City Council - Regular Meeting

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6 o'clock we shall begin. All right.

I might go all over the place, but you know, anybody on anybody got any comments on the. This isn't the real report. The real report is my locker. I just want to see if anybody needs it. And it didn't get caught until the chief came the next morning.

you remember that test they gave us in school said read the instructions first and go and start answering all who can get through the quickest and so you're answering it all and then you're like well you only answered one and three yeah you know remember that all right the there is a ordinance amendment that we need

And it's about wording, replacing wording, people's names, given the, I'll let Craig give you the flip-flop version.

Yeah, so when we became a court of record, we passed an ordinance there to become a court of record. The court reported to the city secretary, and we also ended up putting the name, wherever you might want to put the name, does is this picks the name out of it and it also makes it the um court courts to me or my destiny that way we can make changes in the future is there anything else major in there yeah that's it's just cleaning it up everybody okay with that yeah all right already on consent so uh the next is adopting our ai policy

which I understand that Destiny is our AI guru.

I don't think it's fair to call anyone a guru because it's changing so quickly, but I'm like running trying to keep up with it.

Did you use an AI guru before? He's more up-to-date on anybody else.

So, yeah, it was me when you were telling my story. So, it's it explain to me how you explain where we're doing it by the company that makes it. What would you tell?

No, no, we've that's just talking about what kind of we're going to use what the policy does is it sets the parameters that city employees can utilize. So that's what this does and it's, it's pretty consistent with most of the training. This is required by state law now. Right?

there's a blurb in there that is it's texas government code section 2054.702 it's an ethics code of ethics that is required that is included within the policy there was a lot of that in the last tml thing we had to take misty yeah you had to do the ai training was required training in that so this just privacy and what you can and can't do so basically we're required to have a written policy and that's what they said Yeah, we're not required to have a written policy. The state of Texas has a written policy. We're just required to adopt the code of ethics, which is included in the policy. But the policy basically is to, like Craig was saying, for some bumpers for employees to make sure that it's just like with anything else that we use, keeping in mind that we want to protect the city, that anything that we put out there is subject to open records. So yeah, just...

otherwise at our level as well i think it prohibits councils from using ai it's just it's the biggest emphasis everything we've gotten and you got it in the ai training too but we should not be using ai for and it has to be reviewed before it's sent if it's documented right that's what the training said yeah well that and that's what the policy talks about is all that but just to just to utilize certain programs they're going to have to have approved. They can't just go out and get whatever they want and utilize it and stuff like that. So it's just setting those guidelines and parameters for that.

All right, everybody okay with that? Yeah. Okay, good. That's already on there, so we'll go. Move on that. The next one is always a fun conversation, and that is amending our ordinance for increasing the rates on solid waste.

So there is, in the ordinance in the packet, there's a typo on the extra cart. I typed in the rate that Waste Management sent. I forgot to factor in the billing and franchise fee. So this is the corrected ordinance. Does it raise it from 817 to 857?

So now page fifty nine, if you look at page fifty nine waste management deal, that just tells you that kind of tells you a little bit. Yeah, the memo, the rates in the memo are correct. It's a dollar and fifteen cent increase dollar twenty eight. We talked about twenty.

Yeah. So the rates in the actual agenda memo are correct. It's just when I typed them into the. Exhibit a on the ordinance. It should have said, uh, extra card should have been 857 and I typed in 817, which was the waste management rate before the franchise fee and billing fee was applied.

Okay. Anybody got any issues with that? There's not really anything we can do about it. Okay.

That's it's going to be done. So we'll just say that. So, under our old ordinance, um. What it was worded is for every 25 cent increase in the diesel charge, we would see a 1% increase. And diesel went up quite a bit since last year. So we changed it now. We only get a 10% impact, only 10% of that increase. It's 90% of the CPI, 10% of the fuel. So otherwise, we'd have been looking at a much larger change in that wording in there.

With everything going on, economic-wise, $1.28.

I'm just going to say that was really good on Craig rework. Oh, yeah.

At the last part. Yeah, because we got sideways on that one a couple of times when they were, because they wanted to go up, but they didn't want to come back down.

And so, I don't know if it goes up, it should come down. Exactly. So, we took that. It's really quick to go up on the field, but it's a long time coming down.

Okay. So, we will consider that one done, too. The next thing I want to talk about is the reason that we're having a discussion about moving the meeting from July 7th to 21st. jeremy i knew ahead of time that you weren't going to be here this has this doesn't have this has something to do with that so there is a trailer manual trailer building company that's coming to town on uh south 77 where the they used to sell the past our road new rocket where they used to sell the peter builds yeah okay yeah georgia linda yeah okay so they're taking over that space And they want to build, you tell me if I need to join. They want some, Craig and myself and Dave, where'd Dave go? Dave was nice enough to sit down. They are. very excited to be coming so excited that they didn't know that it wasn't zoned correctly to go straight in and start using and so they have jumped through every hoop trying to get david everything he needs they are they want to do it all right they want to do it on time the problem is we've hit the summer session where there's only one meeting and so if we meet so so they're gonna sup is zoned up c2 and they need an sup everything that they're doing to build these trailers falls into the sup for c2 and not industrial is not needed so they if they if we have the meeting on the 7th the planning and zoning meetings on the 15th 14th 15th 16th Yeah, 616 and our meetings on the. What was it? 20 there would be the 21st. If we met on the 7th, and it went to planning zoning, they could not begin and they're already just hanging on to their workers because they didn't expect this. So they came to us, like, hat in hand going. Is there anything we can do? And so. We said, hey, we can ask if if we have enough council people to be here on the 21st versus the 7th. So that is the reason we're having this conversation. If you look at your calendars, is there anybody besides Jeremy that couldn't switch to the 21st?

