City Council - Regular Meeting

Bandaid Thursday. You never know. We have the same. We already have four people. All right. You good? Good evening everyone. and welcome to this uh Tuesday, April 28th uh city council work session at 5:00 p.m. Call us to order at 50:01. Uh uh we'll move uh straight into our agenda. It looks like we're going to start with uh 3B today. This is uh conduct an annual presentation of the Flville Public Library. Okay.

Not sure that I got this. I even wore my my library tie. Very nice.

Um, there you go. Good evening, mayor and council. My name is Jennifer Griswald. I am the library director and I have my colleagues with me today, head of services, Melissa Grisbowski and assistant director Daniel Barrett. It doesn't work neither. I can't function with this. Ah, it needs to be turned on apparently. Okay. Um, history and guiding principles. Um, as a lot of you know, this year is the 45th anniversary of the friends of the library, and we did lose one of our friends this year, Tammy Eisenberg. We miss her very much. She was a huge support for the library. Um, and the friends continue to support the library. uh they have their quarterly book sales and they use that money to support our programs. So it could be bringing in an author or it could be uh paying for the prizes um during summer reading program. But also this year they or the last fiscal year they paid for our marketing and outreach coordinator Tiara Allen um to go to the American Library Association's annual conference. she had been selected as a an emerging leader for that um from the ALA. So, we're very proud of her um and very thankful to the friends that they were able to support that our mission um we still engage, inspire, inform, and entertain the Plugerville community. We support the right to read. We believe that free communication is essential to the preservation of a free society and a creative culture. I wish I had written that myself, but that's ALA.

Um, we also believe that publishers and librarians have a profound responsibility to validate that pre that freedom by making it possible for readers to choose freely. We remain a library for everyone and we try very hard to make sure that we have materials that reflect the uh lived experiences of our community. I love that. Okay. Um, a lot of people don't realize that the library also, um, manages the Heritage House Museum. Daniel has, um, taken the lead in that. And last fiscal year, uh, no, I'm sorry, since October of this fiscal year, we've had 730 people visit the museum. So, that's huge. We would get maybe 20 or 30 before that, but Daniel's done a great job. And uh there's a lot more programs going on at the museum. Also, about 15 years ago, we started a local history digital archive and we have over 3,000 items now in that archive. We um have a lot of things that we haven't identified. We don't know who the people are um or the buildings. So, we have asked the community to pitch in and let us know um if they know or recognize any of those. Okay, now we get to the numbers. All right. Um, our circulation stats are a little bit down from last year. Um, it's primarily in the electronic resources and that could be anything from, you know, introducing new resources that year that it spiked um or you know adding um additional checkouts to some of our e resources. So,

am I uh am I remembering correctly that you may have cut a couple of the digital resources this year for budget or was that not this year? I may be remembering from further back. Um okay. Yes. The ones that were being used. So, yeah, we keep track of all of those numbers. We have to report to the state library every year. Um we submit an annual report. So, we track pretty much everything. Um and we were able to determine which ones were not being used. So, we got rid of those. Um, let's see. So, then if they weren't being used, it wasn't an impact then on total circulation.

No, it wouldn't have been. Um, but the year before that, we added um a few extra databases that people were using. So, um, these numbers don't reflect the cut, um, at all really because the databases yet were this fiscal year and not last. So, um, if I recall correctly when we were talking about the budget, it was discussed that the Hoopla um, checkouts were going to be reduced from 7 to 5, but I still see seven available every month. Um, I get a reminder. So, did we not have to do that? Um, you want to answer one or

um, we we've able we've been able to kind of um, so Hoopla is interesting because it's pay-per- use, so it's a little hard to budget for, but then you don't know how many people are going to use it. Um, so we've been able to control it by setting monthly budgets um, to kind of cap the use. So certain items won't be available at certain times if we reach a certain level, but we've been able to keep the same number of checkouts. So what I'm hearing is if you want a certain uh, title, do it at the beginning of the month. Yeah. Okay. I think she may she's quote unquote asking for a friend. My daughter uses all of hers and and then she takes some of mine, too. But

interesting. Interesting. Okay. Daughter. All right.

Um our visits to the library are up, which is great. We added a couple of new programs. Um and our library programs um are still around 33,000 people attending those. So that's great. Okay, guest reviews. We welcome feedback from our users. Um, I'm happy to say that the majority of the feedback we get on social media is positive, which is amazing because mostly people just go on social media to complain about something. We do get the occasional complaints. Um, but every month I will post these to the entire staff, the good and the bad. Um, so that they can see that what they're doing for the most part is making a positive impact.

I have a quick question. Um, how do you count your number of visits for those who just come and just maybe come sit in the library, maybe don't check out anything? We consider that use of the library also because um they're either going to be using our Wi-Fi or they're using some of the other resources. How are you counting that? So the person sitting at the front desk and um it it actually tracks people coming in and out and then we cut that in half. Thank you. Love it.

We also um the library board I should say um holds a survey every year and this year it was accessibility. It's on until April the 30th. So, if you want to jump on there and take a look at the survey, um it it's going really well. We've had a number of people answer it. And we're excited about it because we're getting a lot of feedback and a lot of ideas on how we can make the library more accessible. So, looking forward to that. Jennifer, how do you pick what the survey topic will be? The library board generally will pick it. Okay.

Yeah. How do they do they I'm guessing there's not a specific polling that goes to the community. Is it just something that they see across that they may see as topic that's reiterated or something that hasn't been discussed like in the last several years? So they want to bring that up again. Um they started with a general survey and then from that survey they were able to break out different um topics I guess. Awesome. Thank you ma'am.

Okay. new services and accomplishments. We've got uh two new large programs uh the literary ball and the Renaissance fair that uh uh Melissa put together. Tons of fun opportunity to wear costumes. So, we love it.

Um last year we uh were accredited again by the state library. That's what that annual report does. We submit that. There are certain standards we have to meet and if we meet those standards then we get accredited which is important because we are then able to uh participate in reciprocal borrowing programs like text share and inter library loan. We also have um access to the techshare databases. I think it's 58 52 somewhere in that neighborhood. Um and we get them at a vastly reduced rate because we are accredited with the state. So super important. We have gotten the Texas Municipal Library Director's Award again. Um, that's 14 in a row. The only time we haven't gotten them were years that we didn't apply. We've expanded our shelving in all areas. I still have a bunch of shelves that I'm going to put up. Um, we have gotten a number of Texas Commission on the Arts grants. So, these primarily are program grants. They're small grants, but you know, $300, $500 here and there for a program is amazing. So, we're excited to get those. Um, I'm going to give a shout out to Carmen Lazo, our children's coordinator for that. She really um jumps in there and gets those grants. And then, of course, staff um are called on to serve on officers positions and um professional presentations and programs. So, super proud of the staff. So, I'm going to turn it over to Melissa. Um, and she's going to talk a little bit about one of the new services we offer.

All right. Um, enhanced library cards were originally developed by the Harris County Public Library System in coordination with the Texas Organizing Project. They identified a need for additional photo IDs for marginalized people such as people experiencing housing instability, mental illness, domestic violence, senior citizens, recent immigrants, and more. So, we decided to join that bandwagon following um Austin Public Library in San Marcos. And the card is a verified photo ID that includes library card numbers, photographs, address, date of birth, PFISD resident status, and expiration dates. And as of this month, we have generated 30 different um membership cards for people who need them. Uh 26 residents and four non-residents. I want to say thank you for this as a leader with lived experience in working in this uh work. Many of our unhoused do not have documentation to even start to get the vital documents and so um we have been utilizing this enhanced card um as a starting point and so I am extremely grateful um that we are doing this. Thank you. Melissa, from a legal standpoint, talk more about um how this fits into any any statutory or ordinance requirements for the police to

Obviously, it wouldn't work for TSA. Um you know, they're going to be very It's not a real ID. Yeah, it's not a real ID, but we have worked in coordination with Flugerville PD department, um utility billing, the wreck department, parks and wreck department. So they're all recognize the ID and we just feel that anything that looks official can help supplement what somebody may need who uh may need additional identification to confirm for you that it absolutely does.

So just to be clear for for people the would you say two or three people who are online Serena who but they will watch afterwards. We hear from them they will watch afterwards to say the least. Um the identification is specific to Flugerfell PD. Yes. Um with the hopes maybe that an expansion will happen at some other given moment time. Yes. We would love to expand to other businesses that might need it. Um other local cities that might recognize it. Yeah. Now and you're you're I mean everything that Kim's saying that's now more than ever people need help in that area. So thank you very much. Yes. How do we know that the uh person who's getting an ID is who they say they are?

Well, they do have to submit documentation. Um there's a long list. It's the same as you would to get a library card. So, it can be a Mexican consulate card, a passport from another country. Um it can be a notorized document from a homeless shelter. So we have as I said a long list of uh vital documents that we will take that that can help support their identification and all of those are listed in our policies which are available online. All right. Obviously metricula console our card is that's that's a real ID

even if it's not a real ID. Um I'm concerned about though a a notorized certificate from a shelter. I mean, I have discussed with some of my fellow councilmen. I have a a close relative who is often experience home experiencing homelessness and loses her ID on the regular and might show up somewhere and say who she is but have no way to prove that. How does that how does somebody like that get through this system and get one of your cards or is there is there a barrier somewhere along the way?

Do you want to take that? Sure. Um, of course there's always barriers um to every situation that you try. There are always going to be people who are going to work the system, but I I feel very strongly and I think my colleagues agree that um that's a risk that we need to take for people because you cannot get an apartment, you can't get uh food stamps, you can't get anything without some kind of an ID. Um even if it's somebody's parole officer who's vouching for him, you know, we'll take that. Well, I mean, I would assume that a parole officer would have Yeah.

uh information about who somebody really is, but this example person who is, you know, a real person, uh, you know, uh, you know, she could be several states away from anybody who knows who she really is. Um, in fact, I think right now she is several states away from anybody who knows who she really is. How do you know if the name that she gives, the date of birth that she gives is real? I mean, and that's

she doesn't even always know, you know, what year it is. So, this is somebody who's That's a good point. Um, I guess I would ask Ben, um, how is that going to really affect anything given the limited number of places that accept it? Yeah. Let let me help me understand from a from a governmental ID perspective, you know, to what extent is this accepted and what what rights does it convey? Are we talking about someone who brings in a notorized statement and is now allowed to check out library books versus someone who is is now using this ID for um you know other governmental programs.

And let me let me I mean let me chime in um on that because that I think that you know obviously y'all do this for a living. you've done your due diligence regarding the applicable situations whereby this kind of identification would be you'll be be utilized and leveraged for folks to be able to go ahead and identify themselves in these specific scenarios. You list out the library, you list out a park, you list out the police station, police station, police police here in Flugerville and utility billing. Those are limited areas within the scope of governments that we have here at the local level to allow for such. We're not talking about someone who's specifically or explicitly trying to go ahead and go on an airplane. We're not talking about someone who's explicitly trying to go ahead and rent a vehicle. We're not talking about someone who's going to try to open a bank account. We're talking about these specific scenarios whereby they've given a litany of different cases which they've obviously already buttressed with the fact that they went ahead and done their due diligence about what we accept and we don't accept and they use that for these specific situations. I think that anybody I mean you guys wouldn't I mean first of all you never go rogue on these things. you went ahead and did your due diligence on this and it's in these specific scenarios. So,

I can't tell if he's for or against it, but um at the same time, you know, this is not Austin. However, um there are sweeps happening right around the corner on Wells Branch, Grand Avenue Parkway, and these are mandatory sweeps um by Austin and so all of their things are thrown away and there's not a lot of people that's going to come for this and there's not a lot that they can do with it, but it sure helps us help them reattain housing uh stability. We have to have some sort of starting point. Um, I guess, uh, Mr. Rogers, we can come back at another time and ask them how many people have actually received one of these to see if it's an issue, but right now I really feel that this is something that should be celebrated.

They already said how many they've done. I know. And the and the and the point and the point to this is this is that

I I take and this is I I get where you're coming from regarding you you want to do due diligence, but I take umbrage in the fact that I think this is a thing that is important and necessary right now for specific communities that honestly you're not affected by that are trying their best to try to go ahead and and and comply as well as possible with it. This is us as a government here which should be as a local government helping to go ahead and support these people for that. And given these limited scenarios, not something outrageous for that to be able to do that. I think I trust my librarians, my park rangers, my police department, and the folks who do the utility billing to say, "Hey, is this really David Rogers or is this Rudy Mate who's appearing in front of me and trying to figure out what they do with that?" That's what that's what's going on for as well. So, you're doing something great. Appreciate it. And I hope more people follow that.

If I may ask, is there a is there a cost associated with this enhanced ID? No, no more than um it would be with any library card that you have. We only charge people when they're um out of the district. Okay. Um and it's $25 a year, I think. All right. I And I imagine this one has you mentioned having photo on it. Um I know my library card doesn't have my photo on it. I think it has my name. Um, I assume it's a little more expensive to print these than than the traditional library card, but we're not we're not assessing any fee associated with that.

At the level that we're seeing people asking for them, it hasn't been an issue. We have run this past the previous legal team. Um, and they looked it over thoroughly. I I'm not going to say anything about that other than it's been through a it's been you've done your it's been approved as a form. Yeah. Yes. Um, you know, there's a lot of people that um just need a little extra help. There's a lot of people who are afraid right now. And if we can do that um for the community, we're we're hoping that we will be able to do that. Every little bit counts. Absolutely. Thank you.

Okay. Turn it over to Daniel.

All right. Uh, council mayor, I was going to give a little update on our workforce development, small business support efforts. Um, first I wanted to just talk about the physical space of the library. Um, it remains a very uh critical part of the community. Um I if you walk through the adult area during the day, you see a lot of people just set up working on their laptops, uh working on different things. And I kind of think of the library in that sense as a co-working space where uh people can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi, the lowcost printing, uh and work on the projects that they need to, but also it's a sense of community. So they can meet other people. Um we have a flexible space with meeting rooms, um study pods, and so we have a lot of opportunity to allow people to to work on the things they need to work on. Um, and we continue to offer uh our monthly small business workshops through our partnership with SCORE Austin. Uh, we also have a resume review service through another partnership where um people can send in their resumes and we'll provide feedback for them. Um, Jennifer recently started a borrow a librarian service where people can uh reserve a time and come meet with one of us for any needs that they have. Uh, and I've already been able to utilize this for uh career services. somebody came to me and wanted to do a mock interview. So, I set up a time and did that with them and hopefully provided some good feedback for it.

Um, and then we have a lot of other things that are kind of related to this area. Um, of course, I hope everybody knows about our fab lab, the maker space. I know some of you have utilized it already. Um, our uh one of our adult services librarians, Meg Miller, started a maker market as well. So twice a year we have a maker market that features people that have created things in the Fab Lab or utilizing any of our other maker related programming and they can actually sell their items at the library. So kind of full circle experience. Um and then of course we have the artist displays at the front of the library. So local artists have an opportunity to display their work and I know for a fact uh some of those paintings have sold to community members. So a lot of opportunities within the library itself. Uh, of course we also electronic resources and some people um may rarely if ever come to the library but utilize our electronic resources and that's great as well. Um, of course access is very important. So we have the Wi-Fi that extends throughout the parking lot. So even when the building's closed

All right, that's pretty funny. What's that? That's pretty funny. Wi-Fi. Oh. Oh, of course we have to add it everywhere. It's for free. It's we just spelled it right.

Um and then we also have the W uh Wi-Fi hotspots that we check out. We have about 50 of those in the collection and they're constantly checked out. Uh so different ways to extend access to the community. Um and then some of our electronic resources. Of course, we have many more than this, but these are the ones I focused on for this presentation. I hope everybody's aware of LinkedIn Learning. That's one of the resources that PCDC funds for the library. Um gets a lot of usage uh every month. Uh Udemy is very similar. It's also an online learning platform. Between those two, we see about a hundred users per month watching over a thousand videos. So, it gets utilized pretty well by the community. Um some of the other resources, there's things for um tools for creating resumes or exploring different careers of blue career in particular. That's another resource funded by PCDC and that's for the skilled trades. So you can do an assessment, kind of see what trades might be good for you or you can just explore individual trades, learn about training opportunities, learn about education, uh get testimonials from people in the profession. Uh so good for people that are starting new in the workforce or maybe looking to change careers. Um a toz databases is great for businesses. Uh small businesses can run a marketing list for, you know, new people that have moved to the community. They can do research on things like if you want to open, let's say, a Japanese restaurant, you can see all the Japanese restaurants in a in a specific area and get detailed information about how many employees they have, how much money they're making. Information that you can generally find, but it's all, you know, included in one place. So, a very powerful tool for businesses. Uh and then I finally wanted to mention uh career online high school which is our uh opportunity that we provide for adults to go back and get a high school diploma. Uh we've had uh four graduates from this program already. Uh Constance here was actually the first person to go through the program. Um it's a good example of you know some of our resources like LinkedIn learning kind of

a broad impact. A lot of people use it and this is a resource that's very specific to individuals but it provides a major impact on that individual's life. So try to provide a variety of resources to meet variety of needs. Um kind of taking a step back. Um I kind of think of all of these things we provide as a big umbrella and we're trying to provide cover for the entire community. Um we try to provide things that meet different needs, different learning styles. Uh and we add to that. These are things that we've built just over time. We'll continue to look for new uh resources, services, and partnerships that we can add if we think they'll provide a benefit to the community.

