City Council - Regular Meeting

Please silence your devices. We're going to start in about less than a minute. All right, I've got six o'clock. So at 6 o'clock, I call this meeting of the Sagon City Council to order. Please rise for the pledges to the flag of the United States of America and to the republic for which it stands. One nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Honor the Texas flag. I aliance to thee, Texas. One state, one and indivisible. Thank you. Please be seated. For invocation, we have Dr. Mark Towns. Welcome, sir.

Thank you, Mayor and Council. It's a honor always to be here to be able to lead us in prayer. Would you join me? Our father, we come before you today on this beautiful spring day. I thank you for my neighbors. I thank you for the leadership of this great city. And I thank you, Father, for the blessings that are evident that you have given to each of us. I thank you now for this season of Easter, uh season of new beginnings and the promise of uh your blessing upon us. And so, Father, I pray that you would continue to strengthen each of our first responders and take care of uh all of our leadership and help us, Father, to reflect um to others uh the blessings we've received. And we thank you in Jesus name. Amen.

Amen. Thank you, Reicipation. If there's an item on the agenda you wish to speak about, the uh there's forms over there by the police chief. You're happy. We're happy for you to speak on any item that is listed on the agenda. Moving forward to the consent agenda. A is action regarding minutes of March 17th. B is act regarding bid for award of finished mowing grounds maintenance of city facilities. C is action regarding award of bid for finished mowing grounds maintenance of city parks. D is action regarding roof replacement for the rec center. And E is action regarding special event alcohol permit at the switchyard. Any questions, comments on the consent agenda. If not, I'll entertain a motion. Mayor, I make a motion. Mayor, I make a motion we approve the consent agenda as read.

Second. Valerie. Second motion passes. Let the record reflect. We do have a corn full house tonight. Thanks for thanks for coming folks. 3A recognition presentations. Gabe, what do we have?

Mayor, I believe the fire department will have some recognitions next meeting, but just real quick, we don't have anything else. I believe we had a um garage gab at the Aberly, which formerly was known as Mariposa. Nice event. A lot of folks came out question and answer the the typical garage gab routine. Um officer Rener is um works nights. If you remember, he formerly was a jailer and he was sponsored in the academy by the city. So, every once in a while he likes to go play piano at the Aberly. And so, when we were there, a couple of y'all were there, you would have remembered this, but he uh he started playing piano afterward. And it was wonderful. Just want to give him a shout out. And he's really good. I have

He is very He's amazingly good. Really is. And And those folks, they're loved. They love him. They were thrilled with that entertainment. So, yeah. Other duties as assigned. Maybe the chief uh asks applicants uh about their piano playing ability. I don't know. But uh we appreciate him going above and beyond and the residents there just love him.

All right. And we just uh before this meeting earlier this afternoon, we opened officially the grand opening for Opel Joe Dennings Park which was very nice, beautiful park. Please, I encourage you to drive by and see it or go go play on the park stuff. It's it's beautiful. Uh great uh great turnout and also it ended up looking really really well. So, it was that park needed some love and it's a it's a appropriate uh homage to her memory. So, all right, moving on. Uh 3B will not be this week. That will skip till next time through the next council meeting. So, 3C is Young Southeast Asian Leaders Initiative, the Yili program. We have Leah here. Leah, come on up. I hope y'all you haven't met Leah. Uh she's been here with us for a few weeks and she's going to talk about her experiences. So, welcome. Oh, so good evening, mayor, and the council members and everyone here today. And I'm really grateful for the opportunity to speak in front of you and to be able to share about my home country, the city I live in, and about my experiences in Texas as a fellow thus far. So, my home country is the Philippines. As you can see, I have placed four photos up there in the first slide. Those are just four among all others many other tourist spots in the Philippines. The first one is the Bonab rice terraces. We also have the perfectly shaped peak of Mount Mayon in Albai. The pink sand of San Santa Cruz Island in Zbonga city and Elido Palawan. So there will be lots of slides but I will do my best to like not take too much of your time and just say what I need to say. And another photo we have here on the second slide is the monument of result Dr. Jose Rizal our national hero. So this is located in the mon in the result park manila. So just a little background about about

the Philippines. It is actually known as the pearl of the orient seas. So the title was popularized by the man I just introduced earlier, Dr. Rosarisal, our national hero, because he wanted to emphasize how rich in natural beauty and marine biodiversity our country has. And it is rich in bio in marine biodiversity because, as you can see, it is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia with 7,641 islands. And these islands are grouped into three major island groups. The northern part is the Luzon. The one at the center is Visayas. And in the southern part is Mindanao. So if you s sum them all up, the Philippines actually has a total land area approximately equal to 300,000 square kilometers and that would be around 115,000 square miles. So in terms of population, we rank second in Southeast Asia and we are the 14th most populous country worldwide. So the languages that we primarily speak in our country is first Filipino, our national language. Our secondary language is actually English. We are the third largest English-sp speakaking country and I think that would be third to fifth. It varies. And then the number of dialects spoken in the country is more than 111 because we have over 134 different ethnic groups. So the most common greeting that we say in Filipino is mabai. So that means you welcome everyone or you wish someone long life. And then kumustaka that means how are you and we also say in chabakano the dialect that we speak in Sambanga when

we ask someone how's she doing we ask her katal we also greet her buenes das for a good day and other dialects we speak of would be maraga mayapak and one of the dialects that the Muslims use back in our country they say assalamu allayikum. So the global personalities most of you might be familiar with would be mani fakman Pacquiao. He is the most renowned back boxer in our country and he was a former senator as well. We also have Leah Salonga. She's an actress and a singer. Uh she was mainly known for her role in Miss Saigon. Biggest fat food fast food chain in our country that would be Jollibee. I don't know if you're familiar with this one, but this is also available worldwide. So they serve this chicken fried uh fried chicken. It's called chicken joy. It's because they believe that this fried chicken gives joy to their customers. Thus the word chicken joy. And then they also serve the pinoy style spaghetti like a sweet sauce and then with hot dogs on top.

All right, stop it. You're making us hungry, Leah. So,

and then our country also has the major crops to be rice, corn, coconut, sugar cane, banana, cassava, pineapple and vegetables. For the major livestock, we have the hogs, cattles, carbo or water buffaloos, the goat, chicken, duck, and fish. Of course, being an archipelagic country, the form of government is kind of different, but uh there's lots of similarities as well. So being a democratic country we have the sovereign people at the top of our chart and then the three main branches of our government structure would be the executive branch. This is comprised of the president and the vice president followed by the legislative branch. This con consists of the senate and the house of representatives. So they take form of the congress. The judicial branch this is the supreme court and the lower courts. As for the local government units, we have the province, city or municipality and the smallest political unit to be the barangai. So the difference between these three would be the administrative hierarchy, the population of the area as well as their income. So there are actually 18 regions in the Philippines. The region I live in is region 9, which is Zumanga Peninsula. And this is the administrative map of region 9. It actually has four provinces and five cities including Zambanga. So for Zambanga city, I generated here a map that I hope it's clear for everyone. So for Zambanga city, it is divided into two legislative districts. So so that also means there will be two representatives in the house of representatives representing each of the district. So for each for district one that would be 37 baranguis, district 2

61 and as for the locations of the baranguis 54 baranguis are along the coastal area. We also have 10 island baranguis and 34 inland baranguis giving us a total of 98 baranguis. A brief history about our city. So the origin of the name Zambwanga is really jambangan meaning land or pot of flowers because before historically there's really a lot of flowers in the area but over time our tourism office has actually just changed Jambangan or like what we're known for to be Asia's Latin city because we're the only city in Asia that's is most of us are using the dialect chabakano or what is known to be the broken Spanish. And then the picture over there is our city hall. That's where I work as well. And it was constructed in 1907. It was chartered last 1937 and it was declared to be a highly urbanized city in 1983. As for the demography, the population of our city is almost a million in 2020. So there has not yet been any official census for 2026, but that would be over a million by now. And that makes us the sixth largest city in the Philippines. And because of the rapid growth of population, it also led to the increase of urbanization in our city. So that would be around almost 90% currently. As for the zoning, we have lots of zoning actually, but the largest one is the forest production zone followed by the production agricultural subzone and

the third one is our economic zone. We actually have two protected areas in our city. So first would be the great and little Santa Cruz Island and followed by the Pasanaka natural park which is also considered a sean heritage park. It was actually declared to be one in 2024. So the purpose of protected areas is to set them apart and to set the dos and don'ts so that to to conserve their natural uh features and just to keep them like set apart from other developments. And I'm happy to be part of the people who come together to update the management plan to draft the management plans for these two protected areas. Topography speaking, we have as you can see the areas along the coast shaded yellow, they have the lowest elevation and along with that we have 12 major river systems in Zambanga city and the outfalls will be the Sulusi, Basilan Strait and the Mora Gulf at at the east. So as for the economic system our primary source of livelihood in Zambanga most of the people will be a through agriculture and fisheries. So for agriculture we produce lots of bananas, mangoes and even rainbow corn as you can see. Also, we produce uh lots of coconuts, cacao, and we also have lots of rubber plantations for the fisheries. U there's lots of fishermen who harvest seaweeds like along the west

coast of our city. And of course, we also have tuna, big eyedcad, round scad. And for the livestocks we have carabos or water buffaloos, we have cattles and also we have the hogs. The secondary source of income would be the presence of lots of canning industries in the city. So we are actually known to be the sardines capital of the Philippines because we provide 75% of the domestic requirements for can sardines in the country. We are also known to be the hot spot of ship building and repair in the Philippines. So if you visit or tourists visit Zambanga city, especially when they pass by the west coast, they would see lots of ships just lined up for repair. And we are also known for the trade and commerce because there's lots of wholesale and retail businesses. And because of the presence of lots of commercial establishments, it's act it actually allows small, medium, and large enterprises to like coexist and thrive altogether. We're also known for tourism, for the presence of pristine beaches and islands. So, these photos are all referring to the great Santa Cruz Island, which is a protected area, but it is allowed for tourism. This one on the other hand is on the other part of the city. It is considered on Islas from the word itself. It has 11 islands that you can hop into. And it is actually really just amazing to get to different islands in one day. We're also known for the presence of

