City Council - Regular Meeting

Feel like I've been here all day. Oh, wait. I have I feel like I've been here all day, too. Uh, anybody for uh questions on the last council meeting? I'm just in that I'm kind of in that fun. Uh okay. Uh so the resolution from our meeting with for the ter one and ter two. It's just the tur one. T one. Okay. It's the one for the extra for the amendment of the 50,000. any agreement or any

expenditures or anything the service board recommends council approve for those of you that weren't here would anybody like an explanation of that I'm good and I I I just want to say my apologies to everybody sitting on my couch we're not showing up while the rest of us I was on the couch as well I I don't know I think I just got notification from work [clears throat] No catch I'll just end with my apologies. I was here either. I had a little bit better excuse.

I checked all day on my iPad for notification. I assume it's not. Well, you know, we were laughing at you because I said, "Well, I drove by and didn't see any tire tracks. He must have trouble getting out of the driveway." Last big stove I fell on both my wrist. So that's not taking any I didn't I couldn't rej. All right. So everybody So everybody's good. Everybody understands? Okay. All good. We'll trust both. All right. Well, let's talk about the let's talk about the sirens. So, can you bring up the map? Yes. It's

green and a lot of other shades. Oh, you mean like the It's on the It's on the side. There you go. That's a lot. Oh, you there. Keep going. There you go. All right. There you go. Okay. So, uh, the first thing I want to tell y'all is Jeremy did bring up already that we're we're doing we're adding six sirens, but there were eight on the map. And the reason that there were eight on the map is it was showing the two from Waco that

two at the very top are actually in Waco. They're existing sirens. So, they serve that part of our city. So, they serve that part of the city. We're still only doing the other six. Okay, that that's Sorry. Okay, [clears throat] where's that furthest south one? Where's that one located? I couldn't tell from the map. That's Rosenthal probably. Is it way out there? Well, you got to give it to somebody to do something to talk about because they all you get your own siren. That's it. That's Get somebody Somebody will say that, right? Oh, the mayor got a siren on his street. I didn't

with that map. I couldn't even tell any real landmarks to get an idea. East rocket. Is it really? Is it really? I was comparing that to Google Earth. You think East Rocket? Yeah. Yeah. I think Are we going to do some land that the mayor owns and put it in there? Right. put it right in his front yard, maybe and and honestly, I like that location because we often hear the criticism that we don't service that part of Robinson.

Hey, is it me or does it actually look like it might be on I'm not saying that it's not around East Rocket, but Third Street, more like the sirens on Third Street. See the white line in the white line? Third Street looks like to Universal Parks. That's right at the edge. You know you probably cuz here third street can be close right there coming around through here. That's 77. It's 77. So it's got to be on 77.

Yeah. The best I could tell was Highway 77 Rocky. I was comparing the old school property down. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. And these are approximate locations. Of course, it'll take site surveys and Yeah. and all that good stuff. It's taking it old school. Have to find right away. We can put it in and all that other stuff. Yeah. Okay. So, will you back down a few pages to the other way to Wait, wait. You have to get it figured out. Just to the memo. Yeah. I just in the middle of it. Yeah, right there. That part.

Okay. So, if you will see the four lines, this is what we discussion about. So, there are four options. The first one is six sirens AC power only. Now, I'm going to caveat this before I start. All of these do not include electrical work, right? They don't include electric. So, six sirens with AC power only with 50 foot wood poles. 182 sirens AC power only with 50 foot steel poles 207. The same sirens with solar backup on wood poles 207. And the six sirens with with solar backup with steel poles for 232.

25 grand. In other words, from 182 to 207 for for a solar backup. Steel steel. Steel. No. The second one 207 to 232. Compare 182. That's the with 50ft wood poles. Number four, AC three AC power with back solar backup 50 foot wood bolts. No, I'm saying 207US 182 is 25,000, right? So 25,000 difference to put them on the wood poles. No, both both of those are wood poles. That's what I'm saying. Well, the first one says 50 foot 25,000.

That's what I Okay, some is 25,000. That's what I was saying. So the first question is wood or steel. Steel. Mom's overwrite you because wood snaps off in high windtorms. We know we've had it happen twice now. Still see I got I got the city manager involved tonight. Okay. Straight up throwing down the deal. Yeah, the baseball windtorms we've had in the last 12 months snapping those electrical poles down. All right. So, let's all agree. We'll all agree the steel PS real quick.