Well, I didn't know that until that day about my mother-in-law for that last meeting, but I already know now Karen and I will be out of town on the 21st. All right, so that's two.

Are you sure Donnie told me at the last meeting that he wasn't going to be here because that's the week of the chamber? The 21st? Yeah, I'm pretty sure he said he's out that week because he was asking me about the chamber and then he's like, never mind, I can't go.

Something like that. You know, he talks all the time.

Okay, so where are you at, Tim?

I'm good.

You're good. I'm good. You're good. And you're good, Tim? Yeah. Okay, so there's four plus the fifth. So the only issue, which I don't think it would be an issue, is if PNZ turned it down, which I don't see that being it. You never know, though. But, yeah, you wouldn't be able to have a superlative.

Are they asking for anything that would?

Dave, can you, you've talked to him. Can you enlighten these guys just a tad? I know this is not, but I'm just because I'm going to try to move this, but how do you feel about everything that they've given you and what they want to do versus C2, SUP, everything lining up?

They've already been stopped, but they've provided, there's a few minor changes I need done, but they can get them done pretty quickly before their meeting on July 16th. the use that was there before was industrial um this is kind of an industrial type of use I mean from a standpoint of what they've provided there to me it's it's it's a I'm more than likely I think the zoning commission would recommend approval of it okay did the old roll form play it was yeah that's exactly what happened trailers are they building boy Sanders

They're enclosed. So they build trailers and ship them all over the United States. Box trailers. And they're uniquely done because they have their...

They do some trademarked... Seamless.

Some seamless deal.

They use composites.

But they build 15 a day and they ship out every day.

They don't sell on site.

So they used to be located at 12th and LaSalle? 12th and LaSalle, but with everything going on, they're getting too big, number one. And then number two, you know, Baylor's moving all the way down LaSalle and everything going on. So they needed more room. This provided more room. A couple of them are already from Robinson in the past. They've been from Robinson. So yeah, stop me if I'm saying anything wrong. So anyway, that's where we're at. It's nothing but trying to help a business get started here and get going. So if we're going to have four that we know of for sure, plus the possibility of a fan, is everybody okay with swapping that?

I could vote in abstention, yes.

Does that require...

just included in the so what so the action the ordinance we did to establish the two council meetings only required you have to have one meeting in july it did not say it had to be the first tuesday okay i don't even think it says does it even say tuesday and thursday or just say two meetings a month yeah so when we did that we just said we'd have one in july and one in december so you can set either you can set any day in july to be your meeting date if you want to so it's not necessarily we're switching the date it's just okay all right so then if y'all are all okay we'll move forward with the changing the date from the 7th of july to the 21st and our july meeting will be the 21st of july yeah and just just have to i mean you put it on the consent agenda that way but okay so you have a vote on it so i'll set the july meeting okay um

There's going to be one public hearing. Is this one that we can discuss here or not?

It's an SUP, so probably better we do it in the meeting.

Okay, we'll pass on that. So the last thing that we'll talk about here, we'll keep that just solid.

If you don't get enough people and we can do it by Zoom, I would log in on Zoom.

So to Zoom in, you have to have a quorum in the room.

Well, we got four for sure here, so we should be fine. All right, so last time I told you there was a lot of discussion on social media about the trucks. So basically all we wanted to do was get this on discussion so everybody would understand. in town that we are listening we are trying to discuss and look so everybody has in front of them our current ordinance okay and i just want to we just want to refresh everybody on the board so page two section two 18-57 is where you pay attention to the order so it just says except as allowed by the exemptions contained in this section no person shall operate a truck Truck, tractor, semi-trailer, pole trailer, any combination available on any municipal street within the corporate limits of the city. Through trucks must use a truck route when traveling the corporate limits of the city or are prohibited from using municipal streets as shortcuts or links between truck routes. The exemptions to a vehicle traveling to or from a location which is off the truck route for the purpose of loading or unloading goods, wares, merchandise within the corporate city limits provided such a vehicle is operated over the shortest practical route from a point on a truck route if the operator of such vehicle has in his immediate possession evidence of the local destination point of origin two for emergency vehicles operating in response to any emergency call three the vehicles operated by a public utility or cruising in an assigned area for the purpose of inspecting facilities such as public utilities etc four vehicles operated for public service example garbage pickup street repair water service and then five empty vehicles that are legally parked at a driver's rest so um basically it's if you have a end place to deliver your goods in the city then there's not a whole lot we can do about where you travel see we read those numbers that you i they just we just got these to show you it's not as big of an issue as maybe we think it is but chief kind of looked to see on the roads the different roads so we have a flock camera on old road at peplum and for the i was able to look back 30 days to see how many semis have passed it there were 29 of them total

Several of them were Walmart trucks indicating they probably had a destination in our city. Some of them were hard to tell. I think some of them were destined for Brookshire's delivery trucks. So out of that 29, you're probably looking at half of them at least that had a destination within the city. And the other half, I'm not sure about. On Peplow, we have another camera in front of Brookshires, between the school and Brookshires. There was a total of 27 trucks that came through there. That's within 30 days. West Tate High School, we have a camera that picked up five trucks. Some of them were Cisco trucks, indicating they were probably delivering food to the school. We have a camera on Chateau, just off of 77. There were zero semis passing that one. And then twelfth street added our dump. There were two. Within thirty days, so not seeing a significant amount of. Truck traffic passing those cameras, but like I said, that's our only location where we can actually verify.

Um, with the cameras, so basically we talked about. Yeah, just. You know, kind of reminding everybody what the, what our policy is, what the city ordinance is number two signage. So do we find out about the sign?

Yeah. So there are signs coming from old road truck science, but we just learned coming from I, thirty five on the Greg. There's not a sign no through trucks on.

The intention was to put the no truck sign at John Bowden. Because we're supposed to have been put.

