeting at on April 15, 2026 at 4 p.m. The first thing on the agenda are our pledges. I aliance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for it stands nationy and justice for all the Texas flagis.

Next on the agenda is a moment of silence. Okay. And um next would be the invitation to address council and West Typton is first on the list.

Thank you. Good afternoon uh city council. Uh thank you all for the work you do. I know you do a lot of work that goes under appreciated and everything. Can everybody hear me? All right. Okay. I have some slides here. Uh this first one showing the the formally planned dog park. If you'll scroll down a little bit where it's or up I mean I'm sorry. Uh up more up more. See where it says KMA dog park there. That's on that strip of land behind the uh the post office and and everybody's aware I think the post office and Dairy Queen. The city is I feel purposely leaving that land landlocked. No one's acknowledging that there's a public road between the bank and the patron building. And that's kind of leaving uh my friend Mr. Dunn here, landlock 2. He's authorized me to speak on y'all's behalf today. I mean, on his behalf today, too. So, I'm hoping I can have his three minutes. Uh if you'll scroll on down to the next picture, please. This shows the subject area. Go back up. That's the public open street between the Bank of Patron there. There's no tax account on it. If you click on it, uh, nothing comes up. You can see cars parked in the public rideway for the bank. The public rideway extends all the way down to the backyard of the home on Fay, making that home a very valuable property with 146 access from their backyard. Stands to be sacrificed, though, if we don't stop what the city's got planned with Kim Hardware. That neighbor deserves to know what the city's doing to their access to their backyard. But none of the neighbors, us or the neighbors on Fay were given any say. Before we knew it, all this land that attaches to our properties, not KMA Hardware's property, is leased out to KMA Hardware. If y'all can do this to us, y'all can take those waterfronts

away from people in executive session that the streets dead end on and those people are going to wake up one day and they're trespassing that they go on the dead end street that's always been open. I've been told I'm trespassing if I go on the old dog park parking uh park area. I don't appreciate that. Anyways, I'm getting a little worked up. If you'll scroll down again, please. So, go ahead and go on down to the survey. Uh, that wasn't the final survey, so this isn't a signed survey, but I was able to take a picture of this from somebody surveying on either KMA Hardware's behalf or the city's behalf. Over there on the left, it shows on this survey that that road between the bank and patron is not open. Me and Mr. dong. And I think the general population would argue that road is clearly open. Any surveyor that would say that road is not open. I question their ethics. The street over there by the post office, that's a closed street. I'd like Mr. Dong's three minutes, please. That's okay.

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Okay. Thank you. That street is shown as a closed street. I've asked the surveyor that I've seen out there, hey, properly do your survey and notate these as open in use. Possible prescriptive easements, whatever you can see they are, notate it because what the city's doing is leaving itself landlocked on purpose, I fear, so y'all can claim an easement across our property and try to take it. And a city councilman told me a long time ago, "All your property is good for is access to our property." And and I said, 'Well, I'd like to buy y'all's property. Oh, no. We We want to lease your property and our property to some people in Vegas. I'm not interested in that. Well, we have serious concerns. Our property's drain under this property. It goes down to a huge ditch by the post office. All our drainage was taken away from Tex Dot. And I begged the city to get involved and I didn't get any help. I had to fight tooth and nail to get that little pipe put under the sidewalk on our property and my driveway back in. They robbed him of his driveway, leaving him landlocked. They were going to leave me landlocked, too. And we question, is this some grander plan of the city to try to Who knows? Why is the city refusing to name a street that they own? On older deeds, it's called a nameless street. It's not called unopen right away. It's not called closed. Does the city I've asked the city in emails, y'all have anything saying it was ever officially closed? I'm ignored. Told this is a legal matter. You know, I'm here to let y'all know I'm aware and I feel like there's some conniving going on to try to take our property and I don't appreciate it. open the streets

and officially recognize them as open. It's enough's enough. And me and Mr. Dong were really upset. We weren't given an opportunity to lease land that connects to our property before somebody else would be given that opportunity in close session. We still don't even know what it leased for. We were never given the opportunity to bid on it or to argue and prove that, hey, city, y'all don't have any business leasing that out. We're claiming a prescriptive easement for access over that. Well, we realize we're at your mercy. Y'all don't owe us anything back there. You owe us the roads open that have been open. And if we're lucky and we're and and we get a little bit of parking back there and a little bit of access and y'all still do what you want, great. We think it should stay an open green space park, especially after it was planned for that. Uh, and if there's any way to stop the dilly all done with KMA Hardware and backtrack it, please do. Thank you.

