City Council - Regular Meeting

Well, good afternoon, everyone. I'd like to thank you guys for participating in your meeting here today. At this time, I'm going to go ahead and recognize a quorum. We're going to continue back into open session here in the chambers. We're going to start with some ceremonial items, if you guys don't mind. We have Ms. Margie Gonzalez coming up as our invocator. Would you please stand for the prayer and the pledge?

All right, please be seated. Gentlemen, we are going to go downstairs. We have two proclamations to read. So if I could have Zach Wilson go ahead and come up. We're going to do Hunger Action Month first. And anybody that's with you, sir.

Anthony, can we bring the crew in? Alright. Whereas the health, safety, and well-being of Amarillo, Texas and its residents depend on the protection of the environment in which we live, work, and play, and safeguarding our air, water, food, and communities is essential to maintaining a healthy and thriving city. And whereas environmental health is an essential component of public health, grounded in scientific evidence and the application of proven practices to identify, assess, prevent, and reduce environmental risks that can adversely affect human health, and whereas science provides the fou

All right. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen, for letting us do that and greatly appreciate those boots on the ground out there that keep Amarillo moving and fed. So we are going to move into item number four. Well, sorry, number three. We will see if we have any announcements. No, sir. Mr. Freeman, no? Okay. Moving on to item number four, we've got some discussion items. So we want to go ahead and open up with Chris Quigley. If Mr. Quigley can come up here. Chris, are you? It's actually going to be Mr. Jim Hillwig with the Transit Department coming up. All right. Well, we're going to get into a

SO ONE BRIEF SECOND. WE GOT A LITTLE TECHNICAL DIFFICULTY AS WE GET THAT BACK UP.

Questions, counsel? all right well we appreciate what you guys are doing over there and uh look forward to seeing a few of those ideas come to fruition so just keep us updated and and i know a lot of that's all grant funded or is there anything that wouldn't be grant funded um you know some of it's 80 20 so there is some stuff that uh but we do have uh plans to have that matched in various ways hopefully not from the city but okay well um i know that Previously, we got classified larger community, so ridership has a lot to do with things. And then the way that the, I'd say the budget was conse

So on the key issues that you're talking about, the safety part, what objective data do we have that shows a single source provider is safer than multiple providers operating under the same standards?

Yes. Because that's what I'm seeing here is that the first responder safety says single source is strongest, and I'm just trying to get a gauge for how do we determine what data shows that it's the strongest.

So we have data that says, it shows that single providers get the job done faster?

So we don't have data that, do we have data that quantifies that? I mean, and could a rotation actually have the potential to get people to the scene quicker than a single source?

I mean, all resources are not in town, but it could have the potential to get there quicker in some cases. Maybe single source would be some.

Got it. And so you mentioned kind of accountability. Could we achieve the same accountability with several qualified companies?

Well, I would just think, I mean, and I'm not saying the potential, I mean, to me, competition is probably the biggest thing to hold people accountable. That is, if there's competition for the business and they're not doing it, then they don't get the business anymore. Whereas if it's one person, I mean, there is a level of accountability, but they're not really, in this sense, since they're competing for the contract, but once they get it, they get it.

You mean how much time? You mean because we're under a deadline?

SO HOW MUCH, I MEAN, ARE WE TALKING Ten more people, five more people, two more people?

And it has to be that complex? I mean, is there ways?

And have we been using tow book in our operations?

But they've been running it for us. We can just monitor it. But what you're saying is that we would have our own, and everyone would come through us. Correct. I mean, has that got the potential to, I mean, does Tobook have the potential to help in a lot of these efficiencies that you're talking about? A lot of it, yes. Because as I was just trying to do some research, it looks like it has police rotation, electronic dispatching. I mean, has TOBA kind of demonstrated how a managed rotation might work in our case?

And then how long would this exclusive agreement last?

And so when would the checkpoint be on whether that one is meeting our standards?

So and then so and then if they're not meeting the standards on a quarterly basis, then we go back through this process again.

But if we had multiple providers. and somebody's not meeting the performance, we just boot them out and we keep on towing.

I mean, I just don't understand why it's that complicated, but I'll take your word for it. What is it? So when we get a... large event, whether it's flooding or snow, which doesn't come up that often. I mean, when we got a demand that our primary can't work, you know, how do we handle that in essence of safety and transparency for the citizens?

And do we currently have standards in the contract? Limited, but yes. And have they been met? Yes.

