City Council - Regular Meeting

Good evening and welcome to the March 3rd, 2026 regularly scheduled Victoria City Council meeting. Mick, would you please call roll? Yes, sir. Councilman Delarus, I am present. Councilman Kder here. Councilwoman Scott, here. Mayor Pro Tim Young here. And Councilman Lren,

I am here. At this time, I invite you to join with us in standing for the pledges and remain standing for a brief moment of silence to the flag of the United States of America and to the stands one indivisible and alliance. One state God, one and indivisible.

Thank you. One, happy election day to everybody. Um, Mr. Garza, good evening. Good evening. Do you have any announcements and or reminders for us?

Uh, yes, sir. I have a few uh for this evening. Um, we'd like to remind the public that this or on behalf of development services, I should say that we want to remind the public that we'll be holding a mandatory workshop on Wednesday, March 4th at 2 p.m. in 700 Maine, conference room 205 for nonprofit organizations interested in applying for funding through the 2026 2027 community development block grant program. Interested organizations must have a representative from the organization attend the in-person workshop. For questions or more information, please contact Zach Wendell at the planning office at 361-4853360. On behalf of environmental services, we want to remind residents in the Blue Ridge neighborhood who may need assistance with moving heavy items to the curb for pickup in the March 7th cleanup can notify environmental services at victoriax.gov/environmental services or by calling 361-4853230. Um, and lastly, I just I want to say uh thank you for everyone who attended the ribbon cutting for our new public safety headquarter uh facility, which is located at 2525 North Street and that now serves as a centralized location for a wide

main. What' I say? Oh, my bad. 2525 North Main Street. It says Main Street, too. Um, anyway, that now serves as a centralized location for a wide range of public safety services, but not driver's licenses.

Um, it's I'm getting there, Jane. I'm getting there. Uh, residents can conduct business with the Victoria Police Department, including the records division, file police reports in person, and access, property return, and other police related services. The Victoria Municipal Court is fully operating from the new facility as well with all court services pre previously offered at the former location now available at the new one. Fire administration has also relocated and the fire marshall's office will soon relocate to this facility as well. Residents are reminded that this is a city of Victoria facility and does not include the Texas Department of Public um safety

safety offices such as driver's license renewals. But guess what? The DPS office will reopen in its original location by Walmart on a vero this week. I think tomorrow actually. So u hopefully that limits the amount of confusion.

But very grateful for everybody who uh participated in the event and of course very grateful for um everybody who played a role in u literally bringing a vision to reality that literally took years. And so I'm just very appreciative for um the architect, our owners rep, the contractor, everybody who helped play a role, but especially grateful for uh the men and women of our public safety departments who have shown a lot of commitment, patience, and loyalty over the years and stuck with us in our community in spite of challenges with facilities. And so we're just very excited that we now have a state-of-the-art facility that truly um supports the fact that we do have uh the best department in the region and I would argue the state.

So um thank you. Well said. Is that completed? Yes. Oh, okay. Um item not like Janet didn't read ahead. Uh we'll move into item B2 A. Uh I'll take that one as it's uh Texas history month proclamation.

Whereas the Republic of Texas was born on March 2nd 1836 when delegates from throughout what was the Mexican Department of Texas convened at Washington on Brazis and signed the Texas Declaration of Independence. And whereas from the fall of 1835 to spring 1836, Texans of all backgrounds came together to fight for liberty and better judgment and better government, enduring hardship and defeat, most notably at the Alamo and Golad. Whereas our community recognizes Texan and American hero General Sam Houston, who was born on March 2nd and helped assure this one-time sovereign nation of its victory. And whereas the less than 200 heroic citizen soldiers defended the Alamo February 23rd to March 6, 1836, elected to fight rather than surrender and gave their lives so that Texas might live. And whereas 342 brave Texans under the command of Colonel James Walker Fannon Jr. were executed by the Mexican army on March 27th, 1836 at Golad, giving their lives in the cause of Texas independence. And whereas the battle battle of Sanesinto on April 21st 1836 was the final and decisive battle of the Texas Revolution and ended in only 18 minutes with the defeat of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Ana's Mexican army. And whereas the Texas officially became the 28th state of the United States on December 29th, 1845, further strengthening its legacy within the nation. And whereas the observance of the Texas History Month encourages all citizens to explore, preserve, and and celebrate the people, places, and events that have shaped this great state. And whereas educational institutions, historical societies, and community organizations throughout Texas recognize March as Texas History Month in our in order to promote awareness and appreciation of our state's heritage. Now therefore, I, Andrew Young, Mayor Pro Tim of the city of Victoria, Texas, do designate March 2026 as Texas History Month in Victoria, Texas, and encourage