Shalia, do you want to speak? Okay,

thank you again for letting me speak. I got tied up. I just want to let you know that Lemonade Day in Galsson County will be on the same day as election day, March 2nd. And I'm inviting all residents to participate, especially their children. I've uh signed up with the uh organization that's promoting Lemonade Day, and it's a com a combination of Galveston uh mainland and Galveston Island and Mainland. It's an opportunity for youth to find out a little bit about entrepreneurship. There's all kinds of goodies for them and it culminates actually in a celebration at Slitterbond. So all the uh kids that sign up will be uh invited to the celebration at Slitterbond. So, uh I will make myself available uh online as well as I will be going to all of the uh city parks to promote it and I will uh sign them up and if they'd like I will in fact I will I'll bring their t-shirts their uh entrepreneur pack to their home. So, if you don't mind, I'd like to just put my poster in the camera. I support youth entrepreneurs. And if you think about your own experience, I'm sure at some point in time you had a lemonade stand or either your neighbor or some other relative that age had a lemonade stand. It's how we teach our youth

business. So, I'd like to promote that. And again, I'm be will be available at all of the city parks to promote it as well as sign PE kids up. And just so everyone is aware, I will not be in any uh HOA area. So, the city park is a city park and I will sign them up and there's no cost to the youth to uh participate. So, thank you for your time.

Next on the agenda are proclamations, presentations, and awards. And we have a proclamation for public works tonight. Okay. Recognizing the city of Puma public works department as RO ready. Uh whereas the ROA ready program promotes roadway safety through structured training, increase awareness and proactive risk management practices designed to reduce hazards for employees and the public. And whereas working on or near roadways presents inherent hazards requiring ongoing education and preparedness to reduce risks of employees and the public. And whereas the city of PEO public works department achieved all five RO ready digital badges through a commitment to advanced training, continuous improvement, and the implementation of enhanced safety procedures. And whereas staff have actively participated in targeted training and applied best practices to strengthen daily operations, demonstrating a proactive approach to identify and reducing roadway hazards. And whereas this achievement reflects the department's dedication to professionalism, professional development, uh operational excellence, and the maintenance of a safe and healthy

workplace. Now therefore, Robin Collins, mayor of the city of Puma, Texas, do hereby proclaim recognition of the city of Puma public works department for achieving all five ROA ready digital badges and commend their continued commitment to saving training and continued improvement. I tell you what. Thank you, mayor. Thank you, Councilman.

Thank you for having us here. My name is Manuel Tjo. I'm the senior safety and loss control consultant for the Texas Municipal League Intergovernment Rispool. We're based out of Austin. We've been working with this group for the past over the past two years. Um, excellent group. We're thrilled to extend our heartfelt congratulations to the city of KMA for successfully completing all five badges of the road ready program. This noteworthy achievement is a testament to the collaboration, efforts, and dedication of your team. Working on our near roadways creates a potential for catastrophic encounters with other vehicles where the extent of damage or injury is not necessarily related to fault. The road ready initiative was specifically designed to ensure all staff are aware of these potential hazard and exposures. We suffer more struck by events from vehicles on the roadway and what we're coming to find throughout the members our member base over 2,800 members that are associated with the risk pool. U we suffer at least one fat one roadway fatality a year. So we appreciate the city of Kuma taking this on and taking the pledge. The city of Kuma public works and parks department has exemplified a proactive approach successfully completing major activities associated with the road ready process. I've given a certificate um on from us to you all uh to to hang. He's got one at the office as well. So hopefully um it's on full display. Um we have roughly around 300 local government entities um participating in this process. I'm happy to to say that KMA is in the top 20. Um, and that yeah, so it's growing. We started this about five years ago and we're we're we're super excited that everyone's on board with this for life safety. Um, we just look forward to continue partnership and we thank you for having us and enjoy the rest of your day.

Thank you, too. Appreciate it. Yes, sir. If I may. Yes. I I I just want to um say on behalf of the public works department, I want to thank Manny and Miss Lyanna because she's always, you know, bringing the safety aspect to us and any training that she comes across, she's always sending it to us. So, I just want to put that on the record, you know, that she is quite uh good at um helping us with that. Thank you. Congratulations to all of you. Thank you, sir. Next on the agenda is the presentation and overview of text mygov communication platform. I believe this was put on here though by Patty and she is not with us tonight. Do we have a presenter?