So the current contractor has met all the standards that we have in there? Yes. Okay. I think that's all I've got. Thank you.

Max, in the contract that we're going to let or in previous contracts, is there a recovery mechanism for the FTE that we're going to have? Does the city receive funds from the awardee per tow?

Is that industry standard or is that low?

Council, I believe the request here today was direction on this as to how to move forward. Mr. Dunlap, I don't know that you have direction from Council. I think you have questions, right? So I think if we walked out of here today, you would just proceed with committee recommendation. Yes, sir. Is that right? Yes, sir. Okay. Council, do you care to redirect that or are you guys going to let this move forward on the committee recommendation?

I wouldn't mind seeing just a little bit more detail on exactly this administrative burden aspect. I mean, with technology and the way things can, you know, you can keep up with things, I would just think it would be easier than what we're talking about. But what I'm hearing you saying is we wouldn't be paying for it.

Okay. And then the other thing I would just say, and Council may not go into it, I just, to me, competition always beats a monopoly. And I would think the ability to have competition in this space would be the highest level of accountability, but especially with what you're talking about. So I mean, if the rest of council wants to go with a single source, then so be it. But I like the idea of competition. And I'm just wondering what we may be giving up here because of the competition.

Could I jump in real quick? Can we entertain a... a self-reporting subject to audit compliance. So like, you know, in the industry, they've got lots of oversight. I'm sure there's all sorts of fines that come from the state if they haven't done the things that they need to to make sure that their equipment's safe. And so I don't want to walk down a road of we're the regulatory agency. I think there are multiple that they have to stay in compliance with. So I'm curious if we couldn't allow for a self-reporting subject to audit compliance And then you take this full-time FTE to maybe just a few

And your recommendation or the committee's recommendation is to put this up for bid so you'd allow any qualified bidder to bid for the single source contract with the additional criteria? Correct. Okay. What did you have, Councilman?

I just wanted to have verification that Objective B, single source, was supported 100% by police and fire. Is that what I heard? Yes.

Okay, so... I don't really want to belabor it and have it back for another discussion. I think I'd like to get a little bit better direction unless we have something that we can get back that's going to give us an additional thought process, something we have to consider. So let's go to your technology request. I don't think anybody up here is not supportive of the additional technologies. To go to the other requests, really I think it comes back to, it's pretty central, do we want to support a single source or do we want to support a possible rotation or a hybrid? EVERYTHING COMES WITH PROS A

I THINK THAT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING THAT SHOULD GET WORKED OUT WHEN YOU PUT IT UP FOR CONTRACT. IF YOU PUT SOME STANDARDS IN THERE THAT THEY'RE UNCOMFORTABLE WITH, THEN I THINK YOU'RE GOING TO GET THAT BACK IN THE RFP OR RFQ, I GUESS, HOWEVER YOU GO OUT. But what I would say is let's not grow positional employment to kind of expand the role. Let's look at a self-reporting compliance, proof of compliance with an audibility and be able to go and audit those at any time. Would that help you?

Council, are y'all good with that, or do you guys want this to be something that's facilitated more rigidly on an hourly basis?

And I support it, too. Okay. Well, then I think we can wrap that up. So I... I appreciate the discussion and everything that you've shown some due diligence on. So I think you've got the direction you need on everything there. Awesome. Appreciate you, gentlemen. Appreciate you, sir. Thank you. All right. We're going to push through. Let's do one more, and then we may have to recess. So our distinguished Chief Hover is coming up here to give us an update.

What's the state linear footage? What's the setback per the state code? Is there one?

Right. Okay. So I thought we were, this proposal was to increase the distance. This proposal is to mirror and enact what is already, I guess, consequences at the state or without the local ordinance, it's not enforced.

Chief, I appreciate you, your time, and then the presentation. I think we're in full support. We'll ask you to get that ordinance going. What would you anticipate, a couple months down the road?

Okay. Well, if we have anyone here that's in support of that, then we want you to hear that your chief of police has initiated this and working it forward on your behalf. Can we fast track that on the agenda? I'll put it on the agenda as soon as it's ready. And if you guys wanted to fast track it, we would do it with a waiver of two readings. That way it would be enacted on the first reading. I would support that. Okay. Real good. Thank you, chief. Appreciate you.