all citizens to celebrate the proud history and enduring spirit of Texas.

Um, just a few I just want to thank Dr. young and fellow cons council men and ladies for recognizing March as Texas History Month. We appreciate the proclamation. We actually are daughters of the Republic of Texas, the James Walker Fanning chapter here in Victoria. We appreciate all you do and support you 100%. Thank you. Thank you. Mr. Garza, do you have any other I public or employee recognitions?

I do. I have a couple um this evening. On behalf of the Golden Crest Regional Advisory Council, uh they reached out and expressed appreciation for our Victoria Fire Department's strong partnership in regional data collection, highlighting uh training chief Dana Woodward's leadership and expanding CPR, stop the bleed, and Narcan training metrics and EMS Lieutenant Brandy Davis stewardship of regional stroke and stem eye data. Um, if you wouldn't mind standing in the back, please as I keep reading this, but their efforts for regional CPR, stop the bleed, and ARCAN training surpassed the 2024 goal of 1500 individuals and exceeded the increased 2025 goal of 2,000, putting the region on track to meet that goal again this year. The Victoria Fire Department has collected stroke and STEMI, I think that's the way you say it, STEMI data for approximately 15 years. This data set is used at every regional advisory council meeting to evaluate regional strengths and weaknesses. Their initiatives have helped the region achieve state level recognition for exc excellence in stroke care as one of only two regional advisory councils in Texas recognized by the governor's EMS and trauma advisory council for high performance in stroke care and data collection. Um and so Chief Woodward and Lieutenant Davis, thank you so much for your commitment to helping. Um, in addition, I want to recognize uh Kathy Langley with our development services department. So, if you wouldn't mind. Um, she is a combination inspector one who recently earned her residential building inspector certification from the international code council last week. This is the first certification required for new building inspectors. And Kathy joined the city in July of last year and is already studying for the next certification. um staff is very impressed with her work ethic and dedication to becoming an expert in the building codes which we greatly appreciate and so C Kathy thank you so much for your commitment to professional

and that's all I have for this evening. All right, perfect. Let's move on to item B3 items from council. I have one. Does anybody else have anything they like to bring up or speak about? Um, after then I'll take this. After speaking with the mayor and staff, uh, I did want to pull items C1 and items C2 from tonight's agenda uh, to give us staff and and public more time to understand uh, the program that's we're looking to on uh, to roll out. So, Mr. Garza, do you have anything you'd like to speak to about that?

Um, I'll just echo the sentiment. you know, it's ob the idea of a storm water utility is something that we've literally been discussing for years, you know, stemming from the update to the drainage master plan literally five years ago and more specifically with us has been discussed for the last two years. Um, however, um, obviously now that we're getting to this level of of implementation, it's garnered, you know, more attention than ever before. And so we think that the appropriate thing to do is to um pause the breaks to give us the time to get more information out, have some, you know, meetings with the public. We plan on having a town hall um just just to be more intentional with providing as much information to as many people as possible um before you truly um consider the readings of the ordinances. So,

and from that standpoint, let's um see we'll move into consent agenda. Oh, I'm sorry. I apologize. I apologize. We will move into citizens uh communication. Nice. Nice try. Uh there's only three. There's only three. The cards are a different color. Yes, they changed up the green cards to yellow cards. So, um threw me off. um when I call your name, but if you'll please come up here to the podium, uh state your name and please limit your comments to three minutes. U Miss Gay Pek.