Okay. Um there's a on YouTube there is a that's my flugerville where a gentleman is talking about um how the high school program um really benefited him and it's a great interview if you guys want to take a look at that. Uh we have tons of volunteer opportunities at the library. We do um allow teens to volunteer there. They have to be age 16 and up. Um however, because we deal with the public, the friends of the library support our teen volunteers. Each year two and I think it was three last year, but this year it was two teens when won the um most valuable teen award. And this is an award where um staff nominates a teen for volunteering at the library doing an extraordinary job and then the friends of the library will choose two or three from that list um to honor with a certificate and also a stipend. So it has worked out very well. We have opportunities for um people with special needs. We have opportunities for seniors. We will find meaningful work for you. If you want to come to the library and volunteer, we'd love to have you. So, any questions?

Do we still participate in the uh tech share program? Yes. So, how does that work? Uh if you said they're out, do we charge them? I guess that's what I'm getting to. No. If somebody is uh has their tech share card and comes in to get a card with us, it's it's no charge.

Okay. Um there there was some concern that um due to some uh funding changes that that program would not be attainable um anymore, but it is. We got the funding for that. Um and also I've noticed that our in integrated library system has set up um sort of a fallback for that where we can um do reciprocal borrowing with the libraries in our area. That's nice. So, yeah. So, we're covered. Perfect. Thank you. Sure. Anything else? Thank you. Thank you guys.

We we obviously love our library services, so thank you for the update. Uh that'll bring us to, I believe, item 3A. Going back in the agenda, discussion regarding our downtown east update. Oh, we're waiting for him to get

Good evening, mayor and council. Some exciting time with this project and so we we're wanted to bring you kind of a construction update and kind of the steps we're working towards for phase two because we know that that's been on your minds as well. Uh so tonight Corin joins me um and we'll kind of back and forth um this presentation and then of course as we go any questions you might have. So tonight we'll cover the overall project, talk about each of the the components of it as well as phase two and kind of next steps and things that you'll you all will be seeing coming up. As a reminder, in the front of our minds with each component of the project and as we work on on this um daily are the project goals um that you all establish for this project. Um, just to kind of set the kind of the visual for as we talk through the project of the overall site includes the 299 acres plus the extension of Main Street. Just as a reminder, some of the properties we acquired for Main Street acquisition um that you see there to the west of the creek. This kind of will help set us as we move into those conversations related to phase two. We are actively under construction. Those buildings are going up. I know as I know you've all been on site and have seen those. It's really um exciting to watch the many many um construction teams out there getting executing this um for us and we're um grateful to have them on our team. So a construction update is that we plan to be substantially complete um in December of uh this year. It's a little bit later than than November we anticipated um because of the rain that we've seen earlier this month. And you can see that bottom image there with some of the standing water. Um the day after it rained, I went and walked the site and it it does provide quite the challenge um until the roofs especially are on all the facilities. And so they're working very diligently. We've seen just some of those weather days um

impact that substantial completion. And if you do want to talk about kind of that substantial completion and furniture moving be great.

Yeah. A little bit a word about substantial completion also in December is that the way that the original contracts were structured is that we had a substantial completion date before rain and then a certain number of weather days allocated within the contract for each component. The number of weather days was 20 weather days. Um we don't and that's sort of a max right. So you we've got our before st substantial completion date before weather a maximum of 20 weather days that we can claim under the contract and then you have that. So the December date that we have is sort of an end date. We don't we we are not pushing that date out any further in indefinitely due to as many rain days as generally possible. We are not um at a max number of 20 rain days claimed per project component. I think the one project component that does have up to I think it's the numbers 13 weather days that's been claimed is the rec center and all the other project components have had somewhere in the neighborhood of three to five weather days and a lot of just you know judging by the type of construction whether it's an infrastructure project um you know the roadway work that got started in December of 2024 or the parking structure that got started in October of 25 last or the city hall and the rec center each of which just have different schedules and different um construction methods and those are things that have generally influenced that. So that's how um that is. So this I wouldn't characterize this as being late as it is you know it's it's more a function of how the general contractor contract was structured and how rain days have influenced the sort of uh the the the first substantial completion date before rain. So that's that explanation in terms of what substantial completion means and then what move in means. We always have this analogy where

substantial completion is very much like closing escrow on a house. Um you know at substantial completion when you close escrow on a house you've done all or you have your own home built and you you know sort of close escrow and complete that process. Um that's when the movein process generally starts and you and you own the the building basically. And then so after substantial completion, that's like closing escrow. That's when furniture for for the most part, all the furniture starts to get moved in and we're coordinating with staff and in and and basically everyone else associated with the city folks for uh for taking occupancy building. Um we have the the city hall and the rec center both have different schedules for furniture. City Hall, the furniture move in process is is is three to four weeks and rec center has actually less furniture than city hall and that is a two to three week process. And so that that's generally what to expect for substantial completion move in and that general process. So, we wanted to show kind of we'll have a time-lapse video of the entire projects once it's complete, but um just to kind of show some of the progress that has occurred really over the last 16 months or so. And so, this is January of 2025. You can see some of that work um starting really focused on infrastructure getting you see the lone trailer out there um the the crane that was really part of our skyline for for several months. um which was exciting. Um this is August of 2025. So the progression really then into February of 2026 is quite amazing to see these um facilities come up and try to label to kind of orient everyone to where we are um on the project. You see the rec center there um the civic plaza that'll really probably come in last. You'll see that take shape um towards

towards the end is most kind of largely landscaping and things like that. Um and we're we're working on progressing some of the the components of the stage um and other details of that which um you'll see some of that tonight. But we are mobilizing on the plaza next week. So on the plaza that's when all of the underground utilities are going to start for for the piece of the plaza. So

um so the Monarch um our recreation centers are reminded here's one of the renderings you've seen many many times. Um I want in some of the interior um with the pool, the turf, um the second floor cardio, um the event space um there, but this is how it's shaping up in construction. So um as many of you were there, you'll see the piece that that everyone signed at the topping out there um at the bottom lefthand corner. Some of the this is a great roof shot for that. you'll see a lot of the skylights going in um and and really getting to the top of that facility and so we can start working more diligently on the interiors. Um the largest picture on this side is um kind of the event space is that top um room there. Then you see the cardio and um on the second floor you kind of see a little bit of clip of the patio that will occur in that area. um some of the just some of the other work that's occurring interior. The the green pillar you see in the upper um right hand corner, that's one of the support beams for the pool that will be on the exterior of the Monarch.

You want to touch on the the retail? Sure. Um we started steel framing on the retail building um Saturday. Um and before that we had a number of underground pieces of the retail that were happening. Grease interceptors, all of the um you know the piping underground.

The retail um is going to go pretty quickly to be honest with you. So framing is something that happens really rapidly. Um we expect you know they started Saturday and then you'll see a retail structure in a matter of weeks sort of three four weeks. And uh one of the key differences between how the retail is generally going to progress on a construction standpoint is that we are building out a cold shell and um and then that basically is just going to be the structure um the envelope, the storefront, the windows and some kind of rough in of basically a basic uh utilities for MEP or the basic rough in for MEP. Although you build the retail out to be, you know, a cold shell essentially. And then uh in parallel with that, we're undertaking pre-leasing activities. And so um our tenant improvement budgets will really and what happens for the interiors of the retail will really be influenced by the tenants itself. So, um you can expect the retail shell to uh be in place and then in parallel with that we're going to do tenant improvements once we land different retailers and we're very active um with uh talking to uh potential retailers in the market. I mean the progress of it is confidential obviously but I will say that um it you know what I can share is that it's gone pretty well. I mean, we are um excited about uh the conversations that we're having. Um we think that the location is resonating with a whole variety of different retail tenants.

And just for reference, we we've included the link for anyone interested in locating in the retail on our downtown east website. So, they can easily link to uh the Griffin Swintton team if they're interested in the commercial portion of the project. We fielded a number of requests from local businesses as well and um so there's a combination of local tenants that our brokers have uh worked with and and and going through the interview process as well as national and even retail I mean regional and national uh tenants who have been who've been interested.

Okay. And then city hall, the rendering that you've seen many times. Um, some of those interior shots. Um, and one of the nighttime ones. I'm not sure we had the that upper leftand corner and more of a nighttime shot which really kind of highlights some of the the water wall that will be on the exterior of council chambers. Uh, you see the rendering of the cafe here. We're preparing that cafe lease and we'll have that um for council May, June. Um, so that's coming up pretty soon. And then here's city hall um just at the end of March. And so really making a lot of progress on this this facility. You can walk through and you can now start to see offices taking shape. And so um some of our team have joined me and are excited when they see their specific office um and kind of what those views would be. And so really really an incredible facility. What's I think one of the most exciting pieces will be that fifth floor terrace. Um you see kind of just that smaller box there, but that'll be the fifth floor terrace and will provide probably some of the best views of Flugerville um that we have anywhere um in the city. It's a great kind of you can do like a little 360 of the city, see the historic water tower in downtown to all of the development um along Stone Hill and and those areas of the community. This doesn't do it justice either being up there when you're on site and you are standing on the fifth floor terrace and even on the even on the second third floors. It's a much different um feeling when you're when you're up there. So

this be a great great place to host events to program um um really we think will be a great highlight um for this facility.

Here's some of the construction shots of that. you see there um the entrance up the upper leftand corner um one of the shots I think that one on the bottom left hand it's from maybe the fourth floor at one point um the the bottom right hand corner is the front um of the facility on the left of that image is the cafe taking shape on the right the first floor area that would be council chambers and then you see in the rear the office component going up there and then you see some of the um just the construction of those offices that on the the third and fourth floor in the upper right hand corner. Anything else to add on those?

No.

Good. Okay. Um so the next piece is the plaza. Um so here's a rendering of that. This is a maybe one of our newer ones. This will be an exciting really community gathering space um for everyone. And so wanted to kind of hit some of the highlights of what this will be. Um, we saw that overall just looks like a dirt path at the moment, but it will feature um a great stage that will be able to host um artists like you saw at Slice on Saturday. So, the stage is sized so that we can have those um artists come play at this lawn along with a variety of other things. Um the art piece that you see there with the guitar that was recently approved by the parks and recck commission um as part of our art and public spaces um program and that will be the mural um that is featured on that wall. Continue kind of through the great lawn. We'll also have a kids play and water zone that'll be a lot of fun. Outdoor games, cornhole, pingpong, um seating, and then also space for food trucks. And so we we're hoping it's really creates that vibrancy that you all have asked us to bring um for this project. Also the interplay with the rec center we think will be phenomenal too. And our our parks team is really giving a lot of thought to how those two can interact.

Emily, I'm confused. Where's the smallsided soccer field that should be? I mean the great lawn. I guess I could have said we're soccer field. Go out there and kick a ball around. Yeah. How much shade will there be? I got a question this weekend when that slice it was very hot and slice was a little warm as you're walking down the street. So it's on the top outside.

There's a lot of um so closest to us which you don't see here will be a pedestrian prominade which is treelined which will help with the shade along with the north side. You can see some of those trees there. trees along the the rec center side and then certainly along kids play zone outdoor games and along Main Street the lawn to be kind of serve as the kind of the place for everyone to watch that kind of makes it a little more challenging to provide those structures. Um but really kind of surrounding that great lawn there's there will be a lot of tree um shade opportunities. So the the chairs will be all along the along the side right there like she's like what's

I'm like where's my spot going to be? spot. Yeah. So, there'll be some great like limestone blocks that kind of surround that. Great opportunities for seating. I'm sure those will be the the prime seats for uh any any show that happens. Um and we'll have that's artificial turf, right? Yes. Fake turf for the fake soccer players. Oh my gosh. Come on. We're hosting the World Cup this year, sir. We're hosting the World Cup.

The parking structure. So, the parking structure is the last facility that's that's coming online. Um, and you see it under construction today. We're up, I think, to the third level of that facility. And as we talked about when we brought this forward was, and this was a a great suggestion from Kor to kind of really show um our investment in parks and and utilizing this space before the market's ready to bring additional commercial. So, as you see here along Main Street, you see a little some park features, which we'll show you some more details there. That will eventually be replaced by commercial. So, it'll be a fun, engaging space. We're trying to pick some pieces where adults and teens really like to go there. Um, and so we think that'll be a lot of fun. And then eventually those pieces will be movable so that they can go to other parks, whether it's in downtown or across the city, and be replaced by um active commercial space. Um, and so that's kind of what this looks like. It also features a small dog park. That was something that we heard quite a bit um during our community engagement at the very beginning of this of this project. and that that'll occur on the right hand side. Um I have let Shane and our team know that that is one piece that will be hard to remove and we'll need to make sure that we replace that dog park somewhere in the downtown area. Um but we know that that was a feature that our community really said we'd love to have we'd love to see spaces for dogs here. And so looking at a giant chessboard, um kind of footpool, some really creative kind of swing sets, um and just some really different elements. We are planning for um some shade, not in the form of trees, but maybe form of umbrellas that also serve as light features for this area to ensure that it remains safe um in the evening hours as well. Um as you can see some of the light up seesaws. We hope that it's a fun and engaging space um into the into the early evening um as well.

That footpool's going to get a lot of be a lot of fun. Yeah. Lot of fun. I'm looking forward to the swing set. This is a a a really huge parklet. Yes. Essentially. Yep.

And so here are the renderings of really kind of showing the graphic uh representation. um because parking structures can just not be cute, you know, and so trying to really help that sense of arrival because it does kind of um you know, it mirrors the rec center there at 685 in Main Street. And so trying to bring in some of that monarch, you see that there. And and so the colors are inspired in the parking structure by the features of the rec center. And so the little Easter egg colors that we've looked at at the rec center for the last year and a half are featured here now in the rec center. Um, and you see that in in kind of the the butterflies there as well as the graphic features um along Main Street. Have some um also some nighttime shots.

Oh, look at that burnt orange sticking out. That's great. Call it burnt orange. Okay. Um, and so we're really just trying to create that vibrant nightife as well. And so we we're hoping this kind of um creates that sense of arrival um into the downtown Blugerville. I have one more here. kind of gives you kind of all of the angles. Um, this the images on the right hand side, those are the closer side to city hall. Um, as if you're a little bit further into the project. Anything you wanted to add here? No, good. Very good.

Okay. Um, so the Gen Tract I just wanted to hit on really quickly. Um, as you're aware and you might have seen the the parking lot has been paved where we swapped land and property with First United Methodist Church. um appreciate that partnership with them. There's still some work to be done. We still have got lighting, landscaping to occur, but that parking lot's been open um for their use that was open prior to the Easter Sunday weekend so that they can park on there. Um we're working on C on parcel C that you see there. We still have some parking improvements to be done on the church parking lot on the north side to make sure that the flow of traffic um works well through the project prior to Main Street coming through. And so once once that's done, we'll be able to um start construction of Main Street and really have replaced the parking that was necessary for the church um there. We're also um our legal is working with um the legal team for Elo and hope to have that development agreement for your consideration soon as well.

Real quick and we can also about the bridge and phase 1B. We call it phase 1B. is that it's the part of Main Street that is, you know, west of the fluker tract itself. Um, we did hear just a couple days ago or late last week that we have our FEMA approval and that's just in time.

Just in time. That's great. Um we are we've cleared the trees for in the floodway for where the the bridge is going to go and uh we're going to be starting sort of underground borings beneath the creek for utilities I want to say May 11. So um bridge construction is happening. Um, you know, that site that park from railroad to the flu track has been cleared. As Emily mentioned, the uh the the phase the the the initial piece of the church parking lot is is done. So, phase 1B is is happening on uh on schedule also. So, lot of lot of moving pieces all coming together. We're pleased with uh the progress. Okay, so one also wanted to hit highlight tonight some kind of the first steps in phase two. And so phase two as we talked about been a little bit now was kind of parcel five was that priority parcel and that's the parcel that is the other side of the plaza. And so really kind of both sides of the plaza from rec center on one side and that parcel five on the other. And so wanted to kind of show um just some thoughts that are kind of floating around, get your feedback on some of these initial concepts for entertainment, retail, how we might incorporate additional trails into this area, um some residential and then and some parking as well.