Okay, that's our charter. Then we we can't waive the second reading on the ordinance only can waive that on the resolution. That's correct. Well, that's my error. So like, I appreciate you catching that. So it'll be fast tracked as fast as the charter allows it to go forward. So all right, well, let's go ahead and do one more since that was a quick presentation. Item 4.4. Miss Gonzales, would you mind coming up and we'll jump into some utility billing updates?

Mr. Jennifer, I think we might. So you want to go first, sir?

Councilman? I just had a question on the usage compared to last year in 2025. I'm looking for the graph that that was on. We'll pull it back up on the board.

I believe so. So the total water production that we produced, it was 1.798, I guess, billion gallons. And then we had, what, 2.24 is what we produced. And that water production is the clean water that we're putting into the system, right? So that was a 24.8% increase.

Now, were the new meters, did they give us... higher accuracy on how much water like if we put it just hypothetically if we put a thousand gallons into the system I've heard that we might have at one point been only charging seven four seven hundred gallons so seventy percent of the amount of water that was going into now with the new meters we are seeing we're capturing A thousand dollars.

And so could that be part of the concern that citizens are seeing on their bills that we are actually capturing? If we're putting 100 units in and we used to only capture 70 units, now we're putting 100 units in and we're capturing 98 units. Could that be some?

And how much do you think that is occurring? How much of those old meters were out there? And now that we have the new meters, how could that explain some of these discrepancies that have our citizens so concerned?

So when we first went over to utility billing back in April or May, whenever it was, We had people that were reporting what they felt was abnormal for that month. In other words, they would go back and look at the entire last year and sometimes it was double or triple that. I mean, did you see some of that as well? Because I was hearing from people at the time.

Right, right. And then I guess, Andrea, this is part of what... Our $85,000 audit is going to come back and tell us how this was happening.

And then here's what I'm hearing now. I'm hearing people with the same scenario and sometimes different people that are saying, you know, I haven't changed my water settings. You know, I have a sprinkler system. I know there was more water used, but they're seeing a double or sometimes higher in August where the last three months are the same. Are we seeing some of those again?

Yeah, well, and I can pass them along. I'm just wondering if you're seeing the same thing of this. I asked at one point, can we run a report, like when it first came out, of how many people saw record 12-month highs in April? I don't know if we ever were able to do that. But what people are saying, this is abnormal, even during the summer. And I've not changed my sprinkler system. I'm doing other things. And for some reason, I go from using 20,000, 25,000 to 60,000 gallons a month. And there's no explanation to it, I think is the frustrating part. Because at the end of the day, I don't know ho

Yeah, I'll look forward to that. Yes, sir.

Thank you, Miss Jennifer. I got a few questions for you, but just want to start by appreciate you continuing to kind of pull the team together, show up the due diligence through, I think what was a really, really turbulent rollout. And so looking back on it, thankful that you guys are still doing your best, but then also regretful that we've had to offer so many apologies, I think, to our customer base. and seeing the numerous amounts of issues that came up on this rollout and transition, the hardest thing is we can't really point to either the very bottom of it or the actual, like, this is wh

So do you know or would we think maybe people are calling 311 thinking that's going to get me to water billing. I need to dispute my bill. They're waiting on hold or they're getting a call back and it's not helpful because they really still need to get redirected. Is that what you're saying?

What's a good expectation? If I call 378-3000, it's going to get an automated response now, right? And then it's going to ask me what I want. It's going to ask me if I care to leave my number. It'll probably already know my number, right? But what's an expected callback time that you feel like is a good goal?

Okay, so 30 to 45 minutes. Correct. So if we modify the expectation for a minute with the ask of patients, you know, being able to call you back, I do like that feature. If I'm just sitting on hold, should I expect to wait 30 to 45 minutes as I'm on hold because those intake calls are responding to the caller that was already ahead in line?

Do we have the ability to set a feature on there? so that my expectations get set based on when I called. So if it said, hey, we're experiencing high call volumes and we are projecting 35, 40 minutes before we get to call you back, like I like that, that's helpful. And if I'm sitting on hold, I might decide I can really do something with my time better over the next 30, I'd rather get a call back. I think the complaints that I'm receiving probably are the ones that waited on hold that long. to find out they didn't have the right department. And I think that is being directed through 311. And I

I think if you guys could take on the task of good customer service as a pillar has a lot to do with managing expectations. And I think if you guys are not managing those expectations, then you're spending more time. You may even have more turnover because of unmet expectations being reciprocated to you and both the ladies and gentlemen over there that are taking now complaints, right, or whatnot. So let me transition just a little bit to is SCADA only on wastewater or is SCADA what we use on water production as well? It's both. Okay. So SCADA is pretty good technology, right? It has a lot of