Okay, I wasn't trying to I wasn't trying to skip over. I promise.

I've done that before. Uh greetings, Mayor Pro Tim and city council members. My name is Gay Pekk and I'm coming as a citizen of Victoria to speak before you. I'd like to share with you, those that are here, and those who will listen later, the fifth circuit court of appeals ruling in the Little versus Lano Library case that the Supreme Court chose not to hear this past year. In this case, they considered whether someone may challenge a public library's removal of books as violating the free speech clause. and they state plaintiffs cannot evoke a right to receive information to challenge a library's removal of books. Yes, Supreme Court president sometimes protects one's rights to receive someone else's speech, but plaintists would transform that precedent into a brave new right to receive information from the government in the form of taxpayer funded library books. The first amendment acknowledges no such right. A library's collection decision on government speech is a a a decision on government speech and therefore not subject to the free speech challenge. Many precedents teach that someone engages in expressive activity by curating and presenting a collection of third-party speech. People do this all the time. Think of editors of poetry compilations choosing among poems, or a newspaper choosing which editorials to run, or a television station choosing which programs to air, so do governments. Think of a city museum selecting which paintings or sculptures to feature in an exhibit. In the same way a library expresses itself by deciding how to shape its collection, they also note with amuse amusement and some dismay the unusually overcaffeinated arguments

made in this case. Judging from the rhetoric in the breeze, one would think Lano County had planned to stage a book burning in front of the library. Plaintists and a amai warn of book bands, ps of burned books, and totalitary regimes. Finally, they state, "Take a deep breath, everyone. No one is banning or burning books. If a dis disappointed patron can't find a book in the library, he can order it online, buy it from a bookstore, or borrow it from a friend." Thank you. Thank you, Miss Poek. Mr. Michael Vandereo.

Good evening. Um, good evening, uh, Mayor Pro Tim. Congratulations on your promotion for one day.

I appreciate it. Council, and we'll try to get you some extra money for today. Um, um, my name is Michael Vandro. I live at 21107 North Bend, Jordan. Um, we have a lot of legal dumping um, in Victoria. I'm not talking about just littered, but like sofas like at Christ Kitchen by the dumpster. There's this worthless sofa that's just been there for a couple months. And I wish people would stop illegally dumping it. And I wish they the police would catch them and put them in jail, you know, where they belong. And on New Aces and Levi Street uh by those houses, um there's like a recliner chair and a bunch of other stuff people are dumping. And I wish the property owners could take care of it. If you know they're too busy working or don't have time, they could hire like a real estate agent to look over it every week and, you know, take care of it and make sure uh everything's fine. And uh tomorrow the Victoria DPS is uh open, you know, and uh it's uh regular voting up to 700 p.m. today. And uh also on 2207 North Jacker, I don't know if you remember that from last time. The fence is like at a 45 degree angle and the dogs can uh jump over the fence and stuff. And who's responsible for making sure of getting the fence fixed? because the property owner isn't going to do it. Is it the county or the city or code enforcement or Victoria animal control? Because, you know, 29 dogs is ridiculous, but there's no law saying how many dogs you can have. You can have a 100,000 if you want. You know, a long time ago, we used to have a rule uh state law and a city law only six dogs and cats, but that was repelled a couple years ago. And you can have uh as many as you want. And I guess

it's for those rich uh people that breed dogs and stuff. They could sell them and stuff and you know when you go buy one of those dogs for a couple hundred dollars and you know no one adopts those dogs at animal control and stuff. Oh, animal care service. I said it misspoke. I'm sorry. But, uh, I do wish they could have a motion, uh, to put on the agenda where they could repel the law and have it six dogs or cats total and match it with the state law. I don't agree with that law. I I don't think you should have 29 dogs in in in your uh, backyard. That's just too many. I don't know where he gets the money to feed those dogs, especially when he's not even working. But anyway, thanks and have a good afternoon.