I'll double check that one in the morning.

Unless they put it at Hoffmeyer. That's not where it should have been. So on the old roadside of the bridge. And one of the problems we do run into with the current highway construction is when the traffic backs up, the trucks get off the highway and they get on the road. We've had that. In the past, when the highway's been shut down before the construction, back when the bridge was load rated, they were still getting off the highway and driving those big trucks across the bridge. Because the highway stopped and they were trying to find an alternate route.

Now, the discussion will lean toward the fact that once Greg Drive goes under construction, they are not going to want to go down to Greg Drive. So they are going to find another way. They're going to find John Bowden. For me, for the life of me, I cannot understand why any tractor-trailer would want to turn at Old Road and Greg Drive. Man, that is a life-changing turn in my opinion.

I think their GPS, I think they're coming in for the first time and their GPS is sending them there.

And I will say, for the record, that we have talked to, Craig's talked to Walmart, and they've been very receptive to talking to their drivers and trying to let them know to use John Bowden, you know, come from 77, go up Moonlight, go down Surry Ridge, go down to John Bowden. It's easier. You've got plenty of room. You don't have to worry about these turns that are impossible to make. And so that's basically all. I just wanted to have a little discussion so everybody could hear. Quite a few more people than I thought watched. So maybe if they had a question, they could hear some of what we were talking about. But to that point of Greg Drive, Craig and I talked today, and we're almost ready to go out for a bit. We did get to see a lot of drainage issues on Saturday night So You said so the drainage on Gregg Drive is going to be What'd you say 800,000 it's gonna be it's gonna be a little it's gonna add a lot to what we were thinking What is it?

Crow Creek. No, it's not Crow Creek. What is that? The creek down there by Heritage Village. Crow Cross. Crow Cross Creek. That's what it's called. That's going to need very sizable culverts underneath the roadway. So in the storm Sunday night, 300 foot of that road was underwater.

The water also made it to the bottom of the new bridge.

It got within a foot of the bottom of the new bridge on Briggs. So it got really deep. Went five foot over the old road.

Did y'all see anything about blockage? The city had blocked off some of the drainage areas because they're doing the work over there. Somebody posted that. They showed pictures of them using sandbag, whatever, to block off the drainage. No, we didn't. But you know what I mean? They said city of Waco. But I don't know. But it's never done that. So, I mean, I'm just wondering if that construction is a big reason for locking things off. You know what I mean on 35? Yeah.

No, the 35 issues maybe. But the issues we saw is just because Flat Creek Drainage Basin is really big and all that new development over there. The runoff is just getting worse and worse. It went five foot over top of over a bridge.

But it does feed this way. We didn't either.

We got one inch of rain.

It crosses under 35.

Isn't that crazy? I mean, I'm at the very south end of town. Master George and I, we got an inch of rain. Now, the previous Saturday night rain, I got seven and a half.

Yeah.

Master George said he got five and a half.

I only had three tenths during this one. Okay.

That's what happened in the hill country. It's unloading at one spot. It's just the clouds are hovering.

How much are stolen cars?

The next morning we had three reports come in almost back to back to back of stolen cars. And it was from the church camp road area. And what had happened, they had washed into the creek. So I flew the drone all down through the creek looking for them. And we ended up finding them. Some people had pulled them out for them.

Sorry about that.

Did anybody have anything they wanted to say about that? I just wanted to kind of just bring it up, let it be out there, kind of read that, talk about what. We'll just make sure we sign it all correctly. And then, like I said, we're going out to bid next month, hopefully, right, July? That's the hope, buddy, July. And then hopefully we can get started about September. And then the reclamation manual is almost done. it's just a couple tweaks well that's going to allow for us to we're going to craig said that we'd start out with about four or five of those roads in there and do the bid process and kind of see how that works out before we start really laying into all the roads that are in that that don't require the engineering to get done so anyway all right uh 624 will adjourn so we got time to All right, we'll call the meeting to order. We do have a quorum. And for our invocation tonight, a great friend of the council, Jerry Freeman, will give our invocation.

Let's pray. Father, it is good to be among friends. Not just friends because we all come from the same place. Not just friends because we all eat at the same restaurants or any of those kinds of things, but Father, friends because you have given us, I believe, a very similar idea, a vision even, if you will, of how it is that you desire for things to go in this community. That means, Father, that sometimes there's growth. Sometimes growth leads to change, and change can be painful and even scary for us. Father, in those times where there's pain, where there's frightening things, where there's things that we wonder about, where we wonder if this is the right way to go, we ask, Father, for your courage to be able to confront one another, even when that's necessary, and to do so as friends. recognizing, Father, that we have all the same goal, not to promote ourselves, but, Lord God, to bring what is best for this community to the forefront. So we ask, Lord God, that you will do that through us tonight. We thank you, Father, for this community, for the folks who live here, for the folks who work here, for those on this council who serve here. We ask, Father, that you will continue in every way possible to do what you need to do in this place through each of us. In Jesus' name. Amen.

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.

Roll call.