Merlo Falls. It is very clear and clean falls in the area. For the churches, we have the Fort Pilar shrine. This is considered to be a very miraculous one because historically there has been a tsunami in Zumbonga city and for like eyewitnesses they said that they have witnessed Nestra Seenora delpar descend and like commanded the water to cease. We also have the Sadi Grand Mosque in Paso Bolong. This is actually the largest mosque in Southeast Asia. For the tourism, we have the Zamwanga Armosa festival. It's a month-long celebration. So, it is actually a celebration for the Noester Seora Virhand Delpillar. As for the power system, we do have three power providers in the city, but one of them and the most active one is the Manga City Electric Cooperative. It is non-government operated but the consumers have the right to vote for the board of directors. For the water system, we have Zambanga City Water District. It is the city's main distributor of water. It is government operated. As for the functional role of Zambonga City, there's a lot of text in here, but in a nutshell, Zambonga City is just emphasizing its location being the center of trade. among different Asan countries. And so it actually looks forward to how it could benefit uh how its strategic location could actually benefit tourism and its transportation interests. In terms of world risk, Philippines has ranked number one over a decade. Actually I think that would be for 16 to

17 dec 16 to 17 years straight like consecutive. It is number one because of the reason that there are lots of natural hazards that like passes through the Philippines. But the little problem, it's not a little, it's a problem actually that how we respond to these hazards is a thing that we should really focus into. So say for Zambanga city, it has the high risk to hazards of typhoon, increase in rainfall, flooding, sea level rise, tsunami, earthquake, drought. As for the conflict, that was way before and it has been peaceful ever since. The last one that we had was in 2013 and it has there's no more conflict ever since. I also generated the flood susceptibility map of Zambonga city. So as you can see the areas shaded blue are the barang guys that is really prone to flooding. So as you can see they are all along the coast. It is because during heavy rains the drainage cannot like the drainage usually like backflows to the city and coupled with the rising of the sea level as well as the what do you say this the malfunctioning drainage system in our city. We're actually looking into that as well as the improper solid waste disposal and we're really like monitoring all of that to be able to like at least mitigate the negative impacts of flooding.

Did everybody see at the bottom? Go back. Leah, everybody see at the bottom who created this map. A very fine engineer from Zwanga City created this map. That's is Leah is is an actual engineer. She is she's low played that but she's a civil engineer. So very proud of the work she does. So you need to have credit. As for the flooding, uh this is what actually you see during normal days. We have the PO de Rio like it's a park along the river but during heavy rains Oh, it does not. I actually have a photo a comparison. So during heavy rains the water the river water would actually cover the word tumaga and it would really be like dangerous for people living along the river. This one on the other hand is the rain induced landslide hazard map. So as you can see the green ones are represents the areas that are highly prone to landslide and it is actually the opposite of the other one for the flooding. The prone is very high along the coast. As for the landslide, the risk is on the upland. The green ones, as you can see, those are in the upland. These are actual photos of like landslide that happened in the city. So to address all that, we actually also develop policies like environment code, rainwater harvesting. We actually always look into that especially when we inspect buildings. We also have the local power and energy code of Zambonga city, the solid waste management ordinance. And as for the administration of 2022 to 2025, he the mayor, former mayor had this goal of planting 1 million trees and that was uh fortunately like reached like I think it

got over a million trees. They were we were able to plant over a million trees and we also have central mangro management plan. I was involved in that development of that plan and I'm so happy for that. We also have the forest land use plan also. So I'm heavily involved with the development of climate and disaster risk assessment and that would be incorporated to the local climate change action plan as well as the comprehensive land use plans to which also I am heavily involved into and I just want to share one of my projects back home since tomorrow we will be having the town hall meeting for proposition C. So this is just like my project. It is not yet operational as of now, but it is around 98% completed on site. It is a veterinary clinic and animal disease diagnostic labor laboratory. And I'm really looking forward to this facility being able to serve the community real soon. And that would be for my home country. This time I'm going to share about all my experiences in Texas. So, oh actually that should be I arrived last March 16, March 13, but my fellowship officially began last March 16 and it will end on April 10. So I am part of a young Southeast Asian leaders profession professional fellowship program and I am really grateful to have been placed in Texas SAGO particularly. So, in city hall, the activities I had were the parks board meeting, projects updates meeting, the council meeting, town hall meetings, and I'm really proud to be I'm really glad to be part of those activities. We visited a lot of parks like Mr. Gabe like brought me around even before the fellowship started and I was so glad that I was already briefed like I will

no longer be shocked when my fellowship begins. So that would be the council meetings as well and town hall meeting. We I also joined them when they had the garage gab in Everly homes and I also spent time with the waste connections. I got to visit their office in Halum City and as well as got to visit their transfer station in Ministry and the landfill in Alpharo City to which I am really amazed that they actually do energy harvesting like that would mean negative carbon emission. So like it it really helps the environment and they also do evaporation of leate instead of just dumping it somewhere else. I was also with public works, so I've attended lots of their development review com committee meeting. I've checked their pumps and overhead water tanks. They also toured me around Eagle Mountain water treatment plant pumps and water treatment. And this was when we checked the so sewer meter visit and check the concrete wash out and silt fence. I also got to join the interviews for the customer service staff and lifeguards and recreational center. I also got time to talk and interview the city attorney. And I also joined the police department and had to got the chance to check how the jail works and how the dispatch center works in Lakew Worth. I also got to spend time with the building safety and code compliance. So there are lots of buildings that we got to check rental buildings, commercial buildings. I also got to be brief about

how their software works like how they receive request from the community and the permit request. We also got to visit the green elevators and I was really happy to see how they do things there. And next would be the city library. I got to check the books around as someone who really loves reading books. And so I'm really amazed that it's really still a thing here because I'm really hoping that we could do the same in the country because there's just lots of problems that we encounter like the power supply in the city library. It usually gets caught, but we're really working into it because we have enough power supply. As for my volunteer works, I got to volunteer in the senior center during their bingo game. It was amazing. I also had the chance to be with the animal shelter. Yeah. And also like do community link. I did that during Monday Thursday. So, it was good like serving the community. And I'm also looking forward to be able to volunteer in the city library. And just today I got to ride out with the fire department and I am really although I feel sorry for the victim of fire but I'm really glad to have witnessed like how they do respond to fire incidents like how fast they respond to the calls like they do not waste any time so that they get to address the problems and help those in need just in time. And so there were two fire calls in the morning and in the afternoon. And I also got to visit the station one and station two and all the facilities and all the people there are just really friendly. Fun activities I had during my stay. I got to join the cookbook club farmers

market. I went to visit Bridgeport City Library with Mr. Gabe. I watched a baseball game with the city employees and of course I had lunch at mayor's at the mayor's house and the mayor and his wife is really accommodating. Okay. Oh, so I'm so thankful for everything that I've experienced here. like everyone has been really been accommodating and I feel so welcome and I just wonder yeah we would be really happy if you consider making us your sister city. I think there's a lot of things that we could like exchange in the future like the practices that we do there and the practices that we you do here. I think there will really be a great partnership between our cities and so thank you so much for your time. I hope it did not take a lot of your time. Once again, I'm Leah Lakba FB fellow from the Philippines. Thank you so much.

Anybody Anybody have any questions for Leah? She's running away, but any questions? As you'll notice from those pictures, Leah likes taking selfies. So, if if you spent time with her, you were in a selfie. No doubt. But we were thrilled to have you here and I want to thank all the city staff for spending time, their valuable time showing Lee around. I'm very proud to show our city off and I'm glad we do this. Um Gabe, would you just give a brief reminder what the UI program is for folks haven't heard about in a while?