Thank you, Mr. Mo. And finally, we have uh Cheryl Robbins.

Good evening, Miss Robbins.

Hello. Um, thank y'all very much for giving me the opportunity to speak. And I'm terrible at public speaking, so I want to read it. Um, I was thinking that with the groundbreaking coming up for the community center renovations that now would be a really good idea to think about the idea of renaming the community center after Gary Moses. As you know, he's been referred he's known as Brother Gary. For more than 50 years, Brother Gary has been the heartbeat of Victorian in the entire Crossroads region. As a longtime educator at Patty Wilder Middle School, a legendary radio voice on Magic 95.9, and Victoria's undisputed ambassador of joy, he has touched countless lives with his infectious smile and genuine love for everybody he meets. Anyone who knows him understands that so true. He brings energy, he brings encouragement, he brings people together. As an educator at Patty Water Middle School, he didn't just teach lessons, he built confidence. As y'all know, Mayor Crocker presented Gary with the key to the city at the Dailyon Plaza following the Victoria Day of Caring Group photo, honoring his decades of dedication as both an educator and a constant presence at the community events. He was recently honored by Congressman um with a congressional recognition receiving the Patriot Award. Most likely, there's been very few events held at the community center that he didn't support or serve as a master of ceremonies or didn't just attend. His voice has filled that building on so many occasions. The community center exists to bring

people together to celebrate community. So does brother Gary. He embodies the very best of Texas spirit, faith, family, hard work, and generosity. Not for recognition, not for applause, but because he loves the community. Thank you for your time, consideration. And I hope that y'all will consider honoring Gary Moses in a way that reflects the magnitude of what he has given to this community. because if anyone's name belongs on a building devoted to community, it's his. Thank y'all very much, Miss Robbins. Thank you for your comments. Appreciate it.

Thank you. Now, we'll move into the consent agenda.

Yes, sir. Item D1 is the adoption of minutes of a regular meeting held on February 17th, 2026. Item D2 is a resolution approving an agreement with Wells Squared LLC for the purchase and installation of filter media for the surface water treatment plant in the amount of 142,368.36. Item D3 is a resolution appointing or reappointing members to the board of adjustments and appeals. Item D4 is a resolution approving variance request to section 21-138B and table 2-1, minimum lot size and minimum lot width for the original town site resubdivision number 106. Item D5 is a resolution approving the second contract amendment with Tyler Technologies Incorporated for the Tyler Munis ERP system to convert 15 on-site days to 18 remote days, resulting in no increase to the total contract amount. Item D6 is a resolution approving the amendments number one and two to the professional services agreement with Populus Incorporated in the amounts of 36,000 and 5,000 for a total contract amount of 2,40,873. And item D7 is a resolution authorizing the purchase of furniture for the public safety headquarters from BlueBox LLC and an amount not to exceed $236,3712.

Do we have a motion? Motion to approve consent agenda as read. Second. We have a motion and a second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign. The motion passes. Awesome. Item E1 is a resolution approving a professional services agreement with Civil Corp. LLC to perform topographical surveying and final design services at the North Street phase 3 project in an amount of 844,000. Good evening, Mr. Sheck. How are you doing? I'm doing well. And yourself? Wonderful. Good to see you.