So I'll let you Yeah, sure. If you go back one Sure.

the rationale for parcels five and seven as being a part of phase two, I mean, nothing is etched in stone, right? But I think that when you look at the parcel in the northeast corner of the site, our illustrative full buildout master plan shows that that site is, you know, of the highest potential for getting, you know, for continuing to push the limit in the city for density, right? It's got the frontage along FM685. That illustrative plan shows another uh privately funded uh parking structure in a wrap formation around commercial and multif family development. The market's not really there for that. That's you know again part of the more long range plan of the city. But um the parcel we parcel five is always called the priority development parcel. It's always something that was next in line um for additional lifestyle, additional retail, additional placemaking to complement the plaza with additional district parking to basically serve the the the civic uses in full buildout civic and retail. And then the nearterm plan for or the near-term illustration I guess for parcel seven for multif family also speaks to a lower density which is going to be more compatible with the adjacent neighborhood to the north and the west um while also providing the you know more of like an urban feel that uh that the city and this project has been calling for. So, it's a nice middle ground between responding to um the adjacencies to the neighborhood, not over densifying that, but also designing it in a way that provides the urban feel that you want uh with surface parking tucked in the in the middle of the site. They call it Gerbin style um uh multif

family. So, remind me is uh those parcels in phase two, particularly I'm looking at parcel seven that you said could be uh multif family. Um is it zoned differently than the rest of the parcels or is the whole parcel? It's all zoned for it's all zoned pud. And with this was the idea that that would be on these parcels. If if something better comes along and the market shows something better than multi-family then we could certainly pursue that. Right. Okay.

Yeah. We also talk about in the pud some of the some commercial and mixed use elements especially on what I think they're called pedestrian priority areas. Um so along that what's wanderlust way so that there'd still be some commercial um requirements along that side as well. Just wanted to make sure we had those options open. We do. Okay. Yeah. This is illustrative. You're not locked in any of that. Yeah. And in regardless of what the land use ends up being in the pud, we wanted to be mindful of that adjacency of the single family to the to the west. I would say that's probably the key aspect is to make sure that those folks don't feel like they So the current plan on parcel seven is that a twotory or a three-story product?

It can go up to four stories, but we have a step we have a a step back um along the north and western edges. How far?

Um I think it's like 16 feet. We we looked at the view angles. So in the in the design guidelines for the putt, we did um show how you know how how you know fronting along the the north and the west of the parcel. You'd have two stories and then the taller stories would be stepped back enough to block view angles into the backyards of the adjacent residences. And some of that comes with providing um these terraces that have planting. So, we've got these plantings that are required where you've got tree plantings over the the the setback area to to block the viewing.

And there's also things like no balconies on this side to help some maintain that privacy and that was request of the the neighborhood. Is is the parking to scale in the in the design? I'm I'm curious. Is there are there garage units uh associated with that? This shows it it's not underground, but this shows a combination of surface and tuck under parking. And then as we get a little further into this presentation, we'll show you actual test bids. Okay. And unit yields and parking yields that that that are

right. The reason I ask is is related to to the density. I'm seeing uh 80 parking spots there, which means we're probably talking about 60 bedrooms um depending on our on our parking requirements. If there's also additional tuck under, maybe it's higher. So, I'm trying to understand if this is uh truly multif family or if this is potentially single family attached uh style, maybe a town home style, maybe a a condo style, or if it's truly uh multif family. Yeah, we have three illustrations for you that are two scale um that have been test fits that uh do include both surface, tuck under um and so we can we can get a bit more detail.

Melody, do you have a question? I think they answered my question about the twotory closest to the neighborhood as well as the the buffering with the trees. Perfect. Perfect. Thank you. So, this is the is parcel 5. This is immediately adjacent to the plaza where you'd see some additional commercial activity and then also an additional parking structure to support a commercial activity for um the balance of the district. residential would be parked to support its own, but the the structure shown here, the idea was to support additional commercial um within downtown

and the and the public uses also. So, basically the we we had uh parking studies uh and the the garage sizing is really based on that parking demand and need analysis. There are two things to consider. One is currently phase one is parked to support partial occupancy of city hall because current staffing at city hall isn't st you know current city staffing the city hall was basically sized for city staffing in 2040. So between today and 2040 um you know there will be growth and the and so the parking needs would would be accommodated into this secondary garage. Um in addition to the retail or additional commercial um and in addition to um a potential buildout of the retail space in garage one. The garage is currently under construction. if once that additional retail is built out, you'd lose about 38 spaces. So, it it's a kind of a a multiparameter um you know analysis essentially that went to sizing that garage.

And here's just just some other options and ways that this can be designed. And so we'll certainly work through these, but just kind of showing different options for for parcel 5 and how that commercial um as well as kind of the play space can interact um in this area. Yeah, each of those garage configurations have the same amount of stalls and as you know, you know, just different configurations can free up different opportunities for open space, additional open space and um and and commercial footprint. What is the reason for the large outdoor space when we have the civic plaza across the street?

I'll show you on the next slide as an example. Um so um we see uh you know there are this is a use called entertainment and there are some really nice uh potential we we've heard a lot of interest in a food hall concept um as well as entertainment additional entertainment uses a category that's very popular in the retail space and in communities like Flugerville and and and it's and it's sort sister cities, you know, or or or similar cities. Uh entertainment is a combination of, you know, outdoor programming um for people to linger and stay for hours in addition to food hall. So, this is one uh example, a mini golf and you know, and there are others that are out there. You've got botchi ball, you've got um you know interior plazas, you've got bowling, you've got a number of different entertainment concepts that blend food halls with additional outdoor uh outdoor entertainment. So, some of those configurations just show for additional, you know, gathering seating, movie nights, um uh recreation like mini golf or outdoor bowling or, you know, things like that. So, it's just showing it's just showing different configurations for the site as a means to essentially market it to similar active entertainment uses that are actually looking for a combination of outdoor space that can be programmed for a very specific use with sort of food and beverage concepts. I was about to say I think that's where you know because you know it's phase two so you know you're looking five seven 10 years out but I think you get sooner rather than later because this is you know I've gone to a different places around the country where it's been pretty

impressive to see all these different food halls and you're able to get that interest from the the smaller businesses there's unique restaurants and other folks who were like hey listen we can go ahead and share that um that that restaurant culture and then have this available space for folks to be able to hang out and go from there. So, um, I think it's a pretty good or pretty smart permeation for y'all to actually include to see, you know, ultimately what that goes out. Obviously, the market will dictate what the market dictates, but we just want to show flexibility, right? Like right now, we're in the land of optionality, flexibility, different configurations. Yeah. And my my expectation is is a bit more

uh a little quicker than what Rudy had indicated. I'm I'm hoping uh you know we're talking two three maybe four years not not 579 but hopefully that comes uh sooner rather than later but with this concept as I see it my expectation is you know all that retail space is going to be built out at least first floor for uh retail and restaurant all all the appropriate grease trap and uh whatever is necessary to support that concept. Yep 100%. And honestly with these concepts this can be socialized with the market today right and it is so literally

literally so you know the point is you let the market dictate it but it doesn't stop us from getting out there and getting feedback and drawing up interest today and and and I'm aware of a couple of restaurant and office uses that I think you've already been in contact with. So I'm very hopeful that this gets booied pretty quick. Here's just some additional images of the that same kind of concept that we've that we've seen around the country. Yeah, a lot of these are in, you know, central Texas, DFW, Houston area. So, we look at specific concepts that were in Texas and also best practices from around the country.

Emily, what's the place we went to where they had those? It was in the DFW area. They had those big screens and they were playing football. Can you It's called Flugerville. No. Is that like when we like we went to the hub? Yeah. All right. Something similar to that. Very similar type of concept. That's all in the entertainment category. There a lot of really fun ideas. Yeah. It was always it seemed to be quite quite a hot spot. Yes. Well, we h we have I mean,

not to get off in a tangent right now for years. We have these restaurants with with kitchens that are in these areas in and around town right now that they do have entertainment for adults, you know, and it's I mean that's been like over a decade. So, think about having something specific for them surrounded by all the other thing, you know, that also. Yeah. I mean, that's I mean, it would be great for some of those people to be able to migrate in here and be like, "Hey, dude, this is great."

Yeah. Yep. Just a few more images of that. So, some really fun opportunities. Um the phase two also contemplates expansion of our trail system. So, we have in phase one, we are expanding the trail to come up and connect to Main Street. So, but as a trail capital, we really want to make sure that this is well connected. when we talk about like our destination play um and how can you easily get here by other modes besides a vehicle. And so you see here some some concepts which also were contemplated with the PUD for the project um to really get people um into the project not not using a vehicle. And so making more tie-ins kind of on the south side of city hall of parcel one making that that easier. Um being able to go down closer to the creek and things like that. This is a concept um to be able to expand the trail system in that way.

Yeah. The there's a a nod to a potential additional dog park in case another dog park gets gets cannibalized. Um and then you know one of the reasons why this additional trail work was thought about in this phase was because it requires another check-in on flood plane flood way FEMA and so we wanted to study that and look at approvals for something like that without the um you know without the time pressures of when we were delivering city hall and rec center and all the other pieces of phase one. Okay. And these are just some image of how just different ways trail heads or things like that can be utilized. Um,

sorry. Wonderful trees. Oh, the wonderful trees. Yep. Yep. There's quite that many. And then here's just some the some of the residential um options that Corin had mentioned at the beginning of the presentation. You want to walk through those a little bit? Yeah. Urban urban urban that's a new

technical term. just additional varying these are these are true fit tests where they are drawn to scale. Um they do have different parking yields that support I want to say 150 to 200 units um with you know you know similar number of unit uh parking yields both surface parking and tuck under. We have in the low density scenario I think that's two stories with um you know walk up you know town houses adjacent to the residences. So, we've shown a couple of different options that can be both, you know, four stories as well as a step down to three stories and and and and differing uh, you know, townhouse style product um adjacent to uh to the existing residences. So,

so can you expand what does gourbon style mean outside? What are the components? I'm guessing those white wad piece of paper represent trees. They do. to be honest with you. I mean, it's sort of a white urban style is a um catchall um category or or or name for something that has a combination. It's it's this urban style garden apartment. Okay, that's where the G come from. Okay, that's so I was like, where's the G come from? Yeah, that's what it was. Are you making up a word?

No. So, so it's a garden apartment and garden apartments typically typified by surface parking. Um, and you know the the kind of open space that's uh associated with it. Gerbin just means you're hiding the surface parking on the interior of a lot so that you have a balance between urban style housing that still has um you know um that still has surface parking. So, a fusion. And could you um expand on tuck under parking?

Yeah. Um the tuck under parking is just going to be if you had say a three or four story structure. Um the tuck under parking would be you'd have a a canal lever of a certain portion of your first floor that you can literally like tuck your car underneath a structure without necessarily having to go subterranean. Subterranean parking is super expensive. You want to avoid that at all costs. So, it's a way to increase the amount of surface parking that you have while you, you know, stack it underneath. Typically a covered but reserved spot. Yeah. Covered. Covered and reserved. Yeah.

Thank you. They're potentially an individual garage. An indiv. Yeah. Garage. Garage. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, the town houses particularly are going to have their garages. A lot of times garage. Yeah. First floor garage stacked on top of it.

So residential. While this parcel could be other uses, we also know kind of that influx of addition of people here. not just you'll have the daytime from city hall and others, but also kind of helps that nighttime when you've got residential component to the project. And so, um, the market will also help us to kind of articulate this parcel as well. But these are some of the the options that are being kind of looked at for this particular corner. And so coming up, we're actively working on substantial completion. And so we'll see that in in December. Um we'll bring forward to you the city hall cafe lease. Um we'll also be implementing the property owners association over the next several months. Um we'll coordinate what that grand opening looks like for both city hall as well as the monarch. Our park staff is actively working on kind of what that roll out looks like. We'll need time for staff in that building to be trained and well knowledgeable of all of the workings of that, especially within with the indoor pool. Um, and making sure everyone's comfortable. Um, and so we'll have some soft openings there and get those memberships up. And so we'll be coming to you over the next several months for what that looks like as well as the fee schedule for that. Um, and then we'll be further branding kind of downtown Flugerville. what you'll see kind of with the um image there, the the logo for downtown, kind of how we might implement that through all of downtown to ensure that the goal of having this project be representative of downtown and not separate um is there and then we'll um continue those conversations on phase two.

Emily, I'm glad you brought that up because we just had a conversation about fees last last maybe parks, I think. I can't remember. Okay. Um, when are we looking at bringing that back up? Because I think it's probably something we want to tell the public about soon. Yeah, probably in the next couple of months. We have some consultant teams helping us with some of the programming and all the ins and outs to make sure that we we rightsize that. Um, and so as we get closer to that, we'll be sure to you'll have that on your agenda so we can have those conversations and get it out to the public as soon as Yeah. Because I mean it's Yeah.

Yeah. Yep. Yep. There's a lot of excitement behind it. We just want to make sure that when we're stepping out with that that we are in the in the right we'll hear it one way or the other. That's right. That's right. All right. Emily, could you maybe also um something else that people are pre-w worried about is the traffic management around that area? Would you uh mind speaking briefly about that plan?

Not at all. So part of phase um phase one was to put in the infrastructure to help that. And so it includes not only the extension of Main Street, but the extension of Wander Lust and Pollinator to kind of make that block around including 685. And just recently, probably one of um Horn and I's biggest tasks was getting sign off from Texot earlier this year for the signalization of Main Street at 685. And so that'll be a four-way intersection. It'll be the driveway to HB and Main Street. That's where that intersection will occur. Um and so we worked with our engineering team, with Texot engineering teams to kind of help that flow of traffic. We had to be really mindful because of our unique intersection at PCON and 685 to ensure that flow works between those intersections because they are a little bit closer, more of an urban style setting. And so, um, I'm sure there'll be some still some things to to work out, but getting the infrastructure in we think is really helpful initially. Um, and then signalizing that intersection, we believe, will be really beneficial.

Thank you. And you will see that also happening as well. We were just talking to the team about when they're mobilizing to start installing the traffic signal and you are going to see them in the next two or 3 weeks as well. And we do expect over the summer to have the work along FM685 completed with a traffic signal in place sort of in June July well July time frame. It won't be operational, but you'll see those poles every I would say consider also adding our trail system to this around the whole thing our trail system that way nobody I know there's other cities trying to compete with our trail system distance to our claim.

Yeah. Yeah. Right. So we do have we will have the the trail from up to to Main Street from the existing trail. You know it's going to there's plenty of park space. So that's what I'm saying. Yeah. Yes. So phase two will include more of the more kind of traditional trails. All the rest are um shared use paths um that are that are under construction with uh the project. Thank you. All right, council. Any other questions? Thank you so much. Thank you. Super excited for it. Thank you, Emily. Thank you, Cord. Thank you.

Uh that brings us to uh the executive session portion of our agenda tonight. Looks like we'll be back there for the rest of the work session. Uh item 3 C is consultation with legal counsel pursuant to section 551.071 of the Texas government code for discussions regarding settlement agreement mutual release between the city and bar constructors inc regarding the central wastewater treatment plant expansion project. Uh 3D consultation with legal counsel pursuant to section 551.071 of the Texas Government Card Code regarding emergency medical services. Uh 3E deliberation regarding real property pursuant to section 551.0 072 of the Texas Government Code regarding the purchase, exchange, lease, and or value of real property related to project print. Uh item 3F, deliberation regarding real property pursuant to section 551.072 of the Texas Government Code regarding the purchase, exchange, lease, andor value of real property related to project princess. And item 3G, deliberation of personnel matters regarding the appointment, employment, evaluation, assignment, reassignment, and duties of the city manager pursuant to section 551.074 of the Texas government code. The time is 6:15. We are in executive session.

A motion for what? For to you've announced the I've announced the items. Yeah. Okay. Well, in the sections. Okay. Okay. Am I Am I good? Okay.

Time is 659. We've returned from executive session. No action was taken. We will now adjourn our work session. If you'll give us just a few moments and get ready for regular session. Uh we'll be back right in a few minutes.

Good evening everyone and welcome to this regular meeting of the Flugerville City Council. Uh tonight on April 28th, uh time is 7:05. I'll call us to order. I'm going to ask you to rise for the pledge of allegiance followed by the pledge to the Texas flag. Uh and following that, please remain standing for a moment of silence. If you would join me, I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee Texas. One state under God. One and indivisible. Thank you. Please take your seats.

As we call this meeting to order, I do want to point out that uh here on the deis, we do have all members of city council. We have mayor prom Kimberly Holiday. Uh council place one Jonathan Kaufman, place two Caesar Ruiz. Uh place four Rudy Mate. Place five Melody Ryan. uh place six, David Rogers. We have our city manager, Serena Veland, as well as our city secretary, Trista Evans. Seems our attorney, Michael Hayes, has uh stepped away, but I'm sure he'll be back briefly with us.