Yeah, so the Yeli program, I believe it was created in 2012. Is that correct, Leah? Uh it's operated entirely by the US Department of State. So all of Leah's uh time and expenses, her accommodations, food, paid for by the federal government. Uh the goal is of the program is to bring very uh talented people like Leah who's a civil engineer by background uh to the United States uh to understand our um processes and procedures and to bring that back home to implement change in their home communities. So, uh, the Philippines, as you know, and I'm actually reading right now, uh, the some of the national, um, uh, Jose Rousal, the national hero, he wrote several documents under the time of, uh, Spanish, colonial Spanish rule. So, he was actually executed uh, by the Spanish, but he wrote about freedom and the importance of freedom and the importance of democracy. So, the Philippines has been a long-standing friend of the United States. There's lots of people just in Sageno we found uh had connections to the Philippines or were Filipino. There was somebody in Bingo that was uh from the Philippines. One of our officers, Officer Taylor, his mother is from the Philippines. So, you know, even though we're oceans away, we're all uh really connected. It's a great program. I'm personally in my personal capacity, you might recall, I've I've participated a lot with the Yeli program and and gone to uh you several countries in Southeast Asia. So it's a it's a passion of mine and um great program. So I look forward to part of her requirement is submitting a project proposal to uh the state department uh that may get funded. So if she gets funding then uh uh they would have a reciprocal fellow who um would be Lee that would go participate in exchange to implement a project. So

keep your fingers crossed. Uh we'll see what happens and we all really enjoyed having her.

Thank you Dave. Thank you Leah. Thank you for uh letting us know what your experiences were. We're fantastic to have you here. It's great to host you and we always love showing off Sagenol and uh we're very proud of it. So thank you very much. All right. Next on our list is 3D is IT risk assessment. Our friends at I work and hello. Thank you all for having me and for for asking me to come and uh just give y'all a quick rundown of uh what we have going on um for the city for it. Um so my name is Jeremiah Strickland. Um I want to thank y'all for for just giving you giving me the opportunity to talk a little bit about everything the city has going on. Um it's really uh Sagenol has really been forward thinking as far as all the different tools uh and aspects of security that we've um kind of considered. Um the company I'm with is called IWork and we are a managed IT uh company and software development. So half of our company does managed IT which is helping out with you know your running your network and the other half we do software development and app development, custom database, that kind of thing. Um so we kind of have somebody who can do um almost anything in it. So it's a it's a fun company to work with. Um half of our company's in Detroit, Michigan. the other half is here in Fort Worth. Um we have about I don't know we'll say 30-ish uh employees. Um the first the way we kind of came on uh to work with the city was actually a security assessment back at the end of I want to say it was end of 2023 and that's kind of how it started and how we've kind of grown to kind of take on more uh security uh things for the city. Um, and I kind of wanted to start I'm going to try not to get too nerdy with y'all. I'm going to try to keep it kind of basic, but I just wanted to kind of focus on uh all the different tools

that we have in place and kind of how they all kind of work with each other. Um, so for starters, we have endpoint security on all your computers. Um uh in in addition to that we have a cyber security arisment tool risk assessment tool that monitors the contents of every computer kind of keeping an eye out for any problematic data like if it finds a spreadsheet full of passwords. It'll tell us that that's there and someone should probably take a look at that and do something else with their passwords for example. Um, next we have a logging tool that takes every single bit of activity that's going with that computer and ships it back to a um it's a service called Huntress and it sends it back to a SIM which is a security information and event management platform where and it's and this I don't know why this analogy popped in my head but if y'all seen the movie The Matrix the when you looking at the Matrix It looks like just numbers floating. Well, that's kind of what this tool does. It's always looking at the numbers, but it can see and interpret what's happening in the background. So, it's gobs and gobs and gobs of information that it's constantly looking at. And what it's looking for is anything strange. So, if it notices that, oh, this person's opening their email, but now it's looking at this server in Croatia. Why is that happening? and depending on what it finds, it'll automatically isolate that computer and stop it before anything anything else happens. So, that's one of the cool tools we've got. Um, kind of taking a a step back from that, you know, we have Wi-Fi here. We have, you know, every computer is patched into the network. Um, we have another tool that runs just internally and if it sees anything on the network that flags and is phoning home to someplace strange, it will isolate the device. So we actually

have two different kind of network isolation devices. Um taking a step fact kind of greater from that everyone uses um email. So we use Microsoft's Office 365 email platform and um it's a government tenant. So it's got its own special government rules and compliance uh standards that it it abides by. Um and the Huntress tool that I mentioned, it also monitors Office 365. So, if it flags any um device uh or not device uh computer email addresses that are either sending out a lot of emails or maybe there's a weird rule on someone's inbox that they don't even notice, but it's rerouting every single email that goes to their inbox to this other strange folder. It sees stuff like that and will notify us and we'll actually shut down that email account and and and then uh one of us will take a look. Um this whole this whole hunters platform is also operated by a sock that's managed by like a staff. So if these things happen like we have a warm body that's actually looking at these things and will call us or Greg or you know designated personnel. Um and kind of the last thing we well a couple last things um we do user uh cyber security training. So everybody in the city, if you have a city email address, you're enrolled in this platform called No Before. And No Before is I know it's kind kind of annoying. It's it's training everybody has to do every year. You know, everybody kind of rolls their eyes a little bit, but you know, it's just kind of part of the game and part of having an email these days, sadly. Um, but it's uh the the latest um you know just hot topics for fishing or AI or um just all the different ways and tactics that you know might be used by bad guys to compromise your account and

use your account to then attack other people. So we kind of the the approach we like to take is we're we're trying to protect you know all the way down from the endpoint device all the way to the people because and sadly the people are end up being kind of the weak link in all of this chain. Um can I can I say something about fishing real quick please? We we get a lot weak people fish with my name a lot. So city folks council I will never ever send you an email asking for money for for a gift card. I will never ever do that. So if you get that and they're claiming to me they're not me. Anybody in the audience I will never ever send you. Mark, I promise I'll never send that to you. So I won't either.

That that's that's my uh fishing stance. Sorry.

No, that's that's a that's a great caveat because some people don't know that and they we see things like that. The the mayor needs 100 Amazon gift cards today. So someone needs to move and go do that. It h I mean it h it's it happens more than you would think. Um so we love that no before program. It's been done a lot of good for helping just just wake up people to just even basic basic things. Um and it also has a fishing tool. So we're actually actively fishing everyone here internally all the time. So it provides a a safe way to you to fail these fishing emails because they are tricky. But um you get you get solid reps and it's you know it's okay if you if you don't pass them. Um but it also tracks it and we're able to know like okay maybe Lee needs a couple more training videos. Sorry Lee. Um so the last bit I wanted to mention is just backups. So we've got um there's a bunch of servers here that do a lot of different things. um they are all backed up by a cloud backup service. So everything is offsite. So if anything happened to the city, we would have a full backup where we could turn uh every single uh one of those physical servers actually into virtual servers. Um but we can also do, you know, if somebody loses a file or a folder or something, we can do one-off restores. Um and then we also back up every Office 365 account. So, if someone did have their account compromised and wiped out every single one of their emails or their one drive files or a sharepoint site, we'd be able to restore all those as well. Um, all right. Well, that that is it in a nutshell. Do y'all have any questions?

Yeah, questions for Jeremiah. Nick, go ahead. Yeah. So, he came in. Yes, sir. Right. Right. How many of those holes? How many holes? Oh, at that time were plugged.

Right. Right.

Yeah. all this stuff every day whenever this was different than what we would normally do. Normally I've done five of these in the last 22 years. This one was different than anyone because I've never presented this to council. This is always done internally. We get a large list of things. We go over the list. I I asked you I told him beforehand that somebody may want all that data, but most people will not because like he stood up and said that we're doing this uh you know just on a high level because most people don't want this stuff. I don't care I didn't care so much about the exact gory detail of each one, but I would have liked to see that we had let's say five critical, 10 medium,

and 30 minor and kind of what we've done to get them down. Sure. I I can get you as many I can bury you in reports if you want. So, it just depends. Yeah. You let me know what you want and I can I can get you that report. He wants that. Yeah, I want Okay. Like I said, critical, major, minor, how many we have? How many do we have in 2023? How many we got now? And how many do we still have open and what what are we doing about them? I mean, if I'm really looking at it from an IT standpoint, that that's what I look at every week from from my group on my servers. Yeah. Where we came from, where we are today. Yeah.

Yeah. The the second thing I want to switch to is the email pushes. I've actually caught them, right? And I have no idea what to do with them when I get them because I don't have in my company, we got a button up here. It says, you know, you can click on it and it says pushes. Also, anything external from the company that comes in, it immediately turns my header a bright orange. I give you a high recommendation. Boy, that'd make it so much easier on us, you know. Keep it simple. Yeah. Yeah, we we have that. I haven't seen one. If I try to respond to an external email, it'll highlight yellow or orange or whatever. Yeah, we turn that on. I don't know what you're seeing. Okay.