Oh, you do? Okay. Oh, okay. We was sold uh to tech. by is now taking over the platform and the service and we're very excited to partner with them to continue this service. Okay, Miss D.

Thank you everyone for the opportunity to present today. My name is Danny and I'm here in representation of Text My Gov. Text mygov is a service that allows residents a quick and easy way to report issues and find information like council meetings, building permit, office hours, and more. It's also going to be a great way for your visitors to find information on places where they can dine, local attractions, um, hotel stays, things along those lines. Um, it also offers 247 access to that information. So, it's intended to help reduce phone calls to staff members and give those residents and visitors a way to find information even when the office is not open. Um, we have worked with Patty to create flyers that will be geared towards residents and towards visitors that will help promote the service. You can see we've got a flyer here for the city of Kuma. This one is geared towards the residents. There is a 10-digit number there that residents can text in to find information. And just below that, you can see some of the keywords that residents can text to get information. We've also provided visitor flyers that are geared more towards finding visitor information like local events, attractions, markets, information on the boardwalk. We're also using a widget on the website to promote the service. It is on the local website as well as the discover ka website. Residents and visitors alike can use that widget to find information and begin texting the service from the website as well.

Um, mayor and council use of this service has yielded a very fast response. We had somebody yesterday uh very very early text about pothole. By the middle of the day, we were able to transfer that message over to our public works team was able to uh be on site to assess that pothole. Same has been done with stream lights being out questions about permitting. So, it's another way for us to be in contact and be able to connect with our business, allowing those that prefer to use text to actually use.

Any questions or comments? Right now, you are okay. Cool. Well, maybe I will sign up. Yes, we actually just had a request for an agenda. Uh, and the person who should receive a response would be linked to the agenda calendar. I think it was Isaac. I didn't want to say what it was, but it works though. Okay. But it does work. Yes, it does. And response.

Okay. Any questions, comments? Uh I I will say mayor and council we are still building this widget obviously with all the key words. Uh if anybody finds any links on them we're still doing you know soft roll out but if anybody finds any uh links or or problems with some of the links or has any recommendations or suggestions we're more than welcome to uh receive those so we can continue to um make this the best program positive for us. And should we report those to you?

Yes ma'am. Okay. Okay. Well, we'll move on on the agenda. Mayor's comments are next. We had a a meeting last week. I don't have a lot to say other than thank you all for coming out tonight. We did have a KCDC meeting last night and had a new member sworn in, Megan Saledo. So, we welcome her to KCDC. And we also have a new employee, Devin De Pascal. I said it right. And we're not sure what all Devon's going to do exactly, but Patty is no longer with us and he's going to take over some of those duties and also assist Caesar with some economic development duties. That's about all I have. Um, Councilman Sonia, would you like to have a comment?

Uh, welcome Devin. Glad you're here, man. I know actually working around Deon quite a bit. He's got excellent additions that it Councilman Wallace. Uh the sidewalk is going in on um Oh, yeah. Evergreen and it's I want to thank everybody that had anything to do with that. Um of course it's not poured yet, but it'll it's going to make a big difference and I and I appreciate it. I know say had a lot to do with that. So, thank you. Uh, Councilman Minger, no comments for me. Councilman Oliver, nothing for me this week. And Councilman Bris,

um, I just want to congratulate Lieutenant Torres and Oscar with public works for 10 years of service with chemo. We did have a whole breakfast for him this week. And 10 years a I do appreciate it. I think I've been through four city managers and four city secretaries in five years. So, and then also I want to thank Nola and Jerry for all their work on the fee schedule. We're trying to have it back to y'all by July. We just had our second meeting today and proceeding forward with caution and we're going to try to make sure it's completely right before we bring it back. Hopefully, the first meeting in July is what our goal is so that we can implement before the budget. So, just so everybody knows, that's all.

Any other comments? One thing um I I should have maybe mentioned, we had a another business open uh this well a soft opening yesterday, Skinny Rita um down at um on Bradford and uh they have uh it's Mexican food, but they have a lot of gluten-free, you know, type things. So, you have to go and visit them and check it out. Uh Caesar, next is the city administrator's report. Can you hear me? Yes, I can. Okay.