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All right. Citizen comments. The council invites citizens to address the council in any matter, including items on the agenda, except public hearings that are included. Those comments related to public hearings be heard when the public hearing starts. Please limit your comments to three minutes. Council is not permitted to take any action or discuss any item not listed on the agenda. When called to speak, please state your name and address and the agenda item you're speaking on. After a long absence, we welcome back Ms. Vaughn from

My conflict canceled their meeting tonight, so I got to come and be with you guys for a change. So I, I miss coming to the city council meetings and I wanted to come tonight and just give you an update on the announcements for the Robinson chamber commerce. I bring you greetings from them. Things are moving right along with the chamber. We have some new board members and some excited people and. We're trying to get things going. So our next event will be our monthly board meeting on July 14th right here in this room at noon. And we invite any and all of you to come and join us for that meeting. We have an open meeting, so we're open to suggestions, ideas, comments, whatever. And we appreciate those because we don't know what direction you want us to go unless you tell us that. Um, the next event coming up is our biggest and bestest every year. Um, our annual membership banquet is July 23rd. The last day to sign up to be a sponsor is June 19th, which is this Friday. It is a holiday for most people, but we still will accept your. sponsorship, if you would like to do so we're also looking for silent auction donations and you can purchase tickets for the banquet online up until July the 16th. So we would love to see as many of us possible there to help us celebrate our great bank our great Chamber that we have for the city. And also our quarterly networking luncheon, our next one is tentatively scheduled for August the 20th. Normally on our schedule of every three months it would be July, but July we're going to be a little busy with the bandwidth. So it's tentatively scheduled for August the 20th. You need to pay attention. We may be moving it this month or this time rather than having it at Tagen Cajun. Just pay attention to the announcements as to where it might be held at that time. So we would love to have you at any and all of our events, and thank you.

Thank you. Okay, we have two presentations tonight. First presentation will be Mike Vogler with the Greater Waco Sports Commission.