I'm not telling you you're seeing something, but I know we have that turned off. We do because in my inbox, I can show you external email doesn't show when I open it. It doesn't show up. The header doesn't show up yellow. I'll double check tonight, but it wasn't because I was looking. Boy, that'd be nice. And it would be good if we could have I mean, just for you to get a reply back feature turned on. Yeah. I don't know why you're not. Yeah. Okay. No problem. There is a there's a like a flag that says external when it's an external. There's not a like a colorized banner or anything. Yeah. Hit it right across. It just says external. I can take a snapshot of one and show y'all from my work what it what it looks like. Uh two more things if you don't mind

please. One is passwords. What what's our criteria for passwords? It it can't be high because uh it pretty much password you're correct. The password is not that high. I could make it I'd have to make it eight digits, but that would be as low as what's what's the city standard? Here's the deal on passwords to 2 MFA. Passwords can always be cracked. 2 MFA can be cracked, too. But 2 MFA makes it about a million times harder than just a password. You can make your password 26 characters long, and somebody can still crack it. But once you add that 2 MFA on there,

I'm not going to tell you it's uncrackable. Somebody's going to have to really work at it. Somebody's going to really want to have to be in your stuff to get that 2 MFA done. Yeah. And then the second thing, what are we doing for like uh and I don't even know. I haven't tried it. I guess I could uh can I plug anything into the USB port? So I I do know that one of the common things out there is take a USB drive, load some cool software on it, just leave it laying around here. Somebody will pick it up, they plug it in and you know have

Yes, we've tried that experiment before here. So and people will stick it up and if it says anything like payroll or anything important, they will stick it on there. But there is a So if there's an executable, it'll catch it and isolate it. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Sentinel one would flag that. Yeah, that's cool. That's something we've we actually do for some of our clients that have restrict USB policies and we can shut down every USB port. But, you know, we just want to thread that fine line between being crazy secure and also, you know, it's just some basic stuff I was looking at. I mean, well, and for me, if you don't mind me, you know, piggybacking on um you know, you talk about MFA and that that's all fine and well, but

I would be curious to see how we sit as far as our what frameworks you're comparing to as far as security frameworks and how we're compliant with those. Um, for instance, if I see a phone and it's unsecure, it doesn't have a a keypad that they have to put in. MFA can be easy if it's just a text and they get the phone, they pick it up and they go, "Oh, this phone's unlocked. Boom. I know the number." So, I would be curious to see what our frameworks are and how I can't I can't if you have done your personal phone,

I don't have control over your personal phone. Correct. But if it is a city supplied phone, I'm part of Apple Business Care and I have an MMF on there for it's already got a standard on there to lock the screen with a passcode on there. So if I'm supplying you a phone, it's going to be part of our I have control of the phone. I mean, I may not have control of the phone right that second, but there is a lock on the phone and if that phone gets stolen, I can wipe that phone or I can do whatever to that phone if it's not in our service. So there is there are standards for that that we are locking the phone after I don't remember what the time frame is but 5 minutes or something like that. I could change it to 1 second if I wanted to but that make it kind of difficult

right but that's why I would want to see like because that would depend on what framework you're using as per for security levels and how we would be compliant with that which one you would choose. I would be curious to to know that information of what we're choosing and and where we're standing in compliance with that. Um, I can tell of one experience where I found I I've brought it to Gabe. I found a city-owned phone and it was sitting there for a period of time and I went over and swiped up and it was open. So, that's a concern for me um from a cyber security standpoint. We've been hacked before, the city has. So, I would like to mitigate that as much as possible. if that phone I don't know when that phone was given because I don't know how long ago that was but there's we lock those phones through the through the Apple business care and then through adigy is what we use for that and uh as far as the standard for what that goes I mean we have standards that the state supplies me for like you know laptops in the car have to be done in 15 minutes the screen's got to go dark but I don't know that I've ever been supplied any sort of I was sitting there thinking about it when you were asking what the standard was and I don't know that anyone's ever supplied one with anything like

I don't think there's a specific just the fact that it has to have a password period. I think that's really the only requirement that it has to have like it just has like if you found a phone it should have a password to open it up. So the fact that you found that that's something we need to look at, right? And that's kind of why I've been pushing for, you know, a cyber security audit. Yeah. You know, when you I I don't have any information in front of me. I don't have a report. So I don't know like did you guys look at every phone and did you test them and did you say, "Okay, yes, we're compliant." Phones wouldn't have been something this this I mean he knows more than what he did, but I'm just saying that in the last one of these things we didn't.

We do pin testing. We do critical systems like he was asking about all the what things need this, but we've never I mean, until you were really talking about it just now, I never I never even really thought about phones because it's something I found the phones just to be kind of a hassle more than anything else, having to give them out and then keep up with them and wonder who's lost them and everything else. Yeah, but part of endpoint management is a phone is an endpoint. Um, and having MFA, I mean, I know we're getting in the weeds here, but I mean, it's when we're talking about security, using a phone for MFA is great except if the phone's not locked. So, there's just concerns.

For sure. Yeah. I mean, that's a great point. All that's something actually Greg and I, we've we've actually I mean, we work on stuff together all the time, but the uh addage profile is something we need to just double check on. So, I'm glad you brought that up. So I I will mean on you you you said that you couldn't control personal phones like say this is my personal phone. We actually we can't tell people what we can do but I do know private companies do. In fact my company does this uh we cannot enter they won't let us on the network unless we download their applet and it locks our phone. So like the phones I

give out devices and the devices are different than the phones because the def the phones I'm I'm giving out like like we give them out to public works employees so that they can keep contact with them and make sure they're getting their emails because they don't have a desktop that they go sit on all day. So that's how they're doing it. And the police officers have a phone and they run a program for Brazos and that's how we write tickets. Mhm. But phones for the most I mean not even for the most part. We don't have any phones that are getting on the internal network of the city. They're sitting external just

reading emails or running the ticket program that then dumps the tickets to the cloud and then we get you know the data back through that. So we don't now now devices are different like those devices that you have up there those those things like that the my code guys they run around and they they use those those machines to you know get eye work the other eye work not you and get the sheets like that and you know they get water data and they do things like that with them but those are different they're connecting through net motion the same way the cop cars are connecting through net motion and so that's running an encryption level and then it's got a lockout feature on those too. So, it's just different. I I understand what you're saying, but the phones I'm giving out are for communication, not necessarily for for any sort of data stuff that we're doing.

Okay. Well, and I mean, they still need to be locked. I'm not saying I'm not I'm just saying that they're not getting on the network, personal or otherwise. Right. Well, to give you an example what you were talking about with the passwords, you know, that that framework will dictate how long the password needs to be, how long it needs to last before it has to be changed and things like that. I haven't changed my password in a minute. I mean, I use a It will ask you for it again. It won't ever make a change unless you want to change it. Right. I'm not going to lie to you. I made

Right. light. Yeah. Yeah. Because we don't have a lot of We don't have access to everything. I mean, I know like SharePoints I don't have access. I have separate. So, I get that and I don't want to reveal too much here. I keep my password pretty locked down. Um, but there may be people that don't. And so, my I'm just concerned and that's why I want to know like I would love to see a report and if it's detailed, great. If it's just, you know, top level, but you know, a report kind of what I'm getting here is is words and that's great. But I would like to see some data, you know, and and comparing to a compliance or some kind of framework so that we know we're being audited properly. Well, I would encourage folks if you have specific questions or more detail to meet with Greg and and Jeremiah offline. I think they'd be happy to sit down with you all and give you as much detail as we

possible. Yeah, we're open book. Yeah. So, and and I did have one more question. We had talked about at some point getting like a weekly or monthly report for it. And I haven't seen one of those in a minute.

I had so many I sent it to Elizabeth and so Gabe, can you help with that, please? Yeah, happy to. If you could, you know, kind of help us to, you had mentioned some of the things you're interested in and we can tailor that. I'm sure Jeremiah can help us out. And yeah, off the top of my head, I can think of I can already give you, you know, we can give you reports on all the tickets that are being opened every month, how many are being resolved. uh patch report status, encryption report status. U we can we can get into it, but I don't again I don't want to bury you all. So I'm trying to thread the line between enough information and not too much information.

Right. I just had thought that you know if we get a report like that. We had a report at one one time and it was decent. We talked we all agreed it was better than you know having nothing which was great. Yeah. I'll send that to you. Okay. Perfect. Great. Anything else? Any other questions for Jeremiah? I appreciate the updates. Very very good information. Thanks, sir. Thank you. All right. Next, 3E workshop regarding signage across the city. Susie Victor, assistant director of economic media engagement. Welcome, Susie.

Hello, mayor and council. Excited to be here. Not as exciting as the Philippines and it, but I have a different project here to present to y'all. Um, so to begin, I have a couple of questions for y'all. Have you ever seen a sign that introduces a business when you're driving or you're walking past somewhere? I think most of us. Yes. Right. Have you all ever seen a sign that shows regulations or just different types of rules of what you can and cannot do in a business place? Yes. Have y'all ever wish there was a sign that gives you directions to your doctor's office when it's a really large building and you can't find the suite? So that's basically a glimpse of what I am here to talk to you all today. Um the goal of project sign me up is to elevate our signs in the city. And essentially why this is really important is that we have a couple of signs throughout the city, whether that be park signs, gateways, um, and a few wayfinding, but there's not really a collective uniform sign package currently. So if you drive by some parks or some city facilities, they're a little bit random um, in terms of material or the look, the style of it. And so thus our project is an effort to try to create one uniform package so that now and in 5 years or 10 years from now we know as staff what to order and what the design of the look is and most importantly what the priorities of city council and the community are in terms of what signs we want, where we want them first and how we can budget that. So that's really what the project is. Um just for a brief project overview