Good. Uh, tonight here to ask council to approve a a professional services agreement for engineering service design services for the north street. Uh, phase three. Phase three project cont consists of utility improvements, paving and drainage improvements along um, North Street from Laurent Street to Ben Jordan. A total of 0.59 miles. We've been looking at these improvements on North Street for several years now. Um we're finally getting to that stage where we can start the design. Uh the engineering design was budgeted as part of the fiscal year 20 fiscal year 26 CIP. The scope of the services proposed uh were are geotechnical investigation with pavement design recommendations, topographic survey, boundary survey for easement and rideway acquisition and preliminary and final design for both utility and street improvements. Civil Core was the firm that we asked to prepare the preliminary design and conceptual design for the North Street corridor from Moody Street to Ben Wilson. Um because of that, we asked them to prepare us a proposal for the final design for phase three. They did provide us with the uh proposal in the amount of 844,000. Um, after reviewing it, the engineering staff recommends that we award this to Civil Core for 844,000. And I'll just add that Civil Core is the civil engineer on the community center renovation and expansion project as well. And so that would provide some good um synergy there for u as we get to the other phases of North Street. Any

questions? Questions? Any discussion? No. I think it's great. Let's get it going. I'm very excited for this project. It's been a long time coming. Very excited. All right. Um, and David and Emma will get into more detail on the project timeline at RCIP update on Friday as part of our workshop. Perfect. Thank you. I move we adopt E1. Second. We have a motion and second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Item E1 passes.

Item E2 is a resolution approving an amendment to the professional services agreement with Victoria Engineering Incorporated, DBA urban engineering for the Lone Tree Acres Street and drainage improvement project. Good evening, Miss Connelly.

Good evening, Mayor Prom and Council. Um, we need to make some changes to a couple of the professional services agreements associated with projects that are being funded by our CDBG MIT grant. Um, mainly what we need to do is extend the uh the the termination dates because these contracts also typically include um bid document preparation and construction oversight. The jailer wants to make sure that those contracts are still good. So, that's mainly what we're doing here. Um, for Lone Tree Acres, the extension is through August 31st, 2027. Obviously, we know there will be future amendments to the scope of work. We just don't know exactly what that's going to be at this time. So, we'll be coming back with that at a later time. Are there any questions on this one?

No. So, this is some generalized housekeeping for them. That's exactly right. We need to uh we need to make sure that we upload current contracts with our um with our uh engineers um in order to exit the startup phase. That will get us into the next phase which is environmental assessment so we can get authority to use grant funds so we can actually start construction. Perfect. You want to take them in in order? Well, I mean I can address them both and you can Let's Let's go ahead and do that. You're you're standing up there.

Okay. Um, this Oh, well, I'll let her read it. Okay. Yeah. What's that? Yeah, I just had one. Okay. I didn't know if you wanted me to talk about them both first and then Well, you know what? You're you're right. Is there any questions for Miss Connelly? Do we have a motion for item E2? I I move we adopt this also long overdue project. I second it. We have a motion to second. Uh all those in favor say I. I.

Oppose. Same sign. Um item E2 passes. Item A3 is a resolution approving an amendment to the professional services agreement with Garver LLC for the water and wastewater skater design improvements project.

So this is the same this the purpose here is the same thing. Um the term is extended actually to December 31st. I think that I might have not updated that on the memo. In any case, this one also includes a scope of work amendment. Um because of some recent advancements in technology, um the way that this is being designed needed to modify slightly. also um in response to the fact that there is now open architecture available out there and the provider is uh has a government co-op contract. So the the bidding process isn't necessary here. That's been deducted. Um but there have been some added tasks for permitting and other things that have been added to it. um that did add a little bit to the contract amount, but there was work that was on the original contract that wasn't needed, so there was a credit. Um therefore, the net changes little under 30,000 and we're extending the term to December 31st, 2027.

Sounds like a much better product as well. Uh yes, sir. Um, a lot of what's the open architecture will allow for um or will enable us not to have some of the problems that we're currently experiencing with um with using different uh providers and software and hardware. Any questions? If you need more technical information, I do have ringers here who know. I'm sure you do. Yeah. I move we adopt this item also. Second. All right, we have a motion and second. All those in favor say I. I. Those opposed, same sign. Item E3 passes.