Okay. To go to Councilman Prescott's concern, and I do think we should be able to give our customer a direct answer definitively, that we're not over-billing you. So if it is an accuracy, and I think if people can hear this, you had an old water meter and it had sat there for say 20 plus years and it's got a little windmill in it that as the water goes by, it turns it. And so if you just turn on the water hose and turn it right back off, maybe the windmill never got going enough to track that. And so you probably weren't getting built accurately. Now it's a digital meter. And so there's a diff

Before he gets here, that's very helpful, before he gets here, can we just look at how many gallons we use let's say we use five M. G. D. S. To water all the parks and golf courses on average and then you know are we billing in accordance with that so so I'd like to know it is there a reconciliation that goes and looks at the total amount produced for a month versus the total amount build and then the we need to be tracking the water usage of course but not build And then if those all net out to zero, I'm real comfortable. If they don't, then I'm curious, like, you know, if he could give us so

i do have one question would with those funds not go to help us with criminal too i mean i i get that we're we've got some significant not only with the wastewater treatment plan we have significant cost with the pipeline that's several correct that's built into the rate increase as far as annual contribution to criminal okay so we are i mean if we if we are again just going back to easy math if we have 100 gallons And historically, we've only been billing for 70 gallons. And we go up. Yes, that's going to produce more revenue. But we've all been living on a 30% discount that we didn't realize

potentially, but as a good customer relation, if I find that out and you're my customer, should I not walk you into that slowly? I think we should have. I mean, maybe I could have said, hey, we see this, so let me build this in over three years. That way you're not having to suffer that unknown. And so as it is more accurate, then I just want to consider what the rate is and make sure that we're not increasing a rate based on old data that then didn't account for the additional sales.

I'm just glad I had a 30% discount for all these years.

We're not sure that you did. I think I did. You probably did. OK. Well, I think that's good discussion. I don't know. I don't see other green lights. Ms. Jennifer, thank you. I know it's been a rough road, but we really appreciate you and your leadership over there and hope you can continue your hiring, get everybody in there, and that those call volumes get reduced.

Thank you. Let's take a 15-minute recess. We'll be back in here around 5.10 for public comment, and then we'll walk through the rest of a long agenda. We've got everybody back home here. Let's go ahead and call ourselves back into session. We are going to move into public comment. Ms. City Secretary, if I can hand this one over to you, we will hear from our constituents.

Thank you. That one, request for future agenda items, item 4.5. Thank you, Ms. City Secretary. I hear none. Okay, we'll move forward. We will now move into section five, public comment. Thank you, ma'am.

Go right ahead. We'll hold the clock just for this brief encounter.

Ma'am, if you wouldn't please leave. I'd love to direct you to our chief over here. There's no reason to wait on your answers. We can provide you with all the transparency, accuracy, and answers that you'd like right here today. So Chief Hover right over there. Thank you, ma'am. Mr. Fisher, good afternoon.

Okay. Thank you, Ms. City Secretary. Do I have anybody here who hasn't signed up that would like to offer a public comment? OKAY, WE'LL GO AHEAD AND CLOSE PUBLIC COMMENT. WE'LL MOVE INTO THE CONSENT AGENDA. BEFORE WE WALK INTO THAT, I WOULD LIKE TO GIVE AS MUCH INFORMATION AS I CAN AND ALLOW FOR COMMENT OR DISCUSSION FROM COUNCIL. SO WE DO HAVE ON THE AGENDA AN ITEM PLACED THAT WAS PLACED based on the fact that a resignation was offered. So a resignation doesn't have to be required. It can be by a member of the council, but then the other party involved can offer that. It was offered in the wa

Second. I have a motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor, please say aye.

I just want to state for the record that with the approval of today's 6.42 agenda item, the city will have spent more than $1.2 million on separation calls for two city managers in three years. $891,731 for Jared Miller, $342,265 for Grayson Path. I vote no.

Okay, so motion passes with a four to one vote. Mr. Simpson, I know you remain quiet there when I asked if anybody had anything they'd like to comment. So I'll ask now, do you have any further comments? I've made my comment. Got it all out there. Okay, then we'll move forward. Item 7.1. I see him back there. Mr. Kendrick. How are you doing today, sir? I'm doing good.