For the benefit of those uh in the audience and those watching along from home now or in the future, I want to make sure everyone knows uh who all is here to participate. Uh with that, it brings us to uh public comment on our agenda. Uh, now I do have some legal ease to read about public comment. Uh, a member of the public may address city council regarding an item on the agenda. Uh, comments must be relevant to the agenda item. Citizens wishing to speak during a work session. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm reading the work session script. Yeah, it applies.

I was I was confusing myself. All right. In accordance with the Texas Attorney General opinion, any public comment that is made on an item that is not on the published final agenda will only be heard by council. No formal action, discussion, deliberation, or comment will be made by the city council. Each person providing public comment will be limited to 3 minutes. I do have several folks who have signed up to make uh public comment and several who have signed up to have their opinion registered and not speak. I'm going to start public comment with RJ Eiglacius. Uh if you would come forward to the uh podium. Uh you will have uh up to three minutes to speak. I brought my phone cuz um I'm bad at remembering things. Um my name is R.J. Uh I've lived here for over 30 years. In that time, I've seen this town change in many ways. Uh some changes for the better. We have some excellent food options, as hopefully all know. um and some not so much. More recently, a change that I've become aware of is the city's adoption of Flock Safety ALPR cameras. Flock Safety has made and continues to make a very bold claim per their own website. And I quote, "10% of reported crime in the US is solved using Flock technology." End quote. Uh but per Jason Kubler's article for 404 media uh quote Chris Gall Gillard who studies surveillance and privacy at the JustTech Social Science Research Council said the study that they used to come up with that 10% of all crime number uh is is not published in a journal or vetted for accuracy in a traditional peerreview process. Ultimately it is a marketing document. the desire to prove the technologies effectiveness which seems counter to how a rigorous study should be conducted unbiased. The study was not peer-reviewed and was conducted in fact by two flock employees not partial impartial. It is not research it is a sales pitch.

Forbes also published an article about a case study that Flock cites about San Marino, California. Uh they claim that crimes in that town fell by 70% after implementation of their systems. In fact, the article found that residential burglaries, which Flock claims focused on, actually increased by 5% while their cameras were implemented. I also found out there's a camera facing the playground at Moose Park. At the last public comment section, I believe the city clerk, correct me if I'm wrong, stated, "That particular camera is not an ALPR." Well, does that mean that it records and streams video instead? Did you know that on September 30th of last year, Bob Carter, Flock's VP of business development and registered lobbyist, logged on and accessed a camera in a gymnastics room at a community center in Dunwy, Georgia, where children are playing. He did not have access to that camera, but he accessed it all the same. He's not the only Flock employee found in an audit to have accessed cameras in sensitive areas all over the United States. Next time I will discuss the many security vulnerabilities built into these systems uh and Flock Safety's lackluster response to them. I look forward to helping the city council and the community in gaining a fuller understanding of these systems and the dangers they pose. Thank you for your time.

Thank you, Mr. Trigacius. Thank you for for being here tonight. Uh the next uh person registered to speak is Mimi Styles. Welcome, Mimi. Hello. That does not look like Mimi behind you. That's all right. This is my security. Um,

this is my husband, Cliff Styles. Um, so good evening mayor and council members. My name is Mimi Styles and I am here tonight on behalf of the of the Flugerville Black History Project and community members. Um, and today I also want to give honor to Pastor Kosum and all of the members from St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church. Um, packing this room is just incredible. Um, over the past several weeks, we have done exactly what has been asked of us to do. We've organized, we've engaged um the community. We've formally briefed the city's um equity advisory committee um on our plans and recommendations. Um that committee expressed strong alignment with the African-American corridor project is what we are hoping to erect um right near the black cemetery um off of PCON. And so tonight for us, it's really a decision point. Um, we are here to ask the city council to formally fund the blackflugerville history project, the African-American corridor. We are um in in Flugerville's black history, particularly uh the history of of the community once known as the colored edition and still known as the colored edition has been overlooked for far too long and yet that history is foundational to this city. I do also want to thank all those city council members and our mayor who's always been a part of our um uh restoration and taking care of the cemetery. You know, we have the research. My husband did ground penetration. Um and we know a lot about the cemetery. Um we have the community. Uh we have um you know alignment with the equity commission uh or with the equity committee. But what we need now is the city's investment um and commitment to visibility. This project is also known again as the

African-American corridor project. It is a community-led um project and effort in honor to you know working to preserve and activate this history in a way that is both permanent right and also very public. Um, our vision includes interpretive story stations throughout the corridor in that area. Um, it it includes public art installations um, created by local black artists. It it also includes a digital storytelling platform elevating the voices of of descendants, right, that are many of them in this room um, and longtime residents. It's about, you know, it's about truthtelling. It's about belonging. It's about who gets to be seen in Flugerville. Um, and respectfully, this work has already, you know, um, had a lot of energy. Um, and we're continuing to organize. We actually meet once a month, um, virtually. Y'all are all welcome to join us. And the next step for us though is a decision, right? It's the it's the next step for us is funding to be very clear. Um, and I'll finish here. um you know, we're we are ready as a community to move forward. The community is ready and the plan is almost ready. So, thank you so much. And I also want to give honor to my husband and the Giving Rose Foundation for all the work that they do um in preserving black history um in Flugerville. And um thank you for again to the church.

Thank you, Mr. Styles. The uh the next person I have signed up is uh Pastor Richard Cooksum.

Praise the Lord council. My name is Richard Cox. I am the pastor of 116year-old church here in Flugville, Texas called St. Mary missionary Baptist Church. Uh glad that you've taken the time to allow us to speak this afternoon. Uh but I have to go back because I've been at the church now uh all in in November will be 32 years. Crazy.

And I can recall uh after about a year at St. Mary, I was asked by the a council at that time what did I think about changing the name of the addition from the colored edition of Flugerville. I hadn't spoken to the residents of Flugerville and at that time there were many who were still alive and they gave me stories about what was not happening in the addition. No street lights, no sewer, no fire hydrants, none of those things. That stayed the same way up until about two councils ago or maybe two and a half councils ago when actually the voices were starting to be heard. And so anybody that rides to the area now can see that there is major construction starting from infrastructure underground uh that's going to rise to the top at at another point. I stand to say that I'm in support of this uh simply because uh it is history and it is flugerville history and uh that's my take on it. Thank you. Amen.

Thank you, pastor. I have uh Miss Urcha Dunar Crispo. She seemed to know I was going to call her. Sir, she seemed to know she was next.

I did. Um good evening, mayor and council, city manager, uh flu pavilions. Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. Um, again, my name is Ursa Dar Cresp. I've been a resident of Flugville for over 32 years and for all of that time I've been a member of St. Mary Missionary Baptist Church, which is a part of the historic colored edition. So, I support this project fully. Tonight, I'm going to speak on behalf of Minister Tony Hansen. So I have his statement, my time, his statement, so that I kind of get both of them in there. Minister Hansen and his wife are also 30 plus year residents of the city of Flukeville. They stand in strong support of funding the Flukeville Black History Project in the historic colored edition without a name change. What brings all of us here today actually began outside of this project. It started with a simple practical question asked by our own council member Rudy Matea. He was over in the area and he says, "Where are the fire hydrants?" There weren't any. And along with a a whole lot of other things, that neighborhood is being brought up to co brought up to code now after many many years of being neglected. And we appreciate that. the question that um that question from Rudy, Council Member Matea became a part of a formal initiative and it sparked and revealed the deeper issue. It exposed the gaps in infrastructure and gaps in attention that had persisted for years. A concern was raised, the city listened and leaders acted. We now see meaningful con infrastructure rebuilding as my pastor mentioned. Thank you, Council Matea. To the full council, Flugville staff, thank you for

working on that bond package that funded that upgrade. This is what shared responsibility and responsive government looks like. Today's request goes beyond the infrastructure. It's about preserving the story of the historic colored edition. A community built by families whose names are not always lifted up in our public narrative. yet whose contributions are foundational to Flugavville. We've had the privilege, I personally have had the privilege of meeting and worshiping with a number of the descendants of these families, the Caldwells, the Russells, the McDes, and the Robinsons to name a few. There are others whose legacy is woven into the fabric of this city. They built, strived to sustain, raise families in this community through segregation, through limited resources and decades of underinvestment. Their history is Fluville's history. As Flugville just celebrated um a slice of Flugville and if you weren't there, Sister Sled sang the song, "We are family." And you know what? We are family. We recognize these families as a testament to their resilience of faith and community. Honor this community and its families with the dignity and vis visibility it needs and they deserve fully fund this project for the African-American Historic Colored Edition Corridor. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Dunar Prespo. The uh next person signed up to speak is Brian Dixon.

Good evening everyone. My name is uh Reverend Dr. O'Brien Dixon. I stand before you as a minister of St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church. You heard our pastor speak earlier. I've been a resident of Flugerville for 5 years along with my wife Maria. Uh the church was founded obviously in 1910. But what I I want to take a moment um and say that I stand here in support of this project as well. the the word flugerville colored edition for some I want to acknowledge uh may sound like a term of the past uh maybe something we should erase. I want to acknowledge that the work that you're we're asking you to do is difficult work because when you tell one person's story you often feel like you exclude someone else's story but we stand in front of you as a group of people who have a story worth telling and a story worth remembering. I want to I want to acknowledge that the people who lived in this community didn't have a choice to live anywhere else. This is where they were forced to live. And we all have to reconcile like that. They they built homes. They built a school. They built St. Mary's. Um and St. Mary's is more than a building to us. It's a place where generations have prayed, have gathered, have found strength. And this edition holds stories that matter to us. Um and and and stories that matter to this city. One of my favorite words in the Bible is redemption. Um to redeem means to restore, to reclaim, to bring value back. Um and we see this in the story of Ruth. Um what felt like all had been lost becomes a redemption story. And we have the opportunity of that today to build on a future. We're investing in our water. We're investing in all of these other areas so that this can be a city that we

can all be proud of. That we can look to our children and our grandchildren and tell stories about that. And so tonight, I just want to take this opportunity and say this is an investment that is worth making. This is an investment that matters because it's not just about a development. Um it's about stepping forward in redemption. And so I I support retaining the name. I I support making the investment. I support bringing the infrastructure up to code and all of the other things that we'd like to do to make sure these stories never get lost through the changes, through the challenges, through the transition. We are all still here and we are proud to be a part of this community and so we support this investment. Uh and that concludes my remarks. One last thing I want to say is my dad said when you know better, you do better. And the question is, do we know better?

Thank you, Mr. Dixon. Um, I have uh next person signed up to speak, Gwyn Terry. Terry, these birds speak. We Terry, the daughter of Charlie and Anz Russell, one of the the founders, and I would like to make sure that their names are added uh and in included in the colored edition of Flugerville. And I had asked previously at the first meeting if it was uh legally filed with the historic commission.

The colored edition is it at the legally filed with the historic commission. We're not able to uh respond at this point. So, but I just wanted to make sure that and Charlie Russell's names are are are added as founders of the Flipville edition. Thank you. I do understand that the cemetery has a historical designation. Um, but I'm not aware of anything else related to the to the elaborate on that. What do you mean? Uh, the St. Mary se the cemetery in the uh section does have a historical designation. Okay. Um, and I believe the family members have accomplished that.

Uh, I have one more person signed up to speak. That's Sandra Bellfield. Hello counselor. My name is Sandra Belf. I'm a senator of Charlie and I Russell. Um I just want to come and say that um in the video of color edition, it was recently made for that uh African-American families to live and to build their homes and have homes. And lately I've been hearing that it's commercial and I don't know when it became commercial when it was given for families to build homes on. And if we have land that we want to build our homes on and put homes on, I don't understand the commercial part of the situation. Um so that was my comment. Thank you.

Thank you. Uh I do have a number of folks who uh have uh filed their support of this issue. I'll read their names into the record. Now we have uh Mr. Tony Hansen. Uh we have uh Naen Mroy. Maggie Elroy. Maggie Elroy. All right. Uh Katherine, is that Leers? Katherine L. Lewis. I'm sorry. Uh we have Eloise Bonner. Put your glasses on. All right. All right. John A. Stringfellow. Yes. Tony Caldwell Hinton, yes. Brenda Franklin,

yes. Cynthia Harden, yes. Bonita Echels, yes. Uh Karen Moore, yes. Arlene Robinson, yes. And Jacqueline T. Freeman. Yes. All voicing their support. Thank you. Uh thank you all for being here tonight. I got my name. I came in maybe late. Yeah. Would you like to speak? I would like to speak. I swear if my name is Certainly. Certainly. Fill out one of those cards. We'll make sure you're you're added to the list. All right. Wonderful.

We have someone else at this point in time. If anyone else is wishing to speak, you are welcome to come forward. And if you would, as you come forward, be sure to state your name for the record. Okay.

Okay. My name is uh Cynthia Priest, and I'm the granddaughter of Charlie Russell and Anz Russell. And um my family been a resident of Flugerville for over a hundred years. And um it's the color edition. It was named the color edition. And my grandfather was part of that. And I know with new people coming into the area, it might sound offending, but those people who lived there were proud people and was proud of the name. And the name need to be kept that way because it was it's a historical landmark and they were proud of that community. And also I don't know if this is a topic of discussion but I was looking at 6A O R D-0882 and it says um the Dixon locket amendment which means the future land for future land use and I'm kind of confused about that and maybe I don't know if it's I can talk on it now or we can talk on it separately. you're welcome to sign up and speak for it uh when we come to that item. I would invite you to uh stick around and hear about

Yeah, I'll do that. And

this land that's been out been in our family for years, we still use that land. We have grandchildren. I have grandchildren, great grandchildren, and one great great that we all still come out and we celebrate and we use that land and we tell our stories to our children. Everybody sit around and we still talk about our past and the future so our children would know. We do this so everybody would know each other. Children grow up and they don't even know family. But so we're the next generation that's carrying on that family tradition that we did when I was a little girl. I was here during the segregation. I went to Flugerville during the segregation. I was in the two room classroom that was on the land. So I've been through I was here through everything and that land means a lot cuz my grandfather he plowed I was out there planting and my grandmother was doing the canning. So you know it goes on for so many years and it it has a lot of value and it has a lot of meaning to the ones who were here. And I I'm I'm in uh I'm for the infrastructure. I want to see the change in the infrastructure, but I don't want that change to take our land because it belongs to us.

And my grandfather worked hard. I seen him work hard. In the beginning, he had a a huge house that he built by hand himself. That house burned down because it was no fire hydrants. He rebuilt another house on that land. and my aunt put a house on the opposite side of the land. So, it was a lot of work and toll and we don't want to lose that. We want to make sure that that land stays the way it is. If you want to improve the infrastructure, I'm all for it. And I know a lot of new people come here and they they're are young people. The name is offending offensive to them. At one time, a newspaper article came out with my grandfather which they did an interview with him and they asked him about the color edition. He said he wanted to stay the same. When I was young, I didn't understand. When I got older, I understood. I understand a lot of things now that older people would tell me, but I was too young to understand. But I understand it now cuz I have I'm a homeowner. I wouldn't want nobody to take mine cuz I work too hard. So with that, I'll rest and thank everybody for your time.

Thank you. Thank you for those words. Uh, this is public comment. Do we have anyone else from the public wishing to make a comment on items not on the agenda? Oh, got right. We got two. Just be the buzzer. Okay, we got No, that's that's our sheet up front. Okay. Uh, if you'd if you'd say your name for the record.

Hello. Good evening. My name is Patricia Lockett. I am the granddaughter of George Cwell Jr. and the great granddaughter of J. E. Tyson. Um the lady just spoke spoke about article 6A on there. Um 1304 and 1312 Taylor Avenue. That is my greatgrandfather's land which I now own and my plans are to build a forever home there. It's the history that did that. It's the history. I spoke about it at the last meeting where my grandfather p great-grandfather purchased that land with a brown horse, a bail of hay, a wagon wheel, and $200. And I still have that promisary note and the deed with me right now. So, it's history. So, again, we want to continue to grow that history, keep telling the stories of of where we came from and where we're going, and also continue with the name of colored edition. It doesn't offend me. I'm proud of that. I I know what my grandparents did. I I'm very proud of that. So, again, um I'm all for the changes that they want to implement in that area and I um am also excited about continue to tell the story of what the color edition is. Thank you.

Thank you.

My calling are they coming up? Excuse me to the mayor and all the council members, city officials. I really don't like to speak, but I've been listening to all the conversation and some of the history that's been given, but it's not accurate. Uh, as far as the colored edition is concerned, I've never been offended by that name, but I think uh, a lot of people think that's an addition where black folk had to live. My great-grandfather was the first black to settle in Flickerville. He bought 100 acres out off of Heatherwise Boulevard in 1873. I have the deeds and everything. He never lived up there. My other grandfather on my mother's side, he lived on land. I'm 80 years old. I've I've been covered at Flick Flickerville since I was a little girl knowing where everybody live. I had cousins on Walnut. You know, when that section was put up there, I don't know who named it the colored edition, but it wasn't a part of the city limits. I remember when it was annexed. I remember when our property was annexed. If people want to recognize that as being colored edition or whatever, keeping it the way it is, non-commercial, I'm all for that. But I just want people to let let people know that we didn't have to live up there. All the blacks did not have to live in that section of town because to have people believe in that sends the wrong message. And it's not true. It's not true at all.