Thank you. Thank you, Miss Connley. All right. City manager reports. Anybody? I'll turn over to uh Danielle to introduce Tammy. So, I'm just gonna announce uh Tammy with Victoria Housing Authority is going to give this presentation. So, here's Tammy. Miss Emerson, it's great to see you.

Good evening. Mayor Prom and City Council, thank you for allowing me the opportunity to come here tonight to present uh some updates on what the Victoria Housing Authority is doing um as we speak. So, um I was here not too long ago. Gosh, it's been a while. Um regards to what we're doing as an agency. Um, so I just wanted to give you a quick little update of where we're at in that process. I'm so technically challenged. It's sad. Okay. Very good.

Sorry about that. Um, so the housing authority, as you know, has some aging stock. So what we're going to talk about today is a little bit about the repositioning. um what that repositioning looks like with our RAD section 18 and LITC um low-income housing tax credit timeline, what the postclosing looks like, our scope of work, and what the relocation looks like for the tenants that are involved, which is a very important for us to to estimate. Um our total development cost on this project we're projecting um is about $75 million, give or take. That's a lot of money to be talking about, so give or take could be a couple million here or there. Um, our original units that we have in stock right now were built in the 50s, 70s, and 80s. Um, with very little, um, improvements made to them other than what's been ne necessary, but no modernization to speak of. Um, we're looking to completely rehab all of those and make them into brand new units. Um, so they will be either be reconstructed or he heavily renovated. Okay. So, what repositioning means is essentially what it is is we're going to take the public housing stock, the 321 units that we have in our public housing program, and we're going to convert it to a projectbased section 8 voucher. So, it's still going to be part of the housing authority. It's just going to be funded differently. So, essentially what that means is that we're going to create a partnership. We're going to take those units from public housing and put them into a nonprofit that is um put into place by the housing authority. So, we're going to create a nonprofit, put those units into that nonprofit, take them out of the public housing stock under HUD, and put them into a private partnership. That gives us a little bit more leverage financially. Um, will be independent of HUD regulations. We'll still be under a HAP contract, which is the housing assistance payment, much like a section 8 voucher, but they would be project based because they would be owned by the nonprofit. So, we'd still be the landlord. They'd still be under the housing authority. The tenants don't

see anything different. They still pay the same amount of money towards their rent, which is 30% of their adjusted income. Um, the only thing that changes is how the housing authority gets funded and gets subsidized. Does that make sense? I talk a lot of HUD language, so if it doesn't, let me know because and I'll try and correct that for you. Again, the benefits of this as an agency is we're very limited on the funds that we get through the appropriations bill from the government for housing authorities. Um, with a new budget, we're going to be funded at about 80%, which doesn't leave a lot for improvements. So, when we become when it goes into the nonprofit, we'll have much more financial stability and we'll be able to to leverage ourselves. Okay. So, the scope of work. So, what Gilbert's asking me to give you an idea of what I'm assuming the rents is what you're talking about. Okay. Currently, the housing authority for our rents that we currently receive, we're we're between 90 and 100% of the fair market rent is what we charge based on the condition of our units. Um, we don't have very many amenities. Uh, you know, we don't have like pools or neighborhoods or anything like that. We just literally have the utilities that we have. And we want to be able to add like parks and playgrounds and things of that nature to make it more of a neighborhood. Once we do that and once we have a a product that is worth the rents, we can charge 110% of the fair market right. Again, doesn't impact the tenants. They still pay 30% of their income, but the subsidy that the housing authority would receive would be much greater. So, if you take, for example, if the fair market rent for a one-bedroom is $1,000 a month, we're charging $900. We could charge $1,100. And if you take that over 321 units, that's quite a bit on a monthly basis that you that we would get in subsidies from the government. Okay. All right. So, our scope of work um of