That is correct. 7.1, I'm going to abstain on. Item 7.2, I'm going to abstain on. So I've signed an affidavit on 7.1. Can I get the affidavit to declare the conflict of interest? And so everybody hears it. I am the developer on 7.1, and I am a contractor that is bidding on the project for item 7.2. So I will not be in the room, but ask you guys come get me. Mayor Pro Tem, it's over to you. Thank you, Mayor.

Mayor Pro Tem thank you for running those two items. And right now, I think I should consult with the city secretary and make sure I know what I'm doing. 7.3. I want to thank you for helping me today. I've missed a couple of these cues. So it's a big agenda today. So 7.3. This is our consideration of our ordinance. And so do we have any presentation on this? I'm sure we do. Yes, sir. No.

It just didn't list who was given it, so I'm going to turn it over to you, sir.

Happy to answer any questions. We may have a few. So can you roll back to the total debt amount? Keep going.

Yeah, that one right there. So debt service, $67.4 million. So let me ask you to confirm that when we come back by the 29th. Here's what I need to confirm. Yes, sir. The that number right there would only include the amount of debt that's already issued prior to today. That is correct. Yeah. So the number that I've received back from bond council was not that number. And so I'd like to double check that just for accuracy.

And putting that forward. Then the additional monies that you put forward the 42 million in potential streets the 9 million in potential drainage all the good that we can do I'd like to make sure we understand we do have some of that rolling off and 27 and 28 and Correct. So council is considering potential debt increase that's already built into some of that rate. So you already have that rate. So we're proposing a flat tax rate. And within that flat tax rate, we're also considering tens of millions of dollars worth of additional borrowed money that we can go out and get to all these very muc

We talked about reserves. Have we gone back on that?

Okay, well, I'll have to take a look at that. I missed that on page 17 of the email, so I'll go back and look at it.

Can we go back? Is Stephanie still over there? Can you go back to the page that showed the entire budget? And at the bottom of that page, we had those inter-fund transfers. Yes. I noticed that went up. It was either 136. Oh, to the slideshow, Stephanie. Yeah, I'm sorry. If you go back to the slides. It was either 136 or it was 139, I don't remember, in the previously proposed budget. It's gone up to, I think, 154 right there, and I wouldn't expect that increase since I don't know that those internal transfers include CapEx or CIP. Do they include CIP modes? I would have to ask Lola or...

THE WAY THAT I WOULD SEE THOSE INTERFUND TRANSFERS COULD BE BENEFICIAL TO THE ORGANIZATION IF WE'RE TRANSFERRING MONIES THERE THAT MAYBE AREN'T GOING TO BE EXPENDED BECAUSE THAT IS THE NET BALANCE AT THE END OF THAT BUDGET. SO I'M ASKING IF WE CAN DOUBLE CHECK.

DEBT SERVICE. AND THEN, WELL, I DID GET SOME BREAKDOWNS, SO I DO WANT TO THANK MS. LOLA FOR GIVING ME ADDITIONAL BREAKDOWN OR FOR YOU, MR. FREEMAN, ON THOSE TRANSFERS. BUT THEN THAT WAS PREVIOUS. And so now that we've updated that number, I don't have those. And so if I can get those along with council, then we can see, you know, do we have a, not an error, but do we have a discrepancy in our favor? Yes, sir. Thank you. Council, I know we've gone through several budget sessions. I don't want to stifle discussion, but I do have a rate in front of you that has a ceiling, but still has latitude.

Thank you, sir. Any other discussion or comments from counsel? Counselor?

I think it's clear because we use language and language is important. A flat tax rate does not mean your taxes are flat. Your taxes are going to go up and they've gone up quite a bit. What I find interesting is two weeks ago, three weeks ago, we were here and we agreed on a budget because we thought that that's how much money we had and we said we can make this work. By the way, I think the pay increases I think are staying the same for the staff. I don't believe that they go up, the others may. And we've given good raises to everybody in the past. Two years ago, we gave substantial raises to

I uh I think to I'd say I guess comment in on that the mindset is important so I don't want to skip over the fact that the mindset here is um adaptive so I checked on we ordered some fire engines I think they're ladder trucks they were 1.7 1.8 million per truck when I got elected maybe a year before I got elected I think you could have bought one of those for seven, $800,000 back then. That's six years ago, right? I called to check and see if we make that order now going into this next year. Let's say we have a couple months and we look at 27. What's my order cost? It's over $2 million for tha

I move for adoption of ordinance number 8270, adopting the budget for the fiscal year October 1, 2026 through September 30th, 2027 for the city of Amarillo. Second.