Okay. Solar backup. That's actually DC, AC. So, it's battery backup on those last two. Now the solar panels if you were to do AC/DC with solar panels the total would be 245 471. So the the 232 is actually with battery backups. Yes. So that's running electrical to the pole to charge the batteries as backup. How long how long will the batteries like power to run the sirens? So it's no solar. You're saying no solar. You can add solar This is written as it's written is not sold

right. So it's AC/DC on those last two. Okay. No, the solar backup or the solar charging would be 245 471 and the battery backup. Yeah, I think you just asked how long does it I don't know my thought Tim Jessy is supposed to be here from emergency management. This is the same system they use. So he may be able to better my my thought is if if the wind andor the tornado has already snapped poles and there's no power likelihood of you needing it yeah andor should gone off before that. Yeah and you're going to need it again

is pretty slim. So I don't know if solar I think solar I love it. I have it on my home. I don't know if long term it's there. Solar just I guess recharges the batteries. Yes. The solar would eliminate the need to run electrical to the pole. So you're charging the batteries, but the solar So but that that brings up the questions. We don't know a specific number of how much. Did you say 5,000 a pole? I I just estimated I would expect to be about 5,000. We just found out today that we it didn't include the electrical. So that's if that's that's 30 grand roughly. And you said how much more for solar? So adding solar. But that's just adding solar backup. This is not solar to power the whole thing.

You still need power. You still got to pay the the five per pole. Yeah. So that's only having the electric if you go with the solar. No, you do not need the electrical. So the solar is the primary source and it charges the batteries. So when the siren goes off, the battery sets up. So the solar runs the siren. Yeah. And you would not have to have electric. Yeah. How much more is the solar? Total $12,795. So we're really looking at So you're really looking at 2675

you're looking at 262 675 for the DC battery backup with the electric 5 grand per pole and then you said 240 3D with solar arrays. Yes. 245. And how much did you say that one? 2626 471 Larry. [clears throat] What's the 471? $245,471. All right, that's for you. Said 471. I'm like what? So 245,471. [clears throat] All right.

So how long is So do we know the the only thing about solar on a pole backup i.e. your gates, your everything around it has how many times do you have to replace that solar panel? Yeah, I I will tell you that damage to them. I mean, I've not moved to my place three years. I've already played by twice. And I will say two of these locations are in the same location that we have sirens. So, there's electrical run to those. Okay. So, that's minus 10 grand there.

City Woodway just has been put in solar lights and parks and around the city buildings. We have just short of 80 and 26 of them are out and the manufacturer doesn't have enough already. manufacturer to replace them. So, we're having to go back and replace. I wouldn't say solar as a primary power source. I I have it on my house and it's great, but I'm not disconnecting from my This is the solar's primary power source. It's just the solar charges battery. So, you probably better off just go with I think that electric battery bypass the solar and then like he said, if it loses power, you got the battery. It's already bit, but it's already

it's already gone. Yeah. Little batteries are going to hold a pretty good charge. So, if the power goes down before they have set them off, they should still set off, right? Four batteries. So, and then maintain we have now have batteries and I think we've had to replace them twice [clears throat] since I've been here. So, the batteries last about five years. Yeah, that makes sense. Electric with a battery backup. And you need a battery backup because the power goes down. So we back to AC/DC. Number two, AC/DC on steel poles for 207 plus electrical. Steel P is 232. 232. 232. Sorry. Plus electric.

Plus electric. And that's pole is 20 because you got two that already two you're in place and already have electric for. All right. So We're about a $250,000 project. Yeah. And uh the funds come from the fund balance

come from fund balance checks. It's not a budget line. And once once we get the go-ahhead, we'll get the numbers pinned down tighter because we'll have to come back and do a budget amendment, do an ordinance to amend the budget so we can do it's just if you're comfortable doing this, we'll get them to move forward with getting us the quote and we'll put the proposal for the actual project and the electric. I don't know if do they take care of lining up the electrical or do they expect us to do that? They said we have to bring electrical to the pole to the poles. Okay. They do require 25% down when signing on you sign contract. The police got plenty of budget, right? [laughter]