But whatever they want to do as far as honoring that section of land up there, I'm all for it. My great-grandfather on my mother's side, he lived up there. The story is it was people who worked for Mr. not influ and when he decided to sell some of that land some of his employee employees bought land so they built houses there and you know but it's not a place where all the blacks had to live and I don't want that to you know be something that people remember about Flugerville and I think when people come to a place they need to know the history so they won't get it all confused that's all I have to say thank you thank you so much for attorney.

Uh I have two other people uh wishing to register their their support. That was uh let me get my glasses. Keith Wooten, senior uh and Arlene Taylor. And one last call. Anyone else wishing to make comment during public comment? Got one more at the back. And again, if you would uh state your name for the record.

Yes. Good evening. I am Porsche Haj, a proud descendant of the Russell family by third generation. Um, and I am just coming in support of improvements being made, but that is my lineage. That is my history. And so I do not want it to be wiped away or taken away because that means you're taking away from my family. As my cousin spoke, you would be taken away from our history. And improvements are definitely welcomed. But I don't want where I was raised, where I grew up to be erased. I don't think anybody would want where they were raised to be erased or deleted from history. Um, so I'm all in support of improvements, but yeah, if we could just preserve the land, respect the history, the people who created, who were there in the founding of the land, that would be greatly appreciated because now my kids are learning the history. Just today I was telling my son about this. He didn't even know that he was he is from a lineage of history where it's rich in history. It's something um that we're proud to say we come from like they said although others may not look at it as as such to be um suppressed and be able to gain land and be able to grow on that land and build family on that land and legacy on that land. That is something to be proud of and my son was so proud to hear that he comes from that. So, I would just love for it to be respected, honored, and treated um with the respect that it deserves and the improvements that you all are considering. So, thank you.

Thank you so much. All right. Anyone else for public comment? Seeing none, we'll move forward. I have uh five proclamations uh to make tonight. I'll be doing four and turning one over to my mayor from Tim for her passion and lived experience.

So, you may you may notice we're joined tonight by a few folks in leather jackets or leather vests. We've got the Wolverines Motorcycle Club with us tonight uh to celebrate uh motorcycle awareness, mocycle safety month here at Flugerville. Uh, motorcycleycling is a popular form of transportation and recreation. Motorcyclists are roughly unprotected and more likely to be injured or killed in a crash than other vehicles who are in a cage as I understand it. Uh all I urge all members of our community to become aware of the inherent dangers involved in operating a motorcycle and to do everything they can to ensure the safety of motorcyclists and other uh users of all of our roadways. Uh as I like to say, uh loud pipes save lives. So make sure you watch, but also listen for those motorcyclists out there.

I guess my three minutes are up. And so I'll proclaim May 2026 as motorcycle safety month in the city of Flutterville. Uh and I'll invite the Wolver Wolverines motorcycle club to uh join me by the uh the flags for a picture and your proclamation. Make sure y'all put that sign up front. People need to see that sign. Anybody else here for motorcycle? Feel free. All right. All right. Thank you. Thank you, Council Me.

for my next proclamation. Uh we have drinking water week here in the city of Flugerville. Safe, reliable drinking water is essential to public health and the overall quality of life in our community. Uh we all know that very well. I think after the last uh last couple months uh residents and businesses depend on clean drinking water for activities such as brushing teeth, operating businesses and supporting schools. Drinking water re week provides an opportunity to educate community about the journey water takes from source to tap and to recognize the vital contributions of water professionals who keep it flowing every day. Therefore, I proclaim May 3rd through 9th as drinking water week in the city of Flugerville. Uh Shelby Granger and treatment plant operators are here to accept the proclamation. Uh if you would come forward and join me at the FLAGS

probably working. Thank you. There you go.

Okay. Uh well, this is one of my favorite ones because we've got someone who consistently uh works hard to serve the city. Uh so now municipal clerks week provides an opportunity to recognize and celebrate the invaluable work of municipal clerks. Municipal clerks are essential to the effective functioning of local government, ensuring transparency and accountability. The Texas Municipal Clerks Association represents more than,00 municipal clerks. Uh bit of trivia, there are about 1,250 cities in Texas, maybe 1300. U now these municipal clerks contribute significantly to the success and efficiency of local government. So, I proclaim May 3rd through 9th as Municipal Clerk's Week in the city of Flugerville. Uh, and our very own city secretary, Trista Evans, is here to accept the proclamation.

We know her.

There's a real smile. She was practicing her smile. Elvis. So she gives us fake ones all these years. Yes. You can tell. You can tell.

She said this is my pictures. All right, this one's a little bit more somber uh because we do want to call attention to the risks that we have uh throughout our community. We want to call attention and make sure that individuals are taking the cautions and the precautions necessary. Uh pediatric vehicular heat stroke is one of the leading causes of non-crash related fatalities in vehicles for children under the age of 15. On a 70°ree day, the interior of a vehicle can reach over 115 degrees in just 30 minutes. Tragedies can happen to any caregiver, often triggered by a change in routine, sleep deprivation, or even high stress. So, I proclaim May 1st as hot car awareness day in the city of Flugerville. I believe we have uh Sally Raja here uh to accept the proclamation. Sally, do you have words to say? All right, I will give you the microphone and then you uh will meet for a photo.

Okay. Thank you.

Good evening, mayor, council members, and everyone here today. My name is Sili Raja and I'm a high school student, youth advocate, and the founder of Project Safe Ride. I want to start by saying thank you. Thank you for this recognization and for taking the time to support a cause that is so deeply important. It truly means a lot, not just to me, but to every family this issue impacts. It's especially meaningful to be here in Fugerville, a community that is growing, family oriented, and deeply connected. This is the kind of place where people look out for one another and that's exactly why conversations like this matter. Project Safe Ride is a youthled initiative focused on raising awareness about pediatric vehicular heat stroke, also known as hot car deaths. These tragedies occur when a child or pet is left in a vehicle and the temperature rises rapidly inside. Every year, dozens of children lose their lives this way. And it's especially critical here in Texas where even a short amount of time in a parked car can become dangerous. What's often misunderstood is that many of these cases don't happen because someone didn't care. They happen because of how human memory works. A change in routine, a busy schedule, or simple autopilot can cause the brain to forget something it never should. That's exactly what Project Safe Ride is working to change. not by placing blame, but by building awareness and habits that can save lives. Through Project Safe Ride, I work to educate communities, partner with local organizations, and speak about the importance of backseat safety. As part of this effort, I also created a free app that sends a reminder shortly after you park your car, prompting you to check the back seat. It's a small tool, but it helps reinforce a life-saving habit. When I first started this initiative, I didn't have everything figured out. There were moments where it

felt overwhelming trying to turn an idea into something real. But through all of that, I've had constant support from my parents. They believed in me from the beginning, encouraged me when things were difficult, and helped me keep going. I'm incredibly grateful for them and for everyone who has supported this mission along the way. This proclamation is more than just an honor. It's a step forward. It shows that Flugerville is a city that cares, that leads with action, and that is willing to protect its family in meaningful ways. We made wearing seat belts a habit. We made distracted driving a no. We made getting a designated driver after a night out a habit. And we made looking twice at crosswalks a habit. We started this conversation in Cedar Park. And today, we continue it here in Flugerville. It's time we make checking the back seat automatic because no parent should ever say, "I forgot." And mean it like that. Thank you again for this recognization and for helping make Flugerville and every community we reach a safer place. Thank you.

You join me for a photo. Can we get mom the picture? Can we get mom picture? All right. Uh my mayor prom if she is available.

I am. I will invite her to the podium. You've heard enough from me. Uh and I'll invite my mayor prom Kimberly Holiday uh a servant leader with lived experience to present this next proclamation.

A thank you mayor. So grateful. Good evening, fellow city council members, faithful Flugerville friends and family. Um, thank you, Mayor Weiss, for your continued commitment to ensuring Flugville remains the safest little big city in Texas. Before I read our uh proclamation on child abuse, I want to share why this moment is so very important to me. While I stand here today as mayor pro Tim, this is bigger than any role or title I will ever hold. I stand you stand before you as someone with lived experience, a survivor of childhood physical, emotional, and sexual abuse. I am by nature an introvert. But I learned at a very young age that my silence did not protect me. It allowed the abuse to continue. So I made a choice to find my voice. Today I use that voice not just for myself but for the children who are still suffering in silence. That is what led me to public service to be an advocate. Without further delay, it is my distinct honor to present this proclamation recognizing April in Flugerville as child abuse prevention month. The same topic I was working on. the mayor's proclamation declaring April 2026 as child abuse prevention month in the city of Flugerville. Whereas every child deserves to grow up in a safe, stable, and nurturing environment free from abuse. And whereas child abuse and neglect affects millions of children each year, leaving longlasting impacts on physical, emotional, and psychological well-being. And whereas families and supportive communities play a vital role in preventing child abuse. And research shows that protect protective factors such as parental

resilience, social connections, and access to essential services greatly reduce the risk of harm. And whereas child abuse prevention month provides an opportunity for all residents to learn about the signs of abuse, understand the importance of early intervention, and commit to creating safe spaces where children can thrive. And whereas by raising awareness, promoting education, and supporting prevention programs, we can build a community where every child is valued, protected, and empowered to reach their full potential. Now therefore, be it resolved that my mayor Doug Weiss from the city of Flugerville does hereby proclaim April 2026 as child abuse prevention month in the city of Flugerville. At this time, um I would like to invite a very special guest uh to accept this proclamation. Today, I've asked Tony Finch, who is a retired human services technician whose commitment to protecting children has never wavered. Her dedication is so strong that she has actually returned to the front lines as a contractor with Child Watch, where she monitors children without placement who are now placed in hotels. Her work reflects the very heart of this proclamation and the urgency of ensuring that every child not only influ but around Texas is protected but cared for with dignity and compassion. At this time I welcome Tony Finch.

Come on. Thank you. Give us just a few brief words. Thank you. Good evening, Mr. Mayor and council members, and thank you, Mayor Pro Tim, Kimberly Holiday. Thank you for this honor. I am truly grateful to accept this proclamation for child abuse prevention month. I accept it with both appreciation and strong sense of purpose because this month reminds us of something critical. Protecting children is not only about responding to harm after it happen happens, but is about preventing this harm in the first place. Child abuse prevention begins long before a crisis reaches a courtroom, a hospital, or a child welfare office. It begins when families have what they need to stay strong. when communities are supported and invested in and when systems are are accountable for you ensuring children growing up in safe and safer environments. This is why this pro pro excuse me this is why this

pro proclamation matters. It is it reminds me that child safety is is our shared responsibility. No single agency can do this work alone. schools, health systems, community organizations, faith leadership, local government, employers, and neighbors all play a role in creating the conditions where children can truly thrive. And for me, this issue is not just professional. It is deeply personal. My mother, Joyce James, is a national expert in child welfare and child protection, and she continues this work today. She was the first black woman to lead the child protective system in the state of Texas and she helped advance efforts that support children remaining safely with their families whenever possible. Following in her footsteps, my sister Desert Tran Prescott and I also served in child protective service. Together, three of us bring 86 years of continued service to childrens and families. And through that work, we learn something that should guide all of us. We have seen the pain. We have seen the trauma. And we know the importance of stopping the hurt before it ever begins. When children talk about when when we talk about preventions, we're talking about upstream approach. We're talking about addressing the root cause of family stress before they become crisis. That means ensures families have access to stable housing, to mental health care, to affordable child care, to economic support, and to strong connected neighborhoods. They are not extras. They're essential to keeping children safe. Prevention also mean accountability. If we want better outcomes for children, then every system every system that touch their lives must be part of the solution. Prevention cannot rest solely with child protective

services after harm has already occurred. And we must also be honest about something that is often difficult to say. Removals while sometimes necessary can bring additional trauma to children. It should never be our first or our only response. That is why investing in families early and consistently is so important because when families are supported, children are safer. No, no state should be no state should be the business should be in the business of raising children because no state is a good parent. What children need is family. What what family need is support and what community need is a real sustained and measurable commitment to prevention. So today I accept this pro this proclamation with both gratitude and urgency. Gratitude to recognition of this important work and urgency because there is still so much more to do. Let us continue building a city with families and strengthening where children are protected and where communities are fully invested in the success. Thank you for this proclamation and thank you for the commitment to the children and families of this city.

Thank you so much. Let's take a picture. Beautiful. And then that one goes to Kimberly. Thank you.

Of course. Thank you so much. That brings us to uh section five on our agenda. Section five is our consent agenda. Uh council, I will ask you if there are items that you need pulled. But before I do that, uh items five, item 5D has been requested to be pulled from consideration. B is in uh D is in dog, D is in delta. Five delta. Uh five F as in Frank and G is in gamma. Uh staff has asked to be pulled uh and brought back for consideration at a future meeting. Uh, council, do you have any other items to be pulled from consent? Absolutely not, mayor. Eas.

All right. Any other items? Council, I would uh ask for a motion on the consent agenda. Second, if I can read the consent agenda first. You need you need to read the consent agenda. Sorry.

Uh 5A. Uh so 5D, 5E, 5F, and 5G have been pulled from the consent agenda. 5A is approving an annexation ordinance on second reading with a caption reading an ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas. annexing for pole purposes a tract of land totaling approximately 62.73 acres of land situated in the the offis Ellison survey section 22 abstract number 260 in Travis County Texas within the city's extr territorial jurisdiction and recorded in document number 20006201486 of the official public records of Travis County Texas extending the boundaries of the city to include the land zoning the land as a parks facilities and open space district such land to be known as the new Sweden lift station annexation binding the land to all of the regulations of the city approving a service plan provided for subability and providing ing an effective date. 5B, ordinance, second reading with a caption reading and ordinance amending and updating the city of Flugerville Code of Ordinances. Title 9, general regulations, chapter 95, parks and recreation. Article four, public tree protection, clarifying existing language, adding a section for prohibited activities, updating responsibilities of the tree care advisory board, expanding use of the tree mitigation fund, providing cumulative repealer and severability clauses, providing for open meeting, and establishing an effective date. 5C, ordinance, second reading with a caption reading. An ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas, authorizing the lease of city property located adjacent to and northeast of New Sweden Church Road and consisting of approximately 72 acres. Such property to be used for farming, providing cumulative repealer and subability clauses, providing for open meetings, and establishing an effective date. Again, 5D, 5e, 5F, and 5G have been pulled. All remaining items may be acted upon in a single motion.

Uh, I believe I had a motion from Rudy and a second from David. That's correct. Sure. happened to uh 4E. Oh, we we'll we'll talk about that. Yeah. All right. Consent uh items pass unanimously. I apologize, council. I I got a little ahead of myself.

I got uh got wrapped up in those proclamations. I skipped right over a presentation. Uh and I know this is a very important one for our for our folks. So going back briefly to item 4E to conduct a presentation on the city of Flutterville water supply. Uh we have Floelle uh Roberts our assistant city manager uh backed up by Matt Recctor our utility and engineering director is a phenomenal blazer blade to the ground. And Miss Roberts before you get started can you remind the people watching uh how long you've been here? Uh my first day was March 2nd. March 2nd. The day after the emergency was declared. Yes sir.

Your first before? Yes. Stage one. Emergency was declared on the third. Fourth. March 4th was the Oh, I thought it was March 1st. Stage one was March 1st. Oh, that's right. Thank you.

Good evening, Mayor and Council. Um we are going to uh Matt Recctor, Chief and I are giving you an update um on the occurrences on the uh waterline project between since last uh council meeting. So on April 26th, we hit um or we surpassed the 633 um target elevation. So ahead of schedule. Yeah, sir. Ahead of schedule.

Yes, sir. Uh we greatly appreciate everyone's um efforts in conservation. Um we do encourage you all to continue uh conserving. Um but thank you again. This is a a graphic showing just what our water levels have been um uh at the elevation levels have been at the lake. Um, as of yesterday, again, we're still just above the 633 um, elevation. Um, and we're we're hoping to continue that upward tren trend. Oh, I need to um again on the Okay,

this slide, we know on um well, April 23rd, we actually hit the 633 mark. We s we continue to surpass it. on that same day, April 23rd, uh we started um using a bit more water um daily. So our goal is still to continue using 4 MGD of water. Um as of yesterday, we're using 4 um 666 uh MDD of water. So again, we are still urging everyone to continue our conservation efforts. Here we're providing you uh with a few updated photos. So the first two photos that you see are photos within and um just outside of the pump station. Um our contractor is doing some um some piping work there. Um the last photo, the third photo you see on the far right uh is an updated photo of the temporary 24in temporary bypass water line. here. These are photos that that illustrate the continued um construction of the 42-in waterline. Um that that's what you can see in the first two photos from the left and on the photo on the right. Um again, it's also a photo of the 42 in uh waterline. This is the outfall at the lake. And in the background of that third photo, um you can see just how much uh the lake has risen, which is great.