None of the reports specifically the city administrator's report. We do have quite a few uh staff reports um that are listed. Um if anybody would like to pull any of those specific needs to discuss. I did want to highlight a few. Um the writership is up on your on our G Coast Transit District. We have a lot more folks now being seasoned um using that to to drive to and from uh work uh both to the boardwalk Walmart and to the other businesses. Uh our sales tax report sales tax is up and I'm sure that Ryan will cover that. Uh we also have our midyear report running compared a few short lines discussed about that if we allow a few moments to go over that part. Ryan, do you want to give us some bullets?

Yeah, I'll give you the little highlights. Uh for our midyear report, uh we've collected 59% of our uh revenue we we projected to receive this year. Our sales tax is up 2.7% over last year. Uh permits uh and licenses are up uh right now because of the Dakota and Home twos project. Um, our grant revenue is low at the moment, but we're about to do the reimbursement process for the Lonear and Body Armor grants. It's about $160,000. Um, total expenditures are at 47.5% of what we budgeted. Uh, some of the spotlights, we joined the Gulf Coast Transit program. Um, we added two uh PD admin vehicles, moving the chief's vehicle to the uh patrol units. Uh 13 portable radios for our officers, which came with grant fun came with grant funds. Body armor for our officers uh which was with grant funds. Uh our new mowing equipment for public works. Uh video magistrate for the court. Um communications. Uh we got the art of soccer ball that will be debuted for the uh FIFA um World Cup. It's World Cup. World Cup.

Yeah. and um we're advertising on the transit buses. So, some of them the highlights that we've done so far this year. Well, thank you. Anybody have any questions? And if any wants a deeper dive, just let me know and uh I I'll be happy to walk you'all through every line, anything on the budget. Okay. Um no questions or comments. We'll move on uh to the consent agenda 10A to approve the minutes of the 412026 city council regular meeting. So moved. Second. So we have a motion by Councilman Darren Bruce, a second by Councilman Lee Wallace. All those in favor.

Any opposed? Motion carries. 11A. Consideration and possible action to review and appoint position six of the Puma Community Development Corporation KCDC. I hate to report, but no one showed up to interview last night. So, we're going to put it back out to the general public and make another swing at it.

Okay. 11B, consideration and possible action to approve an amendment for resolution 2026-07 for new body worn cameras for the police department authorizing the city administrator to apply for and enter into a grant agreement with the Texas office of the governor for the fiscal year 2027 criminal justice grant program and listing the finance director for the city of Puma. Make a motion to approve resolution 2026-07. Second. We have a motion by Councilman Darren Broadis, a second by Councilman Doug Meinger. All those in favor?

Any opposed? Motion carries also unanimously. Um 11 C consideration and possible action to approve resolution 2026-18 a resolution of the city council of the city of Kuma, Texas designating application for grant application submission and signatory rights for contractual documents pertaining to the 2027 city of KMA SB224 catalytic converter grant program. Make a motion to approve resolution 2026-18. We have a motion by Councilman Darren Broadis. Do we have a second? We have a second by Councilman Lee Wallace. All those in favor?

Any opposed? Motion carries. Consideration and possible action to approve ordinance 2026-02, an ordinance amending chapter 6, amusements and entertainments by adding article 4 gaming sites and gaming machines, providing a severability clause, providing a penalty clause, providing a savings clause, providing providing for publication, and providing an effective date. This would be the second of two readings. I guess my question would be to Dustin and did we get this resolved in a fashion that was comfortable with the board? Uh yeah.

Make a motion to approve ordinance 2026-02. We have a motion by Councilman Darren Bruce. Do we have a second? I'll second. We have a second by Councilman Doug Micinger. All those in favor.

Any opposed? Motion carries. Um 11E consideration and possible action to approve ordinance 2026-03 an ordinance by the city of C by the city council of the city of Puma, Texas amending the code of ordinances title 15 entitled uh traffic and vehicles article I I li II entitled parking division two entitled minimum parking requires requirements section 98-78 and providing for publication and an effective date.

Make a motion to table. I put this on here but not like this. This is not how I wanted this done and I'm tired of my phone blowing up for it. So motion to table. Second. Would you like to table to another meeting or table once I'm gone? Okay. This is this is table like the end of life or is there a difference? Okay. We have a motion to table. Do we have a second? Second.