of course our most impactful thing is our resident needs. We want to make sure that we're taking care of them both with a a unit that is suitable rehab, modernized um ADA for we have to have so many such a percentage to have to be compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Um 5% of each property has to have be fully ADA compliant. Um we want these units to be just newer and and more feasible for them to live in. We're going to invest in our assets. So, we're going to have a comprehensive redevelopment approach that's going to have the modernization of the units and we have a lot of deferred maintenance that has not been able to be taken care of because of the money that we've receive and the limits that we have with that. Uh, we're going to have the financial feasibility that I spoke about um with pre-development location. Those costs are all in the project. That doesn't come out of our pockets. It doesn't come out of the tenants pockets. It doesn't come out of the taxpayer pockets. Okay. Um and sight specific. We'll have sight specific reserves which will help us do their significant rehab and modernization and and address our immediate needs in the future. We'll also have a a much better maintenance um plan in place so that we can be on top of things before they become too bad. Okay. You can see under the rehab scope of work like obviously we're going to do kitchens and bathrooms and cabinets and plumbings and fixtures and we still have some copper plumbing and we have two-prong wiring. We have things that really need to be addressed in in an impactful way. The infrastructure needs to be completely addressed. We're going to have accessibility. We're going to upgrade our systems. Um we'll have exterior facades, more curb appeal. Um windows that are much more weathertight. Um central air, which only about 40 of our units out of 321 have air conditioning. So we're going to have central air in all of our units. I mean, it's South Texas, so we need that, right? And then we're going to improve

our sites with our parks and playgrounds and things of that nature. Any questions on that? Is it is it You're going for 321 units currently. Will it be the same amount of units? Yes, we're going to replace one for one. Okay. Yes.

Good question. Um, under our conversion process, we're looking at the RAD, which is rental assistance demonstration, and a section 18 conversion. It's going to be a blend. Um to give you an idea of where we're at in our timeline, the first thing we had to do was um apply to HUD to through our special application center to get these what's called a CHAP. It's a commitment to enter into a housing assistance payment contract. Um so that's where we're at in the phase right now. Um their next steps are once we get that, we'll have a concept call. Then we have to submit our financial plans to HUD because they're want going to make sure that we can financially fund this project and that it's going to be long-term and self- sustaining throughout the long term. Um then we're going to look at our redevelopment approvals. Um we're going to do our program conversion and closing. It's estimated that we will close the financial books by the end of this year in by December of 2026. Once that paperwork is closed, then we can start the rehab. That means that we would renovate and reconstruct all 321 units plus any community buildings that are there's like five community buildings as well. So this is going to be a little bit of a more in-depth of say showing the timeline because we do have a RAD application and we have section 18 which is a different program and then we have the low-income housing tax credit. So this is going to be a multifunded project because of the size the amount of money that we're discussing. So, we've done appraisals and market studies and done all of our capital needs and our environmental studies to this point. Right now, under the tax credit, which is the green bar on the top of your slide, we're going to have to submit our bond applications, obtain our financing, our financing and our budgets, and finalize those, get investors, um, prepare our closing documentations, and then we'll close, and then, of course, rehab can begin. Simultaneously, we're going to have our HUD part, which is our

rental our RAD or rental assistance demonstration, and we have to submit our due diligence, uh, do our RAD call with the HUD Washington special application center, which we've already had two of those, so we will continue to do those. We're going to have to submit our RAD financing plan. So, there's two different financing plans that we have to submit, and then we'll close on the RAD portion of that with HUD. So, these are going to run concurrently together. It's a lot of balls in the air to kind of navigate. Okay, there we go. All right, so what our postclosing timeline looks like, we're going to con start our construction tentatively um in January of 2027. I want to make it very clear that no residents will be displaced during the holiday. That won't happen. It'll be after the holidays. Um it's going to take approximately two years. Um, so what the contractors are going to do, they're going to identify efficiencies to reduce disruption to the residents and reduce the total construction time and it will be phased. So we're not going to be like, "Okay, everybody out of this property. We're we're going to phase it." So essentially what we're going to do, as you can see on that line, we're going to close our documents in November, December. We're going to start our rehab in 2027 and then we should be complete within two years. So by 2029, we should have it completed and fully leased by that date. So we're looking at like a two-year timeline. Very important to me is relocation and how this impacts the tenants directly because those are the ones that are going to Whoops. Okay. Sorry. Um we want to make sure the tenants are disrupted as little as possible. Um we're projecting that they're going to be out of their units about 30 to 40 days. Um so what we're going to do is we do have some vacancies in our property. So we're going to renovate those units first. We're going to furnish them and we're going to consider them as hotel units. So