Um and also in the first two photos, um you can see just how the contractor has been somewhat affected by the the water, the rainwater that we've experienced here lately. So, we'll give it to Matt um and he'll talk about uh our water treatment plant. I actually had a couple of questions. Um is there a a goal for how um high we want the lake elevation to be before the pumps are are shut down for the two weeks for the repairs?

Our minimum elevation was 633. Um, at the very least we want to hold that, but if we can get much more water in the lake, it it it'll be even better for our operation. Okay. And then um my other question was um when the pumps are shut down for those two weeks, do we have an expected decline in the lake elevation that we um are anticipating based on current usage and how low we might get we um by the time the pumps are turned back on?

Of course, it depends. Sure. It depends on a number of factors. It depends on the amount of water um that we all use on a daily basis. It depends on how much of the water is evaporated from the lake. Um some things we cannot estimate. Um so I I can't give you a definitive answer. But the the goal being that 633 provides us with enough buffer to Yes, sir. to make it through that. You're saying you can't give us a guesstimation on the elevation of her question. Uh we are trying to hold to that 633.

Oh, that I I got that. But she's asking for a guesstimation on how low you expect it to go down based on those two weeks. I sus suspect that that should be something that we could guesstimate based on mathematics. I I would imagine so. I mean, we're talking two weeks, 14 days at uh between 5 and 10 million gallons a day. So that's going to be between we might be able to look at 140 million gallons a day. The other graph showing how quickly we declined when the pumps were off in the past. Um and do we how many million gallons are in that last foot? Put that in the weekly. Yeah.

Yeah. We'll have to do some math. Um, it could be of 5 million gallons used, it could be 14 million gallons used a day. So, there's going to be a big swing of what that number looks like, but maybe we'll apply those big swing of numbers and then attempt to calculate the feet and we'll try to guess if it's going to rain or not. Just a guess. The rain definitely definitely helped a bit. So, I don't know. 80% Friday, might be 4% Friday. I don't know. So,

I I figured you guys had a a an estimate of, you know, that we needed to be up at a certain level to make sure we didn't go down to past a certain level when the pumps are turned off based on the the the brakes historically and how quickly the decline had happened. Uh, so I I don't mean to put you on the spot. I just Yeah. So, um, I I can say that I've run a myriad of numbers trying to do my best weatherman impression, predicting what might happen in the future. Um, stop. And so, we um I I looked back historically, like your past three summers,

to see what your max day demand was and what your uh average day demand was. And then I ran those numbers assuming that we would hit those and hold those for the 10 the 14-day shutdown. Um assuming that we started at 633, which we're above that right now. So that helps us. And assuming that you hit your average day demand based on what you've seen the past three summers, then we do drop down back into where we would be. Let me just go back to this. Uh so you would drop very solidly into that blue zone uh somewhere in the uh 628 to 627 range depending on and on how high the demand actually gets. Now if you start seeing max day demand numbers come back um by the end of the 14 days you're basically back into stage three. But we will be at it is anticipated that at this time we would be in stage one bearing any major things and so we would still have the limit of once a week outdoor watering at that point. So ideally, we wouldn't expect maximum,

right? That's that's why we're doing the that's one of the reasons why we are proposing the modified stage one to try to keep that limit in place so that we don't see those really real high numbers um and put us back into a situation where we have to really start trying to squeeze the usage back down. So the theoretically if we um keep our usage closer to the 4 million gallons a day from now until May 27th it would is it possible that we could get up to 635 at a normal level and then have a bigger buffer or 634.

Um we're already 633.3. So that gives us about 30 days. uh we as you know just like we talked about when we're drawing down as you get closer and right the amount of draw down changes because the bottom of the lake is narrower than the top. So, as we get higher and higher, it takes a lot more water to see those jumps. And so, the past few days, you're seeing less than a tenth of a foot increase per day. And we're pumping just as much water as we have been. And so, that's where you're seeing that widened lake taking longer to get that rise.

So, so Matt Matt, if I could ask you, one of the things that I I'd asked the city manager, and I I don't know that we've been able to do this math due to the rains, uh, but we know how much water we're putting into the lake. We know how much water we're pulling out of the lake, but we don't know how much the weather is is helping us out. Um, but do you have you been able to track and say, you know, this this foot contains this much water? Uh, we know that, you know, 30 to 31 630 to 631 is maybe 50 million gallons and 631 to 632 is maybe 100 and 632 to 633 is. Do we know any any rough numbers like that?

So, we do. Uh the way we did it was we took a survey that you guys had done back in 2021 of the lake and we used the top topographical uh contour lines and used an average end area method which is I know technical that sounds that sounds good

but basically we use that to determine how much water could fit in each of those one foot increments of the lake. That's how I'm running these numbers is I'm using I created that we created that spreadsheet. I'm running that through this different analysis saying if we draw 8 million gallons out, what does that do? If we draw 15 million gallons out, what does that do? And so that's how I'm trying to help do my predictions on what might happen. Do you do you know how much 632 to 633 contains? Not right off the top of my head.

Not off the top of your head. Okay. My my hope is that we're talking even if we pulled 10 million gallons a day for uh 14 days, that's 140 million gallons. I would expect that that's probably just a foot at these higher levels. I'm I'm making a guess. We we can pull out the spreadsheet and confirm it for you. It'd be it'd be helpful to see those models and see the see the numbers. Okay. Um, but the expectation is hitting 633 allows us to weather, pardon the pun, the uh the shutdown. Yes, that was part of the the conversation that we've had on a regular basis is to try to give us that little bit of extra comfort zone

um so that we could do this shutdown and not have to go back into this situation where we say, "Okay, now we're back to this." Yeah, we situation. We don't want to go backwards. And we know that once this twoe shutdown is done, all going well that uh we'll have much more capacity filling the lake at that point in time. We'll be exceeding our our outtake with our input. Um yeah. So once the system is back up and running, the 42 in and the 30 in are back fully functional, then yes, we could theoretically be more than the amount of water that we normally would draw.

Right. Well, and I know our our draw uh rights are 22 million gallons a day, correct? Um but with the uh with both pipelines, since we do have redundancy, we have capacity to draw more than that. Have we considered uh seeking a uh u you know a temporary um exception to the limits to uh fill us up a little bit faster once both pipelines are back online? Um we haven't considered that but partially because the pumps that are being installed were only designed to hit that 22 million gallons keep that capacity. So even though the pipes could provide more water, if we were to run all four pumps simultaneously, we're only going to be able to pull 22 million.

Okay, that's a key point because if you don't want to stress the system and if there's designed specifically for that to be denoted as that, you don't want any put any pressure one way or the other as well. To that point though, um, our when we were doing the the bypass, we're intentionally not pumping the max available because of not putting stress on the on on that bypass. The pipe is limiting capacity. So So the pipe limits capacity, but also we only have two functional pumps right now.

Yeah. So but the two functional pumps could pump in 11 million and we're doing 9 or 9 or 9.5. We are averaging between 9 and a half and 10 million gallons a day, but that's because of the 24 in pipe restriction. The pipe is the the Okay. I thought it I thought that you guys had discussed that we weren't pumping at maximum capacity. No, we are we got both pumps on full blast. Okay. Good. It's just that that's all we can fit.

You're literally going with something Yeah. like this something like this. So then if four pumps the maximum capacity is 22 million gallons a day and that is our agreement with LC are we we're not expecting to do that every day. That's just the maximum that we could do in high demand times. Yeah, we we we don't anticipate running all four pumps 247. Uh the the system was not actually designed for that. That's the maximum capacity you could push it to. But talk to any engineer, any sustained capacity,

they're gonna say run three maybe and leave that fourth one as a backup.

Yeah. If if I was going to say, let's be clear, when we're talking about like 22 MGD, that's a heck of a lot. Like I I I don't even know how to explain. Like that's a lot of water. That is a lot of water to go and do this. And so I mean, you know, you have that high point just theoretical. That's what it usually is, you know, in worst case scenarios. And obviously we're taking advantage of that worst case scenario with that right now. But normally, yeah, you don't even get near that threshold. And you don't want to have anything on the system to go in with that capacity. And that comes into all sorts of other issues regarding water rights and everything else cuz if you're pulling more, that's not just coming out of thin air. That's coming from someone else that you're pulling from.

Well, we're paying for it. Well, no, no, but I'm saying if you over like Yeah. Um, when the the all the pumps are installed at the end of this two week shutdown, to the mayor's point, are we planning to do max capacity? Um, at that point to get us back quicker to the the desired lake elevation.

Um, I think that's going to be a call that we make once we get closer to that point. Um, if we are still trending pretty low with 4 MGD and that's the demand that that we're pulling out of the lake and we don't need to full full blast the 22, then my recommendation is that we don't go to the 22 because again while the system can handle that on a peak level, that is not something that you want to do on a sustained basis. So, I would say turn on three pumps, do the recovery, and then go back to like a two pump operation just to maintain the lake levels. That would be my recommendation. Now, if we get into dire straits, then yes, I may change my mind, but and ultimately it's not my call to make. I'm just making recommendations. So,

appreciate it. You're like, hey, you knuckleheads want to make that decision to go do and I appreciate the math, too.

Uh, okay. So uh one of the things that we wanted to talk about one of the and part of the reason why we are suggesting that we keep uh the demand low from the citizens is because the other piece of the puzzle that we haven't really been talking about a lot is the water treatment plant. So we've been talking a lot about the pump station and the raw water line that feeds the lake. Well, on the other side of the lake, you have another pump station that feeds feeds the treatment plant. So, the treatment plant was originally designed for 17.7 MGD. It's aged a little bit and as you can see in this picture, we've got a lot of things in construction out there. So, the constrained capacity of the plant uh in addition to the fact that we didn't we purposely didn't replace some of the things in the old plant because we're building a new plant and we were trying to be fiscally conservative. that kind of restricts what the plant can actually do. And so we're anticipating that really we don't want to push that plant beyond a 10 million gallon peak or an 8 million gallon average, which is in line with your typical average summer demands, but we still want to try to keep away from that what we think could be the breaking point as much as possible because this is another critical piece that we have to consider in this in this process. Matt, how long is this temporary limitation going to be in place?

Um, so we are working with the contractor right now to figure out like when all the different pieces of the plant can be online. Uh, but right now we are we are in conversations on their schedule. So I mean before the end of the year that's that's our goal. Yes. Is we're we're targeting right now uh Thanksgiving. Okay, cool. That's But substantial completion is that that's what we're targeting. Now, I like to say construction happens. So, okay, that's cool. And what's our highest historical daily use? Oh,

our highest historical uh based on the Now, I only went back three years. That's right. So, um the highest historical use that I found in that three years was right at 16 million gallons. Okay. So that doesn't include during the peak of the COVID years. No. Is that correct? Okay. It was just going back to 2020. I think I went back to 2022. From 2025 to 2022. So I looked at those three years. Okay. All right. Melody, you just said that online still says June. So we may want to update online just to that dashboard. So that's why I said we're in conversation.

It's okay. No, it's okay. We we were saying that just so for y'all cuz you don't have to hear a complaint. So that's Well, because people asked those questions. Yeah. And online it said anticipated substantial completion date April 1st, 2026. So just if we can update that so everyone's on the same page. Okay, we will. All right. So where does that put us? So we are suggesting that we go into a modified stage one.

Cool. And what does that mean for everybody who um has you know has been bearing with us and and helping us out get to this level. Uh so we are going to go to you can water your lawns or your landscaping on your stage one days. So the ordinance as it sits today says based on your address you have certain days that you can water. So we are recommending that we allow that but hand watering. So that's like actually standing there holding a hose that's you know controlled by your hand. Um vehicle washing

uh is allowed again on your designated days again using a bucket and a handheld controlled hose. Uh we don't want to go crazy with with just letting the hose run forever and watering in the driveway. Um, so you're saying that if we have a sprinkler that's you plug the hose in and the sprinkler goes off, those aren't allowed. You have to actually be using your hand. We are not doing manual irrigation. So there's automatic irrigation, which is like the regular. Oh, we know they're not automatic. We're saying it's it's got to be your hand. The old school where you move it around. Yeah, I have one. There's a little tractor. Yep. It's a jump through. No. So,

dog. We're still we're still trying to restrict it. So, we want you doing it by hand because if you're standing out there, you're less likely just to set it and forget it and go, "Oh, yeah, 3 hours later, I forgot I turned that hose on." That happens. And but it is scheduled to rain or predicted to rain in the next 3 days. Yes. So, that should help. That should help. Um we are still saying that if you are using water to wash, rinse, or treat your outdoor surfaces like your driveways, your sidewalks, those kind of things, we're not going to allow that.

Okay. Um, swimming pools and hot tubs, we're allowing you to operate normally, but we are saying that draining your pool and refilling your pool, not a lot. So, if you're if you already have water in there and you need to add water for chemical loads, bather loads, all those kind of things, that's a phrase I learned from parks, by the way. Um, then then you're good. Otherwise, no. Uh, new pools and irrigation permits are allowed only if you are using non city water sources. Uh splash pad operation is still prohibited. Use of fire hydrants for construction is prohibited. Fishing at Lake Flugerville is now allowed. And then once we can get to an elevation of 634, we are going to allow swimming and boating.

So dare I ask when we expect we might get to 634 for swimming and boating. Uh so I'm going to do my math using your math. not holding you to anything, but just general time frame. Uh, so we're at a 633.3 right now, and we've been averaging about a 08.07 growth per day since we got to these higher levels. Uh, so 10 days, 10 to 14 days, something like that. She said less than two weeks. She being Serena. Yeah. Assuming

inquiring minds want to know assuming we keep the demand levels low. Sure. And I did have a question about the rain. How much does it help? And then someone pointed out to me that there were some streams or drainage that did flow into the lake cuz before it was my understanding that we didn't have anything that flowed into the lake. So is that the case that we do have some creeks or streams going into the lake and then how much So the lake is not a creekfed lake. There are no natural creeks or uh rivers that feed the lake. That's why we have the raw water line. Yeah.

There are however some drainage from nearby developments that do make their way into the lake. Um, by all of the anecdotal evidence that I have seen, I haven't actually ran drainage numbers and runoff numbers to calculate how much it is. It's it's not a significant amount. I mean, when we had the biggest rain events, we saw a very slight uptick in the jump of the lake. So, it's dimminimous at best. So therefore, consequently, it's important again for our students to know that where it rains matters, and we want the rain to go into Highland Lakes because that's what feeds the water pipeline, which actually feeds into those things right there. Correct. So, go west.

Yeah. Yeah. As I as I walked the area, I do I did notice I think the villages of Hidden Lake uh neighborhood does have a a drainage ditch, a detention area that uh runs into the lake. There there are several that uh storm drains that feed from the the neighboring roads, but it's runoff. It's not fed. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And with that, I'll turn it over to Chief to talk about enforcement. Good evening, Mayor Council. I I'm pleased to report since the last update, we've only issued seven more citations. Oh, excellent. Would have to be with the rain. It could be also the inability for us to identify as well. So

well hopefully they didn't need to do everything has had the desired effect for their yards and it has been compliance and we do have a rather large docket set for the next round of ordinance violations becoming about 24 for the next 24th yes 24 24 24 on the do the next on the next docket when's the next mid I believe is midday okay thanks chief thank Just to let everyone know, I don't know if you've noticed in the photo, Nessie has returned. Oh, there she is. Hi, Missy.

Okay.

Okay. So, we'll move on to a couple of FAQs. Um and um one question that we've been receiving was um how does or what does a twoe shutdown mean for customers? So first and foremost, customers will not receive or see any service delivery. So there will be no interruption um in in the delivery of our service of water to anyone. Um with that said, uh the shutdown is going to allow our contractors to fully connect um our newly installed water lines and to repair the the broken uh 30-in water lines. And another question that we've been receiving is why is the city modifying the permitted uses under uh stage one? Um and this ties back to what Matt said earlier. Uh we have uh limitations caused by the uh water treatment plant that is undergoing uh active construction. And so um this the implementation of the stage one program is um our effort to maxifi maximize the benefit that our our customers will receive um and while we ensure that we provide um the maximum capacity possible. And that said we're complete. Any other questions?

Council any any other questions that we didn't ask while we went along? So um what One theme that I've seen um people talk about is water quality. Do you have any updates on customers concerns about the taste andor cloudiness or I you know things in the water when when I've seen pictures and things like that. So I was wondering if you could address that.

Um staff is always uh testing our water. um for um turbidity um which would be the cloudiness that you see and the and the water and also um taste um I have not uh received any notification that we have had any violations regarding those those matters. So our water is still safe to drink to consume. So I mean because people we had um discussed before that the um the flushing of the fire hydrants. Yes ma'am.