We have a second by Councilman Lee Wallace. All those in favor? Okay, that is table consider uh 11F consideration and possible action to approve ordinance 2026-04 an ordinance of the city of Kuma, Texas, amending chapter 50 of the city of Kuma's code of ordinances entitled health and sanitation to update and clarify various sections providing for codification and an effective date. And this would be the first of two readings.

Well, this one I did put on here and it does uh kind of what I still took one last swing at this. I still think we have an absurd food truck ordinance. Uh never seen anything like it in any other city. We essentially just shadowbanned them and made it almost impossible for anybody to have them except for one person. Uh and I just wanted to kind of go back to something a little more reasonable and where we were before. And that's all that is. This doesn't have any um edits in it then. Yeah, it's got residential property from 200 to 50. Oh, they usually mark

I mean I think section one needs to be approved I think Caesar because of the new state law because now you can carry a state permit. Yes. cities cannot require a permit anymore for food trucks. I think it's just a one catchall for the state. So, I mean, we're going to have to make some sort of modification because I think we currently by our feed schedule have a permit for food trucks. So, uh but that's not by state law that has changed. So, uh if I is in the room, she she worked directly with town on this side of parking. I'd like to

Yes. So this u the ordinance that you have it does put us in line with the state's new rules that will be coming out. That's what sections I think it was 13 57 89. I mean, I didn't see any problems with I just not going to go back to the lynching mob for 50 ft because I was here when that happened. And I appreciate you making one last swing at it, but I don't want to be part of that part of it again because I don't know what's going to happen.

Is there Is there a distance you'd be more comfortable with? It just because it just seemed like when we because several of us went through this process. It started off 50 then I think it went 75 then went 100 then it went 200 and then it went oh it went 200 property line to property line. All of it done to just the way this was done is well wait you could still fit one there we got to extend it to this. Oh you can still have one there. We got to extend it to this. And it basically extended out to where you just can't have one. And my argument was just bam. I mean to hide behind this is just kind of silly. He's ban if you don't want. It's silly. I I've never understood why this town would look down on good sales tax, but we did on this one. Um and look with the with what's going with what the state's about to unleash in I think there's going to be an influx of uh food trucks wanting to come to the market. I think if we kind of open the pathway a little early, we have the opportunity to get some of the more desirable. And so because I think everybody come July one is going to start looking to put these things in different places and we're such a standoffish and they're all around us. Everybody has them. I don't know why we are just saying no. We're too we're we're too good for that. And I say that as a dude that owns a restaurant. I mean I'm totally cool with having food trucks around. That doesn't bother me the least. Um I mean if there's a if there's a a distance that you're more comfortable from residence, I'm I'm fine. I also didn't like that ordinance when we passed it. I remember everything that happened going up to it. I thought it was a little ridiculous myself. But do we collect sales tax from

right? We don't have any collect one. There's one. There's one. They have to for me to pull it up on the sales tax report. They have to report uh over a certain dollar amount. And um I would have to know the food truck's name and the owner. Yeah. to see if they're even bringing in enough money to make

like vendors. We conceded because I mean they come in they go. So we're just putting in a fee and getting $5 for I think it's $5. Correct me if I'm wrong, Caesar, but I think we did some sort of fee where it's just built into their booth rental and then we get a check for how many vendors show up if we get the sales tax rate. But if we don't, we don't have to go chase it down because there's not enough money there for we don't have enough staff to manage it. $12.50 per occurrence.

Yeah, because I I would start there. Do we collect enough money to matter? Otherwise, why are we subjecting ourselves to bunch people in here? Mad or not collecting bills back one if we are great. Uh, two, I I don't have a problem with the 50p, but also don't think there should be a food truck, you know, at, you know, Raider and Kip, you know, I mean, yeah, maybe you should box it in just in a lounge issue or something. I don't know because I did read the the state law that's coming out and although we can't control the permit, you can control where they can happen. So, if you wanted to say, hey, we have a designated food truck area in town, I think that's a great, like I said, when this wind affects it. I think that's Tom's future goal of the linear park is to put power in and have it accessible to food trucks underneath the bridge which would be

that'd be a great thing away from far enough away from our residents that it'll actually match this. So I know we've had conversations with LJ to make sure that there was enough power and resources for us to accomplish that goal

and even like cookoffs. I think we're even looking at some other things because that's kind of the plan is to have cook offs down there and we actually talked to some cook off teams and actually I've actually gone to a event and just kind of talked to them about what would bring you somewhere. What what are you looking for? So it's more convenient for you and you're not having to drag it all with you. You have to drag 50 gallons of water. It's pain. So So there was we're getting some feedback on that as well trying to learn from other people's mistakes. So hopefully we'll have an area that would be conducive and those people would like to come to