All right. I highly discourage rupturing your Achilles, by the way. So, yeah, thank you guys for letting me be here tonight. Just getting the opportunity to share again about what the Sports Commission does here for this community. We're excited to be able to continue to represent Robinson ISD, or Robinson ISD, Robinson. And so, again, thank you also for sharing Destiny as a representative. She serves on our board because of the partnership that we have with the city. we go all right just as a quick recap again we're entering our 11th year as a non-profit we've got two different community or committees that help serve some of our initiatives one of them is a marketing community outreach program and then the other one is a youth development committee one of the initiatives that you're going to see here in a second is how can we help serve the youth here that live in this community that are underserved and teach them the power and the lessons of sports at a young age uh we also have three full-time staff members three grad assistants and then dedicated board members um again here is a list of uh half of them so rust book binder here's the former ed for san antonio sports commission Lives here locally, but then we've got some other great, um, leaders here in this community representatives from Baylor, other different cities, um, and then great, uh, event production folks. Um, we've got representatives from the hospital banks, uh, hotel association, um, local insurance, and then also representative from the commissioner's court with, uh, commissioner deal Wilson. And then here's our staff, myself and two full-time people with Rachel and Annie. And then we've got two grad assistants. We've also got Another grad assistant that will be coming in in August with Baylor Starts. And then we've got an intern that's serving with us. As a reminder, we've got three different pillars for the sports commission. The first pillar is developing healthy youth communities and family. And so we do that through, or the reason that we do that is McClellan County, 35% or one in three adults is obese. One in four adults meet physical activity guidelines. And then three in four adults have a chronic condition. and so we understand that the power of movement is so helpful for all of our bodies minds and souls and so um you know with the the healthcare industry it costs the government uh close to 117 billion dollars 80 billion is spent on societal benefits for active youth and obviously there's a two times higher depression in inactive youth so that's the reason why we do the things that we do for the local community One of the programs that we have to be able to address that pillar is our corporate cup. So this was an event that just took place here on June six. Destiny was a fantastic assistant and her family helped serve at that event. But we had a number of great businesses here that participate in us. This is basically an adult field day. So all these companies get to come out, they get to tailgate. I would show you a video, but that's going to take too long. But it was an absolute blast. This was the second year that we produced this. We have close to 2000 people that come out there. Everyone from SpaceX to Baylor to Cromwell to Harris Creek, W promo. We've got a number of folks. And so the idea is, how can we continue to grow the signature event for this community to be able to help get the adult population to be able to move? These activities range everything from tug of war to golf chipping to cornhole to even just a 1K walk. And so no matter what type of physical activity you normally participate in, we've got something for you. And then also the tailgating opportunity, that's just an opportunity to be able to hang out with your coworkers outside of your typical walls and typical setting and to be able to really build that relational equity with them. The other program that we do is called team waco you guys have heard me mentioned this before this is our new class should say 2026 I apologize, but Sam actually on the second to the right is resident here of Robinson ISD again. And so just thankful for, I'm sorry, Sean. And so just thankful again that we get to help support another Robinson ISD resident in this program like we did with Troy a couple of years ago. This is the program where these athletes get to get the training, consultation, gym memberships, all the resources in order to be able to accomplish the team or the Ironman when it comes here in October. So the scholarship program is close to about $6,500 a piece for each one of these residents and community members. And so their stories are absolutely incredible. Sean weighed over 300 pounds just about two years ago. And so he's been on this big health journey. And so we're just excited to be able to help support him. So again, a resident of Robinson that we get to help continue his chapter and legacy. The second pillar that we focus on I'm going to go back to healthy youth communities and families. The initiative that we're working on with those committees is we ultimately want to be able to take portions of the proceeds of the corporate cup be able to build out programs like i said that are going to help kids in third to fifth grade and after school programming to be able to help them to be able to have a place where they can learn about sports at that young age that they have the confidence when they get into middle school to be able to say hey i had access to this and this is something that i want to continue with there's a similar program in san antonio called iplay and the results of that program have been incredible of showing how it drops chronic absenteeism. It helps with mental health. It helps with nutrition for those kids. And so we want to be able to help replicate that program here, but specifically for this community, right? They serve as 66 different elementary schools and essentially teach them a sport for about six weeks. And at the end of that six weeks, they produce a tournament for those local schools and kids to be able to participate with each other. And so that's really where we want to be able to help take these things. The 2nd pillar that we do is supporting impactful events. So we had everything from March mayhem, which this is at the base, the county resident, or the county facility and we had 150 teams participate this in March. There's another volleyball tournament that takes place in December that had over 250 teams. um we have iron kids in october and so again how can we help activate the youth here we had a splash and dash portion so they got to swim in one of the hotel pools back and forth and then they got to do the run we had over 325 kids that were registered for this and the terrible thing about this event is we had to turn away 125 kids So we're expecting this event to continue to grow. This is a way to be able to help serve this community. Most of the people that participate in this are local residents that say, hey, this is a chance for us to be able to be a part of this event that comes in town with so many tourists. So it's a great compliment. to what we do. Again, I have an incredible video that just shows the story of this, but for timing's sake, I kept it just to the pictures. Then we get to Ironman Waco, and in 2023, we had 1,700 athletes participate. In 2024, we had 2,300. This past year, we grew even that number. This is despite being poor weather days where it was 85 degrees when you're running a half marathon on top of already doing the bike ride and the swim. So the fact that we're growing even though the weather has not been optimal tells us that we're doing a great job of being able to recruit people. So I'm excited for this year. Our target is to be able to, again, increase those numbers. What that does is that translates into hotel stays. 65% of those folks stayed in hotels. I know this because myself and board members and our staff surveyed literally people as they were coming out of the registration tent, over 600 people. uh we had our ipad and we were just asking everybody these questions so 65 of stayed in hotels you can kind of see all these big stats here ultimately we measured that there was a little over 7 500 total visitors to the area and then as far as those hotel room numbers generated over 6 000 hotel room areas or hotel rooms and what that does is even for a large event even if it's based in downtown waco it creates compression in the marketplace so it fills the hotel here too right because everybody's looking for a place to say that might be a little bit less expensive than in the epicenter. Here's a great snapshot of the Ironman. Here's the finish. Okay, another event that we brought in, this was at the beginning of March. This was Major League Fishing, the Bass Pro Tour. We had stage two come here and fish at Lake Whitney and at Lake Waco. This was great exposure for this community and for those bodies of water. It was the number one live streamed Bass Pro Tour stage event that they have so far. That was here in Waco. So huge win for this community and that body of water. And then, of course, we were able to visit the local school and be able to teach them about water safety with the core of engineers. And so it was a great event. Here's some more snapshots. Okay, there's the champion. He got a nice check for catching a bunch of fish. Okay, another event that we had just again to show the diversity is at the beginning of May, we were able to recruit, it's called CCC May Madness. This is esports, so video games. So this may seem absolutely mind blowing, but we had over 80 teams from across the country and even teams from England. come here to Waco to be able to compete in video games. And so this is what we want to do, continue to help diversify what we can host here, create that compression in the hotels, and continue to market McLean County and the greater Waco area. Here's all the different events that we've supported from June last year to June today. So there's a bunch of different events. It's really small text. Destiny's got the PDF, so if you want to see this later on, feel free. But it was over 46 different events ranging from helping Baylor with some of the different NCAA events to smaller 5Ks that are here in this community. to activate the folks that live here. For this past year economic impact, we were able to generate over 21,000 hotel rooms for the area. Economic impact is a little over 18 million. And then through Major League Fishing and all the other different events that we have, A little over 7Million dollars in media exposure that could be stretched out to 12,000, but I wanted to be able to just share these pieces of information with you to let you know that. Hey, you through your support. We are trying to help get the greater Waco community on the map and be able to bring people here and help show them what an amazing community this is. Um, upcoming events, uh, here at the beginning of July, the Appaloosa, uh, youth, uh, world championships are taking place at the extra event center. Um, so big course, uh, competition, and then we were also able to recruit the Texas high school, Texas high school. women's powerlifting competition. That's take place in a whole bunch of other different cities. It took place here in Waco back in 2016. This is going to bring around 2000 weightlifters from across the state here in Waco, the time period that we need that foot traffic. And so we were able to secure it not for the two year term that they were asking, but for four years to really kind of solidify that relationship. Iron Kids and Ironman, that'll come back up here in October and then like I mentioned syntax challenge. That's a large volleyball tournament. We've been able to grow that from 120 teams four years ago to 250 teams that's 250 teams of teenage girls and Parents and siblings and grandparents that all come to Waco after Bailey graduation So when this community is a little bit slower and so that's helping the restaurants that's helping the hotels. That's helping this community out. I Last one, advocating for first class facilities. I'm gonna fly through this one. You may have heard me talk about it before, but we need to be able to have greater facilities here in this community so that we can recruit greater events and be able to generate more economic impact while also servicing the local community and improving the quality of life. And 1 of the facilities that lacks most in this county is an aquatics facility. And so we've had a committee that's been formed and we have hired out a consultant is a 40,000 dollar feasibility study. And the results won't surprise you that yes, this community could certainly support a facility like this. This is ultimately going to come down to a public private partnership. If something like this is ever going to happen, but the sports commission, we feel like this is our role is to at least be a voice to be ready if and when anybody wants to be able to have this conversation. So this would require the county. This would require any city partnerships. And then, of course, the private partnership as well, to be able to make something like this happen. But I think that anytime that we've talked about this with community members, no matter the age, whether it's senior or youth and anything in between, people have said, yes, we need something like this. And the economics behind it make a lot of sense as well, because there's not a swimming facility here in this area. Robinson ISD has had a swim team. But that's only because they've got some swimmers that are interested and then they have to practice in the YMCA lanes and they might have 4 to Elaine in the morning. Right? And so a lot of these schools, if you have a aquatic learning center like this, they will form a team because it's easier for those families to be able to participate in those youth to be able to participate. So as a summary, we've created three different events between Light Up the Dark 5K, which helps support Sunbound Now, the Corporate Cup, and then we have a swim event called Beast of the Brazos. We've got the five-team Waco scholarship athletes. We've partnered with 37 businesses for the second annual Corporate Cup. Over the entire year, we partnered with over 75 different local businesses and organizations. We finished the $40,000 aquatic feasibility study, and then we're still recruiting major events to be able to help come to this community. We've got a site visit scheduled here in July with a national company that has a great reputation. And we're trying to see if we can schedule something like a marathon series. And so if we had a marathon series here in this community in February, which that's when we need that visitor traffic, that would help put us on the spot. So I think that our reputation, the investment that the city has made in the sports commission to be able to build what we're doing it is paying dividends. And so I just wanted to make sure that I came back and let you know, hey, the way that you're supporting us is impacting this community in so many different ways. And I'm just really appreciative and thankful. So yes, if you want to volunteer with us, I still have the QR code and social media tags. And then I also send out a monthly newsletter, just letting folks know, hey, what's going on in the community, both present and also future. So happy to answer any questions.