creating a cohesive modern effective welcome and navigation system. Again um we're going to specify them into a couple of categories. So the first one is going to be gateways and that's what we're going to be discussing today. Next one is going to be parks and then city facility navigations which is directions to city hall to the park or to the animal shelter. Um I think we've made rural progress to have most of our city facilities on Mac floor right now so it's not that difficult now but I'm in the public works building so it's a little fars away. So, um, having signage for that or for parks will definitely help and, um, especially for visitors who aren't that familiar with our street roads. Essentially, we're going to be breaking this down into workshops. So, today's the first workshop. Uh, like I said, we're going to be talking about gateways today. Um, but that's really going to just introduce the key elements to the planning process. Following that, we will conduct formal reviews for y'all. um really get what your opinions are on some of these items priority-wise, aesthetic-wise, and then take that and create some concept plans for y'all. And that's really when the fun gets going and yall get to see the pretty pictures. Um and then afterwards, we'll get the quotes because unfortunately signage is expensive sometimes. Um we'll have to create a plan to separate when and what we want first. and create an implementation schedule. So, what is gateway signage? It is a sign placed at the entrance to a place like a city, neighborhood, campus, or park to welcome people that are entering the area. Purpose marks the entry point, welcomes visitors, and it shows the identity or brand of the place. And that's really important. Uh, I want y'all to understand that we are not going to have signage that looks like South Lake,

right? We're not going to have signage that looks like Fort Worth. But what we do want to do is set ourselves apart from the city of Fort Worth, the city of Bloomound, and the county because a lot of people don't realize that Sagenol proper is not Fort Worth where the now sign is. So um these are just some examples of existing gateway signage that we have the larger ones excluding parks and those wayfinding again since we're focusing on gateway. We have the large welcome to Sagenol on the mills which a lot of people recognize us for that was obviously a group project with the milling. So um that's a little bit different. So it's just there to show y'all that it doesn't necessarily have to be a physical sign. It can be an illustration or a mural. Um, we have one going down the boulevard. It's kind of hidden be behind some vegetation. It's a little small. Um, but I'm sure at that time it was a perfect indication. Um, but unfortunately sometimes we outgrow certain sites and that's one of those that I think can really excel from improvements. Um, thirdly, we have the electric sign, which is a really good way of being able to share information for different events like training grain or, you know, warnings of some sort if we're having an ice freeze. Um, so those are also different tools we can use and we have one and that one's by the train depot. So, now to get to the fun part, gateway aesthetics. I'm going to show youall a couple of different materials that we can use when it comes to our signage. Y'all don't have to decide on this is it what it is, but it's just going to be just us trying to get some overview of what y'all are wanting and that way we

can focus on trying to look into those materials, see if what's feasible and what's not. Um, but yes, sir. How many gateway signs do we have or do we fill How many gateways do we have? So, I'm gonna get to the actual what we have in terms of gateway areas, locations, but those are the only signs we actually have that are considered gateway signs excluding the parks. No, I don't know how many gateways we have in that we feel we would need.

Okay. Yeah, we'll we'll get to that part. Um, right now, if y'all don't mind, we'll just talk about aesthetics really quick, just so that we can get the overall feeling of what y'all want material-wise. And then the second component of this topic will be where yall want to decide on locations and priorities. Okay. Sorry. Oh,

no. Okay. So, the first material that you'll have can be brick. That's currently what we have when it comes to that welcome to sign. Welcome to Sagenol sign. Um, a little bit more traditional something we can always mix it with something else, but overall brick is your first material. Your second material can be concrete. Um, that left component has a mostly concrete has some color. Um, the following two have some brick component with it, but the majority the focus of that is the concrete. And so that's why we're just considering the main focus of everything as the main material currently. Next is wood, which if you've driven by Willow Creek Park, we have some vintage old wood signs. Um, so that's another option. And then we have metal. Metal can be used for industrial uh sectors or it's something that's a little bit more modern nowadays that we see. And so these examples show metal as the focal material. And then we have mixed materials. So what that is is a variety of materials. We could have metal, we could have the wood, we could have the brick. It's a collective effort to not just have one main focus of one material. Then we have abstract. So, those are the signs that really stand out, but we may not have space for everywhere, right? Um, that would be more so um, you know, even if it were at the square or belt mill, uh, you could use them in specific areas, but we probably wouldn't see them everywhere. And then the last one is an archway/overpass. Um, so basically those are some of those main materials that y'all can choose from. And I'm just going to open the

floor to kind of just jot down y'all's opinions on some of those materials, some of your preferences. Again, nothing permanent, but we just kind of wanted to feel y'all's priorities out when it comes to some of those materials. So, I will open the floor for y'all. Mary, let's start with you. I kind of like the mixed material look and um I wasn't in favor of the concrete. It just too stark for me. Okay. Thank you. Sean, did you want to go next?

Um I like the look of the mixed material and I do like the archway. Um, I would obviously not want to put that on like the boulevard, but um, you know, perhaps for old Decater or something like that. That's I like that. And I think that, you know, as far as mixed material might be affordable, Brett. Yeah, I like the mixed material. I really like the metal. I think the um the fire station was done really well with the um yeah the vertical thing.

It it looks really good. Um one thing I will say is that I have been impressed as I'm driving around the metroplex of the cities that have the digital signage. Um that is really big for me just because you can change the look of things without having to go through a bunch of expense to

to to change things up. Uh you can also recognize businesses for hey glad you've been here for 25 years and things like that and uh kind of promote community spirit u in a way that uh I don't think you can easily get with just a a regular sign overpass. I've asked for a welcome to Sagena sign on the overpass on the north side of the overpass for about four years and I know we've had to go talk to text dot. So, anything on that, Gabe?

So, it's uh it's funny this came up, mayor. I was talking with um Glenn Reeves and it's my understanding that we have a little bit of an insider now in the local office of uh Text. It's Janice's brother, right? So, we were going to try um the difficulty with text dot that we've experienced one is the it takes time for review, but they've had lots of turnover. I mean, project managers, district engineers. So, yeah, I I'll check in on that. I just thought years ago that was a perfect place for a sign. And as we mentioned, people don't know where Sagena is and isn't. Um but I I just I like the the mixed materials. I like the metal with the concrete. One of the early ones you had had was backlit. I was thinking back lit might be good in certain places. I like that for the night visibility as well. And I've seen other cities with similar type of backlit lights. So that's cool. And again, back to the fire station. I won't give too much love to the fire department, but that back lit sign really shows up and especially at night. So

I like the next roundabout. It would be nice. Okay. Nick. Yeah. I mean, one, I don't think that necessarily once we have one entrance sign and it gets fit in all of our all of our key location. I think you have to look at the location and see what type of sign would best fit, of course.

And I mean, so it's really hard for me to say would I I definitely would love an entrance. Like you said, the mixed use probably would end up being the best because it gives you the the the most flexibility, but I wouldn't I wouldn't be willing to vote on what type of sign to have until I knew where it was going.

Well, I like the mixed materials. Um, I did some work with Randy on possibly some stuff for Willow Creek Park. The distress metal with the stonework. Uh, the back lighting. Um, kind of matches Basswood Crossing signs. U, it's one of the newer subdivisions that we have. That's what they have. The bridge. And a lot when are they going to paint it? Well, it's the distress metal. The fire station's got the distress metal. So, I'd like to see us continue doing that. I still would like to see us do some arches, especially at the crosswalk on Maroy um to the west of the roundabouts, kind of make that a main crossing area for the park there. But you drive by our parks and you don't know what they're called. People that aren't from here. Um and we need to fix fix these up.

Okay. My next question honestly any signage will be better than what we have now? We do have good signage now. So, this is a step in the right direction 100%. So, I'm sorry. Go ahead. Uh, no. My next question was just uh, you know, when it comes to just the feeling of the signs, do y'all want to see something a little bit more modern or modern mixed with traditional or just traditional? Um, nothing too funky or crazy, but something that's stands out a little bit more than our abetting cities. What is What are y'all thinking in terms of that? Let's start with Mary again.

Um something kind of that, you know, kind of a warm feeling kind of, you know, not real stark, not real I don't want extra extra modern. Okay, John. Yeah, I think I agree with with what Paul was saying about the the metal, the distressed metal. I think that's, you know, a mix of stone and industrial together. It's kind of an industrial model. Yeah. It's kind of like who we are. Okay.

I like classic. It's It's like a black tuxedo. If you wear that, you're not going to get called out for it. So, that that's what I wanted. I want something that is more traditional. Is classy but Okay. Not too forward thinking but not not backwards. Okay. Class next council meeting. Okay. I'm expecting you have one in your closet. I want to see it. Pull it out. I'll wear I want mine if you want to. I I like the mixed use and I like the You said mixed contemporary. What do you What was that? How do you phrase that? Uh I don't remember what I specifically said. com. How about a combo mix? Yeah,

I like I like contemporary with a classic feel maybe. Okay,

modern to me said that's too vague. Are we talking Picasso modern where I'm having to look sideways try to figure out what it means or we That's a really good point because you can argue that the industrial uh metal that we're mentioning with the fire station and the new library is modern but it's a little bit you know more subtle modern or you can have modern like Picasso. So you can you tell me what is a good way to put it. Yeah, rustic. I'm I'm okay with that. It definitely I'm not a Picasso lover. Yeah, like a

So, some of the stuff that I I'd worked on with Andy is doing some stuff either laser cut or punch plate with the the distressed metal or rusted metal, but incorporate some of the things like the city logo. I mean, maybe trains and things like that. Stuff that, you know, we kind of go by with the city and it make them different. I mean, they don't have to all look the same, but Yeah.