Was that was that at the dead dead end or dead end that that um could help with the the taste that people are are noticing although I'm continuing to see concerns even after that.

Um how often do we do that flushing? So, um TCQ does have regulations on when we can our need to flush um depending on what the the matter is. Um and also we will flush if we continue to receive uh complaints or concerns regarding taste or odor. Um because that helps to clear out um um any any uh mineral deposits that may sink to the bottom of the pipe.

Correct me if I'm wrong. Our our general practice prior to all of this trouble has been to flush twice a month and now we are flushing the the minimum TCQ requirement which is once a month. Is that correct? I believe I mean it's not posted for action. Is that under the emergency order? I just want to make sure too, we are suggesting um even though it's not postfraction, our anticipation is that we um the media will likely publish this tonight. Um we need a little bit of time just to put the message out. So I was going to say Thursday, Friday it's effective. I mean, I don't think we're going to, you know, what about May 1st?

May 1st is Friday and and I think that would be perfect, but I have a feeling the media will get ahead of it before we can do full messaging. But we will um just by the end of this week we will have this out and which just happens to be May 1st. It does. And are we still encouraging our citizens to go to the Flugerville website in order to find out exactly which date they can begin um watering their lawns? Don't use chat GBT.

We will post all of that information um on our website. We we always try to link to the website. Also, as you're reading Facebook comments, um, know that like if there's a complaint on water, we we don't have a staff that will go find that person, get their address. If you have a complaint, please call us. Please tell us where you're at. We will flush hydrants. We want to help. Um, but we we can't chase down and answer every 300 public comments on Facebook. Um, and oftentimes we find out they don't live here. And so it's just or or they live in the ET and they're not using our water. So please tell us um if you're having any taste issues

and that information is on the water conservation page of who to contact for that. I will make sure it is but somewhere in there. Yes. All right. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you Matt. Thanks Chief. Thank you guys. Thank you, Sure.

All right. Now, we will move uh forward to item 6A. This is an item to conduct a public hearing and consider an ordinance on first reading with the caption reading. An ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas, amending the Aspire Flugerville 2040 uh the city's comprehensive plan by amending the plan's future land use map. Such amendment to be known as the Dixon Locket Amendment, which amends the future land use categories for properties adjacent to and north of Taylor Street and west of Russell Street and providing for the repeal of conflicting ordinances. severability and an effective date.

Good evening, mayor and council. For the record, Ashley Bailey, Planning and Development Services Director. Um the item, technical difficulties on my part. Um the properties located here that you can see outlined in yellow are just over a third of an acre each. They are located at the northwest corner of Taylor Avenue and Russell Street in the historic um colored edition. So here you can see we did include the original plat and I do know I was able to see that original deed of sale. It is so cool if you get to see that. Um, these are ancestral properties and so the applicant is requesting to change the future land use map amendment from open space back to traditional neighborhood um so that they would be able to build homes on those lots. The current designation you can see here the current designation of that open space parks open space does not allow for the home. The property is currently zoned um agricultural just that development reserve. So what they will be doing is if this future land use map amendment is approved then they would come back later for a reasonzoning into that suburban type residential. Okay.

Another question. Um since some of these areas I believe do have homes on them already. I'm just wondering why it was designated as agricultural thereby making the the property owners have to go through this process which is a barrier. Not not agricultural parks. parks and open space, but the the the rest of the green on on the right side is the right side of the um page is the zoning map. I can certainly look into that. I'm not sure where that happened, but we can look into that and get you an answer

just because it adds time and effort to the property owner to have to to do that. And then um I guess you probably don't know why everyone else around on this map was designated as traditional neighborhood or I'm not sure what the the red is neighborhood retail and then those two. It just seems kind of interesting that those were parks and open space when the rest it was traditional. I'm just making an observation but you know it is ownorous for so a is given at the time of annexation.

Okay. And so the purpose here was because that was the original um it's kind of the least invasive. It's um a baseline whenever you annex you make it yes more of a default. Um definitely the intention was not to make it more difficult but to make it more easy for someone to come in and and give a vision of what they would like to do. So just for the other area, all those ones that are traditional neighborhood, if they wanted to change something or add something, would they have to come and adjust this agricultural designation as well? Potentially if there were other redevelopment efforts like every other area in town that gets annexed.

Okay. Yeah, we're we're tonight we're considering a um amendment to the Aspire 2040 plan because that is the vision for what those would turn into. Um since that one currently says parks and open space, then we typically would not consider a reasonzoning request for traditional neighborhoods. So, we'll be looking at amending the comprehensive plan as a whole so that we would then allow for the resoning.

Correct. And on the screen right now, you can see the difference between just those two future land use categories. So, you can see on the one side it is was the parks and open space and then the traditional neighborhood that we'd be looking at moving to, which allows for residential but also could allow for some commercial if the property owner um so desired or some mixed use of some sort. So, here we go. With that, um, this does match with the strategic plan, including creating density, enhancing community desiraability, and creating clear pathways to home ownership. So, that was an important one that we wanted to point out to you. And this will ensure that land use category included in the future land use map in the Aspire um, Flugerville 2040 comprehensive plan um, is consistent with the resoning that the applicant will be pursuing um, subsequent to this amendment. Um the effect of change and need for city services is there as you are aware there is a capital improvement program u project going on right now it's water wastewater and the roadways and this is compatibility with existing uses character and the development patterns within that neighborhood. So with that um staff does recommend PNZ did vote five to zero on this item as well only because two were absent um to approve the land use map amendment as presented and um with that there would be a second reading on May 12th for this item. Can you take me back real quick to the original plat?

Yes. And indeed. So, looking at this resoning request, uh we see we see lots one through six on that block. Uh the outline makes it look like this is lots one through five. Uh is lot six included in this resoning. No, there there would be. So, the for the future of land use map amendment, it would just be lot 1 A and 2 A, which I believe is just one through five. And there is that little hold out. Okay. I I just wanted clarity on this. I know one of the things that

uh we had contemplated in the comprehensive plan was the need for uh parks or community gathering space in this neighborhood. Uh and I think we had initially targeted those lots. Uh but does this leave enough room for that on lot six or will we be needing to look for other uh locations, other parcels uh for a park in this area?

Depending on the size that was desired. If you look at these two lots, they're sized about a third of an acre. So if it was the entire block that was looked at for open space, we're looking probably closer to an acre. Um if we want that, I would suggest that we would reach out to other property owners in that vicinity. Um but for lot six if that owner is amendable to that that could be a solid there may be a um a land over land owner there was significant with some other property some other holdings yeah that all right would be interested in that council do you have any uh questions before I open the public hearing it's great

all right this is a public hearing and I invite anyone from the public wishing to speak on this item uh to make themselves known I do have one person signed up, Renee uh Lockett. Uh if you'd come forward.

Good evening. I am back. My name is Renee Lockett. Um thank you for this opportunity uh to speak in support of my comprehensive plan amendment request. This request is personal and longstanding for my family. Our roots influ go back generations. My grandfather George Cwell Jr. and his brothers helped build St. Mary's Missionary Baptist Church in the early 1900s and my family has remained active there. Our grandmother, Fanny May Tyson Cwell, was honored through the naming of Cwell Elementary School. This community helped shape my family and we have always viewed it as home. I recently moved into the area back in 2024 to help support my father who is currently 94 years old and a active resident of Flugville, Texas. The land we are discussing was purchased by my greatgrandfather J. E. Tyson in 1919. And um this I mentioned this is the promisary note that he had where it identifies what he paid for this land. It has the $200. It has uh three quarters of the fifth and seventh bales of cotton. Uh one brown horse, a mule, a bay of hay I believe that is and one iron wagon wheel. And and this is what we have right here.

That is so cool. It's amazing piece. Has has the does has the library made a copy of that for their collection? I do not know if we have that in the library or not, but my family has been that would be something the library totally. We'd love the opportunity to get a uh a scan of that. Okay. If you'd be. Yes.

Yeah. We were just talking about the history. For decades, it has been a place where our family gathered and where our history was carried forward. In 2023, we replanted the property as as part of reasonable maintaining it and preparing it for its next chapter. We are I am requesting an amendment to the future land use map in the colored editions of division for the properties at 1304 and 1312 Taylor Avenue from parks and open space to traditional neighborhood. My intention is to build my forever home on this land and create a stable multigenerational living environment. This is not a commercial or expectative request. I believe it aligns with the comprehensive plan's goal for thoughtful growth family oriented housing and responsible land use. I respectfully ask for your recommendation of approval for this future land use map amendment for 1304 and 1312 Taylor Avenue. Thank you for your time, your service, and your consideration.

Thank you so much for that. I'd like to make a motion to close public comments. Let me let me ask anyone else. Is there anyone else wishing to speak on this item? Okay. I I see no one else coming forward to speak on this item. All right. Mayor Prom, once again, I um first of all, thank you. I love history. I'd like to make to make a motion to close public comment. Second. I have a motion in a second to close the public hearing for this item. Yes, we have uh completed the public hearing. What was that document? It was the actual as a promisory note or no.

Oh, that was the original. Oh, the original plat. The original plat. Yeah. Which would make it math. 116 days and one day to the date we're making this. Oh, no kidding. I didn't I didn't notice. 116 years. I did the date. I didn't notice the date on there. April 27th, 1910. Mayor, we entertain a motion. Uh, I will entertain a motion. Motion approve 6A as presented. Second. I have a motion to approve 6A in a few seconds. Kimberly wins. Rudy always has to be. You did say D. The comprehensive plan amendment passes unanimously. Congratulations.

Congratulations on that. I imagine this is one step in the process. There are a few more we'll be going through, but we uh we look forward to seeing you again.

Look forward to see what you do. Uh that brings us to item 6B to conduct a public hearing and consider an approving an ordinance of first reading with the caption reading an ordinance of the city of Flugerville, Texas amending chapter 95 parks and recreation article 5 recreation programs standards of care of the city of Flugerville code of ordinances to adopt standards of care for city for the city's youth recreational programs as required by state law and amending various sections within the article to update the standards containing accumulative and severability clauses and providing other matters related to the subject. We have uh we have Jonathan with us today.

Hello, Mayor Council. Thank you. So, Jonathan, I we we go through this every year because that's that's our requirement. Um I've heard strangely enough proactively from more people asking this given um some of the things that have happened across the state um this year. So um looking forward to this presentation and seeing things from that as well.

Absolutely. Um so this year's presentation will be very simple. Uh as you mentioned this is something that we do every year to exempt us uh via the Texas Human Resources Code um from being a licensed child care facility. Our programs are recreational in nature and do not meet those requirements. Um and so this year we've only changed one item in that document. really it's updating to make sure that our weather policies are matching the National Weather Service. And so that is the only change that we have to this year's document. So I would entertain any questions. Any questions council motion? Well, this is this is a public hearing. I thought that too.

Let the public speak. I was going to go. Uh, at this time I open the public hearing and ask anyone of the public wishing to speak on this item. Kim's like he's tired of us. I want to go home. I I see no one approaching to speak on this item. Um, move to close public hearing. Second. Second. I have a motion and a second to close the public hearing. We actually see people fleeing. It's a great opportunity. Uh, the move for public hearing is closed. He said, he said approve. Motion to approve. Yeah, David motion. David, did I hear a motion there? You did. Okay.

David move to approve. Caesar second. He's trying to flee out of this meeting, too.

Uh, motion passes. unanimously. Thank you. That takes us to our regular agenda uh section of the uh the meeting. Item 7A is to discuss and consider action to approve a change order with SJ Lewis Construction of Texas LTD in the amount of 1,268,889.51 for work associated with the secondary Colorado River raw water line bid package 3 uh project WA2201 and authorize the city manager to execute the same. Uh director Recctor,

good evening again, mayor and council. Uh as indicated, this is the change order. This is the long awaited uh change order on the 30-inch repair. Uh so uh what they're going to be doing is they are going to be removing all of the damaged pipe from brakes one through four. Uh so all that will come out. They will put in brand new pipe to replace it all. Uh then they are also going to disconnect the 24-in bypass line. And then because of the way we had to tap the 30-inch on each side, uh rather than trying to remove those taps and pull them out of the ground, we're going to put manholes in so that if we ever need to access them in the future, they are there for us. Interesting.

And so, um that's the very high level overview of of what's in this change order. Um staff's recommending that we go ahead and approve it. Uh, I will say I I met with the contractor and the owner's rep and the design engineer yesterday. They do uh anticipate that um this is a worst case scenario uh change order. Okay.

Um because some of the things that are in there like the mortar curtains or the ground well digging, those kind of things, they're hoping that they don't have to do as many of them as what they're projecting. Um, with groundwater coming up due to all the rains and it being approximate to the creek, we thought it better to be safe than sorry. Cool. Thank you. Uh, council, any questions? Sounds smart.

Yes. Um, so you had mentioned that we were going to replace all of the areas for breaks one through four and um, what about breaks break five? Um, we were not recommending to replace brake five. Uh, we kept that open once they put the the welded the butt strap on there. And then once they re reepied and or not epoxied, sorry, re remorted the pipe. Uh, we are confident that it's holding its own and we don't see any real risk to keeping that pipe that section of pipe in in place. Ju just for clarity, uh brakes one through four are all generally within the same proximity.

Correct. Break five is about seven miles down the the the way. We're since we're replacing the pipe for break four, it seems like replacing the sections of one, two, and three. It's just all right there, right? Because break four is the one that's under the creek that we can't actually get to yet without taking all the pipe out. and breaks one, two, and three are just on the north bank, right against where all the bins and twists are coming out of that underground pipe. Okay. Uh Melody, your your other question.

Uh so the contractor did take responsibility for breaks one through three. So, but we are incurring the costs to replace the the areas for breaks one through three. Yes, that is included in in this change order.

Okay. And then um on the summary it said that the funding is going to be um WIFIA and Texas Water Development Board and I'm assuming that's the debt for that. So um my question is um where is this cost going to be funded from? Is it going to be funded from our reserve fund um balance or is it going to be included in the cost of the secondary water line as a contingency or where exactly is it going to be um recorded because those are different um impacts on possible water rates. So that that's a it's a little complicated to answer. Um so I where it's going to be recorded is it's going to be recorded in the cost of the secondary raw water line because it's a change order to that contract. So the it'll be recorded as an expense from that contract. Um but and I like the finance director to check me to make sure I'm telling you correctly. We're we're funding it currently out of reserves and then I think we're going to reimburse oursel with WIFIA and water development board funds.

Okay. So if we do that then previously we said this is an emergency fund. It's going to come out of the reserve so it's not going to affect water rates. So if we are taking it from debt that debt goes into our water rates. So then my question is is this cost going to affect our water rates? Um taking it from tranch one. Is that correct? Yeah.

But debt service you know I mean because it could go for other expenses for the the you know construction. So it it's just that we said it wasn't going to affect water rates because it's coming from the reserve fund. So, if it's not coming from the reserve fund, then it will affect water rates if it's coming from debt because debt service goes into our water rates. I just want to be very clear about that. Um, yeah. So, this want to phone a friend. Yeah, you're the one standing there. I know this project originally came in like $20 million below our original projection. So, there is some available.

Wait, wait, wait. Let's let's $20 million okay of savings. So I I think what's what's important to recognize so when when we have said this will not affect water rates um the cost that has already been issued is already calculated into the current water rates. Correct. It's been baked in. So there's no change to right current or projected water rates based on this expense.

Yeah. When we when we originally said reserve, I didn't realize how they were structuring this change order, but because they're structuring it the way they are, we're going to treat it as part of this project and we're going to use funds available for this project. But just to be clear, if we were lower under budget and didn't need to borrow debt and then we are now borrowing more debt instead of using it from our reserve fund, that will go into our water rates. We're not borrowing more debt. We are using what was already part of the WIFIA funding for this project in Yeah. in lie of other projects that we could use it for.

So, I just feel like we should be very careful about creating a narrative that isn't actually the case for this so that we don't confuse people on it. Just sense. But that is the bottom line. If if we didn't have this expense, we would use that money for other water projects or we would not borrow it.

Okay. So, what you're saying is that okay, even though this project has come $20 million under budget, but because of the fact that we are going to have to spend 1.2, 2, we can circle up to 1.3 on something. That is a number that is um calculable to that $20 million that we wouldn't have had to have spent in the first place. That's what that's what you're saying, right? Yeah. Plus the 400,000 from before. Okay. Yeah. Let's point it at to 1.7. But and but our point is is that So that's true. That's true. But what we're saying is that $20 million under budget over here as well is pretty significant which is already calculated into the water. It's baked in. It's already baked in.