You know, just past weekend, down at College Station, they had the major Professional track meet. I think they have 200 different athletes that come down there. Is that something we could swing up here because we have the Baylor facility that might be work to get a usage of?

That's a great question. So ultimately what that comes down to is public versus private, pay as private. So it depends on if they want to be able to host that. Now I will say with NIL and the financial climate, you know, they're more inclined right now and so they're certainly interested. One of the events that we're waiting to hear feedback from And should by the end of August is I submitted a bid to be able to recruit the USA track and field convention. So this is the convention versus competition, but bringing in the elite athletes for all USA track and field. in the end of november in 2028 and if you think about it la olympics are that summer and so how neat would that be for after the high of that to be able to bring in all those premier people to be able to have their convention here so um in that partnership they would have access to the track facility because they just had a national championship center parliament up at oregon yep so Yeah, great question. What else?

I have a question. Has the feasibility study for the Aquatic Center been released? Is it available?

Yes, I had the consultants do a presentation at Commissioner's Court with the county, and so we'd be happy to be able to get anybody a copy of that feasibility study.

Thank you, sir. We appreciate

Oh, that's true for the corporate cap. Would we got to compete and the wake of fire department? So we would love to see the city Robinson being represented and say, yes, we'd love to have that conversation with whoever about making that happen.

Did y'all hear destiny just volunteered to coach?

She'd be a great team captain.

all right uh next we have a presentation from tommy o'brien so you want to come up and then uh y'all have a y'all have his packet in front of you for those of us like me that can't see that because i'm not wearing my glasses so go ahead cool thanks for having me i'm tommy o'brien i live at 315 daisy lane um

Essentially i've been talking with Dave over email I think we met like once a few months ago as well. But we purchased there's nine acres that have been for sale at the end of West rocket roads, I think I heard a couple y'all on East rocket. Okay, cool. So yeah, West Rocket right across 77. It's like a quarter mile stretch, just gravel. At the very end, there's a property that's been for sale for several years. Me and my wife purchased that back in December. And we cannot get water on the property. And so that's kind of what I wanted to chat about. West Rocket has, Dave, you said like it's a really old, I think it's in the packet as well. um really old line um so it's not up to current city standards um the estimation is that it may not be able to support like other water meter um and so my proposal and I have like a you know laid it out a little bit here it didn't make a nice PowerPoint like the other guy but uh yeah i wanted to i was doing some research um there's not too much online about this but like it sounds like there's a precedent like in other areas of the country like like some type of cost sharing program um so like getting a new water line installed for the whole length of the road to get one meter for my property at the very end of the road uh it's pretty expensive like i included a quote that we had um done it was over like ninety thousand dollars Um, so that'd be a lot for me and my wife to assume the cost of that, um, to put in a new water line for the entire stretch of the road. Um, and not every property on that road already has water off of West rocket road. um and so it would do good for more than just our property to do good for all the people that live on the road currently as well as the other properties that are just sitting there um and so i'd be willing to put up like i put a number in there um like 25 grand just like something significant but like again not like we can't afford to pay 90 grand for a water line for the whole road um but Yeah, and we're not like developers. I'm not just trying to get access, hike up the price a little bit. We're just a family in Robinson. Yeah, so a couple of the potential, you might just say, dig a well. That's the obvious solution. We called one company. They said that there is no water in that part of Robinson for a well. I included a screenshot of a survey that the GI gis uh like a water map um so they said they have to drill down to the trinity like over 2 000 feet that was going to cost like over 200 grand um so like that's more expensive than putting the water line on the road um yeah so The other thing is the property I probably should include a screenshot. So, like, y'all could visualize like, Matt, but there's a private road since arrows. Um, but as you said, like, that line is even worse shape and also since the private road, there is no, like, utility easement on since arrows, which again, like, bumps up to our property. But the water line doesn't extend that far. City of Robinson doesn't have a utility easement to even extend that line or put in a new meter at this point on Sincero. So West Rock is the only option. Another option would just be, is the current line good enough? Could we just say, let's see what happens? That probably is not good enough. I don't know. Or order some type of engineering study. to see if the current line truly does have capacity. And then finally, like, or we just put a new water line. It'll cost, as it was quoted back in December, 90-ish grand. Sorry, it's taken me a while to get from getting that quote to here. We've had a bit of a family craziness. And then me coming here has gotten pushed back a couple times. But, yeah, really excited to be here. That's kind of my spiel. So...

i've never done anything like this before so i just want to see if you guys have questions what the next steps would be so initial thoughts are this is an action item but you can't ask him questions so does anybody have any questions for him at this time i don't have a question for that or the presenter but for craig if just

The quote that we would have to go out for scope and bid this out to do it if we were to consider an option like this. Yeah. So the price that was mentioned there would change.