Their commander positions been open for a while. Well, again, we'll put it off for a while. Come up with the 25% to get it going. It's just once we get a final number, we'll do a budget amendment. You're good. You're comfortable moving forward with it. You can just vote tonight to move forward with it and we'll get the ball rolling and soon as we get the final numbers, we'll do the budget amendment. But you feel good about our budget being able to support this. We're good. All right. Yeah, we're we're we're over 200 days. I think last time I looked general fund balance was like 230 days. So

I think this is a much better plan than than just eliminating what was broken and not This ten talked about the layered approach of early warning systems and multi using different systems to alert people. I think this at least I mean it's 80% of the the city which I think is is fair. That means a lot of the city who didn't have this before will get it. Exactly. We only had two. This is a huge upgrade.

Yeah. The two we had didn't work. I think the people having seen what's happened down south and the weather issues we've had so forth, they're going to absolutely go for this. Now we're looking at covering 80% of the city and we only covered about 10 or 15%. Pricing's better and joining the emergency management. Yeah, that's price sure came down in a hurry. Who are we talking billion? Somebody here recently that's you interview. Yeah, Woodway is doing this, but they're going with Wheeland and theirs is that's what that's who we originally went when it was going to be over $2 million or almost three million to cover the city.

But yeah, these are these are significantly less expensive. So, and the EOC can set them off as opposed to us setting them off. So, they're actually there. In fact, these I think can be tied into the National Weather Service. The National Weather Service can set them off once they determine a path of a tornado. I like that idea. Yeah. If they're in that cone misidentifying, it alleviates the responsibility of local people having to make that decision when you don't have all that information. Noah had it. Yeah. Absolutely. Okay. Anything else? Okay. We're journ until

30. We will call our meeting to order. [clears throat] Uh we are going to call on our council reverend Mr. Jimmy Rogers to give us our invitations.

Bow our heads. Father, we come today humbly thanking you for and giving you all the glory for everything you've done for our community. We just ask for your guidance tonight, your wisdom as we make decisions for our our community that would uh just have a positive impact. Father, we lift up our our police, our fire, our EMS, our military. And Father, just be with those who are serving this country. Father, lift up our staff as they go about the day-to-day work every day and making a city run. Father, we just ask that you be with them. give them peace and give them uh everything they need to to complete their work. Fathers and sons, holy name, we pray. Amen. Amen.

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. Thank you. Roll call. Burch here. Kim here. George here. Here

the city council invites citizens to address the council on any matter including items on the agenda except public hearings that are included on the agenda. Comments related to the public hearing will be heard when the public hearing starts. Please limit your comment to three minutes. The council is not permitted to take any action or discuss any item not on the agenda. When called to speak, please state your name and address. is speaking on a specific agenda. State the item before you begin your comments. And looks like we have the backup from the chamber tonight. Kindra. Hey y'all.

Um I'm Kendra Thompson. I'm one of the directors. My address is 230 Sam Drive. I wasn't listening. And I'm speaking on the Robinson Chamber upcoming events. Okay. So I just have a few events. So, first things first, we have our monthly board meeting. It's going to be Tuesday, February 10th at noon here at city hall. If you're unable to attend, we um have our monthly board meeting here every second Tuesday of the month here at city hall. Our next thing is our semianual membership meeting. It's going to be Thursday, February 12th, excuse me, that same week. 6 to 8. It's going to be at the Hampton in Suites Waco, the one located at the um central marketplace. Um that meeting we're going to be enrolling our new officers. We worked on our constitution. So if you want to go see new presidents, new secretaries, new all of that, please attend. Um next thing is going to be our quarterly network lunchon. It's going to be April 16th, um Thursday noon at Tasian Casian. Um our guest speaker is going to be Alfred Celo with family medicine. um he's going to come and tell us some goodies about what they're doing at the workforce and what they're doing with family medicine and ways to get involved. We're trying to get our little community or our little chamber out there and Robinson community active and get whatever resources we can out here to the community as well. Last thing is our annual membership banquet. It's going to be Thursday, July 23rd at the Texas Hall of Fame. It's going to be 6 to 10. There's going to be more details posted on our website which is robinson texaschamber.org. You are able to go there to see other sponsorship opportunities but like I said um look on the website for more upcoming events on that or more information on the upcoming event. But thank you and that's all for the chamber.