Yeah. just make it easier because I remember on the last one we had it stipulated that even if they did find a place a corner that they could put it into it had to be removed from the property at 2 am and couldn't return until 5 a.m. It was just like come on this is making it just unnecessarily difficult for anybody to do this. Yeah. also like and I like where you're going with that Darren because I don't want to I also don't want somebody shoehorning a food truck somewhere like what happened before you know and it just I think there's some holes in this but I do like what you're saying I like having a food truck designated food park I think that's great

otherwise you're going to end up with a food truck you know right next to somebody's house and you didn't then they got to be mad about it just just really on this topic um the request have happened for if we're ever going to have cook off or anything else including water and power. And so far there have been some calls about having some type of festivals, food lessons and such. But the most recent calls for general standing food trucks have come along gas stations or different salers along 146 and one to be on K. uh when he goes closer to

Well, I'll come up with something after I'm gone, but please don't uh don't make it to where it applies to everybody in this town except one person the current one doesn't. And that's what's always that's what's always bothering me because the guy that owns the property next door to Bubble Jungle reached out to me before wanted to put a food truck in his he's kind of sandwiched between that yellow house and bubble jungle. Do you do the same thing? And I mean that'd be a great spot for honestly just kind of not buying but you can have it inside his own property. You can walk in there. You can I just I don't necessarily like the look of having a food truck all all the way down 46. So that's on plan like I think you got I think this will work. I agree with you. I think was ridiculous to begin with. So we're going to work on this.

Sounds like I got my plate full. I'm not working on this. You just told us you're working on it. You just tell us the whole story about how you're working on it. while working on linear park. Yes, that's 2032 make a budget for Dan brought us to work on it would be so easy for me to second that but I won't

we still got to work on this because we got to change some of our rules and regulations to meet state statute. So I would say table to the next meeting and let's at least get that part right and then we can look at the other part and maybe we can go do some tape measure. I don't know. I know, but I would just table the next one because there is some things we need to fix and like section one needs to be approved, section three needs to be approved uh just to get us in compliance with state law that's currently going on. So, so I wouldn't completely shy away from it, but two and four we really need to look at. I'll make a motion to table till next meeting. Do we have a second?

Second. So, we have a motion by Councilman Isaac Sonia and a second by Councilman Darren Bruce. All those in favor? Any opposed? Motion carries. Mayor, uh, I apologize because I'm not room. I can't have eye contact with folks. Uh, who who should we be working on? The last two items that have been normally we have a champion. Champions only one or two council members. Is there anybody that we would need to follow up because we have one meeting on the agenda before our next meeting? Um, no. I believe 11F would go to um legal for making sure we're in compliance with new state laws or have you already done that?

That's already done. Just se Yeah, sections two and four. What exactly? 250 250. The rest of it I think is already there. It's just a matter and there's one typo in here. I mean highlighted. Okay. So I wrote down section so section two and four what need working on. Is that correct?

He said he table until he was gone. So unless somebody brings it back up he's gone in my eyes. But f I mean I leave on Sunday so I can't jump. I took it out till death. There's no residence under the bridge. Not official residence.

Not the taxi. Street by the school. What do you need to have? What do you need to have to be a designated park? Do you have to have water? No, I don't. We're just trying to make it if we're going to make that part accessible on more weekends, we need to make sure it's easy because your big guys do have all this stuff, but if you want to attract more folks, you're going to have to cater to them a little bit so they have the services they need. TBD.

I mean, if we table if we change it to table 11F to the second meeting in May, I will definitely take ownership of it, but I just I can't for the next meeting because I won't be here. I will amend my mo my motion to the table to May second meeting in May. Second. All those in favor? I And we have one council member that stepped out, but that doesn't make any difference. Huh. I'll take it. Okay. What about 11? Were we tableing that into that meeting as well or is that indefinite? We're table brings it back up. Yeah. Yeah, that's indefinite.

Moving on. 11g consideration of fee waiver for the use of the Kuma Community Center by Walmart on Friday, June the 12th. Under normal circumstances, I would say leave the uh cleaning fee in there, but there's such a huge contributor to our I agree that I'll make a motion to agree to wave their fees. We have a motion by Councilman Isaac Salana and a second by Councilman Lee Wallace. All those in favor?