Yes. And that is the goal. Um kind of like you mentioned, you know, per different locations have to have different types of signs. Uh the goal, however, is just to have a little bit more of a cohesiveness when it comes to just the style of them. So that if we just want to, it sounds like we want to incorporate that metal in a lot of these. So something that can complement that when it comes to the wayfinding. Um we probably don't want to have our wavefinding be metal uh just because those are a little bit more costly, right? But for the gateway signs, those are probably a little bit better because we know those are going to be larger cost anyways. So that definitely helps. Uh really appreciate your feedback when it comes to that. And so

so one one thing, so talking about keeping everything common, we we spent a lot of effort getting our city logo right. Have we gotten that trademarked? Uh we're still working on that, but yeah, we started the process. So what's the ETA on getting that trademark? cuz that's not I mean it's not overly complicated to get a trademark. Um I know the attorney I was working with she's on maternity leave right now. So I think I I'm going to I'll reach out to Bren's office and we'll we'll see the status on that. Can we get a timeline on that? So I mean

I I know from my one of my side interests is writing the copy US copyright office um which I think handles trademarks as well as intellectual property offers no timelines now due to cuts from the federal government. So I don't know that we have a Well, let me ask you this then. Have you submitted for it? Yeah, I think it's they when we talked last to to the attorney, she said it might take up to a year. Well, it might take up to a year to get it, but it won't. So, we have submitted for it. That's what I'm asking. I I I will find out that attorney is out on maternity leave. Okay. So, but I I'll ask the support staff if they know the status of it

because the clock I mean there's no ticking the clock if we hadn't submitted it. Right. Understood. Of course.

Yeah. And then just in general, you know, when it comes to those wayfinding or some of those parks that if we do decide and where to put those um logos, we'll make sure that everything is the update to date logo cuz right now we have the old logos on a lot of them. Um so it's like you said those digital signs, it's easier to change them, right? But the more permanent ones will will get that all to be collectively cohesive. So the next part of this session is going to be the gateway priorities. So for you you have a map of those gateway locations. They are split up into primary and secondary. The red asterisks are primary locations. So those are the locations that are more higher densely visited um conveniently located within our external boundaries for the most part. And then you have the secondary locations which are locations that are still visited but they're not as highly densed as those primary ones. I've added those locations to our master plan so that y'all can visualize what our streets actually have in terms of traffic impact. And so for the most part, we have some routes that are minor and major collectors and arterials. Um, when it comes to just really the higher traffic, that's going to be our principal arterials, which are the red. The largest red bold that we have is from Old Decater to Sagon Boulevard. So, that's our much highly dense road.

However, we obviously have the dashed one down the boulevard. So, that's a secondary highly dense road. And then lastly to the right we have Blue Mound. So when it comes to just highest traffic, those are our roads. So that's portion one of that. The next is the orange. Those are minor arterial collectors. And so what that means is those are medium density roads. So those are our second large highly trafficic roads. And then the la the third is the minor collectors which are the yellow roads in between the neighborhoods. Those essentially connect you from a neighborhood road to a larger road. And then the dashes are major collectors. So those are ones that you see a little bit more of traffic when you're going down the neighborhood. I know that's a lot of different terms. So, if you'll have specific questions when it comes to what the what that means, please let me know.

One area I'd like to see is where Marine Creek turns into Old Decater. Okay. Um Fort Worth is trying to funnel all that traffic up Marine Creek. Of course, I live near that area, but people aren't going to see anything sagal until they get to Bose. If they even go that far, we can look at adding one there. kind of where old Decicator bends and turns into Marine Creek older. Okay. So, where old Decicator turns into WJ Bose or Longornic Decator turns where Marine Creek and old I guess it's South Decicator and turns into Northicator. Okay. So, I'm sorry I can't point with this one. So, just the

where Longhorn and Spring is. Yeah. Okay. Does anyone agree? Yeah. Okay. So, would we say that's number one or you're actually going to get more more traffic goes through there than what goes through at Longhorn? But I still think we need one at Longhorn. So, it's probably just add one more. So, the red star that's our major and the green is minor. Is that what I'm Yes. So the red ones are primary and then the green ones are secondary. Green ones are what? Secondary.

Secondary. And how are we det through traffic? Yes. And the page this was all through this was all through the comprehensive plan that was adopted in 2022. So Kimley Horn did studies and it was determined that these are the primary and secondary gateways. Yeah. But things have changed like Basswood Boulevard now punches through to 35. Yeah, this is just that change the total dynamics of that road. Yeah. So, if if you wanted to change some of these and say that some are primary, um Trent could probably tell you a little bit more about you know if that had any difference. Trent,

we I mean we collect we used to collect traffic counts every year to provide to Pedro. We could use that information to update the map. Um the MTP isn't just dictated by the amount of traffic, it's other contexts as well, like number of lanes, um context of businesses and stuff like that, residents. Um we could take another look at it. Um but most of our roads haven't really changed unless we have a big project coming through that kind of dictates it. I

I would consider Basswood a primary. A lot of traffic's going through there. And then the one that I just mentioned to you would also be a primary. We've worked with Pedro recently to provide some resources that are free to the city um that where text dot and other um NCT COG provide traffic counts and so we could provide those links to you too just to be able to get the latest and greatest information without having to pay you know I think it was like 10 grand. Yeah. To collect all the traffic counts. And again this is just initial just

introducing this to you. If y'all wanted us to update that MTP and get more accurate, we can definitely do that. Um, I just kind of want to see where y'all are in terms of what priorities y'all have locations. Maybe pick a top three right now and then we can kind of go from there. Definitely. I I like what you're saying. I want to see an updated I want to see traffic, businesses. What's the criteria you'all using for minor major? Of

course, that I'm I'm good with that as long as I know what criteria we're using. Um, one thing that I want to kind of mention is that um, I I'm viewing it just a little bit differently. I think um I think it's important for us to establish these gateways in priority based on how many um businesses and homes are outside the border at that location. Because uh if I'm coming south on uh 156, there's such a separation between where Fort Worth actually is and where Sagenov starts that that line can be kind of blurry and it's not that big a deal. Whereas if we're over at Bailey Boswell and Old Decar, I mean there's three of those or two of those intersection or two of those corners are Fort Worth and the other two are Sageno and there's businesses and everything's just kind of clustered right there. So, um I would I would stress a higher importance on signage at those locations, for instance. um than doing 156 and Bailey.

Okay. So, so still kind of focusing on the external ones, but based off how many homes and businesses there are. Yeah. Or or just how close that line is. Yeah. Okay. Anybody else? Other questions for Susie?

Go ahead, Mary. Now that Nolles is complete, I think that may be becoming a more important thorough fair or street. It's, you know, it's such a great street. I think it's going to have a lot more traffic now. People are going to want to go down it that we're kind of avoiding it before, maybe. Yes. And I will say we are currently working on getting some quotes for the flag the banners on the poles. Um so that can help identify and make that a little bit better as well. But we can definitely look into signage outside of that. Yeah. I mean it would definitely wouldn't hurt to have one right there at the switchyard.

The other thing to look at is when you're starting to get costs is multiple sign discounts versus just doing oneoffs. If you can get a vendor that's going to do five or six at a time, we're probably going to get a lot better price than doing a oneoff, of course. And then they'll be consistent as well. Anybody else have any insight on what they would have like to see prioritized locationwise? Good. Good. Okay. So, we'll try to update that MTP and the gateways and kind of get some more information for y'all and then we can um have a secondary meeting and discuss that a little bit further if that sounds good.

Okay, great. Any other questions for Susan? Can you mail us this? Yes, of course. All right. I do have a request for someone that want to speak on this if you're done. Benjamin, I can't see you back there, but there you are.

Hi. Howdy y'all. Um, great presentation, Susie. Um, I would remind the council I'm so sorry, Pedro, could you please bring up that map one more time? I'm so I don't know if it's easy to, but two of those roads specifically that are off of 156 eventually will be built through. So, like Bailey Boswell will connect to Harmon and uh, Western Center will get built through. So, I just wanted to point out that one of the secondary signs is currently where M Laoy ends at 156, but the end goal is to connect someday

Western Center. So, I just wanted us to think about that. Um, and same thing with Bailey Boswell. There's just a couple hundred yards of land by Fossil Creek Tree Farm to connect it. I also would ask the council and any staff working on this to check a lot of other local cities to see what they've done because some cities have hits and some cities have misses. I think white settlements are real boring. I they're just kind of Austin Stone. You don't feel like you're in white settlement or uh Collievilles are insane and they've become a boondoggle. They look like lighouses. They're huge. Um, and then I actually grew up in North Richland Hills when they were putting in their signs in 2003 when I graduated high school. And they are pretty cool. They are mixed like y'all were talking about. So they have back lighting, local stone, and there's little pipes that hang off the side and throughout the year they can hang different uh banners. So like spring festival, train and grain, you know, it's whatever month kind of thing. I know public works probably wouldn't like to be putting up different banners year round and so that might go to the electronic aspect. Um, but they all tie into each other. Some of them are larger like the one off 820 at Iron Horse Golf Course or the one on 26. Some of them are smaller, but they all connect with each other. Halum cities are really nice. They look like the old Halum theater and they have lighting. They look really amazing at nighttime, too. And they used locally sourced uh Fossil Creek stone. Um, you know, and then uh and I can send these to the council. Bedford had some real boring ones and then they updated them and they look like the old Bedford Boys Ranch schoolhouse. Um, and so I would like to see something with our iconic grain

elevators or trains like Councilman Fleggy said. Um, just and you know they can be different sizes and different importances throughout the city but that there's something tying them through. So just wanted to point out those recommendations. Thank you, Benjamin. The flags on the side of that would tie in very well with these banners we're putting on the polls. just, you know, there are some really good city signings around here and that we can um sort of benchmark with. So, we're great. More to come. So, thank you, Susie. Good.