Thank you. Chief Sullivan, you want to speak now?

Stephen Sullivan 501 South Andrews here in town. Um just wanted to brief you all on a few of our current operations, our winter storm response, and kind of update the council on things happening within the fire department. Um we remain focused on protecting Robinson's infrastructure, our citizens, and the visitors through readiness and training. The winter storm that we had last week was um kind of humbling for me a little bit. We had uh between January 22nd and 28th, we had 42 members of the fire department provide over 1500 total people hours of coverage to the city over that six- day period um to ensure that we had uninterrupted uh emergency response for the city. During those six days, we had 28 incidents including fires, crashes. We did not have as many crashes as we expected. We think everyone just kind of stayed home. So, police and fire were thankful for that. medical calls and hazard mitigation. Um that 42 members makes up over half of our department's uh members willing that who willingly stepped away from their own families to provide staffing and readiness and I'm proud of their commitment. I was also engaged with ML County uh Waco emergency management on daily weather briefings as was the police chief as well as daily briefings with the larger fire departments including Waco, Hwitt um and Belme and Robinson. The four of us all met together to make sure we were all supporting each other's fire suppression needs. Um, all in all, the winter storm was less busy than expected. Um, which means all of our Robinson neighbors stayed home and remained safe. Speaking of staffing and readiness, I mentioned that we had 42 members assisting with the winter storm. Just two years ago, we did not have 42 members on our fire department. Um, so that's a huge uh show of kind of the dedication that we have. Today, we have 81 members on the Robinson Volunteer Fire Department, including nine that will start our fire academy this coming Friday. Um that means that our members are actively contributing to the growth and training and reliability of our department. Our goal is to remain a volunteer

department, primarily volunteer department for as long as possible. It saves our citizens money as long as we can remain effective. Um and our ISO rating, great. Then then we're going to continue that path. Um and we also have more state certified firefighters and EMS members than we've ever had on our department. it's kind of become a a standard that you're going to be a certified firefighter um to one of the two state standards. So that means we're testing people and certifying them the same level as you at Waco, any other fire department in the region. Um I mentioned our fire academy. So on this Friday, our we'll begin our 2026 alpha class. We run two fire academy classes a year that'll train new firefighters not only from Robinson but also surrounding departments. This time we have six from Elmont and six from Bruce Woody that will train as well. We find it important to train with our neighbors because we all work together on fires. Um we've kind of been recognized as a regional training hub. We make it affordable and we call it the kind of the working man's fire academy. So they do their coursework online and they come in on the weekends and train with us at our training facility. Um and then the last thing I want to mention is just our tower one is set up. Mr. Alamp came by, Mr. Rogers came by. You're welcome after the meeting if you'd like to to come by. We'll be out there training with our members. It'll be set up. We'll kind of show you the storage space and how it operates if you'd like to come by. Thank you all as a council and our city leaders for continuing to support the fire department.

Thank you. Uh we have two items on the [clears throat] consent agenda. approval of the meeting from the meeting minutes from the last meeting and to take action on the uh TUR one natural gas. Agree with that. I'll make the motion to approve consent agenda items six and seven as written. Second. All in favor?

Any oppose? Motion passes. At 6:37, we will have a public hearing to consider and take possible action on ordinance 2026-003 and an ordinance of the city of Robinson, Texas, changing the zoning from light commercial district C1 to single family district 6,000 square ft SF3.24 acres located at 103 Eastall on MCAD partial ID59569 Robinson lot 1B block 14.2365 2365 on the acreage. Mr. Har council, thank you. Um, this is just a reasonzoning tonight for see if I can turn this. Oops. There we go. Uh the reasoning tonight is just for a reasonzoning for uh from C1 to SF3 zoning which is single family zoning from light commercial home exists on the site now. [clears throat] Due to the C1 zoning the home couldn't be rebuilt because we don't allow residential and commercial zoning categories. The reasoning would give them the ability if approved to rebuild the home if need be. The site is what's displayed here on the screen. Area around it consists of C1 RO and 2F zoning. Um, as you notice on the aerial, there are portions to the south and west that have residential uses. These are also in the C1 zoning. So, the area itself has residential uses already there. Uh, C1 district basically is a light commercial zoning that covers uh generalized retail trade, that sort of thing. So, lower level commercial uses. It's designed to serve like neighborhoods or small areas. SF3 basically is just the single family zoning, one of the smaller lot zoning categories. Um, [clears throat]