essentially what'll happen is we'll have some type of pod storage or something of that nature for their big items, but then they'll only just take their personal items to the new unit, the ren the hotel unit, stay there for the duration of their unit being completed. Once their unit is done, then they'll move back to that unit. Uh they don't have they're not going to pay any cost associated with this. If there's any heavy lifting or anything like that, that will be provided um with our partnerships. So, we will take care of all that. The only thing I mean, if they have valuables, certainly I would want to pack my own valuables, but that's me, you know. So, it's literally up to them how much effort they put into moving themselves. So, we're doing everything we can to make this as stressfree as possible for them. The benefit is that once they go back, they'll have a brand new unit that they can be happy about and be proud to live in. We are we are required to through HUD to give them at least 30 days notice before they are um moved to a to a hotel unit. So, they're going to have plenty of notice. They're going to be in knowledge. We have had several meetings already and we will continue to have a bunch more community meetings for the tenants.

How how will their uh mail be handled? They'll still have because they're going to be on the same property. So, they'll still be in the same property. They're just literally going to be physically moving, but we're not going to change like their mail or anything like that. And we have the what I call a gang box, like the

the mail doesn't go directly to their door. They go in the boxes. Okay. So, that shouldn't be be impactful at all. But, if that comes up, then that's something we will address at that time. But, it shouldn't because we're going to try and keep them on the property, the same property. The only problem we would have that is if we have like handicap accessible folks and we don't have a handicap accessible unit for them to go to. Then if that's the case, then we would take them to a hotel, put them up in a hotel at our cost and make sure that their needs are met. We want to make sure that any needs are met that they have. Thank you.

You're very welcome. Thank you. That was a good question. So, how does that how does this impact you folks? Right? Why am I up here talking to you guys about this? Right? So, that's the big question. Um, right now, not a whole lot other than just letting you guys know what we're doing um in the in the community to better what we have as a product. Um, in the future when we get closer to things, we're going to need help with like permitting and possibly water tapping, sewer lines, inspections, codes, things of that nature, but we're still in the infancy of this. So, nothing right yet, but that's not to say in a few months I might not come and ask. Okay, that's all I have. Does anybody have any questions? Any questions?

Quite a large project. It is. It is. So, we're looking forward to it. I'm much like you. It's a much needed project that needs to get done and I'll be excited when it is done. So, absolutely. Well, thank you, Tammy. Appreciate all the information. A quick question. Just curious about the um builders will or the builder um is that identified yet? That is not No, good question. That's not identified yet. Right now, we're are we're working with a co-developer by the name of Good Housing Partnership. Um once we get our financing and our funding done, then they will go out to bid for a co for a construction general contractor. So, that'll go through the bid process. Okay. Thank you. Okay. Thank you.

Thank you, Miss Emerson. Thank you. Um, no work session, correct? Correct. Uh, we do have an executive session. Yes, sir. Okay. Well, the time is 5:44. This is a time that former mayor Bach Knight would be very proud of. Um, throw that in there. Um, so it's 5:44. Let's uh let's recess for uh 10 minutes. Uh, and then we'll reconvene in executive session. The city uh council will recess for executive session on the 3rd day of March 2026 at 5:44 p.m. Subject matter is as follows. Text is covering code 551.087,551.072 and 551.071. 071.