Next is at 7:25. We're in a public hearing consideration action regarding resolution 2025-06 adoption midyear budget revision. Kim Quinn, finance director.

Thank you, mayor and city council. We um amend the budget in the same manner in which we adopt the budget. Therefore, we have the public hearing. The public hearing has been advertised. The amendments have been posted to the website and um duly submitted to the city secretary. Um you've got line by line specifics on how um the proposed amendments, what the proposed amendments are. The majority of them are um projects that were budgeted in prior fiscal year 2425 that weren't completed and the funding is proposed to be carried forward into the current fiscal year in order to fund the completion of those projects. And then the other majority of changes are actions that the city council have taken since October 1st of 2025. Um and um providing funding for those actions um that you've taken thus far. Um you've got line by line details of what those proposed amendments are and I'm happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Questions for Kim? I I got one more for the fire chief now. So,

uh can you walk us through because it you on here the move forward is is the revamp of our ladder truck as a lot of citizens and definitely we know we're we're fixing to buy a new ladder truck. So, definitely people like me who's not an expert in public safety and stuff. We look at that. In fact, I've sent several emails. We bounce back and forwards and I've got a a decent understanding. I wouldn't say I'm no expert like Paul, but I've got a basic fundamental understanding. So if you could just spend a minute or two in public here with so our citizen all of us can hear what the criticality is of us. One spending this money the citizens money and why is it critical for us to have keep this truck in as a backup and and maybe point out if we didn't keep it in the backup. what's, you know, how would that hurt us as being able like we've seen uh earlier this week uh the very quick response to the house fire and stuff. How how would that hurt us?

Okay. Well, first uh the repair expense, the uh 136,700 is the estimate for the repair of the truck.

The truck is no good without performing some of the repairs. Some of them are well the the $136,000 are the critical repairs that's needed. There's a few more that we're going to offset and then some that the city garage will do once they become to a critical point or if they do. So, right now the truck is unusable. About half of that is the fire pump because the fire pump went out of it. So, that's about 60s something thousand. Uh so, that's about half of that expense. We don't really have a choice whether we fix it or not. We've went ahead and and did the repairs because the truck is unusable without. So, as you know, and we'll cover in a few minutes, the county tanker that we used to have was a truck that we relied on where we really need four fire trucks in the city, one reserved for each fire station. I've been here 32 years. We've always had uh four fire trucks when we've had two stations. Uh there are times when we've had two firet trucks out of service and another one has a problem. And we've come several times when we've had to go and prepare to borrow a fire truck. So that's why we have the four fire trucks. As far as keeping this ladder since 2001, I'm sorry, 2006. We've had two ladder trucks in service. Uh and the only reason is cuz we're getting the most value out of keeping this particular truck. If we didn't have this ladder truck, we have to have one in its place. So we would have to either buy a new one, go out and find a used one, which they are harder to come by now with the price of the fire trucks. So, uh, the replacement fire apparatus, we're hoping to place that order in June. Obviously, we've talked a little bit about the price of the truck's pretty expensive, but this, uh, ladder truck we will have to use as as a frontline truck. We're going to swap it with the new one off and on to prolong the life of it, but it'll still have frontline service up to about 3 years till we get this new ladder truck. So, it's critical that we get this truck repaired. Uh

so when we get we'll have 20 years life basically out of the truck our past history and we're following kind of the standard that most of them do. Uh we'll get 15 years frontline service out of it and then have it for approximately 5 years as a reserve apparatus. And when I say reserve, it doesn't sit there the whole time. They get pressed into service pretty regularly. Anytime we do preventative maintenance on one or we have a problem, we put into the service. So that happens on a a pretty frequent recurring basis. So what's the risk? Okay, let's let's say let's say we take this thing, we get the new truck in, we sell it. What risk? I mean I mean give me a realistic what could happen?

I'm not sure I understand the question to to our citizens. I mean, okay, if we didn't keep this older truck, if I didn't keep the older truck, well, if we didn't keep the older truck, the only other extra truck we have is a 2003 year model. So, it's 26 years old at this particular point, which is well past its its life. And the only reason we're still able to use it and it still be somewhat reliable is because of the care that we do provide to the fire trucks. So, if we didn't do the ladder truck, we got rid of the ladder truck when the new one comes. We only have one reserve apparatus. And at this point, it's 26 years old. I'm sorry, it's 20 23 years old. It's 2003. So we would have

it would be 26 years old when about the time the new one arrived. I understand it'd be old. Okay. So I've got three trucks instead of four. Okay. How bad's that going to hurt you in being at the level you need to be? I would never advise it. Just as I talked about, we've had four trucks just about my whole career and there's been times when we've almost had to borrow a fire truck. Okay. We've just had the benefit of having the county fire apparatus as being one of those. So, we've had we've only maintained three of our own city trucks for the longest time and having the county truck as the fourth one, but that has since went away, making us have to keep an extra fire truck that belongs to the city.

Okay. I'm still trying to tie it to risk to the citizens. I understand you said you wouldn't do that. The risk is we have a call and the fire truck doesn't start and we don't have one to send. That's the risk. The risk is we need a fire truck. fire truck doesn't start, we crash one, have a okay, major catastrophe, we don't have a fire truck to use. That's the that's the ultimate risk. Even running on like a hail storm or something, you lose a windshield, the truck's out of service. Correct. We don't get a choice and and not going. So, it would affect our ISO, too, wouldn't it? Absolutely. Which is going to the taxpayers, you know, are going to have to pay more for their fire insurance at the ISO.

I've been to the fire truck, fire station before when we've been out on calls and we've had a like a footware truck come sit in our bag. this as a backup and that that happens periodically. It's not a unusual occurrence. So, we we run a lot of calls. We run an amount of calls and that's what these trucks are used for. I would be very uncomfortable without a backup. I would Yeah. Our our call volume is slowly increased as the population increases. Uh people rely on 911 a lot more than than what they have primarily for EMS. So, we do run a lot of calls. So, how often they they get they get used frequently.

Okay. So, how often do we throughout a year? How often do we have to depend upon a our secondary vehicle that our primaries either in repair or or something like that that it'd be hard to put a time frame on it. I could dial that information in, but at least I would say on a monthly basis, we probably use the truck uh two or three times. It may be for one day, it may be for four days. As they get older, we we tend to depend on the reserve a lot more.

Okay. As the chief mentioned, I looked into this a little bit. The used truck market right now, there's not a lot out there. And basically what you're going to get is somebody else's problem that they've had. Um, it's just not worth it. And even to buy a a stock engine or something. We It would cost us a whole lot more than keeping this lad this ladder in reserve status.

Sure. And we know what we're getting with the truck that we have. We know what problems it that could arise, what problems it's had. We're fortunate that we've always taken great care of them. So, we get the maximum use out of the fire trucks that anybody can. When uh other mechanics come or other fire departments come look at trucks to decide what they want to buy and how they want to lay it out, we're always complimented on the care that we give them. They get they get used a lot. They're a tool, right? But we do take uh maximum care of them and that allows us to get the long use out of them. Chief, will you talk a little about because I know you mentioned some of the stuff we sent out, but quite a bit we do in house. Can you talk about the repairs we do in house and how that saves us money? Sort of.

It does. Uh firet trucks, they have preventative maintenance schedules that come from the from the manufacturer. A lot of fire departments don't have the luxury of having their own fleet center and have to send those out to an outside service or have a mobile mechanic come in. Uh I don't know the percentage. uh pretty close, but I would say the tens of thousands of dollars that the repairs that our shop does saves us that annually is in the tens of thousands when you do all all three or four fire of our fire trucks and time as well, right?

But that the more important component of course to the fire chief is the downtime, right? A lot of times if we have to take the truck out, uh that's a lot longer time period we got to get it there somehow. uh a lot of times they're busy and it'll it may sit for a month for a repair that takes two days where we can take it do the repair for in a day or two and get it back pretty quick. So the downtime is critical. So we're we're fortunate to have the fleet center that we have. I want to say I really appreciate answering all my questions. It I'm coming in it from like I said a person who's in this stuff and also want to say council member Paul I've talked to him several times. appreciate you looking up data and stuff for me so that

firet trucks are super expensive so we don't take it lightly when we got to ask for one. That's why we take extreme care of them. You ask the guys at the fire station, I'm pretty hard on them to making sure we're we're taking care of them. That's how we drive them, how we clean them. Uh everything, the preventative maintenance, we're uh yeah, you don't get a mulligan on a fire truck. Basically, when when when you need it, it's got to start. It's got to be there. Sure. If it's coming to help you, you want to make sure there's nothing nothing wrong with it. Yeah, somebody calls 911, we got to guarantee a truck. That's right. That's what I'm saying. Then that's how expensive they are. Hopefully the prices are going to stabilize. All the big manufacturers right now are doing major expansions in the millions of dollars to improve their product.