Any opposed? Motion carries. 11H. Consideration and possible action to address sidewalks in Puma Oaks that need repair. Well, I'll just say this. I when this first came up, I I hadn't I hadn't been to Kimokes in a while and I drove over there and I took probably 25 pictures on my phone of just absolute I mean real real problematic issues with the uh the sidewalks over there. I I do think that this is a thing that we need to do. This honestly is the reason I drove from Dallas to come to this meeting was to just vote on this. Uh, you know, people can say whatever, but but the motion I want to make on this and it's been brought to my attention that some of the problems may have been caused by WC12. And if that's the case, then they need to be responsible for any mess that they have made. But the motion that I would like to make on this is to instruct Caesar to go out for bid on repairing the sidewalks in Kuma Oaks and look into what was caused by the water district, what was not, what's their problem is theirs, which our problem is ours. And I think this should be put on the next budget cycle

for uh you guys to look at and make a project for uh for those to be repaired out of the next budget. I happen to agree with you, Doug. I Well, you and I did a ride over there and then I I rode by again. It was so bad I went and picked him up. Yeah. I didn't believe it. So, it's a it's an accident waiting to happen. I I might have already had something I I'm not aware of, but uh I I know for a fact that sidewalk can definitely trick you because that's happened to me. Not that I'm not clumsy or anything, but I agree with you, Doug.

Well, happy to hear that. I did a whole bunch of research on this and I can go into the boring details of what I found out. I read Kyle's letter. I I understand what he's saying. I also understand what the plat says and when I went out there physically measured. I also understand that it's a they're connected to public walkways and it's the only walking means to get to a public park. The only entrance to the public park. Yeah, that's all I needed to hear. needs to be and I agree with Doug. Whatever the water district needs to fix. Yep.

Whatever's left over, we just And I'm not saying maybe it's not one more than one budget cycle. Nobody said you go in there and spend you know 100 grand to fix it. If you have to break it up into into phases so that we can digest it and do that. Y

I think we should I'm going to I researched this till I'm blew in the face actually, but I mean this was declared in KCBC back in 2003 as a project on June 5th. The state law changed on House Bill 2912 on June 20th, two weeks afterwards, but the work actually wasn't done by KCDC until 2012 where Olsson Greg and Greg said that it was grandfathered in by KCDC because they'd already designated as a project, which this could not be a case project at this point. There's no economic benefit to this. So, I mean, I've dug all the way through this. Um, but 85% of the cities in the state of Texas, that right away belongs to the the homeowner. You can go back and research all of that. There are there are unique situations like League City that's doing and it sounds like a big number, $750,000 a year, but when you really dive into the numbers, their budget's $529 million. So, they're doing less than five miles a year fixing of 696 miles of sidewalks they have on the city currently. So they're doing less than 1%. So if you equate that back to our budget, you're talking less than $10,000 a year, which is not going to make a hit in this. And the only other thing I would suggest is for our staff's sake and staying out of the political mix is we grant the money to the HOA and let them decide which projects are the most important so our staff's not getting run over by people complaining, why did Joe's get done before heads or whatever the case might be. Get that. Let that stay in the neighborhood. I mean, not us having managed that because you know that's gonna happen. I mean,

well, only that just and I read this and this is just basically saying that I mean just once again the city didn't take something that was dedicated. That's a story I've heard a dozen times already heard it today. Um H8 is not H8 is not on it was never the the development it actually says in their uh it's not dedicated to the HOA. They dedicated they they listed uh open space. They listed I think the pond. They did not list the rightway. They did not they dedicated it was HOA. They're saying if it was HOA then there would be a sidewalk.

There's not an HOA at the park. There's not one at the detention. It's only on property lines. The intention was to the residents to take care of it because you take Lake City and then you got Galveston that's doing they supply the labor people supply the supplies. I mean, there's all kinds of things being tried and Galveston, I talked to him, there's a three-year weight on the 5050 type deal, I guess you want to call it that, labor and parts or, you know, concrete. So, I mean, I don't know that we take 100%. I mean, and I think we also maybe get Caesar look for grant funding because I know the Port's doing it under actually sidewalks in neighborhoods through grant funding. So, I mean, that is a possibility. I mean, we helped the HOA and we saw some HOAs at the GOL that were getting uh funding for projects. So, I mean, I think we look at all avenues. I'm not I'm not completely opposed to it. I just I think we're taking on a liability of I mean, there's my best guess are 71,280 square foot of concrete, 3.5 miles roughly inside that neighborhood. I mean, I'm guessing it to be somewhere between 900 to $1.2 million if you were to take it out and replace it. So I mean in essence you're going to be taking on a huge liability that has and two times it's had zero backup in it. I mean nothing justifying it. Are we talking about doing the all sidewalks or just the if you start doing that then you're taking that liability that you know it comes to that point where you have to do it then are we responsible% agree with you about the fact that back