when looking at a resoning, you always have to look at uh what can go there. So, the use there are uses taken away, uses added and specific uses which can be added, which specific uses go before you at a different hearing format. Um, pretty much with the SF uh zoning, the uh residential the commercial uses go away and the residential uses come into effect. Within your packet, you have a list of all the uses that are going away and coming into with the proposed zoning within your packets. Um, in comparison in comparison to the different development standards for C1 existing and SF3, what's highlighted in yellow is what's changing. uh these changes from a staff standpoint is minor in nature and not overall detrimental to the proposed reszoning. [clears throat] There are five findings of fact that you that you'll consider as a council in accordance with city code requirements. Those are listed within your packet and staff always makes an interpretation of the findings based on the evidence within the packet. You're free to come up with your own interpretations of those as well or differing ones. And staff believes the findings of fact are met. Um mostly the area surrounding it has residential uses already there. Many of the uses allowed in the SF3 zoning are the most compatible with the nearby residential even though there's commercial multitudes of commercial zoning in the area. And the residential zoning is a more limited category which allows residential versus very few residential uses versus larger amounts of uses with the commercial. And with that said, staff has no issues or concerns with the request. um in at their January 15th uh meeting, the planning and zoning commission recommended approval of this item 6 to zero. And with that said, that concludes the presentation. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other speakers on this subject? If not, we'll close the public hearing at 6:41. Questions from council? I I had a question regarding just some of the wording in here. It it you said rebuilding. Is that like remodeling the structure or like tearing down? completely rebuilding if the home if they were if they were going to tear it down or if the home was destroyed, they couldn't build it back under the current zoning. Okay. And so does the applicant or the share the intent or is that even a question I can ask? It's a zoning case. So yes, I don't believe the applicant is here. They were aware of the meeting, but they're not here at this time. So I would normally defer that question to them. Thank you.

Any other questions? Council, was anybody in opposed to this? Any letters of opposition? Okay. Thank you. Motion. Motion to approve uh ordinance 2026-003, an ordinance of the city of Robinson changing the zoning from light commercial district C1 to single family district 6,000 square foot SF3 on 2 point sorry.24 24 acres located at 103 Easterall Drive on MCAT parcel number 159569 Robinson OT lot 1B block 14 acres 2.365

second favor any opposes all right thank you for your work we uh we had some discussion on our emergency warning sirens there we're looking to purchase and we have the expert in the audience. I think there might have been one or two questions y'all wanted us. Go ahead. Tell them all at once. Who was it that had the one that was you had what was the question that you waited? Yeah, you're talking about the battery life.

The life of the battery powered the DC ACDC battery powered option. What what's that battery life? So the storm knocks out power to the pole but the storm system or they hadn't activated. What's that battery life?

So if it's not being used, they're big deal like deep cycle marine batteries. So if it the siren's not in activation, I mean it'll it'll go for a long long time, right? If it is in activation and you were to do it continuously, it's about 30 minutes. But we cycle during a tornado warning. It is it's not continuous. And so, uh, you know, you're looking at about 30 minutes of activation time to get the actual siren going, which is adequate for most tornado warnings don't last 30 minutes, right? They're much smaller in time frame. So, one more question that I'm done. So, and the other sirens that are in operation in the system in Waco,

are they the solar powered option or are they the electric powered with the battery backup?

So, we have a mix. Um, the oldest sirens in the system were put in in 2001. Uh, the newest sirens put in the system were done last year. We're actually replacing a siren tomorrow um over at 27 by the lake. Um, the newer ones are DC. Um, but there's some drawback to the DC ones because like we've had an extended run of cloudy days um over the past what two weeks and so we're starting to see those batteries go a little weak um in our reports. Um, so we need some sunshine. Like today was a good day, right? Kind of a little bit more sun than what we've had, but we need some sunshine to get those things going. So, I don't know if there's the perfect answer, right? Some people like the DC because it's doesn't require city power and it's just a solar panel and and it kind of does its thing. Um, the new ones that we're working on are AC with DC backup. Is there not for the electrical that's obviously working at this time to charge those batteries when solar fails or solar is not adequate?