I think Greg went out and got something similar. I think he reached out to some of the contractors we work. I think this quality might have been a little bit less than the one that Greg had reached out to. We just actually did a... We just did a connection, which was on a cost sharing for windmill preserve. This won't make any sense, but we just did a connection from the intersection of Hobbs Lane, West Moon Line, and 12th Street. We ran a line about 1,000 feet up to connect to where the current line dead ends, because there wasn't enough flow over on Steagall the windmill preserve. And so we needed to get additional flow in that area. And so it's about the same length. And I want to say that was around $88,000. And we did a 50-50 cost share on that with the developer of windmill preserve. But there we're getting 164 new homes. So 164 new connections are coming up. So these prices are probably in the ballpark.

Other questions at this time? This will obviously come back up.

I have just one question. I'm looking at his estimate. You're talking a six-inch water line. Are we obligated to a six-inch line if we were to extend that?

So our current ordinance is that all new lines have to be minimum of six-inch or as designated by the engineers.

There's no way to supersede that for a single meter of line? So the current line is?

The current line is, well, my understanding is the current line from, I was talking to Greg about this today, from 77 to a certain point is a two-inch galvanized. And it's been there a long time, so the outside might be two inches, the inside might be an inch. At some point, he said that somewhere along that line, it decreases to an inch and a half, two and an inch. which isn't under TCEQ standards, isn't considered a water main anymore. You're not supposed to connect to it anyway. But he wouldn't know unless they went out there and potholed it. Does TCEQ recommend six or require six? Well, you've got to have at least six to put fire hydrants on it. Oh, okay.

There is no fire hydrant on the street currently.

Right. Yeah, there's no fire hydrants there. So that's typically when we put new lines in, we require fire protections. So there is no fire protection right now on that.

Somewhere because of that, I must have missed this, but how many residences are affected stretch just your house?

So, I mean, there's a few other properties that don't have water. There's a couple that run off of since arrows. Um, which again, like, like, since there's water line breaks, since there's no utility use, like, to my understanding, Robinson can't go in and repair that and they would no longer have water. Um, and there's a few properties sitting there, same situation, no water, the neighboring property at the very end of the road is like 120 acre ranch and they actually have 2 water meters, like, a folder request from, like, the public information act. And so, yeah, they have 2 hookups at the very end of the street for your intake to 2 water meters for the 120 acre property. And yeah, we're the 9 acre property that right next to that at the end of the West rocket.

So they're able to run the ranch off of them. So much of the research has to be done, you know, on this by Greg and you and the city employees and then talk to us about it. Yeah, that basically is it.

Basically the night is he's presenting what he wants and then it's up to the council. We'll talk about the stuff because it's not an accident. So there's nothing we can do.

And being brand new, gosh, we've got to keep it deep.

For me, I've got to get details. yeah yeah i don't know what the next step is like the next step goes to us what is the next step it goes to us to decide whether or not to take action on it yeah if you want to bring it back you're going to have questions so we're going to have to probably send this to them there's there's other there's other issues so we get these all the time it's typically been our policy that

For small projects like this, we do not extend. And we've had some where the people will go, two or three property owners will go together, and they'll pitch in to do a water line extension. Typically, cities don't extend water lines to new locations. The development extends water lines. We replace some water lines when they're scheduled. Now, this line is not currently scheduled to be replaced. There's a lot more water lines that affect a whole lot more people where we're having issues. beyond what we're having on this one. So I'm not saying it won't ever be replaced, but it's not currently near the top of the list to be replaced. But we do get a lot of these requests. And usually, unless it's something like a significant development, like windmill preserve, where we're looking at adding 165 new connections. I mean, that particular project there, the cost sharings, how much was the total on that, David? Do you remember? About $88,000? Something like that. Yeah, so $44,000. 160 new connections with a base fee of 42 50 it reimburses the city in like six months feasibility six or seven months so does the whole line and there's other questions like does the whole line need to be replaced part of the line well so the whole line so right now the existing line is serving the customers that are on it

But you cannot connect.

This line is pretty much at capacity, so you can't extend it and connect anything to it.

You can't add to that line.

Yeah, so a new line would have to be run from site to site.

So there's no residence where you are on your nine acres yet?

No.

No. Yeah, we live on Daisy Lane next to the immediate school.

Your intent to build there.

Yes, we do have intent to build once we get access. So that would increase property value, taxes, et cetera.

There's no shorter route. There's no shorter line that could.

All that area out there, that rural area, there's a lot of stuff that was done years ago where you had a private property and they divvied it up and they pitched in and they ran a, you know, and that was even, some of that was even done before the city owned the water system when Mr. O'Dowd owned it. And so he would go out there and just run a water line and hook people up to it. So that's a challenge, and there's a lot of that out that way.

Okay, so anything else? I'll say that, number one, there's nothing we can do at this point in time. Number two, there sounds like more questions you all want answered from people that are not in the room and can't answer your questions.

We'd almost have to, at some point in time, survey the present residents to see if they'd be willing to cost share their portion of hooking up to the bigger line.

I don't know how incentivized they'd be if they already have water.

They may not have enough water. They may just have enough water to exist, not much more. But if you would like to increase your capacity of usage, you might be willing to. to spend a little bit of money.

So I say we take the questions that we have, we send the questions that we have to the Water Department for answers, and then we come back.

Yeah, we can bring it, well, probably not the 21st, because there's only going to be four of you here. So we bring it back the August meeting. Make a note the first of June.

All right, we'll let you know. Thanks, Bob.

Mr. Lemon, one clarifying question. You said that, like, an engineering study to see if the line does have capacity for another meter at the end of the road is not on the table.

No, it's not on the table to is not currently on the table to upgrade or replace that line. So we have an inventory of a lot of water lines throughout the city. And this is one of them. But they're prioritized based on how often we repair leaks, how often we have customer issues, and how many customers are on those lines.