um I will say that I've done this a lot in my career I would say every time I hear but I've done this a long time and I've been involved in these developments and I know how they go you know so I I am without a doubt that doesn't bother H. So giving H money it doesn't make sense but I like your idea of going I mean nobody said that we have to dig in our pockets today and pay for this. I can think a lot of reasons why we should and and if if if the motion is go to the budget cycle and find grant money and and do all that start going out I'm all for it. you know, uh, go out.

I think the motion ought to be for us put it out for bid and then come up with a plan at the end of once we get three bids on what this even looks like because I've seen two different maps of repairs where they need to be in conflict each other. So, I mean, yeah, we need a master map of what actually needs to be done. I mean, is it, you know, less than two inches? I mean, if your tree actually did the the concrete, is that our responsibility if your tree in their front yard actually messed up the sidewalk? I mean, that's just something that I can't answer that question I'm asking, I guess. But I mean, did WSAG 12 have something to do with it or did Frontier have something to do with it when they went in there and did their lines? I mean, there's a lot of variables here that we don't know. We just know it's messed up and I get that part coming through it as well. So,

it's kind of like when there's a storm, you know, and your neighbor's tree falls on your house. You're responsible to fix saying um I I I think Doug that the motion said give you put it out for bid and come up with a funding mechanism. I'm here with that. So, you want me to amend my motion? It was conf. Yes. Um, no. Going out. Go ahead.

Going out to bid prior to us having funding. I do say caution to that because then the bids will probably be voided by the time any any property is taken on. Understood. Understood. We have to have a ground zero what it cost. You don't even know what to put in. We need a master map of what what's actually needs to be repaired. I'm like, you got to have a starting point. We're probably not going to be able to get it all one year.

May I make a friendly suggestion that instead of doing that, we get estimated pricing of what it would cost to repair, not performing the bid, but just getting we're not going to go through getting three bid and put the whole RP package. Should we then instead put it on the cost estimate what it's going to cost to get a fixed then bring that back and then we can go out for competitive bid afterwards once we have some type of direction as to we're going to do 25% this year we're going to do the course whatever that decision is at that time. So how you going to come up with that number?

I like I like a road review. That's what we need first. maybe like what we're doing with the road view that we're supposed to be doing right now and do that of all the sidewalks so we can come up with a plan and figure out what that looks like and what's the avenues that we have. This is what the CRGB or whatever grant that the court's using uh walkability grant. So I mean there's I mean even Home Depot might participate in this and even all this stuff. I mean so there's a lot of different things we need to look at. So I mean and maybe they'll HLOA does try to get some grants from their side as we work on as well. So I mean it's not I don't think there's one side that

I still don't know how you get the get and that's not business. I still don't know how you get the actual what it's going to cost to be prepared without sending somebody else. That's what I'm saying. Pay somebody to go out do a master deal estimate you know the estimated cost and we add 10 15% to it because we're not for six months. just to cover ourselves if we're budgeting due diligence. I mean add something might go down hopefully. All right. So what does that look like? How does that doesn't just I don't have the energy for this. Make another one. So that one fails for lack of second. Complicate everything.

Somebody else may All right. Hold on. I'll make an attempt at this. There you go. Uh, I'll make a motion to obtain a map of repairs and budget for the sidewalks in Kima Oaks by a third party decided by Caesar. You want it by a certain date. I don't know what suggest get numbers by June or July. Yeah. June or July budget. So by the end of June by the for the end of June. Let me just We will have this back in time with the budget process. Okay. Do we have a second?

Did you want to include or not? I think moving along a second. Okay. We have a motion by Councilman Isaac Sana. We have a second by Councilman Doug. All those in favor? I. Any opposed? Motion carries. I thought it was at least we'll get it.

Okay. We do not have an item for executive session. I do not believe. Does anyone have any comments or questions? Seeing and hearing none, I will adjourn the meeting at 454. Just