There's a lot of pressure on the firetruck manufacturing service. I wouldn't be surprised we see the cost actually go down a little bit. I know that's unheard of in just about anything, but uh I think the trend is there. Also, there was a time when firet trucks got pretty extravagant from fire departments, designing them in such a way with things that were nicities and not needs. That's being dialed back. So, firet truck manufacturers are even not given options that you might have had in the in the past just to kind of get them to bare bones minimum. The the big thing with a custom firetruck is not we're not getting a bunch of bells and whistles to make it look nice. It's the way we lay it out. So, all four of the fire trucks that we use are the same. You open a door on the fire truck, it's got the same tools in it. No matter which truck you go on, so they're all consistent. That's where the customization comes in. And the type of hose loads that we use or the equipment we carry, that's got to fit in a certain space. So that's the level of customization. It's not how pretty it looks or something like that. Obviously, they do. We take a lot of pride in the equipment, but it also differentiates the chassis. You have like a freight liner, international chassis that's considered a commercial. A custom cab is what we traditionally have now and that's what we need to have because Fort Worth tried the commercial a long time ago and it didn't work.

Yeah, we've had some firet trucks in my in my history that we probably shouldn't shouldn't have had mainly when I started they were economy buys and they were they were challenging. Well, one of the problems well and chief mentioned a little bit is we order a new truck the backlog is at least three years and so that's correct. We couldn't today go out and say I want a new truck and get it tomorrow. It's it's you know 20 27 no nine. What used to take 10 months now is taken three years or longer. And that's you could order one and get it in 10 months. All right. Any other uh budget questions for Kim or for any folks? Good.

All right. This is a public hearing so anyone from the audience can speak. You don't need to follow a form. Anybody want to come and speak about our budget? uh major budget. Uh now's the time. If not, then at 7:39, I take us out of a public hearing and I will entertain a motion. Mayor, I make a motion that we accept the proposal on the uh budget, midyear budget as presented. Second, second.

Please cast your votes. Motion passes. Thank you, Kim. Appreciate that. Good work as always. Moving on. 5A. Consideration action regarding Taran County Emergency Service District number one contract. Our Chief Doug Spear is right back at you.

Thank you again, Mayor and Council. Uh I sent a fairly detailed memo in your packet explaining the contract. So, I do want to cover just a few things. Uh we've partnered with the ESD for a period of over or the county for over 30 years. This is really the first time they've gone through a major change. Their past history, they contracted for all the services, even including volunteer departments in the county. They have transition to a career department. So, the three primary volunteer fire stations in the county have gone away. Those are career fire stations and they've since added one. They'll have a couple more fire stations in the future that are all career. Uh, no more volunteers. Uh, so the contract was really uh a revamp, a total rewrite. Uh, as Bren will attest, it was a pretty lengthy process, which I was really involved with the with the contract and what you see here reflects that. But as a result of them going to career departments, there are some areas of the county that they can now respond to uh versus what we used to provide services for. Primarily for us, it has shrunk our response area. We ran a lot up on Bonds Ranch Road in a lot of the unincorporated areas that is since being going to be run by the paid fire department. So our areas are more adjacent to the city or right adjacent. For instance, the county barn over here is in the county. Uh Star Lane part of WJ Bose that's in the county. Uh the big neighborhood off Old Decater that North Fork edition that will remain our coverage area because we're super close. So with that, our funding from the county has reduced uh substantially for that because we'll run a lot less calls. We on average ran 150 calls in that area will be uh 40 to 50 maybe it could be less than that and they went to a per call per call type funding mechanism so our funding will fluctuate just a little bit but with the contract like I say was I was heavily involved in that and I support it as written so I'll answer any questions with that

question for chief so for like star lane are we still going to be like the primary response for that area we will be yes sir which in reality it makes sense for us to keep it cuz if there was a fire over there, we're going to get a phone call and if there's a fire, we're going to go regardless of where it's at. We can't say no, we're not going to go with it being right on the street that we're at. That you'd be getting a new fire chief if I made a decision like that, probably. So, can we can our fire marshall do anything with the corner lot? I'm sorry, old Decator.

Boy, that one that's a tricky one. Not Not so much. But they do they have expanded the Terar County Fire Marshall's office and they are adopting codes pretty regular. So they're they're trying to make improvements where they can in the in the unincorporated areas both for fire protection and then the appearance uh what businesses are there. If there's a bunch of junk piled around, they're they're trying to improve that where they can. I've gotten complaints about that lot as well. I'm like it it's not sagging. I'm sorry folks. But clean it up and it's like two months later it's back to a fire did some substantial improvements there at one time. I will say that, but not not quite to the level we needed it. Well, maybe if you don't go so fast, maybe a little more will get, you know. No, that's ugly.

So, can we expect are they over the next few years this to go where they just take it all over or do we think this will be a more longer term contract? I think this will be a longer term. There's just some areas where it doesn't make sense for them to put resources close enough to to handle it and the response from where they would be at would be too great. Uh some of the areas will still shrink for some of the other cities when they add a couple more departments. Uh but for us, we will probably from this point on have these have these areas because they're right, like I say, right adjacent to our city or right next uh right outside of it. Other questions for the chief?

Seeing none, I will entertain a motion. Mayor, I make a motion we approve 5A as presented. Motion passes. Thank you, Chief. Thank you. 5B consideration regarding order bid for sale exchange of land 1.12 acres East Bay East Jarvis. Director of public works Randy Newsome.

Thank you, mayor and council. Uh this this item is for consideration and action regarding the award of bid for sale or exchange of land of our 1.21 two one acres of property on East Bay Boswell. It's right by the railroad tracks. It's the site of an old well that we had that we plugged probably in the early 90s somewhere in there. So, it's just been setting. Um we advertised for bid. Um biders were invited to submit a bid identifying a track of land that they could swap out um of at least 4 and a half acres be sold or exchanged to the city. Uh we received one bid uh from AG Hollenstein. Uh he has a 5 acre track located at the corner of Defile and Minton Road. Um his land appraised for 980,000 and our land appraised for um 320,000. If approved, um this bid the bid received would exchange the city owned land fronting Ba Bailey Boswell um for his 5acre parcel that's located in Mittton and Dei. Uh the difference in value would be paid for by the city in cash. The I know the council has indicated a desire to to acquire this track of land. Uh in addition, Mr. Mr. Hollstein has uh also offered to um dedicate a strip of land that goes from Jarvis Road over to Defile uh for a future road. Um right now we have one way in and one way out for all those industries over there and for public safety. U at sometime in the future we need to connect a road over there. So he's willing to dedicate that that strip of land over there to us.

Is that part of this agreement? Yes, it is. Oh, so so when we do this, he will also give us that. He'll give us the the rideway. Well, so I think the first step is we would amend our master thoroughfare plan, add that connecting roadway, and then he would dedicate. Yes, we have. And then Randy had mentioned, but that's a dead zone. The chief would know. I mean, there's times where although I think it's rare, trains cut it off and there's no access. So having that roadway is quite important.

And in addition, in talking with Mr. Mr. Hollstein, he's he's sold off his land, a lot of his land. Um, where his office exists, his existing office is today. He sold that parcel of land and he's building a new office down there uh to the north of our facility on his property that has the 98 acres and that company is also interested in this 5 acres as well. So there's not a lot of land left in Sagenol and you know whether we use it for whatever uh future public works facilities or whatever um he's willing to do this and um I think it's a I think it's a great thing.

Yeah. Any other questions for Randy or? So, so just want to make sure. So, when we we do this it and we approve it and it gets done, it will lock him into giving us that other piece of land for that through road. The rightway. The rightway. Yeah. Yeah. He's he's in principle. He's agreed with Lee and Randy.

So, so the next step would be to negotiate and finalize a purchase and sale agreement. Details all of these things. Contractual commitment. That's right. So the question is and one of the things that Gabe mentioned to me so I've just raised the issue. Uh we can either bring the purchase and sale agreement back to you all for formal action so that you all can see it and approve it or you can preapprove the negotiation of a purchase and sale agreement uh for me to work with staff to finalize it and ensure that it's done in accordance with the bid specifications um and then authorize the mayor to sign all documents associated with the transaction. It's up to you. Yeah. What's the council's pleasure on that?

I think have Bren negotiate it with with staff and do it that way. Everybody okay with that? Yeah. All right. There's your direction. Thank you, Bren. If I could just have that in the motion. Um or you could just say approved in accordance with the city attorney's advice. Who would like to make that motion? I'll make that motion. Um like to approve item 5B, consideration action regarding the award of bit of sale of the exchange of land. And in the motion to include working uh have the city attorney negotiate with staff and the uh gentleman we're purchasing the land from um and then bring the documentation back to the mayor for signature

and authorizing him to sign. Yep. Perfect. I second it. Nick second. Please cast your votes. Motion approved. Thank you, sir. Thank you, guys. All right. So, that ends our uh regular scheduled session. We do have a bit of executive session. So at 7:49 for executive session pursuant to Texas government

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