I'm not sure if they have that option with American Signal. U we can find out for you. They got to be charged somehow. Right. And so on the AC ones, we have battery chargers in there that keep those batteries um charged up. Right. I'm just wondering why you couldn't do both. If you got solar, it does its max that it can and then electrical does the rest. Right. Yeah. I'm not sure. I raised that question yesterday.

Yeah. So, you're saying that AC run electricity to the pole? Run electric. It's going to You've got a charger on that battery charger. Yeah, they have a charger built in the system that keeps the batteries charged up and then batteries per six. I remember correctly. Yeah, they're in the bottom of the tray there. Like I said, they're deep cycle. How do those change?

So, it depends on like in the city of Waco when we do them, we do annual maintenance on ours and we'll check the voltages. If we need to swap one out, we will. So, kind of the way it works with our other partners, um, Beverly Hills, Belme, Lacy, Lake View, we run reports, um, we run a silent test every day at 5:00 PM from from the server. We have a redundant server, one at our office at 7214th and another one at radio operations. Those tests are ran every day. And if we get an error or a warning u you know something comes back usually it's a battery or something voltage that's low u what we'll do is reach out to the city at if whoever siren it is be like hey siren 4 gave us an error yesterday can y'all go check on it and then have them go out and check and see how it's going or we can retest it before they go out there um to see if we get the same result and if we need to uh we can send it's often times we'll stop by Beverly little siren and check on it just because we're already in the neighborhood. Um, and from there if we determine that there's an issue, get with the city and have the vendor come down from Dallas and really do deep intensive

what's the life expecty of those batteries now? Like you get a twoyear or one year or three. So they're commercial they're commercially bought batteries. So whatever battery you buy. So we get it O'Reilly or

Yeah. So that's what they when they bring batteries down. So, the thing about think about the siren vendor, American Signal, they'll change the batteries out for you if you want, but if the city's got people that can do it and wants to go buy the battery, they're fine with you swapping it out. We do a lot of our own maintenance just to save save money, right? And so, Comm's batteries, all that kind of stuff, we swap out. If it's actual board components, so there's a few components that are on the control board, uh, you know, if the RTU or or something like that giving us issues, then that's when we call them down because that requires a factory part and we tell them, hey, we believe it's the RTU based on what we he brings it with them and we pay for that one trip down here. They they verify that's what it is, swap it out, test the siren, make sure it's good to go, and then we're done.

So, we have the option. Yeah. No, it's definitely flexible. What's the recovery rate on the batteries? Let's say if we [clears throat] get thunderstorms that train across the area and they spawn multiple tornadoes in the same path, how likely is it that we're going to be able to get repetitive signals if we need it? Power loss or just or just So, if it's if there's no power loss to the siren itself, it's in its own city power, then it's it'll just

Yeah. just it just works, right? Um the only only way it wouldn't work is if the comm's battery, which are 12volt batteries, u would be completely drained, but that's only powering the radio unit in there. So it's it's not that much drain on that battery itself. Those batteries last a year at a time as part of the maintenance. Um and so if you if you don't have any power loss, I mean, we've had these things sound multiple rounds, right? I mean, just kind of what But going back what you said to his point, if there was power loss, you say you got one you got one turn in the sirens and that's going to suck a battery down. It shouldn't. I mean, you have about 30 minutes of activation time and one cycle's three minutes. Okay.

So, it should be able to run for quite a few cycles. Okay. Two questions for Larry, right? Larry, we talking one. You guys are going to monitor the viability of the batteries whether or not they're good or not when you're gonna get the signal. You're going to be the ones. Secondly, who's going to turn it on? So, who's going to be responsible for turning on if there's a disaster or an issue?