So we get I get what you're saying. What I mean if you come under budget then you don't borrow the money. So because you borrow the money usually based on Yeah. You you borrow the money and you could use it then for other other water projects that where you wouldn't need to borrow future debt possibly. But the board debt is specifically for this project and we'll be able to fund other projects from our reserves. Yeah. Not that loan. The whiffy. No, no, but we have other reserves. We have uh as other projects as other capital improvements come forward, we'll be able to fund those from reserves.

Uh I mean the challenge we have is that I I never say the word right. You're going to have to tell me if I'm pronouncing this correctly. Uh but money is fungeible. Fungable is funible funible. Yeah, you gota write the first. Yeah. So, yeah, we we have capacity within this loan and this loan is already contemplated in our water rates. So, the water rates won't change due to this allocation. Correct. And future allocations that could otherwise have been covered by debt can now be covered by reserves.

Absolutely. Except for the Wiffio. Just like you said, we've already done the worst case scenario and it's already been baked in and we're still back down to $20 million and and what we're saying is be charitable 1.7 million of that $20 million. So, you know, I I think that's called a win. 1.7 million extra out of $20 million in a worst case scenario.3 million. Those are two different situations. If we didn't have the 1.7 million, it is the cost but to the tax. Would you entertain a motion? I would. Motion to approve 7A as presented.

Second. I have a motion and a second.

David. David. All right. Motion passes unanimously. Uh that brings us to item 7B, discussing consider action to approve a construction contract with Liberty Civil Construction in the amount of $18,733,236 for construction services associated with the Emanuel Road project and authorize the city manager to execute the same. How much money are you saving us? Now, this this one's spending money. How how much value are you for this money? Uh how many how many lane? Let me introduce myself. My name is Brad Lamine and I'm one of the project managers in transportation with CIP.

Pleasure to have you with us today. Glad to be here. So the original uh uh estimated probable cost was about 25 million and we received as bids as high as 22 and as low as around 18.2 and uh we went through the best value system. We had competitive silk proposal and we evaluated that the two lowest and we just spoke with uh with each of the those final two biders and determined the best value was liberty civil construction. So can you can you explain just very quickly what best value is because I think some folks just assume that government just takes whatever the bottom barrel is and we go from there.

Certainly. So um there's a couple of factors in this case. There were a total of five. The first was the proposed cost. Second was the amount of time and the other three included the qualifications in previous history with the contractors as well as our subcontractors and uh that's just just to name a few. That's cool. I did have one question. Have we I I don't recognize the name of someone we've been using consistently lately. Correct. Is this a new contractor that we're using for the first time? Have they been around that we're Okay. So, from my understanding, the city is using Libert Liberty Civil Construction for downtown East. Is that correct? One of one of the contractors. Okay. So, it isn't it isn't the first time with with the city.

Okay. Is there an official report like we've received like last meeting that has the details of the bids received and the engineers recommendation? So, I can go ahead and provide a tally of the competitive silk proposal. In case of the the letter of recommendation from the consultant, uh the consultant gave one for a low bid rather the competitive S proposal and the city uh asked for a updated letter uh a recommendation and that was denied. And so we took the competitive S proposal matrix and the scores and then interviewed u

the the two finalists and kind of move on from there. So, is that the reason there wasn't an engineer letter? Because I I'm trying to make sure that I understand the process. Typically, we h whenever we're having a a road construction contract, we're supposed we it's our standard procedure to have a recommendation where we talk about the fair process that we've given through this bid and the bid matrix.

Thank you for asking your question. And it's um we we never want to be at odds with those we work with and and in this case we we did our best to work together with with the scope and and we moved forward with the matrix that was provided and then we had questions that were showed in the project manual uh or rather the categories were showed in the project manual and then asked those questions to the two uh potential vendors.

So this is not going to hinder the project. the project is not going to be below grade. This is not a a a refusal or rebuttal to the demands that we have for the project. It's just that ultimately we agreed to disagree on what we wanted with our final final analysis of who would be the proper um contractor for the specific project.

Correct. We the the panel was uh four uh city staff including a city man uh contract manager, construction manager, project manager and other staff etc. So we asked the questions and and gauge their answers by the answers they gave as well as our brief experience to see if the answers matched or if if we could follow through with follow-up questions as well. So speaking of of scope, uh I noticed that on the initial proposal uh we suggested uh 450 days uh to uh substantial uh uh completion and 480 days to final completion.

Uh but the contract doesn't specify at all. just leaves blank uh the substantial completion date and sets the final completion date at 517 days. Thank you for bringing 30 37 days uh longer than in our proposal. Um I'm I'm curious what's going on there. Thank you for for pulling it out and bringing it to our attention. It was a slight oversight. Now I can have anyone else like to speak to that, Matt?

Which Yeah. Which one's right? So, uh, page 327 has the, uh, uh, the contract and page, uh, 337 has the proposal. So, uh, the way this was done is our consultant uh, put in those dates. When we did the competitive seal proposal, one of the things that we asked them asked every proposer to look at was their schedule. So what you're seeing on that proposal is their recommended schedule based on their analysis of the project and all that kind of stuff. So that's why it came in at the 4 whatever I don't remember those numbers off the top of my head. 400 and some odd days 450 to 480.

Yes. Um and so uh there was an oversight on us when we got the contract put together that we didn't update those numbers and fill in those blanks to reflect what they put in their actual. So, so the 517 is not actually going to be the the the final that's what our engineer consultant assumed that it would take. The 450 to 480 is what the contractor thinks he can do the project. And I'm assuming the contract going to be is going to be 450 480. That's what he said. And and I'm assuming one of the reasons why we selected this particular bidder, you mentioned

timing as well. It sounds like they can get it done more quickly than the engineers expected. So that makes the roughly 2% over the the lowest bidder a little bit more favorable. That is correct. And that was one of the factors uh that we used when we scored and uh the scoring was very very close and liberty silicon function went out due to their their timing and making sure we completed earlier. So, my only suggestion would be um and I guess I don't know if it's to you or legal. Whenever y'all get, you know, these contracts presented in front of us, just go over those blanks because I think this is like the second or third time we've had questions about the blanks, but that's cool. Everything else is fine. That sounds smart.

Third time this year. So, I had um another question and um it was a very long um section. No, there's a lot a lot of pages on this one. Um, so that's Yeah. So, um, I don't know if I missed it, but what is the length of the road? The length of the road is approximately 1.3 miles. Okay.

And this is uh the scope is uh three lane cross-section. Uh, is that three lanes with turns or is it three lanes total? Uh, I'm on the hot seat. Um, welcome to our council. I know uh the the city decided to go with three million section was ultimately made uh in the original design portion and so um according to speaking with the the design consultant regarding questions regarding that. Um let me go and read this here. Um the city wanted to make sure that there was enough room to have provide left and right turn lanes and so the ultimate was was three in order to address that.

Okay. Um I guess my my rule of thumb is usually uh about$ 1.5 to $2 million per lane mile. So this does seem a little high. Is there a little water crossing? Is there a a creek crossing here? Yeah. Manual. Yes. and and that uh well as we as we discovered with Kelly Lane phase 2 that I think there's increases the uh the expense quite substantially. My recollection is there actually two creek crossings. That is correct. So with with two creek crossings you do have a substantial cost and you also have a bridge removal in this project as well for the past which is not too dissimilar from what we did. And do people even remember the bridge on Weiss anymore?

We remember that. Like I wonder if people even remember that it's still there, isn't it? Well, no. No. Remember the the old Oh, the original one. The the onelane bridge. Oh, yeah. I thought there still is. Okay, cuz that was my other question because um

since I didn't find the length of the street in this this information and we just last meeting had um East Lugerville Parkway, which I thought surely this is 50% more but not longer. Um it would be helpful to to have some context about how long it is just to you know I don't remember everything. Um, so but the reason then that this is more expensive than say East Lug Parkway which may be even longer. I'm not sure the 1.3 miles is because of the two creek crossings and the bridge removal. Correct. Okay. And can you let us know?

There's a lot of complexity in the topography on a manual that is not present on Flugville Parkway. drive both of those roads all the time and it's uh it's really surprising how you know they're three four miles apart and it's like a different world and then but also East Blue Parkway was four lanes

for the 12 million and this one's three lanes and so I did someone in the neighborhood did ask why we chose to do the three lanes rather than four lanes um each way. Um so if you could just provide some more insight to that.

So decision to go with a threelane section was ultimately made prior to the design consultant being awarded the design contract. The city directed the design consultant to follow the ride of way and flugville master plan during the design. Uh the master trans the transportation master plan adopted by the city of Flugerville showed Emanuel road as a major collector with a with a description of widen to three lane. The city reached out to the community during the design process an open house with two alternatives which is now shown in the plans with an alternative which included a bike lane pavement in the pavement. uh comments received favored this section which we now have which does not have a bike lane uh in the pavement. The shared use path that was built into the the secondary design uh in the current design addresses the need of a bicyclist. Uh also uh the form lane section would require additional right of way especially at the intersections which provide that left and right turn.

In layman's terms, what's a shared use path? Yes. A shared use path enables pedestrians. We just want and and bicyclists to cross each other without hitting each other. So, so a wide point for you to say big sidewalk. Thank you for the technical term. Yes. No, the the correct answer is an extension of our trail system to further cement our as the trail capital of Texas. I mean, Caesar's like, sprinkle some stuff over here. Sprinkle.

Okay. But what I what I'm hearing Thank you. I I appreciate that detailed explanation. Thank you very much. Um so basically the if we wanted to do four lanes, we would need to acquire more right of way, which would be more expensive and more and would cause more delays on this project. Correct. Also questionable whether you can even get the rightway because of how much is built up on either side. Oh my gosh. All that stuff on each side. Yeah. And and let's And you know, somebody rides a bike regularly over here. I mean, the shared use path, we've used that all over the city and it's done well. Like, there hasn't I I haven't heard anybody complain. We I think we might have a conversation at some point about I mean, these kids, which I would do the same. I'm not going to lie.

I I know all those electric bike and there's, you know, I'd do the same thing if I were them right in the school all over the place. That may be a conversation. Mayor, would you entertain a motion? I would. Mayor's mo mayor motion to 7D as presented approved. some different words but vernacular to say. Well, do we need to adjust the I mean as as presented was the um with um with the amendment to make sure that we have the applicable um dates denoted in the contract as specified in the conversation. Thank you. Yeah. Second. All right. There's my second from Caesar.

I like it you said y to speak. I knew Star Wars movie is going to mess up. Council M. Did you accept that friendly amendment that's a in section two to the Yeah, that was just wanted to double check that that was that was part of the that was part of the original motion. It was it was moved before it was seconded. Motion passes unanimously. All right, that item

Well, he answered all my questions. That brings us to item 7 C. This is to discuss and consider action to approve a resolution consenting to continuing and renewing the mayor's disaster declaration issued on March 4th, 2026. Imminent public water supply failure. Uh council, what I'm asking for here, I think uh I've spoken with uh with Mike about this. Uh I would like to extend this to the day after our next council meeting. uh which if my math is and my my calendar is accurate should be the end or or near the end of the twoe uh shutdown period. So we will have full clarity on whether or not we are uh proceeding successfully.

Wait, did you say that the day after the next council meeting? I'm sorry, not the next council meeting. The June June 10th after our first June you know he did say that. I did I did I misspoke. You're correct. um not our Mayune June and the day after the first meeting in June basically to coincide with the uh the end of our two week shutdown of the water line. I think that's why I believe that uh what was that should be the culmination of June 10th is the date he's June 10th that should be the culmination of our disaster. Absolutely. To clarify uh Mr. Mayor, the uh the resolution as written says indefinite period of time in section five and your proposal is that we will replace indefinite period of time with June 10th, 2026. That is correct.

Yes. Okay. Thank you for pointing that out. I asked about that, too. That's right. Now, my uh my my request was never for indefinite, but I think that was uh was included in there. Hey, because you have a good lawyer who's like, "Wait a minute, let's sure we can have." like you might need it. No, no. Well, we can you can renew it if if needed. As we are doing tonight as as we have established may return. I do have I do have another question or do you have Go ahead. I have Go ahead. Ladies first. Okay. So, I'm just curious because in the

the declaration it says that the purpose of us um doing the disaster declaration is the ability to seek state assistance. And so I was just wondering if we have an update on what state assistance we have sought and if there's a likelihood that we will be receiving any. Um we have made some requests for what to capture water whenever we were flushing the hydrants and we were denied that request. Um it's not I don't I shouldn't speak for them but that doesn't provide water to homes. So therefore it it must be a little bit more dire. Who's who's they?

The state is we go through TDEM. Okay, that's what Yeah, it wasn't TCQ. I just want to make sure I want to make sure people knew that. Okay. And um I have a question about uh uh section six of the original emergency declaration. Uh it uh provides that the city may procure goods and services necessary to preserve and protect the public health and safety without the standard competitive bidding processes for the duration of this declaration. Mhm.

But it's it is not limited to things that are uh only about water and pipeline repairs. And I would ask that uh that the mayor entertain friendly amendment to so limit uh section uh six of the emergency declaration and the renewal. Mike, can we make that happen? Can there a reason we wouldn't? I can't figure it out. I'm trying to think of an example. I mean, I would My only concern is that what if there was something that you may need to get we could renew it and change it at that time, right? So So as an example, as was recently stated, TDM denied our request to to fund water trucks.

Yeah. To capture the water. We did borrow some water trucks to capture water. I imagine that would be part of that type of expense. Would that be covered in? Yeah, that would be covered because that's water and and and pipeline repair. What it does what it does is it it doesn't I'm not buying laptops. Exactly. I don't know exactly if you're buying laptops. You have to go through the regular We're not using this to to update this gata system or to furnish the other executives at at other places take authority like this. And I let me ask let me ask staff this. Did we use this provision in order to caution to secure the change order? No.

No. That so so even for something like that change order, we still went through the traditional uh that's with the contractor the the contract process. And I think uh I think actually the way this is written and actually even with the amendment the change order uh could could be done through the emer the the mayor. It could be done through that, but we want to make sure that we're transparent and accountable being being good stewards. The way it's written, you could have just done this Emanuel thing without What other questions? He's aggressively agreeing with you. Yeah. What other questions you have? Let's aggressively agree with each other. Okay. Any other questions? That's it. All right. David, would you like to make that motion?

All right. Uh I move uh that we uh approve the resolution with the two changes uh in section five of the new resolution. we change indefinite period uh from the date of this declaration to June 10th, 2026 and that we amend the uh the original continued and renewed uh motion uh to limit uh uh paragraph numeral six to uh only uh those purchases that are related to water and pipeline repair. Second.

Have a motion and a second. No more Nintendo Switches for y'all stuff. None. Unless we bid it. All right. Motion passes unanimously. Unless we bid it. Okay. Uh let's see. We did Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. We covered items 7D and 7E. We need to go back to 5e. I believe 5e is in echo. Uh, so 5e at one point. Uh, let me open that. Let me go find 5e real quick. I'm fascinated to see what's wrong.

Uh, oh 5e is the minutes approval of the minutes of April 14th, 2026 work session and regular meeting. Uh, David, you have corrections. Uh, yes. Uh, I heard the question mark. paragraph uh um which one work session or regular six of the of the regular agenda uh just has Councilwoman Ryan's name misspelled and I just would uh asked to approve it with the amendment that Councilwoman Ryan's name be spelled her name's not Ryan her name is not I I emailed about that and I didn't hear if uh if my name was going to be corrected but I assumed Tristan would would

I mean there There was a time I was once referred to as mayor prompñena at least once and I'm pretty sure we just let it slide but no um so I have a motion second I have a second well I did have another oh did you have a another well I had emailed it was just yeah so it was it was just that not should be now and so I think that's been all All right. Okay.

One more time. There we go. There you go. All right. All right. Motion passes unanimously.

Uh where are we now? Item 7D was covered in the work session. Item 7E was covered in the work session. Item 7F. Uh there is no open section open session action required for 7F. Uh so now we will retire to executive session for item 7G which is consultation with legal counsel pursuant to section 551.071 of the Texas government code regarding emergency medical services. Uh item 7H deliberation regarding real property pursuant to section 551.072 of the Texas government code regarding the purchase exchange lease andor value of real property related to project prince. Uh item 7 I deliberation regarding real property pursuant to section 551.072 of the Texas government code regarding the purchase exchange lease and/or value of real property related to project princess. Uh and finally item 7J deliberation of personnel matters regarding the appointment employment evaluation reassignment and duties of the city manager pursuant to section 551.074 of the Texas government code. The time is 9:22 and we are in executive session.

I know. I'm laughing. What are you gremlins? The cassette. No, the cassette or whatever it was. Yeah. What What was her name? Karen. No, no, not um the one Gwyn. Yeah. When? Yeah. Mr. Mayor, time is 12:31 a.m. on a new day, Wednesday, April 29th. We have returned from executive session. No action was taken. Where are we in the agenda? Um,

uh, correct. Did we need to take any action on any of the executive session items? No, we don't. No, sir. Time is 12:32. We are adjourned. Okay.