I have a motion and I have a second from place one. Any further discussion? All in favor, I need you to raise your right hand and say aye. Aye. Any opposed, please raise your right hand and say nay. Okay, motion passes with a four to one vote. So, Councilman Simpson, I don't want to just skip past this. Do you have any justification for voting against this budget and against all the good that it can do for the city?

I vote. I'll let the vote speak for itself. Thank you, Mayor. Appreciate the opportunity. Okay.

Questions on 7-4? Gentlemen, you see some language in there. You also see a percentage as well as a dollar amount.

Thank you. Okay. With no discussion, we'll entertain a motion on item 7-4.

I move that the property tax rate be increased by the adoption of a tax rate of 0.43070, which is effectively a 2.3% increase in the tax rate.

Aye. Any opposed, please raise your right hand with a nay. Motion passes with a four to one vote. All right, gentlemen, making good progress here. Item 7.5, Mrs. O.

I don't think we have any, Ms. Lola. Thank you, ma'am.

Second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? MOTION PASSES WITH A 4-0 VOTE. LET THE RECORD SHOW COUNCILMAN PRESCOTT HAD STEPPED OUT. ITEM 7-6. MS. O.

Just a quick question. On the 75,000 flat attorney fees, can you just explain that to me?

That seems excessive for a lease. Just my thoughts.

That's a good question. Any other discussion? Ready for a motion on 7-6.

Motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Say again, I'm sorry.

Second. Motion and a second on the amendment. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Good catch, sir. Item 7-7. All right. Item 7-7. Afternoon, ma'am.

Ms. Mills, we appreciate the presentation. Any questions, gentlemen? Thank you, ma'am.

Correct. So in the notice, so I'm a little lost. So it's a resolution.

Do we have any deadlines on any of this, or would you recommend taking no action? Because what I heard was you would hold the public hearing.

To keep us safe. Okay. Gentlemen, I think we're safe to move on 7-7.

Motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Aye. Any opposed? Aye. Motion passes. All right. On to item 7.8. Dr. Eckstein. How you doing, Andreas? Wonderful, Mayor.

Council, any questions on this piece of property? Councilman Prescott, you have anything, sir? Okay.

I don't think we have any questions. Item 7.8 is before you, gentlemen. We do have a question. Dr. Eckstein, you might come back up.

Where is the phase two? Is it done or is it in process? It's in process.

And if we give the agreement to purchase this and something comes back negative on that, we would have the ability and we have time that we could pull out of the agreement, correct?

I move that we... take action on the purchase of item 7.8. Second.

Motion and a second. Any further discussion? All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Item 7.9. Thank you, sir.

OK, so just a few statements to make sure we're covering it. So make ready. So previous councils appropriated a certain amount of money to go and take vehicles that needed modifications in order to be serviced. And so with the mindset that we have now, and we're able to utilize some of those fleet services where we're buying vehicles and turning them over, maybe on a lease or a lease purchase, or even if it's debt. We now have alleviated almost a half a million dollars worth of the CIP money. And so this is a great example of our chief going back through those budget numbers, bringing them bac

Questions for Mr. Harder on the transfer of funds, gentlemen? Item 710 is before you.

Motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes with a 5-0 vote. Mr. Johnson, how you doing out there? Item 711.

Any questions on this one? Maybe just a comment. So, Mr. Johnson, I know you and your team continue to show up and work hard. Once again, I really appreciate not only you working to go and fix some stuff and MacGyver some things that you had to grab parts from all over town and save the day on a Saturday night. But this is a display of working ahead of those emergency problems before they arise. So, like, we appreciate the leadership and the strong team you got over there. Thank you. Thank you. Item 711, gentlemen.

I move to award the settling basin repairs phase two for $3,071,000. Second.

I have a motion and a second. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Thank you, sir. All right, we got Mr. Danforth coming in here. I don't know if we always put him last, because we just like spending so much time together, or if we just want to put you last. I think it's the last. Evening, Jerry.

I move to award the construction service contract for storm drain improvements as presented.

Second. Motion and a second from place two. All in favor, please say aye. Aye. Any opposed? Motion passes. Mr. Danforth, thank you for the wonderful and short presentation, sir. If I can get a motion to adjourn, we'll get out of here earlier than we expected. So moved. You're adjourned. Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Appreciate y'all.