Great question. So, um using the server we have at the office, it's tied straight into the National Weather Service server. Um and so adding these through anou to the the regional system. Um y'all own them, y'all maintain them. Uh we activate them at emergency management. um on behalf of the jurisdictions and we've gotten that where it's automated. So as soon as that alert is issued and if that siren is in the polygon for that tornado warning, that siren's activated automatically. We can see that at the office on the computer screen when that goes off, we can see what sirens are activated and and get the reports back on those. um if for some reason that automatic activation fails as part of our office protocol that one of us is there every storm essentially u and so we manually can override if we believe that the system automatic you know didn't didn't fire like it should have

that leads to this question so let's say that y'all your system has not turned it on yet but we're starting to experience this tornado that comes through can our city turn turn it on if we deem necessary. So, the way override that turn. So, it would need a manual um manual activation kit. I'm not sure if that was quoted in there or not. That basically allows you to bypass the system. I'm not sure we'll ever need it, but it's a thought. What if we Yeah, I would I would hope that the weather service wouldn't allow that. You know, that's kind of what they do. Uh but otherwise, if you felt like you needed it, we're we're a radio call away. Got it. and we would just try to set it off for you. Right.

And if I understood correctly, of our six, we could have an event where three of the six are in that comb and they're activated and the other three basically indicate or should be indicating that you don't have a tornado. You're not in the path of that tornado.

Correct. So when they set it up, when it's set up in the server, they they we plot the physical location of the server and then a two-mile ring around that siren. If the polygons in that two-mile ring, then it activates that siren. So it is theoretically possible that you would have, you know, if it was on the far south side of the city moving out towards Falls County that it would just activate those sirens on the south side because the storm's going to the south and moving away. So there's no point in activating

people up, you know, up this way. And that's just the system trying to be. It used to be all or nothing way back in the day, right? Everything come on. People in China Spring are like, "It's sunshine. What's going on?" People, you know, it's gotten much more intelligent. We upgraded the server um two years ago now to have this new capability that allows us to be more tactical in how we warn people. It's important to understand and message um you know these sirens are great. They are designed to tell people that are outside that there's danger and they need to go inside and get more information. Right? So this emergency emergency alerting is all a lot like a layered cake. Okay? We want outdoor warning sirens. We want your phones going off. We want Brady Taylor telling you that there's something coming. We want you to get it from as you know. We want many people hearing the same message. There's there's danger here, right? So go inside, turn on the TV, turn on the radio, you know, figure out what's going on. So then they can take that and turn it into actionable preparedness for their family. Does that make sense? So you'll

So the difference between we had a discussion between wood or metal poles. What's your We use steel those metal poles. I haven't met poles we haven't had any issues with. Like I said, some of the older stuff, you know, 2001, those poles are still in great shape. So, okay. Anything else? All right. So, thank you. Yes, sir. Appreciate y'all.

Uh, we're going to need a motion specific to which and and that if I understood the desire heard the desire council, it is the we're looking for six sirens AC power with battery backup, not solar. I'd like to make a motion that we approve purchase of six sirens with AC power with battery backup with 50 ft steel poles uh at a cost of $232,675.30 plus the necessary electrical installation costs. Okay, I'll f.

Anybody votes? Carries. Anybody have anything they would like to bring up before we adjourn? Yes. You know, and I don't know what this looks like, but met with uh 10 this week and we had a great conversation uh and it kind of sparked a a broader thought uh about what council wants in terms of development in the city, but also what does the community want with development in the city? Um, our vision 34 plan has been in place for some time. What year was that developed? Seven, six or seven years ago probably.

Was that was it not before? Thought it was before I got. Do you want a discussion about updating the comp plan? Maybe maybe that uh David was here. I mean, we've had discussion. It's time to update. Yeah. So, yeah. Yeah, I think it's time. And so we had a great conversation, but I'm not a subject matter expert on all those things. So okay, we put that on the future. Yeah. Okay. Anything else? I'd just like to say I enjoy that tour. Yes.

My granddaughter, thank you for that objective. She's a college student. Agriculture is her major and business. So that was very informative for [clears throat] her to be able to experience that. I took the ask forgiveness rather than permission on that deal. Do we uh do we get tours on? Anybody heard anything about that? They're already in operation. I don't know. You carry packages?

Yeah. Yeah. I drove I drove by there one day and they had about 120 vans at the parking lot and there was some guy with Amazon Prime stickers and he was putting it on the second van and then I drove by Thursday and vans were all gone. They were already making delivery. So he put a lot of stickers on real fast. All right, nothing else. 657. We're returning