I guess he's saying, too, the...

could you could we do a study that would determine whether or not one more meter well we can't legally tap into this one correct given its current size yeah that's we the first thing i have to do is see if it because if it next down to one inch then we can't extend it it's got to be at least a two inch to be considered a water main and we don't know again this is an old old line we don't know greg is pretty comfortable it's not going to support anymore and He's been here 46 years. He's been here longer than some of these water lines. He may have been here when that water line was put in. But yeah, we can look at it. And he and I talked a little bit today. He couldn't be here tonight because he had something with his grandkids. But we'll look at that part a little bit more. If it doesn't neck down to one inch, then it's not going to be a matter of just tying into the end. It would have to go back to wherever it's two inch and then whether or not it even has enough flow in the existing two inch.

I appreciate us being willing to consider that because there's How much cheaper is a 2-inch versus a 6-inch? I mean, to me, it sounds like most of it. I mean, just the difference in the cost of the pipe, because putting a 6-inch in would be about the same as a 2-inch.

Is there any way to determine if part of the line is 200, 2-inch, and part of it's 1? I mean, we don't know. We'll have to go pothole it. We'll have to go start digging every 30, 40 feet and see.

All right, we'll take these questions. Give these questions to the one. okay quickly um let's take care of the consent agenda consent agenda will consider will consist of eight nine ten and thirteen should i have a motion um are you not including eleven did i not say eleven sorry eight nine ten eleven and thirteen

I will make a motion to approve consideration of items numbers 8, 9, 10, 11, and 13 as written. Seconded.

All in favor? Aye. Any opposed? All right, let's move to the public hearing. 708, we will enter a public hearing to consider and take possible action on Ordinance 2026-008 for a specific use permit. to allow a short-term rental in the rural estate district of 724 North Old Robinson Road on the MCAD parcel 158129 Ocampo C Acres. And that is 1.946. Dave. Yes.

Mayor, council, David Harrell, planning and development director. Item before you is a specific use permit for a short-term rental. This is a large lot with a roughly 2,000 square foot single family home, roughly on a two acre parcel. parcels located within the re district you can see these are large i call these bowling alley lots they're wide and long so um that's not a professional term it's just my terminology so the lots around them are very similar in nature neither is shotgun house such a thing there you go Home is located on the front end of the lot near the roadway. You can see it right over in this area toward the front. Large driveway is present. You can kind of see a car parked in it now in the area right there all around at the gray areas where the driveway is at. 2 storey home 3 bedroom home exist on the lot. This is the schematics for the property 1st floor and upstairs 2 bedroom house short term rental basis based on the number of bedrooms 3 bedrooms 3 parking spaces. This driveway more than exceeds the standards. As you can see here on the left to parking 3 cars in it, and they can park tandem as well. Under section 534 of the city code, there are 8 findings of factory for the reviewing authority to consider when granting a specific use. Those are listed in your packet and staff interpretations of that evidence that's within your packet is there as well. You're free to come up with your own interpretations of the factual evidence or anything else that you hear at this meeting today and staff interpretations are kind of the following. Um, the site is a large site with a driveway and tandem parking areas surrounded by residential with large lots, which is similar to this and with additional conditions brought forward. This can, this would not be a detriment to the area staff believes and I'll touch upon those here in a minute. Now, under the same city code requirements, you can pass additional reasonable conditions necessary to protect the public interest welfare, including a time period. And you can impose conditions that are important to the welfare and protection of adjacent property from excessive noise, offensive views, diminishment of property values or other undesirable or hazardous conditions. Those are examples of things that you can consider as part of the specific use permits for this. And also the conditions that you can potentially, if you decide to pass to help mitigate any of these effects that you feel would occur. Now, based on the information within your packet, this is the standard four conditions that go with a specific use permit. It just says you're limited to no more than seven guests, length of stays 30 days. You basically, you're allowed to property owner to live or not live at the residence. It kind of reiterates one parking space per bedroom. Food service limited to overnight guests may or may not be prepared on site. The architecture of the structure of the grounds must maintain its residential character, which it would in this case. And a permanent wired smoke alarm, meaning all city code grounds be installed as part of the short-term rental. So these are the normal conditions that are already within the code, but they're just brought forward into the ordinance. And as part of this, the planning and zoning commission makes a recommendation on this and at their May 7th meeting, they recommended approval 6 0 with the same staff conditions that I reiterated here and that the time period for the short term rental to exist for 2 years from the date of approval by council. Should you choose to approve it? And with that said, that concludes my presentation. I'm here and the applicant is here as well with any for any questions. Thank you.

Would you like to speak. good all right just checking all right at 7 12 we will close the public hearing uh questions from council live in uh just to be clear no letters opposition were returned we received nothing back any other questions can i have a motion

I'll make a motion to enact ordinance 2026-008 for project number 826-0010. This is a specific use request to allow for short-term rental in the rural estate district at 724 North Oak Robinson Road on MCAT parcel ID number 158129.

I'll second that motion.

All in favor?

Aye.

Any opposed? That has passed. Thank you. Okay. We've already discussed our ordinance for the trucks. So last, does anybody have anything that they would like to see on the future agenda?

Just the water line issue.

Okay. We're taking that. Send that.

if there is a feasibility for the city to have the possibility of additional lots or even a development in that area. If we did do that, kind of like research the whole thing, we'll see to make that land usable.

That would fall to if somebody wanted to purchase large blocks of it and develop it. But then that may need even a bigger water line. It might need an 8 or a 12 or a 10. I think it's just exploration. I mean, the biggest challenge out there is there's no sewer available.

So they'd have to use septic tanks. Septic tanks are allowed, correct?

Yeah.

I do. Misty, we talked in the parts meeting about moving the fundraising effort to the water bill. Is that going to be already moved? It's already done. It's coming. It's good. Okay.

Always good to make sure. Anything else? No. All right. 715, we are adjourned.

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